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Ryan Harris tries to make sense of the anemic Broncos offense · Moser, Lombardi and Kane

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  Speaker 3: Let's start here. Are the Broncos capable of being an
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  Speaker 3: effective team slash offense without a good running game?
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  Speaker 1: Right. I mean, that's something where you can't. you cannot
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  Speaker 1: be a productive offense without running the football early and
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  Speaker 1: often and instilling the fear in the defense when they
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  Speaker 1: run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Well, on top of that, you look at some of
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  Speaker 3: the situations. Here's what's funny about the Broncos game. None
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  Speaker 3: of that looked a lot different from the previous weeks.
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  Speaker 3: You just didn't have the fourth quarter comeback, but now
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  Speaker 3: you might be without Sertan and Moss for a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: How do you handle that? Well, first and foremost, you
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  Speaker 1: have to get far more communication on defense. You got
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  Speaker 1: to get some guys sped up in terms of what
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  Speaker 1: they're paying attention to in meetings. Some of the coaches
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  Speaker 1: might have forgotten Chris Abrams, Drain, and other names like
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  Speaker 1: that because they've been only coaching Pat Sertan and Moss
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  Speaker 1: and others. But here's the biggest thing. This Broncos team
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  Speaker 1: learned this week. that that come from behind heroics cannot
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  Speaker 1: be relied on. Because when you go against a team
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  Speaker 1: like the 49ers, and let's be clear, that score was
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  Speaker 1: closer than the score two weeks ago at any point, right? So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was 3-3, 6-3, 10, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden... Now they win the game. And so I
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  Speaker 1: think more than anything, you learned as a team that
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  Speaker 1: you need to be playing four quarters of football. It
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  Speaker 1: was fun and cute in the first four games, but
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  Speaker 1: that now you have to be able to put one together. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: you'll get beat by a good team like the 49ers did.
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  Speaker 1: So offense and defense are going to have a sense
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  Speaker 1: of urgency this week in practice that they probably haven't
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  Speaker 1: had all season, if they're being honest.
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  Speaker 4: Ryan, scripted plays to start a game. You've played your
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  Speaker 4: entire career. You've gone through this before. We saw some
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  Speaker 4: Shanahan offenses here just thrive in scripted plays. Why is
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  Speaker 4: the start of these games so slow? Why do they
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  Speaker 4: look so pedestrian to start games?
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  Speaker 1: There's just no urgency, right? There's no pace. Everybody's walking
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  Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage. It's like they just are
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  Speaker 1: okay with it not going well. And here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: How about calling the run two, three times in a row?
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  Speaker 1: You get a run on first down, and everybody knows. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: here comes the play-action pass. A second and eight play-action
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  Speaker 1: pass that goes out of bounds. Like, what are we doing, boys?
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing here? So it's play-calling. It's execution time.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, when I was with Gary Kubiak
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  Speaker 1: in Houston, we had one of these years where he said, look, guys,
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  Speaker 1: our first 15, it's not cutting it. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: throw it out. We're not even going to do a
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  Speaker 1: first 15. We're going to show you the plays we
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  Speaker 1: like and then we'll get to them. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to spend all this time talking about things. We're
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  Speaker 1: just going to go and mess it up. Because what
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  Speaker 1: ends up happening is that if you do that first 15,
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  Speaker 1: those are the plays the guys go to bed thinking
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  Speaker 1: about that night. Well, maybe we need 10 other plays
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  Speaker 1: to win the game that they aren't thinking about. So
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  Speaker 1: whatever the process is, It has to change. It has
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  Speaker 1: to change now.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan procedure penalties. Why do they, why do they keep
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  Speaker 2: cropping up?
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  Speaker 4: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's too much, there's too much on the player's plate.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to do too much and they're putting different
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  Speaker 1: players in new positions, right? I mean, there's something to
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  Speaker 1: be said for the team that says, here's our formation.
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  Speaker 1: Try and beat us. Here's what we do out of
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  Speaker 1: this formation. Try and beat us. You know, there's just
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  Speaker 1: not enough of that kind of identity and dictation by
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  Speaker 1: offense or defense on this team right now. But when
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  Speaker 1: you come to that issue, it's something where you got
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  Speaker 1: to be able to figure this out here the next
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  Speaker 1: week and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan Harris with us, and he always joins us. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: turn to the experts. Going back to the running game,
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  Speaker 3: which one of these is the biggest reason why it's
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  Speaker 3: not working? Is it lack of commitment to the run game?
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  Speaker 3: Is it the blocking in the run game? Is it
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  Speaker 3: the actual play calls? Or is it the horses in
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  Speaker 3: the backfield?
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  Speaker 1: It's a commitment. anytime your quarterback has three times as
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  Speaker 1: many attempts as you have as a run, running the football,
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  Speaker 1: you're not committed to the run. It's not three times.
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  Speaker 1: I'm being a little exaggerated, but I mean, what are
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  Speaker 1: we 42 to 2018, 42 to 18, that might actually
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  Speaker 1: be about half. So, you know, no, they're not committed
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  Speaker 1: to the run. And what that means is the defense
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  Speaker 1: isn't afraid, right? Oh, how, how afraid were you when
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  Speaker 1: you saw play action pass yesterday, just watching the game?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and it wasn't just the way that there
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  Speaker 1: wasn't success. It's the way that green law would point
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  Speaker 1: at coach Peyton and say, you, you know, you bleeped
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  Speaker 1: up cutting me. It's the way that Fred Warner was
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  Speaker 1: tackling and then celebrate who was stopping him, man. If you're,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's like getting hit behind the goal, right?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, if you're going to be by my goalie,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting hit too. So it was just a, there
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  Speaker 1: was no fight. from the internal part of being a
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  Speaker 1: professional athlete. And it started, too, with the commitment to
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  Speaker 1: the run game. You have got to have both your
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  Speaker 1: backs and double-digit carries if you can. And if not,
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with feeding R.J. Harvey, you know? So you've
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  Speaker 1: got to feed the horses you have. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: play the game you're in. And look at a team
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  Speaker 1: that did that no better yesterday than the Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're down coming into that third quarter, and
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  Speaker 1: Javante Williams– Wish you had him?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But he was running the ball. And where the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys got well was in five plays, four of their
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  Speaker 1: plays were runs. And, yeah, they threw a play-action pass.
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  Speaker 1: You can't run once, pass twice, and then be like, oh, guys,
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  Speaker 1: look out for this play-action pass. Yeah, right, man. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: You said it right there.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to bring up this point. The very
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  Speaker 4: first series, first and ten, wide receiver screen to Waddle
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  Speaker 4: for three yards. Their second play was a play-action boot.
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  Speaker 4: And basically, I'm thinking to myself, who are you fooling?
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  Speaker 4: You haven't, you haven't run the ball yet. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: how can you run play action boot if you haven't
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  Speaker 4: set up the run?
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  Speaker 1: It's like backwards. It made no sense to me. It's
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  Speaker 1: like inbounding the ball going the other way. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it just doesn't it doesn't make sense. And again, if
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  Speaker 1: I if these defensive players don't know what I look
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  Speaker 1: like running out to hit them in the face, they're
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  Speaker 1: definitely they're going to force me to show that first.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one of the things that I think the
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  Speaker 1: 49ers did an excellent job of. Show us you're committed
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  Speaker 1: to the run. Show us you can get somebody other
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  Speaker 1: than Cortland Sutton going. Show us that Bo Nix can
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  Speaker 1: be patient for four quarters. And really, the Broncos couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And that's going to keep happening. Now you're at this
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  Speaker 1: kind of threshold mark. Four weeks in the NFL. Everybody's
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  Speaker 1: got film on you. You have tendencies now, whether you
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  Speaker 1: like them or not. Even you, Moj, you have a
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  Speaker 1: tendency where you watch the game and how you throw
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  Speaker 1: the remote, all those things. Right. And so now teams
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  Speaker 1: are going to continue to say, prove it to us
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  Speaker 1: because we don't think you want to run the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We don't think you want to stay on sides. And
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  Speaker 1: we think we're going to be able to win this game.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan, I think what startled me a little bit is
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  Speaker 2: that the 49ers said, you know what? We're just going
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  Speaker 2: to bash the ball in your face. We're just going
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  Speaker 2: to run it right at you. And sometimes they did.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes they didn't. But they just they said, let's square up.
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  Speaker 2: And this is a team with all kinds of offensive weapons.
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  Speaker 2: But hand the ball to McCaffrey and right between the
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  Speaker 2: receivers were hurt. agreed agreed but they were committed to
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  Speaker 2: smash I mean they're like we'll slog it out the
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  Speaker 2: entire game if you want to and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 2: happened and I guess the Broncos can't do that the
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  Speaker 2: other way is the problem the Niners can do that
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  Speaker 2: but the Broncos can't do it the other way with
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  Speaker 2: their offense.
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  Speaker 1: Well and think about the types of runs that were
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  Speaker 1: called by San Francisco right You have a pitch where
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  Speaker 1: McCaffrey's looking like he's going wide, but then he comes
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  Speaker 1: right down the hill, and there's a backside tight end
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  Speaker 1: wiping away. You had a frontside zone play that looked
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  Speaker 1: like Terrell Davis was back there. You had a cutback.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, that young man, Black, from Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: that's a heck of a player now, that backup running
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  Speaker 1: back they had. But they're just willing to run the
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  Speaker 1: ball so many different ways. They're flipping formations. They're adding
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  Speaker 1: tight ends. And they're just committed to it. And the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos are only running the ball to set up the pass.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we've seen. That's what's been demonstrated. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what has to change if they want to be successful.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Harris with us. And on that subject, you know,
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  Speaker 3: you bring in Jalen Waddell in the offseason. You spend
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  Speaker 3: this first-round pick to bring him here. And my thought was, man,
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  Speaker 3: this is great. This should free up Cortland Sutton to
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  Speaker 3: get more one-on-one opportunities. He's averaging two catches a game.
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  Speaker 3: Why can't they get him the football?
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  Speaker 1: He is somebody who needs a lot of space and
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  Speaker 1: you need a lot of time to develop those routes.
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  Speaker 1: And for even his touchdown, I mean, that was such
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  Speaker 1: an awesome route. But man, you got to do a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work flying outside, curling back underneath. it's just
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  Speaker 1: hard to get a player who they know you want
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  Speaker 1: to get the ball to. It's hard to get him
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  Speaker 1: the ball. But that's where Coach Payton has to be
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  Speaker 1: and Davis Webb have to be more creative in the formations.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're motioning him across. Maybe you're starting him in
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  Speaker 1: the slot, putting him– attach him as a tight end
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  Speaker 1: if that's going to get him a free release. And
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  Speaker 1: it's also on him. Look, Jalen Waddell has incredible dynamic ability.
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  Speaker 1: And we– that's a different game. And it's not his
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  Speaker 1: first time that he's bobbled the catch. So they need
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  Speaker 1: to have a mental performance coach talk to him. just
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  Speaker 1: to settle down. And you've got to find ways to
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  Speaker 1: get him the ball in the offense normally instead of
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  Speaker 1: trying to force it to make him happier to think
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  Speaker 1: that that's the key to your offense.
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  Speaker 4: Brian, I don't know if you saw after the game,
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  Speaker 4: Dre Greenlaw had to be held back from going after
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  Speaker 4: Sean Payton. He was talking some noise in his face.
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  Speaker 4: Have you ever experienced that before where I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: know you probably didn't have coaches you left with great impressions,
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  Speaker 4: but have you ever seen a player go after a
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  Speaker 4: coach like that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will say that's part of the game now. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you want to say something? You want to make decisions?
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  Speaker 1: You better win that football game because if not, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Coach Payton had plenty of time to shut Drake Greenlaw up.
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  Speaker 1: The offense had plenty of time to shut Drake Greenlaw up.
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  Speaker 1: If after four quarters of whooping your ass, you don't
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  Speaker 1: like what he's saying, that's a you problem, right? And
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  Speaker 1: there are moments where, you know, you do that. I'll
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  Speaker 1: just say, you know, in my own respectful Notre Dame way,
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  Speaker 1: I was not and still am not, as anybody may attest,
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  Speaker 1: a josh mcdaniel's fan and after we whooped their tail
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  Speaker 1: and i was at the kansas city chiefs i went
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  Speaker 1: over and i shook his head and i said hey
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  Speaker 1: josh good to see you i walked away hey right
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  Speaker 1: so you know you whoop somebody's ass for four quarters
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  Speaker 1: say what you want how about that you bet.
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  Speaker 3: One one last thing for you ryan um have you
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  Speaker 3: ever forgotten a playbook at a bar like what happened
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  Speaker 3: with cu over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Not at a bar, but I did forget it on
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  Speaker 1: the walk-through parking lot. But I ran downstairs because I
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  Speaker 1: noticed it before I hit the... before I hit the
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  Speaker 1: elevator and got that. Thank God. Cause that's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can get fine big time now in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: for that, but how about boys? What do we, let's
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  Speaker 1: talk just real quick. CSU. I think I love both
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  Speaker 1: those boys. I love more of saying, Hey, you're done
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  Speaker 1: calling plays. And I like the guy saying I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what was their dispute last when you're on
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  Speaker 1: the side of both guys? Like way to go. Both
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  Speaker 1: of you. I love it. I love it. What a day.
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  Speaker 1: What a weekend in football.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the fact that he, He just was like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm leaving then.
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  Speaker 2: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you're done going to place.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm leaving. I mean, that's so awesome. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's not awesome for the players, of course, but it's
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  Speaker 1: heightened dysfunction. And I think Jim Mora was getting away
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  Speaker 1: with a little more function than we thought. But what
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  Speaker 1: a role of events between Saturday into Sunday. Yeah. Texas
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  Speaker 1: Tech came in and wrecked him with the bus.
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  Speaker 3: Ryan, you're the best.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you next week.
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  Speaker 1: See you, buddy. See you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Peace.