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Speaker 1: I get everybody on dan Board and thanks for downloading
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Speaker 1: The Bengals Booth podcast The Rocky Mountain. We addition as
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Speaker 1: the Bengals head to Colorado for a Monday Night matchup
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Speaker 1: with the Denver Broncos. This week's game is on ESPN
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Speaker 1: and I'll talk to the voice of Monday Night Football,
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Speaker 1: Joe Buck. My one on one player interview is with
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Speaker 1: Jake Browning as we discuss the challenging life of a
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Speaker 1: backup quarterback. And in our nother faux segment, we'll get
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Speaker 1: the inside scoop on the one in two Broncos from
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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. It's the greatest thing since Rudy Johnson,
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Speaker 1: the former Bengals running back, passed away this week at
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Speaker 1: the age of forty five. I was working in local
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Speaker 1: TV when Rudy played for Cincinnati, and I think you
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Speaker 1: can make a strong case that he is the most
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Speaker 1: underrated player in team history prior to this week. If
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Speaker 1: you asked one hundred Bengals fans who holds the team
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Speaker 1: record for rushing yards in a season, I think the
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Speaker 1: overwhelming majority would have said Corey Dillon. And if they
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Speaker 1: were told that was incorrect, and I guess again, I
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Speaker 1: suspect their next choice would have been Joe Mixon or
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Speaker 1: James Brooks. The correct answer, of course, is Rudy Johnson,
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Speaker 1: who set the team record with four hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: eight rushing yards in two thousand and five. That was
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Speaker 1: four yards more than the team record he had set
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Speaker 1: one year earlier, so Rudy actually has the top two
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Speaker 1: spots in the record book. He also holds the team
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Speaker 1: record for carries in a game with a mind boggling
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Speaker 1: forty three. That's tied for second most in NFL history,
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Speaker 1: behind Washington's Jamie Morris, who ran the ball forty five
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Speaker 1: times in a loss to the Bengals in nineteen ninety eight.
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Speaker 1: In the words of team president Mike Brown, quote, Rudy
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Speaker 1: was a fine person and an excellent running back. He
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Speaker 1: was dependable and productive as a player, and very popular
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Speaker 1: among his teammates. Everyone liked him and saw him as
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Speaker 1: a dear friend. We are deeply saddened by his passing. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's get to my first guest. Who will be in
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Speaker 1: the National TV booth on Monday night in Denver. It's
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Speaker 1: the Bengals and Broncos on Monday Night Football. And it
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Speaker 1: is great to catch up with a guy I first
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Speaker 1: met when we were broadcasting minor league baseball games many
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Speaker 1: many years ago. ESPN's Joe Buck. Joe, you were behind
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Speaker 1: the mic two years ago for Jake Browning's second NFL start.
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Speaker 1: I call it the Jake Browning Game. He completed more
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Speaker 1: than eighty six percent of his passes in an upset
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Speaker 1: win in Jacksonville. What do you remember about that night?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's like the Michael Jordan game, the
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Speaker 2: Flu game. It just gets a new name. Troy and I,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. Halfway through that thing, we're like, damn,
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Speaker 2: this guy's good. Like he looked fantastic, and there have
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Speaker 2: been It wasn't just that. I mean there have been
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Speaker 2: other games and other moments. I know, you guys are
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Speaker 2: coming off a bad one at Minnesota, but you're two
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Speaker 2: and one and you want to flush it. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think there's a very basic scale that you can
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Speaker 2: judge these guys on, and it comes down to can
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Speaker 2: they play or can they not play? And I think
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Speaker 2: we both walked out of the booth that night like
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Speaker 2: this guy can play. He's got something to him. There's
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Speaker 2: something different about him than the typical guy coming in
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Speaker 2: who's basically been standing there holding the clipboard and who
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Speaker 2: I'm sure probably hopes is not going to come in.
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Speaker 2: I felt like he was confident. He looked like the
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Speaker 2: team was his. I think that's another scale too, It's like,
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Speaker 2: does it look like the guys around him are excited
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Speaker 2: to play with and for him? And I think the
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Speaker 2: answer was a resounding yes in that game. And I'm
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Speaker 2: fully expecting he and they to come out and look
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Speaker 2: a lot different than they did in Minneapolis when we
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Speaker 2: all get to Denver.
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Speaker 1: It was a rough game last week. Did it change
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Speaker 1: your view of the Bengals at all?
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Speaker 2: The current Bengals the Bengals as they are now.
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Speaker 1: No, I.
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Speaker 2: Think this is a team that can definitely hang in there.
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Speaker 2: They can not only survive punches, but deliver them. Troy
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Speaker 2: and I are both and I don't want to speak
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Speaker 2: for him, but I know he would say the same
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Speaker 2: if he were on here and I wasn't. He and
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Speaker 2: I are both big Zach Taylor fans. We had you
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Speaker 2: guys in the preseason that game against the Commanders, and
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Speaker 2: both when Zach hung up on our zoom call, we're
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Speaker 2: both like, you know, we've talked to him a bunch
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Speaker 2: of times, but we had a blast with him. You
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Speaker 2: can tell he's so smart, he's aware of every facet
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Speaker 2: of that team, and we both hung up going. We
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Speaker 2: really liked that guy, and so it's easy to root
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Speaker 2: for somebody like Zach. The biggest fan of Joe Burrows
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Speaker 2: in media is Troy because I think, even though he
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Speaker 2: may or may not admit it, I think Joe reminds
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Speaker 2: Troy of Troy and the way he played the position
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Speaker 2: and the kind of you know, take no prisoners gunslinger confident.
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Speaker 2: I feel that, and so every time we do a
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Speaker 2: game when Joe's in it and I'm like, there he is, Troy,
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Speaker 2: there's your favorite player. And and you know, every time
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Speaker 2: we hang up with Joe Burrow, it's like, well, Joe,
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Speaker 2: you know, we're big fans of yours. That's kind of
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Speaker 2: how we end every conference caller zoom call with with
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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow. So yeah, I feel like there's the shell
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Speaker 2: there and within that, within that casing, there's room there
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Speaker 2: for Jake Browning to do some good things. There's obviously
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Speaker 2: a ton of talent around him, and this team can
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Speaker 2: win with Jake Browning and hopefully, you know, I'm not
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Speaker 2: telling you anything you don't hope for every night before
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Speaker 2: the end of the year Joe Burrow comes back.
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Speaker 1: Are you and Troy flabbergasted by just how rotten Joe
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Speaker 1: Burrow's injury luck has been.
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Speaker 2: It's just a as a football fan. For you don't
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Speaker 2: have to be a Bengals fan or Joe Burrow fan.
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Speaker 2: As a football fan, it's got a crush you. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine what it's like for Bengals fans. I
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Speaker 2: can't imagine what it's like for people who have Joe
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Speaker 2: Burrow on their fantasy team. But beyond that, I just
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Speaker 2: think he makes the league better. He makes the league
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Speaker 2: more interesting. Everybody they play, It's like, Okay, Joe Burrow's
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Speaker 2: on TV tonight or today, I want to watch that game.
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Speaker 2: Because you don't have to be Troy Aikman. You know,
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Speaker 2: you can be just a casual fan and go, Okay,
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Speaker 2: that guy looks different. He's tough, and by the way,
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Speaker 2: that should never be in question. These these are legitimate,
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Speaker 2: big time injuries. He doesn't complain about injuries. I don't
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Speaker 2: feel like he ever gives himself kind of that built
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Speaker 2: in excuse. And you and I both met many athletes
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Speaker 2: in the sports that we've covered that kind of always
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Speaker 2: have that in the back, like, ah, I'm not really
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Speaker 2: feeling that good. I'm you know, in the case of Burrow,
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Speaker 2: the wrist is he never does He never does that.
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Speaker 2: It's it's I'm good enough, I'm ready to go play.
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Speaker 2: So there's never a question of any of that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, I think the casual fan has to be
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Speaker 2: mildly heartbroken that Joe Burrow is not on the field
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Speaker 2: on Monday night or any Sunday or any Thursday.
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Speaker 1: Joe, you noted it. The Bengals are still two and one.
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Speaker 1: They're tied for first in the AFC North. What are
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Speaker 1: some of the things you think they'll need to do
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Speaker 1: to stay in the hunt until Joe hopefully returns sometime
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Speaker 1: in December.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, obviously, and then don't fumble five times
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Speaker 2: and lose three and throw two interceptions and pick sixes
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Speaker 2: and fumble's return for touch. Don't do any of that.
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Speaker 2: That would be a good place to start. But I
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Speaker 2: think find a running game. I mean, the running game
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Speaker 2: has been frustrating to this point. Chase Brown is a
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Speaker 2: really talented running back. We left that preseason game I
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Speaker 2: kind of I drafted on my fantasy team TAJ and
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Speaker 2: kind of stashed him on the bench, thinking, you know,
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Speaker 2: maybe by the end of the year, this guy between
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Speaker 2: the tackles is going to be somebody that I may
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Speaker 2: want to start. Jury's out on that, But I think
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Speaker 2: the ground game and figuring out a way to open
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Speaker 2: up some holes. I don't care if you're Joe Burrow,
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Speaker 2: Joe Montana, Joe Namath or name him. If you can't
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Speaker 2: run the ball, good luck. And we just did the
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Speaker 2: game on Monday night with Jared Goff and with Lamar Jackson.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yes, those are two dynamic quarterbacks. But Lamar's
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Speaker 2: got Derrick Henry, it can run it himself. And Jared
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Speaker 2: Goff's got the best combination in the backfield easily in
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Speaker 2: the NFL with his two running backs, and that's why
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Speaker 2: he's so good off play action. So you know, if
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Speaker 2: you want safeties and linebackers to bite and come up
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Speaker 2: and leave room behind him so that there's room for
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Speaker 2: the great Jamar Chase and T Higgins and Mike Kasicki
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Speaker 2: and everybody else to get behind him, and Browning or
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Speaker 2: anybody else to find him find a running game and
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Speaker 2: that can be the cure to what ails you.
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Speaker 1: Jill. Let's talk about this week's opponent, the Denver Broncos.
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Speaker 1: They're one and two, but they've had the lead in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter in all three games. They lost the
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Speaker 1: last two on walkoff field goals. How do you viewed
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Speaker 1: Denver and some of their strengths heading into this game
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Speaker 1: against Cincinnati.
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Speaker 2: Well, everybody there, I mean, if you read the clips,
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Speaker 2: and I read them every day, the Denver Broncos, according
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Speaker 2: to their sports writers, are the worst team ever assembled.
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Speaker 2: So their defense is very good. They've got an outstanding
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Speaker 2: pass rush, they've got the reigning defensive Player of the
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Speaker 2: Year in Patzertan, you know, as close to a shutdown
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Speaker 2: corner as you can get in the NFL. But offensively Bononix,
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Speaker 2: they're calling a sophomore slump now. They're talking about his footwork,
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Speaker 2: and he's got happy feed and you know, on and
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Speaker 2: on and on. I think we all over and me included,
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Speaker 2: we all over act to three weeks of an NFL season.
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Speaker 2: I think a lot can change between now and the
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Speaker 2: end of the year. And I believe Denver's a good team.
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Speaker 2: I believe they've got a really good head coach. I
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Speaker 2: believe they've got a good young quarterback. He's getting picked
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Speaker 2: on right now in the Denver media. He missed him
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Speaker 2: open throws last week and that's going to happen. And
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Speaker 2: he's still growing and learning. He's in great hands. They're
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Speaker 2: running games a little bit better than Cincinnati's to this point.
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Speaker 2: They've got Courtland Sutton, who's a number one receiver. They've
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Speaker 2: got some good twos and threes behind him. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot to like, but that's not a team that's playing
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Speaker 2: well either. And like you said, they're one and two.
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Speaker 2: You can make an easy case they should be three
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Speaker 2: and zero. They could be oning three. I mean, they
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Speaker 2: have not dominated anybody or been dominated by anybody yet,
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Speaker 2: so I think it's a good matchup. I think it's
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Speaker 2: a pretty evenly split matchup as far as I'm concerned
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Speaker 2: going into the game. But they've got a lot of talent.
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Speaker 2: They've got a coach that'll figure out ways to beat
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Speaker 2: the Cincinnati defense. That's what he does. Sean Payton sits
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Speaker 2: up at night figuring out ways to beat defenses, and
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Speaker 2: I'm sure he'll be doing it for Monday night, so
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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: Joe, what's your Sunday routine? Do you watch the best
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Speaker 1: game of the day? Do you go red zone? Do
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Speaker 1: you watch the team that you're going to have the
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Speaker 1: next week? What do you do on a typical Sunday.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna make every football fan sick, but we kind
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Speaker 2: of create our own little sports bar without the alcohol.
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Speaker 2: We sit in a conference room in our hotel. We
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Speaker 2: have multiple TVs that get trucked in and these poor
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Speaker 2: people that have to put them together and set them
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Speaker 2: up every week. I watch him at the end of
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Speaker 2: our Monday morning meeting, just lugging all this junk down
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Speaker 2: back into the lobby and out of the door. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: we for lack of a better better way to describe it,
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Speaker 2: it's our own red zone. We've got, you know, two
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Speaker 2: big monitors. There's four boxes on each and we can
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Speaker 2: kind of zoom in on a game we want to watch.
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Speaker 2: We don't have handsome yelling at us, but we've got
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Speaker 2: a bunch of people in there. You know, if something catches,
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Speaker 2: I'm in there looking at my board. I'm doing my work,
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Speaker 2: I'm putting stuff on my board, I'm getting ready for
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Speaker 2: the game. And it's like look up, kind of survey it,
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Speaker 2: look down, do it will work? Look up? And then
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Speaker 2: when something happens, it's just good for everybody to be
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Speaker 2: together and to watch it all together to talk about it.
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Speaker 2: It just takes a little bit of the guess work
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Speaker 2: on what we're going to talk about with regard to
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Speaker 2: the rest of the league when Monday night comes, because
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Speaker 2: we're all there together watching it, and I kind of
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Speaker 2: know where Troy's head is on Dallas or Green Bay
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Speaker 2: or you know, right on down the line, and he
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Speaker 2: knows where mine is. And you know, if I've got
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Speaker 2: a question something crosses my mind, or I'm doing my work,
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Speaker 2: and it's you know, when's the last time player X
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Speaker 2: did this. I've got two stat guys or research people
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Speaker 2: sitting there and I can just say it out loud.
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Speaker 2: The answer comes magically to me. It's a pretty darn
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Speaker 2: good setup.
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Speaker 1: That does sound pretty good. Last thing for Joe Buck,
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Speaker 1: You and Troy have had a great partnership for years
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Speaker 1: and years, but it just sounds like you're having such
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Speaker 1: a ball on ESPN. Is it the primetime game? Is
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Speaker 1: that the standalone game? Is there something about Monday that's
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Speaker 1: just brought out the best and YouTube guys together?
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Speaker 2: You know, I think, without going into it too much
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Speaker 2: because it's boring for everybody else, but when Fox had
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Speaker 2: the Thursday game and the Sunday games, and we were
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Speaker 2: doing Thursday Sunday, then Sunday than Thursday Sunday, so I
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Speaker 2: think it forced us to be a little bit more
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Speaker 2: run and gone and not so zeroed in on every
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Speaker 2: detail of every game, which makes you pull back and
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Speaker 2: have a bigger view of everything, which I think leads
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Speaker 2: to more room for personality and fun. And I think
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Speaker 2: then we tap into what we've built over two twenty
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Speaker 2: four years, which is, you know, a good relationship a
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Speaker 2: lot of respect. Knowing where the other person's coming from.
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Speaker 2: I know what's gonna make him laugh. He knows what's
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Speaker 2: gonna make me laugh. And if I can get him
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Speaker 2: to laugh, he's a very intense dude. If I can
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Speaker 2: get him to laugh during the course of the broadcast,
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Speaker 2: I think it makes for a better listen. I think
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Speaker 2: it makes him loosen up and we're in a better spot.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I think. I think what happened during those
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Speaker 2: years we did it for four years, maybe change the
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Speaker 2: way we prepare and then I think ultimately change the
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Speaker 2: way we interact when we're on TV.
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Speaker 1: Joe, this has been great. Look forward to seeing you
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Speaker 1: in Denver, and thanks so much for joining us on
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Speaker 1: this segment.
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Speaker 2: All right, buddy, get to see it.
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Speaker 1: In the last two times the Bengals played on Monday
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Speaker 1: Night Football with a backup quarterback starting the game, they won,
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Speaker 1: there was the Jake Browning game in Jacksonville that I
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Speaker 1: discussed with Joe Buck And if you go back to
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, the two ten and one Bengals beat the
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Speaker 1: eleven and two Pittsburgh Steelers twenty seven to seventeen with
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Speaker 1: Ryan Finley at quarterback. The Bengals were a double digit
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Speaker 1: underdog in both of those games. They are a seven
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Speaker 1: and a half point underdog this week in Denver as
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Speaker 1: Jake Browning makes his ninth NFL start. I sat down
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Speaker 1: with the bengals twenty nine year old QB for an
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Speaker 1: in depth conversation this week. Jake, I got a chuckle
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Speaker 1: last week when you were talking about your seven starts
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three and you use the term delusional confidence.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that's actually a scientifically based thing, which
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Speaker 1: means a level of self confidence despite evidence. Did you
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Speaker 1: have to have delusional confidence to have the success you
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Speaker 1: had two years ago? Uh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I don't mean maybe not scientifically delusional,
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Speaker 3: but uh you know, I'd never really played before and
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Speaker 3: started a game in like olmost five years, and you know,
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Speaker 3: I think I was probably the first person to come
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Speaker 3: off four years on Peace Squad to start some games.
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Speaker 3: And you know, I think step one to winning the
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Speaker 3: game on game days, going into it, feel confident that
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Speaker 3: you're going to perform well. And so you know, when
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Speaker 3: I say delusional, it's probably from outside perspective. But you know,
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Speaker 3: I know I'm a good player. I've shown that up
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Speaker 3: for a long time in practice and training camps and
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, and so, you know, I think from
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Speaker 3: the outside looking in, it might be delusionable for myself,
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Speaker 3: like it's it's rooted in fact that you know, I've
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Speaker 3: put some really good football. I just that was kind
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Speaker 3: of my first chance to actually play.
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Speaker 1: You've got a Monday night game coming up this week.
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Speaker 1: Your second NFL start with a Monday night game in Jacksonville.
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Speaker 1: I call it the Jake Browning Game. You completed more
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Speaker 1: than eighty six percent of your passes in an overtime
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Speaker 1: victory over the Jags. Did that game help you have
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Speaker 1: real confidence at the NFL level?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. I mean I think my first start are
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Speaker 3: getting even thrown in against the Ravens, I know it
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Speaker 3: was kind of garbage time, but felt like operated well.
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Speaker 3: And then the first start, you know, just the chaos
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Speaker 3: of the week and all that, and then kind of
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Speaker 3: having that under my belt and knowing you know what
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Speaker 3: to expect and stuff like that just throughout the week
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Speaker 3: and you know those feelings on game day that you
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Speaker 3: kind of have to go through to prepare yourself for
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Speaker 3: the game. And yeah, I think anytime you actually put
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Speaker 3: it on tape. You know, it's something to fall back on, like, hey,
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Speaker 3: I am capable of doing this, and you never really
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Speaker 3: know until you know.
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Speaker 1: We're visiting with Jake Browning, You and Joe Burrow good friends,
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Speaker 1: you spend a ton of time together. Are you just
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Speaker 1: flabbergasted by his rotten luck when it comes to injuries?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's super unfortunate, you know, as far
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Speaker 3: as outside of that, you know, it's just it's unfortunate.
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Speaker 3: There's not really any other way to put it.
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Speaker 1: What you say to him, what could you say to him?
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Speaker 4: Sucks?
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Speaker 1: I don't.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think one of the the reason we
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Speaker 3: get along is, you know, I kind of know when
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Speaker 3: he wants to be left alone, and I think, you know,
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Speaker 3: something like that happens and you're in a high profile position,
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Speaker 3: like think he knows, like I'm there for my favorite
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Speaker 3: needs anything. But you know, I'm not going to blow
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Speaker 3: him up trying to make sure that he knows that.
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Speaker 3: You know, I said, hope you're feeling better and stuff
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Speaker 3: like that's like, hey, did anything, let me know, but like,
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Speaker 3: good luck with everything. And you know, I think he's
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Speaker 3: got obviously a ton of support. But when it comes
19:26
Speaker 3: to the football side of things. That's kind of where
19:28
Speaker 3: I fall in. We're visiting with Jake Browning. I want
19:30
Speaker 3: to go back to your crazy high school career for
19:32
Speaker 3: a moment. You still hold the national record for most
19:35
Speaker 3: touchdown passes by a high school quarterback. I got to
19:38
Speaker 3: know your tight end Josiadaguara when he was at the
19:41
Speaker 3: University of Cincinnati. He told me once that you didn't
19:43
Speaker 3: really have running plays on your high school team.
19:46
Speaker 1: It was like sometimes you'd scramble or you know, maybe
19:49
Speaker 1: fourth and inches you'd run, but other than that, you
19:51
Speaker 1: were basically passing every play.
19:53
Speaker 3: Was that the case we did actually run the ball,
19:57
Speaker 3: you know, like five sweeps and stuff like that a
19:59
Speaker 3: decent amount. And yeah, I mean we were just think
20:04
Speaker 3: my hometown that by the time you hit high school,
20:07
Speaker 3: you know, like the junior program's really good. We're running
20:09
Speaker 3: the high school's offense. And you know, my senior year,
20:13
Speaker 3: I graduated with probably like at least eight guys that
20:17
Speaker 3: I played with since I was eight years old, and
20:19
Speaker 3: we'd all been playing together for a long time. So
20:21
Speaker 3: you know, I think he gets so many reps and
20:24
Speaker 3: then you know, you look at our coach and hit
20:27
Speaker 3: no business being in high school. We were so much
20:28
Speaker 3: better coach than everybody, it was ridiculous, and just geared
20:31
Speaker 3: everything around hitting that ten thousand hours, and I think
20:34
Speaker 3: we reaped the benefits of that.
20:36
Speaker 1: Your current coach, Zach Taylor, is something of a savant
20:39
Speaker 1: when it comes to highly successful high school quarterbacks. He
20:43
Speaker 1: seems kind of obsessed with it. When you arrived in
20:45
Speaker 1: the building. Did he know all about your days at
20:48
Speaker 1: fulsome high school?
20:49
Speaker 3: I think when I arrived in the building, he knew
20:50
Speaker 3: that I had just come from the Minnesota Vikings facility
20:53
Speaker 3: and they were our week one opponent. I'm not sure
20:55
Speaker 3: how much he really knew outside of that.
21:00
Speaker 1: There. It was out to the University of Washington. You
21:02
Speaker 1: had a great four year career there. You started your
21:05
Speaker 1: first game as a freshman. How nerve racking is that
21:09
Speaker 1: when you're a teenager right out of high school.
21:13
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was my first time on a sideline for
21:15
Speaker 3: a college game and I was starting, and you know,
21:18
Speaker 3: my college coach was Chris Peterson. It was his first
21:20
Speaker 3: time going back to Boise and so it was a
21:23
Speaker 3: primetime game and all that. But yeah, I think you
21:26
Speaker 3: just go into like, I have no idea what this
21:28
Speaker 3: is going to be like, and I don't really know
21:29
Speaker 3: what to expect, but here we go, and yeah, we
21:34
Speaker 3: lost a close game at the end. Ironically, Brett Rippon
21:37
Speaker 3: was on the other team.
21:39
Speaker 1: In some ways, is that more nerve wracking than what
21:41
Speaker 1: you're going to do on Monday Night against the Broncos.
21:45
Speaker 3: I mean, I would say, so, I've played a decent
21:47
Speaker 3: amount of football. Now, I've been in not a crazy
21:51
Speaker 3: amount of stars, but a decent amount of stars. But
21:53
Speaker 3: I've been on the at least I've been on the
21:54
Speaker 3: sideline and kind of know like the rhythm of everything.
21:57
Speaker 3: I mean, I remember I didn't know what a TV
21:59
Speaker 3: time out was because I had never played in college
22:03
Speaker 3: or anything. So I remember the first time I run
22:04
Speaker 3: out there and there's like TV time I'm like, I
22:07
Speaker 3: don't even know what that was. And so, yeah, I
22:10
Speaker 3: would say nerve wracking, probably more so in college just
22:16
Speaker 3: having no experience.
22:18
Speaker 1: During the time you spent on the Vikings practice squad,
22:20
Speaker 1: what did you learn about yourself in terms of where
22:23
Speaker 1: you needed to improve?
22:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, I recreated my entire throwing motion after college. My
22:30
Speaker 3: throwing motion was I was always accurate, but I couldn't
22:32
Speaker 3: really push it down the field. Very far was it
22:35
Speaker 3: was inconsistent a little bit, and so I changed the
22:39
Speaker 3: whole thing. Changed my footwork, I changed my throwing motion,
22:43
Speaker 3: changed my body comp and just now I'm a completely
22:47
Speaker 3: different person in year four in the NFL than I
22:50
Speaker 3: was coming in. And uh, you know, I think that
22:54
Speaker 3: was kind of what revitalized my career a little bit
22:58
Speaker 3: and allowed me to cotinue to stay in the NFL,
23:01
Speaker 3: stick around until I got an opportunity. And when that
23:03
Speaker 3: opportunity came, it was kind of when I could show
23:06
Speaker 3: some of the things that improved on and that people
23:08
Speaker 3: inside the building knew, but nobody outside the building ever
23:10
Speaker 3: really knew.
23:12
Speaker 1: Was it expensive going to these high profile quarterback gurus
23:15
Speaker 1: in the off season and try to remake your throwing motion.
23:19
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's not cheap. I would say.
23:22
Speaker 3: The more nerve wracking part is that you're doing in
23:25
Speaker 3: the off season not knowing if you're gonna have a
23:26
Speaker 3: job the following year. You know, if you do have
23:30
Speaker 3: the job, then ad I mean, it's the best investment
23:32
Speaker 3: you could ever make, but you don't really know, and
23:36
Speaker 3: you don't know, Like, I'm gonna work hard all of
23:38
Speaker 3: February March and then April comes and they draft a
23:41
Speaker 3: quarterback and you're like, ah, there kind of goes my chance.
23:44
Speaker 3: They're going to put that guy out there. And so
23:46
Speaker 3: I think that's what something you're always kind of battling.
23:48
Speaker 3: But I think for me it was you know, I
23:50
Speaker 3: couldn't imagine being in a situation where I didn't do
23:52
Speaker 3: it and then had the regret of like, I should
23:55
Speaker 3: have done that, and you know, whether I continued to
23:58
Speaker 3: play or if I just you know, if I was
24:01
Speaker 3: done after the Vikings cut me, then you know, at
24:04
Speaker 3: least I would have the peace of mind. I like, hey,
24:05
Speaker 3: I gave it everything I had.
24:07
Speaker 1: How close were you to starting a coaching career before
24:09
Speaker 1: the Bengals called twenty four hours?
24:14
Speaker 3: I had it all, I had it lined up. I
24:16
Speaker 3: was getting ready to leave to uh volunteer coach out
24:20
Speaker 3: of college, just because I didn't want to sit around
24:22
Speaker 3: waiting for you know, I'd lived my first three years
24:26
Speaker 3: of my life in the NFL just was so much uncertainty.
24:28
Speaker 3: I didn't want to sit around waiting for somebody to call,
24:30
Speaker 3: not knowing if they're going to call, and just get Nancy.
24:33
Speaker 3: So figured i'd keep myself busy with something. Fortunately, you know,
24:38
Speaker 3: saved up some money where I could figure out by
24:41
Speaker 3: myself a little bit of a runway and uh and
24:44
Speaker 3: then yeah, I got the call. I think Sunday night,
24:46
Speaker 3: But if I made it to Tuesday, I was probably
24:49
Speaker 3: gonna drive down to Corvallis and start helping out with
24:54
Speaker 3: my college coach.
24:56
Speaker 1: People joke that backup quarterback is the greatest gig in
24:59
Speaker 1: the world world. You're well compensated, you don't take the hits.
25:03
Speaker 1: But as a competitor, when people say that, does it
25:05
Speaker 1: tick you off?
25:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think that both can be true.
25:09
Speaker 3: Like it's it's obviously it's like you said, it's a
25:12
Speaker 3: high paying job. You're not really doing a whole lot
25:15
Speaker 3: until you're thrown in there, and it's like no one
25:17
Speaker 3: is checking in to make sure you're dialed and that
25:20
Speaker 3: you know everything that's going on. Like you kind of
25:22
Speaker 3: just have to self manage yourself and make sure that
25:25
Speaker 3: you know what's going on because everything else is gear everything,
25:28
Speaker 3: practice meetings, everything is geared towards the starter, and so
25:31
Speaker 3: it's on you to know. And you know, like last year,
25:34
Speaker 3: I was, I was ready every single game, but nobody,
25:37
Speaker 3: nobody knows, So that's the part that's frustrating as a competitor.
25:40
Speaker 3: You feel like you're working really hard and doing all
25:43
Speaker 3: these different things without the opportunity to play. And so
25:46
Speaker 3: I think I think both can be true. But I
25:47
Speaker 3: think it's throughout my whole career, like having both perspectives
25:50
Speaker 3: of like, hey, I'm I'm in. I'm in the NFL,
25:54
Speaker 3: whether it's practice, squad active like you know, I'm not.
25:57
Speaker 3: I'm not starving, I'm not. There's a lot worst jobs
26:00
Speaker 3: out there, But am I where I want to be? No,
26:04
Speaker 3: Like in the same thing as a backup, like it's
26:06
Speaker 3: a good gig, like I'm we're I'm not going to
26:09
Speaker 3: deny that, but it's not where I want to be.
26:12
Speaker 3: And so I think having both those perspectives can help
26:14
Speaker 3: you continue to drive towards what you want without becoming
26:18
Speaker 3: bitter in an objectively good position.
26:21
Speaker 1: After last week's loss, you said, I think you've got
26:24
Speaker 1: to sit in it. What did that look like for
26:26
Speaker 1: you in the next twenty four or forty eight hours misery?
26:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think anytime you know, you take it on
26:34
Speaker 3: the chin like that, it sucks. You put a ton
26:37
Speaker 3: of work into it, and you go into it with
26:41
Speaker 3: every intention of it going well and then it just
26:43
Speaker 3: nothing goes well. And you know, I think that is
26:47
Speaker 3: probably the biggest adjustment. Like, you know, I've been the
26:51
Speaker 3: backup for games that didn't go away, that were super lobsided,
26:54
Speaker 3: and it just doesn't feel, it doesn't doesn't hit the same.
26:56
Speaker 3: Like I think in those situations, you know, I'd feel
26:58
Speaker 3: for Joe or like want to be helpful, but you know,
27:01
Speaker 3: I'd go home and I'd go to bed because I
27:04
Speaker 3: don't really play, and like when you do play, you
27:06
Speaker 3: go home, it's hard to sleep, you feel miserable, and
27:09
Speaker 3: like you got to go through the highs and lows
27:13
Speaker 3: of being the starter. And I think that's you know,
27:15
Speaker 3: the position that obviously I wanted to find myself in
27:18
Speaker 3: and I want to continue to find myself in going forward.
27:20
Speaker 3: So having you know, a routine, whatever it takes you
27:24
Speaker 3: to mentally get over it, take obviously, take the the
27:28
Speaker 3: takeaways that you need to to improve, but then getting
27:31
Speaker 3: yourself in the back in the fight and continuing to
27:36
Speaker 3: get ready for the next game and put yourself in
27:38
Speaker 3: position to bounce back.
27:39
Speaker 1: Best of luck on Monday night. Thank you. While the
27:43
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in NFL history who have thrown at least three
27:46
Speaker 1: hundred passes, which admittedly isn't a huge sample size. Jake
27:51
Speaker 1: Browning has the highest completion percentage at sixty nine point nine.
27:56
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, Joe Burrow ranks second on the list at
27:59
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28:23
Speaker 1: the Faux segment. The Denver Broncos went to the playoffs
28:26
Speaker 1: last year, edging Cincinnati for the seventh and final spot
28:30
Speaker 1: in the AFC with a ten and seven record, but
28:33
Speaker 1: the Broncos are one and two this year. They opened
28:36
Speaker 1: with an eight point win over Tennessee before losing back
28:40
Speaker 1: to back games on walk off field goals to the
28:43
Speaker 1: Colts and Chargers. Nick Cosmider covers the team for The
28:48
Speaker 1: Athletic and discussed what's gone wrong in the last two
28:51
Speaker 1: weeks when he joined Dave Lapham and me on the
28:54
Speaker 1: Bengals Game Plan Show.
28:57
Speaker 4: They just have not been able to finish they have had.
29:00
Speaker 4: If you combine those two games, they had seven opportunities
29:04
Speaker 4: in the fourth quarter to either create a two score
29:07
Speaker 4: cushion or.
29:08
Speaker 2: To go on a drive that won the game, and.
29:11
Speaker 4: They have not been able to do enough in any
29:13
Speaker 4: of those situations to get that two score lead. And
29:16
Speaker 4: you know, obviously, when you look at the root causes
29:18
Speaker 4: of that, there's been there's been different issues that they've
29:21
Speaker 4: been kind of uncharacteristically penalized. If you compare it to
29:24
Speaker 4: last year, you know that they've they've had a few
29:27
Speaker 4: injuries that they've dealt with. But by and large, I
29:29
Speaker 4: think that's the biggest takeaway from where they're at. They
29:31
Speaker 4: could easily be three and zero. Particularly defensively, they've they've
29:36
Speaker 4: created one of the league's best pass rushes and that's
29:38
Speaker 4: been dynamic. They've had some sporadic success in the run
29:42
Speaker 4: game from JK. Dobbins, who's been off to a really
29:44
Speaker 4: nice start, but in the moments that matter against good teams,
29:48
Speaker 4: they just have not been able to close the deal.
29:52
Speaker 5: The Denver Broncos, I mean, when I play you know,
29:55
Speaker 5: back in the seventies and early eighties, the Denver Broncos
30:00
Speaker 5: defense was as good as there was in the National
30:03
Speaker 5: Football League. I mean it was that was when when
30:07
Speaker 5: you were going up against the Broncos, you knew that
30:09
Speaker 5: you had to you had to be on your toes.
30:12
Speaker 5: I mean, you were going to see a lot You're
30:14
Speaker 5: going to see a lot of different things, and they
30:16
Speaker 5: were going to play hard, and like you talk about, uh,
30:19
Speaker 5: they were going to finish plays and they they weren't
30:22
Speaker 5: going to make a whole lot of mistakes. They they
30:25
Speaker 5: weren't going to beat themselves. They were going to you.
30:27
Speaker 5: You had to go out and you had to beat
30:29
Speaker 5: the Denver Broncos. And playing them in Denver, well, that
30:33
Speaker 5: crowd noise was, I mean just an unbelievable chore. How
30:37
Speaker 5: close is this defensive football team to being that type
30:41
Speaker 5: of unit where the opposing you know, teams are fearful
30:47
Speaker 5: or apprehensive about playing against them.
30:51
Speaker 4: Well, I think there's been slashes of them doing that
30:54
Speaker 4: pretty consistently this year. And it starts with the pass rush.
30:58
Speaker 2: Right now.
30:58
Speaker 4: If you're an opposing quarter you know, particularly in Cincinnati's case,
31:02
Speaker 4: one like Jake Browning, who is you know, filling in
31:05
Speaker 4: for Joe Burrow there, I think probably is a healthy
31:07
Speaker 4: fear about that pass rush and just how many different
31:10
Speaker 4: ways you know they can beat you. Nick Bonito right now,
31:14
Speaker 4: it was a second team All Pro last year he
31:16
Speaker 4: was he kind of came out of nowhere to get that,
31:18
Speaker 4: but he now looks like he has taken another level up.
31:21
Speaker 4: He looks early in the season like one of the
31:23
Speaker 4: league's very best pass rushers. He is incredible speed off
31:26
Speaker 4: the edge, and then you just have so many other
31:28
Speaker 4: really solid players, whether it's Zach Allen and John Franklin
31:31
Speaker 4: Myers creating that that interior pressure. Jonathan Cooper I think
31:35
Speaker 4: is one of the more underrated outside edge rushers in
31:38
Speaker 4: this league. Then they even have a guy like Jonah
31:40
Speaker 4: Ellis who's in his second season, who's, you know, come
31:43
Speaker 4: off the bench and done a really good job. They've
31:45
Speaker 4: they've done a really nice job with with those things
31:47
Speaker 4: that The thing that they've struggled with quite a lot
31:50
Speaker 4: actually is is covering running backs out of the backfield.
31:53
Speaker 4: That's been a major achilles heel. In each of the
31:54
Speaker 4: first three games, they have given up big plays in
31:57
Speaker 4: the passing game to running backs who are either you know,
32:01
Speaker 4: completely unaccounted for or who were able to just win
32:03
Speaker 4: a one on one battle, and the result of those
32:06
Speaker 4: plays has always led to scoring drives and in close
32:08
Speaker 4: games that they've been in, you know that that's something
32:11
Speaker 4: that they have they have to clean up there. There's
32:13
Speaker 4: some detail oriented mistakes that I think I have kept
32:16
Speaker 4: them from being, you know, kind of that that elite,
32:19
Speaker 4: elite unit that they want to turn themselves into. I
32:21
Speaker 4: think it's in there and it's possible for them, but
32:24
Speaker 4: they still have a little waste to go in terms
32:26
Speaker 4: of bringing it all together.
32:28
Speaker 1: Nick Cosmidori is our guest. He covers the Broncos for
32:31
Speaker 1: the Athletic Let's talk bow Nicks. We saw him late
32:33
Speaker 1: in the regular season last year. Looked good, had a
32:36
Speaker 1: really good rookie year. Looks like he's been so so,
32:39
Speaker 1: at least statistically this year. Five touchdowns, three picks, passer
32:43
Speaker 1: rating in the low eighties. How has bo Nicks performed?
32:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably a fair characterization. It's been
32:50
Speaker 4: kind of so so, a little bit up and down.
32:53
Speaker 4: Probably not ultimately the start to the season that he
32:56
Speaker 4: wanted to have. And again, it kind of goes back to,
32:59
Speaker 4: you know, the defensive side. It's not all just on uh,
33:02
Speaker 4: it's not all just on what he's what he's not doing.
33:06
Speaker 4: I think they've had a lot of offensive penalties that
33:09
Speaker 4: have kind of slow drives. They've just had you know,
33:11
Speaker 4: negative plays in really up inopportune times, and that's left
33:15
Speaker 4: them in a lot of tough situations. Like, for example,
33:19
Speaker 4: their average distance to gain on third down in Week
33:22
Speaker 4: three against the Chargers was eleven yards. You're not gonna
33:25
Speaker 4: you're not gonna get any kind of offensive rhythm going
33:27
Speaker 4: when you're constantly staring at third and long. So that's
33:30
Speaker 4: a thing that they have to really figure out a
33:32
Speaker 4: way to to be ahead of the chains on first
33:35
Speaker 4: and second down, to put themselves in more manageable third
33:38
Speaker 4: down situations. Because he's a guy right now in his
33:40
Speaker 4: career bo Nicks, who you know, he's not gonna he's
33:43
Speaker 4: not gonna paper over all your problems. He can definitely
33:45
Speaker 4: be part of a solution and part of creating, you know,
33:49
Speaker 4: a really efficient offense. But but he is, he's not
33:52
Speaker 4: and shouldn't be asked to be this kind of guy
33:56
Speaker 4: that lifts all boats, and right now they just need
33:59
Speaker 4: to do I think a better job around him so
34:01
Speaker 4: that they're not in those situations where you know, opposing
34:05
Speaker 4: teams can really kind of get to all their different
34:07
Speaker 4: pressure looks and give him problems.
34:11
Speaker 5: When they Broncos have had their biggest problems. What what
34:17
Speaker 5: what type of offensive attack has been the toughest for
34:20
Speaker 5: this Denver Bronco defense to handle?
34:23
Speaker 1: What?
34:23
Speaker 5: What type of personnel formations motion, you know, change the
34:29
Speaker 5: strength or all that kind of thing. What what what
34:32
Speaker 5: has been the biggest problem for the Denver Broncos to
34:35
Speaker 5: try to solve.
34:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think there's a couple of things.
34:40
Speaker 4: They've they've been mostly good against the ground, but they've
34:43
Speaker 4: had their lapses there. They gave up a sixty eight
34:46
Speaker 4: yard run in the second half to Jonathan Taylor that
34:49
Speaker 4: led to a scoring drive for the Colts. You know,
34:52
Speaker 4: running backs just for whatever reason, whether they're coming out
34:55
Speaker 4: of the backfield, whether they're you know taking you know,
34:58
Speaker 4: whether they're being handed off the whether they're lined up
35:01
Speaker 4: in the slot, they've just been able to create some problems.
35:04
Speaker 4: And part of that is because the Broncos, you know,
35:06
Speaker 4: they went out and signed Drake Greenlaw in free agency
35:08
Speaker 4: thinking that he was going to be you know, part
35:11
Speaker 4: of the solution for a middle of their defense that
35:14
Speaker 4: struggled at times last year. He has not made his
35:16
Speaker 4: Broncos debut. He's currently on IR with a quad injury.
35:20
Speaker 4: You know, so certainly they want to get him healthy
35:22
Speaker 4: and see what the defense looks like with him being
35:24
Speaker 4: able to do that. But I would say that would
35:28
Speaker 4: really be kind of the thing right now. Again, they
35:30
Speaker 4: do a really good job rushing the passer. There's been
35:34
Speaker 4: some discipline issues again that kind of the breakdowns that
35:36
Speaker 4: have led to some of these easy passes to running
35:39
Speaker 4: backs in the flat. You know that they've had some
35:41
Speaker 4: some penalties that have extended drives that they could have
35:44
Speaker 4: otherwise and did so. I think just kind of the
35:48
Speaker 4: sharper focus on the details is what they really have
35:51
Speaker 4: to be after as they welcome Cincinnati on Monday night.
35:54
Speaker 1: We're chatting with Nick Cosmider from The Athletic. My final
35:57
Speaker 1: question has to do with the injuries. You met Drake Greenlaw,
36:01
Speaker 1: who's on IR. Broncos have seven guys on IR. Are
36:06
Speaker 1: any of the other guys especially impactful or were these
36:09
Speaker 1: guys that were not likely to play big roles?
36:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think really when you look at it, green
36:15
Speaker 4: Laws is probably the number one guy, and another inside
36:18
Speaker 4: linebacker Drew Sanders, entering his third year with somebody. I
36:23
Speaker 4: think they were really looking to kind of take a
36:25
Speaker 4: next step. He's very athletic player and could give him
36:28
Speaker 4: some of that sideline the sideline ability that they could
36:31
Speaker 4: certainly use in a number of different sub packages. He
36:34
Speaker 4: injured his foot in training camp, so he's not eligible
36:37
Speaker 4: to come off i R until after this week. Don't know,
36:41
Speaker 4: you know just how how quickly he will return. He's
36:43
Speaker 4: a guy I'd say that they could certainly benefit from
36:46
Speaker 4: having right now and then. And then another player who's
36:49
Speaker 4: not on IR but miss last week would be Evan
36:51
Speaker 4: Ingram again, the tight end that they signed this offseason
36:55
Speaker 4: to give them more of a presence in the middle
36:58
Speaker 4: of the field. That's that's one area where the Bronco
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Speaker 4: offensively have not got enough production in between the numbers,
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Speaker 4: and he's a guy that is supposed to bring that
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Speaker 4: through the first two games when he was available only
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Speaker 4: four catches for thirty three yards, and then, like I said,
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Speaker 4: miss the game against the Chargers. They need him healthy,
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Speaker 4: you know, as soon as possible. We of course have
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Speaker 4: not yet been out there this week. Well, we'll get
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Speaker 4: a better idea tomorrow as to whether Ingram is going
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Speaker 4: to be a guy who can contribute to them this week.
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Speaker 5: The one thing that I remember about Denver as a
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Speaker 5: former player when I in the seventies and eighties playing
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Speaker 5: with the Bengals when he traveled out there again was
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Speaker 5: the crowd noise. I mean, it was ridiculous, loudest outdoor
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Speaker 5: stadium I've ever been to. Couldn't hear yourself think. I
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Speaker 5: mean when you get on the bus after the game
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Speaker 5: and after you clean yourself up. He had a headache.
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Speaker 5: I mean, it was. It was a brutal experience, it
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Speaker 5: really was. Has it been like that for the opposition
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Speaker 5: teams coming to Denver so far this season?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I would say that the the op the energy
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Speaker 4: and the opener against the Titans that was probably, you know,
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Speaker 4: like probably the best like season opening crowd that that
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Speaker 4: I've seen here in quite a long time. I Mean,
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Speaker 4: this Broncos team entered this season with with a lot
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Speaker 4: of expectations. Sean Payton has not been afraid to say
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Speaker 4: that he thinks this is a team that can compete
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Speaker 4: for the Super Bowl, so so certainly, having lost these
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Speaker 4: last two games in kind of excruciating fashion. You know,
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Speaker 4: the fan base is a little bit antsy right now,
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Speaker 4: but I would say there's no doubt that, especially in
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Speaker 4: a primetime situation on a on a Monday night, that
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Speaker 4: the crowd is definitely going to be a factor, and
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Speaker 4: I think they're going to believe that they can that
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Speaker 4: they can impact the game. Again for a guy who
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Speaker 4: obviously Browning's got experience, but it is the backup and
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Speaker 4: having to go against that defense in that scenario that
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Speaker 4: that's obviously one area where the Broncos hope that they
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Speaker 4: can have an advantage. But I'm excited to see it.
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Speaker 4: I'm I'm bumm that we don't necessarily get the same
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Speaker 4: you know, complexion that we got for that great game
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Speaker 4: in Cincinnati back in December, but you never know, Monday
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Speaker 4: nights things get weird. So I'm really eager to see
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Speaker 4: how it all shakes out.
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