04-29-24 Hour 3 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight.But with all Brian Dick, Ferguson,
Grant Smith, this feels like thisis gonna be a Nuggets blowout. To
me, I think that the Lakersgot the one they were gonna get.
Now the Nugget's gonna turn the gasback on and and blow torch the Lakers
again to night. I the Laker'sgonna blow this thing up. Is Lebron
James even gonna be a Laker nextyear? There's a strong possibility because we

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already know that his son, Iguess semi declared for the NBA Draft,
Bronni right, and this all.Yes, this has always been somewhat of
a dream for Lebron to play withhis son. And I don't know the
NBA history, but I don't thinkthere's ever been a player to play with
his son. So this would bethe first for that to happen. If

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it was going to happen, theLakers are definitely the organization for that to
happen, because when you think aboutJenny Buss and Rob Polinka, they did
something that pat Riley was unwilling todo. This is why Lebron went back
to Cleveland, he was not goingto allow Lebron to risk Paul to dictate
the pace, be the be thede facto general message exactly. So Jenny

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Buzz and Rob P. Lincoln mightdo. That has a ways establishing the
first in the history. And I'mgiving you air quotes to have father and
son playing the same team. Imean, you did have Michael Jordan Scottie
Pep on the same team. That'snot father and son. There it is.
It came to you there. Ohboy, I was just sitting there.

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I'm just I'm just gonna let thisI'm gonna let this one hang in
the air for a minute, marinate, and then then it's about the cooker
be like, not only have therenever been a father and son on the
same team in the NBA, There'snever been a father and son in the
league at the same time. Yeah. Now there's been coaches and sons,

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but never two players at the sametime. And there have been father and
sons in a made league. Imean obviously you know, Ron Ber Roddie
Brewer, I mean there's been youknow, there's there's obviously been honors and
so to make the league before.But it's yeah, but at the same
time. I mean, you thinkabout how lengthy a career you'd have to
be, how young you'd have tobe as a father, and how lengthy
a career you'd have to have tomake that work. It's a lot.
And this was funny with Lebron becauseI think it's in this year's playing in

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the league, he's played against maybeabout eight guys who fathers. He also
played against, Yeah, which iswild, but it also speaks to the
lungevity of Lebron. James is stillto be doing some of the things that
he's still able to do. It'sbeen fascinating. So the Nuggets game plan

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should be two things. You wantto get out and use the altitude and
get out and run because a lotof teams struggle. And then also you
want to make him run because Lebronis a little older that fatigue may set
in on him. But also itgives you an opportunity to attack Anthony Davis,
who man, he was a monsterin Game four, Well you're talking

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about grabbing boards. I think hehad twenty three boards and the Lakers won
that game because they had four guysand double figures. Their bands accounted for
thirteen points. The Nuggets bench notso much, but also the points in
the paint. I mean, theLakers had seventy two points in the paint
to the Nuggets fifty two. Yeap. That tells you a lot about how

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that game went. I don't thinkthe Nuggets are gonna have any problem dusted
off the Lakers, and probably it'llprobably end to night. I mean,
that just seems it just seems likely. But man, looking forward to that
next series, how worried are youguys about the time. I'm extremely worried
about the t Wolves because I thinkthey match up incredibly well with the Nuggets.

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Well. The reason they do thatbecause the t Wolves pretty much have
had the Nuggets number all season long, And when you think about some of
those games, that was Anthony Edwardsputting a lot of the weight because Rudy
Gobert, to me, for mepersonally, he's a waste of hight.
He's not a good rebounder, hedoesn't run the floor, he doesn't have
a mid range game, and hebarely can shoot free throws. So having

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Bigcat back that changes a lot forthem, both on both ends of the
floor. But in those games thatthe Nuggets play, the Timberwods. The
season, it's just been Anthony Edwardsgoing to work and the Nuggets have tried
ways to double team him, andthey tried ways to kind of put Aaron
Gordon, who is arguably the Nuggetsbest defensive player, on him. It

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didn't work. And sometimes what theTimberwolves would do what they would they would
create a switch. But Casey pwho is by the way, he's known
for his defense, but physically hecan't stand up. Yeah, yeah,
that's the thing. Like he isa good defender, but he's he's a
guard. He's a true guard,and Anthony Edwards is assigned the label of

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being a guard. But I mean, man, he's a freak of nature.
Yeah, that's it's just absolutely ridiculousto consider him a guard in that
sense, you know, in termsof what it is that he actually is
and the way that he actually plays. I mean, he's uh, he's
listened at six four two twenty five, but he's built. He's built just
thick, you know, it feelslike a six six to forty more than

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a than a six four five.And he plays physical. Yeah, And
the thing about it, it's he'sbig up top. He plays a physical
game. He takes the contact,but more importantly, he is athletic.
It's like Jamal Murray trying to defenda younger Lebron James in his day.
It's not gonna happen. So theNuggets, you want to avoid the Timberwolves

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as much as you can, butit's too late. They slept the Suns.
It's just I mean, it's on. Hey, I'm trying to remember.
Uh, I remember the November game. They lost that one. Then
they lost it big, uh tothe t Wolves. I'm trying to remember.
I don't remember every game that theyplayed this year. Did they did
they beat the Wolves? Yeah?Yeah, yeah, they beat him right
towards the end of the season.Djok had a huge game, and then

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they went the next night and lostto the Spurs and fell back to the
number two seeds. That's right.I was just saying because they lost to
him, because they lost to him, and then they beat them, like
they played him twice there at theend. I remember that, but I
remember the November loss or whatever,and yeah, it just we we know
kind of what Rudy Gobert is gonnabe. I just when they beat them,

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they didn't even have Karl Anthony Townsdid it because they once once again.
That's why I say it. Whenyou add Big Cat to the mix,
it changes things, right because nicoleaJokis could play bully ball with Yeah,
we've seen it, but now youhave Big Cat on the floor who

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can shoot the mid range. He'sgreat in the paint, and he can
also draw guys out too because he'sa hell of a three point shooter.
Right. So it caused matchup issuesacross the board. But then you go
into the bitch part of it,and the Timberwolves haven't really got into their
bitch that much this season, butyou have to figure if you're playing the

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Kola Yoka, it's two time MVPand the defending champs, you want to
throw every single thing you have andmore at the Nuggets to try to wear
them down. Yeah. I thinkit's interesting to me because with with Anthony
Towns back, that means you're puttingGordon on him, right, y'all,
Kitchen go Bary, go back toforth. You you're putting Gordon on Towns
and that really creates the problem forEdwards. You can't Porter's not a good

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enough defender to guard him. He'sgiven up twenty five pounds if he's guardened
him. I wonder if we're goingto see extended minutes out of Christian Braun.
In an effort to try to notto be physical with him, you
bring Braun into foul him basically,you know, like to just hammer him
every time. It's just the ideais to take the Dennis ram In approach.

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Anytime he goes up, you justhack it. Yep. You think
the best matchup for us against Edwardsis Peyton Watson. Maybe Watson coming from
behind and to try to block thepass. Yes, see him up?
No, No, I think yousee. I think you could see Aaron
Gordon on Anthony Edwards an MPJ onCarl Anthony Towns, because Carl Anthony Town's

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as good as he is, he'sa little soft in the paint and MPJ
has been getting better at rebounding.Uh. This is not to say Karl
Anthony Towns isn't gonna have a bunchof points, but at least maybe you
have a chance to slow down Edwardsa little bit, don't. I don't
see any scenario which porters on Towns. I mean, you're just giving it
too much. Towns is seven footforty eight. You're just soft. Yeah,
okay, but still I mean,so so just be fair. I

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just I don't I don't see ascenario where you're gonna get away with that.
You you basically have to put Gordonon him because you have to have
the physicality there. And so thatthat's what I'm saying. Like that,
that leaves you with with precious fewoptions at the you know, at the
two with Edwards, because he weighsso much for what he is. I
mean, Tate Watson is uh uhwhat is this six' eight? I
think he hears something like that.Yeah, I think so six eight.

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But Peyton Watson is only two hundredpunds mean, he's a string beat and
Anthony Edwards has just would just youknow, blow through him. Anthony Edwards
got about thirty pounds. He isanother guy who doesn't get a lot of
acclaim and praise, but he hasbeen known to give the Nuggets problems.
And last year in the series againstMinnesota, this guy was injured, so

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it changed a lot of the crossmatchups and it was nas Reed and you
know, Reid is very athletic andhe can create a lot of problems.
So this is where coaches really haveto coach. In the playoffs, he
struggled to shoot against the Wolves.I mean, I guess the Nuggets in
that last game they played. Iremember that because he was something like it

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was like six to twenty from thefield or something like that. I mean
it was it was not great.He was shooting like thirty percent from the
field and couldn't hit three pointers.I just remember he was having a bad
night. But the match that nightagainst the Suns fair, but I mean,
he's just it's a bad It's abad matchup for the for the Nuggets.
I mean, if that's the oneyou want to circle, because a
lot of people talk about okay Seeand all that kind of stuff, and

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I like, okay See is ais a prolific scoring team. But I
think in a seven game series,I think the Nuggets spoke him. The
Wolves are the one team that reallyreally jumps out at me, like,
man, that is just a badmatchup for the Nuggets. Well, the
reason also is somewhat of a badmatchup is because the length that Minnesota brings

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into life and strikes it's not justlights like their length and they're both like
because Peyton Watson's got length. Imean he's six foot eight, but he's
two hundred pounds like he's a stringbean. You know, Anthony Edwards is
six four two thirty. Well,for me, that series would come down
to the team that is the mostphysical. And that was what coach Malone

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really harped on after Game four whenthe Lakers seek the game at home.
They didn't feel that his team wasas physical as they need to be.
And down the stretch, you needto make sure that you can lean on
guys, you can wear guys out, and you can cut off the baseline
because when you think about what happensa lot of time when the color Jokiche

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posts up, it's so rhythmic thatyou know, you can see muscle memory
or he's standing there on the stripeand the wing guys know, hey,
listen, like Aaron Gordon, allI have to do is cut. He's
gonna find me. So if you'redefending the Nuggets, you just have to
make sure you defend in that way. And I know sometimes they run a

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two three zone and the Lakers havebeen able to get some penetration, and
that's why the Nuggets would struggle againstteams like okay see, okay see found
the way to get inside the laneand find cutters and make those jump shots.
Because Shai Gilders Alexander, just likeJamal Murray, comes down court,

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he can put on brakes and thatfall the way jumper is money. Yeah.
I still think in a seven gameseries, though, I think the
Nuggets will put it to to okaysee again, the Wolves are the one
I worry about. It's just it'sa physicality that it is difficult to match,
and it matches up perfectly well withwhat the Denver Nuggets do and try
to do. And at the endof the day, it forces the Nuggets
into certain matchups and doesn't allow themto move guys around or switch these matchups

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like they like to do, becauseyou'll have Gordon come out and threaten somebody
a little bit and then he'll switchto another man and that physicality, you
know, it'll it'll shut somebody downfor a while, the shuts and you
can keep you know, change again. You don't have that option against the
Wolves. I mean you you prettymuch have to put Gordon on Towns just
because of his size, even ifhe does play soft is Grant soft Smith

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over there suggests, you know withAnthony, whereas you know, the one
thing I love about Washington play isthe pace of the game and dictating and
pays and forcing the other team totry to adjust. Because the one thing
about the Nuggets, especially playing withNikole Yoe, He's not going to allow
you to speed him up. Andthat's where some teams kind of falter because

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they attempt to speed him up,but they get outside of the game.
But that's the one thing that theTimberwolves would do constantly. They're gonna get
out and run. They're looking forif this was like football, They're looking
for the explosive play. They don'twant to check down. They want the
home run play. And it isthat home run play by Anthony Edwards that

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I feel sparks the offense the momentthey watch him knock down a three point
shot or have a sensation of dumpand fires up the other players to say,
hey, oh, it's time toplay. And then they started to
bring their a game, and theNugget's gonna have to do a great job
of cutting him off and limit hisamount of exposive plays. Love it.

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When we get back, Tim Jenkinsis gonna join us to talk about new
quarterback bonickx us to Broccos Country NightKa for renaming the show Bonix Country to
Night could be worse. We couldhave drafted Michael Pennix and then they could
have gone over really badly. Yeah, you see me, You see my

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head. Who's gonna be the firstguy to misspell that name in a tweet?
The over unders on deal Orlando ledBetter. No, I don't think
so. There's some other people thatwe can uh call out and said that,
Uh, they may be the firstpeople. Yeah, we'll see five
six six zeros of text. I'mgonna go right on out to kn't Wait,

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com Spirreal Hotline and bring on theQB Whisperer. Former NFL quarterback,
Pride of thunder Ridge and promiser ofmerchandise, Tim Jenkins. Tim, how
you doing, buddy? I'm doinggreat. I'm doing great. How are
you guys doing? Doing pretty well? Saw some photos of the what is
it the remodel going on there?Yeah, we got an absolute grind of
it. It's a grind where you'rein, Uh you know, I've there's

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a couple of memes on Instagram whereit's like Drake cry and saying he's got
a warrior spirit in the middle ofthat'll be my wife, you like.
But no, it's uh, it'sgood, it's good. We're pumped up.
And then you know, we hada little seven year old baseball game
tonight that ran a little late,but the rafts pulled it out thirteen to
twelve. So exciting stuff all theway around. Love it you guys.

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Putting the new film room in thehouse. Is that that's what the impetus
bind the remodel is. Yeah,that's that's the real the real heart of
it is. Uh, you know, a little bit of thin brick for
the wife and then a film roomfor the boys. I love it.
Well, dam we got a quarterback, Man bow Nicks quarterback in Oregon the
Broncos draft in the first round,twelfth overall pick, drafted just just slightly

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ahead of where you were taking,you know, in the NFL draft,
and so h you know, firstI got to ask, you know what
that moment is like as a youngI'm just bested with you, man,
how did you how did you likethe bow Dix pick? Yeah, just
a little bit, just a littlebit in front of me, just like
seven thousand picks. But no,I think yeah, so one, I'm
not gonna lie. I was shocked, right, I wasn't even watching the

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draft. I figured, hey,I'm going to catch up, and then
all of a sudden, it's likea QB fend the up front and then
Bownick's at twelve. I think,I mean, I don't know. I
mean, I didn't really expect thatto happen. But you know, I
know you had texted Mario about it. You your dial. Then I'm not,
you know, hell on the outsidelooking in, So I think,
listen, I turned on his tady. What I'll tell you is this is

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I did a breakdown on him andkind of how I think he fits with
the Broncos. And I did thesame on Caleb Williams. What I will
tell you is bo Nick doesn't nothave a lot of turnover worthy place like
you watch a film and from arisky with the football perspective, it's pretty
boring, right, Like, there'snot a lot of high risk throws,
like he's not putting the ball inharm's way, which I think a lot

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of That is probably what Sean Paytonfell in love with after dealing with what
he dealt with this year. Notsaying you know, not a dig at
Russ, but I do think we'reputting the ball in harms way a little
bit. So to me, it'slike, I think you see why he
fell in love with his tape.Obviously you don't see the kind of crazy
armability. But if you really thinkback of what Shawn's made successful in this

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league, you know, nobody sitsthere and goes. You know who I
think had the greatest arm tilt ofall time is Drew Brees. Right,
That's not what people say about him. People say a lot of other stuff,
which I'm guessing at kind of whatthey were getting the feeling of when
they were at the organ facility talkingabout bo Nick. So to me,
I think it makes a lot ofsense. I think my only hesitation is
how early you got to put thekid out there? Right? It doesn't

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seem like our quarterback room is superdeep and super geared towards giving him time,
which I think is kind of themore interesting story is how this whole
thing plays out throughout the preseason andthen going into Week one of the season.
Well, Tim, it is goodto have you back on the program.
Before I get into my football question, I do have to ask where's

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the Tim Jenkins Elite gear that Iknow I think Bend promised us. Where
is that? There's no doubt I'mbehind on that. I listen. The
guy that we really got to feelabout, you know, I'm going to
get you guys here. You knowthat the gain that we really got to
feel bad for is Grant. Imean this, you can see the text.
It's like, I'm like one hundredand eighty unread text deep right now.

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And then every time I like lookat I see it from Grant and
I'm like, oh shoot, it'slike my real issue though, honestly is
the Apple Watch. I don't knowif you guys have him, but it's
like what happens is I look atit on my watch and I respond in
my head and what I just neverActually I'm like, I'm like, Grant,

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it's like one of my favorite guysactually deal with too, because you
guys know what it's like and theindustry, some people are like real hard
to work with, like the best, and I'm like, yeah, ghost
in him, So yeah, thereal guy I gotta make up to is
great. I gotta take him.I'm hoping when the house is done,
I can have over and just likeI'm hoping we can go enough like brecking
Ridge Brews deep to where he forgetsall these texts he sent me. But

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yeah, no, I got toget you guys some gear. I gotta
get you know, grant a reasonableresponse time. I'm just kind of failing
it all for right now. Hey, y'all, good Tim, I'll just
cost you a Jenkins's Elite hat anda couple of Broncos paylaoffs. Talking with
Tim Jenkins quby whispered jackins Elite,All right, Tim. So when we

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look at the fact that the Broncosnow have a stacked quarterback room and two
of those guys are very young,and Zach Wilson, who people have said
some negative things about in his Jetsdays, and you look at bow Knicks
coming in of these two quarterbacks rightnow, and I know they don't know

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the system, but just looking atwhat they did previously. Oh who stands
to have the advantage. Is itZach Wilson or is it bow Knicks.
Yeah, if we're talking Zach Wilsonout of college, I probably would have
told you Zach Wilson, because Ithink out of college I would have bet
his ceiling was a little bit higherafter seeing him in the league and seeing

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some things not shake his way.Part of you thinks bon Nicks because you
know what, we all like hatetalking about this, but scar tissue isn't
always great scar tissue, right,Like, you can have bad scar tissue
on you going into it. Andnot to say that Zack can't overcome it.
I just think there are some thingsthat crept up on him when he

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was a rookie, his second,his third year in the league, and
then all of a sudden, itjust doesn't seem like he's a direct mesh
with kind of what I think Seanwants from a quarterback. So I tell
you, I think bon Nick simultaneouslyyears in the league are going to help
you learn a system. Right,we all know they run the same stuff.
It's not like coach Payton stuff iscompletely different than what he had in

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New York, Right, it's goingto be it's gonna be all the same
concept. We're just gonna call hima different thing. So Zach's gonna have
the leg up when it comes tolearning to playbook because he's been around the
pro game longer. With that beingsaid, I think we sometimes I think
on the outside, we undervalue howmuch it means to be someone's guy,

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right, And anyone who's been aroundSean Payton for a millisecond of time,
though, the dude is hyper competitive. So Sean Payton is not going to
let Bonnicks look like a bad draftpick, right, He's going to make
sure. I mean, it's thesame guy that made you know, Taysom
Hill an NFL quarterback, right,Like you call spade a spade. Taysom
Hill doesn't belong in the league asa quarterback, and somehow he's carved out

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a you know, almost as likeSean Payton's like middle finger to everybody of
like, oh, I'm gonna makethis guy even the quarterback, right,
Like that's you know, he's ahyper competitive guy. So to me,
it's like with Bonnicks being his guy, I think, you know, all
roads kind of lead to him eventuallytaking over. I think the interesting thing
is going to be how they're goingto play it out, because part of

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me thinks, hey, you rollin with Zach or Sidham or whoever,
right, and then you kind oflet them, you know, play right,
and then you you turn it overto Bow. But then the other
side of me is like, ifyou're going to get to Bow, there's
so few reps to begin with nowin training camp in the preseason, and
it's like you hate to waste them, not on the on the young kid.

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So it's like that's where I thinkthis it's going to be really interesting.
I think that first Broncos training campto kind of see that first practice,
Hey, what do the reps looklike? How are they dividing them,
what are they trying to do?You know, they'll get a good
gauge of how fast Bow can actuallypick everything up at rookie minnie camp,
and then from there it's probably youknow, how fast he can act with

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me, it's how fast he's goingto get in talk with Tim Jenkins.
Jenkins the lead Tim. I thatsort of overlaps, I guess a bit
with the next question that I wantto ask, because this is there a
real chance here for Zach Wilson becauseyou know, le Broncos are going to
decline that fifth year option. Honestly, there's no reason to keep him around.
Does he have a chance as areclamation project or do you lean more
towards Jared Stidham as the veteran who'sbetter out of the league in a mentorship

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role in a scenario where you're probablyonly keeping to maybe Sean Payton does throw
up a finger and and keeps threequarterbacks, But it feels like that the
odds are more in the favor ofkeeping two. Is is that's way rosters
are constructed these days? Is therea real shot for Zack Wilson or is
this a guy that's just going toget lost in the wash? Yeah,
we really do need to bring thatthird quarterback though, because I'm thinking there's

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a couple of teams I could kindof latch on too late as coming back
coach third quarterback. So I thinkwe should kind of start that campaign to
bring the third QB back. Butno, I think listen, to be
honest with you, I think you'redead on about I think you get lost
in the wash. I think itjust if they didn't take Bonix at twelve
and we were talking this week,I think there'd be a huge conversation around

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you know, is Zach Wilson thatkid that you can throw in and potentially
have yourself like a Ryan Panahill inMiami right or or Tennessee right where it's
you know, Hey, they didn'twork out your first stop, you get
a little bit of scar tissue,you move on, you kind of resurrect
your career. Could I see somethinglike that happening for Zack Wilson? Sure
in the current environment now, Likeit's so hard for me to see a

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world in which Zack Wilson is thebetter two, right, It's just like
it doesn't seem like it seems likehe could be the two like he was
in New York, where it's likethe guy in front of you, no
one is going to talk about benching, right, no one was talking about
Aaron Rodgers not playing. So thenyou can have a guy like Zack Wilson

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as the two when you have ayoung quarterback or rookie quarterback. To me,
that's when it's really hard to havea guy like Zack Wilson in here
two because it's almost like you createthis competition inside the locker room, whereas
Jared Stidham there's not going to bethat same competition inside the locker room.
That's not a knock against him,it's just the reality of their you know,

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perceived ceilings maybe right or floors orkind of whatever you want to call
it. So to me, it'syeah, I think he gets lost in
the wash. I think it's justunfortunately bad timing for the kid. I
think, you know, they gograb boonicks at twelve, all of a
sudden, the kind of writing's onthe wall, they a different position,
or they trade back or anything likethat. Then I think, you know,

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he probably has a shot, ButI just think unfortunately he'll get lost
in the wash. I do thinkhe's one of those guys that it's gonna
be. He's someone I want tokeep my eye on because I don't think
he's necessarily done in the NFL.I do think he's gonna have to find
that right shot to where he caneither fit for a little bit or he
can kind of get plugged in wherehe doesn't have to, you know,
feel like, hey, I've gotto go make every single throw on planet

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Earth. But yeah, I justthink it's going to be tough for him
to kind of crack into the lineup here. How difficult is it really
for a quarterback who played in somewhatof a different system being able to quickly
learn the verbiage of a new system. Because in my time playing for Mike

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Shanahan, they used to have theseelongated plays that seem like they took like
forever for the quarterback to be ableto disseminate it to everyone in a huddle.
So how difficult is it going tobe for Zach Wilson or bow Nicks
to be able to master that languageof a Sean Payton play. Yeah,

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I think Zach will haven't left rightjust because of the years in the league.
But I think bo it's a realthing. I think nowadays it's almost,
you know, the harder. Youknow. I jokingly say this,
but it's like when you're doing draftprep with some of these college kids,
it's almost like you need to spendhalf your days on just being in the
huddle, right, because you knowwhat it's like, Nigga, It's not

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enough to just say, you know, hey, twins right, gun Scot
right, hey F ship X comebackZ posts right. That's not enough,
like to just spit it out.You need to look at your X right,
hey X, comeback F ship,and then look at your Z right,
hey Z on the post because youknow how it is half the rookies
in there, they have no ideahow they actually the damn Z right.

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They don't know right, So it'slike you got to remind them too,
by looking at them and making surethey know, hey, we're gonna jump
the tiger right here, you're thejump guy, right, you got to
remind him in the huddle. Ithink a lot of times we we take
for grant that aspect, right,we see them play on Saturdays and we
think, oh, hey, youknow you're gonna see those kind of skill
sets show up. But shoot,if your eyes aren't in the right spot,

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and if you can't command a huddle, it's hard to even get to
the physical aspect of it, youknow. I joke with our quarterbacks all
the time, like, the onlyreason I got to Smith the NFL was
because of the mental side of it, right. I was the opposite of
most rookies. Most rookies you hopethey survived to where their physical stuff shows
up. Man, I'd get uslined up, I get us in the
right look, but I'd hit thewill linebacker in the chest. Right.

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That's the difference thing in me andall these other guys, you know,
I think, you know that's gonnabe the biggest hurdle is hey, can
he can he fit the verbage out? Can he you know, can can
he handle the huddle. Can heget out Those are the kind of things
that he's going to have, youknow, hopefully he's been working on for
the last twelve weeks. Right,That's what you kind of hope for in
a draft prep when you have akid who physically is probably gonna check out

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his film checks out. Hopefully they'vebeen talking through, Hey, here's how
a you know, typical NFL playbookstructure. Here's what you're gonna see's going
to be, you know, formation, motion or shift then formation. So
hopefully they've been talking through all that. If not, I think Sean will
get him caught up. But it'sreally it's tough nowadays. Man. You
really got to hit the ground runningin rookie camp. And I think you
know, from everything you hear bothsay at the podium, and and you

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think he's a kid who's probably prepped, right, he says all the right
things. He he kind of carrieshimself the right way, so you would
think he's probably got it. He'sprobably you know, going to be ahead
of the game there, but youjust never know until that first playbook install,
on that first walkthrough, and hey, did we get to blitz adjustment,
did we move the mic. Thoseare all the kind of things that
that show up at that first practiceand we all like to say, man,

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it's the developmental league. It's justnot anymore. And I think,
uh, he's got to kind ofhit the ground running, and I think
Sean will will We'll make sure heuh has the best shot at it of
anybody till we we always appreciate it. It always goes too fast, and
except when you're you know, respondingto grant, but otherwise it always goes
too fast. Look forward to chatwith you again here real soon. I

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a shit you guys. Thank youso much, absolutely, brother, take
care. Tim Jenkins Jenkins elite,A big fan of the Bonnicks maneuver the
Denver Broncos. He's a risk aversequarterback bone Knicks. Never fumbled at Oregon,
not one time, not fumbles lost, didn't fumble in two years.
A quarterback not fumbling in two yearsis unheard of. Well, that's very
valuable because that means that you're keepingthe offense in someone of a rhythm and

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you're not turning in ball over onyour side of the field or when you
have momentum and you're driving. SoI know, once again going back to
what things were with the Broncos andRussell Wilson and what really boiled over Champagne's
tea kettle, that was one ofthose particular things. But knowing as though
you're bringing in a quarterback who hasn'treally turned the ball over, now you're

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thinking that's more points that your offensepotentially, potentially will have to score,
be able to score. But stillno matter who the quarterback is, whether
it's Stidham, Zach Wilson, orbow Knicks, everything starts up front.
Being able to keep that group andsomewhat of a rhythm where they are excelling

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well from a past blocking standpoint,but more importantly from a blocking standpoint,
because looking at the Broncos last year, that was something they were expected to
do and when they did it,especially going back and watching the Cleveland game,
it was a thing of beauty andthen all of a sudden it seemed
like for some reason they kind ofgot away from it. So hopefully with

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the running backs that they brought inand at the estimate Kid we're talking about
him later, but I really lovewhat he could bring to this offense,
but being able to run the ballat a high efficiency rate. We'll definitely
say whatever quarterback is starting quarterback,well, and they drafted a running back
to do that, a two downback and order GUESSI may first and second

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down. Guy doesn't really offer muchin the receiving game, or hasn't at
least to this point. But youwatch a tape on him man and he
runs with authority. Reminds you alittle you know, you always hate to
invoke a name on a draft pick, but remind you a little bit of
Marshawn Lynch. The way that heruns. Ooh, violent, violent,
run through your chest, marry inthe barbarian barber. You know, like

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he's a running back that seeks contact. You know he does, and he
wants to. He wants to gothrough you. Two gear. Guy doesn't
have that that home run gear,but don't need to that needs to.
All he needs to do is isare you running through contact? Can you
finish? Yeah? That's all Ineed to know. And he's got great
balance on top of it. Geta chance to delve into that and more

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