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11-02-26 - BRONCOS BEAT THE CHIEFS!/Broncos keep winning one-score games/Baby steps on offense · 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 2: I'm going to say two things today that are going
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  Speaker 2: to sound insane. Number one, I am so confident that
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos win this weekend. I feel great. I'm uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: Why do I feel so good? Here's number two that
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to later. I am very confident the Buffs
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  Speaker 2: are going to win this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Touchdown wins it.
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  Speaker 2: At the match point. He pulls.
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  Speaker 5: He fires.
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  Speaker 1: But it's in walk-off fashion.
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  Speaker 2: Just as he was in the opener Charlie.
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  Speaker 6: Williams the hero and a Halloween thriller.
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  Speaker 2: In Boulder all on the line Mahomes stepping up in
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  Speaker 2: trouble doesn't have a chance flings it it's picked up
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  Speaker 2: and caught and stopped.
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  Speaker 1: At the one yard line I don't know how.
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  Speaker 2: They do it. It doesn't matter anymore. They're good. They're
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  Speaker 2: just good. And they're good when it matters. Mistakes that
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  Speaker 2: were made maybe earlier in the game. Things that you
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  Speaker 2: didn't have totally in your game plan that now just...
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  Speaker 2: They just seem to overcome and play their best in
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  Speaker 2: a way that teams rarely do. I want to start
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  Speaker 2: with a stat this morning. because I think this is
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you're talking about. You guys remember over the
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  Speaker 2: last few weeks where I pulled up some Bo Nix
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  Speaker 2: stats and been like, he's been, you know, 161st out
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  Speaker 2: of 161 eligible quarterbacks for this number and its average
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  Speaker 2: depth of target or whatever, like those kind of stats, right?
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  Speaker 2: How's this one? When down one to eight points in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter playoffs included, There are 169 quarterbacks with
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  Speaker 2: at least 75 passing attempts in that scenario since 1991.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know who has the highest passer rating? Bo Nix.
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  Speaker 5: Bo Nix is especial.
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  Speaker 2: He's special when it matters. Now, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: also a very, very, for the second week in a row,
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  Speaker 2: perfectly called play from Sean Payton that got you to
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  Speaker 2: this point. But you could feel it. It's like, 24-13
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  Speaker 2: heading into the fourth quarter. And you had to think
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  Speaker 2: to yourself, hmm, what's going to happen here? Are we
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  Speaker 2: due for another comeback? And that's exactly what went down. Like,
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  Speaker 2: this is what this team does. The numbers, I think,
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  Speaker 2: on both sides are skewed by big plays that maybe
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have been. You know, Bo goes 20 of 32
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  Speaker 2: for 222 yards and two touchdowns. Does that number, that 222,
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  Speaker 2: probably skew a little bit just because of a big
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  Speaker 2: play from Jonah Coleman?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: In the same way, Mahomes is 30 of 41 for
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  Speaker 2: 321 yards. He's got three touchdowns and no picks. Is
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  Speaker 2: that number skewed? Yeah, by the Emma Johnson just out
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  Speaker 2: in space, nobody around, and then make a couple moves
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  Speaker 2: at the goal line. Two big plays that if eliminated,
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  Speaker 2: I think feels a lot more like the game we
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  Speaker 2: thought we would get, which would be 21 to 17,
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  Speaker 2: you know, something like that. Bottom line is the Broncos win.
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  Speaker 2: The game matters. You go out in the second half
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  Speaker 2: and what happens? Three consecutive three and outs. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: get a first down in the fourth quarter, but final
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  Speaker 2: two possessions, nine plays, 80 yards, touchdowns. Two plays, 56 yards, touchdown.
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  Speaker 2: And you almost kind of thought, oh boy, did we
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  Speaker 2: do that too early? Because the next thing you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's a minute 56 left on the clock. Patrick Mahomes
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  Speaker 2: is getting the football down four. It's nightmare fuel. And
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  Speaker 2: they get one big play to Travis Kelsey, who stumbles
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  Speaker 2: his way to 32 yards. Ow! Stumbles his way to
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  Speaker 2: 32 yards. And they're right there on the goal line.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have to make a play, the defense
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  Speaker 2: makes a play. It is remarkable to watch this team
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  Speaker 2: over and over and over again continue to just win
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  Speaker 2: it matters. have the church bells between their legs to
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  Speaker 2: step up in a moment like that. Because it's true.
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  Speaker 2: It's a Rally House Football Monday. Rally House shop every
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  Speaker 2: team in town. Adam Schefter is going to join us
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  Speaker 2: at 8.05 this morning. I just, I want to hear
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  Speaker 2: from you guys. Like, what are your overall thoughts from
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  Speaker 2: the game? Far from perfect. Still very frustrating at times.
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  Speaker 4: But, man.
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos at home are just a different animal. And
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  Speaker 2: I will continue to say this. I think I've said
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  Speaker 2: it every game so far this year that's been played
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  Speaker 2: at Mile High. The crowd mattered. Very much so. You
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  Speaker 2: guys caused chaos for whoever's on the opposite side of
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  Speaker 2: the football field that day. It's true. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: big thing I think offensively is.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see some sort of gigantic difference? Um, as
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  Speaker 2: far as, as play that you believed in, in the
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  Speaker 2: running game with Jonah Coleman? No, it wasn't some seismic
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  Speaker 2: boost to your rushing game. It was certainly better than
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  Speaker 2: what JK Dobbins had, but that part was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit disappointing for me. I thought he was going to
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  Speaker 2: be fired up and ready to go, especially with RJ Harvey. Um,
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  Speaker 2: being placed on IR before that game. I was expecting
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more burst and punch. Just didn't quite
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  Speaker 2: get there. You know, Coleman obviously made the big play
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  Speaker 2: out of the backfield, which is good to see, considering
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  Speaker 2: that was typically R.J. Harvey's job, that somebody's still capable
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  Speaker 2: of going out and making a big play like that
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  Speaker 2: in the pass game. But, you know, we heard the rumors.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to it a little bit later about Jonathan
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  Speaker 2: Taylor and.
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  Speaker 2: If you watched the amount of quit and give up
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  Speaker 2: that the Indianapolis Colts had in that game yesterday, they
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  Speaker 2: should be selling everybody on that roster. And I'm almost
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  Speaker 2: guaranteeing that they're going to be selling Jonathan Taylor. And
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  Speaker 2: I think the Broncos would be foolish to, depending on
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  Speaker 2: what the price is, I can't imagine it's too crazy,
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  Speaker 2: but to get outbid for that, I just, I can't
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  Speaker 2: see it. I would not allow that to happen if
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  Speaker 2: I were the Broncos. Considering the amount of help it
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  Speaker 2: can give you. But I think once again, if you
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  Speaker 2: give the Broncos a sliver of hope, they will take it.
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  Speaker 2: And the game will end. And the game ends with
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  Speaker 2: you being the opposite team. Saying, what the hell just happened?
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  Speaker 2: How did we lose that? Too many teams. have been
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  Speaker 2: victims of the Broncos' late-game heroics. And I know my
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  Speaker 2: whole thing last year is, this isn't sustainable, it's not sustainable.
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  Speaker 2: You know what? Look at the record. I guess it is.
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  Speaker 5: Truly.
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  Speaker 2: It's sustainable in the regular season. I still think you
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  Speaker 2: put yourself in this similar type of hole once the
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  Speaker 2: postseason rolls around, you're in trouble. But bottom line is,
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  Speaker 2: this game was as big of a game that you're
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  Speaker 2: going to get for not even being halfway through the season.
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  Speaker 2: Losing that game is essentially losing the division. Winning that
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  Speaker 2: game puts you in the driver's seat. Still doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: it's yours, but it gives you a very, very good shot.
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  Speaker 2: You've evened up the season series against the Chiefs. You
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  Speaker 2: have now the top spot in the AFC West. You
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  Speaker 2: have a much easier schedule coming your way in the
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  Speaker 2: next few weeks. All these different things. Now, Texture says this,
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  Speaker 2: and I actually totally agree with this. Bowe and the
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  Speaker 2: offense are getting better, but it's still not consistent enough.
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  Speaker 2: Play calls in the third felt too safe. Defense is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Now we get the soft part of the schedule and
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  Speaker 2: the offense can continue to grow and feed. It's exactly
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  Speaker 2: my thought after the game. I do think the offense
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  Speaker 2: was better. Now, again, where are we setting the bar here?
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  Speaker 2: Like my bar for the offense is kind of like
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  Speaker 2: on the floor.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So if that's your starting point, it shouldn't be that
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  Speaker 2: hard to get to. But I do think in the
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  Speaker 2: last two weeks, you've seen the offense grow. It's been baby.
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  Speaker 3: Steps.
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  Speaker 2: But they have been a little bit better than in
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  Speaker 2: the games previous to that. There is still what the
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  Speaker 2: entire third quarter was. You know, which you just look
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  Speaker 2: at it, you know, you didn't get a first down
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  Speaker 2: for 15 minutes. You know, Chiefs make you pay. They
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  Speaker 2: turn one of those into a touchdown. And now that
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  Speaker 2: four-point game becomes an 11-point game. And it's, we got
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  Speaker 2: to be perfect here at the end to get a win. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess what? Two for two on touchdown drives in the
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  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. You stiffen up with a red zone stop.
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  Speaker 2: I just... The team's incredible. I really, I've honestly never
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  Speaker 2: seen anything quite like it. And I know that you
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  Speaker 2: guys are going to point to like the Tebow years
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  Speaker 2: of like the same sort of feeling at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the game. But that was even more different. Like
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  Speaker 2: that was different than this. And I think the reasoning
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  Speaker 2: is like if you watch Tim Tebow, there's very obvious
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  Speaker 2: reasons as to why that wasn't going to work on offense.
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  Speaker 2: Like he just wasn't a quarterback. I don't know, not
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  Speaker 2: an NFL quarterback. The Broncos sometimes, like there's that throw
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  Speaker 2: that he made to Waddle, like when he's on the
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  Speaker 2: move with his eyes downfield, Bo Nix looks like this
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  Speaker 2: is my comfort zone. You make a couple of throws
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  Speaker 2: stepping up, you climb up in the pocket.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the first drive of the game, or yes,
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  Speaker 4: the first drive of the game, he takes a shot
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  Speaker 4: downfield to Troy Franklin and results in a pass interference.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's what that stuff can do for you. He
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  Speaker 2: did climb the pocket a couple times in that game
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  Speaker 2: and make a throw, but when he escapes and throws
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  Speaker 2: a ball on the run and he uses his mobility,
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  Speaker 2: which it feels like he's getting more comfortable with, it's huge.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on, Nelly. Here it comes. Wait a minute. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: the sneeze left.
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  Speaker 6: No!
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  Speaker 2: God, please, no! Not only do I feel worse for
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  Speaker 2: this now, I feel like I have... I've taken away
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  Speaker 2: from a theme of the 6 o'clock hour ever since
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  Speaker 2: I've gotten here, which is you guys hear me let
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  Speaker 2: go of a sneeze in the first segment of the
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  Speaker 2: 6 o'clock hour. It happens every time. I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: You're such a tease, Brett.
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  Speaker 2: I know. I just felt it, and then it escaped. So, 303-504-0925,
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  Speaker 2: Call 303-222-2222. So, give me your thoughts. Hit up that
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  Speaker 2: text line. Just give me an overall, like, what did
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  Speaker 2: you like and what did you dislike from the game?
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line is, Broncos get another win, a win that
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  Speaker 2: I think they needed if they wanted to stay in
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  Speaker 2: this AFC West race, and now they're in the driver's seat.
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  Speaker 2: You got the easy chunk of the schedule coming. The
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs got an impossibly hard part of the schedule coming.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to all that and more in just a
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  Speaker 2: couple of minutes. Stick around.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is a wonderful home crowd.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I just know there are other cities where that
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  Speaker 6: adversity would be greater and longer. And this is anything
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  Speaker 6: but that. You feel their disappointment with that reaction as
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  Speaker 6: much as anything else.
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  Speaker 3: And it's pro sports, but man, it's a special place.
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  Speaker 3: It's something else. they won us a game tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton, totally agree. Rally House, Football Monday, Rally House shop,
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  Speaker 2: every team in town. So a lot more to break
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  Speaker 2: down with this game. Tysha says, have you seen Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: fans complaining about the false start? Here's the thing, man.
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  Speaker 2: I saw that Mahomes' wife, what's her name again?
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  Speaker 5: Brittany Mahomes. Brittany.
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  Speaker 2: So she posted something about, oh, we got screwed on
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  Speaker 2: another call. Like, yeah, yeah, Kansas City. Notoriously, the worst
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  Speaker 2: sort of calls that you can get are if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Chiefs fan. It's very clearly a false start. I
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  Speaker 2: know that he tried to play it off like he
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  Speaker 2: was looking, but he rocked, and then he tried to
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  Speaker 2: be like, oh, that wasn't me moving early. I was
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  Speaker 2: looking for the ball. It was a false start. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry that your guy messed up, but he messed up.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. The Broncos get that. They get
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  Speaker 2: something like that so often. They get the rock back
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  Speaker 2: on fourth down, or I'm sorry, at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the clock, where it negates a touchdown, the next play
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  Speaker 2: results in you hitting Mahomes and ending the football game.
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  Speaker 2: They get the, hey, we're up three, we hit a
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  Speaker 2: field goal, it puts them in a lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: All right, well now missed field goal puts the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: at the 50 down four. Like, they get these things
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  Speaker 2: so often. And it is, there is a, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I always talk about the pie chart. If you're doing
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  Speaker 2: the pie chart, luck is going to be a really,
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  Speaker 2: really hearty slice of pie. But the rest of that
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  Speaker 2: is going to be what you do, the pressure you create. Like,
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  Speaker 2: think about this for a second, guys. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: tell you something that I'm sure you've seen already, but just,
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  Speaker 2: I want to really emphasize this. I want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you guys are hyper aware of what I'm
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  Speaker 2: about to tell you. The Denver Broncos have won 15
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  Speaker 2: one-score games consecutively. 15 one-score games in a row. That is.
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  Speaker 2: Like, for everything in a one-score game where you're talking about,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well, there's got to be bounces, or what
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  Speaker 2: about the turnovers, or what about a bad call, or
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  Speaker 2: what about a penalty, or what about this, or what
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  Speaker 2: about that, 15 consecutive times they've won in one-score games,
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  Speaker 2: it's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. We talk about all the time,
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  Speaker 2: like my argument that I made against the Chiefs a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago were that they were like 13-1
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  Speaker 2: in one score games a couple of years ago. And
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  Speaker 2: I go, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a freakish number that
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  Speaker 2: can never be replicated, and they will be nowhere near
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  Speaker 2: as good the following year in that category. And the
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  Speaker 2: following year for the Chiefs, that number flipped. They were
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  Speaker 2: like 1-7 in one score games. Why? Because it's really hard.
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  Speaker 2: When you play in that many to have every little
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  Speaker 2: thing go your way late in a football game to
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  Speaker 2: result in a W. The Broncos have done this 15
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  Speaker 2: straight times in one score games. It is literally unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a credit to the slow heartbeat and ability
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  Speaker 2: to not hurt themselves. You know, I always talk about
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  Speaker 2: this in, I don't know if you guys played ping
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  Speaker 2: pong lately, but if you aren't playing against like Forrest Gump, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you're just playing, Nelly, how's your ping pong game?
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  Speaker 2: Is it just a normal guy at a party ping pong?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. Maybe I can luck my way into a
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  Speaker 5: couple good shots here and there.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what the Broncos do. It's me against Nelly,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm just trying to keep the ball on the table.
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  Speaker 2: Because if I keep the ball on the table long enough,
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for Nelly to mess up, hit one in
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  Speaker 2: the net, hit it too far off the table. Because
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  Speaker 2: I'm not, it's the only way I can describe it.
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  Speaker 2: The Broncos never make the mistake that kills them in
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  Speaker 2: tight games like this.
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  Speaker 1: Never.
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  Speaker 2: And Bo Nix, for the conservative nature in which he plays,
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  Speaker 2: it actually works when it comes to situations like this.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton talking about 15 consecutive one-score wins after the game.
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  Speaker 6: I think, honestly, to answer that, I think it has
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  Speaker 6: to come from, well, we did it before. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it has to come from, you can't count on that,
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  Speaker 6: but it has to come from, like I would go
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  Speaker 6: back to Philly at Philly, you know, after playing Cincinnati
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  Speaker 6: on a Monday. I think that's the first, that would
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  Speaker 6: be where my brain would go where we grew A
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  Speaker 6: little bit. And then there's a belief that can get stronger,
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  Speaker 6: and then there's experience, and then you're seasoned a little.
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  Speaker 6: But we still have a lot of things to fix.
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  Speaker 6: But I honestly think that's where I believe it comes from.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, it is a record. The only other
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  Speaker 2: team that's done this is the 2008-2009 Indianapolis Colts. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's a massive credit.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I do.
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  Speaker 2: think you, as we all know, have many areas in
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  Speaker 2: which you can still improve. Like, there's still 2 of
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  Speaker 2: 11 on 3rd down. But what do they do? They
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  Speaker 2: were 2 of 2 on 4th. Like everything with them
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  Speaker 2: is just, they want to be taken to the brink
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  Speaker 2: of death. It's like, this is, it's their drug. It's
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  Speaker 2: their kink. They're choked until they start to see the
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  Speaker 2: light go out of their eyes. And then that is
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  Speaker 2: where they do their best work. I have not been
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  Speaker 2: one of these, like, adrenaline junkie guys. I think the Broncos,
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  Speaker 2: if their football team was a person, they're like, I
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  Speaker 2: want to skydive without a parachute and just kind of
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  Speaker 2: figure it out.
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  Speaker 5: There's Travis Pastrana in, like, 2008.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and literally, that video is perfect, Nelly, because he's
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  Speaker 2: faking like he's asleep on the plane. And the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: have been asleep for three quarters. And then he wakes up,
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  Speaker 2: he chugs a Red Bull, and just jumps out of
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  Speaker 2: the plane with no chute. And it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be okay. Because I got, somebody's going
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  Speaker 2: to come down, they're going to swoop me up, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to strap one of these parachutes on me, and
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  Speaker 2: then boom. Like, great point from a texture. They're also
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  Speaker 2: four of four at two-point conversions this year. Four of four.
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  Speaker 2: They're great on fourth down, they're awesome at two-point conversions,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: they can't get a third down to save their life.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Because it's not quite intense enough yet. My care meter,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: not quite there. I need to feel like the guillotine's
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: coming before you make me do anything.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: And I know you already mentioned this, but man, when
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: Jonah Coleman punches it in, just under two minutes left
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: in the fourth quarter, you give the ball back to Mahomes.
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: I think the Chiefs had one or two timeouts left.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I just.
• 21:59
  Speaker 7: I know we, what did Vic say? He was going
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: to be pooping his pants. I was pooping a little
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: bit in that exact moment. I was going, this is,
• 22:06
  Speaker 7: this is the most Broncos thing ever. Like you give
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: my homes enough time to set up the vintage game
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: winning drive. And then they break off like two plays
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: and get to the five yard line instantly. And I went,
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: Oh my God, this is groundhog day. The Broncos are
• 22:18
  Speaker 7: going to blow it to the chiefs again. And then
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: like you said, their adrenaline junkie instincts kicked in. Their
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: backs were completely and entirely against the wall, and the
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: defense just turned into an iron curtain.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: That was incredible. That was absolute cinema by the screenwriters.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And you know, like, anybody who gives Patrick Mahomes two
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: minutes in multiple timeouts to get a score, that's his
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: happy place. That's... That's exactly... exactly where he wants to be.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: There are some quarterbacks in this league where they would
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: prefer being down four with two minutes left and the
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: ball in their hands than relying on their defense with
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: a lead. And Mahomes is one of those dudes. And
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: sure enough, marched him right downfield, got right in front
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: of the end zone, actually scored, had it called back.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: But you once again make the play That's necessary. Eight plays. 40,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: what does that say? Eight plays and 44 yards. Because
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: it was a terrible kickoff. This is just, of course,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: what has to happen. But I mean, the huge play,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: JL Skinner. who's one of the guys that's sort of
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: rotating in, especially in these jumbo goal line packages, with
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Hufanga out, comes in like a missile to make the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: hit on Kenneth Walker, keep him out of the end zone.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: And then the guy who's been making plays all year,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Malcolm Roach, finishes the game with a sack. I just...
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. The Chiefs, now at 5-2, They got a
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: couple of games here where they're still going to be
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: able to hang around, where you're talking about the Jets,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: the Falcons, the Cardinals, and God, if you saw the
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Falcons game, what an embarrassment. Imagine being a team that
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: lost by 16 points in an NFL game to a
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: team that didn't complete a forward pass. And when I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: say that, I don't know how close you guys paid
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: attention on Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons... Michael Penix was 8
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: of 24 with four interceptions on the day. They scored
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: zero points. The Bucs scored 16 points. Baker Mayfield was
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: 0 for 3 throwing the football. They did not complete
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: a forward pass. And they won by 16. So the
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: team that lost to the team that didn't complete a
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: forward pass, that's Jets, Falcons, and Cardinals is the next
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: three weeks for the Chiefs. But after that, it's at Buffalo.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: It's at the Rams. It's at Cincinnati three consecutive weeks.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Then it's the Patriots at home and the Niners at
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: home before they close out the year against the Chargers
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: and Raiders. You're going to have to keep pace here
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: in the next few weeks, but you can pull away
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: once you get to that sort of gigantic portion of
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: the schedule there for the Chiefs, which is basically between
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: the last game in November to all of December. So,
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. They just continue to find ways
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to make things happen. But I will say this. I
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: think they have to be very much, very much in
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: the Jonathan Taylor sweepstakes. I think this season, the stakes
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: are too high right now. They need to go out
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: and get a running back that you absolutely trust. And
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: now RJ Harvey's on the shelf. I don't even care
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: if Jonathan Taylor's like a rental or whatever. You go
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: out and you make it happen. He would be a
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: legitimate threat in that running game. You could still spell
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: guys in like, you know, Jonah Coleman or Bobbins in
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: the meantime, whatever. But if you get a legitimate top
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: five running back in the league with this defense that
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: you have, I think, first of all, it helps Bo
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Nix a ton, but you'd be sending a clear message.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: We're going for the Super Bowl. And I think the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Broncos should not allow themselves to get outbid. Can't happen. Now,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: if the price is like two firsts or something, then yeah.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: You know what?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Somebody else can have fun with Jonathan Taylor. I don't
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: think there's any way a running back goes for that. Remember,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey, who is basically a running back and a
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: wide receiver all put into one, four years ago, when
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: he was in the prime, prime of his career, didn't
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: net a first-round pick. It was like a second, third, fourth,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: and fifth, but still not a first. But I think
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: if you can get a little extra pop from that
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: running game, and you can do it with somebody who's legitimate,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: and a guy that I think is dying to go
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: somewhere to have a chance to win, it would be huge.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: And I just, I don't believe that this is a
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: scenario in which you're like, yeah, we have a certain number,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: and we had like a hard stop at this certain
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: bidding number. I think you got to go out and
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: make it happen. A texture says, would rather have Tyler Warren. Well,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: that's great. Tyler Warren's not available. Because even though the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Colts stink, they still are going to keep young, talented players.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Part of the reason why Quentin Nelson and DeForest Buckner
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: and now likely Jonathan Taylor are all going to be
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: on the move is because they're vets. They're up there.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: And if you're starting over as a franchise... The question
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you got to ask yourself is if we get good
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: again in two or three years, which is the hope
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: whenever you restart, is that guy going to be part
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: of that when we get back to that point? And
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Jonathan Taylor will be in his 30s by the time
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: they hope this teardown rebuild gets back on their feet.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Tyler Warren will still be like 26. That's the difference. So, 303, 504, 0925. Again,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: just one last thing on the running game. Coleman was
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: certainly your best back. Best one on the field. I
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: was very disappointed with JK. I thought he would come
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: into that game with his hair on fire. You saw
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: the back and forth that he had with Mike Kliss
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: a couple of days ago. He was very upset. I
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: think not just at the questions that he was being answered,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: but just kind of how it looked like the snaps
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: were going to go moving forward. And I thought if
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: there was any chance for this guy to prove, hey,
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: My job ain't going anywhere, and I'll show you this weekend.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Seven carries for 13 yards.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: Yikes.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: So 3-0-3, 5-0-4, 0-9-2-5. It's a rally house football Monday.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Monday night double dip. Avs and Nuggets action on Altitude
• 29:54
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• 29:57
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• 29:59
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• 30:04
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• 30:06
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• 30:10
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• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Back after this. November is Hockey Fights Cancer Month, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: you can help Vitalant and the Avs fight cancer during
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: the month of November. Schedule a blood donation at any
• 30:23
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• 30:27
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• 30:32
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• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Josh Manson signed stick. So go to Vitalant.org slash Hockey
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Fights Cancer for more info and to schedule your blood
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: donation today. So go out and do that. I don't
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: think people realize the amount of blood donations that go
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: through that go directly in fights against cancer. It's very,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: very important. So get yourself signed up now. I can't
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: get over this football team and how they do what
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: they do. The frustration that then turns to elation, that
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: then turns into burying your head in your hands, that
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: then turns into your hands punching the sky out of joy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: It's a constant back and forth. It's hard to keep
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: up with emotionally.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: But the Broncos go out and like the first couple
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: drives of the game are two of the first three,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: like decent drives. Couldn't punch it in the end zone.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: You know, the way that the drives ended was kind
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: of like, man, could have done a little bit more.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: A lot of like third and six and you're throwing
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: short of the sticks for, you know, fourth and three.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: That was driving me nuts. But They had, and I'll
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: say they've taken baby steps in improvements on the offensive
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: side over the last couple of weeks. At halftime, I
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: felt like, you know what? Offense, not bad. Not a
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: bad first half. You were up there in, I don't know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: the 180 total yards at halftime. That's an acceptable offense.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: But then you go out in the third, and it
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: was three and out, Three and out. Three and out.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: And all of a sudden, a 17-13 game became 24-13,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and now you're scrambling in the fourth. But I'm going
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: to repeat a stat, and I'm going to do this
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a lot today, because I want to burn this in
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: people's heads. I've done the thing where I've given you
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: numbers about Bo Nix that were to the negative, that
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: he has been league worst in some categories over the
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: last 20, 30 years of football. One of them being
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: average depth of target. That he was... you know, a
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago in that really, really awful game
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: that the offense played against the Seahawks, that his average
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: depth of target was like 161st out of 161 quarterbacks
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: that have been tracking this stat in X amount of
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: years and whatever. He's been a part of a few
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: of those. But listen to this one. Bo Nix has
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: a 118.9 passer rating, went down one to eight points
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. That ranks first among 169 quarterbacks
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: with at least 75 attempts in that scenario since 1991.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Not Tom Brady, not Drew Brees, not Peyton Manning, not
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, not Ben Roethlisberger, nobody. Nobody. Not John Elway.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Nobody.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: In that time frame.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: Is better.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Statistically. Than Bo Nix. And why? It's the same thing.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: That I've been talking about for two years with this guy.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: When the game.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: And.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Your back is against the wall. And you gotta make
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: a play. It no longer becomes about. well, I can't
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: do this because then I would risk making a mistake.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: You say, damn the mistakes. I got to go do something.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: And you make plays. And that's just kind of it. Look,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: last drive of the game that puts you up 28-24,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: that's just a great play call from Sean Payton. Blitz coming.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Throw it over the blitz. Jonah Coleman, 51 yards. gets
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you down inside the five, you punch it in. But
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: you just go out and make something happen. And I
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: think that's when he's at his best. When he's thinking about,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: if I do this, is this going to be picked off?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: If I do this, is this going to create a
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: negative play? I think all of that stuff goes by
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: the wayside. And it's just about the ingrained football DNA
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: that's been in him since he was, you know, five
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: years old playing that position. I just got to go
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: out and make something happen. Broncos defense, I thought, did
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: a really good job stymieing the rushing attack. Kenneth Walker
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: had 69 yards on 21 carries. And I think that
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: was kind of the number that we set was about 70.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: If you can hold him to around 70 yards, you
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: should have a good day. Now, Mahomes did throw for
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: over 300. You know, 73 of that comes off of
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: just the one big play to Emma Johnson where he
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: just gets lost. Outside of that, Travis Kelsey had one
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: big catch late in the game, but the biggest throws
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: that you gave up were like 12 yards, 11 yards.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: This is what the Broncos have done all year. They've
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: given up yardage, but they've stiffened up when it matters.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Red zone. fourth downs, that sort of thing. A game
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: that was pretty clean for both teams in the turnover category.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: But overall, what does this mean? This means that the Broncos,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: first of all, I don't think any question best win
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: of the year. This is a game you had to
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: have against a division opponent who was in the lead
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and could have taken a seismic lead with a win
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: at the end of this game. You stopped them from
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: doing that. You are now in the driver's seat in
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: the AFC West, and you're doing that with an upcoming
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: schedule that feels a lot better than what the beginning did.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, you have legitimately, if you're talking about big-time teams,
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: ones that are going to be competing maybe for championships,
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: Buffalo's on Christmas. The week after that is New England.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Outside of that, this is your bulk of games. You
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: get Carolina next week. Then it's a bye. Then you
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: go Vegas, Pittsburgh, Miami, Jets, Raiders. That chunk of games,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: let's say you lose, I don't know, one of them
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: out of that stretch. So you go five and one. Well,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: guess what? You're now 11 and three heading into final
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: three weeks of the season. And by that point, maybe
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you got some things locked up already. Like, who knows?
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: But that's how big this game was because it gave
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you the ability to dictate the pace of this division
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: as the Chiefs schedule after the next couple of weeks
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: gets really difficult. So again, the implications of a win
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: or loss in that game, were so massive, I don't
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: think they could be understated. But you look at where
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: the Broncos are at now, and the position that they hold,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: getting one more week here, I don't know what the
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: status of the Hufanga injury is, or Brandon Jones for
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: that matter, but even if you're missing those guys one
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: more week, Carolina's a team that's very up and down.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: They're capable of putting a lot of points on the board.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: They're also capable of completely imploding. I think your defense
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: can do a number on them. You get through that week,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: then you have a bye. You should be pretty rested
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: and healthy heading into that easier stretch of the season. Like,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: everything's setting up for you big time. Big time. Texture
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: says this. A stat that blew my mind was Mahomes
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: was 80-2 when going into the fourth quarter with a
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: double-digit lead. That number now 80-3. A lot of things
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: that took place in the fourth quarter of that game.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Tell you a lot about the Broncos and who they've
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: been over the last few years. But it also tells you.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: the.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Opposing team and what you had to overcome to get there. Again,
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: 15 consecutive one-score wins. Which is tied in NFL record,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: by the way. Only set by the 2008 and 2009
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: Indianapolis Colts. Only other team to do it. So 303, 504, 0925. Obviously,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: a lot more to get to with this huge win
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: for the Broncos over the weekend. Do want to talk
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: about is we got a double dip tonight. Both the
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Avs and Nuggets weekends as kind of exactly what the
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: doctor ordered. Nuggets go out, get a win against the Suns,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: 127 to 120. The Avs, beat a terrible Calgary team 5-2,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: as they should. In the last two games, the Avs
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: now have won by a combined score of 10-4. That
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: feels a lot more like avalanche hockey is back. And
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets, I think, are starting to find a little
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: bit of a rhythm and chemistry between some of the
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: new guys on this roster, who plays with who, who
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: does what. Cam Johnson being back in the lineup is
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: big for them. So a lot that we can discuss
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: with both of those teams as they head into the
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: double dip tonight. as we go along. Thank you very much,
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Jonas Valanciunas, who is now in... Is he in Greece now?
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: He gone! Yeah, he's gone. That's all we gotta know.
• 40:59
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• 41:30
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• 41:32
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