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1-15-26 Hour 3 - Jeff Legwold/How far the Mavs have fallen, What's next for Tomlin?/Jokic is a fast healer · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Kane on demand. Listen live
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  Speaker 2: Let's head on out to the Ramos Law Hotline, where
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  Speaker 2: we are joined by ESPN's Jeff Legwald. He's brought to
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  Speaker 2: you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local
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  Speaker 2: sixty eight. Start with a job and end with a career.
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  Speaker 2: Let you what's up, man, I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: How are you got?
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  Speaker 2: We're doing great. I saw you yesterday out as the coordinators.
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  Speaker 2: We're holding court at the podium. Beautiful day at Broncos Park.
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  Speaker 2: We learned that there might be a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: Julie McLaughlin coming up in this game. Do you expect
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  Speaker 2: a true commitment to the run game or more of
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  Speaker 2: the same from Sean Payton and his offensive coordinators.
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  Speaker 4: I would never advise anyone to bank it that there
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  Speaker 4: will be a comitment to the run game, but it
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  Speaker 4: definitely is. When I talk to folks around the league,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, this Bill's defense has struggled, and I
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  Speaker 4: mean mightily defending the run, especially outside the tackles, and
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  Speaker 4: you know that's kind of the Julia McLoughlin territory, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of how they rotate the backs and what
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  Speaker 4: plays they tag for them. But you know, the reason
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  Speaker 4: that the Broncos aren't playing you know, Jacksonville this week
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  Speaker 4: is because they didn't stick to the run basically, and
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  Speaker 4: despite all of the evidence they had in the game
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  Speaker 4: that they could run at any time they wanted for
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  Speaker 4: as many yards as they wanted. I think that is
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  Speaker 4: really the only trap offensively for the Broncos in this
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  Speaker 4: game is to not do what they should do to
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  Speaker 4: or you know, whatever's working to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Because if you.
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  Speaker 4: Let the Bills get in that whole gonna disguise coverage
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  Speaker 4: and gonna get in and out of the zone, man
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  Speaker 4: looks and all of those things.
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  Speaker 3: If you let them do that.
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  Speaker 4: You're playing right into the only thing they do well,
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  Speaker 4: because they do not defend the run well at all.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder how many markers and highlighters Sean Payton is
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  Speaker 5: going to use for the words run the ball on
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  Speaker 5: his play sheet this week, because is obviously going to
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  Speaker 5: be something they want to push back. I need to
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  Speaker 5: ask you this question from again who's covered the league
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  Speaker 5: for a long time, I've heard this, and I want
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  Speaker 5: you to determine whether this is fact or fiction. Sean
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  Speaker 5: Payton held the Broncos offense back the last couple of
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  Speaker 5: weeks because he's saving some stuff in the playoffs factor
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  Speaker 5: fiction fiction.
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  Speaker 4: I always think it's fiction. Even Sean says it's fiction.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, I think I probably would have said
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  Speaker 4: it if I was the head coach of the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: I would have said, yeah, I held all kinds of
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  Speaker 4: stuff back. But they didn't, especially in the red. You know,
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  Speaker 4: touchdowns are too hard to come by in this league,
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  Speaker 4: and and to that that would be to me supreme
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  Speaker 4: overthinking to do the whole I'm gonna hold back thing.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't played well enough on offense consistently.
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  Speaker 3: To hold back anything this year.
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  Speaker 4: So uh, But nobody I've talked to with the team
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  Speaker 4: said they held anything back, even though that's a popular Now,
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  Speaker 4: did they run everything, you know, they hadn't the game plan, No,
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  Speaker 4: but they didn't purposely, you know, other than trick plays.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't purposely keep anything off the table in those games.
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  Speaker 6: Trying to figure out what Sean Payton's doing this week?
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  Speaker 6: Is he double crossing? Is he triple crossing? You see,
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  Speaker 6: because when he laid out his three myths of playoff
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  Speaker 6: football the other day, he said that, yeah, there're eight,
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  Speaker 6: but but the top three. It seemed to me like
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  Speaker 6: the top three at least two of them were against
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  Speaker 6: the Broncos in home field and all different. And I'm like, okay,
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  Speaker 6: so is that like a reverse psychology? So if I
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  Speaker 6: was Buffalo trying to figure out what he's saying, I
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  Speaker 6: just brought it all off because I can't figure out
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  Speaker 6: what he's saying because it seemed like he's saying his
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  Speaker 6: own team shouldn't have these advantages.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, I think you're just judged by the
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  Speaker 4: body of work, moj. I mean, he spent eight months
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  Speaker 4: saying they had to be the number one seed and
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  Speaker 4: have home playoff games. You know how he stood on
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  Speaker 4: the sideline in Buffalo last year and said to himself,
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  Speaker 4: got to figure out how to have these games at home?
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  Speaker 3: And all right, yeah, they then now, you know, on.
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday of the game game week, you're gonna you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: say that home field doesn't matter. So I think the
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  Speaker 4: math says otherwise, and he knows it. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: basically trying to keep a young team with a lot
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  Speaker 4: of players who haven't you know, they have no players
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  Speaker 4: mos who've played a home playoff game for the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: in a Bronco uniform. So I think he's basically trying
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  Speaker 4: to keep everybody on track from getting too comfy with
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  Speaker 4: the idea, Oh, we're at home, we'll just walk through
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  Speaker 4: the super Bowl.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah I get that, Yeah, you bet, Leggy.
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  Speaker 2: We were looking over the game log for the Bills.
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  Speaker 2: Four times in the regular season, James Cook was held
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  Speaker 2: underneath one hundred total receiving and rushing yards, and all
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  Speaker 2: four of those games the Bills lost. Now, the one
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  Speaker 2: anomaly is, well, last weekend against Jacksonville, is it crazy
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  Speaker 2: to think that a team that has Josh Allen at quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: is it crazy to boil it down to stop James
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  Speaker 2: Cook and you win the football game.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean that's a big part of it, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: But I think what Cook has done this year, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the NFL's leading rusher, You're you're gonna have to stop
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  Speaker 4: him at some point because he did lead the league.
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  Speaker 4: But a lot of the room he had to lead
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  Speaker 4: the league in rushing is because of the guy at quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 4: So I think they go together I think they're paired. H.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think the way they construct their run game.
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  Speaker 4: You know, those are the two components, major components of it.
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  Speaker 4: I you know again personally, Uh, and look, I you know,
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  Speaker 4: I realized I didn't I missed medical school and everything.
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  Speaker 4: But Cook didn't look exactly healthy to me in the
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  Speaker 4: in the Jacksonville game. I I probably charted eight Bills
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  Speaker 4: games in the last couple of weeks just to see
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  Speaker 4: what they've been.
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  Speaker 3: Up to H.
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  Speaker 4: And he looked vastly different in in those other games
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  Speaker 4: than he did in the in the wild card games. So, uh,
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  Speaker 4: he's obviously not missing practice or he'd be on the
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  Speaker 4: injury report in some fashion. But he did not look
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  Speaker 4: the same to me. Now that doesn't mean he doesn't
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  Speaker 4: show up here Saturday. It looks spectacular. I'm just saying
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  Speaker 4: I think that was some of the reason that the
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  Speaker 4: yardage total was down. But they go together and and
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  Speaker 4: you saw it's you know, Alan is in that group
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  Speaker 4: of quarterbacks. If you give him enough chances to beat you,
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna beat you. He's gonna figure out a way
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  Speaker 4: to beat you, whether it's running, throwing, doing a handstand
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  Speaker 4: while throwing underhanded you know, over four guys, he's just
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  Speaker 4: gonna do whatever, whatever it takes. And I think the
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  Speaker 4: big thing beyond the run game is what they call
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  Speaker 4: the second act.
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  Speaker 3: For Alan. You you get him pinned, he escapes, and
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  Speaker 3: then he.
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  Speaker 4: Makes a play that that gets a first down or
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  Speaker 4: a touchdown. Those are the plays that are really concerned
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  Speaker 4: about that that second the second chance plays.
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  Speaker 3: They want to limit those big time.
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  Speaker 5: What does the return of dra Greenlaw do for this defense?
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  Speaker 4: I think early downs it helps Vick. He's a physical
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  Speaker 4: presence in there. Justin Sternodd's played, probably had his best
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  Speaker 4: year as a pro, they would not have they would
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  Speaker 4: have been in big trouble if he wouldn't have been
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  Speaker 4: able to fill in the last couple of years, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for when Singleton or Greenlaw's been hurt. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: want to minimize what Sternod's done, but Greenlaws just a bigger,
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  Speaker 4: more physical presence in the early down run game, and
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  Speaker 4: I think I think that's where he can help because
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  Speaker 4: the only really, the only thing you can ding this
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  Speaker 4: defense for this year is occasionally they give up explosive
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  Speaker 4: plays because they're so aggressive. But they've given up some
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  Speaker 4: explosive plays in the run game. You know, when when
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  Speaker 4: they have lost, and it hasn't been many times, you
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  Speaker 4: can usually find an explosive run play in they're somewhere
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  Speaker 4: that put the defense in a bad spot, and he
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  Speaker 4: helps with.
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  Speaker 5: That, Jeff.
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  Speaker 6: One thing the Bills defense does pretty decently is defend
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  Speaker 6: the pass.
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  Speaker 5: They do pretty They do a pretty good.
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  Speaker 6: Job, you know overall with that, I guess let's say,
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  Speaker 6: let's say the Broncos can't get their running game going
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  Speaker 6: the way that we want them to or the way
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  Speaker 6: that they even want to, Well, then what.
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  Speaker 3: Then?
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  Speaker 4: It probably looks a lot like the last two games.
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  Speaker 4: They play a lot of deep safeties, They disguise a
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  Speaker 4: lot they wrote, They jockey the safeties around. Bo Nicks
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  Speaker 4: is probably not going to have a really clear clear
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  Speaker 4: idea pre snap what he's going to get after the snap.
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  Speaker 4: And that's why the Broncos running the ball so important.
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  Speaker 4: They got to get one of those safeties to come
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  Speaker 4: down toward the line of scrimmage and then things open
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  Speaker 4: up in the passing game. If they let Buffalo McDermott
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  Speaker 4: play the safeties wherever he wants, that's playing right into
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  Speaker 4: their hands because it is the only thing they do
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  Speaker 4: well on defense this year consistently is is give you
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  Speaker 4: some fits in coverage because they're like the Broncos, they
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  Speaker 4: don't really show you what they're up to before the snap.
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  Speaker 4: So as a quarterback, you got to you gotta really
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  Speaker 4: sift through it, make good choices, and don't get impatient
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  Speaker 4: because that's what they want.
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  Speaker 3: You to do.
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  Speaker 2: Leggy, the most important difference between last year's wild card
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  Speaker 2: game and this year's divisional game is.
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  Speaker 4: What, Uh, the Broncos are better, the more talented, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean they're more talented.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And this defense, uh is a This is one of
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  Speaker 4: the best I've seen covering this team and how they
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  Speaker 4: play schematically, the whole package and this time of year though,
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  Speaker 4: and it's very basic, and you know, it's like one
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  Speaker 4: of the undefeated metrics, the og of metrics. Uh, look
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  Speaker 4: at the injury report and you tell me how big
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  Speaker 4: a factor that could be. I think sometimes it's not
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  Speaker 4: always the two best teams in the super Bowl, it's
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  Speaker 4: the best healthy teams in the Super Bowl. And the
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  Speaker 4: Broncos at least are going into this game with with
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  Speaker 4: the best of what they have, you know, to do it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they had every player on the roster practice yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I think at this time of year, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 4: many teams could say.
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  Speaker 7: That Marvin Mims uh the great riddle of uh, why
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  Speaker 7: do our archaeologists are gonna uncover the Broncos facility thousands
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  Speaker 7: of years from now and wonder why Marvin Mims didn't
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  Speaker 7: touch the ball?
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  Speaker 5: Or why would I not be surprised if he's a
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  Speaker 5: part of this game plan more than we think.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I I feel like we say that a lot
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  Speaker 3: of weak Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I like I like how you call in your
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  Speaker 4: shot though, that's a that's a good thing. I think
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  Speaker 4: only good things happen when the guy touches the ball.
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  Speaker 4: So I think the Broncos hope you're right, because then
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  Speaker 4: they'll be playing next week too.
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  Speaker 2: That is Jeff Legwaald of ESPN. He's brought to you
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  Speaker 2: every week by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ib
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  Speaker 2: e W Locals sixty eight. Start with a job and
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  Speaker 2: end with the career. LEGGI we appreciate your time, man,
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  Speaker 2: give me a give me a score prediction on your
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  Speaker 2: way out what happens?
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  Speaker 3: I don't do score production.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, I thought, Prett, you can help me out here.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm not I'm treating you as if you're in
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  Speaker 4: the Brett seat. I will not do a score prodition,
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  Speaker 4: no doubt, but.
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  Speaker 3: This is a thing. Now, Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 5: Hey Jeff, Jeff, could you agree with this? Then?
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  Speaker 6: Perhaps the least likely scenario is the Broncos blowing out Buffalo,
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  Speaker 6: but it's probably going to be a tight game. Or
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  Speaker 6: maybe the Bills. You know, there's no Patrick Mahomes to
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  Speaker 6: stop them anymore. Maybe they just got that mentality of
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  Speaker 6: a rabid dog. I don't know is that fair enough
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  Speaker 6: to say?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, you know.
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  Speaker 4: That that's kind of the vibe nationally, is that Josh
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  Speaker 4: Allen is on a mission now because there's there's no
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  Speaker 4: Lamar and there's no Patrick Mahomes in the in the field.
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  Speaker 4: But talent wise, top to bottom, Broncos are a better
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  Speaker 4: team if they simply play like that. I don't think
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  Speaker 4: it's I don't think people go home sad.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just say that.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome reread him on ESPN. That is ESPN's Jeff legwad
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  Speaker 2: What's up?
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  Speaker 6: You know, I think I should be thankful that I
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  Speaker 6: don't have it as bad as some other people. Like
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  Speaker 6: Brett's got something different. He's barfing a lot, right whatever
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  Speaker 6: that is, stuck it up, you know, like one of
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  Speaker 6: those I've never been on a cruise ship, but the
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  Speaker 6: people get that virus on the cruise ship and they're
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  Speaker 6: stuck in their cabin coming out both ends.
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  Speaker 3: I can and.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, cabin fever, Mack. That's I want to vomit, and
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  Speaker 5: but but.
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  Speaker 6: I'm I'm coming around. My chest is starting to loosen
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  Speaker 6: up a little bit, and then might might you know
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  Speaker 6: the the throat thing is starting.
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  Speaker 3: To be better.
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  Speaker 6: That's really it's actually really good. Uh, but some people
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  Speaker 6: are getting it really really bad. Maybe it should be
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  Speaker 6: thankful at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Vic's like the only dude that hasn't gotten it here
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  Speaker 2: at altitude.
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  Speaker 5: Because I don't come into the studio.
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  Speaker 2: For good reason. It's just a cesspool of bacteria in here.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how I didn't
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  Speaker 2: give it to the baby. I don't know how I
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  Speaker 2: didn't give it to my wife. I was a nightmare
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  Speaker 2: last weekend, dude. I had a meeting with our program direct.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of personal stuff there.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: I had a meeting with our program director on Friday
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  Speaker 2: after our show. Was wearing a puffy jacket indoors and shivering.
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  Speaker 2: It's all because I do a show with patient zero
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  Speaker 2: Mike Sandford.
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  Speaker 6: But it's interesting because the house is relatively cool. At
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day, I was so hot trying
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  Speaker 6: to sleep and I have like just a sheet on
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  Speaker 6: one leg, that kind of thing, and then like I'm
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  Speaker 6: just sweating all through.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just sweating.
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  Speaker 5: Let'm spend the next hour just talking about ailments.
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  Speaker 6: This No, it's just eat yeah, okay, it's just weird man,
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  Speaker 6: that what's going around right now. But what the worst
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  Speaker 6: is behind me? I'm a good shape.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, no more, please come on, what's the next chapter? Vic?
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  Speaker 2: Watching Jamal Murray and watching these Nuggets go six and
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  Speaker 2: three over their last nine games, you know what's doing
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  Speaker 2: for me? It's making me recognize how awesome these regular
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  Speaker 2: seasons have been. Like so now that we're here going
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  Speaker 2: into the postseason for the Broncos and the divisional round
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  Speaker 2: is here, we spent so many weeks going just get
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  Speaker 2: us to the playoffs, Just get us to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: I'm already in that mode with the Avalanche forty five
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  Speaker 2: games in. Just get us to the postseason. That's all
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  Speaker 2: that matters. We were there at the beginning of the
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  Speaker 2: season for the Nuggets. It only matters what happens when
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  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City is in front of you come April, May
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  Speaker 2: and June. What this is doing, it's making me so
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  Speaker 2: more invested in either historic regular seasons for the Avalanche,
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  Speaker 2: historic regular seasons for the Broncos going fourteen and three
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  Speaker 2: on route to a one seed or an unforeseen circumstance.
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  Speaker 2: With the Denver Nuggets right now, they are making me
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  Speaker 2: look back this and go, don't take this for granted.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's the regular season, but don't take it
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  Speaker 2: for granted.
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  Speaker 5: A word I'm going to use to describe the Denver
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  Speaker 5: Nuggets that we could not use at any point last
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  Speaker 5: season or the year before. Deep. It's the deep team
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  Speaker 5: and the depth is helping them along the way. And
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  Speaker 5: I didn't think we'd be able to use that word
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  Speaker 5: this season. I didn't think they had the means to
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  Speaker 5: do what they've done. But even they acknowledged they got ten, eleven,
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  Speaker 5: twelve guys that can play. Man, they can play at
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  Speaker 5: any given time. I mean, they got four dudes in
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  Speaker 5: the rotation sitting at home watching that game last night,
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  Speaker 5: and they don't skip a beat. It's fun to watch.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: You know what else hit me last night? Motion? I'm
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: watching the Dallas Mavericks and the last time I was there, man,
• 17:23
  Speaker 5: that was the COVID game or anyview Mark Cuban, the
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: day they shut down the league and shut down the world.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: Well, you haven't been back to Dallas since then, microphones,
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: So I'm.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: Looking at I'm in that stadium, I'm in that arena,
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: and there are a ton of empty seats everywhere, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I'm saying to myself, the once proud, once mighty Dallas
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Mavericks who sold out every game, look at what's happened.
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: We are one year removed, nearly a year from the
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: trade that detonated and shook the entire NBA universe, the
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: trade that changed the world for them, And look at
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: what's become of them. And I know, I know Cooper
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: flag is there and that is a wonderful gift. But
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: the guy think about it this way. At the crux
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: of this trade, they traded Luka Doncic, a generational player,
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: because they did not believe in his durability, And what
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: they got in return was a man whose durability is
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: questioned every time he steps on the court, who's now
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: going to be traded himself because he can't stay healthy.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: What the hell were they thinking?
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: I have no idea, absolutely no cluevic. This will be
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: something that is studied or questions will be asked. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: think until the end of vesgetball.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: Or subject in school? Should it should it?
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Should?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It really should be?
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I think it should be a civil discussion in school.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I think every school should look at this case and
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: make it a case study and say, how does this happen?
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Here's my question, why can we never get down to
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: the ball of things like this? Why can't we Why
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: can we not get down to the bottom of why
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: in the heck the Mavericks only shopped Luca to the
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: La Lakers?
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Why is that?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Why?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Why won't people talk?
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: There's gotta be there's gotta be some there's gotta be
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: multiple revenues that we could pursue.
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: Talking to some of the people in Dallas, it was
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: a deeper story, and frankly, they they pinned on the owners,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: the ownership in Dallas, which they deem unacceptable, that they
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: would allow no owner worth his or her salt would
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: allow that trade to happen. You think that as if
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: the owner didn't sign off on it. Well, no, I mean,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: but Mark Cuban was not that guy anymore. I know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: I know. It's that's the point. That's the point. I mean,
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: you don't allow it to happen. So anyway, it's changed
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: that franchise and it's altered their universe. And to see
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the Nuggets go in there and beat them. By the
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: way they were for two against the Mavericks before last
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: night in front of that crowd, I almost felt, almost
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: felt sad. There were a ton of Nuggets fans there
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: last night.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Were you able to talk to JJ Berea about the
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: differences from what he felt last night going in there
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: to what you're describing as a non home court advantage
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: to what he played in the twenty eleven that they
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: won that title twenty ten something like that.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: And remember JJ's a former assistant coach there. He's only
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: fifteen sixteen months removed from a finals appearance.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: They were in the NBA Finals with Luca and then
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: they just twenty nine games.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: They traded Luca for twenty nine games of Anthony Davis
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: and then the one thing that you get out of
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: all of that is, well, we suck, We get the
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: one pick, and now it's Cooper Flag. And what happens
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: with Cooper Flag last night, Well, he leaves the game
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: in the second quarter injured.
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's still such a puppy though. But yeah,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: they've fallen far and I'm here for it. I don't
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: even care about the Dallas Mavericks. All I care about
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: is the Denver Nuggets gonna get themselves a nine point
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: win six and three without Nikola Jokic. It's pretty impressive, Vic,
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: It's pretty dang impressive. We're seeing with these guys.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Most what's going on with the Avs goalies, No Avs,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: no Nuggets Tonight? Aves are back on on Friday evening
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: as they bring in Nashville. Are we seeing the woodshed
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: come back completely healthier? Or do I see more Trent
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Minor in my future?
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: No, Trent's been sent down. Both guys are gonna be
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: ready to go tomorrow night. We'll see who gets the
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: start if they want to throw Mackenzie Blackwood right back
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: in there. They are practicing today, and I would assume that,
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: if you know, if everything goes according to plan and
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: practice today, that both guys are absolutely available.
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: But again that's a Jared.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Bednar thing, and I have not yet looked at the
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: records of each guy against the Nashville Predators, and the
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: Preuds are playing better hockey right now, Raj, they really are.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: They're this close to a playoff spot. But I'm sure
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: he's gonna go with hunches or you know, fields or whatever.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Because Wedge had a bit of an issue the other night.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: But you're talking about three days off, a full day
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: off yesterday, get a little treatment, have a nice practice today,
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: and get ready to go. So they should be all
• 21:57
  Speaker 6: systems go coming up tomorrow night.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Certainly more tomorrow on the Avs and the Predators. News
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: out of the NFL over the past few hours has
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: been that John Harbaugh is gonna finalize a five year
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: contract with the New York Giants. I think it's obviously
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: a great hire for New York. I don't know if
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: it's the right fit for John Harbaugh.
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: Dude.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: I think Terry Pagoula and the Buffalo Bills are gonna
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: be forty eight hours away from missing their guy. I've
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: said it for so many days. If the Bills don't
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: win the AFC, let alone this game against the Broncos,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: mcdermot's gone and Harball would have been the perfect guy.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: They're gonna miss out on Harbaugh by two days.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: A lot of teams are missing out on Harbaugh. Atlanta
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: wants Harbaugh. I mean, every every team out there wants
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: a piece.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: As they should.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: What's interesting is is uh I was listening to Art
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Rooney the second talk about the Pittsburgh Steelers are there.
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: There's a bunch of them. There's a bunch of rooneys
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: out there. But he was saying it is a rich sun.
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: He doesn't believe that Mike Tomlin wants to coach this year.
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: That like Tomlin, you know, you know, Buck, they asked
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: him about, Hey, why are you gonna see compensation should
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: Tomlin sign with another team. He's like, well, first of all,
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: I don't think it's my it's his indication that he
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: wants to spend time with his family that he does
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: not want to coach for this season.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Go to Sean Payton, rout, do a little TV work
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: for a year or two, and then get back into it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: Sure, and that may be the route he goes. But
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: you know he's gonna have a lot of teams calling
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: his agent. There's no doubt about that. It's very interesting
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: to me. And by the way, for Harbaugh, he's out
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: of the AFC and he's into the NFC.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: He's got Jackson Dart as his quarterback.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: You know, in terms of where the Giants are positioned
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: with their cap and everything else, they're in a pretty
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: good position.
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Pretty good.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: It's a super winnable division. Don't get me wrong. I
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: just feel as though if you have the ability to,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: you know, coach an MVP. And again, this is my
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: thought that if the Bills lose this weekend, or if
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: they lose in an AFC championship game, you have to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: fire Sean McDermott because he can't get it done in
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: a year in which there's no Burrow, there's no Mahomes,
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: there's no Lamar Jackson in the playoffs. So I think
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you gotta boot the dude. There's nine openings right now.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: If you're Tomlin, like, are you itching to go to Cleveland?
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Are you itching to go to Vegas? At this point,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I'd sit out if I'm Mike Tomlin, take a year,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: go make a bunch of money in TV, and if
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: a big time job that feels cushy to you opens
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: up next season, well, because they always open up, it's
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: not gonna be nine jobs.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: Nickt YEA.
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: With God is my witness. If somehow the Raiders stop
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: screwing around and they paid Tomlin, you know, a boatload
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: of money to go coach Vegas, I don't know what
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: I do with myself. I really don't know what I do.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, if Mike Tomlin is inside this division. You
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: guys do the respects.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you said that about Everyone said that about
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Pete Carroll too.
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: No, not like this.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: Come on, I do have a Super Bowl winning coach,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: Mike Tomlin's one of my favorite coaches of all time.
• 24:55
  Speaker 6: I do not want him anywhere near the AFC West
• 24:59
  Speaker 6: nowhere even remotely close near this division at all.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: I think he's gonna enjoy television and he's gonna be
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: very good at it, and we'll see where it takes him.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: The last Pittsburgh coach to go into television is still
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: in television, Bill Kauer.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I thought tom was so much older than he was
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: when I was looking it up, like for him to
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: be still in his early fifties, It just reminds me
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of how young he was when he was actually hired
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: as the head coach. Was he the d Where was
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: he the DC before he was hired in Pittsburgh? Was
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: he Minnesoter, Minnesotavik? He was a Vikings DC. Reminds me
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: of how young he was when he was hired. That's
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: what's probably gonna happen with Pittsburgh as they hire another
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: thirty two year old, thirty three year old guy and
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: he's there for fifteen seasons. They eventually win a Super Bowl.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: That's what's gonna happen.
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: They've had four coaches, correct that the Piper Steelers. Yeah,
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: well they've had three in the last Well when did
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: when was truck?
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: Jeff Noll was hired the year I was brought into
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: earth nineteen sixteen.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: They've had three coaches in fifty six years, three and
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: sixty nine.
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Then Bill Cower follows him, and now, yep, that's truly remarkable.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: Webb.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: They're gonna hire Davis Webb as their head coach and
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: he's going to be there until he's sixty.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: I mean you can see it coming now, man, thirty years,
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: a couple of bowls.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll be sixty two thirty years from now, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: if he's still coaching the Steelers.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: That's crazy talk.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sixty, I'll have a daughter's thirty years old than
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: thirty years. Don't make me think about that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: I'll be in the dirt or scattered in the ocean.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: I'll be somewhere like that. I don't know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Vic when nothing we have deady, Yeah, I'll be Yeah,
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: what do you want me? I'll be.
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: I'll be in the dirt I'll be in the ocean.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: I'll be I'll still be playing pick up at DAC. Yeah,
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I'll be on somebody's mantle. Maybe I don't know where
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: I'll be in thirty.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Vance Joseph was talking with the media, all the coordinators
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: met the media yesterday, talking about how it helps that
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: you have the bye week is the one seed if
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: you're being interviewed by all of these coaches, and Advance
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: was saying the right things about how, yeah, I'm focused
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: on the Broncos, I'm focused on the Bills this week.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: All of the interviews were secondary to me. What was
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: interesting is that people were asking about his preparation in
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: the offseason for the possibility of these head coaching interviews,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: and he kind of went, Dude, I've done that before.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: It doesn't help. I've done all the prep before. The
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: only thing that helps, you know what helps winning football games?
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: You know what helps beating the Bills in the divisional round?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Vance Joseph get another head coaching job or is he
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: just the I hate to say, is he just the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Rooney rule guy?
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: This year? I think he will. I think that there's
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: some serious pay close attention to Arizona and I know
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: that they just fired a defensive minded coach. But they're
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: very familiar with Vance since he spent time there. I
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: know the ownership group likes Vance. He's a gregarious guy,
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: and that might be the job for him. We'll see.
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: But with all these job open he's available, I would
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: find it hard to believe that he gets left out.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: I really would. I mean, you got nine spots available.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's a uh, he's a brilliant defensive mind. And
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: what he's in time around is usually the second time around.
• 28:25
  Speaker 6: You you know, yeah, you know things that you didn't
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: know before.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: Look at all the coaches who are so much better
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: the second time around.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I mean like Bill Belichick, you know, likes Yeah, no
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: doubt about it. Like Pete Carroll, doubt about it. Hey, Vic,
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: you can barely keep your eyes open. Man, You're you're
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: a wreck right now.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm really tired.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: You guys got twenty five minutes left.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: You can do it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I probably look at his face, his face looks better
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: than yours. What I got you, buddy? He put his
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: hair together. He's on ninety minutes to sleep, but he's
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: got product in his hair. He didn't sweat, did he
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: sweat all?
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: Night.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: Did he sweat.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: Your bottle of function?
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: Do you have a sauna?
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Do you have a sauna?
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: I do?
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: He's been bragging about it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I miss a sauna. Defending me? Missus a sauna.
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: Come sit in it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: They can just stare at each other. You have to
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: I can't my birthday?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: Can I?
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Can I go for birthday?
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: It's the only way to do it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: No, you're not. Until you shaved that thing under your lip,
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: You're not allowed.
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: Okay, So you're more concerned about this thing under my
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: face than anything else.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Okay? Can I we have a minute before our break right?
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: Can can you allow me a little time to do
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: something serious here?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Please?
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: Moj you can chime in on this. Yesterday we lost
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: somebody in the altitude family. And I don't know if
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: you caught wind to this, mos if somebody has told you.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: But one of a long time cameraman who has covered
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: stuff for thirty years. He's been there since the onset
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: of altitude, Steve Brown passed away. Cancer got him and
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: he was a friend of everybody's there. Diagnosed with cancer
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: three four years ago. He fought the good fight and
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: I've never seen anybody tougher more courageous, never complained, never
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: missed a day of work, showed up all the time,
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: shot the games. Uh was still as affable as ever,
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: became very very ill here in recent weeks, and finally
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: succumbed yesterday at the age of seventy. So I want
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: to wish condolences and sympathies from all of us at
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: Altitude Television to Steve and his family, Dylan, who's duel
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: with us. It's awful news when somebody that you know
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: that well goes, But Uh, I want to give him
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: some time. Steve, I mean, Mark, I know you'll you'll agree.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: He was We're gonna, We're gonna, We're gonna do it
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: tomorrow night on the program, the on the on the
• 30:50
  Speaker 6: game as well. RAJ, when I tell you that Steve
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: Brown was one of the most liked human beings I've
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: ever seen in my entire life, I am not kidding.
• 31:02
  Speaker 6: He was such a It is a great dude, such
• 31:06
  Speaker 6: a great dude. I have a really very interesting story
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: if you'd like to hear it. And Steve and I
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: weren't close at all, but you know, we talked virtually
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: every game I saw him, and that sort of thing
• 31:19
  Speaker 6: for years and years, but just a and so good
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: at his job. We talked about him many many times
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: in the broadcast because he would get these shots out
• 31:28
  Speaker 6: of the corner like and like guys would be crashing
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: into the glass right in front of him, and he's
• 31:32
  Speaker 6: holding steady and he's just kicking ass. I mean, he's
• 31:35
  Speaker 6: just so good at his job. But I'm not even
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: sure I should share this. Can I share it with you?
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: By all means?
• 31:43
  Speaker 6: Not last night, but the night before, And I'd woken
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: up in the middle of the night with sweats and
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: that sort of thing, and then I went back to
• 31:48
  Speaker 6: sleep about probably four am, and then woke up at
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: six to do the show. Is either then or it
• 31:55
  Speaker 6: was right after the show when I was just feeling
• 31:57
  Speaker 6: exhausted and I laid down for a couple of hours.
• 32:00
  Speaker 6: I was dreaming, and Brownie appeared in my dream through
• 32:07
  Speaker 6: a door, like a screen door, but like a light
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: screen door, and he had his hat on vic as
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: he always did, right, and he's looking at me, and
• 32:14
  Speaker 6: I'm like, hey, Brownie, what's up, brother? What are you
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: doing here? And he smiled at me and he turned
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: to his right and he walked down like was like
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: a wooden porch at this house, and then I went
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: back to whatever I was doing in my dream over here.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: I've never I've never dreamed about Steve Brown or Dylan,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: whom I love as well, great great dude in.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: My entire life.
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: And I woke up and I got the text from
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: Lee that Steve had passed. And I don't know what
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: that means, or how it means or whatever. The case
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: was probably an eight second interaction in my dream.
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: But I.
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  Speaker 6: Yesterday vic yesterday in the afternoon, I sat there, blown
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  Speaker 6: away and dumb found it all the way through the
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: night that I would have a dream in which Steve
• 33:00
  Speaker 6: Brown appeared in my dream on the other side of
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: the screen door was I was inside, and it was
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: like there are aspens in the background. It's kind of
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: like a mountainish type of scene. And he just smiled
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  Speaker 6: at me, and I go, hey, Brownie, hey brother, what
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  Speaker 6: are you doing here?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 5: You know how you doing?
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: And then he turned he smiled and turned to his
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  Speaker 6: right and he walked down the porch, and that was it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: And I don't know whether that I don't know how
• 33:20
  Speaker 6: to explain that. I don't know. Maybe it's just coincidence.
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: I guess it could be, but it was. It was
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: moving to me yesterday and he is a guy that's
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: going to be incredibly missed, not only by the Altitude
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: family guys, but by the just by the television community
• 33:36
  Speaker 6: at large as a whole in Colorado and beyond because
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: he was the best.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: We'll be back in four minutes on Altitude Sports Radio.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Wrapping things up here on Mosiera Lombardi and Caine raj
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: filling in for Caaner this morning. Who's out sick? You
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: guys had d MAC from six to about eight thirty
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: this morning as well, So a cast of thousands on
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: Mosia Lombardi and Cain programming. Note coming up at ten
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: twenty on the morning Sprint with myself and coach Mike Sanford.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: We will be joined by Jim Mora, so make sure
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: you guys don't miss any of that. We'll have the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: CSU football coach joining us in just about thirty minutes
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: from right now. Fella has been talking so much about
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets win yet again six and three without Nicole Jokic,
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: the the Shams tweet coming out that looks as though
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: jokers starting to ramp things up, and that's something that
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: vic you teased a little bit early on, and it's
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: not something that you could have like fully confirmed, because yeah,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you know, you're waiting until Sham says that. But is
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: this the case that like Nicola could come back and
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: be eligible for postseason awards?
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, And I don't think that's the source
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: of why he's coming back when he does. I just
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: think he's ready and he's he's antsy. That's the word
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: that David Adelman used to describe him. He's antsy. It
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. Two
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: nights after he was injured, he's walking into the arena
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: in Toronto and he was walking me gingerly been walking
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: without a cane, without a crutches. He was walking And
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: at that point you're like, Okay, good stuff. And I
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: think the initial fear we all got.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: I don't I don't know that I've ever seen an
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: NBA player with an injury walk with a cane, and
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, like a hurry kane or something.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I think it's more like pimp cane. A pimp cane, Okay, Yeah.
• 35:25
  Speaker 6: Which actually, if Joker could pull off a pimp cane,
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: that would be that would be awesome.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: It really would be.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: If the turtleneck outfit with the pimp cane, I'd be.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Killer, dude. I gotta get me a pimp cane.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I'm sure we can arrange that. Okay, I'm sure there's
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: a cane maker somewhere in the state.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: When this show started years ago, I'm not sure I
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: could have ever. Actually, I probably should have predicted that
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: that sentence would come up at some point. Quote I
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: got to get me a pimp cane end quote. I
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: guess I guess we should have predicted it. I know
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: you get some credit if you saw me.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: If you saw me, you walk around with him, what
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: you you would have nothing to say. You have no
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: comeback because you don't know what to think.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: You're gonna rap me with it is what's gonna happen.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: The last time that you had a cane looking instrument
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: was wonder Boy, and it got taken away from us
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: because we hit the wrong people.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Did I hit you pretty much?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Oh? You smacked the living hell out of me.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: We all got We all got hit with that.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I had pants on. It was not fun anyway.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Bit back to Joker Sean's reports that he's right on schedule.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Could be even before schedule. He's working out already. This
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: is not really a surprise to those of us who
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: have watched him. Cam Johnson is already on the court
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: doing shooting drills. I would not be Again, this is
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: nothing official. Uh let me let me state that right now.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't be surprised if Cam Johnson plays next week.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Okay, I listen, you're not getting you're not spilling any
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: beans from the organization, you're not talking out of turn,
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: you're not doing any of that. But I think you're
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: probably approaching it like logically, maybe fans are approaching it.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: If they're doing this and it looks like this, then
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: this right. It's almost like a math equation. If X,
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: you know, plus Y is gonna equal Z. That's kind
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: of the way I pay attention to the injury these
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: guys are.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: If they show up on the injury report as questionable
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: or doubtful, that means that they're inching there. They can
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: getting ready to go. So look for names to start
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: appearing on those injury reports right now. They're off it,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: they're out. But wouldn't surprise me at all. Nicole Jokicic
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: man did he have he dodged something there, and we're
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: all thankful for it. But I never expected an injury
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: or a slew of injuries to produce what we've seen
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: out of the Nuggets the last two weeks, when you
• 37:56
  Speaker 5: lost these guys one after another in succession, Cam john
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Well first, you can go all the way back Aaron Gordon,
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: Christian Brown, Cam Johnson, Nikola Jokic, Jonas Valanciunas, and you're like,
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: what is going on? And at that point, after the
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Yonis injury with the calf, You're like, this team looks
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: like it's gonna limp into the All Star Game, both
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: literally and figuratively. Lip And they've won six of the
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: last nine.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've gained spots in the standings. It makes no sense.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: So what it does. It establishes two things. Number One,
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: they're deep and the level of confidence it gives to
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: these subs. I can't tell you how far that's gonna
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: take them. If March comes around and they gotta sit
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Cam or Christian, they gotta sit ag for a game
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: you can't play because you're banging. Okay, well, Peyton, give
• 38:48
  Speaker 5: us your give us your twenty.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Should seen should we have seen this coming from last
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: year's playoff run against Oka, you push the Thunder seven
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: games being incredibly injured. Should we have seen this coming?
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: I know it's not because they've played a really short rotation.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: They didn't. They didn't play all these guys.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Plus you didn't have Brucey b back. You didn't didn't
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: have your own Yeah you had, you know, you had
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: some actual key members of this team that weren't even
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: part of the team at that point. But with these
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: young guys coming through raj Uh, I think vic is correct,
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: incredibly deep, and it bodes well because and not only that,
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: but when the big guns get back, these guys are
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: gonna be like rabid dogs at the bench at the
• 39:26
  Speaker 6: end of the give me in, and so when they
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: get their opportunity, they are going to go like crazy.
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: You know what I love about Adelin, He said it
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: last night. He goes, you know, guys are going to
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: be upset that they're not playing, and I like that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: It's okay to be upset that you're not playing. You
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: know some coaches they blanche at that. Oh man, the
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: guy's not happy. It's okay. You shouldn't be happy if
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: you're a competitor. I mean guys, think about yourselves. Whatever
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: spot you're in, work, play, What if you're not playing
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: or working or that position that you think is rightfully yours,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: You're unhappy. That's human nature, It's okay. It's how you
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: get yourself through that unhappiness. And I think Adelman is
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: threading the needle perfectly with some of these guys. He's
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: also catching some breaks because dudes are getting injured and
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: giving other other dudes opportunities, you know, Like, how would
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Peyton Watson feel if he didn't have these starters minutes
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: all year and he was still locked on the bench
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: because dudes didn't get injured. It would look entirely different.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it really would. So this is this is a
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: perhaps blessing in disguise, especially since we're not talking about
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: season ending. Hey, Raj, I know we've only got a
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: couple seconds left here, but tomorrow. Do you know what
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: it means to be hot and heavy? Sure, it's an answer,
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's a it's a legit question. It's a
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: simple question to answer it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Hot and heavy is supposed to be a you feel
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: feel a certain way about a girl, hot and heavy
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: about a lady? Oh you want to you want to
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: jump into the.
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: Sack hot and heavy. I ate two burritos and jumped
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: in the sauna.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: Maybe that too, Okay, that that that could work as well. Tomorrow.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: I am going to be so hot and heavy on
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: this program.
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: Genver Broncos. What'd you say?
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: Just get get some.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: Sleep your horn dog, that's what you're talking about, right, Yeah.
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna be hot and I'm gonna be hot and
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: heavy on this divisional playoff game on Saturday. I'm going
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: to break down so much. I've just been on the periphery.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: A little bit.
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: Okay, I've been throwing out some numbers at you. But
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: I'm not only going to go hot and heavy. I'm
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: gonna give you a prediction at the end of everything
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: that's gonna it's gonna be good.
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna give you, guys my five keys, five keys
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: to a playoff victory tomorrow.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: I've gotten you can't do that, man, I'm getting over
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: a Collie.
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: I'm leslie five.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: All right, you kill me with that.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: No, it's about that time where we'll be wrong.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Fact check.
• 42:01
  Speaker 9: Nelly monitors the mistakes in today's fact Checker. Fact Checker
• 42:07
  Speaker 9: presented by Bacchus and Shanker serious lawyers for this seriously injured.
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: Earlier today, we put up a straw pole, which is
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: mos your's soul patch, yay or nay? To keep or
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: not to keep?
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: And ROJ you can back me up here.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: The text line was actually a little bit more evenly
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: split than I was expecting.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Which is nonse.
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: It was about fifty to fifty or maybe sixty percent
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: get rid of it, forty percent keep it. But more
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: there was a lot of love coming in for the
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: soul patch.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, baby freaks, I don't know how you go. Don't
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: look tough.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: I look tough.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: You think you look tough.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: It makes you look with you.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Hey, as long as the abs wain and you've got
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: that thing going on your face, I honestly I don't
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: care if I tie it to abs wins, you can
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: keep it well.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: I will say this, dude, here's I could have a
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: monkey on my shoulder, you know, like collecting be good
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: and and but yeah, it was talking with a pimp
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: cane on my shoulder right, collecting chains from passers by.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: And I could say, you know what, every time his
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: monkey's on my shoulder, be with his pimp Cane.
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: The Ams win.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, I could make any excuse in.
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: The book because they've got regulations and losses all season long.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Man, monkey Jack, congratulations to Ron and Meath. Ron Meath,
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: We're going to see the Nuggets take on Ron Meath,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: seeing the Nuggets take on Charlotte. It's gonna do it
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: for us today. For Vic, for Mos, for d Mac
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: and Nelly. I'm Raj filling in for Kaner. Don't go anywhere,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: Jim Moore at ten to twenty. Bye, Raj.