Latest / The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane / 10-02-26 - Broncos are predictable in unpredictable NFL/The 49ers are gettable/Awkward in-game interview
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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: Watson with the shotgun, sends Judkins in motion out to
- 0:21Speaker 2: the right. High snap, pulled down by Watson, throws right side,
- 0:24Speaker 2: caught in the end zone, touchdown Browns. Harold Fannin makes
- 0:28Speaker 2: the catch, and the Browns lead is 20-7. While Deshaun
- 0:32Speaker 2: Watson pulled down a snap that was above his helmet
- 0:36Speaker 2: and quickly got it to Harold Fannin, the third touchdown
- 0:39Speaker 2: catch of the year for Fannin. And the Browns are
- 0:42Speaker 2: up 20-7 with 1.22 to go in the first half.
- 0:46Speaker 3: Here's the snap. Ball down.
- 0:47Speaker 4: The kick is on the way. End over end.
- 0:50Speaker 3: It is good.
- 0:51Speaker 2: Andre Schmidt drills it down the middle. And with 10
- 0:56Speaker 2: seconds to go, the Browns lead 27-24.
- 1:01Speaker 5: Fun times in Cleveland again Still Cleveland Come on down
- 1:06Speaker 5: to Cleveland Town everyone Under construction since 1868 See our
- 1:12Speaker 5: river that catches on fire It's so polluted that all
- 1:16Speaker 5: our fish have AIDS We see the sun almost three
- 1:19Speaker 5: times a year This guy has.
- 1:21Speaker 1: At least two DUIs.
- 1:23Speaker 5: The flats look like a Scooby Doo ghost town Don't
- 1:26Speaker 5: slow down in East Cleveland or you'll die.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Our economy's based on LeBron James. Buy a house for
- 1:32Speaker 4: the price of a VCR.
- 1:34Speaker 5: Our main export is crippling depression.
- 1:37Speaker 2: We're so * * * * that we.
- 1:38Speaker 3: Think this is art. It could be worse, though at
- 1:41Speaker 3: least we're not Detroit.
- 1:44Speaker 4: We're not Detroit! Cleveland is leading the AFC North. By
- 1:51Speaker 4: the way, a good division where up until last night,
- 1:53Speaker 4: every team was over 500, but now you can say
- 1:56Speaker 4: every team was at least 500 or better. I'm very, very,
- 2:04Speaker 4: very confused. It was maybe the first time, maybe the
- 2:10Speaker 4: first time since... Deshaun Watson played in Houston, in which
- 2:17Speaker 4: I thought he looked like the quarterback he was for
- 2:20Speaker 4: the Texans. And I kind of just thought those days
- 2:25Speaker 4: were over. I mean, it's been five years since he
- 2:31Speaker 4: looked like he did last night. 268 yards, did throw
- 2:37Speaker 4: a pick, but had a touchdown, was finding guys at
- 2:40Speaker 4: the right time, was making throws in rhythm. I'm not
- 2:44Speaker 4: here to tell you that I think the Browns are
- 2:49Speaker 4: going to be some major, major factor. But the development
- 2:54Speaker 4: that has been made since week one, in which they
- 2:58Speaker 4: looked like a joke. They looked like they might have
- 3:01Speaker 4: been a worse football team than the Miami Dolphins. I mean,
- 3:10Speaker 4: it was almost a guarantee. that Deshaun Watson, after their
- 3:15Speaker 4: first home playoff game in week three, would get benched.
- 3:21Speaker 4: And now, all of a sudden, they're a three-in-one football team.
- 3:23Speaker 4: And this is the beauty of what the NFL is.
- 3:26Speaker 4: The NFL is a sport in which no matter what
- 3:31Speaker 4: you think going into a season, what you think you know,
- 3:33Speaker 4: what you know you know, you will have teams like
- 3:37Speaker 4: the Browns that you think are going to be terrible
- 3:42Speaker 4: that give their fan base a glimmer of hope, and
- 3:46Speaker 4: you'll have teams like the Chargers that everybody thinks is
- 3:48Speaker 4: going to be great, and they end up stinking the
- 3:50Speaker 4: first few weeks of the season. There is always an
- 3:54Speaker 4: adjustment that is made, but I'll tell you this. The
- 3:58Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns are 3-1 with a minus 14 point differential.
- 4:04Speaker 4: They lost by 24 points to the Jags in week one.
- 4:06Speaker 4: They beat the Bucks by four. They beat the Panthers
- 4:08Speaker 4: by three, and they beat the Steelers by three last night.
- 4:11Speaker 4: Funny thing is, allowed the Steelers, who were down, I mean,
- 4:15Speaker 4: you had Rodgers and McCarthy bickering at each other on
- 4:19Speaker 4: the headset in the middle of that game. The Steelers
- 4:26Speaker 4: are down by 11 points with, I don't know, somewhere
- 4:32Speaker 4: near the start of the fourth quarter. Battled their way
- 4:38Speaker 4: back to get a touchdown and a two-point conversion. The
- 4:41Speaker 4: tie of the game at 24. It's just crazy. And
- 4:47Speaker 4: I'm not going to believe that the Browns are some
- 4:51Speaker 4: sort of factor here. But they are very obviously better
- 4:57Speaker 4: than we all thought they were going to be at
- 4:59Speaker 4: the beginning of the season. And here's the funny thing.
- 5:04Speaker 4: This is part of why we love the NFL. And
- 5:08Speaker 4: here's part of the reason why I love the Denver Broncos.
- 5:11Speaker 4: Pretty much everything that we assumed the Broncos were going
- 5:14Speaker 4: to be, they are. I said this going back to
- 5:18Speaker 4: last year. The Broncos are maybe the most predictable team
- 5:25Speaker 4: you've ever seen in this sport. You know almost exactly
- 5:32Speaker 4: what the Broncos are going to do every week. And
- 5:34Speaker 4: you have a couple of exceptions. But let's truly think
- 5:38Speaker 4: about this. In a sport that thrives on the unpredictability
- 5:46Speaker 4: of who teams are week to week, who's going to
- 5:49Speaker 4: beat who, who's the favorite and who's the underdog, the
- 5:56Speaker 4: Broncos have been the most predictable thing that this sport
- 6:00Speaker 4: has to offer. You go back to September 29th of
- 6:04Speaker 4: last year, it's been the same thing with really two exceptions.
- 6:09Speaker 4: the Jacksonville game last year, and the Chiefs game to
- 6:13Speaker 4: start this season. Those were two games where the defense
- 6:18Speaker 4: played entirely out of character. But every other week, it
- 6:24Speaker 4: has felt the same. Team gets off to a slow start,
- 6:28Speaker 4: battle their way back to get in it late in
- 6:29Speaker 4: the game, find a way to win. Team gets off
- 6:32Speaker 4: to a slow start, battle their way back late, find
- 6:35Speaker 4: a way to win. It's been that way every week
- 6:38Speaker 4: since September 29th of last year. Like, here's all the games. Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Jets, Giants, Cowboys, Texans, Raiders, Chiefs, Commanders, Raiders.
- 6:57Speaker 4: Green Bay, a little bit different. Jacksonville, different. Kansas City, L.A.
- 7:04Speaker 4: Playoff game against Buffalo. Then you have Chiefs, which was different, Jacksonville,
- 7:09Speaker 4: and the Rams. Every game has been the same. And
- 7:16Speaker 4: I sit here from this seat, and when I was
- 7:20Speaker 4: watching the game last night, think to myself, this league
- 7:25Speaker 4: thrives on parity. It thrives on the nature of somebody
- 7:29Speaker 4: every year goes from worst to first in a division.
- 7:32Speaker 4: Somebody who, multiple teams who make the playoffs the year
- 7:36Speaker 4: prior miss the playoffs the year afterwards. But what are
- 7:42Speaker 4: the Broncos going to do this weekend? Here's my assumption.
- 7:46Speaker 4: They'll go to San Francisco. They'll play a beat-up Niners team,
- 7:52Speaker 4: struggle on offense to start the game, probably get a
- 7:55Speaker 4: touchdown or two in the third and maybe early fourth quarter,
- 7:58Speaker 4: and it'll be a one-score game in which the Broncos thrive.
- 8:02Speaker 4: Like Jeff Legwald said it, they have 13 wins dating
- 8:05Speaker 4: back to last year that are one-score games. It's unheard of.
- 8:11Speaker 4: To have, first of all, that level of consistency, but
- 8:17Speaker 4: second of all, to win at that rate. That many
- 8:27Speaker 4: times in one score games have every, I want to
- 8:30Speaker 4: say every bounce go your way, but you have to
- 8:32Speaker 4: have a certain amount of luck in games like that.
- 8:37Speaker 4: And as we sit here on this Bud Light Football Friday,
- 8:40Speaker 4: you know, I'll just reiterate something that I was talking
- 8:43Speaker 4: about earlier in the week. That all things being equal,
- 8:49Speaker 4: if health was not a factor, you know, you can
- 8:52Speaker 4: play like Madden or something and you can turn off
- 8:54Speaker 4: injuries if you want to. If we were living in
- 8:56Speaker 4: that world in which injuries were not a thing, I
- 9:02Speaker 4: think I'd take the Niners to win this game. A
- 9:04Speaker 4: really good football team. Broncos playing on the road. They
- 9:10Speaker 4: have some strengths in areas that are a problem for you,
- 9:13Speaker 4: one of them being tight end. A really good defense
- 9:18Speaker 4: with a pass rusher in Nick Bosa and a linebacker
- 9:20Speaker 4: in Fred Werner and a really good secondary. would make
- 9:24Speaker 4: it really difficult for your team to get off the ground.
- 9:28Speaker 4: I think everything being equal, this is a game the
- 9:31Speaker 4: Niners should win. But the amount of injuries that they're suffering,
- 9:35Speaker 4: like Nick Bosa is not going to play. Trent Williams
- 9:39Speaker 4: is not going to play. A number of different people,
- 9:46Speaker 4: they're having issues at wide receiver with their guys being out.
- 9:50Speaker 4: That's a game that now I think you should go
- 9:51Speaker 4: out there and win. And my guess is it'll probably
- 9:55Speaker 4: look the same. I would love to have a much...
- 10:00Speaker 4: faster start on offense, but it's nothing you can trust anymore.
- 10:04Speaker 4: Think about it. And I'm sorry, not that you had
- 10:09Speaker 4: trust to start with, but it's nothing that you should
- 10:16Speaker 4: be expecting to see, I should say. but they are
- 10:23Speaker 4: wholly predictable. And Jeff Legwald asked a question to us yesterday,
- 10:27Speaker 4: and it's something that I've thought about but haven't brought
- 10:29Speaker 4: up on the air. What is the number that the
- 10:33Speaker 4: Broncos would have to be down that you would say
- 10:37Speaker 4: they aren't coming back in this game? What is it?
- 10:43Speaker 4: I mean, they're down 16 to nothing. That is, for
- 10:45Speaker 4: all intents and purposes, in most cases... A three-score lead
- 10:51Speaker 4: for another football team. I know it is technically two,
- 10:55Speaker 4: and the Broncos prove that, but it's just how often
- 10:58Speaker 4: do you get two touchdowns and two two-point conversions consecutively? Well,
- 11:02Speaker 4: the Broncos said, we do. All I'm saying is, let's
- 11:10Speaker 4: just do this. I'll throw it out there to you.
- 11:12Speaker 1: Straw poll.
- 11:14Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 11:17Speaker 4: You guys listening, give me the number.
- 11:19Speaker 6: 303-504-0925.
- 11:19Speaker 4: What does it have to be against San Francisco for
- 11:25Speaker 4: you to throw your hands up and say this game's over?
- 11:29Speaker 4: And we'll call it a, let's make it a midway
- 11:35Speaker 4: through the third quarter lead. Seven minutes left in the third.
- 11:40Speaker 4: How much do the Broncos have to be down for
- 11:42Speaker 4: you to say, well, this game's done? I truly think
- 11:45Speaker 4: it's got to be like 24 points. which is an
- 11:49Speaker 4: insane thing to say. For me to totally give up hope,
- 11:54Speaker 4: it's got to be like that much. You start hitting that,
- 11:59Speaker 4: if there's a two in that number, then we're about there.
- 12:06Speaker 4: You know, at the same time, they were down 19
- 12:09Speaker 4: to nothing heading into the fourth quarter against the Giants
- 12:12Speaker 4: last year, came back to win that game. Now I
- 12:14Speaker 4: know 49ers a little different beast than the New York
- 12:17Speaker 4: Giants from last season. But I don't know what the
- 12:24Speaker 4: number is. I don't know what it has to be
- 12:26Speaker 4: for me to have 0% faith. Because we've all been
- 12:30Speaker 4: there in football before. Your team's down, they're playing like garbage,
- 12:34Speaker 4: and you're like, there is literally no shot they have
- 12:36Speaker 4: to come back and win this game. And you'd be correct.
- 12:40Speaker 4: But I don't know what it is for them. I
- 12:42Speaker 4: don't know what it is. There is some sort of faith.
- 12:47Speaker 4: It's like once they make just a play, On offense,
- 12:51Speaker 4: everything shifts and flips, and they're fine. So I like this.
- 12:59Speaker 4: 17 points, I'd be scared. 24, it's over. I think
- 13:04Speaker 4: that's it. 17, I'd be like, oh, man, that's a
- 13:07Speaker 4: lot to overcome. But I've seen them do it. 24
- 13:11Speaker 4: would be like, no, fold up shop. This is it
- 13:15Speaker 4: now this week. I mean, how many games have you trailed?
- 13:23Speaker 4: Especially by what you would traditionally consider a big margin.
- 13:33Speaker 4: So 303, 504, 0925. It is a Bud Light football Friday,
- 13:39Speaker 4: and we have a whole host of things on deck
- 13:41Speaker 4: for this weekend.
- 13:43Speaker 6: Tomorrow.
- 13:44Speaker 4: Tomorrow. You have Altitude Saturday with Springer starting at 9 o'clock,
- 13:48Speaker 4: then handing off to Dan Tanner at 11. Miami and
- 13:51Speaker 4: Clemson's going to be on at 5.30 on AM 950.
- 13:53Speaker 4: You're going to have Notre Dame and North Carolina at
- 13:56Speaker 4: 10 o'clock on AM 950. 10 AM, that is. I
- 14:00Speaker 4: did that in reverse order, sorry. Blues and Avs also
- 14:03Speaker 4: going to be tomorrow. That'll be on 92.5, then Sunday.
- 14:06Speaker 4: We're back to the early games. 7.15 in the morning.
- 14:09Speaker 4: You tune in to right here, Altitude Sports Radio 92.5.
- 14:12Speaker 4: It's Colts and Commanders in London. Then it's Rams and
- 14:16Speaker 4: Eagles at 11 o'clock. Then we'll have the Altitude postgame
- 14:20Speaker 4: show for the Broncos game leading into Sunday Night Football,
- 14:23Speaker 4: Lions and Panthers. There's a lot going on over the weekend.
- 14:27Speaker 4: A lot more to discuss with what to expect, Broncos
- 14:31Speaker 4: and Niners in San Francisco, and what I think is
- 14:36Speaker 4: going to be the absolute main thing that you need
- 14:40Speaker 4: to take advantage of. No bargaining, no nothing. This is
- 14:45Speaker 4: the one thing that I think matters most. We'll get
- 14:47Speaker 4: to it next. It's a Bud Light Football Friday. Bud Light,
- 14:50Speaker 4: the official beer sponsor of the Denver Broncos. Remember to
- 14:52Speaker 4: enjoy responsibly. So, Broncos and Niners this weekend, San Francisco.
- 15:01Speaker 4: There is, to me, one detail.
- 15:05Speaker 1: One.
- 15:06Speaker 4: That I think is going to matter most. And it's
- 15:10Speaker 4: that if Trent Williams does not play, Whoever is in
- 15:16Speaker 4: at left tackle for him, you have to abuse. You
- 15:20Speaker 4: have to get after Brock Purdy. You have to make
- 15:22Speaker 4: him nervous in the pocket. Brock Purdy, statistically, is as
- 15:27Speaker 4: good as anybody in the sport this year. And you
- 15:32Speaker 4: guys know my sort of back and forth. I've had
- 15:35Speaker 4: with Brock Purdy and what kind of quarterback he is,
- 15:38Speaker 4: and is it more team or him? Here's the bottom line.
- 15:41Speaker 4: He's really good. He's really good. you give him time
- 15:45Speaker 4: to throw, he is going to absolutely obliterate you. He
- 15:50Speaker 4: kind of reminds me, you know, he's in a category
- 15:53Speaker 4: of another guy and not the same quarterback, but in
- 15:57Speaker 4: this sense, he is someone that I think if given time,
- 16:04Speaker 4: there's another quarterback in the league that you would never
- 16:07Speaker 4: say this about, but I think it's the truth. Given time,
- 16:14Speaker 4: He is one of the best and most accurate quarterbacks
- 16:17Speaker 4: in the league, and that is Jared Goff. They both
- 16:19Speaker 4: remind me of the same guy. Now, Brock Purdy, more mobile,
- 16:23Speaker 4: can get out of the pocket, can make throws on
- 16:25Speaker 4: the run, can take off and run with the football.
- 16:29Speaker 4: But you have to get him under pressure. Brock Purdy
- 16:31Speaker 4: this year is completing 72% of his passes. He's doing
- 16:35Speaker 4: that to an average of 9.5 yards per attempt. He
- 16:37Speaker 4: has nine touchdowns and one pick. But there's one thing
- 16:40Speaker 4: that hasn't happened with Brock Purdy this year. He has
- 16:43Speaker 4: not been sacked. Not once. And if he's going to
- 16:51Speaker 4: be without Trent Williams, Nick Benito or Jonah Ellis or
- 16:56Speaker 4: Q Robinson or whoever's going to be rushing the passer
- 17:00Speaker 4: that day has to be able to get pressure on
- 17:02Speaker 4: the edge. It would be even better if you looked
- 17:05Speaker 4: at guys like Zach Allen getting pressure up the middle.
- 17:12Speaker 4: You have to take advantage of this. And it actually
- 17:15Speaker 4: says he said the same thing about the Chiefs game
- 17:17Speaker 4: in Khalil Benson. Damn right I did. And it should
- 17:20Speaker 4: have been that way. The fact that Patrick Mahomes wasn't
- 17:26Speaker 4: laid out multiple times when you're going against an undrafted
- 17:28Speaker 4: free agent rookie. It's a shame. Now the Chiefs didn't.
- 17:35Speaker 4: I don't know what the heck. They sold their entire
- 17:37Speaker 4: game plan. around getting him help, getting chips from tight ends,
- 17:42Speaker 4: getting help with guards and running backs out of the backfield. Like,
- 17:47Speaker 4: they made sure that he wasn't going to get beat
- 17:49Speaker 4: that day. And to be fair, you didn't get beat
- 17:52Speaker 4: through the air. You didn't have that against the Chiefs.
- 17:59Speaker 4: You got beat because you couldn't tackle anybody. And that's
- 18:03Speaker 4: the one thing that I do have. You know, it's
- 18:06Speaker 4: such an amazing equalizer. When you talk about this Broncos
- 18:10Speaker 4: team and what they do best, what they do best
- 18:12Speaker 4: is they defend the pass. Like they get pressure on
- 18:18Speaker 4: the quarterback and they make plays when the ball's in
- 18:22Speaker 4: the air. And I think that. At this stage of
- 18:29Speaker 4: the NFL, if your best asset is I got guys
- 18:33Speaker 4: behind us in the secondary that I trust totally and completely,
- 18:37Speaker 4: then you're in pretty good shape. Now, Stafford, the MVP
- 18:42Speaker 4: of the league, found ways to make you pay for it.
- 18:45Speaker 4: And I'm damn sure that Kyle Shanahan took a look
- 18:47Speaker 4: at that tape and goes, there's a lot of things
- 18:50Speaker 4: they exploited. We could probably hit them on a few
- 18:53Speaker 4: out and ups. I'll tell you this much. The Broncos
- 18:58Speaker 4: saw it too. They know where the issues lied last week.
- 19:03Speaker 4: And to the defense's credit, even though they gave up
- 19:05Speaker 4: some big plays, when it came time to make a
- 19:08Speaker 4: play in the money area in the red zone, you
- 19:11Speaker 4: did that and that's what kept you in the game.
- 19:17Speaker 4: But you need to be able to get pressure on Purdy. Again,
- 19:21Speaker 4: Purdy through three weeks has not been sacked. Not once.
- 19:25Speaker 4: I haven't looked up the numbers. I'm pretty sure he's
- 19:27Speaker 4: the only quarterback that can say that because that's pretty crazy.
- 19:31Speaker 4: I mean, we talk about pressures a lot in this league,
- 19:36Speaker 4: but to not have a sack is amazing. Consider this.
- 19:40Speaker 4: Baker Mayfield, who played through three weeks, has been sacked
- 19:43Speaker 4: 13 times.
- 19:44Speaker 6: 13.
- 19:45Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers, who played last night, to give was sacked
- 19:50Speaker 4: like four times last night. He has 13 sacks on
- 19:52Speaker 4: the year. As far as the guys who have zero,
- 19:58Speaker 4: here's who we're talking about. Case Keenum, who's played in
- 20:01Speaker 4: one game. Michael Penix, who's played in one game. And
- 20:05Speaker 4: Brock Purdy. That's the number. So again, when we're talking
- 20:16Speaker 4: about how do you establish a way to make the
- 20:25Speaker 4: 49ers uncomfortable, if you can force them to do something
- 20:28Speaker 4: that they have not experienced this year, which is pressure
- 20:30Speaker 4: on their quarterback, that would be a big thing. But
- 20:33Speaker 4: here's something else. And I want to know where you
- 20:35Speaker 4: guys stand on this. As I was looking through yesterday,
- 20:38Speaker 4: Fox Sports... They have a quarterback stock market. It's basically
- 20:46Speaker 4: a weekly power rankings of QBs. And their number one
- 20:53Speaker 4: quarterback in the league is Brock Purdy. And I think
- 20:56Speaker 4: if this was a true stock market, you would have
- 20:59Speaker 4: no other answer. That's the best one going. Number two
- 21:03Speaker 4: is Josh Allen. Three is Mahomes. Four is Lamar. It's
- 21:07Speaker 4: all your same cast of characters. Where do you think
- 21:11Speaker 4: Bo ranks? And throw out some guesses here on the
- 21:14Speaker 4: text line. I'll give you a minute. I want to
- 21:17Speaker 4: know what you think. Where do you think he is at?
- 21:24Speaker 4: Bo Nix, every quarterback in the league, stacked up, power ranked, whatever.
- 21:31Speaker 4: We've already done one. Might as well do another. Where
- 21:34Speaker 4: do you think Bo Nix sits in the quarterback stock market,
- 21:44Speaker 4: according to Fox. So they have one through 32, obviously.
- 21:55Speaker 4: I'll just give you a couple of examples of guys
- 21:57Speaker 4: who are on the tail end of this list. Cam
- 22:02Speaker 4: Ward is last. Jameis Winston's 31st. Because it's this year,
- 22:09Speaker 4: Drake May is 30th. So where do you think he's at?
- 22:11Speaker 4: There's a lot of answers coming through here. That's 20
- 22:16Speaker 4: to 24. We had 18, 12, 15, 14, 17, 16, 16.
- 22:17Speaker 4: And I'll just tell you, like for me, I would
- 22:18Speaker 4: have to grade out Bo Nix. on a very middle-of-the-pack level. Like,
- 22:40Speaker 4: I think if you had him anywhere hovering around 16,
- 22:43Speaker 4: that's fine. Because for half the game, he's bad, and
- 22:50Speaker 4: half the game, he's amazing. But they have Bo Nix
- 22:55Speaker 4: right now at number 22 in the league. And I
- 23:00Speaker 4: still feel like there's a level of disrespect to it. Like,
- 23:04Speaker 4: some of the quarterbacks in front of him are Kyler Murray,
- 23:07Speaker 4: Michael Penix, Case Keenum, Jacoby Brissett, and I just don't
- 23:11Speaker 4: see it. I don't get it. But a whole bunch
- 23:17Speaker 4: can change if he goes out and plays a complete game.
- 23:23Speaker 4: Because think about this, and we've mentioned this before. I
- 23:28Speaker 4: could make you a highlight package at Bo Nix. where
- 23:32Speaker 4: you would think he's the best quarterback in the NFL.
- 23:35Speaker 4: And I know you could do this with a lot
- 23:37Speaker 4: of different quarterbacks, but hear me out on this. You
- 23:40Speaker 4: make a highlight package of Bo Nix from just late
- 23:44Speaker 4: in games. And you talk about comeback wins, making throws
- 23:53Speaker 4: to close a game out, Games on the line, high-pressure moments,
- 23:57Speaker 4: and he makes these types of plays. You would think
- 24:00Speaker 4: to yourself, this is one of the best quarterbacks that's
- 24:02Speaker 4: ever lived. And I could make you highlight reels in
- 24:05Speaker 4: which he looks like he shouldn't even be in the league. That,
- 24:13Speaker 4: that is the problem. And if they are able to
- 24:21Speaker 4: put themselves in better situations on offense... if they're able
- 24:25Speaker 4: to get themselves in, in closer third, third in X
- 24:29Speaker 4: to go situations where it's third and two instead of
- 24:33Speaker 4: third and seven, then all this stuff can turn around
- 24:36Speaker 4: early in games. Another thing that they need and God,
- 24:39Speaker 4: do they need a badly? They need a running game.
- 24:43Speaker 4: And I appreciate that Davis Webb committed to the run.
- 24:46Speaker 4: I appreciate that he went out and, and, Despite it
- 24:52Speaker 4: not working last week, I think gave it enough juice
- 24:57Speaker 4: to at least keep the defense honest as the game
- 25:00Speaker 4: went on to make the Rams think that maybe they'd
- 25:02Speaker 4: run the football. But bottom line is, as a team,
- 25:07Speaker 4: you're averaging 3.6 yards per carry. That is nowhere near
- 25:12Speaker 4: good enough and is not going to get the job done. J.K.
- 25:18Speaker 4: Dobbins has 35 carries for 121 yards this year. but
- 25:21Speaker 4: he's hurt. Don't care. Don't care. I need production. If
- 25:28Speaker 4: you aren't good enough to give me production while you play,
- 25:34Speaker 4: then somebody else has to take the production. You know,
- 25:37Speaker 4: it's hard because Jonah Coleman is now on IR. I
- 25:42Speaker 4: still think there's a refusal to let RJ Harvey run
- 25:44Speaker 4: the football for some reason. And Look, I'm all about J.K.
- 25:49Speaker 4: Dobbins getting the ball if he's effective when he's doing it.
- 25:52Speaker 4: And to be effective, he has to be healthy. And
- 25:53Speaker 4: I don't think he's healthy. Again, after all the pinky
- 25:58Speaker 4: promises and I'm not getting hurt quotes from the offseason,
- 26:03Speaker 4: I think it's forced him into a box of if
- 26:06Speaker 4: I don't play, then everybody's going to make fun of me.
- 26:10Speaker 4: And I thought that at the time when he was
- 26:12Speaker 4: doing that, I go, you're putting yourself in a really
- 26:13Speaker 4: weird position, dude. You can't just... This isn't, hey, by December,
- 26:21Speaker 4: I'm going to lose 15 pounds. You can do that.
- 26:25Speaker 4: You're in control of that. Donate, exercise, cardio. Boom. UFC
- 26:34Speaker 4: fighters drop eight pounds overnight by sitting in a trash
- 26:38Speaker 4: bag in a sauna. That is in your control. But
- 26:45Speaker 4: you cannot control if your hamstring pops. And by making
- 26:50Speaker 4: all these promises, you've put yourself in a position of
- 26:53Speaker 4: one of two things. You're either going to look below
- 27:01Speaker 4: standard because you're going to try and play through an
- 27:03Speaker 4: injury in which you shouldn't be that is limiting your
- 27:05Speaker 4: capabilities and abilities on the field. Or two, you're going
- 27:13Speaker 4: to be hurt, too hurt to play, and everybody's going
- 27:16Speaker 4: to make fun of you for all the things that
- 27:18Speaker 4: you said in the offseason. You know what I don't say?
- 27:23Speaker 4: I don't make bold predictions about things I have no
- 27:28Speaker 4: control over. I wouldn't go out and repeatedly say something
- 27:38Speaker 4: like I'm not going to get hurt as a football player.
- 27:42Speaker 4: There are iron men in the sport. Like Brent Burns,
- 27:45Speaker 4: who is going to probably, knock on wood, set a
- 27:50Speaker 4: record for most consecutive games played by any NHL player ever,
- 27:55Speaker 4: cannot go out and say, I can promise you I'm
- 27:58Speaker 4: not getting hurt this year because you have no idea.
- 28:01Speaker 4: It takes one time getting blown up against the boards.
- 28:04Speaker 4: It takes one time where you get toe-picked and you
- 28:07Speaker 4: fall into the ice. It takes one time that somebody
- 28:10Speaker 4: has an inadvertent elbow that clips you in the chin
- 28:13Speaker 4: and now you got a concussion. But I thought that
- 28:19Speaker 4: in the offseason when he first started talking about it,
- 28:21Speaker 4: and I think the same thing now, which to me,
- 28:23Speaker 4: I appreciate continuing to give him run as the game
- 28:28Speaker 4: went on because at this point, you do need him.
- 28:33Speaker 4: Like you do need a threat out of the backfield.
- 28:36Speaker 4: They ran the ball 25 times in the game against
- 28:39Speaker 4: the Rams to only 34 throws and did that with
- 28:43Speaker 4: only 78 yards rushing. That is committing to the run
- 28:48Speaker 4: even when it's not working, so shout out to Davis Webb.
- 28:55Speaker 4: But it's going to be very difficult to win on
- 29:03Speaker 4: the road in San Francisco if you do not have
- 29:07Speaker 4: some level of capability in the running game. That defense,
- 29:15Speaker 4: even with the injuries, still very talented. And they can
- 29:21Speaker 4: harass Bo Nix if they feel like I'm not going
- 29:24Speaker 4: to get any sort of threat on the ground. So 303, 504, 0925, again,
- 29:34Speaker 4: it's a huge game coming up this weekend, and it's
- 29:36Speaker 4: a chance for the Broncos to get to a 3-1 record,
- 29:39Speaker 4: which would set them up, I think, very nicely for
- 29:42Speaker 4: the rest of the year to be in a position
- 29:45Speaker 4: where they could say, well, the first daunting part of
- 29:49Speaker 4: our schedule, that was the first six weeks, they probably
- 29:55Speaker 4: didn't have this in their head, but we all did. Man,
- 29:58Speaker 4: I hope you go. 500. That's what it felt like
- 30:01Speaker 4: when you first saw the schedule come out. First six
- 30:04Speaker 4: weeks of the season, can you go 500 and just
- 30:10Speaker 4: give yourself some breathing room? Keep your head above water
- 30:14Speaker 4: before the schedule eases up a bit. And you win
- 30:17Speaker 4: this weekend, you're already there. You're at three. And then
- 30:20Speaker 4: you're talking about how much more can we stack on
- 30:22Speaker 4: top of it? How many more games can we add
- 30:25Speaker 4: to this? To get us back in a position where
- 30:28Speaker 4: we're winning, I don't know, 11, 12, 13 games. It's
- 30:35Speaker 4: a big deal. So talk more about this as we
- 30:38Speaker 4: go along. Also got big games in college football. I
- 30:42Speaker 4: cannot wait for 10 o'clock tomorrow. Alabama and Mississippi State.
- 30:45Speaker 4: I want to see if Kamario Taylor can give Alabama
- 30:49Speaker 4: a true scare. But this Sunday, Mosher's throwing a party
- 30:53Speaker 4: at Clubhouse Working Golf in Cherry Creek. It's off Colorado Boulevard,
- 30:56Speaker 4: next position. You can watch the Broncos in San Francisco
- 30:59Speaker 4: and see if you can out-drive Mosier on golf simulators.
- 31:02Speaker 4: And enjoy Free Brothers Barbecue along with beer and wine.
- 31:05Speaker 4: The doors open at 1.30, kickoff at 2.25. So Mosier
- 31:10Speaker 4: will see you on Sunday.
- 31:12Speaker 7: And by the way, that address right there, the corner
- 31:16Speaker 7: of Colorado Boulevard and Exposition in Cherry Creek, does that
- 31:19Speaker 7: ring a bell?
- 31:20Speaker 3: Does those cross streets sound familiar to you?
- 31:22Speaker 4: Yeah, they're in our old building, aren't they? Yes, they are.
- 31:24Speaker 7: They're in the old towers where we used to broadcast.
- 31:28Speaker 7: The point is that's home turf for Moshe. He spent
- 31:29Speaker 7: a lot of years in those buildings.
- 31:31Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
- 31:31Speaker 3: If you're going to try and out-drive him, you better
- 31:34Speaker 3: be prepared.
- 31:35Speaker 4: So that's happening on Sunday, so go check it out. Again,
- 31:38Speaker 4: off Colorado Boulevard and Exposition. Back after this. Oh, my God.
- 31:45Speaker 4: I feel so good.
- 31:48Speaker 3: Mix it, DJ.
- 31:49Speaker 4: I just, you know what? I just, every once in
- 31:53Speaker 4: a while, I just need a little bit. I just
- 31:56Speaker 4: need a bump. Just, I need one bump of Murakami
- 32:01Speaker 4: to get my head straight. I just need that sometimes.
- 32:05Speaker 4: We'll make Nelly sing here in a few minutes. In
- 32:07Speaker 4: the meantime. There's something that happened last night that I
- 32:10Speaker 4: would like to play for you. So Jack Hughes, first
- 32:17Speaker 4: of all, finishes out the game in overtime last night.
- 32:23Speaker 4: So here's the deal. He had an injury in November
- 32:28Speaker 4: of last year in which he cut his finger on
- 32:31Speaker 4: broken glass at a team dinner and it required surgery
- 32:35Speaker 4: and he missed 18 games and all this different stuff. So,
- 32:40Speaker 4: it's one of those, like, funny injuries. Okay? There was
- 32:49Speaker 4: an interview last night. It was after the first period.
- 32:52Speaker 4: I don't know who the lady is from ESPN that
- 32:53Speaker 4: was doing the interview, but she's closing it out. And
- 32:57Speaker 4: as you do with hockey players, like, this happens all
- 33:00Speaker 4: the time. They're pretty affable guys. I've heard Keith Yandel
- 33:05Speaker 4: say this. He goes, we're company men. Okay? We just
- 33:07Speaker 4: go out. We do our job. We try not to
- 33:09Speaker 4: make too much of a fuss. If we do, somebody
- 33:11Speaker 4: in the locker room is going to get mad at you,
- 33:12Speaker 4: like all that different stuff. So a lot of times
- 33:16Speaker 4: with hockey players, you can kind of hit them with
- 33:18Speaker 4: a couple of jokes every once in a while. You
- 33:19Speaker 4: can hit them on the exit, maybe give them a
- 33:22Speaker 4: little bit of a barb, something like that. And this
- 33:26Speaker 4: woman from ESPN that was doing this interview decided to
- 33:29Speaker 4: do that. Here's her last question to Jack Hughes before
- 33:31Speaker 4: he takes the ice for the second period.
- 33:32Speaker 5: We have 40 minutes to go, so we got to
- 33:33Speaker 5: keep working at it.
- 33:34Speaker 3: Well, it's great to see you healthy.
- 33:35Speaker 6: Let's wrap you in bubble wrap and use plastic cutlery
- 33:38Speaker 6: this year.
- 33:38Speaker 3: Does that sound good?
- 33:39Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's a weird joke, big game.
- 33:44Speaker 6: Well, no sense of humor here in a big game,
- 33:46Speaker 6: but I appreciate that. I appreciate his time, and he
- 33:51Speaker 6: had a good start here this season.
- 33:52Speaker 4: It's weird, okay? That was very awkward. It's not awkward
- 33:58Speaker 4: because of her. And I'll die on this hill, okay?
- 34:04Speaker 4: If Paul Bissonette asked the same question to Jack Hughes,
- 34:07Speaker 4: there would be... Not even close to the same response.
- 34:10Speaker 4: And don't make this about, this is not what I'm
- 34:13Speaker 4: saying either. It's not because she's a woman. That's not
- 34:15Speaker 4: what I'm saying. I think it's a, you haven't been
- 34:19Speaker 4: in my arena thing that sometimes guys will do. Hell,
- 34:24Speaker 4: I think Krekman, when McKinnon was in here with TJ Berry,
- 34:28Speaker 4: when they first launched the Chili Ones thing, and McKinnon.
- 34:33Speaker 3: Was in here. Tyson Berry.
- 34:36Speaker 4: What did I say?
- 34:37Speaker 3: TJ Berry.
- 34:38Speaker 4: Sorry, Tyson, yes. But when McKinnon was in here with Kreckman,
- 34:44Speaker 4: and I think Kreckman hit him with a gluten-free something
- 34:50Speaker 4: or avocado ice cream or something like that. It was
- 34:54Speaker 4: some joke about a healthy option for a food. And
- 34:59Speaker 4: McKinnon goes, well, you don't know me that well to
- 35:01Speaker 4: make a joke like that, but all right. And they
- 35:02Speaker 4: kind of giggled about it. I don't think This woman
- 35:08Speaker 4: did anything wrong. I actually thought, you know what? Pretty
- 35:10Speaker 4: cute little chickpea pasta. Thank you, texture. I actually think
- 35:20Speaker 4: that this is totally appropriate for that setting. You know...
- 35:30Speaker 4: Anybody like if we had a player in here, if
- 35:32Speaker 4: we had who's who's been hurt doing something stupid and
- 35:35Speaker 4: not even stupid, just in a weird way.
- 35:38Speaker 7: How about which which Broncos player? Was it Ryan Clady
- 35:42Speaker 7: who tore his knee playing pickup basketball in the summer?
- 35:46Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm thinking more like there was a pitcher
- 35:48Speaker 4: in the MLB that he went on the IL because
- 35:51Speaker 4: he tried to catch a drone and it sliced his
- 35:53Speaker 4: finger open and he had to go on IL for it.
- 35:56Speaker 7: Right, or somebody who tripped over their dog and fell
- 35:58Speaker 7: down the stairs, something like that.
- 36:00Speaker 4: If I had whoever that pitcher was, was it Trevor
- 36:03Speaker 4: Bauer maybe?
- 36:03Speaker 6: I don't know.
- 36:04Speaker 4: If I had that pitcher in here who cut his
- 36:06Speaker 4: finger on a drone and I did the last question
- 36:12Speaker 4: out with him was like, hey, uh... No need to
- 36:17Speaker 4: get any more aerial shots. Let's keep you on the
- 36:19Speaker 4: mound this year. If I did something like that, even
- 36:22Speaker 4: if the joke was lame, if you can't laugh that off,
- 36:26Speaker 4: then that's something wrong with you. Okay? And I don't
- 36:30Speaker 4: mind Jack Hughes at all. I think that, you know,
- 36:34Speaker 4: the victory tour they went on after the Olympics, all
- 36:37Speaker 4: that stuff, it was awesome. They're heroes of American hockey.
- 36:44Speaker 4: I think that's just something that you go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 36:47Speaker 4: No kidding. Okay, yep. Can't wait for the second period.
- 36:50Speaker 4: That's all you got to do.
- 36:53Speaker 7: But you're right, if it was Biz, too, you know,
- 36:55Speaker 7: he'd be like, hey, Hughesy, maybe wear some oven mitts
- 36:59Speaker 7: this year at the team dinners there, bud. And then
- 37:01Speaker 7: he's like, oh, yeah, you got me, Biz.
- 37:03Speaker 3: Oh, geez, yeah.
- 37:05Speaker 4: I saw an infomercial for one of those no-cut gloves.
- 37:09Speaker 4: You ever think about getting yourself one of those? Like,
- 37:11Speaker 4: if he dropped one of those on Hughes, Hughes would
- 37:14Speaker 4: laugh because it's fine. So all I'm saying is, A
- 37:21Speaker 4: texture says wrong time for it. I don't think so.
- 37:24Speaker 4: This is what they do all the time. Now, are
- 37:28Speaker 4: you telling me? How about this? If EJ makes that joke,
- 37:35Speaker 4: is the response the same? And again, I don't think
- 37:38Speaker 4: it's a man-woman thing. I think it's a former player
- 37:41Speaker 4: and non-former player thing. I think that's what it is.
- 37:44Speaker 4: Probably not the time or place, Michael. What did EJ
- 37:47Speaker 4: say to... Didn't he interview Landy last year? He said
- 37:50Speaker 4: something like.
- 37:50Speaker 3: It was McKinnon, and he said... No, no.
- 37:54Speaker 4: Somebody said... Was it McKinnon or Landy said, new chompers
- 37:56Speaker 4: on you, huh? And they gave it to him on
- 37:58Speaker 4: the way out.
- 37:59Speaker 3: I was trying to remember who he was talking to.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Maybe it was.
- 38:01Speaker 7: We could just name every Avs player on the roster,
- 38:03Speaker 7: but he was doing that bench interview with someone, and
- 38:05Speaker 7: he said, you know, how big was it for you
- 38:08Speaker 7: to get this win? And the guy said, about as
- 38:09Speaker 7: big as that spray tan.
- 38:11Speaker 6: Yes.
- 38:11Speaker 7: And that was how that all started, was because somebody...
- 38:13Speaker 7: He was doing a bench interview, and somebody made fun
- 38:15Speaker 7: of his spray tan. I can't remember which player it was.
- 38:18Speaker 4: I just think the.
- 38:21Speaker 4: Look, man, there's things in life... I have children now,
- 38:27Speaker 4: and so... It has brought a whole new perspective, but
- 38:31Speaker 4: this applies to like your relationship with your significant other
- 38:35Speaker 4: or your boss at work or whatever. There's times where
- 38:39Speaker 4: you're like, hey, I'm going to make a point about this.
- 38:41Speaker 4: And there's times where you just got to kind of
- 38:43Speaker 4: let things slide. I think for me, all Jack Hughes
- 38:46Speaker 4: had to say was, ha ha, thank you. That's all
- 38:50Speaker 4: he had to do. If you watch it too, she
- 38:54Speaker 4: has a big smile on her face. She's just making
- 38:56Speaker 4: a little, Hey, how about those knives? And that was it.
- 39:03Speaker 4: So anyway, just thought that was a little silly from yesterday.
- 39:08Speaker 4: It is a Bud Light Football Friday. Reminder to you guys,
- 39:13Speaker 4: Nate and Andy, you're going to start your Bud Light
- 39:14Speaker 4: Football Friday here at Choppers in Cherry Creek. They're live
- 39:17Speaker 4: from 3 to 6. Bud Light Football Friday drink specials.
- 39:20Speaker 4: Bud Light VIP tailgate passes up for grabs and your chance.
- 39:24Speaker 4: To win tickets to the Broncos and Seahawks, so that's
- 39:28Speaker 4: at Chopper's in Cherry Creek. But Nelly, are you warmed up?
- 39:32Speaker 4: You got your pipes working? Let's do it. Everybody in
- 39:35Speaker 4: your cars, do it with us. Here we go. Pretty, pretty,
- 39:47Speaker 4: pretty and his best.
- 39:51Speaker 3: We're taking off the kid gloves for this one. No
- 39:53Speaker 3: plastic cutlery. Let's go.
- 39:55Speaker 6: All right.
- 40:02Speaker 4: So here's what happens. I take two games from the
- 40:08Speaker 4: football weekend. I take a favorite for a lock of
- 40:10Speaker 4: the week. And I take an underdog and give you
- 40:13Speaker 4: an underdog of the week. We will start in college football.
- 40:17Speaker 4: By the way, I'm four and four on the year.
- 40:20Speaker 4: I lost the Bucs last week, but I hit on
- 40:23Speaker 4: Mississippi State. And I'm going to start with the underdog
- 40:27Speaker 4: first because I'm riding with Mississippi State another week. They
- 40:31Speaker 4: are playing against Alabama at home in Starkville. They're six-point
- 40:35Speaker 4: dogs against the Crimson Tide. I'm putting all of my
- 40:41Speaker 4: eggs in the basket of Camario Taylor is going to
- 40:43Speaker 4: will them to a victory against Alabama.
- 40:45Speaker 2: Okay?
- 40:46Speaker 4: He has forever said, as a Starkville kid, grew up
- 40:51Speaker 4: down the road from the stadium, he loves Mississippi State.
- 40:54Speaker 4: He said, I want to bring Mississippi State back to prominence.
- 40:59Speaker 4: There's one way SEC teams do that. You win at
- 41:02Speaker 4: home against Alabama. They're six-point dogs. I am taking Mississippi
- 41:07Speaker 4: State to cover that. And then in the NFL. Cardinals
- 41:11Speaker 4: in Giants. The Cardinals are on the road in New York.
- 41:14Speaker 4: They're two and a half point favorites in this game.
- 41:17Speaker 4: The Giants offense looks absolutely miserable. They can't do anything
- 41:21Speaker 4: with Jameis Winston. It's why they traded for J.J. McCarthy.
- 41:25Speaker 4: Two and a half point favorite for the Cards, who
- 41:27Speaker 4: in two different games this year have scored 26 and
- 41:29Speaker 4: 30 points. I think they'll just outscore the Giants. And
- 41:32Speaker 4: I know that's the point of sports. But you understand
- 41:35Speaker 4: what I'm saying. They'll have too much offense in which
- 41:39Speaker 4: the Giants cannot keep up. The Cardinals had one bad game.
- 41:43Speaker 4: It was against Seattle because Seattle's defense could put them
- 41:45Speaker 4: in a blender. But Jacoby Brissett is miles better than
- 41:50Speaker 4: what Jameis Winston is. Trey McBride has 26 catches for
- 41:54Speaker 4: 211 yards this year. I think that they cover the
- 41:56Speaker 4: two and a half points. And those are my two
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