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1-12-26 Hour 2 - Broncos vs Bills revenge game/Rely on Broncos offense or defense?/Should Nuggets keep Zeke? · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: For the long ball.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to step on him.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, the Broncos strike curly.
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  Speaker 4: With the touchdown to Franklin from forty three yards out.
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  Speaker 3: It was last year.
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  Speaker 5: Gosh, you remember that that initial rush of adrenaline you
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  Speaker 5: had when you know, we kind of thought the Broncos
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  Speaker 5: against the Bills last year wasn't gonna go well, and
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  Speaker 5: then you get that opening drive.
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  Speaker 6: Big touchdown. You're like, maybe it'll be different. It wasn't, but.
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  Speaker 5: You get a chance to revenge yourself this year and
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  Speaker 5: the Bill.
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  Speaker 2: I think the proper term is revenge yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, any you can see, you can see, you can
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  Speaker 4: get revenge, or you can avenge the act.
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  Speaker 5: Seek revenge yourself the Avengers.
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  Speaker 3: It's Blindy's remember bloop song.
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  Speaker 2: Revenge yourself, revenge yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Seek revenge on the Bill.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you this, if you look at the injury
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  Speaker 2: report coming out of Buffalo, Gabe Davis is highly unlikely
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't finish that game. His knees all blown up.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Palmer's on ir Ty Johnson has an ankle in
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  Speaker 2: a boot. Shavers got banged up in that game on
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  Speaker 2: the defensive side. Cornerback Harriston, linebacker Bernard missed the game.
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  Speaker 2: They may not be back Broncos by thirty. Player left
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  Speaker 2: the game. I'm just telling you a big time with you.
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  Speaker 2: What are you just telling me? What will you? Josh
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  Speaker 2: Allen is not exactly walking health. He is banged up everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: This is the time, it's now strike now short week.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a Saturday game. They haven't, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, they still they're waiting for tonight's Monday night
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  Speaker 2: game before they give you game time. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: why they have to wait till after this game, but
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  Speaker 2: it seems highly likely it's going to be an afternoon
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  Speaker 2: affair for the Broncos. So so I'm thinking two thirty.
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  Speaker 6: If I have this right.
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  Speaker 5: By the way, it's a rally house football Monday. The
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  Speaker 5: Broncos were playing on Saturday, no matter what, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, because Houston, they're not going to have the
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  Speaker 2: winner of Houston Pittsburgh turn around and play Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's what I was wondering.
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  Speaker 5: Let's say that the Jags won and now this game
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  Speaker 5: is left, would they really make Houston or Pittsburgh play
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  Speaker 5: on five days?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I could tell you that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be wild. Yeah, the Broncos are going to play
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, and it's highly likely given that the other game,
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  Speaker 2: the NFC game is Seattle and San Francisco. That's Taylor
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  Speaker 2: made for a night game. It's in Seattle.
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  Speaker 6: A thing, Yeah, you think so.
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  Speaker 5: Here's the thing with Bills. Though the Bills are not
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  Speaker 5: as good as they were last year, they're still good.
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  Speaker 5: Not as good as they were last year. If you remember,
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  Speaker 5: they had to offload a whole bunch of talent in
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  Speaker 5: the offseason because they were having cap issues like crazy,
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  Speaker 5: so a lot of the guys they offloaded.
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  Speaker 3: They are a solid.
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  Speaker 5: Football team that I don't know if they do anything
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  Speaker 5: really well outside of quarterback is elite level, Like, did
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  Speaker 5: you guys happen to see They were one of the
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  Speaker 5: twenty two teams that voted to ban the tush push
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  Speaker 5: last year, and then they ran a tush push on
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  Speaker 5: fourth and inches from the eleven yard line that scored
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  Speaker 5: a touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: They ran it four times.
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  Speaker 5: How did they gain ten yards off of a tush
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  Speaker 5: push for a touchdown?
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  Speaker 2: Bro, If they had the length of the field, they
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  Speaker 2: could have gone hundred yards with that tush push, could
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  Speaker 2: have kept going.
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  Speaker 6: So that was wild.
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  Speaker 5: And it's because they're quarterback is built like a Clydesdale.
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  Speaker 5: But the obvious issue that people are having the thing
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  Speaker 5: that Vic is freaking out about this morning, and I think.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's it's healthy to have this fear.
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  Speaker 5: Josh Allen's a really good quarterback, and really good quarterbacks
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  Speaker 5: can win football games kind of by themselves. If you
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  Speaker 5: watch the game against Jacksonville, it's kind of what happened
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  Speaker 5: for Buffalo offensively. It was a lot of Josh Allen
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  Speaker 5: doing a lot of heavy lifting and making plays when
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  Speaker 5: he had to. They were seven of fourteen on third
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  Speaker 5: down and two of two on fourth down. That's Josh Allen, no.
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  Speaker 2: Doubt about it.
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  Speaker 4: So Vic, all this being said, and you're absolutely correct.
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  Speaker 4: You're looking at the rundown of the injuries, and you're
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  Speaker 4: speculating on guys availability and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 4: Why in the world are the Buffalo Bills a one
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  Speaker 4: and a half point favorite coming in identical to what
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  Speaker 4: it was going into Jackson's.
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  Speaker 2: That's identical. Because nobody believes in the Broncos. They think
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  Speaker 2: they're a paper tiger. That's why the Broncos opened.
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  Speaker 5: The Broncos opened as a point and a half favorites,
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  Speaker 5: and it switched that fast.
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  Speaker 6: And I think Vic's right.
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  Speaker 5: I think people are just they're still non believers in
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  Speaker 5: what the bronc was offense, which is fine.
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  Speaker 2: I listen. Rather than focus on oh my god, they're
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  Speaker 2: stuck with Josh Allen, what now? Rather, let's this is
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. This is an opportunity to rid yourself of
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  Speaker 2: those demons, to in the words of Brett Kane, revenge yourself.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, revenge yourself.
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  Speaker 2: What an opportunity. This is not something you should run from.
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  Speaker 2: Run toward it. Let's go Saturday. Josh Allen is banged up.
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  Speaker 2: Your pass rush is fearsome. You have the most fearsome
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  Speaker 2: pass rush in the National Football League. Bust is ass hammer. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's the way I look at this game, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's a healthy way to look at
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  Speaker 2: the football game. I do.
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  Speaker 4: I have no problem with you looking at the football
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  Speaker 4: game like that. I just know what this guy brings,
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  Speaker 4: so all hands on deck to stop Josh Allen. As
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  Speaker 4: far as the running game is concerned, they didn't really
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  Speaker 4: run the football that well yesterday at all. It was
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  Speaker 4: all Josh Allen through the air.
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  Speaker 2: Jackson Jacksonville's got the number one rush defense in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: That showed because James Cook could not get cooking. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna tell you I want to I want
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos to have them in town that he bust
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  Speaker 2: on Josh Allen like those Bills mafia freaks bust those tables.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think that's gonna have to be their strategy.
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  Speaker 5: And the Broncs have employed this all year and it's
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  Speaker 5: part of the benefit of having the best cornerback in
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  Speaker 5: the game as you're allowed to put some guys on islands. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: make no mistake, Riley Moss is gonna get targeted a
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  Speaker 5: lot because I think they're gonna bring blitzes. He's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be one on one and they're gonna test that is
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  Speaker 5: he gonna get flagged thing or not?
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  Speaker 2: So who is your number one threat?
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  Speaker 4: Then, in terms of receiving the ball for the Bills,
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  Speaker 4: because there were twelve targets yesterday to Khalil Shakir, and
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  Speaker 4: he caught twelve footballs. Every time Josh Allen did Josh
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  Speaker 4: Allen targeted him, he caught the football. He only targeted
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  Speaker 4: Brandon Cooks five times. Now, Cook's had one big play,
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  Speaker 4: one really big play all the way down to the twenty.
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  Speaker 4: But other than that, he targeted him five times only
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  Speaker 4: completed three.
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  Speaker 3: This is what I'm getting at, though the Bills, because
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  Speaker 3: they had to get rid of so many different pieces.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: In the receiving game, if you look at anybody as
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  Speaker 5: a giant threat, Shakira is by far their number one target.
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  Speaker 5: Like I'll give you this during the season, just if
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  Speaker 5: you had to guess Shakira was their number one wide receiver,
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  Speaker 5: how many catches did he have in.
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  Speaker 4: The season, I would say twenty five? No more seasons.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Seventy two, seventy two. I was gonna
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  Speaker 2: come in the low eighties is where I was going
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  Speaker 2: to come.
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  Speaker 5: Seventy two catches for seven hundred and twenty yards. Will
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  Speaker 5: ball park it seven to twenty?
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  Speaker 2: What about Cooks?
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  Speaker 5: The next highest receiver on this team was Keon Coleman,
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  Speaker 5: who had thirty eight for four h four Okay, now
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  Speaker 5: I tell you that to tell you this. The Broncos
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  Speaker 5: leading receiver was Courtland Sutton, who had seventy four catches
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  Speaker 5: for one thousand yards. Their second highest receiver was Troy
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  Speaker 5: Franklin had sixty five. If you look at just weapons
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  Speaker 5: on the offensive side, ignoring quarterback and just looking at
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  Speaker 5: wide outs and pass catchers, the.
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  Speaker 6: Broncos actually have.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like the advantage there as far ass.
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  Speaker 4: But the Bills also have two tight ends that can
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  Speaker 4: catch the football.
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  Speaker 6: That's true.
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  Speaker 2: They've got nothing, They've got not one, but they've got
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  Speaker 2: two that can be a threat. I'm gonna spoil it
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  Speaker 2: for everybody who can't wait to watch this game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a spoiler right now. All right, So understand what's
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  Speaker 2: going to happen. It's gonna come down to the final minute.
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  Speaker 2: If you think the Broncos are gonna blow them out,
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  Speaker 2: it's not gonna happen. If you watched the Broncos play.
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  Speaker 6: This year, let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna come down to the final minute and we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna find out. Maybe the Broncos have the ball in
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  Speaker 2: their hands, Maybe bo Knicks can do what John Elway
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  Speaker 2: did in eighty six. Maybe he can do it in
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  Speaker 2: a playoff game where it means a hell of a
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  Speaker 2: lot more. Or maybe the defense could play like the
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  Speaker 2: defense we've seen all year and thwart Josh Allen and
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  Speaker 2: the Bills in the final seconds. I'm a little nervous
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  Speaker 2: because I'm it's gonna come down to it, and I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to watch it.
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  Speaker 4: In preparing for the Jaguars, I'm sure the Bills coaches
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  Speaker 4: watched a lot of that Broncos in Jaguars game. I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure they did, so they probably already have a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a handle on what the Broncos can and
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  Speaker 4: cannot do. Hey, real quick, from the four to seven
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  Speaker 4: to seven nine, Brents, Yeah, I've got the answer.
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  Speaker 2: Guys. My baby shower is from one to four on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me.
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  Speaker 4: So here's what you allowed. Four to seven seven nine.
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  Speaker 4: Put the baby back. Yeah, put the baby back for
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  Speaker 4: a while postpone, tell the baby to keep cooking, and
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  Speaker 4: then have the shower next week.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: I have a question, by the way, regarding something that
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  Speaker 5: Victor said, So ponder this during the break, because if
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  Speaker 5: all the evidence given to us in the wild Card
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  Speaker 5: weekend and basically every week of Bronco football this year.
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  Speaker 5: It tells us this will be a one possession game
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  Speaker 5: coming down to the wire. Would you rather, given this situation,
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  Speaker 5: have the Broncos offense on the field with a chance
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  Speaker 5: to win the game or the Broncos defense on the
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  Speaker 5: field with a chance to win the game?
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  Speaker 2: Said?
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  Speaker 3: Under it during the break? Under it during the break?
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  Speaker 2: Let me I pottered it.
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  Speaker 6: We'll get to it in just a second. Stick around.
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  Speaker 5: So basically the question is this, I don't know how
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  Speaker 5: to make this like a simple life. No, I don't
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  Speaker 5: know how to make this a simple like one to
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  Speaker 5: one to rally house Rally House football Monday. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: the wild Card Round wraps up tonight, and you can
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  Speaker 5: hear the final game of the weekend on AM nine
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  Speaker 5: to fifty. It's Texans Steelers cover starts at five o'clock
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  Speaker 5: and kick off at six fifteen. The NFL Playoffs live
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  Speaker 5: on Altitude Sports Radio. So I don't know how to
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  Speaker 5: make this like a one to one, but I think
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  Speaker 5: you'll understand sort of the point here of what I'm
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  Speaker 5: getting at. It feels like this game is just built
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  Speaker 5: to be a final possession whoever has it last has
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  Speaker 5: the best chance to win sort of game, because most
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  Speaker 5: Broncos games have been that way, and all of the
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  Speaker 5: wild card games, for the most part, were that would
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  Speaker 5: you rather have your defense on the field in a
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  Speaker 5: game winning situation or the offense? And I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what to make it with the score, I mean, with
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  Speaker 5: the defense on the field, to say you're up three
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  Speaker 5: or something like that. Offense maybe it's a tie game.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, But what would you rather have?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's cooler if the offense wins a game.
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  Speaker 2: And it's always anxious moments when your defense is on
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  Speaker 2: the field. It just is when your defense is on
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  Speaker 2: the field, you're like, oh my god, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: oh my god, oh my god, please make a stop.
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  Speaker 2: And we've seen that song and dance before. We've seen it.
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  Speaker 5: Carolina against the Rams, they played so soft for you
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  Speaker 5: know that the Rams are going to go down and
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  Speaker 5: make plays, and they played so soft.
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  Speaker 3: It was so easy for the Rams to get down there.
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  Speaker 2: And you watching like San Francisco and Philly, right, Philly's moving,
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  Speaker 2: move and move, and then all of a sudden fourth
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  Speaker 2: and long good luck. Yeah, the problem is this guy
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  Speaker 2: and you guys are right. This guy he's a witch.
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  Speaker 2: On fourth down. The key to stopping Josh Allen is
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  Speaker 2: going to be to keep his legs in check because
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  Speaker 2: he do you remember last year in Buffalo how many
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  Speaker 2: times he extended drives with his legs? Do you remember that? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just replay the game in your mind, Bronco fans,
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  Speaker 2: if you can just remember moments from that game. I remember,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they ran the ball pretty easily, but I
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  Speaker 2: remember long drives where it would be a third and
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  Speaker 2: long situation, then that witch would somehow find his way
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  Speaker 2: to a first down with his legs.
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  Speaker 5: I have a fear that they're like, they're gonna send
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  Speaker 5: the blitz blitzes, try and get pressure on him, and
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  Speaker 5: then he escapes that and then it's twenty yards of
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  Speaker 5: open field in front of him.
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  Speaker 6: You're like, all right, you just if you send a blitz,
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  Speaker 6: you gotta get there, got.
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  Speaker 2: To cage him up. You got to cage him up.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a big dude, right, Yep, He's a big dude.
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  Speaker 2: So that that's so your question is a good question.
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  Speaker 2: I think as a sports fan, as a Broncos fan,
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  Speaker 2: you always want to see the offense snatch it at
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  Speaker 2: the end because it's just cooler it is. That would
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  Speaker 2: be great.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, emotionally speaking, Vick, And you've been emotional today.
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  Speaker 4: You started on every program, Well, you started out the
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  Speaker 4: program with a great deal of emotion, not a whole
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  Speaker 4: lot of rational thought pattern.
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  Speaker 2: Would you think I've been emotional, Brent.
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  Speaker 3: Or just me, um, there's a little extra I would say,
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  Speaker 3: not your toot today.
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  Speaker 2: I mean the brittle hair, old man is called calling
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  Speaker 2: me emotional.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead, brittle hair, and fancy that being said.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, I think it would be cool. Hey man,
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  Speaker 2: you drive it down. Let's say you're down by four,
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  Speaker 2: you punch it in and okay, and that's all well
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  Speaker 2: and good.
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  Speaker 4: The thing is, it's like, do you want to have
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  Speaker 4: to shoot on Nikola Jokic, you know, to win the game,
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  Speaker 4: or do you want to try to defend him shooting
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  Speaker 4: and you know, to win the man.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really that because I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Josh Allen has been there, done that so many times, Brett.
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  Speaker 4: He's so good at it when it matters the most.
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  Speaker 4: You're I mean, your team has done at at times
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  Speaker 4: this season. I get some decent football teams, some crappy
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  Speaker 4: football teams.
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  Speaker 2: But this guy does it. This guy is a proven track.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you this for the offense. I was
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  Speaker 5: watching the Rams in the Panthers game. I actually got out,
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  Speaker 5: Like the first time me and my wife got away
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  Speaker 5: from the children had dinner.
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  Speaker 6: It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, I leave the kids at home.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, grandparents are in town.
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  Speaker 5: Are like, oh okay, no, no, No, grandparents are in
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  Speaker 5: town which is place called Officers Club and Lowry.
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  Speaker 6: Unbelievable. But they had the game on. Watching the game.
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  Speaker 5: Stafford gets the ball back with two minutes and I go,
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  Speaker 5: he's gonna score. Like there was no question in my mind,
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  Speaker 5: no question.
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  Speaker 3: Would you have that feeling.
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  Speaker 5: Broncos are down three with a minute and a half left,
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  Speaker 5: Boonix gets the football. Are you convinced that they're at
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  Speaker 5: least time that game or not in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Not yet. He's got to prove it in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: He's proven it in the regular season. But I tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, I'd be pretty com confident because he's done it.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like he hasn't. How many times does he
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  Speaker 2: have to do it? He's done it for you. Listen
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  Speaker 2: back to your question about what would you rather see
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  Speaker 2: what do Bronco fans remember most, And I'll give you
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  Speaker 2: two examples. What do you think was more gratifying. Was
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  Speaker 2: it the drive where you had to go snatch it
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  Speaker 2: from them offensively, or was it the following year when
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland came here and you had to hold them off
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  Speaker 2: at the goal line.
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  Speaker 5: No, I think it's better to have your offense do it,
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  Speaker 5: but you trust your defense more. That's the dichotomy I suppose.
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  Speaker 5: I think we'd all want the offense to go out
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  Speaker 5: there and win you a football game, because that would
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  Speaker 5: give you a confidence boost. But if you're asking what
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  Speaker 5: do I trust more at the end of a game,
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  Speaker 5: I think I'd rather have the defense on the field
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  Speaker 5: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Simply speaking, those NFL games this weekend, and it's funny
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  Speaker 2: because I was gonna type this into my phone and
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: I thank god I didn't hit send. I was gonna say, man,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: you can't top those CFP games we saw, and then
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: the NFL happened. My god, whether those great games, I mean,
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: every one of them except maybe the last one, every
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: one of them.
• 16:09
  Speaker 5: I'm here to tell you something, by the way, because
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: I was wasn't that it was skeptical of the Patriots.
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: I just they didn't play too many playoff teams and
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: I wanted to see what that looked like. They're terrifying,
• 16:21
  Speaker 5: they're really scary. Their defense is really good. And Drake
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: May does not look like he's in year two.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Did you see him run up the middle like he
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: was a yeah, a sprinter.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Well that throw that he made to Hunter Henry to
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: kind of like put the game away, that is, drop
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: it in between three guys right on the bucket for
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: a touchdown.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: That is like special, dude, He's a special player.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: He not only passed for two hundred and sixty eight
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: yards in a touch but he was the leading rusher
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: for the Patriots yesterday as well.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: And that was a slugfest.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: I mean, those guys are going back and forth, slogging
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: it out, and it wasn't pretty. But this guy is
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: a gamer man and and I think you have to
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: respect that. So, I mean, he's he's playing good football.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: So let me ask you, guys, this game on the
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: line minute left, you got to score, which of these
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: quarterbacks do you trust most? To least same quarterbacks from
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: the same draft class, Bow Knicks, Caleb Williams, Drake May,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Bone Nicks, that's a man.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: I put Drake first just because I think he's the
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: best of I think, really.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He hasn't done it. He hasn't done what I just
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: told you the other two. But okay, but but he
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: hasn't been for you, he hasn't been forced to line.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: He's also the He's also the best quarterback of the
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: three in my opinion. And I'm not trying to cast
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: dispersions on anybody, including the overall number one. I'm just
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: saying that what I've.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Seen that of Drake may consistently all year long, but
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: it's one thousand percent correct.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Vic. He hadn't looked the part of a of a
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: of a guy who's.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: A youngster, and either does Bonex for that matter, to
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: be honest with you, not now I go, man.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: I mean to me, Boz either second or third. I
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: guess I'll put him second for now, But yeah, I
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: don't know.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Isn't it amazing how quickly that class matured.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Here we are, I mean three in the playoffs.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they all.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Have their their talents and they're all fun to watch.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: And who are the other?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Here we go?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Oh Jayden?
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: But Jayden's I mean Jade made last year and Pennix
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: and McCarthy. Yep, McCarthy looks like, yeah, Penix might be,
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: but he's like.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: You watch injury from Yeah.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: Pinis the reason why people stayed away from Panix is
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: the very reason why he's not playing now.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: He's injury prom What did I always tell you about
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: that draft class? Out of the top six.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Quarterbacks, I didn't write it down. I didn't write down.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I told me sorry. I said one probably two are
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: going to be special.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Two are going to be no NFL quarterback solid NFL quarterbacks,
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: and two are going to flame out.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Now who's who will find out in a couple of years.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: By the way, speaking of playoffs, I know we've talked
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: a lot about the NFL playoffs. What Indiana did to
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Oregon from the very start, I mean, first play of
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: the game, pick six. I don't think you can emphasize
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: enough that it's the greatest, at least short term turnaround
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: that college football's ever seen, what Kurt Signetti has done
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: to Indiana.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: They aren't just good, they are historically.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: I believe the only team in college football history that
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: has a better plus point differential than them is the
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Jamis Winston Florida State national champion team. Like, they've beaten
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: teams by four hundred and some points this year and
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: to do that against Look, Man, Oregon might not have
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: been great, but they're one of the better teams in
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: the country and it wasn't even remotely close. And they've
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: done that now to Oregon and Bama in back to
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: back weeks.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Two things, Oregon, when they lose, they lose loudly. Yeah,
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: they lose loudly. They are loud losers Oregon football. And
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: don't get me going on what was their best quality
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: win this season? Whatever? Did you guys? Just see that?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Your boy Dylan Roola, the Patrick Mahomes wannaby has now
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: committed to Oregon, which tells me two things. Dante Moore
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: is gone.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he's projected to be.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But that means he's gone. Dylan Roola going to Oregon,
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: and that means Dante Moore is going to the NFL.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Well, here's Brett.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: You called it. You called it one of the one
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of the best turnarounds or whatever. I'm telling you.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: There's nothing in the history of college football that compares
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: to what Indiana has done the last two years. In
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: twenty three, twenty four, they were one and eight in
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: the Big Ten. They were three and nine overall the
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: year that Michigan won the whole thing. They were the
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: worst team in the Big Ten. I mean they were
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: they were flat out awful, the worst team in the
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: Big Ten. And now they find themselves what's their overall record?
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Fourteen and oh fifteen and oh ready to win a
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: Natty fifteen. Yeah, it's unbelievable, But it's unbelievable to.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Show you it takes great coaching. Clearly Signette's pushing all
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the right buttons. But man, when you have that pocketbook
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: behind you, you can turn it around. You see the staff.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Hold on a second, the staff.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: The other night Brett Oregon had on the this is
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: on the roster, No, not talking about starters on the
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: roster fifty five four star and aboves.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Indiana had eight. I know, they just make do they
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: coach them up?
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: That's the thing?
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: Now? Eight? Bro?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: What theyose star ratings? That's a bunch of Are you
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: still you still believe in that? Are you still one
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: of those guys who take those recruiting How else are
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: we gonna judge it?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, vic, take a look at the other fourteen
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: teams in the top fifteen, they're all gonna have really
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: similar numbers.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Recruiting wise, I mean it's it's a thing, Brent.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: For every five star story you give me, I can
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: give you one that's a two star that plays better
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: than the five star. I can do all day. Some
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: guys one star who flames out, I'll give you two
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: stars who played like a five.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Is the argument recruiting and the stars are so overrated.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: No, so ridiculous, No no, no no, this is like,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: oh yeah, all these first round picks that you have, well,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Tom Brady was a six rounder. He's like, all right,
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: tell me the other cornerbacks in the league. Where were
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: they drafted at. It's your your chance on hitting on
• 22:41
  Speaker 5: a good player. Recruiting rankings do matter from that chance.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Tony Lubrick, Sonny Lubick would take threes, Vic and Tournam
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: into fours and five. I mean that that, you know
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: he he had some special players, and so what it
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: does happen. Don't get me wrong, it happens. I'm just
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: telling you that overall.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: First of all, it's our only way to evaluate. Second
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: of all, it's a real thing.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: That's how how guys get second, how guys don't get paid.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Secondly, though, here's I think the biggest difference with Indiana
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: what they have that a lot of these these blue
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: blood teams don't because they don't have the ability to
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: keep people this long. How many guys are playing for
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: them that are on their fifth or sixth year in
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: college football. Indiana has experienced players and not guys who
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: are eighteen, nineteen years old.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: You know what Indiana is. They're the modern version of BYU. Yeah,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: kind of these guys have served their mission and they're
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: coming home to play in their sixth season.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: I think that a lot of that has to do
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: with they're just experience. It's why they're so disciplined, Like
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: it's why they don't make mistakes. These guys have just
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: been playing football for five or six years at the
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: college level. They know what to do, and so I
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: don't think that they're like wide eyed by a moment
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: or anything like that.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Like they they're older, they're more mature, and.
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: I think that stuff matters now this matchup against Miami,
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: I think I don't think that Indiana is going to
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: roll through Miami. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe they will do
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: the same thing they've been doing. But Miami is just
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: the way they're built up front. Doesn't let me believe
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: that they're going to get blown out by anybody.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: You talk about polar opposite. I just want you to
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: think about something, all right. So Miami's got a quarterback
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: who's forty seven years old, Carson Beck's been in college
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: football for fourteen years.
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: I think he was in the same recruiting class as
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Trevor Lawrence.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: If that, I think he and l was in prospects together.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And he's still playing. And then their most electrifying player,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: their best player, is a kid who should be in
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: high school right now, Malachai TONI yeah, he should be
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: in high school right now, and he's playing at a
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: level that I've I haven't seen anybody that damn electrifying
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: on a football since Reggie Bush.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: So here's what's funny. It textually just writes this in
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: and this is so true. Indiana's average age is twenty
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: three years old on their roster. And I think we
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: all kind of know this when you were growing up
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: playing sports. Were you ever a seventh grader and you
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: played against an eighth grade team? Of course, like the
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: physical difference, but and I understand it's a year. The
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: physical difference is so massive and it starts to weigh
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: the older you get when you're sixteen seventeen, not that
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: much of a difference whatever. Being a twenty three year
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: old versus being eighteen is a massive difference.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: It's huge, like just physically, he's a freak.
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: Just explain it to me. He looks like when he runs,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: doesn't he doesn't look like it's almost like slow motion,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Like why can't people catch him?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: He's one of those guys that's like, I don't know
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: if it's a long strider, but Usain Bolt can have.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: He's not a very tall guy. He's tony, but Usain both.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: If you guys, remember he didn't look like Speedy Gonzales
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: when he ran, but there was just, I don't know,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: there's something about his gait that just everything moved perfectly.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You're too you're too young to remember this name, but
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Moja will do you remember rockett ist maaile motion? I know,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: of course he reminds me of rocket Ismail.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: I completely agree, yep. Although he's he's more of a
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: catcher than Rocket was. Rocket was a really awesome Special
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Teams guy.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: They played Rocket everywhere.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: You know which leads me to if I see Malachai
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: TONI is kind of like Percy Harvin.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, yeah, that's a fair that's a fair assessment. Yeah,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: you know. And that got me the thinking because I'm
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: watching that Jags game. Who's that Jags receiver that they
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: put all over the field that kill the Broncos in
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: yards after catch? Washington?
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Washington.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I'm watching him and they're lining them up everywhere, They're
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: giving them the ball in the backfield, and I'm saying
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: to myself, well, the Broncos have one of those guys.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: I want him to be used more. I want memes,
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I want I want that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I'm not doing that take for the third year in
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: a row.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: I can't.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Every single week, I kept thinking that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I kept thinking that they kept, you know, applauding uh
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Parker Washington's versatility, and I'm like, Hey, the Broncos have
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: one of those guys.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: It's like, he's quick and good in open space. Why
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: not try and do that.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: I I totally agree. Again for the third year, I
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: am again asking use Mims in the offense more because
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: it feels like it would work. But yeah, Miami is
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Indiana. I was kind of hoping that'd be
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: a close game. I wanted Indiana to win, but it
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: was like you watched for ten minutes, You're like, oh,
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: it's over, Like this is over already.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: And you and you and you just knew, you just
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: knew that Oregon couldn't come back. You think the Nation
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Time is gonna be a close game.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: I did too.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be game. And I wouldn't be
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: surprised in Miami won. I wouldn't. I'll tell you.
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: I was highly impressed though. Pick six and then more
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: in the offense come back on the field, they drive
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: right down to tie the game. I'm like, that's very
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: impressive that Indiana. I mean, Mendoza, dude, it's like once
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: they got into that gear, like you're like, there's no
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: way Oregon can come back.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: They can't stay with them. It's pretty impressive.
• 27:57
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• 28:12
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• 28:15
  Speaker 5: they did over the weekend and a nice little revelation
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: for the Nuggets of something that has made two things
• 28:21
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• 28:24
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• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Rally House Shop every team in town. So here's the
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: good news with what the Nuggets have seemed to have
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: found in the absence of Joker. They are four and
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: three in seven games thus far. They have not moved
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: in the standings. It's by Jokic not playing, but it's
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: one of two things that they found. One, Zeke Naji
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: is a capable player that you can give minutes to
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: in trust. Or Zeke naj is a capable player you
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: can give minutes to intrust and you can trade him
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: now if you want to. It's one of two things
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: because with him getting this extended playing time, Vick, you
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: mentioned it before, maybe you're able to play a little
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: bit more free when you know you can make a
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: mistake and stay on the floor.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: Zee now she looks like a fine NBA player.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: He does. It's amazing how how things have changed, isn't it?
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: From three weeks ago. It's truly remarkable, and it's it's
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: also remarkable that this team. Tim Hardaway told me this
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: last night, that game in Philly, that game in which
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: no starters played, their top seven in the rotation didn't play,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: and they won it. It went miles to motivate these
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: guys and inspire these guys. When they saw those guys
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: win that game, Guys like Hardaway, guys like Bruce Brown,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: everybody else, they're like, okay, let's go. Well why not.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: But last night when we cout win that Jamal wasn't
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: playing again and they're down four starters, it wasn't I
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: just punt like I usually I'd say, it was okay,
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: let's battle, let's compete. They did. The Atlanta game was
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a little different because I think the Atlanta game, those
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: games when you're back home after a long road trip,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: they especially the fatigue sets in and they ran out
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: of gas in the fourth they were there. They just
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: ran out of gas. Last night. Man, it played their
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: butts off. It's fun to watch, guys, I mean, this
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: is awesome. As a Nuggets fan, tell me, you're not
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: having fun watching this. It's a different sort of fun.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: I thought I'd be miserable watching these and I'm not
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: because they put forth effort and their winning like that too.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: And somebody just asked the question, why was Christian Brown out?
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Let me allow me a couple of minutes to talk
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: about Christian Brown, because I spoke to him after the
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Atlanta game in the locker room. He is going through
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: something mentally with his foot that I think most athletes
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: they probably experienced in high school or college. Do you
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: guys realize this is the first injury of his life,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: of his career, He's never had an injury before. Did
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: not know that.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: I could tell Vic when he came back. He did
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: not seem right.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: No, he's never had an injury before. If you go
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: back and track his career at Kansas, Hell's career in
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the NBA, you know miss games. So to have an injury,
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: let alone a sprained ankle. And let me supplement my
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: thought with this. Anybody who's suffered an ankle injury, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I've had both a break and a sprain, This might
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: sound stupid. A break is better than a sprain. You
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: could talk to a broken bone. You got nothing to
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: say to it. Ligament. Ligaments can go Haywire on you.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: He suffered a sprain, he tore ligaments, and he doesn't
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: trust it right now. It's as much physical as it
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: is mental for him. He doesn't trust it. He can't
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: get any pop, he can't get any lyft, he can't
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: do what he does athletically. It's gonna take some time.
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: People say, well, why is he playing, because that's the
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: only thing you can do is play You have to
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: play through you have to learn how to play through it.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was pretty obvious that he was not back
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: to himself even when he returned to the lineup. So
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: he's still dealing with some stuff and whatever. I mean,
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: you're winning basketball games right now, and here's the good news.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I hand up.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: I got this wrong. When they went through the offseason acquisitions.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: I thought Jonas Valanciunas was going to be the most
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: important one because he had a backup center you could trust.
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Then I was like, all right, bringing Bruce Brown back
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: was a big thing for your defense and bringing somebody
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: off the bench. I thought Tim Hardway was going to
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: be competing with Julian Strather on who's going to be
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: the sharpshooter coming off the bench. Tim Hardaway has been
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: nails every night. The single night he.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Carried on last night, Dude, you know you can't teach confidence,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: can't teach it. And that dude when he goes up,
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: he thinks he's going to make every shot, doesn't matter
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: if he misses the rim, next one's going in. Can't
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: teach it.
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: His career though most he has been somebody that he'll
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: have the six for ten from three night followed by
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: two nights where he's one from nine from three and
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: just kind of going up and down. He has been
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: up in state here the entire season, like a bad night.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Ran into his dad last night, and his dad, Tim
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: Hardaway Senior, who Nuggets fans remember him, and the dude
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: basically invented the crossover. I had to ask him. I said,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: it's a fact. When's the first time your son beat
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: you in one on one? And he said he'll never
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: forget their playing. And his son got to the remedy
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: was about the dunk and he had to grab him
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: by both shoulders and said, we're done playing. I can't
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: lose to you. I love that. That's a good story, man.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: I just when I look at these guys overall, I'm
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: just impressed with the compete.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: I think that's what it is.
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: I mean, I can understand if they get out talented, okay,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: but the compete is there, and because the compete is there,
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: it can gloss over some talent deficiencies or some matchups.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: That don't go your way. And I'm just highly impressed
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: at these guys have sucked it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Up and you know what, not only that, but I
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: know Peyton Watson has played plenty, but he throw it
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: into a forty minute a night situation or on any
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: given night we need.
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  Speaker 2: Forty out of you or thirty five or whatever, like
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  Speaker 2: he's bringing it every.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: Night to Brett. Yeah, you know what I mean, Yes
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: he is.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: He's bringing it every night as well. And he doesn't
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: fit in your starting rotation when everybody's healthy. But boy,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: old boy, if you start to think about these guys,
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: the experience they're getting right now, but the compete and
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: the quote team that they're all developing right now coming
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: off the bench, I mean, maybe this is going to
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: be a situation where we don't have to hold our
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: breath when the bench comes on. You're going, you know,
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: can they just hang on till you know, till the
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Joker minutes start again, maybe we won't have to do that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: I saw it was a it was a play last
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: night where Jalen Pickett was fighting with somebody for a rebound.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Was it Yannis or was it who was? It was
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: that one of the bigs who's the other big for them? Yeah?
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: And he stole the ball from Miles Turner to give
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: me that and he was just that fight and that
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: hunger and that man again, it's the entire bench, and
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: I'm watching Joker try to coach these guys up on
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the bench. They're also like they're not surprised by this.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: That's the thing. They're not like, oh my god, all right, yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: let's go play hard.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: It's hard way to spread.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: I think that's the question though, how do you take
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: what you're doing now when you've got these four different
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: guys in the starting lineup with ag last night, but
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: when they're gonna be the bench guys, how do you
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: keep that continuity going to win? Their minutes go from
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: anywhere between you know, twenty five and thirty. That's difficult,
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: you know, most well, yeah, twelve to seventeen. That's why
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: the making of a team is so hard, because there
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: are certain players who are adaptable. They can deal with
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: spot duty like ten to fifteen minutes play time, and
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: they can make the most of it, right, They just
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: know what to do.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: And then there are those who if you give them
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: that leash, they freeze up. Yeah it's hard, that's very hard.
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: Do you notice the difference with Zeke and Jalen Pickett
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: and these guys when they're told, hey, yeah you're not
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: you're not gonna get subbed out. You see the freedom
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: with which they play, right, Yeah, So now you got
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: to take that same style and say, well, you're not
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: gonna get them many minutes. You're gonna come in and
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: come out, But you got to play with that same tenacity.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: I think the same thing, look in a different way.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: It applies that the Avs over the weekend they played
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: against Columbus. They win four to nothing in a game
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: which Trent Minor gets his first start and he gets
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: a shutout in his first starts. As you said, that's
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: the second time in franchise history that that's happened in
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Quebec as well. But the way that you won that
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: game was, you know a lot of times all year
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: because these guys are really good good. It's McKinnon throws
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: in two goals, or McCard as something, or it's Lecanon
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: or Natius whoever. All of your production came from the
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: quote others it was Slovov getting a goal. It was
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: Brent Burns thrown into Like you look at that box
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: score at the end of the game. You see zero's
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: across the board for your big dogs. Yeah, and a
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: lot of production from the depth guys on the team.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah, vick it Brett. Here's here's the goal scorers. Burns
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: head two, Olison scored, which was good, good for him. Yeah,
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: but Colton assists, Brinley, a couple of helpers Parker Kelly
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: to assists Olison, had an assist on the Slovov goal,
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: bardikoff and assist on the second Burns goal. So you're
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: you're seeing these guys chime in with two point nights.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: You're like, heck, yeah, man, that's awesome. Was already he's Russian, right,
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: He's Russian correct? Where did they get him? Uh?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Free Agent.
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: Hockey Players dot Com?
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: But the way that they want, I think is great.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: By the way, we'll talk to Adam Schefter here in
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: about eight minutes. But here's Ben norf the game talking
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: about Trent Minor getting the shut up.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: He's a relentless worker and he's a baddler. That's what
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: he is, you know, and your goal he's maybe a
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: little bit different. But there's a handful of players that
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: come out of the CHL and it takes him.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: A while and they're grinding the American League and then
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: they make their way to the NHL.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: And you you can pretty much guarantee that the guys
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: that do that, they're battlers and they're gonna give it
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: everything they got.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Okay, by the way, I just reminded myself they claimed
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Slovia off waivers from Calgary h right before the start
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: of the year, right around there.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: That's where he came from. Hockey player but yeah, hockey
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: players dot Com.
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: But I mean it acts like a free agent. Just
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: a guy out there and you grab them and you
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: throw him in there for depth, and.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: And he's from Belarus and he's a good player, So
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: what do you want.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's in the National Hockey League. Minutes for
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: you play in minutes, you know, depth, defenseman.
• 39:05
  Speaker 6: Great analysis.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, you're welcome.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: By the way, I like saying somebody is Belarusian, Belarussian?
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: Is that not Belarusian?
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Belarussian?
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: Belarusian's better admitt it?
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Biopic? It is biopic.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: It's not biopic.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: It's a biopic.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: A movie that is a biographical picture is a biopic.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: It's biopic.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Biopic is something you get from the doctor. He says, Scalpel.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Biopic, your myopic biopic.
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: That might be true.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: Adam Schefter is going to join us in just a
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: couple of minutes again. Wildcard Round wraps up tonight. You
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: can hear the final game of the weekend on IM
• 39:49
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• 39:52
  Speaker 5: Kickoff is at six fifteen. The NFL Playoffs live on
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: Altitude Sports Radio. Adam Schefter next