07-26-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

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Day one Broncos training camp. Atleast the portion open to the fans is
in the books. I thought practiceout there today was I think the fans
were maybe expecting a little more fireworksthan what they got. I was expecting
a larger crowd than what they got. By the end, it felt like
that maybe, you know, maybesixty five seventy five percent full. They're

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on the berm overall. I thoughtthe quarterbacks were a little shaky today.
Zach Wilson got his day up withthe ones, and yeah, I mean
the running game. The running backslook good. It'd be nice to see
when we get the pads on wecan get a better look at and everything.
But as we as we sort ofsee it right now, the main
competitions, which we've already described thecourse of the quarterbacks are at the center

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position, in which Wattenberg appears tobe in the lead right now, at
the inside linebacker position opposite Alex Singleton. They've rotated Jonas Griffith and Cody Barton
through that, and then over thereat the corner position opposite Sir Tan and
Ja Kwan McMillan, and it lookslike that we've seen a rotation so far

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of tomorrow, mathis Riley Moss andLevi Wallace, and that those those appear
to be the main sort of campbattles, at least at the top of
the roster. Obviously guys will bebattering battling for depth and and spots and
the practice squad as well. Fivesix, six nine zeros in textallant to
be a bit of a short showtonight as we've got Rockies baseball coming up.
I'll give way at seven point thirtyfor that, and then I want

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five six six nine zeros of textline. I want to hear what you
guys, what questions you guys have, because I want to tailor coverage this
year to what it is that youguys want to know about. Everybody that

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I talk to, you always wantsto hear about the quarterbacks. Okay,
cool, I know you want tohear about the quarterbacks. But what else
do you guys want to hear about? What do you want to know so
that we can tailor coverage to thatSpecifically. One of the things that one
of the myths, the narratives,whatever you want to call it, that
we sort of busted already this weekwas the premature demise of Javante Williams.

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We had outlets around town writing outhis obituary, and I didn't particularly understand
that Javonte Williams is absolutely dominated,taking almost every rep with the ones that
there is to take, and heis the guy. He's dropped something like
ten pounds, gotten a little bithealthier, got a little more spring in
his step, and you know,I think he's fully all the way back
finally from that devastating injury he sufferednearly two years ago. So I think

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that Javante is going to have ahuge role in this offense. I think
Odric Estimate is going to have arole in this offense. I think Julia
McLoughlin is going to have a rolein this offense. I think if we're
asking about an odd man out rightnow, that would appear to be some
MAJIPI. Ryne p Ryan, ofcourse, was the kind of the third
down back for the Broncos last year. Caught quite a few passes out of
the backfield, and you know,he did a good, pretty good job

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with pass protection, but he hadsome untimely fumbles and you know, kind
of he's always been a guy whohas sort of a violent running style and
it's worn him down. You know, anytime you had him out there's a
starter by the time he gets bulkcarries or he gets to a certain amount
of carries by the time he getsto the second third game of doing that,
you know, he tends to bea guy that wears down a little

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bit. And so I think that, you know, I know, the
Broncos save I think three million dollarsif they do move on from him,
versus, for instance, one pointfive for Javonte, save three million dollars,
and you can work Javonte and youknow, an estimate into into a
different load share with with McLoughlin sortof being the the spark back, and

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I think that rotation wi workout.You've also got a couple of the guys
vying for a spot on this rosterin Blake Watson who's been injured, and
and Tyler Batty and I don't youknow, I don't know, baby,
maybe a practice squad guy Watson.I believe, and it is a personal
belief that they had sort of aa kick return role kind of carved out

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for him and then maybe he wouldcome in and be another, you know,
another spark back kind of thing,because he does have that extra gear.
But with him being injured, don't. I don't know how he factors
in now to those plans when we'reseeing what looks like a pretty healthy rotation
from the backs that I've already mentioned. Five six six nine zero is the
text line, appreciate appreciate some ofthe texts coming in already. Brian wants

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to hear about the long snappers.Well, we only have one right now,
and Mitchell FERBONI. If we getanother one and there suddenly develops a
blazing competition for long snappers, Iwill do my best to bring you the
up to the minute coverage that youall deserve. On that, none of
the three quarterbacks have varied from theirattire. Jared Stidham is a short sleeve
hoodie guy, Zach Wilson's long sleeveT shirt a headband guy. And Bo

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Nix is you know, I justdrink water at practice, not gatorade.
We're in the regular uniform with noflare. He does not wear pieces of
flair at all, So adjust yourquarterback rankings accordingly. I don't know if
you guys got a chance this afternoonto watch the Paris Olympics opening ceremony.

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What a chaotic mess. I don'tknow if you guys had a chance to
see this thing or not. Thepyrotechnics and the metal and everything else.
A six kilometer river parade was planned. Organizers wanted to make the ceremonies accessible
as possible. They gave away twohundred and twenty two thousand free tickets eighty

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giant screens around the city for everybodyto watch. So due to the sheer
size, they didn't have the opportunityto do a full rehearsal, and so
the ceremony began with a video interludethat field World Cup winner Zenadize a Dane
running through Paris, a huge fireworksdisplay of the tricolor and the nation's being

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introduced, starting with Greece, andthen the boats sort of continued being introduced
with another interlude featuring Lady Gaga singingin French. But the I think the
chaotic nature of it failed to sortof grip viewers who were already beginning to
turn it off at the start.Uh. Twitter was was pretty hilariously brutal.

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Uh, people calling it horrible,the most boring ceremony ever. Sorry,
Paris, this is the worst ever, dreadful, What an awful opening
ceremony. It was sort of damp, and further when rain started to come
down on the thousands of spectators asthey were, uh they were getting drowned
a little bit. Uh they hadit was a one point a a headless

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Marie Antoinette uh singing. I don't. I mean, it's sort of is
is it a flex if you're thecountry that beheaded your queen at one point
and you're you're you're pointing back tothat is is the opening welcome ceremony?
I I don't know. There werejokes all over Twitter and people were talking

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about, you know, Germany's gonnahave to reinvade France after this ceremony.
It was just, uh, itwas. It was. It was chaotic
and ridiculous, and the people watching, everyone that I saw watching didn't seem
to understand and or appreciate the ceremonyas it was. I want to get
your thoughts of you do we care? Do we care about the Olympics,
you know, opening ceremonies, allthat kind of stuff. Do we do

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we care about any of that kindof stuff? I mean, I was
talking with Nick last night and Iremember in the nineties being very attuned to
the Olympics. I remember, youknow, specifically. I think it was
like nineteen ninety six where I wastalking about having a you know, a
high school teenage crush on the theone gymnast, the short Way Dominic Mochianu.

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I vaguely remember that, but Iremember being attuned to the Olympics specifically
early nineties with the Dream Team andthen you know Dream Team too, and
I sort of the high school yearswhere I was sort of into that,
and then I just kind of tunedout. I kind of quit watching the
Olympics over time, and I guessI've checked back in here or there.
There have been some gimmicks that havesort of brought me back in at times,

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having Snoop Dogg announced things as franklyhilarious, so that that is something
that gimmick worked on me a littlebit. But I'm not one of those
people who can really name all theOlympians anymore, or even name all the
sports that we're in in the UnitedStates. Is the betting favorite to the
prohibitive betting favorite to win the mostmedals and and dominating this thing? But

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I guess I don't know if itis a combination of poor marketing on the
Olympic side, of things that thosepersonalities and those names aren't is widely known,
or if it's my own ignorance andinability to or unwavering in attentiveness to
it that have have sort of broughtthat to bear as it were. Now,

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I just I don't know. Ican't. I haven't been psyched about
it. Maybe I started getting somehighlights of something and it starts drawing me
in. I did watch a littlebit of the exhibition basketball stuff, and
that that probably is your best hookfor me at this point. But I
used to love the Olympics and Iused to have the goofy sports too.
You know. We were talking aboutthat a little bit last night. I

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curling, like I would get wayinto curling for no reason. And you
think that, like, you know, a degenerate gambler like myself would love
to this kind of stuff, toput money on this kind of stuff.
I just I just don't. Ijust haven't. So I don't. I
don't know. You guys, tellme, are you are you tuning into
the Olympics or not? In atext line right now, does not appear

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too, does not appear to bevery into the Olympics. I can't read
that one on the air Brian,but I appreciate it. Someone asked if
fifteen pieces of flair is the bareminimum? I mean, if you want
to do to bare minimum, ifyou just want to do the bare minimum.
Here we you know Brian over there'sgot thirty pieces of flair. So
and he's over there selling the cheesyshooters and extreme fahetes. So we did

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get a text that I want toread here from the four oh seven that
says, Ben, I want toknow how the depth is shaping up on
the offensive line, particularly in areasone as the tackle position. We know
the starters will be, but you'llhave Polsowski, Pert and Crumb battling for
backup positions. So think when Baileyand Calvin Throckmorton are probably battling for one

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position on that line, who areyou seeing and where do you think those
battles stand. Well, I wouldsay that on the offensive tackle battle,
Crumb would probably just based on thereps thus far be a distant third of
those three that you mentioned, Pelshawskiand Pert would probably be the backups.
Bailey and Throckmorton may be fighting forone spot. Bailey has had a knack

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for sticking around on the Broncos roster. There were several jokes made today about
Calvin Throckmorton's haircut, which is vaguelyboy bandish, beieverish if you will.
Thanks keithan Orlando. I think thatthe real battle there is the center position,
and then once we know who takesthat job, whether it's Alex Forsyth

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or Luke Wattenberg, and Wattenberg hashad the bulk of the reps thus far,
or Sam Mustaffer, who I don'tthink is going to win it but
was certainly brought into to be aveteran in the room. I think after
that then you sort of know howmany spots are available after that to keep

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his depth. And the thing I'llsay about this is making you fifty three
is not what it once was.With the advent of the practice squad being
what it is now and how manyspots it has, and the call up
rules where you can keep guys onthere for multiple call ups and all that
kind of stuff, it's a defacto roster extension. And so you could

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have a situation where you have likeonly seven or eight offensive linemen on the
fifty three, but you've got fiveguys on the practice squad that you could
rotate through, calling up week toweek and you know, and sort of
go from there. And so someof these battles, the down roster battles,
where I would have paid more attentionor been glued to who's going to

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be the guy to get the lastspot here, it doesn't It doesn't resonate
as much because these guys are goingto make the practice squad and they're going
to be there anyway, you know, You're not. It's not a situation
where if they don't make it,they're just not gonna be around you.
Probably most of these guys are goingto make the practice squad, you know,

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And so instead of ninety guys gettingcut down to fifty three, what
you really have now is ninety guysgetting cut down to fifty three. But
then you know, you're bringing intwenty guys for the practice squad. So
really only like twenty of these guysyou know, ended up getting moved on
from and some of them stay inthe area so they can rotate through the
practice squad. So I don't know, I hear you on that, and

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you're probably correct in the sense thatQuinn and Calvin are probably fighting for one
offensive line spot due to the natureof the competition between Forsyth and Wattenburg.
That said, is it really thatbig a d which one wins it and
the other one's on the practice squadother than for contractual issues for them,
I mean their money, right,But in terms of in terms of a

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team perspective, I don't think itmatters. You know, both guys will
probably be around, one will beon the practice squad, one will be
on the fifty three, and yougo from there. And if one of
the guys, you know, I'llplay the other, maybe they swap that
out at some point or something.But the reality is those down roster battles
feel like they've taken on a lesserimportance because of the expansion of the practice

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squad five six six nine zeros textline, I don't think that. I
think the battles that matter are thestarting position battles and where we talk about
the linebacker next Alex Singleton, whetherit's Cody Barton, Jonas Griffith, the
corner position, which especially interests me, between Damari Mathis, Riley Moss,
and Levi Wallace. To a lesserextent, treymont Smith, although I think

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he makes the team by virtue ofhis special teams, and will probably be
on kickoffs the center position, whichwe've mentioned Alex Forsyth and Luke Wattenberg,
and then of course quarterback, whereeveryone is laser focused between Jarrett Stidham,
bo Nix, and Zach Wilson.And I would say to my mind,
at this point, Jarrett Stidham isfirmly in the lead at number one,

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boon Ennis is firmly number two,and Zach Wilson is firmly number three,
And that's probably sort of to beexpected. Jarrett Stidham has a year in
this offense, He has a yeararound most of these guys as players,
and so he's going to have abetter grasp of things and and sort of
the game will slow down for hima little bit more because of that.

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That doesn't mean that Bonix won't catchup, doesn't mean it won't catch up
in camp, doesn't mean Bonix isa bust, doesn't mean any any of
that kind of stuff. I hateit when people go that direction with it.
The reality is, at the endof the day, this team wants
Bonnicks to take the job. That'swhat they want. Right You drafted him
in the first round. You wantthat to happen. But Sean Payton is
not going to accelerate the pro prossjust because bo Nick is a rookie.

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He's not John Payton wants to winfootball games. He's gonna go with the
guy who on day one he believesgives him the best opportunity to win football
games. We'll see bo Nicks atsome point this year, whether that's Week
one, whether that's Week fifteen,whatever, We're going to see bo Nicks
some point this year because they'll needto see what they have before going into
next year. But as it sitsright now, if you're wrapping camp right

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now, before we've ever put thepads on, I would suggest that Jared
Stidham looks like he's in better commandof this offense, and he should Does
he hang on to that lead?How long does he hang on to that
lead? Those are questions that Ithink will come up, but I think
it's important to contextualize that again withhe has a year experience in this offense,

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and with these players and bow Knicksand Zach Wilson have a matter of
weeks a dozen practices maybe to havekind of sort of gotten acclimated to this,
and so at this point you wouldexpect the veteran who's been around to
be in the lead. Now.I like some things out of bow Nicks.
I like the fact that he's youknow, he's got a little athleticis

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into his game that you shouldn't countout. I like the fact that he
tries to get the ball out quicklyand not take negative plays. Those are
things that will definitely play into SeanPayton's love of his game. But as
it sits right now, there aremoments you can see out there where he
looks a little frenetic. It hasn'tslowed down for him. He's still absorbing.
You know, what is it?Defenses are throwing at me, what

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is this play? Call? Whatis play that we're running? And that
leads to being out of sync inother areas, being off balance, and
you know, part of Zach Wilson'sgame is thrown from weird platforms. But
bo Nicks, you know, it'sit's supposed to be fairly robotic. And
you know there have been times whereyou've seen him off platform or you see
him, you know, hurrying toget the ball out rather than perhaps sticking

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with something to see if it shakesopen in these type situations, and I'm
not privy to what specifically Sean Paytonis coaching him to do in those scenarios.
I don't know if the advice isto just get it out or the
advice is to hang with it.But there are some moments there where you
kind of wish he'd hang with itjust a little bit, just to sort
of see if something would shake open, and you know, maybe set yourself
a little bit better to make thethroat. When we come back, I

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energy five six six nine zeros atext line. I got a few texts
during the break, not a lotof you excited about the Olympics. Not
a lot of you excited about theOlympics at all. Somebody did say that
there's a good gimmick for surfing thisyear, which I didn't realize was an
Olympic thing because they're in Tahiti andsurfing like the most dangerous wave in the

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world. Okay, maybe if Isee some highlights of that and then I'm
like, oh, that's cool,you know, But as it sits right,
there's nothing I just I mean Americanbasketball, yeah, but beyond that,
it just does not feel like there'sanything there that's that's just an overwhelming
draw for me. Someone nine says, I remember Montreal in nineteen seventy six,

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all the great American boxers. Ithink we won eight of nine Golds
or something ridiculous. That's a coupleof years before I was born. I
was born nineteen eighty, so Iobviously do not remember that at all.
Five six, six, nine zeros. The text line, we got Rockies
baseball coming up seven point thirty tonight, the Colorado Rocky's taking on the San

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Francisco Giants. Full coverage right hereon Kawa A couple of other things around
training camp today, just you know, kind of notes Greg Dulcich if he
can stay healthy, man, he'sstarting to really show that promise. You
know, you start to see itout there. The tight end position,
which has been a liability for theBroncos for quite some time, might might

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be a position of strength if theycan if they can keep everybody healthy.
You know, Adam Trautman is issort of limited as a receiver, but
as an end line blocker, he'sa pretty decent player. And then you've
got Lucas Kroll, who you know, when he gets done building his own
wing for the Hall of Fame,his looked pretty decent out there, and

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Greg Dulsage and Dulsage, I thinkeverybody knows that the hamstrings can. If
you can find a way to keepthe hamstrings healthy, then you might have
a player on your hands there,because when he's out there, I mean,
it's a noticeable mismatch. It isa noticeable speed difference with him out
there. And I know when theBroncos drafted him, they thought of him

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as a chess piece, a mismatchweapon, that kind of thing, and
we've seen flashes of it, youknow, we've seen flashes of it,
whether that's training camp, you know, before he got hurt, some preseason
games, or I believe, ifI'm not mistaken, the the London game.

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I believe that was the game wherehe sort of showed out a little
bit. His rookie year back intwenty twenty two, he had a pair
of touchdowns, four hundred yards receiving, started six games, playing in ten.
But there was a game in there, and I'm trying to remember now.

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I know there was the game againstthe Jets where he got targeted a
lot that year, and I thinkit was back to back games. I
think it was the Jets, andI think it was the Jacksonville game kind
of back to back where he sortof kind of came into his own for
a minute there. Yeah, betweenthose two games, he had fourteen targets,
ten receptions, and like one hundredand thirty eight yards over those two

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games. I would have liked tohave seen that player, you know,
stay healthy and get more opportunities.Six four two forty five with the speed
that he has is is an interestingcombination. And we've seen what Sean Payton

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can do with tight ends. Historically, he's over the course of his career,
he's had four All Pro seasons outof tight ends. I think two
of those were Jimmy Graham almost JeremyShockey, and I'm trying to remember the
other one feels cook or I don'thave to go back and a look,
but he he's had four All Proseasons out of tight ends. The offense,
the Sean Payton offense needs the tightend to be a productive pass catcher.

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It does. You need the Xreceiver, the half back, and
the tight end to be productive volumepass catchers. The Z receiver in Sean
Payton's offense and the slot receiver sortof traditionally have have been clear out guys,
guys with speed to burn, youknow, backside of the play and

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we're going deep. If we getthe one on one, we're gonna take
our shot, you know kind ofguys. And they've drafted guys to that,
to that effect or brought guys intothat effect over the years. You
go back and you look at therosters. He had guys like Ted Ginn,
Defrey Henderson, Brandon Cooks, thosetypes on the back side of the
play, and Marvin Mhams figures tooccupy that where Josh Reynolds will work the
slot. You look at some ofthe SWA slot guys. They've had trek

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wand Smith, you know, guyslike that. They're athletic, maybe not
burners, but certainly athletic. Theysort of have archetypes of what they want
out of players. And having aguy like Dulsic who sort of fits that,
that guy you can you could splitout a little bit, you can
move around then off the line.Why if you've got a productive volume pass

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catcher at the tight end position,the Sean Payton offfense really starts to hum.
We've seen rotations of guys through there. Taysomhill even played that that tight
end position for a while, playeda little bit of everything I think for
Sean Payton except on the old line. But if you've got if you've got
guys that could catch passes as atight end, that's going to open things

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up for everybody else because the waythat they the way they layer this thing.
And we saw with Michael Thomas overthere at the X, we saw
Marcus Colston over there at the X. They love to run that slant with
the X receiver and they love torun those choice routes with the half back
out of the backfield, and sowith the tight end. They have a

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routtree that usually consists of inbreaking stuff. It's you know it. Sometimes there's
a stick route, but there isa square in There's a lot of that
square end stuff. And if you'vegot somebody who can snag and pull kind
of the linebacker out of the wayor pull the safety out of the way,
that means either that ex receiver isgoing to get a one on one
on the slant or the halfback comingunderneath that is going to get a one

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on one with the linebacker. That'sthe idea. The idea is to use
these guys to pull defenders into differentareas where you can get one of these
you can get one of these otherposition players in sort of a you know,
one on one situation and let themout athlete the other guy, right,
And that's sort of the basis ofuh, you know, the Sean
Payton off. There are other youknow, there's obviously more complex than that.
I'm being reductive, but to giveyou a basic idea. They sort

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of have archetypes and Greg Dulsige sortof fits that that volume pass catcher,
tight end athletic guy archetype that youcan move around. You can move him
outside all of a sudden, youmove Greg Dulsitch outside, you move him
from from inline, you move himoutside the way they used to do Jimmy
Graham. Well, that that preventsthat presents a problem. You can't put

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a corner over there because he's toobig and too tall. You can't put
put a linebacker over there because he'stoo fast. So you're move in a
safety. Well if you roll thatsafety. Now of a sudden, you've
rolled coverage to that side, yougot the burner on the backside, and
you're hoping your guy shakes free.So again, the idea here is just
to create situations or scenarios where you'reyou're pulling defenders into space and allowing your

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guys to shine. And I thinkthat having somebody like that that is reliable,
that threatens defenses that they have totake notice of will help free everything
up for some of the other guys. And so we're all we're all hoping
that Greg Greg Dulca she excuse me, could sort of come into his own,
stay healthy, and be the guythat they had envisioned, and that

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then head coach Nathaniel Hackett was obviouslygiddy about in the draft room when they
when they went out and got him. I think thus far, they're sort
of a exhalation for media that arewatching. They're like, Okay, he's

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run a few and so far,so good. We haven't seen an injury
yet. I think the day thepads come on is really going to be
telling. I think once we starthaving contact, that's gonna be telling.
And we'll see at that point whetherGreg Dulsic can stay healthy, whether the
hamstrings hold up, and whether he'ssomebody that this team can rely on to

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be a productive playmaker or be aguy. The defense is paying enough attention
to that that you can get otherguys the football in one on one situations
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We're gonna go out to the kaaCommon Spirit traffic center though and check
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all right here with you live downhere at Dove Valley. Coover back there
at Dieheart Control. I can alwaystell what coovers running boy, because we
get different music than when Grants runningthings Hoover likes to Hoover likes to dig
a little deeper in the archives andgo back at the old school stuff I
was, and I appreciate that ona Friday, especially five six, six
nine zeros. The text line wedid have somebody earlier asking me about practice

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squad salaries. Practice squad players arepaid. It's a weekly salary. It's
based on their experience. If youhave two seasons or fewer, you get
twelve thousand dollars per week, whichequates to two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars
for eighteen weeks. If you haveover two seasons of accumulated time, it's

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between sixteen to one and twenty thousand, six hundred per week, which is
between two hundred and eighty nine thousand, eight hundred dollars and three hundred and
seventy eight hundred dollars for the eighteenweeks. Eighteen weeks obviously includes a bye
week because you get paid for thebuye when you're on the practice squad as
well. Practice squad players, forthose asking, do do receive benefits like

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medical, dental, vision, prescription, DOUG coverage and all those kinds of
resources. So they do get thosethings. Those salaries, however, the
practice are non guaranteed. They docount against a team's salary cap, so
if you were tight on the cap, I guess you could skip money by
shortening your practice squad players are paidduring the bye weeks, which I already

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told you, and continue to receivetheir weekly rate if they make the playoffs.
So if you make the playoffs,you continue to get practice squad money.
Practice squad contracts end one week afterthe team's final regular season or postseason
game, and at that point theplayer becomes a free agent. So there,
there you go. The only otherquestion I saw in here about practice

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squad was about travel with the team, and usually they don't. Usually they
do not travel with the team.There have been times or instances or cases
where they have done that, butit is not the normal practice around the
NFL. There's nothing to prohibit themfrom doing that, but you know,

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that's how that goes. They generallydon't have the practice squad players in the
team picture. You're rarely dress oron the sidelines. There are instances,
again where they have done that,but you rarely, you rarely do it,
and at home games you usually andthey usually put you in the suite.
They usually have a suite for youif you're if you're a practice squad
player, and you usually just watchthe game from there. So all you

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ever wanted to know about the practicesquad, there you go. Now you
know, knowing us half the battlefive six six nine zeros text line.
We got Rockies Baseball coming up.Bottom of the hour, Colorado. Rocky's
taking on the San Francisco Giants righthere on KOA, exclusive Home of the

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Colorado. Yes, I was tryingto bring up and I've lost my screen.
Here there we go. Kyle Freelandis taking on Kyle Harrison as the
starting pitchers tonight. The Rockies thirtyeight and sixty five fifth in the West,
the Giants forty nine fifty five tofourth in the West. Rockies five

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and five over the last ten,Giants four and six. The Giants are
currently one and a half run favoritesover under his eight on that game,
both teams struggle with pitching. Rockiesthirtieth in the league with a five point
five e al Ray Giants four tofour to three is good for twenty fourth
in the league as well. Bothteams batting average against her among the bottoms

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as well. The Rockies allow atwo eighty seven batting average against the Giants
two fifty nine. That's good forthirtieth and twenty eighth in the league.
Looking forward to Jack Corgan Jery Schimmelon the call in that one we come
Back. I want to get intothis historic landmark case that has been settled

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House versus the NCAA and what itmeans for college athletics, specifically college football,
but broader in the college athletic ranks, because there's a lot of staggeringly
large changes that are about to come, especially with the wild Wild West of
the NIL over the last couple ofyears. So we get into that we

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come back. You're listening to BroncosCountry tonight right here on KAA