09-16-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to It Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin Albright here with

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you Post Rocky Short Show edition, reacting to the zero
to two start by the Denver Broncos and their loss
to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the home opener yesterday. It
was not pretty from the offensive side of the ball.
It was not We're gonna get into that here in

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just a little bit house cleaning. We got post Rocky
shows tonight and tomorrow. Wednesday and Thursday are full live shows,
so you guys want to stay tuned for that. Nick
Ferguson'll be back for that. I can't wait to get
his perspective. I've been texting with him since yesterday about
all this and we're seeing a lot of the same things.
But Nick's got a great way of presenting it as
a former NFL defensive back. So both those Wednesday and

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Thursday shows be full live shows. There'll be a partial
live show on Friday. B Kay's gonna do it. I'm
going to Red Rocks, guys. I got tickets to see
Brett Goldstein. You guys probably know him as Roy Kent
from Ted Lasso doing his stand up routine. He's actually
a comedy writer, he rate the wrote the show a
shrinking and wrote large portions of Ted Lasso and his

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real life is nothing like that Roally Kent personality. But
looking forward to seeing that. So I got tickets to
go out there and see Brett Goldstein live at Red Rocks.
That's gonna be a lot of fun. So bk is
going to handle the show that that night, and of
course we got the fantasy and gambling shows Sunday morning.
For those of you interested, we have the Orange and
Blue Brunch on Sunday morning, going back to Scooters in Aurora,

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same place where last time is a great bar. It's
a lot of fun. So we'll be out there again,
myself Nick Ferguson. That's presented by the uh, the Don
Julio Folks Don Julio Tequila. So you guys want to
get out there. They're giving stuff away. They had some
ticket giveaways. They had what did they give away last time?
Some some some really cool water bottles, those insulated water
bottles everybody likes, and had some other stuff too. So

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looking forward to seeing you guys out there at Scooters
on Sunday, and that will be I'm believe eleven or
excuse me, nine to eleven. But I'll have to double
check that, so I'll get you more information on that tomorrow.
But put that in pennsyl be It Scooters on Sunday
for the Orange Blue Bunch, myself, Nick Ferguson and several
others as well. We got to talk about this. We've

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got to talk about this disaster. This season has has
started off about as about as bad as as you
could think. Uh, for the Denver Broncos. I know there
was a lot of optimism coming into this thing. Certainly
there was a lot of a lot of people thinking
bo Nix was going to be the second Coming and
all this kind of stuff, and it's it's not been

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particularly good. Uh thus far for the Broncos offense, defense
hadn't played too badly. Uh. You go back and you
look at the stats are top half of the league
and just about everything, top third of the league in
most category, most categories. Defensively, the defense is playing well.
Don't don't blame this on the defense. The offense needs

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needs some help and bon Nicks. The numbers look okay
on the front end. I mean when you say twenty
thirty five to forty six, I mean it's it's okay
in terms of passing yards, still throwing the ball too much,
still throwing the ball too shallow, but then you dive
a little deeper on that forty nine of those yards
came on one trick play where the ball was underthrown

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and should have been a touchdown. And you know, anytime
twenty percent of your offense comes on one play that
that tends to be a problem. Again, Bnicks, the leading
rusher for the Broncos, four carries twenty five yards. That's absurd.
They kept putting Gavante Williams in the same first down,
We're going to run it for a dive play, then

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we're going to try and throw on second and third scenario.
The one good run they had out of Tyler Baty,
he got one carry for sixteen yards. I never went
back to him. You know, this offense appears disjointed. It
appears just just all over the place, and I don't
These are all concerns I had when I talked about

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when Sean Payton was hired. And you guys, you decided
to call me a hater, and you know, tell me
I'm awful like you usually do, And that's fine. You're
entitled to your opinion, but you're not entitled to is
your own set of facts. And now we have the facts.
And you know you wanted to blame last year on
Russell Wilson. Russ had his own problems, for sure, absolutely,
But as we're seeing this thing, Russ ain't here, and
we're still seeing this thing be a problem. In fact,

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we're seeing it work backwards. The run game has gotten
worse the past game. I don't you know, it's it's
significantly worse. But part of that's because you've got a
rookie quarterback back there. So we're gonna run through this thing,
and I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna kind of give
you where I'm at with it. The first part of
this is what we're doing before the snap. And you

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know we've been over this before, but I'll go over
it again. It is a compound problem. Number One, we
are shuffling personnel groups in and out too much. I've
talked about this for the better since Sean Payton's been here.
We don't allow anybody to get into a rhythm. It
takes too much time off the clock, shuffling guys in,
shuffling guys out as often as they do. You don't

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let anybody kind of kind of get in the rhythm
that they want to get into. And this is so
I've talked to guys in the locker room. I'm privately
saying the same thing. They're like, you know, publicly, they're
supporting their coach, and that's what you do. Privately, they're like, yeah,
I can't get in a rhythm. I don't feel like
there's it's disjointed. There's no continuity here. So that's that's
Part one is all these shuffling in and out of
personnel groups and all this kind of stuff. Part two

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of this is Sean Payton's play calls are rooted in
the old school West Coast system. They are incredibly verbose.
In a lot of cases, it takes a long time
to get the play calls in. We saw multiple times
yesterday where Bonix is looking at the sideline waiting to
get it in, and then he gets in the huddle,
has to spit it out twice and get up, you know,
if there's a kill play and get the other call

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in there for that too, and then by the time
you get to the line, there's nine seconds left on
the play clock. And I've talked about how the Broncos
have a lack of pre snap motion, which is very beneficial.
Doing most for the sake of motion is not a thing,
but the amount of teams that use pre snap motion
to disguise things or get defenses leaning whatever is directly

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correlated to offensive efficacy. You can go look all this
stuff up. The Broncos use motion the second least in
the NFL. Only the Browns use it less, and it's
a detriment to what they're doing. You're getting to the
line too late. You're not using motion. The reason you're
getting to the line too late is because the play
calls are too long and you're taking too long to
get in and oh, by the way, you can't even
get in the huddle because you're shuffling players around in

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these multiple personnel groupings. The entire process pre snap process
for the Broncos is archaic. It's outdated, it's disjointed, and
it doesn't work, and we've got data to show it.
You could see it with your own eyes yesterday. As
a matter of fact, my buddy Eric Goodman, who works
in in media here for another oullet charted out the
first three quarters. We were talking about this he charted

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out the first three quarters of when the play call
got it, when they broke the huddle, and when they
got the line, and Bonix got was getting to the
line with less than ten seconds thirty percent of the time.
That that's unacceptable. That's that's that's way too late to
be getting the line, especially for a rookie. The headset
cuts off at fifteen seconds. So the coach could help
you out. If you can get these plays in quicker,

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you can get up to the line. The coach can
help you read the defense. This is what Sean McVeigh
did to revitalize Jared Goff's career. They started speed huddling
and getting things up to the line quicker, and then
Sean McVay could help him see, hey, here's what I'm
kind of seeing. Here's what you know. It could help
him see these things as you're getting in there. So
you know, it bothers me that the entire pre snap

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portion of this offense is just a dated concept. It
doesn't work. You're using condensed sets where it makes it
more difficult to read if the you know if the
DB's coming or go, instead of spreading things out and
kind of kind of getting a clearer picture. Yeah, I
tweeted about this. Somebody responded yesterday saying that they disagree
that the offense is stated. I'm not talking about the

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route concepts. Everybody in the NFL uses most of the
same route concepts. I mean, there's there's so much overlap there.
That's not a thing. I'm not talking about post snap,
although we can get into some of that too. I'm
talking about pre snap, just getting to getting up there
to take the snap. It's it's dated. You're you're taking
too much time, You're shuffling personnel in and out. You're

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not letting guys get in a rhythm. And you see it.
Guys look sort of checked out in games. They're dropping
easy passes. They don't get a natural feel, you know,
for the game. And uh and you can see it
out there, you know these token running on first down
is not a run game, you know, running or running
the same basic between the b gaps runs is not

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a run game. And I'll copy out all of that
by saying that Sean Payton has forgotten more about football
than most people ever know, myself included. All right, but
there are simple things that even people like me can
pick up right. I don't have to be a world
class chef to know what a good taste steak taste

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like or a bad steak taste like. I don't need
to be an astronomer to be able to identify the
big Dipper. So when I tell you that I'm spotting
things that, I'm like, Hey, this is a problem. How
can we speed this up? That coaching staff needs to
get aware of that and do that. Quit being so
stubborn and letting your ego dictate. I get that you

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have been successful before, although that's a matter of relativity.
You only got one super Bowl and you had Drew Brees.
You had a generational quarterback who happened to be in
the golden era of passing generation with four other generational quarterbacks.
And we use that term generational perhaps a bit too loosely,
but again, Drew Brees was a football genius, one of
the more underrated quarterbacks because he existed in the era

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of Manning and Brady and Rogers. Drew Brees was a
football savant. You had a decade with the guy who
got one super Bowl out of it, you know, kind
that's the same thing McCarthy did with Rogers, and we
don't revere Mike McCarthy in the same way that people
have revered Sean Payton. And I'm not doing this to
dog Sean Payton either. I realized that I'm coming across

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as negative for him, and because some of the criticism
I have her negative but they're valid and they've been
valid the whole time. And it wasn't me being a hater.
It was me telling you, guys, hey, I'm seeing this thing.
We got to fix it. Well, we're here, and now
you don't have a veteran like Russell Wilson to compensate
for some of those things. You've got a rookie who's
drinking through a fire hose and clearly looks like he's

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not ready. With all due respect to Bonnicks, who may
get there, I hope he gets there. I absolutely am
rooting for Bonnicks. I am not anti Bonicks, but I'm
a realist. When we sat there in the preseason, we're
dialing up game plans in the preseason for our number
one offense to go against future insurance salesman on the

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Colts and the Packers, it created an artificial sense of
expectation for Bonix. He was never going to meet, and
whether they did that deliberately and stacked the deck or whatever,
it created a crescendo of expectation that was never going
to be met. Bonenicks is a rookie, and he looks
like a rookie, and the game does look too fast

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for him right now. And in reality, if we had
started Jared's Dinham Zach Wilson, we would probably be two
and oh. But that tells me two things. One, Okay,
this is the season where we're playing for the future,
and this is the season we're getting Bonex ready. Fine,
then don't set false expectation like you did in the preseason.
And two, don't pretend that it's all about the best

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quarterback to give us a chance to win, because the
reality is he's not that right now. You're putting him
out there to try to grow him into that. I'm
fine with this being a we're letting Bonis learn season.
Totally fine with that, as long as we're admitting that's
what we're doing. Because the def is out there playing
their butts off. The defense is out there a top

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third of the league defense right now, and this isn't
a supporting cast argument. Bonix had the tenth most time
to throw in week one. I haven't looked at the
numbers for week two, but he was getting two point
eight seconds to throw in week one. He looks like
someone who's overwhelmed, and anytime he has to throw a
vertical pass, it looks like he's not set. He's not

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getting the proper arm strength behind it. We see some
duck balls, we see some balls, certainly balls that are
going high. I saw fewer passes in this game that
were behind receivers like they were in week one. But
there are people out there on Twitter that are blaming
the receivers for one and this is my favorite one
because it's the latest fad. They're blaming the receivers for

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not getting separation. Bro, they were running zone week one,
what separation were you are you talking about? When they're
running comebacks and curls? What separation are you talking about?
So I don't understand some of these you know, air
quotes metrics that are out there a separation. Okay, Well,
when you're running man and you're you're in the open field, okay,

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that's a little different. But the majority of these plays
that we're talking about separation aren't air quotes. Separation plays.
If you've got you know, if you've got two feet
in the NFL, you're opened by a mile. That is separation.
This offense isn't based on separation. If you go back
and you look at this offense, it's it's spamming slants
to the X receiver. You got the tight end who's running,

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you know, a sail route fairly often, and then choice
routes to the running backs and letting them create after
the catch. And that's where your yak comes from. They
talk about yaq, Well, yak on a slant. I mean,
if you've got a bigger body, you pull away from
the tackle, Okay, but that's not realistically expecting tons of
yak yards on slants. It's not a real thing. The

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supporting cast has been mostly fine. What bothers me is
some of the play calling we had in the preseason.
We're looked inspired and you're just not seeing that. Now,
where's the RPO stuff? Whi's is the design movement for
bo Nick's legs. Bow is leading the Denver Broncos and
rushing yards in each of the first two games. We
have a token run game where we hand the ball

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off to Javonte Williams for two yards on first down,
off the beat gaps. It's the same, It's the same plays,
and everybody knows what's coming. We're either gonna We're either
gonna throw it on first down and then run up
the middle on second, or we run up the middle
on first and throw it on second and then try
to figure it out on third. And these were complaints

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that I had when Pat Shermer was running things. When
punt Shermer was running here, you could you could you
could see, Okay, this is the series where we're gonna
throw it on first down instead of you know, instead
of run. It looks predictable. And if a guy like
me is picking up on it, you know, damn sure
NFL defensive coordinators are picking up on it. If I'm
picking up on it, you know, Michael McDonald, Mike Tomlin,

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you all these guys have got it. And oh, by
the way, your next two games are against guys named
Robert Salah and Todd Bowles, guys who have vaulted to
head coach because of their defensive acum, and you think
they're not seeing it. We need to streamline how we

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get plays in. We've got to stop shuffling around these
different personnel groups and let the players get comfortable. Let
him get time out there on the field and get comfortable.
We have to quit with these these hilariously bad rotations.
We've got to quit shelving the explosive players. What is
Marvin Mims doing getting nine snaps? He's your most explosive player.

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Put him out there on the field. I don't care
if he doesn't understand the entire offense. He's got the
type of speed that's gonna get you open at some
point and make a play. If he doesn't stand the
entire understand the entire offense, pair it down. Where's the
shallow drag? Put the ball in his hands and let
him create. You had you had a team that loves

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to play man and get aggressive this past week. I mean,
and where was the screen game? You'll love to run
it against zone? What were you doing? What are you
doing not running against man? My frustration cup runneth over
right now, and I get that I'm on I get
that I'm on one, and now I'm gonna come back
in the next segment talk a little bit more about it.
Because I am frustrated and I am angry. Broncos Country

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deserves better. They deserve better. This coach is better and
deserves to hand these fans and these players better. A
rookie quarterback deserves to be set up better, and this
defense deserves more out of its offense than what it's
delivered on so far. I'll mentioned it all Bright. You

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listen to Broncos Country tonight right here on KOA say
fifty am, ninety four News Talk Sports. Welcome back to it,
Broncos Country tonight, Benjamin all right here with you. Short
show tonight, got a short show tomorrow night, and then
of course full live shows Wednesday, Thursday. BK is gonna
do a short show on Friday. I already told you
guys to get tickets to the Red Rocks. Taking a

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night off for myself. I am and continue to be frustrated.
And I said it at the end of the last segment.
The fans deserve better, the players deserve better. The pieces
are there. This isn't a supporting cast argument. I would
argue you don't have enough explosive players, but the ones

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that you do you don't even use, So I can't
I can't really sit there and labor that point too much.
How in the world does Tyler Baty rip off a
run for what was it, sixteen yards and then you
never go back to him. He gave Julia McLoughlin three carries,

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two of which were negative, one of which went for
seven yards. You've got Javonte Williams, who you're running the
most predictable playbook forever into the teeth of a very
good defense and a very solid front. Seven. I just

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I just don't understand what it is that we're doing.
You got Courtland Sutton who had one catch went for
twenty six yards. Marvin Mims, who you targeted twice in
the game, got to catch for ten yards. You spend
eight targets on Greg Dulcich, three of which were caught,

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most of which were completely uncatchable balls. And you're peppering
the highest amount of valume to guys like Josh Reynolds
and little Jordan Humphrey. What are we What is the
expectation here? Seriously? What is the expectation? Because we were

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running things that looked creative in the preseason. Are you
telling me we're dialing up game plans against vanilla defenses
in the preseason and then we're shelving all that stuff
to go back to what doesn't work in the regular season.
I get wanting to put your quarterback in a situation,
get him in a rhythm. How do you get him
in a rhythm? Create high percentage scenarios, and we're not

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doing it. I already went over how we're The shuffling
of the personnel groups doesn't let players get in a rhythm.
I already went over how for both play calls take
too long and they're unable to break the huddle until
there's eight, nine, ten seconds left. The fact that we

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don't use pre snap motion, which we really can't because
we're getting the line too late. We use condensed sets,
which allows defenses to disguise if they're sending dbs off
the edge. I haven't even gotten into the penalties, the
lack of discipline. There were a couple of phantom calls

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in that game. There were two PI calls that I
was just shaking my head on. One of them was
Riley Wass when it was on Certan. But most of
those calls were legitimate, and they missed a few. And
I don't understand what the premise is here. If the
premise is to get bo Nick's ready, then why aren't

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we creating scenarios to do that. Let's script it. Let's
script fifteen plays. That's what we're gonna run. We'll sugar
huddle a little bit, go a little up tempo to
start a game. Put the rookie in the best situation
possible to have him succeed. And I wondered about this.

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I wondered about this when they drafted a quarterback. Sean
Payton's never developed a quarterback. Takes credit for the Tony
Romo stuff, but Romo didn't play for him the other quarterbacks.
Drew Brees came to New Orleans as a finished product.
Did Sewn just let him throw more? You go back
and look at his Pro Bowl season, and you look,

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you compare it to New Orleans on a perth row
basis that Brian Schottenheimer and Pete Carmichael, who we've reacquired
this staff developed Drew Brees. Sean let him throw more.
He just opened it up. He went from Marty Schottenheimer
a very conservative offense, to Sean Payton, which at the

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time was considered a very wide open offense. But it
doesn't appear a lot of that has changed. Most of
the concepts are still rooted in the old school kind
of Gulf Coast offense. For those that don't know, it's
the variant of the Bill Walsh, George Seaffert tree, that
kind of that John Gruden comes from. So it's kind

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of that Gruden Sean version of the West Coast offense,
not the Shanahan version. Just a lot of what they
do is dated and it needs an update. And for me,
if you're a football savant, you're a football guru, you're
out here for legacy. You gotta put your name on that.

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And you got you gotta turn around and find ways
to put this guy up for success. You don't have
Drew Brees anymore. Put this guy in a position to succeed.
What does Boonix do? Well, let's do that. Go back

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and look at the Oregon tape. Okay, they didn't run.
It wasn't a very diverse offense. They had about fifteen plays.
They just dressed it up about eighty different ways. None
of it looks like what Sean Payton runs. Fine, let's
find four or five of those plays that work at
sprint him in, give the kids something he's comfortable with.

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And if they don't work, the way we intended. Well,
at least we put something in there that he's comfortable with,
to get him used to the speed of the game
with something that he knows, because he looks like somebody
who's not comfortable with NFL speed. He's franetic in the pocket.
The footwork looks sloppy, and that's why you see these
off platform froze. The ball looks like it's dying on him.
Anytime he has to push the ball down a field.

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It's not arm strength, it's improper mechanics. Settle him down.
He's so afraid of, you know, taking a sacke. It
feels like at this point that he's willing to take
the incompletion, and a lot of times those incompletions are interceptions.

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He has no business. You need to take the ball
out of Bonick his hands when you get in the
red zone, just take it out of his hands. We
are running the football at that point because there are
too many mental errors down there and he's just not
ready for it. I'm not saying bo Nicks won't grow

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up to be a superstar. I don't know what the
ceiling is for him. I compared him to Derek Carr
as a prospect, although in the way Derek Carr is
flourishing down there in New Orleans. When they updated their offense,
and we'll get to that in a second, I may
have oversold with that comparison. After last season, New Orleans

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said they wanted to update their offense, modernize it, which
was sort of a shot at Sean Payton because his
disciple Pete Carmichael was running the show. And I have
nothing against Pete Carmichael, per se. So they went out,
they fired Pete Carmichael. We immediately hire him here because
Saints West and they go with Clint Kubiak down there

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in New Orleans. And New Orleans comes out and absolutely
put on a clinic in week one, and we dismissed
it because it was against the Carolina Panthers. Fine, I
didn't want to dismiss it, but it is the Panthers. Fair,
you have a point. So then they come out yesterday
and hang thirty five in the first half on the

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Dallas Cowboys. Now we have to start taking them seriously.
That's two games in a row. Dallas does have a
decent defense. The New Orleans Saints literally went out and said,
we want to modernize our offense and get rid of
what we've been running, which was Sean Payton static formations,

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no motion, and update it. They bring in Clink Kubiak
to the number one motion team in the NFL, and
they're hanging points. They can't stop scoring. I forget what
they finished with yesterday. I think it was forty four
points because they took their foot off the gas in
the second half. It's not like there's wholesale personnel changes

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out there in New Orleans. Matter of fact, they're down
an offensive linemen. It's just Derek Carr casually putting up
a one twenty five quarterback rating. Camara going off for
twenty carries one hundred and fifteen yards and three touchdowns.
Because they're back to zone run in motion instead of
what we're doing. Everybody else is pivoting to an offense

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that was created and popularized here in Denver. Everybody's running
a variant of what Mike Shanahan ran, and the Broncos
have pivoted the other direction to go backwards, to go
to the other tree, the other branch on the wallsh tree,
the one nobody's running anymore. And I'm tired of hearing

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this stuff. No one is running it. Joe Lombardi got
fired by the Charge because it wasn't good. Pete Carmichael
got fired by the Saints because it wasn't good. Ben
Johnson is not running the Sean Payton offics. Ben Johnson
doesn't know Sean Payton. They bet a couple of times
in passing, but they're not. He didn't work for Sean Payton.

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He's Dan Campbe's offensive coordinator because they worked together as
assistants in Miami under Joe Philbin. And if you look
at what Ben Johnson is running, it's a combination of
uh Adam Gasee, a little bit of Mike Martz in there.
It's Clyde Christensen. There's a little bit of Kevin Rodgers

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in there too. But I mean, and most people will
remember that you look at what you look at what
he's running, it is. It is not the Sean Payton office.
Just because Dan Campbell, you know, played for Sean Payton
and worked for Sean Payton, does not mean what they're
running is Sean Payton's office. There's there's not a whole
heck of a lot of similarity there. The verbiage is

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the same. They do get up to the line quick,
there is motion. They do use their vertical threats. So
for me it's it's a little bit frustrating to see
what feels like the Broncos hustling backwards. I was leery

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of this hire when we made it. It wasn't the
first choice. And I know we've been over this and
beat a dead horse with Dad, but they wanted Harball
and didn't get him. Then they were on Tomko Ryans.
Then they made another trip up there to Michigan. Ryans
gets win to that, he goes to Houston, which he
may have gone to Houston anyway in fairness, and so
they pivot back around thinking they need a splash and

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signed Sean Payton and all this could have been avoided
if they hadn't let people talk him into Nate Hackett
a couple of years ago, when they could have had
John Gannon or Dan Quinn. Now you guys hated me
for those suggestions and told me Hackett was a genius
and all this kind of stuff. Yeah, none of you
come back apologizing for that one. I don't want the apologies.

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I want us to get on the same page here.
There is a problem here, and if we're not setting
our players up to put them in the best position
to succeed. You can win with these players, I've seen it.
I do think you need to add some explosion to
the receiving corps. But if you're not using it, what's

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the point. It's just frustrating to watch as this team
was effectively shut out. Yeah, they got too late field
goals and all that nonsense. What was Sean Payton not doing?
Not kicking it onside? You had to get the ball back.

(29:51):
Why would you not give yourself one extra opportunity to
do that? You had one time out. If they got
a first down, it was over either way. You don't
need to worry about field position or and honestly, if
you do get to stop, you're in a better field position.
They're probably gonna put it out the back of the
end zone. So does that prevent our return? So I

(30:16):
don't understand why why would you? I had an NFL
coach texting me, currently employed NFL coach texting me at
the end of that game when Sean pay just a
popleptic that he wouldn't even try an on side kick.
It's funny because he was like, it's a low percentage play.

(30:37):
I mean it's it's a null percentage play, but at
least it's a chance for your guys to put hands
that something could break down, The ball could get slick,
it could kick SI. There's a chance, and instead you're
just putting it away desperately hoping you get a defensive stop,
which you needed anyway. If the on side kick failed
only to get the ball back with what twenty seconds,
which they you know, whatever it was they did, we're

(31:03):
not taking the high percentage opportunities an otherwise, when the
when the when the Broncos were originally gonna kick a
field goal and then Sean Payton pivoted to punt and
Mike Tomlin laid the cheese out, called time out, baited
him into a fourth and sixth play. It didn't work.

(31:26):
You went through three different decisions on the same play.
If you didn't have the confidence to go for it
in the first place, but your gut feeling was telling
you a field goal. I just I don't understand a

(31:47):
lot of the decision making because when you when you
hold it up in the light of is this the
high percentage move? A lot of it is know you
had a running back pop one yesterday and then you
effectively just sat him the rest of the game. Meanwhile
your other two backs were struggling because it was predictive

(32:08):
as hell. We've got to streamline how we get the
plays in. We've got to quit shuffling personnel groups around.
We've got to let these running backs get in a rhythm.
We need to find our playmakers and put them on
the field, and we've got to be less predictable than

(32:30):
what it is that we're doing. Let's go back and
hit the tape. Let's find five plays at bow Ran
at Oregon that we can we can work on here.
Let's go find the five plays and he was the
most successful back at Oregon. Let's put some confidence in him.
That way, we can use one of those check play

(32:51):
if we don't like what we're seeing, we can use
you know, we'll check to that. That way, he's got
some confidence in what he's doing. It's time to put
the preseason in training camp behind us and recognize that
while Stidham or Zach Wilson probably gave us a better
chance to win, this is about the growth here for

(33:13):
bo Nick's okay, so let's grow and while he's growing,
let's grow as an offensive architect. Let's modernize some of
the things that we do to make things easier. It
costs you nothing. Finding ways to communicate the football play

(33:36):
in in a quicker amount of time costs you nothing.
The entire Earhart Perkins system was built on that. It's
a large part of what Tom Brady credits for making
him so successful. Pairing those play calls down to incredibly
incredibly short, quick, easy to digest things and getting up

(33:58):
there to the line. Longer you're up there, the better
chance you have the defense is tipping their hand. You
get there quick enough, your head coach can be in
your ear telling you what he sees. It's another set
of eyes. We have the opportunity to create situations to
make this more successful, and we are letting them pass

(34:19):
us by. And I know it's not out of stupidity,
because these guys have been around football a long time.
They're not stupid. So what is it arrogance? Is it ego?
Is it just abject stubbornness, whatever the case may be.
We have an opportunity to set this kid up to succeed.

(34:40):
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