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10-06-26 Hour 1 - Let's play the Broncos Blame Game!/Surviving a banged up defense/White Sox almost to ALCS · 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 2: On the Altitude Sports Radio app. Hey, Coach.
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  Speaker 3: When you look at the film, how would you assess
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  Speaker 3: Bo's throwing mechanics so far this year?
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  Speaker 4: His mechanics?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: His footwork? Yeah, yep, yep.
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  Speaker 6: So I would say.
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  Speaker 4: This because it's a position I've coached for, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: however many years. You want to be careful how much
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  Speaker 4: you say. In other words, he's real good when he
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  Speaker 4: flushes out of the pocket. I think there was one
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  Speaker 4: snap a week ago. He came out the back instead
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  Speaker 4: of climbing, but he's pretty good relative to understanding the
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  Speaker 4: drop as it pertains to the depth of route. There
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  Speaker 4: are times where Logan or Davis will look closely and
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  Speaker 4: with a route and say, Hey, maybe we hitch here,
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  Speaker 4: but got a feel for these routes. And he understands,
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  Speaker 4: you know, whether it's in the gun or under center,
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  Speaker 4: what it should feel like and look like his mechanics.
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  Speaker 4: I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know why they confused him.
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  Speaker 4: His mechanics, his mechanics.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it confused him. I think it was
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  Speaker 2: more like you're kidding me, right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he thought he was that, was that his way
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  Speaker 3: of calling DMACC a nerd?
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm sure that he's trying to be nice about it,
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  Speaker 2: but at the same time, are we going there now?
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  Speaker 2: It was a great question. There's no... Hey, listen. Great question.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, too. He's telling you how he reacted.
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  Speaker 4: His mechanics?
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  Speaker 3: Here's the thing. I don't know... It's very hard for
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  Speaker 3: me to watch the discourse around Bo Nix right now. Because...
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  Speaker 3: I feel like people who are a bit surprised by
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  Speaker 3: what they're witnessing from him through the first four weeks
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  Speaker 3: of the season, it feels like they just started watching
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  Speaker 3: Broncos football and didn't see what the last couple of
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  Speaker 3: years were. The problem I think that Bo Nix has
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  Speaker 3: at this moment, and everybody's making this about larger discussions, Like,
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  Speaker 3: we're taking the first four weeks, and a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the discourse has been, should Sean Payton take play-calling duties back?
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  Speaker 3: Would you give Bo Nix a long-term contract? Those are
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  Speaker 3: way too early to have talks like that. I think
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  Speaker 3: Bo has this issue that people expect him to be
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  Speaker 3: John Elway at times, in which... He can put the
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  Speaker 3: team on his shoulders and literally by himself carry you
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  Speaker 3: to a victory. And the reality is, I think Bo
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  Speaker 3: Nix is a lot closer to what I saw from
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  Speaker 3: Michael Penix last night. Michael Penix, the Atlanta Falcons dominated
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  Speaker 3: that game against the Saints. Penix played a good game,
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  Speaker 3: but he didn't have to do much. He didn't have
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  Speaker 3: to do things.
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  Speaker 2: But I thought Penix was so decisive and quick with
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  Speaker 2: his pass route.
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  Speaker 3: He was. You know what helps? B. John Robinson jogging
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  Speaker 3: for 190 yards. Like, if you, and I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest issue. The Broncos offense wasn't bad last year.
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  Speaker 3: If there's one thing I could point to as the
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  Speaker 3: biggest difference, because I've said over and over, this offense
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  Speaker 3: looks no different than it has the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: With one exception. I will make one amendment to that.
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  Speaker 3: The first 10 games of the year last year, the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos ran the football well. They did.
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  Speaker 5: J.K.
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  Speaker 3: Dobbins ran the football well for the first 10 games
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  Speaker 3: of the year last year. And then they didn't. And
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  Speaker 3: then you struggled on offense. Like Bo Nix needs a
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  Speaker 3: running game. And it's non-existent. They're 29th in the league
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  Speaker 3: this year in rushing. If your quarterback is not elite level,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have problems. Kansas City's offense looked pretty
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  Speaker 3: pedestrian the last few years, right? Like they were just
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  Speaker 3: middle of the road. Until.
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker III showed up.
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  Speaker 3: Now how do they look? They look pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, I was listening to something yesterday, Vic. It
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  Speaker 5: was on television, but I was sort of in the
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  Speaker 5: kitchen bouncing around. talking about that this guy, they're talking
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  Speaker 5: about MVP candidates who are not quarterbacks. And they mentioned him. Like, whoa.
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  Speaker 5: Because he's running the football incredibly effectively for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: Like, when you look at, how's this for a stat?
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  Speaker 3: The Broncos did not attempt a deep throw, 20 or
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  Speaker 3: more air yards, until there was less than two minutes
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  Speaker 3: left against the 49ers last week. Of Bo Nix's 42 passes,
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  Speaker 3: only nine traveled over 10 air yards, and one of
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  Speaker 3: them was completed. Now, why? You have to ask yourself,
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  Speaker 3: why is that? Is that Bo Nix just being so
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  Speaker 3: terrified of throwing the ball downfield that he feels like
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  Speaker 3: he has to check down? Or is it a defense
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  Speaker 3: that has no fear of a running game, so they
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  Speaker 3: play guys way back and don't allow you to? Well,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, clearly, the two deep safeties the entire contest.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't fear it. They didn't have to stack the box.
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  Speaker 3: That's from Zach Kelberman, by the way. I want to
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  Speaker 3: give credit. Okay.
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  Speaker 5: There was no reason to. They could just play too
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  Speaker 5: deep all game long, Vic, and say, ain't nothing getting
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  Speaker 5: over our heads. Ain't nothing beating us downfield.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's do chicken or egg. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be chicken or egg or owner of the chicken.
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  Speaker 3: I'm serious.
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  Speaker 2: Hold on.
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  Speaker 3: Chicken, egg. Or farmer.
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  Speaker 2: Chicken, egg, or farmer.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, chicken, egg, or farmer.
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  Speaker 2: Let's play.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because the egg doesn't come without the chicken,
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  Speaker 3: but the chicken doesn't come without the guy who owns
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  Speaker 3: the farm that gets the chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Let's play an age-old game of chicken, egg, or farmer.
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  Speaker 2: Is it the running backs? Maybe they're not finding the
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  Speaker 2: hole in time. Maybe they're not slippery enough. Maybe they're
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  Speaker 2: not strong enough. Maybe they don't have the guile to
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  Speaker 2: play the position. Is it the offensive line not penetrating enough,
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  Speaker 2: not giving them holes, not giving them alleys? Is it
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  Speaker 2: the farmer? Is it the coaches not allowing the running
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  Speaker 2: game to mature?
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to have to throw another thing in there?
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  Speaker 3: Is it God? Is it God?
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  Speaker 5: There's God in there now. There's farmers.
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  Speaker 2: Is God Bo Nix?
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  Speaker 3: Where's the neighbor? You forgot somebody.
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  Speaker 2: What does it have to do with Bo Nix? Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 3: No. I thought one of those was going to be
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  Speaker 3: Bo Nix just is playing bad.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Those three things right there. It's either the blocking scheme lineman.
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  Speaker 2: It's either the running backs. Terrell Davis last year at
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  Speaker 2: the Super Bowl during media week said it's the running backs.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he told me. He said the running backs
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  Speaker 2: are not up to par. Some people have said it's the,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the lines just overrated. Other people have said
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  Speaker 2: they're fine. It's the farmer not farming the land. To
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  Speaker 2: allow the chickens to prosper.
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  Speaker 3: I'll stick with this. I think it's the backs. Like, J.K.
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  Speaker 3: Dobbins was good last year. He clearly is not the same.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's just he aged like
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  Speaker 3: running backs do, or some years, like, you just fall
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  Speaker 3: off a cliff. You don't got it anymore. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if it's the injury that he's dealing with or what.
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  Speaker 3: But he can't run the football. Not effectively like you
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  Speaker 3: did last season. And I think it's a huge hindrance. Again,
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  Speaker 3: I watch these games every week. Guys, I watched Bijan
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  Speaker 3: last night. I watched Bijan have a huge, it was
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  Speaker 3: like a 50-yard touchdown. He looked like he was jogging.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 3: And he ran past everybody.
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  Speaker 2: If you put him on the Broncos' side, would it
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  Speaker 2: look the same? Somebody on Twitch said, farm logic is confusing.
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  Speaker 2: It's the most basic logic known to man. Do you
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  Speaker 2: guys ever imagine that? Do you ever imagine, okay, if
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  Speaker 2: we had one of them, if you had a Bijan,
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  Speaker 2: would he look the same here?
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  Speaker 3: He'd look pretty close. I think he would, yeah, Vic.
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  Speaker 5: I was going to say, this guy's a special back.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you could put him in Miami and maybe
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  Speaker 5: he wouldn't. I don't know, but I bet that he
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  Speaker 5: would because he's just that quality.
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  Speaker 3: He's that good. Like, it looks so hard. for the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos to run the football right now. It's so difficult.
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  Speaker 3: You can't find a pop play on the ground. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: we're four weeks into the season. What's the Broncos' best
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  Speaker 3: run of the year? Does anything even pop in your head?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was maybe Jonah Coleman against Jacksonville. the
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  Speaker 2: run left side where he tried to milk the clock
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  Speaker 2: by staying in bounds.
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  Speaker 3: Like that's the only run I can think of. Honestly.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I've, I've come to my, hang on, hang on, hang on.
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  Speaker 3: Let me show you something real quick. This is for,
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  Speaker 3: this is a touchdown from last night. This is Bijan.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to watch him run and tell me
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  Speaker 3: if you think he's running hard and then watch what
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  Speaker 3: happens to everybody else. That's a jog. He's jogging, and
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  Speaker 3: nobody's close to him. There's nobody on this roster in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield that can do that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, now insert one of the Broncos running backs into
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  Speaker 2: that play. Can AI do that?
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  Speaker 3: Go back.
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  Speaker 2: Can AI take one of the Bronco running backs and
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  Speaker 2: see what happens? All right, so there's the pull. There's
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  Speaker 2: the hole. Now he's running just past.
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  Speaker 3: That play, look, big hole. That play is probably, for
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  Speaker 3: one of the running backs for the Broncos, a 20-yard run.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I've come to my conclusion. I've seen enough. It's
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  Speaker 2: It's the chickens. It's the chickens.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the egg. Not the farmer.
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  Speaker 3: It's the chickens. It's not the farmer. And certainly not God.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They got some bad chickens.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this is what... Guys, we were talking about this
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  Speaker 3: in the offseason. We were talking about getting the offense
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  Speaker 3: more explosive, right? And Mo's Jalen Waddell helps. Like, he
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  Speaker 3: helps in that category. But we were all kind of saying, like,
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  Speaker 3: I think you need a running back. Like, you need
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  Speaker 3: somebody else.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they drafted a running back.
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  Speaker 3: Drafting somebody in the fourth round, though. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: The farmer picks the chickens. Good point, Danza. The farmer
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  Speaker 2: picks the chickens here. The chickens don't just show up.
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  Speaker 2: They're shopping. They're going to the auction.
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  Speaker 3: They're at the auction.
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  Speaker 2: They go, hey, hey, hey. They're picking these chickens.
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  Speaker 3: Did you say, hey, batter, batter? Is that what you
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  Speaker 3: just said?
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  Speaker 5: That's exactly what he said. I almost spit my Pepsi out.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted to run it back with J.K. Dobbins, but
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  Speaker 3: we all thought the same thing. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 3: would be because J.K. wouldn't be effective like he hasn't
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  Speaker 3: been this year. We all thought he'd get hurt. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you drafted Jonah Coleman in the fourth round for insurance.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't do that thinking that Jonah Coleman is going
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  Speaker 3: to be, you know, your stellar bell cow back. Like
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  Speaker 3: I thought they should have been in the mix with the,
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  Speaker 3: the HNs. That was ETN, HN, whatever. Kenneth Walker's like,
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  Speaker 3: I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker was a candidate. What, you know, here's the
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  Speaker 2: conclusion we've made in the first segment of the show. We've,
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  Speaker 2: we've just, we've matured leaps and bounds. We've just done something.
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  Speaker 2: What the Denver Broncos need is a Redbird farms chicken.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: They need an upgrade there. They need to go get
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  Speaker 2: themselves a Redbird Farms chicken. Right now, the chickens they have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't call me that.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe we were fooled. We were fooled. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: come on. Go back to training camp. What were we
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  Speaker 2: talking about in training camp?
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  Speaker 3: As far as.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to have to narrow it down a bit
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  Speaker 5: because we talked about freaking everything.
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  Speaker 2: JK was on one. He was defiant. He was going
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  Speaker 2: to be healthy. He's ready to roll.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it turns out the health isn't the problem.
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  Speaker 2: J.K.
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  Speaker 3: 's playing, he's just not effective.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and Jonah Coleman, bless his soul, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he looks great, but he ain't a Bijon or a
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  Speaker 2: Kenneth Walker. He ain't making people miss. When we watched
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  Speaker 2: week one of the season, dude, Kenneth Walker makes people miss.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. You either break a tackle or you juke somebody. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just, I've always thought that Bo Nix, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's been pretty clear through the first two years, Moj,
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  Speaker 3: He's not the kind of guy that's going to win
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  Speaker 3: you a game without help. He's just not, he's not
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  Speaker 3: that quarterback. I don't know if he's ever going to be,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he can eventually get there, but give me the
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  Speaker 3: game where everything's kind of gone wrong, but you won
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  Speaker 3: the game because Bo Nix just carried you there. He's
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  Speaker 3: done it late. He's done it late.
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  Speaker 4: He's done it late.
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  Speaker 5: He's made plays. He's made, I mean, he'll make throws
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  Speaker 5: where I go, man, that's a total pro throw. That
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  Speaker 5: is just such a, it's such a heady, good, responsible,
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  Speaker 5: professional guy.
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  Speaker 2: How about this?
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  Speaker 3: Give me a Broncos game.
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  Speaker 5: And then there are times when I go, that's just
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  Speaker 5: not good.
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  Speaker 2: Use your machines. Give me a Broncos game over the
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  Speaker 2: last two years that produced their best running performance we've seen.
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 2: And I want, just take their best running game over
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  Speaker 2: the last two years.
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  Speaker 3: What did that look like?
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  Speaker 2: What did that look like? What were the results? What
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  Speaker 2: was the score? I'm just curious. I'm talking about their best,
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  Speaker 2: not their usual, because their usual is what we saw
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  Speaker 2: over the weekend. That's the usual. Right?
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  Speaker 3: It was October 17th of 2024. It was a 33-10
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  Speaker 3: win over New Orleans. They ran the ball for 225 yards.
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  Speaker 2: October 17th, 2024?
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Wilson was still the quarterback?
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  Speaker 3: Nope, that was Bo Nix's rookie year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so Bo was the QB.
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  Speaker 3: So Javante had 14 carries for 88 yards. Bo Nix
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  Speaker 3: had 10 carries for 75. There it is right there.
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  Speaker 3: McLaughlin and Estamay combined for 64.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that game. I remember that was the breakthrough
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  Speaker 2: game for Bo running the ball. They designed run plays
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  Speaker 2: for Bo. Okay, that's Bo running the ball. Those numbers
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  Speaker 2: are where they are because Bo designed and ran the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Not by just scrambling, by running.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, JK had a 111-yard game against the Cowboys,
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  Speaker 3: and they demolished them. I mean, yeah. When the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: run the football well, they play well. That's it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's A plus B equals C. It's pretty
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  Speaker 2: easy to see. Colin on the text line says, Javante
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  Speaker 2: Williams would tell you that it is indeed the Farmers.
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  Speaker 3: He would. Javante's a weird one, man.
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  Speaker 5: And he is a weird one, but he's got to
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  Speaker 5: be honest. He's running the ball pretty well for the Cowboys.
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  Speaker 3: Would any of you have Javante Williams ranked in your
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  Speaker 3: top 10 running backs in the league? I would not. Fifteen?
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  Speaker 5: The way he's running the ball, maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just asking you, if you could pick 15 running
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  Speaker 3: backs in the NFL, is Javante Williams one of the
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  Speaker 3: top 15? You know, I'm curious why the Broncos.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe I'm wrong to think that way, but I don't
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  Speaker 5: think it would be. I would say no, just based
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  Speaker 5: on his talent. But again, when they employ him, he's.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty good for them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm curious why the Broncos didn't make a run at
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  Speaker 2: Joe Mixon and they allowed the defending Super Bowl champs
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  Speaker 2: to go in and scoop him up. Oh, I don't know. Because.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Mixon's old.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's see what he does in Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's not old, by the way. He's only 30,
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  Speaker 3: but he's not old. But he's 30 for a running
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  Speaker 3: back is pretty damn old, dude. But he's been around.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how many 30-year-old running backs are in this league?
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  Speaker 2: Derrick Henry.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you can pick the elites if you want to.
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  Speaker 3: But how many 30-year-old running backs outside of Derrick Henry?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I'm taking Kyron Williams.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Kyron's not 30.
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  Speaker 2: I know. No, but I'm talking about running backs with
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  Speaker 2: some pop.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Kyron's really good. Don't miss a second as the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: Nuggets continue their preseason schedule tonight in Utah against the Jags. Coverage. Jazz. Sorry, jazz.
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  Speaker 3: Coverage on Altitude TV begins at 6.30 and tip off
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  Speaker 3: shortly after 7, back after this. Adam Schefter joins us
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  Speaker 3: at 9.20 this morning, so stay tuned for that.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Mosher, I found that little thing you need. I
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  Speaker 5: need it today, so thanks. Thanks for coming in. I
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: leave for Winnipeg today.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: What time do you leave?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I'm going to be at the airport. I've got to
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: be there by 1.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, I've got to be down at altitude for the
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Nuggets pregame. Is there anywhere we can meet?
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll swing by.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Are you guys aware that this is... Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: We're on the show.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: Hold on a second.
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: This is actually a show, so you better just listen up, Jack.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: This isn't just a side, like, hey, can I call
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: you real quick?
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: The pregame's not until what time?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: All right, Grandpa, let's get you to bed. Pre-game starts
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: at 6. Okay. So Mosher needs a little thing so
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: he can do his thing from Winnipeg, his radio show.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: And I've got the little thing. Somehow it's in my things.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: And he needs it.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: So get in your car. That needs some help, please.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know how that little thing is going to
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: help you, though, because it's a Verizon thing. It's a
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Verizon mechanism.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: How does that help? All right. We're just going to
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: move on from this. Uh, here is Sean Payton giving
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: an injury update yesterday.
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Chris, I appreciate it. Of course, you know, today
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: and throughout the week really will stay away from any updates.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: You know, guys, we're all in today, getting work rehab
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: and we'll make sure we go through, you know, the
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: process well, and then, you know, we'll have a report Wednesday.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: That's the beautiful, no update injury update from, uh, I
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: appreciate the question. Um, Nothing to report.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: We'll find out this week. Some time, some stuff.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Appreciate the question. Go bleep yourself. Not get an
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: answer from me. So I appreciate that. The good news,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: at least from what we've seen from, from other reporters
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: across the league, none of these seem too crazy. Like
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: everything feels like you've avoided a long-term issue. You know,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: obviously when Sertan leaves the field, non-contact injury and needs
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: help to get to the locker room, that looks bad.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Pat Bryant carted off, that looks bad. Riley Moss disappearing
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: never to be seen again, looks bad. Everybody seems like
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: they're week to week.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I would just plan on not having them for the
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: next couple weeks.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Yes. All of them.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: You're not going to have them Sunday, right? No.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Riley Moss, his scares me because... He's had the rib
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: stuff before, and now they're looking at his entire core.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: If you have a core problem, that's a season-ending injury. Now,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that's happening with Riley Moss, but the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: fact that I've seen that they're looking at the overall
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: core on him, not good. That's not good news. But
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: you hope it's just going to be the same situation
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: as the others.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Who's this rando that just stepped into Nelly's chair?
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: That is Connor.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: Watch yourself. I'm doing the show next week.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: Just got random.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: What is this? I got a button right here, Vic.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: It says off.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: I like this kid. I like this.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Immediately.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: What the hell is going on? I can turn your
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: mic off that quick. Watch yourself. That's Connor. Hi, Connor. So,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: nothing seems too bad, right? But, again, my issue is this.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Chris Abrams, Drain, and Jotty Baron come in.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: They play well.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: They play well for Sertan and for Riley Moss. It's
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: great that you have depth like this. I don't know
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: any team, like, I don't really know any team ever
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: that has had the depth at corner that the Broncos have. So,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: this came in handy. But Jadé Barron and Chris Abrams-Drain
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: are not Pats or Tan. They just aren't. And if
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: he exits the lineup, that changes the way that offenses
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: attack your team. If they thought that one half of
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the field is now shut down because I can't go
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: there because Pats or Tan's over there, well, now that's
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: back open.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: And.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: If the strength of your team is secondary, and that's
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: what it's been this year through four weeks, if that
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: even takes a slight step down, it now puts more
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: pressure on an offense that has not performed well this year.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Well, follow me on this one. See if you can
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: follow me on this one. Tell me if you've heard
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: this one before. In a week where your defense is
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: weakened and vulnerable because you lose two of your starting corners,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: both of them, in a week where your defense has
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: taken a turn for the worse, maybe it's time the
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: offense carries the load.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Thank you very much. Is that? No.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: No. And I'm dead serious. Are we asking too much? Seriously,
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: are we asking too much for the offense to actually
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: do something and lead the way?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Who have the Chargers played? How many points have they
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: given up? And you tell me why it's not possible
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: for the Broncos offense to put up 30 against this team.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Vic, they should. They've given up 106 points. It's one
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: of the highest numbers in the league. Okay. Or in
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: the AFC.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: So is it asking too much for the Broncos to
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: go in to L.A. at SoFi and put up 30
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: points and win the game? 30 will win you the game.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Here you go, Vic. They played the Cardinals, Raiders, Bills,
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: and Seahawks. They've given up 26, 26, 24, and 30.
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: There's nothing wrong with asking that to happen. Listen, they're
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: in the bottom third of the league in run defense,
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: talking about the Chargers, in the middle of the pack
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: in passing defense.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: They're just blah.
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: They're just kind of a blah football team with a
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: quarterback whose head is not on straight. So if you
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: can't go in there and beat that team, the Broncos,
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: what am I even talking about? Why am I even
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: saying this? The Broncos are going to win. They're a
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: favorite in this game. They're going to go in there.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: The offense is going to kick it up a notch,
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: pull its own weight, actually lead the way, and they're
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: going to be 3-2. Simple enough.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: You made a claim there. That's not even a claim.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: It's a proclamation. You made a proclamation that I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: is certainly not based in fact. You said the offense
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: is going to figure it out.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: That's wishful thinking, but I'm hoping that that is the case.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Look, man, the Chargers are 0-4. They're bleeding from every.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: Wound they have.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: You're about to say wound. No, wound.
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: From every wound they have. They're not a good team
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: right now. They're a mess between McDaniel and Herbert. Herbert
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: has six picks already.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: On the season.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: He's just playing incompetent football. Hampton's not really running the
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: ball that well. They're really not doing anything well with
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: the Chargers.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Can I give you something that may change your perspective
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: on the Denver Broncos? Listen up here, all right? Perspective
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: is a wonderful thing. I know we're down on the
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Broncos right now. They came off a loss, and they
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: came off a loss the same way they've lost a
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: lot of games, where the offense doesn't do a damn thing.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: But sometimes perspective hits you in the face, Moj, like
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: 10 pounds of meat, okay? Consider who the Broncos have
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: played already. Consider their schedule. According to ESPN's Power Football Index,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I have no idea what the hell that is. But
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: according to that, the top five teams in the National
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Football League right now, in order, San Francisco, have the
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Broncos played them?
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville's number two, have the Broncos played them? They have.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: The Rams are number three, have the Broncos played them?
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: They've done that.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: The Chiefs are number four. Have they been on the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Broncos schedule?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: And guess who is number five? The Broncos see them
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: in about 12 days. Seattle. So the top five teams,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: according to this index, are on the Broncos schedule in
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: the first six games.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: We knew that going into the season, that that's what
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: they were up against in the first six weeks. That's
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: why we were asking, and this is what's funny.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: So maybe we're being too harsh. Maybe we're being overcritical.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Here's the difference, though. There is one separation. Because I
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: agree with you. I think it's important for Broncos fans
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: to keep perspective here. If you're asking them to go 3-3, well,
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: they're 2-2. They're on their way to 3-3. Like, they're
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: still right on pace for it. The difference is this.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: We spent an entire offseason, Vic, talking about the offense
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: being different.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: It's not.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: And that's what's making people upset. Like, you were sold
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: that this offseason, new play caller, add Jalen Waddell. This
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: is going to be more explosive. The three and outs
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: are going to stop. And that's all the same.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So it's how you look. Not necessarily what you do.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: It's how you look.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I just think that people were, you know, like
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: a politician. I promise I will do this and this
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: and this. And then you're two years into his term
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: and you're like, where's all the things that you said
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: you were going to do? Because I don't see it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: This feels a lot like the same. So I just
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: think that's why people are upset. It's not so much
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the record overall or who you've beaten or really how
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: you've won. It's just that the offense has not looked
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: any different than before. And in some ways looks worse
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: without a running game.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Am I wrong?
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: No, you're not wrong about that. I'm wondering if, when,
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: and how it will ever turn around, if it will
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: ever switch.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: And how does that look?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you about the Chargers. They're not a very
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: good football team. If you can't get it going against them,
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: and you've seen their record and you just went over
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: the scores that they've given up so far this season,
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: if you can't get right against them, then who can
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: you get right against? Do you wait until the Panthers
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: in week 10 or whatever the heck it is? Not 10,
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: like 7? Do you wait 8? Is it the Dolphins
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: in week.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: 14?
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, when does it kick up a notch?
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: There is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 5: Because you know what my fear is too, Brett? I
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: look at some of these games. I look at the Cardinals.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, that's a dub.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe it isn't.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe the quirkiness catches up with you. I look at
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: the Panthers game on the road. Oh, that's a dub.
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, maybe it ain't. You know, I just.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: You can't just keep playing with fire and expecting it
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: to work out all the time.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Here's what's funny. Let me play some audio for you
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: in what I think is a similar situation. The Philadelphia
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Eagles are pissed. Their fan base is. They hate their offense.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: A lot of them are out on Jalen Hurts, a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl winner. A lot of them are out on
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Nick Sirianni, a Super Bowl winner. And the reason is
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: solely based upon their offense. Jalen Hurts finished last week
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: with under 100 passing yards in a football game. That
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: didn't involve a monsoon or insane wind or anything like that.
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: He finished under 100 passing yards. And it's been like
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: that for a minute. Here's how Eagles fans sounded after
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: last week.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Bad. Just bad.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Not it for us.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: Just not it. So depressing. You should have won that game.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I didn't like it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, what would you waste time like? Man, I
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: don't know what you're talking about. We got a lot
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of people hurt, but there's no excuse.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: It's just another excuse that you're going to use to say, hey,
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: we didn't have players and bad field positions.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Defense really didn't show up late in the game.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Offense had a lot of chances to score.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
• 27:59
  Speaker 7: Coach doesn't kick a field goal. Bad coaching again. Sirianni
• 28:03
  Speaker 7: blew the game again for the.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: On most times.
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: We could have been up one point, up two points.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: Nick Seriani. I'm sorry, Nick Seriani got to go.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Nick ain't it. Nick ain't it.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Nick is cute. He's angry.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: He can scream, but he doesn't make the team come
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: out of halftime and be the team.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: What's happening at halftime? Are we eating meatball subs?
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: End of the day.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Go Birds. That's how they feel. What did that guy say?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I think he was trying to say for the umpteenth time.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: And he went, ah. All right, so let me ask you.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: If you couldn't tell, those guys were hammered, by the way.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: What if we randomize Bronco fans who call into our.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: What's that little voice game we have?
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Little voice thing? Little voice contraption.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's on the Altitude Sports Radio app. It's powered
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: by the Wilhite Law Firm. Injury lawyers, go to WilhiteWins.com.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: That's WilhiteWins.com.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: How does that work?
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: You go on the app, and there's a microphone at
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: the bottom, and you hit the microphone, you send a message,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: it goes straight to Nellie's ear holes.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: And it sounds really good.
• 29:07
  Speaker 7: Sirianni blew the game again for the unsmosed times.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Sounds like a word we would use.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: Unsmosed?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Unsmosed times.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: But if you watch the video, hang on, I gotta
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: show you the video.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: For the unsmosed times.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: He glitches out. Like, it feels like his controller broke,
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: and he just went....
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Most.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Hang on. But what are you trying to say with
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: Voice of the People, Vic?
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Let's collect our own Bronco fans who I want to get.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I want to hear your unsposed reasons as to why
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the Broncos are struggling offensively. Nick is cute.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: Connor, you're new here. You need to earn your keep.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Nelly, have him cut up all these peeps that go
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: to the voice of the people.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: How about that?
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: Wait, does that kid even know how to do that?
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: All right, hang on, hang on. Look at his face.
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: He has no idea. Watch this. This is the guy here.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: This is the unsmosed time guy.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: He's had a few.
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: Watch his face. He glitches. But the reason I bring
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: up the Eagles is this. The Eagles have had success.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: The Broncos have had success. And they're still not happy
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: because the offensive product is junk.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: It's terrible. Brett, when you get close or climb to
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the mountain and you struggle, that's, I think, the angriest
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: a fan base can get, right? Do we agree there?
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: That's when a fan base is most anxious.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: I've learned something over the last few years. I've gotten
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: to be a better golfer, and I hate it. Yes,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: because now your expectations are ridiculous. For the first time
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: in my life— For two years, the Lions were decent
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: at football. And I hate it because now it's terrible
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: to watch. I'm mad all the time.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: What a great comp. Very well done. But it's very
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: much that. When your team is used to winning and
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: winning big, and you've won big, then that's it. That's
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: the barometer. And anything else, well, they must suck. What's
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: happening at halftime?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Are we eating meatball subs? But here's the thing. The
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: reason I bring that up is for Philly. Jalen Hurts
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: in particular. He's a Super Bowl winner. You can't ask
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the question, is Jalen Hurts good enough to win a
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl? It's happened already.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: But he's not playing well.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: But, Moj, they're on their fifth offensive coordinator with him,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: and it's not because the guys are awesome and they
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: get jobs. And so you eventually have to ask, well,
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: there's one guy that's always here, and it's never working.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: I guess you're starting to ask the question, too, was A.J.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Brown the good guy in this?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: Or was he just correct? Was he just right?
• 31:59
  Speaker 5: That's what I mean. But I don't think, listen, some
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: of those people want to run Jalen Hurts out of town.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: I don't think anybody wants to run Bo Nix out
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: of town. I did a straw poll in the appetizer.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: There's some people that... You're kidding me. What do you consider... Moshe,
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: hang on, hang on. What would you consider I'm not
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: giving him a long-term contract? Yeah, Moshe, I mean, running
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: out of town is just sort of a use of
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: words here. I think the proper question is would you
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Would you just pick up his 50-year option?
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but Vic, here's the problem. Like Brett's friend said,
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: it's in there. I've seen it. I've seen it in there.
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: I've seen it exposed.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Have you seen it for an entire game or have
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: you seen it just for portions of games?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: I've seen it for portions of games.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: All right, have you seen it for an entire game?
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: I've not seen it for an entire game, but I've
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: seen it in portions. And I'm like, that's there. And
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: why can't there be more of that? And listen, Sean Payton,
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: he just backed up my point. That cut we played earlier,
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: when he's on the run and this sort of thing,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: what did he talk about? His mechanics. That's what I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: talking about when I say when he's freewheeling. When he's
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: just playing football, he looks, acts, and performs at his best.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: It's easy to see. I mean, you can use your eyeballs.
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: I don't need empirical data to back me up because
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: I know what I see. When he's playing like that,
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: kind of with his hair on fire, by far he's
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: the best. Why is he not like that way in
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: the first half?
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I think he's also a product of the offense and
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: their commitment to running.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: This is a great example.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Just real quick.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Just real quick. Texture says, Fellas, once Caleb Williams comes back,
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: Bajan becomes more expendable with Keesom playing well. Keesom. We
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: need to trade for Bajan to create some competition for
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Bo Nix. Do you know what the Chicago Bears have?
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Hang on, hang on. I'm going to give you a
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: stat that's going to blow you away. Do you know
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: what the Chicago Bears have this year?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: They have a run game to die for.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: The 7th and 8th leading rushers in the NFL are
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the Bears running backs.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why they look so good. You're exactly right.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Well, they're the number one rushing team in the entire
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: national football league.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Hey, you hit it, man. The analogy that opened the show,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: you know, some of us are blaming the chickens. Others
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: are blaming the eggs. But ultimately, the farmer has to
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: commit to the run game. The farmer has to set
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: them up for success and not failure.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: You've got to give them some help. And help comes
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: in the form of, you know, I see a couple
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: stats here. Kansas City uses 12 personnel 30% of the time.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: The Broncos, they don't do it 10%. You got to
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: get your tight ends in the game and block.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: I thought you signed Troutman to a billion-dollar deal this
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: offseason because he can block. Now we're just not going
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: to use him? That's a great decision.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I keep vacillating between reasons, and it's bothering me.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: What do you mean, eggs and chickens and farmers?
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: You know what shouldn't bother you? It's probably a little
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: bit of everything, Vic. Guys, $ 10 doesn't get you anything anymore.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Except on Tuesdays, where you can get any large pizza
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: from Papa Murphy's for just $ 10. It's a $ 10 Tuesday.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Order at PapaMurphy's.com. Pick it up. Bake it fresh at home.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: $ 10 Tuesdays by Papa Murphy's. Back after this. All right,
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Adam Schefter is going to join us at 920. I
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: need to talk about something, and Bill Simmons pointed this
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: out yesterday, and he's right. I'm tired of pretending this
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: isn't weird. That Ursae gal being on the sideline with
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: her notepad is just a weird thing. I'm tired of
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: us pretending like it's not. It is.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: It is weird.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: It is weird. Has any other owner ever stood on
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: the sidelines hovering over their coaching staff taking copious notes
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: like that? I've never seen it.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Ultra note taker. That's ultra note taker.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: What are you writing down? What is on the notepad?
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a bit much. I'm not going to lie
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: to you. If I'm sitting there on the sideline, I'm going, okay, what?
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: Can you just take mental notes? Maybe a note in
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: your phone? Hey, water bottles aren't big enough for the players.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Just a mental note.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Think about if Kroenke's sitting in that seat right there
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: as we're doing the show, and he's just writing things
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: down as we're talking. I'm like, what is this? And look,
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: God bless her. She obviously cares about her team. She
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: wants her team to do well.
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Who's to say he's not wherever he is?
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Taking notes during the show? We're at Kane. What up, Mr. K?
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: I support that.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Wait a minute, wait a minute. Here's one of his
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: notes from today.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: You ready?
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Mosher needs the little thing from Vic today. When will
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: they meet? I don't think they're going to get those notes. Hell,
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: record this.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: And no offense. Look, man, my face is not the
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: prettiest in the world. But something about her eyeballs... on
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: the sideline. It's something about, she's just got this death stare.
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: It's just, I, she looks angry when she's doing it.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: You're right.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: It's like an angry note taker. You know, there's like,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: there's this, this type of note taking like, and then
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: there's this.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: Frantic.
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: She's probably a very nice person. I'm sure she is.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: I just, I look, I, I'm not, that's all. That's all.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: I'm not saying anything.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Katie writes in Katie McKinley on the text line.
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: She's a badass. Well, she might very well be one.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: I don't dispute who or what she is.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I think it's great. She obviously very
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: much cares about her team. That's what you want to
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: see from an owner. It is very weird, though.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: It is weird.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: You don't see owners just hovering on the sideline in
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: a starter jacket thinking, no, no, it's just not a thing.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: Let me defend her in this regard.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: She doesn't need defended. It's just weird. It's... No other
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: owner does it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: It's abnormal to what we think an owner should be
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: or what an owner should do.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: She's just trying to learn.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Maybe she's drinking through a fire hose here.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Guys, stop making this about me. It's not a criticism.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: It's odd.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: It is odd.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: There is no disputing it's odd.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: I would love to read the notes.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: That's what I want. I need somebody to do like
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: a drone. Just get over the top. Get over the
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: top and let me see what's on that notepad.
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: Well, you are nosy, aren't you?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: I just want to say.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: So now you're mouthy and nosy. Those are two qualities
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: that are not.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: Good to have. You know what's really bad? When you're
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: playing a playoff baseball game and you have three errors
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: in the first inning. The Yankees were terrible yesterday. And
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: they're now down, if you guys have been paying attention
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: to the MLB postseason, the Yanks are down 2-0 to
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Tampa Bay.
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: Remember.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I have to recheck this every year because I always
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: get confused by this. Wild card is three games. Divisional
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: round is five. And then it's seven and seven from
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: there on out.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny you say that. I didn't want
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: to sound dumb. I do that enough. But this has
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: changed so much. I don't know how many games are played.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: And you have to keep looking.
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: So it's a five.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: It's a five game series. Three, five, seven, seven. Five
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: game series. So the Yankees are one loss away from
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: being eliminated. As are.
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: The Padres.
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: As are the Padres. And guys, I am, I don't
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: know how you view this. This is how I take it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: I know everything surrounding a Rockies conversation is always like, oh,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: the Rockies are terrible. It's always like droopy dog. The
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: White Sox are one win away from making it to
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: the ALCS after three consecutive Hunter loss seasons. After being
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: the laughingstock of the league.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Give it to me.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: I am a Zippity!
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: They're one win away. So good. I tried to explain
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: this in the middle of the season with the Rockies
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: being bad. And people were like, this turnaround is going
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: to take four or five years. No, it doesn't. Baseball
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: does not take four or five years. It can be quick. Okay,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: so how did they do it? The Rockies?
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: No, the White Sox. How did they do it?
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: Well, they went out and they, look, they couldn't hit
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: at all during their 100 loss seasons. They found some
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: guys that were more consistent at the plate. And I
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: think that they traded out maybe some, like Murakami is
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: not somebody who's going to hit 300, but they're like,
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: I will trade that for the occasional bomb.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: Where'd they get him? I mean, is he an importer?
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Did they trade him? Was he traded from another team?
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: Well, he's obviously from Japan. This is his first season
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: in the league. It's his first season in the league, Vic.
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: He's brand new.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: My humble apologies. I don't know.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: That's why I gave you the answer right there. He's Japanese.
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: He's from Kumamoto, Japan.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, what about their pitching staff? Did they have a
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: sound pitching staff? At least a pitching staff that they
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: don't have to completely redo. Before they redid.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: You're talking about from their 100-loss seasons to now?
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: Well, they had a good pitching staff this year, and
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: I think they made timely trades for a couple of
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: different guys. I mean, if you look at their staff,
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: you need to have, and this is what they got,
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: at least three guys that have a sub-4 ERA to
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: have a shot. I mean, you don't need Cam Schlittler
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: or guys like that or Mason Millers, but you need
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: to have people that are just consistent enough And a
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: guy like Sean Burke, was that for him? He had
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: a 3-3-4 ERA this year. But you go back to
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: previous seasons, they had the same problem that the Rockies did.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: They had guys that had 5-8-2 ERAs that started 17
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: games for them. So you have to go out and
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: find reliable starting pitching. And this is why I'm... Look,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: I'm always going to be an optimist with the Rockies
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: because I want them to, okay? It's not because I
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: think they will. I want them to. In defense of
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: DePodesta and what he did this last offseason, DePodesta found
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: players in the lineup. I think that they made a commitment,
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: and you could see it by who they acquired. They
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: acquired young players in trades. TJ Rumfield was a young
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: player that they got in a trade that turns out,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: you know what? They hit on him. They have young
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: guys in their lineup that they trusted. What did they
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: do in their rotation? They went out and they got
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: Lorenzen and Shugano and guys who are 36, 38 years old.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: They got old veteran guys who are like, I just
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: need somebody to get.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Us by this year.
• 42:47
  Speaker 5: Shugano wasn't that bad, dude.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: No, Shugano was good, but he's old most is what
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: I'm saying. You're right.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Shugano was their best pitcher.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: I know that. I'm saying he's old. That wasn't a
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: long-term decision to go out and get Shugano. That was
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: a bridge to get to next year. I think this
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: year is the one that they go out and address
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: the pitching staff in a big way. Why is Kyle
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: Freeland crying as he's leaving the field? Because he knows
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: it's done. Because they're going to go in a completely
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: other direction with their pitching staff. And I think they
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: made the commitment last year to fix their lineup and
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: get them youth, and now they're going to do that
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: with pitching. Thank you for doing that right in my mic.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: Well, it sounds like Japanese imports is the.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: Way to go.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like to me.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what?
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: No, you could. I'd take one of those just because.
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: I.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I'll take one of those.
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: You always remember Kaz Matsui?
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I do.
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: Do you remember the shot he had hit in game 163?
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: That was.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: That was a deciding hit, wasn't it? Was he the
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: one that brought home Holiday? Was it Kaz?
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Well, you sure it was him?
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm misremembering. Help me out, Texters.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: Texters says, I love you, Brett, but the Rocks aren't
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: remotely close to where the Sox were coming out of
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: their 100-loss seasons. Yes, they are. They are. The Rockies
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: have an all-star... 40 home run catcher. They have a
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: first baseman that was up for rookie of the year.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Cole Kerrig looks like a stud. They have a number
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: of different people in their lineup that you, look, if
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: they had a pitching staff, that lineup is good enough
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: to do what the White Sox are doing in the postseason.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I don't know if it's that good.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: Their lineup?
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: By the way, if they had a pitching staff.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: Do you know how hard it's going to be to
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: compile a pitching staff for Coors Field?
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Do you realize that, Brett?
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah. It's a different animal.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Do you have any sense of history at all?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: See, I think the problem you have, Brett, because, you know,
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: you've only been here, what, 10 years now for crying
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: out loud. You still don't understand the effects Coors Field
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: has on pitchers. You just don't. You don't get it.
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: I do understand. And sometimes I have to slap him
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: across the face. Sometimes you have to be slapped. You
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: don't understand what it does to pitchers.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: By the way, Vic. Over the long term, right?
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about it could change your entire approach to
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: pitching in one year.
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: Mechanics, everything. Sure, sure. But they're going to totally revamp
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: that staff. It's not Irman Marquez, and it's not Kyle Freeland,
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: and it's not Sensatella, who have been here for a decade.
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: It's new guys.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: What?
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, it was Jamie Carroll. Thank you, texters
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: and twitchers. Jamie Carroll. Hit the shot that brought home Holland. Yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: but Matt Sui, when they were trailing in the bottom
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: of the 13. Yeah, he got the party started.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: He hit a double to get the party started. And
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: you keep Marquez out of your mouth.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: That's my boy.
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: Just because Coors Field ruined him doesn't mean he's a
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: bad person.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: You said it takes a toll on people, but they
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: kept the same pitchers for like seven or eight years.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: I would contend if you took that White Sox pitching staff,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: put them in Colorado for a year, you would not
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: have the same results.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: It would be different. Yes, it would be different.
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's not even close.
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: Here's what I don't accept, Vic.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: See, but you're thinking I'm making this an excuse. It's
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: not an excuse. It is a simple scientific fact.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: That's fine.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: You become more fatigued here. You have to throw it
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: differently here. You don't rebound the same here. It's a
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: different pitching environment here.
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: I don't disagree with that, but you're saying this with
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: this air of what's the point? Like they'll never be
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: good because no pitcher's going to work here, and I
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: don't accept that. Not accepted. It's more difficult, yes. But
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: I don't accept that there's nothing that can be done.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: The year they went to the.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: World Series, they had, in the second half of the season,
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: the lowest ERA in the National League. Is that, Moj,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: in the history of the Rockies, has that ever been equaled?
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Not even close.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: What does that tell you? Is that just coincidence?
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: No, no, it's a part of it.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: It's a part of it.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: We'll get back to it later.
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: 303-504-0925.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: Back after this.