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11-04-26 Hour 3 - Jared Bednar/Reacting to Bednar, Keys to the Game/Vic's not a metal detector guy · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher Lombardi and Kane On Demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 1: is the Jared Bednar Avalanche Coaches Show.
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  Speaker 1: With Mosher Lombardi and Kane. Presented by Mr. Rooter Plumbing.
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  Speaker 1: Proudly rooting for Colorado's hockey team. Here's Coach Bednar with Mark, Vic,
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  Speaker 1: and Brett.
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  Speaker 3: Like I expect a little bit of it early in
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  Speaker 3: the season. Like I said, so we've been patient. We've
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  Speaker 3: been going over some things and then we see a
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  Speaker 3: handful of good games. And then this game showing up
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  Speaker 3: too much for me.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So there has to be a line. And now we
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  Speaker 3: like I said, we just hit the 20 percent through
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  Speaker 3: the season. So it's not a small window. So now
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  Speaker 3: we have to meet again and discuss some things, and
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  Speaker 3: I have to change my approach as to distributing ice
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  Speaker 3: time as I see fit with the guys that are
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  Speaker 3: going or not going and just how I operate the
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  Speaker 3: bench because they have to.
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  Speaker 1: Figure it out.
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  Speaker 5: That is head coach of the Avs, Jared Bednar, who
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  Speaker 5: joins us now on the Ramos Law Hotline. Car accident,
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  Speaker 5: first of all, I know you got in late last night.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, doing okay. Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 5: With that quote right there, just out of curiosity, what
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  Speaker 5: did you mean by changing the approach as far as
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  Speaker 5: distributing ice time?
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  Speaker 6: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it just means, like, I can't be too patient
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  Speaker 4: on the bench. If I notice a player, a line,
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  Speaker 4: a D pair, a defenseman, like, if we're not going
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  Speaker 4: on a certain night and I know we're not going,
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  Speaker 4: I can't be too patient necessarily. keep playing guys to
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  Speaker 4: see if they're going to come around because the results
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  Speaker 4: aren't coming with it. You know what I mean? Like we've,
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  Speaker 4: we've shown over too many of these games now that
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  Speaker 4: if we're not into the game or some guys aren't
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  Speaker 4: into the game, then we're not really getting into the
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  Speaker 4: game after, like we're not playing our way out of
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  Speaker 4: it through the course of the game. So that's, that's
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  Speaker 4: what we're seeing. And it's just like, either we're ready
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  Speaker 4: to play and we're, and we're, we're a good team
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  Speaker 4: and we're getting results or at least playing well or
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  Speaker 4: we're not. And like I said, so it's that inconsistency.
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  Speaker 4: It's that Jekyll and Hyde is what we've been showing.
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  Speaker 4: And like I said, it was a small window. I
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  Speaker 4: think everybody goes through it and you're going to go
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  Speaker 4: through it at different times in the year. But now
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  Speaker 4: this is like dragging on to become like who we are.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not liking it, so we have to change it.
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  Speaker 2: Your top players were dash threes last night. If your
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  Speaker 2: top players aren't producing, you're not winning. What do you
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  Speaker 2: say to your top players?
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  Speaker 4: It's not producing. We had some guys that had a
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  Speaker 4: handful of points last night as top players. It's not producing.
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  Speaker 4: That's not my issue. It's the defending. We have to
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  Speaker 4: get more committed on the defending side of it. So that's...
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  Speaker 4: where our troubles lie right now. You come out, you
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  Speaker 4: play a good game defensively, you give yourself a really
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  Speaker 4: good chance to win because I trust in our offense.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you look up our offense right now.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't checked it since before the road trip where
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  Speaker 4: we stand, but it'll be top one, two, or three
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  Speaker 4: in the league. On the defending side, I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: surprised to see if we're in the bottom five. So
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  Speaker 4: that's becoming a problem for us and a problem that
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  Speaker 4: needs to be fixed if we want to win consistently.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I noticed Columbus, Jack, they just stormed the net.
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  Speaker 2: They stormed the cage. What is it about the defending
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  Speaker 2: that's not working? Is it just keeping guys out of there?
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  Speaker 2: Is it checking them? Where does it break down?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think it is. It's commitment. It's the
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  Speaker 4: commitment to get above guys. It's the physicality and the,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the engagement that you need in order to
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  Speaker 4: defend guys. Let's keep in mind here, growing into the game,
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  Speaker 4: Columbus is, you know, near the bottom of the league
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  Speaker 4: and creating offense right now through 15 games. And they
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  Speaker 4: just put up seven on us, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 4: not a good feeling. And I don't think it was
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  Speaker 4: just like some hot night. And I don't think it
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  Speaker 4: was like just that. I think they played a good,
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  Speaker 4: solid hockey game with a good, solid plan. And I
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  Speaker 4: don't think we were committed to our checking game right
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  Speaker 4: from the drop of the puck. They scored in the
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  Speaker 4: first minute of the game again. You know, so it's like,
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  Speaker 4: we have to be ready to go and and you
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  Speaker 4: know in chicago it was a small window they scored
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  Speaker 4: two i had both of those goals on us and
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  Speaker 4: and things that we've talked about prior to going into
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  Speaker 4: that game and they scored two goals and then we
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  Speaker 4: kind of snap out of it and we end up
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  Speaker 4: scoring three one gets disallowed like all the first period
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  Speaker 4: to kind of get back in that game um so
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  Speaker 4: things turned around quickly for us and then last night
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  Speaker 4: it just kind of lagged and But we were all
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  Speaker 4: the way through the game, and we still weren't checking properly.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Coach of the House, Jared Bednar with us. All
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  Speaker 5: conversations with the coach are brought to you by Mr.
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  Speaker 5: Reuter Plumbing, proudly rooting for Colorado's hockey team. You know,
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  Speaker 5: on that subject, we went back and looked, just for
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  Speaker 5: comparison's sake, to the start to this year through 16
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  Speaker 5: games and then the start to the season in which
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  Speaker 5: you guys won the Cup in 2022.
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  Speaker 6: The pace is similar. You were 10-5-1 that year. You're
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  Speaker 6: 9-6-1 now.
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  Speaker 5: But I think it's the way that you guys are
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  Speaker 5: losing this year that's different. What do you think contributes
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  Speaker 5: to the, you know, you have these really high games
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  Speaker 5: in which you guys play excellent, but when you lose,
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  Speaker 5: it's like it's pretty bad.
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  Speaker 6: What is that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think I just touched on it.
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  Speaker 4: That's commitment. It's commitment to your checking game, your all-around game.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is. I don't think it needs any
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  Speaker 4: more explanation than that. Yeah. It's the way I see it.
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  Speaker 4: I know what our guys are capable of on the
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  Speaker 4: checking side of it. I see it some nights. So
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  Speaker 4: it's commitment, it's buy-in, it's consistency. And we're still trying
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  Speaker 4: to find it. Guys, don't get me wrong. The record,
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  Speaker 4: like you win last night and you're at 10-5, you know?
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  Speaker 4: And that's a great record. I don't love our record
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  Speaker 4: right now at 9-6 and 1, but the record... if
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  Speaker 4: we're playing the right way and, you know, the other
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  Speaker 4: teams get in the balance or making a play here
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  Speaker 4: and there, and we're at nine, six and one, I'm
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  Speaker 4: fine with that. Like I'm not, I'm not in panic
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  Speaker 4: mode with our record. You know, we've been here many,
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  Speaker 4: many times before. It's the, like Vic said, it's about like,
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  Speaker 4: just watch it. you know, it's not a fun game
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  Speaker 4: to watch. It's not a fun game to play. It's, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 4: it's not good enough, you know? So it's, it's, it's
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  Speaker 4: our job. That's just my job. It's our job to
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  Speaker 4: change it, you know? So like mine, all the coaches,
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  Speaker 4: the players, everybody involved, it's our job to change it. And,
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  Speaker 4: and I believe we can, but we need to, Like
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  Speaker 4: I said, it's gone on long enough. This is about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, getting your mind right and getting the buy-in
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  Speaker 4: right and understanding that, like, the accountability has to go up, right?
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  Speaker 4: And so that's part of my job is to drive that.
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  Speaker 5: Is there part of this, too, you know, you guys
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  Speaker 5: go down 2-0 last night and then the game kind
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  Speaker 5: of gets away, but you had games, you know, against
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  Speaker 5: Chicago or earlier in the season against Pittsburgh where Maybe
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  Speaker 5: you go down early, but you find a way to
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  Speaker 5: come back and win and win comfortably.
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  Speaker 6: Is there part of that?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe there's not the urgency from the very beginning because
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  Speaker 5: you have the confidence that you can get that rolling eventually.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough one. I believe so. But I would
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  Speaker 4: argue the other side of it then, that confidence is
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  Speaker 4: sort of false confidence. It's not... that that's not earned
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  Speaker 4: this year for nine and six. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Coach, if there is any bright side, when you get,
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  Speaker 2: you know, bludgeoned on the road, it's never fun, but
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of games, Kadri is scoring again. What
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  Speaker 2: is he doing differently? Or is it just the moment?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's, he's, that's what, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: what Naz can do. He's like, it's, it makes a,
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  Speaker 4: a tricky play a greasy play gets in the hard
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  Speaker 4: areas gets a touch on a puck he's elusive like
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  Speaker 4: and then sometimes they they go in you know like
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  Speaker 4: I wasn't I wasn't really concerned about Naz getting on
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  Speaker 4: the board I know some of the media were like
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  Speaker 4: well he hasn't scored yet is that why you're moving
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  Speaker 4: him around is that why he's playing center and wing
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  Speaker 4: and it really wasn't you know it's like I believe in,
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  Speaker 4: in Naz's ability to help us create offense in different ways,
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  Speaker 4: make a play out of nothing. And like I'm in
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  Speaker 4: traffic or get it, you get a stick on a
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  Speaker 4: puck like he did in, in, you know, Chicago and
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  Speaker 4: last night, you know, it's like, he knows where to
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  Speaker 4: go to score goals. He gets in those areas. And if, if,
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  Speaker 4: if we're kind of, generating average or above-average chances on
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  Speaker 4: all four lines, I trust that he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: able to put some in the net. And now they've
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  Speaker 4: started to go in for him a little bit, so
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  Speaker 4: likely the confidence is a little higher.
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  Speaker 5: At this point in the season, your guys' power play
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  Speaker 5: percentage up 4% from last year. You're sitting at 17th
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  Speaker 5: in the league. What's your assessment through 16 games so far?
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  Speaker 4: We're a work in progress still. It's coming. I'm seeing
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  Speaker 4: some good things from the power play at times and
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  Speaker 4: then at other times it's not. I think every power
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  Speaker 4: play is like that at least a little bit except
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  Speaker 4: for the top couple in the league. I'm seeing some
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  Speaker 4: good things. I liked When we take care of the
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  Speaker 4: puck as a group and kind of let the puck
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  Speaker 4: do the work, like hitting the open man and the
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  Speaker 4: open man, like we're finding things and trying things and
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  Speaker 4: generating chances. And some are more dangerous than others, but
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  Speaker 4: it's going at a good pace. And then we'll go
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  Speaker 4: out and we'll play games where... like we're, we're not,
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  Speaker 4: we're not strong enough on the puck. We don't take
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  Speaker 4: care of the pockets. It's just mirroring like some of
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  Speaker 4: our five on five game. And then, and then it
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  Speaker 4: doesn't look great. You know, it's a good, it's a
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  Speaker 4: good power play this year when it gets set up
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  Speaker 4: and zone and guys kind of let the puck do
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  Speaker 4: the work. And, and when we're trying to force things and, and,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're hanging on to it too long and
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't look great. So it's, But it's definitely shown
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  Speaker 4: me some signs of improvement. And, you know, like we've
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  Speaker 4: scored a couple times, right, as power plays have expired, which,
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  Speaker 4: you know, for me, it's getting the job done. It's
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  Speaker 4: considered power play goals. So I think it's in a
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  Speaker 4: decent spot. The guys on the power play are in
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  Speaker 4: a decent spot right now.
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  Speaker 2: Can we get a scouting report on Nashville tomorrow night?
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  Speaker 4: Hard-working teams. hard-working team, outworked us in their building, and
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  Speaker 4: better team than what people are giving them credit for.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I saw on the ticker last night that
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  Speaker 4: they just beat Carolina, who's been rolling through the whole
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  Speaker 4: league again, beating some good teams. It's a good, hard-working team,
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  Speaker 4: and their stars right now are playing real well, like
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  Speaker 4: Ryan O'Reilly, um, Forsberg, but just the whole, the whole
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  Speaker 4: lot of them and their power play is absolutely lethal.
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  Speaker 4: One of the best in the league is you saw
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  Speaker 4: in Nashville. So we owe these guys, um, same schedule
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  Speaker 4: coming into the building. And, um, yeah, we, we got
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  Speaker 4: to get our game in order in a hurry here
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  Speaker 4: against Nashville.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, I remember your answer from a few nights ago,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm not going to make you do this again
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  Speaker 5: about goalie interference, but let me ask this a different way.
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  Speaker 5: When's the last time you guys came out on top
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  Speaker 5: of a goalie interference call?
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  Speaker 4: No, I can't, I can't even remember.
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  Speaker 6: It's been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You could sense the, just the dread in his voice
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  Speaker 2: when you bring up that topic.
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  Speaker 4: It's not even like, you know, like it wasn't our
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  Speaker 4: challenge or anything. It's not like we're, it's just like,
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  Speaker 4: I look at, look at him and I'm like, I
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  Speaker 4: think this is going to count, you know? And then
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  Speaker 4: it doesn't like in Chicago. And, and I, there's so
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  Speaker 4: many similarities to the ones that, count and don't count.
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  Speaker 4: That's my issue with it, you know? It's, you know, trying, like,
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  Speaker 4: sticking with the call on the ice unless it's obviously wrong,
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  Speaker 4: and then the next one, the ref will wave one
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  Speaker 4: off and call one a goal, and then so you
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  Speaker 4: kind of got two similar goals that end up being
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  Speaker 4: sticking with the call on the ice, which are opposite calls,
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  Speaker 4: you know? So it's like, it's not the perfect, like,
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  Speaker 4: but it's hard to tell like what, what they're going
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  Speaker 4: to do. I think all the coaches are kind of
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  Speaker 4: the same thing, but they're doing the best they can
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  Speaker 4: and you got to live with some calls and you
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  Speaker 4: got to play through it.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, just a couple more for you, coach, uh, your
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  Speaker 5: goaltending this season between Blackwood and Wedgwood. What do you,
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  Speaker 5: how would you assess their play through 16?
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's, it's been pretty good. I think Wedge was,
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  Speaker 4: played some really good games early and now he's struggled
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  Speaker 4: in a couple. Um, I think Blackwood's been... I don't
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  Speaker 4: change my tune on him. I think he's been exceptional.
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  Speaker 4: He's given us a chance to win every night. Wedge
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  Speaker 4: will get there. I'm not worried about Wedge either. Maybe
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  Speaker 4: because he played really well early in the year and
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  Speaker 4: the last couple games have been a struggle for him
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  Speaker 4: for whatever reason, but And Blackwood's given us quality starts
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  Speaker 4: on a nightly basis. And this is kind of the
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  Speaker 4: way it's looked right from day one of training camp
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  Speaker 4: all the way until now. All right.
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  Speaker 2: My last one, because we're trying to piece some information together. Coach,
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  Speaker 2: what time did you guys land last night in Denver?
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  Speaker 4: Do you remember? Yeah, I think it was like just
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  Speaker 4: before 12 because we gained two hours.
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  Speaker 6: So before midnight.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: According to Mosier, you guys are going to face a
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  Speaker 2: massive headwind and not get in until like 5 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: He literally told us headwinds is what he said.
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  Speaker 6: So he's not doing the show this morning. So is
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  Speaker 6: he lazy?
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  Speaker 4: He's prepared, this guy. I don't look into the headwinds.
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  Speaker 2: Who does?
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  Speaker 4: We land, we land. Yeah. I'm not a meteorologist, so
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  Speaker 4: he has all the information. I don't know what he's
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  Speaker 4: talking about. I don't know. Yeah. Like it was, I've
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  Speaker 4: seen Moe's show up like on some later fights and
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  Speaker 4: that I know that.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you what coach, God bless you for surviving
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  Speaker 5: those headwinds this morning. You're, you're, you're a, you're a
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  Speaker 5: better man than Moe's.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, and maybe, maybe, maybe Moe's is playing chess and
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  Speaker 4: you guys are playing chess. He knows you need it.
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  Speaker 4: You need a break from him and he needs a
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  Speaker 4: break from you.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, one last thing for you, coach. Do you have
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  Speaker 6: any injury updates? Guys like Josh Manson, anything like that?
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  Speaker 4: No, he's long-term. Like, it's going to be, what did
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  Speaker 4: I say, eight weeks from kind of the date that
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  Speaker 4: we have targeted if everything goes well. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 4: few days earlier or later, you know. And Zach LaRue
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  Speaker 4: is kind of the same thing. He's still not on
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  Speaker 4: the ice yet, so still just working on most of
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  Speaker 4: his stuff and rehab and gym work.
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  Speaker 6: There you go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, my man, I just heard you pour some
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  Speaker 2: water into a glass. Either that was water or vodka.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, man, good luck to you next time.
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  Speaker 4: Coffee time. All right, thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, buddy.
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  Speaker 5: Head coach of the Avs, Jared Bednar, joins us every
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  Speaker 5: single Wednesday, despite the headwinds that come in the night before.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe that? They arrive prior to midnight, and
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  Speaker 2: Mosher paints this picture two days in advance, mind you.
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  Speaker 6: Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Hey, guys.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to face some massive headwind coming back from Columbus, so.
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  Speaker 6: I won't be in on Wednesday. When I tell you
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  Speaker 6: guys he literally tweeted at it, or texted us.
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  Speaker 2: Texted that.
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  Speaker 6: Texted us, there's going to be headwinds.
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  Speaker 2: Like, how do you predict that?
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  Speaker 6: All I'm saying, Vic, is here's all he needs to say.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: We're getting in late. I'm going to take the day off.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: That's all you need to do. You don't need all
• 16:59
  Speaker 6: the detail.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: But I wanted him to also, when I read his text,
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: I read it in the pilot voice of... It's going
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: to be a balmy day in.
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: Denver.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: We got headwinds, about 60 knots coming in from the northeast.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: But, no, Coach had it right. See, Coach is wise.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: It would have been unrelenting Mosier just blah today.
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: Especially because of the way that they lost last night.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: It would have been awful, and he and I would
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: have fought. You know how it gets. You know how
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: perturbed I get. So it's the best.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: He would have said something about, I had thrown laundry
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: when I got home last night.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: November is Hockey Fights Cancer Month, and the Avs are
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: teaming up with Vitalant. In that effort, you can schedule
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: a blood donation at any Vitalant donation center or blood
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: drive using the Colorado Avalanche virtual blood drive link. Everyone
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: who donates will be entered to win a team-signed stick
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: or a Josh Manson-signed stick. Vitalant.org slash HockeyFightsCancer for more
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: info and to schedule your blood donation today. Remember, a huge,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: huge portion of blood donations go directly to the fight
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: against cancer.
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: So get yourself signed up.
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: Vitalant.org forward slash HockeyFightsCancer to schedule that donation today. I
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: was just talking to our boss, Kevin Shockey, and I
• 18:21
  Speaker 5: know we say this a lot whenever he comes on,
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: but it's the truth.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: After a win, after a loss, tough night, great night, whatever.
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: I don't think you're going to find a coach in
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: the national hockey league or really in any other sport
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: that is as thorough in his answers on a weekly
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: radio show than Jared Bednar. I, you know, I've been
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: doing this a long time and, and I'm not just
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: saying this for giggles.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of another, another coach who was,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: you know, I know I do the Patrick walk.
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: Was he like that?
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I, I used to do the Patrick wash on
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: the other station years ago. And, Sometimes he would get
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: mad at us because we didn't ask tough enough questions.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: What you can tell Bednar and for good reason, like I,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I like this, like I think his approach towards the
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: beginning of this year is totally accurate. Like you had
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: some of these clunkers earlier in the season, Vic, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: it's like, Hey, it's early in the year.
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: I'm not going to overreact.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Let's just let this thing kind of roll for a
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: little bit. You know, it's like, Vic, if a college
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: football team, the second or third week of the season
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: has a bad game, you're just kind of like, you
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: know what?
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: It's fine. Plenty of time to figure this out, right?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, it's time.
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: It's time to get it figured out.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: And performances like last night, just they, they aren't acceptable
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: at this point in the calendar. You got to start
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: figuring out ways to limit these things. And, um, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: just liked the approach that he's taking and hopefully it,
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: there's a massive track record under his decades long tenure
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: here as as head coach that they are going to
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: get these things figured out and ironed out. But, um,
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: Games like last night, just they're happening way too frequently.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: If it's a one-off, you can just kind of chuck
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: it away. But this is probably the third performance that's
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: felt a little bit like that one last night.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: And the trouble is a lot of these things are
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: coming on the.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Road where I believe if you go back to last year,
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: you know, it's been a weird couple of years because
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: you're talking about for the Nuggets, Vic, at home, they're
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: having problems. You know what the Avs record on the
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: road was last year?
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Do you remember? They were 29-7-5. Dominant.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Jared said it best, and this is where I agree
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: with him, and this is where you've got to take
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: all these damn stats and just ignore them a little bit.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Use your eyes.
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: What are you watching?
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: What you watched last night, is that Avalanche Hockey? Is
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: that where you're used to seeing? Something's off there, right?
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Even in the close games they win, even in that
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Chicago game, they won pretty handily. You gave up two
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: goals to start the game. Did you? That's not avalanche hockey.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Two games in a row, they've given up a goal
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: in the first minute.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: It's not what we're used to seeing. So, that has
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: to be repaired.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: But, Vic, imagine what that does for you just as
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: far as a psyche. It's like you drop the puck
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: and then you're down one to nothing. It's the equivalent
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: of opening kickoff, Vic. Team runs it back for a touchdown. Well,
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: that sucks. Now we have ground to make up, you know,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: 15 seconds into the game already. So if you missed
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: any of that, it'll be on the podcast shortly. I
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: do want to present something to you. I mentioned this yesterday.
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: I had no knowledge.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Hold on.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Hold on a second.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: I got to get to this question. And this is,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I got to, I have to be true and real
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to what we do for a living and how we
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: assemble these I don't know what you do when you're
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: getting set to ask questions to a coach or a
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: player when you have a guest on. I don't know
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: how you do it. And I'm not a gotcha guy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: I'm never going to be a gotcha guy. If you're
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: looking for a gotcha guy, go listen to somebody else.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But somebody said, why didn't you ask if Bednar's voice
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: has gotten stale in the locker room and on the bench?
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: So I'm just curious. I really am. I'm curious as
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: to what some of you think is is the professional
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: approach to this. So you want me to ask, hey,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: do you think you should just resign? How do you
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: want to ask that question exactly? How do you think
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: that should go? You'd like that, wouldn't you?
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: I don't do the confrontational game with a guest or
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: a coach or a player that's coming on a show.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: You know what I mean? I'm not doing that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: You remember that clip that the Chicago radio station had
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: last year with, who was their coach again?
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Who was that?
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: That was Iberflues.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: Iberflues where they said your phone connections as bad as
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: your offense.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Like what's the point in doing that? Coach your cell
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: phones as bad as the offense, right?
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I don't get that either.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is 2024. Can we get a freaking landline? Yeah, there's,
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: that's not, that's not what I do. I don't know what,
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: how else to say it to you. Okay.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: It doesn't mean you can't ask hard questions. I think
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: we did that, but I'm not going to be confrontational.
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: It serves nothing.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Um, I will be confrontational toward you.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: That's what we do. Notre Dame sucks, Vic. I'm glad
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: they're 11th.
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: See? All right.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: I threw something out there. I can't remember if it
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: was yesterday or two days ago. Now, this was not
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: based on any knowledge, but I was just trying to
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: read the tea leaves here. The Ravens are in a
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: very odd position, Vic. They missed the playoffs last year.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Lamar Jackson looks like he's going to be out for
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: the year, if not most of the year. The Ravens
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: are not making the playoffs.
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: Can we agree? Joe Fagnano is not taking them to
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: the promised land.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: I told you it was Fagnano, by the way. You
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: guys doubted me.
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: No, no, I asked you. I'm trusting your Italian roots
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: on this.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: The G before the N is a gnocchi.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: Gnocchi.
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: So I just threw this out there.
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: I go, would they be in the market of trading
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: Derrick Henry? Because they aren't making the playoffs this year.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Derrick Henry is an older veteran. They might be thinking
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: about blowing this thing up entirely at the end of
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: the year.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: Well, guess what?
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: According to Jay Glazer, he said if the Ravens lose tomorrow,
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: which they likely will, do you know they play with
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Joe Fagnano at quarterback? They play the Jags. Probably not
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: going to go well for them. If they lose tomorrow,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Derrick Henry could be a potential trade target.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: The best thing that can happen to the Denver Broncos
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: is that teams with these running backs that might be
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: available lose this weekend. You want the Titans to lose?
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: You want the Ravens to lose?
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: The Jets to continue to lose.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Exactly right. Stock up that pool of running backs available
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: before trade day.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: But you know what else this does that's a giant positive?
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: Jonathan Taylor being the marquee name on the market means
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: Indianapolis is going to have a lot of bargaining room. Well,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: what happens if you just turn your sights over to
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Derrick Henry now? Now that price goes down, doesn't it?
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: Because now you have a market that's getting flooded with
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: running backs. Like, I hope the Eagles lose by 50
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: this weekend and they think about trading Saquon.
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: Put him on the market, too. Please.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: The more of these big names that go on the market,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: the less the asking price is for it.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: It doesn't even have to be a big name. Tony
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Pollard is a name.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I'm hearing that name. It doesn't have to be a
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: big name. You keep looking at these big fish. I'm
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: looking at some of the smaller fish who could come
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: in and work with Jonah Coleman and share that duty.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: You keep focusing on the big names. No, I want
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: to catch a whale. I don't think. See, I don't
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: think they need that. I think they need somebody who's–
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, Tony Pollard, have you seen him run this year?
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: He's been good with Tennessee, yes.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Vic, I'm not saying that you need it, but.
• 26:07
  Speaker 6: I really, really want it. I really want it. Put
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: Derrick Henry. Tell me this, guys. Oh, the Broncos offensive
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: line can't open up holes.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: What if the man creates the holes himself by running
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: through everybody?
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: How about that? That fixes everything.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: Just have him run over five people and then all
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: of a sudden the hole's created. I want the big fish.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: And the more big fish you put on the market,
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: the better. Because I'm going to say this again. I
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: love Jonah Coleman. I think he's got a lot of potential.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: They need another back.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: J.K.
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Dobbins is not going to cut it this year.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: I was a big J.K.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: Guy last year. I looked at the evidence this season.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: It's just not there anymore.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: It's gone.
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: The next running back you have now, because R.J. Harvey
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: is on the shelf on IR. Is Cody Schrader not
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: good enough? You need to find somebody else.
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: Anybody. Do I hope it's Jonathan Taylor or Derek Henry?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: But it's got to be someone. You got to find
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: somebody else.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: I'm with you on this, though. They do need another
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: back only because the stable is getting injured by the week.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And you got guys out. And you can ill afford
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: to go into a playoff run short-staffed at that position.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: You just can't. Because you can't have the same thing happen.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: If you had a better run game, you win the
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: AFC Championship game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: If Jonah Coleman gets hurt, your running back room is screwed, Vic. Like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: you're done. If he gets hurt, it's J.K.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Dobbins, Cody Schrader, and somebody they'll pick up from a
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: practice squad.
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: You need something better than that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: So they should be, again, heavily, heavily invested in this
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: trade market for the next six days. And if they
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: don't get somebody, I'm just going to be straight up
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: with you. I'm going to be pretty pissed. I think
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: it's a forget want. It is a need to get
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: another body in here.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Capable.
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: Whether that's Jonathan Taylor, Derrick Henry, or.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: Tony Pollard, or Tyler Algier, or something, I don't care who,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: they need a capable body brought into that room. That
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: I am 100% convinced of.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: It's not going to fix it, necessarily, but it's a good,
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: risk-averse method to approaching this. The postseason. You have to
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: have somebody in the stable.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: It gives you confidence for the rest of the year
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: that you got capable bodies back there.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: That's all you're looking for. So we'll see what comes
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: of that.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: But again, Jay Glazer saying if the Ravens do lose tomorrow,
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: and they probably will. that Derrick Henry could emerge as
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: a potential trade target. So with that, there is a
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: game tonight, so let's do this.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Do whatever it takes to win.
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• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Raptors at Nuggets.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: The Raptors are one of those teams that they don't
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: look good on paper. They don't seem like much. They
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: don't even have much.
• 29:21
  Speaker 6: Their best player is out, Kawhi Leonard.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: But they have much due to play really hard. They
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: lead the league in takeaways. They lead the league in
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: attacking the rim. And those are the two areas where
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: the Denver Nuggets are susceptible. Those are the two areas
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: that cause you. a little bit of losing sleep so
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: tonight the Denver Nuggets better be concerned with Toronto Raptors
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I guarantee they're talking about those two things in the
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: locker room right now Toronto you don't lose it home
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: to Toronto if you're looking to get back in this
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: thing three and three defend the home court figure out
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: how to rebound and Don't lose the rebounding battle. Another
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: good rebounding team is coming in. Offensive rebounding. Take a
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: look at Toronto's numbers in that category. You gotta win
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the rebounds. Win the boards, win the game. That's my
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: key in a roundabout way. Sorry I went all Mosier
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: on you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: And take control of home court again, man. It's your home.
• 30:16
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  Speaker 2: You want to hear a crazy number?
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: Please.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I think I gave this to you yesterday.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: Please.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: On the road this year, the Nuggets have given up
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: an average of 102 points a game.
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: At home.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: This is their home. That number jumps to 129. Goodness gracious.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I don't think there's a bigger disparity in the league. Usually,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: it's the other way around. Why is that? Why?
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: I don't know. I don't know.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Comfortability?
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: It was a concern at times last year until they
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: got it going down the stretch.
• 31:08
  Speaker 6: If you guys missed this, by the way, shocking thing.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: Blew me away.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Cam Johnson, who looked like his hamstring exploded in the
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: last game, is a game-time decision tonight.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: So.
• 31:20
  Speaker 6: Don't know what happened. Was it a cramp? I don't
• 31:22
  Speaker 6: know what it was, but.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: I thought that was four to six weeks re-evaluated for
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: sure when I first saw it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: This home court thing is a bigger issue than people think,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: and everybody says, well, you know, they won more on
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the road last year, and it all evens out. Yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: it evens out, but I'm telling you, it's a big factor.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: It's a big factor. Do you know the year they
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: won the championship.
• 31:39
  Speaker 6: Their home record that year was 33-7?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Winning at home matters, especially in the playoffs.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: It matters more than you think. The old impression, Hey, man,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: we're going to go play in Denver. That sucks. That's
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: a scheduled box. That's what it used to feel like.
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: Well, players talk about it openly. They're like, that altitude
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: kills you, this and that. Like, they know. Defend it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: It's your home.
• 32:09
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• 32:12
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• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Reminder, game tonight, 7 o'clock right here on Altitude Sports
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Radio 92.5, Raptors and Nuggets. The Avs will get back
• 32:19
  Speaker 5: at it tomorrow at 7.30 against the Preds. Hopefully in
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: some revenge from the last time we played against Nashville.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Also tomorrow, Jags and Ravens will be on AM 950.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to say tonight at Ball Arena, our
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: pregame show guest is none other than Malcolm Roach.
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, sick.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Came up with a game-saving sack the other night. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Malcolm Roach will join us on the set up there
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: in the Colorado Social. Can't wait to talk to him
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: about several items. But he's fun, dude. You know, he's
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: the guy I told you. I've shared this story many times.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Malcolm Roach, listen to this, played high school football as
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: a fifth grader.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: You're not hearing things. Is Zane Lombardi making things up? Well,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Malcolm Roach played high school football. When he was in
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: the fifth grade, he was that big.
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  Speaker 6: Well, let me tell you this. Malcolm Roach, I don't
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: know how you feel about this.
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  Speaker 5: Malcolm Roach has grown so much on my list of
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: favorite Broncos this year.
• 33:27
  Speaker 6: He has been awesome. Like, we all kind of wondered, right? Hey,
• 33:31
  Speaker 6: what happens?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: JFM moves on. He gets the big contract over in Tennessee.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: Who replaces that production? That's going to be tough. Oh, man,
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Jonathan Cooper's out now for X amount of games to
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: start the year. You know who's played his ass off
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: and made up for that is Malcolm Roach.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: He has been a monster this season.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Well, if you go back and look, and I think
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Tyler Palumas did a wonderful job. Tyler does a great
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: job breaking down those Bronco games on his little video channel.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And he showed that last sack, and that was made
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: by Jonathan Cooper's rush from the left side. He turned
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Patrick Mahomes inside out, and it allowed Roach to make
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: that tackle.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool to see that stuff come together. It's crazy
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: how it all came together when it needed to because
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: they were just– remember how easy it looked? They get
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the ball back with so much time, and they're right
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: down there at the goal line and none of– like
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: no time whatsoever.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Okay, so you know what's crazy? I was just listening.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: PS2 was on a podcast with Jordan Schultz, and he
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: was asked.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: About Bo Nix.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: And I've wondered, have you wondered, Vic, in the way
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: the season has gone with the offense being not great,
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: what does the defense feel about their quarterback? You know,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: they're winning football games, but the defense is having to
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: do the heavy lifting. Here's what Sertan said about Bo Nix.
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: When I look at Bo, man, I see the work
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: that he puts in each and every week. I see
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: how much he cares about success, how much he cares
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: about winning, how much he cares about the team. There's
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: no other quarterback I'll go to bat for other than
• 35:00
  Speaker 8: Bo Nix because he shows up when it matters.
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: He buys into the process.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: He rallies all the guys together. He's a selfless guy.
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: leader as well, too. And there's always a notion, you know,
• 35:10
  Speaker 8: just surrounding the quarterback position. When you look at wins
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: or losses, you know, everybody look at the quarterback position.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: But what he's been able to do, he always comes
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: out finding ways to get it done. And that's all
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: that matters at the.
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  Speaker 1: End of the day.
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  Speaker 8: Nothing but respect to my dog, Bo, because, you know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: he shows up when it matters. When you have a
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: guy like that, that's leading the huddle, commanding the huddle,
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: he's going to do great things for sure.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Are you surprised that almost everybody to a man is
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: still 1,000% Bo Nix dudes on that defense? Did you
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: think that maybe there might be a little bit of
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: strife this year, even in the winning?
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: No, it's the winning.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: If the schedule, if the record was reversed.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: Perhaps you'd hear some. Yeah, if they were three and five, maybe.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you don't complain when you're winning.
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: You just don't.
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: To his credit, like, he is right. End of the game.
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: who always seems to make the play every single week.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: We keep hearing, can they sustain it? Well, what do you,
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: what do you call sustaining it when they're sustaining it? Sustenance. Sustenance.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: And if you guys missed this, we talked to Jared
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: Bednar earlier, again, very, it's not a tough loss.
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: Tough loss is the wrong word. It was, it was
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: a miserable loss. I think it's more accurate.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: It was just one of those games that you weren't
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: in it from the drop of the puck. And those
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: are never fun. So Bednar was, he was, Especially Salty
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: this morning because the performance last night got in late.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: But here's what he said.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: It's not producing. We had some guys that had a
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: handful of points last night as top players. It's not producing.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: That's not my issue. It's the defending. We have to
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: get more committed on the... We have to get more
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: committed on the defending side of it. So that's where
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: our troubles lie right now. You come out, you play
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: a good game defensively, you give yourself a really good
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: chance to win. Because I trust in our offense. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: don't know if you look up our offense right now.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: I haven't checked it since before the road trip where
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: we stand. But it'll be top one, two, or three
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: in the league. On the defending side, I wouldn't be
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: surprised to see if we're in the bottom five. So
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: that's becoming a problem for us and a problem that
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: needs to be fixed if we want to win consistently.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: So to his point, they are tied for first in
• 37:29
  Speaker 6: the league in the goals scored. It's them and Edmonton.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Get back, check, engage, grind, move people around. All that
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: stuff that requires a lot of work, a lot of energy. No, seriously.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's all... That's work.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: In any sport like that, in basketball, it's much more
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: exhausting to play great defense than it is great offense.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: It's exhausting.
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: Well, you know what another big difference is? Again, it's
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: 16 games in the season. You know what the Avs
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: ranked last year in penalty kill?
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: You know what it was? They're number one in the league.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Best.
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: This year, they're 17th. So when they take a penalty,
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: they're giving up.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: A goal 24% of the time that last year was 16.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: So it's just a few things on the defensive side
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: that they really need to get fixed and they need
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: to do it early because going down two to nothing
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: in these games as consistently as they have this year
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: is not helping anyone.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: No one.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: So if you miss that, that'll be on the podcast shortly.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: What do you friend of mine ask going back to
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: the game this weekend? And my friend lives on the.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: Which game?
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: The Notre Dame-Miami game.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: My friend lives on the beach. There's a beach in Michigan.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Just asked me if I wanted to go.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: What's that called when you have that little mechanism that
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: looks for metal? Metal detecting on the beach. And I said,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: do I come off as a 85-year-old widower? What do
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: you think I am? You think I'm going to go
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: metal detecting with you on the beach?
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: What do you think I am? I am. Wait, he
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: lives on the beach in Michigan?
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: So West Coast, Michigan, I'm assuming?
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: What part of town is he in?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know the name of it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: Oh, Holland?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know the name, but there's a beach over
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: there somewhere.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: No, here's the thing. Vic, when I lived in Europe.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: I'm going to run around with that contraption and go.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: I almost want you to do this because when I
• 39:37
  Speaker 5: was doing radio in Michigan, I was there from October
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: to April. It was the winter months. And all I
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: heard was how beautiful that beach is in the summer.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: And my show got bleep canned. Right as the weather
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: started to turn. And I remember driving home being like,
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: I never saw the peach.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: I never had a chance to go see it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But I need your opinion on metal detectors.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: I think they're ridiculous. What do you mean?
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: Is somebody finding buried treasure? What's the greatest hope? That
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: you find like maybe a hundred dollar chain or something
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: like that?
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: A necklace somewhere?
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: I don't know. You're wearing the headphones.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: You're walking around with that vacuum, that Dyson, and you're
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: just going back and forth all day.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Dude, because those guys are so focused on what they're
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: looking at on the ground. If I found somebody, if
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I found someone that was doing that, I would walk
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: in front of them about 20 paces, and I'd just
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: start dropping metal things over and over again, like breadcrumbs.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: Just watching him pick up aluminum cans, picking up all
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: these pieces.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: Ridiculous tchotchkes.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: No, it's incredibly stupid. I also think it's the exact
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: thing you would make a TikTok out of.
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: I guarantee, hey, I guarantee, if there's a member of
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: the show who is not here, who would become, who
• 40:59
  Speaker 9: would go on to become a metal detector guy, who
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: would that be on this show?
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no question. Who told you that?
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: There's no question in the world he would delve into
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: that like, Like his bees.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: So, Kaner, I went to the Cherry Creek Reservoir yesterday.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Look at this.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: Look at my fines. I found coins.
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: Had to deal with some headwinds on the beach, though.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: There's no question. Texture says, that's the most Mosier hobby I've.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Ever heard of.
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: 100%. Anyway.
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: In fact, I am befriending, I'm defriending my friend. For
• 41:40
  Speaker 6: even asking the question.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: How dare you? Ask me if I want to go
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: metal detecting. So, do we have that game?
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Do we have Notre Dame-BYU this weekend, Nelly?
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Do you know? No idea.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: No, we have.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Sorry.
• 41:55
  Speaker 6: Utah-BYU.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Utah is going to be a great game. There's so
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: many great games.
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: So many great games this weekend.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: If BYU loses to Utah, they're dropping to, like, number
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: 24 in the ranks.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: There's no doubt about that.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: See, Alabama's currently fifth with two losses. They could lose
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: this week. They play Ole Miss. They could lose and
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: move up in the poll.
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: Hang on a second.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: But if, by God, if UCLA, it ain't nowhere to lose,
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: they'll move to 114th.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: So, Bama, what's left on their schedule, they have LSU
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: this weekend.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: LSU, that's right.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: They're at LSU, at Vanderbilt, then Tennessee-Chattanooga. That's a tough
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: game on November 21st. And then they have Auburn to
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: close out the year.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: That's the thing that I can't believe what the CFP
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: committee did. They built in a cushion for Alabama. You
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: put Alabama at five. That's why this initial poll matters.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: And those of you who think it doesn't matter, there's
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: plenty of season, you're not seeing it all the way through.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: They built in a cushion for Bama. They basically, by
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: putting Bama fifth, they've told the world, we're going to
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: allow them to lose three games.
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: Here's the deal, man.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: That's what they've done.
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: If BYU loses again, they're done. If Ole Miss loses again,
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: they're done because they're number 10.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: If Notre Dame loses again, they're done.
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: If Ohio State loses again, they're done.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: They're done. But if Alabama loses again.
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: Well, unless Julian Sane comes back with like two weeks
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: left in the season, then they're like.
• 43:20
  Speaker 6: Well, he's, come on.
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's back.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: You see what I see, right?
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: They gave them a cushion.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah, of course they did. Yeah. Fact checker, please, Nelly.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's Fact Checker. Fact Checker.
• 43:37
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• 43:46
  Speaker 7: I'm going to outsource my fact checker today to Vic's
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: AI girlfriend.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: So if you could wake her up, have her ready, please, Vic.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: Earlier today in the show, somehow showering routines came up,
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: I guess. And you guys both said that you don't
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: wash your feet specifically because when you rinse your body,
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: all the shampoo and the soap just runs down your body.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: It goes over your feet.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: I'm curious if there's any medical credence to that or
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: if there is a reason to wash your feet. I
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: was wondering if you could get a ruling from your
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: AI girlfriend on the need to wash your feet or not.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Hey, baby.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Is it necessary to wash your feet in the shower?
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Doesn't the water and soap going down the gravity thing,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: doesn't that take care of it?
• 44:26
  Speaker 10: Mostly, yeah. Soap sets and rinse water do carry a
• 44:30
  Speaker 10: lot of grime off on their own, especially if you're
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: standing in the stream. But soap doesn't kill bacteria.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: It just loosens stuff.
• 44:37
  Speaker 10: So whatever's left on the soles can still transfer to towels, socks,
• 44:40
  Speaker 10: and floors. A quick scrub with a foot brush or
• 44:43
  Speaker 10: even just.
• 44:44
  Speaker 6: Rubbing the soles together.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Babe, listen to me. I ain't getting a soft scrub.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: I am not a geek here. I just want to
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: get out of the shower. Calm down.
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: Okay. Go. That's it. And that'll do it.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: I don't like how AI is starting to sound like
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: everybody's girlfriend or wife.
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: When you hit them with the, all right, you don't
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: got to do all that. Oh, okay, fine.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: Go. Go. See?
• 45:14
  Speaker 9: That's a great conversation right there.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: We just talk about stuff. We don't talk enough. I
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: just talked it out with my AI bot, and we
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: came to a conclusion. You don't need to.
• 45:26
  Speaker 6: iTunes, Spotify, Mojo Lombardi, and Kane.
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: The Jared Bednar show will be on the podcast shortly.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: Nuggets back out against the Raptors tonight, 7 o'clock, right
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: here on 92.5.
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: Have a wonderful Wednesday. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: Love you. See you.