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10-06-26- Let's play the Broncos Blame Game!/CFB STOCK UP - STOCK DOWN/Trust level in Bo? · The Appetizer Hour with Brett Kane

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Speaker 2: Hey, Coach, when you look at the film, how would
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Speaker 2: you assess Bo's throwing mechanics so far this year?
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Speaker 3: His mechanics?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: His footwork?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, yep.
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Speaker 3: I would say this because it's a position I've coached for,
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Speaker 3: I don't know, however many years. You want to be
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Speaker 3: careful how much you say. In other words, he's real
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Speaker 3: good when he flushes out of the pocket. I think
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Speaker 3: there was one snap a week ago. He came out
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Speaker 3: the back instead of climbing, but he's pretty good relative
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Speaker 3: to understanding the drop as it pertains to the depth
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Speaker 3: of route. There are times where Logan or Davis will
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Speaker 3: look closely with a route and say, hey, maybe we
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Speaker 3: hitch here. but he's got a feel for these routes,
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Speaker 3: and he understands, you know, whether it's in the gun
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Speaker 3: or under center, what it should feel like and look like.
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Speaker 3: His mechanics?
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Speaker 2: His what? His right hand on man. Welcome in, everybody.
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Speaker 2: I was listening to that yesterday, and.
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Speaker 2: It's very hard for me to hear people constantly have
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Speaker 2: these conversations about either Bo Nix or Davis Webb, or
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Speaker 2: I saw Dan Orlovsky talking yesterday about, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: this isn't a Davis Webb problem. This is a Bo
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Speaker 2: Nix problem. And this and that, I understand that when
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Speaker 2: things aren't going well, offensively, um, You're going to play
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Speaker 2: the blame game. You're going to point to so-and-so and
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Speaker 2: be like, well, you look awful and this is terrible
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Speaker 2: and this and that. Here's the real issue, okay? The
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Speaker 2: big problem is the Broncos right now, at least this
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Speaker 2: is to me, I'm not going to ask Bo Nix
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Speaker 2: to be something that I don't believe that he is.
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Speaker 2: We've had a wealth of evidence about stuff like this.
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Speaker 2: I think that we all have a pretty good idea
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Speaker 2: of Bo Nix, the quarterback. He is somebody who's not
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Speaker 2: going to make mistakes. He's probably not going to throw
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Speaker 2: for 350 yards in a game. But he will capitalize
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Speaker 2: on opportunities late, and he'll give you a chance to win.
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Speaker 2: And if given the opportunity to win a football game,
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Speaker 2: he will typically do it. I don't think it's all
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Speaker 2: that complicated. And the thing that bothers me is the
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Speaker 2: wrong word. I guess I'm confused why people are confused
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Speaker 2: by this. The Broncos get shell coverage because I think
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Speaker 2: most defensive coordinators across the league rightly assume, I don't
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Speaker 2: think you can put a 10-play drive together. I don't
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Speaker 2: think you can do that without making a mistake. And
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Speaker 2: they're right. It's exactly how I view the Broncos offense.
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Speaker 2: They can't put a big drive together because they will
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Speaker 2: make a mistake at some point. And when they do
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Speaker 2: make a mistake, whether that's a pre-snap penalty, whether that's
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Speaker 2: a holding, whether that's whatever, that will now turn into
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Speaker 2: a third and 12 or a third and eight that
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Speaker 2: they probably just won't get. And when you look at
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Speaker 2: the way the defenses are playing against the Broncos, is
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Speaker 2: Bo Nix missing some guys? Yes, he is. It feels
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Speaker 2: like he has an internal clock that's moving way too quickly.
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Speaker 2: He's not letting a route develop and throw the ball downfield.
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Speaker 2: And at the same time, I think we all kind
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Speaker 2: of know if Bo Nix doesn't have a running game,
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Speaker 2: things are probably going to go poorly. Like, that's where
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Speaker 2: it starts for me. I kept saying that this is
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Speaker 2: the same offense that we've seen for two years. I
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Speaker 2: will make one amendment to that. At the beginning of
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Speaker 2: last season, you had a running game. Like, J.K. Dobbins
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Speaker 2: last year ran the football effectively. He was top five
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Speaker 2: in the league. in rushing yards through the first 10
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Speaker 2: weeks of the season. And this year, you don't have that.
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Speaker 2: You don't have anything close to it. I mean, their
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Speaker 2: rushing numbers are, I mean, down at the bottom of
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Speaker 2: the NFL. They're 20, what, 29th? 29th in the league.
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Speaker 2: They average 81 rushing yards per game. 81. 81. The
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Speaker 2: only teams worse are the Houston Texans, Cincinnati Bengals, and
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Speaker 2: the putrid running game of the Green Bay Packers. Yards
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Speaker 2: per rush. You are down at 26th, 27th, somewhere in there. 3.6
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Speaker 2: yards per carry. Again, the only teams worse, the Texans,
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Speaker 2: the Jets, the Packers, and the Raiders. Bo Nix is
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Speaker 2: a quarterback that needs a running game. Most quarterbacks do.
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Speaker 2: Even the ones that are great. You know, you look
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Speaker 2: at just some raw numbers throughout the course of the
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Speaker 2: year and things like passing yards and where teams stack
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Speaker 2: up in that category. Like, guess who's getting back near
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Speaker 2: the top of the list again? It's Patrick Mahomes. Why?
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Speaker 2: He's got a running back that people fear. It helps.
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Speaker 2: When you have a guy in the backfield that is
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Speaker 2: dynamic enough to which the defense has to pay attention
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Speaker 2: to him, then everything else kind of falls into place.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know if people are just realizing that
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Speaker 2: Bo Nix maybe doesn't have the capability of being a
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Speaker 2: top three quarterback in the NFL. I feel like I
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Speaker 2: thought that was settled already, that we all kind of
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Speaker 2: knew it. The question was whether it was good enough
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Speaker 2: for the Broncos to win a Super Bowl, and I
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Speaker 2: still think that's the case. I do think he's somebody
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Speaker 2: with the right stuff around him. I mean, we saw
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Speaker 2: it last year. It's not even refutable. With the right
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Speaker 2: stuff around him, like last season, you can get to
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Speaker 2: 14 wins, number one seed in the AFC, AFC championship game, Now,
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Speaker 2: there's a bigger question for if he gets a gigantic contract,
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Speaker 2: if he gets $ 55 million a year and you can't
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Speaker 2: use that money on all these all pros on defense
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Speaker 2: and you got to start getting picky and choosy with
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Speaker 2: who gets a contract and who doesn't. I mean, the
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Speaker 2: only guy you've really had that problem with, to be honest,
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Speaker 2: over the last couple of years is John Franklin Myers.
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Speaker 2: He was like the one guy I can think of
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Speaker 2: where they're like, we don't have the money to keep him.
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Speaker 2: But that's why you're talking about getting other stuff. And
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Speaker 2: fact of the matter is, even when J.K. Dobbins was
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Speaker 2: operating at a pretty high level last year in the backfield,
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Speaker 2: it still never looked like what you saw from B.
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Speaker 2: John Robinson last night. That's just a different level of
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Speaker 2: player that's in the backfield. That is a guy who
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Speaker 2: I find open space. And if I do, I'm gone.
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Speaker 2: You just, you don't have that. Like, I think that
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Speaker 2: RJ Harvey's got, he's got some like breakaway ability, but
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Speaker 2: it doesn't look at this. Or it doesn't look like this.
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Speaker 2: And so I'm just, through four weeks of the season,
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Speaker 2: there's two things that I know about Bo Nix is
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Speaker 2: that He doesn't throw the ball in the tight windows
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Speaker 2: all that often. He needs a running game to be successful.
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Speaker 2: And he's a slow starter to the season. And I will,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to kind of like withhold judgment on him
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Speaker 2: for another month. Like if we get out of October
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Speaker 2: and we're having these same sort of questions, like what
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Speaker 2: the hell's going on with this offense? Like if that's
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Speaker 2: still happening, then I think it's a larger thing that
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Speaker 2: you take a look at. Because this is, in some ways,
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Speaker 2: like Bo Nix's prove-it year for long-term status. And it's
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Speaker 2: just so funny that this is the way that we
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Speaker 2: talk about this, considering Bo Nix has been a bona
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Speaker 2: fide winner since arriving here.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how else, like who I can compare
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Speaker 2: this to, but it feels as if Broncos fans are
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Speaker 2: begging for Bo Nix to be something that he just isn't.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he's ever going to be a guy
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Speaker 2: that like he's John Elway. Put the weight of the
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Speaker 2: team on his shoulders and he's going to carry you.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's like that. I think he does
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Speaker 2: that late in games. But they talked about it in
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Speaker 2: the postgame. In fact, they still got the clip here.
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Speaker 2: This is Sean Payton talking about what kept the deep
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Speaker 2: ball from happening against the Niners.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, they're going to be more behind certain things.
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Speaker 4: They can rotate that cloud to waddle. They can rotate
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Speaker 4: it to the boundary. And so they do a good
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Speaker 4: job of staying on top of the deeper throws.
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Speaker 2: Why do they do it? Because they play shell coverage
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Speaker 2: because they are not worried at all about you running
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Speaker 2: against them. If you were gashing them for six, seven
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Speaker 2: yards of carry, if you were doing that, then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden you'd have to do something differently. And
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Speaker 2: then maybe you can take a pop play downfield. A
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Speaker 2: lot of times. How do you get people open downfield? Well,
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Speaker 2: you do it off play action. Well, is play action
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Speaker 2: effective if you don't run the football well? You know,
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Speaker 2: if Shaq gave you a pump fake from the three-point line,
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Speaker 2: is that going to work? Are you going to leave
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Speaker 2: your feet? No, you'd just be like, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I dare you. Go ahead and do it, and if
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Speaker 2: you make it, then good for you. But I bet
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Speaker 2: you don't do it, you can't do it consistently. And
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Speaker 2: that's where I think the Broncos are at. They have
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Speaker 2: no running game to fear. Like Michael Penix Jr. last night.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys watch Falcons and Saints.
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Speaker 2: Pretty boring game. It was a blowout from the Falcons
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Speaker 2: from start to finish. But if you did, you would
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Speaker 2: have noticed the difference. Michael Penix Jr. didn't have to
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Speaker 2: really do anything last night. They scored 45 points. He
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Speaker 2: threw the ball 20 times. Their entire game plan was B.
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Speaker 2: John Robinson and Brian Robinson take the football, and that's
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Speaker 2: going to be our offense. And we're going to dare
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Speaker 2: the Saints to stop us. And they couldn't.
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Speaker 5: And as a B. John Robinson fantasy owner who was
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Speaker 5: playing Mark Springer in fantasy this week, I was just
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Speaker 5: licking my chops.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure.
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Speaker 5: No, but absolutely. I had the same thought. I mean,
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Speaker 5: I was watching that game, and I was barely aware
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Speaker 5: of the fact that that Michael Penix was even playing.
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Speaker 5: Because every time they showed something, it was just run, run, run, run, run.
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Speaker 5: I feel like he was secondary to the offense. He
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Speaker 5: was not really the centerpiece of that. And I had
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Speaker 5: that same thought. You're talking about Penix?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Penix.
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Speaker 2: I was barely aware that he was out there. Well,
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Speaker 2: and here's the thing. On the other side of the football,
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Speaker 2: the team that's getting their asses kicked is the Saints.
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Speaker 2: And the Saints got a pretty good quarterback. Like, Tyler
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Speaker 2: Shuck is pretty good. But guess what? They couldn't run
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Speaker 2: the football at all. Like, their leading rusher is Alvin Kamara,
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Speaker 2: who had seven carries for 23 yards. I mean, he's cooked.
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Speaker 2: He's old. And when you don't have that, everything on
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Speaker 2: offense gets harder. You start playing the game in a
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Speaker 2: phone booth because nobody fears what you're going to do
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Speaker 2: up front. So we can do the Bo Nix thing
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Speaker 2: if you want to. We can talk about his ability
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Speaker 2: and where his ceiling's going to be and is he
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Speaker 2: worth the contract that eventually could come to him down
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Speaker 2: the line. Bo Nix is especial. We can play that game.
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Speaker 2: But it can't be just about him. Because I feel
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Speaker 2: like we have a good grasp on this. There's a
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Speaker 2: lot of question marks around things in sports. You know,
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Speaker 2: we talk about this all the time with like players
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Speaker 2: on the Nuggets who are on the bench. Like Zeke
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Speaker 2: Najee or Julian Strother or it's like, are these guys good?
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Speaker 2: And it's like, you know what? It's hard to know.
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Speaker 2: They don't really play. Bo Nix has played a lot.
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Speaker 2: And I think you have a pretty good grasp of this.
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Speaker 2: And the texture says, I guarantee this offense still looks
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Speaker 2: bad through October. Like maybe it does. I got two
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Speaker 2: years of evidence that says it gets a lot better
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Speaker 2: in October for whatever reason. But I can guarantee you this,
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Speaker 2: if they don't get a solid foundation of a running
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Speaker 2: game going, if they don't find a way to do that,
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Speaker 2: you're going to see a lot of these same problems.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be a lot of check down Charlie stuff.
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Speaker 2: So 303-504-0925 as we broadcast from the back is in
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Speaker 2: Shanker Studios, serious lawyers for the seriously injured. We got
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Speaker 2: college football stock up, stock down next. All right, we
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Speaker 2: do it every Tuesday following the college football weekend. It
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Speaker 2: is college football stock up, stock down. We always start
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Speaker 2: with the quarterbacks. Nelly? All right, stock up is Gunnar Stockton.
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Speaker 2: So he was 25-32, 295 yards, three touchdowns, no picks,
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Speaker 2: and a 38-14 win over Vandy. So if you look
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Speaker 2: at his numbers this year, it's just the– poster child
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Speaker 2: for efficiency from that position. You know, you play for Georgia,
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Speaker 2: things might be easier than other places, and 5-0 record
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Speaker 2: so far, 1,050 yards passing. He's got 13 touchdowns, one
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Speaker 2: pick on the year, 76% completion, but he's averaging 10
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Speaker 2: yards per attempt through five games. They're 5-0. They'll... They
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Speaker 2: win this week against Bama because this is the big game.
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Speaker 2: It's Bama and Georgia. His stock, if they get a win,
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Speaker 2: is going to absolutely skyrocket to the point to where
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Speaker 2: he could be the number one choice for Heisman. He's
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Speaker 2: just a really efficient QB, and he's not somebody that's
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Speaker 2: going to get all the flash and stuff. It kind
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Speaker 2: of reminds me, like his games feel a lot like
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Speaker 2: the Michael Panics game from last night. Team's winning very,
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Speaker 2: very smoothly. He's not asked to do too much because
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Speaker 2: he doesn't have to, but when he is asked to
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Speaker 2: make a play, he'll do that. That's why I think
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Speaker 2: this week is the big test for him. Can he
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Speaker 2: go out against a top-flight opponent and have this same
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Speaker 2: type of game against them? Because if that is the case...
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Speaker 2: Then you're talking a very, it's a very different tune,
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Speaker 2: we'll say. By the way, did I get that wrong?
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Speaker 2: Is that not this week? Hold on a second. Hold, please.
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Speaker 2: I saw Georgia had them coming up on the schedule
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Speaker 2: at some point. Why can't I find this now? Oh, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it is. No, it's 530 on ABC. Alabama is a
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Speaker 2: one and a half point favorite. It is in Tuscaloosa.
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Speaker 2: I was just making sure because I didn't see it
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Speaker 2: at the top of the list there. Freaked me out
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Speaker 2: for a second, but a huge week for Gunnar Stockton.
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Speaker 2: Let's go quarterback stock down. Will Hammond. I know it
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Speaker 2: was in a win over CU 29-7, but in watching him,
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Speaker 2: he was 17-26 for 134 yards. He did have a
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Speaker 2: touchdown and no picks, but he only has five touchdowns
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Speaker 2: and five interceptions on the year. They've had a close
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Speaker 2: win against Oregon State. They had a close win against Houston.
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Speaker 2: CU would have posed a much bigger problem if they
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Speaker 2: had any offense whatsoever. Texas Tech is a top 10
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Speaker 2: team right now. They're going to hover around that top
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Speaker 2: 10 if they continue to win. That is not going
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Speaker 2: to last if Will Hammond doesn't pick up his game
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Speaker 2: by a lot. You know in the offseason when they
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Speaker 2: went out and they were trying to bribe local judges
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Speaker 2: to get... Brendan Sorsby back to eligible. That's how they
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Speaker 2: felt about their quarterback position. Teams don't do that and
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Speaker 2: go out and pay big money. to quarterbacks in the
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Speaker 2: transfer portal if they feel good about what they have.
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Speaker 2: And I think Will Hammett has kind of proven how
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Speaker 2: they felt about that was probably right. But for the moment,
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Speaker 2: they continue to win, but he's got to be better.
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Speaker 2: So he gets the stock down. Big 12 teams stock up.
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Speaker 1: The Big 12!
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Speaker 2: So Baylor, they win 55-19 over Oregon, I'm sorry, Arizona
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Speaker 2: State this last weekend. They've won four straight after dropping
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Speaker 2: their opener to Auburn, in which they lost by a point.
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Speaker 2: So hung in there tough, had a chance to win late,
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Speaker 2: couldn't quite do it. They have unranked opponents for the
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Speaker 2: next four weeks until the end of their season in
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Speaker 2: which they get to BYU, Texas Tech, and Houston. I've
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Speaker 2: always respected Dave Aranda, the head coach at Baylor. I
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Speaker 2: think he's a good coach. Now, this does feel like
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Speaker 2: his last gasp at Baylor. He was hired in 2020.
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Speaker 2: They had a 12-win season his second year at Baylor,
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Speaker 2: but they finished sub-500 every other season with the exception
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Speaker 2: of 2024 in which they went 8-5. They're already at
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Speaker 2: 4-1 right now. I think that Dave Aranda knows he
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Speaker 2: needs a big season for him to stick around. And
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Speaker 2: Baylor so far looks like a team that can do it. Now,
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Speaker 2: some inconsistencies in some areas, but I will say that
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Speaker 2: I think that Baylor in the Big 12 is set
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Speaker 2: up to be a top quarter of the conference type
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Speaker 2: of team. And as long as they don't make crushing mistakes,
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Speaker 2: which they have done in the past, I think they'll
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Speaker 2: be in good shape in the big 12. They get
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Speaker 2: the stock up. Let's go big 12 team stock down.
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Speaker 2: For the first time this year, I'm putting CU in
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Speaker 2: this category and it's not that they lost 29 to
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Speaker 2: seven at Texas tech. It's, it's about inept offense. It's
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Speaker 2: about losing your playbook at a hotel and No answer
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Speaker 2: at quarterback. You have a special teams unit that had
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Speaker 2: eight guys on the field. You take a timeout, and
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Speaker 2: then there's nine guys on the field after the timeout.
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Speaker 2: It just feels like a disaster from top to bottom.
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Speaker 2: Three straight losses. Pretty much all of those are embarrassing.
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Speaker 2: Now they have a bye week until they get to
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Speaker 2: Utah and Oklahoma State. And by the way, the Cowboys,
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Speaker 2: top 25 team in the country who look really good.
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Speaker 2: After a bad loss to start the season. Things could
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Speaker 2: go off the rails in a hurry if they don't
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Speaker 2: fix things during this bye week. So they got to
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Speaker 2: make that happen. The bummer is I think their defense
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Speaker 2: is actually improved by a lot. It's just been hard
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Speaker 2: to notice and not mattered because the offense has not
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Speaker 2: given them anything to work with. So CU gets a
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Speaker 2: stock down. Let's go national team stock up. I know
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Speaker 2: this isn't like a surprise or anything like that. But
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Speaker 2: Ohio State in putting up 31 points on Iowa's defense
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Speaker 2: in Iowa is really impressive. They have Julian Sand playing
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Speaker 2: like a Heisman, but he won't win the Heisman because
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Speaker 2: they got a receiver that's even better than Julian Sand,
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Speaker 2: and his name is Jeremiah Smith. What another 200-yard game
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Speaker 2: against Iowa. They had one loss this year, and that
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Speaker 2: was to Texas, in which they gave up that huge
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter comeback. But I don't think this is going
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Speaker 2: to hurt them at all perception-wise by anybody within the
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Speaker 2: college football playoff committee. I actually think it might help
21:38
Speaker 2: them down the line to be able to suffer a
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Speaker 2: little bit of a brutal finish to eventually use that as, okay,
21:46
Speaker 2: here's what led to us losing that football game. Here's
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Speaker 2: how we make sure that doesn't happen again. Ohio State
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Speaker 2: just kind of looks like they have everything. They got
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Speaker 2: a game against Maryland this week in which they'll blow
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Speaker 2: them out. But the next three games are the ones
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Speaker 2: that are the testers. Then they have Indiana. Then they
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Speaker 2: have USC. Then they have Oregon. And Indiana is going
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Speaker 2: to be the big one. If they get through that,
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Speaker 2: they're winning the Big 12. And they're likely going to
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Speaker 2: be number one, two, somewhere in there in the country
22:17
Speaker 2: by the end of the season. So Ohio State gets
22:19
Speaker 2: to stock up. Let's go national team stock down. Florida,
22:23
Speaker 2: just when people started to believe that Florida was going
22:27
Speaker 2: to be back in the mix, that they looked like
22:28
Speaker 2: they were returning to their old glory, you know, they
22:31
Speaker 2: go out and they beat the snot out of Ole Miss,
22:33
Speaker 2: who was number four at the time, and you're thinking
22:35
Speaker 2: to yourself, dude, maybe Florida's got it again, huh? They
22:39
Speaker 2: suffer a 45-17 loss to Missouri. And to do that
22:44
Speaker 2: right on the heels of that gigantic win against Ole Miss.
22:50
Speaker 2: You're just like me. Well, there's one thing about them
22:55
Speaker 2: that is trash. They have a gigantic issue right now.
22:59
Speaker 2: The last three weeks of the season, they've given up
23:02
Speaker 2: 112 points combined against Auburn, Ole Miss, and Missouri. You're
23:10
Speaker 2: talking about damn near 40 points per game allowed. That's
23:14
Speaker 2: not sustainable for anything. That won't get them anywhere. The
23:20
Speaker 2: really bad news is they play South Carolina this week.
23:23
Speaker 2: They should be fine there. But then they get Texas
23:26
Speaker 2: and Georgia in back-to-back weeks. If this defense can't stop
23:30
Speaker 2: Auburn's in Mizzou's, good luck stopping Texas and Georgia. So
23:35
Speaker 2: it felt like you were right there on the cusp
23:37
Speaker 2: of being like, hey, maybe Florida's back. They are not.
23:42
Speaker 2: So Florida gets the stock down. Let's go Heisman stock up.
23:47
Speaker 2: CJ Carr, 21 of 29 for 234 yards, four touchdowns,
23:51
Speaker 2: had a rushing touchdown in their game, their win against
23:54
Speaker 2: North Carolina. Game was closed. Like, North Carolina pushed them
23:59
Speaker 2: in that game, but I think CJ Carr is the
24:02
Speaker 2: reason that they got through it. CJ Carr is, I mean,
24:06
Speaker 2: he's got at least four touchdowns in three of his
24:09
Speaker 2: last four games. He's got 1,200 passing yards already, 13 touchdowns,
24:12
Speaker 2: one pick, completing over 70% of his passes. Obviously, Notre
24:16
Speaker 2: Dame is still undefeated, not to mention Notre Dame has
24:20
Speaker 2: already been, I don't know, promised by the college football
24:23
Speaker 2: playoff committee as an apology from last year that, hey,
24:25
Speaker 2: if you're anywhere near the top 12, we'll just let
24:28
Speaker 2: you guys in. They said that out loud last year.
24:32
Speaker 2: So as long as Notre Dame doesn't royally mess up
24:36
Speaker 2: sometime in the next, you know, the latter half of
24:38
Speaker 2: the season, they're going to be in the college football
24:40
Speaker 2: playoff and CJ Carr is probably going to be somewhere
24:44
Speaker 2: standing on that podium, shoulder to shoulder with some dudes
24:47
Speaker 2: for the Heisman. But he's played great. Junior season, he
24:54
Speaker 2: looks like everything that Notre Dame wanted him to be,
24:56
Speaker 2: which is a solid guy who doesn't make mistakes, makes
25:00
Speaker 2: plays when you need him to, and can lead you
25:03
Speaker 2: to a victory. So he gets a stock up. Let's
25:05
Speaker 2: go Heisman stock down. I hate to say it, but
25:10
Speaker 2: it is Kamario Taylor. It's my boy. The start to
25:15
Speaker 2: that game against Bama was just brutal. I mean, you
25:17
Speaker 2: have the fumble on the first drive. You throw a
25:19
Speaker 2: pick six on the second drive, and it puts you
25:21
Speaker 2: so far behind the eight ball that nothing else really mattered. Now,
25:24
Speaker 2: he finished the game 1934, 258 yards, three touchdowns, and
25:29
Speaker 2: two picks. But that felt like a lot of empty calories,
25:34
Speaker 2: like things that didn't matter. They hung in the game early,
25:37
Speaker 2: but Bama pulled away. Kamario Taylor went down with an
25:41
Speaker 2: injury late in the third quarter after throwing a touchdown pass.
25:45
Speaker 2: Wasn't seen again. He's going to have to have that
25:50
Speaker 2: team in the top 15, I think, at the end
25:52
Speaker 2: of the year to have a shot at this. And
25:56
Speaker 2: they're going to have to maybe allow themselves one more loss.
26:01
Speaker 2: But it's a numbers game with the Heisman. As much
26:04
Speaker 2: as it is, what's my team's record thing? To get
26:07
Speaker 2: yourself in that discussion, it's hard to do it without
26:10
Speaker 2: your team being great. So I still think he's got
26:13
Speaker 2: a good shot to be on that podium at the
26:15
Speaker 2: end of the year. I do think that that loss
26:18
Speaker 2: and what that could mean moving forward with the way
26:20
Speaker 2: that they lost really put a damper on it. But
26:22
Speaker 2: Kamario Taylor gets the stock down. Let's go to best
26:25
Speaker 2: game of the week. Oh, yeah. The best game of
26:28
Speaker 2: the week, mark my words, took place on Friday night
26:35
Speaker 2: at the FCS level. If you tuned in to ESPN
26:40
Speaker 2: Friday night, it was Montana State against Idaho. Montana State
26:46
Speaker 2: had a 5-0 record going into that game. Idaho was 0-4.
26:51
Speaker 2: Game was in Idaho. Idaho rallied back from 14 points.
26:57
Speaker 2: They had no timeouts. They were down 7 with 49
27:01
Speaker 2: seconds left on the clock. Drive down the field, make
27:05
Speaker 2: a big throw. They get the old Michigan put a
27:08
Speaker 2: second back on the clock thing, but it was right.
27:11
Speaker 2: It was right in that decision. Huck the ball in
27:14
Speaker 2: the end zone. They get it. They go for two.
27:17
Speaker 2: Capitalize on that two. Touchdown was from about 25 yards out.
27:21
Speaker 2: Not quite a Hail Mary, but, you know, the same
27:24
Speaker 2: sort of desperation. It was an unbelievable football game that
27:27
Speaker 2: I had casually on in the background that I slowly
27:31
Speaker 2: started to lock in more and more. That, by far,
27:35
Speaker 2: to me, was the best game in college football over
27:37
Speaker 2: the last weekend. Let's go to upset of the week.
27:39
Speaker 3: College football!
27:40
Speaker 2: That one could be the upset of the week, too.
27:42
Speaker 2: I mean, Montana State was 5-0, playing an 0-4 team,
27:44
Speaker 2: 17-point favorite and lost. You could go Missouri over Florida
27:50
Speaker 2: for how Missouri beat Florida. You could go Minnesota and Michigan,
27:55
Speaker 2: which was also a great game. You could have easily
27:58
Speaker 2: put Minnesota in the national team stock up category. They've
28:02
Speaker 2: been getting some big wins lately. My issue is I
28:05
Speaker 2: think Michigan sucks. So it's hard for me to give
28:07
Speaker 2: them too much credit for it. But PJ Fleck, who's
28:10
Speaker 2: been at Minnesota for a while now, he's another one
28:13
Speaker 2: of those Dave Aranda types that probably needs a big
28:16
Speaker 2: season to make sure he's there long, long term. Minnesota's
28:21
Speaker 2: been rifling off some wins. And they went into that
28:23
Speaker 2: game as a seven-point dog. against Michigan came out with
28:27
Speaker 2: the W and now Minnesota you're looking at in, in
28:31
Speaker 2: the grand scheme of college football is, Hey, maybe there's
28:35
Speaker 2: somebody we got to pay attention to. And maybe PJ
28:37
Speaker 2: flex got something rolling in Minnesota right now. We saw
28:40
Speaker 2: last week, he's grabbing his own players blood and throwing
28:43
Speaker 2: it on the sides of his face. He's a freak.
28:46
Speaker 2: Maybe that stuff's paying off. They're playing Purdue this weekend.
28:50
Speaker 2: Minnesota should win that game. And then they get the
28:53
Speaker 2: tough test coming up against Iowa's and Indiana's and UCLA's.
28:57
Speaker 2: So there you go. That is college football stock up,
28:59
Speaker 2: stock down. We do it every week following the college
29:02
Speaker 2: football weekend with a couple minutes left here. You know,
29:10
Speaker 2: think about this for a second. As the texture says,
29:13
Speaker 2: Minnesota State, Montana State was also ranked number one in
29:16
Speaker 2: the country. That's what I'm saying. It was an unbelievable
29:18
Speaker 2: football game on Friday night. If you guys missed it.
29:21
Speaker 2: Anybody that's in the Montana's or Dakota's, whether it's FBS
29:25
Speaker 2: or FCS level, watch out for those teams. They're really good.
29:29
Speaker 2: Always really good. But I do want to get back
29:32
Speaker 2: to the Broncos in, in some ways to fix things.
29:35
Speaker 2: Like how does it work? And I want to ask
29:37
Speaker 2: you guys where you're at on this. You know, we,
29:40
Speaker 2: got some injury updates yesterday. Most of it seeming to
29:44
Speaker 2: be good news. Most of it, there's one I'm really
29:46
Speaker 2: concerned about that we'll get to in a couple of minutes.
29:48
Speaker 2: But to me, if I ask you, we'll just kind
29:55
Speaker 2: of do the straw poll leading into– Just a very
30:06
Speaker 2: general question, but I'm curious to see where you guys
30:09
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30:09
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30:12
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30:17
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30:28
Speaker 2: into just holistically his play right now. You could take
30:30
Speaker 2: it to a trust factor. And I think that would
30:33
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30:36
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Speaker 2: Where you at with Bonick's? Do you trust Bo Nix
31:16
Speaker 2: under center right now for the Broncos? We'll get there
31:17
Speaker 2: in just a couple of minutes to grab. All right,
31:19
Speaker 2: we got a lot of responses going through, and I'll
31:22
Speaker 2: just read a few of these. He's playing scared. I
31:26
Speaker 2: asked the question, where's your trust level with Bo Nix?
31:29
Speaker 2: He's playing scared. He's not worth $ 50 million a year.
31:31
Speaker 2: His fear of going over the middle is killing us.
31:37
Speaker 2: He's not being set up to succeed by his coaches
31:40
Speaker 2: in run game. I don't trust Bo anymore. He was
31:43
Speaker 2: missing pass after pass. Bo is cheeks without a running game.
31:48
Speaker 2: He's a Super Bowl quarterback with one. So a lot
31:53
Speaker 2: of different places that people are going. I have always
31:57
Speaker 2: been somebody like Bo Nix feels like the.
32:03
Speaker 2: He feels to me like somebody who is right there
32:09
Speaker 2: on the cusp of and this is the tough thing
32:12
Speaker 2: about quarterbacks in the NFL, you wouldn't feel comfortable giving
32:21
Speaker 2: him a long-term quarterback because you're still not sure if
32:25
Speaker 2: it's good enough. But he is certainly better than a
32:33
Speaker 2: lot of the unknowns. Bo Nix is the best quarterback
32:38
Speaker 2: you've had. since Peyton Manning retired. And if you don't
32:44
Speaker 2: commit to him, not to turn in any hurry right now,
32:47
Speaker 2: but this is just where I'm at right now. If
32:49
Speaker 2: you don't commit to him, you could be right back
32:52
Speaker 2: on that deserted island, picking through the Case Keenum bargain bin,
32:57
Speaker 2: grabbing the Teddy Bridgewaters, putting your faith in Joe Flacco's.
33:03
Speaker 1: Case Keenum, I'm sorry.
33:07
Speaker 2: Trevor Simeon's. hoping guys like Drew Lockwork. Like, he's better
33:13
Speaker 2: than all of that stuff. And it's uncomfortable really either way.
33:21
Speaker 2: And the Broncos are not going to be bad enough
33:24
Speaker 2: to be picking top three in any draft coming up anyway.
33:30
Speaker 2: But here's kind of the overall story to me with Bo.
33:36
Speaker 2: You know, I keep mentioning this because I just.
33:42
Speaker 2: I feel like it's important, and if you have this
33:45
Speaker 2: sort of look at it, then you don't shift wildly
33:47
Speaker 2: game to game. It feels like we do that with him.
33:53
Speaker 2: You shift with Bo Nix from half to half, from
33:57
Speaker 2: quarter to quarter, from drive to drive. He has moments
34:02
Speaker 2: in which he looks really good. Really good. And then
34:07
Speaker 2: he has moments... that you're like, I don't know what
34:10
Speaker 2: this offense is. He very clearly is somebody who needs help.
34:16
Speaker 2: And I was incredibly focused this offseason on getting someone
34:22
Speaker 2: in the backfield that makes a difference. Because I think
34:24
Speaker 2: that's how you help most. I think you look at
34:27
Speaker 2: teams in the league that are really effective. Give me
34:29
Speaker 2: the team that's really good in the NFL that can't
34:30
Speaker 2: run the football. It barely ever happens. Barely ever. like
34:38
Speaker 2: you look at the top teams in the league, or
34:40
Speaker 2: you look at the top rushers in the league, it
34:45
Speaker 2: pretty much checks out with who's good and who's not,
34:47
Speaker 2: with a few exceptions. But like Kenneth Walker joins the Chiefs,
34:52
Speaker 2: the Chiefs look like they're really good again. That quickly. B.
34:57
Speaker 2: John Robinson. If they just needed a quarterback who wasn't
35:03
Speaker 2: a fourth stringer named Jack Strand... Now, all of a sudden,
35:06
Speaker 2: the last two weeks, they've blown out their opponents. James Cook,
35:10
Speaker 2: Buffalo's pretty good. Derrick Henry in Baltimore. Baltimore's pretty good.
35:14
Speaker 2: Indianapolis might be the exception. Detroit with Jameer Gibbs. Their
35:20
Speaker 2: defense is abominable, but their offense is really good. Then
35:25
Speaker 2: you have... Look at this. The number seven and eight
35:28
Speaker 2: rushers in the NFL are Kyle Monungai and DeAndre Swift.
35:33
Speaker 2: They play for the same team. How's that Bears offense?
35:36
Speaker 2: It's just, you can't be effective without it. You just can't.
35:42
Speaker 2: And that's why, you know, when the offseason was here,
35:44
Speaker 2: I was sitting there, I was like, I know that
35:47
Speaker 2: it would be nice to have another receiver that opens
35:50
Speaker 2: things up, and I am very happy about the Waddle acquisition,
35:53
Speaker 2: even though it hasn't, like, totally... totally gotten to the
35:58
Speaker 2: place where I think it needs to go. You can
36:01
Speaker 2: tell he's helping in the pass game. But the running
36:06
Speaker 2: back spot, without that, I think it negates a lot
36:10
Speaker 2: of the things that Jalen Waddell brings as far as
36:13
Speaker 2: fear to a defense. If you had a running game
36:17
Speaker 2: that was respected, play action now all of a sudden
36:19
Speaker 2: becomes a major issue. Like, And so when it comes
36:28
Speaker 2: to Bo Nix, I think that there's a few things
36:31
Speaker 2: that he does that drives me nuts. And one of
36:35
Speaker 2: them is he takes the check down way too often.
36:39
Speaker 2: Way too often. He needs to let a play develop.
36:43
Speaker 2: He takes check downs when he's got not just a
36:46
Speaker 2: clean pocket, but nobody within like three or four yards
36:49
Speaker 2: of him. And it's like, let the play develop for
36:53
Speaker 2: a while. You can take the check down later. Yeah,
36:58
Speaker 2: you could pick up five or six yards by checking
37:00
Speaker 2: the ball down. Or you could get a 20-yard play
37:03
Speaker 2: if you wait another half a second. And I think
37:06
Speaker 2: those are the main problems I have with him. And
37:10
Speaker 2: here's what's funny. When quarterbacks do that, typically it's because
37:14
Speaker 2: they fear getting hit. I don't think that's his fear.
37:17
Speaker 2: His fear is taking a sack. And I've mentioned this before,
37:26
Speaker 2: but just to re-clarify this, I think when coaches have
37:33
Speaker 2: things that they hate that happen on offense, and you've
37:39
Speaker 2: got a young quarterback that you're trying to teach, like,
37:41
Speaker 2: here's the things that I want to accomplish on offense,
37:43
Speaker 2: here's the things that we can't do. And everybody's told
37:46
Speaker 2: you can't turn the ball over. I think Sean Payton
37:49
Speaker 2: puts an extra emphasis on you can't take sacks. And
37:53
Speaker 2: part of this is if you take a sack on
37:58
Speaker 2: this offense, it's going to kill your drive. They do
38:02
Speaker 2: that in general. Sacks are drive killers. But especially with
38:08
Speaker 2: this team, it feels like negative plays totally derail anything
38:11
Speaker 2: that you want to accomplish. But I think he has
38:15
Speaker 2: that so deep in the recesses of his brain that
38:21
Speaker 2: It hinders his ability to let a play develop or
38:23
Speaker 2: stay in a clean pocket. He'll bail out of clean
38:26
Speaker 2: pockets because he's like, well, I've been back here for
38:28
Speaker 2: two and a half seconds. That means I have to
38:30
Speaker 2: go and run out of the pocket because I don't
38:32
Speaker 2: know where the guy is on my blind side or whatever.
38:37
Speaker 2: But I think he's almost overanalyzing that part of it.
38:41
Speaker 2: And it's created a bit of an issue with if
38:44
Speaker 2: you want to push the ball downfield, you can't do
38:46
Speaker 2: that in two seconds. But it's a number of different
38:54
Speaker 2: things that I think could help him. And certainly running
38:57
Speaker 2: the football is one of them. Now, as far as
38:59
Speaker 2: injuries go, we got an update from Sean Payton yesterday.
39:02
Speaker 2: Here's what he said.
39:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, I appreciate it. Of course, today and throughout
39:06
Speaker 3: the week, really we'll stay away from any updates. Guys,
39:09
Speaker 3: we're all in today getting work, rehab, and we'll make
39:12
Speaker 3: sure we go through the process well. And then we'll
39:15
Speaker 3: have a report Wednesday.
39:17
Speaker 2: So, again, he's not going to give you anything. The
39:21
Speaker 2: good news is this. none of these seem to be
39:25
Speaker 2: very long-term like Sertan's, you know, non-contact being helped off
39:32
Speaker 2: the field. The Achilles is fine. He is expected to
39:35
Speaker 2: be week to week, so maybe he misses a couple
39:38
Speaker 2: of games. Pat Bryant had the ankle injury. He was
39:41
Speaker 2: carted off. That's not going to be season long, but
39:44
Speaker 2: it is an ankle sprain, so who knows how long
39:45
Speaker 2: that's going to be. The one that I am concerned
39:48
Speaker 2: about is Riley Moss. He's got the rib issues. He
39:52
Speaker 2: had those earlier. He's tried to play through it, but
39:55
Speaker 2: now they're looking at his whole core and core problems
39:58
Speaker 2: can be really, really bad. And I know that everybody
40:03
Speaker 2: has their own opinions on Riley Moss. I think he's
40:05
Speaker 2: a pretty damn good player. And I think it's going
40:08
Speaker 2: to hurt if he's not in the lineup. Now, the
40:10
Speaker 2: good news is you have this depth with Jadé Barron
40:16
Speaker 2: and with Chris Abrams-Strang. You have four legitimate corners that
40:20
Speaker 2: you trust in a football game. Most teams can barely
40:23
Speaker 2: find a second corner they trust. Some teams don't have one,
40:27
Speaker 2: like my stupid team. But the benefit of having depth
40:34
Speaker 2: at that position is for exactly this. You still don't
40:38
Speaker 2: want to see extended time missing from Sertan and Moss.
40:43
Speaker 2: You still don't want it. Because now it just puts
40:47
Speaker 2: an extra strain on everything else that you do. My
40:52
Speaker 2: fear with not having Sertan and Moss in a football
40:55
Speaker 2: game is not that Jadé Barron and Chris Abrams Drain
40:58
Speaker 2: can't hold it together. My fear is that it's going
41:01
Speaker 2: to take a little bit of a step down because
41:03
Speaker 2: nobody else in the league is Pat Sertan. And so
41:06
Speaker 2: your strength of this team right now is the secondary.
41:10
Speaker 2: And now that takes a hit. that puts in extra
41:12
Speaker 2: stress on your offense. Well, those three announced that you've
41:15
Speaker 2: had earlier in, in, in games that the defense and
41:19
Speaker 2: more specifically, the secondary has been able to get you
41:21
Speaker 2: the ball back for maybe that doesn't happen as often now.
41:27
Speaker 2: And so it just creates more and more pressure on
41:29
Speaker 2: the offense being able to produce. So I'm sure we'll
41:36
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41:41
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