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- 0:00Speaker 1: Adam Schefter.
- 0:02Speaker 2: Denver is in my soul. It's always a part of me.
- 0:05Speaker 2: This just now breaking in the NFL.
- 0:07Speaker 1: Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 presents America's number one sports reporter,
- 0:13Speaker 1: our pro football insider, Adam Schefter.
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- 0:27Speaker 3: Adam Schefter. All right, we will eventually head out to
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- 0:36Speaker 3: Medical doctor and attorney, RamosLaw.com, as Adam Schefter will join
- 0:39Speaker 3: us here momentarily. Get an update around the NFL and
- 0:44Speaker 3: see what's going on, because there's a lot of things,
- 0:46Speaker 3: whether it's what happened in Philly, with questions surrounding Jalen Hurts,
- 0:53Speaker 3: who's now out for the year, with the blood clots,
- 0:56Speaker 3: but should he have played, and all the different questions
- 0:59Speaker 3: being answered by Nick Sirianni. what in the world is
- 1:03Speaker 3: going on in the NFC East in general. But I
- 1:08Speaker 3: think for a lot of people, when you look around,
- 1:11Speaker 3: especially Denver, and the conversation that surrounds a 4-2 football
- 1:15Speaker 3: team being about the quarterback and offensive play overall, and
- 1:20Speaker 3: how to get that fixed and how to get that rectified,
- 1:24Speaker 3: people are taking in the national media a ton of
- 1:29Speaker 3: shots at whether it was Ryan Fitzpatrick in the postgame
- 1:34Speaker 3: or whatever. But the fact of the matter is, how
- 1:41Speaker 3: much of that can continue to go this way offensively
- 1:44Speaker 3: with the Broncos still having success? And with that, we'll
- 1:46Speaker 3: talk to Adam Schefter now, who joined us on the
- 1:48Speaker 3: Ramos Law Hotline. So, Adam, first of all, thank you
- 1:50Speaker 3: for joining us, as you do every week. Just a
- 1:55Speaker 3: question for you. When the Broncos won on Thursday night,
- 2:00Speaker 3: And in the postgame, it goes to Ryan Fitzpatrick, and
- 2:02Speaker 3: he has the quote of that being disrespectful to the
- 2:06Speaker 3: quarterback position. It feels like a lot of people are
- 2:08Speaker 3: taking shots at Bo Nix right now. What's your read
- 2:11Speaker 3: on this situation? The Broncos are winning football games. Obviously,
- 2:14Speaker 3: the offense in the pass game isn't great, but how
- 2:16Speaker 3: do you evaluate and put those two things side by side?
- 2:21Speaker 1: Well, what I would say is, you know, I'm not
- 2:25Speaker 1: overly concerned about Bo Nix right now. They're four and two.
- 2:29Speaker 1: They're 4-2, right? Yeah. Let me look at this. They
- 2:35Speaker 1: basically lost at KC to start the season. They beat Jacksonville.
- 2:44Speaker 1: They beat the Rams. They lost at San Francisco, right?
- 2:47Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
- 2:51Speaker 1: They won at the Chargers. They won against the Seahawks. Like,
- 2:56Speaker 1: so they beat the Seahawks, Chargers... Rams and Jaguars.
- 3:00Speaker 3: It's a good group.
- 3:02Speaker 1: Now we're going to act Arizona, Kansas city home at
- 3:05Speaker 1: Carolina by Vegas at Pittsburgh, Miami at the Atlas. Like,
- 3:13Speaker 1: I mean, they did their job and, and Bo's not
- 3:16Speaker 1: playing as well as he should. The offense isn't functioning
- 3:19Speaker 1: as well as it should, but I mean, yeah. Okay.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Want to get it straightened out, but to four and two,
- 3:27Speaker 1: There's so much in the league that's struggling right now.
- 3:29Speaker 1: I'm not as alarmed as everybody else right now. It's
- 3:32Speaker 1: a long season, a long season. And there's a lot
- 3:36Speaker 1: of dips and rises and ups and downs. Like they're
- 3:43Speaker 1: okay to me, to me.
- 3:46Speaker 2: You speak in they as in plural, the team. And
- 3:49Speaker 2: I agree. I think the team is in fine shape, Adam, but,
- 3:52Speaker 2: Might you be a little concerned about the mental welfare
- 3:55Speaker 2: of the quarterback who has a contract waiting for him,
- 3:59Speaker 2: has a lot of scrutiny that he's facing? What about
- 4:04Speaker 2: that position, that particular position? How do you think Bo
- 4:08Speaker 2: is handling it, and what could he do better to
- 4:10Speaker 2: handle it?
- 4:12Speaker 1: Well, I'm not there every day to see how he's
- 4:14Speaker 1: handling it. We've seen the games, right? And he's not
- 4:18Speaker 1: playing as well as he has in the past. But
- 4:22Speaker 1: I'm not as alarmed as everybody. That's all I'm saying.
- 4:24Speaker 1: I think it's a process. You know, two weeks ago,
- 4:28Speaker 1: everybody was all over Drake May. What's wrong with him?
- 4:30Speaker 1: He's not the same guy. And then two games later, whoa,
- 4:36Speaker 1: look at this guy. That's how quickly it can turn.
- 4:39Speaker 1: I keep waiting for it to turn for Bo, and
- 4:44Speaker 1: I think it will. And if I'm wrong, then they're
- 4:46Speaker 1: not going to go anywhere. But I think he's going
- 4:48Speaker 1: to get better. That's what I think.
- 4:50Speaker 3: It's Adam Schefter. All conversations with Adam are brought to
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- 5:01Speaker 3: the league here, I'm curious. The Jalen Hurts story is
- 5:04Speaker 3: a little bit odd. Like, he's told that he shouldn't
- 5:07Speaker 3: sleep because of these blood clots, but then he does play,
- 5:10Speaker 3: and then there's questions about the flights. I feel bad
- 5:12Speaker 3: that Nick Sirianni is the one that... kind of took
- 5:15Speaker 3: the harsh questioning from reporters because it's like, I'm the coach.
- 5:18Speaker 3: I just listen to the medical staff. But what do
- 5:20Speaker 3: you think happened in Philly with all of that?
- 5:24Speaker 1: Well, first of all, again, I think that there are
- 5:27Speaker 1: more questions than there are answers right now. And I
- 5:31Speaker 1: think that there's a lot to this. So I can
- 5:33Speaker 1: only pass along what I believe I know is true.
- 5:38Speaker 1: And he had a calf injury. He was cleated in
- 5:42Speaker 1: the Rams game. It provoked, that's the term that doctors use,
- 5:48Speaker 1: provoked a blood clot in his calf. He went to
- 5:51Speaker 1: the hospital the night before the game in London when
- 5:54Speaker 1: it was bothering him. They did extensive testing. I don't
- 5:57Speaker 1: know how late he was there. I don't know if
- 5:58Speaker 1: he was asleep. I don't know any of that. I
- 6:00Speaker 1: know it's unusual for a player to be at the
- 6:02Speaker 1: hospital going through tests, you know, an hour outside the
- 6:06Speaker 1: city the night before a game, especially an international game.
- 6:12Speaker 1: And they did the test and they determined there was
- 6:13Speaker 1: a superficial blood clot. Now, again, I'm not a doctor,
- 6:18Speaker 1: but the doctors went over this. And I don't think
- 6:20Speaker 1: that they said, let's try to sneak him through here.
- 6:23Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they felt like he could play. Whatever
- 6:27Speaker 1: they saw, I have no idea. And they felt like
- 6:30Speaker 1: he could fly home. Now, those are two of the
- 6:32Speaker 1: biggest questions that are out there. Why was he allowed
- 6:34Speaker 1: to play? Why was he allowed to fly? I can't
- 6:38Speaker 1: answer that. I don't know. Okay. Comes back. Practices Wednesday,
- 6:44Speaker 1: according to the team. goes to the hospital for another ultrasound,
- 6:49Speaker 1: what is thought to be routine, and they find a
- 6:52Speaker 1: moving blood clot. And that's where it gets tricky, dangerous,
- 6:55Speaker 1: and risky. And that's where the alarms go. Now, even then,
- 7:00Speaker 1: even then, they were obviously very concerned, but they sent
- 7:06Speaker 1: them to see more doctors, more specialists, more experts, gain
- 7:09Speaker 1: more information. And I think on Thursday and Friday, as
- 7:14Speaker 1: scary as a moving blood clot is, I think that
- 7:16Speaker 1: they felt like they were in control of it, okay.
- 7:21Speaker 1: And then Saturday, they found out there were multiple blood
- 7:24Speaker 1: clots in his lungs. And that's when they placed him on.
- 7:32Speaker 2: IR.
- 7:33Speaker 1: Wow.
- 7:33Speaker 2: Is there another player that's gone through this? Anything similar
- 7:36Speaker 2: to this that you can think of?
- 7:38Speaker 1: Well, Wemby had blood clots. That's true.
- 7:41Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's back, and he's playing, and he's fine.
- 7:43Speaker 2: You're right.
- 7:46Speaker 1: There are other players that have had blood clots. There
- 7:48Speaker 1: are players who have blood clots who never played again, right? So,
- 7:52Speaker 1: by the way, like, let me do, like, a quick
- 7:55Speaker 1: little Google search just to see. I'm just curious. NFL
- 7:59Speaker 1: players with blood clots, right? Like, I guarantee, like, I
- 8:02Speaker 1: had this one guy who used to play with the
- 8:05Speaker 1: Browns shot me a message over the weekend that his
- 8:08Speaker 1: NFL career ended because of it. Hmm. So, you know,
- 8:13Speaker 1: everyone's different and that's why they were trying to get
- 8:15Speaker 1: out in front of it.
- 8:16Speaker 3: I see Trey Smith had blood clots in both of
- 8:19Speaker 3: his lungs during college conditioning when he was at Tennessee
- 8:22Speaker 3: that he recovered and now he's an All-Pro.
- 8:24Speaker 1: Christian Barmore of the Patriots missed a significant portion of
- 8:28Speaker 1: the season. Chris Olave Chris Olave on January 26th. Taylor
- 8:34Speaker 1: Moten with the Panthers. David Andrews with the Patriots. Sean
- 8:38Speaker 1: Rogers with the Giants. So You know, everyone's different. So, yeah,
- 8:42Speaker 1: people have had it. Again, I don't know all the
- 8:44Speaker 1: particulars of Jalen Hurts. I know what they said in
- 8:47Speaker 1: the statement yesterday. They believe that the prognosis is very good.
- 8:51Speaker 1: That is, he's functional now. There are no limitations. He's
- 8:56Speaker 1: on the blood thinners. And their words anticipate that he'll
- 9:04Speaker 1: be able to play again. Which is an interesting word. Yeah.
- 9:10Speaker 1: Not Will, but they anticipate that he'll play again.
- 9:15Speaker 2: What is wrong with the Rams, and where do they
- 9:18Speaker 2: go from here?
- 9:24Speaker 1: Well, there were a lot of expectations, a lot of pressures.
- 9:29Speaker 1: I mean, there were people in L.A. unbeaten, people nationally
- 9:34Speaker 1: talking unbeaten. They were a loaded, star-studded team. They had
- 9:37Speaker 1: a great year last year. They enhanced the roster. But
- 9:43Speaker 1: football teams and seasons are a lot like mutual funds.
- 9:46Speaker 1: Past performance does not guarantee future success. And just because
- 9:50Speaker 1: they were great last year and seemingly improved in the
- 9:53Speaker 1: offseason doesn't mean that they will be great again this year. So... Just,
- 10:03Speaker 1: it's not working. Like, Matthew Stafford's not playing at the
- 10:06Speaker 1: same level. They're not getting the turnovers. There have been injuries.
- 10:11Speaker 1: Mojo's off. And that's the thing. And that's why I
- 10:13Speaker 1: come back to Bo Nix. Like, sometimes these things don't
- 10:16Speaker 1: come back. But sometimes it takes... a quarter of a
- 10:19Speaker 1: season or half a season before a player or a
- 10:23Speaker 1: team turns it around. And the Rams have not played
- 10:27Speaker 1: great football so far. But, like, that game Sunday, they
- 10:31Speaker 1: should not have lost it. Like, the Cardinals, to their credit,
- 10:35Speaker 1: they controlled the ball, they controlled the clock, the Rams
- 10:37Speaker 1: defense couldn't get them off the field. That Kobe Parkinson
- 10:41Speaker 1: touchdown at the end, they ruled he got into the
- 10:44Speaker 1: end zone. If his knee is down, they can run
- 10:46Speaker 1: the clock out, they win the game. Then the Cardinals
- 10:48Speaker 1: get the phantom pass interference call that allows them to
- 10:51Speaker 1: kick the game. There was so much there. Again, to
- 10:55Speaker 1: Arizona's credit, they're in the position to win, and they
- 10:57Speaker 1: did it. And the Cardinals deserve a lot of credit.
- 11:00Speaker 1: But the Rams are close. It's the little things that
- 11:03Speaker 1: they're off on. And this league, if you're off on
- 11:05Speaker 1: the little things, that makes a big difference.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Adam Schefter with us. Adam, I'm sure the analogy with
- 11:10Speaker 3: the mutual funds was great. This will be a surprise
- 11:12Speaker 3: to nobody. I don't know what those are. Adam Schefter
- 11:15Speaker 3: with us as he is every week.
- 11:17Speaker 2: They're funds that are mutual, right?
- 11:19Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
- 11:19Speaker 2: You have some, I have some.
- 11:21Speaker 1: It's mutual.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Adam, because the game last night,
- 11:25Speaker 3: I don't know what the conversation is like out east
- 11:28Speaker 3: in Washington, but to have last week you tie a
- 11:32Speaker 3: football game because you make a boneheaded decision at the
- 11:35Speaker 3: end to sort of lay down with nine seconds left
- 11:37Speaker 3: and no timeouts. to have what looked like Dan Quinn
- 11:41Speaker 3: on the sideline after they threw it away on fourth
- 11:44Speaker 3: down saying field goal, field goal. He says he knew
- 11:48Speaker 3: it was fourth down. The video certainly didn't look like it.
- 11:51Speaker 3: What's the conversation in Washington today?
- 11:53Speaker 1: I'm going to go by what Dan Quinn said. Like
- 11:54Speaker 1: he said he knew it. Like I'm not going to
- 11:56Speaker 1: say he's lying to us. You know, the quarterback in
- 12:00Speaker 1: that spot has to know better. Yes. Like if you
- 12:02Speaker 1: throw it away, you're done. So you might as well
- 12:06Speaker 1: just throw it towards the guy. If it gets picked over,
- 12:08Speaker 1: it gets picked over. He didn't do that. He gave
- 12:10Speaker 1: nobody a chance. So just like last week when they
- 12:14Speaker 1: ran at the clock, the offensive coordinator's calling the plays.
- 12:19Speaker 1: Called the wrong thing. Mistake. The head coach could have
- 12:25Speaker 1: overruled him. Didn't do it. Mistake. Quarterback could have did
- 12:28Speaker 1: it on the field. Didn't do it. Mistake. Blame for
- 12:32Speaker 1: the O.C., blame for the H.C., blame for the QB,
- 12:35Speaker 1: blame everybody. And I kind of feel like this case,
- 12:39Speaker 1: Dan's saying he knew. Okay. He knew, but the quarterback
- 12:42Speaker 1: has to know that. And he didn't. So somebody didn't know.
- 12:45Speaker 2: Okay.
- 12:45Speaker 3: So follow up, Adam, the, the commanders are having a
- 12:51Speaker 3: hell of a go at it to start this year
- 12:52Speaker 3: with those two weeks in a row. These mistakes, the
- 12:55Speaker 3: Cowboys do not look good. The Eagles are without their
- 12:57Speaker 3: starting quarterback the rest of the year. And the giants
- 12:59Speaker 3: are on their third quarterback of the season already. Who
- 13:01Speaker 3: the hell wins that division?
- 13:05Speaker 1: Well, right now, Dallas is the favorite and Dallas has
- 13:07Speaker 1: basically the healthiest quarterback. And because Dallas has the healthiest quarterback,
- 13:11Speaker 1: I'll pick them. I don't say with any confidence. I
- 13:13Speaker 1: don't I don't love that team right now with the
- 13:15Speaker 1: way they're playing. But again, to me, they're playing at
- 13:19Speaker 1: a level where it's just slightly better than the other.
- 13:23Speaker 1: So I go with Dallas, but I don't feel great
- 13:25Speaker 1: about it at all.
- 13:27Speaker 2: How long before moves are made with the Los Angeles Chargers? Clearly,
- 13:32Speaker 2: they're going through it. And I don't know what moves
- 13:35Speaker 2: you make. I don't know if it's personnel. I don't
- 13:37Speaker 2: know if it's coaching. But something's got to give here, Adam.
- 13:42Speaker 1: I lost you guys here. Hold on. Hold on. You
- 13:45Speaker 1: guys just lost your speed. I don't know what happened there.
- 13:49Speaker 1: Is that you again? Because when I called in, there
- 13:50Speaker 1: was problems.
- 13:51Speaker 2: We call that the Los Angeles Chargers effect.
- 13:53Speaker 3: Yes, exactly right.
- 13:54Speaker 2: You bring up the Chargers and things go haywire. Exactly right.
- 13:58Speaker 2: Haywire with the Chargers. The question was, what's the first
- 14:04Speaker 2: shoe to drop in L.A. with the Chargers? Will it
- 14:06Speaker 2: be a coach? Will it be a player? What happens then?
- 14:11Speaker 1: They're going to a bye week. I think there are
- 14:13Speaker 1: a lot of questions about whether Mike McDaniel will make it.
- 14:16Speaker 1: And we didn't hear basically anything out of the building.
- 14:18Speaker 1: So I still don't know that there won't be changes now.
- 14:21Speaker 1: We're waiting to hear exactly what happens. Nothing yet. I
- 14:27Speaker 1: don't think they're just going to be like, oh, status quo.
- 14:30Speaker 1: We're going to back next week. But so far, nothing.
- 14:34Speaker 3: One last thing for you, Adam, and always appreciate the time.
- 14:36Speaker 3: Everybody and their mother thinks now that the. GM of
- 14:40Speaker 3: the Colts has been fired, that they're going for a
- 14:42Speaker 3: fire sale and trade for Jonathan Taylor and all these things.
- 14:44Speaker 3: Do you think that they're going to go that route
- 14:46Speaker 3: or is it just, we're getting rid of the GM,
- 14:48Speaker 3: but we're still going to try and keep this together?
- 14:51Speaker 1: What I would say is they gave up a lot
- 14:53Speaker 1: of draft capital to go get sauce Gardner at this
- 14:55Speaker 1: time last year. And I would think that they're going
- 14:57Speaker 1: to try to recoup some of that draft capital. I
- 15:00Speaker 1: don't know who that means, what that means, but I
- 15:04Speaker 1: would think that if there are veterans in the last year,
- 15:07Speaker 1: their deals are, that you're going to lose in free agency,
- 15:10Speaker 1: that you're not resigning, and it makes sense to go
- 15:14Speaker 1: get draft picks back, then it makes sense. And so
- 15:19Speaker 1: to answer that question, I would think that they would
- 15:21Speaker 1: be sellers. I don't know who's going to be sold,
- 15:24Speaker 1: but I would think that they'd be sellers with the
- 15:26Speaker 1: trade deadline three weeks from today.
- 15:28Speaker 2: Are you hearing these rumors that they're trying to court
- 15:31Speaker 2: Peyton Manning for some capacity in some GM slash future
- 15:36Speaker 2: potential owner role? These are rumors that are abound here
- 15:39Speaker 2: in Denver. I don't know if they've gotten to you.
- 15:42Speaker 1: I've heard them. I believe that that job is beneath
- 15:45Speaker 1: Peyton Manning. Really? Really? Yeah.
- 15:49Speaker 2: And why is that? I'm just curious. I mean, you
- 15:51Speaker 2: don't think he wants to get back in the game
- 15:52Speaker 2: in some capacity?
- 15:55Speaker 1: You think Tom Brady would come back as a GM
- 15:57Speaker 1: or you think he'd come back as an owner?
- 15:58Speaker 2: Well, that's why if it leads to something, if it
- 16:01Speaker 2: leads to something like some hard ownership.
- 16:04Speaker 1: If Peyton Manning wants to do something with the Colts,
- 16:06Speaker 1: he's just going to do it. I don't think he
- 16:08Speaker 1: wants to... His family's in Denver. His kids are in Denver.
- 16:11Speaker 1: I don't think he wants to go run a day-to-day
- 16:14Speaker 1: organization like the Colts did at GM. As much money
- 16:19Speaker 1: as he's made in football, as much money as he's
- 16:21Speaker 1: made post-football, as much money as he's made... Why is
- 16:24Speaker 1: he uprooting his family to go run the day-to-day operations
- 16:28Speaker 1: of a football franchise?
- 16:31Speaker 3: He looks like he's pretty happy at your guys' place, too.
- 16:33Speaker 2: It would limit the amount of commercials he has on television, too.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Well, then he could do local Indianapolis commercials all he wants.
- 16:41Speaker 3: That's right. Adam Schefter joined us every single week. Adam,
- 16:44Speaker 3: appreciate the time, buddy. Thank you.
- 16:46Speaker 1: Thank you, guys.
- 16:47Speaker 3: Adam Schefter, ESPN. Joined us every single Tuesday. All conversations
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- 16:59Speaker 2: To be specific, the role that I keep hearing for
- 17:02Speaker 2: Peyton in Indy wouldn't be just GMA run. It would
- 17:05Speaker 2: be a, hey, help us fix what's going on, and
- 17:08Speaker 2: we'll give you a little love on the ownership side.
- 17:11Speaker 3: Like you get, oh, you're like a consultant to also,
- 17:14Speaker 3: I mean, that's what Brady's doing kind of, right? Like
- 17:16Speaker 3: Brady's a part owner, but he is like putting his
- 17:19Speaker 3: input on things.
- 17:20Speaker 2: Yeah, we will pay for your consultation via ownership shares. Yeah.
- 17:27Speaker 3: It is like, The discussion, though, is does he want
- 17:31Speaker 3: that kind of responsibility, or is his way of staying
- 17:33Speaker 3: in football just doing the Manning cast? It's like, I
- 17:35Speaker 3: get to talk about football every week, you know?
- 17:38Speaker 2: Different job. You're exactly right. Completely different job.