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Speaker 1 (00:00):
They run it straight ahead in a big hole.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
This is Batty Batty with a huge run inside the
forty and Tyler Batty took a handoff off right guard
pulled down by Christian Azian. The run of the day
by the Broncos forty four yards for Tyler Batty.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
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of the Denver Broncos. And I believe I'll have to
go back and dounble check. I believe if we look
at the Kowa group right there, I'm right up there
at the top. I'm not sure if I'm still all
the way at the top. I might be in second
now Dave Tepper base Dave Tepper maybe ahead of doin
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a break yourself on the back, I do. I got
a little sort of to the elbow here to call that,
whether Tennis elbows self congratulation, Well, you know, given the
referees in the NFL might call it Flagger's elbow, the
way they all flags.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Out there this year, five six, six, nine zeros.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The text I got Roaby being joined this bottom of
the hour, get a chance to talk about the Broncos
and the CU Buffs. I want to talk about the
Broncos though right now, let's talk about this Tampa game,
because you know, I thought there were some things to
build on there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I think there was a little bit of context that
needs to go with this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I mean, the Bucks were missing for the best defensive players,
and one specifically showed up. The fact that via Veale
wasn't there showed up because they could get no pressure
between the b guests at all in that game. And
what you saw was bow Nick's starting to look comfortable,
start to step up in the pocket and started building
up some good habits as he wasn't so frenetic with things.
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You know, I'd like for that to to trend to
continue forward. The problem is you're up against the Buzzo
on the New York Jets next. They love to bring
pressure with that front four, and they've got the horses
to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I thought that overall.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm hoping it was a growth game for bo Nicks
because it felt like he matured in that game. You
saw them try to get him in a rhythm, but
not just with with weird underneath stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Early.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They were aggressive.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Early, they were pushing the football down the field and
forcing teams to respect that they can throw it down
the field before uh getting a little more concervative in
the second half. My biggest concern would be the run game.
Once again, we don't have a commitment to it. We
are rotating backs through and Tyler Batty or Bedey or
whatever he's calling himself now because last year he wanted
to be called Beatty and now.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He wants to be called Bedaya.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
A real thing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I swear, I swear to you, I'm gonna let that
one go. I've been I've been all day. I've been
choking the jokes back, all right. He used to be
Tyler Bady and now he wants to be tighter today,
and I'm like, well, I you know what, if that's
what you want to be, I'm cool, I will I
will call you that and all the implications that go
with But Gavante started to look like he was putting
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it together a little bit. He saw him break attack
early with that spin move. Then he saw him do
it again on the fumble play, and he got to
put the dog house because he fumbled the ball, but
he looked like he started getting a little bit of
that confidence back about running angry, and he got in
the dog house, fumbled the football, and we just didn't
have any commitment to anything else. Baby Biday whatever sprang
a big one, and that padded the totals a little bit.
Otherwise you probably look at it Bonnicks being the main
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rusher on the Broncos again.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, and that's definitely a problem.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And usually when running backs a tot when you get
into a pile of players, normally you try to cover up.
But on that particular play, you have Duvante's spinning off,
and you know, hey, when you in an awkward position,
obviously everyone wants you to maintain the ball, but you're
thinking about safety first.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So I mean being in the dog house.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hopefully he's not in the dog house that long because
they're gonna need him on Sunday against the Jets. Now,
going back to you know, Bo Nixon seeing a different
type of offense. The one thing that I saw, Ben,
and I don't know if you saw this to it
as well, but the first thing that jumped out to
me that there's certain concepts or the rhythm with the
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routes look quite familiar to me. And what I mean
by that it looked like what we saw for the
first two weeks from the New Orleans Saints and Clint
Kubat yep, because now we saw tight ends or receivers
getting in certain formations now running to a spot five yards,
flashing your numbers. That's something that I thought that they
should have done early this year, and I apprecied that concept.
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So it's good to see that. I don't know how
it came to fruition. I really don't care. The only
thing is that now we're seeing that, and he kept
the offense in someone of the rhythm. And here's what
we've known all season long. Everyone talks about the offense
and not being able to run the ball and bow
turned the ball over four turnovers in two weeks. That
the conversation about vance Joseph and how well the defense
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have been playing to this point has been pushed to
the side. So I want to make sure I give
you guys on that side of the ball their flowers
be Here's what we're seeing the Broncos taking the opening
drive down for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It took a lot of pressure off that defense and
allowed them to play with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And we saw that on Sunday. Yeah, and that was
gonna get around of that. We absolutely need to talk
about the defense. I said at the beginning of the year,
this defense is going to be a problem for teams.
It's going to surprise people. And they have been nothing
short of stellar so far this year. There are top
five defense and almost every metric across the board they're
playing well. This defense is playing well. And how about
Riley Moss. Now, I know that guy would have got
that touchdown over it, but you couldn't have played that
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much better than he played. Guy who got a little
bit outside leverage on him, but you couldn't. You couldn't
have played that much better than he played it. And
that funny held his own outside that play.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
For me, Riley has been really impressive. Coming into the season,
everyone was wondering who was going to get that corner
spot opposite PS two. For me, it was always Riley Moss,
and people could take pot shots at him as far as.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
They want to, but I know the kids' dog.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
He pas that attitude and anytime you're playing opposite another
good player, you're going to see all the people tried
to attack you. Same thing happened anyone that played on
this team opposite of Chat Bailey. When I played and
playing against playing along with Kenoy Kennedy and John Lynch,
obviously everyone was gonna test me to see what I
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was gonna stand up to, and Riley is doing it.
That passed against Chris Godwin, I mean, look, great catch,
great throw, great position by Rolly Moss. I'm sure the
coaching points was, look, hey if you can try to
rip through that catch hand right because he was writing
in position, but hey, they get paid to great play.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
On his part. But Riley kept playing. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Because most young corners been in that situation, they get
down on themselves. He elevated his level of playing and say,
you know what, I'm gonna go out and continue to
make plays. In the play to end the game was
when he made the hit and Brandon Jones picked up
the ball and ran it down the field, ultimately sliding
the midfield.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
But this is how you want your players, especially at
the corner position, to play. So big shout out to
Robbie Mollinson his victory Monday.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's wasn't. Ted Laslo says, happiest animals and goldsfish.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Right, Absolutely shortest memory. There you go, and that's gat's
gonna be the thing. You got goal to shake that off.
I think Zach Allen has played phenomenally this year there.
You know, he's been a guy that's helping to get
other guys to the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know, John Cooper needs a contract extension.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We got to get Jonathan Cooper locked up because he's
gonna wind up putting up another big season in terms
of these sack totals, and you know it's he's gonna
price himself right out of being a Denver Bronco.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They don't get that done. They need to get John
Cooper done now.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Well, see that's the great thing about it. We always
see this every single year when there's a guy he's
in the contract year. You got both him and Brent
Baron Brownie in the contract here, and the team can't
keep both of those guys because you have Jonah Ellis
who can play and fill in himself at Nick Benito exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So for me, I love this, and I talked about
this at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I want to see what's gonna happen with those four guys.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Who's going to cross.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The tape first and right now it is Jonathan Cooper
pretty much dictating the pace.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
But if they all take it as a challenge, that's only.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Going to make Vans Joseph defense that much better and
it's gonna be a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks moving forward.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Absolutely, That's one of the things I think that gets
over look. Cooper was probably the best guy at set
in the edge. Of the four guys are probably more
natural pass rushers than Cooper. But but man, what he's
gonna come through and done the last couple of years,
coming back from the surgery, they had the issue with
his heart, draft of the seventh round, all this kind
of stuff, and he just goes out there and shows up.
He's one of those guys that you know, you you
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look at and you say, on the surface, and well,
he's you know, he's just a guy. He's he's yeah,
he's Roster Worth and he's just a guy. But he
shows up and he makes plays. He keeps showing up
and making plays, and you know, I think that deserves
to get rewarded. I think he's an integral part of
what they do off the edge there. He may not
have all the tools of a von Miller, but he's
a guy who's going out there and getting the production.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's getting the sacks. If he needs to clean it up,
he's clean it up. If he's set in the edge,
he set in the edge.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Whatever the case may be, he's where he's supposed to
be at all times.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Well then, once again, not everyone could be first round
draft picks and parentio Pro Bowlers. But the idea is
that can you make the most out of the abilities
and the skills that God gifted you with? And just
like you said, well no, when you think about Cooper,
you don't think about him as popping up on the
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posing stat sheet as a game record, but he is
a guy that you definitely better make sure you know
what side of the field that he's on because he's
going to give you that energy on every single play,
because that's kind of how he's come up not being
drafted due to the hard issues. He's still thinking about that.
He wears, you know, that emotion on his sleeve, and
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when you go out there and you get the best
from him, you got to figure that it's going to
translate down the line.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You mentioned Zach Allen.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
A guy who I feel as though he doesn't get
enough praise for what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now. He's not lighting it up as far as the
stat sheet when he.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Comes to sacks, but when you look at pressures getting
opportunities for other guys, Zach Allen is that guy. And
that's one of the reasons why Van Joseph when he
got here, he was like, you know what, I need
a Zach guy all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, And it's funny you mentioned because I was gonna
mention that too.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's another thing that you need to thank Vance Joseph
for bringing Zach Allen over from Arizona because there were
other options out there in terms of who you were
looking at in terms of free agents, and that was
his guy, and he banged the table for one of
the things about Vance Joseph that some fans may not
know is that he is very respected as a personnel
guy around the league. When he was that one season
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he was down there in Miami, that defense wasn't all
that great, but the personnel suggestions that he made and
everything all played out beautifully. It was the same thing
when he was down there in Houston as an assistant.
The personnel suggestions that he made all played up beautiful.
He's a keen eye for personnel in the league and
it's showcased again by banging the table for Zach Allen
getting out.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up. With Vance being
down in Houston. I had an opportunity to do a
coaching internship when Vance was there with Wade Phillips.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So when you think about what Wade.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Has been able to do with his career both in
the XFL and an NFL being a defensive coordinator, you
understand where that knowledge of the game came from Vance.
And listen, Vance is a smart guy in his own
right and understanding your defense and understanding what personnel fits
well with your defense.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
This is where I see the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Actually, I guess Ahead of the curve appost to where
they were years ago. And this is why I feel
as though when we praise other individuals in the organization,
I think it's only fair to praise Vance Joseph for
what he's been able to do and his defensive staff
to get those guys who go out there and play
the way that they played, because up to this season,
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when you look at time of possession, it's leaning more heavily.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
On a defense.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
So I can understand those guys being tired and say,
you know what, it's about time for the offense to
put up the shut up. But that's not how they
look at it. They look at it and say, you
know what, we are a team. We're gonna show up.
We're gonna turn the ball over and turn the ball
over they did against Tampa and sacks last week, five
sacks the Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Gave up against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And the Detroit Lions they're front fours though those slouts,
but the Broncos seven seven sacks, So they're able to
take that and build upon that because guess what they're
facing Aaron Rodgers on Sunday. He's not a guy who
loves to run the ball, so he's gonna be right
there at eight yards when you get to the depth
of the quarterback, and hopefully they can put a defense
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that is put together another back to back performers like
the one they had this Sunday in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, and in the defense, you know, they played lights out.
They have you know, I mean, I think bet to
be on the field entirely too much because of the offense,
but they've been a large portion of that. The other
thing I wanted to say was just good to get
Courtland Sutton going seven catches sixty eight yards. Not really
being talked about a whole heck of a but Courtland
Sutton really got going in that game.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He hasn't and hadn't gotten.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Going thus far this season, and it's good to get
that connection.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
With bow Nick.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Sutton sort of held out, did a little mini holdout
early on not coming to uh to some non mandatory
stuff because you know, he wanted a new contract.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They topped him off a little bit. But Sutton knew
the situation, he knew what was coming.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He knew he was going to.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Be paired up with a rookie quarterback who was going
to have to find his footing a little bit and
get going. And it's a contract year for Courtland Sutton,
so you know, he knew what was coming with that
situation and wound up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, it was good to see him get.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The production there because he's a guy who's playing for
probably his next job.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Well, you can tell early on at the beginning of
the game there was a consort of effort to get
Courtland involved more. That was something that the Broncos have
not really done over the past two weeks. Heading into
the game on the road against Tampa and when you
look at Courtland and you said, well, he's your number
one wide receiver. You're number one wide receiver. You have
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to find ways to get him targets. You have to
find ways to kind of settle him into the offense.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I thought what the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Were doing earlier to get him involved, to me, it
was like, okay, well they recognized that they were not
doing and to see even though it wasn't completed the
jump ball that were Coughlin, the dB for Tampa Bay,
did a great job of forcing him out. But here's
something that I saw in the game that I did
not see in the first two games. And you and
I talked about it when we've been when we've been
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on was the fact up now they're throwing the back,
show the fade.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Now say what you want to. But that was one
of the throws.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I felt that Russell and Courtland really had great chemistry
on there that we were not seeing. It was like,
he's a big body receiver that can get you the
fifty to fifty ball. Why not do it and get
him involved? But now we saw that. Now there needs
to be continuation on Sunday because you're gonna get Sauce Gardner,
and you know Sauce is graving his feet grave with
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his hand sometimes too great, too good, or too bad
because he likes to hold right. You gotta take advantage
of grabby. You gotta take advantage of that. And hopefully
we can see more back short of phase for number fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Also a great game from from Patzertan shutting down to
Mike Evans. Although I will say that against physical receivers,
Artan does seem to get a little flag. A few
flags he got, got a few against Pickens, got a
few against Evans. Somebody keep your eye on against those bigger,
physical receivers that I've kind of sort of sort of
noticed with PS two as as things have U there's
things have gone on. We're live down here at the
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Speaker 1 (15:44):
Onta your mind.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
What a homecoming win on a.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Rainy night here in bowler HiT's sober in one over time,
thirty eight and thirty one, A bit more pepp in
their step? Why not the Broncos are come on the
road and beaten Tampa Bay here at Raymond James Stadium
in Tampa by a final score of twenty six to seven.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
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All right?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Five six six nine zero is the text.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
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Speaker 1 (16:34):
Exactly how low were the valleys.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And high were the peaks in the final five seconds
of the CU game?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
For you?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Oh, that was an ald timer. I'll tell you what.
When when Will Shepherd dropped that first tail? Mary, I
was like, all right, well they gave it a go,
Like okay, I packed my bag getting ready to go
to post game, Like lightning doesn't strike twice come on?
And then the you know, it's funny, the Lejontay Western
catch actually posted that and you can hear the collective silence,
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like the whole stadium holding their breath. And then he
comes up with it and you see it from all
the angles that he came up with. It just absolutely unreal,
the swing of emotions. And then to end it the
way that it ended with Travis Hunter, give the man
the heisman. I mean, unbelievable and all time finished. One
thing about this Colorado team. You will be entertained one
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way or the other.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
BROMI, Yeah, you will be entertained, that is one thing
for sure. But the guy who was really entertaining is
shardor Sanders, because that pass doesn't get down to field
unless he actually do it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
How impressed have you been? What's your door?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Understanding the challenges that he is still fighting through witches,
the protection of the CU buffs alone.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
I think the thing about Shador Sanders and why everybody
always says when two's on the field, you always got
a chance, is because he finds a way to especially
mentioned the protections. Sometimes he's waiting for these long developing
plays to develop for too long and so you're getting
these sacks which can be split right between the protections
and sometimes it's him. But when it comes down a
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crunch time, when it comes down to needing a big play,
Chador finds a way to make it happen. And I
think something that got lost in the conversation too is
even the play to Marion Miller, that touchdown play, which
was bonkers as well Amar and keeping his knee off
the ground, but Shador evading the sack and making that
one happen. He has an ability to make plays happen
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when they just shouldn't be happening the way he immediately
kind of read that defense rolled out for the hail Mary.
He's a playmaker in that way, and that's why a
lot of people will say he'll be he'll be a
great fit in the NFL because when things aren't going
right and when things are falling apart around him, finds
a way to make a big play happen.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Who's the better magician over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Was it Chador on that play or was it Bo
don't call him Michael Vick on the the sack, it
would be Sack. I guess after Bowles lost this guy
coming around the edge and he takes off of the
twenty plus yard.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Run, that is that is That's a tough question. I'm
gonna have to give it to Shador because of the
timing of the play, the zeros on the clock, what
it meant to that game, an absolutely unbelievable impact play.
Has to give it to Shador. But Bo Nicks showed
that he has got what Russell. Wilson didn't not to
knock on Russell what a lot of quarterbacks don't. And
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he just has that instinct that he can feel the
rush coming up behind him. A lot of guys will say, right,
you can't teach that you have it or you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You got it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
He feels it. And how many times in the past,
how many Broncos quarterbacks we've seen that exact same play
and they just get crushed right with a guy flop
and right on top of him, and both showed that. Well,
I guess not a young age technically, but a very
young in his NFL career, that he has got that
ability to escape and make good plays. And so you
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give you so much excitement of what it what could
be next?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
From boning?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
What does it say about the Broncos, Because here's the
team is heading into Week four and the same conversation
continues to come up.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
How the run game has yet to get on track.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I know after the Pittsburgh still his game, there
was kind of a word commitment to the run game,
but we haven't seen it thus far. In to boot
your quarterback once again is now up there as far
as averaging five point nine yard to carry, which puts him.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Thirty six.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I believe when you look at quarterbacks and running backs,
that's eleven slots ahead of some of the running backs
in the league. But what does that say when the
Broncos are still saying the same thing, we can't get
the run game going.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You know, it's one of those things you love to
see bow run. He should not be the leading rusher
on the tape. You don't want to see that by
any means. And I think that it's very clear it's
the time to make a change at running back one
will mcgoffin and Tyler today, I guess getting used to
that new pronunciation. I don't know when that happened, but anyway,
have shown to be so much more explosive, so much
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more dynamic than Javonte Williams. I get bringing in Javonte,
you know, when you want to keep drivs going, you know,
kind of a bruising third down back. I think that's
a better fit in this offense Right now. I think
he's clearly having a rough start to the season. It
feels like he still has never been himself since the injury.
You wonder if his confidence is not a little bit
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but I think it's time to give Jalil mcgofflin running
back one have him starting the game, because every time
he gets out there, he's just so much more dynamic,
and you could feel a lot more confident. I think
in a run game picking up when you have that dynamic,
I think they got a shuffle the depth. Start there
at running back and move Javonte Williams down, And I
just think you do well.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
At least find at least figure out a distribution plan
that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think you can move Devonte more to this, Samante
p ry Roll and Tyler Bady Bday. I call it battie.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I mean to me, it feels like you just you
know you've you've missed the market here third times the
charm when you're gonna get people talking about your last name.
I call him a batty because he's busting them off
like a batty. But I look, at the end of
the day, finding the hot hand is sort of the
way to go here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I liked that.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Javonte was breaking a couple of tackles. Of course, he
broke one and then fumbled the football and the player
that got him into the doghouse. But you know, if
you're gonna be what this team wants to be. You
could sort of see what Chempayte wants to do here.
You're going to have to find a way to run
the football with the backs in addition to the quarterback.
And they did run the RPO there. We saw that
Nick where had little RPO play Bow kept it and
got a few yards out of it. But they're gonna
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have to find a way to establish that run in
order to set everything else up. And it doesn't matter
who's back there, whether it's Jalil, whether it's Javonte, whether
it's Tyler Baty, whether it's Ordrick Estimate, whomever. He doesn't
feel like they've had any sort of commitment to that whatsoever.
How do how does this team find a way to
take the ball out of the quarterback's hands and establish
the run in a sense, in a way that makes
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sense for this offense.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know, this is one of those things that frustrates
me so much because I ask all these people who
play football, and all those football people like you just
got to like, don't you just have to do it?
Like you're going to commit to the run. You have
to commit to the run, even if you get a
bunch of those little two yard game two yard game.
You just see how quickly they abandon the run game.
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And it requires discipline, It requires coaching to stick to
the run game and not abandon it when things aren't
going well. Because, as you all know, every cliche in
the book, right, running game is the quarterback's best friend,
blah blah blah. But it's so true, and it's big
for the offensive line as well, who played great. Don't
get me wrong, they absolutely played great, but running or
offensive linemen traditionally do love the run game, right. They
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get to be the bullies. You're the one hitting first.
So I think it just comes down to coaching. You
have to commit to the run game. And I think
of all kind of well not all, but we've certainly
seen with this team there's no sort of consistencies. Really,
they don't ride the hot hand. So the best way
to get that going is Okay, I said, move Javonte,
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maybe don't do that. Do what you said, Ben, Just
whoever is the hot hand, keep feeding the hot hand, right,
You got to have that consistency. I think a lot
of times with the running back to just be feeling it,
and it seems like whenever somebody's feeling it, we don't
see him again, like two weeks ago, Baby Bodday, that
a sorry bust off, a sixteen yard run, and then
we don't see him again. So you got to keep
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feeding the hot hands. I know it's not that simple,
but that's a great place to start.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Well, here's another great place to start, and talking about
feeding the hot hand, let's talk about Vance Joseph in
that Denver Broncos defense, because I'm gonna tell you, I
don't think Vance and that defense gets enough credit because
everyone's talking about bow Nick.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So I'm gonna give you an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Romie, come on, spread some love and let's talk about
that Broncos defense.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Absolutely, I'm so glad you brought it up.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
It's true. It's an offensive league, it's a quarterback league,
and obviously when you got a rookie quarterback, that's what
everybody's gonna focus on. That that defense give it up
seven points and having seven sacks like the same number,
like are we serious right now? Has been playing so
well and so cohesively as a unit, because if you
look at le Broncos offense realistically, you got one all
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pro in there. Right in Pat Sartan, but everybody else
is playing. They're playing so well together, and so much
credit to Vance Joseph. They're all elevating each other and
really playing so well as a whole unit as one unit,
and the guys up front and the guys in the secondary,
everybody's playing just they're playing really really good team defense.
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And you're seeing Riley Moss. I think he's going to
grow into great player. Zach Allen's having a fantastic season.
But when you look at this defense right just on paper,
like the only name that stands out, so to speak,
is Pat Sartan, And look what these guys are doing.
I get so much credit to Vance Joseph and its
system being so player friendly and these guys really having
so much pride. This is one of those things where
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they can get tiring when for how empty years now
the defense has known, gosh, we've got a whole team
to you know how many points just to give the
offense a chance. Well, finally the offense showed show some lines.
But even to the first two games, they just walked
into the third game with the pride of we're going
to do our jobs. We're going to do it so well,
and we're going to keep this team in it. And
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to see them not get frustrated and really elevate everyone
around them, I think has been so impressive and so
much credit events Joseph. I mean this time of year ago,
everybody's calling for him to get fired, and look at
him now right, it's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, and there have been a lot of great stories.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I mean, Andrea Tillman has his first game, comes out,
gets two sacks with the Denver Broncos. Riley Moss, I mean,
you got everybody in their mother going, wait, that's a
white guy. I haven't seen that so much since they
heard that Rick Astley wasn't an African American. Look, I'm
looking at this defense, and you know, we were worried
about some of the turnover, but as you start to
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look at it, I mean, this is really a really
good defense just across the board, and the additions that
they made only supplemented that. Going out, John Franklin Myers,
you know, I went the biggest Cody Barton fan, but
he fills in the Josie Jewel role.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know, you look at this thing and Brandon Jones, who.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Had huge shoes to fill with Justin Simmons moving on
to the Atlanta foul because what a great interruption against
Pat Mahomes last night.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
But huge shoes to fill, and what does he do.
He comes in and he fills them.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know, he's come in and he's been productive.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Shout out to Brandon Jones and shout out again to
his nixt point out that Davance Joseph for putting this
thing together. The Broncos have a top five defense in
the NFL and it's going unoticed right now because everybody's
staring at the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, I mean they've just.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Amen touche to everything you said. And a guy like
Brendon Jones is an interesting one too, that their off
season acquisitions where nobody really talks about them. Not the
local media was standing right, but like nationally, nobody's really
talking about bringing in Malcolm Roach and John Franklin Myers
and Brandon Jones. But all of these additions have been
huge additions. And I know we talk about the Broncos
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as a young team, and they are a young team,
and you look at this defense and there are a
young team, but they've got the veteran leadership is so
strong as well. There's not as many of them, but
it's huge. You know, you could pat in the backfield.
Even PJ. Locke is young, but he really has a
great sent to me, a great, great leadership. Brandon Jones,
he's a little bit older. You know, you got Alex
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Singleton and then you got these older guys. I know,
Malcolm Roach and Franklin Myers are newer to the team,
but they just kind of there's more veteran savvy, I
think than people see that. Everyone's just saying, oh, they're
young and hungry. Oh they're young and hungry, and yeah,
there's a lot of young guys, but there's a lot
more veteran leadership than people are talking about.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Well, Romie, I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Back up for a second because before you, Joan has
been and I were having a conversation and I want
to get your input on it, because you were at
Folsom Field for Savday's first Big twelve win over Baylor,
and I said I had no problem with the students
rushing the field, but Ben, being Debbie Downer, he has an.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Issue with it.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Do you take issue with the fans celebrating with their
team and a great team win by running in the field.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
I'm conflicted. And here's the reason why I'm conflicted, because
in the last two years, CU fans have rushed the
field too many times. And this is coming from a
CEUO alumni. And here's the thing, I get it. When
I went to see you, they were not good. I
rushed the field once in my entire five year career
actually at CU, because there was one game worth rushing
the field for, you know, and then then coming off
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of the year before last, they were one and eleven.
So yeah, your kids are gonna run the game because
you're excited, especially if you're a senior. And I totally
get it, and it's awesome, but I think also at
certain points it's like you don't need to rush the
field every single time. And I think CU students in
general are just not used to winning, so they get
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over excited and then they want to rush the field
every single time. But I don't think you should rush
the field every single time.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, for me, it's rushing the field for beating Baylor
to five hundred team.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's a Vanderbild of Big twelve. What are we doing here?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You know, say, don't back from behind, wind Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
There's a lot of I'm I'm glad for coming behind
and winning.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I'm all for it was an awesome win though, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Absolutely, it was a magnificent win.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I was sitting there pumping my fist, you know, Yeah,
it's great. But at the same time, I'm not rushing
the field for that.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I you know, it's for me.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Rushing the field is reserved for championships, making a championship,
or busting a long streak that you haven't that you
haven't busted before.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
That's just me, man. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Maybe maybe it's this wet blanket that I carry around
with me that that Nick is nodding his head about.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But I don't know, that's just my yeah sort of
take on it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, and this should should we just give Travis Hunter
the Heisman?
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Now? I mean, listen, this guy, watching this young man
in person is I can think of no other word
than it has been a gift. Like I am like
soaking up every single game because it's unbelievable to see
him in person and to see what he does. And
the truth is, when you talk about the Heisman, it's
the best player in college football. Nobody is doing what
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Travis Hunter is doing. Nobody else can do what Travis
Hunter is doing. I don't see anybody else with one
hundred and thirty receiving yards, some ridiculous catches, and then
the game saving forced tumble like simply nobody's doing what
he's doing. He's truly one of one. I can't wait
to see what this turns into when he goes to
the NFL. That is a whole other conversation. But I
think he's the best player in college football. He deserves
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the Heisman, and he absolutely should be the conversation all
year if he continues doing this, because because nobody's doing
what he's doing, he's a freak.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
He's a mute.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's the best player in college football.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Mark Johnson said, up, well quickly before we let you
get out of here, I would be remiss about and
bring this up. Charlie Blackman, spend fourteen season here with
the Colorado Rockies, is saying that he is going to
call it quicks after the game against the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
What do you find memories of one Charlie Blackman, Oh my.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Gosh, it's crazy. It feels like an end of an
air right spend his entire fourteen years in the major
leagues with the Rockies. You wish he could have gone
to more playoff games, but Charlie was always he gave
you so many memories on the field. It always felt
like if these improbable moments that Chuck would have a
crazy homer. I think he's like top six in Rockies
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franchise history in like ten categories, right, He's just been
a staple for so long, and you gotta give love
for the walk up song, Like the course Shield simply
is not going to be the same without that walk
up song going forward. It's very sad, but also like
as a media member, Charlie was always great in the
locker room in the clubhouse, like very sarcastic, very made
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it very clear, I don't I'm not really interested in
talking to you guys, but I'll talk to you guys anyway.
And he was always very real about it and just
a great person to be around. He was great for
the young guys. You'd always see, we'd always you know,
go to spring training just for you know, just a
couple of days every year. But the impact he's always
had on the young players I thought was always fascinating
to watch how he was just co them up from
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the beginning from always. But really it's just like his
personality and his impact on the organization. It's you're gonna
miss him, he's an alzheimer.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Well, Romie, we're.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Gonna miss you until the next time we get a
chance to talk to you. Roby Bean from CBS. We
always appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Oh you know what, guys, we're joy to talk to
you after a couple of wins.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Love it changing my name to Albright with two w's
in there because we're not taking anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Here we go, romy Bean, We appreciate you as always.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
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at the Kowa group right there, I'm right up there
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the way at the top. I might be in second
now Dave Tepper base Dave Tepper maybe ahead of doin
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a break yourself on the back, I do. I got
a little sort of to the elbow here to call that,
whether Tennis elbows self congratulation, Well, you know, given the
referees in the NFL might call it Flagger's elbow, the
way they all flags.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Out there this year, five six, six, nine zeros.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
The text I got Roaby being joined this bottom of
the hour, get a chance to talk about the Broncos
and the CU Buffs. I want to talk about the
Broncos though right now, let's talk about this Tampa game,
because you know, I thought there were some things to
build on there.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I think there was a little bit of context that
needs to go with this.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I mean, the Bucks were missing for the best defensive players,
and one specifically showed up. The fact that via Veale
wasn't there showed up because they could get no pressure
between the b guests at all in that game. And
what you saw was bow Nick's starting to look comfortable,
start to step up in the pocket and started building
up some good habits as he wasn't so frenetic with things.
(01:48):
You know, I'd like for that to to trend to
continue forward. The problem is you're up against the Buzzo
on the New York Jets next. They love to bring
pressure with that front four, and they've got the horses
to do it.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I thought that overall.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm hoping it was a growth game for bo Nicks
because it felt like he matured in that game. You
saw them try to get him in a rhythm, but
not just with with weird underneath stuff.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Early.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
They were aggressive.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Early, they were pushing the football down the field and
forcing teams to respect that they can throw it down
the field before uh getting a little more concervative in
the second half. My biggest concern would be the run game.
Once again, we don't have a commitment to it. We
are rotating backs through and Tyler Batty or Bedey or
whatever he's calling himself now because last year he wanted
to be called Beatty and now.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
He wants to be called Bedaya.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
A real thing.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
I swear, I swear to you, I'm gonna let that
one go. I've been I've been all day. I've been
choking the jokes back, all right. He used to be
Tyler Bady and now he wants to be tighter today,
and I'm like, well, I you know what, if that's
what you want to be, I'm cool, I will I
will call you that and all the implications that go
with But Gavante started to look like he was putting
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it together a little bit. He saw him break attack
early with that spin move. Then he saw him do
it again on the fumble play, and he got to
put the dog house because he fumbled the ball, but
he looked like he started getting a little bit of
that confidence back about running angry, and he got in
the dog house, fumbled the football, and we just didn't
have any commitment to anything else. Baby Biday whatever sprang
a big one, and that padded the totals a little bit.
Otherwise you probably look at it Bonnicks being the main
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rusher on the Broncos again.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, and that's definitely a problem.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
And usually when running backs a tot when you get
into a pile of players, normally you try to cover up.
But on that particular play, you have Duvante's spinning off,
and you know, hey, when you in an awkward position,
obviously everyone wants you to maintain the ball, but you're
thinking about safety first.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
So I mean being in the dog house.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Hopefully he's not in the dog house that long because
they're gonna need him on Sunday against the Jets. Now,
going back to you know, Bo Nixon seeing a different
type of offense. The one thing that I saw, Ben,
and I don't know if you saw this to it
as well, but the first thing that jumped out to
me that there's certain concepts or the rhythm with the
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routes look quite familiar to me. And what I mean
by that it looked like what we saw for the
first two weeks from the New Orleans Saints and Clint
Kubat yep, because now we saw tight ends or receivers
getting in certain formations now running to a spot five yards,
flashing your numbers. That's something that I thought that they
should have done early this year, and I apprecied that concept.
(04:30):
So it's good to see that. I don't know how
it came to fruition. I really don't care. The only
thing is that now we're seeing that, and he kept
the offense in someone of the rhythm. And here's what
we've known all season long. Everyone talks about the offense
and not being able to run the ball and bow
turned the ball over four turnovers in two weeks. That
the conversation about vance Joseph and how well the defense
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have been playing to this point has been pushed to
the side. So I want to make sure I give
you guys on that side of the ball their flowers
be Here's what we're seeing the Broncos taking the opening
drive down for a touchdown.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
It took a lot of pressure off that defense and
allowed them to play with a lot of confidence.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
And we saw that on Sunday. Yeah, and that was
gonna get around of that. We absolutely need to talk
about the defense. I said at the beginning of the year,
this defense is going to be a problem for teams.
It's going to surprise people. And they have been nothing
short of stellar so far this year. There are top
five defense and almost every metric across the board they're
playing well. This defense is playing well. And how about
Riley Moss. Now, I know that guy would have got
that touchdown over it, but you couldn't have played that
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much better than he played. Guy who got a little
bit outside leverage on him, but you couldn't. You couldn't
have played that much better than he played it. And
that funny held his own outside that play.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
For me, Riley has been really impressive. Coming into the season,
everyone was wondering who was going to get that corner
spot opposite PS two. For me, it was always Riley Moss,
and people could take pot shots at him as far as.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
They want to, but I know the kids' dog.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
He pas that attitude and anytime you're playing opposite another
good player, you're going to see all the people tried
to attack you. Same thing happened anyone that played on
this team opposite of Chat Bailey. When I played and
playing against playing along with Kenoy Kennedy and John Lynch,
obviously everyone was gonna test me to see what I
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was gonna stand up to, and Riley is doing it.
That passed against Chris Godwin, I mean, look, great catch,
great throw, great position by Rolly Moss. I'm sure the
coaching points was, look, hey if you can try to
rip through that catch hand right because he was writing
in position, but hey, they get paid to great play.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
On his part. But Riley kept playing. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Because most young corners been in that situation, they get
down on themselves. He elevated his level of playing and say,
you know what, I'm gonna go out and continue to
make plays. In the play to end the game was
when he made the hit and Brandon Jones picked up
the ball and ran it down the field, ultimately sliding
the midfield.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
But this is how you want your players, especially at
the corner position, to play. So big shout out to
Robbie Mollinson his victory Monday.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's wasn't. Ted Laslo says, happiest animals and goldsfish.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Right, Absolutely shortest memory. There you go, and that's gat's
gonna be the thing. You got goal to shake that off.
I think Zach Allen has played phenomenally this year there.
You know, he's been a guy that's helping to get
other guys to the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You know, John Cooper needs a contract extension.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
We got to get Jonathan Cooper locked up because he's
gonna wind up putting up another big season in terms
of these sack totals, and you know it's he's gonna
price himself right out of being a Denver Bronco.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
They don't get that done. They need to get John
Cooper done now.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Well, see that's the great thing about it. We always
see this every single year when there's a guy he's
in the contract year. You got both him and Brent
Baron Brownie in the contract here, and the team can't
keep both of those guys because you have Jonah Ellis
who can play and fill in himself at Nick Benito exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
So for me, I love this, and I talked about
this at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I want to see what's gonna happen with those four guys.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Who's going to cross.
Speaker 5 (08:04):
The tape first and right now it is Jonathan Cooper
pretty much dictating the pace.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
But if they all take it as a challenge, that's only.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
Going to make Vans Joseph defense that much better and
it's gonna be a nightmare for opposing quarterbacks moving forward.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Absolutely, That's one of the things I think that gets
over look. Cooper was probably the best guy at set
in the edge. Of the four guys are probably more
natural pass rushers than Cooper. But but man, what he's
gonna come through and done the last couple of years,
coming back from the surgery, they had the issue with
his heart, draft of the seventh round, all this kind
of stuff, and he just goes out there and shows up.
He's one of those guys that you know, you you
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look at and you say, on the surface, and well,
he's you know, he's just a guy. He's he's yeah,
he's Roster Worth and he's just a guy. But he
shows up and he makes plays. He keeps showing up
and making plays, and you know, I think that deserves
to get rewarded. I think he's an integral part of
what they do off the edge there. He may not
have all the tools of a von Miller, but he's
a guy who's going out there and getting the production.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
He's getting the sacks. If he needs to clean it up,
he's clean it up. If he's set in the edge,
he set in the edge.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Whatever the case may be, he's where he's supposed to
be at all times.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Well then, once again, not everyone could be first round
draft picks and parentio Pro Bowlers. But the idea is
that can you make the most out of the abilities
and the skills that God gifted you with? And just
like you said, well no, when you think about Cooper,
you don't think about him as popping up on the
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posing stat sheet as a game record, but he is
a guy that you definitely better make sure you know
what side of the field that he's on because he's
going to give you that energy on every single play,
because that's kind of how he's come up not being
drafted due to the hard issues. He's still thinking about that.
He wears, you know, that emotion on his sleeve, and
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when you go out there and you get the best
from him, you got to figure that it's going to
translate down the line.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
You mentioned Zach Allen.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
A guy who I feel as though he doesn't get
enough praise for what he's doing.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Now. He's not lighting it up as far as the
stat sheet when he.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Comes to sacks, but when you look at pressures getting
opportunities for other guys, Zach Allen is that guy. And
that's one of the reasons why Van Joseph when he
got here, he was like, you know what, I need
a Zach guy all.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Well, And it's funny you mentioned because I was gonna
mention that too.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
It's another thing that you need to thank Vance Joseph
for bringing Zach Allen over from Arizona because there were
other options out there in terms of who you were
looking at in terms of free agents, and that was
his guy, and he banged the table for one of
the things about Vance Joseph that some fans may not
know is that he is very respected as a personnel
guy around the league. When he was that one season
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he was down there in Miami, that defense wasn't all
that great, but the personnel suggestions that he made and
everything all played out beautifully. It was the same thing
when he was down there in Houston as an assistant.
The personnel suggestions that he made all played up beautiful.
He's a keen eye for personnel in the league and
it's showcased again by banging the table for Zach Allen
getting out.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
Well, I'm glad you brought that up. With Vance being
down in Houston. I had an opportunity to do a
coaching internship when Vance was there with Wade Phillips.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
So when you think about what Wade.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
Has been able to do with his career both in
the XFL and an NFL being a defensive coordinator, you
understand where that knowledge of the game came from Vance.
And listen, Vance is a smart guy in his own
right and understanding your defense and understanding what personnel fits
well with your defense.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
This is where I see the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (11:35):
Actually, I guess Ahead of the curve appost to where
they were years ago. And this is why I feel
as though when we praise other individuals in the organization,
I think it's only fair to praise Vance Joseph for
what he's been able to do and his defensive staff
to get those guys who go out there and play
the way that they played, because up to this season,
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when you look at time of possession, it's leaning more heavily.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
On a defense.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
So I can understand those guys being tired and say,
you know what, it's about time for the offense to
put up the shut up. But that's not how they
look at it. They look at it and say, you
know what, we are a team. We're gonna show up.
We're gonna turn the ball over and turn the ball
over they did against Tampa and sacks last week, five
sacks the Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Gave up against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And the Detroit Lions they're front fours though those slouts,
but the Broncos seven seven sacks, So they're able to
take that and build upon that because guess what they're
facing Aaron Rodgers on Sunday. He's not a guy who
loves to run the ball, so he's gonna be right
there at eight yards when you get to the depth
of the quarterback, and hopefully they can put a defense
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that is put together another back to back performers like
the one they had this Sunday in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Yeah, and in the defense, you know, they played lights out.
They have you know, I mean, I think bet to
be on the field entirely too much because of the offense,
but they've been a large portion of that. The other
thing I wanted to say was just good to get
Courtland Sutton going seven catches sixty eight yards. Not really
being talked about a whole heck of a but Courtland
Sutton really got going in that game.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
He hasn't and hadn't gotten.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Going thus far this season, and it's good to get
that connection.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
With bow Nick.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Sutton sort of held out, did a little mini holdout
early on not coming to uh to some non mandatory
stuff because you know, he wanted a new contract.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
They topped him off a little bit. But Sutton knew
the situation, he knew what was coming.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
He knew he was going to.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Be paired up with a rookie quarterback who was going
to have to find his footing a little bit and
get going. And it's a contract year for Courtland Sutton,
so you know, he knew what was coming with that
situation and wound up.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
You know, it was good to see him get.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
The production there because he's a guy who's playing for
probably his next job.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
Well, you can tell early on at the beginning of
the game there was a consort of effort to get
Courtland involved more. That was something that the Broncos have
not really done over the past two weeks. Heading into
the game on the road against Tampa and when you
look at Courtland and you said, well, he's your number
one wide receiver. You're number one wide receiver. You have
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to find ways to get him targets. You have to
find ways to kind of settle him into the offense.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
And I thought what the Broncos.
Speaker 5 (14:10):
Were doing earlier to get him involved, to me, it
was like, okay, well they recognized that they were not
doing and to see even though it wasn't completed the
jump ball that were Coughlin, the dB for Tampa Bay,
did a great job of forcing him out. But here's
something that I saw in the game that I did
not see in the first two games. And you and
I talked about it when we've been when we've been
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on was the fact up now they're throwing the back,
show the fade.
Speaker 4 (14:35):
Now say what you want to. But that was one
of the throws.
Speaker 5 (14:38):
I felt that Russell and Courtland really had great chemistry
on there that we were not seeing. It was like,
he's a big body receiver that can get you the
fifty to fifty ball. Why not do it and get
him involved? But now we saw that. Now there needs
to be continuation on Sunday because you're gonna get Sauce Gardner,
and you know Sauce is graving his feet grave with
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his hand sometimes too great, too good, or too bad
because he likes to hold right. You gotta take advantage
of grabby. You gotta take advantage of that. And hopefully
we can see more back short of phase for number fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
YEP.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Also a great game from from Patzertan shutting down to
Mike Evans. Although I will say that against physical receivers,
Artan does seem to get a little flag. A few
flags he got, got a few against Pickens, got a
few against Evans. Somebody keep your eye on against those bigger,
physical receivers that I've kind of sort of sort of
noticed with PS two as as things have U there's
things have gone on. We're live down here at the
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Speaker 1 (15:35):
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Speaker 1 (15:44):
Onta your mind.
Speaker 6 (15:45):
What a homecoming win on a.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Rainy night here in bowler HiT's sober in one over time,
thirty eight and thirty one, A bit more pepp in
their step? Why not the Broncos are come on the
road and beaten Tampa Bay here at Raymond James Stadium
in Tampa by a final score of twenty six to seven.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Welcome back to it, Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin ol Brighten,
Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you buy from the
Sporty Pickle Bar and Grill half mile northeast for seventy
on PORI I all gotta get on out here. I
get the drinks. They got pickleball courts in the bar.
I'm watching people play pickleball back there right now. This
is a fascinating place to get great drinks, specials, to
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Speaker 4 (16:22):
What do you go over there?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
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Speaker 4 (16:25):
All right?
Speaker 1 (16:26):
Five six six nine zero is the text.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
And I'm gonna run out to the common Sparrel hotline
though right away and bring on a good friend from
CPS that is romy Bean Roamy h.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Exactly how low were the valleys.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
And high were the peaks in the final five seconds
of the CU game?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
For you?
Speaker 6 (16:44):
Oh, that was an ald timer. I'll tell you what.
When when Will Shepherd dropped that first tail? Mary, I
was like, all right, well they gave it a go,
Like okay, I packed my bag getting ready to go
to post game, Like lightning doesn't strike twice come on?
And then the you know, it's funny, the Lejontay Western
catch actually posted that and you can hear the collective silence,
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like the whole stadium holding their breath. And then he
comes up with it and you see it from all
the angles that he came up with. It just absolutely unreal,
the swing of emotions. And then to end it the
way that it ended with Travis Hunter, give the man
the heisman. I mean, unbelievable and all time finished. One
thing about this Colorado team. You will be entertained one
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way or the other.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
BROMI, Yeah, you will be entertained, that is one thing
for sure. But the guy who was really entertaining is
shardor Sanders, because that pass doesn't get down to field
unless he actually do it.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
How impressed have you been? What's your door?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Understanding the challenges that he is still fighting through witches,
the protection of the CU buffs alone.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
I think the thing about Shador Sanders and why everybody
always says when two's on the field, you always got
a chance, is because he finds a way to especially
mentioned the protections. Sometimes he's waiting for these long developing
plays to develop for too long and so you're getting
these sacks which can be split right between the protections
and sometimes it's him. But when it comes down a
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crunch time, when it comes down to needing a big play,
Chador finds a way to make it happen. And I
think something that got lost in the conversation too is
even the play to Marion Miller, that touchdown play, which
was bonkers as well Amar and keeping his knee off
the ground, but Shador evading the sack and making that
one happen. He has an ability to make plays happen
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when they just shouldn't be happening the way he immediately
kind of read that defense rolled out for the hail Mary.
He's a playmaker in that way, and that's why a
lot of people will say he'll be he'll be a
great fit in the NFL because when things aren't going
right and when things are falling apart around him, finds
a way to make a big play happen.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Who's the better magician over the weekend?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Was it Chador on that play or was it Bo
don't call him Michael Vick on the the sack, it
would be Sack. I guess after Bowles lost this guy
coming around the edge and he takes off of the
twenty plus yard.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Run, that is that is That's a tough question. I'm
gonna have to give it to Shador because of the
timing of the play, the zeros on the clock, what
it meant to that game, an absolutely unbelievable impact play.
Has to give it to Shador. But Bo Nicks showed
that he has got what Russell. Wilson didn't not to
knock on Russell what a lot of quarterbacks don't. And
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he just has that instinct that he can feel the
rush coming up behind him. A lot of guys will say, right,
you can't teach that you have it or you don't.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
You got it.
Speaker 6 (19:34):
He feels it. And how many times in the past,
how many Broncos quarterbacks we've seen that exact same play
and they just get crushed right with a guy flop
and right on top of him, and both showed that. Well,
I guess not a young age technically, but a very
young in his NFL career, that he has got that
ability to escape and make good plays. And so you
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give you so much excitement of what it what could
be next?
Speaker 4 (19:59):
From boning?
Speaker 5 (20:00):
What does it say about the Broncos, Because here's the
team is heading into Week four and the same conversation
continues to come up.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
How the run game has yet to get on track.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
And I know after the Pittsburgh still his game, there
was kind of a word commitment to the run game,
but we haven't seen it thus far. In to boot
your quarterback once again is now up there as far
as averaging five point nine yard to carry, which puts him.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Thirty six.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I believe when you look at quarterbacks and running backs,
that's eleven slots ahead of some of the running backs
in the league. But what does that say when the
Broncos are still saying the same thing, we can't get
the run game going.
Speaker 6 (20:48):
You know, it's one of those things you love to
see bow run. He should not be the leading rusher
on the tape. You don't want to see that by
any means. And I think that it's very clear it's
the time to make a change at running back one
will mcgoffin and Tyler today, I guess getting used to
that new pronunciation. I don't know when that happened, but anyway,
have shown to be so much more explosive, so much
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more dynamic than Javonte Williams. I get bringing in Javonte,
you know, when you want to keep drivs going, you know,
kind of a bruising third down back. I think that's
a better fit in this offense Right now. I think
he's clearly having a rough start to the season. It
feels like he still has never been himself since the injury.
You wonder if his confidence is not a little bit
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but I think it's time to give Jalil mcgofflin running
back one have him starting the game, because every time
he gets out there, he's just so much more dynamic,
and you could feel a lot more confident. I think
in a run game picking up when you have that dynamic,
I think they got a shuffle the depth. Start there
at running back and move Javonte Williams down, And I
just think you do well.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
At least find at least figure out a distribution plan
that makes sense.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I think you can move Devonte more to this, Samante
p ry Roll and Tyler Bady Bday. I call it battie.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I mean to me, it feels like you just you
know you've you've missed the market here third times the
charm when you're gonna get people talking about your last name.
I call him a batty because he's busting them off
like a batty. But I look, at the end of
the day, finding the hot hand is sort of the
way to go here.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
I liked that.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Javonte was breaking a couple of tackles. Of course, he
broke one and then fumbled the football and the player
that got him into the doghouse. But you know, if
you're gonna be what this team wants to be. You
could sort of see what Chempayte wants to do here.
You're going to have to find a way to run
the football with the backs in addition to the quarterback.
And they did run the RPO there. We saw that
Nick where had little RPO play Bow kept it and
got a few yards out of it. But they're gonna
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have to find a way to establish that run in
order to set everything else up. And it doesn't matter
who's back there, whether it's Jalil, whether it's Javonte, whether
it's Tyler Baty, whether it's Ordrick Estimate, whomever. He doesn't
feel like they've had any sort of commitment to that whatsoever.
How do how does this team find a way to
take the ball out of the quarterback's hands and establish
the run in a sense, in a way that makes
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sense for this offense.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
You know, this is one of those things that frustrates
me so much because I ask all these people who
play football, and all those football people like you just
got to like, don't you just have to do it?
Like you're going to commit to the run. You have
to commit to the run, even if you get a
bunch of those little two yard game two yard game.
You just see how quickly they abandon the run game.
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And it requires discipline, It requires coaching to stick to
the run game and not abandon it when things aren't
going well. Because, as you all know, every cliche in
the book, right, running game is the quarterback's best friend,
blah blah blah. But it's so true, and it's big
for the offensive line as well, who played great. Don't
get me wrong, they absolutely played great, but running or
offensive linemen traditionally do love the run game, right. They
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get to be the bullies. You're the one hitting first.
So I think it just comes down to coaching. You
have to commit to the run game. And I think
of all kind of well not all, but we've certainly
seen with this team there's no sort of consistencies. Really,
they don't ride the hot hand. So the best way
to get that going is Okay, I said, move Javonte,
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maybe don't do that. Do what you said, Ben, Just
whoever is the hot hand, keep feeding the hot hand, right,
You got to have that consistency. I think a lot
of times with the running back to just be feeling it,
and it seems like whenever somebody's feeling it, we don't
see him again, like two weeks ago, Baby Bodday, that
a sorry bust off, a sixteen yard run, and then
we don't see him again. So you got to keep
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feeding the hot hands. I know it's not that simple,
but that's a great place to start.
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Well, here's another great place to start, and talking about
feeding the hot hand, let's talk about Vance Joseph in
that Denver Broncos defense, because I'm gonna tell you, I
don't think Vance and that defense gets enough credit because
everyone's talking about bow Nick.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
So I'm gonna give you an opportunity.
Speaker 5 (24:45):
Romie, come on, spread some love and let's talk about
that Broncos defense.
Speaker 6 (24:50):
Absolutely, I'm so glad you brought it up.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Nick.
Speaker 6 (24:52):
It's true. It's an offensive league, it's a quarterback league,
and obviously when you got a rookie quarterback, that's what
everybody's gonna focus on. That that defense give it up
seven points and having seven sacks like the same number,
like are we serious right now? Has been playing so
well and so cohesively as a unit, because if you
look at le Broncos offense realistically, you got one all
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pro in there. Right in Pat Sartan, but everybody else
is playing. They're playing so well together, and so much
credit to Vance Joseph. They're all elevating each other and
really playing so well as a whole unit as one unit,
and the guys up front and the guys in the secondary,
everybody's playing just they're playing really really good team defense.
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And you're seeing Riley Moss. I think he's going to
grow into great player. Zach Allen's having a fantastic season.
But when you look at this defense right just on paper,
like the only name that stands out, so to speak,
is Pat Sartan, And look what these guys are doing.
I get so much credit to Vance Joseph and its
system being so player friendly and these guys really having
so much pride. This is one of those things where
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they can get tiring when for how empty years now
the defense has known, gosh, we've got a whole team
to you know how many points just to give the
offense a chance. Well, finally the offense showed show some lines.
But even to the first two games, they just walked
into the third game with the pride of we're going
to do our jobs. We're going to do it so well,
and we're going to keep this team in it. And
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to see them not get frustrated and really elevate everyone
around them, I think has been so impressive and so
much credit events Joseph. I mean this time of year ago,
everybody's calling for him to get fired, and look at
him now right, it's just awesome.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Well, and there have been a lot of great stories.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
I mean, Andrea Tillman has his first game, comes out,
gets two sacks with the Denver Broncos. Riley Moss, I mean,
you got everybody in their mother going, wait, that's a
white guy. I haven't seen that so much since they
heard that Rick Astley wasn't an African American. Look, I'm
looking at this defense, and you know, we were worried
about some of the turnover, but as you start to
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look at it, I mean, this is really a really
good defense just across the board, and the additions that
they made only supplemented that. Going out, John Franklin Myers,
you know, I went the biggest Cody Barton fan, but
he fills in the Josie Jewel role.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
You know, you look at this thing and Brandon Jones, who.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Had huge shoes to fill with Justin Simmons moving on
to the Atlanta foul because what a great interruption against
Pat Mahomes last night.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
But huge shoes to fill, and what does he do.
He comes in and he fills them.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
You know, he's come in and he's been productive.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Shout out to Brandon Jones and shout out again to
his nixt point out that Davance Joseph for putting this
thing together. The Broncos have a top five defense in
the NFL and it's going unoticed right now because everybody's
staring at the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, I mean they've just.
Speaker 6 (27:31):
Amen touche to everything you said. And a guy like
Brendon Jones is an interesting one too, that their off
season acquisitions where nobody really talks about them. Not the
local media was standing right, but like nationally, nobody's really
talking about bringing in Malcolm Roach and John Franklin Myers
and Brandon Jones. But all of these additions have been
huge additions. And I know we talk about the Broncos
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as a young team, and they are a young team,
and you look at this defense and there are a
young team, but they've got the veteran leadership is so
strong as well. There's not as many of them, but
it's huge. You know, you could pat in the backfield.
Even PJ. Locke is young, but he really has a
great sent to me, a great, great leadership. Brandon Jones,
he's a little bit older. You know, you got Alex
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Singleton and then you got these older guys. I know,
Malcolm Roach and Franklin Myers are newer to the team,
but they just kind of there's more veteran savvy, I
think than people see that. Everyone's just saying, oh, they're
young and hungry. Oh they're young and hungry, and yeah,
there's a lot of young guys, but there's a lot
more veteran leadership than people are talking about.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Well, Romie, I'm going to.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Back up for a second because before you, Joan has
been and I were having a conversation and I want
to get your input on it, because you were at
Folsom Field for Savday's first Big twelve win over Baylor,
and I said I had no problem with the students
rushing the field, but Ben, being Debbie Downer, he has an.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
Issue with it.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
Do you take issue with the fans celebrating with their
team and a great team win by running in the field.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
I'm conflicted. And here's the reason why I'm conflicted, because
in the last two years, CU fans have rushed the
field too many times. And this is coming from a
CEUO alumni. And here's the thing, I get it. When
I went to see you, they were not good. I
rushed the field once in my entire five year career
actually at CU, because there was one game worth rushing
the field for, you know, and then then coming off
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of the year before last, they were one and eleven.
So yeah, your kids are gonna run the game because
you're excited, especially if you're a senior. And I totally
get it, and it's awesome, but I think also at
certain points it's like you don't need to rush the
field every single time. And I think CU students in
general are just not used to winning, so they get
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over excited and then they want to rush the field
every single time. But I don't think you should rush
the field every single time.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
Yeah, for me, it's rushing the field for beating Baylor
to five hundred team.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
It's a Vanderbild of Big twelve. What are we doing here?
Speaker 4 (29:57):
You know, say, don't back from behind, wind Ben.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
There's a lot of I'm I'm glad for coming behind
and winning.
Speaker 6 (30:04):
I'm all for it was an awesome win though, right, yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
Absolutely, it was a magnificent win.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
I was sitting there pumping my fist, you know, Yeah,
it's great. But at the same time, I'm not rushing
the field for that.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
I you know, it's for me.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
Rushing the field is reserved for championships, making a championship,
or busting a long streak that you haven't that you
haven't busted before.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
That kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:21):
That's just me, man. You know.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Maybe maybe it's this wet blanket that I carry around
with me that that Nick is nodding his head about.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
But I don't know, that's just my yeah sort of
take on it.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, and this should should we just give Travis Hunter
the Heisman?
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Now? I mean, listen, this guy, watching this young man
in person is I can think of no other word
than it has been a gift. Like I am like
soaking up every single game because it's unbelievable to see
him in person and to see what he does. And
the truth is, when you talk about the Heisman, it's
the best player in college football. Nobody is doing what
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Travis Hunter is doing. Nobody else can do what Travis
Hunter is doing. I don't see anybody else with one
hundred and thirty receiving yards, some ridiculous catches, and then
the game saving forced tumble like simply nobody's doing what
he's doing. He's truly one of one. I can't wait
to see what this turns into when he goes to
the NFL. That is a whole other conversation. But I
think he's the best player in college football. He deserves
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the Heisman, and he absolutely should be the conversation all
year if he continues doing this, because because nobody's doing
what he's doing, he's a freak.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
He's a mute.
Speaker 1 (31:33):
He's the best player in college football.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
There you go.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
Mark Johnson said, up, well quickly before we let you
get out of here, I would be remiss about and
bring this up. Charlie Blackman, spend fourteen season here with
the Colorado Rockies, is saying that he is going to
call it quicks after the game against the Dodgers.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
What do you find memories of one Charlie Blackman, Oh my.
Speaker 6 (31:57):
Gosh, it's crazy. It feels like an end of an
air right spend his entire fourteen years in the major
leagues with the Rockies. You wish he could have gone
to more playoff games, but Charlie was always he gave
you so many memories on the field. It always felt
like if these improbable moments that Chuck would have a
crazy homer. I think he's like top six in Rockies
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franchise history in like ten categories, right, He's just been
a staple for so long, and you gotta give love
for the walk up song, Like the course Shield simply
is not going to be the same without that walk
up song going forward. It's very sad, but also like
as a media member, Charlie was always great in the
locker room in the clubhouse, like very sarcastic, very made
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it very clear, I don't I'm not really interested in
talking to you guys, but I'll talk to you guys anyway.
And he was always very real about it and just
a great person to be around. He was great for
the young guys. You'd always see, we'd always you know,
go to spring training just for you know, just a
couple of days every year. But the impact he's always
had on the young players I thought was always fascinating
to watch how he was just co them up from
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the beginning from always. But really it's just like his
personality and his impact on the organization. It's you're gonna
miss him, he's an alzheimer.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Well, Romie, we're.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Gonna miss you until the next time we get a
chance to talk to you. Roby Bean from CBS. We
always appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Oh you know what, guys, we're joy to talk to
you after a couple of wins.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Love it changing my name to Albright with two w's
in there because we're not taking anywhere else.
Speaker 6 (33:30):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
Here we go, romy Bean, We appreciate you as always.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
Benjamin all right, Dick Ferguson here at the Sporty Pickle,
We've got to hit a break.
Speaker 1 (33:37):
We will be back right here on Broncos Country today
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