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10-07-26 - Nuggets preseason positivity!/NFL STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Calling someone else's offense · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 2: Well, the sideline reporter for CBS said during the game that,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if it was in a pre-meeting, but.
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  Speaker 3: You had mentioned that flying, maybe the ankle swells a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and you've got to do.
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  Speaker 1: Some treatment with it.
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  Speaker 3: Has that been any issue at all?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you looked up, I'm not a doctor, but
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  Speaker 2: has that made you more reluctant to perhaps take off?
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  Speaker 2: Is the ankle inhibiting you in any.
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  Speaker 4: Way at all?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Cool. Um, welcome in.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of things that we got to discuss this morning,
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  Speaker 5: but I do want to start somewhere different. Um, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not one to put a bunch of stock in games.
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  Speaker 3: That don't matter. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that's coming up
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  Speaker 3: here in about 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just not one to put a lot of stock
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  Speaker 5: in that, but I do think that some of the
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  Speaker 5: stuff that you see is important.
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  Speaker 3: I think that.
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  Speaker 5: The way that people respond to new situations....
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  Speaker 3: Does give you a little bit of a look.
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  Speaker 5: At how things go. And so I'm watching the Nuggets
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  Speaker 5: preseason last night.
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  Speaker 3: And I am.
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  Speaker 5: Watching an engaged Aaron Gordon. I'm watching a Cam Johnson
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  Speaker 5: that seems more comfortable. I'm watching a Christian Brown that
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  Speaker 5: is moving faster. And I'm watching guys off the bench.
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  Speaker 5: Struthers and Whitmores and Diallos and Marvin Bagley and all
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  Speaker 5: these different guys. I've been looking and hoping and praying
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  Speaker 5: and wishing and something and whatever that song is.
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  Speaker 3: I've been looking for all of that.
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  Speaker 5: A reason this offseason just to give me, get me
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  Speaker 5: back on board a bit. I've spent a lot I,
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  Speaker 5: of what I feel like the last, Oh, we'll call it.
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  Speaker 3: Nine, 10 months.
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  Speaker 5: Um, not having positive thoughts in feelings towards the nuggets,
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  Speaker 5: like thinking that whatever you have on this roster is
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  Speaker 5: doesn't feel like to me it can quite get there.
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  Speaker 3: That applied last year in the regular season. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we had our.
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  Speaker 5: Fun when it was January and everybody was out with
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  Speaker 5: injuries and it was just all backups and you were
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  Speaker 5: kind of keeping your head above water.
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  Speaker 3: You were staying afloat.
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  Speaker 5: And then I remember at the end of that, I
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  Speaker 5: was like, okay, this has been fun, but this is enough. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to watch this anymore. I want to
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  Speaker 5: watch the actual team. And you just never really got
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  Speaker 5: back to it. And I had this feeling going into
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  Speaker 5: the postseason that, you know, the way that you got
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  Speaker 5: to the number three seed, winning 12 games in a row,
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  Speaker 5: I feel like that just masked a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 5: problems that we thought we were watching.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of like when we were watching the Broncos last
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  Speaker 5: year and maybe in weeks two and three this year,
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  Speaker 5: And you're pointing out like that doesn't seem like that's
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  Speaker 5: something that you can keep doing and winning. I still
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  Speaker 5: recognize the flaws. So I've been waiting for about nine
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  Speaker 5: or ten months after an offseason full of pretty much nothing.
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  Speaker 5: The biggest thing that happened in the offseason is the
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  Speaker 5: players that you lost, not the players you acquired. And
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  Speaker 5: you think to yourself, okay, what do I hold on to?
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  Speaker 5: What's the grasp? And the grasp is you have the
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  Speaker 5: best player, one of the best players in the history
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  Speaker 5: of the entire league. And if team stays healthy, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 5: And I kept thinking about that and it just didn't
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  Speaker 5: sit right with me. The if the team stays healthy thing,
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  Speaker 5: because they just haven't been. And I just don't think
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  Speaker 5: that's something that's reliable anymore. You can't say it. If
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  Speaker 5: you're trotting out a team where you trust like basically
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  Speaker 5: six guys on your roster, people are going to get
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  Speaker 5: hurt And then you're going to run into problems.
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  Speaker 3: So I've been sitting here hoping.
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  Speaker 5: To see something that it feels like I can start
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  Speaker 5: to trust that's outside of that core. Went into the preseason,
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  Speaker 5: I said, I feel pretty good about your top seven guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think your starting five is still one of the
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  Speaker 3: best in the NBA.
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  Speaker 5: I think that both DeMar DeRozan and Spencer Jones coming
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  Speaker 5: off the bench are great. reliable bench players in this league.
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea about anybody else. Like if you
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  Speaker 5: asked me about, well, what about Alpha Diallo? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: the guy who hasn't played in the NBA? Who's like 30?
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  Speaker 5: That seems like a weird person to rely on.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. What about Deron Holmes? He's been a ghost. I
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  Speaker 3: have no idea what he is. How about Hopkins in Brazil?
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  Speaker 3: The rookies.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know if they're going to play. Cam Whitmore,
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  Speaker 5: the guy that nobody kind of wanted and he just
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  Speaker 5: signed off the street. All these things were in my
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  Speaker 5: head of if this was going to be, like DeMar
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  Speaker 5: DeRozan was easy. That's a veteran who's been in this
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  Speaker 5: league for 15 plus years who's been the same guy
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  Speaker 5: virtually every year.
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  Speaker 3: But it was Bagley's and hey, maybe this is Zeke's year. Yeah, right.
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  Speaker 5: But after watching a couple of preseason games, I got
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  Speaker 5: to tell you, it's not made me confident, but I'll
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  Speaker 5: say it's made me curious. Maybe Alpha Diallo is somebody
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  Speaker 5: that can be a difference maker for you. Maybe Marvin
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  Speaker 5: Bagley is the kind of backup center you need to Jokic,
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  Speaker 5: capable of scoring, has a little bit more range in athleticism.
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  Speaker 5: than a Jonas Valanciunas did. You know, maybe all of
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  Speaker 5: the talk about Cam Whitmore and how he was, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a first-round draft pick just a few years ago, big athletic.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe he just needed to be in the right situation. Like,
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  Speaker 5: I'm starting to kind of convince myself maybe this is
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  Speaker 5: a place where if you play alongside the Joker, because
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  Speaker 5: Lord knows we've seen it plenty of times, You play
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  Speaker 5: alongside him, you get inflated numbers. So I do all
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  Speaker 5: that to tell you that in watching a couple of
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  Speaker 5: preseason games, I do feel a little bit better about
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  Speaker 5: where the Nuggets are at than when the season first started.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say I was in a dark
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  Speaker 5: place with the Nuggets, a couple of weeks ago. And
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  Speaker 5: a dark place is just this. This is the new
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  Speaker 5: dark place that you are with the Denver Nuggets. Is
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  Speaker 5: that you enter a season thinking you don't really got
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  Speaker 5: a shot at a title. And that's kind of how
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  Speaker 5: it felt to me. And I've at least shifted a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more hopeful on that. And look, if they
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  Speaker 5: continue to play like this, if we get into the
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  Speaker 5: regular season and you got guys still playing the way
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  Speaker 5: that at least they have in the preseason, then that
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  Speaker 5: can totally shift.
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  Speaker 3: But A couple of weeks ago was the first time
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  Speaker 3: in a while.
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  Speaker 5: That I just felt like the Nuggets and championship aspirations
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  Speaker 5: felt like too much to ask for with the roster
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  Speaker 5: they were trotting out there. It felt a lot to me, Nelly,
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  Speaker 5: like the couple of years that Jamal was hurt. It's
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  Speaker 5: like you had a good team. You know the team's
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  Speaker 5: making the playoffs. But it's very, very highly improbable that
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  Speaker 5: you are going to win a championship without that guy
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  Speaker 5: on the floor. And I just think the roster overall,
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  Speaker 5: because of the cap situation you were in and all
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  Speaker 5: these different things, you think about it, last year you
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  Speaker 5: get bounced in the first round, you lose Tim Hardaway Jr.
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  Speaker 3: who was, I think, second all-time.
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  Speaker 5: In a season for the Nuggets in three-pointers made. huge
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  Speaker 5: six-man coming off the bench. You lose Peyton Watson, which
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  Speaker 5: was your young, talented asset, like the only one you
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  Speaker 5: had on the roster at the time. And it just
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  Speaker 5: felt like if you lost in the first round and
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  Speaker 5: then you lose two major rotational players and they are
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  Speaker 5: replaced with DeMar DeRozan, just numbers-wise, it didn't feel like
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  Speaker 5: you had enough.
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  Speaker 3: And I have been.
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  Speaker 5: Encouraged here through a couple of preseason games that maybe
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  Speaker 5: some of these These bargain bin fines could be guys
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  Speaker 5: that matter. So I'm encouraged, we'll say.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's more to.
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  Speaker 5: This than maybe we're letting on. I did a lot
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  Speaker 5: of thinking last night and digging into some numbers. I
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  Speaker 5: think Bo Nix's ankle is bothering him.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's so much like a pain
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  Speaker 5: thing as much as it's maybe a confidence thing in it.
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  Speaker 5: And it's not so much because of his play through
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  Speaker 5: the air or checking down or something like that. I
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  Speaker 5: think when you have a lack of confidence in a
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  Speaker 5: body part that's on you and you're trying to play
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  Speaker 5: through it and things aren't going well on offense and
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  Speaker 5: all of this kind of comes together, I think the
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  Speaker 5: total result is lack of confidence. And I'll give you
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  Speaker 5: an example. I stumbled across these towards the end of
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  Speaker 5: the show yesterday. But through four games this season, and
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  Speaker 5: if I ask you something that makes Bo Nix different
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  Speaker 5: as a quarterback, what is Bo Nix's thing that separates
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  Speaker 5: him from a physical trait standpoint? He doesn't have the
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  Speaker 5: strongest arm in the world. He's not the most accurate
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  Speaker 5: quarterback in the world.
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  Speaker 3: But he's mobile. He can move.
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  Speaker 5: And I think when he makes a commitment to take
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  Speaker 5: off and run, he's as good as a lot of
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  Speaker 5: different guys in this league from a mobility standpoint.
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  Speaker 3: Like, he's not Lamar.
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  Speaker 5: But you name, you know, the 32 starting quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL right now, he's got more athleticism than I
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  Speaker 5: would say 25 of them.
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  Speaker 3: And then you look at the numbers.
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  Speaker 5: And through four games, Bo Nix has 14 runs for
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  Speaker 5: 25 yards. His longest run of the year is eight yards.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought, that looks really weird. And then I
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  Speaker 5: went back to last year. 25 yards through four games.
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  Speaker 5: He had 38 yards in two games last year. He
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  Speaker 5: had 71 yards through three games. This is part of
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  Speaker 5: his game, is taking off and running with the football. Hell,
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  Speaker 5: the last three games that he played last year, the
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  Speaker 5: Kansas City game, the Chargers game to close out the
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  Speaker 5: regular season, and the playoff game, how many carries he
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  Speaker 5: had in those three games alone? It was 29. He
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  Speaker 5: was averaging 10 rushing attempts per game. We're five games in.
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  Speaker 5: He's got 14. I don't think that's because he's just
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  Speaker 5: made the decision. I don't care about running the football anymore.
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  Speaker 5: I do think a huge portion of this is maybe
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  Speaker 5: his ankle is bothering him more than we cared to admit.
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  Speaker 3: And nobody wants to say that.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm one of those guys, like if you're on
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  Speaker 5: the field and you're playing, then I can't give you
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  Speaker 5: grace because you're playing through an injury. I have to
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  Speaker 5: judge how your game is on the field. Because I'm
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  Speaker 5: sure everybody is dealing with an injury. And it'd be
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  Speaker 5: unfair to like single somebody out and say, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he's really hurt. Unless you've got somebody's arm that's hanging off.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if you're Aaron Gordon with a grade two
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  Speaker 5: hamstring strain and he can't walk and he's trying to
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  Speaker 5: play through a playoff game, maybe that's a little bit different.
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  Speaker 3: But those numbers are too weird to me.
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  Speaker 5: He is a mobile quarterback that uses his legs to
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  Speaker 5: make a difference on offense, and he's not doing it
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  Speaker 5: right now.
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  Speaker 3: The odd thing is, I.
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  Speaker 5: Think that his passing numbers are kind of in line
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  Speaker 5: with what they've been through the first four games his
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  Speaker 5: entire career. He is a slow starter through the air,
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  Speaker 5: but the lack of commitment to taking off and running,
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  Speaker 5: I think, tells you a couple things. So we'll get
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  Speaker 5: It is NFL Stock Up, Stock Down. We always start
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  Speaker 5: with the quarterback. Stock Up.
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  Speaker 3: Kirk Cousins. You like that?
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  Speaker 5: I was kind of in the camp that Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 5: was cooked. That's a lot of cookers.
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  Speaker 3: But it did feel to me, you know, he leaves Minnesota.
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  Speaker 5: He tries to find it in other places. Kirk Cousins
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  Speaker 5: goes out, plays in Atlanta, doesn't really work. And you
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  Speaker 5: think to yourself, okay, maybe this is it. Maybe we
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  Speaker 5: finally hit the end of Kirk Cousins running the league,
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  Speaker 5: which would be a fantastic career.
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  Speaker 3: Gets to Vegas. All right, you're going to be the
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  Speaker 3: bridge quarterback for Mendoza.
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  Speaker 5: Just stick around. Mendoza will take over halfway through the year.
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  Speaker 5: And then you can ride off in the sunset. Well,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if that's happening now. Because the Raiders
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  Speaker 5: are kind of good. And they're kind of good because
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  Speaker 5: Kirk Cousins is playing really good football. Everybody had questions
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  Speaker 5: going into this game. They've beaten the Miami Dolphins, the Chargers,
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  Speaker 5: and the Saints. the first three weeks of the season.
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  Speaker 5: But you go and you play against the Chiefs. How
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  Speaker 5: are you going to hold up? Well, Kirk Cousins was
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  Speaker 5: 31-52 for 365 yards, two touchdowns and a pick. Damn
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  Speaker 5: near brought them back to win that game. He's got
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  Speaker 5: 11 touchdowns and four picks on the year, 1,000 yards passing.
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  Speaker 3: Like, this guy has played great for them. Way better
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  Speaker 3: than I could have ever expected.
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  Speaker 5: And I think he's got the case unless things go
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  Speaker 5: really off the rails.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe this is one of the rare.
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  Speaker 5: True red shirt seasons for a number one overall pick
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  Speaker 5: at quarterback because you can't look people in the locker
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  Speaker 5: room in the face and say, we're benching this guy
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  Speaker 5: because we have to play our rookie even if he's
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  Speaker 5: playing really good football. So shout out to Kirk Cousins.
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  Speaker 5: He gets the stock up because he's been playing great
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  Speaker 5: this year. Quarterback stock down.
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  Speaker 3: It's Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 5: He's got his own fan base that's kind of calling
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  Speaker 5: for his head and his head coach's head by proxy.
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  Speaker 5: They have played four games this year in which I
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  Speaker 5: think in all of them, they could have ended up
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  Speaker 5: on the losing side. They did in the game against
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  Speaker 5: the Rams this last weekend, and this was a brutal
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  Speaker 5: game for Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 3: He was 12 of 27 throwing the football.
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  Speaker 5: For 93 yards, he had two touchdowns and no picks,
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  Speaker 5: but he took four sacks. The offense didn't score in
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  Speaker 5: the second half. It led to the Rams' big-time comeback
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  Speaker 5: and that happening in Philadelphia. You look at the first
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  Speaker 5: couple of games of the year. They played against Washington.
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  Speaker 5: They played against Tennessee. They eked out a victory against
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  Speaker 5: the Commanders by two. Tennessee had the lead with 10
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  Speaker 5: seconds left in that game until a touchdown was scored
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  Speaker 5: with nine seconds. And that's how they got the win there.
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  Speaker 5: But he's... There has been a Jalen Hurts rollercoaster that's
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  Speaker 5: a really difficult thing to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a part of.
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  Speaker 5: He wins the Super Bowl. Well, now this guy's one
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  Speaker 5: of the best quarterbacks in the league. And then they
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  Speaker 5: have bad seasons and offensive coordinator turnover and all this
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  Speaker 5: different stuff. And now all of a sudden, everybody in
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  Speaker 5: Philadelphia hates Jalen Hurts again. It's a hard guy to
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  Speaker 5: get a true read on because he plays like a
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  Speaker 5: true roller coaster. And this isn't new. I mean, Jalen
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  Speaker 5: Hurts has been in the league since 2020. This is
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  Speaker 5: year seven. You should have a little bit more consistency
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  Speaker 5: at this point from him. And we're four games into
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  Speaker 5: an NFL season, and he's got 713 passing yards.
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  Speaker 3: Think about that.
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  Speaker 5: There's just a lot of issues within that Eagles offense,
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  Speaker 5: and now they're going to have even more. The news
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  Speaker 5: from yesterday, Lane Johnson, their best offensive lineman, retires midseason.
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  Speaker 3: He's got personal issues. He retires. Dickerson, another good offensive
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  Speaker 3: lineman for them, is out with an injury. Cam Juergens.
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  Speaker 5: is somebody that looked like he was going to be
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  Speaker 5: really promising, but is playing terribly this year for them.
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  Speaker 5: They have a whole bunch of offensive line problems now,
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  Speaker 5: and if you can't establish a Saquon Barkley rushing game
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  Speaker 5: and get that going to its fullest extent, Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 5: is going to have some trouble. So he gets the
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  Speaker 5: stock down. Let's go non-quarterback stock up. Nobody knew who
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  Speaker 5: this guy was. I still don't think people truly know
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  Speaker 5: who this guy is, but you should.
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  Speaker 3: He was a seventh.
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  Speaker 5: Round pick, the 233rd overall draft pick of last year's draft,
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  Speaker 5: or I guess two years.
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  Speaker 3: Ago, 2025.
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  Speaker 5: Kyle Menungai is playing incredible football. So he shares the
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  Speaker 5: backfield in Chicago with the Swift. He has 60 carries
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  Speaker 5: this year for 324 yards. Swift and Menungai combine. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Both of them are the seventh and eighth leading rushers
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  Speaker 5: in the league. Individually, they're seventh and eighth. That's how
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  Speaker 5: good the Bears rushing game is. And I think a
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  Speaker 5: huge part of this has to do with Ben Johnson,
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  Speaker 5: who might be the best play caller in the history
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  Speaker 5: of sports.
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  Speaker 3: Very well could be.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: But you look at Kyle Menungai's games, just this last week,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Kyle Menungai had 30 carries against the Jets for 146
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: yards and two touchdowns. That's his second 100-yard game of
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: the season. And He is going to get more and
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: more touches and carries. He got basically 10 carries per
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: game the first three weeks.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: He got 30 in this last one.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: They're going to have trouble deciding who to give the
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: ball to in that backfield, and that's a good problem
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: to have. When you hit, and this is what's important,
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: what makes teams good? You hit on seventh-round draft picks,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: you're a good football team. And I know the commissioner's
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: exempt list stuff that Jonathan Cooper's dealing with right now,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: but it's kind of the same deal with the Broncos.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: He was a seventh-round pick.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: You hit on him enough to where he's somebody who's
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: getting you nine sacks a year, and you feel like
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: you can give a second contract to for decent money
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: and not bat an eye at it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: That's what good teams do.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Kyle Menungai is now in a position to where you
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: can go with him, you can go with Swift. If
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: somebody gets hurt, your running game doesn't fall off. It's
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: an amazing spot to be. So Kyle Monunga, he gets
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: a stock up. Let's go non-quarterback stock down. I hate
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: to say it, but has there been anybody more disappointing
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: than Cortland Sutton's numbers this year? Cortland Sutton has nine
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: catches for 86 yards on the season. That's a Jackson
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Smith and Jigba first half.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Jackson Smith, Nagujuba.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Last week against San Francisco, Sutton, one catch, four yards.
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: He's had nine catches on 22 targets. To have a
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: sub-50% completion rate on your targets is awful.
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: And I don't know if, I don't think it's his fault.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: I think it's a byproduct of their making a concerted
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: effort to get Jalen Waddell more involved in the offense
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: and Bo Nix isn't playing that well and not trying
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: to push the ball downfield. But I will tell you,
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: I've had my reservations about this. Guys who hit 30
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: years old as wide receivers typically don't continue to play
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: at a high level, at least nearly as high as
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: they had before they hit 30. You know, Cortland Sutton's
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: going to turn 31 here in three days. Go look
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: at Julio Jones's numbers in his 30s. It's like good year,
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: good year, completely off a cliff and retired the year
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: after that. It happens in a hurry because if you
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: don't get that step off the line and you're going
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: against 23-year-old corners, you just can't get separation anymore.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And to be honest, I don't know.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: What that issue is for him, for now, I'm going
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: to put it more on the offense overall and the
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: quarterback play. But either way, it's a problem. When you
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: got a wide receiver that you're paying over $ 20 million
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: a year to, and that guy has nine catches through
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: four games, it's an issue. So Cortland Sutton gets a
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: stock down. Let's go NFL team stock up. I think
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: this team's in for a reality check. Their next three
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: games are against the Ravens, Bears, and Niners. But I
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: am going to give a tip of the cap to
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: the Atlanta Falcons for this reason.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Since they have inserted Michael Penix Jr.
• 23:56
  Speaker 5: Into their starting lineup as the quarterback, he's been healthy
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: enough to step in and play. The last two weeks,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: that offense that went from the biggest joke in the
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: league that through two weeks of the NFL season did
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: not run a snap in the red zone... to a
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: team that put up 70 points combined with both games
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: on the road. They put up 35 against the Packers
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: and Lambeau. They put 45 up against the Saints at
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: the Superdome.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Guess what?
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: Those two places, very loud and very difficult for offenses.
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: Pennix jumps in, maybe gives them a little bit more
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: of a threat through the air.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Now, all of a sudden, B.
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: John Robinson and Brian Robinson can start running for, you know,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: 250 yards a game.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: It's changed things.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Now, they might get the benefit this weekend of Lamar
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: Jackson not being in the lineup for the Ravens, so
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: we'll see. But it's Ravens, Bears, Niners, Bucks, Bengals, Chiefs, Vikings. Like,
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: they got a really tough stretch coming up here on
• 25:03
  Speaker 5: their schedule. So I don't think this is going to last,
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: but you do have to tip your cap at least.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: to what Atlanta's been able to do since putting Michael
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Penix Jr.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: In that lineup.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: So they get the NFL team stock up. Let's go
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: team stock down. The oddity about this is I really
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: don't think they're that bad. But they've lost two games
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: this year in a very, very weird way. The Houston
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Texans are 0-4. That's a death sentence. There's no getting
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: to the playoffs after losing your first four games of
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: the season. The first week, they played against Buffalo. They
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: lost 36-31. Last week, they play against Dallas. Dak Prescott
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: leads a last-second touchdown drive to come back and win
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: the game.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: They lose 34-30. Those are two games.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: In which the Houston offense, which has always seemingly been
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: the issue... has put up 30 points and a loss.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And that's what makes this curious.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: The Houston defense was one last year that was one
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: of the best in the NFL. I still believe they
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: have the talent to be one of the best in
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: the NFL. But they are worst in their own division
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: in the AFC South in points allowed this year. That's
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: pretty crazy. So I don't know what kind of team
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: they are.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: They have the Titans this week. You would imagine this
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: is a game that they finally get in the win column.
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: But they don't have nearly enough of those types of
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: games to try and get themselves back in contention for
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: really anything. And I don't trust C.J. Stroud at all anymore.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: They have a lot of question marks about what's going
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: to happen with him. Although, to his credit, he's been
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: better this year. He's been able to score points. Two
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: of those losses were not on him. You know, he's
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: always been a guy like if he doesn't turn the
• 27:02
  Speaker 5: ball over, you can like live with the results that
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: he gives you. But CJ Stroud this year, guess what?
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: No picks through four games. He's kind of done that.
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: They can't run the football at all. I mean, their
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: leading rusher is David Montgomery, who they traded an offensive
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: lineman and a draft pick for in the offseason. And
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: on 47 carries, he's averaging 2.7 yards per carry. That's
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: almost impossible. So they have a bunch of issues offensively. Ironically,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I don't think that CJ Stroud is the biggest one,
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: at least to this point in the season. They have
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: a bad combo of not being able to run the
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: football and not playing nearly as good a defense as
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: they did last year. So Houston Texans, they get the
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: stock down. Let's go to Game of the Week.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes!
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Best game of the week, I should say.
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, yes! I think it's Patriots and Bills. It was
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: a fantastic game from start to finish. You had the
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: great ending, the catch by that, as C.J. Gardner-Johnson would
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: call him, practice squad player in Chisholm. Went up, made
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: the grab, one-handed, comes down, and the Patriots get a
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: big win. They needed one like that on the road
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: in Buffalo. A game in which it kind of took
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: Drake May... maybe pushed him in the right direction again.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: But overall, just a great game. Start to finish. Pat's
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Bills was my favorite. The worst game of the week.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: You get nothing. You lose.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: This will probably be a common theme moving forward here
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: because it just seems to happen this way. Colts and
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Commanders was awful. I woke up early in the morning,
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: got the kids up, turned on the TV. It was like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: oh yeah, football's on. Let's turn that on in the background.
• 28:54
  Speaker 5: And immediately, it's Daniel Jones throwing picks and Marcus Mariota
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: leaving the game.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: And somebody with.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Zach Galifianakis' level of consonance in his last name is
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: throwing the football for the Commanders. Callie McManus, to his credit,
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: didn't look scared at the moment, but he certainly wasn't good.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: And so you get a game like that where you got,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: you know, third-string quarterbacks entering the game.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: And a Colts team that ended up winning 30-13. I understand.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: They blew their opponent out, but it's not like it
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: was a fun watch or they looked excellent.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: That is NFL Stock Up, Stock Down that we do
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: every single week.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Wednesday.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Jared Bednar is going to join the program at 8
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: o'clock this morning. Ian Eagle is going to join us
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: at 9, which I.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Need some help here.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: The last time we had Ian Eagle on this show,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: we infiltrated his.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Announcing booth.
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: We had him drop, he called himself American Sports Announcer,
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Ian Eagle.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: I want to think of something that we could throw
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: out at him again today.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Well, we had him on again. You remember we had
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: him on last year, and you guys tried to get
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: him to say something else. I don't remember, but he didn't.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: He didn't do it this time.
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: That's right. What did we try and get him to say? Well,
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask him again.
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: If that's the theme of what we do when we
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: talk to Ian Eagle, we'll just, you know, whether he
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: does or not, We're going to go out and we're
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: going to at least give it our best shot.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: But I need to figure out what it's going to be.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: And it has to be like, it's got to be subtle, guys.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Subtle.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Something that he can throw in casually that maybe like
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: somebody would cock an eyebrow at, but not like stop
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: their television and be like, what did he just say?
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: It's got to be subtle.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: But I don't know what that is at this point.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: We got until nine o'clock to figure that out. But
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: Iron Eagles are going to come on the show at
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: 9 o'clock. Jared Bednar at 8. High school football this
• 31:03
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• 31:07
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• 31:11
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• 31:18
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• 31:21
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• 31:26
  Speaker 5: So a lot more to get to this morning. We
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: have the abs taking on the jets tonight on the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: front end of a back-to-back team.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: That's averaging seven goals a game. We'll break that down
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit as well. Stick around.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: It's back at energy stadium in Houston, Texas, American sports announcers,
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Ian Eagle, Charles Davis.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 5: Um, I've been talking about this for a while, and
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: everybody's like, oh, Brett, you're being so stupid.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Everybody calls me stupid, which is fine.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Fair criticism.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying I'm not an idiot. But sometimes the
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: blind squirrel finds a nut. And here's my nut. I've
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: been talking about, offensively, to take over an offense, I
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: would want to have some autonomy.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I would like to have my own spin on things.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: I would like to run an offense that I want
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: to do. And I'll give you an example here, just
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: in this silly, stupid job that I do every day.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: I do not take a job to say what people
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: want me to say.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: The only reason I got into this business, and on
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: day one when I first got here, I made you
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: guys a promise. Because it's a promise more to myself
• 32:58
  Speaker 5: than it is to you. I'm always going to tell
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: you exactly what I think. I'm not going to say
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: something to try and rile you up if I don't
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: believe it. I'm not going to say something to make
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: you feel good if I don't believe it. I'm not
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: going to take marching orders from, hey, make sure that
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: you don't say anything bad. I'm not going to do that.
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: I'm going to tell you exactly what's in my head
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: because this is why I did this job.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I did it to say what I think.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: It's part of the reason I don't enjoy television nearly
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: as much as I enjoy radio. People ask when you're
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: in radio, do you want to do TV?
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, no.
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: I like radio because I get to do what I want.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: This is my realm for four hours. Whatever I say
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: is because I wanted to say it. And in TV,
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of like barking instruction.
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Now let's do this and let's talk about this thing
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: and can you talk about this because we did a
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: TV package on this.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: I don't like that. It's like, what if I don't
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: find that interesting?
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: And you're mid-sentence and there's a producer in your ear going,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: this camera, this story, blah, blah, blah.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: And to me, it's like the only thing that I'm
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: talking about right now is what I want to be discussing.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: And so I think about this in the context of
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: if I'm Davis Webb.
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: You're doing more of the, yeah, you're free to say
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: what you want as long as it's within the context
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: of what I want you to discuss.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: That's not autonomy. That's not complete ownership of an offense.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Because you're doing things with Big Brother watching over you.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: And I just think to myself, like, is that enjoyable?
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Is that something that you're taking over.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: An offensive coordinator position for the first time? Don't you
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: want to run your offense? Or do you want to
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: run your version of somebody else's offense? And Sanford was
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: on with DMACC last night on, is it Altitude After Dark?
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: DMACC in the dark, what is it called?
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's part of our altitude football series.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Nick at night, whatever that show is. Exactly. DMACC after dark, yes.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Here's what Sanford was talking about.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: He was in a similar position to this when he
• 35:25
  Speaker 5: was the offensive coordinator in Minnesota under P.J.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Fleck.
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: I'm running Kurt Scirocco's system at Minnesota. Nobody told me
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: that when I took the job, nobody said you're going
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: to be running this guy's system that you have not
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: inherently known, but I'm calling the plays essentially from, I mean,
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: I got through spring ball and all that stuff.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: The entire staff that I was working with were all
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Scirocco guys.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: They all knew that system and they taught it to me.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: And then, you know, if I tried to go outside
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: the box, you can't do that.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Because we don't do that here.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: But I I've done it everywhere else.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: That can't be enjoyable.
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: And I know that Davis Webb took this job knowing
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: that that's what the case was. Like, there's no way
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: he takes this position and he thinks that he's going
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: to now run, you know, some completely different offense than
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: Sean Payton. But let me ask you guys a question.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: The amount of people last year talking about how they
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: did not like the offensive system in the play calling
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: of Sean Payton. now are looking at Davis Webb and saying, well,
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: he's a problem Sean Payton has to take back over.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: It's the same thing.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: And I know it's like we sort of spin a
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: wheel of blame and sometimes it lands on Webb and
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: sometimes it lands on Bo Nix and sometimes it lands
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: on the running game and sometimes it lands on Sean Payton.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: Bottom line is, This wasn't a change within the offense.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: This is a change on the guy that is just
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: on the headset. And I don't want to pretend like
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: Davis Webb has no sort of creativity within the offense,
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: but it's not his own.
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: Like Sanford went on and said this.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Kirk Chirag is fired, sitting around.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: He's like an analyst or a quality control guy somewhere
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: like West Virginia. We have a couple bad games offensively.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Me running somebody else's offense. Me calling somebody else's brain.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: We lose to Bowling Green State.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Awful.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Our quarterback regressed. Tanner Morgan was really good his last
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: year when Kirk Chirac was there. Terrible under me. I'd
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: say average under me. Average to below average.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Regression.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: We lose to Illinois that year. Bielema's first year.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Bad.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Bad loss.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: Kirk Chirac starts calling P.J. Flack, hey, this guy doesn't
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: know what he's doing. I'm going to come back.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Fires me after a 9-1 season. And guess what? Kirk
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Chirac was back a week later.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: It does feel like for Sean Payton, this can be,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: you know, not that you want to throw anybody under
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: the bus, but think about what happened last year. Pete Carmichael,
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Joe Lombardi, both of those guys were gone.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Why? You ever think about that? Why?
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: Well, I think part of the reason why they were
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: gone is they wanted to keep Davis Webb on staff.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: And the only way you can do that is by
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: giving him a promotion. And he needed a promotion and
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: then some, which was, hey, you're not only going to
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  Speaker 5: be the offensive coordinator now, you're going to be the
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  Speaker 5: offensive coordinator and the play caller and that. But what
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  Speaker 5: good is that if you don't have full reign of
• 38:50
  Speaker 5: the offense? Like the reason you make the switch is
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: because something's not working and you want it to be different.
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  Speaker 5: And that's why I didn't get caught up in the
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  Speaker 5: numbers last year. You look at the Broncos' offensive numbers
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  Speaker 5: over the season, they were in the top half of
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  Speaker 5: the league in every category, in rushing and passing and
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  Speaker 5: total yards and points and all these different things. But
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  Speaker 5: we watched it, and it's like it didn't feel that way.
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  Speaker 5: It felt that way for a quarter.
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  Speaker 3: You know?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: It did.
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  Speaker 2: It did.
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  Speaker 3: But I just I'm somebody that.
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  Speaker 5: If you're going to take the job and it's a
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  Speaker 5: big job like this I want to fail on my
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  Speaker 5: own terms I don't want to fail by doing something
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  Speaker 5: that somebody else wanted me to do if this radio
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  Speaker 5: show was crashes and burns and it's the worst thing
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: that you've ever heard, well, at least it's because I
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: did it. And it's not because I was pigeonholed into
• 39:57
  Speaker 5: talking about things or doing a show that I didn't
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: truly believe in. And I think it's the same thing
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: with a guy like Davis Webb. I think it's a
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: really difficult position to be in. You are operating within
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  Speaker 5: a system. You have creativity within the system, but there
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: are constraints. There are guardrails. Fourth and two, What play
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  Speaker 5: do you want to run? Well, is it okay if
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: I run this play?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no?
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  Speaker 3: We want to run the play you want to run? Okay.
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: Well, that's a high-pressure situation. You get to fourth and two.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: You get to two-point conversions. You get to stuff that's like, hey,
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: it's third and ten. We need a first down to
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: win the game. And then it's that's when I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to have somebody above me in my ear telling me
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  Speaker 5: what to run.
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  Speaker 3: Like, that's not freedom. So 303-504-0925.
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  Speaker 5: Texture says quickly, Lance, who listens all the time, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of disagree here, Brett. Where has Davis Webb coached before?
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: What offense has he run? I get you want autonomy
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  Speaker 5: and you want to be able to be creative, but
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: everything he's learned to this point as a coach has
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: been under Sean Payton. Well, I understand that, but there
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: are certain things about this that make that dynamic weird.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the show Succession. I don't know if you
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: guys watch it. It's one of my favorite shows.
• 41:24
  Speaker 5: Logan Roy is the guy in charge. He's looking to
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: hand the keys off to somebody else. But can he
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: quite let it go?
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Not really.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: So anytime one of the kids try and do something,
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: they're doing it with the thought of, if I do this,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: what will dad think?
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  Speaker 3: And I just think that's a tough spot to be in.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I love you, but you are not serious people.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: But Davis Webb, it's something he signed up for. So, anyway,
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: Jared Bednar is going to join us at 8 o'clock
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: this morning as the Avs take on Winnipeg in Winnipeg
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: tonight at 5.30 right here on Altitude Sports Radio 92.5.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Front end of a back-to-back because they got the Avs
• 42:11
  Speaker 5: against the Flames tomorrow.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: As they're making that Canadian sort of round trip, as
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: they usually do.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Ian Eagle, who's on the call for the Broncos this weekend,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: is going to join us at 9 o'clock this morning. Again,
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get something, if you've got a suggestion
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: for me, of how we can infiltrate the announcer's booth,
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: something we can get Ian Eagle to say, something subtle,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: something from this show that he can do. So, throw
• 42:44
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  Speaker 3: Jared Bednar joins us in an hour. Mosley Lombardi and
• 43:08
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