05-02-24 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, it's nice back fora full live show. We do you.
Uh take a brief moment here rightoff the top and shout out my
boy Benny Bash somewhere right now broadcastingin that that big microphone in the sky.
Man. We we all miss you, we love you. Benny unfortunately
passed away this week. Uh inan industry that we were in, that

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Nick, as you know, hasa ton of ego, a ton of
people with uh me me me attitudes. Benny was one of those guys that
was selfless, put everybody in frontof himself, always tried to lift everybody
around him up. He was alwayshe was excited to do radio every day.
It wasn't about trying to make itbig. He was just happy he
got to do radio. And soI wanted to take him in and uh

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and and and shout out my boy. It's a It's It was tough yesterday,
but we're back on the air today. We're gonna put on a good
show at his honor tonight. Youknow what I was wondering, Ben,
how to kind of lead into thisbecause when you lose someone close to you,
it's always very difficult to go aheadand continue, and especially when you
are in the position we're in whereyou have a microphone in front of your

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face. And I'm glad that youknow you were cool with actually bringing it
up and mentioning. And I rememberwhen I saw it on Twitter, I
was wondering, you know, whathappened with did I miss? And meanly,
I was like, man, ifyou want to talk about it,
fine, if you don't, whatever. That was kind of my idea.
But something you said is I thinkeveryone needs to pay attention to because we

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all are kind of in this raceof life and sometimes we lose connection with
people who we either in my case, play with, work with family,
friends, or what have you.But you know, life is so short,
it is so precious. We don'tknow when it's going to be that
moment when we're called home. Sothat's why I try to live my life

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as best that I can. Andthis is why we should lean on people.
Call people you have been seen ina while, if it's a family
member, a co worker, somereasons that something happened between you, guys,
that that connection with sever reach outto that individual, because you never
know what someone is going through inthat moment. And I know, I

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mean that this is a sports talkshow, and there's other talk shows on
the on the station, but stillin moments like this, I don't think
we should jump into sports right awaybecause I think everyone can say they've been
in a situation that you find yourselfin now, and it's a very touching
and emotional situation to just kind ofdeal with it. Yeah, I'd say

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I'd say the one thing I wouldwant to say to everybody's it costs us
nothing to tell it to each other. We love each other. Man.
There's men. Sometimes we struggle withthat. Absolutely, you know, we
struggle to say that to each other. But Grant, I love you man,
Nick, I love you man,And uh, if you know,
if if I don't say that enough, that's on me. I wish that
I'd had one more opportunity to saythat, you know, to my boy.
But you know, somewhere he knowsthat, and uh, you know,

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I I think that I think we'dall be a lot better off we
reminded each other of that a littlebit more often, so you know,
if you're within the side of hismicrophone, pick up your phone, shoot
a text off that that person you'vebeen meaning to talk to that you haven't
like, just shoot shoot a quicktext off and tell him, tell him
how you feel, just in case, you know, you don't get that
opportunity to do that again. Andthat's that's all I really want to say

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on that. We got a big, big show tonight. You and I
got to sit down yesterday before everythingwent down. We got to say a
chance to sit down with Troy Vincentuh, executive vice president of football Ops
in the NFL. We got atwo part of it. He was gracious
enough to sit down with us fora half hour. I mean we're supposed
to get like ten minutes. Weended up getting like a half hour with
him. So we got a twopart interview. We're gonna we're gonna launch
into here in just a few only. Bean's gonna join us a little bit

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later. We'll get a chance totalk about the abs and nuggets, what's
going on at SEU. I wantto talk to you about that, about
to see you stuff, because it'sthe state of Colorado is torn right now.
Why do you say you want totalk to me specifically about you?
You got some pretty good connections upthere. I mean, you know,
you'relready plugged into the University of Color. You mean you're You're not You're You're
a humble guy. You don't bragabout stuff, you know, like me.
You know, didn't you do oneon one with UH Deon Sanders Junior.

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Yes, I did so. Yeah. I mean you pugged in.
Man, he plugged it up there. You got you got to connects up
there. So I want to,you know, I want to get a
differing perspective on it because a lotof the talk that's out there is people
either from the outside looking in,people who are jaded and left the program,
and of course they're going to beupset, and so I wanted to,
you know, I want to getsomebody's a little bit closer to the
program to be able to let's saysome about that. We'll get to that
in the next hour. I oneof the things that I want to get

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to real quick before we get tothis interview with UH with Troy Vince at
part one. We'll get it hereabout four minutes or so. The Steelers
special teams coordinator on a podcast talkedabout how they were likely to have justin
fields as the second kick returner.And I know this to be a fact.
I know I did some digging onthis today, some call around.

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I know this to be a factthat they are actually this is something that
they're actually considering. They feel likehaving everybody stationary in a tight space like
that and having somebody with fields athleticismand ability to throw the ball back across
the field is going to create opportunitiesin a dual returner setup in their special
teams. So I want to askyou how you felt about that you played

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special teams? How would you defendsomething like that? Does it give you
something to think about? Well,first and foremost, the Steel a special
teams coach anyway, he's been aspecial teams go for thirty straight years.
Yes, I know him. Hewas. He was my DV coach at
Jersey's as Dan Smith. There yougo, it was my DV coach.
So it's fascinating that the league changedthe rules on special teams because they wanted

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more scoring, and scoring has beendown, especially in the red zone across
the league. I don't care ifit's Patrick Mahomes or Lamar Jackson your quarterback,
but I like this idea because it'sgoing to force special teams coaches to
be a little more creative. We'regoing to see a lot of plays that
you would say that you would normallysee in the Madden Football Game, then

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you would see played uh in theNFL. So I love the idea,
and it does create issues because theway the game is set up now,
from a kickoff standpoint, you aresomewhat of a distance away from the guy
who's going to be blocking you.But the game, as you know,
it's about spacing, just like justlike basketball. So you get that's right.
So you get a talented guy withthat wiggle ability like of Justin Fields,

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he can break something loosely. Justthe first thing I thought was what
if Devin Hester played in today's NFLwith his new Ruse play franchise tag.
You know, like, okay,here's the thing about this, and we'll
get this Troy Vincent interview here justa moment, but I want to say
this. If I'm seeing Justin Feelsback there is of course I'm kicking it
at him. I'm kicking it rightto him. Where is your ideas is

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because you think you can't do it? Or are you hoping that maybe someone
makes a tackle and he can't playin the game as a backup quarterback.
Well, I'm not even worried abouthim as the backup quarterback. Russ is
their guy. What I see aquarterback out there, I'm kicking it at
the quarterback until he proves to methat I shouldn't. I'm not kicking it
to the running back or receiver overon the other side. I'm kicking it
at that quarter And the Steelers arecounting on that, because here's what's gonna

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happen. Everybody on that un It'slike Maul, I'm getting a licking on
this dude, and they're all gonnaconverge. You're gonna have somebody lose their
lane. And what's gonna happen.Justin Field's gonna throw that ball back across
the field. He's gonna have whoever'sgonna be over there on the other side
of Jaylen Waller, Nodgy or youknow, one of the receivers and look
on a houset ball. You knowwhat one coach I know who is known
for being real creative, I'm talkingabout on the fly. The Broncos have

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them in their building. With MikeWestoff, that was what he would do.
When I was a member of theJets, he will allow people to
line up and we would all turnour head to the sideline. He would
give us a hand signal and weknew exactly what to execute. So mad
scientists Micha of Mike Westoff. Ican't wait to see what kind of plays

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he comes up with, because forme, it's going to be exciting looking
forward to the innovation and special teamsgoing forward. With that in mind,
you and I did have a chanceto sit down with Executive EVP Football Operations
Troy Vincent. Troy, how areyou doing this evening. I'm doing well,
A little under the weather, soplease excuse my voice. I'm a

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little congested, but I've been tryingto It just worked out of my system.
But I'm grateful. I'm thankful,and I'm looking forward to our discussion.
Yeah, allergies have been kicking me, so I can empathize a little
bit. I wanted to jump rightinto it. One of the first things
off the bat, the NFL haschanged the kickoff rules, and I asked

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Sean Paton about that as a presserrecently. You know, if that's going
to change scouting going to change theway people construct rosters. But with you,
I want to ask, what impactdo you think that's going to have
on the game overall with reemphization ofspecial teams. I do. I think
it'll I think we'll have some effectsof how the roster is made up.

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When you when you think about theone your only rule with two returners being
back there, there's there's an opportunityfor you know, the clubs to upgrade
their return specialists, I think,and it's you know, those that have
been involved around the game having thosefew specialists, those L fours, L

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three's, L fives that are justthey're real unicorns. They're unique. They
can play on every special team,give you some good minutes on your offense
and with your offense and defensive snaps. I do believe that it will have
some effect roster wise. But whenwe look at it, you know,
how do how do we get here? Injury rate? And then last year

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you take a look at you knowyou had to return. You know,
we went to almost twenty percent returnrate. That's the lowests has been in
NFL history. So those are thekind of things that we're hoping with the
new kickoff, kicking the ball fromthe thirty five. Obviously there's no onside,
no surprise on side kicks. Startline being forty players will start.

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When the ball touches or hits theground inside that landing zone, no fair
catch. And then you get thesetup zone. You got to have a
minimum of that to nine players betweenthe thirty to thirty five yard line and
if the ball, if there's atouch back, the ball comes out to
the thirty So so one your onlyrule. What I would say is unique

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about this is when you have everybodyinvolved, that's the player, that's the
coach or managers, that's officials,our health and safety team, you usually
come out with good outcomes. Andin this situation over the last three years,
in particular last two, there's justbeen a lot of research studying the

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other sports leagues, and I dobelieve the players and the coaches have come
to a let's say, a hybridmodel that may reduce the injuries at the
same time bringing back a dynamic play. Well's roy you know, player safety
has become a point of emphasis.And with that being said, there is
a propos of maybe eighteen games inthe future, but more importantly the new

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helmet design. What can you tellus more about the Guardian helmet and the
possibility of more players having the abilityto wear those in live games. So
the Guardian cap, which is interesting, so worth three years into the Guardian
cap and that's a we would say, a piece of protective equipment that layers
on top of the helmet. Thepast three seasons, the Guardian cap was

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really used just at practice and nowwith the advancements in the technology, the
work that has gone down to reduceheat, make sure that it's a proper
fitting on the helmet. You knowthat the players choose so they have that
option. They want to wear aGuardian cap in game, they can do
so the helmet advancement Nick, itis absolutely what positions specific helmets. It's

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a different world with helmets. Imean when we during my time, you
had about three or four helmets reallyto choose from, say maybe five tops,
and now you know you have plustwenty. But the engineering and the
science behind these helmets position specific helmets, I think it's just extraordinary for today's

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athlete to have those options and justa state of science, you know,
being integrated into the game of football. We're talking with Troy Vincent, the
executive VP football operations for the NFL. Troy. You know, one of
the things I get constantly asked aboutfrom fans is why the NFL does not
have fully guaranteed contracts. You lookat Major League Baseball, the NBA,

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etc. And you see these fullyguaranteed contracts. You help to shepherd the
shepherd the NFL through I be leastthree collected bargaining agreements. What is the
reason behind the NFL not having fullyguaranteed contracts, Well, they have.
There's many multiple players that actually havefully guaranteed contracts. So it was it's
really up to the to the agentand the individual. In my time,

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I negotiate fully guarantee contracts, andABS was talking. We're talking in the
nineties and so that that occurred,that option is here today. That goes
back to the agent, his skillsor her skills, and the player in
the club. But to have allI'm not sure off the you know,

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with the as we would say,a one hundred injury rate, to have
all fifty three guys who guarantee contracts, I'm not I'm not sure if that's
a good business decision. But asI mentioned, players can negotiate eight guaranteed
contracts. Well you know what,they have that option today. Yeah,

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players can't do that. And forme, I'm a little jealous of some
of these guys now because they geta little more guaranteed money than I would
say maybe you did before me andduring my time. But there was something
that happened a couple of weeks agohere in Denver that the Broncos organization was
definitely able to celebrate. And Iwould like to give your take on it.

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Girls foot. I mean, flagfootball was sanctioned here a while ago
in high school and I think that'sit's a marvelous thing. But tell me
from your perspective, how has thegame of flag football and young girls helped
grow the game globally because I thinkthat is a fascinating thing that our audience
needs to know. No, Ilove it, and it's been something that

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over the last you know, wejust document I I don't need to sound
like that someone is just in theweeds here, but probably about forty percent
of my time during the offseason it'sspent on flag and in particular why flag
matters to the league and to theclubs low barrier ventures. So you look
at two things. One fan developmentSecondly, football participation with low barriers of

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entry, it allows for more peoplenot only to play the game here,
but globally. It allows for peopleto have a better understanding of the game
that we both love or we alllove. It provides just a wonderful,
wonderful opportunity for girls and women,just a wonderful opportunity. And then the
talent, that talent pipeline. We'veseen, our data have shown that players

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that have a good flag experience aremore likely to participate and tackle football at
the high school level. And thenit also enables you know, the skill
development at younger ages across or broadacross a broad audience. So seeing Colorado
come on as a state, astate that is sanctioned girls RCIT flat,

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why wouldn't you today, if I'ma state administrator, why would you not
want that opportunity for the young ladiesto play flag football at a RCIT level
at the collegiate level. They're nowearning scholarships to play ball like we did.
There's an Olympic path to represent yourcompany. Why would a state not

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or youth organization or school, whywould you not do it? Why would
you not allow that opportunity for younggirls to participate. I love it,
love it, absolutely love it.Yeah, I think that's I want I
want to dovetable off that briefly becauseI think that's a great discussion to me.
Growing football, American football as aworldwide sport requires one thing that you

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just said, which is low barriersto entry into an endgame which you also
just provided there that allows for themto grow. It's the reason that soccer
is such a worldwide phenomena. Youjust need a ball or relatively flat pitch
and you can play it. Kidscan play it right versus, for instance,
hot where you've got to have bleedson your feet, an ice rink,
all, you know, those kindsof things. Football for the longest
was that thing you had to puton all the pads and the helmet and

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everything else. But with flag football, it gives you a low barrier entry
because you can you can play touchor flag or whatever a low bearer entry
as kids, and having it sanctionedat higher levels allows for an end game
or a goal to build towards.It's more than just playing backyard football.
And Nick, you said it,and it is the simplest way why it's
all inclusive it's a low barrier,it has low breas of of of entry,

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and it's easy to learn. Soit's when we talk about we know
we're dominant, the game of footballis dominant here in the States. But
to have a true global footprint,it's flag. It's too flag Like our
international Pathway program, you know,youve got to we call that the IPP

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program where you now now you havean extra roster you know, extra roster
position for international players. But thegirl flag in particular, I absolutely love
it. I'm truly inspired by it, and it is taking our country by
start. So do you see aworld in the future where we now have

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a women's flag football league? Whywouldn't we? So just think about what
we're saying. Got three guys onthe call, we should be offering,
and there should be an offering.I'm gonna say we anything that's available for
men to compete, it should bea parallel path for women, no question.

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We should. We if we're nottalking about and that they actually have
a professional flag tackle leads now forwomen, but professional adult flag leagues for
women. That's all part of thisecosystem. So these are things that we're
engaging in every day. The focusnow is at the youth level, flags

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in school, flags and parks andrec high school sanctions. This August will
be applying for our merging sport,for emerging sport at the collegiate level,
and then you got that path tothe LA twenty twenty eight Olympics. Hey
Fat flag will be competing this summerin Paris. So it's an exciting time
for the game of football. Oneof the things that we talk about a

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lot, not just with growth ofthe game with women, but is internationally
we've seen a lot of games beingplayed overseas. Obviously we've got Germany.
We all know about the London games. Now we've got the games down there
in Brazil. You know, oneof the things that I've said with the
logistics of going overseas was tough.But if you can keep it in the
same time zone, maybe South Americais an emerging market. You know,

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Central and South America would be emergingmarkets where you keep it in the same
time zone and nowal logistically it's notas tough with bodies adjusting to different time
zones. Is that the nest expansionpan for the NFL, and that why
we're exploring maybe Brazil yes, andwe talk about Germany, we talk about
Mexico, Brazil, Mandrain, Paris, Dublin, Italy, Tokyo. So

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yes, it is an adjustment andwe've seen games, but not just the
games. It is Actually what we'veseen is the growth of the fandom of
young people participating getting a chance tosee the best in the world. Is
that what we saw in basketball iswhat we've seen. When you get a

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chance to see the best talent inthe world in your city or your country,
it creates the fandom, It createsinterest for other people to participate.
The time zone we're working on that, and you know those games are usually
early kickoffs nine thirty. It actuallypresents another game window, you know,
that goes right into that one o'clockhour, so a new window for the

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audience to play. The players areusually acclimated because they come over there a
few days before, if not aweek before. In some up like Jacksonville
a year ago, had back toback games there. So we're getting better.
I mean, as a football operationsstandpoint, we're working with our events
team. We just we have amuch much better model to deploy global football

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games today. Troy. We've seenthe game grow both domestically, and you're
talking about the growth of the gameinternationally as well, and with that becomes
the branding, more eyes on thegame. And I know Roger Goodell earlier
this week talked about the possibility onceagain of an eighteen game schedule. How
do you guys coordinate that with theNFLPA to make sure that both sides are

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getting exactly what they would needed.Well, obviously it starts with leadership,
both Lloyd and Commissioner, the executiveteam Jalen and new president of the Players
Association that executive that executive committee team. When you start talking about expansion to
play, I think there's a dominoeffect that I'm just speaking not for a
league standpoint, but from my ownpersonal experience, is if you start expanding

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you know, regular season play,there's what does preseason look like? What
does off season look like? ButI do believe with the current leadership in
place, the current president, theexecutive committee, I think as they take
a look at the off season becauseit's you know today, how do you
get the sixteen games? How doyou get the seventeen games? You start

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as that last quarter of the season, how do you get from game day
to the next game day. ButI think as they look at as Commissioner
reference eighteen and two, I thinkthere's a domino effect that must occur us.
How do you look at preseason?How do you look at the off
season? What does it all looklike so that that human body, because

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you're talking about a human body,how do you maintain the body and that
high level of play throughout that timeperiod? Oh, Troit, I definitely
have to ask this question. I'dbe remiss if I didn't. So.
The NFL Draft of twenty twenty fourNFL Draft wrapped in Detroit with the historic

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numbers, I mean, record settingattendance. Next year is going to be
in Green Bay. Here's what ouraudience wants to know. What needs to
happen. What do we need totalk to to bring the draft here to
Denver, Colorado? What do weneed to talk to? Well, let
me start with dn't I mean withDetroit? What up dough? So I

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learned that when I was there duringthe week. My daughter was like that,
you're not gonna say, yes,I am, what up done?
Frankly, if you talk to thecommissioner, you talk to the club.
Listen this when I think about thedraft today. Now, I participated back
in ninety two, you know herein New York where they only brought five

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of us in a hotel room witha sticker that dey velcrow to the podium.
And now there's like red carpet andto see seven hundred and seventy five
thousand people over it's just like thesee of I mean it was, it
was beautiful. Denver is one ofthose cities that if you think you could,

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we could do this. In Nashville, we think we can. You
know, we put this off inPhiladelphia. You're talking about the city of
champions in Detroit. Now it's notlike you know, you got got your
own Lombardi trophies there. You havea city like Denver that is used to
putting on major, major events.Why not? Why not? Nick?

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I think you can send a noteto the commissioners, say, Commissioner,
I think we should be considering Denverfor draft. Well, can I send
that note via email? Rogers callsright now. Absolutely, here's one of
our legends. A note from oneof our legends. Okay, there,
we we got done. That's howstuff gets done. Speaking of how stuff

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gets done, last question from me, mister Vincent, I appreciate you time.
Today, the NFLPA surveys that they'vestarted doing over the last couple of
years look like they're achieving real results. The New England Patriots are even advertising
a new job position of a familyservices coordinator on their website right now.
How do you guys feel about thefact that these surveys have started and are

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enacting or leveraging real change from ownershipand organizations that the players want and need.
Well, it gets people's attention.We know that, right so,
and I think this is the partnership. I think Nick, you asked us
earlier. It might have been youbet Benjamin that you know, we talk
about the players association, the futureof this partnership. In the partnership,

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if you take care of the players, the players take care of the game.
And this is a collaboration and thisis a partnership. When you have
a survey, hey, it's factorydirect. Whether some people may want to
agree or disagree, what the playershave put on paper when they took the
survey is their perception and their reality. And I do believe that the membership

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is working to to make those changesand we make, you know, make
those changes together. But that's workingin collaboration again. It did get people's
attention, got everybody's attention, everybodytalking, and you're seeing club club in
and club the club. Uh,make those make those tweaks to make that
partnership, locker room experience, familyexperience a little better. Well, Roy,

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it is the last one for me, and I just want to put
it back in your wielhouse because youplay this game at a high level for
so many years. We have herein arms, Patzertan his his dad played
in the league a number of years. I just want to get you your
personal thoughts of you watch him.What is it that you see? I

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love him, I love him andhe reminds me a lot of I will
just say some characteristics of myself andBobby Taylor and Sally and what do I
mean by that? What are thosecharacteristics? He's long, So when he
came out of school, he hadevery It's not about checking the box,

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but he had every characteristic that wasnecessary for you to be a dominant corner
at the professional level, because somethings don't transfer from college to pro.
He had everything that transferred. He'slong, he can run, he got
great burst, he got good speed, the power when he when is necessary,

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and he got good power to speed. He uses his hands, he
can catch. He's not he's anightmare matchup for a bigger receiver. Why
because he can outrun him and he'smost of the time he's quicker, and
because of his body mechanics, hisskill level when you're watch him play,
he can handle the small guy.He can move inside, he can move

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he can play outside the numbers,where he's at most of the time,
but you can also move him inside, and frankly, it's a luxury if
you didn't. He can play notonly inside outside the numbers, but because
of his range and he's a goodtackler, you can actually put him in
the center field if you need itto. When a guy doesn't have to
come off of the football field inparticular corner. He's special. You can

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keep him in on short yardists youdon't have to remove him. You can
keep him in on goal line,you don't have to remove him. Why.
Great tackler it I love him.I love him. I think he's
won two three best corners in theNational Football League. Yeah, he certainly
love him. Ran hererope. Hestays at Denver Bronco for a long time,
mister Vincent. We certainly appreciate yourtime. No, you're a busy

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man and look forward to seeing thisseason play out. No, thank you
for having me. Gentlemen. Hey, Troy, you're only look out for
that that emailed us into uh run. Not only not only am I gonna
send it to commission, I'm gonnasend it to Pinner as well. There
you go. I'm going to leavein the building right now filming fans right

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now pushing for the draft to comehere. I'm gonna do that right befter
we do right on the street,and we can do it in Kansas City.
We can do it at tenn inNashville. Man Denver would blow the
sting out the water. Heard itis. We're ready for here, Troy
Vincent, Executive vice president of FootballOperations for the NFL. We certainly appreciate
your time, sir, Thank you, thank you. Here. You know

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you guys got your own Lombardi trophiesthere. Yes, you have a city
like Denver that is used to puttingon major, major events. Man Denver
would blow the sting out the order. Welcome back to it, Broncos Country
tonight. Benjamin ol Brighten, NickFerguson, Grant Smith here with you listening
to the words of Troy Vincent,because I think it's all important to know

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that the NFL has done a greatjob, a much better job than any
of the other professional leagues as tomaking the calendar for everything larger than life,
like later on this month, theschedule is coming out and it's a
huge state. But the big thingwas just recently the draft where the city

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of Detroit broke historic numbers as faras intendance. So I wanted to kind
of put, you know, trueon the spot and ask him that question,
why is it that the city ofDenver hasn't hosted a draft when everyone
else I mean, God forbid,I mean it's in Green Bay. I'm
worried about, Like, how arethey logistically going to handle that? I

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don't know, and I don't knowif you've ever been to Green Bay.
Yes, there's nothing nothing to do. Yes, it's blowing as health and
yes. So with that being said, we got it on the record,
respect all yes to respect, Yeson the record with Troy Vnson talking about
the fact of if the draft cango to Kansas City, it could definitely

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damn welcome to the city of Denver. So I'm challenging every person that's out
there. If you in the Departmentof Visitation to Denver, I challenge you,
the mayor of the governor, everyone, I challenge you. Let's get
together and let's make this happen.Yeah right, I'm totally here for it.
I am one hundred percent here forit. I've been to the Draft

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before. I've been to it inNew York. I've been to it in
Nashville. I've been to the Drafta few times. We need to bring
that experience here. It's more valuableto a city than a super Bowl in
terms of economic impact. The mayorof Denver was in Detroit for the Draft.
I think that was just an excusego to the Draft. I think
that's a thing that's a sign ofthings to come. I mean, honest,
Roster Mandy, if they get theMike Johnson's numb right, we'll see

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if we get them on the show, I'll go down there talk to him,
tell them. Look, I gotthe pipeline straight to Troy, So
let's make it happen. Yeah.This Nick's in the habit of of getting
people to meet people. He bringspeople together. That's what he does.
And here's the thing he's like.He's like the real life version of those
hands on the insurance people together Now, unlike Benjamin Albright, who when he's

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around people, he doesn't ask forphone numbers. I have no pushback.
I'm I walked up to Troy,introduced myself. Yo, let's make some
things happen. Give me the digitsthis, let's do it. See this
is how these things happen. ThenI just yeah, I don't know.
All you have to do, man, is just just listen to me.
Just just follow me. Can Ican we exchange phone number? Say that

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with me? Yeah? I can't. I'm trying. I can't. Can
we look another man in the eyes? Like, yo, exchange phone?
If I had the same level ofreserve that you have, I would have
never made contact with Troy Vincent Fair. Fair. I'm not saying I should

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be better about it. See whatyou're kind of eliminating from identified the problem.
I just have nothing. If yourecognize the flaw, you just don't
know if you do fix I'm asive. I completely self aware. I recognize
the problem. I'm just not doinganything to fix it. Maybe we'll figure
that out. During the break,the bruck is cut, you away