04-04-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight.But with all Brian Dick, Ferguson,
Grant Smith, that feels good tobe live. I like, how used
this say this? They said thatone more one more time alive on the
air. Yes, yes, exactlylike that part. We gotta Maike Show
tonight. Pe Pete Fudiac is gonnajoin us. Seven to five, Parker
Gabriel eighth five. We got theNuggets taking on the Clippers tonight. They

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can clinch the top three seed inthe West. We got some Broncos signings
news. But before we get toany of that, people are out here
terrorizing the internet with these food takes. What do you mean terrorizing the internet?
What does that mean? I mean, I like, there are things
that trigger us all, and thenthere's whatever the heck that was that I

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sent you guys this morning. Ohtalk of the mayo bananas. Somebody out
here making mayonnaise and banana sandwiches andtrying to claim that this is like a
Southern thing. I'm from the South. I never saw this. Listen.
I'm more Southern than you. I'mdown there Tennessee, Okay, in Arkansas,

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and I'm in Florida. Well,see, I'm in I'm from Florida.
You're almost you're almost, But Idon't even know if that's southern you're
playing. That's the South feel likein the Bahamas. Now, yes,
that's a different kind of stuff,that different kind of a better version of
South. You don't have the differencebetween Florida food and Georgia. Okay,
what's the difference. Georgia was alot closer to soul food than Florida food.

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I mean when I lived in Floridaanyway, and I didn't even live
a whole way down in Miami,I don't know about that. Man.
It all depends on what you classifyas. So that's fair. That's fair.
Yeah, that's fair. I stillI'm just saying, when I was
in Florida, I would not considerthat, even though it is more Southern
geographically, I would not consider itthe deep South. Okay, Okay,

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I understand Tennessee and Arkansas were muchmore are quotes southern to me, But
Georgia. I was in Georgia fora while, right, So we're reading
the history books of the South,right, you had that's Alabama, south
line of Mississippi, h order,losing Arkansas yes, so anyway, but
somebody he's posting this picture and itis it is this idiously disgusting sandwich,

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this mayonnaise and bananas. Are you? I don't even eat Manies? First,
don't say this. Are we talkingabout Helman's? Are we talking about
like mirror? I couldn't. Doesit even matter it does? A banana?
I don't anything. I don't eat. I don't eat mayonnaise like I

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remember peanut butter and banana growing up. Yes, now you honey, peanut
butter and honey was m I neverdid peanut but our jelly. I did
peanut butter honey. Sandwich is xusalmond butter and honey, but still growing
up. But mayonnaise, and whereis this coming from? I think people
are just losing their minds. Andthis wasn't even the only weird food thing.
So this I went down the rabbithole on this other one here today

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cool laid wings stop Stop kool aidwings. I think that actually sounds it's
supposed to do that, you knowwhat. And the koolaide is going down
the rabbit hole on this kool aidwings thing. It was, it's it's
been uh kind of created a popularizedsomebody I went to high school with.

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And I went to this tiny highschool. Graduating class was one hundred pointy
sven people. I went to atiny high school. This uh the person
who advented was he like a yearyounger than me in high school? Kool
Aid wings, draper dry, tellyour blue, raspberry and cherry? No,
no, no, no, noany through kool aid. Person,

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Well, you speak color, yes, draper red, Yes, flavor you
want purple? Purple red? Whatflavor you want? So you talked about
flavor, that's a color. Youtalking about purple drink? You know you
down and purple drinks a different Imight have partaken a couple of times.

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Grand back here makes up some dimeattacks. But once again, like when
you when you brought this up,I was like, wait a minute,
kool Aid. Now, I don'tknow about you, grand I don't know
about you guys and the listeners.But obviously I grew up. We didn't
grow up with a lot of money. So when we started to think about
flavorite water like for us it wasflavor aid. We had to graduate to

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kool aid. Oh oh you god, the off bread, Yeah, we
had the off bread Flavor Aid andlet me tell you that thing that was
bitter because you don't have sugar.You have to put it and sugar the
pink bag. You don't sugar.Man, it's it looks like the sand

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on a fish tank. That's howmuch sugar was in there. I remember
when they when they first started marketingthe cool aid with the sugar in it,
it came into plastic thing. Youknow. I'm talk about you doing.
I remember when they started doing.Do you remember that? I have?
But you're talking about the packets,the packet you bought the packet packet.
It was the bitterest powder ever.And your mom bought you be funny

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and she's like here you were lick, you know, and you're like,
oh, it's gonna be great,the worst thing ever. Wow. Anyway,
chicken, now wait listen, wehave honey, pepper, lemon,
garling. Right, what was theother one? Like me, mango,
harbonaro? Why we got a thesaurusrecks? Why I would try those?

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I think this might be good.I would not try the mayonnaise banana saying
no, I'm not doing that.I don't do many so like Spreak and
Ridge Brewery has these peanut butter andjelly wings, and I thought they would
not be good at all. Wait, delayed butter and jelly wings. Yeah,
how do you get those flavors ontothe wings? Hey, I'm not
a chef, but I just know. I reached out. This is the

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person I went to high school with, so I reached out. We're gonna
find out about this because I'm gonnahave to. I'm gonna have somebody make
some for us to try. See. You know what. The reason why
it doesn't make sense because like whenI was a kid, I didn't read
labels. I read labels now.So if you flip the label around and
you read the ingredients, that's probablyyou know, number red, number forty

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in there, ye die fifty yellowfifteen. I didn't know. But now
you're talking about throwing those on wingsat eating them. No, I can't
do that. Five six, sixnine series of text. Like you guys
are already chiming and it's hilarious.Miracle. Whip is celad dressing, manonnais
as manonnaise. I don't do either, so I wouldn't know. Well,
I don't know. When I wasa kid. Yeah, we knew it

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was salad dressing, but man,it made for a great ham sandwich.
You are ain't live miracle whipples.I don't one, I don't, I
absolutely do not. People are remindingus of Will Levis who used to put
mayonnaise in his coffee instead of creamer. Yeah, what a weirdo. That's
different. I know, like whenI went to Canada and started playing the

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CFL. I remember the first timeI went to the mall and I think
they had this thing called the Poontainopoutine somewhere else, okay potin so that
you taking fries and they putting gravyon top of the fries. And then

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I saw one put uh yeah maoon it. I was like that.
Yeah. I was like, whatare you doing? And it was like,
they don't eat this where you're from. I said, we eat fries,
but it's normally follow by catch up. Yes, yes, I don't
know what you guys are doing.Nonnaise isn't enough flavor for fries. No,
it's not. Manna's is just grossanyway. Like I don't miss with
Mayonnai's, I don't miss miracle whipnote of it. I don't like wrench
dressing. What no, not onlywrench not but you're not with your kool

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Aid wings. You have to trythese. I'm willing to try them.
I'm willing to watch you and Dranttry that. I'm not here one.
No, you're gonna try kool aidwing. It has red number forty in
it. And see that's the problemright now. That's red number forty is
probably affecting you right now, fullof sacarins and carcinogens. That's just like,
uh, they came out, what'son with these? Uh oatmeal oreos,

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oatmeal, watermelon, watermelon on thatyes, oreos, yes, watermelon
oreos. Gross. We're not doingWe're not doing food terrorism like this man,
he's a bit of sandwich. Imean, if you're going to eat
wings kind of flipped in kool aidright of your show, it might be

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good, like mango hopin arrow.You wouldn't normally think that's good, and
then you have it in the waylike this is delicious. Yeah. I
think Craig didn't know about basil chickenonion pizza till I tell I exposed him
to it. Now he's a believer. He's part of the Couli seat that
I believe. Okay, so that'sdifferent. That's like when you were like
in the second grade and they weredoing the color wheel and they told you

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colors to mix and match. Right, that's great. So those colors that
that what Ben is talking about withthe pizza, that works well, but
watermelon oreos and wade wings. No, I'm gonna try it. I'm willing
to grant. Are you willing totry it? Okay? Cool, I'm
gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonnaget this figured out. We get to
snail down. I'm not doing butI didn't know, like would you eat
the maynaise and bana sandwich because i'I'm not like, I'm vomiting at the

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thought. I don't even want totry it. Okay, cool? So
just a consistency of that, it'sgotta be horrible to taste them. The
sound of someone eating that, it'sgot to be horrible. It's smacking too
the same right, it might bethe whitest creation of you remember the scene
from it any perffect movie Uncoverable withoutthe hot side, exactly what I'm talking

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about. Five six times. Zo, Man, it's gonna be back on
the air. Got a lot ofstuff for you and Broncos Sign of Saturday,
Sam Mustafer, Yeah, that wasvery interesting. Do you think that
somehow that changes anything as far aswhat they want to do with the offensive
line. I don't. I don'tthink that's I think it's I mean,

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he was a largely a reserve.They just wanted some experience, I think
at the position more than anything else. See for me, the way I
look at is the guys that theybring in here, especially some of the
guys they brought here in here atthe center position. It's how long is
that deal? That's a one yeardeal, So to me, that's kind
of you're renting that particular player,adding competition, hoping to see which guy

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raises themselves to the bar, similarto that of Lloyd Kushionberry's now with the
Tennessee Titans, and if that personworks out, you shove them in there.
That's the way that I look atit, because if you were saying
that looking from the Broncos standpoint,if you're building out that offensive line starting
with that center position, which is, by the way, one of the
more important positions in the NFL,because that's the guy who has to communicate

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with the quarterback all the time,and you're not signing that guy to a
multi year deal. Once again,what's the chemistry A chemistry. I just
think they wanted to experience a positionbecause the other two guys JAD have one
start combined between them with what Bergenof one game Wattenberg and enforesight. Okay,
if that is the case, andI understand that, go and draft

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the guy. Well, but ifyou want experience, you can't draft the
guy. He's got to was thereason I'm saying draft because I still think
they'll draft a guy you want tostart that building process. I don't think
Wattburg is a center anyway. Ithink he's a guard. Yes, absolutely
so to me, if you ifthe Broncos will take a going planning on
taking a quarterback, which I thinkthey're going to, I once again I'm

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totally opposed to the moving up aspectand drafting the quarterback. But besides the
point, if you're going to goget a young quarterback, get that center
to go with him so they cangrow together, grow together. Right,
I'm with you on that, which, by the way, I did want
to mention this Sam. Nobody elseseemed to pick up on this, but
Sam Mustavar is the older brother ofPJ. Mustafer. It was the undrafted
defensive tackle on the Broncos roster lastyear. They ended up uh waiving him,

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uh you know, after training campor whatever. But he was he
was a UDFA was with the teamuntil the in August last year. Mary
PJ must have the tackle, Yeah, the nose that they had, Yeah,
Sam Musch for his older brother.I mean, I don't think that
that kind of changed anything, butit's great something to Jay just passing the
keys to the apartment on the wayafter. Yes, what can I suspect
joining the Broncos let me know?Yes, you know again, I I'm

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interested to see I'm interested to seewhat he can do. You know,
as far as that goes, I'mglad we got somebody with some experience.
Six to three and thirty two pounds. He's a big old boy. Okay,
yeah, okay, he's experienced becausehe has some time playing in the
NFL. But here's where he doesn'thave the experience and you can tell me

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from wrong. He doesn't have anyfamiliarity with Sean Payton's system. The other
two guys, I mean, oneof the two guys do are both of
those guys do right? Uh No. He was originally with the Chicago Bears
for a couple of seasons, sohe worked under Bill Laser and then under

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Luke Getsy, and then last yearhe was with the Baltimore Ravens with Todd
Monkin, and then this year nowhe's onto Sean Payton. So he has
no previous experience in this offense,so he just bringing game day type of
experience. Right. Well, onceagain, he still has a challenge.
Now, maybe because he's been inthe league, he can adjust a lot

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quicker, but once again, you'restill learning a new system as a veteran
guy, and you still have tocall out the blitzing linebackers. You have
to be able to pick those thingsup. He yeah, I mean he's
played a little special teams. Hewas the lowest rated player on Pro Football
Focus on the Baltimore Ravens last year. Admit back at for a second,
heepeep. He said he played onspecial teams. Hu, that means the

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only special teams he probably played on. M'll go p a T probably,
yeah, exactly, So let's notthrow that in there. Guys who played
special teams like that. He's notrunning down on come yeah. Yeah,
that kind of everybody forty guy outthe gun. But no, but and

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he was pro According Pro Football Focus, he was one of the lowest rated,
was the lowest rated offensive line,and one of the lowest rated people
on the team. I you know, I mean, I don't mean to
be a downer, but that that'sthat is just one of the things.
So I that was an interesting signing. I guess that they they made today.
I just wanted to get you guys'sopinion on that. We're gonna have
some some good guests coming up inthe next couple of weeks. Uh,
we do have live shows in studiohere. We have Josh Reynolds, the

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Broncos wide receiver they got from theDetroit Lion's gonna be joined us in studio
here the next couple of weeks.We got uh Dallan Holker, the tight
end from CSU. They'll join usin studio here in a couple of weeks.
So we got we got some ofthat coming and we got some some
pretty big name draft prospect quarterback interviewshere coming up soon too. We're still
working on that, still working toconfirm, but both Bonux and JJ McCarthy.

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As soon as we get the inkdry on that, we'll let you
know what's going on with those Seethat's great man to kind of book in
this time of year with guys whoare currently on rosters in comparison to guys
who are trying to make rosters,because there's a different viewpoint and both of

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those guys and I could personally tellyou, man, being one of those
prospects that did not get invited toany of the postseason bowl games or the
NFL comebine, Man, you couldn'twait to get into camp to really show
what you can actually do. Andthere's no better feeling then coming in low

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on the depth chart, and withevery day and every week leading up to
the first game or the first preseasongame. Now you're carving out an opportunity
and now you've jumped somehow to thesecond team on the depth chart. We've
seen that, and we've seen howthat can propel a career, you know,
I mean we talk about Torrel Davisall the time. Yeah. Honestly,
if that if that guy in theUH at the hotel there in Japan

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had spoken any English TV would alreadybeen on a flight, miss a game,
his career, his career hung inthe ballance because the guy at the
at the front desk at the hoteldidn't speak English well enough. You know,
that's crazy because when guys look backat their careers later on, they
always kind of look at one ortwo plays here and there when they first

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started, and you never look ata situation like that. You don't wonder
if like TD like called that hoteland was like looking for the employee to
like look him a few yen orsomething. You know, you never know,
you never know what might have takenplace. But it's just strange how
individuals careers start and then they becomeHall of Fame players and we never really

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look back. But the play thatyou're talking about, you know what Ted
was able to do in the inthe game in Japan, running down there
on kickoff and actually making the tackle. I mean, just think about how
many players who are well known playersin the league might not have had that
moment had they been playing in themodern day NFL a couple of years ago.

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Would he changed the kickoff rule?Yeah, think about all the think
about the players he missed out on, Yes, because you know they didn't
get the opportunity and they didn't havethe extra place to showcase their wares.
Yeah, absolutely, right, I'mwith you five six six nine. Here
a lot of great texts coming inMayo. Peanut butter and pickle sandwich.
Are you kidding me? That soundsrevolting? Okay, that sounds like something
no offense that pregnant women would eat, because my wife was pregnant, her

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Cravens. They were just a combinationof certain things that you would never put
together. I've heard a peanut butterand pickle sandwich is good. Yeah,
never been courageous enough to try.I'm not going to try that. But
you know, I don't. Imean not to be like I like a
Dill pickle spear or something if Iyou know, after a workout or run,
you want the salts, you know, that kind of thing. But
I other than that difficult when whenwe played football, especially growing up in

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Florida where the heat, you know, doing that community, and we had
both spring and fall jamborees before theregular season. So we would buy the
pickles, take the pickles out,and just drink the pickle juice. Yeah,
yeah, that's what we do.That was that was gatorade before Gatorade
was gatorade. Give you the picklejuice or whatever. Since it has to.

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They've had jars of it on thesideline. Yes, yeah it was.
It was someone n says miss Stevetalk about Steve Atwater. Steve's dealing
with some personal stuff. But he'llbe back. He will be We're gonna
We're gonna have him back, Ipromise. Nine of it. Else is
if you think kool Aid wings orbanana mao sandwiches sound bad, oh boy,
there's far worse stuff on the Facebookgroup called quote this is a rough

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part of flavortown Lock your doors,Fam. I'm gonna look this up during
the break. See that sounds likesomething that you would definitely look up.
I saw a bread space. It'sjust this smile, like the grint smile
came over his face. This isthe rough part of flavortowel Lock your doors,
Fam. I don't have to haveto check this this Facebook group out.

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Apparently it's got crazy food stuff.So I'm here for when we come
back, lords your impact us tofind Diggs forcing his way out of each
second team. Just a Broncos countrynight. You can't whear here. Have
a bite of this, uh sandwich? And how did you know? I
was home? Grainy? Nothing ismons not kill me. If you're going

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to pass on wide America, youare going to have to learn to like
mayonnaise. No listen. If you'reever forced to eat this mayonnaise, simply
press the button on this side ofthe watch. It delivers a rather liberal
spit sing of hot sauce. Oneblash should be enough to make Caucasian food
edible. Well, N's work sellingrits. Welcome back to it, Broncos

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Country Tonight, Benjamin Albrighten, NickFerguson, Grant Smith here with you.
Five six sixty nine zero is thetext line. We had quite a few.
I can't read half these people wantto talk about. To see you
buffs Hire Warren Sapp though, andI'll say that Warren Sap is hired as
a grad assistant at the salary ofone hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year,

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which I can tell you is notgrat assistant money. It's over ten
times grat assistant money. That iswild that he's making that. But the
NCAA changed the rules I think acouple of years back, because when you
think about grad assistance and what theywere being paid, they were being overwork

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underpaid. And I guess they viewedit as a violation of anti trust laws
or something to that extent, andthey decided to make it way for grad
students who are coaching to make alittle more. Now, I would have
to say, one hundred and fiftyK is way high in the number amount

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that they're paid, right, So, and I know most people look at
it say that's that's a twenty fiveand twenty five job. And for those
for those who don't know what atwenty five and twenty five job, it's
you're twenty five years old working twentyfive hours a day for twenty five thousand
a year. Well, I wouldeven put forty on that twenty. It's
twenty five, forty and twenty five, right, forty hours a day,
forty hours a day. But Ithink when you when most people look at
this, and they look at wellWarren Sapp who over his thirteen years career

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in the NFL, he made aboutfifty eight million dollars, So they say,
well, oh, well he's workingfor one hundred and fifty That is
far below what he made as aplayer. Yes, but it's more than
individuals who typically work in that undergradtype of role usually make. And listen,
I know Warren wanting to get intocoaching for a long period of time.

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When I was coaching with San Francisco, he was there one time during
camp just just kind of just lookingon. He wasn't really coaching coaching,
but if guys came up to himand asked him a question, he would
answer said question. And he's donea lot of the coaching internships. He
did one with the Washington Commanders.So I know most people think that though
Warren Sap doesn't have coaching experience now, he hasn't coached in the game per

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se, but he's been around thegame. He's been an analyst on NFL
Network before, and he is byfar one of the better interior whineman that
we've seen. Are you, Imean, like, in the end,
you think this is a net positivefor SU Absolutely, because think about what

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CU has developed into as of late, right, and we're gonna have to
go rewind and go back to lastyear and the number of people outside of
Colorado that became fans of CU becauseof coach Prime. And you always look
if you paying the camera to thesidelines before games, man, it is

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the who's who of sports and entertainment. So adding a guy with a lot
of personality like a Warren Sam.It should help those guys out, especially
from a recruiting standpoint, like ifyou can say that you were coach by
two Hall of famers, Coach Primeand Warren Shot, and you have the

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liberty of being on the sideline whereDoctor Jay's gonna show up, Tar Owens
is gonna show up, Michael Irvanis gonna show up. Upset, guess
the plan. Listen, think aboutit. You have these individuals who you
would never encounter. You're running intoit, CEU. So I think this
is great for the program. It'sgreat for the players because the players will

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have an opportunity to get a wealthof knowledge from a guy who did what
they want to do. And Ithink that bowes well for Coach Prime in
the program. It was an interestingvideo that Dion you know, is on
when announcing it saying we're going topour concrete because you know, I like
nice stuff. We're building mansions here, so that's why I'm here to help
you build your mansion and foundation anythingyou need co see me. That was

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Sap talking introduced himself as a seniorquality control analyst in the video. But
the school later clarified that he's goingto serve as a grat assistant because while
let's just consider an entry level positionon most staff, grat assistants are allowed
to directly coach players on the field, while analysts are not. I e.
Pat Shermer last year having to dothe title juggle. For NCAA rules,
a coach can only serve as agraticist for up to three years,

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so he would have to change titleif he you know, at some point
after three years. Well you haveto figure that at some point those titles
will change, right. Sean Lewiswas with the team last year and we
saw the reversal of fortune between bothhe and Pat Shermer, So something like
that could be down the line atsome particular point. You know, my

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biggest thing is Robert Livingston, whojust came over from Cincinnati being their safety
coach. He's not on their DC. Now how does that kind of work?
And I don't know, but I'llsay this, it will work because
if you are Robert Livingston and you'resaying, I have an opportunity. They
have Warren Sapp on my team helpingto lead the men, who I guess

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see you fans are hoping that toturn things around when they get to production
from both their D line and theoffensive line. Yeah, that's great to
have. Not too many teams cansay that they have those type of coaches
around the building on an everyday basis. I mean, there's some some optics
issues based on some stuff that obviouslythat he's had in the past. Are

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we worried about any of that?I mean, see no'or not?
Because the key word that you usewas the past, which means that it's
behind us. And usually what happenssometimes in our society, some some don't
want to let go of the pass. Right, let it go that that
happened. If that person is nowmoved on and they're now a better person

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after going through those ordeals, let'slook at them for who they are at
this moment. Yeah, you're notgonna forget their trouble pass. But once
again, shouldn't we all have theability to, if you want to say,
reinvent ourselves, change the minds ofindividuals by showing is that we can
put our best foot forward. Becauseif we're not gonna do that, then

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then we might as well all ourdirty laundry put it on the table,
put them on the glass. Itmakes a lot, said yes, and
his other song that was not ahit. Yeah. I mean there's been
some people that have suggested that thatperhaps that you know, those kinds of
things. I guess that obviously.I think there had to be some kind

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of vetting process that the school wentthrough before they hired him, and I
would suggest that they at least areof the belief that adding him to the
staff isn't that positive and that thoseissues are behind him. I'm sure you
know. Look, man, I'vehad conversation with Rick George before, and
I'm sure he knows right now.Looking at CEU, it's kind of the

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university that everyone's looking at, andwhen that happens, people are not always
looking for you to succeed, they'relooking for you to fall. So I'm
sure he kind of kept that inmind as he did the vetting process,
talked to coach Prime, gave itsome time to really see, Okay,
well there's Warren Sap, the man, not the Hall of Famer, the

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man. Does he fit what thedirection that CEU is trying to take their
program? Before they made a decision, and for me, they've already done
that now it's time to move on, and I can't wait to see what
this team looks like moving forward.Obviously, the spring game would take place
later this month. We'll get ourfirst glimpses of what that's gonna look like,

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the new auditions with the offensive line, so we'll get a chance to
see. Does it bother you thathe's making more money than for instance,
Joker Phillips makes at NC State.No, because the money not going in
my podcast. You have an assistantwho's getting a very large paycheck, one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for anassistant. You know, it's just a

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pretty big okay some a month.So this way, what's one of those
guys in Hall of Famers? Okay, fair, there we go, there
we go. Do you remember DeMarcoMurray? Yes? I do? Okay,
well, DeMarco Murray is currently coachingat Oklahoma. Makes less money?
That's right now, reply to therunning backs coach for three years? Great,
it makes less money? Is hein Hall of Famer? No?

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Exactly is that the Hall of Fametax? Is that what that is?
That is exactly what that is?Hall of Fame tax? Okay, I'm
just curious. I think with hisoutside his personality. I guess it has
the potential to be a bit ofa car crash. But let's check in
with traffic and Dave O Brian tosee if there's any real car crashes out
there. Welcome back to it,Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin al Briden,

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Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith, herewith you. Stefan Diggs forced his way
out of a second team after complaininghe wasn't getting enough targets in Minnesota and
being jealous of Adam Fealan. Hegot his way forced to Buffalo a few
years ago and now has forced hisway out of Buffalo after two seasons of
complaining. Now it's to Houston Texans. The Texans voided all the remaining years

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on his deal, so it willbe truly be a one year rental for
the Texans and they do not geta compensatory pick if he walks in free
agency. Texans traded a couple oflate round picks for what ultimately amounted to
a second round pick to Buffalo.The Bills wide receiver roster, the top

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three I believe are Khalil, ShakirSamuel and kJ Hamler. I think we
can expect them to draft someone.But from what I've talked to, from
people I've talked to over the lasttwo days, it appears like he came
to the Bills wanting a trade aboutthree weeks ago, demanding a trade,
and they finally just acquiesced and gotrid of him. Diggs has been a

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good receiver, and I don't wantto take away from him, but he
was barely present down the stretch forthe Bills when they went what six and
one, seven to one, whateverit was, he was barely present,
and once Joe Brady took over theoffense, they didn't look his way as
much as they as they had before. Oh, that isn't the wide receiver's
fault, because the last time Icheck, or wide receiver cannot throw the

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ball to himself unless Terrell Owens inthat commercials or Michael Vick whatever it was,
or they throw you a screen passand it's a double pass and he
gets spatted down and he comes backinto your hand, right, that's the
only chances of that happening. Butwhen you look at his touchdown numbers definitely
has dwindle over the year, andI can understand, unlike other people,

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I can understand Stefan Diggs being frustratedbecause you're traded from Minnesota and you go
to Buffalo. You help jumpstart JoshAllen's career, and he did, being
one of those go to guys,But then when it came to crunch time
inside the red zone, sometimes JoshAllen would call his own number. Now,

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granted, I mean, Josh Allenis as talented as all get out,
but he wasn't one of those guyswho I felt that used all the
players around him. And some individualsI listened to today were saying, well,
it was due to the emergence ofDalton kin k the tight end,
which kind of took away from Digg'sreceptions. And I'm like, wait a

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minute. The idea is to developand distribute the ball to multiple wide receivers,
so you make it really difficult tohone in on which guy you're trying
to feature an offense. Now,with everything you said, the Texans giving
up you know draft capital, Imean late draft capital, Well they gave
up a second round. Yeah,like avoiding the last years of his contract.

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Okay, I understand that. Sowith Diggs, you may think that
Diggs is a little mad and he'sgoing that's going to carry over. But
no, he's thinking, look,I'm going to a team that actually was
one game away right from playing againstKansas City for the right to go through
the Super Bowl. He's thinking thathe can be that guy that gets them
over the hump, over the hump, and I think he can, maybe

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he might, he might be ableto. Interestingly, the targets have remained
the same for Diggs basically his entiretime at Buffalo. When he got there
in twenty twenty, one hundred andsixty six, one hundred and sixty four,
the next year, one hundred andfifty four. The next year,
of course he missed a game,and then one hundred and sixty last year.
It's just the catches that have gonedown. He had a hunt twenty
seven his first year, and thenone o three one to eight one oh
seven. And of course the yardsper reception, which have fallen from twelve

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point one to eleven point nine.All the wait had eleven point one this
curve this current season. He's thirtyyears old. Here's thirty one in the
season. Last year was a bottomthree season for his career. You know,
I don't know, it felt likethat the Bills who feel like they're
doing a soft reset anyway, youlook at the guys that got rid of
Jordan Poyer or tre Davis White,They've made several moves in getting rid of

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people and getting younger. It feelslike the Bills realized that the team that
they had constructed wasn't good enough toget past Kansas City, and now they're
trying to retool it and try again. And I get that sometimes you got
to take a step backwards. Ijust that did not feel like and I
get that sometimes if you got someonewho's material in the locker room that okay,
you got to move on. Itjust felt like there could have been
something they could have got something backout of that, Like couldn't you got

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a player back out of that?Couldn't you got a receiver because that receiver
room is perilous. Liu Thinant Buffalo, Well, the reason they couldn't do
it because of his contract. Justjust think about the situation that the Broncos
were in with the Russell Wilson contract, right, And it's just like with
the money that was on Diggs andthe daycap hit that the Bills are taking,

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no team wanted to pick that up. So they had to work out
a deal that was both beneficial forboth teams and for Stefan. We needed
and he wanted to move on becauseyou could say that he wore out his
welcome. But I can understand itwhen you a wide receiver, right.
We gauge wide receivers on their abilityto score touchdowns, how many targets and

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receptions. This thing about how somepeople feel about Jerry Judy, right,
is that a fair assessment that whenpeople look at Jerry Judy because he was
drafted in the first round and lookat his numbers and say, well,
he didn't really live up to expectations, you can toss that out. But
I can counter with the idea,well, how was he featured in the
offense? So you have to goback and look at you know, Stephan

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Diggs and asked that same question.It felt to me like they were trying
to force some targets and it feltlike that made the offense worse. It
felt better when he was organic receivingtargets rather than we're going to do the
Randy ratio and get digs of ball. Okay, So how much of that
is the scheme and the quarterback wasthrowing the ball. We talk about that
here, and then when we comeback, we've got Pete Futec from College
Football News going to talk about thispossibility of a super league in college football.

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