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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With you once again from the news side of the house.
Israel has attacked Iran. It's said that he has launched
a preempt to strike against Iran. In a statement of
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Catz has declared a special state
of emergency and anticipation anticipation excuse me of an Iranian
retaliation for the strike. Rob Dawson reporting at the top
of the hour. Tony Mati School have updates at the
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bottom of the hour and in football related news, the
authorities in Miami Dade County you're seeking to arrest former
NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown on a charge of attempted
murder stemming from a shooting and a celebrity boxing event
back in May. This is according to a warrant just
reviewed by The Washington Post. A warrant, which was signed
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by a judge today, was to charge of attempted murder
with a firearm and calls for Brown to post a
ten thousand dollars bond and remained under house arrest pending trial.
Efforts to reach Brown, who is thirty six years old,
were unsuccessful. It was unclear whether he was represented by
an attorney. A spokesman for the Miami Dade State Attorneys
All office declined to comment. The criminals charge stems from
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an incident outside a boxing event in the Little Haiti
neighborhood of Miami, after which Brown was detained by police
and then released hours later. According to the warrant, officers
responded to a report of gunshots being fired outside the
venue shortly before midnight May sixteenth, When they arrived and
all Drough, the officer working in security at the event,
said he left the venue after being told of the
sound of gunfire. Ording to the warrant, he then said
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he observed Brown involved in a physical altercation with another man.
Matrons in the parking lot told officers that Brown was
the shooter, according to the warrant, which also states that
Brown had no weapon on him when officers pat him down.
Investigators did find two spent shellcasings at an empty gun holster, though,
according to the warrant, Brown, who lives in Fort Lauderdale,
was released later that night and later took to social
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media to say he'd been jumped by people trying to
steal his jewelry. According to the warrant, Miami police detectors
later obtained video footage that appears to show Brown punching
another man, sparking a melee, and the footage later shows
Brown appearing to take the gun of a security officer
and running toward the man he had punched. According to
the warrant, cell phone video captures two gun shots as
Brown approaches the victim and includes the victim ducking.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Brown. Yeah, it's been unable so far to.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Be reached, according to the war Detectives met up with
the alleged victim, who told him that after the initial
fight had been broken up, Brown began to run toward
him with a firearms shot at him twice, possibly grazing
his neck. The two struggled over the gun before police
arrived and Brown walked away. Man left and went to
a vent or A hospital for treatment for his injuries.
Man identified Brown on the surveillance footage and said he
has known him since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Two, According to the warrants, man that's a lot to digest, hit,
is he night?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, Yeah, with Antonio Brown, he's been in the news
being a player and being outside of the game. And
I saw that footage from I think it was a
couple of weeks ago where he got into that altercation,
but I didn't not know, soh this aspect actually took
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place where he wrestled away.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Someone's firearm and the shot and a guy.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah this is this is interesting, But at the same time,
based on what we've seen from a behavior standpoint from
Antonio Brown, I don't think so many people are shot.
But for me, I am one aaron side of caution
and allowed the legal process to work itself out before
making any accusation of coming to any conclusions.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, Antonio Brown has had a turbulence NFL career. It
was at all pro for four straight seasons twenty fourteen
through twenty seventeen. His career soon eroded after the Steelers
traded him to the Raiders back in twenty nineteen, forced
his way off the team, arrived late to trading camp
for the Raiders allegedly injured his foot by stepping barefoot
into a cryotherapy chamber. You remember that, Yes, refused to
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play with a helmet that conformed to the NFL rules
and tried to spray paint an old helmet to make
it look like a newer one. He posted a voicemail
from his coach leading him to play that got him released.
There subsequently signed with the New England Patriots, where he
lasted one game before the Patriots released him following a
lawsuit by a former trainer religiing rape and sexual assault.
Brown also sent the woman intimidating messages. After the lawsuit
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became public and media reports, the NFL suspended Brown for
the first eight games of the twenty twenty season, where
he resurfaced again alongside Tom Brady, living at Brady's house
during the season, caught a touchdown from him in the
Super Bowl victory. His off field issues continued to allegedly
destroy a security camera, chucked a bicycle at his South
Florida gated community, a slew of allegations of unpaid debts,
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and the final act of his career, of course, doubled
as one of the strangest exits in NFL history. In
the Last Gas Jets Yeah twenty twenty one regular season
bucks against the Jets last game, and Brown grew unhappy
with his playing time, ripped off his shoulder pad, helmets
and gloved and skipped shirtless to the locker room, waving
a waving his arms at the crowd. Then, since his
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unofficial retirement's tenue allegations of misconduct, allegedly exposed himself to
a woman at a hotel in Dubai in twenty twenty two,
police ever issued arrest warrants Forum for domestic violence, failure
to pay child support. In May of last year, he
reportedly filed for bankruptcy and an online posting subs frequently
attributed his unpredictability to CTE, which you know, as everybody knows,
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is brain damage associated with football's repas.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's a serious close to the hys One thing I
will say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think a lot of people don't know Antonio Brown
does not run Antonio Brown's Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a it's a white guy who's associated with Central
Florida that bought his account and has been running his
account for a couple of years now.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is not Antonio Brown's tweeding out of Antonio Browns account.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was interesting because on June eighth of this year,
there was something that came out of AB's account where
he posted that he slept with Gavin Newsom's what.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, it wasn't him.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Whether it's him or not, it's just like it's like
a thirst for public attention.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, that's not he has no he has nothing to
he sold as a cat, neither money he sold his account.
It's a white guy from who used to be an
assistant coach in Central Florida that runs that and was
tweeting that. Well, that dude gets paid off, you know,
because you get paid in Twitter off the right, So
that dude has an incentive to go viral. It doesn't
care if he gets Antonio Brown in trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, if that is the case with some of the
things that have been tweeted out of that account, I
think Antonio Brown it would be best served for him
to make sure that he speaks to this person. But
you gotta you gotta think that maybe there's a part
of him that loves the attention. From that particular standpoint, Now,
what you reported as far as is there is there's.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
An a restaurant uh arrest warrant for his arrest. Correct.
So if I'm hoping that's not true and he didn't really.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Do anything wrong, but if it does come the past
that this is on him, this is something.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
He did to me man clot chasing, That's not what
you want.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
To do because this gets you into box in situations,
and right now, he's in the Boxton situation.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, it's a fascinating story. Well, uh we'll wait too
uh to update here in just a little but we're
gonna have to kay coms froll hotline though one making
his Broncos Country Tonight debut. Luca Evans uh from the
uh never post, Luca, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To seeing great guys, Thanks for thanks for having me
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Mini camp just uh just wrapped up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So we're we're off for for.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
For the summer in one way or another.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well we aren't off for the summer, but.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, right, right, yeah, what what observations out of Mini
camp anything?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean, uh, you know, I think a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Of us pointed to uh uh h Robinson looking really
sharp out there, perhaps exceeding expectations. But what observations did
you have from this mini camp?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Absolutely? I mean yeah, you you know, to to your point,
he popped on on so many pass rush reps in
the back door consistently. Obviously it's hard to you know,
tell for defensive linemen and pass rushers without the pads,
but he looks like, you know, he might be ready
faster than we thought.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I thought.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The receivers for the most part of the young guys.
I mean Troy Franklin, Seohn Payton said today he's put
on five pounds. He looks a little bit, you know, bulkier,
he's quick.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Marvin Mins, Devon Beley.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You know he wasn't there at Mini camp, but but
in okas you know, was making plays all over the field.
And I really think this young core of of receivers
as a chance to take a big step just from
what we've seen so far. And Pat Bryant, you know,
for a Riffie just looks incredibly polished. He's a playmaker,
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was really consistent and active in the red zone. So
a lot of good things to like from from that
young receiving corps.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's funny you you bring up the wide receivers because
you know the biggest conversation is what's going to happen
with that wide receivers room and what group of guys
who can pencil in right now, not in penn but
pencil in right now is being on the roster.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But all this receiving group, is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There someone that you think, you know, needs to make
sure when they come back for training camp they need
to be on their pre p's and q's because there
are some young guys like you talk about Troy Franklin,
you talk about Patrick Bryant, that they're hungry, they're trying
to make the team. Is anyone, any receiver curly on
this team that you think they need to make sure
that they continue to be on the upswing moving into
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training camp.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Absolutely, I think it's going to be interesting, right because
you have you know, you have Courtland, who's going to
be of course, just just a big factor.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
That connection with the foe looks.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Looks really solid at least for mini camp. Just their communication.
They're talking after a lot of plays, and you know,
you've got Von Bailey, I think looks really poised to
you know, just be a pretty consistent you know, you've
got such sure hands.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
He's making plays.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He looks more athletic than I think people give me
credit for. And I think, you know, you'll really look
at kind of in that view.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Troy Franklin, Marvin Mins.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You know, I don't want to call it a battle
because they do different things, but they're you know, as
sort of that speed guy, you know, a guy who
can you can line up in a variety of spots,
kind of crossing roots over the middle. I think, you know,
there'll be a little bit of a battle there, and
I think Troy Franklin is kind of the natural one
who who you point at and say, you know, he
needs to really have a good training camp to to
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kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Have a year two breakthrough because.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You know, Pat Ryan, we don't really know what to
expect from members a rookie. He'll probably make some some plays,
but you know, he's in the he's in the Portland mold.
The von vele is also probably going to take them
some plays away. And then I mean, to me, the
interesting thing really is when you look at the fringes
of this roster.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I mean there's a there's a lot of undrafted guys
who have been getting.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
A lot of snaps throughout many camp. You know, you
look at guys like Courtney Jackson out of Arkansas State,
He's done consistently out there. Kyrie's White, you know, has
been just getting a ton of reps.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And so there's going to be a roster there's going
to be a.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Fight, you know, to try and land on the roster
from guys kind of on the fringes in this receiver rotation.
But I look at Troy Franklin is a guy that
kind of needs to, you know, needs to put it
on display and training camp.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Talking with Luca Evans as we as we look at
the other side of the ball, the defense, are some
guys that potentially could be on the bubble too, Guys
like Tomory Mathis, who were once a starter here for
stretch of games, you know, just two years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
As we look at what George and Sean have done
in building up the floor this roster, who else could
potentially be surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
On the bubble.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, you know, it's an interesting question. I think there's
two guys in the secondary, you know, who you might
throw in there, especially after you know, again getting a
couple of rookies and signing some undrafted guys.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You know, I for me, definitely not a bubble guy.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But someone who I think is is going to be
an interesting name to watch is Drew Sanders, who you
know is working in a middle linebacker now and obviously
with Alex Singleton out or not out, excuse me, he's
been around but not participating many reps in mini camp.
But Dray green Law, you know, still working back in
that quad injury, and Drew Sanders was getting a ton
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of reps in mini camp and that inside linebacker spot.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
And so when everyone's.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Healthy, you kind of look at that room is obviously
you know, justin Trenada's is back, and so it's a
it's a crowded room and you wonder where the place
is for for Drew Sanders. So maybe not a guy
who's on the bubble, but just in terms of his role,
you know, where's he going to fit in? Is he
kind of contingency if you know Dre or Alex go down?
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Is he going to be marvel playmaker? I think he's
another guy to really watch in training camp and see
how his development has has come along from shifting you know,
back to the inside and the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now as all his development is the Broncos development in
their run game and building upon that. That has been
the key emphasis this offseason with the addition of RJ. Harvey,
but most recently with JK. Dobbins. How do you think
the combination of both of those players now will tell
a different story in twenty twenty five for the Broncos
run game opposed to what it was last year in
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twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I mean, you know it was in need of course
all off season, and everyone and their mother knew that.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The Broncos knew that. And I think the.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Interesting thing was that originally, you know, you felt like, oh,
this free agent class of running backs maybe wasn't strong
enough for the Broncos to want.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
To go out and get someone.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Maybe they turned to the draft, and they obviously did
with r J. Harvey, but really, you know, they were
in on JK.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Dobbins. They reached out when.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Three agency opened, and really just the last few months
have been kind of periodic negotiations back and forth, and
you know until obviously the Chargers place a you know,
tender on him, and that kind of ramps up the
heat to get something done.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
And then the visit comes a months later.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
So I think they, you know, they have recognized that
they need a guy like that from the get go,
and I think, to me, it'll be interesting to see how.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
The rotation shakes out. I think RJ.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Harvey is a chance to catch a ton of passes
this year, just from kind of how they've been utilizing
him a little bit and NNI Camp and all the
comments from Sean Payton about him. You know, I think
you could see if he's going after kind of that,
you know.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
If John Pam's going after that mark.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Ingram Alvin Kamara type situation. I mean, you have a
natural kind of power runner in JK. Dobbins and then potentially,
you know, a change of pace guy in RJ. Harvey,
So that could be the dynamics. Now where did that
leave Audric estime? You know going into year two? That's
also a really interesting question. Uh, Julian McLoughlin is probably
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going to factor in somehow, so another interesting point there.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, and that looks you know, that looks to be
probably one of the more interesting rooms heading in to
training camp as we as we look at the way
that Sean Payton has framed things throughout this mini camp,
he does not seem to be at all concerned about
the possibility of a sophomore slump with bow Nicks. We
certainly saw last year how guys in their second year
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defensive coordinators, Uh, you know, get an off season to
look at the tape they got, they got a full
slate of games to look at these things and they
catch up to We saw that was CJ.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Stroud. Are we at all concerned with anything like that
with bow this year?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I mean, I think there's always general concern, right that
a defense will have tape on the guy, like he's
not gonna surprise anyone anymore with how he can run.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
You know, I think that.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Took the league a little bit by surprise, though, so
he took even Sean Payton by surprise. I think he
made a comment at that by at one point, well
what he's I wrote a story on this a few
weeks ago. What what Bonix has been able to do? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You too?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You know, he has not had the same play caller
for two years in a row since high school, and
so you know, he's kind of had to consistently adjust
year over year. You know, he had Kenny Dillingham at
Arizona State that and then it uh or excuse me,
Auburn and then an organ but you know, not the
consistent kind of year over year terminology.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
So he's had to adjust every single year.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And that means, you know, you have a certain period
where're not able to do much else besides kind of
learned things, and he's instead been able to use that
time this offseason mentally think about you know, hey, how
can I how can I adjust essentially? How can I
break down different and categorize different defenses that I'm seeing,
and I think that potentially can go a long way
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to his ability to just make quicker, more instinctive decisions.
Sean Payton today just talked about how he looks like
he's processing a little bit faster, he looks more confident.
So all of that, you know, is a good sign. Certainly,
there's there's been no reason to believe a potential sophomore slump,
and I think it'll ultimately come down to how comfortable,
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how free, how fast he's able to play.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
In the connection and chemistry with Evan Ingland.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Certainly, Kevin from the Denver Post making you his Broncos
Country tonight day you Luke, appreciate the time, buddy.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thanks so much for having me guys.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Take care So Kevin's Broncos Country. Now we got it
a break. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
If six six nine zero is the text line, appreciate
you guys tuning in obviously, the news team will keep
you up to date with the latest news. A lot
of news going on tonight, sports news, Antonio Brown wanted
for murder, and in other news, Israel has launched an
attack on Iran, and a US judge has declared Trump's
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mobilization of the National Guard unconstitutional. So you'll have the
latest from Rob Dawson and Tony manis top of bottom
the hour obviously here and and if they need to
come in and break in with any developing news stories.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
But the busy night to night, Nick, very busy.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And when the first story about Israel and Iran broke,
the first thing I did what I looked at you.
It was like things always happen in threes. What else
is bound to happen?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There? You get the Trump news, you get the Antonio Brown.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Now now I'm thinking here, just just waiting, looking at
the clott like, is there anything else going to take place?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Before we finished the night's show? Who knows we got?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We got hockey going on tonight obviously is the Florida
Panthers and Edmonds and Oilers are going on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
We've got a lot of sports stuff going on too.
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Who knows what happens next? So I keep it tuning
right here to Koe Who's talk and sports. You can't
get that everywhere. See, that's what you do to the
type from that, absolutely, So he goes, I do want
to talk about. You had some stuff in the in
the group chat earlier today. How do you fast track
player development?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You know what, I've been wanting to talk about this
for a while, especially looking at some of the young players,
but more importantly looking at the Broncos off the side.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Of the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The Broncos has kind of completed their OCAs in their
mini camp, and I know all eyes are on bow
knicks and how to make this team better, how to
put him in better positions to be.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Successful in the second season.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
A lot of that goes back to the play calling,
but fast tracking of players development. Let's look at Bow's development,
for instance. The first thing that comes to mind Ben
for me is having Bow have.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
More reps against the first team.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And usually from a practice standpoint, that's not how it's
usually structured. Usually you have the number one defense going
against the number two offense, number one offense going against
the number two defense, right, But for me, I think
it builds a little false confidence. That's not to say
that you can't do that right and you don't do
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that at some point, but the idea is that you
want to make sure that your offensive players, more importantly
your quarterback is exposed to things that he's going.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
To see on game day.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We've been talking about the addition to the Broncos defense
and how much better it should make them opposed to
they were exposed to what they were last season. At
some point, for me, it's like, I want to make
sure that bow is getting a lot of reps, right,
a lot of reps against the number one defense, Especially
even if you don't do an out in the field
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inside the red zone, you want to make sure you
do that because the red zone is the toughest area
to be successful for any quarterback, rookie or veteran, and
putting him in those type situations watching him fail. This
is the only time you hear me say failing forward, right,
because he's gonna make those mistakes, and you want to
make your mistakes in practice. You want to do it
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against a top rated defense. So once you get into
a game, now you know where to pick your spots,
what you could do, what you can't do, and Sean
Payne would know exactly what he can do offensively from
a scheme standpoint. Knowing this though you're facing one of
the better defenses in the league, do.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You think there's a value in We talk a lot
about defensive coordinators around the league having tape on a
guy and using the off season to game plan him. Right, yes,
do you think there's value advanced Joseph trying to do
that a self scout sort of thing where if you're
Sean Payton, you say, hey, look, I want you to
put together a game plan to stop on necks.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Tell me how you do it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So go back and look at the library tape, Go
back and look at what we got on him, and
look at his worst things, and see what you can do.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Do you think there's value.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In potentially challenging bow before defensive coordinators do?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But also here's like this, A magician doesn't want to
reveal all these tricks. And if you Advance Joseph, yeah,
you want to do that to help OLGBO Nags and
Sean Payne from a schematic standpoint, but also you want
to keep some of those things to yourself just in
case after the season Vance gets another job and oh,
by the way, he has to play the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You don't want to reveal every single thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But there is a time and the place where you
can say self scouting, and I truly believe self scouting
helps you become better. When I was coaching, I would
tell guys self scout your teammates. It is started to
teach you how to watch film. It's started to teach
you how to prepare for other opponents.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And not to say that it's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Almost like having an answer to the test because you're competing.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Against the same guys, but it's showing you how to
be a pro.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
You have to be able to self scout, and self
scout it means also looking at yourself now what things
that you need to work on, and that other teams
are watching you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Because I know Peyton Manning in all of his years, he.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Was one of the better quarterbacks as far as scouting
other teams. And him and Tom Moore in those days
back when he was an indie, they did an excellent
job saying, Okay, well we're gonna attack certain parts of
the defense.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We're gonna attack a certain part of the.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Field, or we're gonna kind of identify maybe their linebacker
or safety and attack them. To me, this is how
you start to once again fast track that development. Have
players thinking as they're playing, Yeah, I mean I just
I look at this and I'm like, if I were
the head coach, I would empower my defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It pick me apart.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How can I get that? That would be because self
scouting is a huge part of improved huge. So I
would suggest that you take a look at my second.
So we don't have a CJ. Sproud situation where Bobby
Schlowe didn't change up the blocking scheme.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Everybody and their mother figured out.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You get a left tackle or a backside tackle that
was that was on io block every time, and you
were moving the other four to the right, and then
you know, I double team in them. You know you'd sugar,
you sugar the four, but you'd send you'd send two.
You know, you'd hide one that said too off the
edge and the DT guy or the offensive tackle can
handle it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I would have man Joseph do that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And I wonder how much time, and I wonder if
organizations can set their ego aside enough to have somebody
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I think it's beneficial to every single player, the starters
and the back because we know every single practice there's
a script, right, so the offense knows what the.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Defense is going to run on certain plays. See I
think you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, I get that because you want to test
out certain things, but I'd also like to see some blind,
you know, practices where the offense doesn't know well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I mean, in my time with Mike Shanahan, we would
have what we call specially cat specially category up here
where you know it's third down as you read zone,
you're working forth and short types of things, and they
just kind of called the game right and they say
so he set the table and said, okay, here's a scenario.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Either we're up or we're down. But you think the
coaches didn't know what you know?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You don't think they talked about ahead of time with
what coverages everything that were gonna run.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well. I mean there's a conversation as far as what
do you want to get accomplished today?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I do know because there are certain coaches offensive coaches
who have the script and they want to make sure
that they have a successful practice.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
They want to win the deck.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's right, because you don't want the defense to be
too too many times because now your acumen as far
as being an officsive coordinator comes in question.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So you know a team may be in you know,
three deep right, and you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You got a safety rotated down, you got your corners outside,
they have to overlap y.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So we're burs spaman switch verticals real quick exactly, so
you attack the coverage because you know what's on the script.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I truly believe that this should be a period where Okay,
we're gonna call this like on the field, not in
the boot. We're gonna call it on the field because
for me, it not only helps the development of the players,
but it helps the coaches because there's certain coaches who
prefer to be in a boot because they want to
see there are other coaches who are preferred to be
on the field because they're gonna be able to look
at their play that's right. So you get a chance
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to do it, and it's it's raw, it's a get it.
And this is why I think the Broncos should do
this because it helps you it just like well, you
get in a game as a defender.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And playing here at home are the.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
More difficult games to play from a defensive standpoint. Offensively,
because the crowd is going to be quiet. Defensively, the
fans are making noise. You want them to make noise.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
How do I.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Communicate with you being a defensive guy, your safety in corner,
what happens if that opposing offense goes in two minute?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Right? We have to learn how to call plays on
the field. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But this, once again, doing all of this in training
camp speeds up the mental development of the players. Notice
I didn't say a damn thing about physical it's the
mental development. I think having Bow once again practice a
lot against the first team would definitely make things different,
difficult for him in practice, but so much easier come
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game day.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I think there's an inherent value in throwing things at
a guy so that he can, you know, and again
practicing against the great defense like that to sharpen what
it is that you have.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I feel like that.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know, there are a lot of situations with the
sophomore slump, you know, specifically with quarterbacks, and I think
a lot of that, again, it's just defensive coordinators catching
up to what it is that you do. Why not
have your own defensive coordinator catch up to what it
is that you do and throw those wrinkles at you.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
To me, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Here's also I think there is a great added too
as well. Like, take some of your guys from the
first team and put them.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
On a second team.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And the reason I say do that because you never
know what's going to happen in a given a season,
how the roster is going.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To change based on injuries.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Absolutely, but you also want to see, Okay, well, a
guy may be on a starting team, he's not used
to saying, playing lampbacker, he's not used to setting the defense,
making calls. Someone else is doing it for him, So
now you put him in a situation with the second.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Team where he has to do it. Ah. I love that,
and I think they should do that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think you should rotate all the players through, you know,
kind of each each bit of that. I think it's
it's good for the second team to be up against
a receiver that plays on the first team and get
you know, and get that experience. It's good for those
second team guys to come up and play on the
first team and get a taste to what it's like
and understand what communication in the moment is.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Like, I think there's definitely a value to.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That, and it is a part of the fast track
and what is the current value and the like, how
what is the what is the value in fast tracking
guys deployment like that versus traditional methodology.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, the idea is that you're able to see.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
How quickly guys learn, and that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, when it comes to evaluation, we know guys can play,
I mean, either you're tough.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Or you're not.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Then we look at speed and sometimes even that you
can kind of wash that away once a guy gets
on the field with the ideas that let's put a
guy in a situation, let's see how he reacts, because
wait until you get to the game.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's great and all, but.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You want to make sure that you know throw and
through that these players are ready to go mentally, because
the thing that breaks guys now and why teams succeed
in games, it's a lack of execution. And it comes
that back to the lack of confidence in yourself. You
haven't been in a scheme that that often. You hadn't
played a lot on the big skit big scale. He
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hadn't played against starters. So now you're a little nervous, right,
you're not as confident in yourself. But if you work
these principles in practice, this is how things change, and
this is why I think, and I wasn't a fan
of this before and I've changed over the years. This
known as though the league is going to move to
eighteen games at some point, the idea is creating more
competition through those joint practices. This is where you get
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a chance to see a lot from your guys. And this,
for me, it's all about not slow playing, but fast
tracking this because you don't have that much time as
a player is trying to earn your stripes and development.
So they got to find a way to make sure
they didn't get it done.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, and that they do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
There are several players that I think shown out there
in many camp but the biggest one to me was
Kean Robinson.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
He that kind was flying around.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
They drafted him as sort of a special team's ace,
and that was the thing with some upside. I don't
know how much playtime he's going to get in a
very crowd to right now, room man, he look they
look pretty dominant out there.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, it's shorts. It's not full.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Disclosure. It's shorts. You know it's it's it's shorts. But
I don't know, man, he was he was flying around.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
This this is the time of the year, especially in
the offseason, for guys to get noticed. And even though
it's just kind of shorts, uh in jersey, the T
shirt Olympics, you still can show flashes at what you
can do, fluidity in your motion, the ability to be aggressive.
And then now the idea is when the guys come
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back for training camp, you've already showed something in OTA's
now you've already.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Set the bar high. You've already set your standard.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
So with you Robinson, the idea is that you need
to come back and make sure you capitalize off of that.
You continue to build the plant and you stack those
bricks because if you don't, now you get labored as, oh,
now you're just flying around because there's no pads on.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
But now it's it's it's you know, and there are
plenty of shorts. You know, workout larriors. You know, we've
seen all this, we've seen.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It before, you know, star running backs, and then you
know there was a particular running back used to play
for the Broncos, big big jump cut guy who was playing.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
One hundred and ten percent in shorts. And then you
know the game came on and it wasn't quite the same,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
With that being said, I mean it is it certainly
made me raise an eyebrow at least, like, Okay, I
want to see more of this guy at the start
a training camp, somebody I'm definitely in my eye on.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, I mean, I guess now, now here's my question
for you. Now, I know you are huge. You like
to maybe the number one fan to fan in the
fan club with Demon Beagley. So so now that you
enter another player into the mix, how does that somehow
change for you?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, I mean I have two eyes. I can keep
one on you know.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
They don't necessarily play different directions, but I can try
to keep one on it. Now, it just means that,
you know, I have my players of emphasis that I'll
kind of keep an eye on based on, you know,
what we've seen so far and where I think competitions
might be going that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That are guys that I'll have my eye.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But you don't just focus on one guy all practice,
you know, unless you're Ryan Edwards and then all you
do is se Bo Nicks.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I love you, Ryan, that is true.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But once again, this is what I love about what
George Paid has done with with this roster there's an
immense amount of competition, and it gives us so much
to kind of chew on as far as who's going
to be here, who's going to be there, who's going
to be For the most part, we know defensively who's
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going to be in the top spots, but now it's
fighting for playing time, fighting for.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That second position.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Now, if you're not in that second position, are you
good enough to play special teams? Do you play at
a high level? So this is what I love and
knowing is the the Broncos. I guess for the first
time in years, there's a lot of question marks as
far as what's going.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
To happen with this team and how do you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Are going to kind of shape out, as far as
who makes the team and who the bubble guys and
what's what's one of those groups of guys will end
up on a practice squad that it is.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We come back.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Uh, I want to get into the new spin on
the the old play stuff. Yes, uh, definitely do that
real quick before we hit the break. Uh, are you
do you guys? Do you guys still go to cinema
to watch movies?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Uh, I didn't even realize that the mission impossible, things
like not.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Gonna be an Imax anymore. Buddy b K was the
talk to me the other day, like it's already out
of Imax. Yeah, that was a movie I had to see.
Did you watch an Imax? Yes, okay, I need to
see it in Imax. I mean, I don't know who.
I mean, I'll call it the Yeah, oh, I'll call
the theater. Someone's boasting, aren't they. I'm just saying, what's
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the worst they can do? Tell me, no, they haven't yet.
Get out of your bitchin bright. I'm just saying no.
But I mean, like that's the thing, like movies go
out of Imax so fast now, Like I didn't even
see it. iMac is already, it's already out of Imax.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, man, they got they bring it out for a
couple of weeks and then they got to get it
on Peacock and Amazon said they.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Already got to get it on Amazon or whatever. Role
like some of us, you know, some of us do
not live our lives that way. Man, you got to
get to the Tator do a better job.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, I'm a terrible person. So Roccos Country Night back
after this
With you once again from the news side of the house.
Israel has attacked Iran. It's said that he has launched
a preempt to strike against Iran. In a statement of
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Catz has declared a special state
of emergency and anticipation anticipation excuse me of an Iranian
retaliation for the strike. Rob Dawson reporting at the top
of the hour. Tony Mati School have updates at the
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bottom of the hour and in football related news, the
authorities in Miami Dade County you're seeking to arrest former
NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown on a charge of attempted
murder stemming from a shooting and a celebrity boxing event
back in May. This is according to a warrant just
reviewed by The Washington Post. A warrant, which was signed
(00:42):
by a judge today, was to charge of attempted murder
with a firearm and calls for Brown to post a
ten thousand dollars bond and remained under house arrest pending trial.
Efforts to reach Brown, who is thirty six years old,
were unsuccessful. It was unclear whether he was represented by
an attorney. A spokesman for the Miami Dade State Attorneys
All office declined to comment. The criminals charge stems from
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an incident outside a boxing event in the Little Haiti
neighborhood of Miami, after which Brown was detained by police
and then released hours later. According to the warrant, officers
responded to a report of gunshots being fired outside the
venue shortly before midnight May sixteenth, When they arrived and
all Drough, the officer working in security at the event,
said he left the venue after being told of the
sound of gunfire. Ording to the warrant, he then said
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he observed Brown involved in a physical altercation with another man.
Matrons in the parking lot told officers that Brown was
the shooter, according to the warrant, which also states that
Brown had no weapon on him when officers pat him down.
Investigators did find two spent shellcasings at an empty gun holster, though,
according to the warrant, Brown, who lives in Fort Lauderdale,
was released later that night and later took to social
(01:45):
media to say he'd been jumped by people trying to
steal his jewelry. According to the warrant, Miami police detectors
later obtained video footage that appears to show Brown punching
another man, sparking a melee, and the footage later shows
Brown appearing to take the gun of a security officer
and running toward the man he had punched. According to
the warrant, cell phone video captures two gun shots as
Brown approaches the victim and includes the victim ducking.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Brown. Yeah, it's been unable so far to.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Be reached, according to the war Detectives met up with
the alleged victim, who told him that after the initial
fight had been broken up, Brown began to run toward
him with a firearms shot at him twice, possibly grazing
his neck. The two struggled over the gun before police
arrived and Brown walked away. Man left and went to
a vent or A hospital for treatment for his injuries.
Man identified Brown on the surveillance footage and said he
has known him since twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Two, According to the warrants, man that's a lot to digest, hit,
is he night?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, Yeah, with Antonio Brown, he's been in the news
being a player and being outside of the game. And
I saw that footage from I think it was a
couple of weeks ago where he got into that altercation,
but I didn't not know, soh this aspect actually took
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place where he wrestled away.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Someone's firearm and the shot and a guy.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah this is this is interesting, But at the same time,
based on what we've seen from a behavior standpoint from
Antonio Brown, I don't think so many people are shot.
But for me, I am one aaron side of caution
and allowed the legal process to work itself out before
making any accusation of coming to any conclusions.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, Antonio Brown has had a turbulence NFL career. It
was at all pro for four straight seasons twenty fourteen
through twenty seventeen. His career soon eroded after the Steelers
traded him to the Raiders back in twenty nineteen, forced
his way off the team, arrived late to trading camp
for the Raiders allegedly injured his foot by stepping barefoot
into a cryotherapy chamber. You remember that, Yes, refused to
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play with a helmet that conformed to the NFL rules
and tried to spray paint an old helmet to make
it look like a newer one. He posted a voicemail
from his coach leading him to play that got him released.
There subsequently signed with the New England Patriots, where he
lasted one game before the Patriots released him following a
lawsuit by a former trainer religiing rape and sexual assault.
Brown also sent the woman intimidating messages. After the lawsuit
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became public and media reports, the NFL suspended Brown for
the first eight games of the twenty twenty season, where
he resurfaced again alongside Tom Brady, living at Brady's house
during the season, caught a touchdown from him in the
Super Bowl victory. His off field issues continued to allegedly
destroy a security camera, chucked a bicycle at his South
Florida gated community, a slew of allegations of unpaid debts,
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and the final act of his career, of course, doubled
as one of the strangest exits in NFL history. In
the Last Gas Jets Yeah twenty twenty one regular season
bucks against the Jets last game, and Brown grew unhappy
with his playing time, ripped off his shoulder pad, helmets
and gloved and skipped shirtless to the locker room, waving
a waving his arms at the crowd. Then, since his
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unofficial retirement's tenue allegations of misconduct, allegedly exposed himself to
a woman at a hotel in Dubai in twenty twenty two,
police ever issued arrest warrants Forum for domestic violence, failure
to pay child support. In May of last year, he
reportedly filed for bankruptcy and an online posting subs frequently
attributed his unpredictability to CTE, which you know, as everybody knows,
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is brain damage associated with football's repas.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's a serious close to the hys One thing I
will say.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
I think a lot of people don't know Antonio Brown
does not run Antonio Brown's Twitter account.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
He has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
It's a it's a white guy who's associated with Central
Florida that bought his account and has been running his
account for a couple of years now.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is not Antonio Brown's tweeding out of Antonio Browns account.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
It was interesting because on June eighth of this year,
there was something that came out of AB's account where
he posted that he slept with Gavin Newsom's what.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Right, it wasn't him.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Whether it's him or not, it's just like it's like
a thirst for public attention.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Yeah, that's not he has no he has nothing to
he sold as a cat, neither money he sold his account.
It's a white guy from who used to be an
assistant coach in Central Florida that runs that and was
tweeting that. Well, that dude gets paid off, you know,
because you get paid in Twitter off the right, So
that dude has an incentive to go viral. It doesn't
care if he gets Antonio Brown in trouble.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Well, if that is the case with some of the
things that have been tweeted out of that account, I
think Antonio Brown it would be best served for him
to make sure that he speaks to this person. But
you gotta you gotta think that maybe there's a part
of him that loves the attention. From that particular standpoint, Now,
what you reported as far as is there is there's.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
An a restaurant uh arrest warrant for his arrest. Correct.
So if I'm hoping that's not true and he didn't really.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Do anything wrong, but if it does come the past
that this is on him, this is something.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
He did to me man clot chasing, That's not what
you want.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
To do because this gets you into box in situations,
and right now, he's in the Boxton situation.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Yeah, it's a fascinating story. Well, uh we'll wait too
uh to update here in just a little but we're
gonna have to kay coms froll hotline though one making
his Broncos Country Tonight debut. Luca Evans uh from the
uh never post, Luca, how you doing.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
To seeing great guys, Thanks for thanks for having me
appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Mini camp just uh just wrapped up.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So we're we're off for for.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
For the summer in one way or another.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well we aren't off for the summer, but.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, right, right, yeah, what what observations out of Mini
camp anything?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I mean, uh, you know, I think a lot.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Of us pointed to uh uh h Robinson looking really
sharp out there, perhaps exceeding expectations. But what observations did
you have from this mini camp?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Absolutely? I mean yeah, you you know, to to your point,
he popped on on so many pass rush reps in
the back door consistently. Obviously it's hard to you know,
tell for defensive linemen and pass rushers without the pads,
but he looks like, you know, he might be ready
faster than we thought.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
I thought.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
The receivers for the most part of the young guys.
I mean Troy Franklin, Seohn Payton said today he's put
on five pounds. He looks a little bit, you know, bulkier,
he's quick.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Marvin Mins, Devon Beley.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
You know he wasn't there at Mini camp, but but
in okas you know, was making plays all over the field.
And I really think this young core of of receivers
as a chance to take a big step just from
what we've seen so far. And Pat Bryant, you know,
for a Riffie just looks incredibly polished. He's a playmaker,
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was really consistent and active in the red zone. So
a lot of good things to like from from that
young receiving corps.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
It's funny you you bring up the wide receivers because
you know the biggest conversation is what's going to happen
with that wide receivers room and what group of guys
who can pencil in right now, not in penn but
pencil in right now is being on the roster.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
But all this receiving group, is.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
There someone that you think, you know, needs to make
sure when they come back for training camp they need
to be on their pre p's and q's because there
are some young guys like you talk about Troy Franklin,
you talk about Patrick Bryant, that they're hungry, they're trying
to make the team. Is anyone, any receiver curly on
this team that you think they need to make sure
that they continue to be on the upswing moving into
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training camp.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Absolutely, I think it's going to be interesting, right because
you have you know, you have Courtland, who's going to
be of course, just just a big factor.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
That connection with the foe looks.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Looks really solid at least for mini camp. Just their communication.
They're talking after a lot of plays, and you know,
you've got Von Bailey, I think looks really poised to
you know, just be a pretty consistent you know, you've
got such sure hands.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
He's making plays.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
He looks more athletic than I think people give me
credit for. And I think, you know, you'll really look
at kind of in that view.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Troy Franklin, Marvin Mins.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
You know, I don't want to call it a battle
because they do different things, but they're you know, as
sort of that speed guy, you know, a guy who
can you can line up in a variety of spots,
kind of crossing roots over the middle. I think, you know,
there'll be a little bit of a battle there, and
I think Troy Franklin is kind of the natural one
who who you point at and say, you know, he
needs to really have a good training camp to to
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kind of.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Have a year two breakthrough because.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
You know, Pat Ryan, we don't really know what to
expect from members a rookie. He'll probably make some some plays,
but you know, he's in the he's in the Portland mold.
The von vele is also probably going to take them
some plays away. And then I mean, to me, the
interesting thing really is when you look at the fringes
of this roster.
Speaker 5 (10:45):
I mean there's a there's a lot of undrafted guys
who have been getting.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
A lot of snaps throughout many camp. You know, you
look at guys like Courtney Jackson out of Arkansas State,
He's done consistently out there. Kyrie's White, you know, has
been just getting a ton of reps.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
And so there's going to be a roster there's going
to be a.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Fight, you know, to try and land on the roster
from guys kind of on the fringes in this receiver rotation.
But I look at Troy Franklin is a guy that
kind of needs to, you know, needs to put it
on display and training camp.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Talking with Luca Evans as we as we look at
the other side of the ball, the defense, are some
guys that potentially could be on the bubble too, Guys
like Tomory Mathis, who were once a starter here for
stretch of games, you know, just two years ago.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
As we look at what George and Sean have done
in building up the floor this roster, who else could
potentially be surprisingly.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
On the bubble.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Yeah, you know, it's an interesting question. I think there's
two guys in the secondary, you know, who you might
throw in there, especially after you know, again getting a
couple of rookies and signing some undrafted guys.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
You know, I for me, definitely not a bubble guy.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
But someone who I think is is going to be
an interesting name to watch is Drew Sanders, who you
know is working in a middle linebacker now and obviously
with Alex Singleton out or not out, excuse me, he's
been around but not participating many reps in mini camp.
But Dray green Law, you know, still working back in
that quad injury, and Drew Sanders was getting a ton
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of reps in mini camp and that inside linebacker spot.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
And so when everyone's.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Healthy, you kind of look at that room is obviously
you know, justin Trenada's is back, and so it's a
it's a crowded room and you wonder where the place
is for for Drew Sanders. So maybe not a guy
who's on the bubble, but just in terms of his role,
you know, where's he going to fit in? Is he
kind of contingency if you know Dre or Alex go down?
(12:45):
Is he going to be marvel playmaker? I think he's
another guy to really watch in training camp and see
how his development has has come along from shifting you know,
back to the inside and the outside.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Now as all his development is the Broncos development in
their run game and building upon that. That has been
the key emphasis this offseason with the addition of RJ. Harvey,
but most recently with JK. Dobbins. How do you think
the combination of both of those players now will tell
a different story in twenty twenty five for the Broncos
run game opposed to what it was last year in
(13:19):
twenty twenty four.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I mean, you know it was in need of course
all off season, and everyone and their mother knew that.
Speaker 5 (13:27):
The Broncos knew that. And I think the.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Interesting thing was that originally, you know, you felt like, oh,
this free agent class of running backs maybe wasn't strong
enough for the Broncos to want.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
To go out and get someone.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Maybe they turned to the draft, and they obviously did
with r J. Harvey, but really, you know, they were
in on JK.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Dobbins. They reached out when.
Speaker 4 (13:50):
Three agency opened, and really just the last few months
have been kind of periodic negotiations back and forth, and
you know until obviously the Chargers place a you know,
tender on him, and that kind of ramps up the
heat to get something done.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
And then the visit comes a months later.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
So I think they, you know, they have recognized that
they need a guy like that from the get go,
and I think, to me, it'll be interesting to see how.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
The rotation shakes out. I think RJ.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Harvey is a chance to catch a ton of passes
this year, just from kind of how they've been utilizing
him a little bit and NNI Camp and all the
comments from Sean Payton about him. You know, I think
you could see if he's going after kind of that,
you know.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
If John Pam's going after that mark.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Ingram Alvin Kamara type situation. I mean, you have a
natural kind of power runner in JK. Dobbins and then potentially,
you know, a change of pace guy in RJ. Harvey,
So that could be the dynamics. Now where did that
leave Audric estime? You know going into year two? That's
also a really interesting question. Uh, Julian McLoughlin is probably
(15:03):
going to factor in somehow, so another interesting point there.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah, and that looks you know, that looks to be
probably one of the more interesting rooms heading in to
training camp as we as we look at the way
that Sean Payton has framed things throughout this mini camp,
he does not seem to be at all concerned about
the possibility of a sophomore slump with bow Nicks. We
certainly saw last year how guys in their second year
(15:29):
defensive coordinators, Uh, you know, get an off season to
look at the tape they got, they got a full
slate of games to look at these things and they
catch up to We saw that was CJ.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
Stroud. Are we at all concerned with anything like that
with bow this year?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
I mean, I think there's always general concern, right that
a defense will have tape on the guy, like he's
not gonna surprise anyone anymore with how he can run.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
You know, I think that.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
Took the league a little bit by surprise, though, so
he took even Sean Payton by surprise. I think he
made a comment at that by at one point, well
what he's I wrote a story on this a few
weeks ago. What what Bonix has been able to do? Now?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
You too?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
You know, he has not had the same play caller
for two years in a row since high school, and
so you know, he's kind of had to consistently adjust
year over year. You know, he had Kenny Dillingham at
Arizona State that and then it uh or excuse me,
Auburn and then an organ but you know, not the
consistent kind of year over year terminology.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
So he's had to adjust every single year.
Speaker 4 (16:29):
And that means, you know, you have a certain period
where're not able to do much else besides kind of
learned things, and he's instead been able to use that
time this offseason mentally think about you know, hey, how
can I how can I adjust essentially? How can I
break down different and categorize different defenses that I'm seeing,
and I think that potentially can go a long way
(16:51):
to his ability to just make quicker, more instinctive decisions.
Sean Payton today just talked about how he looks like
he's processing a little bit faster, he looks more confident.
So all of that, you know, is a good sign. Certainly,
there's there's been no reason to believe a potential sophomore slump,
and I think it'll ultimately come down to how comfortable,
(17:13):
how free, how fast he's able to play.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
In the connection and chemistry with Evan Ingland.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Certainly, Kevin from the Denver Post making you his Broncos
Country tonight day you Luke, appreciate the time, buddy.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Thanks so much for having me guys.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Take care So Kevin's Broncos Country. Now we got it
a break. We'll be back after this.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
If six six nine zero is the text line, appreciate
you guys tuning in obviously, the news team will keep
you up to date with the latest news. A lot
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mobilization of the National Guard unconstitutional. So you'll have the
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Speaker 2 (18:10):
But the busy night to night, Nick, very busy.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And when the first story about Israel and Iran broke,
the first thing I did what I looked at you.
It was like things always happen in threes. What else
is bound to happen?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
There? You get the Trump news, you get the Antonio Brown.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Now now I'm thinking here, just just waiting, looking at
the clott like, is there anything else going to take place?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Before we finished the night's show? Who knows we got?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We got hockey going on tonight obviously is the Florida
Panthers and Edmonds and Oilers are going on.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
We've got a lot of sports stuff going on too.
Who knows?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Who knows what happens next? So I keep it tuning
right here to Koe Who's talk and sports. You can't
get that everywhere. See, that's what you do to the
type from that, absolutely, So he goes, I do want
to talk about. You had some stuff in the in
the group chat earlier today. How do you fast track
player development?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You know what, I've been wanting to talk about this
for a while, especially looking at some of the young players,
but more importantly looking at the Broncos off the side.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Of the ball.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
The Broncos has kind of completed their OCAs in their
mini camp, and I know all eyes are on bow
knicks and how to make this team better, how to
put him in better positions to be.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Successful in the second season.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
A lot of that goes back to the play calling,
but fast tracking of players development. Let's look at Bow's development,
for instance. The first thing that comes to mind Ben
for me is having Bow have.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
More reps against the first team.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
And usually from a practice standpoint, that's not how it's
usually structured. Usually you have the number one defense going
against the number two offense, number one offense going against
the number two defense, right, But for me, I think
it builds a little false confidence. That's not to say
that you can't do that right and you don't do
(20:02):
that at some point, but the idea is that you
want to make sure that your offensive players, more importantly
your quarterback is exposed to things that he's going.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
To see on game day.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
We've been talking about the addition to the Broncos defense
and how much better it should make them opposed to
they were exposed to what they were last season. At
some point, for me, it's like, I want to make
sure that bow is getting a lot of reps, right,
a lot of reps against the number one defense, Especially
even if you don't do an out in the field
(20:34):
inside the red zone, you want to make sure you
do that because the red zone is the toughest area
to be successful for any quarterback, rookie or veteran, and
putting him in those type situations watching him fail. This
is the only time you hear me say failing forward, right,
because he's gonna make those mistakes, and you want to
make your mistakes in practice. You want to do it
(20:55):
against a top rated defense. So once you get into
a game, now you know where to pick your spots,
what you could do, what you can't do, and Sean
Payne would know exactly what he can do offensively from
a scheme standpoint. Knowing this though you're facing one of
the better defenses in the league, do.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You think there's a value in We talk a lot
about defensive coordinators around the league having tape on a
guy and using the off season to game plan him. Right, yes,
do you think there's value advanced Joseph trying to do
that a self scout sort of thing where if you're
Sean Payton, you say, hey, look, I want you to
put together a game plan to stop on necks.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Tell me how you do it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
So go back and look at the library tape, Go
back and look at what we got on him, and
look at his worst things, and see what you can do.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Do you think there's value.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
In potentially challenging bow before defensive coordinators do?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yeah, you do.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
But also here's like this, A magician doesn't want to
reveal all these tricks. And if you Advance Joseph, yeah,
you want to do that to help OLGBO Nags and
Sean Payne from a schematic standpoint, but also you want
to keep some of those things to yourself just in
case after the season Vance gets another job and oh,
by the way, he has to play the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
You don't want to reveal every single thing.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
But there is a time and the place where you
can say self scouting, and I truly believe self scouting
helps you become better. When I was coaching, I would
tell guys self scout your teammates. It is started to
teach you how to watch film. It's started to teach
you how to prepare for other opponents.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And not to say that it's.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
Almost like having an answer to the test because you're competing.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Against the same guys, but it's showing you how to
be a pro.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
You have to be able to self scout, and self
scout it means also looking at yourself now what things
that you need to work on, and that other teams
are watching you.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Because I know Peyton Manning in all of his years, he.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
Was one of the better quarterbacks as far as scouting
other teams. And him and Tom Moore in those days
back when he was an indie, they did an excellent
job saying, Okay, well we're gonna attack certain parts of
the defense.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
We're gonna attack a certain part of the.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Field, or we're gonna kind of identify maybe their linebacker
or safety and attack them. To me, this is how
you start to once again fast track that development. Have
players thinking as they're playing, Yeah, I mean I just
I look at this and I'm like, if I were
the head coach, I would empower my defensive coordinator.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
It pick me apart.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
How can I get that? That would be because self
scouting is a huge part of improved huge. So I
would suggest that you take a look at my second.
So we don't have a CJ. Sproud situation where Bobby
Schlowe didn't change up the blocking scheme.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Everybody and their mother figured out.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
You get a left tackle or a backside tackle that
was that was on io block every time, and you
were moving the other four to the right, and then
you know, I double team in them. You know you'd sugar,
you sugar the four, but you'd send you'd send two.
You know, you'd hide one that said too off the
edge and the DT guy or the offensive tackle can
handle it.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I would have man Joseph do that.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
And I wonder how much time, and I wonder if
organizations can set their ego aside enough to have somebody
do that.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
I think it's beneficial to every single player, the starters
and the back because we know every single practice there's
a script, right, so the offense knows what the.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Defense is going to run on certain plays. See I
think you shouldn't do that.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I mean, I get that because you want to test
out certain things, but I'd also like to see some blind,
you know, practices where the offense doesn't know well.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
I mean, in my time with Mike Shanahan, we would
have what we call specially cat specially category up here
where you know it's third down as you read zone,
you're working forth and short types of things, and they
just kind of called the game right and they say
so he set the table and said, okay, here's a scenario.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
Either we're up or we're down. But you think the
coaches didn't know what you know?
Speaker 1 (24:38):
You don't think they talked about ahead of time with
what coverages everything that were gonna run.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Well. I mean there's a conversation as far as what
do you want to get accomplished today?
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Right now?
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I do know because there are certain coaches offensive coaches
who have the script and they want to make sure
that they have a successful practice.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
They want to win the deck.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's right, because you don't want the defense to be
too too many times because now your acumen as far
as being an officsive coordinator comes in question.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
So you know a team may be in you know,
three deep right, and you know.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
You got a safety rotated down, you got your corners outside,
they have to overlap y.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So we're burs spaman switch verticals real quick exactly, so
you attack the coverage because you know what's on the script.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
I truly believe that this should be a period where Okay,
we're gonna call this like on the field, not in
the boot. We're gonna call it on the field because
for me, it not only helps the development of the players,
but it helps the coaches because there's certain coaches who
prefer to be in a boot because they want to
see there are other coaches who are preferred to be
on the field because they're gonna be able to look
at their play that's right. So you get a chance
(25:44):
to do it, and it's it's raw, it's a get it.
And this is why I think the Broncos should do
this because it helps you it just like well, you
get in a game as a defender.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
And playing here at home are the.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
More difficult games to play from a defensive standpoint. Offensively,
because the crowd is going to be quiet. Defensively, the
fans are making noise. You want them to make noise.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
How do I.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Communicate with you being a defensive guy, your safety in corner,
what happens if that opposing offense goes in two minute?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Right? We have to learn how to call plays on
the field. Right.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
But this, once again, doing all of this in training
camp speeds up the mental development of the players. Notice
I didn't say a damn thing about physical it's the
mental development. I think having Bow once again practice a
lot against the first team would definitely make things different,
difficult for him in practice, but so much easier come
(26:38):
game day.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
Yeah, I think so too.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
I think there's an inherent value in throwing things at
a guy so that he can, you know, and again
practicing against the great defense like that to sharpen what
it is that you have.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
I feel like that.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
You know, there are a lot of situations with the
sophomore slump, you know, specifically with quarterbacks, and I think
a lot of that, again, it's just defensive coordinators catching
up to what it is that you do. Why not
have your own defensive coordinator catch up to what it
is that you do and throw those wrinkles at you.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
To me, I think it's great.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Here's also I think there is a great added too
as well. Like, take some of your guys from the
first team and put them.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
On a second team.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
And the reason I say do that because you never
know what's going to happen in a given a season,
how the roster is going.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
To change based on injuries.
Speaker 3 (27:24):
Absolutely, but you also want to see, Okay, well, a
guy may be on a starting team, he's not used
to saying, playing lampbacker, he's not used to setting the defense,
making calls. Someone else is doing it for him, So
now you put him in a situation with the second.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Team where he has to do it. Ah. I love that,
and I think they should do that.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
I think you should rotate all the players through, you know,
kind of each each bit of that. I think it's
it's good for the second team to be up against
a receiver that plays on the first team and get
you know, and get that experience. It's good for those
second team guys to come up and play on the
first team and get a taste to what it's like
and understand what communication in the moment is.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Like, I think there's definitely a value to.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
That, and it is a part of the fast track
and what is the current value and the like, how
what is the what is the value in fast tracking
guys deployment like that versus traditional methodology.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
Well, the idea is that you're able to see.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
How quickly guys learn, and that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well, when it comes to evaluation, we know guys can play,
I mean, either you're tough.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
Or you're not.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
Then we look at speed and sometimes even that you
can kind of wash that away once a guy gets
on the field with the ideas that let's put a
guy in a situation, let's see how he reacts, because
wait until you get to the game.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
That's great and all, but.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
You want to make sure that you know throw and
through that these players are ready to go mentally, because
the thing that breaks guys now and why teams succeed
in games, it's a lack of execution. And it comes
that back to the lack of confidence in yourself. You
haven't been in a scheme that that often. You hadn't
played a lot on the big skit big scale. He
(29:01):
hadn't played against starters. So now you're a little nervous, right,
you're not as confident in yourself. But if you work
these principles in practice, this is how things change, and
this is why I think, and I wasn't a fan
of this before and I've changed over the years. This
known as though the league is going to move to
eighteen games at some point, the idea is creating more
competition through those joint practices. This is where you get
(29:26):
a chance to see a lot from your guys. And this,
for me, it's all about not slow playing, but fast
tracking this because you don't have that much time as
a player is trying to earn your stripes and development.
So they got to find a way to make sure
they didn't get it done.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Yeah, and that they do.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
There are several players that I think shown out there
in many camp but the biggest one to me was
Kean Robinson.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
He that kind was flying around.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
They drafted him as sort of a special team's ace,
and that was the thing with some upside. I don't
know how much playtime he's going to get in a
very crowd to right now, room man, he look they
look pretty dominant out there.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
I mean, it's shorts. It's not full.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Disclosure. It's shorts. You know it's it's it's shorts. But
I don't know, man, he was he was flying around.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
You know what?
Speaker 3 (30:15):
This this is the time of the year, especially in
the offseason, for guys to get noticed. And even though
it's just kind of shorts, uh in jersey, the T
shirt Olympics, you still can show flashes at what you
can do, fluidity in your motion, the ability to be aggressive.
And then now the idea is when the guys come
(30:37):
back for training camp, you've already showed something in OTA's
now you've already.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Set the bar high. You've already set your standard.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
So with you Robinson, the idea is that you need
to come back and make sure you capitalize off of that.
You continue to build the plant and you stack those
bricks because if you don't, now you get labored as, oh,
now you're just flying around because there's no pads on.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
But now it's it's it's you know, and there are
plenty of shorts. You know, workout larriors. You know, we've
seen all this, we've seen.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
It before, you know, star running backs, and then you
know there was a particular running back used to play
for the Broncos, big big jump cut guy who was playing.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
One hundred and ten percent in shorts. And then you
know the game came on and it wasn't quite the same,
but you know.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
With that being said, I mean it is it certainly
made me raise an eyebrow at least, like, Okay, I
want to see more of this guy at the start
a training camp, somebody I'm definitely in my eye on.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, I mean, I guess now, now here's my question
for you. Now, I know you are huge. You like
to maybe the number one fan to fan in the
fan club with Demon Beagley. So so now that you
enter another player into the mix, how does that somehow
change for you?
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Well, I mean I have two eyes. I can keep
one on you know.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
They don't necessarily play different directions, but I can try
to keep one on it. Now, it just means that,
you know, I have my players of emphasis that I'll
kind of keep an eye on based on, you know,
what we've seen so far and where I think competitions
might be going that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
That are guys that I'll have my eye.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
But you don't just focus on one guy all practice,
you know, unless you're Ryan Edwards and then all you
do is se Bo Nicks.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
I love you, Ryan, that is true.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
But once again, this is what I love about what
George Paid has done with with this roster there's an
immense amount of competition, and it gives us so much
to kind of chew on as far as who's going
to be here, who's going to be there, who's going
to be For the most part, we know defensively who's
(32:37):
going to be in the top spots, but now it's
fighting for playing time, fighting for.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
That second position.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Now, if you're not in that second position, are you
good enough to play special teams? Do you play at
a high level? So this is what I love and
knowing is the the Broncos. I guess for the first
time in years, there's a lot of question marks as
far as what's going.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
To happen with this team and how do you guys.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Are going to kind of shape out, as far as
who makes the team and who the bubble guys and
what's what's one of those groups of guys will end
up on a practice squad that it is.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
We come back.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Uh, I want to get into the new spin on
the the old play stuff. Yes, uh, definitely do that
real quick before we hit the break. Uh, are you
do you guys? Do you guys still go to cinema
to watch movies?
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Like?
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Uh, I didn't even realize that the mission impossible, things
like not.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Gonna be an Imax anymore. Buddy b K was the
talk to me the other day, like it's already out
of Imax. Yeah, that was a movie I had to see.
Did you watch an Imax? Yes, okay, I need to
see it in Imax. I mean, I don't know who.
I mean, I'll call it the Yeah, oh, I'll call
the theater. Someone's boasting, aren't they. I'm just saying, what's
(33:50):
the worst they can do? Tell me, no, they haven't yet.
Get out of your bitchin bright. I'm just saying no.
But I mean, like that's the thing, like movies go
out of Imax so fast now, Like I didn't even
see it. iMac is already, it's already out of Imax.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Yeah, man, they got they bring it out for a
couple of weeks and then they got to get it
on Peacock and Amazon said they.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Already got to get it on Amazon or whatever. Role
like some of us, you know, some of us do
not live our lives that way. Man, you got to
get to the Tator do a better job.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Yes, I'm a terrible person. So Roccos Country Night back
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.