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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
- 0:10Speaker 1: Radio 92.5 and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.
- 0:19Speaker 2: It's a Bud Light football Friday. Nelly in the holiday spirit.
- 0:27Speaker 2: Little Ron Burgundy action going on over there.
- 0:31Speaker 3: Go bleep yourself, Kansas City.
- 0:35Speaker 2: See, Nelly has what, again, I don't know how you
- 0:38Speaker 2: guys do it. I have facial hair. It's just a
- 0:42Speaker 2: little breeze of a beard, we'll call it. Nelly can grow, like,
- 0:48Speaker 2: if you wanted to, Viking-level.
- 0:53Speaker 4: Beards.
- 0:54Speaker 2: And your beard grows back in a day. so you're
- 0:58Speaker 2: able to just shave everything off except the mustache. I'm like,
- 1:03Speaker 2: there's a jealousy that's in this.
- 1:05Speaker 5: Well, thank you. I don't know if it's my dad's
- 1:07Speaker 5: side of the family. It's funny you say Vikings. They're
- 1:11Speaker 5: all a bunch of Norwegians, and you got to have
- 1:13Speaker 5: a thick beard to survive the winter, so I assume
- 1:15Speaker 5: that's where I got it from.
- 1:16Speaker 2: Probably right, yes. So what's my excuse? I'm a Russian and...
- 1:25Speaker 2: German and Irish. Not exactly warm.
- 1:29Speaker 3: Well, the Irish clearly won. Russia and Germany didn't even try, man.
- 1:33Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I think I'm minusculely Irish. Like, just
- 1:38Speaker 2: a little baby tint. But it all came through. Anyway,
- 1:44Speaker 2: as we get ready for the Halloween weekend, I do
- 1:51Speaker 2: want to address... Something that happened yesterday. And Nelly, I
- 1:58Speaker 2: can't remember if I sent this to you last night.
- 1:59Speaker 2: It should be on somebody's board, though. And it was
- 2:01Speaker 2: the entire J.K. Dobbins interview. J.K. Dobbins. I mentioned this Monday.
- 2:11Speaker 2: He looked upset. He didn't speak to the media after
- 2:14Speaker 2: the game.
- 2:15Speaker 4: He.
- 2:18Speaker 2: I've said that it looked like to me. That was
- 2:22Speaker 2: a guy who witnessed his job being taken from him
- 2:25Speaker 2: in real time. That he saw Jonah Coleman run and
- 2:29Speaker 2: the plays that he made were just different than anything
- 2:34Speaker 2: that a running back has done for the Broncos so
- 2:36Speaker 2: far this year. And because of that, J.K. Dobbins, who
- 2:42Speaker 2: he is going to push back against all of this
- 2:43Speaker 2: in a minute, by the way, who I think for
- 2:47Speaker 2: running back ages is a little bit older than He's
- 2:53Speaker 2: been in the league now for, this is his sixth year. Seventh, actually.
- 2:59Speaker 2: Got here in 2020. It just doesn't have the same
- 3:04Speaker 2: burst as it did last year. Last year, I thought
- 3:09Speaker 2: he was a really good running back until the injury.
- 3:12Speaker 2: And now he just kind of looks like a guy
- 3:14Speaker 2: who's been in the league for a while and has
- 3:15Speaker 2: suffered a lot of injuries and just doesn't have the
- 3:18Speaker 2: same oomph to his runs. Jonah Coleman in a limited
- 3:24Speaker 2: sample size seems to have it. And so with that, J.K.
- 3:31Speaker 2: Dobbins speaks to the media yesterday in a very, very
- 3:34Speaker 2: defensive tone. And it went for a while. Talking about,
- 3:39Speaker 2: I'm not old. He used the.
- 3:44Speaker 2: And when you do find this, Nelly, you can just
- 3:46Speaker 2: play it off your computer and we'll just start and
- 3:48Speaker 2: stop because there's a lot that he's going to address
- 3:50Speaker 2: that I'd like to address. But here's what he did
- 3:52Speaker 2: back and forth with the media yesterday. This is how
- 3:54Speaker 2: it started.
- 3:55Speaker 4: You're used to being the top dog, right?
- 4:00Speaker 2: How is it for you personally when the kids are
- 4:05Speaker 2: running ahead of you as they did in the second
- 4:07Speaker 2: half of the last game?
- 4:08Speaker 4: Well, did you watch the game? Yeah. You watched the game?
- 4:12Speaker 4: So what did I do in the first half? Your
- 4:15Speaker 4: first two carries, 13 yards. Second carry had a nice hole,
- 4:19Speaker 4: 5 yards. And not too much after that. But how
- 4:24Speaker 4: many carries did I have in the first half? Four
- 4:27Speaker 4: or five?
- 4:28Speaker 1: Five?
- 4:28Speaker 4: For how many yards? I think it was four. How
- 4:31Speaker 4: many yards? How many yards? 23-something. Does that sound right?
- 4:35Speaker 4: So what's the average of that?
- 4:40Speaker 2: Four-something.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Four?
- 4:42Speaker 4: Five and a half. Five and a half. I'm a
- 4:45Speaker 4: math guy.
- 4:45Speaker 2: Okay.
- 4:46Speaker 1: I'm not.
- 4:47Speaker 4: So... All right, pause for a second.
- 4:55Speaker 2: Four carries for five and a half yards per carry. Okay,
- 4:58Speaker 2: that's a good number. The counter would be, well, what's
- 5:02Speaker 2: your yards per carry on the season? Because you've had
- 5:04Speaker 2: 87 of those, and the yards per carry is 3.4.
- 5:08Speaker 2: And I'm not trying to beat up on J.K. Dobbins. Like,
- 5:10Speaker 2: I like him. I like him as a human being, like, first.
- 5:14Speaker 2: I think he's a very engaging person. Secondly, I think
- 5:17Speaker 2: when he's healthy, he's a good football player. And he
- 5:20Speaker 2: just hasn't been that good this year. And I think
- 5:22Speaker 2: that's okay to acknowledge this stuff. But it continues. Go ahead.
- 5:26Speaker 4: I was going 5-23.
- 5:27Speaker 6: Well, so then if you go to the second half,
- 5:30Speaker 6: I had the touchdown run, which was one yard.
- 5:32Speaker 7: Yep.
- 5:33Speaker 4: And then, like, we were winning pretty good.
- 5:36Speaker 7: Right?
- 5:37Speaker 4: Weren't we? Yeah. And everybody's wanting me to play 17 games, correct? Correct?
- 5:43Speaker 7: Yeah.
- 5:45Speaker 6: So can you take that into account before you start
- 5:47Speaker 6: saying stuff like that?
- 5:48Speaker 4: Because coaches have a plan.
- 5:52Speaker 2: I've wondered this, by the way. I wondered how much,
- 5:55Speaker 2: and not even wonder, I knew. You know, when he's
- 5:57Speaker 2: doing pinky promises with Andy Lindahl about staying healthy for
- 6:01Speaker 2: 17 games, part of me thought, man, you can't force
- 6:06Speaker 2: yourself to not get hurt. It's not how this works.
- 6:11Speaker 2: And if your mindset is like, my goal is I'm
- 6:13Speaker 2: going to play in every game this year and you're
- 6:15Speaker 2: hell bent on that, then you can, I think you
- 6:19Speaker 2: play differently. Maybe you don't take a risk in a
- 6:23Speaker 2: place like burying your shoulder into somebody. Maybe you run
- 6:26Speaker 2: out of bounds without taking contact. Maybe you, maybe you
- 6:34Speaker 2: try and play through an injury that you shouldn't, that
- 6:37Speaker 2: either hinders your play on the field or Or put
- 6:40Speaker 2: you at risk for getting hurt further. There's a lot
- 6:43Speaker 2: of things on J.K. Dobbins' mind right now that I
- 6:50Speaker 2: think he's prioritizing incorrectly. And if you ever needed an
- 6:56Speaker 2: example of players saying, we don't listen to what you
- 7:00Speaker 2: guys say, we don't read your newspapers, we don't listen
- 7:03Speaker 2: to the TV shows or the radio shows, here's an
- 7:06Speaker 2: example of why I think that's nonsense. Not to say like, oh,
- 7:10Speaker 2: we're super important, but if somebody's talking about you, you'll
- 7:13Speaker 2: probably hear about it. Nelly, if I told you somebody
- 7:16Speaker 2: made a 30-minute YouTube video about you, would you watch?
- 7:20Speaker 3: Was it good stuff or bad stuff?
- 7:21Speaker 2: Either way. I'd be curious.
- 7:24Speaker 3: I would be curious.
- 7:25Speaker 2: You would see some of it. You would get the
- 7:29Speaker 2: tone of what they're saying about you. Look, man, I
- 7:36Speaker 2: don't have a high, how do I put this? The
- 7:44Speaker 2: way I feel about myself, it's a very low standard
- 7:49Speaker 2: is what I'm trying to say. This job isn't important.
- 7:51Speaker 2: I'm not important, okay? I don't have some ego about me, truly.
- 7:56Speaker 2: I really don't.
- 7:57Speaker 4: I'm very important.
- 7:58Speaker 2: That's why when people say, like, I suck or something
- 8:01Speaker 2: like that, whatever. Okay. But if you told me that
- 8:04Speaker 2: somebody made an entire YouTube video about me, I'd probably
- 8:07Speaker 2: go check it out for a couple of minutes and
- 8:08Speaker 2: just be like, whoa, what are they saying? And if
- 8:10Speaker 2: they rip me, I'd be like, oh, I guess that
- 8:12Speaker 2: guy hates me. Okay, cool. But they know. The point
- 8:15Speaker 2: in all this is they know. And you heard that.
- 8:18Speaker 2: When J.K. Dobbins is going, you want me to play
- 8:21Speaker 2: 17 games, right?
- 8:24Speaker 3: Right?
- 8:25Speaker 2: I mean, there's no clearer indication than that. But continue.
- 8:32Speaker 6: Because the coaches have a plan. This organization has a
- 8:36Speaker 6: plan for me. And I'm always there to coach my
- 8:41Speaker 6: young guys. Like I've said this from the beginning, RJ
- 8:44Speaker 6: is my rookie. You know, and then we got another
- 8:46Speaker 6: rookie in Jonah. I'm coaching them to make their plays
- 8:49Speaker 6: because I want to see them succeed.
- 8:52Speaker 7: Right?
- 8:54Speaker 4: We were up by a lot.
- 8:56Speaker 6: I want to win the game. And I also want
- 8:58Speaker 6: to win in the playoffs and eventually, you know, get
- 9:01Speaker 6: to the Super Bowl. So to say, oh, no, we're
- 9:07Speaker 6: winning the game. You keep calling me a vet.
- 9:10Speaker 4: I'm not old.
- 9:10Speaker 6: I'm 27 years old. Not old, not 30, not even
- 9:13Speaker 6: close to 30.
- 9:15Speaker 4: So let's be smart about it.
- 9:16Speaker 2: Pause again. I don't know how else to say this.
- 9:23Speaker 2: Unless you're really, really special at that position. He'll be
- 9:31Speaker 2: 28 in a month and a half. It's pretty old
- 9:34Speaker 2: for a running back. It just is. Unless you are
- 9:41Speaker 2: Derrick Henry, Jonathan Taylor level good. 27, 28 years old,
- 9:47Speaker 2: especially with the injuries that he suffered. It's pretty old
- 9:51Speaker 2: for that position specifically. Everything else I would kind of agree.
- 9:54Speaker 2: Until you hit, it's this and corners. Those are the
- 9:59Speaker 2: two positions. that just age super quickly in this league.
- 10:04Speaker 2: Corners because you have to be as fast as possible
- 10:08Speaker 2: and as agile as possible to keep up with different
- 10:11Speaker 2: route combinations that you're, if you're in one-on-one coverage, all
- 10:15Speaker 2: it takes is one step and it's a 50-yard play.
- 10:19Speaker 2: That's it. And that's why you see like, you ever
- 10:23Speaker 2: notice how the best cornerback in the league crown usually
- 10:26Speaker 2: lasts for like two years for a guy, unless you
- 10:28Speaker 2: get generational people like Sertan or Darrell Revis or someone
- 10:32Speaker 2: like that. But remember when like Josh Norman was the
- 10:35Speaker 2: best corner in the NFL for like a year and
- 10:37Speaker 2: a half and then poof, he was like, was unplayably
- 10:42Speaker 2: bad or Richard Sherman when he was on top for
- 10:45Speaker 2: the Seahawks. And then it was like, he was gone forever.
- 10:49Speaker 2: That happens in the snap of a finger for corners.
- 10:54Speaker 2: And the same thing happens for running backs. Unless you're
- 10:58Speaker 2: incredibly special. And so he can say, I'm not old.
- 11:02Speaker 2: I would tell JK Dobbins, you kind of look like
- 11:05Speaker 2: it when you're playing. And again, I don't say this
- 11:08Speaker 2: to be mean. I like JK Dobbins, but I'm just,
- 11:10Speaker 2: I'm trying to say the truth here. I mean, we're,
- 11:14Speaker 2: Seven games into the season, the longest run he's had
- 11:16Speaker 2: all year is 17 yards, and it came in week
- 11:19Speaker 2: one against Kansas City where he got his doors blown off.
- 11:23Speaker 2: So go ahead. Let's finish this off.
- 11:25Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? And that's what it was,
- 11:29Speaker 4: I believe. I'm not sure.
- 11:30Speaker 6: You guys might make something bigger than what it is,
- 11:33Speaker 6: but I'm just here to support my teammates. And I
- 11:36Speaker 6: love my teammates, and I think they love me too,
- 11:39Speaker 6: you know? So there's your answer to that.
- 11:43Speaker 2: I don't doubt that he's here for his teammates. I
- 11:45Speaker 2: think to deflect and say.
- 11:53Speaker 2: He's deflecting his own personal anger, I think. That was
- 12:00Speaker 2: the equivalent. How long was that clip in its entirety?
- 12:02Speaker 2: I know we started.
- 12:03Speaker 3: It was about 2 minutes, 18 seconds.
- 12:05Speaker 2: All right, not 2 minutes, 18 seconds. That was a
- 12:07Speaker 2: 2 minute and 18 second clip of you asking your
- 12:09Speaker 2: wife after you made her mad, are you okay? And
- 12:11Speaker 2: she drops, I'm fine. That's her saying, I'm fine for
- 12:15Speaker 2: two minutes and 18 seconds. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.
- 12:18Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm looking after my kids. I'm fine.
- 12:22Speaker 2: I'm fine. I'm not old. I'm fine. It was two
- 12:27Speaker 2: minutes and 18 seconds of I'm fine. And you're like, um,
- 12:32Speaker 2: I know that you're not fine.
- 12:35Speaker 5: I think my personal favorite part of that though, is
- 12:37Speaker 5: when he goes, he goes, I'm 27. I'm not 30.
- 12:40Speaker 5: I'm not even close to 30. Yeah, I remember playing
- 12:42Speaker 5: that game, JK.
- 12:45Speaker 3: I remember that.
- 12:45Speaker 5: Oh, I'm 28. I'm still a spring chicken. 30 may
- 12:48Speaker 5: as well be a century away. I remember that, JK.
- 12:51Speaker 5: I've been there, brother.
- 12:52Speaker 2: Nelly, my birthday's in December, okay? It's right around his birthday.
- 12:57Speaker 2: I'm 36. I'll be 37. Guess what? I'm 40, okay?
- 12:59Speaker 2: I'll be 37.
- 13:00Speaker 4: I'm 40, okay?
- 13:01Speaker 2: I am a 40-year-old way before I would be a 30-year-old.
- 13:10Speaker 2: I'm a 50-year-old is what I feel like before I'd
- 13:12Speaker 2: be a 30-year-old. But you're very clearly upset about something,
- 13:19Speaker 2: and we all know what it is, because we saw it.
- 13:23Speaker 2: And I can tell in the way that you're speaking.
- 13:29Speaker 2: I also feel bad. I think that when he looks
- 13:36Speaker 2: back on what his career has been, He is just
- 13:39Speaker 2: going to have a giant what if thing. And that's
- 13:42Speaker 2: where I feel really bad for him. It's what if
- 13:44Speaker 2: I didn't get hurt? What if the knee didn't go?
- 13:47Speaker 2: What if this didn't happen? What if I didn't get
- 13:49Speaker 2: the Liz Frank last year? What if I didn't? It's
- 13:52Speaker 2: just going to be a lot of that. And again,
- 13:54Speaker 2: I like J.K. Dobbins a lot. I thought last year
- 13:59Speaker 2: he was sort of a linchpin. Like if he was
- 14:01Speaker 2: playing in the AFC championship game, even with Jared Stidham in,
- 14:06Speaker 2: I think you had a much better shot. At making
- 14:09Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. But I think we all know that
- 14:17Speaker 2: your feature back is now going to be Jonah Coleman.
- 14:22Speaker 2: So 303-504-0925 against a Bud Light football Friday back after this.
- 14:25Speaker 2: This song always confuses me. Why did people make a
- 14:27Speaker 2: song about Mo Bamba again? What happened there?
- 14:31Speaker 7: I don't know.
- 14:31Speaker 3: Who's Sheck Wes? What was his deal with Mo Bamba?
- 14:36Speaker 2: Because Mo Bamba, he was like a really big prospect
- 14:39Speaker 2: at Texas, right?
- 14:42Speaker 4: And then.
- 14:44Speaker 2: Sort of one of those freakish guys, seven-footer, you know, huge,
- 14:51Speaker 2: made a song about him because he was like super cool.
- 14:54Speaker 2: He was a Texas kid. I just, I don't know
- 14:57Speaker 2: how this song got so big. Anyway.
- 14:58Speaker 5: Well, and also, I'll tell you what, if you're Mo Bamba,
- 15:01Speaker 5: you owe Shaq West a few soda pops because- let's
- 15:05Speaker 5: be real. That's the only reason I know who Mo
- 15:07Speaker 5: Bamba is, is because this song blew up, I think,
- 15:09Speaker 5: right after I got out of college, and it was everywhere.
- 15:12Speaker 5: Marching bands were playing it in the stands, and everybody goes, oh, okay,
- 15:15Speaker 5: I guess I gotta remember Mo Bamba. I mean, I
- 15:17Speaker 5: don't think his NBA career was, still is, as noteworthy
- 15:21Speaker 5: as you would expect from how hyped he was as
- 15:24Speaker 5: a prospect, right?
- 15:25Speaker 2: A very underwhelming NBA career, yes, but he's still in
- 15:30Speaker 2: the league. I mean, he's playing for Utah right now. Um,
- 15:35Speaker 2: But yes, very unremarkable for sure. Now, I, heading into
- 15:42Speaker 2: this game, am almost uncomfortable with a confidence that I
- 15:51Speaker 2: feel in this weekend. And I don't want it to
- 15:59Speaker 2: be like some sort of disrespect to Kansas City because
- 16:01Speaker 2: that's not it. it's a combo of how I feel
- 16:04Speaker 2: about the Broncos defense going against their offense. Now, the
- 16:09Speaker 2: one thing that I don't know, because we, we never
- 16:11Speaker 2: know is what, what is the Broncos offense going to do?
- 16:17Speaker 2: And I want to believe that last week was sort
- 16:24Speaker 2: of turning a bit of a corner. I just don't know.
- 16:29Speaker 2: I can't guarantee that's the case. Um, if you tell
- 16:33Speaker 2: me that Bo Nix looks more comfortable this week, I
- 16:38Speaker 2: feel really good about it. You know, the, the big
- 16:41Speaker 2: factors here are who's going to be in and out
- 16:44Speaker 2: of the lineup, whether it's Zach Allen and Jalen Waddle
- 16:49Speaker 2: and guys like that, they're going to be the difference
- 16:52Speaker 2: makers in this game. If you tell me that Zach
- 16:54Speaker 2: Allen can't go that, that throws a sort of gigantic, um,
- 17:02Speaker 2: wrench in how I feel about this game. Now, the
- 17:05Speaker 2: good news is Jalen Waddle and Zach Allen went from
- 17:09Speaker 2: did not practice on Wednesday to at least limited on Thursday.
- 17:14Speaker 2: There's no guarantee of anything. Hufang is still going to
- 17:18Speaker 2: be out. Sertan's got back-to-back full practice days. I would
- 17:22Speaker 2: assume that he's going to be a go. RJ Harvey
- 17:27Speaker 2: showing up on the injury report yesterday with a knee injury.
- 17:30Speaker 2: Him being limited is a little bit cause for concern.
- 17:33Speaker 2: But I think the Chiefs are pretty much dealing with
- 17:39Speaker 2: a full deck now. I don't know if they're going
- 17:41Speaker 2: to have really anybody that's out of the lineup in
- 17:43Speaker 2: this game. But let's just work under the assumption that
- 17:49Speaker 2: Zach Allen's going to be a go. I just feel
- 17:55Speaker 2: like the Broncos, are first of all going to tackle
- 18:02Speaker 2: way better than they did in the first game because
- 18:03Speaker 2: they can't do any worse. But they'll be able to
- 18:07Speaker 2: limit a Kenneth Walker lead rushing attack. I think that
- 18:15Speaker 2: Vance Joseph, who if you guys missed it, he has
- 18:18Speaker 2: been showing clip after clip after clip to that Broncos
- 18:22Speaker 2: defense from the first week, trying to get them almost
- 18:25Speaker 2: embarrassed with their performance. At least that's what Nick Benito said.
- 18:28Speaker 4: I mean, B.J.
- 18:29Speaker 3: Was like the main one.
- 18:30Speaker 7: I mean, he's still like, damn near wants to throw
- 18:33Speaker 7: up every time he has to look back at that
- 18:34Speaker 7: week one film.
- 18:35Speaker 2: And it's because he knows that's.
- 18:36Speaker 7: Not our type of football that he's used to seeing.
- 18:40Speaker 7: He wants us to be as prepared as possible, whether
- 18:42Speaker 7: it's tackling this week and being able to get our
- 18:44Speaker 7: bodies on guys in practice. And I think he'll have
- 18:47Speaker 7: us ready to play for sure.
- 18:48Speaker 5: What was that debrief like after week.
- 18:50Speaker 7: One with B.J.? It wasn't good, I'll tell you that much.
- 18:53Speaker 7: I mean, it's like... X's and O's, he gets it.
- 18:57Speaker 7: But when it comes to just physicality and putting your
- 18:59Speaker 7: body on somebody, he's not letting that go. And I
- 19:02Speaker 7: don't think he will be until we're able to show
- 19:04Speaker 7: that against his team this week.
- 19:06Speaker 2: So I think they're going to come out incredibly motivated. Now,
- 19:09Speaker 2: I would tell you that I think the entire key
- 19:11Speaker 2: to winning this game rests on the defense. Even if
- 19:15Speaker 2: the Broncos' offense is turned a corner, Kansas City's defense
- 19:17Speaker 2: is fine. They'll be able to limit some things that
- 19:21Speaker 2: you want to do. And the Broncos haven't shown that
- 19:23Speaker 2: they're good enough to overcome really anybody defensively. They sort
- 19:28Speaker 2: of did it last week against Arizona, but even still,
- 19:31Speaker 2: that was just by NFL standards in okay performance. This
- 19:41Speaker 2: game is going to have to be won with your
- 19:45Speaker 2: defense showing up and balling out. And I think that
- 19:49Speaker 2: they have every capability to do it. I think that
- 19:51Speaker 2: the math changes if Zach Allen doesn't go, but let's
- 19:54Speaker 2: just assume that he does for argument's sake. I think
- 19:58Speaker 2: VJ is going to have a game plan that will
- 20:01Speaker 2: stop much in the same way that Seattle did the
- 20:04Speaker 2: rushing attack, or at least limit that. from Kenneth Walker.
- 20:08Speaker 2: Maybe it's not 14 carries for 36 yards, but it's
- 20:11Speaker 2: like under 100. And I think as long as you
- 20:15Speaker 2: do that, and as weird as this is to say
- 20:18Speaker 2: out loud, you force Kansas City to throw the football,
- 20:22Speaker 2: even though they have Patrick Mahomes, I don't think they
- 20:25Speaker 2: have the requisite weapons outside of him to make enough
- 20:30Speaker 2: plays to win this game. Especially going against a secondary
- 20:34Speaker 2: that's one of the best, if not the best in
- 20:35Speaker 2: the NFL. Sertan being back changes that math a lot.
- 20:42Speaker 2: Moss is having a great year. I know that people
- 20:46Speaker 2: still have like PTSD about Travis Kelsey. I don't think
- 20:49Speaker 2: that Travis Kelsey is athletic enough to really hurt you.
- 20:53Speaker 2: But he had a 50-yard catch in the first game. Yeah,
- 20:56Speaker 2: so what? You couldn't tackle. Like, have you guys watched
- 21:01Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey run this year? It hurts me to watch him.
- 21:07Speaker 2: It looks like his entire body hurts with every step
- 21:10Speaker 2: that he takes. Every step you take. I need stem
- 21:18Speaker 2: and ice. That's him.
- 21:21Speaker 5: I think it was you who said he reminds you
- 21:23Speaker 5: of Jason Witten when he came back from Cowboys for
- 21:26Speaker 5: one year.
- 21:27Speaker 3: You were like, oh, God, man.
- 21:30Speaker 2: You know that bit that Shane Gillis has about seeing
- 21:32Speaker 2: a 14-year-old dog walking into the room? Your buddy's a
- 21:34Speaker 2: 14-year-old dog. You're like, oh, there he is. Yeah. Hey, buddy.
- 21:38Speaker 2: How are you? That's how I felt watching Jason Witten.
- 21:40Speaker 2: That's how I feel watching Travis Kelsey. I'm like, oh, yeah,
- 21:42Speaker 2: there's that really good tight end.
- 21:44Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 21:45Speaker 2: Ow. That looks like everything hurts you. You've seen it.
- 21:50Speaker 2: You've seen people just at the grocery store that walk,
- 21:53Speaker 2: and you can tell they're walking in pain, and you
- 21:57Speaker 2: have this, like, pity. that you feel like, gosh, that
- 22:01Speaker 2: looks terrible. That's how I feel watching Travis Kelsey. Don't
- 22:07Speaker 2: give me some sort of like, give me a highlight
- 22:10Speaker 2: from Travis Kelsey this year where he's just running. And
- 22:14Speaker 2: I want you all to look at Travis Kelsey and
- 22:16Speaker 2: be like, tell me that does not look like an
- 22:19Speaker 2: old man who needs years of physical therapy to fix himself.
- 22:25Speaker 2: He just can't move like he used to. And he
- 22:29Speaker 2: was in much the same way. You know, Gronk got
- 22:32Speaker 2: this way towards the end of his career in Tampa, too,
- 22:35Speaker 2: under Tom Brady. Like, those guys take a lot of hits.
- 22:39Speaker 2: And they're big bodies. But there was an explosiveness to
- 22:44Speaker 2: the Chiefs offense that was centered around Travis Kelsey. And
- 22:49Speaker 2: if you guys remember, when they had that thing really
- 22:52Speaker 2: humming with him and Tyreek Hill and then Tyreek Leaves,
- 22:56Speaker 2: And everybody's like, well, how are you going to deal
- 22:57Speaker 2: with not having the explosive Tyreek Hill in this offense anymore?
- 23:00Speaker 2: The answer was always and will always be, well, we
- 23:03Speaker 2: have one of the best tight ends in the history
- 23:05Speaker 2: of the league. That's how. Because that is the thing
- 23:09Speaker 2: that makes that go. Tom Brady went through Julian Edelman's
- 23:14Speaker 2: and Danny Amendola's and who was the rugby dude? Chris Hogan's.
- 23:23Speaker 2: It didn't matter who was playing wide receiver. Wes Welker,
- 23:29Speaker 2: Deion Branch, Troy Brown, didn't matter who was playing wide receiver.
- 23:33Speaker 3: Why?
- 23:34Speaker 2: Because the tight end was the only thing that mattered.
- 23:38Speaker 2: As long as Gronk was there, and before all the
- 23:42Speaker 2: craziness happened with Aaron Hernandez, when you had both of them,
- 23:46Speaker 2: that was the Patriots' offense. Running backs interchangeable. Wide receivers interchangeable.
- 23:52Speaker 2: You get Randy Moss for a couple of years. Yeah,
- 23:54Speaker 2: that thing takes off because finally you got a wide
- 23:56Speaker 2: out that's legit. But still, it centers around, man, this
- 24:01Speaker 2: tight end's impossible to stop. And as Travis Kelsey has aged,
- 24:08Speaker 2: the Chiefs offense has aged. And I think you've seen
- 24:13Speaker 2: it on full display. The Chiefs are 5-1. I want
- 24:16Speaker 2: you to, if you've been watching some Chiefs games this year,
- 24:20Speaker 2: look at the demeanor of Patrick Mahomes on the sideline.
- 24:23Speaker 2: He's been upset a lot. A lot. And I think
- 24:28Speaker 2: it's because he knows that they can't get this passing
- 24:30Speaker 2: game going the way they want to. I feel like
- 24:33Speaker 2: I'm better than Patrick Mahomes. You are not, Daryl Doucette.
- 24:39Speaker 2: You certainly are not. If you remove, how about this, man?
- 24:51Speaker 2: If they did not acquire Kenneth Walker this offseason and
- 24:55Speaker 2: they ran it back with the guys that they had
- 24:57Speaker 2: last year that were, who was it? Was Kareem Hunt
- 25:00Speaker 2: their leading rusher last year? Let me see real quick.
- 25:05Speaker 2: So last year, their leading rusher was Kareem Hunt. After
- 25:09Speaker 2: that is Isaiah Pacheco. They had a guy called Brashard
- 25:13Speaker 2: Smith that had 44 carries. If they had that rushing
- 25:20Speaker 2: attack last season, I think the Chiefs are legitimately a
- 25:23Speaker 2: sub 500 team. Like they are being carried right now
- 25:30Speaker 2: by a star running back. And if teams with good
- 25:34Speaker 2: secondaries like the Broncos have can figure out a way
- 25:37Speaker 2: to entirely limit him, basically sell out to stop the run,
- 25:42Speaker 2: And say, so if you guys throw the ball, who
- 25:47Speaker 2: are you throwing it to? Is it Xavier Worthy, who
- 25:50Speaker 2: has done nothing since he's gotten in this league? Is
- 25:53Speaker 2: it Cyrus Allen? Jalen? Literally, I'm going to say some names.
- 25:59Speaker 2: You tell me which names I've made up. Cyrus Allen.
- 26:06Speaker 2: You heard him?
- 26:08Speaker 5: I went to see you with a Cyrus Allen. He's
- 26:10Speaker 5: a producer at Nine News right now. Is that the
- 26:12Speaker 5: guy you're talking about?
- 26:13Speaker 2: Might be. They're looking for wideouts. How about Jalen Royals?
- 26:17Speaker 2: You heard of him?
- 26:20Speaker 5: Is that a name Scott Hastings would talk about? That
- 26:22Speaker 5: Jalen's Royals over there.
- 26:24Speaker 2: How about Austin Johnson? You heard of him, Nelly?
- 26:31Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he was like a friend on Full
- 26:34Speaker 5: House or something. He sounds like a generic sitcom actor.
- 26:37Speaker 2: Well, that's funny because I made his name up because
- 26:38Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter who we're talking about.
- 26:42Speaker 2: If they get Rasheed Rice back this week, maybe that
- 26:45Speaker 2: makes it a little bit different. The point is they
- 26:47Speaker 2: have nothing in the pass game to throw to. And that's,
- 26:51Speaker 2: I guarantee, why Patrick Mahomes is frustrated this year. Completions
- 26:59Speaker 2: to wide receivers this season, they have one wide receiver
- 27:03Speaker 2: who's gotten more than 13 catches. And that's Xavier Worthy
- 27:07Speaker 2: with 24. You can sell out to stop the run
- 27:12Speaker 2: like the Seahawks did and dare them to throw the
- 27:16Speaker 2: ball to Andrew Armstrong, which is not a name that
- 27:21Speaker 2: I made up. Dare them. You have one of the
- 27:29Speaker 2: best defenses in the NFL. You have the best secondary
- 27:31Speaker 2: in the NFL. Even without Hufanga. Pat Sertan is back.
- 27:37Speaker 2: One side of the field is completely shut down. Like,
- 27:44Speaker 2: I cannot wait for the matchup between the Chiefs offense
- 27:47Speaker 2: and the Broncos defense. Because I think that Vance Joseph
- 27:53Speaker 2: is going to do a number on this team. And
- 27:55Speaker 2: that's why I'm so confident. As much as I have
- 27:57Speaker 2: no idea what the Broncos offense is going to do
- 28:00Speaker 2: this week, I have full faith that the Broncos defense
- 28:09Speaker 2: is going to put on a show. Now, fingers crossed,
- 28:16Speaker 2: Zach Allen's a part of that because if he's not,
- 28:19Speaker 2: it does change the math. But either way, I think
- 28:25Speaker 2: that Vance Joseph is going to have something dialed up
- 28:27Speaker 2: for this Chiefs offense that is just going to throw
- 28:34Speaker 2: him for a loop. So a texture says, so when
- 28:39Speaker 2: Kansas City comes in and beats Denver 24-10 because our
- 28:43Speaker 2: offense sucks, come Monday, you suck.
- 28:45Speaker 4: Okay.
- 28:45Speaker 1: Okay.
- 28:48Speaker 2: Look, I can only tell you what I think, okay?
- 28:50Speaker 2: These are my opinions. I'm not saying I'm right on everything.
- 28:52Speaker 2: It's what I think. And I just have full faith
- 28:56Speaker 2: that this Broncos defense is like not... The first game
- 29:02Speaker 2: of the year was.
- 29:06Speaker 2: It was so bizarre that there's literally nothing I take
- 29:11Speaker 2: away from that game.
- 29:12Speaker 4: Nothing.
- 29:13Speaker 2: Because none of it was real. I'm convinced. It was
- 29:15Speaker 2: a glitch in the matrix. It was somebody, if we're
- 29:20Speaker 2: in somebody's video game, well, somebody had the controller and
- 29:23Speaker 2: they were like reaching over and messing with the guy's
- 29:27Speaker 2: hand or something like that, that entire game when they're
- 29:30Speaker 2: playing on defense. That was it. But I take nothing,
- 29:36Speaker 2: nothing from that opening game because I just, there's nothing to,
- 29:42Speaker 2: there's nothing from that film that applies to this. Because
- 29:47Speaker 2: that week was a mirage. Or I'm sorry, as DMACC
- 29:52Speaker 2: would call it, a charade. That's all a charade. It's
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- 30:20Speaker 3: Mark Mosher is a terrible beekeeper.
- 30:23Speaker 5: Mark Mosher doesn't know how to keep bees alive, that is.
- 30:27Speaker 5: He killed his entire hive. What other skeletons does Mark
- 30:31Speaker 5: Mosher have in his closet? Mark Mosher, bad for bees,
- 30:35Speaker 5: bad for Colorado.
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- 30:41Speaker 2: All right, Nuggets and Suns tonight. I think for the Nuggets,
- 30:45Speaker 2: we don't know what the statuses are for some of
- 30:47Speaker 2: these players in this game. I don't know what the
- 30:49Speaker 2: health status is for Cam Johnson or Spencer Jones or
- 30:52Speaker 2: Alpha Diallo or whoever. Strother's going to be out for
- 30:55Speaker 2: a while. Those guys all seem to be sort of
- 30:57Speaker 2: game to game right now. But the Nuggets taking on
- 31:03Speaker 2: the Suns later tonight at 8 o'clock. I think the
- 31:09Speaker 2: strategy for them should be the same thing that it
- 31:11Speaker 2: was in the last game. And I kind of like,
- 31:13Speaker 2: you know, Vic pointed this out yesterday, and I think
- 31:16Speaker 2: he's right about this. Defensively, they've had like two good
- 31:22Speaker 2: defensive games and two bad defensive games. What they did
- 31:29Speaker 2: in the last matchup against the Pelicans was You kind
- 31:35Speaker 2: of shadowed Joker whenever he was on the floor with
- 31:38Speaker 2: somebody else that was big and athletic, whether that is
- 31:42Speaker 2: Trevin Brazil or that's Marvin Bagley or whoever. And I
- 31:46Speaker 2: think what that did, it gave you a lot more
- 31:49Speaker 2: of a presence at the rim. A big problem for
- 31:52Speaker 2: the Nuggets is that people just, you don't have perimeter
- 31:56Speaker 2: defenders that can stay in front of guys and not
- 31:58Speaker 2: allow drives to the rack. And when that happens... Joker
- 32:03Speaker 2: is put in a bad position of he's not a
- 32:06Speaker 2: rim protector, so he either needs to go up and
- 32:16Speaker 2: attempt to get in the way of the guy and
- 32:18Speaker 2: risk getting in foul trouble, as he did in that
- 32:21Speaker 2: last game. He had three fouls like midway through the
- 32:24Speaker 2: second quarter.
- 32:26Speaker 4: Or he.
- 32:28Speaker 2: Just kind of gives him a blow by and it's like, yeah,
- 32:31Speaker 2: I'll get my hands up, but I'm not really going
- 32:33Speaker 2: to get in the way and concede an easy layup.
- 32:36Speaker 2: You just put him in a very tough position. Now,
- 32:39Speaker 2: if you have somebody like a Trevin Brazil or Marvin Bagley,
- 32:41Speaker 2: that's also down low that can help in situations like that,
- 32:45Speaker 2: it changes it. And I think it makes it a
- 32:48Speaker 2: lot more viable for defense at the rim. And it's
- 32:52Speaker 2: something they should continue to do. Like part of this is,
- 32:56Speaker 2: I think that you keep Trevin Brazil in the starting lineup.
- 32:59Speaker 2: And if he continues to play the way that he's
- 33:01Speaker 2: been playing, when Cam Johnson does come back, Cam Johnson
- 33:05Speaker 2: maybe becomes a shooter that comes off the bench. Maybe
- 33:11Speaker 2: that's now his role. Because I like the way that
- 33:15Speaker 2: it's set up having help for Joker, especially around the rim.
- 33:22Speaker 2: And look, the Phoenix Suns are a mess. The season's
- 33:25Speaker 2: just started and they're having inner turmoil stuff already. You know,
- 33:31Speaker 2: that's a team that just a couple of years ago
- 33:34Speaker 2: had Devin Booker and Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal and
- 33:38Speaker 2: all these different guys, and that's been totally flipped. Booker's
- 33:42Speaker 2: the only one still there. Now, they got Jalen Green
- 33:46Speaker 2: in the trade, but Jalen Green, good player. Three-point shooting
- 33:53Speaker 2: hasn't been great for him really throughout his NBA career.
- 33:57Speaker 2: They got Miles Bridges. They got Dylan Brooks. Like, they
- 34:03Speaker 2: got guys who are okay. But there's something that's off
- 34:06Speaker 2: chemistry-wise with that team. You should be able to take
- 34:11Speaker 2: full advantage of them. They're 1-2 to start the year.
- 34:14Speaker 2: They lost to the Blazers and the Thunder, but they
- 34:16Speaker 2: did beat the Warriors. The game tonight, as the Nuggets
- 34:20Speaker 2: go on the road, they're 4.5-point favorites. This should be
- 34:26Speaker 2: fully expected, I think, for the Nuggets to get a win,
- 34:28Speaker 2: but I want to see them continue what they did
- 34:31Speaker 2: in their last game against the Pelicans and have some
- 34:33Speaker 2: consistency night over night. By the way, it's a Bud
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- 34:38Speaker 2: the Denver Broncos. Remember to enjoy responsibly. It should just
- 34:42Speaker 2: be a game in which I think they take care
- 34:48Speaker 2: of business, and it shouldn't look like it's going to
- 34:51Speaker 2: take too much exertion in doing so. Texture says we
- 34:59Speaker 2: need shooters in the starting five. Brazil is a bench guy.
- 35:02Speaker 2: We're giving him too much praise at this point. Here's
- 35:04Speaker 2: the thing. I'm not saying that Trevin Brazil is the
- 35:10Speaker 2: second coming of whoever, okay? Like, there's a lot that
- 35:14Speaker 2: that guy still has to prove. There's one thing that's
- 35:17Speaker 2: for certain through four games with Trevin Brazil. Unquestionable. Trevin
- 35:21Speaker 2: Brazil is a pogo stick. He's 6'10, with a 41-inch vertical,
- 35:30Speaker 2: and that, on the defensive side of the basketball, is
- 35:37Speaker 2: an amazing thing to have. In some ways, it's a
- 35:43Speaker 2: better version of what Peyton Watson was on the defensive side.
- 35:47Speaker 2: You know how P. Watt, when he was here last year,
- 35:50Speaker 2: last couple years, would do that thing where somebody's open
- 35:54Speaker 2: for a corner three, and he would take one step, jump,
- 35:57Speaker 2: and extend his hand out and barely get a fingertip
- 35:59Speaker 2: on it. And you're like, how in the world did
- 36:01Speaker 2: he get a hand on that basketball? Now, imagine a
- 36:04Speaker 2: couple inches higher with even more of a vertical. Because
- 36:07Speaker 2: that's what Trevon Brazil is. And I think this team,
- 36:10Speaker 2: this is the realization I've come to. They led the
- 36:13Speaker 2: league in offense last year. You got bounced in the
- 36:17Speaker 2: first round. Didn't matter. This team plays its best when
- 36:22Speaker 2: they're focused on the defensive side. And whatever you thought
- 36:25Speaker 2: about Mike Malone, that is what he preached. They could
- 36:30Speaker 2: win a game 135 to 131 and Mike Malone would
- 36:33Speaker 2: be pissed because he's like, we aren't giving up 130 points.
- 36:40Speaker 2: The focus of this team, they won a championship with
- 36:45Speaker 2: not being able to shoot the basketball. They won multiple
- 36:49Speaker 2: playoff games during their championship run a few years ago
- 36:52Speaker 2: where they made like three threes because they dominated on
- 36:56Speaker 2: the defensive side and they're a really good mid-range to
- 37:01Speaker 2: at-the-rim team. And the core of that has not changed.
- 37:05Speaker 2: It's still what they are. The ancillary pieces around them,
- 37:10Speaker 2: talking strictly offense here, Okay, Michael Porter Jr. gets subbed
- 37:15Speaker 2: out for Cam Johnson. Largely the same type of player.
- 37:17Speaker 2: I'm going to stand on the outside at the perimeter,
- 37:19Speaker 2: wait for a dribble drive, kick out, I hit the
- 37:21Speaker 2: open three. Like, that's how they were built then. It
- 37:25Speaker 2: looks like it's how they're built now. I would sacrifice
- 37:28Speaker 2: that part of it in the starting five if you
- 37:31Speaker 2: told me that you get a defensive boost and help
- 37:40Speaker 2: in the interior of your defense and help for Joker
- 37:43Speaker 2: defensively With a Trevin Brazil roaming around or a Marvin Bagley,
- 37:49Speaker 2: guys with size and athleticism. The focus for this team
- 37:54Speaker 2: should be defensively. We're going to focus on that first
- 38:01Speaker 2: because a lot of times with this Nuggets team, defense
- 38:05Speaker 2: leads to offense. It's why Christian Brown got paid a
- 38:08Speaker 2: big contract. When you play good defense and you got
- 38:10Speaker 2: out in transition, he was a monster in transition. And
- 38:18Speaker 2: I just, over the last few years, people have been
- 38:20Speaker 2: talking about they need to find three-point shooting. This is
- 38:24Speaker 2: a three-point shooting league. I'm like, why? They won plenty
- 38:27Speaker 2: of basketball games playing their style of basketball that suited
- 38:30Speaker 2: them best. Why not just double down on that? Yes,
- 38:35Speaker 2: you need to hit threes, but it'll come. And I've
- 38:39Speaker 2: seen them win plenty of games where they can't shoot
- 38:41Speaker 2: because they played good defense and they dominated the interior
- 38:44Speaker 2: on the offensive side. So, that game's at 8 o'clock tonight. Pre-game, 7.30,
- 38:51Speaker 2: powered by Ramos Law. Tip-off shortly after 8 o'clock, and
- 38:55Speaker 2: it's all right here on 92.5. Nelly, you want to
- 38:58Speaker 2: sing for me? Come on, everybody. Going back around. Let's
- 39:20Speaker 2: do one more. And his bed. We do it every
- 39:33Speaker 2: week heading into the football weekend. It is Brady and
- 39:39Speaker 2: his bets. I give you a lock of the week
- 39:40Speaker 2: and I give you in underdog of the week. Now
- 39:43Speaker 2: it could be in college football or in the NFL.
- 39:46Speaker 2: I I'm, Almost scared. I'm almost terrified to do this.
- 39:55Speaker 2: But I actually think CU, who's a pick-em right now
- 40:00Speaker 2: with Kansas State, Kansas State doesn't have a quarterback. Avery
- 40:04Speaker 2: Johnson is not going to play. Kansas State has had
- 40:07Speaker 2: a hard enough time scoring this year, even with a
- 40:11Speaker 2: healthy Avery Johnson. I think with Deion's back against the wall,
- 40:16Speaker 2: with his program's back against the wall, Do I dare?
- 40:21Speaker 2: Even though it's a pick-em. I'm going to call this
- 40:22Speaker 2: the underdog of the week. I think I'm going to
- 40:25Speaker 2: take CU to win. I don't think that Kansas State
- 40:29Speaker 2: has a guy who can move the ball forward at quarterback.
- 40:31Speaker 2: I really don't. And at least CU has some guys.
- 40:36Speaker 2: You know, Williams at wide receiver. He's got 640 yards
- 40:39Speaker 2: this year. I think he can get it done. And
- 40:41Speaker 2: then I'll go to the NFL for a favorite this weekend.
- 40:46Speaker 2: It's tough to find games like this that I really like,
- 40:51Speaker 2: but I think, do I dare? Two teams that have
- 40:59Speaker 2: completely underwhelmed this season between the Chargers and the Rams.
- 41:02Speaker 2: The Rams are six and a half point favorites. I'm
- 41:05Speaker 2: going to assume that the Rams are going to be
- 41:06Speaker 2: out for blood against their team that shares the town
- 41:09Speaker 2: with them. I think the Rams win this game by
- 41:13Speaker 2: a touchdown. So you get the Rams and God forbid.
- 41:18Speaker 4: See you.
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