Latest / Moser, Lombardi and Kane / 9-16-26 Hour 3 - Blaming Bo for the Broncos Beatdown/Avs Media Day, Joe Buck Extended/Game Sound a Must?
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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane on demand. Listen live
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- 0:18Speaker 2: Sean Payton is not a 42-year-old firecracker.
- 0:24Speaker 3: Been around. Doesn't want to coach forever. OK, I look
- 0:29Speaker 3: at this thing.
- 0:29Speaker 2: Right now and I'm telling you, Bo Nix in trouble
- 0:34Speaker 2: because the great quarterbacks just make it work. Mahomes last
- 0:37Speaker 2: night wasn't great, but he just made it work. You
- 0:40Speaker 2: go down to the Buffalo game at Houston. It wasn't pretty.
- 0:44Speaker 2: Sometimes Josh Allen's reckless. He just makes it work. Caleb Williams,
- 0:49Speaker 2: I'm going to take off, makes it work. Quarterbacks come
- 0:51Speaker 2: into three categories. They're either elevators, they're executors.
- 0:57Speaker 3: They execute.
- 0:58Speaker 2: Or they're inhibitors. Bo Nix was a talented executor. Could
- 1:03Speaker 2: he become an elevator? No, he's category three now. He
- 1:07Speaker 2: is getting in the way.
- 1:09Speaker 4: How many times he got in the way last year
- 1:11Speaker 4: of a win for the Broncos?
- 1:13Speaker 5: Three.
- 1:15Speaker 4: That's what I don't get.
- 1:16Speaker 5: And look, I don't think anybody.
- 1:18Speaker 4: Has to be happy. Forget happy. You have a right
- 1:24Speaker 4: to be pissed with how Monday night went down. You
- 1:27Speaker 4: have a right to be angry with how the offense looked.
- 1:28Speaker 3: Do you have a right to be excited about Bo Nix?
- 1:31Speaker 4: Sure. You have a right to be skeptical on where
- 1:36Speaker 4: this offense is going to go this year. But I'll
- 1:39Speaker 4: remind you that that was Bo Nix's, what did we say,
- 1:41Speaker 4: 38th career game for the Broncos, right?
- 1:43Speaker 3: 38th?
- 1:44Speaker 4: And he's had games that have looked like that. Every
- 1:47Speaker 4: time it's been in week one, he's looked the exact
- 1:50Speaker 4: same way. But I don't think that if you're somebody,
- 1:54Speaker 4: if you thought one thing of Bo Nix going into
- 1:56Speaker 4: that game and you think something entirely differently, I would
- 1:59Speaker 4: challenge you to ask yourself why one game has flipped
- 2:03Speaker 4: you this much. Why has one game done this to you?
- 2:06Speaker 4: And the reason why we play Cowherd, and I won't
- 2:08Speaker 4: do this all again, I have five other clips pulled
- 2:11Speaker 4: up of Cowherd within a month of each other, asking
- 2:15Speaker 4: the question last year in November, will Sean Payton draft
- 2:18Speaker 4: another quarterback? And then a month after that saying he's
- 2:21Speaker 4: right-handed Steve Young.
- 2:23Speaker 5: Yeah, listen, I'm not worried about what Colin Coward says.
- 2:26Speaker 5: I mean, he's got his platform and I'm sure he
- 2:29Speaker 5: has his reasons. Bo's not going to look that bad again,
- 2:33Speaker 5: maybe down the season, but next week I expect him
- 2:36Speaker 5: to bounce back. Bottom line is it wasn't just Bo.
- 2:41Speaker 5: Bo was terrible. The offense was terrible. The run game
- 2:45Speaker 5: was terrible. Jalen Waddell was not even used. The play
- 2:49Speaker 5: calling was terrible. The approach to the game was terrible. Everything.
- 2:53Speaker 3: Yeah. You know, but it's so– Vic, you're so right,
- 2:56Speaker 3: but it's so funny you brought that up earlier, Brett,
- 2:59Speaker 3: that Sean Payton was remarkably calm in his post-game news conference, Vic.
- 3:04Speaker 3: He really was. I mean, for a guy who drives
- 3:06Speaker 3: around a sushi parking lot for an hour just going
- 3:10Speaker 3: over a win and all the bad things that happened–
- 3:13Speaker 3: It's almost like he just was... Here, Moshe, I'll give
- 3:19Speaker 3: you an example. He just sort of knew it was
- 3:21Speaker 3: going to happen. It was resolved that it was going
- 3:23Speaker 3: to happen that way.
- 3:24Speaker 4: I'm going to give you times for a second, okay?
- 3:26Speaker 3: Please.
- 3:27Speaker 4: 28 seconds, 20 seconds, 20 seconds, 22 seconds. That was
- 3:33Speaker 4: the length of just a few of his answers in
- 3:35Speaker 4: the postgame. Usually after a loss, they're about four seconds.
- 3:39Speaker 4: What do you think of the offense in that game?
- 3:42Speaker 3: It was bad.
- 3:43Speaker 4: We'll fix it. Like he's terse to the point, angry, combative,
- 3:48Speaker 4: all these different things. He wasn't that after that first game.
- 3:52Speaker 4: And it makes me wonder just one thing. Sean Payton's
- 3:54Speaker 4: been coaching a long time, long time in this league.
- 3:58Speaker 4: He is, I think the number is 31 and 31
- 4:01Speaker 4: in his coaching career in the month of September. He's
- 4:03Speaker 4: a 500 coach in September. Part of me just thinks he,
- 4:09Speaker 4: he doesn't care all that much. about how the first
- 4:11Speaker 4: couple games go. He's just like, hey, of course we
- 4:14Speaker 4: want to go out and win, disappointed with the loss,
- 4:16Speaker 4: but I think he's just accepted that his team starts
- 4:19Speaker 4: slow sometimes. And it didn't feel like he was super
- 4:22Speaker 4: angry about it.
- 4:24Speaker 5: He starts slow and Bo starts slow.
- 4:25Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 4:25Speaker 5: I mean, the numbers are there, but I'm just curious
- 4:28Speaker 5: regarding the comments from Coward. If somebody played those back
- 4:31Speaker 5: to Peyton, Sean Peyton, would he react the same way
- 4:33Speaker 5: he reacted to Schwartz's comments earlier? this year. Would he
- 4:37Speaker 5: have the same venom? I don't know because he's friends
- 4:41Speaker 5: with Coward. I don't care what is said. I care
- 4:44Speaker 5: what is done. And what was done on the field
- 4:46Speaker 5: Monday night in Kansas City was atrocious at every level.
- 4:49Speaker 5: The play calling was bad. The execution was bad. The
- 4:55Speaker 5: 176 total yards, fewer yards in the AFC title game
- 4:59Speaker 5: when a blizzard hit the damn town. It was awful.
- 5:02Speaker 5: Everybody's bad. The blocking was bad. I mean, You can
- 5:06Speaker 5: pinpoint certain things in that game and say, what are
- 5:09Speaker 5: you thinking? What are you doing here? I believe that
- 5:12Speaker 5: the Denver Broncos tried to out-fool people. They tried to
- 5:17Speaker 5: fool the opposition rather than beat the opposition.
- 5:20Speaker 3: Out-fool? I know.
- 5:22Speaker 5: I tried to say another word, and I messed up mid-sentence.
- 5:25Speaker 3: Hey, Vic, it's cool, man. Just walk us off the ledge.
- 5:28Speaker 5: They tried to fool the Chiefs rather than beat the Chiefs. Hey, Mosher.
- 5:33Speaker 3: Yeah, you're right.
- 5:34Speaker 5: What is football? What is football? And it's fundamental. When
- 5:38Speaker 5: you peel off all the layers, what is football?
- 5:41Speaker 3: It's a violent sport.
- 5:42Speaker 5: It's moving the person in front of you out of
- 5:44Speaker 5: the way.
- 5:44Speaker 4: Correct.
- 5:45Speaker 3: That's what it is. It's a collision sport.
- 5:46Speaker 5: Football is very simple. There's a guy in front of you.
- 5:50Speaker 5: You have to move that person out of the way
- 5:53Speaker 5: and make some room for the guy behind you who
- 5:55Speaker 5: has the magic pill. That's what it is. And the Broncos,
- 6:00Speaker 5: to me, seemed unwilling to do that Monday night in
- 6:02Speaker 5: Kansas City while the Chiefs were very willing to wade
- 6:04Speaker 5: in those waters. They loved it. Broncos wanted no part
- 6:07Speaker 5: of it.
- 6:08Speaker 3: You're right. You go back to that third and one
- 6:10Speaker 3: and this spread formation. I mean, what did Kansas City do?
- 6:16Speaker 3: They just ran it right down your throat or bounced
- 6:18Speaker 3: it outside. When you stopped it, they bounced it outside
- 6:21Speaker 3: and ran past you.
- 6:22Speaker 5: You know a great football team? A football team that
- 6:25Speaker 5: you know what they're going to run. You know what's coming.
- 6:28Speaker 5: And you still can't stop.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 6:30Speaker 5: You know it's coming. You know the run off tackle's coming.
- 6:33Speaker 5: Josh McDaniels used to say this, and I'm not trying
- 6:35Speaker 5: to use him as a role model by any means,
- 6:37Speaker 5: but the reason why the Patriots in their heyday were
- 6:40Speaker 5: so successful in the red zone is because they only
- 6:44Speaker 5: had a couple plays. Run plays. They ran it. And
- 6:48Speaker 5: they perfected those run plays. And everybody knew what they
- 6:51Speaker 5: were going to do. Everybody. Look at how the Seahawks
- 6:54Speaker 5: lost that Super Bowl to the Patriots.
- 6:55Speaker 3: What did they do?
- 6:57Speaker 5: During the most consequential play of the Super Bowl.
- 6:59Speaker 3: Rather than give it to Marshawn Lynch, they tried to
- 7:03Speaker 3: throw it. Yes.
- 7:05Speaker 5: They got pretty. And I'm not saying pretty doesn't work.
- 7:08Speaker 3: Rather than go beast mode, they got pretty. Yes. That's
- 7:11Speaker 3: what it was.
- 7:12Speaker 4: I just looked something up because I had to find this.
- 7:15Speaker 4: I want to ask you guys a question. Drew Brees.
- 7:21Speaker 4: Would you consider him, let's just say, a top 10
- 7:24Speaker 4: quarterback that's played the game-ish?
- 7:26Speaker 3: Yes.
- 7:27Speaker 4: Somewhere.
- 7:27Speaker 3: I'd say he's somewhere there.
- 7:28Speaker 5: He's in the category. He's a Hall of Famer.
- 7:30Speaker 3: He's top 20.
- 7:31Speaker 4: In his career, he played 62 games in the month
- 7:33Speaker 4: of September. How many wins did he have?
- 7:36Speaker 5: That's a great question.
- 7:38Speaker 2: 61.
- 7:39Speaker 6: 29.
- 7:39Speaker 5: Okay, so he had a losing record.
- 7:41Speaker 4: He was 29 and 33 in the month of September
- 7:43Speaker 4: over the course of his career. The majority of that
- 7:46Speaker 4: career coming with Sean Payton. This isn't anything new is
- 7:50Speaker 4: all I'm saying. And he looked... Let's separate one thing.
- 7:56Speaker 4: Drew Brees looked a lot better than Bo Nix did
- 8:00Speaker 4: on Monday night, even in those losses. He still had
- 8:02Speaker 4: 110 touchdowns to 51 picks, okay? But the bottom line is,
- 8:08Speaker 4: Sean Payton teams losing in September is a thing. You
- 8:12Speaker 4: know what Drew Brees' record is? In October, in which
- 8:15Speaker 4: he played 70 games, he was 50-20. And that sounds
- 8:19Speaker 4: a lot like what Bo Nix does in the month
- 8:22Speaker 4: of October, right? Everybody wants to make this solely about
- 8:26Speaker 4: a Bo Nix thing, and I get it because he's
- 8:28Speaker 4: the quarterback, he's the guy in charge, and you're trying
- 8:31Speaker 4: to evaluate, is this guy worthy of a long-term contract?
- 8:36Speaker 4: It's not just him. This is also a Sean Payton thing.
- 8:41Speaker 4: In September, they just aren't great. They get better as
- 8:44Speaker 4: the year goes on. It's a product of the way
- 8:46Speaker 4: they run training camp. Very well could be.
- 8:50Speaker 5: I think it is. I think we have enough data
- 8:53Speaker 5: now to prove it.
- 8:55Speaker 4: I'll take it a step further. In weeks one through
- 8:58Speaker 4: four for Drew Brees over the course of his career,
- 9:00Speaker 4: he has a record of 38 and 35. 500. He's
- 9:05Speaker 4: 500 in the first four weeks of the season for
- 9:07Speaker 4: a Hall of Famer in his career.
- 9:09Speaker 5: And you know what? Sean Payton may look at you
- 9:12Speaker 5: and say, yeah, we're playing the long game. We're willing
- 9:15Speaker 5: to sacrifice early season games for the benefit of staying
- 9:20Speaker 5: together And getting better as the season progresses.
- 9:23Speaker 3: Okay, I would be also very curious to see how
- 9:28Speaker 3: much of a factor Drew Brees wasn't in those losses
- 9:33Speaker 3: in September. What do you mean? Like you said, he
- 9:37Speaker 3: still had twice as many touchdown passes as picks, right? Yeah.
- 9:43Speaker 4: Drew Brees is a Hall of Fame quarterback.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Okay, so maybe the Sean Payton teams start slow. but
- 9:50Speaker 3: Drew Brees was still pulling his own weight, right? He
- 9:53Speaker 3: wasn't going, he wasn't throwing one touch and then losing
- 9:56Speaker 3: a fumble. Dropping the ball three times, losing a fumble.
- 10:00Speaker 3: one fumble and throwing a pick.
- 10:02Speaker 4: Agreed, but if there's one thing that you point to
- 10:05Speaker 4: to Bo Nix that you would say, you know what,
- 10:07Speaker 4: he's really good at that. Has it not been winning
- 10:11Speaker 4: over his first two years?
- 10:12Speaker 3: Absolutely. That's his best asset. Yes, Brett, and that cannot
- 10:15Speaker 3: be denied, but why? Why? But why? If you start
- 10:20Speaker 3: looking at the reasons, why? Did Drew Brees ever have
- 10:24Speaker 3: a defense like Bo Nix has had here in Denver?
- 10:27Speaker 3: Did the Saints ever have?
- 10:28Speaker 4: The Saints' defenses were pretty damn good, man.
- 10:30Speaker 3: Like this? I have to look it up.
- 10:32Speaker 4: He kind of took a whole year off because their
- 10:35Speaker 4: defense was so violent, they said, you can't do that anymore.
- 10:39Speaker 4: Remember that?
- 10:41Speaker 3: Maybe you're right. I'm just saying that I'd have to
- 10:44Speaker 3: look it up. I remember those Saints winning because Drew
- 10:48Speaker 3: Brees is a Hall of Fame quarterback and he's throwing
- 10:50Speaker 3: the pig all over the yard for 5,400 yards a season. Crazy,
- 10:55Speaker 3: insane stats. That's what I remember. That being said, you know,
- 10:59Speaker 3: if you can point and say, well, Brees was the
- 11:01Speaker 3: reason they lost in September, then okay, fine. And if
- 11:04Speaker 3: things start to turn around, that's just how Sean Payton
- 11:06Speaker 3: teams work.
- 11:07Speaker 5: The Broncos will not tackle as poorly as they did
- 11:10Speaker 5: on Monday.
- 11:10Speaker 3: They will not.
- 11:11Speaker 5: I think the defense will be much better Sunday. I
- 11:13Speaker 5: still have questions about the offense. I do wonder, what
- 11:16Speaker 5: are they hoping to do here? What do they want
- 11:18Speaker 5: to do? Having said that, all of the panic that
- 11:21Speaker 5: is out there, I'm going to make my call right now.
- 11:25Speaker 5: And it's Wednesday. It's 24-21 Broncos on Sunday.
- 11:29Speaker 1: Ooh.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Ooh. Wow.
- 11:33Speaker 5: You said what?
- 11:33Speaker 4: What was it? You give us 24-21 Broncos.
- 11:35Speaker 3: Wow.
- 11:35Speaker 5: Wow.
- 11:38Speaker 2: Okay.
- 11:40Speaker 3: Okay. Okay.
- 11:42Speaker 5: That's a team that came in here and whipped you
- 11:44Speaker 5: last year, right?
- 11:46Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 11:46Speaker 5: So you don't need motivation. You look like crap last
- 11:50Speaker 5: Monday night. You embarrass yourself offensively. You say you want
- 11:55Speaker 5: to run the ball, but you won't commit to it. Defensively, hell,
- 12:00Speaker 5: I mean, they might be doing Oklahoma drills as we speak.
- 12:03Speaker 3: Let's go.
- 12:04Speaker 5: Let's get into it. Bring the guy down. They were
- 12:07Speaker 5: fine schematically on the defensive side. They were in position
- 12:11Speaker 5: to make tackles.
- 12:12Speaker 3: All of them.
- 12:12Speaker 4: I'll give you guys the stat again that I saw
- 12:14Speaker 4: yesterday because I had this feeling, and I was like,
- 12:16Speaker 4: I don't know if my eyes were lying to me
- 12:18Speaker 4: or what, but it didn't feel like the Broncos were
- 12:19Speaker 4: getting pushed around in the trenches. It just felt like
- 12:21Speaker 4: they weren't making the requisite tackles and plays. Last week,
- 12:28Speaker 4: in average time to pressure, which is a pass rushing stat,
- 12:33Speaker 4: and running back yards before contact per rush, The Broncos
- 12:38Speaker 4: combined between those two stats were arguably the best defense
- 12:41Speaker 4: in the league, which doesn't match up with what you
- 12:43Speaker 4: watched in that game. But here's the main thing. Yards
- 12:48Speaker 4: before contact per rush was less than zero yards, which
- 12:52Speaker 4: means it was at the line of scrimmage. You just
- 12:55Speaker 4: didn't tackle.
- 12:56Speaker 5: You know what it looked like to me? So when
- 12:58Speaker 5: you're watching training camp, as we did, we were there
- 13:00Speaker 5: all training camp. You're not allowed to bring a guy
- 13:03Speaker 5: to the ground. And so a defensive player will come
- 13:06Speaker 5: up on a receiver and just sort of pop them.
- 13:08Speaker 5: It'll grab them and just jostle or a running play.
- 13:11Speaker 3: They'll fill the gap.
- 13:13Speaker 5: And it looked to me on Monday night as if
- 13:16Speaker 5: the Broncos were still doing that.
- 13:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 13:18Speaker 5: Like, Oh wait, wait, we're allowed to wrap now.
- 13:21Speaker 3: Oh, I forgot.
- 13:24Speaker 5: I forgot about that. That's what it looked like.
- 13:27Speaker 3: Yeah. I have a question for both of you. Why
- 13:32Speaker 3: is it? That when I go full-on Professor Frank, 7-7-X-4-2-8.
- 13:40Speaker 3: Why is it you jump all down my throat? Because
- 13:43Speaker 3: your stats are stupid. But when Brett's doing the point
- 13:48Speaker 3: of contact and the ratio of.
- 13:52Speaker 5: His stat is meaningful to our conversation.
- 13:55Speaker 3: I'll tell you how.
- 13:55Speaker 5: Your stats are stupid.
- 13:56Speaker 3: My stat was great.
- 13:57Speaker 4: No, you pointed to a matchup predictor that you have
- 14:00Speaker 4: no idea how to explain how it works.
- 14:02Speaker 5: And it had nothing to do with our conversation.
- 14:05Speaker 3: It transferred into the football power index.
- 14:08Speaker 4: I gave you two things. I gave you where was
- 14:11Speaker 4: contact made with the running back. At the line of scrimmage,
- 14:15Speaker 4: what you want to see from your defense.
- 14:16Speaker 5: They didn't tackle.
- 14:17Speaker 4: The other stat I gave you, Hall of Famer Drew Brees,
- 14:19Speaker 4: sub 500 record in September under Sean Payton. Those are
- 14:22Speaker 4: two relevant statistics.
- 14:23Speaker 3: It's just stats are stats. You start throwing out stats,
- 14:25Speaker 3: you get praised. I throw out the stats.
- 14:29Speaker 5: Your greatest contribution to this show today was siding the
- 14:32Speaker 5: line from the movie Young Guns.
- 14:34Speaker 3: Which is a pretty damn good line.
- 14:36Speaker 4: You are pretty, I don't want to say anti-nerd, but
- 14:39Speaker 4: you get sick of analytics very quickly. Were my stats
- 14:42Speaker 4: not relevant to the conversation?
- 14:43Speaker 5: They were the most relevant of the show because it
- 14:45Speaker 5: explains a little bit why the Broncos look so different Monday.
- 14:49Speaker 3: I don't know. The odds of me actually... Listen to
- 14:52Speaker 3: me talk.
- 14:52Speaker 2: Actually?
- 14:54Speaker 4: Analytically?
- 14:56Speaker 5: Analytically.
- 14:57Speaker 3: The odds of me analytically getting my ass out of
- 14:59Speaker 3: bed to come in here for this abuse tomorrow morning...
- 15:02Speaker 3: What do you think that stat is, Brett? How about 0.8%? Well,
- 15:08Speaker 3: I will also say that that is a fraudulent stat
- 15:11Speaker 3: because you will be in here tomorrow. Listeners, listeners.
- 15:13Speaker 5: Repeating, of course, percentage of survival.
- 15:16Speaker 3: It's a lot better than we usually do. That's, that's,
- 15:20Speaker 3: is that, uh, Leroy Jenkins?
- 15:22Speaker 4: Leroy Jenkins, baby.
- 15:23Speaker 3: Oh, my God.
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- 15:30Speaker 2: All right.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Lions-Bills Thursday night football. It's a big-time matchup tomorrow night,
- 15:35Speaker 4: and DMACC will be at Stoney's Uptown to watch it
- 15:38Speaker 4: with you. Come out, grab a seat, and catch Lions-Bills
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- 15:43Speaker 3: What's up, Denver? This is Gabe Landeskog. I love my Broncos,
- 15:46Speaker 3: but Brett and Moj, our Lions are playing tonight on
- 15:49Speaker 3: Altitude Sports Radio 92.5.
- 15:51Speaker 4: He meant tomorrow, but yes, thank you, Gabe.
- 15:55Speaker 3: That's going on right now, by the way, over at
- 15:57Speaker 3: Ball Arena. It's media day for the Colorado Avalanche.
- 16:01Speaker 4: Bednar, by the way, speaking to the media, did just
- 16:03Speaker 4: say that Kael McCarr is dealing with a lower body
- 16:05Speaker 4: injury heading into camp. He's unlikely to be ready for
- 16:08Speaker 4: day one of camp, but will be a full go
- 16:10Speaker 4: during camp at some point.
- 16:11Speaker 3: No! God, please, no!
- 16:12Speaker 4: So it sounds like he'll be ready for the opener.
- 16:14Speaker 4: It's just something else. He said it's unrelated to the
- 16:17Speaker 4: playoff injury.
- 16:18Speaker 3: He'll be okay.
- 16:21Speaker 4: You said you wanted to talk about it, Moshe. Go ahead.
- 16:23Speaker 3: Well, yeah. I mean, well, today's media day, and what
- 16:28Speaker 3: am I going to say? Training camp starts tomorrow.
- 16:29Speaker 2: All right.
- 16:30Speaker 4: Hang on a second. Vic, let me tell you something. Moshe,
- 16:33Speaker 4: during the break, says, hey, when we come back, can
- 16:35Speaker 4: I talk about Avs Camp? And I just looked at Moshe.
- 16:37Speaker 4: I was like, talk about Avs Camp.
- 16:38Speaker 5: He goes, yep.
- 16:38Speaker 3: Well, it starts today. I apologize. I'm late to the segment.
- 16:41Speaker 3: I just got some really bad news that I can't share, but...
- 16:47Speaker 3: So it took my mind off.
- 16:48Speaker 4: Okay, sorry.
- 16:49Speaker 3: It's okay.
- 16:49Speaker 5: I didn't know that. My bad.
- 16:51Speaker 3: It's okay. But yeah, I'm not there. I'm committed. Look
- 16:54Speaker 3: at me here. Didn't do the golf tournament. Didn't go
- 16:58Speaker 3: to media day like I typically would and get all
- 17:00Speaker 3: my work done. That's been now farmed out to Lauren Gardner,
- 17:04Speaker 3: so you're welcome.
- 17:05Speaker 5: I'll tell you what's weird.
- 17:06Speaker 3: It's two weeks. Boy, it's two weeks.
- 17:10Speaker 4: And then the Avs play a regular season hockey game
- 17:13Speaker 4: in two weeks. And how about this?
- 17:17Speaker 3: And I had something else for Vic, and I forget
- 17:19Speaker 3: what it is now. I had two things. Remember, I
- 17:23Speaker 3: had two things coming back I wanted to get to.
- 17:25Speaker 3: One was the abs.
- 17:26Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 17:26Speaker 3: And the McCarnews. And there was another thing for Vic,
- 17:29Speaker 3: but sorry, my mind is elsewhere at the moment. I apologize.
- 17:31Speaker 3: That's okay. I'll say this.
- 17:36Speaker 4: Season's starting in two weeks. My expectations have not changed.
- 17:40Speaker 4: Yours should not either. The abs should be a team
- 17:42Speaker 4: where you are You're looking at this, and in some ways,
- 17:46Speaker 4: you know, I mentioned this about Sakic, and I don't
- 17:47Speaker 4: know if this is right, wrong, whatever, but it's my
- 17:51Speaker 4: read on it. Sakic has already announced that he's going
- 17:54Speaker 4: to be the GM for the foreseeable future. Still don't
- 17:56Speaker 4: know what that means, but certainly that means this year.
- 17:59Speaker 4: And I think there's a part of Sakic that thinks
- 18:00Speaker 4: to himself, there's a lot of questions moving forward with
- 18:03Speaker 4: this team about, you know, Cale's going to eat a
- 18:05Speaker 4: big chunk of this cap. We're going to have to
- 18:07Speaker 4: do some juggling. There's some bigger questions, and let's be honest,
- 18:10Speaker 4: I love Bednar to death, but Does not have a
- 18:13Speaker 4: contract extension heading into this year. There's probably a lot
- 18:15Speaker 4: of pressure on him to produce a Stanley Cup final
- 18:18Speaker 4: appearance or a cup or something like that. There's pressure.
- 18:21Speaker 4: If there's this much sort of in flux for this year,
- 18:26Speaker 4: he's like, I'm going to be the shepherd that moves
- 18:28Speaker 4: us through it. I'm not going to give this to
- 18:29Speaker 4: somebody else. This is going to be mine.
- 18:30Speaker 5: You know, the one thing I do value about the
- 18:32Speaker 5: Avs and Jared Bednar's approach is they never, ever, ever
- 18:36Speaker 5: run from the pressure. They never run. Like, for example, hey,
- 18:41Speaker 5: it's win or else. Yeah, sure is. It's Stanley Cup robust.
- 18:46Speaker 7: Yep.
- 18:47Speaker 5: Sure is. It's not one of these, well, you know,
- 18:50Speaker 5: it's not one of those. It is what it is,
- 18:53Speaker 5: and they know what it is. And I give them
- 18:56Speaker 5: respect for at least acknowledging that.
- 18:58Speaker 2: Sure.
- 18:59Speaker 3: Well, there's nowhere to hide from it because they are
- 19:01Speaker 3: that good. I mean, Britt, again, pull up your little
- 19:05Speaker 3: Stanley Cup odds thing that you're so good at. You're
- 19:07Speaker 3: really good at whipping this stuff out.
- 19:09Speaker 4: And Uh, the odds-on favorite to win the Stanley Cup
- 19:14Speaker 4: is the two teams tied at first. That is the
- 19:17Speaker 4: Panthers and Hurricanes at plus 650, and plus 700 right
- 19:21Speaker 4: behind them is the Avs.
- 19:22Speaker 3: Okay, so you're telling me that the top two teams
- 19:25Speaker 3: that are tied are both in the Eastern Conference. Correct.
- 19:28Speaker 3: So that would make the Avs the favorite to win
- 19:30Speaker 3: the Western Conference.
- 19:31Speaker 4: Correct.
- 19:32Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say that's probably accurate. So there is
- 19:34Speaker 3: no place to hide from that kind of pressure or
- 19:37Speaker 3: that kind of.
- 19:39Speaker 3: I mean, there's a reason why the national networks, Vic,
- 19:46Speaker 3: they've taken 17 games. They've taken the max. I mean,
- 19:49Speaker 3: they take the max every single year away from us. Now,
- 19:53Speaker 3: we got two back, and those will be side-by-sides, which
- 19:55Speaker 3: is basically we broadcast to the Avalanche audience, and then
- 19:59Speaker 3: they broadcast to the rest of the country and so on.
- 20:02Speaker 3: But they take the max every single year that they
- 20:04Speaker 3: possibly can, and the abs are that good. And I
- 20:09Speaker 3: know it was disappointing. I know the loss to Vegas.
- 20:12Speaker 3: It still stings for me. They didn't play great. Carter
- 20:17Speaker 3: Hart will never play that well again. And then there's
- 20:20Speaker 3: the extemporaneous stuff that figures into it but are not
- 20:23Speaker 3: excuses like, man, a lot of guys were dealing with
- 20:26Speaker 3: a lot of stuff.
- 20:29Speaker 4: Let's reevaluate after a week. I ask you in order.
- 20:35Speaker 4: The three teams in Denver that have chances to win championships,
- 20:38Speaker 4: the Avs are number one, right? Who's two?
- 20:42Speaker 3: I still think it's the Broncos.
- 20:44Speaker 5: I think it's the Broncos too. I think they have
- 20:46Speaker 5: less of an obstacle course to sift through.
- 20:49Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 20:52Speaker 5: I think the West.
- 20:53Speaker 3: Well, they have.
- 20:54Speaker 5: Well, Vic, Vic.
- 20:56Speaker 4: Look at that schedule for the next eight weeks.
- 20:58Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 20:58Speaker 3: It's obstacly.
- 20:59Speaker 4: I know.
- 20:59Speaker 3: I know.
- 21:00Speaker 5: But if you get to the playoffs, if you get
- 21:01Speaker 5: to the playoffs, it's one game.
- 21:04Speaker 3: Right.
- 21:05Speaker 5: You know, the NFL playoffs, it's a different ball. It's
- 21:08Speaker 5: one game. You can win a game.
- 21:10Speaker 3: That being said, if the Denver Nuggets starting five is
- 21:16Speaker 3: healthy and DeMar DeRozan has something in the tank. Sure.
- 21:21Speaker 4: I'm excited about DeMar.
- 21:23Speaker 3: And just, you know, Julian Strother and Spencer Jones take
- 21:25Speaker 3: another step. And Deron Holmes actually is a human that
- 21:29Speaker 3: I see on the floor.
- 21:30Speaker 4: Oh, I can't do that. I'm not doing that. I'm
- 21:33Speaker 4: not playing that game. I'm not doing that. Deron Holmes,
- 21:35Speaker 4: in my mind, does not exist unless he actually does something.
- 21:38Speaker 4: Because I've done this with Zeke Nagy for years. I've
- 21:40Speaker 4: done it with a bunch of other people on this roster.
- 21:42Speaker 3: I can't. I can't bring myself to do that again.
- 21:44Speaker 3: What if one of these rookies can play? What if
- 21:46Speaker 3: Brazil can play?
- 21:46Speaker 4: Again, can't do it. I'm not playing that game until
- 21:49Speaker 4: I see it.
- 21:49Speaker 3: Here's what I know. That being said, that starting five
- 21:53Speaker 3: and a couple of the rotation players, that can be...
- 21:56Speaker 3: a damn fine basketball team in the Western conference.
- 22:00Speaker 5: Hey, can, can, can the nuggets vie for a championship?
- 22:05Speaker 3: Yeah, they could.
- 22:06Speaker 5: If the planets align.
- 22:07Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 22:08Speaker 5: I mean, did anybody honest to God that I'll ask
- 22:11Speaker 5: you guys, take yourself back to last March. Did you
- 22:17Speaker 5: expect the Knicks to win a championship? Nope.
- 22:19Speaker 3: Nope.
- 22:20Speaker 5: How many people expected the New York Knicks to win
- 22:22Speaker 5: the NBA championship? Even going into the playoffs. I don't,
- 22:25Speaker 5: In the first round, they were down two games to one.
- 22:28Speaker 3: Chris Mitchell just raised his hand.
- 22:30Speaker 4: Put your hand down. Don't finger gun me.
- 22:34Speaker 3: Your time is short, Mitchell.
- 22:35Speaker 4: Here's what I'm going to tell you.
- 22:36Speaker 5: The point is, if the planets align for any team,
- 22:40Speaker 5: you're capable. However, the Nuggets are back in prove-it mode.
- 22:46Speaker 5: And I think they're a better team when they're in
- 22:48Speaker 5: prove-it mode. All right, listen.
- 22:49Speaker 4: This is the approach I'm taking with the Nuggets. Hear
- 22:52Speaker 4: me clearly. Because I can't play this game again. I
- 22:54Speaker 4: refuse to let myself. The Nuggets right now have a
- 22:57Speaker 4: roster of seven players. That's how I look at it.
- 22:59Speaker 4: You have your starting five, DeMar DeRozan and Spencer Jones.
- 23:04Speaker 4: Anything else? Don't know. Don't trust it. Don't have no idea.
- 23:08Speaker 4: So Bagley, Strother, Zeke, Daron Holmes, anybody else? They do
- 23:15Speaker 4: not exist in my brain. You have seven players right
- 23:18Speaker 4: now that I trust, and that's it until somebody proves differently.
- 23:20Speaker 3: Yeah, but Bagley, I mean, he's still a double-digit guy.
- 23:22Speaker 3: I know he's been around. He's still in his 20s.
- 23:27Speaker 3: He's still a double-digit dude. God, it's hard to believe
- 23:30Speaker 3: that guy was second overall. Wow.
- 23:33Speaker 4: Nobody exists out of the top seven players that I
- 23:36Speaker 4: have mentioned to you.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Now you're going full-on. What was his character's name?
- 23:40Speaker 4: Hey, Moshe, here's why I don't do the Bagley thing.
- 23:42Speaker 4: You want to know why? You can tell me.
- 23:45Speaker 3: He scored double digits.
- 23:47Speaker 4: Last year, he was double digits. Give me Jonas Valanciunas'
- 23:50Speaker 4: career and tell me.
- 23:51Speaker 5: You guys have the worst record in the NBA.
- 23:53Speaker 4: Cool.
- 23:54Speaker 5: Tell me, Munch.
- 23:55Speaker 4: Tell me about Big Val. What was his career numbers?
- 23:58Speaker 4: Because I'll tell you, they were pretty damn good. And
- 23:59Speaker 4: then he didn't play.
- 24:00Speaker 3: You went full-on Phil, though. From Hangover, you went full-on Phil.
- 24:05Speaker 3: You don't exist to me. It's the weekend.
- 24:08Speaker 4: I do not know you. You do not exist.
- 24:11Speaker 3: That is them.
- 24:12Speaker 4: Well, seven players.
- 24:13Speaker 3: That's fine. Okay, we're starting out with seven freaking dudes.
- 24:17Speaker 4: Hey, here's some news. Did you guys see that Joe
- 24:21Speaker 4: Buck is staying with Monday Night Football? It's a six-year deal.
- 24:24Speaker 4: $ 108 million.
- 24:25Speaker 3: Jeez Louise.
- 24:27Speaker 4: Well, that's your salary to call the abs.
- 24:30Speaker 3: Joe Buck is really good. I don't mind telling you.
- 24:33Speaker 5: I think he's extraordinary.
- 24:35Speaker 3: Yeah, as a guy who does it for a living...
- 24:39Speaker 3: And Vic dabbles in it with hand jobs and whatnot.
- 24:42Speaker 3: That's a no-no. Read the email. Did you hit it?
- 24:43Speaker 5: Good.
- 24:44Speaker 3: Read the email.
- 24:44Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't see that.
- 24:45Speaker 7: My bad.
- 24:45Speaker 4: Open your email and read the email.
- 25:08Speaker 3: Okay.
- 25:08Speaker 5: Yes, you're right. I dabble in it. And I even
- 25:11Speaker 5: tell you that man's ability to relay the events of
- 25:14Speaker 5: a game in absolute calm and poise.
- 25:17Speaker 3: He's really, he's really good.
- 25:18Speaker 5: He's really, really good.
- 25:19Speaker 4: Can I give you something else?
- 25:20Speaker 5: I like, however, however, media, media salaries are plummeting. They've
- 25:25Speaker 5: been plummeting for years. Some don't plummet. Some skyrocket.
- 25:29Speaker 4: Okay, two things here. I used to not like Joe
- 25:33Speaker 4: Buck because I didn't feel like he matched the excitement
- 25:37Speaker 4: of the moment. And I'll always go back to earlier
- 25:40Speaker 4: in his career when he was calling one of the
- 25:42Speaker 4: greatest Super Bowl plays that's ever happened, which is the
- 25:45Speaker 4: David Tyree catch. And he kept the same tone the
- 25:49Speaker 4: whole way. Manning drops back, avoids pressure, throws, it's caught.
- 25:54Speaker 4: And I'm like, what do you mean it's caught? It's,
- 25:56Speaker 4: oh my God, that's how it should sound. He's a
- 25:59Speaker 4: lot better at that now. He's a lot better at
- 26:01Speaker 4: that now.
- 26:01Speaker 5: I know, but I think he does just enough. I
- 26:03Speaker 5: guess Pat Summerall was the most just right down the middle.
- 26:07Speaker 5: Remember Pat Summerall's call the games most?
- 26:09Speaker 3: Yes.
- 26:10Speaker 5: He wouldn't even flinch.
- 26:12Speaker 4: But do you not?
- 26:12Speaker 3: So what do you want?
- 26:14Speaker 5: Are you more, I think Kevin Harlan- Oh, Kevin. Amazing.
- 26:18Speaker 5: And he's amazing, right? Everybody, see, but I love people
- 26:21Speaker 5: for who they are and how they do it. Not
- 26:23Speaker 5: everybody has to be Kevin Harlan. Not everybody has to
- 26:26Speaker 5: jump to that other octave during a play. But the
- 26:29Speaker 5: guy in Carolina who does the Charlotte Hornets.
- 26:32Speaker 3: That's a little much.
- 26:32Speaker 5: Not everybody has to do that. He's really good.
- 26:35Speaker 3: I love him.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 26:35Speaker 5: I love him.
- 26:36Speaker 3: But everybody's different. It's okay.
- 26:39Speaker 4: So, no, Vic, I totally agree. But I will say,
- 26:42Speaker 4: as he's gone on with the football thing... He started
- 26:45Speaker 4: to do that. Like his call, I thought of Stefan
- 26:48Speaker 4: Diggs in Minnesota, the miracle of Minnesota. I thought that
- 26:50Speaker 4: was perfect. Brought it up an octave, still kept his
- 26:53Speaker 4: same sort of.
- 26:54Speaker 5: Cool a little bit.
- 26:54Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree. And again, but it's also a
- 26:58Speaker 3: national audience. And Harlan's just, you know, Kevin is, you know,
- 27:02Speaker 3: he's dynamic and animated.
- 27:04Speaker 4: Can I give you guys something, by the way, speaking
- 27:05Speaker 4: of that Monday Night Football broadcast? I heard Levitar, and
- 27:09Speaker 4: I saw a clip of his show talking about this,
- 27:11Speaker 4: and he was talking about Troy Aikman. What do you
- 27:13Speaker 4: guys think of this? This is during Broncos and Chiefs.
- 27:18Speaker 4: These were all said in the first half of that game.
- 27:22Speaker 4: And I didn't notice it, but it's true. Here's the
- 27:26Speaker 4: things that Troy Aikman said. The Denver roster is as
- 27:30Speaker 4: deep as any in football. Andy Reid understands as much
- 27:35Speaker 4: as anyone in football that they've got to run the football.
- 27:38Speaker 4: Pat Bryant had as good a camp as anyone in football.
- 27:41Speaker 4: Denver has as deep a wide receiver room as anyone
- 27:44Speaker 4: in football. Denver has as good a secondary as there
- 27:47Speaker 4: is in football. Trent McDuffie is as good as anyone
- 27:50Speaker 4: in all of football. That was the first quarter.
- 27:54Speaker 5: Second quarter.
- 27:55Speaker 4: Denver's defense is as good as any defense in football.
- 27:59Speaker 4: Denver plays as much man as anyone in football. Kenneth
- 28:02Speaker 4: Walker is as patient as anyone in football. Riley Moss
- 28:05Speaker 4: gets targeted as much as anyone in football. Denver is
- 28:08Speaker 4: as good an offensive line as there is in football.
- 28:10Speaker 3: Find the lie.
- 28:11Speaker 4: Vance Joseph is as good a defensive coordinator as there
- 28:14Speaker 4: is in football. Sean Payton is as good a play
- 28:16Speaker 4: caller as there is in football.
- 28:17Speaker 3: This can't be true.
- 28:18Speaker 4: Cortland Sutton is as good as anyone in football winning one-on-one.
- 28:22Speaker 4: He said all those things in the first half. It
- 28:24Speaker 4: just goes to show you how poorly the Broncos played.
- 28:33Speaker 5: I mean, that is true.
- 28:35Speaker 7: If you have all of those things aren't as good
- 28:37Speaker 7: as anyone in football, you get worked like that. I mean,
- 28:42Speaker 7: that is a, I can't believe I didn't notice it
- 28:45Speaker 7: as it was going on, to be honest with you.
- 28:47Speaker 4: Somebody fact-checked it. He said all of those things in
- 28:49Speaker 4: the first half.
- 28:50Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody's got a little crutch from time to time.
- 28:52Speaker 3: I certainly know that I do, that I try to
- 28:53Speaker 3: get off my crutches, but that's part of, it's part
- 28:56Speaker 3: of what makes you, part of makes you who you are.
- 29:00Speaker 3: That's part of it. You know what I mean?
- 29:01Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 29:02Speaker 4: I still think they're a great group, by the way.
- 29:03Speaker 4: I love hearing them call a game. I think they're good.
- 29:05Speaker 4: Him and Troy?
- 29:06Speaker 3: Good.
- 29:06Speaker 5: I do, too.
- 29:07Speaker 3: You know, there's a lot of... Listen.
- 29:09Speaker 5: My wife is getting so mad at me.
- 29:10Speaker 3: Ian Eagle's great. His kid is great. There's a lot
- 29:13Speaker 3: of terrific broadcasters in football, man.
- 29:16Speaker 5: As good as anyone in football.
- 29:19Speaker 3: As good as anyone in football.
- 29:21Speaker 5: My wife sounded like you the other night. We're watching
- 29:23Speaker 5: the game, and I watch the game in my office.
- 29:26Speaker 5: I won't go to the main room. I won't go
- 29:28Speaker 5: to other... It's got to be in my office.
- 29:31Speaker 3: Wait, so if she wants to watch with you, she's
- 29:33Speaker 3: got to come into your office?
- 29:35Speaker 5: Yeah, it's my work time. I'm working. I have a
- 29:37Speaker 5: post-game show to do. She knows.
- 29:38Speaker 3: It's work.
- 29:39Speaker 4: What, do you got a beanbag?
- 29:40Speaker 7: In there?
- 29:40Speaker 5: Beanbag couch? Anyway, so we're sitting there watching, and on
- 29:43Speaker 5: one television, I have the broadcast, and I have the
- 29:46Speaker 5: antenna up so I get it before anybody. I don't
- 29:48Speaker 5: wait for the digital broadcast. I wait for the over-the-air broadcast,
- 29:53Speaker 5: which is quick, quick, quick. And on the other television,
- 29:56Speaker 5: I have the Manning cast. So I had the Manning
- 29:59Speaker 5: cast a little louder than the regular broadcast. And my
- 30:01Speaker 5: wife's like, what are you doing? This is terrible. This
- 30:04Speaker 5: is how you watch a game? She was so mad.
- 30:06Speaker 3: Good call, Queen.
- 30:07Speaker 5: I want to watch the game. Good call, Queen.
- 30:09Speaker 4: You're my queen.
- 30:12Speaker 5: But I wanted to hear the Manning cast. I wanted
- 30:14Speaker 5: to hear the interview with Elway. I wanted to hear that.
- 30:15Speaker 1: Don't call me that.
- 30:19Speaker 4: I agree with her. I don't know how you do that.
- 30:21Speaker 4: Nothing against the Manning broadcast. Especially when my team's involved.
- 30:26Speaker 4: I just want to watch the game. I don't need
- 30:27Speaker 4: to hear.
- 30:28Speaker 3: So second and five.
- 30:31Speaker 4: Hey, Eli, when we were kids, you remember playing in
- 30:35Speaker 4: the backyard at the treehouse? I don't need that stuff
- 30:37Speaker 4: in the middle.
- 30:38Speaker 5: Let me tell you what I cannot do. Moj, and
- 30:41Speaker 5: you can participate in this. They've got these broadcasts now
- 30:45Speaker 5: that they do in 4K. Sometimes ESPN puts them out
- 30:48Speaker 5: without announcers. It's just natural sound. What kind of freakazoid?
- 30:54Speaker 5: is watching that.
- 30:54Speaker 3: People who like that are, I think, people who live
- 31:00Speaker 3: in the forest by themselves. What are you doing?
- 31:03Speaker 5: If I watch a game, I need somebody telling me
- 31:06Speaker 5: who's who and what's going on.
- 31:08Speaker 4: Football's different, but.
- 31:09Speaker 5: No!
- 31:10Speaker 4: No, hang on, hang on.
- 31:10Speaker 3: Football is different. You shut it.
- 31:12Speaker 4: Vic, you've already admitted to this, unless you want to
- 31:14Speaker 4: be a hypocrite and flip-flopper. I told you the PGA's
- 31:17Speaker 4: going to experiment next year with a broadcast that has
- 31:20Speaker 4: no sound of a play-by-play... but it'll be natural sound
- 31:24Speaker 4: along with you can pick up some catty golfer talk
- 31:27Speaker 4: in the middle of it. And you said you would
- 31:28Speaker 4: like to watch that. So no Jim Nance taking you through.
- 31:31Speaker 4: Bits and pieces, bits and pieces. But when it comes
- 31:34Speaker 4: down to it.
- 31:34Speaker 3: I'm not watching a full Masters without any broadcast.
- 31:37Speaker 5: Yeah, you got to get to what's going on. It's just,
- 31:40Speaker 5: it's sacrilegious. It's barbaric. You're watching a basketball game or
- 31:44Speaker 5: a football game. And not because we're in the business.
- 31:47Speaker 3: It's just, how do you even carry?
- 31:49Speaker 4: What do you do with yourself?
- 31:51Speaker 3: What's happening?
- 31:53Speaker 5: What's happening in the game right now?
- 31:55Speaker 3: Who threw it to whom?
- 31:56Speaker 4: Do you prefer the Manning cast over the regular broadcast? No,
- 31:59Speaker 4: only bits and pieces. I'm telling you, I watch it
- 32:02Speaker 4: and I'll go in and out, in and out.
- 32:05Speaker 5: I do learn a lot by watching the Mannings. I do.
- 32:08Speaker 4: Sure you do. No question.
- 32:10Speaker 3: Hey, what time is kickoff on Sunday? Here?
- 32:17Speaker 5: Today? Today?
- 32:20Speaker 3: Today? Today?
- 32:21Speaker 5: This Sunday?
- 32:21Speaker 4: Wait, this Sunday?
- 32:22Speaker 3: I'm talking Broncos. It's 2-0-5. Yeah, it's 2. Let's make
- 32:25Speaker 3: it sure.
- 32:27Speaker 4: Well, it's not a national game, and if it's played
- 32:28Speaker 4: in Denver, it's not going to be at 11, so
- 32:29Speaker 4: what would you think?
- 32:30Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm thinking, yeah, because the Avs game is
- 32:34Speaker 3: at 5 against the Mammoth. That's why Connor can't be there.
- 32:37Speaker 3: That's why I'm doing the game on radio on Sunday.
- 32:44Speaker 3: Wait a minute.
- 32:46Speaker 5: The Avs play a preseason game this Sunday?
- 32:49Speaker 3: At 5 o'clock.
- 32:49Speaker 4: I just done told you, they play a game in
- 32:52Speaker 4: two weeks. A regular season game in two weeks from today.
- 32:56Speaker 4: I just done told you.
- 32:58Speaker 3: It's got a great... Butter my butt and call me
- 33:00Speaker 3: a biscuit! Just got a great message from Nelly. Steve Nelson, producer.
- 33:07Speaker 3: Bo Nix had an average depth of target of 3.86
- 33:10Speaker 3: yards in week one. For reference, the average American watches
- 33:13Speaker 3: TV from about 3.67 yards away. So his average depth
- 33:21Speaker 3: of throw, just picture you sitting in front of your television,
- 33:26Speaker 3: and that's how far it was. Bo Nix.
- 33:28Speaker 4: Checking your remote at the TV.
- 33:30Speaker 3: Checking your remote at the TV.
- 33:31Speaker 5: So the Avs game starts at 5.
- 33:33Speaker 3: Correct. Yeah.
- 33:37Speaker 5: It's already high. I know that they're back.
- 33:39Speaker 4: I just done told you.
- 33:40Speaker 5: I know, but. Regular season, two weeks. It's just striking
- 33:44Speaker 5: to me, freaking me out.
- 33:45Speaker 4: All right, 303, 504, 0925, back after this.
- 33:49Speaker 3: Yeah, uh, yeah, uh, uh, yeah, uh. By the way,
- 33:53Speaker 3: you know where I got that?
- 33:55Speaker 4: Where you got what?
- 33:57Speaker 3: Yeah, uh.
- 33:58Speaker 4: I have no idea.
- 33:59Speaker 3: Tupac, man. Especially in California, love.
- 34:03Speaker 5: I'm reading the text, and I can't believe how many
- 34:07Speaker 5: people watch sporting events without the announcers, just the natural sound.
- 34:13Speaker 3: My dad, I think.
- 34:15Speaker 5: You guys are crazy.
- 34:16Speaker 4: Well, hang on a second.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Hang on.
- 34:17Speaker 5: I think you guys are the weirdest people.
- 34:19Speaker 4: Look, man, if I'm in week eight, or how about this?
- 34:23Speaker 3: I've watched, oh, I'd ballpark it at 50.
- 34:27Speaker 4: To 60 Rockies games this year. And when I say watched,
- 34:32Speaker 4: I have the game on. I have my TV on mute.
- 34:35Speaker 4: I might have another TV on something else, a TV show,
- 34:38Speaker 4: something like that, where I just kind of peek over.
- 34:40Speaker 4: If it's a game I'm not like fully invested in, fine.
- 34:42Speaker 4: I got 87 TVs at home.
- 34:43Speaker 5: I'm rich. Yeah, way to tell people you're rich.
- 34:48Speaker 3: TVs are dirt cheap.
- 34:50Speaker 5: You can get a TV for like $ 6.
- 34:52Speaker 4: Dude, I swear to God, me and my wife, what
- 34:53Speaker 4: were we just watching the other day? It was something
- 34:56Speaker 4: from like 25 years ago. They did an old clip
- 34:58Speaker 4: of somebody who was doing a live hit inside of
- 35:00Speaker 4: a Walmart. And behind the Walmart, it had a 32-inch television.
- 35:04Speaker 4: You know how much it was? Back in like, this
- 35:06Speaker 4: had to be like early 2002. 500 bucks. It was $ 198.
- 35:08Speaker 5: I'm like, you can get one of those.
- 35:15Speaker 3: You can get a.
- 35:15Speaker 4: 65-inch for $ 200 now. TVs have actually gotten way cheaper. Anyway,
- 35:21Speaker 4: so if I'm not actively watching a game or it's
- 35:24Speaker 4: not a game I'm really invested in, I can do that.
- 35:26Speaker 4: But if it's Broncos Monday Night Football, the sound's on, okay?
- 35:30Speaker 4: We got the sound on.
- 35:32Speaker 5: Well, obviously, we're talking about games you're invested in. Otherwise,
- 35:35Speaker 5: what's the point? Obviously, you're at a party. There's a
- 35:38Speaker 5: game on. But there's nothing worse, in my opinion, than
- 35:41Speaker 5: going to a bar and a game is on and
- 35:44Speaker 5: you can't hear what's going on.
- 35:45Speaker 3: That's pretty tough. I hate it. We talk about him
- 35:48Speaker 3: on this program from time to time, and he's been
- 35:50Speaker 3: on this program from time to time. But what's the— Brett Cain,
- 35:54Speaker 3: what's the craziest thing you know about Keith Mosier? My dad.
- 35:58Speaker 4: He eats peanut butter and tuna fish sandwiches.
- 36:02Speaker 3: Pretty crazy, right? It's insane, actually. I got one more.
- 36:06Speaker 5: I got a couple.
- 36:06Speaker 3: I got a better one. You ready for this? What,
- 36:09Speaker 3: that he had me? Pretty crazy.
- 36:12Speaker 5: You are not his child.
- 36:14Speaker 3: Unfortunately, I am. Hey, no, but here's one for you.
- 36:18Speaker 3: He likes to watch the game with the TV on mute.
- 36:24Speaker 3: Like a football game. What's he doing?
- 36:26Speaker 5: What's the sound?
- 36:28Speaker 3: I don't know.
- 36:28Speaker 4: What's the sound that's happening?
- 36:30Speaker 1: Nothing.
- 36:30Speaker 3: It's just silence in the house. So here we tell me,
- 36:34Speaker 3: tell me that it's not weird.
- 36:35Speaker 4: That's insane. That's insane behavior.
- 36:37Speaker 5: That is insanity.
- 36:38Speaker 4: Uh, texture writes this in, we were just talking about this, uh,
- 36:41Speaker 4: the other day that guys like Brandon Perna, who now,
- 36:45Speaker 4: I don't know if he's part of like the NFL network.
- 36:46Speaker 4: Like I'm seeing he's making picks before the week starts,
- 36:50Speaker 4: but I've always wondered, do people watch like these, these
- 36:53Speaker 4: watch along broadcasts and have that sound on as opposed
- 36:56Speaker 4: to the actual sound. And it texture says, I usually
- 36:58Speaker 4: have Brandon Perna. on while watching the game because they're
- 37:01Speaker 4: way better than Vilma on, Jonathan Vilma on Fox. Now,
- 37:05Speaker 4: I know people that'll do this, Moj. They will, if
- 37:08Speaker 4: it's like a national TV game for the Avs, they'll
- 37:11Speaker 4: turn off, they'll turn the mute on the national broadcast
- 37:13Speaker 4: and turn on their app and listen to like McGahee
- 37:16Speaker 4: or something like that. That makes sense though because you're
- 37:18Speaker 4: still listening to game action with.
- 37:21Speaker 3: A play-by-play guy.
- 37:21Speaker 5: You gotta sync it up.
- 37:22Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely. And it's your guy. You know, I mean, listen,
- 37:26Speaker 3: people say, hey, listen, but here's another one. Going from
- 37:30Speaker 3: motion crew for abs broadcast to the other dweebs later
- 37:34Speaker 3: in the playoffs is brutal.
- 37:38Speaker 4: Vic, listen to this. A texture says, Keith Mosher also
- 37:42Speaker 4: watches abs games on music.
- 37:46Speaker 3: Why didn't we think about that?
- 37:50Speaker 5: In fact, that's what started the trend for Keith.
- 37:53Speaker 4: Wait a minute, wait a minute.
- 37:55Speaker 7: That sound was actually Keith. It wasn't some Dallas Stars watcher.
- 37:58Speaker 5: It was stupid abs feed.
- 38:03Speaker 3: You remember that guy? The basement guy?
- 38:05Speaker 5: Oh, yeah. I hate these f * * * ing commentators, bro.
- 38:07Speaker 3: Didn't we bust him up and he got word that
- 38:09Speaker 3: we busted him up?
- 38:10Speaker 4: Oh, and then he had another clip the next day.
- 38:11Speaker 3: Yeah, then he reacted to it on his show. What
- 38:13Speaker 3: did he say?
- 38:13Speaker 4: He actually laughed at us. I think it was a
- 38:15Speaker 4: pretty good sport.
- 38:17Speaker 3: Okay, but before we're done.
- 38:18Speaker 4: I want to bring back the stat here in a second,
- 38:20Speaker 4: so make this quick.
- 38:21Speaker 3: You guys need to get your survival pool picks in.
- 38:24Speaker 2: Why?
- 38:24Speaker 3: You're the only one who lost. You're done. Nelly lost, too.
- 38:27Speaker 3: If Nelly's back in, then I'm back in.
- 38:30Speaker 4: No, do we want a consolation bracket for Nelly and Moj?
- 38:32Speaker 5: Yeah, they got their own little race going.
- 38:34Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 38:34Speaker 3: Well, let me tell you.
- 38:35Speaker 5: They lost first week.
- 38:36Speaker 4: You guys' biggest loser. Who's going to finish last?
- 38:39Speaker 3: I was bored during a commercial break last week. And
- 38:42Speaker 3: so I was kind of going through my fantasy hockey
- 38:45Speaker 3: and all this kind of thing. And it said ESPN
- 38:47Speaker 3: Survivor Pool.
- 38:48Speaker 5: Jump in.
- 38:49Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, maybe I'll do that. Because we were
- 38:51Speaker 3: talking about Survivor Pool. And who did I pick?
- 38:56Speaker 4: This week?
- 38:57Speaker 3: No, last week.
- 38:58Speaker 5: The Chargers. The Chargers.
- 39:00Speaker 3: You know how many people? 248,900 people were eliminated by
- 39:08Speaker 3: picking the Chargers last week.
- 39:09Speaker 4: And guess who's still standing?
- 39:10Speaker 5: Hang on, hang on. I agreed with you when you
- 39:14Speaker 5: made that call. I did.
- 39:15Speaker 3: Second was the Titans. That was Nelly's pick at 44,000.
- 39:18Speaker 3: Why would you pick the Titans? I don't know.
- 39:22Speaker 4: And I had to emphasize the second team.
- 39:26Speaker 3: Then, hang on.
- 39:27Speaker 4: I just think we're very made right now.
- 39:29Speaker 3: Then the Cowboys were third at 38,000. So you can
- 39:32Speaker 3: see the Chargers were by far number one. Then the
- 39:35Speaker 3: Broncos were fourth at 35,900. Why would the Broncos be fourth? No,
- 39:42Speaker 3: you're picking the Broncos to survive.
- 39:43Speaker 4: No, I know, but why wouldn't?
- 39:46Speaker 5: I can't remember.
- 39:46Speaker 4: Who did me and Vic pick? Was it the Jags?
- 39:50Speaker 5: Yeah, you guys picked the Jags. We took Jags over
- 39:51Speaker 5: the Browns.
- 39:52Speaker 3: Because obviously.
- 39:53Speaker 5: Oh, I've already got my pick. I know my pick.
- 39:56Speaker 3: Oh, we'll wait for it.
- 39:57Speaker 4: Wait for it. That's over tomorrow. You guys can pick
- 39:59Speaker 4: your little loser bracket things, whatever you guys want to do.
- 40:02Speaker 4: Just quickly, the stat again. I want to leave you
- 40:04Speaker 4: guys with this because I think this is important. To
- 40:07Speaker 4: all the Bo Nix discussions that are going to be
- 40:10Speaker 4: had on these airwaves and everywhere else today. Bo Nix
- 40:15Speaker 4: played terrible. Was not, as you would call, especial.
- 40:18Speaker 5: In Monday Night Football. What's the opposite in Spanish?
- 40:21Speaker 4: Bonics es especial. I have one word in Spanish that
- 40:24Speaker 4: I can't say on the air.
- 40:26Speaker 5: Basura. You could say that. Basura.
- 40:28Speaker 3: Bonics es basura. God, I know a lot of.
- 40:29Speaker 4: Bonics es basura. I don't think I can say any
- 40:31Speaker 4: of these. There's an S word that I know in
- 40:36Speaker 4: Spanish that I really want to say, but I can't.
- 40:38Speaker 4: And I don't know the FCC rules around saying things
- 40:40Speaker 4: not in English, but I'm pretty sure you can't.
- 40:42Speaker 3: I got a P word. No, basura is good.
- 40:44Speaker 5: Trash. Bonics es normal.
- 40:47Speaker 2: So.
- 40:48Speaker 4: I want to give you guys this, just so you know.
- 40:52Speaker 4: Bo Nix struggles early in seasons. It's a common theme.
- 40:56Speaker 4: He's done that. His week one against the Chiefs was
- 40:58Speaker 4: the same week one that he had against the Titans
- 41:00Speaker 4: last year, which was the same one he had against
- 41:01Speaker 4: the Seahawks his rookie year. Their stats are almost identical.
- 41:04Speaker 4: Multiple turnovers, under 200 yards passing, really bad. Sean Payton's
- 41:10Speaker 4: record in September, his entire coaching career, has been mid-500.
- 41:17Speaker 4: And so I went back and I looked at Drew Brees.
- 41:19Speaker 4: What does Hall of Famer Drew Brees' career look like
- 41:21Speaker 4: in the month of September, spending most of it with
- 41:24Speaker 4: Sean Payton? He's 29 and 33. 29 and 33 in
- 41:28Speaker 4: his Hall of Fame career in the month of September.
- 41:30Speaker 3: But is he the reason that they're 29 and 33?
- 41:32Speaker 3: The results are the results.
- 41:35Speaker 5: Yeah, the numbers are the numbers, Moshe. You're the numbers
- 41:37Speaker 5: guy this morning. You're the one who goes to your
- 41:39Speaker 5: stupid numbers machine.
- 41:41Speaker 3: Well, Brett, when the Lions were stinking, how often was
- 41:44Speaker 3: it that Matt Stafford was the reason they lost?
- 41:46Speaker 4: Sometimes, and sometimes it wasn't.
- 41:48Speaker 5: I honestly believe.
- 41:49Speaker 3: If they ever won, he was probably the reason.
- 41:52Speaker 5: True. This is my takeaway. Week one of the Broncos season.
- 41:56Speaker 5: I honestly believe they know they're going to start off slowly.
- 42:00Speaker 5: Peyton knows this. Sean Peyton has done this. He's willing
- 42:04Speaker 5: to sacrifice early season games as long as his team
- 42:08Speaker 5: gets better and peaks.
- 42:09Speaker 3: At the right time. He better not this year, man, because.
- 42:11Speaker 5: I'm telling you what I believe.
- 42:17Speaker 3: He better not this year. Look, I'm not saying 0-6.
- 42:20Speaker 3: I think that's impossible. But God, if they skirt out
- 42:24Speaker 3: to a 2-4, that's going to be hard, bro. Well,
- 42:28Speaker 3: of course. I'm telling you, the Ravens are back.
- 42:31Speaker 4: The schedule makes this different. For sure it does.
- 42:34Speaker 3: The Ravens are... Just go down the friggin' AFC, bro.
- 42:39Speaker 3: You tell me who's going to be out? You tell me. Buffalo, no.
- 42:46Speaker 3: Is Baltimore going to be... No. Maybe the Steelers, but
- 42:48Speaker 3: they trade. Jacksonville, we'll see what they do this weekend, but...
- 42:52Speaker 3: I think they're going to win that division. You know,
- 42:55Speaker 3: I mean, you've got teams that are going to respond
- 42:57Speaker 3: and rebound. Cincinnati may be one of those teams. Their
- 43:00Speaker 3: defense was better, but I can guarantee you that Joe
- 43:04Speaker 3: Burrow and company are going to, they put up 33
- 43:06Speaker 3: points against a Buccaneers team that's pretty good and did
- 43:10Speaker 3: it like nothing.
- 43:11Speaker 4: And to take it a step further, just one more
- 43:13Speaker 4: thing for you. Drew Brees in the first four weeks
- 43:15Speaker 4: of the season, so forget September, just the first quarter
- 43:17Speaker 4: of the season, had a record of 38 and 35
- 43:19Speaker 4: in his career. They are just notorious slow starters under
- 43:24Speaker 4: Sean Payton. Whether it's Drew Brees, whether it's Bo Nix,
- 43:28Speaker 4: whether it's Jameis Winston, Trevor Simeon, Teddy Bridgewater, it doesn't matter.
- 43:33Speaker 4: That's just what happens under Sean Payton coached teams. And
- 43:36Speaker 4: it's why I think when you go back and listen
- 43:37Speaker 4: to the postgame audio, Sean Payton didn't seem as upset
- 43:40Speaker 4: as you would have imagined after a game like that, correct?
- 43:43Speaker 4: Seemed actually pretty calm about it. And I think he
- 43:45Speaker 4: knows it. So with that, fact checker, please.
- 43:50Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker.
- 43:54Speaker 3: Fact Checker. Presented by Backus & Shanker.
- 43:58Speaker 1: Serious lawyers for the seriously injured.
- 44:01Speaker 6: So regarding watching sporting events with the commentary or without
- 44:04Speaker 6: the commentary or which feed you choose, I want to
- 44:07Speaker 6: take it a step farther. The Sugarland Space Cowboys, who
- 44:11Speaker 6: are the AAA affiliate of the Houston Astros, had a
- 44:14Speaker 6: theme night back in August.
- 44:17Speaker 5: And that theme.
- 44:18Speaker 6: was nothing. No music, no on-field promotions, no videos, no frills.
- 44:25Speaker 6: Literally just baseball.
- 44:27Speaker 4: Raw dog in a baseball game?
- 44:28Speaker 6: Would you be a fan of raw dog in a
- 44:30Speaker 6: baseball game? No.
- 44:31Speaker 4: Part of the fun of going to the park, you
- 44:33Speaker 4: got the Oregon plan, you got a whole bunch of different,
- 44:35Speaker 4: let's fill the cup of foam in the middle of
- 44:37Speaker 4: the third inning.
- 44:39Speaker 5: That's the opposite of what the Savannah Bananas are doing
- 44:42Speaker 5: to your face during the game.
- 44:44Speaker 3: I don't want to go back to the Rockies unless
- 44:46Speaker 3: they bring back my favorite in between anything of all time.
- 44:51Speaker 3: That was pulling Mrs. Smith out of the stands to
- 44:55Speaker 3: have her catch fly balls out of the machine.
- 44:58Speaker 5: You'd like that, wouldn't you?
- 45:00Speaker 3: Having it bonker on the head.
- 45:01Speaker 4: You know what I always thought was weird? I see
- 45:03Speaker 4: this more at minor league games than major league games,
- 45:06Speaker 4: but when they bring a couple from the stands, two couples,
- 45:09Speaker 4: and they have to thrust a balloon to pop against
- 45:13Speaker 4: each other, it was always a weird thing.
- 45:14Speaker 5: By the way, I have a great idea. Rather than,
- 45:17Speaker 5: you know, we're seeing a lot of these at games,
- 45:19Speaker 5: marriage proposals, let's have divorce court at games.
- 45:26Speaker 3: It's a thought.
- 45:28Speaker 5: Like, actually go through the whole divorce court.
- 45:30Speaker 4: I'm standing here with John Smith. John, what do you
- 45:34Speaker 4: do for a living?
- 45:34Speaker 3: That's great.
- 45:35Speaker 4: You've been served.
- 45:36Speaker 5: Anyway, 303-504-0925.
- 45:39Speaker 4: Catch the podcast, iTunes, Spotify. Mojo Lombardi and Kane, if
- 45:47Speaker 4: you missed any of the show. Tomorrow, we'll have Chad Brown,
- 45:54Speaker 4: we'll have Jeff Laywald get their perspectives on not just
- 45:58Speaker 4: the Broncos game from over the weekend, but the NFL
- 46:00Speaker 4: and college football in general. And then, keep in mind,
- 46:06Speaker 4: Thursday night football viewing party, Lions-Bills. DMACC's going to be
- 46:09Speaker 4: at Stoney's Uptown to watch it with you. So come out,
- 46:12Speaker 4: grab a seat, catch the Lions-Bills with DMACC tomorrow night
- 46:15Speaker 4: at Stoney's. Have a wonderful Wednesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
- 46:19Speaker 3: Love you. See you.