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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M Grant Smith filling in for Benjamin Albright, joined by
the one and only Nick Fergus the IW come.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're sitting over there, Nick.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Sitting over where, I mean across from.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You, not in Benjamin Albright seat.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
You know what, Sometimes that that seat has some negative
vibes that come from other knee and don't I don't
want my.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Backside to be torched by it.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
So I decided to sit across from you because normally
you're sitting behind a glass where young seekers is.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
See. Now I can really look at you and get
that energy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I feel almost too close to you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Especially in that all white outfit like you're having for
a Diddy party, getting your baby.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oil ready or what's going on over there?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Whoa wait, wait a minute, when did my fashion sense
come into play all of a sudden of going to
the Diddy party?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm just saying you fit the picture.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh, we got a big show tonight. We got Roamy
being coming up at six point thirty. Parker Gabriel at
seven o five premassed us at eight oh five get
all their thoughts on Broncos Training Camp Day two.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But before we get into the Broncos talk.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Of course, we lost a legend earlier today in the
world of wrestling, Haul Cogan. I wanted to play this
little SoundBite of him teasing I guess his fight against
Andre the Giant back in the day. This is his
promotional video.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, I'm here about those people, man, I'm sure about
those people that aren't start craving a whole commniacs.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I could care less what they think. I'm fighting for life, brother, I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Fighting for all those people that have remolded their lives.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'm on the lefter hal Comania got their priorities in order.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man, walk around with a lot of pride.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
As far as those people that are on Andre the
Giants side, I wish he'd.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Come on down to I'm like.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I flopped them around just for a warm up. But
I've already gone through my fan information. Man, I'm ready
for party Michigan.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm not the haulk anymore. I'm the hawster man looking
to my eye. Man, Oh, come on that mountaintop.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Back off the man. I'm on that mountain, cap and
I'm waiting for you Andre. Now, I'm guarding that mountain in.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The hals to the garden.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Who's got a thirty two inch neck, a sixty four
inch chests, the largest arms in the world. I'm here
to seek and destroyed, seeking destroy the cancer of Andrea
the giants who was seeking.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Destroy the Weetle's Empire.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And what you gonna do? Andre m Pontiac, Michigan for
the haw Comania.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thirty two inch neck, a sixty four inch chest, and
the largest arms ever known to man?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What is Hawk Covid? How are you gonna remember him?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, I'm sure that was right in your like
era of growing up, right, was when he was coming
out as the big time face of wrestling.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, it was because Saturday night main event.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
That the wrestling shows that used to come on every
now and again on Saturdays back in the eighties. And
I remember for me it was him wrestling Andre the Giant,
but then it was the Iron Sheet And during the
time the WWE as they were called then, uh, they
did a great job of building the stories, right and
(03:21):
those are the storylines that you felt fell.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In love with.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
And Hawk Hogan used to come out to I am
a real American.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I just see him waving that USA flag side to side.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And then also it was big in the eighties too,
because Hawk holgand in appearance in the Rocky movie.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yes, and did I forgot about it just as.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
A wrestler, and it was it was dope as hell
for me and my brothers. We used to sit in
the room and my mom used to want us to
go to sleep. But if Saturday night main event was on,
it's standing up like you're turning the volume down.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You're putting a towel at the bottom of the door.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Ready, Yes, it was when.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You said kool aid, it was that diabetic kool aid.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Bro is that purple drink?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You know what, man, it's funny that you say that, Grant,
because I know yesterday being with saying something about you
almost to the saying that you're not cool and he
doesn't know your cool barometer. Yeah, just affect that you
got layers, Yes, more layers than the dude from Markasos.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Just saying on his chicken tenders.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes exactly, So I feel you.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Holgan, you know, definitely was my guy, and it was
twenty one inch pythons.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
He always If you want to share any memories of
how hul Cogan influenced your life or just a funny
story about him, and your childhood or anything about hal
Cogan dying at seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Reach out to us on the.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Text line the Common Spirit Heal text line five six
six nine zero. You know, I was a little bit
later in the in the pantheons of wrestling. I was,
you know, Goldberg and Stoneclaki, Yeah, crushing the Budweiser beer
cans on his head. So I didn't have too many
memories of Hulk Hogan actually wrestling. I remember him from
his reality TV show with his family.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's right, was VH one, MTV?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It was, I don't know, it was one of the two.
I'm gonna have to look it up. Hogan knows best.
I think was the name of it. But I had
a pretty big crush on his daughter, Brooke Back.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
She was a singer or something, right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, she had one song I think. I don't know,
I don't know, I don't remember the name of it.
And Seegers just told me in my ears the show
was on VH.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
One, Okay, VH one.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, So see see you got.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That new age.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I had that that old WWE and w c W
with vin Nerricks. Yeah, remember them, Rick Flair right, Ric
Flair for sure, because Rick Flair even though obviously he's
not wrestling anymore, but he's kind of asked himself into
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pop culture.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah right, thanks to the migos.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, he has got the Rick Flood drip.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Rick Flair drip. He did have some drip, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He certainly did Sun Hal Cogan And you know, as
a man with a glorious mustache myself, I always always
appreciated his big handlebar mess.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Okay, So with that, with that being said, when you
look at because I know, of wrestling, they had a
lot of guys like this. But when you look at
sports as a whole, who would you say was kind
of like the biggest self promoters and sports as a whole,
it's sports as a whole.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, Hawk hall Cogan's got to be up there for sure. Well,
Ric Flair is right there with and Rick Flair.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Ric Flair with his coats and his bulls and.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
For sure, man, but you know you got to go
with your guy Dion as well.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know what a what a self promoter he was
and still.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Is still and you have to leverage your skill set
and market it in that particular way.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You know what, I even throw Jerry Jones in there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean he's kept the Cowboys America's team without making
it to an NFC championship game in thirty years.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, okay, here's another owner who I would toss in there,
to the.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Late Al Davis.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, yeah, just when baby went.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Yes, how about Jordan Michael Jordan was sports owner, But yeah,
Mike who was?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Never I think I think he was more forced into
the spotlight.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean as the face of the NBA.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
See Jordan brand was a by product of his mentality
and what he did. If you want to talk about
basketball and self promoters.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Breaking the rules with the custom shoes and everything that
was Nike's idea. Yes, I mean he's.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
The one who did it promote the brand that's named
after himself.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So what's your definition of self promoter? Because I think
you're kind of getting them a little to twisted up.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
What's your definition of I think someone who's promoting their
personal brand. And I think Jordan is the bit of
me of that he bought a sports team off of
his success of being a self promoter.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
See that's why I don't view that as being a
self promoter. See Jordan Jordan' have to really scream and
shout about how great he was, right because everyone knew
how great Black Jesus was.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
If anything, he was kind of silent.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He was, he was really solid. He let everyone else
do the talking for him. Now, if there is a
guy in the association who is a self promoter, that's
Lebron James.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Lebron James's absolutely on that list to him, I be.
I just think they went and went about the game differently.
I don't think you have to be Braggadocia's I mean,
Jordan talked, talked plenty of trash.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
See see braggadoche is in talking trash.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Two different things, right, those are those are two different
very much.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And when we look.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
At self promotion, and I'm not saying that it's a
bad thing, do you right, because everyone is out there
trying to make sure that they have a much larger brand.
Look at how things are now, like everyone in their
mama have a podcast, and now that we have these
cell phones that we did not have think the Lord,
we didn't have them back in my playing Yeah. Now,
(09:17):
so everyone is trying to grab every bit of content
and promote himself.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So I'm not a gist. My thing is do you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But if we're talking about the biggest sports self promoters,
Hulk is up there, Ric Flair's up there, Coach Prime
is up there, Lebron is up there, I would say
maybe Christian.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Ronaldo, Well, Christiano Ronaldo is a great one, yeah, because
I see I would put like Lionel Messi is kind
of in the same vein as Michael Jordan for me,
like he lets his names the talking for him. Christiano
Ronaldo is putting himself out there. He's got his YouTube
channel all that stuff. A text from the three zero
three on the Common Spirit Health text line at five
six six nine, oh Russell Wilson self promot I would
(10:01):
agree with that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yes, I would agree with that, of course, because it's
about moving your brand forward even if people don't like
your brand, which we know here Denver people didn't like
it because he wouldn't say what they wanted him to say, right,
and he was always thinking, Okay, here's what they could
ask me. I got two ways that I can answer
(10:22):
it my way or the way they want me to.
Because let's be honest about and transparent about the media.
And I noticed from a player standpoint, if someone's coming in.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
To interview you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They want to bite, they want to sound bite that
they can just kind of disseminate all over the place.
But if you act as though you are on a
straight and nar row, you never give them anything.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, and they get upset.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
One of the ones I can't believe we forgot this
from a seven to two.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh, Yes, some of his interviews from back of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Man someone who could.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Just wax so poetically and just self aggrandize, you know,
just just give it every thing you wanted to hear
from the top notch boxer and heavyweight division.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, if you're gonna go there, you might as well
go Foyd Mayweather.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Then yep, another great one in the boxing world.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
A couple other ones coming in here from the eight
to eight The Rock.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's a good one. Well here's the other one.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
With the People's elbow, with.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The People's elbow. And then I guess if you're staying
in that and I regard him pro wrestling, and you've
got John Cena, you know, yes, even though you can't
see him.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, which shows the lover in Florence of John Cena,
because Caitlin Clark took that on when she.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Was in college. Yep, yes, yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
A memory of hal Cogan coming in from the two
o eight. I was born in two thousand and five,
so obviously didn't get to experience Hogan live. But I
remember when I was five or six watching old WW
Eclipse on YouTube, and Hogan was one of the first
ones I gravitated towards.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Absolutely a legend.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Rip see those those stories that are very you know,
iconic and very nostalgic because when someone passes, the first
thing you do, when you hear that they pass automatically.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think this happens to everyone.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You go back into your youth and you say, okay,
but when was I introduced to this person?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Who introduced me to him? And what was that moment like?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
And that's why so shocking when we hear someone's passing like.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
This, Yeah, that's tough, man. And I saw a thing
yesterday and I didn't really think much of it. The
one of his friends or colleagues from back in the
day said they went and visited him and he wasn't
really talking, couldn't really get.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Any words out.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And I was like, oh, well, you know he'll bounce
back and then the next day you just hear about
him passing. You know, we had Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week,
and it's just like all these legends from your childhood
and your youth up into your adult life they pass
on and you just realize, like, man, life is so fleeting.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You know what someone said to me when Malcolm Jamar
Warner forgot him. I sent out, yes, and I sent
out some of my favorite scenes and episodes from The
Cosby Show.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And it was a very emotional time for me and
some of.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
My college mates because we grew up in that era
and The Cosby Show was kind of what we watched
at the time. And then one of them replied with,
you know, we're getting to the point in our lives
where you're now starting to lose people, right and now
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if you really didn't think about life and how pressure
it was before, now it's coming into perspective. And for me,
it's like, man, trying to live every day to the fullest,
not trying to be.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Like my dad and.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
My parents were with my kids, just trying to be
a little different man, because man, you never know when
God calls you home and you just want to make
sure whenever that happens, and you write that final chapter
that you left something.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Behind right, so, and you really.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Find out and it sucks that it happens like this
in life what you meant to people wants you transition
once you've passed.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
On, I'm like, hell with that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Tell me now, yeah, let me know what legacy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm still around to enjoy it if you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
If you want to tell me, Nick Ferguson, you suck,
just do it right. I'd rather you tell me that now.
So if there's something that I need to correct with you,
I can correct it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah. From the two on four.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When someone passes on, I think about how close they
are to my age.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Rip Ma'll come, Jamal Warner.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
See it hits hard, That's what it hits. That's what
it hits hard.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I agree, man.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think I'm going to ask all our guests tonight
to give their best Hulk Cocain impression.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I think ROMI. I think Rome he'll be game for it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Breathe.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Do you think Bri you'll be up for?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
What about Parker Gabriel He's gonna be game for But
I don't know if he's going to give you the
best one?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You got one for me?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, I'm on brother.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's funny though, because like me and my friends growing
up all said that to each other, really yeah, in
the hul Hogan voice, and we didn't, you know, we
weren't big fans of wrestling. But he had just transcended
what he was doing professionally to just be in the
pulp culture world. And that's I think that's something that's
going to be remembered about him, is how he kind
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of transcended what he did for a living into just
everyday culture.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
See, that's when I believe that.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You go from the celebrity behind that red velvet rope
to behind that purple rope because you kind of transcend time.
Like when you think about Ozzie, I mean, his music's
gonna live on, right, and Hank Hogan, you know the
old you know YouTube videos of him, Michael Jube Warner
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as well, But Hawk Hogan is in another stratosphere when
you transition errors, you know, Boomers to jen X to
gen Z right, And that's why with Rick Flair and
I give the Migos props because they pulled.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Him into this error.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yep, I agree.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
One more text before we get to a Broncos training
camp reaction with romy Bean after the break from the
three oh three.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I was born in eighty six.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Needless to say, I tore a lot of T shirts
up because of the Halkster and his twenty one inch
Python's brother.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I wonder what that Texters mom did with him tearing
all his T shirts.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hey, those are just good rags for cleaning up afterwards.
And since we're talking about hawk hogd, here's how one
more little mashup someone put together on YouTube leading us
into the break on Broncos Country at night on KOA.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm aware of hot destiny. This is gonna take its course.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Brother bro, brothers bro, brother's brother, brother's brother, brother, brother brother, brother, brother.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Brother fighting for life.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Brother, We've been hanging by brother brother brother brother, brother's.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Brother twenty thousand leagus under the seat. There's a nice
place to deposit somebody.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Brother brother, brother, brother, brother said brother brother brother, mother.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Brother, brother, brother, brother brother. They'll be trying to drink
their own sweat.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Survive brother brother, brother, brother, brothers brother.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Vietnam twenty years co Oh, my brother brother, brother, brother, brother,
brother and brother.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Love it my my brother.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We'll be right back on Broncos Country Night with romy Beans.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hulk Hogan impression.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
On Broncos Country to Night on KOA E fifty AM
ninety four to one FM. In here with my guy
Nick Ferguson Zack Seegers behind the glass doing a great
job as always, We're to run right out to the
KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline and bring on our favorite
Roamy Bean from CBS Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Romy How are you?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You know what better now that I'm on with you guys?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh well, we always appreciate having you on. We heard
today about hul Cogan passing at the age of seventy one.
We've all been giving our best hul Cogan impressions. Can
we get a hul Cogan impression from the one and
only romy Bean?
Speaker 10 (18:26):
Oh my god, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I can't. I'll do such a disservice to it. But
that was such a sad passing, just like an icon.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
I feel like for so much of us.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
For a lot of us for our childhood, or for
some people for adulthood.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
But that that one was a tough one.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I feel like we've all have you know, I had
a hull Cogan stretchy Dolly. Oh is that my brothers
and I and I stole it and I used to
love pulling his stretchy arms. You know, that's very sad Romie.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When we look at the Broncos upcoming schedule, is there
a game that you are most looking forward to watching?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Oh gosh, that's part you know what. There's a lot
of them, But I'd say early in the season. If
you want to go early in the season, I think that.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Third game in LA, that's a huge game, even that stretch,
that third game in LA, the.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Next game followed by the Bengals, especially.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
When you go to the last year's game with the Bengals.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And how that came down to that overtime game. And
the Bengals are another team that's always widely considered a
Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
People are saying both the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And the Chargers could be dark horses for Super Bowl contenders.
I think if we're going to go early in the season,
the first quarter, if you will, those two games are
going to be huge, and they're going to be huge too.
The Broncos should go into those They have a very
good chance to be in two and zero when they
go hit the Chargers right, So how does that look?
We're going to see the competition in the AFC WES
(19:48):
is going to be fascinating as it plays out. But
if I want to go just early on, I think
right off the bat, those games three and four.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
Are going to tell us a whole lot and.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Then of course you got Philly after that.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
It really exciting schedule, you guys, going up against the
defending Super Bowl champs. What a great litmus test early
in the season. What you look like against those three?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And it's going to be a much tougher schedule than
it was last year when the Broncos were taking teams
by surprise. But you've got Bronco's training camp underway, and
I was talking with Ryan Edwards earlier today and he
was just talking about how much more comfortable bo Nicks
looks in the offense in year two, which you know,
as he should a year under the Sean Payton offense
and coaching regimen. But have you seen the same thing
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from bow and year two at training camp? And what
are your thoughts on him meeting up with Drew Brees
in the offseason to get some training in with him.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah, I mean I both surprised us a lot as
a rookie with his poise, with his confidence, with his
even when the game was moving a little too fast
for him, how he's still he wasn't rattled by the moment,
And so I'm.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Not surprised to see Bo come in like this.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
This version of Boat's frankly what I expect. Did, I think,
what we all kind of expected. But to really see
it play out, you can see why the team is
just oozing.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
With confidence right now because this guy walks around.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Like a long time VET NFL sophomore maybe, but.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
He doesn't behave that way. You hear even guys like
talanoa Hufungo.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Who's new right coming in today, talking about how Bo
first of all the throws he makes, his intelligence, but
then how he handles himself as a person and a
player in the locker room, in the cafeteria. I mean,
he's just kind of beyond his years. And it's a
great thing, though, because the expectations that we've been talking
about are huge on the broad goes. Now, they're not
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taking anybody by surprise this year. Bo Nix has not
necessarily taken anybody by surprise.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
This year.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But he is clearly ready for that moment and he's
ready to bring his team with him. And I love
that he met up with Drew Brees. Anything you can do.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
To get an edge, to get ahead this in this
day and age, and to sit with.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Someone who has master Cheon Payn's offense, you feel like.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
There's no way that's not going to pay dividends. So
it'll be exciting to hear from Bo.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
In a couple of days whenever we get to speak
to him about what his experience was like with Drew.
But what a guy's brain to pick when you're in
this offense, it's you love it.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
You love that he set that up on his own too.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
He went out of his way to get it done.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and we're going to hear from Teleanoahufunga later in
the show, So thanks for teasing that for us. Were
you surprised to see him at number sixty four on
the NFL Top one hundred list?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
You know what a little bit when I was talking.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
About when Zach Allen came out and we were kind
of saying, all right, what other Broncos are going to
make this list?
Speaker 10 (22:36):
Benito ps two, Right, we're talking about that I didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Necessarily have Bo in my list of top one hundred,
but that tells you exactly what the rest of the
league thinks about him.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
I think the best thing about the NFL Top.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
One hundred is that it's voted on by the peers.
This is what the players think. And in that video,
even though we don't know what number Jade and Daniels is,
they did.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
Say Bo and Jaden were the only two rookie signal called.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
To make that list.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
But I think that's a huge feather in his cap
and it just, I guess, in a way, can validate
everything we've.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Been saying because everyone around the league is clearly seeing
what we're seeing here.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
And again that goes to he's not going to take.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Anybody by surprise, but massive respect and very cool for
him to get that Romie.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I just want to switch up to see you Buss
for a second. You had a chance to talk to
running back Dalan Hayden a couple of days ago. What
was your first impressions of him and will he be
able to help get this SeeU running game. That's kind
of been I guess lying Dormant up and going.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You know, Dormant is a kind way to put it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Nick last in.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Rushing yards in the FBS last.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Season and the season before the last two seasons.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
I mean, it's been whatever is better than dormant. And
so you hope that this field like the year where
they can most certainly revive that because there need to.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You got a freshman quarterback in juju you got to
transfer in Cadence Falter. It's the perfect opportunity, especially for Jujus.
He gets used to the college game to rely on
that run game.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
And are you going to hire Marshall Fulk.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And not run the ball. So it feels like everything
is trending towards this is the perfect year to really
rely more on that run game. And I was so
impressed with Dalan Hayden with his maturity, asking him about
what he's taken from Marshall Falk and his eyes just
lit up, and the way.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
That he's taking this so seriously. This kid wants to
go to the NFL.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
And he is squeezing every possible thing he can out
of his Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
And he talked about how how Falk is doing all
these things that he's just never had a coach do.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
He's putting him on the board. He's testing them mentally,
he's you know, working on inside zone, outside zone, everything
NFL concepts, and the way he's just eating it all up.
You really want to see what this kid can do
on the field. So I certainly hope that they get
that opportunity, and he was a great kid. I think
that another thing I took out of it, guys, which
is a little bit unrelated, is I don't think Dean
(25:02):
Sanders gets enough credit for the caliber.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Of person that he brings in When you look.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
At the squad. You know, people get excited about, you know,
or have feel some kind of way about the nil and.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
The Flash and this and that. But every single.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Player that I've had the opportunity to speak.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
To on that show or on my Coach Prime show
is a.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Really high caliber human being.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
And I think that there's something to be said for that, and.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Something that I just don't think enough people talk about
when they talk about the Buffs.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Well, you know what everyone's been talking about the Broncos
this offseason, especially with additions that they may made. Grant
and just brought up the fact that bo Nicks made
his debut on the Top one hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And sixty four.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
With that comes a significant.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Amount of pressure. And in my time here.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
With Denver Broncos, expectations were always play up, well, always
super Bowl a bus I'm not going to go that
far with his team. But what does that pressure look
like this year for both bow Niggs and Sean Payton.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Oh no, you spat on Nick. I was saying to somebody,
you know, the expectations, what we're going in with this year.
This is what it's supposed to be. This is what
we are used to taking out those kind of eight
or so years between Super Bowl fifty and you know,
well really last year, right, last eight or nine years
outside of.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
That, This is what the fans expect, This is what
the media expects. This is what the national media expects
of the Denver Broncos. The expectations have always been makes
the playoffs, contend for super Bowls, not maybe make the playoffs,
not maybe compete, And after last year and the momentum
going into this year and now it is officially back
to what we have always expected from the Denver Broncos.
(26:44):
So what with that comes a tremendous amount of pressure,
because if you don't make the playoffs this year, it's
a disappointment.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
People are going to start doubting, oh wait.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Are you not the guy? Even though people are allowed
to have down years, but if everybody stays healthy and
you don't contend, you know, they're going to start feeling
a kind of.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Pressure that they haven't felt.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Sean Payton has felt that right of course, and so
I think that leads through a lot with his team.
He exudes that confidence and it starts at the top,
it trickles down bone. Nicks exudes that confidence. We've never
seen him really kind of display any kind of doubt
about his game, about his teammates. But now it takes
a step up.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
It's going to take a level up.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I think they're going to feel the pressure more from
the national media, probably going to see more national media
around a practice than we have in recent years. And
so the big question, I think, kind of big picture
question going into this season on that Nick has always
been how are they going to handle it? I feel
confident that they're going to handle it. They're going to
take it in the stride. There are some guys like
(27:46):
in Mike McGlinchey, you know, Greenlaw who have played for
Super Bowl teams, but.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
A lot of guys haven't, so what does this look like?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
And this is kind of the next evolution of bon Nicks.
It's a quick trajectory. Normally in your second year, maybe
you're not laying on these sick of expectations, but we are.
So we're gonna see how they handle it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, and we're going to get to find out here
pretty soon. Season just around the corner. First preseason game,
August ninth. Romy Bean from CBS Colorado. We always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Romy Oh, thanks for having me, guys, We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That's romy Bean.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
We'll react to her next for Benjamin Albright a little
under the weather sending in here with Nick Ferguson Zach
Seekers behind the Glass.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thanks to romy Bean for joining us.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
In the last segment, we talked a little bit about
bo Nicks meeting up with Drew Brees to get a
little better understanding of the Sean Payton offense and also
meeting up with passing guru Tom House in the off season,
and Sean Payton actually addressed that yesterday with the media.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Works' tail off wants to improve. You know, the whole
off season is planned out. You know, he's gone and
visited Breeze for four or five days, and that's Tom
hous In here, and there's a lot that he wants
to absorb in a fast period of time, and that's
(29:14):
a great thing for a young player like that.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know, we're never just.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
Going to pick up from where we left off, but
there's a lot of building to do when we look
at last year and a lot of positive things to
look at.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
What do you think of those comments from Sean Payton
and how valuable is it for a young quarterback like
bow Knicks to meet up with Drew Brees and the
offseason who had so much success under coach Peyton.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I think it's super valuable.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And I wish more players were not so arrogant that
they didn't seek out those who played the game before them,
because there's a lot of knowledge to be gained, and
especially you playing in the system that Breeze excelled at, right.
I mean, when you look at Breeze's numbers when he
was with the Chargers, they were extraordinary, but they definitely
(29:59):
pop once he joined you know, Sean Payton down in
New Walling because that was past friendly office. Yes, when
Drew Brees broke Dan Marinos single season passing record.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I was just as a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I was like, no, it showed the direction of whether
the league was going and the propping of quarterbacks on
this pedestal. And when you look at the you know,
the passing attempts like last year, you know Bo had
average about thirty three passing attempts, right, and that's a
lot of passing attempts.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
And Breeze was kind of the same way. Like Breeze
never had a strong arm.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Obviously, he wasn't tall for how some evaluate quarterbacks, but
he was extraordinary throwing from the pocket, and he had
pinpoint precision. So why not go spend some time with
this guy and say, well, you know, what what is
life going to be like for me in Sean Payton's system?
But more importantly, what is life going to be with
(31:03):
me mentally dealing with Sean Payton when things don't go right?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And we saw how Bo dealt with it last year.
He gave it right back to Sean Payton on the
side of you know.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What, And I think coach Peyton rather like that.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
He respected it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yes, he respected and that's the one thing.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And I know Zach Sean is probably gonna raise his
hands and start doing the wave in here. But that's
the one thing that Russell didn't do. And I would
have loved to see Russell bark back, but that wasn't
in his personality. Well, watching Bo do that, that that
show the level of leadership that you don't usually see
from me on quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
So there was a lot that he can learn from
from Breeze, the Reeds, the checks.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Because coach Coach Fain talked about this yesterday and he
was asked a question about all the coaches around the
league watching film on Bowl and I know he said
in this paraphrasing that he didn't see the idea of
a coach is sitting in the room locking him in
the themselves in the room watching both. They real they
don't have to watch Bo because Sean Payn's been coaching
(32:05):
in his league for a while, pull out his binder.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
What does he like to do?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
So you may not study you're going to study the player,
but study this scheme.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I completely agree.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And we're going to talk a little bit about what
Quinn Miners had to say about the running game and
how that could help bo Nicks this year and hopefully
they stick to that running game this year. But when
we come back, we're going to be joined by Parker
Gabriel from the Denver Post. Get his thoughts on Broncos
training camp so far. That's coming up right here on
Broncos Country to Night on KOA eight fifty am ninety
four to one FM
M Grant Smith filling in for Benjamin Albright, joined by
the one and only Nick Fergus the IW come.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You're sitting over there, Nick.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Sitting over where, I mean across from.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
You, not in Benjamin Albright seat.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
You know what, Sometimes that that seat has some negative
vibes that come from other knee and don't I don't
want my.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Backside to be torched by it.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
So I decided to sit across from you because normally
you're sitting behind a glass where young seekers is.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
See. Now I can really look at you and get
that energy.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I feel almost too close to you.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Well that's not a bad thing.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Especially in that all white outfit like you're having for
a Diddy party, getting your baby.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Oil ready or what's going on over there?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Whoa wait, wait a minute, when did my fashion sense
come into play all of a sudden of going to
the Diddy party?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I'm just saying you fit the picture.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Oh, we got a big show tonight. We got Roamy
being coming up at six point thirty. Parker Gabriel at
seven o five premassed us at eight oh five get
all their thoughts on Broncos Training Camp Day two.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
But before we get into the Broncos talk.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Of course, we lost a legend earlier today in the
world of wrestling, Haul Cogan. I wanted to play this
little SoundBite of him teasing I guess his fight against
Andre the Giant back in the day. This is his
promotional video.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Well, I'm here about those people, man, I'm sure about
those people that aren't start craving a whole commniacs.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I could care less what they think. I'm fighting for life, brother, I'm.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Fighting for all those people that have remolded their lives.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
Man.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
I'm on the lefter hal Comania got their priorities in order.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Man, walk around with a lot of pride.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
As far as those people that are on Andre the
Giants side, I wish he'd.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Come on down to I'm like.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I flopped them around just for a warm up. But
I've already gone through my fan information. Man, I'm ready
for party Michigan.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm not the haulk anymore. I'm the hawster man looking
to my eye. Man, Oh, come on that mountaintop.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Back off the man. I'm on that mountain, cap and
I'm waiting for you Andre. Now, I'm guarding that mountain in.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
The hals to the garden.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Who's got a thirty two inch neck, a sixty four
inch chests, the largest arms in the world. I'm here
to seek and destroyed, seeking destroy the cancer of Andrea
the giants who was seeking.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Destroy the Weetle's Empire.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
And what you gonna do? Andre m Pontiac, Michigan for
the haw Comania.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
Thirty two inch neck, a sixty four inch chest, and
the largest arms ever known to man?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
What is Hawk Covid? How are you gonna remember him?
Speaker 1 (02:48):
I mean, I'm sure that was right in your like
era of growing up, right, was when he was coming
out as the big time face of wrestling.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah, it was because Saturday night main event.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
That the wrestling shows that used to come on every
now and again on Saturdays back in the eighties. And
I remember for me it was him wrestling Andre the Giant,
but then it was the Iron Sheet And during the
time the WWE as they were called then, uh, they
did a great job of building the stories, right and
(03:21):
those are the storylines that you felt fell.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
In love with.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
And Hawk Hogan used to come out to I am
a real American.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I just see him waving that USA flag side to side.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
And then also it was big in the eighties too,
because Hawk holgand in appearance in the Rocky movie.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yes, and did I forgot about it just as.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
A wrestler, and it was it was dope as hell
for me and my brothers. We used to sit in
the room and my mom used to want us to
go to sleep. But if Saturday night main event was on,
it's standing up like you're turning the volume down.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
You're putting a towel at the bottom of the door.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Ready, Yes, it was when.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
You said kool aid, it was that diabetic kool aid.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Bro is that purple drink?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
You know what, man, it's funny that you say that, Grant,
because I know yesterday being with saying something about you
almost to the saying that you're not cool and he
doesn't know your cool barometer. Yeah, just affect that you
got layers, Yes, more layers than the dude from Markasos.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Just saying on his chicken tenders.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yes exactly, So I feel you.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Holgan, you know, definitely was my guy, and it was
twenty one inch pythons.
Speaker 7 (04:42):
He always If you want to share any memories of
how hul Cogan influenced your life or just a funny
story about him, and your childhood or anything about hal
Cogan dying at seventy one years old.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Reach out to us on the.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Text line the Common Spirit Heal text line five six
six nine zero. You know, I was a little bit
later in the in the pantheons of wrestling. I was,
you know, Goldberg and Stoneclaki, Yeah, crushing the Budweiser beer
cans on his head. So I didn't have too many
memories of Hulk Hogan actually wrestling. I remember him from
his reality TV show with his family.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
That's right, was VH one, MTV?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
It was, I don't know, it was one of the two.
I'm gonna have to look it up. Hogan knows best.
I think was the name of it. But I had
a pretty big crush on his daughter, Brooke Back.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
She was a singer or something, right.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, she had one song I think. I don't know,
I don't know, I don't remember the name of it.
And Seegers just told me in my ears the show
was on VH.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
One, Okay, VH one.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, So see see you got.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
That new age.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
I had that that old WWE and w c W
with vin Nerricks. Yeah, remember them, Rick Flair right, Ric
Flair for sure, because Rick Flair even though obviously he's
not wrestling anymore, but he's kind of asked himself into
(06:06):
pop culture.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah right, thanks to the migos.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, he has got the Rick Flood drip.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Rick Flair drip. He did have some drip, Yes he did.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
He certainly did Sun Hal Cogan And you know, as
a man with a glorious mustache myself, I always always
appreciated his big handlebar mess.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
Okay, So with that, with that being said, when you
look at because I know, of wrestling, they had a
lot of guys like this. But when you look at
sports as a whole, who would you say was kind
of like the biggest self promoters and sports as a whole,
it's sports as a whole.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well, Hawk hall Cogan's got to be up there for sure. Well,
Ric Flair is right there with and Rick Flair.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Ric Flair with his coats and his bulls and.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
For sure, man, but you know you got to go
with your guy Dion as well.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
You know what a what a self promoter he was
and still.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Is still and you have to leverage your skill set
and market it in that particular way.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
You know what, I even throw Jerry Jones in there.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Oh yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
I mean he's kept the Cowboys America's team without making
it to an NFC championship game in thirty years.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Yes, okay, here's another owner who I would toss in there,
to the.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Late Al Davis.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Yes, yeah, just when baby went.
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Yes, how about Jordan Michael Jordan was sports owner, But yeah,
Mike who was?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Never I think I think he was more forced into
the spotlight.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, I mean as the face of the NBA.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
See Jordan brand was a by product of his mentality
and what he did. If you want to talk about
basketball and self promoters.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Breaking the rules with the custom shoes and everything that
was Nike's idea. Yes, I mean he's.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
The one who did it promote the brand that's named
after himself.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
So what's your definition of self promoter? Because I think
you're kind of getting them a little to twisted up.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
What's your definition of I think someone who's promoting their
personal brand. And I think Jordan is the bit of
me of that he bought a sports team off of
his success of being a self promoter.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
See that's why I don't view that as being a
self promoter. See Jordan Jordan' have to really scream and
shout about how great he was, right because everyone knew
how great Black Jesus was.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
If anything, he was kind of silent.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
He was, he was really solid. He let everyone else
do the talking for him. Now, if there is a
guy in the association who is a self promoter, that's
Lebron James.
Speaker 8 (08:34):
Lebron James's absolutely on that list to him, I be.
I just think they went and went about the game differently.
I don't think you have to be Braggadocia's I mean,
Jordan talked, talked plenty of trash.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
See see braggadoche is in talking trash.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Two different things, right, those are those are two different
very much.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And when we look.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
At self promotion, and I'm not saying that it's a
bad thing, do you right, because everyone is out there
trying to make sure that they have a much larger brand.
Look at how things are now, like everyone in their
mama have a podcast, and now that we have these
cell phones that we did not have think the Lord,
we didn't have them back in my playing Yeah. Now,
(09:17):
so everyone is trying to grab every bit of content
and promote himself.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
So I'm not a gist. My thing is do you.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
But if we're talking about the biggest sports self promoters,
Hulk is up there, Ric Flair's up there, Coach Prime
is up there, Lebron is up there, I would say
maybe Christian.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Ronaldo, Well, Christiano Ronaldo is a great one, yeah, because
I see I would put like Lionel Messi is kind
of in the same vein as Michael Jordan for me,
like he lets his names the talking for him. Christiano
Ronaldo is putting himself out there. He's got his YouTube
channel all that stuff. A text from the three zero
three on the Common Spirit Health text line at five
six six nine, oh Russell Wilson self promot I would
(10:01):
agree with that.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Yes, I would agree with that, of course, because it's
about moving your brand forward even if people don't like
your brand, which we know here Denver people didn't like
it because he wouldn't say what they wanted him to say, right,
and he was always thinking, Okay, here's what they could
ask me. I got two ways that I can answer
(10:22):
it my way or the way they want me to.
Because let's be honest about and transparent about the media.
And I noticed from a player standpoint, if someone's coming in.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
To interview you.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
They want to bite, they want to sound bite that
they can just kind of disseminate all over the place.
But if you act as though you are on a
straight and nar row, you never give them anything.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Yeah, and they get upset.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
One of the ones I can't believe we forgot this
from a seven to two.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh Muhammad Ali.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Oh, Yes, some of his interviews from back of the day.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Man someone who could.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Just wax so poetically and just self aggrandize, you know,
just just give it every thing you wanted to hear
from the top notch boxer and heavyweight division.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
He gave it to you.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, if you're gonna go there, you might as well
go Foyd Mayweather.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Then yep, another great one in the boxing world.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
A couple other ones coming in here from the eight
to eight The Rock.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That's a good one. Well here's the other one.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
With the People's elbow, with.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
The People's elbow. And then I guess if you're staying
in that and I regard him pro wrestling, and you've
got John Cena, you know, yes, even though you can't
see him.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Well, which shows the lover in Florence of John Cena,
because Caitlin Clark took that on when she.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Was in college. Yep, yes, yeah, yeah, that was awesome.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
A memory of hal Cogan coming in from the two
o eight. I was born in two thousand and five,
so obviously didn't get to experience Hogan live. But I
remember when I was five or six watching old WW
Eclipse on YouTube, and Hogan was one of the first
ones I gravitated towards.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Absolutely a legend.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Rip see those those stories that are very you know,
iconic and very nostalgic because when someone passes, the first
thing you do, when you hear that they pass automatically.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
I think this happens to everyone.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
You go back into your youth and you say, okay,
but when was I introduced to this person?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Who introduced me to him? And what was that moment like?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
And that's why so shocking when we hear someone's passing like.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
This, Yeah, that's tough, man. And I saw a thing
yesterday and I didn't really think much of it. The
one of his friends or colleagues from back in the
day said they went and visited him and he wasn't
really talking, couldn't really get.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Any words out.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
And I was like, oh, well, you know he'll bounce
back and then the next day you just hear about
him passing. You know, we had Ozzy Osbourne earlier this week,
and it's just like all these legends from your childhood
and your youth up into your adult life they pass
on and you just realize, like, man, life is so fleeting.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
You know what someone said to me when Malcolm Jamar
Warner forgot him. I sent out, yes, and I sent
out some of my favorite scenes and episodes from The
Cosby Show.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
And it was a very emotional time for me and
some of.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
My college mates because we grew up in that era
and The Cosby Show was kind of what we watched
at the time. And then one of them replied with,
you know, we're getting to the point in our lives
where you're now starting to lose people, right and now
(13:37):
if you really didn't think about life and how pressure
it was before, now it's coming into perspective. And for me,
it's like, man, trying to live every day to the fullest,
not trying to be.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Like my dad and.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
My parents were with my kids, just trying to be
a little different man, because man, you never know when
God calls you home and you just want to make
sure whenever that happens, and you write that final chapter
that you left something.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Behind right, so, and you really.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Find out and it sucks that it happens like this
in life what you meant to people wants you transition
once you've passed.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
On, I'm like, hell with that.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Tell me now, yeah, let me know what legacy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
I'm still around to enjoy it if you.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
If you want to tell me, Nick Ferguson, you suck,
just do it right. I'd rather you tell me that now.
So if there's something that I need to correct with you,
I can correct it.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
Yeah. From the two on four.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
When someone passes on, I think about how close they
are to my age.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Rip Ma'll come, Jamal Warner.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
See it hits hard, That's what it hits. That's what
it hits hard.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Yeah, I agree, man.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I think I'm going to ask all our guests tonight
to give their best Hulk Cocain impression.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I think ROMI. I think Rome he'll be game for it.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Breathe.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Do you think Bri you'll be up for?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Of course? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
What about Parker Gabriel He's gonna be game for But
I don't know if he's going to give you the
best one?
Speaker 2 (15:10):
You got one for me?
Speaker 3 (15:12):
No, I'm on brother.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
It's funny though, because like me and my friends growing
up all said that to each other, really yeah, in
the hul Hogan voice, and we didn't, you know, we
weren't big fans of wrestling. But he had just transcended
what he was doing professionally to just be in the
pulp culture world. And that's I think that's something that's
going to be remembered about him, is how he kind
(15:36):
of transcended what he did for a living into just
everyday culture.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
See, that's when I believe that.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
You go from the celebrity behind that red velvet rope
to behind that purple rope because you kind of transcend time.
Like when you think about Ozzie, I mean, his music's
gonna live on, right, and Hank Hogan, you know the
old you know YouTube videos of him, Michael Jube Warner
(16:06):
as well, But Hawk Hogan is in another stratosphere when
you transition errors, you know, Boomers to jen X to
gen Z right, And that's why with Rick Flair and
I give the Migos props because they pulled.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Him into this error.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Yep, I agree.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
One more text before we get to a Broncos training
camp reaction with romy Bean after the break from the
three oh three.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
I was born in eighty six.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Needless to say, I tore a lot of T shirts
up because of the Halkster and his twenty one inch
Python's brother.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
I wonder what that Texters mom did with him tearing
all his T shirts.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Hey, those are just good rags for cleaning up afterwards.
And since we're talking about hawk hogd, here's how one
more little mashup someone put together on YouTube leading us
into the break on Broncos Country at night on KOA.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I'm aware of hot destiny. This is gonna take its course.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Brother bro, brothers bro, brother's brother, brother's brother, brother, brother brother, brother, brother.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Brother fighting for life.
Speaker 9 (17:10):
Brother, We've been hanging by brother brother brother brother, brother's.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Brother twenty thousand leagus under the seat. There's a nice
place to deposit somebody.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Brother brother, brother, brother, brother said brother brother brother, mother.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Brother, brother, brother, brother brother. They'll be trying to drink
their own sweat.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Survive brother brother, brother, brother, brothers brother.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Vietnam twenty years co Oh, my brother brother, brother, brother, brother,
brother and brother.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Love it my my brother.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
We'll be right back on Broncos Country Night with romy Beans.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Hulk Hogan impression.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
On Broncos Country to Night on KOA E fifty AM
ninety four to one FM. In here with my guy
Nick Ferguson Zack Seegers behind the glass doing a great
job as always, We're to run right out to the
KOA Common Spirit Health Hotline and bring on our favorite
Roamy Bean from CBS Colorado.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Romy How are you?
Speaker 9 (18:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You know what better now that I'm on with you guys?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
Oh well, we always appreciate having you on. We heard
today about hul Cogan passing at the age of seventy one.
We've all been giving our best hul Cogan impressions. Can
we get a hul Cogan impression from the one and
only romy Bean?
Speaker 10 (18:26):
Oh my god, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
I can't. I'll do such a disservice to it. But
that was such a sad passing, just like an icon.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
I feel like for so much of us.
Speaker 6 (18:34):
For a lot of us for our childhood, or for
some people for adulthood.
Speaker 10 (18:38):
But that that one was a tough one.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
I feel like we've all have you know, I had
a hull Cogan stretchy Dolly. Oh is that my brothers
and I and I stole it and I used to
love pulling his stretchy arms. You know, that's very sad Romie.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
When we look at the Broncos upcoming schedule, is there
a game that you are most looking forward to watching?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Oh gosh, that's part you know what. There's a lot
of them, But I'd say early in the season. If
you want to go early in the season, I think that.
Speaker 10 (19:10):
Third game in LA, that's a huge game, even that stretch,
that third game in LA, the.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
Next game followed by the Bengals, especially.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
When you go to the last year's game with the Bengals.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And how that came down to that overtime game. And
the Bengals are another team that's always widely considered a
Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 10 (19:27):
People are saying both the Broncos.
Speaker 6 (19:28):
And the Chargers could be dark horses for Super Bowl contenders.
I think if we're going to go early in the season,
the first quarter, if you will, those two games are
going to be huge, and they're going to be huge too.
The Broncos should go into those They have a very
good chance to be in two and zero when they
go hit the Chargers right, So how does that look?
We're going to see the competition in the AFC WES
(19:48):
is going to be fascinating as it plays out. But
if I want to go just early on, I think
right off the bat, those games three and four.
Speaker 10 (19:56):
Are going to tell us a whole lot and.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Then of course you got Philly after that.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
It really exciting schedule, you guys, going up against the
defending Super Bowl champs. What a great litmus test early
in the season. What you look like against those three?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
And it's going to be a much tougher schedule than
it was last year when the Broncos were taking teams
by surprise. But you've got Bronco's training camp underway, and
I was talking with Ryan Edwards earlier today and he
was just talking about how much more comfortable bo Nicks
looks in the offense in year two, which you know,
as he should a year under the Sean Payton offense
and coaching regimen. But have you seen the same thing
(20:32):
from bow and year two at training camp? And what
are your thoughts on him meeting up with Drew Brees
in the offseason to get some training in with him.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Yeah, I mean I both surprised us a lot as
a rookie with his poise, with his confidence, with his
even when the game was moving a little too fast
for him, how he's still he wasn't rattled by the moment,
And so I'm.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Not surprised to see Bo come in like this.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
This version of Boat's frankly what I expect. Did, I think,
what we all kind of expected. But to really see
it play out, you can see why the team is
just oozing.
Speaker 10 (21:07):
With confidence right now because this guy walks around.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
Like a long time VET NFL sophomore maybe, but.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
He doesn't behave that way. You hear even guys like
talanoa Hufungo.
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Who's new right coming in today, talking about how Bo
first of all the throws he makes, his intelligence, but
then how he handles himself as a person and a
player in the locker room, in the cafeteria. I mean,
he's just kind of beyond his years. And it's a
great thing, though, because the expectations that we've been talking
about are huge on the broad goes. Now, they're not
(21:39):
taking anybody by surprise this year. Bo Nix has not
necessarily taken anybody by surprise.
Speaker 10 (21:44):
This year.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
But he is clearly ready for that moment and he's
ready to bring his team with him. And I love
that he met up with Drew Brees. Anything you can do.
Speaker 10 (21:52):
To get an edge, to get ahead this in this
day and age, and to sit with.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
Someone who has master Cheon Payn's offense, you feel like.
Speaker 10 (22:00):
There's no way that's not going to pay dividends. So
it'll be exciting to hear from Bo.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
In a couple of days whenever we get to speak
to him about what his experience was like with Drew.
But what a guy's brain to pick when you're in
this offense, it's you love it.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
You love that he set that up on his own too.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
He went out of his way to get it done.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Yeah, and we're going to hear from Teleanoahufunga later in
the show, So thanks for teasing that for us. Were
you surprised to see him at number sixty four on
the NFL Top one hundred list?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
You know what a little bit when I was talking.
Speaker 6 (22:30):
About when Zach Allen came out and we were kind
of saying, all right, what other Broncos are going to
make this list?
Speaker 10 (22:36):
Benito ps two, Right, we're talking about that I didn't.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Necessarily have Bo in my list of top one hundred,
but that tells you exactly what the rest of the
league thinks about him.
Speaker 10 (22:47):
I think the best thing about the NFL Top.
Speaker 6 (22:49):
One hundred is that it's voted on by the peers.
This is what the players think. And in that video,
even though we don't know what number Jade and Daniels is,
they did.
Speaker 10 (22:57):
Say Bo and Jaden were the only two rookie signal called.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
To make that list.
Speaker 10 (23:01):
But I think that's a huge feather in his cap
and it just, I guess, in a way, can validate
everything we've.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Been saying because everyone around the league is clearly seeing
what we're seeing here.
Speaker 10 (23:12):
And again that goes to he's not going to take.
Speaker 6 (23:14):
Anybody by surprise, but massive respect and very cool for
him to get that Romie.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
I just want to switch up to see you Buss
for a second. You had a chance to talk to
running back Dalan Hayden a couple of days ago. What
was your first impressions of him and will he be
able to help get this SeeU running game. That's kind
of been I guess lying Dormant up and going.
Speaker 6 (23:37):
You know, Dormant is a kind way to put it.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Nick last in.
Speaker 6 (23:43):
Rushing yards in the FBS last.
Speaker 10 (23:45):
Season and the season before the last two seasons.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
I mean, it's been whatever is better than dormant. And
so you hope that this field like the year where
they can most certainly revive that because there need to.
Speaker 9 (23:57):
Right.
Speaker 6 (23:57):
You got a freshman quarterback in juju you got to
transfer in Cadence Falter. It's the perfect opportunity, especially for Jujus.
He gets used to the college game to rely on
that run game.
Speaker 10 (24:08):
And are you going to hire Marshall Fulk.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
And not run the ball. So it feels like everything
is trending towards this is the perfect year to really
rely more on that run game. And I was so
impressed with Dalan Hayden with his maturity, asking him about
what he's taken from Marshall Falk and his eyes just
lit up, and the way.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
That he's taking this so seriously. This kid wants to
go to the NFL.
Speaker 6 (24:31):
And he is squeezing every possible thing he can out
of his Hall of Fame coach.
Speaker 10 (24:36):
And he talked about how how Falk is doing all
these things that he's just never had a coach do.
Speaker 6 (24:41):
He's putting him on the board. He's testing them mentally,
he's you know, working on inside zone, outside zone, everything
NFL concepts, and the way he's just eating it all up.
You really want to see what this kid can do
on the field. So I certainly hope that they get
that opportunity, and he was a great kid. I think
that another thing I took out of it, guys, which
is a little bit unrelated, is I don't think Dean
(25:02):
Sanders gets enough credit for the caliber.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Of person that he brings in When you look.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
At the squad. You know, people get excited about, you know,
or have feel some kind of way about the nil and.
Speaker 10 (25:13):
The Flash and this and that. But every single.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Player that I've had the opportunity to speak.
Speaker 10 (25:17):
To on that show or on my Coach Prime show
is a.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Really high caliber human being.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
And I think that there's something to be said for that, and.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Something that I just don't think enough people talk about
when they talk about the Buffs.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Well, you know what everyone's been talking about the Broncos
this offseason, especially with additions that they may made. Grant
and just brought up the fact that bo Nicks made
his debut on the Top one hundred.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
And sixty four.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
With that comes a significant.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Amount of pressure. And in my time here.
Speaker 4 (25:47):
With Denver Broncos, expectations were always play up, well, always
super Bowl a bus I'm not going to go that
far with his team. But what does that pressure look
like this year for both bow Niggs and Sean Payton.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
Oh no, you spat on Nick. I was saying to somebody,
you know, the expectations, what we're going in with this year.
This is what it's supposed to be. This is what
we are used to taking out those kind of eight
or so years between Super Bowl fifty and you know,
well really last year, right, last eight or nine years
outside of.
Speaker 11 (26:22):
That, This is what the fans expect, This is what
the media expects. This is what the national media expects
of the Denver Broncos. The expectations have always been makes
the playoffs, contend for super Bowls, not maybe make the playoffs,
not maybe compete, And after last year and the momentum
going into this year and now it is officially back
to what we have always expected from the Denver Broncos.
(26:44):
So what with that comes a tremendous amount of pressure,
because if you don't make the playoffs this year, it's
a disappointment.
Speaker 10 (26:50):
People are going to start doubting, oh wait.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Are you not the guy? Even though people are allowed
to have down years, but if everybody stays healthy and
you don't contend, you know, they're going to start feeling
a kind of.
Speaker 10 (27:01):
Pressure that they haven't felt.
Speaker 5 (27:03):
No.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Sean Payton has felt that right of course, and so
I think that leads through a lot with his team.
He exudes that confidence and it starts at the top,
it trickles down bone. Nicks exudes that confidence. We've never
seen him really kind of display any kind of doubt
about his game, about his teammates. But now it takes
a step up.
Speaker 10 (27:23):
It's going to take a level up.
Speaker 6 (27:24):
I think they're going to feel the pressure more from
the national media, probably going to see more national media
around a practice than we have in recent years. And
so the big question, I think, kind of big picture
question going into this season on that Nick has always
been how are they going to handle it? I feel
confident that they're going to handle it. They're going to
take it in the stride. There are some guys like
(27:46):
in Mike McGlinchey, you know, Greenlaw who have played for
Super Bowl teams, but.
Speaker 10 (27:52):
A lot of guys haven't, so what does this look like?
Speaker 6 (27:55):
And this is kind of the next evolution of bon Nicks.
It's a quick trajectory. Normally in your second year, maybe
you're not laying on these sick of expectations, but we are.
So we're gonna see how they handle it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Yeah, and we're going to get to find out here
pretty soon. Season just around the corner. First preseason game,
August ninth. Romy Bean from CBS Colorado. We always appreciate
your time.
Speaker 10 (28:15):
Romy Oh, thanks for having me, guys, We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
That's romy Bean.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
We'll react to her next for Benjamin Albright a little
under the weather sending in here with Nick Ferguson Zach
Seekers behind the Glass.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Thanks to romy Bean for joining us.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
In the last segment, we talked a little bit about
bo Nicks meeting up with Drew Brees to get a
little better understanding of the Sean Payton offense and also
meeting up with passing guru Tom House in the off season,
and Sean Payton actually addressed that yesterday with the media.
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Works' tail off wants to improve. You know, the whole
off season is planned out. You know, he's gone and
visited Breeze for four or five days, and that's Tom
hous In here, and there's a lot that he wants
to absorb in a fast period of time, and that's
(29:14):
a great thing for a young player like that.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
You know, we're never just.
Speaker 12 (29:17):
Going to pick up from where we left off, but
there's a lot of building to do when we look
at last year and a lot of positive things to
look at.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
What do you think of those comments from Sean Payton
and how valuable is it for a young quarterback like
bow Knicks to meet up with Drew Brees and the
offseason who had so much success under coach Peyton.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
I think it's super valuable.
Speaker 4 (29:39):
And I wish more players were not so arrogant that
they didn't seek out those who played the game before them,
because there's a lot of knowledge to be gained, and
especially you playing in the system that Breeze excelled at, right.
I mean, when you look at Breeze's numbers when he
was with the Chargers, they were extraordinary, but they definitely
(29:59):
pop once he joined you know, Sean Payton down in
New Walling because that was past friendly office. Yes, when
Drew Brees broke Dan Marinos single season passing record.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
I was just as a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 4 (30:18):
I was like, no, it showed the direction of whether
the league was going and the propping of quarterbacks on
this pedestal. And when you look at the you know,
the passing attempts like last year, you know Bo had
average about thirty three passing attempts, right, and that's a
lot of passing attempts.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
And Breeze was kind of the same way. Like Breeze
never had a strong arm.
Speaker 4 (30:41):
Obviously, he wasn't tall for how some evaluate quarterbacks, but
he was extraordinary throwing from the pocket, and he had
pinpoint precision. So why not go spend some time with
this guy and say, well, you know, what what is
life going to be like for me in Sean Payton's system?
But more importantly, what is life going to be with
(31:03):
me mentally dealing with Sean Payton when things don't go right?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
And we saw how Bo dealt with it last year.
He gave it right back to Sean Payton on the
side of you know.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
What, And I think coach Peyton rather like that.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
He respected it.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yes, he respected and that's the one thing.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And I know Zach Sean is probably gonna raise his
hands and start doing the wave in here. But that's
the one thing that Russell didn't do. And I would
have loved to see Russell bark back, but that wasn't
in his personality. Well, watching Bo do that, that that
show the level of leadership that you don't usually see
from me on quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
So there was a lot that he can learn from
from Breeze, the Reeds, the checks.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
Because coach Coach Fain talked about this yesterday and he
was asked a question about all the coaches around the
league watching film on Bowl and I know he said
in this paraphrasing that he didn't see the idea of
a coach is sitting in the room locking him in
the themselves in the room watching both. They real they
don't have to watch Bo because Sean Payn's been coaching
(32:05):
in his league for a while, pull out his binder.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
What does he like to do?
Speaker 3 (32:09):
So you may not study you're going to study the player,
but study this scheme.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
I completely agree.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
And we're going to talk a little bit about what
Quinn Miners had to say about the running game and
how that could help bo Nicks this year and hopefully
they stick to that running game this year. But when
we come back, we're going to be joined by Parker
Gabriel from the Denver Post. Get his thoughts on Broncos
training camp so far. That's coming up right here on
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