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10-26-26 - YOUR 5-2 DENVER BRONCOS!/Offense was okay & that's okay/Weird Avs & Nugs weekend · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 2: Welcome in on this Rally House Football Monday. So we
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  Speaker 2: had some... Things take place this morning. I am currently
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  Speaker 2: sitting in a seat that is wildly uncomfortable to me.
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  Speaker 2: Nelly could not make it in. He's got some stuff
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  Speaker 2: he's dealing with. He is okay. So that's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: But I am trying to do the producing and talking
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  Speaker 2: thing at the same time. And I got to say,
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  Speaker 2: Nelly's chair is very low to the ground. It is
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  Speaker 2: Rally House Football Monday. So we're going to make it
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  Speaker 2: through here. In the meantime, The Broncos get a win
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  Speaker 2: and they get a win in a way that was
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  Speaker 2: strange because it was comfortable and it felt as if
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  Speaker 2: they knew what they were doing on offense. They had
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  Speaker 2: some consistency in areas that you've been begging for lately.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, it was a
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  Speaker 2: game that we've all been begging to see. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the way that Bo Nix played in that game,
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  Speaker 2: there's one thing and one thing only that I think
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  Speaker 2: truly shows the difference in what happened. Bo Nix ran
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  Speaker 2: the football. He trusted his legs. And in doing so,
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  Speaker 2: That led to other things opening up. I think it
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  Speaker 2: helped some of your other running backs in the backfield.
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  Speaker 2: It opened up things in the pass game. They came
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  Speaker 2: out of the gates. They took shots downfield. They made
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  Speaker 2: every attempt to try and get this offense kicked into
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  Speaker 2: high gear. And it worked! You come out of the gates,
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  Speaker 2: great return to start the game by Mims, and then
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  Speaker 2: Nix rips one from an empty set in shotgun, middle
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  Speaker 2: of the field, 20-yard in cut to Cortland Sutton. And
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  Speaker 2: it's one of the things that Vic has been begging
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  Speaker 2: for that I've been begging for, especially against a team
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  Speaker 2: like Arizona. Arizona, they aren't a bad football team. They
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  Speaker 2: really aren't. Because they're disciplined. They're a team that... that is,
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  Speaker 2: they're sound in a lot of things. They just aren't
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  Speaker 2: very talented. Like, you just look at overall, who are
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  Speaker 2: the top guys on that roster, and if you had
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  Speaker 2: to put them in with all pros, what does that
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  Speaker 2: look like? And I think in the case of the Cardinals,
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  Speaker 2: they just don't have it. So my thought process was,
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  Speaker 2: if that team can't burn you, They are one of
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  Speaker 2: the worst teams in the league in explosive play rate.
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  Speaker 2: They need to have 10, 11-yard drives to score touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: and then they stall out in the red zone because
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  Speaker 2: it's really hard to do that. Why not use this
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to take some risks? Go out and let Bowe
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  Speaker 2: start chucking it around, and if he makes a mistake,
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  Speaker 2: then he makes a mistake. Who cares? You have a
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  Speaker 2: good enough defense against a bad enough offense that they're facing?
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  Speaker 2: Where it shouldn't burn you. But I think it built confidence.
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  Speaker 2: It built confidence. From. Bo Nix. Trusting. First of all
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  Speaker 2: staying in the pocket. But second of all trusting his
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  Speaker 2: eyes downfield. And you saw it. Kind of from the rip.
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  Speaker 2: The throw to Sutton. Coleman then churns through a couple
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  Speaker 2: of tackles to buy a first down, get a couple
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  Speaker 2: of good runs from Dobbins. Yeah, there were checkdowns to R.J.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey on the drive, whatever. But I just think it
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  Speaker 2: led to him thinking, you know what? It's all right
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  Speaker 2: to go out there and just let one go every
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  Speaker 2: once in a while. And my biggest fear, through the
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  Speaker 2: beginning part of this season, specifically with Bo, was that
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  Speaker 2: he didn't trust anything. He didn't trust his legs, which
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  Speaker 2: led him to not trusting the pocket, which led to
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  Speaker 2: him not trusting throws downfield, which led to an offense
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  Speaker 2: just having an overall super lack of trust. And again,
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  Speaker 2: to me, The biggest thing that could have changed that
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  Speaker 2: was being able to run the football. It's one of
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  Speaker 2: the things that he's had his entire career. It's one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that separates him. Every quarterback has it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, watched a lot of football yesterday. When you
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  Speaker 2: look at good quarterback play, they all have some sort
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  Speaker 2: of trait that separates them from the other. And for
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  Speaker 2: Bo Nix, I think without a doubt, his separating value
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  Speaker 2: is that he's mobile. And if he doesn't use his mobility,
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  Speaker 2: you're taking away a huge aspect of his game. Like,
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  Speaker 2: we all know that Josh Allen is somebody who's great
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  Speaker 2: dual threat. Like, he can throw the ball as good
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  Speaker 2: as anybody. He can run the ball as good as anybody.
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  Speaker 2: But if I said that he's no longer running the
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  Speaker 2: football and he's just going to throw it, it makes
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  Speaker 2: the passing part way more difficult. And that's for a
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  Speaker 2: guy that's an MVP. Doing the pregame show, was talking
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  Speaker 2: to DMACC. DMACC said I was the first one on
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  Speaker 2: the pregame. It was around 1 o'clock. First one on
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  Speaker 2: the pregame show that thought that this game would be
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  Speaker 2: that I was preaching hesitancy. And it wasn't so much
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  Speaker 2: hesitancy of a win. It was of domination. And look,
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  Speaker 2: I'm wrong. The Broncos did dominate the game. But I
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  Speaker 2: was just like, there was nothing in the first six
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  Speaker 2: weeks of the season that would tell me you're going
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  Speaker 2: to haul out there and just run off 30 points.
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  Speaker 2: If you would have told me that Bo Nix was
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  Speaker 2: going to be as productive on the ground as he was,
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  Speaker 2: would have changed everything. Bo Nix went into that game
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  Speaker 2: on the season with 37 rushing yards. 37. He doubled
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  Speaker 2: it in a single game. And we had the clip
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  Speaker 2: from last week where he's talking about, you know, coming
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  Speaker 2: back from the injury. And he said this, I can
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  Speaker 2: find the hotkeys. Ah, wait a minute. I got it.
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  Speaker 2: The progression.
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  Speaker 3: It's like you're doing treatment for the whole entire year.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm not necessarily doing physical therapy treatment, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: out there on the practice field, getting rep after rep,
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  Speaker 3: trying to get back in super great shape, you know,
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  Speaker 3: so my carries can go up. So I'm ready when my,
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  Speaker 3: my numbers called and when I can run, but, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not scared. I'm not physically worried. I just think there's
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  Speaker 3: something to the sport. I think all guys, when they
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  Speaker 3: come back from an injury, it's like just doing it
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  Speaker 3: one day at a time. That's just part of the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of the process. I had surgery probably, I think,
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  Speaker 3: six months ago. It takes a while for things to
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  Speaker 3: fully re-engage and re-come back. I'm confident myself. I know
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to get back and be exactly what I was,
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  Speaker 3: if not better, because as I get older, that's how
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  Speaker 3: it's been.
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  Speaker 2: You finally saw it. You saw the trust in the ankle.
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  Speaker 2: And look at what that opened up for the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the offense. To me, him running the ball is
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  Speaker 2: a necessity. And I don't even mean designed quarterback runs
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that. What I'm talking about is Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 2: When he sees open field, take open field. It's certainly
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  Speaker 2: what he did on the touchdown run. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: saw nobody in front of him, and then it turns
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  Speaker 2: out there was nobody for 60 yards ahead of him.
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  Speaker 2: But think about that one play and what that one
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  Speaker 2: play is now going to do to defenses in the
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  Speaker 2: weeks to come. Now they must, must be aware of
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  Speaker 2: what Bo Nix is capable of doing if that defense
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  Speaker 2: sits back and plays soft. But I felt forever that
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  Speaker 2: the ankle was still something that he was fighting at
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  Speaker 2: the moment, that he was fighting his confidence with it.
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  Speaker 2: And once he sort of unleashed that run, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: it was the first touchdown of the game. And ever
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  Speaker 2: since then, it just felt like the offense had a rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: that it didn't have before. You had a decent opening drive,
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  Speaker 2: but only netted you 30 yards. You get a couple
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  Speaker 2: of field goals, okay, great. You know, the second field
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  Speaker 2: goal comes, why? Because of a terrible punt, a 40-yard
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  Speaker 2: punt from Arizona. So you get good field position. But
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  Speaker 2: you get the touchdown, and it just... It clicked after that.
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  Speaker 2: In the second half. First drive. The 52-yard touchdown. on
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  Speaker 2: the third play of the drive to R.J.
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  Speaker 1: Harvey.
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  Speaker 2: The next time you hit the field, it's another six-play,
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  Speaker 2: 76-yard touchdown drive with another 47-yard pass. It just opened
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  Speaker 2: everything else up. It allowed you to breathe. And I
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  Speaker 2: think for the first time in a long time, made
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  Speaker 2: a defense nervous. In talking to DMACC in the pregame,
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  Speaker 2: he said, do you think Bo Nix will play better?
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  Speaker 2: And my answer was, I don't know. Probably not because
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't all year. But the good news was this.
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  Speaker 2: It literally, literally couldn't get worse than what they were
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  Speaker 2: doing on offense, running and passing the football. And all
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  Speaker 2: it took was one little break, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: opened things up. Not to mention, it's not that I
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  Speaker 2: think this guy had a bad game yesterday, but you
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  Speaker 2: can clearly see a difference. Jonah Coleman is now your
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  Speaker 2: running back. It took one game to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Dobbins got six carries for 23 yards. Coleman had nine
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  Speaker 2: for 54. It was something that Jeff Legwell told us
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  Speaker 2: last week where he said, Jonah Coleman, there's a decisiveness
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  Speaker 2: to him in the run game that does not exist
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  Speaker 2: right now with J.K. Dobbins and with R.J. Harvey. And
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  Speaker 2: I think we all saw it. Like, it was different
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  Speaker 2: when Jonah Coleman ran the football. Now, do I think
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  Speaker 2: this is the second coming of Jonathan Taylor or something
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  Speaker 2: like that? No. But it is clearly an upgrade. And
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  Speaker 2: if you want to know what they think of Jonah Coleman,
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  Speaker 2: he got about half the snaps in that game at
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  Speaker 2: running back. He took 30 of a possible 61. Harvey
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  Speaker 2: had 16. Dobbins had 14. Other things of note, Adam
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  Speaker 2: Troutman had the most snaps of any tight end on
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  Speaker 2: the field yesterday. I don't exactly know what that means because...
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  Speaker 2: Troutman had one target, no catches, and he also had
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  Speaker 2: a holding penalty or it was offensive pass interference on
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  Speaker 2: that first drive that negated a gain from, I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was Harvey on a dump off. Funny thing about that,
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  Speaker 2: he gets called for the holding and a game played
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  Speaker 2: in Arizona has the entire crowd booing the refs that
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos got a hold or an offensive PI call.
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  Speaker 2: So shout out to Broncos fans who traveled to Arizona
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  Speaker 2: because you guys, that sounded like you played the game
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  Speaker 2: at mile high. But the great thing today is we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about a game in which you did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things right. And it's a game to feel good
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  Speaker 2: about in pretty much every area. You know, the defense
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  Speaker 2: has done what they've typically done all year. They gave
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  Speaker 2: up yards again, 353 to Arizona, but they stiffened up
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  Speaker 2: in the red zone when they had to. And that's
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  Speaker 2: sort of the MO of the Cardinals. That's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: despite them winning the previous week against the Rams with
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  Speaker 2: six field goals, I don't know what the number ended up.
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  Speaker 2: I remember on the broadcast, they said that it was
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  Speaker 2: their seventh consecutive trip to the red zone that ended
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  Speaker 2: without a touchdown, which is really hard to do. But
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  Speaker 2: this is kind of what the Cardinals offense has done
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  Speaker 2: and what the Broncos defense has done all year. They'll
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  Speaker 2: allow you to pick up some yardage here and there.
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  Speaker 2: But they will make a play to stop you from
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  Speaker 2: really hurting them. So, 303-504-0925. Shop Mazda text line. One price,
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  Speaker 2: one person, one hour. It is a Rally House Football Monday.
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  Speaker 2: So a whole bunch to get to as we go along.
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  Speaker 2: Got to recap the weird weekend for the Avs. Great
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  Speaker 2: game Friday, terrible game yesterday. And then Terrible three quarters
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  Speaker 2: for the Nuggets, followed by amazing fourth. So a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch to get to here as we roll along. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to try my best to not make mistakes. Let's
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  Speaker 2: see if I can go to break properly. It's a
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  Speaker 2: Rally House Football Monday right here on Altitude Sports Radio 92.5
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  Speaker 2: Rally House. Shop every team in town. So again, Nelly
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  Speaker 2: is not here today. He's okay. But when you have
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  Speaker 2: problems in the mornings, There's really nobody that's there to
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  Speaker 2: pick up the phone. So I'm trying to do this
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  Speaker 2: producing thing along with doing the radio thing. The producing
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  Speaker 2: thing is going okay. I got a handle on the
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  Speaker 2: radio side of things. I do not have a handle
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  Speaker 2: on Twitch or YouTube. So any of you guys looking
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  Speaker 2: for those, they'll be up, I don't know, in a bit.
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  Speaker 2: But I am not the man for that job. So
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  Speaker 2: from you. 303-504-0925 on what you thought that game was. Now,
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  Speaker 2: was it perfect? No. But this is kind of what
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  Speaker 2: I was discussing with the Broncos offensively, that if they
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  Speaker 2: were just okay on offense, they would start dominating some opponents.
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  Speaker 2: That's the truth. They would absolutely blitz people. And a
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  Speaker 2: game like that against the Cardinals was never in doubt.
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  Speaker 2: You had the 6-6 game in the second quarter, but
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  Speaker 2: the second Bo Nix scored the touchdown that puts you
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  Speaker 2: up 13-6, it just felt like you had a firm
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  Speaker 2: grasp on the game. And that's kind of what I
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  Speaker 2: was getting to was this idea that that if you
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  Speaker 2: just get marginal offense, that would be enough to get
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  Speaker 2: a blowout. Hey, Chris, how you doing? Thanks for coming
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  Speaker 2: in and helping. So we're trying to get YouTube and
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  Speaker 2: Twitch set up shortly. But if you get just regular, average,
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  Speaker 2: middle-of-the-road offense, that's all you should need. Because at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day, your defense is so good that
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  Speaker 2: they're going to hold opponents like they have all year.
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  Speaker 2: The Cardinals, the 16 points, sure, of course. It's a
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  Speaker 2: matter of getting your offense in a place where you're
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  Speaker 2: playing with somewhat confidence. And I think that run opened
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  Speaker 2: things up for Bo Nix. Getting Jonah Coleman on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: having him infuse into the lineup seems very clear. On
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  Speaker 2: top of all of that, I think it's the first
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  Speaker 2: game all season where, yeah, it wasn't crazy, but it
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  Speaker 2: felt like you made some wide receivers happy. Jalen Waddell
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  Speaker 2: got four catches, but he was targeted seven times. Sutton
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  Speaker 2: only had three for 45 yards, but he was targeted
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  Speaker 2: five times. It just felt like the ball was going
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  Speaker 2: around a lot more often. And you didn't need to
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  Speaker 2: do all that much work to get to the result
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  Speaker 2: that you got to. And that's the great thing about
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  Speaker 2: where the Broncos are at. They're in a place where
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  Speaker 2: your defense and your special teams and your return game
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  Speaker 2: and all of that stuff is going to put you
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  Speaker 2: in a position to win field position. And you're going
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  Speaker 2: to start a lot of drives around the 50-yard line.
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  Speaker 2: Then it's just a matter of capitalizing, like not going
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  Speaker 2: three and out was it. And they had their fair
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  Speaker 2: share of them in the game. They had drives that sputtered,
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  Speaker 2: but that's going to happen. So by my count, there
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  Speaker 2: was $ 1. two maybe three three drives that were three
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  Speaker 2: and outs a lot better than like the eight that
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  Speaker 2: you had the previous week or the week before that
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  Speaker 2: so I mean look all of this stuff that we're
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  Speaker 2: discussing is exactly what you're looking for I'm just glad
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  Speaker 2: I didn't come in here on a Monday and start
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  Speaker 2: talking about how annoyed I was that You won a
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  Speaker 2: football game, but the offense didn't look great. I thought
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  Speaker 2: the offense looked totally fine. You didn't have, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: you want to hear a real number that's going to
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  Speaker 2: weird you out? Because it certainly did to me. What
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  Speaker 2: has Bo Nix been made fun of by everybody across
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  Speaker 2: NFL talking head shows or NFL fans on Twitter or
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call it? What was the one
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  Speaker 2: thing that people gave him crap for? His average depth
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  Speaker 2: of target. How many error yards were you going through?
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  Speaker 2: And last week it was, you know, four yards or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. It was one of the lowest in
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  Speaker 2: the last 20 years. This last week, the highest average
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  Speaker 2: depth of target at 6.27 p.m. last night was Bo
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  Speaker 2: Nix at 11.3. And I do think all of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of ties into the idea that of once he
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  Speaker 2: got going on the ground, everything else opened up. Now
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  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, safeties can't play 15 yards, 20
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  Speaker 2: yards behind the line of scrimmage because if there is
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  Speaker 2: room to run, somebody's got to be there to stop them.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. Thank you, Grizz. So that's it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: to me, it's the biggest detail. It's the biggest thing
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  Speaker 2: that happened. Now, a couple of texts coming through here.
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  Speaker 2: Can you address J.K. Dobbins' demeanor even after scoring? He
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  Speaker 2: seems a little disgruntled. Does this mean Jonathan Taylor could
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  Speaker 2: very well be heading to Denver?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: I'll tell you what it means. I think that he knows...
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  Speaker 2: His starting job is gone. Think about what this is
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  Speaker 2: for J.K. Dobbins this year. He's, first of all, just
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  Speaker 2: trying to stay healthy. He has been begging, begging for
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  Speaker 2: some season to play in all 17 games. He made
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  Speaker 2: the pinky promise to Andy Lindahl during training camp. And
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  Speaker 2: I think he's been fighting through an injury. And what
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  Speaker 2: he just witnessed this last week was Jonah Coleman's the starter.
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  Speaker 2: Out of all the running backs yesterday, Jonah Coleman got
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  Speaker 2: the least snaps. He played 14 of 61 offensive snaps.
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  Speaker 2: He knows. So he's still going to have a role
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  Speaker 2: within this offense. I don't think there's any doubt about that,
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  Speaker 2: but I think the disgruntled nature that you see J.K. Dobbins,
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  Speaker 2: if you say after the touchdown he looked a little
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  Speaker 2: bad body language, all that stuff, very simply, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's because he knows his job is cooked. And I've
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  Speaker 2: been asking the question for a while, is J.K. Dobbins
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  Speaker 2: hurt or has J.K. Dobbins hit that expiration date that
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  Speaker 2: all running backs seem to hit at some point in
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  Speaker 2: their career. I think that's probably part of the case,
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  Speaker 2: is that he's gotten up there, J.K. Dobbins, I think
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: he's about to turn 28 years old. And so with that,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: you see somebody who gets to that point, yeah, he's
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: going to turn 28 on December 17th, so it's right
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: around the corner. You see running backs get to that age,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and unless they're special, special, And there's a few of
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: them that are out there. They start to take that
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: tick down. You just watched what Jonah Coleman did with
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the same offensive line and the same blocking scheme and
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the same everything else, and it just looked different. And again,
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know if it looked different because Jonah Coleman
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: was just more decisive. Maybe he was lucky that some
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: holes opened up, but you saw it. It was one
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: foot in the ground and go. So again, for a
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: guy like J.K. Dobbins, who knows he's getting towards the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: tail end of his career, maybe this was his last
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: real chance to be a starting feature back within the NFL.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: He just watched it get stripped from him in real time,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: right in front of his face. Texture says, I highly
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: criticize Peyton regularly. I think he's overrated, but we'll give
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: him credit for yesterday's win. The play calling improved on offense.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: The defense still won the game, though. Yeah, the defense
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: is always going to be the reason you win the game, dude.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: With the exception of a couple of games a year,
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a couple of games where they
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: get got. But it's like saying, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jamal
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: played good, but Joker's the reason you won the game. Well,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: no kidding. Like, that's your best thing. Your best thing
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that you have is your defense. It's been that way
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: for a while, and thank God that you have it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I don't want to make it sound like because you
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: have a good defense, that's some sort of dirty word.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: It's not. What you really have is an incredible advantage
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: over everybody else in the league. If you have a
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: defense that is capable of doing what your defense can do,
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, goodness gracious. Again, going back to it, you
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: just need middle-of-the-road offense and you will win games comfortably.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And that's exactly what happened yesterday. And so I am
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: ecstatic about the offensive performance because it was fine. And
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: fine's all you need. Fine can win a Super Bowl.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: You've been begging for competency Because it feels like that's
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the one step that you need to take. Get to
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: that point, and then all of a sudden, sky's the limit, man.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: You were beating the best teams in the NFL with...
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Maybe there's a couple of teams that had this argument,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: but you were certainly in the discussion for worst offense
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: in the league. And you went 4-2. You raised that
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: bar a little bit. Now, all of a sudden, you're
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: right back in discussions for, hey, could you challenge for
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: first in the AFC? Like, you know what's funny? Watching
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: some of the games yesterday, I want you to look
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: at some of the scores around the AFC and tell
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: me what you notice. Because there's one big one that
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I noticed yesterday, and I don't want to go on this.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I don't want to do this every time that they lose.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: But I fought this all year, even with the winning again.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Something about the Chiefs offense in Mahomes in particular has
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: felt off. It's been carried by Kenneth Walker dominating teams,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: but he was held to nothing against Seattle yesterday. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: the interesting part about the Chiefs is that they've played Denver,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the opening game of the season, which was the worst
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: performance that Denver's going to have all year. Everything was
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: out of whack. Offense was terrible. Defense couldn't make a tackle.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: All of it. You guys remember. After that, it was Colts, Dolphins, Raiders, Chargers.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: That's how they got to 5-0. They played against a
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: team that's legitimate in the Seahawks. And then the Seahawks
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: stomped them. They had nothing to offer. You look at
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: just some of the raw numbers from that game. The
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Chiefs were held to 213 yards of offense. The Seahawks
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: offense put up 410 yards of offense. They were 11
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: of 16 on third down. And that ain't a good
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: offense over there. Seattle's got a bunch of questions about
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Sam Darnall. Why is he turning the ball over so much?
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: They couldn't run the football effectively. They did yesterday with
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Emmanuel Wilson. But that was also an offense that's struggling. Like,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: you have, if you get, again, moderate, average offense, you're
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: going to have every opportunity to take this division again.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm pretty damn pumped about the idea that you
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: get Kansas City now next week at home with an
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: offense that maybe has some confidence going into that game
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: and a Kansas City offense that's reeling a bit, going
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: against one of the better One of the best defenses
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: in the league. First of all, you're just a monster
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: at home. The Broncos at home have looked borderline unbeatable
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: for two years. No matter who comes in here. And
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: sometimes it looks ugly and it's not the prettiest thing
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: in the world but they end up getting a win.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: You beat the Chiefs this weekend. All of a sudden
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: you send them to 5-2. You're on top of the
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: AFC West. Then you get an easier stretch here of Panthers, Raiders, Steelers, Dolphins, Jets, Raiders.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: You could have this thing, not wrapped up, but a
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: huge grasp on the division again if you get this
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: win over the Chiefs coming up, which I feel like
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: you got a really good shot. But a lot of
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: that is based off of what I witnessed. What I
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: witnessed this last weekend against the Cardinals. with the confidence
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: in which Bo Nix was playing. So we'll get to
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: the abs and nuggets here in just a moment. Again,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it's a rally house football Monday. The abs, like, look,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: the abs on Friday were great. Everything seemed to be
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: clicking back in rhythm, but they have been super up
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: and down. to start this year. There really hasn't been
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: an in-between game. It's either they've been awesome or they've
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: been terrible and not a lot of in-between. Last night
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: was terrible. I mean, from, from the start to the finish,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: it just, everything felt totally out of whack. There seems
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: to be, I don't know if it's, if you want
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: to call it chemistry issues in some spots, um, There's
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: some new guys to the lineup. It's not like a ton,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: but it could also just be beginning of the season.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: I think they got to get their heads right. They're
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: behaving almost like a team that is in, look, they've
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: been to the playoffs every year for however long it's been,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: a decade, whatever. Won a championship in that time frame.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: Maybe they're just like, yeah, whatever, we'll figure it out
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: as the season goes along. It's just It's not the
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: way you can go about your business. You need to
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: start developing some good habits. And I know Bednar thinks
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: as much, as he was unhappy after the game again. Now,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: between them and the Nuggets, it's almost kind of like
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: a very similar thing. Those two teams need to operate
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: with a lot more, let's say, urgency. They behave like
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: two teams that don't really care how the game starts
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: because they think they're good enough to come back and win. Sometimes,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: like in the case of the Nuggets, you can. Sometimes,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: like in the case of the Avs yesterday, you get thrashed. So,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: get back to that in a bit. The weekend isn't
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: over until Monday Night Football is in the books. Tonight,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: it's the Cowboys and Eagles on Altitude Sports Radio AM 950.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Westwood 1 coverage starts at 6. Monday Night Football is
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: powered by Twin Peaks. Drinks, scenic views. So we'll get
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: back to the Avs and Nuggets over the weekend in
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: just a few minutes. Another, not as crazy as last week,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: but some big upsets in college football that we have
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: to get to as well. But let me give you
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: this as we go to break. To the Nuggets opener.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Were you mad that the game came down to the
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter comeback like it did? Or were you just
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: happy that That they did it. We'll get to that
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: in just a couple of minutes. Stick around.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Welcome back. Rally House Football Monday. We got, shout out
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Josh Grismer in the background taking takes care of us
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: for YouTube and Twitch. So hopefully that gets set up again. Nelly,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: got some stuff going on this morning. So now I'm
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: in a very dangerous position of having all the buttons
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: in front of me. It's a scary day. Scary day
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: here at Altitude Sports Radio. But we're going to make it.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: So welcome in, Rally House Football Monday, to the Avs
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: and the Nuggets. I ask the question to you guys,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: what do you believe is more important from the game
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: over the weekend? Do you think it is more important
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: that the Nuggets just got the win in general, or
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: is it that the Nuggets struggled early in that game
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: to do so? Because there is a little give and take.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I know some of the players, in particular Aaron Gordon,
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: was somebody who thought, why did it take all of
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: that to get the win. And I'm just, look, it's
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: early in the season. Things aren't going to be awesome
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: all the time, but I will tell you, finding a
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: way to get a dub like that is, I think,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: really big early in the season. You don't want it
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: to come down to something like that, but if it does,
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: then it does. You got, the great thing was, Huge
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: games out of Jamal and Joker, which was a bounce
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: back from the opener to the season. And I think
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: that if nothing else, I know some people had some
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: questions about, they've had questions about Jamal and what Jamal
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: should be as, you know, an all NBA third team guy.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: What sort of numbers should he be putting up a game?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Knowing that he is capable, and we all knew this,
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: he was capable of putting up performances like he did
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: over the weekend. 42 points. Finished, what was it, 12
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: of 25 from the floor, but 8 of 16 from three.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: He was not hesitant in shooting the ball. He was decisive.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: If he got an open look, he took the open look.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: And I think that part of it is massive. You know,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: when he comes through with 42 points, Him and Joker
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: combined for 77. I mean, it's the complete flip and
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: inverse of what you saw in the opening game. The
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: opening game was those two were awful. And that's why
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: you lost because everybody else was kind of doing their job.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: But I think bigger than that, Trevin Brazil is awesome.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: And I know we're only two games into his career.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: But I've called him after watching Summer League, watching some
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: preseason games, and now the first couple of games in
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the regular season. He's a human pogo stick. All that
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: guy's doing is jumping and jumping and jumping. But he's
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: getting boards at every opportunity that he can. He finishes
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: that game 28 minutes, 17 points, 9 rebounds. He was
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: a plus 10 on the night. He creates a salve
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: if you're somebody like me. this offseason where the discussion
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: point was a lot about, hey, man, you can't let
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: a young player with a lot of potential walk in
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: the offseason. And that's what happened with Peyton Watson. He
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: just left. You had one of your only youthful members
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: of this team walked out the door, and you had
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: to find some way to replace him. Now we're talking about, what,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: second-round picks? Second-round picks are the salve that you're going
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: to create, and I will say this right now. I think,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: without a doubt, Trevin Brazil is somebody that feels like
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: he could be a really good replacement and a lot cheaper.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: If you want to call that really good scouting, if
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: you want to call that luck, if you want to
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: call it a combination of both, then sure. I mean,
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the crazy decision yesterday was, you're out Spencer Jones. you're
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: out Cam Johnson, you're out Julian Strother, and you're like, well,
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: who's going to start at the three? And they went
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: to the other second-round rookie in Bryce Hopkins. Now, Hopkins
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: didn't have any sort of, like, super stellar night, but
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: the fact that they were willing to do it, I think,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: first of all, is a positive given that the Nuggets
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: overall through Adelman and Malone have been really hesitant to
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: play young players. But now, those guys... are getting opportunities.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: And you're letting them struggle a bit through it. And
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that. But when you're down like the Nuggets
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: are down and you make this comeback, you outscore the
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Pelicans 37-18 in the fourth quarter to push it to
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: an OT. Do you want that? No. But it's good
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: to know that you can get that in your back pocket.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: You know, it felt very Broncos-y. And if this continues
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: to be a theme, it's going to get annoying in
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: a hurry. But you just needed to find some level
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: of positivity coming out of that Oklahoma City game where
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: you had kind of no offense. You found a ton
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: of it in the second half. And I don't know
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: what to do with the defensive performance because you're great
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: against one of the best teams in the league and
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: then you're awful against one of the worst. Bottom line is,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: found a way to get things done, but you have
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: these young, youthful players that give you a ton of
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: optimism for being able to throw somebody in the roster
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: and just being able to trust it. So the Nuggets,
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: one in one on the season so far. They play
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: tonight against Golden State. That's going to be at 8 o'clock.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: You can hear it right here, Altitude Sports Radio, 92.5.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: So again, there were good things from that game, really
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: good things, and then there were some bad. But I
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: think overall, I'm more encouraged. You know, you get the win,
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: so that's great. You need the fourth quarter comeback. I'm
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: more encouraged that you seem to have a young player
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: that's capable of doing something. And not just doing something,
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: but if he can play that way, be a major
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: contributor to your success. The last time the Nuggets had
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: a player who was a rookie that gave you real
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: contribution pretty much from the jump was Christian Brown. And
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: that resulted in a championship season. Not going quite there, but.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: We've seen two games out of Trev in Brazil. He's 6'10.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: He's got like a 41.5-inch vertical. He can outjump anybody
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: in the gym. He's confident enough to take a three
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: when he gets a look, and he hits it at
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a decent rate. I remember we talked to one of
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: his coaches in college. God, who the hell was it?
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: who coached him for a minute and we talked to him,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: but had nothing but the most positive things to say
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: about not just him as a player, but him as
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: a person. But I, if nothing else, my main takeaway
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: from the Pelicans game was very simply that you got
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: a guy. And Trevin Brazil is a dude. So 303-504-0925
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: to the abs part of things. It's hard for me
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: to evaluate. I don't know what to do with the
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: game that we witnessed on Friday and then the game
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: that we witnessed on Sunday. I think the Avs are
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: much closer to the team that we saw on Friday,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: but there's been now multiple performances. like yesterday's where it
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: just leaves you kind of shaking your head like what's
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: going on and why is this happening this frequently you
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: can chalk off you know hey it's a clunker forget
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: about it move on if those things seem to happen
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: more consistently completely different story There needs to be, you know,
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: it's their head coach, Jared Bednar, is incredibly keen on
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: the idea that you go out and you have to
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: be able to bring the same level of competitiveness every night.
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: You don't need to be the best player on the ice.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Not everybody can be McCarr. Not everybody can be McKinnon.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: But you need to be somebody that I know what
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: your game is, and you're going to bring that every
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: second of the day. That's what's got to happen. And
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I just think it's been not nearly enough of that
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: to start the year. They just have to be better.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: On a more consistent basis. I'm not super concerned with
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: like President's Trophy stuff or anything like that. It does
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: kind of feel like even home ice advantage doesn't play
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: that big of a role for the NHL, at least
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: with the Avs. But what does matter is playing to
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: a championship standard on a nightly basis. That's what you
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: have to go out and do. So 303-504-0925. As we
• 41:28
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• 41:33
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• 41:49
  Speaker 2: more to break down from over the weekend. The Broncos
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: get another dub in this one, an easy one in
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: which the offense looked like I think the offense should look.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: So we'll get back to that in just a little bit.
• 42:03
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