04-29-24 Hour 2 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight.But with all Brian Dick, Ferguson,
Grant Smith, We're going right outto the ka Common Spirit Else hotline.
Bring on my friend Jeff Schwartz,former NFL offensive lineman, works the Fox
Sports Serious x am and basically Ijust love his Twitter feed at Jeff Schwartz
on Twitter. But important for thisconversation Oregon Duck alumni Jeff Schwartz, Jeff,

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I you don Man, Yeah,Man's good to hear your voice.
We we got a couple of duckshere. It's like the quack attack is
back here in Denver as bo NicksTroy Franklin become the latest Denver Broncos.
I I liked what I saw outof bow Knicks looking at him during the
pre draft process, better than Iliked, for instance, Michael Pennix or

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you know, JJ McCarthy, whowas rumored to be the apple of the
Broncos eye. But of course thatwas a smoke screen for Sean Payton.
What can you tell us about bowNicks? Yeah, you know, I
think he's got a bad rap forsome of the you know, a dot
stuff and short passes. I putout a tweet at sports my Twitter,

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there was a stat that someone playout that said, you know, Bonnicks
had a thousand yards of receiving whenthe ball was thrown at or behind the
line of scrimmage, and five ofthose players encountered for twenty percent of that
thousand yards. Like, it's nota lot of throws he made behind the
lines of here was a lot ofwe're in rhythm. I think the things
that you like about bon Knicks arehe's very decisive with the football. If

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you watched Organs Austins last season,they did a lot of kind of two
things, a lot of play actionpass and then they went empty production right,
they had five wide receivers out andthey let bon Nicks choose aside pre
staff balls out quickly. He processesvery well for sixtys to work on.
But he can make all the throwsif you have the strongest arm, I
would say no. But you cansee all the all the pro throws he

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made, and don't look at theadvanced numbers. The amount of ends and
curls and comebacks and go routes,things that you're going to see him have
to do on Sunday. And Ithink if you look at after the top
three guys, who is the mostkind of able to fit with Sean Payton
to Wanton offense from a quarterback,and that is Bonnicks. And so I

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think that pairing makes a lot ofsense here. Well, yeah, I
think the pairing does make a lotof sense. And I think if you
look for the qualities that Sean Paytonis looking for at a quarterback, a
guy like Boonix just fills those out. You mentioned the quick decision maker,
but I think some of the otherthings there that this sort of you know'll
add to that. Sean Payton's offenseis a schedule offense. Bo Knicks doesn't
take sacks. He doesn't fumble theball, literally did not fumble the ball

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at all at Oregon, And thoseare two things he's He's previously called out
about the last quarterback here, RussellWilson. Yes, he will get the
ball out. I think that oneof the negatives on him that I've seen
and I'm curious to see, youknow, in the NFL was different.
And he's very good pre snap andthen post snap. If he doesn't get
exactly what he thought he would get, then there's a little hesitation and so

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I think just kind of growth inhis game from that perspective. Obviously with
Sean Payne what he's done for somany years with Drew Bridges, and that's
a good fit there. I didn'tgo Aliable to learn that. Also,
it's worth noting that Oregon had avery pro style passing attack mixed in with
you know, some of the collegeRPOs and flagship pass stuff. You watch

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the offense, they had a lotof cost what would call triangle reads,
where he's reading a triangle, he'sreading one, two, three, and
he's looking at the leverage of linebackersand corners and safeties to figure out where
the ball should go. That's avery pro Stout's a West Coast offense type
of thing. Or you read thetriangle if you notice, if you ever
stop like a Chiefs play and youcan see there's a triangle formed typically by

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the weapons. Mahomes is looking atit, maybe even four guys at times
field. For me, they fotfor strong. So it's a very pro
style offense you ran at Oregon.They will translate well to NFL. Plus,
you get the leadership part of it, right, And I know that
you know he's older that's certainly true. And the last part of it,
he's really athletic. He can run. He doesn't run to run like he
runs very very specific situations that youcan use that in the red zone especially,

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that's where quarterback runs I think area big benefit. Well, Jeff,
you hit on something that is reallyimportant. I think bon Nikes has
been criticized for but I think it'san advantage. But I would like to
get your take on it. Andit's his level of experience. Both he
and Michael Pennix are guys who areyou know, twenty three twenty four.

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But you tell me, as aguy that played the game, how does
that actually help bo Nicks opposed tohurting him? Well, he just he's
seen a lot of football. Wehave to sort of Okay, so you
know what happened with all these olderquarterbacks. We obviously knows the COVID year,
right the COVID year and this nextdraft and twenty five will be to

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the last COVID year. Guys,So all the guy is older right now,
and I'm not sure that it's abad thing. You look at the
age of pennex of next like ittakes guys a little bit longer to mature.
Sometimes we've seen it, certainly atthe quarterback position. That maturing is
that happened in the NFL is sortof happened in college. And he has

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seen a lot of football sixty onestarts, I believe, And so he
goes to the NFL not being intimidated. He's seen everything. Now, of
course he's not to natural defense andthe speed and whatnot, but he's seen
a lot of football. He's playeda lot of big football that he's played
in, you know, in biggames at Auburn, he's played in big
games in Oregon. And so whenhe goes to the NFL, is not

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getting intimidated by the moment, bythe environment. And I think we just
have to sort of get over theage thing. It's it just is this
class right now, sort of justthat this is what it is. Jane
Gailes, by the ways, wereolder too, right, He's a twenty
street Reston was twenty nineteen and hebeat Organ there to the end of that
season. So these guys just older. Because of COVID year, it will

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kind of reverse back next couple ofyears. But that's just the guys you're
getting right now. Another player ofthe Broncos got and came away with on
draft Day at the beginning of Daythree, trading up for wide receiver Troy
Franklin. I enjoyed watching Franklin playsguy who you get the ball in his
hands and you know, and hecreates. Sean Payton says he looks at
him as a as a Z receiverin this offense. What can you tell
us about Troy Franklin. Yeah,man, he can he can shoot,

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he can really run. He uh, he's a weapon on the edge and
he kind of a lot of bigpastist organ this past year. He is
able to straight line speed to getby a lot of corners. I think
he's got to learn to play morephysical. If you watch against Washington,
especially the title championship game, Mohammedat the corner at Washington was able to

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kind of press them again in hisface. And those are things he needs
to work on, just sort ofthe physical part of it and just learning
I think a little bit more ofthe route trade Oregon. He was a
lot of comebacks, a lot ofslants, post goes, you know,
not a lot of kind of deviationoff those those four routes. So uh,
look again, just to premely talentedplayer, and there's reasons you dropped,
and that's part of the draft,right You're going to get guys with

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value at certain points. But Ilike the idea of reuniting a cornerback in
a wide receiver as rookies, andI think it just gives a comfort level
for both those players, especially forBnicks to have someone he knows and someone
who knows him and you can reallywork with Franklart. There's a lot of
upside because of his speed. He'sjust be's fast. I know that he

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didn't run fast to combine, butyou had to play this year against usc
that I think they caalked him alike twenty two miles an hour, but
you could run. I think there'sthis play speed. Obviously there's combine speed.
I just kind of prefer what theyplay, you know, luck and
pads. So, Jeff, whatdo you say for those who kind of
look at both Nicks and say,well, in his time in Oregon,

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he spent a lot of time inshotgun and in NFL. If you want
to run play action and what SeanPayton's even to do with you're breathing the
wall is a lot of that isfrom under center. So how does a
quarterback, in your opinion, kindof graduate and learn to adjust now being
forced to play more in the centerthan he did in college. It's a

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great question, you know. Idon't it's it's difficult, right, And
I think the part that's difficult aboutit is and this is what people have
said, I I don't imagine.You know, you you turn your back
to the defense, right, soyou know, you see one thing,
you see too high and uh,and you turn your back to the defense.

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All of a sudden they're in onehigh right and you thought that the
zone covers. Now it's a mantabag. And so the ability to think
on your feet and understand it,and Bonus is able to do that again,
like when you watch him play,his ability to recognize things in the
field is high. It's a highit's a high level trade of his and
so he just be able to dothat now with his back, you know,

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to to the defense essentially. AndI think, look, Sean Payne
has had no quarterbacks before. He'sgoing to figure out an offense early in
his tenure there that works for Bonisand then they'll build it out from there.
And so you know, it mighttake them some time to learn how
to do that, but that's justkind of part of the working learning process
is figuring out you things. AndI mean this book. I'm offensive lineman.

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Obviously, I think't playing a threepoint stance at all on college,
and I do the NFL, andyou learned to play a three point stance
like that's just part of growing inbeing an NFL. So I think it's
gonna be fine because he's shown theability to make those adjustments in college.
I don't know if you know muchabout the Denver Broncos last pick in the
draft, but I wanted to talkto you about the offensive lineman Nick Cargulio

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out out of South Carolina by wayof Yale. And I don't know if
you've seen this man's headshot prior tocutting his hair off. I was devastated
when he got rid of that gloriousmullet. But he this mustache mullet combination
that he's rocking where he looks somethinglike a young mel Kuiper if mel Kuiper
lived in Alabama in the nineteen seventies. This guy's a double major economics and
political science out of Yale. Andwhere's Jersey number sixty nine. This guy

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has all the personality in the world. And I am sitting here, Sam,
we need more of this. Weneed more offensive linemen with mega personalities
like this. I had to figureyou'd be a big, big fan of
the pick. Yeah, well himand him and put right. I'll tell
you what. So deep Mannyweather iseverybody in my my best friend. He

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trains all the offensive lineman down ofDallas for the combat and he's in you
know, we have a text withhim and play named Brandon Thorn. He's
just follow Brandon two on social mediaand he's been talking up Nick for a
while now. Just to the ability, I think that to be kind of
under the radar and a guy thatLook, sometimes you find those those seventh
round players other sermons around player youjust fall through the cracks a little bit,

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especially at the center position, rightkind of position that and even plays
center guards try It depends on ona least tall enough to do both,
but you know, like they justfall through the cracks sometimes, especially that
position. And so to be ableto do a player like that, who
I think has a lot of upsidein the seventh round is good. I
mean, look, you need deathplayers. I think we won't talk about

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that enough any way. Jordan Ellis, I watched him a lot Ataco Conference
due to rush the passer like hehe he after it, like he has
polished passwords. He has a spinmove, which is the hardest to defend
if your offensive lineman. He's goodat it, like he comes to the
NFL being able I think to usethat immediately. And we've seen through the

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careers of many defensive ends that ifyou keep spin man like that's as it's
really, it's a valuable tool tohave, and he has it already.
Now, tell me how big isthe transition for offensive linemen trying to go
from the college level to the prolevel. I know there's somewhat of a
learning curve learning the system, butjust the fundamental parts of it. Because

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the reason I'm asking his question,we watched the Broncos offensive line last season
when Champagne came in and he madesome adjustment adjustments, bringing in MII mcglitchy
the right tackle and Vampius had theleft guard. But they had their issues,
they had their struggles. But howwas that transition for some guys?
Meanings though that's from the technique inthe footwork and putting all that stuff together.

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You know, it just takes work, you know, and it's hard,
I think now because you just don'tget that practice time like he used
to, you know, and it'sI think it's difficult to get all the
work in you need. And soit takes a get off of the line
coach, It takes an offense.It works you off of the wine to

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figure it out if you have twodays. Once again, we don't have
two days anymore, you know.Then I think in those days you were
able to figure out a little faster, get more practice, and so it's
just a matter of reps, gettingreps. We often see right like young
players that just get better throout theseason because again there's more reps to be
high throughout the year. So it'sjust reps, it's a repetition. It's

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playing together with each other. It'sreally communicate with each other. And look,
I think we all agree clearly offensewill dysfunction the last season. And
you bring Boone Nixon, he's aquarterback, I think from probably day one
looking at your quarterback room, andthey'll be able to sort of you know,

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kind of I roll that offenses offensivelignmentaround what they want to do with
Nix. You know, we sawwhen Shaun paid work in New Orleans,
you wanted very specific consumer's offensive liignment. He likes to big guards because he
wants you to be able to putthose big guards, sort of keep him
firm in the front of the pocket, have the tackles, kind of worry
about the width of the pocket.And so that system works there as a

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lot of teams like to do that, and I think they'll be just fine.
It just takes reps. Man,it's just reps and the offense,
and they don't you want to gowith your quarterback, understand where the quarterback
is going to be getting rid ofthe ball. All those things matter for
the offense. Jeff Schwartz at JeffSchwartz on Twitter. Jeff certainly appreciates you
taking the time out tonight. Thankyou guys. Have a good one.

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Absolutely take care. Jeff Schwartz,former offensive lineman University of Oregon football,
analyst to Fox Sports and serious exemI always loved talking to him. Mitchell
Schwartz's brother. For those of youremember the Kansas City Chiefs offensive tackle Mitchell
Schwartz as his older brother or he'sMitchell's older brother brother. Well, I
wanted to ask him about the wholebig brother little brother types of scenarios.

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Who gave who wedgies? Because that'salways very interesting because I had oldest siblings
and obviously, you know, Iwas a real big kid growing up,
and they used to kind of pushme around. And then, as they
say, God has a sense ofhumor, then I grew taller than them
and I changed the dynamic right there. So it's great when you have a
brothers who play in the league orguys who are doing excellent things. So

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good for him. But something hesaid that it was really important. That's
why I wanted to ask him thequestion about the offensive lineman and kind of
getting and somewhat of a rhythm froma fundamental standpoint, And he talked about
it like the offensive line they haveto get a field in the vibe for
their quarterback. Last year, Russellwas a guy that moved around a lot,
and I know he gets blamed fora lot of the sacks. And

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I think it's still fifty to fifty, But how is it that the Broncos
alignement are going to adjust to thatof Zach Wilson and bow Knicks because those
two guys they can move around intopocket too as well. That the camp
you listened to Broncos country tonight righthere on KOA. It's say fifty eight
to ninety four ONEFM News Talk Sportsspecial. Thanks to Jeff Schwartz for joining

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us in the last segment, formerOrgonducts offensive lineman NFL offensive lineman, brother
of Mitchell Schwartz, the right tacklefor the Kansas City Chiefs for a while
there, giving us an insight onthe orgon Ducts players that the Denver Broncos
drafted bo Nex Troy Franklin talking tothe offensive line. Do you think you
mentioned Brandon Thorn has somebody to followover with Duke many Weather. Brandon Thorne

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is uh. I remember when hewas trying to break in his I get
I literally got him on the air. I was the first he lived here
in Denver. Brought him into thestudio, literally gave him his first interview
or whatever. So uh, it'sgood to see that Brandon's getting gets a
note ride. He's a smart guy, comes to the evaluating offensive line and
things like that, and uh yeah, I was literally the first guy to
give him, give him some aretime. So look at you, pat yourself

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on the bag, you know,give us him one a break. People.
Some people call me a gatekeeper sometimes, and I'm like, you know
what, like for these people preferredto Ben as a gatekeeper, the people
on ergy and say that, youknow that, I know that kind of
stuff, and I'm like, dude, I try to give everybody some run.
Like look at this. I'm glad. I'd like to see people succeed.
They don't start. He doesn't starttrashing, trash talking you like some

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of the other people you gave yourThere have been a couple of those that,
yeah, you know, ungrateful,you know what, But you know
enough of that. It's time forsix pack. It's time for the NFL.
A lot of insighted inside information youcan't find anywhere else. No.
Six the Top six NFL headline whatx Hells Cowboys and Colorado state wide receiver

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Michael Gallup signing a one year,three million dollar deal with the Las Vegas
Raiders to join an offense led byeither Aight O'Connell of Gardner Minshew. Gallup
spent his entire pro career with theCowboys, who selected the third round of
the twenty eighteen NFL Draft out ofColorado State. Had one eleven hundred yard

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season his second year, but hasnot surpassed four hundred and fifty yards in
any of the past three years andhad a career low four eighteen to two
touchdowns on thirty four catches. Lastseason with the Cowboys went twelve and five.
After signing a five year, fiftyseven and a half million dollar deal
in twenty twenty two, the Cowboysreleased Gallup earlier the spring designated him as
a post June one cut. Moveopened up about nine and a half million

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of cast base this season, butGallup will count against the cap at twenty
twenty five. Has to start overnow in last with Vegas, how do
you feel about Michael Gallup with theRaiders? Well, for me, Gallup
turns into a number three, aquality number three receiver for the Raiders because
you have DeVante Adams and Jacobe Meyersbeing one and two, and sometimes that's

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what you need. You need tobe in a position that allows you to
excel because there are a lot ofguys who think they're wide receiver one and
wide receiver two, and when youdemand that position, you have to show
up from a production standpoint and justbe totally honest. In Dallas last year,
Gallup didn't get a lot of runbased on the chemistry between Ceedee Lamb

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and Dak Prescott and also being injured. So it'd be an intricate part of
what the Raiders tried to do asthey we ramp their offensive side the ball.
Yeah, I mean good that hegets to start over. I'd like
to see him resurrect his career.Just thinks that it's with the Raiders in
division there, so you know,you hate to see a Colorado State guy
going over there to the Raiders.But I wish him well except when he
plays around. Well, I didn'twish you know, noticing what I said,
I didn't wish him well. Ijust told you exactly what I expect

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him to do. You wish well. I wishing well except when he goes
to Broncos. Howbout that the ArizonaCardinals had a big draft class didn't leave
a lot of room for undrafted freeagents, but they announced three UDFA signings
to go with the twelve rookies theyadded over the course of the draft.
They are North Carolina defensive lineman MilesMurphy and c State long slafer Joe Shimko
and subject of this story Colorado widereceivers, Zave, you're a Weaver.

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Weave heer led Deon Sanders team withsixty eight catches nine hundred and eight yards
last season. Looks like he couldmaybe making him back. I was surprised
he went undrafted. I thought hemight he might get picked. I thought
he was a productive receiver last yearin that offense. Arizona, you know,
a team that does could use somesome bodies at wide receiver, even

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after drafting drafted Marvin Harrison Junior thereat the top of the draft. What
do we think about Xavier Weaver goingundrafted to the Arizona Cardinals. You know,
I'm glad that he actually lasted ontoa team. I mean, we've
had some ability and early on inthe season last year you can see the
chemistry between he and Shador. ButI think the impact or why he went

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on drafted has a lot to dowith how CU did down the stretch.
They start off fast and then theykind of fizzed out, and believe it
or not, that does impact theplayer's draft status because now because of the
efficient deficiency of the cu Buff's offense. Weaver wasn't able to put up the
numbers that I guess Coach Prime expectedfor Weaver to put up. But I'm

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happy that he found a home andhe has an opportunity to try to make
the roster. And that one thingthat Weaver will have to do to make
that Carner's roster is not only playwide receiver and run better routes, but
also be an intricate part of whatthey want to do in the special teams
game. If he's able to dothat, he'll find a way to stay
on the roster. Yeah. Imean it feels to me like it's a

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good landing spot for him. Ithink he's a good fit in that offense.
Hopefully has a chance to stick aroundthere in Arizona, Sorree. This
was a big day for Jonah Ellison Friday, getting drafted in the second
round by the Denver Broncos. Butball gods giveth the football gods taketh away.
His brother, Noah Ellis, whowas on the future reserve contract with

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the Philadelphia Eagles, was released today. In addition to those two, Caden
and Christian are both in the NFLas well. Of course, Luther Ellis,
your former teammate in the Super Bowltwenty fifteen. Teams chaplain Noah Ellis
available on the the open market.Maybe the Broncos interested in the former Valor

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Christian defensive tackle six four, threehundred and sixty seven pounds. Well reunited,
it feels they're good, right,that is the theme. And look,
I've never got a chance to playwith my brothers, and for me,
that's got to be something of animpact when you have your sibling there

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with you for moral support and youplay on the same side of the ball.
So if the Broncos were to goin that direction, it would be
great to see Luther elli Is oneof my former teammates that have two sons
playing for the Denver Broncos. Andcould you imagine Ellis and Ellis on the
sack? To me, that soundslike music to my ears. Yeah,
I just think it's cool. Itwould be cool if you got to play.

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I mean, the Ellisons are basicallythe mccaffreyes of defensive linemen at this
point in terms of producing producing threehundred and sixty seven pounds bro three sixty
seven wow, massive man Jonas alittle lean in the frame he got all
the weight kid. He would chokeyou out. Yeah, he would choke
you out. Four. Robert Griffinthe thirties unlikely to return to ESPN's Monday

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night pregame show. ESPN reported thatJason Kelsey would be added to that show
today report to Kelsey is in,and March Hand of The Athletic characterized RG
three's returned as unlikely. All nothinghas been announcedan for his part, RG
three welcome Kelsey to the team onMonday, so maybe he'll be back.
Regardless, Kelsey is in on Mondaynights this fall, So I thought you

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end up in the booth somewhere.Looks like he's gonna be a studio analyst.
What do we think of a JasonKelsey as a studio analyst? And
b what did we think of RobertGriffin the third because I thought he was
pretty fun. Well as far asKelsey being in the booth, you never
know, because I mean, hedoes a good kind of podcast with his
brother, and you and I bothknow that's a lot different than just being

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on the air really breaking things down. But he seemed like he has Jason
Kelsey that is the personality that reallypull it off. But I thought RG
three did a great job, whetherit was calling games, being on Monday
Night Football, whatever they asked himto do, and breaking down things,
especially being very knowledgeable from a quarterbackstandpoint. And one thing I loved about

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RG three he wasn't biased towards anyone. I mean, if someone didn't play
well, he's going to say that, but he's also going to love him
up. And the reason I likedhim listening to him on air is because
he balances things out. That's notto say Jason Kelsey is not gonna do
the same thing, but I hopeespn rethinks this because just having that voice

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of RG three being a voice ofreason actually made me want to listen to
her. Yeah, I thought hewas fine. I thought he provided a
good analysis from a different perspective thanwhat you know you typically get. I
thought he made you think. Ididn't always agree with him, but I
love the fact that he challenged whatI was thinking and made me think.
And I love it. Analyis it'slike guess not to take away from Jason
Kelcey and whatever he's going to provide, But there's room for both. Yeah,

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there is definitely a room for both. Five So The Tom Brady five.
Apparently we're getting ahead of ourselves nowfive six, seven eight. The
Tom Brady Roast on Netflix is comingup. Bill Belichick is apparently going to
be part of it. Rob Gronkowskilisted as probable, but I wanted to

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go back because I think people don'tremember the last time that Rob Gronkowski was
a part of a roast. Thiswas back when David Ortiz was being roasted
and the program ended up not evenbeing able to be shown on television because
of some of the jokes referred toor told by Rob Gronkowski. This was

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back in twenty seventeen, by theway, he referred to He had a
joke that referred to now deceased Patriotstight end Aaron Hernandez. Jimmy Trayna of
SI posted a video of his routine, which you can see it's online and
said, man, that was awkward. One of the jokes made was about
Anthony Mackie the Falcon, which Imade a joke about earlier, saying it

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was the worst of falcon looks sincethe second half of the Super Bowl.
I didn't even need to play thatbleeping game, and I'm going to be
in the Hall of fame and thatsuperhero, the Falcon. He made a
joke about it being chased by thecops. That's the superpower. Like.
It was just a cringy like andthen there's a there's a joke about Jewish
people in here, and it's Idon't even know if I want to read
these on the air, But anyway, Gronk's stand up routine was horrific.

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I normally, if you do ita roast, don't you want comedians to
do that? Like I get youwant some people that you know and and
and I'll be you know, tobe fair. I think a good mix
of athletes and comedians can be good. We've seen some people like Shaq get
on the Shaq used to host aroast, the one he did for Emmitt
Smith which had Mouse Johnson and JimmyJohnson on it, but it had Jamie
Fox and some other comedians as well. I thought that was hilarious. I

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don't know what Gronk roasted me.Well. The reason it works out because
Gronk is a guy that spent timewith the Patriots. He would know Tom
very well in a more intimate settingthan anyone else, so being able to
hear some of those comments. Yeah, I guess they felt as though that
would make people laugh, But it'sall about delivery in the touchline and having

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timing and rhythm like basketball or asport. But I you know, listen,
sometimes these roads can get out ofhand, and sometimes guys say things
out of pocket that they shouldn't say. It's the reason that you said that
some of this could not be playedon television. And when you're trying to
live your life as a personality asGronk is, it's about every time you're

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on set, you're trying to entertain. But sometimes those jokes don't go across
as you thought in your head,right, and it's like it doesn't look
like in this now. Granted it'stwenty twenty four, so twenty it's spent
seven years. Maybe he's his comedychops have increased since then. But if
you watch this video and you canfind it out there on the internet,

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this is just like the world,like this guy will get booed off the
stage somewhere like it's bad and youknow, Tom Brady, yeah, you
know with that kind of that kindof ridiculous like I could see, like
you know, like Peyton Manning youknow, and they're telling jokes because Peyton
Peyton did he did a roast,but I think it's the roast of Rob
Well. Okay, Well, Peytonand Rob Minkowski two different individuals, and

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the love of system humor isn't entirelydifferent. Like the SNL skit right where
Peyton was tuggets in the kiss,it was so unlike Peyton Manning, but
still at the same time light PeytonManning. That's why it went over so
well. Blasted the kid with theball it was. It's great. But
Peyton's done that and he's shown thathe can he can do it. Now.

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Generally these guys have guys ghostwriting theirjokes, comedians ghost writing their jokes
for them and all that kind ofstuff. But you know, you go
through the delivery all this kind ofsuff Anyway, you've seen the Rock Gerkowski
thing. I'm just hoping his segmentis not very long or he is completely
learned from the slips Sick. TheArena Football League has returned and no one
knew it. The Rated Football League, which lost in the eighties went through

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various sizes and shapes for disappearing intwenty twenty, return this weekend but there
were complications. The Philadelphia inquired viathe Sports Business Journal, it's a game
are supposed to be televised by theNFL network. They were not. The
NFL's not responded to their requests forconfirmation and comment regarding the failure of the
games to be televised this weekend.Current NFL listings show that an Arena League
games is due to be televised Thursdaynight at eight eastern. More specifically,

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and as relayed by son of coachJay Gruden, JJ Gruden, the Philadelphia's
Soul had a weekend to forget bythe Inquirer. Many players were allegedly released
on Friday, booted from the Supereight Motel where they've been staying. Their
luggage, according to the report,was taken from them and locked in a
room. Apparently, the league tookownership of the Soul after a group that
was going to buy the team backedout. The head coach Patrick Pimmele stepped

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down one day before the Soul weredue to place the Louisiana Voodoo and Lafayette
players from the Dallas Falcons of theAmerican Arena League two, not to be
confused with the American Arena League oneserved as replacements for the Soul Voodoo wanted
to blow out fifty three to eighteen. There's no mention of the game on
what appears to be the Arena League'scurrent website, which has artificial intelligence quality

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summaries of the seven other content.It would be sad to think that humans
had the time or inclination right morethan a thousand words about the Billings Outlaws
beating the Witchital regulators sixty six totwenty eight. I didn't even realize the
Arena League was coming back. Wealready have the UFL. Is there a
market for this at this current time? There's always a market for those who

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want to be entertained by some formof football. But does it make sense
now with the XFL and the USFLmerging. Probably not. But if you
are a guy looking to kind ofquest that thirst of being able to play
a professional sports, I mean,those guys love it, and for me,
if it gives you an opportunity tolive out your childhood dreams, so

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be it. Now are we lookingon a national scale and looking at television
deals and being able to showcase thetalent? I don't think arena football has
progressed to that point where there area lot of people want to pour money
and just the story itself. Howyou know they had to go out and
get another team to play for theteam because players luggage was locked away,

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That tells you right away. Butwith that merger with XFL USFL, it's
gonna make things that much harder forthe arena league for sure. It's interesting
because the real league had a LikeI said, it appears they had a
broadcast rights deal with the NFL network, but they didn't show any of their
games and instead showed the draft,which makes a whole lot more sense anyway.

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But I don't know. This thingjust seems seems like bad news.
And if you've got a head coachresiding the day before the season starts,
ownership backing out of buying teams,and players getting locked away from their luggage
and booted out of hotels. Thisreminds me a little bit of the Alliance
of American Football a couple of yearsago when it imploded, you know,
when they were telling everybody they hadthe money and all this kind of stuff

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and then imploded the next day.A lot of this story sounds vaguely familiar
to different things that happened in theNFL coach, you know, taking a
job and then leaving after one day. Didn't Bill Belichick do the same thing
to the Jets? Right? Soit's kind of remember this in to what
we've seen in the NFL. JoshMcDaniels with the Colts. Yes, yeah,

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but this was a different situation likethis. This guy clearly quit because
the situation was bad and they wereabout to screw overs players. Sounds like
they need John Elway and John bonJovi to own a team again. I'm
here for you know what, Graan'sgot all that Ballard money. Maybe maybe
the three of us could go inownership group football team. What would we
call the team though? What wouldname the team the mustache? I don't

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know. We'll come up mustaches.Every player has to have a mullet in
it or or mustache. No,you have that both, right. I
can see a built in endorsement dealalready. Yes, we'll come up with
a better name. During the break. Broncos Country Tonight