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9-28-26 Rally House Football Monday · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Final play of the game. Stafford fires. In zone. Hufunga.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Holds on. Intercepted. The Broncos win. NBC on the call.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: I know I have a bit of a reputation and
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: that reputation is the Broncos win a football game in
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: the exact way that they won it last night. And
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: I come on the next day and I point out
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: some flaws. You will not hear that from me today.
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  Speaker 1: I will discuss things that they need to do better
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  Speaker 1: in the first half, but there is no other way
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: around this. When you win a game against a team
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  Speaker 1: of that caliber, no matter what the style is, you
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: deserve flowers and kudos. And I think it is remarkable
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: that the Broncos won in that fashion yesterday. There's no
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: other way to put this. And I'll tell you, It's confusing.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way I do it. And finally, maybe I'm just,
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  Speaker 1: I've come around. I don't know. Maybe I've come around
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  Speaker 1: to the idea that no matter what happens, no matter
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  Speaker 1: what it looks like in the first half, no matter
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  Speaker 1: if the crowd boos the team, no matter if you're
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: playing the Rams or you're playing the Miami Dolphins, the
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  Speaker 1: worst team in the league, Best or worst, this is
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  Speaker 1: just their recipe. This is their tried and true. And
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  Speaker 1: they make their own sort of luck. You know, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing I can say here going into today playing against
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  Speaker 1: that opponent where I can tell you that stuff wasn't
• 2:01
  Speaker 1: good enough. It was. Like, here's the weird thing. There's
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: a very bend, but don't break nature to this team.
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  Speaker 1: There is a, we will give up leads. We will
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  Speaker 1: give up long drives. We will do all these things,
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  Speaker 1: but when it matters, when the pressure's at its highest,
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  Speaker 1: we'll make a play. And that's just sort of been
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  Speaker 1: the MO for them forever. You know, my sole reason
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: in coming in for days like today and talking about
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  Speaker 1: the first half and talking about how I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that stuff is good enough is because when you play
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: the elite opponents in the league, you'll get burned by it.
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  Speaker 1: And what I've come to find out is maybe they
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  Speaker 1: just don't. Maybe they don't. And it still, like mentally,
• 3:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to apologize as it's Rally House Football Monday. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It still doesn't make sense. Like, all of what happened
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  Speaker 1: yesterday doesn't compute still. But it works. And like, in
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  Speaker 1: every single instance, I get some people texting me right
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  Speaker 1: now saying, well, that was an interception by Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: late in the game. That wasn't a pass interference. I
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  Speaker 1: would tend to agree. But all I'm saying is, That
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: stuff goes your way late in games every week. And
• 3:39
  Speaker 1: I'm tired of... I'm tired of looking for reasons why
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  Speaker 1: this shouldn't be something that works all year when it's
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  Speaker 1: worked for over a full season and then some change.
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  Speaker 1: There's not much more I can say. Like, here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Your defense, once again, I don't think you win that
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  Speaker 1: game without your defense in this sense. Did you give
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: up 26 points? Yeah. But how many times did they
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  Speaker 1: stiffen up in the red zone and force a field goal?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, just in the first half alone, when that
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  Speaker 1: game could have gotten so out of hand that there
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  Speaker 1: was no opportunity for a comeback in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: It's a 7-0 game after a quarter. They have a
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  Speaker 1: 49-yard drive that gets all the way inside the 10
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  Speaker 1: to the 8-yard line. You stiffen up and you hold
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  Speaker 1: them to a field goal. Offense goes three and out.
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  Speaker 1: 10-0 football game. Rams come back out on the field.
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  Speaker 1: They drive all the way down inside the 20. You
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  Speaker 1: hold them to a field goal. Broncos forced a punt again.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's 13-10. End of half. They drive down the
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  Speaker 1: field to about the 20-yard line. You hold them to
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  Speaker 1: a field goal. Broncos in the second half go three
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  Speaker 1: and out to start the half. Defense holds them to
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  Speaker 1: three and out again. Then it's touchdown. Then it's punt.
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  Speaker 1: Then it's touchdown. And I'll say this. For all of
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  Speaker 1: the issues that I have in the first half and
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  Speaker 1: how things just don't look right, you know, it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I saw this tweet yesterday. And Look, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: this way, but it got me to laugh out loud.
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  Speaker 1: It was a meme of Jake Gyllenhaal, I believe from
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  Speaker 1: the movie Prisoners. And he takes a computer keyboard, much
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  Speaker 1: like this one that I'm holding right now, in studio.
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  Speaker 1: And he's smacking it against the table. You got keys
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  Speaker 1: flying everywhere. And what the text said was, Me, because
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix is trash, but I can't prove it because
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  Speaker 1: he keeps winning. And I just thought, I thought it's
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  Speaker 1: so funny because you look at every single number from
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  Speaker 1: last night and it's like Bo Nix completed 50% of
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: his passes. Not great. He threw for 186 yards on
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  Speaker 1: 34 attempts. Not great. He had another interception last night.
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  Speaker 1: Probably should have had a couple. Not great. But you
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  Speaker 1: have back-to-back touchdown drives when you're down 16 that also
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  Speaker 1: you execute a two-point conversion, including one to Jalen Waddell,
• 6:33
  Speaker 1: where you buzz the tower of the defensive back's head.
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  Speaker 1: And I pointed this out in the Mile High Post
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  Speaker 1: game show last night. It reminded me a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the pass that Jokic made to Aaron Gordon last year
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  Speaker 1: that literally hit, like, the hair follicles of Kamata Sabonis.
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  Speaker 1: I just... I can't do it anymore. It's just, I concede, okay?
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  Speaker 1: I have been beaten into submission that I guess 30
• 7:02
  Speaker 1: minutes of football doesn't matter for this team. The first
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: 30 minutes doesn't matter because the execution late in the
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  Speaker 1: game will be Super Bowl Hall of Fame level and
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  Speaker 1: they'll make the plays. And I love it. Like, I
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are like me and here's
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  Speaker 1: what's funny. I know you are. Because I hear the
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  Speaker 1: crowd during a game. Once again, there are boos inside
• 7:27
  Speaker 1: of Mile High Stadium. There are boos. Followed by drunken
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: take-your-pants-off cheers at the end of the game. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you again, when you have this much of a
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  Speaker 1: slow start followed up by amazing execution. And I'll be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you. I'm watching the second half. Broncos go
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back touchdown drives, tied up to 16 with the two-point conversions.
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  Speaker 1: You throw the pick, and that drive for the Rams
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  Speaker 1: starts at the 37-yard line. And part of me thought,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just, I'm telling you, part of me thought,
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  Speaker 1: game's over. Game's over. You had all the momentum, you
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  Speaker 1: throw an interception off a tipped pass at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and now it feels like the Rams are
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  Speaker 1: going to take it right back. Instead, you hold them
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  Speaker 1: to a field goal, but then you go three and out.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm thinking the same thing again. That next drive
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams started with seven minutes on the clock.
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  Speaker 1: They're up three. All right, well, they got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to bury you. Hufanga, who's the player of the game,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Steps up, jumps the route, picks six,
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  Speaker 1: and now you have your first lead. But then that's
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  Speaker 1: followed up by the defense allowing a 50-yard touchdown for
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: the Rams to take a three-point lead again. Like every
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  Speaker 1: reason in the world for me to think that a
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  Speaker 1: win's just not going to happen. But Bo Nix leads
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  Speaker 1: them down the field. For a touchdown drive. And did
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  Speaker 1: you get lucky and fortunate on a call? Yes. It's
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  Speaker 1: okay to say that out loud. That was not pass interference.
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  Speaker 1: It should have been an interception. If that was on
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  Speaker 1: the shoe on the other foot, if that's Sertan on
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  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams and they call that, you're livid. And you
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  Speaker 1: should be. You would have every right to be. But
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  Speaker 1: you get the benefit of that. You get the benefit
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  Speaker 1: of a hands to the face on Evan Ingram that
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  Speaker 1: was like half a second. But that's just what the
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  Speaker 1: team is. It's just what the team is. I'm tired
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  Speaker 1: of fighting it. I've been beaten into submission. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: This is just the way this team operates. But it
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  Speaker 1: functions unlike any high level winning team that I've seen
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  Speaker 1: in the past. Like, I was doing the post-game show
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  Speaker 1: last night, and DMACC keeps taking things back to Tebow.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like Tebow. It's not. Tebow had a good
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  Speaker 1: drive at the end of a game. Having one good
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  Speaker 1: drive or one moment where you put a 12-play drive
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  Speaker 1: together and that's what wins you the game, that is
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  Speaker 1: totally separate from what this team does. If it was
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  Speaker 1: just a singular drive, you could point out like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you need to make one play late in a game,
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  Speaker 1: then I guess this guy can do it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: full half. When you're down 16 at halftime, it's not
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  Speaker 1: one play that you make that puts you back in
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  Speaker 1: a ballgame. It's two quarters worth. And you dig the
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  Speaker 1: hole so deep, but always find a way to come back.
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to him. Like I said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to sit here and utter a negative syllable today.
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  Speaker 1: Why would I? The whole premise and the whole point
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  Speaker 1: behind why I was critical about first halves is when
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  Speaker 1: you play teams that are the elite of the league,
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  Speaker 1: they'll make you pay for it. And for a long
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  Speaker 1: time last night, it felt like the Rams were doing that.
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  Speaker 1: but you executed every crucial play that you had to. Again,
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  Speaker 1: to not just get the touchdowns, to get the two-point
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  Speaker 1: conversions with it. We put ourself behind the eight ball.
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  Speaker 1: We're down three now late in the game. Hufanga steps
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  Speaker 1: up and gives you a touchdown. We need to get
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  Speaker 1: a stop. This is what, you know, we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: this in a second. What we discussed, both of these teams,
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  Speaker 1: if the game was close late, Whoever had the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you would not feel comfortable if you're the opposing defense.
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  Speaker 1: And I know the stadium and every fan felt that
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  Speaker 1: way watching the Rams and Stafford driving late in that game.
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  Speaker 1: But 3-0-3, 5-0-4, 0-9-2-5. I'm here. I've arrived. This is
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  Speaker 1: who the team is. And I suppose it is sustainable
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  Speaker 1: because it's been that way over a year and a half.
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  Speaker 1: And you did it against what I believe is the
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  Speaker 1: best team in the NFL. On paper, top to bottom.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hell of a win. No matter what way
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  Speaker 1: you slice it, to get a win and to get
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  Speaker 1: it like that certainly is a confidence builder and it
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  Speaker 1: gives you leeway moving forward, which we'll get to in
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of minutes. Broadcasting from the back is
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  Speaker 1: in Shanker Studios. Their passion is justice. Back after this. Look,
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  Speaker 1: obviously a gutsy win. Really a tale of two halves.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a ton of respect for those guys. We beat,
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  Speaker 1: you know, a good team tonight. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: think the halves couldn't have been more different. You don't say.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton after the game yesterday. Ryan Harris is going
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  Speaker 1: to join us at 8 o'clock this morning. It is
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  Speaker 1: Rally House Football Monday on Altitude Sports Radio. Rally House,
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  Speaker 1: shop every team in town. So, texture says was at
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  Speaker 1: the game never have I been so stressed out at
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  Speaker 1: a game here's the thing that feels like standard operating
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  Speaker 1: procedure for them the reason it felt different was because
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: the Rams are scary like they they have this feel
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  Speaker 1: to them like they have this feel That if you
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  Speaker 1: make a mistake, they're going to kill you for it.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just bring up some numbers from yesterday. The
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  Speaker 1: Rams had 482 yards of offense. You had 257. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: they almost doubled you up. They had 366 passing yards
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  Speaker 1: to your 179. 116 rushing to your 78. The big
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  Speaker 1: categories that mattered in this game were that they had
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  Speaker 1: 13 penalties per For 91 yards, the Broncos got four
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  Speaker 1: first downs off of penalties, and they turned the ball
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  Speaker 1: over twice to you only turning it over once, and
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  Speaker 1: one of those turnovers for the Rams resulted directly in
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  Speaker 1: points and a pick six. It feels like that's the
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  Speaker 1: only way you win that game, but they do that,
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos do that so often. You know, again, it's
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  Speaker 1: hard for me As I've been this, I'll admit it.
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  Speaker 1: I know it. I've been there so many times where
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing the show today. And it's hard to not
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  Speaker 1: look at, you know, when Peyton says the tale of
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  Speaker 1: two halves. I'm somebody where I'm like, I can't just
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: ignore the first half because you won. But at some point,
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  Speaker 1: I have to. And it's not ignore it, but not
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  Speaker 1: make it this, well, if you do that in the future,
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  Speaker 1: there is no future. The future's here. You've done it
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. And they just find a way
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  Speaker 1: to win. Taxi says, Brett, do you think the same
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  Speaker 1: outcome would have happened if Puka was in? I don't know. Probably.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the team does. But we mentioned something yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: No matter who had the ball last. Let's say that
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: we brought up this exact scenario. If you're down with
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win the game late and Bo Nix
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  Speaker 1: has the football, I bet the opposing defense is terrified
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  Speaker 1: because that's just what happens. Bo Nix is very good
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  Speaker 1: late in games. But what I mentioned was you would
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  Speaker 1: be equally as terrified if that was Matthew Stafford. Because
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  Speaker 1: he's done that over and over and over again. And
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  Speaker 1: the fact that, look, they started at the 33-yard line
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  Speaker 1: with 47 seconds left. And they got all the way
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  Speaker 1: down to the 14-yard line at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: All I thought to myself after the Broncos scored that
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  Speaker 1: touchdown to go up at that time, 29-26, is please
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  Speaker 1: don't miss the extra point because if you do, this
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  Speaker 1: is going to overtime. There was no doubt in my
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  Speaker 1: mind Stafford was going to get them at least in
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  Speaker 1: position to try and win that game. And if you
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: miss the extra point to tie it. I've seen it
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  Speaker 1: over and over again with this guy. It's what he does.
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  Speaker 1: He thrives in moments like this. But they drive all
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  Speaker 1: the way down to the 14. And here's the thing, man.
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  Speaker 1: They look totally discombobulated at the end of the game.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and that's a shout out to the crowd
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  Speaker 1: that was at Mile High. You were so loud. I
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: don't know if you guys saw this happen if you
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: were at the game. You were so loud, especially late
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: in that game. Stafford's trying to get the final play
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  Speaker 1: call in. He's holding his hands over the ear holes
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  Speaker 1: of his helmet to try and drown out the noise
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  Speaker 1: so he can hear the play call. He can't hear
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  Speaker 1: it to the point to where, like a high school team,
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  Speaker 1: he runs to the sideline, sprints to get the play
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  Speaker 1: call directly from Sean McVay's mouth, only to sprint back
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  Speaker 1: in the huddle. And I'll tell you what was weird
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  Speaker 1: about that. He gets to the huddle by the time
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  Speaker 1: he talks to McVay with about 15 seconds left in
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  Speaker 1: the play clock. They are sprinting to the line of scrimmage.
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  Speaker 1: This is the final play of the game. And Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton calls a timeout, and my first reaction is, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Like, they were panicked. They were panicked,
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  Speaker 1: and they were floundering, and trying to, like, schizo their
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  Speaker 1: way for a last play of the game, and it
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: felt like Sean Payton kind of bailed them out. He
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: calls a timeout, gives them time to get adjusted and settled.
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  Speaker 1: But it results in another interception from Mufanga. It works.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you, everything this team does late in
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  Speaker 1: a game works. It is, and I mean this sincerely,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of the most incredible things to watch is
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  Speaker 1: this team late in a game. how every play is made,
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  Speaker 1: how every break goes their way, how like everything just
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  Speaker 1: comes together in this cosmic positive energy, all of it. It's,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You ever seen like those really old TV shows, almost
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  Speaker 1: like the silent films where it's a guy's walking down
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  Speaker 1: the street and he's just whistling his way down and
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: there's a piano that falls from the top of a
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: building and it lands right behind him and he's like
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: unaware of it and he keeps going and then there's
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: a big car crash in front of him but he
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: walks through the car. crosswalk unscathed that's what the Broncos
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: feel like to me it's just there's so many different
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  Speaker 1: opportunities for what you didn't do early in the game
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  Speaker 1: to bite you for a mistake that you make late
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  Speaker 1: in the game to bite you and it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: they just get it done I just think it's nuts.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a massive compliment to him. The ability to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: block out, and this is the biggest compliment you can
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: pay to this football team in particular. It literally has
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: no bearing what happens earlier in a game on their
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: confidence level late. That's a hell of a quality. Like
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: to have the mind of a goldfish. when the game
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  Speaker 1: matters most. It's unbelievable. And I'll tell you, there's a
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  Speaker 1: few people that you can point to that should get
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: giant kudos for that game last night. I think the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: way that Bo Nix finished the game is huge. Put
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  Speaker 1: the numbers off to the side, first half off to
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  Speaker 1: the side to make some of the throws that he did,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: including that Both two-point conversions. If you get the touchdowns
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: but miss the two-point conversions, I think the Rams still
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  Speaker 1: feel confident. But when you convert on those and tie
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the game in two possessions, because they all thought, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I think we all thought, it's likely a three-possession game.
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  Speaker 1: The odds of you getting not only two touchdowns unanswered,
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  Speaker 1: but to get two two-point conversions unanswered are really, really difficult.
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  Speaker 1: And he made it happen. He gets huge kudos. Obviously, Hufanga,
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  Speaker 1: who is the player of the game. I mean, two interceptions,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: including one being a pick six and one that closed
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  Speaker 1: the game out. And then, you know, the blitz off
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  Speaker 1: the edge where he comes untouched for a big sack
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  Speaker 1: on Stafford. But I'll tell you what, that's also a
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: credit to Vance Joseph. Remember, this Rams team, we knew
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: they were going to score in the 20s. They're just
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  Speaker 1: really good. I think in the NFL this year, as
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: close to perfect offensively as you can get. A quarterback
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: who can make every single throw. A rushing attack that
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: is a two-headed monster where both guys can have great runs.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Wide receivers, even with Puka Nakua out, you still have
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Devontae Adams there. You have a host of tight ends
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that you have to deal with. Like, they're just really,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: really good. We knew they were going to score in
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the 20s. And we all kind of thought to ourselves,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Vic was the one who said
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: it last week. You got to score about 28 points
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: to beat this team. Turns out that's a perfect number.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But here's the big thing. You scored 30. Seven of
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: those came from the defense. The offense put up 23 points.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Without Hufanga jumping around for a pick six and then
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: having a great return afterwards, who knows? Maybe it's still
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a loss, but that's kind of what this team is.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It is somebody's going to make a play, and somebody's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: going to make a play when it matters most. It
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: almost feels like the only way you can beat the
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Broncos is by kicking their ass. Like, you have to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: give them absolutely no hope of coming back. That's what
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: happened against the Chiefs. That's what happened last year against
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the Jags in the only game that you lost in
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the final, what, 14 games the regular season? The only
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: way that you beat the Broncos is by absolutely taking
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: any hope away. Because if you leave a glimmer of it,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: they're going to take it. But I think, once again,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: defense plays great essentially the entire game. Not perfect, but great.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Offense plays great when they have to. And it leads
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: to a win against one of the best teams in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the league. And here's the beauty. The Broncos are now 2-1.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: They now created a margin for error for the rest
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: of what's going to be a very, very difficult season.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: beginning part of the schedule. As difficult as this game
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: is against the Rams, I think the game this upcoming
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: week against the Niners is going to be even harder
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: with it being on the road. You know, there's one
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: thing about the Broncos. The Broncos at home are an
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: absolute demon. I mean, again, you go back to last season.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: They lost one home game And it was the Jacksonville game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Even going back to the year before. Really good at home.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Really good. I mean, if you don't include the playoffs,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the Broncos under Bo Nix have lost one and one
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: home game since October 14th of 2024. They're really good
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: at home. Really good. So a texture says, Brett, do
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: you feel like Bo feels out the game in the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: first half then turns it on in the second? I've
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: had a longstanding sort of thought towards Bo Nix and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: his style. And I think a lot of this has
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: to do with mentally. where he's at. Bo, it's always
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: felt to me, and I don't want to say he's overcoached.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's the case. But late in the game,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: he's so different than earlier because, first of all, I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: think he knows there's time. that he has to come back,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: and he's done it so many times that there is
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: no panic button in the first half if it doesn't
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: look good, and that's fine. I think he overthinks the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: first half. I think he's like, I have to go
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: through all of my progressions, and I can't take a sack,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and you don't want to turn the ball over, so
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I'll just dump it down if the play's not perfect downfield,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to do this, so I want
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: to make sure I execute this play call right, and
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: what defense... I think that he just has all these
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: different things going on in his head. And then they're
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: down 16. It's like, well, shoot. We got to get
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: in the end zone. And then he just plays. I
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: think there is a comfortability in him having like, well,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: nothing to lose. We're down 16. And I think that's
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: why he plays his best late. He's not trying to
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: overcomplicate things. He's just trying to play football. It's like
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: his brain gets rewired into, I've done this my entire life.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Just go out and make a throw. Here's a comparison
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: for you. If you play golf, maybe you want to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: go out the first couple holes and you think to yourself,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: hey man, I want to try and shoot low today.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I want to try and break 80. When you triple
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the first hole, the thoughts of doing that kind of
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: go out the window. And I know a lot of
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: guys that if they do that, they start the first
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: couple holes are terrible. They end up playing great because
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: they don't care. It's now all of a sudden not
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: like I'm trying to be perfect. It's who cares? Let's
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: just go out and rip it. It's not going to
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: matter anyway. And then all of a sudden you look
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: late in the round and you're like, dude, I'm playing
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: pretty good. And I think a lot of that has
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to do with when you start as poorly as you do,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, shoot, man. Let's just go out and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: make a couple of plays, try and keep this thing close.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: But then once that starts to happen, now the confidence
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: is built. And now late in the game, you got
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: one team opposite of you that's reeling, that is leaking confidence,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: like a tire with a nail in it. And you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: are hooked up to some, why can I not think
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of the word? Good Lord. Air pressure gun. Why can
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: I not think of it? No, not air soft. Like
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: air compressor. Thank God. Finally got there. Like an air compressor.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And it's just. And you are blowing up like a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Macy's Day parade balloon. That's what your confidence is. But
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: it's all because you're just kind of in bleep it mode.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: And I think that's a lot of what Bo Nix has.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of why late in games he's so successful.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: There's something about digging such a hole that you're like, well,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. We're probably going to lose anyway. It's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to me, it's... And again, people make the comparison to Tebow.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: This is not Tebow. This is not a drive at
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the end of a game where you win 13-7. Guys,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: you had to score 30. To win in that game,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you had to put up 30 points and a half.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And to be honest, you had to put up 16
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: in the third just to make the Rams feel like
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: they were under pressure. There ain't a single member of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the Rams that didn't think they were winning that game
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: through two and a half quarters. Not a single one.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And I honestly think they took their foot off the gas.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And then like what the Broncos do to everybody, you
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: look up at the score, you go, oh bleep. Now
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: we got to go play again. And it's just the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Broncos already in that mode and the other teams can't
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: get it going. So 303, 504, 0925, shot Mazda text line,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: one price, one person, one hour. I mean, there was
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: so much from the football weekend I want to discuss,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: but this might be all four hours today. is just
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Broncos because they, they deserve it. This is a team
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: that just continues to win. No matter who the opponent is,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: no matter what the deficit is. So we'll get to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: all that in just a couple of minutes. Stick around
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: to rally house football Monday. Ryan Harris is going to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: join us at eight o'clock this morning. I was talking
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: to Jesse during the break and the Broncos are the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: perfect example. Like, can you, I want you guys to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: imagine something for a second. Join me on a long
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: journey into my brain. And think about this. If the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: way the Broncos won wasn't the Broncos, but it was
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, you'd be insane about this. And rightly so.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine what any other team in this division,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: if you're a fan of the Chiefs, the Raiders, the Chargers, whoever,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: they must be insane about how the Broncos win football games.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Imagine if every week you turn on your television and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs are down 16 points to these Super Bowl
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: favorites at half and they come out in the second
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: half and put up 30 to win a football game
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: and that happens every week. You would be the Aaron Paul,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Jesse from Breaking Bad. They can't keep getting away with that. Like,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: you would do that every week. And look, I started
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the show by saying this in this Rally House Victory Monday.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: They've beaten me into submission, okay? I can't keep doing it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: And I kind of thought to myself, no matter what
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the result is, If you get a win against a
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Rams team, it is a gigantic dub no matter how
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you slice it. It doesn't matter if you won 3-2.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: You beat the Rams. That's a huge win for a
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: number of different reasons. First of all, it gives you
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: confidence and I don't want to say legitimacy because they've
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: had it before, but legitimacy that this style works against
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: elite opponents. Okay? But secondly... What this game does is
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: it gives you a cushion. If we all kind of
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: agreed heading into this season that if the Broncos go
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: 3-3 through the first six weeks, that they do that,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and if they do go 500, it feels like you
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: would take that immediately. And I think most people were
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: on board with that. Most people looked at it and said, man,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: what a murderer's row of a schedule the first six
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: weeks of the season was. I just hope we go 500. Well,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you're 2-1 right now. You have given yourself leeway. You
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: have given yourself a cushion that maybe, I don't know
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: if I expected, especially after the first week against Kansas City.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You know, there were people on this station talking about, well,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: what if they start the year 0-5? 0-5. You know,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: we were having the same discussion that teams are having
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: about the Chargers. Like, oh, the Chargers dropped those first
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: two games. Have you seen what's left on their schedule?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: They might be 0-8. There were people on this station
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: talking about that. Now, I wasn't one of them. But
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I recognize, man, that Chiefs loss threw up a whole
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: bunch of antennas in my brain, which was like... I felt...
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: The problems they had were wholly correctable after the first week,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and they got, for the most part, all of that
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: done in week two. But for two straight weeks, you've
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: had home games in which the crowd has booed the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: home team and then come back and won a football game.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Really hard to do. But now that you're 2-1, let's
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: say you go out and lose on the road next
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: weekend in San Francisco because the Niners are tough. So what?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: That's what that win last night did for you. You
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: have two more opportunities after that to get one more
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: win to be 500, and it feels like you've done
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: the job of keeping your head above water. Now you're
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: kind of thinking to yourself, well, what if we go
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: four and two in this stretch? The Chargers aren't winning
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: football games. That looks like a game that you should
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: be a pretty heavy favorite in. Week six is against
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the Seahawks here. Seahawks just got Sam Darnold back and
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: lost to the commanders that had Marcus Mariota playing quarterback yesterday.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? It just gives you that
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: opportunity now to be like, okay, through the first three weeks, result-wise,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: two gigantic thumbs up. The way you've gotten there, maybe
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: you want to correct some things. Maybe you want to
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: tweak this or that. It's funny, during the post-game show
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: last night, LG asked me, she was like, What have
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you noticed with Davis Webb and how would you evaluate
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: his play calling? And I mean this sincerely. You guys
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: tell me. Maybe I'm wrong. You tell me. If the
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: story this offseason, do you remember last year when CU
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: made a change at offensive coordinator, they took the play
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: calling duties away from Pat Shermer, but we didn't find
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: out for like three weeks? Let's say that that's what happened.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that we were not aware that Davis Webb was in
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: charge of the play calling, that we all assumed it
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: was still Sean Payton. Would you bat an eyelash at
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: all with what you've seen? It looks no different. There's
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: at times a lack of commitment to the running game.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: There is still a three and out problem. There is
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: still a consistency issue. There is still an early game
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: issue on offense, but you find ways to win. But
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: it looks, honestly, it looks no different. There's nothing about
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the offense that I could point to that's like, yep,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: this is way different than last year. I think through
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, they've made more of a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: commitment to the running game. You know, to Davis Webb's credit, J.K.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Dobbins wasn't exactly going crazy last night. He had 17
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: carries for 49 yards, but you stuck to it. You know, J.K. Dobbins,
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, doesn't look right. You know, this is
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: kind of what I was saying earlier. Maybe this is
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: a discussion for later in the show. Dobbins, with his
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: pinky promise of, I'm not going to miss football games
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: this year, I think could challenge himself to play through
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: injuries that hinder him. I think last night's maybe an
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: example of it, but to his credit, it kind of
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: felt like you had to. With Jonah Coleman now on IR.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: But it's... I don't know, man. They just always find
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a way. That game, you can say it was the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: ref's game. Knicks didn't win that game. I fully acknowledge
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: that you were the benefit of a couple of really
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: big calls late in that game. Most particularly the pass
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: interference that should have been an interception. There is no
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: problem with saying that out loud. That should have been
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: a pick. That was not pass interference. If that was
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the other way, I think every Broncos fan would have
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: been losing their minds over that call. I think you're
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: also the benefit of a hand to the face on
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Evan Ingram that felt, is it by letter of the
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: law penalty? I suppose so, but it felt very ticky tack.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Here's where Knicks does get credit. Okay, you got the
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: benefit of a couple calls. You finish after him. Capitalize
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: on him. It's what good quarterbacks do. The throws that
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Bo made to get you back in that game were
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: gigantic throws that I wish happened in the first quarter.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: That's it. Just wish they happened earlier. But once again,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you get another dub. Brian Harris is going to join
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: us at 8 o'clock this morning. It is a rally.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: House Football Monday on Altitude Sports Radio. Rally House. Shop
• 39:34
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• 39:35
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• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Radio 92.5. It's another dub against a really, really good
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: opponent who you spotted 16 points. It's incredible of their
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: resolve to show the resolve that the Broncos did. And
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it more with Moshe Lombardi and Kane next.