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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Trade deadline coming up, Nick, We've got the Ravens game
this Sunday, Trade deadline Tuesday right after that, and I'm
you know, I'm looking at this.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Should the Broncos be buyers or sellers?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The Broncos should be.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I'm would say these buyers once again if they lose
to Baltimore, Yes, because I would say it all depends
on how they lose to Baltimore. If the Broncos are
able to keep it close, and we know that the
Broncos have a good defense, how well they get out
to the passer, how well that they're able to make plays,
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If they're able to do that and keep the defensive
effort going, now they keep the game really close, and
now we're saying that the Broncos lose by ten or less,
then you're saying, Okay, well you still in the mix.
You still have an opportunity if there are players that
are out there on other teams offensively that you can
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go and acquire that can make your team much better,
more explosive than you explore that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I think you know, I've obviously suggested some type of
pass catcher, probably in the tight end room. Ryan put
a hypothetical out today. I am at Jameson Williams. I
know we talked about him last night a little bit.
As far as far as somebody's been in a lot
of trouble, you had the gambling problem you got suspended for,
he's suspended currently for pedes and he's about to be
brought up on gun charges.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm not sure that's the addition, even with the.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Talent that he has that I would necessarily want to
import here in Denver.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is there anybody out there you would like to bring in?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Woll Look, I mean the guy that I thought of
it was le Viscous Chanault. And even though that doesn't
seem like a sexy pick, I just look at Chanault's
skill set being versatility is versatility and just being dynamic.
Because there's so many things that factor in into whether
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you are buyers or sellers depending on where you are.
And then also looking at who you have on your team.
What do you have to give up to acquire the player?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
How long?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh is there current contract?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
If they come in and perform well on a short
term deal, which the deal that they're on now is
a potential to sign this person long term. For me,
that's what you're looking for. And you're looking for bargains.
I don't know about you. I don't know if you've
ever been out shopping.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And a little bar grocery shop.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not. We don't do the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
When it comes to you know, I'm looking for the cereal.
It's to say, life serial, two bucks of box. Hey,
I'm getting fined off them. Listen, I'm the same guy, like,
look what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Granola.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Don't say that.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Even though I do go to Whole Foods from time
to time, I don't do all my shopping there.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But don't.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
But let's just say, if I know they have a sale,
well I can get like two boxes of cereal for
less than the average price, I'm gonna go there.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I use coupons, Hey, I got the I got
the apps, shut I got to you know, I the
digital coupon apps.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Like I'm eating what's on sale that week.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm like, I what I'm eating that week is being
determined by what's on sale at the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And that there's nothing wrong with that, all right, appreciate
a good deal. When they say champagne tastes and beer money.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
So you know that the slogan for freezer. Yeah, so
that's kind of wh you think about the Broncos. They
have to be in that frame of mind. Well, players
are out there that we can get on. Timper Very Loan.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I like leviis because channel, because it speaks to what
I think this team is missing outside of.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The ultra athlete at the tight end position, off the line.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Why that Sean Payton's already had Illot, Jimmy Graham whatever,
Jeremy Shockey whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
He's also always had a joker player.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And whether that was Reggie Bush who could line up
at receiver or running back, Darren Sprolls who kind of
gave you that, or even more than Curly Taysom Hill
who lined up at a variety of positions. Sean Payton's
always had that versatile chess piece that he plugged in
there and was able to move around.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They don't really have that right now. They don't have
anybody that qualifies as that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No, they don't, and right now they're trying to figure
out that aspect of it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And just think about the way that bo Nicks is
playing right now. If you were to add a guy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Whether it's Chanel or whomever you want to toss into
the conversation, that can be that joker player, because all
you're looking for is another threat, another reason why the
defensive coordinator that you're facing, he's got to stay up
at night, right That's all you try to to do,
and are you're trying to be a little more dynamic
and creative with your with your play calling because automatically,
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in my mind, I go to two coaches right away.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
First one is Kyle Shanahan and the other guy is Mike.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
McDaniels, right and seeing what they were able to do
because ideas you want to create the track team, Yeah,
you know what, need then create a track You.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Can't out coach speed. You can't, you know, And that's
the thing those those guys do have two of the
fastest teams. Kansas City is the same thing, if we're
being honest here, Kansas City the same and and you
Reid the same thing, just.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Arrived at it a different way.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Kyle and Mike and Daniel do it wrote you know,
from the ground game up and Andy does it through
the air.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But at the end of the day, it's about speed.
You know, you get speed on the field.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's smart guys with speed on the field, and then
all of a sudden it's you know, you've created a monster.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And so that's sort of the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You know, Litskis doesn't have all world speed, but he
does have the ability to do give you different things.
You can line him up in the backfield, in the slot,
you know, you can almost line him up. I mean
it's six to three, you can almost line him up
in line.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
In some cases. He's not the world's most prolific.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Blocker, but you can move him around and create different
looks in different scenarios that are given defensive coordators.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
For me, it's having that Quarterrell Patterson. Yeah, that's a
type of God.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's exactly what I envisioned a role for Lawisk to.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Be exactly, and for me having a guy that you
can put in different positions a guy who's a threat
to open up the offense because the way I look
at offense, Ben being a defensive guy spacing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's like basketball. When you start to create.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Spacing, you create opportunities for your quarterback to be successful,
opportunities for your offense to be consistent, because it's about
how many times on a given drive or possession can
you amass ten yards? And more importantly, how quickly can
you do it? Because I'll go back to the Carolina
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game for a second. The Broncos defense, they did give
up fourteen points, yeah for a touchdown in the fourth quarter,
but they gave the Broncos offense multiple opportunities to move
the ball down the field and score. And as you
push towards the playoffs, and if the Broncos are going
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to be in this emphasy stage, a true team that
you're thinking they're going to make it into the playoffs,
whether it's a wild car at seven seed or whatever,
you need playmakers and you're gonna need guys that can
actually flip the field for you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Guys who I give you a five yard pass, you
can turn them into twenty yards.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's what the Broncos need yeah, And it is a
spacing game. I mean football, They're all spacing games in
a sense. I like football. I like to look at
and I've gone down the rabbit hole in it last
I guess two years.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But soccer.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Soccer doesn't have downs. It's a perpetual motion sport, but
much like basketball. But the spacing concepts remain the same.
Get a guy open in space so he can take
a shot, whether it's into a cylinder, whether it's into
the end zone, whether it's into a goal, whatever the
case may be. And so finding ways to do that,
finding ways to create stress, to stress a defense, whether
it's vertically or horizontally, to be able to put a
guy in space, and having guys that are able to
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do that, whether it's the physicality, the size, the speed, whatever.
In football, because you have the downs, it's a little
bit different and you can execute concepts one at a
time rather than evolve them. But you know, at the
end of the day, the concept result is sort of
the same. Create space, get a guy open to be
able to take a shot.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And this is where I feel, based on Sean Payton's
prior history with the guy like Taysom Hill.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Having that true joker.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Guy will give him a lot of opportunities to go
into the meeting rooms and come up with different types
of plays. We've seen the Broncos start to implement motions
and shifts right to create spacing once again. But if
you get a guy who who is who has that
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dynamic skill set that has to be respected on every
single play. For me, is it's like the world of
bo Nicks or whatever you think about him. Now it
opens up even more. Yeah, it opens up even more.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And I think that's I think having that threat, that
dynamic threat, whether that's a tight end, whether it's a joe,
whatever it is, I think makes bo Nix's life much easier.
If you have somebody that you can consistently rely on
on third down it's pitch and catch.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know where he's going to be. You know, he
knows how to find a saft spot.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You know he knows how to box out with the
body a lah Travis Kelsey was for Pat Mahomes coming up.
If you can find that person, that player, that makes
the growth so much easier for a quarterback is the
biggest thing.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
In a much larger conversation, the catch and run guy
yards after catch very important because the majority of the
time when I see the Broncos offensive players, Okay, if
it's east to west, west to east on deep over
those deep crossers, yes, that's an explosive play.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But for me, it's the yards after the catch.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There's not too many times that we've seen this season
with the Broncos receivers where we're seeing a significant amount
of that. A guy catches the ball and now he's
getting vertical. It's like the deep over. Like I said, right,
he catches the ball, he falls on the ground, or
he goes out of bouts. No, it's run after the
catch and then turn it up. Yes, and then I'm
just saying that the Broncos current players now they cannot
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do that. But I'm just saying, once again, we got
to talk about this. It's a consistency. How often are
you doing that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Part of that is having a quarterback it's savvy enough
to hit that cross or early enough for you to
be able to turn it up rather than leading you
out of bounds with it. And I think that's a
part of Bo's maturation process. But the reason the deep
over the deep crossers, those are so successful right now,
is because it's a play you run against the coverages
that are mostly running the NFL. If you're running two deep,
four deep, that kind of stuff, you want those deep
crossers because you stress a safety hopefully in the middle
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of the field, and one of those guys crossing to
the outward side is going to be able to uh
uh it's it's going to be able to execute that.
And so you know, I think that that the deep
over the deep crossers, those kinds of those kind of
concepts are so so prevalent and so relevant right now
because of the coverage just thrown at them, and you're
going to see a lot of that u in this
in this game as well, although Baltimore is mostly a
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Cover one, Cover three team, but.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Against those teams that like to run a lot of
man now you run man.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Beaters, switch verticals, you know that kind of stuff. Here's
the thing you have to have off of that knowing
as though you're in man coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
The one thing about it too, with man coverage, it
only happens if the dbs and the linebackers are talking.
You can pass that off, which would actually box the
offense in. But the one that I love the most
is when you got those two men type of stacks
where you flexed out and then you got to figure outkay, well,
who's going to play the point?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
How are you going to trade that off?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
And then be able to run like those Tyreek hill
routes where you just come off the line really slowly
and you can break right or left. I mean, I
mean we've seen Cooper cut make a career.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I personally from the other side of it, from
you know, throwing the ball. I always loved we ran
a vertical and a comeback with a pair of receivers.
The vertical comeback because both of them are driving off
the ball and also both those dbs are trying to
look at each other like okay, when they cross, we're
expecting scissors or switch verticals, whatever you call it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We're expecting that here.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then you stop and come back for the ball,
and you can do that pitch and catch and then
you know, you can incorporate the back shoulder.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
There's all kinds of stuff you can do with that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
To me, that was always a favorite concept because eventually
those dbs are gonna see that and they're gonna start
biting on it and that's when you hit them with
the switch and go and go double vert.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Well, the other one is where you start in that
same formation and you first motion or receiver across the formation.
Now the DB's okay, we're gonna pass it across, so
we're gonna run it. So you get a chance to
see what they're gonna do with it.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Then the next time, you take the same receiver the
same formation and you motion him to cross. Because the
ideas that usually when we want to pass it off
is once he passes the center right, but you allow
the receiver to pass the center to go, the dbs
go into passing it off and now receiver return motion.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Come. Oh, you jammed up. Yep, you jamped up. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
There's a couple of different ways, Moles. I'd love to
do the backside wheel with that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Love to put the guy one way and then go
the wheel back the other direction and you catch him
napping so many times. Pecially if you just say if
the quarterback and keep the center field safety with his
eyes could keep him in place, well you could you
can get huge chunk plays off that. I'd love to
see the Broncos executing a little bit of that. Against
against Baltimore on Sunday. I do want to see them
run the football. I do want to see them be successful.
But you're up against the top run defense in the NFL,
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the Baltimore Ravens. The passing defense is one of the worst,
but their run defense is really good. How do you
get that box loosened up early, especially with a quarterback
like bo that needs to kind of settle down early.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Toss, Yeah, get him outside of the reason.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
The reason I say that because football is a numbers
game and quarterbacks, whether it's passing or running the ball,
how many guys you have inside the box?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Right?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
So the idea is that you know that you have
guys who look like Roquan Smith sideline. The sideline guy,
you got to try to create some confusion with him, right,
even if that means that you have to get two
running backs in the backfield and fake RPO, pitch all
those types of things with a shovel pass, anything to
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get them thinking. But if you're running the ball, you
gotta get Quinn Miners outside right. You got to get
Ben Powers outside right. Because think about the play we
saw the design quarterback run with bow knicks Thursday Night
Football I mean they had a lot of preset motion
and misdirection. They pull the guard and the tackle and
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got outside. You're gonna have to get there because it
makes it longer for a Roquan Smith to get there.
And you can create an americal advantage because now you're
going to force the corner to just have to come
up and make it play. Then you reduce motion the
line your receiver down, you go crack and dig out
the safety I mean the linebacker.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We do we start Jalil McLoughlin early and run those
those plays outside where we can take advantage of the
speed a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Well, when you do that, that's going to be in anticipation,
they're gonna think that that's what's going to happen. Right,
They're gonna say, well, Jalil is in the game for
this particular purpose. Now for me, you got to set
that up. Now you just can't get into You have
to kind of set that up. Yeah, because they say,
you put jee little in the game and you go
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into the right right side and you fake like you
pull your guard and you get out, but you have
your tight end off the ball on the opposite side. Okay,
right or bet Yeah, let me give you this one.
Were going to the right side. We're gonna fake like
we're gonna pull, you have your tight end off the ball,
and then he blocks a little one thousand and two,
one thousand and then he releases. So now you get
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the defense running one way and you're tight end going
the opposite way. Yeah, and you run, you can run,
you know, fake taws boot right off of that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
We'll have more opportunity to get into that when we
do football previews.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
On Friday, But just wanted to get some initial thoughts
as I've I've started to look at this Baltimore defense,
which is one of the weaker defenses I've seen in
Baltimore history, uh, specifically on the back end where they're
usually fairly renowned.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
When we come back, we got the NFL six pack.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Is the Broncos Country Tonight helping on the official home
of the Broncos. All right, all night, Kowa.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Welling back to a Broncos Country Tonight, benmin Aldbright, Dick Ferguson,
Zachs seekers here with you five six sixty nine zeros the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Text line, but it's time for the NFL six pack.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well six pack the last year information you can't find
anywhere else the top six NFL headlines.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
What Cowboys Corner.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Trayvon Diggs apologized to a television reporter for confronting him
immediately following Sunday's game, carried a peace off bring with him.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
During the game, Mike Leslie and WFAA asked on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What Diggs was doing while reposting video of Diggs seemingly
not going all out on a catch and run by
Niners tight end George Keittle. Diggs came out the locker
room before it was open to media, ending their exchange
with a D's Nuts joke. On Wednesday, Diggs gave Leslie
two cans of D's Dee apostrophe s nuts to laughter
from everyone. Trayvon Diggs and I cleared the air, Mike
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Leslie said on Twitter. He apologized the wholeay incident. I
apologize from just reading the play. He explained that what
I interpreted him jogging was in fact him slow playing
a potential cutback from George Kittle. Buried the hatchet over
a couple canisters of D's Nuts, and he presented me
after the interview in the press was complete, I felt
like This was the best possible ending to a situation
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where player goes after media. Didn't get guy didn't know
what he was talking about. Player came out and went
after media. Guy probably way too quickly in the fact
that he should have, you know, waited for a few
minutes after the game was over instead of immediately rushing
to Twitter and telling on himself. But I thought this
was the best possible outcome, and certainly out of humor
sending listen.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I like this idea in this concept because usually when
there's a discrepancy between a reporter and the player, it
tends to be stressed out over a long period of
time and it never ends well for either guys.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But I have to tell you this bend.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
If you and I ever have a dispute and we
are patching things up, never give me a pack of
Deetz nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
These nuts. I got took cands of these nuts. You
can you can put them in my mouth.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
No, it's not it's Deep's nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm saying it's d apostrom. Yes, I'm sure I'm pronouncing
this correctly.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Nunts.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm gonna say that over the radio several different times
just to see if I get in trouble. Joe Burrow
says it's not his job to know whether the Bengals
should trade for help. Chiefs trader for wide receiver DeAndre
Hopkins and Edwards for Josh Uche.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
The Bills traded for receiver Amari Cooper.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Ravens trader for receiver Deontae Johnson, Vikings trade for left
tepico Cam Robinson. Trade deadline is Tuesday, so a few
more deals probably still to com Burrow was asked about
all the moves other teams have made as the Bengals
sit on the sideline of the trade market, and said, quote,
that's not my job. To Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Inquirer,
the Bengals are three and five, three games back in
the AFC North Lea could use help at edge, rusher,
corner and defensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
The odds are they will do nothing. Again, Burrow has
a big voice in the organization.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's using the past, including pushing the Bengals to complete
an extension, which Amar Chase this offseason does not sound
if he will pressure management for outside help, that's not
my job, he repeated when he asked if he wished
the Bengals would make a move Bengas only made two
trades for players in the last fifty two years. They
acquired receiver Charlie Joyner and linebacker Ron Pritchard in exchange
for running backs Paul Robinson and Fred Willis in nineteen
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seventy one, and then they said Carlos Dunlap to Seattle
in twenty twenty for a seventh round tack in offensive
guard b Finney.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Two in season trades in fifty two years. Able to
I was, I knew the Bengels didn't do that many deals.
I was floored by that.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Well, I think what Joe Burrow is trying to do
is kind of push the Bengals without pushing him by
saying this is not my job, even though he is
still making pushes to sign Jamar Chase. That would give
all indicators that he is involved. But I think with
teams in that championship window LGAs, Cincinnati, Bengals, you have
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to include players in the mix. But more importantly, that's
your quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Three On Sunday, Golson's quarterback to it talking about Loha
mishandled a shotgun snap and it caused a safety. On Wednesday,
we got Salty to a making an appearance as mid
week press conference and respond to criticism regarding the blunder, saying, quote,
it's as simple as catching the ball in the gun.
I would say, I'm a pretty good shortstop guy, pretty
good vision, pretty good hands. Like to see a lot
of other people go in back there try to catch
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that ball.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You've seen it.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It wasn't Aaron burr best and Bruno's he can get
it better, but it wasn't my best as well. I'm saying,
give it perspective. It's not as easy as what it
looked like sitting down in your couch eating chips. The
snap looked a little high, but it wasn't anything too
I shouldn't have handled. Plenty of quarterbacks have managed to
catch a ball that was delivered similarly. She had just
said he should have caught it, and you know, turning
the tables on many who watch football and can't handle shotgun.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Snaps or do anything an NFL quarterback does. To be
honest with you, but.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Expect Tua, in exchange for more than fifty five million
a year to be able to do that. It's entertaining,
but it's a rough look. Should Tua have just you know,
blown it off? Say I should have caught it, moved
on or should he be sitting there telling fans they
couldn't catch shotgun snaps?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, both of those are are true. The first part
is like, yeah, just kind of brush it off a
continue to move. But as a player, when you are
very criticized and heavily criticized like who he is, yeah,
you want to have an opportunity to take shots back
at people who take shots back at you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Should he have caught it?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Absolutely, But we've seen Bob U snaps from quarterback to
center all the time. All you have to do is
go to Boulder and you have seen that in a
couple of CU games. So hopefully this is just kind
of a minor thing for two of but hey, blast
back at those critics.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Four.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The two men arrested in the shooting of Broncos wide
receiver Josh Reynolds now faced multiple charges, including attempted murder.
Reynolds and two men were followed from a gentleman's club
in the early morning hours of October eighteenth. Reynolds was
driving his four Bronco in one of the vehicles following
him opened fire on I twenty five, who was shot
in the left arm in the back of the head,
but the team calls the injuries minor. Another man was
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also shot, and a third man was injured by flying
glass burr. Charlesworth, who's forty two, faces fifteen separate charges,
six counts of attempted first degree murder, six counts first
degree assault, three counts I legal discharge of a firearm.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All of those are felonies.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Charlesworth was released from custody after posting one hundred thousand
dollars bail. Luis Mendoza, thirty five, faces twenty three separate charges,
six counts of first degree murders, an account assault, three
counts illegal discharge of firearm, three coouns drug possession, four
counts weapon possession by a previous offender, and one count
of possession of a large capacity magazine.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All but the magazine are felonies.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He remains in Denver County Jail on a three hundred
thousand dollars cash only bail. Reynolds, who fractured a finger
in the Broncos win over the Raiders on October six,
is eligible from return from IR next week.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Do we have any additional follow up on all of this?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I mean, this is kind of a bizarre situation. And
I'm sure Josh Renolds in the Broncos can't wait for
this saga to be over because now it becomes part
of the news cycle. Luckily it hasn't become somewhat of
a distraction for the team. But anytime in a situation
like this, I hate it for whether you are a
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player or you're a regular, everyday individual. And I'll just
say this, man, just be out there with your eyes
open and protect you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So absolutely five Von Miller back on the big practice
field today. Miller served a four game suspension for violating
the league's personal conduct policy. Miller was arrested in November
of last year after being accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He denied the allegations, and the case has since been closed.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Today, Miller said he's happy to have that in his
past injury issues behind him as the Bills move on
to the second half of the season, saying, quote, I'm
in a great spot. I'm just happy all that stuff
is behind me. Be have Sport's illustrated since I've been
here with the Bills. It's either of an injury pop
list or the suspension. I'm happy to have all of
it behind me for the first time in two and
a half years and just able to focus on football
and a really good spot, just to be able to
put all this stuff behind me and move forward. Miller
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had three sacks in four games before his suspension, which
was a welcome change for production is Sacklists twenty twenty
three campaign and the Bills, hoping he can pick up
or he left off. We feel about von Miller, the
Bills and maybe having everything behind him finally, Well, for a.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Guy of von Miller's caliber, I mean, you don't want
these things to be the distraction, especially when we're talking
about something off the field opposed to something.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
On a field.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And he's what I wish for vonn whatever's going on
in is personal life, and it seem as though whoever
this young lady is, it's kind of a repetitive thing.
I think it's time to cut your losses and just
move on, because this can develop into something where it
can be very costly for his career.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, I mean it hasn't been costly so far.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It can really be dead for making end a career
in which he's trying for a few more things than
to make a Hall of fame case, which I think
he'll be successfully and here at the end of it,
and I think he's trying for one more ring here
with Buffalo who appeared to be contenders.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Well, that would be something that he can he can't do,
but he definitely has to make sure that he stays
out of the news.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And finally, coach John Harbaugh called Lamar Jackson's absence at
practice today a rest day. The Ravens practice report and
sources are telling me different story. The Ravens list Jackson's
being out of practice with back.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And knee injuries.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Players who have a load management day, even if they
are mine injuries, are always listed as a rest day.
Jackson is not listed as having a rest day. Harball said,
he's been playing great. We got a lot of football
in front of us. We got a game, quick game,
another big game coming up, so that was warranted today.
Defensive tackle Travis Jones, defensive end Brett Urban, running back
roshan A Lee, and corner Arthur Malay also miss Wednesday's practice.
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Corners Marlon Humphrey and Nate Wiggins returned to practice with
limited work. Humphrey didn't practice last week and missed Sunday's
loss to the Bucks. Wiggins was also inactive. Running Back
Keith Mitchell was twenty one day practice window opened last
week was a full participant as he works his way back.
Sources tell me that Lamar Jackson has a groin injury
and that's why he was out today for practice.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And will likely be limited the rest of the week. However,
he is expected to play on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Well, I think this is.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Interesting news about Lamar and I remember last time the
Broncos played them Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, there was an
early exit by Lamar Jackson because it was weird. Usually
he runs the ball a lot, but he got injured
inside the pocket. If I'm not mistaken, it might have
been Jonathan Cooper who had a collision with him that
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ended up in Lamar leaving the game. But not great
news if you are a Ravens fan. Excellent news if
you're a Broncos fan. So you have to hope a
guy that that's skilled is walking into Sunday's game. Jazz
laboring just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that he is going
to be out for the game at all. Everybody I
talked to fully expected him to play.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
This was intended to let a slight pull in the
groin area rest for a day and kind of get him,
you know, get him healthy as far as that goes.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Have you ever had a pull groom before?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I don't really want to talk about that year.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
All right, Well here's what I'll say.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yes, I have experienced at this time of the year,
it becomes very difficult. And knowing as though a lot
of the skill said that Lamar Jackson had as relies
on his on his mobility, and.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You know, Lamar Jackson has to finish the game right
he gets start it, he doesn't necessarily have to finish.
And if anything, if there's an opportunity to make him run,
make him run all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well that's what I was coming to the next.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
If you're the Denver Broncos, don't you blitz him early,
make him move if he if he's got a slightly
pulled growing shouldn't your objective be to make him move early,
get him sore, and then back and then dial it
back a little bit.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, if you're going to do that, you have to
be strategic. And also the defensive players have to be
disciplined because if you go.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
To believe up your gap, he's going to make you
pay right.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And most of the time when you think about Lamar,
he's trying to get out the back door. You're outside
on the perimeter, so that means your edge rushers they
got to get up feel. And if that means you,
you have to get up feel and you just kind
of like stay there to make sure he runs up inside.
Then you make you make sure you do that. But
if you allow him to get outside, he'll take it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
For me again, I don't want to sit here and say,
oh goodness, CC's limited for this game.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That should help the Broncos out that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Secretly, I might be hoping for that a little bit,
you know, as we get ready to go into this
game in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Every little edge will help with this team.
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Speaker 3 (29:48):
What scares you about this game?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
The guy named Derrick Henry, Right, that is.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Jason four Yees, that is Michael Myers, Yes, and Freddy
Krueger all rolled into one.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Because the thing is with Derrick Henry once he gets rolling,
and the choild part about it. If you watch him
when he runs, he doesn't look like he's running that fast,
but he is, Yes, but he is, but.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He's holding like two sixty yes.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And the whole thing, like when my career at facing
guys like that, Adrian Peterson, Jerome Bettis. The whole idea
was don't end up on his highlight. Yeah, you gotta
make sure you don't end up on this highlight. When
you come downhill. Whether you're a corner, you're safety, or
you're a linebacker, you gotta come down with bad intention
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because if you come down with I might make this tackle,
you might end up on his highlight that was I
remember watching that in real time. That was one of
those like you just got dumped on moll you know,
you told her that.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Was one of those.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I was like, oh oh no.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
But the most memorable one was Josh Norman and Josh
it's like an outside tossed with and Josh came up
like he wasn't really sure how to tackle him.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But Derreck Henry was sure about what to do with
Josh Norman, right, and then he tossed him in the track.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
And then Josh Norman threw his hands at the last
moment and it looked like he got kicked about the club.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, I was no, look look like Jazz getting tossed
out Uncle Phil's house.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That's exactly what he looked like.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And when you run up against Derrick Henry, dude, there's
eleven guys on defense, and in some cases you're gonna
need all eleven guys. It can't be one of these
games where there's one on one tackling with Derrick Henry.
And I expect the Baltimore Ravens to pull their guards
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but also utilize their tight ends too and play action.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's the area where I'm most concerned If we really
want to get into that, we will on Friday in
the full breakdown, But for right now, that is one
of the areas I'm concerned because that second tight end
they've got, Isaiah likely is every bit the athlete that
most tight ends are starters in this league. Isaiah likely
to be a starter on almost any other team in
the league. And you've got Mark Anders and you already
know what he is, right, And so when they get
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in there the two tight end sets and you're thinking, Okay,
we're committing to the run on this, and then they
get those tight ends going on crossers. I mean, man,
that is a tough ask to defend, especially with a
style of defense of Broncos play.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Well, the reason why it's a tough ask is because.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Our eyes sometime betrays us, because it's you see something
in the moment you see it and it flashes, your
first impulse is to go after trag it down and
make contact with it. But this is the beauty of
the Baltimore Ravens' offense and what they've create it being
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able to run the ball with the quarterback in the
running back.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
That's why it.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Becomes quite vital if Lamar cannot move around like he's
been moved around in you prior weeks. Now it plays
a little to the Broncos where they now can be
be more physical.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
It maybe take a couple more chances and not too many,
which is a couple.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
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You're going to be out, but we'll be wishing you
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Speaker 3 (33:33):
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Speaker 2 (33:35):
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Speaker 3 (33:38):
Kind of stuff. Looking forward to that. Broncos Country to
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
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Trade deadline coming up, Nick, We've got the Ravens game
this Sunday, Trade deadline Tuesday right after that, and I'm
you know, I'm looking at this.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Should the Broncos be buyers or sellers?
Speaker 4 (00:38):
The Broncos should be.
Speaker 5 (00:42):
I'm would say these buyers once again if they lose
to Baltimore, Yes, because I would say it all depends
on how they lose to Baltimore. If the Broncos are
able to keep it close, and we know that the
Broncos have a good defense, how well they get out
to the passer, how well that they're able to make plays,
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If they're able to do that and keep the defensive
effort going, now they keep the game really close, and
now we're saying that the Broncos lose by ten or less,
then you're saying, Okay, well you still in the mix.
You still have an opportunity if there are players that
are out there on other teams offensively that you can
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go and acquire that can make your team much better,
more explosive than you explore that.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I think you know, I've obviously suggested some type of
pass catcher, probably in the tight end room. Ryan put
a hypothetical out today. I am at Jameson Williams. I
know we talked about him last night a little bit.
As far as far as somebody's been in a lot
of trouble, you had the gambling problem you got suspended for,
he's suspended currently for pedes and he's about to be
brought up on gun charges.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I'm not sure that's the addition, even with the.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Talent that he has that I would necessarily want to
import here in Denver.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Is there anybody out there you would like to bring in?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Woll Look, I mean the guy that I thought of
it was le Viscous Chanault. And even though that doesn't
seem like a sexy pick, I just look at Chanault's
skill set being versatility is versatility and just being dynamic.
Because there's so many things that factor in into whether
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you are buyers or sellers depending on where you are.
And then also looking at who you have on your team.
What do you have to give up to acquire the player?
Speaker 2 (02:29):
How long?
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Uh is there current contract?
Speaker 5 (02:34):
If they come in and perform well on a short
term deal, which the deal that they're on now is
a potential to sign this person long term. For me,
that's what you're looking for. And you're looking for bargains.
I don't know about you. I don't know if you've
ever been out shopping.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
And a little bar grocery shop.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
I'm not. We don't do the grocery stores.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
When it comes to you know, I'm looking for the cereal.
It's to say, life serial, two bucks of box. Hey,
I'm getting fined off them. Listen, I'm the same guy, like,
look what you're getting.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Granola.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Don't say that.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Even though I do go to Whole Foods from time
to time, I don't do all my shopping there.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
But don't.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
But let's just say, if I know they have a sale,
well I can get like two boxes of cereal for
less than the average price, I'm gonna go there.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Well, I use coupons, Hey, I got the I got
the apps, shut I got to you know, I the
digital coupon apps.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Like I'm eating what's on sale that week.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
I'm like, I what I'm eating that week is being
determined by what's on sale at the grocery store.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
And that there's nothing wrong with that, all right, appreciate
a good deal. When they say champagne tastes and beer money.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
So you know that the slogan for freezer. Yeah, so
that's kind of wh you think about the Broncos. They
have to be in that frame of mind. Well, players
are out there that we can get on. Timper Very Loan.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I like leviis because channel, because it speaks to what
I think this team is missing outside of.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
The ultra athlete at the tight end position, off the line.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Why that Sean Payton's already had Illot, Jimmy Graham whatever,
Jeremy Shockey whatever.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
He's also always had a joker player.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
And whether that was Reggie Bush who could line up
at receiver or running back, Darren Sprolls who kind of
gave you that, or even more than Curly Taysom Hill
who lined up at a variety of positions. Sean Payton's
always had that versatile chess piece that he plugged in
there and was able to move around.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
They don't really have that right now. They don't have
anybody that qualifies as that.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
No, they don't, and right now they're trying to figure
out that aspect of it.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
And just think about the way that bo Nicks is
playing right now. If you were to add a guy.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Whether it's Chanel or whomever you want to toss into
the conversation, that can be that joker player, because all
you're looking for is another threat, another reason why the
defensive coordinator that you're facing, he's got to stay up
at night, right That's all you try to to do,
and are you're trying to be a little more dynamic
and creative with your with your play calling because automatically,
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in my mind, I go to two coaches right away.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
First one is Kyle Shanahan and the other guy is Mike.
Speaker 5 (05:15):
McDaniels, right and seeing what they were able to do
because ideas you want to create the track team, Yeah,
you know what, need then create a track You.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Can't out coach speed. You can't, you know, And that's
the thing those those guys do have two of the
fastest teams. Kansas City is the same thing, if we're
being honest here, Kansas City the same and and you
Reid the same thing, just.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Arrived at it a different way.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Kyle and Mike and Daniel do it wrote you know,
from the ground game up and Andy does it through
the air.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But at the end of the day, it's about speed.
You know, you get speed on the field.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
It's smart guys with speed on the field, and then
all of a sudden it's you know, you've created a monster.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
And so that's sort of the thing.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You know, Litskis doesn't have all world speed, but he
does have the ability to do give you different things.
You can line him up in the backfield, in the slot,
you know, you can almost line him up. I mean
it's six to three, you can almost line him up
in line.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
In some cases. He's not the world's most prolific.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Blocker, but you can move him around and create different
looks in different scenarios that are given defensive coordators.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
For me, it's having that Quarterrell Patterson. Yeah, that's a
type of God.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That's exactly what I envisioned a role for Lawisk to.
Speaker 5 (06:14):
Be exactly, and for me having a guy that you
can put in different positions a guy who's a threat
to open up the offense because the way I look
at offense, Ben being a defensive guy spacing.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's like basketball. When you start to create.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Spacing, you create opportunities for your quarterback to be successful,
opportunities for your offense to be consistent, because it's about
how many times on a given drive or possession can
you amass ten yards? And more importantly, how quickly can
you do it? Because I'll go back to the Carolina
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game for a second. The Broncos defense, they did give
up fourteen points, yeah for a touchdown in the fourth quarter,
but they gave the Broncos offense multiple opportunities to move
the ball down the field and score. And as you
push towards the playoffs, and if the Broncos are going
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to be in this emphasy stage, a true team that
you're thinking they're going to make it into the playoffs,
whether it's a wild car at seven seed or whatever,
you need playmakers and you're gonna need guys that can
actually flip the field for you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Guys who I give you a five yard pass, you
can turn them into twenty yards.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
That's what the Broncos need yeah, And it is a
spacing game. I mean football, They're all spacing games in
a sense. I like football. I like to look at
and I've gone down the rabbit hole in it last
I guess two years.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
But soccer.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Soccer doesn't have downs. It's a perpetual motion sport, but
much like basketball. But the spacing concepts remain the same.
Get a guy open in space so he can take
a shot, whether it's into a cylinder, whether it's into
the end zone, whether it's into a goal, whatever the
case may be. And so finding ways to do that,
finding ways to create stress, to stress a defense, whether
it's vertically or horizontally, to be able to put a
guy in space, and having guys that are able to
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do that, whether it's the physicality, the size, the speed, whatever.
In football, because you have the downs, it's a little
bit different and you can execute concepts one at a
time rather than evolve them. But you know, at the
end of the day, the concept result is sort of
the same. Create space, get a guy open to be
able to take a shot.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
And this is where I feel, based on Sean Payton's
prior history with the guy like Taysom Hill.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Having that true joker.
Speaker 5 (08:40):
Guy will give him a lot of opportunities to go
into the meeting rooms and come up with different types
of plays. We've seen the Broncos start to implement motions
and shifts right to create spacing once again. But if
you get a guy who who is who has that
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dynamic skill set that has to be respected on every
single play. For me, is it's like the world of
bo Nicks or whatever you think about him. Now it
opens up even more. Yeah, it opens up even more.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
And I think that's I think having that threat, that
dynamic threat, whether that's a tight end, whether it's a joe,
whatever it is, I think makes bo Nix's life much easier.
If you have somebody that you can consistently rely on
on third down it's pitch and catch.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
You know where he's going to be. You know, he
knows how to find a saft spot.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
You know he knows how to box out with the
body a lah Travis Kelsey was for Pat Mahomes coming up.
If you can find that person, that player, that makes
the growth so much easier for a quarterback is the
biggest thing.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
In a much larger conversation, the catch and run guy
yards after catch very important because the majority of the
time when I see the Broncos offensive players, Okay, if
it's east to west, west to east on deep over
those deep crossers, yes, that's an explosive play.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
But for me, it's the yards after the catch.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
There's not too many times that we've seen this season
with the Broncos receivers where we're seeing a significant amount
of that. A guy catches the ball and now he's
getting vertical. It's like the deep over. Like I said, right,
he catches the ball, he falls on the ground, or
he goes out of bouts. No, it's run after the
catch and then turn it up. Yes, and then I'm
just saying that the Broncos current players now they cannot
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do that. But I'm just saying, once again, we got
to talk about this. It's a consistency. How often are
you doing that.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Part of that is having a quarterback it's savvy enough
to hit that cross or early enough for you to
be able to turn it up rather than leading you
out of bounds with it. And I think that's a
part of Bo's maturation process. But the reason the deep
over the deep crossers, those are so successful right now,
is because it's a play you run against the coverages
that are mostly running the NFL. If you're running two deep,
four deep, that kind of stuff, you want those deep
crossers because you stress a safety hopefully in the middle
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of the field, and one of those guys crossing to
the outward side is going to be able to uh
uh it's it's going to be able to execute that.
And so you know, I think that that the deep
over the deep crossers, those kinds of those kind of
concepts are so so prevalent and so relevant right now
because of the coverage just thrown at them, and you're
going to see a lot of that u in this
in this game as well, although Baltimore is mostly a
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Cover one, Cover three team, but.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Against those teams that like to run a lot of
man now you run man.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Beaters, switch verticals, you know that kind of stuff. Here's
the thing you have to have off of that knowing
as though you're in man coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Now.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
The one thing about it too, with man coverage, it
only happens if the dbs and the linebackers are talking.
You can pass that off, which would actually box the
offense in. But the one that I love the most
is when you got those two men type of stacks
where you flexed out and then you got to figure outkay, well,
who's going to play the point?
Speaker 4 (11:58):
How are you going to trade that off?
Speaker 5 (12:00):
And then be able to run like those Tyreek hill
routes where you just come off the line really slowly
and you can break right or left. I mean, I
mean we've seen Cooper cut make a career.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Out of it.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, I personally from the other side of it, from
you know, throwing the ball. I always loved we ran
a vertical and a comeback with a pair of receivers.
The vertical comeback because both of them are driving off
the ball and also both those dbs are trying to
look at each other like okay, when they cross, we're
expecting scissors or switch verticals, whatever you call it.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
We're expecting that here.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
And then you stop and come back for the ball,
and you can do that pitch and catch and then
you know, you can incorporate the back shoulder.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
There's all kinds of stuff you can do with that.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
To me, that was always a favorite concept because eventually
those dbs are gonna see that and they're gonna start
biting on it and that's when you hit them with
the switch and go and go double vert.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
Well, the other one is where you start in that
same formation and you first motion or receiver across the formation.
Now the DB's okay, we're gonna pass it across, so
we're gonna run it. So you get a chance to
see what they're gonna do with it.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Then the next time, you take the same receiver the
same formation and you motion him to cross. Because the
ideas that usually when we want to pass it off
is once he passes the center right, but you allow
the receiver to pass the center to go, the dbs
go into passing it off and now receiver return motion.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Come. Oh, you jammed up. Yep, you jamped up. Yep.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
There's a couple of different ways, Moles. I'd love to
do the backside wheel with that.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Love to put the guy one way and then go
the wheel back the other direction and you catch him
napping so many times. Pecially if you just say if
the quarterback and keep the center field safety with his
eyes could keep him in place, well you could you
can get huge chunk plays off that. I'd love to
see the Broncos executing a little bit of that. Against
against Baltimore on Sunday. I do want to see them
run the football. I do want to see them be successful.
But you're up against the top run defense in the NFL,
(13:41):
the Baltimore Ravens. The passing defense is one of the worst,
but their run defense is really good. How do you
get that box loosened up early, especially with a quarterback
like bo that needs to kind of settle down early.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Toss, Yeah, get him outside of the reason.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
The reason I say that because football is a numbers
game and quarterbacks, whether it's passing or running the ball,
how many guys you have inside the box?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Right?
Speaker 5 (14:05):
So the idea is that you know that you have
guys who look like Roquan Smith sideline. The sideline guy,
you got to try to create some confusion with him, right,
even if that means that you have to get two
running backs in the backfield and fake RPO, pitch all
those types of things with a shovel pass, anything to
(14:26):
get them thinking. But if you're running the ball, you
gotta get Quinn Miners outside right. You got to get
Ben Powers outside right. Because think about the play we
saw the design quarterback run with bow knicks Thursday Night
Football I mean they had a lot of preset motion
and misdirection. They pull the guard and the tackle and
(14:48):
got outside. You're gonna have to get there because it
makes it longer for a Roquan Smith to get there.
And you can create an americal advantage because now you're
going to force the corner to just have to come
up and make it play. Then you reduce motion the
line your receiver down, you go crack and dig out
the safety I mean the linebacker.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
But good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
We do we start Jalil McLoughlin early and run those
those plays outside where we can take advantage of the
speed a little bit.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Well, when you do that, that's going to be in anticipation,
they're gonna think that that's what's going to happen. Right,
They're gonna say, well, Jalil is in the game for
this particular purpose. Now for me, you got to set
that up. Now you just can't get into You have
to kind of set that up. Yeah, because they say,
you put jee little in the game and you go
(15:33):
into the right right side and you fake like you
pull your guard and you get out, but you have
your tight end off the ball on the opposite side. Okay,
right or bet Yeah, let me give you this one.
Were going to the right side. We're gonna fake like
we're gonna pull, you have your tight end off the ball,
and then he blocks a little one thousand and two,
one thousand and then he releases. So now you get
(15:55):
the defense running one way and you're tight end going
the opposite way. Yeah, and you run, you can run,
you know, fake taws boot right off of that.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
We'll have more opportunity to get into that when we
do football previews.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
On Friday, But just wanted to get some initial thoughts
as I've I've started to look at this Baltimore defense,
which is one of the weaker defenses I've seen in
Baltimore history, uh, specifically on the back end where they're
usually fairly renowned.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
When we come back, we got the NFL six pack.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Is the Broncos Country Tonight helping on the official home
of the Broncos. All right, all night, Kowa.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Welling back to a Broncos Country Tonight, benmin Aldbright, Dick Ferguson,
Zachs seekers here with you five six sixty nine zeros the.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
Text line, but it's time for the NFL six pack.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Well six pack the last year information you can't find
anywhere else the top six NFL headlines.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
What Cowboys Corner.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Trayvon Diggs apologized to a television reporter for confronting him
immediately following Sunday's game, carried a peace off bring with him.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
During the game, Mike Leslie and WFAA asked on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
What Diggs was doing while reposting video of Diggs seemingly
not going all out on a catch and run by
Niners tight end George Keittle. Diggs came out the locker
room before it was open to media, ending their exchange
with a D's Nuts joke. On Wednesday, Diggs gave Leslie
two cans of D's Dee apostrophe s nuts to laughter
from everyone. Trayvon Diggs and I cleared the air, Mike
(17:40):
Leslie said on Twitter. He apologized the wholeay incident. I
apologize from just reading the play. He explained that what
I interpreted him jogging was in fact him slow playing
a potential cutback from George Kittle. Buried the hatchet over
a couple canisters of D's Nuts, and he presented me
after the interview in the press was complete, I felt
like This was the best possible ending to a situation
(18:01):
where player goes after media. Didn't get guy didn't know
what he was talking about. Player came out and went
after media. Guy probably way too quickly in the fact
that he should have, you know, waited for a few
minutes after the game was over instead of immediately rushing
to Twitter and telling on himself. But I thought this
was the best possible outcome, and certainly out of humor
sending listen.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
I like this idea in this concept because usually when
there's a discrepancy between a reporter and the player, it
tends to be stressed out over a long period of
time and it never ends well for either guys.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
But I have to tell you this bend.
Speaker 5 (18:33):
If you and I ever have a dispute and we
are patching things up, never give me a pack of
Deetz nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
These nuts. I got took cands of these nuts. You
can you can put them in my mouth.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
No, it's not it's Deep's nuts.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
I'm saying it's d apostrom. Yes, I'm sure I'm pronouncing
this correctly.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Nunts.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I'm gonna say that over the radio several different times
just to see if I get in trouble. Joe Burrow
says it's not his job to know whether the Bengals
should trade for help. Chiefs trader for wide receiver DeAndre
Hopkins and Edwards for Josh Uche.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
The Bills traded for receiver Amari Cooper.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Ravens trader for receiver Deontae Johnson, Vikings trade for left
tepico Cam Robinson. Trade deadline is Tuesday, so a few
more deals probably still to com Burrow was asked about
all the moves other teams have made as the Bengals
sit on the sideline of the trade market, and said, quote,
that's not my job. To Kelsey Conway of the Cincinnati Inquirer,
the Bengals are three and five, three games back in
the AFC North Lea could use help at edge, rusher,
corner and defensive tackle.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
The odds are they will do nothing. Again, Burrow has
a big voice in the organization.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
It's using the past, including pushing the Bengals to complete
an extension, which Amar Chase this offseason does not sound
if he will pressure management for outside help, that's not
my job, he repeated when he asked if he wished
the Bengals would make a move Bengas only made two
trades for players in the last fifty two years. They
acquired receiver Charlie Joyner and linebacker Ron Pritchard in exchange
for running backs Paul Robinson and Fred Willis in nineteen
(19:54):
seventy one, and then they said Carlos Dunlap to Seattle
in twenty twenty for a seventh round tack in offensive
guard b Finney.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Two in season trades in fifty two years. Able to
I was, I knew the Bengels didn't do that many deals.
I was floored by that.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Well, I think what Joe Burrow is trying to do
is kind of push the Bengals without pushing him by
saying this is not my job, even though he is
still making pushes to sign Jamar Chase. That would give
all indicators that he is involved. But I think with
teams in that championship window LGAs, Cincinnati, Bengals, you have
(20:30):
to include players in the mix. But more importantly, that's
your quarterback.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
Three On Sunday, Golson's quarterback to it talking about Loha
mishandled a shotgun snap and it caused a safety. On Wednesday,
we got Salty to a making an appearance as mid
week press conference and respond to criticism regarding the blunder, saying, quote,
it's as simple as catching the ball in the gun.
I would say, I'm a pretty good shortstop guy, pretty
good vision, pretty good hands. Like to see a lot
of other people go in back there try to catch
(20:57):
that ball.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
You've seen it.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
It wasn't Aaron burr best and Bruno's he can get
it better, but it wasn't my best as well. I'm saying,
give it perspective. It's not as easy as what it
looked like sitting down in your couch eating chips. The
snap looked a little high, but it wasn't anything too
I shouldn't have handled. Plenty of quarterbacks have managed to
catch a ball that was delivered similarly. She had just
said he should have caught it, and you know, turning
the tables on many who watch football and can't handle shotgun.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Snaps or do anything an NFL quarterback does. To be
honest with you, but.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Expect Tua, in exchange for more than fifty five million
a year to be able to do that. It's entertaining,
but it's a rough look. Should Tua have just you know,
blown it off? Say I should have caught it, moved
on or should he be sitting there telling fans they
couldn't catch shotgun snaps?
Speaker 5 (21:36):
Well, both of those are are true. The first part
is like, yeah, just kind of brush it off a
continue to move. But as a player, when you are
very criticized and heavily criticized like who he is, yeah,
you want to have an opportunity to take shots back
at people who take shots back at you.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Should he have caught it?
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Absolutely, But we've seen Bob U snaps from quarterback to
center all the time. All you have to do is
go to Boulder and you have seen that in a
couple of CU games. So hopefully this is just kind
of a minor thing for two of but hey, blast
back at those critics.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Four.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
The two men arrested in the shooting of Broncos wide
receiver Josh Reynolds now faced multiple charges, including attempted murder.
Reynolds and two men were followed from a gentleman's club
in the early morning hours of October eighteenth. Reynolds was
driving his four Bronco in one of the vehicles following
him opened fire on I twenty five, who was shot
in the left arm in the back of the head,
but the team calls the injuries minor. Another man was
(22:35):
also shot, and a third man was injured by flying
glass burr. Charlesworth, who's forty two, faces fifteen separate charges,
six counts of attempted first degree murder, six counts first
degree assault, three counts I legal discharge of a firearm.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
All of those are felonies.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Charlesworth was released from custody after posting one hundred thousand
dollars bail. Luis Mendoza, thirty five, faces twenty three separate charges,
six counts of first degree murders, an account assault, three
counts illegal discharge of firearm, three coouns drug possession, four
counts weapon possession by a previous offender, and one count
of possession of a large capacity magazine.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
All but the magazine are felonies.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
He remains in Denver County Jail on a three hundred
thousand dollars cash only bail. Reynolds, who fractured a finger
in the Broncos win over the Raiders on October six,
is eligible from return from IR next week.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Do we have any additional follow up on all of this?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
I mean, this is kind of a bizarre situation. And
I'm sure Josh Renolds in the Broncos can't wait for
this saga to be over because now it becomes part
of the news cycle. Luckily it hasn't become somewhat of
a distraction for the team. But anytime in a situation
like this, I hate it for whether you are a
(23:48):
player or you're a regular, everyday individual. And I'll just
say this, man, just be out there with your eyes
open and protect you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
So absolutely five Von Miller back on the big practice
field today. Miller served a four game suspension for violating
the league's personal conduct policy. Miller was arrested in November
of last year after being accused of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
He denied the allegations, and the case has since been closed.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Today, Miller said he's happy to have that in his
past injury issues behind him as the Bills move on
to the second half of the season, saying, quote, I'm
in a great spot. I'm just happy all that stuff
is behind me. Be have Sport's illustrated since I've been
here with the Bills. It's either of an injury pop
list or the suspension. I'm happy to have all of
it behind me for the first time in two and
a half years and just able to focus on football
and a really good spot, just to be able to
put all this stuff behind me and move forward. Miller
(24:33):
had three sacks in four games before his suspension, which
was a welcome change for production is Sacklists twenty twenty
three campaign and the Bills, hoping he can pick up
or he left off. We feel about von Miller, the
Bills and maybe having everything behind him finally, Well, for a.
Speaker 5 (24:47):
Guy of von Miller's caliber, I mean, you don't want
these things to be the distraction, especially when we're talking
about something off the field opposed to something.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
On a field.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
And he's what I wish for vonn whatever's going on
in is personal life, and it seem as though whoever
this young lady is, it's kind of a repetitive thing.
I think it's time to cut your losses and just
move on, because this can develop into something where it
can be very costly for his career.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
Well, I mean it hasn't been costly so far.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It can really be dead for making end a career
in which he's trying for a few more things than
to make a Hall of fame case, which I think
he'll be successfully and here at the end of it,
and I think he's trying for one more ring here
with Buffalo who appeared to be contenders.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
Well, that would be something that he can he can't do,
but he definitely has to make sure that he stays
out of the news.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
And finally, coach John Harbaugh called Lamar Jackson's absence at
practice today a rest day. The Ravens practice report and
sources are telling me different story. The Ravens list Jackson's
being out of practice with back.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
And knee injuries.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Players who have a load management day, even if they
are mine injuries, are always listed as a rest day.
Jackson is not listed as having a rest day. Harball said,
he's been playing great. We got a lot of football
in front of us. We got a game, quick game,
another big game coming up, so that was warranted today.
Defensive tackle Travis Jones, defensive end Brett Urban, running back
roshan A Lee, and corner Arthur Malay also miss Wednesday's practice.
(26:18):
Corners Marlon Humphrey and Nate Wiggins returned to practice with
limited work. Humphrey didn't practice last week and missed Sunday's
loss to the Bucks. Wiggins was also inactive. Running Back
Keith Mitchell was twenty one day practice window opened last
week was a full participant as he works his way back.
Sources tell me that Lamar Jackson has a groin injury
and that's why he was out today for practice.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
And will likely be limited the rest of the week. However,
he is expected to play on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Well, I think this is.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Interesting news about Lamar and I remember last time the
Broncos played them Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore, there was an
early exit by Lamar Jackson because it was weird. Usually
he runs the ball a lot, but he got injured
inside the pocket. If I'm not mistaken, it might have
been Jonathan Cooper who had a collision with him that
(27:08):
ended up in Lamar leaving the game. But not great
news if you are a Ravens fan. Excellent news if
you're a Broncos fan. So you have to hope a
guy that that's skilled is walking into Sunday's game. Jazz
laboring just a little bit.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
Yeah, I mean, I don't think that he is going
to be out for the game at all. Everybody I
talked to fully expected him to play.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
This was intended to let a slight pull in the
groin area rest for a day and kind of get him,
you know, get him healthy as far as that goes.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
Have you ever had a pull groom before?
Speaker 3 (27:47):
I don't really want to talk about that year.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
All right, Well here's what I'll say.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
Yes, I have experienced at this time of the year,
it becomes very difficult. And knowing as though a lot
of the skill said that Lamar Jackson had as relies
on his on his mobility, and.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
I'm not saying that.
Speaker 5 (28:06):
You know, Lamar Jackson has to finish the game right
he gets start it, he doesn't necessarily have to finish.
And if anything, if there's an opportunity to make him run,
make him run all the time.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Well that's what I was coming to the next.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
If you're the Denver Broncos, don't you blitz him early,
make him move if he if he's got a slightly
pulled growing shouldn't your objective be to make him move early,
get him sore, and then back and then dial it
back a little bit.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Well, if you're going to do that, you have to
be strategic. And also the defensive players have to be
disciplined because if you go.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
To believe up your gap, he's going to make you
pay right.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
And most of the time when you think about Lamar,
he's trying to get out the back door. You're outside
on the perimeter, so that means your edge rushers they
got to get up feel. And if that means you,
you have to get up feel and you just kind
of like stay there to make sure he runs up inside.
Then you make you make sure you do that. But
if you allow him to get outside, he'll take it.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
For me again, I don't want to sit here and say,
oh goodness, CC's limited for this game.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
That should help the Broncos out that.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Secretly, I might be hoping for that a little bit,
you know, as we get ready to go into this
game in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
Every little edge will help with this team.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
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Speaker 3 (29:48):
What scares you about this game?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
The guy named Derrick Henry, Right, that is.
Speaker 5 (29:56):
Jason four Yees, that is Michael Myers, Yes, and Freddy
Krueger all rolled into one.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
Because the thing is with Derrick Henry once he gets rolling,
and the choild part about it. If you watch him
when he runs, he doesn't look like he's running that fast,
but he is, Yes, but he is, but.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
He's holding like two sixty yes.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
And the whole thing, like when my career at facing
guys like that, Adrian Peterson, Jerome Bettis. The whole idea
was don't end up on his highlight. Yeah, you gotta
make sure you don't end up on this highlight. When
you come downhill. Whether you're a corner, you're safety, or
you're a linebacker, you gotta come down with bad intention
(30:40):
because if you come down with I might make this tackle,
you might end up on his highlight that was I
remember watching that in real time. That was one of
those like you just got dumped on moll you know,
you told her that.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Was one of those.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
I was like, oh oh no.
Speaker 5 (30:55):
But the most memorable one was Josh Norman and Josh
it's like an outside tossed with and Josh came up
like he wasn't really sure how to tackle him.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
But Derreck Henry was sure about what to do with
Josh Norman, right, and then he tossed him in the track.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
And then Josh Norman threw his hands at the last
moment and it looked like he got kicked about the club.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
No, I was no, look look like Jazz getting tossed
out Uncle Phil's house.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
That's exactly what he looked like.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
And when you run up against Derrick Henry, dude, there's
eleven guys on defense, and in some cases you're gonna
need all eleven guys. It can't be one of these
games where there's one on one tackling with Derrick Henry.
And I expect the Baltimore Ravens to pull their guards
(31:56):
but also utilize their tight ends too and play action.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
That's the area where I'm most concerned If we really
want to get into that, we will on Friday in
the full breakdown, But for right now, that is one
of the areas I'm concerned because that second tight end
they've got, Isaiah likely is every bit the athlete that
most tight ends are starters in this league. Isaiah likely
to be a starter on almost any other team in
the league. And you've got Mark Anders and you already
know what he is, right, And so when they get
(32:21):
in there the two tight end sets and you're thinking, Okay,
we're committing to the run on this, and then they
get those tight ends going on crossers. I mean, man,
that is a tough ask to defend, especially with a
style of defense of Broncos play.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Well, the reason why it's a tough ask is because.
Speaker 5 (32:40):
Our eyes sometime betrays us, because it's you see something
in the moment you see it and it flashes, your
first impulse is to go after trag it down and
make contact with it. But this is the beauty of
the Baltimore Ravens' offense and what they've create it being
(33:01):
able to run the ball with the quarterback in the
running back.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
That's why it.
Speaker 5 (33:04):
Becomes quite vital if Lamar cannot move around like he's
been moved around in you prior weeks. Now it plays
a little to the Broncos where they now can be
be more physical.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
It maybe take a couple more chances and not too many,
which is a couple.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
Looking forward to Halloween tomorrow right here on Broncos Country tonight, Nickferg,
You're going to be out, but we'll be wishing you
a happy, happy Halloween, good trick or treating with all
of that.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'll be here in studios that will be here, great,
I'll be here.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
We'll try to hold it down. We'll call you, get
your favorite candy, Mount Rushmore, all that.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Kind of stuff. Looking forward to that. Broncos Country to
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