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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Buff's men's basketball addition five six six nine zero. As
always is the text line. Broncos winning again in dramatic fashion,
again on Sunday Night Football, taking on the Washington Commanders
and fan favorite maybe just this fan, dan Quinn. Not
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the best night for your guy, Not the best night.
I mean, honestly, I think it was a pretty good
night for a dude missing half his team. But you know,
I'll take it, and the Broncos still got a w
out of it. I'll take it. I you know, at
Washington team, I'll say this, the Washington team is better
than a record. That much was evident last night, and
ever since dan Quinn took over that defense, it's certainly
gotten a lot better. But too a little too late.
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You missing Jade and Daniels. You just got McLaurin back,
you know, you missing a couple of defenity. You have
nobody on the defensive line, and they could not get
pressure to save their life on that defense which relies
on upfront pressure in order to be effective on the backhand.
So but they gave us all they head. I'll say
that that Washington team that they played with a lot
of heart. It was incredible catch by Traylon Burkes. One
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of the best catches I've ever seen. It's funny because
I was I was in a Tempers office earlier talking
about this, and I was like, dude, ten years to
the week after Odell Beckham made that same catch in
that same spot and oh, by the way, both those
guys were number thirteen. Crazy concidence.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, one of the most insane catches I've ever seen.
I feel terrible for Riley Boss because he seems he couldn't.
He's on the wrong side of every just like amazingly
perfect throw and catch. He's on the wrong side of
every bad defensive past interference call. His his rep is
so much worse than his actual play.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's funny because you know he's back in
and I don't know, you know how old every listeners,
but if you remember the basketball posters used to get
back in the eighties and nineties, and you'd see on
a lot of those posters, you'd be the same guy
getting dunked on, you know, like somehow it'd be like
John Stark's getting dunked on or something like that. And
it's like Riley Boss is accidentally posterizing himself with great
defensive play and he's gonna line up on some of
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these some of these posters or football cards for whatever,
just because he's he's making a great it's a play,
but it just happens to be on him.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's like the curse of trying on defense, you know.
Like conversely, now you'll see you guys like kind of
duck out of the way or just kind of sidestep
it when someone goes for a big poster dunk in
an NBA game. And I think you know, similarly here,
Riley Moss gets post rids like this because he has
perfect coverage. He forces Treylon Burks to make the Odell
Beckham catch to make a touchdown. Unless your corner is
maybe torched on the play, Burks is wide open and
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he just gets to turn around, standing straight up and
catch an easy touchdown.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah you got to. I mean, there's just a couple
of those moments you just got a tip cap to
was it an illegal pick play? And we think we've
got the call from from the commander's side of the house,
But was it an illegal pick play on the arrm
chlor cutch On's sure, but we're not We're not here
to cry about refereeing or any that kind of stuff.
We're a better fan base. And there's here's the Washington
call on that play.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
By the way, here we comes down to this fourth
and goal just inside the Denver four.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Mariota's in the gun. Here's the snap.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Mariota throws to rud cuckown down.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Slip the tally to keep washing too, the opportunity to
tie or cuf for a wind to right put the
chanson line Jaxon's Tam mcclark quit it a.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, I don't know you won on the slant route
as much as Pats Tad got blatantly picked by Deebo Samuel.
But you know, I mean, okay, all right, I will
say if.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You get Terry McClure and running the slant route and
Deebo Samuel getting an uncalled pick route, you're probably unstable.
Pretty Yeah, it's pretty Terarr mccloyd's a really good receiver anyway,
but I mean it's it's pretty pretty unstandard stuff. And
so that's that's one of those things like you just
got tipp the cap in those kind of moments. Yeah,
we got the the end of game calls. We'll start
with the Washington. Then we'll go with our own Dave
Logan right after them. Here's the Washington commander's end of game.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Call fourth and sixth at the Denver forty one, zach
Ertz trailing berks to the right. Here's the snap Denver
Prince four. Mariota in trouble running to the right, pulled
down from behind, it stays on his feet, just throws
it up in the air.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And that is if you're picked off by last comes,
there might be.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
A passive apperience The ball is intended for Jeremy McNichols
somehow Marcus.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Morioda a sack.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's a passive affairs.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The second flat his throne just may keep the game alive.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's passive affairs. I think we had the mislabeled call
there that was obviously the the passion fair. There, Plet's
car he's the right one. I go, here's the right one.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Paul's marked the two two point conversion for the game.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In motion, Jeremy McNichols joins Marcus Marioti in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Three wide receivers to the left for the game.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Mario it out of the air by Nick Benito, and Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Is gonna win twenty seven to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Mariota was backing up, he threw the ball, Benito got
up in.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The air and swatted it out of the sky. That
Denver gets their knife straight win.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, and I'm gonna say this, what an incredible play
by Nick Benito because if he doesn't make that play,
it's over, and it's over the wrong way. Jeremy Nichols
was wide open on that play. He was going to
he was just gonna be walking with nobody within four
yards of him by the time the ball got there,
assuming he hung on to it, it was you know,
it would have been over a dep But what a
play by Nick Benito to do it. And it's just,
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I mean just things continue to come together for Denver.
They just keep coming together for Denver. And it's funny
because you got you got these national dorks out there
that are putting the Broncos weird spots in power rankings
or put the quarterback weird spots. Who cares, We don't care,
We don't need their approval scoreboard, mother fluffer. Yeah, you
almost hit the dup button there, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I got a little anxious there. I will also say
it was a great play. And I prefer that framing
of it. I've heard some you know, even I think
in Broncos Country discuss it as like, wow, they were
lucky there, and then to an extent they were. But
it's also a great player who consistently makes plays on
the ball in big moments, making one in the biggest moments.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
If you get lucky long enough, you're skilled. Yeah, you know,
there's such a thing as getting lucky. And then if
you consistently get lucky, you're just that good. Yeah, like
his bone's lucky. And all these fourth quarter comebacks.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Where is there some sort of clutch gene or or
recommination of both.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, And you could see bo grow up. I mean
we talked about it with the m and Ingram play.
You know, they they don't worry about by pulling that
one up. I do want to get that last call
from Dave because I want to hear that their call
on it. I didn't get chance to hear last night,
but I will say you could see it. I mean,
you could see bo Nix identifying you know, they're sitting
there in quarters, so before the big play in overtime
to Ingram, you could see him identifying quarters you could
see him, uh notice that the tight ends iod on
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uh Wagner and then Ingram's obviously got an athletic advantage there, right,
and then they go to the whip route and boom,
there you go. And so that's it's it was, you know,
it's free money and it just you know, you could
see bo kind of growing up in real time. And
that was That was pretty cool from my perspective. And
everybody's gona talk about the throw where his knee was
almost down. What a great throw that was. Okay, well,
that cool and that's a great result play. I'm talking
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about a great process play here, and to me that
matters more because if you're doing the right process over
the results are gonna come regardless. And so that watching that,
that play, David Ingram, that was one that got me.
But here's here's David Rickham the the final call.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Two pointsion dinner with the blitz on.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The way, both afoot by Nicko.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
He Broncos with it. Great play by Nick Bonto.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He came untouched off the face side of Marcus Mariota
who was back pedaling.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Trying to buy some time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The way the Broncos set that up because they checked
out of a different they when they call the time out,
they moved out of a different call into that call,
and they knew they were gonna have a free rusher.
But man, I mean combination skill, luck, whatever you want
to call it. You know, I don't believe in the
destiny and all that kind of stuff, but kind of
you know, I mean, at this point it's undeniable. The grounds, well,
the tides, well, at this point, it's undeniable. You can't
get lucky that many times and then pretend that it's
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just luck over and over again. The odds of having
that kind of luck or so astronomical. I mean, you're
better off being or you're more likely to be struck
by lightning and win the lottery at the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And I saw a great argument against the I think
a lot of national pundits have been saying, well, this
is going to come back down to earth. They've got
to regress and it encounter, and there's some truth to it.
But I think a good counter to that as well.
You know, before this recent streak of winning seven to
one score games in a row, they were two to
eight over the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So you get the blessing aggression.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He exactly balances out to the nine and eight that
you would expect someone to be in maybe those coin
flip situations.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's it's this is the balancing out. Yeah, And it's
one of those things. I mean, at the end of
the day and you look at this, you look at
this thing and you're like, you know, we don't let it.
Don't let these national dorks. Don't let these seas you
know pro football blog power rack. What is a power
ranking anyway, somebody's made up opinion where the team stack up.
Don't let these nerds be thieves of your joy. The
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Broncos are ten and two. They got the ten wins
before it hit the month of December. Quit crying about
where the respect from the next Who cares? Do you
need Nick Wright's approval?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Then?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
What do you care what he thinks about the Denver Broncos.
And I offered that dude the chance to put his
money where his mouth is. I offer him a ten
thousand dollars bet to start the season if any of
the conditions, the ridiculous conditions that he came up with
the Raiders were to be hired than the Broncos and
go to the playoffs, Chiefs winning the division again, any
of the I offered him ten grand if any of
those hit, and he wouldn't take the bet. Who care
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those guys? Who cares what they think? I don't Every
time I click on Twitter and I'm like, they don't
have us ranked? Tigh, I quit playing the victim card.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
We don't care, we're better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're ten and two. Who cares what they they're the
loser franchises six and six? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And you know, these these power rankings, it seems to
be the kiss of death if they start believing in you, Like,
it's not like any of these these uh national power
rankings have been consistently right all season. Exactly whoever they
anoint in that number one spot and gets knocked off
the next week? It was, you know, just the Rams.
It was the Eagles, and it was it was the
Chiefs and and whoever else. These past couple of weeks,
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it's been the Rams. Oh my goodness. The Rams are
clearly the best team in the NFL. They're head and
shoulders about everyone else, and then they get they get
hammered by the Panthers in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, it's it's it's really, I am at the point
where and I love right Emysoneth, He's right, the brother
and me all this kind of stuff. But I give them,
I give them a little guff on this stuff, because
why do you care what these these national weirdos think?
Why do you care what these dorks who don't pay
any attention to the Broncos. They look at stuff on
a spreadsheet and that's it. They watch Red Zone and
that's sit. They're not cracking the tape on the Denver Broncos.
Why do we care what these people think. I want
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to build a better fan base. I want a fan
base that's walking around like this does not fase like
winning is the expectation. And I gotta be honest. When
I got here to Denver, that was the attitude I
lived in kids, and say twice, I saw what it's
like to sit there and see a great quarterback across division, like,
how can I beat this guy? I saw what it
was like when John Elway was here. So what I
got here to Denver that attitude was we expect to win,
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we expect to go to the playoffs. And so you know,
I've watched over the last decade as after the Super
Bowl fifty. This fan base has just fallen into into
this this funk, this this loser funk, and we got
a winner on our hands. Now you don't have to
be You gotta go back to how it was during
the bowling you know, the bowling years where Denver Broncos
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fans went to more Super Bowls than they had losing seasons.
Whatever where else you think of Sean paint. I'm not
the biggest fan of Sean Payton the guy, right, but
in terms of football coach, he is a good coach.
The floor is seven and nine. That's a floor with
Sean Payton. Go back and look at the same stuff.
The floor is seven and nine. I don't know that
he wins the big ones without you know, I mean,
you only got one of breeze. Whatever. We can get
in all that stuff at some point if you want to.
You're ten and two right now. This guy with this
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general manager, who by the way, might be a savant
when it comes to identifying talent and the draft.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You're ten and two. What do you care?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
What's there's some you know, dude who's trying to stunt
double for Jesus in a terrible movie with that haircut,
cares about where they ranks the Denver Broncos, who he's
just trolling anyway, because he's a massive Chiefs fan, Which
is funny because that's what they accused me of.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's the thing with rage Paate, Like, I'm very guilty
of taking the baity myself. But you know, they say
the outlanders stuff to just get a rise out of you,
and then they ultimately get a rise out of you.
It so it's every national media network makes their money
that way.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's exactly what it is. And I want us and
I'm maybe it's presumptive me. Maybe it's pretentious, maybe it's arrogant,
maybe it's condescending, but I want us to build a
better fan base. And I say us, I want the
Denver Broncos fan base to not care. I want the
Denver Broncos fan base to be teflon when these rage
bait people come out there. You're not even biting it.
You just I have all the scoreboard. You know, it
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was the worst ten and two team I've ever seen.
We're still ten and two. The worst ten and two
team is still ten and two. The worst super Bowl
winner of all time still won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I think also, like with the power of hindsight,
This is exactly how the twenty fifteen season went like
it wasn't you know, part way through December or partway
through November, all the national pundits where we're, you know,
clapping the Broncos on the back and talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How great they are. Here we're talking about how Carolina
was gonna boat race him in a Super Bowl. I
made a ton of money on that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The NFC Championship game was listed as the actual super Bowl,
and the AFC Championship Game was like the runner up
right competition going into that one does anyone over this
last decade of suckage? Has anyone looked back on that
and gone, man, just twish in mid December we were
at top the power rankings.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
No one cares.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You look back on twenty fifteen with funness, and if anything,
it might be a little sweeter that everyone else doubted
you the whole time, and ye got to prove them wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's what I'm getting at, isn't it. They'll let them
doubt who cares? This is exactly the kind of stuff
for you. You let that stuff roll off the shoulders
like like water beating off a duck. Don't feed into it.
You don't you don't even have to respond to it.
Be you can you can be invincible if you show
them they can't get to you. There's a difference between
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you know, there's a there's there's a difference between being
you know, being a fanels you can be and if
you if somebody is coming at you with their best stuff,
trying to troll you and they can't get to you,
you know how frustrating that is. I do. I've been
on both sides of that conversation, and I tell you,
I'll tell you the view ain't from the cheap seats.
I've been down in the muck. I think everybody knows
my history, all that kind of stuff. I've been down
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in the mud. I'll tell you flat out, the most,
the most angry, frustrated, whatever you can be, is when
you were trying to get it some and it just
hits them and bounces off. So who cares what Pro
Football Dork's blog says this week? Who cares what some
guy on TV? We're not disrespected, they just haven't got
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there yet. We're going to make converts out of you.
All the Broncos are going to make converts out.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Of you all.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Given a you know, give it a long enough timeline,
you'll get there eventually. We welcome all into the fold, right,
even even me, and even if you want to be
you know, totally left brained. I don't know rational about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
The Broncos. We know from their comments of the press
or whatever. Inside that locker room there's been a lot
of us against the world. No one believes in US messaging,
and clearly it's been effective to this point. I don't
mind that they can continue to go back to that
point and continue to beat that drum and have that
rallying cry. I don't need that to go away and
then to find a new one. Well, what they do
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in that locker room for motivation is up to them.
But as far and I'm not going to tell anybody
how to fan, but I'm just saying, and like, dude,
it's such a it's such a tougher look when you
just do you're just not affected by Okay, yeah, you
put a seventeenth in the power rankings even though we're tennantee, fine, whatever,
when we boat race you, hey.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We'll see you. We'll see you there. When we beat you,
we'll see we'll see there too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I think puff your chest out some like this
is some of the fun of not being the six
and six team or seven and five team. We were like, oh, man,
I hope we can you know, close out to December
January strong and maybe sneak in as a wild card team,
like even last year. That was the conversation, Like, the
Broncos are front runners this year, and there's a joy
to like, I don't know, soaking that in and savoring
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that you only get.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
A limited number of trips on this rock around the sun.
How much of that time are you going to spend
being wilfully miserable because somebody didn't rank your team where
you thought they belonged. Don't let these nerds be a
thief of your joy. The Denver Broncos are ten and
two and they aren't going anywhere. Look at this schedule
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down the stretch. Yeah, had some tough games. There's some
metal testers in there right going into the playoffs. This
team's getting into the playoffs. They aren't going anywhere. Let
these let these nerds on TV whatever else, go enjoy
the ride. Man, see you buff men's basketball coming up
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next here. Okay, way short show post see you Buffs
Men's basketball edition. We're still post Sunday Night Football Broncos edition. Obviously,
Broncos now out to ten and two on the season,
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got to ten wins before the month of December even
got here. Uh And you know, we've just been talking
about how, first of all, how we love that, but
you know, more about how or at least for me,
not letting this this sort of I don't know, national
punditry get to people, people who doubt or disbelieve or
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you know, people who call the Broncos the worst team
they've ever seen it, you know, worse ten win the
team they ever seen. Well, we're still ten and two.
Ten to two is still ten and two. Scoreboard, mother fluffers.
Don't let people get to you like that. Don't don't
let people. Don't let these national hot take clickbait artists
be a thief for your joy man like in all honesty.
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That's just something that that blows my mind a little
bit how much we let these these nobodies, these no
nothing nobodies get under our skin because of some perceived
slight about respect. And I've been over that, I've been
through it. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna rehash any
of that. I do want to get to some I
do want to get into some of the so the
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stuff from last night I thought the I thought bo
you could see him at times sort of growing up
in front of our eyes. There was a play late
in the game, and I don't remember the exact down
of distance on it. I'd have to think I think
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it was the big Ingram play and the long completion.
Did Ingram the catch and run? And you can uh
it was in overtime and you can see Bow sort
of like as he gets up to the line there
identify that the commanders are are sitting there in quarters,
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and you can you can see him check to what
looks like some kind of some kind of isolation route
for him and Ingram because he's he'd be ioed up
on the on the mid linebacker and runs what's called
the jerk route, and you know we've talked about that before,
and you could just see it, like you could see
him pre snapped, doing the calculus on what was happening
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and getting his guy into the correct position to make
a big play. And I thought that that was sort
of fascinating to watch, as you know, as you sort
of see this this young team grow up in real time.
Now I have an inger. It's not a young player,
but bo Is and you know, seeing this thing the
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way that it is, and you know, like I said,
in real time, So you know, I I'm trying to
take I don't know, solace isn't the right word, but
I'm taking comfort in that I'm watching this team grow
up in real time, and I'm just I'm not frustrated
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by it as much as I have been. I've been.
I'm frustrated with some of the coaching stuff and some
of the decisions that have gone in. But they're still winning.
So it's difficult to you know, it's sort of difficult
to criticize when you just keep winning football games, know,
I mean, I am going to point out things and
I'm like, what the hell? Certainly we had yet another
failed Sean Payton trick play. The offense is humming, and
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you know it's second one and second one is the
is the down, second and short is the down and
distance when you try something right because you feel if
you don't get it, you come back on third down
you get it right. So so I have no no
problem or not as much of a problem, I should say,
with them trying something on second short but it's just
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sort of the the mentality, the philosophy. He does this
once a game and instead of there's this great scene
from Mission Impossible to where the villain uh he is
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commenting on I'm trying to remember exactly what the premise was,
but the mission of Possible team needs to break into
a facility to get something, and so does this villainous team.
And the Villain's like, you know they're gonna they end
up walking through the front door and just taking it
because it's just easier. But he's giving the play by
play because he knows the Ethan Hunt character. He knows
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what he's gonna do. He's like, instead of, this is
Ethan Hunt, So instead of just walking in front of
the front door for a smash and grab, he's going
to try some insane acrobatic aerial maneuver, which they end
up doing and you know, going through the ceiling and
all this, and then you know the guys are just
waiting for him there. But you know, it makes a point,
and that points in some ways applies to this mentality
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that at times Sean Dayton has on Short haartige distance
and down type stuff instead of just you know, second one,
he want us to run a ball coach And now
now I'd rather intempt some insane level of Mission impossible
esque trickery which puts everybody in a position other than
what their best stat and go from there. This one
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was less egregious. It was sort of that was that
double reverse flea flicker or whatever, and it still didn't work.
But that's the thing, and everybody knows it's coming now,
Like every week you see it when they get into
second short, all of a sudden, these teams are prepared
wash out for the trick play here because that's when
Sean Bayden does it. And so that I like, and
it's not much of a gripe. Like I got to
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thinking about that last night because I was, you know,
just kind of kind of thinking about that what I
was going to say about it, and I was like, man,
that's that's just not much of a grin. I just
don't have. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for
gripes that that's what I'm coming up with, Like, oh, okay,
they keep trying these stupid trick plays that don't work. Okay,
that's a good football team and they're winning football games
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at ten and two. It is, it is. It is
just now the beginning of December. And if you're on
the East coast, that game started in November and ended
in December. But Mountain Time, that game ended before December started.
You got ten wins before you hit December. Celebrate that.
Who cares? Who cares what anybody thinks? Who cares what
anybody says about the way you do it it?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Who cares what these these.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Jokes, these these talking heads say, like at the end
of the day, man, do you need their approval?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What do you care what they say? I think it's
it's my frustration here is in a sense, I would
have build a better fan base. And I know that
sounds presumptive, pretentious, arrogant, but I do. I want to
build a better fanbase. I want to build a fan base.
Don't We don't whine about officiating ever, you know wats
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we don't need to? Okay, if we didn't get there,
it wasn't an official, it was us not scoring enough points.
I want I went to reset the psychology of the
Denver Broncos fan base to what it was when I
arrived here, when I got to Denver in twenty twelve,
this was a fan base that had been to more
Super Bowls than had had losing seasons under Pat Bowlin.
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And you know you had the trust in all that
situation everything else. But you know, I sat here and
lived and watched the psychology of this fan based windle
over the course of a decade of losing, and I
want to reset that psychology to where winning is the expectation.
Whatever gripes I have about Sean Payton, he's a good coach.
The floor is seven and nine. Who knows what the
ceiling is. We'll see, But I reset the expectation at winning.
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We don't care. We don't care if you know they're
up there on a four letter network praising the Broncos
or putting them fifteenth in a power ranking. We don't
care where they put the quarterback in the power ranking.
What did the scoreboards say? You don't have to be
the best quarterback in the NFL every week, just the
quarterback capable of executing the play that day. You don't
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have to be the best team in the NFL, just
the best team in the stadium that day. And if
you're the best team in the stadium that day, enough,
you're going to wind up being the best team the NFL.
It's sort of like and I hate to keep using
movie references here, but it's sort of like that they
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remake a Zoro they did with Antonio Banderis and Anthony Hopkins,
and he talks about, you know, inside that first circle,
he's in the training circles, and then when he progresses
and learns enough in the first circle, he gets to
move to a second circle, which is a bigger circle.
That kind of stuff, And that's sort of what this is.
There's a micro macro thing here. Why do we care
what the opinion and that anybody else is Why do
you care what my opinion is? You shouldn't. Don't let
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comparison be the thief of joy. All these nerds out
there that are trying to tell you that this team
is no good and a worst ten win team. Oh,
this isn't sustainable everything else. Yeah, I've said the same
things at times. You know what, if it wasn't sustainable,
it wouldn't have been sustained as far that's it. I'm
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at the point where that's what I'm saying. I'm flipping
the script. This is doctor Strange, love to get tenure
with the movie metaphors how I learned to quit worrying
and love the Sean And yeah I've got gripes, so yeah,
I've got complaints. Yeah I've got things that you know,
I could point two and pick apart and say, all right,
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this is no good and this isn't the key to
winning football. This is bad process. But the end of
the day, we're winning. Bonix those the ball forty five
times in this game, part of that, buoyed by the
overtime effort. Obviously, had one touchdown, one interception, only took
one sack. Everybody got involved, eve a little. Jordan Humphrey
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got a target. Evan Ingram six catches on nine targets
for seventy nine yards. Courtland Sutton five catches, six targets
sixty two yards on a touchdown. Adam Troutman three receptions
for forty seven yards on four targets. There was an
effort to get Pat Bryan at the ball, wasn't very considered.
Weren't able to convert a lot of it. Three catches
forty two yards, but seven targets. R. J. Harvey had
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three catches for twenty seven yards on four targets. Troy
Franklin two for twenty one on three targets. Tyler Bday
three catches for eighteen yards on five targets. Adam Press
had a catch for eleven yards. Marvin Mins had two
catches for eight yards. Julia mcgloughlin caught a ball for
six yards. Now he's ten players that had a reception
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and eleven of them got targeted. Putter Jeremy Crawshaw looks
like he's over the over the yips four punts forty
five point three average along of fifty Will Lutz. His
nails two of two on field goals, three or three
on extra points. What a real bugaboo on the offensive
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side of the ball was. How he effective the ground
game was. RJ. Harvey got thirteen carries, managed to produce
only thirty five yards. That's a two point seven average.
People probably look overlooking because of the two touchdowns, but
those were gimme touchdowns. Julia McLoughlin six carries for twenty
four to four point zero average, but fourteen of those
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came on one carry and by the way, on R. J.
Harvey of his thirty five yards eleven of them, thirty
percent came on one carry. Bownicks had two carries for
sixteen Mims had to carry for nine yards. Apprentice had
to carry for three yards. Might be time to get
out of prenis a little bit more involved. One rush,
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one uh, one target, might be time to get them
a little more involved. But other than the run game,
there really wasn't a whole lot to sort of sit
there and be, I don't know, upset about. On the
defensive side of things, Drew Drey Goudenlaw got in the
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party with the interception. Johnny Baron, Riley Moss, Jaqua McMillan,
Tylerfonga pass ten, Drake Greenlaw, Alex Singleton all had pass
defenses in that game. Nick Benito forced a fumble, had
the game ceiling, Swat got a sack as well, Andrea
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Tilman got a sack. Hufaga, who was playing with an illness,
was had ten total tackles in this game. As Washington
deployed a game plan that I thought was pretty brilliant.
To be honest with you, the Broncos are a little
susceptible to power backs. They're a little susceptible to the
trap game. Because of how aggressive they are. They they
did kind of both. That let Chris Rodriguez run and
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ran trap on us a little bit. Rodriguez finished with
eleven carries forty one yards as a three seven average,
but it was fairly effective. Jeremy Nichols McNichols six rushes
for thirty yards. It's a five average, but sixteen of
those half as yardage came out one play. Crosskey Maritally
had four carriaes to twenty yards twelve which all came
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on one play, and then they got the ball out quick.
They negated Rocko's pressure by just getting the ball out quick.
Zach Ertz finished the game with ten receptions for one
hundred and six yards. Terry mclaurin's scary Terry came back
for Washington him a little bit of a game. Seven catches,
ninety six yards and a touchdown. The touchdown came on
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that slant and i'd, yeah, it was a pick play.
Nobody's ever gonna call that. You're not flagging that in overtime,
but you know the game, you know, you just nod,
but that's it was a pick play. If you need
to do, you the referee crying thing. But it was
mostly three players. It was mclauren, Deebo, and Ertz and
that was pretty much it. I mean, you had that
Yankoff kid who was and that's his real name, one
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catch for fourteen yards, Bates had two catches for nine berks,
and that incredible catch for five yards was only catch
the game for the touchdown, that incredible one handed It
was kind of funny because almost it was ten years
to the week from Odell Beckham making that similar one
handed catch right there, same side of the field. Both
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players were the same number, both of them are number thirteen.
Just a real coincidental thing. And you had to tip
your captain because Riley Moss could not have defended that
ball any better. He couldn't have defended that that. I mean,
you just couldn't play better defense than Riley Moss played
on that play, and trey Lonbark's just just made an
insane catch. You just got to tip a cap to that.
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At at some point you just got to look at
that and say, bro, well well done. Nothing I could
have done there, and there's there's something of value that
To circle that back to what I was talking about
about the psychology of fandom, be the fans that congratulate
opponents for the good things that they do. Be the
fan base that isn't whining about the referees. Be the
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fan base that isn't talking trash and embarrassing the rest
of the fan base on that kind of stuff. Be
the fan base that expects to win to the point
where you know it doesn't. It doesn't phase or affect us.
If people are talking about or not talking about us
in the manner that we were thinking, don't don't don't
give into that. Don't become that victimhood mentality where you
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feel slighted all the time. If if somebody's so and
so blog pro football blog has your team power ranked
whatever that means, lower than you think they should be,
who cares? Do you need their approval? Then why do
you care? Defensively, Washington looked a lot better since Dan
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Quinn took over the defense. They did get a sack,
they did get an interceptional both The interception was pretty bad.
I mean boj airmail that the wagner didn't see him underneath.
Chris collins Worth misdiagnosed the play on the TV. I
would have been listening to David Rick except that you know,
at the burn down they had the TV audio going,
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so I saw Colline word just misdiagnosing the play, the idea.
He called the receiver saying it was headed to him,
and it wasn't. He was the clear out guy. I
was headed the guy behind him on the on the
end and the deep end, and the bow just did
not see the linebacker underneath and airmailed it to him.
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Got to clean that up overall, though, I mean, even
penalties are down. Penalties are down. That's that's been a
big thing, and I hope that train continues. There were
still some more penalties than there should have been. We
got away with a few McGlinchey falls started a few
times we got away with that didn't get called. But
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even pedalies are down. You gotta learn, guys. Can We
have to learn to love the moment, Live in the moment,
Love the moment. Only get so many trips around the
sun on this rock, man, and I'm gonna I'm determined
to spend less of that time being frustrated and upset,
letting people be a thief of my joy. Broncos are
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ten and two, your pole position for the number one
see and we're worried where people are power ranking US
Broncos country tonight back after this
Buff's men's basketball addition five six six nine zero. As
always is the text line. Broncos winning again in dramatic fashion,
again on Sunday Night Football, taking on the Washington Commanders
and fan favorite maybe just this fan, dan Quinn. Not
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the best night for your guy, Not the best night.
I mean, honestly, I think it was a pretty good
night for a dude missing half his team. But you know,
I'll take it, and the Broncos still got a w
out of it. I'll take it. I you know, at
Washington team, I'll say this, the Washington team is better
than a record. That much was evident last night, and
ever since dan Quinn took over that defense, it's certainly
gotten a lot better. But too a little too late.
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You missing Jade and Daniels. You just got McLaurin back,
you know, you missing a couple of defenity. You have
nobody on the defensive line, and they could not get
pressure to save their life on that defense which relies
on upfront pressure in order to be effective on the backhand.
So but they gave us all they head. I'll say
that that Washington team that they played with a lot
of heart. It was incredible catch by Traylon Burkes. One
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of the best catches I've ever seen. It's funny because
I was I was in a Tempers office earlier talking
about this, and I was like, dude, ten years to
the week after Odell Beckham made that same catch in
that same spot and oh, by the way, both those
guys were number thirteen. Crazy concidence.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, one of the most insane catches I've ever seen.
I feel terrible for Riley Boss because he seems he couldn't.
He's on the wrong side of every just like amazingly
perfect throw and catch. He's on the wrong side of
every bad defensive past interference call. His his rep is
so much worse than his actual play.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, it's it's funny because you know he's back in
and I don't know, you know how old every listeners,
but if you remember the basketball posters used to get
back in the eighties and nineties, and you'd see on
a lot of those posters, you'd be the same guy
getting dunked on, you know, like somehow it'd be like
John Stark's getting dunked on or something like that. And
it's like Riley Boss is accidentally posterizing himself with great
defensive play and he's gonna line up on some of
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these some of these posters or football cards for whatever,
just because he's he's making a great it's a play,
but it just happens to be on him.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
It's like the curse of trying on defense, you know.
Like conversely, now you'll see you guys like kind of
duck out of the way or just kind of sidestep
it when someone goes for a big poster dunk in
an NBA game. And I think you know, similarly here,
Riley Moss gets post rids like this because he has
perfect coverage. He forces Treylon Burks to make the Odell
Beckham catch to make a touchdown. Unless your corner is
maybe torched on the play, Burks is wide open and
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he just gets to turn around, standing straight up and
catch an easy touchdown.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yeah you got to. I mean, there's just a couple
of those moments you just got a tip cap to
was it an illegal pick play? And we think we've
got the call from from the commander's side of the house,
But was it an illegal pick play on the arrm
chlor cutch On's sure, but we're not We're not here
to cry about refereeing or any that kind of stuff.
We're a better fan base. And there's here's the Washington
call on that play.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
By the way, here we comes down to this fourth
and goal just inside the Denver four.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Mariota's in the gun. Here's the snap.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Mariota throws to rud cuckown down.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
Slip the tally to keep washing too, the opportunity to
tie or cuf for a wind to right put the
chanson line Jaxon's Tam mcclark quit it a.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Well, I don't know you won on the slant route
as much as Pats Tad got blatantly picked by Deebo Samuel.
But you know, I mean, okay, all right, I will
say if.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
You get Terry McClure and running the slant route and
Deebo Samuel getting an uncalled pick route, you're probably unstable.
Pretty Yeah, it's pretty Terarr mccloyd's a really good receiver anyway,
but I mean it's it's pretty pretty unstandard stuff. And
so that's that's one of those things like you just
got tipp the cap in those kind of moments. Yeah,
we got the the end of game calls. We'll start
with the Washington. Then we'll go with our own Dave
Logan right after them. Here's the Washington commander's end of game.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Call fourth and sixth at the Denver forty one, zach
Ertz trailing berks to the right. Here's the snap Denver
Prince four. Mariota in trouble running to the right, pulled
down from behind, it stays on his feet, just throws
it up in the air.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
And that is if you're picked off by last comes,
there might be.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
A passive apperience The ball is intended for Jeremy McNichols
somehow Marcus.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
Morioda a sack.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
That's a passive affairs.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
The second flat his throne just may keep the game alive.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's passive affairs. I think we had the mislabeled call
there that was obviously the the passion fair. There, Plet's
car he's the right one. I go, here's the right one.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Paul's marked the two two point conversion for the game.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
In motion, Jeremy McNichols joins Marcus Marioti in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Three wide receivers to the left for the game.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Mario it out of the air by Nick Benito, and Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Is gonna win twenty seven to twenty six.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Mariota was backing up, he threw the ball, Benito got
up in.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
The air and swatted it out of the sky. That
Denver gets their knife straight win.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Yeah, and I'm gonna say this, what an incredible play
by Nick Benito because if he doesn't make that play,
it's over, and it's over the wrong way. Jeremy Nichols
was wide open on that play. He was going to
he was just gonna be walking with nobody within four
yards of him by the time the ball got there,
assuming he hung on to it, it was you know,
it would have been over a dep But what a
play by Nick Benito to do it. And it's just,
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I mean just things continue to come together for Denver.
They just keep coming together for Denver. And it's funny
because you got you got these national dorks out there
that are putting the Broncos weird spots in power rankings
or put the quarterback weird spots. Who cares, We don't care,
We don't need their approval scoreboard, mother fluffer. Yeah, you
almost hit the dup button there, didn't you.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
I got a little anxious there. I will also say
it was a great play. And I prefer that framing
of it. I've heard some you know, even I think
in Broncos Country discuss it as like, wow, they were
lucky there, and then to an extent they were. But
it's also a great player who consistently makes plays on
the ball in big moments, making one in the biggest moments.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
If you get lucky long enough, you're skilled. Yeah, you know,
there's such a thing as getting lucky. And then if
you consistently get lucky, you're just that good. Yeah, like
his bone's lucky. And all these fourth quarter comebacks.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Where is there some sort of clutch gene or or
recommination of both.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, And you could see bo grow up. I mean
we talked about it with the m and Ingram play.
You know, they they don't worry about by pulling that
one up. I do want to get that last call
from Dave because I want to hear that their call
on it. I didn't get chance to hear last night,
but I will say you could see it. I mean,
you could see bo Nix identifying you know, they're sitting
there in quarters, so before the big play in overtime
to Ingram, you could see him identifying quarters you could
see him, uh notice that the tight ends iod on
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uh Wagner and then Ingram's obviously got an athletic advantage there, right,
and then they go to the whip route and boom,
there you go. And so that's it's it was, you know,
it's free money and it just you know, you could
see bo kind of growing up in real time. And
that was That was pretty cool from my perspective. And
everybody's gona talk about the throw where his knee was
almost down. What a great throw that was. Okay, well,
that cool and that's a great result play. I'm talking
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about a great process play here, and to me that
matters more because if you're doing the right process over
the results are gonna come regardless. And so that watching that,
that play, David Ingram, that was one that got me.
But here's here's David Rickham the the final call.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Two pointsion dinner with the blitz on.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The way, both afoot by Nicko.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
He Broncos with it. Great play by Nick Bonto.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
He came untouched off the face side of Marcus Mariota
who was back pedaling.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
Trying to buy some time.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
The way the Broncos set that up because they checked
out of a different they when they call the time out,
they moved out of a different call into that call,
and they knew they were gonna have a free rusher.
But man, I mean combination skill, luck, whatever you want
to call it. You know, I don't believe in the
destiny and all that kind of stuff, but kind of
you know, I mean, at this point it's undeniable. The grounds, well,
the tides, well, at this point, it's undeniable. You can't
get lucky that many times and then pretend that it's
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just luck over and over again. The odds of having
that kind of luck or so astronomical. I mean, you're
better off being or you're more likely to be struck
by lightning and win the lottery at the same time.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
And I saw a great argument against the I think
a lot of national pundits have been saying, well, this
is going to come back down to earth. They've got
to regress and it encounter, and there's some truth to it.
But I think a good counter to that as well.
You know, before this recent streak of winning seven to
one score games in a row, they were two to
eight over the last year and a half.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So you get the blessing aggression.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
He exactly balances out to the nine and eight that
you would expect someone to be in maybe those coin
flip situations.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
It's it's this is the balancing out. Yeah, And it's
one of those things. I mean, at the end of
the day and you look at this, you look at
this thing and you're like, you know, we don't let it.
Don't let these national dorks. Don't let these seas you
know pro football blog power rack. What is a power
ranking anyway, somebody's made up opinion where the team stack up.
Don't let these nerds be thieves of your joy. The
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Broncos are ten and two. They got the ten wins
before it hit the month of December. Quit crying about
where the respect from the next Who cares? Do you
need Nick Wright's approval?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Then?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
What do you care what he thinks about the Denver Broncos.
And I offered that dude the chance to put his
money where his mouth is. I offer him a ten
thousand dollars bet to start the season if any of
the conditions, the ridiculous conditions that he came up with
the Raiders were to be hired than the Broncos and
go to the playoffs, Chiefs winning the division again, any
of the I offered him ten grand if any of
those hit, and he wouldn't take the bet. Who care
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those guys? Who cares what they think? I don't Every
time I click on Twitter and I'm like, they don't
have us ranked? Tigh, I quit playing the victim card.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
We don't care, we're better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We're ten and two. Who cares what they they're the
loser franchises six and six? Who cares?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
And you know, these these power rankings, it seems to
be the kiss of death if they start believing in you, Like,
it's not like any of these these uh national power
rankings have been consistently right all season. Exactly whoever they
anoint in that number one spot and gets knocked off
the next week? It was, you know, just the Rams.
It was the Eagles, and it was it was the
Chiefs and and whoever else. These past couple of weeks,
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it's been the Rams. Oh my goodness. The Rams are
clearly the best team in the NFL. They're head and
shoulders about everyone else, and then they get they get
hammered by the Panthers in Carolina.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Yeah, it's it's it's really, I am at the point
where and I love right Emysoneth, He's right, the brother
and me all this kind of stuff. But I give them,
I give them a little guff on this stuff, because
why do you care what these these national weirdos think?
Why do you care what these dorks who don't pay
any attention to the Broncos. They look at stuff on
a spreadsheet and that's it. They watch Red Zone and
that's sit. They're not cracking the tape on the Denver Broncos.
Why do we care what these people think. I want
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to build a better fan base. I want a fan
base that's walking around like this does not fase like
winning is the expectation. And I gotta be honest. When
I got here to Denver, that was the attitude I
lived in kids, and say twice, I saw what it's
like to sit there and see a great quarterback across division, like,
how can I beat this guy? I saw what it
was like when John Elway was here. So what I
got here to Denver that attitude was we expect to win,
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we expect to go to the playoffs. And so you know,
I've watched over the last decade as after the Super
Bowl fifty. This fan base has just fallen into into
this this funk, this this loser funk, and we got
a winner on our hands. Now you don't have to
be You gotta go back to how it was during
the bowling you know, the bowling years where Denver Broncos
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fans went to more Super Bowls than they had losing seasons.
Whatever where else you think of Sean paint. I'm not
the biggest fan of Sean Payton the guy, right, but
in terms of football coach, he is a good coach.
The floor is seven and nine. That's a floor with
Sean Payton. Go back and look at the same stuff.
The floor is seven and nine. I don't know that
he wins the big ones without you know, I mean,
you only got one of breeze. Whatever. We can get
in all that stuff at some point if you want to.
You're ten and two right now. This guy with this
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general manager, who by the way, might be a savant
when it comes to identifying talent and the draft.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
You're ten and two. What do you care?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
What's there's some you know, dude who's trying to stunt
double for Jesus in a terrible movie with that haircut,
cares about where they ranks the Denver Broncos, who he's
just trolling anyway, because he's a massive Chiefs fan, Which
is funny because that's what they accused me of.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
That's the thing with rage Paate, Like, I'm very guilty
of taking the baity myself. But you know, they say
the outlanders stuff to just get a rise out of you,
and then they ultimately get a rise out of you.
It so it's every national media network makes their money
that way.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
That's exactly what it is. And I want us and
I'm maybe it's presumptive me. Maybe it's pretentious, maybe it's arrogant,
maybe it's condescending, but I want us to build a
better fan base. And I say us, I want the
Denver Broncos fan base to not care. I want the
Denver Broncos fan base to be teflon when these rage
bait people come out there. You're not even biting it.
You just I have all the scoreboard. You know, it
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was the worst ten and two team I've ever seen.
We're still ten and two. The worst ten and two
team is still ten and two. The worst super Bowl
winner of all time still won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
And I think also, like with the power of hindsight,
This is exactly how the twenty fifteen season went like
it wasn't you know, part way through December or partway
through November, all the national pundits where we're, you know,
clapping the Broncos on the back and talking about.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
How great they are. Here we're talking about how Carolina
was gonna boat race him in a Super Bowl. I
made a ton of money on that Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
The NFC Championship game was listed as the actual super Bowl,
and the AFC Championship Game was like the runner up
right competition going into that one does anyone over this
last decade of suckage? Has anyone looked back on that
and gone, man, just twish in mid December we were
at top the power rankings.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
No one cares.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
You look back on twenty fifteen with funness, and if anything,
it might be a little sweeter that everyone else doubted
you the whole time, and ye got to prove them wrong.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
That's what I'm getting at, isn't it. They'll let them
doubt who cares? This is exactly the kind of stuff
for you. You let that stuff roll off the shoulders
like like water beating off a duck. Don't feed into it.
You don't you don't even have to respond to it.
Be you can you can be invincible if you show
them they can't get to you. There's a difference between
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you know, there's a there's there's a difference between being
you know, being a fanels you can be and if
you if somebody is coming at you with their best stuff,
trying to troll you and they can't get to you,
you know how frustrating that is. I do. I've been
on both sides of that conversation, and I tell you,
I'll tell you the view ain't from the cheap seats.
I've been down in the muck. I think everybody knows
my history, all that kind of stuff. I've been down
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in the mud. I'll tell you flat out, the most,
the most angry, frustrated, whatever you can be, is when
you were trying to get it some and it just
hits them and bounces off. So who cares what Pro
Football Dork's blog says this week? Who cares what some
guy on TV? We're not disrespected, they just haven't got
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there yet. We're going to make converts out of you.
All the Broncos are going to make converts out.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Of you all.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Given a you know, give it a long enough timeline,
you'll get there eventually. We welcome all into the fold, right,
even even me, and even if you want to be
you know, totally left brained. I don't know rational about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
The Broncos. We know from their comments of the press
or whatever. Inside that locker room there's been a lot
of us against the world. No one believes in US messaging,
and clearly it's been effective to this point. I don't
mind that they can continue to go back to that
point and continue to beat that drum and have that
rallying cry. I don't need that to go away and
then to find a new one. Well, what they do
(14:55):
in that locker room for motivation is up to them.
But as far and I'm not going to tell anybody
how to fan, but I'm just saying, and like, dude,
it's such a it's such a tougher look when you
just do you're just not affected by Okay, yeah, you
put a seventeenth in the power rankings even though we're tennantee, fine, whatever,
when we boat race you, hey.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
We'll see you. We'll see you there. When we beat you,
we'll see we'll see there too.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Yeah, I think puff your chest out some like this
is some of the fun of not being the six
and six team or seven and five team. We were like, oh, man,
I hope we can you know, close out to December
January strong and maybe sneak in as a wild card team,
like even last year. That was the conversation, Like, the
Broncos are front runners this year, and there's a joy
to like, I don't know, soaking that in and savoring
(15:39):
that you only get.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
A limited number of trips on this rock around the sun.
How much of that time are you going to spend
being wilfully miserable because somebody didn't rank your team where
you thought they belonged. Don't let these nerds be a
thief of your joy. The Denver Broncos are ten and
two and they aren't going anywhere. Look at this schedule
(16:01):
down the stretch. Yeah, had some tough games. There's some
metal testers in there right going into the playoffs. This
team's getting into the playoffs. They aren't going anywhere. Let
these let these nerds on TV whatever else, go enjoy
the ride. Man, see you buff men's basketball coming up
(16:23):
next here. Okay, way short show post see you Buffs
Men's basketball edition. We're still post Sunday Night Football Broncos edition. Obviously,
Broncos now out to ten and two on the season,
(16:44):
got to ten wins before the month of December even
got here. Uh And you know, we've just been talking
about how, first of all, how we love that, but
you know, more about how or at least for me,
not letting this this sort of I don't know, national
punditry get to people, people who doubt or disbelieve or
(17:06):
you know, people who call the Broncos the worst team
they've ever seen it, you know, worse ten win the
team they ever seen. Well, we're still ten and two.
Ten to two is still ten and two. Scoreboard, mother fluffers.
Don't let people get to you like that. Don't don't
let people. Don't let these national hot take clickbait artists
be a thief for your joy man like in all honesty.
(17:28):
That's just something that that blows my mind a little
bit how much we let these these nobodies, these no
nothing nobodies get under our skin because of some perceived
slight about respect. And I've been over that, I've been
through it. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna rehash any
of that. I do want to get to some I
do want to get into some of the so the
(17:49):
stuff from last night I thought the I thought bo
you could see him at times sort of growing up
in front of our eyes. There was a play late
in the game, and I don't remember the exact down
of distance on it. I'd have to think I think
(18:09):
it was the big Ingram play and the long completion.
Did Ingram the catch and run? And you can uh
it was in overtime and you can see Bow sort
of like as he gets up to the line there
identify that the commanders are are sitting there in quarters,
(18:35):
and you can you can see him check to what
looks like some kind of some kind of isolation route
for him and Ingram because he's he'd be ioed up
on the on the mid linebacker and runs what's called
the jerk route, and you know we've talked about that before,
and you could just see it, like you could see
him pre snapped, doing the calculus on what was happening
(18:59):
and getting his guy into the correct position to make
a big play. And I thought that that was sort
of fascinating to watch, as you know, as you sort
of see this this young team grow up in real time.
Now I have an inger. It's not a young player,
but bo Is and you know, seeing this thing the
(19:23):
way that it is, and you know, like I said,
in real time, So you know, I I'm trying to
take I don't know, solace isn't the right word, but
I'm taking comfort in that I'm watching this team grow
up in real time, and I'm just I'm not frustrated
(19:47):
by it as much as I have been. I've been.
I'm frustrated with some of the coaching stuff and some
of the decisions that have gone in. But they're still winning.
So it's difficult to you know, it's sort of difficult
to criticize when you just keep winning football games, know,
I mean, I am going to point out things and
I'm like, what the hell? Certainly we had yet another
failed Sean Payton trick play. The offense is humming, and
(20:11):
you know it's second one and second one is the
is the down, second and short is the down and
distance when you try something right because you feel if
you don't get it, you come back on third down
you get it right. So so I have no no
problem or not as much of a problem, I should say,
with them trying something on second short but it's just
(20:31):
sort of the the mentality, the philosophy. He does this
once a game and instead of there's this great scene
from Mission Impossible to where the villain uh he is
(20:54):
commenting on I'm trying to remember exactly what the premise was,
but the mission of Possible team needs to break into
a facility to get something, and so does this villainous team.
And the Villain's like, you know they're gonna they end
up walking through the front door and just taking it
because it's just easier. But he's giving the play by
play because he knows the Ethan Hunt character. He knows
(21:15):
what he's gonna do. He's like, instead of, this is
Ethan Hunt, So instead of just walking in front of
the front door for a smash and grab, he's going
to try some insane acrobatic aerial maneuver, which they end
up doing and you know, going through the ceiling and
all this, and then you know the guys are just
waiting for him there. But you know, it makes a point,
and that points in some ways applies to this mentality
(21:39):
that at times Sean Dayton has on Short haartige distance
and down type stuff instead of just you know, second one,
he want us to run a ball coach And now
now I'd rather intempt some insane level of Mission impossible
esque trickery which puts everybody in a position other than
what their best stat and go from there. This one
(22:01):
was less egregious. It was sort of that was that
double reverse flea flicker or whatever, and it still didn't work.
But that's the thing, and everybody knows it's coming now,
Like every week you see it when they get into
second short, all of a sudden, these teams are prepared
wash out for the trick play here because that's when
Sean Bayden does it. And so that I like, and
it's not much of a gripe. Like I got to
(22:22):
thinking about that last night because I was, you know,
just kind of kind of thinking about that what I
was going to say about it, and I was like, man,
that's that's just not much of a grin. I just
don't have. I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel for
gripes that that's what I'm coming up with, Like, oh, okay,
they keep trying these stupid trick plays that don't work. Okay,
that's a good football team and they're winning football games
(22:42):
at ten and two. It is, it is. It is
just now the beginning of December. And if you're on
the East coast, that game started in November and ended
in December. But Mountain Time, that game ended before December started.
You got ten wins before you hit December. Celebrate that.
Who cares? Who cares what anybody thinks? Who cares what
anybody says about the way you do it it?
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Who cares what these these.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Jokes, these these talking heads say, like at the end
of the day, man, do you need their approval?
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Then?
Speaker 1 (23:17):
What do you care what they say? I think it's
it's my frustration here is in a sense, I would
have build a better fan base. And I know that
sounds presumptive, pretentious, arrogant, but I do. I want to
build a better fanbase. I want to build a fan base.
Don't We don't whine about officiating ever, you know wats
(23:38):
we don't need to? Okay, if we didn't get there,
it wasn't an official, it was us not scoring enough points.
I want I went to reset the psychology of the
Denver Broncos fan base to what it was when I
arrived here, when I got to Denver in twenty twelve,
this was a fan base that had been to more
Super Bowls than had had losing seasons under Pat Bowlin.
(24:02):
And you know you had the trust in all that
situation everything else. But you know, I sat here and
lived and watched the psychology of this fan based windle
over the course of a decade of losing, and I
want to reset that psychology to where winning is the expectation.
Whatever gripes I have about Sean Payton, he's a good coach.
The floor is seven and nine. Who knows what the
ceiling is. We'll see, But I reset the expectation at winning.
(24:26):
We don't care. We don't care if you know they're
up there on a four letter network praising the Broncos
or putting them fifteenth in a power ranking. We don't
care where they put the quarterback in the power ranking.
What did the scoreboards say? You don't have to be
the best quarterback in the NFL every week, just the
quarterback capable of executing the play that day. You don't
(24:47):
have to be the best team in the NFL, just
the best team in the stadium that day. And if
you're the best team in the stadium that day, enough,
you're going to wind up being the best team the NFL.
It's sort of like and I hate to keep using
movie references here, but it's sort of like that they
(25:09):
remake a Zoro they did with Antonio Banderis and Anthony Hopkins,
and he talks about, you know, inside that first circle,
he's in the training circles, and then when he progresses
and learns enough in the first circle, he gets to
move to a second circle, which is a bigger circle.
That kind of stuff, And that's sort of what this is.
There's a micro macro thing here. Why do we care
what the opinion and that anybody else is Why do
you care what my opinion is? You shouldn't. Don't let
(25:34):
comparison be the thief of joy. All these nerds out
there that are trying to tell you that this team
is no good and a worst ten win team. Oh,
this isn't sustainable everything else. Yeah, I've said the same
things at times. You know what, if it wasn't sustainable,
it wouldn't have been sustained as far that's it. I'm
(25:56):
at the point where that's what I'm saying. I'm flipping
the script. This is doctor Strange, love to get tenure
with the movie metaphors how I learned to quit worrying
and love the Sean And yeah I've got gripes, so yeah,
I've got complaints. Yeah I've got things that you know,
I could point two and pick apart and say, all right,
(26:16):
this is no good and this isn't the key to
winning football. This is bad process. But the end of
the day, we're winning. Bonix those the ball forty five
times in this game, part of that, buoyed by the
overtime effort. Obviously, had one touchdown, one interception, only took
one sack. Everybody got involved, eve a little. Jordan Humphrey
(26:38):
got a target. Evan Ingram six catches on nine targets
for seventy nine yards. Courtland Sutton five catches, six targets
sixty two yards on a touchdown. Adam Troutman three receptions
for forty seven yards on four targets. There was an
effort to get Pat Bryan at the ball, wasn't very considered.
Weren't able to convert a lot of it. Three catches
forty two yards, but seven targets. R. J. Harvey had
(27:04):
three catches for twenty seven yards on four targets. Troy
Franklin two for twenty one on three targets. Tyler Bday
three catches for eighteen yards on five targets. Adam Press
had a catch for eleven yards. Marvin Mins had two
catches for eight yards. Julia mcgloughlin caught a ball for
six yards. Now he's ten players that had a reception
(27:26):
and eleven of them got targeted. Putter Jeremy Crawshaw looks
like he's over the over the yips four punts forty
five point three average along of fifty Will Lutz. His
nails two of two on field goals, three or three
on extra points. What a real bugaboo on the offensive
(27:49):
side of the ball was. How he effective the ground
game was. RJ. Harvey got thirteen carries, managed to produce
only thirty five yards. That's a two point seven average.
People probably look overlooking because of the two touchdowns, but
those were gimme touchdowns. Julia McLoughlin six carries for twenty
four to four point zero average, but fourteen of those
(28:10):
came on one carry and by the way, on R. J.
Harvey of his thirty five yards eleven of them, thirty
percent came on one carry. Bownicks had two carries for
sixteen Mims had to carry for nine yards. Apprentice had
to carry for three yards. Might be time to get
out of prenis a little bit more involved. One rush,
(28:30):
one uh, one target, might be time to get them
a little more involved. But other than the run game,
there really wasn't a whole lot to sort of sit
there and be, I don't know, upset about. On the
defensive side of things, Drew Drey Goudenlaw got in the
(28:52):
party with the interception. Johnny Baron, Riley Moss, Jaqua McMillan,
Tylerfonga pass ten, Drake Greenlaw, Alex Singleton all had pass
defenses in that game. Nick Benito forced a fumble, had
the game ceiling, Swat got a sack as well, Andrea
(29:14):
Tilman got a sack. Hufaga, who was playing with an illness,
was had ten total tackles in this game. As Washington
deployed a game plan that I thought was pretty brilliant.
To be honest with you, the Broncos are a little
susceptible to power backs. They're a little susceptible to the
trap game. Because of how aggressive they are. They they
did kind of both. That let Chris Rodriguez run and
(29:34):
ran trap on us a little bit. Rodriguez finished with
eleven carries forty one yards as a three seven average,
but it was fairly effective. Jeremy Nichols McNichols six rushes
for thirty yards. It's a five average, but sixteen of
those half as yardage came out one play. Crosskey Maritally
had four carriaes to twenty yards twelve which all came
(29:55):
on one play, and then they got the ball out quick.
They negated Rocko's pressure by just getting the ball out quick.
Zach Ertz finished the game with ten receptions for one
hundred and six yards. Terry mclaurin's scary Terry came back
for Washington him a little bit of a game. Seven catches,
ninety six yards and a touchdown. The touchdown came on
(30:15):
that slant and i'd, yeah, it was a pick play.
Nobody's ever gonna call that. You're not flagging that in overtime,
but you know the game, you know, you just nod,
but that's it was a pick play. If you need
to do, you the referee crying thing. But it was
mostly three players. It was mclauren, Deebo, and Ertz and
that was pretty much it. I mean, you had that
Yankoff kid who was and that's his real name, one
(30:37):
catch for fourteen yards, Bates had two catches for nine berks,
and that incredible catch for five yards was only catch
the game for the touchdown, that incredible one handed It
was kind of funny because almost it was ten years
to the week from Odell Beckham making that similar one
handed catch right there, same side of the field. Both
(30:58):
players were the same number, both of them are number thirteen.
Just a real coincidental thing. And you had to tip
your captain because Riley Moss could not have defended that
ball any better. He couldn't have defended that that. I mean,
you just couldn't play better defense than Riley Moss played
on that play, and trey Lonbark's just just made an
insane catch. You just got to tip a cap to that.
(31:21):
At at some point you just got to look at
that and say, bro, well well done. Nothing I could
have done there, and there's there's something of value that
To circle that back to what I was talking about
about the psychology of fandom, be the fans that congratulate
opponents for the good things that they do. Be the
fan base that isn't whining about the referees. Be the
(31:42):
fan base that isn't talking trash and embarrassing the rest
of the fan base on that kind of stuff. Be
the fan base that expects to win to the point
where you know it doesn't. It doesn't phase or affect us.
If people are talking about or not talking about us
in the manner that we were thinking, don't don't don't
give into that. Don't become that victimhood mentality where you
(32:04):
feel slighted all the time. If if somebody's so and
so blog pro football blog has your team power ranked
whatever that means, lower than you think they should be,
who cares? Do you need their approval? Then why do
you care? Defensively, Washington looked a lot better since Dan
(32:29):
Quinn took over the defense. They did get a sack,
they did get an interceptional both The interception was pretty bad.
I mean boj airmail that the wagner didn't see him underneath.
Chris collins Worth misdiagnosed the play on the TV. I
would have been listening to David Rick except that you know,
at the burn down they had the TV audio going,
(32:49):
so I saw Colline word just misdiagnosing the play, the idea.
He called the receiver saying it was headed to him,
and it wasn't. He was the clear out guy. I
was headed the guy behind him on the on the
end and the deep end, and the bow just did
not see the linebacker underneath and airmailed it to him.
(33:11):
Got to clean that up overall, though, I mean, even
penalties are down. Penalties are down. That's that's been a
big thing, and I hope that train continues. There were
still some more penalties than there should have been. We
got away with a few McGlinchey falls started a few
times we got away with that didn't get called. But
(33:34):
even pedalies are down. You gotta learn, guys. Can We
have to learn to love the moment, Live in the moment,
Love the moment. Only get so many trips around the
sun on this rock, man, and I'm gonna I'm determined
to spend less of that time being frustrated and upset,
letting people be a thief of my joy. Broncos are
(33:55):
ten and two, your pole position for the number one
see and we're worried where people are power ranking US
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