08-14-25 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight with Zach Segars

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome back to Broncos Country Tonight, a
post Rockies edition of Broncos Country Tonight. Once again filling
in for Benjamin Albright and Nick Ferguson, it's Zach Seegers.
Today was a pretty eventful day for the Denver Broncos.

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Had the Arizona Cardinals in town for a joint practice
at the Broncos facility. Final day of training camp or
final official day of training camp, last one that'll be
open to the fans, and it was a big one.
You know, I think there's arguments to be had that
the joint practices are more important than the preseason games.

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Even you know, you're not worried about showcasing a player
that another team might scoop up. You're not as worried
about showing schemes or tipping plays. It's a more controlled environment.
You can also, as a result, set up ideal situations
who work on, you know, whatever given things you feel
you most need to work on or install. And I

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just I think it's a great kind of invention we've
seen these NFL teams have in recent years, and it
really does, I think bring up some questions about the
importance of this preseason game, right, we know. And a
great example of this is look at the McVeigh tree
or the Shanahan tree and how those guys really aren't
playing their starters in preseason. It's all backups. Saw that

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last week with the forty nine ers. But the starters
are going in joint practices, that's when they're giving their
work in so and I think this is a question
about last week too. How important is the preseason game
when you have the joint practice ahead of time, right
when the Broncos have this joint practice with the Cardinals
or the forty nine ers last week, and they last week,

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by all accounts, they were the much better team. Defense
dominated the forty nine Ers offense, starting offense start. The
Bronco starting offense was a little up and down, had
their wins forty nine Ers defense one some. But then
you go to the game and the starters look terrible
and everyone starts panicking.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
Well, what's more meaningful?

Speaker 1 (02:11):
You know, one is a game setting, so that that
obviously matters, but it starters going up against backups. People
are hiding their play calls. They're not calling the most
authentic game possible as opposed to the joint practice where
it does have more authentic play calling. It is starters

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on starters, everyone is going at their hardest. But you know,
there's also again there's the element of doing it under
the bright lights. I think Troy Franklin carrying his strong
practice performances under the bright lights of a game, even
if it is a preseason game, that was a nice
box to check. And so, you know, I think the

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Broncos still need to check that box at least, like, hey,
you've looked good in the joint practice against the forty
nine ers and now the joint practice against the Cardinals.
Break that down in detail in a second here, But yeah,
you're looking great in the joint practices. Let's just see
it in a game setting now, to ease everyone's concerns.
Just prove and again I think it's probably the case,

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but let's just prove that it is the case that
the Broncos are this high end AFC playoff team, maybe
even borderline Super Bowl contender this season. And doing it
in a game where you're going up against someone's backups,
pulverize them, you know, make it look like this is
the Broncos starters going up against the Arizona's backups.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I would love to see that in a.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Game or and you know, and they probably don't play
in Week three, so this will be the last opportunity
for them to really ease those nerves before the start.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Of the season.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
Getting into the meat of today though, the actual joint
practice itself, I thought it was a pretty strong day
for the Broncos in a day they won. We didn't
have the clearest view of the defense. There were unbusted coverages.
Trey McBride had a pretty good practice, but I overall,

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defense won the day for the Broncos on that far field.
Media didn't have the best view of it, so my
reporting on the defense is limited. I know Jake Kwan
McMillan had a very strong day, had an interception, had
multiple pass breakups. He is putting up one heck of
a fight to try and stave off Shade Beart, and
I think you love to see that, you know, a

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classic case of iron sharpening to iron, that.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Old football cliche.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
But so overall, we'll focus on the offense today because
it's just it was right in front of us. The
action was going on at the same time, and it
was like, why squint for some defensive takeaways I can't
really see and I'm gonna have to be guessing on
a lot of stuff, while I can come away with
some really strong, concrete offensive takeaways with what's right in

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front of me here. So focusing on the offense, we heard,
like I said at that forty nine ers joint practice,
that it was kind of up and down for the offense,
mixed bag. I think there was some of that today,
but overall, I would definitely say the Broncos offense won
the day. Going on Twitter during and even after the fact,

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a lot of the my media colleagues were hyping up
bow Nicks saying it was his best day of practice.
I don't think I'd go that far. What actually really
stood out to me was the run game. I thought
the run game maybe had its best day of camp today.
Was really happy with what I saw from just about
all of the running backs. I think some receivers had

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really strong days. There's some new guys, you know, Tory Franklin,
Marvin Mins had good days. But then some new guys
also stood out to me today. But let's start. Yeah,
let's start with the passing game and bow Nicks. The negatives,
I think stand out to me more, not to say
it was a bad day. I think if I were
to great overall, i'd give him a B B plus day.

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I thought it was good, not great, not exemplary, but
but a good, strong day of practice from Bo. I
think my knocks would be you saw him scramble a
little too much, and you know, if this was a game,
I don't think it would be much of a knock.
But in these practice settings, especially when you're in you know,
seven on sevens, but even in eleven on elevens, the

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defense can't touch the quarterback. They have to pull up
and they have to kind of give them this bubble
of space, and so you can't get the best read
on quarterback scrambles. Even some pocket movement stuff. It's like, okay, yeah,
he shoveled around in the pocket and got the throw off.
If this was a game, that's a sack two three
seconds ago. Not that that was happening today, but it's

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why it's hard to kind of read those things and
why ideally you want to be throwing the ball. And
I thought in earlier in camp, actually Bo did a
great job of when he was stepping up in the
pocket or breaking the pocket and you know, run around
a little bit. He would keep his eyes on downfield.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
And look for the throw.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Today, I thought there were a few too many scrambles,
which again just not ideal.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
Don't love to see that.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
And then the thing that I thought was a more
notable mark against him in these situational drills, you know,
right before the play, Sean Payton will bark out, you know,
third and five or you know, second and seven, third
and fifteen.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
You know, whatever it is.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
They'll set up the down markers the right way, and
then they'll they'll run the rep and on too many
of the third downs, like I don't know, a good
five six like I don't know, probably close to about
half his third downs.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
It felt to me at least he.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
Was targeting guys behind the sticks and Broncos fans that
have been around since the Teddy Bridgewater years know how
frustrating that can be. And it's not that you can
never do it, but you know, I think of and
some of it's no one was getting open downfield, But
I think that's a problem in and of itself, where
you're seeing him wait wait, wait, okay, I'm throwing it
to Cortland Sutton, you know, two yards past the line

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of scrimmage on a third and nine, for example, and
just trying, but also maybe a little too quick to
take the safer underneath option rather than try the the
tight window downfield. And of course you know there's given take.
You don't want to be Jameis Winston out there, but
you also do want to push the envelope some and

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in training camp where there really is no and he's
not in a competition right now, there's really no downside
to him throwing those interceptions. I do wish he tried
to see what he could get away with a little more,
not that you want to see him throwing the interceptions,
but that you want to see him push the ball
downfield on those third and nines rather than, oh man,

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where's the underneath guy, Let's just let's take the easy money.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
You know now, I think there's a given take to that.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
You also do want to try and replicate what you're
going to be doing in the game atmosphere as much
as possible. But this is a simulation period where you
can see the boundaries that you can play with and
what you can and canon can't get away from. And
bo I think was a little fast to resort to
those underneath checkdown options last year, and you'd like to

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see him be a little more aggressive in practice. So
those were the knocks, but overall, I thought it was
a very strong quarterbacking day from Bow. The accuracy was
very dialed in today. I thought you could see him
processing very well. You know, we don't have film, but
you can watch the helmet and see him, you know,
clicking from one option to the next, and it seemed

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like he was, you know, processing through his progressions pretty quick.
Had almost had what would have probably been the throw
of Camp where Rolling out left throws the ball down
the sideline to Marvin Mims, who got opened it.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
It was kind of a ti window.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
He just ultimately didn't lob it enough because the cornerback
was able to jump up and get a hand on it.
Or actually, no, I'm wrong, it was just a little
Mims couldn't crow it. I think it was catchuple. It
was kind of just off his fingertips there. But that
was a laser of a throw. Loved seeing that from Bow.
He had great chemistry with the receivers today, particularly Devon Valay.

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You know, you want to talk about guys who had
their best day of training camp. I think today was
Devon Valet's best day of training camp for sure.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Was just all over the field. Had the biggest play of.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
The day where he caught you know, a slot fade
touchdown for seventy yards. I saw some people, you know,
responding to media reports going.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
WHOA both through the ball seventy yards?

Speaker 1 (10:46):
He threw it, you know, like a normal twenty twenty
five yards downfield, and Devon Valet just caught and run,
caught the ball and ran with it. But it was
a great offensive play. Nonetheless, like seeing that. Pat Bryant
I think continues to stand out. Was really happy with
what we saw from him in that first preseason game.

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I think he moved so much better, so much more
sudden and fluid and just fast then I thought he
would be. Based on his college film, I thought he
would be, I don't know, a little stock here, definitely
not quite that flexible or quite that fluid, and it
just it jumped off the screen I think in that
forty nine Ers preseason game. And you know, he had

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a very strong day of practice today, was getting great
separation against the Cardinal secondary that I think is actually
pretty promising and young.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Nicks hit him down.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
The field for a couple of big conversions. Marvin Mims
mentioned him he had a big twenty or so yard
conversion on a comeback round. Probably not twenty, maybe more
like fifteen yard conversion on a comeback route.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
But he was solid today.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Corland Sutton was the go to guy though they Seeing
how that chemistry with Nicks has continued to blossom is
really exciting. During the move the ball period at the
end of practice, Broncos, by the way, during that period
just sliced through the Cardinals defense. I don't think they
saw a third down. They did, they saw a third

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and goal.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
What was it made up? Third?

Speaker 1 (12:23):
They got to end goal and then Sean Payton said
there's six seconds left. They ran one play and he
ended the period. And I think he did that in
part because he recognized, Hey, my offense isn't seen any
do or died downs here before this move the ball
period is up. I want to put them in one
guy to have it position. And it didn't work off

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it was an incompletion. Ended the period. Broncos ended up
not scoring, but again up until that one play, every
single play was a completion for positive yards. They didn't
see a single third down. They were looking at you know,
second and threes when it did go to second down
a lot of times it did. And Sutton caught three
different passes, two outs and a comeback, and just and Melton.

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Max Melton held up all practice, I thought, did a
really nice job against Suddon. But in that clutch, you know,
two minute drill, move the ball period, Sutton diced him
up and Bo just picked on that matchup over and
over and over again.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
Love seeing that.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
And then lastly, you know, camp Darling, Troy Franklin had
yet another standout day.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
I just he looks ready to go.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
I think there's very valid questions about, you know, the
top end of this group of running backs, wide receivers
and tight ends. You know, the Broncos don't have a
ton of they don't have any superstar weapons, they don't
have a ton of even star level weapons. But I think, man,

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their group of weapons is just so deep. I think
they'll carry three or four running back that all, it's
fairly easy to imagine them contributing to this offense. I
think they're going to carry. I think all six wide
receivers they carry will be meaningful parts of the offense
that see work. You know, tight end, I do question

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the depth of there some but with Evan Ingram, now
it's much deeper than it was before, where you know,
guys like Nate Adkins and Lucas Croll, who are the
second options, are now at the very bottom of the room.
Adam Trautman's now the number two guy. And so while
I think that's still a question mark in general, that position,
it's a lot better than it was. Speaking of Evan Ingram,

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that connection with bo Nix is apparent. They continue to
work together as much as possible. You know, they'll be
setting up a drill, Ingram pulls Bonix aside, they start
throwing the ball back and forth. I think it's clear
that that connection is going to be huge for the
Broncos this year. I think there's a very healthy chance
Ingram ends up being the number two catcher in this offense,

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behind only Courtland Sutton. Just I think the non Courtland
Sutton receivers are going to be rotating so much that
they might all cannibalize each other's production. And Ingram, I
think he's just going to feast, you know, with Blake Watson,
maybe being the best receiver in that room, and he's
a good receiver, but that also demonstrates that R. J.

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Harvey might not be ready to be that joker yet.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
I don't JK. Dobbins can catch the ball.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
I think he'll be better than Javonte Williams was last
year as a pass catcher, but he's not bringing that,
you know, like dynamic joker presence. And with that in mind,
Evan Ingram I think is far and away the best
option for Sean Payton's joker role. He obsessed over for
so much of this offseason, and if anyone's going to

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benefit from that obsession, it definitely seems like for now
at least, Evan Ingram has to be the odds on
favorite to be that center of attention.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Got to hit a break coming upright here.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
But after that we will get more into the Broncos
joint practice from today had some big news regarding Nick
Benito and Garrett Bowles. We'll talk about that. Also the
running backs. I mentioned just a few minutes ago how
I thought the run game was the star of today
and the running backs might have had their best day
of camp to date. I'll get in depth into poohshined,

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who may be disappointed a little because all the running
backs did look great, there was one that didn't quite
have as strong of the day. All of that coming
up next on Broncos Country tonight right here on KOA,
Hello everybody, and welcome Broncos Country to some more Broncos

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Country tonight, some post Rockies Broncos Country tonight. At that
filling in yet again before Benjamin Albright and Nick Ferguson.
It is Zach Segers, the new guy here, talking about
some joint practice, Who's standing out, Who's disappointing some last
segment talked about Bonix and the passing game and all

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his weapons, a little bit about the defense too. Now
got to talk about some Broncos news. Also the run
game I talked earlier. I think today was the best
day of training camp for the Broncos rushing attack, for
the running backs. I'll dive more into that in a second,
but first got to talk about some Broncos news.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
Now.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
Unfortunately Nick Benito was not out there as he continues
to deal with a foot injury. He hasn't been out
there since the forty nine Ers game. I think you
got to be worried about that. You know, I think
he's probably okay, and I think it's probably just precautionary,
like we saw with Drake Greenlaw and you know, some

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of these other players during camp. But foot injuries are
you know about his nagging as it gets you know,
so many bones in your foot lot can go wrong
down there. It can really hamper an entire season, if
not multiple seasons. And for this to crop up right
now on the eve of the NFL season, I think

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is very concerning. Nick Benito is in line for a
massive role on this team, and if you saw how
dominant he was against the forty nine ers, it looks
like he might be, you know, the second most important
player on the defense, behind only patrick's Ertan. He looks
like he might be ready to pop off, and he
was going up against the backup. Certainly, he wasn't the

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only edge to face a favorable situation, though this past week.
He's the only edge rusher in the NFL right now
with a pass rush win rate over fifty percent. He's
at sixty percent. So he was just dominant in a
way we didn't see anyone else be during this preseason,
and already now is.

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Dealing with a foot injury.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
I just I think you have to worry about that,
and is he going to miss regular season games? You know,
those first two with the Titans and the Colts, it's
not that bad. You can probably get through those without him.
Right after that, it gets a lot harder Chargers in
Week three and you need him back for that stretch
you know, Eagles soon after that. You can't win those

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games without Nick Benito. So really hope he recovers well
from that foot injury. Garrett Bowles, a guy that Nick
Benito works against a lot during this time of the year,
also had a bit of an injury scared today. He
went over to the ambulance that's off to the side
of the field. It looked like he was in pain.

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Everyone was very concerned about. You know what that meant
is the fact he's going to the ambulance means this
is more serious? Does it mean it's you know, maybe
less serious in regards to football? What's going on here?
Sean Payton said after practice that Gara Boles will be
just fine and that it was just a result of
some asthma that he was dealing with.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Garapols his asthma. For those that don't know, and dealing.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
With the altitude today and along with the intense and
the forest fires that we're dealing with right now, all
that smoke in the air knocking down the air quality.
I think that's been an issue for Bulls. Something to
watch though as we get into the regular season. You know,
if those fires are still raging, and let's all cross

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our fingers and hope that you know, they're taking care
of and everyone's safe before then, but if they are
still raging come the regular season, you know, particularly Week
one at home against cam Warden Company, do we see
that Hamper Garrett Bulls at all in the season debut
where maybe even throughout September. I think that's something Broncos

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fans should watch, you know. I think it probably plays
out okay for the team, but I think you absolutely
have to monitor that situation really quick.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Before we get into the running backs.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Last segment, I talked about how one of the receivers
that really stood out to me was Pat Bryant. I
think he had a great preseason game against the same
Francisco forty nine ers, had a great day of practice
today was one of bos go to guys all joint
practice long especially with that, you know, second group of
weapons him Franklin Surefield out of that bunch. BO was

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really liking targeting Brian and based on all we saw
in the preseason game as well, I think Brian is
going to be a major part of this offense. Our
very own Ryan Edwards talked with Pat Bryan after practice
two days ago. We haven't gotten a chance to play
the whole thing and its entirety yet here it is all.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Right, man, How was How was your first preseason game
when I had that with that experience go it.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
Was move man, A lot of excite man, you know,
obviously coming as a rookie, a little chills, but so got
in that Hud, I got a play call, everything kind
of went away.

Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was back in my own Also, the joint practice,
you got, the first NFL experience with that, what'd you.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
Think it was? Move bro?

Speaker 4 (21:50):
Just going against other great competition, you know, especially at
this level, just soaking it all, lamb man, and just
going against different vets and at the end of the day,
just just learning from you what I'm saying, what I
older guys do as well as you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
I understand it.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Defenses with other teams going against our defenses. You know
what I'm saying, you see it for a couple days,
but going against the new defense, seeing new schemes really
helped me, you know what I'm saying, learning a.

Speaker 5 (22:06):
Lot for sure.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
What's the jump so far for you going against NFL
caliber cornerbacks with the jump from college?

Speaker 4 (22:14):
I probably say, you know, because in college I was
you know what I'm saying, one of those bigger guys,
you know what I'm saying, really dominated. But at the
end of the day, I feel like it'll work on
the NFL level. But at the same time, I gotta
find other ways, you know what I'm saying, to get open.
So really just being able to separate at the top route,
you know what I'm saying, being efficient with that because
you know what I'm saying, those guys they know tendencies.
They've been in that league long enough, so trying to
keep everything vertical until is not.

Speaker 5 (22:34):
Who's the worst of the matchups out here or who
you feel like going.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Against, I mean all IDBs.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Really, I feel like from going there and to come
back here, I feel like we probably got some of
the best DB's in the league. We gotta really, I mean, overall,
we probably got one of the best rosters.

Speaker 5 (22:48):
It's hard to argue that what are your matchups? Who
passed our ten and.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
What's like it's been great man just going against you know,
I say, the best corner in the league. You know
what I'm saying, just going against him, learning from him,
and just getting that great competation. At the end of
the day, he's a competitor. I'm a competitor, So come
out here in the field and compete.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
What are some of the things you've heard from the
other wide receivers in the room, Corland Sutton especially, I.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
Mean really like you, Like I was saying, like keep
everything because these dvs are smart, so they know tendencies.
They know when you raise up, you know you get
on your toe, they know when you're going to break.
So he always gonna be keep everything vertical until it's not.
So really, just focusing on keeping my shoulders down and
being a fishing out the top of my brace.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
Really help you hit us uf on draft and I say,
no block, no rock'.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
That's the thing you live by.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Now you haven't had a chance to do a ton
of that so far here in the practices, but I
know there's something that you bring to your game.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
I mean, yeah, definitely in the game, I sold a
lot of great abilities to block. I had a bad
holding call.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
I wish I would have got that.

Speaker 4 (23:37):
At the end of the day, man, that's going out
of there band just playing physical and fast.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
That's kind of how my game is.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
So I mean moments like that, I mean, you come
back in, you get a chance to look at the film.
I mean it feels like what's cool about the NFL,
and maybe it was always waying college is you get
a chance to really kind of dissect almost every single
little thing, and this is your full time job.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
I imagine that's kind of cool.

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, it's definitely cool.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Man.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Like Coach b always told us, he said, find a
job you like you to never work a game, And
so coming out here, I don't really see it as
a job. It's just something I like to But that's
something I love to do. Just coming out here and
competeing like you said, like CoA coach, as you said,
like coming to Watt films like a debrief, being able
to take that constructive criticism and then just fixing everything
coming out here today on the practice field and then
just applying whatever coach said to meeting room, coming out
here fixing it. Like like coach told us, like when

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we come in to block, you're saying, like a lot
of us were hesitant. So today we worked on you
know what I'm saying, coming out here, really shooting your
gun as soon as you're ready to block, strike your hand.
So it's a lot of things. You know, we saw
on film keeping our hands inside while blocking rather than outside.
So I think we saw on film, you know what
I'm saying, yesterday, came out here fixing today. So I mean,
that's that's that's the game of football. You see it
on film, come out here, fix it and hope it
never happens.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
A game that's awesome. Last couple here for you. So
you guys got another joint practice this week. You had
a second preseason game, you know for the offense. I mean,
what are some things.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
That you feel like you guys were still want to
kind of get down or be better at as you're
heading into the regular season.

Speaker 4 (24:49):
I mean it's preseason. You know, nothing's gonna be perfect,
you know what I'm saying, football period, Nobody's gonna perfect
in football. But I honestly saying as just sorry fast,
you know what I'm saying. I know in the past
they had a lot of struggle just coming out of
just a love this slow but finishing off the game film.
But coach wanted to focus on coming out starting fast.
You know what I'm saying, bring bringing the fight to
them rather than you know what I'm saying, taking those blows.
So really just everything else was pretty smooth. We got
a couple of kings, you know what I'm saying, the workout,
but other than that was coming out starting fast.

Speaker 5 (25:12):
You've also gotten some repsent on special teams. What's that
been like? It's been fun.

Speaker 4 (25:15):
You know, I didn't I ain't really pay much special teams.
You know in college I did a love bit my
freshman year, but I kind of had that that that
starter role. But coming out here and being at that
that's what makes the game fun. You compete on every aspect,
you know what I'm saying. You could compete on offense, defense,
but a lot of people forget about special I see
special team is fun because that's when I go Usually
I'm going out there to blog while I'm going out there,
you know what I'm saying, Make a tackle, covery kick.
But I mean it's football. Man. If you don't if

(25:36):
you don't like, if you don't like special teams as
much as you love office a defense, something wrong, you
don't let a game all.

Speaker 5 (25:39):
Right, last one here for you. So coach Peyton last
week was interviewed.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
He's talking about how this team is one of seven
teams he thinks could possibly win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (25:47):
When you guys hear that, what does.

Speaker 3 (25:48):
That mean to you?

Speaker 4 (25:48):
But he've been preaching that. He told that's rookies. The
second day we were here, he was like, obviously be
on a new facility because like just imagine how nice
it is to go into that new facility with the
with the super Bowl trophy, said it'd be very special.
Not too many.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Rookies coming to the league.

Speaker 4 (26:02):
The first didn't won a super Bowl. But like as
you come out here practice every day, it's like it's
just not something that's said, like you can actually see
you know what I'm saying, what is the best? You
know what I'm saying, pushing us or everything just being
polished and perfect. Like coming out here like college we
have practices were up and down, but every day like
energy's high, no low, days, no off days, so you
can definitely tell the Vibes as a championship team.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
What a great interview there from our very own Ryan
Edwards talking with Broncos rookie receiver Pat Bryant after training
camp practice a couple of days ago. Pat Bryant, every time,
it's similar to Jade Barron.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Honestly, R. J.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Harvey, a lot of members of this Broncos rookie class.
Every time I hear them speak, I am so impressed.
Pat Bryant's mentality, I think just wows you. He loves
the physical nature of football. He loves imposing his will
on the opponent. I think that that dog mentality is

(26:53):
something you love to see. And he has the right answers,
you know, when asked about Sean Payton's Super Bowl comments
at all that, I think his maturity and all that
stuff just it's what you want in a player. It's
not surprising he was a team captain in the Illinois
and you kind of get why the Broncos are prioritizing
that love of football that I want to be here.

(27:14):
This is what I love doing with every fiber of
my being in this era of nil and you know,
changing colleges every year and all that where there is
a little less investment in the product and a little
more me over we And I think again the Broncos.
You look at Q Robinson, a special team standout, Pat Bryan,

(27:36):
a team captain. R J. Harvey a team captain, jodde
Baron a team captain. There's a reason they're targeting these guys,
and I think it's paying out.

Speaker 2 (27:45):
Are paying off.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Now for the running backs, I thought almost all of
the running backs had a really good day to day.
Andre Guessaman I think was least impressive, but even he
had a nice carry where got around the left edge,
got downfield for a ten to fifteen yard game. I
just think, you know, even on that play, which was
his best player of the day, one of the best

(28:07):
players I've seen from him all training camp. He runs
into a corner, corner's got the anguanam is running him
out of bounce, and when those two collide, it's not
the corner being knocked off balance and tumbling into the sideline.
It's otter estimate who, despite lowering his shoulder trying to
plow over the cornerback, he's the one who ends up

(28:28):
stumbling into the sideline and falling over and and stuff
like that, where I just wonder, you know, is this
guy bringing the power element that he's supposed to bring
to this backfield. I think it's very questionable. And if
he's not bringing that in a meaningful way, why have
him over of a Day or a Blake Watson, Because

(28:48):
those guys are standing out at training camp practice. They
continue to look like some of the best backs out
there during training camp. I think Blake Watson has had
the best training camp of all the running backs in
my opinion, and I think there's a real path to
Blake Watson making this roster because he brings something that
no one else does, and that's the receiving ability. Everyone

(29:09):
talks about SMA bringing power to the room when it
might not really be there. We know how much Sean
Payton covets that joker ability, and at running back, the
one who offers the most of that is absolutely Blake Watson.
He is a converted wide receivers. A wide receiver to

(29:30):
start is called s career moved to running back, and
that shows up when he's out there. He transitions so quickly,
so fluidly, and naturally from pass catcher to ball carrier,
and that matters. He's not losing any of his speed
when he does that. He's a very sharp, but also
I think smart route runner. I think his background as

(29:50):
a receiver means he's more well equipped to handle the
option routes and the complex elements of the passing game
these running backs are tasked with in Sean Payton offense.
And then he's also a very good ball carrier. Saw
that in the San Francisco game.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Saw that today. He just smoked through a keyhole.

Speaker 1 (30:07):
He's so fast, but he's got good vision and he's
shifty where I think he's giving you ninety percent maybe
of what Jalil gives you as a runner, but so
much more as a pass catcher. And I think that'll
be the difference. Tyler Badet is also standing out another
just so slippery ball carrier. He has a little more

(30:27):
power to him, but his vision, he might have the
best vision of any of the Broncos running backs. He's
just so good at picking up whatever's blocked from him.
He chooses the right lane so consistently, and he just
he takes what the defense gives him and he picks
up four or five yards, you know, He's got enough
wiggle and enough burst and you know, enough contact balance
to maybe pick up a few extra yards here or

(30:48):
there when when he can. But he just helps the
offensive line look good, you know, when the Broncos haven't
had enough of that from their running backs.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
I think he and JK.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Dobbins, I hope both the roster because I think they
can raise the floor of the whole room where you know,
are either of those guys are going to be you know,
game changers or game plan records or anything like that. No,
but they can maintain the floor of the room and
avoid it becoming a disappointment or really dropping off or

(31:21):
underwhelming or underperforming. Plus, he also can be a factor
on special teams, which, unless Julio really emerges as a
returner despite not really doing that his first two years
in the league, McLaughlin, outside of again hypothetical returner ability,
has no special teams upside. Today's a good special teams player.

(31:41):
That's meaningful when you're talking about your fourth running back.
We're not talking about that too much with R. J.
Harvey Vus JK. Dobbins because those are your starters. They're
not going to need to play many special team snaps.
But on the back end of your fifty three man roster,
that running back three, that running back four, they have
to play special team snaps. Typically Angelil hasn't been able

(32:02):
to offer that in past seasons. I think that's a
big element to monitor.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
And then r J. Harvey. I thought RJ.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Harvey had a great day of practice today. Everyone wants
to see him, you know, more consistently run between the tackles.
I thought he did that, and just the vision really
stood out to me today. I thought he did a
great job of consistently picking up those four or five
yards and then when the bursts were there for him
to pick up a whole lot more yardage. I thought
he did an excellent job of capitalizing on those opportunities,

(32:32):
creating some big gashes and slashes here and there. And
you know if seven on seven period he had a
swing pass he caught from bow Nicks that he turned
into a really nice game.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
The run of the.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Day I think even came from RJ. Harvey where they
were down in the red zone. I think it was
like first and goal at the six or so, and
he gets a bit of a crease, starts, you know,
charging through it. But it starts to close on him
and he has to get skinning through the hole, you know,
kind of sidestep his way through, dives through, you know,

(33:09):
gets back, it gets his shoulders back, square, slithers through
the defense and winds up in the end zone. And
it might have wound up being tackled, you know, if
this was a full contact game, maybe he gets tackled
at the one or the.

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Two yard line.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
But still seeing that in short area yardage, you know,
you're you're down up against the goal line there and
he's working between the tackles, you know, congested space, you know,
and then gets into the end zone still standing up.
I think those are the boxes you really want to see.

Speaker 2 (33:41):
R J.

Speaker 1 (33:41):
Harvey continue to check here for the Denver Broncos, and
I'm just so excited for this offense, hopefully if they
have a better display than they did against the Cardinals.
But you know, after seeing what we saw in the
joint practices today, I'm a lot less concerned about the
preseason game itself. Talking about some of that in the
next segment, that nature of preseason versus joint practice. Also

(34:02):
we'll talk about the rest of the offense outside of
that grave run game, How did Bo Nicks look today?
How did the wide receivers look today? All that and
more coming up after the break on Broncos Country tonight
right here on KAA News Talk Sports