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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael Cooper back there behind the glass.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Congratulations to the Denver Broncos. We're getting the preseason win
thirty four to thirty over the Indianapolis Colts. And I
think the fan base was pretty excited about the play
of one rookie quarterback, Bo Nicks. I thought, I thought
Nicks played pretty well fifteen to twenty one hundred and
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twenty five yards one touchdown, also ran three times for
seventeen yards. There were I think all three quarterbacks played
pretty well. The stat line doesn't favor Jarrett Stidham, but
you know, he played pretty well. The interception clearly went
his faults. He put the ball right in some MADJ.
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P Ryan's hands, a bobbled in the air four times
before Colts player wound up coming down with it. I thought,
I think the biggest thing for me was how well
bow played on that second drive, because that first drive
was shaky.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You know, he started off the first pass probably should
have been intercepted, probably would have benefit'm in a starting DBU.
The second pass was behind and he It's just the
initial couple of passes there were shaky and he had nerves,
and that's understandable.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
He's a rookie. I get it. The way he.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Bounced back on that second drive was nice. Got a
little bit of that goldfishing and forget about it. But
let the you know, let that drive go away, and
I'm going to come back on this second drive. And
that second drive, he was authoritative, he was in command,
and they were they were running play calls that favored
his skill set. Sean Payton clearly has his muse and
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that's bow Nicks. Because he wasn't doing that for Russell Wilson,
he wasn't doing that for Jared Stidham. But he's he's
pulling out you know, he's in his bag for bow Nicks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And I think that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's becoming evident and that's becoming clear as we move along.
That did Sean Payton, who clearly his state his legacy
to whatever it is that bow Knicks is going to become.
And I think that he was in his bag, pulling
out all the stops to try to build the young
guy up.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean, I'm not I'm not being derogatory about that
or anything. I'm just it's interesting to sort of watch
and see Sean Payton, the inspired play caller with which
quarterbacks that is five six, six nine zeros a text line.
You guys want to get involved in the conversation. I
would love to hear your thoughts on what you saw
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out there. Bow Knicks will start against the Packers in
the Bronco's next game coming up. Jared Stada will be too.
Zach Wilson again number three. There were some areas that
I I feel like the Broncos are going to have
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to clean up. Certainly, Garrett Bowles got called for his
first hole of the year. Already, We're hoping we're not
seeing a reversion there to Garrett holds turnovers hanging over
to the football ball security. Sean Payton is going to
be all over ball security this week. I guarantee it.
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There's no way that he was. He was satisfied with
the amount of times the ball hit the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The defense, now, we didn't get to really see the
defensive line because Zach Allen and John Franklin Myers didn't play.
DJ played a little bit, so we didn't really get
a chance to see the defensive line. But I feel
like they got as much of a push as I
would have liked, and certainly weren't as dominant as they've
been in practice over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I thought Riley Moss played pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I thought Alex Singleton played really well. Looking around at
some of the others, we might have an issue at
that second inside backer spot because you had you had
two guys that Cody Barton, who was a little bit
less athletic, was struggling against.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It felt like he was trying to make sure that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He didn't get beat in terms of the past game,
and it felt like he was was not hunting in
the run game the way that he should have. Conversely,
he had Jonas who was you know, getting sucked up
on the play action stuff, but looked like he was
doing well with the run fits, which would seem to
be backwards from the two's actual sort of skill sets.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I thought Villa played very well.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was curious about the reps for Marvin Mims and
where that placement was in terms of where he was
on the depth chart for this game. They may have
just put him down there to get us some confidence
and getting more reps there towards the end.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And that may have just been that, But you know, Mims.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Figures to be the third or fourth receiver on this
team behind Courtland Sutton and Josh Reynolds. Uh. And then
then you're probably you know, Patrick Mims and Valet and
then there's a steep drop after that. Whether that's a
little Jordan or you know, maybe a Troy Franklin will see.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The main thing I was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Impressed with is is Bonnix started to get commands, especially
as the game wore on. You know that that started
that opening drive, like I said, a little shaky, but
that second drive was was was pretty nails. He looked
in charge. He looked in command. He looked confident, and
that's the body language. There wasn't, you know, frantic was
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it looking around? There were some some platform issues. I
think when he was throwing that they concerned me a
little bit. They got to clean up some footwork stuff
with him. One of the big ones I think I
talked about it for a second there at the end
of Kawai Sports was the play where both threw it
behind Valat and I saw people on Twitter, all, that's
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great placement.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He kept it out of the middle. It wasn't. It
wasn't great placement.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's it's a timing route and and Bo decided a
little bit too early not to trust his protection to
take off. And to his credit, he kept his eyes
up and down field, but he tried to throw on
the run going forward instead of setting and throwing, and
it is just threw the timing off and so he
threw to you know what he practiced, which wound up
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with the ball being behind Valat. He's got to he's
either got to commit to the run at that point
or he's got to stop and reset. And that's something
it'll come with time, as the game slows down and
he starts to trust his protection a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That'll that'll come.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But that particular play stood out to me as one
that a teachable moment that you're up there on. You know,
he pulled the tape up. Hey, here's what you did here,
Here's how we fixed this. There were a couple of
off platform throws that you know, I kind of wish
he'd set the feet a little bit better, you know,
clean up the mechanics a little bit. I did like
to play where he rolled to his left and made
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the throw. I thought that one was pretty good. And
then you know, the run game. I think the run
game here is going to be pretty good. I think Gavante,
I think Audre Guessta May. I mean, you know, we
saw the ball get coughed up a little too much.
But I think this run game is going to be
something this year. It still feels like so much. I
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piter Ryan's the odd man out and and after that
sort of missed catch, I mean that ball was right
his hands. I don't know why he batted it up
in the air four times trying to catch the thing,
but you know that that's that was his role. His
role was to be the guy catching the ball out
of the backfield. If you can't, if you can't do that,
you're already costing the team three million dollars. I mean,
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that's what they say if they if they move on.
I I don't know what it is that he gives
you that you don't get from some combination of the
other backs. Not I think he gets the muchip Ryan
I likes somemudge of v Run. We've had him on
the show good Dude to that funny story about holding
the car up so the lady could change her tire
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back in college, and then he tried to like play
it off like well it was just you know, one
of those electric cars. Well, dude, those are heavier. The
electric cars are heavier. So he was trying he was
trying to be humble and then being humble. I guess
he he literally humble bragged five six six nine zero
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three two three, says I saw thirty one get embarrassed
and reminded me. I forgot which station. Asked is it
too soon to give thirty one away? I say yes,
and cut whoever that was in that play with ten
minutes to go in the fourth. Well, they're not going
to cut a strain who you know. I thought I
had some good plays.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's gonna take him a little bit to sort of
get to where he needs to be. Seven to six Ozho
asks how I think the preseason game affected certain camp battles,
I e. Corner two, running back, wide receiver, et cetera.
I here's the thing. I I know the fans are
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and again, if you say anything that could even slightly
be considered negative about bo Nicks, they try to land
basted you. So just keep in mind, I'm not trying
to say something negative. I'm just trying to temper expectation
a little bit because it's about a larger body of
work and not one one moment in time. Nothing gets
decided off one game, especially a first preseason game. What
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they do is they come back, they look at the tape,
they might adjust the depth chart a little bit, and
because they want to see other guys and you know,
in different roles. But nothing is decided off of one
preseason game. It just doesn't happen that way. So all
the I've seen enough and all that kind of stuff,
and you know that's out there. That's that's good, Okay, cool. Uh,
the coaching staff is going to go through another another game,
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the Packers game. They're gonna get both the opportunity to
start and prepare as a star, be able to go
against higher a defense that's a little bit better, and
the players that are hired.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The depth chart and this was always the plan.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And we'll kind of see from there whether that, you know,
whether that translates whether Bo's ready to take the job.
I say, on that second drive, he certainly looked in command. Now,
I wonder how much of that was stuff they did
through the week, as far as walkthrough and scripting and
all that, or if it was in the moment play
calls and he was showing, you know, complete control of
the offense. If it was, then bully for him. But
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it's about a larger picture here, a bigger body of work.
Bo Nix is eventually going to be the guy, whether
that's now, whether that's week one, week three, week eight, whatever.
And the way that I've always framed this is that
it's not really a quarterback competition because the only person
bo Nix is competing with is himself.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Jarretts.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Didham is a placeholder until bo Nix takes the job.
Sean Payton drafted him twelfth overall. Sean Payton's I see
he is tied to whatever Bonnicks becomes. Sean Payton knows
that in order to get the Hall of Fame, he's
gonna have to win a Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos,
do something no other coach has ever done, and win
a Super Bowl with two different teams.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No head coach never done. I should say I think that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Sean has staked everything on that evaluation of b Nicks,
and we're going to see what that is, for better
or worse. But I don't think he's going to roll
him out there if he doesn't believe he's ready, and
he wants to see a couple of exposures to know
that he's ready, not.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Just one in the.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Middle of the game against a third tier Colts defense.
You know, I I don't want to short change him.
I don't want to short change Bonnicks. But what I
am trying to tell you is that the coaching staff
needs to see a few other things before they officially sign, signed, sealed,
delivered and move on.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Five six six nine Zeros text line three A five says.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I was impressed by Bo's pocket awareness move well, didn't
panic excited about the future. I thought it was clock
was a little bit fast, but you know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It was interesting and fun to sort of see.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
If quarterback get out the get out the front door
instead of sneaking out the back door like like Russ
likes to do. And that's what led to those backbreaking
sack type plays when Russell Wilson's Russell Wilson's escape from
the pocket is, you know, is bailing out the back door.
And so when you do that, you know it does
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it's a different because not a lot of quarterbacks do that.
So it's different from a defensive end or an edge
rusher who's you know used to being in a certain
spot in order to sack at quarterback, so Russ can
avoid that. But then he tries to hang out of
the ball and Bo is looking to pick up yardage.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And it's interesting because you would.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Consider Russ more of the hyper athlete even at this
you know, stage of his career versus bow. But Bo's
looking to pick up yardage with his feet, where Russ
is looking to extend plays for.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A home run Bowl. And so that's sort of the difference.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't think, uh, I don't remember Bodex taking a
sack in that game, which is which is good, and
that's something that Sean Payton is very much going to embrace.
I thought Zach Wilson looked fairly proficient out there. I'd
like to see him get some work against a little
bit tougher than you know guys are going to be,
with all due respect selling insurance in a couple of weeks.
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I thought Julia McLoughlin showed some uh even though he's
put on a little bit of weight, which is a
good thing for him, still showcase the explosion out there.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You could still see it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I thought Blake Watson looked pretty good out there, so
I'm I'm you know, I'm interested to see how they
stack this running back room because Samaj right now sort
of feels like the odd guy out.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I thought that Lucas Kroll a bit of a mixed.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Bag because I thought outside of the fumble, I thought
he played pretty well. He wound up with four catches
for thirty one yards and outside of that, outside of
that fumble, I thought he played pretty well. But we'll see,
We'll see how that goes. We got some Broncos. We
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coming up after the break. You guys want to stick
around for that. We got to hit a break right now,
but we'll be back on the other side. Kathy Walker's
got the latest on the flash flood warning it's out there.
You guys want to stick around for the news. You
listen to Broncos Country Night right here on KOA. It's
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a short show obviously tonight, short show, tomorrow night, full
show on Wednesday, and we will get into I don't
know if you guys have seen this, but on three
put out an interesting video where they went through sort
of the history of Dion Sanders beef with some of
these reporters that he had the issue with the other
day and provided some context to it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I encourage everybody to watch that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Philip Duke's put it out from on three, and if
you get a chance to watch that, I would just
gives you more context to that situation, because I will
tell you, on the surface, it certainly seemed odd to
watch Deon Sanders lashing out at reporters and refusing to
answer their questions, saying they you know, we're second to
last in a poll or all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
This goes much deeper and much further back than that.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It gives you an opportunity to some context that Nick
and I will be discussing that on Wednesday as well,
and where we hope to have mister Dukes on to
share his research as well.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So we're gonna see if I get into that five
six six nine zero.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Talking about the Broncos opening preseason win in Indianapolis. A
lot of offense in that one, not a lot of
defense in that one. I say that, of course, the returnovers, it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just a lot of them. I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't know what because I keep getting asked what
the takeaways are, and I don't know what the takeaway
is other than it certainly seems like the fan base
largely has a renewed sense of optimism about this football team.
I think a lot of that rests on the shoulders
of a rookie quarterback, bow Nicks. I liked what I
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saw out of him overall. If I had to, and
I every day we keep asking that same question. If
I had to say it start today, which quarter back
would be resoundingly that that answer would have been Jarrett
stood um U until probably yesterday, and now we're on
the fence. I need to see consistency from bo Nicks.
I need to see him go out there and do
it again, maybe even a third preseason game. You want
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to see a little bit out of consistency out of
a guy and not just a flash in the pan
happened to catch fire because nobody's got any tape on
you kind of thing. And if you want an example that,
I'll give you one. Drew Lock in his rookie year.
Drew Lock had a flash in the pan moment. Part
of it came against a very bad defense the Houston
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Texans that year. Very injured, very bad defense. Eleven reasonably
placed road cones would have put up about the same
level of defense that the Houston Texans defense did that day.
But there were a five game stretch at the end
of that year in which Drew Lock kind of caught fire,
nobody had any tape on him, and you sort of
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had a sense of optimism for the next year. Now
come the next year, you know, people had five games
of tape on him.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
They scheme to him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He also got a little bit injured, and it just
was all downhill from there. I'm not saying that's what's
gonna happen with Bonix, Okay, I'm not bo could go
on to become a perennial pro bowler. What I am
saying is that you want to be very careful not
to make snap judgments off small sample sizes.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Been the wet blankets here again, Debbie Downer is here.
I'm not trying to be a downer at all. All
I'm trying to do is I want to be one
hundred percent sure, and I'm not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Sure right now. I'm getting closer.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I thought that performance was certainly worthy of him starting
this week.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
If you even if he hadn't been in line already to.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Start the game against the Packers, I think you make
the decision based on that game. I think that's fair.
I think the way they prepared this or paved the
way was good. Bo didn't have to worry about being
the starting quarterback going through those kinds of preparations. He
didn't know he was going to play, and you just
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get your feet wet at the NFL level. Now you
come into this game and you've got the whole week
where you know you're gonna play, but you're also preparing
as a starter.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I think that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The way that they paved the road for Bo, I
think was the right way to do it. And I
think he earned the right even if he had not
already been declared the starter to start against the Packers.
And now I want to see what he what he
does against the You know, first of all, Green Bays
a better defense. Second of all, he's to be up
against probably second teamers, maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Some maybe a first teamer or two sprinkled in there.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
The Packers generally don't play their first teamers in the preseason,
so I'm interested to sort of see what he's able
to do against kind of their second team.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Then go from there five six, six, nine zeros. The
text line a lot of you saying that there are
a lot of different players and love the offense. A
couple of questions about Troy Franklin.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Look, I've tried to report as tactfully as i can
about Troy Franklin during training camp. Troy has not been great.
Doesn't look like a guy who's going to be contributing
your one. You can see the athleticism, but in practice
you see a guy struggles with jam and really is
like a three or four route guy. At this point,
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he's got to earn the concept of route running instead
of just out athleting people, and he's he's been getting
the business from the receivers. Coach out there, John Morton
has been riding pretty hard. Now, I'll say this, and
Nick Ferguson and I talked about this.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I think it was last Thursday.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
If a coach is riding you that hard, it means
he sees something in you as trying to get.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It out of you.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
If somebody's riding you that hard, it's not a bad thing.
It's a good thing that they see that potential in you.
You just haven't met it yet, so they're they're riding
you pretty hard. I sort of had an a side
with a media member I don't know, a week ago,
week and a half ago, where I just kind of said,
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you know, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they
kept Troy Franklin. But he was a healthy scratch all
year and we'll see if he's able to work his
way into the rotation. But right now he does not
appear to be that guy, especially with the emergence of
vle Brian's asking if I recall interacting with another media
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personality on Twitter prior to Drew Locke first start, I
vaguely recall that there were a bunch of people because
I remember I broke that story that they were going
to make the switch as soon as because that Joe
was out and they were going to go with Brandon
Allen and then they would activate Drew for the Chargers game.
And I remember there were a couple of people around
town that were attempting to refute that, and then of
course it played out that way. Yes, you're correct, nobody
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ever apologized. They never do. I'm not here for the
apologies anyway. We already know. The people who listen to
the show know I mean Bo Nicks, and I've got
a couple of things here asking about comparisons and stuff,
and some people laughing that I compared him to Derek Carr.
If anything, that game made me feel more like that he.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Compares favorably to Derek Carr, not less.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I do believe that people will take that as sort
of a disparaging thing, because I don't think that people
in Denver valued Derek Carr for what he was when
he played here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
He was a good quarterback. He was a top third
of the league quarterback.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Maybe at the end of that ranking you might rank
him ten, eleven, twelve somewhere in there, but he was good.
Derek Carr was also a guy didn't make the same
mistake very often.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He was a guy was a little bit of a
slow learner, like it took him a while to kind
of get it. And if you look at the progression
in different offenses that he had year one to year two,
year three, et cetera, you can see the statistical progression
go up as he learned and got better. Bo.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think Bo's kind of a similar guy, minus the
eyeliner or guyliner as it were.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
As far as the other battles, it just really feels
like Wattenburg's kind of kind of got the center position.
Now Foresight didn't get much push in the run game.
It's beig get fewer and fewer reps must have for
it was just kind of there. It feels like that
this is watt Burke's job to lose at this point.
The inside backer. We talked about that a little bit earlier,
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Barton and Griffith. I still feel like that's I still
feel like that's a dead heat. I will say that
the mistakes that Griffith made in that game were more
egregious than the ones Barton made. Can't get sucked up
on the play action. You know, if you keep the
play in front of you're missing run fits and you're
keeping the play in front of you, I can be
a little bit more forgiving than getting sucked up in
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the in play action and letting it get behind you.
As far as the CB two spot, I think Riley
Moss is running away with it. I hear people in
town saying other things, but I based on what I've
been told and what I've seen, I think Riley Mowis
is running away with that second corner job. We did
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have some other former Broncos quarterback news today. I don't
know if you guys saw this or not, but Ben Denucci,
the Neusche announced this afternoon that he signed with the
Buffalo Bills. The Bills had not, for their part, announced
the signing or any corresponding move. Dannucci, of course, was
a twenty twenty seventh round picked by the Cowboys, playing
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three games during his rookie season, starting one of them
end of the year twenty three or forty three two
hundred nineteen yards. It was the only regular season appearance
as he made in the NFL. He was on the
Broncos practice squad last year. Some people may know him
as a pretty legendary tweeter If you're on the Twitter machine,
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Josh Allen, Mitch Trubisky are ahead of Denuccio on the
death chart there in Buffalo, and he'll be replacing Shane Buchell,
who got injured.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
On that one as well.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The Jets Today news broke then Hassan Reddick, who by
the way, is responsible for the Broncos acquiring John Franklin.
Myers Franklin Myers became the eye man out when they
acquired as Son Reddick from the Eagles. Assad Reddick has
requested a trade from the Jets, and the Jets have
informed them that they're just not going to trade him.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They'll just continue to find him every day.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And the Jets claim, for their part, that they have
been clear. Joe Douglas said, we've informed Assa we will
not trade him, that he's expected to be here with
his teammates, and he will continue to be fine per
the CBA if he does not report. Since the trade
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discussions back in March, we've been clear, direct and consistent
with our position. Our focus will remain with the guys
we have here as we prepare for the regular season. Redick,
of course twenty nine, has been seeking a new contract
since the spring, which is part of why the Eagles
elected to trade him in the first place. New York
sent a twenty twenty six conditional third round pick to
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Philadelphia to complete the deal. Reddick is set to make
a non guaranteed fourteen point two five million in twenty
twenty four. Reddick passed is physical with the Jets in
late March. He hasn't done anything else for the club,
did not attend the voluntary offseason program, skipped mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
New York placed him on the reserve did not report list.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
When he didn't show up for training camp, his Instagram
showed him walking around in what can best be described
as local garb in Japan. Reddick has fifty eight career sacks.
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Eleven of those came last year, thirteen tackles for a
lost twenty three QB.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Hits, also with the Eagles last year.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What a situation for the Jets and I wonder because
I don't think that there's any sign of this thing
getting any resolution anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I don't see any resolution to this.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The Broncos, of course play the Jets in the first
quarter of the season, read a cast to show up,
I believe by week eight in an effort to make
sure that his contract doesn't kick. The can doesn't kick
this year down the road. You just show up and
hold in. At that point, what a mess for the
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Jets and Jets is that the team with the most drama.
It feels like, I mean, granted, any team that has
Aaron Rodgers on it's gonna have the most drama, but
it sort of feels like the Jets are the team
with the most drama out there. I guess Jerry and
the Cowboys give it a run for the money. But
I think that's Jerry. I don't think that's the Cowboys.
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I think it's Jerry. You don't see the owner of
the Jets out there inciting anything. He was like the
ambassador to Ireland the last couple of years anyway, wasn't he.
He's not out there like Jerry's the one that Jerry's
p t Barnum. He loves the circus. He's a ringler,
he loves it, he loves all that He's familiar with.
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The old uh Arkansas Maxim never wrestled with the pig.
Everybody gets muddy, but the pig loves it. Jerry's the pig.
Obviously they got the Ceedee Lamb issues out there right now,
but I mean, the New York Jets just seem to
have a constant swirl around them. This offseason, it leaked
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out they were trying to replace Nate Hackett, or at
least takeaway his play calling duties. Then they pretended that
didn't happen. Although I don't know what anyone would think.
They were interviewing Arthur Smith for other than that job,
because they did interview him. Smith, for his part, claims
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they did offer. The Jets refuse to comment on that,
which I guess tells you everything. Smith ultimately the OC
job with the Pittsburgh Steelers and reunited with Russell Wilson.
Was there, united United with Russell Wilson. The Jets just
feel like it's a It's a constant thing. And I
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don't know if it's the New York market because they
have an exceedingly hostile media up there. I don't know
if you've ever seen a press conference, Jets press conference,
or just.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Seeing the Jets beat it is. It is a very.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Interesting beat, very competitive, but it seems overtly hostile.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The Jets aren't even the worst team in New York.
The Giants might not win a game this year.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Drew Lax got a hip issue, Daniel Jones is coming
off a torn acl Are we gonna get the return
of Tommy DeVito again this year in New York?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I appreciate you guys on the text line, by the way, yeah,
I at the four to six, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I appreciate your working clear answers. I try all I'm
trying to That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
At the end of the day, we're all just dudes
and chicks talking football, and I'm trying to relay whatever
information I have on to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Doesn't do many good to keep it a secret.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'm looking forward to this this week and uh specifically
these practices.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Against the Packers as well.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You gonna get a full day of practice against another team,
and I think that's good in the middle of training
camp because you get sort of used to your guys
and you start playing your guy rather than your technique.
You learn his flaws, his foibles. It goes for offensive
and defensive players. If you're a receiver, you know what
a corner Canon can't do. If you're corner, you know
what receiver Cannon can't do. Tackle versus defensive end, same thing.
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I think it's good to get practices against other teams
in the middle of training camp because it sort of
shakes you out of that monotony where you've got used
to playing a guy a certain way. Plus, you can
go one hundred percent instead of or ninety ninety five
percent instead of going you know, eighty to seventy five
percent because you don't injure your own guys, but we
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like what.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
We saw with the debut of Bo Nicks.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I hope he continues it this week against the Packers,
both in practice and in the game. And I think
we're about to have a hopefully clearer and definitive answer
after that game about what we're looking at week one
going up there to Seattle. Will it be the best
interest of the never Broncos to start Bo Nicks? Or
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do you throw jarreted Steadham out there and bring bow
in against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Here at home, we got Rockies baseball coming up next,
like a.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Top of the hour news break with Kathy Walker with
the latest on the flash floods. You listening to Broncos
Country to night here on koa's a fifty am ninety
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Michael Cooper back there behind the glass.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Congratulations to the Denver Broncos. We're getting the preseason win
thirty four to thirty over the Indianapolis Colts. And I
think the fan base was pretty excited about the play
of one rookie quarterback, Bo Nicks. I thought, I thought
Nicks played pretty well fifteen to twenty one hundred and
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twenty five yards one touchdown, also ran three times for
seventeen yards. There were I think all three quarterbacks played
pretty well. The stat line doesn't favor Jarrett Stidham, but
you know, he played pretty well. The interception clearly went
his faults. He put the ball right in some MADJ.
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P Ryan's hands, a bobbled in the air four times
before Colts player wound up coming down with it. I thought,
I think the biggest thing for me was how well
bow played on that second drive, because that first drive
was shaky.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
It was.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
You know, he started off the first pass probably should
have been intercepted, probably would have benefit'm in a starting DBU.
The second pass was behind and he It's just the
initial couple of passes there were shaky and he had nerves,
and that's understandable.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
He's a rookie. I get it. The way he.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Bounced back on that second drive was nice. Got a
little bit of that goldfishing and forget about it. But
let the you know, let that drive go away, and
I'm going to come back on this second drive. And
that second drive, he was authoritative, he was in command,
and they were they were running play calls that favored
his skill set. Sean Payton clearly has his muse and
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that's bow Nicks. Because he wasn't doing that for Russell Wilson,
he wasn't doing that for Jared Stidham. But he's he's
pulling out you know, he's in his bag for bow Nicks.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And I think that.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That's becoming evident and that's becoming clear as we move along.
That did Sean Payton, who clearly his state his legacy
to whatever it is that bow Knicks is going to become.
And I think that he was in his bag, pulling
out all the stops to try to build the young
guy up.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
And that's fine.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I mean, I'm not I'm not being derogatory about that
or anything. I'm just it's interesting to sort of watch
and see Sean Payton, the inspired play caller with which
quarterbacks that is five six, six nine zeros a text line.
You guys want to get involved in the conversation. I
would love to hear your thoughts on what you saw
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out there. Bow Knicks will start against the Packers in
the Bronco's next game coming up. Jared Stada will be too.
Zach Wilson again number three. There were some areas that
I I feel like the Broncos are going to have
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to clean up. Certainly, Garrett Bowles got called for his
first hole of the year. Already, We're hoping we're not
seeing a reversion there to Garrett holds turnovers hanging over
to the football ball security. Sean Payton is going to
be all over ball security this week. I guarantee it.
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There's no way that he was. He was satisfied with
the amount of times the ball hit the ground.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
There.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
The defense, now, we didn't get to really see the
defensive line because Zach Allen and John Franklin Myers didn't play.
DJ played a little bit, so we didn't really get
a chance to see the defensive line. But I feel
like they got as much of a push as I
would have liked, and certainly weren't as dominant as they've
been in practice over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I thought Riley Moss played pretty well.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
I thought Alex Singleton played really well. Looking around at
some of the others, we might have an issue at
that second inside backer spot because you had you had
two guys that Cody Barton, who was a little bit
less athletic, was struggling against.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
It felt like he was trying to make sure that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
He didn't get beat in terms of the past game,
and it felt like he was was not hunting in
the run game the way that he should have. Conversely,
he had Jonas who was you know, getting sucked up
on the play action stuff, but looked like he was
doing well with the run fits, which would seem to
be backwards from the two's actual sort of skill sets.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
I thought Villa played very well.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I was curious about the reps for Marvin Mims and
where that placement was in terms of where he was
on the depth chart for this game. They may have
just put him down there to get us some confidence
and getting more reps there towards the end.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
And that may have just been that, But you know, Mims.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Figures to be the third or fourth receiver on this
team behind Courtland Sutton and Josh Reynolds. Uh. And then
then you're probably you know, Patrick Mims and Valet and
then there's a steep drop after that. Whether that's a
little Jordan or you know, maybe a Troy Franklin will see.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
The main thing I was.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Impressed with is is Bonnix started to get commands, especially
as the game wore on. You know that that started
that opening drive, like I said, a little shaky, but
that second drive was was was pretty nails. He looked
in charge. He looked in command. He looked confident, and
that's the body language. There wasn't, you know, frantic was
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it looking around? There were some some platform issues. I
think when he was throwing that they concerned me a
little bit. They got to clean up some footwork stuff
with him. One of the big ones I think I
talked about it for a second there at the end
of Kawai Sports was the play where both threw it
behind Valat and I saw people on Twitter, all, that's
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great placement.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He kept it out of the middle. It wasn't. It
wasn't great placement.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
It's it's a timing route and and Bo decided a
little bit too early not to trust his protection to
take off. And to his credit, he kept his eyes
up and down field, but he tried to throw on
the run going forward instead of setting and throwing, and
it is just threw the timing off and so he
threw to you know what he practiced, which wound up
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with the ball being behind Valat. He's got to he's
either got to commit to the run at that point
or he's got to stop and reset. And that's something
it'll come with time, as the game slows down and
he starts to trust his protection a little bit more.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That'll that'll come.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But that particular play stood out to me as one
that a teachable moment that you're up there on. You know,
he pulled the tape up. Hey, here's what you did here,
Here's how we fixed this. There were a couple of
off platform throws that you know, I kind of wish
he'd set the feet a little bit better, you know,
clean up the mechanics a little bit. I did like
to play where he rolled to his left and made
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the throw. I thought that one was pretty good. And
then you know, the run game. I think the run
game here is going to be pretty good. I think Gavante,
I think Audre Guessta May. I mean, you know, we
saw the ball get coughed up a little too much.
But I think this run game is going to be
something this year. It still feels like so much. I
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piter Ryan's the odd man out and and after that
sort of missed catch, I mean that ball was right
his hands. I don't know why he batted it up
in the air four times trying to catch the thing,
but you know that that's that was his role. His
role was to be the guy catching the ball out
of the backfield. If you can't, if you can't do that,
you're already costing the team three million dollars. I mean,
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that's what they say if they if they move on.
I I don't know what it is that he gives
you that you don't get from some combination of the
other backs. Not I think he gets the muchip Ryan
I likes somemudge of v Run. We've had him on
the show good Dude to that funny story about holding
the car up so the lady could change her tire
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back in college, and then he tried to like play
it off like well it was just you know, one
of those electric cars. Well, dude, those are heavier. The
electric cars are heavier. So he was trying he was
trying to be humble and then being humble. I guess
he he literally humble bragged five six six nine zero
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three two three, says I saw thirty one get embarrassed
and reminded me. I forgot which station. Asked is it
too soon to give thirty one away? I say yes,
and cut whoever that was in that play with ten
minutes to go in the fourth. Well, they're not going
to cut a strain who you know. I thought I
had some good plays.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
He's a rookie.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's gonna take him a little bit to sort of
get to where he needs to be. Seven to six Ozho
asks how I think the preseason game affected certain camp battles,
I e. Corner two, running back, wide receiver, et cetera.
I here's the thing. I I know the fans are
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and again, if you say anything that could even slightly
be considered negative about bo Nicks, they try to land
basted you. So just keep in mind, I'm not trying
to say something negative. I'm just trying to temper expectation
a little bit because it's about a larger body of
work and not one one moment in time. Nothing gets
decided off one game, especially a first preseason game. What
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they do is they come back, they look at the tape,
they might adjust the depth chart a little bit, and
because they want to see other guys and you know,
in different roles. But nothing is decided off of one
preseason game. It just doesn't happen that way. So all
the I've seen enough and all that kind of stuff,
and you know that's out there. That's that's good, Okay, cool. Uh,
the coaching staff is going to go through another another game,
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the Packers game. They're gonna get both the opportunity to
start and prepare as a star, be able to go
against higher a defense that's a little bit better, and
the players that are hired.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
The depth chart and this was always the plan.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
And we'll kind of see from there whether that, you know,
whether that translates whether Bo's ready to take the job.
I say, on that second drive, he certainly looked in command. Now,
I wonder how much of that was stuff they did
through the week, as far as walkthrough and scripting and
all that, or if it was in the moment play
calls and he was showing, you know, complete control of
the offense. If it was, then bully for him. But
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it's about a larger picture here, a bigger body of work.
Bo Nix is eventually going to be the guy, whether
that's now, whether that's week one, week three, week eight, whatever.
And the way that I've always framed this is that
it's not really a quarterback competition because the only person
bo Nix is competing with is himself.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Jarretts.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Didham is a placeholder until bo Nix takes the job.
Sean Payton drafted him twelfth overall. Sean Payton's I see
he is tied to whatever Bonnicks becomes. Sean Payton knows
that in order to get the Hall of Fame, he's
gonna have to win a Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos,
do something no other coach has ever done, and win
a Super Bowl with two different teams.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
No head coach never done. I should say I think that.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Sean has staked everything on that evaluation of b Nicks,
and we're going to see what that is, for better
or worse. But I don't think he's going to roll
him out there if he doesn't believe he's ready, and
he wants to see a couple of exposures to know
that he's ready, not.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Just one in the.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Middle of the game against a third tier Colts defense.
You know, I I don't want to short change him.
I don't want to short change Bonnicks. But what I
am trying to tell you is that the coaching staff
needs to see a few other things before they officially sign, signed, sealed,
delivered and move on.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Five six six nine Zeros text line three A five says.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I was impressed by Bo's pocket awareness move well, didn't
panic excited about the future. I thought it was clock
was a little bit fast, but you know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
It was interesting and fun to sort of see.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
If quarterback get out the get out the front door
instead of sneaking out the back door like like Russ
likes to do. And that's what led to those backbreaking
sack type plays when Russell Wilson's Russell Wilson's escape from
the pocket is, you know, is bailing out the back door.
And so when you do that, you know it does
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it's a different because not a lot of quarterbacks do that.
So it's different from a defensive end or an edge
rusher who's you know used to being in a certain
spot in order to sack at quarterback, so Russ can
avoid that. But then he tries to hang out of
the ball and Bo is looking to pick up yardage.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And it's interesting because you would.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Consider Russ more of the hyper athlete even at this
you know, stage of his career versus bow. But Bo's
looking to pick up yardage with his feet, where Russ
is looking to extend plays for.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
A home run Bowl. And so that's sort of the difference.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I don't think, uh, I don't remember Bodex taking a
sack in that game, which is which is good, and
that's something that Sean Payton is very much going to embrace.
I thought Zach Wilson looked fairly proficient out there. I'd
like to see him get some work against a little
bit tougher than you know guys are going to be,
with all due respect selling insurance in a couple of weeks.
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I thought Julia McLoughlin showed some uh even though he's
put on a little bit of weight, which is a
good thing for him, still showcase the explosion out there.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You could still see it.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
I thought Blake Watson looked pretty good out there, so
I'm I'm you know, I'm interested to see how they
stack this running back room because Samaj right now sort
of feels like the odd guy out.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I thought that Lucas Kroll a bit of a mixed.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Bag because I thought outside of the fumble, I thought
he played pretty well. He wound up with four catches
for thirty one yards and outside of that, outside of
that fumble, I thought he played pretty well. But we'll see,
We'll see how that goes. We got some Broncos. We
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got your chance to get qualified for Broncos season tickets
coming up after the break. You guys want to stick
around for that. We got to hit a break right now,
but we'll be back on the other side. Kathy Walker's
got the latest on the flash flood warning it's out there.
You guys want to stick around for the news. You
listen to Broncos Country Night right here on KOA. It's
say fifty am ninety four one FM News Talk Sports,
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a short show obviously tonight, short show, tomorrow night, full
show on Wednesday, and we will get into I don't
know if you guys have seen this, but on three
put out an interesting video where they went through sort
of the history of Dion Sanders beef with some of
these reporters that he had the issue with the other
day and provided some context to it.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I encourage everybody to watch that.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Philip Duke's put it out from on three, and if
you get a chance to watch that, I would just
gives you more context to that situation, because I will
tell you, on the surface, it certainly seemed odd to
watch Deon Sanders lashing out at reporters and refusing to
answer their questions, saying they you know, we're second to
last in a poll or all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
This goes much deeper and much further back than that.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
It gives you an opportunity to some context that Nick
and I will be discussing that on Wednesday as well,
and where we hope to have mister Dukes on to
share his research as well.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
So we're gonna see if I get into that five
six six nine zero.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Talking about the Broncos opening preseason win in Indianapolis. A
lot of offense in that one, not a lot of
defense in that one. I say that, of course, the returnovers, it.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Just a lot of them. I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
I don't know what because I keep getting asked what
the takeaways are, and I don't know what the takeaway
is other than it certainly seems like the fan base
largely has a renewed sense of optimism about this football team.
I think a lot of that rests on the shoulders
of a rookie quarterback, bow Nicks. I liked what I
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saw out of him overall. If I had to, and
I every day we keep asking that same question. If
I had to say it start today, which quarter back
would be resoundingly that that answer would have been Jarrett
stood um U until probably yesterday, and now we're on
the fence. I need to see consistency from bo Nicks.
I need to see him go out there and do
it again, maybe even a third preseason game. You want
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to see a little bit out of consistency out of
a guy and not just a flash in the pan
happened to catch fire because nobody's got any tape on
you kind of thing. And if you want an example that,
I'll give you one. Drew Lock in his rookie year.
Drew Lock had a flash in the pan moment. Part
of it came against a very bad defense the Houston
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Texans that year. Very injured, very bad defense. Eleven reasonably
placed road cones would have put up about the same
level of defense that the Houston Texans defense did that day.
But there were a five game stretch at the end
of that year in which Drew Lock kind of caught fire,
nobody had any tape on him, and you sort of
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had a sense of optimism for the next year. Now
come the next year, you know, people had five games
of tape on him.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
They scheme to him.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
He also got a little bit injured, and it just
was all downhill from there. I'm not saying that's what's
gonna happen with Bonix, Okay, I'm not bo could go
on to become a perennial pro bowler. What I am
saying is that you want to be very careful not
to make snap judgments off small sample sizes.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
And I get it.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Been the wet blankets here again, Debbie Downer is here.
I'm not trying to be a downer at all. All
I'm trying to do is I want to be one
hundred percent sure, and I'm not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Sure right now. I'm getting closer.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
I thought that performance was certainly worthy of him starting
this week.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
If you even if he hadn't been in line already to.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Start the game against the Packers, I think you make
the decision based on that game. I think that's fair.
I think the way they prepared this or paved the
way was good. Bo didn't have to worry about being
the starting quarterback going through those kinds of preparations. He
didn't know he was going to play, and you just
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get your feet wet at the NFL level. Now you
come into this game and you've got the whole week
where you know you're gonna play, but you're also preparing
as a starter.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
So I think that.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
The way that they paved the road for Bo, I
think was the right way to do it. And I
think he earned the right even if he had not
already been declared the starter to start against the Packers.
And now I want to see what he what he
does against the You know, first of all, Green Bays
a better defense. Second of all, he's to be up
against probably second teamers, maybe.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Some maybe a first teamer or two sprinkled in there.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
The Packers generally don't play their first teamers in the preseason,
so I'm interested to sort of see what he's able
to do against kind of their second team.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Then go from there five six, six, nine zeros. The
text line a lot of you saying that there are
a lot of different players and love the offense. A
couple of questions about Troy Franklin.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Look, I've tried to report as tactfully as i can
about Troy Franklin during training camp. Troy has not been great.
Doesn't look like a guy who's going to be contributing
your one. You can see the athleticism, but in practice
you see a guy struggles with jam and really is
like a three or four route guy. At this point,
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he's got to earn the concept of route running instead
of just out athleting people, and he's he's been getting
the business from the receivers. Coach out there, John Morton
has been riding pretty hard. Now, I'll say this, and
Nick Ferguson and I talked about this.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
I think it was last Thursday.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
If a coach is riding you that hard, it means
he sees something in you as trying to get.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It out of you.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
If somebody's riding you that hard, it's not a bad thing.
It's a good thing that they see that potential in you.
You just haven't met it yet, so they're they're riding
you pretty hard. I sort of had an a side
with a media member I don't know, a week ago,
week and a half ago, where I just kind of said,
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you know, it wouldn't surprise me at all if they
kept Troy Franklin. But he was a healthy scratch all
year and we'll see if he's able to work his
way into the rotation. But right now he does not
appear to be that guy, especially with the emergence of
vle Brian's asking if I recall interacting with another media
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personality on Twitter prior to Drew Locke first start, I
vaguely recall that there were a bunch of people because
I remember I broke that story that they were going
to make the switch as soon as because that Joe
was out and they were going to go with Brandon
Allen and then they would activate Drew for the Chargers game.
And I remember there were a couple of people around
town that were attempting to refute that, and then of
course it played out that way. Yes, you're correct, nobody
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ever apologized. They never do. I'm not here for the
apologies anyway. We already know. The people who listen to
the show know I mean Bo Nicks, and I've got
a couple of things here asking about comparisons and stuff,
and some people laughing that I compared him to Derek Carr.
If anything, that game made me feel more like that he.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Compares favorably to Derek Carr, not less.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I do believe that people will take that as sort
of a disparaging thing, because I don't think that people
in Denver valued Derek Carr for what he was when
he played here.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
He was a good quarterback. He was a top third
of the league quarterback.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Maybe at the end of that ranking you might rank
him ten, eleven, twelve somewhere in there, but he was good.
Derek Carr was also a guy didn't make the same
mistake very often.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
You know.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
He was a guy was a little bit of a
slow learner, like it took him a while to kind
of get it. And if you look at the progression
in different offenses that he had year one to year two,
year three, et cetera, you can see the statistical progression
go up as he learned and got better. Bo.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
I think Bo's kind of a similar guy, minus the
eyeliner or guyliner as it were.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
As far as the other battles, it just really feels
like Wattenburg's kind of kind of got the center position.
Now Foresight didn't get much push in the run game.
It's beig get fewer and fewer reps must have for
it was just kind of there. It feels like that
this is watt Burke's job to lose at this point.
The inside backer. We talked about that a little bit earlier,
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Barton and Griffith. I still feel like that's I still
feel like that's a dead heat. I will say that
the mistakes that Griffith made in that game were more
egregious than the ones Barton made. Can't get sucked up
on the play action. You know, if you keep the
play in front of you're missing run fits and you're
keeping the play in front of you, I can be
a little bit more forgiving than getting sucked up in
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the in play action and letting it get behind you.
As far as the CB two spot, I think Riley
Moss is running away with it. I hear people in
town saying other things, but I based on what I've
been told and what I've seen, I think Riley Mowis
is running away with that second corner job. We did
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have some other former Broncos quarterback news today. I don't
know if you guys saw this or not, but Ben Denucci,
the Neusche announced this afternoon that he signed with the
Buffalo Bills. The Bills had not, for their part, announced
the signing or any corresponding move. Dannucci, of course, was
a twenty twenty seventh round picked by the Cowboys, playing
(25:12):
three games during his rookie season, starting one of them
end of the year twenty three or forty three two
hundred nineteen yards. It was the only regular season appearance
as he made in the NFL. He was on the
Broncos practice squad last year. Some people may know him
as a pretty legendary tweeter If you're on the Twitter machine,
(25:32):
Josh Allen, Mitch Trubisky are ahead of Denuccio on the
death chart there in Buffalo, and he'll be replacing Shane Buchell,
who got injured.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
On that one as well.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
The Jets Today news broke then Hassan Reddick, who by
the way, is responsible for the Broncos acquiring John Franklin.
Myers Franklin Myers became the eye man out when they
acquired as Son Reddick from the Eagles. Assad Reddick has
requested a trade from the Jets, and the Jets have
informed them that they're just not going to trade him.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
They'll just continue to find him every day.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
And the Jets claim, for their part, that they have
been clear. Joe Douglas said, we've informed Assa we will
not trade him, that he's expected to be here with
his teammates, and he will continue to be fine per
the CBA if he does not report. Since the trade
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discussions back in March, we've been clear, direct and consistent
with our position. Our focus will remain with the guys
we have here as we prepare for the regular season. Redick,
of course twenty nine, has been seeking a new contract
since the spring, which is part of why the Eagles
elected to trade him in the first place. New York
sent a twenty twenty six conditional third round pick to
(26:54):
Philadelphia to complete the deal. Reddick is set to make
a non guaranteed fourteen point two five million in twenty
twenty four. Reddick passed is physical with the Jets in
late March. He hasn't done anything else for the club,
did not attend the voluntary offseason program, skipped mandatory mini camp.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
New York placed him on the reserve did not report list.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
When he didn't show up for training camp, his Instagram
showed him walking around in what can best be described
as local garb in Japan. Reddick has fifty eight career sacks.
(27:39):
Eleven of those came last year, thirteen tackles for a
lost twenty three QB.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
Hits, also with the Eagles last year.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
What a situation for the Jets and I wonder because
I don't think that there's any sign of this thing
getting any resolution anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I don't see any resolution to this.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
The Broncos, of course play the Jets in the first
quarter of the season, read a cast to show up,
I believe by week eight in an effort to make
sure that his contract doesn't kick. The can doesn't kick
this year down the road. You just show up and
hold in. At that point, what a mess for the
(28:27):
Jets and Jets is that the team with the most drama.
It feels like, I mean, granted, any team that has
Aaron Rodgers on it's gonna have the most drama, but
it sort of feels like the Jets are the team
with the most drama out there. I guess Jerry and
the Cowboys give it a run for the money. But
I think that's Jerry. I don't think that's the Cowboys.
(28:49):
I think it's Jerry. You don't see the owner of
the Jets out there inciting anything. He was like the
ambassador to Ireland the last couple of years anyway, wasn't he.
He's not out there like Jerry's the one that Jerry's
p t Barnum. He loves the circus. He's a ringler,
he loves it, he loves all that He's familiar with.
(29:11):
The old uh Arkansas Maxim never wrestled with the pig.
Everybody gets muddy, but the pig loves it. Jerry's the pig.
Obviously they got the Ceedee Lamb issues out there right now,
but I mean, the New York Jets just seem to
have a constant swirl around them. This offseason, it leaked
(29:32):
out they were trying to replace Nate Hackett, or at
least takeaway his play calling duties. Then they pretended that
didn't happen. Although I don't know what anyone would think.
They were interviewing Arthur Smith for other than that job,
because they did interview him. Smith, for his part, claims
(29:53):
they did offer. The Jets refuse to comment on that,
which I guess tells you everything. Smith ultimately the OC
job with the Pittsburgh Steelers and reunited with Russell Wilson.
Was there, united United with Russell Wilson. The Jets just
feel like it's a It's a constant thing. And I
(30:16):
don't know if it's the New York market because they
have an exceedingly hostile media up there. I don't know
if you've ever seen a press conference, Jets press conference,
or just.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Seeing the Jets beat it is. It is a very.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Interesting beat, very competitive, but it seems overtly hostile.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
The Jets aren't even the worst team in New York.
The Giants might not win a game this year.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Drew Lax got a hip issue, Daniel Jones is coming
off a torn acl Are we gonna get the return
of Tommy DeVito again this year in New York?
Speaker 1 (31:04):
I'm here for it.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I appreciate you guys on the text line, by the way, yeah,
I at the four to six, thank you.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I appreciate your working clear answers. I try all I'm
trying to That's what I'm here for.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
At the end of the day, we're all just dudes
and chicks talking football, and I'm trying to relay whatever
information I have on to you guys.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Doesn't do many good to keep it a secret.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
I'm looking forward to this this week and uh specifically
these practices.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Against the Packers as well.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
You gonna get a full day of practice against another team,
and I think that's good in the middle of training
camp because you get sort of used to your guys
and you start playing your guy rather than your technique.
You learn his flaws, his foibles. It goes for offensive
and defensive players. If you're a receiver, you know what
a corner Canon can't do. If you're corner, you know
what receiver Cannon can't do. Tackle versus defensive end, same thing.
(32:06):
I think it's good to get practices against other teams
in the middle of training camp because it sort of
shakes you out of that monotony where you've got used
to playing a guy a certain way. Plus, you can
go one hundred percent instead of or ninety ninety five
percent instead of going you know, eighty to seventy five
percent because you don't injure your own guys, but we
(32:29):
like what.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
We saw with the debut of Bo Nicks.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I hope he continues it this week against the Packers,
both in practice and in the game. And I think
we're about to have a hopefully clearer and definitive answer
after that game about what we're looking at week one
going up there to Seattle. Will it be the best
interest of the never Broncos to start Bo Nicks? Or
(32:57):
do you throw jarreted Steadham out there and bring bow
in against the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Here at home, we got Rockies baseball coming up next,
like a.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
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