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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane on demand. Listen live
- 0:05Speaker 1: every weekday morning from 7 to 10 on Altitude Sports
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- 0:18Speaker 2: So getting back to the Broncos cuts here, and we
- 0:21Speaker 2: will in just a second, but I forgot to mention this. No,
- 0:23Speaker 2: by the way, I just want to give it a
- 0:24Speaker 2: quick mention. So Northern Colorado plays their first game under
- 0:28Speaker 2: the lights. In week zero, they score what should be
- 0:33Speaker 2: the game-tying touchdown at the end of regulation as the
- 0:36Speaker 2: time's expiring. And then they get the extra point blocked.
- 0:41Speaker 3: It's brutal. Absolutely brutal. Because it looked awesome.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Like, Moj, they're doing, like, they're flashing the lights and
- 0:48Speaker 2: everybody's geared up.
- 0:50Speaker 3: It's a night game.
- 0:51Speaker 2: To have it end with a blocked extra point really hurts.
- 0:55Speaker 4: Brutal.
- 0:55Speaker 3: It's... It is.
- 0:57Speaker 4: It's really brutal. Vic, I wouldn't have seen it, I
- 1:00Speaker 4: don't think, until Vic tweeted out, damn. Or something like that.
- 1:06Speaker 4: Would you tweet out, Vic?
- 1:07Speaker 5: Damn.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Damn.
- 1:08Speaker 6: Damn.
- 1:09Speaker 4: Damn. Down to the am. Anyway, Weber State, aren't the
- 1:14Speaker 4: Buffaloes playing Weber State this year?
- 1:16Speaker 3: I think we too, yeah.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Okay, so Weber State gets the win.
- 1:22Speaker 3: Yes, by one.
- 1:25Speaker 4: You know what else happened, right?
- 1:28Speaker 3: No, I don't know what Sac State did.
- 1:29Speaker 4: Oh, the fighting Horn Eye had their stingers down.
- 1:32Speaker 3: Oh, that was one of your bets, wasn't it? Wasn't
- 1:38Speaker 3: that your lay it down?
- 1:39Speaker 4: It was a lay it down, yeah.
- 1:40Speaker 3: Stinger down?
- 1:41Speaker 4: They lost 28-17. They were getting 9.5, and they lost
- 1:45Speaker 4: by 11. That's heartbreak city, man. That is just awful.
- 1:48Speaker 3: All right, so.
- 1:49Speaker 4: Oh, by the way, Oleskowitz is in town.
- 1:53Speaker 3: I guess that nerd didn't text me.
- 1:54Speaker 4: I know. Well, he just texted me. Why is he
- 1:57Speaker 4: always here? Because he's got no life. I don't know.
- 2:01Speaker 3: Oh, real cool. I'm not hanging out with him. You
- 2:03Speaker 3: want to text me? You want to text Moj first?
- 2:04Speaker 6: Why is he always here?
- 2:07Speaker 3: I don't know. I do have this, though.
- 2:10Speaker 4: But you know he's going to call me to help
- 2:11Speaker 4: me fix his fence. He wants something.
- 2:14Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants.
- 2:15Speaker 4: Last time he was in town, he's like, hey, oh, man,
- 2:19Speaker 4: my drill's back in Illinois. I.
- 2:23Speaker 4: And I've got this fence that I'm like, yeah, I'll
- 2:25Speaker 4: be over. And then he doesn't even show up. I
- 2:27Speaker 4: repair the entire fence myself.
- 2:29Speaker 3: I'm surprised.
- 2:29Speaker 4: And he just walks in like, Oh, Hey, thanks dude.
- 2:32Speaker 6: I'm surprised he hasn't called me like to wants a
- 2:34Speaker 6: bike or something. Hey, let me call my sugar daddy.
- 2:38Speaker 2: Um, DMACC asked a question to George Payton when he
- 2:42Speaker 2: had his, uh, little zoom presser yesterday after all the
- 2:44Speaker 2: cuts was this.
- 2:46Speaker 3: Hey George.
- 2:46Speaker 8: Um, do you have any specific examples of, something that
- 2:50Speaker 8: happened in the last preseason game that impacted any decisions
- 2:53Speaker 8: made today?
- 2:55Speaker 9: That's a great question. Typically, you look at the body
- 2:59Speaker 9: of work. This is kind of the cherry on top,
- 3:01Speaker 9: that last preseason game. We had a number of guys
- 3:04Speaker 9: play well, whether it's Jordan Jett. I don't think it
- 3:07Speaker 9: impacted a lot of these guys, I think, as it
- 3:10Speaker 9: would in a lot of years. You know what I mean?
- 3:12Speaker 9: I think we were pretty set on where we were.
- 3:14Speaker 9: I think we were probably at 55, 54. before the
- 3:20Speaker 9: last game and maybe it just tweaked a little i
- 3:22Speaker 9: don't really have a great example for you i mean
- 3:24Speaker 9: sam obviously played played great if we were thinking anything
- 3:27Speaker 9: there that certainly confirmed keeping sam but um i don't
- 3:31Speaker 9: have a great answer but good question the answer.
- 3:33Speaker 2: Is no it was already pretty much decided it was
- 3:36Speaker 2: done um it to be honest it was done in
- 3:41Speaker 2: may They traded for Jalen Waddell and it's like, okay,
- 3:48Speaker 2: 49 spots figured out.
- 3:49Speaker 3: Okay, cool.
- 3:50Speaker 4: Okay, but except for some of these rookies that had
- 3:54Speaker 4: an opportunity to show out, I honestly can't remember though,
- 3:58Speaker 4: Dallin Bentley doing really anything. Can you, do you recall anything?
- 4:02Speaker 4: Did he stand out at camp?
- 4:03Speaker 6: Again, that's the biggest surprise of the 53 is that, yeah,
- 4:08Speaker 6: there is a seventh round tight end who made the team.
- 4:12Speaker 4: For now.
- 4:14Speaker 6: There's a drafted tight end who made the team, and
- 4:16Speaker 6: it's not Justin Jolie.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Here's the other thing. If you want to talk about
- 4:22Speaker 2: a surprise, I think this is a surprise. I thought
- 4:25Speaker 2: at the beginning of camp that the wide receiver room
- 4:28Speaker 2: was too crowded.
- 4:29Speaker 3: They said, oh, really? What if I add little Jordan
- 4:32Speaker 3: Humphrey to the list, too?
- 4:35Speaker 6: Exactly.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Having six wide outs. I talked about this a lot.
- 4:39Speaker 2: But I'm trying to play the numbers game here. You
- 4:42Speaker 2: have six wide receivers. I know that little Jordan Humphreys
- 4:45Speaker 2: there because they love his blocking. I also don't want
- 4:47Speaker 2: that to be a total tell if he's in the
- 4:49Speaker 2: lineup or if he's in on a certain play. Okay,
- 4:52Speaker 2: is it a run play? Is it a screen something?
- 4:54Speaker 2: But between Waddle and Cortland Sutton, that is 280 targets
- 5:03Speaker 2: this year.
- 5:03Speaker 4: It's a lot.
- 5:05Speaker 2: Evan Ingram's probably getting another 70. You guys had the
- 5:09Speaker 2: backfield probably getting another 100 combined. So now we're up to, what, 450?
- 5:17Speaker 3: Well, how many passing attempts are we throwing around to people?
- 5:21Speaker 4: He threw the most balls last year, but I don't
- 5:24Speaker 4: think they want to do that this year. I don't
- 5:26Speaker 4: think they want to have Bo Nix lead the league
- 5:28Speaker 4: in pass attempts. I feel like the Humphrey... But most,
- 5:30Speaker 4: that's my point, is that you're at 450. I think
- 5:33Speaker 4: he had, what was the number, 612? Last year, something
- 5:37Speaker 4: like that? 623, 612, yeah, somewhere there.
- 5:39Speaker 2: Well, we haven't even gotten to what is Pat Bryant,
- 5:42Speaker 2: Troy Franklin, Marvin Mims, little Jordan Humphrey.
- 5:44Speaker 3: Who's getting the ball here?
- 5:46Speaker 4: This feels to me like if they waived Humphrey, he
- 5:51Speaker 4: was going to be with somebody. Especially, I mean, if
- 5:55Speaker 4: you have a playoff, if you're looking good at your playoffs, you.
- 5:59Speaker 6: Could keep Humphrey because of the other guys that you
- 6:01Speaker 6: are allowed to waive. Nobody's going to pick up your
- 6:04Speaker 6: long snapper. Nobody's going to pick up your fullback.
- 6:06Speaker 4: That's correct.
- 6:06Speaker 6: That allowed you to hold on to Humphrey just in case.
- 6:09Speaker 2: Those guys are those vested veterans that aren't subject to waivers, too.
- 6:13Speaker 4: I feel like he, to me, Brett, is a... you
- 6:17Speaker 4: want to call it safety valve insurance policy for that
- 6:20Speaker 4: type for that wide receiver room. I feel like that's
- 6:22Speaker 4: what it is. I mean, listen, water wasn't banged up
- 6:25Speaker 4: in the preseason, but he did miss a little time.
- 6:28Speaker 4: Same with Marvin. I just feel like that is an
- 6:30Speaker 4: insurance policy for Sean.
- 6:32Speaker 6: You know, um, Marvin Mims getting hurt in that game
- 6:34Speaker 6: is not ideal.
- 6:35Speaker 10: True.
- 6:36Speaker 6: That, that, you know, the fact that he's playing in
- 6:38Speaker 6: that game.
- 6:39Speaker 3: And Sean said he was fine. That was just a bruise,
- 6:40Speaker 3: but it's not ideal. Yeah.
- 6:42Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 6:43Speaker 6: All I'm saying.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Um, I don't know where these targets are going. I
- 6:47Speaker 2: don't know who's going to get them. Who's the odd
- 6:49Speaker 2: man out? I asked that to Legwald last week. Leggy said,
- 6:52Speaker 2: if there's anybody just judging by camp, it's Troy Franklin,
- 6:56Speaker 2: the guy who's getting less run. But Troy Franklin, wasn't
- 7:02Speaker 2: he second in receptions last year on the team? Wasn't
- 7:04Speaker 2: he your number two? There's just a lot of different
- 7:08Speaker 2: bodies that are going to be Waiting like this for
- 7:11Speaker 2: a ball to enter their hands that I don't know
- 7:13Speaker 2: how much that's going to happen. Now, some of the
- 7:16Speaker 2: other stuff, guys were like... That's right.
- 7:19Speaker 4: We talked about the Cooper thing, which I think is
- 7:22Speaker 4: going to need to be talked about more as we
- 7:23Speaker 4: get ready for the regular season.
- 7:24Speaker 3: It's the biggest thing out of yesterday. Forget the people
- 7:26Speaker 3: who were cut, the people who made the roster.
- 7:28Speaker 2: The biggest story is the guy who averages nine sacks
- 7:30Speaker 2: a year is right now not on the roster.
- 7:32Speaker 4: And the fear here is, Vic, is this is a
- 7:34Speaker 4: prolonged thing.
- 7:35Speaker 6: I mean.
- 7:36Speaker 4: I don't know how this is going to go down
- 7:38Speaker 4: today because he's still charged with a felony, correct? And
- 7:40Speaker 4: this is an arraignment. So he's on the exempt list. Well,
- 7:43Speaker 4: how long is that going to last? And I don't
- 7:48Speaker 4: want to underestimate his importance to this roster and what
- 7:54Speaker 4: he brings.
- 7:54Speaker 6: What if he gets a very positive result today in
- 7:57Speaker 6: court and the commissioner, basically, that exempt list, they look
- 8:01Speaker 6: at it, they analyze it, and they say, okay, all good.
- 8:04Speaker 6: Get back to work.
- 8:04Speaker 4: That would be... Fantastic. I don't think it's going to happen.
- 8:08Speaker 4: We'll find out a lot today. That would be by
- 8:10Speaker 4: far the best case scenario.
- 8:14Speaker 2: A baseline unpaid suspension of six games typically applies to
- 8:19Speaker 2: the charges that are against Jonathan Cooper right now, if
- 8:23Speaker 2: he's found guilty of them.
- 8:24Speaker 4: Here's what's weird.
- 8:26Speaker 3: Have you guys noticed the same thing?
- 8:27Speaker 2: Whenever Sean Payton's asked about Jonathan Cooper, he doesn't, it
- 8:31Speaker 2: doesn't sound like somebody who thinks he's going to be
- 8:33Speaker 2: missing a lot of Well, they.
- 8:35Speaker 6: Want to remove themselves from the discipline process and put
- 8:38Speaker 6: it in the hands of the NFL. That's been the
- 8:40Speaker 6: goal all along. Like, the teams aren't responsible for discipline anymore.
- 8:44Speaker 4: The league is. Right.
- 8:47Speaker 6: Because you can't trust each team to discipline its own players.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Well, and that used to be up to Goodell.
- 8:52Speaker 2: And then Goodell, basically ever since the Ray Rice thing
- 8:56Speaker 2: went down, he's like, I'm not doing this anymore. I'm
- 8:59Speaker 2: giving that responsibility to somebody else. Smart on his part.
- 9:02Speaker 4: Yeah, very smart. But this is, again, if you're talking
- 9:04Speaker 4: about missing, let's say he misses the first six weeks.
- 9:09Speaker 4: Let's say that that holds up, Vic.
- 9:11Speaker 3: Hey, guess what?
- 9:11Speaker 4: First six weeks are really hard. The first six weeks
- 9:16Speaker 4: with Jonathan Cooper are going to be a massive pain
- 9:20Speaker 4: in the tail. Yeah. And without him, and again, anytime
- 9:24Speaker 4: you suck away from that rotation just a little bit,
- 9:26Speaker 4: and this is a good player... You're going to have
- 9:29Speaker 4: an effect. Now, I don't know if it's a handful
- 9:31Speaker 4: of plays a game that are a lot different or
- 9:33Speaker 4: if it's more. Either way, I was already taking a
- 9:38Speaker 4: wait-and-see attitude with the John Franklin Myers being gone. Now,
- 9:44Speaker 4: how do I feel?
- 9:44Speaker 2: Well, here's the good news. Jonah Ellis looks like a
- 9:48Speaker 2: good player. Now, is he nine sacks a year good?
- 9:52Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe he is. Maybe he's not. You
- 9:55Speaker 3: have at least.
- 9:58Speaker 2: Someone you feel comfortable with that's behind Jonathan Cooper right now.
- 10:03Speaker 2: And you have the upside of guys like Hugh Robinson,
- 10:06Speaker 2: which we'll see. But there certainly is a, you have
- 10:10Speaker 2: a big responsibility when you're playing opposite of Nick Benito.
- 10:14Speaker 3: If Benito is.
- 10:15Speaker 2: Going to be schemed out of a game and you're
- 10:17Speaker 2: going to get the one-on-ones, you have to win your
- 10:20Speaker 2: one-on-one on the opposite side. Because they're already worried about
- 10:22Speaker 2: Zach Allen. They're already worried about Nick Benito. You have
- 10:25Speaker 2: to do your job. I think that's the biggest thing
- 10:27Speaker 2: to come out of yesterday.
- 10:28Speaker 6: You know, the turnover, the lack thereof on the Broncos
- 10:32Speaker 6: roster is quite amazing. The fact that this is a
- 10:34Speaker 6: team that's bringing back every corner, all five top corners
- 10:37Speaker 6: they had on the roster last year. Sertan, Moss, Barron, McMillan,
- 10:40Speaker 6: and Abrams-Drain. I mean, that's impressive.
- 10:43Speaker 3: I really think that was the easiest position.
- 10:45Speaker 6: That was very easy.
- 10:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:46Speaker 4: You're right.
- 10:47Speaker 6: The inside linebacker spot. Are you surprised? And we knew
- 10:50Speaker 6: Sternad and Singleton were there, but then they went Corena
- 10:54Speaker 6: Reed and Jordan Turner is the other two. Your boy Red.
- 10:58Speaker 2: Yeah, I was surprised. Not like shocked, but I was surprised.
- 11:05Speaker 2: It did feel like he did enough. During camp and
- 11:08Speaker 2: preseason games to make the roster.
- 11:11Speaker 4: He's tackling everything in sight or trying to.
- 11:13Speaker 3: If he clears waivers, he's very obviously going to be
- 11:16Speaker 3: back on practice.
- 11:17Speaker 6: The defensive line also very predictable. I mean, very. DJ Jones,
- 11:21Speaker 6: Jordan Jackson, Savion Jones, Wazirike, Malcolm Roach.
- 11:26Speaker 4: I don't.
- 11:27Speaker 6: Tyler Onyedem and Zach Allen. You tell me, which one
- 11:30Speaker 6: of those guys is not making that team?
- 11:31Speaker 2: I thought it's not so much the players and their talent.
- 11:36Speaker 2: I didn't know where they were going to invest the
- 11:38Speaker 2: depth at. I didn't think all of those guys would
- 11:41Speaker 2: be back. I thought one of... You know how much
- 11:44Speaker 2: they cherish the trenches, man. Yeah, but I think especially
- 11:48Speaker 2: with the Jonathan Cooper stuff, that's where they're like, okay,
- 11:51Speaker 2: then we'll keep the guys on the inside.
- 11:53Speaker 4: Look this up. I need a real.
- 11:55Speaker 6: They really, you know, they put the numbers at O-line
- 11:58Speaker 6: and D-line. That's where they threw the numbers.
- 12:01Speaker 2: And that extra receiver, a sixth receiver, Texture says Ellis
- 12:07Speaker 2: and Q Robinson are much better prospects than Cooper.
- 12:10Speaker 3: Plus, they don't do the nonsense off the field.
- 12:14Speaker 4: Okay. What do you mean much better prospects? I can't
- 12:19Speaker 4: even say it. Prospects than Cooper.
- 12:21Speaker 3: Let me give you the.
- 12:22Speaker 4: He's a starting defensive end.
- 12:24Speaker 2: You can have a boat or you can have a
- 12:26Speaker 2: mystery box.
- 12:29Speaker 3: A boat's a boat. A mystery box could be anything.
- 12:31Speaker 3: It could even be a boat.
- 12:33Speaker 6: Lane, let's make a deal.
- 12:34Speaker 2: If Jonah Ellis becomes a guy who gets nine sacks
- 12:38Speaker 2: a game, great. I know a guy who gets nine
- 12:41Speaker 2: sacks a season. I know a guy who gets nine
- 12:44Speaker 2: sacks a season. And it's Jonathan Cooper.
- 12:47Speaker 4: Nine sacks a game might be a record. It might
- 12:50Speaker 4: be a record.
- 12:52Speaker 3: I feel like, you know, Reggie White probably did that
- 12:54Speaker 3: a time or two, didn't he?
- 12:57Speaker 4: No.
- 12:57Speaker 3: Nine sacks a season. Jonathan Cooper's... I just feel like
- 13:02Speaker 3: this is a coping thing from people. Guys, listen up.
- 13:05Speaker 2: Whatever you feel about Jonathan Cooper and what he did
- 13:07Speaker 2: and what he's facing suspension-wise.
- 13:12Speaker 3: Is that your girl?
- 13:14Speaker 6: That's the girl that's being played.
- 13:16Speaker 3: Whatever you feel about that, bottom line is this. He's
- 13:18Speaker 3: a very good player.
- 13:20Speaker 4: He's a good player. He's opposite of Nick Benito for
- 13:23Speaker 4: a reason. All these other guys are going to play.
- 13:26Speaker 4: Tillman's going to play. Ellis is going to play. Reed's
- 13:30Speaker 4: going to play. All these guys were going to play anyway,
- 13:33Speaker 4: but now you're missing those Cooper snaps. Who's going to
- 13:36Speaker 4: get the majority of them? Here's what I do know.
- 13:37Speaker 4: Right now, Brett, the guy who gets his snaps, most
- 13:41Speaker 4: of his snaps, ain't as good as Jonathan Cooper at
- 13:44Speaker 4: this second. Could be in the future. Ain't as good
- 13:47Speaker 4: right now.
- 13:47Speaker 6: This much I also know. These two weeks before the
- 13:51Speaker 6: first game, it's going to feel like an eternity.
- 13:55Speaker 3: Oh God.
- 13:55Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:56Speaker 6: It's going to feel like an eternity. It really is. I,
- 13:59Speaker 6: I do hope that college football does fill the void.
- 14:01Speaker 6: I know it will in my world.
- 14:03Speaker 3: It will.
- 14:03Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 14:03Speaker 6: But these two weeks of talking about the same thing
- 14:06Speaker 6: with the Broncos, because the same subject matter is going
- 14:08Speaker 6: to come up over the next two weeks.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Tell you what though, there is.
- 14:15Speaker 6: When do we talk Kansas city? Is that we wait
- 14:17Speaker 6: till next week for that?
- 14:19Speaker 3: Probably. I mean, we could, we could sprinkle it in. Um,
- 14:25Speaker 3: Playing Kansas City in the opener is going to be
- 14:26Speaker 3: so much fun.
- 14:27Speaker 6: That's some rough stuff. To play the final game of
- 14:30Speaker 6: opening week, like the Broncos are in the last game.
- 14:33Speaker 6: You have to wait that much longer. And then to
- 14:35Speaker 6: play against your division rivals at their place with possibly
- 14:38Speaker 6: their stud quarterback returning, and we don't even know for
- 14:41Speaker 6: sure yet.
- 14:43Speaker 3: Oh, he's playing.
- 14:44Speaker 6: Okay.
- 14:47Speaker 4: Are you saying you don't think that Patrick Mahomes is
- 14:49Speaker 4: going to play?
- 14:50Speaker 6: I just don't know if he's all there.
- 14:54Speaker 4: Maybe he's not all there, but he's going to be
- 14:56Speaker 4: on that field.
- 14:58Speaker 2: Do you think he wears the giant brace? The thing
- 15:02Speaker 2: that he's got on his knee in training camp right now,
- 15:04Speaker 2: or does he kick that off first game?
- 15:06Speaker 6: That's asking a lot.
- 15:08Speaker 2: You know, what really bothers me is when I watch
- 15:11Speaker 2: offensive linemen and every one of them has those giant
- 15:14Speaker 2: braces on their legs. I'm like, what line of work
- 15:18Speaker 2: do you have to get in to be like for
- 15:20Speaker 2: me to operate properly?
- 15:22Speaker 3: I have to look like Robo cop.
- 15:23Speaker 4: Okay.
- 15:24Speaker 6: How about the golfer who wears the brace?
- 15:28Speaker 4: Who's that?
- 15:30Speaker 3: Come on.
- 15:31Speaker 6: You've seen it.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Oh, you mean like a regular golfer? I don't even
- 15:34Speaker 4: like the sleeve guy.
- 15:37Speaker 6: Regular golfer who wears the knee brace.
- 15:41Speaker 3: It's time to hang him up, bro. If that's what
- 15:42Speaker 3: you need to get out there.
- 15:43Speaker 6: Yeah, but what if you want to play that badly,
- 15:45Speaker 6: but you know your knee's going to give?
- 15:46Speaker 2: Then go to QC Kinetics and then come talk to me.
- 15:50Speaker 6: Back after this.
- 15:51Speaker 2: Some breaking news in the sporting world. Lionel Messi, the GOAT,
- 15:58Speaker 2: has retired.
- 16:01Speaker 6: There is some debate, though, as I read this. Retired immediately,
- 16:04Speaker 6: or what are we talking about? He says he's retired
- 16:07Speaker 6: from the national team, Argentina. But there's no mention of
- 16:12Speaker 6: him retiring from the other team, FC Miami, or Miami FC,
- 16:18Speaker 6: or Miami whatever.
- 16:19Speaker 3: So he's not retired.
- 16:21Speaker 6: So I don't know what this means. Is he retired, retired,
- 16:24Speaker 6: or retired? Like, World Cup retired.
- 16:28Speaker 3: No kidding. You'd be like 45 by the time the
- 16:30Speaker 3: next World Cup comes around.
- 16:32Speaker 4: We expected this.
- 16:35Speaker 3: Yeah, from Argentina national team.
- 16:38Speaker 6: Okay, so whatever.
- 16:39Speaker 3: That isn't big news. It is kind of like, oh,
- 16:41Speaker 3: of course.
- 16:42Speaker 6: Cool, Carl.
- 16:44Speaker 3: Yeah, what?
- 16:45Speaker 4: Would you just stop wasting my time?
- 16:47Speaker 6: My time? Did you guys watch Novak Djokovic last night
- 16:52Speaker 6: playing in the U.S. Open, vomiting three times during his match?
- 16:55Speaker 4: Nope, don't care.
- 16:55Speaker 6: Trying to stay? On his feet. He lost. He lost
- 16:58Speaker 6: in the opening round. And he's trying to get through it.
- 17:01Speaker 6: Just grossly sick out there. Vomiting on the side of
- 17:04Speaker 6: the court.
- 17:07Speaker 4: Gross. It's too bad. Vomiting and all that.
- 17:10Speaker 2: Kel McCarr's press conference is going to be at 1
- 17:12Speaker 2: o'clock today. We'll have that live right here on 92.5.
- 17:15Speaker 4: You know what? I'd love me a good Joe Sackick
- 17:17Speaker 4: news conference, Vic. You know why? Because Joe doesn't screw around.
- 17:22Speaker 4: Joe just tells it like it is, man.
- 17:24Speaker 2: Well, you said something, Moj, before this segment started. You said,
- 17:27Speaker 2: what do you think they're going to say?
- 17:29Speaker 4: I was like, hmm.
- 17:31Speaker 3: Like, nothing, really.
- 17:32Speaker 4: I'll tell you what they're going to say. Okay, Cale's back.
- 17:38Speaker 3: Questions?
- 17:40Speaker 4: I mean.
- 17:40Speaker 11: Yeah.
- 17:41Speaker 4: He wanted us and we wanted him.
- 17:43Speaker 6: Well, then why have a press conference?
- 17:45Speaker 4: Just to talk it all out. I mean, you need
- 17:47Speaker 4: the GM.
- 17:47Speaker 3: He's had the richest contract in history.
- 17:49Speaker 4: Yeah, you need both these guys to comment on. It's
- 17:51Speaker 4: the biggest contract in the history of the game of hockey, Vic.
- 17:54Speaker 4: Excuse me.
- 17:54Speaker 6: Can I have some money?
- 17:57Speaker 4: Let me go back.
- 17:58Speaker 6: So, excuse me, sir. It's so random.
- 18:01Speaker 4: Excuse me, sir.
- 18:02Speaker 6: Can I have some money?
- 18:05Speaker 3: I have unpaid parking tickets.
- 18:07Speaker 4: Money me. Really? Me money.
- 18:08Speaker 3: Putting a drain.
- 18:09Speaker 4: Dig this. So, when the league lost the season, Vic,
- 18:13Speaker 4: you recall.
- 18:17Speaker 4: Yes.
- 18:17Speaker 6: Yes.
- 18:18Speaker 3: What are you doing here?
- 18:19Speaker 4: Okay, I just want to get my time frame exactly correct.
- 18:25Speaker 4: It takes you so long to look. Because I'm not
- 18:30Speaker 4: good at it. You're right. Okay, so when the league
- 18:32Speaker 4: came back from the lost season, right this second, Kale
- 18:37Speaker 4: McCarr is going to make more than half of the
- 18:41Speaker 4: entire salary cap when they came back from the lost season.
- 18:47Speaker 4: Which was $ 39 million.
- 18:51Speaker 3: You sound like you're surprised by this.
- 18:52Speaker 4: Well, it just shows you in the last 20 years, 22, 21,
- 18:56Speaker 4: how much the league has grown. I mean, revenue-wise, and
- 18:59Speaker 4: it got back on a healthy, healthy track.
- 19:01Speaker 6: What was the ridiculous offer the Rangers made Joe Sackick?
- 19:04Speaker 6: A movie was made out of this. It was a
- 19:05Speaker 6: huge number that they thought they were going to steal Joe.
- 19:08Speaker 3: Remember?
- 19:08Speaker 6: And obviously, the avalanche match.
- 19:10Speaker 4: I think at the time it was over $ 7 million per.
- 19:15Speaker 6: No, the total number. Do you remember what it was
- 19:17Speaker 6: by chance?
- 19:18Speaker 4: No. Use your computer. Oh, no.
- 19:20Speaker 3: No, no, no. Hang on. Hang on. I'll look it up.
- 19:22Speaker 6: What do you want me to look up?
- 19:23Speaker 4: What did the Rangers offer Joe? What did the total
- 19:25Speaker 4: Rangers offer Joe Sackick? I think it was seven per.
- 19:29Speaker 6: Three years, $ 21 million.
- 19:30Speaker 4: Which at that time was huge.
- 19:32Speaker 6: Think about that. This contract alone per year is the
- 19:36Speaker 6: same as what Joe Sackick was offered in the life
- 19:39Speaker 6: of his contract.
- 19:39Speaker 4: Yep. So it just shows you the league is in
- 19:43Speaker 4: a pretty healthy spot.
- 19:44Speaker 6: It smells like something's burning.
- 19:45Speaker 3: It does smell like something's burning. Something is burning. Something
- 19:48Speaker 3: is burning. What's on fire?
- 19:51Speaker 6: Something is burning here in the studio.
- 19:56Speaker 3: I did the same thing.
- 19:57Speaker 6: I'm not joking. This is like something dangerous is about
- 20:01Speaker 6: to happen, and I don't want to have anything on.
- 20:03Speaker 3: Okay.
- 20:05Speaker 4: Okay. Uh, I suggest.
- 20:08Speaker 3: The smell is getting stronger. Yeah, I suggest we take
- 20:10Speaker 3: a break. I'm not joking. Take a break. Hang on,
- 20:11Speaker 3: hang on, hang on. I'll keep talking. You guys investigate.
- 20:14Speaker 12: Is it me?
- 20:14Speaker 3: Investigate.
- 20:15Speaker 4: What is it?
- 20:17Speaker 2: There is a very burning smell that's happening somewhere inside
- 20:20Speaker 2: this studio, though.
- 20:23Speaker 3: So in the meantime... There's smoke.
- 20:25Speaker 9: There's smoke.
- 20:26Speaker 4: What?
- 20:26Speaker 3: There's not smoke in here.
- 20:32Speaker 2: All right, so I guess we'll just all continue to
- 20:35Speaker 2: speak as these people are, like, running around me.
- 20:37Speaker 4: Well, it's not like towering inferno or anything.
- 20:40Speaker 3: Well, you guys are... I get three people I do
- 20:44Speaker 3: this show with. They're all off investigating someone.
- 20:47Speaker 4: If you.
- 20:47Speaker 3: Oh, he said it's happening everywhere. Oh, okay, so it's
- 20:50Speaker 3: not just us.
- 20:51Speaker 6: All right, so let's just... If everybody dies, we all die.
- 20:56Speaker 3: Shockey! One die, all die. Shockey said, keep talking.
- 21:00Speaker 6: We're all going to die.
- 21:01Speaker 3: Okay.
- 21:03Speaker 4: We're good. But what if these fumes are noxious? Like
- 21:06Speaker 4: what if, like right now, right now it's getting into
- 21:09Speaker 4: our bloodstream. We're all going to pass out.
- 21:10Speaker 12: Good.
- 21:14Speaker 3: Well, in the meantime. It smells like plastic is burning.
- 21:18Speaker 4: It smells, yeah, it smells like a plastic fire.
- 21:22Speaker 2: Well, nobody's running, so nobody seems all that concerned. Actually,
- 21:27Speaker 2: that's great. You're never getting Vic in the studio again.
- 21:29Speaker 4: True.
- 21:29Speaker 13: True.
- 21:32Speaker 6: This is it. It's final straw. Give me a reason
- 21:34Speaker 6: why I should be in the studio. That's what I thought.
- 21:40Speaker 10: Next.
- 21:41Speaker 3: Do you think it's just the scorching takes that have
- 21:44Speaker 3: come out of this microphone today?
- 21:45Speaker 4: I think that's what it is.
- 21:46Speaker 6: We're just so hot today.
- 21:46Speaker 4: Just the fire takes.
- 21:48Speaker 3: Just so hot.
- 21:50Speaker 6: Um, so this is like hurting my eyes.
- 21:52Speaker 4: Okay. So now you've got people looking out up at
- 21:54Speaker 4: the vents, right? The big boss is there. Tick is there.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Oh, speaking of this, did you guys see? So KCP
- 22:01Speaker 3: signs with the 76ers, right?
- 22:02Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 22:02Speaker 6: I went to the wine thing Friday, by the way,
- 22:04Speaker 6: thanks to all the people that came out and said hi.
- 22:06Speaker 3: Yeah. Drake's morning.
- 22:07Speaker 4: Good.
- 22:09Speaker 3: Can I finish my story?
- 22:10Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:10Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:12Speaker 2: Um, KCP moved into a penthouse in Philly as he
- 22:16Speaker 2: signed a vet minimum deal to play with LeBron.
- 22:18Speaker 3: And the 76ers. Did you see his house? The penthouse
- 22:24Speaker 3: got struck by lightning and started flooding immediately. That's awesome. Moshe,
- 22:30Speaker 3: look at this video. This is what they saw in
- 22:33Speaker 3: their penthouse.
- 22:35Speaker 6: What do you mean?
- 22:35Speaker 3: Look at the amount of water. That's incredible.
- 22:37Speaker 4: What happened? That broke a water main.
- 22:39Speaker 6: That's what you call AAA service. Plumbing, heating, and electric.
- 22:43Speaker 3: It's everywhere. Like standing water in their house.
- 22:47Speaker 13: That's crazy.
- 22:49Speaker 3: But how's that? You just moved to Philly. You get that.
- 22:51Speaker 4: And.
- 22:53Speaker 3: Maybe lightning struck this place. I don't know. How about this?
- 23:00Speaker 3: Some audio here from the Patons. Hold on, Vic.
- 23:03Speaker 4: Vic with the quote of the year. If everybody dies,
- 23:05Speaker 4: we all die. If everybody dies, we all die. Yeah, that's,
- 23:11Speaker 4: you're not wrong.
- 23:14Speaker 6: Quoting, who said this?
- 23:16Speaker 4: He dies.
- 23:17Speaker 3: He dies. It's Drago. What, did you think there was
- 23:20Speaker 3: a deep cut from the movie? That's my only movie quote.
- 23:23Speaker 3: Is that a deep cut?
- 23:24Speaker 4: I think it was a Marlon Brando in Streetcar Names.
- 23:27Speaker 7: He dies.
- 23:28Speaker 8: He dies.
- 23:33Speaker 2: Here's some audio here from Sean Payton, and this was
- 23:35Speaker 2: in response to, God, does he hate media members when
- 23:39Speaker 2: he's not part of the media. Remember when Jeff Schwartz
- 23:42Speaker 2: said that Bo Nix can't push the ball downfield, and
- 23:44Speaker 2: then he responded on Twitter saying some people just don't
- 23:47Speaker 2: do the work or something like that. Well, here's him
- 23:49Speaker 2: responding after the game to Jeff Schwartz.
- 23:51Speaker 7: That was crazy, wasn't it? I can't help myself, though.
- 23:54Speaker 7: When I see something like that, I'm sorry. It's just
- 23:57Speaker 7: like I have a pause, and then it's like, what
- 24:01Speaker 7: are you watching? And just watch the tape. And here's
- 24:05Speaker 7: the thing, though. I think– and this is for any player.
- 24:09Speaker 7: Sometimes– When you're on the East Coast, you don't see, whatever.
- 24:13Speaker 7: But when you get to see, like I remember the
- 24:16Speaker 7: first time I ever saw a Percy Harvin or Adrian Peterson,
- 24:20Speaker 7: it was completely different than, you know, so to see
- 24:23Speaker 7: someone live and to actually watch them is, you know,
- 24:28Speaker 7: and then getting back to your question relative to, they're just,
- 24:37Speaker 7: you know, and you guys grind at it and like,
- 24:41Speaker 7: But now you have so many variations. You know, you
- 24:43Speaker 7: got the basement podcast, you know, with the beer logo.
- 24:49Speaker 7: And I just couldn't help myself with that one.
- 24:55Speaker 6: It was silly.
- 24:55Speaker 7: You know, he's playing too– he's doing– like everything was
- 24:59Speaker 7: the opposite of what he was saying. And the worst
- 25:02Speaker 7: part was he played at Oregon. I don't even know
- 25:05Speaker 7: the player, so.
- 25:05Speaker 6: All right, what did everybody– what came to mind when
- 25:08Speaker 6: he said the basement podcast with the beer logo?
- 25:16Speaker 4: Your own little internet shows are driving me crazy.
- 25:18Speaker 6: You don't have a podcast.
- 25:21Speaker 3: But I have a basement. I have beer logos down there.
- 25:23Speaker 2: And I have done some podcasts from that basement before.
- 25:29Speaker 6: See, that's why I moved my studio from my basement
- 25:32Speaker 6: to my upper bedroom. The extra bedroom we have. So
- 25:35Speaker 6: nobody can claim I.
- 25:36Speaker 4: Do from my basement.
- 25:37Speaker 3: Who do you think he's talking about?
- 25:39Speaker 6: Oh, I mean, everybody who, we all do podcasts. This
- 25:42Speaker 6: show is a podcast.
- 25:43Speaker 4: Here, Sean.
- 25:44Speaker 6: This show becomes a podcast.
- 25:45Speaker 3: Can I just say something to Sean Payton? What's wrong
- 25:48Speaker 3: with the beer logo? Number one, great question. Number two,
- 25:54Speaker 3: I got the money to go buy a studio at
- 25:57Speaker 3: my house. Okay, Sean?
- 25:59Speaker 2: So sometimes I turn my camera on and there's beer
- 26:03Speaker 2: in the background because it's my basement.
- 26:06Speaker 3: My basement has beer and I like beer. What's he
- 26:11Speaker 3: getting at here? What's the beef?
- 26:15Speaker 4: I'm not really sure.
- 26:16Speaker 6: I mean, Jeff Schwartz is not your basement podcaster either.
- 26:20Speaker 6: He's a former NFL player.
- 26:22Speaker 2: Well, isn't it funny how, like, everything sort of comes around?
- 26:25Speaker 2: You guys remember the days. If you were called a blogger,
- 26:29Speaker 2: that was like an insult, right?
- 26:30Speaker 9: Right.
- 26:31Speaker 3: It was like, you weren't media. You're just some guy
- 26:35Speaker 3: who sits in his basement and blogs. And now blogging
- 26:38Speaker 3: is like what everybody does.
- 26:39Speaker 6: Bloggers know more than we do on subject.
- 26:41Speaker 3: Exactly. So I think the same thing with like podcasters.
- 26:45Speaker 4: Jeff Schwartz was an offensive lineman, not only in Oregon,
- 26:49Speaker 4: but in the National Football League. Yeah. So so Peyton's
- 26:53Speaker 4: not saying that this guy doesn't know football. He's not
- 26:57Speaker 4: saying that, right? He's not saying, this guy doesn't know football.
- 26:59Speaker 6: In a roundabout way, he is.
- 27:01Speaker 4: Well, he's saying, you're not watching my guy.
- 27:03Speaker 3: Correct.
- 27:03Speaker 4: I don't think that Jeff Schwartz really has any sort
- 27:05Speaker 4: of ax to grind with Bo Nix. I think he's
- 27:09Speaker 4: probably seen a billion quarterbacks on tape in his college
- 27:12Speaker 4: and pro career, and then he's probably watched every game
- 27:14Speaker 4: that Bo Nix played.
- 27:15Speaker 6: It's the same argument we made about Nikola Jokic over
- 27:17Speaker 6: the years. People who ripped him or don't understand him.
- 27:19Speaker 4: You didn't watch.
- 27:20Speaker 6: You got to watch. You got to watch a lot
- 27:22Speaker 6: of games. And that's how you get through it.
- 27:25Speaker 3: I don't understand how Jeff Schwartz doesn't know that, though.
- 27:28Speaker 3: The weirdest thing, I.
- 27:30Speaker 2: Don't think anybody has any idea what Bo Nix is
- 27:32Speaker 2: as a quarterback.
- 27:34Speaker 3: I really don't.
- 27:34Speaker 2: The things that people say about Bo Nix, it's pretty amazing,
- 27:38Speaker 2: especially national people.
- 27:39Speaker 3: It's like, Bo Nix is this. They go, wrong. And
- 27:43Speaker 3: then they'll say something else. They go, wrong.
- 27:46Speaker 2: I don't know if people truly understand the quarterback that
- 27:49Speaker 2: Bo Nix is.
- 27:50Speaker 3: And to be honest, I don't even know that I know.
- 27:53Speaker 3: Bo Nix is.
- 27:56Speaker 3: I mean, seriously, you watch Bo Nix in a fourth quarter.
- 28:00Speaker 3: He's great. You watch Bo Nix in the second quarter.
- 28:04Speaker 3: He's terrible. And I don't know what to do with that.
- 28:07Speaker 2: And that's, again, to kind of bring this full circle
- 28:10Speaker 2: with now the 53-man roster set, it's the biggest thing
- 28:16Speaker 2: about this season is just that can Davis Webb make
- 28:20Speaker 2: the fourth quarter stuff happen earlier in games to where
- 28:22Speaker 2: you aren't panicked at the end, to where.
- 28:25Speaker 3: You can build a lead? Hold a lead.
- 28:27Speaker 2: Not put that much pressure on your defense to go
- 28:29Speaker 2: out there and get stops.
- 28:31Speaker 3: It's the biggest thing.
- 28:32Speaker 4: Right now, if you look up the Four Letters website,
- 28:36Speaker 4: the number one thing, the number one story on this Monday,
- 28:41Speaker 4: as of this second, is power ranking the National Football League.
- 28:46Speaker 6: No, it's Jokovic ill and hurting out of the U.S.
- 28:48Speaker 6: Open in a shocker.
- 28:51Speaker 3: Not on mine.
- 28:52Speaker 6: On mine it is.
- 28:53Speaker 4: What's it say on yours, Brett?
- 28:56Speaker 3: It says preseason NFL power rankings.
- 28:57Speaker 6: Not mine. Maybe because I'm a little bit– oh, now
- 29:00Speaker 6: it just changed. Messi to retire from Argentina national team.
- 29:03Speaker 3: Not that, you dork.
- 29:05Speaker 4: This.
- 29:06Speaker 6: No, top headlines.
- 29:08Speaker 3: Top headlines. No, it's– No, it's top headlines.
- 29:11Speaker 4: Big, big, big, big, big. No, no, no, no, no.
- 29:13Speaker 6: You guys don't know how to read a paper.
- 29:15Speaker 3: Incorrect. Incorrect. What do you mean don't know how to
- 29:17Speaker 3: read a paper? I open up the paper. The main
- 29:19Speaker 3: story is the thing with the giant picture on it.
- 29:21Speaker 4: Big slug, big picture right there. So don't look at it.
- 29:25Speaker 4: Don't click on that. But I've already read it.
- 29:28Speaker 6: Should we guess where they have the power ranking of
- 29:31Speaker 6: the Broncos?
- 29:31Speaker 4: Who's number one? Rams.
- 29:33Speaker 6: Rams are number one. Seattle's number two.
- 29:35Speaker 4: That is correct. Who's number three? Mosher.
- 29:37Speaker 3: Hang on. There's no reading. a power rankings, okay? You
- 29:41Speaker 3: didn't read the article. There's no article to read. I
- 29:44Speaker 3: read it. All right, so.
- 29:45Speaker 4: No, no, they give you the reasons.
- 29:46Speaker 6: I've got the first two. I've got the first two.
- 29:50Speaker 4: Who's number three?
- 29:51Speaker 6: I will say number three on your power ranking is Denver.
- 29:56Speaker 4: It's Buffalo. Okay.
- 29:58Speaker 3: Are we off the air?
- 29:59Speaker 6: Yeah, let's get out of here. We got to go.
- 30:01Speaker 6: We apparently are going to burn or something. I do not.
- 30:06Speaker 6: In the words of Peter Forsberg, am I going to live?
- 30:09Speaker 2: So we're going to play some Sean Payton for you
- 30:11Speaker 2: until we get this figured out.
- 30:13Speaker 3: George Payton. George Payton. George Payton. Make sure we don't burn.
- 30:17Speaker 6: These burning hot takes this morning have really taken it
- 30:20Speaker 6: to another level.
- 30:21Speaker 4: So we'll be.
- 30:22Speaker 3: Back here in just a little bit, but I don't
- 30:24Speaker 3: want to go this.
- 30:25Speaker 4: You stay, you stay, you stay.
- 30:26Speaker 2: We got to go. So here's a George Payton and stuff.
- 30:30Speaker 3: There you go. Hey, George, thanks for talking to us tonight.
- 30:34Speaker 2: Uh, can you just talk about the decision to move
- 30:36Speaker 2: on for, or to wave Justin Jolie and how difficult
- 30:39Speaker 2: that was as a, uh, fifth round pick this year and,
- 30:42Speaker 2: and what that says about the team.
- 30:45Speaker 4: Sorry.
- 30:45Speaker 9: I mean, you know, Justin, uh, talented player. We knew
- 30:49Speaker 9: when we drafted him, um, We knew he was raw,
- 30:53Speaker 9: and we still liked the player. You know, he was
- 30:55Speaker 9: coming on towards the end of training camp. You know,
- 30:58Speaker 9: tight end positions are a tough position for a rookie.
- 31:01Speaker 9: He missed a lot of the offseason, just a little
- 31:03Speaker 9: bit behind. You know, we wish we had another game
- 31:06Speaker 9: or two. We still like the player. We think he's
- 31:09Speaker 9: going to have a nice career. You know, you just
- 31:11Speaker 9: got to make tough decisions and, you know, to build
- 31:15Speaker 9: the best 53 you can make.
- 31:17Speaker 3: Eric DeLalla, DenverBroncos.com.
- 31:20Speaker 14: George, you mentioned those tough decisions. You said earlier this
- 31:23Speaker 14: offseason it was going to be a tough roster to make.
- 31:26Speaker 14: Just in your time here, was this the toughest roster
- 31:29Speaker 14: to make, and does that speak to the strength of
- 31:32Speaker 14: this team?
- 31:35Speaker 9: Yeah, I think it does. I mean, every year is hard,
- 31:37Speaker 9: regardless of your depth. I mean, this is a tough day,
- 31:39Speaker 9: and it's always challenging. This year, I think we spent
- 31:44Speaker 9: more time on this roster, going through a lot of
- 31:46Speaker 9: different scenarios with a lot of these players that were
- 31:49Speaker 9: released and, and, uh, it's a puzzle. It's ongoing. Uh,
- 31:53Speaker 9: we're now we're building the practice squad. We're looking at
- 31:55Speaker 9: the wire tonight, obviously. And, and so it's a fluid, um,
- 31:59Speaker 9: it's fluid, but yet, yeah, this was a tough roster
- 32:02Speaker 9: to make, you know, and, and for draft picks, obviously. And, and, uh,
- 32:07Speaker 9: and so, yeah, it was more difficult.
- 32:10Speaker 3: We'll try Parker Gabriel again.
- 32:11Speaker 4: Go ahead, Parker.
- 32:12Speaker 3: Hey, George. Sorry about that.
- 32:14Speaker 5: Um, obviously you've got experience behind Bo, uh, at quarterback
- 32:17Speaker 5: with Jarrett and Sam. I'm curious as to what went
- 32:19Speaker 5: into the decision ultimately to keep three. And along with that,
- 32:23Speaker 5: there was a lot of movement around the league today with,
- 32:25Speaker 5: you know, number two and three quarterbacks. Did you feel
- 32:28Speaker 5: any interest in those guys as you put this roster together?
- 32:31Speaker 9: No, we love the quarterback room. I mean, we stated
- 32:33Speaker 9: that a lot. I mean, Sam, Stiddy, we thought they
- 32:36Speaker 9: both had really good off seasons, really good training camps
- 32:39Speaker 9: and in the games. You know, Sam's a big part
- 32:43Speaker 9: of this quarterback room. We didn't want to lose him.
- 32:45Speaker 9: We felt we were going to lose him. He's too
- 32:47Speaker 9: important to our team. Um, and just didn't want to
- 32:49Speaker 9: risk doing that. Obviously the game you played the other
- 32:51Speaker 9: night was outstanding. So, um, we love the room. We're
- 32:54Speaker 9: going to keep the room together.
- 32:57Speaker 3: Andrew Neeson, the fan.
- 32:59Speaker 7: Yeah, George, uh, kind of what went into the decision
- 33:01Speaker 7: on the backend at running back with, uh, Tyler Bidet
- 33:04Speaker 7: over Jalil McLaughlin there.
- 33:06Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 33:07Speaker 9: I mean, that was really tough. Um, really all three
- 33:10Speaker 9: of those runners, you know, they're all really good runners. Um,
- 33:13Speaker 9: they're all different. Um, you know, a lot goes into it, obviously. Um,
- 33:17Speaker 9: I mean, Jaleel, man, he's one of the, man, he's
- 33:20Speaker 9: something else, was really important to this team. The passion,
- 33:23Speaker 9: everything he brings, they're just two different, they're two different,
- 33:26Speaker 9: they got two different skill sets without going into too
- 33:30Speaker 9: much detail. So that was just, you know, without getting
- 33:33Speaker 9: into detail, it was a really hard decision. Obviously, special
- 33:36Speaker 9: teams are involved. Third down, there's a lot involved, but
- 33:41Speaker 9: that was probably the last decision we made is, you know,
- 33:43Speaker 9: this fourth runner.
- 33:46Speaker 3: Arnie Stapleton, the Associated Press.
- 33:48Speaker 4: Hey, George.
- 33:49Speaker 11: A couple things I wanted to ask you about. Can
- 33:52Speaker 11: you just speak to the decision by the commissioner to
- 33:55Speaker 11: start off with Cooper on the exemption list? And then secondly,
- 34:01Speaker 11: what was your toughest cut, do you think, today?
- 34:04Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 34:05Speaker 9: I mean, in regards to Jonathan being placed on the
- 34:07Speaker 9: commissioner exempt, part of the process, we continue to take
- 34:11Speaker 9: this very seriously. We're going to monitor everything. you know,
- 34:14Speaker 9: all the legal developments and continue to support Jonathan. Jonathan's
- 34:19Speaker 9: worked very hard to better himself and it'll be good
- 34:21Speaker 9: to have him in the building, be in meetings and
- 34:25Speaker 9: just be a part of the team. The toughest cut,
- 34:28Speaker 9: I mean, they're all tough, man. There's not an easy cut.
- 34:31Speaker 9: I just mentioned one. And so I'll just stick with that,
- 34:34Speaker 9: you know, with Jaleel McLaughlin, but there's others. I mean, this,
- 34:38Speaker 9: you know, as it was mentioned before, this was a
- 34:41Speaker 9: hard one. We were up late. We've been at it
- 34:43Speaker 9: since after the first preseason game. We knew this was coming,
- 34:48Speaker 9: but they're all hard. I just talked about Julio. That
- 34:50Speaker 9: was especially tough for what he's meant to this team
- 34:52Speaker 9: and what he's meant to this organization.
- 34:57Speaker 4: Chris Thomas in the Gazette.
- 34:59Speaker 6: Hey, George.
- 35:00Speaker 12: You currently don't have a long snapper. What was the
- 35:03Speaker 12: thinking on releasing Mitchell? Is he a vested guy that's
- 35:08Speaker 12: going to go to the practice squad.
- 35:10Speaker 3: And I know that you also let Luke Basso go.
- 35:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 35:15Speaker 9: Mitch, Mitch is going to be on our, you know,
- 35:16Speaker 9: our practice squad. He'll be a practice squad veteran. You know,
- 35:19Speaker 9: they don't have to clear waivers, you know, just provide,
- 35:22Speaker 9: you know, flexibility, you know, within the roster throughout the season,
- 35:27Speaker 9: you know, when they start here. And, and so that's
- 35:29Speaker 9: all it was.
- 35:31Speaker 10: Mike Kless, Nine News.
- 35:34Speaker 11: Thanks.
- 35:35Speaker 15: Yes, George, I was just going to say you figured
- 35:38Speaker 15: out how to basically have a 55-man roster with what
- 35:42Speaker 15: you're doing with Mitch Raboney and Prentice. Could you speak
- 35:47Speaker 15: to that little gymnastic and also the roster construction on
- 35:51Speaker 15: defense where you keep seven defensive linemen, which is maybe
- 35:56Speaker 15: a little heavy, and then because of the Cooper, only
- 35:59Speaker 15: four outside linebackers and the four insides.
- 36:03Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 36:04Speaker 9: I mean, you know, with the D-line, Mike, you know,
- 36:05Speaker 9: D-line and O-line, the priority we put in those positions
- 36:09Speaker 9: and the depth of those positions have really helped us
- 36:12Speaker 9: the last couple of years and a large part of
- 36:15Speaker 9: our success. And so, you know, Jordan, you know, he's,
- 36:22Speaker 9: you know, we got some youth in front of him.
- 36:24Speaker 9: He's been a good player the last couple of years
- 36:26Speaker 9: and we just didn't want to lose him. And in
- 36:29Speaker 9: regards to, you know, Prentice, For Brony, you know, I
- 36:32Speaker 9: just talked about it, Mike. It just gives us flexibility.
- 36:34Speaker 9: You know, the expanded practice closet allows that. Obviously, you know,
- 36:40Speaker 9: you have other, you know, you can elevate. There's certain
- 36:42Speaker 9: things you can do with your roster, and it's just
- 36:44Speaker 9: part of it, the roster management.
- 36:47Speaker 11: Jeff Legwald, ESPN.
- 36:49Speaker 16: Do you have any concerns, any of the draft picks
- 36:54Speaker 16: in particular, Jolie and Murdoch, are risk for waiver claims?
- 37:01Speaker 9: Yeah. I mean, we were, you always worry, you know,
- 37:05Speaker 9: about the guys you want to bring back, you know,
- 37:06Speaker 9: that they could get claimed. And, and if we do,
- 37:09Speaker 9: like we told them, we're going to give them a
- 37:10Speaker 9: hug and wish them the best. That's part of it.
- 37:12Speaker 9: That's part of the league. Obviously it's a risk when
- 37:15Speaker 9: you put guys like out, out there. But again, it's
- 37:19Speaker 9: just part of it. And, you know, we're going to
- 37:22Speaker 9: be looking at a lot of other rosters, you know,
- 37:24Speaker 9: tonight as well. I think there'll be 1100 guys on
- 37:27Speaker 9: the roster, but, Last year, I think there was only
- 37:30Speaker 9: 26 guys claimed. And so we'll just kind of see.
- 37:34Speaker 9: Maybe the number is going to be greater this year.
- 37:35Speaker 9: But we've kind of weighed that, Jeff. But yeah, it's
- 37:39Speaker 9: always a risk.
- 37:41Speaker 3: Troy Rank, the Denver Post.
- 37:43Speaker 13: George, what is your trust level with Jonah Ellis and
- 37:47Speaker 13: DeAndre Tillman and Q Robinson behind Cooper and certainly not
- 37:50Speaker 13: really knowing how long he's going to be gone? Are
- 37:53Speaker 13: you comfortable with the number of reps they were able
- 37:55Speaker 13: to get in camp?
- 37:58Speaker 9: Yeah, and these guys have all played in games, big games,
- 38:01Speaker 9: and done well. You know, all these guys would feel
- 38:04Speaker 9: like we could play. We like the depth there. I mean,
- 38:08Speaker 9: we led the league in sacks the last two years.
- 38:10Speaker 9: These guys were all a part of that. Q coming
- 38:12Speaker 9: on late. I think you saw what Q did, you know,
- 38:16Speaker 9: the New England game, you know, late in the season,
- 38:18Speaker 9: even Houston game last year, some of the things he did.
- 38:20Speaker 9: And then you watch him in training camp and the
- 38:22Speaker 9: games this year. We feel really good about him. And
- 38:26Speaker 9: then Jonah and obviously Tilly and Nick. I mean, these
- 38:28Speaker 9: guys have played and they've done well. Yeah, depth-wise, you know,
- 38:32Speaker 9: we'll be looking a little bit. I'll be looking on
- 38:35Speaker 9: the practice squad. We'll be looking around. You can never
- 38:38Speaker 9: have enough pass rushers. So, you know, we'll just kind
- 38:41Speaker 9: of see how that goes.
- 38:43Speaker 11: Kyle Fredrickson, The Gazette.
- 38:46Speaker 17: Hey, George, with Caleb Lohner going on IR, I'm just
- 38:49Speaker 17: curious if you could give us an update on just
- 38:51Speaker 17: how his injury recovery is going and also just how
- 38:54Speaker 17: you project him in this offense just with sort of
- 38:58Speaker 17: a limited amount of time getting to evaluate him?
- 39:01Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, he looked good. You know, he was
- 39:03Speaker 9: having a really good offseason, obviously had a setback with
- 39:06Speaker 9: the foot. You know, we expect him, I'm not sure
- 39:08Speaker 9: the timetable, midseason maybe, don't hold me to that. But
- 39:12Speaker 9: he has all the traits. Obviously, his size, he can run,
- 39:15Speaker 9: he's got great ball skills, being a basketball player. He just,
- 39:19Speaker 9: you know, this would have been a really important preseason
- 39:21Speaker 9: training camp for him. He just needs reps. We're still
- 39:24Speaker 9: excited about him. He's here every day working, um but
- 39:28Speaker 9: obviously uh we won't we won't see him until uh
- 39:31Speaker 9: you know late october or so we have time.
- 39:34Speaker 3: For two more questions we'll go darren mckean then brandon
- 39:36Speaker 3: cristal go ahead darren.
- 39:38Speaker 8: Hey george um do you have any specific examples of
- 39:41Speaker 8: something that happened in the last preseason game that impacted
- 39:44Speaker 8: any decisions made today.
- 39:48Speaker 9: That's a great question. Typically, you look at the body
- 39:53Speaker 9: of work. This is kind of the cherry on top,
- 39:55Speaker 9: that last preseason game. We had a number of guys
- 39:57Speaker 9: play well, whether it's Jordan Jackson. I don't think it
- 40:00Speaker 9: impacted a lot of these guys, I think, as it
- 40:05Speaker 9: would in a lot of years. You know what I mean?
- 40:07Speaker 9: I think we were pretty set on where we were.
- 40:10Speaker 9: I think we were probably at 55%, 54%. before the
- 40:15Speaker 9: last game, and maybe it just tweaked a little. I
- 40:18Speaker 9: don't really have a great example for you. I mean,
- 40:20Speaker 9: Sam obviously played great. If we were thinking anything there,
- 40:23Speaker 9: that certainly confirmed keeping Sam. But I don't have a
- 40:27Speaker 9: great answer, but good question.
- 40:28Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you. Thank you very much.
- 40:30Speaker 2: I thought it was a great question, too. So that
- 40:31Speaker 2: was George Payton. Now we've gotten everything figured out. Turns
- 40:34Speaker 2: out this place is not on fire, so that's awesome.
- 40:37Speaker 2: So in the meantime, we'll throw it to break real quick,
- 40:39Speaker 2: come back, wrap up the show next.
- 40:40Speaker 3: We'll be right back.
- 40:41Speaker 2: All right, I'm already pot committed. I got everything in
- 40:43Speaker 2: my pockets. I put away all of my stuff, so
- 40:45Speaker 2: I'm not taking it back out. We're going to finish
- 40:48Speaker 2: the show this way.
- 40:49Speaker 4: I was going to say, you're still wearing your bra bag.
- 40:51Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just, you know what? I'm pot committed now.
- 40:55Speaker 2: I was this close to my car, and now I'm
- 40:57Speaker 2: back in here speaking to these lovely people. If you
- 41:00Speaker 2: don't know what just happened, we had to exit the
- 41:02Speaker 2: building because there was a strong burning smell.
- 41:06Speaker 6: Well, it still exists. We thought it was burning. It's
- 41:08Speaker 6: not burning. It's hot asphalt being poured across the street here, apparently.
- 41:14Speaker 2: Yeah, it was something about concrete work going on across
- 41:17Speaker 2: the street that's now just getting through all these different
- 41:20Speaker 2: vents in here.
- 41:21Speaker 3: So nothing was burning. That's great.
- 41:24Speaker 2: I will say this. I almost would take a fire
- 41:27Speaker 2: rather than listen to Vicko.
- 41:28Speaker 3: My eyes hurt now. Over and over again.
- 41:31Speaker 6: I am suffering. Suffering.
- 41:33Speaker 4: Be a man!
- 41:34Speaker 3: Okay. What, you can't even speak now? That's all a charade.
- 41:39Speaker 3: Is it hurting your throat?
- 41:41Speaker 6: I'm struggling a little bit.
- 41:44Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
- 41:45Speaker 2: Both, well, all of us have exited the building, came
- 41:49Speaker 2: back in. Vic and Moe's just piddling on their phone.
- 41:51Speaker 2: They're counting down the minutes here before they.
- 41:53Speaker 3: Get the hell out of here.
- 41:53Speaker 6: Well, I mean, we just got a false alarm.
- 41:55Speaker 4: Listen, here's the thing, Coach.
- 41:57Speaker 6: Did you see that badass firefighter come in that was
- 41:59Speaker 6: about six foot four?
- 42:00Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 42:01Speaker 3: He had his axe.
- 42:02Speaker 4: So Firefighter, he had his axe.
- 42:04Speaker 6: No, but I mean, he came in like, he's not
- 42:06Speaker 6: messing around.
- 42:06Speaker 4: Firefighter, kids, get out of here. Dude, by the way,
- 42:09Speaker 4: total look of Firefighter, all of them, mustaches, the whole thing, yeah.
- 42:13Speaker 4: Firefighter Davis, though, comes in, Brett, he's got so much
- 42:15Speaker 4: gear hanging off him, like, he looked killer. Like, he
- 42:19Speaker 4: looked like, you know what, I'll take on Will the
- 42:22Speaker 4: Beast right now. I mean, he walked in. Like this guy.
- 42:25Speaker 6: He walked in, and Moser immediately asked, can I get
- 42:28Speaker 6: your calendar, please?
- 42:29Speaker 10: Yeah.
- 42:32Speaker 3: What are you, April?
- 42:33Speaker 4: You look like an April guy.
- 42:36Speaker 3: Start of the weather turning around, huh?
- 42:39Speaker 4: Firefighter Davis, man. That guy, he was ready to put
- 42:43Speaker 4: some fires out.
- 42:44Speaker 3: Can I ask, you know what?
- 42:46Speaker 2: I know we have firefighters and police officers and guys
- 42:48Speaker 2: like that who listen to this show.
- 42:51Speaker 3: A lot of your calls are stuff like this.
- 42:54Speaker 4: I remember I had this once. It's not Towering Inferno.
- 42:56Speaker 3: I was at my house.
- 42:57Speaker 2: It was a really cold day. It was like in
- 42:59Speaker 2: the negatives during winter. I was in my basement and
- 43:02Speaker 2: I smelled what I thought was gas. I'm like, this
- 43:05Speaker 2: isn't good. So I did the whole thing. I called
- 43:07Speaker 2: the fire department. I was like, you got to check
- 43:08Speaker 2: this out. It's a strong, gassy smell in the basement.
- 43:10Speaker 2: And I want my house to explode. And they came
- 43:13Speaker 2: in there like, all right, we'll go check.
- 43:15Speaker 3: I could just tell.
- 43:16Speaker 4: Ours was the same.
- 43:17Speaker 3: So they went down. They looked at it.
- 43:18Speaker 2: They're like, there's no gas stuff. It's just with how
- 43:22Speaker 2: cold it is. It was something about the smell from
- 43:24Speaker 2: the outside, how cold it was. How much of your
- 43:27Speaker 2: life is just checking on people who are being- To panic.
- 43:30Speaker 6: We had a similar situation about seven years ago. In
- 43:34Speaker 6: the middle of the night, the entire family got out
- 43:37Speaker 6: of the house. My wife woke me up.
- 43:39Speaker 3: Hey, it smells like gas.
- 43:41Speaker 4: There's a gas leak.
- 43:42Speaker 6: And I'm like, ah, okay. I got everybody in the cul-de-sac.
- 43:45Speaker 6: It's like, oh, my God, the Lombardies have a gas leak.
- 43:48Speaker 6: No fires nearby. The firefighters came down. We had three
- 43:51Speaker 6: trucks in the area. They're running around. They're like, okay,
- 43:54Speaker 6: we tested. There's no gas leak. You got a bad...
- 43:59Speaker 6: of crab meat in your... Yes, it was crab meat.
- 44:04Speaker 15: That's so good.
- 44:07Speaker 6: That's what it was.
- 44:10Speaker 4: That's got to be like a lot of these... Well, that's.
- 44:13Speaker 3: What I'm saying. It's got to be annoying. They get
- 44:15Speaker 3: on all that gear. They're carrying all that extra weight.
- 44:18Speaker 3: They're pouring asphalt behind the building. You guys are fine.
- 44:21Speaker 4: When I was a kid, it was always the fire
- 44:23Speaker 4: department shows up to rescue the kitty cat out of
- 44:25Speaker 4: the tree, right? That was the meme, all that kind
- 44:27Speaker 4: of thing. Like, yeah, you know, the cattle come down
- 44:31Speaker 4: when it wants to, okay? Your tuna fish is bad, dude.
- 44:35Speaker 4: Your crab meat, whatever. Your crab tuna, your tuna crab.
- 44:39Speaker 4: I mean... So anyway.
- 44:41Speaker 2: We'll have the live presser of Kale McCart at 1
- 44:44Speaker 2: o'clock today right here on 92.5.
- 44:47Speaker 3: In the meantime, Nelly, do you got a fact checker
- 44:48Speaker 3: after all that?
- 44:50Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker.
- 44:54Speaker 4: Fact Checker! Presented by Backus & Shanker.
- 44:58Speaker 1: Serious lawyers for the seriously injured.
- 45:01Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess.
- 45:02Speaker 10: Well, first of all, boys, we cheated death, so congrats.
- 45:05Speaker 6: And, boy.
- 45:07Speaker 10: They got the vents cranking in here, and they're trying
- 45:09Speaker 10: to get some fresh air in here to remove the
- 45:11Speaker 10: smell of just piping hot ass. And I guess the
- 45:15Speaker 10: only fact I have is when I grow up, I
- 45:17Speaker 10: want to have a mustache like that Chief of Fire, man.
- 45:20Speaker 10: That was just the sexiest stache I may have.
- 45:22Speaker 3: Ever seen in person.
- 45:22Speaker 4: That's true.
- 45:23Speaker 6: That's all I got, boys.
- 45:24Speaker 3: It is true.
- 45:24Speaker 6: Congrats for another day of living.
- 45:26Speaker 3: There we go.
- 45:26Speaker 4: What was so cool, though, was they put the hook
- 45:28Speaker 4: and ladder up on the roof. You know, the hose
- 45:30Speaker 4: on the end. And they just walked right up that
- 45:32Speaker 4: mon onto the roof.
- 45:34Speaker 6: It was all business, Moshe. We're walking out with our phones,
- 45:37Speaker 6: recording stuff, and these guys walk in just all business.
- 45:41Speaker 3: These guys, they're like, we need to figure out if
- 45:43Speaker 3: anybody's in danger here.
- 45:44Speaker 6: And we're going, hey!
- 45:46Speaker 3: Look at it. Pretty fire truck. We all turned like
- 45:49Speaker 3: we were five years old. Hey, can I get a
- 45:50Speaker 3: tight shot of your axe? Can I hold it? Can
- 45:54Speaker 3: I hold the axe? The axe, I said. That was Mr. April.
- 46:03Speaker 3: Who knows? 303-504-0925.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Oh, reminder to you guys, if you didn't qualify for
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- 46:13Speaker 2: tomorrow night at 6. We're randomly picking at least four
- 46:17Speaker 2: people in attendance to jump into the tournament with a
- 46:19Speaker 2: trip for two to KC on the line.
- 46:21Speaker 3: Huge prizes all night.
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- 46:26Speaker 2: It's all happening tomorrow night at Rooftop Social. Thanks to
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- 46:33Speaker 6: Hopefully.
- 46:33Speaker 3: You get a full, unimpeded morning sprint with Raj and
- 46:37Speaker 3: Coach next.