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Welcome to it, Broncos Country tonightbut with all Bride, Dick Ferguson,
Grant Smith and wait for it,Steve out More, Hey, what to
do? He back baby the triumphantreturn. Man, It is good to
have you back. Good to seeyou. You know you've been off for
a little bit, man, youknow, oh man, I've been on
a journey. A lot has happenedsince you last sat in that seat.
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Yeah yeah, I mean I'm goingto visit my daughter and supposed to be
in Connecticut before the age. Whyout there? Wind up being out there
for a month. That's where youwere? Yeah, oh yeah, I
just really loves Connecticut. They excreamedSteve Atwater. It's the state of Candy.
I was like, wait a minute, Steve is not answering my text
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messages. I mean, got okay. So if anybody's traveling and your back
is inch it just a little bit, I have to get it checked out
before you go. Well, it'sfunny that you say that, because these
guys will attest to like throughout theshow, they see me, get up,
sit down, Get up, sitdown, because I started having this
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mission. Yeah, there's a there'sa we're entirely too young. The amount
of stretching this show. That's allI'm saying. Like where just thinking,
like I'm out here leading get theyou know, how do you? Man?
Okay and Grant one time it waslike a forty gret said, well
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what what are you doing? Stretchit? And I couldn't even touch my
toes. I couldn't even do it. Yeah, did you get to your
tongue? I couldn't because you werehurt. Now you can't. You can't
normally normally I could. Yeah,now uh huh yeah he was trying to
dance that ludicrous song he got tothat party. You could not get that.
Yeah. No, I'm forty,I'm forty three, and it's uh
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yeah, it's it's taking its toll. I got, I got knee problems
back promis. Yeah, that's theystarted for me. He didn't played the
game and played a different game.Well, yeah, yes, that's right.
Your game is a little bit game. I played Army, Yes,
I got. I got drafted inthe US Army first round. That was
the first round. Recently he playedin the game. No, no,
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no, no, the flag football. That's you know, that is what
it is. Man, It's goodto see your face though. I I'm
excited to see you back here.What do you think about the uh,
the Denver Broncos this off see,what do you think about the draft?
Going to get bone Nicks there atyou know at twelve you got, uh,
you got Luther Ellis's kid there two. Uh, they added a ball
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hawk corner out of Missouri who's wearingJustin Simmonds' number. I won't forget now,
Troy Franklin. Oh man is nice, Yes, it is nice.
Yeah. Yeah. What was thename, Jonah Jonah Ellis, Jonah Ellis.
Yeah, yeah, they got thewhole family, that whole families in
the lufl Yes, yeah, theygot some some nice jeans. Pretty sure.
His mom plays safety for the Giants, So it's uh, but they
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it's it's no. I'm just sayinglike that, the whole family. They're
like the McCaffrey's of defense. Yeahyeah, but you know what I mean,
having two defensive guys here on theshow. We know this that we
don't really get as much love aswe anticipate or that we should, because
it's all about the offense. Comeon, man, that's it's always been
like that. Offensive players get alongwith everything. Get away with everything.
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Why is my defensive players received Isthat based on the fact that the quarterback
being perceived as being the smartest personon the field, that that so much
power has flown to offensive players.I definitely think that. I definitely think
that. Well, and if youroffensive quarterback isn't the smartest person, so
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uh, that's the way it's beengenerally. Just you know, offensive players
they get the benefit of the doubtthey do. And you saw the list
I set out today the NFL pa yeah Man Rookie Symposium. They invited
two defensive players. You got fortyplayers in, nobody on the line,
nobody in the offensive line, andtwo total defensive players Dallas Turner and let
Lato. Only defensive players invited.See that tells you, like when they
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care about defense. So and Nick, you're all in. See. The
league continues to throw it in ourfaces how much they value offense so much
so even the kickoff rule was changed, and every year the competition committee gets
together and they change rose to benefitdefense, I mean offense. Ecuse me,
because the league has said over thepast couple of years scoring has gone
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down, they want more yeah ways, But I think as a fan I
mean, I know what I'm watchingthe game. If it's no scoring,
I'm like, come on, man, somebody get man. I love those
default games. I'm guess sewing meup for me. When what was it
with l s U and and Alabama? Was that free tier? Was that
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Auburn LSU? Whatever? It wasa free two final? Oh man?
Yeah? Yeah, I mean thoseyou have some explosive players. Good defense.
I don't want to see bad offense. There's a difference, right,
I want to see good defense.I don't want to see Iowa's offense every
every play. A couple of yearsago in college football, I think it
was Alabama and LSU. I thinkthey went to three and three two or
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not that one. There was likeseveral overtime times they went. I think
it was like a record four orfive or six or whatever after seven over
times of resa. To me,I enjoyed that because you had just the
right amount of office to get youto that point. But when you started
getting to that back half where youhad to score a touchdown and prefer to
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two point conversion, I was like, yes, yeah, that's awesome.
My favorite was it was it wastwenty eleven, by the way, when
number one LSU beat number two Alabamanine to six in overtime, in overtime,
nine to six. Field goals,all field goals, all field goals.
See Steve, I love that becauseI love to see good tackling,
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because that's the one thing that's themost difficult thing to do is to tackle
in space. So when you getguys running to the ball, creating turnovers
and forcing it to be somewhat ofa field goal game, I like that.
I don't want to see both teamsscore on like a forty five points.
I don't want to see that.That means there's been a lot of
exposed to plays bad tackling, right, I mean I didn't obviously when I
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played, I didn't like it,but as a as a as a fan,
yeah, man, I want tosee. I want to see some
points put up. I want tosee. I mean, I love it
when receivers make good plays and justsay the defensive player was there, but
ay, the offensive player either wentup most them or you know, somehow
I was able to make that catch. But obviously respect great defensive play.
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Being a defensive player, I guessI'm defensively biased. Well, it wasn't
like that game featured bad quarterback play, yet AJ McCarron against Jordan Jefferson.
Odell Beckham was one of the receiversfor U. You had Trent Richardson Eddie
Lacy at running back for Alabama.I mean it wasn't like that they didn't
have plenty offensive firepower. But anine to six college football game that never
happened, unheard of. But onceagain, it is fun to watch even
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though there are not a lot ofexplosive plays, because every play matters.
Yes play, Yeah, it wasn'tlike this is not like when was it?
Was it Baylor in Washington? Ithink it was complete. They just
couldn't nobody could stop anybody. Itended up being like a seventy to sixty
something game or something like that.I have to go back and look.
I think it was Baylor Washington.That's like it was big twelve. Well
are yeah? But or River KansasCity and the Rams squared off like basketball
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grid like that was the Monday Nightgave. Yeah it was, and everyone
was saying, well, this isexactly what the NFL is going to turn
into basketball on grass. But loand behol No, it didn't. I
mean defense catch up to offense offensein the Super Bowl. I mean after
the first quarter it was zero zeroyeah for nine is in the chiefs?
Who thought that? But the SuperBowl? I just I'll let chill in
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on a little wagering tip right now. Super Bowl first half unders always cash,
always well, I mean that wouldI mean the first half under,
the second half over. It wouldto help if you would have told us
that before. I tell everybody that'severy year. Tell me every year.
He said he put it on socialmedia? Did he tell you? I
didn't get this advice? Apparently it'sonly for his Twitter followers. He don't
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even have to get You got tosubscribe to his you got a subscripture service
for free. I'd give it backto you. But people, you didn't
give me anything, like you tellGret and I after the fact. We
talk about a sixteen game parlay.You tell us after the fact how much
you made, but you don't tellus before. I don't get that in
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front. You're partly going right nowyou want to I mean, do you
guys want me to tell you wantedto beforehand? Tell him might miss ause,
but you might as m jinxit herselfthat I'm just saying, Well,
I did try to give you someadvice on the playoffs the other night,
and you did not hit. Ithink I'll leave it up to replace the
bet you're talking about, the onesthat you picked. Yeah, grant a
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parlay the Sixers next series took somecash. Christ Yeah, I gotta.
I got to play a party.Go tonight. We'll see what. We'll
see what happens to make a coupleother bucks, you know, pay for
some some dinners. But but youdidn't. You didn't let me, didn't
know you want you don't gamble nowyou want to give you hooked on gambling?
No gamble. No, it's justlike that, just just being provided
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the information, just put in thegroup chat from that one ahead of time.
You guys could know what my ticketsare. That's all the masking,
all right. So you gotta followhim? Huh? Are you gonna follow
him? I mean like on socialmedia? No? No, I'm talking
about like if he places a bet, are you gonna look at him like,
oh, I'm going to place thisbed right quick too. I'm not
saying I'm doing that, but it'sjust it's great to know if I need
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to have been provided in information,did you get that you're gonna have them
text you. Yes, you couldsay, man, you know you messed
up on that one. I'm noteven know what gonna put you to the
group cat and then put the thingsapart. Oh yeah, Nick's gonna take
up on Twitter the winners basical fireslosers up on Twitter right away. Well,
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it looks like the type of guythat would do that. That smile
that you comes back and then allof a sudden, all the trust that
we have is going out of thewindow. Trust, the verifying yourself.
It's just like you trust me tobe myself. I'm just saying they're not
gonna you that. I mean,I mean, look, did you watch
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the roast of Tom Brady. Isaw some of it. Could you ever
get up there and get roasted?Put you? But I mean, dude,
don't have people about them. Seethat's what they would you like to
be. He wants someone love tobe the focal point of attention so he
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can go fine stuff. That's whathe wants to do. I love I
love that catch stuff, and Ilove it when people roast me too.
So it's not like a one wayIt's not like a one way thing about
the media ros what as I'm saying, So we're putting together this media ros
and this is actually like starting toget some traction here when people around town
being willing to do it media ROAs. Yeah, a bunch of media members,
you know, getting up on thestage and get roasted, and we'll
you know, sell tickets to dinnerfor charity, you know, all that
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kind of stuff, and they getyou know, kept there. I feel
like, I feel like there's plentyof people who are willing to take a
crack at me and waiting to takea crack at me. I think there's
more than Yeah, yeah, there'sa pluthor rooms we do. This suggestion
was first and as on Twitter themlike free names in mind was like over
and over again, everyone's right,got all bright. Yeah. Yes,
it's like the the people get inline for the dunk tank. You know,
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there's all the people you blocked,the forty thousand people block forty eight
thousand people on Twitter for thousands.You should used to do that for charity,
to allow those people who troll you, who you had to blot,
to give them like sixty seconds tocome up and say certain things all for
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charity. Charity, And maybe that'swhat we do because I'm gonna unblock everybody.
Like the end of this year,I'm gona do an amiste and unblock
everybody. Give them another chance,so you don't open the floodgate. I'm
opening the floodgates the other the year. Now here's the reasoning, the real
reacing bodcat. Twitter is paying menow for per impression. Right, so
I'm blocking the most engaged segment ofmy audience even being able to give me
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the impressions right now. Haters arejust a more engaged segment of your audience.
Oh yeah. So basically being sayhey, hey, the doors of
the church are now open, pleasecome in. I never see it.
He's training mental health for impressions,which and then I take her and then
I take the money at the endof every month and donate to like a
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charity that that is the opposite ofwhatever he supports. Well, there is
a charity, uh granted, AndI have going money for people. It's
mustache and need some groomy. Igotta get your barber because I gotta aircut.
So to remind me all the barbership, Oh man, I'm I'm not
going back to that barber ever.That haircut to people know, we're gonna
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say hi to be your high terrible. When you were talking about putting that
roast idea out there, that wasone of the first mature Ye there,
man, a haircut, ID besuper careful, like not to get any
dirt on my upper lip, justlike a great in that center to make
sure that like the hairs were shaved. That haircut that was that was interesting.
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We have this guy who is toshow his names when need you as
she listens to the show, andhe as he said, He's like,
man, that haircut made you looklike you do worse things to uh,
the worse things than block me,you know whatever. And I was like,
oh, and this is supposed tobe the roast of me, not
the roast of you right there.Okay, that's what I'm saying. I'm
just prepared. I'm prepared for theseroasts. Wherever they go, I'll go
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ten percent further. It's a rulefor several man. It is good to
see your smile and face again.Yeah, we talked a little bit.
We got Rookie Mini camp coming up. Was it the same when you guys,
when you guys came in the otherrookie minie camp, they just kind
of let you drink through a fireholes, put the playbook in front of
you and give you everything, becausethat's in talking to Sean Payton, his
philosophy is I try to give himeverything to see how much they can retain.
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Was it the same way when youguys came in the league. No,
I think it was more palatable,especially for defensive players. Our playbooks
aren't nearly the size of the offensiveplayers playbook. They have to go through
so many different adjustments and you know, you got they got to know what
the defense is doing. We ourdefensive playbook was probably half the size of
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offensive playbook. Would you say yourname? Yeah, they were, and
they just kind of intensify once youcame back because the idea was they wanted
to give you someone of a skeletonof a defense. But the thing that
made it difficult, you know,for me when I came in, was
that the amount of checks. Likein college football, playing in a certain
conference, you may not see somany shifts and the news, but when
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you get to the probs is bigshift and reload, reload that. And
I played in systems where they werelike different checks for every move, so
they were like three different different defensivecalls depending on what's got moved, whether
it's the tight end or the receivers. Joe Collier passed away. Were you
was? Was he his last yearwas right before you got there? Uh?
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It was one year old lapper.Now, you know what, I'm
not sure if he was the previousdefense cornator before waye. Phillips he was,
he was because he was fired afterthe eighty eight season. Okay,
yeah, yep. I came ineighty nine, so okay, all right.
I just I didn't know if itwas a year overlap there and I
could remember if you were eighty sevenradio tracks, yeah, yeah. And
man, the guys, they lovedJoe Collier. All the players loved Joe
Collie. He Bill Belichick even gavea quote because he was for one season
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he was an assistant. Yeah,under Joe Collier. That's what sort of
got him, got him started.Yeah, I heard a lot of that.
So, yeah, Joe Collier,he rest in peace, passed away.
But you were you're wait, Waitewas the DC when you came in.
Yeah, that was Way's first year. Charlie Waters was my defensive backs
coach, and man, we hitit off right from the start. You
know, and Charlie. Me andCharlie got along great and everything he said.
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I was like a sponge. Iwas like, I want to whatever
you got. I'm listening, I'mwriting, I'm taking notes. But that's
the way that players should be whenthey come into the league. And I've
been around players now, they don'tlook at it that way. They some
come in depending on how I guess, how how did they are coming into
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the league and where they're drafted.Some want to listen and some don't.
Well, I think also it Imean, who's giving the message, right?
I mean, if it hadn't beenCharlie Waters, it could have been
Charlie Johnson or Charlie Jackson. Idon't know. I mean, I don't
know if that I would have gottenthat same response. Because if a coach
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doesn't know the basics, and mostof coachs know the basics, obviously,
but if the coach isn't really goingto coach you and develop you into a
better player, what is the coachreally there for? You know, besides
you just spit out the defensive callsand you know, try to go over
the plays with you. I wanta coach who's done it and Uh,
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you know a lot of coaches,great coaches, Mike Shanaans, one of
them didn't play in the NFL,but brilliant football mind turning them out there.
But not all of them are likethat. How is it? What?
Okay, let me rephrace that.When you see when you come in
as a rookie in the situation likethat, and obviously there are veterans in
the room, and typically the coachand position coach, he gravitates more towards
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the veteran guys opposed to the rookieguys in terms of what in terms of
you know, potentially starting or startingresponsibility. Uh, as far as looking
at them, looking to them tobe the leaders. And you may come
in and you may feel as though, hey, look, I look across
the room and I say, well, my talent is equal to anyone in
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the room. The only thing isis that I don't have the same level
of experience. But if you seea coach graduating towards those veteran guys and
kind of pushing the young guys tothe corner, I mean, have you
ever experienced anything like that? No, not really, But I also,
again, I had some really goodcoaches, my coach in college. He
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was. He was a really goodcoach. Didn't play college, didn't play
college football, didn't play the NFL, but he taught me a lot.
And then coming here again, Iknew who Charlie Waters was before I got
here, you know, I sawhim play. So I'm like, man,
I got, I got, Igot the world right here. You
know, one of the great greatplayers to play this game, and he's
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here teaching me. So I didn'tquestion anything. I just I just whatever
he said, Okay, gotcha,okay, coach, yep, all right,
and nine times out of ten itwill put me in the right position
to make a play, you know. And but some people weren't like that.
Some people, you know, theyquestioned everything. I don't think it's
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anything wrong with questions to be cured. No, no, no, I
agree. But if a person hasbeen there and done it and they have
a way of communicating, that resonateswith you. Why wouldn't you Why wouldn't
you try it? You know?And that's a big thing with Dan Campbell.
That's why he hires so many formerplayers, because there's an instanc credibility
with somebody wh's been there and doneit, and then hope that they can
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communicate in the way that's effective forthe players. Oh man, Hey,
I've been in situation where I've seenin the rooms where hey, the coach
he doesn't he don't have the playersin the room because he's not coaching them.
He's not making them better. Youknow, he just wants to explain
what they have to do in thesecertain defenses. But he's not growing them
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as a player. He's not makingthem think and you know, giving them
different things to do off the fieldimprove themselves. Well, we'll we'll get
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on Saturday Night. Did you saythey're gonna throw out the ball so the
first pitch will be it? Okay, okay, not like when Ryan too
at the first pitch. What Ryanis driving home right now, white knuckled.
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We're going to talk about it.He threw like that first foot threw
the respectively. It wasn't like thefootball video that we have door Steve's face
after after Ryan throws the football,ste just stands out with the ball just
staring at I was like, whatwhat was that? Nobody starts to throw
a football a man, I havenot required two hands. It's like a
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chest pass in basketball. Where whereis that video that's out there? We
can find it. It's that videothere. Yeah, I will have to
Yeah, Ryan, he's not gonnalike that. I wasn't even the one
of the film. I wasn't evenThis is before I was even involved.
This is back in the whole showwith you and Mason oh Man, that
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was ugly past. I've never seenthat gift on the internet. I was
like, no, can't. Iwas like, I never catch me slipping
like that. Oh Man, justsaying by six six times text? And
what was your favorite? What?What? What is your favorite thing the
Broncos have done this off season?Is it a draft pick? The trade
for John Franklin Myers, which Ithink is underwady to move the off seasons.
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He's an animal, he is,he is. I think they've made
several good movies. I like topick a bow Knicks. I like them
bringing in Zach Wilson. I thinkthat's gonna be some great competition at that
quarterback position. And you know,looking at bow Knicks tape, looking seeing
that he doesn't take that many sacksand he gets that ball out of there
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quickly. Did not have a fumblehis entire career at organ Scrape. Yeah,
yeah, the quarterback to not fumblethe ball one time two years.
He could throw the deep ball,he could throw it, intermediate ball,
he can throw the short ball.He can he can, he can do
it all, and he can run. After last season with Russell and taking
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however you want to, whether youwant to lay the blame on all on
Russell. The offensive line. Ithink when Coach Payton looked at bow Knicks
and what you guys are describing itis just the same thing that I saw.
Now. I'm not saying it's goingto eventually look like that at the
end, but I saw a littleof Drew Brees and the ability to get
the ball out of your hands quicklyis something that Sean Payton wanted to established
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last year and for whatever reason feltthat is though he couldn't do that.
But here's what it also does fora quarterback, being able to get the
ball out of his hands, youmake that offensive line look a lot better.
No Man asked Peyton Manning's about that. I mean, Peyton Manning had
some terrible offensive tackles for a while. Tony, you go, what was
the other the I can't guys namehe had. They were terrible, they
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were awful, and he got buthe got the ball out so fast it
made it. Tom Brady did itwith a lot of his offensive lineman,
like like Nate Soldier who went toCEU. I mean, he was known
for being a great rum blocker becausehe can grab, He can grab guys
and steer them off the ball.But when it came to those third and
long, when you know it wasa passing down, those were areas he
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suffered. So being able to getthe ball out of your hands quickly at
he helped Soldier out a lot andhappening a guy like bow Knicks would definitely
help this Broncos offense day and rhythm, but also helped the offense line.
Think it will too. But mclinchydidn't look good last year. Garrett Bowles
had had the most holes of anyoffensive tackle that most fla excuse me,
of any offensive tackle that did notmake the playoffs last year. You know,
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with eight penalties last year, that'sthat's one every other game. That's
that's not getting you get the ballout quick. You're not gonna you're not
gonna have time. We'll get theball out quickly. And sometimes you gotta
step up in the pocket. Youcan't run out of the back side because
when you get when you were outthe back doored offense line and can't help
you. Right, wait, man, where are you going? Yeah,
now we do I can't do anything. But that's one of those things when
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you are playing. I guess it'sthe gift and the curse of having an
athletic quarterback, right, because theathletic quarterback he's going to bail you out
of the situation because of his mobility. And then sometimes he may put you
in bad situations because on the firsttwo seconds you may have your guy blocked
and because he's getting pressured somewhere else, he's now flushed right, And then
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now you're blocking, which is great, it's it's perfect. Now is the
holding because the defender can see him. Now you move and now you get
the jersey pool, right, andthat's yeah, you get stuff like that.
That was the thing about RU.I mean, like go Rock,
I like for us, I likeRussell Wilson. I know he gets you
know, he gets a lot ofhate and whatever else. Yeah. Yeah,
And I think he's a really goodfootball player. I think I think
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that's the thing. I think he'svery very good at a very narrow set
of parameters and he's really good atthose, at the things inside those,
And so if you run that,you can be successful. We have a
head coach who runs something wildly differentand it did work. So we all
turn the page and we're moving on. Now. We got bone Nicks I'm
tired of Russell Wilson hated right here. Good question though, Yeah, is
it certified, verified? And isit a sacrifice sure thing that? Well,
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Nick's going to be the guy orwhat do you think about Zach Wilson.
Does he have a chance. Ithink I'll have a chance. I
think that if if, it wouldbe disappointing if you draft someone at twelve
and they didn't take the job overJarrett Stidham and Zach Wilson. That said,
I mean, I'd love to seeZach wils We all love to see
a record. Well, let's seea fallen hero get back up, right.
We all love to see a comebackstory, right, We'll love to
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see a comeback story. Right,Well, there's two things we love.
We'll see a hero fall we love. Those are the two favorite storylines that
you know in movie and the numbertwo pick in the draft but three years
ago, yeah, and and thereason And here's something that I've said about
Zach Wilson, because the plan todevelop him, you had a whole bunch
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of people on that staff that hadnever ever been a coordinator, never developed
the quarterat you have one guy onthe staff that had done that and then
he got killed in that tragic accident. That was Greg Napp, Greg knappho
was supposed to develop Zach Wilson andthen he passed away to that bicycle accident.
Yeah, so you know, yeah, you had you had a quarterback,
the probably shouldn't have been out thereyear one with nobody who had developed
a quarterback, nobody who coordinated anoffense, nothing, and so maybe getting
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an experienced hand like Sean Payton whohas done it before, and those seeing
those kinds of things, maybe thathelse Man maybe it turned them brown.
Yeah, And I just think thecompetition is going to be great. Those
guys I think are going to becomegreat friends throughout this you know, the
off season and training camp and uh, I think we can have two three
of the day. Even even jarSidam, he would be in the mix.
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You know the spark Yeah, theall spark Okay, transformers competition,
transformers game. One of those quarterbackscan transform this organization back to what it
once was. We went on about, not the sept Coty exactly exactly.
Yeah, but I like the competition. I like I like the guys that
we got in that room. Yeah, I mean it's a serviceable roomind I
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don't think anybody's inspired by those names, but there's potential there, you know
what I mean, Like nobody's goingin there saying, hey, the Broncos
are super favorites because they got ZachWilson. No, no, no,
I mean if you look at thatroom and you're not saying you're not,
you're not. You know, it'sjust Sam Darnold. You know, it's
not it's not somebody you know it'sit's not. It's not Sean Mannion and
Mike Glennon and you know, andstuff like that, Like you you can
win games with these guys. Andso I think that if Zach Wilson or
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bow Knicks gets it pretty quick,I think the Broncos are surprise football team
this year. Even if bo Nicksis not the Day one starter, I
don't think it's a detriment to hisinabilities as a quarterback because most quarterbacks,
most players coming into the league arenot designated starters right away. Now,
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some teams may try to force themto be starters when they're not ready based
on their draft status. But I'ma firm believer in giving a guy time
to kind of melt into that thatposition. Especially playing quarterback. Yeah,
and Zach Wilson, he's been inthe league for a few years, so
he's got an idea of how everythinggoes. But guess what, he's got
to learn the whole now office aswell. So it's just like they're on
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the same page. So advantage goesto Stidham in this case because you're in
the offense. So he said tobe the one to have the most concerns
because you know the offense. Ifthey beat you out, what does that
say about you or them being wonderbe one of the two exactly five six
sixth nights, there was the textline loving all you guys is texts for
Steve. Will read those when wecome back. Right now, we got
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to check in with traffic with DaveO'Brien. Welcome back to it, Broncos
Country Tonight, Benjamin Olbriden, NickFerguson, Grant Smith here with you.
Yeah, Comrade I called it,well, that's the thing I called him.
I called him un American because hedidn't like top Gun, and it
just kind of stuck, and sothey became like people started calling him comrade
Edwards like it just stuck. Ohmy goodness, somebody get like a T
shirt made like it. Haven't rushing, I got, I put on my
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phone A comrade changes changes contacting rightnow, Yeah, five six sixth nights.
There was the text line, uha lot of uh, a lot
of texts coming in here for you, Steve. They'll loving you, man,
welcome back. We've missed you.Oh man to boy, yep,
I was hurting. A roast ofSteve would immediately turn into a compliment session
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of Steve. He is the smilingassassin. Somebody says, there's no way
I can give the haters sixty seconds. The roast would still take months.
There's too many of them. Uh, Glad Hall of Fame is back.
Uh hate the Broncos, but respectMister Atwater from a Chiefs Fanese fan who
listen to the show, and hesaid he hates the Broncos, but he's
respect for Steve because he's a Chiefsfan. All right, all right,
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come on, man, I'm justsaying Broncos Country tonight is a geographic footprint.
It's not. It's not necessarily thecontent. We we love all fan
bases here, you know, ishe doing some intelt for the Raiders?
Sleep the Raiders said to us boxis over five ten. Yeah, he's
six to and change, six toand change. This is I guess that's
a Drew Brees reference. All thebreeze was like right at six feet and
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listen, I told you there wassomething that I noticed right away about bow
Nigs and Drew Brees when they startto throw, like those corner routes and
those deep passes. How both ofthose guys have a tendency to kind of
stand up on their toes as theystart to elongate their and use the body
to throw. Say, see,I used to do that, but that's
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because I'm so sure. Oh mygoodness, we got a step stool.
A step stool, I can usethat be Uh. Can you guys hunch
down on the offensive line? No? Oh, no, five six,
six nine zarols and sex line.I'm uh. We got Rooie Minnie campus
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weekend. You gonna be out thereat all or uh? I'm still debating.
I gotta I gotta see what what'suh? We got something else going
on and going well, So yeah, I gotta think I gotta do Saturday.
So I'm gonna miss like the firstportion of it, but I'll be
out there for for the locker roomsession after that jigamo all that already.
Of course, I definitely will bethere because I want that first hand look.
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I know, man, I wantto see there's a thing the whole,
but I don't want to what interesting. But I will say this,
don't get don't get fooled because it'sjust the rookies. Saders looked like a
Manama boys in that rook in thatcamp last year. Wow. Yeah,
he's gonna be nice, though,I'm telling you he'll be nice. I'm
holding out hope for that. ButI want to see how guys kind of
really handled that first workload, likewe were talking about early on, being
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overwhelmed by the information, and sometimescoaches stand there in the watch to see
how guys communicate, because that's thebiggest thing. Even if Ben doesn't know,
will Ben stand there kind of sacrificethe defense without asking anyone else for
help? And for me, Idon't think there's anything wrong with saying I
don't know. The worst part isjust standing there and getting beat. That's
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the worst part. But we usedto get tests, so the coach is
gonna know if you know it,not say questions, essays, but responsibility
get up here to the board,heresbity, but we're a trial dog,
sky Fire, what's your man?We had to do it, and I
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think that that kept everybody on theirtoes because unfortunately, even when guys making
millions of dollars, sometimes you getpeople who go they won't even look at
the playbook. Bro. Apparently therewas a person who was like that quarterback
who would you know texting yes comebro, no think about it? And
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John hours on his game the nightbefore? Was it not the Tampa game?
Was the one after the Tampa game, the one where he was we
all we all knew his gamer tag, right, and so like you could
see online three o'clock in the morningthat he's online play a Fortnite the night
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before the game to sordy in themorning, the night before the game,
maybe lefing on, maybe lefing on. It tells you if you're active in
the game. Kylin Murray tried that. That's why they put that in his
concerce. Was he just turned itoff while he's playing Madden Yeah? No
duty. People think that they canremember everything that they went through in practice
a kind of review this man.Ben and I talked about this, like
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Ben has a one of those photographyhave a really, really good memory.
I didn't used to. I haveto now, like my memory is starting
to get not get to the pointwhere I don't remember. I used to
remember every time. I'm saying,so if you have you played in the
league, you will read your playbookone time and you got it. I
might read it twice just to makesure, but I'm but yeah, one
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time through it, I'm I prettymuch got it. Be on the field,
we need we read the play inhigh school when we need the plays
or whatever. You got the scriptfor Greece or whatever they Goah, I
just ran through the script one timeand on you my lines and you got
in a photographic. These days it'snot as photographic as it used to be.
But it used to I used to. Right now is polar roar.
Now. We appreciate you coming inBrother Roccos country, and I'd be back after this