06-20-24 Hour 3 of Broncos Country Tonight

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You guys heard it here and youknow I'm an avid listener of the
Ticket for Granted podcast, one ofmy favorites as well. Find six sixty
nine zeros the text line getting someinteresting texts from out there at the Rolling

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Stones concert. Someone is apparently listeningto us while at the Stones concert.
Yeah, what a what a whatA. What a true fan. I'm
like, dude, give it them, give them money. You paid for
those tickets. What are you doinglistening turned us off? Did you want
them here at KOA? Well?Even then, I what do you listen
to the Stones? What do youdo? In fairness? He is saying,
the widespread Panic is on right now, so I get it. You

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can leave us on during widespread panic. Yeah, that's just one long jam
session. See you know, dietfish or whatever. It's It's fine.
But at the end of the day, I mean, if you're the Stones
concert, what are you doing listeningto Broncos country tonight? You must be
tuned in for our next guest,and that is the Denver Broncos beat reporter
for the Denver Post, Parker Gabrielat Parker Jay Gabriel on Twitter, Parker,

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are you don't see me? I'mdoing great? Can I indulge you
with a Rolling Stones concert story?You certainly cancer My mom. I'm very
proud of her. She was attendingRolling Stone Concert of Madison in nineteen ninety
four, a couple of days shortof being due with my little brother Paul,
and somebody got a little bit tooclose to her and she knocked a

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woman out. Wait, okay,I need you to go back on this.
Lie that. First of all,Zach will some names, just shut
off your radio. Second of all, I need you to go back here
a little bit. Somebody got tooclose and she like, what do you
mean got too like it was liketoo handsy, like you know, drunk
stumbling around. My mom is youknow, eight plus months pregnant, jock
here? So your mom just hauledoff and just like, was it?

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And I hesitate to say this,so I probably so misogynistic. Was it
pregnancy hormones? Or was your momjust like, you know what, No,
we're not getting close to me?Yeah? I think I think basically
she took matters into her own handsdelivered a knockout blow. And then a
couple of days later, they wereclosing on a house and the realtor said,
are you the woman that punched outsomebody at the wrong stone? Oh

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well, okay, okay, nowsee this story gets better. So wait
a minute, your mom suddenly becamesuddenly had this reputation as the woman who
knocked someone out of the stones.How big was this town at least?
I mean, while there's eighty thousandpeople I can't randle probably, but the
town that we were moving to wasa town of two thousand people. Okay,

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okay. I was like, becausewaiting a minute. I'm like,
wait a minute, the Stones aren'tplaying in the middle of a you know,
a cornfield in Iowa. So thisis not in New Claris, Wisconsin,
America. Mama said, knock youout. Yeah, she took it.
She took it as literally as possible. I'm trying to remember my time
up there in Wisconsin. I rememberI was up there at Fort McCoy for

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some training before I got deployed.I think it was my my final tour
uh over overseas and I uh wewe had a weekend off, so I
went to some small town and Iswear it was called Sparta, and and
we were I mean just the hammeredand we were sitting there doing what every
probably tourist does in that town.It's just sports. Ah like idiots.
Yeah, that sounds like something youwould do in Sparta. I mean,

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I think it's the only thing todo in Sparta if I remember correctly.
But anyway, if I have sixsix nine zeros of text on you guys
got questions from Parker are having toask him Parker. Uh, the Broncos
have made some moves. They've added, Uh, David Shaw, somebody they
previously interviewed for the head coach job, as a senior personnel exec whatever that
title means. Obviously you Shaw interviewedfor the head coaching job back in twenty

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uh in January twenty twenty three.Now he's sort of in the I guess
scouting in personnel world. I don'treally know what that title means per se.
Is it feels like that this isyet another ad to the front office
to take a little off of GeorgePayton's plate. Yeah, I think it's.
I think you're exactly right. Itdoesn't. It doesn't. It's not
real specific, but I think it'sthat's because it's probably a little bit of

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everything, and it's it's primarily aboutfilms. So like you're you're you're probably
you're scouting college players, David Jawobviously college coach for a long time.
You're scouting pro players obviously every NFLteam as a pro personal department, and
then also perhaps doing you know,scouting of the broncos own roster too,
which is part of pro scouting.But so I think it's just a little

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bit of everything. It's just ayou know, sharp football mind, gots
a lot of coaching experience, anda guy who can you know, uh,
lend a hand just on play orevaluation no matter sort of you know
where the players being evaluated are currentlyand and sit in as sort of another
set of of eyes and ears andevaluating chops for for George Payton. Is

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this an indicator because many who speculatedonline that George Payton is not long for
that job. You look at whatthe you Broncos have done. They've had
a Cody Rager, who you knowkind of as a scouting buddy of Sean
Payton's. Now you've got you know, David Shawff, a guy who used
to coach with Sean Payton now inthe front office. Is this an indication
that that the working relationship that we'vesort of seen lately that looked like it

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was, you know, Sunshine andRoses may not be that. I don't
think necessarily like, I don't thinkit's quite so just a to b like
that. I mean, I dothink you know, if you if you
are on entirely solid ground and there'sno doubts about the job, you're doing,
you don't necessarily need to, youknow, add subtracts from your staff.

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Whatever makes changes now Invariably, ifyou're really good at what you do
in the NFL, you end upmaking changes to your staff because people get
promoted and leave. And so whileI don't think this is, you know,
George Peyton, like anybody else settingup a post George Peyton era or
anything like that, I do thinkit's probably, at least in part,
George Peyton recognizing that when you haven'twon, the status quo is not going

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to cut it. So, youknow, you add a guy who Sean
Payton's very familiar with to get,you know, fresh perspective. You add
David Shaw to get fresh perspective.And it's kind of funny that I was
having this conversation with somebody earlier.This is the way it goes when you
don't win for eight years. Imean, think about every single person who's
been added to the coaching staff orthe personnel the front office this offseason.

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Like the first question that everybody jumpsto is like, who are they set
to replace at some point? Youknow Jim Leonard, Oh, well that's
Van Siosi's eventual replacement. Cody Ragerwas George Peyton's replacement. Now, David
Shaw, is that George Stayton's replacement? Like this is the way the conversation
goes when you're not winning games.Yeah, And I think that's I think

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that's it, and I do Ido hope that this is more of a
continuity type move if people do moveon, than it is a we're trying
to push somebody out, you know, as was speculated, and you know
that kind of stuff can speculate onsocial media. Five six six nine zero
is the text line Parker Gabriel fromthe Denver Post Parker J. Gabriel on
Twitter, I refuse to call itX. The Broncos waved former Air Force

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linebacker Alec Mack today as well.That was the roster spot needed to sign
UFL Birmingham Stallion's standout Dondrea Tillman tothat three year deal. Now, I
look at the numbers I've seen onthis, I can only find ten grand
guaranteed in this contract, even thoughit looks like it's a pretty sweet three
year deal. Am I Am Imissing something here? No, you're not.

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I mean I think a lot oftimes like the sometimes with guys that
are like essentially on on rookie contract. You know, you'll like a guy
like Jill McLaughlin who makes a rosteras an undrafted guy. Right like,
he's not he doesn't have the standardfour year rookie contract that you get if
you're drafted, but they do endup getting multiple years. So while yeah,

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I mean technically it's a three yeardeal, the only guarantee is a
ten thousand dollars signing bonus, andso like functionally, functionally, Donrea Tillman
sort of joins the roster with theapproximate status or at least the approximate job
security of a guy who is anundrafted rookie who got a ten thousand dollars
signing bonus, which is to say, like not a whole lot. Now,

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obviously there's plenty of opportunity he canplay his way into more, but
the three year contract, I thinkthe wies a little bit like what's actually
happening here? We look at whathe brings to the table. I don't
know how many people watched, youknow, UFL football is spring, and
he was he was pretty good.I thought it'd be interesting to see,
you know, I guess better competitionat the NFL level, how productive will

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be. But the Broncos have madean investment into the defensive line and edge
rush, you know, this offseason, whether it's it's getting bodies on the
inside to tie up blockers, guyslike Malcolm Roach, Angelo Blaxon, you
know, you look at for thetrade for for one of my favorites,
Jonathan Franklin Myers, you know,and then of course drafting Jonah Ellison on
the edge. They've made a realcommitment to that, and it looks like,

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based on some of the personnel thatthey brought in the type of bodies
that they've brought in, that thisdefense is going to pivot away from what
they've done basically since mcfangio got hereand back toward what they were doing when
Vance was the head coach, incontinuing the tradition of Wade Phillips. Is
that are my eyes deceiving me onthat? Or is this just a chance
to be more multiple? Or amI way off here? No? No,

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I don't think your way off.I mean I don't know that you're
going to see him. I mean, who knows, It's it's June.
You know, there's there's a lotthe entire season that had I don't I
don't know if it's a full pivotto you know, play an even front
and all that, but even lastyear, I mean, you saw they
just ended up and two down sooften last year, given kind of like
where their depth was on the defensiveline, and just you know, last

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year one of the things, there'sone of those things, like it sounds
great and sometimes it's it's a littlebit of like code word or talking around
a problem when you say, well, we're just trying to find a way
to get our best eleven on thefield. And like, by and large,
last year, Denvers best eleven didn'tinclude three to the defensive lineman.
You're just going to have a hardtime playing that way. And so I

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think you have guys that are capableof playing odd front, even front.
You know, maybe you've got acouple of you know, pass rushing defensive
lineman now and Zach Allen and JohnFranklin Myers that don't make it as necessary
to you know, play three outsidelinebackers and pass rushing situations or whatever some
a lot of the sub stuff.So it's going to be interesting to see

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how they deploy those guys, andit's going to be imperative I think for
the rest of what's a relatively youngoutside linebacking group, but a group that
does have some experience at this point, like those guys are going to have
to show that it's not they don'tjust get after the passer, but that
they can hold up against the runbecause otherwise that you know, that formula
could shift, like you're saying thensort of like away from a traditional three

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to four, especially on early downs, into some you know, personnel groupings
where maybe they're a little bit betterequipped just from my side and strength perspective,
to slow down rushing attacks. Talkingto Parker Gabriel, the never posted
Parker J. Gabriel on Twitter,all eyes on the quarterback situation obviously through
OTA's mandatory mini camp. You know, I thought Jared stidn't looked the best

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or at least the smoothest so far, and that's the way it should look.
I mean, he's he's got ayear experience in this offense, He's
got a year with these receivers.I thought bone Nicks looked competent. I
thought he looked like a rookie,but he looked competent he looked like he
was, you know, kind ofkind of finding his footing and probably number
two on the depth chart. Andthen there's Zach Wilson and the tools are
there, and you see a coupleof throws that you're like, okay,
all right, there it is,and then you see eight or nine throws

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in a row You're like, Okay, we got a lot of work to
do here. There's been something somewhere. I have no idea where this originated,
but there's some kind of report outthere that Zach Wilson is leading the
charge in this quarterback battle. Uh. I that's not what I saw.
And I was there for a reviewingperiod. I saw you were there for
a reviewing period. Can you explainhow anyone would come to that conclusion?

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And are my eyes deceiving me?Maybe? Maybe the way that you would
come to that conclusion vent is likeif you weren't there and then you just
were guessing. But I don't know, I don't know. I had not
actually seen that. I don't knowwhere that would have come from. And
I think too, like I getit like the way that people end up
reading into this, I think inlarge part because there's just we're not you're

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not really allowed to say a wholelot about Hey, this guy was you
know, three for five and sevenon seven, but then he was just
one of three in team or whatever. Like they're not you know that they
you will get a phone call veryquickly if you put charting them up and
stuff like that, and so like, in some ways, I don't I

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don't think it helps. I don'tthink they particularly care about this, but
like it doesn't behoove like fans,readers, listeners, viewers. When you
don't you can say, well,I think, you know, Jared Sidham
looks as smooth as I think BoNicks. You know, it looks like
he isn't rattled when he walks upto the line scrimage or anything like that.
But there's just not a lot moreyou can go on. And so

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like, I think everything gets alittle bit overblown. I think Bo Nick's
performance gets overblown. He was fine. I totally agree with your assessment.
Like sometimes he looks like a rookiemost of the time that at least looks
like he knows what he's doing,which that's sort of where you wanted to
be at this point. And ZackWilson, like yeah, he struggled at
times, Like at times the armtalent just jumps off the screen. At

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times it looks like he doesn't knowwhat he's looking at or what he's doing,
and like, given where the calendaris, I think that's okay at
this point. But people jump rightto the like, well, he's horrible,
he has no chance at the job. He this, and that it's
not really that. It's just it'sjust getting used to a new system and
it didn't look pretty all the time. So I'm not saying I think he's

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gonna win the job. I don't, but I do think that they're gonna
come back here at the end ofJuly. It won't take long for the
reps to start to adjust, butI think they're at least going to look
at all three guys and say like, Okay, we're just reinforcing that we
think we're on the right track withhow we want the reps to go towards
the preseason games. Well, yeah, and I think that, you know,

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I mean, Zach stance as gooda chance as anybody. It's interesting
to me how people sort of considerhim washed when he and Bodex are basically
the same age. I mean,there's like six months separating them, you
know, so I it's for me. I'm like, well, you know,
if Bonix can learn, then ZachZach Wilson can learn that. To
me, that's just that's just absurd. We've got a about two minutes left
here. If Bonix doesn't win thejob, if it does go to Jared'stidham,

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is that disaster or is that Hey, this guy just needs a little
bit more time in the oven.I don't think gets disastered necessarily, but
I think the thing with the firstround quarterback right is like you don't want
to do what happened is zat Wilsonwhere you end up he's playing, he's

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on the bench, he's playing,he's on the bench. He just you
know, you're not quite sure.Like the ideal no matter what happens with
Bonix is either he plays and heworks through whatever challenges he has. It's
not always going to be pretty,but he makes it through and he learns
a lot and all that, orit starts the year in your hypothetical and
then when you make the move tobo you just do it once and he's

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ready and he plays okay, andyou sort of go from there. Like
the worst thing that can happen reallyis that you make more than one.
You can't control injuries, but thatyou make more than one performance related change
at the quarterback position this coming season. So if that numbers one or zero,
you know one of them's gonna involveBonis. Probably if that numbers one

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or zero on the ear doesn't meanyou have great quarterback play, but it
probably means that you got the decisionright or close to right at the outset.
Looking forward to talking to you againhere soon. Parker Gabriel at Parker
J. Gabriel on Twitter. Heyman, I have a good night.
Yeah you do. When we comeback in the NFL six pack, Welcome
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Total free awesome, all right,Rady app nailed it, nailed it three
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It for Granted podcast, or youclick the little red microphone up there in
the corner and leave us a talkback like this. Comrade alright, I
think you're right up there with comradeEdwards Pulp from New York. Brother who
love your show is always want toget your take on Javante so far?

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What you're thinking getting my fantasy draftsgoing? Pick them? I think sixteenth
I'm sorry that thirteenth round. It'sgoing late out of twenty rounds. So
RB three you think he'll be themain man? What are you thinking so
far? Well, Paul, Ido actually think you'd be the maining despite

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other reporting out there and Joel's McLoughlinhas looked pretty good. But again we're
talking about practices where guys aren't inpads, right, Smaller, speedier running
backs always look better when there's nopads on. What are the power guys
going to do? Right? Imean the guys like like the estime who's
been injured, angevida, What arethe power guys going to do in those

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situations? Them about practice, Ithought you were going with the ted lasso
practice there. But you know,that's fine. I'm just I'm befuddled a
little bit by some of the reportingcoming out of camp and people suggesting that
Javonte Williams is washed or whatever.I expect him to be the guy this
year. I haven't seen anything toindicate that he wouldn't be. And if

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anybody would be the odd man outfinancially, it would seem to be some
JP Ran, a guy who fumbledquite a bit last year and has a
monetary disincentive relative to the other runningbacks. So I I'm I'm I don't
know. I'm a little befuddled bysome of the narratives that are out there
on Javonte Williams. Right now,I think you're fine. You got to
the thirteenth or sixteen for hour,that's it's gravy. I mean, at

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that point, if you're getting runningbacks that are viable, you're you're doing
well. So a good draft pickthere, Paul. As soon as the
training camp gets here, they putthe pads on and be able to give
you kind of a better a betterunderstanding of where things go. But I
think it's ridiculous to count out JavonteWilliams. Right now, I'm with that.
Let's get the NFL six pack.It's time for the NFL six pad.

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I'm going to trade at insight andinsight information you can't find anywhere else.
The top six headlines. What well, we're starting with one that you
sent to me, because man,is this ridiculous story. Matt Stafford's wife,
Kelly, on the Off the Vinepodcast, says she slept with the

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backup quarterback at Georgia while they wereboth there to make Matthew Stafford jealous.
What are your thoughts on this?This is it was brought to my attention
by Miami Dolphins beat reporter O MarkKelly, and what he said when he
tweeted it out there was that thiswas sort of a toxic, a highly

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toxic thing. And his wife saysthat she dated. I don't know she
specifically said she slept with him.She definitely said she dated him to try
to make Matthew Stafford jealous, andthe implication there was that she's lived with
him. I don't know she specificallysaid that and that Matthew Stafford eventually pulled
up the cars that you can't dothis, I got it, you know,
that kind of thing, and she'slike, this is working. And
as I'm watching this, i' dude, this is this is someone being manipulated,

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manipulator and that I mean they're marriednow, so I guess they put
it all behind him, and mattStafford's okay with you. But Kelly Stafford
comes across as a narcissistic manipulator inthis. And for somebody who has sort
of been out spoken about the moralhigh ground and things like that and on
on issues like that, I don'tjust feels odd. It just felt odd

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and seeing this, and she's beenheavily about you know, I don't want
to sit there and delve into otherpeople's personalize because it's not my personal life.
And the Lord knows my personal lifeis enough out there, you know,
as far as that stuff goes,even with the fictionalized versions that are
out there, it's still more thanneeds to be out there. That said,
it was weird to me. Idon't understand that that's that's that is

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highly toxic, that is manipulative,and you know if anybody was sitting there
trying to If I was a quarterbackat Georgia and the girl I had dated
all of a sudden and we brokeit up for whatever reason started dating my
backup just to try to get atme, I probably would have gone the
other direction with it would and gotit back. I probably would have been
you know, my favorite my favoriterace car drivers were the Petties. My
favorite quarterback in college was Bryce Petty. My favorite musician is Tom Petty.

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Uh. And yeah, anyway,none of that's true, but I would
have been super petty. And whywhy even you know this? Why share
this story now? Why it iscoming from it? Yeah, there's there's
it seems I don't I don't understandlike any of this, and it's out
there. The art of the dialogue, uh is the one that has the
that has the clip up or whatever, and it's it's just I don't,

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I don't know. Yeah, basicallythat's probably the best way to put it.
Too non football story, but interestingnonetheless, JJ Reddick hired as the
Lakers coach. Do you like thishire? And UH, give the listeners
the story you told me off airabout uh? The NBA insiders going back
and forth on this. Yeah,I mean, I yes, it's interesting

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to me. The podcaster to headcoach pipeline has now opened, so I
guess there are opportunities, will bewill be throwing our way, grant as
far as the rest of it goes. If if Lebron is happy, then
I guess everybody's happy, because that'swhat That's what this really is sort of
about. The interesting part of thisis sort of the insider the NBA basketball
insider beef that stemmed from this.Sham's Karania came out and said that,

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uh, that j. J.Redick was the Lakers target all along quite
a while back. I think itwas March or something like that, and
he's been a while. Maybe itwas early May, maybe not quite March.
Anyway, he came out and saidthat that JJ Redick was their target.
Then uh, Andrian Wardronowski came outand said that that was not the
case. In fact, it wasa courtesy interview. They weren't even seriously
interested that Dan Hurley was the Lakersstop target. Now unwell, now WADGS

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has a connection to Dan Hurley andthat he is like sort of his biographer
and all that kind of so there'sthere's a lot there, there's a there's
a familiar relationship there, So I'mnot I'm not exactly trusting Wadds on that.
As far as we saw the Lakersinterests in Hurley, I think they
sort of Shams turned it as theythrew a Hail Mary up for Hurley and
then pivoted back to their top targetin JJ Reddick. Wah says that they

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were all in on Hurley, didn'tget it, and then pivoted to Reddick
after that. Depending on who youbelieve, and I tend to believe Sham's
coranny on this a little, withall due respect to Watch. He was
a great reporter in it. Myself, I tend to believe Sham's on this
one. But this has been weirdand the passive aggress is sniping that the
two have done toward each other forquite some times when Shams was Watches understudy
for a while back at I believeYahoo, where they where they both kind

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of got their start, and thisbeef has gotten to almost Kendrick and Drake
type levels, which I believe KendrickSendel settled what was it last night with
I don't know if you saw onstage united the entire he had Drake coming
up there, you know, theentire West Coast up there on stage with
him. I don't know if youguys have seen that. If you're interested
in rap stuff, that that that'ssomething you should certainly should certainly look at.

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It was a fascinating sort of deal. But as far as what I
feel about this, I mean,I hope JJ Redkin six, hope always
for success for him, But there'snot really anybody that I'm sitting there like,
I hope that guy fails, butI hope JJ succeeds. It'll be
interesting to see if he's able tosucceed, and certainly with his media stuff
that some of those things that hehas said previously would come under scrutiny.

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He's on a job as head coach. Three. He hit on this briefly
in the first Hour with Steve Atwater, But Justin Fields featured as a kick
returner and the Madden twenty five trailer. Do you think we could actually see
him as a kick returner this year? So, by the way, the
Steelers special teams coach is Nick Ferguson'scoach from Georgia Tech. Right, Oh,

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By the way zach A Zoni,he's the wide receivers coach there in
Pittsburgh. We've we've had a prettygood connection with and In russ Is,
of course, the quarterback up there. We've we've had some good conversations with
people up there in Pittsburgh about what'sgoing on there in Pittsburgh. Some people
I know, Dave Logan talked tosomebody up there who disagreed a little bit.
But the people I've talked up theresaid Fields just look like hot garbage

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at quarterback, And they have triedhim at kick returner opposite Quarterrell Patterson in
an attempt to harness his athleticism andget the thread of the throwback. You
know, with defenses leaning on thekickoff, it's their own tweak to the
rule. I mean not be surprisedto see, especially early on justin Fields
back there, and then later itmoves to sort of a decoy thing.
But I would not be surprised tosee early on if that happens. Do

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you are you excited for Madden twentyfive. I haven't bought a new Madden
in probably three or four years.I don't I don't know if it excited
is the right word. I buyit every year because I play it.
I've been excited about, you know, a game in a long time.
I'll get it because I get itand it's you know, they're fun to
play and all that kind of Stuff'mprobably gonna play as the Commanders because you

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know, Coach's out there and youknow Dang Quinn's out there and stuff like
that. Well, we'll see.I don't know what I'll do, but
but yeah, I get it everyyear. Suddenly, fin, I'm more
excited for the college football me too. For George Kittle says he lost thirty
pounds this offseason after his core surgery. Should this be of concern to the
forty nine ers. Yeah, theywere aware the weight loss would would would

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occur. I mean that is adramatic weight loss and shows just how much
Kittle works to keep weight on muscleand the body and how quickly that deteriorates.
You know, as far as thatkind of stuff goes, I think
I don't think it's anything for theNiners to worry about at all. I
mean, George Kittle will be motivatedto put that weight back on and work
worked his way back to the shapethat he was in, so I think
you'll see a renewed George Kittle.If anything, I think it should worry

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everybody else in the division when you'vegot a renewed physical body coming back from
a guy who definitely is not takingit for granted. All plugs to the
podcast there. I know, Idon't think the Niners have anything to worry
about. Bonus question on the fortynine ers. Is Brandon Nayuk there at
the start of the season. Idon't believe he will be, but we
shall see. Five. JJ McCarthythrew out a first pitch at the Twins

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game, and it was her asa starting quarterback or future starting quarterback because
now he's listed his third string forthe Vikings right now? Does this worry
you that he can't throw a firstpitch? I mean it looked worse than
Ryan Edwards up there. I don'tthink Ryan looked at that bad. It

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was just to dig it right,But this pitch did really look absurd.
Technically it would have been turned likea wild pitch. Not as awful,
yes as fifty cent, but youknow it's uh, it was not good.
I mean it doesn't concern me inthe sense that, like, who
cares it's a baseball it's not ona football field. He might have even

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had a few soda pops or whateverbefore he threw it. You know,
who knows. I don't know thecircumstances behind it. So no, I'm
not I'm not sweating that. Butit is a certainly comical moment that I
think nobody wants to have happened tothem. Yeah, that was a that
was a bad look. How concernedare you as a just if you're a
Vikings fan with him not looking readyor was this kind of you know,

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and the backdrop the whole time wherethat's why they brought in Sam Donald because
JJ McCarthy is young and and wasn'tgoing to be ready in year one.
Yeah, I think you're not worriedabout that. I mean, you brought
Donald in to be the stopgap.You knew, you kind of knew what
you were getting with that. Youknew JJ was was going to be a
guy that probably is going to takea year in the oven before you you
pulled it out. So I don'tI don't think you're too if you get

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into next year and you're you know, you get into late this season and
practice you're not seeing that you getinto next year he not able to take
the job from guys like Sam Donaldand trade. Then you're THENU worry for
the much too early projections. Doyou feel like the Broncos made the right
choice then? If? If?Because you know, Sean Payton said even
if JJ was there, they weregoing to take Yeah, And I mean,

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I don't know. I don't knowthe answer to that. I think
for the context of the situation theBroncos have, in the sense that Sean
Payton doesn't have a year to wayaround on another quarterback, right that they
did, whether or not he turnsout to be better than JJ McCarthy the
long term, I don't know toearlier for that six sad day in the
acting world. I'm sure everyone isheard by now, but legend Donald Sutherland

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passes away at eighty eight years old. Did you have a favorite movie of
his? Oh, man, that'sa good that's a good question. He
was there were some TV shows Iliked he was in. I'm trying to
think of a favorite movie. Therecent movies that he was in, Like
The Italian Job. I think backin what three that was such a good
that was it was fun. It'sa remake. I'm trying to think of

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you know, he's he's thinking JFK. He's probably one of the most phenomenal
jobs that he's done. Six Sgreezesof Separation was great. I liked him
in Dirty Sexy Money. Is kindof like the Patriarch or whatever that TV
show like he was. He wasreally good, uh in that one.
I didn't watched the Hunger Game stuff. We've never seen the Hunger Games,

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not any of them. I neversaw. Oh my god, dude.
That's how I will remember him becausehis care in that movie. Man,
he's like the ruler of the downtrodden world in all the different districts.
And you think he's like a supernice guy in the first first movie,
and then you see just how corruptand evil he is and his his storyline,

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his arc of a character is tremendous. Yeah, he's My favorite Donald
Sutherland movie is probably it's not hisrole in it, but a movie he
was in would would probably be SpaceCowboys. That's a good one with Clint
Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, andJames Garner. Phenomenal movie if you've ever
if you've ever haven't seen it,you should watch it as a you know,

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grumpy old man go to space basicallysort of, and then I say
that they don't really go to It'snot science fiction in that regard. It's
just a it's a really good movie. I want to give anything away.
You should, you know, ifyou haven't seen it, you should watch
it. Yeah, And of coursehe was in mash way back and that's
probably when he's curiously mostly going tobe remembered for that and the father of
obviously Keifer Sutherland. So yeah,it was a I saw that. I

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opened up Twitter today saw that asoh man, you know, it just
thinks when when when talented people,you know, pass away, and uh,
you know, I think that weplaced too much importance on entertainers sometimes.
But he was Donald Sultan. Ithink was was one of the good
guys. Certainly seemed like he was, uh uh one of the good guys.
And you know, came across thatway from it, from the way

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the tributes poured in today, youkind of got that vibe and so you
know that that's one of those that'sone of those things that just you know,
you're just like a you know,it stinks. Yeah, And then
you know, with Willie May's passing. I know you talked about it that
that was a big one for me. Willie May is passing away, and
you know, and and that thatthat sort of you know, it hearkens

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back to uh an era on theborderline where a lot of those players bridge
the gap between frankly just outright prejudiceand and sort of where we are today,
which is improved, moved, butnot you know, not where it
should be. I mean, westill see you can get on social media
these days and see that you know, things aren't where they should be.
Yeah, you know, and sothat's that's that's tough. Yeah, Willie

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Mays was was a tough one.I'm trying to think of And I was
going to ask you this before weget to get out of here. The
toughest you know, death in thelast couple of years for you personally,
I couldn't. I couldn't put myfinger on one for me. I mean,
it's just you know, I've hadfriend personal things that obviously were tough,
But as far as the celebrity oran entertainer that was that was tough,
I don't know, I don't,I don't know what the what the

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toughest one was because that question wasposed to me earlier today, I you
know, maybe Philip Seymour Hoffman,Yeah, that was a tough one recently,
Captain holt Man, Yeah, thatwas that was a Dedre Brower.
Yeah, that was a big onefor me because I watched that show all
the time. Yeah, he wasjust he was a great actor in a
lot of things. Anyway, BroncosCountry Tonight rules on after this made the

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