September 24, 2022 • 13 mins
On this episode of "The Snap," Sydney Jones is joined by NBC ‘Sunday Night Football’ sideline reporter Melissa Stark to discuss her excitement for this matchup, Denver’s “Darkside” defense and more. Stark also details her career, the path she took to get where she is today and more. Want more of "The Snap"? Subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, TuneIn, Stitcher or wherever you find your podcasts. Make sure to leave a rating and review.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, this is Bradley Chub Are you listening to this now?
Hey's scoring the sudden. Hey, list is Tim Patrick, and
you listening to the snap with Sidney dones on Broncos
podcast network here. What's the broncos country? Welcome back to
the Broncos podcast networking on Youtube for this week's edition
of the snap. I'm your host, Sidney Jones, and joining
me here inside the UC Hall Training Center today is
(00:21):
NBC's Sunday night football sideline reporter, Melissa Stark. Melissa will
be this weekend's sideline reporter. Asked the broncos most to
San Francisco. Forty niners out in power field at mile
high on Sunday. Melissa, so excited to have you here.
Thanks so much for joining me to thanks for having me.
This is great. I'm happy to be here. I've been
to Denver in a long time, I know. Yeah, it's
so great to have you here in person. How are
(00:43):
you doing? How's your week going? Good? So you're we're
a couple of weeks in and this is uh new
for me, being on the road this much and doing
this many games, because I used to do it many,
many years ago, doing Monday night football and that right.
I stepped away to start a family and whatnot. So Um,
but it's good. I mean the adrenaline still go in.
It's still warm out, you know, we're still seeing what
(01:05):
teams are good what teams aren't, you know, feeling it
all out. So it's really fun. Happy to be back
on the sideline for you. Happy to be back on
the sideline? Yes, Um, I always tell people. They say
why do you? Why do you like it, or what
do you what brought you back to it? There is
nothing like the adrenaline of being in the center of
the action and being right there, especially under the lights
at prime time, prime time. and Um, you know, I
(01:29):
hosted studio shows. I've done live studio shows. I mean
live TV is fantastic. Absolutely loved live TV, but there,
but you know, getting out of the studio and getting
into the action is, Um, it's awesome. You certainly have
a fantastic career. I know you've had so many trademendous
stops along the way. Can you start by, you know,
telling me where you got your start and kind of
how you got where you are now? Yeah, so, Um,
(01:50):
I went to the University of Virginia and when I
was there. I did features on all the basketball players
and all the football players. So when I graduated I
had a tape and I actually I really like news.
I grew up liking news, and I took it around
all these news directors and I said, I know it's
all sports, but you know, I love a job in news,
and everyone's I don't know how you'd be in a
town council meeting and so okay, so that didn't work out,
but then there were anyway, it does, it does in retrospect.
(02:14):
I mean I'm so glad I hit the Jackpot because
there weren't many women in sports at the time and
they were launching ESPN news and so my first year
out of college I went to a regional cable networking
I covered I grew up in Baltimore. So it was
fun for me because I covered the orioles when cal
ripken was there and Rode Anderson and Um the capitals,
(02:35):
and they were called the bullets. Now the other wizards.
So that was really fun. And then I got a
job at ESPN a year later. So it was fast.
Was the accelerated track again because there weren't many women,
you know, in TV, in sports. So Um, I hosted
a show on ESPN called Scholastic Sports America, so it
was all the best high school athletes in the country's fine,
(02:56):
and then I started covering Um nfl countdown in the
football games and all of that. And then I was
really young when I got the money night football sideline job.
I was twenty six and uh so that was crazy really.
I mean I was working with the best of that.
I was working without Michael's and then John Madden came
along and he was incredible, Um for me and for
my career and boosting because I was really young, you know,
(03:18):
working with these icons and and you're the only female.
I mean being a woman, you know. I mean hopefully
it's so different for you now, because we've all sort
of been fasty part of it exactly now. I didn't
think about it. I don't know if you think about it.
Not Really. Yeah, so that's the nice part of it.
Thankful for so. Um. So then then I left to
(03:42):
start a family. I was freaking with my first child
and I didn't think that I'd want to the road.
And and then I did go to news because I
really I did want to try it. So I went
to the today show and I um it was the
national correspondent for the today show and I quickly realized
that it didn't work. Who does not work if you
have kids, because it's all breaking. You know. They'd call
(04:04):
and say, okay, Hey, you have this schedule this weekend. Um,
you need to go. Yeah, you gotta, just can't go wherever,
can't whatever, you can't do it. And Sports is scheduled.
So I did that for four years and I covered.
So I covered Olympics for them, because NBC has them,
and that was really fun, like Michael Phelps in Athens
and then the Trino Olympics and then Bejan and and
so Um. But then I had four kids and four
(04:25):
years so I had to step away. It was just
too yeah, one person could watch my kids, you know.
So Um. So I thought I might be leaving it
forever and I was okay with that because I really
wanted to be a mom and it was that's the
number one role. Uh, you know, you've got one shot
of being a mom. So I left and then when
my girls were four, um, my old boss from ESPN
(04:47):
called and said he's working in NFL network and he said,
if you want to work one day a week two
days a week and I thought if you have a
kindergarten thing you have to go to with the kids,
and it sounded perfect. And I still thought, how am
I going to juggle it, because I think that's the
one question. How do you how does a woman balance
at all? How do you juggle the career of the family,
the whole thing? Um, and so I went back and
I did it and I just covered like the jets
(05:08):
and the giants, because I live in that area, local
teams and I do the Super Bowl and the draft
in the big events and combine and and quickly, you know,
I was like, okay, I can figure out how to
do all this and and then you get the bug
and you want to do more and more and more.
So Um, so that's kind of the path that I've taken.
And then I started to do some sidelines with the
London Games, international gas. So it's I so I've done
(05:29):
some sidelines in the last couple of years, but it's
very different now, twenty years later, being on the sidelines
than it was years ago. You mentioned the adrenaline and
back on the sideline. What's your favorite part of this
role that you have right now? Yeah, so, Um, well, so,
I was mentioning that. It's been it's very different. Um,
there's so much Um. First of all, you have so
much access to more research and material and to the
(05:52):
players and social media and you know, used to dig
for stories back then and it was, you know, one
phone call here or I mean the teams just get
it now, right, it's just you have your own production
within the Broncos. Right. I mean the fact that you're
you know, so much access now. So that makes it
really fun. You have access to all these cool stories
and you have more access to the athletes and they
get it because it's their brand. and Um, and then
(06:13):
we have more cameras, we have more a big part
of my job is injuries. You know, you're the eyes
of the field. So, Um, we have a former head
athletic trainer, a team trainer that was with the Jaguars
with me on the sidelines. It's so he knows exactly
what he got. All the information is what well, yeah,
I mean you get the information of the team, but
he can break it. He can say, okay, this is
(06:34):
what they're doing right now to his knee, this is
what they're checking for, this is what they're looking for,
because I don't have, you know, that medical background. So
that gives us just such a higher Um. It's just
kind of cutting edge on how we can cover injuries.
So that's really fun. And then the other thing that's
great for me is, uh, a lot of the people
that we're still were there from a n football are
still doing there. So because, you know, when you travel
(06:57):
as much as we do, I mean I just rolled
into town. I'm going to be here for three days.
It's usually four days yet, but we're together so much
that it's like a family. You really want to like
the people that you're working right and Um, and Mike
Trek and I get way back we had covered a
made for Tlf TV golf event together because he does golf.
And then Chris Collinsworths, you just meet him and you
just instantly just sort of he's just such a regular
(07:19):
guy and so great. Um. So anyway, so that's that's
what's really fun for me and makes it doable, because
I'm leaving my family at home right in these kids
four days a week. You know all that. So you
gotta kind of love the people that you're with, for sure. Yeah,
you know, you mentioned only being here for three days.
I know today you're here at the UCL training center
to watch practice. You guys got production meetings later. Who
(07:39):
Do you plan on talking to and what are you gonna,
you know, ask him about? Yeah, so, Um, we are talking,
of course, to Russell Wilson and we're talking to Nathaniel Hackett. Um,
you know, I think we just, you know, first of
all what we always do with the coaches. Go through
you know who's playing, who's not playing, what he's looking for,
all of that, and then it's really it's really fun
to be in these production meetings because you get the
(08:00):
player and you get the coach in such a relaxed
environment rather than, you say, if you go, you know,
post gaming, you do the postgame interviews, you're getting quickly
here and there. This is, you know, they're just sitting,
they just want to they love talking. It's you can
talk about the history of the game. You talk about
so much rather than exactly so um. So that's the
fun part. You get a lot of information, you know,
(08:21):
in these meetings, meetings. Yes, exactly, and I've already talked
to so I'll do my own digging because beforehand, yes,
because if I ask questions in front of these guys,
not that they're going to steal it intentionally all of
a sudden. If Chris Consworth here's something, it's going on
the air right like he's gonna say it. So a
lot of times I'll walk out. I'll either say hey,
I'm just gonna they'll say, Melissy, you have any questions?
(08:41):
I'll say, well, I'm just gonna walk out with him
and I'll ask him a question. For your part of
the I want my stories to be my stories and
not yes, I'm very territorial, Um, but I talked to
court Um and and t j Jones, you know, on
my own office, for some yes, for some other stories. Yes,
we're looking at this matchup as a whole mess. I
know you haven't to those guys. Yeah, but what really
(09:01):
excites you about this Sunday night game? Well, I mean
I think the forty niners Um, obviously are an exciting team.
And then the whole it's so disappointing. What happened to
Trey Lance? Oh my gosh, Jimmy Garoppolo, his story is incredible.
I mean he literally sat there and said goodbye to
the media, said goodbye to everybody, and here he is,
you know, coming back and getting this opportunity and he
(09:23):
stuck it out and he didn't complain and he's been,
you know, doing his own thing off to the side.
He's been there all there for training camp. Yeah, took
the pay cut, the whole thing. Um, you know, injuries
are an unfortunate part of the game, because he had
the jury and the injury and the and then, you know,
obviously wasn't you know, nobody traded for him, Um, but
so I think that's really exciting. and Um, and then
Russell Wilson't. It's you know, it's huge. It's just huge him,
(09:46):
you know, changing teams, being here such an you know,
an energy boost for this team. And absolutely, yeah, yeah,
we're looking at this offense specifically. I know we haven't
scored a ton of points so far this season, but
we actually ranked top ten in older yards, passing yards,
rushing yards. There's a lot of good things that are
working here. What have you just thought overall about Russell
and the rest of this offense? I mean I think
(10:07):
it's just gonna like anything, it's just gonna take time
and then with a new head coach, you know, somebody
would have sent his first year. Um, you know, the
media is like, you know, really picking on him and
it's a lot of scrutiny, but you know, it takes
time to sort of work out the kinks. Um. So,
so I think that, you know, you've got a patients
there and then he's got to get, you know, on
the same page with with his guys and, Um, you know,
(10:31):
it's it's exciting to be part of a new team,
but it also, you know, presents challenges. Um, yeah, absolutely, so,
I think. I mean, hopefully we get a really good
game and they're in sync and everybody's, you know, scoring
and we haven't had a great a lot of our
games so far on Sunday night, Monday I have been
a little lot sided. Hopefully this one will be, yes,
exact good one. Yeah. Well, you know, this done for defense.
I know you mentioned you're gonna Talk to D J Jones.
(10:52):
He's facing his former team. You know this. This done
for defense. They've been pretty dominant. I mean they health.
The Texans are just three field goals last week. They
haven't a out of touchdown in six quarters, I believe.
What have you liked about that unit as yeah, and
they and they call themselves. What do they call themselves?
Like the dark, dark side, the dark side. I love that.
What is is the dark side? He goes. Well, I mean,
I go that sounds pretty ominous, he said. You know,
(11:13):
really what it really means is locking in. We're locking
in because it's pretty easy to do. Um. But yeah,
I mean just stopping the Ron. You know, that's what
he prides himself in San Francisco obviously prides themselves in
running the ball. So that's going to be big. Um.
So I just think it's exciting as a unit. Um,
you know, when you sort of come together in jail.
But again, we're early in the season and I think,
(11:34):
I think you know, there's a lot to be determined.
You know, as as we continue on and and we're there.
Everybody's still learning about themselves. But Um, you know, and
and then with Jimmy G we don't know what I mean.
He it's it's completely different than you know what Trey
Lance you know, you've got this twenty two year old
kid learning and then you've got a thirty year old
veteran who the offense is comfortable with, already so comfortable
(11:56):
with Um. So they feel like they didn't miss a
beat with this one. Like Great Plan B for them
for sure. So I'm excited. I'm excited to you know,
both of these teams are coming off wins at home.
Who Do you think might need this win more? Since
I was here in the in the broncos facility, you
don't have to say, Um. Well, I mean I just
(12:18):
think because you, because I was gonna say you guys,
but because the broncos have been under this scrutiny, you know,
and then Russell goes in and doesn't win against his
former team. Right. Um, I think probably probably the broncos.
And and of course you want to win at home.
I mean you need to win at home and made
a road win as always, you know, a bonus Um.
So I'm going with you guys, the broncos. Yeah, I
(12:38):
hope you're right. Melissa, I really really appreciate your time
and it was so great. Thanks for having you, so
nice to meet you. Well, I'll do it for this
week's edition of the snap broncos country. Thanks so much
for tuning in, and thank you again to Melissa Stark
for joining me. Make sure to stay up to date
on the snap by following the Broncos podcast network on
twitter and on Youtube for the latest episodes. I'll see
(12:59):
you guys right back here on Friday for another edition.
M M HM
Hey, this is Bradley Chub Are you listening to this now?
Hey's scoring the sudden. Hey, list is Tim Patrick, and
you listening to the snap with Sidney dones on Broncos
podcast network here. What's the broncos country? Welcome back to
the Broncos podcast networking on Youtube for this week's edition
of the snap. I'm your host, Sidney Jones, and joining
me here inside the UC Hall Training Center today is
(00:21):
NBC's Sunday night football sideline reporter, Melissa Stark. Melissa will
be this weekend's sideline reporter. Asked the broncos most to
San Francisco. Forty niners out in power field at mile
high on Sunday. Melissa, so excited to have you here.
Thanks so much for joining me to thanks for having me.
This is great. I'm happy to be here. I've been
to Denver in a long time, I know. Yeah, it's
so great to have you here in person. How are
(00:43):
you doing? How's your week going? Good? So you're we're
a couple of weeks in and this is uh new
for me, being on the road this much and doing
this many games, because I used to do it many,
many years ago, doing Monday night football and that right.
I stepped away to start a family and whatnot. So Um,
but it's good. I mean the adrenaline still go in.
It's still warm out, you know, we're still seeing what
(01:05):
teams are good what teams aren't, you know, feeling it
all out. So it's really fun. Happy to be back
on the sideline for you. Happy to be back on
the sideline? Yes, Um, I always tell people. They say
why do you? Why do you like it, or what
do you what brought you back to it? There is
nothing like the adrenaline of being in the center of
the action and being right there, especially under the lights
at prime time, prime time. and Um, you know, I
(01:29):
hosted studio shows. I've done live studio shows. I mean
live TV is fantastic. Absolutely loved live TV, but there,
but you know, getting out of the studio and getting
into the action is, Um, it's awesome. You certainly have
a fantastic career. I know you've had so many trademendous
stops along the way. Can you start by, you know,
telling me where you got your start and kind of
how you got where you are now? Yeah, so, Um,
(01:50):
I went to the University of Virginia and when I
was there. I did features on all the basketball players
and all the football players. So when I graduated I
had a tape and I actually I really like news.
I grew up liking news, and I took it around
all these news directors and I said, I know it's
all sports, but you know, I love a job in news,
and everyone's I don't know how you'd be in a
town council meeting and so okay, so that didn't work out,
but then there were anyway, it does, it does in retrospect.
(02:14):
I mean I'm so glad I hit the Jackpot because
there weren't many women in sports at the time and
they were launching ESPN news and so my first year
out of college I went to a regional cable networking
I covered I grew up in Baltimore. So it was
fun for me because I covered the orioles when cal
ripken was there and Rode Anderson and Um the capitals,
(02:35):
and they were called the bullets. Now the other wizards.
So that was really fun. And then I got a
job at ESPN a year later. So it was fast.
Was the accelerated track again because there weren't many women,
you know, in TV, in sports. So Um, I hosted
a show on ESPN called Scholastic Sports America, so it
was all the best high school athletes in the country's fine,
(02:56):
and then I started covering Um nfl countdown in the
football games and all of that. And then I was
really young when I got the money night football sideline job.
I was twenty six and uh so that was crazy really.
I mean I was working with the best of that.
I was working without Michael's and then John Madden came
along and he was incredible, Um for me and for
my career and boosting because I was really young, you know,
(03:18):
working with these icons and and you're the only female.
I mean being a woman, you know. I mean hopefully
it's so different for you now, because we've all sort
of been fasty part of it exactly now. I didn't
think about it. I don't know if you think about it.
Not Really. Yeah, so that's the nice part of it.
Thankful for so. Um. So then then I left to
(03:42):
start a family. I was freaking with my first child
and I didn't think that I'd want to the road.
And and then I did go to news because I
really I did want to try it. So I went
to the today show and I um it was the
national correspondent for the today show and I quickly realized
that it didn't work. Who does not work if you
have kids, because it's all breaking. You know. They'd call
(04:04):
and say, okay, Hey, you have this schedule this weekend. Um,
you need to go. Yeah, you gotta, just can't go wherever,
can't whatever, you can't do it. And Sports is scheduled.
So I did that for four years and I covered.
So I covered Olympics for them, because NBC has them,
and that was really fun, like Michael Phelps in Athens
and then the Trino Olympics and then Bejan and and
so Um. But then I had four kids and four
(04:25):
years so I had to step away. It was just
too yeah, one person could watch my kids, you know.
So Um. So I thought I might be leaving it
forever and I was okay with that because I really
wanted to be a mom and it was that's the
number one role. Uh, you know, you've got one shot
of being a mom. So I left and then when
my girls were four, um, my old boss from ESPN
(04:47):
called and said he's working in NFL network and he said,
if you want to work one day a week two
days a week and I thought if you have a
kindergarten thing you have to go to with the kids,
and it sounded perfect. And I still thought, how am
I going to juggle it, because I think that's the
one question. How do you how does a woman balance
at all? How do you juggle the career of the family,
the whole thing? Um, and so I went back and
I did it and I just covered like the jets
(05:08):
and the giants, because I live in that area, local
teams and I do the Super Bowl and the draft
in the big events and combine and and quickly, you know,
I was like, okay, I can figure out how to
do all this and and then you get the bug
and you want to do more and more and more.
So Um, so that's kind of the path that I've taken.
And then I started to do some sidelines with the
London Games, international gas. So it's I so I've done
(05:29):
some sidelines in the last couple of years, but it's
very different now, twenty years later, being on the sidelines
than it was years ago. You mentioned the adrenaline and
back on the sideline. What's your favorite part of this
role that you have right now? Yeah, so, Um, well, so,
I was mentioning that. It's been it's very different. Um,
there's so much Um. First of all, you have so
much access to more research and material and to the
(05:52):
players and social media and you know, used to dig
for stories back then and it was, you know, one
phone call here or I mean the teams just get
it now, right, it's just you have your own production
within the Broncos. Right. I mean the fact that you're
you know, so much access now. So that makes it
really fun. You have access to all these cool stories
and you have more access to the athletes and they
get it because it's their brand. and Um, and then
(06:13):
we have more cameras, we have more a big part
of my job is injuries. You know, you're the eyes
of the field. So, Um, we have a former head
athletic trainer, a team trainer that was with the Jaguars
with me on the sidelines. It's so he knows exactly
what he got. All the information is what well, yeah,
I mean you get the information of the team, but
he can break it. He can say, okay, this is
(06:34):
what they're doing right now to his knee, this is
what they're checking for, this is what they're looking for,
because I don't have, you know, that medical background. So
that gives us just such a higher Um. It's just
kind of cutting edge on how we can cover injuries.
So that's really fun. And then the other thing that's
great for me is, uh, a lot of the people
that we're still were there from a n football are
still doing there. So because, you know, when you travel
(06:57):
as much as we do, I mean I just rolled
into town. I'm going to be here for three days.
It's usually four days yet, but we're together so much
that it's like a family. You really want to like
the people that you're working right and Um, and Mike
Trek and I get way back we had covered a
made for Tlf TV golf event together because he does golf.
And then Chris Collinsworths, you just meet him and you
just instantly just sort of he's just such a regular
(07:19):
guy and so great. Um. So anyway, so that's that's
what's really fun for me and makes it doable, because
I'm leaving my family at home right in these kids
four days a week. You know all that. So you
gotta kind of love the people that you're with, for sure. Yeah,
you know, you mentioned only being here for three days.
I know today you're here at the UCL training center
to watch practice. You guys got production meetings later. Who
(07:39):
Do you plan on talking to and what are you gonna,
you know, ask him about? Yeah, so, Um, we are talking,
of course, to Russell Wilson and we're talking to Nathaniel Hackett. Um,
you know, I think we just, you know, first of
all what we always do with the coaches. Go through
you know who's playing, who's not playing, what he's looking for,
all of that, and then it's really it's really fun
to be in these production meetings because you get the
(08:00):
player and you get the coach in such a relaxed
environment rather than, you say, if you go, you know,
post gaming, you do the postgame interviews, you're getting quickly
here and there. This is, you know, they're just sitting,
they just want to they love talking. It's you can
talk about the history of the game. You talk about
so much rather than exactly so um. So that's the
fun part. You get a lot of information, you know,
(08:21):
in these meetings, meetings. Yes, exactly, and I've already talked
to so I'll do my own digging because beforehand, yes,
because if I ask questions in front of these guys,
not that they're going to steal it intentionally all of
a sudden. If Chris Consworth here's something, it's going on
the air right like he's gonna say it. So a
lot of times I'll walk out. I'll either say hey,
I'm just gonna they'll say, Melissy, you have any questions?
(08:41):
I'll say, well, I'm just gonna walk out with him
and I'll ask him a question. For your part of
the I want my stories to be my stories and
not yes, I'm very territorial, Um, but I talked to
court Um and and t j Jones, you know, on
my own office, for some yes, for some other stories. Yes,
we're looking at this matchup as a whole mess. I
know you haven't to those guys. Yeah, but what really
(09:01):
excites you about this Sunday night game? Well, I mean
I think the forty niners Um, obviously are an exciting team.
And then the whole it's so disappointing. What happened to
Trey Lance? Oh my gosh, Jimmy Garoppolo, his story is incredible.
I mean he literally sat there and said goodbye to
the media, said goodbye to everybody, and here he is,
you know, coming back and getting this opportunity and he
(09:23):
stuck it out and he didn't complain and he's been,
you know, doing his own thing off to the side.
He's been there all there for training camp. Yeah, took
the pay cut, the whole thing. Um, you know, injuries
are an unfortunate part of the game, because he had
the jury and the injury and the and then, you know,
obviously wasn't you know, nobody traded for him, Um, but
so I think that's really exciting. and Um, and then
Russell Wilson't. It's you know, it's huge. It's just huge him,
(09:46):
you know, changing teams, being here such an you know,
an energy boost for this team. And absolutely, yeah, yeah,
we're looking at this offense specifically. I know we haven't
scored a ton of points so far this season, but
we actually ranked top ten in older yards, passing yards,
rushing yards. There's a lot of good things that are
working here. What have you just thought overall about Russell
and the rest of this offense? I mean I think
(10:07):
it's just gonna like anything, it's just gonna take time
and then with a new head coach, you know, somebody
would have sent his first year. Um, you know, the
media is like, you know, really picking on him and
it's a lot of scrutiny, but you know, it takes
time to sort of work out the kinks. Um. So,
so I think that, you know, you've got a patients
there and then he's got to get, you know, on
the same page with with his guys and, Um, you know,
(10:31):
it's it's exciting to be part of a new team,
but it also, you know, presents challenges. Um, yeah, absolutely, so,
I think. I mean, hopefully we get a really good
game and they're in sync and everybody's, you know, scoring
and we haven't had a great a lot of our
games so far on Sunday night, Monday I have been
a little lot sided. Hopefully this one will be, yes,
exact good one. Yeah. Well, you know, this done for defense.
I know you mentioned you're gonna Talk to D J Jones.
(10:52):
He's facing his former team. You know this. This done
for defense. They've been pretty dominant. I mean they health.
The Texans are just three field goals last week. They
haven't a out of touchdown in six quarters, I believe.
What have you liked about that unit as yeah, and
they and they call themselves. What do they call themselves?
Like the dark, dark side, the dark side. I love that.
What is is the dark side? He goes. Well, I mean,
I go that sounds pretty ominous, he said. You know,
(11:13):
really what it really means is locking in. We're locking
in because it's pretty easy to do. Um. But yeah,
I mean just stopping the Ron. You know, that's what
he prides himself in San Francisco obviously prides themselves in
running the ball. So that's going to be big. Um.
So I just think it's exciting as a unit. Um,
you know, when you sort of come together in jail.
But again, we're early in the season and I think,
(11:34):
I think you know, there's a lot to be determined.
You know, as as we continue on and and we're there.
Everybody's still learning about themselves. But Um, you know, and
and then with Jimmy G we don't know what I mean.
He it's it's completely different than you know what Trey
Lance you know, you've got this twenty two year old
kid learning and then you've got a thirty year old
veteran who the offense is comfortable with, already so comfortable
(11:56):
with Um. So they feel like they didn't miss a
beat with this one. Like Great Plan B for them
for sure. So I'm excited. I'm excited to you know,
both of these teams are coming off wins at home.
Who Do you think might need this win more? Since
I was here in the in the broncos facility, you
don't have to say, Um. Well, I mean I just
(12:18):
think because you, because I was gonna say you guys,
but because the broncos have been under this scrutiny, you know,
and then Russell goes in and doesn't win against his
former team. Right. Um, I think probably probably the broncos.
And and of course you want to win at home.
I mean you need to win at home and made
a road win as always, you know, a bonus Um.
So I'm going with you guys, the broncos. Yeah, I
(12:38):
hope you're right. Melissa, I really really appreciate your time
and it was so great. Thanks for having you, so
nice to meet you. Well, I'll do it for this
week's edition of the snap broncos country. Thanks so much
for tuning in, and thank you again to Melissa Stark
for joining me. Make sure to stay up to date
on the snap by following the Broncos podcast network on
twitter and on Youtube for the latest episodes. I'll see
(12:59):
you guys right back here on Friday for another edition.
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