08-29-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to it, Broncos Country Tonight, short show post Rockies
and see you Buff's edition that it's been all right
here with you happen late day weekend coming up to everybody.
Hope you guys have got big plans. I hope you
guys gonna do a good job relaxing, getting all that
toxicity out of the systems we get ready for the
start of football season, the Bonyix era here in Denver,

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going up there to Seattle that game obviously right here
on Kawa tomorrow night. Bk is going to be in
for me. It'll be a podcast only addition, so programming
note there, just in case you guys were wondering. We
had some technical issues with some upload stuff over the
last month and we accidentally think two of the podcasts
get the wrong podcast on there. But I think we've
got that corrected now. So sorry about that. Big news

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of the day, yours truly's taken victory lapse again. If
you thought I was insufferable before, no, I'm just kidding.
Brandon Ayuk. Going back to the forty nine ers, we
had what was it the Insider Battle and the Dogabby
pretty Ricky on Twitter and he tried to get personal

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with me a little bit. I didn't engage in that.
But at the end of the day, everything that I
told you about that situation happened exactly as I told
you about that situation, and he is back with the

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forty nine ers. Adam schafter you and Rapp with everybody
out there reporting it now, it's a done deal. I
think that's in the best interest of the Niners. But
that's tough. You're starting to get cracks in the foundation
a little bit with that team because everybody wants to
get paid and trying to keep it together. It's tough.

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It's tough to keep a winning team together. Guys want
to get paid. You know, you start winning like that,
Guys want to get paid. He had a bunch of
good players. Guys want to get paid, and they've had
guys that they've paid, and that's sort of been the problem.
I mean, Trent Williams that did not report because he
wants his contract topped off. Brandon Ayuk just got paid,
Debo got paid, Kittle got paid. They had to move

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on from certain offensive linemen. Ues Check's got his money,
McCaffrey got paid on the defensive side, Bosa got paid
and so you know, we can go on and on
with with what the Niners have done in terms of
paying guys, and good for them for keeping it together
the way they have. But they've been able to do
that because quarterback Brock Party has been on the cheapest

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starting quarterback deal in the NFL. Party was mister Irrelevant
and had the lowest slotted contract available and they'd been
able to skate by on that. Now Brock Parties deals
coming up and they're in a bit of a bind.

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They're gonna have to figure some things out, and a
lot of that's going to have to be better drafting
because their early round draft picks have been bizarre. The
early round draft picks for John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan
have been mostly bad, specifically in the uh first round.

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They have not been good at drafting or now they've
been good at drafting late, but they've not been good
at drafting very early. You look at the last first
round pick that they had, they had two this year

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and they took Ronardo Green and Ricky Piersol. Piersall of
course has the shoulder injury and it remains to be
see how much is gonna play. They didn't have first
rounders last couple of years because of the Trey Lance trade,
which brings us back to twenty twenty one when they
traded up and took Trey Lance at number three overall
and then back doored their way into brock Party in
the seventh the next year. Prior to that, in the

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first round, they'd taken Javon Kinlaw and Brandon ayuk kin Law.
Of course, now with the New York Jets wasn't much
of a factor for the San Francisco forty nine ers,
racking up five total sacks in twenty eight games started

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forty one games played over the course of four years. Now,
I did get Brandon Ayuke out of that draft and
obviously just paid him and he's been phenomenal. And they
did get Nick Bosa the year before that. Of course,
they were drafting at two, so that made a pretty
easy pick. But then before that, they took Mike mcglinchy
at number nine overall, and I think Debra Broncos fans

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have seen enough of Mike McGlinchey to know what that
is or isn't. You go back and you look the
year before that, and Salomon Thomas and Rubin Foster were
guys they took in the first round. Foster's not in
the league anymore. Thomas, also with the Jets. Rubin Foster,

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over the course of two seasons, played in sixteen total games.
Now he was in his rookie season quite effective. In fact,
I believe he finished third in the Defensive Rookie of
the Year voting that year seventy two combined tackles, seven
tackles for a lost, five QB hits on a pass

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defense in ten games. In twenty eighteen, he mentioned only
six games and that was it. So the Niners are
going to have to draft better at the top of
the draft. You go back and you look at the
middle rounds, and you know they've done exceptionally well. A

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Killer Witherspoon, CJ. Bethard Beth's not there anymore, obviously, but
you know they got him. George Kittle, Trent Taylor, t J. Jones,
all guys they got in the third to fifth round
of their inaugural draft. DJ Reed, Fred Warner, guys they
got in the mid rounds the second draft. Deebo, Samuel Mitchwellshnowski,
Dre Greenlaw, Cayden Smith, all guys they got in the

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mid to late rounds in twenty nineteen. Colton mckibbitts a
guy they got in the fifth round. In twenty twenty
Hoffnaga guy they got in the fifth round. Elijah Mitchell
in the sixth round in twenty twenty one, Leonor the
Corner in twenty twenty one, also in the fifth round.

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Rock Party in the seventh round in twenty twenty two.
I think everybody knows that one. So they've been pretty
good at being able to identify talent in the later rounds.
Just they they've struggled in the early rounds and maybe
you know, at the end of the day, the idea
there is they need to start trading back. Maybe they

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need to start giving up early picks, multiplying the mid
rounders because they need depth, and they're gonna need cheap
depth in order to be able to sustain the top
heavy contracts that they have out now to both receivers
they're running back and what they're going to have to
pay to their quarterback, what they pay to their edge rusher.
Keeping a team together is tough, and the Niners are

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finding that out. I think they're they're well coached. I
think they're well GMed and my my gripes about their
early round picks. Uh. Notwithstanding, I think they've they've done
a pretty good job of continue continuing to put forth
excellent football teams. It'll be interesting to see if they
get Trent Williams in there and get him topped off

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and paid. I don't know that. I don't know they're
gonna be able to pull that off. We'll see. In
Broncos news today, the Broncos waved Lavelle Bailey and signed

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inside linebacker Christian Welch. Welch is a fifth year player
who was released by the Packers on Tuesday, despite tying
for the team lead with sixteen tackles in the preseason
and leading the NFL with two interceptions. He appeared in

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fifty seven games with the Packers and Ravens, totaling five
tackles on defense twenty two tackles on special teams. With
the Packers. Last season, he made six tackles on two
hundred and ten special team snaps. Broncos also announced the
signing a veteran tight end, Donald Parham to the practice squad.

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I think a lot of people in Broncos country are
familiar with him. He appeared in forty seven games, starting
twenty three for the Chargers over the last four seasons.
Sixty seven catches, seven hundred and sixty four yards eleven
touchdowns in his career, at leveraging eleven point four per reception.
They spent two seasons with the Broncos offensive coordinator Joe
Lombardi when Lombardi was with the Chargers. Other news that

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was announced today, Jacoby Brissette is going to be the
starter for the Patriots. Drake may might be ready, but
the Patriots aren't ready for the rookie to start. Coach
Dorodmeos and a lot of factors led to this choice.
He'd say it, but I think we're all thinking it,
and that's the state of the Patriots off Sensive line

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probably played a part in this as well. As much
as I've compared bo Nicks to Derek Carr, his brother
David Carr, the number one overall pick in two thousand
and two, was ruined as a rookie when he took
an absolutely unfathomable seventy six sacks behind a terrible offensive
line in Houston. Whatever the Patriots reasons, Drake will get

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to sit back watch learn from uh Brissette. May said,
I wouldn't say I'm disappointed, obviously, but I want to play.
That's the competitive edge in me. At the same time,
I understand the situation. Chobe's been in the offense, got
the reps with the ones all camp, so I can't
say I'm disappointed, but at the same time, I want
to be playing. Girod Mayo said he wouldn't get into

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hypotheticals about how long Brissette would keep the job, and
May will likely get a shot at some point this
season could come sooner and later. Brissette left Sunday's preseason
finale with a shoulder injury, and although it's fine, he
showed that may has to stay prepared. May said, I'm

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still just one play away, so it's have to be
ready for all circumstances. And I'm here to help you,
Kobe and keep the vibes in the quarterback room up
because nothing's going to change. I'm still rooting for him
and cheering for him. Among rookie quarterback Chicago's Caleb Williams,
Washington's Jaden Daniels, and of course, Denver's bow Nicks will
start as rookies to start the season. The Brandon Aiyuk

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deal is done. As we talked about earlier, the deal
in and of itself, the framework in parameters which I
should have gotten two back then but didn't. It is
a four year, one and twenty million dollar extension, adding
in his pre existing salary this season a fourteen point

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one million that puts him under contract for five years,
one hundred and thirty four point one million. The contract
in himself is a real thirty million per year. On
the value of the extension, it's not funny money. Ninety
million is paid out over the first three years, forty

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four point one of the last two, and so three
days after Ceedee Lambs holdout ends Brandon and I you
hold In has concluded. Ayuk has eleven days until their
Week one game against the New York Jets. Miami Dolphins

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general manager Chris Greer said the Dolphins knew that O'Dell
Beuckham Junior had a procedure that could keep him from
being ready for Week one In the NFL. Mysteries invite speculation,
there's a true mystery regarding Dolphins receiver Odell Beckham signed
a three million dollar deal with the team, passed his

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physical as far as anyone knows, but he failed to
pass his pre training camp physical, landed on the pup,
participated in some of the team's offseason program but not
team drills, and a subsequent failure to pass a physical
suggest he suffered some sort of injury on the practice field,
but apparently that's not the case. Today. General manager Chris

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Greer was asked whether it was accurate that Odell Beckham
was signed the Dolphins knew or suspected that he might
not be able to start the year because of a procedure,
and Greer answered yes, although he declined to specify the injury.
Followed up with I appreciate the question, but I don't
like to talk about people's medical history. Beckham missed two

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games last year with an ankle injury was also listed
as questionable in late November with a shoulder injury. The
Dolphins are keeping the cards close to the vesta on
this one, and it's kept fans and media from realizing
until pretty recently that the situation would cause Beckham to

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miss games. Account but he will at least four of them,
and that I'll make it harder for Beckham to unlock
his incentive package of five point twenty five million because
it's based on yards, catches, and touchdowns, and I'll have
thirteen games at most to get there instead of seventeen.
Something to keep our eye on there. Cowboys owner Jerry

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Jones said he doesn't expect to sign Dak Prescott to
an extension before the odpreneur, but that does not preclude
the team from continuing to negotiate end of the season.
And in the end, of course, it's the quarterback's decision.
Dak holds all the leverage. With no trade and no
tag clauses, Prescott can choose to hit free agency in
March and begin a bidding war for his services if
he wants. The Cowboys' only hope of signing him before

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then is by offering him a yearly average of sixty
million or more, and even that might not get it done.
Prescott said Thursday he doesn't necessarily need a deal before
the season, said, I think if it says a lot
if it is or isn't done viaz Skyler Dixon or
the Associated Press, but that doesn't really matter to me,
to be honest with you. Prescott was asked what it

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says if it isn't done, and he said quote just
how people feel, He answered, I don't know with a
smile when asked what people Prescott beat on himself previously
waiting through two years of negotiations to signed a four year,
one hundred and sixty million dollars deal despite coming off
a gruesome ankle injury, and that's why he didn't hold

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out or hold in and instead will play out his
contract if the Cowboys don't come up with an offer
that would make him the highest paid player in the
NFL history. He and the entire coaching staff, including Mike McCarthy,
are among those entering the final year of their contracts,
something that Prescott has said that he embraces. Prescott is

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only two in five in the postseason, ailing to take
the Cowboys where many other quarterbacks since Troy Aikman have gone.
Tony Romo is two and four in the playoffs. Jones
was asked this week about committing to Prescott long term
despite seeing the playoff success, and said negotiations are more

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about the Cowboys than Prescott. It'll be interesting to see
if Dallas and Dak get that job done in the end.
I am under the impression that Bill Belichick will be
the next head coach of the Dallas Cowboys if they
fail to get it done this year, and that probably

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means a cleaning up house in terms of who's there. Obviously,
even though they have Cede Lamb under contract, he'd be there.
You listen to Broncos Country tonight right here on Kawa
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Short show tonight post Rockies edition five six six nine
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a short show post Rockies edition. I think b KA
is going to be doing that when I'm taking myself
a little bit of a four day weekend kind of
chill out before the start of football season in earnest.
This season, it could be a bit of a grind.
I mean, not that this job is particularly difficult. I'm
sure there's somebody out there right now and rightfully. So

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when I talk about it being a grinder difficult, rolling
their eyes because it really isn't that difficult. Certainly not
physically intensive, but there is a lot of work involved
over the course of this season, and you really get
one day off and that's Saturday, and so it can
over the courses. It wears on you after a while.
You do four months like that, it sort of sort
of wears on you, you know, September, October, November, December,

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and then on into January. Now it wears on you
for a while. So I will say, try to get
a little rest in before before the season starts. Something
I've started doing. I feel like that that that helps
keep me optimal, especially the other part of the season,
and hopefully it keeps me optimal for a for a
winning season. I think that's what all all of Broncos
Country is hoping for right now. I asked somebody today,

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would you rather have a winning season or be absolutely
convicted that Bonicks is the guy going forward? And they
said both, But then when I forced him, they said Bonnicks.
So I think most people want desperately what Bonicks to
be the future more than they view this season as
a must win season of some sort, so interest certainly

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interesting there as far as attitudes on that. For the
second time in three years, the Broncos will open their
seat in visiting former division rival remember back when the
Seahawks win the AFC West, the Seattle Seahawks. The Broncos
will be taking on Seattle on September eighth, the week

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one matchup. That'll be a two to oh five Mountain
Time game, not a two twenty five two five Mountain
Time game. For those of you who want to watch it,
that'll be on CBS. And that's gonna be We talked
about a little bit last say, that's be tough. I mean,
the first two games is gonna be tough for different reasons.
The first game September is toughf you're going to you're
going to Seattle. It is very very loud there. They

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do have a good defense. I think this year is
gonna be interesting because Seattle's running a vastly different offense
than they've ever run. Brian Grubb is the new OC there.
It's not gonna be what you're used to seeing out
of Seattle, which has been primarily a strong ground game,
build off play action deep shots for Tyler Lockett, DK Metcalf,

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that kind of thing. You're not gonna see that this
is an offense. It's it was. The offensive coordinator was
the offensive couardt last year at the University of Washington.
So basically the Michael Pennocks offense. Obviously that'll be tweaked
for the NFL and then look a little bit different.
But going back and sort of watching the tape on
how that worked at Washington, they love to exploit the

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flats and in the understuff. So I would not be
surprised if you get a lot of passing attempts out
of Gino Smith in this game. If he were to
get hurt, I think Sam Howell it would be the
backup there. But I would not be surprised to see
Gino throwing the ball a lot in this game. Seattle
throwing the ball a lot in this game, a lot
more than they they previously have. You know, Seattle's a

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team that, again traditionally has played a conservative offense. When
Russell Wilson was there, they ran the ball a lot,
built off play action deep shots, and then in the
fourth quarter if they needed help, they just turned it
over Russ and said, hey, bail us out. But they
are a defensive minded football team. Their identity was built
with that legion of boom and all that kind of stuff,
and that's what they've been for a long time. The

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defense that they're gonna be running this year is different,
you know. I mean they they've traditionally run a cover three.
I think everybody knows what they're famous for. I think
everybody's sort of seen what it is that that they did.

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It was. It's it's a it's a cover three scheme
that that keeps everything in front of you and they
make plays and try to turn you over. The new
system that they're running, Michael McDonald's scheme is a lot different.
McDonald's comes from the the Dan Piece Rex Ryan system.

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There's a lot of disguises and simulated pressure. Uh. It's
it's heavily reliant on getting pressure with either a front
four or front five. It does not necessarily blitz a lot,
but the base on it is like a fourth nickel zone.
You can run on it. There are ways you can

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run on it, and that's sort of the thing. It's
like they kind of, uh, similar to what Vic Fangio
does where he runs that tight front where He kind
of dares you to run on early downs and they
want they line up at different depths to try to
shut that down. This defense, Uh, it is susceptible h
to the run. It's it's just very very good against
the pass. So you know, there's there's that. It's I'm

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trying to figure out a way to explain this, to
break this down a little bit for you guys, you
can sort of understand what it is and what the
difference are with this kind of thing. McDonald's defense, it's
it's a zone defense. It's it's a it's a bay zone.
It's it's heavily reliant on versatile players that can do
a lot. Uh. It is definitely it's a difficult scheme

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to run. It's not an easy scheme to run, and
you do need players that consistently do it at a
high level. Most of what makes Mike McDonald good is
the way they disguise things and give you very very
odd looks. But you've got to have the roster to
be able to pull that off, especially if you're simulating
pressure and dropping guys back. If you watch the Ravens

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tape from last year, the keys to this really were
Rokwan or Kyle Hamilton, and they are sort of uniquely versatile. Hamilton,
of course was a safety, but he can play like
a slot corner, right, and so he was a slot
corner in almost all his rookie year back in twenty
twenty two, and he sort of excelled at it. But

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he's big and he's built like a box safety that
can wipe out tight ends, he can blitz, so he
kind of does everything. So Hamilton is basically like a
strong safety sam a free safety, slot corner ll in one,
you know, extremely rare player of the unicorn, right. And
so Kyle Hamilton, I think is what Pete Carroll wanted
Jamal Adams to be. But you know, he's just not

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He's just he's an amazing athlete. And so he'll be
down to the box looking like he's gonna blitz, and
then he'll quickly shift the man covering like a wide
receiver tight end. And that's a difficult thing to pull off.
I wish I wish we had Nick in here right now.
It's I could kind of explain and he could explain
that from a from an NFL DB's perspective. But you know,
safeties very rarely get taken early. Hamilton went fourteenth overall,

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but he sort of fit a lot of what Michael
McDonald can do, and so he's gonna need, uh, he's
gonna have to rely on good safeties to you know,
to keep the offense in front of them. Defense is
the last couple of years playing a lot more too
high in quarters than they used to. We talk about
that all the time on here. Everybody's trying to prevent
big plays and they're willing to give up the underneath.
And so one of Seattle's biggest weaknesses, you know, it

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would be the safety position that you know, they brought
in Jamaal Adams that went great quandary and all that,
so you know it'll be that'll be interesting to see.
McDonald is not super blitz heavy. I mean, if you
think about the Ravens and before him, like Martin Dale was,
Baltimore was what twenty fifth in blitz rate last year

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twenty one point nine percent. The average in the league
is about twenty five percent, So not a huge difference,
but certainly you know enough of one that the average
in the league from where the where the Ravens were,
I mean that you're talking about a few blitzes per game.

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You know you're talking about three blitzes per game. So,
but Baltimore led the NFL in sacks. He's big on
having rushers stun around the of the offensive tackles and
swim in's side. He'll use linebackers to move offensive line
out of the way to free the edge rushers. It's
it's it's really good coaching, but you need to have
players that can do it. And the linebackers on the

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Ravens or were both Pro Bowlers. You know, you had
Rokwan and Patrick Queen, and Queen was a fast, you
know will and was great at shooting gaps and blitzing,
and you know, fast linebackers like him are important for
executing those disguises, but the middle linebackers a lot more important.
Ro Quan was kind of their their guy, and you

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know he was sort of able to to to pull
that off, pull off what was needed out of that.
Michael McDonald tends to rely on a lot on pressure
getting home versus a decent o line. Their their defensive
stats didn't look as good. You go back and look at,
for instance, the Rams tape. They had a good offensive
line last year Stafford Old not really mobile, but the

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Ravens only got him twice and they only won that
game because they had a a pretty lucky return touchdown
by their backup or turner. In that game, the the
receivers went for a combined like to like a pooka
and cup both. I think each combined they combined for
like two hundred. Kyram put one hundred and fourteen or
so on them, So that's that's really you know some

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to keep your eye on. McDonald relies on athletic defensive
lineman that cues a variety of rush moves. Old school
bull rushes aren't really his thing. It's more a lot
of inside stunts and swims to try to get sacks.
He does not blitz consistently like when Martindale did, but
he relies on athletic players to be able to execute
consistently winning matchups, trying to put guys in favorable positions.

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That's why you had Matabuks had thirteen sacks as a
defensive tackle, which is not something that you know most
teams are going to have. So if you he will
try to put his best defensive linemen in the most
ideal matchup versus an opposing team's weakest offensive linemen, which
is logical, but you know, the the way that they

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did that, they had versatile players to pull that off.
He doesn't have those same players in Seattle, and so
some of that's going to be a little bit more
difficult for them to pull off. But they play a
lot of complimentary defense. I know. You know, everybody kind
of focused on the Ravens sacked numbers when you look
at the scheme, but that's kind of a surface level

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understanding of of what's going on. Mike McDonald's main experience
as a position coaches with the linebackers, but it's it's
sort of like it's his zone schemes that allow those
sacked numbers to happen, you know, and you use your
secondary to force quarterbacks to hold onto the ball a
lot longer than they wanted to, and then you allowed

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that front to get home. You know, the inside linebackers
would oftentimes be the guys out there sealing the edges
to prevent rollouts, and the result there is you have
panic quarterbacks trying to keep their eyes on wide receivers
waiting for him to get open, can't leave the pocket,
the rush breaks down keep gets sacked. And that's that's
a large portion of of how they got these cleanup sacks.
You know, constantly moving defensive players around, different disguises, stunning

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defensive line inside and then zone coverages on the back
end that tied receivers up and didn't didn't let him
find too many soft spots you know where they could
they could do that. The scheme is requires discipline. Uh,
it's it's difficult for quarterbacks to process, even guys who
have been on a league while it's because there's so
many different looks, but that also makes it a challenge

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for players to execute because you've got so many motions
and disguises and it is it is a very complicated
scheme with a lot going on every play. One of
the things about Seattle they were tenth in defensive penalties
last year, so and they had some some mistackle issues
and so for the for the Seahawks side of things,

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it doesn't matter if he's dialing up these great coverages
if the defense keeps missing tackles and and a complicated
scheme like this really requires players to be on their
p's and q's because if someone's out of position and
the disguisely at zone scheme, you're gonna end up getting
wide receivers wide open, and you know, and that's that's
going to be a plus for the Broncos. So they
will probably use Spooney there to handle that Kyle Hamilton

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roll which we talked about. The Ravens did use corner
blitzes sometimes and if you looked at that as Malay
who is mostly mostly the one that was blitzing from
the corner. So they like the blitz like they have
one guy and they'll blitz him. You know, it's not
this isn't like it's gonna come from different areas, even
though they scheme it up to look like it's you know,
it's whatever. So you know, hopefully this this makes sense.

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I mean, if I'm rambling a bit here, the the
too long didn't read here is that McDonald's scheme is
basically a dnp's Rex Ryan four to three Nickel zone.
There's tons of pre snap motion disguises. It's heavily relying
on getting pressure with four h and having a great
upfront defensive line matters a lot. The sack numbers come
from largely disciplined, talented secondary executing the zone of forcing

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qbs to hang over the ball give the rush time
to get home, which philosophically is sort of closer to
what Vic does. Now. Vic Fangio doesn't really blitz dbs.
He doesn't. I mean, there are differences, but we can
get into that at some point. But what McDonald is
doing is kind of the next evolution of defense, you know,
in the NFL, And hopefully that's a that's a bit
of a primer that you know, it helps you guys

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understand what we're up against week one for those that
that don't know the Seattle Seahawks, and they finished out
their depth chart today, by the way, featuring wide receiver
Leviiska Shannault in their receiving core. I won't leave Colorado.

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I think everybody knows Genos the starter San howse backup quarterback.
In terms of running backs, they got Kenny Walker's ax
Sharbona Kenny McIntosh tight ends no offense Obviously, Broncos fans
familiar with Farrell Brown, A. J. Barner, and Brady Russell.
Their offensive line left to right, Charles crosslacn Tomlinson, Connor Williams,
Anthony Bradford, George Fan and I would suggest that Laken

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Tomlinson might be the weak link on that offensive line.
Much as I've liked him over the years, he's susceptible
to the bull rush and that might be a link
for Sean Payton and Vince Joseph to exploit. Uh. There
are starting receivers DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Jackson Smith, and
Jigba the backups outside of Chanel, Derek Young and Jake Bobo.

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On defense, and this is, you know, kind of where
this thing matters is They've they've changed things up, so
Leonard Williams is one of the defensive ends. They've got
Jonathan Hankins the massive man at the nose, and Jared
Reid at the other defensive tackle and read a pretty
good player. And then they use Draymont Jones as more
of an edge rusher outside backer. Uh, that kind of thing.

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He's not like he used to be. He's not he
doesn't play the same role that he used to play
for the Broncos. Uh, you're talking about a guy who
he is a is basically a defensive end, an edge rusher.
He's not the undertackle like he used to be here
in Denver and at the linebackers on Bakers at the will,

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Tyrol Dodson's got the mic and it's Sam. They used
Channa Nuoso. The corners Trey Brown, I think everybody knows
Riek Willand and Devin Witherspoon. Witherspoon plays the nickel, and
then the safeties are Ray Shawn Jenkins and Julian Love.
And that might be an exploitable area with that. Both
those guys athletic, but in terms of football instincts, they're
certainly not a certainly not a Kyle Hamilton, nowhere close

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to that in terms of what they bring to the table.
It's it's it's just interesting to me that the scheme
they're changing to and what they're going to be doing
and it's gonna be loud there and you're gonna have
a rookie quarterback, and so it does it does fascinate
me this matchup. I mean, is this one where a
defense it's very complex, is not going to be ready

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to go week one and you know your your rookie
quarterback could be better off because they're gonna have communication issues.
Or is this going to be a situation where the
offense is at a disadvantage because you've got a rookie quarterback,
and you know there might be communication shoes based on
the volume you know in the stadium. So I think
I think the Broncos stand as good a chance as

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any I do believe that this is a game that
is winnable for them. I don't, you know, I'm not
sure that I would come away as that the Broncos
is a favorite in this game if you were like
betting it. For whatever Seattle is currently. I believe a
five and a half point favorite in that one, but

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in the over under on the game is forty one
and a half is what I'm looking at here. But
you know, I think the Broncos have a shot at
winning that one. I don't. I don't think even though
they're a fairly large underdog in this one, I wouldn't
necessarily count them out. The question is going to be
how quickly bo Nix adapts to NFL starting speed, and

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we'll see he goes in a Broncos country to night
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