Latest / Moser, Lombardi and Kane / 10-27-26 Hour 3 - No Nuggets urgency/Adam Schefter/Reacting to what's in front of us
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- 0:34Speaker 2: The Nuggets lose yesterday. They start the season one and two.
- 0:38Speaker 2: I heard some of the clips you're talking about. Nellie,
- 0:40Speaker 2: if you could pull this up, just Jamal Murray in
- 0:42Speaker 2: the postgame. He mentioned that they knew the 0-3 Warriors
- 0:50Speaker 2: would be desperate, and he said they played really hard.
- 0:55Speaker 2: And then he mentioned again they played really hard. And
- 1:00Speaker 2: to me, I'm like, okay, well, that's expected.
- 1:03Speaker 3: But he goes, this is what you expect from an
- 1:05Speaker 3: 0-3 team. They're desperate.
- 1:08Speaker 2: At what point does the desperate go the other way?
- 1:11Speaker 2: You're 1-2, not that far off from 1-3. You're a
- 1:14Speaker 2: quarter away from being maybe 1-3.
- 1:16Speaker 3: I don't know. 0-3.
- 1:19Speaker 4: Yes, 0-3.
- 1:21Speaker 2: Desperation and playing hard and all this different stuff.
- 1:25Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:26Speaker 4: I am so tired of that. Oklahoma City's undefeated. They
- 1:31Speaker 4: play hard.
- 1:32Speaker 3: But I agree with you. What I'm saying is, why
- 1:37Speaker 3: does that matter? Shouldn't you be playing just as hard?
- 1:41Speaker 4: It shouldn't matter.
- 1:44Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.
- 1:45Speaker 4: It should never matter. I mean, there are going to
- 1:49Speaker 4: be games. It's a long season. I get it. There
- 1:50Speaker 4: are going to be games where you just don't have
- 1:52Speaker 4: the energy. Totally get it. Second game of a back-to-back,
- 1:55Speaker 4: three games in four nights. Totally get it.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Totally.
- 1:57Speaker 5: Totally.
- 2:01Speaker 4: Second game at home game three, after a game in
- 2:03Speaker 4: which you had to come back from 23 down playing hard,
- 2:05Speaker 4: shouldn't be a, a gift.
- 2:10Speaker 3: Well, here's, here's Jamal after the game. Jamal, you said
- 2:13Speaker 3: the other team was playing very hard to get a win.
- 2:15Speaker 3: Do you feel like they were playing harder than you guys?
- 2:18Speaker 3: And why, why didn't you guys have that same urgency?
- 2:22Speaker 4: Well, it's just natural as a human being.
- 2:24Speaker 6: When you're on three, you're fighting for your life. You know, um,
- 2:31Speaker 6: It's not that we decided to not play hard.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Rather, they just won the game. Sure.
- 2:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 2:37Speaker 7: I know you didn't decide not to play hard, but
- 2:38Speaker 7: you did just mention that they were playing very hard.
- 2:40Speaker 6: Yeah, they just played hard. They just played hard. Gotcha.
- 2:43Speaker 4: That was Brendan Vogt from DNVR who was asking, I
- 2:46Speaker 4: think that's his voice. I wasn't there at the press conference.
- 2:49Speaker 4: But that is always the biggest call-out you can give
- 2:57Speaker 4: a player is not bringing it, right? Don't you agree, Moshe? Sure.
- 3:03Speaker 4: You could criticize, well, it didn't have a shooting touch tonight,
- 3:06Speaker 4: or the refs were bad, or I messed this play.
- 3:10Speaker 4: It was just a brain fart. But you want to
- 3:14Speaker 4: really get a player riled up, tell them that they
- 3:17Speaker 4: didn't bring the energy.
- 3:17Speaker 5: Yeah, they're not playing hard. But you can couch it
- 3:21Speaker 5: in a way where you say, well, you've got to
- 3:23Speaker 5: compete better. That's different than saying, you know what, you're
- 3:27Speaker 5: not even trying. But if you say we need more compete,
- 3:31Speaker 5: that's a message that everybody understands without calling guys soft
- 3:36Speaker 5: and not giving the effort.
- 3:40Speaker 4: There's something about the Nuggets and the way they approach
- 3:46Speaker 4: the psychology of basketball that always has me going the
- 3:50Speaker 4: opposite way. For example, listen to what Jamal just said.
- 3:54Speaker 4: That's a desperate team. They're 0-3. They brought it, right?
- 3:59Speaker 4: I believe the Nuggets would have been better off playing
- 4:02Speaker 4: an undefeated team last night. Minnesota. They'd have been better
- 4:07Speaker 4: off playing a team, I guess, that they get psyched
- 4:08Speaker 4: up to play. Is that the impression that he's leaving there?
- 4:15Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Part of my concern with the Nuggets, like it or not,
- 4:20Speaker 2: this is an extension of how your season.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Ends the previous year, how you play at the beginning
- 4:25Speaker 3: of the year.
- 4:26Speaker 4: It always is, especially when most of the team is back.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 4:29Speaker 2: I mean, you've made the decision largely to run it
- 4:32Speaker 2: back with the same squad that you had last year
- 4:34Speaker 2: with a couple of mix-ups here and there.
- 4:36Speaker 3: But it's the same thing with the Avs.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Consternation that I think people feel with the Avs coming
- 4:42Speaker 2: off games like they had against Nashville are like, well,
- 4:45Speaker 2: I just watched how last season ended, and that wasn't fun.
- 4:47Speaker 2: And I want to believe that that was... Some sort
- 4:51Speaker 2: of false thing that I saw last year.
- 4:53Speaker 6: A mirage.
- 4:54Speaker 5: Just a confluence of circumstances all into one week.
- 4:57Speaker 2: But they've had multiple games this year that look a
- 4:59Speaker 2: lot like those games did that ended your season.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Yes. And the same thing with the Nuggets.
- 5:04Speaker 2: The Nuggets season ended last year largely because I think
- 5:09Speaker 2: people felt they just didn't show fight at the end
- 5:13Speaker 2: of the year. You get called out by a member
- 5:16Speaker 2: of the opposite team by name. on something that has
- 5:21Speaker 2: to do with purely effort, which is defense. And they
- 5:24Speaker 2: didn't respond. And then this year, you're like, oh, they
- 5:27Speaker 2: were playing hard.
- 5:28Speaker 3: Okay.
- 5:30Speaker 6: And?
- 5:31Speaker 3: What about it?
- 5:33Speaker 2: And then you get booed on your home floor because
- 5:37Speaker 2: you weren't playing well, and you get mad about being booed,
- 5:40Speaker 2: and then you come out and you play like a
- 5:41Speaker 2: worse game the next day.
- 5:44Speaker 4: I don't ride roller coasters anymore. because they hurt my
- 5:49Speaker 4: tummy and the last time I rode one I almost
- 5:53Speaker 4: cried but it's very similar again we're talking about a
- 5:58Speaker 4: team that won a championship three years ago and that
- 6:02Speaker 4: slow move up the hill the anxiety the joy that
- 6:07Speaker 4: you're about to feel for those who like it all
- 6:10Speaker 4: that you know exactly the sounds you know you're sitting
- 6:13Speaker 4: next to your friend and Family member, you're like, all right,
- 6:16Speaker 4: this is going to be great. The climb is so
- 6:21Speaker 4: fun for a fan and for a fan base. It's
- 6:24Speaker 4: so fun, especially when you get to the mountaintop. When
- 6:28Speaker 4: you come down the other side and your stomach starts
- 6:31Speaker 4: to hurt, this is me speaking. Most of you probably
- 6:33Speaker 4: like it, and it hurts, and you feel like you're
- 6:35Speaker 4: going to die, and you want to die. You just
- 6:38Speaker 4: want to die. It hurts so bad. Where are we
- 6:42Speaker 4: on that? Are we on the way down? Is this
- 6:43Speaker 4: what it is? Is this the screaming? What, what is this?
- 6:50Speaker 5: Well, Vic, I think in today's model.
- 6:52Speaker 3: The screaming is the, you put your hands up and
- 6:54Speaker 3: it's fun.
- 6:55Speaker 4: Like that's the exit maybe for you. But again, I
- 6:58Speaker 4: don't like.
- 6:58Speaker 5: Coasters, but Vic today's modern sporting world. It really is
- 7:02Speaker 5: a roller coaster from year to year. I mean, it
- 7:04Speaker 5: really is. And you know, you, you have your highs,
- 7:08Speaker 5: you have your lows. You can't win every damn year.
- 7:11Speaker 5: And so I feel like what you predicted in the offseason,
- 7:16Speaker 5: we're probably going to get this year.
- 7:19Speaker 4: So is there a disconnect between... That's.
- 7:21Speaker 5: What it feels like, and then some very hard decisions
- 7:23Speaker 5: are going to have to be made.
- 7:25Speaker 4: Is there a disconnect between fan expectation and player confidence
- 7:31Speaker 4: right now? You know what I mean by that?
- 7:35Speaker 5: You think the fan base expects them to be another
- 7:37Speaker 5: 56-win team. I mean, the players inside that room, they
- 7:41Speaker 5: say they know who they are.
- 7:43Speaker 2: Right.
- 7:43Speaker 4: Every night. I expect greatness every night. And if I
- 7:46Speaker 4: don't get greatness every night, I want to talk about it.
- 7:51Speaker 4: Is that a fair expectation or is that just being
- 7:53Speaker 4: a normal fan?
- 7:55Speaker 2: I know people give me grief for this a lot
- 7:57Speaker 2: because I've done this a lot with the Broncos and
- 8:00Speaker 2: the point of the game is to win. Why are
- 8:03Speaker 2: you so concerned with style points? And I'm like, the
- 8:05Speaker 2: style points come with the territory of being a championship
- 8:08Speaker 2: level team. We've established that all three of these teams
- 8:12Speaker 2: in town, with the exception of the Rockies, the Broncos,
- 8:14Speaker 2: the Nuggets and the Avalanche are good teams that will
- 8:17Speaker 2: make the playoffs. And then the next question is, well,
- 8:20Speaker 2: where does it go beyond that? That's where the style
- 8:23Speaker 2: points in the regular season come into play.
- 8:25Speaker 4: That's what I'm getting you. What if they're just not
- 8:28Speaker 4: a championship team?
- 8:29Speaker 5: Okay, that's fine.
- 8:29Speaker 3: Well, then they are.
- 8:30Speaker 5: That's fine, but they don't look like a playoff team
- 8:32Speaker 5: right now, Vic.
- 8:33Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there's three games in.
- 8:35Speaker 5: I understand that. I'm just saying.
- 8:38Speaker 4: Deep down, that's human nature. What if they know deep down,
- 8:40Speaker 4: damn it, we're not a championship team, and you sort
- 8:43Speaker 4: of take shortcuts because of it. You know what I'm saying?
- 8:47Speaker 4: Do you know where I'm coming from here?
- 8:48Speaker 5: I know what you're saying.
- 8:50Speaker 3: I would tell you that would be unethical as a professional.
- 8:53Speaker 5: Well, let me put it this way.
- 8:54Speaker 4: No, I'm going to give you another analogy. Please do.
- 8:58Speaker 4: You're on the golf course. You're playing your lights out.
- 9:02Speaker 4: You are two under through nine. All of a sudden,
- 9:05Speaker 4: you throw a quad on number 10. Followed by a
- 9:10Speaker 4: triple on number 11. And that score that was all shining,
- 9:13Speaker 4: ready to go. Now you just play the rest around.
- 9:17Speaker 5: Whatever.
- 9:19Speaker 4: You're not grinding anymore. The grind is gone. Do you
- 9:22Speaker 4: see what I'm saying? The grind goes away.
- 9:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't get paid millions to go out and
- 9:28Speaker 3: do that.
- 9:28Speaker 4: I understand.
- 9:29Speaker 3: Number two, it's an individual sport.
- 9:31Speaker 4: The only analogy I know, you keep going back, and
- 9:33Speaker 4: rightfully so, the money's the money. You are indebted because
- 9:37Speaker 4: of what you're getting paid to provide effort. I totally
- 9:40Speaker 4: agree with you on that.
- 9:41Speaker 3: But Vic, let's also say that's an individual sport.
- 9:43Speaker 2: If it's like a Ryder Cup format, then you still
- 9:46Speaker 2: got to go out and you got to try and
- 9:48Speaker 2: hit a par the next hole for your teammates.
- 9:50Speaker 4: Like, that's the thing. The only thing that, The only
- 9:52Speaker 4: thing that bothers me so far is I don't want
- 9:55Speaker 4: to hear the do you know who we are refrain.
- 10:00Speaker 4: This is what we do, refrain.
- 10:02Speaker 3: That's why the Jokic thing bothered you, right?
- 10:03Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the only thing that I'm not fond of because,
- 10:08Speaker 4: of course we know who you are. I mean, all
- 10:09Speaker 4: the fans that have been there for the last five,
- 10:11Speaker 4: of course they knew. I mean, do you think they're
- 10:13Speaker 4: new to this?
- 10:15Speaker 2: But here's a big problem with that. I mentioned this
- 10:23Speaker 2: heading into the season with the Nuggets in particular. The
- 10:27Speaker 2: tone in which they took. Do you remember Media Day?
- 10:29Speaker 2: Do you remember what the Nuggets were saying at Media
- 10:33Speaker 2: Day before a game was played? You guys pretend like
- 10:36Speaker 2: we didn't win 54 games last year.
- 10:38Speaker 5: Again, it was, do you know who we are?
- 10:40Speaker 3: I don't care that you won 54 games.
- 10:42Speaker 4: I know, I know. And that's why I'm bringing it up.
- 10:44Speaker 4: It's the do you know who we are tone.
- 10:46Speaker 2: To me, they're saying we won 54 games last year.
- 10:49Speaker 2: And here's what the fan base says. care if you
- 10:52Speaker 2: won 70 games you get bounced in the first round
- 10:55Speaker 2: like that's unacceptable.
- 10:56Speaker 3: You're talking to my guy all wrong it's wrong tone.
- 10:59Speaker 2: You have the best one of the best players in
- 11:00Speaker 2: the history of the sport a first round exit is
- 11:03Speaker 2: nothing to brag about and i don't care what the
- 11:05Speaker 2: regular season looked like as opposed to what the abs
- 11:08Speaker 2: did which was a much better tone which is hey
- 11:10Speaker 2: you guys won the president's trophy and they said we
- 11:12Speaker 2: don't care we we didn't win the stanley cup we
- 11:15Speaker 2: should have won a stanley cup last year and we didn't.
- 11:18Speaker 4: The new york knicks are winless so far this year
- 11:21Speaker 4: They're winless. They've yet to win a game. What do
- 11:24Speaker 4: you think the refrain by fans in New York? What
- 11:27Speaker 4: do you think they're saying on talk radio this morning?
- 11:31Speaker 5: Well, they're not saying, hey, well, at least we won
- 11:33Speaker 5: a championship last year. They're not saying that. They're looking
- 11:36Speaker 5: at their record. I guarantee I know what they're saying.
- 11:38Speaker 4: It's this. Well, human nature. You know, they want it.
- 11:42Speaker 4: They're just not as hungry this year. And I think
- 11:46Speaker 4: that's not just a saying. It's not just a thing.
- 11:48Speaker 4: It's real. When When you climb to the mountaintop, man,
- 11:54Speaker 4: it takes everything to get there. I mean, it is exhaust.
- 11:59Speaker 4: And sometimes you just don't have that willpower to do it.
- 12:03Speaker 2: Okay, but it's going to be 2027 in a month
- 12:06Speaker 2: and a half. We're going to be a long time
- 12:09Speaker 2: removed from hoisting that trophy.
- 12:13Speaker 3: You can't use the two months, whatever.
- 12:19Speaker 4: Sorry.
- 12:20Speaker 3: We're two months removed ish. From 2027.
- 12:23Speaker 2: That's going to be almost four years from when you
- 12:29Speaker 2: hoisted the trophy.
- 12:29Speaker 3: You can't say the, well, I had, sorry, winner's fatigue.
- 12:34Speaker 5: Been a long time.
- 12:35Speaker 3: Been a long time since that happened. And the Avs,
- 12:39Speaker 3: they're feeling the same thing, Marge. Sure they are.
- 12:40Speaker 4: Absolutely.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Like, they're feeling the exact same thing.
- 12:43Speaker 5: But they've all, I mean, but they also felt the
- 12:44Speaker 5: heartache of, you know, a West final last year and
- 12:47Speaker 5: so on.
- 12:48Speaker 3: They.
- 12:50Speaker 5: I don't know what the answer is there, Brett. We'll
- 12:53Speaker 5: talk to Coach about it tomorrow morning. I'm sure today
- 12:55Speaker 5: they are going to go over everything with a fine-tooth comb.
- 12:59Speaker 5: And by the way, the film doesn't lie. So if
- 13:02Speaker 5: you're getting beat down the ice or you're losing battles
- 13:05Speaker 5: in the corner or you're second to every loose puck,
- 13:11Speaker 5: you're trying to force things or you're nonchalant, I mean,
- 13:13Speaker 5: it all shows up. I think they're going to get
- 13:16Speaker 5: a very good education on what the heck is going
- 13:20Speaker 5: on right now.
- 13:21Speaker 4: I never try to make things personal, and I know
- 13:23Speaker 4: you don't either because it's a sticky job in our
- 13:27Speaker 4: role because I'm going to hop on a plane with
- 13:29Speaker 4: the Nuggets here in a couple hours, and they're going
- 13:31Speaker 4: to go on a road trip, and I'm going to
- 13:32Speaker 4: see these guys, and you see your guys all the time.
- 13:34Speaker 4: But I would never say anything on the air that
- 13:37Speaker 4: I don't believe that is being talked about in the
- 13:39Speaker 4: room itself.
- 13:39Speaker 5: Correct. Correct.
- 13:40Speaker 4: You don't think David Adleman, everything I just said, you
- 13:42Speaker 4: don't think that conversation is had after a game? 100%.
- 13:46Speaker 4: Like what you just said about the Avs. You don't
- 13:48Speaker 4: think tough things are being said in the rooms? They
- 13:52Speaker 4: may not like it when we say it, but it's
- 13:55Speaker 4: the truth because you know they're saying it.
- 13:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 13:58Speaker 4: They're saying it.
- 13:59Speaker 5: These players are not dummies. They're the ones who are
- 14:03Speaker 5: in it, and they know. When you're in it, Brett...
- 14:08Speaker 5: You know, if you're not feeling it or whatever the
- 14:10Speaker 5: case may be, they know. Trust me.
- 14:13Speaker 2: Speaking of, Avs head coach Jared Bednar joins us tomorrow
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- 14:59Speaker 2: Adam Schiff is going to join us here in just
- 15:01Speaker 2: a couple of minutes as we break down the weekend
- 15:04Speaker 2: that was in the NFL and some questions for Adam
- 15:08Speaker 2: heading into a pretty pivotal part of the calendar. NFL
- 15:13Speaker 2: trade deadline date is set for November 10th. So just
- 15:19Speaker 2: a couple of weeks away before some moves can be made.
- 15:23Speaker 2: He had a hit on a Sunday countdown that I
- 15:25Speaker 2: was watching before the games got started on Sunday. about
- 15:29Speaker 2: some names that could be on the move. So we'll
- 15:31Speaker 2: talk to that with Adam in just a moment. And he's, yeah,
- 15:34Speaker 2: he's ready now. So let's go out to the Ramos
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- 15:40Speaker 3: Adam, good morning.
- 15:41Speaker 5: How you doing?
- 15:42Speaker 6: What's going on?
- 15:43Speaker 3: So going back to the Broncos game from last week.
- 15:46Speaker 2: So they get a win in which it looks like
- 15:49Speaker 2: the offense is seemingly better and more confident. The question
- 15:54Speaker 2: now moving forward is, do you think that Jonah Coleman
- 15:57Speaker 2: is establishing himself as the Broncos' feature back over J.K.
- 16:02Speaker 3: Dobbins?
- 16:05Speaker 6: I think it's early to say that. Listen, I think
- 16:07Speaker 6: that they really like him.
- 16:08Speaker 7: He's going to have opportunities establishing himself and actually doing
- 16:12Speaker 7: it or two different things. He may have the opportunity
- 16:16Speaker 7: to do that, but you've got to go do it
- 16:17Speaker 7: over time and prove it.
- 16:19Speaker 6: I know they really like him. I know he's going
- 16:21Speaker 6: to have opportunities. Let's see where that goes.
- 16:24Speaker 4: Hey, do you think there's a degree of vindication for
- 16:27Speaker 4: Bo Nix after the way, first of all, he had
- 16:29Speaker 4: that long run, and then Kansas City against that Seattle defense,
- 16:33Speaker 4: Patrick Holmes looked pedestrian at best. Does it feel better
- 16:36Speaker 4: knowing that maybe that was the case? Maybe it was
- 16:39Speaker 4: the opposition?
- 16:40Speaker 6: You know, here's the thing. I think that Bo Nix
- 16:49Speaker 6: didn't go through an offseason.
- 16:51Speaker 5: Okay?
- 16:51Speaker 6: Like, literally no work. So... The first part of the season,
- 16:55Speaker 6: I'm not excusing him. He didn't play well.
- 16:58Speaker 7: But I'm just giving you some theories as to why
- 17:01Speaker 7: it may take a little bit of time. He doesn't
- 17:03Speaker 7: go through the offseason. And then they have a new
- 17:06Speaker 7: offensive coordinator. And then there's new terminology. And they go
- 17:10Speaker 7: back to Sean.
- 17:10Speaker 5: It's Alter.
- 17:11Speaker 7: So he's kind of been... It hasn't exactly been stable.
- 17:15Speaker 7: It hasn't exactly been worked on. And again, he still
- 17:19Speaker 7: has to get better. I felt like on Sunday, that
- 17:23Speaker 7: one run.
- 17:25Speaker 7: That he had downfield, it almost looked like it emboldened him.
- 17:29Speaker 7: It made him more confident. Because I noticed after that,
- 17:33Speaker 7: to me, it seemed like he was, oh, I can run.
- 17:37Speaker 7: It seemed like he was a little bit more open-minded
- 17:39Speaker 7: to running. It seemed like he was throwing with a
- 17:41Speaker 7: bit more authority. It felt like that one play, he
- 17:46Speaker 7: kind of fed off of that game. Now let's see
- 17:48Speaker 7: if he continues to feed off it going forward.
- 17:50Speaker 5: I completely agree with you.
- 17:52Speaker 4: As a follow-up quickly, Mark, Adam, are you being held
- 17:55Speaker 4: hostage in a West Texas oil field by the cartel?
- 18:00Speaker 6: Here's the problem. I just got done walking. I'm all sweaty.
- 18:02Speaker 3: I don't.
- 18:04Speaker 6: Want to sit there. I'm like, what's going on? Two
- 18:07Speaker 6: weeks before this great deadline. So this is the way
- 18:09Speaker 6: you got me today.
- 18:10Speaker 5: I love it.
- 18:11Speaker 4: I love it.
- 18:12Speaker 5: Point twice if you're sweaty. Okay. Hey, Adam, the deals
- 18:16Speaker 5: in the NFL get done, obviously, in the offseason and
- 18:19Speaker 5: certainly around– the draft, but in season trades and trade
- 18:23Speaker 5: deadline trades, it's not like it would be in my league,
- 18:26Speaker 5: the NHL where the trade deadline, you know, teams go crazy.
- 18:30Speaker 5: Why do you, what do you think that is? Why
- 18:32Speaker 5: is there not as much activity around an NFL trade deadline?
- 18:37Speaker 7: Well, I think you're actually wrong. I think you're talking
- 18:40Speaker 7: to the NFL 10 years ago.
- 18:42Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess, I guess maybe I am, but I'm,
- 18:44Speaker 5: I'm used to, you know, 50 guys being moved around.
- 18:47Speaker 4: At times, you know?
- 18:48Speaker 6: Well, hold on.
- 18:49Speaker 4: Ready?
- 18:49Speaker 6: So let me get you my exact numbers. They're on
- 18:51Speaker 6: my phone.
- 18:52Speaker 7: I've been waiting to kind of use this. I talked
- 18:55Speaker 7: about it a little bit on Sunday. Let me see
- 18:59Speaker 7: if I can just get it up right now. But
- 19:01Speaker 7: I'll just say as I try to find it. And
- 19:04Speaker 7: let's see if I can get it.
- 19:11Speaker 3: Scrolling. Scrolling.
- 19:13Speaker 4: I'm just writing down all the drunk tapes.
- 19:16Speaker 6: Damn. We got a.
- 19:19Speaker 4: Flurry of them in a row. Are you making note
- 19:22Speaker 4: of that?
- 19:22Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 19:24Speaker 6: Well, anyway, here's what I do know.
- 19:27Speaker 7: The last two years from October 1st to the trade deadline,
- 19:31Speaker 7: there were 18 trades each year. Over the last four
- 19:35Speaker 7: or five years, the league has averaged from October 1st
- 19:37Speaker 7: to 17 trades. I don't know how many trades you
- 19:39Speaker 7: want to say that it's been like the last couple
- 19:43Speaker 7: of years couldn't have been any busier.
- 19:46Speaker 6: We've already gotten four trades since October 1st. J.J.
- 19:50Speaker 7: McCarthy, Joey Porter Jr., Cam Juergens, Marvin Harrison. And I
- 19:56Speaker 7: think we'll definitely get more. And if the last couple
- 20:01Speaker 7: of years are any judge of that, I would say
- 20:04Speaker 7: we're looking at 10, 12 more here, at.
- 20:07Speaker 6: Least over the next two weeks.
- 20:09Speaker 3: Adam Schefter with us.
- 20:10Speaker 2: All conversations with Adam are brought to you by Johnson
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- 20:16Speaker 2: the plaza at Johnson Auto Plaza. So on that subject, Adam,
- 20:20Speaker 2: two weeks from now is the deadline, November 10th. I
- 20:23Speaker 2: saw you on Sunday Countdown. You were going through some
- 20:25Speaker 2: names that could be moved. You had Brian Thomas Jr.,
- 20:27Speaker 2: Khalil Mack, and then three different Indianapolis Colts. Do you
- 20:31Speaker 2: think the Colts are in for.
- 20:34Speaker 2: Making some moves to recoup some of those draft picks
- 20:37Speaker 2: that they traded away to get Sauce Gardner last year?
- 20:39Speaker 2: Are they going to be in the market of moving
- 20:41Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor or Quentin Nelson or DeForest Buckner?
- 20:45Speaker 7: I think some of those players will be moved. I'm
- 20:47Speaker 7: not so sure that they want to move Jonathan Taylor.
- 20:51Speaker 6: I don't think they want to.
- 20:52Speaker 7: Now, that doesn't mean that they won't, but I can
- 20:54Speaker 7: tell you that I don't think they want to trade him.
- 20:57Speaker 6: We'll see what happens.
- 20:58Speaker 7: Maybe they go on Sunday and lose at Jacksonville and
- 21:01Speaker 7: change the equation there. That could be the case, too. Um,
- 21:05Speaker 7: but I don't think that they're, that they'd like to
- 21:07Speaker 7: get rid of him. Now, Quentin Nelson, DeForest Buckner, they're
- 21:10Speaker 7: on expiring contracts. They're veterans on expiring contracts. When you
- 21:14Speaker 7: have veterans on expiring contracts and they have some trade
- 21:17Speaker 7: value across the league and you know, they might not
- 21:20Speaker 7: be back. It makes sense to explore trades and potentially
- 21:23Speaker 7: get something done. So I'm not going to be surprised
- 21:25Speaker 7: to see either of those players traded. I think there
- 21:28Speaker 7: are some other Colts that you could look at. Josh Downs,
- 21:31Speaker 7: Keenan Allen, like they could do what they want. Um,
- 21:34Speaker 7: here and we'll see how it plays out but i'm
- 21:37Speaker 7: expecting that team to be busy and have um moves.
- 21:42Speaker 4: Are most of the price tags adam are they draft
- 21:44Speaker 4: picks or do you see personnel swapping here near.
- 21:47Speaker 7: The deadline it's usually a draft pick competition particularly for
- 21:51Speaker 7: that they want they want they have their eye in
- 21:53Speaker 7: the future they're looking to get draft capital back so
- 21:58Speaker 7: um we'll see how that works out What's the.
- 21:59Speaker 5: Scuttlebutt surrounding J.J.
- 22:01Speaker 3: McCarthy?
- 22:01Speaker 5: Because he came in the previous week, played well, and
- 22:05Speaker 5: I thought he made some throws at him. I'm like,
- 22:08Speaker 5: I didn't even know the kid could do that. Is
- 22:11Speaker 5: there a possibility that he hangs on to that gig?
- 22:15Speaker 7: Oh, I think there's definitely a possibility. I mean, he
- 22:21Speaker 7: looked great on Sunday. And if he's playing like that,
- 22:25Speaker 7: first of all, he's their quarterback this season. So he's
- 22:27Speaker 7: got an extended audition to show what he can do.
- 22:30Speaker 7: And if he plays the way he did Sunday for
- 22:32Speaker 7: the rest of the year, whether it's New York or
- 22:35Speaker 7: somewhere else, he's going to have a starting job in
- 22:40Speaker 7: this league.
- 22:40Speaker 6: So he looks fantastic. Let's see if he can keep
- 22:43Speaker 6: it up.
- 22:44Speaker 3: Adam, do you know any statuses?
- 22:45Speaker 2: This is a huge game for the Broncos heading into
- 22:47Speaker 2: this Chiefs matchup this weekend. It's for who takes first
- 22:51Speaker 2: place in the AFC West.
- 22:53Speaker 3: It is also.
- 22:54Speaker 2: If the Chiefs win this game, they have sort of
- 22:56Speaker 2: a stranglehold on that division. Do you know anything about
- 22:59Speaker 2: the statuses of Hufanga or Sertan if they will be.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Able to play?
- 23:03Speaker 6: Sertan, I think he's got a reasonable chance to play.
- 23:08Speaker 6: That's my understanding. And I haven't checked on Hufanga. I
- 23:10Speaker 6: don't think he'd been back to practice at all, right?
- 23:13Speaker 5: No.
- 23:14Speaker 6: So that's not great.
- 23:16Speaker 3: You'll get an.
- 23:16Speaker 6: Idea tomorrow when they're out there if he's got a shot.
- 23:19Speaker 7: Sertan.
- 23:21Speaker 6: I think he's got a chance to play this week.
- 23:23Speaker 6: I don't know about Chicago.
- 23:24Speaker 4: Hey, you want to hear a crazy stat you can
- 23:26Speaker 4: use on ESPN? I just want you to credit our show,
- 23:28Speaker 4: and I want you to do it very loudly. But
- 23:30Speaker 4: here's a crazy stat for you, Adam. Brett, what was
- 23:33Speaker 4: that stat about Sertan missing games in the Broncos record?
- 23:37Speaker 4: You had it yesterday. You told us this yesterday. You
- 23:42Speaker 4: literally spoke it into a microphone yesterday. What kind of
- 23:45Speaker 4: memory do you have?
- 23:46Speaker 2: If you remember, I was doing two jobs yesterday. There
- 23:48Speaker 2: was a lot of things going on. They're 7-1 without
- 23:50Speaker 2: Pat Sertan.
- 23:52Speaker 6: 7-1?
- 23:52Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 23:52Speaker 4: I thought they were undefeated.
- 23:55Speaker 2: Deadline.
- 23:57Speaker 4: I thought they were undefeated. Made it hit harder.
- 23:59Speaker 3: No. What did you say, Adam?
- 24:01Speaker 6: Maybe they should trade him before the deadline.
- 24:06Speaker 2: Oh, a follow-up question for you, Adam, because I don't
- 24:08Speaker 2: think this has ever happened in the history of the league.
- 24:11Speaker 2: But if you look at the standings in the NFL
- 24:13Speaker 2: right now, here's what's crazy. We know that the NFC
- 24:16Speaker 2: East has a number of different problems. But if the
- 24:19Speaker 2: season ended today... Every team in the NFC North would
- 24:24Speaker 2: be in the playoffs, which has never happened. What are
- 24:27Speaker 2: the odds you think that finishes this way?
- 24:33Speaker 6: How many teams make the playoffs again? Is it seven
- 24:35Speaker 6: or eight?
- 24:35Speaker 4: Seven.
- 24:36Speaker 5: Seven.
- 24:37Speaker 6: One by, right. So, yeah, the four division winners, three
- 24:41Speaker 6: wild cards. I mean, I.
- 24:45Speaker 7: The NFC West is going to have some say over that.
- 24:47Speaker 7: So I would say no. They'll beat each other up
- 24:50Speaker 7: enough that at least one team from the NFC West
- 24:53Speaker 7: will get in aside from the division winner, I think.
- 24:56Speaker 7: But the NFC North is loaded, and it's a really
- 24:58Speaker 7: good division.
- 24:59Speaker 2: What is the overall reaction to the Packers and Lions game.
- 25:04Speaker 3: With the officiating?
- 25:05Speaker 2: I know officiating has been a big subject this year,
- 25:07Speaker 2: but what's been sort of the talk within the ESPN
- 25:09Speaker 2: circles of that?
- 25:10Speaker 6: Well, I think everybody has their own.
- 25:15Speaker 7: Qualms with the officiating like that they've gone overboard hasn't
- 25:19Speaker 7: hasn't been good officiating there are always complaints they're always
- 25:22Speaker 7: going to be complaints it seems like it's a bit
- 25:24Speaker 7: more excessive this year than ever before they're calling things
- 25:27Speaker 7: that a lot of people don't see a lot of
- 25:28Speaker 7: roughing the passers are a little bit out of control
- 25:31Speaker 7: you touch a guy you get a penalty of course
- 25:34Speaker 7: you want to protect the quarterbacks that's the flip side
- 25:36Speaker 7: like we haven't seen a ton of quarterback injuries and
- 25:38Speaker 7: that is the league's goal and that's what they're trying
- 25:40Speaker 7: there is to protect the quarterbacks Well.
- 25:43Speaker 5: The Scataboo situation was not– it didn't sit well with
- 25:45Speaker 5: Harbaugh either, did it?
- 25:48Speaker 6: When he fumbled last year?
- 25:49Speaker 5: No, no, no, with the crown of his helmet, the
- 25:51Speaker 5: penalty that he got with the crown of his helmet.
- 25:52Speaker 5: He's like, what am I supposed to do?
- 25:55Speaker 7: Yeah, well, that's the case in some of these calls.
- 25:58Speaker 7: You're like– I mean, it's football still. Like, guys hit
- 26:00Speaker 7: each other. And, you know, sometimes they're calling things, and
- 26:04Speaker 7: it's hard to avoid. Like, yeah, it's just– look, I
- 26:08Speaker 7: want to say this. Like, I think these officials– The
- 26:11Speaker 7: speed at which these guys move, the size they are,
- 26:13Speaker 7: the amount of calls they get right is incredible.
- 26:16Speaker 6: Like, it's very impressive. But there have been some glaring misses.
- 26:20Speaker 6: And when that happens, everything comes under scrutiny and some
- 26:23Speaker 6: of the good work doesn't get noticed.
- 26:26Speaker 2: I was just reading an article, by the way, Adam,
- 26:28Speaker 2: about Tom Brady's in sort of a weird spot because
- 26:30Speaker 2: he was calling that Green Bay game and he was
- 26:32Speaker 2: sort of calling out officiating, but he is a part
- 26:34Speaker 2: owner of the league. And I know there's like this...
- 26:38Speaker 2: rule about owners speaking about officiating. Is that anything that
- 26:41Speaker 2: the NFL is truly concerned with, with him having that
- 26:43Speaker 2: broadcasting gig?
- 26:44Speaker 6: I don't think so.
- 26:45Speaker 7: Like I think Tom Brady calls it like he sees it.
- 26:48Speaker 7: He didn't say anything that anybody else wasn't thinking. It
- 26:50Speaker 7: wasn't like, Oh, Oh, I didn't realize those are questionable calls.
- 26:55Speaker 7: I mean, everybody could see it.
- 26:57Speaker 6: He's, he's speaking the truth.
- 26:58Speaker 7: And that's his job. So I, I know, I know
- 27:02Speaker 7: there are all sorts of conspiracy theorists out there and everything. So, um,
- 27:06Speaker 7: But I don't think that that was an issue. To me,
- 27:08Speaker 7: it was not an issue.
- 27:10Speaker 3: Final question for you, Adam.
- 27:11Speaker 2: Are you going to be best friends with Jay-Z before
- 27:13Speaker 2: you guys host that Super Bowl or what?
- 27:15Speaker 3: How's that going to work?
- 27:17Speaker 6: We might. I mean, you know, he might want me
- 27:21Speaker 6: to perform at halftime. It's possible. Like, we haven't heard
- 27:23Speaker 6: the end of that story yet. We'll see.
- 27:26Speaker 4: Where'd you get the Dallas basketball shirt?
- 27:30Speaker 7: I had a buddy that used to coach there, and
- 27:32Speaker 7: he sent me shirts at one point in time.
- 27:34Speaker 4: Oh. We'll send you a Nuggets basketball shirt.
- 27:38Speaker 6: By the way, Vic, I got no Nuggets gear.
- 27:42Speaker 3: Oh, is that?
- 27:43Speaker 4: Okay, that is him telling us he needs Nuggets gear. Okay.
- 27:47Speaker 6: By the way, we are on an altitude station, right?
- 27:51Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
- 27:52Speaker 6: Yeah, okay. We'll take care of it.
- 27:54Speaker 4: Mosher will buy it.
- 27:56Speaker 5: I got you. I got it taken care of.
- 27:57Speaker 4: Done.
- 27:58Speaker 6: You got it taken care of? It shouldn't be very hard, right?
- 28:00Speaker 3: No.
- 28:01Speaker 6: I will proudly wear it on air. Right?
- 28:04Speaker 5: So.
- 28:04Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 28:05Speaker 6: Like I would love some nuggets, uh, the long sleeve shirts,
- 28:09Speaker 6: short sleeve shirts, L top.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Great. First, we got to get you out of that prison.
- 28:16Speaker 6: Hey, my life is a prison, right? I'm a hostage
- 28:20Speaker 6: to the NFL news that it goes on around the clock.
- 28:22Speaker 3: Adam Schefter joined us every single week. Appreciate it, Adam.
- 28:25Speaker 4: Thank you, buddy.
- 28:26Speaker 6: Guys, have a great week. Thank you.
- 28:27Speaker 4: See you, man.
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- 28:36Speaker 4: Do you guys remember that scene from Landman? Maybe it's
- 28:39Speaker 4: the opening scene where he's in that box trailer and
- 28:43Speaker 4: he's been taken hostage by the cartel. And he's in
- 28:49Speaker 4: there just like, what am I supposed to do now?
- 28:51Speaker 3: Well, I didn't watch Landman.
- 28:52Speaker 4: Oh, you didn't watch Landman?
- 28:53Speaker 3: I know, I know. The basic scenes you're talking about.
- 28:55Speaker 4: You've been taken hostage by the cartel before?
- 28:57Speaker 3: Of course I have, yeah.
- 28:58Speaker 6: Of course.
- 28:59Speaker 4: Mosher, tell me you've watched Landman.
- 29:01Speaker 6: Of course.
- 29:03Speaker 5: Tommy Norris is one of my favorite dudes.
- 29:05Speaker 2: I gotta tell you something, by the way. You said
- 29:08Speaker 2: that I gave you a Sertan stat from yesterday. I'm
- 29:12Speaker 2: not saying that I didn't. I'm saying I have, when
- 29:15Speaker 2: I say zero recollection of any... When you said that
- 29:18Speaker 2: to me... Total deer in the headlights.
- 29:21Speaker 3: I have no idea.
- 29:22Speaker 5: It might have been before I got on, but I
- 29:25Speaker 5: didn't hear that stat yesterday at all.
- 29:27Speaker 4: I was shocked when you gave us the stat. Maybe
- 29:29Speaker 4: it wasn't even you. Somebody did.
- 29:31Speaker 2: Okay, I'm starting to get scared a little bit because
- 29:36Speaker 2: this is what happened to me this weekend.
- 29:37Speaker 3: We were at a friend's house. They have a kid.
- 29:40Speaker 2: Who was doing a fundraiser for school. He has no
- 29:43Speaker 2: Otis Spunkmeyer cookies, whatever. Sure, yeah. So part of the
- 29:47Speaker 2: fundraiser was you buy the cookie dough from them for
- 29:49Speaker 2: X amount of dollars and they get whatever. But my
- 29:53Speaker 2: wife bought these, I guess, two weeks ago. So we
- 29:55Speaker 2: go to their house this weekend. And the next day,
- 29:59Speaker 2: I get up, walk to the kitchen and she's got
- 30:02Speaker 2: a box on the counter. And she goes, you left
- 30:03Speaker 2: these in your car last night.
- 30:06Speaker 3: I go, what? She goes, the cookie dough you left.
- 30:09Speaker 2: And I looked at her and I go, honey, I
- 30:12Speaker 2: have no idea what those are. I don't remember putting
- 30:15Speaker 2: anything in my car. I don't have any recollection of
- 30:19Speaker 2: anything that you're telling me right now. She goes, the
- 30:20Speaker 2: cookie dough.
- 30:21Speaker 3: From last night. I don't know what cookie dough you're
- 30:24Speaker 3: talking about. I'm starting to get scared. My mind's going.
- 30:28Speaker 4: Well, I'll, Yesterday, I'll give you some grace.
- 30:30Speaker 3: Did I have a few whiskeys that night?
- 30:31Speaker 6: Yes.
- 30:32Speaker 3: Not that many.
- 30:33Speaker 4: I'll give you grace because yesterday you were doing three
- 30:35Speaker 4: people's job at once. That's true.
- 30:38Speaker 3: I'm getting scared, though.
- 30:40Speaker 5: Hey, as far as the trades are concerned as well,
- 30:42Speaker 5: I guess Adam is right. There's more now in the
- 30:45Speaker 5: NFL than there used to be. But when I talk
- 30:48Speaker 5: about my league, like on trade deadline day, Vic, on
- 30:51Speaker 5: that day. Well, there's typically at least 20 trades in
- 30:55Speaker 5: one day.
- 30:55Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 30:57Speaker 5: And sometimes more than that. In the timeframe he's talking,
- 31:01Speaker 5: and well, the final week leading up to the trade deadline,
- 31:04Speaker 5: there's typically 35 to 40 trades in a week. And
- 31:08Speaker 5: he's talking about, you know, average of 17 from October
- 31:12Speaker 5: 1st to the trade deadline in November. That's like a
- 31:14Speaker 5: month and a half. I'm like, well, I'm used to like,
- 31:17Speaker 5: you know, 20 trades today by noon. You know, that's
- 31:20Speaker 5: where my mind goes. So it always seems like it's less.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Nellie, be honest. All right. I know we're supposed to
- 31:25Speaker 4: be professional here and we're talking football and getting some insight,
- 31:28Speaker 4: but Nellie, If you didn't mark down the bountiful drunk
- 31:33Speaker 4: take content that you got in maybe like three sentences there,
- 31:39Speaker 4: you don't know what you're doing. Tell me you found it.
- 31:42Speaker 4: Tell me you heard what I heard.
- 31:45Speaker 8: Do you hear what I hear? Are you saying what
- 31:47Speaker 8: Mosher just said right there?
- 31:48Speaker 4: No, no, when we were talking to Adam.
- 31:51Speaker 6: Did you?
- 31:52Speaker 4: Did you guys get it?
- 31:53Speaker 3: Now you're freaking out, Nelly.
- 31:55Speaker 4: See?
- 31:55Speaker 8: I did make a note of Adam Schefter.
- 31:58Speaker 4: Is everybody just dumb today?
- 31:59Speaker 9: I did make a note of Schefter going full Mosier
- 32:01Speaker 9: and scrolling for a stat he tried to find for
- 32:03Speaker 9: two minutes and never finding it.
- 32:05Speaker 3: Hang on, hang on.
- 32:06Speaker 4: This is the only thing.
- 32:07Speaker 5: That Adam missed.
- 32:07Speaker 4: If you go back, if you go back, during that
- 32:10Speaker 4: whole episode, there were three straight drunk takes that were
- 32:13Speaker 4: just phenomenal. Phenomenal.
- 32:18Speaker 3: All Adam was missing to go full Mosier? on his
- 32:21Speaker 3: scrolling was this. As he scrolls, he goes.
- 32:26Speaker 3: That's all he was missing was that sound.
- 32:28Speaker 5: That's not really how you do it.
- 32:29Speaker 4: You do it like this.
- 32:29Speaker 3: I'm so sorry.
- 32:33Speaker 2: Anyway, Adam Schefter joins us every single Tuesday at 9.20.
- 32:36Speaker 3: So....
- 32:40Speaker 2: No games tonight, but take one last look at the
- 32:43Speaker 2: game last night from the Nuggets, and we'll do it next.
- 32:45Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess maybe I am, but I'm used to,
- 32:48Speaker 5: you know, 50 guys being moved around at times, you know?
- 32:52Speaker 4: Well, hold on.
- 32:52Speaker 5: Ready?
- 32:53Speaker 6: So let me get you my exact numbers. They're on
- 32:55Speaker 6: my phone. I've been waiting to kind of use this.
- 32:59Speaker 7: I talked about it a little bit on Sunday.
- 33:01Speaker 6: Let me see if I can just get it up
- 33:03Speaker 6: right now.
- 33:04Speaker 2: Pause.
- 33:08Speaker 4: Pause.
- 33:14Speaker 3: I didn't pick up on that at all. Not at all.
- 33:19Speaker 6: Let me see if I can just get it up right.
- 33:24Speaker 3: Now.
- 33:28Speaker 5: You want to tell everybody what you told me last
- 33:30Speaker 5: night about my nephew's bird? You want to tell everybody
- 33:33Speaker 5: what you said last night about my nephew's bird?
- 33:35Speaker 3: I tried to hint at that earlier in the show.
- 33:37Speaker 3: You weren't picking up on it.
- 33:40Speaker 5: Well, my car goes into the shop today, Vic. Remember the,
- 33:44Speaker 5: you fix it. My car goes into the shop today.
- 33:46Speaker 3: That isolated, the isolated chapter is really funny. Really funny.
- 33:52Speaker 6: At least if I could just get it up right now.
- 34:02Speaker 3: Oh, God. Oh, God. You know what?
- 34:05Speaker 4: I was thinking about this during the break. And I
- 34:08Speaker 4: need to say this. Because a lot of people... Always
- 34:13Speaker 4: bring this up. And I make the mistake sometimes during
- 34:17Speaker 4: a football game I'm watching, I tweet something like, oh,
- 34:20Speaker 4: the run game isn't working. Then all of a sudden
- 34:21Speaker 4: they explode and people come back later, huh, care to
- 34:26Speaker 4: change your tone now? And it applies to our jobs
- 34:30Speaker 4: in sports talk. We can only react in the moment
- 34:37Speaker 4: because this is all we have. So if in the moment,
- 34:40Speaker 4: if at the moment, There's not much to be positive
- 34:44Speaker 4: about or you're seeing something that's not working. You can
- 34:47Speaker 4: only react to that moment. Now, if things change and
- 34:53Speaker 4: a team figures it out, you look like an idiot
- 34:57Speaker 4: in the moment. But what else are we supposed to
- 35:00Speaker 4: talk about? So if I say to you, if I
- 35:02Speaker 4: say to you, I don't like what the Nuggets are
- 35:04Speaker 4: doing right now. It doesn't look right. Or I don't
- 35:07Speaker 4: like what the ads are doing right now. It doesn't
- 35:08Speaker 4: look right. And others say, well, it's it's early. But
- 35:13Speaker 4: all I can give you, my only opinion I can
- 35:15Speaker 4: give you is what I see now. That's all I
- 35:18Speaker 4: can give you.
- 35:19Speaker 3: That's all I got.
- 35:22Speaker 2: The I told you so crowd that especially does this thing.
- 35:26Speaker 3: It's funny.
- 35:28Speaker 2: The I told you so people don't ever say I
- 35:30Speaker 2: messed up.
- 35:31Speaker 3: That's what's great.
- 35:33Speaker 2: And I try as best I can, although I'm guilty
- 35:38Speaker 2: as anybody. to not get caught up in the moment
- 35:41Speaker 2: of things and have perspective and all that stuff. The
- 35:47Speaker 2: reasons why I think the beginning of this Nugget season
- 35:52Speaker 2: feels different is because of the way that last season ended.
- 36:00Speaker 3: When you fail to.
- 36:02Speaker 2: Reach your goal, And you identify reasons as to why
- 36:07Speaker 2: you didn't reach the goal. And then when you come
- 36:09Speaker 2: back around and the new season starts, you want to
- 36:11Speaker 2: see if those things are fixed. And through three games,
- 36:14Speaker 2: they just don't look fixed yet. And so what else
- 36:17Speaker 2: am I supposed to do?
- 36:18Speaker 4: They look worse?
- 36:19Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 36:22Speaker 4: Again, I can only compare it to what we've gone through.
- 36:24Speaker 4: The Knicks fans right now are probably beside themselves because
- 36:27Speaker 4: they've yet to win a game, but they just won
- 36:29Speaker 4: a championship. So that glee, that honeymoon, it lingers, right?
- 36:34Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
- 36:35Speaker 4: I guarantee they're not as distressed right now, even though
- 36:38Speaker 4: they're winless. They're just not.
- 36:41Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 36:42Speaker 4: And that's just the nature of the situation.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Hey, dude, Miami just traded for Giannis this offseason in
- 36:48Speaker 2: their 0-4.
- 36:49Speaker 6: True.
- 36:50Speaker 3: They are. I'm sure they aren't happy either.
- 36:53Speaker 5: Bam ain't playing well.
- 36:58Speaker 9: Toronto.
- 36:58Speaker 2: Toronto just traded for Kawhi, and I don't know if
- 37:01Speaker 2: you guys have seen this yet. Kawhi is going to
- 37:03Speaker 2: miss now multiple weeks with a knee sprain.
- 37:05Speaker 4: Yeah, let's talk about the injuries that we've seen already.
- 37:08Speaker 4: Devastating injuries to big-time players, and we didn't even talk
- 37:11Speaker 4: about this yesterday because the news happened after our show.
- 37:14Speaker 4: Oklahoma City, in one fell swoop, loses two starters. They
- 37:20Speaker 4: lose for the season. Jalen Williams, we know about that.
- 37:24Speaker 4: But then I had no idea that Cason Wallace's injury
- 37:26Speaker 4: was so severe. He tore his labrum. So two starters out.
- 37:29Speaker 5: Boom.
- 37:30Speaker 4: Changes everything. Changes the West. And maybe that's what even
- 37:33Speaker 4: makes this more pressing about the Nuggets. Because the Fates
- 37:37Speaker 4: just said, here you go.
- 37:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 37:41Speaker 5: Yeah. Right? Pretty much, yeah.
- 37:43Speaker 3: Yeah, but then the Thunder win last night.
- 37:47Speaker 4: Well, if there's ever a team that could absorb losses,
- 37:50Speaker 4: because not only do they have a bench that runs
- 37:52Speaker 4: 85 deep, they also have 180 first-round picks waiting for them.
- 37:59Speaker 3: Those are big losses, though. It's a big-time play. But
- 38:04Speaker 3: the Nuggets do lose. They start the season 1-2. Are
- 38:08Speaker 3: we going to get our first Double Dipperoo of the
- 38:10Speaker 3: year tomorrow? Looks like we are.
- 38:12Speaker 8: Double Dipperoo.
- 38:13Speaker 3: Is that Juice? Still Juice from back in the day?
- 38:17Speaker 8: No, that's Jonas Valanciunas. This is Juice.
- 38:20Speaker 4: Double Dipperoo.
- 38:21Speaker 3: Hopefully those guys. I mean, our two best Double Dipperoo's
- 38:24Speaker 3: are two guys that's no longer here.
- 38:26Speaker 5: Friggin' Juice, man. What? I mean, the Avs needed to
- 38:31Speaker 5: put more on him the other night.
- 38:32Speaker 4: They really did.
- 38:33Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 38:35Speaker 5: They needed to put more on Anand the other night.
- 38:40Speaker 3: I just.
- 38:41Speaker 2: I need one of these teams to step up and
- 38:43Speaker 2: do something today. Or tomorrow. I need to feel good
- 38:47Speaker 2: about something. Look, the Avs have done that. They have
- 38:50Speaker 2: played games this year where you're like, okay, I'm down
- 38:53Speaker 2: with that. That's a good performance. Everything looks right.
- 38:56Speaker 3: But then they've had the.
- 38:58Speaker 2: almost inexplicable games where they look terrible.
- 39:03Speaker 5: Well, let me take a look at something real quick.
- 39:05Speaker 5: They only had 21 shots on goal the other night,
- 39:09Speaker 5: which is, for the Colorado Avalanche, that's absolutely crazy. Now,
- 39:14Speaker 5: they've dipped to number two in the league in goals
- 39:16Speaker 5: per game. Coming off that two-goal performance, Edmonton leads at 4.25.
- 39:20Speaker 5: The Avs were basically four and a half goals per.
- 39:24Speaker 6: Game, man.
- 39:25Speaker 5: They were leading the league. That wasn't the issue putting
- 39:27Speaker 5: the puck in the back of the net. It was
- 39:29Speaker 5: keeping it out of your net.
- 39:30Speaker 4: Net at times.
- 39:32Speaker 5: Rush coverage, defensive zone coverage, you know, on any given play,
- 39:35Speaker 5: the penalty kill, whatever it may be. And they just, they.
- 39:42Speaker 5: They didn't throw the puck at the net the other night.
- 39:44Speaker 4: I don't know why.
- 39:46Speaker 2: So the last time they had one game last year
- 39:50Speaker 2: in which they had less shots on goal, and that
- 39:54Speaker 2: was Ottawa. They only had 18 shots against them in
- 39:58Speaker 2: January of last year.
- 39:59Speaker 3: That was a 5-2 loss.
- 40:01Speaker 5: So if you've got to go back like a year.
- 40:02Speaker 3: And they had a playoff game against Vegas. They had
- 40:05Speaker 3: a game where they had 21 shots.
- 40:07Speaker 6: Okay.
- 40:07Speaker 5: So, I mean, it's really, really out of the norm, right?
- 40:13Speaker 5: Fix it.
- 40:14Speaker 3: You fix it.
- 40:15Speaker 5: Well, that's what's happening today.
- 40:17Speaker 3: You fix it.
- 40:17Speaker 5: That's going in. Going in the shop.
- 40:20Speaker 3: So 303-504-0925.
- 40:22Speaker 2: $ 10 Tuesday at Papa Murphy's.
- 40:25Speaker 3: Any large pizza.
- 40:26Speaker 2: It's just $ 10. You can order at PapaMurphy's.com. Pick it
- 40:30Speaker 2: up and bake it fresh at home. So a lot
- 40:34Speaker 2: to discuss as we head into tomorrow. Now, again, I'll
- 40:36Speaker 2: remind you guys. I know it's only Tuesday. We have
- 40:38Speaker 2: a lot more time to get into this. This game
- 40:40Speaker 2: this weekend for the Broncos is huge. This is the
- 40:42Speaker 2: difference between you having a chance to win the AFC
- 40:44Speaker 2: West and likely being so far behind at this juncture
- 40:48Speaker 2: of the season, it would take a monumental climb to
- 40:51Speaker 2: get back into it. If the Chiefs beat you and
- 40:53Speaker 2: they move to 6-1 with two wins over you specifically
- 40:57Speaker 2: and 4-0 to start in the division, they are running
- 41:00Speaker 2: away with this division.
- 41:01Speaker 5: But their schedule is going to get exponentially more difficult
- 41:04Speaker 5: and yours is going to get exponentially easier.
- 41:06Speaker 3: Which leads to.
- 41:08Speaker 5: You're flipping the script on the schedule, so it tells
- 41:11Speaker 5: me even if they lose this game, I think there's
- 41:14Speaker 5: going to be ample opportunity to get back on top
- 41:17Speaker 5: of them.
- 41:18Speaker 3: I do.
- 41:19Speaker 5: You'll be two games back, and they'll have the two
- 41:21Speaker 5: wins against you, but they've got some difficult games coming up.
- 41:25Speaker 5: You've done your gauntlet. Their gauntlet's just starting.
- 41:28Speaker 3: I'm trying to find... You know what? I want to see.
- 41:31Speaker 2: I'm trying to find a site that has... I know
- 41:33Speaker 2: there's one because I've seen it before. where they talk
- 41:36Speaker 2: about percentage chances of you winning the division and whatever.
- 41:39Speaker 2: I just feel like this is a monumental shift in
- 41:43Speaker 2: the AFC West going either way. Like with a Chiefs win,
- 41:48Speaker 2: this thing just becomes crazy to try and get back
- 41:51Speaker 2: in it. And Nellie, I had you try and look
- 41:55Speaker 2: this up earlier. I don't know if you found anything
- 41:58Speaker 2: or not either, but the Chiefs right now are sitting at,
- 42:02Speaker 2: you know, a 30% chance to make the conference championship
- 42:10Speaker 2: is what it says. And I only would think that
- 42:12Speaker 2: that goes higher and higher with a win this weekend
- 42:15Speaker 2: over the Broncos. Now, the good news, if you guys
- 42:17Speaker 2: missed it, we just talked to Adam Schefter. He thinks,
- 42:20Speaker 2: didn't say definitively, but he thinks.
- 42:27Speaker 3: Pat Sertan's going to be back in the lineup this weekend.
- 42:29Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I mean, you can stumble your way through. Well,
- 42:33Speaker 5: not even stumble. They've done a good job. But against
- 42:35Speaker 5: the Cardinals, it's not quite as imperative to have him
- 42:38Speaker 5: back as it would be when you're facing Mahomes, right?
- 42:42Speaker 3: In theory.
- 42:43Speaker 5: Yeah. They also, the Chiefs, by the way, they also
- 42:45Speaker 5: have their own fair share of injuries. They're dealing with
- 42:47Speaker 5: guys who are banged up, too. So it's not just one-sided.
- 42:53Speaker 5: I think Rasheed Rice is questionable, if I'm not mistaken.
- 42:55Speaker 3: You know what I wonder? I wonder what happens.
- 42:57Speaker 5: The tackle's still out.
- 42:58Speaker 3: Can we all agree Jadé Barron's played pretty good in
- 43:01Speaker 3: the absence of Patrick Stanton?
- 43:02Speaker 4: You know what? That's a great point. What's lost in
- 43:04Speaker 4: this whole thing is the depth at that position. Man,
- 43:07Speaker 4: it is solid.
- 43:08Speaker 2: So him and Abrams Drain have played great. Sertan gets healthy.
- 43:13Speaker 2: Now you're back to Sertan, Riley Moss.
- 43:14Speaker 3: And Jaquan.
- 43:15Speaker 4: They got some big decisions to make.
- 43:16Speaker 3: Do they just not play Jadé Barron and Chris Abrams
- 43:19Speaker 3: Drain again?
- 43:19Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. They've got big decisions to make
- 43:21Speaker 4: because Riley Moss' contract is coming up.
- 43:25Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you this.
- 43:27Speaker 2: I still think Riley Moss is really good. But if
- 43:29Speaker 2: you think that you need to skimp out on a
- 43:31Speaker 2: price somewhere because everybody's getting paid big-time contracts, Jaday Barron
- 43:36Speaker 2: and Chris Abrams-Drain, the way that they've played over the
- 43:38Speaker 2: last three weeks, makes you feel a lot better that
- 43:40Speaker 2: if Riley Moss walks in free agency that you got
- 43:42Speaker 2: something to cover your ass.
- 43:44Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
- 43:44Speaker 2: Like, makes you feel a lot better about it. Now,
- 43:48Speaker 2: Riley Moss is clearly still a very, very good corner.
- 43:53Speaker 3: Very good. But do you go back.
- 43:56Speaker 2: To Jaday Barron playing, you know, 90% of the snaps
- 43:59Speaker 2: to him playing 5% again?
- 44:01Speaker 3: Is that just that fast?
- 44:03Speaker 5: Hey, if there's no room at the end, there may
- 44:05Speaker 5: not be any room at the end.
- 44:06Speaker 3: Yeah, because you weren't taking Jaquan out. Jaquan's amazing.
- 44:09Speaker 5: He's playing great.
- 44:11Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 44:12Speaker 2: What I'm asking is, do they maybe give some guys
- 44:15Speaker 2: some touches to give?
- 44:16Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 44:16Speaker 2: Maybe you give Riley Moss a few snaps to breathe
- 44:20Speaker 2: and then throw him back in.
- 44:22Speaker 3: Or do you just go full bore back into it?
- 44:25Speaker 3: That's what I don't know. But bottom line is.
- 44:28Speaker 5: Well, the bottom line is when they've gotten the opportunity,
- 44:30Speaker 5: they've proven themselves. And I think that's probably... I mean,
- 44:34Speaker 5: I'm sure Sean Payton is like, okay, we're good, we're good.
- 44:37Speaker 2: Teams can't find a starting corner that they trust or
- 44:40Speaker 2: two starting corners.
- 44:41Speaker 3: You've got five that you can just throw out there.
- 44:44Speaker 4: The trade deadline, it's a risk to let go of
- 44:47Speaker 4: that depth. It's a risk. But what if you can
- 44:50Speaker 4: get something on the offensive side that really helps you now.
- 44:54Speaker 3: That would be, if you're doing that for a player,
- 44:56Speaker 3: you aren't doing that for a pick. You're trying to win.
- 44:58Speaker 4: Saquon!
- 45:02Speaker 5: Saquon!
- 45:03Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 45:05Speaker 3: Anyway, 303-504-0925. Fact checker, please.
- 45:12Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker.
- 45:17Speaker 6: Fact Checker!
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- 45:27Speaker 9: Vic, you are our show's resident expert on metaphors, similes,
- 45:32Speaker 9: all sort of.
- 45:33Speaker 8: illusions like that.
- 45:34Speaker 9: So here's something that Brett said, easy for me to say,
- 45:38Speaker 9: in the appetizer hour.
- 45:39Speaker 8: I don't want to get your ruling on it.
- 45:40Speaker 2: Part of your job as a coach is you have
- 45:42Speaker 2: to deal with personalities and you have to keep all
- 45:44Speaker 2: of your ducks in a row. And you can't have
- 45:48Speaker 2: some of these chickens wandering off the reservation.
- 45:56Speaker 3: What's wrong with that?
- 45:57Speaker 5: How much foul are you going to put into your.
- 46:00Speaker 3: How many different.
- 46:02Speaker 5: Images are you going to give us that? You can't
- 46:06Speaker 5: strangle the goose that lays the golden egg.
- 46:08Speaker 4: Ducks, chickens, and reservations.
- 46:10Speaker 8: Vic, have you ever been down to the Redbird Farms res?
- 46:14Speaker 4: Jesus.
- 46:14Speaker 3: Makes total sense to me. I mean, what am I
- 46:17Speaker 3: going to do here?
- 46:19Speaker 2: Nobody keeps ducks all together.
- 46:21Speaker 5: You know, I wish I had a duck.
- 46:27Speaker 4: Yes, I keep the ducks in the chicken coop at
- 46:29Speaker 4: the reservation.
- 46:30Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind having a duck.
- 46:31Speaker 3: Fortunate for you, Moj, you got a parakeet right now.
- 46:34Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 46:34Speaker 3: And I know where you can put it.
- 46:36Speaker 5: You know what?
- 46:36Speaker 3: You know what?
- 46:37Speaker 4: It's so typical of Moj. Hey, Brett, if there's anyone
- 46:40Speaker 4: on this show who would have a pet parakeet, who
- 46:43Speaker 4: would it be?
- 46:44Speaker 5: Not me, man.
- 46:45Speaker 4: Who would it be?
- 46:47Speaker 3: They're loud.
- 46:48Speaker 2: If I got a buddy that says, hey, man, I'm
- 46:50Speaker 2: going out of town for a bit, can you keep
- 46:52Speaker 2: my parakeet at your house?
- 46:53Speaker 3: You know what I say?
- 46:53Speaker 5: No.
- 46:54Speaker 6: No.
- 46:55Speaker 5: It's my family.
- 46:57Speaker 3: It's a bird. That bird is not your family. You
- 47:00Speaker 3: know what, Moshe?
- 47:01Speaker 4: You could have left the thing at his house and
- 47:03Speaker 4: just showed up every once in a while and said,
- 47:05Speaker 4: here's a worm.
- 47:05Speaker 5: I know.
- 47:06Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
- 47:07Speaker 3: Instead, Moshe goes home to.
- 47:13Speaker 3: iTunes, Spotify, Moslem Bar.
- 47:15Speaker 5: You know what I do? I got my iPad. I
- 47:17Speaker 5: put the iPad on a parakeet player.
- 47:20Speaker 3: He plays parakeet YouTube videos to make him not feel alone.
- 47:23Speaker 3: You've got to be kidding me. I don't want him.
- 47:26Speaker 5: To die on me, man. Leave an animal in your
- 47:29Speaker 5: care and it dies on you.
- 47:31Speaker 3: Holly, want a cracker? All right. Have a great day.
- 47:33Speaker 3: We'll talk to you tomorrow.
- 47:34Speaker 6: Love you.
- 47:34Speaker 3: See you.
- 47:35Speaker 2: Part of your job as a coach is you have
- 47:36Speaker 2: to deal with personalities and you have to keep all
- 47:39Speaker 2: of your ducks in a row. And you can't have
- 47:42Speaker 2: some of these chickens wandering off the reservation.