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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to it.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Broncos Country tonight, but with all Bran, Nick Ferguson Grant
Smith live from Sam's Number three in Glendale. I don't
even know what that picture is, Nick, Why you show
me that? Six sixty nine zero is the text line?
You guys haven't come on Sam's Number three. We still got
the QR coat ups. You guys qualified for Broncos Panthers tickets.
Like a great food out here. We were chowing out earlier.

(00:21):
I had some uh chicken, some chicken fried chicken. It's
a couple of eggs over hard. I had the uh,
the hash browns, a sour dough toast.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
It was uh, it was a good good time. I
love breakfast for dinner.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
You went all in.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
I did go all see having breakfast for dinner as
an option when you know you have other options, See,
that's cool, But having breakfast for dinner when that's all
you had, That's what I went.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Through growing up.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, absolutely absolutely had the lads, we're doing it special.
We're having we're having eggs because eggs were cheap. We're
having as you know, for dinner, and uh, you know
growing up, and that was that was the thing, like
you know, Mom, I'm always found a way to I
guess make the presentation.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, dinner a little bit better.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
We didn't really do I never did cereal for dinner,
but we did breakfast foods for dinner several times.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Is it was a very cost effective option back Everything.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Was cost effective back then. You know what they call that? Akah.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
We got an interesting game coming up here. We talked
about it. The Raiders are a bit banged up.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But what can the Broncos do to maximize themselves put
themselves in the greatest position for success to win at
home against the Raiders on Sunday.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Continue to be a turnover defense in the menacing defense.
It's been a successful too thus far the season, and
the Broncos need to continue. What you think about where
the Raiders rank as far as rushing per game, I
think they're like seventy six yards a game.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, they're struggling to run the ball, which is interesting
because their offensive coordinator, Luke Getzi, the offensive coordinator of
the Bears, and that was the only thing they could
do with Chicago was run the ball. They couldn't they
couldn't throw it. Now they can't throw it. I mean
they can't do either.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, they can't.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
And then when you look at Gardner Minshew three touchdowns,
three interceptions, and I'm sure they're looking at bo Nick saying, well,
one touchdown, four interceptions, So they're thinking, okay, well, with
DeVante Adams being out of the game. On the officer side,
how can they create some instant offense?

Speaker 3 (02:25):
And for me, it's.

Speaker 4 (02:26):
Brock Bauers right, trying to feature Brock Bauers get him
involved with their offense. I mean, if you ever watch
Brock and college playing for the Georgia Bulldogs, you know
he was definitely a force in the passing game and
he's big.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Enough to run through arm tackles.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
So when I look at the Broncos secondary Brandon Jones
and PJ Lock, they're gonna have to know where Rock
Buyers is on every single play known as though he's
going to be an intricate part of what they do.
And don't forget, I mean, they still have Jacobe Myers.
He's a guy, smaller guy, speedy guy. He can break loose,
So you have to know where those guys are. But

(03:05):
for me, it starts on the defensive side of the ball.
May sound bias because I played defense but that has
been the strong that stirs the drink.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
So the the Broncos want to win this game and make.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Sure they don't get caught up in the whirlwind of
everything that's going on from an alumni standpoint on Sunday
and the fact that the Raiders are looking at this
like a trap game. The defense needs to come out
play like they play against the Jets, and they started
off against Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
I think the hitting component you got to keep your
eye on in this game is Trey Tucker, the wide
receiver for the Raiders, didn't do much the first two
weeks of the season, but he's come on the last
two weeks a little about at one hundred and fifty
yards of the touchdown over last two games against Cleveland
and Carolina, and he has They get him the ball,
They got him in a rushing play for a touchdown

(03:55):
as well. They like to utilize his speed. It's a
guy you can't lose out there.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
No, you can't.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
And once again, this is why it's very important for
the guys on the defensive side of the ball to
do an excellent job communicated, and more so now than
any of the games because three or four games you
played on the row, so communication wasn't an issue.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
But coming home, the team hasn't seen.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
You in a while.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
You're on a two game winning streak. It's alumni weekend.
The crowd is going to be into it. You have
to make sure you communicate on every single play. Don't
take anything for granted, because, as we talked about the
other night when Steve was on, even though Vance called
some dollars, some very good defenses as far as the

(04:43):
blistered concern, there were a couple of guys running open,
running wide open, and the Broncos definitely need to fix
that because if they don't fix that and they don't
communicate it pre and pro snap, the Raiders will find
opportunities to get the ball down the field against the
Broncos and a vertical passing game.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, on the ground game, it's usually a two headed
monster of Zamir White and Alexander Madison.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Neither have been particularly effective.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Madison has been much more effective than Zamara White, who's
got more reps.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
But White injured himself.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
In practice this week, so he may get a healthy
dose of Alexander Madison. Madison I think is a better player.
He catches the ball, better runs with a little bit
better power.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
I think as a as a pure running back, I
think White's a better athlete. I think Madison's a better
running back. He just runs a better vision than Zamir White.
And so we're gonna have to be That'll be interesting
if if White is unable to go, we really see
a full game of Madison. Who has better better running
back for the Raiders this season, that might present a
little bit as well. Well.

Speaker 4 (05:37):
The one thing that the Broncos have historically had trouble
with is being able to slow down the Raiders run game.
Whether it was White or whether it was Josh Jacobs,
they just kind of struggled in that category.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Now, that was one thing.

Speaker 4 (05:57):
That Vance Joseph wanted to find to is the fact
that he wanted to run defense to be much better.
And they have in spurts. But this is definitely one
of those games that you know the Raiders are going
to be ready to play. They're going to think, okay,
well let's run the ball to set up some things
for the passing game.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
But this still is a game.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
And this is why I think it's a trap game
because for the Raiders at this point, I know is
on the week five, they're saying, okay, well, our backs
against the corner.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
We could try almost anything.

Speaker 4 (06:30):
And when you have a desperate team, they are willing
to try every single trick play. They can't because they're
thinking the Broncos or Rod and High off the hall.
All they happy they want two games in a row.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
There's a couple of games this week that I think
are those kind of games. You look at Indian Jacksonville,
Jacksonville's up against it, they're looking at getting fired in
a clean a house down there, and the Broncos and
the Raiders. I think that this is a pivotal game
for either for both teams here.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
I think that this game could.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Determine the direction of the season for one of these teams.
They could either be a confidence builder or a confidence destroyer.
And in this particular game, I do think there is
something to having your back against the wall and playing desperate.
Miami is gonna be playing that way, You're gonna have Jacksonville, you.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Know, sort of playing that way.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
And I think the Raiders are potentially another team that
could be playing that way this weekend. I don't want
to overlook them, even though they're banged up, even though
they've not been highly successful. You don't want to overlook
a team that's playing playing desperate.

Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well, this thing about how their head coach, Antonio Peers
became the head coach. The team was playing with their
backs against the wall for several games, and because.

Speaker 3 (07:37):
They wanted Peers to be the head coach, they went
out there.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
And they fought for them.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
And you never want to take any team for granted,
but especially a team that's in a situation the Raiders
find themselves in and they're just trying to find a
way to get through into the next game. And what's
standing in their way as far as getting the Week
six are the Denver Broncos. And the one thing that
the Raiders have done and they go back to when

(08:04):
Mike Shenahan went into the Ring of Fame.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
The Broncos play the Raiders and they did.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
Every disappointing game because Shenahan is going into the Ring
of Fame and the team loss.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was embarrassing. That was one
of the ones I remember. I remember that. I remember
that day and it wasn't I don't remember it being
a particularly a close game either. It felt like it
was a game that did. The Raiders had control of
most of the game as well. Broncos need to reassert
dominance over the Raiders. That used to be two wins
you could count on every year. Now they haven't beaten
them since they were you know, in Oakland, and so

(08:35):
they do need to get that you got the you
got the Kansas City kind of kind of curse off
your back, you know last year. You need to you
need to finish the getting the Raiders streak off your back,
and in that way you can.

Speaker 1 (08:48):
You can move forward.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
There's something to be said for learning how to win,
and a part of that is erasing some of these
streaks to teams that have had your number.

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Well, yeah, learning how to win is what the Broncos
have done on their East Coast roach trip. That's the
plus side of things. And you have to know how
to win those tight, ugly games where it's inclement weather
and it looks messy and it is dirty. Sometimes you

(09:18):
have to learn how to do that. Now the Broncos
have shown that they can't do it. And this is
why I'm still optimistic about what we've seen from the
little of what we've seen from bo Nicks because if
you get this is say an explosive play here and
there that changes divide for this team. You know that

(09:38):
your defense is shown as though they can stop people
when they need to, they can force the turnovers, they
can put the offense on a short feel.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
It's just the fact that.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
When will the other shoe drop where you get the
same balance in production from the offense.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
And I think it's kind of right around the corner.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
And this is definitely the game that the Broncos can't
do it.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Now.

Speaker 4 (10:03):
The critic would say, okay, with the Broncos, you should
do that against his Raiders scene because they're so banged up.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
My idea is that, yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
So I want to see more of an offensive effort
and production in this game. Because the Broncos are averaging
around fifteen point two points a game. This is a
game where I'm gonna say, both Nick should at least
have two throwing touchdown and dare I say maybe a
rushing touch on the top.

Speaker 1 (10:29):
Of it, right, Yes, you need that. And I think
and that's the other thing.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
I think there are times where you would let up
on the gas, but I don't think the Broncos should
take the foot off the gas.

Speaker 3 (10:36):
In this game, you push it through the four I.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Think, I think I think you do.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
I think you continue to run and you continue to
build confidence in yourself that you can do it.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
If the Broncos are in this position, the game goes
the way that I think it should go. Should if
coach Payton has an opportunity to run up the score,
should he lean on sportsmanship or should he run.

Speaker 3 (10:57):
Up the score?

Speaker 1 (10:58):
Rough score?

Speaker 3 (10:59):
Okay?

Speaker 4 (11:00):
What if Antonio Pears has got his hands up on
the other side, going, come on man, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (11:05):
Stop me?

Speaker 3 (11:06):
Okay? I just wanted to make sure I just the one.

Speaker 2 (11:09):
Time where Sean Baden's ego can go. It can be
a runaway freight tak freight train, and I don't care.
It's not just beating the Raiders. It's it's it's it's
getting that that train.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
You know how it is? You see a train takes
a minute to get going once.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
What do you sounded like Thomas the training right there?

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Look you got you gotta.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Go for a local mode.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
I just thought I was giving the first team.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
You gotta give it, you know, you gotta give the
full you know it takes a minute to get it going.
But once it gets going, then it becomes something. And
that's that's the thing.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
You just need to get the offense to the point
where they get rolling, they get that confidence themselves that
we can score. We're gonna go out here and score.
We're we get the ball, we're taking it down. Then
we're getting this points. And you know, I I I
think that kind of keeping your foot on the gas.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
This weekend, we'll help with that a little bit.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
One thing I want to talk about.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
We talked about it a little bit before, but.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
Al Pal Alex Poshski, he's playing like a start at
right tackle right now.

Speaker 3 (11:57):
Yeah, he is.

Speaker 4 (11:58):
And I have to say that I was really shocked
that his love of production would be up to the
level that it is, and I don't.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Want to jinx him. Knock on wood.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Hopefully that definitely continues, and all expectations point to the
idea that you know, Max Prosby isn't gonna play, because
if he does, he's gonna put everyone across that offensive
line in a blender and it's gonna be a test.
But al Pal, he's been playing well, and obviously this
is what you want. This is why you know we're

(12:29):
looking at the off season and draft. This is why
you look around the league. You look at guys in
college football and said, which guy's fits your system, which
guys are plug and play guys, which guys can add depth.
So if this is just another testament to the Broncos
scouting staff and George Payton bringing another guy in, he
albeit not necessarily circumstances circumstances that you want, but it's

(12:51):
circumstances that are definitely paying off. But it will present
a very interesting situation once mcglitchy is able to.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's when I was going with this, Mike McGlinchey, when
he comes back off injury, what do you do here?
Because you've got a lot of money tied up in McGlinchey.
But at the same time, Pliski's playing better.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Than was well.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
The idea is that that an injured player cannot lose
his job.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
A starter doesn't lose his job to injury.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
I mean we say that, well, I think you've experienced it.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's something that is said.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
It's supposed to be a cardinal rule, but as they say,
all rules are meant to be broken. So it's just
like being a running back right playing here for the
Denver Broncos. Mike Shanahan always had a stable of running backs,
but he could always go with the hot hand. You know,
So if al pal is continuing to stand up and

(13:44):
keep bow Nick's clean, you have to stick with him
because at that point, what do you tell them? Do
you tap him on the backside and say, you know what,
thanks for coming, appreciate you.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
I don't know what you do at that point.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
But you've got a right tackle right now who's playing
incredibly well. You have an I'm right tackle who was
U was playing the best I think he's played. If
he wasn't exactly you know, he'd been kind of a
liability last year, but he's playing best to be played
so far. You got Garret Polls on the left side,
who's probably could be gone after this year. If you
if you look at the way the money situations start
to set up here, you know, I don't know, maybe

(14:18):
you know, you try to figure something out where how
do you get this guy on the field that you
think is probably a cornerstone going forward?

Speaker 4 (14:25):
You know, I know this situation oh too well, because
I'm like familiar, I've lived it. Because the idea is
that you want to reward the backup for being able
to slide in and do what he's able to do.

Speaker 3 (14:40):
That the whole idea of being a plug and play guy.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Obviously, there's some loyalty to the guy who was a starter.
Maybe because he was highly recruited, highly touted. Someone sit
on the table for him or the biggest thing when
it comes in NFL, you're paying him.

Speaker 3 (14:55):
A lot of money. Right, that's kind of sex factor.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
But the way the West Stars to work out those
individuals who didn't think that backup player would be able
to play the way they did. Now, there's some questions
in that room when the coaches started talking and you
got to find a way to give the player more opportunities.
And you start looking across, in this case the offensive line.

(15:18):
Where can you find those hidden reps?

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Yeah? Where do they come from?

Speaker 1 (15:21):
Right?

Speaker 4 (15:21):
I mean, when Mglitchy comes back, you may throw him
back in the starting lineup. But who's to say that
in the game where the Broncos may have sixty plays,
mcglitchy is on all sixty to other plays well.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
And that's the other thing. I mean, maybe you're rotating
them out a little bit here or there. That doesn't
feel sustainable, you know, rotating the offensive line like that.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
But yeah, I mean it's.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
A guy who has definitely threw in a small sample size.
Now you know we haven't gotten to that sixth game. Hey,
we got tape on this guy. Now we know how
to beat him. You know, kind of thing in a
small sample size certainly looks like he belongs, you know,
belongs in this league, belongs on that line, and is
playing at a level that at right tackle that I
think that Broncos fans have been looking for for quite
some time.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Well, Pavlovski is pronounces Kowsky.

Speaker 3 (16:06):
I'm going back to al Yes, I'm going back to
Al pal.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
The one thing I've been impressed with with him is
his footwork right and when you play across that offensive line,
especially left and right tackle, your footwork, your punch, it's
got to be great. And he does a great job
from my standpoint, keeping his hands close to his body,
not extending his hands out giving the defenders something to

(16:32):
slap at and swat down. He keeps his hands tucked
inside and wants the defender gets close to him. He
has an opportunity to punch and use his feet. Have
you seen that drill It's like it's almost like a
ping when you see how the ping went walk. Those
guys are moving back and forth and punching. So I
hope al Pal continues.

Speaker 3 (16:48):
To be in there.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
But this is a very uh tough predicament that the
Broncos will be in when Maglitchy comes back.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, that'd be interesting. We got an NFL six pack
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Speaker 1 (17:03):
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Speaker 2 (17:09):
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Speaker 4 (17:15):
No.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Six the top six NFL headline, What welcome John Away?

Speaker 2 (17:21):
In nineteen eighty three, Eli Manning two thousand and four.
Highly rated quarterbacks rarely make a draft day power play.
Twenty one years after Eli Colorado, Shadeur Sanders, could you
see Isaiah Small's The Miami Herald Colorado coaching Chaudhar's father, obviously,
Dion Sanders, recently hinted at the possibility of steering Chadour
to the Miami Dolphins. Happened on an episode of The

(17:42):
Nightcap podcast when Sanders said, Coote.

Speaker 1 (17:44):
What do you do business wise if you're the Dolphins.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Do you take a quarterback, which is what I'm saying,
or do you say, Tua, let's check this out, Let's see.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
What we're going to do.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Is this health more important than that?

Speaker 2 (17:54):
Co host Chad Johnson eventually realized that Dion was saying
the Dolphins should draft Shaduur. So you just got the run,
Sanders said, at the current pace, Dolphins might do poorly
enough to earn their way.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Too getting Chador.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Things that get interesting if some other team is in
position to draft him. But Dion makes a clear public
door or privately that he won't let Schendoor go to
any team other than the Dolphins. Dion said, I want
what's best for him. I want him to be happy
as well. Really don't get to dictate where your son
gets to go because of his draft process.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
But you know us, you know how we are.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
You know we know who ain't trying to win in
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
You know who's consistently in the basement year after year.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
You don't want that situation for your kid and your
family members, Nobody.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
None of them. So we know what time it is.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
It's time to look at something that Dion said in
March saying, quote, I know where I want them to go,
back to the million dollars worth of game podcast regarding
Shaduur and teammate Travis Hunter said, it's certain cities. I
ain't gonna it ain't gonna happen. It's gonna be an Eli.
The possibility of Shador going to Miami presumes that tua
No will no longer be there unless he retires. That

(18:53):
would be a very expensive proposition for Miami. The broader
point is that whether it's Miami or some other team,
deon Cannon shot it helps you do or get his
career started the right place. We call the quarterbacks who
struggle with their initial teams that are now flourishing. Incoming
quarterbacks should be willing to avoid bad.

Speaker 1 (19:08):
Teams to start their careers.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
What do you think about the idea of them pulling
in Eli or a John Elway and refusing to play
for certain teams.

Speaker 4 (19:17):
I liked the idea and the concept because other individuals
had done it, and there was a little backlash for
Caleb Williams because, if I'm not mistaken, I think his
father said something before the draft or leading up to
the draft where if there was a team that was
kind of blowing a total poll and would put Stretch's

(19:37):
son out, he didn't want his son to go.

Speaker 1 (19:39):
To the team.

Speaker 4 (19:40):
Those remarks were quickly retracted walk back, Yes, but I
do believe that if you can manipulate the system in
that particular way, why not John Elway didn't, you know,
he would have worked the Colts right and he decided
to play baseball and Eli did the same thing. So look,
if you can get away with it, do it. That's
not something that player can do.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
Next story two, Chris Berman started working at ESPN on
October first, nineteen seventy nine. Forty five years later, he's
still going. The question is if he's going to make
it half a century. Berman tells John Aurand of Puck
that he's willing to chase fifty years if he's still
performing at a high level. If they'll have me, yeah,

(20:21):
Berman said, but I'll be honest with you, I will
know my way ahead of you or anyone else. If
I'm starting to slip a little, even in fifty years
of the plan.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I'm not going to do it just to do it.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
For now, he's hoping to make it to the first
ABC Super Bowl since ABC relinquished Monday Night Football to ESPN.
If we have a Super Bowl in a couple of years,
Berman said, I'd like to think they'll keep me around
for that. Whatever that means, maybe the exact same capacity.
If that's the case, that would be forty eight years
regards his current capacity as a semi retired with the
fastest three minutes during the halftime of Monday Night Football.

(20:51):
The sixty nine year old Berman has been a fixture
of the NFL media landscape, obviously for decades, a foundational
piece of the ESPN puzzle as it grew from tractor
pulls into what it has become. What is your Do
you like Chris Berman? Does that still move the needle
for you at all?

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Well not at this point, because ESPN has definitely changed.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
Is not what it used to be.

Speaker 4 (21:15):
Chris Berman was a key staple, as though there were
many other individuals who were intricate parts of what ESPN
was doing. I mean, obviously the fastest minute and football
is always great. But for me, I go back to
the days where I was a member of the Buffalo
Bills and he came to practice and he just belt
it out that saying, you know, no one circled the

(21:36):
wagons like the Buffalo Bills. And that's how I will
always remember Chris Berman. The question is how long is
he going to be around.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Is he going to be able to get that extra year.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
He's only sixty nine right now, He's got, you know,
five more years to get to fifty. He literally started
working for ESPN before I was born.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, but we don't really see Chris Berman the way
that we used.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
To, right You don't see him on their full time.
He's still as a role. The question is whether or
not he's.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Gonna get fifty years at the company, a record which
would probably never be broken, you know.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
On into perpetuity unless you were being start living longer
and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
Next story, Three Falcons Ring of Honor keeps adding new members.
Eleven days after the team's in house award apparatus welcomed
team owner Arthur Blank. I don't know whether or not
he called himself for the news on that one former
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan gets the honor. He's inducted halftime
tonight against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Third overall pick in

(22:32):
the eight draft, Ryan was a member, was the NFL
MVP in twenty sixteen, led the Falcons to Super Bowl
fifty one. Four time Pro Bowler, one time All Pro,
was the NFL's Offensive Rookie of the Year in eight
Offensive Player of the Year twenty sixteen. Ranks sixth all
time in passing yardage with.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Sixty two thousand seven or ninety.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Two, ninth in passing touchdowns, and Ryan's the Falcons Ring
of Fame.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
Does he belong in the Hall of Fame?

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Yeah, I think Matt Ryan is definitely one of those guys.
You look at what he was able to do to
jump start and revitalize that that franchise.

Speaker 1 (23:04):
He got them to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 (23:07):
They were just eight minutes and thirty three seconds away
and they just couldn't really pull it off.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
But based on statistically what he's.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
Done in the league, yeah, he definitely deserves that nod.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
Now does that mean that he needs to get in
me for other quarterbacks? Know?

Speaker 4 (23:22):
Someone therefore argue that, hey, listen, if you're gonna put
Matt Ryan in, you might as well put Tony Romo.
And I'll tell those individuals pump their brakes because Romo
never got the Cowboys to a super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
What about somebody like Phil Rivers?

Speaker 3 (23:35):
No?

Speaker 1 (23:36):
No, no, okay no, See.

Speaker 3 (23:37):
Philip Rivers falls in.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
Even though Dan Foules is in the Pro Football Hall
of Fame, Philip Rivers still falls in that category.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
I think, I think he gets and I think he
Manning and Roethlisberger all Gideon, I think all three quarterbacks
that you're get in.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
I don't know about Philip. I mean the Phillip career.
Stand him a part. If you would compare what Philip
Rivers did statistically to Mett Ryan.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
He's better than him in yardage and touchdowns.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I do believe. Yeah, But guess what, he's never played
in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
No, he did not.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
Next story, Four Cowboys signed Ceedee Lamb No four year
on hundred and thirty six million dollar deals, your number
one receiver back in August. I don't take you have
much interest in paying another star receiver nine hundred and
eighty thousand and salary each week, plus thirty grand each
game he's on the active roster, which under his current contract,
would be what DeVante Adams would cost. Reports that the
Cowboys in contact with the Raiders or have interest in

(24:36):
Adams appear not to be true, at least not in
serious interests.

Speaker 1 (24:40):
Cowboys exec VP Stephen.

Speaker 2 (24:42):
Jones confirmed in an interview with the San Antonio Sports Star,
saying quote, no, I don't think there's anything to that.
We just signed our number one guy in Adams, number
one receiver. When you have the challenges capwise that we have,
that would be a.

Speaker 1 (24:53):
Long putt for us.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
In addition to signing Lamb, the Cowboys signed quarterback Ack
Prescott through a four year extension last month that average
just a record sixty million per season, and they have
to sign edge rusher Michael Parsons to an extension after
this season, so most of the roughly twenty four million
the Cowboys still have under the cap they will.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Roll over into next year.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
Do you think Dallas should have tried to get Devonte Adams?

Speaker 4 (25:17):
Yeah, from a personnel standpoint, yes, where they.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Were gonna be able to pull it off. No, I mean,
the one.

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Guy I think that they the Cowboys should go after
is the guy that they're quite familiar with. And Amari Cooper. Yeah,
that's the guy who they could bring in as a
veteran guy. He runs great routes. He'd be an excellent
compliment to Brandon Cooks and CD Lambs. So that's the
guy that the Cowboys should definitely go go after. But

(25:46):
a Devonta's one hell of a receiver, and every team
that is moving the Barbers slowly they can use him,
But the majority of the time, you're not gonna do
that because the contract and the money.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, next story five, you're taking with Devanta Adams. Obviously
plenty of focus on the Jets as a possible landing
spot for the Raiders wide receiver in trade, but Aaron
Rodgers isn't the only former Adams teammate who's been on
the radar in recent days. Report also named the Saints
as a team that Adams would be interested in playing
for it and moved to New Orleans, would reunite him
with Derek Carr. Car and Adams were teammate at Fresno

(26:18):
State as well as an Adams first year with the Raiders,
one of the reasons he even chose to come to
the Raiders in the first place. On Thursday, Car called
Adams one of the best friends.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
So they speak all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
That includes this week, although he added the conversations I've
not been about what you'd probably think. Car said he
loved to play with Adams again, but Adam he doesn't
think that puts him an exclusive company, saying, quote, I
think all thirty two quarterbacks would love to play with Davontae.
We would welcome that. I don't know if I'd get
in trouble for saying that. I think it's just everyone
kind of knows that. Car declined to answer a question
about why Adams went out of Vegas, but did note
that Adams had more than fifteen hundred receiving cards when

(26:49):
they played together in.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Twenty twenty two. Do you agree with.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Derek Carr, then all thirty two quarterbacks would love to
play with DeVonta Adams.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
You got done right. I mean you're talking about one
of the best rout runners. It's not the best route
running the game right now. And know one as.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Though, if you had DeVante Adams on your team, that's
gonna move one of those safeties over. Now, you occupying
two guys at corner in a safety that allow gives
you the middle of the field in another side of
the field to operate from.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
If you are quarterback, your office a corderated. So yes,
everyone would love to have deviant Adams.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Anyone telling you been that they wouldn't, they're lying to themselves.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Next door six.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
After catching a pass during Sunday's loss to the Broncos, Jets,
wide receiver Alan Lazart sat on the ground and made
a finger gun celebration. He got a fifteen yard penalty
for it. He expects to get a fine, Lazard said
via The New York Post, quoted something very silly. I
expect the NFL to find me just from the history
of situations like this.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
Lazar said he would like to get a better explanation.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
Of the rule from the league office, saying, quote, I've
gotten zero clarification from the NFL.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Now my coaches will come up and talk to me individually.
It's very unfortunate that.

Speaker 2 (28:05):
I'm the victim of the situation, but it is what
it is. It's part of the NFL, part of the
entertainment factor. The role isn't really difficult to understand. Players
are not allowed to mimic shooting guns. Just doesn't matter
if they're trying to have fun. Well, celebrating doesn't matter
if they don't intend it to be a violent initial
league doesn't allow it, even if Blizard, for whatever reason
he says, he doesn't understand it. Blazard said, if I

(28:26):
am fined, they're definitely going to exempt it. It wouldn't
make sense to find someone for something you never warn
them about. It's like implementing a new driving rule. If
you're driving down the street with one hand, you never
told me I can only drive with two hands.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
That's unfair. That's not a lawful democracy in that sense.

Speaker 4 (28:43):
I am with Blizard on this is one thing if
you were really definitive and describing what you can't do.
So if you violate that, there is a policy that
you can tell the player in the player rep to
go to to say okay, well here is.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
The rue canis entirety you violated.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
I said with you, and I saw that, and I
thought it was ridiculous because all he did was kind
of like a.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
Shoot like a cowboy.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Was He didn't point at anyone point he.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
Was it was like er gone, yeah, it was like
you like play air guitar, right, it was aimed at anyone.
But I thought that that was a huge problem for
him being fine on that. But also it goes back
to the idea of did you put in writing descriptively
stating that these are the things that players can't do.
If you did not do that, then you can't fire me.

(29:34):
But I know how the league works. They they're not.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Gonna get I mean, come on, expect the letter.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
You know what it's gonna happ If they flied you
for it, you gotta.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Get fined for it. Come on.

Speaker 4 (29:44):
But even when you argue against it, you hope to
get all your money back.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
They give you half of your money. I've been there.
It's funny.

Speaker 2 (29:53):
One of my favorite days, and I mean this facetiously
in covering team getting down there in the locker room
is the letter letter day.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
You know, fine day, especially with Melvin.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
Gordon, was.

Speaker 2 (30:08):
What smit debruncos because he had the most descriptive language
on some of this. They would stand there and hold
court on the different fines. He would, you know, get
everybody's fine letter together. He'd be talking about this garbage
just you know, and run down you know what the
NFL said, why it's why it's you know, hogwash that
they ended up and they ultimately painted, but it was
one of it was one of the more entertaining, I
guess is probably the best way to put on my

(30:29):
favorit day one of the more entertaining days covering.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
The team going to the locker room during fine letters because.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
They tape him up.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
You know, well the locker there, you open it and
you can already know you see it hanging here. You
already know, ah, great, what I get fined for this week?

Speaker 4 (30:40):
See, in my day, used to if there was something
you did on Sunday that you thought possibly could be
but not totally in agreement, you come around the locker,
you look and you pete. See they didn't hang them
in your locker. They put him on your seat. Oh okay,

(31:01):
so you're looking for the FedEx. Okay, okay, yes, that's the.

Speaker 2 (31:03):
One thing they look at that they tape them up
on the top, you know, and so you knew you
walking up there, you knew it was coming or whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:09):
And it was I tell you, man, it was.

Speaker 4 (31:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
It used to be the most entertaining, uh, the most
entertaining thing in the.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
World, watching dudes like there's a part.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Of me that's sitting there, like, well, there's socks they're
getting they're getting hit in the wallely. But there's a
part of me that like the entertainment factor. Like as
you're as you're sitting there complaining about It's like being
in the army after you get it, you get a
detail or duty and somebody sitting there complaining about it
and just just going on and you're just like sitting
there cackling about it.

Speaker 1 (31:32):
Oh no, when you've got to do it.

Speaker 3 (31:33):
But you went complaining too.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
If someone finds you five thousand dollars for socks, you
come take it from my cold dead hand.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
No, man, Yeah, I'm getting it direct deposit.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
They find me five thousand dollars for socks, and then
when they found out that they were wrong and I
was right, they still kept twenty five hundred for what
I must be a processing fee or whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I'd be I'd be suing for that. I was would
be keeping that from me. I'd be uh, I'd be
uh yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:03):
My agent said, My agent was.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
Just like just just just just let it go.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
Yeah, Well I wanted to fight.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
I want to fight it, man, I'd be yeah, I mean,
how you're.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Not gonna take they can never take our line. I'd
be painting up like Mel Gibson the Brave Heart Freedom.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
They're leaving the charge trying to get five thousand dollars
and I'm like, if you're gonna find me five thousand
dollars and I'm gonna surrey that to the league, let
me at least let it be worth my while. Yeah,
that's worth my wife.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
It sucks, man, I'd be, I'm telling you, yeah, I
would absolutely be.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
I would absolutely be.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
And they're like, twenty.

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Five hundred dollars processing fee. Huh, you walk me through
this process. You don't want to see where this money
is going.

Speaker 2 (32:43):
This feels like the most inefficient processing of all time.
Broncos Country and I've been alive from Sam's Number three
tonight and Glenn Dey down here next Thursday. You get
us some choice in the sporty pickle of course on Monday, Yeah,
raiders on Sunday. We'll be back tomorrow, Fust three,
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