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10-22-26 Hour 3 - Jeff Legwold/Vic's footwear dilemma, Jason "Koz" Kosmicki/Iconic broadcasters · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 7: Hello, Leggy.
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  Speaker 2: Morning, fellas.
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  Speaker 6: Jeff, what's the biggest takeaway that you've had from the
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  Speaker 6: first six games? Is it that the Broncos are 4-2?
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  Speaker 6: Is it that the defense is awesome? Is it that
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  Speaker 6: Bo Nix doesn't look right?
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  Speaker 8: What do we got?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I guess they're in all of the above, you know,
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  Speaker 2: box to check. You know, I just.
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  Speaker 4: It's intriguing to me because, you know, I participate in
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  Speaker 4: all of this, but in August, if, if all of
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  Speaker 4: us had been talking and we said, Hey, if they
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  Speaker 4: were four and two after the first six games, would,
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  Speaker 4: would you take that? I think an awful lot of
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  Speaker 4: people would have said, that's a pretty good deal, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for the first six games that they've had. But, and
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  Speaker 4: then you look at, you sort of peel the onion
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  Speaker 4: a little bit and you see what's underneath and, That's
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  Speaker 4: when you sort of have the, you know, how are
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  Speaker 4: they four and two questions pop in your head. But
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  Speaker 4: the two things that stand out to me are, you know,
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  Speaker 4: just how unsettled Bo looks in the offense right now
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  Speaker 4: and just how good their defense has been in stress moments,
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  Speaker 4: on stress down, stress moments. Those two things would strike
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  Speaker 4: me right now at the four and two mark.
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  Speaker 9: My solution to overcoming stress, hear me out on this
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  Speaker 9: because everybody's like, what?
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  Speaker 7: No, that wouldn't work.
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  Speaker 9: I believe anytime you're afraid of something, you got to
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  Speaker 9: go 100 miles an hour into it. If you're afraid
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  Speaker 9: of swimming, deep end. If you're afraid of public speaking,
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  Speaker 9: throw me.
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  Speaker 7: In the deep end. Throw me in the Mediterranean. I
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  Speaker 7: don't care.
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  Speaker 9: If you're afraid of public speaking, go do it. I
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  Speaker 9: believe the Broncos, hear me out, should come out slinging it.
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  Speaker 9: on the first series of the game.
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  Speaker 7: Just throwing.
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  Speaker 9: I'm talking deep throws, intermediate throws, crossing patterns, deep outs.
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  Speaker 9: I want every pass over 15 yards. Tell me I'm wrong, Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I would argue they did that early in the
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  Speaker 4: Chiefs game, and it immediately got away from them. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they take the deep shot early in the Chiefs game
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  Speaker 4: before they set anything up.
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  Speaker 2: And to me, it just sort of spun out of that.
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  Speaker 4: But, yeah, I see what you're saying. It's just, you know,
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  Speaker 4: put the pedal to the metal a little bit and
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  Speaker 4: see what happens. But I think right now what happens
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  Speaker 4: if they do that too often because they are one
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  Speaker 4: of the worst three-and-out teams in the league, again, third
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  Speaker 4: year in a row, that puts everything else in a
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  Speaker 4: bad spot. So I– I like the logic of what
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  Speaker 4: you're saying, but in the practice of it, I don't
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  Speaker 4: think they're prepared to make that work.
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  Speaker 9: You know, someone said they'll go three and out. Have
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  Speaker 9: you been watching this team? They live three and outs.
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference?
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  Speaker 4: No, I mean, I think they're trying to survive that.
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  Speaker 4: They can't live in a world in the NFL, maybe
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  Speaker 4: college football, but in the NFL, your defense cannot be
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  Speaker 4: out there 82 snaps like it was against the Seahawks.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 2: And you survive.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: They've already had two games this year when they've been
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  Speaker 4: on the field for 80 snaps.
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  Speaker 7: Jeff, I say that. I've been saying that for a
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  Speaker 7: long time. And you know what they do?
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  Speaker 2: I know where you're going.
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  Speaker 7: They frigging win.
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  Speaker 2: They just do it.
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  Speaker 7: Help me understand. Everything, I mean, the numbers, the time
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  Speaker 7: of possession, everything tells me that they should be 2-4,
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  Speaker 7: not 4-2. Yet they, and guys do things. You know,
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  Speaker 7: Stafford throws the pick six, and then Darnold throws, telegraphs
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  Speaker 7: two out throws that are picked up. I mean, what
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  Speaker 7: is going on, man?
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  Speaker 2: No, they defy math.
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  Speaker 4: I think they are the, you know, they're kind of
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  Speaker 4: the student in class looking at the math teacher saying,
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  Speaker 4: when am I going to use this type thing? You know,
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  Speaker 4: they defy the numbers. They defy the logic. And, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they've now lived with it for a year and six games,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and they just keep on doing it. But
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  Speaker 4: I do think all that means is your defense is
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  Speaker 4: really good in stress moments and your, your margin for
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  Speaker 4: error is zero, you know, and that's, that's where they're at.
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  Speaker 2: If they, if you can make that work, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to win.
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  Speaker 4: But when your margin of error is this small, your
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  Speaker 4: defense has to be this good when, when things are tight. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, again, history says that's hard to keep together
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  Speaker 4: for multiple years, but they've done that.
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  Speaker 7: And I said, look, it may not affect you now,
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  Speaker 7: but if you're on the field for 15 to 20
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  Speaker 7: more snaps on defense than you should be week after
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  Speaker 7: week after week, when you get to week 13, it's
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  Speaker 7: going to come out. But I look at the defenses
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  Speaker 7: for the Cardinals and for the Broncos, and in terms
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  Speaker 7: of giving up yards, the Broncos give up a boatload.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, they really do. And they're right there with
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  Speaker 7: the Cardinals. They're virtually identical in terms of their numbers.
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  Speaker 7: That being said, here's not. Cardinals give up like 10
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  Speaker 7: points more per game. Explain that to me.
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  Speaker 2: That's, you know.
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  Speaker 4: Vance Joseph talks a lot about the important downs, the
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  Speaker 4: big downs, the stress downs, that's red zone.
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  Speaker 2: That's third down.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the, if your defense is good in those,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to, you're going to win a lot of
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  Speaker 4: games because again, yardage, you're going to give up yardage.
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  Speaker 4: Now they don't let you guard, you know, receivers like
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  Speaker 4: you used to, you know, rushing the quarterback is, is you,
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  Speaker 4: is kind of your option for limiting passing attacks. So
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  Speaker 4: you got to go after quarterbacks and you got to
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  Speaker 4: be good at it with four rushers and, and all
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  Speaker 4: of those things. But if you're good in the red zone,
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  Speaker 4: you're good on third down. You're going to limit scoring and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you give up yardage between the twenties and
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  Speaker 4: then you limit things once they, once they get in
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  Speaker 4: close and they've been able to do that and they've
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  Speaker 4: been able to do it against some really good teams.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, until it.
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  Speaker 4: Got away from them late, they played the 49ers better
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  Speaker 4: than anybody, you know, has. So, uh, they've shown moments when, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you can see what, what they could do. If they
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  Speaker 4: could even get a middle of the road offense, they
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  Speaker 4: would be a tough out.
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  Speaker 8: Jeff Legwald, ESPN.com.
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  Speaker 6: All conversations with Leggy are brought to you by the
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  Speaker 6: international brotherhood of electrical workers. IBEW local 68, start with
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  Speaker 6: the job and with the career. Um, I heard Crickman
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  Speaker 6: ask this question yesterday. I want to pose it to
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  Speaker 6: you because I think it is interesting. Is the point
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  Speaker 6: of the Broncos offense to score touchdowns or is it
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  Speaker 6: to not mess it up for the defense?
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  Speaker 8: What do you think it more is?
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  Speaker 4: Well, they'd like it to be touchdowns, but right now
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  Speaker 4: they've admitted the plan against the Seahawks was don't mess
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  Speaker 4: it up for the defense.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I remember, I think it was in the
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  Speaker 6: Chargers game. they had fourth and one from the one
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  Speaker 6: yard line and they kicked the field goal. And I
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  Speaker 6: don't know if there's another team in the league that
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  Speaker 6: would have done that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Especially these days.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the, the go for a green light is spinning,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in whatever analytical guy you got in the
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  Speaker 4: press box.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And that felt right. Like the right decision to make
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  Speaker 8: at that time too.
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  Speaker 4: No, they, they, they've proven, I mean, they won a
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  Speaker 4: game Thursday night last week when they, they went nine
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  Speaker 4: possessions that didn't have any more than five plays, you know, nine,
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  Speaker 4: not like, not like two or three. They had nine,
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  Speaker 4: nine in a row. And the longest possession of the
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  Speaker 4: nine was five plays. I mean, no other team in
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  Speaker 4: the league would even sort of think of living there,
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  Speaker 4: but that's, That's where they're living right now.
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  Speaker 7: It's incredible, Jeff. It's just incredible. I just cannot wrap
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  Speaker 7: my head around what I think I know and what
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  Speaker 7: I know numbers should say and what they should dictate,
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  Speaker 7: and it doesn't matter. None of this matters, Jeff. It
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  Speaker 7: doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 4: That's because they sack quarterbacks on big downs. They don't
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  Speaker 4: just get a sack. They get a sack at the
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  Speaker 4: most important time. They don't get a turnover. They get
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  Speaker 4: a turnover at the most important time. If they didn't
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  Speaker 4: have this defense, they might be 0-6, frankly.
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  Speaker 7: 0-6 is not a surprise. Is Jonah Coleman a go
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  Speaker 7: this week?
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  Speaker 2: It looks to be.
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  Speaker 4: I would be stunned if he's not. And that will
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  Speaker 4: that will impact how things look in the run game.
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  Speaker 7: Well, what do you think they'll do?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, is JK still the starter or do they
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  Speaker 9: go to Jonah Coleman?
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  Speaker 4: I think that I think JK would be like the
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  Speaker 4: initial starter, but they need Coleman's decisiveness. You know, he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't just run the ball passively, you know, they hand
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  Speaker 4: it to him and, and stuff's going to happen. It
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  Speaker 4: may happen over five yards, but it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what they need. They need second and five.
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  Speaker 4: They need second and four. This whole second and eight,
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  Speaker 4: second and nine, that's where the trouble starts.
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  Speaker 9: Second question, people have asked me, so I'll ask you,
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  Speaker 9: do the Broncos have a therapist, a psychologist on staff?
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  Speaker 9: Do they have a mentalist? Is Oz the mentalist working
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  Speaker 9: for the team? Do they have anyone in that capacity?
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  Speaker 4: They, you know, most teams, Vic has some kind of, uh,
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  Speaker 4: whatever you want to call it, mental coach or people,
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  Speaker 4: they have, they have all of those things that, that
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  Speaker 4: this team, this team spares nothing. There's no salary cap
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  Speaker 4: on scouting, coaching staff, support staff, this team. If it's,
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  Speaker 4: if it exists somewhere in the league, this team has
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  Speaker 4: it more than any other team. So, uh, Resources are
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  Speaker 4: not the issue here.
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you another really stupid question, Leggy, because
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  Speaker 6: I'm excellent at these. Jonathan Cooper gets taken off the
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  Speaker 6: exempt list. He can play now. How much does it
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  Speaker 6: matter that Jonathan Cooper's back in on defense with how
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  Speaker 6: well this defense is played? I would say maybe the
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  Speaker 6: biggest thing is when Jonah Ellis gets carded off the field,
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  Speaker 6: at least you have a replacement for that from what
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  Speaker 6: you've had. But again, when you look at the problems
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  Speaker 6: the Broncos face or things that they need help with,
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  Speaker 6: it's not Jonathan Cooper unless he played like tight end.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: No, I think defensively, the one thing they've had is
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  Speaker 4: they've been leaky in the run game from time to time.
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  Speaker 2: He does.
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  Speaker 4: We think of pass rush a lot with outside linebackers,
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  Speaker 4: but from a football perspective, I'm not talking about anything
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  Speaker 4: else from the football perspective.
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  Speaker 2: He he's better.
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  Speaker 4: He and Q Robinson give them, pretty sturdy edges in
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  Speaker 4: the run game. And that'll show up pretty quickly, I
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  Speaker 4: would think.
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  Speaker 9: His reception in the locker room, I guess we'll find
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  Speaker 9: out how that goes. But did anything, when he spoke
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  Speaker 9: to the media yesterday, did you take anything from his comments?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's trying real hard not to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the case, which is he's probably been advised by
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos, his attorney, everyone he knows, not to get
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  Speaker 4: into specifics. about a case that's unresolved. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 4: got a trial date in, you know, in March. And
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  Speaker 4: I think if the trial date had stayed in November,
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  Speaker 4: he'd still be on the exempt list.
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  Speaker 2: But I think once they moved the trial, the, the.
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  Speaker 4: League basically because of the CBA and the right to
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  Speaker 4: work and all of these things legally probably felt the,
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  Speaker 4: the compunction of moving him off the exempt list, you know, and,
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  Speaker 4: and play, he, he's been in the locker room the
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  Speaker 4: whole time. Like I've seen him all season in the
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  Speaker 4: locker room and spoken a little bit informally to him
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  Speaker 4: a few times before he talked, you know, yesterday. So
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  Speaker 4: he's been in the locker room. So the reception isn't
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  Speaker 4: much different, but on the practice field yesterday, you know, he,
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  Speaker 4: you could tell he was, he, he was ready to
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  Speaker 4: go in that respect because again, he's, He's been allowed
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  Speaker 4: to work out and condition and everything. He just hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been able to practice with the team.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody uses the word compunction anymore. I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 7: It was really good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a word guy.
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  Speaker 7: I guess you are. I reckon you are.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big-time word guy.
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  Speaker 7: It's another word for regret. Yeah, I understand what it is.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just saying nobody ever uses the word anymore.
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  Speaker 8: Leggy, last thing for you.
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  Speaker 4: I use a lot of words nobody uses. Sometimes I
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  Speaker 4: mash them together and it's not pretty.
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  Speaker 6: Last thing for you, Leggy, always appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 8: Bo Nix basically admitted, I'm still thinking about my ankle yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: He said that.
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  Speaker 3: And you can tell.
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  Speaker 4: I asked the follow-up and then he sort of said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not really. I may have said that, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: not really.
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  Speaker 8: Well, here's how I know that's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Take it as you... It's always a problem for players.
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  Speaker 6: To do the comparison, he has 37 rushing yards through
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  Speaker 6: six games, and he's.
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  Speaker 8: A mobile guy. Stafford has 21 on the year, for
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  Speaker 8: crying out loud. Rodgers has 18.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big difference.
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  Speaker 4: I think after six games as a rookie, he was
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  Speaker 4: at 160 yards. I think after six games last year,
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  Speaker 4: he was at 120. Yeah, it's a difference. It's probably
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  Speaker 4: the biggest difference in his game right now, uh, compared
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  Speaker 4: to years before he, he hasn't, he's always been a
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  Speaker 4: little low on the air yards per attempt and all
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  Speaker 4: that stuff, but it's historical where he's at now, uh,
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  Speaker 4: in that metric, if, if you like that metric, but yeah, the,
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  Speaker 4: the mobility question, you know, the aggressiveness in the runs,
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  Speaker 4: he was running to punish defenses the previous two years,
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  Speaker 4: he is running to, keep a play extended right now.
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  Speaker 4: And that's a difference. And look, it's human nature. I
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  Speaker 4: tell people all the time, you cannot be injured in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL and not have a lingering effect because pain
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  Speaker 4: is powerful. And it ain't fun to get hurt in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL. And I think sometimes we all gloss over
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  Speaker 4: it and what it takes to come back.
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  Speaker 2: And do you trust it? And, you know, is it
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  Speaker 2: going to be the same?
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  Speaker 4: And you, and you don't know until you're in the
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  Speaker 4: exact situation, you know, that calls for that movement or
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  Speaker 4: that stress. So it, this is natural, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: he's a, he's a young player getting criticism from every corner. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think sometimes he's just, he's just trying
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  Speaker 4: to handle it, you know, and, convinces teammates that he's okay.
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  Speaker 2: And that are all, everything's okay.
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  Speaker 8: 30 seconds real quick.
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  Speaker 6: Um, cause we didn't talk to you since last Thursday, uh,
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  Speaker 6: Fitzpatrick's comments after the game, were they fair or foul?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I, I work in the media, so I, I,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I guess I think, you know, freedom of
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  Speaker 4: speech and all that, but, uh, I guess my question
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  Speaker 4: always is, is I always think, you know, a lack
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  Speaker 4: of empathy is cruelty, you know, I think you can
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  Speaker 4: be critical and analytical and tough and be empathetic. Ryan
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  Speaker 4: Fitzpatrick's a quarterback. What would he think if someone said
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  Speaker 4: that about him as a player? And maybe people did.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe he remembers that, you know, I can't speak
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  Speaker 4: for him, but I think you can be, I think
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  Speaker 4: you can be very, very, very critical. And I try
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  Speaker 4: to be when it calls for it, but you can
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  Speaker 4: do it without, you know, you can do it with
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  Speaker 4: some empathy and, but maybe that's naive and old thinking,
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  Speaker 4: but it's just kind of how I roll in this business.
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  Speaker 7: Aristotle, a lack of empathy is cruelty. Look at you
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  Speaker 7: go to compunction in Aristotle.
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  Speaker 3: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I may not look it. I got a blue collar.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, you don't look it.
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  Speaker 2: A blue collar lineage, but I got a library card.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: I like that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: Jeff Legwald, ESPN.com every single week.
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: Always appreciate it, Leggy.
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: Thank you. Thanks, fellas. We'll see you.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: Legustaddle.
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: Legustaddle.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: All right, we've got our final keyword coming your way next.
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: Your final keyword on this Nuggets Ticket Thursday and chances
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  Speaker 6: to get lower-level tickets to the Nuggets home opener against
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: the Pelicans is gumbo. So text gumbo and your first
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  Speaker 6: and last name to 303-504-0925. It also gives you a
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  Speaker 7: Section 104, row AA.
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  Speaker 8: Right behind the Pelicans bench, unlimited food and drinks.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: We'll call out names tomorrow on the 20s starting at 820.
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: What do you mean unlimited?
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Meaning whatever you want, they bring it to you consistently.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: Chicken fingers and burgers and beers and whatever?
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: I'll tell you exactly what it is.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: Hot dogs, nachos, sliders, chicken sandwiches, more, beer, canned wine,
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: canned cocktails, all of that gets brought to your seat
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: for free.
• 18:48
  Speaker 7: No way, man. We're giving that to somebody? Yep. That's
• 18:52
  Speaker 7: way too good for our listeners. So Gumbo. Way too good.
• 18:55
  Speaker 8: Gumbo in your first and last name.
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: Second question, Vic. What do you like better, Gumbo or Jambalaya? Jambalaya.
• 19:02
  Speaker 7: I love Jambalaya. I love a good Gumbo, bro. Jambalaya.
• 19:05
  Speaker 9: I'm going to New Orleans next week as part of
• 19:08
  Speaker 9: the Nuggets road trip, so I'll.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: Be in New Orleans for some Jambalaya. Thursday is Shocker. Oh,
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: because you always cherry-pick the best trips.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: And? Let me look at this.
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• 19:27
  Speaker 7: At New Orleans and Phoenix. What a shock. Would you
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: want me to go to Milwaukee and Indy? I gotta
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: go to Winnipeg. I ain't doing bad trips. I do
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: good trips. I knew the good one. Do you recall
• 19:40
  Speaker 7: when the schedule came out? I already picked. I already knew.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: No, we nailed them all. Every single one.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: Exactly what trips Vic saw this year. Anyway, guys, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: got to tell you about this. I need your advice.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: Cause coming up, right?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: Okay, good.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: I need your advice. Very quickly. We'll get through this
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: very quickly. So I got invited by a friend of mine.
• 19:57
  Speaker 7: I love this guy. Great energy. He invited me yesterday
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: to his gym. He said, you got to come to
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: this gym. We have a great workout.
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: Not like a home gym.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: No, no. Like a gym gym.
• 20:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, they're all over the place now, these gyms.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 20:09
  Speaker 7: They'd emerge, and they'd do these workouts. And he goes,
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: you've got to do this workout. These gyms are all
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: over the place now, Brett.
• 20:15
  Speaker 9: You've never been to one, but just for those who have.
• 20:19
  Speaker 9: So I show up at the gym. And I said, okay,
• 20:22
  Speaker 9: open mind, right? I'm not going to be judgmental.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: I'm going to do this workout. I'm going to do it.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Sure.
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: I almost walked out of Pano Rival.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: Goat yoga.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: Three of the guys, as soon as I walked in,
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: were wearing glove shoes. And I didn't know what to do.
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: Oh, the shoes with the toes on them?
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: Toe gloves.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: And I just looked at them and I said, what's
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: happening right now?
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: It's tough. And I didn't know how to react. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: got got. No, listen to me. This is serious. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: know it is. I got got. What do you.
• 20:59
  Speaker 9: Do when three guys are wearing toe shoes?
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: I came across one person that has worn those before.
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: And I couldn't judge them. This guy was a professional
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: football player. He played for the Patriots at the time
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: that Randy Moss was on the team. And so I
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: was at a lake, this little lake house thing, and
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: he was wearing those shoes.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: I go, what the hell are those?
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: And he goes, Randy Moss wears these. I'm good enough
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: to wear them. If he's good enough to wear them,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: then I'm good enough.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: To wear them.
• 21:25
  Speaker 9: I'm not judging the people wearing them. I mean, they're
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: all successful people, all of them. They're good human beings.
• 21:30
  Speaker 8: I would never.
• 21:32
  Speaker 9: But just the thought of me sitting there on the
• 21:36
  Speaker 9: bed in the morning saying, I'm going to put gloves
• 21:40
  Speaker 9: on my feet.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: They're just socks. Just wear the socks. Vic, do you
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: recall the Adidas you bought from wherever? Yes.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: They were made of cardboard.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: And they had what on them? Cardboard. An extra stripe. Yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: they had four stripes instead of three. I missed it.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: I bought what I thought were these cheap little slides.
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: And what came were glove feet things. Glove shoes? Yeah.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: And I was told.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: And there's no ability to return them because how do
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: I send it back to China or whatever? Well, you're
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: not wearing glove shoes, are you? If you showed up
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: with glove shoes. They're in my closet. I don't know
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: what to do with them. Bring them in.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 22:23
  Speaker 9: First of all, I could never wear them because my
• 22:25
  Speaker 9: toes would never fit in the glove shoes.
• 22:28
  Speaker 7: Right. But I was told.
• 22:30
  Speaker 9: And I sat there and I had a long conversation
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: with this group of gentlemen. I said, so what exactly
• 22:37
  Speaker 9: is the purpose? for wearing gloves on your feet. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 9: they said when they're doing deadlifts and stuff like that,
• 22:44
  Speaker 9: feet are flat to the ground. It's easier to do
• 22:46
  Speaker 9: stuff like that. So I said, wait, so you mean
• 22:49
  Speaker 9: to tell me I can't do deadlifts because I'm wearing shoes?
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: I do deadlifts and I wear shoes. I think most
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: people do that. A lot of people do that.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: See, what I heard was it toughens up your feet,
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: but it doesn't have you like, you weren't Mac Collins
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: about it. Where you're like, if you're stepping on gravel,
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: you're saying, I'm like, ow.
• 23:09
  Speaker 9: Bryson writes in, Vic is just jealous because they don't
• 23:11
  Speaker 9: make any that fit his giant bunions.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: True. Yes.
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: There's no way I could fit into any glove feet.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: I couldn't do it. Glove shoes. They don't make them
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: in my size.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: If they made them for Vic, they'd be like, are
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: you a dog? Do you have a dewclaw on the
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: side of that?
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: What is that?
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: We'll be joined by Kaz here in just a minute
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: or so. Nuggets opened their season tonight against OKC in OKC.
• 23:37
  Speaker 7: God, I want them to win this game so badly.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm a realist here. I'm a realist, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 7: I want them to win badly. I'm just kind of
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: curious to see what we got, too. I'm very curious.
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: Pre-game's at 6.30.
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, at 7, it's powered by Ramos Law, and
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: then Koss has the action with tip-off just after 7.30.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Your home for the Nuggets all season is right here
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: on 92.5. So we'll try and get Koss on the phone.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: In the meantime, let's do this.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Do whatever it takes to win.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It's the Johnson Auto Plaza. Keys to the game. Johnson
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Auto Plaza.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Experience the power of the plaza. Where they have the
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: keys to performance and style with Ram, Jeep, Chevy, Buick,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and GMC and a huge selection of used all in
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: one place.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: Johnson Auto Plaza.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Here's Mosher, Lombardi, and Kane.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: 7.30 tonight. Nuggets and Thunder, Vic.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: What you got?
• 24:23
  Speaker 9: Well, I could go the easy route like you two
• 24:25
  Speaker 9: and just say, make shots and play hard.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: Boom.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: But I'll go to this. It's the NBA. I think defensively.
• 24:36
  Speaker 9: Is you have to leave an imprint defensively. You have
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: to improve your defense to get anywhere this year, and
• 24:41
  Speaker 9: why not do it in game one in the most
• 24:43
  Speaker 9: hostile arena in the NBA? Double SGA every time he
• 24:48
  Speaker 9: has the ball. Double him when he doesn't have the ball.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: Double him in the locker room. Double him outside the arena.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Double him.
• 24:55
  Speaker 9: Double him all day, all night. Double him. Don't let
• 24:59
  Speaker 9: SGA beat you. Get him frustrated early. That was my
• 25:02
  Speaker 9: only contribution and my only key to the game tonight.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Keys to the game brought to you by Johnson Auto Plaza,
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: a huge selection of Chevy, Buick, GMC, Ram, and Jeep
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: all in one place.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: Experience the power of the plaza. Do you recall the
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: Johnson Auto Plaza?
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: Remember the double, double, double twins, double twins and all
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: that stuff? Yes. That's way too old for you, right?
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: I know what that is.
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: Double Mint Twins?
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: Double Mint Gum. They had a commercial with Twins.
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah. They did. Okay. All right.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: Great, Moshe. Thank you for that. Jason Kosminski is joining
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: us now.
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: He's going to be on the call tonight right here
• 25:39
  Speaker 6: on 92.5.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: Kos, what's up, brother?
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Good morning, my friend.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: How's everybody doing? What have you guys been up to
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: for the last year?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: What do you mean us? We've been here. What have
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: you been doing?
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: A little bit of this and that.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: A little column A, a little column B.
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: Kaz, game tonight, I mean, you're starting the season off
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: against what's probably the toughest team in the league in OKC.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: You watched them play already once this year.
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: But moreover, the offseason, what do you think of this
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Nuggets roster after all of the dust has settled?
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: You know, here's what's funny, Kaner, is that like last year,
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, my God, man, we didn't have
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: anything to work with. We had no money. And look
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: at this posse all of a sudden. Bruce Brown is back.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Jonas Valanciunas, who I've always loved, is a solid backup center.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: And then, you know, and then people start getting hurt.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: People start missing half the season. And it didn't quite,
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: you know, pan out. So maybe it's like reverse technology,
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: reverse psychology where, Maybe you didn't do a lot, but
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: maybe you've done enough. And I was talking to Christian
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Brown about this on the plane. He goes, dude, he goes,
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: everybody's making so much of this. He goes, we have
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: the right pieces. We got all we need. We're absolutely fine.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, well, if he believes it, then I'm
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: going to start believing it. You know what I mean?
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 9: I believe that the Nuggets are a better team when
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: they're going against the grain, when they have to prove
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: people wrong. The last couple years, they had to meet expectations. Hey,
• 27:21
  Speaker 9: you know, win another championship. Let's go, let's go. And everybody, hell,
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: going into the playoffs, a lot of people had them
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: going to the championship round.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: Remember that?
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: That's how it was. I think this year, everybody's down
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: on the Nuggets nationwide, and I like that. I like
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: the fact that they feel that way. They play better
• 27:38
  Speaker 9: that way, don't you think, Kaz?
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: Well, I think they just do everything backwards, man. You know,
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: it's like... like their records on the second night of
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: back to backs is like unheard of, you know, because,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: because they kind of don't do it the way you're
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: supposed to do it. They do, they do everything. I
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: don't want to say the wrong way. They just do
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: it the unexpected way. But yeah, you know, I, I
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: like that pressure, bro. I do. I like, I like
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: the fact that everybody's talking about San Antonio and everybody's
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: talking about Oklahoma city and everybody's talking about Philly and
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: And meanwhile, the Nuggets are just chilling out there in
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: fourth to fifth place, just kind of hanging out and
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: seeing what's going to go on. So, you know, every
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: season takes on its own personality. We all know that.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: Last year, it's beside my– I can't figure out how
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: those Cats won 54 games last year because that did
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: not feel like a 54-win season. That felt like a grinded-out,
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: you know, maybe win 50 games kind of a year. Um,
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: so hopefully this year, I mean, I know everybody's saying this,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: but man, I don't want to do a whole nother
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: year of, you know, Aaron Gordon playing 50 games, Jokic
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: missing a month of Christian Brown missing, you know, month
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: and a half. I don't want to do that again.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: That's no fun.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: I agree with you completely because I've been saying the,
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: the first seven, maybe eight I'm cool with, but I
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: need somebody to pop. I just want somebody to pop that.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: I don't expect a Brazil, uh, you know, if Hopkins
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: ever got a shot and it was a two-way so on,
• 29:16
  Speaker 7: but you see what I'm saying? I just need, I
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: need somebody to give me something that I'm not expecting.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: I don't know who that could be.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Do you? Well, the problem was, is before the injury,
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: your leading scorer in the preseason was Julian Strother. That
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: could have been the guy. I mean, you know, these
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: are like for him and Zeke Najee and a couple,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: you know, these are big years, right? We're not talking
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: about playing in the NBA. We're talking about livelihood right now,
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: like taking care of my family kind of money. And
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: if these guys don't perform this year, you know, they
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: might be out of the league and then your life
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: becomes a hell of a lot more difficult. So, but
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: by the way, Moj, you brought them up. And the
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: one thing I will say is, almost to a man,
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: all the guys that I talked to so far, now
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: these are players saying this, they love Bryce Hopkins. They
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: love his game. And I mean, I what's my opinion.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I saw him play eight minutes one time,
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: you know, but, but, but when players, when they all say,
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: you know, you tend to listen, right? I mean, Uh,
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: if they're saying that, then maybe we better keep like
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: a lazy eye on old Bryce Hopkins because the players
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: love him.
• 30:34
  Speaker 6: Cause, uh, Vic made fun of both me and Moj
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: tonight for, uh, we have this thing called the keys
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: to the game. And I think that if the nuggets
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: just knocked down some open threes that they get from
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: the attention that Joker's going to bring, it's going to
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: be huge.
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: Um, what do you have for a key to the
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: game tonight?
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: And I don't know, this team's pretty damn good, man.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, you saw him against San Antonio. How do
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: you beat the Oklahoma City Thunder?
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: You want to give him my key?
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: He said to double Shea.
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: It was a double Shea every time down the floor.
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: You know what they do to Joker, right?
• 31:10
  Speaker 9: They put a guard on Joker and they try to
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: infuriate him all the time. I say try to do
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: the same thing to the SGA. The only thing you
• 31:16
  Speaker 9: can do is just double him all over the yard.
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: Just double him on the field, on the arena. when
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: he's walking into the arena with his nice clothes, double
• 31:24
  Speaker 9: him the entire time.
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: Double team him.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but do you want to watch him shoot 24
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: free throws tonight?
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: That's exactly what I said. He's just going to draw
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: the fouls and you're going to get frustrated anyway. Yeah.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, they're really good. They're pretty well coached.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: I think you just, I mean, I don't know if
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: there's any secret to the saucer, fellas. I, you just
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: have to have a better night than them where, you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: whatever the hell that looks like, you know, I don't know.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: You know, here's, here's what I'd like to see. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: don't know if they're going to win or not tonight,
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: but if the nuggets make three pointers there, that's a
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: hard matchup for them. You know what I mean? Like
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: if Christian Brown can be, go back to what he
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: was two years ago and hit that steady knockdown corner three,
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: And then you have Aaron Gordon out there. And by
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: the way, when Aaron Gordon's on the floor versus when
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: he missed that last preseason game, they're a different team.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: He makes them be aware. I honestly think that Denver
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: has more talent than Oklahoma City. They just got to
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: find a way to put it together.
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: Can I ask you this about OKC? Because I've been
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: there in the heat of competition.
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: What is it like for a Nuggets radio announcer to
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: sit up there amid that crowd, amid that chaos, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 9: call a basketball game for the other team?
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you the one good part about it, Vic,
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: is when they're quiet and I get to start yelling
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: at the top of my lungs on somebody hitting a
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: three or a dunk, and you have like 15 heads
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: turn around and kind of mean mugging you a little bit.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: You know, I like it here. I'm from the Midwest.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: I understand what the people are about. Um, they tend to,
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: and not a lot of crowds can say this, but
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: they police their own here. So if somebody's getting a
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: little squirrely in the crowd, the people buy them, we'll
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: be like, Hey, you know, I mean, they don't need ushers.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Let's put it that way. So, um, no, it's, it's
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: a great, it's a great atmosphere, man. You know, they
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: don't have a lot to cheer for down here other
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: than the price of beef, um, and oil.
• 33:41
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: Hey, how come you don't stay at the Haunted Hotel anymore?
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Bro, guess where I'm at right now?
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: The Haunted Hotel. Yes. Oh, you are?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: That's awesome.
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: Did you hear anything last night during your sleep?
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: No, but Nick O'Hare, of all people, like there's one
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: room where that's where the business is. It's room 10. Well,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: I shouldn't give it out, but it's where the business is.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: And Nick O'Hare got that room last night.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: So we'll see to be determined if there was some shenanigans.
• 34:17
  Speaker 7: Well, the NBA teams don't, I mean, they don't like it.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: Not only that, but the Knicks one time blamed a loss.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:24
  Speaker 7: They blamed a loss on the haunted hotel and the
• 34:27
  Speaker 7: Bulls like say that, you know, stuff's been slamming. I mean,
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: this is, this is the real deal.
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, there's a couple of stories. There's, there's
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: one time where, you know, you guys remember Eddie Curry?
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure.
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: 300 pounds. Okay. So he was tripping and, um, he
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: called Nate Robinson up. He's like, man, I'm freaking out.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: And so Eddie Curry slept on the floor of Nate Robinson.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: The biggest guy in the NBA has got to get
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: protected by the smallest dude in the NBA. You know
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: what I mean?
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: That's awesome.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: You know what? I don't know if he wants, I'll
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: tell you one quick one. I don't know if he
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: wants me saying this or not, but Chad Iskey, longtime
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Denver Nugget guy, right? So he's now the general manager of,
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: of Denver's G league team and travels with us a lot.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: One of my better friends, um, we go out to
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: lunch the next day and he goes, man, he goes,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: I got to get something. I got to tell you something.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: I'm like, what's up? He goes, I'm laying in bed
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: just about ready to doze off. And out of nowhere,
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: the bathroom faucet is going on. Mike, how the hell
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: did that thing turn on? He goes, cause I'm getting
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: ready to get up. And go, turn it off. But
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: there's something holding me down, like, on each one of
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: my shoulders.
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 35:47
  Speaker 8: Oh, right.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I cannot get out of bed. I'm like, get the
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: hell out of here. He goes, dude, he goes, you're
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: the only one I'm telling this to. I'm not telling
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: this story. Not anymore. Nobody's ever going to believe me.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, my God. That's weird.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: That actually, that gave me, like, chills for a second.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: I did not like that story at all. I did
• 36:09
  Speaker 6: not like that.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: Well, Kaz. We're getting close to Halloween.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: We are.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: It's good times, man. By the way, nobody's going to
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: be happier that we're at this hotel than Burt will
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: be in tonight's pregame show.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: That's awesome. 7.30 tonight, Nuggets and Thunder. Kaz, good to
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: have you back on the call, brother.
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: Talk to you soon.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: All right, man. Good to be back. You guys take care.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: There you go. Jason Kosminski's got the call tonight. 7.30,
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: right here on 92.5, back after this.
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: You don't know this. Don't pretend you know this. Don't
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: even pretend.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: Oh, I know it now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 7: You told me about it. This is vintage. This is
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: vintage 80s. Let it go. Let it breathe a little bit.
• 36:55
  Speaker 9: While this guy was listening to Van Halen, this is
• 36:59
  Speaker 9: my jam.
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Me and Vic were trading songs that we like, and
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: then Moj goes, listen to this, and he plays Styx.
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: And it's like, I know Styx, but I know them.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: This is Stevie B, man. Mos, do you know anything
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: about Stevie B? Yeah, I know Stevie B. I want
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: some Samantha Fox in, what, Fab Force 5? Full Force 5?
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: Frickin' Stevie B, dude. You stop when Stevie B plays
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: his thing.
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: Here's the thing.
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: Stevie B, and I looked at the video that you
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: showed me, looked like Mr. T.
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: Like if Mr. T was a musician. It's not just Nuggets.
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: And thunder tonight, which will be right here in 92.5.
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Thursday night football is on AM 950. Patriots and Bears.
• 37:43
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• 37:55
  Speaker 6: quickly here, because we haven't mentioned this yet.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, guys. I love them. I love these guys.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: Who?
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: Kachuk getting booed at his old place last night, and
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: I mean basking in the hatred from his old fans,
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: was pretty funny.
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: It should be. Like, really funny. He absolutely adored it. Yeah,
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: he was expecting it. He loved it.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: They gave him the old Jumbotron tribute before the game
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: in which he is booed mercilessly. And he decided, I'm
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: going to take my little victory lap after this. Jumped
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: off the bench, gave a wave to the crowd. Big
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: smile on his face.
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: He doesn't care.
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: He's like, I'm playing with my brother. I live in Florida.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: I'm living pretty good.
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: The Panthers got smoked. No doubt about it. The Panthers
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: got nailed. But he did score a goal. He scored
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: their only goal.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: First one of the game, right? I think it was
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: the first one on a power play.
• 38:56
  Speaker 9: If there's ever a twosome, a brother, a brother, a
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: combination who will not be affected by booze or any
• 39:02
  Speaker 9: of that, those are the guys.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, they're a wrestling team. They love it. They sop
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: it up. That's fuel for them. For sure it is.
• 39:14
  Speaker 8: So anyway, I just, I thought that was really funny.
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: And what he said was, were they ruthless? He says, no,
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: it was good. It shows the passion they have. Now
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: that chapter's closed. An exciting new chapter we're living in.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: But what he said, this is what's so great. They go,
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: how ruthless the crowd was. And his first thing is,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: were they ruthless? Yeah, exactly.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Were they?
• 39:34
  Speaker 8: I can't hear you. Like doing that number.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: So we'll get you a winner of this Nuggets ticket
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: Thursday in just a few minutes.
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: Now, this is not for the row double A, right?
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: The row double A seats we will do tomorrow.
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: We will call a name starting at 820 every hour
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: on the 20s, and the first person who calls in
• 39:54
  Speaker 6: when they hear their name gets the tickets.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: Dude, that's crazy good stuff.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Every show has a pair of lower-level tickets to the
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: home opener today.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: You're right behind the Pels bench, right?
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: You can smell Zion.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: Well, they can tell us.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: Okay, so you're right behind the Pell's bench, but you
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: get the free grub, you get the free food. Like
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: a diesel. You get it. Sigh on my man. You
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: get all that stuff, right? Oh, yeah.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: You get the unlimited food and drinks. Like, it's a
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: hell of a thing.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: So.
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Mos, you mentioned this during a break. Tony Romo is
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: now gone-gone from broadcasting.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: Correct.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: That happened a while ago, but CBS has locked in J.J.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Watt as the color commentator to Jim Nance now. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: think he's pretty good.
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: I think he's pretty good. J.J. Watt? I think he's fine. Yeah,
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: I think he's pretty good.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Here's the thing, though.
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: Aikman and Greg Olsen... are going to not have a
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: home after this year. And I wonder what happens with
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: those two. Everybody talks about how great Greg Olson is,
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: and I think he is too. Why isn't somebody just
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: scooping him up for good, like long-term?
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: That's what I don't get. Olson is good at calling
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: a game.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: But if they break up Buck and Aikman, they've been
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: together for like 25 years, haven't they?
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: That's crazy.
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: What do you think is the best, what would you
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: guys claim is the best combo broadcast booth in sports.
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: National. National. Not like me and Rikes.
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: No, because you guys are tremendous. But what's the best combo, Johnny?
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: Is it Summerall and Madden?
• 41:35
  Speaker 7: Oh, ever? Of all time?
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: Well, Summerall and Madden. Today? What would you go with that? Carpet.
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: I mean, you've got to go long. They've got to
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: work together a long time, clearly. Listen, Summerall and Madden, Vic,
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: if I go back... And I listen to them. I
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: think they're really good. But they were the soundtrack of
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: my youth. And so that holds a special place in
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: your heart. If somebody's a soundtrack of your youth, that matters, right?
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: I mean, I was a little tiny guy when Keith
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: Jackson was in his heyday, right? But Keith Jackson would
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: maybe be called the best college football game of all time.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: Hold on a second. Speaking of childhood... Sunday Night Baseball,
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: John Miller and Joe Morgan was my jam.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: Huge. Pretty damn good.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: Huge.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: I loved those two.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: I grew up in, I think we all did when
• 42:27
  Speaker 9: the Avalanche arrived, when they were in the playoffs every year.
• 42:29
  Speaker 9: Who was Doc Emmerich's partner?
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: Well, he had several partners. Bill Clement was there for.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: A long time.
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: Bill Clement. Emmerich and Clement.
• 42:40
  Speaker 6: You know who's really damn good right now? And I
• 42:44
  Speaker 6: know some people are... out on the lead play-by-play analyst
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: of this. I think Gus Johnson and Joel Collette do
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: a great job in college. I think that big game
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: that they get on Fox every week, they do a
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: great job.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: I agree.
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: I mean, it just doesn't last forever is what I'm saying.
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: At some point, 25 years is a long time for
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: Buck and Aikman. It was bound to end at some point.
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: I don't know why people are so surprised.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: Buck and Aikman were together for 25 years?
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: 25 years.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: No.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: 25 years?
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: Yes, I just said that.
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: 25 years. How many different ways do you want me
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: to say it? Quarter century, 25 years, 10 plus 15.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: What do you want me to say? Time is just
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: flying by. Then why would Buck do a deal without Aikman?
• 43:25
  Speaker 9: Maybe Aikman has other plans. I mean, he is working
• 43:28
  Speaker 9: with the Miami Dolphins.
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but no, but they said the reason is because...
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: is because the reason they're breaking up is because Buck
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: went and did his own deal, right? Listen, man, at
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: the end of the day, this isn't a package deal
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: in life. You do your own deal.
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: You do nothing without me forever. I don't... I'm going
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: to be here like a.
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: What is this, high school?
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: Like a Siamese twin.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: By the way, the winner of the lower level tickets
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: to the Nuggets home opener is.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: Andrew.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: Schuett?
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: Schuett, we'll call it.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: What?
• 44:08
  Speaker 7: Let me see.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: S-C-H-U-E-T-T-E.
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you got to change your name, Andrew. That's lame.
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: Okay, Mark.
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: With a C.
• 44:18
  Speaker 7: Hey, my name stinks. I completely agree. My name is stupid.
• 44:22
  Speaker 7: Not only is my first name with a C, my
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: last name, everybody misspells. Musser. There's not two letters that
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: go together in the English language that make the J sound.
• 44:33
  Speaker 7: It's just a dumb name. I have a really, really
• 44:35
  Speaker 7: dumb name. Thanks, Dad.
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: Fact checker, please.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Fact Checker!
• 44:45
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• 44:49
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• 44:51
  Speaker 7: Seriously, though, who says my last name is Mosier, which
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: people misspell and can't pronounce? We're going to throw Mark
• 45:01
  Speaker 7: in the front with a C on it. That's so dumb.
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: I think the Dude Perfect guys do a good job
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: calling a game.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: Go ahead, Nellie.
• 45:18
  Speaker 10: Yeah, best broadcaster, Patrick Starr on the Nickelodeon Slimecast. No,
• 45:23
  Speaker 10: my fact for today is I learned a new word.
• 45:26
  Speaker 10: Leggy taught me a new word.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: I had never heard of compunction. You haven't?
• 45:31
  Speaker 10: I'm feeling some compunction over the fact that I never
• 45:33
  Speaker 10: knew that word.
• 45:34
  Speaker 7: It means.
• 45:35
  Speaker 10: A feeling of deep regret, guilt, or a sharp prick
• 45:39
  Speaker 10: of conscience about something wrong you have done or planned
• 45:42
  Speaker 10: to do. And until Leggy worked that into a sentence,
• 45:45
  Speaker 10: I had no idea that was a thing.
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: I know the word and I know the meaning. It's
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: just that nobody ever uses that word anymore. In fact,
• 45:51
  Speaker 7: I would challenge people today. Everyone use it. Use compunction.
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: Drop a compunction. Drop a compunction in a sentence and
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: you're going to blow people's doors off. Use it tomorrow
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: night on your broadcast. I absolutely will.
• 46:02
  Speaker 9: You say Landy hit him without compunction.
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
• 46:07
  Speaker 10: Or when somebody gets sent to the penalty box, they're
• 46:08
  Speaker 10: feeling compunction for slashing.
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he's got the look of compunction on his face.
• 46:12
  Speaker 6: And then put a camera on Riker's face just to
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: see the confusion.
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: The burrowed eyebrow. No idea. And then make him spell it.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: And he's not listening right now. He's in hot yoga,
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: so he'll have no idea.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: Gross.
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: Hot yoga's good. He loves it.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: 7.30 tonight. Nuggets open up the season against the Thunder.
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: It's right here on 92.5. We'll discuss it tomorrow. Have
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: a great Thursday.
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: Love you.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: See you.
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: Go Nuggets!