Latest / The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane / 11-12-26 - Daiyan Henley trade falls thru/No Broncos trades, Good Nugs win/NFL STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN
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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: Well, that was a lot of things that happened if
- 0:21Speaker 2: you went to bed early last night. The Nuggets win,
- 0:23Speaker 2: and I think a really good win against a young
- 0:27Speaker 2: and what I believe to be up-and-coming team. Memphis Grizzlies
- 0:31Speaker 2: team had to bounce back, and the Nuggets have. You know,
- 0:34Speaker 2: the one thing about the Nuggets this season as they
- 0:36Speaker 2: improve to 6-4 is that the Nuggets have not lost
- 0:40Speaker 2: back-to-back games this season. If they lose, they tend to
- 0:42Speaker 2: figure it out the game after. And I think that
- 0:47Speaker 2: the problems that they see in the previous game, they
- 0:50Speaker 2: usually get corrected the game after. And that's what you
- 0:52Speaker 2: saw last night in that win in Memphis.
- 0:56Speaker 3: Over the Grizzlies was.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Previous game against the Rockets, you didn't have a whole
- 1:00Speaker 2: bunch of people outside of Joker and Jamal that stepped.
- 1:04Speaker 3: Up and.
- 1:07Speaker 2: Made something happen, contributed in a big enough way to
- 1:12Speaker 2: give those guys some help. And last night, you had
- 1:18Speaker 2: a bunch of guys doing it. I mean, Cam Johnson
- 1:20Speaker 2: being sort of the main guy. I think Cam Johnson
- 1:23Speaker 2: maybe has the best case for when we're talking about
- 1:28Speaker 2: players who could step up and become maybe the third
- 1:32Speaker 2: wheel on this team outside Joker and Jamal, I think
- 1:35Speaker 2: Cam Johnson's capable of it.
- 1:37Speaker 3: Nine to 15 from the floor, four of seven from three.
- 1:40Speaker 2: I still want to see him rebound a little bit better,
- 1:44Speaker 2: but to finish with 23 points is exactly what you
- 1:47Speaker 2: need in that starting lineup.
- 1:50Speaker 3: Um, Christian Brown I thought was.
- 1:51Speaker 2: A little bit better, and then AG was a little
- 1:54Speaker 2: bit more active on the defensive side yesterday, but still
- 1:57Speaker 2: not a lot of offensive production.
- 1:59Speaker 3: But the Nuggets get a nice win over the Memphis Grizzlies.
- 2:06Speaker 2: But I think this morning, we'll talk about that game
- 2:09Speaker 2: a lot as we go. Big thing is the news
- 2:13Speaker 2: that broke last night. If you're just waking up with me,
- 2:16Speaker 2: maybe you didn't see it. That's what I'm here for.
- 2:18Speaker 2: Don't you worry.
- 2:19Speaker 3: I got you.
- 2:22Speaker 2: Late last night, about 1130, some news comes out. This
- 2:30Speaker 2: one from Adam Schefter regarding the Broncos. So this was
- 2:33Speaker 2: at 1.40 a.m. More about the Broncos announcing late Wednesday
- 2:42Speaker 2: night that the trade to acquire Dayon Henley from the Chargers, quote,
- 2:47Speaker 2: will not be finalized. So the one move that the
- 2:51Speaker 2: Broncos made over the trade deadline is now something that
- 2:57Speaker 2: is nullified. So the reasons behind it, we'll get to
- 3:02Speaker 2: that in a second. The point in this is the
- 3:09Speaker 2: Broncos were in a position where When you're a Super
- 3:19Speaker 2: Bowl contender with a very obvious flaw, I am just
- 3:25Speaker 2: somebody who is always going to be of the mindset
- 3:27Speaker 2: that you just go and do something. And I don't
- 3:30Speaker 2: mean just do something for the sake of doing it.
- 3:33Speaker 2: You do something.
- 3:34Speaker 3: About your problem.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Because if you don't, there might not be next year
- 3:39Speaker 2: we're in the same position. Or for the next handful
- 3:43Speaker 2: of years we're in the same position. I like teams
- 3:47Speaker 2: that go out recognize their window, and try and capitalize
- 3:53Speaker 2: on it. The issue to me becomes this. This trade
- 4:03Speaker 2: that is now nullified, if it did go through, would
- 4:06Speaker 2: have helped the Broncos, but it would have helped in
- 4:08Speaker 2: an area that was already your strength.
- 4:09Speaker 3: You would have put, maybe you got a 1960s Corvette
- 4:13Speaker 3: that's just I don't know what years they are.
- 4:19Speaker 2: I'm not a big car guy, but I see like
- 4:21Speaker 2: a Stingray Corvette, and I think that looks pretty cool.
- 4:25Speaker 2: And what you did, you threw rims on it when
- 4:27Speaker 2: the engine's about to give out. That's how it felt
- 4:29Speaker 2: to me. Like the thing that was already pretty neat
- 4:33Speaker 2: about the product, you did more of.
- 4:36Speaker 1: And....
- 4:38Speaker 2: Would he have helped sideline to sideline? Would he have
- 4:40Speaker 2: helped the Broncos in the passing game? Especially having a
- 4:44Speaker 2: linebacker that maybe can cover tight ends a little bit
- 4:46Speaker 2: better or running backs out of the backfield, you know,
- 4:49Speaker 2: running wheel routes.
- 4:54Speaker 3: The issue is this.
- 4:58Speaker 2: I think this is sort of a classic case of
- 5:01Speaker 2: falling way too in love with your own guys. And secondly,
- 5:07Speaker 2: it might be a little bit of bravado and arrogance
- 5:10Speaker 2: on the offensive side. Because here, I know this, we're
- 5:18Speaker 2: venturing away from the Henley trade being nullified, but you
- 5:23Speaker 2: have to allow me just a few minutes because I
- 5:25Speaker 2: wasn't here yesterday. Whether this trade went through or not
- 5:32Speaker 2: does not change the fact that the offense is still very, very,
- 5:36Speaker 2: very much a work in progress. And I'm reading the
- 5:41Speaker 2: story on ESPN right now, and it doesn't say particularly
- 5:56Speaker 2: what the issue was that nullified this trade. If it's
- 6:04Speaker 2: a failed physical, it would be interesting because Henley has
- 6:10Speaker 2: started 41 of the last 42 games over the last
- 6:13Speaker 2: three years, including all eight games for the Chargers this year.
- 6:22Speaker 2: But as far as what they needed, And texters are
- 6:27Speaker 2: saying the Colts didn't want to trade Jonathan Taylor. Okay,
- 6:31Speaker 2: I've said all along, Jonathan Taylor would be the dream scenario,
- 6:34Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean.
- 6:35Speaker 3: It's the only thing.
- 6:36Speaker 2: Another texter says, I'm glad they didn't mortgage their future
- 6:40Speaker 2: for an extra one and a half yards per carry.
- 6:42Speaker 3: I just think that a lot. No disrespect. I just
- 6:47Speaker 3: think that's flawed thinking. I really do.
- 6:53Speaker 2: We sit here almost every week after the Broncos win
- 6:56Speaker 2: a football game and talk about, man, the offense needs
- 6:59Speaker 2: to be better.
- 7:01Speaker 3: And then.
- 7:05Speaker 2: You don't want to give things up because of the
- 7:11Speaker 2: future to make your offense better. Like, I'll give you
- 7:14Speaker 2: an example. Tony Pollard is somebody that is on an
- 7:19Speaker 2: expiring deal for a team that stinks. And maybe the
- 7:25Speaker 2: Titans had a price, you know. Pollard is somebody that
- 7:32Speaker 2: I have been able to talk to people who know
- 7:34Speaker 2: the Titans situation about.
- 7:36Speaker 3: Here's the deal.
- 7:37Speaker 2: A lot of people thought Pollard could have got flipped
- 7:39Speaker 2: for like a fourth or fifth round pick. I think
- 7:45Speaker 2: the Broncos were active in those discussions. And I think
- 7:48Speaker 2: they gave them one of those options. And the Titans
- 7:53Speaker 2: said no. To me, that is not the opportunity to
- 8:01Speaker 2: be like, well, they said no, I guess we're done.
- 8:04Speaker 3: Then you offer a third is what you do.
- 8:08Speaker 2: Like, here's what's funny about we don't want to trade
- 8:12Speaker 2: this guy. The Eagles didn't want to trade Jordan Davis.
- 8:16Speaker 2: And then they were made an offer that was irrefutable.
- 8:19Speaker 2: And the Titans didn't want to trade Jeffrey Simmons until
- 8:22Speaker 2: they got an offer that was irrefutable. I hate the idea.
- 8:31Speaker 2: And I know what the Broncos have coming down the line.
- 8:33Speaker 2: They have more guys to pay. They probably have some
- 8:35Speaker 2: shuffling on the offensive line to do after this year.
- 8:38Speaker 2: But this year is important. You are second in the
- 8:44Speaker 2: AFC this season with something that is a very obvious flaw.
- 8:57Speaker 3: That's it. And I hate to be like, I.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Hate sounding so matter of fact about things because I
- 9:06Speaker 2: like to have an open mind and have my mind
- 9:09Speaker 2: changed on stuff. But there's some things like in this
- 9:11Speaker 2: situation that I'll just never understand.
- 9:14Speaker 3: And it's not the end of the world.
- 9:16Speaker 2: The Broncos now with this Henley trade being nullified, they're
- 9:19Speaker 2: the same team they were before the deadline. Okay, well,
- 9:22Speaker 2: that's a great football team. Like you still have a
- 9:27Speaker 2: great opportunity to win a Superbowl.
- 9:31Speaker 1: Why?
- 9:31Speaker 3: Because this team's awesome. Because they're still good. But it's
- 9:41Speaker 3: when you know the weakness.
- 9:46Speaker 2: And you don't do anything to address it at a
- 9:48Speaker 2: time that you could address it, I don't want that
- 9:52Speaker 2: to come back in another way later and be the
- 9:55Speaker 2: reason why you lose. And what's interesting is I mean
- 10:02Speaker 2: the translation to me seems to be this the Broncos
- 10:05Speaker 2: think last year if Bo Nix didn't get hurt they
- 10:14Speaker 2: would have won the Super Bowl that seems to be
- 10:16Speaker 2: the translation that's what they feel about their offense.
- 10:19Speaker 3: Because if not, then how else can I look at it?
- 10:25Speaker 2: They think if Bo Nix was healthy that they win
- 10:27Speaker 2: the AFC championship game and they win the Super Bowl.
- 10:29Speaker 3: And maybe they do.
- 10:34Speaker 2: But I know teams that did win the Super Bowl
- 10:38Speaker 2: that made a ton of moves. I'm just very much
- 10:42Speaker 2: a fan of the way the LA Rams go about business. Now,
- 10:51Speaker 2: get them one Super Bowl, what, five years ago? Okay,
- 10:55Speaker 2: but they're in the discussion every year. You can't say
- 10:58Speaker 2: it's for lack of trying. I like the way the
- 10:59Speaker 2: Avs go about business. And it's sort of the same thing. Like,
- 11:05Speaker 2: they win a championship five years ago. But every year
- 11:11Speaker 2: at the deadline, it's like you see the opportunity. You
- 11:14Speaker 2: try and seize it.
- 11:18Speaker 3: So I don't know.
- 11:19Speaker 2: It actually says Tony Pollard is old. Is he going
- 11:21Speaker 2: to be old in two months? Because that's what I
- 11:22Speaker 2: care about. He seems to be playing pretty effective football
- 11:26Speaker 2: for an old man at this time. Like, I don't
- 11:30Speaker 2: know how else to say this to you. I'm not
- 11:32Speaker 2: worried about.
- 11:32Speaker 3: 2028 right now. He's too old to do that!
- 11:37Speaker 2: It's not my concern. And if a third-round pick in
- 11:44Speaker 2: next year's draft... has a huge effect on what happens
- 11:48Speaker 2: in 2029, I'm willing to live with that.
- 11:55Speaker 3: That's all I'm saying.
- 11:57Speaker 2: You didn't have to give up the farm for a
- 12:00Speaker 2: single player, but I do feel like you should have
- 12:02Speaker 2: done something. Because I have a fear, and everybody, knock
- 12:06Speaker 2: on your collective wood.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Okay?
- 12:09Speaker 3: Thank you, Nellie.
- 12:14Speaker 2: I am terrified that we get to January and Jonah
- 12:20Speaker 2: Coleman goes down with an injury and we have what's
- 12:23Speaker 2: left of J.K.
- 12:24Speaker 3: Dobbins, R.J.
- 12:26Speaker 2: Harvey, and Cody Schrader or whoever else that's there in
- 12:30Speaker 2: the postseason or Tyler Bidet or something like that. And
- 12:40Speaker 2: I heard the interview that Sean Payton did, was it yesterday,
- 12:43Speaker 2: two days ago, whenever, With Colin Cowherd, where he talked
- 12:46Speaker 2: about the offense, and he says, hey, we got the
- 12:48Speaker 2: right guy, quarterback, and a lot of.
- 12:51Speaker 3: The problems on offense stem from the offensive line. Okay.
- 12:55Speaker 1: Fine.
- 12:59Speaker 2: A running back helps. It helps with all of it. Like,
- 13:05Speaker 2: here's what you can't tell me. I'll just, I'll never
- 13:08Speaker 2: believe this. Never. Never, ever, ever in the history of ever,
- 13:11Speaker 2: because when you find really good running backs, this is
- 13:13Speaker 2: never the case. A really good running back wouldn't help
- 13:19Speaker 2: because the offensive line would still be what they were?
- 13:24Speaker 3: Is that the argument?
- 13:26Speaker 2: That if I put Barry Sanders in this backfield, he
- 13:28Speaker 2: would get three yards a carry because this offensive line.
- 13:31Speaker 3: Isn't good enough?
- 13:31Speaker 2: Or is the running back better and will in turn
- 13:35Speaker 2: make everything else look better? It's the classic example of
- 13:41Speaker 2: anybody who plays alongside Nikola Jokic. Are they actually as
- 13:44Speaker 2: good as they look when they play alongside Jokic? Well,
- 13:47Speaker 2: the evidence that we've seen is almost in every case
- 13:51Speaker 2: when somebody leaves after playing with Joker, they don't put up.
- 13:54Speaker 3: The same numbers.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Why?
- 13:56Speaker 2: Because in the atmosphere surrounding that guy, things get better.
- 14:02Speaker 2: And I think the same thing can apply to a
- 14:03Speaker 2: running back. Just like a quarterback can make a wide
- 14:06Speaker 2: receiver look better than he actually is.
- 14:14Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm not happy.
- 14:15Speaker 2: And I'm especially not happy that this trade didn't go
- 14:17Speaker 2: through because at least I felt like you would have
- 14:19Speaker 2: gotten something as far as depth for the linebacker position,
- 14:22Speaker 2: which I do think was important, just not of the
- 14:24Speaker 2: utmost importance. So a lot more to discuss on this.
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- 16:00Speaker 3: me an idiot. That's fine. I told you guys, like, it's.
- 16:03Speaker 2: This is a very rare case, okay, where I try
- 16:09Speaker 2: not to be staunchly dug in to an opinion I
- 16:14Speaker 2: have because I think you're stupid if you don't have
- 16:21Speaker 2: a malleable brain. It has to be. You're presented with
- 16:26Speaker 2: new information. You should be able to change your mind.
- 16:29Speaker 2: You should be able to admit that you are wrong.
- 16:32Speaker 2: I'm wrong all the time. I'm just telling you, this
- 16:36Speaker 2: is going to be a hard one to move me
- 16:38Speaker 2: off of. Because I saw it already. And you can
- 16:45Speaker 2: tell me that with a healthy quarterback last year, the
- 16:48Speaker 2: Broncos are in the Super Bowl, and I would tend
- 16:50Speaker 2: to agree with you.
- 16:54Speaker 3: But you knew.
- 16:55Speaker 2: That last year, not having a reliable running game late
- 17:02Speaker 2: in the season was an issue. Because they had it
- 17:08Speaker 2: early in the season. I know people want to make J.K.
- 17:12Speaker 2: Dobbins' year last year into a, it wasn't that great.
- 17:20Speaker 2: And I go, well, he was like fifth in the
- 17:22Speaker 2: league in rushing through 10 weeks. If that's not pretty
- 17:27Speaker 2: damn good, then I don't know what is. The issue is, J.K.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Dobbins has not looked remotely the same this year.
- 17:34Speaker 3: Hasn't happened.
- 17:37Speaker 2: So, I don't want to be put in a position
- 17:43Speaker 2: where it's a playoff game in the cold, maybe wind,
- 17:46Speaker 2: maybe snow, and you don't have a running game that
- 17:52Speaker 2: you trust because maybe your starting running back gets hurt.
- 17:57Speaker 2: And I like Jonah Coleman. He's been on IR already
- 18:03Speaker 2: this year. I like RJ Harvey. Not really a between-the-tackles guy.
- 18:10Speaker 2: More of a pass-catching back who's been on IR already
- 18:13Speaker 2: this year.
- 18:14Speaker 3: J.K.
- 18:15Speaker 2: Dobbins has surprisingly been healthy so far this year, but
- 18:19Speaker 2: has been completely ineffective.
- 18:22Speaker 3: And how long is he going to stay healthy? This
- 18:25Speaker 3: is what I'm getting at.
- 18:26Speaker 2: And it just feels like there's a lot of hubris
- 18:27Speaker 2: surrounding the offense saying, well, you know, it's been better
- 18:30Speaker 2: the last few weeks.
- 18:31Speaker 1: Cool.
- 18:34Speaker 2: I hope it continues to get better. But I don't
- 18:37Speaker 2: want things derailed because you don't have a rushing game.
- 18:41Speaker 2: Because a running back gets hurt and you go, well,
- 18:43Speaker 2: who's going to play now?
- 18:45Speaker 3: Cody Schrader? That doesn't seem right.
- 18:48Speaker 2: You know, again, you look at some of the top
- 18:53Speaker 2: teams in the league. They run the football and they
- 18:57Speaker 2: can do it effectively. A lot of them can't anyway.
- 19:02Speaker 2: And the ones who can't seem to have really, really
- 19:04Speaker 2: effective quarterback play. Buffalo can run the football with James Cook. Jacksonville,
- 19:15Speaker 2: Michelle Tootin can run the football. The Steelers are 6-2
- 19:20Speaker 2: almost exclusively because Jalen Warren's having an amazing year. The
- 19:25Speaker 2: Chiefs are 6-2 almost exclusively because Kenneth Walker is having
- 19:29Speaker 2: an amazing year. The Bengals can't run the football, but
- 19:33Speaker 2: their quarterback can throw for 450 yards a game. And
- 19:38Speaker 2: this is kind of what I'm getting at. We all
- 19:42Speaker 2: know the issues that lie in the passing game that
- 19:46Speaker 2: have improved over the last few weeks. But if I
- 19:57Speaker 2: ask you the question, do you think the Broncos will
- 19:59Speaker 2: have a 100-yard rusher this week?
- 20:00Speaker 3: And your immediate answer is nope. Tells me something.
- 20:08Speaker 2: But again, if you guys are just joining us, this
- 20:10Speaker 2: happened when you were asleep last night. Day on Henley,
- 20:13Speaker 2: that trade.
- 20:15Speaker 3: No more.
- 20:17Speaker 2: Got to the Broncos facility. The Broncos sent him back
- 20:19Speaker 2: to LA.
- 20:20Speaker 3: No trade.
- 20:22Speaker 2: So almost assuredly a failed physical. So even the one
- 20:27Speaker 2: move you did make at the deadline that, that would
- 20:29Speaker 2: have helped. I mean, that would have helped you. Henley's
- 20:32Speaker 2: a good player. Is now no more. Um, So the
- 20:39Speaker 2: roster that the Broncos had going into the deadline is
- 20:41Speaker 2: the one that they're going to have after the deadline
- 20:44Speaker 2: pushing for a Super Bowl bid. So 303, 504, 0925.
- 20:53Speaker 2: To get back to the Nuggets from last night, something
- 20:57Speaker 2: that I really liked and something that I didn't. The
- 21:03Speaker 2: first thing is the Broncos, sorry, the Nuggets, played a
- 21:09Speaker 2: much more balanced game yesterday. Each player in the starting
- 21:16Speaker 2: five took over 10 shots. Here's how the shot distribution went.
- 21:19Speaker 2: 19 for Jamal, 16 for Joker, 15 for Johnson, 13
- 21:25Speaker 2: for Christian Brown, and 11 for Aaron Gordon. That's how
- 21:28Speaker 2: this thing should look. That's how this team should operate.
- 21:34Speaker 2: And that's how you keep guys like Jamal and Joker alive.
- 21:38Speaker 2: Fresh for an 82 game season. Is you have to
- 21:42Speaker 2: balance out. The distribution. Of the offensive effort. Because if
- 21:52Speaker 2: you don't. Then those guys will tend to lack on
- 21:55Speaker 2: the defensive side. Or they're going to get run into
- 21:58Speaker 2: the ground. The Joker finishes 10 of 16 from the
- 22:03Speaker 2: field last night.
- 22:04Speaker 3: 27 points. 11 boards. 8 assists.
- 22:09Speaker 2: The big detail and the one thing I'm going to
- 22:12Speaker 2: keep harping on, Jamal Murray has been sensational this season.
- 22:21Speaker 2: He's shooting 51% from three, averaging eight threes a game,
- 22:31Speaker 2: which is almost statistically impossible. The difficulty to do that
- 22:40Speaker 2: at that clip through, this is now not a small
- 22:44Speaker 2: sample size of games here. You're 10 games in, but
- 22:49Speaker 2: doing it at that high of a level is pretty remarkable.
- 22:55Speaker 2: And you just look around the NBA, what guys are doing,
- 23:03Speaker 2: like three pointers attempted per game. Um, Jamal Murray is
- 23:08Speaker 2: 16th in the league in those. You have some of
- 23:11Speaker 2: the crazy ones like Lucas putting up 13.5 threes a game,
- 23:14Speaker 2: which is insane.
- 23:18Speaker 3: Multiple people.
- 23:22Speaker 2: Nikhil Alexander-Walker, Brandon Miller, Desmond Bain, Michael Porter Jr.
- 23:26Speaker 3: Steph.
- 23:27Speaker 2: They're at about 10 per game. But you look at
- 23:31Speaker 2: the best of that bunch. Steph is shooting 46% from three.
- 23:35Speaker 2: He's been great on nine and a half. To be
- 23:37Speaker 2: over 50% is crazy. To be shooting at that frequency.
- 23:45Speaker 2: So Jamal Murray in his season, you know, he has
- 23:48Speaker 2: been plagued his entire career. I guess plagued is the
- 23:50Speaker 2: wrong word, but he has been given the moniker.
- 23:57Speaker 3: As a slow starter to seasons.
- 23:59Speaker 2: And he has been. But there's one thing about Jamal.
- 24:04Speaker 2: In each subsequent year, Jamal has gotten better. He went
- 24:13Speaker 2: from 20 points a game in 2022 and 2023, championship year,
- 24:16Speaker 2: to 21.2 points a game, to 21.4, to last year 25.4,
- 24:19Speaker 2: and now he's averaging over 26. But he had career
- 24:32Speaker 2: highs in virtually every single category last season. And it
- 24:37Speaker 2: looks like that's continuing. Not to mention playing a lot
- 24:40Speaker 2: better defense. Like the Nuggets without Jamal Murray this year,
- 24:48Speaker 2: who knows where they'd be. But Jamal, like last night
- 24:55Speaker 2: for example, Game gets tight. You know, you have a
- 24:59Speaker 2: decent lead going into the second half. Game gets tight late.
- 25:06Speaker 2: And who's there to rescue you?
- 25:08Speaker 3: It's Jamal.
- 25:11Speaker 2: Like, Jamal has just taken over when it's been absolutely necessary.
- 25:19Speaker 2: The game gets cut down to 113-111. Jamal Murray buckets.
- 25:28Speaker 2: Cam Johnson with a big three. But the aggressiveness that
- 25:36Speaker 2: Jamal is showing on offense is exactly what everybody wants
- 25:41Speaker 2: to see. Because Jamal Murray has been somebody forever. that
- 25:48Speaker 2: I think has been undervalued because he has played.
- 25:52Speaker 3: In up and down and a.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Little bit inconsistent brand of basketball for a lot of
- 25:57Speaker 2: his career until last season. Texture says, Brett, weren't you
- 26:01Speaker 2: a trade Jamal guy? I never wanted to trade Jamal.
- 26:08Speaker 2: I argued against people that said you couldn't trade Jamal.
- 26:11Speaker 2: So my whole point was, If we're talking about things
- 26:15Speaker 2: you can do to shake things up on the Nuggets,
- 26:19Speaker 2: and you don't think that Jamal Murray was tradable, I
- 26:22Speaker 2: think you're crazy. He was an All-NBA player last year,
- 26:27Speaker 2: and he is one of the best shot makers in
- 26:30Speaker 2: the NBA. Now, here's the problem with Jamal that I
- 26:36Speaker 2: have at this moment. Over the last couple of years,
- 26:40Speaker 2: I've seen Jamal do this in the regular season. which
- 26:43Speaker 2: is something we all ask for, right? Like start the
- 26:46Speaker 2: season the way you want to end the season. Don't
- 26:48Speaker 2: like take three months to ease into your game and
- 26:51Speaker 2: then finally find it. It was inconvenient is what it was.
- 27:01Speaker 2: The issue with Jamal is Jamal was always a, I
- 27:05Speaker 2: have okay regular seasons and then I explode in the
- 27:08Speaker 2: postseason and now it's sort of flipped. He's having great
- 27:14Speaker 2: regular seasons and not finding that in the postseason for
- 27:17Speaker 2: whatever reason. And that's now become the problem is as
- 27:23Speaker 2: much as we complained in the past about, hey man,
- 27:26Speaker 2: what's up with these slow starts? What's up with the
- 27:27Speaker 2: inconsistencies during the regular season? What's up with this? What's
- 27:30Speaker 2: up with that? Bottom line is that dude showed up
- 27:36Speaker 2: when the postseason started. And now It seems to be
- 27:44Speaker 2: the opposite. So, I can't judge this year's postseason because
- 27:48Speaker 2: it's months away. All I know is what he's doing
- 27:51Speaker 2: right now is pretty great. I still have the same concerns, though,
- 27:55Speaker 2: that I had previously with AG. AG had multiple, like,
- 28:01Speaker 2: these awesome Joker dribble drive kick out to try and, like,
- 28:05Speaker 2: ice the game. And he just couldn't knock down a shot.
- 28:09Speaker 2: I mean, shooting from three... In the month of November, wow.
- 28:21Speaker 2: Aaron Gordon this month is 3 of 21 from three-point
- 28:25Speaker 2: range in five games. In multiple times yesterday, kick out
- 28:30Speaker 2: late in the fourth quarter. If you hit this, it
- 28:33Speaker 2: pretty much ices the game, clings one off the rim,
- 28:37Speaker 2: transition the other way.
- 28:39Speaker 3: Memphis gets a bucket.
- 28:40Speaker 2: Now you're even more tight, like, I am very concerned
- 28:44Speaker 2: about Aaron Gordon right now and I really hope he's
- 28:46Speaker 2: just trying to play through an injury and it's not
- 28:49Speaker 2: just other things like age or mileage or something like that.
- 29:03Speaker 2: Because we all kind of know he is the straw
- 29:07Speaker 2: that stirs the drink here. He is that one last
- 29:11Speaker 2: sort of Thanos ring into making the Nuggets a big-time
- 29:16Speaker 2: contender for a championship. But if he doesn't have that,
- 29:20Speaker 2: then I don't know where it goes. You know, the
- 29:24Speaker 2: encouraging thing is if Cam Johnson can play like he
- 29:26Speaker 2: did last night on a consistent basis, then maybe, maybe,
- 29:33Speaker 2: that can put a salve on it. But, I mean,
- 29:37Speaker 2: Cam was great. And Cam, for the most part, this season,
- 29:40Speaker 2: has been really good. You know, he's a guy that
- 29:47Speaker 2: when he gets an open look from three, he tends
- 29:50Speaker 2: to knock down that open look. He has, for the
- 29:56Speaker 2: most part, been pretty aggressive this year with his offense
- 29:59Speaker 2: because I think that he recognizes somebody has to. But
- 30:07Speaker 2: if he can provide what he did last night, it
- 30:10Speaker 2: was a season-high 23. The other night that he played
- 30:14Speaker 2: really well was the Mexico City game against Indianapolis.
- 30:17Speaker 3: He was the same sort of version of that.
- 30:22Speaker 2: And if you remember, in the postseason last year, he
- 30:25Speaker 2: was one of the only guys that was playing well
- 30:27Speaker 2: at times during the postseason. He can be a very
- 30:31Speaker 2: effective player. He's now got one of those cases of
- 30:34Speaker 2: the inconsistencies, I think, but over the last few games,
- 30:38Speaker 2: he recognizes maybe he's just got to step up and
- 30:41Speaker 2: be that number three on this team. So 303-504-0925 as
- 30:50Speaker 2: we broadcast from the back of St. Shanker Studios. Bacchus
- 30:53Speaker 2: and Shanker, your hometown injury lawyers in a car accident,
- 30:56Speaker 2: call 303-222-2222. Last reminder, your key word for this hour
- 31:03Speaker 2: is chicken. So text that in your first and last
- 31:06Speaker 2: name to 303-504-0925. Gives you a chance to get in
- 31:10Speaker 2: the building for the Nuggets in Celtics next Wednesday.
- 31:15Speaker 1: Look at all those chickens.
- 31:17Speaker 3: Look at all those chickens. You know what?
- 31:22Speaker 2: Let's call an audible. Nelly, let's do it. I missed
- 31:25Speaker 2: it yesterday. Let's stick with it. NFL stock up, stock
- 31:28Speaker 2: down next. All right, so a little late this week,
- 31:30Speaker 2: but we usually do this every week following the NFL weekend.
- 31:34Speaker 2: It is NFL stock up, stock down. Always start with
- 31:37Speaker 2: the quarterbacks, please.
- 31:38Speaker 3: Nelly, stock up.
- 31:40Speaker 2: Hey, it's not so much what this guy did last
- 31:42Speaker 2: week because he didn't have a good game last week.
- 31:44Speaker 2: He had a pretty bad game, actually. lost 38-17, only
- 31:48Speaker 2: threw one touchdown, three interceptions, but guess what? Kirk Cousins
- 31:51Speaker 2: get the stock up because he's playing for a contender now,
- 31:55Speaker 2: being traded to Minnesota, back to Minnesota, and having.
- 31:58Speaker 3: A defense like that is... I mean, look, I'm a
- 32:02Speaker 3: Lions fan.
- 32:02Speaker 2: I hate that that move happened because Kirk Cousins is,
- 32:06Speaker 2: I've always thought, completely underrated as a quarterback.
- 32:09Speaker 3: They did the old, oh, yeah, well, what's he won?
- 32:14Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 32:14Speaker 2: I just know that guy throws a lot of touchdowns
- 32:17Speaker 2: and he wins a lot of football games. And now
- 32:20Speaker 2: he's going to a team that is almost tailor-made in
- 32:22Speaker 2: every situation, defensively, skill position-wise, to have somebody, if they're
- 32:29Speaker 2: competent at quarterback, now all of a sudden Minnesota becomes
- 32:32Speaker 2: a problem. So nobody benefited more from the trade deadline
- 32:37Speaker 2: than the Minnesota Vikings and Kirk Cousins in particular.
- 32:40Speaker 3: By the way, how cool is it for him?
- 32:43Speaker 2: I get to go be a starter and be the
- 32:45Speaker 2: bridge quarterback to the number one overall pick for half
- 32:47Speaker 2: a year. And then when it turns out this team
- 32:50Speaker 2: isn't good enough and they're going to start playing the
- 32:52Speaker 2: rookie because they know they're not making the playoffs, I
- 32:54Speaker 2: get to go to a team that is making the playoffs,
- 32:57Speaker 2: very likely making the playoffs, and has a good chance
- 33:00Speaker 2: to do something in the playoffs. So Kirk Cousins, he
- 33:03Speaker 2: gets a stock up. Let's go quarterback stock down. Anyone
- 33:07Speaker 2: else on the quarterback depth chart in Minnesota? They thought
- 33:12Speaker 2: you were so bad, despite a team being so good,
- 33:17Speaker 2: that they could not trust you to simply not make mistakes.
- 33:24Speaker 3: That was it. So that applies to Tyler Murray, Carson Wentz, whoever.
- 33:29Speaker 3: Max Brosmer, come on now. Brosmer?
- 33:33Speaker 2: Wentz last week was 8 of 25 for 81 yards,
- 33:36Speaker 2: no touchdowns, two picks, and they said, that's enough.
- 33:39Speaker 3: Something has to be done.
- 33:41Speaker 2: I'm telling you, if Carson Wentz played decent, decent, not
- 33:46Speaker 2: only do the Minnesota Vikings win against Buffalo, I think
- 33:50Speaker 2: the Minnesota Vikings don't make this move. But he played
- 33:54Speaker 2: so bad that it altered the entire course of all
- 33:57Speaker 2: of their careers. So they get the stock down. Let's
- 34:00Speaker 2: go non-quarterback stock up. How about, I'm going to do
- 34:04Speaker 2: this in the Jerry Jones voice, CeeDee Lamb. Ten catches
- 34:09Speaker 2: for 195 yards and a touchdown last week against Indianapolis
- 34:13Speaker 2: on the season.
- 34:14Speaker 3: CeeDee Lamb, remember, we're like halfway through.
- 34:17Speaker 2: He's already got 70 catches for 904 yards and seven touchdowns.
- 34:22Speaker 2: He's been remarkable. He's had four different games this year,
- 34:27Speaker 2: over a hundred yards. Three of those have resulted in
- 34:30Speaker 2: over 150 yards. Two of those have resulted in over
- 34:34Speaker 2: 190 yards in those games. Um, When the Cowboys offense
- 34:42Speaker 2: is operating at its peak, it is run through this
- 34:46Speaker 2: human being. Yes, they try and get Javante Williams going
- 34:48Speaker 2: on the ground. Yes, they have a George Pickens. They
- 34:52Speaker 2: even have that Ryan Flournoy kid who turns out he's
- 34:56Speaker 2: a decent weapon when he becomes the one-on-one option when
- 35:00Speaker 2: Seedy and George Pickens are getting so much attention. But
- 35:04Speaker 2: he is having another phenomenal season at 904 yards already.
- 35:08Speaker 3: Listen to this, Nelly.
- 35:10Speaker 2: He's 174 yards away from breaking last year's total that
- 35:16Speaker 2: he had of 1,077 yards.
- 35:19Speaker 3: Smiles and glory hopes.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Seven touchdowns is already third most in his career. His
- 35:26Speaker 2: career high is 12. Looks like he's going to reach that.
- 35:30Speaker 2: It's as good a season as he's had in the NFL.
- 35:33Speaker 1: And.
- 35:35Speaker 2: Chidi Lamb gets a stock up. Let's go non-quarterback stock down.
- 35:38Speaker 2: I want to do an all-encompassing one again. Anyone who
- 35:43Speaker 2: runs the football for the Washington Commanders, they have no
- 35:50Speaker 2: running game. Take a quick guess, Nelly. Who's the leading
- 35:53Speaker 2: rusher of the Washington Commanders this season?
- 35:55Speaker 3: Give me a guess. It's got to be either Jaden
- 35:59Speaker 3: Daniels or Marcus Mariota.
- 36:00Speaker 2: It's Jaden Daniels. He has 252 yards rushing. The next
- 36:05Speaker 2: closest guy is Ja'Cory Kroski-Merritt, who has 239.
- 36:09Speaker 3: At 3.6 yards per carry.
- 36:10Speaker 2: They only have four runs, or I'm sorry, three runs
- 36:12Speaker 2: of over 20 yards on the season. They just can't
- 36:23Speaker 2: find consistency in the running game. I think going out
- 36:28Speaker 2: and getting Rashad White out of Tampa Bay last year
- 36:32Speaker 2: was smart on their part. But Rashad White even seems
- 36:36Speaker 2: like a tamed down version of what he was in Tampa.
- 36:39Speaker 2: They just can't get anything going. and it's a big
- 36:43Speaker 2: reason why they find themselves 2-5-1 this year, is that
- 36:46Speaker 2: if Jaden Daniels can't return to the form that he
- 36:48Speaker 2: had basically his rookie season, and he's dealing with elbow injuries,
- 36:52Speaker 2: and he's dealing with a whole bunch of other things,
- 36:55Speaker 2: you can't put that much pressure on your quarterback, so
- 36:59Speaker 2: the Washington running back room gets a stock down. Can
- 37:03Speaker 2: I also quickly do a celeb shot for non-quarterback stock down?
- 37:06Speaker 3: Go ahead.
- 37:07Speaker 2: Anyone on the Broncos and Chargers medical staff, just all
- 37:11Speaker 2: of them, Well, that's tough.
- 37:13Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 37:14Speaker 2: Again, the details, if you guys are just tuning in
- 37:16Speaker 2: this morning, the day on die on die on Henley,
- 37:20Speaker 2: Don Henley, that trade is now nullified.
- 37:24Speaker 3: He went to the Broncos facility yesterday.
- 37:25Speaker 2: He went through a physical and then he was sent
- 37:27Speaker 2: backpacking to LA and the Broncos kept their picks. So
- 37:31Speaker 2: that trade did not go through. The Broncos did not
- 37:33Speaker 2: make any acquisitions at the deadline. And my guess is
- 37:36Speaker 2: he went through, did all the testing and they said, no,
- 37:40Speaker 2: thank you. Um, which there's rumors out there that he
- 37:44Speaker 2: might have suffered an injury last week and played through it.
- 37:48Speaker 2: If that's the case, you don't know what the future
- 37:50Speaker 2: is going to be for Henley here. And you aren't
- 37:53Speaker 2: going to risk two different draft picks for a guy
- 37:56Speaker 2: who is supposed to be at least a rental who
- 37:58Speaker 2: wouldn't even be a rental if he's too hurt to play.
- 38:01Speaker 2: So I think that's the situation that's happening.
- 38:03Speaker 3: I don't know. There's not a lot of details surrounding him.
- 38:06Speaker 3: Let's go NFL team stock up. It's the Broncos, by
- 38:10Speaker 3: the way. It's them.
- 38:12Speaker 2: I don't care what people think of the Panthers. I
- 38:14Speaker 2: think that's a very good win going into a bye week.
- 38:17Speaker 2: And they've now won five straight games. They've won seven
- 38:20Speaker 2: of their last eight, seven and two on the year.
- 38:22Speaker 2: They're second in the AFC. They have, they have the
- 38:28Speaker 2: one thing that teams kill for, which is the ability
- 38:31Speaker 2: to close out football games. They do it better than
- 38:33Speaker 2: anybody else. Obviously we all know 16 straight wins in
- 38:38Speaker 2: one score games and NFL record, but, Emotional high coming
- 38:43Speaker 2: off the win against Kansas City that puts you first
- 38:45Speaker 2: in the AFC West again.
- 38:48Speaker 3: You have the bye week looking ahead.
- 38:51Speaker 2: You have a Panthers team that's not very good, but
- 38:53Speaker 2: is capable of playing at a high level, which I
- 38:56Speaker 2: think we saw in that game. Bryce Young can be
- 38:58Speaker 2: a very, very good quarterback at times. To get that win,
- 39:03Speaker 2: to close out that game, maybe not pretty, but But
- 39:06Speaker 2: to find a way to close it, I think is
- 39:08Speaker 2: a huge win and it sets the Broncos up in
- 39:10Speaker 2: great position to be right back on track for a
- 39:14Speaker 2: 13-14 win season and compete for number one in the
- 39:16Speaker 2: AFC and get the bye in the wildcard round and
- 39:20Speaker 2: home field for the rest. They put themselves in position
- 39:23Speaker 2: to do that. Getting through that first nine games of
- 39:27Speaker 2: this schedule at 7-2 is a remarkable feat that I
- 39:31Speaker 2: honestly can say I don't know if anybody else in
- 39:34Speaker 2: the NFL could do it.
- 39:35Speaker 3: I really don't. So they get the stock up. Let's
- 39:37Speaker 3: go with NFL team stock down. It's Cleveland. And here's why.
- 39:42Speaker 2: Cleveland seems to be falling back to earth a bit.
- 39:44Speaker 2: They lose to the Saints this last week. I know
- 39:46Speaker 2: they were playing Shador. But they've gotten through their early
- 39:50Speaker 2: part of the schedule. Their wins are over the Bucs,
- 39:53Speaker 2: the Panthers, the Steelers, which is a good win. The
- 39:56Speaker 2: Ravens without Lamar Jackson and the Titans. The losses they've
- 40:00Speaker 2: suffered are to the Jags big, to the Jets on
- 40:03Speaker 2: the road, to the Steelers on the road, to the
- 40:05Speaker 2: Saints on the road.
- 40:06Speaker 3: They can't win away from home.
- 40:09Speaker 2: And now they have a home game against the Texans
- 40:11Speaker 2: this upcoming weekend that I think is going to result
- 40:13Speaker 2: in a loss because the Texans are starting to find
- 40:16Speaker 2: their stride a little bit. I just think this is
- 40:19Speaker 2: a team that is primed to fall back to earth.
- 40:20Speaker 2: And when you're asking questions nine weeks into the season,
- 40:23Speaker 2: who's starting at quarterback and having discussions about that, not
- 40:26Speaker 2: a good place to be.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Cleveland, they get the stock down. MVP stock up. Joseph Burrow.
- 40:34Speaker 2: Over the last three weeks, Joe Burrow has thrown for
- 40:37Speaker 2: 12 touchdowns. 12, including three and 271 yards and no picks.
- 40:43Speaker 2: against the Atlanta Falcons. He's also ran in two touchdowns
- 40:46Speaker 2: on his own. So let's just take this into account.
- 40:48Speaker 2: Over the last three weeks, he is responsible for 14 touchdowns.
- 40:53Speaker 2: He's as good of an MVP candidate as you're going
- 40:56Speaker 2: to find as long as they continue to win. The
- 40:58Speaker 2: one concern about since he has been their defense, if
- 41:01Speaker 2: they can keep that in check, I think he's absolutely
- 41:03Speaker 2: going to be one of those guys standing there at
- 41:04Speaker 2: the very end of the season. Let's go MVP stock down.
- 41:08Speaker 2: For a guy who's played great over the last handful
- 41:10Speaker 2: of games after a miserable start, Drake may throw us
- 41:15Speaker 2: three interceptions and a 45 27 loss to green Bay
- 41:17Speaker 2: last week. Still three for three touchdowns and 300 yards,
- 41:21Speaker 2: but look at his numbers on the year. He has
- 41:23Speaker 2: 18 touchdowns, which is decent, but he has 11 interceptions.
- 41:27Speaker 2: It's tied for 30th in the NFL. It's impossible to overlook.
- 41:31Speaker 2: If you're trying to make an MVP case, Drake may,
- 41:33Speaker 2: he gets a stock down best game of the week.
- 41:36Speaker 1: Oh yes.
- 41:37Speaker 2: There's a couple of them that were really good in
- 41:38Speaker 2: the NFL last week. Um, I think Browns and Saints.
- 41:44Speaker 2: It was ugly early.
- 41:45Speaker 3: You get down to the very end, though. You get
- 41:47Speaker 3: the tie ball game.
- 41:48Speaker 2: You get the Saints scoring the touchdown in overtime with
- 41:50Speaker 2: a chance for the Browns to respond. They also score
- 41:53Speaker 2: go for two. Just can't get the two-point conversion. Browns
- 41:58Speaker 2: and Saints.
- 42:00Speaker 3: That'll be the best game of the week. Worst game
- 42:01Speaker 3: of the week.
- 42:02Speaker 2: No!
- 42:03Speaker 3: God, please, no!
- 42:05Speaker 2: I always go with the low-scoring games just because they're boring.
- 42:09Speaker 3: Incredibly boring. Guess what? Seahawks and Cardinals, congratulations. You guys
- 42:14Speaker 3: get it. Almost no offense to speak of in that game.
- 42:17Speaker 2: So there you go. NFL stock up, stock down. Do
- 42:19Speaker 2: it every week, usually on Wednesdays. But you can always
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- 42:28Speaker 2: on YouTube.
- 42:30Speaker 3: Moshe Lombardi came next.