11 07 25 Voice of the Broncos Dave Logan Reacts to Broncos Win Over Raiders

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broncos look like they may pressure this a bit. Snap
is good. They do bring some pressure and they get.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
To it, they block it. The boss passing around picked
up Denver's football inside the Raider fifteen yard line.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Tyler Badet recovered the block, JL Skinner blocked it.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
It was that blocked punt that set up the Broncos
for what would turn out to be the game winning
field goal, eventually beating the Raiders ten to seven on
Thursday Night Football Eden Power Field at Mile High.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Yeah, it's now seven straight victories for the Broncos, but
the game's certainly not pretty with a number of offensive struggles.
Joining us on the KWA Common Spirit Health Hotline, his
voice of the Broncos, Dave Logan, Dave, appreciate your time.
As always, you said it best, Broncos hold on, but
hold on ugly. I mean, the defense continues to dominate.
We say that on and on again. But what can

(00:50):
the Broncos do before we even dive into offense, just
in the first half, what can we do just to
improve the game.

Speaker 1 (00:58):
So well, morning, and David, I heck, if I had
that answer, I'd be making a lot more money than
I'm making right now. I can tell you that much.
So there is no easy answer. I mean, they've they've
got to be better on offense. There are too many
and Sean talked about it after the game, and I

(01:20):
think it's true, way too many penalties to start with.
I think Bo looks unsettled to me. We've seen him
when he's played really well. There are some some opportunities
in that first half where you've got to take it
and if you're not confident, then you're not gonna You're

(01:44):
not gonna throw the ball. So there's so many, so
many things that go into I think having a successful offense.
It's it's scheme, it's play selection, it's the timing of
the play selections. It's the players feeling good about the
the game plan and then going on and executing and
stop committing pim. There's just a myriad of things. But

(02:06):
I mean, listen, this is you don't have to be
the smartest guy in the room to figure out they're
eight and two and they've got to get this offense
fixed otherwise they're going to waste really an absolutely stellar
season by the defense.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Dave, the Broncos are giving up I think it's the
second fewest yards per game in the league to Houston.
They lead the league in sacks by a wide margin.
They're giving up only seventeen points per game on average.
So even with an offense that I wrote just a
bit anemic, but maybe it is playing anemic with this defense,
is it safe to say that they should at least

(02:42):
be in every game?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well, I mean that's that's ideally how you look at it.
I mean, the defense, you know, I've talked about it
a lot, maybe not to this extent, but the offense
at any level of football, certainly in the NFL, is
a little bit like the stock market, right, you're up up,
you're down with the defense. When you get a really
good defensive team, the defense remained steady, and I mean

(03:07):
this defense I think has been really good the entire year.
Are there things on the defense that they can work
on and get better at? Of course, of course they can't.
I mean the Raiders were able to sort of run
the ball and dominate the time of possession. They held
the ball I think twelve minutes of the first quarter,
and so's there's things to fix. But you know, when

(03:28):
you hold the team to seven points, you're supposed to
at home you're supposed to win that game decisively.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Not trying to make excuses here, but obviously we talked
a little bit about wind being a major factor maybe
in the punting and kicking game, but was it really
a factor in everything else we saw with the passing game.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Maybe, I think you know, I'm up, I'm up in
the boost, So I couldn't tell you exactly, but the win.
The win certainly was gusty. Every time Bill Vinovich, who
was last night's reference, he turned his mic on to talk,
I mean it sounded like he was in a wind tunnel.
So yes, I mean to a certain degree, but I
mean they've got to go back and get and analyze.

(04:12):
To me, you go back in that offense and you look,
you break that thing down and you get back to
the fundamentals of playing good football. Even at the NFL
with elead athletes, best players in the world, there are
sometimes that you have to go back and sort of
regroup and get back into the fundamental stuff that allowed
you to be good in the first first part. So

(04:33):
I think that's what they'll do. They've got some time
off here and then they get ready for a huge
game coming up a week from a Sunday against the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Dave how not sure how much you can glean from
the booth, but I'll bet you can. But we talked
with Susie, who's obviously down on the field about this earlier.
The offense not making first downs, the poor punts, the
Raiders starting with too good a field position early in
the game. Could you give us a level of the
sense of frustration that you were feeling from the crowd?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Well, I mean, I think, I mean, I think, I
think the crowd is firmly behind the team. They're they're
just waiting to see something that allows them to get
really excited. I mean that crowd was juiced up before
the game. I would say this, David, I think, and
I can speak only to my experience as a player there,

(05:25):
no matter how good the coaches are, no matter how
hard they work on it not being this way, there
will come a time in that locker room where if
they don't get things fixed a little bit, and they've
got the right kind of guys in there. But if
one side of the ball is playing really well and
the other side of the ball is really struggling, if

(05:47):
you're winning games, that can be tolerated but if you
if you lose a game, or you start to lose
a couple of games, and that scenario continues to unfold,
that that's gonna be a that's gonna be a difficult
locker room. And I don't don't care who's the coach
or who the leaders are. That's just the way NFL
locker rooms work. So I think the Broncos can get
things fixed on the offense, but they've got to do

(06:09):
that in a short period of time.

Speaker 3 (06:10):
Boys of the Broncos. It's Dave Logan. Dave, I'll have
to pull your first response and literally line it up
with voice buffs Mark Johnson, because both of you said,
if I knew how to figure this out, I'd been
making way more money than what I'm making right now.
And he was talking about them buffs issues.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Oh wow, I didn't hear Mark, but I think he's right.
I mean, see you as some gosh, that's a whole
nother you got. Your show will be off here before
we can get that. I think he's right, no question
about that.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Thanks, Dave, appreciate it.