08-05-24 Hour 3 of Broncos Country Tonight with Brandon Krisztal

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is Broncos Country tonight. No, Benjamin alright, he was
on Koe Sports earlier. I am Brandon Christall hanging with
you all night long. I'll be up nice and early
bringing you sports updates on Colorado's Morning News. Eight forty
tomorrow will be your next chance to enter to win
season tickets, So be listening at eight forty. Maybe the
day after we'll do it five ten, who knows, but

(00:23):
if you're listening tomorrow at eight forty, that will be
your next chance. We're going to continue to do this
every single day, on every single show throughout the week
until September sixth.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Again, Brandon Kristal in for Benjamin Alright.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
We're going to head back to the Common Spirit Health
hotline and talk to a guy that doesn't need season
tickets because he already gets paid to go to the
Broncos games, both home and away. And that's Parker Gabriel,
the lead Broncos beat writer for the Denver Post. Parker,
first things first, I saw you.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Earlier at practice.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I talked to you, and I just want to know
how excited are you when you just found out that
you're getting to talk to me tonight, Because you were
booked under the premise that you would be talking with Ben,
but instead you get this treat So how happy are
you that I am hosting Broncos Country Night and that
you get to spend a few minutes talking with me
as a surprise?

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, I mean, I just couldn't be happier, Beka. It's
a highlight of my dat so a low bar, like, Hey,
I get to get to chat with all right, that's great,
and then suddenly it's Bka and it's like, man, I mean,
you know what's better than good? You know?

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, I don't know great, And that could be what
this is speaking better than good. Let's just jump into it.
I would say that's what bo Nicks has been the
last week or so. And I know that obviously I
wouldn't hear Friday and Saturday because I was in Canton.
But the reports are that he just kind of stayed
on the same trajectory. And I don't know something necessarily

(01:54):
clicked other than just maybe the timing of all this.
But from where your vantage point is around the practice
and talking to the people on the team, with the
team and all that, have you seen that from vow
and was it a change? But at least, you know,
the jump to even more consistency does see good. We

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wouldn't necessarily seem great yet that that'll come in games.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
But are you seeing that?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah? I think so, And I mean, look, it's all
it's all graded on a scale at least a little bit, right.
I mean, I don't want to make it sound like
he's Joe Burrow out there. It's it's what we've seen
is gross, and that's what you want to see from
a rookie. Like you know, early on, I think he
impressed a lot of people over the summer, right and

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early in camp he was fine. The first day pads
came on, it really was kind of rough and just
you know, slowly but surely he's gotten a little bit
better and a little bit better and a little bit better.
And so that's like, I think that's really what we've
seen the last few days. It hasn't always been white out.

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Although he had a really sharp team period today where
he hit the two in cuts to Courtland Sutton and
timed up the screen world that actually I think I dropped.
But yeah, so you know you've seen the flashes of men.
You know, that's what you that's what you want it
to look like for him as a rookie, and simultaneously
there have been growing pains along the way. But I
just think the thing that you've seen over the last

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few days, as he's gotten more work with the top group,
is that you've just seen a little bit more and
a little bit more. And that's I mean, honestly, I mean,
I think that's pretty much all you can ask from
him at this point.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Parker Gabriel from the Dever Posts joining us here on
Broncos Country to night Randon christal in for Benjamin Albright.
And when you look at the way the quarterback battle
was constructed, did you see a scenario where bo Nicks
wasn't going to end up winning this because he's Sean's guy?
And how do you think it ends up shaking out

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with the quarterback room? Because I've texted Big Alan Ryan
the other day on the afternoon show on KO Sports
saying that to me, it feels like about a ninety
eight to ninety nine percent chances Zack Wilson's on the
practice squad and sticks around here because nobody's gonna necessarily
want him.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Well, are you seeing Bonicks win the job? Because we're talking.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
About the consistency, and I think he's going to earn
the job anyway, and Sean was going to make him
the starter. But it feels like I've I've noticed that
he is winning the job each day by the slide
improvements and not making the same mistakes.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, I think that's right. I mean, I tend to
agree with that, And I think the thing about it is,
I just don't know how with a rookie like you
can win the job and and he may well do
that just straight up on merit over the course of camp. Certainly,
you know, if he continues on the upward trajectory he's
been on over the last week, you know he'll do that.

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But I think it's also fair to say that, like
at this point, it's not a guarantee that he's going
to do that. It's not a guarantee that he's going to,
you know, play really well in the preseason games. Like
he's a rookie and he's wor learning how to handle
the NFL even if he doesn't blow people away in
the preseason games, and if it stays close with Stidham,

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I do I tend to agree with you, Like I
think Sinham would have to win the job really handily
in order to start Week one in Seattle, and it
just I don't it's not impossible, but just the way
most played last few days, that doesn't seem all that likely.
So you know, there's still time left in this thing.

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But I do think that you know, bo Nicks has
you know, moved toward you know, a little bit away
from Well, it's a close race. So Ty goes to
the first round rookie too. Yeah, man, I mean he's
got a chance to really win the job. So I
don't I wouldn't say that yet, but but but all

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of that adds up to it certainly seeming likely. If
you're asking on August fifth who the starter is going
to be, you know, certainly from here it looks like
Bonix at this point.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
And winning the job is significant in any quarterback battle
at any any level.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
And I do want to find this out at some point.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Maybe you'll find it out if you end up talking
to Bout in passing or on the side or whatever.
I guess we could ask him when he's on the podium,
but I'd be willing to bet. Just like Russell Wilson,
he's probably been a starting quarterback his whole life that
he's not spent much time not as a starting quarterback,
probably from Pop Warner on.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
So it's kind of all that he knows.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
But there's a difference between winning a quarterback battle against
the likes of Jarret Stidhamoran Zach Wilson and winning games
in the NFL against Patrick Mahomes, against Lamar Jackson, against
Joe Burrow. You mentioned Joe Burrow, but what separates Joe
Burrow and certainly Patrick Mahomes from Lamar Jackson from Josh
Allen is that they've gone out and made plays to

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win games in the playoffs and get their teams at
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Do you think the.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
Bow Nicks has that in him? Because it feels like
he has the I'm not going to lose my team
a game, but can he go win games? We saw
him throw the ball downfield at Oregon, So for all
the critics of his check downs and swinging the ball
out to his playmakers just in the flats, he obviously
stretched the field. Troy Franklin's worshiping a play of those
do you see Do you think bo Nicks has that

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in him? Have you seen anything in practice at least
that would make you think he's willing to take a shot,
which comes with some inherent risk.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yeah, no doubt. You're so interesting about that. BK is
like I think, through the draft process and you know,
through the first part of camp, like the wrap on
bo Nicks right has been, Hey, he's smart, he makes
plays in rhythm, this and that, like he's not maybe
gonna wow you, but he's steady and all of that.
And the funny thing about that, I guess is that

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until he really settled in at Oregon, that was not
his reputation at all. Like in Gus Malzahn, who recruited
bo Nicks out of high school to Auburn, told me
a couple of weeks ago that the thing that he
noticed about, like the thing that jumped off the page
about bo Nix in high school was that he would
make a wild play every game, like running around and

(08:02):
throwing the ball up or whatever. And then obviously, like
we all remember, his first game as a freshman in
Oregon into twenty nineteen was beating Dustin Herbert's organ team
on a game winning touchdown pass with nine seconds left.
And he was just like sort of gunslinger and he
was in there leading a game winning drive in the game.
So like that knack for you know, leading a team

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back late in the game, making a play outside the pocket.
That sort of inherent playmaking ability. I think Boa would
probably tell you that's always been an important part of
his game. He's just sort of, you know, also learned
how to play really efficiently while he's at organ Does
that mean it's going to translate immediately to the NFL,
I don't know. I mean it translated immediately to the

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college level, but it also came withinconsistency and some struggle
and some turnover issues and all that. So I think
it'll depend on a little bit on how he sets
out the play. Whether you see a lot of risk
taking early on or not. I would bet maybe against that.
But the playmaking ability and the ability to get in
the huddle and say, okay, boys, let's go win a game.

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I mean, that's always been part of his repertoire, and
I guess the only time will tell before you see
what that looks like at the NFL level.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, because for all the criticisms of Russell Wilson, he
certainly has made a career out of making plays with
his athleticism. Laiden games to win a bunch of games
for Seattle, and certainly a handful here in Denver, including
two years ago against a good Niners team and a
good Niners defense in an ugly game on national TV.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
So it'll be fun if.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Phon Nicks can pull that club out of his bag
and not just be the guy that's checking the ball
down and plodding along, but will take take those shots.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
And some of that'll be.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Can Troy Franklin, Can Marvin Mins, Can guys like that
get on the field and get behind the defense. Because
I'm not I don't know if Tim Patrick can, and
I'm fairly certain Courland Sutton can't consistently or little Jordan
can't consistently.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
So will those speedsters be able to do that?

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Or the backs out of the backfield even I think
will be some mismatches and passion game. Let me ask
you here quickly, if we're talking to Parker Gabriel from
the Denver Post.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
You'll be in Indie on Sunday.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
We'll obviously have the game here on Kaway, first preseason
game against eleven o'clock start. Our pregame starts at eight.
What else are you looking at beyond the quarterbacks. Quarterbacks
are obvious, but what else are you hoping to see
in that first preseason game as it relates to the
rest Relative to the rest of the roster, Yeah, I mean.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
I think, I mean, there's something interesting at almost every position,
but today especially BKA Like I'm interested to see what
the back end of the secondary looks like. You know,
the Broncos obviously waves Cayden Stearns today and that you know,
we'll see TJ. Locke. You know, Sean Payton said starters
will play at least a little bit, most of them

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will against Indianapolis, and they're sort of go work later
this week to figure out how much would be surprised. Obviously,
if Brandon Jones plays, considering he's been out the last
you know week in a little change with a hamstring injury,
probably gonna miss a few more days, so PJ. Lock
and then probably j. L. Skinner next to him to
start the game. You'd have to imagine that like Jail Skinner,

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Devon Key Tanner, McAllister Omar Brown, like these guys are
going to play a lot at safety and given the
competence with which Champaigne has spoken about that group, and
then when you know, combine that with the fact that
you know Tanner Mcalister's played a little bit in the
NFL with Cleveland. But like this is this is a
group that's played virtually zero in the NFL. Otherwise obviously

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zero in Omar Brown's case, he's an undrafted rookie, Devon
Key was a practice squad guy last year, and and
Jale Skinner played one defensive snap. So like the fact
that they have that level of competence in that group.
I guess if you're, you know, sort of power ranking
position groups of what do you want to see? I
mean that that's one of them for me, because potentially

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all four quarters, you're talking about guys who could be
on the fifty three man roster pretty legitimately, and guy
who they need to be able to play at the
NFL level in order to have, you know, depth that
you're comfortable with at safety.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
I don't think I have for you, And we don't
have to spend too much time on it because I
am up against the break.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
But what's the earliest and what's the latest.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
Do you think that we will hear Sean Payton announce
the starting quarterback.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
Odds are will hear that it happened in the team meeting,
and then we'll.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
Get to ask him about it after practice, after one
of us reports it.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
But what do you think those dates are? You can
give to me about thirty seconds.

Speaker 3 (12:30):
Yeah, I'm saying that the window opens after the game
in Indianapolis, so functionally, probably like early the week after,
about this time next week, and then the latest. I mean,
I guess Monday of game week, but I would think
it would be before that. I'll say roster cutdown day,
so anywhere between August eleventh and August twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Yeah, I'll take the under, but I'm gonna say that
it's after this game this weekend. I think Jared will
start this weekend and then Bo will be named the
starter by next week before the Packers get to town.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Parker, you're the best. I'm so glad that you got
to talk to.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Me today instead of Ben because I know I know
it made your day major night.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
I will see you out here tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'll be here at five am for Coloradsborn News if
you want to meet me for coffee, or I'll see
you closer to the start of practice at ten.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
Thanks so much for the time, all right, there you go.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Parker Gabriel at Parker Jay Gabriel on Twitter does a
great job. Came to town to cover the Broncos in
the NFL for USA Today and then the job as
Denver Post opened up.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
But he's been around a lot of football.

Speaker 1 (13:36):
Really good writer, really good reporter, and we are lucky
to have him in town.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
And he's a.

Speaker 1 (13:41):
Good guy to have a beer with two So make
sure you're following him on Twitter at Parker Jay Gabriel.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Again.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
As I mentioned, I'm in for Benjamin Albright. He was
on k WA Sports Today. My name is Brandon Christall.
You can catch Ben and I on Sunday bringing you
Broncos Game Day starting at eight am kickoff from in
the at eleven. This show those called Broncos Country Tonight
Again Randon Kristall, This is KOA eight fifty AM and
ninety four to one FM. Welcome back to Broncos Country Tonight.

(14:12):
In for Benjamin all Right, I am Brandon Christall. And
in case you didn't hear Randy Gratishar's speech, we know
it's not easy to give a speech, and they want
you to do it in about twelve fourteen minutes. I
think he went a little over, not too bad. Tom
Jackson introduced him. I was so happy to be at
the Hall of Fame on Saturday, and even with the
little rain delay, to be there in person when Randy

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delivered this speech thirty five years in the making. That's
how long he's been waiting. He's been waiting too long.
You're at forty miles away. You'll hear him talk about that.
It was a really moving speech and you can hear
him be true to himself. So, without further ado, here's
Randy Gratishar's Hall of Fame enthronment speech.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Thank you, thank you very much, and Tom, thank you.
Because our journey began in the summer of seventy four
a to Broncos Mile highst Stadium, a journey of shared experience.
It is built on loyalty and trust, and fifty years
later we stand here on the Pro Football Hall of
Fame stage. My admiration and respect to you, Tom and

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your wife Jen. We certainly appreciate that and we shared
that special bond with you, and we're very grateful for that.
Congratulations to Steve and Devon and Andrea and Julius and Patrick.
We are the Pro Football class of twenty four, twenty
twenty four class of that you know going into the

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Pro Football Hall of Fame, and I want to thank
you prep team for your tireless prep work which you
gave me and everyone a fantastic week this week. Hall
of Fame President, Jim Porter and Mayor Bill Sheer, Commerce

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Chamber of Commerce staff and the volunteers. I just want
to thank you for your leadership which is the backbone
of the event success of all these events that have
happened this week. To the Broncos and Bronco country. I
would not be standing here without you, because the best

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franchise and the best fans in the NFL are the Broncos.
And I want to thank Greg and Carrie Penner and
mister Walden for the ownership of the Broncos and what
you've done for me and for all of the Bronco
alumnis that are there today. My wife Beth and I

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pray attend Brave Church in Denver, which are Pastor Jeff
Leeds who's here today with his wife Kim. Pastor Jeff
and Kim and Brave Church friends who are here today.
There's Mike and Jane and Tom and Mike and deb Tom, Margaret, Phil, David,

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Chris and Josh and Barry and Susan. They're in Alaska
and my brave church family watching it at home. Thank
you for your love and for your support. Earlier this year,
Pastor Jeff taught a series Built to Last from the
Book of Neo Maya, and one of the messages of
the series was difference makers, and Pastor Jeff asked us

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to consider who made the difference in our lives, and
today I want to recognize a number of key individuals
who made a profound difference in my life. My wife Beth,
when she when friend Sandy Weise introduced us, I said, Wow,
she's gorgeous. Sandy Weis was Norris Weese's wife and he

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was a close friend and he was a Bronco quarterback
when I played. At the age of forty three, he
had spinal cancer and that took his life and Beth
was his hospless nurse. And after Norris passed Santry Sandy
introduced me to Beth. Beth, You're a miracle. I thank

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God that his perfect plan for my life was you. Your
kind and compassionate soul captured my heart. For sure, your
luck and for work tirelessly for the good of others,
especially your brother John David, who has a heart of
gold just like yours, Beth. I love you and I
cherish you.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
My parents, Jim and Anne from Old Champion, Ohio, about
forty five miles from there. My dad and Mom were
quite natured, humbled people, and diligent at their work. Mom
was a great homemaker. Dad and his brother in law
Bill own B and JAY grocery store. Uncle Bill's son,

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my cousin, Bill Junior, and his wife Gretchen are here
today and thanks for your memories. I love you. Watching
my dad, especially at his B and J grocery store,
taught me valuable lessons early on in my life, and
at the age of twelve, I loved working at my
dad's grocery store. I watched how he took pride in

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serving his customers and with kindness and respect. How it
impacted my life. I remember one day Dad didn't serve,
he didn't open his B and J grocery store. It
was June sixth, nineteen eighty. A ruptured aneurism took my
dad's life. He was sixty. I was twenty eight, A

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significant loss in my life. And for Champion Ohio. My
dad was deeply loved and respected. I lost my dad,
but I didn't lose the principles he and my mom
taught me by example honesty, loyalty, and disciplined work ethic
that allowed me to serve others with generosity and fun.

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What gay native and my OSU teammate two time Heisman
Trophy Archie Griffin. Somewhere down here, Archie Griffin.

Speaker 3 (20:21):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Archie. Archie years ago invited me to a on campus
fellowship at Christian Athletes Meeting Bible study during my senior year.
Growing up, I attended church, but the Gospel of Salvation
wasn't taught that evening. In seventy four, the gospel was
explained in four simple truths.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Truth one.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
God created mankind in his image, and that comes from
Genesis twenty seven. God loves us and offers a plan
for our life. Truth to mankind's problems from Romans three
twenty three. That we've all sinned and fallen short of
God's glory. Therefore we cannot know and experience God's love

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and plan for our lives. Romans six, twenty three. For
the wages of sin is death. Our spiritual death and
truth number three. God made a way out of John
three point sixteen that God so loved the world that
he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life. Jesus Christ's death

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on the cross the darkest day in history, and Jesus'
resurrection earned Jesus the right to proclaim I am the Way,
the Truth, and the Light, and no one comes to
the Father but through Me. That's out of John fourteen
six and the fourth truth. Salvation requires turning to God,

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repent of our sins, accept his forgiveness, and ask Jesus
by faith to be your personal award and savior. This
is the only way to be right with God and
to live out His plans for our result our life,
not ours. For thank you, There's four simple but eternal truths. Archie.

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You are an OSU sophomore. At the time when you
invited me to the fellowship at Christian Athletes Meeting the
best of invitation I've ever had, and at age twenty two,
I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior to
my key prayer warriors Beth and Pastor Jeff and Kim
cousins Joe and Annie men in my Bible study, Bob

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and Dianna Blake, Dale Morris, Linda Rogus and her late
husband Roger, thank you. The greatest gift we can give
and receive really is prayer. My high school football coaches
Al Carino, Bill Fully Barren, Jim Betts, and Jerry Carleton. Jerry,
thank you for being here today and a few other

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men as a champion high school. You guys, and when
I was in ninth grade, developed a football program my
freshman year. Thank you for your investing in me and
to learn the sport and to have a lifelong friendship.
For sure, you and Carol are special to Beth and me,
and I want to say thank you. My high school
basketball coach, Roger Rogus, passed in twenty twenty seventeen. Like

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coach Carlton, made a difference in my life with his
encouragement for me to be the best I could be,
not just in sports, but in life. Coach Rogers' wife, Linda,
your husband, my coach, influenced me as a young kid
of who he was, of a man of faith and integrity,

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and your walk with the Lord and friendship have been
a blessing to me and Beth, and I say, I
want to say I love you Coach Buckeye Woody Hayes,
Are there any buck Eys here? What he was committed
to the best and we all felt that. And his

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most valuable experience Coach Woody had in my life was
his pay forward lifestyle and Friday during the spring quarters,
Woody and I and team as it went assisted living homes, facilities,
middle schools, high schools, and we went through them talking
to people, and so Coach Woody Hayes's pay forward philosophy

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really influenced me to develop a lifestyle of serving any
Bronco fans. Thank you, You're the best. My Bronco head
coach John Ralston impacted my life. During my senior year

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at a file State, I sustained a knee injury and
I had surgery and it was somewhat successful, and I
knew and others knew that my knee wouldn't ever be
the same for sure, But Coach Drawson took a chance
on me and drafted me back in nineteen seventy four.
The rest is history. Bronco coaches Red Miller, Dan Reeves,

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Stan Jones, Joe Collier Merle Moore believed in me and
encouraged me. They encouraged once was the greatest gift of
that our coaches would give to me and to our team,
encouraging us to give our best. That would be our
motivator to do the best that we can be. And

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Merle Moore is here today, my linebacker coach. I want
to say thank you out of where you're at, down
here somewhere, but I want to say thank you for
being here and for the investment that you made in
us for our skill set so that we would be different.
We would have a different skill said in winning and learning,
and that we would be mentally prepared for each in

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every game. Our mental toughness was our success to what
we did with that Orange Crush defense. Our late great
Orange Crush defensive coordinator, Joe Collier, passed away a few
months ago. Joe wasn't just a great coach, but he
was one of the leaders and mentors that any NFL

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player would really want to have on their side. So
I want to thank Lyle and Paul and Joe and
Patrick and Louis and Steve and Randy and Randy Pole,
John and Carl. I want to thank you guys and
some of the other guys on our team for what

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we became. Because we were always the Orange crush defense.
We are very explosive, dominant, winning force because coach Joe
Callier wanted the best for us and in turn he
got the best from us. So Joe Collier's legacy, loyal commitment, humility, quiet, strength,

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and encouragement made lifelong differences in many athletes of our lives.
And then there's Jay Chimino. He was the president and
CEO of the phil Long Dealerships in Colorado almost thirty
years ago. Jay hired me thirty years ago to work
in the corporate communications division at phil Long. And Jay

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was a genius in every sense of the word. Jay
could see people's potential for sure, and then who and
what they really could do and become. He brought out
the best in hundreds of lives. And one of Jay's
greatest strengths was he was trustworthy, man of his word,
foundational in his relationship. You makes or vow, you keep it,

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credibility depends on it for sure. For almost three decades,
Jay and a few other men presented my case to
the Hall of Fame Selection Committee. They believed I was
worthy of to be a candidate for the induction into
the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Jay's thirty year vision
and labor came to fruition. On January twenty six this year,

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I received the news I had waited thirty five years
to hear I was chosen for the Pro.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
Football Hall of Fame. I immediately called.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Jay, who can only imagine how we felt. And then
less than four weeks later, in the end of January,
Gina Sacraponte, our phil Long Dealership's corporate communications director, called
to say that Jay had passed for me. It was
a gut punch for sure, and I stand here today

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without Jay, but everything Jay built into my life stands
before you. Gina Tomino, thank you for your family and
for sharing your dad with all of us at the
fill Long Dealerships. And he's very, very deeply missed, but
he's with us in spirit here even today. And I'm

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grateful to God for the key individuals he brought into
my life difference makers because among other strengths, they are
loyal and trustworthy. My favorite life Versus and Clausings three,
twenty three and twenty four work diligently for the Lord
rather than people. What does God mean by that? Don't

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work for status, power, wealth, materialism or people's recognition. All
that is very very temporary. But in all you you
are and all you do, work for God's glory because
He will give you an inheritance as your reward, a
reward that's built to last. That's not my promise, That's

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God's promise. Thank you, And so today I dedicate my
Pro Football Hall of Fame twenty twenty four induction to
my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave me his
life so I could be built to last. Thank you

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and God bless.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Great stuff there from a great player thirty five years
in the making.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
It was cool to be there.

Speaker 1 (30:40):
I was so lucky to have a chance to go
for now a third time and stoke to get to
see Rainey deliver that speech just forty miles from where
you grew up. Really cool and in the state where
he dominated in college you at Ohio State. Remind you
tomorrow morning eight forty we will be giving you a
chance to enter to win a pair of Bronco season
tickets for doing it on every show every day between
now and September.

Speaker 2 (31:00):
Sixth, including isshows All Broncos County Night.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
We gave him way earlier, but we will keep doing
it in for Benjamin all right, I'm Brandon Christall and
you're listening to KLA eight fifty am N ninety four
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