Latest / The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane / 10-01-26 - Avs start the season with a BANG/A measuring stick Broncos game/Drunken celebrations!
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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: He'll wind it in right to left. Nearside wall. McKinnon
- 0:21Speaker 2: leads it for Natchez. Kicks it to a stick in
- 0:23Speaker 2: the corner.
- 0:23Speaker 3: McKinnon getting harassed and then he chops down Brant Clark.
- 0:27Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Word around the league is McKinnon.
- 0:31Speaker 5: Is he going to go?
- 0:33Speaker 2: He tosses the glove.
- 0:34Speaker 3: McKinnon's going to go and Frank Clark. Let's see what's
- 0:37Speaker 3: coming here with the dog.
- 0:38Speaker 2: The dog throws a right.
- 0:39Speaker 5: Right by McKinnon. Right by McKinnon. Another right by McKinnon.
- 0:42Speaker 5: Right by McKinnon. Another right by McKinnon. And down goes Clark.
- 0:49Speaker 3: He's got that dog in him. Nathan McKinnon. is done
- 0:55Speaker 3: with the funny business from Brent Clark.
- 0:57Speaker 6: Mess with the Bulls, son. You're going to get the horns.
- 1:02Speaker 6: Are you kidding me? I mean, McKinnon's been as feisty
- 1:06Speaker 6: as I've seen him ever.
- 1:07Speaker 2: We talked about it earlier.
- 1:10Speaker 6: And he just gave it to Clark and then he
- 1:11Speaker 6: threw the glove off, mocked him into a fight. And
- 1:14Speaker 6: then he came in prepared to go. Did he box
- 1:16Speaker 6: all summer? And absolutely cleaned his clock.
- 1:21Speaker 3: McKinnon absolutely wiped the floor with Brant Clark.
- 1:26Speaker 2: Finish him. First game of the year, and Nathan McKinnon
- 1:32Speaker 2: gets into it. Look, the story behind this, at least
- 1:40Speaker 2: this is what was said in the postgame, is that
- 1:44Speaker 2: McKinnon said that Clark said a word to him he
- 1:47Speaker 2: didn't like, so he challenged him. And McKinnon said he
- 1:50Speaker 2: plays hard, he gets under guys' skin, he's a really
- 1:52Speaker 2: good defenseman, but you know, sometimes when you play like that,
- 1:55Speaker 2: you have to fight. I don't know when the last
- 2:00Speaker 2: time Nate got into a tussle like that. I don't
- 2:04Speaker 2: know if you necessarily want to see Nathan McKinnon in
- 2:09Speaker 2: game one throwing that right hand up against somebody's face,
- 2:12Speaker 2: but I'll tell you, he's not somebody that I would
- 2:15Speaker 2: mess with. There's something about robots like Nathan McKinnon, and
- 2:21Speaker 2: I mean that in the most complimentary way, you get
- 2:25Speaker 2: in his face and you start chucking knuckles like there
- 2:28Speaker 2: could be some issues. Now, to the actual game part
- 2:31Speaker 2: of this, it's pretty wild. And it looked like a
- 2:35Speaker 2: first game. There was some sloppiness. You know, a first
- 2:40Speaker 2: goal I think that was scored by the Kings was
- 2:44Speaker 2: Two guys, and especially somebody new to the roster, it
- 2:48Speaker 2: was sort of Burns is following his man. Schwartz comes
- 2:57Speaker 2: off his guy thinking that Burns is going to make
- 3:00Speaker 2: a handoff. Instead, they take the same guy, and then
- 3:04Speaker 2: that leaves him wide open to score from top of
- 3:07Speaker 2: the circle. I think little things like that can be
- 3:12Speaker 2: cleaned up. The great news is this. I mean, think
- 3:15Speaker 2: about this for a moment. We spent the better part
- 3:20Speaker 2: of two years talking about the power play and it
- 3:23Speaker 2: being anywhere from non-existent to something that hurts more than
- 3:30Speaker 2: it helps to something that couldn't produce. And in one
- 3:38Speaker 2: game in which the Avs score eight goals to start
- 3:42Speaker 2: their season, They had five power play opportunities, and they
- 3:46Speaker 2: scored on four. So you're thinking to yourself, okay, you
- 3:51Speaker 2: score on four out of five power plays. That thing
- 3:56Speaker 2: must have been rolling. Issue is, you gave up two shorties,
- 4:04Speaker 2: so that cuts into the four that you scored. But
- 4:08Speaker 2: for the most part, again, It looked awesome. And here's
- 4:12Speaker 2: the great thing. Two things that we haven't seen for
- 4:16Speaker 2: a long time, one of them I think maybe ever. One,
- 4:23Speaker 2: you haven't seen a power play that looked that dangerous
- 4:26Speaker 2: at pretty much every moment for a long time. Two,
- 4:31Speaker 2: when's the last time we saw the second power play
- 4:33Speaker 2: unit score a goal, let alone two in a game?
- 4:39Speaker 2: The second unit. So all these different things that you
- 4:43Speaker 2: wanted to see fixed as far as, you know, specifically
- 4:46Speaker 2: on the power play, it's still mind-blowing. When they put
- 4:50Speaker 2: up the stat yesterday during the broadcast, and it says
- 4:56Speaker 2: goals for, goals against, penalty kill, power play, and something
- 5:01Speaker 2: else I can't remember. But four of the five categories
- 5:05Speaker 2: next to those, it was first. Like, the Avs were
- 5:11Speaker 2: the league best in every single category, except for power play,
- 5:15Speaker 2: in which I think it was 27th or something like that,
- 5:17Speaker 2: or 29th or something. But it all was kind of
- 5:23Speaker 2: in the context of, can you get that part of
- 5:27Speaker 2: your game put together a little bit more consistently? And
- 5:31Speaker 2: if you can, you can be just as good as
- 5:34Speaker 2: you were last year, one, and two, maybe even better.
- 5:40Speaker 2: But McKinnon gets on the board with two goals. Lekkonen
- 5:43Speaker 2: on the board with two goals. Landy gets one. Parker
- 5:45Speaker 2: Kelly gets one. Brock Nelson gets one to start the year.
- 5:49Speaker 2: Nick Waugh gets one. It's a hell of a night.
- 5:57Speaker 2: A stat for Kale McCarr, by the way. First defenseman
- 6:01Speaker 2: in NHL history to record multiple points in five straight
- 6:04Speaker 2: season opening games. Nobody else in the history of the
- 6:07Speaker 2: league's ever done it. So there's plenty of good from
- 6:11Speaker 2: that game last night. I really liked some of the
- 6:14Speaker 2: new guys on this roster. Again, a lot to clean
- 6:17Speaker 2: up on this, right? But I think you got good
- 6:21Speaker 2: moments from Jaden Schwartz. I think you got good moments
- 6:25Speaker 2: from TJ Hughes. He was really close to scoring two
- 6:27Speaker 2: or three in the middle of that game. And when
- 6:30Speaker 2: you talk about the cerebral nature of his game, I
- 6:32Speaker 2: think you kind of saw that in fits and spurts
- 6:34Speaker 2: throughout the course of the night last night. I think
- 6:38Speaker 2: that Naz Kadri... Look, it's early in the season. We'll
- 6:41Speaker 2: see how this goes as the season plays on with,
- 6:44Speaker 2: you know, Kadri. He's 35 years old. He'll be 36
- 6:49Speaker 2: in just a few days. We'll see how it holds
- 6:51Speaker 2: up over the course of the season. But I didn't
- 6:53Speaker 2: feel like he was moving at a slow pace. You know,
- 7:00Speaker 2: I didn't feel like father time caught up with him. Again,
- 7:07Speaker 2: long season, we'll see. But I think there's a lot
- 7:09Speaker 2: of things that you can point to and you can say, hey,
- 7:13Speaker 2: all of this was really good. Interesting sort of look
- 7:17Speaker 2: at evaluating Blackwood's performance last night. You know, he gives
- 7:22Speaker 2: up four on 31 shots. It's an 871 save percentage.
- 7:28Speaker 2: On the surface, doesn't look great. I also think Mackenzie
- 7:30Speaker 2: Blackwood saved your bacon a couple times. If there was
- 7:37Speaker 2: anything that I would kind of point to from last
- 7:38Speaker 2: night and be like, yeah, it's got to get cleaned up,
- 7:40Speaker 2: it was just some of the defensive stuff. Looked a
- 7:43Speaker 2: little out of sorts. But I think I'm expecting some
- 7:45Speaker 2: of that early in the year because there is, you know,
- 7:49Speaker 2: you return a lot of guys from last year. But
- 7:53Speaker 2: Svechkov was on the ice for 15 minutes. Schwartz was
- 7:55Speaker 2: on the ice for 13. TJ Hughes was on the
- 7:59Speaker 2: ice for 13 and a half. Juleson was out there
- 8:02Speaker 2: for 11 minutes. You had a lot of different guys
- 8:05Speaker 2: that just haven't played too much with the guys in
- 8:07Speaker 2: this roster. And we're trying to figure things out. And
- 8:10Speaker 2: I think all that will get cleaned up as time
- 8:13Speaker 2: goes on. Uh, texture says, I don't want to live
- 8:18Speaker 2: in a world where lucky is not on the abs roster.
- 8:20Speaker 2: No kidding. And that's, you know, that's a decision that,
- 8:25Speaker 2: that is months from now to make. Um, But he
- 8:32Speaker 2: is just, he's sort of a do-it-all guy. He'll block shots,
- 8:36Speaker 2: he'll hit, he'll score, he'll pass, good on the power play,
- 8:41Speaker 2: like all those different things. But overall, I mean, if
- 8:48Speaker 2: you were in ball arena for last night, you got
- 8:50Speaker 2: a hell of an entertaining game. There is, I think
- 8:55Speaker 2: to a certain extent, when you have a season in
- 8:58Speaker 2: which the expectations are so high, I said this going
- 9:03Speaker 2: into the game last night. It feels to me like
- 9:06Speaker 2: if you are.
- 9:11Speaker 2: If you're heading into this season, if there's one thing
- 9:14Speaker 2: you wanted to see early, because I think all the
- 9:17Speaker 2: other stuff has earned your trust. You know this team's
- 9:21Speaker 2: going to score. You know this team from last year
- 9:25Speaker 2: is going to get good to great to elite-level goaltending
- 9:30Speaker 2: just based strictly off the numbers. You just wanted to
- 9:35Speaker 2: see the power play and make sure that it worked.
- 9:37Speaker 2: And think about this for a second. The Avs, they
- 9:42Speaker 2: could have won last night with going 0 for 5
- 9:46Speaker 2: on the power play if they didn't give up shorties
- 9:48Speaker 2: with it. Let's just say there was a net zero
- 9:50Speaker 2: goals that were scored on the power play. You still
- 9:54Speaker 2: would have won last night. The fact that you did
- 9:58Speaker 2: it while putting up 5s four out of five and
- 10:01Speaker 2: I believe the only one that you didn't was the
- 10:05Speaker 2: five on three in which you get the first goal
- 10:06Speaker 2: and then you didn't get one from there on out.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Scored immediately on that five on three too. I just
- 10:16Speaker 2: think that did a lot, at least for me, to
- 10:21Speaker 2: calm some fears and some nerves. We talked to Jared
- 10:24Speaker 2: Bednar yesterday, fresh off that four-year extension. About half an
- 10:28Speaker 2: hour after it was announced, he was on the show
- 10:30Speaker 2: with us. But we talked about power play. And he
- 10:36Speaker 2: said it was basically like a number one thing that
- 10:40Speaker 2: they were focused on in the offseason, which they should
- 10:43Speaker 2: have been. But he also said that he thought it's
- 10:50Speaker 2: the best it's looked in a long time. And he goes, look,
- 10:53Speaker 2: it's practice. So take that for what it is. But
- 10:56Speaker 2: he sounded really, really optimistic about what that was going
- 11:00Speaker 2: to be this year. And as far as a first
- 11:03Speaker 2: sort of look at what the power play could be,
- 11:05Speaker 2: I think that you got a hell of an introduction. Remember,
- 11:13Speaker 2: if you were best in the league in that number
- 11:18Speaker 2: of your basic, this is what makes good teams categories.
- 11:26Speaker 2: They were number one in the league last year. If
- 11:28Speaker 2: you added a top 10-ish power play to that, I mean,
- 11:36Speaker 2: you go from a dominant team to a juggernaut. It's
- 11:42Speaker 2: just crazy. And what's funny is You know, for a
- 11:47Speaker 2: long time, it was always when the power play was
- 11:50Speaker 2: on the ice. And this goes back for a number
- 11:53Speaker 2: of years. That first unit was not going to leave
- 11:56Speaker 2: the ice until there was like 30 seconds left on
- 12:00Speaker 2: the power play. The second unit would go out there
- 12:02Speaker 2: for basically you'd get the puck into the zone. You'd
- 12:06Speaker 2: make two passes. And if there wasn't a shot, it
- 12:08Speaker 2: would be done already. Being able to get them on
- 12:15Speaker 2: the ice a little bit sooner, let them get, you know,
- 12:17Speaker 2: you give the first power play unit a couple of
- 12:19Speaker 2: rushes at it with about a minute left, 50 seconds
- 12:22Speaker 2: left to get them off. Second unit comes on. They've
- 12:25Speaker 2: proven in a short amount of time that they can
- 12:27Speaker 2: go out there and put up goals. And it went
- 12:32Speaker 2: from nobody could score at all to now you have
- 12:36Speaker 2: two units in the first game that looked really good.
- 12:43Speaker 2: So 303, 504, 0925. Again, I thought even with the
- 12:48Speaker 2: mistakes that were made last night, which again, I think
- 12:52Speaker 2: those are more of chemistry and time on task mistakes.
- 13:02Speaker 2: New guys knowing who to trust with their teammates and
- 13:05Speaker 2: not necessarily who to trust, but just what the responsibilities are.
- 13:09Speaker 2: style of play for different guys you're on the ice with,
- 13:12Speaker 2: things that will get ironed out as more and more
- 13:15Speaker 2: games get under your belt. I would call those understandable mistakes.
- 13:21Speaker 2: And that's what led to LA scoring and being in
- 13:24Speaker 2: a really good position a number of times last night.
- 13:26Speaker 2: I think those are easily cleaned up. But your ability
- 13:31Speaker 2: just to get after people, I love it. I think
- 13:37Speaker 2: it was a great debut. So the Avs start the
- 13:39Speaker 2: season 1-0 as they get their first win at Ball Arena.
- 13:47Speaker 2: Next game is coming up on Saturday, 7 o'clock against
- 13:52Speaker 2: the St. Louis Blues. So 3-0-3, 5-0-4, 0-9-2-5. We're broadcasting
- 13:58Speaker 2: from the Backus and Shanker Studios. Serious lawyers for the
- 14:01Speaker 2: seriously injured. The texture says hopefully some Wedgwood on Saturday.
- 14:06Speaker 2: You know, we talked to Bednar about that yesterday, too.
- 14:08Speaker 2: He said that Blackwood is going to be your number
- 14:13Speaker 2: one goalie here to start this year, but they will
- 14:14Speaker 2: do the rotation thing. You know, like Wedgwood earned the
- 14:19Speaker 2: right to have the net in the postseason last year.
- 14:23Speaker 2: I'm sure at the beginning of this season, especially with
- 14:26Speaker 2: 84 games and two goalies that you trust, they're going
- 14:29Speaker 2: to go back and forth and back and forth. There's
- 14:33Speaker 2: a lot more to discuss with that as we go
- 14:34Speaker 2: along today back after this. All right, Avs win the
- 14:37Speaker 2: opener to the season, 8-4, four power play goals on
- 14:41Speaker 2: the night, and it is an Avs ticket Thursday where
- 14:45Speaker 2: you can win a pair of tickets to Saturday's division
- 14:48Speaker 2: rivalry against St. Louis at Ball Arena. It's also the
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- 15:31Speaker 2: pairs of tickets to give away Saturday's game. We'll get
- 15:36Speaker 2: back to the Avs in a bit. Hell of an
- 15:38Speaker 2: opening game for them. I think there's a lot that
- 15:43Speaker 2: they could clean up on the defensive side of things,
- 15:45Speaker 2: but on the offensive, I mean, you put up eight goals,
- 15:47Speaker 2: there's nothing to complain about. I am, yes, still one
- 15:51Speaker 2: of those guys where it's fun to watch Nathan McKinnon
- 15:56Speaker 2: get into a fight. What's not fun is is me
- 16:01Speaker 2: being worried about Nathan McKinnon getting hurt. And I'm not
- 16:04Speaker 2: the only one. Mackenzie Blackwood agreed with me, so we'll
- 16:07Speaker 2: get back to this later. I want to focus on
- 16:09Speaker 2: what is going to be a very, very, very, very, very, very,
- 16:15Speaker 2: I think, important game this weekend because if you beat
- 16:17Speaker 2: the Niners in San Francisco, you can take your expectations of, man,
- 16:21Speaker 2: I hope I get three and three through the first
- 16:24Speaker 2: six weeks of the season to, who knows, maybe you
- 16:27Speaker 2: can get to a 4-2 or something like that. Now
- 16:35Speaker 2: you're talking about, hey man, could you be on your
- 16:41Speaker 2: way to another 12-13 win season again? I'll say this
- 16:48Speaker 2: about the Broncos. The Broncos over the last couple of years,
- 16:50Speaker 2: including coming up this week, have been very fortunate. And
- 17:00Speaker 2: I don't want to say this to take away from
- 17:02Speaker 2: anything that they did last year, but it is something
- 17:04Speaker 2: that was a thing. The Denver Broncos have been very
- 17:11Speaker 2: fortunate in which they have stayed really healthy, except for,
- 17:15Speaker 2: you know, when you got to the AFC Championship game.
- 17:19Speaker 2: But they haven't dealt with many injuries over the last
- 17:21Speaker 2: couple years, knock on wood. And they have played teams
- 17:24Speaker 2: that have been incredibly injured. Just the sheer amount of...
- 17:33Speaker 2: backup quarterbacks that they played last year. It was immense.
- 17:40Speaker 2: And you go into this game against San Francisco this weekend,
- 17:44Speaker 2: a game in which I would, if both teams are
- 17:47Speaker 2: totally healthy based on where the game is played and
- 17:52Speaker 2: how good that football team is, I think that I
- 17:56Speaker 2: would expect, if I had to bet on something, I
- 18:00Speaker 2: would expect a loss. Again, it's not disrespect to the Broncos.
- 18:05Speaker 2: It is respect to this opponent playing at home and
- 18:09Speaker 2: how good they are. But Mike Evans, questionable with a
- 18:14Speaker 2: rib injury that he sustained against the Cardinals. Nick Bosa
- 18:19Speaker 2: did not practice due to a calf issue. Trent Williams
- 18:23Speaker 2: was limited with a neck injury. Dre Greenlaw has a
- 18:27Speaker 2: quad injury. They have a whole bunch of guys, very,
- 18:33Speaker 2: very important to their success that are either already ruled
- 18:42Speaker 2: out for the game on Sunday or were DNPs. So Bosa, Evans, Greenlaw,
- 18:52Speaker 2: all DNPs. Christian McCaffrey, he was a DNP, but it
- 18:57Speaker 2: said it was just rest. Okay, fine. Trent Williams, DNP
- 19:01Speaker 2: with the neck. You do that in comparison to what
- 19:04Speaker 2: the Broncos did yesterday at practice. The only guy that
- 19:08Speaker 2: didn't practice yesterday was Dondre Tillman. Everybody else. You know,
- 19:19Speaker 2: you have guys listed here. J.K. Dobbins, hip. Marvin Mims, foot.
- 19:22Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle, foot. All those guys full practice yesterday. So
- 19:27Speaker 2: there is.
- 19:30Speaker 2: I think a great deal of fortune that's come with
- 19:32Speaker 2: the Broncos against playing against some of these better teams.
- 19:34Speaker 2: You're not playing against Joe Burrow when you play the
- 19:36Speaker 2: Bengals last year. You're playing against a backup quarterback. You
- 19:39Speaker 2: aren't playing against Patrick Mahomes. You're playing against Ola Doken.
- 19:43Speaker 2: There's a number of different examples of that. But when
- 19:47Speaker 2: the Broncos are presented with these opportunities, they make a difference.
- 19:50Speaker 2: people pay. And I think I'm going to expect that
- 19:54Speaker 2: to happen again. If all of those guys that I
- 19:56Speaker 2: mentioned are going to be missing, or most of them anyway,
- 20:03Speaker 2: you should win. I mean, think about this. That would
- 20:09Speaker 2: be Nick Bosa's out. That would be like Benito. Mike
- 20:13Speaker 2: Evans is out. That would be Sutton. Dre Greenlaw's out. Well,
- 20:19Speaker 2: we've seen that before, but that would be like Singleton
- 20:21Speaker 2: being out. Trent Williams. That would be like Garrett Bowles
- 20:26Speaker 2: being out. If you were missing all of those guys
- 20:27Speaker 2: in a football game, what would your expectations of the
- 20:29Speaker 2: Broncos be? Now, the funny thing about the Niners is
- 20:32Speaker 2: that they still find ways to win, which I think
- 20:36Speaker 2: is really funny. It doesn't matter who's in, who's out.
- 20:40Speaker 2: That team always just finds a way to keep their
- 20:42Speaker 2: head above water. Now, there was something that I found really,
- 20:48Speaker 2: really funny yesterday. So this is from Niner's blog.
- 20:58Speaker 1: Okay.
- 21:00Speaker 2: Head coach Kyle Shanahan said that Dre Greenlaw is extra
- 21:04Speaker 2: motivated and fired up for this game against the Broncos.
- 21:06Speaker 2: Denver signed him last year to a multi-year deal, but
- 21:09Speaker 2: released him as a cap casualty prior to the season.
- 21:11Speaker 2: So all of that stuff, I think that is the commentary,
- 21:13Speaker 2: not of Kyle Shanahan, but this own blog sort of
- 21:16Speaker 2: spin on it. Here's the reality. Reality is Dre Greenlaw
- 21:22Speaker 2: got cut because Dre Greenlaw didn't play. That's why.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Well, do you remember at the end of the season
- 21:32Speaker 4: exit interviews when he basically was like, yeah, scheme was
- 21:36Speaker 4: a little tough to understand. I guess he just fits
- 21:40Speaker 4: with the Niners defense better. He didn't know what Vance
- 21:42Speaker 4: Joseph was cooking up.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Dre Greenlaw, when healthy, is a very, very good player.
- 21:46Speaker 2: But Dre Greenlaw has had a lot of trouble not
- 21:48Speaker 2: being healthy. It's part of the reason why San Francisco, look,
- 21:53Speaker 2: they wanted him back when the Broncos signed him, but
- 21:56Speaker 2: they weren't willing to sign him for a number of
- 21:59Speaker 2: higher than the Broncos because they knew this. They knew
- 22:04Speaker 2: the trouble that he had. And is anybody surprised that
- 22:07Speaker 2: he's on the injury report? Again, injuries are nobody's fault. But,
- 22:13Speaker 2: but what's the motivation here? They signed you. You sat
- 22:17Speaker 2: out basically all of training camp. You played in a
- 22:20Speaker 2: few games. You got hurt again. Just reality of the situation. Um,
- 22:29Speaker 2: but you have a litany of injuries that the Niners
- 22:33Speaker 2: are dealing with that I think in your case, the
- 22:38Speaker 2: Broncos can take advantage of. And we played the audio
- 22:44Speaker 2: the other day, you know, NFL films as people mic'd
- 22:47Speaker 2: up all around the league throughout the week. Bo Nix
- 22:51Speaker 2: was one of them. But a cotton interaction on the
- 22:56Speaker 2: sideline between, uh, the offensive line of the Broncos who
- 23:00Speaker 2: are saying, man, why can't we do this in the
- 23:02Speaker 2: first half after they had a couple of touchdowns on
- 23:04Speaker 2: their way to, I think, tying the game 16-16 against
- 23:07Speaker 2: the Rams? They know it and they're aware of it too.
- 23:13Speaker 2: I just want to see what a game would look
- 23:15Speaker 2: like if you did get off to a good start
- 23:18Speaker 2: against a good team. Now, you go back to last year,
- 23:22Speaker 2: what the Broncos did, 14 wins, all of this largely
- 23:26Speaker 2: looking the same. They had a couple games last year
- 23:32Speaker 2: where they got off to good starts at the beginning
- 23:34Speaker 2: of games, and then they absolutely rolled against people. I mean,
- 23:38Speaker 2: one of them that I can think of off the
- 23:39Speaker 2: top of my head was the Dallas game. They put
- 23:43Speaker 2: up 14 points in the first quarter. You know what
- 23:44Speaker 2: the final score was?
- 23:47Speaker 7: 44-24.
- 23:49Speaker 2: Wasn't even close. But you can't point to too many
- 23:55Speaker 2: games in which they did that. You know, another one
- 24:00Speaker 2: would be the Cincinnati game. Yes, you're going against Jake
- 24:02Speaker 2: Browning and you weren't going against Joe Burrow, but you
- 24:05Speaker 2: put up 21 points in the first half, you win 28-3.
- 24:12Speaker 2: You know, even in the game that felt, felt like
- 24:17Speaker 2: they had good offense from start to finish, The game
- 24:23Speaker 2: in which I could point to from last year in
- 24:25Speaker 2: which the offense was the reason that you won and
- 24:29Speaker 2: the defense didn't give you much help was the Green
- 24:31Speaker 2: Bay game. But even in that game, that started with
- 24:36Speaker 2: a fumble on the first drive and a three and
- 24:39Speaker 2: out on the second drive. You ended up putting up
- 24:44Speaker 2: 14 points in the first half, but you did so
- 24:46Speaker 2: in the final two possessions in the second quarter. Now,
- 24:49Speaker 2: you had to because you just saw where that game
- 24:52Speaker 2: was going, that the Packers were going to put up
- 24:54Speaker 2: some numbers that day, and you had to keep pace.
- 24:57Speaker 2: And the offense did. I just want to see what
- 24:59Speaker 2: that looks like in a game like this against a
- 25:02Speaker 2: really good football team. You know, we were just talking
- 25:07Speaker 2: about this, and let me make a comparison. The Avs
- 25:10Speaker 2: opened up their season last night. Late last night. And
- 25:15Speaker 2: I know we're back to those again, Nelly, where you
- 25:18Speaker 2: feel like a zombie. I'm driving to work, and I
- 25:20Speaker 2: don't realize that I'm driving. You guys ever had that?
- 25:24Speaker 2: You ever been so tired, you just wake up, you're
- 25:26Speaker 2: in your car, and you're like, I realize I haven't
- 25:29Speaker 2: been paying attention to me going 80 miles an hour
- 25:31Speaker 2: for the last five minutes. That's probably not good. But
- 25:37Speaker 2: in the comparison to the Avs from last night, the
- 25:40Speaker 2: Avalanche also finished as the number one team in their
- 25:44Speaker 2: respective league. during the regular season. They made it to
- 25:48Speaker 2: the same point the Broncos did in their postseason, a
- 25:51Speaker 2: conference championship. And we thought to ourselves, man, if they
- 25:57Speaker 2: could get their biggest flaw, the thing that we've been
- 25:59Speaker 2: talking about for now a couple of years, if they
- 26:03Speaker 2: could get some sort of offensive production early in a game,
- 26:10Speaker 2: what would this team look like? What could they be?
- 26:16Speaker 2: They were already the best in the league, but it
- 26:18Speaker 2: felt like they had one big flaw that just could
- 26:22Speaker 2: never get fixed. And if you got early offense, think
- 26:31Speaker 2: about what this team could be. Well, in the same
- 26:32Speaker 2: way with the Avs last year, the Avs were the
- 26:35Speaker 2: best in every single major statistical category except for power play,
- 26:40Speaker 2: which is pretty damn important. That goes from you being
- 26:44Speaker 2: in a 2-2 game in the third period to seeing
- 26:47Speaker 2: what we saw last night. You win 8-4 with four
- 26:52Speaker 2: power play goals. The difference here could be if the
- 26:59Speaker 2: Avs added a decent power play unit to what they
- 27:05Speaker 2: already possessed, well, how good could they be? And that's
- 27:11Speaker 2: how I think about it with the Broncos. This team
- 27:14Speaker 2: is already very good. They have a very good defense.
- 27:16Speaker 2: They have a very good ability to close out games.
- 27:21Speaker 2: They have a number of different things going for them.
- 27:26Speaker 2: If they got early offense, I mean, good Lord. You
- 27:30Speaker 2: could be a 13 win team again. But if you
- 27:37Speaker 2: can do that this week against this opponent, it's even bigger.
- 27:42Speaker 2: I was just looking at a number, a really interesting number.
- 27:46Speaker 2: This is how many times every NFL team has punted
- 27:49Speaker 2: this season. The Broncos have 14 punts. Here's the teams
- 27:55Speaker 2: that surround them. This is every team with 14 or
- 27:58Speaker 2: more punts to start the year. The Commanders, the Texans,
- 28:04Speaker 2: the Packers, the Cardinals, the Titans, and the Vikings. What
- 28:10Speaker 2: do most of those teams have in common? That first
- 28:16Speaker 2: of all, they aren't very good. But secondly, that their
- 28:20Speaker 2: offenses are struggling. You know, the Vikings and the Broncos,
- 28:25Speaker 2: big exceptions to this rule. The Vikings actually lead the league.
- 28:28Speaker 2: They have 16 punts through the first three games. But
- 28:32Speaker 2: that's because that's a team that is built almost solely
- 28:35Speaker 2: right now on field position, trust defense, get turnovers, make
- 28:41Speaker 2: people pay. They aren't doing that because Carson Wentz and
- 28:46Speaker 2: Kyler Murray are lighting people up. But that's who you're
- 28:51Speaker 2: surrounded by. And here's the reason why. So many of
- 28:56Speaker 2: those were in the first half. 14 punts. I haven't
- 29:02Speaker 2: gone back and looked. I'll do it a little bit later.
- 29:05Speaker 2: I would imagine it's got to be 10 of them
- 29:08Speaker 2: are in the first half. Has to be. You look
- 29:13Speaker 2: at teams at the bottom of that list, by the way.
- 29:17Speaker 2: The Bills and Cowboys have punted the ball five times
- 29:20Speaker 2: to start this year. Through three games. The Chiefs and
- 29:24Speaker 2: the Niners have seven apiece. The Bears have eight. I mean,
- 29:31Speaker 2: those are the offenses that you're looking at, which are like, yeah,
- 29:34Speaker 2: like to have me some of those. But can you
- 29:38Speaker 2: just get off? to a good start? And can you
- 29:44Speaker 2: do it this week on the road, tough environment against
- 29:47Speaker 2: a team that's very good? Because I think it's going
- 29:49Speaker 2: to be, I can't say necessary because I, is it necessary?
- 29:58Speaker 5: Is it?
- 30:00Speaker 2: We'll put that in the would-be-nice category, how about? So 303-504-0925.
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- 30:22Speaker 2: have Thursday night football tonight. As you will hear the
- 30:27Speaker 2: Steelers and the Browns in a very, very interesting game.
- 30:33Speaker 2: Steelers are a team that I have deemed from the
- 30:36Speaker 2: offseason no one needs to worry about. And the Browns
- 30:40Speaker 2: were a team that everybody has deemed as a joke
- 30:42Speaker 2: in this league, and yet both of them are staring
- 30:44Speaker 2: down the barrel like somebody's going to be 3-1. Somebody.
- 30:52Speaker 2: They're going to walk away from here leading the AFC
- 30:55Speaker 2: North with a 3-1 record. And to be honest, I
- 30:58Speaker 2: have no idea who it's going to be. So that
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- 31:49Speaker 2: Few things. Number one, trade was made in the NFL yesterday.
- 31:55Speaker 2: Joey Porter Jr. goes to the Cowboys for a pair
- 31:59Speaker 2: of picks. Now, I'll tell you this. The interesting thing
- 32:03Speaker 2: about the Cowboys making this move is what you can
- 32:07Speaker 2: parlay one trade into multiple trades with. And when you
- 32:13Speaker 2: make a gigantic trade involving multiple first-rounders or multiple picks...
- 32:18Speaker 2: Here's what can happen. So if you guys remember, just
- 32:22Speaker 2: last year, the Cowboys were in a standoff with Micah
- 32:31Speaker 2: Parsons on whether to give him a contract extension or not.
- 32:35Speaker 2: So they trade him for a pair of first-round picks,
- 32:37Speaker 2: including Kenny Clark coming back to them from the Packers.
- 32:41Speaker 2: Kenny Clark, a very, very good interior defensive lineman. They
- 32:46Speaker 2: also got two ones out of it. They've now traded
- 32:50Speaker 2: away a first-round pick and two second-round picks for Quinnen Williams,
- 32:55Speaker 2: another very, very good defensive lineman. Not only him, along
- 33:01Speaker 2: with Joey Porter Jr. So they have now gained in
- 33:05Speaker 2: one trade Kenny Clark, Quinnen Williams, and Joey Porter Jr.
- 33:11Speaker 2: for Micah Parsons. That, dare I say it with Jerry Jones,
- 33:16Speaker 2: is good front office work. would anybody have blamed him
- 33:22Speaker 2: if he just said, you know, we're going to pay
- 33:24Speaker 2: Micah Parsons? No, but to be able to parlay that
- 33:28Speaker 2: into three very good pro bowl caliber players is like
- 33:37Speaker 2: really savvy front office stuff that I'm shocked to say
- 33:44Speaker 2: Jerry Jones was in charge of. Um, But there's no question,
- 33:49Speaker 2: I think, that the Cowboys overall, now that the dust
- 33:52Speaker 2: has settled, is a better overall football team with those
- 33:55Speaker 2: three players as opposed to what they were with just
- 33:58Speaker 2: Micah Parsons. Remember, the Cowboys defense is what's held them
- 34:01Speaker 2: back for a while now. Their offense, Dak Prescott has
- 34:05Speaker 2: put up numbers every time that he's healthy and playing.
- 34:09Speaker 2: But this is one of the beauties of what you
- 34:11Speaker 2: can do when you gain that sort of capital for
- 34:15Speaker 2: players like that. And It's one of those things to
- 34:22Speaker 2: always keep in mind, even if your team is good.
- 34:24Speaker 2: If you let go of a player for picks, what
- 34:28Speaker 2: can you turn those picks into? And I think this
- 34:31Speaker 2: is a good example for what the Cowboys have done. Now,
- 34:35Speaker 2: to the MLB side of things. Playoff games last night,
- 34:40Speaker 2: Philly and Atlanta goes 10 innings. Philly stays in it because,
- 34:44Speaker 2: number one, back-to-back homers from Schwarber and Bryce Harper But
- 34:48Speaker 2: number two, we had one of these beauties, Nelly. We
- 34:51Speaker 2: had the game that ends on the ABS challenge call
- 34:55Speaker 2: in a playoff game, which hits a lot better when
- 34:59Speaker 2: it leads to a home victory. Not as much of
- 35:03Speaker 2: a crowd pop when the game is lost at home
- 35:07Speaker 2: because of a challenge. But the Phillies stay in it
- 35:09Speaker 2: as they tie up the series one-to-one, and then there
- 35:11Speaker 2: was a whole bunch of sweeping going on yesterday. Yankees
- 35:14Speaker 2: again dominate the Red Sox as the Red Sox made
- 35:18Speaker 2: the brilliant decision to take out Sonny Gray, and immediately
- 35:21Speaker 2: the game was over after that. The Chicago Whites— well, I'll
- 35:25Speaker 2: wait on that. San Diego sweeps the Cubs— As the
- 35:32Speaker 2: Cubs put up one run over the course of two
- 35:35Speaker 2: games against San Diego, and that atmosphere in Petco Park
- 35:40Speaker 2: is just unbelievable. It's so much fun. You know, MVP,
- 35:47Speaker 2: Peeker Armstrong, had no hits throughout two games that they
- 35:50Speaker 2: played in the postseason. Hell, they only had five last night.
- 35:55Speaker 2: But another electric atmosphere. As Gavin Sheets hit a two-run
- 36:01Speaker 2: homer for the Padres that put him up from 2-1
- 36:03Speaker 2: to 4-1. And then he had the White Sox. I
- 36:08Speaker 2: think the darling of this MLB postseason run. The team
- 36:12Speaker 2: that lost 100 games in three consecutive seasons that now
- 36:18Speaker 2: has an 84-win season and they get a sweep, a
- 36:22Speaker 2: 2-0 sweep, in the wildcard round against the Astros. And
- 36:27Speaker 2: they move on to the divisional round. Now, The Astros,
- 36:31Speaker 2: I believe, had the worst record for any team to
- 36:34Speaker 2: ever make the postseason. They were straight 500 at 81-81.
- 36:39Speaker 2: So it's not like expectations were super high for them.
- 36:43Speaker 2: But the White Sox, you know, everybody says, act like
- 36:47Speaker 2: you've been there before. I know there's a lot of
- 36:48Speaker 2: people that are anti-spraying the champagne every time you win
- 36:51Speaker 2: a playoff round. I kind of like it. But you
- 36:55Speaker 2: guys remember... This very famous thing that happened when they
- 36:58Speaker 2: clinched their postseason berth. So that's Munataka Murakami.
- 37:03Speaker 5: That was him when they.
- 37:06Speaker 6: Clinched a postseason berth. So you got to think, all right, well,
- 37:12Speaker 6: what are you going to do for an encore?
- 37:25Speaker 2: Here's Murakami celebrating after winning in the wildcard round.
- 37:28Speaker 5: Hey, you gotta tell me, what are you feeling right now?
- 37:30Speaker 4: 100.
- 37:30Speaker 5: 100? Not 1,000 this time? Yeah, 100.
- 37:32Speaker 4: Oh!
- 37:32Speaker 5: I am Japanese!
- 37:36Speaker 1: No!
- 37:36Speaker 5: Hey, it's early in Japan.
- 37:41Speaker 2: They're celebrating with you. Anything you want to say to them?
- 37:43Speaker 5: Same, hi. Same, same. Same. Yeah, he's drunk. He's drunk.
- 37:47Speaker 2: Pointing to his translator.
- 37:50Speaker 5: But he's drunk.
- 37:51Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 37:52Speaker 5: You told me you didn't need him. I'm drunk. Yeah, yesterday,
- 37:56Speaker 5: maybe hungover, you know? Yeah. Tomorrow hungover.
- 38:00Speaker 4: Yes.
- 38:01Speaker 2: No, no, yesterday, tomorrow. Yeah, sorry.
- 38:04Speaker 5: I don't speak English.
- 38:05Speaker 2: You don't need the translator.
- 38:07Speaker 5: Congratulations. Thank you so much.
- 38:09Speaker 2: That guy rules. I mean, he just absolutely rules.
- 38:17Speaker 4: And by the way, before you play the next clip,
- 38:19Speaker 4: so usually when you send me these locker room interviews,
- 38:21Speaker 4: like I try to trim it up.
- 38:22Speaker 2: You know, there's, No point. It's a lot of stuff
- 38:25Speaker 2: you don't need.
- 38:26Speaker 4: But with the interview that he's doing with TV, with
- 38:29Speaker 4: his translator, I didn't cut any of it down because
- 38:31Speaker 4: to me it's so hilarious because the reporter's like, what
- 38:34Speaker 4: does this lead to the city of Chicago or whatever?
- 38:37Speaker 4: And then his translator has to take all the time
- 38:38Speaker 4: to relay it to him. He has to think and
- 38:41Speaker 4: then decides I can't answer. And then says something stupid.
- 38:44Speaker 4: So I left the whole, cause like the, I was
- 38:46Speaker 4: watching an interview, just the entire progression of his drunkenness
- 38:50Speaker 4: as the translator is trying to get him to, to
- 38:51Speaker 4: come with them is hilarious.
- 38:53Speaker 2: Mooney Kenzo, this is your second time in one of these.
- 38:56Speaker 2: What'd you learn from your first one?
- 38:57Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 39:02Speaker 2: No, I'm drunk. Oh my god. You guys came in
- 39:07Speaker 2: here with a mission.
- 39:08Speaker 5: You knew you could do.
- 39:09Speaker 2: This against the Houston Astros. How does it feel to
- 39:11Speaker 2: have finally done it? How does it feel to watch
- 39:13Speaker 2: all you guys celebrate?
- 39:14Speaker 1: 100.
- 39:14Speaker 2: Oh my god! I feel so good!
- 39:15Speaker 7: Mune, you guys are headed on to Cleveland, but you
- 39:17Speaker 7: get to celebrate tonight.
- 39:21Speaker 5: Oh my god! I feel so good!
- 39:25Speaker 7: Mune, you guys are headed on to Cleveland, but you
- 39:28Speaker 7: get to celebrate tonight. Who needs a shout-out for what
- 39:34Speaker 7: they've done the last two games, in your opinion?
- 39:36Speaker 2: Chase Middleton. He's so good.
- 39:45Speaker 5: Oh my god, Val. Chiquito. Little Chiquito. Small.
- 39:51Speaker 7: Mune, even though he might be small, does Chase Meyer
- 39:54Speaker 7: drop the best second baseman in the American League?
- 39:56Speaker 2: Of course.
- 39:56Speaker 5: He said it all, guys.
- 39:57Speaker 1: Go party.
- 39:57Speaker 5: Let's go! That guy's awesome.
- 40:08Speaker 2: I don't care what you say. That guy is awesome.
- 40:10Speaker 2: By the way, what did he say at the, the,
- 40:14Speaker 2: it's like the first answer that he gave. It was that.
- 40:19Speaker 2: And he's so good. Like I need both of those again.
- 40:24Speaker 2: I'm Japanese. He is so good. And there's something he
- 40:26Speaker 2: said earlier that I all need for drops. Cause I
- 40:28Speaker 2: will use those forever. Nelly, the rest of the time. No,
- 40:32Speaker 2: I'm drunk. I don't even think that's the one I
- 40:35Speaker 2: was talking about, but yeah, I can use that too.
- 40:38Speaker 2: This guy's just a drop machine for us.
- 40:43Speaker 5: Oh, my God. I feel so good.
- 40:47Speaker 2: Yes, that one, that one, that one. I love it.
- 40:50Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
- 40:53Speaker 2: I feel so good. If you aren't rooting for the
- 40:57Speaker 2: White Sox, then you're un-American, okay?
- 40:59Speaker 4: Yeah, this is actually Brett. This is audio of Brett
- 41:02Speaker 4: at that beer festival after two IPAs trying to race
- 41:05Speaker 4: his friend.
- 41:05Speaker 5: Oh, my God. I feel so good.
- 41:10Speaker 2: The disrespect that you put on my name when you
- 41:13Speaker 2: say two IPAs. Who do you think you're talking to?
- 41:17Speaker 2: You just ask. Hang on. I'm going to go full
- 41:19Speaker 2: Walter White. Let me clue you in. Two IPAs. You
- 41:22Speaker 2: think I'm drunk? You think that of me?
- 41:24Speaker 5: No.
- 41:24Speaker 3: I am.
- 41:27Speaker 1: I'm the one who needs nine.
- 41:32Speaker 2: You think that of me? Anyway, a lot to get
- 41:36Speaker 2: to this morning. Chad Brown at 8 o'clock. We have
- 41:38Speaker 2: Jeff Legwald at 9. It is an Avs ticket Thursday,
- 41:41Speaker 2: so keywords every hour on the 20s. Not to mention
- 41:46Speaker 2: the Avs win 8-4 last night in exactly what you
- 41:52Speaker 2: wanted to see from a special team standpoint, with the
- 41:55Speaker 2: exception of a couple shorties allowed. But you put up
- 41:57Speaker 2: four goals on five power play opportunities. The second unit
- 42:01Speaker 2: gets involved. I think all of that is stuff that
- 42:03Speaker 2: you'd love to see. Now, you can watch the show
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