08-06-25 KOA Sports Hour 2

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the Broncos are off to Santa Clara.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Got a joint practice tomorrow and then the game on
Saturday night. Well, we'll check out with Susie Wart, who's
gonna be you know, in practice tomorrow. Check in with
her tomorrow, get some boots on the ground, find out
what's going on out there.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
But I thought this would be a good opportunity. I
want to get to the NFL and.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
ESPN murder stuff. That stuff is wild. Get ready for
a whole new branding on Red Zone. We'll get to
that second. But yeah, just some guys in your opinion
that you had sort of an idea of what you
thought they were, and they've impressed you in camp. Is
anybody that jumps out, you know, like Troy Franklin is
the name that pops up for a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
I hate to say because I've heard that as well,
but I have been impressed with Troy Franklin. You know,
I think he looks a little different to me. So
whether that's an additional you know, eight pounds, but it's
it's eight pounds where you can tell he's worked in
the weight room. I mean he was really slender last year.

(00:59):
In fact, when I saw him. I'm thinking, man, that
young guy is going to have to grow into his body.
You can be fast on fast, and if you can't
get off the line of scrimmage against grown men, then
you're not going to play in the league. But it
looks to me like he has filled out. I know
he had a drop on Saturday, long drop, and honestly,

(01:21):
he's probably at the point of his career that he's
going to have a drop or two. You don't like it,
but you can live with it if he is making
other plays, and I think he gives them that weapon,
that speed. That even again, in a league full of
fast athletes, he's one of those guys that can line

(01:43):
up and just run by you and you have to
respect that if you come in and play the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
So he'd be one for sure. I think.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
I think Juliel looks like he got in the weight
room too. I think Juliel's I'm guessing up eight pounds.
Maybe he still has his quickness still. I was talking
to somebody in the Broncos organization out there a practice.
They still say that dude first went in, last one

(02:11):
out and works harder than anybody in camp. So that's
and the rest of the running backs, or at least
me let me rephrase that, and some of the other
younger running backs I think would do well to look
at that and try to copy it a bit.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
I like that one as well.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Michelim McLoughlin on Troy Franklin for one second here, though,
I think it goes to show you sometimes, even if
guy is a prolific receiver in college. I mean, he
had almost fourteen hundred receiving yards and fourteen touchdowns in
his final year there at Oregon, he looked like at
that time a guy that could probably go Day two
might be a bit of a steal in the draft,
especially where the Broncos got him in the fourth round.

(02:53):
And yet it still can take some time, right, It
still can be like you don't just show up into
the NFL and you're that dude.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
He didn't show up and he's going to put up
fourteen hundred receiving yards.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
We thought it might take a little bit of time
for him to acclimate, and here is he took that
first year. He looks like he learned a lot from it,
and he's starting to apply it, at least in the
practice setting. Because at least from last year's training CIP
to this year's training CIP. It's a noticeable, noticeable difference.

Speaker 5 (03:16):
I would say that the wide receiver spot in running
back spot will be the two positions that you would
have the most likely number of rookies come in and
really contribute early receiver and running back because there's just
a lot of natural instinct to both positions, not that

(03:37):
there aren't things, as you said, that they have to learn,
and I just thought physically, you know, he was not
ready for the league last year. Again, as I said,
you can be a fast guy, lots of fast guys,
but to play wide receiver, you still have to have
an ability to there has to be there has to

(03:58):
be a modicum of physicality to your game, even if
you're one of the fast guys, and he I think
struggled in that. So I don't see that nearly as
much in the second training camp.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Another guy that I want to shout out is Leavel Bailey.
We'll actually play some of his audio. I had a
chance to interview him for the pregame. We'll play that
coming up here at five point thirty. But I think
Leavell Bailey sort of thrust into a bigger role early
on because of injuries.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
It looked great.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
And one of the things I did ask him about
was the fact that the inside linebacker group. You remember
last year when Alex Singleton went down and they all
of a sudden have to lean on Justin Surnad and
Cody Barton a lot. But it wasn't like the defense
fell off the map because of it, right, I mean,
they were able to find a way to work with
those guys even though they're not their starters in there.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
And here you are of another situation early on in.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Camp when you're losing Drake Greenlaw and Alex Singleton your
top two guys, and you lose Drew Sanders, who would
be I guess ostensibly your third guy. Lavell Bailey is
a practice squad player now playing starters reps and playing
the second team, And I thought Lavelle Bailey's had a
nice camp so far.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
I wouldn't disagree.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I think he's very popular with his teammates, which, believe
or not, does count counts for something you got to
go out and play, But coaches, I think at this
level can sort of feel if it's a genuine enthusiasm
from teammates that are watching this guy play, and I
think I think, I think LB has had had some moments.

(05:24):
I think generally speaking, last year the Broncos had sub
par play at the inside linebacker spot, and again because
of injuries, they lose Singleton for the entire year. The
guys you mentioned had some moments. They had moments, But
I think if you just generally grade the linebacker the

(05:45):
inside linebacker play last year for the Broncos, it would
not be one of the strengths of the team.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I agree with you.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
The one thing that I'll add is maybe they overachieved
early on and maybe because we had low expectations and
they I mean, Cody Barton in the Saints game is
one of the things that pops out in my mind.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
And justin Surna, I.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Had some really nice moments to remember the Jets, Gamy
ended up having some pretty key tackles.

Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think he got a sack in right, Hyeah, first
play the game, That's right, That's right.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
So, but I think our lasting memory, kind of like
we have with Riley Moss, who also I think is
having a nice camp, our lasting memory is then both
being really taking advantage of in coverage especially in the
Chargers game and in the Bengals game, Like that's my
lasting memory of our linebacking corps unfortunately. But anyways, i

(06:32):
just want to give him a shout out. I'm trying
to think if there's anybody else. I mean, I think
there's other good players that have had good camps. So
I mean Chris abram Strain had a really nice PBu
in practice yesterday.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think he's had some nice moments.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
He's for me, locked in in the top five for
the DB's for the cornerbacks. I think a guy as
far as corners that I want to see more from
that really probably needs a good preseason, as Demory mathis.
And I'm not saying that he's had a bad CA
he just hasn't had many opportunities to stand out.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
He did have an interception to end practice.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
I want to say this was last week and during
second team, but otherwise it hasn't been a very notable
training camp for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Matths.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I think anytime you play a position and the team
goes out and spends draft capital, high draft capital at
your position, and they do it like in back to
back years almost right, I mean, Moss came was injured

(07:36):
his rookie year. Last year was his second year, but
Moss was a high draft choice. Now you got Jeanne
Barron this year is the twelfth overall selection. So anytime
you've got two additions basically in two years, actually we
would be three years at that position, and those are
high draft choices. If you're one of the guys trying

(07:58):
to compete for the team, it makes you up a
little bit, at least it should.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
I haven't.

Speaker 5 (08:02):
I haven't seen Demari do anything that I would say,
ooh boy, that's that's not good.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
That's that's not what you want to do.

Speaker 5 (08:11):
And conversely, I really haven't seen him do anything that
would catch your eye. You say, like, man, that's a
great play, or you know, good coverage, or he really
was good with his hands at the line of scrimmage,
and then I just haven't seen it. But there have
been a lot of guys in camp and you're trying
to stand on the sideline and focus on a particular
position or on a single play, you're looking down to
see the quarterback and then you're looking to see, you know,

(08:33):
what the concept is downfield, and so I just haven't
seen him enough to have an opinion that would would
truly be valid.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
I think that's fair, and that's that's kind of my
point here is everybody else has though that Chris Abrams
Draint has had multiple moments of pbu's in the end zone.
He ended a drive yesterday for the second team offense.
He's played great so far. I really like his instincts.
And then you talked about the top three, top four guys.
I mean, they're all kind of locked in. So if
Chris sabra Train is your fifth corner, just for argument's sake,

(09:03):
and if you're keeping only five there, then that could
be an interesting spot for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Math it's not.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
If you're keeping six, maybe he gets a chance to
sort of scrape in there. But it's the final year
of his rookie contract, so this is kind of one
of those moments. It's like, hey man, you're either on
it or you're not, and you're probably not gonna be
a practice squad guy for us either.

Speaker 1 (09:20):
We'll probably move on at that point. Uh della.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Aaron Turney yells another guy, you know, it's a special
teams guy plays safety. They continue to add to the
safety room. You just mentioned it corner.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
They keep adding safety, they keep adding.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
So you know, Jail Skinner is also in that boat
where you play special teams. That's good, it's very good
for you. That's your really your ticket to this roster.
But there may need to be a little bit more,
especially this late in your time with the team to
make the roster.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
So it'll be.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
Interesting to see some of these guys. But I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
I means we're gonna get ready for the game coming
up to tomorrow and on Friday. Uh, these are the
conversations we're gonna get into. All right, Hey, what can
you learn from these players? What can they do to
help their cause? You know, a lot of discussions today
because we found about Shugre Sanders is going to start
Friday night for Cleveland, Like, what can you learn about
Shuder Sanders? What can Shoulder Sanders do with that opportunity

(10:12):
to start in a preseason game?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Some people say is meaningless because you're playing against backups
today It's never meaningless.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
And I'm not sure he's going to be playing against
backups he's going to start the game. I'm not sure
the Panthers are going to have backups in. I mean,
there are all sorts. I shouldn't say all sorts. There
is some speculation out of Cleveland that maybe this is
sort of a setup for Shador, and not in a
good way, because they did work out today against the Panthers,

(10:40):
I was told, and he really didn't take too many
of the reps. And normally speaking, if you're going to
be the starter in the first preseason game, you're at
least getting some reps with the starters. Cleveland is in
a really funky situation, I really have to And our
friend Shelby Harris is back there, and you would think,
based on on talent alone, that Shelby is a lot

(11:02):
to make the team. But there are so many quality
quarterbacks coming out next year, led by at least right
now led by Arch Manning. The Browns already have two
first round draft choices, right So, I mean, there is
speculation that, you know, Cleveland may very well, you know,

(11:27):
be interested in what next year's draft holds more so
than really what the regular season holds in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (11:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (11:37):
Saddens me is the guy who's spent a long time
in that organization, of course, but you know what I mean,
that's have we ever seen it before?

Speaker 1 (11:46):
For sure.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
But the Browns have been upside down. I mean they've
been somewhat upside down, like teetering on upside down, and
then the Deshaun Watson thing, the way that thing went
then that flipped him completely upside down there. I mean,
everybody on deck is currently in the water with the Browns.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, and you add two quarterbacks in the draft, they've
all They added Snoop hunt Lee, they traded for Kenney Pickett,
they added Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
He is gonna play, Yeah, because.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Joe Flack is not gonna play, Knny pickt' is not
gonna play, and I think Dylan Gabriel is also out.
So yeah, it's gonna be snoopuntly and it's going to
be shore standers, which is good news for Schnorre is
getting some extra run take, as you would say, But
that doesn't and I agree with you on the sense
that it's not meaningless.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
It's never meaningless. Everything you do means something.

Speaker 2 (12:32):
It's just will it be meaningful for him to ascend
to the starter And I don't I don't know if
that matters in that respect.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
But again for the organization, they want to.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
See something the point that was gonna make is they
may not even have the starting quarterback on the roster
right now for next year.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Like as we say here right now, very very possible.

Speaker 2 (12:48):
They added a second first rounder in that trade back
to get for the Jacksonville get Travis Hunter. They may
be to your point eye, wait, we have two firsts
next year.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
That's why we'll make our run at a quarterback. And again, it.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
Looks like it's going to be a much better quarterback
draft next year than it was this year. Right So,
I mean arch Manning, it's hard for me to understand
with the exception maybe of his gene poll but and
he's a good athlete. He could run. He runs better,
He runs better than he his two uncles. But it's

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hard for me to imagine that that there are people
right now without him really having too many games under
his belt, but they're talking about him as being one
of the top two or three picks in the draft,
if not number one.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
And there might be several teams jocking for position for sure.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
That's what I mean. The Browns could very possibly be wanted.
They don't get off to you know, a good start.
You know you've got Stefanski on the hot seat. There
could be a lot of changes I think in Cleveland,
including who plays quarterback next year.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I think the Saints are also again with the history
of the Mannings, the Saints are also in that conversation
of like, hey, we could put ourselves in a position
to be the first overall pick and get our manning
before if we get to the break here at the
bottom of the hour, did you see this stuff about
ESPN and NFL Network and how ESPN is absorbing or

(14:09):
acquiring NFL Network and it's including the Red Zone channel,
and then the NFL is going to get a ten
percent equity stake in the All Sports Network and ESPN,
So they're firmly entrenched. Like it's all kind of coming together,
and I don't know the complete timeline, but some of
this is going to happen relatively soon. Roger Goodell was

(14:29):
on ESPN earlier today talking about the red Zone and
how now that ESPN owns that they own red Zone,
we could see red Zone really across more than just
the NFL.

Speaker 6 (14:42):
Well, that'll actually stay the same. It will continue to
be produced right here in this building. It will be
the NFL Red Zone. I don't think fans will see
any difference to that. Obviously in the context of that though,
ESPN purchase the red zone name and they will be
able to utilize that for other sports college football and

(15:04):
other things. And I think that could be an exciting
thing for our fans also to see a red zone
maybe in college.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Football or other sports.

Speaker 6 (15:12):
That's something that they now own and have the ability
to do that. But as far as red zone NFL
red zone, there won't be any changes for our fans.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
I got a love a world where the commissioner of
the NFL is on there basically telling everybody that the plot.

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Like, we're aware of the fact that now they own this.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
They're like, hey man, you know we're in with the NBA.
We could do a red zone for the NBA college
football red zone? Why not an NHL NHL red zone
we could do that too.

Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (15:41):
I think what people need to keep in mind is
the NFL network, what was the launch date?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
How long?

Speaker 5 (15:49):
How long have we had I was watching them this
morning because not that I don't like Little League Baseball,
but I'd seen enough so I was trying to see
some NFL stuff.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Residents started September thirteen, two thousand and nine. No One
did the NFL network NFL Network.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
I'll tell you that whole in a second.

Speaker 5 (16:05):
So the NFL Network until the sale to ESPN, from
the time they launched two thousand and three, okay, two
thousand and three, so for the last what twenty two years,
they have been owned by the NFL. The thirty two
NFL owners owned the NFL Network, so they controlled content.

(16:29):
I thought it was a great idea because you know,
people love football, and this country loves, you know, for
the most part, NFL football, and so just about everything
they do has turned to gold.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now.

Speaker 5 (16:45):
It's it's interesting to me that the owners in the
NFL would decide to sell their product to ESPN, and
you think, why would they do that? And it might
be a tough question to answer until you find out
that they're going to get ten percent ownership in ESPN,

(17:06):
So you're marrying whether people like ESPN or not. I
think ESPN has lost a little bit of its sort
of flavor the last couple of years because they you've
gone from you know, where can I find what my
favorite team did?

Speaker 1 (17:23):
What was the score of the game? You can't find
that anymore now.

Speaker 5 (17:26):
Now Basically what you see our talk shows and opinion
shows and people trying.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
To say stuff to elicit clicks and.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
To have somebody write a story about something that one
of the personalities.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Said, and so it's it's more of that game.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
But yeah, now you've got the NFL owners that have
a ten percent stake in ESPN. And again, I think
you're right on point Ryan, when you talked about Roger Goodell,
who's the commissioner of the NFL and ostensibly has nothing
to do with the NBA league baseball, college football for
the most part, and yet he's talking about you could

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see red zone opportunities for all of those sports. So
to me, it was a business decision by the NFL
that they probably crunched the numbers and it took him
out over a five and ten year period and said,
we would be foolish not to do this.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
It's a brave new world, my friend. Well, I mean
they are.

Speaker 5 (18:28):
You can find fault with them, you know, in a
lot of different ways, but the reality of it is
they they are one of the biggest, most successful businesses
in history.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
As he acknowledged what has become universally known at this
point that I was right and he was wrong. Benjamin
Albright in studio here for a second before we hear
from Lavelle Bailey, Ben, do you want anything you want
to say after listening back to that segment, how ultimately.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Wrong you were? No? No, I don't.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
You just get double down. They tried to double down anyway.

Speaker 7 (19:08):
Okay, I'm not giving it teck if I'm not giving
you the smug satisfaction, sir, Well, the audio is the
going to bring you a salacha. I was going to
bring you a salagy. Did you mean to play you
in the audio again? No, because I let's do it earlier.
And I'm like, what was I? I thought we were
talking about the fifty The final fifty three is when
I would, for whatever reason, I don't know, I was
not really listening, was talking about being stoned.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
I might actually ben stoned. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
You not listening to the segments that were actually discussing that. Yeah,
I can't even imagine.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
No, No, I don't. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
I'm trying to do the Timberlake bit from the Barry
GiB Talk Show. Got such a good brit that's such
a good bit.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Well, listen, you're gonna have a plenty of time over
the next three hours with the Broncos country tonight to
explain yourself.

Speaker 1 (19:49):
I won't have time. We got a jam pack show tonight,
No you have you.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
You won't have time to tell people how wrong you
were about the well.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
I don't even think we have time to a non
official depth try to even acknowledge that even happened, right,
very good, barely time to delete the audio.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
I did chance to catch up with Lavell Bailey, who's
been really impressive out of training camp and he's going
to be playing a lot on Saturday Night versus the
forty nine ers. That started out by asking him about
training camp and how it's going for him so far.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
It's been going well. You know what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
Everybody out here flying around you gults have a clear
difference between you know, this year, I mean this year
and last year, you know, well, camp wise, me personally,
I feel like the confidence has been growing more and
more each and every day.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Stacking break by Brick described to me a little bit
of how last season went for you. Certainly came out
of here, meet some plays during training camp as well.
When you think about last year, your rookie season, what
comes to mind?

Speaker 4 (20:41):
I want to say, just getting really really comfortable with
the defense. You know, as a rookie, you notice the
game speed is different. You know, everybody on the field
is you know, physical, the speed is up the.

Speaker 1 (20:51):
Par and things like that.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
So really just regaining my confidence coming into this year
was really my main thing. And the confidence level went
up when you know, you get to learn to play
book and you get to learn the inside the ins
and outs of your whole defense in general.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
What did you work on this offseason to get ready
for the season. Really just running, you.

Speaker 4 (21:10):
Know, trying to you know, speed. He was my main thing,
you know, talking to the vet guys in the room,
Alex Dre justin you know, uh, coming into the off season,
the main thing was a come back in shape, make
sure you can run with you know, tight ends, running backs, receivers, whatnot.
You know, you're a linebacker, you're gonna make it.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You're gonna be.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
Able to tackle whatnot. But you have to get to
the man and get to the ball first to make
that tackle.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
So that was the main thing.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
Certainly, injuries are part of the game and that type
of thing that you have a lot opportunity to really
kind of work with all three teams, but a lot
with the first team.

Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yeah, okay, what does the reps mean to you? How
much can that help you?

Speaker 4 (21:41):
That means a lot just being out there with you know,
all pro guys like Zach, you know, DJ, back end
guys with puff h, B B Jones, Pat. Really really,
the marginal error is really slim because everybody knows what
what what their cue is and what they're doing. So
you just got to do your one left that studio
part and everything is gonna come full circle.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
It's an interesting position with inside linebacker because you're you're
paired with a lot of different guys. Yeah, it's like
having a different dance partner. Yeah, in and out of
every single thing. So how does that work with communication
with those guys? Is that something you guys work with
off the field a lot, or is that something that hey,
we're just in this thing.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
We have to know the defense and everybody's got to
do their job.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
It's definitely off the field thing, you know, building a bomb,
building the chemistry, you know, in the side of the
locker room. Off the field, really just being able to
being able to talk to guys, you know, hold them
accountable and things like that, and that translates to the field.
You know, you know, justin guys like that. You know,
they held me accountable off the field, so I know,
you know they have that they have my best answers
on the field too, so whenever he calls me on

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any thing, I know I'm doing the wrong thing, and
vice versa.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
You guys got joint practice coming up with the forty
nine ers, and then you got the game joy practices.
I mean in general, like what's your view of those you.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Know, to get out there and compete. You know, those
guys are are hunger on the other side of the ball.
You know, you know, it's been a long camp, so
we can't wait till you know, uh line up against
new guys, new faces, and the new schemes and new systems.
So I think we're gonna get after and I know
we know that they're gonna get after it.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
Universally, it's about that time of camp when you started saying, yeah,
it'd be nice to sort of thumping as somebody else. Yeah,
and I'm sure they feel as you mentioned, the same
way for the preseason game. I mean, also, how do
you view those as opportunities not only for you to
get better, but also making pressure on the coaching staff.

Speaker 4 (23:23):
Almost definitely, just know you just got to come out
there and just really just come out, show improve that
you belong here. Come out and make the plays you
need to make. You know, the communication and things like that.
You know everybody's gonna have first game, pregame, preseason jitters
and whatnot. But you know you got to shake those
butterflies off and warm ups and whatnot, and when the play,
when the play, when the opportunity presents itself, you gotta

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make it.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
You guys outed Drake green Law in the offseason. What's
what's the like working with him?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Man, that guy for sure relentless. You could tell the
first day he came in, we're on walk throughs and
he's full speed, ready to get after and things like that.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
His main thing, you know he brought to the room
was gets to the ball.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
Gets to the ball. Good thing is gonna happen to
you no matter where you were on the field. He
run to the ball. You know, the football guys might
bless you with it. And you know I kind of
took that and around with it. Every time the balls
could be twenty yards down the field, you run and
get there. A it might pop out, something may something
good may happen. But you know what I'm saying, he's
a good guy all the last one here for you.
So uh, you know last year Alex got hurt a

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little bit early.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
You guys ended up having to go to Cody and
you got to Justin and there sort of starting out.
What is it about this scheme that it seems like
you guys, if there is an injury, you guys just
jump right in. It seems like you guys can all
work together.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Is it about vj scheme? About the coaching?

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Is that about maybe some of the guys you have
in the locker room?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
What would you attribute that to it? It's a little
of both. Ye, well, not a little both, a lot
of both.

Speaker 4 (24:45):
You know. Coach v Day his scheme is really abroad.

Speaker 1 (24:50):
He he coaches the.

Speaker 4 (24:51):
Twos and threes just like he's coaching the one. So
he prepares the preparation for everybody on the field. Is
just like you know what I'm saying. Some one goes down,
you next man up mentality and that goes along with
guys in the locker room. You know, we have the
support system for the twos and the threes and the
fours or whatnot. Whatever guy's in there, they make a play,
you can see, you can tell the defense is running
off the field and things like that. We're encouraging one

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another to try to make the play and try to
get everybody right on the same page.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
That really fun conversation there with Level Bailey, and you
can check it out at Kwaclorado dot com or on
the completely free and totally awesome iHeartRadio app, which is
awesome and you set your presets. Is really cool stuff.
Benjamin Albright coming up here. We were talking a little
bit about stock up, stock down. Some guys in Level
Bailey's had some really nice moments out of camp.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
Yeah, it really has.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
You know, Drew Sanders getting hurt.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
I think there's been more opportunity there for Lavell Bailey,
and he really has. He's really kind of popped and
so you know, he's kind of I think production this
preseason is really going to be key for him. But
if he he manages to have some games where his
name keeps getting called and he keeps making plays, I
could see a spot on the fifty three for him
where I would have said he was a practice.

Speaker 3 (25:58):
Squad guy before We'll come back on the other side.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
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Speaker 1 (26:21):
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Speaker 2 (26:23):
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Speaker 1 (26:43):
Peter Gabriel I told you about it? Well, you know
my Peter Gabriel story.

Speaker 7 (26:45):
No ahead and tell it. I tell you kind of story.
Why you just go ahead and share it. I bumped
into Peter Gabriel. It is a Times Square. He's getting
ready to play one of those night shows.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Me. This is like twenty years ago.

Speaker 7 (26:57):
He's he gonna play I think Letterman something like that,
And he was wearing an I'm with Peter Gabriel's shirt
nice and I was like, okay, that's all right, you
can you can pull that off.

Speaker 1 (27:05):
That's pretty good. Did you inspire in your eyes?

Speaker 7 (27:08):
I don't think it was alive when that song was
was written, So I think you were this is the eighties?

Speaker 1 (27:14):
What year was it song written?

Speaker 4 (27:15):
Though?

Speaker 3 (27:15):
In your eyes went there like a would.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
You know the movie that was famously in.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
A few John Cusack, Yeah, with the boombox. Yeah, come
on say anything, there you go, but it's been a
few gold Star, Yeah, I have to look this up.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
Little eighty six. You were definitely alive, all right, very alive. Well,
but that wasn't what was written. That was one was released.
You're an old recorded before that. I think it was
a recording a eighty five e four.

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Oh my god, he said he was his eighty six.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
That was what it was released.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Oh so you're saying, well, well, of course it was
written in eighty five eight four recording If it.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
Was written before there's have you ever did watched by tellers?
You never watched behind the music, Ryan, you're a Superbowl.
I don't even know. Go like some more door knobs.
We did Grant.

Speaker 2 (28:04):
You can coost this with me. This is ridiculous. Did
you know this is like a Ben Allbright kind of moment.
Did you know that that take with the boombox was
actually the last one?

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Like they had been there like half the day.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
They weren't getting the shot and John Cusack was getting
angry and finally he just held it up over his
head and the look on his face was anger, not
like I'm in love, And that ended up being the
take and he just randomly, I know, he just randomly
lifted it over over his head. He up to that
point had just been holding it in front of him
or setting it on his lap, like he hadn't lifted
it over his head until that ended up being the

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iconic moment of that movie.

Speaker 7 (28:40):
It was and then lives on in pop culture for me.
Do you know the background singer on in your eyes
was No you saw Ader? Who you saw Endure one
of the most famous singers and global music history. Okay, fantastic, awesome,
what's coming on? Just bringing that humor element to the show. Yeah,

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you call that humor?

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Uh huh?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
We got uh, well, we got the Hall of Fame,
We've got Steve at Water.

Speaker 1 (29:06):
Uh in tonight.

Speaker 7 (29:08):
We got a surprise fun guest that we'll have in
there as well. And then uh, comedian Earthquake is going
to join us by phone as well. He's got a
couple of shows coming up here in Denverson. He's gonna
jump on the show and talk a little bit about
what he's got going on, including a new weekly series
thirty minutes special with Bill Burr.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So that ought to be a lot of fun. Speaking
of Steve that Water.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
We did get some news before we get showing the money,
get some news. The NFLPA sent players a note here,
just a little bit of go clarifying that the league's
ban on smelling salts only applies to clubs providing it
to players, meaning if you bring your own, you're fine.

Speaker 7 (29:45):
Okay, So so you can bring your own smelling salts, yes,
the you just can't have you can't have the team
provided to you.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You can bring your own. Okay. That seems weird, but whatever,