09-23-24 Hour 3 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Pitch is hit well the right field, back to the wall,
so winskey to watch it fly. Touch them all time,
Charlie Blackman. Pitch, Charlie drives it the right Brennan going back.
It is gone, touch him all time, Charlie Blackman.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight. But with all Brian Dick, Ferguson,
Grant Smith, we're gonna go right out to the Kway,
commaspar the hotline and bring on Jack Corgan voice all
the Rockies. Big news Tonight's obviously Charlie Blackman announcing his retirement.
But we're here at the Sporty Pickley Pickleball Bar and
grill and Jack, I gotta ask you, first of all
the most important question of today.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Do you play pickleball?

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I have not played pickleball yet. I think I'm one
of the few that hasn't. I still am out on
the golf course more and do the gym to try
and stay in shape. But everybody tells me I should
play keep thinking about it. Not yet though, Well.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
You got to come down here and he gotta come
out here with the Sporty pickle and try it out.
It's a bar that actually has pickleball courts in it.
I'm looking at it right now. There are people playing pickleball.
We've got two football games. A lot of stuff going
on here right now. Obvious in the big news of
the day, we mentioned it earlier, Charlie Blackman announcing his retirement.
What a career he has had with the Colorado Rockies
and what he's meant to the Colorado Rockies. I don't

(01:26):
think can be understated as a guy who sat through,
you know, several different iterations as well as some seasons
with what we knew were going to be some some
down teams and stuck it out with Colorado whether they're
chasing fame or fortune somewhere else. It's been a few
years since he's been the you know, the big time slugger,
probably since twenty nineteen, so he's really been that big
time slugger. But it's certainly been a treat to watch

(01:48):
him over the years. What is your what is your
favorite Charlie Blackman memory?

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Wow, that's that's a tough one, Benjamin. You know, I
don't know if it's a specific memory. I think it
would be more about how Charlie goes about his business.
I mean, you could maybe, say to a degree he's OCD.
But I mean, like most baseball players, they have a rhythm,

(02:15):
They have a routine to how they get ready to
play each and every day and the long schedule that
is a major League baseball season, and Charlie never deviates
from that. You know, he's fun to be around, He's
an easy guy to interview, but when he's on his
prep schedule, he's on prep scheduling and you're not going

(02:39):
to be a part of it. But I think that's
why he's played for fourteen years, because he's been so
consistent in what he does.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Well, Jack, when you listen to.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
How Charlie talks about why do he played baseball?

Speaker 3 (02:55):
And he's loved.

Speaker 5 (02:56):
Playing baseball ever since he was a kid, but now
he said he still loved the game, but he doesn't
feel like a kid anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
Well, when you hear a guy who.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Just embodied everything about playing baseball now say that fourteen
years in, Well, what does that make you think about
what Charlie has gone through both physically and emotionally playing
for the Rockies.

Speaker 4 (03:21):
Yeah, you know, Nick, I think it's a fair question.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
You know.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
The interesting thing about baseball, I mean, like any sport.
I mean, you want to win, you want to have
a championship. I mean, that's the goal of any athlete,
especially at the professional level. But the beauty of baseball
and the challenge of baseball with all the games, you know,

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you just go through that grind and prepare for the
next day. And the wonderful thing about it is, you know,
here the Rockies sitting with sixty wins this year and
they're thirty games behind the Dodgers, and it's not what
anybody wanted. But if you ask Jerry Shemmel or me,
you know how much fun we've had in the booth.

(04:11):
You know, I could probably rattle off one hundred games
where it was fun to be there that night, even
if it wasn't to win for the Rockies, because that's
what baseball does. I mean, it's so different from the
other sports in that regard. And I think Charlie's pulling
the plug because the level of consistency that he has

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maintained for all these years just gets tougher and tougher
as you get older, and you know that's the challenge.
He's got a couple of young children now. He loves
to fish and hunt, and you know, I just think
he's all over the Rockies record books. He's going to

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be second in almost every category offensively. Todd Helton personally,
I'm thrilled that he's gonna be another one of those
one uniform guys. He's played fourteen years for one team
and in all sports now that's becoming increasingly rare. So

(05:18):
when you get a guy who's played his whole career
and one uniform, that's pretty special.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Talking with Jack Corgan, voice of the Rockies here and
talking about Charlie Blackman, who has announced his retirement at
the end of this season, Yeah, I think you hit
the nail on the head there. There's something for me,
and that is you know, it's being my age. I mean,
I'm fourty three years old. I've grown up largely in
the era of free agency, and it's rare that you

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see those players that stick it out with the team
their entire career. Is one of my favorite players played
for four teams.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
And Nolan Ryan.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, I did see George Bretton mostly stay with
obviously stay with Kansas City, so I kind of strat
those eras, but.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
You don't really have a lot of that anymore.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
It fills me with the sort of sense of wonder
of what this generation thinks of guys who played their
entire career for a team.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah. I think it's at the risk of sounding old,
of course I am old, But I think, Benjamin, some
of it is as you do watch all these seasons
go by, and you appreciate the accomplishments, the incredible accomplishments
of baseball players, and when you sit and look at

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it and you get those guys like it Charlie Blackman,
like a Todd Hilton that were just one uniform for
a you know, a mid market team in terms of
baseball money. That says something about their characters, says something
about their commitment, And for me, that's what's made it fun.

(06:58):
I mean, I'm gonna miss having them, or you know,
be weird not having that big beard and the mullet
haircut and all of that, But I guess somebody else
will have to assume that role.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
Well, speaking of that, Jack who now stepped into that
captain type role for for the Rockies right now, which
I'll be expecting to retire on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Yeah, you know, that's a good question, Nick, I think, uh,
you know, certainly, you'd look first at Ryan McMahon, who
has really kind of assumed some of that, more so
this year than any of the previous seasons.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
For Mac.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
You usually don't get a captain type necessarily out of
the pitching staff, just because it's a different animal than
the guys who play the positions every day. But but
Kyle Freelan's a big boys in the in the clubhouse,
even as a starting pitcher, so I think he helps

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in that regard. And to be honest with you, guys,
if you ask me, you know who are the leaders
on this team? It's the two kids, Tovar and Doyle.
I mean, people just appreciate how they go about their business,
learning from a guy like Charlie Blackman, and you know,
with great careers potentially ahead of them, I think they're

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the two that will be looked up to by guys,
even guys older than them, as leaders on the team,
much like those veteran guys knew early on that Derek
Jeter was the guy, even when some of them were
ten twelve years older than Jeter was. It's interesting how
leadership unfolds and it'll be fun to watch how it

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goes for the Rockies.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Moving forward, well, tying into that, what is the state
of this Rockies team? Because I know what this year
was obviously brutal, but you look at it, there are
a few flashes here. I mean, Tovar is a budding
star in this sleep. It's like a pretty solid player.
If totally get that batting average out to go with
the power, he could be something over there.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
What is the state of this team as it stands?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Well, you know, if you look at the macro and
you see that they're sixty and ninety five or sixty
and ninety six with six games to go, you kind
of go, oh man, there's a long road. And I'm
not saying the road's easy, but when you go behind
the numbers a little bit and you look at this

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last stretch of playing twenty seven straight against the playoff
teams or playoff contending teams, and they've played five hundred
They played the first eighty one games, or the first
half of the season with a winning percentage in the
low trees. Since that point here in the second half,
they're in the mid fours. That's still not where you

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want to be, but where you look at the progression
and you see the young kids in the bullpen. You
see Ryan Feltner, for example, looking like he's finally started
to figure it out. Can they make that, you know,
quantum leap like Kansas City did to go from you know,

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a team well under five hundred to a playoff contender.
I don't know if I could take them that far,
but I think this is a better team when you
dig into what's happening and what's coming up the pipeline,
you know a little bit like people look at the
Broncos now and say, Okay, they may not have enough

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depth overall and other things, but hey, we got this
young guy, and we got that young guy, and you know,
the Rockies have Tobar and the Broncos have Nicks, and
you know, it's those kinds of starting points, if you will,
that you hope sooner rather than later, gets to where
you want to get.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Jack.

Speaker 5 (10:56):
We all think that we all prepared for when we
have an opportunity to call the quits. And with Charlie's
last game expected at home against the Dodgers, we walk
our audience through what you think that that moment is
going to be like for him at Corsefield.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
Yeah, I think, you know, and talking to guys who
have played their last games. I know, talking to the
helping about it when his last game at Corsefield took place.
You tell yourself, I'm going to play the game like
it's another game, even if it is the last game
of the season. I'm sure every time he comes to bat,

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the emotion's gonna grow. That final at bat, maybe even
to the final out, is going to be powerful for him.
And then, of course the great Rockies tradition that the
Late down Baylor started, you know, the walk around Corsefield
after that last game at course Field for a season,

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where the players, you know, give their thanks to the
to the fans and and toss souvenirs up into the crowd,
and all of that that will, I'm sure be very
emotional for Charlie.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Gotta be, you know.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
And we once again talk with Jack Corgan, voice of
the Colorado Rockies. But Charlie Blackman announcing his retirement from baseball. Ultimately,
what will be Charlie Blackman's legacy as as a as
a baseball player, as a Colorado Rocky.

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Well, you know, I don't think the numbers are quite
enough to be a Hall of Famer, but I do
think the numbers are enough that I would hope at
some point Charlie's number is going to be retired and
be put up there and the Rockies Ring of honor,
much like the Broncos, you know, joining Larry Walker and

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and Todd and and of course uh the Lake Kelly McGregor.
I fully expect to see uh Chuck Nasty's numbers up there.
And you know what would be the coolest thing is
to put the number up there and then have a
little beard hanging down.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Jack Corgan, the voice of the Colorado Rockies, absolutely throwing
some heat there at the end to close this thing
out with the save. What a great job there, Jack,
I love it. I love that idea. We got to
get that. We got to get that up there in
the stand at the jersey with the little beard on it.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
That'd be uh, that would be phenomenal.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
Jack Corgan, Voice the Rockies, joining us talking about Charlie
Blackman retiring from baseball.

Speaker 3 (13:38):
Jack, we always appreciate the time.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
My pleasure, Benjamin and Nick. I love talking with you
guys too. You know what these times, uh, maybe one
my wife's out on one of her vacations for their girlfriends,
we'll I'll hop down to where you guys are and
and sit in for a while and we'll just talk football.
Maybe a little baseball, but we'll talk football.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh, you were always welcome.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
You don't need an express invitation. You come down here anytime.
We're putting a microphone on you. We're we're having you
regalus with stories. So Jack, we always love talking to you, brother,
and look forward talking to you again soon.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
All right, thank you guys.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
Absolutely, take care.

Speaker 2 (14:13):
Jack Corgan, Voice of the Rockies, on the retirement Charlie
Blackman retiring from baseball at the fourteen years with the
Colorado Rockies.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
We got an NFL six pack. We come back.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
Pitches it right, McLaughlin, Oh, don't cut, don't stop. He
didn he outran the pursuit and Denver has a touchdown playfake.

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Nick's rollstory is right, run it bow to the five
to the goal line, touchdown, Denver.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Welcome back to it, Broncos Country tonight, Benjamin Albright, Nick Ferguson,
Grant Smith here with you guys. Listen this football season.
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You guys want to come out there and we look
forward to having you guys out there and also getting.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
Registered for those things. Let's let's get to it. Let's
get to the NFL six pack. It's time for the
NFL six pass.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
I'm gonna trade the last year the Insight did insight
information you can't find anywhere else.

Speaker 5 (15:17):
No.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Six the top six NFL headlines.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
What well Broncos quarterback Mo Knicks hasn't thrown a touchdown
pass yet, although he's run a couple. Jadeen Daniels, the
Commander's quarterback, had not thrown a touchdown pass in his.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
Career either, but he got one in Week three. It
didn't go to Terry McLaurin or Norah Brown.

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Or Austin Ekleer or Brian Robinson or anybody you would
have guessed. Instead, it was caught by Trent Scott, an
extra offensive tackle on a trick play. Daniels rold left
toss the one yard touchdown of Scott, prompting the sideline
to go absolutely crazy. Washington scored touchdowns on all four
of its first possessions, not counting a one play neel
down to and the half.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Jae Daniels had two or thirty three yards at that point.
Chase the team at two the three yards.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
Daniels was ten eleven for one hundred and fifty two
yards and a touchdown at that point. Austin Eckler also
had to pick play in that game. But Jadan Daniels
looks like he's sort of coming into his own there
as well. I would say that Ian BOENICKX, have I
played Caleb Williams thus far?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Well? Yeah, I mean, looking at his stats, that's the
way that it looks, and looking at what mincoln Rome
he was trying to do. Where Jayde Daniels, all that's
starting to come together and it goes back to believing
in oneself. But once again, go back to that catch.
I mean, there's no way that if you would have
told Jane Daniels his first catch, his first touchdown would

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be to.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
An offensive line. I mean I grew up dreaming of
this exactly.

Speaker 5 (16:39):
But if you're Trend Scott, obviously you got to decide
who's gonna get the ball, because.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
Right it's Trent Scott's for a touchdown exactly.

Speaker 5 (16:46):
But you know what, in that case, the quarterback takes
president over anything. So jayde and Dane's gotta get the ball.
But great play because off of the lineman. We never
really hear about those guys unless it's the penalty. But
to catch a touchdown on Monday Night football.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
That's a big day. I'm always here for the big
fellow touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Next story two, Hey, Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills,
the safety you inspired America with his perseverance, have to
bring in a cardiac arrest on the field on Monday
Night football, January second, of twenty twenty three is tonight
was having a Monday Night to remember for.

Speaker 3 (17:16):
Positive reasons for Buffalo.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
Hamlin intercepted Trevor Lawrence in the second quarter tonight, giving
him his first interception of his NFL career, set up
a Bill's touchdown that gave them a twenty seventy three
we need.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Over the hapless Jaguars.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
That also served a reminder of what a tremendous comeback
Hamlin has made from that dark night in Cincinnati when
the game was canceled. In the football world feared he
wouldn't survive. Hamlin didn't just survive, didn't just return to play.
He's continued to prove earned a starting job, but now
has his first interception. Meanwhile, Hamlin continues to praise a
raise awareness for importance of CPR training, the availability of

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add devices at sporting events, not just a professional level,
but everywhere. He's made a huge difference, but becoming a
spokesperson for a cause he never probably would have once
a been linked to, but he's made a major impact
off the field and then tonight making a major impact
on the field.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
How happy are we for Damar handling?

Speaker 5 (18:05):
Well, definitely, I mean, first and foremost, before we were
talking about football, this is talking about from a personal standpoint,
Troy guy. To go through everything that he went through,
from the health scare that we all watched terrify some
people crying and just looking at the faces of his
teammates during that time to get to this particular point.
It is great to see that he is thriving in
this particular way and hopefully that this is something that's

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becomes verna be inspirational for other.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
People moving forward.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Yeah, I mean for me, it's a great story for
him to even be able to come back and play,
but for him to come back and play on a
starting job something he hadn't had before and now producing
on the field, just what a great story and what
a feel.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
Good moment I think for just about every buddy.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
Next story three, Reggie Bush is suing the ncaa USC
and PAC twelve for name, image and likeness compensation during
his collegiate career. The ce change in college football is
restored Reggie Bush's Heisman trophy and now Bush is.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Looking for more.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Via Sheehn jay Rajah of CBS Sports dot Com, Bush
has sued the ncaa USC and the PAC twelve.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Or quarter left it at this point, for name, image and.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Likeness compensation during his career. Lawyer Evan Selik said in
a statement, this case is not just about.

Speaker 3 (19:21):
Seeking justice for Riggie Bush.

Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's about setting a precedent for the fair treatment of
oil college athletes. The goals to rectify this injustice and
pay the way for a system where athletes are rightfully recognized, compensated,
and treated fairly for their contributions.

Speaker 3 (19:34):
We appreciate that.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
The newest administration at USC is trying to pick up
the pieces of a former administration's unjust mbmproper handling of
Reggie Bush. However, the delay in fixing this speaks of volumes.
That's from lawyer dvi J mccatherine. The second Bush previously
sued the NCAA for defamation after a spokesperson claimed Bush
was involved in pay for play arrangements.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Days before the two thousand.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
And six draft or reports service that Bush's family it
received benefits from an agency that it o to represent him.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
When Bush hired a different firm, things got ugly.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Bush was never accused of directly receiving money from anyone in.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
A far different environment.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
The reports parked investigations and punishments the removal of Reggie
Bush's heisman for.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
The two thousand and five season.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Now that the nil worm has sharply turned players everywhere
receiving compensation the form of anile payments.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
Most obvious issue arising.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
From the news of lawsuits the question of whether or
not Bush's effort to recover compensation from nearly twenty years
ago is barred by any applicable statutes of limitations, but
the anti trust issues that ultimately forced the nil flopgates
open were hid to complaints side for decades before a
legal assault commenced in recent years.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Second overall pick in two thousand and six.

Speaker 2 (20:39):
Bush played the Saints, Dolphins, Lions, Niners, Bills in eleven
NFL seasons. How do we feel about Reggie Bush trying
to recruit recoup money on an NIL deal that did
not exist back when he played boy If he's.

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Able to do that with the present rules and there's
no they're breaking statutes of limitation and a give being
read actively give him back to Reggie Bush, I say, yeah,
do it because think about the Damnason's reputation took. Because
they you know, they took his heisman regardless of what

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he did at USC. They pulled down every little visible
kind of photo or anything that would say that Reggie
went to the USC. But for them to give him
back his heisman, I said, well, if there's some financial
benefits that he missed out on, hey give him to him.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
Why not? Yeah, I learned him. I'm all for it.
If it's if he's legally able to recover for him,
I'm all for it.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
I'd like to get all that stuff above board.

Speaker 3 (21:38):
I'd like you to get paid for playing back in
the day. Maybe they're not gonna go back that far. Well,
then I go back saying you could, you could cover
dinner ones. I'm just the next story. Or Eighteen days.

Speaker 2 (21:50):
Ago, we suddenly learned that forty nine Ers running back
Christian McCaffrey's calf strain accluded an achilles issue.

Speaker 3 (21:56):
Two weeks ago, we suddenly learned that questionable meant out.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Tonight, Adam Schefter of ESPN reported that McCaffrey will see
a specialist in Germany for his achilles tendonitis. McCaffrey was
placed on injured reserve before Week two game at Minnesota.
He is eligible for return for a week six Thursday
night game at Seattle. However, given that he's flying across
the Atlantic Ocean in search of answers to his lingering problem,
it feels like he won't be back anytime soon. Jordan

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Mason had a pair of one hundred yard games in
McCaffrey's absence. On Sunday in la Mason had nineteen carries
for seventy seven yards against the Rams, caught two passes
for eleven yards as well. This seemingly is going further
and further south for Christian McCaffrey and those of us
who drafted in first overall in our fantasy drafts, who
are the important people here are getting worked well.

Speaker 5 (22:42):
No pun attended with the McCaffrey name, but it seemed
as though you're right, things are starting to trickle down
you because first it was just a caf and when
you think about a calf, you think just someone of
was straight. But when you've lived think at from Annatomis standpoint,
that cap trickles down into the Achilles area and you

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definitely don't want to have an issue with that. And
think about what's happening with Russell Wilson and Pittsburgh still
nursing a calf injury. But the fact that CMC has
to go to Germany, a place where several other professional
athletes have gone to receive medical care. The first thing
I think about was what's really going over in Germany
that they can't do here in the United States.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Some of those stem cell treatments.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
And stuff can't be done here legally for whatever reason,
but they can't over.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
The need to take some damn rooms. I'm with you,
on that I'm a honer, so I'd like to get
stem cell therapy.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Just keep me looking on, get it, give me your faith,
doing ejections like botox and it.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Whatever it takes, like this is his face to start
the age. I gotta I gotta reduce the crackets here.
Next story five. Jordan Loves doing everything you can to
get back out.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
As Packers, of course lost starting quarterback Jordan Love near
the end of the season opening loss to the Eagles,
they did not see their season to go down to
the drain, though they've won both games with backup Malik Willis,
who has started instead. Still the Packers working to get
Loved back as soon as possible, Coach Matt lafleur said
Monday via Dominique Ate something Milwaukee Journals Central Sentinel.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
Excuse me.

Speaker 2 (24:09):
The spring to mcl in Love's left knee as healing,
as he was able to return to practice on a
limited basis last week. He was considered questionable for Sunday's
game against the Titans, but ended up being inactive after
going through pregame drills and conditioning. Lafoura said this week
will be similar for Love. I'm sure he'll be limited
then we'll work at day to day. Love participated some
team drills last week with the Packers are taking a

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deliberate approach in his return. Laflora said, I think anybody
that saw what happened to him, that's a legitimate injury.
He's working through it. He's trying to do everything's power
to be out there. We want him out there.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Willis. It was credit.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
We completed thirteen and nineteen passes for a career high
two u D two yards and a touchdown at seventy
three on the ground and a touchdown against his former team,
the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 3 (24:49):
Love is helping Willis, who arrived less than a month
ago in a.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Trade from Tennessee, in the meeting room, in practice, and
on the sideline, Willis said that Jordan's been awesome.

Speaker 3 (24:57):
He's always been a good teammate. For the day he
got here well, Florres said, I thought throughout the course
of the.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Week helping Malik out, give me a little pointers, coaching points.
I think he's not a phenomenal job with the communication
stands right.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Buy me on game day if you see something he
tells me.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
If Elik needed to play call, he's standing right there
to let me know. But excellent on the sideline. Can't
say enough about him. The Packers. It's interesting because I
want to juxtapost two teams here. The Packers are a
team that didn't really panic. They just said, next man up,
even if he's a guy who just got here, we're
gonna make this work. And Milik Willison boy has it
for a couple of games. The other team would be
the Miami Dolphins, who feel.

Speaker 3 (25:31):
Like they're panicked, although they haven't really made up a move.
And I don't know why you'd signed Tim Boyle, but
that was ridiculous. They were alloy scout of Thompson. He
got hurt, Now you got Tim Boyle.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Now they're at a position where they got to find
something because you don't know when two is coming back.
If he's coming back and Tim Boyle ain't.

Speaker 5 (25:43):
In it, well you know, I'm gonna tip my cap
to both Matt Lafleur and Adams Tinovich because those two
guys have done an excellent job with getting Malik Willis
up to speed.

Speaker 3 (25:55):
As far as offense is concerned.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
Obviously, over time, you know, Jordan Love was to make
his comeback, but for the time being, you gotta think
I mean.

Speaker 3 (26:04):
To keep the Packers hopes alive in the North to.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
Know that you have an athletic quarterback that fits your scheme.
And the reason what I give before insteadivis credit because
they could have sticked to the motto, Well this office
was built for Aaron Rodgers. We've seen that offense change
to fit Jordan Love and now they're just kind of
throwing those extra things from Elie Willis. But here's another guy,
and Willis who I'm happy for because change of scenery

(26:29):
has done him well. He went from just being a
cast off for the Titans to now people are now
talking about him as being a quality quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Next story six, Well, the Chargers have a significant player
availability issue on both sides of the ball, and they
got bad news today as safety Derwin James has been
suspended for a game for repeated violations of safety rules.
Had a visit to the three and Old Chiefs coming.
They might not have quarterbacks and Herbert, they won't have

(27:01):
rookie first round tackle Joe Alt penning appeal. They won't
have safety Derwin James the NFL and AlSi. James has
been suspended for one game for quote repeated violations of
playing rules.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
Intended to protect the health and safety of players.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
The last straw came on Sunday in Pittsburgh, where he
was penalized for lowering his helmet forcibly striking Steelers tight
end Pat Fryermouth and the helmet with it.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
Earlier in the game, James was penalized for grabbing and
upon its face mask.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
James appeals the matter will be handled on expedite and
basis by either Derek Brooks FROMONO Foster, Kevin Moway, or
Jordan Nelson, the hearing officers jointly hired to compensated by
the NFL and NFLPA.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
But it appears that Derwin James sort.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
Of has a Kareem Jackson problem here.

Speaker 3 (27:39):
Probably the best way I can put that in the
sense that you're being suspended by the league.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
For player safety violations and penalties that you're accruing. Derwin
James are very talented safeties obviously was career Jaxon.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
But at this point the Chargers can't take too much
more of this. No, you can't.

Speaker 5 (27:54):
But this is just Durwin James being victimized by being
a repeat offender. And the league has said that they're
making an emphasis on trying to clean the game up,
which is gonna be very difficult because it is a
physical game. But if I'm coaching Darren James, I'm gonna
tell him, look, you just need to correct a couple
of things.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
But I don't want to change you so much.

Speaker 5 (28:15):
Where you remove the aggressiveness of the player. That's one
thing you don't want to do as a defensive coach.
But you still have to send him down and say, look,
these are the plays that the league are saying that
are illegal plays. And sometimes man were talking about bang
bang plays.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
The guy catches the.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Ball, you make contact with him, and sometimes it's a helmet.
But just try to coach him throughout the week as
far as here's what the target area is, just like
in baseball, right.

Speaker 3 (28:39):
Here's our strikes on. If you can't hit him here
trying to push him down and I know, hey, you're
gonna see him as though.

Speaker 5 (28:44):
The game is made software for guys who used to
playing physically, But in order for us to have you
on the field to be successful, you're gonna have to
buy by these rules.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Be off.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
And that is the thing I mean, with the emphasis
on player safety the way that it is, I do
believe the league incurs the responsibility to say, hey, this
is we need to coach this this way, this specific way.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
So there's a standard across the board. But that's that's
certainly an issue.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
There one other thing I wanted to touch on real
quick here the Kansas City Chiefs continue to move the
need a little bit here. Sunday night football game between
Kansas City and Atlanta attracted an audience of twenty four
point eight million viewers on average. It was for NBC,
the most watched Week three Sunday night football game ever.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
The game peaked to twenty seven and a half million
viewers just before halftime.

Speaker 2 (29:29):
The audience surpassed last year's Week three game between Steelers
and Raiders by twenty percent of that amount.

Speaker 3 (29:36):
Two point six.

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Million watched it on Peacock. So the streaming audience continues
to be about ten percent. But that is an absolutely
astronomical number. Is the NFL continues to just absolutely dominate
ratings across the board, and just when you think they
can't get bigger, they continue to do so.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
So ah, so that was the reason pass and appearance
is not called right is the h okay.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
I don't know if you as you saw the new
ref uniforms were unveiled. They're red with a Kansas City loco.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
Oh no, I I did not see them.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
I gotta go.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
I have definitely let.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Nobody put out a meme on there that new the
NFL has put out new referee uniforms.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
That it is. It's like a red and white striped
uniform with a Chief logo. But here's something that is
really interesting. It's amazing that when we look at.

Speaker 5 (30:17):
The Chiefs statistically, look at the penalties that they're up
there in the league.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Yeah, except when he comes to the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
You're right, there's a precipitous drop off all of a
sudden in the floor.

Speaker 5 (30:28):
They're trying to make it seem appealing across the board
that everyone is being penalized. But with Kansas City, I
don't know, if it's just me, just just like check
out the next Kansas City game. Look at what happens
in the first half and then compare that to what
happens in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And where the penalties occur too, right, because there's some
crime drive killers penalties versus you know, kind of stack
on penalties or something like that. You know, if if
Kansas City occurs a penalty that puts their opponent from
third and eighteen to third to thirteen, that doesn't really
affect the outcome of much, whereas you know you could
get a first down or drive extender.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
Those guys things. We have seen a bit of a
disparity there. And I'm not saying but I'm saying, look.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
Look, you've got a whole line of tinfoil hats. I
know you're trying to sell here, but.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
You know, for I will say that there is myself.
You'll watch the games, you see the same thing. Yeah,
I've seen a little bit of it.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
I can say that I'll can see a little This
is something we're going to get into a little bit
later on this week because I do want to dive
into the data.

Speaker 3 (31:21):
I see exactly how bad it is.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
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