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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mosher, Lombardy and Caine on demand. Listen live
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- 0:18Speaker 2: So back at it with kind of a ramp up practice.
- 0:22Speaker 2: We'll get two good days then Tomorrow Wednesday, and then
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- 0:42Speaker 3: We'll have Chad Brown on as well as Uh, look.
- 0:46Speaker 5: We like Chad You know why I like Chad? Why
- 0:48Speaker 5: do you like Chad? He's a little bit of a
- 0:49Speaker 5: later driver. I appreciate a very good later driver, I
- 0:54Speaker 5: really do. It was a no, no, that's you. That's
- 0:57Speaker 5: like you're a later That's exactly us why I can
- 0:59Speaker 5: appreciate it.
- 0:59Speaker 6: If late, if you're right on time.
- 1:03Speaker 5: True, what would Channy say? Channy would say, well, for
- 1:05Speaker 5: five minutes early, you're five minutes late. Wait, no, you
- 1:08Speaker 5: just you went through this with us yesterday. Tom Conflin
- 1:11Speaker 5: would have been like, hey, this is not what we
- 1:13Speaker 5: do in the Pro Bowl.
- 1:14Speaker 4: Here.
- 1:15Speaker 6: In my defense, I live in Cherry Creek and they
- 1:19Speaker 6: have those alleys.
- 1:20Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 1:21Speaker 6: And if the trash truck is there, your trash truck
- 1:24Speaker 6: got your dust. Yeah, and you're like, Okay, he's got
- 1:26Speaker 6: to do seventeen trash cans before icking get out of
- 1:30Speaker 6: this alley.
- 1:31Speaker 4: Never done that. No, you were on time. I was
- 1:34Speaker 4: just doing the intro. You were all good, buddy.
- 1:36Speaker 3: One of the things that that I wanted to start
- 1:38Speaker 3: the show with. And motion know, you didn't get to
- 1:40Speaker 3: talk about the game, but one of the things that
- 1:42Speaker 3: me and Chad had on.
- 1:43Speaker 5: Yes, I didn't get to talk about that meaningless preseason game. See,
- 1:47Speaker 5: this is this is your attitude.
- 1:48Speaker 4: This ain't me.
- 1:49Speaker 5: That's how we choose you in all. Honestly, I was
- 1:53Speaker 5: I was thinking. I was thinking about this, and you're right,
- 1:54Speaker 5: I've not been able to talk about it. I'm sorry, Brett.
- 1:57Speaker 5: I thought to myself.
- 1:58Speaker 4: Though, how bad of the Falcons? Well, they looked bad.
- 2:01Speaker 4: They are. I mean, I think there was a combination.
- 2:04Speaker 5: The Broncos were ready to play football and the Falcons
- 2:06Speaker 5: are ready to go play tickle fight.
- 2:08Speaker 3: But to that point, moj the meaningless football game. Here's
- 2:12Speaker 3: what's funny is that I bet you if the Broncos
- 2:15Speaker 3: offense didn't look good, the play calling wasn't sharp, if
- 2:17Speaker 3: they looked discombobulated at the line, you'd have a lot
- 2:20Speaker 3: of thoughts about that.
- 2:21Speaker 4: I'm sure, I'm sure I would. But which is the opposite?
- 2:24Speaker 3: Because they looked good and so it's like, well, I
- 2:26Speaker 3: don't know how much that really matters. But if they
- 2:28Speaker 3: looked bad, because he's new, I'm sure that would have mattered.
- 2:30Speaker 5: If they looked bad, Chad, I would have been shocked
- 2:33Speaker 5: because this is this is a damn good football team.
- 2:35Speaker 5: It's well coached, they prepare, they are into it. I mean,
- 2:40Speaker 5: I've been watching all camp along it's moving along crisply.
- 2:43Speaker 5: There's not a whole lot of screwing around. In fact,
- 2:45Speaker 5: there's no screwing around going on. I don't know what's
- 2:47Speaker 5: going on at other camps, but I expect professionalism out
- 2:50Speaker 5: of this team, and that's exactly what we got on
- 2:52Speaker 5: Friday night.
- 2:52Speaker 6: So let me get this straight. Your eyeballs here at
- 2:57Speaker 6: camp allowed you to see and trust some thing that
- 3:00Speaker 6: the rest of us were, So we were the wrong ones.
- 3:03Speaker 6: We were genuinely surprised by how good they look. You
- 3:05Speaker 6: were like, dude, this is how they're supposed to look.
- 3:07Speaker 4: I have high expectations for this team.
- 3:09Speaker 6: Okay, I think we all do.
- 3:11Speaker 3: You have it on the offensive side, though, because that's
- 3:13Speaker 3: that wasn't why they won last year. I mean, their
- 3:15Speaker 3: offense was good enough last year. Their defense was elite,
- 3:18Speaker 3: called me cinecal and you already have.
- 3:21Speaker 5: But unless it involves quarterback number ten, I'm not super
- 3:26Speaker 5: I'm not.
- 3:27Speaker 4: I'm not. Look.
- 3:28Speaker 5: I need to see number ten out there and let's
- 3:30Speaker 5: get that thing cranking out from the start, because these
- 3:32Speaker 5: first six games are gonna be a pain in the tail.
- 3:35Speaker 5: That's what that that's I'm very very curious about this
- 3:38Speaker 5: Packers game because ten is gonna play, allegedly, and that's
- 3:42Speaker 5: I think where you're gonna have your bread buttered and
- 3:45Speaker 5: you're gonna you're gonna see some things. So at least,
- 3:47Speaker 5: at least I hope that's the case. Okay, So what
- 3:48Speaker 5: happens if they don't look good this week? I still
- 3:51Speaker 5: won't be concerned. No, I think this is I think
- 3:54Speaker 5: this is a good football team. Well, there's no doubt
- 3:57Speaker 5: they're a good football team. That that part's obvious.
- 3:59Speaker 3: I yess where I come from is, you know, not
- 4:02Speaker 3: knowing anything about Davis Webb and his play calling duties.
- 4:05Speaker 3: There was a bunch of people and this was first
- 4:07Speaker 3: announced that that Sean Payton was giving this up that
- 4:09Speaker 3: were just like, Oh cool, this will be so much better,
- 4:11Speaker 3: And I go, what do you have the BaseT off
- 4:13Speaker 3: of he's never done the job before, and by the way,
- 4:15Speaker 3: you got the guy who had the job before him
- 4:18Speaker 3: did it for like two decades to a high enough
- 4:20Speaker 3: level where he's got a Hall of Fame quarterback under
- 4:22Speaker 3: his belt.
- 4:22Speaker 4: Like, there's there's a.
- 4:23Speaker 3: Wealth of evidence of Sean Payton being very good at
- 4:26Speaker 3: this job and no evidence for Davis web Not to
- 4:29Speaker 3: say that he can't Chad, but it's like, that's why
- 4:32Speaker 3: I was curious, what was that going to look like
- 4:33Speaker 3: for the first time he went out there and actually
- 4:36Speaker 3: did the job, and it looked smooth, which is what
- 4:39Speaker 3: I was impressed by.
- 4:41Speaker 6: I was one of those who was I guess confident
- 4:44Speaker 6: without evidence is yeah, that's the definition of faith. So
- 4:47Speaker 6: I had faith in David's web that he had been
- 4:49Speaker 6: around Sean Payton long enough that he, as a former
- 4:51Speaker 6: quarterback more recent quarterback, understood the importance of the run game.
- 4:56Speaker 6: And my faith was rewarded. The run game was a
- 4:59Speaker 6: huge part of game last Friday, two fullback runs in
- 5:02Speaker 6: the first drive. So were things that we hadn't seen
- 5:04Speaker 6: from Sean Payton. You mentioned the rhythm, the consistency, the
- 5:07Speaker 6: flow of the offense, and I, you know, I put
- 5:10Speaker 6: a little bit of an asterix on it yesterday talking about, well, yes,
- 5:13Speaker 6: it's easy to do that when you're just calling plays
- 5:16Speaker 6: off your script because you're only looking at your script
- 5:19Speaker 6: once it becomes regular season mode, which we will get
- 5:22Speaker 6: more into this weekend next week. As far as from
- 5:24Speaker 6: a play calling perspective, that complicates things a bit. Will
- 5:27Speaker 6: he have the same rhythm when he's got to know
- 5:30Speaker 6: what the defense is, what personnel's on the field, who's injured,
- 5:33Speaker 6: who's not injured, What if I already called all those
- 5:36Speaker 6: kind of things that don't really play a factor in
- 5:38Speaker 6: preseason game one. We'll see if he's able to be
- 5:41Speaker 6: as smooth, as consistent, as balanced in games two.
- 5:44Speaker 3: And three, you know, with that first preseason game and
- 5:48Speaker 3: getting that sort of out of the way, get a
- 5:50Speaker 3: little bit of evidence for especially some new guys on
- 5:52Speaker 3: this roster. It's something that Sean Payton talked about yesterday.
- 5:57Speaker 3: When he took the podium, especially about Jonah calem and
- 6:00Speaker 3: he was somebody that said that Jonah Coleman was someone
- 6:02Speaker 3: that looked very prepared when he first got to camp,
- 6:04Speaker 3: that he was an NFL ready type of running back
- 6:08Speaker 3: from the very jump, and if the college tape matched
- 6:12Speaker 3: the tape that he put out on Friday, here's what
- 6:14Speaker 3: he said.
- 6:14Speaker 2: Yes, good balance, a real good elusive runner for size.
- 6:22Speaker 2: Good I would say, good short, airy quickness, and good balance.
- 6:25Speaker 2: And last year the other night, we had a few
- 6:27Speaker 2: good examples of that.
- 6:29Speaker 3: You know, he had a couple of plays and Chad
- 6:32Speaker 3: broke this down for us yesterday, most because he knows
- 6:34Speaker 3: his his college running backs coach. But there is a
- 6:37Speaker 3: preparation I think with Jonah Coleman that is there along
- 6:40Speaker 3: with you know, if there's one thing that I would
- 6:43Speaker 3: nitpick for him from that game, and this is, I
- 6:46Speaker 3: mean the same sort of thing that you see with
- 6:48Speaker 3: a bunch of different running backs across the league that
- 6:51Speaker 3: get into the NFL. Pass protection is always going to
- 6:54Speaker 3: be a problem, like it's always going to be something
- 6:56Speaker 3: that they struggle with early. He had a couple of
- 6:57Speaker 3: moments I think in that game where he struggled a
- 7:00Speaker 3: bit in that department. And if there's one way to
- 7:03Speaker 3: not to get playing time as a running back by
- 7:05Speaker 3: Sean Payton, it's not doing sure.
- 7:06Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you're you're right about that.
- 7:08Speaker 5: And again, especially I think Chad, you can speak to
- 7:12Speaker 5: this way better than me. When things start to turn
- 7:14Speaker 5: I mean, this is all vanilla right now too, when
- 7:16Speaker 5: things start to turn exotic, and that back has to
- 7:19Speaker 5: pick up the right guy and he's got to help
- 7:20Speaker 5: the right guy and so on and so forth, and
- 7:23Speaker 5: opposing defensive coordinators start throwing some real interesting crap at
- 7:26Speaker 5: you on any given play. That's where the learning curve,
- 7:29Speaker 5: I think, becomes really, you know, really really steep. But
- 7:33Speaker 5: he seems to be a smart kid, a good kid,
- 7:36Speaker 5: a professional kid, as you said, came into camp ready
- 7:39Speaker 5: to go. And I love that one run where he
- 7:41Speaker 5: bounces and spins. Man, when I see your running back,
- 7:45Speaker 5: you tell me, when I see your running back, get
- 7:48Speaker 5: met up. But he spins out of that tackle like that,
- 7:51Speaker 5: just slippery as a son of a gun. For a defender,
- 7:54Speaker 5: You're like, hey, man, I had you, I had you
- 7:55Speaker 5: wrapped up, and now you're you spun off me and
- 7:57Speaker 5: you're gone.
- 7:58Speaker 6: Not only is there, but we talked about it yesterday.
- 8:01Speaker 6: I mean, but the five eight two twenty, the thickness
- 8:04Speaker 6: of the thighs, how do you wrap your arms around that?
- 8:05Speaker 6: Not only are you just trying to physically get your
- 8:08Speaker 6: arms around this guy, but he can make a spin
- 8:09Speaker 6: move as well. I just texted his college coach. Hopefully
- 8:13Speaker 6: we can get him on. I'm not sure what the
- 8:15Speaker 6: schedule is at the University of Washington right now, but
- 8:17Speaker 6: I think he could speak to it far more eloquently
- 8:19Speaker 6: than you or I could.
- 8:20Speaker 3: Yeah, hopefully we can make that happen. There's one there's
- 8:23Speaker 3: a quote from me yesterday. I want you guys to
- 8:25Speaker 3: listen to this. So Sean Payton was asked about his
- 8:27Speaker 3: new role in Davis Webb's new role. And there's two
- 8:31Speaker 3: parts to this, so I want you to hear there's
- 8:33Speaker 3: part one in part two, but go ahead Nowie.
- 8:37Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I thought the flow was good.
- 8:39Speaker 4: I thought he did a good job.
- 8:40Speaker 2: The substitutions were clean, and yeah, it went pretty smooth. Yeah,
- 8:46Speaker 2: felt pretty comfortable with it. You know, all the things
- 8:50Speaker 2: that you're looking at closely during the game, some situational
- 8:54Speaker 2: stuff that comes up. Maybe you make a note that
- 8:56Speaker 2: you're you're going to want to talk about. But I thought, overall,
- 9:00Speaker 2: I was pleased with it.
- 9:01Speaker 3: Okay, So the first part of this I do think
- 9:04Speaker 3: is an important thing. He said he was smooth with
- 9:05Speaker 3: the substitutions. If you're a member. There's a big criticism
- 9:08Speaker 3: the last couple of years with Sean Payton that he
- 9:10Speaker 3: almost oversubs, right, Like he gets so many guys on
- 9:13Speaker 3: the field that it's hard to get chemistry within a
- 9:15Speaker 3: drive when you do that. But it also if it's
- 9:18Speaker 3: not smooth, can slow down the process during the play
- 9:21Speaker 3: clock ticking down, all that different.
- 9:23Speaker 4: Stuff, and then you get both doing this come out.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Let yeah, let's go, Let's go.
- 9:25Speaker 3: And it's felt like all of that was smoother. That's
- 9:28Speaker 3: the first part to me. The second part, if you
- 9:30Speaker 3: can start where they asked him again, Nelly, his feeling
- 9:34Speaker 3: in his new role. What about your role?
- 9:36Speaker 2: Yeah, felt pretty comfortable with it. You know, all the
- 9:40Speaker 2: things that you're looking at closely during the game, some
- 9:44Speaker 2: situational stuff that comes up. Maybe you make a note
- 9:46Speaker 2: that you're gonna want to talk about. But I thought, overall, uh,
- 9:50Speaker 2: I was pleased with it.
- 9:52Speaker 3: Yeah, Uh, I was pretty comfortable with I still think
- 9:56Speaker 3: it is going to be for him. I think there's
- 9:59Speaker 3: part of him still that's like, just give me the
- 10:01Speaker 3: play sheet, let me do this thing. He's a control freak.
- 10:04Speaker 3: I wouldn't blame him at all if he felt that
- 10:06Speaker 3: way at all.
- 10:07Speaker 4: Yeah, felt you know what I mean.
- 10:12Speaker 6: And there's no d in situation, by the way, situational.
- 10:18Speaker 3: It's just to me, it's gotta be a feeling with him,
- 10:20Speaker 3: which is like he's done this every year. The play
- 10:25Speaker 3: calling is as much of an identity thing for him
- 10:28Speaker 3: as being the head coaches because it's what he's always done.
- 10:31Speaker 3: And letting go of that control, I'm sure is going
- 10:34Speaker 3: to be incredibly difficult.
- 10:36Speaker 4: Well, Chad, last week we're talking about it.
- 10:39Speaker 5: There's this call from game six against the Blues in
- 10:42Speaker 5: twenty twenty two, and I'm sitting in with Connor on
- 10:45Speaker 5: the radio, and of course I'm not calling the games
- 10:47Speaker 5: now because it's national television, but I'm sitting in and
- 10:50Speaker 5: I'm doing color with him and having a great time,
- 10:52Speaker 5: and he's killing it as always. But when Darren Helm
- 10:53Speaker 5: scores the game, when it up being the game winning
- 10:56Speaker 5: goal at the end of game six to advance out
- 10:57Speaker 5: of the West Finals, I stepped all over his goal
- 10:59Speaker 5: call one of these kind of things, And I'm like,
- 11:03Speaker 5: that's what Sean Payton. I'm sure that's what he's feeling
- 11:06Speaker 5: like on that sideline. He doesn't know what to do
- 11:08Speaker 5: with his hands. He's like, Okay, I'm following along. I'm
- 11:10Speaker 5: seeing how Webb is doing this thing and and it's
- 11:13Speaker 5: going well and so on.
- 11:14Speaker 4: But he's got to feel like at least a little
- 11:16Speaker 4: bit like.
- 11:17Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, Gus around his man ten seconds ago, Johnson
- 11:21Speaker 5: over four, Logan O'Connor, Colm honk sets.
- 11:27Speaker 4: See what an idiot you know? Because just it just
- 11:30Speaker 4: jumps in. He sits in the color chair. He knows
- 11:32Speaker 4: what's supposed to happen, like, yeah, lay back, let him
- 11:34Speaker 4: finish exactly.
- 11:36Speaker 6: But or is he the proud papa? Is he is he?
- 11:38Speaker 6: Is he watching his protege do his thing? And is
- 11:41Speaker 6: he reminiscent about when he was given that same opportunity? Yeah,
- 11:44Speaker 6: so I think both can be true. I think you
- 11:47Speaker 6: can miss it, you can want to jump in, but
- 11:50Speaker 6: you can also sit back and be like you're doing
- 11:52Speaker 6: a great job. That's awesome. Okay there. I would have
- 11:55Speaker 6: done something a little bit differently. I see what you
- 11:57Speaker 6: thought there. I think this is a learning I think
- 12:00Speaker 6: for both parties, as it should be, with one preseason
- 12:04Speaker 6: game under their belt, to figure out how this is
- 12:06Speaker 6: all going to work, and is it going to be
- 12:08Speaker 6: perfect this year?
- 12:09Speaker 4: It can't be.
- 12:11Speaker 6: At some point, I think Sean Payn's gonna have to
- 12:13Speaker 6: step in, maybe for a drive, maybe for an entire quarter.
- 12:17Speaker 6: I was in Seattle with Mike Hombron, who was the
- 12:19Speaker 6: head coach and play caller, and sometimes Mike would get
- 12:22Speaker 6: so twisted up emotionally he would have to hand off
- 12:25Speaker 6: play calling to someone else in mid game, midgate, and
- 12:29Speaker 6: so I thought that as a player on the team,
- 12:32Speaker 6: I thought that was a weakness in our head coach.
- 12:34Speaker 6: You gotta handle your emotions, man, so you can still
- 12:36Speaker 6: call plays. But I think there's just a process there
- 12:39Speaker 6: where it's not as easy as we as we're talking
- 12:42Speaker 6: into these microphones think it is. I think is a
- 12:45Speaker 6: lot of it involved. And if you get too emotional,
- 12:47Speaker 6: you get too high, you get too low. If you're
- 12:50Speaker 6: thinking about the last series, if you're Davis webbing the
- 12:52Speaker 6: mistakes that you made and not thinking forward about the
- 12:54Speaker 6: most important play of the game, the next play, then yeah,
- 12:57Speaker 6: maybe you can get off track a bit and Sean
- 12:59Speaker 6: Payton has to become the tugboat making sure the ship
- 13:02Speaker 6: is staying straight down the shipping lane.
- 13:03Speaker 3: Does that happen more often than we think that mid
- 13:05Speaker 3: game you can hand over play calling duties for a
- 13:08Speaker 3: portion of time.
- 13:10Speaker 6: For Mike Holmgren, I would have to say it was
- 13:11Speaker 6: a fairly frequent thing. But having been on the sideline
- 13:16Speaker 6: with a Bill Belichick, who could certainly call offensive plays,
- 13:20Speaker 6: who could call defensive plays, who could call special teams plays,
- 13:23Speaker 6: there were times where Bill was silent, and there were
- 13:26Speaker 6: times where Bill was offering suggestions, and there were times
- 13:29Speaker 6: where Bill said, I want this play run.
- 13:32Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:32Speaker 6: So I think Sean Payton will do a little bit
- 13:34Speaker 6: of that as of course this season unfold.
- 13:36Speaker 3: So one of the things that we talked about was
- 13:39Speaker 3: the fake punt calling forth down against the Bills in
- 13:42Speaker 3: overtime that was overruled by Tyler Bidet. How do you
- 13:46Speaker 3: think Sean Payton felt about that, where He's like, I
- 13:49Speaker 3: have the gumption to make a call in this moment
- 13:52Speaker 3: because I'm confident this is going to work. To be
- 13:54Speaker 3: overruled by the fourth string running back who's the upback
- 13:58Speaker 3: on pump protection. Do you think he was like I
- 14:00Speaker 3: guess he saw something that I didn't, or do you
- 14:02Speaker 3: think that he was he was like pissed at that time.
- 14:04Speaker 6: I think he went all full Josh McDaniels from the
- 14:07Speaker 6: famous clip on this stop making blank up. I think
- 14:13Speaker 6: that's what he felt inside at that moment.
- 14:16Speaker 3: I'm sure because we, I mean most we talked about it.
- 14:19Speaker 3: It's like Sean Payton, who is the dictator of this team.
- 14:22Speaker 3: If he makes a decision like that, he is certain
- 14:26Speaker 3: in his decision. There's no waffling on that.
- 14:28Speaker 5: Well, I'm surprised that they Well, how about how can
- 14:33Speaker 5: I put this to me? Would be like disobeying an
- 14:37Speaker 5: order from Henry the eighth d Then what happens, right,
- 14:39Speaker 5: I mean right, you get.
- 14:42Speaker 4: One of something? Right? I mean I would be petrified.
- 14:45Speaker 5: Yeah, to directly contradict what the coach called for, I
- 14:49Speaker 5: would be I would be anyway.
- 14:51Speaker 6: Now he's given that spot, so he can be discerning
- 14:56Speaker 6: about what is the look that we have. What's do
- 14:59Speaker 6: I have a weird feeling, spidey feeling tingling up my neck.
- 15:03Speaker 6: You have that opportunity as a guy who either make
- 15:06Speaker 6: sure that it's on and communicates that the fake is
- 15:08Speaker 6: on or we're going to go with a regular punt there.
- 15:10Speaker 6: And so I think while Sean may be upset because
- 15:13Speaker 6: I had the perfect situation to run this thing, and
- 15:15Speaker 6: I've been planning on for it all week, and we
- 15:17Speaker 6: looked at one hundred and twelve possible punt fakes and
- 15:20Speaker 6: this is the one we loved. At the same time,
- 15:23Speaker 6: you also have to give your player that ability to
- 15:26Speaker 6: make the call on the field and that situation.
- 15:29Speaker 4: Do you think that he thinks it would have worked.
- 15:32Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, Yes, it absolutely would have worked anyway.
- 15:36Speaker 3: But think if you lose that game, if McMillan doesn't
- 15:38Speaker 3: make the pick and let's say that's a completed pass
- 15:40Speaker 3: and you lose, he's fuming about that today.
- 15:43Speaker 4: Tellerbraday might not be on this team if that's the case.
- 15:46Speaker 6: I've yet to see a play caller who thinks the
- 15:48Speaker 6: play call shouldn't have worked.
- 15:50Speaker 5: It's the execution that you guys. It's a perfect play call.
- 15:54Speaker 5: You guys screwed it up.
- 15:55Speaker 3: Yes, just because the flea flicker went twenty yards backwards
- 15:58Speaker 3: doesn't mean I called the wrong play.
- 16:00Speaker 4: You messed it up. Speaking of for the first time ever,
- 16:05Speaker 4: I walk Well.
- 16:06Speaker 5: I watched the flag football gold medal game last night
- 16:09Speaker 5: between the USA and Italy.
- 16:10Speaker 4: Do you watch any of that?
- 16:11Speaker 6: I caught the first couple of minutes.
- 16:13Speaker 5: All they do is backward past the entire time, and
- 16:15Speaker 5: then one guy just play street ball and says, everybody
- 16:17Speaker 5: go deep yep. I mean, I don't know whether I
- 16:20Speaker 5: like it or really hate it. I I'm I'm somewhere.
- 16:23Speaker 5: I don't know where I.
- 16:24Speaker 4: Am on that. That wasn't our boy du set, No,
- 16:26Speaker 4: it was. It was some bigger, taller Now I feel
- 16:28Speaker 4: like I'm done than Patrick Mahomes.
- 16:30Speaker 5: Okay, okay, okay, Daryl, But but I mean, I can
- 16:34Speaker 5: appreciate some of these guys skill, but it's just a
- 16:37Speaker 5: bunch of backward passes and uh and then throw it
- 16:41Speaker 5: down the field.
- 16:41Speaker 4: Crazy, just crazy crap.
- 16:43Speaker 3: Adam Schefter is going to join us at nine twenty
- 16:45Speaker 3: this morning, a whole bunch to break down and stick around.
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- 16:54Speaker 3: the Broncos, get back to football in a second. But
- 16:56Speaker 3: I've been waiting on this forever and I am not surprised.
- 17:00Speaker 3: But here is the report from ESPN. The NBA has
- 17:03Speaker 3: found no evidence showing that Steve Balmer funneled money through
- 17:06Speaker 3: team sponsors to pay Kawhi Leonard to circumvent the salary cap.
- 17:10Speaker 3: Now in this article, as I was reading, they did
- 17:14Speaker 3: say this. Instead, the NBA is focused on whether the
- 17:18Speaker 3: team's introduction of Leonard to team sponsors constitutes a violation
- 17:23Speaker 3: of league rules prohibiting salary cap circumvention. The league is
- 17:28Speaker 3: examining whether the Clippers are guilty of quote failure to
- 17:32Speaker 3: supervise employees, though it's unclear what specific rule the team
- 17:36Speaker 3: would have violated or what the penalties to other sources saut.
- 17:42Speaker 3: So give me a moment here, because I mentioned this
- 17:45Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago. Mos, if you remember this,
- 17:48Speaker 3: when I went on the Forbes and I looked at
- 17:51Speaker 3: the top one hundred richest.
- 17:52Speaker 4: People in the world, in the world, and Steve Balmer was.
- 17:56Speaker 3: Numbered Sultan of Bruneye and these kind of kiss and
- 17:59Speaker 3: then he had Steve Bomber at number fifteen. I said,
- 18:02Speaker 3: I bet you the NBA and the other owners are
- 18:05Speaker 3: terrified of his money.
- 18:08Speaker 4: That's what it is.
- 18:08Speaker 3: You could pull all of the money together for all
- 18:11Speaker 3: of these other billionaire owners in the NBA, it might
- 18:14Speaker 3: not reach Steve Bamber's money, and in doing that, if
- 18:20Speaker 3: you were accusing them and find them guilty of salary
- 18:23Speaker 3: cap circumvention, that's also known as cheating, and cheating is
- 18:30Speaker 3: something that comes with a heavy punishment, which could constitute
- 18:33Speaker 3: getting kicked out of the league.
- 18:35Speaker 4: So here's the question.
- 18:35Speaker 5: This isn't sign stealing, you know, this isn't This isn't
- 18:39Speaker 5: deflate deflating footballs to throw it better?
- 18:42Speaker 4: Right?
- 18:43Speaker 5: This is hey man, I and the punitive nature of
- 18:48Speaker 5: teams against these cap that that the Nuggets find themselves
- 18:51Speaker 5: right now immobile from a roster standpoint because of how
- 18:54Speaker 5: much money they have currently on their salary cap.
- 18:57Speaker 3: This would be a big cheating scam. Now, the obvious thing.
- 19:05Speaker 4: Is that they did this.
- 19:07Speaker 6: They did.
- 19:08Speaker 3: The obvious thing is, of course, because what do you do.
- 19:11Speaker 3: I'm sure as a player and as a radio host
- 19:14Speaker 3: and all the other things you benchad you've gotten endorsements before, right, Yes,
- 19:18Speaker 3: what does.
- 19:19Speaker 4: An endorsement do?
- 19:20Speaker 3: It puts the name of a famous person on your
- 19:23Speaker 3: product and you say, I love New Balance. That's what
- 19:26Speaker 3: Jamal Murray does. I see a New Balance commercial I
- 19:29Speaker 3: see Jamal Murray on there because he's an endorser. This
- 19:32Speaker 3: guy's endorsed like five different things and nobody.
- 19:35Speaker 4: Knows about it.
- 19:35Speaker 5: Well, when I say I love Rocky Mountain Men's Clinic,
- 19:37Speaker 5: it's true, I really did.
- 19:39Speaker 4: Correct.
- 19:39Speaker 5: Did you read the Daktronics one? The latest stuff with
- 19:42Speaker 5: Daktronics and all of that. That's the new pobble tour.
- 19:45Speaker 5: Just Pablo has got more. Just we talked about it
- 19:48Speaker 5: last week. Google Kawhi and Daktronics and you'll get it.
- 19:51Speaker 3: But here's the between that, the Aspiration Tree company, the
- 19:55Speaker 3: Rhode Island soccer team that he owns. Nobody knew that
- 20:00Speaker 3: he was endorser of any of these things, which seems fishy.
- 20:02Speaker 3: Now I'll repeat this, and this is why I think
- 20:04Speaker 3: this is important. They got rid of Donald Sterling before
- 20:09Speaker 3: Steve Balmer because nobody liked Donald Sterling and he was rich,
- 20:13Speaker 3: but he wasn't that rich. All the owners came together
- 20:16Speaker 3: and goes get rid of this guy, and they're like, okay, fine,
- 20:18Speaker 3: you can't do that with Steve Balmer. You can't because
- 20:21Speaker 3: you don't want to get into a legal battle with
- 20:22Speaker 3: Steve Balmer. And that's why I think this part of it.
- 20:26Speaker 3: The league is examining whether the Clippers are guilty of
- 20:28Speaker 3: failure to supervise, though it's unclear what specific rule of
- 20:32Speaker 3: the team would have violated or what the penalties would be.
- 20:35Speaker 3: This sounds a lot like I'm pleading to lesser charges
- 20:38Speaker 3: and we can let this go.
- 20:40Speaker 6: I just think it speaks not specifically to something, and
- 20:43Speaker 6: more just the generalities of powerful owners can get away
- 20:46Speaker 6: with anything. Yeah, Robert Craft in New England. So that
- 20:50Speaker 6: whole ugly episode up there, this thing where, oh my goodness,
- 20:55Speaker 6: we talked about this, We joked about this yesterday. J
- 20:57Speaker 6: Low does not drive a Fiat despite her being an endorsement.
- 21:02Speaker 6: This is even a step beyond that Kawhi Leonard has
- 21:05Speaker 6: no public connection to any of these companies as an endorser.
- 21:10Speaker 6: It's it distrains any form of credibility that the Clippers
- 21:14Speaker 6: were not clearly circumventing this hour cap to services.
- 21:18Speaker 5: You're a professional broadcaster, now your big time college football
- 21:22Speaker 5: stud travel in the world and gonna do Miami in
- 21:25Speaker 5: Stanford week one.
- 21:26Speaker 4: I got you. Good. Good, you don't curse? Oh there, yeah,
- 21:31Speaker 4: good point.
- 21:32Speaker 5: And I never intentionally have intentionally you have done it
- 21:36Speaker 5: three or four times. But yeah, never intentionally. But this story,
- 21:39Speaker 5: I feel if Brett, I'm gonna check myself for wreck myself.
- 21:42Speaker 5: I feel like I might keep talking about this story.
- 21:44Speaker 5: I'm gonna say a bad word on the air. Let
- 21:47Speaker 5: me explain. O. Hey, Chad, you're You're an idiot. Brett,
- 21:51Speaker 5: You're an idiot. I'm an idot. We're all just friggin idiots. Right,
- 21:53Speaker 5: Here's here's here's Steve Bummer. Here's Steve Bummer. Kawhi, Tree Guy,
- 21:57Speaker 5: Tree Guy, Kawhi. You guys have fun. Okay, I'm gonna
- 22:01Speaker 5: go play darts my ass, my fanny. This thing stinks
- 22:07Speaker 5: to high heaven. Get the Daktronics thing out there. I
- 22:10Speaker 5: was flaming about that about two weeks ago, week and
- 22:12Speaker 5: a half. Remember you take up? When were you gone?
- 22:15Speaker 7: Uh?
- 22:15Speaker 4: Yeah, I believe it.
- 22:16Speaker 5: Was so lazy, but I was flaming about that. So
- 22:19Speaker 5: Daktronics makes all the scoreboards right for everybody. They're based
- 22:22Speaker 5: in South Dakota. They're not a direct to consumer company.
- 22:27Speaker 5: They they are to to B to B businesses.
- 22:30Speaker 6: Correct.
- 22:32Speaker 5: And so the Kawhi, allegedly, according to Pablo Torri, gets
- 22:34Speaker 5: hooked up with Daktronics, and somebody inside Deaktronics said, yeah, yeah.
- 22:39Speaker 3: Given him sponsorship agreement allegedly worth millions of dollars with
- 22:42Speaker 3: the company that designed the Clippers video board inside the
- 22:45Speaker 3: Intuit Dome, although it was a undisclosed sponsorship deal, which
- 22:50Speaker 3: is always funny because I want, guys, I'm paying millions
- 22:53Speaker 3: of dollars to to be undisclosed.
- 22:56Speaker 5: Just dude, I just I'm so angry about this. And
- 23:01Speaker 5: I look, I guess if you're the league, you're like, man,
- 23:04Speaker 5: if we really pursue this, the can of worms that
- 23:08Speaker 5: has opened up, you're never gonna get those worms back
- 23:10Speaker 5: in the can. So what you know, what are we
- 23:11Speaker 5: gonna do here? Yeah, it's like, hey, man, you you
- 23:16Speaker 5: caused an eight car pile up.
- 23:17Speaker 4: You're gonna plead to jaywalking or something like that. That way.
- 23:20Speaker 4: It just it's it's just so infuriating to me. The
- 23:24Speaker 4: NBA has.
- 23:25Speaker 3: A history of doing this of I think, just blating,
- 23:29Speaker 3: blatantly lying to people's faces. And look, in this case,
- 23:33Speaker 3: what's on the line here. It's a potential ownership, Yep,
- 23:36Speaker 3: it's potentially one of the better players in the league.
- 23:40Speaker 3: It's a trade between them and the Toronto Raptors. That
- 23:43Speaker 3: is still up in the air right now, up until
- 23:45Speaker 3: this conclusion of the investigation, all of that's hanging in
- 23:48Speaker 3: the balance, along with the unknown of if they were
- 23:53Speaker 3: to hit Balmer in the Clippers with this. Do Balmer
- 23:56Speaker 3: and the Clippers start, are they ralely oda and goodfellas?
- 24:00Speaker 3: Do they take the stand and they start pointing at
- 24:01Speaker 3: people saying, oh, yeah, well what about this, this and this?
- 24:04Speaker 4: I don't think they want any of that stuff.
- 24:06Speaker 3: And it kind of reminds me when you go all
- 24:08Speaker 3: the way back to Tim donaghy and they said he
- 24:10Speaker 3: was the one guy and he really yeah, but the
- 24:13Speaker 3: one ref Nobody was looking at that refs if this
- 24:17Speaker 3: is true, and being like it feels like he's cooking
- 24:20Speaker 3: something up over here.
- 24:22Speaker 6: Oh my goodness. David Stern killing trades. You know, the
- 24:26Speaker 6: NBA's had a history of all of this. To go
- 24:29Speaker 6: back to Steve Balmer, there's a very famous jewelry store
- 24:33Speaker 6: in Seattle. I used to buy my wife's stuff and
- 24:35Speaker 6: I played for the Seahawks. Very nice jewelry store happened
- 24:37Speaker 6: to go in. Steve Balmer was there with his I
- 24:39Speaker 6: think maybe at that time seven or eight year old son.
- 24:42Speaker 6: Imagine being so wealthy that you allow your seven or
- 24:44Speaker 6: eight year old son to pick out mom's birthday presents
- 24:47Speaker 6: and to walk around the store and point to the
- 24:50Speaker 6: shiny things. And so he picked out like ten ten things.
- 24:53Speaker 6: Steve looked at the woman behind the counter and said, yep,
- 24:56Speaker 6: put down a car and they walked out. I don't
- 24:58Speaker 6: know with several hundred thousand, my wife's.
- 25:01Speaker 5: Gonna be jewel Bomber's number like when he is getting out.
- 25:05Speaker 5: Uh thank me, okay, yeah, yeah, I know, Steve, they did,
- 25:09Speaker 5: they they must have it.
- 25:10Speaker 4: It's just amazing.
- 25:11Speaker 3: I remember I watched this saying this was I mean,
- 25:13Speaker 3: it had to be twenty years ago or something, but
- 25:15Speaker 3: it was. It was one of those national news station
- 25:21Speaker 3: specials on on Michael Jackson, and he walked into like
- 25:25Speaker 3: this antique show, really expensive, one of those one of
- 25:28Speaker 3: those one of those right that's and somebody and somebody
- 25:31Speaker 3: told him, yes, you bought that, you bought that already.
- 25:33Speaker 4: Yeah, like you don't need you bought that already.
- 25:35Speaker 5: I saw, that's crazy. Hey, uh Chad, we're we're playing golf,
- 25:40Speaker 5: right and then pond right there and you see you
- 25:42Speaker 5: see something swimming around out there and you say, what,
- 25:44Speaker 5: that's a duck, moje, I say, no, chat's a pigeon.
- 25:47Speaker 5: Like it's swimming, it's got a bill, it's a mallard,
- 25:51Speaker 5: it's a it's a duck. No, bro, that's a rock pigeon, right,
- 25:54Speaker 5: I mean, I'm getting rock pigeon right now. If it
- 25:56Speaker 5: if it's quacking like a duck, and it it's swimming
- 25:59Speaker 5: like a dog, and it's you know, it looks like
- 26:01Speaker 5: a friggin duck. Don't tell me, don't tell me it's
- 26:04Speaker 5: a pigeon. Which is I'm getting pigeoned all over the
- 26:06Speaker 5: place here.
- 26:07Speaker 4: I just I.
- 26:09Speaker 5: Knew in my heart of hearts nothing would come over
- 26:12Speaker 5: this Brett. And again the NBA says, I guess they've
- 26:14Speaker 5: released something that says, well, that ESPN story is inaccurate.
- 26:17Speaker 5: We're still investigating this and that. Yeah, sure, wake me
- 26:20Speaker 5: up when anything happens, wake me up.
- 26:22Speaker 4: It's just it's the most for a while.
- 26:24Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the most predictable outcome of this story.
- 26:28Speaker 4: But it is like, it's disappointing. You're just being blatantly
- 26:32Speaker 4: lied to.
- 26:32Speaker 6: You're just like, eh, And then we always have this,
- 26:36Speaker 6: you know thought in our head that sports are fair,
- 26:38Speaker 6: and I have pounded the table so many times. You know,
- 26:41Speaker 6: the league doesn't cheat, there's no conspiracies. The league office
- 26:44Speaker 6: isn't trying to make sure that this guy this guy.
- 26:47Speaker 6: And then stuff like this comes out and you're like,
- 26:48Speaker 6: oh goodness, maybe maybe there is. Yeah, maybe I've been
- 26:52Speaker 6: fooled and wearing blinders my entire life because I've always
- 26:55Speaker 6: looked at this as the ultimate form of meritocracy. We're
- 26:58Speaker 6: all at the same plane field, the fields level. It's
- 27:01Speaker 6: eleven dudes versus eleven dudes in football, five on five
- 27:04Speaker 6: in basketball, and it's it's it's got an element of
- 27:07Speaker 6: fairness baked into it. And this just busts my bubble
- 27:11Speaker 6: and it bothers me.
- 27:11Speaker 5: By the way, I heard you bust up a local
- 27:13Speaker 5: pizza joint yesterday. Pretty good. But you aren't wrong, dude,
- 27:18Speaker 5: because I would do the same thing. There was one
- 27:20Speaker 5: right down from the old station way back in the day.
- 27:23Speaker 4: Uh.
- 27:23Speaker 5: I mean you could get a big old pizza for
- 27:25Speaker 5: nothing and it was delivered.
- 27:27Speaker 6: Was how did they make any money?
- 27:29Speaker 4: It was? It was amazing.
- 27:30Speaker 5: But it got me to thinking, so what they used
- 27:33Speaker 5: to when they would bust, when they would bust programs
- 27:36Speaker 5: back in the day.
- 27:37Speaker 4: It wasn't necessarily Hey man.
- 27:39Speaker 5: Uh, the coach introduced you to this big booster and he,
- 27:41Speaker 5: you know, got you ferrari or whatever it is. Yeah,
- 27:44Speaker 5: but Dey decided this is what killed SMU. It was
- 27:46Speaker 5: lack of institutional control. Yes, that was the big catchphrase.
- 27:50Speaker 5: Lack of institutional control, which means you guys, you know
- 27:53Speaker 5: you're you, you're running the henhouse here, but you know,
- 27:55Speaker 5: the wolves are getting the hens, and the hens are
- 27:57Speaker 5: beating each.
- 27:57Speaker 4: Other up whatever they're doing.
- 27:59Speaker 5: But they would lack of institutional control, which feels like
- 28:03Speaker 5: that's what they're sort of doing here with the well
- 28:06Speaker 5: you know, did you know did you do enough to
- 28:09Speaker 5: to And by the way, what where's quiet all this?
- 28:12Speaker 5: Why is it the league on his ass? I mean,
- 28:15Speaker 5: I mean, I don't you know, I don't know. I mean,
- 28:17Speaker 5: I'm sure he's probably not talking. He doesn't have any
- 28:20Speaker 5: reason to. And if somebody's gonna give me free money,
- 28:22Speaker 5: I'm gonna take free money. So I really can't blame him.
- 28:25Speaker 5: But my goodness, gracious, this whole thing just stinks so bad.
- 28:30Speaker 5: And I've been furious about it for a long time
- 28:32Speaker 5: because if you don't have competitive balance, and you've got
- 28:36Speaker 5: teams that are allegedly or willing to allegedly really break
- 28:41Speaker 5: some major rules. Man, I'm sitting here worrying about second
- 28:45Speaker 5: aprons and caps and bird rights and non bird rights
- 28:50Speaker 5: and all this kind of crap. And this guy's hanging
- 28:53Speaker 5: out with a tree farm and getting paid millions of
- 28:55Speaker 5: bucks and and and doesn't do nothing.
- 28:57Speaker 4: But this is this is the point. This is why
- 28:59Speaker 4: I for.
- 29:01Speaker 5: There's no way he's a tree guy. Kawhi, kawhi, tree guy. Hey,
- 29:04Speaker 5: you guys have a great friendship. I'm gonna go over
- 29:06Speaker 5: here and just to I'm gonna go boogie Barton.
- 29:07Speaker 3: To explain to people why who might not understand why
- 29:11Speaker 3: this is incredibly important.
- 29:13Speaker 4: I'll just give you an example.
- 29:15Speaker 3: The Nuggets right now are in this this sort of
- 29:17Speaker 3: heated contract dispute with Peyton Watson. Peyton Watson's a very
- 29:21Speaker 3: good young player with a lot of potential that they
- 29:23Speaker 3: would love to keep long term. They don't have the
- 29:26Speaker 3: money to give him what he wants right now, and
- 29:28Speaker 3: if they do give him that money, somebody else has
- 29:30Speaker 3: to go. But if the Nuggets went to him and said,
- 29:33Speaker 3: how about this, you make the league minimum and we'll
- 29:36Speaker 3: funding the twenty million dollars through some outside company that's
- 29:40Speaker 3: not on the books. That is absolutely cheating. Like that
- 29:44Speaker 3: is straight up as cheating as cheating gets. You are
- 29:46Speaker 3: not allowed to do that because you were circumventing the
- 29:49Speaker 3: salary cap. And in this case, like, here's what I
- 29:51Speaker 3: don't get about Kawhi. How much more money he need?
- 29:55Speaker 3: He's making fifty some million dollars a year. Just do
- 29:59Speaker 3: a regular dorseman.
- 30:01Speaker 4: How about this?
- 30:01Speaker 3: You know how nobody would ask any questions about this
- 30:05Speaker 3: if he was the the sponsor of Aspiration and he
- 30:10Speaker 3: goes Hi, I'm Kawhi Leonard and I love trees. If
- 30:13Speaker 3: he did that once, right, this would be no story.
- 30:17Speaker 3: But he didn't. It's like they just sat there. It's
- 30:19Speaker 3: so weird. I love a good Japanese maple. You know,
- 30:24Speaker 3: what do you guys like about Bonzie? Let me tell
- 30:25Speaker 3: you about Bonzis for a second. It's the It's this
- 30:28Speaker 3: simplest thing in the world. But the fact that he
- 30:30Speaker 3: didn't do anything led to all of this. It's just
- 30:33Speaker 3: bizarre to me.
- 30:34Speaker 6: The ego, the hubris in it all is. Yes, there's
- 30:38Speaker 6: there's so many factors in this story, but to your point.
- 30:41Speaker 6: For Kawhi not to at least want to play along,
- 30:44Speaker 6: you seemingly cover play the game. Yes, at least j
- 30:47Speaker 6: Loo filmed the commercial with her in the field. Yes,
- 30:50Speaker 6: we know she doesn't drive it down Rodeo Drive, but
- 30:52Speaker 6: at least she filmed the commercial. Kawhi didn't even put
- 30:55Speaker 6: up a YouTube short about his love for Japanese Maples
- 30:59Speaker 6: or Bonza.
- 31:00Speaker 5: Think you Peyton Manning was driving a Buick. No, okay,
- 31:03Speaker 5: you know what. You know it's funny though.
- 31:04Speaker 3: He looks good, and I'll tell you that much. This
- 31:06Speaker 3: was six or seven years ago. I was in downtown
- 31:08Speaker 3: Denver's walking I think I got something to eat. Was
- 31:10Speaker 3: walking around and there's this big van that's pulled up
- 31:13Speaker 3: on the curb with three people with cameras out professional
- 31:17Speaker 3: people with cameras, And I was like, what's going on
- 31:19Speaker 3: over here? So I walked by it and it was Jamal.
- 31:22Speaker 3: Jamal Murray was out there taking pictures in his new
- 31:25Speaker 3: balances because he's been endored the brand new You know what, though,
- 31:30Speaker 3: I sat there for a couple of minutes and I
- 31:32Speaker 3: watched it and Jamal would smile, take the picture, do
- 31:35Speaker 3: a pose, this sort of thing. And then they'd be like,
- 31:37Speaker 3: all right, let's take a break for a second, and
- 31:38Speaker 3: Jamal's smile would leave immediately.
- 31:40Speaker 4: Did not want to do this. You could tell he's like,
- 31:42Speaker 4: I'm done with this, shoot, I just want to go home.
- 31:45Speaker 4: But he did it.
- 31:46Speaker 3: That's the whole point. He did it because that's what
- 31:48Speaker 3: you need to do. I just don't understand.
- 31:51Speaker 4: I don't get it. I don't get why this was
- 31:54Speaker 4: hard for him. I don't know what. Well, how much
- 31:57Speaker 4: more money did he want?
- 31:59Speaker 7: What?
- 31:59Speaker 4: One hundred million year? What?
- 32:01Speaker 6: At least play the game. We know when you're deciding
- 32:04Speaker 6: between a small market and a large market. One of
- 32:06Speaker 6: the one of the things in that conversation is, oh,
- 32:08Speaker 6: if he goes to New York, there's all these sponsorship
- 32:10Speaker 6: and endorsement possibilities that he can never get in Indiana
- 32:14Speaker 6: or as a Milwaukee Buck. So that's a fair conversation.
- 32:17Speaker 6: But we at least expect you to then be an
- 32:20Speaker 6: endorser of the product. Yes, if this is the reason
- 32:23Speaker 6: you're going to New York and it's because you want
- 32:25Speaker 6: to make more money, you want your gal to make
- 32:27Speaker 6: more money, then you guys endorse products. Then okay, you've
- 32:30Speaker 6: played the game. Properly. You've taken advantage of this situation,
- 32:33Speaker 6: and now we can buy into that this with no
- 32:37Speaker 6: endorsement for the endorsement dollars. It just beyond strange credibility.
- 32:42Speaker 6: It's just bull crap. It's a lie.
- 32:44Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a couple of things.
- 32:47Speaker 5: The times I've seen Kawhi let his guard down and
- 32:50Speaker 5: kind of be Kawhi, he's he's a pretty engaging dude,
- 32:54Speaker 5: and he's pretty funny like he is. If if the
- 32:57Speaker 5: real Kawhi would endorse my product, I would probably really
- 33:00Speaker 5: like that, right, not the quiet puts up this mask
- 33:03Speaker 5: and all this kind of thing.
- 33:04Speaker 4: But number two, I love that guy. I honestly love
- 33:10Speaker 4: that guy.
- 33:10Speaker 5: Uh Lindsey types in and says, hey, the Nugget should
- 33:12Speaker 5: play the tree Farm jingle throughout the next home game
- 33:14Speaker 5: against the Clips. All right, well, he's gonna be. He's
- 33:18Speaker 5: gonna be in Toronto because they're gonna let the trade
- 33:21Speaker 5: go through. It'll be back in Toronto.
- 33:23Speaker 4: It'd be funnier against Clippers, though.
- 33:24Speaker 5: But I swear with God as my witness, and I
- 33:27Speaker 5: cannot be alone in this when I'm taking my very
- 33:31Speaker 5: last breath as a human being, and now hopefully it's
- 33:33Speaker 5: a long time from now, I'm going to be able
- 33:36Speaker 5: to sing the Tree Farm song from beginning to chatter verse. Yep,
- 33:39Speaker 5: I'm not kidding you want you want some?
- 33:43Speaker 3: They don't need an endorser. The jingle is good enough.
- 33:46Speaker 3: You take te Exit two, then.
- 33:51Speaker 5: Five miles west too. Everybody knowlse It's Steve Moss wrote
- 33:57Speaker 5: that it's one of the It's one of the greatest.
- 33:59Speaker 4: Rings in the history of tree farms.
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- 34:47Speaker 5: You didn't think you'd be singing at seven thirty in
- 34:49Speaker 5: the morning, did you, No, he didn't sign up.
- 34:51Speaker 6: For that day. It was none on my morning bucket list.
- 34:54Speaker 5: I blame I blame myself, I do. But the tree
- 34:57Speaker 5: I just I can't get over.
- 34:58Speaker 4: It's so good.
- 34:59Speaker 3: Ahea, So a few things here as we were all along.
- 35:03Speaker 3: We're out here at Broncos camp. This will be the
- 35:05Speaker 3: second last day. By the way, if you were a
- 35:07Speaker 3: fan that has a ticket to today's practice, you were
- 35:09Speaker 3: in the clear.
- 35:10Speaker 4: So I was told what happened was the wind.
- 35:13Speaker 3: So those little shade things that are on top of
- 35:15Speaker 3: the bleachers, it wasn't the rain or the hail. The
- 35:20Speaker 3: wind was so strong it like sort of picked it up.
- 35:23Speaker 3: I guess we're gonna put it back down. And so
- 35:26Speaker 3: they came out and saw that and goes, yeah, we're
- 35:28Speaker 3: gonna make sure this is totally good before you let
- 35:30Speaker 3: people out here.
- 35:30Speaker 4: They fixed it yesterday, so you're all in the clear.
- 35:33Speaker 4: You're good to go today.
- 35:34Speaker 5: I loved your your camp stories from yesterday when when
- 35:37Speaker 5: I was able to listen and they're gonna fix all
- 35:39Speaker 5: this I mean, all this to our right, the old
- 35:41Speaker 5: complex is all coming down. They'll build a big burm
- 35:43Speaker 5: up here, and I'm sure they're gonna make it if
- 35:45Speaker 5: it's anything, it's not just gonna be dirt with weeds
- 35:48Speaker 5: and rabbits running around. They're gonna make it nice for
- 35:50Speaker 5: the fans. But this setup here is actually a really
- 35:52Speaker 5: pretty good setup for the fans. If I was a fan,
- 35:55Speaker 5: I think i'd like this pretty well the best you
- 35:57Speaker 5: possibly can, because you know, you have the bleachers, you
- 36:00Speaker 5: have the covered on and all that kind of thing.
- 36:02Speaker 5: Back in the day, I think people just stood around
- 36:04Speaker 5: watching you, right, just stood stood around.
- 36:07Speaker 6: Well. Uh, it's see, in Pittsburgh there were the hills.
- 36:12Speaker 6: The field was down there, kind of in the bowls.
- 36:14Speaker 6: They could sit on the sides of the hills, kind
- 36:16Speaker 6: of similar to what the Bronco fans used to sit
- 36:18Speaker 6: on in the past Red Hill right.
- 36:19Speaker 7: Uh.
- 36:20Speaker 6: In Seattle they had to stand on the edges of
- 36:22Speaker 6: the field. At Eastern Washington University when we used to do
- 36:24Speaker 6: you went to Chenie, Cheney, Washington.
- 36:26Speaker 4: You're I did games in Chenie.
- 36:28Speaker 6: Yes, I've done games at Eastern Washington on the red field,
- 36:32Speaker 6: red turf. Yes, they didn't have the red turf when
- 36:35Speaker 6: I was a Seahawk doing training camp there. But that's
- 36:37Speaker 6: where we used to do training camp. And those dorms
- 36:40Speaker 6: that looked like a giant trash, Yes, that's where.
- 36:43Speaker 4: We's incredible, man, that's.
- 36:44Speaker 6: Where we did training camp. Let's just say it was terrible.
- 36:48Speaker 5: Dude, Cheney Washington is It's it's Eastern Washing. It's in
- 36:52Speaker 5: the middle of friggin no way.
- 36:54Speaker 3: Most I told you this like as we have stared
- 36:57Speaker 3: at this facility that these players are walking out of
- 36:59Speaker 3: every single morning and come out here, do practice, come
- 37:03Speaker 3: back inside, have this beautiful weight room, golf sim lunch table,
- 37:08Speaker 3: beautiful locker room.
- 37:09Speaker 5: Right.
- 37:12Speaker 3: I every year am shocked that the Chiefs camp rolls
- 37:17Speaker 3: around and they're in Saint Joe, Missouri at Missouri Western University,
- 37:20Speaker 3: which was in my baseball conference. I've been there, I've
- 37:23Speaker 3: played multiple times.
- 37:25Speaker 4: There was nothing.
- 37:25Speaker 5: It's very D two. That's how it's a very D
- 37:28Speaker 5: two school. And maybe that's the way and he really
- 37:30Speaker 5: likes it still. Maybe he wants his guys to be
- 37:32Speaker 5: d Travis Kelsey's been eating all that caviaar.
- 37:34Speaker 4: Maybe maybe he needs a little D two, little D
- 37:37Speaker 4: two in his life.
- 37:38Speaker 3: Yeah, it's oh yeah, you take those pjs. How does
- 37:40Speaker 3: Saint Joe, Missouri feel to you?
- 37:42Speaker 6: It's a humbling process. When you show up and there's
- 37:45Speaker 6: a card table outside the dorms and it's the people
- 37:49Speaker 6: who can w rench you an air conditioner that you
- 37:52Speaker 6: have to pay for and they will put it in
- 37:55Speaker 6: your dorm room during your first practice. So when you
- 37:58Speaker 6: get back after your first practice, your room can actually
- 38:00Speaker 6: be cool. But you got to pay one hundred bucks
- 38:02Speaker 6: cast that is rent AC for the time you're at
- 38:05Speaker 6: training camp. And so yes, you're certainly an athlete. You
- 38:08Speaker 6: get all the things given to you. But here at
- 38:11Speaker 6: Saint Vincent's College, you got to rent your AC.
- 38:13Speaker 5: If you're at Pittsburgh, do Cheney Washington like, if you're
- 38:16Speaker 5: in Chinie, Spokane feels like la.
- 38:20Speaker 4: It's it'll blow your mind. Man.
- 38:23Speaker 6: We would say, all right, while we gonna take the
- 38:25Speaker 6: twenty minute drive to Spokane and get a good dinner
- 38:27Speaker 6: or we're gonna eat a crappy dinner.
- 38:28Speaker 5: Here in Yeah, I would, and I would, I would
- 38:30Speaker 5: do the uh hell, I would do the the whole thing.
- 38:33Speaker 5: I'd do chini. Then I go to Moscow, Idaho, yep.
- 38:36Speaker 5: And then I'd head down to Pocatello and do do
- 38:38Speaker 5: some stuff there. Uh you know, I'd go to the
- 38:40Speaker 5: Kibbi Dome, maybe do a basketball game against the Idaho
- 38:43Speaker 5: and that kind of Oh.
- 38:44Speaker 4: My god, times largest wooden dome. Yeah, it's incredible. So
- 38:48Speaker 4: let me ask you guys. This get you this morning.
- 38:51Speaker 4: There you go one thing that is.
- 38:56Speaker 3: In an exciting addition to the offseason that we have
- 38:59Speaker 3: not really seen, at least in game action yet, because
- 39:01Speaker 3: the starters did play in that first preseason game. Obviously,
- 39:03Speaker 3: Courtlett Sutton had a great day and three catches for
- 39:06Speaker 3: sixty yards. The one hander we'll get tackle at the
- 39:09Speaker 3: one yard line right this close to a touchdown. I
- 39:12Speaker 3: still want to see what the dynamic between him and
- 39:14Speaker 3: Waddle being on the field at the same time looks like.
- 39:16Speaker 3: Now both Waddle and bo Nicks did not play in
- 39:20Speaker 3: that first game. Sean Payton yesterday was asked about is
- 39:23Speaker 3: there any concern about them building chemistry before the season starts.
- 39:26Speaker 2: He said this, I think we got a lot of
- 39:28Speaker 2: time still, you know, I mean, we have good work
- 39:30Speaker 2: this week, this weekend. I mean, and there's been a
- 39:34Speaker 2: lot of time on task already. You know we're being
- 39:38Speaker 2: smart with it, and he's coming along really good.
- 39:40Speaker 6: So we'll see how this week unfolds.
- 39:43Speaker 3: Do you think, Chad, that's something that has to happen
- 39:45Speaker 3: before the season starts or will they be okay if
- 39:47Speaker 3: they figure it out week one?
- 39:49Speaker 6: No, they won't be okay, but they will be okay
- 39:51Speaker 6: as the season goes long. The best teams, the best
- 39:53Speaker 6: player find ways to get better during the season. You
- 39:56Speaker 6: have to. You can't get all the work necessary in
- 39:59Speaker 6: training camp because injuries, because of concerns about, well, how
- 40:02Speaker 6: many reps do I want to started to play in
- 40:04Speaker 6: a preseason game, what opportunities unfold during the course of
- 40:07Speaker 6: that game, So you can't say we need twenty completions
- 40:10Speaker 6: between these guys in game action. But so for them
- 40:12Speaker 6: to be ready, it's impossible to script that out that perfectly.
- 40:16Speaker 6: So there will be a bit of a learning curve
- 40:18Speaker 6: as the season goes along, and the preseason games don't
- 40:20Speaker 6: really reflect the regular season games truly from a defensive standpoint,
- 40:24Speaker 6: because you're not going to show all your blitzes and
- 40:26Speaker 6: all your exotics. It's going to be fairly basic. Even
- 40:29Speaker 6: if you are beginning to game plan a bit you're
- 40:32Speaker 6: still holding back a majority of your best stuff for
- 40:35Speaker 6: the season.
- 40:36Speaker 4: You know what, I know you'll it's the same way
- 40:38Speaker 4: in the NHL too.
- 40:40Speaker 5: The amount of efficiency you have to have now at
- 40:43Speaker 5: your practice times and in your meetings and all that
- 40:45Speaker 5: sort of thing is significant because you know, I'm not
- 40:48Speaker 5: saying it used to be a free for all back
- 40:50Speaker 5: in the day, but there weren't things written into the
- 40:53Speaker 5: CBA where you only have this amount of time, where
- 40:55Speaker 5: you know, you only have this amount of time on
- 40:56Speaker 5: the field or here this morning, and you only get
- 40:58Speaker 5: these guys for this amount of time, and you have
- 41:01Speaker 5: to really be efficient and cram a lot in to
- 41:03Speaker 5: try to get up to speed. But nowadays, I think,
- 41:06Speaker 5: like the Abs, they have a knock so well. I
- 41:08Speaker 5: mean they're in camp for three days, they play a
- 41:09Speaker 5: preseason game, and they're offer running in the preseason. But
- 41:12Speaker 5: you know, there's such a well oiled machine Jared Bednar
- 41:15Speaker 5: wastes virtually. I mean, it doesn't waste any time in
- 41:18Speaker 5: these practices. Everything has a purpose. Guys are always moving,
- 41:22Speaker 5: there's always things being taught, so on and so forth,
- 41:24Speaker 5: And that's the way it looks out here to me.
- 41:25Speaker 4: Chad, you can correct me if I'm wrong.
- 41:27Speaker 5: But again, your coaches back in the day, they could
- 41:30Speaker 5: run it back a billion times and whatever, right, But
- 41:32Speaker 5: now I mean, you gotta get your work in.
- 41:34Speaker 6: You to your point. You have a certain allot of
- 41:36Speaker 6: time you could be on the field per the CBA,
- 41:38Speaker 6: and then when you get into these coaches meetings, which
- 41:41Speaker 6: I've done as an interim coach, every minute is allotted
- 41:44Speaker 6: for and so for the chance for us to go, hey,
- 41:46Speaker 6: you know we're gonna start this period over, you guys
- 41:48Speaker 6: didn't have the right focus. Well, if you do that,
- 41:51Speaker 6: you gotta rob that time from some other period. And
- 41:54Speaker 6: so that's why they're reluctant to do that nowadays, because
- 41:56Speaker 6: we want to be as efficient as crisp as possible.
- 42:00Speaker 6: Even the individual reps are discussed once you break out
- 42:04Speaker 6: into your defensive meeting room. Okay, tell me about your
- 42:07Speaker 6: deb rotation. How many reps are these guys going to get?
- 42:10Speaker 6: And because you have to do that, at some point
- 42:13Speaker 6: the train staff is going to come in and tell
- 42:15Speaker 6: you this guy can't go. He ran five miles yesterday,
- 42:19Speaker 6: he's exceeded his threshold and now he doesn't get any
- 42:22Speaker 6: practice work at all. So, as a coach, you've got
- 42:24Speaker 6: to be cognizant of those kinds of limitations, whether it's
- 42:28Speaker 6: the CBA or the training staff telling this guy's got
- 42:31Speaker 6: too much volume on his legs. Now he can't look
- 42:34Speaker 6: at third down work we're doing today because I, as
- 42:37Speaker 6: a coach didn't give him the right proper reps during
- 42:40Speaker 6: the rest of the week.
- 42:41Speaker 5: Dan Reevespeggett, volume the hell you talking about volume on legs?
- 42:46Speaker 4: Get his head out there, you know what I mean.
- 42:48Speaker 5: It's it's just times have changed, man, and rightfully so,
- 42:51Speaker 5: because the investment in these players, Brett, I mean, these
- 42:55Speaker 5: are multime multi multi million dollar assets, and you've got
- 42:58Speaker 5: to treat them like that. You've got to treat him
- 43:00Speaker 5: like a you know, like a you know, something under
- 43:03Speaker 5: a piece of glass, because you can't afford to have
- 43:06Speaker 5: them out. You've got to be smart in the science
- 43:08Speaker 5: nowadays is so great too.
- 43:10Speaker 3: Well, it was it's good that Wattle returned to practice
- 43:12Speaker 3: yesterday because what's funny is he's kind of like the
- 43:16Speaker 3: one guy on offense that maybe needs this work the most.
- 43:20Speaker 3: He's the new guy that's it. Like he enters an
- 43:23Speaker 3: offense with Nixon, Sutton and Dobbins in the whole offensive line,
- 43:27Speaker 3: and Evan Ingram and all these guys, they were here
- 43:29Speaker 3: last year. They've been through this, and even with a
- 43:32Speaker 3: change in play caller, it's it's not as if you've
- 43:36Speaker 3: shifted your entire offensive philosophy. It is a lot of
- 43:39Speaker 3: Sean Payton's stuff with some sprinkles. I'm sure of what
- 43:42Speaker 3: Davis Webb likes to do with in this offense, but
- 43:45Speaker 3: Wattle's one of the guys, like, if there's anybody who
- 43:47Speaker 3: has to learn the offense, it's him.
- 43:50Speaker 6: I hear what you're saying, and there's certainly some some
- 43:52Speaker 6: credence to that. But I also would say, as a
- 43:55Speaker 6: guy who plays outside the numbers, the further you get
- 43:58Speaker 6: away from the football team is involved, the more me
- 44:03Speaker 6: is involved. And that's why those receivers who play outside
- 44:05Speaker 6: the numbers are the divas in the NFL, because they
- 44:08Speaker 6: look at the game through the lens of themselves rather
- 44:10Speaker 6: than the team. You play offensive line, you can be great,
- 44:13Speaker 6: but if the guy next to you sucks, he's gonna
- 44:15Speaker 6: make you look bad constantly. Yeah, you're outside those numbers. Hey,
- 44:19Speaker 6: I get open, I get separation, they throw me the ball. Great.
- 44:22Speaker 6: Occasionally I got a run block. So for waddle, be fast,
- 44:26Speaker 6: be explosive. There's not gonna be some brand new route
- 44:29Speaker 6: that's gonna blow his mind that David's webb is asking
- 44:31Speaker 6: to run. He's run every route combination there possibly could be.
- 44:35Speaker 6: But the thought that somehow he needs to have this
- 44:38Speaker 6: intricate set of timing. If he was a slot receiver
- 44:42Speaker 6: and it was Tom Brady and Wes Welker, and Wes
- 44:44Speaker 6: Welker was brand new to that process where there was
- 44:47Speaker 6: so much timing and so much nuance and such little
- 44:50Speaker 6: windows to throw the ball in, that would be a
- 44:52Speaker 6: different conversation than the guy who plays outside the numbers.
- 44:55Speaker 6: But this can go. He's got a step, I'm throwing
- 44:57Speaker 6: it to him. It's not necessarily timing.
- 44:59Speaker 4: Got Hi. I've got to ask you. These are lead
- 45:01Speaker 4: wide outs.
- 45:03Speaker 5: They've got to know they are Diva's right. They do
- 45:05Speaker 5: mean or do they have that self awareness or they
- 45:07Speaker 5: just think I'm just I'm I'm a kick gass player.
- 45:10Speaker 4: No, they know, they know.
- 45:11Speaker 5: Okay, So could you say, hey, Elton John, get open
- 45:14Speaker 5: next time? Hey hey Diana Ross, once you run the
- 45:16Speaker 5: right route, you know what I mean?
- 45:18Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 45:20Speaker 5: I just these guys crazy, these Cays. But they're so elite,
- 45:24Speaker 5: they're so good. They cracked me up.
- 45:26Speaker 6: I played in a flag football game with Jerry Rice
- 45:30Speaker 6: and see I must have been forty. It was a
- 45:33Speaker 6: couple of years after I was done, so Jerry had
- 45:35Speaker 6: to be in his early fifties by that point. And
- 45:38Speaker 6: Jerry came back to the huddle after every play. Hey man,
- 45:41Speaker 6: I was.
- 45:41Speaker 8: Open, And at some point I was like, Jerry, it's
- 45:46Speaker 8: a it's a cheery. He's got to spread the ball around.
- 45:50Speaker 8: Everybody wants to cheer for each of the guys who
- 45:53Speaker 8: are here.
- 45:54Speaker 5: Right, do you think Jerry the guys like that, Like
- 45:56Speaker 5: let's say Jamar Chase right or Jerry Rice back in
- 45:58Speaker 5: the day, do they think they're ever covered? No, Like
- 46:02Speaker 5: this cornerback can be all over. You could run a
- 46:05Speaker 5: safety at it. But I was still open. I was there.
- 46:07Speaker 3: If you just threw it to me, I would get
- 46:08Speaker 3: I would talk to Did Sean write a book called
- 46:11Speaker 3: Throw Me the Damn Ball?
- 46:12Speaker 7: Yeah?
- 46:12Speaker 4: He did as a rookie. He's a rookie when he did, yes,
- 46:15Speaker 4: was right after his rookie season. Yes, dude, when he
- 46:18Speaker 4: was at USC.
- 46:18Speaker 5: I did a really long interview with him Keishawn Johnson
- 46:22Speaker 5: is He's a really interesting dude.
- 46:24Speaker 4: Man. He really is great receiver, but an interesting guy.
- 46:29Speaker 3: Uh three oh three five O four nine two five
- 46:32Speaker 3: is the shot maz. The text text line one price,
- 46:34Speaker 3: one person, one hour. Still a lot to get to
- 46:35Speaker 3: here at Broncos Park. Back after this