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10-14-26 - Avs beat the Stars 3-2/NFL STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Bo Nix's open & honest presser · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
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  Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
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  Speaker 2: Stars win it.
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  Speaker 3: Harley has it at the point. Two seconds.
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  Speaker 4: One.
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  Speaker 2: Thrown towards the cage. And we are done in Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Colorado comes in and gets two points against their Central
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  Speaker 2: Division rivals. Marty Natchez scores twice. Lekkonen scores once. And
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  Speaker 2: deep in the heart of Texas, Colorado gets a 3-2 win.
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  Speaker 2: And they'll try and double up Dallas tomorrow in downtown Denver, Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: On the stupid f * * * ing abs feed.
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  Speaker 1: I hate these commentators, bro.
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  Speaker 3: Those are the worst commentators in the league.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot about our friend down there in Dallas. Great
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  Speaker 4: game yesterday. You know, I asked for something going into
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  Speaker 4: that game. There was a request that I had. And
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  Speaker 4: you want to win every game that you go out
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  Speaker 4: there and play.
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  Speaker 6: You do.
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  Speaker 3: But I wanted a specific style of win.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to see something in particular, and I think
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  Speaker 4: that the Avs felt the same way about this, at
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  Speaker 4: least the coaching staff.
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  Speaker 3: You're going into play in a tough environment.
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  Speaker 4: This is on the front end of a back-to-back, so
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  Speaker 4: you know that Wedgwood is going to get one of
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  Speaker 4: these games. There have been some concerns about McKenzie Blackwood's
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  Speaker 4: start to this year, combined with kind of how last
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  Speaker 4: season ended, okay? It's not that he was bad. But
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  Speaker 4: it did leave question marks of like, how trustworthy is
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  Speaker 4: he going to be? Well, I wanted McKenzie Blackwood to
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  Speaker 4: go out there last night in a hostile environment off
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  Speaker 4: a not great game and a game in which Jared
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  Speaker 4: Bednar kind of called him out and said, hey, you
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  Speaker 4: got to make a save. Not to say that the
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  Speaker 4: shots were like easy shots that you let in, but
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  Speaker 4: Even on tough shots, we can't let every tough shot
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  Speaker 4: go through.
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  Speaker 3: We need a save.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted McKenzie Blackwood to face Dallas. I wanted him
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  Speaker 4: to get tested. And I wanted him to make some
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  Speaker 4: of those saves. And he did last night.
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  Speaker 3: He was fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: It was a game in which you could say, what
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  Speaker 4: are the reasons that you won the game? You didn't
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  Speaker 4: win because you scored seven. You won because McKenzie Blackwood
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  Speaker 4: played great. And that's what you wanted to see. And
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  Speaker 4: there is this very odd sort of, push and pull
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  Speaker 4: with the goalies right now. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: resume has something to do with it, but for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 4: last year, your goaltending between McKenzie Blackwood and Scott Wedgwood,
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  Speaker 4: the Lumberyard, they had the best statistical season of anybody
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  Speaker 4: in the league. Those two guys combined, had the best
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  Speaker 4: save percentage, they had the best goals against, they allowed
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  Speaker 4: the least goals, they had all these different categories that
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  Speaker 4: you want to see from your goaltenders. And still, it
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  Speaker 4: feels like there's not that much trust. And I'm not
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  Speaker 4: accusing anyone of anything.
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  Speaker 3: I'm in the same boat. I just can't figure out why.
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  Speaker 4: I had a year's worth of evidence in front of
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  Speaker 4: me that said this was pretty good, and I have
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  Speaker 4: not accepted it. And the first sight... that I got
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of us got this year of maybe
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  Speaker 4: a lack of confidence, if you want to call it that.
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  Speaker 4: We all kind of jumped on it. It was like, aha, see,
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  Speaker 4: I told you.
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  Speaker 3: I told you.
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  Speaker 4: I told you we couldn't trust this.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see Blackwood have a good game, and
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  Speaker 3: he did. Shout out to him.
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  Speaker 4: We also got another Nathan McKinnon fight last night. That
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  Speaker 4: I'm not a huge fan of. I know it's just,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he caught a little bit of a leak
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  Speaker 4: above his nose. Did he say something about his visor?
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  Speaker 4: Is that why he left the ice for a second?
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  Speaker 5: I think it was, I believe it was twofold. He
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  Speaker 5: already had taken a stick or something to the face
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  Speaker 5: in the Winnipeg game. Remember, he already had a cut
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  Speaker 5: from that. Plus, his visor got broken in, so it
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  Speaker 5: was tearing open a wound that he already had from
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  Speaker 5: a few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: When you saw that going on, he looked like that
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  Speaker 5: famous picture of J.J. Watt with blood streaming down his face.
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  Speaker 3: It made it look a lot worse than it was.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's his second fight that he's had in six games.
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  Speaker 4: We're talking to Bednar today. We already asked him last week,
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  Speaker 4: what do you think about McKinnon fighting? He goes, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it's not something we want to happen too often,
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  Speaker 4: but that's part of his personality. It's like, all right,
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  Speaker 4: can we make it less part of your personality? If
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  Speaker 4: Nathan McKinnon misses two months of the season because he
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  Speaker 4: breaks his hand in somebody's visor, I'm going to lose
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  Speaker 4: my mind.
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  Speaker 5: Point of order, Your Honor. Whose hand did he break?
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  Speaker 5: punching their face in. I don't care if he misses
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  Speaker 5: the rest of the season beating the hell out of
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  Speaker 5: Jamie Benn.
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  Speaker 3: I love this.
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  Speaker 5: I love this new version of Nate. I hope every
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  Speaker 5: time that he goes to punch somebody in the face,
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  Speaker 5: he sees ghosts of that stuffy from the Olympics. I
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  Speaker 5: love this angry Nate. Punch a Vegas Golden Knights face in.
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  Speaker 5: Punch a Minnesota Wilds face in. I do not care
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  Speaker 5: if you break a hand. I love this version of
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  Speaker 5: Nathan McKinnon.
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  Speaker 4: I love a feisty Nathan McKinnon. I love it even
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  Speaker 4: more if Svechkov steps up and fights somebody for him.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 4: I just like that you, I want him to have
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  Speaker 4: a bulldog on the chain and I don't care who
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  Speaker 4: it is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like him taking the punches. Okay. Or I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even so much taking the punches that I
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  Speaker 4: care less about. It's giving the punches that you get.
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  Speaker 4: You catch one clean across the chops. Like what happened
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  Speaker 4: to that dude in Detroit last week?
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So you're out for a game or two. You hit
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  Speaker 4: somebody in the wrong place and a knuckle gets dislodged. Now,
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  Speaker 4: all of a sudden, that's your moneymaker is what you
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  Speaker 4: do with your hands. Anyway, he was in a fight
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  Speaker 4: last night. Svechkov in a fight last night.
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  Speaker 3: It was feisty.
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  Speaker 4: And you love to see that in an early regular
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  Speaker 4: season game. As the abs improved to four and two
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  Speaker 4: on the season. Now, Marty Nates just had a hell
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  Speaker 4: of a game. He always just seemed to be right place,
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  Speaker 4: right time. When he had an opportunity, he capitalized on it.
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  Speaker 4: He still had moments last night. And even EJ on
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  Speaker 4: the broadcast pointed it out. He is somebody that he
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  Speaker 4: will pass up a good opportunity to try and get
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  Speaker 4: a great opportunity. Meaning he'll have a shot where it's
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  Speaker 4: him and the goalie. but he sees somebody maybe on
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  Speaker 4: the far side of the net that he's like, if
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  Speaker 4: I can squeeze this pass through, then that's the perfect play.
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  Speaker 4: I need him to be a little less perfect and
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more the good chance guy.
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  Speaker 3: Because he has an amazing shot. And we've seen it
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  Speaker 3: over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 4: I just want to see him in particular, just when
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  Speaker 4: he gets a chance at it, There's not many guys
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  Speaker 4: on this team that I would want one-on-one with the
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  Speaker 4: goalie taking the shot more than Marty Natchez. It's McKinnon
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  Speaker 4: and probably McCart.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. So he played a phenomenal game.
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  Speaker 4: It was another one of those I felt like at
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  Speaker 4: times he was trying to be a little bit too
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  Speaker 4: cute with it. But I think you got kind of
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  Speaker 4: everything you wanted to see from the game last night.
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  Speaker 3: You got a very even game as far as shots.
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  Speaker 4: This wasn't one of those, you know, the ice is
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  Speaker 4: tilted in one direction and it's 40 shots to 18
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  Speaker 4: or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Which, look, ideally that would be the scenario.
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  Speaker 4: But again, going into the game last night, I wanted
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  Speaker 4: to see Blackwood get challenged and I wanted to see
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  Speaker 4: him make saves. You won the game last night because
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  Speaker 4: Mackenzie Blackwood was good. If you get more of those,
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  Speaker 4: you build confidence within your goaltender and And then everything
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  Speaker 4: else takes off.
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  Speaker 3: They said it on the broadcast last night.
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  Speaker 4: They were talking to Jared Bednar, and he said, McKenzie Blackwood,
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  Speaker 4: and he stopped him and goes, if he plays well,
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  Speaker 4: our team goes to another level. And I'll ask him
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  Speaker 4: the same thing today, and I'm sure we're going to
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  Speaker 4: get the exact same answer. But it's just, it's different.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's the one thing the Avs have had
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  Speaker 4: kind of everything over the last five, six years. They've
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  Speaker 4: had the MVP. They've had the Norris Trophy winner. They've
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  Speaker 4: had great power plays. They've had bad power plays. Great PKs.
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  Speaker 4: So-so PKs. They've had top six guys who are awesome.
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  Speaker 4: They've had second-line centers, and they've had second-line centers.
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  Speaker 3: Who are duds. Like, they've had everything. The one thing
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  Speaker 3: that they haven't had at.
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  Speaker 4: Least perception-wise, is a very high-level goaltender. They've had goaltenders
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  Speaker 4: that were good. Darcy was good. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: guys you can put. Varley, when he was healthy, good.
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  Speaker 4: You haven't had great. But I think a game like
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  Speaker 4: that just does a lot for the psyche.
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  Speaker 5: And, Brett, I guess I'm a glutton for punishment because
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  Speaker 5: yesterday when I was parking in the garage of the
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  Speaker 5: Lindsay Flanagan Corp.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out my girl Lindsay Flanagan. Shout out.
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  Speaker 5: I was listening to the appetizer, just, you know, got
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  Speaker 5: to keep one eye on the show, and you were saying,
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  Speaker 5: you were begging, you were imploring, you were like, just.
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  Speaker 3: Make a save.
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  Speaker 5: Like, you've got to have a goaltender who can bail
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  Speaker 5: you out when you do something stupid. Because even the
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  Speaker 5: best teams have moments where they do something stupid, and
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  Speaker 5: you need to believe that your goalie can bail you out. Well,
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  Speaker 5: Sam Malinsky's brain short circuits and leaves the door open for, like,
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  Speaker 5: a six-on-one breakaway. I didn't even count how many dudes
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  Speaker 5: had a wide-open path to the net, and Blackwood made
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  Speaker 5: the save, capital S, capital T, the save that you
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  Speaker 5: were looking for.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed.
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  Speaker 3: That's what you need. He did that multiple times. Gabe
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  Speaker 3: Blansky did the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: Turnover right over the middle of the ice and it's
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  Speaker 4: a prime opportunity for Dallas. And it's one of those
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  Speaker 4: situations you're just thinking to yourself, okay, this is going
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  Speaker 4: to end poorly.
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  Speaker 3: And guess what? It didn't. Because he made a save. It's...
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  Speaker 3: Blackwood is very, very.
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  Speaker 4: Capable of doing things that would make you believe that
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  Speaker 4: he is the right guy for the gig.
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  Speaker 3: Long term.
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  Speaker 4: Because here's what the setup is. The setup right now
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  Speaker 4: is this is Scott Wedgwood's final year here. And he's
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  Speaker 4: been a nice little backup option. He was a backup
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  Speaker 4: option that became your first option towards the end of
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  Speaker 4: last year. But the guy that's under contract is Mackenzie Blackwood,
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  Speaker 4: and that is the guy, like you can tell, they
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  Speaker 4: are force-feeding him early in the year. This isn't the
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  Speaker 4: rotation that they had last year. You've played in six games.
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  Speaker 4: Mackenzie Blackwood's played in five. They are forcing the number
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  Speaker 4: one thing on him and saying, please, for the love
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  Speaker 4: of God.
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  Speaker 3: Take this. And he did. And to do that last night,
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  Speaker 3: think about it this way. You know, Sam Malinsky, you
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  Speaker 3: just brought him up. He's in the lineup.
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  Speaker 4: He was a healthy scratch in the last game because
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  Speaker 4: he has not played well to start this year for
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  Speaker 4: the exact reason of what you brought up. He's turning
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  Speaker 4: the puck over and leaving his goaltenders.
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  Speaker 3: In really, really bad spots.
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  Speaker 4: But he's playing last night because Kel McCarr is having
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  Speaker 4: a baby. And not having Kel McCarr in a game
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  Speaker 4: against Dallas, who's a very good team, it matters.
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  Speaker 3: And Mosher brought this up going into the game.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas is a team that has been very sputtery on
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  Speaker 4: offense to start this year.
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  Speaker 3: They've had three games, half their games, in which they
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  Speaker 3: have put up one goal or less. In the case
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  Speaker 3: of last night, it was two.
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  Speaker 4: But they had prime opportunities that were shut down by
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  Speaker 4: your goalie, and that's exactly what you wanted to see
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  Speaker 4: going into last night. Now, tonight, you travel back to Denver.
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  Speaker 4: You play them again. And Wedgwood will get the start tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I would think McCarr will be back in.
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  Speaker 3: I would think. But you got the opportunity here to
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  Speaker 3: try and grab two. on Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: And I know it's early in the season, but getting
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  Speaker 4: these head-to-head wins against divisional rivals that are going to
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  Speaker 4: be there at the end of the year, these matter
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  Speaker 4: once you get to April for where you're at in
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  Speaker 4: the standings and where people are at in the Central Division. So, 303-504-0925,
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  Speaker 4: as we broadcast from the back, is in Shanker Studios.
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  Speaker 4: Serious lawyers for the seriously injured. A little bit different
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  Speaker 4: today because they had the late trip in last night.
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  Speaker 4: Bednar is going to join us at.
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  Speaker 3: 9 o'clock this morning.
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  Speaker 4: Ian Furness, who is the Seattle Kraken Hockey Network studio host,
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  Speaker 4: but he also has a radio show out in Seattle.
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  Speaker 4: He will join us to preview the Seahawks game going
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  Speaker 4: into this Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Again, it was the perfect game for me last night. Perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Mackenzie Blackwood plays well. You get a dub in Dallas.
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  Speaker 4: You have Marty Natchez have a couple of good.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 4: Marty Natchez had a great game. You got a couple
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  Speaker 4: of fights in the middle of that game. Had sort
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  Speaker 4: of everything. So you love to see it. We'll get
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  Speaker 4: back to this in just a bit, but.
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  Speaker 3: NFL stock up, stock down next.
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  Speaker 4: Do it every Wednesday at this time where we recap
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  Speaker 4: the NFL weekend and we take.
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  Speaker 3: A little stock. It's NFL stock up, stock down. We
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  Speaker 3: start with the quarterbacks. Nelly, stock up.
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  Speaker 4: After a miserable start to the season, it feels like
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  Speaker 4: Drake May has found his stride. He had one touchdown
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  Speaker 4: through the first three weeks. He now has seven touchdowns
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  Speaker 4: in the last two. Eight, if you include the rushing
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  Speaker 4: touchdown he had last week. Five total touchdowns against Vegas.
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  Speaker 4: Now look, maybe the Patriots were looking worse than they
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  Speaker 4: were to start the year, and they sort of improved
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  Speaker 4: a To the mean, and maybe the Raiders were outdoing
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  Speaker 4: what they were, and they regressed to the mean this
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  Speaker 4: last week. Either way, Drake May looked like the way
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  Speaker 4: he did last year. He was 26-34 for 374 passing yards,
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  Speaker 4: four touchdowns, ran one in in that game.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, he had the amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Thing of he was able to complete 72% of his
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  Speaker 4: passes while pushing the ball downfield. And what was amazing
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  Speaker 4: to start this season, his first two years in the league,
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  Speaker 4: he finished his rookie year with 10 interceptions. He finished
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  Speaker 4: his second year with eight, and he was already at
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  Speaker 4: seven going into this last weekend's game. It feels like
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  Speaker 4: he's calmed down. There was a lack of confidence maybe
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  Speaker 4: in the first few weeks of the year. Then the
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  Speaker 4: team wasn't having success. You couldn't get anything going offensively.
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  Speaker 4: but it seems like he finally found his stride. I'm
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  Speaker 4: hoping the same thing happens for Bo Nix. When the
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  Speaker 4: ball got knocked out of Drake May's hand.
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  Speaker 3: I really do.
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  Speaker 4: I think Bo Nix just needs a game to boost
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  Speaker 4: the confidence. It's going to be tough to do that
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  Speaker 4: against Seattle, but you're going to have to find it
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  Speaker 4: in some way because Drake May just did, and for
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  Speaker 4: the last two weeks, that Patriots offense is 2-0 against
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  Speaker 4: Buffalo at Buffalo, and then the win against Vegas, and
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  Speaker 4: they've put up 74 points in the last two games.
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  Speaker 4: So he gets a stock up. Let's go quarterback stock down.
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  Speaker 4: He's been on this list before, but this is atrocious.
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  Speaker 4: Cam Ward.
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  Speaker 3: Is terrible.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's just him, if it's just
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  Speaker 4: a combination of he is not very good along with
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  Speaker 4: the Titans being absolutely awful.
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  Speaker 3: But this guy's the number one overall draft pick. He's
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  Speaker 3: going into year two.
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  Speaker 4: If he continues to play this way, Tennessee will be
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  Speaker 4: picking first or second in the draft again, and they
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  Speaker 4: will likely be looking to take a quarterback. Drake made
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  Speaker 4: this last week in a 26-3 loss to the Houston Texans.
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  Speaker 4: It was 23-36 for 170 yards, no touchdowns, and a pick.
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  Speaker 4: He has three touchdowns on the season. Three through the air.
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  Speaker 4: He has three interceptions on the season. He's taken 10
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  Speaker 4: sacks in these first 10 games and has been held
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  Speaker 4: to less than 200 passing yards in four of the
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  Speaker 4: first five weeks of this season.
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  Speaker 3: It's miserable.
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  Speaker 4: And you want to give him grace because he's a
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  Speaker 4: young player on a bad team, but at some point
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  Speaker 4: you need to see a glimpse of something cool happening.
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  Speaker 4: And I'll focus on Cam Ward. We'll focus a little
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  Speaker 4: bit more on completing passes consistently. Cam Ward gets the
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  Speaker 4: stock down. Non-quarterback stock up. If you haven't been paying attention,
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  Speaker 4: the last three weeks, something has emerged that has come
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  Speaker 4: as a surprise. This guy is a good player, but
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: he's never been a 1,000-yard rusher. In the last three games,
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: he has totaled 300... and 30-ish rushing yards. That is
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Jalen Warren out of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh has looked better over
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: the last three weeks, especially on offense. They had that
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: really rough start to the season. But they've scored 30, 24,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: and 34 in the last three weeks. Why? Because aging
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Aaron Rodgers needs to have a threat out of the backfield,
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: and Jalen Warren has emerged as that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: And he's not just doing it on the ground. He's
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: doing it through the air.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: So last week, in a win 34-22 against Indianapolis, he
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: had 15 carries for 101 yards and a touchdown. Six
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: catches for 87 yards and a touchdown, including an 80-yarder.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: He's been huge for them.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: He's averaging six yards per carry this year and has
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: 410 yards in the first five weeks. This has all
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: kind of come in the last three. And I think
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Jalen Warren can be a big piece. You know, I've
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: said forever, I think the Pittsburgh Steelers are... they're a
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: waste of my time.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: They aren't bad.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: They aren't going to be good. They aren't a threat
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: to win a Super Bowl. They aren't a threat to
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: pick number one overall. They're just right.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: There on that treadmill in the middle of the NFL.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: But if Jalen Warren plays at this pace, maybe it
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: turns them into a a team that maybe sneaks into
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: a wild card and gives somebody a run for their
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: money in that first round. But he's played great, especially
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: in the last three weeks. He gets a stock up,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: non-quarterback stock down. I don't know what to do with
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: this guy.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I love him. I loved him in college. He gets
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: to the pros.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: He is one of the guys that you have put
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: in the category of a B. John Robinson, a Jameer Gibbs,
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: a Julian Love. Jadarian Price, a high-drafted running back in
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the first round. But Ashton Gentry just hasn't gotten results.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: In a 45-17 loss this last weekend to the Patriots,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: he had 10 carries for 27 yards. He opened the
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: season against Miami with 102 yards on 23 carries. Since then,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: he's gone for 48, 56.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: 58, and 27 yards.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: And he's averaging 3.3 yards per carry on the year.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: I think he's a good back. Maybe it's just the
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: offensive line and how they're built in Vegas. I don't know.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: The interesting thing.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: About this, though, is that he's obviously as a high
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: draft pick going to get fed the football a lot.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: They took another running back in this draft. It was
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: somebody a lot of Broncos fans loved.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: It was at 6'3, Mike Washington Jr.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Out of Arkansas.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: He's only had 25 carries this year, but he's averaging
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: 5 yards per carry. And every time I see him
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: take the field to spell Ashton Gentry, he seems to
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: pick up a few yards. So I don't know what
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: exactly the issue is. In Vegas, but Ashton Gentry sitting
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: there with 291 yards for five weeks of the NFL season.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: His longest run of the year is 19. It's not
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: going to cut it. And certainly not for a guy
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: that was drafted number six overall. So he gets a
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: stock down. NFL teams stock up. I know this is
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: like obvious, but it's how great they look while they win.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: The San Francisco 49ers are now 5-0. They might have
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: the best top-to-bottom roster operating right now in the NFL. Remember,
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: they opened their season in Australia. They got that big
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: win over the Rams. But you can say, all right,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: it's a little bit fluky. Next week, they play the Dolphins.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: All right, that's a pretty cushy game.
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: They win 35-13. Then they play the Cardinals. That one's tight.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: That's a 36-30 win.
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: You think to yourself, all right, Are there some chinks
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: in the armor here as they head into Denver, or
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, as they stay at home to play against Denver? Well,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: they make Denver's offense look like nothing. And then they
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: have this game in Seattle, huge game, and they just
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: find a way to get things done.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: You know, they've gotten great.
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: Quarterback play out of Brock Purdy this year. He was
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: not as good this last week. That's a byproduct of
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: playing against a Seattle Seahawks defense, really the last two
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: weeks against Seattle and Denver.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: But they got a little bit of everything.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: They can run the ball. They can throw it. They
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: have injuries galore. It doesn't matter. They just find ways
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: to get things done. I think the acquisition of Mike
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Evans is a big one for them. Mike Evans, for
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: my money, is one of the most underrated players of
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: this generation of football. This guy had 1,000-yard receiving seasons
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: from 2014 to 2024. The only reason he didn't have
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: one last year is because he played half the season.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: They pick him up. He already has reached his totals
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: from last year as far as touchdowns, yards, and receptions.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: Mike Evans is a monster. They needed somebody else on
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: the outside to help out Brock Purdy.
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: They got it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: San Francisco's defense is always good. They're just a really
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: impressive team. NFL team, stock down. I... I take the
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: cheese every year and I know why I do it.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: There's one guy I really like and I will trust.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: And that's Dak Prescott. And I take the Cowboys cheese
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: and I'm like, man, look at that offense. They're going
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: to be scoring 30 points a game. That's tough to
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: beat every single week. Turns out it's not because that
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: guy's in charge. They have a bad defense. They still
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: haven't fixed it. They've tried. They've made trades. They've done
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: this and that.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Nothing's working.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: And for them to lose, this is what they've done
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: this year. They opened the season at the Giants. They
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: lost in New York.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: They came back.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: They beat a commander's team that did not have Jaden Daniels.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: They play against Baltimore. They play them tough.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: But they lose late 34-31.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: And then they go at Houston. They win that game.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Tough game. 34-30.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: But to give up 30 to Houston's offense is questionable.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: And then you think to yourself, all right, we can
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: sink in nice and easy. We got this game against
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: a Buccaneers team that is 0-4 on the year, that
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: is starting Jalen Daniels, an undrafted rookie out of Kansas
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: at quarterback, and they lose 24-16?
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Inexcusable.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: And from here on out, they're dead to me because
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: I can't trust their defense. You give up 24 to
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: a team that can't score. 165 yards to Bucky Irving
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: on the ground. You, on the other hand, decide we're
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: going to run the ball 12 times and that's it
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: with Javante Williams in a close game.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: I just don't get it. Everything about them doesn't make sense.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: CeeDee Lamb finished that game with just two catches on
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: five targets for nine yards. George Pickens had a big game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: but it's about their defense. Can't generate pressure. Can't get
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: pushed at the line of scrimmage. It's just, it's bad.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: So Dallas, they get the stock down. Let's go MVP
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: stock up. Keep an eye on this.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: It's not the sexiest place to find an MVP. But
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Trevor Lawrence is playing some damn good football in Jacksonville.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: His team's off to a 4-1 start. He almost in
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: every single game has played great. He played poorly against Denver.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: That's because Denver's defense is awesome. But look at the
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: scores that they put up. They win games 34-10, 35-6.
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: He has 10 touchdowns and 3 picks on the year,
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: almost 1,200 yards passing. He's got a quarterback rating this
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: year of 107.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: His average yards per pass attempt is at 8.2.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: He's completing 67% of his passes. It just feels like
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: he's turned a corner. Ever since Liam Cohen got there,
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: he's been a different guy. There are question marks about
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: what Trevor Lawrence was and what he was going to
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: be going into like year four. The right coach and
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: the right situation and some of the right pieces around
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: him has led to him having a phenomenal season. And
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: if the Jags continue to win at this pace and
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: put up that number of points, he's going to find
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: himself in that discussion at the end of the year.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: So he gets the MVP stock up. Let's go MVP
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: stock down. We all know he's a great quarterback. He
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: just won the MVP last season. But Matthew Stafford, with
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the exception of this last week, has had a massive
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: turnover problem. The game against the Bills on Monday night
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: was the first game in which Matthew Stafford did not
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: turn the ball over this year. Now, he's got nine TDs.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: He's thrown for 1,500 yards. It's the most in the NFL.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: He's also attempted more than 50 attempts in the last
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: three weeks, going at Denver, at Philly, and then the
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Monday night game against Buffalo. He has 160 passing attempts
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: in his last three games, which is nuts.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: And if you do that enough.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: With Matthew Stafford, he will find a way to put
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: that ball in the other team's hands. But he's also
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: going to find a way to put up 400 yards
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: a game.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: So it's a balance.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: The problem is the Rams are 2-3. Their record's not good.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: Andy's been turning the ball over. I just think there's
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: no way that Stafford can come back and win another
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: MVP unless the Rams rattle off, you know, six or
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: seven straight and Stafford goes, you know, 18 touchdowns in
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: one pick in that stretch. It just feels like he's
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: going to be playing catch up all year to try
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: and get a back-to-back bid.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: So he gets the stock down. Let's go. Best game
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: of the week.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's any question. It's the game we
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: saw Monday, right?
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Bills and Rams, offense everywhere, scoring when you need it,
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: goes to overtime, find a way to win. Like, it
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: was a phenomenal game. I don't even know if there's
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: a particular close second. You would say, you know, Niners
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: and Seahawks was really good. Perhaps you'd say this game,
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: depending on perspective, but I'm going to put this game
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: that I have in my head at the worst game
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: of the week.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: No, God, please, no.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Can't end in a tie. And the way it ended,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: you could have said either that game, you could have
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: said the London game, but the Giants and Commanders 27-27
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: with Jaden Daniels just laid it out. down to end
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: the game was ridiculous. It set football back. It was
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: an atrocity for the sport. It should be put in
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: the same category as the worst tragedies we've seen in
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: this country.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: It was horrible. So that is NFL Stock Up, Stock Down.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: You know, a lot more to discuss. There's a lot
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: of audio from Bo Nix that we'll get to here
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: in a little bit. Him and Prime both spoke yesterday.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: I still have a lot of questions.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Regarding the mindset of Bo Nix, and he keeps repeating
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: something that, to me, Sounds like somebody who's being told this.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Like I've always wondered is the lack of pushing the
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: ball downfield is, is that just Bo Nix's DNA? Or
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: is that, is that being told by your coach a
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: million times? Hey, we can't turn the ball over.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: We can't take sex. He's not going to improve his DNA.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: We can't turn the ball over. We can't take sex.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: When somebody's in your head like that, it, It permeates.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Your brain becomes, is it permeable? Is that the word?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: It just sinks in there, consciously or unconsciously. And I
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: heard some answers yesterday that kind of say that. So again,
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Jared Bednar is going to join us at 9 o'clock
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: this morning.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: We're sending Nate and Andy to the Air Force Academy.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Don't worry, they're not being trusted with any military equipment.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Just the mics. It's Valor Christian against Pine Creek. at
• 31:25
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• 31:35
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• 31:38
  Speaker 4: All right, so Bo Nix spoke to the media yesterday,
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: and it's.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: An interesting thing. You know, when your team wins and
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: you aren't playing well, you know you're not playing well.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: There is a confidence that at least we're getting the
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: dubs as this goes along, but there has to be
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: a mental aspect to this that is tough too.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, think about it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: I don't know how your workplaces are. Let's say that
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: you're a salesperson and the boss calls a big meeting
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: and says, hey, I just want to tell everybody you've done.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: A phenomenal job.
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Our numbers have never been better and we're making sales
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: left and right.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: And you're thinking to yourself, I haven't made a sale
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: in like a month. It's a weird feeling.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Now, Bo Nix answering some questions about when to take chances,
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: when not to. Same sort of things he was asked
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: last week, but I want you to listen to this.
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: That's honestly, really, and truly the biggest battle right now
• 32:37
  Speaker 7: is like, want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive,
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: want to be aggressive, and then you see stats.
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: And you're like, well, this team is causing the most
• 32:43
  Speaker 6: turnovers in the league.
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: And then you're like, okay, well, I can't put my
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: team in a situation where I'm turning the football over
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: and putting our defense in a bad spot, giving them
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: a short field.
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, it's like, Who cares?
• 32:55
  Speaker 7: Why would I go out there worried about throwing an interception?
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: Why would I go out there trying to throw every
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: football 50 yards down the field?
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Just play the play.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: He's right. That should be the mindset. You take what
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: the play dictates to you.
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: But I've seen too many videos of people who watch
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: film who are pointing out wide-open receivers downfield That he's
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: not throwing to. And that to me is like, that's
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: not taking the play. That's taking the easy option. The
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: easy option is dump it off to RJ.
• 33:33
  Speaker 6: Who cares?
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Have him get six yards. I just.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: That that's been sort of my beef with Bo in
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: this is. I think that he looks at a drive
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: that does not result in a turnover as somewhat of
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: a win, whether they get points or not. And what's
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: funny is with the defense you have, maybe it is.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: If you have your special teams unit playing well, if
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: you have, you know, Jeremy Croshaw going out and booting
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: 60-yarders inside the 10-yard line, like that is kind of
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: a win.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: But you want to have an offense that's dangerous. That's
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: what you want.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: And you want to believe that your quarterback is the
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: right guy for the job. And I just, I wonder
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: with how much Sean Payton despises negative plays like sacks
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: and turnovers, has he mentally gotten to a place where
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: his subconscious is telling him not to take the shot
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: because it might get picked? Like, say what you want.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: About some quarterbacks, we just did NFL stock up, stock down.
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: I pointed out Matthew Stafford's turned the ball in every
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: game this year except for this last one against Buffalo.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: But I think everybody would make the trade for you
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: have the threat of a big play at any given moment.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: But you might have the threat of a turnover. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: I just, to me, I just kind of look at
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: it and I go, well, isn't that worth it? And
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: the whole, like, who cares, just read the play. I
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: would totally agree with him, but there's been too many
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: examples of that's not the right play that was taken.
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: It was the easy play. He goes on to say this.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: If the play's there, hit it.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: If it's not there, check it down, run, throw it away, punt.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: Who cares?
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: That's the play that I was dealt and I have
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: to do, just remind myself, Not to play hero ball.
• 35:47
  Speaker 6: It's just one play at a time. Do exactly what
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I'm supposed to do. And who cares?
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: If the play causes me to throw an interception and
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: I forced it and that was there and I liked
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: what I saw, it may happen.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: You know, it's going to happen. It's happened before. It
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: may happen again.
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: If it's not there, I'm not going to throw it
• 36:03
  Speaker 7: into a team meeting. I'm going to check the ball down,
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: and we're going to move on. And that's just the
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: play that's given to me, and I have to continue
• 36:09
  Speaker 7: to just do that.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: There are plenty of examples of plays that are like that,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: plays that get blown up, they're going nowhere, throw the
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: ball away.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Punt, live to fight another day. Like, that exists.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: But to say that when you're bailing out of clean pockets,
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: not stepping up and making a throw over the middle
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: of the field to a wide-open receiver... is a completely
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: different story. And part of my frustration with this is, like,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the Broncos are a really good football team. I think
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: you would look like the best team in the league
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: if he was making the right play. Like, I don't
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: think their offense would be, you know, top five in
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: the league. But if he steps up and makes a
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: throw to a 15-yard dig route to Sutton over the
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: middle of the field that's open with a clean pocket,
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: it would make your perception of the Broncos be entirely different.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: You know, in Evan Ingram in the 49ers game, crossing
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the field, running towards the boundary, wide open,
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  Speaker 4: 20 to 25 yards downfield where he'd just step up
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  Speaker 4: in a clean pocket and make a throw, but instead
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: it's a bailout to the right. He had a play
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: that he did that. It was the one that drove
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: me nuts in this last game against the Chargers. The
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Chargers send a blitz, and it's picked up beautifully by
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: the offensive line. Ben Powers kind of slides down towards
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: his left and, I mean, squares up on him and
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  Speaker 4: keeps his man right in front. And if you pause
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  Speaker 4: the video right there, it's a clean pocket. And Bo
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Nix felt the pressure. But you can take a look.
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  Speaker 4: Just take a quick peek, real quick. See if that
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  Speaker 4: got picked up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it did?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I can hang in here for a second. Keep
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: my eyes downfield, make a throw. But instead, he bailed
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  Speaker 4: out of the pocket, ran to the right. He's running
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  Speaker 4: basically in the end zone. to a play that has
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  Speaker 4: nobody designed to go to the right side of the field.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody was cutting across to the left and you had
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  Speaker 4: to throw the ball away and punt. Like, in the
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: scenario of after I bailed out of the clean pocket
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  Speaker 4: and ran out towards the boundary where there was no receivers, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: the right play at that point is to throw the
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: ball away and punt it. But initially, with a clean pocket,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: that wasn't the right play.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Like, That's how it feels to me.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: And that's why sometimes I get really frustrated with this
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: because I'm like, you have so much... The Broncos are
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: so good and there is so much more that they
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: can do. There's so much more that's just left there.
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: And they might win tomorrow and be a 4-2 football team.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: And the record's going to be like, well, we're 4-2
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: through a really difficult, like, historically difficult beginning of the schedule.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: but you'll still have that thing in the back of
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: your head. Yeah, but is this offense going to get
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: burned when it matters most? Are you going to have
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: a game in which the defense just doesn't quite have it?
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: And again, to Bo Nix's credit, that's exactly what happened
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: in the playoffs last year against Buffalo.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: The defense played an atrocious game.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: Outside of getting these turnovers, which you can't ignore, that's
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: a big part of playing defense, but they gave up
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: like 500 yards of offense. The Broncos offense had to
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: keep them in it, and they did. That's a credit
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: to Bo Nix. But it just feels like there's so
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: much that's left out there that would entirely change your
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: perception of I'll tell you this. It would have changed
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: the perception enough where Davis Webb would still be calling plays.
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: And I don't care who's calling play. I don't care
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: if it's Davis Webb or Sean Payton, but you made
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: a major change to your offense because the quarterback didn't
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: make the right reads. And then he tells you, well,
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: who cares? Just read the play. If I got to
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: throw it away, then I'll throw it away. It's like, yes,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: that is part of the job.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: But you forced your.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: You force yourself into the right play being throw the
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: ball away or dumping the ball off as opposed to
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: the right play initially.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Is I got a guy that's open 15 yards downfield.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: But if you hit those throws, maybe all of a
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: sudden the defense can't play so soft. Maybe that opens
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: up things in the run game now. And now J.K.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: Dobbins or R.J. Harvey or eventually Jonah Coleman then takes
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: off and has production. It all just feels like it's
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: all hand in hand. It all goes together. But I
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: just want to see... I want to see this team
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: at its peak that I know is there.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: That's what I want. The plays are there to be made.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: I want to see it.
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  Speaker 6: So.
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  Speaker 4: A lot more from Bo Nix that we get to
• 41:15
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• 41:18
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• 41:22
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