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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We'll come to it. Broncos Country tonight had short.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Show edition in Colorado Rockies Baseball happening as the Rockies
take on the La Dodgers. Antonio Sensateela Dustin May squared
off against each other, and oh my goodness, these poor
poor Rockies.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Man, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know if you guys watched any of that
over the weekend. Maybe they were taking their inspiration from
the Masters, because in golf, the lower score the better, uh.
And maybe the Rockies just got confused, they got caught
up and watching the Masters, and they like, you know,
the lowest score possible, and we're good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I mean, if that was their aim, they earned a
lot of green jackets.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, and at this point, I think anybody wearing a
purple jersey was wishing they were wearing a green one
on any of the team at this point.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's it's been pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, it's been brutally bad for the Rockies baseball,
specifically with the hitting. The Rockies have two players that
are batting above two fifty so far, Farmer and Martini.
Everyone else is batting significantly lower than that. They have say,
five players in the starting lineup batting below two hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Way, I think Goodman got over. He's at two to
nine now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But beyond that, everybody else van amidor manti Acntolia hole
batting below two hundred. But Man's at two thirty six,
to VARs two forty one, Martina two sixty seven, then
Farmer who's playing well at three forty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh. They have three players that have even hit a.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Home run in the starting lineup there for a grand
total of what five five homers there?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is. It has been brutally bad.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
They've got nine total homers on the season, and they
are twenty eight in Major League Baseball, thirtieth in baseball
in runs with forty total. And as bad as they've hit,
they're not the worst team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
They're hitting two eighteen.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's good for twenty third in you know, in baseball.
Just brutally brutally bad watching uh, watching Rockies.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Baseball right now. But you know you can listen to
it here on KOA and then you have to see it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, that'll save you something, and hopefully they can hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
They can bounce back.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The pitching has been good at least, yeah, well sort
of starting pitching has been good. The team is twenty
nights in the in Major League Baseball in the RA
out of thirty teams. I mean, look, and I was
I was talking to you about this, I think before
the show, I was talking to Grant about it. You
think about brutally bad baseball teams, he's right around that
thirty game mark. They tend to start picking it up
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a little bit. They usually go from brutally bad to
about mediocre at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We saw that. It was it two years ago with
the Oakland Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Anytime you got a young team like that, it's just
it takes them a minute to sort of hit their stride.
And I'm not saying that the Rockies are in danger
accidentally winning the World Series this year. Starting the season
three and twelve, I believe they're ten games back already,
but I will say there's potential for them to at
least get better. So coverage, we'll start here at seven thirty,
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first pitch, eight ten tonight. The next couple of nights
out there were in Los Angeles. Rocky of course, took
on the San Diego Padres three game series and they
were outscored sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Sixteen. You read that right, to nothing. They did not
score a run in that series.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
First time in Rockies franchise history that was the case,
and then first time in Padres franchise history that they
held an opponent to shut out over the course of
an entire series.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Really really rough stuff there.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, I would say that if you wanted to take
some solace from all that, the Dodgers, one of the
better hitting teams in the league, have actually only scored
three runs excuse me, five runs over their last three games.
They were outscored twenty three to five over their last
three games, so it wasn't like they were appreciably better.
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Of course, they did win one of those three nothing,
but the Cubs put it to them sixteen nothing and
then four to two to finish out their series.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There. I don't know, I don't know what they've got
to do, but they've got to find a way to
get the bats going.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You've got to find a way to get the bats going,
and get the bats going early to take the pressure
off some of these relievers on the back end that
are struggling as well.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The relievers, but then also just the hitters themselves. You
can feel that they're in their heads. They're chasing things
they should absolutely not be chasing. And you know, we've
seen all these guys hit better before, most of them
hit better before in the past. They're chasing things they
shouldn't be chasing. They're looking at strike threes very often.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
We're seeing, you know, seven or eight called strike threes
per game over the course of that Padre series. Doesn't
get any easier against the Dodgers, but hope they can
right the ship to some extent.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Chris Bryant, who was batting one fifty four on the
season with no home runs and two runs, has been
put on the injured list, and this may be the
beginning of the end for Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here with the Colorado.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Rockies in what was an ill advised move to acquire
a player that several years ago was probably about to
hit major back issue. The Rockies, who seemed obsessed with
Chris Bryant for years prior to actually acquiring him, did
acquire him after the Cubs had traded him away to
the Giants, and then the Giants didn't want to keep
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him around, paid him all that money and money that
could have gone to Nolan Ernado, and we all saw
how that has predictably worked out, and it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Didn't seem like Chris Bryant's market at the time was
even where the Rockies paid him at it. It's really unfortunate,
you know, there is coming to an end like here,
this might be the beginning of the end. It feels
like it never even started. It never even got off
the ground, you know. With it was around the same
time as the Broncos big swing for Russell Wilson. I
think there was at least glimmers of hope here and
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there during those two rough seasons. I don't know if
you've ever gotten the glimmer of hope with Chris Bryant,
and that makes it especially painful. That and the Nolan
Aeronauto departure coming right beforehand. Yeah, I mean, you've known
what Chris Bryant was since twenty twenty. I mean it's
you know, coming back off various injuries and everything else.
He's never played a complete season, but since twenty he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's never played more than one hundred games played. He
played ninety three for Chicago and one. I take that
back because he split that with San Francisco, so they
played ninety three Chicago that year in fifty one with
the with the Giants, but when he came to the Rockies,
he played forty two games his first year eighty games
thirty seven and then he's played eleven games so far,
uh this season. And you know, the first season he
was here, when he played those forty two games, and
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he's batten three h six, but.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He only had five home runs. The power was gone.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then of course he saw twenty twenty three that
the batting average drafts at two thirty three and then
to eighteen, and now we're bat in one fifty four
and it's, uh, it's just it just looks like the
beginning of the end four, if if if not more
than the beginning of the end four Chris Bryant in
his time with the Rockies, as they continue to opt
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toward what looks like a youth movement there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Several other things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
People are speculated about the future of Bud Black. I
would suggest that based on them bringing up Donander Chase Donander,
in bringing a veen and shifting to that youth movement,
I would suggest that Bud Black will get a little
bit longer leash than someone else who would normally be
in this situation. That doesn't mean he'll still be the
manager by the end of the year, but I would
suggest that he's definitely going to get a longer leash,
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and you know, hopefully they are able to find a
way he's able to use that vast experience he has
in Major League Baseball to be able to pull these
young guys out of their heads, as you pointed out,
pull them out of this slump that they're on early
and at least make a respectable showing over the course
of the summer, moving to successful or pseudo successful at
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least sports teams here in never the Denver Nuggets David
Adamum three and zero to close out the season.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Looks pretty good, look pretty good doing it. The Houston game,
I mean, they just they got it. They whipped them.
They just got it there, whipped.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Houston wasn't playing for anything.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And we did see them start to bench guys in
the fourth quarter, late third, early fourth quarter, and you know,
as the Nuggets had already pulled away at that point,
but the Nuggets looked like they were starting to hit
on all cylinders in that Houston game.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Looked like they were fine in their groove. The first
two games.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Maybe they were trying to find their feet a little
bit with Adelman and some of these different rotations that
they were using, But that game against Houston, they kind
of seemed to sort of start to really figure out
what they are as a team at this point and
where they're going to be going into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, it's very different in a lot of ways, but
just from the ViBe's Resurrection standpoint, it reminds me a
lot of what we saw the Raiders do after letting
Josh McDaniels go where you know, you had all these
reports about maybe some problems in the locker room and
just the chemistry not being great, the overall mood in
the locker room being pretty poor, and they swap out
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Josh McDaniels for Antonio Pierce and you got guys smoking
cigars in the locker room. The team gets hot, they
go on a great run to close the year.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They ended up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I don't even think making the playoffs are making any
noise in the playoffs, but it at least showed you
a little glimpse of hope.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Hopefully this one will carry into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Saw even Hunter Tyson getting extended minutes in that win
over Houston getting down down the stretch when they went
with Strawthur Trey, Alexander's Ignazi and Hunter Tyson. But the
main rotation continues to be Porter, Gordon, Jokich, Ron and Murray.
Westbrook could pick it coming off the bench. Westbrook finally
got it together. He'd had a slumping, you know, several games,
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and then he finally put it together. Although he still
did not hit a three pointer, he did finish with
seventeen points only twenty two minutes of work, going five
to nine for the field and seven to eight from downtown,
as well as contributing six assists on only one turnover.
Out of the starters, everybody hit double digits. Brown only
got eleven points, but it was pretty evenly distributed on
the scoring port led with nineteen, Gordon Yokich had eighteen,
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Murray had sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Murray still struggled a little bit from outside.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yokic got it going from outside, though, three or five
from downtown. That's more aggressive than he's been from beyond
the arc since Adelman had taken over as the new
head coach.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, and even though Murray wasn't hot in that game,
I think overall He's been a lot hotter to close
the year and seems to be rounded into playoff Marie Form,
I think you get worried. Obviously he missed some time
during that stretch too. I think you get worried about
his health, and you know, canny stand up for or
a stand up to the wear and tear of a
whole postseason run.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think you're pretty optimistic right now. I think they
match up well with the Clippers. I think you're you
gotta feel glad they got the Clippers instead of the
te Wolves for that first round. They're not gonna see
the t Wolves until the conference finals, and that's been
a team that they've really struggled to get over the
hump with, So you know you're gonna get a good
matchup with the Clippers in the first round. But I
like the Nuggets odds there and the thunder there of
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course a juggernaut, but they still haven't seen a lot
of postseason success. Jokic, I think is a tough matchup
for chet and you know, best luck to the Nuggets
in that one. It's going to be a really tough,
serious win. But I think they can do it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, I like getting the I like getting the Clippers
to open the Clippers. The main thing with the Clippers
are they turn the ball over a lot. That's that's
one of the things. So if you can keep the
pressure on him turn the ball the other part of
these years, you don't want to foul them, because that's
how the Clippers stick around. They draw fouls and they
keep themselves in it with with superior free throw shooting
and and free throw attempts that they've been able to
get throughout that. That's how they keep themselves anty Nuggets.
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One of the top offensive teams in the league. I
think they match up well the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Coming off how.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Many was it five in a row? They've won at
least maybe maybe a few more than that. They've they've
won a pretty convincing fashion down the stretch, and they
beat teams that were pretty good. I mean, I don't
know that you know, i'd count San Antonio among the
pretty good teams. But you saw them beat Dallas and Houston, Sacramento,
Golden State, and that was, you know, and some of
those were on the road.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The Clippers aren't a slouch, they're not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But the fact that you've got home court to open
this thing, and you know, you've got a what looks
like a rejuvenated team playing with a better energy than
they were playing with, you know, leading from the All
Star break into Malone firing.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I think the Clippers have to wear you. They've
got the star power, of course Kawhi, since they've Kawi
has been back. You know, they've been a great defense
all year, but defense is even better with Kawhi. And
since Kawi's returned, their number one I believe in either
points per a hundred or points per game in general,
so that offense is looking a lot better. Nonetheless, Kawhi
has even bigger injury concerns than Jamal. I think the
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concern about can he handle the wear and tear of
a playoff run is a valid one. That James Harden
is an habitual playoff shrinker, and so I think that
also helps fuel some optimism heading into this one.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, pretty distributed scoring for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I know, you see James Harden, you think.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He's going to be the guy, But honestly, you know
other guys that they've got the learned still scores, you know,
and and Zuboch has not been has not been bad
at all.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Excuse me either.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You know, Norman Powell played pretty well this year, so
they've they've got some options to be able to score.
The interesting thing I think with with how their offense
works is they don't make the extra pass that ball
ends with somebody and they're going up for the shot,
you know, that kind of thing, And so that's going
to be fascinating. Zuboch, of course, is there is their
primary rebounder. They don't really have a secondary guy that
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comes in and Kawhi sort of that guy sometimes, but
they don't really have a secondary rebounder where the Nuggets
do on nights that Porter Junior decides to show up.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, and even ag and the Knicks there for the Nuggets.
I think that's going to be the key for the
Nuggets in this series, is they are the much better
team in the paint, the much better team from a
size and physicality standpoint. It's risky playing that way with
the Clippers because of what you pointed out with them
being such a good team from the charity stripe, but
I think you still feel good about that matchup. I
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think the size gives the Nuggets a good advantage, and
Zubach is a guy Jokic has done a pretty good
job of taking advantage of in the past. And like
you said, they're pretty shallow in terms of their front
court size and depth, where you know, that's maybe the
strongest point of this Nuggets roster with the trio of Jokic,
Gordon and Porter.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, and I think if you're the Nuggets, you want
to try to get some minutes out of out of
your big fella DeAndre Jordan.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You want to try to get.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Jordan ten minutes a game in this one because honestly,
if you can and you can rest Jokic, you know
in this in this series that that's gonna pay divideness
And a lot of the other part of these is
again they, like you just mentioned, they don't have the bodies.
So if you could throw DeAndre Jordan at I mean,
you're like, just foul them when he goes up, like
we don't even care, Like, just just keep fouling Zubach
when he goes up, continue to wear and tear on him,
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wear him down. That'll make it a lot easier for
this Nuggets team, because again, the Clippers are just they're
devoid of meaningful big men outside of Zubach in this
in this series.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's something you can absolutely exploit Kawi being back, It's
really going to make it interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
He is one of the clutchest players we've ever seen,
so that's probably what happened to the most worried.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But I'd still take the Nuggets. I think I'm going
Nuggets in seven, maybe six, Okay, I've got the Nuggets
in this series. I think they can do it in five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We'll see. I'm a little more optimistic.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The NFL dropped its list of draft attendees the people
who are going to be there at the draft in
Green Bay. Travis Hunter will be attending, but Shador Sanders
will not. Other attendees include Matt Golden, the wide receiver
of Texas, Jaylen Milroe, Tyler Booker, Mason Graham, Josh Simmons,
Jahad Campbell, Malachi Starks, Will Campbell, Ashton Janty, Shamar Stewart,
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Abdull Carter, will Johnson cam Ward who is expected to
go number one, Jackson Dart, no Chador, but there is
Jackson Dart, Michael Williams, and then Ted McMillan, and McMillan
could be one that could be sitting there for a
little while. Dallas doesn't take him at twelve, I don't
think he goes the top twenty twenty five picks so
and I don't believe he's a target for Denver, despite
people trying to make that a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, I wonder if some of this as a result
of I feel like more players have been declining the
invites in recent years.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I mean, the Chador thing is sort of interesting obviously locally,
is it him declining?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Was he not invited?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
From what I understand, he was invited, so he may
have declined, So he declined it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I heard they were doing something up here at CU,
so maybe that's it. But you'd figure if he was
gonna do it, he would do with Travis. Or maybe
they're trying not to take away from each other. I
don't know, but that's to me that's fascinating. The Giants
are bringing Schador in for a workout on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh, that's something to keep your eye on there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
If the Giants don't take him at three, I don't
see a scenario in which he goes in the top
ten unless the Jets throw their plans out the window.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So you're not buying the Saints spots.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Not necessarily, that's a that's a maybe. From what I understand,
the Saints really likes Jackson Dart and Tyler Shug.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We'll see, but.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That that's from uh and I've got text messages going
back to February on that like that was that was
sort of the thing. The Giants might wind up taking
Shador at three and it may be moot anyway, but
you know, it's it's it's certainly fascinating to watch as
this thing unfolds. This year with the draft, I will
say is probably one of the least predictable years out there.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So I will say that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Normally when we judge mock drafts, we're judging, Okay, this
guy is able to put.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
This guy with this t that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I will say that this year, if somebody's mock draft
happens to be exceptionally accurate, that's probably somebody that's pretty
plugged in, not somebody that's that figured out, you know,
that knows what because most teams, they from what the
conversations that I've had, most of these boards really start
to get different right around pick twelve for each other,
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like you know, like like all these teams are like
after you get about I pick twelve, they start getting
wildly different as as there's not a lot of blue
chip guys and the gap between pick twelve thirteen and
pick one hundred is not that big.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There's a big plateau of talent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, like right there, that's kind of all just in
that same level of talent and the same type of grades.
And so it's going to be difficult this year for
people to be able to project that out. You might
be able to guess on the mock draft portion of it,
but I think it's going to be interesting because I
think this year is gonna be a litmus test for you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
To be able to tell what NFL.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And I'm using the quotes here the insiders are plugged
in and who's guessing because you know, the mock draft
some years everybody has all the same picks. These mock
drafts should be wildly different after about pick twelve, maybe
starting at pick twelve, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And I think they would. It should be a very
exciting draft on that front. I think there's going to
be more you know, Michael Pennix type picks this year
where and it's going to be on the back end
it's not going to be in the top ten. Kind
of to your point, it feels like there's a fairly
clear group I think of four or five guys, and
then there's that second tier, and then after that it's
a huge plateau where I think there will be guys
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that people are expecting to go in the second third
round that you know, surprisingly fly up, like I don't
know a Tyler Williams or Alfred Collins or you know
something that oh we've seen. You know, Shamar Stewart always
mocked in those late twenty spots.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think maybe later than that. I don't think he's
going up the board. I think he's going the other direction.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So I mean, maybe he's a guy who drops and
a guy we've been talking about in the fifties or
sixties ends up going in the twenties. Because again, there
really isn't that much difference there, and I think the
mock draft community has a lot of group think.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right now, we'll get a chance to get more into
that we come back. You are listening to Broncos Country
tonight right here, O k Away all Bright, Grestsmith here
with you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Excuse me, Zach Sieger's here with you, So I used
to grab me on mondays Man throw me off five
six six nine zeros a text line. I had quite
a few texts coming in. Get to some of those
here in just a moment. The uh see you buffs
announced today that they will be retiring the jerseys of
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Shodor Sanders and Travis Hunter, and I, ah, sort of
get it, especially with Travis Hunter. Mean, you want a
heisman did something nobody else had ever done. I don't
know about retiring Shador's jersey here, that one's shake here
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for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean, I you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm the
odd man out. I don't know. I just think he
was here two years. I mean, granted, I guess he
does own.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Most of the passing record stuff, so so fair, but
I don't know that that one felt a little bit
more iffy to me, especially this soon.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's I think it's really odd that it's this soon,
even for Travis Hunter. I can't think of many cases
where Travis.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hunter I get it, because you can't retire to somebody
else's wearing the number. Yeah so you did it in
the next year, you don't want somebody wearing the number
and then you know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Even like with Tim Tebow's retired immediately after. Like, I
feel like it's pretty rare we see a college player
that have their number retired before they're even drafted. I
could be wrong on that, but it seems very early.
Like I agree, you're going to do it eventually with
Travis Hunter. I don't have a problem with them doing
it right now. Chador is the one that seems shay
here because it's largely built on the records he brought
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to the program, you know. He I don't think it's
his fault by any means, but it's not like they
were winning at an extremely high level over those two seasons.
Like you said, it was only two seasons with the program,
so it's largely based on records in production.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But the records in production are there. Yeah, And that's
one of those things where I have to look at
some other news over the course of the weekend. Tragic
news here. Former LSU receiver Kira and Lacy found dead
Saturday night in Houston's twenty four years old. Per the
Harris County Sheriff's Department, Lacy was found dead in his
car after a short automotive pursuit after a reported altercation
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with a family member. Information obtained from WBRZ said Lacey
was arguing with the family member shortly before eleven pm
on Saturday, reportedly pulled out a gun and shot it
at the ground before leaving the area. Thirty minutes later,
a constable spotted Lacey driving attempted to make a traffic
stop that he said Lacy refused to stop. Was chased
for several miles before crashing. Report from the Harris County
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Sheriff's Office says that when deputies walk up to Lacey's
vehicle to take him in to custody, they didn't realize
he shot himself during the pursuit and before the crash.
Lacy's death comes a day after he was set to
face a grand jury hearing on Monday for charges of
negligent homicide, felony, hit and run with death, and reckless
operation of a vehicle from a fatal crash that occurred
on December seventeenth and killed seventy eight year old Herman
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Hall and injured two others. Lacy allegedly sped away from
the scene. According to Louisiana State Police, Lacy recklessly passed
multiple vehicles at a high rate of speed, crossing the
center line and entering the northbound lane, while then he
designated no passing zone. In the December incident, he allegedly
drove around the crash scene following the accident and then
fled without stopping to help or report the crash and
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his involvement in it. Postcraft investigation determined Lacy was the
driver of the vehicle causing the crash. Restaurant was issued
and his agent released a statement saying his client was
cooperating with authorities. Lacy's father, Kenny, told parents to talk
to their children about mental health, saying, young parents, start
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to talk to your kids at a very early age
and make sure they are confident and comfortable confighting in
you don't be cool with them all right or I'm
good when you know deep down something isn't right. Kyra
and Lacy turned himself in January twelfth after the December
crash and was booked and released one hundred and fifty
one thousand dollars bail. He declared for the twenty twenty
five NFL draft on December nineteenth, two days after the crash,
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and did not play and unless used, Texas win over
Baylor after opting out in three seasons at LSU after
traveling for transferring for louisianam Lacey cabout one hundred and
twelve receptions, sixteen hundred and niney two yards, sixteen touchdowns
and thirty nine games. Was viewed as a top fifteen
receivering prospect in the upcoming draft.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, it's really sad. You know, young talented player, and
you know what if at least had a chance to
prove his stuff in the NFL, and you know, God
too soon took a wrong path, and yeah, it's really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
One mistake and how I conspiral, it all conspiral, out
of control.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And it's not just you know, not just him.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We've seen athletes with one mistake before Henry Rucks. You know,
look at what happened out there and in Las Vegas,
and it really is you know, somebody really needs to
put the book together and all these guys that had
one moment in their lives of carelessness that has turned
their lives around in the wrong direction, you know, and
ruins what could otherwise be great careers, great lives, things
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like that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I would suggest that that.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Someone needs to continue to put this information in front
of young men coming up in the Nile era because
things are not going to get better now the guys
are going to have a bunch of cash thrown in
front of.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Them at the collegial level.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Not that they weren't getting money before, but they weren't
getting money at this level. And so it's one of
those things that I worry about, this sort of thing
becoming more pervasive as you know, eighteen to twenty two
year olds are getting million of dollars to play college
ball professionally in a sense, and I you know, we've
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we've got to find ways to train people up in
the way that they should go at a young age.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We got to trade young man even younger.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean think about it.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Think back to when you know what, I think back
to when I was in college eighteen twenty. If you'd
handed me a million dollars at the dude, I would
have been an idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I then what's that nice and freshman year coming in?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's crazy. I mean, you know I might have been.
I might have been an idiot. Like it is.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There there are so many things that if I'd had
that kind of money, Uh, and and probably the sense
of entitlement that came with it probably the the latitude
or leeway to do certain other things because of it.
You know, it would that would not have been that
would not have been good for me at that age.
And I wonder if and maybe it's just me being
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on the wrong track here and you know whatever, but
I wonder if maybe an I ole money should be
putting a trust for when these guys get out of
college and maybe you not have access to it. Maybe
that money's putting a trust until you get out of
college where you're more developed.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And able to be responsible enough to have this kind
of stuff. Yeah, whatever solution they find, it has to
get better than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It's the wild West.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think it's good that you know, these players are
finally not getting taken advantage of. To your point, maybe
they should do something so you're not getting handed, you know,
four million dollars or whatever it is at age eighteen.
I mean Bryce Underwood with how his whole process went
where I forget where he was committed first, but he
goes from there to being committed to LSU to being
committed to Michigan, and every single time it's because he's
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getting bid up. And finally, you know, the oracle billionaire
comes it over off the top rope to get him
to come to Michigan.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Who knows at eighteen, right out.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Of high school, when he probably wasn't making anything to
your point about bagman in the past, these guys in
the past were probably getting some taste of that ridiculous
amount of wealth before. Now you're going straight from being
a high to be in a multi multi multi millionaire.
I can't imagine trying to process that.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean, as I look at as I look
at this stuff, I mean, your brain's just not fully
formed at that point, you know, And like, at the
risk of being you know, a bit sexist, we're we're dudes, Like.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We do dumb stuff, Like we do dumb stuff when
we're older than that. So I I, you know, I
don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Like, on the one hand, I'm like, yeah, we should
put this money out of trust and then they can
all get it when they're twenty five. And then on
the other hand, I'm like, yeah, but you can't punish
the guys who can be responsible, you know, you can't.
You can't force people to be responsible. So how do
we train young men up to be able to handle
this newfound wealth that they're going to have at a
younger age.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And beyond even the individual players themselves and how it
might negatively impact them. It's been well documented that there's
a problem in some of these college towns where players
can run afoul of the law, but because they're these
star players and have power in that community, they can
kind of skirt consequences in those cases. I don't think
that's gonna happen any less now that these players have
hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, it's it's certainly gonna be uh gonna be fascinating
to watch five, six, six, nine zeros in text launch
See you out there, Brian quite a few texts. He's
very upset about Travis Hunter and Shudor Sanders Jersey's being retired.
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I'm just not I mean, colleges could do what they
want to guess you know, I've never been one for
the college jersey to get retired anyway, is what it
is though. I mean, especially in football where you've got
so few available number You've got like ninety man rosters
in college football, and like, no, you're gonna have no
numbers to be able to give guys, they're gonna have
to do double it up and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's that's just I don't know. To me, it seems.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
A little offu WNBA draft going on today. I don't
know if you guys paid attention to that when or not.
Paige Buckers and Econ obviously with number one the Dallas Wings.
Uh uh Hayley van Litz just went to uh the
Chicago Sky at pick eleven, reuniting with Angel Rees.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Not only that their number six pick or something surprise
fell to them. Anissa Moros I think is her name.
She was expected to go in the top four our
top fifi uh huh the one that also fell to
the Sky.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think it's pick six or so. She so from Slovenia.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah yeah, and uh so they'll be giving or no,
I'm sorry, I must have screwed up. Moros must have
gone to the Connecticut Sun.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
My bad.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Ill I went to the Connecticut Sun along with Sinaia Rivers.
They still managed to pair her up with one of
her LSU teammates. So that's cool there and uh yeah,
good good draft for the Chicago Sky. They've got a
young quarter go around. Yeah, they got a little bit
of a team to build around. So if you follow
the WA the w NBA, excuse me, there you go.
We were a family guy. They have the guy is absurd.
(29:47):
I don't know if you've ever seen the family Guy
WNB a thing, but if you.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Ever, if you just google that, watch it on YouTube.
It's so it's they did not have to go that
hard at the WBA.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No, but I gotta say credit to the w NA.
It's turning around for them now. They're they're selling out,
statis doing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, it is, and they're making more money. And that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So like somebody antal reasons on somebody's podcast the other day,
somebody was talking about she deserved to be paid as
much as Lebron because she's essentially doing the same things
as Lebron. And I'm like, yeah, that's like saying that
lacrosse athletes need to be making tens of millions of
dollars because and I'm like, cool, if you get the broadcast,
do you get the money in your sport.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To do that. I'm all for the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You know, players getting more money, but you got to
get the broadcast deals to get the money into your
sport to get the money to begin with.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
They don't just pay you millions of dollars just because
you're an athlete.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Like the league itself has to be doing well. You know,
the league itself has to have the money to pay you,
and the WNBA does not have that kind of money
to be paying people at Lebron James type salaries.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
In an effort to do that just doesn't get no,
whether it ever gets there or not.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And I think something that might be benefiting them or
and that's really helped the league grow in these recent
years is people know their college stars. You know, we've
seen Caitlin Clark for four years in March Madness. Before
you know she goes to the Fever or page Backers.
You've seen her for several years. You've known about her
as this elite prospect coming up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow with the.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
NBA draft now so often these guys aren't even going
the college route. They're going the overtime elite root or
the G League root or whatever it may be, So
you don't have familiarity with them on that front. And
the elite guys are only staying in college for a year,
so you don't learn about them on that front before
they're tossed into the fire.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I think with the NIL you're going to see more
people staying though for the money, and I think that
that will create situations of guys coming.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
In where you get a better brand and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I think it works for football too, specifically at the
quarterback position, because you had to get guys who have
more reps, you know, getting into the NFL, right, And
I think that's a good thing. I think it's part
of the reason Bonix, Michael Pennock, Jadan and Daniels.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I think because in previous years those guys wouldn't have
gotten those kinds of reps. You know, those guys would.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Have already left if they hadn't it l and Iola,
those guys probably leave and go to the and go
to the NFL. Jade Daniel specifically, and I think the
more reps helped all those guys out. I think it's
going to help cam Ward out a little bit. The
fact that you know, he managed to get more reps
that way. I think there are guys that probably need
more reps that are going to be sticking around and
getting more reps.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I maintain that.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's one of the reasons that Papa Holmes was what
he was when he got to the NFL because he
had just gotten so many dropbacks there at Texas Tech.
The field start had already started to slow down for you.
He had the tools. Now you just need to put
it all together. And there are guys like that that
I think that wouldn't have gotten those opportunities without those
kind of reps.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, and when you're compounding that with you know, seven
on seven's in the summers, and just how pass happy
the whole setup is, you know, from top to bottom
Now in football, I think you're seeing those guys refined
a lot better entering the pro game and able to
hit the ground running. To your point about the experience
being important, it's a little old school scouting, but Bill
Parcells famously had his quarterback requirements about these are the quarterbacks.
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We'll look at it in the draft, and if they
don't have this, we're not looking at him at all.
Two of the requirements I want a three year college
starter A and B. I need them to have at
least twenty three wins under their belt. You're not doing
that out reps and as a winner with them.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
You know, I think some of these guys maybe didn't,
maybe wouldn't have followed that of the winter portion of it,
but the transferring around and getting exposure to different offenses
may may help out it well as well.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We got an NFL six pack. We come back here
on Broncos Country to night
We'll come to it. Broncos Country tonight had short.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Show edition in Colorado Rockies Baseball happening as the Rockies
take on the La Dodgers. Antonio Sensateela Dustin May squared
off against each other, and oh my goodness, these poor
poor Rockies.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Man, it's uh.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't know if you guys watched any of that
over the weekend. Maybe they were taking their inspiration from
the Masters, because in golf, the lower score the better, uh.
And maybe the Rockies just got confused, they got caught
up and watching the Masters, and they like, you know,
the lowest score possible, and we're good.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I mean, if that was their aim, they earned a
lot of green jackets.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yeah, and at this point, I think anybody wearing a
purple jersey was wishing they were wearing a green one
on any of the team at this point.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
It's it's been pretty bad.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, it's been brutally bad for the Rockies baseball,
specifically with the hitting. The Rockies have two players that
are batting above two fifty so far, Farmer and Martini.
Everyone else is batting significantly lower than that. They have say,
five players in the starting lineup batting below two hundred.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Way, I think Goodman got over. He's at two to
nine now.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But beyond that, everybody else van amidor manti Acntolia hole
batting below two hundred. But Man's at two thirty six,
to VARs two forty one, Martina two sixty seven, then
Farmer who's playing well at three forty nine.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Uh. They have three players that have even hit a.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Home run in the starting lineup there for a grand
total of what five five homers there?
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It is. It has been brutally bad.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
They've got nine total homers on the season, and they
are twenty eight in Major League Baseball, thirtieth in baseball
in runs with forty total. And as bad as they've hit,
they're not the worst team in baseball.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
They're hitting two eighteen.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
That's good for twenty third in you know, in baseball.
Just brutally brutally bad watching uh, watching Rockies.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Baseball right now. But you know you can listen to
it here on KOA and then you have to see it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yeah, that'll save you something, and hopefully they can hopefully.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
They can bounce back.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The pitching has been good at least, yeah, well sort
of starting pitching has been good. The team is twenty
nights in the in Major League Baseball in the RA
out of thirty teams. I mean, look, and I was
I was talking to you about this, I think before
the show, I was talking to Grant about it. You
think about brutally bad baseball teams, he's right around that
thirty game mark. They tend to start picking it up
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a little bit. They usually go from brutally bad to
about mediocre at that point.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
We saw that. It was it two years ago with
the Oakland Athletics.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Anytime you got a young team like that, it's just
it takes them a minute to sort of hit their stride.
And I'm not saying that the Rockies are in danger
accidentally winning the World Series this year. Starting the season
three and twelve, I believe they're ten games back already,
but I will say there's potential for them to at
least get better. So coverage, we'll start here at seven thirty,
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first pitch, eight ten tonight. The next couple of nights
out there were in Los Angeles. Rocky of course, took
on the San Diego Padres three game series and they
were outscored sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Sixteen. You read that right, to nothing. They did not
score a run in that series.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
First time in Rockies franchise history that was the case,
and then first time in Padres franchise history that they
held an opponent to shut out over the course of
an entire series.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Really really rough stuff there.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, I would say that if you wanted to take
some solace from all that, the Dodgers, one of the
better hitting teams in the league, have actually only scored
three runs excuse me, five runs over their last three games.
They were outscored twenty three to five over their last
three games, so it wasn't like they were appreciably better.
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Of course, they did win one of those three nothing,
but the Cubs put it to them sixteen nothing and
then four to two to finish out their series.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
There. I don't know, I don't know what they've got
to do, but they've got to find a way to
get the bats going.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You've got to find a way to get the bats going,
and get the bats going early to take the pressure
off some of these relievers on the back end that
are struggling as well.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
The relievers, but then also just the hitters themselves. You
can feel that they're in their heads. They're chasing things
they should absolutely not be chasing. And you know, we've
seen all these guys hit better before, most of them
hit better before in the past. They're chasing things they
shouldn't be chasing. They're looking at strike threes very often.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I feel like.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
We're seeing, you know, seven or eight called strike threes
per game over the course of that Padre series. Doesn't
get any easier against the Dodgers, but hope they can
right the ship to some extent.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Chris Bryant, who was batting one fifty four on the
season with no home runs and two runs, has been
put on the injured list, and this may be the
beginning of the end for Chris Bryant.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Here with the Colorado.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Rockies in what was an ill advised move to acquire
a player that several years ago was probably about to
hit major back issue. The Rockies, who seemed obsessed with
Chris Bryant for years prior to actually acquiring him, did
acquire him after the Cubs had traded him away to
the Giants, and then the Giants didn't want to keep
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him around, paid him all that money and money that
could have gone to Nolan Ernado, and we all saw
how that has predictably worked out, and it.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Didn't seem like Chris Bryant's market at the time was
even where the Rockies paid him at it. It's really unfortunate,
you know, there is coming to an end like here,
this might be the beginning of the end. It feels
like it never even started. It never even got off
the ground, you know. With it was around the same
time as the Broncos big swing for Russell Wilson. I
think there was at least glimmers of hope here and
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there during those two rough seasons. I don't know if
you've ever gotten the glimmer of hope with Chris Bryant,
and that makes it especially painful. That and the Nolan
Aeronauto departure coming right beforehand. Yeah, I mean, you've known
what Chris Bryant was since twenty twenty. I mean it's
you know, coming back off various injuries and everything else.
He's never played a complete season, but since twenty he hasn't.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
He's never played more than one hundred games played. He
played ninety three for Chicago and one. I take that
back because he split that with San Francisco, so they
played ninety three Chicago that year in fifty one with
the with the Giants, but when he came to the Rockies,
he played forty two games his first year eighty games
thirty seven and then he's played eleven games so far,
uh this season. And you know, the first season he
was here, when he played those forty two games, and
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he's batten three h six, but.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
He only had five home runs. The power was gone.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And then of course he saw twenty twenty three that
the batting average drafts at two thirty three and then
to eighteen, and now we're bat in one fifty four
and it's, uh, it's just it just looks like the
beginning of the end four, if if if not more
than the beginning of the end four Chris Bryant in
his time with the Rockies, as they continue to opt
(06:47):
toward what looks like a youth movement there as well.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Several other things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
People are speculated about the future of Bud Black. I
would suggest that based on them bringing up Donander Chase Donander,
in bringing a veen and shifting to that youth movement,
I would suggest that Bud Black will get a little
bit longer leash than someone else who would normally be
in this situation. That doesn't mean he'll still be the
manager by the end of the year, but I would
suggest that he's definitely going to get a longer leash,
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and you know, hopefully they are able to find a
way he's able to use that vast experience he has
in Major League Baseball to be able to pull these
young guys out of their heads, as you pointed out,
pull them out of this slump that they're on early
and at least make a respectable showing over the course
of the summer, moving to successful or pseudo successful at
(07:34):
least sports teams here in never the Denver Nuggets David
Adamum three and zero to close out the season.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Looks pretty good, look pretty good doing it. The Houston game,
I mean, they just they got it. They whipped them.
They just got it there, whipped.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Now.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Houston wasn't playing for anything.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And we did see them start to bench guys in
the fourth quarter, late third, early fourth quarter, and you know,
as the Nuggets had already pulled away at that point,
but the Nuggets looked like they were starting to hit
on all cylinders in that Houston game.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Looked like they were fine in their groove. The first
two games.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Maybe they were trying to find their feet a little
bit with Adelman and some of these different rotations that
they were using, But that game against Houston, they kind
of seemed to sort of start to really figure out
what they are as a team at this point and
where they're going to be going into the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, it's very different in a lot of ways, but
just from the ViBe's Resurrection standpoint, it reminds me a
lot of what we saw the Raiders do after letting
Josh McDaniels go where you know, you had all these
reports about maybe some problems in the locker room and
just the chemistry not being great, the overall mood in
the locker room being pretty poor, and they swap out
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Josh McDaniels for Antonio Pierce and you got guys smoking
cigars in the locker room. The team gets hot, they
go on a great run to close the year.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
They ended up.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
I don't even think making the playoffs are making any
noise in the playoffs, but it at least showed you
a little glimpse of hope.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Hopefully this one will carry into the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Saw even Hunter Tyson getting extended minutes in that win
over Houston getting down down the stretch when they went
with Strawthur Trey, Alexander's Ignazi and Hunter Tyson. But the
main rotation continues to be Porter, Gordon, Jokich, Ron and Murray.
Westbrook could pick it coming off the bench. Westbrook finally
got it together. He'd had a slumping, you know, several games,
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and then he finally put it together. Although he still
did not hit a three pointer, he did finish with
seventeen points only twenty two minutes of work, going five
to nine for the field and seven to eight from downtown,
as well as contributing six assists on only one turnover.
Out of the starters, everybody hit double digits. Brown only
got eleven points, but it was pretty evenly distributed on
the scoring port led with nineteen, Gordon Yokich had eighteen,
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Murray had sixteen.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Murray still struggled a little bit from outside.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yokic got it going from outside, though, three or five
from downtown. That's more aggressive than he's been from beyond
the arc since Adelman had taken over as the new
head coach.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yeah, and even though Murray wasn't hot in that game,
I think overall He's been a lot hotter to close
the year and seems to be rounded into playoff Marie Form,
I think you get worried. Obviously he missed some time
during that stretch too. I think you get worried about
his health, and you know, canny stand up for or
a stand up to the wear and tear of a
whole postseason run.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
But I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
I think you're pretty optimistic right now. I think they
match up well with the Clippers. I think you're you
gotta feel glad they got the Clippers instead of the
te Wolves for that first round. They're not gonna see
the t Wolves until the conference finals, and that's been
a team that they've really struggled to get over the
hump with, So you know you're gonna get a good
matchup with the Clippers in the first round. But I
like the Nuggets odds there and the thunder there of
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course a juggernaut, but they still haven't seen a lot
of postseason success. Jokic, I think is a tough matchup
for chet and you know, best luck to the Nuggets
in that one. It's going to be a really tough,
serious win. But I think they can do it.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Yeah, I like getting the I like getting the Clippers
to open the Clippers. The main thing with the Clippers
are they turn the ball over a lot. That's that's
one of the things. So if you can keep the
pressure on him turn the ball the other part of
these years, you don't want to foul them, because that's
how the Clippers stick around. They draw fouls and they
keep themselves in it with with superior free throw shooting
and and free throw attempts that they've been able to
get throughout that. That's how they keep themselves anty Nuggets.
(11:08):
One of the top offensive teams in the league. I
think they match up well the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Coming off how.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Many was it five in a row? They've won at
least maybe maybe a few more than that. They've they've
won a pretty convincing fashion down the stretch, and they
beat teams that were pretty good. I mean, I don't
know that you know, i'd count San Antonio among the
pretty good teams. But you saw them beat Dallas and Houston, Sacramento,
Golden State, and that was, you know, and some of
those were on the road.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
The Clippers aren't a slouch, they're not at all.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But the fact that you've got home court to open
this thing, and you know, you've got a what looks
like a rejuvenated team playing with a better energy than
they were playing with, you know, leading from the All
Star break into Malone firing.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yeah, I think the Clippers have to wear you. They've
got the star power, of course Kawhi, since they've Kawi
has been back. You know, they've been a great defense
all year, but defense is even better with Kawhi. And
since Kawi's returned, their number one I believe in either
points per a hundred or points per game in general,
so that offense is looking a lot better. Nonetheless, Kawhi
has even bigger injury concerns than Jamal. I think the
(12:08):
concern about can he handle the wear and tear of
a playoff run is a valid one. That James Harden
is an habitual playoff shrinker, and so I think that
also helps fuel some optimism heading into this one.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yeah, pretty distributed scoring for the Clippers.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
I know, you see James Harden, you think.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
He's going to be the guy, But honestly, you know
other guys that they've got the learned still scores, you know,
and and Zuboch has not been has not been bad
at all.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Excuse me either.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You know, Norman Powell played pretty well this year, so
they've they've got some options to be able to score.
The interesting thing I think with with how their offense
works is they don't make the extra pass that ball
ends with somebody and they're going up for the shot,
you know, that kind of thing, And so that's going
to be fascinating. Zuboch, of course, is there is their
primary rebounder. They don't really have a secondary guy that
(13:01):
comes in and Kawhi sort of that guy sometimes, but
they don't really have a secondary rebounder where the Nuggets
do on nights that Porter Junior decides to show up.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
Yeah, and even ag and the Knicks there for the Nuggets.
I think that's going to be the key for the
Nuggets in this series, is they are the much better
team in the paint, the much better team from a
size and physicality standpoint. It's risky playing that way with
the Clippers because of what you pointed out with them
being such a good team from the charity stripe, but
I think you still feel good about that matchup. I
(13:31):
think the size gives the Nuggets a good advantage, and
Zubach is a guy Jokic has done a pretty good
job of taking advantage of in the past. And like
you said, they're pretty shallow in terms of their front
court size and depth, where you know, that's maybe the
strongest point of this Nuggets roster with the trio of Jokic,
Gordon and Porter.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Well, and I think if you're the Nuggets, you want
to try to get some minutes out of out of
your big fella DeAndre Jordan.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
You want to try to get.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Jordan ten minutes a game in this one because honestly,
if you can and you can rest Jokic, you know
in this in this series that that's gonna pay divideness
And a lot of the other part of these is
again they, like you just mentioned, they don't have the bodies.
So if you could throw DeAndre Jordan at I mean,
you're like, just foul them when he goes up, like
we don't even care, Like, just just keep fouling Zubach
when he goes up, continue to wear and tear on him,
(14:20):
wear him down. That'll make it a lot easier for
this Nuggets team, because again, the Clippers are just they're
devoid of meaningful big men outside of Zubach in this
in this series.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
That's something you can absolutely exploit Kawi being back, It's
really going to make it interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
He is one of the clutchest players we've ever seen,
so that's probably what happened to the most worried.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
But I'd still take the Nuggets. I think I'm going
Nuggets in seven, maybe six, Okay, I've got the Nuggets
in this series. I think they can do it in five.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
We'll see. I'm a little more optimistic.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
The NFL dropped its list of draft attendees the people
who are going to be there at the draft in
Green Bay. Travis Hunter will be attending, but Shador Sanders
will not. Other attendees include Matt Golden, the wide receiver
of Texas, Jaylen Milroe, Tyler Booker, Mason Graham, Josh Simmons,
Jahad Campbell, Malachi Starks, Will Campbell, Ashton Janty, Shamar Stewart,
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Abdull Carter, will Johnson cam Ward who is expected to
go number one, Jackson Dart, no Chador, but there is
Jackson Dart, Michael Williams, and then Ted McMillan, and McMillan
could be one that could be sitting there for a
little while. Dallas doesn't take him at twelve, I don't
think he goes the top twenty twenty five picks so
and I don't believe he's a target for Denver, despite
people trying to make that a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Yeah, I wonder if some of this as a result
of I feel like more players have been declining the
invites in recent years.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I mean, the Chador thing is sort of interesting obviously locally,
is it him declining?
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Was he not invited?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
From what I understand, he was invited, so he may
have declined, So he declined it.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
I heard they were doing something up here at CU,
so maybe that's it. But you'd figure if he was
gonna do it, he would do with Travis. Or maybe
they're trying not to take away from each other. I
don't know, but that's to me that's fascinating. The Giants
are bringing Schador in for a workout on Thursday.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Uh, that's something to keep your eye on there.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
If the Giants don't take him at three, I don't
see a scenario in which he goes in the top
ten unless the Jets throw their plans out the window.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
So you're not buying the Saints spots.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
Not necessarily, that's a that's a maybe. From what I understand,
the Saints really likes Jackson Dart and Tyler Shug.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
We'll see, but.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
That that's from uh and I've got text messages going
back to February on that like that was that was
sort of the thing. The Giants might wind up taking
Shador at three and it may be moot anyway, but
you know, it's it's it's certainly fascinating to watch as
this thing unfolds. This year with the draft, I will
say is probably one of the least predictable years out there.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
So I will say that.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Normally when we judge mock drafts, we're judging, Okay, this
guy is able to put.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
This guy with this t that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
I will say that this year, if somebody's mock draft
happens to be exceptionally accurate, that's probably somebody that's pretty
plugged in, not somebody that's that figured out, you know,
that knows what because most teams, they from what the
conversations that I've had, most of these boards really start
to get different right around pick twelve for each other,
(17:22):
like you know, like like all these teams are like
after you get about I pick twelve, they start getting
wildly different as as there's not a lot of blue
chip guys and the gap between pick twelve thirteen and
pick one hundred is not that big.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
There's a big plateau of talent.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yeah, like right there, that's kind of all just in
that same level of talent and the same type of grades.
And so it's going to be difficult this year for
people to be able to project that out. You might
be able to guess on the mock draft portion of it,
but I think it's going to be interesting because I
think this year is gonna be a litmus test for you.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
To be able to tell what NFL.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
And I'm using the quotes here the insiders are plugged
in and who's guessing because you know, the mock draft
some years everybody has all the same picks. These mock
drafts should be wildly different after about pick twelve, maybe
starting at pick twelve, yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And I think they would. It should be a very
exciting draft on that front. I think there's going to
be more you know, Michael Pennix type picks this year
where and it's going to be on the back end
it's not going to be in the top ten. Kind
of to your point, it feels like there's a fairly
clear group I think of four or five guys, and
then there's that second tier, and then after that it's
a huge plateau where I think there will be guys
(18:35):
that people are expecting to go in the second third
round that you know, surprisingly fly up, like I don't
know a Tyler Williams or Alfred Collins or you know
something that oh we've seen. You know, Shamar Stewart always
mocked in those late twenty spots.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
I think maybe later than that. I don't think he's
going up the board. I think he's going the other direction.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
So I mean, maybe he's a guy who drops and
a guy we've been talking about in the fifties or
sixties ends up going in the twenties. Because again, there
really isn't that much difference there, and I think the
mock draft community has a lot of group think.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Right now, we'll get a chance to get more into
that we come back. You are listening to Broncos Country
tonight right here, O k Away all Bright, Grestsmith here
with you.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Excuse me, Zach Sieger's here with you, So I used
to grab me on mondays Man throw me off five
six six nine zeros a text line. I had quite
a few texts coming in. Get to some of those
here in just a moment. The uh see you buffs
announced today that they will be retiring the jerseys of
(19:43):
Shodor Sanders and Travis Hunter, and I, ah, sort of
get it, especially with Travis Hunter. Mean, you want a
heisman did something nobody else had ever done. I don't
know about retiring Shador's jersey here, that one's shake here
(20:05):
for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I mean, I you know, maybe I'm maybe I'm the
odd man out. I don't know. I just think he
was here two years. I mean, granted, I guess he
does own.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Most of the passing record stuff, so so fair, but
I don't know that that one felt a little bit
more iffy to me, especially this soon.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
It's I think it's really odd that it's this soon,
even for Travis Hunter. I can't think of many cases
where Travis.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Hunter I get it, because you can't retire to somebody
else's wearing the number. Yeah so you did it in
the next year, you don't want somebody wearing the number
and then you know, but.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Even like with Tim Tebow's retired immediately after. Like, I
feel like it's pretty rare we see a college player
that have their number retired before they're even drafted. I
could be wrong on that, but it seems very early.
Like I agree, you're going to do it eventually with
Travis Hunter. I don't have a problem with them doing
it right now. Chador is the one that seems shay
here because it's largely built on the records he brought
(21:03):
to the program, you know. He I don't think it's
his fault by any means, but it's not like they
were winning at an extremely high level over those two seasons.
Like you said, it was only two seasons with the program,
so it's largely based on records in production.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
But the records in production are there. Yeah, And that's
one of those things where I have to look at
some other news over the course of the weekend. Tragic
news here. Former LSU receiver Kira and Lacy found dead
Saturday night in Houston's twenty four years old. Per the
Harris County Sheriff's Department, Lacy was found dead in his
car after a short automotive pursuit after a reported altercation
(21:39):
with a family member. Information obtained from WBRZ said Lacey
was arguing with the family member shortly before eleven pm
on Saturday, reportedly pulled out a gun and shot it
at the ground before leaving the area. Thirty minutes later,
a constable spotted Lacey driving attempted to make a traffic
stop that he said Lacy refused to stop. Was chased
for several miles before crashing. Report from the Harris County
(22:01):
Sheriff's Office says that when deputies walk up to Lacey's
vehicle to take him in to custody, they didn't realize
he shot himself during the pursuit and before the crash.
Lacy's death comes a day after he was set to
face a grand jury hearing on Monday for charges of
negligent homicide, felony, hit and run with death, and reckless
operation of a vehicle from a fatal crash that occurred
on December seventeenth and killed seventy eight year old Herman
(22:24):
Hall and injured two others. Lacy allegedly sped away from
the scene. According to Louisiana State Police, Lacy recklessly passed
multiple vehicles at a high rate of speed, crossing the
center line and entering the northbound lane, while then he
designated no passing zone. In the December incident, he allegedly
drove around the crash scene following the accident and then
fled without stopping to help or report the crash and
(22:45):
his involvement in it. Postcraft investigation determined Lacy was the
driver of the vehicle causing the crash. Restaurant was issued
and his agent released a statement saying his client was
cooperating with authorities. Lacy's father, Kenny, told parents to talk
to their children about mental health, saying, young parents, start
(23:07):
to talk to your kids at a very early age
and make sure they are confident and comfortable confighting in
you don't be cool with them all right or I'm
good when you know deep down something isn't right. Kyra
and Lacy turned himself in January twelfth after the December
crash and was booked and released one hundred and fifty
one thousand dollars bail. He declared for the twenty twenty
five NFL draft on December nineteenth, two days after the crash,
(23:28):
and did not play and unless used, Texas win over
Baylor after opting out in three seasons at LSU after
traveling for transferring for louisianam Lacey cabout one hundred and
twelve receptions, sixteen hundred and niney two yards, sixteen touchdowns
and thirty nine games. Was viewed as a top fifteen
receivering prospect in the upcoming draft.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Yeah, it's really sad. You know, young talented player, and
you know what if at least had a chance to
prove his stuff in the NFL, and you know, God
too soon took a wrong path, and yeah, it's really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
One mistake and how I conspiral, it all conspiral, out
of control.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
And it's not just you know, not just him.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
We've seen athletes with one mistake before Henry Rucks. You know,
look at what happened out there and in Las Vegas,
and it really is you know, somebody really needs to
put the book together and all these guys that had
one moment in their lives of carelessness that has turned
their lives around in the wrong direction, you know, and
ruins what could otherwise be great careers, great lives, things
(24:27):
like that.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
And I would suggest that that.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Someone needs to continue to put this information in front
of young men coming up in the Nile era because
things are not going to get better now the guys
are going to have a bunch of cash thrown in
front of.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Them at the collegial level.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Not that they weren't getting money before, but they weren't
getting money at this level. And so it's one of
those things that I worry about, this sort of thing
becoming more pervasive as you know, eighteen to twenty two
year olds are getting million of dollars to play college
ball professionally in a sense, and I you know, we've
(25:07):
we've got to find ways to train people up in
the way that they should go at a young age.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
We got to trade young man even younger.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Yeah, I mean think about it.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Think back to when you know what, I think back
to when I was in college eighteen twenty. If you'd
handed me a million dollars at the dude, I would
have been an idiot.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I then what's that nice and freshman year coming in?
Speaker 1 (25:27):
It's crazy. I mean, you know I might have been.
I might have been an idiot. Like it is.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
There there are so many things that if I'd had
that kind of money, Uh, and and probably the sense
of entitlement that came with it probably the the latitude
or leeway to do certain other things because of it.
You know, it would that would not have been that
would not have been good for me at that age.
And I wonder if and maybe it's just me being
(25:55):
on the wrong track here and you know whatever, but
I wonder if maybe an I ole money should be
putting a trust for when these guys get out of
college and maybe you not have access to it. Maybe
that money's putting a trust until you get out of
college where you're more developed.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
And able to be responsible enough to have this kind
of stuff. Yeah, whatever solution they find, it has to
get better than it is right now.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
It's the wild West.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I think it's good that you know, these players are
finally not getting taken advantage of. To your point, maybe
they should do something so you're not getting handed, you know,
four million dollars or whatever it is at age eighteen.
I mean Bryce Underwood with how his whole process went
where I forget where he was committed first, but he
goes from there to being committed to LSU to being
committed to Michigan, and every single time it's because he's
(26:38):
getting bid up. And finally, you know, the oracle billionaire
comes it over off the top rope to get him
to come to Michigan.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Who knows at eighteen, right out.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
Of high school, when he probably wasn't making anything to
your point about bagman in the past, these guys in
the past were probably getting some taste of that ridiculous
amount of wealth before. Now you're going straight from being
a high to be in a multi multi multi millionaire.
I can't imagine trying to process that.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Yeah, I mean, as I look at as I look
at this stuff, I mean, your brain's just not fully
formed at that point, you know, And like, at the
risk of being you know, a bit sexist, we're we're dudes, Like.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
We do dumb stuff, Like we do dumb stuff when
we're older than that. So I I, you know, I
don't know. I don't think.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Like, on the one hand, I'm like, yeah, we should
put this money out of trust and then they can
all get it when they're twenty five. And then on
the other hand, I'm like, yeah, but you can't punish
the guys who can be responsible, you know, you can't.
You can't force people to be responsible. So how do
we train young men up to be able to handle
this newfound wealth that they're going to have at a
younger age.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
And beyond even the individual players themselves and how it
might negatively impact them. It's been well documented that there's
a problem in some of these college towns where players
can run afoul of the law, but because they're these
star players and have power in that community, they can
kind of skirt consequences in those cases. I don't think
that's gonna happen any less now that these players have
hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (28:04):
Yeah, it's it's certainly gonna be uh gonna be fascinating
to watch five, six, six, nine zeros in text launch
See you out there, Brian quite a few texts. He's
very upset about Travis Hunter and Shudor Sanders Jersey's being retired.
(28:24):
I'm just not I mean, colleges could do what they
want to guess you know, I've never been one for
the college jersey to get retired anyway, is what it
is though. I mean, especially in football where you've got
so few available number You've got like ninety man rosters
in college football, and like, no, you're gonna have no
numbers to be able to give guys, they're gonna have
to do double it up and stuff like.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
That's that's just I don't know. To me, it seems.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
A little offu WNBA draft going on today. I don't
know if you guys paid attention to that when or not.
Paige Buckers and Econ obviously with number one the Dallas Wings.
Uh uh Hayley van Litz just went to uh the
Chicago Sky at pick eleven, reuniting with Angel Rees.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Not only that their number six pick or something surprise
fell to them. Anissa Moros I think is her name.
She was expected to go in the top four our
top fifi uh huh the one that also fell to
the Sky.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think it's pick six or so. She so from Slovenia.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Yeah yeah, and uh so they'll be giving or no,
I'm sorry, I must have screwed up. Moros must have
gone to the Connecticut Sun.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
My bad.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Ill I went to the Connecticut Sun along with Sinaia Rivers.
They still managed to pair her up with one of
her LSU teammates. So that's cool there and uh yeah,
good good draft for the Chicago Sky. They've got a
young quarter go around. Yeah, they got a little bit
of a team to build around. So if you follow
the WA the w NBA, excuse me, there you go.
We were a family guy. They have the guy is absurd.
(29:47):
I don't know if you've ever seen the family Guy
WNB a thing, but if you.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Ever, if you just google that, watch it on YouTube.
It's so it's they did not have to go that
hard at the WBA.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
No, but I gotta say credit to the w NA.
It's turning around for them now. They're they're selling out,
statis doing.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Well, it is, and they're making more money. And that's
the thing.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
So like somebody antal reasons on somebody's podcast the other day,
somebody was talking about she deserved to be paid as
much as Lebron because she's essentially doing the same things
as Lebron. And I'm like, yeah, that's like saying that
lacrosse athletes need to be making tens of millions of
dollars because and I'm like, cool, if you get the broadcast,
do you get the money in your sport.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
To do that. I'm all for the WNBA.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
You know, players getting more money, but you got to
get the broadcast deals to get the money into your
sport to get the money to begin with.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
They don't just pay you millions of dollars just because
you're an athlete.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
Like the league itself has to be doing well. You know,
the league itself has to have the money to pay you,
and the WNBA does not have that kind of money
to be paying people at Lebron James type salaries.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
In an effort to do that just doesn't get no,
whether it ever gets there or not.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
And I think something that might be benefiting them or
and that's really helped the league grow in these recent
years is people know their college stars. You know, we've
seen Caitlin Clark for four years in March Madness. Before
you know she goes to the Fever or page Backers.
You've seen her for several years. You've known about her
as this elite prospect coming up.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Wow with the.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
NBA draft now so often these guys aren't even going
the college route. They're going the overtime elite root or
the G League root or whatever it may be, So
you don't have familiarity with them on that front. And
the elite guys are only staying in college for a year,
so you don't learn about them on that front before
they're tossed into the fire.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I think with the NIL you're going to see more
people staying though for the money, and I think that
that will create situations of guys coming.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
In where you get a better brand and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
I think it works for football too, specifically at the
quarterback position, because you had to get guys who have
more reps, you know, getting into the NFL, right, And
I think that's a good thing. I think it's part
of the reason Bonix, Michael Pennock, Jadan and Daniels.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
I think because in previous years those guys wouldn't have
gotten those kinds of reps. You know, those guys would.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
Have already left if they hadn't it l and Iola,
those guys probably leave and go to the and go
to the NFL. Jade Daniel specifically, and I think the
more reps helped all those guys out. I think it's
going to help cam Ward out a little bit. The
fact that you know, he managed to get more reps
that way. I think there are guys that probably need
more reps that are going to be sticking around and
getting more reps.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
I maintain that.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
It's one of the reasons that Papa Holmes was what
he was when he got to the NFL because he
had just gotten so many dropbacks there at Texas Tech.
The field start had already started to slow down for you.
He had the tools. Now you just need to put
it all together. And there are guys like that that
I think that wouldn't have gotten those opportunities without those
kind of reps.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah, and when you're compounding that with you know, seven
on seven's in the summers, and just how pass happy
the whole setup is, you know, from top to bottom
Now in football, I think you're seeing those guys refined
a lot better entering the pro game and able to
hit the ground running. To your point about the experience
being important, it's a little old school scouting, but Bill
Parcells famously had his quarterback requirements about these are the quarterbacks.
(32:49):
We'll look at it in the draft, and if they
don't have this, we're not looking at him at all.
Two of the requirements I want a three year college
starter A and B. I need them to have at
least twenty three wins under their belt. You're not doing
that out reps and as a winner with them.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
You know, I think some of these guys maybe didn't,
maybe wouldn't have followed that of the winter portion of it,
but the transferring around and getting exposure to different offenses
may may help out it well as well.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
We got an NFL six pack. We come back here
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