09-25-25 Hour 2 of Broncos Country Tonight with Zach Segars

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome to another late post Rockies edition
of the show. Once again, it's Zach Siegers filling in becoming.
In the last segment, I was talking about Sean Payton
the Denver Broncos. You know what's gone wrong in the

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first three weeks, because I don't think it's play calling,
and I wanted to defend Sean Payn's play calling but
also hote him accountable for some of the other shortcomings
this team has experienced. But after that that little depressing note,
I thought I'd turn my focus towards this week's great

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college football slate because we still have a bit until
Monday Night football and the Broncos and Bengals, and this
week's college football slate is great even locally. You've got
the Colorado Buffalo's hosting number twenty five BYU, and I
think that game should be a lot more competitive then
it might seem at first glance. I'm sorry, Rammys, but

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I'm not going to get into the Rams hosting Washington State.
I think that might be a pretty ugly and depressing
affair for the state of Colorado. But I have a
feeling CU can give BYU, even though BYU is ranked,
even though they're off to a pretty red hot three
and oh start to the season. I think Colorado might

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be primed to give the Cougars an upset or at
the very least a run for their money. For starters.
BYU isn't your typical ranked team right now. You know,
their resume isn't that of your average ranked team. I

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think a lot of it is based on what they
accomplished last year. And this is a very different BYU
team that lost talent to the draft lots. It's lost
its star quarterback to Tulane, and Bachmeier's been okay, but
he has not been as good as Bratsliffe was for

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them last year. It's been a meaningful downgrade for them there.
Now they've torched Portland State sixty nine to nothing, Stanford
twenty seven to three, and East Carolina thirty four to thirteen.
But that's not that different than what see us done.
You know, dominate some group of five teams or whatever
they're called now, the mid major schools dominate them. The

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one big difference in the resume is that BYU has
the win over Stanford, and it's a convincing win. They
won twenty seven to three. But Stanford's resume is pretty unimpressive.
Stanford lost to Hawaii the week before they lost to BYU.
You know, Hawaii is a low level Mountain West team,

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so BYU's most impressive win isn't even that impressive. The
Colorado Buffaloes, for you know, maybe as up and down
as they've been to start the season, are comfortably going
to be the biggest test that BYU has had to
this point. I think that's part of the reason to
be optimistic. And on the point of resumes, I think

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CEU is a lot better than their resume looks at
face value. They have the loss to Georgia Tech at home,
a kind of blowout loss to Houston on the road,
but that was all during their quarterback dilemma in Week one.
Cayden Salter was starting and played the whole game, but

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they were trying to operate the Shador Sanders offense, and
even still, he took a Georgia Tech team that has
already proven themselves against competition like Clemson and is currently
ranked a good bit higher than BYU. They took Georgia
Tech down to the wire at home in a similar
spot to this BYU team, and that again was with

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running Pat Shermer's kind of clunky offense that Caden Salter
clearly didn't fick, and a lot of missed opportunities were
there on the table. The Buffaloes easily could have won
that game if you know, they had taken advantage of
some of the turnovers they got, some of the takeaways
they got, or if Salter was just a little more
comfortable in that offense. You saw him have wide open

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rushing lanes where you know, if he tucks and runs,
it's going for at least twenty yards maybe a score.
Last week he was taking those those running opportunities and
scoring on him and creating explosive plays. Against Georgia Tech,
he was looking to throw and he was air mailing
passes and did not look nearly as confident as we
saw him this past week. And I think if you

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have that version of the Buffso against Houston, I wonder
if they win that game. The run defense also looked
much improved against Wyoming, and now granted it's Wyoming, but
you know, they held their own against the Georgia Tech
rushing attack that frankly is more dynamic than BYUS. Georgia

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Tech rushed for three hundred yards like it was a
very prolific day, but they only finished the game with
twenty seven points. And see you was in it until
the very end. And I think the offense development, you know,
I think the defense is a fine unit, a respectable
unit that will at least keep the team in the
game to an extent. I don't think they're a high

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end defense. Even in the Big twelve. It looks like
the pass rush has come back down to earth, but
I think it's respectable enough to at least keep it close,
especially with how this offense looked against Wyoming. And again
it all comes with the qualifier that this is against Wyoming,
another kind of unimpressive Mountain West school like Hawaii, who
we talked about a few minutes ago. But still on five,

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when that offense started clicking with the adjustment Shimmers made,
it was you saw more of the option game, more
of Salter using his legs. They put it on the
first couple possessions, but once they found their rhythm, they
scored five touchdowns on or sorry, they scored four touchdowns
on five drives and put the game out of reach.
And then they kind of took their foot off the

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gas Wyoming climbed back into the game and Colorado immediately
scored nine more points to just make the take the
game out of question, and Salter looked really dynamic eighty
six yards on eleven carries. Also had a rushing touchdown
at the game ceiling rushing touchdown and through the air.

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I mean he was slinging it and throwing lasers all
over the field, playing with a lot of confidence. Finished
the day eighteen of twenty eight for three hundred and
four yards in three tds. The Buffs also rushed for
nearly two hundred yards. As it seems they finally built
a solid offensive line and have a good stable of backs.

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This run game is now fairly dynamic, and I get
y BYU is favored. They deserve to be favored. I'm
not saying they don't, but I think CU has a
great opportunity to surprise some people. The defense is playing.
Both the defense and the offense are coming off their
best games of the season. And it's not just opponent.

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You know, their worst opponent of the season was Delaware,
but you just saw this team play with their hairs
on fire. The defense was flying around making plays all
over the field, and the offense again, it looks like
it's finally hit its stride, and not just the quarterback
and not just the run game, but the weapons. Amarion
Miller was finally active and looked phenomenal. Since here Brown

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it's clear he's developed a role in this Buffs offense
and as a result this team, I think they could
be pretty potent again. This last game they averaged eleven
yards per passing attempt, six yards six point two per
carry and again, yes it's Wyoming, but they couldn't accomplish

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that against Delaware when they played them. This is a
team that's I think found a little bit of something
and is a lot more dangerous than they appear on paper. Well,
I think Wyoming is maybe a bit of a paper tiger.
When you look at their early resume, that game's gonna
get covered up, though a little overlooked, I think in
the national sphere, when you look at the other games

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going on this weekend, it'll start at ten our time
in that early window with number one or sorry, number
twenty one, USC at number twenty three Illinois feels like
a must win game for Illinois after they got shelled
by Indiana. If you lose, it's one thing, that's a
close loss, But if you lose convincingly to USC at

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a home here, it feels like Illinois was really overrated
to start this season and they're going to have to
do some soul searching to get back on the right track.
It will also probably almost certainly knocked them out of
a conference championship contention. So even though that's the lowest
ranked ranked on ranked matchup of the weekend, that one's got,

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I think some really exciting dynamics, including USC. I mean,
I've kind of been writing USC off the past few years.
It seemed like Lincoln Riley that maybe was over the
hill or you know, he'd been figured out. But they're
they're back in at this year and they've got a
pretty exciting offense that I'm excited to tune into against
that Illinois defense. Then you've got LSU number four LSU

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traveling to All Miss to take on the number thirteen
ranked Rebels. Lane Kiffen publicly tweeted out that you should
take the over on this one. I'm kind of surprised,
especially as a college coach, that he's allowed to do
that that. I mean, I'm not clutching my pearls about it.
But I'm surprised that that's not against the gaming rules.

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Like I feel like if an NFL coach did that,
the shield would crack down on them so hard, so fast.
And I mean the NCAA is maybe the biggest pearl
clutchers of the bunch, So kind of surprised he could
get away with that. That also, saying you know, take
the over, We're going to score a whole lot in
this one has the potential to really come back and

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bite him. I mean, this is a quality LSU defense.
Even if you're not having to go into death Valley,
there's a healthy chance LSU wins this game twenty seven
to ten or you know, twenty three ten or something
like that. And not only maybe do we not hit
the over, but Ole Miss is completely stuck in the
mud offensively. A big week for Kiffin two is he

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has this ESPN feature documentary thing dropping on TV. I
saw some people talking about that the other day. His
old school, Alabama, number seventeen Alabama is traveling to Athens
to play number five Georgia. Georgia has the longest active
winning streak or home winning streak excuse me in college
football at over thirty games. I don't think this version

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of Alabama without Nick Saban is going to be able
to snap that streak. But still, anytime Bama and Georgia meat,
it's a great game. We saw Debor give Georgia a
run for their money pretty hard time the last two
times the school the school's met. So you know, even
though the Debor era has been a little disappointing, I
think that one should provide us with a pretty good game.

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And then the matchup of the weekend, it's the Penn
State Wide Out game up in Happy Valley and they
are hosting number six Oregan and Heisman Trophy hopeful quarterback
Dante Moore, who's also starting to fly up draft boards.
It's redshirt sophomore, so this is his first year he's eligible,
first year he's started. I guess he did start for USC.

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Sorry UCLA, excuse me. That was kind of ugly, but
you know, not the most experienced guy. Maybe he decides
to come back. But you look at his physical tools,
you look at some of the other top quarterbacks in
this class, not quite impressing. I wouldn't be surprised if
Dante Moore comes out and is maybe even a first
round pick, going up against a really talented Penn State

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defense in you know, Happy Valley in the whiteout game
might be the most hostile environment in college football, and
going in there trying to get the upset. That would
be a great way for him to stamp his Heisman
resume and his first round pick resume too. This is

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going to be a high leverage spot for him. I
haven't seen a ton of Dante More yet this season.
I've only seen the highlights, and I am excited to
see him in that game, just to you know, start
looking ahead to the twenty twenty six draft, because that
class is very much up in the air right now.
It feels like a lot of the things we expected
to play out having come to fruition and as a result,

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the field is wide open. All Right, that's enough college talk.
Let's shift it back to the NFL and the Denver Broncos.
I think the Denver Broncos have a must win game
this week against this Cincinnati Bengals. It's an unpopular opinion,
and I will say they could probably dig themselves out

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of the hole if they drop to one in three.
You know, you get the Eagles the next week and
that's a very concerning game, of course, but even after that,
the schedule's very easy. So even if they drop to
one and four with these next two games, they could
probably dig themselves out and play some meaningful December football.

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But you know, you do not want to put yourself
in that position. I think once you get to one
in four, the odds are stacked so high, so high
against you to make the playoffs, to make any sort
of noise in the season, and you lose to the Bengals,
and you're going to be staring right down the barrel
of one and four because you got to figure the

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Broncos are, you know, five point to a touchdown underdogs,
probably a touchdown plus underdogs if they lose this weekend
to the Eagles. And again, two and three isn't the
end of the world. You got the Giants, the Jets,
a bit of the Raiders up next. They can very
easily right the ship so long as they can get

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to at least two and three. But I think that's
going to require them beating the Bengals. I don't think
you can bank on that upset win in Philly, even
if it is possible. And I also just think it
would be so demoralizing to come back home after those
two heartbreaking losses and get diced up by Jake Browning

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or struggle to move the ball against this Bengals defense. Now,
I will say the Bengals have outperformed expectations this year.
They rank eleventh right now in drop back EPA out
there their eleventh best pass defense by the Advanced analytics.
In other words, so they might be able to give
bo Nix a bit of a challenge, but they've been

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very weak against the run. Ronco should be able to
run on them, and with their offensive line and Jake
Browning under center, they just should not score a lot
of points. Even with all the offensive talent they have.
Chase Brown, Mike Gaseki Noah fan can give these linebackers
a real hard time, and then you've got Jamar Chase

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and t Higgins on the outside. Of course, it's going
to be hard to coverage this amount of talent. But
this is also the worst offensive line the Broncos have
seen to this point in the season, the worst quarterback
by far they seem so far this season, and they're
at home. I just I think it's fair for the

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fans to kind of demand that the defense have a
lockdown performance and same with the offense. You know, even
with this, this Bengals defense mildly outperforming expectations so far.
You know, you look up and down at the roster.
The Broncos should be able to win their matchups. They
have matchup advantages all over the place. This is also

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going to be the most simplistic defense they've gone against.
You Nard Well, who Wilson's off that Ravens Tree very
complex stuff. Jesse Minter throws out a lot of complex stuff,
lou Ana Rumo, and part of the reason he was
fired by the Bengals was they wanted a simpler defense
that would allow their players to play faster. This is
going to be the easiest life is on Vo Nick

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so far this season, and I think it's fair to
expect a bounce back performance. We'll get more into that
Broncos Bengals matchup and what has gone wrong for the
Broncos so far this season coming up next after the
break on Broncos Country Tonight. Hello Bronco's Country, and welcome

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back to another late night post Rocky's edition of the show.
Once again filling in for Ben Albright and Nick Ferguson,
It's Zack Seegers, ready to talk to you about out.
You know, this Broncos team, it is uh man, it
sucks that we keep getting off to early starts in

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the season like this. But once again, I think it's
a complex start to the season, and I actually think
there's a lot more reason for optimism this year than
there was last year or the year before that at
this point in those respective seasons in the Sean Payton era,
and they pulled those years out of the fire. So

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I'm holding on to some optimism. But still there's a
lot they need to figure out. And that's kind of
where I want to start, because one thing I have
been seeing is a lot of play calling complaints for
the Denver Broncos. And while I think Sean Payton is

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very worthy of criticism for this one and two start,
I don't think his play calling is I've been now,
Is he doing the best job in the league. No, No,
There's been flaws in his play calling. You know, people
have pointed out, you know, a certain run call in
a second and longer, you know, whatever it might be.

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There's certainly things you can quibble with. The QB draw,
for example, right, that's they'll love that now. I think
there's reasons for it. You look at how ineffective the
run game was all game long against the Chargers, and
you think, hey, maybe we clear out some space. Bos
good with his legs, Maybe you can make that work.
I don't think it's a terrible play call, but I

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also understand the critique, and I don't think it's been perfect.
There's plenty of coordinators, you know, Kylshan and Sean McVay.
There are dudes around the NFL doing a better job
than Sean Payton when it comes to play calling. But
I don't think that is near the top of the
list of the Broncos problems, near the top of the

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list of the offenses problems, or even the problems with
Sean Payton so far this season, and I've been Paydon defender.
I think he's gonna turn the season around. I don't
think he should be anyone should be really having any
hot seat conversations unless this season totally goes off the
rails and they're five and twelve or something just absurdly terrible.

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I just think it's all been a little overreactionary right now.
But there are some very valid things to criticize them
for that I feel like aren't getting brought up enough
in lieu of these play calling complaints that I just
I don't think it adds up. And on the play calling,
look at the plays being dialed up, the opportunities for

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bow Nicks that aren't being taken advantage of, not only
in regards to overthrown to mims or deciding here or there,
but also I mean, you turn on the All twenty two.
There are receivers getting open downfield that bow Nix either
isn't seen or isn't pulling the trigger on, or they
break open a split second after he's settled for a checkdown.

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You know, that's not so much on the play caller,
especially when you have the quality pass protection that Bonix
has had in Denver. You know, pulled on the ball
a little longer, be a little more aggressive to pull
the trigger on some of those, be a little more
patient to see if those those downfield concepts developed. And
not only that, but you know, then the counter is, well,

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what about his sequencing? And yes, the designs are good
and they're being effective, they're getting players open, but is
he calling the plays at the right points in time,
And I would argue yes, because if not, those plays
wouldn't be so effective. You wouldn't see the wide receivers
open downfield if they were poorly sequenced. Those those designs

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being successful suggests good sequencing. Right. If there were concepts
that were just hey, you run this play, you get
an open wide receiver twenty yards downfield, teams would run
those plays every single play of the game. Right. It's
not just that simple. You don't call the automatic wide
open Courtland Sutton touchdown play, right, And I think sometimes

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it gets boiled down to that simplicity where it's like,
why isn't the offense working well, it must be the
play calling. I think in the Broncos case, through three
weeks it's been more execution. And that's not a get
out of jail free card for Sean Payton. Guess who's
in charge ultimately of the team's execution, particularly the offense,
the head coach and the hovid's and play caller. Right, So,

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by no means of this a get out of jail
free card for Paydon. But I think the problem is
less the play calls or even when they're being deployed,
because they're having to capitalize on it. It's all about
trickery and getting the defense to have a coverage bust. Like, yes,
they are taking advantage of coverage bus that's the design
of the concept, and you have to set the defense

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up to get them to bite on the fake pitch
or or you know, the flea flicker that creates an
open play. People are mad about the draws laden the down.
Right in the draw plays, you make the defense think
you're gonna throw, they back off, you run it into
the soft belly of the defense, and you pick up
a surprising amount of yards for a run play up
the middle. I understand not liking that call laying the downs.

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I'm someone who really typically does not like that play
called late in the downs. But later that sets up
the flee flicker and Marvin mimms wide open down the field. Right,
So those play calls, as frustrating as they might be,
it should have paid off in a wide open walk
in touchdown. The players just weren't able to cash it in.
And again that's ultimately on coaching. But I think we're

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pointing our finger at the wrong thing here, you know,
the passing offense. I'd say the biggest reason why that
has been stuck in the mud is you know, yes,
is maybe missing some elements, some some receivers while he's
process the play. Maybe he's overlooking some open players here
or there. One of the biggest problems has been his flatwork,

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which has regressed mightily since the end of last year.
Bo Knicks from the last time the Broncos played the
Bengals as opposed to Bo Nicks the last time we've
seen him against the Chargers this past week, the full
works night and day, and it's heading in the wrong direction.
Sean Payton again, the CEO of the team, the CEO

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of the offense, the quarterback whisper, the guy who stood
on the table for Bo Nicks and has continued to
do so ever since drafting him. Ultimately, that's on him,
certainly on BO two to develop those aspects of his game.
But Peyton's the coaches on Web two. You know, it's
on Lombardi, It's on everyone involved has some responsibility here.

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But like that, to me is a much more valid
critique of Peyton, Like, hey, this is your guy, I
would argue. More important than the Bronco making the playoffs
or winning games this year is developing Bo Knicks into
a legitimate franchise guy. That's the most important thing for
the Broncos this year. I think if you had to
pick between the team going eleven and six, as fun

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as that would be eleven and six. They win a
playoff game, but Bo looks like twenty fifteen paid Manning
and you're winning it off the back of the defense
run game. But it looks like Bo is lost. This
scenario AA, Scenario B, the team is mostly good, you know,
but they maybe take a step back from last year.

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Bo looks awesome, though he's clearly taken a step forward,
and they go nine to eight and just miss the playoffs.
Option B is more important for the Broncos long term future.
That is the more preferable option, and wins and losses
a side, you know, even if they do go three
and zero, everything going on with bo Nicks seems to

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have taken a step back now over a year. If
we want to buy into the idea that maybe he's
just a slow starter, year over year, it has improved.
But I don't think we have seen enough of bow
Nick's a sample size of enough enough years to just
hand wave it as, oh, this guy starts slow, it's fine.
I had no problems with his development. You know, this

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is again the most important aspect of the Broncos this year.
I think everyone would agree no matter what direction you
want to point the fingers in, I think everyone would
agree it hasn't been as good as it needs to be.
It has taken a step back in most facets of
the role of quarterbacking. And that's on Sean Payton ultimately

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in my estimate, and not only on him again, but
that's on Peyton. That's something to me, that's a much
more valid Payton critique, and I want his dress again.
I'm not someone who uh thinks Peyton should be on
the hot seat. I think he's done a great job
for the Broncos. I think that trade they made, the
Bradley Chubb trade, getting that first round pick that ultimately

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becomes Sean Payton, that that series of transactions, I think
you'd argue it's the best or second best transaction of
George Peyton's Broncos tenure. Only other one debatable to me
would be the Patricks Urtan selection. You know, it's changed
the franchise. You know, even if it doesn't continue to

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build from here, it's ripped the franchise out of arguably
the darkest chapter in franchise history. I'm a huge supporter
of John Payton, but I think it's hard to not
think he bears a lot of responsibility for this one,
And to start right getting into the play calling, where
I don't think he holds a lot of blame, but

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then the bow nix of it all on offense, that's
on him. The run game continuously struggling year over year,
whatever explanation you want to land on for that. You know,
do they not have a good enough center position? You know,
they've walked into each of the last two seasons with
a conscious decision to not invest a whole lot at

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that position. Right That to me falls on the front
office and Sean Payton to some extent, you know, the
like just any ability you know, over these really i'd
say three seasons he's been here to come up with
a quality run game despite the team investing so much

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in the offensive line, financially investing a good bit into
trying to find a different running back solution, and the
results just aren't panning out. That to me is something
I'm more concerned about and something and I know Nick Ferguson,
Benjamin Albright, Ryan Edwards, Dave Logan, all the guys who've

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done a good job of taking him to test for.
I think the lack of run game calls and the
lack of run game success to me, I think the
run game calls will come once it starts being successful.
You know, against the Chargers, they had a rushing success
rate of I think twenty three percent and success rate
if you ever your offensive success rate reference, that means

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staying ahead of the sticks. So if you're on second
and ten, you got to pick up five yards. You
got to pick up half of the yardage because you
got two plays to convert the first down right, First
and ten will always round up. So first and ten
you need average right three point three yards of play.
You got to get four yards on that first play
for it to be deemed a success. Third and one

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you need one yard. The Broncos ran a successful run
twenty three percent of the times they called a run
on the season. It's it's I think thirty some percent.
It's normal for running plays to be sub fifty percent.
It's why we've seen the passing game become more and
more prolific over the last the decade or so as

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teams have come to this analytical understanding. But you you
need to be north of forty really north of forty
five percent, I think, is what a good running game
should be. And the Broncos haven't been there this year.
And as a result, you can't really lean on the
run game because then you're putting your quarterback who's having

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his own struggles inconsistent third and long situations. And you know,
the run game wasn't the only reason that was happening
against the Chargers, but it was part of it. And
that's compounding all these other issues we're talking about, you know.
And then I think the most obvious ones, the most
obvious areas to hold his feet to the fire, are

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the general sloppiness of what we've seen so far. I mean,
there are a lot of mistakes on the field and
missed opportunities. You know, some of that's bo some of
it it's the penalties wiping away big plays, so many penalties,
you know, missed assignments, blown coverages, you know, the the

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weird like Alex Singleton, patricks Ter Tan tackle thing, even
though that's on defense. There's just a general sloppiness with
this team. That really if I were to that's my
biggest concern with the Broncos right now, because I don't
think that has been an aspect of Sean Bayden teams
in the past. I think part of what Sean Payton
brought to Denver was a well coached, disciplined, buttoned up,

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avoiding penalties aspect that had been lacking for several seasons
and that hasn't been around this year. That weird regression
is most concerning to me at another area where I think,
you know, and not that the head coach waves of
magic wand and these problems get fixed. Obviously it's all
more complicated than that. But as the CEO of the team,

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as the CEO of the operation, and we're talking about
the details of the game execution that falls on him,
you know, there's been game management question and credit to Ben,
he's definitely been hammering this table, but there's been game
management questions each of the past two weeks. It doesn't
really get brought up in the Colts one because of

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all the special team stuff, but the way he used
his timeouts at that at the end of that game
was very odd and it doesn't really align with optimizing
your chances of winning, and then Ben has pointed out
the fourth down thing. Now I'm a little more okay
with punting this week against the Chargers. You're on your

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own thirty. I get the idea that, well, you're guaranteeing
you get the ball back. I don't know if I
agree with that premise, because the defense was so beat up.
I think the Chargers could have just played keep away
and ran out the clock and scored a touchdown or
a field goal as time expired. And again, the success
rate was so poor, like you weren't getting when you

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needed to get one yard on the ground or one
yard through the air. Bonux's drop back success rate, by
the way, was also around twenty five percent, So no
matter what they were trying to do, it was so
rarely successful at getting them the yards they needed to get.
I understand in that moment punting the ball and betting

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on I guess I'm talking out of both sides of
my mouth here, but I can understand the decision. But still,
if you look at the analytical models, they have a
very strong go for it recommendation, a plus eight percent
winning percentage. The estimate is with going for it, they

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have a forty eight percent chance of winning that game,
not going for it by just punning it away, they
only had a forty percent chance of winning the game.
And a swing of eight points like that eight percentage
points is really up there. That is one of the
clear or go for it recommendations you're going to see.
That's something I think is worthy of criticism. Again, I

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want to say I'm not laying this out to rake
Peyton over the colls. I think the expectations around the
Broncos are largely the result of Peyton's work to begin with,
but it hasn't been good enough to start this year.
And I think, really I'm laying this out because the
play calling complaints have been so frustrating to me. I

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do not think that's a problem here, And it's not
to just shield Peyton for any criticism. There are things
you can critique, I just I really don't think play
calling is one of them. And we didn't even get
to the special teams of it all, which I know
Ben's hammered home. That's certainly an area of critique. After

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that little bit of a bummer segment, I'll pick it up.
I'm gonna break down why I think see you could
maybe upset BYU this weekend. I think they're getting slept
on a little bit. I'll talk a little more Broncos Bengals,
how this can be a get right opportunity for them,
and I think I'll also talk about this amazing college

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football slate we have this weekend. All that coming up
next on Broncos Country Tonight right here on KOA A
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