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11-04-26 - Avs fall flat in Columbus/NFL STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Does Sean Payton run the ball? · 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 2: Biggest win of the season for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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  Speaker 2: Worst loss of the.
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  Speaker 1: Season for the Colorado Avalanche.
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  Speaker 2: A forgettable night on a Tuesday in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: Final score, Blue.
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  Speaker 2: Jackets wearing gray, 7, the Avalanche 2. Yeah, that's got
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  Speaker 2: to stop. You know, there is a.
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  Speaker 3: Certain argument to be made about early in the season and, hey,
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  Speaker 3: they're still trying to get their feet under them and blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 3: And then there's an argument to be made that if
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  Speaker 3: you're a championship contending team Just things like this are unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: And the wave that you're riding on a night-to-night basis
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  Speaker 3: is not what championship-level hockey is. And if you continue
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  Speaker 3: to do this, you build bad habits. And those are
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  Speaker 3: bad habits you just can't have. Whatever you want to
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  Speaker 3: say about last season, this is why this stuff kind
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  Speaker 3: of bothers me. I don't want to pretend like the
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  Speaker 3: regular season doesn't matter or mean anything.
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  Speaker 2: It does. It means a lot. What I will tell
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  Speaker 2: you is this, that.
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  Speaker 3: When you have a season like you did last year,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you didn't suffer your fourth regular season, or
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, regulation loss of the year until January.
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  Speaker 2: You're rolling. You were the.
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  Speaker 3: Best team in hockey from the start of the season
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  Speaker 3: to the finish of the season, at least up until
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  Speaker 3: the Western Conference Final. To me, a fine line in
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  Speaker 3: between going back, looking at what you've accomplished, and taking
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  Speaker 3: some pride in that, and also realizing when you are
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  Speaker 3: in championship mode and you've been there for years, you
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  Speaker 3: want to build those habits in the regular season, but
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, the only thing that
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  Speaker 3: truly matters is.
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  Speaker 2: Did you hoist the trophy or not?
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  Speaker 3: This kind of stuff scares the hell out of me
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  Speaker 3: because this is building bad habits. You know, you have
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  Speaker 3: this stretch of games where the first, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: would say the first seven, eight, nine games of the season,
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  Speaker 3: You played really well. You really had one clunker in there,
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  Speaker 3: which was the Toronto game. You didn't win all of
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  Speaker 3: these games, but you were in it. And really what's
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  Speaker 3: taken place ever since, if you were to pinpoint one
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  Speaker 3: of them, it basically would be Nashville. And maybe a
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  Speaker 3: little bit earlier than that, maybe it was New Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: But I would say for the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 3: It's been pretty unacceptable hockey for how good this team
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  Speaker 3: should be. You can't have a game in which you
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  Speaker 3: go out against Tampa and you win six to three
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  Speaker 3: and you follow that up with a six to two loss.
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  Speaker 3: And then you come back the next three games and
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  Speaker 3: you win five to two. But some of those games
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  Speaker 3: you're dropping down, you're down two to nothing to start
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  Speaker 3: a game. You battle your way back and the score
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  Speaker 3: looks a little bit better than maybe what the game felt.
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  Speaker 3: You're playing Columbus. Columbus is not, you know, isn't one
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  Speaker 3: of the best teams in the league. They're not a
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  Speaker 3: good team. There is no excuse to have a night
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  Speaker 3: like that. And I think we'll talk to Jared Bednar
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  Speaker 3: today at nine o'clock and I'm sure he's not going
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  Speaker 3: to be happy because look, he wasn't happy after the
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  Speaker 3: game either. And he talked about the idea. It's something
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  Speaker 3: we asked last week about this jumping up and down.
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  Speaker 3: Like one game is great. The next game, like there's
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  Speaker 3: no in-between. You're either playing at an incredibly high level
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  Speaker 3: where you look like the team that all Avs fans
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  Speaker 3: hope they're going to get this year, or you look
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  Speaker 3: like a team that doesn't know how to play hockey.
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  Speaker 3: You need to figure out how to have some sort
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  Speaker 3: of success on a bad night. How to push through
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  Speaker 3: and not have a bad night turn into a vomit-inducing night.
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  Speaker 2: And here's Bednar after the game.
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  Speaker 4: Because, well, we're a fifth of the way through the
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  Speaker 4: year now. So now I have to change my approach
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  Speaker 4: is to.
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  Speaker 4: Because I feel like you've got to be patient for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit in the season. And we have been.
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  Speaker 4: We've talked about a lot of things. And then we
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  Speaker 4: show some promise and play some good games. And that's
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  Speaker 4: the thing. It's hot, cold, hot, cold right now. So
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  Speaker 4: it's about consistency. So now I have to sort of
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  Speaker 4: change my approach and the way I handle the inconsistencies
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  Speaker 4: in our game.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's totally right.
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  Speaker 3: You give this some time at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 3: season for guys maybe to iron some things out. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when you're a team that's competing at a high level
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  Speaker 3: for years, you're making the playoffs, you're competing for championships,
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  Speaker 3: you've participated in a Western Conference final last year, you
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  Speaker 3: get late in the season, you got to give it
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  Speaker 3: a second just to make sure that it's not laziness
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  Speaker 3: is the wrong word, but there's maybe, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: bigger lack of motivation at the beginning of the season
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  Speaker 3: to be super on your details because, you know, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: we're in October. Hopefully, we're going to be playing in
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  Speaker 3: May and June. That's a long ways away. It's hard
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  Speaker 3: to keep yourself maybe motivated then, but it's too long
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  Speaker 3: into the year. It's not good enough. When you got
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  Speaker 3: your top guys, your McKinnons, your Natcheses, your Lekanins, your McCars,
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  Speaker 3: and your Taves at dash threes.
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  Speaker 2: Can't happen.
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  Speaker 3: We're too good for it. And that sort of number
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  Speaker 3: has been there quite a bit this year. But now
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  Speaker 3: you need to change your approach. You need to be
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  Speaker 3: more judicious with who gets ice time and who doesn't. Like,
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  Speaker 3: I even think on things like, you can go some
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  Speaker 3: pretty drastic measures here. You know, the power play was
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  Speaker 3: one for three last night, big deal. You can talk, literally,
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  Speaker 3: I think anything is kind of on the table. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you really want to shake things up, really shake things up.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you take some of your top dogs off the
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  Speaker 3: power play and just say, hey, if this isn't working,
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  Speaker 3: then we're going to find out who can do it
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  Speaker 3: and who will do it. All I'm saying is this
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  Speaker 3: result is becoming a lot more of a concern than
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  Speaker 3: maybe anybody previously thought it would be.
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  Speaker 2: You have a roster... that is made and built to
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  Speaker 2: win a title. They are.
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  Speaker 3: They were pretty damn close last year. A bad week
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  Speaker 3: ruined all their hopes and dreams.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The hunger and motivation should be back this year in
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  Speaker 3: even a more intense way, and it doesn't feel like
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  Speaker 3: it's that. Goalie couldn't make a stop. Defense couldn't do
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  Speaker 3: anything in front of the goalie.
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  Speaker 2: You got nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Going in the offensive side, it just felt like everything
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  Speaker 3: was far too difficult. And it's been like that too
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  Speaker 3: many times this year. Bottom line is, the Avalanche know
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  Speaker 3: what their goals are. They know what they should be.
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  Speaker 3: They know where they should go this year. These kind
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  Speaker 3: of habits that are being built cannot be something that
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  Speaker 3: you just shrug off anymore. Because it's not okay. And
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  Speaker 3: I think the players are very aware of that. But
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  Speaker 3: this would be even a different story if you were
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  Speaker 3: dealing with some big injuries. You know, if you had
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  Speaker 3: McCarr or McKinnon out of the lineup. But that's not happening.
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  Speaker 3: Are guys out?
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  Speaker 2: Sure. But that's every hockey team in the league.
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  Speaker 3: This is a team that just needs to figure it
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  Speaker 3: the hell out in a hurry. And the text just says,
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  Speaker 3: do you think the start of the season is some
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  Speaker 3: kind of hangover from the way last season ended?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the thing. Like, I thought maybe it could
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  Speaker 2: have been earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 3: Like, when they had this sort of up and down
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  Speaker 3: in the first two, three weeks of the season, yeah, perhaps.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you look back and you're like, it's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: I was just talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Man, we want to be playing in May and June,
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  Speaker 2: and it's only October. What are we going to do?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the first game of the year was September 3rd.
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  Speaker 3: September 30th to mid-May is a long ways away. But
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  Speaker 3: we're past that point.
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  Speaker 2: 9-6-1 9-6-1 16.
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  Speaker 3: Games into the year. It's a fifth of the way
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  Speaker 3: through the season-ish. It's now not just like some small, well,
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  Speaker 3: it's the fourth game of the year. Eh, maybe this happens.
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  Speaker 3: It's not that anymore. You should be starting to hit
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  Speaker 3: a stride in a rhythm. You know, the Avs did
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  Speaker 3: this to other teams last year where they created such
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  Speaker 3: a gigantic separation so early in the season that nobody
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  Speaker 3: was able to come back from it. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: that anybody's in that territory right now, but look around
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  Speaker 3: the league. Edmonton is playing at an incredibly high level.
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  Speaker 3: They got 25 points in 16 games. Minnesota has 25
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  Speaker 3: points in 17 games.
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  Speaker 2: Vegas, 22 in 17. You need to be able to
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  Speaker 2: keep pace.
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  Speaker 3: And the issue necessarily is not what their record is overall.
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  Speaker 3: Their record is okay. But it's when they're losing, how
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  Speaker 3: are you losing like that? And especially what's happening on
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  Speaker 3: the road. You know, we can talk about the second
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  Speaker 3: leg of a back-to-back all we want to. We know
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  Speaker 3: what this team has been. They've been excellent on those.
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  Speaker 4: Excellent.
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  Speaker 3: But all I'm saying is, this is the time of
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  Speaker 3: year where you build your habits for later in the season.
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  Speaker 3: And these are not habits that you want to build.
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  Speaker 3: And once again, the biggest thing that I think has
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  Speaker 3: to get fixed, you need to stop this going down
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  Speaker 3: 2-0 early in games. You got to stop putting yourself
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  Speaker 3: in a hole. I mean, for the second time, you
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  Speaker 3: give up a goal within the first minute of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And then you take a penalty. Opposing team scores on
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  Speaker 3: a power play. Now it's 2-0. Yeah, McCarr gets a
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  Speaker 3: goal shortly after that to make it 2-1, but still.
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  Speaker 3: You are leaving yourself no margin for error. Weird stuff's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen in a hockey game. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: get a bad bounce. You're going to get a good
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  Speaker 3: screen or a good deflection from the opposing team that
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  Speaker 3: finds the back of your net. But if you're down 2-0,
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  Speaker 3: now all of a sudden, that feels like it becomes insurmountable.
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  Speaker 3: So again, Avs lose 7-2 against Columbus last night in
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  Speaker 3: what McGahee called it, I think accurately, the best game
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  Speaker 3: of the year for Columbus and the worst game of
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  Speaker 3: the year for the Avs. But Jared Bednar will be
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  Speaker 3: on this program at 9 o'clock this morning and he
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  Speaker 3: will give you his full thoughts on the game. Again,
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  Speaker 3: He's talking about Noel. Now we need to change some things.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, Nelly, can you recue that clip? Because I
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  Speaker 3: think it's pretty accurate in the way that you should
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  Speaker 3: be thinking as the head coach of the Avs right now.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry. Sorry. The one that you just ran again. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a good answer.
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  Speaker 3: Between you want to give it some time to make
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  Speaker 3: sure you aren't being like too quick on the trigger.
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  Speaker 2: But at some point, enough's enough. Here's what Bednar said.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're a fifth of the way through the year now.
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  Speaker 4: So now I have to change my approach. Because I
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  Speaker 4: feel like you've got to be patient for a little
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  Speaker 4: bit in the season. And we have been. We've talked
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  Speaker 4: about a lot of things. And then we show some
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  Speaker 4: promise and play some good games. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's hot, cold, hot, cold right now. So it's about consistency.
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  Speaker 4: So now I have to... like sort of change my
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  Speaker 4: approach and the way I handle the inconsistencies in our game.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll talk to Jared Bednar at nine o'clock this morning,
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  Speaker 3: three Oh three five Oh four Oh nine two five
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  Speaker 3: shop Mazda text line. One price, one person, one hour
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  Speaker 3: back after this, do it every week following the NFL weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It is NFL stock up stock down. We always start
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  Speaker 3: with the quarterbacks. Nelly stock up.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams is really having a good year. in games
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  Speaker 3: that he has played now he's lost a game in
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  Speaker 3: which he started and that was the Minnesota game early
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  Speaker 3: in the season that's when he went down and with
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  Speaker 3: the hamstring and got carded off the field now you
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  Speaker 3: can say well he got carded off that game was
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  Speaker 3: a monsoon and nobody was playing well offensively but every
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  Speaker 3: game other than that he has been unbelievably good and
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  Speaker 3: The most impressive thing about Caleb Williams to me and
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  Speaker 3: what's gotten me on board where I wasn't fully on
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  Speaker 3: board from last year. Last year was a fun year.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago was a good football team. He made some highlight
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  Speaker 3: reel plays. Bottom line is Caleb Williams was not accurate
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  Speaker 3: in throwing the football. He had a completion percentage of
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  Speaker 3: 58% last year. That is not NFL caliber. That's certainly
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  Speaker 3: not elite caliber. You cannot have consistent success completing 58%
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  Speaker 3: of your passes. Saw a graphic during the Bears game
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  Speaker 3: Monday night that Caleb Williams' off-target throw percentage last year
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  Speaker 3: was somewhere in the ballpark of 30%. It's now down
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  Speaker 3: to like 12%. Now that he's completing 71% of his passes,
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  Speaker 3: this offense can go as far as they want to.
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  Speaker 3: Now he's got a great running game behind him with
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  Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift, and eventually when he gets healthy again, Kyle Menungai.
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  Speaker 3: But he's got the probably best play caller in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL for his head coach calling the plays for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's set up for success, but.
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  Speaker 3: The way that he has gone about his business in
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  Speaker 3: just dialing up damn near perfect throws every time he
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  Speaker 3: drops back has been incredibly impressive, and I think it
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  Speaker 3: gives the Bears the argument for maybe they are the
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  Speaker 3: best team in the NFL. But Caleb Williams this season,
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  Speaker 3: six touchdowns, one pick, 1,200 yards. He's got a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: rating of 104.6. He's been phenomenal.
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  Speaker 2: He gets the stock up. Let's go quarterback stock down.
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  Speaker 5: Can I do a quick celeb shot for this one?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: Anyone who plays quarterback for the Baltimore Football Ravens, stock down.
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  Speaker 3: Very astute observation. Not where I was going to go,
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  Speaker 3: but the disrespect you've shown to Joe Fagnano.
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  Speaker 2: As you're half Italian or something, aren't you, Nelly? How
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  Speaker 2: dare you?
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  Speaker 3: My stock down is Michael Penix. You can't lose a
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  Speaker 3: football game to a team that didn't throw a forward pass.
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  Speaker 3: And not only did you lose, you lost by 16 points.
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  Speaker 3: You lost 16 to nothing to a team that didn't
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  Speaker 3: complete a forward pass. Michael Penix Jr. was 8 of
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  Speaker 3: 24 throwing the football for 125 yards and four interceptions.
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  Speaker 4: Four!
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  Speaker 2: He has five picks on the year. Four came in
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  Speaker 2: this last game.
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  Speaker 3: He's actually been pretty decent over the couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: prior to that. Two consecutive three touchdown performances. I understand that, again, monsoon,
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  Speaker 3: windy conditions. But if you get dialed up to go
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  Speaker 3: make a throw, you cannot make a throw into traffic
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  Speaker 3: or into trouble in a game where points are going
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  Speaker 3: to be a premium.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand he's still a young player.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's 26 years old, but with all the injuries,
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't have that much playing time at the NFL level.
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  Speaker 3: You lose a game to a team that didn't complete
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  Speaker 3: a forward pass and you got some issues. It's more about,
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  Speaker 3: for him, consistency. He's been pretty good this year as
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  Speaker 3: a starter.
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  Speaker 2: He's been decent.
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  Speaker 3: Really, ever since he took over, the Falcons have looked
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  Speaker 3: like a competent football team where prior to that, They
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  Speaker 3: looked like they might be the worst team in the
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  Speaker 3: NFL when they were throwing out Jack Strands at quarterback
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  Speaker 3: for a second.
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  Speaker 2: But any week in which you go 8 of 24.
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  Speaker 3: And you throw four interceptions and you lose 16 to
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  Speaker 3: nothing to a team that didn't complete a forward pass,
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  Speaker 3: guess what? You're going to be on the stock down list.
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  Speaker 3: So Michael Panics gets the stock down. Let's go non-quarterback
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  Speaker 3: stock up. This guy is a very interesting character. So
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  Speaker 3: let me take you back. I was doing radio in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: They played against the Wisconsin Badgers. I can't remember exactly
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  Speaker 3: which year this was, but they were doing pregame, showing
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  Speaker 3: the players on the field, and they highlighted this guy.
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  Speaker 3: He was 17 years old at the time, and he
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  Speaker 3: was massive, like 6'2, 220 pounds, looked every bit a
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  Speaker 3: 30-year-old man at 17 years old, and I said, who
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  Speaker 3: is that guy? It's Braylon Allen. So he's in New York.
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  Speaker 3: He plays for the Jets. It's bad news for anybody
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  Speaker 3: who plays in New York because the Jets stink. But
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  Speaker 3: was injured last year. Didn't really get a chance to shine.
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  Speaker 3: This year he's been healthy. And as the season has
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  Speaker 3: gone along, he's become the feature back in New York.
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  Speaker 3: Taking duties away from Brees Hall, who's a pretty damn
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  Speaker 3: good back, this last week. 21 carries, 147 yards, and
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  Speaker 3: a touchdown in a 38-33.
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  Speaker 2: Loss to the Raiders.
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  Speaker 3: But three out of the last four weeks, Braylon Allen
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  Speaker 3: has ran for at least 100 yards. He's averaging five
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  Speaker 3: yards per carry on the season. 565 rushing yards is
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  Speaker 3: 10th in the NFL this year. And if you think
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  Speaker 3: about it from the standpoint of he really didn't start
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  Speaker 3: getting the bulk of the carries until four weeks ago,
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  Speaker 3: it's highly impressive what he's done in a short amount
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  Speaker 3: of time.
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  Speaker 2: He has been so good.
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  Speaker 3: That Brees Hall, who was previously thought to be, I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to say untouchable, but pretty close to it
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: in New York, has now become somebody who's potentially a
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: trade candidate. Because they're like, we're fine. We'll just roll
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: with this guy. But look at Braylon Allen just from
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: a size standpoint. He's damn near 240 pounds and incredibly fast.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You get very rarely people with a combination of that
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: type of size with that speed that exists in the backfield.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: You get the rare freaks like Derrick Henry who can
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: do things like that. But he is a massive load
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: to take down.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: He is.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Somebody that if he's got a step on you, he's
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: going to run by you. It's a shame that he's
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: doing this for the Jets in games that you'll never
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: see nor care about. But Braylon Allen is a monster.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: So he gets a stock up. Let's go non-quarterback stock down.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I rarely do this, but I feel like I have to.
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: Anyone who plays for the Indianapolis Colts offense, they've all
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: just given up. Jonathan Taylor is checked out. He wants
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: to be on a contending team, which is going to happen,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: I would assume, in the next six days.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: Hopefully here.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: But there is not a single person on that team
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: that you could look at that you're like, that person's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: having a good time. Doesn't mean they're bad players. Like
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Tyler Warren's a very good player. He had four catches
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: for 18 yards this last week.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Because the Colts are terrible.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: And I think they're finally making the decision to move
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: on from Daniel Jones to go back to Anthony Richardson.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Maybe that can provide somewhat of a spark, perhaps. But
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: you got Jonathan Taylor who wants out. You want, or
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: you got Josh Downs who wants out.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I can only imagine.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Keenan Allen, who's 34 years old, is like, I'm sticking
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: around the NFL for this nonsense.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: But I've never quite seen a team, you know, just
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: a few days after trading away Quentin Nelson and DeForest Buckner,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: two of the better veteran players on that roster. I
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: can't remember the last time I've seen a team in,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you know, the aftermath of a couple of their big
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: dogs being traded, just saying, oh, they're traded, then we're
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: all giving up. Because that's exactly what happened when the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Colts played the Jags this week.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Jags win that game 42-7. And it was immediately.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: jumped on with a 28 to nothing halftime lead. So
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: if you play offense for the Indianapolis Colts, congratulations, you get.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: The stock down. Take that L on the way out.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Let's go NFL team stock up.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go against my principles on this. I
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: typically don't reward people for not being very good on offense,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: but I feel like I got to say something.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I think it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And here's why.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: They're going to have a rough go of it in the.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Next couple of weeks because they are at Chicago this week,
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: and then they are at Detroit after a bye in
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: a couple of weeks after that. But they've won two
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: football games consecutively in blowout fashion, one of which they
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: didn't complete a forward pass. The other, they completed seven
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: passes for 50 yards. And it's because their.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: Running game with.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Gainwell and why am I blanking on the other
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: running back is very, Bucky Irving, knew I'd get there.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Those two guys in the backfield are monsters.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: They combined for 300 yards rushing this last week. If
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: you go back to the Carolina game, it's the same
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: sort of story. Bucky Irving goes for 106 yards on
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: the ground. Kenny Gainwell goes for 88. Hell, they got
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: another running back named Sean Tucker. who's even running the
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: football pretty well for him this year when he gets
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: an opportunity. Point is, this football team did that and
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: got those wins in back-to-back weeks against divisional opponents. And
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: guess what? The NFC South is so dog poo that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: this team might not need to throw forward passes to
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: win the damn division. Like, I have a hard time
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: believing that Baker Mayfield, who I think is third in
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: the NFL over the last two years.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: In touchdown passes.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: That he won't just start connecting in the passing game
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: and finding guys. But God, it makes it easier if
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: you don't have to. If you can just hand the
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: ball off to two really talented running backs. But the
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: NFC South is such a mess. Like, the Bucs were
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: dead and gone. They were starting Jalen Daniels, an undrafted rookie,
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: at quarterback for weeks. And nobody could build a big
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: enough cushion to pull away from them. Now, all of
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: a sudden, it looks like they're the favorites to win it.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: Like I said, I think the Bucs.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Are in for a wood route. A wood route.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Rude awakening the next two games that they play at
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Chicago and at Detroit.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: But it doesn't matter. Can you beat your divisional opponents?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: Because if you go, you know, 6-0 in the division,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: you're probably winning that day. Because I think eight is
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the number you got to get to to win it.
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: So the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they get the stock up.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Let's go NFL team stock down. Yes, Baltimore. Three straight losses,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: 36-10 this last week. They just got Lamar Jackson back,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: and on the first play of the game, his thumb
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: gets rearranged to another side of his body, so now
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: he's out for a long time. There's questions about, is
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: that his last snap in Baltimore, period? And then you
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: have Tyler Huntley, who was, for them, a reliable-ish backup. Well,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: he goes down in that game with a turf toe.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: He's not going to play anytime soon. So they're going
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: to this guy named Joe Fagnano. He's now starting for them.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I believe they play tomorrow, don't they?
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Against Jacksonville. They're going to get worked by Jacksonville.
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: And you can listen to that blowout on AM 950
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: right here.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: They're going to lose their fourth straight, but right now
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: they're four and four. I just don't see any way
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: that they become competitive enough to find a playoff spot
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: in a really difficult AFC. Like, they feel like they're
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: done this year, and I don't know what's going to
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: happen afterwards because they already made the major decision of
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: moving on from John Harbaugh.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: They did that.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Now they're going to face a decision of, do we
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: move on from Lamar Jackson? And there's somebody, like, after
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: the game gets played tomorrow, I think you might start
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: hearing some rumors about Derrick Henry being on the market.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: If you're having questions about doing maybe a restart at
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: the end of the year, there's no point in Derrick
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Henry still being on that roster and he's still immensely valuable.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: But gosh, that team is hurting in the worst way
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: right now. So they get the stock down. Let's go
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: MVP stock up. This might be the year that a
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: non-quarterback wins this award. You know, we talked a lot
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: about Kenneth Walker. I think Jameer Gibbs is making a
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: severe case to be the league MVP. He's got 773
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: rushing yards. He's got eight rushing touchdowns this year. He's
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: got two touchdowns through the air and 285 yards receiving.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: In the last three weeks, all of them, 100-yard rushing attempt,
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: or sorry, rushing yards in each one of those games. 151, 116, 153.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: He's got 430 yards on the ground in the last
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: three weeks. And if you watch the plays that he makes,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: does the Lions offensive line open up holes for them?
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: They do.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Do they have a good scheme on offense and good players? Yes,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: they do.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: But sometimes there's just plays where Jameer Gibbs says, you
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: can't stop me. Hit four yards in the backfield, jump back,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: reverse field, get a 20-yard gain.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: There's very few people in the league that can do
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: what Jameer Gibbs does.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: And As long as he can stay healthy, and I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: think that's the biggest question mark for him, he is
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: taking on a workload that is pretty insane. It's rare
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: to see a lot of guys in the NFL. If
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: you just go back to last year, in fact, I'll
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: look it up right now. You go back to last year.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: This isn't 1990 anymore. You don't have guys taking, you know,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: 350 carries a year. It's very, very rare. to have
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: guys at that number. The leader last year was Jonathan
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: Taylor at 323. Jameer Gibbs right now is at 157.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Not even halfway through the season, they've only played seven
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: games because they've had to buy. Add on top of
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: that 34 catches, that's just a lot of hits that
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: he's taking throughout the course of the year.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: If he can stay healthy, I think he's going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: have a great shot. Great shot. At winning the MVP.
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: The first non-quarterback to do it in a minute. But
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: he's got to stay healthy to do it. So he
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: gets a stock up. Let's go MVP stock down.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think anybody like did anything too crazy to
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: take them out of the mix. The guys that were
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: out already are already. They're still out there. guys who
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: are in it, I think played well enough to still
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: have their case and make their case for later in
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: the year. So I'm going to give nobody the stock
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: down this week. We'll just keep it moving. We'll go
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: to best game of the week.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my God.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Broncos and Chiefs is a hell of an option for that.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Raiders and Jets, another great game. I thought the chess
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: match between Detroit and Minnesota was really good, but surprisingly,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: if you're into fireworks, maybe the best game of the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: week was the Bengals and Titans just because it's 43-36.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Joe Burrow's throwing for 460 yards.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: The Titans, for the first time, look like a competent
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: offense that's hanging in there, and you're thinking to yourself,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: are they really going to blow this game, Cincinnati, to Tennessee?
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: So I'll give Cincinnati and Tennessee, I'll give the Titans
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: some love. They're probably never going to be on this
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: list again. The Titans, you are part of the best
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: game of the week. Let's go with the worst game
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: of the week.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Loss?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: It's going to be weird to say. I have a
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: hard and fast rule. If a team scores zero points,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: you're automatically the worst game of the week. I really
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: want to give it to the Jags and the Colts
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: for how miserable of an attempt that was for Indianapolis
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: to lose 42-7. But again, guys, not only did you
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: have a game in which a team scored zero points,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: the team that scored zero points lost to a team
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: that didn't complete a forward pass.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: It's Bucs and Falcons. Worst game of the week. So
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: there you go.
• 31:21
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• 31:27
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• 32:12
  Speaker 2: Back after this.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: So I just saw a stat during the break. This
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: is from Josh Dubow of the AP. The Broncos have
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: been outgained. Actually, this one's from Shale Kapadia. The Broncos
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: have been outgained by 658 yards this season. That ranks
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: 30th in the NFL and is their second worst differential
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: through Week 8 this century.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Yet, they are 6-2.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Josh Dubow, on top of that, says, the worst yards
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: per game differential for a team with six-plus wins in
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: the first eight games since 1939.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: No one touches the Broncos.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: They're at negative 82.3. The next closest would be the
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: 2010 Patriots at negative 62.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: We're the overdogs. So, why is that important? Well, here's why.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: You have a clear read and clear picture on what's
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: going wrong. We know what's going wrong. One of these
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: things I think for the most part is unfixable. You
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: don't turn a quarterback that hasn't played well into a
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: quarterback that plays really well.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Just doesn't happen.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Bo Nix can get marginally better, but I got a
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: hard time ever, ever thinking that Bo Nix is going
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: to be really good this year. It's just tough. I
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: think from a confidence standpoint, from the way that the
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: team kind of.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: From the way that they run their offense, I think
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: it's too difficult. And it's not going to be something
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: that he's going to see on film that clicks for him.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: The only way I think you can make him better
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: is by getting a better running game. Because it's the
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: only thing that does not directly involve him being a
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: key ingredient.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: To the success or failure of a play.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: And that's why I am so gung-ho about these upcoming
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: six days on making something happen.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: You're winning football games.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I'm not even going to say you can't do it
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: anymore with the way that you're doing it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I think you can. I just think you can make
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: it easier on yourself. That's all.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, if we're talking about things like winning time
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: of possession battles, which I think is very important so
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: your defense doesn't get tired out, when the games matter most,
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: either late in the game or towards the end of
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: the season, a good running game helps that. You are
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: 9 of 48 in your last four games.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: All wins, by the way.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: 9 of 48 on third down. combined in the last
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: four games, a running game helps that. And I think
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: we all just kind of hope that somebody can snap
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: their fingers and all of a sudden Bo Nix is
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: playing at a super high level. I just don't think
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: that's happening. We're halfway through the year. It is what
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: it is at this point. You know, this isn't some
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: byproduct of, well, your big weapons in the passing game
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: have been out or you got offensive linemen shuffling in
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: and out due to injury. Like, that's not what's happening.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: I think that Bo is just what Bo is. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: in the case of how can you help the most,
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: you can do that by finding a good rushing attack.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: And we can all like Jonah Coleman and think that
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Jonah Coleman's going to be somebody that.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Can be impactful. But I would just be saying, well,
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: how about more? Can we do that? Can we do more?
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: And I hear people talk about this a lot, that
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor's not going to fix Sean Payton not running
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: the football. I still want to go back and remind
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: people of who Sean Payton is as a play caller.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: So let's just, Nelly, give me a random year that
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Sean Payton was coaching the Saints. I just want to
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: do an experiment. Maybe I look like an idiot by
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: doing this, but give me.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: A random year.
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: The year he always brings up is, I feel like
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: he either always brings up 2006 when he started or
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: 2009 when they won the Super Bowl. So take your pick.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Let's go to 2009. 2009, 13-3 record. The New Orleans
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: Saints went on. They won the NFC South. They won
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the Super Bowl against the Colts. Here's the numbers from
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: that team. Man, and they had Mike Bell was their
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: leading rusher. Mike Bell had 172 rushing attempts. Pierre Thomas
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: had 147. Reggie Bush had 70. Again, with those guys,
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: especially Reggie Bush, you got to think about passes out
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: of the backfield being extended handoffs, essentially. That's what he
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: likes to do. So Bush had 47 catches that year.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: Pierre Thomas had 39. So just taking that in totality,
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: we'll just put a side-by-side on that with what the
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Broncos did, let's say, last year, a season where they
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: went to the AFC Championship game. They finished with 456
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: total carries that season. It was 468 that year for
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: the Saints.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: So a very similar number.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: And I think later in that year, they made a
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: lot better effort at getting the running backs the football
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: because I think they just trusted them more. But I
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: do think there's a difference with Sean Payton where we
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: talk about him like, oh, he doesn't want to run it.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's the case. Because it's felt
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: like in the past when he has running backs that
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: he really likes and enjoys, that seems to change. Now,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: it's hard to even do comparisons when you go to
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: the Saints because you're talking about having a Hall of
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Fame quarterback there. And when you have a Hall of
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Fame quarterback, you're going to trust that guy to throw.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: You know, if you have Peyton Manning, I don't think
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: that you get overly concerned about the rushing attempts because.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: You would like to have the football in the hands
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: of your Hall of Famer.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: But I do believe that Sean Payton doesn't have some
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: total aversion to running the football. Philosophically, I don't think
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: he does. I think when you run the football seven
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: times for 13 yards, that poses a giant problem, like J.K.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Dobbins did the last week. If you have a top
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: five running back in the league, I think that changes.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: We've seen Sean Payton basically admit he's not trusting his quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: Look in the actions, not the words. Not going for
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  Speaker 3: it on fourth and one from the one-yard line is
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  Speaker 3: a direct correlation to that. But it's also a mistrust
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  Speaker 3: in your running game. I think if you offered the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity for 32, The other 31 teams in this league.
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  Speaker 3: Fourth and one from the one-yard line, are you kicking
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  Speaker 3: the field goal or are you going for it? I
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  Speaker 3: think that 30 of them would go for it. It's
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: the Broncos, and you pick the one other team that wouldn't.
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  Speaker 2: The Titans, maybe? I have no idea.
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  Speaker 3: Titans probably would. But that's a mistrust, not just in
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  Speaker 3: your quarterback, but in your running game. And I think
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  Speaker 3: that last year, when J.K. Dobbins was healthy and running
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  Speaker 3: the football well, the Broncos did make a really big
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: effort at running the football.
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  Speaker 2: J.K.
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  Speaker 3: Dobbins had 153 carries through 10 games last year. I mean,
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: that's on pace for by far over 200.
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  Speaker 2: That is what you do with running backs. You give
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: them the football over 200 times.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is JK got hurt and then you didn't
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  Speaker 3: really trust anybody else afterwards.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: So again, I think this narrative that's been made about
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Sean Payton will refuse. If I give him Barry Sanders
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: in the backfield or Walter Payton or Jim Brown, that
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: it would be, oh, he's not going to run the football. Still,
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. Don't buy it. I still think it's
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: a matter of trust. They trusted JK Dobbins last year
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  Speaker 3: until he got hurt. Now JK Dobbins is just not
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: the same. And so now you're saying, well, let's run
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: a fourth-round rookie 20 times. I just don't think he's
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: in that trust tree yet. I think Jonathan Taylor would.
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  Speaker 3: And I do think it's important that the Broncos continue
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: to explore that.
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