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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Dick Ferguson Gretsmith here with you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Don't you complain some more? Because I think Grant is
he looks like he's hungry, and my stomach over here
is giving me to go. So maybe you complain a
little more.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Did he gets some free foods, just like the time
when I complained and we got we got to taste.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, I always chocolate dong. Well, uh, wasn't that exactly?
Wasn't that was what happened? Well, that's kind of what happened.
But I like the way I phrased that. I didn't
and I didn't take part of any of that, none
of that.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I hate the little tarts that they the fruit tarts,
but I didn't take part in that other thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Why didn't you have any alleys? Because I love the
tart delightful he left off. I had the whole always
chocolate dong in my mouth, the whole thing. Yes, and
he has to like it too. Yeah, it was good,
It was it was good. I will say, Well, the
reason he's a legend I had to take the whole thing,
I guess I don't know. I leave that between you two.
That sounds like you have some insecurity problems. If you
(01:01):
can't eat a little bit of the chocolate dong. No,
it's a it's a preference. Uh. I like the tart.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The fruit tart that the like the vanilla dong instead. Well, no,
I like the tart fruit tart. I didn't have one
of those. By the way, I did have one of
those day Lacy brought. So so why don't you bachelor, Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Get us a free fool man. I'm working on it
right now. I'm working on it with that phone or
whatever I already got. They've already reached out on Twitter
because they're like, oh god, so yeah, yeah, when you
have that many followers and you're complaining people, people tend
to That's the one thing. It is the one thing.
I will say that having the largest sports Twitter account
(01:46):
in Denver has been beneficial for if I ever have
a complaint and I tweet about it. Businesses are responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, listen, this is the perfect time to squeeze all
your wet blanket out on this one here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Just kind of just let it rip, right, is it?
That's some free food. So hopefully next time the double
chicken is actually like double chicken. Yeah, if the ball's
gonna look like that, I don't even want it. Yes, yeah,
that was more of an illegal PiZZ man myself was
utterly ridiculous. So you know, I have not had their
food has a chance to steal me as a customer
(02:22):
for Chipotle if they were to bring some stuff in,
say tomorrow, Well.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's tomorrow, because we won't be Yeah, you love Queso, right,
I mean I used to love it before I got
this diet.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, whenever you quit doing this diet in a couple
of days in January, right, I'd be not lasting. I've
gone from one hundred and eighty five to one hundred
and fifty five pounds. You're weathering away to nothing. Well,
I once, I look like they're about to snap and hands.
That's exactly what. I didn't realize that a chest could
(02:53):
be cotton cave. But uh me, I've been living with
it for years. I just I just googled Christian Bale
a sheenised diet. But the legal beats Caso top knock
is it? Really? It's better than and that all their
locations have a full bar a really great margaritas. So
you see what you language? Did you do? Actually speaking
(03:15):
drinking a while?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Either, Yes, on this diet, I was researching like low
calorie beers or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
They quit making buds. Select fifty five low calorie beer.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, but selected we'll make alts like one hundred calories
basically for for a beer.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But Select fifty five was fifty five calories for a beer.
I was like, all right, now we're now, we're pretty
Now I can get, I can have. And it tasted
like you were just drinking carbon. Yeah, like water with
a little bit of a badas to your toilet water. Yeah,
you started there. You knows you don't even have to
start drinking. Wait a minute, to be fair, how don't
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drink beer? That was what you don't breaking alcohol?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That? Yes, that was ruined for me years ago. So
that was a perfect description right there, Grant. Like how
you talked about the beer and how it tastes that's
exactly what it tastes like on my palate, just like that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That's why I don't drink it. I love beer. I
am a fan. I'm a big fan. I didn't like
to I'll it. I did not like beer for the longest.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It took me past college to get to get to
liking beer. No, it was just one of it's like
it's one of those things that after a while, I
guess I finally like the taste, finally acquired or whatever
it was. And I think part of that was switching
from you know, regular just just regular beer to like, like,
I PAS that tastes like, you know, this tastes sort
of like my favorite tastes sort of like the grapefruit,
you know what I mean, Like, go to hops, they
taste grapefruity, you know, grape fruit. Yeah, I mean the
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good good, a good I PA has a little grep
fruit taste to it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The brecon ridge. What's it called? I should know this?
Spring forward? Spring forward? I p A grapefruit, I p
A Yeah. Okay, I'll have to check the time they
stock up studio. See, I'll bring you on. You know
what's really fun.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't drink alcohol and don't drink beer, but every
year we go to the beer fest and they come
over and they have these elaborate scents and orange and
hints of cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I get plastered on the company dime while you sit
there and watch.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, man, and all of me is like, that's all
of that sounds great, But it's like, Nate, Remember, you
don't drink so we're not going to take into So
I got to sit there and now watch you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Right, you live because you don't drink anymore. I don't
drink any less. And so you know, ain't he and
Coach mcconoe back then mean PAGs me PAGs. We got
a little heard actually, I mean I make jokes, make
it places, but we actually got a little bombed. Yeah,
they started drinking that like eighteen percent beers or whatever,
and I'm like, oh my god, we're on the air
(05:43):
for the last half hour. Liquor. It was ridiculous. That
last half hours was ridiculous. What do you mean, I'm
like a cold forty five? It was just what was that?
What was that thing? You didn't call it? Well, Nick
Pray never did it? Edward scissor hands, Edward forty hands? Yeah,
forty hands? What's that where you tape the two forties
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to your hands and you can't get them off until
you finished the two forty empty the bottles before the
duct tape them to your hands and you gotta drink them.
So you're just walking around with duck that you can't
use your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
First of all, I don't know who thought this up,
but they had to be bored as hell.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, you know what we should do. We should tape
some alcohol.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Amy any drinking game that's not you know, hey, watch
this from a bunch of board people and.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The worm would they do with the red cups? And
they bounced the ball? The yeah, does hey watch this?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
We we don't know the name of that game beer pong? No,
I don't. It couldn't be any more obvious. That's what
I said, the ones with the red cup when you
bounced the ball. Yes, I didn't know. I mean I
don't drink. I'm not a drinker. You went to college,
so what you never went to a party?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Wait, wait, I went to college. I saw a lot
of things. Right, I'll never tell, but I saw a
lot of things. I guess that was a long time ago.
That might have been before they invented beer pong.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Wow, gren you think we are?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's that's really low.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's like both parties were all done by candle lights
because running electricity had not been invented yet.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, lord out there and chase our own food. You
had to brew your own beer. Was I think there
was somebody on way off track. Now, it was somebody
that found they excavated one of these Roman sites or whatever,
and they like in the vase, I guess the DNA
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or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The chemical company, Well no, but like the inside of
the container it was beer. And so they replicated the
recipe to see and they basically got the got the
same recipe for beer that the ancient Romans were drinking
by by analyzing what was on the inside of one
of the urns or flasks or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Even do that. They also discovered remnants of psychedelic mushrooms
and marijuana. So people get messed up. And it's been
around the beginning of time. This sounded like some stone
and stuff. They had, you know, four thousand year old
beer recipe. I guess that that that was documented And
(08:07):
it was like a spiced barley brew that was fermenting
mash sour dough barley and it was so anyway, somebody's
got it and it tasted like and they seasoned it
with coriander and cuman so sour dough. Only that as
a bread. Oh, we just found a white people bread.
(08:28):
We were like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Twinsies there wait wait, wait, I I do that was
the best bread I do eat.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Soliday Okay, in.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
His description I said that he was describing that book
was in the beer. I was like, yeah, the only
sour dough I.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Will eat it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, coriander putting you put in your season with coriander
and east and cuman on your you sprik a little
bit on your sour dough.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You do eat like sour dough toast. And that's instead
of remember the cinnamon and sugar used to put on toast.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Instead of doing that, put coriander and east and cuman
on there. I promise you'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm gonna try that. I never tried.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It now, grant you you were not with us yesterday.
And I tell Ben that I eat mayo.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, we have a new washcloth racial line separating event mayonnaise,
except for on the opposite side of this one, I
don't eat mayonnaise. And he does. That makes me think
of undercover Prodo comes off and he shoots the hot
sauce on there. Yeah. Yes, wow, that was exactly. It
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was the first thing. I thought.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I was like, bro, this is this like the stereotype
here because he is like he put in the group
chat and I guess like one of his buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
He's just got a coworker that orders like double mayo,
I can do it then, and I can't. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
The only thing that the only use I have for
mayonnaise is the very tiny smear when I'm making grilled
cheese sandwiches. That's what you use instead of butter to
make grilled cheese sandwiches. Wh just a little bit, just
a little bit amount to if you don't like mayo,
why wouldn't you just use butter?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, But because I'm saying, like the may like, it
cooks off off this so it's like the oil.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And the egg, right, it cooks it off on the outside.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, you know, fancy in my older age, because my
mayo is like, uh like avocado oil.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Mayo is not that it's the best one. I don't
like avocados or male. So see, well, once again, the
more things that come out of Ben's mouth, the weirder
he is. I don't like avocados. A weird one. How
am I the weird one for not like a avocado
and mayonnaise because those are two great foods. You know,
has a lot of a lot of good fat in it.
(10:40):
I'm sure it does. Yeah, that's something you should be
eating on your die. Actually the double way. I needed
the protein to hit my my macros. The the but
avocado gets suggested to me all the time on my
diet thing. I just don't like it, so I don't work.
I don't like walkamo God and he's and he was
talking about me. Yeah, that we're trying to do here.
(11:02):
I see the pitt we're trying to do here was
like the front part of the Broncos schedule. As difficult
as hell. I'll trying to try to get through it.
You guys. It was always Dong Ben would be eating
it the whole thing, hate the whole thing, but the
entire thing in my mouth I love.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I love the facial expression of pure joy when he
laughs at that same joke.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh boy, he said something earlier and nick off air
in my ear was like, I'm such a child, just
cracking up trying to do stuff like.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That, Like it's like sick, Like there are times when
I try to do stuff like that, or or I
used to have themes where I try to sneak for
that night. I would try to sneak in the lyrics
to a song like Steve Kerr recently came out and
said that all year this past year, he'd been sneaking
Taylor Swift references into every one of his press conferences
and nobody picked up on it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Really well, maybe he should have been a little more
focused on winning games instead of trying to trick the
media with Taylor's sweat frail. But I mean, that's that
was something like when when Ryan was that I used
to do that every you know, every once in a
while a week, I'd have a theme and I would
slip like certain bands song titles and all my answers
or something, just just to be I've done that a
long time, he says, I have to do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You know, if this all night reminds me of what
the NFL did with Week one on the schedule, trying
to once again slip Taylor Swift under the radar, right
in our faces by having the Broncos play on the
road instead of at home.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I think I think we all know that this is
a thinly veiled effort to get shots of Taylor Swift, uh,
missus Kelsey, whatever the case may be, up there.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
In the h up there in the in the booth
Monday night. You know, she'll be Sunday night, right, because
you know she'll be there. Yeah, Monday night, Yeah, opening
Monday night game in Kansas City. Kelsey's back. Maybe it'd
been a little.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Different because Troy Aikman and Joy Joe Buck is on
it instead of Mike to Rico, because every time the
game is on Sunday Night Football, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Mike to Rico's problem, it's Chris Collinsworth.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well with both of them, they're both and just kind
of bringing up things about Taylor.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I want to watch the game. I paid to watch
the game, not her. I'm sure I bet she feels
the same way though. Honestly, like, quit freaking showing me.
She's popular enough, she doesn't need to be shown on
Monday Night Football. This is the NFL getting new fans.
This is the director of the broadcast, the aj intentionally
of our broadcast, yeah, saying hey, show Taylor Swift. She's
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cheering right now. Hey, this other famous person is with
Taylor Swift in the booth. See.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I can't prove this, but I feel as though since
this is Travis Kelsey's official swans on, which should have
been two years ago, they're gonna find ways to just
kind of squeeze every ounce of the juice out of it.
And that's why I said, this is utterly disrespectful to
the Denver Broncos, their ownership, and the players that they
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have to go on the role week one Monday night
Football Primetime and play the sneaking ketchup bottles.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Look, I end of the day, I think it works
out for the Broncos because best case scenario, Mahomes is
barely recovered from this thing, probably not his full on self.
And it's the best case scenario for Kansas City. And
you get that talking point peak one right. That's I'm
just saying, we're the team that won the division and
they're making us go to their house, and they're favored
to win the division again this year, even though they
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won six games last years. How great is it to
get that first win?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like you get guess yet, right, you don't have to
go back into Kansas City and you've.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Got all year to brag about we stole one in
your house.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I know, I know, and I may sound like a
pessimistic right now, but I can't help but think about
what the league has done in years pass because we've
seen the league, you know, they throw flags on Kansas City,
They mean the first half then.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That bad half. Oh no, they don't give them no penoties.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And how bad would it be for the Broncos to
go and lose that game on a penalty? Because remember
the Broncos did play them last year.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
They're allbeit Thursday Football.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And if it wasn't for Chris Jones jumping off size
Kassas City, when's that game?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah it's ten four hat not
so much, but I'm just putting out there, Hey, look
I I I am here for it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I also think that you know, Kansas City has had
some excuses for Broncos wins over them in recent you know,
oh we were starting a Luticon, Oh we were starting
Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So is a built in an excuse?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's what I'm saying. There's no built in excuse here.
I mean unless they start justin field goals and then
then there's a built in excuse.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But if I think they do have a built in excuse,
even if my homes is back it's not fully recovered,
then what you don't plan them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Right, because that's what they leading because he's because he's
better than justin fields.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And why did you sign justin Field to be a
backup because we wanted an excuse. That's all it is
to me. Broncos Countrynt's got a NFL six pack. We
come back. It's time for an NFL six pack. It's
time for the NFL six pa. I'm can'ite it inside.
You can't find anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Six in the top six NFL headlines. What well. With
the official NFL schedule release, also comes the schedule release
videos from the team's social media teams, and it is
a couple of interesting ones that came out this year.
I'll get to two of them with the first two stories.
(16:23):
The first one involves Trevor Lawrence and his hair. They
apparently cut it off. There was a fake video earlier
this year of him with short hair, but now apparently
it's real. The twenty six schedule release video focuses on
Lawrence's getting his haircut and it looks pretty legitimate. Then again,
who knows what is or is it real? And this
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inherently fake social media world we're all navigating. Even if
he did get his haircut, he has plenty of time
to grow it out again before the season starts. They
open the season with a visit from the Browns before
returning to Denver in Week two. Hopefully that game goes
a little differ this year for the Broncos. Is it
real that Trevor Lawrence cut off his majestic locks? And
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what are your expectations for the Jags this year after
they won the AFC South last year. I think they
have high expectations. I don't know if that's real or
AI or what.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I think it would be bold of Trevor Lawrence to
go into a barber and be like, heah, we got
a schedule release video.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Can you give me the Ellen de Generes, especially with
but her popularity nowadays. Oh yeah, See, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Not sure if that is legit or not, but here's
what we do know. If it is, that would mean
both Trevor Lawrence and CJ. Stroud both cut their hair
and their respective divisions. And I know sometimes it's said
that when women break up with individuals, they cut their
hair to kind of cleanse themselves. So maybe both quarterbacks
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are trying to cleanse themselves of the twenty twenty five
season and how it ended for them.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
See I could see that for CJ. Stroud, but Trevor
Lawrence had a pretty good year last year. Yeah, but
then yes, they didn't make it to their alre you
go That's why you catch your hair Two. The Chargers
always have great schedule release videos from their social media team.
This year it had two and a half or sorry.
(18:15):
It had three references to Mike Brabel and Diana Rossini
and one reference to bo Nix's ankle. The Halo theme
presentation by the Chargers makes three references to the story
of the offseason and the portion of the video devoted
to the week twelve Sunday night game against the Patriots.
A road sign says next photo gump one mile. Then
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a box emerges in the lower right corner of the
screen that says this and New York Post has sent
you a message. Finally, the credits include a reference to
the Spotify playlist that Internet Sluse discovered last month. Operation
playlist expands from a series of options with a reference
to the date on which the playlist emerged December eighteenth,
twenty twenty two, one day after Brabel's Titans lost their
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fourth game in a row, and none other than the Chargers.
Boat Nix's ankle took a shot. In the Halo themed video,
What do you think of this social media presentation from
the Chargers. He listen.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Man, So every single year I look forward to see
what the Chargers are doing. I don't know who in
the media digital apartment, but man, they're always ahead the curve.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They're top nots.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's always top notch. If they're not the top one,
they're in the top five. And what do you want
to do in not brun this country.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You have to knit. It's funny as hell. Yeah. I
thought some of them were pretty, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I thought the Fortnite one was was was okay, you know,
I mean, we didn't see malicious.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I get what they're doing. I thought the one with
the Diana Racimi pop up your post thing, I mean
I expected more jokes. We only got the one that
I've seen so far. Do you feel like I saw earlier?
Excuse me that Mike Kliss tweeted out that it seemed
like a cheap shot from the Chargers with the shot
at bowt Nix's ankle and it was too soon? Do
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you feel any any feelings towards that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I did not take it that way at all. I
was just like, come on, we got what would engage.
Now we can't afford to be soft and whiny about
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Anything, And this is saying for the same large man
Sean Payton uses that when they face the Chargers and say, hey,
they're making fun of your quarterback, let's go get them. Okay, fine,
But other than that, man, it's part of the process.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's part of his whole schedule. Release three. The NFL
did the Chiefs of favor, giving them an early off
week as Patrick Mahomes works his way back. The Chiefs
and Panthers have the earliest possible by getting an off
week and week five. Of course, Patrick Mahomes towards ACL
and LCL and his left knee December fourteenth against the
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Chargers and underwent surgery the following day. If he's not ready,
Mahomes could would only miss four games in six weeks.
Those four games are against the Broncos, Colts, Dolphins, and
Raiders to start the season, so it's not nearly as
bad as it could have been. The Cowboys and Cardinals
have the latest possible off week with their week bye
week coming in week fourteen. Where would you prefer to
(21:06):
have your bye week for your team? And doesn't Week
five seem too early to have a bye insane early,
but there.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Was some stuff they had to do with the schedule
this year. They had some weird things that they had
to do in order to make it work, and they
the scheduled didn't even get done until Tuesday afternoon. It
was funny because I saw, you know, the usual suspects
and people that claim and they've seen the schedule and
this kind of stuff, and like it wasn't even done
until Tuesday afternoon. Like that's how I know you're a fraud,
you know, kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
In fact, the teams didn't even get the schedule until
yesterday at noon Eastern, so you know, again and people
pretending that they got these things leaked that they didn't
get is always funny as far as the bye week goes, Yeah,
five is way too early. That's that's ridiculous. I don't
even understand at that point where we're doing. Although I'm
glad Kansas City is the uh air quotes beneficiary of that,
(21:53):
not US.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think it's always tough to have your bye week
that early. But you know, you make a great point,
Grant that maybe the league is trying to help Kansas
City out by giving them that by a week so early,
giving Patrick Mahomes time enough to heal.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And with that being said, this is why I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Believe that Patrick Mahomes will be available for that Week
one matchup at home Monday Night Football against the Denver Broncos.
And maybe they're playing it this way. If you happen
to lose, fine, if I've been to upset the Broncos,
even better. But it kind of sets the Chiefs up
for this major comeback towards the end of the season
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to add drama to the NFL football, like we need more.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You know. We talked a little bit about it earlier
with Susie Warden, but it seems like the Broncos have
the perfect bye week right right in the middle of
the schedule with Week ten.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's the sweet spot. Wee ten to twelve, it's the
sweet spot, I mean thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Okay, maybe after that it starts getting a little late,
you know. Four Well, the twenty twenty six regular season
kicking off with the same game that ended the twenty
twenty five postseason, with a Super Bowl rematch between the
Seahawks posting the New England Patriots. It's an interesting choice,
to say the least. The Super Bowl wasn't close, and
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that was at a neutral site in Seattle. What will happen?
The Seahawks have opened as three and a half point favorites.
Our guess is that it will move in Seattle's direction.
I think that's everyone's guests Beyond the game, of course,
the selection of the Patriots will bring prime time focus
to the Mike Rabel Diana Resini situation, wh they will
require NBC to deal with the same issue and at
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some point during the broadcast. It also opens the door
for a potential sit down by Rasinini with someone maybe
Mike Turco, who knows. What do you think of the
choice for a Super Bowl rematch in Week one? And
do you think the Patriots are on the same level
as the Seahawks this year even though they weren't in
the Super Bowl last year?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
No, they're not on the same level because they still
they being the Patriots have the same offensive line.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And if you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That somehow they're gonna get better over what a six
to eight month period, I don't know. It's possible that
he canna happen, But I don't want this game to
be anything about Mike Rabo, Dan and Russini. That is
something they did as consensing as adults.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Let's keep everything about the game, and we've seen this
all all.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You know, every single year there's always a rematch of
a playoff game that was I this spectacular, went bad
for one team. So I'm looking forward to seeing this
matchup between these two teams.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The Seahawks, you know, they lost Kobeak, they lost ken Walker,
but they did grab Generian Price.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's gonna be interesting to see what he looks like.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Interesting to see with Sam Darnold and with this offense
with the new offensive coordinat it looks like. I always
love Super Bowl rematches the next year because you can
really tell which team was, you know, hit the hot
streak and which team is built to last in those cases,
and usually it's the winner that tends to be built
to last.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So we'll see. Do you think that the Patriots win
the AFC East this year? No?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think I think Buffalo is probably the leader in
the clubhouse, But the Patriots, I think that's their competition.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Any New York the Jets are doing anything. No, I
don't think so either. Continuing with the schedule, week twelve
of the twenty twenty sixth season includes nine different NFL windows.
That's right, nine starts on Thanksgiving Eve with the Packers
at the Rams. On Thanksgiving, the Lions host the Bears,
the Cowboys host the Eagles, and the Bills hosts the Chiefs,
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and of course, as we know, on Black Friday, the
Broncos visit the Steelers. Next come the two traditional Sunday
afternoon windows with Patriots and Chargers in primetime week ends
on Monday Night with the Bucks hosting the Panthers for
five games to be played before Sunday morning, and the
usual Sunday Night and Monday Night windows. That leaves nine
games for the entirety of the Sunday Afternoon package, which
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underscores the reality that in recent years Sunday ticket has
become far less valuable than what it once was. Do
you think the NFL is doing too much with their
schedule and spreading out the games way too much? Yeah? Well,
Nick and I had this conversation the other day. I
absolutely think they're doing too much.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And in twenty twenty nine, when they opt out of
the current broadcast deals and they're trying to, you know,
micro package everything, Eventually, fans are gonna get tired of
paying for all these little you know, nickel and dime
for all these little things, and and they're.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Going to stop paying for it. And so it comes
a point where you reach it reach the breaking point.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And I would suggest the NFL is fairly close at
this point.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Well you think that the league is fairly at that
point where fans.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Will start to turn off.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The TV and stop watching games. I don't think so then,
because here's what we know. Everyone loves football, and that's
what the NFL banks on.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That the die hard.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Fans are going to remain die hard and loyal and
they're not going to change no matter what, because they
keep the league keeps testing offenses is one stream of
service at the next more games, more money, and guess
what fans whine. They can plain about it, but guess
what they do. They sign up for those freaking subscription.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
They're still watch them. Do you watch it? If you
guys have our own Sunday ticket, I've never purchased it
because I'm always here on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I had it for two years and I wound up
like it was one of those things where I'm like.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Okay, here's gonna came.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It came like half free with the DirecTV inter and
then when I got DirecTV, I just.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Got rid of.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, when I had the RECTV, I had it. But
then when it when it jumped over to uh you
YouTube and the price is escalate, I'm like, nah, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You know what I do love though, whenever the Broncos
aren't playing on the Sunday the Red Zone channel, Like,
there's nothing better than that. If the games that are
on for your market our garbage. You just click over
to the Red Zone channel and see all the touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, is it not going to be part of the
ESPN Plus package?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Now? I think it's included. Guess what you gotta pay
for that too? Well, not if you already have ESPN,
but if you don't have it. Six. The NFL does
not expect the Cardinals, Titans, Dolphins are Raiders to be
any good this season, and I don't think any of
us do either. They are the five teams without a
primetime game this season. Dolphins finished seven to ten last season,
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but signaled a rebuild with several big moves this offseason,
including their star wide receiver Jalen Model to our Denver Broncos,
the Jets, Titans, Raiders, and Cardinals all finished three to
fourteen last season. The one that doesn't make much sense
to me. The raiders exclusion from primetime is quite a
surprise given the presence of number one overall pick and
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future superstar in the league Fernando Mendoza and several big
name additions. Kirk Cousins, though, is expected to start the
season for the Raiders, so no firm date when Mendoza
will make his debut. What do you think about five
teams not getting a single primetime game? Well, those games.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That you have to earn, like, no one wants to
see dog of a games. Oh, let's be totally honest.
We want to be entertained. That's the idea. This is why,
once again, grant you're charging those high prices for streaming services.
At least you have stand alone games. At least made
it a really good game. So treated like Premier League
in soccer. Right, if your team is not performing well,
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you continue to be knocked down a couple of pegs.
So maybe this will entice some of those teams who
did not get any prime time games.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You know what play better?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I think this is interesting because of those five teams,
the Broncos play four of them, and they play five
games because to the Raiders twice.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So that you know that interests me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The only team that Broncos don't play that doesn't have
a frind time game is the Titans. Yeah, if you're bad,
you shouldn't. You know, nobody wants to watch. Nobody wants
to watch the Dolphins take on the Cardinals on Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I mean all times snoozer. Yeah, and all teams used
to get a Thursday night game. You used to. Thank god,
they don't do that. Yeah. And more they're just like
you know, and now with flexing and everything else. I mean,
you know, it's just kind of point itself.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I'm glad if you're a you know, you're a five
win team and you're projected to be a five win team.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Again, No, don't put them on a standalone game where
everybody snows.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
The entire schedule is designed around maximizing the viewership of
each of those games in prime time for their broadcast partners.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's the entire point they used.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They really do. They use AI for this, You can
look it up. They use AI to help out try
to try to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
All right, here's what I live by right as a parent.
You don't reward downstats, right, you don't. You're not playing well?
Why do Why do you want to subject fans to that?
Who want to do that?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Nobody wants to black that game out? Give us that
is an opportunity to flex some games.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Go flex you right out of the spot and put
someone else there.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, you know someone who was playing well the Avs
last night. And here's a couple of the goals under a.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Minute to us, yes and six stress makes us stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I love those calls. Courtesy of sports Net. Dude, they're
blowing that hole on like I can't hear now.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, like they had some uh some fret party in college.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Dude. You know I wasn't on the show last night,
as you know, and uh I got to go cover
the game last night. It was awesome. Like that was
the loudest I have ever heard ball arena. We were
we were sitting here.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Lamenting, Oh Grants taking care of his wife, you know,
at home, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That kind of stuff. The Ka Colorado social media feeds
that he was working. Yeah, hey, it's on the time sheet. Yea, yeah, hey,
and I ain't mad at you, but still he yeah.
We were all like, oh man, we're granted you don't
he's going to take care of his wife. All look
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at that.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Now he's out there watching playoff hockey. Watch the ass clinch, dude.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
They scored so many goals and it was like it
was like a minute and thirty yeah, yeah, we were
still here and we're like, well we lost this one.
Well okay. They tried to make it respectable. It was
so depressing during that first period, and almost halfway through
the second period, the Abs finally got on the board,
and then once they scored the second goal in the
third period, the place got alive. And when McKennon scored
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that game time goal after we pulled our goalie, that
place and I think it was maybe the shock factor,
like there was no way we were going to complete
the comeback and tie it up before overtime, and it
was just like people just lost their minds. It was
so much fun. Everyone besides me and the media road
that I was in left with like ten minutes ago
in the third period, I stuck it out and saw
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epic comeback.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
What was it like seeing that McKinnon go Live unreal
because that was that was just an incredible shot.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Uh so cool. Great you should have called out those
individuals who left early. No, I wouldn't. My name Ben
would do it. You know I would. So I'm just
saying I got a black vn eg T shirt with
your name on him. Ect BA con always double the protein.
When I'm on, I had the whole Elways chocolate dog
in my mouth. The whole thing best of us for
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the rest of us, was tearing families apart.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Come on,
Dick Ferguson Gretsmith here with you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Don't you complain some more? Because I think Grant is
he looks like he's hungry, and my stomach over here
is giving me to go. So maybe you complain a
little more.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Did he gets some free foods, just like the time
when I complained and we got we got to taste.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yes, I always chocolate dong. Well, uh, wasn't that exactly?
Wasn't that was what happened? Well, that's kind of what happened.
But I like the way I phrased that. I didn't
and I didn't take part of any of that, none
of that.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I hate the little tarts that they the fruit tarts,
but I didn't take part in that other thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Why didn't you have any alleys? Because I love the
tart delightful he left off. I had the whole always
chocolate dong in my mouth, the whole thing. Yes, and
he has to like it too. Yeah, it was good,
It was it was good. I will say, Well, the
reason he's a legend I had to take the whole thing,
I guess I don't know. I leave that between you two.
That sounds like you have some insecurity problems. If you
(01:01):
can't eat a little bit of the chocolate dong. No,
it's a it's a preference. Uh. I like the tart.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The fruit tart that the like the vanilla dong instead. Well, no,
I like the tart fruit tart. I didn't have one
of those. By the way, I did have one of
those day Lacy brought. So so why don't you bachelor, Yes, so.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Get us a free fool man. I'm working on it
right now. I'm working on it with that phone or
whatever I already got. They've already reached out on Twitter
because they're like, oh god, so yeah, yeah, when you
have that many followers and you're complaining people, people tend
to That's the one thing. It is the one thing.
I will say that having the largest sports Twitter account
(01:46):
in Denver has been beneficial for if I ever have
a complaint and I tweet about it. Businesses are responsible.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, listen, this is the perfect time to squeeze all
your wet blanket out on this one here.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Just kind of just let it rip, right, is it?
That's some free food. So hopefully next time the double
chicken is actually like double chicken. Yeah, if the ball's
gonna look like that, I don't even want it. Yes, yeah,
that was more of an illegal PiZZ man myself was
utterly ridiculous. So you know, I have not had their
food has a chance to steal me as a customer
(02:22):
for Chipotle if they were to bring some stuff in,
say tomorrow, Well.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
That's tomorrow, because we won't be Yeah, you love Queso, right,
I mean I used to love it before I got
this diet.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, whenever you quit doing this diet in a couple
of days in January, right, I'd be not lasting. I've
gone from one hundred and eighty five to one hundred
and fifty five pounds. You're weathering away to nothing. Well,
I once, I look like they're about to snap and hands.
That's exactly what. I didn't realize that a chest could
(02:53):
be cotton cave. But uh me, I've been living with
it for years. I just I just googled Christian Bale
a sheenised diet. But the legal beats Caso top knock
is it? Really? It's better than and that all their
locations have a full bar a really great margaritas. So
you see what you language? Did you do? Actually speaking
(03:15):
drinking a while?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Either, Yes, on this diet, I was researching like low
calorie beers or whatever.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
They quit making buds. Select fifty five low calorie beer.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Yeah, but selected we'll make alts like one hundred calories
basically for for a beer.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But Select fifty five was fifty five calories for a beer.
I was like, all right, now we're now, we're pretty
Now I can get, I can have. And it tasted
like you were just drinking carbon. Yeah, like water with
a little bit of a badas to your toilet water. Yeah,
you started there. You knows you don't even have to
start drinking. Wait a minute, to be fair, how don't
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drink beer? That was what you don't breaking alcohol?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
That? Yes, that was ruined for me years ago. So
that was a perfect description right there, Grant. Like how
you talked about the beer and how it tastes that's
exactly what it tastes like on my palate, just like that.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
That's why I don't drink it. I love beer. I
am a fan. I'm a big fan. I didn't like
to I'll it. I did not like beer for the longest.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
It took me past college to get to get to
liking beer. No, it was just one of it's like
it's one of those things that after a while, I
guess I finally like the taste, finally acquired or whatever
it was. And I think part of that was switching
from you know, regular just just regular beer to like, like,
I PAS that tastes like, you know, this tastes sort
of like my favorite tastes sort of like the grapefruit,
you know what I mean, Like, go to hops, they
taste grapefruity, you know, grape fruit. Yeah, I mean the
(04:36):
good good, a good I PA has a little grep
fruit taste to it.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
The brecon ridge. What's it called? I should know this?
Spring forward? Spring forward? I p A grapefruit, I p
A Yeah. Okay, I'll have to check the time they
stock up studio. See, I'll bring you on. You know
what's really fun.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
I don't drink alcohol and don't drink beer, but every
year we go to the beer fest and they come
over and they have these elaborate scents and orange and
hints of cinnamon.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
I get plastered on the company dime while you sit
there and watch.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, man, and all of me is like, that's all
of that sounds great, But it's like, Nate, Remember, you
don't drink so we're not going to take into So
I got to sit there and now watch you.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Right, you live because you don't drink anymore. I don't
drink any less. And so you know, ain't he and
Coach mcconoe back then mean PAGs me PAGs. We got
a little heard actually, I mean I make jokes, make
it places, but we actually got a little bombed. Yeah,
they started drinking that like eighteen percent beers or whatever,
and I'm like, oh my god, we're on the air
(05:43):
for the last half hour. Liquor. It was ridiculous. That
last half hours was ridiculous. What do you mean, I'm
like a cold forty five? It was just what was that?
What was that thing? You didn't call it? Well, Nick
Pray never did it? Edward scissor hands, Edward forty hands? Yeah,
forty hands? What's that where you tape the two forties
(06:05):
to your hands and you can't get them off until
you finished the two forty empty the bottles before the
duct tape them to your hands and you gotta drink them.
So you're just walking around with duck that you can't
use your hands.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
First of all, I don't know who thought this up,
but they had to be bored as hell.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Oh, you know what we should do. We should tape
some alcohol.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Amy any drinking game that's not you know, hey, watch
this from a bunch of board people and.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
The worm would they do with the red cups? And
they bounced the ball? The yeah, does hey watch this?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
We we don't know the name of that game beer pong? No,
I don't. It couldn't be any more obvious. That's what
I said, the ones with the red cup when you
bounced the ball. Yes, I didn't know. I mean I
don't drink. I'm not a drinker. You went to college,
so what you never went to a party?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Wait?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Wait, wait, I went to college. I saw a lot
of things. Right, I'll never tell, but I saw a
lot of things. I guess that was a long time ago.
That might have been before they invented beer pong.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Wow, gren you think we are?
Speaker 1 (07:01):
That's that's really low.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's like both parties were all done by candle lights
because running electricity had not been invented yet.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, lord out there and chase our own food. You
had to brew your own beer. Was I think there
was somebody on way off track. Now, it was somebody
that found they excavated one of these Roman sites or whatever,
and they like in the vase, I guess the DNA
(07:29):
or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
The chemical company, Well no, but like the inside of
the container it was beer. And so they replicated the
recipe to see and they basically got the got the
same recipe for beer that the ancient Romans were drinking
by by analyzing what was on the inside of one
of the urns or flasks or whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Even do that. They also discovered remnants of psychedelic mushrooms
and marijuana. So people get messed up. And it's been
around the beginning of time. This sounded like some stone
and stuff. They had, you know, four thousand year old
beer recipe. I guess that that that was documented And
(08:07):
it was like a spiced barley brew that was fermenting
mash sour dough barley and it was so anyway, somebody's
got it and it tasted like and they seasoned it
with coriander and cuman so sour dough. Only that as
a bread. Oh, we just found a white people bread.
(08:28):
We were like.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Twinsies there wait wait, wait, I I do that was
the best bread I do eat.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Soliday Okay, in.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
His description I said that he was describing that book
was in the beer. I was like, yeah, the only
sour dough I.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Will eat it.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, coriander putting you put in your season with coriander
and east and cuman on your you sprik a little
bit on your sour dough.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
You do eat like sour dough toast. And that's instead
of remember the cinnamon and sugar used to put on toast.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Instead of doing that, put coriander and east and cuman
on there. I promise you'll change your life.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm gonna try that. I never tried.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
It now, grant you you were not with us yesterday.
And I tell Ben that I eat mayo.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
Yeah, we have a new washcloth racial line separating event mayonnaise,
except for on the opposite side of this one, I
don't eat mayonnaise. And he does. That makes me think
of undercover Prodo comes off and he shoots the hot
sauce on there. Yeah. Yes, wow, that was exactly. It
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was the first thing. I thought.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I was like, bro, this is this like the stereotype
here because he is like he put in the group
chat and I guess like one of his buddy.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
He's just got a coworker that orders like double mayo,
I can do it then, and I can't. I can't
do it.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
The only thing that the only use I have for
mayonnaise is the very tiny smear when I'm making grilled
cheese sandwiches. That's what you use instead of butter to
make grilled cheese sandwiches. Wh just a little bit, just
a little bit amount to if you don't like mayo,
why wouldn't you just use butter?
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Thank you?
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Well, But because I'm saying, like the may like, it
cooks off off this so it's like the oil.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And the egg, right, it cooks it off on the outside.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
No, you know, fancy in my older age, because my
mayo is like, uh like avocado oil.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Mayo is not that it's the best one. I don't
like avocados or male. So see, well, once again, the
more things that come out of Ben's mouth, the weirder
he is. I don't like avocados. A weird one. How
am I the weird one for not like a avocado
and mayonnaise because those are two great foods. You know,
has a lot of a lot of good fat in it.
(10:40):
I'm sure it does. Yeah, that's something you should be
eating on your die. Actually the double way. I needed
the protein to hit my my macros. The the but
avocado gets suggested to me all the time on my
diet thing. I just don't like it, so I don't work.
I don't like walkamo God and he's and he was
talking about me. Yeah, that we're trying to do here.
(11:02):
I see the pitt we're trying to do here was
like the front part of the Broncos schedule. As difficult
as hell. I'll trying to try to get through it.
You guys. It was always Dong Ben would be eating
it the whole thing, hate the whole thing, but the
entire thing in my mouth I love.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
I love the facial expression of pure joy when he
laughs at that same joke.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Oh boy, he said something earlier and nick off air
in my ear was like, I'm such a child, just
cracking up trying to do stuff like.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
That, Like it's like sick, Like there are times when
I try to do stuff like that, or or I
used to have themes where I try to sneak for
that night. I would try to sneak in the lyrics
to a song like Steve Kerr recently came out and
said that all year this past year, he'd been sneaking
Taylor Swift references into every one of his press conferences
and nobody picked up on it.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Really well, maybe he should have been a little more
focused on winning games instead of trying to trick the
media with Taylor's sweat frail. But I mean, that's that
was something like when when Ryan was that I used
to do that every you know, every once in a
while a week, I'd have a theme and I would
slip like certain bands song titles and all my answers
or something, just just to be I've done that a
long time, he says, I have to do it again.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
You know, if this all night reminds me of what
the NFL did with Week one on the schedule, trying
to once again slip Taylor Swift under the radar, right
in our faces by having the Broncos play on the
road instead of at home.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I think I think we all know that this is
a thinly veiled effort to get shots of Taylor Swift, uh,
missus Kelsey, whatever the case may be, up there.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
In the h up there in the in the booth
Monday night. You know, she'll be Sunday night, right, because
you know she'll be there. Yeah, Monday night, Yeah, opening
Monday night game in Kansas City. Kelsey's back. Maybe it'd
been a little.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Different because Troy Aikman and Joy Joe Buck is on
it instead of Mike to Rico, because every time the
game is on Sunday Night Football, it's not.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Mike to Rico's problem, it's Chris Collinsworth.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well with both of them, they're both and just kind
of bringing up things about Taylor.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
I want to watch the game. I paid to watch
the game, not her. I'm sure I bet she feels
the same way though. Honestly, like, quit freaking showing me.
She's popular enough, she doesn't need to be shown on
Monday Night Football. This is the NFL getting new fans.
This is the director of the broadcast, the aj intentionally
of our broadcast, yeah, saying hey, show Taylor Swift. She's
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cheering right now. Hey, this other famous person is with
Taylor Swift in the booth. See.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I can't prove this, but I feel as though since
this is Travis Kelsey's official swans on, which should have
been two years ago, they're gonna find ways to just
kind of squeeze every ounce of the juice out of it.
And that's why I said, this is utterly disrespectful to
the Denver Broncos, their ownership, and the players that they
(13:52):
have to go on the role week one Monday night
Football Primetime and play the sneaking ketchup bottles.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Look, I end of the day, I think it works
out for the Broncos because best case scenario, Mahomes is
barely recovered from this thing, probably not his full on self.
And it's the best case scenario for Kansas City. And
you get that talking point peak one right. That's I'm
just saying, we're the team that won the division and
they're making us go to their house, and they're favored
to win the division again this year, even though they
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won six games last years. How great is it to
get that first win?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Like you get guess yet, right, you don't have to
go back into Kansas City and you've.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Got all year to brag about we stole one in
your house.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I know, I know, and I may sound like a
pessimistic right now, but I can't help but think about
what the league has done in years pass because we've
seen the league, you know, they throw flags on Kansas City,
They mean the first half then.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
That bad half. Oh no, they don't give them no penoties.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
And how bad would it be for the Broncos to
go and lose that game on a penalty? Because remember
the Broncos did play them last year.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
They're allbeit Thursday Football.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
And if it wasn't for Chris Jones jumping off size
Kassas City, when's that game?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah it's ten four hat not
so much, but I'm just putting out there, Hey, look
I I I am here for it.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I also think that you know, Kansas City has had
some excuses for Broncos wins over them in recent you know,
oh we were starting a Luticon, Oh we were starting
Carson Wentz.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
So is a built in an excuse?
Speaker 3 (15:27):
That's what I'm saying. There's no built in excuse here.
I mean unless they start justin field goals and then
then there's a built in excuse.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
But if I think they do have a built in excuse,
even if my homes is back it's not fully recovered,
then what you don't plan them.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Right, because that's what they leading because he's because he's
better than justin fields.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
And why did you sign justin Field to be a
backup because we wanted an excuse. That's all it is
to me. Broncos Countrynt's got a NFL six pack. We
come back. It's time for an NFL six pack. It's
time for the NFL six pa. I'm can'ite it inside.
You can't find anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
No.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Six in the top six NFL headlines. What well. With
the official NFL schedule release, also comes the schedule release
videos from the team's social media teams, and it is
a couple of interesting ones that came out this year.
I'll get to two of them with the first two stories.
(16:23):
The first one involves Trevor Lawrence and his hair. They
apparently cut it off. There was a fake video earlier
this year of him with short hair, but now apparently
it's real. The twenty six schedule release video focuses on
Lawrence's getting his haircut and it looks pretty legitimate. Then again,
who knows what is or is it real? And this
(16:44):
inherently fake social media world we're all navigating. Even if
he did get his haircut, he has plenty of time
to grow it out again before the season starts. They
open the season with a visit from the Browns before
returning to Denver in Week two. Hopefully that game goes
a little differ this year for the Broncos. Is it
real that Trevor Lawrence cut off his majestic locks? And
(17:05):
what are your expectations for the Jags this year after
they won the AFC South last year. I think they
have high expectations. I don't know if that's real or
AI or what.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
I think it would be bold of Trevor Lawrence to
go into a barber and be like, heah, we got
a schedule release video.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Can you give me the Ellen de Generes, especially with
but her popularity nowadays. Oh yeah, See, I'm.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Not sure if that is legit or not, but here's
what we do know. If it is, that would mean
both Trevor Lawrence and CJ. Stroud both cut their hair
and their respective divisions. And I know sometimes it's said
that when women break up with individuals, they cut their
hair to kind of cleanse themselves. So maybe both quarterbacks
(17:49):
are trying to cleanse themselves of the twenty twenty five
season and how it ended for them.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
See I could see that for CJ. Stroud, but Trevor
Lawrence had a pretty good year last year. Yeah, but
then yes, they didn't make it to their alre you
go That's why you catch your hair Two. The Chargers
always have great schedule release videos from their social media team.
This year it had two and a half or sorry.
(18:15):
It had three references to Mike Brabel and Diana Rossini
and one reference to bo Nix's ankle. The Halo theme
presentation by the Chargers makes three references to the story
of the offseason and the portion of the video devoted
to the week twelve Sunday night game against the Patriots.
A road sign says next photo gump one mile. Then
(18:36):
a box emerges in the lower right corner of the
screen that says this and New York Post has sent
you a message. Finally, the credits include a reference to
the Spotify playlist that Internet Sluse discovered last month. Operation
playlist expands from a series of options with a reference
to the date on which the playlist emerged December eighteenth,
twenty twenty two, one day after Brabel's Titans lost their
(18:59):
fourth game in a row, and none other than the Chargers.
Boat Nix's ankle took a shot. In the Halo themed video,
What do you think of this social media presentation from
the Chargers. He listen.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Man, So every single year I look forward to see
what the Chargers are doing. I don't know who in
the media digital apartment, but man, they're always ahead the curve.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
They're top nots.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
It's always top notch. If they're not the top one,
they're in the top five. And what do you want
to do in not brun this country.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
You have to knit. It's funny as hell. Yeah. I
thought some of them were pretty, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
I thought the Fortnite one was was was okay, you know,
I mean, we didn't see malicious.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
I get what they're doing. I thought the one with
the Diana Racimi pop up your post thing, I mean
I expected more jokes. We only got the one that
I've seen so far. Do you feel like I saw earlier?
Excuse me that Mike Kliss tweeted out that it seemed
like a cheap shot from the Chargers with the shot
at bowt Nix's ankle and it was too soon? Do
(19:58):
you feel any any feelings towards that.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
I did not take it that way at all. I
was just like, come on, we got what would engage.
Now we can't afford to be soft and whiny about
stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Anything, And this is saying for the same large man
Sean Payton uses that when they face the Chargers and say, hey,
they're making fun of your quarterback, let's go get them. Okay, fine,
But other than that, man, it's part of the process.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
It's part of his whole schedule. Release three. The NFL
did the Chiefs of favor, giving them an early off
week as Patrick Mahomes works his way back. The Chiefs
and Panthers have the earliest possible by getting an off
week and week five. Of course, Patrick Mahomes towards ACL
and LCL and his left knee December fourteenth against the
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Chargers and underwent surgery the following day. If he's not ready,
Mahomes could would only miss four games in six weeks.
Those four games are against the Broncos, Colts, Dolphins, and
Raiders to start the season, so it's not nearly as
bad as it could have been. The Cowboys and Cardinals
have the latest possible off week with their week bye
week coming in week fourteen. Where would you prefer to
(21:06):
have your bye week for your team? And doesn't Week
five seem too early to have a bye insane early,
but there.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Was some stuff they had to do with the schedule
this year. They had some weird things that they had
to do in order to make it work, and they
the scheduled didn't even get done until Tuesday afternoon. It
was funny because I saw, you know, the usual suspects
and people that claim and they've seen the schedule and
this kind of stuff, and like it wasn't even done
until Tuesday afternoon. Like that's how I know you're a fraud,
you know, kind of thing.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
In fact, the teams didn't even get the schedule until
yesterday at noon Eastern, so you know, again and people
pretending that they got these things leaked that they didn't
get is always funny as far as the bye week goes, Yeah,
five is way too early. That's that's ridiculous. I don't
even understand at that point where we're doing. Although I'm
glad Kansas City is the uh air quotes beneficiary of that,
(21:53):
not US.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I think it's always tough to have your bye week
that early. But you know, you make a great point,
Grant that maybe the league is trying to help Kansas
City out by giving them that by a week so early,
giving Patrick Mahomes time enough to heal.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
And with that being said, this is why I don't.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Believe that Patrick Mahomes will be available for that Week
one matchup at home Monday Night Football against the Denver Broncos.
And maybe they're playing it this way. If you happen
to lose, fine, if I've been to upset the Broncos,
even better. But it kind of sets the Chiefs up
for this major comeback towards the end of the season
(22:32):
to add drama to the NFL football, like we need more.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
You know. We talked a little bit about it earlier
with Susie Warden, but it seems like the Broncos have
the perfect bye week right right in the middle of
the schedule with Week ten.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
That's the sweet spot. Wee ten to twelve, it's the
sweet spot, I mean thirteen.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Okay, maybe after that it starts getting a little late,
you know. Four Well, the twenty twenty six regular season
kicking off with the same game that ended the twenty
twenty five postseason, with a Super Bowl rematch between the
Seahawks posting the New England Patriots. It's an interesting choice,
to say the least. The Super Bowl wasn't close, and
(23:11):
that was at a neutral site in Seattle. What will happen?
The Seahawks have opened as three and a half point favorites.
Our guess is that it will move in Seattle's direction.
I think that's everyone's guests Beyond the game, of course,
the selection of the Patriots will bring prime time focus
to the Mike Rabel Diana Resini situation, wh they will
require NBC to deal with the same issue and at
(23:34):
some point during the broadcast. It also opens the door
for a potential sit down by Rasinini with someone maybe
Mike Turco, who knows. What do you think of the
choice for a Super Bowl rematch in Week one? And
do you think the Patriots are on the same level
as the Seahawks this year even though they weren't in
the Super Bowl last year?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
No, they're not on the same level because they still
they being the Patriots have the same offensive line.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
And if you're telling me.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
That somehow they're gonna get better over what a six
to eight month period, I don't know. It's possible that
he canna happen, But I don't want this game to
be anything about Mike Rabo, Dan and Russini. That is
something they did as consensing as adults.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Let's keep everything about the game, and we've seen this
all all.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
You know, every single year there's always a rematch of
a playoff game that was I this spectacular, went bad
for one team. So I'm looking forward to seeing this
matchup between these two teams.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
The Seahawks, you know, they lost Kobeak, they lost ken Walker,
but they did grab Generian Price.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
It's gonna be interesting to see what he looks like.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Interesting to see with Sam Darnold and with this offense
with the new offensive coordinat it looks like. I always
love Super Bowl rematches the next year because you can
really tell which team was, you know, hit the hot
streak and which team is built to last in those cases,
and usually it's the winner that tends to be built
to last.
Speaker 1 (24:54):
So we'll see. Do you think that the Patriots win
the AFC East this year? No?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
I think I think Buffalo is probably the leader in
the clubhouse, But the Patriots, I think that's their competition.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Any New York the Jets are doing anything. No, I
don't think so either. Continuing with the schedule, week twelve
of the twenty twenty sixth season includes nine different NFL windows.
That's right, nine starts on Thanksgiving Eve with the Packers
at the Rams. On Thanksgiving, the Lions host the Bears,
the Cowboys host the Eagles, and the Bills hosts the Chiefs,
(25:30):
and of course, as we know, on Black Friday, the
Broncos visit the Steelers. Next come the two traditional Sunday
afternoon windows with Patriots and Chargers in primetime week ends
on Monday Night with the Bucks hosting the Panthers for
five games to be played before Sunday morning, and the
usual Sunday Night and Monday Night windows. That leaves nine
games for the entirety of the Sunday Afternoon package, which
(25:53):
underscores the reality that in recent years Sunday ticket has
become far less valuable than what it once was. Do
you think the NFL is doing too much with their
schedule and spreading out the games way too much? Yeah? Well,
Nick and I had this conversation the other day. I
absolutely think they're doing too much.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
And in twenty twenty nine, when they opt out of
the current broadcast deals and they're trying to, you know,
micro package everything, Eventually, fans are gonna get tired of
paying for all these little you know, nickel and dime
for all these little things, and and they're.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Going to stop paying for it. And so it comes
a point where you reach it reach the breaking point.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
And I would suggest the NFL is fairly close at
this point.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Well you think that the league is fairly at that
point where fans.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Will start to turn off.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The TV and stop watching games. I don't think so then,
because here's what we know. Everyone loves football, and that's
what the NFL banks on.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That the die hard.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Fans are going to remain die hard and loyal and
they're not going to change no matter what, because they
keep the league keeps testing offenses is one stream of
service at the next more games, more money, and guess
what fans whine. They can plain about it, but guess
what they do. They sign up for those freaking subscription.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
They're still watch them. Do you watch it? If you
guys have our own Sunday ticket, I've never purchased it
because I'm always here on Sundays.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I had it for two years and I wound up
like it was one of those things where I'm like.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Okay, here's gonna came.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
It came like half free with the DirecTV inter and
then when I got DirecTV, I just.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Got rid of.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Yeah, when I had the RECTV, I had it. But
then when it when it jumped over to uh you
YouTube and the price is escalate, I'm like, nah, I'm out.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You know what I do love though, whenever the Broncos
aren't playing on the Sunday the Red Zone channel, Like,
there's nothing better than that. If the games that are
on for your market our garbage. You just click over
to the Red Zone channel and see all the touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
Well, is it not going to be part of the
ESPN Plus package?
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Now? I think it's included. Guess what you gotta pay
for that too? Well, not if you already have ESPN,
but if you don't have it. Six. The NFL does
not expect the Cardinals, Titans, Dolphins are Raiders to be
any good this season, and I don't think any of
us do either. They are the five teams without a
primetime game this season. Dolphins finished seven to ten last season,
(28:11):
but signaled a rebuild with several big moves this offseason,
including their star wide receiver Jalen Model to our Denver Broncos,
the Jets, Titans, Raiders, and Cardinals all finished three to
fourteen last season. The one that doesn't make much sense
to me. The raiders exclusion from primetime is quite a
surprise given the presence of number one overall pick and
(28:32):
future superstar in the league Fernando Mendoza and several big
name additions. Kirk Cousins, though, is expected to start the
season for the Raiders, so no firm date when Mendoza
will make his debut. What do you think about five
teams not getting a single primetime game? Well, those games.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
That you have to earn, like, no one wants to
see dog of a games. Oh, let's be totally honest.
We want to be entertained. That's the idea. This is why,
once again, grant you're charging those high prices for streaming services.
At least you have stand alone games. At least made
it a really good game. So treated like Premier League
in soccer. Right, if your team is not performing well,
(29:10):
you continue to be knocked down a couple of pegs.
So maybe this will entice some of those teams who
did not get any prime time games.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
You know what play better?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
I think this is interesting because of those five teams,
the Broncos play four of them, and they play five
games because to the Raiders twice.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So that you know that interests me.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
The only team that Broncos don't play that doesn't have
a frind time game is the Titans. Yeah, if you're bad,
you shouldn't. You know, nobody wants to watch. Nobody wants
to watch the Dolphins take on the Cardinals on Thursday
night football.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
I mean all times snoozer. Yeah, and all teams used
to get a Thursday night game. You used to. Thank god,
they don't do that. Yeah. And more they're just like
you know, and now with flexing and everything else. I mean,
you know, it's just kind of point itself.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
I'm glad if you're a you know, you're a five
win team and you're projected to be a five win team.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Again, No, don't put them on a standalone game where
everybody snows.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
The entire schedule is designed around maximizing the viewership of
each of those games in prime time for their broadcast partners.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's the entire point they used.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
They really do. They use AI for this, You can
look it up. They use AI to help out try
to try to do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
All right, here's what I live by right as a parent.
You don't reward downstats, right, you don't. You're not playing well?
Why do Why do you want to subject fans to that?
Who want to do that?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Nobody wants to black that game out? Give us that
is an opportunity to flex some games.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Go flex you right out of the spot and put
someone else there.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Well, you know someone who was playing well the Avs
last night. And here's a couple of the goals under a.
Speaker 5 (30:43):
Minute to us, yes and six stress makes us stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
I love those calls. Courtesy of sports Net. Dude, they're
blowing that hole on like I can't hear now.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Yeah, like they had some uh some fret party in college.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Dude. You know I wasn't on the show last night,
as you know, and uh I got to go cover
the game last night. It was awesome. Like that was
the loudest I have ever heard ball arena. We were
we were sitting here.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
Lamenting, Oh Grants taking care of his wife, you know,
at home, all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
That kind of stuff. The Ka Colorado social media feeds
that he was working. Yeah, hey, it's on the time sheet. Yea, yeah, hey,
and I ain't mad at you, but still he yeah.
We were all like, oh man, we're granted you don't
he's going to take care of his wife. All look
(32:09):
at that.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
Now he's out there watching playoff hockey. Watch the ass clinch, dude.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
They scored so many goals and it was like it
was like a minute and thirty yeah, yeah, we were
still here and we're like, well we lost this one.
Well okay. They tried to make it respectable. It was
so depressing during that first period, and almost halfway through
the second period, the Abs finally got on the board,
and then once they scored the second goal in the
third period, the place got alive. And when McKennon scored
(32:36):
that game time goal after we pulled our goalie, that
place and I think it was maybe the shock factor,
like there was no way we were going to complete
the comeback and tie it up before overtime, and it
was just like people just lost their minds. It was
so much fun. Everyone besides me and the media road
that I was in left with like ten minutes ago
in the third period, I stuck it out and saw
(32:58):
epic comeback.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
What was it like seeing that McKinnon go Live unreal
because that was that was just an incredible shot.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Uh so cool. Great you should have called out those
individuals who left early. No, I wouldn't. My name Ben
would do it. You know I would. So I'm just
saying I got a black vn eg T shirt with
your name on him. Ect BA con always double the protein.
When I'm on, I had the whole Elways chocolate dog
in my mouth. The whole thing best of us for
(33:27):
the rest of us, was tearing families apart.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
Come on,
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