Latest / The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane / 10-05-26 - Broncos fall to the 49ers/Same Ol' Broncos Song and Dance/Colorado CFB Insanity
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- 0:02Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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- 0:19Speaker 2: Second down and eight.
- 0:21Speaker 1: Purdy.
- 0:22Speaker 3: They get by Williams. They dump it off. It's Kittle.
- 0:24Speaker 4: Oh, look it. There he goes.
- 0:25Speaker 2: Kittle on the move. Huffington will chase him.
- 0:29Speaker 4: That is six.
- 0:30Speaker 1: What a play.
- 0:32Speaker 5: Kittle, his third touchdown in two games. His fourth touchdown reception.
- 0:37Speaker 5: The Pinero extra point, 24-14. It's back to a double-digit lead.
- 0:43Speaker 2: For the 49ers.
- 0:45Speaker 3: Obviously not the result we wanted. Good football team.
- 0:47Speaker 6: We knew it was going to be a tight game,
- 0:50Speaker 6: and Thought we played hard. And the margins become very slim.
- 0:54Speaker 6: Just there's a couple of plays always when there's a
- 0:56Speaker 6: game like that can go either direction.
- 0:59Speaker 3: And those guys made them. We didn't. It's a tough loss.
- 1:02Speaker 3: And then we go from here. So, any questions?
- 1:06Speaker 2: It's a Rally House Football Monday. I'm not going to
- 1:09Speaker 2: sit here. I'm not going to scream. I'm not going
- 1:12Speaker 2: to– I don't even think I'm going to have, like,
- 1:15Speaker 2: a super negative tone today. And there's a reason for it. Well,
- 1:21Speaker 2: number one, winning on the road against a very good
- 1:23Speaker 2: football team is difficult. You play San Francisco in San Francisco. Well,
- 1:29Speaker 2: guess what? That's a good team. And good teams will
- 1:32Speaker 2: beat you when they play at home. Number two, I
- 1:36Speaker 2: think with the Broncos being 2-2 at this point in
- 1:39Speaker 2: the season with the schedule that they've had, I think
- 1:42Speaker 2: it's understandable and almost expected, I would say, with where
- 1:49Speaker 2: you were at if we are all expecting a 3-3
- 1:53Speaker 2: record and that being okay by the end of the
- 1:57Speaker 2: first six weeks, then that's fine as well. The issues
- 2:04Speaker 2: here is, I mean, it's kind of all the stuff
- 2:07Speaker 2: that we've talked about, and I don't want to rehash,
- 2:11Speaker 2: you know, things that we've done over two straight years now,
- 2:15Speaker 2: but yeah, slow start in the first half. will lead
- 2:20Speaker 2: to you getting beaten the second. And the Broncos have
- 2:24Speaker 2: made that their M.O. more often than not. But you
- 2:30Speaker 2: play good teams on the road, good teams at home, whatever.
- 2:34Speaker 2: You're able to get away with it at times. You
- 2:37Speaker 2: did that against the Jags. You did that against the Rams.
- 2:40Speaker 2: In the case of the Niners, you weren't. And so
- 2:42Speaker 2: it's like it's very unsurprising. You know, the offense... with
- 2:49Speaker 2: how slow these things start. And I could get into
- 2:53Speaker 2: the reasons why I think that's happening and we'll do
- 2:56Speaker 2: that shortly. But you see the opportunities and you see
- 3:01Speaker 2: the margin for error. And here becomes the problem. When
- 3:04Speaker 2: you're in a tight game late, you don't have margin
- 3:11Speaker 2: for error. And when you put that in front of yourself,
- 3:17Speaker 2: When you give yourself no room to make a mistake,
- 3:22Speaker 2: all it takes is one little thing, and then you
- 3:24Speaker 2: can't overcome it. And that one little thing yesterday was
- 3:29Speaker 2: a muffed punt. It's a 3-3 football game. Your all-pro
- 3:35Speaker 2: punt return man is back in the lineup, and he
- 3:39Speaker 2: lets one bumble by his hands. And now all of
- 3:43Speaker 2: a sudden the Niners are starting a drive on the
- 3:45Speaker 2: 28-yard line. They go up 10-3. You try and respond
- 3:50Speaker 2: the next drive. You go down the field, but it
- 3:55Speaker 2: turns into a third and 10. You got to kick
- 3:56Speaker 2: the field goal. Like, this is the stuff that I
- 4:00Speaker 2: was saying for a while. And I just, I don't
- 4:06Speaker 2: think this is the day to start yelling and screaming
- 4:11Speaker 2: about this stuff. Because I think the Broncos are fine. Now,
- 4:17Speaker 2: the product and what they did yesterday isn't good enough.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I acknowledge that and I know that. There are bigger
- 4:26Speaker 2: things and bigger reasons as to why I think this
- 4:30Speaker 2: just doesn't look quite right on offense. You know, a
- 4:34Speaker 2: major part of this is Bo. Like, he's just got
- 4:36Speaker 2: to play better. He can't be missing the throws that
- 4:39Speaker 2: he's missing. But in the same way we talk about
- 4:43Speaker 2: margin for error and the opportunity to give yourself a
- 4:53Speaker 2: little bit of breathing room, I would say this. The
- 5:01Speaker 2: Broncos offense as a whole does a really poor job
- 5:05Speaker 2: of not making the game all about your quarterback. And
- 5:08Speaker 2: here's what I mean by that. I don't know. I've
- 5:15Speaker 2: said this forever. Bo Nix is a good quarterback. I
- 5:18Speaker 2: don't know how good. I don't know where his ceiling is.
- 5:22Speaker 2: I don't know if he'll ever be a guy that
- 5:24Speaker 2: is capable of just putting the team on his shoulders
- 5:27Speaker 2: and winning a football game by himself. For example, Brock Purdy,
- 5:35Speaker 2: for the first half, had like 50 passing yards. And
- 5:39Speaker 2: I think that him, he's better than Bo is for
- 5:43Speaker 2: sure right now. But I think him and Jalen Hurts
- 5:46Speaker 2: and Bo Nix are all in this category of, I
- 5:49Speaker 2: think for the moment, they're as good as their team's
- 5:52Speaker 2: going to take them. Like, they're very capable quarterbacks who
- 5:57Speaker 2: won't make many mistakes, will make plays when they're presented
- 6:01Speaker 2: to them. But, If you have to be like, my
- 6:06Speaker 2: quarterback needs to go win me a game, can any
- 6:08Speaker 2: of those three guys do it?
- 6:09Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 6:11Speaker 2: And I think last night was a perfect example of
- 6:13Speaker 2: that in the case of Bo Nix. And in the
- 6:16Speaker 2: case of Brock Purdy, for that matter. Bo Nix can't
- 6:22Speaker 2: do this without a running game. He can't. When you're
- 6:27Speaker 2: asking him to throw the ball 42 times a night,
- 6:29Speaker 2: it's not a recipe that you want. And I know
- 6:35Speaker 2: he's done this, like, a lot. But think about this
- 6:40Speaker 2: for a second. His passing attempts over the last three
- 6:43Speaker 2: games have gone from 31 to 34 to 42. Since
- 6:47Speaker 2: week one against Kansas City, he started with 28. So 28, 31, 34, 42.
- 6:51Speaker 2: That's the passing attempts. And that's in a game that
- 6:56Speaker 2: was virtually a 3-3 game until the fourth quarter. I mean, essentially.
- 7:08Speaker 2: The first touchdown scored in the game was with 4-15
- 7:15Speaker 2: to go in the third quarter. And think about that.
- 7:18Speaker 2: You're asking, and what's really weird is that the only
- 7:24Speaker 2: time really the running game got going for you was
- 7:28Speaker 2: when the game was ending. And that's when they curiously
- 7:33Speaker 2: made the decision to to pound the rock. I mean,
- 7:38Speaker 2: there's a whole bunch of runs when all of a
- 7:40Speaker 2: sudden clock was a problem and time was a problem.
- 7:45Speaker 2: And so it's just, to me, there's a bunch of
- 7:49Speaker 2: little things like not having a run game. And I
- 7:54Speaker 2: think J.K. Dobbins is incredibly hurt. It's either one of
- 7:58Speaker 2: two things. He's either hurt or... He's cooked. I don't
- 8:03Speaker 2: know which one it is. He does not look nearly
- 8:06Speaker 2: the same explosiveness from last year. This is a guy
- 8:09Speaker 2: who's averaged five yards of carry throughout his career. And
- 8:11Speaker 2: he's at three and a half this season. So it's
- 8:14Speaker 2: either the injury is really hindering him. And because he
- 8:16Speaker 2: made his little pinky promise, he's trying to stay on
- 8:19Speaker 2: the field and play through it, even though it's, it's
- 8:20Speaker 2: a detriment to his, his own game or two. Um,
- 8:29Speaker 2: He's just, he's had that running back milk expiration date
- 8:34Speaker 2: where the date might say something, but you know what?
- 8:37Speaker 2: Give the smell test and tell me what it is.
- 8:40Speaker 2: Because sometimes that lies. No running game hurts. And here's
- 8:49Speaker 2: the really curious thing. We spend so much time this
- 8:53Speaker 2: offseason talking about.
- 8:57Speaker 2: You know, where are the targets going to go in
- 8:59Speaker 2: the pass game? Who's going to lead the team in
- 9:05Speaker 2: catches and targets? Is it going to be Jalen Waddell?
- 9:07Speaker 2: Is it going to be Cortland Sutton? Cortland Sutton has,
- 9:11Speaker 2: was it eight, nine catches through four games? I mean,
- 9:15Speaker 2: he had one for four yards in the game against
- 9:18Speaker 2: San Francisco. I thought the whole thing to.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Bring in Jalen Waddle was you're going to get Cortland
- 9:26Speaker 2: Sutton now on more one-on-one opportunities and be able to
- 9:28Speaker 2: take advantage of that stuff. And I don't see it.
- 9:34Speaker 2: Not to mention Pat Bryant's injury now, which looked brutal.
- 9:39Speaker 2: Don't really have an update on that. I don't, I
- 9:41Speaker 2: think when, um, Sean Payton talked after the game about injuries.
- 9:48Speaker 2: He didn't give any sort of like specific thing, but
- 9:51Speaker 2: with Sertan and Riley Moss and Pat Bryant and all
- 9:55Speaker 2: these different injuries that happened in the middle of that game,
- 9:56Speaker 2: including Bidet. you finally got hit by the injury bug
- 10:01Speaker 2: that you've avoided over the last couple of years. Now,
- 10:03Speaker 2: hopefully none of these are too serious. I will say
- 10:05Speaker 2: Pat Bryant just looked gruesome. So, I don't know. But
- 10:13Speaker 2: hopefully these guys aren't missing too much time. But This
- 10:20Speaker 2: is kind of part of what we were talking about
- 10:23Speaker 2: is the Broncos win in very, very interesting and curious ways.
- 10:30Speaker 2: They go out. They don't really do much early. They
- 10:33Speaker 2: turn it on late. And to do that, you have
- 10:37Speaker 2: to be almost perfect by the end of games. Here's
- 10:40Speaker 2: what throws wrenches in that. When you make a mistake
- 10:44Speaker 2: like muffing a punt, when you deal with injuries to
- 10:47Speaker 2: key players on offense and defense, All of that stuff
- 10:51Speaker 2: now is putting this ball of, well, it got a
- 10:55Speaker 2: whole lot harder and we already made it like difficulty
- 10:59Speaker 2: level impossible to come back in this game. But again,
- 11:06Speaker 2: none of this to me, and I'm just, this is
- 11:08Speaker 2: where I'm coming from. None of this to me is
- 11:11Speaker 2: a gigantic surprise or anything like that. I've always kind
- 11:16Speaker 2: of thought if you play that way against really good opponents,
- 11:20Speaker 2: This is what's going to happen. And I know we
- 11:24Speaker 2: said all last week that I just kind of threw
- 11:26Speaker 2: my hands up and said, well, maybe they just can
- 11:29Speaker 2: keep winning this way. We all know that there's a
- 11:32Speaker 2: ticking clock on that sort of stuff. And if you
- 11:35Speaker 2: don't play well in the first half, like think about
- 11:38Speaker 2: this for a second. With what you did to San
- 11:41Speaker 2: Francisco at the end of the first half, where you
- 11:44Speaker 2: held what was the league's best quarterback statistically going into
- 11:48Speaker 2: this game, to like 50 yards passing, and you weren't
- 11:56Speaker 2: able to take advantage of that. You held them to
- 11:58Speaker 2: three points. You get a blocked field goal at the
- 12:00Speaker 2: end of the half. The fact that you don't have
- 12:03Speaker 2: a touchdown or a touchdown and a field goal or
- 12:07Speaker 2: two touchdown lead by the end of the first half,
- 12:09Speaker 2: like that's what you need. But it's not really what
- 12:14Speaker 2: this team does. The Broncos are a very good football
- 12:21Speaker 2: team that relies way too much on late game execution
- 12:26Speaker 2: to the point of perfection to win football games. And
- 12:31Speaker 2: when you don't get the perfection, you get results like this.
- 12:35Speaker 2: And again, taking this big picture, two and two by
- 12:39Speaker 2: the end of these four weeks against these opponents is,
- 12:44Speaker 2: to me, acceptable. But it doesn't feel good considering you
- 12:47Speaker 2: feel like you just let one go last night. Like,
- 12:52Speaker 2: I'm not going to say a negative syllable about the
- 12:55Speaker 2: defense today. This is all about the offense. And whatever
- 13:01Speaker 2: they have to do to figure this out needs to
- 13:04Speaker 2: happen in a hurry. Because you can't have the same
- 13:08Speaker 2: thing as last year where you're relying every week on
- 13:13Speaker 2: beating teams with two minutes left in the game. Like,
- 13:18Speaker 2: how about having a lead And there's a huge pressure
- 13:24Speaker 2: that's coming their way that we get to in just
- 13:25Speaker 2: a little bit. Again, it's a rally house football Monday
- 13:29Speaker 2: back after this.
- 13:29Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 13:30Speaker 3: Like I said, that's too early to, it's a fair question.
- 13:33Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
- 13:34Speaker 6: And man, it's tough, you know, to discuss any of
- 13:37Speaker 6: that right now. But I told those guys like, Hey,
- 13:40Speaker 6: you know, we played some, some tough teams and this
- 13:44Speaker 6: is another good football team. You know, there were a
- 13:46Speaker 6: lot of things we did well defensively for a good
- 13:49Speaker 6: portion of the game. I felt like the time of
- 13:51Speaker 6: possession was, began to affect us. And, you know, we
- 13:54Speaker 6: have the big turnover, obviously, in the kicking game, and
- 13:57Speaker 6: that flips the field, and all of a sudden, you know,
- 13:59Speaker 6: you're back out there, you know, on defense.
- 14:02Speaker 3: But, Mike, to your.
- 14:03Speaker 6: Original question, you know, we always, each game, look at everything.
- 14:07Speaker 6: That's kind of, you know, how we'll approach this one.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Sean Payton after the game. Man, here's a big problem.
- 14:21Speaker 2: big issue that you got when you have a team
- 14:26Speaker 2: that is very reliant on this rally house football Monday
- 14:31Speaker 2: on being perfect late in games or not putting yourself
- 14:36Speaker 2: in a deficit to give you the opportunity to come
- 14:38Speaker 2: back and win and in that you're now out key
- 14:46Speaker 2: players from this roster key There's a report from Pellicero
- 14:53Speaker 2: last night, Tom Pellicero. Sertan is believed to have avoided
- 14:58Speaker 2: a long-term injury. He will undergo further testing for the
- 15:01Speaker 2: non-contact injury to his ankle. But his Achilles is intact,
- 15:04Speaker 2: and all indications are he avoided any worst-case scenario. So
- 15:08Speaker 2: that's the good news. The bad news is you limp
- 15:12Speaker 2: off the field and have to be helped off the
- 15:14Speaker 2: field when nobody hit you. That's a problem. Then you
- 15:21Speaker 2: lose Riley Moss, kind of out of nowhere. He's just
- 15:25Speaker 2: no longer on the field. Then, Pat Bryant goes down
- 15:29Speaker 2: with an injury. Like, all these different things started to
- 15:31Speaker 2: stack up, and now you're talking about if you have
- 15:33Speaker 2: to be perfect in the second half of games, well then,
- 15:42Speaker 2: doing that while being unhealthy is not great. And There's
- 15:50Speaker 2: a few more cuts from Sean Payton that I think
- 15:54Speaker 2: give you some insight as to where his head's at.
- 16:01Speaker 2: To me, people are yelling and screaming for Sean Payton
- 16:12Speaker 2: to take over the playbook, and I find this really
- 16:15Speaker 2: interesting where people were begging for Sean Payton to move
- 16:23Speaker 2: on from the playbook, to give it to somebody else,
- 16:26Speaker 2: to give it to Davis Webb to make sure that
- 16:27Speaker 2: he's here in the offseason. And I said, you know
- 16:34Speaker 2: what Sean Payton play calls are. You know what he
- 16:37Speaker 2: does in, you know what his tendencies are. He's got
- 16:44Speaker 2: a history and a track record of success in doing this.
- 16:48Speaker 2: The alternative is someone who's never called a game before
- 16:53Speaker 2: and you don't know what that looks like. Everybody has
- 16:56Speaker 2: the assumption that it's going to be better. What if
- 16:59Speaker 2: it's not? And here's what's funny. It's certainly not better.
- 17:06Speaker 2: I really don't know if it's worse. It looks the same.
- 17:12Speaker 2: What are we talking about four weeks into the season?
- 17:15Speaker 2: We're talking about a Lack of commitment to the run game.
- 17:19Speaker 2: That was the narrative for two straight years. Really three.
- 17:25Speaker 2: Slow starts on offense. Yeah. That's the same thing we've
- 17:29Speaker 2: been talking about since Bo Nix got here. Three and outs,
- 17:34Speaker 2: especially to start the game. It's the same thing. Like
- 17:38Speaker 2: we can go out here and we can say Davis
- 17:40Speaker 2: Webb stinks and we need to give Sean Payton the
- 17:42Speaker 2: play calls. I don't think it's any different. This is
- 17:46Speaker 2: who they've been. And that's why I guess I'm way
- 17:50Speaker 2: more calm than everybody else is this morning. Nothing about
- 17:54Speaker 2: that game looked different than the others other than you
- 17:57Speaker 2: didn't have the last second comeback. But I've been telling
- 18:03Speaker 2: you for two straight years, that's a wild thing to
- 18:06Speaker 2: rely upon every single week. And that's why even in wins,
- 18:10Speaker 2: I just don't shrug my shoulders and say, well, a
- 18:13Speaker 2: win's a win and nothing else really matters. It does.
- 18:17Speaker 2: It matters against good opponents. It matters when you're on
- 18:19Speaker 2: the road. And it matters about giving yourself margin for
- 18:22Speaker 2: error later in a game.
- 18:24Speaker 9: You know, when it comes to the play calling you
- 18:25Speaker 9: were talking about, Coach Sanford actually gave me the perfect
- 18:29Speaker 9: metaphor to kind of wrap my head around everything. So
- 18:31Speaker 9: this was a month or so ago. I went on
- 18:34Speaker 9: one of DMACC's 6,000 digital shows that he does on
- 18:38Speaker 9: our YouTube channel and our Twitch and our Twitter, all
- 18:40Speaker 9: that stuff. The one he does with Coach Sanford on
- 18:42Speaker 9: Sunday nights. Last night, it was a lot of belly
- 18:45Speaker 9: aching reaction to the game. It was great stuff if
- 18:47Speaker 9: you missed it. And I just asked him about the
- 18:49Speaker 9: difference between, I said, if Sean Payton's still installing the plays,
- 18:55Speaker 9: but then somebody else is calling them, what changes? Help
- 18:58Speaker 9: me understand what the difference between making a playbook is
- 19:01Speaker 9: and calling plays. Let's dig through all this. And he said,
- 19:04Speaker 9: I'm going to put it in terms that even you
- 19:06Speaker 9: can understand, you little band nerd. Think of it as
- 19:09Speaker 9: when you're playing a concert, every play is a song.
- 19:14Speaker 9: and play calling is writing a set list.
- 19:16Speaker 4: Sure.
- 19:17Speaker 9: It's taking all the songs you know how to play
- 19:18Speaker 9: and putting them in.
- 19:19Speaker 2: A specific order.
- 19:20Speaker 9: So at this point, I'm wondering, well, it's still clearly
- 19:23Speaker 9: Sean Payton's songs. It's still short of the sticks on
- 19:27Speaker 9: third and long. It's still, hey, I forgot how to
- 19:29Speaker 9: run the ball. It's still to all the women I've
- 19:31Speaker 9: loved before. So if we're still building the same set
- 19:34Speaker 9: list with the same songs, why would the concert sound
- 19:38Speaker 9: any different?
- 19:39Speaker 2: Well, here's what's funny. I thought that Davis Webb was
- 19:45Speaker 2: going to be tasked at least with, if we're sticking
- 19:49Speaker 2: with the music. analogy, maybe he adds some horns. Maybe
- 19:53Speaker 2: he adds some synth, something else to what these songs
- 19:59Speaker 2: were to juice them up a little bit. Maybe he
- 20:01Speaker 2: has somebody that's on, I don't know what you call them.
- 20:07Speaker 2: Not a DJ. But the equivalent of that, somebody that's
- 20:11Speaker 2: giving you a different beat. Like, the way that a
- 20:15Speaker 2: DJ takes a song from the 70s and turns it into, like,
- 20:19Speaker 2: an EDM remix, okay? Like, I thought that's what Davis
- 20:23Speaker 2: Webb was doing, was I'm going to take Sean Payton's
- 20:26Speaker 2: general outline in plays, and I'm going to add this
- 20:29Speaker 2: to it and add that to it. And he's got
- 20:31Speaker 2: more pre-snap motion, and the team is getting to the
- 20:34Speaker 2: line faster than they did under Sean Payton. But the
- 20:37Speaker 2: bottom line is, these plays aren't working. And it would
- 20:42Speaker 2: be one thing if it just came last week, but
- 20:47Speaker 2: they haven't been working really all year. And it's, again,
- 20:54Speaker 2: one of those reminders. I mean, I want you guys
- 20:58Speaker 2: to think about this. Bo Nix is limited in some
- 21:03Speaker 2: of the stuff he can do. I still think he's good.
- 21:07Speaker 2: I still think he's good enough to get you to
- 21:09Speaker 2: a Super Bowl and possibly win the thing. We saw
- 21:12Speaker 2: it last year. But there needs to be so many
- 21:17Speaker 2: things that go in your favor. You go back over
- 21:22Speaker 2: the last two years. Think about the way that the
- 21:25Speaker 2: Broncos have won football games. And I will be the
- 21:27Speaker 2: first one to tell you, you put yourself in positions
- 21:32Speaker 2: to get lucky. But they have been very effective late
- 21:36Speaker 2: in games and have had luck on their side. I'm
- 21:39Speaker 2: not just talking about calls on the field like the
- 21:42Speaker 2: pass interference, non-pass interference thing from the Rams last week,
- 21:46Speaker 2: although that's a part of it. They've been very lucky
- 21:49Speaker 2: because that's the only way you can put it. This
- 21:52Speaker 2: is luck. Right here what I'm about to say. They
- 21:56Speaker 2: have been very lucky in the injury department. They have
- 22:02Speaker 2: been so healthy and healthier than really anybody else in
- 22:08Speaker 2: the league over the last two years. Now, you're dealing
- 22:13Speaker 2: with not just injuries, major ones. Ones to where when
- 22:18Speaker 2: you pointed at the Broncos and said, what do you
- 22:21Speaker 2: do best? Here's what's funny. The Broncos as a team
- 22:26Speaker 2: over the last two years were best in the category
- 22:29Speaker 2: of rushing the passer. They've been without Jonathan Cooper this year.
- 22:33Speaker 2: And guys, I hate to break it to you. I
- 22:36Speaker 2: kept telling you, not having Jonathan Cooper, not having John
- 22:39Speaker 2: Franklin Myers, I think that's a way bigger loss than
- 22:42Speaker 2: people are assuming it's going to be. They just think
- 22:46Speaker 2: that this pass rush is so badass that they're just
- 22:51Speaker 2: going to go out and make plays no matter what.
- 22:53Speaker 2: Tell me what Nick Benito's doing this year. That guy's
- 22:56Speaker 2: an all-pro. And through four games, Nick Benito has one sack.
- 23:02Speaker 5: One.
- 23:06Speaker 2: That's it. Jonathan Cooper mattered on the other side of him.
- 23:11Speaker 2: He was a concern for opposing offensive lines. But now,
- 23:17Speaker 2: the best asset that you have is no longer rushing
- 23:19Speaker 2: the passer. I tell you, it's your secondary. Secondary. What
- 23:23Speaker 2: the secondary has been able to do against elite-level quarterbacks
- 23:27Speaker 2: over the first four weeks. Even Stafford, who put up,
- 23:30Speaker 2: I don't know, 390 yards or whatever it was, struggled
- 23:33Speaker 2: to get in the end zone. They stiffened up when
- 23:36Speaker 2: it mattered. But you look at Mahomes, Trevor Lawrence, now
- 23:41Speaker 2: Brock Purdy. Three of the four quarterbacks that you faced
- 23:44Speaker 2: that you would put all of those guys right now
- 23:46Speaker 2: in the top 10 category in the NFL?
- 23:48Speaker 6: No.
- 23:51Speaker 2: Three of the four, you've absolutely shut down. Mahomes didn't
- 23:58Speaker 2: complete past 10 yards in that first week. Trevor Lawrence
- 24:03Speaker 2: was held to like 160 yards of offense. Or passing yards.
- 24:09Speaker 2: Brock Purdy had 50 yards at halftime. Even when both
- 24:12Speaker 2: your starting cornerbacks went down, he finished the game with
- 24:14Speaker 2: 200 yards. Like you didn't get lit up by Brock
- 24:17Speaker 2: Purdy at all. The secondary was your asset. Well, your
- 24:25Speaker 2: starting corner and your second starting corner are both down
- 24:29Speaker 2: with an injury. And Nellie, if you could, could you
- 24:30Speaker 2: go to cut three and just get Peyton's answers on
- 24:33Speaker 2: these defensive injuries with Riley Moss, Pat Sertan going down
- 24:36Speaker 2: in the middle of that game. Sertan had to be
- 24:38Speaker 2: helped off the field. I just told you about 10
- 24:40Speaker 2: minutes ago, there's a report from Tom Pellicero that said
- 24:43Speaker 2: the Broncos believe they've avoided a long-term injury with Sertan.
- 24:49Speaker 2: that his Achilles is still intact, but it is an
- 24:52Speaker 2: ankle issue. Here's what Sean Payton said. Oh, sorry. Sorry, Nellie.
- 24:57Speaker 2: I thought you were ready for it. He was giving
- 24:59Speaker 2: me the eyes of I have it cued, and I misread.
- 25:02Speaker 9: Actually, you know what I was doing? Maybe this comes
- 25:04Speaker 9: up in Oh, By the Way. I was rolling on
- 25:06Speaker 9: the Japanese language call of our boys' home run in
- 25:10Speaker 9: game one. Murakami went yard, and the Japanese commentators lost
- 25:14Speaker 9: their minds. So maybe that comes up later with Mosier saying, Lombardi,
- 25:18Speaker 9: and Kane.
- 25:20Speaker 2: I don't speak English! Exactly.
- 25:22Speaker 9: So when you called for the cut, that's what went
- 25:24Speaker 9: through my head.
- 25:25Speaker 2: My apologies. But yes, they were talking about the injuries
- 25:29Speaker 2: defensively to Sertan, Moss. Here's what he said.
- 25:32Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to give you any report on
- 25:34Speaker 3: the injuries because I don't know.
- 25:35Speaker 6: But I would say it probably impacts the defense when
- 25:37Speaker 6: both your corners are down coming into the second half.
- 25:41Speaker 6: And then with Pat, nothing right now. I mean, I
- 25:43Speaker 6: just asked the same question coming off the field to both.
- 25:46Speaker 3: So I appreciate it.
- 25:48Speaker 2: So that's your answer. Uh, by the way, that's the
- 25:53Speaker 2: injury report is powered by Ramos law, the official injury
- 25:55Speaker 2: law firm partner of Broncos country. I, I just think
- 25:59Speaker 2: with how you've, you've played football and how you've won
- 26:03Speaker 2: football games over the last couple of years, putting yourself
- 26:05Speaker 2: in a position to where you need everything to go
- 26:09Speaker 2: virtually perfectly late in the game now confuses a lot. Um,
- 26:19Speaker 2: It now has made, and I'm a big fan of this,
- 26:26Speaker 2: so you hear me say it a lot. I just
- 26:30Speaker 2: think giving yourself margin for error is what matters. I
- 26:35Speaker 2: really do. And a lot of people are talking about
- 26:40Speaker 2: Bo Nix right now. Like the texture says, I'd much
- 26:42Speaker 2: rather lose Bo Nix than Pat Sertan. Can't stand watching
- 26:47Speaker 2: this brand of Broncos offense. This brand of Broncos offense
- 26:51Speaker 2: is not new, though. And I'm not saying that Texter
- 26:54Speaker 2: is saying it isn't. But this is the same thing.
- 26:58Speaker 2: And to say you'd rather lose Bo Nix than Sertan,
- 27:02Speaker 2: you're wrong. I have my own questions about Bo Nix
- 27:09Speaker 2: and what he can do. But we witnessed what doesn't
- 27:15Speaker 2: happen when Bo Nix plays, and that's the AFC Championship game.
- 27:19Speaker 2: It's much worse. The bottom line is, I can't pretend
- 27:28Speaker 2: to be surprised by what I saw yesterday. And I
- 27:33Speaker 2: think a lot of people just kind of ignored, they
- 27:38Speaker 2: ignored all of these flaws because they came in wins.
- 27:42Speaker 2: And I remember last year, two years ago, Nikola Jokic
- 27:47Speaker 2: said that. He said, winning will mask a lot of
- 27:52Speaker 2: your problems, but it doesn't fix them. And the texture says,
- 28:02Speaker 2: completely different outlook in yesterday's game if Mims doesn't fumble.
- 28:05Speaker 2: Here's what I'm trying to tell you, though. It shouldn't
- 28:08Speaker 2: be a different outlook. It's the same game. Your perspective
- 28:14Speaker 2: should not change on whether the Broncos played well or
- 28:16Speaker 2: didn't based upon if a punt gets fumbled or not.
- 28:21Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say. Is that this team
- 28:25Speaker 2: didn't look all that different than they have in the past.
- 28:28Speaker 2: They just didn't have the late game heroics. And what
- 28:33Speaker 2: are we actually talking about? We're talking about like four
- 28:37Speaker 2: minutes of a football game. And I've been trying to
- 28:40Speaker 2: explain like the totality of the game is who your
- 28:43Speaker 2: team is. So yes, they do have the late game stuff,
- 28:47Speaker 2: but they also have everything else in front of it.
- 28:49Speaker 2: And if you want perfect late in games, then you
- 28:52Speaker 2: get results like last night or yesterday. And I totally
- 28:59Speaker 2: agree with you. Like the entire tenor of everybody's conversation
- 29:04Speaker 2: regarding the Broncos would be a lot different if Mims
- 29:06Speaker 2: didn't fumble a punt. It would be. What I'm telling you,
- 29:11Speaker 2: it shouldn't be. It should still be this. And again,
- 29:17Speaker 2: I'm not, I don't know where you guys are at
- 29:19Speaker 2: this morning. And I'll throw this out there before we
- 29:21Speaker 2: get the break. I don't know where you're at, but
- 29:30Speaker 2: I want to ask you this. And comment on the
- 29:32Speaker 2: text line 303-504-0925. What is your emotion this morning? Because
- 29:40Speaker 2: I don't, mine, if I had to throw my emotion
- 29:45Speaker 2: to one word, I think it's like honestly content. Everything
- 29:54Speaker 2: I saw yesterday is, it was quasi-expected. Hey, a slow
- 30:01Speaker 2: start against the Niners resulted in a loss?
- 30:03Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 30:05Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 30:07Speaker 2: Offense couldn't get going early? Seen that. A really good
- 30:14Speaker 2: team playing at home made you pay for mistakes that
- 30:17Speaker 2: you made late in the game? Sure. So I can't,
- 30:23Speaker 2: I'm not going to conjure up a fake emotion and
- 30:26Speaker 2: outrage for you for something that looked kind of like
- 30:28Speaker 2: what I've seen for two straight years. And bottom line is,
- 30:32Speaker 2: the Broncos are still in good shape. Do you want
- 30:35Speaker 2: to be 2-2 four weeks into the season?
- 30:37Speaker 6: No.
- 30:38Speaker 2: But 2-2 with this schedule they've had is different. Like,
- 30:42Speaker 2: it's just a different thing. So throw them out to me. 303-504-0925.
- 30:47Speaker 2: Shop Mazda text line. One price, one person, one hour.
- 30:49Speaker 2: A lot more we need to discuss. Between that, the
- 30:53Speaker 2: Avs game over the weekend where they laid it on Bennington,
- 30:56Speaker 2: thank God. The The state of Colorado in college football
- 31:03Speaker 2: might be the most interesting state that this country has
- 31:09Speaker 2: to offer. At least over last weekend. Because the responses
- 31:14Speaker 2: from Prime, the thing that happened in the middle of
- 31:17Speaker 2: the game at CSU, wild. We'll get to all of
- 31:20Speaker 2: it as we go along. Stick around. It's Rally House
- 31:22Speaker 2: Football Monday on Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 Rally House. Shop
- 31:25Speaker 2: every team in town.
- 31:26Speaker 1: So....
- 31:31Speaker 2: We'll have Ryan Harris join us at 8 o'clock this morning.
- 31:34Speaker 2: A lot more of the Broncos to get into in
- 31:36Speaker 2: a second, but there's so much that happened over the weekend.
- 31:39Speaker 2: I'll start with the good. The good is the Avs
- 31:42Speaker 2: continue their hot start. They continue to score goals, and
- 31:46Speaker 2: they beat the snot out of Bennington, and Bennington did
- 31:49Speaker 2: himself no favors by basically giving up two goals all
- 31:52Speaker 2: on his own, which you just love to see. There's
- 31:58Speaker 2: nobody I despise more in hockey than Jordan Bennington, and
- 32:01Speaker 2: watching the Avs do that to him made me incredibly happy.
- 32:04Speaker 2: So a great start for the Avs. Marty Nages played great.
- 32:08Speaker 2: A whole bunch of guys played great. So good start
- 32:10Speaker 2: for the Avalanche. I think that the state of Colorado
- 32:15Speaker 2: was the most interesting college football state that existed in
- 32:18Speaker 2: the country over the weekend for two reasons. Deion's press
- 32:23Speaker 2: conference after the game was, to me, unacceptable. Unacceptable. I
- 32:29Speaker 2: always have this, I have a problem, okay? There are
- 32:35Speaker 2: coaches who are defiant in the face of criticism. And
- 32:41Speaker 2: I can understand that for a few different guys. You know,
- 32:44Speaker 2: when you talk about Nick Saban was a lot like this, hey,
- 32:50Speaker 2: what happened to, why didn't you play this guy or
- 32:53Speaker 2: make this call in this situation? And his response was
- 32:56Speaker 2: not this, but essentially, I'm the best coach in the country.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Are you really going to criticize me? Like, they have
- 33:03Speaker 2: that sort of stuff behind them. But it's earned and deserved.
- 33:08Speaker 2: Deion has that without the resume behind it. And I
- 33:11Speaker 2: hated some of the answers that he gave. I hated them.
- 33:16Speaker 2: You know, I'll just give you one example. Hey, Prime.
- 33:23Speaker 2: You go out there. You have this great start to
- 33:26Speaker 2: the game. You're facing a ranked opponent. at home, have
- 33:30Speaker 2: a great drive to start, and then the offense falls apart.
- 33:33Speaker 2: Why is the offense struggling?
- 33:35Speaker 4: You know what it is. I said you're going to
- 33:37Speaker 4: run with it. You know darn well what it is.
- 33:40Speaker 4: Just say it right at yourselves. You know what it is.
- 33:43Speaker 4: It ain't no– it's blatant. It ain't no ifs, ands,
- 33:47Speaker 4: buts about it. I would respect you all a lot
- 33:50Speaker 4: more if you all just said it yourselves.
- 33:52Speaker 2: Okay, can you please just to ask again, what is
- 33:56Speaker 2: the problem? Can you say it?
- 33:57Speaker 4: Yeah, we got one glaring problem. You guys know what
- 34:00Speaker 4: that is. I ain't no fool. Let's stop the shenanigans, man.
- 34:04Speaker 4: We got one glaring problem. You guys know darn well
- 34:07Speaker 4: what that is. Let's stop the foolishness. We got to
- 34:11Speaker 4: play better at one specific position.
- 34:14Speaker 8: That's it.
- 34:15Speaker 2: We all know what he's talking about, but why can't
- 34:17Speaker 2: he say it? Why can't he just say quarterback's an issue?
- 34:21Speaker 2: that they haven't developed a quarterback outside of Shador. They've
- 34:26Speaker 2: tried five different dudes. None of it's worked. They've had transfers.
- 34:34Speaker 2: They've had veterans. They've had young guys. They've had big-time recruits.
- 34:38Speaker 2: They've had this and that. Nothing works. Why can't you
- 34:40Speaker 2: just say it? And that's what I don't get. Why
- 34:46Speaker 2: are you telling me to stop the foolishness when I'm
- 34:49Speaker 2: asking you what the problem is? And that's what I
- 34:54Speaker 2: don't understand. And then it was, well, why did you
- 34:58Speaker 2: bench Juju?
- 34:59Speaker 8: Obviously, you benched Juju from first to third string, it
- 35:02Speaker 8: looks like. Then Isaac didn't play well.
- 35:04Speaker 1: No, no, no.
- 35:05Speaker 4: I would love Juju to come here and he tell
- 35:06Speaker 4: you what happens. So don't you bench Juju first to
- 35:10Speaker 4: third string? No, that's not how it went down.
- 35:13Speaker 8: Well, that's what it looked like, so I'm just asking.
- 35:16Speaker 4: It didn't happen like that.
- 35:17Speaker 8: Okay. But you benched Juju, and then Isaac doesn't play well.
- 35:22Speaker 8: As you're going to this bye week, is it an
- 35:23Speaker 8: open competition at quarterback?
- 35:24Speaker 4: It's always open competition. Every darn day is open competition.
- 35:27Speaker 4: That's the position that is somewhat disabling us and disarming us.
- 35:32Speaker 8: Every day is like that.
- 35:33Speaker 2: What does that mean? What does that mean? I'd love
- 35:38Speaker 2: for you to ask Juju. What does that mean?
- 35:43Speaker 10: He benched himself? And this is the stuff that I
- 35:48Speaker 10: don't understand. You can't have an attitude... with the media
- 35:54Speaker 10: when things are sucking, okay? It's not the media's fault
- 35:59Speaker 10: that you're losing games. And all of the attention, it's funny, like,
- 36:06Speaker 10: I feel like some coaches are like, when things are
- 36:09Speaker 10: riding high and you're at the top of the wave
- 36:12Speaker 10: and you're just.
- 36:12Speaker 2: Woo, yeah, things are awesome. Ask me all the questions
- 36:16Speaker 2: in the world. How great am I? You can't do
- 36:20Speaker 2: that and not take it when things are going the
- 36:22Speaker 2: other way. The problem is they've been going the other
- 36:23Speaker 2: way for two straight years. And there are legitimate questions
- 36:30Speaker 2: about can you win without Travis Hunter and Shador? You
- 36:40Speaker 2: had a really hard time doing it with them. And
- 36:45Speaker 2: I was so pumped after that first drive from Isaac Wilson.
- 36:47Speaker 2: He made a couple of throws, and I was like,
- 36:49Speaker 2: holy cow. Like, maybe this will work. Maybe I was
- 36:53Speaker 2: wrong in my assessment when, I believe, was it you, Nelly,
- 36:56Speaker 2: who asked me last week? Somebody asked me. Said, well,
- 37:01Speaker 2: do you think things can be better now that they've
- 37:04Speaker 2: made the switch at quarterback? And I go, hey, here's
- 37:07Speaker 2: what I know. You go from starter to backup quarterback,
- 37:11Speaker 2: it's generally not because you think the backup quarterback works.
- 37:15Speaker 2: is awesome you've just admitted that your starter isn't very
- 37:20Speaker 2: good and so no I don't see like this big
- 37:24Speaker 2: sort of pop coming in the offense I watched the
- 37:26Speaker 2: first drive and I was like holy bleep maybe I'm
- 37:28Speaker 2: wrong like Isaac Wilson looked awesome and then they couldn't
- 37:33Speaker 2: protect and I'm going to repeat something here when you
- 37:38Speaker 2: watch that game against Texas Tech did you notice a
- 37:40Speaker 2: difference And I don't mean a difference in talent or
- 37:44Speaker 2: style of play. Physically, looking at the players on your screen,
- 37:50Speaker 2: did you notice a difference? Because here's what I noticed.
- 37:53Speaker 2: Texas Tech was huge. You weren't. I've been saying this forever.
- 37:59Speaker 2: And I don't mean this disrespectfully. CU looks like their
- 38:03Speaker 2: builds look like a high school team. They're slight. There's
- 38:10Speaker 2: no girth to them. There's no, like, cuts. And I
- 38:14Speaker 2: don't want to take this to the most basic instinct
- 38:16Speaker 2: of football, but it is like... Physicality is a part
- 38:20Speaker 2: of it and you need to be strong. They don't
- 38:22Speaker 2: look strong. They don't. And I don't know what's going
- 38:25Speaker 2: on in the weight room. And you just juxtapose that
- 38:27Speaker 2: with what happened at CSU. I mean, that's insane. I've
- 38:31Speaker 2: never seen somebody dismissed at halftime.
- 38:34Speaker 9: And by the way, just quickly before we get to that,
- 38:36Speaker 9: I will add this to my permanent drop collection. So
- 38:39Speaker 9: anytime we play a cut from Dion and you ask
- 38:41Speaker 9: me what he's saying.
- 38:41Speaker 2: No one knows what it means, but it's provocative. True.
- 38:46Speaker 2: But think about this. For the second straight week, as
- 38:51Speaker 2: Jim Moore noted by saying that with a bunch of
- 38:54Speaker 2: F-words on the sideline, CSU gets lit up defensively. Oregon
- 38:58Speaker 2: State puts up 56 points. In the first half, they
- 39:00Speaker 2: give up 35 again. The starting quarterback for Oregon State
- 39:05Speaker 2: was 31 of 34 for 427 yards. Like, insanity. And
- 39:09Speaker 2: Jim Morey gets mad. He relieves his D.C. Tyson Summers
- 39:14Speaker 2: of play-calling duties. And then he proceeds to just walk
- 39:17Speaker 2: off the field and leave.
- 39:18Speaker 7: Tyson was relieved of his play-calling duties. He left the field.
- 39:24Speaker 7: And he's no longer with this football program.
- 39:26Speaker 2: That's a permanent thing.
- 39:28Speaker 7: That is a permanent thing.
- 39:29Speaker 8: So, Kenny.
- 39:30Speaker 3: Take over SDC then?
- 39:32Speaker 7: Kenny will be the primary play caller. Yeah, I put him, we, we,
- 39:35Speaker 7: he was put, he was put in a very difficult
- 39:38Speaker 7: situation and I, and he responded well and the players
- 39:41Speaker 7: responded well. Uh, very first play he called as a
- 39:45Speaker 7: defensive coordinator his entire life was a sack cause fumble. So, uh,
- 39:49Speaker 7: We're going to get better.
- 39:50Speaker 3: We're going to get a lot better.
- 39:51Speaker 7: He's a good football coach.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Did you anticipate that he would leave the field when.
- 39:55Speaker 2: He was relieved?
- 39:56Speaker 7: That wasn't anything that I would ever consider. I just
- 40:00Speaker 7: relieved him of his duties as a play caller. He
- 40:02Speaker 7: made the decision on his own to leave the field,
- 40:04Speaker 7: and he is no longer with the program.
- 40:05Speaker 2: Do you know what scene that is? I'm with Jim Moore. Look,
- 40:11Speaker 2: he beat him out on the sideline. I understand you're
- 40:15Speaker 2: getting big-dogged by your head coach on the sideline, and
- 40:18Speaker 2: that probably doesn't feel good. Your response can't be to
- 40:20Speaker 2: walk off the field, because here's the problem for Summers now.
- 40:22Speaker 2: Do you know how hard it is for him to
- 40:24Speaker 2: find a job after this? Like, that is a career-defining move,
- 40:29Speaker 2: where you leave the field in the middle of the
- 40:32Speaker 2: game because you were essentially demoted. Like, that's insane. I
- 40:41Speaker 2: don't think I've ever seen it. Somebody who just goes, oh,
- 40:44Speaker 2: you're taking play calling duties away from me in the
- 40:47Speaker 2: middle of a game? Well, I'm gone. Never see me again.
- 40:50Speaker 2: That's crazy. There is no college football state like the
- 40:58Speaker 2: state of Colorado from over the weekend. Nothing. And by
- 41:03Speaker 2: the way, not for good reason. I wish it was
- 41:05Speaker 2: for good reasons. It's not. But it is a Rally
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