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Ben DiNucci says the Broncos can't bench Bo Nix right now, even for a little bit · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 2: Medical doctor and attorney, RamosLaw.com. Ben DiNucci joins us again. Ben,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, thank you for joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to start with just a simple question. What's
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  Speaker 2: Bo Nix doing?
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  Speaker 3: First off, what's going on, guys? Good to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us, by the way, on a
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  Speaker 3: moment's notice this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's nice to see some people in Denver still
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  Speaker 4: smiling after the win.
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  Speaker 3: Last night, although it feels like maybe not. But, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think in its simplest form, football is a game
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  Speaker 4: that is played by kids.
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  Speaker 3: It is meant to be enjoyed. It's meant to be fun.
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  Speaker 4: And when I watch the Broncos on offense last night
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  Speaker 4: and the last couple weeks, it just doesn't look like
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  Speaker 4: anybody's having fun.
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  Speaker 3: And so... I don't know what's causing that. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been inside that building. And so, yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's logical to question the quarterback position just
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  Speaker 4: because he's the one that has the ball every single play.
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  Speaker 4: But there's clearly some disconnect going on right now between
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  Speaker 4: Sean and between the quarterback and between the offense as
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  Speaker 4: a whole, because last year it didn't look like this.
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  Speaker 4: Historically for Sean, it really hasn't looked like this.
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  Speaker 3: So I think.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's easy to point fingers. I'm not going
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  Speaker 4: to do that. I don't think Bo's a bad quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's had, I think he's had some, some
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  Speaker 4: bad games and that's part of life in the NFL.
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  Speaker 4: And certainly with the schedule that the Broncos have had
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  Speaker 4: to start the season. But yeah, when I watched that
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  Speaker 4: game last night, it just looked like no one was
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  Speaker 4: having fun. Bo kind of just looked disinterested for, for
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  Speaker 4: a good portion of that game on the sidelines, they
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  Speaker 4: were showing shots at him and it just looked like
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  Speaker 4: he was looking off into space kind of just kind
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  Speaker 4: of dejected, and I don't know what's doing that. I
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  Speaker 4: think there's probably a lot of voices in his ear
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  Speaker 4: right now telling him a bunch of different things. For him,
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  Speaker 4: he just needs to get back to doing the basics,
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  Speaker 4: feel confident and have faith and just letting it rip
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  Speaker 4: and giving guys a chance to go make plays.
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  Speaker 5: I think you said it best there. Ben, he's not
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  Speaker 5: a bad quarterback. We've seen success from Bo. We've seen it.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen it with our own eyes. We've seen him
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  Speaker 5: play well. So we know it's there. He's just going
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  Speaker 5: through something right now that's hard to explain, hard to assess,
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  Speaker 5: hard to fix. Is the fix, and I know this
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  Speaker 5: is a tough one for quarterback, do you sit him?
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  Speaker 5: You said in a couple games, you said, take a
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  Speaker 5: seat and let's watch from here. Is that even a possibility,
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  Speaker 5: an option for this team?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I would say if the record was something
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  Speaker 4: other than 4-2, if they were 2-4, maybe this is
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  Speaker 4: a conversation that's to be had. But this team is
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  Speaker 4: sitting at 4-2 right now, and the defense is playing
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  Speaker 4: as good as anybody else in the NFL. So I
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  Speaker 4: would be hard-pressed to say, hey, let's bench Bo and
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  Speaker 4: see if that's the spark that our offense needs. The
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  Speaker 4: grass is certainly not always greener in the NFL. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is kind of just life in the NFL. Look
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  Speaker 4: at Drake May and the Patriots the first couple weeks,
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  Speaker 4: and everyone was calling for his job as well. And
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  Speaker 4: look at what he's done the last couple weeks. He's
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  Speaker 4: played his best two games of the year. And so
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the answer is benching Bo. I think
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  Speaker 4: they just need to find ways to get the offense
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  Speaker 4: into more of a rhythm.
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  Speaker 3: And people.
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  Speaker 4: people can point at the run game and lack thereof.
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  Speaker 4: Look what's happening in Houston. They haven't really had a
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  Speaker 4: run game either, and C.J. Stroud is playing some of
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  Speaker 4: the best ball that he's had with guys hurt in
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  Speaker 4: the receiver room.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't thrown an interception the whole year. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what it is.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like every week I'm talking to somebody in
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  Speaker 4: Denver about what the problem is and how do they
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  Speaker 4: move forward. I don't think benching Bowe is the answer.
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  Speaker 4: I would just like to see it. it look a
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  Speaker 4: little bit easier. It doesn't, nothing, nothing looks easy right
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  Speaker 4: now to, to this offense. And I think that's part
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  Speaker 4: of probably where the frustration comes from as a, as
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  Speaker 4: a fan. And I'll say this too, it's hard when
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  Speaker 4: you're trying to figure stuff out on the fly in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL, when you're playing in primetime every week and
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  Speaker 4: you've got a national audience that's critiquing every little thing that's,
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  Speaker 4: that's going on. So I think maybe some of the,
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  Speaker 4: you know, one of the best things for the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: maybe is this, this Cardinals game here in, in, A
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  Speaker 4: couple weeks. Put them on a late window. Put them
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  Speaker 4: on not a national TV slot. Let them kind of
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  Speaker 4: figure out some of this stuff behind closed doors. I
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  Speaker 4: think it's easy for people to be kind of these
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  Speaker 4: armchair quarterbacks and watch the game last night and say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Bo Nix needs to be better this, that, and the third.
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  Speaker 4: But if we're being honest, Bo wasn't the worst quarterback
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  Speaker 4: that played last night either. I think the expectations are
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  Speaker 4: just so high in Denver considering what happened last year
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  Speaker 4: and how Bo played. last year that they expect it
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  Speaker 4: to look and feel a different way.
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  Speaker 3: And so.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of the day, they're still finding ways
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  Speaker 4: to win, but you would certainly like for it to
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  Speaker 4: look a little bit different at the quarterback position.
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  Speaker 6: Talk me through this, if you would, BD. And again,
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  Speaker 6: this is probably, I don't want to compare quarterbacks. It's
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  Speaker 6: probably a little bit unfair, but you got to win.
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  Speaker 6: One of the first things he says is, quote, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know why we can't really push the ball vertically
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  Speaker 6: right now, but defenses are just sitting back and hanging out.
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  Speaker 6: Hopefully we find a way to get more out of it.
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  Speaker 6: The Green Bay Packers cannot run the football either.
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  Speaker 3: At all.
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  Speaker 6: They're number one guys suspended and so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 6: And Jordan Love throws for almost 400 yards last week, right?
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  Speaker 6: So why can it work for some teams and not
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  Speaker 6: for this particular team, do you think?
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  Speaker 4: So I think that quote from Bo is strictly probably
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  Speaker 4: him trying to get himself a little bit more motivated, right?
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  Speaker 4: The lack of pushing the ball down the field. Sean's
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  Speaker 4: calling plays where guys are running defensively.
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  Speaker 3: Down the field, chunk plays.
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  Speaker 4: At some point, Bo just has to cut it loose
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  Speaker 4: and say F it, right? I mean, so much about
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  Speaker 4: playing the quarterback position is you have to have the
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  Speaker 4: utmost confidence in yourself, in guys around you 24-7, 365.
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  Speaker 3: Be able to be.
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  Speaker 4: Poised in the noise and be able to trust your
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  Speaker 4: eyes and trust what you're seeing. There was a play
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  Speaker 4: late in that game last night where– it actually might've
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  Speaker 4: been the last third down of the game where he
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  Speaker 4: threw the, threw the swing pass to the right and
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  Speaker 4: it got batted down. And if you look from the
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  Speaker 4: end zone copy, Jalen Waddle is running, you know, running
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  Speaker 4: open on the sideline without anybody 10 or 15 yards,
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  Speaker 4: you know, within reach of him. And if Bo would
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  Speaker 4: have just been able to keep his eyes down field
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  Speaker 4: and maybe step up in the pocket instead of drifting, right.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he would have Waddle would have came right
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  Speaker 4: into his view and the Seahawks don't even have a
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  Speaker 4: chance to go down and kick a field goal and
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  Speaker 4: send that game to overtime. So, I think Bo just
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  Speaker 4: needs to find ways to slow his process down a
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  Speaker 4: little bit. So much for quarterbacks, when the feet start
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  Speaker 4: moving in front of your eyes, that's when guys get
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  Speaker 4: in trouble. Ideally for quarterbacks, you want your eyes to
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  Speaker 4: lead your feet, right? And right now I see a
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  Speaker 4: quarterback in Bo that his feet are just not comfortable
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  Speaker 4: in the pocket at all. And it tells me that
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  Speaker 4: his process is just moving a little too fast. He's
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  Speaker 4: not processing things probably the way that he wants to
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  Speaker 4: or has seen in the past. And I think that's
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  Speaker 4: probably where a little bit of the confusion and frustration
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  Speaker 4: is coming from.
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  Speaker 3: And then that's.
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  Speaker 4: When you get quotes that, hey, we're an explosive offense.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why we're having the inability to push
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  Speaker 4: the ball down the field right now. And I think
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, Bo just needs to
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  Speaker 4: cut it loose. And when you get guys that are
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  Speaker 4: running free, so much about the NFL, you're never going
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  Speaker 4: to have guys that are just running wide open, right?
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  Speaker 4: It's the quarterback's ability to put the ball on the
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  Speaker 4: left shoulder when it needs to be on the left shoulder,
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  Speaker 4: on the right shoulder when it needs to be on
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  Speaker 4: the right shoulder. And When a quarterback isn't seeing things well,
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  Speaker 4: it's really tough to trust that I can put my
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  Speaker 4: back foot in the ground and cut it loose.
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  Speaker 3: So Ben DiNucci's with us.
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  Speaker 2: And Ben, one thing that I was thinking, because we've
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  Speaker 2: been asking because he's athletic and he's mobile, can they
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  Speaker 2: set up some designed quarterback runs? Maybe that gets him
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  Speaker 2: into it. Here's what I noticed last night and really
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  Speaker 2: throughout the course this year. He had two ankle surgeries
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  Speaker 2: in the offseason. He kind of looks to me like
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  Speaker 2: a guy who doesn't want to get hit. Like he
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  Speaker 2: bails on clean pockets because it looks like he's scared
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  Speaker 2: of pressure. He dumps it off quickly because he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: want to take a hit on the designed runs.
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  Speaker 3: He had a play yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: He rolled out to his left.
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  Speaker 2: On a, or not rolled out. It was a designed
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  Speaker 2: quarterback run to the left that he saw traffic in
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  Speaker 2: front of him. And he threw the ball to feet
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  Speaker 2: of his running back resulting in an ineligible man downfield.
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  Speaker 3: Is he scared to take contact?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if scared is the right word. I, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there were a couple of plays last night. I don't
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  Speaker 4: remember at what point in the game. It was first
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  Speaker 4: and 10 or second and 10. He was rolling to
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  Speaker 4: the right sideline and took a three or four yard
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  Speaker 4: loss when every other quarterback in the NFL would just
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  Speaker 4: flip the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he had a tight end wide open, like
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  Speaker 5: in the flat for about seven yards.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, flip the ball out of bounds, take the incompletion.
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  Speaker 4: There was another one on the goal line. I don't
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  Speaker 4: remember when it happened, but it was second and one
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  Speaker 4: or third and one. And he got the first down
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  Speaker 4: and looked like he could have maybe put his head
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  Speaker 4: down and made a play on the front pylon.
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  Speaker 3: And Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea if
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  Speaker 3: he's healthy or not.
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  Speaker 4: But when you watch the game and watch him play,
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  Speaker 4: so much of his game over college and the early
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  Speaker 4: part of his NFL career has been being able to
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  Speaker 4: make plays outside the pocket. When the play breaks down,
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  Speaker 4: he prides himself on using his legs and being able
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  Speaker 4: to be a mobile quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see that last night.
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  Speaker 4: It looked like he scrambled when he needed to to
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  Speaker 4: get out of the pocket and avoid the rush, and
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  Speaker 4: then as soon as he felt like He was going
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  Speaker 4: to be compromised or get hit. That's when I think
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  Speaker 4: you saw him kind of run out of bounds or
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  Speaker 4: fall down in front of.
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  Speaker 3: Defenders' feet. I don't know. I would hope he's 100%.
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  Speaker 4: Healthy and they're not just rolling him out there every
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  Speaker 4: week knowing that he's not healthy. I think part of
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  Speaker 4: it is that he didn't have an offseason. He had
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  Speaker 4: a couple surgeries, didn't have a really ramp-up period during preseason.
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  Speaker 4: He only played a couple of drives during the preseason game.
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  Speaker 4: and in a way is probably still feeling himself out
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  Speaker 4: a little bit in how comfortable and confident he is
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  Speaker 4: in that foot. And so much of quarterbacks and being
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  Speaker 4: able to generate power and force with the ball comes
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  Speaker 4: from your lower half. And his right foot, that's the
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  Speaker 4: back foot for right-handed quarterbacks. That's where you're going to
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  Speaker 4: get most of the energy from your throw. And probably
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  Speaker 4: part of it is, you know, how much do I
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  Speaker 4: really trust this when I haven't had much game rep
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  Speaker 4: since the AFC, not the AFC championship, the divisional round
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  Speaker 4: last year versus.
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  Speaker 3: The Buffalo Bills.
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  Speaker 4: And I also thought it was interesting last night at
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  Speaker 4: the end of the game in overtime, Sean called, you know,
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  Speaker 4: basically the same quarterback, sweep that he called at the
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  Speaker 4: end of the season last year when Bo got hurt
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  Speaker 4: against the Bills. He was rolling out to the left,
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  Speaker 4: and last night he was rolling out to the right,
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  Speaker 4: and it looked like Bo wanted no part of that play.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted no part of that play, and rightfully so.
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  Speaker 4: If I was in that position, it's hard for me
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  Speaker 4: to trust. Man, the play I got hurt eight months ago,
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  Speaker 4: my coach is going to call the same play and
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  Speaker 4: put me in that same situation. I'll be damned if
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  Speaker 4: I take a hit and put myself in a compromising position,
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  Speaker 4: and thankfully Will Lutz bailed the offense out, but At
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  Speaker 4: the end of the day, this team is finding ways
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  Speaker 4: to win. The defense is playing unbelievable without Pat Sertan,
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  Speaker 4: without Hufanga last night. At some point, they hope to
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  Speaker 4: get Jonathan Cooper back. So, you know, Vijay's got that
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  Speaker 4: side of the ball flying around, making plays and keeping
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  Speaker 4: this offense in games.
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  Speaker 5: Let me ask you one final question, Ben, and appreciate it.
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  Speaker 5: Your insight has been valuable to us, obviously, and our listeners.
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  Speaker 5: Last night, the Broncos produced 168 yards of offense, which,
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  Speaker 5: In an overtime NFL victory is the lowest amount ever
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  Speaker 5: for a winning team in overtime in the history of
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  Speaker 5: the league.
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  Speaker 3: So it's easy to say, oh, it's just Bo.
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  Speaker 1: It's more than Bo.
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  Speaker 3: It's just more than Bo.
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  Speaker 6: Is the offensive line, I.
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  Speaker 5: Keep hearing how they're.
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  Speaker 3: The highest paid.
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  Speaker 5: Are they overrated? I mean, what is going on up front?
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  Speaker 5: Why can't they get a run game going?
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to use the term overrated because I'm
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  Speaker 4: buddies with a lot of people in that locker room.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still very cautious about how I talk about this team.
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  Speaker 4: There's a reason this Denver Broncos helmet is still above
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  Speaker 4: my Cowboys helmet behind me.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not ready to give up on these guys yet.
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  Speaker 3: But I think.
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  Speaker 4: Just as offense as a whole, when you win 14
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  Speaker 4: games last year and you're one game away from going
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  Speaker 4: to the Super Bowl and your starting quarterback doesn't play
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  Speaker 4: during the AFC Championship, naturally there probably feels like a
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  Speaker 4: need to press on offense from Sean, from the quarterback.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's part of the reason why you saw
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  Speaker 4: Sean take over play calling so soon. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: it was anything that Davis was doing that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: It was the reason that the offense was the way
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  Speaker 4: it was the first couple weeks. I think they just
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  Speaker 4: needed to find a spark, and the team was 2-2,
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  Speaker 4: and so naturally Sean just takes back play calling, and
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  Speaker 4: it's a way of him saying, hey, the quarterback needs
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  Speaker 4: to play a little better. I'm going to see if
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  Speaker 4: I can help by having a familiar voice in his
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  Speaker 4: ear that he's had for the last couple years to
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  Speaker 4: start his career. Certainly you would like to see the
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  Speaker 4: offensive line play better, but I think at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, too, The Seattle Seahawks were Super Bowl
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  Speaker 4: champs last year, and that defense wreaked havoc on everybody
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  Speaker 4: that they played. So it's easy to point the finger,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not going to do that. I think for
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos now, they're going to get a sigh of
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  Speaker 4: relief when it comes to the schedule and who they're
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  Speaker 4: playing here the next month or two. And the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they were able to come out of this first
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  Speaker 4: chunk of the season at four and two, I think
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  Speaker 4: really is a plus, right? If you look at their
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  Speaker 4: schedule before the year and set in a perfect world
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  Speaker 4: as a Broncos fan, three and three would be, I think,
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  Speaker 4: right for what people.
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  Speaker 3: Would expect it.
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  Speaker 4: And the fact that they were able to come out
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  Speaker 4: of this thing four and two and with a winning record,
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  Speaker 4: I think just speaks testaments to the team and the
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  Speaker 4: coaching and kind of what they have inside that building. Now, yes,
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  Speaker 4: the offense can play better. The quarterback, can play better.
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  Speaker 4: They can play better complimentary football. I think they had
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  Speaker 4: eight drives in the second half last night for, I.
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  Speaker 3: Don't, don't quote me on this. It's like 15 yards
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  Speaker 3: or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Something, something, something not good.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And so the fact that they're still able to win
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  Speaker 4: games in the NFL and the offense is only showing
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  Speaker 4: up for a quarter or two, I think speaks volumes
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  Speaker 4: to the rest of that team and the rest of
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  Speaker 4: that locker room.
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  Speaker 2: Ben DiNucci, 30 seconds here real quick, because I do
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  Speaker 2: want to ask you this. They're winning football games, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming everything is fine within that locker room. Is
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  Speaker 2: the defense talking to themselves when they're away from the
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: offense being like, dude?
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: Dude.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: They're winning football games.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: I don't think everything is going to be right inside
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: that locker room.
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: Peyton knows he has a problem. He knows he's got
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: a problem. No doubt.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: There's going to be a team meeting this morning with– sorry,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: a coaching staff meeting this morning, and they're going to
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: have to– the first thing that's going to be talked
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: about is, hey, man, how do we get our quarterback–
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: to play better right and it's not benching him it's
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: not you know let's let's let's see Stidham for a
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: week and you know see if that you know helps
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: Bo I don't think that's it at all they just
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: need to simply go back to hey what does Bo
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: do well what do we do well as an offense
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: and how can we put our guys in best positions
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: to succeed I look at Jalen Waddle he's basically getting
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: free cardio out there every time they play minus the
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: minus the Jacksonville game where he had a He had
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: a good game. This is a guy they spent a
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: first-round draft pick on, and they're not finding ways to
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: get him the ball. Look around the NFL, the Cowboys,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: the Bengals. CeeDee Lamb had 21 targets versus the Houston
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: Texans a couple weeks ago versus what people thought was
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: the best secondary in the NFL.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Puka Nakua just had 24 on Monday night.
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: At some point, as a quarterback and as a play caller,
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: you have to generate touches for your best players. If
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Jalen Waddell is a guy who they think on offense
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: is one of their best players, they need to find
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: ways to to get him the ball that will help
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: settle bow down that will help settle the offensive line
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: down that'll help settle the pass rush down and I
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: think then you'll start to see a little bit maybe
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: more of complimentary football being being played on offense but
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: if you're playing this Broncos offense and as a defense
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: or a defensive coordinator you can sit back and say
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: hey I'm just going to load the box and make
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: Bo Nix beat us and prove that he has the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: ability to stay in the pocket and trust his eyes
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: and trust his feet and.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: Go through progressions and make reads.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: Until you see him consistently do that week in and
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: week out, I think defensive coordinators are just going to say, hey,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: we're going to try to make this offense one-dimensional and
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: let Bo Nix beat us.
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: Last one, I lied.
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: Is that contract hanging over his head, the possibility of
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: making that money? Ben, if you had a treasure chest
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: waiting for you, would that affect your play?
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: And look, I don't know. I might be the wrong
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: guy to ask about that.
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: I was never even in the same stratosphere of having
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: a conversation where I was looking at money or a
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: contract like that in my career. I was week to week,
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: month to month, year to year in my thought process.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: Were the airport beers hanging over your head?
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: The airport beers were sitting in front of me like, man,
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: if I can get cut again and go to the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: airport and have another IPA and make light of myself
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: and be relatable, then I'm all for it.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: That's certainly a tough spot to be in because these
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: first-round quarterbacks, when they're in year three, kind of that
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: year three, year four, and you're seeing it with Bryce
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Young and C.J. Stroud and some of these other guys
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: around the league, too, who are in these positions. And
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: those guys are just going out and saying, man, I'm
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: just going to cut it loose. I'm going to ball,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to let my play speak for itself.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I don't know. That's hard to say. I would certainly
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: hope not. And if he is thinking about it, I would.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: Tell him probably not to, right?
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Because the more you're thinking about stuff that you can't control,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: the more it's going to affect your play out there
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: and the more it's going to affect your team.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: And so I don't know.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Certainly the Broncos are going to have a decision to make,
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: not necessarily in terms of if he's the franchise quarterback
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: or not, but in terms of do they want to
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: just pick up his fifth year option? Do they want
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: to give him a Baker Mayfield type contract or a
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold type contract? Certainly there's a lot of football
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: left to be played this year, but Yeah, for Bo's sake,
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: I think just settle down.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of season left. It's been six weeks.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: You're four and two, and he's still protecting the ball.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I mean, they didn't have no turnovers last night. You
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: watch Sam Darnold as a Seahawks fan, and you're like, man,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: I wish he would just take care of the ball
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: and protect the ball. And as a Seahawks fan, you
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: probably think last night, how the heck do we lose
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: that game? How do we find a way to let
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: the Broncos beat us when they have 170 yards offense
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: and can't seem to move the ball for.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: A second half? But Yeah, I don't know.
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: I'm still in on the Broncos. I'm not going to say,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: I'm not ready to poo-poo them yet. When you've got
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: a defense that's led by Vance Joseph and Sean Payton
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: at the helm, I think you're always going to have
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: a chance to be successful and a chance to win
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: every week. And you heard him in the locker room
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: last night. There's a way to win each game, but
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: we just need to make sure that we're getting better
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: every week and not kind of staying complacent. I think
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: sometimes for teams in the NFL, complacency is the biggest opponent,
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: not necessarily who you're playing every Sunday. You want to
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: feel like September, October, November, you're climbing the mountain, not
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: coming down the mountain so that December and January you
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: can be playing your best football.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's Ben DiNucci. Always appreciate the time, Ben.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: Let's talk again soon, yeah?
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys. Take it easy. Have a good Friday.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Have a great weekend. Thank you very much.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I'll be looking for that expired Bitcoin, Vic. Let me
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: know when it hits my Robinhood account.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: I got you.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Thanks, Ben.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: See you, guys.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: Ben DiNucci joining us on the Rambos Law Hotline.