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- 0:02Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
- 0:10Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
- 0:19Speaker 2: Today's Friday.
- 0:21Speaker 3: It is a Bud Light Football Friday. Just waiting for me.
- 0:28Speaker 3: Bud Light Football Friday as.
- 0:32Speaker 3: It's a huge weekend for a number of different reasons.
- 0:35Speaker 4: It's huge because in college football, you have both CSU
- 0:40Speaker 4: and CU trying to capitalize on a 2-0 start, playing
- 0:44Speaker 4: against opponents that are going to give them, in CSU's case,
- 0:51Speaker 4: it's the number 11 team in the country. You have
- 0:54Speaker 4: lost 24 straight games to ranked opponents. If you do
- 0:58Speaker 4: get a win, it would be a massive change. for
- 1:04Speaker 4: that franchise, that university, and what they could be moving forward.
- 1:13Speaker 4: It would be the biggest win in 26 years. Last
- 1:18Speaker 4: time they beat a ranked opponent was CU back in 2002,
- 1:21Speaker 4: I believe we found out. In CU's case, you're going
- 1:26Speaker 4: into a game on.
- 1:27Speaker 3: The road at Northwestern.
- 1:31Speaker 4: Where you're a three and a half point dog, but
- 1:33Speaker 4: I think it's a very winnable game for the Buffs.
- 1:36Speaker 4: And then, obviously, the Broncos don't have their season on
- 1:41Speaker 4: the line. But they have the ability to climb out
- 1:49Speaker 4: of what would be a very deep hole with a
- 1:52Speaker 4: loss this weekend. They would keep their heads above water
- 1:57Speaker 4: in this really difficult start to the schedule. And at
- 2:04Speaker 4: least attempt to get some revenge on the team that
- 2:09Speaker 4: blew them out the worst last year. So, in the
- 2:14Speaker 4: case of the Broncos and where they're at, I know
- 2:16Speaker 4: that this week, it's been odd. This week has been
- 2:21Speaker 4: largely about quarterback, Bo Nix. I started on Tuesday... talking
- 2:30Speaker 4: a lot about the fundamentals of football, which is just
- 2:33Speaker 4: straight-up tackling, which I do think is going to be
- 2:35Speaker 4: better this week, and probably something that we don't have
- 2:38Speaker 4: to worry about as much anymore moving forward. I think
- 2:43Speaker 4: after that first week, I think you'll start to see
- 2:48Speaker 4: a shift in that department because it was just an
- 2:53Speaker 4: offseason of not tackling that turns into.
- 2:57Speaker 3: okay, I remember how to do this again. They're too good, okay?
- 3:02Speaker 4: There's a wealth of evidence that shows us that that
- 3:04Speaker 4: team knows how to tackle. I'm not concerned about it. Now,
- 3:08Speaker 4: the quarterback part to me is it's tough because I
- 3:16Speaker 4: want to be real in the moment of what you're watching,
- 3:21Speaker 4: but I don't want the reality of maybe a singular
- 3:24Speaker 4: moment or day to taint the water supply of how
- 3:31Speaker 4: you feel in the future. And I guess the way
- 3:36Speaker 4: I'd put it is this. Whatever opinion you had of
- 3:42Speaker 4: Bo Nix going into this year should not have been
- 3:46Speaker 4: changed by the first game of the season. It's not
- 3:50Speaker 4: enough evidence to support changing your mind in one way
- 3:55Speaker 4: or the other.
- 3:56Speaker 3: The same thing.
- 3:57Speaker 4: Would be said or should be said if Bo Nix
- 4:01Speaker 4: went out and threw for four touchdowns and no picks
- 4:04Speaker 4: and 400 yards in the first week of the season.
- 4:07Speaker 4: If you thought Bo Nix was bad, you shouldn't think
- 4:09Speaker 4: he's good because of one good performance. This is about
- 4:14Speaker 4: stacking things over time and getting a wealth of evidence.
- 4:19Speaker 4: And so I would like to do this for people,
- 4:23Speaker 4: if you'd allow me, To show you Bo Nix by
- 4:28Speaker 4: the numbers, okay?
- 4:31Speaker 3: And this is what makes Bo Nix so difficult to judge.
- 4:36Speaker 4: At times because you have these moments where he looks
- 4:40Speaker 4: great and these moments where he doesn't. But I'm going
- 4:43Speaker 4: to take it by month because I don't think that
- 4:46Speaker 4: slow starts to the year are a Bo Nix thing necessarily.
- 4:50Speaker 4: They could be a combination of a Bo Nix thing
- 4:53Speaker 4: and a Sean Payton thing. Because we know that Sean
- 4:56Speaker 4: Payton's record throughout his head coaching career in the month
- 4:59Speaker 4: of September is 500.
- 5:01Speaker 3: And then he.
- 5:01Speaker 4: Explodes from there on out with big time win percentages
- 5:06Speaker 4: in October and November and so on and so forth.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Bo Nix in nine games in his career in September
- 5:14Speaker 4: is four and five with nine touchdowns and nine picks.
- 5:19Speaker 4: He has nine TDs in nine career games. Also nine
- 5:23Speaker 4: picks in nine career games in the month of September.
- 5:28Speaker 4: In the month of October, he's played eight games. He
- 5:31Speaker 4: has a record of 7-1. He has 15 touchdowns in
- 5:36Speaker 4: the month of October with two interceptions. In November, eight games.
- 5:42Speaker 4: He's 6-2. He has 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. And
- 5:49Speaker 4: in December, he's 5-3. 15 touchdowns, 8 interceptions. And then
- 5:55Speaker 4: if you want to just tack this on as well,
- 5:57Speaker 4: in January, he's 2-0 with 4 touchdowns and no picks.
- 6:02Speaker 3: This is just kind of how it's been.
- 6:05Speaker 4: And I tried to highlight that earlier in the week
- 6:08Speaker 4: when talking about Bo Nixon week one has been the
- 6:12Speaker 4: same guy every single year. What you'd like to see
- 6:16Speaker 4: is as this continues to progress throughout his career, That
- 6:22Speaker 4: as a third-year quarterback, he's not making the same mistakes
- 6:26Speaker 4: early in the season as he would have been when
- 6:28Speaker 4: he was a rookie. Well, I guess that still happens.
- 6:35Speaker 4: But if he continues to play like he did in
- 6:38Speaker 4: week one, you aren't going to be able, or at
- 6:44Speaker 4: least it's going to be incredibly difficult, to bounce back
- 6:48Speaker 4: from a super slow start against these levels of opponent.
- 6:56Speaker 4: I mean, you have tough games all the way up
- 6:58Speaker 4: until essentially your bye week. It eases us up from
- 7:03Speaker 4: a competition standpoint a little bit after that. And then
- 7:08Speaker 4: it's a tough close to the year, the final three weeks.
- 7:13Speaker 4: But after you had passed the stretch of Jacksonville, Rams, Niners, Chargers, Seahawks,
- 7:20Speaker 4: Cardinals look like it might be more difficult than we thought.
- 7:22Speaker 4: Kansas City again, Carolina then the bye. That's a huge
- 7:27Speaker 4: stretch of games that if you don't start to turn
- 7:31Speaker 4: things around in a hurry, it'll get away from you.
- 7:35Speaker 4: And I think a lot of this has to do
- 7:37Speaker 4: with Bo Nix and Davis Webb. They have to be
- 7:41Speaker 4: responsible at some point. I know Davis Webb is new
- 7:45Speaker 4: to the job, but I'm just talking about offense in general.
- 7:49Speaker 4: At some point, you need to be responsible for bailing
- 7:51Speaker 4: out your defense or giving them a little bit of
- 7:53Speaker 4: a break, allowing them to have some margin for error.
- 8:01Speaker 4: And it's a combo of if Bo Nix is entrusted
- 8:06Speaker 4: with the play to make a throw, well, you got
- 8:07Speaker 4: to make a throw. And you got to be confident
- 8:12Speaker 4: enough to make a throw in a tight window. Because
- 8:16Speaker 4: a lot of it was just checking down, checking down,
- 8:18Speaker 4: checking down on Monday. You have to be confident enough
- 8:21Speaker 4: to know, I'm an NFL quarterback. I need to put
- 8:26Speaker 4: the ball in tight places and have confidence that it's
- 8:28Speaker 4: going to get there.
- 8:29Speaker 3: It can't always be whoever's wide open. Underneath, anyway.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Now, in Davis Webb's case, this is also, to me,
- 8:45Speaker 4: a huge thing. Bo Nix, don't know what his ceiling is.
- 8:49Speaker 4: What we do know is he has a pretty high floor.
- 8:53Speaker 4: The game Monday night was pretty out of character for him. Turnovers,
- 8:57Speaker 4: took four sacks. He might not take four sacks for
- 8:59Speaker 4: another year and a half. What you need to do
- 9:04Speaker 4: for a guy that has a high floor with an
- 9:09Speaker 4: unknown ceiling, you need to be able to make things
- 9:15Speaker 4: around him more comfortable. And how you do that is
- 9:20Speaker 4: by doing exactly what Kansas City did with a Hall
- 9:23Speaker 4: of Fame quarterback who's coming off an injury and has
- 9:27Speaker 4: a undrafted free agent left tackle who's never played the
- 9:30Speaker 4: position before. You run the snot out of the football
- 9:37Speaker 4: and then you let him pick apart some play action
- 9:41Speaker 4: stuff and throws. If Davis Webb much like Sean Payton,
- 9:48Speaker 4: is not committed to running the football with J.K. Dobbins
- 9:54Speaker 4: and a second-round pick in R.J. Harvey and a fourth-round
- 9:57Speaker 4: pick in Jonah Coleman and everybody else that's on that roster.
- 10:00Speaker 3: You aren't committed to that. You're having Bo.
- 10:03Speaker 4: Nix go out every week and say, the game's on you,
- 10:06Speaker 4: go win it for us. And we don't know if
- 10:09Speaker 4: he's capable of it yet. He might be. At times,
- 10:14Speaker 4: he might be. And at times, he's not. Certainly wasn't
- 10:16Speaker 4: on Monday. If the Chiefs with one of the best
- 10:22Speaker 4: quarterbacks who's ever lived, can go out and say, our
- 10:28Speaker 4: entire goal in this game is to run the football
- 10:33Speaker 4: as much as humanly possible. And they finished the game
- 10:37Speaker 4: with 38 rushes and 27 passing attempts with a Hall
- 10:41Speaker 4: of Famer. You are not above that. And I thought
- 10:47Speaker 4: the easiest thing in the world for Davis Webb would
- 10:50Speaker 4: be to do just that, is go out and run
- 10:52Speaker 4: the football in the first week. Don't try and go
- 10:55Speaker 4: too crazy in your first real regular season experience calling
- 10:59Speaker 4: a game. Now, because he is a first-time play caller,
- 11:03Speaker 4: I do think he's going to learn from this. But
- 11:08Speaker 4: this was Bo Nix talking about Davis Webb. Do you
- 11:10Speaker 4: feel in a way, you know, Davis Webb first game,
- 11:13Speaker 4: call him play, maybe let him down a little bit
- 11:15Speaker 4: with the way the.
- 11:15Speaker 5: Offense executed him?
- 11:17Speaker 6: Absolutely.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Absolutely.
- 11:18Speaker 6: I think the players did not make it easy on
- 11:20Speaker 6: him today. Pretty pitiful, actually. But he was, you know,
- 11:26Speaker 6: to me in the headset, he treated it like, you know,
- 11:30Speaker 6: he was a pro with it. He was like, hey,
- 11:32Speaker 6: next play, here we go, you got this. He shot
- 11:35Speaker 6: it with conviction. I thought– I mean, we called exactly
- 11:39Speaker 6: what we prepared for and what we wanted to get to,
- 11:41Speaker 6: and we just didn't execute, and then we were behind.
- 11:45Speaker 6: And just literally, I don't think we did a whole
- 11:50Speaker 6: lot of good consistently enough to win the game at all.
- 11:54Speaker 4: Well, you didn't, but I do think that you're putting
- 11:57Speaker 4: Bo Nix in a bad spot there by not running.
- 11:59Speaker 4: I mean, you finished the game with 15 rushing attempts.
- 12:03Speaker 4: Three of those are Bo Nix. One of those is
- 12:05Speaker 4: Troy Franklin. So it's really just 11 carries between J.K.
- 12:10Speaker 4: Dobbins and R.J. Harvey in 60 minutes of football.
- 12:13Speaker 3: It's not going to work.
- 12:16Speaker 4: If there's one thing that I want to see, one thing,
- 12:21Speaker 4: this weekend, it's very simple to me. I think the
- 12:27Speaker 4: tackling is going to take care of itself. I'm not
- 12:29Speaker 4: concerned about it. And the defense, how do I explain this?
- 12:36Speaker 4: Other than doing the simple thing of wrapping up and
- 12:39Speaker 4: bringing people to the ground, the defense was actually pretty
- 12:42Speaker 4: good analytically in the first week. Point of contact for
- 12:46Speaker 4: running backs was at the line of scrimmage. You weren't
- 12:48Speaker 4: getting gashed by your first touch on Kenneth Walker was
- 12:52Speaker 4: 10 yards downfield. You hit and didn't wrap up at
- 12:55Speaker 4: the line. He bounced off a tackle, ran through you.
- 12:58Speaker 4: I think that gets better in week two. Pass defense
- 13:02Speaker 4: was pretty great.
- 13:03Speaker 3: I mean, you had.
- 13:05Speaker 4: Patrick Mahomes 2-12 to start the game or something like that.
- 13:07Speaker 3: It was nuts.
- 13:10Speaker 4: On the offensive side, all the things that you wanted
- 13:13Speaker 4: to see improve, run the football more, commit to the
- 13:16Speaker 4: run more, stop the three and outs, all of that.
- 13:23Speaker 3: Did not happen.
- 13:24Speaker 4: Got to change this week. And I think that is
- 13:28Speaker 4: up to, yes, Bo Nix, but a lot of this
- 13:31Speaker 4: is going to be on Davis Webb. Sean Payton was
- 13:36Speaker 4: willing to give up the play-calling duties to keep you
- 13:38Speaker 4: on this coaching staff. There has to be a commitment
- 13:43Speaker 4: to do things differently than what Sean Payton did. If not,
- 13:47Speaker 4: then why did he give you the play sheet in
- 13:49Speaker 4: the first place? So broadcasting from the back of the
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- 14:22Speaker 3: 9 a.m. We'll be talking to Mark Long, writer for...
- 14:30Speaker 3: What's his publication again, Mark Long? He's a Jags reporter.
- 14:33Speaker 2: The AP, Associated Press.
- 14:35Speaker 3: The AP.
- 14:35Speaker 4: Mark Long of the AP. When the last, well, no,
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- 14:40Speaker 4: Long joined us, it just, it felt like he was,
- 14:44Speaker 4: he should be a fourth co-host on this show.
- 14:47Speaker 1: The Broncos should come in here and beat that ass.
- 14:50Speaker 4: That's what he said, what was it, five years ago,
- 14:52Speaker 4: something like that. So he will join us again at
- 14:56Speaker 4: 9 a.m. And Texture says, are we settling in for
- 14:58Speaker 4: day four of Altitude Sports Radio Trashes the Broncos?
- 15:03Speaker 2: Wait, you got to say it like the voice guy.
- 15:05Speaker 4: Altitude Sports Radio trashes the Broncos.
- 15:10Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
- 15:11Speaker 3: Not bad.
- 15:12Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right.
- 15:13Speaker 3: Turns out when you sneeze eight times during a break,
- 15:15Speaker 3: it can do something to your throat.
- 15:17Speaker 2: Brett Cain loves allergies.
- 15:20Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 15:23Speaker 4: So here's the situation, man. I know that this week
- 15:28Speaker 4: has probably been rough. And we, along with other shows
- 15:34Speaker 4: in this station, have not been very complimentary of the Broncos.
- 15:37Speaker 4: And there's a very simple reason for that. Because the
- 15:40Speaker 4: Broncos stunk in their first game. And it was hard
- 15:47Speaker 4: to really point over that 60 minutes on Monday any
- 15:51Speaker 4: redeeming quality that they had in the middle of that game.
- 15:57Speaker 4: That does not mean I think the Broncos themselves are trash,
- 16:01Speaker 4: but they were for 60 minutes.
- 16:05Speaker 3: So, to me, if I'm not telling.
- 16:10Speaker 4: You what my eyeballs told me, I didn't do this
- 16:14Speaker 4: show to lie, okay? If nothing else, I'm going to
- 16:18Speaker 4: shoot you straight and tell you how I feel. Everything
- 16:21Speaker 4: about that was bad, but I will remind you that
- 16:29Speaker 4: I feel like there has been overreactions to that first week.
- 16:35Speaker 2: And I.
- 16:37Speaker 4: Have tried my best to push back against those. The
- 16:40Speaker 4: defense played terrible. You do not have a bad defense.
- 16:43Speaker 4: You have a really good defense. Bo Nix was awful.
- 16:47Speaker 4: He's not that bad. He's a good quarterback. I don't
- 16:51Speaker 4: know how good, but he is good. Bo Nix yesterday...
- 16:56Speaker 4: speaking to the media, talked about that Chiefs game.
- 16:58Speaker 3: Go ahead.
- 16:59Speaker 5: Learned a long time ago, you never play as bad
- 17:00Speaker 5: as you think, and you never play as good as
- 17:02Speaker 5: you think. So for us, it was the case of
- 17:04Speaker 5: we didn't play as bad as what we thought. We just,
- 17:06Speaker 5: there at the end of the game, we didn't get
- 17:08Speaker 5: many third down conversions, and we felt like it was 7-7, 14-7,
- 17:11Speaker 5: and 21-7 for a long time in the game. So
- 17:14Speaker 5: it was reachable, and we were in it for a while.
- 17:17Speaker 5: We just didn't help ourselves by any means. You watch
- 17:20Speaker 5: the film, and there's a couple good things, and then
- 17:22Speaker 5: we're all of a sudden back because of a penalty
- 17:24Speaker 5: or something, and You just can't win in this league
- 17:26Speaker 5: like that. So overall, it wasn't, you know, we're not
- 17:29Speaker 5: going to press the panic button. You know, we're not
- 17:31Speaker 5: freaking out. We're not starting from scratch or anything. We
- 17:34Speaker 5: feel like we're still in a good spot and we
- 17:36Speaker 5: just didn't play great by any means. And we got
- 17:38Speaker 5: to play better.
- 17:41Speaker 3: All of that true.
- 17:44Speaker 4: This typically is the case, by the way, whatever you've,
- 17:48Speaker 4: whatever you're doing at your job, it's probably not as
- 17:51Speaker 4: bad as you thought it was. And it probably wasn't
- 17:53Speaker 4: as good as you thought it was, but, I think
- 17:57Speaker 4: in general, here's what the Broncos can do to win
- 18:04Speaker 4: against a good Jacksonville team. The recipe, the formula, I
- 18:10Speaker 4: don't think is all that difficult. You do the basic
- 18:18Speaker 4: football 101 stuff.
- 18:20Speaker 3: If you do that right, you're going to be just fine.
- 18:25Speaker 3: You tackle.
- 18:27Speaker 4: You don't turn the ball over. You don't commit penalties.
- 18:35Speaker 4: And run the football. It's a very simple concept. And
- 18:38Speaker 4: if you do that to a high level, you're going
- 18:42Speaker 4: to be just fine. The Broncos are in half. They
- 18:48Speaker 4: possess a certain gear to them when they are doing
- 18:55Speaker 4: the little things right. It opens up a lot more stuff. Offensively, defensively,
- 19:03Speaker 4: it gives them, puts them in a little bit more
- 19:05Speaker 4: of a comfort zone. You're back at home for this game.
- 19:10Speaker 4: You have the added benefit, I suppose, of conjuring up
- 19:16Speaker 4: some more competitive juices for a team that walked into
- 19:19Speaker 4: this building and kicked your butt last year.
- 19:24Speaker 3: You have.
- 19:25Speaker 4: I think a whole bunch of reasons to look at
- 19:27Speaker 4: this game and be like, the Broncos will bounce back.
- 19:29Speaker 4: But it has to be because of the little things.
- 19:33Speaker 4: And I'll tell you this, in watching the game last night, Buffalo,
- 19:37Speaker 4: who's obviously incredibly talented, incredibly, they go out and basically
- 19:43Speaker 4: whatever they felt like they wanted to do against Detroit,
- 19:46Speaker 4: they did. If they wanted to run the ball, they
- 19:48Speaker 4: were going to run it effectively. If they wanted to
- 19:50Speaker 4: throw it, it was going to be a 20-yard pass.
- 19:52Speaker 4: If it was third and 12, didn't matter, they would convert.
- 19:55Speaker 3: But if you look.
- 19:56Speaker 4: Carefully at what was happening in that game, especially early,
- 20:01Speaker 4: Buffalo would make a mistake. They wouldn't convert on a
- 20:08Speaker 4: third down. Josh Allen throws a pick, but Detroit commits penalties.
- 20:16Speaker 4: And first of all, Detroit is not, their defense is
- 20:19Speaker 4: one of the worst in the league. You cannot afford
- 20:21Speaker 4: to give extra opportunities to a guy like Josh Allen.
- 20:24Speaker 4: But if you do that, you're going to have the
- 20:27Speaker 4: game look exactly like it did last night, where basically
- 20:29Speaker 4: from the opening kick, it felt like Detroit had no
- 20:33Speaker 4: shot because they weren't doing the little things right. Not
- 20:39Speaker 4: to say even if they did that they would win
- 20:41Speaker 4: that football game, but they'd certainly give themselves a shot.
- 20:44Speaker 4: And that's what it felt like the Broncos were doing
- 20:46Speaker 4: with the Chiefs. All of the little stuff that you.
- 20:50Speaker 4: And this was, to me, the most disappointing thing about
- 20:55Speaker 4: the Sean Payton aspect of this was.
- 21:00Speaker 3: You're doing all of these.
- 21:03Speaker 4: You hand off the play-calling duties to Davis Webb... And
- 21:08Speaker 4: you are now the overseer of an organization. You're supposed
- 21:11Speaker 4: to have your eyes on kind of everything because you
- 21:13Speaker 4: aren't bogged down in the focus of drawing up an
- 21:15Speaker 4: offensive game plan, calling plays, communicating with your offense, all
- 21:19Speaker 4: those different stuff. That should mean you need to take
- 21:23Speaker 4: care of these smaller details first. And the disappointing part
- 21:30Speaker 4: about where the Broncos were at against the Chiefs to
- 21:32Speaker 4: open up the season was that Man, you had two
- 21:36Speaker 4: penalties that were absolute killers. A third and two that
- 21:42Speaker 4: gets pushed back to a third and seven because of
- 21:44Speaker 4: delay of game. You start a drive on the four
- 21:47Speaker 4: yard line when you desperately need a touchdown and that
- 21:50Speaker 4: drive moves backwards. Those are killers for a team who's struggling.
- 21:59Speaker 4: And I saw similarities in the Thursday night football game.
- 22:02Speaker 4: Detroit's defense struggling. You cannot allow extra opportunities and make
- 22:08Speaker 4: your job harder on yourself. Broncos offense, struggling. You can't
- 22:12Speaker 4: take a 10-yard penalty when you're at the four-yard line.
- 22:15Speaker 3: Can't do it. They're killers.
- 22:20Speaker 4: And if you do that against Jacksonville, Jacksonville will make
- 22:23Speaker 4: you pay, too. Texture says, this defense is the farthest
- 22:30Speaker 4: thing from elite.
- 22:31Speaker 3: It's mediocre at best.
- 22:34Speaker 4: These are the overreactions from week one that I'm kind
- 22:38Speaker 4: of talking about by almost every metric last year, the
- 22:46Speaker 4: Broncos were a top five defense in the league. They
- 22:49Speaker 4: were number two in rushing yards allowed per game. They
- 22:53Speaker 4: were in the top five and points allowed per game.
- 22:55Speaker 4: They were number one in the league at generating sacks.
- 22:58Speaker 4: The only thing that really didn't do was create turnovers,
- 23:02Speaker 4: create takeaways. Um, which maybe they improve on this year,
- 23:08Speaker 4: maybe not, but by every metric, they were top five
- 23:12Speaker 4: in the league and it backed up with the eye
- 23:14Speaker 4: test too. You saw it. They weren't perfect every week,
- 23:18Speaker 4: but this is why I, you know, me and Vic
- 23:20Speaker 4: and Moj have been talking about this.
- 23:23Speaker 3: For now going to be four straight days.
- 23:28Speaker 4: Not every single, even if you're an elite unit, every
- 23:35Speaker 4: single game, ain't going to be some sort of perfect painting.
- 23:39Speaker 4: I was going to say a Picasso, but Picasso paintings
- 23:42Speaker 4: are weird. Who would we consider like a beautiful, like a.
- 23:48Speaker 2: A Monet?
- 23:49Speaker 3: A Monet?
- 23:50Speaker 4: I was going to say Frida, but Frida just kind
- 23:54Speaker 4: of painted herself all the time.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Yeah, Frida Kahlo. The Broncos could have used some unibrow energy.
- 23:59Speaker 2: I'm with that.
- 24:00Speaker 4: Dali was also weird with some melting clocks and stuff
- 24:03Speaker 4: like that.
- 24:03Speaker 3: I like the Monet. We're going to go with Monet.
- 24:05Speaker 2: The Broncos defense looked more like Jackson Pollock.
- 24:09Speaker 6: Yes.
- 24:09Speaker 2: That was not pretty.
- 24:11Speaker 4: Jackson Pollock just looks like you put paint in your
- 24:16Speaker 4: bong bong and just let it come out that way.
- 24:22Speaker 3: See, I know art. I'm cultured.
- 24:25Speaker 4: Point is, not everything's going to be a Monet. Sometimes
- 24:29Speaker 4: you need help. And here's the problem. Uh-oh, defense is
- 24:33Speaker 4: having trouble tackling. Offense, we need you to bail us out.
- 24:37Speaker 4: Thanks for all the four out of six drives to
- 24:40Speaker 4: start the game are three and outs.
- 24:42Speaker 3: By the way, even in that, the Broncos defense.
- 24:51Speaker 4: Held the Chiefs to, I mean, again, despite not being
- 24:54Speaker 4: able to tackle, held the Chiefs to seven points.
- 25:01Speaker 3: With two minutes to go in the half.
- 25:05Speaker 4: Everything kind of fell apart in the second half, but
- 25:08Speaker 4: that's because, again, you know, we went through this yesterday.
- 25:12Speaker 4: What is pretty remarkable, the Broncos had a single drive, one,
- 25:20Speaker 4: the entire game, out of I think the number was 11,
- 25:25Speaker 4: that went beyond 20 yards. That is going to lead
- 25:37Speaker 4: directly to, if you've got a struggling defense, good bleepin' luck.
- 25:47Speaker 4: So I have no worries, listen to me, zero, about
- 25:52Speaker 4: the defense. I think they will bounce back. And this
- 25:56Speaker 4: is going to be a tough offense that they play.
- 25:58Speaker 4: I'm not saying they're holding the Jags to 10 points.
- 26:01Speaker 4: The Jags might score in the 20s. But they will
- 26:03Speaker 4: look a lot better than the previous week.
- 26:07Speaker 2: A lot.
- 26:08Speaker 4: If there's one thing I am confident in, and everybody
- 26:11Speaker 4: should be with this team, it is defensively their ability
- 26:15Speaker 4: to go out and get stops. They've been doing it
- 26:20Speaker 4: for years. With no help on the opposite side of
- 26:24Speaker 4: the football for the most part.
- 26:30Speaker 3: So 303, 504, 0925.
- 26:30Speaker 4: Texture says the Broncos defense was like that banana that
- 26:36Speaker 4: was duct taped to the wall masquerading as art. Can
- 26:43Speaker 4: you believe how much you have to lie to yourself
- 26:46Speaker 4: about how cultured and what an eye for art you
- 26:52Speaker 4: have to look at a duct taped banana to a
- 26:54Speaker 4: wall and be like, wow, profound. Like, how much, here's
- 27:02Speaker 4: the thing. I don't even like, even though it looks cool,
- 27:06Speaker 4: because I don't understand art. I've never looked at a
- 27:08Speaker 4: painting and felt, you know, people say you feel the emotion.
- 27:12Speaker 4: I don't feel any emotions. I'm like, yeah, it's a
- 27:14Speaker 4: bridge with a moon. Mona Lisa, yeah, she's got, yeah,
- 27:21Speaker 4: it looks like a little bit of a smirk. A
- 27:24Speaker 4: little bit of a smirk. Eyes seem to follow me everywhere.
- 27:30Speaker 4: It's another famous painting.
- 27:31Speaker 3: Starry night. Very cool painting. It doesn't conjure up some
- 27:35Speaker 3: emotion in me.
- 27:36Speaker 2: Which is a Van Gogh.
- 27:38Speaker 3: A Van Gogh.
- 27:38Speaker 2: He didn't have his normal moments.
- 27:42Speaker 3: Was that pre or post ear?
- 27:46Speaker 2: I think ear was towards the end.
- 27:49Speaker 3: What's the whole story? His wife or girlfriend said, you
- 27:52Speaker 3: don't listen enough. And he goes, here, take this. How's
- 27:55Speaker 3: that for listening?
- 27:56Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Um.
- 28:00Speaker 3: But I, the, what was I going to say?
- 28:03Speaker 4: Oh, the guys who go like in their garage and
- 28:06Speaker 4: they have the big canvas and they poke holes in
- 28:09Speaker 4: a paint can and they do the twisty thing. I
- 28:13Speaker 4: think those look really cool, but that's not, you're not
- 28:17Speaker 4: an artist. You just, you let gravity take over. Now,
- 28:24Speaker 4: have you ever seen those guys that will paint something at, like,
- 28:27Speaker 4: a basketball halftime show, and they do it upside down,
- 28:30Speaker 4: and then they flip it around last second?
- 28:31Speaker 3: You're like, nah, that's art. That's what I'm talking about.
- 28:34Speaker 3: That guy's got some real talent.
- 28:35Speaker 2: Or I like when you go to these, like, these
- 28:37Speaker 2: jam band shows. You go see, I don't know, widespread panic,
- 28:40Speaker 2: and there's somebody in the back doing live painting where
- 28:43Speaker 2: they have an easel up, and they're just painting whatever
- 28:45Speaker 2: comes to them in the moment.
- 28:47Speaker 3: That's cool.
- 28:47Speaker 2: While Government Mule is on their 70th song. That's awesome.
- 28:52Speaker 3: Like, how do I get to... can you just do
- 28:55Speaker 3: this for some of these people who are like the,
- 28:58Speaker 3: the banana duct tape to the wall people. Can I
- 29:02Speaker 3: just randomly become a, what's that dude's name? Banksy.
- 29:09Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
- 29:09Speaker 4: I want to, I want to operate under a pseudonym,
- 29:12Speaker 4: throw up art somewhere in the middle of a, I
- 29:14Speaker 4: don't know, Park Meadows mall over here.
- 29:17Speaker 3: I'll duct tape, uh, my, what should I duct tape? Uh,
- 29:24Speaker 3: This Kleenex box that I keep using.
- 29:26Speaker 2: An empty beer can.
- 29:27Speaker 3: An empty beer.
- 29:28Speaker 4: Can to the wall, and I'll be like, this represents
- 29:33Speaker 4: the deep hell of alcoholism that this country, or something.
- 29:39Speaker 3: That's what I. say, and then all of a sudden
- 29:41Speaker 3: I get a million dollars?
- 29:43Speaker 2: What would your artist name be? I guess, Cornsy? Milksy?
- 29:48Speaker 3: Milksy. I like Milksy.
- 29:51Speaker 4: Dude, did you see that new Milksy painting that's out?
- 29:55Speaker 4: It's four dots on a piece of paper. And it's just,
- 30:01Speaker 4: I think, I see pizza grease on there. I think
- 30:04Speaker 4: he traced around pepperonis.
- 30:08Speaker 3: He's a genius.
- 30:12Speaker 4: This is to me like, if you just got everybody
- 30:16Speaker 4: at this station to judge a figure skating event, we'd
- 30:20Speaker 4: have no idea what we're looking at.
- 30:22Speaker 3: That's all a charade. No idea.
- 30:25Speaker 4: Although I will tell you, Nelly, some people, and this
- 30:28Speaker 4: is the people I have respect for, But we said
- 30:29Speaker 4: this about Sean White.
- 30:30Speaker 3: I know nothing about snowboarding. I know nothing else.
- 30:33Speaker 4: But what I did know was Sean White was better
- 30:35Speaker 4: than the other people at snowboarding.
- 30:37Speaker 3: I just knew it.
- 30:38Speaker 4: I don't know anything about that sport, but I knew
- 30:40Speaker 4: he was better just by watching. When I watched Backflip Guy...
- 30:43Speaker 4: doing on the ice skates his last Olympics. I was
- 30:46Speaker 4: just going to say that guy's better.
- 30:48Speaker 3: Than everybody else. Cause that's crazy.
- 30:50Speaker 2: Uh, Ilya Malinin, I think. Yeah. When he skated my
- 30:55Speaker 2: dumb ass that knows nothing about figure skating. I went,
- 30:57Speaker 2: that guy looks pretty good.
- 30:58Speaker 4: Don't know anything about real rhythmic gymnastics. I know that
- 31:02Speaker 4: Simone Biles was better than everybody else.
- 31:04Speaker 2: You do the, the Will Sasso, Robert De Niro. When
- 31:07Speaker 2: you watch them.
- 31:08Speaker 1: Good.
- 31:10Speaker 3: It's good. Do an impression of Robert De Niro eating
- 31:17Speaker 3: pasta and liking it.
- 31:21Speaker 4: It's good.
- 31:26Speaker 3: One of my favorite things ever.
- 31:28Speaker 1: 303-504-0925.
- 31:28Speaker 4: She says, dude, Banksy is a real artist. The Banana
- 31:34Speaker 4: Boy is a front. I don't know what Banksy does.
- 31:36Speaker 4: I thought Banksy was Banana Boy.
- 31:38Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not well-versed. In art. I don't
- 31:47Speaker 3: know how else to say it to you. Take that
- 31:49Speaker 3: L on the way out.
- 31:51Speaker 4: Doesn't get much bigger than this. Number one, Cherry Creek
- 31:54Speaker 4: takes on number two, Valor, tonight at 7. You can
- 31:56Speaker 4: tune in for a huge night of Colorado high school
- 31:59Speaker 4: football on Altitude Sports Radio 92.5. It's all thanks to
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- 32:06Speaker 3: So a lot more to get to here.
- 32:07Speaker 4: We'll make Nelly sing in just a few minutes.
- 32:09Speaker 3: Stick around. All right, I told you I don't know art.
- 32:11Speaker 3: I also don't know gymnastics.
- 32:13Speaker 4: I thought rhythmic gymnastics is what Simone Biles did with
- 32:16Speaker 4: all the flips and jumps and turns and twists. That
- 32:19Speaker 4: is now, that is artistic gymnastics, I guess, or something.
- 32:25Speaker 4: Floor routine is what I'll call it. That's what I've
- 32:28Speaker 4: heard it called. You know what I'm talking about.
- 32:32Speaker 2: Let's be real. The gymnastics where they're waving the ribbons
- 32:35Speaker 2: and throwing the stick through the hoop, come on. Let's
- 32:39Speaker 2: be real here.
- 32:40Speaker 3: What Frank the Tank does in old school?
- 32:42Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see the vault where they spring
- 32:46Speaker 2: up and then flip through the air 80 times and
- 32:47Speaker 2: then stick the landing without even moving.
- 32:49Speaker 4: True.
- 32:50Speaker 2: Where they're swinging on the bars and when Simone springs
- 32:53Speaker 2: off the floor and then does a bunch of twist
- 32:55Speaker 2: flips in the air, that's gymnastics. If I wanted to
- 32:57Speaker 2: throw a stick through a hula hoop, I don't need
- 32:59Speaker 2: the Olympics for that.
- 33:01Speaker 4: So this weekend, we have a bunch of stuff that
- 33:03Speaker 4: we're going to run over the weekend as far as
- 33:05Speaker 4: your lineup. From 9 to 1, it's going to be
- 33:08Speaker 4: Springer and Tanner tomorrow. They're going to give you thoughts
- 33:13Speaker 4: during college football being played in that moment. We're going
- 33:16Speaker 4: to have Florida State and Georgia on at 1.30. LSU
- 33:20Speaker 4: and Ole Miss is going to be on AM 9.50
- 33:22Speaker 4: at 5.30. And then on Sunday, Steelers-Patriots at 11.00. We'll
- 33:30Speaker 4: have Avs and Mammoth preseason on AM 950 at 530,
- 33:35Speaker 4: and we'll have Colts and Chiefs on Westwood 1 620
- 33:39Speaker 4: on Sunday. So all that coming this weekend. It is
- 33:43Speaker 4: a Bud Light Football Friday, and I would like to.
- 33:45Speaker 1: Altitude Sports Radio loves football.
- 33:49Speaker 4: The weekend that will be in college football, starting with.
- 33:57Speaker 3: I do believe... There is a really.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Good opportunity here. I mean, I want to give credit
- 34:03Speaker 4: where credit's due because I was skeptical. But I think
- 34:06Speaker 4: I was right to be grounded in some skepticism when
- 34:12Speaker 4: this season started in talking about CU and what kind
- 34:19Speaker 4: of team they were going to be.
- 34:21Speaker 3: You know, what I said was CU.
- 34:26Speaker 3: Heading into year four under Deion, you need to see
- 34:29Speaker 3: tangible improvement from a roster that was kicked and battered
- 34:38Speaker 3: and bruised a year ago.
- 34:40Speaker 4: You finish the season three and nine, you're one and
- 34:43Speaker 4: eight in conference play. You need to go out and
- 34:47Speaker 4: play some good football. And in the first week against
- 34:50Speaker 4: Georgia Tech, It was up and down. It was a
- 34:53Speaker 4: back and forth game. But to their credit, what they
- 34:55Speaker 4: did is they ran the football and they stopped the run.
- 34:59Speaker 4: And that resulted in a 14 to 13 win over
- 35:02Speaker 4: a good Georgia Tech team. The next week you play
- 35:04Speaker 4: against a bad Weber State team, but you do what
- 35:07Speaker 4: good teams should do to bad teams, which is you're
- 35:09Speaker 4: up 42 to 14 at halftime. That's what should happen.
- 35:14Speaker 4: And once again, you ran the football and you stopped
- 35:18Speaker 4: the run. That is what good football teams do. The
- 35:23Speaker 4: question is, can you do that against Northwestern? Northwestern has
- 35:27Speaker 4: played one game so far. They played against South Dakota State.
- 35:30Speaker 4: That final score is 34-18. But Northwestern on 31 carries
- 35:37Speaker 4: at 224 yards in that game. Can you do, once again,
- 35:41Speaker 4: stop the run and run the football? And if they
- 35:44Speaker 4: do that for a third consecutive time against another Power
- 35:48Speaker 4: 5 opponent, I think you can start looking at this
- 35:54Speaker 4: CU team differently. That you can give them now some
- 36:00Speaker 4: grace in, okay, well, maybe when you got those games
- 36:03Speaker 4: against Texas Tech and Utah and some of the better
- 36:06Speaker 4: teams in the Big 12 in the coming weeks, perhaps
- 36:10Speaker 4: those turn into games that you feel like you should
- 36:13Speaker 4: be in with a chance to win. And that's all
- 36:16Speaker 4: I was looking for. Like, didn't need a 10-win season
- 36:19Speaker 4: out of CU. Just wanted the arrow to be pointing up.
- 36:22Speaker 3: That's it.
- 36:24Speaker 4: And in a very similar fashion, I think the same
- 36:27Speaker 4: thing is happening in Fort Collins. The difference was, I
- 36:32Speaker 4: was really excited about the Jim Moore hire from the
- 36:35Speaker 4: very beginning. Jim Moore is somebody who's been in the
- 36:39Speaker 4: sport for a long time, knows football, and wants a
- 36:43Speaker 4: place that's going to be comfortable. But in a veteran
- 36:47Speaker 4: coach who's coached at every level, that guy.
- 36:51Speaker 4: Knows that if you do the basics right, you're going
- 36:54Speaker 4: to come away with a lot of wins in a
- 36:56Speaker 4: conference that isn't totally dependent on how many five stars
- 37:01Speaker 4: do you have.
- 37:01Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 37:03Speaker 4: If you're playing in the SEC, this sort of like,
- 37:07Speaker 4: hey man, if we just play the game with discipline
- 37:09Speaker 4: and do the football one-on-one stuff right, then there's no
- 37:13Speaker 4: chance to win against Georgia playing that way. Not if
- 37:18Speaker 4: you don't have the horses. In this version of the Pac-12,
- 37:21Speaker 4: absolutely there is. Now, BYU, number 11 team in the country,
- 37:26Speaker 4: very talented. But I think it's a game that you
- 37:30Speaker 4: can be in. And I don't think you're looking for
- 37:33Speaker 4: a win.
- 37:35Speaker 3: This weekend.
- 37:36Speaker 4: I mean, the spread is something like 17 and a half.
- 37:40Speaker 4: But that number opened at 21. I think people believe
- 37:43Speaker 4: that what they've seen out of Colorado State for the
- 37:45Speaker 4: first couple of weeks are real. Can guys like Haney
- 37:51Speaker 4: continue to produce at a consistently high level, but I
- 37:58Speaker 4: think more importantly, a mistake-free level? I think that CSU,
- 38:06Speaker 4: that place is going to be buzzing tomorrow, can absolutely
- 38:12Speaker 4: stay in the game against BYU. Getting a win is
- 38:17Speaker 4: going to be a tall ask. But I think if
- 38:21Speaker 4: they hang in there, year one under a new coach,
- 38:24Speaker 4: it would be an incredible feat to start this. Remember,
- 38:30Speaker 4: CSU has not won a game against a ranked team
- 38:36Speaker 4: in 26 years. I'm sorry, 24 years. 25, something like that.
- 38:44Speaker 4: It's a quarter century. It was in 2002 against CU.
- 38:49Speaker 4: I don't know the exact date, so it's probably 25 years.
- 38:51Speaker 4: It was around this time in the calendar, whatever. But
- 38:54Speaker 4: it's been a long time. Not asking for the dub,
- 39:02Speaker 4: asking them to hang in there, and I think they can.
- 39:04Speaker 4: I ain't asking for the world here. But I think
- 39:08Speaker 4: if both of those things happen, if CU finds a
- 39:10Speaker 4: way to win as a three and a half point
- 39:13Speaker 4: dog to Northwestern this weekend, and if CSU can hang
- 39:16Speaker 4: in there with BYU and give themselves a shot, we
- 39:20Speaker 4: might be in a place that we haven't been in
- 39:22Speaker 4: a long time, which is we've talked about college football
- 39:26Speaker 4: a lot here, especially since prime came over, but it's
- 39:30Speaker 4: always been in the context of attention and not results
- 39:34Speaker 4: for the most part. I think we can start talking
- 39:38Speaker 4: about results now, which would be a fun shift from
- 39:44Speaker 4: where they were before.
- 39:45Speaker 3: So three Oh three. 504-0925.
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- 39:51Speaker 4: It is a Bud Light Football Friday. And on Bud
- 39:55Speaker 4: Light Football Fridays, at the end of the 6 o'clock hour,
- 39:59Speaker 4: we do this.
- 40:01Speaker 3: Sing it, Nelly!
- 40:03Speaker 1: Sing it, Nelly! Bratty!
- 40:05Speaker 2: Bratty!
- 40:06Speaker 1: Bratty!
- 40:07Speaker 2: Bratty and his bats!
- 40:09Speaker 4: Bats!
- 40:10Speaker 2: Didn't you hammer Oregon last week?
- 40:13Speaker 3: I was 0-2 last week. Not important.
- 40:25Speaker 4: We do it every single week to close out the
- 40:28Speaker 4: six o'clock hour. I give you two games, a lock
- 40:31Speaker 4: of the week.
- 40:32Speaker 3: And an underdog of the week. Now I am two
- 40:35Speaker 3: and two so far on the year.
- 40:38Speaker 4: Last week was bad because I, like Mosier, was thinking
- 40:41Speaker 4: Oregon was going to pound a team that has lost
- 40:44Speaker 4: 12 consecutive games, and that was not the case.
- 40:48Speaker 3: Oregon wins.
- 40:50Speaker 4: Other pick was Tampa Bay to cover three and a
- 40:54Speaker 4: half against, was it the Bengals last?
- 40:59Speaker 3: Yeah, Bengals.
- 41:01Speaker 4: And they lost by six. So, try and get back
- 41:04Speaker 4: on the right track this week. In one of the
- 41:07Speaker 4: games I'm looking at, and I'm nervous to do this,
- 41:10Speaker 4: but I think I know what direction this is going
- 41:13Speaker 4: to go. Lane Kiffin in LSU is going back to
- 41:17Speaker 4: Ole Miss, and they're doing so as three-point favorites.
- 41:22Speaker 3: Sam Leavitt is.
- 41:26Speaker 4: was doubtful yesterday is now questionable to play in this game.
- 41:31Speaker 4: I don't think it matters, and I really wince in
- 41:34Speaker 4: saying that.
- 41:36Speaker 3: I think that Lane Kiffin is such a bleep hole.
- 41:39Speaker 4: It doesn't matter who he's taking back to Ole Miss.
- 41:42Speaker 4: He is going to try and beat them by a
- 41:44Speaker 4: million points. There will be no mercy rule. If they're
- 41:48Speaker 4: up 17 with two minutes to go with the ball
- 41:51Speaker 4: in their hands, I think they're going to try and
- 41:53Speaker 4: score again. I'm going to take LSU to cover on
- 41:56Speaker 4: the road at Ole Miss, three points. In the NFL,
- 42:01Speaker 4: to go with an underdog of the week, it's always
- 42:04Speaker 4: difficult in looking at these, but there is a prime
- 42:09Speaker 4: matchup that's going to happen on Sunday. I think it's
- 42:11Speaker 4: the game of the week as far as if you
- 42:13Speaker 4: want to look at the mind games. Brian Flores, defensive
- 42:17Speaker 4: coordinator of the Vikings, one of the best in the league,
- 42:19Speaker 4: is going against Ben Johnson, who's the best play caller
- 42:22Speaker 4: in the league in Chicago. Vikings on the road at
- 42:25Speaker 4: the Bears. Bears are favored by four and a half.
- 42:29Speaker 4: I think the Vikings defense will be good enough to
- 42:32Speaker 4: where the Bears won't score 40 and the Bears defense
- 42:37Speaker 4: is bad enough where they might allow Carson Wentz to
- 42:39Speaker 4: go out and keep the score close. So I'll take
- 42:42Speaker 4: the Vikings plus four and a half. You can watch
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