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December 16, 2024 34 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broncos coming off a thirty one thirteen victory over the
Colts didn't feel like a thirty one thirteen victory, but
a thirty one thirteen victory none the last big show
tonight and Nea Walke's gonna join us Soto five talk Old,
Travis Hunter and the Heisman, Parker Gabriel seven thirty five,
Cody ROURC eight oh five will re kept the Broncos victory,
but yeah, thirty one thirteen, but did not certainly feel

(00:22):
like a thirty one thirteen victory.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Uh to t anybody that I think was watching that.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Oh, it's similar to the way that I did actually,
in fact get my burrito bowl from Chipotle, but I
didn't really feel like it in the way that I
had to wolf it down because I stood in line
for twenty four minutes with one person in front of
me while they filled all of the online orders.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
I was just about to ask, how did you stand
in line for twenty five minutes if there's only one
person in front of you?

Speaker 2 (00:45):
But the online orders, Yeah they're more important than you.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah they're not, though, And it's that's sort of the thing, like, dude, Chipotle,
if you're gonna do this online ordering thing.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Man, you guys gotta get this. You guys gotta get
this together. You can't.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
You can't have people standing in line in the restaurant
watching food go out, and then when I get up
to make my order because they're out of steak because
they filled the online orders, and I've got to hurry
back here to be on the air. So I'm like,
all right, I'll take chicken instead, which I didn't want
Yardbird like a poor Anyway, enough of my cavetching about Chipotle.

(01:22):
Are they a sponsor?

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Not anymore?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
If they were, I forget them. Five six six nine
zero is the text I did want to say. Yes,
Blake Watson is on the practice squad. If you were
listening at last conversation on the show me the money
part that that would be the other running back is
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Blake Watson is on the practice squad.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
But I mean you could use treymont Smith as an
emergency back to It's not like any of these running
backs are get more than six eight.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Carries a game anyway. I mean, that's just not what
the Broncos do.

Speaker 1 (01:49):
Bo Nix was the leading rusher for the Broncos, both
in terms of carries and yardage In that game against
the Colts, he had eight carries for twenty three yards,
sixteen of which came on one play.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Jaliel had seven. Chavant they had six has to may
at five Marvin had one.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
You know, as far as going into a short week
against the Chargers, I mean, maybe maybe they're gonna run there,
but that's not typically what the Broncos do.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
They did have.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Thirty three pasicketemps so for one hundred and thirty yards
and three.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Picks and three touchdowns. They did get the three touchdowns
as well, Hey guess what they won.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
The game leading receiver was Courtland Sutton three catches for
thirty two yards and a touchdown on nine targets.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
It felt like they were force feeding him yesterday. Didn't
that well.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
They certainly did target him a lot, him and Troy Franklin,
which I again I just don't understand. You got Devon
Vele you target him once, like what.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Are we doing here? And honestly, this game it could
have been a lot worse.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
I mean, if Jonathan Taylor doesn't drop that ball before
crossing the goal line, who knows how this thing goes?
Because you were several minutes into the third quarter. You
come out at the half and you just got you know,
you were already not clicking on offense. The defense took

(03:14):
a couple of series to catch up. You come out
of the half and you get dashed by Taylor at
the run game and it felt like that that all
the momentum shifted at that point, just completely shifted. All
the air went out of the stadium, you know, in
that moment, and then the replay showed you might have
dropped it and there were.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
All of a sudden it went the other direction.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
But it was frustrating, a frustrating game for sure, especially
in light of the fact that the Broncos have been
in this situation before. You know, you go back to
last year when Denver was maybe not as a sure thing,
but if you beat the New England Patriots in that game,

(03:58):
you're you're probably in line for the playoffs. Last year,
they come out flat, they have some bad coaching decisions
at the end of the game, and they wind up losing.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
At least they came away with a win on this one.
And that's the thing.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I mean, you know, you can't you can't down talk
a win. And I don't want to do that. But
at the same time, man, this is if this is
how you play against Indy, you're gonna get You're gonna
get boat raced against actual playoff caliber teams, not marginal
playoff teams.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, but this is such a great win.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
I feel like for Seohn Payton with a young team
that they can still get this win. But there's so
many coaching points that they can work on going through
the last final three games of the season.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Yeah, and good.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I mean it's a confidence builder the sense that you
gutted one out. You know, you were on the ropes
and you gutted one out. So there are there are
positives that take away from it. But I had to
just I had to cleanse myself first. This is the
second multi interception game in a row from both Nicks,
and I wonder, you know, it's it's starting to start
to bey. Okay.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Is this.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
A product of circumstance or is this a situation? Is
this a one off? Or is this actually a situation
where you know, we need to look at something. Teams
have gotten tape, they've adjusted, and now now we're seeing
how it is that they're defending him.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
And that's that's part of the quarterback growth cycle.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Typically what happens is, you know, you start slow as
a rookie, and then you started picking up midway through
the season. Then you then you really come on towards
the end of but he gets a lot of optimism
and then you come back here too. Coaches, you know,
and teams have have had a full off season. They
get to look at the tape on you and Okay,
this is what he does, this is what he kind
of does here, this is what he does there. They
start sharing that, you know, around they get to you know,

(05:45):
you get to the Senior Bawl, you get to the
combine and you know, coaches are out at night they're talking, Oh,
I think we're gonna try this, try to defend him
if you notice X, Y and Z.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
And so defenses adjust and then they come out.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
You know, the next season and that quarterback hasn't been
a with regression or you know, a second a sophomore slump,
whatever it is.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
It really like, what's happening to with CJ. Stroud this year?

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Well?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Yeah, although I think there's.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Some schematic stuff going on there, but you have a
sophomore slump because teams have sort of figured out your
offense a little bit how to defend it, and now
they're coming back with their own CounterPunch. And that is
the quarterback grows cycle. You know, that's what separates the
guys that last longest league from guys that are first
contract quarterbacks. You know, quarterbacks that counter punch. The CounterPunch

(06:31):
as it were there. Okay, I see how they're defending me.
Now I've got to adjust to that. And so that's
part of the bonex grows cycle. And we'll see, you know,
we'll see where he's at with that and how that goes.
Five six, six, nine zeros the text line the five
A five, Yes, this is the text line. Nine Sevenosa
is going full wet blanket all right tonight. I see

(06:52):
no wet blanket about it.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
That thing in the dryer.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
Yeah, I'm not going wet blanket. Just being honest. It
was it was a bad game for the offense. I mean,
it was a horrendous game for the offense. Yeah, it
looked horrible that you pulled it out. I mean good,
but that was a horrible game for the offense. You know,
it's schematically, we've got to change some things. We can't
run the ball out of the gun like we're just

(07:16):
not We're not that team.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
We're not able to do that.

Speaker 1 (07:19):
And I don't know, you know what it's going to
take to design something that that works for this offensive
line and these running backs.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
But what we're doing right now is wasting snaps. And
we're at the point.

Speaker 1 (07:33):
Now where we're past the point where hey, it's cool, nifty,
we got a certain amount of wins. We're probably going
to the playoffs. It's time to pivot to Okay, this
isn't working, and this isn't working. We got to figure
out what does.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Work right, because when you're playing against playoff teams every week,
you're not gonna win that game yesterday.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
Yeah, people, you know winning winning will give you a
fuzzy memory about the bad times.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
The bad times weren't that many weeks ago. You remember
what Baltimore Ravens did to us. So if you're going to.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Compete with teams of that caliber, you're going to have
to be able to execute on offense. We're gonna have
to figure things out. And I don't know why we're
not getting Valet more targets. He's our most efficient receiver.
You could say Courtland's the best or whatever, but Valley's
the most efficient. He gets the most catches per target,

(08:27):
has the fewest drops, turns them into first downs at
the highest rate.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
Man, what a fine In the draft. He was seventh round, right,
uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
Six or seventh rather, can't real witch, but he was.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
He was late.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
I was so upset when they got rid of Tim Patrick.
But I gotta be honest. Ivon Valley is like a
younger version of Tim Patrick. He catches everything he throws
at him. He converts on the third and shorts and
the third and mediums when you need him. I mean,
he's the perfect replacement and has so much upside it
feels like, well, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Mean he's a little bit older, and so I think
that's part of the reason that he slipped in the
draft and all that. But you know, I do believe
that he could contribute, and I do believe he could,
you know, replace Courtland Sutton and be the ex receiver
next year. I think the thing that I'm worried about is,
you know, the defense is having some cracks as we
get late into the season. There are a couple of

(09:22):
cracks here or there, and part of that is because
of injury and the and the run game has just
not gotten going.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
They just have not gotten the run game going.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
And I'm telling you it's late season, like you got
to have those things. You absolutely have to have those
things for a playoff run and to get into the
playoffs and and to go anywhere in the playoffs. You
can't run the ball and play defense, teams are going
to tee off on you. And we saw frankly a
very middling defense in the Colts one that has been

(09:50):
awful against the run, got a tea awful on the
Broncos a little bit. And so those are things that
we're going to have to figure out. We're gonna have
to get those things under control. Those are things that
we're gonna have to do moving forward. I'm not doing
this to be wet blanket right on the para, all right.
I'm doing this to say, hey, look, I want to win. Okay,

(10:11):
we've shown that we've got enough to get in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
I want to win. We've got enough to get into
the playoffs. But what we've done is not going to
get us anywhere. You can't count on is it? Three
pick sixes over the course of the last two games.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Well, technically the Nick Bentha fumble six, yeah, because of
backwards lateral.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
But you get the idea you can't count on, you know,
your defense coming up with twenty one points all by
themselves over the course of two games. Oh.

Speaker 3 (10:34):
We kind of saw that last year with this team,
right during that five game winning streak. In small stretches,
you you can see it go away, you're in trouble,
the bottom comes out and if it had men for
the combination the defense doing its thing again and Jonathan
Taylor with an absolutely boneheaded move, which, by the way,
if you're in any kind of offensive coaching and you're

(10:57):
not coaching your guys to hang on to that foot
ball and until they get to the goal post, why
are you doing? I have just I just have never
understood it. I don't understand why these guys want to
get rid of the ball so quickly that it's even close,
because you see it happen times when they do barely
cross the goal line and then they still count. But

(11:19):
it's so close it's controversial. And yesterday, I mean it
was one inch from the end zone line.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
But it's just it makes no sense to me.

Speaker 3 (11:28):
I don't understand why you would ever even come close
to dropping the ball at the goal line. I mean
it happened in the Bengals game too with the defender. Yeah,
it just it blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
That should be if you're in any kind of coaching
right now, on the offense side of the ball, it
should be a coaching point. You absolutely do not the
ball stays in your hand till you get to the
goal post. You can set the ball down there and
then you could do your celebration. You know, your celebration
is not more important than the touchdown period, point blank,
end of discussion.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
I did think at least Jonathan Taylor owned it. Oh yeah, yeah,
I mean you had no choice. Jonathan Taylor was a vet.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
You know, he's a veteran his league knows better, one
of the best running backs in this in the league,
and he knew he made a mistake.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Yeah yeah, I mean there was there was no shying
away from that at that point. Past six six nine
zeros A text slide seven to osa is Peyton's game
plan A play calling was a D minus.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
Uh yeah, some of it.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Some of it was on execution, some of it's on
the coach, someone's on the players. I had a chance
to really I got a cursory look at the A
twenty two. I haven't really had a chance to deep
dive yet.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
Oh, speaking of the All twenty two, I was watching
the Army Navy game on Saturday.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Go Navy beat Army. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
But they said they were talking to one of the announcers.
I forget who it was, but he said, you know,
sometimes and you get a look after the game at
the All twenty two look.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
But with Army the All twenty two you don't even
need the All twenty two.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Look because everyone's in in the box there running the ball.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, I felt it was.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
It kind of kind of suck because I've been sitting
there talking about Bryson Dailey, who I thought should have
been higher in the Heisman vote.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
He was six, but he should have been hired the
Heisman voting.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I certainly would have happed above Camps Cattabau, who you know,
had like twelve fewer touchdowns this year than you. But yeah,
and then he comes out lay an egg, you know,
against Navy or whatever, and I'm like, oh man, all
that hype and then you know, and then there you go.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
I will tell you.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
What though, I I don't watch that game every year.
This was the first time I've watched in a couple
of years. One hundred and twenty fifth game and all
the pomp and circumstance around that it like gave me
multiple times, gave me goosebumps, just because it's so freaking
special and powerful. Like you can you can feel the
energy of all the all the midshipmen and all the
army guys in the stadium like that is a that's

(13:44):
a special game right there.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
It really is.

Speaker 1 (13:46):
It's a different atmosphere than just about any other game.
If you've never been. I would always encourage somebody to,
you know, to go to that at least once in
their life. But back to the Broncos. Somebody asked about
Clyde Edwards Hilaire. I why, I mean Clydeer Slayers Miscasts's
the guy who should have come into the leaue as
a slot receiver. It's funny Kansas City was out drafted

(14:06):
him because Pat Mahomes said, that's my guy, go ahead
and get him. Uh, And then it turned out, you know,
he he just wasn't really you know good. Uh. He
catches the ball really well, but he's not a good
running back. And that's the thing he's he's really you know,
he's a slot receiver playing running back at this point.
That's what he should have converted to h when he
came in the league. And so I don't know why
the Broncos would won him. He's not a very good

(14:28):
running back. He offers you less than some m JP ry.
Did you know p right at least had had some
power to him and passed pro Clyde Edwards hilarious is
literally just a guy who catches out of the backfield,
like that's that's his whole role.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
Said, No, I don't think that's the case.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
You got a tough game coming up, and you know,
I mean it's a short week and you're on the road,
right you're playing the Chargers. You're up on him by
a game so far. They drubbed us here in Denver
when they were healthy, but we didn't have pats er
tan in that game, to be fair.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Well, speaking of injuries, are we gonna have patser ten
in this game? Truly questionable.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
It is an ankle sprain, although he got a full
practice in today. They're trying to see about the swelling
and everything else. That it simulated full practice in too.
They should say they're trying to see about the swelling
and everything, you know, with with all that kind of stuff,
and go from there. I would say truly questionable for
not questionable for this game.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
Man, if we're down our top two cords, so I mean,
but they're down all their receivers too.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
I mean, you know they were lying on they mcconkey's
banged up, but he plays. You get Quentin Johnson to catch,
that's right. You know he couldn't catch a cold if
everybody was coughing on him. You know, it's you know
they're going to be upset. You know that the Chargers
and you know that Jim Harball are upset.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
About that game against the Bucks.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
They let one get away from them that they probably
should have won and they got drubbed on the way
out the door. It is so now they're behind. But
if you're the Broncos, you want to stay in the
position you're in. And the reason you want to stay
the position you're in is because it's good. Right now,
you're slated to play the Steelers in the opening round,
and I think you want every part of that.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, it looks a lot better than playing Josh Allen
and the Bills.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Right now, Well that's.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
A b You know, deep down, Sean Payton and his
ego do not want to be beat by Russell Wilson,
and he will put every ounce of himself into that
game plan.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
And do you know what makes me laugh is I
was listening to Sean Payton talk about bow Knicks today
after a three interception game, and I was like, man,
how the tune has changed after?

Speaker 2 (16:46):
You know, Russ is looking great last year?

Speaker 3 (16:48):
What twenty nine touchdowns and eight interceptions, and he.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Didn't say one single nice thing about him.

Speaker 3 (16:53):
The entire year, right, and now he's taking blame for
some of bo Nix's interceptions. I'm like, when he likes
the guy, he's all behind him. But when he doesn't,
man Ill throught him right under the bus.

Speaker 1 (17:03):
Yeah, And that's I mean, I think everybody kind of
knows at this point did last year was? You know,
what what was transpiring there that that was absolutely not
you know, any any type of that was never going
to happen. Russell Willis was never going to be back
for another year. That was never going to happen. And
I think everybody kind of kind of understands now what

(17:25):
that situation really was. They just financially they had to
run with him for a year. I'd go from there.
Steelers did lose. They lost to the Philadelphia Eagles. Russ
did throw a touchdown no picks in that one, but
they were without George Pickens. Calvin Austin was by far

(17:46):
their leading receiver. That that game was was ugly to watch. Really,
Philly had control of it the whole way. I think
the you know, the question now is this Chargers game,
you know, and the question is do you put all
your resources into this or do you try and do
you just try to get through this and put all

(18:07):
your resources into the Cincinnati game behind it?

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (18:14):
I never I never want to say that, you just,
you know, you do a gimme game.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I never want to say that.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
But the question is do you And I think because
of the way the Chargers lost, I don't think you
can now. I think if the Chargers had won and
they were a leg up, you know, I think maybe
maybe you kind of look at that.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
But now you have the time, you know, you have
the edge, and you can get a two game lead
on them at you.

Speaker 1 (18:35):
Kind of have to put all your effort into this
because they played some games. Agree Agazemanship agreeing to having
their game flex to Thursday with the Chargers so that
they could get the extra long time to ramp up
for Cincinnati, which now got moved is getting moved to Saturday.
You're still going to get the extra long time, but
you're short. You get short at one day on it,

(18:57):
where Cincinnati gets a short week.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
Anyway, we'll get into all.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
That here in a bit. I got a bunch of
guys text Aboutnick Bonito and all that stuff. We we'll
talk about that here in a bit. Mister Brookus Country
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Speaker 2 (19:09):
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Speaker 2 (19:48):
You guys for that.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
Five six six donts zero is the text line. Had
plenty of texts coming in here all over the place.
Some of them definitely made me laugh. Profit Jonathan Taylor
couldn't hold on to one ball. Nick Benito was holding three.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
That's why I played the Michael Jackson, Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (20:07):
I'll tell you what the celebration was worth the flag.
You never heard me say that again, but I almost
say it now. The celebration was absolutely worth a fly.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
What a stud he is, man, what a huge year
he's had.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I was going back and looking at all the stuff
when he was drafted, all the coverage right, and I
had I retweeted some of it. One of the videos
is hilarious because Ryan's like, oh no, as he's getting drafted,
He's like, oh no, Ben is going to be insufferable,
and he was right. I did.

Speaker 2 (20:41):
I stood up. We're at the Fieldhouse there with all
the media.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
I stood up with my arms doing like the uh
uh like the scene for the.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Three hundred with xerxesays like standing there with his arms est.

Speaker 1 (20:50):
I was standing there like that, like, you know, because
there was a there was a table over there that
swore up and down that the Broncos were drafted a corner.

Speaker 4 (20:58):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (20:58):
And they told me that I was totally wrong on
this and it was gonna be this, that and the other,
and so I was. I was shooting ice daggers uh
over that way for that one. Yeah, that was all
the Costa Benito stuff we first started way back when.
Now like, somebody's got a T shirt out that says
that on it. Really, yeah, somebody somebody's put a T
shirt out that has that on. I'm not getting royalties
off it or whatever, but it needs a sponsorship with Costa.

(21:21):
I'm just saying, right, how has that not happened yet?
They're huge Broncos fans. Yeah, it's I mean, I anyway,
that's one of those things that needs to happen, and
I'm sure at some point it will. But that was, Yeah,
it was. It was fascinating to go back and watch
all the covers he was drafted.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
But the best part, the best part.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
And I'm hoping we could dig the audio off from
this summer because I found the video, which I can
send to you later, but I mean the original audio
that we have.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
Do we have the draft coverage audio here stored somewhere
we used to okay till last week. Yeah, the tea
dress back, not all of it. All of it's now beck. Oh,
well may you welcome find it. I have a hand
in that.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
And I went in there and pitched a fit and
I'll say that more behind the scenes, but yeah, see if.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
You can see if it's back there. I we were talking.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
We had George Peyton on after we drafted Nick. That
night we had George and it wasn't that here was
a Nate Hackett. I think it was Nate Hackett. Yeah,
because that was when I was doing my Nate Dog
and war room g thing. Anyway, we had George Payton
on that night and we're talking about Nick Bonito and
I was talking to him. I was like, look because
I I you know, as we were in the run

(22:32):
to draft, I researched him a lot, you know, because
I kept hearing from kind of inside the building.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
That was somebody they had targeted.

Speaker 1 (22:37):
And the first play I went back and watch him
and say, quench lorder the first play that he came
on for Oklahoma up there against he's up against Baylor,
and it wasn't him rushing the pass or he dropped
back and got an interception. And so I'm sitting there
talking to George. I'm like, you know, hey, you know,
this guy's kid's got some versatility's got enough hath leticism.

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Me, you can go away from the ball too.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
You guys thinking about maybe maybe using him, you know,
And George is like, no, no, no, no, we really think
that he's at his.

Speaker 2 (23:01):
Best rushing the passer.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
And so then I wanted to like send George Peyton
the clip for Benito intercepting slash the lateral yesterday, Like
you still think, uh after.

Speaker 2 (23:19):
These past two weeks, you're still thinking that way? Or
maybe it was it was a little bit onto something.
Who knows?

Speaker 1 (23:24):
Five six six nine zero is the text line. Oh see,
we got a few texts coming in here. Uh let's start.
Should should the Broncos bring Melvin Gordon out of retirement?
Oh my god, Uh no, no, they should not. Two

(23:44):
one four. If you don't put all your resources and
Thursday you're back to the seventh seed.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
Is that where you want to be? Well? And no,
it's certainly not where you want to be.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
Uh. Two oh nine questioned about Nick Benito Pixix's play
the Colts play offense. Why do teams run that weird
ride receiver pass across the field to the other wide receiver?
Play that never works and fails miserably. Don't play golf
in the Colts. So I've seen a few other teams
try that play and all and fail about there. Well,
a couple of years ago, that play used to work,
and basically it's it's a play from college. You get

(24:15):
a you get a receiver, and you get him on
the jet right, and so you're shifting the defense to
to one side, and the idea is at that point
in time, you're hoping that that backside safety fights on that.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
It used to be so Gus Malson used.

Speaker 1 (24:30):
To used to love this play, except that they would
run a backside wheel off of it, and if that
backside safety didn't stay home, most of the time you
would see whatever player ran that wheel on the backside
be open. Whether that was whether it was a running
back or whatever. And I'll tell you what the running

(24:51):
back play Malzon ran in college. You saw Shanahan used
to run it quite a bit with that backside wheel
for use. Check with the full back. You get that
backside wheel. Man, If that safety doesn't stay home, it's
it's usually wide open. And so uh that that's where
that sort of comes from. Whether it's the throwback across
the field, whether it's the.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
You know they use a jet and then stop and
then and throw it back.

Speaker 1 (25:12):
Whatever it is, the idea there is just to get
that backside safety moving forward, especially if they're too high,
get that backside safety moving towards the middle of the field,
and then that wheel is going to be open for
a big gain on the backside.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
So that's what that's about. What else we got here?

Speaker 1 (25:28):
I remember been making the Casa Benito Casa nick bonnil comparison.
I texted in this weekend after the pick six, parroting Bent.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, there you go.

Speaker 1 (25:37):
I'm just glad everybody can have fun with it. Like
I don't really I know there's there's a company out
there it's got a T shirt or whatever. No, I'm
not getting royalties off at or anything like that. But
I don't really care. I'm just glad everybody caund have
fun with it. I mean even saw the the Broncos
official account tweeting out Casa Bonito loving it, So.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
That's that's one of those I'm just glad everybody is
having fun with it.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
We do these nicknames here. I'm not sitting here trying
to that's just weird. I don't need credit for it.
It's it's just it's just fun, and I'm glad everybody's
having fun off of it. Somebody asked, who was at
the aforementioned table during the draft. It's just me and
Ryan at that table, the table that I was shooting
daggers at. I'm not gonna put them on blast on
the air.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Why did it take so long to get estimate in
the game? What's wrong with Williams? Dude?

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't know why they're not getting audric estimate in
the game more right. The only thing I could think
of is that they are just not confident in his
ability to hang on to the football. That's that's all I.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
Can think of.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
Because the way that this running back room should be
shaking out is you should have Audric estimate in on
early downs and Javante should be in the Samaj p
Ryan role from last year. Javonte is a better pass protector,
he catches the ball better out of the backfield.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Uh, and so he should be in that Samaj p
Ryan role from last year.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
And you want Audrick in as the battering ram on
early downs, and then you sprinkle javan Juels McLoughlin and
you know where him.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
For the life of me, I don't I don't know
the answer to that. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
I don't know the answer to that. And that's one
of those things that with estimate, I just.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
I don't know. I wish I knew.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
We get to Neil Welk coming up top of the
hour from SU Buffs. You get a chance to talk
about Travis Hunter winning the Heisman, get a chance to
talk about this season for the CU Buffs and whether
or not that matchup of the bowl game is disappointing.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
And I'm to me, what amounts to it?

Speaker 1 (27:38):
And this is because of realignment, but what amounts to
a conference game is not really moving the.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
Needle for me. But they didn't play this year, right,
what's up? They did not play this year? But a
conference game essentially, and I'm like, really, if they would
have already played this year, would have bothered me more.
If they both.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
Didn't play this year and they were both contenders in
the Big Twelve, I'm kind of okay with it.

Speaker 1 (27:59):
I guess I just thirty bowl games if you're gonna
do this, because bowl games have lost all of their significance. Basically,
if you have to do it, it has to be
an exotic matchup right. It has to be somebody you're
never gonna see in order to make it entertaining if
you're not in the college football playoffs.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
And so we'll get a chance to talk to him
about that.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
We've got Parker Gabriel coming up at seven thirty five
from Denver Post. Get a chance to recap this Colt's
thing and kind of see the state of the state
of Broncos them as it were.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Going forward, because you know.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
This win is a win, but then a lot of
the fan base out there talking about shaking confidence, talking
about their confidence shaking, and you know, in the offense
and coaching staff, stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
It was on social media.

Speaker 1 (28:40):
It was interesting to me to kind of see these
some of these reactions and so, you know, we'll get
a chance to talk to him about that. See where
he's at, Cody Roark Yell five get a chance to
kind of bounce things off him as well.

Speaker 2 (28:53):
Five sx six nine zeros of text line do want
to hear you? Guys, thoughts? Are you.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Or less confident this Broncos team than you were before
that Colts game? How excited are you about the fact
that the Broncos are mere inches from the playoffs at
this point.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Ninety one percent probability.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Basically, you win one game one of the next three,
and you're in.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Let's make it Thursday.

Speaker 1 (29:19):
I mean, well, grant, but if they win that, that
would eliminate Cincinnati at that point. Maybe not if they
if they win against the Chargers, that wouldn't eliminate Cincinnati.

Speaker 3 (29:30):
So if they win against the Chargers and then lose
to Cincinnati, Cincinnati's to win out.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
But if they win against the Chargers and then lose
to Cincinnati, Uh, then the Bengals still have a chance
to get in there, and they would be the last
seed going up against what pretty much is going to
be Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (29:46):
Yeah that in that slot. Who knows.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
With Patrick Mahomes injury, I mean, maybe the Chiefs lose
a couple of games here at the end of the year,
Bills can take that number one seed.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
I don't forget they've got Carson Wentz as a backup there,
I will say, And I completely forgot about Carson Wentz.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
He's a very capable quarterback. He is.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Before that disastrous injury, he was on the way to
the MVP. Yeah, you know, he was going to be
the MVP that year. He got hurt and then it
was all downhill from there. He made some mistakes in
the locker room as far as being a leader, and
and you know, Nick Foles took that team to the
Super Bowl after wins, did all the groundwork and he

(30:26):
just you know, it's it's one of those you know,
it's one of those things where you're hoping he can
resurrect his career. He's got Adye Reed back there. You know,
the QB whisper himself resurrecting careers, and so I wonder
I kind of wondered, honestly before he went to Kansas City,
if that might be somebody Sean Payton would take to
resurrect his career. Fits the archetype, fits the mole, But

(30:47):
ultimately what was Zach Wilson, you know instead, So and
that was one that I just kind.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Of wondered, had a little bit of wonder there.

Speaker 1 (30:57):
Five six, six nine zero bendl The Bengals need Broncos
to lose three of the last four to qualify for
the playoffs. Well not exactly. If the Chargers are the
ones that are losing, then that that would be it.
They need one of those two. And because the Chargers
lost to the Bucks, now they are the seventh seed.
If then you know, if the Broncos beat the Chargers again, uh,
that that puts Cincinnati right on the doorsteps. So Cincinnati

(31:18):
would have to beat the Broncos. I mean, they have
to win out either way. But they they're they're really
it's it's more about the Chargers losing at this point
for uh, for the Bengals to make it. So the
Bengals are suddenly becoming Broncos fans against the Chargers and
then enemies when they play them.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
What a dream scenario that would be for me.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
The Broncos get the sixth seed and the Bengals get
the seventh seed, then they both win their way to
the AFC Championship.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Well, I mean that is a possibility.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yea, I would not say probability, But Tim, what was
your house divided?

Speaker 2 (31:49):
Grant Smith? What would what would we do?

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Would you be trying to sabotage the Broncos that week?
Would we have to pull you off the air?

Speaker 3 (31:55):
Let's not talk about that because I don't know what
I would do, but I don't know where. I don't
think we're ever gonna have to deal with that situation,
but not this year anyway.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
But man, with the way the.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
Broncos are playing, and of course, like I've said numerous
times on this show, the whole Joe Burrow career is
the championship window. We could see that matchup in a
couple of years, but I don't think it's gonna be
this year. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see what
that Bengals team looks like after, you know, they move
on from Tea, and how they redo the defense, because
it desperately got to redo the defense. They've got so
much money tied up in the offense, and it looks

(32:26):
like it's gonna be very difficult to redo that defense.
You've got two or three pieces on defense and you
need you need an overhaul. Yeah, and It's not like,
you know, lou An Ramo that forgot how to coach
right now. It's the pie.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
It's funny to watch the social media.

Speaker 1 (32:40):
Oh you gotta fire Rumos forgotten, you know, And I'm like, no,
it's not that. It's just that you've had so many
injuries and attrition that you know, they just they just
can't play defense the way they did. They get so
much money tied up in the offense between Burrow and
Chase and uh, you know the offensive.

Speaker 2 (32:52):
Line and and now you know.

Speaker 1 (32:54):
The Higgins thing on the franchise deal like that, it's
just so much money.

Speaker 3 (32:59):
So Burrow coming out the other day and saying that
they're going to try and find a way to keep
Chase and t Higgins next year, that's just a pipe dream.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, that's not gonna.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I mean, that's what you say when you're in that position.
But the economic reality is there's just not I mean
that's how I felt cool, but you know, you just
you can't have Look at Dallas. You know, Dallas is
in that same boat where they've got too much money
tied up.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
No, they'ren probably gona lose Michael.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Parsons because they you know, They've got all the money
tied up in Ceedee Lamb and Dak Prescott and all that,
so you know, it's it's it'll be. It'll be interesting
to see what they do after the season. But I'm
pulling for you, grand I'm pulling for you for your Bengals.
At least that'll be fun. U two on four says,
I'm sort of a bene of an all right person
in my view of things. I have less optimism in
the Broncos because I'm watching bou regress to some of

(33:41):
the early season bad decision making and then not running
the ball.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
On top of that, I have no faith in the offense.
Hopefully this was just a blip.

Speaker 1 (33:50):
Seven too old Broncos fans remember Baltimore, the Chargers early
in the year, Pittsburgh and Seattle. Our confidence has been
shaking before this year, but this team always found a wait,
a bounce back, and I don't think they let us down. Now,
old Broncos, that's Carson, I dig it. We come back,
Neil Well, good talk a little see buffs. You listen
to Broncos Country night k A Wa
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