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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I was too busy, like frittering the breakaway trying to
show you old British rapping grandfathers, and uh, you were
just you know, listening to Rob Dawson there. It was
conversation with you guys interrupting and doing all your work.
And I watched the video. Oh did you pretty quality?
Those dudes go hard, don't they. Yeah, those of you
who don't know what I'm talking about, it's Pete and Boss.
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It's Pete and bas Boss. It's two British, like old
old British guys that one of them his granddaughter just
randomly showed him rap music and he was so like
enthralled by it that he got together with his buddy
and they started doing raps and like they're good, like a.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good really good, Like you think it's gonna be like
a spoof. Yeah, and then you get into it and
you're like, he's too old dudes, real hard man, got
some bars.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Like yeah, I said, Like the guy starts rapping and
then the other guy with his voice drops, you know,
like starts rapping, and you're like, these dudes saw some
mess back in the day, dude, These dudes from the
streets of whatever the British equivalent of common would.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Be yeah, they're peaky blinders, guys, right there, Hempton.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't know why I'm so like. I don't know
why it's so funny, but it is. Anyway, It's time
for the NFL six pat.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm going to trink a lot of year an insight
and inside information you can't find anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Six the top six NFL headline on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
With JJ McCarthy out at least this week, the Vikings
have added some depth at the quarterback position to their
fifty three man roster. Our Guy Brett Rippin claimed off waivers,
the team announced earlier today. Rippin was recently released by
the Colts. He Previleas previously spent time with the Vikings
in twenty twenty four and was with the club through
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the off season and training camp. This year, he did
not appear in a regular season game for the Vikings,
and eleven appearances and four starts, Rippin has combined for
sorry completed fifty eight point three percent of his passes
for nine hundred and fifty yards, with four touchdown and
nine in theceptions.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I remember that start he got against the Jets here
in Denver. Well he see the field the rest of
this year for the Minnesota Vikings. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
First of all, hashtag let it rip RYP love that
Brett Ripping is still out there around the league. We'll
never forget the time he and Dreymont Jones decided to
stop what they were doing and mercilessly roast me for
the snug fit of my shirt at training camp. Uh,
to the right in front of Ryan Edwards, Stave Tepper,
and I believe Rick Lewis, I'd have to I have
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to go back. I don't remember who all was right
in front of, but it was it may have been
before Temper's time. I don't remember anyway, but it was
all I guess it was. It was hilarious. It was
objectively hilarious. As they spent about nine minutes of airtime,
Josh were roasting me mercilessly for my drip and uh, you.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Know, I think rotation.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Dreymart reached back into the archives talking about a pair
of jeans I'd wore a one time and hit the
biaber and it was it was just yeah, anyway, it
was objectively hilarious. I wish him nothing but the best.
I hope that he can see the field. I love
Brett Ripeny's good dude. He will steal your money as
a golfer. Do not ever bet that guy. But you
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know they're gonna I don't think they're gonna roll it
out there. I think he's just a body for insurance.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The Cowboys are out of the playoffs for a second
consecutive season, and for the fifth time in Dak Prescott's
ten seasons, they have not made the NFC Championship Championship Game,
much less than Super Bowl, since nineteen ninety five. It
is the longest title game drought in the conference. Prescott, though,
has issued a guarantee for twenty twenty six. We won't
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be back here in this spot, Prescott said earlier today.
The Cowboys were seven and ten last season. They are
six to eight and one this year. Need to beat
the Commanders and Giants to avoid back to back losing
seasons for the first time since going five and eleven
for three consecutive seasons from two thousand to two thousand
and two. He said, I feel like the last few
times I've said that we're playoff losses. Each year has
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its own troubles, Each year as its own highs lows,
ebbs and flows and everything within it. The importance is
controlling what you can. I'm going to do my damness
controlling what I can. And as you get older, I
think you have more input, having more say so and
being asked more questions from the front office. Do you
think the Cowboys will be a playoff team next year?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean it's possible.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's a tough division to be a playoff team in
where you've got the Eagles where they're at. The Commanders
are probably gonna bounce back next year when they get
Jade Daniels healthy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I think the thing is that you could kind of
see it too, Like Dallas has the pieces there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
They've got to fix the defense.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They got to get a different visive coordinator, but they've
got to fix the pieces on defense, field generated pass rush.
But you could sort of see it. The pieces are there.
I believe it's possible. I like Brian shot Numbers head coach.
I think he brought a different edge and attitude to
that team this season. I think Clayton Adams the OC
has really added something in the run game. We saw
the resurgence of Javante what that was able to do
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and good on him for getting all his performance bonuses
he's got this year, betting on himself wellnestly as possible.
They could be wild cardteon next year.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Do you think George Pickens is back there next year?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
That?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I would think that Jerry's probably too proud to let
him go somewhere else after trading assets. But I've seen
him make dumb decisions before, like the Micaeh Parsons trade.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah three and.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The least surprising development of the month, the NFL has
upheld the two game suspension the NFL imposed on Steelers
receiver DK Metcalf. Metcaf's punishment flowed from his interaction with
a fan during Sunday's Lion Steelers game in Detroit. The
league concluded that Metcalf had engaged in conduct detrimental to
the NFL. That determination bypassed the usual hearing officer process
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and delegated the appeal to the Commissioner or his designee,
and the if the initial two games punishment was imposed
with the Commissioner's knowledge or consent, and so Metcalf will
miss Week seventeen at Cleveland and Week eighteen Versuallimore, they'll
lose over five hundred thousand dollars in base salary, with
the Steelers also able if they choose to recover one
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and a half million and signing bonus money and to
avoid twenty five million and fully guaranteed pay for twenty
twenty six along with twenty million dollars in injury guarantees
in twenty twenty seven. What do you think of this
whole DK Metcalf thing. There's been a lot of conflicting
stories out there.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What do you know and do you agree with the
two game suspension?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, let's let's start from the financial side of this.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
DK cost himself over a half million in actual cash.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
This is probably gonna cost it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It could cost him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
As high as forty five million dollars in earnings depending
on what all gets voided out if the Steelers choose
to do that. So from that perspective alone, you would
say absolutely stupid decision.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
On top of it, stupid decision.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What are you doing striking a fan? Dude? What do
you know? Did you not see the ted Lasso where
Isaac goes in the stands man?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It doesn't matter what they say, you got, you gotta
put that out.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The other part of this, which I will say came
down over the last couple of hours. He's the NFL
and the Lions are not going to take action against
the fan involved in the altercation with DK Metcalf saying
that quote there was no violation of the fan code
of conduct. So DK had alleged that, I mean, DK
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had alleged that that fan had said something a racial
slur and something about his mother. The Lions in the
league are saying that is not the case. There were
plenty of video and audio on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That the fan.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Interestingly enough, because I'm not on anybody's side here, this
whole thing is stupid. The fan and the things I
know that he did do is he intentionally went down
there to rile DK up. But he admitted as much
in a video that's now out there where he went
back up to the seat and said that was the goal.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Folks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He went down there and at minimum just kept using
his full name instead of DK.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Metcap can cold by his real name like the whole.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Time and in trying to be but he's what opposing
fans do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dude, like you gotta gonta let that go.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
DK.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
You can't like that fan is an idiot, like he's idiot.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It appears at these points that the league and the
Lions are saying that DK led about what he said
to him, and I don't have sympathy for that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't have sympathy for striking a fan.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Four Texas A and M wide receiver Casey concept she
Own and cornerback Will Lee the Third have declared for
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. Concept she Own won
the Paul Horning Award as the nation's most versatile player.
He was second in all of Division one football with
four hundred and sixty punt return yards in the regular season.
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His twelve total touchdowns ranked fourth among all receivers in
the nation, as he scored rushing, receiving, and punt return touchdowns.
He played two seasons at North Carolina State before transferring
to A and M. He finished his college career with
over two thousand receiving yards and twenty five touchdowns. Lee
finished the twenty twenty five season with fifty tackles and
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eight PBUs. Played at Kansas State before transferring to College Station,
where he played.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
His final two seasons.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Finishes his college career with one hundre, thirty four tackles,
twenty four pass deflections, four interceptions, one sack, and two
force fumbles.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Are these two guys.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Going to be first or second day picks in the
NFL draft?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Where do you see their draft? Great ending up?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wait talking about which which two players you can concept
and will lee the corner? Okay, because I think Howel
is probably going to be a first rounder for an
m Concept is probably going to be a first round
I would say a late first, early second uh type guy.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
The other guy's day too, Yeah you could.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You probably got one guy that's a borderline Day one
guy there at Conceptian, and then you've got another that's
this the day two.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Guy, Bernando Mendoza, number one overall or not.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Probably probably gonna go oh yeah, it'll be for It'll
be Mendoz over more.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Ye know.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
There's some people that really do like Dante Moore.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I am not the biggest fan, and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
There are some people that have talked to that are
not the biggest fan of his.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I would suggest that as it sits right now, again,
there are nowhere near final grades on this or anything,
but I've talked to scouts on the road and there
are several scouts that think that Ty Simpson out of Alabama,
if he comes out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Would be would be a better quarterback than Dante Moore.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I wouldn't be shocked if Simpson and Moore both go
back to college, though either.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
In the smart move would be for both to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
However, next year's class has significantly more quarterback talent in it,
and that may be one of those things where you
come out and get drafted a little higher here versus
being the second or third guy in this class versus
being six or seven of the next.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
One five A couple of Broncos stories to wrap up
the six pack. Linebacker Drake Greenlaw remained out of practice
on Tuesday, two days before the Christmas Night matchup against
the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Greenlaw injured his hamstring.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
During Sunday's loss to the Jaguars, playing fifty of seventy
defensive snaps.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That does not look good when he came off the field.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
The team's estimated practice report did not change from Monday.
Tight End Nate Atkins, wide receiver Pat Bryant, and center
Luke Wattenberg also were listed as non participants for a
second consecutor to day linebacker Justin Schernad, though, and good
news remained a full participant. In is on track for
every turn after being injured in the Week fifteen game
against the Packers and missing that loss against the Jags.
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How big of a deal is it that green Law
is out again for the Broncos defense, and which one
of these injuries are the biggest deal for the Broncos
as a whole.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I think it might be Luke Wattenberg at center if
he can't go. Yeah, you know, Wattenburg Sternad. You need
him to be healthy if you're not gonna have green Law,
you know, I think they've gotten lucky with who's been
hurt at what particular point in time. You know, the
green Law it hurts, But honestly, he's not been as
big a factor relatively speaking. You know, Singleton's the green
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dot out there most of the time, and I think
Sternad's played.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You know, honestly, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be hurt
if we.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Moved off from Greenlaw and kept you know, Justin Sternad
next year. I think, you know, he's he's been phenomenal.
I think he's played up to the ability to get
a new contract all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
as much as green Law was a splash signing and
all that kind of stuff, you know, he's kind of
a headcase, man.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I mean, you're talking about a guy who chased an official.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Was crazy and screamed, you know, screamed threats at him.
He's a guy that did in the pregame before the
Packers was was mixing it up on the Packers sideline with.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know kind of thing for no reason.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I he just we got to figure that out because
we can't have loose cannons around here.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Six.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
As Denver has posted its best start to a season
and more than a decade, a slew of Broncos have
earned a prestigious league wide honor, this from Denver Broncos
dot com. Six Broncos have been named to the twenty
twenty six Pro Bowl Games, marking the most Broncos to
be selected to the initial Pro Bowl roster since twenty fourteen.
Broncos also had six Pro bowlers following the twenty sixteen season, but.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Three of the players were selected as alternates.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Defensive lineman Zach Allen, tackle Garrett Bowles, outside linebacker Nick Benito,
guard Quinn Minors, cornerback PS two and wide receiver Cortland
Sutton wire relect selected as part of a voting process
that featured input from players, coaches, and fans. Bowls Benito, Miners,
and Certan were named starters for the twenty twenty six
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Pro Bowl Games, which will be held ahead of the
Super Bowl in the Bay Area. Denver's three first time
Pro bowlers are also the most for the franchise since
twenty fourteen, and man.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Six tied with the league most. Was there anyone that
was snubbed you think for the Denver Broncos. Not really.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I mean, you're gonna have fans that are all gonna
put you know, Hufanga in there or whatever else. So
the ufoga's had some coverage issues throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He would have caught three of those eight picks that
hit him in the hands, he'd probably be a Pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, And there's been some lapses in coverage judgment there.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean, honestly, no, I don't. I don't think there's
any snubs really. I mean, I thought it was pretty
fair as far as that stuff goes. What it will
say is it's nice to have It's nice to have
a good football team.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's got people that are you know, giving sect Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You could be a good football team in a small
market and only have your long snapper get Pro Bowl recognition,
like the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They only got their long snapper.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
He's the only player. Wow. Sean Tayton's small market comment
remains true.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They don't get the recognition.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
They continue to be able to ride that disrespect.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's gonna be great for them.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like the fans are gonna hate it and it's gonna
drive them crazy, but it's be great for their tea.
They'll be able to.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Drive that is you know, nobody like he want to
talk about teams getting disrespected.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's them. They literally beat us in our house and
it wasn't close and they still can't get any love.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They could be the number one seed if everything falls, if.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Everything falls away, it's it's slim, but it is entirely
possible that that could be. That could be one of
the things that we come back. We're gonna have Sean
Keeler and the Diver Pos join us. Listen Brox Country
that Kwa our last show before we come back. Well,
I won't be I'll be filling it from Maddie Conna
on Friday. Are we having a Broncos country.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
In that on Friday?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You gotta be uh myself and Nick Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
There you go, all right, there we go the show
being good hands. So this would be our last show
prior to Christmas. We'll have one on Friday with Grant
and Nick.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You guys want to be back for that.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Of course Christmas Day you'll be right here on KOA
because the Denver Broncos is gonna be playing and we'll
be kicking off our coverage at noon. Myself, Zack Seekers
will kick things off for handing away to Nick and
Jojo and of course everybody else, Ryan, Dave, Susie Rick,
everybody be involved with that leading you up to the
Broncos Christmas Day game with the thirteen point underdog Kansas
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City Chiefs in Arrowhead.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It's crazy to hear that number.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Insane, But I mean, I guess when you've got Chris A.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Luducan, which is a real name and not the sound
effect from Gyle when he throws a fireball in Street Fighter,
seems right, you d missed the joke.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Nick Ferguson made that same reference today was a nick baby.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To a reference. I'm so mad right now, you Yeah,
that's it hurts. It hurts my heart. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We get through the coaches.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Corner the time, and it's one of the favorite where
Sean Payton sits down with our own Dave Logan breaks
down a play from the previous week.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
And here's Sean and Dave talking about the RJ. Harvey touchdown.
Hands off to RJ.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Harvey, big gain overright guard, spins out of tackle, he's loose,
hurry go twenty fifteen ten heading to the goal line,
touchdown tenver.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
All right, So Sean, this it was a thirty nine
yard touchdown run. Just kind of walk us through how
that thing got set up.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah, so you would laugh at the name of it.
But it's whiz book wacky, it's so right, all right.
So it's a whiz scheme where a tight end goes
back but instead of blocking, he circles around. We booked
the defensive end and it's his own read later Bo
kept one of them, and then Courtland whacks the first
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inside defender.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And so cracks on that se whoever that is.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, first off, the ballplayer, it could be a will
linebacker or if they bump in the safeties in that
well so, but it's his own read off of the
defensive end. And in this case, you know that when
he has these you know we hand yep and it
was a great read by Bow and certainly the run
was really good. You know, you see him break some tackles,
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an explosive play that we needed at that time.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You know, you've seen you've seen that ability in practice.
I was impressed with not only he's a hard guy
to get on the ground and yet he was he
had enough situational awareness as he's getting inside the five
and that guy's raking for the ball. He's got both
arms around the ball.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
And look, we've seen it happen to young players.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
He's his ball security in college was great.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
But you know, someone like him is sick from a
week ago when when he put the ball on the
ground in and so we always talk about up the
river medicine, like before, down the river medicine is after
you fumbled twice and we're trying to correct it. Up
the river medicine is like, hey, let's let's understand. At
this level it's a much different attack on the football
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than at the college game. And uh yeah, he did
a great job finishing.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Appreciate it. Sheo, Yeah, appreciate you, David.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That's our own Dave Logan sitting down with head coach
Sean Payton breaking down a play from the previous week
called the Coach the Corner and we love doing that.
Uh here exclusively at KOA five six six nine zeros
in text line. We did get a text earlier that
I was asking, is the Browns opening day quarterback in
twenty twenty six currently on the roster?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I like the question is, and I think they'll go
to clean house there in terms of the coaching staff
in front office. And if they do that, is there
any are they keeping any of the quarterbacks that they have?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I kind of doubt they would at that point.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So my yeah, I don't know, but I lean towards
now and that's probably where that stands.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
And that's probably issue where Sanders question. When all said
and done.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I thank Shador so opening day starter next year. I
think he's playing for a team. I'm just not sure
why it's the Browns. Yeah's you know, maybe maybe the Raiders.
You know, Tom Brady's got that relationship, But you know,
I don't know, I do believe he'll play for somebody.
I don't not one hundred percent sure it'll be the
It'll be the Cleveland Browns. So we got we got
Sean Queler. Ready, let's go out to the kay comspe
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hotline and bring on to never posts. Sean Keeler always
enjoy having him on. You can find him on Twitter
at Sean Keeler.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sewan, how's it going, buddy great.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I'm speeding through uh eastern Colorado towards the Nebraska border
as we speak, so if anything drops, that's why.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, all right, well, I you know, I mean, anytime
you have the chance to flee for the tropical oasis
that is Nebraska, you certainly have to take that opportunity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Is a family This is a family trip?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Or is this you're here for business or pleasure?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Sean, it is all business, but it's a family trip.
I do not do this with my own accord. It's
not free will. Well, I think no one goes to
Nebraska their own free will.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He's gonna come back.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
That should be a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Sean, You're going to come back from Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'm telling you already.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Next time we have you on this show, I'm gonna
be asking.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You why you wrote a full page column extolling the
virtues of Matt Ruhle, who, by the way, got his
start at Albright College.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's serious.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, listen, Yeah, Matt Ruhle
got his start of the linebackers coach at Albright University.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You are you are absolutely welcome for that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sean, you wrote the column the other day and he said,
you know that the reps you didn't particularly care for
the officiating in that Jags game, but don't blame them
for that.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
The problem comes down to mistackling.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Open the show talking about not allowing five yard games
go for fifty yards expecting to win.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I think it was a complete failure.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You know, you look at this The offense didn't get
the points, they turned the ball over. The defense. You've
already covered the tackling. I mean, it was wasn't there.
In terms of looking at this game, it looked like
that the Broncos were just kind of coached on both
sides of the ball.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To be honest, what say you.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Sir, No, I'm with you, and I think the market
thing was just and I mentioned in the column real briefly,
it was just an amazing sort of strategic Basically, the
Broncos got allowed leam Cone and the Jags too, you know,
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a low themselves to get hoisted in the same buitar
that they used to try to fire themselves up against
the Packers. I just couldn't believe that at the time
that happened. And the more I thought about when I
saw the Jaguars players come off going small markets, small market,
and I went, unt, don't ever give him that count
if you I think Sean knows better, I would think
he knows better. And I definitely from a coaching perspective
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to start there, would have taken that back if that were.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, And that's one of those things, like you could
tell it wasn't intentional, Like it's one of those things
where you're like, Okay, yeah, they don't get enough credit
for what they do, which was born out today again
because the Pro Bowl stuff came out. You know, the
Jacksonville Jaguars with your record and the only Pro Bowl
nodge you got was your long snapper.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, that's you know, and that's Jacksonville. I mean, you're
playing into the Broncos have played the underdog card so
hard and successfully for whatever ten weeks. If fus out
weib they want they run into somebody small and more
insecure than themselves. There's also a slogan about that, don't
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don't see the troll when you've been trolling everybody pretty
well to that point. So I you know you want
to take some of that back up. Sure in hindsight,
but you know, I'm gonna be like a lot of
a lot of the other Homers and say, if you
were going to run into a stinker and finally a wall,
bet are just more Christmas than two weeks after Christmas?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I mean if there was any more opportune moments to
have a loss like that, I certainly can't find it.
You know, when you've got to get right game against
Kansas City's third string quarterback and then perhaps a brawl
for it all in Week eighteen against the Chargers on
your home turf, this would be the opportune point.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You never want to lose a game, but the opportune
point to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
As we look at this thing and we look at
where the Broncos are, I mean, see, it is funny
you mentioned they've been playing the underdog card and then
got out underdogs.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know, they went over, they went full overdog.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And I guess you never go full overdogs as it were, but.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Probably Downy somewhere never go full over.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
You're right, Yeah, I just that's what I need. Is
I need?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I need Downey putting that quote out there. We'll put
it on a T shirt. I looking at this thing now.
I mean, you're you're a thirteen point favorite against Kansas
City and Arrowhead. You're on the cusp of you know,
winning the AOC, winning the AC West. Is this team
after this loss? Are we are we poised for greatness?
Or is this the wheels coming off?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
We're not there? Not the former.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I think a rod pot. I don't know if the
wheels are off. Maybe a wheel uh maybe something in
the steering column is a little, uh, you know, a
skew depending on the health of Drake Greenlaw. You don't
want to be beaten up going into what they're going into.
And yeah, you have to schedule that's backloaded. So that's
a risk you take, you take too, But I'm not
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gonna be in full panic mode. I think we've talked
about hearing the Duval Champ week, I didn't. I saw
some deal, but but I didn't hear it. At least
I'm not gonna be in full panic mode about this
defense unless they get lit up by a backup QB
in Kansas City I've never heard of. That would be
some major reds, like who can run? It turns out
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I looked like, how are they gonna teat these guys?
I went, oh, I, oh no, he's kind of like Mariota.
Oh boy, it looks like the Commander's game. I think
we can start pushing panic buttons. But until we get there,
I'm gonna just keep it away. See what happened. Presume
that we get a Christmas gift here in town with
with what those qbs being out and in Kansas City
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getting ready for Cancun one, two, three, Cancun Away, they
go and see if they can turn around for the
Jazz or sorry for the Chargers as a true playoff
review for what we're rolling into.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, that's that's the way it feels to me.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Talking with Shaquila from the Denver Post, I don't have
you got a chance to look at this thing or not.
The thirty three page term sheet for the Chief News
Stadium in Kansas. This isn't as objectively hilarious as the
Bears possibly moving to Gary, Indiana, but it is.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It is sort of funny, and.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Kansas is essentially giving the Chiefs three billion dollars in funding,
mixed use, development, and tax instead of and getting virtually
nothing in return. The Chiefs get to keep one hundred
percent of the revenue from all stadium activities, ticket sales, concessions, sponsorships,
all that stuff that applies to NFL games and.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
All other events.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Kansas will own the stadium, but the Chief's paying seven
million dollars in rent annually.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But that money doesn't go back to the state.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It goes into account the Chiefs can use for renovations
and repairs.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You look at the Broncos stadium deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You look at this and you're like, how are the
two most recent NFL stadium.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Deals almost the opposite.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
In terms of equitability for the taxpayers?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Yeah, I kind of. And I'm married to a Chief fan.
Full disclosure, I'm married into a Chief family. So that's
come up a little bit from time to time. Was like,
it's sixty percent with money, isn't that? Basically the deals
from wind Out County's but it actually could be. Oh,
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I know, and Missouri was offering one half. Yeah to
say to Missouri, so you were, I get, do we
count our blessings here that you know, one of the
twentiest richest families in North America uh bought this team
uh and is able to now that they're real blease
some costs on the back end, as you have talked about,
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and I'm sure others have those three little words called bsl's,
but in terms of getting this is done, yeah, it's
remarkable to me. I'm also the son of a Bears fan.
Now that saga has gotten crazy and now they're talking
about moving in to Gary or Hammond, and I I
just start laughing. You know, it's all about chasing the
dollar and about the sweets deal there. So I think
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catch your blessings if you're a Broncos fan. Maybe not
if you're a Broncos season ticket older. But I I
think it's kind of a miracle the Chief's got that
much public money over the line in this d nah,
don't you?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely fat And in the era of populism, me,
you have a you have a red state that it's
handing money, handover fist to it. Yeah, you're right, and
it's socializing cost and privatizing profit.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
And I could go on rant about that all day.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
As far as that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Goes, I will say this, since since you you know,
came up as the bear situation, there's a there's some
part of me that is hoping for the move to Gary, Indiana,
just so that I can call them the gear Bears.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But you know, beyond that, I I mean, you know,
there's a part.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Of me that's like, oh my god, are you really
gonna moveto Northern Indiana?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Over it?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
We'll see it is the era of profit chase, and
we'll see shifting topics here real quick.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
See you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now, they're on the other side of transfer portal mania.
You've seen lately it seems like a flood of players
are hitting the portal getting ready to head out. And
and these are not players that are not scheme fits.
This is just a lot of good players hitting the portal.
Here is this is this the cracks beginning to show
up there and see.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
You, I'm gonna hold the same panic button I'm holding
until the Chiefs game. I know Deon Sanders know well
enough that there is, at least to this point, whenever
we have fretted most about somebody leaving, somebody pretty close
or better, I think of two years ago has come around. Now,
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if we get to January third and we're not seeing upgrades,
I think we will, But if we don't, it's yeah,
it's that can be a red flag. I think the depth,
it's not so much a quality as much as the
quantity of guys. And that's just back to something we've
talked about on and off there. They're just philosophically they're
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not gonna max out, they're not gonna go over the
eighty five scholarships. They don't want to pay a lot
of guys who they don't think are going to be there,
and they don't philosophically want to develop guys ostensibly who
might leave because they also don't have whether they nil
pot whatever you want to call it, don't have the
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pay structure, salary cap structure to try to keep that young.
Keeping young talent now in college football is both a
financial It's always been a financial investment, strength, conditioning, training,
cable have you. Now it's a literal paid investment and
they have put their money in Julian Lewis. They've put
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their money in Jordan Seaton and they're a little tapped out,
so I'll be very curious depth wise, how about most
of months from now. But I'm not gonna panic until
I see what stars they've managed to convince to come
spend their senior years in both for their graduate years
and because that's what they've done.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Sean, it always goes too fast, man, That is the
voice of reason, Sean Keayler. Appreciate you taking some time
out from a busy evening to jump on with us.
Good luck out there in the the tropical utopian paradise
of Nebraska. We look forward to tales of what future
living is like when you when you, when you get
back and uh, and brother, I have yourself A merry Christmas,
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Happy holidays and and all that to you and.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yours, same to you and yours.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I really appreciate the time. And let's hope for a
lestramatic twenty twenty six. But who are we kidding. We're
alling right into a Broncos playoff. We're holding right into it.
So happy holidays to you and yours as well, and
to all the listeners. It'd be safe.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Absolutely take care Sean Deeler from the Denver Post. Always
love having him on. That is a dude that gets
my brand of humor.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I love.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I love having Shohn on because he's He's one guy
I could just laugh and chuckle and he gets my.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Weird, my weird sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I texted him earlier about coming on the show, and
he's like, well, I will be driving through Nebraska, so
let's definitely do it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
It'll be nothing else to do.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I need something to break up the monotony.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
With all due respect and I mean all due respect
to the people of Nebraska, I would not wish that
drive on anyone unless they were forced to be driving
through Kansas, in which then I would wish them the
Nebraska drive because it's Pertina. That's fair, having made both
many times. Let me tell you, hi, this is this
is me uh lamenting not living there, me dementing driving
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through there, because I'm sure living there is fun for
the people to live there. Yeah, excuse me. Been a
fun show tonight. You guys have been great. My voice
is more or less held up. I'm fairly surprised by that.
We got to the first segment. I thought of my
voice was going to give out more or less held up.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It is basically a Christmas miracle. What do you got
going on for Christmas? Grant just time with the wife.
Is this your first Merry Christmas?
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Second Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Okay, first Christmas in a new house that's not the
wife's brother in town.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
We've already get the slopes a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We got a friend coming over, so it should be
a very merry Christmas and hopefully a Broncos win.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, a mozzle. Talk to you and yours. Look forward
to seeing you and hear don't want to be back
Christmas night. Okay, I'll be here too, Broncos.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Cout your night, Backer, Chris Booball.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
You can't spit it out. You gotta swallow it. You
never go full overdog,
I was too busy, like frittering the breakaway trying to
show you old British rapping grandfathers, and uh, you were
just you know, listening to Rob Dawson there. It was
conversation with you guys interrupting and doing all your work.
And I watched the video. Oh did you pretty quality?
Those dudes go hard, don't they. Yeah, those of you
who don't know what I'm talking about, it's Pete and Boss.
(00:21):
It's Pete and bas Boss. It's two British, like old
old British guys that one of them his granddaughter just
randomly showed him rap music and he was so like
enthralled by it that he got together with his buddy
and they started doing raps and like they're good, like a.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Good really good, Like you think it's gonna be like
a spoof. Yeah, and then you get into it and
you're like, he's too old dudes, real hard man, got
some bars.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Like yeah, I said, Like the guy starts rapping and
then the other guy with his voice drops, you know,
like starts rapping, and you're like, these dudes saw some
mess back in the day, dude, These dudes from the
streets of whatever the British equivalent of common would.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Be yeah, they're peaky blinders, guys, right there, Hempton.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I don't know why I'm so like. I don't know
why it's so funny, but it is. Anyway, It's time
for the NFL six pat.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm going to trink a lot of year an insight
and inside information you can't find anywhere else.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
No.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Six the top six NFL headline on.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
With JJ McCarthy out at least this week, the Vikings
have added some depth at the quarterback position to their
fifty three man roster. Our Guy Brett Rippin claimed off waivers,
the team announced earlier today. Rippin was recently released by
the Colts. He Previleas previously spent time with the Vikings
in twenty twenty four and was with the club through
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the off season and training camp. This year, he did
not appear in a regular season game for the Vikings,
and eleven appearances and four starts, Rippin has combined for
sorry completed fifty eight point three percent of his passes
for nine hundred and fifty yards, with four touchdown and
nine in theceptions.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
I remember that start he got against the Jets here
in Denver. Well he see the field the rest of
this year for the Minnesota Vikings. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
First of all, hashtag let it rip RYP love that
Brett Ripping is still out there around the league. We'll
never forget the time he and Dreymont Jones decided to
stop what they were doing and mercilessly roast me for
the snug fit of my shirt at training camp. Uh,
to the right in front of Ryan Edwards, Stave Tepper,
and I believe Rick Lewis, I'd have to I have
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to go back. I don't remember who all was right
in front of, but it was it may have been
before Temper's time. I don't remember anyway, but it was
all I guess it was. It was hilarious. It was
objectively hilarious. As they spent about nine minutes of airtime,
Josh were roasting me mercilessly for my drip and uh, you.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
Know, I think rotation.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Dreymart reached back into the archives talking about a pair
of jeans I'd wore a one time and hit the
biaber and it was it was just yeah, anyway, it
was objectively hilarious. I wish him nothing but the best.
I hope that he can see the field. I love
Brett Ripeny's good dude. He will steal your money as
a golfer. Do not ever bet that guy. But you
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know they're gonna I don't think they're gonna roll it
out there. I think he's just a body for insurance.
Speaker 6 (03:13):
Two.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
The Cowboys are out of the playoffs for a second
consecutive season, and for the fifth time in Dak Prescott's
ten seasons, they have not made the NFC Championship Championship Game,
much less than Super Bowl, since nineteen ninety five. It
is the longest title game drought in the conference. Prescott, though,
has issued a guarantee for twenty twenty six. We won't
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be back here in this spot, Prescott said earlier today.
The Cowboys were seven and ten last season. They are
six to eight and one this year. Need to beat
the Commanders and Giants to avoid back to back losing
seasons for the first time since going five and eleven
for three consecutive seasons from two thousand to two thousand
and two. He said, I feel like the last few
times I've said that we're playoff losses. Each year has
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its own troubles, Each year as its own highs lows,
ebbs and flows and everything within it. The importance is
controlling what you can. I'm going to do my damness
controlling what I can. And as you get older, I
think you have more input, having more say so and
being asked more questions from the front office. Do you
think the Cowboys will be a playoff team next year?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
I mean it's possible.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
It's a tough division to be a playoff team in
where you've got the Eagles where they're at. The Commanders
are probably gonna bounce back next year when they get
Jade Daniels healthy.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I think the thing is that you could kind of
see it too, Like Dallas has the pieces there.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
They've got to fix the defense.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
They got to get a different visive coordinator, but they've
got to fix the pieces on defense, field generated pass rush.
But you could sort of see it. The pieces are there.
I believe it's possible. I like Brian shot Numbers head coach.
I think he brought a different edge and attitude to
that team this season. I think Clayton Adams the OC
has really added something in the run game. We saw
the resurgence of Javante what that was able to do
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and good on him for getting all his performance bonuses
he's got this year, betting on himself wellnestly as possible.
They could be wild cardteon next year.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Do you think George Pickens is back there next year?
Speaker 7 (05:09):
That?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I would think that Jerry's probably too proud to let
him go somewhere else after trading assets. But I've seen
him make dumb decisions before, like the Micaeh Parsons trade.
Speaker 6 (05:19):
Yeah three and.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The least surprising development of the month, the NFL has
upheld the two game suspension the NFL imposed on Steelers
receiver DK Metcalf. Metcaf's punishment flowed from his interaction with
a fan during Sunday's Lion Steelers game in Detroit. The
league concluded that Metcalf had engaged in conduct detrimental to
the NFL. That determination bypassed the usual hearing officer process
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and delegated the appeal to the Commissioner or his designee,
and the if the initial two games punishment was imposed
with the Commissioner's knowledge or consent, and so Metcalf will
miss Week seventeen at Cleveland and Week eighteen Versuallimore, they'll
lose over five hundred thousand dollars in base salary, with
the Steelers also able if they choose to recover one
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and a half million and signing bonus money and to
avoid twenty five million and fully guaranteed pay for twenty
twenty six along with twenty million dollars in injury guarantees
in twenty twenty seven. What do you think of this
whole DK Metcalf thing. There's been a lot of conflicting
stories out there.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
What do you know and do you agree with the
two game suspension?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, let's let's start from the financial side of this.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
DK cost himself over a half million in actual cash.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
This is probably gonna cost it.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
It could cost him.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
As high as forty five million dollars in earnings depending
on what all gets voided out if the Steelers choose
to do that. So from that perspective alone, you would
say absolutely stupid decision.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
On top of it, stupid decision.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
What are you doing striking a fan? Dude? What do
you know? Did you not see the ted Lasso where
Isaac goes in the stands man?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
What are we doing here?
Speaker 5 (06:53):
It doesn't matter what they say, you got, you gotta
put that out.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
The other part of this, which I will say came
down over the last couple of hours. He's the NFL
and the Lions are not going to take action against
the fan involved in the altercation with DK Metcalf saying
that quote there was no violation of the fan code
of conduct. So DK had alleged that, I mean, DK
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had alleged that that fan had said something a racial
slur and something about his mother. The Lions in the
league are saying that is not the case. There were
plenty of video and audio on.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
That the fan.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Interestingly enough, because I'm not on anybody's side here, this
whole thing is stupid. The fan and the things I
know that he did do is he intentionally went down
there to rile DK up. But he admitted as much
in a video that's now out there where he went
back up to the seat and said that was the goal.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
Folks.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
He went down there and at minimum just kept using
his full name instead of DK.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Metcap can cold by his real name like the whole.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Time and in trying to be but he's what opposing
fans do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Dude, like you gotta gonta let that go.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
DK.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
You can't like that fan is an idiot, like he's idiot.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
But I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It appears at these points that the league and the
Lions are saying that DK led about what he said
to him, and I don't have sympathy for that.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
I don't have sympathy for striking a fan.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Four Texas A and M wide receiver Casey concept she
Own and cornerback Will Lee the Third have declared for
the twenty twenty six NFL Draft. Concept she Own won
the Paul Horning Award as the nation's most versatile player.
He was second in all of Division one football with
four hundred and sixty punt return yards in the regular season.
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His twelve total touchdowns ranked fourth among all receivers in
the nation, as he scored rushing, receiving, and punt return touchdowns.
He played two seasons at North Carolina State before transferring
to A and M. He finished his college career with
over two thousand receiving yards and twenty five touchdowns. Lee
finished the twenty twenty five season with fifty tackles and
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eight PBUs. Played at Kansas State before transferring to College Station,
where he played.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
His final two seasons.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Finishes his college career with one hundre, thirty four tackles,
twenty four pass deflections, four interceptions, one sack, and two
force fumbles.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Are these two guys.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Going to be first or second day picks in the
NFL draft?
Speaker 5 (09:10):
Where do you see their draft? Great ending up?
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Wait talking about which which two players you can concept
and will lee the corner? Okay, because I think Howel
is probably going to be a first rounder for an
m Concept is probably going to be a first round
I would say a late first, early second uh type guy.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
The other guy's day too, Yeah you could.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You probably got one guy that's a borderline Day one
guy there at Conceptian, and then you've got another that's
this the day two.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Guy, Bernando Mendoza, number one overall or not.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Probably probably gonna go oh yeah, it'll be for It'll
be Mendoz over more.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
Ye know.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
It's interesting.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
There's some people that really do like Dante Moore.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
I am not the biggest fan, and.
Speaker 5 (09:54):
There are some people that have talked to that are
not the biggest fan of his.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I would suggest that as it sits right now, again,
there are nowhere near final grades on this or anything,
but I've talked to scouts on the road and there
are several scouts that think that Ty Simpson out of Alabama,
if he comes out.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Would be would be a better quarterback than Dante Moore.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I wouldn't be shocked if Simpson and Moore both go
back to college, though either.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
In the smart move would be for both to do that.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
However, next year's class has significantly more quarterback talent in it,
and that may be one of those things where you
come out and get drafted a little higher here versus
being the second or third guy in this class versus
being six or seven of the next.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
One five A couple of Broncos stories to wrap up
the six pack. Linebacker Drake Greenlaw remained out of practice
on Tuesday, two days before the Christmas Night matchup against
the Chiefs.
Speaker 5 (10:40):
Greenlaw injured his hamstring.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
During Sunday's loss to the Jaguars, playing fifty of seventy
defensive snaps.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
That does not look good when he came off the field.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
The team's estimated practice report did not change from Monday.
Tight End Nate Atkins, wide receiver Pat Bryant, and center
Luke Wattenberg also were listed as non participants for a
second consecutor to day linebacker Justin Schernad, though, and good
news remained a full participant. In is on track for
every turn after being injured in the Week fifteen game
against the Packers and missing that loss against the Jags.
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How big of a deal is it that green Law
is out again for the Broncos defense, and which one
of these injuries are the biggest deal for the Broncos
as a whole.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
I think it might be Luke Wattenberg at center if
he can't go. Yeah, you know, Wattenburg Sternad. You need
him to be healthy if you're not gonna have green Law,
you know, I think they've gotten lucky with who's been
hurt at what particular point in time. You know, the
green Law it hurts, But honestly, he's not been as
big a factor relatively speaking. You know, Singleton's the green
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dot out there most of the time, and I think
Sternad's played.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
You know, honestly, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be hurt
if we.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Moved off from Greenlaw and kept you know, Justin Sternad
next year. I think, you know, he's he's been phenomenal.
I think he's played up to the ability to get
a new contract all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
as much as green Law was a splash signing and
all that kind of stuff, you know, he's kind of
a headcase, man.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I mean, you're talking about a guy who chased an official.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Was crazy and screamed, you know, screamed threats at him.
He's a guy that did in the pregame before the
Packers was was mixing it up on the Packers sideline with.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
You know kind of thing for no reason.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I he just we got to figure that out because
we can't have loose cannons around here.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Six.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
As Denver has posted its best start to a season
and more than a decade, a slew of Broncos have
earned a prestigious league wide honor, this from Denver Broncos
dot com. Six Broncos have been named to the twenty
twenty six Pro Bowl Games, marking the most Broncos to
be selected to the initial Pro Bowl roster since twenty fourteen.
Broncos also had six Pro bowlers following the twenty sixteen season, but.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Three of the players were selected as alternates.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Defensive lineman Zach Allen, tackle Garrett Bowles, outside linebacker Nick Benito,
guard Quinn Minors, cornerback PS two and wide receiver Cortland
Sutton wire relect selected as part of a voting process
that featured input from players, coaches, and fans. Bowls Benito, Miners,
and Certan were named starters for the twenty twenty six
(13:14):
Pro Bowl Games, which will be held ahead of the
Super Bowl in the Bay Area. Denver's three first time
Pro bowlers are also the most for the franchise since
twenty fourteen, and man.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Six tied with the league most. Was there anyone that
was snubbed you think for the Denver Broncos. Not really.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I mean, you're gonna have fans that are all gonna
put you know, Hufanga in there or whatever else. So
the ufoga's had some coverage issues throughout the season.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
He would have caught three of those eight picks that
hit him in the hands, he'd probably be a Pro bowler.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Yeah, And there's been some lapses in coverage judgment there.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I mean, honestly, no, I don't. I don't think there's
any snubs really. I mean, I thought it was pretty
fair as far as that stuff goes. What it will
say is it's nice to have It's nice to have
a good football team.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
It's got people that are you know, giving sect Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
You could be a good football team in a small
market and only have your long snapper get Pro Bowl recognition,
like the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
They only got their long snapper.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
He's the only player. Wow. Sean Tayton's small market comment
remains true.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
They don't get the recognition.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
They continue to be able to ride that disrespect.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
It's gonna be great for them.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
Like the fans are gonna hate it and it's gonna
drive them crazy, but it's be great for their tea.
They'll be able to.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
Drive that is you know, nobody like he want to
talk about teams getting disrespected.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
It's them. They literally beat us in our house and
it wasn't close and they still can't get any love.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They could be the number one seed if everything falls, if.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Everything falls away, it's it's slim, but it is entirely
possible that that could be. That could be one of
the things that we come back. We're gonna have Sean
Keeler and the Diver Pos join us. Listen Brox Country
that Kwa our last show before we come back. Well,
I won't be I'll be filling it from Maddie Conna
on Friday. Are we having a Broncos country.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
In that on Friday?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
You gotta be uh myself and Nick Ferguson.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
There you go, all right, there we go the show
being good hands. So this would be our last show
prior to Christmas. We'll have one on Friday with Grant
and Nick.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
You guys want to be back for that.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Of course Christmas Day you'll be right here on KOA
because the Denver Broncos is gonna be playing and we'll
be kicking off our coverage at noon. Myself, Zack Seekers
will kick things off for handing away to Nick and
Jojo and of course everybody else, Ryan, Dave, Susie Rick,
everybody be involved with that leading you up to the
Broncos Christmas Day game with the thirteen point underdog Kansas
(15:28):
City Chiefs in Arrowhead.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
It's crazy to hear that number.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Insane, But I mean, I guess when you've got Chris A.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Luducan, which is a real name and not the sound
effect from Gyle when he throws a fireball in Street Fighter,
seems right, you d missed the joke.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
Nick Ferguson made that same reference today was a nick baby.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
To a reference. I'm so mad right now, you Yeah,
that's it hurts. It hurts my heart. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
We get through the coaches.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Corner the time, and it's one of the favorite where
Sean Payton sits down with our own Dave Logan breaks
down a play from the previous week.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
And here's Sean and Dave talking about the RJ. Harvey touchdown.
Hands off to RJ.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Harvey, big gain overright guard, spins out of tackle, he's loose,
hurry go twenty fifteen ten heading to the goal line,
touchdown tenver.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
All right, So Sean, this it was a thirty nine
yard touchdown run. Just kind of walk us through how
that thing got set up.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
Yeah, so you would laugh at the name of it.
But it's whiz book wacky, it's so right, all right.
So it's a whiz scheme where a tight end goes
back but instead of blocking, he circles around. We booked
the defensive end and it's his own read later Bo
kept one of them, and then Courtland whacks the first
(16:45):
inside defender.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
And so cracks on that se whoever that is.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Yeah, first off, the ballplayer, it could be a will
linebacker or if they bump in the safeties in that
well so, but it's his own read off of the
defensive end. And in this case, you know that when
he has these you know we hand yep and it
was a great read by Bow and certainly the run
was really good. You know, you see him break some tackles,
(17:10):
an explosive play that we needed at that time.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
You know, you've seen you've seen that ability in practice.
I was impressed with not only he's a hard guy
to get on the ground and yet he was he
had enough situational awareness as he's getting inside the five
and that guy's raking for the ball. He's got both
arms around the ball.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
And look, we've seen it happen to young players.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
He's his ball security in college was great.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
But you know, someone like him is sick from a
week ago when when he put the ball on the
ground in and so we always talk about up the
river medicine, like before, down the river medicine is after
you fumbled twice and we're trying to correct it. Up
the river medicine is like, hey, let's let's understand. At
this level it's a much different attack on the football
(17:55):
than at the college game. And uh yeah, he did
a great job finishing.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Appreciate it. Sheo, Yeah, appreciate you, David.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
That's our own Dave Logan sitting down with head coach
Sean Payton breaking down a play from the previous week
called the Coach the Corner and we love doing that.
Uh here exclusively at KOA five six six nine zeros
in text line. We did get a text earlier that
I was asking, is the Browns opening day quarterback in
twenty twenty six currently on the roster?
Speaker 5 (18:19):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I like the question is, and I think they'll go
to clean house there in terms of the coaching staff
in front office. And if they do that, is there
any are they keeping any of the quarterbacks that they have?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I kind of doubt they would at that point.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
So my yeah, I don't know, but I lean towards
now and that's probably where that stands.
Speaker 5 (18:36):
And that's probably issue where Sanders question. When all said
and done.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I thank Shador so opening day starter next year. I
think he's playing for a team. I'm just not sure
why it's the Browns. Yeah's you know, maybe maybe the Raiders.
You know, Tom Brady's got that relationship, But you know,
I don't know, I do believe he'll play for somebody.
I don't not one hundred percent sure it'll be the
It'll be the Cleveland Browns. So we got we got
Sean Queler. Ready, let's go out to the kay comspe
(19:00):
hotline and bring on to never posts. Sean Keeler always
enjoy having him on. You can find him on Twitter
at Sean Keeler.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Sewan, how's it going, buddy great.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
I'm speeding through uh eastern Colorado towards the Nebraska border
as we speak, so if anything drops, that's why.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Okay, all right, well, I you know, I mean, anytime
you have the chance to flee for the tropical oasis
that is Nebraska, you certainly have to take that opportunity.
Speaker 5 (19:28):
Is a family This is a family trip?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Or is this you're here for business or pleasure?
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Sean, it is all business, but it's a family trip.
I do not do this with my own accord. It's
not free will. Well, I think no one goes to
Nebraska their own free will.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
He's gonna come back.
Speaker 6 (19:45):
That should be a T shirt.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Sean, You're going to come back from Nebraska.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
I'm telling you already.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Next time we have you on this show, I'm gonna
be asking.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
You why you wrote a full page column extolling the
virtues of Matt Ruhle, who, by the way, got his
start at Albright College.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
You're welcome.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
That's serious.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm just saying. I'm just saying, listen, Yeah, Matt Ruhle
got his start of the linebackers coach at Albright University.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
You are you are absolutely welcome for that.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Sean, you wrote the column the other day and he said,
you know that the reps you didn't particularly care for
the officiating in that Jags game, but don't blame them
for that.
Speaker 5 (20:18):
The problem comes down to mistackling.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Open the show talking about not allowing five yard games
go for fifty yards expecting to win.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I think it was a complete failure.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
You know, you look at this The offense didn't get
the points, they turned the ball over. The defense. You've
already covered the tackling. I mean, it was wasn't there.
In terms of looking at this game, it looked like
that the Broncos were just kind of coached on both
sides of the ball.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
To be honest, what say you.
Speaker 6 (20:42):
Sir, No, I'm with you, and I think the market
thing was just and I mentioned in the column real briefly,
it was just an amazing sort of strategic Basically, the
Broncos got allowed leam Cone and the Jags too, you know,
(21:03):
a low themselves to get hoisted in the same buitar
that they used to try to fire themselves up against
the Packers. I just couldn't believe that at the time
that happened. And the more I thought about when I
saw the Jaguars players come off going small markets, small market,
and I went, unt, don't ever give him that count
if you I think Sean knows better, I would think
he knows better. And I definitely from a coaching perspective
(21:25):
to start there, would have taken that back if that were.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Yeah, And that's one of those things, like you could
tell it wasn't intentional, Like it's one of those things
where you're like, Okay, yeah, they don't get enough credit
for what they do, which was born out today again
because the Pro Bowl stuff came out. You know, the
Jacksonville Jaguars with your record and the only Pro Bowl
nodge you got was your long snapper.
Speaker 6 (21:44):
Yeah, that's you know, and that's Jacksonville. I mean, you're
playing into the Broncos have played the underdog card so
hard and successfully for whatever ten weeks. If fus out
weib they want they run into somebody small and more
insecure than themselves. There's also a slogan about that, don't
(22:06):
don't see the troll when you've been trolling everybody pretty
well to that point. So I you know you want
to take some of that back up. Sure in hindsight,
but you know, I'm gonna be like a lot of
a lot of the other Homers and say, if you
were going to run into a stinker and finally a wall,
bet are just more Christmas than two weeks after Christmas?
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I mean if there was any more opportune moments to
have a loss like that, I certainly can't find it.
You know, when you've got to get right game against
Kansas City's third string quarterback and then perhaps a brawl
for it all in Week eighteen against the Chargers on
your home turf, this would be the opportune point.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
You never want to lose a game, but the opportune
point to do that.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
As we look at this thing and we look at
where the Broncos are, I mean, see, it is funny
you mentioned they've been playing the underdog card and then
got out underdogs.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
You know, they went over, they went full overdog.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
And I guess you never go full overdogs as it were, but.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Probably Downy somewhere never go full over.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
You're right, Yeah, I just that's what I need. Is
I need?
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I need Downey putting that quote out there. We'll put
it on a T shirt. I looking at this thing now.
I mean, you're you're a thirteen point favorite against Kansas
City and Arrowhead. You're on the cusp of you know,
winning the AOC, winning the AC West. Is this team
after this loss? Are we are we poised for greatness?
Or is this the wheels coming off?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
We're not there? Not the former.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
I think a rod pot. I don't know if the
wheels are off. Maybe a wheel uh maybe something in
the steering column is a little, uh, you know, a
skew depending on the health of Drake Greenlaw. You don't
want to be beaten up going into what they're going into.
And yeah, you have to schedule that's backloaded. So that's
a risk you take, you take too, But I'm not
(23:55):
gonna be in full panic mode. I think we've talked
about hearing the Duval Champ week, I didn't. I saw
some deal, but but I didn't hear it. At least
I'm not gonna be in full panic mode about this
defense unless they get lit up by a backup QB
in Kansas City I've never heard of. That would be
some major reds, like who can run? It turns out
(24:18):
I looked like, how are they gonna teat these guys?
I went, oh, I, oh no, he's kind of like Mariota.
Oh boy, it looks like the Commander's game. I think
we can start pushing panic buttons. But until we get there,
I'm gonna just keep it away. See what happened. Presume
that we get a Christmas gift here in town with
with what those qbs being out and in Kansas City
(24:40):
getting ready for Cancun one, two, three, Cancun Away, they
go and see if they can turn around for the
Jazz or sorry for the Chargers as a true playoff
review for what we're rolling into.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Yeah, that's that's the way it feels to me.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Talking with Shaquila from the Denver Post, I don't have
you got a chance to look at this thing or not.
The thirty three page term sheet for the Chief News
Stadium in Kansas. This isn't as objectively hilarious as the
Bears possibly moving to Gary, Indiana, but it is.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
It is sort of funny, and.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Kansas is essentially giving the Chiefs three billion dollars in funding,
mixed use, development, and tax instead of and getting virtually
nothing in return. The Chiefs get to keep one hundred
percent of the revenue from all stadium activities, ticket sales, concessions, sponsorships,
all that stuff that applies to NFL games and.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
All other events.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Kansas will own the stadium, but the Chief's paying seven
million dollars in rent annually.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
But that money doesn't go back to the state.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
It goes into account the Chiefs can use for renovations
and repairs.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
You look at the Broncos stadium deal.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
You look at this and you're like, how are the
two most recent NFL stadium.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Deals almost the opposite.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
In terms of equitability for the taxpayers?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Yeah, I kind of. And I'm married to a Chief fan.
Full disclosure, I'm married into a Chief family. So that's
come up a little bit from time to time. Was like,
it's sixty percent with money, isn't that? Basically the deals
from wind Out County's but it actually could be. Oh,
(26:07):
I know, and Missouri was offering one half. Yeah to
say to Missouri, so you were, I get, do we
count our blessings here that you know, one of the
twentiest richest families in North America uh bought this team
uh and is able to now that they're real blease
some costs on the back end, as you have talked about,
(26:28):
and I'm sure others have those three little words called bsl's,
but in terms of getting this is done, yeah, it's
remarkable to me. I'm also the son of a Bears fan.
Now that saga has gotten crazy and now they're talking
about moving in to Gary or Hammond, and I I
just start laughing. You know, it's all about chasing the
dollar and about the sweets deal there. So I think
(26:51):
catch your blessings if you're a Broncos fan. Maybe not
if you're a Broncos season ticket older. But I I
think it's kind of a miracle the Chief's got that
much public money over the line in this d nah,
don't you?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Oh yeah, absolutely fat And in the era of populism, me,
you have a you have a red state that it's
handing money, handover fist to it. Yeah, you're right, and
it's socializing cost and privatizing profit.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
And I could go on rant about that all day.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
As far as that stuff.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Goes, I will say this, since since you you know,
came up as the bear situation, there's a there's some
part of me that is hoping for the move to Gary, Indiana,
just so that I can call them the gear Bears.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But you know, beyond that, I I mean, you know,
there's a part.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
Of me that's like, oh my god, are you really
gonna moveto Northern Indiana?
Speaker 5 (27:38):
Over it?
Speaker 1 (27:39):
We'll see it is the era of profit chase, and
we'll see shifting topics here real quick.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
See you.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Now, they're on the other side of transfer portal mania.
You've seen lately it seems like a flood of players
are hitting the portal getting ready to head out. And
and these are not players that are not scheme fits.
This is just a lot of good players hitting the portal.
Here is this is this the cracks beginning to show
up there and see.
Speaker 6 (28:00):
You, I'm gonna hold the same panic button I'm holding
until the Chiefs game. I know Deon Sanders know well
enough that there is, at least to this point, whenever
we have fretted most about somebody leaving, somebody pretty close
or better, I think of two years ago has come around. Now,
(28:22):
if we get to January third and we're not seeing upgrades,
I think we will, But if we don't, it's yeah,
it's that can be a red flag. I think the depth,
it's not so much a quality as much as the
quantity of guys. And that's just back to something we've
talked about on and off there. They're just philosophically they're
(28:44):
not gonna max out, they're not gonna go over the
eighty five scholarships. They don't want to pay a lot
of guys who they don't think are going to be there,
and they don't philosophically want to develop guys ostensibly who
might leave because they also don't have whether they nil
pot whatever you want to call it, don't have the
(29:05):
pay structure, salary cap structure to try to keep that young.
Keeping young talent now in college football is both a
financial It's always been a financial investment, strength, conditioning, training,
cable have you. Now it's a literal paid investment and
they have put their money in Julian Lewis. They've put
(29:27):
their money in Jordan Seaton and they're a little tapped out,
so I'll be very curious depth wise, how about most
of months from now. But I'm not gonna panic until
I see what stars they've managed to convince to come
spend their senior years in both for their graduate years
and because that's what they've done.
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Sean, it always goes too fast, man, That is the
voice of reason, Sean Keayler. Appreciate you taking some time
out from a busy evening to jump on with us.
Good luck out there in the the tropical utopian paradise
of Nebraska. We look forward to tales of what future
living is like when you when you, when you get
back and uh, and brother, I have yourself A merry Christmas,
(30:07):
Happy holidays and and all that to you and.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Yours, same to you and yours.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I really appreciate the time. And let's hope for a
lestramatic twenty twenty six. But who are we kidding. We're
alling right into a Broncos playoff. We're holding right into it.
So happy holidays to you and yours as well, and
to all the listeners. It'd be safe.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Absolutely take care Sean Deeler from the Denver Post. Always
love having him on. That is a dude that gets
my brand of humor.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
I love.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
I love having Shohn on because he's He's one guy
I could just laugh and chuckle and he gets my.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Weird, my weird sense of humor.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
I texted him earlier about coming on the show, and
he's like, well, I will be driving through Nebraska, so
let's definitely do it.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
It'll be nothing else to do.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
I need something to break up the monotony.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
With all due respect and I mean all due respect
to the people of Nebraska, I would not wish that
drive on anyone unless they were forced to be driving
through Kansas, in which then I would wish them the
Nebraska drive because it's Pertina. That's fair, having made both
many times. Let me tell you, hi, this is this
is me uh lamenting not living there, me dementing driving
(31:12):
through there, because I'm sure living there is fun for
the people to live there. Yeah, excuse me. Been a
fun show tonight. You guys have been great. My voice
is more or less held up. I'm fairly surprised by that.
We got to the first segment. I thought of my
voice was going to give out more or less held up.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
It's a Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It is basically a Christmas miracle. What do you got
going on for Christmas? Grant just time with the wife.
Is this your first Merry Christmas?
Speaker 5 (31:37):
Second Merry Christmas?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Okay, first Christmas in a new house that's not the
wife's brother in town.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
We've already get the slopes a couple of times.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
We got a friend coming over, so it should be
a very merry Christmas and hopefully a Broncos win.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Well, a mozzle. Talk to you and yours. Look forward
to seeing you and hear don't want to be back
Christmas night. Okay, I'll be here too, Broncos.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Cout your night, Backer, Chris Booball.
Speaker 5 (32:01):
You can't spit it out. You gotta swallow it. You
never go full overdog,
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