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- 0:02Speaker 1: This is the Appetizer Hour with Brett Cain on demand.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Check out Brett weekday mornings at 6 on Altitude Sports
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- 0:20Speaker 2: The Nuggets got to do something, folks.
- 0:21Speaker 3: I don't know what it is, but they got to
- 0:23Speaker 3: do something. They get blown out by the Warriors.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Final tonight from Denver, 134-114.
- 0:30Speaker 4: We talked about it in the locker room after the game,
- 0:32Speaker 4: just the physicality. I don't think we took a foul.
- 0:35Speaker 4: We were switching up on anybody, and that leads to slipping.
- 0:38Speaker 4: It leads to 2v1s, 3v2s in the backside, so it
- 0:42Speaker 4: was a bad night in that way, in every way.
- 0:45Speaker 4: I thought they shot the ball really well when we shrunk,
- 0:48Speaker 4: but that.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Wasn't the issue.
- 0:50Speaker 4: It was all that small, small stuff, and it's got
- 0:52Speaker 4: to be something we work on. Some of the young
- 0:55Speaker 4: guys haven't seen it before, and I thought, Behind it,
- 0:58Speaker 4: our rotations weren't good enough throughout the first half. And
- 1:01Speaker 4: when you start giving effort later in the game to
- 1:04Speaker 4: rotate behind mistakes, it's too late. That's what's got to
- 1:07Speaker 4: be a lot better.
- 1:09Speaker 2: It's early. It is early. But I would be being
- 1:16Speaker 2: dishonest with you if I didn't say that I'm a
- 1:19Speaker 2: little bit, I don't know, not peeved, just straight up concerned. Like,
- 1:27Speaker 2: I really am. And the reasons for it are you
- 1:34Speaker 2: play against a team in Golden State that enters your
- 1:38Speaker 2: building winless. They have injuries. You have injuries, too. But
- 1:44Speaker 2: the game ends with Yaxel Lindenberg looking like the best
- 1:56Speaker 2: player on the floor. And that just can't happen. I
- 2:03Speaker 2: know that we kind of deal with this every year
- 2:06Speaker 2: early in the season where there's almost like this sort
- 2:08Speaker 2: of malaise that the Nuggets play with that Joker maybe
- 2:15Speaker 2: seems a little bit uninterested when the season starts or whatever. Like,
- 2:20Speaker 2: I know that just a couple of days ago when
- 2:24Speaker 2: you played against New Orleans... He finished with 35-15-10. But
- 2:29Speaker 2: I think we can all kind of see, like we
- 2:30Speaker 2: know Joker gets numbers whether he's playing well or not.
- 2:36Speaker 2: We can kind of see whether he's up to that
- 2:40Speaker 2: all-world best of a generation standard. And I just really
- 2:45Speaker 2: haven't seen that in any of the three games. But
- 2:50Speaker 2: bigger than that, like I'm a big body language guy.
- 2:53Speaker 2: I don't like the body language of this team right now.
- 2:57Speaker 2: It's something just doesn't feel right. And I'll tell you
- 3:01Speaker 2: what made this really weird. Jokic comes out after the
- 3:08Speaker 2: Pelicans game and kind of excoriates the fan base for booing, saying,
- 3:17Speaker 2: if you booed, then I don't think you should be
- 3:19Speaker 2: allowed back in the stadium or whatever. And we've had
- 3:23Speaker 2: this discussion over and over again. We talked about it yesterday.
- 3:27Speaker 2: That discussion to me is just kind of like, oh, whatever.
- 3:31Speaker 2: It's happened like a lot this year in different sports
- 3:37Speaker 2: where players have talked about being booed and how much
- 3:39Speaker 2: they don't like it or they don't think it's right
- 3:41Speaker 2: or whatever. But did you notice this? By the way,
- 3:46Speaker 2: welcome back, Nelly. I like my seat over here a
- 3:47Speaker 2: lot better than yours. Did you guys notice last night
- 3:55Speaker 2: the game's starting to slip away? David Adelman calls a
- 4:01Speaker 2: timeout in the fourth quarter, and it's sort of like
- 4:04Speaker 2: your last gasp at trying to get back in the game.
- 4:07Speaker 2: You're down big. And we just witnessed this a couple
- 4:11Speaker 2: of days ago, so it's like, okay, are they totally
- 4:14Speaker 2: out of the game? Maybe not. Maybe we can push
- 4:16Speaker 2: it and get this game close late, and then the
- 4:19Speaker 2: Nuggets do what the Nuggets do. Called a timeout, and
- 4:24Speaker 2: out of the timeout, there's a 24-second violation. Which for
- 4:30Speaker 2: all intents and purposes just ends the game because if
- 4:35Speaker 2: your last attempt to do something results in you literally
- 4:38Speaker 2: not getting a shot up, then oopsie daisy. But here's
- 4:44Speaker 2: what I noticed. And tell me if you did too.
- 4:49Speaker 2: The crowd was oddly silent. It felt like you would
- 4:58Speaker 2: want to boo. How about this? You talked back to
- 5:02Speaker 2: your mom and dad said, if you ever do that again,
- 5:06Speaker 2: I'm going to get the belt. And then dad goes
- 5:10Speaker 2: back to work and mom starts smoking in the house.
- 5:15Speaker 2: And you're like, I don't think she should be able
- 5:16Speaker 2: to do that. But dad just said he was going
- 5:18Speaker 2: to get the belt out if I said anything. That's,
- 5:24Speaker 2: it felt to me like we were just children who
- 5:28Speaker 2: recognized that something the adults were doing was wrong, but
- 5:31Speaker 2: we weren't allowed to say anything about it. And it
- 5:35Speaker 2: was just, funny is the wrong word. It was almost bizarre.
- 5:42Speaker 2: That you're watching the team sort of melt down in
- 5:45Speaker 2: a critical moment and you know the game's getting away
- 5:48Speaker 2: and you have this emotional buildup that you cannot release
- 5:51Speaker 2: inside the arena because dad yelled at you. That's how
- 5:56Speaker 2: it felt to me. But overall, we're three games into
- 6:01Speaker 2: the year. It's not a reason for panic. But we
- 6:05Speaker 2: all kind of recognize like there's something that feels really
- 6:07Speaker 2: weird right now. There's something about it. And I don't
- 6:14Speaker 2: know what exactly that is. It just feels very uninspired
- 6:21Speaker 2: at the moment. And it very well could be this
- 6:25Speaker 2: is just what the Nuggets do at the beginning of
- 6:26Speaker 2: a season. They've been through this enough that maybe they
- 6:32Speaker 2: don't care. But here's the thing I can't do. I
- 6:34Speaker 2: can't go out and say, well, they're losing because they're hurt.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Which is certainly a factor. And I think that injuries,
- 6:43Speaker 2: especially to your top seven guys, are going to affect
- 6:45Speaker 2: the Nuggets more than anybody else in the league because
- 6:48Speaker 2: your depth is guys off the bargain bin. Your depth
- 6:51Speaker 2: is guys off the scrap heap. And so that makes
- 6:54Speaker 2: it a lot more difficult. At the same time, I
- 6:58Speaker 2: just watched Oklahoma City who got the news that both
- 7:01Speaker 2: J-Dub and Case and Wallace might be out for like
- 7:04Speaker 2: the entire year. And they went out and they beat
- 7:07Speaker 2: the Phoenix Suns last night. So there's that. I just,
- 7:17Speaker 2: I don't know, dude. A lot of what last night was,
- 7:23Speaker 2: it feels less to me like it's beginning of the
- 7:27Speaker 2: season malaise and the Nuggets just aren't into it yet.
- 7:30Speaker 2: And more like there's something like off right now. And
- 7:36Speaker 2: to be honest, I kind of get the same thing
- 7:37Speaker 2: with the Avs. And that's, scaring the bleep out of
- 7:43Speaker 2: me because these are the teams that, I mean, the
- 7:49Speaker 2: Avs didn't lose their fourth regular season or their fourth
- 7:53Speaker 2: regulation loss until January last year. But again, early in
- 8:03Speaker 2: the season, I think we can all feel it. And look,
- 8:07Speaker 2: if I'm wrong, 303-504-0925. Tell me. And I fully recognize
- 8:17Speaker 2: that for a team that has very little depth to
- 8:20Speaker 2: start with, losing shooters like Julian Strother and Cam Johnson
- 8:27Speaker 2: and losing really good defensive players like Spencer Jones and
- 8:31Speaker 2: Alpha Diallo, it makes a difference. But that's where I'm like, well,
- 8:39Speaker 2: why didn't Jokic look like the best player on the
- 8:41Speaker 2: floor last night? He got off to a good start.
- 8:47Speaker 2: He was, I don't know, pacing his way towards a
- 8:50Speaker 2: triple-double in that first quarter. He had a couple of
- 8:53Speaker 2: blocks out of the gate. But, I mean, the bigger
- 8:56Speaker 2: thing to me is we talk about, man, I'm really
- 8:58Speaker 2: concerned about the depth. The depth is going to be
- 9:00Speaker 2: a big problem. Go back and look at the first
- 9:02Speaker 2: three games. The one thing that's been consistently either even
- 9:06Speaker 2: or better than the opposition has been your bench. The
- 9:11Speaker 2: starters are the ones that are minus 15s at the
- 9:14Speaker 2: end of the game. And that's why I'm very confused.
- 9:23Speaker 2: We're used to the bench coming in and messing things up.
- 9:26Speaker 2: I'm not very used to the starters being the ones
- 9:30Speaker 2: that you have to dig the hole or dig themselves
- 9:34Speaker 2: out of the hole. It certainly happened in game one.
- 9:37Speaker 2: It certainly happened last night. The other things that bothered me,
- 9:44Speaker 2: Podjemski looks like Timu Klay Thompson now with that haircut.
- 9:49Speaker 2: That's freaking me out. Don't like that at all. Steph
- 9:55Speaker 2: Curry didn't miss a shot, but he only took eight.
- 9:57Speaker 2: You know, you get to that point, Aaron Gordon goes,
- 10:00Speaker 2: ejected from the game because if there's one person who's
- 10:02Speaker 2: going to show emotion and fire, it's going to be
- 10:04Speaker 2: that guy. So he gets tossed. Uh, texture just says, sorry,
- 10:10Speaker 2: this is just what this team is. Murray is one
- 10:12Speaker 2: of your leaders and he has a crap attitude. The
- 10:14Speaker 2: team follows its leaders. I don't know. I, I, Like,
- 10:19Speaker 2: Murray's been here for a long time, and the team's
- 10:21Speaker 2: won a whole bunch of games. I don't... It's three
- 10:26Speaker 2: games in, so I'm not going totally into this well yet.
- 10:30Speaker 2: But all I'm saying is... Something doesn't feel right. That's it.
- 10:40Speaker 2: And I don't know what that is. But they need
- 10:42Speaker 2: to get that figured out in a hurry. You know,
- 10:45Speaker 2: you have the Pelicans. You play them tomorrow. In New Orleans,
- 10:51Speaker 2: I mean, does that game feel like some easy victory
- 10:55Speaker 2: to you? Because it shouldn't. Pelicans had a giant lead
- 11:00Speaker 2: on you a few days ago, and they are probably
- 11:03Speaker 2: looking for some sort of revenge. Like, I don't know.
- 11:09Speaker 2: But it's just, it doesn't feel right. And I know
- 11:15Speaker 2: that's very vague in nothing analysis, but I can't exactly
- 11:19Speaker 2: pinpoint certain details of it because it's just too early
- 11:23Speaker 2: in the season. But I've seen enough to be like, yeah,
- 11:27Speaker 2: I'm a little bit concerned right now. And again, this
- 11:30Speaker 2: applies both to the Nuggets and the Avalanche because the
- 11:33Speaker 2: Avalanche have played very uninspired games to start the season.
- 11:40Speaker 2: And I'm just going to cross my fingers and hope
- 11:42Speaker 2: that it's because You've played a boatload of winning basketball
- 11:51Speaker 2: and hockey games over the last few years. And you've
- 11:56Speaker 2: done the thing before, especially in the Avs case last year,
- 12:00Speaker 2: where you've put all this effort every single night into winning,
- 12:06Speaker 2: being the best team in hockey every single night. And
- 12:12Speaker 2: none of that matters the second the postseason starts. So
- 12:14Speaker 2: maybe it's just more of like, we know the task
- 12:18Speaker 2: at hand. It's a marathon, not a sprint sort of mentality.
- 12:22Speaker 2: I don't know. That's my hope. Because if it's not that,
- 12:26Speaker 2: then we got bigger problems and bigger fish to fry.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Does what I'm saying, Nelly, sound reasonable? I think so.
- 12:34Speaker 3: And I mean, last year, I believe it was, For
- 12:38Speaker 3: the majority of the season, we just talked about how
- 12:39Speaker 3: it didn't look like the Nuggets were having fun.
- 12:42Speaker 2: It looked like that's it.
- 12:43Speaker 3: When they were playing basketball, it looked like they were
- 12:45Speaker 3: unloading the dishwasher or taking out the trash. It looked
- 12:47Speaker 3: like they were just doing chores and nothing was easy.
- 12:51Speaker 3: If they won a game, you know, 125 to 120,
- 12:56Speaker 3: they worked their butts off for every single point. And
- 12:59Speaker 3: you never had any shots that just went in easy.
- 13:01Speaker 3: And then the Nuggets had a nice 15 point lead.
- 13:03Speaker 3: And I think like you could tell something was off
- 13:06Speaker 3: last year. And I don't know how to explain it.
- 13:08Speaker 3: I don't know how to quantify it. But, yeah, sometimes
- 13:10Speaker 3: when you watch the Nuggets so far through these three games,
- 13:14Speaker 3: they just look like they're dribbling backwards through molasses.
- 13:17Speaker 2: You know what? The fun thing is a good way
- 13:20Speaker 2: to put it. You watch some teams around the league.
- 13:23Speaker 2: If somebody hits a big shot that leads to a timeout,
- 13:27Speaker 2: the team kind of starts jumping up and down or
- 13:30Speaker 2: does some sort of celebration with their teammate or something
- 13:32Speaker 2: like that. When the Nuggets do that, it's just kind
- 13:34Speaker 2: of like, You'll walk back to the huddle. You're like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 13:38Speaker 2: Good shot. Good shot. What do you go? I don't know. Again,
- 13:42Speaker 2: three games in. I don't want to make this too
- 13:44Speaker 2: much of like a big thing, but I think we
- 13:48Speaker 2: all kind of feel what I'm discussing is that there's
- 13:52Speaker 2: just something that doesn't seem quite right. So 303-504-0925. As
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- 14:27Speaker 2: get to with this. Also, Adam Schefter is going to
- 14:31Speaker 2: join us at 9.20 this morning. Got some Broncos that
- 14:34Speaker 2: I think we have to discuss here in just a bit.
- 14:36Speaker 2: But next, it's college football, stock up, stock down. All right,
- 14:39Speaker 2: we do it every week following the college football weekend.
- 14:41Speaker 2: It is college football, stock up, stock down. We always
- 14:44Speaker 2: start with the quarterbacks. Nelly, stock up. It's hard to
- 14:50Speaker 2: really get a grasp on who's good and who's bad
- 14:55Speaker 2: in the NFL. And I don't want to keep going
- 14:59Speaker 2: to the same names over and over and over again.
- 15:02Speaker 2: You know, I could easily give this to Darian Mensah.
- 15:04Speaker 2: They get a 52-23 win over Pittsburgh. He had four
- 15:09Speaker 2: touchdowns and 380 yards passing, all this different stuff. But
- 15:12Speaker 2: I like to mix things up. So I'm going to
- 15:14Speaker 2: go a little off the beaten path here because this isn't,
- 15:18Speaker 2: I wouldn't consider this a great quarterback game, but what
- 15:21Speaker 2: he's doing is winning football games and he's doing other
- 15:26Speaker 2: things to help in that area. And that's Devin Dampier
- 15:28Speaker 2: out of Utah. They play against Houston. It's a big
- 15:31Speaker 2: matchup in the Big 12. It's number 10 versus number 14.
- 15:35Speaker 2: They get the win 21 to 13. He does have
- 15:38Speaker 2: two interceptions in this game, but He had 15 runs
- 15:43Speaker 2: for 150 yards and two touchdowns on the ground. He
- 15:46Speaker 2: just finds ways to make plays. Utah is a fun
- 15:49Speaker 2: team to watch. He's a fun player to watch. I
- 15:53Speaker 2: don't think overwhelmingly talented in the throwing category. He's pretty
- 15:57Speaker 2: good at it. His numbers all year leading up to
- 16:00Speaker 2: this game have been good, but he's had some turnovers
- 16:02Speaker 2: in the last few weeks. But even when he makes
- 16:06Speaker 2: a mistake, he makes up for it doing other things.
- 16:08Speaker 2: He's kind of one of those guys where it's like, hey,
- 16:10Speaker 2: if my passing game isn't working, well, guess what? I'll
- 16:13Speaker 2: beat you on the ground then. He has a lot
- 16:16Speaker 2: of different tools that he can go to. And at
- 16:21Speaker 2: the end of the day, he's just a really fun
- 16:22Speaker 2: guy to watch for a really good football team. Utah
- 16:27Speaker 2: is a team that I think can hang in there
- 16:29Speaker 2: with anybody in the country. I don't know if they
- 16:32Speaker 2: can beat everybody in the country, but they can hang
- 16:35Speaker 2: in there. You know, they've had these close wins over
- 16:38Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks. 21-13 over Houston this last weekend. Remember,
- 16:43Speaker 2: CU almost got them last weekend. Win by a couple
- 16:47Speaker 2: of touchdowns against Kansas. It's not as if they're blowing
- 16:50Speaker 2: teams out, but it feels like this guy is just
- 16:53Speaker 2: going to do enough to win football games. So Devin Dampier,
- 16:56Speaker 2: he gets the stock up. Let's go quarterback stock down.
- 17:02Speaker 2: This guy was cruising throughout the year. Had really one
- 17:06Speaker 2: game in which it wasn't even really him. It was
- 17:08Speaker 2: the defense didn't show up, and that was in a
- 17:10Speaker 2: loss to Oregon. But it's Jaden Maiava. He's the senior
- 17:15Speaker 2: quarterback at a USC. He's had a good season, 19 touchdowns,
- 17:18Speaker 2: five picks on the year. But the Big Ten is
- 17:22Speaker 2: ripe for the picking right now. Ohio State has Julian
- 17:27Speaker 2: San that's going to be out for a minute. They
- 17:31Speaker 2: already had their clunker loss to Oregon back in late September.
- 17:37Speaker 2: Losing a game at Wisconsin the way that they lost, 24-7,
- 17:42Speaker 2: is a killer. Maiava in that game threw two picks
- 17:45Speaker 2: that were killers. He was sacked constantly, and he didn't
- 17:48Speaker 2: just take sacks. He took gigantic sacks. Five sacks that
- 17:54Speaker 2: resulted in negative 57 yards. Combine that with a couple
- 18:01Speaker 2: of turnovers, now all of a sudden it's really, really
- 18:05Speaker 2: hard for USC to get in any sort of a rhythm.
- 18:09Speaker 2: His longest pass of the day was only for 15 yards.
- 18:14Speaker 2: It just was a game that nothing could go right
- 18:17Speaker 2: on offense for the USC Trojans. And you saw it
- 18:21Speaker 2: because they only put up seven points against Wisconsin. And
- 18:24Speaker 2: now it feels like most of the hopes that they
- 18:26Speaker 2: had of this maybe being the resurgent season of USC,
- 18:29Speaker 2: maybe Lincoln Riley can finally find a way to burst
- 18:32Speaker 2: through and make something happen in the Big Ten. It
- 18:37Speaker 2: all kind of went up in smoke with that game
- 18:39Speaker 2: last weekend. And I think Jaden Maiava's a fine quarterback.
- 18:43Speaker 2: But that's just a game that's going to stick out
- 18:45Speaker 2: for the rest of the year. You had two clunkers
- 18:49Speaker 2: against teams you couldn't have clunkers against. And in both cases,
- 18:54Speaker 2: it just felt like Wisconsin especially had their way with
- 18:59Speaker 2: anything that had to do with the USC offense. So
- 19:01Speaker 2: Jade Maiava gets a stock down. Let's go Big 12
- 19:03Speaker 2: team stock up. Pay attention to these guys. They got
- 19:09Speaker 2: a fun offense. They can put up points. And this
- 19:12Speaker 2: is going to be their real test here. They have
- 19:15Speaker 2: two more games for the rest of the season to
- 19:17Speaker 2: really see what they're made of. And that's the Arizona Wildcats.
- 19:21Speaker 2: They've had the same quarterback there forever. Noah Fafita has
- 19:26Speaker 2: been there for, I think this is his fourth year
- 19:29Speaker 2: as a starter. They run the football pretty well. But
- 19:33Speaker 2: they put up points this year. They put up 35-17
- 19:38Speaker 2: against BYU in a loss in Week 2. But then 42-34, 34-52,
- 19:40Speaker 2: 39 last week against Iowa State in a 39-3 win.
- 19:50Speaker 2: over the Cyclones. Their big test comes this week when
- 19:54Speaker 2: they go at Texas Tech against the number 13 team
- 19:58Speaker 2: in the country. They finally got themselves in the top 25.
- 20:00Speaker 2: Arizona's currently number 22 in the country. I think they
- 20:04Speaker 2: got a really good shot of beating Texas Tech, especially
- 20:06Speaker 2: because You might hear about them in a second, what
- 20:09Speaker 2: happened at Texas Tech last weekend. But I just think
- 20:13Speaker 2: that Arizona is made up of a lot of veteran guys.
- 20:17Speaker 2: They're a pretty disciplined football team. They don't give up
- 20:21Speaker 2: points at a gigantic rate. They've only given up more
- 20:25Speaker 2: than 24 points twice this year, and that was a
- 20:28Speaker 2: 28-17 loss to BYU. And then they gave up 31
- 20:32Speaker 2: to West Virginia, but they put up 52 in that game.
- 20:39Speaker 2: I think they're a disciplined football team. And I think
- 20:43Speaker 2: they have a really good shot at beating Texas Tech
- 20:46Speaker 2: this upcoming weekend. You know, this game, when you look
- 20:49Speaker 2: at it early, Texas Tech is favored, but only by
- 20:52Speaker 2: three and a half at home. I think Arizona's got
- 20:55Speaker 2: a really good shot to pull off another win. And
- 20:59Speaker 2: then they find themselves in BYU-Utah territory for winner of
- 21:04Speaker 2: the Big 12 goes to the college football playoff. A
- 21:07Speaker 2: win this weekend puts them firmly in that position and
- 21:09Speaker 2: sets them up in a couple of weeks for a
- 21:12Speaker 2: game against Utah at home. So keep an eye on Arizona.
- 21:17Speaker 2: Speaking of Texas Tech, Big 12 teams stocked down. The
- 21:20Speaker 2: Big 12! Something felt just kind of off with them
- 21:25Speaker 2: all year. I had a hard time buying in. And
- 21:29Speaker 2: the reason why is because they don't like their quarterback.
- 21:34Speaker 2: That's obvious. Will Hammond, in seven games this year, has
- 21:43Speaker 2: put up six touchdowns and six interceptions. It's just not
- 21:46Speaker 2: good enough. Now, Jacoby Williams, their running back, he's averaging
- 21:50Speaker 2: seven yards a carry. They're being carried offensively by their
- 21:54Speaker 2: running game. They use a number of different backs to
- 21:57Speaker 2: do it. But when they get into a game where
- 21:59Speaker 2: they have to throw the football, and this game against
- 22:02Speaker 2: Arizona might be one of them, you're going to have
- 22:04Speaker 2: to put up some points. I just don't know if
- 22:07Speaker 2: they're capable. You saw it last week when they played
- 22:10Speaker 2: against Cincinnati. The second that Cincinnati started scoring points in
- 22:13Speaker 2: the second quarter, Texas Tech had no answer because Will
- 22:16Speaker 2: Hammond just can't do it. They admitted as much in
- 22:20Speaker 2: the offseason. when not only they went out and tried
- 22:23Speaker 2: to get Brendan Sorsby from the transfer portal, but they're
- 22:26Speaker 2: going to judges saying, please, please tell me he's eligible.
- 22:31Speaker 2: You don't go to those lengths if you're comfortable with
- 22:34Speaker 2: your backup quarterback. You don't cause the consternation in your
- 22:39Speaker 2: conference and with your school about one guy, one position,
- 22:44Speaker 2: unless you are totally unconfident in what's behind him. And
- 22:48Speaker 2: I think you're seeing the fruits of that sort of
- 22:50Speaker 2: pay off right now. And I do think it's going
- 22:53Speaker 2: to result in Arizona winning this game this upcoming weekend,
- 22:56Speaker 2: despite this being a home game for Texas Tech. If
- 22:58Speaker 2: Arizona and Noah Fafita can start putting up some points,
- 23:01Speaker 2: I don't think that Texas Tech is going to have
- 23:04Speaker 2: the high-powered offense to be able to answer and respond
- 23:08Speaker 2: to it. So Texas Tech gets Big 12 team stock down.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Let's go national team stock up. This I'm going to
- 23:18Speaker 2: throw out is just an interesting team. And I don't
- 23:22Speaker 2: think that this is going to go well for them
- 23:25Speaker 2: this weekend. I don't think they're going to win. I
- 23:28Speaker 2: think they might keep the game closer than people want
- 23:31Speaker 2: to admit. Minnesota, who is 5-2 right now this season,
- 23:37Speaker 2: they lost early in the year to Mississippi State 38-13
- 23:40Speaker 2: and just a couple of weeks ago got blown out
- 23:42Speaker 2: by Purdue 41-13. But here's the three wins they've had
- 23:46Speaker 2: in the last four weeks. They've beat Washington at Washington.
- 23:51Speaker 2: They've beat Michigan, and they beat Iowa. And whatever you
- 23:57Speaker 2: think about those teams, I don't think they're awesome either.
- 24:01Speaker 2: But they're tough environments and tough places to play and win.
- 24:05Speaker 2: They're tough teams to go against. Right now, they take
- 24:08Speaker 2: on No. 4 Indiana this weekend at Indiana. I think
- 24:13Speaker 2: Indiana wins that football game. But I wouldn't be surprised
- 24:16Speaker 2: if Minnesota keeps it a little bit closer than people think.
- 24:19Speaker 2: Minnesota's got much better players, but there's something about this P.J.
- 24:23Speaker 2: Flex squad that just seems like they play hard. And so,
- 24:27Speaker 2: with everybody else in college football, and, you know, from
- 24:31Speaker 2: the national ranks, who looks good nationally, I think there's
- 24:35Speaker 2: not a ton to choose from, given last week. The
- 24:38Speaker 2: teams that are supposed to be good... just don't look
- 24:43Speaker 2: that great. And one team that I was thinking about
- 24:47Speaker 2: was UCLA because they're still unbeaten now. They're 7-0, but
- 24:51Speaker 2: they beat Michigan State 28-10. It was a 14-7 game
- 24:55Speaker 2: and a half. Michigan State's one of the worst teams
- 24:57Speaker 2: in the country. Like, I can't give them credit for that.
- 25:02Speaker 2: So for the moment, I'm going to roll with this
- 25:05Speaker 2: little engine that could story, which is Minnesota, and see
- 25:08Speaker 2: if they can do something fun this weekend. So they
- 25:09Speaker 2: get the stock up, national team stock down. A week
- 25:14Speaker 2: after a huge upset against Notre Dame and becoming the
- 25:17Speaker 2: number two team in the country, BYU plays against UCF,
- 25:22Speaker 2: who's not very good, and loses in overtime 39-31. BYU's
- 25:31Speaker 2: a good football team. Are they super special? No. They
- 25:35Speaker 2: kind of remind me of, like, Utah.
- 25:37Speaker 1: Utah?
- 25:38Speaker 2: They find ways to win games. It doesn't always look pretty,
- 25:42Speaker 2: but more often than not, they just find a way
- 25:45Speaker 2: to pull it out. It did not happen last weekend.
- 25:48Speaker 2: They're going to have their giant matchup, their rivalry game
- 25:50Speaker 2: against Utah in a couple weeks as well. I'm sure
- 25:54Speaker 2: that one will be fantastic. I just, I seem to
- 26:00Speaker 2: feel like BYU and Bear Bachmeier just doesn't feel like
- 26:06Speaker 2: they have the goods. They're a good team that can
- 26:10Speaker 2: beat a lot of mediocre teams. They've proven that they
- 26:13Speaker 2: can beat a team like Notre Dame that's near the
- 26:15Speaker 2: top of the standings. But it does feel like they
- 26:19Speaker 2: need a lot of help to do it. So BYU,
- 26:21Speaker 2: they get the stock down. Let's go Heisman stock up.
- 26:27Speaker 2: Talked a lot about that dude over in Ohio State,
- 26:29Speaker 2: Jeremiah Smith. But that dude in Miami now is making
- 26:33Speaker 2: a push. The last two games out of Malachi Toney
- 26:36Speaker 2: have been unbelievable. In the last two games, he has
- 26:41Speaker 2: 27 catches for 350 yards and five touchdowns. That's in
- 26:48Speaker 2: two weeks. A double overtime win against Florida State and
- 26:52Speaker 2: a 52-23 win against Pitt. We can talk about Miami's
- 26:56Speaker 2: schedule all we want to, like who have they played yet,
- 26:59Speaker 2: and no wonder guys like Malachi Toney and Darian Mensah
- 27:04Speaker 2: look good. They don't play anybody. Bottom line is this
- 27:07Speaker 2: dude's special. He is really, really good. Only a sophomore, 5'11.
- 27:13Speaker 2: But you need a play to be made, he'll make
- 27:15Speaker 2: a play. They'll run the football with him if they
- 27:18Speaker 2: have to. He is just a remarkable player. And a
- 27:24Speaker 2: huge reason why that offense goes. The only concern Heisman-wise
- 27:28Speaker 2: with a guy like him is, do votes get canceled
- 27:32Speaker 2: out between him and Mensah? Can you only choose one?
- 27:36Speaker 2: Would you give Mensah the number one vote and him
- 27:39Speaker 2: the number two? Would you do it vice versa? I
- 27:41Speaker 2: don't know. It's the only thing that could really hurt him,
- 27:44Speaker 2: but man, he's a special player. Heisman, stock down. I
- 27:50Speaker 2: love this guy, but it's, you know, I feel like
- 27:54Speaker 2: last week was sort of the last nail in the coffin.
- 27:57Speaker 2: He was the trendy pick. He was somebody who was
- 27:59Speaker 2: certainly going to be there if he kept his nose
- 28:01Speaker 2: clean for the rest of the year. But Trinidad Chambliss
- 28:05Speaker 2: in the game against Texas, it's kind of proving like
- 28:08Speaker 2: which SEC team that's sort of on a schneid is
- 28:11Speaker 2: the real deal. Is it Ole Miss or is it Texas?
- 28:15Speaker 2: Is it Trinidad Chambliss or is it Arch Manning? And
- 28:18Speaker 2: Chambliss goes out and he throws three picks in that
- 28:20Speaker 2: game against Texas and they lose by a touchdown. You
- 28:23Speaker 2: don't turn the ball over that many times, you probably
- 28:25Speaker 2: win that football game. And now a guy who was seen,
- 28:28Speaker 2: I think, early in the year, somebody would be on
- 28:30Speaker 2: that podium at the end of the season, probably is
- 28:32Speaker 2: not going to be anymore. He has had turnovers in
- 28:35Speaker 2: every game but two this year. The games that he
- 28:39Speaker 2: hasn't were against Charlotte and the big win that they
- 28:43Speaker 2: had last week against Missouri. But 250 yards passing, he
- 28:49Speaker 2: was less than 50% completion against Texas. Two touchdowns, three picks.
- 28:54Speaker 2: Just couldn't seem to get much of anything going when
- 28:58Speaker 2: they needed him to. So Chambliss, he gets the stock down.
- 29:01Speaker 2: Let's go to our best game of the week. Oh, yes!
- 29:07Speaker 2: You could go BYU and UCF double overtime thriller. I
- 29:12Speaker 2: think it is Ole Miss and Texas. It was a
- 29:14Speaker 2: great football game. It was back and forth. It would
- 29:17Speaker 2: be a huge play followed up by a mistake, followed
- 29:20Speaker 2: up by a huge play, followed up by a mistake.
- 29:22Speaker 2: Both teams were doing it. You didn't know who really
- 29:25Speaker 2: had control of the game until the very end. I
- 29:27Speaker 2: know that Texas had the big lead early in the game,
- 29:32Speaker 2: but Ole Miss came storming back and got themselves right
- 29:36Speaker 2: on the doorstep. It was just Texas had to make
- 29:39Speaker 2: a play later. in that game, and they did. That's
- 29:41Speaker 2: your best game of the week. Let's go with the
- 29:43Speaker 2: upset of the week. Bunch of hogwash. I know the
- 29:47Speaker 2: sexy thing is UCF over BYU. Cincinnati beating Texas Tech
- 29:51Speaker 2: is a gigantic upset.
- 29:53Speaker 5: Huge.
- 29:54Speaker 2: As is South Carolina over Tennessee. My big one, though,
- 29:58Speaker 2: is Wisconsin over USC. Like, that is, USC had the
- 30:03Speaker 2: opportunity to take a waffling Big Ten conference and sort
- 30:08Speaker 2: of turn it on its ear if they just took
- 30:10Speaker 2: care of their business. Wisconsin, by the way, it's not
- 30:14Speaker 2: as if they've been lighting people up this year. They're
- 30:18Speaker 2: 5-2 now, but... They lost the previous week to UCLA 17-7.
- 30:25Speaker 2: They lost to Notre Dame early in the year 41-13.
- 30:28Speaker 2: Every other team they've beaten has been pretty bad. I mean,
- 30:32Speaker 2: Penn State felt like a big win at the time.
- 30:34Speaker 2: Penn State's 0-4 in Big Ten Conference play. That's a
- 30:38Speaker 2: team that was struggling to beat anybody of substance. And
- 30:41Speaker 2: not only did they beat USC, they crushed them to
- 30:45Speaker 2: the tune of 24-7. So that is college football stock up,
- 30:49Speaker 2: stock down. We do it every week following the college
- 30:52Speaker 2: football weekend. High school football is back on the radio
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- 31:15Speaker 2: more to get to here. I do want to get
- 31:17Speaker 2: some audio from the Broncos from yesterday as they head
- 31:21Speaker 2: into a gigantic week, a week that could flip the
- 31:25Speaker 2: AFC West in their favor. We'll get to it next.
- 31:28Speaker 2: All right, so some audio yesterday from Sean Payton as
- 31:31Speaker 2: we get going on what is a massive weekend. You
- 31:36Speaker 2: can literally take the AFC West and entirely flip it.
- 31:42Speaker 2: I don't think that people... I don't know if we
- 31:45Speaker 2: quite understand the implications of what this weekend is between
- 31:51Speaker 2: the Broncos and the Chiefs. Because here's what you're talking about.
- 31:54Speaker 2: Here's the separation. And I would love, there's one of
- 31:56Speaker 2: these websites that do this. Now let's see if you
- 32:00Speaker 2: can find it for me. There's a website that does
- 32:05Speaker 2: like percentage chance of team winning division or whatever. based
- 32:13Speaker 2: on outcomes of the game for the weekend. And I
- 32:17Speaker 2: would have to imagine the percentile flip. And if you
- 32:23Speaker 2: don't know what a percentile is, if you're Dan Orlovsky,
- 32:28Speaker 2: it's chances out of 100.
- 32:30Speaker 5: Repeating, of course, percentage of survival.
- 32:33Speaker 2: It's a lot better than we usually do. The Broncos
- 32:36Speaker 2: winning this game... It gives themselves a shot to hang
- 32:41Speaker 2: in there in the AFC West. They then become the
- 32:43Speaker 2: number one team in the AFC West. But you get
- 32:45Speaker 2: a split, and now all of a sudden, you're in
- 32:49Speaker 2: the driver's seat. But if Kansas City wins this weekend,
- 32:55Speaker 2: it has to be an overwhelming number that they win
- 32:59Speaker 2: the AFC West now. And they get a home playoff game.
- 33:04Speaker 2: That's what's on the line. Like this early in the
- 33:06Speaker 2: season already, if Kansas City wins this weekend, they own
- 33:11Speaker 2: the tiebreaker against you because they've won their 2-0 against
- 33:17Speaker 2: just you. They then will sit at 6-1 while you
- 33:23Speaker 2: drop to 5-3. So now you're a game and a
- 33:26Speaker 2: half back of Kansas City, but more like two games
- 33:29Speaker 2: back because of the tiebreaker. They're already, they would be
- 33:33Speaker 2: 4-0 in divisional play. There's another tiebreaker. Like, all these
- 33:39Speaker 2: different things, they would have in their pocket seven weeks
- 33:45Speaker 2: into the season for them, eight weeks in for you.
- 33:48Speaker 2: It is a massive, massive matchup. And if they win
- 33:55Speaker 2: this weekend, there is almost no question in my mind
- 33:58Speaker 2: that Kansas City is winning this division unless they completely
- 34:01Speaker 2: fall apart. So, that's what's on the line for you
- 34:09Speaker 2: this week. And what are the reasons to feel good
- 34:13Speaker 2: about why the Broncos can, and I would say should,
- 34:18Speaker 2: win this game? We took a look yesterday. The odds
- 34:21Speaker 2: at the moment were Kansas City favored by one and
- 34:23Speaker 2: a half. I think the Broncos are the favorite, and
- 34:27Speaker 2: here's why. I think they found a little bit of
- 34:31Speaker 2: confidence in their offense last week, number one. Number two,
- 34:38Speaker 2: The Broncos at home are an animal. Like an absolute
- 34:44Speaker 2: no-doubt beast. If you go back to just regular season
- 34:48Speaker 2: games at home over the last, I think it's like
- 34:53Speaker 2: two years, the Broncos are 16-1 at home. The only
- 34:59Speaker 2: game they lost in the last 17 home games is
- 35:02Speaker 2: the Jacksonville game last year. That's it. If you include
- 35:06Speaker 2: the playoffs and everything over the last three seasons, the
- 35:10Speaker 2: Broncos are 21-4 at home. You have a distinct home advantage,
- 35:18Speaker 2: and you can put it to altitude. You can put
- 35:21Speaker 2: it to comfortability. I put it on you. I think
- 35:26Speaker 2: the crowd is the reason why. It is deafening in there.
- 35:30Speaker 2: It is one of the best home field advantages in
- 35:33Speaker 2: the entire sport. You put all that stuff into a ball,
- 35:40Speaker 2: it makes it really, really difficult to play in Denver. And, moreover,
- 35:48Speaker 2: I think you finally found something that resembles consistency in
- 35:56Speaker 2: the offense. And it's this. Now, if you could just
- 35:59Speaker 2: go to the first cut from Sean Payton yesterday as.
- 36:05Speaker 2: He was talking about the running game and more specifically
- 36:07Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman and what's next for his role.
- 36:11Speaker 5: Look, he played well. The touches he had were explosive.
- 36:16Speaker 5: And like anything else, I think it's something you earn.
- 36:19Speaker 5: He's done a good job of that.
- 36:22Speaker 2: I know it's quick, but it's the truth. Oh, I
- 36:25Speaker 2: got fooled, Nelly. All of these say 24 seconds on here.
- 36:28Speaker 2: I just noticed that. It must be a mistake. Jonah Coleman,
- 36:32Speaker 2: I don't think that Sean Payton wants to say anything
- 36:35Speaker 2: the quiet part out loud. Part of your job as
- 36:39Speaker 2: a coach is you have to deal with personalities and
- 36:41Speaker 2: you have to keep all of your ducks in a row.
- 36:44Speaker 2: And you can't have some of these chickens wandering off
- 36:47Speaker 2: the reservation. Okay? I think you saw it, though. In
- 36:54Speaker 2: the game last weekend, J.K. Dobbins was pretty visibly... I
- 37:00Speaker 2: don't know if upset is the right word, but I
- 37:02Speaker 2: would say sullen. How about that? Um, I think that
- 37:08Speaker 2: he watched his job get taken from him with a
- 37:12Speaker 2: front row seat. And I'm not, this isn't like some
- 37:18Speaker 2: sort of pity party for JK Dobbins. I do feel
- 37:22Speaker 2: for him in one sense is that if injuries didn't
- 37:27Speaker 2: totally hamper his career, maybe he's thought of entirely differently. Um,
- 37:32Speaker 2: I still think he's going to be a factor in
- 37:34Speaker 2: the backfield moving forward, but I don't think there's any
- 37:36Speaker 2: question who your feature back is now. Feature back's Jonah Coleman.
- 37:41Speaker 2: And in the few runs that he has had this year,
- 37:47Speaker 2: Jonah Coleman has shown that he has a decisiveness, a burst,
- 37:52Speaker 2: a slipperiness, and an edge to his running style that
- 37:57Speaker 2: is just different than the other guys that are in
- 37:59Speaker 2: the backfield.
- 38:01Speaker 1: R.J.
- 38:01Speaker 2: Harvey is really good at what he does, which is
- 38:04Speaker 2: catch the ball in open space, make a guy miss,
- 38:07Speaker 2: and go make a play. You saw that on the
- 38:08Speaker 2: touchdown last week. But he's not a runner of the football.
- 38:13Speaker 2: He will get a few carries a game just because
- 38:15Speaker 2: you can't tip your hand every time he's on the field.
- 38:19Speaker 2: But he is what he is. He's a pass-catching back.
- 38:21Speaker 2: Some guys have been like that throughout their careers. I
- 38:25Speaker 2: just think he's one of those dudes. The running aspect
- 38:29Speaker 2: of this is going to be between Jonah Coleman and J.K. Dobbins,
- 38:32Speaker 2: and Jonah Coleman is somebody that has just taken it.
- 38:37Speaker 2: Nine carries. But I would say those are the best
- 38:41Speaker 2: nine carries that you've had for the Broncos pretty much
- 38:43Speaker 2: all year. Now, J.K. had a couple of really good
- 38:45Speaker 2: runs over the weekend. But it looked different with Jonah Coleman.
- 38:55Speaker 2: It looked explosive. It looked like with Jonah Coleman, there
- 38:59Speaker 2: was a shot you could bust one for 40. And
- 39:02Speaker 2: that's the difference. You have what feels like a big
- 39:08Speaker 2: play threat in that guy out of the backfield. So secondly...
- 39:17Speaker 2: Sean Payton was asked about this rivalry between the Broncos
- 39:19Speaker 2: and the Chiefs, and I know that he feels this
- 39:23Speaker 2: more than anybody, and I know they want revenge after
- 39:25Speaker 2: that first week. Here's what he said.
- 39:28Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean, I've said this a hundred times, but
- 39:30Speaker 5: divisional games are always important and they typically kind of move.
- 39:35Speaker 5: I don't see rivalry weeks in the NFL. They're generally
- 39:40Speaker 5: divisional games where you have an important game against a
- 39:43Speaker 5: division opponent. So I don't see the Auburn, Alabama. I
- 39:47Speaker 5: don't see the Ohio state, Michigan. But that's just from
- 39:53Speaker 5: being in this league long enough and doing it long enough.
- 39:57Speaker 2: You know what's funny? He says that out loud. I
- 40:00Speaker 2: know he doesn't feel that way because I watched the
- 40:03Speaker 2: way that he coaches against the Falcons. If he can
- 40:06Speaker 2: beat the Atlanta Falcons by 70 points, he'll want to
- 40:08Speaker 2: do it. He'll want to do it. And I think
- 40:14Speaker 2: he feels that way about the Chiefs, too. I certainly
- 40:17Speaker 2: feel that. I know it's not quite the intensity of
- 40:20Speaker 2: like Ohio State in Michigan, but there is for sure
- 40:25Speaker 2: a feeling of this is different. And especially with where
- 40:33Speaker 2: the Chiefs have been in this division and where you're
- 40:36Speaker 2: trying to be. Right now, you're trying to get to
- 40:41Speaker 2: the level of the Chiefs and what they've done over
- 40:43Speaker 2: the past decade. You want to be the team that
- 40:46Speaker 2: now takes, snatches that chain away from them and keep
- 40:49Speaker 2: the leap style. And you do the, I'm the captain
- 40:53Speaker 2: now thing. And I think with a win this weekend,
- 40:58Speaker 2: you could certainly do it too. If nothing else prove
- 41:01Speaker 2: that week one was an entire fluke that, Oh yeah.
- 41:05Speaker 2: In case you guys forgot, we, we do know how
- 41:07Speaker 2: to tackle and we're a pretty good defense. So all
- 41:11Speaker 2: of that is huge heading into this weekend. We'll get
- 41:14Speaker 2: more audio from Sean Payton as we go along. He
- 41:17Speaker 2: addressed again the call on the Waddle Reverse. So we'll
- 41:22Speaker 2: get to that in just a minute. You chill out
- 41:25Speaker 2: on your Pop-Tart wrappers. I'm trying to do my show
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