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10-13-26: MNF Breakdown/College Football Stock Up-Stock Down/Avs Lose Hakstol · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a bizarre watch yesterday in Monday Night Football.
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing the Rams. I'm seeing the Bills. And there
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: is just a different level.
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  Speaker 1: Of of offense that some teams can reach. You know,
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen's running for 120 yards in that game. James
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Cook's running for 111. And you saw this real dichotomy
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: yesterday between the way that the Bills operated their offense.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: They don't do this every game, but they do it
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: for some. The way they did theirs, as opposed to
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: the way the Rams ran their offense. which was Stafford
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: is going to throw the ball 8 billion times. I mean,
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Puka Nakua finishes that game with 17 catches on 24 targets.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: 24 targets in the game. But you have this difference
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  Speaker 1: in how you go about your business. And look, the
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  Speaker 1: results of that game turn into the Rams should have
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: won it. I mean, special teams once again lets that
• 1:26
  Speaker 1: team down. They had multiple missed field goals in that game,
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  Speaker 1: including the one in overtime that should have ended everything.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: Where it was, you know, the 48-yarder.
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  Speaker 1: And the thick kicker, or whatever his name is, the
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  Speaker 1: thicker kicker with a whole bunch of Cs and whatever.
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  Speaker 1: They've been looking for special teams to right itself for
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: a long time, and now.
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  Speaker 1: For the team that was favored in every game before
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  Speaker 1: the season started, every one of the 17 that was
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: on their schedule, they were the favorites in preseason.
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  Speaker 2: They find themselves at 2-3.
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  Speaker 1: And I will say this, to the Broncos' credit, as
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  Speaker 1: much bellyaching as we did about offense and lack of offense,
• 2:17
  Speaker 1: and if you're watching the game last night, you see
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  Speaker 1: the difference. There is a quality to just winning football games.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it looks ugly or not, finding a way to
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: win a football game is a very tangible and real skill.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that because the Rams are now 2-3,
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  Speaker 1: and in two of three of their losses, they had
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  Speaker 1: the game sort of by the cojones.
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  Speaker 2: They had it. And they let it slip.
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  Speaker 1: And I do think when you discuss anything about the Broncos,
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: what they do, how they do it, they have a
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  Speaker 1: serious positive energy at the end of games in the
• 3:14
  Speaker 1: ability to close things out. It's almost as if they
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  Speaker 1: have such a mojo that at the end of a
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  Speaker 1: game that it turns into a curse for their opponent.
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  Speaker 1: And you look at what happens with the Rams. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams had the game against Denver here. They're up 16
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  Speaker 1: to nothing in the third quarter. And it turns into
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  Speaker 1: a Stafford pick six, gets you back in the game.
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  Speaker 1: You get towards the end of the game. They're driving
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  Speaker 1: down the field. Can't quite do it. Same thing happens
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  Speaker 1: last night. Feels like they got a hold, especially in overtime. Hey,
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: we can go out. You know, you just make this
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  Speaker 1: sort of miraculous comeback at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Score with five seconds left to tie things up. Have
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  Speaker 1: the game in OT. And you miss a field goal.
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  Speaker 1: And that's after you're forced to fumble. The quality of
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  Speaker 1: winning football games is something the Broncos have had over
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  Speaker 1: these last two years. Now, how do you judge that
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  Speaker 1: along with witnessing offenses like that were in the game yesterday?
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  Speaker 2: You know, can you keep up? And you might be
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  Speaker 2: saying to.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself, well, Brett, they already played this game. The Broncos
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  Speaker 1: played the Rams, and they were able to keep up.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, kind of. You force turnovers. You turn
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  Speaker 1: turnovers into points, especially with a pick six. You win
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  Speaker 1: by four points.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that helps.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just looking over the games here that the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos have played this year. And what's tough is if
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: you're relying upon 200 and some yards of offense every day,
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: it just feels like you got to be perfect. And
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: the Broncos have been perfect more often than they haven't been.
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  Speaker 1: But I just want to give you the games this
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: year and what it looks like. You know, the Chiefs game,
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  Speaker 1: you put up 176 yards of offense. And maybe you
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  Speaker 1: chalk that up to, well, first.
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  Speaker 2: Game of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Some guys maybe didn't get enough practice time, whatever.
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  Speaker 2: 176.
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  Speaker 1: In week two, you played against the Jags. In this game,
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  Speaker 1: you put up 392 yards of offense. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: that coming late, but you did it. Bo Nix had
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  Speaker 1: 288 yards through the air. Game three against the Rams,
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  Speaker 1: a game that you won 30-26, 257 yards of offense
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  Speaker 1: to the Rams, 482. Against the Niners, 296 yards of
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  Speaker 1: offense to 358. And then finally, 224 in this game
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  Speaker 1: against the Chargers. The big question here is, why can't
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  Speaker 1: your offense look at least a little bit like some
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  Speaker 1: of the opponents that you faced or the game that
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  Speaker 1: you watched last night?
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  Speaker 2: And I think the answer is simple.
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  Speaker 1: At positions that really matter, you just don't get the
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  Speaker 1: same guys. And I don't think you have to have
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  Speaker 1: Stafford or have to have Josh Allen.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to have the best of the best.
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  Speaker 2: But you need to have something.
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  Speaker 1: You need to have something that you believe in offensively.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess there's a struggle.
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  Speaker 1: We're a ways into this experiment, I'll call it, with
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton offense, Bo Nix, these running backs. It does
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  Speaker 1: feel to me, if you're asking this question this far
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  Speaker 1: into it, you got a bit of an issue and it's,
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  Speaker 1: What is the identity of the Broncos offense?
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  Speaker 2: What are they?
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  Speaker 1: And that can change game to game depending on matchups.
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  Speaker 1: If you're facing a good secondary, maybe your identity that
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  Speaker 1: week is running the football. But I don't think there's
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  Speaker 1: any question. The Rams identity is this. Yeah, we can run,
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  Speaker 1: but we are just going to torture you with Stafford
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  Speaker 1: throwing the ball all over the field.
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  Speaker 2: And we're going to do it because we have Puka
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  Speaker 2: Nakua and.
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  Speaker 1: We have Devontae Adams, and we have like five tight
• 7:47
  Speaker 1: ends on this roster, and we can hit Kyron Williams
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  Speaker 1: out of the backfield. Like, they can do all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. But their identity is Stafford is going to
• 7:54
  Speaker 1: beat you. The Bills' identity is you have no idea
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: what's coming. We might throw Josh Allen 40 times in
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  Speaker 1: this game. We might run the ball 40 times. Like,
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  Speaker 1: they ran it 37 times to only 19 throws yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: But the very simple thing is at the two positions
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  Speaker 1: that kind of make up your identity, which is running
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  Speaker 1: the football or throwing the football, you have issues in
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  Speaker 1: both of those categories where your quarterback isn't good enough
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  Speaker 1: or your running game isn't good enough. And then you
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: get the results of 224 yards of offense and we're
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: wondering how did they win? Again, The most important statistic
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: here is the one that's in the W column. And
• 8:51
  Speaker 1: from that standpoint, the Broncos are very good. They've been
• 8:56
  Speaker 1: very good. If you give them a shot late, they're
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: going to beat you. It's just tried and true over
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. The concern, especially now, Sertan's
• 9:14
  Speaker 1: out for a couple of games. Moss is out for
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: a couple of games. Still don't have a status on Hufanga.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: If those three guys are missing from your secondary and
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  Speaker 1: you're playing against Seattle, who can also play really good defense,
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: how do you counteract what you're giving up now in
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: the secondary? Somebody says the identity of this team is
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: having a good defense.
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  Speaker 2: That's clear.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what happens if the defense takes a step back
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: from amazing to just pretty good because of injury? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that means the offense would have to lift a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if they're capable of it.
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: Texture says, I'd rather be 0-5 and have the offense
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  Speaker 1: score 30 points a game.
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  Speaker 2: No, you wouldn't.
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: That is entirely, that is a frustrating beast in and
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: of itself. Trust me, I watch Detroit every week. It's
• 10:14
  Speaker 1: not fun. You put up 35 points, you're like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to lose. That's not a fun day. Now,
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: having an offense that can't move, also not fun. But
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  Speaker 1: if you had to choose one or the other, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean this sincerely, from a watchability standpoint, maybe you'd
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  Speaker 1: want the offense, but.
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  Speaker 2: You get wins with a good defense.
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  Speaker 1: But when you run into teams like Seattle on a
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: short week and a couple of nights, and if you
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: don't have your secondary all in check, um, that becomes
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: a day where offense needs to step up in some
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  Speaker 1: way that they just haven't this year.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know if they're capable of it. Like
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: I came to a realization last weekend. Like I just,
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  Speaker 1: I've held out hope. Maybe it was just thinking in a,
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  Speaker 1: a purely optimistic mindset that, And I've seen Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: make plays that show me he's capable of being a
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback and a good one in this league. But
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I was just trying to, you know, you check the
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  Speaker 1: till after a while and you say, all right, where
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: are we at here? And if you were to count
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  Speaker 1: up just the amount of drives, the amount of plays
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  Speaker 1: over the two and a half years-ish that Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: has been here, It's just like the offense has been
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  Speaker 1: bad more than it's been good. Now, it's been good
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  Speaker 1: in crucial moments, which I think puts some sort of
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: exponent on it and doubles the power of what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: It makes it easier to ignore some of the foibles
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  Speaker 1: earlier in games. But I've said this before. If you eliminate,
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: and I know this is Sean Payton would go right
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  Speaker 1: after my throat if he heard me say this. But
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: if you eliminate just the winning part of this, and
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  Speaker 1: I think this is important because you're going to run
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: into adversity at some point. The Broncos are not going
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: to go 14-3 again this year. You're going to have
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: a string of games in which you're losing, and you're
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: kind of thinking, this needs to get fixed. If you're
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  Speaker 1: losing in a way that your offense is putting up
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  Speaker 1: 225 yards a game and the defense is holding the
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: opponent to 17 points or 20 points and it's still
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  Speaker 1: a loss, that becomes a locker room with some tension.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the main things that the Broncos have,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean this, Sean Payton has built a culture
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  Speaker 1: within that locker room where it truly feels like three
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: musketeers all for one, one for all, like that sort
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. But that can disintegrate if somebody is in
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  Speaker 1: a sport where you put your body on the line
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  Speaker 1: and one half of that team feels like they're doing
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  Speaker 1: their job and the other half is not even close
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: to living up to the standard, you can find yourself
• 13:37
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• 13:45
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• 13:47
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• 13:50
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• 13:54
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• 13:57
  Speaker 1: to today. The abs are back at it. They take
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: on the Dallas stars tonight in Dallas. That's going to
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: be at six 30 right here on 92, five. Um,
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  Speaker 1: We will talk to Adam Schefter at 9.20 this morning.
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  Speaker 1: But coming up next, college football, stock up, stock down.
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  Speaker 2: Stick around. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Every Tuesday following the college football weekend, we do a
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  Speaker 1: little game. It's called college football, stock up, stock down.
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  Speaker 1: We always start with the quarterbacks. Connors, stock up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: How about Jaden Maiava? USC's quarterback, he's a senior now.
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  Speaker 1: He's had a phenomenal season. He's had 18 touchdowns, three interceptions,
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  Speaker 1: over 2,000 yards passing already. He's going to eclipse the
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  Speaker 1: number that he had from last year. Last year was
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: a lot of up and down. He finished that season
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: with 24 touchdowns. He's at 18 currently. Last year he
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: had 10 picks. He's only at three. I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to smash these numbers. And look, outside of a
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: bad loss to Oregon, he's played pretty clean football. He
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: had three touchdowns, was 21-33 for 301 yards, and a
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  Speaker 1: win against Penn State this past weekend. It feels like
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: he's the thing that can give USC some legitimacy. Now,
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to have to see it against better opponents
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: because the loss to Oregon looks especially bad considering that
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Oregon is really struggling. Now, they had a backup quarterback
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: this last week, so you can't blame them too much.
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  Speaker 1: But I think Jaden Maiavas had a phenomenal start to
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  Speaker 1: this season. The big question now moving forward, USC 6-1,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: they're ranked 19th in the country. They have a game
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: against Wisconsin coming up after this week. They're on a
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: bye this week. But after that, it is Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: and Indiana in back-to-back weeks. If he can sneak a
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  Speaker 1: win in between one of those two, that'll give USC
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  Speaker 1: some real legitimacy.
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  Speaker 2: So he gets a stock up. Let's go quarterback stock down.
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  Speaker 1: Tough to do this when you're coming in as a backup,
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  Speaker 1: but Dylan Rayola started a couple years at Nebraska. He
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  Speaker 1: had a whole bunch of hype. He was the number
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  Speaker 1: one recruit in the country at quarterback. The Nebraska experiment
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  Speaker 1: failed miserably. He goes to Oregon. He backs up Dante Moore.
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  Speaker 1: Thought process is once Moore leaves for the pros, he
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  Speaker 1: can sit down, watch for a season, then take over.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is, once Moore went down, he's played a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, came in in mop-up duty against Portland
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  Speaker 1: State the first week and was 11 of 11 with
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  Speaker 1: three touchdowns. He played against USC in that game we
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: were just kind of discussing. Actually played well, 19 of
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  Speaker 1: 25 for 289 yards and two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: But this last week, he's filling in.
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  Speaker 1: He's taking on a UCLA team that's ranked 21st in
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  Speaker 1: the country. UCLA has trouble moving the football. Nico Iamaliava
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  Speaker 1: is somebody similar to his situation, came in with a
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  Speaker 1: whole bunch of hype. People had a lot of promise
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of talk around what he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be in the college football realm. Is he going
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  Speaker 1: to be like a top draft pick when he becomes eligible?
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  Speaker 1: Nico Iamaliava didn't play well in that game, but Dylan
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  Speaker 1: Rayola played worse. He was 6 of 19 for 43
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  Speaker 1: yards and two interceptions. That's not going to get it done.
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  Speaker 2: He got benched.
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  Speaker 1: And now the question is, if Dante Moore can't get healthy,
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  Speaker 1: is he even the guy that you go to anymore?
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  Speaker 1: So somebody that was filled with a whole bunch of promise,
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  Speaker 1: somebody that had a whole bunch of hype to him,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: is having a lot of trouble living up to that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Dylan Rayola gets a stock down. Let's go big 12
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: teams stock up. The Arizona Wildcats had a pretty fun season.
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  Speaker 1: They had a close loss earlier in the year to
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  Speaker 1: BYU in week two. BYU is obviously a top 10
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  Speaker 1: team in the country. They lost 28 to 17. But
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: this last weekend, 52 to 31 was their win over
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  Speaker 1: West Virginia in West Virginia. Their offense can put up points, man.
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  Speaker 1: They've scored at least 34 points in five of their
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  Speaker 1: first six games, with the exception being the BYU loss.
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  Speaker 1: They have an offense with veteran guys. Noah Fafita, their quarterback,
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  Speaker 1: has been there for a long time now.
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  Speaker 2: He's a senior.
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  Speaker 1: This is his fifth year at Arizona and his fourth
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  Speaker 1: year as a starter. He's broken out this year in
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  Speaker 1: a 16-touchdown, four-interception start to the season. They can score
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  Speaker 1: with kind of anybody in the Big 12. The question's
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  Speaker 1: going to be, can they keep the pace when they
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: start playing against better opponents? We watched that kind of
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: take a dip when they played against BYU in Week
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  Speaker 1: 2 of the season. They have Iowa State coming up,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: who's going to play tough defense. They then play at
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech. Then it's TCU and Utah. This stretch of games,
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  Speaker 1: the next four that they have on their schedule, I
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  Speaker 1: think is going to give you a proper perspective on
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  Speaker 1: who Arizona is. But for the moment, I believe in
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  Speaker 1: the Wildcats. I think they're a very good football team
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of firepower, and they're fun to watch.
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  Speaker 1: Big 12 teams stocked down.
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  Speaker 2: Big 12! Thank you. I was waiting.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: For, you know, year one with a head coach is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: always difficult, but it felt like to me, just Colin
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Klein was going to be a little bit different of
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: a year one coach at Kansas state.
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  Speaker 2: He's having his own struggles.
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  Speaker 1: They lost the previous week to Cincinnati 31 to 26
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  Speaker 1: close game should have won.
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  Speaker 2: They blew it. They played at home this week against Houston,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: a Houston team.
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  Speaker 1: That I thought maybe it was a little bit overrated
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and Houston just rolled them 35 to 16. And I
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: think Kansas state is facing the same issues that they've
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: had over and over again. I thought maybe, Colin Klein
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  Speaker 1: would help a little bit more in this department. Avery
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  Speaker 1: Johnson just can't seem to not turn the football over
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: their quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: They can't run, which is weird.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas State has always been a team, whether they're good, bad, indifferent,
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  Speaker 1: they've been able to do things on the ground. They
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: can't run the football this year, and it's provided a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: major problem because if they can't run the football, then
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Avery Johnson now all of a sudden has to become
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a thrower, and that is not a good recipe for
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: kind of anything. So Kansas State at 3-2 now after
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  Speaker 1: a pretty promising start to the season.
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  Speaker 2: Kansas State gets the stock down. Let's go.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: National teams stock up. I love the Kentucky Wildcats. I
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: love them. I just realized I went Wildcats, Wildcat, Wildcat
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  Speaker 1: for the three teams we just talked about. But anyway,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I love Kentucky. I think at 5-1, they get this
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: big upset win over LSU. Two weeks in a row,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: they've won a football game 35-34. Scored at the end
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: of the game, went for two, and got it. Now,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the previous week, they did that against South Carolina. And
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I thought to myself, well, South Carolina, not a great
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: football team this year.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: They have their own sort of struggles.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: South Carolina just went on the road and beat Florida
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: in Florida 38-19. Now, I have my own questions about
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Florida at that. because Florida is now averaging giving up
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: like 38 points a game in their last four. But still,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Kentucky goes out, back-to-back weeks, gets a win against a
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: top-10 opponent this last weekend. Their only loss on the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: year came in week two against Alabama, a game that
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: they led at half before the wheels kind of fell
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: off towards the back end of that game. But their
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: schedule coming up, they play at Oklahoma, who, yes, just
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: beat Texas, but I think Oklahoma is infinitely gettable. They
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: play at Vanderbilt. Now that Diego Pavia is not there,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's the same old Vanderbilt. Then for the rest of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: the year, the toughest opponent they're going to get, they
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: have a game at Tennessee and a game at Missouri.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: They aren't playing Georgia. They're not on the schedule. They
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: aren't playing Mississippi State.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I think Kentucky could be a sneaky pick if they
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: can get through just a couple of tough games. To
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: come away with like a two-loss season, compete for an
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: SEC title, compete for a college football playoff spot. I
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: love the way that Will Stein is coaching this team.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: He's one of those guys before the Bama game earlier
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: in the season went out and he said, hey fans,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: I want you to yell obscenities at the opposing players.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Bring a flask into the game. I don't care.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I just love the way that Kentucky's playing. So they
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: get the stock up. Let's go national team stock down. So, again,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I could put Florida in this category. I did it
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: last week, so I don't want to go back-to-back on this,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: but just know that Florida's terrible. It's Texas A & M.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: You talk about a team that you just expected better.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: They're another one of those teams. They come in with
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: an experienced quarterback who's been there for years in Marcel Reed.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Marcel Reed's big problem is that he's a fun guy
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to watch, can run the football, he can make some throws,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: but he can't, he never seemed to win the big game.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: This is his third year as a starter at Texas
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: A & M. He's a senior.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He's got six touchdowns and six picks on the year.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: And Texas A & M overall has been pretty miserable.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They just can't seem to do much of anything. And
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: they started the year 2-0, beat Missouri State the first week,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and then beat Arizona State. Then they took the loss
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to Kentucky. Then a big loss at LSU. And this
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: last weekend, they get hammered by Missouri. Texas A &
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: M at 3-3 right now. 1-3 in SEC conference play.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: They have this, we'll call it a bye this week
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: because they play the Citadel. But after that, they go
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: at Alabama, at South Carolina, then Tennessee. They're in for
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a rough year. There's a part of me that thinks
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they're going to have a lot of trouble just getting
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: bowl eligible this season, which is a very, very tough
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: pill to swallow considering you had, again, Texas A &
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: M had some juice to them before the season started,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: especially with a veteran quarterback.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: It just didn't come to fruition. So let's go to
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Heisman stock up.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: So we've pointed out The insane nature in which Jeremiah Smith,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: who is going to be, you know, number one, number
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: two overall pick in the draft coming up this year.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: He's incredible. He looks like Julio Jones. He's a freak.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: And there's nothing you can do to stop him.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Just from a pure numbers perspective, Jeremiah Smith has 48
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: catches for 916 yards and 11 touchdowns. Well, guess what?
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: There's a freshman who's 5'10, 172 pounds, that plays for
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Oregon State. that has better numbers than he does. He
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: has 38, this is Jesse Legree, 38 catches, 932 yards,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: 12 touchdowns through six games for Oregon State. This past
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: weekend against San Diego State, OSU won 66-14. He had
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: 10 catches for 191 yards and three touchdowns. He's had
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: back-to-back weeks with three touchdowns, if you watched the CSU.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Game last weekend.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: He's had at least 100 yards in each of the
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: first six games. He's had a 191-yard game this last
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: week and a 240-yard game against Texas Tech in week two.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: This kid is remarkable, and he's 18 years old. So
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: is he going to win the Heisman?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Probably not. But it deserves to be acknowledged that This
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: kid is doing the same thing numbers-wise as Jeremiah Smith.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: He's just a fun-sized version of it at 5'10, 170 pounds.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Let's go Heisman Stockdown.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he didn't have much of a shot after, you know,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the start to his season, but just to kind of
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: highlight something. LSU takes a loss to Kentucky this past weekend,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a 35-34 overtime loss. He is someone that was brought
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: over from Arizona State by Lane Kiffin. It's Sam Leavitt.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: He's had a turnover, an interception, in every game this year.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You can't sustain winning football by doing that. On the season,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: he has 10 touchdowns and 8 picks. It just feels
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: like it's one of those transfer things that just didn't work.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if Lane Kiffin is just going to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: hit the eject button and go somewhere else with this. Look,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: he's had a history like he did at Ole Miss
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: last year and finding a guy like Trinidad Chambliss that
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: just takes over and takes.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: The world by storm.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: But there's no question where I think the answer is
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Sam Leavitt at LSU right now. And I think it's
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: probably time they make a switch. He gets the stock down.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Let's go to best game of the week. So there
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: were a number of really good games. Obviously, Texas and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Kentucky and LSU finishing in overtime. Hugely fun game.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: The Texas Oklahoma game was awesome. Georgia and Bama right
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: there till the very end was a great game.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Also, Indiana, Nebraska. I mean, Nebraska had a an 11
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: point lead in.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Into the fourth quarter, an Indiana who's lost one game
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: since Kurt Cignetti has taken over, was on the brink,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: comes back and wins.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: There was a bunch of good games.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: If I had to choose just one, Kentucky LSU takes
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: the cake for me. So that's the best game of
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the week. Let's go to upset of the week. So
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma beating Texas, big time. The other game that I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: think you could point to is UCLA beating Oregon, but
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: that's all dependent on what you thought. about who Oregon was.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: It was more of the way that UCLA did it.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Oregon known for high-flying offense, throwing the ball all over
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the yard. UCLA controlled the ball for 40 minutes in
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that game.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: To pull it off.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It's not so much the result of the actual L,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: but how they got there. And that is college football
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: stock up, stock down. So with a couple of minutes.
• 28:20
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• 28:25
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• 28:27
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• 28:29
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• 28:33
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• 28:44
  Speaker 1: to something real quick. A texture is yelling at me
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: about something I said in the first segment and I
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: want to clarify something. He said, if you, I said,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: if you eliminate the winning part of this and he said,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: my goodness, it's the whole point of football. I know.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: That's why I started the show by saying the Broncos
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: superpowers winning the football game.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: They just have it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: But my point is, if you didn't get Jim Harbaugh,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: running a sneak on fourth and one in his own
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: territory against an offense that can't move, if he just
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: punted the football away, if Stafford doesn't throw a pick six,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: if all of these things that you look at over
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years of dumb decision-making by your
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: opponent that you've capitalized on, if you don't get the
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: benefit of somebody being stupid and these things resulting in loss,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: this feels like a powder keg unless the offense can
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: pick their game up.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: The winning will mask this in the same way that
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic two years ago said winning masked a lot
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: of our problems. Talking about heading into that postseason, not
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: having the requisite stuff that they needed for a playoff run.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: But they won games. And it's like, well, why are
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: we complaining? They're winning.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: When you see obvious flaws, you can't ignore them because
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: a dub happened. That's not how this works. Because you're
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: going to run into a game, and an important game,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: where now you don't have something to fall back on.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I'll give you an example.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Last year, you know, we all, and I agree, this
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: is totally fair to say, if Bo Nix was healthy,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: AFC championship game.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Totally agreed.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: You know what we said all year, though, in the wins?
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: They need to run the football better because they're going
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to need that at some point. Guess when they needed it?
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: When your quarterback's out, it's the AFC championship game, and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: it's a snow globe. Would be really nice to run.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: The football there. You couldn't. The Patriots could. They win.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: That's the stuff that I'm just trying to point out
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: here is that, yes, the winning is the most important thing.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Making the playoffs, giving yourself a shot for a Super Bowl.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: You have to win in order to do that. But
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you can't ignore the flaws that are there. And so
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: I say put the winning off to the side for
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a moment and look at what the issues are ailing
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the team. We can get back to this in just
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I feel like that makes sense. It's
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a weird way to phrase it.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: But we can get back to this in just a
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: little bit.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Stick around.
• 31:16
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• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Avs get back at it tonight. Some news coming down
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from yesterday. Our own Jesse Montano was talking about this.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That it seems to be that Dave Haxtell is going
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: to take over Arizona State. which means the Avs are
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: going to need a new assistant and a new power
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: play coach. Now, we'll talk to Jared Bednar, I guess,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in more detail about that tomorrow. Moe's will have some
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: more info for you on that in, I don't know.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: 15 minutes or so.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: But the Avs take on the Stars tonight in the game,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: which I think that the Avs... There's no, like, panic here.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: It's one of those things, when you've been burned by
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: something in the past... you tend to have some PTSD
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: from it. Um, look, I've never been cheated on that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I know of, but if I was, I'm sure that
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: somewhere down the line in another relationship, I'd be maybe
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a little leery of what my partner is doing when
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: they're not.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Maybe, I don't know.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: The abs and abs fans, I should say, we all
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: have this same sort of feeling. Um, You went through
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the years with Georgiev, and you want those to go away.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: And you had this phenomenal season last year between your goaltenders. Statistically,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the best in the league, and it wasn't particularly close.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: It does feel like the Avs this year are trying
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: to make McKenzie Blackwood the number one. They're going to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: force him into this role. He's the guy with the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: bigger contract. He's got more years left on the deal.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: You likely aren't keeping Wedgwood beyond this season anyway. But
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: what happened last year was Wedgwood played better when the
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: games were mattering the most and he got starts. Blackwood
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: has not been good to start this year. You know,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: I was going to say neither have been, although it's
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: tough to judge. I mean, Wedgwood got one game. But
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Blackwood's save percentage is 867 right now.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: That is not good enough. And it's especially not good enough.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: When the Avs have over the past and it continued
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: into the first five games of this season. Put up,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you know, 10 plus more shots per game on their opponents.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: It's just something they do. They're very aggressive offensively. They
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: will put the puck on the net and they'll score.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: They're also pretty good at not allowing shots, which means
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: when one does get by, when you have one mess
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: up defensively, sometimes, and this is what Jared Bednar said
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: after the game over the weekend, you need to make
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: a save.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: You need it.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you just got to do it, and it doesn't
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: mean like, you know, all of the shots that were made,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: all the goals that you gave up felt like, you
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: know what, pretty good opportunities, tough saves.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: You got to make some tough saves. You have to.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Bob Rofsky did that against you over the weekend. And
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: so I'm talking about it. It's actually just Blackwood has
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: given mad Forgiev vibes. That's what I'm talking about. You
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: can't let that permeate and sort of linger around. He's
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: got to have a game in which he plays well
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: and shuts the door on things. And I think Dallas
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: could be one of them. Now, I don't know who's
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: going to be between the pipes tonight. If they're doing
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: their sort of rotational thing, maybe this is a Wedgwood day.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: But I think part of you wants to say, hey, Blackwood,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: this is a big game against an opponent that we hate,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: that has had our number. I want to see you
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: go out and do something. I actually would like to
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: see Blackwood get the start tonight and play well. I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: think that could do a lot for his confidence. And again,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: it's early in the season. You don't want to get
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: too caught up in statistics and stuff like that. But
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I think we all are kind of feeling like, hey,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: is the goalie thing good enough?
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Should we give Winnipeg a call? What's it going to
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: take to get Hellebuck? I don't know what your assets are.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the financial ramifications of bringing in
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: somebody like that would be. But they have wiggle room.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: financially on their roster. But in doing, if you were
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: to make a move like that, which I think everybody would,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: would love. I just don't know what that means down
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the road for, you know, guys like Arturi Lekanen, who's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: a pretty important part of your top six. Big part
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: of power play, big part of everything you like to do.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: So it's all weighing all of that against each other. Um,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: But I think for the moment, they'd like to see
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Mackenzie Blackwood just play, play better and look like a
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: number one. And I think they're going to give him
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a long leash to do that. Now, if you get
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: back in the same situation where it just looks like
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the team plays better with Scott Wedgwood between the pipes,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: then it's a different conversation. But Texter says, would you
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: want Hellebuck with his playoff history?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: It's something I've talked about before.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Hellebuck has been a really good regular season goalie that
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: each subsequent year, he had good starts. Good starts to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: his career in the postseason. But each subsequent year, it
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: feels like his numbers from a goals against and save
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: percentage standpoint have taken a dip. Now, I would argue
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: maybe that's team around you. I think if you put
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Hellebuck on this team, yeah, I wouldn't have those concerns,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: but I guess they are there. But I'm also somebody like,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I don't put too much stock into guy in the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: playoffs shrinks or something like that. I think there's too
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: many variables. In some cases, it's true, I suppose. But
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: how many times have we seen somebody who is labeled
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: as a....
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Playoff clown, I don't.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Know, whatever you want to call it, somebody who shrinks
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: in the postseason, then all of a sudden wins a championship,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: and now you pretend you never said that before? I mean,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning is certainly one of them. Oh, Peyton Manning
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: can't win the big game. Yeah, well, now he's got
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: multiple Super Bowls. Been to multiple Super Bowls. You can't
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: really get to a Super Bowl and say that the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: guy hasn't won a big game. There are big games
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: that lead up to that, too.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: So I don't know.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I don't really buy into the playoff hellebuck thing. I
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: just think with a better team around him, it would
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: look different.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: But who knows?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: But that game is tonight at 6.30. And the action
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: is right here on 92.5. Pre-game powered by Ramos Law
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: at 6 o'clock. And Connor has the action shortly after 6.30.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: So 3.03, 5.04, 0.925.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: A lot of things to discuss as we head into
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: a short week. taking on the defending Super Bowl champs.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: By the way, they have.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks are a very, very good football team still.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, that much is obvious.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: They've lost two of their last three. And it's interesting.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold goes back in the lineup, and in that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: first game, they lose to the Commanders 33-31. The following week,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: they play against the Chargers... And the Chargers.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Hang around in that game.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: They, give themselves a shot late, didn't play exceptionally well,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: but the Seahawks won that game 30-23, and then the
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Seahawks lost that really tough, great game against San Francisco 32-29.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: But the issues that they have is Sam Darnold's turning
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: the ball over a lot. He's played in four, we'll
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: call it three games. I don't even count the first one.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Three games, and he's had five interceptions.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Five.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: If there's any sort of salve to put on, if
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: you got some secondary trouble with, you know, it was
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: said by Andy Lindahl during one of these promos on
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: the injury report, Riley Moss came back in a limited capacity,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: but Sertan was still out and Hufanga was out. If
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you're going to be missing members of your secondary, at
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: least Sam Darnold seems to be a little bit irresponsible
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: with the football heading into the game this week. So
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it looks like he's still trying to get his feet
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: under him from the injury that he suffered the first
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: week of the season. The Seahawks are not an especially
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: good running team this year with Judarian Price on IR
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and Zach Charbonnet still being out from the beginning of
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: the season.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: But they do have one thing. They have JSN.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: And JSN is good enough alone and by himself to
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: light you up. And he has done it to multiple
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: teams on multiple occasions with multiple quarterbacks throwing him the football.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: So whatever you need to do, I mean, Vance Joseph
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: is one of the best DCs in the game. I
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: know he's going to have a good game plan. and
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: mine would be centered solely around stop that guy, and
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: you got a pretty good shot to bottle up the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Seattle offense, especially with how good your front is. So
• 41:18
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• 41:20
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• 41:31
  Speaker 2: We'll get to.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: The Broncos heading into a short week against the Seahawks.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Preview the Avs game coming up later tonight along with
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Adam Schefter at 9.20.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: All that coming. Moshe Lombardi came next.