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10-28-26 Hour 2 - Jared Bednar/Nelly's scary road incident, NFL True or False/Oh, By the Way... · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: is the Jared Bednar Avalanche Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 4: coach of the Avalanche, Jared Bednar. Coach, how are you
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  Speaker 4: doing this morning?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good. How are you guys?
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  Speaker 5: Good, Coach.
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  Speaker 4: Over the weekend, you have this really good performance on
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  Speaker 4: Friday and then a little bit of a letdown on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: You said after the game, you're going to have to
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  Speaker 4: think about that game on Sunday. What was it that
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  Speaker 4: you were talking about there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's because... You know, we play the two bad
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  Speaker 3: games on the road, and then you come home and
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  Speaker 3: you reset, you address a few things, and then we
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  Speaker 3: come out and play what was probably our most complete
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  Speaker 3: effort of the season against Tampa and get a nice win.
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  Speaker 3: And then we kind of reverted back to what we
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  Speaker 3: were doing on the road trip, and it's like... Messaging,
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  Speaker 3: for me, is really important. Coming off the road, we
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  Speaker 3: were like, okay, two bad days. That's what it was.
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  Speaker 3: We've had a good start to the season at that point.
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  Speaker 3: We had two bad days, and we can't let it
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  Speaker 3: sway our confidence and take our swagger away. It's just
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  Speaker 3: identify what went wrong, why it went wrong, reset, address
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  Speaker 3: all the issues and what we did well on that trip.
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  Speaker 3: And then like, you got to go focus and execute
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  Speaker 3: against Tampa. And we did that. So I don't like
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  Speaker 3: repeating messages like back to back to back to back.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, you know, the message coming out of those
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  Speaker 3: two games is going to be, in my opinion, probably
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  Speaker 3: similar to the one coming out of Nashville, but it's
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  Speaker 3: for us. I think right now it starts with, like
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  Speaker 3: getting the urgency that's needed and the competitiveness needed to
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  Speaker 3: win hockey games. And it's what the league requires. Like
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  Speaker 3: it requires a certain amount of detail and a certain
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  Speaker 3: amount of work and competitiveness in your group. And then
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  Speaker 3: things tend to look right and things tend to go
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  Speaker 3: your way. If you don't bring it, then they can
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  Speaker 3: look ugly. And I think that's what happened in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, we've had this discussion this morning and all week, really,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the, similarities going on right now between
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  Speaker 2: the avalanche and the nuggets on, and here's where I
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  Speaker 2: want to take it. These are two franchises, yours, especially
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  Speaker 2: that is used to playing post-season hockey. You're, you're expected
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  Speaker 2: to be in the playoffs. Do you think just it's
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  Speaker 2: human nature, a core group, an older group, man, you're
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  Speaker 2: just not putting in the work right now. Cause you know,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to be there at the end of the
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  Speaker 2: season and that's tough to motivate guys early in the years.
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  Speaker 2: That might be what's happening here.
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  Speaker 3: I think so. Um, Yeah, I think so, for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's that. I think it's a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of figuring out, you know, just getting reminded, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and being humbled just how hard this league is and
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  Speaker 3: how good you've got to be to win on a
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  Speaker 3: nightly basis. You know, we're getting reminded of that.
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  Speaker 1: And....
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  Speaker 3: Then it's digging in and doing what's required and going
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  Speaker 3: above and beyond in order to have consistent success. It's
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  Speaker 3: truly why I'm so proud of our team over my
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  Speaker 3: time that I've spent here because it's been the same story,
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  Speaker 3: but yet we still find a way to win 50-plus games.
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  Speaker 3: That's a credit to the guys and how hard they
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  Speaker 3: work on a nightly basis. in order to have success, right?
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  Speaker 3: And how detailed they are and all the things that
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  Speaker 3: we talk about in our game, how good they are
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  Speaker 3: at them in order to win that much money. in
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  Speaker 3: regular season all the time and sort of hone your
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  Speaker 3: craft and raise the standard of what we, you know,
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  Speaker 3: deem as acceptable play. Right. And we're not, we're just
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  Speaker 3: not meeting that level right now, you know? So I
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  Speaker 3: do think that's part of it. And I'll say this,
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  Speaker 3: like if you go back through our years, we've had
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  Speaker 3: starts like this 500 starts after a month, after two months, even,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and then, you know, the urgency and everything
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  Speaker 3: kind of kicks in and, You can't convince me that
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  Speaker 3: the game against Tampa, that that wasn't just a team
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  Speaker 3: digging in and doing the right things and playing hard
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  Speaker 3: and competitive and physical and winning races and winning battles.
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  Speaker 3: Oftentimes in this game, if you're not winning races to
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  Speaker 3: lose pucks, you're not winning 50-50 touches on pucks, you're
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  Speaker 3: not winning the battles of one-on-ones, two-on-twos, three-on-threes, you're not
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  Speaker 3: winning those battles. then you're chasing the game, right? And
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  Speaker 3: that's what those three losses look like. And yet Tampa,
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  Speaker 3: when we were doing that, our game seems to come together.
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  Speaker 3: So you got to bring that first requirement, the work
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  Speaker 3: and competitiveness and the skating, and then you can truly
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  Speaker 3: evaluate your game.
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  Speaker 6: Coach, let's talk a little X's and O's real quick
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  Speaker 6: in terms of what teams are doing to you or
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  Speaker 6: trying to do to you. And it seems like they're
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  Speaker 6: just jumping you hard. I mean, Pittsburgh did it in
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  Speaker 6: that first period. You guys were able to break through
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  Speaker 6: that and you won 5-2. but then Philly didn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: there's four check the heck out of you. There's no room.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sure for your guys it gets frustrating. Is there
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  Speaker 6: a blueprint out there right now that these teams are employing,
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  Speaker 6: and is it up to you to fight through that?
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  Speaker 6: How do you do it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, it's definitely up to us. I think if
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  Speaker 3: you're– I mean, we do it on a weekly or
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  Speaker 3: monthly basis, like sort of pre-scout our team, like what's
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  Speaker 3: the narrative out there? What does it sound like? We've
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  Speaker 3: always– been a super dangerous rush team, right? So it's, it's,
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  Speaker 3: and transition team and putting guys into the rush. So
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  Speaker 3: if you want to avoid that, if that's how we
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  Speaker 3: create a lot of our offense and you want to
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  Speaker 3: avoid it, then you got to be real sure with
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  Speaker 3: your puck decisions coming through the neutral zone. You're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to make sure you're laying pucks in behind us,
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  Speaker 3: make it come, make us come 200 feet and you,
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  Speaker 3: and you got to forward check the crap out of us. And, and,
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  Speaker 3: You know, breaking out of the zone is not just
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  Speaker 3: going back and breaking out of the zone. The success
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  Speaker 3: on the breakout to get you moving in the right
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  Speaker 3: direction starts with the other team's goal line, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and the work that you put in coming back and
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  Speaker 3: the routes you hit and the... you know, winning the
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  Speaker 3: first touch in the race to the dumped in puck.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a lot of things that go right. That's
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  Speaker 3: where we start our breakout video. Like when we show
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  Speaker 3: our guys, we're showing it from the other end. Why,
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  Speaker 3: why was this breakout not successful? I'll back it up
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  Speaker 3: 200 feet and you're going to find out why it
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  Speaker 3: was successful or not successful. Right. So it's, that's all
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  Speaker 3: on us. And I don't think it's anything different from, um,
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  Speaker 3: You know, years passed, their opponents passed. It's just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: those teams were committed to doing what they needed to
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  Speaker 3: do to beat us. And I don't think, especially in
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  Speaker 3: these three losses, that we weren't committed enough to doing
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  Speaker 3: what we needed to do to beat them.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Coach of the Avalanche, Jared Bednar with us. All
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  Speaker 4: conversations with the coach are brought to you by Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Ruder Plumbing, proudly rooting for Colorado's hockey team. So you
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  Speaker 4: said over the weekend in talking about motivating players, Players
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  Speaker 4: that if you're an NHL player and they need to
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  Speaker 4: be motivated by a coach, then they shouldn't be here.
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  Speaker 4: What's the overall philosophy on like, is there, we all
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  Speaker 4: watch the movies, right? Sports movies, the coach gives the
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  Speaker 4: big pump up speech and the team goes, yeah. Like
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  Speaker 4: what is the balance between that and like players just
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  Speaker 4: being self-motivated?
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  Speaker 3: So like I've been quoted on this before and misquoted
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  Speaker 3: on it before. Like it's like, I'm speaking on a
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  Speaker 3: daily basis. Right. Like, so it's like, you know, like
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  Speaker 3: I said it yesterday, like Belichick said, we want self-motivated individuals,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like coaching effort is, is that's a losing game. Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so we, especially like we have a group that's
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  Speaker 3: been with, with like, we've been together for 10 plus years,
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  Speaker 3: most of us. So it's like you, like, I know them,
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  Speaker 3: they know me. Right. Like, and, and, I want to
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  Speaker 3: know that we're on the same page. Did we do
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  Speaker 3: those three losses the same? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So, um, cause I kind of getting the feeling right
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  Speaker 3: now from our team, like we're as good as we
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  Speaker 3: want to be like, that's, that's the way I see it.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And one night we're there and we want to be good.
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  Speaker 3: And then the next day we're not, and we're not.
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  Speaker 3: So like me walking in and giving some speech, that's
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  Speaker 3: going to get everyone going. That, that, that's what that is.
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  Speaker 3: That's Hollywood fantasy, you know, like, There's something in everyone.
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  Speaker 3: It may be the same. It may be different. It
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  Speaker 3: drives you to want to be here, to want to win,
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  Speaker 3: whatever that is, right? It's not that I'm not willing
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  Speaker 3: to motivate guys. I'm just saying on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 3: like if I have to walk in this morning after
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  Speaker 3: what just happened in Nashville or pregame five minutes before
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  Speaker 3: a game and some speech is going to get us
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  Speaker 3: ready to go, Then, like, or if you're not ready
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  Speaker 3: to go for tonight, or it's too repeated, like, there'll
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  Speaker 3: be some guys on the team. that don't play well
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  Speaker 3: tonight okay that is what it is i'm just talking
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  Speaker 3: as a group if i have to go in there
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  Speaker 3: and do that number one i don't think it's reality
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  Speaker 3: i don't i don't know how much that works and
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  Speaker 3: and number two like then you don't want it bad enough.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's the way I see it. You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: not that the guarantees that you play well or don't
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  Speaker 3: play well, there's a lot of factors, but I'm willing
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  Speaker 3: to motivate our guys. I'm willing to kick us in
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  Speaker 3: the pants if we need it. I'm willing to like
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  Speaker 3: support guys and help them work through issues or what,
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  Speaker 3: what they're dealing with. Like, that's my job to identify
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  Speaker 3: that work through that. But the bulk of that is
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  Speaker 3: done on, um, practice days on the bench, in the room,
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  Speaker 3: giving them the information they need. If they're struggling in
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  Speaker 3: an area, we'll back up a little bit. Let's try
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  Speaker 3: and do this right. Your game seems to come together
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  Speaker 3: when you focus on these couple things. It's my job
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  Speaker 3: to know those guys. But just the speech before the
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  Speaker 3: game to try and get a team ready five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: They've been preparing for six, eight hours before that and
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  Speaker 3: the day before and the day before that probably for
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  Speaker 3: your opponent. So it's like, You know, you've got to
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  Speaker 3: find what drives you as an individual and as a team.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got to get on the same page and
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  Speaker 3: get moving for the game, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Very well said. And to that effect, you're playing a
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  Speaker 2: team that got you last week tonight. You know, Jersey's
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  Speaker 2: been really good. I mean, they've run off four straight.
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  Speaker 2: They played and won last night. Do players carry that hate?
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  Speaker 2: revenge thing, do they carry that or do you have
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  Speaker 2: to remind them of that? I mean, they got to know, right?
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  Speaker 2: They got to know that this team beat us pretty
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  Speaker 2: good last time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I'm definitely going to remind them of it.
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  Speaker 3: Like some lots of the video that we're going through
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  Speaker 3: today is from our game because we just played them, right?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to try to use as much video of
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  Speaker 3: us as we can. So they're going to see some
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  Speaker 3: of it. They're going to see some of the Nashville game.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to see what Like, third period for us
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  Speaker 3: in New Jersey was a complete shift. We had 20 shots,
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  Speaker 3: eight scoring chances. You know, like, we didn't have 20
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  Speaker 3: shots or eight scoring chances in the first 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: So there's some things in there that we finally started
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  Speaker 3: to do right. And we kind of scratched and clobbered
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  Speaker 3: way back into the game, some timely goals against Casa.
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  Speaker 3: But so it's, like, we... They'll see it. They'll be
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  Speaker 3: clear on what tactically, structurally we have to do. So
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  Speaker 3: that's where I see it. That is more my responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: breaking it down as simple as I can to say,
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  Speaker 3: this is like, if this isn't complicated stuff, like it
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  Speaker 3: starts here, we've got to be good here. And then
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  Speaker 3: this is what you're going to see from that. This
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  Speaker 3: is how we can break them down. This is what
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  Speaker 3: they're going to try to do to break us down,
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  Speaker 3: get clear on it, be prepared, be focused, get engaged
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  Speaker 3: from the start of the game. And then it's like
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  Speaker 3: kind of up to them to get going, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like that's, that's their end of the bargain. Right. So, um,
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  Speaker 3: And I have full confidence we can do it. We
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  Speaker 3: just did it two games ago coming off a tough loss.
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  Speaker 3: So it doesn't guarantee it's going to happen again, but
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  Speaker 3: our leadership group will get together and have a chat
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  Speaker 3: with the guys in the room before the game and
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  Speaker 3: get us focused and ready on the things that are important.
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  Speaker 3: I'll do it this morning and they'll do it tonight
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  Speaker 3: and away we go.
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  Speaker 2: Who's your leadership group exactly?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think it's huge for our team
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  Speaker 3: because of all the veteran guys, right?
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 3: It's obviously Landy, Mac, Cale, like some of the guys
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  Speaker 3: that have been with me for a long time, like
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  Speaker 3: Brock Nelson's been a captain, you know, Arturi Lekkonen is
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  Speaker 3: an important player on our team. I chat with all
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  Speaker 3: those guys, Taze McCarr, Manson Burns, you know, like guys,
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  Speaker 3: veteran guys that have been around that can help, you know,
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  Speaker 3: drive our team and, And get us focused on the
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  Speaker 3: right things. It's like everyone in our room has a
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  Speaker 3: voice and has something to say. It's kind of done
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  Speaker 3: by committee outside of, you know, the guys that you
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  Speaker 3: already know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this.
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  Speaker 6: Your calling card as a team in recent years and
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  Speaker 6: maybe your entire tenure. It really has been skating. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: you guys skate well, right? I guess I wasn't shocked
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  Speaker 6: by the Devils last week, but I thought to myself.
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  Speaker 7: Dang, they skate well. That's a team that gets.
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  Speaker 2: Up and down.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, have for years. Dangerous, dangerous offensive teams. And
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  Speaker 3: they're putting it together, and they just got a hell
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  Speaker 3: of a book, right? Like, their numbers on the offensive
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  Speaker 3: side are really good, but their numbers on the defensive
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  Speaker 3: side so far to this point in the season are
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  Speaker 3: really good. Like, they're winning because they're committed on both
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  Speaker 3: sides of it, and they're playing with pace, and they're
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  Speaker 3: playing with confidence. And so it's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: tough game. We have to expect it to be. Like,
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  Speaker 3: they're sitting up there in the standings for a reason,
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  Speaker 3: and especially, like, you look at their recent past that
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  Speaker 3: you going into Dallas last night and they come out
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  Speaker 3: with a big win and now they're coming here. So we, we,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have to be energized and moving our
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  Speaker 3: legs here tonight. It all kind of all starts there.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, head coach of the FJR Bednar with it's just
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  Speaker 5: a couple more coach.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, uh, one guy who's had a really good
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  Speaker 4: start to the years, Arturi Lekanen. And I know he's
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  Speaker 4: in a contract year right now, probably extra motivated. What
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  Speaker 4: can you say about his game so far?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Drop solid. Yeah. Both sides of the pocket and just,
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  Speaker 3: You know, I talked about him for a while yesterday
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  Speaker 3: in the presser. It's like he just continues to do
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  Speaker 3: everything right all the time. Highly competitive in the scoring areas,
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  Speaker 3: getting to the scoring areas. You know, we talk about
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  Speaker 3: winning races and battles and getting touches on puck that
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  Speaker 3: help you create offense or making defensive plays. He's doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's doing it. And there's no nights off
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  Speaker 3: for him. So, yeah, he's, you know, like... And that's
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  Speaker 3: the thing. You're playing forward on our team, and you
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  Speaker 3: want to help contribute. You don't have to look far to,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they see it. Our players see it. They
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  Speaker 3: see it in practice. They see it, you know, on
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  Speaker 3: the bench when he's on the ice in the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you can see a guy right in front
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  Speaker 3: of you doing it right all the time, and the
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  Speaker 3: success he's having, you know. So it's often like some
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  Speaker 3: of the things we talk about to help motivate our guys,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 4: Devils and Avalanche, tonight, 7 o'clock. You can hear it
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  Speaker 4: right here, Altitude Sports Radio 92.5. Good luck tonight, Coach,
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  Speaker 4: and we'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 3: Appreciate it, guys. All right, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: Head Coach of the Fs, Jared Bednar with us.
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  Speaker 7: I think that every week.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: That was very revealing. I don't know about you.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: Every week, Vic, he tells you exactly what the hell's
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: going on.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: That was so revealing to hear that. And, again, sometimes
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: people are going to accuse us of making excuses for
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: But I say this on every level. If a professional
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: coach has to babysit his players to play hard, you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: have the wrong players. Yeah. That's always been my answer.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: Look, there's a professional level.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe there's a certain responsibility to a coach that.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: There's an organizational responsibility. Organize the group. Yes. The group.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: But if you have to continue to hit them with
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: that stick, prod them with that stick, hey, play hard. Hey,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: play hard. Hey, play hard. What are we doing?
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: You're a professional.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: What are we doing? Yeah.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: You don't.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Hey, you, play hard.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: No. No. You don't have to look very far, though,
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: when you look at the standings, even though Minnesota's played
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: two more games than the Avs. They're at the top
• 17:41
  Speaker 6: right now, and there's seven points clear of you right now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: You have two games in hand, but there's seven clear
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: of you. And what you really can't afford to do
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: is get into December and just be mired in the
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: mud of the middle of the Central Division. You need
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: to start getting up there. I mean, it's Minnesota, Utah, Dallas,
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: and then you. And Nashville's tied with you. Isaac on
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: the text line says... You need to start putting some
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: wins together here. You can't just mucky it up the.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: First of the year.
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: You can't do it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Isaac on the text line says, not saying Benzie is
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: wrong about motivation, but would it hurt or make things
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: worse than what they are. I'm not sure what you're
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: referring to. Like ripping the team? I mean, you don't
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: think he's had a closed locker room talk with them?
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: You don't think already this season, hey, guys, that's just
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: not good enough?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Well, he said, I think his first answer was, I
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: gave him a message after the bad road trip, like, hey,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: a couple of bad games, we got to lock it in, whatever.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: And then they came out, they had that great game
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: on Friday, and then they had the game against Nashville.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: He goes, well, I'm not going to repeat the thing
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: that I just said to them.
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: Why would I do that? They know.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Again, I always believe the best teams in any sport
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: are the teams that police themselves, the teams that motivate themselves.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, a coach certainly plays a big role, but
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: I totally agree with Coach Bednar when he says a
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: lot of it is Hollywood. It is Hollywood.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Oh, for sure.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Because we get it all the time, right? We get
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: it all the time. Give us the hype speech. What
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: was said after the game? There's a reason why, you know,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we at Altitude, we always show you the postgame speeches
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: after a win. But we don't do the losses. Yeah. Yep.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Why do you think that is?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Well, if you guys missed it, the conversation with Jared
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Bednar should be on the podcast shortly.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: iTunes, Spotify, Mojo, Lombardi, and Kane back after this.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, Vic. What's up? What's up?
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: Yesterday was a big day for me. So we get
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: back at it here. A lot of Broncos still to
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: come this week. Kansas City's coming to town. I had
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: to get a rental car yesterday. because my car went
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: to the body shop. You fix it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 7: You fix it.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Did you have your choice of rental cars? I'm sure
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: you had luxury Lamborghini.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: No, I said, give me the manager's special.
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: I'm not paying a lot of money for a stupid
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: rental car for five days.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Not doing it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: So they said, well, you can do this, you can
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: do that.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: And he says, hey, how about that minivan I picked
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: you up in?
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: I said, well, I can have the minivan? He said, absolutely.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: So you're driving a minivan.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Put me in a silver Chrysler Pacifica minivan.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Ladies.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: And I friggin' love it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: My brother had a minivan for a second. He thought
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: it was cool.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: It hauls tail.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: It's fast.
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: There's all kinds of room for activities. The dash is
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: super easy to navigate.
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: That's great.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Cool.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: We got two guys. By the way, 50% of our
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: show is on a rental car right now.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: 50%.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: It's a pretty high percentage.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Nelly, did you get a minivan?
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: No, I got myself a Mazda CX-5. You're going the
• 21:00
  Speaker 8: B-52s route. I got me a Chrysler that's as big
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: as a whale.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Take us to the Love Shack, folks. Are you okay,
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: by the way, Nelly? Nelly, you missed the show on
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Monday because you were involved in it.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: I didn't say what happened. I didn't know if you
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: wanted to, but, I mean, we're here now, so.
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I'm happy to get into it. So I
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: was driving to work. I was headed on I-25 south
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: just past Hamden, and I was in the left lane,
• 21:25
  Speaker 8: and I hit, I guess I hit a patch of water.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: You know, it was raining.
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: The roads were slick that morning. And in the blink
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: of an eye, I lost control of the car.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Boom.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: I hit the left divider. and then my car ricocheted
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: off and shot across, what, like four or five lanes
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: of I-25, and I stopped just before I hit the
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: right wall.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Wow. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on. Let's go
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: ahead and repeat the situation here. You hit the right
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: wall and then banked into the left wall?
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: No, I was in the left lane, and so I
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: hit the left wall, and then I ricocheted off, and
• 22:01
  Speaker 8: I went diagonally across the whole highway, and I stopped
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: before I hit the right wall.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: Do you want to know what kind of an employee
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: that Nelly is, by the way?
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: So he calls me. He calls me, and I'm like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: it's 5 o'clock in the morning. I'm like, what does
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Nelly want at 5 a.m.? And I go, hello?
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: And so I was in an accident. I was like, oh,
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: my God, are you okay?
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: He goes, I'm fine.
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: And he goes, maybe AAA can just, you know, when
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: they tow my car, they can just drop me off
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: at the studio.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: And I was like, dude, would you just go take
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: care of your business? I mean, come to the studio.
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: You know, when that happens, your mind's just going a
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: mile a minute. I'm like, if I could just get
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: to the studio, get somewhere safe, like I just got
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: to get off the shoulder.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: So did anybody hit you?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: No.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: After that?
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: No one hit me before. No one hit me after.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: When I pinballed across I-25, thankfully it was early. I
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: was trying to get in early on a rally house
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: football Monday. I wanted to shop every team in town
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: and no one was around me. Because I could have
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: hit someone when I ping-ponged across.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: When all of that happens, this is the thing about
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: morning radio. I've had this happen once before. I woke
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: up in the morning, it's 2.30, and I'm just yakking
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: all over the place. There's nobody that's going to pick
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: up their phone and say, yeah, I can come in
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: and fill in for you. There's no fill-ins at that
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: time in the morning.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: With an hour in.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: So we're calling people, nobody's answering. I said, Nelly, just
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: tell me how to get the board going.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: I got this. Don't you worry.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Look at Brett trying to get all the credit. Here
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: I am trying to reflect on a horrible day for Nelly.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: And Kane's coming in to say, hey, guys, remember me?
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: I can do my job and Nelly's job. Not all
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: heroes wear capes. What do you want me to say?
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Gotcha.
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and then after the show, Brett called me up
• 23:42
  Speaker 8: and he said, hey, get ready to learn Chinese, buddy.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Learn to code, homie.
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: And actually, just one last thing, Brett, so... I had
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: AAA come. They gave me a tow, and they got
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: me somewhere safe and dropped my car off at a
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: collision place. And then just as everything got wrapped up,
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: my driver called me one last time to fill me
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: in on the situation. And then he told me that
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: one of his coworkers actually connected the dots. One of
• 24:08
  Speaker 8: his other AAA tow truck friends is a fan of
• 24:11
  Speaker 8: the show.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Well, that's because it's AAA service, plumbing, heating, and electric.
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: Yes, exactly.
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: All AAAs listen to our show. And so one of
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: his coworkers had connected the dots because he was listening.
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: He heard that you guys said I wasn't in and
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: maybe have mentioned that I had some car troubles. And
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: then he heard that his coworker was towing someone maybe
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: in the vicinity of the studio at like 5 a.m.
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: And so he texted my driver and said, hey, are
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: you towing Nellie? Like, you figured it out.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Shout out to our drivers.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I like the drivers.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Shout out all the tow truck drivers who help people
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: like me get out of scary situations and listen to
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: our show while doing it.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Just quickly here, Mike Kliss has this. Per sources, expect
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: Jalen Waddell to eventually be listed as questionable this week
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: with that chest injury near his left shoulder.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: That came on the reverse late in that game.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: By the way, Peyton, I know he's, like, beating himself
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: up over it and all this stuff, and he's like, oh,
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: how stupid was it?
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: What's really stupid about it? That's what I don't get.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: What's the difference between running a reverse or throwing a
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: slant to him and him getting hit?
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: I suppose the game's in hand and you're showing off
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: a little bit, I guess, on a reverse.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: But the reverse, the play call is not the problem.
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: You can get hurt on any given play in this league.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: So to me, it doesn't even matter what the play
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: call is. Unless you do like a fake punt and,
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: you know, you leave Waddle out to dry and he
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: gets blown up or something, you know. So I really don't,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, he can put it on himself, but I
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: really don't hold him accountable for that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: But that's also not good news.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, losing Jalen Waddle, who, if you think
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: this offense has maybe found something in this last game,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle is obviously a focal point of it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: If he's not in against the Chiefs, then that's, yeah,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: it's a big hurt.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Pat Bryant's out. I'll tell you what this is.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: No, no. You know what this sets up for?
• 26:06
  Speaker 7: Lil Jordan Humphrey getting 10 catches.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: No.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: With Pat Bryant and with Jalen Waddle potentially out, this
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: sets up for Marvin Mims having a nine-catch, 115-yard game
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: and then never getting a catch for the next three
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: weeks afterwards.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Well, they did say again, again and again, we'd like
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to mix Marvin Mims into the game plan a little
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: bit more.
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: Gosh, it's almost like for four years they've said that
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: exact same thing every week.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: It's so weird. They say it, but I'm watching the
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: games and I'm watching Marvin Mims run routes and I'm
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: seeing him sort of like, I'm not going to get
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: the ball here. So what am I wasting my time for?
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So how much is that? Throw him the ball.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Doesn't seem that difficult.
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: How many catches do you think he has this season
• 26:50
  Speaker 7: so far?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Mims?
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Six?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Seven tops.
• 26:55
  Speaker 7: He's got seven.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: He's been targeted 11 times. He's got seven catches. He's
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: on pace for 17 receptions this season.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Gotta find a way to get him to bowl more, though.
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: Gotta really find it.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: By the way, the Jay LaMotto being questionable, that is
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: the injury report, is powered by Ramos Law, the official
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: injury law firm partner of the Denver Broncos.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: I wonder what the chest injury could be because, I mean,
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: he fell on the ball. So it could be just
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: a sore chest. Maybe there's a rib that's out of
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: place in the upper chest between the shoulder and the chest.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at that area.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: Well, the shoulder pad should come down far enough.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: To protect that area. Maybe a pec injury?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Can we play Vic's favorite game, please? Go ahead, Nelly.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Oh, we're not playing the feud? That's my favorite game. No,
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: it's NFL True Fools.
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: It's the one that you love even more.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: Um, stupid NFL.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Yay.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Nay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: True or false.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Bo Nix has turned the corner.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: True.
• 27:52
  Speaker 7: I think that run did him wonders. Open up a hole.
• 27:57
  Speaker 7: It's a whole new world. I'll throw that ball out
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: of bounds.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: I'll say true as well.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: Uh, true or false. The Broncos should continue to play
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Jada Baron.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, yeah.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Why wouldn't you?
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Yes, true, true.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Because there's only so many cornerbacks that can be on
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: the field.
• 28:21
  Speaker 7: I understand that.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: But if you're going to want to get a big
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: sample size on a weekly basis with Riley Moss' contract
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: coming up.
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Like, would you mix in some Jadé Barron for Riley
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: Moss occasionally?
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: I might.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: Would you?
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Until he gets burned.
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: Then I won't.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: You get one mistake. True or false, Jonah Coleman will
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: have at least 15 carries this weekend.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: True.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're going to push the issue with
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman. Rightfully so. Especially with all this Jonathan Taylor talk.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Let's get one more where you can see if we
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: got the guy. And if you got the guy, then
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: why would you even look that way?
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: True or false, Kenneth Walker will be held under 100
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: rushing yards.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: True.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: I think this defense is loaded for better. Yeah.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: They're going to point to muddy that up. The only
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: thing that could risk that number is if he breaks
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: loose like he did in the opener. Remember that run
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: he had on fourth down? Point of attack. There was
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: nowhere to run. Then Riley Moss took a bad angle
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and he turns it into a touchdown or a long game.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: That's the only thing that could risk that. But I
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: agree with you. They're going to make an effort to
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: stop him.
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: It's weird.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: When I watch Walker in the open field, his legs
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: look like they're going faster than other guys' legs.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: It's a.
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean? True or false?
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: The Chargers who play the Rams, Texans, and Ravens the
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: next three weeks will start the year 0-9.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: True. I think it's great. True as well.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: Okay. Piggybacking off that.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: True or false?
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: If the Broncos, or sorry, if the Chargers finish with
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: the first pick, they will take a quarterback.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: False. False.
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: I'd say false.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: False.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Jeremiah Smith.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: First of all, this quarterback class seems to be getting
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: worse by the week, right? It was supposed to be
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: so good, and now it's like, eh.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: I would take the wide out from Ohio State.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I saw Mestemaker throwing for 600 yards.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: I will take the wide out from Ohio State. That
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: guy is a generational talent.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Just wondering, like if.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: How many times do you have a franchise quarterback, and
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: he's healthy for the whole year, and you finish with
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: the first overall pick?
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: It is just really odd.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I saw a number, though. I saw a number
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: last week. Mahomes got pressure on him 55% of the game,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: and it was one of the toughest games he's had pressure-wise.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: And then somebody from the Chargers said, that's like one
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: of the best for Herbert. Yeah. He can't get through
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: a game without that kind of pressure.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: He gets hit a lot. He really does.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: I mean, you remember the time... Well, the time. The
• 31:04
  Speaker 6: entire time Jay Cutler was in Chicago? What happened to
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: Jay Cutler in Chicago?
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: He got smoked every week. That's what Herbert's up against.
• 31:12
  Speaker 7: True or false?
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: The NFC North will finish with all teams making the playoffs.
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: I'm going to go false like Shefty said yesterday because
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: I think that they're going to beat up on each
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: other enough. And I look at the NFC West... I
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: still think the Rams are going to be there, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: I know the Niners and the Seahawks are going to
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: be there, so that's three.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: False.
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: Two piggyback off that.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: True or false?
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: The Vikings will win the NFC North.
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: I don't know. Their defense is so good.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Their defense is so good. Yeah, I say false because
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to look at the history of that quarterback elsewhere,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: and Great starts always do not end well for him. So,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I say false.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: I was listening to Rosillo's podcast. I don't know who
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: was on with him yesterday, but they went through a
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: number of different things. This was one of the subjects.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Will the Vikings win the NFC North? Rosillo said he
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: thinks they finished third, and the other guy thought they
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: finished dead last at the end of the year.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: What?
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: They're the only undefeated team left.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: But they're like, I don't know how to trust a
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: team that scores 16 points a game.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: It's really.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: But that defense is so dang good.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: You're waiting for the shoe to drop there.
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: Do you know, by the way, you know what's really crazy?
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: Vance Joseph is a creative guy with a whole bunch
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: of blitzes, right? Do you know the percentage of snaps
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: that Brian Flores calls a blitz?
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: 68.5%.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Jeez Louise.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: Unreal.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: A few more here.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: True or false?
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: The Browns will make the playoffs.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: True. I'm rooting for the Browns.
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: Me too.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You are?
• 32:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the Browns. I like the Browns.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: What vested interest do you have in the Cleveland Browns?
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: They've stunk forever.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: Why wouldn't you root for them?
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, man.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on, man. Especially in Denver, we have
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: persecuted the Broncos personally, persecuted the Browns. I mean, go
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: back to the 80s and 90s. That poor franchise man.
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: I think Cincinnati's going to win that division.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be the Bengals. I will
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: say this.
• 33:14
  Speaker 6: If they do win the division, Todd Monkett is going
• 33:17
  Speaker 6: to be insufferable.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: You didn't answer my question.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: I like it.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Do they make the playoffs or not? True or false?
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: False.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: Will they make the playoffs?
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: No.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: False. Whatever.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: A couple more.
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: True or false?
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: Very simple. The Giants are good.
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: I say true. I think they're... Yeah, true.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Well, it depends what your definition of good is, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: they're better than what they were, so yes, true. Okay.
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: True or false? Aaron Glenn will be the first coach
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: fired this year.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Ooh.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I think somebody else will surprise you. Somebody else will
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: surprise you somewhere.
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: I'm going to say false.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: Dan Quinn's under some fire in Washington.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: I'm going to say false because I think that they
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: know who they are. They know what they're doing. They're rebuilding.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: I mean, Geno Smith, man, come on, bro.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: But they've been rebuilding for 30 years.
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: Well, I know. The Jets are the Jets. You're right,
• 34:12
  Speaker 7: but no.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: That's NFL true-false.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Forget the tricks. I'm handing out treats tomorrow. Win tickets
• 34:20
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• 34:23
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• 34:28
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• 34:30
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• 34:32
  Speaker 5: It's out to D-Sports Radio 92.5.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: You can't just read that. Just come on. Change the copy.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: I read what's in front of me.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Come on.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Brett, you might as well have turned your microphone on
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: and said, hi, I'm a gigantic dork.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Come on. Forget the tricks.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: We're into the treats.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: Hi, professional dork here, Brett King.
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: There was another one that was kind of like that
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: on here.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: You might as well just have AI write it. Ask
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: AI to read.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: I want you to put that.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Put that copy in AI and have AI.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: Rewrite it right now. I'm doing another read. I'm going
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: to do it just as it's written.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Hang on.
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: When it comes to the NFC North, I'm something of
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: an expert myself, especially at hating the Packers. Come hate
• 35:15
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• 35:18
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• 35:27
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• 35:31
  Speaker 2: That one didn't bother me as much as the trick-or-treat one.
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: I'm going to find some other corny ways to do these.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: By the way, here in the— well, I'll save the story
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: for what I saw in New Orleans last night. Oh,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: by the way, next. I've got to tell you what
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I saw last night. Oh, absolutely nothing to do with
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: all that.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Bye.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: Anime, Star Wars, Star Trek.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: The toilet suddenly shattered and collapsed beneath him. Wait, are
• 35:54
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• 35:57
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• 35:59
  Speaker 5: Pay attention and stop looking at that squirrel.
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• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, our fantasy season has come to
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: an end. With one Camario Taylor. Nellie said this yesterday,
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: but I.
• 36:33
  Speaker 7: Saw the story.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: He has to have surgery on a toe, and he's
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: going to be out the rest of the year.
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: So Mississippi State.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: That's what got hurt in that Bama game.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, star quarterback is now going to miss the rest
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: of the year. I guess the good news is, is
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: it possible for him to medical redshirt?
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: Can he get an extra year of college out of this? Well,
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: I guess I don't know the rules anymore. He's still young.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: He's only a sophomore, right?
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: I don't think he would want to do that anyway.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: He's probably set in line to be a top three
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: pick in a couple years.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe you're right.
• 37:04
  Speaker 7: But if he starts to play a little bit worse,
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: the guy's got it all, though. He can run.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: He can throw.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: He's terrific reading defenses. I'm sad for him.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, here's another example why putting a
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: roof on it matters, right? This matters. With the new
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: dome coming to Denver, the new Bronco Stadium, and everybody's still, oh,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: leave it wide open. No, put a dome on it.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: Put a dome on it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: At least a retractable roof, right?
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: It's going to be a retractable dome. The NCAA has
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: selected the following cities as finalists to host the men's
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Final Four between 32 and 36, and one of those
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: cities is Denver. Denver... It doesn't come up on that
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: list unless they get a dome. The last time Denver
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: hosted the Final Four was at the old McNichols. That
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: was the year Duke and UNLV met. You remember that?
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: So the Final Four, is that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: They're all domes now.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: What I'm saying is, is that only for football stadiums
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: to get max attendance? Because ball arenas hosted... No, no, no.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: These are all football stadiums now. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: To get max attendance.
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: That is correct.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Exactly right. You know, first of all... I've been in
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: one of those stadiums. I remember the RCA Dome hosted
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: a Final Four the year that Arizona was in it,
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: and I covered it, and it was awful. I don't understand.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: They do it from an attendance thing. They want to
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: sell out as many tickets as possible, but if you've
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: ever been to one of those games, I've.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Been to multiple of those.
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: It's terrible.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: It stinks. It's terrible.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Players even talk about they have Their shooting is off
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: just because the aesthetic of it is really bizarre.
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: Well, yeah. I mean, behind you is just huge.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: It's crazy. But, listen, the NCAA has sold its ticket
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: revenue at that point, and they're going to sell as
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: many tickets as possible. You're not going to get a
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Final Four unless you have a dome, and now Denver's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: in the running for a Final Four. Denver's going to
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: get a Final Four. They're going to get a Super Bowl.
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: They may get a bowl game. There's a lot of
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: things that are going to open up now.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: That would be awesome. Hey, I did.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: I should tell you, one of the Final Fours I
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: was at was in San Antonio, and that's when Pat
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: Riley and Michael Douglas, the actor, walked in wearing identical suits.
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: Oh, by the way.
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: I just thought I'd.
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Let you know.
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: Do you know who makes the return this Sunday to Denver?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: The NFL NFL?
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: NFL on CBS is going to be in Denver live
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: doing their show.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: Russell Wilson.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, Russell Wilson.
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: No, you're kidding.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: He will be back inside the stadium doing that. I'm
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: not doing that with CBS.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Next question.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Oh, we'll get to Dion here in a bit because
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: I do want to get to some of his audio
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: from yesterday.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: But yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: So it's going to be, you know, Nance, J.J.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Watt, Wolfson's all going to be on the call, but
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: the actual broadcast of the morning show or the pregame
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: show will be in Denver.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, the Nuggets should have even more
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: incentive to get their act together here tonight and beyond.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: Timberwolves' Anthony Edwards is going to be out for a
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: couple of months.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to expand on this when we have
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: a chance. But it's not just Anthony Edwards. They're cleaning
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: up his knee, and I think it's an injury that
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: he suffered last season. You remember during the Nuggets series?
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: Remember he missed a couple games? And they hoped that
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: rest would take care of it. Well, it hasn't. So
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: they're going to clean it up now arthroscopically. Did I
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: say that correctly?
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know. You said it so weird the first time.
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: I forgot how it's pronounced.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Arthroscopically?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: Yes, there you go.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Arthroscopically.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: Moshe, can you help me out with that?
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: Nope, that's right.
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: Who's Arthur?
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: It's actually regenerative is what you want to say.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: It's not just him, by the way. So here's what's
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: happened in just the last.
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: Couple of days. I'm telling you, the division can be
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: had now.
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: It's yours for the taking. Come on.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: It's not, but this is just the last couple of
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: days in the NBA. Obviously, J-Dub and Kaysen Wallace out
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: for the year, right?
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: Jaron Jackson Jr. in Utah. He's got a torn MCL.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: He's out six to eight weeks.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: Yep.
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards, as you guys mentioned, up to two months.
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Paulo Banqueiro, low-grade right high ankle sprain. He's out four
• 41:18
  Speaker 4: to six weeks. Jalen Suggs in Orlando. He's reevaluated in
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: two weeks. Kawhi Leonard, obviously, has that left knee problem.
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: He's going to be out for a month or more.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: That Kawhi Leonard one is weird.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: That same knee that always gets hurt?
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, they did a physical. It's weird. That's a weird.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: That whole deal's weird.
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: Hey, what's up with Portland? Unbeaten.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Portland's got some talent, man. And that's my next. Oh,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: by the way, if you watch last night, Portland beat
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: the Lakers in LA and in that game, something I've
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: never seen. And we may never see again late in
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: the game. There were three straight flopping calls. The referees
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: actually called players for flopping. Good. Three straight times.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Good.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: I know about time.
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: Um, Oh, by the way, did you guys see the
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: interaction between Sean Payton and Trey McBride after the game
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: over the weekend?
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: You're yapping in advance for me. You know, I was
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: yapping at both of y'all. You were right next to
• 42:20
  Speaker 7: each other. I got a ton of respect for you, Sean.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Same here, brother.
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: Same here. I've had some good Joker tight ends.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: You're certainly one of them.
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: I appreciate you. Appreciate you. Thank you.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: I just haven't heard the term Joker in a long time.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Is it because Sean Payton is so far removed from
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: having a Joker on his offense that he doesn't want
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: to say it?
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: I don't understand. It's funny you say that. You mean
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: a tight end who catches the ball?
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, like a good tight end. Is that what a
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: joker is? Just a really good tight end.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: You mean somebody who makes plays?
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: That's all I thought about.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: I'm like, joker I thought was a guy who was
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: like multifaceted and like Taysom Hill I thought was like
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: a joker because he's like a Swiss army knife.
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: No, it just turns out if the guy's really good.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Trying to find a goddang joker.
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: That's what a joker is. And you just don't have
• 43:03
  Speaker 5: one of those at tight end. I wish we did.
• 43:05
  Speaker 7: Hey, Trey McBride is really good though.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Call him whatever you want to call him, Joker.
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: He's just a total stud.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: So, that's all, by the way. Garage door making some
• 43:19
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• 43:25
  Speaker 4: Brian Howell is going to join us at 920. I do,
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: when we return, want to give you just some of
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Prime and what he said yesterday.
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: I don't want to get into the back.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: And forth that he had with Brian when we talked
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: to him about the book and that whole back and
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: forth thing. But just in general, the vibe in Boulder
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: just seems a little weird. Like different from years past
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: in struggling. Would you guys agree?
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: There's a different sort of tone or tenor to some
• 43:57
  Speaker 5: of these things.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: And when you laid out.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: The end of the previous 10 years, With what's going
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: on right now, that's a real wake-up call, man.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: So we'll get to that in just a second. Stick around.