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11-06-26 - Avs fall to Preds AGAIN/Broncos can't lose focus in Carolina/Derrick Henry on the market? · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 2: And he couldn't get a shot away. It's Yossi, one-timer. Stamkos,
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  Speaker 2: he scores. So Stamkos draws the penalty. when one should
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  Speaker 2: not have been given, and then he gets the overtime winner.
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  Speaker 2: It's a gift given to the Nashville Predators. Christmas isn't
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  Speaker 2: until next month. They beat the Avalanche in overtime by
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  Speaker 2: a final score of 3-2.
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  Speaker 3: All right, welcome in on this Bud Light Football Friday.
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  Speaker 3: A whole bunch of football to discuss, but the Avs
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  Speaker 3: last night lose at home in OT.
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  Speaker 4: They get the old loser point, but....
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  Speaker 3: 3-2 loss, their second loss of the year to Nashville,
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  Speaker 3: which takes them to 9-6-2.
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  Speaker 4: On the season. Again, the record.
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  Speaker 3: Is not necessarily something that is totally egregious. It's not
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  Speaker 3: where you want it to be, but it's not anything awful, awful.
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  Speaker 3: Problem is, the Avs just aren't finding the play right now. Like,
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  Speaker 3: the old Denver Broncos special of tight game, we can
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  Speaker 3: make a play happen to separate us sort of thing, just.
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  Speaker 4: Not going on.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you face Eustace Anunen, old juice, and put
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  Speaker 3: 32 shots on him.
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  Speaker 4: He makes 30 saves. Double deeper-oo.
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  Speaker 3: Feel like you could have made it a little bit
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  Speaker 3: more difficult on him. Last night, it's the same thing
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  Speaker 3: that I think happened in that first game. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he only faced 21 shots in the first game against
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  Speaker 3: the Avs. But even in the 32 shots that he
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  Speaker 3: did face, felt like you could have gotten more traffic
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  Speaker 3: in front. When you did have an opportunity, it felt
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  Speaker 3: like you were trying to make the really cute pass.
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  Speaker 2: Um.
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  Speaker 3: Instead of just putting more on him and crashing the
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  Speaker 3: front of the net with some traffic. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 3: it's just this team at this point in the calendar
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  Speaker 3: right now, beginning of the year, they aren't near.
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  Speaker 4: The top of their game.
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  Speaker 3: They have a lot of room that they can grow
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  Speaker 3: between what we're seeing on the ice right now and
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  Speaker 3: what they can be as a full roster. But if
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  Speaker 3: you got to pinpoint one thing, that these guys could
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  Speaker 3: immediately do.
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  Speaker 4: To turn the tide.
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  Speaker 3: I think it is getting points on special teams and
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  Speaker 3: we all are like hyper focused on the power play.
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  Speaker 3: The power play hasn't been miserable. It's not like last year.
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  Speaker 3: They're at least in the 20%. I think they're exactly
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  Speaker 3: at 20 after last night.
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  Speaker 4: Um, they're middle of the road. You know, they're usually
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  Speaker 4: hovering in.
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  Speaker 3: That top 10 range, which is 24-ish percent. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: you just go back a couple of years ago, back
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  Speaker 3: in the 24-25 season, they're at 24.8 at the end
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  Speaker 3: of the year. The year before that, they're at 24.5.
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  Speaker 3: The year before that, they're at 24.5. So there are
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  Speaker 3: ways off from that, but it's not like the number
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  Speaker 3: is what it was last year where you were in
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  Speaker 3: at like 15, 16, 17% the entire year.
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  Speaker 4: I think the bigger thing for me is the kill.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the Avs were the number.
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  Speaker 3: One team in hockey last year on the penalty kill.
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  Speaker 3: Killed off 85% of them. You're now clipping along at 76.9.
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  Speaker 3: That's good for 17th in the league. Just the special
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  Speaker 3: teams category seems to be the one that if you
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  Speaker 3: want to find a way to really like almost immediately
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  Speaker 3: improve what you do, you want to find a way,
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  Speaker 3: a statistic that can immediately make a gigantic difference.
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  Speaker 4: It's that. If they can go out and.
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  Speaker 3: Do, I would say, get maybe a couple more percentage
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  Speaker 3: points on that power play. and really improve that penalty kill,
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  Speaker 3: we know what the Avs are five on five.
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  Speaker 4: They're really, really good.
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  Speaker 3: And we can talk about the penalty and the gift
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  Speaker 3: that was given to Nashville in overtime.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Bottom line is you had plenty of opportunities to put
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  Speaker 3: that game away earlier and you didn't. And it just
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  Speaker 3: felt like that's been kind of the story for the
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  Speaker 3: Avs the entire year. It's either you have an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to put the team away and you don't, or you
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  Speaker 3: get off to such a miserable start that you're playing
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  Speaker 3: catch-up all day. You know, once again, you're coming back
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  Speaker 3: from down 0-1. And you made up that ground immediately.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, something about, by the way, former Avs, whenever
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  Speaker 3: they play against the Avalanche, get on the score sheet
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  Speaker 3: a lot. And that game opens up with Ross Colton.
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  Speaker 3: scoring his fourth of the year to put Nashville up 1-0.
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  Speaker 3: But you answered pretty quick. Jaden Schwartz came back. Great
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  Speaker 3: feed from Natchez. Brock Nelson.
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  Speaker 4: The second goal from Parker Kelly. Really nice.
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  Speaker 3: And then a couple posts here, I think, in not
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  Speaker 3: getting enough traffic in front, turns the Avs into, you know,
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  Speaker 3: instead of getting two points, only get one out of it.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, we can talk about the penalty if you'd like.
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  Speaker 3: We all kind of know it.
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  Speaker 2: Christmas isn't until next month.
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  Speaker 4: It's a pretty weak call to make in overtime.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm of the mindset, if you're going to
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  Speaker 3: call a penalty in OT, it's got to be incredibly egregious.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be not by the letter of the law.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be so obvious that if you've never
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  Speaker 3: watched hockey before, you know.
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  Speaker 4: It's a penalty.
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  Speaker 3: It's just way too big of an advantage in a
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  Speaker 3: moment like that. But again, I think that the Avs
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  Speaker 3: had their opportunities earlier in the game. They didn't capitalize
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  Speaker 3: on them. The weird thing about discussing this is I
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  Speaker 3: still think you're getting pretty good goaltending. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: leave the goaltenders out to dry on multiple occasions. And
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  Speaker 3: once again last night, there was a shorthanded break that
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  Speaker 3: looked like you were going to give up another shorty.
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  Speaker 3: Mackenzie Blackwood makes the save, sort of bails you out.
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  Speaker 4: I just... Overall, the Avs.
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  Speaker 3: If they're better in the special teams category, and everybody's
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  Speaker 3: focused on penalty kill, or I'm sorry, power play, but
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  Speaker 3: I would also throw.
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  Speaker 4: In their penalty kill.
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  Speaker 3: If they're better in that category, I think they immediately
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  Speaker 3: become one of the best teams in the league. It's
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  Speaker 3: just a matter of they can't find a rhythm.
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  Speaker 1: So 303-504-0925.
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  Speaker 4: The Avs dropped to 9-6-2 on the year. Their record
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  Speaker 4: at home, though, is still really good.
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  Speaker 3: They've gotten points in eight of nine games at home
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  Speaker 3: this year.
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  Speaker 4: It's 6-1-2. The road's been the thing that's really bothered
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  Speaker 4: the Avs.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not just that they lose when they go
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  Speaker 3: on the road in some of these games.
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  Speaker 4: It's that they get smoked in some of them.
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  Speaker 3: So the interesting thing about where the Avs are at,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they're right around 500 overall on the year.
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  Speaker 3: Their goal differential is plus 12. It's good for third
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  Speaker 3: best in the Western Conference. You know, even with some
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  Speaker 3: teams that have records, you know, sitting there at, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Minnesota's at 25 points and Edmonton's at 25 and Vegas
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  Speaker 3: is at 24. Despite where you are in the standings,
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  Speaker 3: goal differential, your third best in the conference is It's
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  Speaker 3: the little things. If they can do the little things,
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  Speaker 3: I think it'll make a massive difference. So today on
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  Speaker 3: this Bud Light Football Friday, Nelly has done it.
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  Speaker 4: He has gotten.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Carolina MIC. It's our 150,000 guy. If
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  Speaker 3: you had 150,000, he's going to join us at 720.
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  Speaker 4: What are we going to talk about with him? I
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  Speaker 4: have no idea. How did he make his song? I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what's coming our way.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, here, I'll have to do a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: filibustering so I can get up his email, but he
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  Speaker 5: said that some Broncos fans have been chirping him a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, chirping?
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  Speaker 5: On social media. Okay, let me see, because I emailed
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  Speaker 5: him yesterday, and I asked him if he wanted to
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  Speaker 5: come on the show, you know, maybe talk about his music,
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  Speaker 5: and he said that, yeah, he'd love to come on
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  Speaker 5: because he has some words for Broncos fans. So what
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  Speaker 5: have you guys been saying to our boys?
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, man, thanks for reaching out, blah, blah, blah. I
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  Speaker 5: would like to have a few words with your Denver fans.
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  Speaker 5: They have been giving me the business like you wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see. Let's see what this man has to say.
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  Speaker 3: He'll join us at 720 this morning. I just, I
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  Speaker 3: think there is a very large tension that's in the
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  Speaker 3: air for both Avs and Nuggets fans.
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  Speaker 4: And I've said this forever.
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  Speaker 3: The Avs especially, you know, when the Avs were on
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  Speaker 3: that run last year where they didn't lose their fourth
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  Speaker 3: regular regulation game until January. Whenever they did lose, it
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  Speaker 3: felt like there was mass panic. Like, just expectations are
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  Speaker 3: so high for Avs fans that if something doesn't go right,
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  Speaker 3: they take it all the way to a 10 almost immediately.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a different sort of tension surrounding this team along.
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  Speaker 4: With the Nuggets and how they play night in, night out.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's because people have felt over the
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  Speaker 3: last few years the disappointment of having really good teams
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  Speaker 3: that didn't quite make it to the mountaintop.
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  Speaker 4: And we're all kind of nervous.
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  Speaker 3: How much longer is this trustworthy?
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  Speaker 4: Like how much trustworthy is the wrong word? But when
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  Speaker 4: you have a team that's in a championship.
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  Speaker 3: Sort of time frame, you don't know where the end
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  Speaker 3: of the time frame is until it's too late.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that's where this tension comes from.
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  Speaker 3: You just want to see the pocket that you reside
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  Speaker 3: in right now with these two teams, with some of
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  Speaker 3: the best players that's ever played the sport, whether we're
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  Speaker 3: talking about Jokic or McKinnon or McCarr or whoever.
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  Speaker 4: Make sure that everything is still within that window. That's it.
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  Speaker 3: So a couple of texts coming through here. Maybe the
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  Speaker 3: Avs have figured out that being the best team in
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  Speaker 3: hockey didn't work out. Worked out for him last year. So,
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  Speaker 3: limp into the playoffs and surprise everybody. Yeah, pull an
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  Speaker 3: old Vegas. Another texter says, petition to start making refs
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  Speaker 3: do press conferences after games. I am the kind of person.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember any time in which I've jumped on
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  Speaker 3: this mic and said, you've lost a game because of
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  Speaker 3: a ref. Now, refs make bad calls. They can make
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  Speaker 3: bad calls in big time moments. But the first thing
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  Speaker 3: that needs to be done is a self-evaluation, okay? You
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  Speaker 3: didn't lose that game because of a bad call in
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  Speaker 3: Devon Taves. You lost because you didn't capitalize on your opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: And because you didn't capitalize on your opportunities, that left
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  Speaker 3: the game in a place where it might have been
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  Speaker 3: messed up by a ref. You cannot like a call.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the focus has to be doing your
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  Speaker 3: business and figuring out your side and what you can
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  Speaker 3: do better first.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll get back to this in just a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: blood drive using the Colorado Avalanche virtual blood drive link,
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  Speaker 3: you have a chance to win a team signed stick
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  Speaker 3: from this year or a Josh Manson signed stick. As
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  Speaker 3: you know, a giant percentage of blood donations go directly
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  Speaker 3: to the fight against cancer. It is very, very important
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  Speaker 3: that everybody participates in something like this. So you can
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  Speaker 3: more info and to schedule that blood donation today, giving
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  Speaker 3: a Josh Manson-signed stick. So, 303-504-0925 on this Bud Light
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  Speaker 4: Back after this.
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  Speaker 3: I like this. I don't know who this is. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what this song is. I like this, though.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this came up in the shuffle. I didn't even
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  Speaker 5: add this song. It's kind of tasty on a Friday morning.
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  Speaker 4: Let it ride for a second. Yeah, it's a Friday.
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  Speaker 4: This is a Friday song. Let it ride. So the
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  Speaker 4: song is called Sauce by Blackway. Is that what I'm
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  Speaker 4: reading here?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe so.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in.
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  Speaker 4: I like it. You know what? Put them in the rotation.
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  Speaker 3: I like it a lot. It's a Bud Light Football Friday.
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  Speaker 4: Now, to the game this weekend, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 4: you guys something, okay?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little nervous about this Panthers game.
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  Speaker 4: I think people aren't taking this game seriously, and I
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  Speaker 4: think you should. Here's why.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to use this terminology because I think
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  Speaker 3: people roll their eyes when they hear this, but it
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  Speaker 3: is worth noting.
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  Speaker 4: You have just exited, okay? We're getting close to winter.
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  Speaker 3: We've all been on the road where you are white-knuckling
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  Speaker 3: a snow drive, right? You're in the middle of a
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  Speaker 3: big snowstorm. You got snowpack on the roads. The speed
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  Speaker 3: limit's 75, but you're going 30. That sort of day.
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  Speaker 3: You see cars whipped off on the shoulder somewhere after
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  Speaker 3: doing a 180.
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  Speaker 4: We've all been there, right? The Broncos' first eight weeks
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  Speaker 4: of the season was a.
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  Speaker 3: White knuckle, a snow-packed road that you're just praying that
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  Speaker 3: you get to the off-ramp.
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  Speaker 4: You got there.
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  Speaker 3: You did so almost without really a scare. It wasn't fun.
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  Speaker 3: Like a lot of these games for the Broncos weren't fun.
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  Speaker 3: But you did what you were supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: For example, I take 470 into work. I take the
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  Speaker 3: off-ramp at Jamaica Street. I've had drives like that in
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  Speaker 3: the morning before the plows come out. I hit that
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  Speaker 3: off-ramp and you kind of feel like, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 3: in the clear now. Except if you guys have taken
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  Speaker 3: that off-ramp off Jamaica Street, off 470, you would know
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  Speaker 3: it's a big, windy, downhill road. And the second I
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  Speaker 3: think it's over, guess what?
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I think the Carolina Panthers game is. If
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  Speaker 3: you start to look ahead a little bit, the Panthers
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  Speaker 3: will beat you. And your classic, quote, trap game exists
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  Speaker 3: right here. You come off this emotional high. You beat
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  Speaker 3: the Chiefs. You take the AFC West back. You establish
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  Speaker 3: yourself again as one of the top teams in the AFC.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have a Panthers game against a team
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  Speaker 3: that's been struggling the week before the bye. If you
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  Speaker 3: are not on your game, Carolina will beat you. Mountain
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  Speaker 3: time zone to East Coast at 11 a.m. Early game
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  Speaker 3: on the East Coast. Always difficult. But here's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked forever. If the offense isn't going to give
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  Speaker 3: you major improvement, it just takes the defense to have
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  Speaker 3: an off day. And if they have an off day,
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  Speaker 3: and you face a team that can score, you could
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  Speaker 3: be in for some trouble. Bryce Young, with how he's
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  Speaker 3: playing this year for the most part, is a guy
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  Speaker 3: that can burn you. He has had multiple 300-yard games.
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  Speaker 3: He has thrown a touchdown in every game this year.
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  Speaker 3: His last couple of games, not great. But he's certainly capable.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you could use the word do to
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  Speaker 3: have a good game. The injury report for the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: is as follows. Chris Abrams Drain was a DNP the
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  Speaker 3: last two days with an ankle. Brandon Jones still has
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  Speaker 3: not practiced after a hamstring. If you listened to Jeff
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  Speaker 3: Legwald yesterday, that one is concerning because... if you have
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  Speaker 3: a hamstring injury and then you go play in a
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  Speaker 3: game and you leave that game with a hamstring injury
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  Speaker 3: and then don't practice the next week, that could be
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  Speaker 3: a big problem. You might not have Brandon Jones, not
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  Speaker 3: just this week, maybe next week, and then we'll see
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  Speaker 3: after the bye.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Not just this week, but after the bye we'll see
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  Speaker 3: going into the following game against the Raiders is what
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  Speaker 3: I meant to say. And then Hufanga did return to
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  Speaker 3: practice yesterday in a limited capacity.
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  Speaker 4: So who knows? Bottom line is, this game feels very trappy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think....
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  Speaker 3: The Broncos have not run into this issue yet because
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  Speaker 3: they're well coached. I don't think Sean Payton will allow
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  Speaker 3: this to happen, but all I'm saying is an off
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  Speaker 3: day from the defense, which I think would be quasi-understandable
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  Speaker 3: with how many snaps they played. In fact, Nelly, do
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  Speaker 3: me a favor. Go back to Jeff Legwald, his interview yesterday.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: And early in that interview, he talked about the amount
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: of snaps that were played by the Broncos defense at
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: this point in the calendar.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: It's insane.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: Like 557 snaps already this year. It's why I think
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: that you see a little bit more wear and tear
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: on the defensive side than on the offensive side. With
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: guys going down with injuries, they've been on the field
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: a ton. And when you're on the field that much,
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: and I'm trying to think back to blown assignments, they've
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: had very few this year. All I'm saying is, make
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: sure you're on your P's and Q's. You should win
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: this game. Don't get me wrong. Funny thing is, if
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I were looking at this game, I would think, yeah,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: the Broncos are probably, what, a six-point favorite, even on
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: the road at Carolina.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, again, Carolina, the last two weeks, they've dropped
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: two in a row. They lost 43-13 to the Bucs.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Two weeks ago, they lost 27-19 to the Packers, even
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: though that game felt like it was the Packers who
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: had that handled the entire way. They are a team
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: that can burn you, though. And I know they got
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: their own sort of issues here. They got offensive linemen
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: that are banged up. but you can't overlook them. And
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: if you didn't hear this from yesterday, I want you
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: to listen to what's taken place with the defense at
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: this point. You know, it's 17 games, no halfway point necessarily,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: but let's just call it the halfway point.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: This is what the defense has dealt with.
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: It isn't just too many. They've played the most snaps
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: of any defense in the league. 556 this season. That's
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: 20 more than any other team 20.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: He also went on to say, what was that number again, Nelly?
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: What was that? I missed the exact figure.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: That he just said.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: 556.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: 556.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: I believe he said later that Alex Singleton has played 555.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: That he's far and away the defensive player with the
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: most snaps this year. And when you look at statistics
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: on the season and where guys stack up, the tackle
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: leader on defense is Alex Singleton, and it's not close.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: He has 101 tackles already. He is on pace for
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: a 200-tackle season. The next closest guy is Anthony Hill Jr.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: out of Tennessee who has 82 tackles. Well, why is that?
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: Because he's on the field all day. And when you're
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: on the field all day and you have 555 snaps,
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of tackles up for grabs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: So, should the Broncos win? Yes.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Should this defense be able to maul a beat up
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: Panthers offensive line?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: But I would make sure.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: That you have the offense picking up first downs, moving
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the chains, and keeping time of possession in your favor.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Offensive line for the Panthers might be beat up, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: they are.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: But if you're just.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Looking at yardage on the year, if you're looking at points,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: Carolina's near the tops of all these different categories, especially passing.
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: They're fifth in the league in passing yards per game. Fifth. Now,
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: their running numbers....
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: It's not like they're doing anything crazy. They get just
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: over 100 yards per game in the running game, but
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: they do have talented running backs.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: Again, Broncos should win.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: I don't think that this game is going to be like, hey, whatever.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: They'll be fine. And we can talk about.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: The Panthers' defense, and I think that's the real test here.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Panthers' defense is miserable. They give up a ton of
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: yards in virtually every category. They're pretty good in the
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: pass game, but I think that's because people run so
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: well off of them. They are third worst in the
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: league in rushing defense. So you hope Jonah Coleman gets
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: out and has.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: A big game.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: They're near the end of the league in points per
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: game allowed. They give up almost 28 a game. But again,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: we're talking about bad defenses. How much does that matter
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: against Broncos offense? We've done this before. Broncos offense, first
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: of all, feels like they're playing themselves every week. If
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: they keep themselves in gear, if they don't make mistakes,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: if they can pick up third downs with some consistency,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: then you should be fine. But I can't get the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: number out of my head that in this four-game win streak.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: That they're on right now, they're 9 of 48 on
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: third downs.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Which, again, directly contributes to those defensive snaps that we
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: were talking about, including this one for Alex Singleton, if
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: you got it, Nelly.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: It is one of the most amazing stats of the year.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: The Broncos defensive played 556 snaps. Alex Singleton leads the
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: NFL defensive players. He's played 555 of those. He's played
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: every snap but one on defense offensively.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: That's putting way too much. It's not even pressure on
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: your defense. I mean, it is, but it's just taxing.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: And I'm more concerned, you know, I think this game
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: feels a little bit trap gamey, but I think more.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Towards what's going to happen at the end of the year.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: You don't want your defense wearing down this early in
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: the season. And I think this bye week is coming
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: at a perfect time for the Broncos. Gives enough time
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: for a couple of your guys to get healthy, number one.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: But number two, it just gives them a damn break.
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: Because that's what they need. Like, I truly feel like
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: this could be a game where the Broncos win by 20.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Or the Broncos lose by a touchdown. Now, I think
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: winning by 20 is far more likely. But again, um,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: They just can't be looking ahead. You know, remember last
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: year when the abs were rolling, had four regulation losses
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: heading into January. And then when they saw that, that
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Olympic break coming, they lost a lot of games.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Because they saw the reprieve. They saw the break. And
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I think they played so well leading up to it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: They're like, all right, we can take our foot off
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: the gas a little bit. We've built enough of a cushion.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: We're going to get this big break in between here.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: So let's just put it on cruise control. And the Avs,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: or I'm sorry, the Broncos just can't do that heading
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: into this upcoming game. Stay on your P's and Q's.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Take care of your business. Play solid defense. Don't give
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: up big plays. Offense, do something. And then you head
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: into the bye week with a 7-2 record on top
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: of the AFC West. And you head into the easier
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: portion of your schedule with hopefully.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: A healthier team. 3-0-3, 5-0-4, 0-9-2-5.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Texas says, I'm not sure it feels like a trap
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: game for the past few years. They have beaten teams
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: that they're supposed to beat. You're absolutely right. It's been
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: sort of a hallmark of Sean Payton's teams since he's
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: been here, whether it's with Bo Nix or even Russell Wilson.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: when the Broncos are favored to win a football game
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: they almost always win the football game well they win
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: they win football games just regardless of whatever like they
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: just win a lot But when you've had this level
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: of sustained success and winning, stay on top of it.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: And I think they will.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: But I would be lying to you if I didn't
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: think to myself, this just feels a little bit like
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: this one could sneak up on you. I always hate
• 30:17
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• 30:22
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  Speaker 4: So, um, seems to be some sort of.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: It feels very 50-50.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: When I talk about this Panthers game feeling a little
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: bit like a trap game to me. I want to reemphasize,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I do think the Broncos win for a number of
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: different reasons.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Number one, they're very good. Number two, they're better than Carolina.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: And number three, and I think most importantly, they just
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: don't have any track record of dropping games that they're
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: supposed to win. you go back to Broncos games over
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: the last couple of years and the losses that have
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: taken place, you know, the San Francisco loss earlier this year,
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: they were underdogs and the loss against the chiefs.
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: They were underdogs.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Um, Last year against Jacksonville, they were a heavy favorite,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: but I think Jacksonville was not.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Being taken seriously at that point.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: They just don't really lose games in which they're supposed
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: to win. And I think that's been a hallmark of
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: a Sean Payton led team since he got here. So
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: I think they're going to be in good shape. Um,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: Bottom line is, I just want to see this offense
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: take over a football game in a positive way. And
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: as you head into a trade deadline, I think it's
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: a very big game for somebody like Jonah Coleman. Can
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman be a guy that against one of the
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: worst rush defenses in the NFL takes total control of
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: it and says, you should have no problems making me
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: your feature back. Being on the trade market and sniffing
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: around Jonathan Taylors and guys like this, I wonder what's
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: going to happen with the Ravens because here's another sort
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: of tagline to what's going to take place before Tuesday.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: It felt like Baltimore was feeling this game out to
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: see truly how far off they are without Lamar Jackson,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: guess what?
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: A ton.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: I know they made the trade for Jacoby Brissett, but Fagnano,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: that guy, had 60 yards on 18 passing attempts and
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: threw two picks. And Jacksonville sold out to stop the run,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: and they did with Derrick Henry. I think it is
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: entirely possible that Derrick Henry is now on the trade market.
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: You know, Baltimore's in a weird place. They got a
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: decision on Lamar Jackson's contract coming up. They might want
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: to go in an entirely new direction.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: I just....
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: I think there's... By the way, Brett, just quickly on
• 34:46
  Speaker 5: the state of the Ravens overall, how many times in
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: the broadcast did Herbie and Al Michaels go, boy... When
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Jacoby Brissett gets here, hopefully he can figure things out.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Oh boy, Ravens are really putting all their eggs in
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: Jacoby Brissett's basket. And I had this thought where I said, dude,
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: let's go back to August. What if it's like August
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: or we're doing a show on July 27th and I
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: told you, hey man, Ravens fans are going to put
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: their entire fate of their franchise on Jacoby Brissett. You
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: would have told me to get the hell out of
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: this studio.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Well, they had to do something.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: They would have been fine if Tyler Huntley was taking over.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: I don't think they got Jacoby Brissett to convince themselves
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: they're going to be in the playoff hunt with him.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: They got him because they had to do something. Because
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: you can't do half the season with that Fagnano guy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: That pasta dish throwing the football for you. There is
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: zero incentive for your own fan base to watch, if
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: that's the case. So you had to make some changes,
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: and Brissette is going to be fine for them, but
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: it's not going to make a tangible difference in them
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: making the.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Postseason or not. It's just to kind of save some face.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: If the Broncos had.
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Nix and Stidham and Ellinger go down, and they had
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Joe Fagnano at quarterback, the Broncos would go out and
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: make a trade for somebody across the league.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: They'd make a trade for, I don't know, Gardner Minshew or,
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: I was going to say Carson Wentz, but he's starting now.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about, though. They would make
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: a trade for some guy and say, look, man, we
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: need to save some face here. Even if we don't
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: think we're making the playoffs, I can't do this every week.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: Because then you lose the locker room. If you don't
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: actively try and find something better than that at QB,
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: good luck.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: So that's why they made that move. But I do
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: think that that means that Derrick Henry could possibly be
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: on the market. And I told you that's important for
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of reasons. Number one, it gives you another
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: option to go inquire about in the trade game. It also,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: I think, knocks down the price of other running backs.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: The classic supply and demand theory. When it was just
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor and maybe Brees Hall, well, guess what? The
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: price is pretty high. There ain't many running backs that
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: are on the market. But when it's Jonathan Taylor and
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Brees Hall and Derrick Henry and Tony Pollard and a
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: whole bunch of different guys, veteran running backs in the
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: league that are trusted, well, now all of a sudden
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: the price goes down. And to be honest, I think
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: the Colts might have waited too long. They're waiting for
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: a first-round pick. First-round pick ain't coming. And now the
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: offer that they could have gotten maybe gets dampened a
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: bit with the.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Other names that are out there.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: But overall, I think this is a game where Jonah Coleman,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: if he wants to, he can look at this opposing
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: defense in the Panthers. They give up a ton of
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: rushing yards. You know, the just a couple of weeks ago,
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: gave up over 200 on the ground to the Bucs.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: The Bucs, despite winning a game last week without a
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: forward pass being completed, two weeks ago, won a game
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: with only 50 passing yards and won 43-13 against that defense.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: If he wants to make the argument that you don't
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: need to go out and make a big trade for
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: a running back, you can put your faith in me,
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: this is going to be the game to do it.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Again, they give up A ton of rushing yards. 141
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: per game.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Feels like a game, if you do everything right, you
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: should have your first 100-yard rusher since last year. But anyway,
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: that's what I think is on the table this weekend.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: And with that, Nelly, are you warmed up? You got
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: your vocal cords ready? How about you guys and your cars?
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: You guys got it?
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Sing it with us. Bertie!
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Bertie!
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Bertie's baby!
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: Do it, everybody. Come on. We do it every single
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Friday heading into the football weekend. I give you my
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: lock of the week and I give you an underdog
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: of the week. Uh, I'm sitting, I think I'm at
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: exactly 500 on Brady and his bets this year.
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: So we're going to try and amp this up. All
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: the things that I just like me trash 500.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: It's okay. You're just losing, you know, a couple of
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: bucks on the VIG. That's all you're losing. But, um,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: The favorite of the week, as much as I talked
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: about this being a trap game, I think the Broncos
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: number being only.
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Two and a half makes me very comfortable.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: When you get in between those field goal spreads, you're
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: basically asking who's going to win the game, and I
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: think in this case, the Broncos are going to win.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: As much as I have nerves about maybe looking ahead
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: to a bye week and you just got past the
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: tough part of your schedule, you might be overlooking an opponent,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Bottom line is when Sean Payton coaches a team or
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: coaches in a game in which he's supposed to win,
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: the Broncos win. And if this number was five and
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: a half, I think I'd stay away. Two and a half,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I feel very comfortable about. So we'll go ahead and
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: lock that in for the Broncos being the favorite for
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: me on the week. And then for the underdog, this
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: one is very difficult because there's like two options that
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: I'm really in between.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: And they both reside in college football. And I think
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: I'm going to pull the trigger here.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I was going to go Miami over Notre Dame because
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame's favored by over a touchdown at 7.5, but
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I'm very scared at not having Malachi Toney on the field.
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: So instead, I'm going to a Minnesota football team that's
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: played really well lately, damn near beat Indiana last week.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: They take on UCLA, who's undefeated. The spread is 5.5
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: in favor of UCLA. UCLA has not been tested by
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: a decent football team yet, and I feel like if
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: a team can score just a couple of touchdowns, It
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: can make them very uncomfortable.
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: This game is in Minnesota. They played well in Minnesota. Yeah,
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: I'm going with the Gophers at plus five and a half.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: So there you go.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Brady and his bets every Friday heading into football weekend.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Motion Lombardi and Kane starts next.