01-20-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Steve, We're headed to familiar territory for you, the AFC Championship.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Man, oh man, oh man? What's awe? Is it different
being on the doorstep?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I mean there's there's the playoffs, there's there's getting in
the playoffs, there's the playoffs, and then there's the doorstep,
like the AFC Championship game you win and you are in.
Is there a different energy and atmosphere about being that close?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
It is once the game time starts.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
But you know, for for for players, I know for
me anyway, I can't say for all players, but for me,
once the playoffs started and we got.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Into a groove, we're in a groove.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
And it wasn't kind of it wasn't like this thing
where okay, if we win one, okay, the next one
is bigger. Yeah, it's the same thing, okay. And you
gotta look at it like so you didn't, like you like.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Spin all week like we're one game away and then
the game starts. See I'm the opposite, Like I would
spend all week and be like, man, we are one
game away. And then you get in the group. You know,
you get into that game and it all goes. You're
on the field, you're dialed in, Like I kind of
run the opposite of that. I don't think about it
once once the you know, once the whistle blows.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yeah, and you know, I would imagine nowadays it's a
little bit more difficult with social media and all that
and all the publicity. Well we got a lot of
public back then too, but uh, most coaches tried to
teach that, and you know, most most athletes learn that
at a young age how to get locked in. And
that doesn't include thinking about what's happening this the following.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Week, not even what's really what's going to happen in
the game.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
You think about I got to go out and practice
the day and I got to have great practice.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
I gotta, I gotta, I.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Gotta improve today and and be ready h when game
time comes and be as as rested and as focused
and uh as physical as possible.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, the yeah, and the Broncos are getting the extra
uh the extra day, I guess is as it were.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Since we played on Saturday, you get day out of that.
And that worked beautifully. I certainly did because we both
would come back. Yeah, that's well, I was gonna get
to that. I was like, first of all the highs.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
We win the game in dramatic fashion and overtime against
the Bills, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
You know, the defense gets five turnovers in that game.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Crazy and then the lows, you know, Sean Payton comes
back out after the press are to announce the the
Bonis injury. And I've seen stuff floating around, including stuff
from this station. I'm going to tell you right now,
Bonix has done for the year. He is not coming
back for the Super Bowl. I don't know where that
came from.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That's not happening. Yeah, yeah, surgery, Yeah, well, I don't
know if you had he did.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, today he's having I guess, I don't know if
it's quite done yet, but he is.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
Surgery had already started to put it that way.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
And so now we got Jared Stidham, and so I
don't want to say that that's highes to low, but
certainly the range of emotion, the gamut of the elations
just winning that game versus the disappointment of the guy
who helped get you there.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Although maybe I might be the most.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Optimistic and bullish guy on Jared Stidham out there, apparently
because I don't think it's a precipitous drop off. You
do lose something things with still them, you lose the
mobility and Insteadham.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
You know, obviously he hasn't doesn't have the reps.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
He hasn't been out there, you know, throwing the ball
around in live action for quite some time. However, you know,
he's a pretty decent quarterback. I think he could start
for a handful of teams this year. He would have
been the best quarterback on the Jets this year. You know,
you look at you look at what he's been able
to do, and he will hang in there and try
to make the throws that maybe Bo would have dumped
out of or or taken off on sometimes.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
So I think we're going to see some more explosive plays.
I think we'll see a few more sacks. But I
think we're going to.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
See some more explosive plays out of this offense in
this coming game. And oh, by the way, Jared Stidham
is the protege of the offensive coordinator on the other side,
Joshree Danils guy who drafts him, Joshrec Daniels guy took
him to the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
He knows what that he.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Knows what their offense is about, is going to be
able to give us some insight on what it is
that they try to do.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, yeah, well, I guess the thing that concerns me,
don't looking concerns me is that he hasn't had the
reps this year, you know, you know, the live reps.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
But yeah, although he just sawship season. No, no, no,
I know that's what I'm saying. Can he do it? Yes?

Speaker 3 (04:04):
But and I talked earlier about trying not to have
too much pressure on yourself as a player, but can
you imagine bro not playing all year and then.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
Here's the ANFC Championship. No pressure, hey man?

Speaker 3 (04:22):
And didn't like even if just saying, you know, never,
I never want anyone to get hurt, certainly not our
starting quarterback. But like, all right, well, ifvi'da got hurt
at halftime, listen, he'd have got half.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Of you know, two quarters in.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Yeah, but hey, it is what it is. And uh,
I know, I know he's gonna be ready to play
because I'm not gonna gonna allow anything less.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Yeah, Steadham would have won is a Broncos star. Of course.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
He did start two games for Sewan in his first year,
and Russell in at the end of the Russell Wilson
h year here did just fine in that stint. Two touchdowns,
one interception, and a little over five hundred yards in
those two games combined, did take seven sacks. Between those two.
He did start two games against the Raiders as the

(05:10):
Raiders against the then number one defense forty nine ers
this is back in twenty three and against the Chiefs,
and in those games he had three hundred and sixty
five yards, three touchdowns, two picks against the the number
one defense in the Niners.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
No, this was a week seventeen game. Though. I'm just saying,
like he's he's out there and he's.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Been productive before when he's played, like you give him
a shot, he's pretty productive.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
It's not like he's bad, you know, looking at this
kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:38):
So in fact, the only he's only had two games
where he had you know, big time sat in more
than two sacks that he took. One of those was
at Kansas City game took six sacks for you know,
but lost thirty nine. And then of course the Raiders game,
the last game that he started, he did five sacks
that he took in that one. So it'll be interesting
to see. It's a little bit of a different style.

(05:59):
I think it'll force on Payton to hand the ball
off a little bit more, probably something we should have
been doing a little bit more of in that game,
rather than having Bow drop back forty six times and
run the ball twelve, whereas we had our running backs
for ten total attempts in that game.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Runs.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, but the whole running back room had ten. Bow
had twelve plus the forty six dropbacks. Yeah, should have
been handed it off a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
I think some of those runs were too, but yeah, yeah, okay,
some of them were designed too, Like all right, the.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
One he got hurt on was designed. Yeah, you know.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
I mean, I'm like, what what are we doing with
our quarterback in overtime in the playoffs?

Speaker 2 (06:35):
You know, with with k sweep type stuff.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
I don't know whatever it takes to win for me,
I'm like, I'm like, hey man, we got to win.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
How we can do it?

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Well, we wouldn't know if we could get win the
other day because we don't do it. We don't hand
the ball off because he's just handed off to the
guy averaging five a carry. But no, I mean, you know,
let's run the quarterback for you know, let him get
hit for the sixtieth time in the game.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Come on, I got a bone to pick, just saying
come on.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Although I did call that for Frank Crumb trick playing,
did you five days before they did it?

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Oh? As you talking about like all right on Twitter?
On Twitter?

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Yeah, I'll show you the tweet on Twitter. I was like, yep,
because we're talking about trick plays.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yep. I know what's gonna happen. This game is gonna
be second one. We're gonna run a gold line fade
for Frank Crumb.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
How did you know that you've been watching practice, Sauceice.
He'd been watching practice right, he was doing for practice.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
They don't don't let me watch like that anymore. They
don't let me watch those parts anymore.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Nixon younger, sooner bo with a playfake rolls to his right,
dumps it in the flat pick.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Frank Crumb with the catch, had a touchdown Denver.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
I'm a boy, Frank Frank Crumb, the second year tackle
out of Wyoming.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
Who had out on their bingo card, Frank Crumb, and
he didn't bobble it. He didn't. He didn't.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
Uh CA, that was I called that on the Sunday
of the eleventh, and then we ran that play on
the seventeenth.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
I love seeing Quinn Miners pick him up afterwards. Does
the running backs and receiver. Yeah, he picks him up
and holds him up. It does like the Titanic pose
or whatever.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yourum's the struggle a little bit.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
He's like, I got jump jump out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
People were talking about Troy Franklin be it out and
Pat Bryant the concussion.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
I'm like, man, we got a Pro Bowl receiver, Frank Crumb.

Speaker 4 (08:22):
Over all that man doesn't catch touchdowns after all year
of the whole entire crowd and power field at mile
high like cheering whenever he gets announced as eligible and
they finally throw him the ball page additional round.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
And I will tell you, I will tell you they
did design that play well before I tweeted about him.
So it wasn't like they designed that after I tweeted
about it. They designed it well before that. But a
little birdie said that someone who may have noticed that
tweet and may have put that in the in the
sheet that just to troll somebody who's been critical. I'm
just just put it out there. If you don't like it,

(08:56):
sent it right back, Okay.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
But it was. I mean, he's sending smoke signals well something.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
But end of the day, like I do have a problem,
like don't like, what are you doing risking your court?
You're on a super Bowl room, what are you doing
risking your quarterback on a QB sweep at ot?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Just hand the ball off? No? No, no, yeah, hand
the ball off when it got a playoff time. There's
no nobody.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
Nobody's restricted, nobody, nobody, nobody's got a raisert On.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
But nobody got to raissert On that right.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
Well, anyway, I still think Stidham is gonna be I
still think Sidham is gonna be all right in this game.
I wouldn't be surprised if he got three hundred passing yards.
No I wanted to happen to.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
I just wish we could have seen some more reps
out of them, if we had maybe got in ahead
and got some reps.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I haven't seen him since what preseason? Yeah, preseason the
last time anybody saw outside of practice. Ye, that's the
last time anybody saw him.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
So but he does practice, and he gets reps with
the lineman and the receiver and everything, so that shouldn't
be as big of a deal, as I think, is
going to be going out and playing in front of
a crowd and having to deal with the crowd noise.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
And it got loud a couple of times in that
Bills game.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
Of course, I thought. The other thing I thought was
a mistake was doing the towels thing. It's a cute
little visual or whatever, but it gets too loud. But no,
it doesn't, it gets quieter. I was pointing this out
to somebody over there because I was like, look, there
was a study done a few years ago about why
the Steelers stadium was quieter than other states because they're
putting the energy into waving the towel and not their
full energy into yelling.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
And so when you do the towel thing or whatever,
creates a cool.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
Little visual effect, but it's actually quieter than it would
be if people were yelling and stomping and banging their
fists on you know, on the on the all that
kind of stuff. And that's why places like Arrowhead will
get up to one hundred and thirty hundred and forty decibels,
and places like Pittsburgh or in that particular game, we'll
only get up to about one eighteen one twenty.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
Well, Sean Payton, he was very descriptive and when he
wanted the crowd to get loud.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Yes, and we did to practice that a little bit
because we're doing it the wrong ties. But you know,
and I don't I mean, you get this right, Yeah,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
I think it's the towels per se.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
But I'm like, let's, uh, maybe let's maybe leave that
one on the sidelines and let's let's just get loud.

Speaker 2 (11:11):
We could do the crap.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
We could do the towels for ten to so seconds
and then right when they're getting into the huddle, like
Sean pa, let's get loud, or maybe.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Do the towels on the field goals or something like that,
and we do the yell at you know. Anyway, I
there's there's no time and a place as far as
that stuff goes.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
But you know, I think at the end.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Of the day, I think, uh, that's one of those
things we could have been a little louder if maybe
we had a little fourth foresight, forethought into any things
like that run game for Buffalo was every bit as advertised.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
They didn't run the ball effectively.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
We got to figure that out because the Patriots are
not the Bills in terms of what they bring to
the table with the run game, but reminders Stevenson Trevion
Henderson are no sloughs. It's a pretty good one two punch,
and you know, Mike Vrabel wants to.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
Run the ball and they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna
try to do it and if they have success, they're
gonna keep doing it.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Well, I mean yeah, but I mean we've got to
figure out what is the what's seems to be the
problem with us leaking oil against the run You mine,
I get Buffalo's good and they're going to get some
of theirs.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
But you know the other part of that is is
it felt like that they could almost do anything they
wanted in that run game. You know, yeah, it did.

Speaker 3 (12:13):
It all comes down to run fits and guys knowing
their assignments and hey, wanting to get up in there
and get busy, get get get get dirty. And I'm
not saying that they didn't want to, but something was off.
Either either they didn't know where they were supposed to be,
or they didn't get there fast enough, or they read

(12:34):
something wrong. And I've seen plenty of guys in the
secondary whether it's safeties, whether it's cornerbacks who have to
fit because somebody else got blocked, they got to replace.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
They replaced slowly because they really don't want to have
that action. I've seen it all. I've seen linebackers sometimes
hey have bad eyes and end up being laid or get.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Getting beat to the point where the runner back can
make a big play.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah. I mean, it just felt like that that there was.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Something that I couldn't quite put my finger on it,
but it felt like that there was something that was
off with and we were to be fair. Buffalo has
a huge size advantage on on Denvere on the line.
I mean, the average size of their offensive lineman is
like three twenty five. The average size of our defensive
lineman it's like two eighty five to ninety.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
Yeah, they just wanted to lean on. Yeah, it's you know,
there is something to be said for getting blown off
the ball. Like I get it.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
But at the same time, I was like, Okay, how
are we gonna stop this? I looked at the Patriots
a little bit, and I think that rookie tackles a
little exploitable Will Campbell.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
I saw them.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
I saw that the Texans Daniel Haunter was kind of
working him a little bit. I'm kind of wondering if
Nick Bonito could maybe get to.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
The Cornack works everybody.

Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, he didn't work garre Bowles, well, well Tang everybody
with the asterisks.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
He worn't number seventy two. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm saying he works most people, and everybody is nobody
don't work everybody. Everybody I'm talking about like most people,
eighty ninety percent of the guys you'll get, you know,
we get everybody.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, but I'm just saying, like it did work. He
looked like he wasn't. This didn't look like you know,
because they talk about him all the time and they
say he's you know, he's a great tackle and all
this kind of stuff, and I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
I look at that thing and I was like, well,
I don't know, man. You know, Hunter didn't look like
he was.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
And again, hunters a premier edge rusher. Don't get me wrong,
do you think bout Will Anderson. I think he's a
He's a baller too.

Speaker 2 (14:29):
Like that. Having those two it is like, you know, it's,
I mean, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (14:33):
You can't you can't slide, but you can't one or
the other, you know, Forest Pep, we don't have to
worry about that. Yeah, it's like that's honestly, that was
I was kind of happy that New England won.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
People are like, no, you want to play the Houston's offense.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
They stink, And I'm like, you can't count on Houston's
offense being as bad as they were.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
You could definitely count on that defense being as good
as it is. Yeah, yeah, so that was that was
the thing.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
I think, you know, New England's defense, they're not bad,
but they're not Houston's defense either.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
I think that's that's it. They make man, they make plays.
They make plays man. Then uh yeah, they do Houston.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
And it's funny because they don't blitz, they don't disguise anything.
They are sending their front four and lining up and
cover three and say I'm beat us, and people just don't.

Speaker 3 (15:14):
Because they're doing it properly. They're they're linebackers are getting
the proper depth. They're not they're not allowing the candy
the debate because when you're his own coverage that intermedia
is on there, teams.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Will send someone in front shallow, maybe five, Frida, did
you get up?

Speaker 5 (15:34):
And most linebackers they in safeties they cannot resist yea, and.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Just somebody I guarantee you, bro is somebody right behind you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
It's it's funny because like there is something to just
doing the same thing over and over and getting better
at it, you know, like the doing that like the
Legion of Boom back then when they just ran the
cover three and that's kind of what they do there now.
There is something to like having expertise because it's what
you do. Like all, you're not mixing, there's no confusion,
you have communication. Everybody knows where everybody's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
You know what the.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
Rules are, you know, run running back out nobody nobody
going yeah, slide out, linebacks, lot of slide back in
when you come back in.

Speaker 2 (16:13):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (16:13):
You know, just doing the same There's something there's something
to do that to be said about that and having
sort of uh the expertise, right, but you gotta have
the right athletes to do that too.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
So I don't want to take that away from us
now because most teams you can't do it with four
up front. You need to you got to send five.
Sometimes you got to send the six.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Well, yeah, and that's why, that's why a lot of
those defenses have died off because you needed the four.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
You needed four.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
You need to send four and drop the right guys back,
and you can't get away with doing that a lot
of times, you know. I mean, that's that's sort of
the thing. What did you think about that that dropped
nine call at the goal line when when Josh Allen
was backed up in the end zone there and over
time on that there was the holding play where you
know it should have been a safety.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
What did you think about that call?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Because I had a lot of people that were criticized
advanced for they call, and I'm like, I think that's
the time you call something goofy like that again where
we dropped nine to rush two when when Josh was
Josh's back in his own endSo its overtime out, Josh
Allen's back in his own end zone and we only
ran rushed to and dropped everybody else back. And my
hypothesis on that was, hey, we we've been sending guys.
We got his clock sped up. He's a backed up

(17:13):
against his own end zone. He's already gonna have his
clock sped up, that's the time to try some trickery
and drop nine. You know, Well, he thinks everything's coming
and maybe he he misses a lurking linebacker and you know,
and and and gets picked off. Ultimately, it didn't work
out that way. They did complete the pass. But what
did you think about that drop nine call? There at
the at the what what down was it? I had
to go back and look. I can't remember. So one

(17:34):
we completed the pass to the Uh. I think it
was a tight end on the left side.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Okay, Well, sometimes you know, and I'm sure fans want
to see us rush the passer right, so he has
to get it off quickly and have to make the
decision quickly.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (17:53):
But sometimes good quarterbacks like Josh Allen, he can he
can sit back in the pocket and if you if
you send sind uh I'm sorry, send five to.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
Six guys, if you.

Speaker 3 (18:07):
Let them or have many coverage and you send an extra.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Guy, he can make somebody miss and get the first
down himself. Right.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
So a lot of teams don't really want to do that.
They want to they'd rather sit back and coverage and
have eyes on them and make sure that he doesn't
beat them.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
With his legs more so than his arm.

Speaker 3 (18:25):
And normally, you you think with so many people back,
you have all the areas cover. But obviously, yeah, and
then somebody gets free. And most of the time it's
it's a technique deal. It's it's a technique. Somebody's technique
isn't as good as it should be.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, Roco's country back after this six four six, Steve
love you man, My favorite player is a kid. How
do they fix the run defense? It's bad and worrisome?
Is it scheme or run not right personnel? Hmm, I
thank you.

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Just got some big boys on Buffalo that are just big.
I think it's part of it.

Speaker 3 (18:58):
Yeah, but you got you can't let guys run for
seven eight yards before being touched either, you know, well
you know, I mean, that's.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Get that's unacceptable. And I think if you talk to
the defense, they.

Speaker 3 (19:16):
Will say, we're all responsible for it. D line we
got to be better up front. I guess our guys,
our linebacker's got to be ready, better at filling gaps.
Secondary can't be hesitant. You got to get up in there.
You got to know what keys you're reading in order
to make sure that you're not running up when it's
a pass and backpilling when it's a run.

Speaker 1 (19:37):
Right, right, I think yeah, I think end of the day,
I think that we'll see a better performance against New England.

Speaker 2 (19:44):
But they can run the football too.

Speaker 1 (19:46):
They got two very talented running backs for Modre Stevenson
at two hundred thirty five pounds a load, traviont Henderson,
a guy that many people thought could could maybe come
here to Denver in the draft two five. He can fly.
They've they've got They've got some horses to run the ball.
They like to run a ball. Mike Rabel wants to
run a ball.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
And we've had this happen throughout the season where a
team would have a good rush game against US.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
I guess what. We bounced back though.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
We bounced back each and every time and had good games.
So I'm anticipating these guys the defense stepping up.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
And uh and being super physical. What can you do
during the week to tune that up? You know? I mean,
you've got this far in the season.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
There's not a whole lot that you could you could adjusted,
but what can you do during the week to tune
that up?

Speaker 3 (20:29):
You still can hit hit bags, you can go over
your run pass keys. You can make sure that you
know where you fitting, you're fitting, you know, wish guys
inside of you, wish guys on the outside of you
to make sure that you don't.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
Get too wide or too narrow. Uh.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
There are lots of drills that can be done that
where you don't necessarily have to tackle and take someone
to the ground to make sure that you're seeing what
you need to see in order to come up and
feel and make time.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
And then you got to wrap up.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
Then you gotta grab the guy and hold on for
dear life and and you know, drive your legs back.
What you know, whatever your style attackling. Some guys like
to go low and grab, grab on and uh, some
guys like going high. I was a guy who I
like to tackle up in his shoulder area and I
was big.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
I was big enough to do that though.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
You know, so the guy also takes people off balance.
If you're big enough to do that, it takes you
off balt. If you're hit up there and it takes
you off balance. Yeah, you know, like it's a it's
differ if you're big enough to pull it off. There's
my style of tackling, which is just to scream and
jump out of the way. I hope they don't hurt
me under the way to the in zone. But yeah,
I mean there's multiple ways to try.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
To tackle somebody. Oh that's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
You have that job for too long, will not. I
don't want the job. I don't want to be tackling people.
I would rather them try to tackle me. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
says I was. That's that's my One of my favorite
sayings was being fast was fun until big and fast
caught you.

Speaker 2 (21:58):
Yeah, it was, and it hurts. It hurts.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
That was by far the most rush yards the Broncos
had given up all season, one hundred and eighty three
yards to Buffalo. Closest to that was the September fourteenth
game against the Colts one sixty seven prior. Other than that,
Broncos didn't give up a hundred and fifty yards on
the ground to anybody. Yeah, and in fact, only one
other team even got to one hundred and twenty yards
on them, and that was the Commanders in that overtime game.

Speaker 3 (22:22):
And the beautiful thing about it is they gave up
the yardage, but as a team they were still able
to find a way to win.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
You know.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
Well.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
The five turnovers, I think is the other part of this.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
People are dogging the defense, said, you gave up all
this yardage and you gave up thirty points. We also did,
But on the other hand, they got five turnovers. And
if a defense gets you five turnovers and you lose,
that's only happened one time, honestly in NFL hit. That
was the Chargers game in the playoffs against the Jacksonville
Jaguars a few years ago.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
It's the only time that's ever happened in history.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
Yeah, that's why we're fifteen and three overall on the season.
Note is because the offense does enough to win and
the defense does enough to win. Yeah, and sometimes it.

Speaker 5 (23:07):
May not be as pretty as everybody wants.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
It to be, but in the end, it's effective. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (23:14):
And I think the interesting thing about this too is
there's the Broncos have only lost one game this year
in which they got a turnover.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
The other the.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Two games they lost the Colts and the Jaguars, they
did not get turnovers in those games. The only game
they lost in which they had a turnover was the
Chargers game from September, way back in September, and the
only game they lost all year where they got any
kind of turnover.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Wow, otherwise they got a turnover, they won.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
Yeah, and hey they're flying around.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
Man.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
I think we're going to come back and have good,
good defensive game and it's just been omo for the year.

Speaker 2 (23:51):
I think so too. I think it'll be better.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
I also think Drake May is a little bit more
beatable than maybe people think. You know, I know he
was in the MVP conversation all that, but part of
that was, I mean, they had a soft schedule getting there.
And I'm not trying to take anything away from because
they made it the AC Championship. But you go back
and you start to look at this and I'm like,
a team's got pressure on him. His game got affected
and you could certainly see it last week against it
when the Houston did it.

Speaker 3 (24:13):
But I don't know if there's any quarterback when you
look at that stat when they're unpressured.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Versus when they're pressured that when they're pressured, the more pressure,
the more pressure you get, the better he No. No,
I guarantee you. I'm serious, Like.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
It's it's an inverse number and I don't know if
that now after this season, I don't know if that's true,
but in the previous seasons you go back and it's
the most amazing thing. The more pressure you get on
the guy, the better you just case cooks you. That's
why Vic Fangio played the style of defense that he did,
which is all out of that drop you know that
drops cover six, cover four type stuff and set the
least because he has to sit there and decipher it

(24:48):
and then carve it up.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
You put you play man, and you and you pay.
He's going to carve you up. How many guys have
you seen like that? Not many. But he's the exception that.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
At the end of the day, Mulmos might be the
exception that proves the rule on that though they're like,
you know, and yeah, but dreck Drake may just going
back and trying to get some initial feel for the guy.
He's a little more mobile than people think. You know,
there's but there's some aspects of Yeah, I think you
can turn him over. I think I really do believe
you could turn him over once, maybe twice in a
game if you're you know, if you're judicious about it,

(25:21):
and and I think we can do that. I think
we can win this game. I firmly believe that. I
didn't believe in the Buffalo. I thought Buffalo was gonna
beat this. I picked Buffalo to beat this by a
field goal. We end up losing by a field goal.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
Say what, I was not a believer. I didn't believe.
Yeah you did? When when? Because we were talking about
that before the game, I was like, man, game, always
give you a thumbs up, thumbs down, A little pit
my stomach. Man, I don't know. I ended up going
over time we want it, But I was I was not.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
I thought that was gonna be a Buffalo field goal
win instead of a Buffalo field goal loss.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
I believe you were wrong. I'm goad, I'm glad I
was wrong.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I said all week on the on the show, I
was like, you know what, I hope we're making fun
of me all week for being for not being a believer.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
I was, what did I call myself the broncos a?
I need to get some fake But I believe this
week I do. And it's not it's not a result
of last week.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
It's it's a combination of, you know, taking the whole
thing again and look at the whole thing from both
these from both.

Speaker 3 (26:11):
These teams, but the thing is, it's like the New
England Patriots. They're a good football team. They ain't betting
some good football teams to get to this point. So
this is not going to be a walk in, you know,
blog game for either team. Yeah, it's gonna come down
to who executes the best, who's the most disciplined, who
could stop the run.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And who could get some.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
Turnovers and those are the keys as it goes to
a lot of this. Interestingly, again, Josh McDaniel's back, as
they'll see any revenge factor there, you think, or is
that so far in the past.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
No, not worrying about that now.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I just wondered because I wondered if that was you know,
I wonder if there's still because wait, any time you
mentioned that name, it's almost like people spit on the
ground right away, you know, here in Denver. But I
just wondered, you know, anything, But that's too too far
in the real I think it's.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
Too far in the rear view, man.

Speaker 3 (27:03):
And uh, it is really amazing too though, that you
can see how some coordinators can be amazing coordinators and
then when they go and take that next step to
become a head coach, that it's like they're a totally
different person. And and I've said this, some guys they're

(27:24):
meant to just be coordinators and just be the greatest
coordinator out there, you know, or position coach whatever whatever.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
You know.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
Everybody's not cut out to be a head coach. It's
a different skill set. But we, you know, sometimes we
promote past the point of effectiveness.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
Come with a good nickname or catchphrase for him too,
because I don't like I came up with stid muffin.
But that sounds terrible. No, no, no, please, we're not
We're not doing that.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
No, no, yes, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Did muffin stud muffeting the stead muffin put their sunglasses
with the hair and the no, no please, no, nothing
with a muffin, giddy for for stitty, Nothing with a muffin.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Nothing with a muffin. I'm keeping that one too, was
muffin top right here. I gotta come. We gotta cook
with something for him. I don't you got to think
about it.

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Yeah, the first time I met Jared Stidham was at
the draft in Nashville.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I'm called liddy stitty. Okay, I'm here for it a
little better than stead muffing. We'll put those, We'll put
it in the box. We'll see what comes up.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Yeah, the first time I met him was was at
the Draft and Nation when he was getting drafted. I
went in for I was out there to do some
media coverage. I went and got a haircut, and we
were at the same place getting the haircut. He had
the camera crew with him doing the NFL films thing whatever.
Super nice dude, you know that was my first interation.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Super nice guys.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
We're both just sitting there just you know, just joking
back and forth getting haircuts.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Did you get the bus cut?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Then?

Speaker 1 (28:43):
No, that was not the terrible cut, you know what
we're talking about it. No, this was this was a
legitimate haircut that did not look like.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
Not a good time in America to have that hair Yeah,
it really wasn't.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
Man. You know how hard I had to work to
make sure I did not get dirt on that portion
of my upper.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Brick like it was. It was bad. That was a
bad haircut. Yeah, yeah, I been back there.

Speaker 1 (29:02):
So it took oh god, no, it took like three
haircuts to fix that haircut too, because they shaved the sides.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Oh yeah, it was awful. It was just it was bad.
I'd wear a hat everywhere.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Hey, you back to it, bro, I'm bay, yeah, I'm
it's thick, it's lustrous, it's it's not fitting.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
I'm crying here, it's whatever.

Speaker 1 (29:18):
U six six nights their last couple of minutes here
with the UH, with Steve at Water, the ninety three Sis.
The Broncos had such a hard schedule, barely beating the Jets,
facing the Raiders twice. Well, I mean New England got
to face the Jets twice, Like what do you do?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
What are we doing here?

Speaker 1 (29:35):
You know?

Speaker 2 (29:35):
I mean the saractor schedule is pretty obvious. Yeah, I'm
not saying that never had the hardest schedule, but they certainly.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Didn't have the the easiest schedule in the last what
was it thirty years that the New England had.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
But you know what, man, you know, you know how
ideas on any given as son anything can happen. And
some teams, yeah, you may have the weaker schedule, but
those losses, i mean, those wins, when you're stacking them up,
it's still hard to stack them up. Yeah, it was
it was easy. Everybody be doing it. Yes, And when
you're stacking them up every week. You just building your

(30:05):
confidence we can do it.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
Well.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
I think it's I think there's something too, because I
think there's I think there's a confidence that comes from
being able to dig yourself out of holes too, which
they've done quite a bit this season.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
We know that all the comebacks.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Yeah, you got down and get that huge hole against
the Giants. You know somebody and you sort of understand that, like,
if we try, we can still win this.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
There's not that give up mode, you know. Yeah, fourth
quarter we're like, no, no, we're still in. We're still
locked in. Yeah. Yeah, I've seen guys today. Man got
helmets off. Uhah hand you know, there's kind of water
back to yeah, way back.

Speaker 3 (30:41):
Trying to get to the train to get them a
hot dog or something, like what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (30:45):
There's still there's still turn o'clock. You're still playing, bro.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Yeah, this guy's over there trying to get Nathan's hot
dog delivered down to the sideline. Uh five six six
nine zero. Giddy up stitdy up. Uh we got the
giddy up Stitty stitty City. We'll see you these We'll
see what get liddy for stity. Yeah, I about Liddy,
we're putting that. We're putting that one in there. I
like that one.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
That's a good one. So we'll see, we'll see where
that goes. What do you think? What do you think?
You think we can You think we post off? We
think we we're back to that. We can get the
Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
My problem is I'm not sure we can beat any
of the other teams on the other side.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
But right here, I believe we can win this. Hey.

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Man, Like I learned back when I was playing, we
don't have to focus on anybody but doing the Patriots,
all right, And I think on any give us Anthay,
we can beat anybody, especially with the guys we have
in the locker room, our coaches. Man, we we got
it many, we got what it takes.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
Then call me a hater because I'm not a Patriot
on Sunday, Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
But you are a US sit I am US. I am.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
I got my passport birth shirt, keeping those on standby.
Although I did say somebody the other day they said
there can start asking for carry citizenship papers with you
or something like that, and I was like, man, the
first time somebody asked me for papers like that, You're
getting a picture you don't want.

Speaker 2 (31:56):
That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
I'll believe that Steven's micgraade has always brought is catching
Go Broncos, Baby, we'll be back into this