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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
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like the fact that we shifted that it was something
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into the new year. Because people getting that you know,
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
So those videos make me cry everything presentations.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But you know, you know how hard it is to.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Like stay stoken because I got to read, Like I
have so much stuff I have to read, Like when
we do this, I got to read their nomination letters.
Some sit there like reading their nomination letter, do it
everything I can not to not to break down and
no shot moreno sized tears.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And uh, I'm not kidding it. It is a uh
it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Some of those nomination stories are real, and we read
all of them, by the way, not just the ones
that will We read all of them.
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Those videos, man, it's uh in you know, they write
those such a great job putting putting that stuff together.
But it's so tough for me to like stay composed
on a lot of We had one that I just
I could not keep it together. I think we had
to stitch together some of the video. I couldn't keep
it together.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That it was a lady.
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Uh and her young daughter, UH and her husband had
uh had had you know, it'd come back and you
had some problems and you know I'd wound up uh
you know, taking his life and it was uh, you know,
it was just it was a brutal read and you
know that that family, getting that family that check was
oh man, it was Uh it was great just to
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just the surprise and the and the joy and seeing
that mom was going to be able to do something
for Christmas for her daughter that year.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
God, it was It's just yeah, those things are those
things are tough. Still gets you, I mean, that's right now, And.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Try doing everything I can to keep together right now.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
But that's you know, for all the the crap we
get working in this industry, all the people talking stuff
to it too, especially you, and then you get to
do stuff like that, that's what makes you, you know,
your job worth it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, we need to help people out that really need it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, there is, there's that moment of kind of reward
as we're able to connect you know, uh, these these
sponsors that we have on the show to uh to
these people in need and stuff like that. And that's
the thing you don't see behind the you know, the
corporate uh nature of a lot of things these days,
is how these businesses and how these uh, these stations
and these people all want.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
To you know, give back to humanity and get a
chance to do that. And it really is. Anyway, can
we call her on a dot com size contest?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Uh, you guys got to telp fight Boy first to
get your nominations in there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Looking around on the text line, Profit texted in and said, uh, hey,
it was a guy next to me in the fourth
quarter who had a decibel app on his phone and
he got an alert saying the noise level was dangerously
high and he should leave the environment immediately. Oh that's
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too good, you know, honestly, that's the thing we need
to do.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Down a stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I need uh, I need some of these decibel meter
apps at the games. I need you guys to send
me your screenshots from the game. So you gotta send
you like your phone screenshot you know at the game.
You said a picture yourself at the game too, So
I need two of them, right, Well, we need to
figure out a way to do this where I can
get and who has the loudest decibel count on their
phone because if we could get that decibel level up there.
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I hate it chaps me to no end that that
record is in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And yeah, the record, the decibel record is Kansas City
said they shared it for a while. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I have to double check, but I believe it is
like one forty one forty two ish something like that,
uh in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And I'm pretty sure it was, like I mean, it
was like a decade ago. It's been.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It's a long standing record. Seattle had it for a minute,
uh and for the outdoor because they had it like
one thirty seven. I think one thirty eight. Now I've
certainly I've seen on the eater board there, I've seen
one seventeen, one twelve, one seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I feel like we can get louder. I feel
like here at altitude, can we can get louder.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'll tell you what, man, if we're hosting an AFC championship,
game this year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think we can beat it. Well, I mean there's
a risk of damage. Obviously. You don't want to sit there.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And just do that the whole time because you know,
the hearing loss at one hundred decibels can occur in
fifteen minutes, and we're talking about trying to get to
one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know that's so loud.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, I mean you know shake in the stadium, yeah, honestly,
and you can feel it there are like Ford Field,
I think is the indoor record, and that's at one
hundred and thirty three point six.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do you give you an idea of that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
A jet engine at one hundred feet away is one
hundred and forty decibels, right, So this is louder than
a jet engine.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I think we can do it. I think we
can set that record here.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't think it's I don't think people in Denver
are appreciably more soft spoken than people in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We just got to get those packers fans out of stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I'm saying it was terrible, and I get, like
I said, people try to make a little money and
even out in this economy, you got to but like
end of the day we get a playoff game, I'm
coming after that record. You heard of your first Broncos
country tonight. We're starting the bandwagon movement. We're doing it here.
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We are making we are making the record ours. We've
got Kansas City out the playoffs. We're gonna get them
out the record book. Five six six nine zeros text line. Yeah,
thanks for that profit we get We got to get
We got to get there. I need some pictures of
decibel levels over the next couple of weeks so we
get an idea of how loud we need to get
in that stadium to get there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'd like to know what it was profit.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
If you want to text in again at five six
six nine zero, let us know what the decibel level
was when it said it was dangerous.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because I've seen, like I said, I've seen in the stadium,
but it's been pretty loud in the level the meter
on the board says like one twelve, one seventeen, and
that's loud, but that's still not in the record breaking
loud territory.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And so we gotta we got to get there.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Seven to two oh. Ben has a soft heart with
that shell to be able to do his job. We
appreciate the hard work all you guys do, even when
you may not feel like, Hey, I appreciate you texting
that in.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Once in a while, you get you get to pick
me up.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, you get to pick me up text out
of the blue. There was one Sunday, and you know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
For those of you don't know, I wasn't your Friday.
It was my birthday. I was out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I may have had a few soda pops. They've had
a lot of soda pops. No, I might have shut
a soda factory down.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
On Friday night.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you were at the Halo bar, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We got one Sunday I was feeling, you know, I turned.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
For those of you listening, I turned forty five, which
you know, not to make it super depressing, but it
makes me officially closer to sixty than thirty. And I
was kind of struggling with that one a little bit,
as one does. And so I came in here Sunday
and somebody just texted during Broncos Warmth. They were like,
thank god we got Ben covering this team. Thank god
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we got somebody the smartest Bend cover in this team.
You may not agree with him all the time, but
he at least thinks about what he says and just
just fire off the dumbest stuff possible. And I was like, man,
you know, like in the weirdest moment, that little pick
me up did me a world of good. Did me
a world of good. So you guys listening when you
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text those stuff in. Even if I don't read it
on the air, I see him, and I'm not fishing
for one right now.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But what I will say is I know how that feels.
Reach out to those around you, shoot them, have picked
me up message.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Think about that person you had talked to in a while,
you need an excuse, you should have all pick me
up message.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Man, I swear it will make somebody's day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No one ever gets tired of hearing like a nice
comments I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Saying, nobody ever is like, oh my god, not this
idiot commentator, you know, complimenting me here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I know when someone really needs to like you
did on Sunday, That's what I'm That's what I'm getting that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So that's one of those things that you know, and
I got it was something I got off one of
the Taken It for Granted podcast. I can't remember who
said it, and I've I've adopted it and used it
my own life quite a bit. But we we we
put everything through the lens of social media so much.
You know, it is something if a social media post underperforms,
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you know, well, that didn't get a hundred likes, people
people don't like me, or you know whatever, that didn't
get a hundred retweets. But if a hundred people came
up to you in the course of a day said, man,
you look, you are looking great today, you would be overwhelmed.
And that's that's the difference. In the digital age that
we live in, it would almost be too much. Yeah,
it would, I mean it would be you know, it's
(09:56):
that that's the difference in the age that we live in.
We we we base things off house social media performances
is are, and we start to think in those terms.
You know, you put an Instagram photo out there or something,
and only thirty people like this, you know, only only
fifty people wish me a birthday. You know they did. Man,
I'm telling you send one of those messages out to
your friend. I promise you it will. It will brighten
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their day.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And also, just one more thing, while we're on this,
nice sentimental moment that I love when we get into
this South Rocco's country and I call your family members
this holiday season, especially if you're like me and Ben
and are transplant.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I thought to my grandma for like an hour today,
and like I'm almost tearing up thinking about it right now,
Like just how much it meant to her for me
to take the time to call her and spend an
hour chatting with her, Like that meant the world to her.
So call your family members this holiday season too, and
spread a little kindness. There's not enough in this world.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know, I'd give anything to have
those conversations with my grandparts back again and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So do that. Well, we're affording Parker Gabriel, see how
how that goes. We do have. We had some unsung
heroes in this one. I know, the much maligned Little
Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We make jokes about it, but Little Turn Humphrey came
up big in this game when he needed to.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Packers rushed forward.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Nicks in the pocket now flush now stops comes back
and runs to the left bowl, pumps throws on.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The run past caught Little Jordan.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Humphrey spins out of a tackle. He's got a first
down of.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The Packer forty six.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
There's a little bit of that Bowl Knicks magic on
that play.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Twenty two yards on the pass he.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Started right and then stopped, came back left, and then
threw across his body.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A little Jordan Humphrey with a leaping completion. Little Jordan man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
There's the reason Sean Payton likes him. And then your course,
you've got Mike Bandy. I didn't see that one coming.
That guy's got That guy's got third on Joel Lombardi
somewhere from their time back of the Chargers together. That dude,
Michael Bandy has got photos of Joe Lombardi going full
(12:20):
FBI director. I'm talking Hoover, Nottel or Pttel. What are
the current guys. Yeah, I'm not crazy. I pictures like
I was stressed trying to do the Hoover thing. Anyway,
That's what I get.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Denver Hurry's in the line of scrimmage, shock and snap
a little bit off bot can run forever, run bow.
Both throws on the run passes caught down the east sideline,
and that is Michael Bandy scampering into the end zone
touchdown Denver twenty yard runs. Bo Nicks could have run forever,
but saw Michael Bandy out.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
In front of him, hit him on the run, and the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Fourth year wide receiver with a Denver touchdown and the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I am the Packers now tied at six.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I just you know, like I said, I do that
log shot parlay and then with both of I was like,
oh my god, I want to pull this off.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This was I thought I was just making a donation
of the sports book real quick, but.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Never wanted a Nate atkinst I've never been more thirsty
for a Naate Adkins touchdown on my I can't believe
they didn't offer you a payout. They did not offer
me a payout. I guess they really did not believe
in DAATEA Adkins. But I was sitting there was like, oh,
if there's a cash out, I am taking this five
six six nine zeros text line. Someone says loudest game
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was one hundred and forty two point two decibels in
casey that sounds right.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I don't remember the exact.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Number, but I believe that's correct, and I want us
to capture that. I want us to take that from
Kansas City too. I don't just want to have can
the city out of the playoffs, having to watch the
Denver Broncos and Blue and Orange playing playoff football.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I want to snatch a soul. Still doesn't feel real
that the Chiefs are eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Really does. And I had you know, we knew when
I mean you could see it, but I knew. I
was one of the first people to know that Mahomes
was done with the because they have an on site.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You had buddy of mine text me the picture.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
From from inside the tunnel there and it was yeah,
it uh.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know what I will say is this where we
as as Broncos Country.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
If you're a listener, if you're a fan of this show,
we don't celebrate injuries.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
On on opponents. We do not.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We absolutely don't. Makes that game at Christmas game a
little bit easier. But man, you gotta you gotta tip
your head. Pat Mahomes a warrior. Pat Mahomes a player,
He's a gamer, and it's so much sweeter when we
beat them when he has it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
When when it's him, That's exactly what I was going
to say, is like none of these Broncos players want
to beat the Chiefs. I mean, they obviously still want
to beat the Chiefs, but you want to beat the
Chiefs with Mahomes. You want to take down the best,
the team that's had the dynasty for ten years. And
we got to do that earlier this year, and it's
tough that we're not going to get to it again.
I mean, as someone who's adopted Broncos Country in the
(15:17):
past couple of years, as myself, like, it's awesome when
you get to take down the best. Yeah, And that's
what we were trying to do, is unseat the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's why victory this year was so much sweeter, right,
It wasn't like the victory last year at the end
of the season when it was Carson Wentz and a
bunch of guys that are selling insurance.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't we care about that? Like, I mean, I guess we.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did because we got the playoffs, But it was not
the same thing as beating Kansas City this year.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
With Pat Mahlmes beating.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That, there's no asterisk on that, and so you know,
on the one hand, it makes a little it it
seems to theoretically make a little easier on Christmas Day
with Gardner Minshew, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
If you're a fan of this show, we do not
celebrate injury. We do just like the Broncos did. M
Parsons went down and we're on a knee, you know,
out of respect. That was a really cool moment.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Was a warrior that went down and our best was
sitting there saying, hey man, we're sorry you lost your best.
That's how we do things here. Ay one six, I
got you text that was great, that was great to read.
I may hold that one for the Air Broncos Country
night back after this, Benjamin, all right, Grant Smith here
with you five six, six, nine zero courses The text
line as always, I appreciate you guys with everything that
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you send them. The nine seven I've answered this already,
but I'll answer it again. He says, Hey, guys, Brandon
Jones going on the IR or do you think there's
a chance we bring Justin Simmons back. I would say
that with this head coach, Justin Simmons will not be
back in Denver, and I will leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Expound on it. I'm just gonna leave it at that.
So I would find it extremely unlikely. As it as
I talked to someone today, I don't expect them to
bring in a safety. I think it'll be next man
up if they do bring somebody in, being a practice
squad type, bring in and it'll be PJ.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Locke.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It's my key behind him and Jail Skinner as the
tertiarya option there. I believe as it sits right now,
I don't believe there'll be a major move made there.
And as long as Sean Payton's here, I don't believe
Justin Simmons would be back.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I mean, if you think about it, obviously, the Brandon
Jones injury sucks and we brought him in for a reason.
But PJ lock was got plenty of starting experience. He
was there last year, he made some big plays the
year before that. I mean, there could be a worst
scenario in Broncos Country than having PJ Lock step up
and be a starting safety.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean, you know PJ was started last year.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's not like this is a.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
New territory for him, and I think it a pins
you'll work. I don't expect Brandon Jones back this year,
so you know PJ has bet a guy who's been
able to make plays before, and I think, you know again,
I think this is an opportunity for him. Well we'll
go from there. Eighty one six is give us more.
Grant Smith, That's what the people clamor for around here.
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I'm here for you, but it's a it's an adentum
to this right here, which is I've been a Broncos
fan my entire life, born and raised in Kansas City.
You but my first picture in the hospital was wearing
an Lway jersey a few months after Super Bowl thirty two.
In all my twenty seven years, I've never been as
committed and invested as a fan. I have been since
I found Ben on Twitter and started listening to BCT.
(18:16):
I love the show the past four years or so,
and I've been a constant listener. Makes it so fun
and easy to be a Broncos fan. The way you
run the show makes me feel like I'm part of
Broncos Country. As a listener, I'm proud to be a
top five percent listener on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Thank you for all the hard work and what all
you do.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I wonder if that was the guy that I don't
know if you got any of them sent to you
when they did the rap thing at the end of
the year. But I had like two or three people
reach out to me and be like, hey, send me
a screenshot of like their top five listener of BCT
and they're like, oh, thanks so much for what you do.
And it just felt so cool that, like we are
reaching the people we want to reach with Broncos Country Tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, that's one of those things. You know, I've
always loved doing the show. I love the listeners in
the community that we've built doing this thing. And you know,
we've been through some ups and downs. We've been through
some personal ups and downs. I've been through some personal
ups and downs, but you know, I know, I love
the community that we've built here.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It really love fun to get here to do this,
and it makes it more fun when it's a season
like this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You know, I am one of.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Those people who is going to be more critical about
things at times, simply because that's just the way my
mind works.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I am suspicious and skeptical by nature. I am, you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Know, one of those people that wants to take something
apart and put it back together to see how it works.
And so I don't just take things at surface value.
I don't just sit there and you know, well and
you know it is what it is. I want to
be optimistic about things, and I know I get a
reputation for pessimism at times, but I really it's more
born of, like you know, wanting to to to make
sense of something and make sure of something before we
get there.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There's there's no denying this team is good. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're at the point where, you know, even the hottest
of take guys in this market can't sit there and
deny how good the Denver Broncos are at this point,
you know. And I'll be honest, I didn't think they
were gonna be green Bay. I thought green Bay was
and I still believe it's the toughest test they've had
this year. But I honestly thought green Bay had a
real good shot to beat them. But in the end,
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they they found a way, as they've continued to do
this year. And it just feels like, you know, I'm
not one of those people that believes in destiny and
all that kind of stuff, but it sort.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Of feels like that, right, it really does.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean, it's just with the amount of one score
games that they have found a way to win. And
I was nervous about the Packers game, but I texted,
I was texted with my buddy who's a local and
been in Broncos fan of his whole life, and he's like, man,
I don't know. I just I just don't know if
they can win this one. And I think it's just
from the past, you know, decade where they haven't pulled
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out these close games. But I feel the tide has
turned in Broncos country, especially after Sunday. I mean, beating
the best team in the NFC and the way they
did it with that comeback in the second half, This
team's legit.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I think the only you know, the only other team
you could have put out there as a litmus test
like that would have been the Rams, right and right now,
those are the betting favorites for the Super Bowl, you know,
I think there's I think there's a lot to go to.
It's fascinating to me because you know, almost everybody credits
Sean Payton for this turn around. I think you have
to give Sean Payton some of the credit, but I
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think you have to give George Peyton quite a bit
of the credit. Too.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
The depth on this dep's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You know, we were talking earlier about the unsung heroes
like Little Jordan Humphrey and Michael Bandy, and like that
just speaks to me how much depth this team has.
The fact that Marvin Mems isn't getting more more action,
like it's because we have so many weapons. Pat Bryant
goes down, doesn't matter. We got another guy to step
right up.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, yeah, or or you know, Brandon Jones goes down,
a PJ Lock is right there. As I said one
for you know, put it here on the text lines.
It seems like every time someone goes down the Broncos,
our next guy up is someone that's good enough to
compete for starting or even just start for another team.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
George Payton's really built the depth of this TV.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, and that's a big part of why the Broncos
are where they are right now, is there's enough depth here.
With all due respect to John la who has been
involved with more winning with the Denver Broncos, both on
the player and front office side of things, the last
half of Elway's tenure as general manager, the roster was
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not where it needed to be in a lot of cases.
The defense continued to pretty much be stocked, but the
offense we never got the right tackle situation solved. We
would get something sold and something else would have, you know,
the center situation, and they would move on and you
try to get another one. You know, there were some
I thought la I thought Elway's first half of his
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general manager tenure was as good as anyone has ever
had as a general manager. And I thought the second
half was the post Peyton Manning era in and of
itself was severely lacking.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, And to George Payton's credit, I mean, like some
of the shots he took in free agency this offseason,
bringing in Greenlaw, who's got an injury history, bringing in Hufunga,
I think those dudes have changed. Like we were a
really good defense last year. There's a culture change there.
There's a new mentality. And that this play from Huff
early on when he just blew up the Packers tight end,
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yeah and.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Right into the Yeah. Listen, listen to this call from Dave.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Third down to one toss left side and knocked off
his feet and short of the first down is Josh Jacobs.
That was Talanoah who Funga and we've got an injured
Green Bay player down. Who Funga came flying up took
one of the blockers off his feet. And that was
not a low block at all by whu Funga. That
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was Josh Wiley to tiight end, who Hufunga basically ran
right through his face and knocked Wiley back into Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wiley is still down. Yeah, I was seeing it live.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Was kind of funny because hu Fuka basically used Wiley
to bulldoze Jacob's over. It was.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It was kind of it was. It was and they
really have like green Law.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know, it took him a minute there with the
soft tissue, but once he got in there, you know,
he seems like green Law was involved in an altercation
before the game.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Saw the video.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I don't know if yeah, I don't know if you
guys said I was there. I saw it and and
you know, I tried to tweet about it a little bit.
It was green Law and he was chirping. It looked
like four Packers players. I think key Shot Nixon was
the instigator of all of it. I didn't exactly see
who did at first, but you know, I was right
there for it and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
In green Laws. Just see, he just kept going.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He was like he's surrounded by basically a mob of
Green Bay players on their sideline. And Nick Benito got
in there and got bow Nicks was running out there
to get him, and Nick Benito went and got him,
uh and tried to pull everybody off each other.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he's They brought a chip and you need some
of that. You need somebody talked about. You need some dollars.
You can't all be choir boys.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You need somebody that's that's not afraid to snatch a
few changed, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You need a little crazy right right.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You need one of one of those guys, maybe two
of those guys that that just give you a different
attitude and a different tone, and that there is definitely
there is definitely something that you know, you look at
the players that they brought in JK. Dobbins and what
he was able to accomplish this year. You know, we've
already talked about what you know, Hufanga and and and and.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And green Law have done.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
George has had some missus. But any any general manager
worth their salt is gonna have bath. They're gonna hit
some misses, right, Uh they're Andrew Grandy Gregory thing. You know,
I don't put the Russell Wilson thing entirely on George
Payton because you know, there was this whole plan to
get Aaron Rodgers, and they were assured that they did
certain things and hired certain people and all this, that
that was the way that was going to go, and
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it didn't go that way, and they wound up, you know,
just trying to make a move because they sort of
had this you know this in addiction to uh go
get a quarterback because the team was being put up
for sale, and so you know, okay, well the next
next best thing and the marriage of I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't think that either was the right guy.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But the Russell Wilson Nate Hackett thing, I think it
was such a disaster because they were the wrong guys
for each other too.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, like we saw Russ was winning games with Sean.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I mean, you know, it looked it was like bo
It looked bad through three quarters and then all of
a sudden you'd pour it on.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know. It was just like most most games with
bow anyway, not this past one certainly, But that's the thing.
I think those were just the wrong guys for each other.
And yeah, Russ had lost his fastball.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, it wasn't you know, he wasn't the same guy,
but you could still win games with him. But those
you had a first time head coach was in over
his head and a quarterback who at that point was
still had the ego that you know that he could
run things, and there's there's just a lot going on there.
And it wasn't all you know, you get a lot
of these fans that just want to blame Russ and
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I'm like, man, I'm telling you, it wasn't all. It
wasn't all that, especially in that second year where you
know they were trying to broom him. You know that
the coach was was one moving on from him and
doing everything he could to broom him and and just
just couldn't quite quite get there until late in the
season because they started winning games. So I mean, you know,
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there was just a lot going on there. So I
don't hold that against George Peyton per se. I think
he made the move that he could, but you look
at what he's done, finding Nick Bonito at the end
of the second round, you know, taking pats Er Tan
when you had every media dork in town screaming you
needed a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, guys telling him that he was the you know,
he needs to be fired for that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They need to be fired for drafting pats Er Tan
over Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Who's going to go down as what probably a top
ten Bronco of all time PS two.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, probably, I mean, the best corner since Champ. And
he has a chance to pass Champ. I would I
would assume I would too. And you know, obviously Champ
is a legend here. But PS two, I mean, what's
he in year five? Yeah, I mean we've got at
least five more years of he's been a defensive Player.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Of the Year.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He's clearly the the you know, one of the top quarters,
if got the top quarter.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Most games, people don't even throw at him, Yeah, just
shut down a side of the field.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, and you know, but that's the thing, if you
do throw at him, you know, it's you know, it's
one of those things that you know you're risking, you're
risking it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And we saw what Jeordan loved through the ball, what
happened got picked off exactly. You know, there's there's a
lot of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I think George Paton has done a phenomenal job and
does not get the credit for piece by piece, even
without premium draft picks traded due to the Russell Wilson
or Sean Payton trades, that has just proceeded to put
this roster back together as a strength and still.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Under the cap hit from the Russell Wilson deal. Like,
that's what people are forgetting this year because of all
the success on field, Like we're still we took the
most of it last year, but think about what we're
going to do when we're completely out.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
From under that contract. Yeah, you know it could be
you know, it could be a lot worse, a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Three or three Broncos success is a total team effort.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Started with a new ownership group who came in on
day one and made a commitment to return the Broncos
in Denver into all. We wanted some credit to the
Walton penner grew to George Peyton, Sean Payton and the
players for all buying in and make it an happen.
I think that's just about succinctly as you can put
it there, because yeah, the new ownership group did come
in they did prove they care. They're willing to spend
a little extra money go out there and have the
turf redone late in a meaningfulason when they did. Yeah, uh,
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they are willing to go And the little it's the
little touches to one thing, I'll say, like when we
did the throw back uniform, they could have just done
the uniforms and that was that right. They didn't just
do the u They did all the little details in
the stadium. They get the font right on the screen,
they do the font right on the on the padding
around the stadium to do the font right and the
right colors in the end zone.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like it's it's attention to detail that shows that you care.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And and that's I think that was a big thing
for me when looking at what the Walton Penner group did,
you know, it's it's those little details that yeah, we
could have just blown past it and save a couple
of bucks and and they haven't. And that's that's been
a big part of that as well.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And one person left out in that text vance Joseph
Man having the guile to come back to Denver and
be the DC after how poorly it went for him,
as a head coach here to come back and not
only be the d C, but lead one of the
best defenses in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, the and the and the and to keep it together.
After the seventy point game in Miami, you had this
town ready to run him out on a rail. And
at that point in time, he just went to Sean.
He's like, look, we're down players and we're trying to
run a defensive scheme because he was still trying to
run Vic was Vance was trying to run Vic Fangil's
scheme at that point. He was trying to run a
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hybrid of Vance's scheme and and keep continuity, make it
easy on guys. He said, look, I'm just gonna run
what I run, and we're just gonna do that the
rest of the way. And sure enough, they you know,
they switch things up. They start running with Vance runs,
which is wildly different than what Vic Fangil runs.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's worked out pretty damn good.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's worked out remarkably well for the Denver Broncos since.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Then four one seven.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I second the praise for BCT and Ben you may
look smart. When I talk to my family, the lifelong
Broncos fans and any ruse related to the team. I'm
pretty sure my seventy five year old uncle thinks I
have a source inside Dell Valley. Thanks, and I still say,
damn you've been for making me care about void years.
If there's one thing, there's one thing I'm more proud
(31:13):
of than anything else, it's have the rest of the
Broncos country educating about void years.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And in my disdain for UH for for using them
too much.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You can, you could do it with like one or
two contracts, but like when you once you start overdoing it,
you're gonna get yourself into a situation through four years
where you're in real trouble. And they've they've been good
about that. They haven't really they haven't really done too
too much of it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
A second that though, like I was a huge I've
been a huge sports fan my whole life, and I
was like the encyclopedia for my dad when he would
come in, like, Hey, what's what what do I need
to know about sports today? And since I've started working
on this show, I feel like I know so much
more about the game, so many more of the ins
and outs working with you and Nick Ferguson as a
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former player, like I finally get like, I get to
explain things to my friends that are the casual sports
fan who consider themselves die hard. I'm like, no, I
understand why you feel that way, but this is why
that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's awesome, It's so cool, Like that's one of those
things I think.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
You know, when when Ryan and I started doing this show,
we had like two goals with with Broncos Country at
Night and well three goals.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
We had.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
One, we just wanted to create a fun atmosphere where
there was like a sense of community. Two, we wanted
to be inclusive. We wanted to be We wanted to
have that atmosphere be something that didn't a lot of
radio shows.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You know, it kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It's it's a click almost right, and there's there's certain
demographics that are welcome and certain that kind of aren't.
And in our the way we did it, we wanted
to make it open to women. We wanted to make
it open to young people, to old people, all that
kind of stuff. We would have created a fun environment
there we could do and then we want to educate,
you know, we wanted to build a smarter fan base
and and I hope that the end of the day
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that we have accomplished any and.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All of those three for everybody involved. Quite a few
questions on there, the five O five.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I don't remember the last time Sean ran a wide
Reskiver screenplay reball was downfield, so refreshing to see guy now,
I made that comment. I made that comment as well.
There's quite a few stuff on there. To try to
get back to some of that here in a little bit,
we come back. We got Sean Keeler get a chance
to talk about seeing you a little bit, and you
go around the horn.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sean smart guy a lot of different sports. He's a
really smart guy.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
He may always agree with what he says, but but
I find that anyvery time he makes a point that
I even disagree with, he's well thought out in it
at least, and one of my favorite guys to talk
to you on this program.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So Sean Keeller, we come back.
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
When you got from now until it was in February first,
that's when we're sutting down the nominations this year. I
like the fact that we shifted that it was something
we used to do for the holidays, and we shifted
into the new year. Because people getting that you know,
cash prizes there at the end of the year and
then not factoring into their taxes and all that kind
of stuff. Well now you get at the beginning of
the year, you get a plan for all that and
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Speaker 3 (01:08):
So those videos make me cry everything presentations.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
But you know, you know how hard it is to.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Like stay stoken because I got to read, Like I
have so much stuff I have to read, Like when
we do this, I got to read their nomination letters.
Some sit there like reading their nomination letter, do it
everything I can not to not to break down and
no shot moreno sized tears.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
And uh, I'm not kidding it. It is a uh
it's tough. It's tough.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Some of those nomination stories are real, and we read
all of them, by the way, not just the ones
that will We read all of them.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
But those are those are tough.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Those videos, man, it's uh in you know, they write
those such a great job putting putting that stuff together.
But it's so tough for me to like stay composed
on a lot of We had one that I just
I could not keep it together. I think we had
to stitch together some of the video. I couldn't keep
it together.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
That it was a lady.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
Uh and her young daughter, UH and her husband had
uh had had you know, it'd come back and you
had some problems and you know I'd wound up uh
you know, taking his life and it was uh, you know,
it was just it was a brutal read and you
know that that family, getting that family that check was
oh man, it was Uh it was great just to
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just the surprise and the and the joy and seeing
that mom was going to be able to do something
for Christmas for her daughter that year.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
God, it was It's just yeah, those things are those
things are tough. Still gets you, I mean, that's right now, And.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Try doing everything I can to keep together right now.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
But that's you know, for all the the crap we
get working in this industry, all the people talking stuff
to it too, especially you, and then you get to
do stuff like that, that's what makes you, you know,
your job worth it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Yeah, we need to help people out that really need it.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah, there is, there's that moment of kind of reward
as we're able to connect you know, uh, these these
sponsors that we have on the show to uh to
these people in need and stuff like that. And that's
the thing you don't see behind the you know, the
corporate uh nature of a lot of things these days,
is how these businesses and how these uh, these stations
and these people all want.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
To you know, give back to humanity and get a
chance to do that. And it really is. Anyway, can
we call her on a dot com size contest?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Uh, you guys got to telp fight Boy first to
get your nominations in there.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Looking around on the text line, Profit texted in and said, uh, hey,
it was a guy next to me in the fourth
quarter who had a decibel app on his phone and
he got an alert saying the noise level was dangerously
high and he should leave the environment immediately. Oh that's
(03:43):
too good, you know, honestly, that's the thing we need
to do.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Down a stretch.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
I need uh, I need some of these decibel meter
apps at the games. I need you guys to send
me your screenshots from the game. So you gotta send
you like your phone screenshot you know at the game.
You said a picture yourself at the game too, So
I need two of them, right, Well, we need to
figure out a way to do this where I can
get and who has the loudest decibel count on their
phone because if we could get that decibel level up there.
(04:14):
I hate it chaps me to no end that that
record is in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
And yeah, the record, the decibel record is Kansas City
said they shared it for a while. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I have to double check, but I believe it is
like one forty one forty two ish something like that,
uh in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
And I'm pretty sure it was, like I mean, it
was like a decade ago. It's been.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
It's a long standing record. Seattle had it for a minute,
uh and for the outdoor because they had it like
one thirty seven. I think one thirty eight. Now I've
certainly I've seen on the eater board there, I've seen
one seventeen, one twelve, one seventeen.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
But I feel like we can get louder. I feel
like here at altitude, can we can get louder.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I'll tell you what, man, if we're hosting an AFC championship,
game this year.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think we can beat it. Well, I mean there's
a risk of damage. Obviously. You don't want to sit there.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
And just do that the whole time because you know,
the hearing loss at one hundred decibels can occur in
fifteen minutes, and we're talking about trying to get to
one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You know that's so loud.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yeah, I mean you know shake in the stadium, yeah, honestly,
and you can feel it there are like Ford Field,
I think is the indoor record, and that's at one
hundred and thirty three point six.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Do you give you an idea of that.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
A jet engine at one hundred feet away is one
hundred and forty decibels, right, So this is louder than
a jet engine.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I think we can do it. I think we
can set that record here.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
I don't think it's I don't think people in Denver
are appreciably more soft spoken than people in Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
We just got to get those packers fans out of stadium.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
So I'm saying it was terrible, and I get, like
I said, people try to make a little money and
even out in this economy, you got to but like
end of the day we get a playoff game, I'm
coming after that record. You heard of your first Broncos
country tonight. We're starting the bandwagon movement. We're doing it here.
(06:34):
We are making we are making the record ours. We've
got Kansas City out the playoffs. We're gonna get them
out the record book. Five six six nine zeros text line. Yeah,
thanks for that profit we get We got to get
We got to get there. I need some pictures of
decibel levels over the next couple of weeks so we
get an idea of how loud we need to get
in that stadium to get there.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
I'd like to know what it was profit.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
If you want to text in again at five six
six nine zero, let us know what the decibel level
was when it said it was dangerous.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Because I've seen, like I said, I've seen in the stadium,
but it's been pretty loud in the level the meter
on the board says like one twelve, one seventeen, and
that's loud, but that's still not in the record breaking
loud territory.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
And so we gotta we got to get there.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Seven to two oh. Ben has a soft heart with
that shell to be able to do his job. We
appreciate the hard work all you guys do, even when
you may not feel like, Hey, I appreciate you texting
that in.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Once in a while, you get you get to pick
me up.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You know, you get to pick me up text out
of the blue. There was one Sunday, and you know.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
For those of you don't know, I wasn't your Friday.
It was my birthday. I was out.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
I may have had a few soda pops. They've had
a lot of soda pops. No, I might have shut
a soda factory down.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
On Friday night.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
If you were at the Halo bar, I apologize.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
We got one Sunday I was feeling, you know, I turned.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
For those of you listening, I turned forty five, which
you know, not to make it super depressing, but it
makes me officially closer to sixty than thirty. And I
was kind of struggling with that one a little bit,
as one does. And so I came in here Sunday
and somebody just texted during Broncos Warmth. They were like,
thank god we got Ben covering this team. Thank god
(08:24):
we got somebody the smartest Bend cover in this team.
You may not agree with him all the time, but
he at least thinks about what he says and just
just fire off the dumbest stuff possible. And I was like, man,
you know, like in the weirdest moment, that little pick
me up did me a world of good. Did me
a world of good. So you guys listening when you
(08:45):
text those stuff in. Even if I don't read it
on the air, I see him, and I'm not fishing
for one right now.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
But what I will say is I know how that feels.
Reach out to those around you, shoot them, have picked
me up message.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Think about that person you had talked to in a while,
you need an excuse, you should have all pick me
up message.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Man, I swear it will make somebody's day.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
No one ever gets tired of hearing like a nice
comments I'm.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Saying, nobody ever is like, oh my god, not this
idiot commentator, you know, complimenting me here.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And I know when someone really needs to like you
did on Sunday, That's what I'm That's what I'm getting that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So that's one of those things that you know, and
I got it was something I got off one of
the Taken It for Granted podcast. I can't remember who
said it, and I've I've adopted it and used it
my own life quite a bit. But we we we
put everything through the lens of social media so much.
You know, it is something if a social media post underperforms,
(09:35):
you know, well, that didn't get a hundred likes, people
people don't like me, or you know whatever, that didn't
get a hundred retweets. But if a hundred people came
up to you in the course of a day said, man,
you look, you are looking great today, you would be overwhelmed.
And that's that's the difference. In the digital age that
we live in, it would almost be too much. Yeah,
it would, I mean it would be you know, it's
(09:56):
that that's the difference in the age that we live in.
We we we base things off house social media performances
is are, and we start to think in those terms.
You know, you put an Instagram photo out there or something,
and only thirty people like this, you know, only only
fifty people wish me a birthday. You know they did. Man,
I'm telling you send one of those messages out to
your friend. I promise you it will. It will brighten
(10:19):
their day.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And also, just one more thing, while we're on this,
nice sentimental moment that I love when we get into
this South Rocco's country and I call your family members
this holiday season, especially if you're like me and Ben
and are transplant.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I thought to my grandma for like an hour today,
and like I'm almost tearing up thinking about it right now,
Like just how much it meant to her for me
to take the time to call her and spend an
hour chatting with her, Like that meant the world to her.
So call your family members this holiday season too, and
spread a little kindness. There's not enough in this world.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, absolutely, I mean, you know, I'd give anything to have
those conversations with my grandparts back again and all that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So do that. Well, we're affording Parker Gabriel, see how
how that goes. We do have. We had some unsung
heroes in this one. I know, the much maligned Little
Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
We make jokes about it, but Little Turn Humphrey came
up big in this game when he needed to.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Packers rushed forward.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Nicks in the pocket now flush now stops comes back
and runs to the left bowl, pumps throws on.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
The run past caught Little Jordan.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Humphrey spins out of a tackle. He's got a first
down of.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
The Packer forty six.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
There's a little bit of that Bowl Knicks magic on
that play.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Twenty two yards on the pass he.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
Started right and then stopped, came back left, and then
threw across his body.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
A little Jordan Humphrey with a leaping completion. Little Jordan man.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
There's the reason Sean Payton likes him. And then your course,
you've got Mike Bandy. I didn't see that one coming.
That guy's got That guy's got third on Joel Lombardi
somewhere from their time back of the Chargers together. That dude,
Michael Bandy has got photos of Joe Lombardi going full
(12:20):
FBI director. I'm talking Hoover, Nottel or Pttel. What are
the current guys. Yeah, I'm not crazy. I pictures like
I was stressed trying to do the Hoover thing. Anyway,
That's what I get.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Denver Hurry's in the line of scrimmage, shock and snap
a little bit off bot can run forever, run bow.
Both throws on the run passes caught down the east sideline,
and that is Michael Bandy scampering into the end zone
touchdown Denver twenty yard runs. Bo Nicks could have run forever,
but saw Michael Bandy out.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
In front of him, hit him on the run, and the.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
Fourth year wide receiver with a Denver touchdown and the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I am the Packers now tied at six.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I just you know, like I said, I do that
log shot parlay and then with both of I was like,
oh my god, I want to pull this off.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
This was I thought I was just making a donation
of the sports book real quick, but.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Never wanted a Nate atkinst I've never been more thirsty
for a Naate Adkins touchdown on my I can't believe
they didn't offer you a payout. They did not offer
me a payout. I guess they really did not believe
in DAATEA Adkins. But I was sitting there was like, oh,
if there's a cash out, I am taking this five
six six nine zeros text line. Someone says loudest game
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was one hundred and forty two point two decibels in
casey that sounds right.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I don't remember the exact.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Number, but I believe that's correct, and I want us
to capture that. I want us to take that from
Kansas City too. I don't just want to have can
the city out of the playoffs, having to watch the
Denver Broncos and Blue and Orange playing playoff football.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
I want to snatch a soul. Still doesn't feel real
that the Chiefs are eliminated from the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
Really does. And I had you know, we knew when
I mean you could see it, but I knew. I
was one of the first people to know that Mahomes
was done with the because they have an on site.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You had buddy of mine text me the picture.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
From from inside the tunnel there and it was yeah,
it uh.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
You know what I will say is this where we
as as Broncos Country.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
If you're a listener, if you're a fan of this show,
we don't celebrate injuries.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
On on opponents. We do not.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We absolutely don't. Makes that game at Christmas game a
little bit easier. But man, you gotta you gotta tip
your head. Pat Mahomes a warrior. Pat Mahomes a player,
He's a gamer, and it's so much sweeter when we
beat them when he has it.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
When when it's him, That's exactly what I was going
to say, is like none of these Broncos players want
to beat the Chiefs. I mean, they obviously still want
to beat the Chiefs, but you want to beat the
Chiefs with Mahomes. You want to take down the best,
the team that's had the dynasty for ten years. And
we got to do that earlier this year, and it's
tough that we're not going to get to it again.
I mean, as someone who's adopted Broncos Country in the
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past couple of years, as myself, like, it's awesome when
you get to take down the best. Yeah, And that's
what we were trying to do, is unseat the Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
That's why victory this year was so much sweeter, right,
It wasn't like the victory last year at the end
of the season when it was Carson Wentz and a
bunch of guys that are selling insurance.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Don't we care about that? Like, I mean, I guess we.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Did because we got the playoffs, But it was not
the same thing as beating Kansas City this year.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
With Pat Mahlmes beating.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
That, there's no asterisk on that, and so you know,
on the one hand, it makes a little it it
seems to theoretically make a little easier on Christmas Day
with Gardner Minshew, but we don't.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
If you're a fan of this show, we do not
celebrate injury. We do just like the Broncos did. M
Parsons went down and we're on a knee, you know,
out of respect. That was a really cool moment.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Was a warrior that went down and our best was
sitting there saying, hey man, we're sorry you lost your best.
That's how we do things here. Ay one six, I
got you text that was great, that was great to read.
I may hold that one for the Air Broncos Country
night back after this, Benjamin, all right, Grant Smith here
with you five six, six, nine zero courses The text
line as always, I appreciate you guys with everything that
(16:26):
you send them. The nine seven I've answered this already,
but I'll answer it again. He says, Hey, guys, Brandon
Jones going on the IR or do you think there's
a chance we bring Justin Simmons back. I would say
that with this head coach, Justin Simmons will not be
back in Denver, and I will leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Expound on it. I'm just gonna leave it at that.
So I would find it extremely unlikely. As it as
I talked to someone today, I don't expect them to
bring in a safety. I think it'll be next man
up if they do bring somebody in, being a practice
squad type, bring in and it'll be PJ.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Locke.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
It's my key behind him and Jail Skinner as the
tertiarya option there. I believe as it sits right now,
I don't believe there'll be a major move made there.
And as long as Sean Payton's here, I don't believe
Justin Simmons would be back.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
I mean, if you think about it, obviously, the Brandon
Jones injury sucks and we brought him in for a reason.
But PJ lock was got plenty of starting experience. He
was there last year, he made some big plays the
year before that. I mean, there could be a worst
scenario in Broncos Country than having PJ Lock step up
and be a starting safety.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Yeah, I mean, you know PJ was started last year.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
It's not like this is a.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
New territory for him, and I think it a pins
you'll work. I don't expect Brandon Jones back this year,
so you know PJ has bet a guy who's been
able to make plays before, and I think, you know again,
I think this is an opportunity for him. Well we'll
go from there. Eighty one six is give us more.
Grant Smith, That's what the people clamor for around here.
(17:56):
I'm here for you, but it's a it's an adentum
to this right here, which is I've been a Broncos
fan my entire life, born and raised in Kansas City.
You but my first picture in the hospital was wearing
an Lway jersey a few months after Super Bowl thirty two.
In all my twenty seven years, I've never been as
committed and invested as a fan. I have been since
I found Ben on Twitter and started listening to BCT.
(18:16):
I love the show the past four years or so,
and I've been a constant listener. Makes it so fun
and easy to be a Broncos fan. The way you
run the show makes me feel like I'm part of
Broncos Country. As a listener, I'm proud to be a
top five percent listener on Spotify.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Thank you for all the hard work and what all
you do.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I wonder if that was the guy that I don't
know if you got any of them sent to you
when they did the rap thing at the end of
the year. But I had like two or three people
reach out to me and be like, hey, send me
a screenshot of like their top five listener of BCT
and they're like, oh, thanks so much for what you do.
And it just felt so cool that, like we are
reaching the people we want to reach with Broncos Country Tonight.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I mean, that's one of those things. You know, I've
always loved doing the show. I love the listeners in
the community that we've built doing this thing. And you know,
we've been through some ups and downs. We've been through
some personal ups and downs. I've been through some personal
ups and downs, but you know, I know, I love
the community that we've built here.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
It really is.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
It really love fun to get here to do this,
and it makes it more fun when it's a season
like this.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
You know, I am one of.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Those people who is going to be more critical about
things at times, simply because that's just the way my
mind works.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I am suspicious and skeptical by nature. I am, you.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Know, one of those people that wants to take something
apart and put it back together to see how it works.
And so I don't just take things at surface value.
I don't just sit there and you know, well and
you know it is what it is. I want to
be optimistic about things, and I know I get a
reputation for pessimism at times, but I really it's more
born of, like you know, wanting to to to make
sense of something and make sure of something before we
get there.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
There's there's no denying this team is good. Now.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
We're at the point where, you know, even the hottest
of take guys in this market can't sit there and
deny how good the Denver Broncos are at this point,
you know. And I'll be honest, I didn't think they
were gonna be green Bay. I thought green Bay was
and I still believe it's the toughest test they've had
this year. But I honestly thought green Bay had a
real good shot to beat them. But in the end,
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they they found a way, as they've continued to do
this year. And it just feels like, you know, I'm
not one of those people that believes in destiny and
all that kind of stuff, but it sort.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Of feels like that, right, it really does.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
I mean, it's just with the amount of one score
games that they have found a way to win. And
I was nervous about the Packers game, but I texted,
I was texted with my buddy who's a local and
been in Broncos fan of his whole life, and he's like, man,
I don't know. I just I just don't know if
they can win this one. And I think it's just
from the past, you know, decade where they haven't pulled
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out these close games. But I feel the tide has
turned in Broncos country, especially after Sunday. I mean, beating
the best team in the NFC and the way they
did it with that comeback in the second half, This
team's legit.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I think the only you know, the only other team
you could have put out there as a litmus test
like that would have been the Rams, right and right now,
those are the betting favorites for the Super Bowl, you know,
I think there's I think there's a lot to go to.
It's fascinating to me because you know, almost everybody credits
Sean Payton for this turn around. I think you have
to give Sean Payton some of the credit, but I
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think you have to give George Peyton quite a bit
of the credit. Too.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
The depth on this dep's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
You know, we were talking earlier about the unsung heroes
like Little Jordan Humphrey and Michael Bandy, and like that
just speaks to me how much depth this team has.
The fact that Marvin Mems isn't getting more more action,
like it's because we have so many weapons. Pat Bryant
goes down, doesn't matter. We got another guy to step
right up.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Well, yeah, or or you know, Brandon Jones goes down,
a PJ Lock is right there. As I said one
for you know, put it here on the text lines.
It seems like every time someone goes down the Broncos,
our next guy up is someone that's good enough to
compete for starting or even just start for another team.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
George Payton's really built the depth of this TV.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Yeah, and that's a big part of why the Broncos
are where they are right now, is there's enough depth here.
With all due respect to John la who has been
involved with more winning with the Denver Broncos, both on
the player and front office side of things, the last
half of Elway's tenure as general manager, the roster was
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not where it needed to be in a lot of cases.
The defense continued to pretty much be stocked, but the
offense we never got the right tackle situation solved. We
would get something sold and something else would have, you know,
the center situation, and they would move on and you
try to get another one. You know, there were some
I thought la I thought Elway's first half of his
(22:43):
general manager tenure was as good as anyone has ever
had as a general manager. And I thought the second
half was the post Peyton Manning era in and of
itself was severely lacking.
Speaker 3 (22:54):
Yeah, And to George Payton's credit, I mean, like some
of the shots he took in free agency this offseason,
bringing in Greenlaw, who's got an injury history, bringing in Hufunga,
I think those dudes have changed. Like we were a
really good defense last year. There's a culture change there.
There's a new mentality. And that this play from Huff
early on when he just blew up the Packers tight end,
(23:17):
yeah and.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
Right into the Yeah. Listen, listen to this call from Dave.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Third down to one toss left side and knocked off
his feet and short of the first down is Josh Jacobs.
That was Talanoah who Funga and we've got an injured
Green Bay player down. Who Funga came flying up took
one of the blockers off his feet. And that was
not a low block at all by whu Funga. That
(23:43):
was Josh Wiley to tiight end, who Hufunga basically ran
right through his face and knocked Wiley back into Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Wiley is still down. Yeah, I was seeing it live.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Was kind of funny because hu Fuka basically used Wiley
to bulldoze Jacob's over. It was.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It was kind of it was. It was and they
really have like green Law.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
You know, it took him a minute there with the
soft tissue, but once he got in there, you know,
he seems like green Law was involved in an altercation
before the game.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
Saw the video.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
I don't know if yeah, I don't know if you
guys said I was there. I saw it and and
you know, I tried to tweet about it a little bit.
It was green Law and he was chirping. It looked
like four Packers players. I think key Shot Nixon was
the instigator of all of it. I didn't exactly see
who did at first, but you know, I was right
there for it and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
In green Laws. Just see, he just kept going.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
He was like he's surrounded by basically a mob of
Green Bay players on their sideline. And Nick Benito got
in there and got bow Nicks was running out there
to get him, and Nick Benito went and got him,
uh and tried to pull everybody off each other.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
But he's They brought a chip and you need some
of that. You need somebody talked about. You need some dollars.
You can't all be choir boys.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
You need somebody that's that's not afraid to snatch a
few changed, especially on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
You need a little crazy right right.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
You need one of one of those guys, maybe two
of those guys that that just give you a different
attitude and a different tone, and that there is definitely
there is definitely something that you know, you look at
the players that they brought in JK. Dobbins and what
he was able to accomplish this year. You know, we've
already talked about what you know, Hufanga and and and and.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
And green Law have done.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
George has had some missus. But any any general manager
worth their salt is gonna have bath. They're gonna hit
some misses, right, Uh they're Andrew Grandy Gregory thing. You know,
I don't put the Russell Wilson thing entirely on George
Payton because you know, there was this whole plan to
get Aaron Rodgers, and they were assured that they did
certain things and hired certain people and all this, that
that was the way that was going to go, and
(25:34):
it didn't go that way, and they wound up, you know,
just trying to make a move because they sort of
had this you know this in addiction to uh go
get a quarterback because the team was being put up
for sale, and so you know, okay, well the next
next best thing and the marriage of I don't think that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
I don't think that either was the right guy.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
But the Russell Wilson Nate Hackett thing, I think it
was such a disaster because they were the wrong guys
for each other too.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
You know, like we saw Russ was winning games with Sean.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I mean, you know, it looked it was like bo
It looked bad through three quarters and then all of
a sudden you'd pour it on.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
You know. It was just like most most games with
bow anyway, not this past one certainly, But that's the thing.
I think those were just the wrong guys for each other.
And yeah, Russ had lost his fastball.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
You know, it wasn't you know, he wasn't the same guy,
but you could still win games with him. But those
you had a first time head coach was in over
his head and a quarterback who at that point was
still had the ego that you know that he could
run things, and there's there's just a lot going on there.
And it wasn't all you know, you get a lot
of these fans that just want to blame Russ and
(26:42):
I'm like, man, I'm telling you, it wasn't all. It
wasn't all that, especially in that second year where you
know they were trying to broom him. You know that
the coach was was one moving on from him and
doing everything he could to broom him and and just
just couldn't quite quite get there until late in the
season because they started winning games. So I mean, you know,
(27:05):
there was just a lot going on there. So I
don't hold that against George Peyton per se. I think
he made the move that he could, but you look
at what he's done, finding Nick Bonito at the end
of the second round, you know, taking pats Er Tan
when you had every media dork in town screaming you
needed a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Yeah, guys telling him that he was the you know,
he needs to be fired for that.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They need to be fired for drafting pats Er Tan
over Justin Fields.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
Who's going to go down as what probably a top
ten Bronco of all time PS two.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Yeah, probably, I mean, the best corner since Champ. And
he has a chance to pass Champ. I would I
would assume I would too. And you know, obviously Champ
is a legend here. But PS two, I mean, what's
he in year five? Yeah, I mean we've got at
least five more years of he's been a defensive Player.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Of the Year.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
He's clearly the the you know, one of the top quarters,
if got the top quarter.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
In the league.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Most games, people don't even throw at him, Yeah, just
shut down a side of the field.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
Well, and you know, but that's the thing, if you
do throw at him, you know, it's you know, it's
one of those things that you know you're risking, you're
risking it.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
And we saw what Jeordan loved through the ball, what
happened got picked off exactly. You know, there's there's a
lot of stuff here.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
I think George Paton has done a phenomenal job and
does not get the credit for piece by piece, even
without premium draft picks traded due to the Russell Wilson
or Sean Payton trades, that has just proceeded to put
this roster back together as a strength and still.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Under the cap hit from the Russell Wilson deal. Like,
that's what people are forgetting this year because of all
the success on field, Like we're still we took the
most of it last year, but think about what we're
going to do when we're completely out.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
From under that contract. Yeah, you know it could be
you know, it could be a lot worse, a lot worse.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Three or three Broncos success is a total team effort.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Started with a new ownership group who came in on
day one and made a commitment to return the Broncos
in Denver into all. We wanted some credit to the
Walton penner grew to George Peyton, Sean Payton and the
players for all buying in and make it an happen.
I think that's just about succinctly as you can put
it there, because yeah, the new ownership group did come
in they did prove they care. They're willing to spend
a little extra money go out there and have the
turf redone late in a meaningfulason when they did. Yeah, uh,
(29:14):
they are willing to go And the little it's the
little touches to one thing, I'll say, like when we
did the throw back uniform, they could have just done
the uniforms and that was that right. They didn't just
do the u They did all the little details in
the stadium. They get the font right on the screen,
they do the font right on the on the padding
around the stadium to do the font right and the
right colors in the end zone.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Like it's it's attention to detail that shows that you care.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
And and that's I think that was a big thing
for me when looking at what the Walton Penner group did,
you know, it's it's those little details that yeah, we
could have just blown past it and save a couple
of bucks and and they haven't. And that's that's been
a big part of that as well.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
And one person left out in that text vance Joseph
Man having the guile to come back to Denver and
be the DC after how poorly it went for him,
as a head coach here to come back and not
only be the d C, but lead one of the
best defenses in the league.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Well, the and the and the and to keep it together.
After the seventy point game in Miami, you had this
town ready to run him out on a rail. And
at that point in time, he just went to Sean.
He's like, look, we're down players and we're trying to
run a defensive scheme because he was still trying to
run Vic was Vance was trying to run Vic Fangil's
scheme at that point. He was trying to run a
(30:32):
hybrid of Vance's scheme and and keep continuity, make it
easy on guys. He said, look, I'm just gonna run
what I run, and we're just gonna do that the
rest of the way. And sure enough, they you know,
they switch things up. They start running with Vance runs,
which is wildly different than what Vic Fangil runs.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
It's worked out pretty damn good.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
It's worked out remarkably well for the Denver Broncos since.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Then four one seven.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I second the praise for BCT and Ben you may
look smart. When I talk to my family, the lifelong
Broncos fans and any ruse related to the team. I'm
pretty sure my seventy five year old uncle thinks I
have a source inside Dell Valley. Thanks, and I still say,
damn you've been for making me care about void years.
If there's one thing, there's one thing I'm more proud
(31:13):
of than anything else, it's have the rest of the
Broncos country educating about void years.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
And in my disdain for UH for for using them
too much.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
You can, you could do it with like one or
two contracts, but like when you once you start overdoing it,
you're gonna get yourself into a situation through four years
where you're in real trouble. And they've they've been good
about that. They haven't really they haven't really done too
too much of it.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
A second that though, like I was a huge I've
been a huge sports fan my whole life, and I
was like the encyclopedia for my dad when he would
come in, like, Hey, what's what what do I need
to know about sports today? And since I've started working
on this show, I feel like I know so much
more about the game, so many more of the ins
and outs working with you and Nick Ferguson as a
(31:58):
former player, like I finally get like, I get to
explain things to my friends that are the casual sports
fan who consider themselves die hard. I'm like, no, I
understand why you feel that way, but this is why
that doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
That's awesome, It's so cool, Like that's one of those
things I think.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
You know, when when Ryan and I started doing this show,
we had like two goals with with Broncos Country at
Night and well three goals.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
We had.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
One, we just wanted to create a fun atmosphere where
there was like a sense of community. Two, we wanted
to be inclusive. We wanted to be We wanted to
have that atmosphere be something that didn't a lot of
radio shows.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
You know, it kind of.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
It's it's a click almost right, and there's there's certain
demographics that are welcome and certain that kind of aren't.
And in our the way we did it, we wanted
to make it open to women. We wanted to make
it open to young people, to old people, all that
kind of stuff. We would have created a fun environment
there we could do and then we want to educate,
you know, we wanted to build a smarter fan base
and and I hope that the end of the day
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that we have accomplished any and.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
All of those three for everybody involved. Quite a few
questions on there, the five O five.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
I don't remember the last time Sean ran a wide
Reskiver screenplay reball was downfield, so refreshing to see guy now,
I made that comment. I made that comment as well.
There's quite a few stuff on there. To try to
get back to some of that here in a little bit,
we come back. We got Sean Keeler get a chance
to talk about seeing you a little bit, and you
go around the horn.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sean smart guy a lot of different sports. He's a
really smart guy.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
He may always agree with what he says, but but
I find that anyvery time he makes a point that
I even disagree with, he's well thought out in it
at least, and one of my favorite guys to talk
to you on this program.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
So Sean Keeller, we come back.
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