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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nick Ferguson wearing Kansas City Chief shoes into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, they're not. I just showed you they're not Kansasity.
In the light down there, they looked yellow. But as
you as you pulled them up here, the gold.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's not my fault that you were somehow color blind, right,
These shoes are a certain color. And the reason I
wore them because they match the writing in my shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's why they're not.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And the the red on your But they certainly for
a moment there it looked like you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Don't do that. You listen, mister Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
See, that's something that I would expect from Ryan Edwards.
I would not expect that from you. Would you expect
that from Ryan? Although people would expect that from me.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I grew up in Kansas Hit lived there twice, so
people would people would think, maybe, you know, I get
accused of being a Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Fan of once in a while because I grew up
when I was like six years old as a Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The reason I say that about one Ryan Edwards because
when I would host on you know, Calbi Sports, he
would always look at my wardrobe and tried to quickly
make a coordination.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
With another team, even though he wears a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Of silver, And I guess dark black and silver sometimes.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Gray and black. Fla, wow, you just really hated that keyboard.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
What's the difference between dark black and black as a color?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, black is just kind of black, is kind of
a muted black.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Dark black is is uber black. I thought black was
the absence of color.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Black is Actually every color white is the absence of color,
Isn't it is the other way around?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes? No, I think you might be right, actually, because
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Certain shirts that you buy. The color looks black, but
it looks like a muted kind of grayish dark gray,
seems like it's been distressed and washed so many times.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And then there is dark black.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Apparently apparently it depends on whether you're talking about pigment
or light. Yeah, oh with light white is all the
colors combined with pignant?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's none of them. So there you go. This is
what people tune in for.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
This is the kind of all you were trying to
say is that Ryan wears Raiders colors.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, basically, Ryan wears a lot of colors.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
When you think about the colors of his shirts that
he wears, what was the precise.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Name plaid flannel flannel.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean there's a lot of colors in that rainbow,
so he could represent almost the thirty one teams for sure.
So that's all I'm flavors and Ben just talking about
my shoes. No, they're not full of disclosure. It wasn't
getting a mess my hat, my NFFPA hat and the
logo in my shirt, and they are my San Francisco
forty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Ers coaching shoes to be exact.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay, Because I was just gonna say, because I just
took the gold on the shoelaces for kind of a
brighter yellow when I was fixing the computer down there
before the show.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh yeah, I thought it was because I said, I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was like, I was like, bro with these Ronald
McDonald's shoes on, because that's what it looked like a
French fry box.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And I'm like, and then I'm like, wait a minute,
are those cheese colors?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But you know, to Ben's credit, the keyboard was out
and I was trying to figure out what was the issue,
and it seemed like somebody was disconnected. Ben actually like
a repair man crawled down there and connected it.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So it's got a background in that much. Just act
like he has no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I do like to play that off so that
people don't expect more out of me. I did use
the own an IT company. I worked in computers in
the DD.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So what he doesn't know is, though we know some
of the same people, and some of those people have
told me about Ben's abilities.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know what you're talking about, right, I have
no clue what you could possibly be referred to say.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So when I sit next to Ben and he tries
to dumb down certain things and go away over the
top of the others, I sit here with the smile
on the face.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like I know you.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You don't have to fool me. Yeah, I'm not the
one who's going to ask more of you exactly. I
might be the person, but Nick is not the person.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, I just you know, like I said, I like
to I set the bar low, so I always exceed expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, we know that about you, Ben.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I think we and members of Broncos Country.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They figured that out. We'll see or yeah, starting to
figure starting to figure it out. Maybe speaking of.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Figuring out, you had a chance to U or did
you have a chance to go to see the Broncos
rookies this weekend?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Because I didn't get a chance to go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I went to my son's second round of the playoffs
on lacrosse. Did they win, No, they didn't win, But
I'm happy for them, the school and the team for
exceeding it the way that they did. So I didn't
get a chance to go, but but I heard about
some of the things that actually took place, So you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Could tell me what you saw.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Uh well, I mean, you get a limited window as
far as that goes, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Jonah Coleman looked all right.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Caleb Lohaner is a guy that got called out by
Sean payton a specifically for the progress that he has made,
which is interesting because the Broncos of course drafted two
tight ends Loner they drafted last year, and that room
is very crowded with Evan Ingram, Adam Troubn for sure
making the school. And then you've got uh nateh Nate
Adkins who's probably making it as the fullback h back,
(05:05):
and so now you've got one spot, you got two
guys you got drafted. You got Loaner in that mix
as well. And then there's of course, you know, Lucas
crawl and whatever else. But I would say that Jolie
looks like a good pass catcher but obviously needs to
work on the blocking. I would say that the kid
from Virginia's got real speed. Cam Ross, Yeah, he's got
real speed. Uh, there's there's there's advertised speed, and there's
(05:28):
real speed.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He's got real speed. And so you know, and then Coleman.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Coleman looks every bit what he was advertised to be,
and it looks like he might might wind up be
as something here.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Is that the same thing that everyone said when they
first saw r. J. Harvey for the first time and
the Rickie tamp from a body standpoint.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, I didn't say that. I with with RJ. Harvey.
I was like, Okay, he's built thick, but he's also like,
you know, very.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He's what Ben, he's what Look, he's.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
What if we were doing a movie about the Broncos
last year, he could be played by Peter Dinglish. Wow,
that okay, fine, Kevin Hart, that's even.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Did you say that's even lower? No?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I did say that, Yes I.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did, And I was trying to sit here and think
about what I could say, but what I wasn't going
to say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So no, I'm I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Which did you guys watched the roasted look he and
Kat Williams squashed their beef to say, that's the shortest
beef of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well not not no, not really that that beef went
off for a while. They went on for a long time,
but it was the shortest beef. Yes, But if you
haven't seen a Netflix special, go out and check it out.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Shane gillis one of one of my favorites. Uh, he
did a hell of a job. But I'm glad that
Kevin Hart and Cat Williams squashed it. But if you
keep calling the Broncos running backs what you would refer
to them, I will call them, you know, very.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hmmm, vertically challenged.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Well that's one way to say it, but I would
say very stocky, cut from the same clu built thick.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look at me. I'm not trying to take that away
from anybody's built thick.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
They're all three like bowling balls with knives, you know,
I mean, they're just they're built squatty, but like they're
not you know, when I tower over you that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
See, he's setting himself up, Grant, he's setting himself up
for failure now, because it's not like they're suddenly going
to hit.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
A gross spurt.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You never know. They say milk does a body good.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I great plenty of it, And I'm not about
to get a gross spurt either. I'm just saying I
like end of the day, he looks what he looks
ever he catches the ball, well, he looks fluid. He's
built thick, and I think he's going to be a
bigger contributor. If you're a fantasy football guy. It depends
on how fast Coleman picks up the offense. Yeah, he
might temper your expectations for r J. H. It might
be Coleman get more, you know, and and r J
(08:04):
moves into more of that Reggie Bush Darren Sproles kind
of role in the Sean Payton offense. Assuming the Sean
Payton blueprint is still in effect, it could Davids Web
could do something.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
No, no, no, First.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And foremost, the blueprint is still going to be an effect.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
E F E C T. Because that's not effect. I
think it's two s. Well, you get it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, I don't want to say too many f's
because I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Want anyone to insinuate anything right. But the whole idea
is that it's not better than sorry. I did it
for effect. Okay, at least you didn't do the wrong offense.
(08:45):
At least. No, you can't do the right one. You can't.
You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm point those words at all costs because I always
get them wrong, really, fact to effect.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I never had an issue with spelling, except for the
word ridiculous. I would I would ridiculously spell it in forever,
for the longest time, I would spell it wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, what use just your syllables? Redict you like.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I put me in there, so the eyes ridiculous, I
would ridiculous and I would spell I spelled it wrong
for so long.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Do you remember, like when you were in school, grade school,
the teacher, I don't know about you, guys, the teacher
would tell you put your hand underneath your chin and
that's how you kind of they taught you the syllables
of the words.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To know.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They did not do that at my school, you grant, no,
oh well they did. Yeah, like redict you us as
you go through the words.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It kind of you when your chin drops.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That symbolizes where there is multiple syllables. Granted, you guys
can't say.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
T he's trying it. Did it work?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, I guess see exactly. So can't just say the
word and hear how many syllables are?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, No, sounds like some Florida man stuff. What the
hell was Florida man? You know what they know? Florida man?
You never seen those accounts into Florida because you both
lived in Florida. I had not. You and I have
both lived in Florida. We both know. It's that you
know that there's some ridiculous people down there.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes, very true, right, I mean I thought you were
meaning that as like a like a hood teacher or
something like that, a teacher on on on.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
The side of the road, because I've never heard of
Florida man. You never heard Florida man. I'm to show
you this during the break.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like that's like collections of dudes like wrestling alligators
to get them off the highway and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Florida dude, Florida man, you've never seen this.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's like going up to a seven eleven drunk and
naked and get arrested.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, wait wait, they used to call them something else, right,
what's that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, there's that too, drunking man Florida man.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, no, no, no, they call that obstruction of justice,
right or better yet he's about to get arrested.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, we're pulling that up in the break five six
six nine zeros a tec sign.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Somebody just asked if there's any schedule crumbs. I do
not have the schedule yet.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I should have it tomorrow, so I'll start putting some
crumbs out at that point.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Schedule crumbs. I do not have the schedule as of
six fifteen, six sixteen, whatever it is right now? Can
I toss out really quickly? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I would love to see the Broncos play in their
first home opener.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Sure, Buffalo Bill. Everybody wants that. Everybody wants the Bills
rematching it all now, everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Plus there they're the Bronco or they're the Saints North
now with Joe Brady and Pete Carmichael and you know,
and all that going on there.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You got I think Dremid Jones is there. You have
some of the Broncos former coaches. Jim Leonard is there. Yeah,
Pete Carmichael is there.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'm saying it's like the Saints, you know, Northeast or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That would be a huge game for so many reasons.
Knowing as though the Bills lost the game, almost won
the game right now, they're returning back to the scene
or the crime. That would be an awesome game to
open up the regular season at home for them.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
See the Bills have Jalen Virgil, Trent Sherfield. Oh gosh, honest,
Christian Mary.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, they got a bunch of They got a bunch
of former Bradley chubb Is on the Bills now, yeah, uh,
they got they got quite a few former Broncos over there.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
How to be one hell of a game.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I know it's going to be exciting, and I think
we are actually going to do our breakdown of the
schedule release this Thursday.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, that's when the official release will happen on Thursday.
I'll probably get it tomorrow. I usually get it the
Tuesday late, either either late Tuesday or or midday Tuesday,
so you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Know, real quick.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I want to go back to something that you said
making a comment about Loaner and how coach Peyton had
nothing but positive things to say about him. And how
he has improved since last year. That is something that
you expect for a guy who's been in the system
for a while, even though it was somewhat of a
struggle early on last year for him. You want to
(13:01):
see that that there's growth in the player's development and
to be able to go out and do that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think Brandt has it here.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I'll tell you stood out Caleb, Like he looks entirely
different in this camp. Now he was here in this
camp a year ago as a draft pick, but.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He stood out. What is he doing better?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Where everything everything? And in fairness to him, remember you
know that was a basketball prospect that had limited snaps
of a year and so one year into the program
and how he's moving, what he's doing, everything looks entirely different.
And so you know that learning curve and growth curve
(13:45):
was greater for someone who had far less experience maybe
than others, if that makes sense. Like he it's entirely
noticeable and he's in great shape. You see his athleticism.
And I would say the one thing that you don't
know is you know when Bill used to say, you know,
if they don't bite when their puppies, they're probably never
(14:06):
gonna bite, but there's a physical aspect to the way
he plays, and you know, even on loop team last season,
you know he'd play an outside linebacker rushing our tackles.
I mean, he's six seven, two hundred and sixty five
pounds like and he's not afraid of the contact. So
it's been good to see him, you know, in year two,
(14:27):
and you knew that it was going to be a
developmental upside, but that was encouraging.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
John Bayden going out of his way to talk up
Caleb Loaner.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well, with him going out of his way, I find
it hard to believe that Loaner will find himself on
an outside once his roster is finally put together. Obviously,
things can change once we get the pass on and
get the training camp and we started playing with a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Lot of preseason games.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But you got to think if Loaner was one of
those guys that the Broncos wanted to, let's just say,
hide on the practice squad, having coach Payton speak very
highly of him in his second season is not going
to do that. Now he's gonna be somewhat on the
radar and everyone's gonna be paying attention to him.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, and that's that's sort of one of the things
I think. You know, as we look at these this
tight end room is very crowded. They're not gonna be
able to keep all these guys. Like I said, Troutman
and Ingram are gonna be here by virtue of the money.
Adkins is probably here because they don't really have another
fullback except for Adam Pretties, and he can do he
can do both play the each back, full back, a
(15:32):
little bit of tight end. And then you drafted justin
Joe Lee and Dallon Bentley. Now Bentley you can probably
sneak through the practice squad and you've got Loner and Krawl,
So you've got six guys for four positions.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Two of these guys are going to have to go
by by and what that means Lucas Croll is probably
one of them, and Dallan Bentley you sneak him through
to the practice squad. Okay, Well, that problem is that
leaves you five tight ends. You still have to get
rid of one of these. Well, here's a great part
of it. We are very early in the process and
you can write everything player in n pencil.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Some guys Obviously we know who you can write in
as far as on a depth chart and pen but
there's not to say that, ay, you know, the team
may not look to move a Adam Truttman or a
Nate Atkins if some.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Of these younger tight ends do play well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And here's another flip side of coach Peyton speaking very
highly of loaner, Right, I know I just said, well,
usually when you do that, you're not probably gonna get
rid of that guy, but sometimes you can speak him up.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Trade trade yeah, right, But it all.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Depends on what some of these other veteran guys do.
Because here's the law of the land when it comes
to the NFL. If you have a younger, inexpensive guy
that's playing equally or higher than a veteran player, in
most cases, they're gonna go with the less expensive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Player, the younger guy who they say, you know, because
there's a perception of potential and they're cheaper the potential.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Is there a difference between potential and projection? There's those
are two different words.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, but I mean they if you're a twenty three
year old who's cheaper and you're out playing a veteran,
they're gonna say, we're keeping you because he has a
higher potential pinil to grow. Uh, And he's cheaper versus
a thirty year old who's playing at a certain level.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They're just that's just the nature of the beast.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And you know what else I thought about listening to
coach Bayton talk about Loaner.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
He talked about.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Him from a conditioning standpoint, but he also talked talked
about him from a physical visual standpoint.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What his body now looks like. I'm not saying that he.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Was warret last year, but for a coach to speak
of a particular player and speak to his physical visibility
and attributes, I say that maybe he's kind of I
don't know, sending at a message subtly. So maybe some
of the other guys you gotta work harder.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, well, I mean that's obviously what this room at
this point says. Because there's gonna be there's gonna be
some cuts. You're only gonna be able to keep four
of these guys one way or the other. You gotta
have to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Five six, six, nine year olds.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
A text linedy monuments is I and everyone I was
the Patriots first rematch for bow instead of Jared Stidham.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
By the way, Draymond is in New England. That's from
d Y and Monument. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I thought it was a little off on that, but no,
I don't want New England right off.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The bat that AFC championship. It's not going to change
a damn thing. Fans feel better.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's really oh you you beat him in the game.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That really didn't mean anything to start up the new year.
That's not gonna change. The regular season doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Week one, Yeah, week one matters, but playing that game
week one doesn't it because it's not gonna change the
outcome of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All this this earlier, this season, it's not gonna change it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I ain't gonna give the bad taste of the way
the last season ended out of the fans mouth.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, you know, it gets the bad taste out of
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Nice Chris cold Martin Elly's Yeah, so does a mouthwash?
Well no, not if you have kinker sores e and
it burns ew. I've never had those, Not of.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
The neither do speaking years you're speaking your vast experience. No,
I'm just saying I've heard that before. I've heard it.
I heard he was a great fun I heard we
gotta take a break, Brouckles cutry Knight back after this
can't wait talk show host? Say his name?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You mean like the Midnight No, that's uh any music
with a saxophone, and it is an instant classic.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You're not gonna You're not gonna drag me down, Grad Smith,
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, why don't you say his name? Whoever that host is.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, I'm just I'm saying generically, if anyone didn't like
Journey and spent two weeks on this program one time
trying to call them light rock, well you know what
I'm it's not gonna call any Ryan Edwards out specifically there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm gonna leave it up to the listeners to figure
out who I'm talking about. And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
When I was bumming a little Journey walking in, you know,
a little separate ways, Ryan was bumping his head. I
even dapted him up like he was like, yeah, that's it,
that's a band. Until Ben told me the story how
Ryan looks at the group and I'm like, no, no, no,
I'm taking my dad back.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He came in dapping you up for Journey. I'm like,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We get two weeks on this program about how much
you hate Journey, how much they suck.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You don't get to play a cool Now.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Maybe that's just he's not too familiar with their catalog,
you know, because if you hear, don't stop believing that
feels like a soft rock song.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That is a that is a piano power ballad.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, karaoke state soft rock, piano power ballad and soft rock.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh my goodness, no, that's not soft rock, a piano
power like Nate Jackson on his way out, he thought
he called it yuat rock. I'm like, oh no, no, no, no,
that is also it's yacht right, No it's not. No,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Christopher Cross yacht wa rock, Michael McDonald little yacht rock ish,
but not Journey.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Come on, man, I'll do that. I will say before
the show, I was trashing on Journey. They do. They
do have some great songs. H wheeling the sky top tier.
You start using your little fingers, who just start checking
their catalog.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
More than words is soft rock. I didn't even know
what that is. More than it's guarante the system.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's more than words guarantee in the system was the
two brothers with long hair.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I think a bunch of Yeah, it's extreme. I think.
Is that the band that's soft rock? That is soft rock?
Duncan Chic is soft rock. I even asked him about
Billy Idol.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I know Billy Idols like pop, but it's not soft rock.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, Johnny, Billy Idol is more rock than you know.
The Dave Matthews band.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, I let's put Matthews closer to folk music than
I would. It's not really folk, but there's cross over there. Americana.
I'm saying the genre of music.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Wait, wait, wait, would that be the same genre as
Hoody in the Blowfish?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, Americana, Yeah, I'm only in.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The Blowfish that was still not quite I don't know
if that's rocker or noted. That straddles right on the
very edge.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
They're like almost country, closer to southern rock than they
are in country. Say, it's closer to southern rock than
it is to they were so close to the country.
Just decided to get rid of the rest of the bank.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Darius Rucker did get rid of the rest of the band,
and he cut an R and B album that he
wishes everyone would forget because that album was horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Must have been horrible, so bad.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It was Aristruck's first first album after putting the Blowfish,
was this R and B album, and it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Not be terrible.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'll say this for Darris Rucker, he's very smart because
here's what I know. When it comes to music, there's
certain fan bases of genres that are dedicated.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And committed, some even more than others.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
So when I think about all the genres Americana whatever
you want to call us in there, country music fans
are dedicated.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
All you gotta do is go steal a classic and
cover it and you can make a name for yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I mean you think about look about jelly Bean. Jelly
Bean baran same body type.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No, No, he's lost weight. Though he's lost weight. He's
lost weight he has so you can't to him. You
can't call him jelly roll anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He still got some jelly rose. He's a jelly No,
you can't even call him that anymore. He still got
some jelly rolls.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Whole week toast two hundred pounds less than he was,
but he's still a rather large, big fella. Yeah, So anyway,
so Dari's record cut this album called the Return of
Mongo's Slade and it was horrible. It never got released
by the label, but an independent label got the Masters
or whatever and released it and called the album back
to Then and released.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
What was the title of that again, Well, the original
title the album was the Return of Mongo's Slade.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That sounded like a character from Heathcliff. It sounds like
a character from like Shaft. And he got the chaft
with that album.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, somebody I can't remember, think it was a who
was the name that label, like Hidden Beach, I think
got the Masters from Atlantic and then released him his album.
But you can find it if you search back to
Then as the album. That's that's the album was retitled.
Somehow they got the masters to see.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You are a man of multiple duties or versatilities, right,
and I would think that a man of your music,
who tastes and as well as you are musically inclined,
that you would be able to appreciate some of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I do appreciate it. They're all talented. They're all much
more musically talented than I am.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, I mean that all three of us. I'm just saying,
not all of it's my taste. Okay, that's good, that's
you know what, that's fair enough.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's a whole lot better than what Ryan air was
gave me, like you know, in my phase high five
and me shaking my hand, making me seem like.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh yeah, oping you up, yeah, and then you like
find out it was just it was whole time he
gasped me up.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Ran.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I know you're driving around Denver listening.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
If you want to call in text into the show
to I don't know, stake your claim or just kind
of change the narrative, you can't right now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Your name is Mond because you lied to me. Man,
we got we got the microphones here. We'll just cut
him off. We don't like lead. Can you win in
the argument. We'll just cut him off.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
God darn it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Ryan.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Oh yeah, that's right. You get his point at the
end of the segment. I know, I know, I was like,
oh okay, I'm on to your game now.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh my goodness, the wild are up one nothing on
the apps, seven forty four left in the first period
on that one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So we'll see, uh, we'll see what happened. Color of
course leads series two to one.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I didn't see which player it was for the Abs,
but they got a four minute penalty, four penalty because
they jabbed their sticking to the side of the neck
one of the Wild players while they.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Were both on the ground. Maybe the Colorado players need
to be called the wild because that's wild. Good lord geez,
talk about brush like they had, like they took the
the other end of the so like he had.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
They were both on the ground kind of wrestling, and
then the AVS player just took the side of the
like the butt end of his stick and handed it
into the guys.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And they let you fight. But once someone goes to
the eyes, correct, it's supposed to stop it. Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So they went to a review and then they saw
him jab his stick into the neck of the other
guy and gave him a four minute penalty.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Can't that's the next level stuff? Yeah? Like are we are?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
We?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Are we the batties? Are we? The dirty players? See?
That's why people will always say that football is dangerous.
I'm not not not like hockey.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Like you got knives strapped to your feet and a
reapers size that you're.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Out there, they could put you into the glass.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You gotta you got knives strapped to your feet, a
bow staff you're running around the rink with.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And then and then there's the puck and hit you
in the face too, didn't somebody didn't the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Coach lose teeth or something like that. Recently he almost
lost his eye. Oh that's what was schir Ben already
got hit right in the face. O lord, where's the
protective glass? In typical hockey fashion, though it was back
the next game on in the they're just back of
the bikes any time. Well, he was out the rest
of that game. Okay, people are very concerned.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, I would now with a huge black guy the
next game, right, Yeah, well if that, if that's the.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Case, you would think that.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And I know how difficult it is because you have
the shifts, were guys coming on and off the ice.
You can't put a protective glass because that would deter
them from.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Being able to get over.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
You're gonna make everyone go out that little door. You
can't do that, Nick. This is a man sport. It
saysn't football.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Hey, man, say what you want, like, I like my teeth,
see somebody, these hockey guys, no teeth.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
In their mouth. Yeah, I'm good on that. I like
my teeth. I don't want to have to. I don't
even get full replacements or whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You got full thirty two veneers in your mouth that
you're expensive, that'll be yes, insane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You're dating. You gotta put your teeth out. And now
I mean to be blurred to that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I don't know, going through emotional relationship turmoil, that they
would bring tears to your eyes?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Can we say that soft rock? I don't think all
soft rock has to be sad?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh yeah, I don't be sad to be soft like
you know. I mean, I think it's self explanatory as
far as that goes, I don't know. I mean, I
just love music, so I mean look wrong, I do too,
But it's I don't know. I don't know where to classify.
In your eyes, that might be soft rock. It's a
soft rock song. I wouldn't classify Peter Gabriel that soft rock.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
But that is a soft rock song, okay, I mean
like that's all by Genesis Banger Yeah, yes, it's a banker.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't know anyway. Sad news today Craig Morton passed away.
You gotta see that, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, I saw that, and I posted something on social
media as soon as I saw that. And I have
to tell you, like, last year, the Broncos honored Super
Bowl fiftyeen and a lot of legends there and Craig
Morton's there. So I was debating whether I should bring
my box of football trading cards to that event, and
(29:33):
I said, you know, what, the hell with it? When
would I get a chance to see all of these
great Broncos in the same place at the same time.
So I had my cards, I was working the room
getting guys to sign it, and the last guy that
I got to sign it before I left was Craig Morton,
(29:53):
and man, he was so cool, he was so gracious.
I introduced my son to him or whatever. He told
me a nice, funny little joke. I can't tell you,
guys whatever, but it was funny then. But man, he
was from my experience with him in that moment, stand
up due. And I know this hits hard for a
(30:16):
lot of his teammates and a lot of members of
Broncos country, even some of those individuals who had a chance,
believe it or not to watch him play. So I'm
honored that I got a chance to meet him and
he was so gracious enough to sign my car.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, he was eighty three years old as he passed
away on Saturday. The announcement was was today, but he
passed away on Saturday. Morton was the fifth overall selection
of the nineteen sixty five draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
Spent his first four seasons as the backup for Don Meredith,
but was getting opportunities because of periodic injuries. Began to
starter at quarterback over Roger Staubach in sixty nine after
Meredith's unexpected retirement that he dislocated a finger of preseason,
(30:54):
I had missed the opener.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Eventually wound up with the New York Giants in seventy four.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Seventy five, and seventy six before coming to the Broncos
in seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
To eighty two, when he retired.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He was Comeback Player of the Year and Offensive Playoffs
the Offensive Player the Year nineteen seventy seven, obviously in
the Broncos Ring of Fame, First Team All American in
college and sixty four, First Team All Coast in sixty
three and sixty four at the Pop Warner Trophy in
sixty four and of course got a Super Bowl ring
in Super Bowl six.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Do you think, based on what Craig Morton was able
to do that this upcoming season there is maybe a
patch worn on a jersey or one of those little
stickers on the back of the player's.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Helmet to commemorate what Craig Morton has done for the organization.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, I imagine you'll get a little sticker on the
back of the helmet or something that feels about right.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I don't know about a jersey patch. I think they're
trying to sell those now.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know how they sold a mattress firm one for
the practice jerseys or whatever, So I would not be
I wouldn't be surprised if they did, like a sticker though,
that seems to make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You know this is this is crazy, man, And always
tell fans you know this.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
We all can be judgmental, have our own opinions of
athletes or celebrities. But I said, man, it's isn't it
better to just kind of remember a person for some
of the great things that they did, And if you
have one of those players who were great in community,
remember them for those particular moments And the reason I
say that ben because we know we all have an
(32:25):
exploration day, right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But I like to.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Remember the best of a person opposed to anything relative
to something critical that someone.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Said about them.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, I think we try to remember the best of
people in their passing, even if there are people we
didn't like or disagree with. I mean, there are a
few mega villains over the course of history that we
don't go without saying, right, But I think for the
most part, I think we try to remember fondly those
that passed and the good things about them.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I try to anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So Craig Morton is somebody that's it's gonna be missed
by Roco's Country. It was a big part of the
goes back then. We gotta hit a break.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
We'll be back after this
Nick Ferguson wearing Kansas City Chief shoes into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
No, they're not. I just showed you they're not Kansasity.
In the light down there, they looked yellow. But as
you as you pulled them up here, the gold.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
It's not my fault that you were somehow color blind, right,
These shoes are a certain color. And the reason I
wore them because they match the writing in my shirt.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's why they're not.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
And the the red on your But they certainly for
a moment there it looked like you.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Don't do that. You listen, mister Ferguson.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
See, that's something that I would expect from Ryan Edwards.
I would not expect that from you. Would you expect
that from Ryan? Although people would expect that from me.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
I grew up in Kansas Hit lived there twice, so
people would people would think, maybe, you know, I get
accused of being a Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Fan of once in a while because I grew up
when I was like six years old as a Kansas City.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Well.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The reason I say that about one Ryan Edwards because
when I would host on you know, Calbi Sports, he
would always look at my wardrobe and tried to quickly
make a coordination.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
With another team, even though he wears a lot.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Of silver, And I guess dark black and silver sometimes.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Gray and black. Fla, wow, you just really hated that keyboard.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
What's the difference between dark black and black as a color?
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Well, black is just kind of black, is kind of
a muted black.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Dark black is is uber black. I thought black was
the absence of color.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Black is Actually every color white is the absence of color,
Isn't it is the other way around?
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yes? No, I think you might be right, actually, because
you've seen.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Certain shirts that you buy. The color looks black, but
it looks like a muted kind of grayish dark gray,
seems like it's been distressed and washed so many times.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And then there is dark black.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
Apparently apparently it depends on whether you're talking about pigment
or light. Yeah, oh with light white is all the
colors combined with pignant?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
It's none of them. So there you go. This is
what people tune in for.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
This is the kind of all you were trying to
say is that Ryan wears Raiders colors.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Well, basically, Ryan wears a lot of colors.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
When you think about the colors of his shirts that
he wears, what was the precise.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Name plaid flannel flannel.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
I mean there's a lot of colors in that rainbow,
so he could represent almost the thirty one teams for sure.
So that's all I'm flavors and Ben just talking about
my shoes. No, they're not full of disclosure. It wasn't
getting a mess my hat, my NFFPA hat and the
logo in my shirt, and they are my San Francisco
forty nine.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Ers coaching shoes to be exact.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Okay, Because I was just gonna say, because I just
took the gold on the shoelaces for kind of a
brighter yellow when I was fixing the computer down there
before the show.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Oh yeah, I thought it was because I said, I thought.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
I was like, I was like, bro with these Ronald
McDonald's shoes on, because that's what it looked like a
French fry box.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And I'm like, and then I'm like, wait a minute,
are those cheese colors?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
But you know, to Ben's credit, the keyboard was out
and I was trying to figure out what was the issue,
and it seemed like somebody was disconnected. Ben actually like
a repair man crawled down there and connected it.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
So it's got a background in that much. Just act
like he has no idea what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
That's what.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, I do like to play that off so that
people don't expect more out of me. I did use
the own an IT company. I worked in computers in
the DD.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
So what he doesn't know is, though we know some
of the same people, and some of those people have
told me about Ben's abilities.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I don't know what you're talking about, right, I have
no clue what you could possibly be referred to say.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
So when I sit next to Ben and he tries
to dumb down certain things and go away over the
top of the others, I sit here with the smile
on the face.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Like I know you.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
You don't have to fool me. Yeah, I'm not the
one who's going to ask more of you exactly. I
might be the person, but Nick is not the person.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Well, I just you know, like I said, I like
to I set the bar low, so I always exceed expectations.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah, we know that about you, Ben.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I think we and members of Broncos Country.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
They figured that out. We'll see or yeah, starting to
figure starting to figure it out. Maybe speaking of.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Figuring out, you had a chance to U or did
you have a chance to go to see the Broncos
rookies this weekend?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Because I didn't get a chance to go.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I went to my son's second round of the playoffs
on lacrosse. Did they win, No, they didn't win, But
I'm happy for them, the school and the team for
exceeding it the way that they did. So I didn't
get a chance to go, but but I heard about
some of the things that actually took place, So you.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Could tell me what you saw.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Uh well, I mean, you get a limited window as
far as that goes, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Jonah Coleman looked all right.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Caleb Lohaner is a guy that got called out by
Sean payton a specifically for the progress that he has made,
which is interesting because the Broncos of course drafted two
tight ends Loner they drafted last year, and that room
is very crowded with Evan Ingram, Adam Troubn for sure
making the school. And then you've got uh nateh Nate
Adkins who's probably making it as the fullback h back,
(05:05):
and so now you've got one spot, you got two
guys you got drafted. You got Loaner in that mix
as well. And then there's of course, you know, Lucas
crawl and whatever else. But I would say that Jolie
looks like a good pass catcher but obviously needs to
work on the blocking. I would say that the kid
from Virginia's got real speed. Cam Ross, Yeah, he's got
real speed. Uh, there's there's there's advertised speed, and there's
(05:28):
real speed.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
He's got real speed. And so you know, and then Coleman.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Coleman looks every bit what he was advertised to be,
and it looks like he might might wind up be
as something here.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Is that the same thing that everyone said when they
first saw r. J. Harvey for the first time and
the Rickie tamp from a body standpoint.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, I didn't say that. I with with RJ. Harvey.
I was like, Okay, he's built thick, but he's also like,
you know, very.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
He's what Ben, he's what Look, he's.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
What if we were doing a movie about the Broncos
last year, he could be played by Peter Dinglish. Wow,
that okay, fine, Kevin Hart, that's even.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Did you say that's even lower? No?
Speaker 4 (06:12):
I did say that, Yes I.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Did, And I was trying to sit here and think
about what I could say, but what I wasn't going
to say.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
So no, I'm I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Which did you guys watched the roasted look he and
Kat Williams squashed their beef to say, that's the shortest
beef of all time.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Well not not no, not really that that beef went
off for a while. They went on for a long time,
but it was the shortest beef. Yes, But if you
haven't seen a Netflix special, go out and check it out.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Shane gillis one of one of my favorites. Uh, he
did a hell of a job. But I'm glad that
Kevin Hart and Cat Williams squashed it. But if you
keep calling the Broncos running backs what you would refer
to them, I will call them, you know, very.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Hmmm, vertically challenged.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Well that's one way to say it, but I would
say very stocky, cut from the same clu built thick.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look at me. I'm not trying to take that away
from anybody's built thick.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
They're all three like bowling balls with knives, you know,
I mean, they're just they're built squatty, but like they're
not you know, when I tower over you that's a problem.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
See, he's setting himself up, Grant, he's setting himself up
for failure now, because it's not like they're suddenly going
to hit.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
A gross spurt.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
You never know. They say milk does a body good.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I great plenty of it, And I'm not about
to get a gross spurt either. I'm just saying I
like end of the day, he looks what he looks
ever he catches the ball, well, he looks fluid. He's
built thick, and I think he's going to be a
bigger contributor. If you're a fantasy football guy. It depends
on how fast Coleman picks up the offense. Yeah, he
might temper your expectations for r J. H. It might
be Coleman get more, you know, and and r J
(08:04):
moves into more of that Reggie Bush Darren Sproles kind
of role in the Sean Payton offense. Assuming the Sean
Payton blueprint is still in effect, it could Davids Web
could do something.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
No, no, no, First.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
And foremost, the blueprint is still going to be an effect.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
E F E C T. Because that's not effect. I
think it's two s. Well, you get it.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I mean, I don't want to say too many f's
because I don't.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Want anyone to insinuate anything right. But the whole idea
is that it's not better than sorry. I did it
for effect. Okay, at least you didn't do the wrong offense.
(08:45):
At least. No, you can't do the right one. You can't.
You can't do that.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm point those words at all costs because I always
get them wrong, really, fact to effect.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I never had an issue with spelling, except for the
word ridiculous. I would I would ridiculously spell it in forever,
for the longest time, I would spell it wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay, what use just your syllables? Redict you like.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
I put me in there, so the eyes ridiculous, I
would ridiculous and I would spell I spelled it wrong
for so long.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Do you remember, like when you were in school, grade school,
the teacher, I don't know about you, guys, the teacher
would tell you put your hand underneath your chin and
that's how you kind of they taught you the syllables
of the words.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
To know.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
They did not do that at my school, you grant, no,
oh well they did. Yeah, like redict you us as
you go through the words.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
It kind of you when your chin drops.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
That symbolizes where there is multiple syllables. Granted, you guys
can't say.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
T he's trying it. Did it work?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, I guess see exactly. So can't just say the
word and hear how many syllables are?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, No, sounds like some Florida man stuff. What the
hell was Florida man? You know what they know? Florida man?
You never seen those accounts into Florida because you both
lived in Florida. I had not. You and I have
both lived in Florida. We both know. It's that you
know that there's some ridiculous people down there.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes, very true, right, I mean I thought you were
meaning that as like a like a hood teacher or
something like that, a teacher on on on.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
The side of the road, because I've never heard of
Florida man. You never heard Florida man. I'm to show
you this during the break.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like that's like collections of dudes like wrestling alligators
to get them off the highway and stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Florida dude, Florida man, you've never seen this.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's like going up to a seven eleven drunk and
naked and get arrested.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Yeah, wait wait, they used to call them something else, right,
what's that?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Well, there's that too, drunking man Florida man.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, no, no, no, they call that obstruction of justice,
right or better yet he's about to get arrested.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
What about that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Yeah, we're pulling that up in the break five six
six nine zeros a tec sign.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Somebody just asked if there's any schedule crumbs. I do
not have the schedule yet.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
I should have it tomorrow, so I'll start putting some
crumbs out at that point.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Schedule crumbs. I do not have the schedule as of
six fifteen, six sixteen, whatever it is right now? Can
I toss out really quickly? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I would love to see the Broncos play in their
first home opener.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Sure, Buffalo Bill. Everybody wants that. Everybody wants the Bills
rematching it all now, everybody wants.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Plus there they're the Bronco or they're the Saints North
now with Joe Brady and Pete Carmichael and you know,
and all that going on there.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
You got I think Dremid Jones is there. You have
some of the Broncos former coaches. Jim Leonard is there. Yeah,
Pete Carmichael is there.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I'm saying it's like the Saints, you know, Northeast or whatever.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That would be a huge game for so many reasons.
Knowing as though the Bills lost the game, almost won
the game right now, they're returning back to the scene
or the crime. That would be an awesome game to
open up the regular season at home for them.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
See the Bills have Jalen Virgil, Trent Sherfield. Oh gosh, honest,
Christian Mary.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, they got a bunch of They got a bunch
of former Bradley chubb Is on the Bills now, yeah, uh,
they got they got quite a few former Broncos over there.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
How to be one hell of a game.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I know it's going to be exciting, and I think
we are actually going to do our breakdown of the
schedule release this Thursday.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yeah, that's when the official release will happen on Thursday.
I'll probably get it tomorrow. I usually get it the
Tuesday late, either either late Tuesday or or midday Tuesday,
so you.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Know, real quick.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I want to go back to something that you said
making a comment about Loaner and how coach Peyton had
nothing but positive things to say about him. And how
he has improved since last year. That is something that
you expect for a guy who's been in the system
for a while, even though it was somewhat of a
struggle early on last year for him. You want to
(13:01):
see that that there's growth in the player's development and
to be able to go out and do that.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think Brandt has it here.
Speaker 5 (13:09):
I'll tell you stood out Caleb, Like he looks entirely
different in this camp. Now he was here in this
camp a year ago as a draft pick, but.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
He stood out. What is he doing better?
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Where everything everything? And in fairness to him, remember you
know that was a basketball prospect that had limited snaps
of a year and so one year into the program
and how he's moving, what he's doing, everything looks entirely different.
And so you know that learning curve and growth curve
(13:45):
was greater for someone who had far less experience maybe
than others, if that makes sense. Like he it's entirely
noticeable and he's in great shape. You see his athleticism.
And I would say the one thing that you don't
know is you know when Bill used to say, you know,
if they don't bite when their puppies, they're probably never
(14:06):
gonna bite, but there's a physical aspect to the way
he plays, and you know, even on loop team last season,
you know he'd play an outside linebacker rushing our tackles.
I mean, he's six seven, two hundred and sixty five
pounds like and he's not afraid of the contact. So
it's been good to see him, you know, in year two,
(14:27):
and you knew that it was going to be a
developmental upside, but that was encouraging.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
John Bayden going out of his way to talk up
Caleb Loaner.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Well, with him going out of his way, I find
it hard to believe that Loaner will find himself on
an outside once his roster is finally put together. Obviously,
things can change once we get the pass on and
get the training camp and we started playing with a.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Lot of preseason games.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
But you got to think if Loaner was one of
those guys that the Broncos wanted to, let's just say,
hide on the practice squad, having coach Payton speak very
highly of him in his second season is not going
to do that. Now he's gonna be somewhat on the
radar and everyone's gonna be paying attention to him.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, and that's that's sort of one of the things
I think. You know, as we look at these this
tight end room is very crowded. They're not gonna be
able to keep all these guys. Like I said, Troutman
and Ingram are gonna be here by virtue of the money.
Adkins is probably here because they don't really have another
fullback except for Adam Pretties, and he can do he
can do both play the each back, full back, a
(15:32):
little bit of tight end. And then you drafted justin
Joe Lee and Dallon Bentley. Now Bentley you can probably
sneak through the practice squad and you've got Loner and Krawl,
So you've got six guys for four positions.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Two of these guys are going to have to go
by by and what that means Lucas Croll is probably
one of them, and Dallan Bentley you sneak him through
to the practice squad. Okay, Well, that problem is that
leaves you five tight ends. You still have to get
rid of one of these. Well, here's a great part
of it. We are very early in the process and
you can write everything player in n pencil.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Some guys Obviously we know who you can write in
as far as on a depth chart and pen but
there's not to say that, ay, you know, the team
may not look to move a Adam Truttman or a
Nate Atkins if some.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Of these younger tight ends do play well.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
And here's another flip side of coach Peyton speaking very
highly of loaner, Right, I know I just said, well,
usually when you do that, you're not probably gonna get
rid of that guy, but sometimes you can speak him up.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Trade trade yeah, right, But it all.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Depends on what some of these other veteran guys do.
Because here's the law of the land when it comes
to the NFL. If you have a younger, inexpensive guy
that's playing equally or higher than a veteran player, in
most cases, they're gonna go with the less expensive.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Player, the younger guy who they say, you know, because
there's a perception of potential and they're cheaper the potential.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Is there a difference between potential and projection? There's those
are two different words.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Yeah, but I mean they if you're a twenty three
year old who's cheaper and you're out playing a veteran,
they're gonna say, we're keeping you because he has a
higher potential pinil to grow. Uh, And he's cheaper versus
a thirty year old who's playing at a certain level.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
They're just that's just the nature of the beast.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
And you know what else I thought about listening to
coach Bayton talk about Loaner.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
He talked about.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Him from a conditioning standpoint, but he also talked talked
about him from a physical visual standpoint.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
What his body now looks like. I'm not saying that he.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Was warret last year, but for a coach to speak
of a particular player and speak to his physical visibility
and attributes, I say that maybe he's kind of I
don't know, sending at a message subtly. So maybe some
of the other guys you gotta work harder.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
Yeah, well, I mean that's obviously what this room at
this point says. Because there's gonna be there's gonna be
some cuts. You're only gonna be able to keep four
of these guys one way or the other. You gotta
have to figure that out.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Five six, six, nine year olds.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
A text linedy monuments is I and everyone I was
the Patriots first rematch for bow instead of Jared Stidham.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
By the way, Draymond is in New England. That's from
d Y and Monument. I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I thought it was a little off on that, but no,
I don't want New England right off.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
The bat that AFC championship. It's not going to change
a damn thing. Fans feel better.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
It's really oh you you beat him in the game.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
That really didn't mean anything to start up the new year.
That's not gonna change. The regular season doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
Week one, Yeah, week one matters, but playing that game
week one doesn't it because it's not gonna change the
outcome of twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
All this this earlier, this season, it's not gonna change it.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I ain't gonna give the bad taste of the way
the last season ended out of the fans mouth.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Well, you know, it gets the bad taste out of
your mouth.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Nice Chris cold Martin Elly's Yeah, so does a mouthwash?
Well no, not if you have kinker sores e and
it burns ew. I've never had those, Not of.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
The neither do speaking years you're speaking your vast experience. No,
I'm just saying I've heard that before. I've heard it.
I heard he was a great fun I heard we
gotta take a break, Brouckles cutry Knight back after this
can't wait talk show host? Say his name?
Speaker 4 (19:11):
You mean like the Midnight No, that's uh any music
with a saxophone, and it is an instant classic.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You're not gonna You're not gonna drag me down, Grad Smith,
It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Well, why don't you say his name? Whoever that host is.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, I'm just I'm saying generically, if anyone didn't like
Journey and spent two weeks on this program one time
trying to call them light rock, well you know what
I'm it's not gonna call any Ryan Edwards out specifically there.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I'm gonna leave it up to the listeners to figure
out who I'm talking about. And here's the thing.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
When I was bumming a little Journey walking in, you know,
a little separate ways, Ryan was bumping his head. I
even dapted him up like he was like, yeah, that's it,
that's a band. Until Ben told me the story how
Ryan looks at the group and I'm like, no, no, no,
I'm taking my dad back.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
He came in dapping you up for Journey. I'm like,
wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
We get two weeks on this program about how much
you hate Journey, how much they suck.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
You don't get to play a cool Now.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
Maybe that's just he's not too familiar with their catalog,
you know, because if you hear, don't stop believing that
feels like a soft rock song.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
That is a that is a piano power ballad.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, karaoke state soft rock, piano power ballad and soft rock.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Oh my goodness, no, that's not soft rock, a piano
power like Nate Jackson on his way out, he thought
he called it yuat rock. I'm like, oh no, no, no, no,
that is also it's yacht right, No it's not. No,
it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Christopher Cross yacht wa rock, Michael McDonald little yacht rock ish,
but not Journey.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Come on, man, I'll do that. I will say before
the show, I was trashing on Journey. They do. They
do have some great songs. H wheeling the sky top tier.
You start using your little fingers, who just start checking
their catalog.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Huh.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
More than words is soft rock. I didn't even know
what that is. More than it's guarante the system.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
It's more than words guarantee in the system was the
two brothers with long hair.
Speaker 2 (21:10):
Yeah, I think a bunch of Yeah, it's extreme. I think.
Is that the band that's soft rock? That is soft rock?
Duncan Chic is soft rock. I even asked him about
Billy Idol.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I know Billy Idols like pop, but it's not soft rock.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Yes, Johnny, Billy Idol is more rock than you know.
The Dave Matthews band.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yes, I let's put Matthews closer to folk music than
I would. It's not really folk, but there's cross over there. Americana.
I'm saying the genre of music.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Wait, wait, wait, would that be the same genre as
Hoody in the Blowfish?
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Yeah, Americana, Yeah, I'm only in.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
The Blowfish that was still not quite I don't know
if that's rocker or noted. That straddles right on the
very edge.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
They're like almost country, closer to southern rock than they
are in country. Say, it's closer to southern rock than
it is to they were so close to the country.
Just decided to get rid of the rest of the bank.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Darius Rucker did get rid of the rest of the band,
and he cut an R and B album that he
wishes everyone would forget because that album was horrible.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Must have been horrible, so bad.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
It was Aristruck's first first album after putting the Blowfish,
was this R and B album, and it was terrible.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Not be terrible.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I'll say this for Darris Rucker, he's very smart because
here's what I know. When it comes to music, there's
certain fan bases of genres that are dedicated.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
And committed, some even more than others.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
So when I think about all the genres Americana whatever
you want to call us in there, country music fans
are dedicated.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
All you gotta do is go steal a classic and
cover it and you can make a name for yourself.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
I mean you think about look about jelly Bean. Jelly
Bean baran same body type.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
No, No, he's lost weight. Though he's lost weight. He's
lost weight he has so you can't to him. You
can't call him jelly roll anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
He still got some jelly rose. He's a jelly No,
you can't even call him that anymore. He still got
some jelly rolls.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Whole week toast two hundred pounds less than he was,
but he's still a rather large, big fella. Yeah, So anyway,
so Dari's record cut this album called the Return of
Mongo's Slade and it was horrible. It never got released
by the label, but an independent label got the Masters
or whatever and released it and called the album back
to Then and released.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
It in two thousand and two.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
What was the title of that again, Well, the original
title the album was the Return of Mongo's Slade.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
That sounded like a character from Heathcliff. It sounds like
a character from like Shaft. And he got the chaft
with that album.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Yeah, somebody I can't remember, think it was a who
was the name that label, like Hidden Beach, I think
got the Masters from Atlantic and then released him his album.
But you can find it if you search back to
Then as the album. That's that's the album was retitled.
Somehow they got the masters to see.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
You are a man of multiple duties or versatilities, right,
and I would think that a man of your music,
who tastes and as well as you are musically inclined,
that you would be able to appreciate some of this stuff.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I do appreciate it. They're all talented. They're all much
more musically talented than I am.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, I mean that all three of us. I'm just saying,
not all of it's my taste. Okay, that's good, that's
you know what, that's fair enough.
Speaker 3 (24:48):
That's a whole lot better than what Ryan air was
gave me, like you know, in my phase high five
and me shaking my hand, making me seem like.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Oh yeah, oping you up, yeah, and then you like
find out it was just it was whole time he
gasped me up.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Ran.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
I know you're driving around Denver listening.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
If you want to call in text into the show
to I don't know, stake your claim or just kind
of change the narrative, you can't right now.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Your name is Mond because you lied to me. Man,
we got we got the microphones here. We'll just cut
him off. We don't like lead. Can you win in
the argument. We'll just cut him off.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
God darn it.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Ryan.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Oh yeah, that's right. You get his point at the
end of the segment. I know, I know, I was like,
oh okay, I'm on to your game now.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
Oh my goodness, the wild are up one nothing on
the apps, seven forty four left in the first period
on that one.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
So we'll see, uh, we'll see what happened. Color of
course leads series two to one.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I didn't see which player it was for the Abs,
but they got a four minute penalty, four penalty because
they jabbed their sticking to the side of the neck
one of the Wild players while they.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Were both on the ground. Maybe the Colorado players need
to be called the wild because that's wild. Good lord geez,
talk about brush like they had, like they took the
the other end of the so like he had.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
They were both on the ground kind of wrestling, and
then the AVS player just took the side of the
like the butt end of his stick and handed it
into the guys.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
And they let you fight. But once someone goes to
the eyes, correct, it's supposed to stop it. Yep.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
So they went to a review and then they saw
him jab his stick into the neck of the other
guy and gave him a four minute penalty.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Can't that's the next level stuff? Yeah? Like are we are?
Speaker 3 (26:42):
We?
Speaker 2 (26:43):
Are we the batties? Are we? The dirty players? See?
That's why people will always say that football is dangerous.
I'm not not not like hockey.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Like you got knives strapped to your feet and a
reapers size that you're.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Out there, they could put you into the glass.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
You gotta you got knives strapped to your feet, a
bow staff you're running around the rink with.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I mean he's.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
And then and then there's the puck and hit you
in the face too, didn't somebody didn't the.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
Coach lose teeth or something like that. Recently he almost
lost his eye. Oh that's what was schir Ben already
got hit right in the face. O lord, where's the
protective glass? In typical hockey fashion, though it was back
the next game on in the they're just back of
the bikes any time. Well, he was out the rest
of that game. Okay, people are very concerned.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
Yeah, I would now with a huge black guy the
next game, right, Yeah, well if that, if that's the.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Case, you would think that.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
And I know how difficult it is because you have
the shifts, were guys coming on and off the ice.
You can't put a protective glass because that would deter
them from.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
Being able to get over.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
You're gonna make everyone go out that little door. You
can't do that, Nick. This is a man sport. It
saysn't football.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Hey, man, say what you want, like, I like my teeth,
see somebody, these hockey guys, no teeth.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
In their mouth. Yeah, I'm good on that. I like
my teeth. I don't want to have to. I don't
even get full replacements or whatever.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
You got full thirty two veneers in your mouth that
you're expensive, that'll be yes, insane.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
You're dating. You gotta put your teeth out. And now
I mean to be blurred to that.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
I don't know, going through emotional relationship turmoil, that they
would bring tears to your eyes?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Is that?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Can we say that soft rock? I don't think all
soft rock has to be sad?
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Oh yeah, I don't be sad to be soft like
you know. I mean, I think it's self explanatory as
far as that goes, I don't know. I mean, I
just love music, so I mean look wrong, I do too,
But it's I don't know. I don't know where to classify.
In your eyes, that might be soft rock. It's a
soft rock song. I wouldn't classify Peter Gabriel that soft rock.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
But that is a soft rock song, okay, I mean
like that's all by Genesis Banger Yeah, yes, it's a banker.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
I don't know anyway. Sad news today Craig Morton passed away.
You gotta see that, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Yeah, I saw that, and I posted something on social
media as soon as I saw that. And I have
to tell you, like, last year, the Broncos honored Super
Bowl fiftyeen and a lot of legends there and Craig
Morton's there. So I was debating whether I should bring
my box of football trading cards to that event, and
(29:33):
I said, you know, what, the hell with it? When
would I get a chance to see all of these
great Broncos in the same place at the same time.
So I had my cards, I was working the room
getting guys to sign it, and the last guy that
I got to sign it before I left was Craig Morton,
(29:53):
and man, he was so cool, he was so gracious.
I introduced my son to him or whatever. He told
me a nice, funny little joke. I can't tell you,
guys whatever, but it was funny then. But man, he
was from my experience with him in that moment, stand
up due. And I know this hits hard for a
(30:16):
lot of his teammates and a lot of members of
Broncos country, even some of those individuals who had a chance,
believe it or not to watch him play. So I'm
honored that I got a chance to meet him and
he was so gracious enough to sign my car.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, he was eighty three years old as he passed
away on Saturday. The announcement was was today, but he
passed away on Saturday. Morton was the fifth overall selection
of the nineteen sixty five draft by the Dallas Cowboys.
Spent his first four seasons as the backup for Don Meredith,
but was getting opportunities because of periodic injuries. Began to
starter at quarterback over Roger Staubach in sixty nine after
Meredith's unexpected retirement that he dislocated a finger of preseason,
(30:54):
I had missed the opener.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Eventually wound up with the New York Giants in seventy four.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Seventy five, and seventy six before coming to the Broncos
in seventy seven.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
To eighty two, when he retired.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
He was Comeback Player of the Year and Offensive Playoffs
the Offensive Player the Year nineteen seventy seven, obviously in
the Broncos Ring of Fame, First Team All American in
college and sixty four, First Team All Coast in sixty
three and sixty four at the Pop Warner Trophy in
sixty four and of course got a Super Bowl ring
in Super Bowl six.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Do you think, based on what Craig Morton was able
to do that this upcoming season there is maybe a
patch worn on a jersey or one of those little
stickers on the back of the player's.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Helmet to commemorate what Craig Morton has done for the organization.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Yeah, I imagine you'll get a little sticker on the
back of the helmet or something that feels about right.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
I don't know about a jersey patch. I think they're
trying to sell those now.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
You know how they sold a mattress firm one for
the practice jerseys or whatever, So I would not be
I wouldn't be surprised if they did, like a sticker though,
that seems to make sense to me.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
You know this is this is crazy, man, And always
tell fans you know this.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
We all can be judgmental, have our own opinions of
athletes or celebrities. But I said, man, it's isn't it
better to just kind of remember a person for some
of the great things that they did, And if you
have one of those players who were great in community,
remember them for those particular moments And the reason I
say that ben because we know we all have an
(32:25):
exploration day, right.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
But I like to.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Remember the best of a person opposed to anything relative
to something critical that someone.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Said about them.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, I think we try to remember the best of
people in their passing, even if there are people we
didn't like or disagree with. I mean, there are a
few mega villains over the course of history that we
don't go without saying, right, But I think for the
most part, I think we try to remember fondly those
that passed and the good things about them.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
I try to anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
So Craig Morton is somebody that's it's gonna be missed
by Roco's Country. It was a big part of the
goes back then. We gotta hit a break.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
We'll be back after this
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Hey Jonas! The official Jonas Brothers podcast. Hosted by Kevin, Joe, and Nick Jonas. It’s the Jonas Brothers you know... musicians, actors, and well, yes, brothers. Now, they’re sharing another side of themselves in the playful, intimate, and irreverent way only they can. Spend time with the Jonas Brothers here and stay a little bit longer for deep conversations like never before.