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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Short show Colorado Rockies tonight Austin Gomber on the mound
for the Rockies five six, six, nine zeros of text line.
You guys want to get involved in the conversation. Yesterday
we talked a little bit about bo Nick's debut. Last night,
after the show, I went out and retweeted four different
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perspectives on bow Nicks. Chase Daniel, former backup quarterback around
the league, and Finesse Hall of Fame for how much
money he got for being a backup quarterback for darn
near twenty years.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
JT. O'Sullivan another former.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Backup quarterback who runs at QB School or at the
QB School on Twitter, Guys, I encourage you guys to
follow that one. Tim Jenkins, our buddy and quarterback guru
form a cup of coffee with the with the Rams
and a gentleman from Pro Football Focus. All four did
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tape breakdown or tape study of bo Nicks's debut. When
all four came away with varying degrees of optimism or
lack of optimism in the case of Pro Football Focus,
and it was interesting to watch four people sort of
look at the tape and come away with four different conclusions.
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Chase Daniel could not have been more effusive in his praise,
and to be honest, if you read his breakdown, I'm
pretty sure bo Nicks is going to beat Paxton Paxston,
Patrick Mahomes. I can get it out Patrick Mahomes for
MVP based on Chase Daniel's observations. Tim Jakins was a
bit more measured but optimistic in his breakdown, showcase some
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of the negatives, showcase some of the positive, showcase some
of the mist positives.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Jj O.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Sullivan was a little bit more on the negative side,
but still closer to center, and his biggest gripe was
bailing on clean pockets.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
And then the Pro Football Focus breakdown.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
In which it felt like while Chase Daniel may have
had bo Nicks as the second coming of Patrick Mahomes,
this gentleman had what felt like his name's Jackson McIntyre,
by the way, had what felt like bo Nicks is
the second coming of Paxton Lynch. And it was just
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it's funny to see sort of the dichotomy, I guess
of four different experienced tape watchers coming away with different things,
and we're going to have Jackson McIntyre I think on
Thursday to talk about his breakdown. We'll have Tim Jenkins
tomorrow to talk about his breakdown. And I thought, while
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I didn't agree necessarily with Jackson McIntyre and you can
find his I believe he's at too high coverage the
number two and then high coverage on Twitter and you
can read it there. But he came out and said
he thought bo Nix's day was really rough.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Main issues.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You showed no pocket awareness, that looked like an inexperienced
twenty one.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Year old quarterback.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
And he goes on to give examples clean drop versus
three cloud, and you know, he makes the right reading
to the sawt spot, but a bit late, and you
can sort of see where he's coming from and his
thought process on these things. And I don't disagree with
what he's pointing out. I just I felt a little
bit more optimistic than that. You know, I've lived through
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a bad quarterback play. I've seen it here for the
last decade. And to see a quarterback who, while he
does admittedly have things to clean up, be able to
deal at the level that he was dealing at and
show core competency at the at the level that he did.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
I'm I'm not gonna call that really rough.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I do think that I'm a little nerve about how
Bodix doesn't trust the pocket and sort of bails on stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, I'm a little nervous about that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm glad he's not scooting out the back door like
Russ did. He's willing to go forward to get positive yardage,
and in a schedule based offense like what Sean Payton runs,
that's going.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
To be vital.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You don't have to be a prolific thrower of the football.
As long as you can get it out on time
and not take negative plays, you can succeed in a
Sean Payton offense.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
We've seen it. You don't have to be Drew Brees
in order to succeed.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We saw Teddy Bridgewater succeed in this offense, and I
would hardly call Teddy the most prolific passer. He gets
the ball out quick and doesn't take negative plays, but
we saw him succeed in that offense.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We saw.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Taysom Hill succeed in that offense. And Hill is definitely
not the world's most prolific passer, but Taysom Hill at
seven to two is a starter over two different seasons,
and he is not at all what you would call
a great quarterback in this league. Gadget player, able to
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make some some throws here and there, full back, running back,
tight end, wide receiver. Sure, great athlete. But in twenty
twenty they went three to one with Taysom Hill as
a starter. He completed seventy three percent of his passes
for nine hundred and twenty eight yards, four touchdowns, and
two picks. And I would suggest that if you're able
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to continue that with Taysom Hill, a better passer than Hill,
like bo Nick, should be able to do better.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Five six nine zeros A text line.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Three zero three says, I'd argue, modern quarterbacks don't need
great pocket presence if they have accuracy, arm, talent, and
play making ability. Well, the game has changed, and you
are correct to a degree. I mean, you do have
to have the presence of mind to be able to
stick around long term. You're not going to be successful
if if you don't have it. You don't have to
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be a you know, a seven step drop, hit the
top of your drop and let the ball and load
Kurt Warner style quarterback. In fact, that doesn't really work
in this this NFL drives that take sacks or fifty
eight percent less likely to score. Taking negative plays, taking penalty,
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any kind of negative play, you're seventy percent less likely
to score. And I think bo Nicks is the start
of Sean wanting to play clean football. Now, they had
some ball security issues that I have to clean up
because you can be a quick release on schedule guy, whatever,
but if you're fumbling the ball, it doesn't do any good.
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That's an offense. But I thought there's reason for optimism.
I certainly didn't think it was bad. I thought there
were some things that he did that were negative that
need to be cleaned up. But I also I'm also
not Chase Daniel where I'm tripping all over myself to
annoint him as the second Coming. The comparison I've made
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to you know, bo Nix has been Derek Carr, and
I get that there are people that don't like that comparison.
He was a raider, and there are people who have
underestimated Derek Carr. Over the course of his career at cars,
throw him for nearly forty thousand yards over the course
of ten seasons, never thrown for fewer than thirty five
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hundred yards. Thirty four ninety six, one year where he
played fifteen games, a four yards short of thirty five
hundred yards, only had one season where he threw less
than twenty touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Again, that was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Derek Carr is two hundred and forty two touchdowns to
one hundred and seven picks for his career.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
So I don't you know when I make that comparison,
and you know how much I hate comparisons anyway, but
like it's not it's not meant to be derogatory at all.
I think he's a guy who gets the ball that quick,
doesn't take a lot of negative plays, and doesn't make
a lot of mistakes. That's that's Derek Carr. I think
bo might be a little bit more aggressive than Carr.
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Then that would be to the Broncos benefit. If he's
able to push the ball down the field in addition
to you know, and take and pick his poison, take
his chances.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
But if you think about it, a guy who's who's
willing to take what you give him and and you know,
pick his battles.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
That's what we're looking for here, right.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We've had guys who are aggressive, hyper aggressive with the ball.
We saw what Drew Locke looked like. We've had guys
who hang in there to try to make a play
at all costs.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
We just we just jettisoned that in Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So I don't think that, you know, for the people
that moan and complain about comparing him to Derek Carr,
which again it's too early to be able to compare
people like that, but I'm just trying to give you
an archetype in terms of what he brings to the table.
But the people that are complaining about that, I'd suggest
him what Derek Carr play. Dude had some terrible offensive lines,
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still managed to make it work. Everybody was talking about,
you know, Derek Carr having a bad year last year,
his first year in ne Orleans, he had twenty five touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Against eight picks. So I'm not too worried about that.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I think I think the main things that we've hyper
analyzed the Bonnicks thing to death.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
I think the main things for me.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Are ball security, working on making sure we're making catches
instead of letting catches get away from us. Talking to you,
Josh Reynolds, We've seen that a little bit in camp.
Now we saw it in a game. I think that
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never Broncos offense is going to be fine this year.
I think the defense is probably going to carry this
team at times. When we saw elements of what they
can bring to the table. We didn't get a chance
to see the fully fleshed out defensive line because Zach
Allen and John Franklin Myers did not play in that game.
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But I thought you saw a more physical, more reactive,
more attacking type of defense than we've seen previously. The
Broncos had run the Fangio defense since Fangio got here.
They ran it under a Varo, they ran a variant
of it last year with Vance, and they're not running
that anymore.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
They'll come out of too high on their own. You know.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
The popular thing around the league is to sit there
and too high and force and force an offense to
try to force you out of it. I don't think
the Broncos have any problems with that. I think they'll
they'll come out of it on their own. I think
you're going to see and continue to see a more
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pressure to attack. I think we saw a little bit
of that. We certainly saw some, you know, defensive forced turnovers,
which is interesting because the Fanco defense it's Ben don't break,
but it's theoretically designed to generate turnovers, and it just didn't.
We saw Justin Simmons getting interceptions, but it really wasn't
a whole lot of other turnovers out there over the
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course of Vic's tenure or Vic's defensive tenure, whether that's
with Vic, whether that's Savero, whether that's Fans, didn't see
a lot of turnovers. Then I think the Broncos, if
they're going to be successful this year, they're going to
have to generate a few turnovers stretches where the defense
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was able to do that. In fact, they got hyper
aggressive at one point last year. That's what we saw,
that defensive stretch that carried the Broncos to the winning
streak that in the late game theatrix of one Russell Wilson.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
This season, though I see in that game just made
me optimistic. I didn't look at that. I'm like, oh,
here we go again, another humdrum season or recovering a loser.
I'm optimistic about it, and I don't I appreciate differing perspectives,
and I love finding perspectives that I disagree with because
it gives me the opportunity to challenge.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
My own beliefs or my own views and.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Either strengthen them or find out where I'm doing something
wrong and try to remedy it. If I just constantly
went and looked for things that agreed with me, I'd
never get any better. So for those that complain that
I share those kinds of views, that's why five six
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six nine zeros a text line, a lot of uh,
A lot of bro slash bo jokes on the text line.
Somebody said, Bow reminds of Kyle Orton. I think he's
more athletic than Orton. Certainly were willing to use his
athleticism than Orton. Got a stronger arm than Orton, not
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that he's, you know, top of the league or anything
like that. It's not a top ten arm in this league,
but it's it's stronger than people give him credit for.
Somebody asked, if there's a scenario where Josh Reynolds gets caught,
I'm not seeing that. I do appreciate the three two three?
Who'sh Are we going with brodege? Are we going with Brodigy? Like,
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what are we doing with the bro bow thing here?
Seven more four says when should we text the text
line when you do prerecorded shows? Well, this isn't a
pre recorded show. If you're listening on the podcast, don't text.
I guess Hey, guys, Well we come back. I'm gonna
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Speaker 2 (15:26):
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Speaker 1 (15:27):
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Speaker 2 (15:30):
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Speaker 1 (15:37):
Short show Tonight, Rockies Baseball caught up the top of
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Speaker 2 (15:42):
Austin Gomber on the Mountain for the Rockies.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Five six, six, nine zeros of text line looks like
a lot of you have got nicknames for bo Bohemian Rhapsody.
I'm here for that. Good job from the seven one
nine four O six says it was nice to see
an offense running in rhythm.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
No more hitch hitch, hitch, spin, hitch chuck it, referring
to Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And the file five says, if bose the starter curious
who you'd prefer to be number two. I personally think
Stidham would be much better as of right now, but
I don't think Wilson will clear waivers. It'd be nice
to see if he could develop more with the arm
tel and he has well.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
I think the Broncos will keep all three.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
To be honest with you, I don't think that there's
a roster mechanic here where they need the extra space.
We've seen Sean Payton carry four quarterbacks before, not here
in Denver, but we've seen him do it. I would
not be surprised if they kept all three. I personally
would like to keep Stidham as the backup, just because
the maturity level is higher than Zach. But you know,
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I mean, whatever they do is whatever they do. I'm
not too too worried about it. We'll see how it goes.
I as I look at it, and again, Zach has
more starts in the league. Jarrett's just been in the
league longer. But I think it feels to me like
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having been in.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The league longer be a journeyman there.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
There feels like a maturity to Jared Stidham, who's bet
in this system for over a year than there is
with Zach Wilson, and maybe, you know, maybe maybe they
decided to go a different route, but I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
I think they keep all three. We'll see.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Adam Scheffer VSPN came out and said that bow Nicks
was the Broncos pick all along, and they even thought
about trading up for him. I know that they had
decided on bow at least the day before the draft.
I did one of my rod although this wasn't a riddle,
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this was a clue hunt. How was it about six
hours before the draft and told y'all it was going
to be Bo. The first letter of each thing in
the sentence spelled it out, said it's Bo. Next year,
I'm gonna have to do something a little different because
you guys have caught onto the first letters game. So
we'd have to come up with something different next year. Yeah,
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the Broncos had Bo Nicks is the third quarterback on
their board. They knew they were not going to get
Caleb Williams or Jade Dangles. They knew they weren't going
to get either one. They knew that those were locked
in one or two. One and two. I should say
to the Bears and commanders that had been pretty set
in stone for a while.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
The question was whether or.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Not Minnesota was going to move up to three or
be able to move up to three, or the New
York Giants. We're going to be able to move up
to three to be able to get Drake May, who
both teams liked, although both teams might have saved themselves
a little bit because May has not looked particularly impressive
in camp thus far and isn't beating out and if
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Minnesota did not trade up, then that put the Broncos
in line to let Nicks fall to them, because Minnesota,
if they did not get May, was on JJ McCarthy
after that, which they ultimately did trade up.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
And get the fly.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
And the ointment as it were, was the Atlanta Falcons
taking Michael Pennix, which almost no one saw coming, but
that didn't really hurt anything. All they did was continue
to push Picks down. It created a sense of urgency
around the Minnesota Vikings to move up and get McCarthy,
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But for the Broncos it benefited them because it got
the third quarterback on their board to fall in their lap.
So in the a saying Boonix was the pick all
along it was the likely pick all along. If they
had had the chance to be able to get Katle
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Williams or Jade and Daniels, they would have done it
in the sense that if they'd fallen in their lap,
they didn't have the ammunition to go up and get them.
And that was another thing that pre draft reporting, nobody
went back and revisited. So many people out there were
powerting absolutely nonsensical, totally made up reports about the Denver
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Broncos being all in on moving up, that they were
willing to shop Pats or Tan, and it was garbage.
He was completely made up. We've talked to Sean Payton
since then he admits as much. It was completely made up.
These people weren't talking anyway. They weren't talking to anybody
that was talking to him and the Broncos at no
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time we're looking at packaging Pats or Tan to do anything.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
They view him as a cornerstone piece.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
I just thought it was interesting to go back and
look at some of the stuff surrounding the acquisition of
bon Nicks, because I think it was funny at the
time when when I tweeted out that he was the
third quarterback on their board after the selection. People were
laughing at me. Well he was the sixth quarterback taken. Yeah, yeah,
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I was. He was the third on their board, not everybody's.
He was the third quarterback one. They had a very
high evaluation on bon Nicks. You'll remember Sean Payton came
out and whether it's arrogance, whether it's hubris, whether it's factual,
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came out and said that we're smarter at selecting quarterbacks
than everybody else.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
We're better at it.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Okay, they got the guy that they had rated higher.
I mean, he was the third quarterback on their board,
behind Caleb Williams and Jayden and Daniels.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And it wasn't just Sean Payton that was impressed by that.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
Phil Rivers came out and said he was more impressed
by bow Knicks than Drake May when he worked out
with both of them. Statistically, there's a good chance Bonnicks
might be Phil Rivers's sun.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
My kid, but we'll see.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I just the paralysis by hyper analysis stuff is sort
of bothering me right now, because you've got camp too.
You know, people in two camps. BO can do no
wrong and BO can do no right. And the reality
is as it always is somewhere down the middle. I'm
optimistic about this season. I want to see another frame
of bow before we start to settle it on the
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idea of him being the starter. We have that luxury.
It's the preseason. We don't have to name a starter yet.
We'll see how that goes. I think the more interesting
aspect of this is who's shaking loose in the running
back room is we have too many bodies.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
J p.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Ryan certainly did not put on the showing that he
needed to to justify the salary that he's taking relative
to the rest of the room. Broncos can say three
million dollars against the cap and in cash by moving
on from Peter Ryan, and I have it on good
authority if he's released, he would be right back in
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Cincinnati the next day, So don't fret on him not
having a job. And then the wide receiver room, people
were asking me why Marvin Mims was working with more
of the third team.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
It was by design.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
They wanted to get him some get him some volume reps,
and they wanted Wilson to be able to, you know,
have the arm to hit him deep and all that
kind of stuff, And it was more about trying to
get trying to get each of them reps with certain
personnel groups and all that kind of stuff. It's not
that Marvin Mims is wide receiver AID or whatever.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
People were saying.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
They wanted to get to look at some of the
other guys up with some of the other higher stuff
and go from there, and that's perfectly understandable.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
You know, I get it.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
That's what the preseason is for, is taking a look
at some of these guys. Okay, let's let's bump them
up a little bit. Take a look here. You know,
Marvin Mims is going to be your starting punt returner,
might be involved in kick returns, definitely going to be
involved in the passing game. So we'll see how that
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shakes out. Now, let's go check in with traffic with
Dave O'Brien five six six nine zeros text line. Somebody
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doesn't like my cadences. The pause between statements is unbearable.
I appreciate that. I'm actually a little thirsty, so I'm
trying to I'm trying to do that to quench my throat.
My throat's been scratchy, and I'm trying to drink water.
So that's why the part between all your statements makes
it very unbearable to even listen to you. Well, then
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don't Yeah, the four h six the trade Pat stuff
was was flat out baffling. I didn't understand we have
to trade, sir, Tan. It's historyonics from sports talk radio
guys that don't know what they're talking about. These are
the same guys that told you the Denver Broncos needed
to draft Justin Fields instead of Pat Cirtan.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
When they did. They were wrong then and they're wrong now.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
I don't you know this desperation for quarterback and all
that you must must keep going after the quarterback. And
now you get a guy, you see if he's the guy,
and you continue to try to put good pieces around
him as best you can. You draft talent, you take talent,
and as long as you continue to do that, you're
gonna mess around and find out you got a good
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football team, but good as the quarterback. You had no
talent around them. Coover can vouch for that. Matt Stafford
had Matt Stafford and Calvin Johnson and nothing else.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
That's very true. I'm just saying you're.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Long suffering Detroit Lions fan and much happier man these
days wearing a Kansas Jayhawk hoodie and Detroit you're a
much happier football man these days. But I mean, that's
the thing is if you cool, you got the quarterback
and that you do need that, but you got to
have a team around them. And we've seen in recent
years that the formula for doing this is set the
groundwork for a good football team. Go out and get
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the rookie quarterback. While you've got the good football team
and him on the rookie deal, and that's your opening window.
Then you have to reset once the once the rookie
quarterback hits that second contract. Look at a team, for instance,
like the San Francisco forty nine ers. They backdoored their
way into Brock Party. But the plan was Trey Lance
and it was the same plan. Right, you have the
good team, you put the you get the rookie quarterback
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in there so you can pay all the team around them,
and that's your super Bowl window.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Well, what's interesting about the Lions is is they kind
of did it the opposite way. They don't have a
rookie quarterback. They have Jared Goff who they're paying a
bunch of money. But they got a whole bunch of
picks and the Matthew Stafford trade.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, I mean, and that helped, you know, redo the
building blocks and you're seeing that that that the way
they rebuilt that around Jared Goff and all that kind
of stuff a little bit different, but most people, the
formula has been, build a good football team, find the
franchise quarterback. After that, and I can look at the
winners right now. San Francisco they did that, Kansas City
did that. They had Alex Smith as a placeholder than
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they eventually drafted Pat Malmes. The key for these teams
has been to build the team and then find the guy.
And Jared Goff, while a placeholder for the Lions, has
been above and beyond as a placeholder, well very much so.
Speaker 2 (28:23):
I mean, he's been a revelation.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I mean Sean McVay basically discarded him and was just
kind of a throw in in that trade. But that
trade got him Jamira Gibbs, it got him pinn A Sewel,
they got him mom On Ross, Saint Brown, it got
him a whole host of players.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
You know, the building blocks for what they are now.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Now when it comes time to pay all those guys,
that's going to be interesting to sort of see what
they're able to do where they have to cut corners.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
About all this is again you have to sort of
build the football team and then find the quarterback. You
can't just find the quarterback and hope to build around them.
You know, you want to create an offense around that guy.
But history has shown us repeatedly that the formula for
success is to build a good football team and try
to find the quarterback. That's that's just how you get
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long term success. I mean, look around you look at
the Buffalo Bills. You know, look at what the Cincinnati
Bengals have done. You know, they got broke, but they haven't.
They've neglected the offensive line, which has been a problem,
but they built that defense. They put a lot into
that defense to get that part of it done. You
look at what the Bills did. You look what Kansas
City's done. San Francisco. We go on and on.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
The key here is build a football team and find
the quarterback.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
By the way, what do you think is gonna happen
with Jamar Chase. He's been a hold out, hold in,
but now he decided not to show up to practice today.
How do you see that winding up.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
I think that's putting a little pressure on him, I believe,
and Alan knows a lot about this. You know, Mike
Brown feels is he's aging owner and feels like that
they're close, and so you know, he's trying to play
hard ball with some of these players. But I think
at the end of the day, you know, he desperately
wants to win one before he passes, and so I
think that's you know, he gets tantalizingly close against the Rams,
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and so I think ultimately they'll cave on Chase.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
They kind of have to. You know, what are you
gonna do? Roal t Higgins out there?
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That's what they're gonna do, at least for this year
and next year he's going to be gone.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Well right, he's on the on the franchise tag Dito
Ones has been. Last week on KAWI Sports, he and
Rappaport said, Allbright's the only one with the reasonable voice
on the Broncos QB situation. So I've been listening to
you since the seven sixty days. Well, uh yeah, I
am the voice of reason around here despite the the
ire of some others. And I think he was referred
to the Ayuk situation. But regardless, wait, how's that gonna
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wind up? Steelers are forty nine. It could go either way.
I'll say this, San Francisco doesn't want to trade him,
and I don't think Brandon Ayuk necessarily wants to move on,
But that that the the negotiations there have gotten so
messy and so convoluted. I still think there's a larger
than I think. There's a larger than people think chance
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he's back in San Francisco when the dust settles. You know,
Pittsburgh's been pressing for this since March. You know, I
tweeted about it back then. I've got some text message,
you know, stuff that I've put out there. Pittsburgh's been
on this since March. And part of this is because
Ayuk does so well in the run game. It's not
just that he's a great receiver, he is. He's also
a fantastic blocker and willing blocker as a receiver, and
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that's that's rare to find. And so I think the
offenses that plan on heavily featuring the run game, like Pittsburgh,
like San Francisco, are heavily invested in trying to acquire
his services. Pittsburgh's got the money to pay him, and
they need another receiver opposite Pickens, and that sort of
created the problem here for the Steelers, because what the
Niners want back in trade is draft picks and a receiver,
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and Pittsburgh's not giving him Pickens, and they don't have
anything else worth trading for. So I tend to still
think that there's going to be a larger than average
chance that San Francisco manages to reacquire. All right, I say, reacquire,
get Brandon, and I you done. Congratulations to Tom Gardner
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I believe is tomorrow morning on Colorado Morning News.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's correct.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm not sure what time, So you have to be listening.
Usually do those once per show all day, so you
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got I got my suit for the home opener, it
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just arrived, was getting it tailored.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
What are you gonna wear? For the preseason opener against
the Packers, I'm gonna wear my eighties sport coat Jack.
You know the one, the eighties crazy looking sport coat. Yeah, yeah,
I'm gonna wear that one of the preseason I tend
to recycle a couple of looks at the preseason and
then debut something for the regular season. So I have
a suit that is befitting of playing the Steelers. I'll
say that nice.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
There's a yellow, yellow suit with with some some fun
accents to it. So if you guys pay attention to
the wacky stuff that I wear to these games, you'll
be able to see what I roll out. When Pittsburgh
comes to town for the Week two game here against
the Denver Broncos, it.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Was gonna be Russell Wilson or Justin Fields the quarterback
there there.
Speaker 1 (33:28):
Well, Russ will start the season at quarterback for the
for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 2 (33:31):
I've talked to people up there.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
The media is pushing a Justin Fields narrative, but the
coaches say that it's not really close between the two.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
So there's that. We'll see. We'll see ultimately how that.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
If Justin's able to take the job over the course
of the season maybe, but Russ will start the season,
and I imagine you would let Russell Wilson start. Coming
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