06-13-24 Hour 3 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Broncos to help. Let's go onthe official home of the Broncos. All
right, all night KOA hold myf Broncos Country Tonight beens with ol Brian

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Nick ferguson shit and Scott back therebehind the glass. I got the CSU
hat at you. Brian Edwards wouldbe proud five six six nine zeros text
line. You guys want to getinvolved in the conversation. If you texts,
come in Bryan m'snow there will bea parade and Boulder see you win
six games this year. Apparently he'sgot a very low bar set six games?
Is that the bar is? Sixgames? The bar? I think

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a Bowl game is the bar?Well, you need seven, That's what
I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. I think, right, so let's
move it up just a little.That's what the bar is. I mean.
I I look at that schedule.That's not a very nice schedule for
see you. You know you gotto travel some games you probably don't want
to travel to. You've got someopponents that I think it's gonna be better
thanwhere last year, like Nebraska.I do like them to win the opener

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though against North Dakota State, Ithink a lot of people I think are
underestimating how they'll show up for thatgame. Well, things are always better
for any team run a player inthat second year. And granted, I
mean did see you do it tothemselves by all the videos and kind of
elevating the hype. Absolutely, Butat the same time, when Coach Prime

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came to Bold that he talked aboutbringing his Louis luggage. Now, he
may have had his Samsonite when hefirst came you know, you know this
past season, but based on whathe was able to do through I guess
to transfer portal, he made theoffensive line somewhat better. So we get
a chance to see if it's stillSamsonit or is in Louis or not.

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I think everybody gets a grace yearjust about I mean, unless you are
incompetent or a threat to your ownteam. I e. Urban Meyer with
the Jacksonville Jaguars normally at this pointpony by genuine but because I mentioned the
word urban Meyer, yes, yes, Shennon's it's imfying that with a responsor,
but it's it's I mean, youknow, unless you are borderline and

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competent, which we saw coach removedhere after not getting a full season as
well in Nathaniel Hackett. Uh.You that first year is more or less
a grace year as you get yourfeet wet, and then you've got to
start showing up in your two.So with that being said, does does
this mean that you have a littlemore confidence and faith in Pat Shermer?

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Not even a little. I thinkthat. And I liked what Sean Lewis
was doing up there. I Iyou know, there's behind the scenes with
all that, and I don't wantto get into all that, but I
think he was done wrong. Uh, And we will see what Pat Shermer
is able to do. I'm willingto give somebody the chance. That doesn't

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mean I'm holding my breath, youknow what I mean. See, I'm
hopeful that things will look a lotdifferent with Pat Shermer having somewhat of a
I guess, an off season wherehe has full control and full autonomy of
what's going to happen with Shrada Sandersin this offense, like coach Lewis was

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leading it, with Pat Shermer beingsomewhat of an advisor because he couldn't do
so much on the field, Butnow his fingerprints are going to be all
over the CU offense. When wasthe last time Pat Shermer's fingerprints were on
an offense and it was good?Somebody tell me last time he was in
any way involved in collegiate coaching wasback in nineteen ninety eight at Stanford when

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he was an old line guy.Yeah, but you just said that,
you're kind of open to the possibilitythat change could be right around the corner.
Things things can happen, it caninvolve I'm open to the possibility.
I'm not expecting it. I'm opento the idea that it can't happen.
Optimism been it's very very low.Is it because it's Pat Shermer? And
if it was another offensive coordinator,would it be different? Probably? So

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you got bending, Well, butI've seen that offense up close and personal.
Now, I've heard from players thatplayed in it what its shortcomings are.
So unless he's radically changed since then, which is a possibility, we've
seen it. So I'm willing toadmit that that could exist as a possibility
in the universe. I'm not expectingthat, but I'm willing to admit it
can't happen. I'm going to saythat it needs to happen if one the

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CU offense is to make a hugejump. Normay, it has to happen
in order for see you, foryou to be successful. We're bor and
born. Importantly, it is forthe development of Shador Sanders, because his
dad has already gone on record thingssaying, okay, both Travis Hunter and
Shador they're going to be top picks. In order for that to come to
fruition, there has to be somechanges in bolded with the offense and how

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they operate to help not just PatShermer, but Shador hit the numbers and
win games. Because just putting upstats that's great, but you also have
to prove the NFL evaluators that youcan in against some of the better teams
well, right, And there's goingto have to be There's going to have
to be more to that offense thanChador has to hold onto the ball and

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make a play to Travis Hunter.There's going to have to be a coherent,
cojint offense there. And it wasn'tjust Sean Lewis, because they didn't
they committed to the run even lessafter Sean Lewis was gone. And I
don't know if that's the quarterback changein the play at the line. I
don't know what that is, butthey are going to have to run the
football in order to protect the quarterbackat some point. But this is why

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things could look a lot different andBoulder with all the changing and reshifting of
that offensive line. Because I knowsome offensive coordinators. They come from a
school of thought where they want tothrow the ball forty times a game.
And for me, being as thoughI'm a defensive guy, I love that

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because that means that you tell yourguys up front, you know what,
we know what to expect from theoffense, that we're going to play Pinya
inarsback. They happened to run theball and the gashers for six yards,
you know what, We're gonna allowus, allow our safeties to come up
and make plays. But there hasto be some kind of balance in this
offense. Because I was in Boulderwhen I watched Shardor just laboring on the
field and having somewhat of a backissue. Yeah, and I would be

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too. If you're getting hit fortyfive times a game, yes, and
to know that he got whatever injectionjust to kind of go back there and
play. Look, you don't wantto put. As a father, you
don't want to put your son throughthat, and you definitely don't want to
put your quarterback through that, especiallyknowing as though you're trying to get him
to the next level. Right,I've never doubted you or is toughness,
that's that's not the problem I have. My problem is is he the one

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making these changes at the line thatwe're gonna go We're just gonna keep throwing
the ball, because whoever's doing thatis doing a disservice to that offense as
a whole. Well, okay,what if you it came to pass that
it was shador when coach Lewis wouldcall something in or Pat Sherman when he
took over. He didn't like whathe saw and he knew the guys in
front of him, you know theywe're not got to get corrected at film

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one Monday when you get up towhen you get up there with the clicker
and you're saying, okay, allright, you know we got an offensive
line. It's leaking like a sieve. And oh, by the way,
you don't like what you're seeing upthere, but you're calling this play no
one. You're going to keep keepyou got nobody but you to blame that
you're hurt. But I can understandit from this standpoint being Shador. Because
Shador did do some great things lastyear. I thought, yeah, it

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was great. Well he wasn't rattledby it, But dude, you're putting
yourself in position to get yourself hurt, which is a detriment to your team.
Ye. And I guess I've seenbad running offenses out of this offensive
coordinator before Pat Sherber at the DubiusDistinction. I think it was two thousand
and one, that game against theRaiders where they have eighteen yards on sixteen
carries Murray against the Raiders. Yes, I've seen Pat Sherber offense has failed
or failed to produce in the rungame. But I can understand, and

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I've seen players like this at quarterbackand at other positions that sometimes you have
to take matters into your own hands. You know the play that's coming in
that's not best fitted for you torun, so you want to show how
smart you are got to get yourselfout of that situation, but you still
have to make a play. Somaybe that what was in Shador's mind knowing

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is a look, I'm the bestoption we have outside of Travis to move
this offense forward. So I wouldrather have the ball in my hand than
in the hands of anyone else.But that's you thinking you know the best
thing for it, not necessarily knowingyou think that, right, Like,
isn't that the difference there? Butyeah, but once again, knowing what
we know about last year's offensive line, if you come on, Ben,

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if you were playing behind that offensiveline and the play was called in,
you're like, you know what,I trust myself and my instinct more than
a guy's blocking in front of me, and I can make a play with
the ball in my hand. Iwould say that's fair. I would say
the thing that bugged me is thatwe didn't have an audible to a toss
or a pitch at all. Therewas no there was nothing. It was
run up the gut, there wasno there was no no toss, no

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pitch, no sweep, no nothing. And it felt like, giving this
the tool kits of those running backsand the liabilities on that offensive line,
that that should have been something thatwas built in at some point, because
you've got to protect the quarterback byrunning the ball one other and he's got
to be able to audible as somethingwhere you're still running the ball, even
if you getting a look where youdon't like running between the b See,
that's great to say, yes,you need to run the ball to take
the pressure off of your offensive line, allow them to go out and set

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the tone. But guess what whatwe saw on the edges for c year
last year. Man, they couldn'tpass block and they could barely run block.
I'm with you, but you gotyou have to come up with something
so that your quarterback is not gettinghit every play. That's why if you're
the quarterback, you say the hellwith that. But if you're dialing something
ball in my hand, but thenyou're dialing something up to get yourself hit,
and you got nobody to blame yourselfat that point. You know what,

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if I'm playing quarterback, I wouldrather put the game in my hands,
even if I'm not as successful bymyself without my other ten brothers.
It's just that mindset because and thesake of Sudor, he's been doing it
for so long now he's gonna haveto do something a little different this year,
especially if past Sruman's going to rollout a different type of offense and

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try to rely on his guys downthe field, other guys not named Travis
Hunters. See, that's where therubber meets the roll for both Shador and
Pat Pat Shermer. And you losta receiver, Yes, you know,
you lost a receiver because you knowhe's moved on. He exhausted his eligibility.
So you're gonna need people to stepup, you know, as far
as that, as far as thatkind of stuff goes, you lost I

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think a running back you lost.You know, you lost a few things.
So you know, do you doyou trust Pat Shermer's system to help
Shador produce more. I would trustit more this year than I did last
year because because now just think aboutShermer's interaction what not just chardor but the
guys on the field, based onthe fact that they had to do some

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you know, gymnastics with their coachingstaff, and you know, coach Brewer
was off to only to get PatShermer on. But no one as though
he can be in the headset,he could be on the field, and
no one is though he's had anoff season to sit down with Shador.
Say, look, let's look atlast year's film trying to figure out what
we can do and make it workfor you this season. I'm here for

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that and the continuity. I'm withyou on that that part. I'm with
you on. What I'm saying is, what have you ever seen ever out
of a Pat Shermer offense that makesyou think that it's going to be better?
Tell me the exact I can't give. I can't go back to something
previously that Pat Shermer did to sayOkay, well, without a doubt,
I know he's going to do this, but it's me just kind of having

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the foresight to say, okay,well, both well, all three guys
need to have great seasons, youknow, Coach Prime Chardoor for the obvious
reasons, but also Pat Sherman tokind of change the narrative of what you're
saying right now and what we haven'tseen of him. That doesn't necessarily mean
once again, with more information,we are always allowed to change our mind,

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are we not. Yah? Absolutely, And if he shows something he's
never shown before, I'm here tobe shown that I was wrong. But
at this point, I'm like,I think you fired a good offensive coordinator
who probably didn't have a strong enoughchoke hold on who's call in the plays
is what I think. Well,in this case, I'm going to root
for Pat Sherman. I'm good becauseI'm going to reform because I want you

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to at some point to say,you know what I was wrong? So
I may not have been wrong,I mean have just been mistaken. Okay,
Yes, I seemed to try todo with that. It would look
in in fairness to a guy whoscreamed at me before, I'm gonna be
reformed to. But I think thatI'm not holding my breath. I have
seen nothing that indicates to me,over the course of his entire lengthy career,

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that this is going to be thething that that writes the ship.
On the On the offensive side,bizem all right, hates Pat Sheer Uh
No, I don't hate anybody.I despise this line, not over enjoyed.
There maybe a disdain, but Ithink that is for that disdain is
more for a perceived arrogance than itis for the person. Well, here's

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to the Boves having a great campaignand hopefully they can get they can raise
the bar and get to seven gamesand get to a Bowl game. That
that's the thing they're gonna have tocut down on. Penalties most penalized team
in college football last Yearnon's rooting foryeah, he is, he's rooting for
it. Extra chip, pardon me, extra trip, extra check. Okay,

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extra trip, extra check. I'malso here for the extra chips.
By the way, everyone has theirYeah, yeah, I'm with you.
I'm rooting for them solely for theextra check for now, and that's the
only thing I'm rooting for. Bottomline. Right there, when we come
back. We got an NFL sixpack Broncos Country tonight it's Broncos helping receivers

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on the official home of the Broncos. All Right, all right, koa
hold by Frey Broncos Country, saidBenjamin Olbright. Nick Ferguson here with you.
Shannon's Scott back there. We're gonnaget him too a bowl Get Shannon
too a bowl game. It's gonnabe a T shirt. We're running the

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campaign. Get Shannon's got to abowl game. Five six six, nine
zeros text line. We got anNFL six pack coming up here. In
just a moment, I was tryingto fool Shannon there with the He wouldn't
fall for it. He's like,I'm not gonna hammer that button until I
know it's time to hammer that button. It's time for the NFL six pad.
I'm gonna train the last year insightand insight information you can't find anywhere

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else. No. Six the topsix NFL headlines What the repeat offender Atlanta
Falcons get less punishment than the fortynine ers for the clerical salary cap error.
Uh. When pointing out that ifthe Patriots had done what the Falcons
had done, the Patriots would havesuffered for a greater punishment, some will
respond by saying the Patriots are repeatoffenders. Oh, Falcons are too.

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Both times they broken the rules inthe last decade, they've got no slap
on the wrist. Fifteen they onlylost a twenty sixteen fifth round pick for
getting caught using fake crowd noise athome games or fined three hundred fifty thousand
dollars. Rich McKay was suspended fromthe Competition committee for three months. This
time around, it's a twenty twentyfive fifth round pick and a quarter million
dollars final, along with a fiftythousand dollars fine for GM Terry Fotte for

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tampering with three different players during thefifty two hour negotiation window. The Meanwhile,
the forty nine ers had a clericalerror in their salary cap accounting,
and they suffered a greater punishment thanany of Atlanta's infractions, and it was
a seventy five thousand dollars mistake thatfor their accounting software cause. The forty
nine ers lost a twenty twenty fivefifth round pick and had their twenty twenty
four fourth round pick downgraded four spotsfor a software error that only resulted in

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a seventy five thousand dollars cap issue. Briefly, the forty nine ers violation
had no competitive impact. They remainedunder the cap even with the seventy five
thousand dollars issue, and there wasno ill intent at all. The Falcons
made travel arrangements, which of coursethat's our official statement. Conflicts with what
Kirk Cousins said on the day hesigned the contract, because he said he'd

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already talked to the medical staff there. I mean, the Atlanta punishment was
always going to be driven by thequality of the investigation. We don't know
and won't know how seriously the NFLactually explored any of the facts with that,
But it proves yet again the NFLsort of inconsistent when it comes to
application of the rules that it makesbased on decisions, not on precedent,
but on situation. For me,the thing that's not even getting mentioned here

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is the Arizona Cardinals who got firedfor de facto tampering with John Gannon because
they weren't allowed to officially have contactwith him to put him on their interview
list till half of the Super Bowland a reporter in Denver inadvertently leaked out
that they were going to be interviewinghim, and I'm so sorry for that.
Well, well, when we lookat this situation, the tamborin period

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happens all the time, and thankyou for that reason. I know they
were so mad it was my fault, it was an accident, but well,
I guess that's what Kirk Cousins wasclaiming that it wasn't nothing to see
here and there was no tampering.And it's hard to be when you are
the guy involved with the team andyou blurt it out at your press conference.

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So it's hard for people to forgetthat. But we all know this
whole idea of legal tampering, period, I mean that establishes that tampering actually
takes place, and a lot ofthese conversations when you think about it,
Ben, I mean, when yougo back to the NFL, Comebine,
they're all there, they're all talking. So look, i mean, I've
been there, I've seen it.That's how I knew that the Texans were

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going to get Broncosweiler like way beforeit happened. Come on, man,
Look, it was good for theGoose, is good for the Ganda.
So if San Francisco was going tobe fined in a draft choice taken away
because of Clerica era, there shouldbe a little more than happens to Atlanta
Falcons than what just happened. Two. While speaking of the Falcony, the
Broncos they're signing free agent linebacker AndreSmith. Jordan Schultz of FS one first

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on the story. Smith, twentyseven years old, earned contract and for
tryout at mini camp this week.He paired at eleven games for the Falcons
last season, total nineteen tackles offorced fumble and recovery so action, one
hundred and twelve defensive snaps, buttwo hundred and eleven on special teams.
Smith has played sixty two games inhis careers with the Panthers, Bills,
Titans, and Falcons Atlanta. Maybehe made seventh round pickback in twenty eighteen

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to recorded fifty two tackles to forcefumbles two fumble recoveries in his six seasons
mostly a special team's age. Doesthis do anything for you? Yes,
it does because with the changing ofthe kickoff rules, you need to have
guys who not only just understand therules, but they know how to move
down the field in short spaces andmake things happen. And we saw once

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Mike west Off came here to theDenver Broncos that play from the special team's
unit, it actually went up justa knot. And you have to figure
with him returning the disguise the limitfor this team. I mean, Marvin
Mims went to the provo based onwhat he was doing on kickoff returns.
So if you can kind of limitwhat often the teams can do this for

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his field position, and this actuallyhelps you bring in Andre Smith, I'm
all for it. Three. KalaiasCampbell is finally coming back to where he
played college football. Former University ofMiami stand out expected to sign with the
Miami Dolphins. According to NFL Media, second round pick of the Cardinals in
two thousand and eight. Campbell spentnine years in Arizona, three in Jacksonville,

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three in Baltimore, and one inAtlanta. Or season number seventeen,
he's returning to Miami. Kalaias Campbellturns thirty eight on September. First first
team All Pro back in twenty seventeen. He's a six time Pro Bowler,
remember the Old Decade Team for thetwenty tens, and was Walter Peyton NFL
Man of the Year in twenty nineteen. What does Kalaeis Campbell signing with the

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Miami Dolphins due to impact them?For you, Well, it just gives
them a veteran presence, someone inthe middle who you don't really have to
rely on that much. But he'sa larger body than you. Just say,
look all that wants you to do. Just kind of hit the a
gap. Get who have forced aquarterback outside the pocket. And because Kalais

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is a rather large men, meaningtall and stature, I mean it's almost
like batting down field goals that buttook them the point and you always wonder,
okay, well, with the guybeing thirty thirty eight, he's going
to be doing the season how muchdoes he have in the tank. But
the thing is, if you surroundthat guy with other young talent, you
don't even have the world about that. We've seen guys go lad into their
careers, Dwight Freeney for instance.You know they have a Jaguars reached the

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deals Starr quarterback Trevor Lawrence on afive year contract Extensionian report of the NFL
Media reports the deals we're two hundredand seventy five million, with one forty
two million fully guaranteed, another fiftyeight guaranteed for injury. Lawrence's fifty five
million annual average matches Bengals quarterback Burrowat the most per at the position right
now, Rams quarterback Jared Golf excuseme, Lions quarterback Jared Golf sided extension

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where fifty three million per year.Earlier this off season, Lawrence had two
years left on his contract. AfterJaguars exercise his fifth year option last month.
You said it'd be ideal to geta deal completed before the start of
training camp. Both sides did accomplishthat. I am told that this deal
is incredibly front loaded, with basicallya two year deal with team options after
that. The way the guaranteed moneyflows. So it's going to be interesting
to see if this thing kind ofworks itself out as a deal. And

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then also what that means for thecontracts of Tuwa Takabaaloa and Jordan Love,
who are the next two quarterbacks thatare due up for big deals. Well,
what Trevor approved is though, ifyou go out and perform as a
top player, then they're going toreward you. And I know you're saying,
Okay, well you know this,this contract is uploaded as far as
front load, excuse me, well, in the first two seasons, but

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Trevor has really out performed his contract. And when you think about the twenty
twenty one draft, how many ofthose quarterbacks are still on the current team.
Matt Jones, who wanted that inthat same draft, is not to
back it up Trevor Rether. Yes, So I think this was a great
idea by Jacksonville to try to dothis really early. And if Trevor continues
to play well, he can goback and say, hey, we need

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to hit this thing one more time. He made the reset button and possibly
make him the highest paid guy atthe position. Yeah, that's the thing.
Like this is basically a two year. It gives them a two year
window here, three year total windowto see if Trevor Lawrence he is the
guy or not in Jacksonville. Ifhe is the guy, obviously he'll get
extended to market rate. If he'snot, then you know you can get
out from under the contract pretty easy. By speaking of phony contract years and

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more trouble than they worth, andthey create the false impression that a player
is making more than he is.When the contract approaches that final phony year,
the player knows he's going to becut before that that money's ever paid.
And that's the case right now.For Saints running back Alvin Kamara,
the goal when he signed his currentcontract was to get the new money average
to fifteen million dollars, and soto get there, a fake final year

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of twenty five million was tacked ontothe back end of the deal. Now,
as he enters the next two lastyear of the deal with a base
salary of ten point two million,both sides have tried to extend the agreement.
However, the negotiations have gone nowherewith an extension, which has prompted
Kamara to leave the teams. Heleft the team's mandatory mini camp. The
recent contract given to Niners running backChritian McCaffrey is a bit of a factor,
which pumped the new money average fromsixteen million with no phony back end

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to nineteen million, also with nophony back end. The other problem is
the fake final years. The twentyfive million dollar payment that was never going
to be paid makes it harder topump up the new money average even with
an extension. So McCaffrey and Kamarare both drafted in twenty seventeen early in
the careers have read mostly the sametouch per touch impact. The difference is
McCaffrey's get the ball a little bitmore often, as continued to produce at
a high level, winning the league'sOffensive Player of the Year award in twenty

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twenty three. Kamara's rushing average slippedunder four yards over the last three year
combined, and as a career lowsix point two yards per reception last season.
It's interesting it feels like Kamara haslimited leverage here in these types of
negotiations, but it goes to showcasethat these final year, these phony money
back end kind of deals, ifyou do try to keep a guy,
create renegotiation extension problems. Wells.Again, this is where the salary cap

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comes in as guys get these dealsand we see the elaborate pay scale and
we see, you know, fiveyears or one hundred and twenty five million,
not really understanding the back end ofthat contract is something that the player
most likely would not actually reach.And this is just kind of a ploy

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to kind of stand things out andkick the can down the field until you
actually have to deal with it,because at some point the rick comes due.
And right now this is a problematicsituation for the new ONNS Saints.
But I don't think Americans think thathe's going to get the type of money
that McCaffrey has. I know hefeels as though he is played up to

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that level, but he's never goingto get that. In my mind.
The only thing they do here isthey turn around and sort of guarantee that
twenty five million in the last year, but spread it out over a couple
of years, and you had aphony year on the back end to kind
of you know, credit card itout. But that way he gets his
money, you know, on adeal he would have been cut on well.
The other way that you could dealwith the two everything that you said
is correct, but they can actuallyjust hey, listen, we're going to

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convert some of that money into asigning bonus. Well, and that's why
you do it. That's how youguarantee to put it about it. It'll
get off the cap and make ita cash charge. And that's about the
olds sick. Finally, ESPN proposeddropping the Sunday price to seventy dollars and
offering single team packages. The NFLdeclined at the trial of the potentially abodimental

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class action suit regarding NFL's Sunday ticketand as it continues, it's hard to
find a lot of coverage about that, which I'm sure the NFL is happy
about. Tonight, we found acouple of items that contain interesting information.
First, Bloomberg dot Com recently reportedon the testimony of NFL Chief Media and
business officer Brian rolapp Rollaps said theNFL's process for distributing games quote, our

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model is the best in the world. Also pointed out as the NFL always
does that all games are televised onfree over the year channels in the markets
of the local teams. We tryto think about what the fan wants and
get as much distribution as possible.We'll have add it. Some of the
evidence, though, contradicts his claim. In his weekly newsletter regarding all things
relevant to the business of football,Ben Fisher of The Sports Business Journal mentions

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a few nuggets from Edward Patterson ofCourthouse News dot com. First, Apple's
bid for Sunday Ticket suggested they couldadd fifteen to twenty million new customers.
Patriots owto Robert Kraft reportedly set indeposition testimony that was played for the jury
last Friday, We're not looking toget lots of people. We want to
keep it as a premium offering.Talking about the high price of NFL Sunday
Ticket, ESPN proposed dropping the priceto seventy dollars for the full season and

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then to sell single team packages ala carte. An email from roll Up
shown in court shows that the leaguedid not like that so much for what
the fan wants and getting as muchdistribution as possible. As previously mentioned,
Sunday Ticket is at the center ofan anti trust violation lawsuit, and this
seemed like a violation sets exception.We are forced to pay for an entire
slate of games for the entire year, even though it's heavily marketed as fans

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for one specific out of team,out of market team to see those games.
The plaintiffs argue the league specifically keptSunday ticket expensive to ensure that plenty
of fans would just watch whatever gameswere on their local broadcast networks. It'll
be interesting to see how this oneplays out. Would you be more likely
to purchase First of all, doyou buy study ticket? Second one,
would you be more likely to buyit if it was available just for the

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teams you wanted to watch or justfor the team you wanted to watch.
For the first couple of years Ipurchased Sunday ticket, the price started to
escalate and I was like, yeah, good, Yeah, we're good.
I'm out. Whatever's on my television, I'm going to watch that. But
he's what the league is banking onand is why they didn't want to change
what ESPN was presenting. It isbecause with the growth of fantasy football,

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the idea is that I need towatch my roster closely, and I need
to watch the games that the playersI have on my roster. Now,
for me, I do fantasy football, there's no wagers. But for individuals
who you know they're throwing out moneyright and left. They want to know,
so they're willing to pay that particularprice. But I like what ESPN
is thinking about doing if they're ablejust think about from a price standpoint,

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So seventy dollars it's still a lotof money, but to what it is
right now for Sunday Ticket, it'slike no, no, no, no,
no no. You will stand topull in more people with the price
being seventy dollars and individuals being ableto say, hey, I like this
team, I like this team.Let's do it a la carte. And
that kind of reminds me of whatwas going on with Krocky and the other

(28:22):
cable networks that he was having anissue with. You're trying to force me
to kind of subscribe to something thatis not giving me a lot of content.
I want it where I can pickand choose the programming I want,
and that's why I can pay forright, Hey has a Sunday Ticket for
those curious, is exclusively on YouTubeat this point, it's three hundred and
fifty dollars a year, or youcan do that in four payments, non

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cancelable, like once you commit,you still have to make all four payments
at eighty seven dollars and twenty fivecents per month, far more than seventy
dollars would be for the entire year, which ESPN had proposed. There is
a price range all the way upto four hundred and fifty if you want
certain additional features on top of it. Come on, man, we know
how this worked. Like if youif you are in this whole streaming game.

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First, it's the hook. Theygot to get you in, right,
So at some first places free rightexactly. So it's like with the
summer, So you're gonna see probablystreaming services offering a summer discount right early
bird special, early bird specially,Like for the first six months, it's
only five dollars, and then afterthat the price doubles because most people when

(29:27):
they subscribe to it, they forgetthat they did well looking at these prices
doubling. It's gonna double double,double some more, double again double another
time and then yes and once againit's the hook. We have to kind
of get you in because once weoffer it free on Father's Day, right,
you get so trapped into the programming, like, oh wow, I
got stars and all of this,and then now you don't want to let

(29:49):
that you know, streaming service go, so you're willing to pay the price.
But seventy dollars sounds a lot better, and fifty it does, and
you can get that with promo codestake. Well done. I've been saving
that one for a minute. Ohmy goodness. Thank you everybody who was
texting and I five six six text. I was hoping I didn't get back

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to all of you that that Iwanted to, But I appreciate you guys
chiming in on the Yeah, Sundayticket. I like it because we're at
the game. You and I areboth at the stadium on Sundays. It's
not worth it for me to evensubscribe anymore, like as far as that
kind of stuff goes. So Ihaven't bought it in years since, you
know, since we're at the stadiumall day on game. Well, okay,
here is a little little thing though, nugget I would tossed out like

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being a former player, sometimes youget discount in the NFL. P have
a discount for that or anything?Yes, yes, okay, at first
it would start off as a discount, and then it was given to us
for free, and then it jumpedup to like three hitting me up like,
jo, Far, what's up withthe discount that code? I was
like, I'm sorry, fellas thisyear there's no code. There's no discount.

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You have to outright pay how muchthey blame you for that either way
when there's no code. But yeah, there's like, well okay, well
you need to do something about him, Like, I don't make these decisions.
I am not personally responsible for Sundayticket costing your money. Now they
tell me, and then I tellyou, right, that's it. That
that that's far is? I go, where's my code? Where my code
at? Man, he's on bulgate. We gotta get stand into a bogue.

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That's say hashtag swhere's my code?Yeah, it's not opening almost cussed
out. Oh that's a good one. Whoa, Oh my goodness. I
appreciate the three or three says.I just listened to it for free on
KO Thanks guys. Yeah, asalways, you can listen to the game
right here on Richlos on the call. So is your origin on the sideline?
Myself, Ryan Edwards and maybe evenhere Dick ferguson hyping people up in

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the stadium. Let's go. Ialways do Listen to Broncos country tonight right
here on KOA. It's a fiftyam ninety four one FM news Talk Sports,