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11-11-26 - Broncos get a LB at the deadline/Satisfied with Broncos move?/A MASSIVE NHL hit · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 3: Hour on this Wednesday, November the 11th. It is Veterans Day.
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  Speaker 3: No Brett today. Brett's doing your boy dirty. For those
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  Speaker 3: of you who have made terrible life decisions and are
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  Speaker 3: up this early in the morning, welcome. We've got a
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  Speaker 3: lot to talk about. We've got a bunch to talk about.
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  Speaker 3: As last night, your Colorado Avalanche got a win over
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  Speaker 3: the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Avs. Double up to leave
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  Speaker 3: six to three. Gabe Lanuskog scores twice. The Avalanche move
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  Speaker 3: into sole possession of number two in the Central Division.
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  Speaker 3: They are still six points behind the Minnesota Wild, who
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  Speaker 3: lead the West and the Central Division, and they're tied
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  Speaker 3: for the most points in the NHL with the Carolina
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  Speaker 3: Hurricanes at 30 points apiece. The NFL trade deadline... Came
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  Speaker 3: and passed. And you know what? You know what? It
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  Speaker 3: was the fourth most active trade deadline in NFL history.
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  Speaker 3: We had 18 in-season trades this year. They didn't all
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  Speaker 3: happen yesterday. Obviously, we had some big ones earlier.
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  Speaker 1: But....
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  Speaker 3: Your Denver Broncos made a move, not necessarily the one
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  Speaker 3: I thought or your boy Brett Kane thought the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: were going to do, but they added a linebacker, an
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  Speaker 3: impressive linebacker from a division rival in Day and Henley. Nelson,
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  Speaker 3: what did they give up for Henley? It was two picks.
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  Speaker 4: Was it a third and a fifth? I think it
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  Speaker 4: was a fourth and a fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth and a fifth. Okay, fourth and a fifth. So,
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  Speaker 3: and listen, we'll hear from the Broncos today. Let me
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  Speaker 3: say this. We'll get more into it with Moshe and
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  Speaker 3: Vic coming up here in an hour's time. But I
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  Speaker 3: always believe, don't listen to what people say. Watch what
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  Speaker 3: people do.
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  Speaker 4: And before we listen and watch and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: I double checked. Yes, it was a 2027 fourth round pick.
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  Speaker 4: and a 2028 fifth-round pick. That's the haul.
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  Speaker 3: So only two teams used a first-round pick in this
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  Speaker 3: trade deadline. One of them was.
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  Speaker 4: Jacksonville, right?
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  Speaker 3: They gave up a first. Was it for Jordan Davis
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  Speaker 3: or for Jesse Bates? But they gave up one. Like,
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville's like, yo, let's go all in. Like, the Jags
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  Speaker 3: got cocky and made two fairly large trades. in picking
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  Speaker 3: up a DT and picking up a safety. The Bears
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  Speaker 3: made their big move earlier. We already know about Jeffrey
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  Speaker 3: coming in. The Minnesota Vikings acquiring quarterback Kirk Cousins from
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  Speaker 3: the Raiders. And this particular move is, well, I think
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  Speaker 3: it sends two different messages. with that particular trade. And
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  Speaker 3: I mean, both of the Broncos. One, you have a
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl contender getting better and you are also a
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  Speaker 3: Super Bowl contender. So it's not ideal to see Minnesota
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  Speaker 3: picking up a quarterback. And two, I don't like the
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  Speaker 3: fact that the Raiders are making smart moves. I don't
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  Speaker 3: like it because I think this is a smart move, man.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean? Like, I don't like the
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  Speaker 3: fact that the Raiders are doing things right. Now, Mendoza's
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  Speaker 3: going to be starting there, and you've got a really
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  Speaker 3: young team, but you've got some talent. Like, Mendoza, he
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  Speaker 3: gets his first start this weekend when they take on
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  Speaker 3: the Seahawks. Good luck with that. Good luck facing that
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  Speaker 3: defense in your first NFL start. But you've got Jinty.
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  Speaker 3: You've got Bowers. You're loading up on draft picks. I
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  Speaker 3: don't like that at all.
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  Speaker 4: And do you know who he gets to face in
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  Speaker 4: his second career start?
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  Speaker 3: No, no.
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  Speaker 4: That would be the Broncos in Denver.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, they going to kill you, Mendoza.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, coming off the bye. The first game out of
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  Speaker 4: the bye is the Raiders at Mile High.
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  Speaker 3: Vance Joseph is already planning your death right now. He's
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  Speaker 3: coming for you. He's coming for you. Because as we
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  Speaker 3: dive into what we think this trade for the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: might mean, Last week, I got into an argument with
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  Speaker 3: both Sanford and Raj because Sanford just like, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I guess I could do my Brett Kane impression. Like,
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  Speaker 3: if I was Brett Kane right now, I'd be raging out, right?
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  Speaker 3: Because the Broncos didn't trade for Jonathan Taylor. You pick
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  Speaker 3: up a linebacker, you add a strength to a strength,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm here for it. Matter of fact, that... With
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  Speaker 3: that trade, he's probably the best linebacker on your team
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  Speaker 3: immediately as soon as he walks through that door and
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  Speaker 3: puts on the orange. Like, that dude is good. He
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  Speaker 3: is young. He is good. He's on a rookie deal.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to have to get paid after this season.
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  Speaker 3: But you just re-upped on your strength, which is the defense,
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  Speaker 3: and did nothing. dealt with the weakness on the offensive
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  Speaker 3: side of the ball. So, Nelson, you know Brett Kane
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  Speaker 3: better than almost anyone. And Brett was set to rage
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  Speaker 3: if the Broncos didn't make a move. And they made
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  Speaker 3: a move, but not the one that he wanted. So
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  Speaker 3: what do you think Brett would be most upset about
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  Speaker 3: right now? Big deal! What do you think, Nelly?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess I was listening to PhD yesterday to
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  Speaker 4: get the live reaction when this happened, and everybody kind
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  Speaker 4: of felt the same way that you feel right now,
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know if Brett would feel the same way,
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  Speaker 4: which is there's nothing wrong with making the Broncos' defense
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  Speaker 4: even stronger. I mean, clearly the defense has carried them
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  Speaker 4: to the finish line seven straight times this season. Every
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  Speaker 4: single win they've gotten has been on the back of
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  Speaker 4: the defense, so there's nothing wrong with adding even more
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  Speaker 4: pieces at linebacker, and for a fourth and a fifth,
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  Speaker 4: That's definitely a starter.
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  Speaker 3: The rich get rich.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is not a guy you're just going to
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  Speaker 4: stash on the bench if you gave up a fourth
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  Speaker 4: and a fifth. So, yeah, I think the reaction would
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  Speaker 4: be good. The defense is stronger. They're going to keep
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  Speaker 4: carrying the Broncos to wins. But I do agree, Brett
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  Speaker 4: would be mad that you had the chance.
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  Speaker 3: He'd be raging right now. He'd be calling the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: cowards for not going all in.
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  Speaker 4: I think he would trust the Walmart overlords based on
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  Speaker 4: previous resume.
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  Speaker 3: That's the greatness of having the Walmart overlords in the
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  Speaker 3: first process. You can burn money. You can burn money. Like,
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  Speaker 3: that's a superpower for them. That's a superpower for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: You have more money than anyone else in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Use it.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what? Walmart can't buy unlimited draft picks.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe the haul was just too big for Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, yeah, that's crazy. You tell me what it
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  Speaker 3: is about. We got Legwald coming on later. We got
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  Speaker 3: Coach Bednar. He'll be coming on. What time's Coach coming on?
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  Speaker 4: Coach will be coming on at 8 a.m. and then
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  Speaker 4: Leggy at 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll get... We'll get the full, you know, response
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  Speaker 3: from Legge on exactly what he thinks was going on.
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  Speaker 3: But when I say don't listen to what they say,
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  Speaker 3: watch what they do. Don't trust what they say, watch
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  Speaker 3: what they do. What do you think this means for
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  Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos that they made this move? Because I
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  Speaker 3: think you can make a few, make a few kind of,
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  Speaker 3: assumptions about what Sean Payton and Gary Payton in a
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  Speaker 3: Broncos front office thinks about that Broncos offense.
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  Speaker 4: Do you just, Gary Payton?
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  Speaker 3: Did I say Gary Payton? Listen, man, I'm here for
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  Speaker 3: the glove. If the glove wants to come and work
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  Speaker 3: for the Broncos, he can.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, the more the merrier. Why not? No, and
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  Speaker 4: I guess another thing, you say read people's actions. Clearly
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  Speaker 4: the price for Jonathan Taylor wasn't just too high for
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos. It was too pricey for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they wanted a first. They wanted a first. And
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  Speaker 3: nobody would offer them a first for Jonathan Taylor. At
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  Speaker 3: least not one of the... Like, it was... What was
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  Speaker 3: the report? The report was that the Giants offered a
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  Speaker 3: second and a fifth? Was that... Like, they did not
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  Speaker 3: get a first round offer. But they did get... There
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  Speaker 3: was some teams that said, we'll give you a second.
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  Speaker 3: And Indianapolis said no on all of that, which seems
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  Speaker 3: a little... We'll ask Legwald. We'll ask Legwald why the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos look at those first and second round picks and
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  Speaker 3: say to themselves, these are the things we can't do without.
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  Speaker 3: We can't waste these picks. I mean, I'm sure we'll
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  Speaker 3: get the whole explanation from Leggy, and we've heard it before,
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  Speaker 3: where especially those first round picks with the fifth year
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  Speaker 3: option and the team control and the cost control. It's,
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  Speaker 3: it's too important to how you build your football team
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  Speaker 3: to give them away. But man, we have no idea
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  Speaker 3: what next year is going to look like or the
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  Speaker 3: year after that. Like you can't tell me the chargers
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  Speaker 3: just thought they were going to have the season that
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  Speaker 3: they're having right now. Speaking of which, What are the
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  Speaker 3: Chargers doing trading in the division? I know you're 0-8,
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  Speaker 3: but I cannot imagine a world in which the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: would help improve another team in the division. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what the Chargers did. What's that all about, man? What's
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  Speaker 3: that all about? And let me ask you this. Right now,
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers are set to get the number one overall
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  Speaker 3: pick in this upcoming draft. How do they go about
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  Speaker 3: using that? What do the Chargers use the number one
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  Speaker 3: pick in next year's NFL draft on?
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  Speaker 1: Is it a.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you're picking anything but a quarterback, do they
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  Speaker 3: move on from Herbert? And if so, you use that
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  Speaker 3: number one pick to upgrade the QB position. If not,
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  Speaker 3: if you're all in on Justin and you paid him
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  Speaker 3: that big money, you have to trade the first pick
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  Speaker 3: in the draft. Because there's another... team out there who's
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  Speaker 3: quarterback hungry, who'll give you assets to move up there.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, we're talking about the future. Let's talk about
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  Speaker 3: the right now, what team got best at the trade deadline. Listen,
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  Speaker 3: all the contenders basically, Vikings made a move. They pick up,
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  Speaker 3: you know, cousins. The Bears get Simons. The Jags go
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  Speaker 3: crazy with Jordan Davis and Jesse Bates. The Bills made
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  Speaker 3: a move. They picked up a safety. The Niners get
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  Speaker 3: DeForest Buckner. So they improve their defensive line right there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know where you put, where do
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  Speaker 3: we rank the quarterback moves? Like the Giants picking up J.J. McCarthy.
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  Speaker 3: How much does that help them? The Ravens picking up
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  Speaker 3: Jacoby Brissett. Does that even matter? Not nearly as much
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  Speaker 3: as Cousins. I mean, I don't know what the Seahawks
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  Speaker 3: picking up Quentin Nelson does or the Cowboys getting Joey Porter.
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  Speaker 3: I guess when you talk about the division, the Kansas
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  Speaker 3: City Chiefs made a move at wide receiver. They went
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  Speaker 3: and got Josh Downs. But outside of that, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Niners made a move for wide receiver in Keenan Allen,
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  Speaker 3: and obviously they're one of the favorites.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 3: You tell me, what does the trade deadline mean for
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  Speaker 3: the NFL? Did the power structure in league change? Nah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. How much better are the Denver
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  Speaker 3: Broncos right now? How much better are the Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 3: when you improved your defense? Like, are you now, are
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  Speaker 3: you there with Buffalo, San Francisco, and Chicago, who I
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  Speaker 3: think most people think the top three teams in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL right now? Or are you already there? Are you
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  Speaker 3: already there? And this is just adding strength to a strength.
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  Speaker 3: The rich get richer on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Not only that, this is, Henley's the kind of guy
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  Speaker 3: that you pay, right? Like his history, I'm sure if
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  Speaker 3: you're a Bronco fan, as soon as the Broncos made
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  Speaker 3: the trade, you went online and started watching some Henley highlights.
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  Speaker 3: And he is smart, and he is tough, and he
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  Speaker 3: is fast, and... He can cover the wide receiver position
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  Speaker 3: from the linebacker position. You can drop him into coverage.
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  Speaker 3: He was, I think he was a wide receiver his
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  Speaker 3: first year in college, I believe. And then he got
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  Speaker 3: converted over. So he can move, man. And he's only 26.
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  Speaker 3: And if you like what you see, you can just
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  Speaker 3: pay the man. And then all of a sudden your defense.
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  Speaker 3: I am still shocked. Absolutely shocked. Can you find me
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  Speaker 3: another team? Can you imagine another NFL team who has
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  Speaker 3: gone basically a decade with the defensive side of the
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  Speaker 3: ball being the more dominant side of the ball, the
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  Speaker 3: better side of the ball? You cannot tell me in
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  Speaker 3: the last 10 years the Broncos' offense has been better
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  Speaker 3: than their defense. Not once, not once, not once. There's
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  Speaker 3: been times where they've both been pretty bad, but the
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  Speaker 3: defense has always been a little bit better than the offense.
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  Speaker 3: And the Broncos decided at this trade deadline, Let's just
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  Speaker 3: get richer. Let's add to the defense and see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: But either way, let's roll on with the appetizer hour.
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  Speaker 3: Brett Cain doing whatever Brett Cain things. Well, you know what?
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that in just a little bit. Mojo
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  Speaker 3: Lombardi coming up in about 45 minutes time. We have
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  Speaker 3: both Jared Bednar and Jeff Legwald scheduled on the program today.
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  Speaker 3: We will roll on. After this. After a tough night
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  Speaker 3: in Houston, Nikola Jokic, Jamal Murray, and the Nuggets look
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  Speaker 3: to bounce back tonight in Memphis against the Grizzlies. Pre-game
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  Speaker 3: coverage powered by Ramos Law starts at 5.30 with tip-off
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  Speaker 3: at 6.10 here at all with Kaz on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 3: Radio 92.5. Welcome back to the Appetizer Hour. Mark Burton
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  Speaker 3: only filling in for Brett Kane this morning. Brett is, well,
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  Speaker 3: he's embraced the TV world. After filling in for Vic
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  Speaker 3: on Altitude TV last week, he is getting... He got
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  Speaker 3: a lot of criticism for how he looked, and he
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  Speaker 3: didn't really like it. So he's getting a whole makeover.
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  Speaker 3: He's getting more hair. He's getting a facial. Doing all
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  Speaker 3: that kind of stuff. So the next time you guys
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  Speaker 3: see Brett, he'll be looking good. Nelson, I will say
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  Speaker 3: this before we dive back into some abs and nugs
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  Speaker 3: and bronco stuff. Somebody said something to me on Saturday
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  Speaker 3: that has stuck with me the whole week. And you
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  Speaker 3: tell me if you think it sounds correct. So on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: when Brett was filling in for Vic, we had some
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  Speaker 3: people who came into the studio who were shocked, I
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  Speaker 3: say shocked, to see Brett Kane with some hair and
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  Speaker 3: a suit jacket on on television. And so we had
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  Speaker 3: like random people stopping in the studio asking what the
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  Speaker 3: hell was going on, including some of our friends from
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  Speaker 3: the other stations here, mixing cool. And Nelly said, Josh
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  Speaker 3: Grismer said this to me when he saw Brett on TV,
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  Speaker 3: and you tell me how correct it was. He's like,
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  Speaker 3: something doesn't look right. This is freaking me out. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yes, it looks, Brett, it is a
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  Speaker 3: little weird seeing Brett with hair. And he said, you
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  Speaker 3: know what he looks like? He looks like a former
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  Speaker 3: porn star trying to get back into real acting. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, whoa, you know what? You know what, Chris, you,
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  Speaker 3: You might be right, man. That's a hot take right there.
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  Speaker 3: That's a hot take. I did not. That's not where
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  Speaker 3: my mind went immediately when I saw him up there
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  Speaker 3: on stage. But all right, let's go. Grind it away, Brett.
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  Speaker 3: Grind it away. But he's out. So we got ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: You know what? So Brett will be raging right now
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  Speaker 3: about the fact that the Broncos didn't trade for Jonathan Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: But then again, nobody did. Championship windows! Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, no.
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  Speaker 3: You're in a championship window. And you went and got Henley.
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  Speaker 3: You improved the defense. What does that mean for the offense?
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  Speaker 3: You know what? I think you can make the assumption
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  Speaker 3: that the Denver Broncos looked at their team and decided
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  Speaker 3: there is no offensive player out there that's going to
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  Speaker 3: make this team better. The whole goal is to win
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  Speaker 3: a Super Bowl, right? So they couldn't find a single
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  Speaker 3: offensive player out there that they thought was going to
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  Speaker 3: make this team better. Not one, not anywhere, not at
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  Speaker 3: any position. And if that's the case, I think maybe
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  Speaker 3: they started from the position of there is nobody out
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  Speaker 3: there who can make Bo Nix better. And we have
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  Speaker 3: to start with Bo Nix. Like, you know what the
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  Speaker 3: greatness of Nikola Jokic is? The greatness of Nikola Jokic is...
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  Speaker 3: He's a tide that raises all boats. He makes everybody better.
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  Speaker 3: Matter of fact, there's, I mean, Peyton Watson's already getting
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  Speaker 3: criticism in Cleveland for not doing the kind of things
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  Speaker 3: he did here in Denver. A lot of that is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Cleveland doesn't have Nicole Jokic hitting you with
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  Speaker 3: behind the back no look passes when you're wide open.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you, Nelson, you tell me, man.
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  Speaker 3: Is Bo Nix the type of quarterback who makes other
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  Speaker 3: players better? And what kind of quarterback is that anyway?
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  Speaker 3: Who is that in the league right now? What quarterback
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  Speaker 3: in the NFL makes everybody around them better, right? Like,
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  Speaker 3: both John Elway and Peyton Manning did that, and they
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  Speaker 3: did it in different ways. John Elway did it through
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  Speaker 3: just raw, stupid... athletic skill and football greatness. You know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? And Peyton Manning did it by being
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  Speaker 3: smarter than any other football player on the field. You
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: know what I mean? And so it was a different way,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: but they both raised the level of talent just by
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: being who they are. Does Bo Nix do that? And
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: if he doesn't, is that the reason they decided, well,
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: like maybe the Jalen Waddell experiment, halfway into the NFL season,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: they realized, you know what? We had it backwards. Bo
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Nix needs to help Jalen Waddle be great, not Jalen
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: Waddle help Bo be great. It has to start with Bo.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: And if we're not going to upgrade the quarterback position,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: then there's no reason to upgrade any other position on
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: the offense. Is that what you think the Broncos were thinking?
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, because if they wanted to, Jonathan Taylor could
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: be a member of the Broncos right now because we
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: know what the Colts were asking for. It was giving
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: up a first round pick just too much. Or were
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: they asking for a for like a for were they
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: asking for the Christian McCaffrey, a first, a third, a
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: fourth and a player or something ridiculous like that?
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Schefter did think that that that's what the hole was
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: going to be, is it would be comparable to the
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey deal. He said that on our airwaves.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: So how much is how much is Super Bowl title worth?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Exactly. I think that's a great question. I think a
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: lot of fans wanted to copy the template of our coworkers,
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: the Los Angeles football Rams, and say, them picks. Go
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: get whoever. No, I think maybe another wrinkle in this
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: about why they didn't go get Jonathan Taylor or Tony
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Pollard or just one of these veteran running backs who
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: was being floated around in all these rumors. The debate
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: that a lot of people have been having, including on
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: this station, is do the Broncos run game issues come
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: down to... The running backs? Or is it a problem
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: with the line? Because if it's a problem with the O-line,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: then does it matter if you go get Jonathan Taylor? No, no, no, no, no.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: No, I don't want to hear that. Because all I
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: heard all summer is that the Broncos have one of
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: the best offensive lines in football. And I think they
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: still do. Now, the power of that offensive line is
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: to not get Bo Nix hit, right? But, which is
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: shocking to me that that's the role you embrace when
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: it should be like, let's fire off this line and
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: run this football. Like, I mentioned how this was the
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: fourth most active NFL trade deadline in history. We had
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: 18 trades in season this year when it's all said
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: and done. Now, two teams during the deadline did spend
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: a first round pick. On a player. Matter of fact,
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: one team spent two first-round picks on a player. But
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: you know what's crazy? Is both of those trades, both
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: of those teams that used a first-round pick to get better,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: both were on the defensive side of the ball. Chicago
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Bears gave up two first-round picks to Tennessee to get
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Simmons. And then the Jags gave up a first-round
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: pick next year in 2027 to pick up Jordan Davis.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: That's two defensive tackles. Multiple first round picks gone. Not
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: a single first round pick was used to upgrade the
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: offense of any team. So is it a trend or
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: is it particular to the Denver Broncos? I don't know, man.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I will tell you that here in a couple of
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: weeks when the Broncos offense has three points going into
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, we're all going to be like, yo, man.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: What's going on? You could have made this just a little,
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: you can't tell me that even just somebody like Sean Payton,
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: who obsesses over the smallest thing, you couldn't find just
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: one player to make your offense just a little bit better?
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: Just a little bit better? Because right now, listen, listen.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: Bo Nix, at the end of this season, you know
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: what Bo Nix is going to be? Bo Nix is
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: going to have the most regular season wins by a
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: quarterback in his first three seasons in the league. That's
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: what Bo's going to do at the end of this season. Like,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, unless the Broncos just lose out, because let
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: me see. I got the number right in front of me.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Bo is chasing Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson had the most
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: wins through the first three seasons in from the quarterback
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: position than anyone else. Right behind them is Lamar Jackson
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and Andrew Luck and Matt Ryan and Dan Marino, Danny White.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: So some old school and some new school mixed in there.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: But Russell Wilson had the greatest first three years of
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: a quarterback career in NFL history. He won 36 regular
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: season games. Right now, Bo Nix has 31 wins with
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: eight games to go in this season and in the playoffs.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: Here's the crazy thing. Bo's going to have the record
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: for regular season wins. I don't think he's going to
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: catch Russell Wilson for total wins because Russ won 42
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: total games, including the playoffs in his first three seasons.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: That is a ridiculous number. I know we got feelings
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: about Russell Wilson here in the city, but 42 wins
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: In your first three seasons in the NFL, at the
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: quarterback position, is a ridiculous amount of wins. You know
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: what Bo can do? He could tie that record. You
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: know how Bo could do it? The Broncos would have
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: to win out. They'd have to win their remaining eight games,
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: and then they'd have to storm their way through the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: playoffs and win the Super Bowl. If the Broncos win
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: every remaining game they have on the schedule, Bo will
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: get to 42 total wins in his first three years
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: at the quarterback position. But I don't, how does that
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: translate to making your team great? Bo's got those wins,
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: but how many of those wins are because the other
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: side of the ball? Like, football's a team sport, man,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: which means 31 wins. Bo Nix has got 31 wins,
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: two and a half seasons in his NFL career. That
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: is a dumb number. That's a metric ton of wins.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: But what does that mean? What did it mean for
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: the deadline yesterday? It meant nothing. There's no possible way
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: that the Broncos looked at how they were playing offensively
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: in the first half of the NFL season and decided,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I like what I see.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: You know what?
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: I like it. I don't care. Like, I get it.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: The wins are there. Don't change anything if you're winning.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Don't get too cocky if you're winning. Like, I guess,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: it couldn't possibly be about the room, right? Making too
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: many changes to the room? When you're vibing, when you're grooving?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Because what are the Denver Broncos doing this offseason? They
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: doubled down on continuity. They were just like, these are
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: the people we want to be with. These are the
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: people we want to win with. We're going to pay
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: them and then we'll keep everybody together and we're going
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: to see what happens. And you are a contender. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: the Denver Broncos are not a top contender. They're not
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the Bills, the Niners, or the Bears. And you know
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: why they're not the Bills and the Niners and the Bears?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Because you don't have a Josh Allen or a Brock
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Purdy or a Caleb Williams. And I can't believe two
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: and a half years into this, I'm saying that about Caleb, man.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: But that dude, Caleb Williams, you know what's crazy? Caleb
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: Williams is like the exact opposite of Bo Nix, right?
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: There's is, is like a bizarro Bo Nix or is
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Bo Nix a bizarro Caleb Williams? Cause Caleb Williams can't help.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: but launch Caleb Williams can't help, but push the ball
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: down the field. That dude wants to put the ball
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: 50 yards into the air. That's just how he like,
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: that's his brain. That's how his brain works. And Bo's
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: brain works in the exact opposite way. It, everything that
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Bo does is to protect the ball, right? It's not
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: to turn the ball over. I've heard the argument, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: I heard it from Nate and Andy yesterday, that why
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: would you trade for Jonathan Taylor when Sean Payton's not
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: going to use Jonathan Taylor? Are the Broncos a better
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: football team if Jonathan Taylor gets 10 carries a game
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: for Denver, or is that not enough? It almost makes
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: me want to spend a first-round pick on one of
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: the top backs in the NFL, just so that shock
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: to the system to Sean Payton, it goes, well, I
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: have to use him now. I have to use him
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: now because we gave up a first and a third
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: for him or whatever it was going to be. But
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: you know what? On the shot monster text line, you
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: tell me, you tell me, Broncos country, how you feeling
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: after the trade deadline? Like there's no reason to feel
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: bad about what you're doing? got seven wins. You just
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: made your way through an absolutely brutal portion of the
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: schedule and you are a Super Bowl contender. But the
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: team right behind you in the Jacksonville Jaguars made moves
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: that you didn't move. The Kansas City Chiefs made moves
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: that you didn't move. Although, who knows with Kansas City?
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: They're always picking up a wide receiver at the trade
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: deadline and then And then that dude walks in the
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: offseason or whatever. But right now, if you're breaking out
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the measuring stick at the bye week, you're halfway through
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the NFL season, you're 7-2. Chicago Bears are 7-2. The
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: Niners and the Bills are both 7-1. As a Broncos fan,
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: how confident are you? I'm confident enough in the Broncos.
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: There is no team in this league the Broncos can't
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: beat at home. There's no team they can't beat at home.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And I mean, even with funky, weird playoff luck, like
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: I think the Broncos could overcome a couple of turnovers
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs if it's at home, if they're doing
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: it at home. You know what the Broncos are on
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: pace for? Listen, I don't know if they're going to
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: catch the Buffalo. Nelson, you tell me if they're going
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: to catch the Buffalo Bills. You think the Broncos could
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: win the AFC? And what would that take?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, look at Josh Allen's playoff history. I mean,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: is he just going to do what he does and
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: turn over the ball six times in the divisional round
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: against the Broncos? I mean, read the tea leaves here.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: They lost that game because of Josh Allen.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, that team got in his head, and they
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: stayed there, and they rattled him.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: I will say, I can't help it. This is going
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: to be crazy, but Christmas is going to be the
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: biggest game of the season for the Broncos, right? Unless
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: they stumble against, you know, like the Raiders or the
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: or the Dolphins or the Jets, one of those teams
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: that you absolutely should beat, that you can't stumble against.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: That Christmas Day game. Christmas Day, 2.30 in the afternoon.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Bills are here in town, and the Broncos and Bills
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: go at it. The winner of that game could very
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: well win the AFC and have a first-round bye in
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. But you know what? I don't even know
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: what the Bills... Is the Bills' remaining schedule kind of nasty?
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: I guess I could look at it right now and
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: see what they got. Nah, see, they got the Jets
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: and the Dolphins. Oh, you know what? Matter of fact,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: they got two more games against the Dolphins and two
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: more games against the Jets. But they also have games
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: against the Chiefs, Patriots, Packers, Bears, and Broncos. Man, that's
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: going to be a good one. That is going to
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: be an absolute banger of a game. I don't know if, like,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: the Bills picking up Amani Hooker from Tennessee, I don't
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: know how much better that makes them. But if you
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: can improve the defense, improve the defense. Like, did the
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Niners get better by picking up Bucker?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they did. Were they already a top three team? Yeah,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: they were. Biggest move is Kirk Cousins.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: Easily, right?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: Biggest move is Kirk Cousins. There are two teams in
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the NFL right now winning games in the weirdest way possible.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: It's the Minnesota Vikings and the Denver Broncos. And then
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: the Vikings took a step closer to locking things down.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Although I do want to ask Moshe and Vic about
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: the absolutely insane way the Vikings have gone about building
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: that quarterback room. Just weird decision after weird decision. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: here they are with Kirk Cousins again. Well, either way.
• 31:52
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  Speaker 3: That's tomorrow night at Stoney's on Lincoln. I can't read.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: I think he can probably read a little bit. Tell
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: you what, I bet you Andy's upset the Broncos didn't
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: improve the offensive side of the ball.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: I got to bring up the text line. to see
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: what these folks are saying about you. How are you
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: feeling at day after the trade deadline in the NFL?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: How are you feeling about life with, with the Broncos
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: picking up Henley getting a little bit better? Well, you
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: know what I would say with the Broncos, what's the Broncos.
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: One of the best defenses in the NFL. You add
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: strength to strength, but how much better did you get?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: How much better did you get? And did you get
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: better just for this year or the future? Cause I
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: mean at 26 years old and, a soon-to-be free agent,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: and he's exactly the kind of guy who could ball
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: out and then you'd have to pay him during the
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: summer or watch him walk, but it'd be a lot
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: easier if he won the Super Bowl. Sign him. Everybody's happy.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Is Vance Joseph still going to be D.C. next year?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Sooner or later, somebody's going to give him a head
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: coaching job again, right?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: After what he's done with this defense, like, your offense
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: can be cheeks and still win games with a Vance
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Joseph defense. At least that's what the Broncos are showing
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: us right now. Then again, how much of it is
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Sean Payton and the offense just also doing just enough?
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Did you get those wins? Well, we'll find out. Last night,
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: the Colorado Avalanche played and won in Toronto. Are they
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: in Ottawa now? Are they playing the Sens tomorrow, Nelly?
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Is that who it is? I think they're playing the Sens.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Continuing the Canadian road trip.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: In Ottawa. So the Avalanche get the 6-3 win. Gabe
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: Lanscock scored twice. Devontae scored. Was his sixth goal of
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: the season? Devontae is going crazy. Like, the most goals
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: he ever scored in a single season, I believe, is 12th.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: And he's sitting on 6th in mid-November. Like, his best
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: seasons in the NHL were starting with the year the Avs,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: the year before the Avs won the Cup, the year
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: the Avs won the Cup, and the year after he
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: won the Cup. It was a 57-point season, a 50-point season,
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: and a 50-point season. And, I mean, that 57-point season,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: he only played 66 games. Let's see. All right, that's
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: a lie. 13 goals. 13 goals is a career high.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: He had 13 in 2021-22. He had 12 in 23-24.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: He's sitting on six right now. Taser's just cooking. And
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: the good thing about the Avs win last night is
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: that Once they trailed in the game and they responded
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: with three straight goals and then Toronto tied the game
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: with two straight to end the second and to start
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: the third, they tied the game up at 3-3. And
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: it took less than 60 seconds for the Avs to
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: get the lead right back because Toronto scores and then
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Landis Scott comes down and scores the second of the game.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: And they respond with three straight goals. I mean, Leckanen
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: got his 13th last night. Marty got his 10th on
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: that empty netter. And the Avs now have taken over
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: the number two spot in the Central. We are, how many,
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: we are just next, tomorrow night, tomorrow night is game
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: 20 of the season for the Colorado Avalanche. Game 20,
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: a fourth of the season.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: Go.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: So, I mean, Coach Bednar will be on the program
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: here in a couple hours. What time did I say?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Eight o'clock?
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Eight o'clock.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: Eight o'clock for Coach Bednar. And we'll ask him how
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: he's feeling about the team right now. They improved to
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: 4-5 on the road. Obviously, the Avs' home record is ridiculous,
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: and they're just looking to get a little bit better
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: on the road. They're still trying to hunt down the
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: Minnesota White. You know what? I will say, last night
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: in the NHL, we had some drama. We had a
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: massive— Chickren was out there killing folks. Like, you know what, Nelly?
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: You're going to have to find that hit. Chickren lit
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: up Cousins?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Just a dumb hit, man.
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: And you know what?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: You know what I've never seen before maybe?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Erase that dude.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: So with that hit, usually when there's a hit like that,
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: you go to the replies on any social media, whether
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: it's Twitter or Reddit. It's like cheap.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Hit or dirty hit or everyone's like, yo.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: Everybody either says that it was a cheap hit and
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: they agree or there's some back and forth. Somebody says
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: that was a cheap hit. Someone goes, you don't know, puck, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: This is the only time I've ever seen every single
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: reply go, A, it was a clean hit, and B,
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: * * * *. That guy.
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  Speaker 3: Erased Cousins.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: No one likes Nick Cousins.
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  Speaker 3: Just erased him. Well, that's what you... Keep your head up, brother. Like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: he was looking down at the puck and chikering out
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  Speaker 3: of nowhere just... I mean, you're going to have to
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: watch it. Matter of fact, you don't even have to
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: watch it. Bring up the highlight and we'll hear it.
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  Speaker 3: He just erased... Just trucked him. Obviously, there was a
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: whole drama with the Jets and the Devils in Winnipeg
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: and the Hellebuck story and.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Man, I don't know what it is about NHL players lately,
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: but they living in the drama. You know what I mean?
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: NHL's got a little bit of the NBA in it
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  Speaker 3: lately with people talking about their feelings. I can't imagine
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: 20 years ago an NHL player talking about his feelings
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: at a press conference, man. I mean, don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here for it. Way to be an adult. and
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: embrace those feelings, but it's crazy to me. So Jets
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: ended up beating the Devils 4-2. The Wild got a
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: win in Montreal over the Canadiens, but the crazy thing
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: about that game is that the first period took an
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: hour to complete because it was, oh, here it is.
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  Speaker 3: Play that hit. Play that hit, brother. Watch out, smack.
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  Speaker 3: Like look at Cousins left earth. Like he hit him
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  Speaker 3: so hard that Cousins is floating. He's flying. Play it again,
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: play it again.
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  Speaker 4: Taking a peek over his shoulder there.
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  Speaker 3: Did you hear it? Did you hear it? Did you
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: hear that? That's a dude's chest caving in. All right,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: play it one more time, play it one more time.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to watch it. I want to watch it.
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  Speaker 3: So what you're looking at, Cousins, what you're looking at. Like,
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: you just blew him up for sure. And then, you
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: know what? Like, if that would have happened in an
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: abs game, like if somebody would have let Kale apply
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: like that, Lana Skog would already be beating the hell
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  Speaker 3: out of Chicken right now. And that's not what happened
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  Speaker 3: in this game. That's not what happened in that Cap
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Senators game. They just came together and started talking to
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: one another. But yeah, just massive hit in that game.
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  Speaker 3: The Canadians, wild game. They had that hour delay. Well,
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: it wasn't a delay, but the first period took an
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: hour because it was Carey Price night. They honored Carey
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: Price with a whole ceremony and he got really emotional
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: as well. That crowd gave him four minutes of standing
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: ovation that just kept delaying, like they wouldn't sit down.
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  Speaker 3: They just kept cheering, Carey, Carey, Carey. And I love
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: that kind of emotion out of sports. So it was
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: a fun night in the NHL. Last night, it's kind
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: of fun in the NFL because of the trade deadline.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: We got Thursday Night Football's Commanders Giants tomorrow.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Ah, man.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how to feel about that game. The Commanders,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: 2-5-1 with their janky record. Yet to win on the
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: road going to New York to take on the 5-2-1 Giants. Oh, well.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see. In the NBA last night, I guess the
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: big story is one... What the hell happened to the
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: Milwaukee Bucks? They're 1-10. The Bucks are 1-10! And the
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Celtics and Sixers got together? Listen, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown,
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: they don't like each other. They do not like each
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: other at all. And you could just feel the vibes
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: last night when Boston and Philadelphia got together.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: the Celtics won that game and they won it pretty easily.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: And now both Boston and Philly are sitting on nine
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: wins on the season, but we got to like, I'm
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: going to have to ask Vic how he's feeling about
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: the NBA season. with where the Nuggets are right now
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: in the number 10 spot in the West and who
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: are the teams that are... Like, the L.A. Lakers already
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: have five more wins than you, which is disgusting. Which
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: is disgusting. But the Lakers are sitting there. Nuggets are
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: coming off that loss to Houston. You know what I
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: did this morning? I'm going to do it right now.
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: You know what I'm going to do right now in
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: the last segment here of the Appetizer Hour? I have
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: a list. I made a list because I love lists.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: If you've got numbers next to a dude's name with
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: height and weight, I can't get enough of it. But
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: this morning... Out of nowhere, and we'll ask Nugget historian
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Vic Lombardi what he thinks about this. I have the
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: list of the top 10 guards in Denver Nugget history.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: My list of the top 10 guards in Nugget history.
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  Speaker 3: Let me quickly run through it for you. Number 10.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: It's a personal pick. I'm sure there's somebody better than
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: this on the Nuggets, you know, history at the guard position,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: but I can't think of one. Nick Van Exel. Nick
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: the Quick. He's still eighth on the Nuggets all-time assist list.
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  Speaker 3: Nick Van Exel's number 10. Robert Pack is number nine.
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  Speaker 3: Get up and get down. Robert Pack was vicious. Some
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: of the most vicious ducks I've ever seen. Just athletic dude.
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  Speaker 3: He's number nine. Number eight is my dude, J.R.
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  Speaker 1: Smith.
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  Speaker 3: Eighth best guard in Denver Nugget history, J.R. Smith. Number
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: seven is Michael Adams. Michael Adams, an old school player,
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  Speaker 3: could break down any defense. He's number six. No, he's
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: number seven. Number six is Ty Lawson. Ty Lawson. So,
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: so fast on the court. So, so slow. Off the court.
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  Speaker 3: He was, like, just at the edge of being an
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: NBA all-star, but Ty Lawson, number six. Number five, Andre Miller. Nelson,
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: do your Andre Miller impression.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: I didn't know I had one of those.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Come on, do an Andre Miller. Like, Andre Miller, one
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: of the most unique voices in the NBA. It was
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: like this weird, like, he was like, hey, everybody, I'm
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Andre Miller. What's up? I'm the king of the alley
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: who passed. Andre Miller's number five. Number four, greatest guards.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: In Denver Nugget history, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was poetry
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  Speaker 3: in motion. That dude was a pure scorer, pure shooter.
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  Speaker 3: He's number four. Number three, Mr. Big Shot Chauncey Billups.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Number two, Fat Lever, the triple-double trendsetter. And number one,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: the greatest guard in Denver Nugget history is playing for
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: your team right now. His name is Jamal Murray. Jamal
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Murray is the single greatest guard in Nuggets. You're watching
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the greatest center and the greatest guard in your team's
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: history playing right now. And tonight they'll be in Memphis
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: taking on the Grizzlies. Cam Boozer and the Grizzlies. But
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: that was the Appetizer Hour. Thanks for tuning in. We
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: got Mosier, Lombardi, and Kane next.