10-08-24 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight with Steve Atwater

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to It, Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin Albright, Gret smith Man,
the Myth, the Mustache.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
We kicked things off right here, right now with the
Hall of Famer Steve Atwater in studio Steve. The only
street going on now is the den Mo Broncos winning Baby.
You're right, You're right, And I like get three.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
In a row, whether by hook or by crooked or
making it work. Uh you know, I mean, we're we're
we got away with one. Was there Live missing a
field goal in New York?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
But yeah, yeah, he dies a bullet there.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
But the Raiders thing was interesting because I I thought
they were gonna steam roll them, and then all of
a sudden, the Raiders came out and they got up
ten nothing quick, Yeah, and they were driving and man,
I tell you that passed that one hundred.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Yard pick six.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
They just changed the entire complexion of that game and
it was over.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yes, yes, yeah, man. We needed a big play right
then and there, and who else who else could have
made that play? I mean a few guys could have
rights could have did it, but we need a PS
two to step up.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Any did he did? Another guy?

Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
It was like mine. I'll take that. It's like the
was it the Seagulls and the Finding Nemo.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Movie Mine Mine, and was gone as soon as as
soon as he got the ball, like the ball hit
his hands, like I'm watching this thing soon the ball
hit his hands and he took the first of it.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
He's gone, he's gone. He got a lane. He's gone, gone, gone,
because everybody's back there in the end zone.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
He's he's gone, and he was. You watched Gardner Minche.
I don't know if you watch the player now, but you.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Get raged all.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
You know, block I got you right, Oh there was,
I'll tell you man, and and you probably not that
I'm saying you threw interceptions when you played quarterback. But okay, okay,
so that was the worst thing about throwing interception.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
It wasn't thrown a interception. It was that the defense
was looking right at you get your tee off on you,
and you're like, oh, yeah, yeah, they're.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Just eyeball just looked like straight straight daggers, like, oh,
I get to tee off on you now.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
And yeah, uh huh Gardner and bless is hard. He tried.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
I'll give it to him, Teddy Bridgewater, good effort. Yeah,
he didn't Teddy Bridgewater just kind of waving high. Five
years you went past he got he got drill though
that Teddy play. Every single time I see that replay
over that Teddy Bridge wall, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
I remember I would. I didn't get too upset about it.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Y'all argue with me telling me you didn't want the
quarterback to make that play and get hurt.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
What hey man, I'm like, he just do an interception.
He can get it. And I'm just kidding. I would
do some qbs man, you just uh let it go.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
Yeah, I don't want Peyton Manning trying to make that play, right.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
Teddy Bridge, you gotta you know, having a bonterfi you
gotta I love you, but you gotta try to make
a play there. You gotta die. You don't end up cash.
You got enough ratings to not to just kind of
wave it. Goast man. He can do that. Tom Brady
can do that. Teddy Bridgewater cannot do that. You gotta
have a little bit of gardener at the.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
Tried bliss his heart and then you know they once
again committing to the run game. Getting Javonte Williams going
the run is like Overcaine, give it time. It Hey,
I've been saying he's back. He went back for as
he wasn't given the opportunity the first te game.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's like six carries or whatever it was. It's hard
to get in the group. But I'm just saying it.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Still, he looks like he's running like with no cares
in the world.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
He was like, I'm running somebody over. What he looked
like in in the camp though.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
That's why when he got back aut of camp and
he lost that weight, just what he looked like.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
Yeah, but I don't know, he's just like he hit
another level. Yeah, you know, I mean coming back from
that injury the way that he did. First of all,
coming back last year, it was miraculous.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
That was crazy. No one has ever.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Come back from a was it p C l U
C L or p C l L C L M
C L combo like that that fast in any sport,
any professional sport. His wasn't the same. He only had
two of those. He didn't have three.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
The only person in football who came back at all
from that injury was JK.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Dobbins and it took him like two years to even
get there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, nobody in any sport. Because I looked at I went.
I went through every major professional sport around the globe.
No one has ever come back that fast from that injury.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Wow, he saw tim he put it into work.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
He's but and now he's you know, and now he's
getting going again. And it's you know, like I said,
I steal that Herman Boom quote from Remember the Titans.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
But Jaman days like Nova Kane, Man, give him time,
it'll work. And you see him heard it a guy
on the side that was great. He had hit the airboard. Yeah, yeah,
then he didn't, you know, like it was me.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm popping right back up and then.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Going back down to get to the sideline. I'm like, oh,
I'm a walking like oh man.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's good, good baby, And then I'll get to the
side of.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I'm god, oh my god, it hurts. It hurts everywhere
they call him.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
I've got Dillar up on the sideline phone like Joe
Montana used to dial his wipe off in the games.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
You heard about that the land hit down nine. Yeah,
you had it down nine to get an outside line.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Right.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Well, they don't do anymore, but those phones they used
to have hide the phone. So Joe decided one day.
I forget where he was. They weren't in Sanford. They
were somewhere and he hit the nine guy downside. Lets
you dial up his wife in the middle of the game,
No way, baby, Yeah, pretty much. I I'm cooking over here. Yeah,
I just thought to see if this phone works. How
you do it? I'm gonna go back in Okay.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
Oh man, that's great that he was famous for getting
on the phone the Patriots.

Speaker 2 (05:08):
We are killing the Patriots, sending the National Guard. Yeah,
that's the good stuff. That's the good stuff.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
I have six six nine year old of text line
were in the studio Hall of famous team at water.
How good is it to see this defense being this
good now because we've we've come a long way from Miami.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yah.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
By the way, interesting sta put out today by Mike Cliss.
Since that game, Miami is the worst scoring team in
the NFL and the Broncos are the number one defense
in the NFL.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Since that game, well, they've had some injuries to the
primary I'm just.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Saying, since that gas is last year games last year plus,
you know, Yeah, the Broncos are now the number one
defense and the worst scoring Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
I know.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
The injury to tour it all that kind of stupid.
But these guys have come a long wait man VJ.
He's been putting the work in you know yourself.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Shades of it last year during the streak, the wind streak,
the defense was carrying him.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Russ was making Lake perrolics, but the defense was carrying
the most of the game.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
But then to have your office to be able to
score points along with it, that's a double whemy bose.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
It looks like it looks like he might be starting
to get it. It looks like it might be slowing down,
because I mean, even in the first half of the game,
it's still looked to tick too fast, right right right
second half of that game, and especially after Christian Wilkins
went out and they couldn't get any any A or
B gap pressure, all of a sudden, it looked like
it looked like it was slowing down.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
Want to tell you what if Troy Franklin hangs onto
that ball.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
We're having an entirely different conversation about bone Nicks right now,
about how he has a say he got it finally right.
That it's funny how that works, you know, process versus
the result, but which brings me to my question, why
are we still giving Troy Franklin the reps we should
be giving Marvin Mims.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Hey, yeah, Hey, you got to put the phone for
me the way he picks up the phone for you.
I'm just saying I'm passing this the law. Yes, that's
a good question, man. I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
It's like it seems like Marv's at.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
A doghouse, but I doubt that he is, but it
kind of feels that way. He's well yeah, and and
and it's obvious because he's not.

Speaker 1 (07:10):
Because every time he touches the ball, he makes him play.
He got one catch for seven yards and the rush
for seventeen yards. Yeah, you get him the ball on
the punt return, and look he's punter. He is the
most explosive player in the Denver Broncos were like, you know,
we'd like to do. We're gonna beat him with a
hand tied behind our back. We're just not gonna use
Marvin base.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
We're gonna give you a fleen kick mimes from the
twelve heads to the west sideline, the speachter Kenny out
around the coverage he did here we go thy thirty five,
forty forty five and tripped off the midfield so excited
even joyous knocked off his feet, he sprinted into the
Pacos sideline into a mosh pit of oys jerseys.

Speaker 1 (07:49):
I mean on an offense that he is starved for playmakers.
We're sitting there not using quite possibly the most explosive
playmaker we had.

Speaker 3 (07:59):
To be honest, we've seen all those guys make plays
in practice, so well, you know, they all can make plays.
This isn't maoutter who they get it to some But
I'm just saying he's super fast. He's super fast, he
can catch. I've seen him get some great balls. Yeah,
I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
I'm just you know, for me, it's frustrating to watch
and I get trying to get Troy Franklin reps and
confidence and all that kind of stuff, because he did
have a pretty bad camp. He was struggling with the jam,
he was dropping the ball, like I get trying to
get the reps.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Man.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
It feels like wasted opportunities when you when you see
you know, him flying down to flying wide open out there.
You know what. It reminded me of watching Eddie Kennison
wide open look like trying to catch the ball between
two frying pants on man, I'm just saying.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
I think I think Troy will get it together. I
hope he does. Yeah, I'm never rooting against somebody. I
hope he does.

Speaker 2 (08:48):
But at the same time, I mean, I'm looking at it.
I'm looking at that, and he would have caught it.
You you wouldn't have missed in that.

Speaker 1 (08:52):
If you would have caught it been like this, I
would have been like, good for him that he got
you know that he caught it because.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
He wasn't catching him in the preseason in camp about
all he dropped a couple man man.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
If t Franklin had his own cologne, it would have
to be it would have to come in a plastic
bottle for how often it.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
Be dropped to come home. I'm just saying, well, I
think it easy. The youngster man.

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Takes a shot, Snifflis on the way, bowl in the
pocket pumps once now throws a deep ball.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
He's got an open receiver. Can he catch up with it?
He doesn't.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Franklin five yards behind everybody and motioning to take off. Oh,
that would have been a huge play in a ball.
Troy frank has what say the acause that's why you want.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
To safety and not a dropped a few. Then we're
gonna make you a tight end. Right now, we got
you safety.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
I think I think my teammates were a little less
upset than me.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
Interceptions. Oh I did, but you weren't. Ron Darby, I
dropped a few of them, dropped a few of them.
There was a couple.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
But come on, man, I mean you had a ton
of safety. They're trying to remember exactly how many you had?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
A ton of what? Ye had a ton of a
ton of interceptions? No? I had twenty four. Yeah, that's
not a ton. Not a time every players, you know, players.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
Would give their left you know what for twenty four
career interceptions.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
It's like two point twenty five a year. That's not enough, bro,
that's plenty. I'm just saying, that's a lot of interceptions.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
Well, I appreciate it. I appreciate it, but it's not
I know. I mean I dropped how many you drop? No,
No drops at least fifteen? At least fifteen at least Okay,
I mean still, it is a defensive play.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
I bet you try. Franklan won't drop fifteen passes? Well,
probably not. I mean, most people don't drop that many
a season. Talk about his career.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Oh okay, but you have more interceptions your career than
k Jack did KJK.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Had twenty two.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Yeah, I'm just saying you have more career interceptions than
Jaylen Ramsey.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
That's good. I'm just saying how many players would kill
for the.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Most cornerbacks Because the quarterback is either throwing the one
side of the field or the other. They have a
fifty you know what I'm saying, They got a fifty
percent versus safeties, you have a chance whenever they throw
it down the metal.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
Okay, well, you've got more career in receptions than Jesse Bates.
Come on, man, I mean use his basebent Lee eight nine. Yeah,
hey have years? Man, Well he's got three years to
get those interceptions. Ind don't get his game up.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
You tell them about it, You tell them sorry.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
He may be happy with the number of five six sec.
I think he wants more.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
I would be willing to bet that he that he
wants more. Justin Simmons, you want Justin's got thirty one.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
Over eight years. So yeah, man, that's just that's just hard.
Like Justin's Justin don't have some of the other things
you had, Well, I don't have some of the things
he has either happen.

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I will say, you don't have a highlight where Sam
Darnold shakes you out in the open field and runs
in for a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
You don't. You didn't have that, Yeah, but I had
it with with.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
What's some man named the the small quarterback who went.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
To Buffalo don't flute? He got me? Yes, sir, when
was this bro? We played? Don't don't look for it?
You know what I'm gonna do now? Yeah, absolutely clipping
this and the twitter like, I'm gonna.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
Put the acoy a clip next to the flute clip
and be like, who's the more powerful runner?

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Quite a few big if he was more athletic than
anybody gave him credit for. He was that dude this year.
That's an autograph signing. Yeah, man, he's cool. Dude.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Oh I met him. Gosh it was eight eight, nine
years ago. I guess, I don't know. We met some
some something and we're talking about that. He's like, yeah,
He's like, it was fun being the most underestimated guy
on the field.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
They never you know, and.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Especially when you when you put it on somebody like that.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Oh man, I'm like, man, this.

Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh the second quarter of the season shaping up real
nice for the Broncos. You got to win over the Raiders.
You snap the streak. You're on a streak. Now you
got the Chargers coming to town home game. Chargers kind
of a little bit. They've had some offensive line issues
and injuries. Uh, they've had a quarterback and Herbert that's
been hurt. Offense hasn't been clicking. Derwin James had a
one game suspension for playing thirty So we've got some
injuries on the defensive side. Yeah, he's got a dirty player.

(13:12):
I wouldn't do a physical player. I would say, I
would not call him a dirty player. I'd call him
a physical player. I like Derwin James, I do.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
But he got suspended for he got the k Jack suspensions.
What have got you know?

Speaker 1 (13:22):
And so you know, if you've had some issues, if
you're the Chargers, that shapes up to be a winnable game.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Now you've got Derek Carr hurt for the Saints.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
He's means the week, probably not gonna play that Thursday
night game, probably gonna be Spencer Rattler. All of a sudden, man,
all of a sudden, short week game and on the
road looks winnable. And then you've got the Panthers coming here,
one of the worst teams in football.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
You're looking, don't I don't want to overlook anything. Yeah,
but that second is that second quarter shaping up real nice.
Before that the death trap.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
Of the third quarter, that that the Broncos have on
the schedule.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
Yeah, but that's ugly.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
They start off with like the Ravens and Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
It's Ravens Chiefs.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
Then you get the I think the Falcons here trying
to remember, and then you get then you have to
go to the Raiders.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
And I think we I think we come on at
least two and two. I don't know, man, Falcons are
tougher than tougher Thursday.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
You got at the Ravens, at the Chiefs and the
Falcons and here.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah. Yeah, but hey, we went on the road last time,
so what happened right by some dubs. I'm here for it.
You know.

Speaker 1 (14:28):
The Broncos are the only old road game I've lost
this year with Seattle the opener. Yeah, so I'm you know,
I'm definitely here for I'm just like, this thing is
shaping up real nice. That the Broncos might even be
a flirt with the playoffs kind of team. When you
start to look at this games that we were looking
at surefire losses when the schedule came out. Now all
of a sudden, we're not looking at those necessarily. That
same way the Browns game, the damn you were it

(14:52):
hadn't good any when I when I was writing this
schedule up, I was like, Okay, we're gonna lose the
Saints net New Orleans on a Thursday.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
We're gonna lose to the Browns. But why would you
say that about New Orleans though they're a good football team.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
They got a good dal, really good and then it
brought that new offense in there, and it looked good
for the first couple of weeks, and then you know,
car got hurt. Now I didn't look the same. But
there's a couple like the Bengals look very beatable. We
got a we got a road game in Cincinnati the seven,
twenty ninth.

Speaker 2 (15:15):
They looked real one and four. Yeah, at least on defense.
Offense looked pretty good. By the way that.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
I don't know if you watched that raven Cincinnati game
at all this weekend, I thought.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
A little bit of it up on the screen. Yeah.
I was just sitting there watching, like, whoa hey, laboy
jactually putting it on them boys. Both of Burrow was
doing it too. Yeah, I heard, yeah Burrow, they were bowling.
They were both out. It's just his hand is good. Yeah,
it's just the lack of defense.

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Cincinnat's got too much that they lost both their defensive
tackles Jermaine Pratt at the lineback, or they just had
too many injuries.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
But I was thinking about, what's his name, quarterback, I
just say his name, Jill Burrow, Joe Burrow.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Yeah, when he heard his hand last year, he had
to go on ir. Yeah. I was like, what they
had to be.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
The most unluckiest injury for any quarterback to be able
to not driple freaking football?

Speaker 2 (16:04):
You get your handury is that.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
I don't know what you call it, but they were sure.
There's some technical term that a doctor knows that I don't.
The metatarsal last year, whatever, whatever you call those, I.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Don't know what hurt. You got a bumb hand. That's
a scientific term for it, right, I know. I'm like, man,
that's man. You can't even but you can't grip something. Yes,
I said, you saw. I want to sound. I was
holding the stuff, picking up dropping it, you know, like
a cup or something. You just dropped it. Yeah. Oh man,
that's Gus Grass team by the way, the Bengals.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
It was.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
I am I'm happy, I'm doing what happened that. He's
good though. Just a little scrouds. That's football baby. Oh
that does that bro something? Okay, just the little scrouds,
that's football baby. He wasn't thinking that last year. No,
you had to get with those little grippers, you know.
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 1 (16:53):
Oh favorite Steve at Warner Studio five sixty six nine zero.
You looked at today Roberts all fired by the New
York Chats.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I want to get into that. I want to do
that right now.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'll get it at the next segment because I got
some stuff on that I talked to. I talked to
the coach holiday. I want to I want to relay
some stuff with him.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Come on, text, there we go. I got a Christmas card.
All right. I'm just saying you an inside there's a.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
Cool I mean, there's a couple of coaches around the league,
you know, don't have a relationship with Okay, I don't
have any more relationships with anybody with the Jets anymore.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
Though. That was him, that that was him. You didn't
get it. He was a joke about Nate Hackett being
at Jets.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
But you didn't create a relationship with with with Hacket
when he was here.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, he was here.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
When he left. Yeah he was cool. He's cool, dude.
Everybody likes Nate Hackett. It was funny when he got
hired because I was down there mobile it's a Senior Bowl,
you know, asking all you know, Oh, you.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Guys got Nate.

Speaker 1 (17:46):
Nate got hired. Yeah, it's my boy, And I'm like,
can he coach? Well?

Speaker 2 (17:51):
Uh? And I was like, oh, man, I hope. I
helped put him in.

Speaker 1 (17:59):
I helped put him in Melvine together because mel was
gonna leave, remember and then Melvin came back.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
Yeah remember that.

Speaker 1 (18:04):
Yeah, I put them back together, which I think people
here hate me for because Melvin then fumbled a bunch
and then he got run out anyway, man, But you
know I was.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Saying the thing about Melvin.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
No.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
I saw him on the podcast and he said some
stuff that I just had never heard a football player
say before.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
He's like, man, you ever go into the game like
you know you're going to fumble? Wait what what? No?

Speaker 1 (18:27):
No, that's like it's a good line space where the
guys like sounds like a case of the Monday.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
The guys like, no, I reckon, you'd get your ask kicked. Yeah,
you knew you were going to fume? Why did you
just let us know that? What about fumble? This break?

Speaker 1 (18:37):
So let's take that. We'll come back talk about on
the other side. Broncos Country tonight you had a ton
of interceptions.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
No, I had twenty four. Yeah, that's not a ton
of not a ton you know me?

Speaker 1 (18:47):
Players would give their left you know what for twenty
four career interceptions.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
It comes to blitz.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
We only have short dropped twenty a time fires. The
little pass will be intercepted that you on a big
field forty touts back in the middle.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
Steve Atwater sty speed forty yard live rock.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
Have it not a good throw by Craig Wheelahan and
Steve Atwater with a second interception of the year. Both
have pub against the Chargers and differ is right back
where they were first down in the San Diego thirty.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
By the way, shout out to the Crack Research team
that already dug up the Steve Atwater Uh getting shook
by Doug Flutie clip.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
It's out there on YouTube. Come on, man, I'm not
giving him the link put it. I'm just saying it's
out there. Well, we came back with the highlight from
you getting the intersectional. Put it there. I'm not putting
it out there today. I do. I would do that.
I would.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
You know what happened the minute I do that is
like my mom would find the clip of me.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
The one one rep I.

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Played on defense in high school get by Centric Cobs
eighty yards of the house.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
He put a cleap my chest, the one rep I
played at corner. It was funny. Were you as a junior?
So I was what set sixth seventeen? Yeah, you were
a kid. I was in the league. That's a different though.
It's somebody in the league that got you. No, I
was seventeen getting kocked.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
They can run up on my freshman running back and
he was a freshman, yes, and what were you junior?

Speaker 2 (20:07):
Yeah, he was a little bit more mean.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
And yeah I had a lot more athletic And it
hurt my pride mostly, but it hurts it was Uh yeah,
It's literally the most embarrassing moment.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
It's funny when you like when you know.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
Like when you see a single digit walking out there
on the field to go and you know, there's the
quarterbacks going out there.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
To play defense, and everybody's pointing.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
They already know, and they're like and they're like, I'm like,
you know this isn't gonna go.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
Well, you know what's gonna happen here? And they did it.
Why did you run over there?

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Because they wanted me to cover that received didn't have
made a good cover their their receiver.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
They had two players, they.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
Had had cobs running back the hand a receiver that
was blazing fast.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
What did the do? Why didn't you just act like
you were covering the receiver? Because I pushed the receiver
out of the way. When you try to block, it couldn't block.
And so the was the one. The first half of
the play you're like, Okay, this guy knows what he's doing.
And then he didn't. You wish you stayed on it.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
I wish he would a little block me out of
the play.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Us to players like that, though nowday they want to
get blocked, they don't want to get on the play.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
They want to get blocked. Yeah, they had this rail fin.
The guy had to be six to one a buck thirty.
I mean he was like a railing but he could
fly and then we couldn't cover him, and so they
put me out there to cover him because you know
it's a fast second, fast gown a team, and so
it was you know.

Speaker 3 (21:18):
So you missed the tackle on Cob, Did you beat
by the receiver?

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Hold up?

Speaker 3 (21:23):
Did you get did you get beat by the receiver
on any place?

Speaker 2 (21:26):
No?

Speaker 1 (21:26):
We had one play, one rep because they saw me
come out there and they switched form.

Speaker 2 (21:30):
What they were gonna they call. They killed the play
at the line and run tossed to my side. Like
I knew what they were doing the whole time they
saw me. And we're like, that's where we go to
twenty eighth. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
I was like, man, I like to know the whole time
I'm walking out there. Good coach, you know what's gonna happen.
You know this is a bad idea. I just need
you to stay with him.

Speaker 2 (21:47):
Just stay with him, Okay, you never worried about him,
walk right back over the sideline. Was like cue, I
just said that. Yeah, I was cussing him. I was
cussing my coach, I'd.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Say when I was I was coaching a little league
ball when my sons were playing one year and we
were going up against another team and we were just
you know, a little scrimmage and this one young kid.
I had him playing corner because he was super fast.
He was he was a smaller kid, but he was fast.
He could cover the whole nine yards.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Man.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Oh man, we put those pads on and that team
sent that running back out there on a suite.

Speaker 1 (22:21):
Man.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
He just lowered his helping in too, my little cornerback's
chest and gone, Oh he was gone.

Speaker 2 (22:27):
Man. I felt. I felt so bad. I'm like, man,
I'm sorry. I apologized. I'm like, you can go off.
You go out again.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
Sit right there, hold your thigh from hold your thigh
like that was I never seen him in past.

Speaker 2 (22:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, I never seen him in past, but yeah,
it was. It was bad. I flashes back many, dude,
like it was. It was the most importing. I love
telling this. I overtell that story just because it's.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
So he is helping in your chest, in my chest,
like you know, yeah, he just stiffed on like this,
pushed me to the ground. Wasn't badly did Jamie Ramsey
or whatever? It was like, it was like that, It
was like that. Oh so like you know, I mean
I get a little hyperbole what I tell it now,
Like he put a cleat my chick. You know, I
try to make a little I try to jazz it
up a little bit.

Speaker 2 (23:10):
But yeah, it's I mean, it's it was. It's one of.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
Those moments where if my ego ever gets out of control,
all ever need to do.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
I remember that moment and I'm like, bro, you ain't
ain't nothing as a football player. Five six six nine
zero is the text line.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Shout out to Willie D from Deston who's listening live,
Appreciate you, buddy.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Uh. The crack research team out here was all over
the research, all over these anytime I mentioned it. We're
still trying to find the Nick Ferguson flipping over the
gatorade thing. If we find that one, we're Nick got
mad in a.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
Game one time he walked off a sideline and flipped
over the gatorade table.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
And we're trying to find trying to find that. I
believe it. I don't believe. I think I believe Nick.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
Nick Ferguson flipped over the whole gateway table. Well, okay,
that's his version of it. We want to see the film.
We need to see the game tame.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
He trying to pull it out a cup of gat,
hoard it on the ground gently. It is hard to
picture Nick getting that.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I know. Yeah, yeah, come on, Nick, we'll see. We're
still trying to break that. We'll go where we find
that when that'll be the that'll be the ultimate clip.
We talked a little bit about it before the break.
Robert saw a fire by the Jets, they first coach
fired this season.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
A little bit of background on that though.

Speaker 1 (24:15):
I talked to some people in the know on this
and Sala wanted to make a change an offensive cord
in the offseason.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
He wanted to bring in Arthur Smith. And this is the.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
Moment when you find out as the head coach that
you're not the head coach, is when you get vetoed
on that by your quarterback that you're not the main
decision maker. Yeah, you're not in charge. You might be
the head coach, but you may in charge. You got
vetoed on that was not allowed to make that hire.
Arthur Smith ultimately goes to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then today
or last night, I guess.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Why do you think he was denied?

Speaker 1 (24:48):
I think that Nate Hackett is Aaron Rodgers guy and.

Speaker 2 (24:52):
Quarterback this year. We in Denver know that because we
hired the guy to bring him here, and then the
Jets do the same thing. I last night.

Speaker 1 (25:04):
Robert Salad come to the conclusion that he didn't make
a change on the offensive play caller.

Speaker 2 (25:09):
He comes into the office today.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Makes a phone call up to Joe Douglas say, I'm
gonna make a change. We're gonna put Todd Downing in
as the play caller. We'll you know, well, we'll soften
the blow in the media with the co see title
something like that. You know whatever, We're going to change
things up a little bit. Let Todd down he have played.
Five minutes later, I got the same call. Robert Salig
gets a phone call. He thought that was him, come
on at the Woody's office, Woodie Johnson's office, owner of
the Jets. Wow, and thinking the whole way up there

(25:34):
this is Hey, I just got to sell this to
Woody that we're making the change.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
And that wasn't it. They were making a change. Why
would he run that by ownership first.

Speaker 1 (25:44):
I think it's I think when you've been a head
coach a number of I don't think you have to
run that by And I think you tell ownership at
that point.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
You can tell me you should have told him run
it by whatever the word is. Maybe if it was me,
I probably would have done that.

Speaker 1 (25:59):
If i'd known last night, I probably would have called
Woody Johnson last night and be like, hey, I think
we're gonna.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Make a change, and we need to make a change
to get things moving forward. I don't know, slow down.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
Son, Yeah, maybe, I mean maybe maybe we think I
got Aaron Rodger's there, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
Aaron that actually did you run that by Aaron? First?
I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
I just I mean, look, and I've got this from
people to know, and there are versions of this that
are out there on the internet or whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
They're close to it.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
But I got this from from about the closest to.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
The dec as you can get it. And that's basically
what happened. He went to make a change and moved
Todd down to the offensive quarter. Because there's some version
out there that he was gonna fire hacking. He wasn't
firing Hacket.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
He was just kind of sort of quiet demoting him
and took in the play calling over to Todd Downy.
I mean, personally, I think the Jets made a mistake.
What are you doing firing that guy in season? Whatever
you think of of Olbridch, who was, by the way,
on target, he's the internim head coach now he was
on target to be a head coach.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
It's not like he was on that that track, that path.
What physicians as he coached thus far?

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Albrich, well, he was the defense. It's a coordinator there.
I don't know what all he's done he was. I
think he was defensive line under Salah in San Francisco.
If I remember correctly, I'd have to go back and
look at his his coaching career. He worked for the
Senior Bowl for a couple of years as a coach.
He's see he was assistant special teams for the Seahawks
for two years. He was UCLA's linebackers and special teams

(27:21):
coordinator for three years, Falcons linebacker coach for four years,
assistant head coach for one year, then defensive coordinator of
the Jets, and interim ed coach, now defensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
This year.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Well, I'm just glad we beat him. I'm glad. Uh yeah,
I owed his drama coming up this week.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well, at first I was like, you know, because the
DeVante Adams stuff, you know.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
I'm kind of like, well, oh yeah, does that change
anything with that?

Speaker 1 (27:47):
I'm glad we played them before they got DeVante Adams
because you know, and in the Saints or another team
that's in the market for DeVante Adams.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
But now with car out that made maybe that changes
then yeah, yeah he's not going now, you.

Speaker 1 (27:56):
Know, so you know it might work out in the
Broncos face as far as that kind of stuff goes.
I just when when coaches get fired mid season like that,
the first thing I ask is how does this improve
the team?

Speaker 2 (28:06):
Because the problem with the Jets in the defense.

Speaker 3 (28:08):
It's the offense, right and Southa's the defensive guy.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, do you think he was calling defensive plays?

Speaker 1 (28:13):
Well, albridg was technically calling the place, you know, but
it was solid defense.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I mean solid runs that cover three. He designed it,
He's the architect of it. He just turned you know.

Speaker 1 (28:20):
Albridch had the title and was calling most of the
most of the place five six, six nine ers.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
A text line appreciate some of the texts. We got.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Kyler from New York says, do you guys feel Sean
fully trust Bow? I was wondering because I felt he said, Well,
he said. I was wondering because I thought maybe Bo
was lighting.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Into Sean Payton because of play calling frustration.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Sometimes play college seems like he's afraid to let Bo
open it up.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Well, I do think that. I mean, I say, I
don't think that the entire playbook is in uh. I
think that he has much more to this offense than
we've seen. And yeah, you're not going to put everything
in year one, you know, it would just be too much.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
And I think we're going to get there, though. We're
going to get there.

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Somebody sayizens the tight ends are struggling, why don't we
give Donald Parham a shot from the practice squad, the
big six to eight tight end they've got.

Speaker 2 (29:12):
Hey, man, that's that's a weapon.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
Were at the at the Senior Bowl, I know Ryan
and Alber Yeah, yeah, yeah, we got to talk to
him early on.

Speaker 2 (29:24):
Yes, well, I said, there's a hilarious picture somewhere. I mean,
standing next to the guys some five ten, he's six eight.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
Yeah, I look I mean, I you know, I'm an
average height guy, but you know I look short in
that picture.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
I look like Peter dinklinch in that picture. It's ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Let's see here, looks like Brian asked, should the the
Jets draft?

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Should door Sanders? If they can? I don't think they're
going to be in position to do that. I suspect
Miami will ultimately be in that position. We'll see. I
don't know. Yeah, yeah, I like should do in the
New York market.

Speaker 3 (29:56):
Either I don't think that's a good market for him,
or do you think he wants to be I think
Miami is.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
A much better market for him. Media is a little
more friendly. Is that right? Okay? You know, I don't
think I don't think he's cut I don't think he's
cut out for that market.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
I mean, he's got protection, you know, right now from
his dad and all that kind of you know, because
he's the big nantal campus of Colorado. You go New
York's a different you gotta have a different mindset to
you know, Hey, but.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
If he goes up there and does what he's been doing.

Speaker 1 (30:25):
Fair balls out. But he's a rookie though, you know
how they are. They're like blood in the water man
he up there in New York. It's just it's just
wholly different. Yeah, you think Bo's.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Uh, his growth would have been different in New York
being with with that media.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, I don't think he's a fit for that market either.
He's just not that dude.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
He's a fit for dinner, like is my the way
he talks, he's he's a fit for Denner.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
He's not really a fit for for that up there.

Speaker 1 (30:51):
You know, there's a couple of these quarterbacks like I
didn't think Zach Wilson was a fit for up there really,
you know. And even is Sam Donald a little too
like California kid, you know Zach Wilson too. And I
didn't feel like you those guys had the mentality fan Rogers.
Rogers don't care, So it's you know, it's right, Rogers
does not care, So it's that's whatever. But if you
have somebody that cares about criticism, it doesn't doesn't have

(31:13):
that like snap back at your mindset.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Like, but those athletes, I think when you get to the.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
College, man, you make it all the way through college
with all the guys who talk crap, and you know,
all the joking that's going on, Like you got to
have a thick skin.

Speaker 1 (31:27):
You know, who I want I wished would have gone
to that market would have been Phil Rivers because I
think it would be hilarious Phil Rivers. FAC's just a
back of Phil because he doesn't cuss, you know, like
lightly snapping back all the time. Like I would have
given anything to see that. That's the one thing of
this life that I was robbed of. Phil Rivers. Going
back there, Broncos gonna match up against the Chargers this week.

(31:49):
What's who's the who's your most important player here to
keep your eye on? Oh he talked about with Denver
or well both sides we got about the middle left.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Yeah, well, I would say offensively, we got to do
the same thing we did this week. We got to
get that run game going, stick with it. Let boat
cook cook Yeah, get that ball.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Down the field.

Speaker 3 (32:10):
He's doing great passes down the field on the money
in Josh Reynolds Courtland. Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
He also hit Troy Franklin. You know, eleven receivers in
that game.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah, spreading it around, spreading around, Yeah, everybody a little
bit of low I Yeah, I think as we go
into this This one's gonna be interesting because the Chargers
want to be a ground and pound team and we
haven't really seen a team like that.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Seattle this year throws the ball a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
The Steelers want to be that, but they don't have
the backs for it.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
They've been hurting. Their offensive line was hurt.

Speaker 1 (32:44):
This is a team that wants to be power football
against you, and there's been some susceptibility to that for the.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Dever Bruccos so far.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
So I think that d line and I think the
lineback and court really gonna have their hands full of
this one. Let's sell the secondary, which you needed to
step up big this past weekend.

Speaker 2 (32:57):
Did Yeah, they they've they've been doing a great job.

Speaker 3 (33:00):
I know, the most safety has been doing a good
job of having to get involved in the run and
and you know, go ahead and get getting on up
in there in it.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
And you know that makes a difference.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
And the corners as well, because a lot of times
when when the ride receivers go to crack block the
safeties on the linebackers, guess what, I guess who's got
a field? Yeah, the cornerback. And they've they've been doing
a great job of that.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
I think that Riley Moss has certainly quitted himself. Well
so he balling. He is man.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
You know, I love he's you know, real coaches son,
high football, high motor, quicker than fast.

Speaker 2 (33:30):
You know, I'm saying he's white, he's quick and fat.
He's quick and fast. Well, he got the interception. You know,
you know I get that interception. The game I turned around.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
I was like I was. I was told white men
couldn't jump. But some some white being again jump us
what he can. Some black man can't j up too.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
Steve, It's always a pleasure having you in here.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
We got to hit a break here on Broncos Country,
and I look forward to chatting with you after a
Broncos win over the.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Chargers next week. He says. His brother alight Man rocks
country to night back after this