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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm proud of every one of you on a short week,
I'm telling you, and it's this is this is any
type of well, it's difficult. We can always use that
as a cop out, but man, the mental grit and
the wherewithal to say, hey, we're we go on the
road Thursday night and play the way you did, all right,
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but but you prepare during the week that way. And
I appreciate everyone of you. And the reason why this
was hard is we're in session right now, and I
tell you all the time, I'm not going to remember a.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lot of things when I get older, but I'm going
to remember.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
These moments Champagne and the Broncos getting a dominant win
and emotional win. And we'll be breaking it down for
the next few hours. Here I am Filmlani, Hello and
thank you for joining USA here on Broncos Country to
I am filling in for Benjamin Albright and I'm here
in studio with the always entertaining Nick ferguson what's.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Going on Phil and sweet emotions.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Darn right, I have to say this, I've never seen
coach Peyton in this particular position where he's being as
vulnerable as he is and typically when you look around
the league, we don't see a lot of coaches in
this particular way the players might have. But I'll say this,
I played for Bill Parcells and I've never ever, ever,
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ever seen Bill Parcells display that type of emotion ever. Now,
Bill reminds me of my dad. Like my dad, my
dad only knew one emotion when I was growing up,
and that was frustration and anger. Now, it wasn't until
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I played for the Broncos that I saw another side
of my dad that was similar to what the players saw.
An experience with coach Peyton where my dad got choked
up and he cried and he said that he can't
take credit for anything that I've become as a man,
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and the reason being because to kind of give the
audience and you guys a little insight, Like my father
was around when I was a kid, but he wasn't
around so to see that I was able to achieve
what I achieved without him, He was very emotional in
that particular moment, sort of like you know Coach Peyton,
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because players in their coaches that's a father son type
of relationship. And to see Coach Peyton express that type
of emotion on that type of night breeze, going into
the Ring of Fame and knowing he's playing the same
to me, that's big, that's big.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think that it was like an opportunity to reflect
a little bit for him.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'm sure, like being there in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know what he meant to that city, what he
still means to that city. I mean, winning the Super
Bowl there, rebuilding the city after Katrina. It probably was
a good opportunity for Sean to just say, hey, look this,
sometimes this game of football can be bigger than just football,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And seeing all.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Of the people that he saw pregame there, you know,
catching up with Drew Brees before the game, seeing Gailee Benson,
the Saints.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Owner before the game.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It was probably an opportunity for him to just reflect
a little bit about his career, where he's at now
with the Broncos, and I imagine that you see, Okay,
look what I built, Look what I helped be a
part of their New Orleans. It makes you appreciate what
the process is like too, and say, you know, we
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know what it takes to get to that mountaintop to
win a Super Bowl. And he probably had a chance
to think about where he's at now in his life.
You know, he that was something he talked about a
lot last night, was you know, him getting older and
like trying to remember things. And you know, he probably
just had an opportunity to look back and be like, man,
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I've accomplished a lie here. I appreciate what the process
is like. And he's probably hungry to do that again
here in Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I'm sure he's hungry to do that here again
in Denver. And once again I go back to the
idea that as fans, we never really get a chance
to see coaches in a very vulnerable emotional state. And
I think about Bill Belichick and how people on the
outside view him, but those who know him and play
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for him say that he's a different person. And even
though I know I said that Parcells, like my father,
would only show one particular emotion, Ah, not so much true,
because I just said that my dad cried and I
didn't figure that. But Parcells courted me in the office
when I was a young Jets player, and I thought
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he was going to be the hard, stern Bill Parcells.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But he was different. He was more human man, He
was more human, and he.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sat in the room for about an hour and a
half and he spoke to me, and he talked to
me like, and man, I've been watching you for a while,
and if you do these certain things in your career,
you ended up playing a decade. And he became different
in that moment. I guess I became a parcels guy
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from being in that moment and just kind of playing
and just doing what I need to do on the field.
But coaches have a soft decide that most fans and
media members don't get a chance to see.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And this is.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Why I'm saying that this is great for those players
in that Broncos locker room club.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Dub as they coined it. I don't know there was
a lot of smoking. Now. I couldn't see last night.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He was there. Yes, it's like what.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yes, But but it's great for players to see that
they're coaches, they are men, and they are leading men,
but to see them vulnerable in that moment.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
For me, this could be a pivotal moment for.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The Broncos organization because as we know Sean Payton, we
know him as a guy that may not show those emotions.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Most definitely, I think like any kind of a fathersome
relationship like that, there's got to be that human element
every once in a while, you know, like he can't
just be so rigid, so firm, so strict all the time,
showly with a coach, you know, like you got to
have you got to show your guys like, hey, I
care about you as people too, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Like that way.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like I just feel like I feel like one Champagne
is like a master motivator, Like he really I feel like,
understands the pulse in the tone of his locker room.
And if you want guys to like run through the
wall for you and just and just like walk through fire,
they got to really care about you as the coach.
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And I feel like the Broncos players did that last night, like,
you know, going there and playing the way that they
did on a short week, like he said, they did
that for him, you know, like obviously they want to
win the game and play hard and stuff, but to
do it like the way they did that was that
was them showing love to coach. And then in the
locker room, he's showing the love back.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And I surely believe that, Phil, because I know Coach
Payton tried to downplay it and so did the players
going back.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
To New Orleans. Oh, it's just another game. No, no,
it's not. No, it's not. You're coming off a loss
to the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's a short week, and yeah, the Saints are without
several of their key players. But you know how important
it was for a coach to get that win, right,
And I believe Greg Penner gave Sean Payton the game
ball that tells you right there, everyone everyone knew you
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because had the Broncos lost that game, Oh it's happen,
it's dark and gloomy outside, but.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That cloud would have been right over them. It uc help.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's the training facility or is it commonis right now?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, no what it is, but it would have been
a dark cloud over the facility.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And I think that Shawn even like in his at
the press conference afterward at the podium, you know, like
he was talking about Pastor Tan's pick six and said
like it's moments like that when I'm eating apple sauce
and I'm an old man, It's like I'll be running
to bring that, you know. So he was in that,
He was in that mind frame last night after the game, well,
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my first.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Thing that I would have asked coach was like, how
are you going to remember that? Coach? I mean, you
say you're not gonna remember most things, but you're gonna
remember that. Not to be technical, coach, but once again,
those are the moments that binds a team, right when
we hear so many times when businesses and the team
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culture they're trying to create a winning culture, right, and
we always questioned what does that culture look like and
what defines that? And for me, I think that was
one of one of those moments. And it takes me
back to playing here with the Broncos because you said
something to me, Well, you mentioned something earlier as far
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as you know, coaches being able to motivate.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Players, and how does that happen?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And I just think about what it was like playing
for Mike Shanahan and what it was like playing for
Pat Bolan as the owner and playing injured and hurt.
Those are two different things, right, But guys were willing
to do it. And you said running through a wall
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or what.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Was it fire?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yes, and that's what the organization stood for when I played.
There were moments in my career as a member of
the Denver Broncos that I was injured and I was hurt,
and I shouldn't have played, and any other scenario.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I shouldn't have gone back out their field.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But the thing that made me go back out there
I looked at Mike Shanahan's face. I looked at my
teammates faces, yes, and and and Mike was cyber coach.
Mike's not gonna say anything. Mike's just going.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
To look at you, like if you get injured.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Mike is here, lean back and he'll look and he's
looking for the thumbs up with thumbs down. And every
time he looked at me, I get the thumbs up,
even though my body was like, no, hey, don't ask
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Why do you give my thumbs up?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But I did that, And that moment in the locker
room is in my opinion, once again going to change
the culture to where both Sean Payton the pinners and
George Peyton is trying to get this team too.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's like how a collective is always greater than the
you know, individual, do you know what I mean? Like
the sum of the parts is greater than the individual part.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, but Phil, you you have to you have to
know and feel in your bones that they actually give
it down.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like once.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You know that they care, it's no host bar. Yeah,
you walking through flame, walking through a wall, walking through
a wall with flame make a difference at that point, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And you don't want to let down your teammates, no,
you know, And like whenever you like to talk back
to like some of the guys who are on like
that Super Bowl fifty team, or really any great team, Nick,
I'm sure you're two thousand and five team, there's like
a bond there that like it sticks with you, you know,
and those teams are always like so tight, so close.
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They've got the coach that's leading the way, and it's
all just jeled perfectly, and you know, it takes time
to build that that doesn't just happen overnight.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I'm sure that the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Spending that week together at the Greenbrier out there on
the East Coast and just spending that time together building
the camaraderie, I'm sure that made a big difference. And
just over time you develop these relationships, you know, with
your teammates and with the coaches, and you're willing to
do whatever it takes, you know, like you talk about
Mike Shanahan being quiet kind of reminds you of like
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a father who's like, I'm not mad at you, I'm
just disappointed, and you don't want to disappointment. It's like
way worse than you know, your dad being angry at you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's one of those things.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I don't know how it worked for you, Grant or
the listeners, but you know, when I was a kid,
this would always get me in check.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well wait till I tell your father, what do you
need me to do? Right? It was always.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's knew the belt was coming out.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, well listen.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
In my family it was you know, spare the rod,
spoil the child. So we live in a different time now,
but it was it was that thing, Grant.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It wasn't like I do with my kids now, where
you're going to get a firm talking to no, no, no,
you might get a firm.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Backhand right right on a bare bottom exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But but but but but it worked right at that time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It definitely work.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And to say that is that you don't want to
disappoint either your mother or your father, but especially your
father and father.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Figures that I had over the years who were who
were coaches.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You don't want to disappoint them. I'm
here for you. I know you're counting on me to deliver.
Sean Payton's counting on this team to come through for
him in an emotional game, a game that really was
so important to him. You know, he's now beaten every
team in the NFL, you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Know, yeah, well yeah, I mean fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Seventeen now yeah, yeah, So you know, I think that
legacy things like that are really important to him too,
Like he just understanding his place in the game, what's
important and uh, you know, that was a big win
for him, and I think that he just wanted to
show some love there that Hey, I appreciate you guys.
You mentioned the injuries and hurt and stuff on a
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on a short week. I'm sure those guys their bodies weren't,
you know, fully recovered from that Chargers game, but it
didn't matter. They were going to go out there and man,
they played one heck of a game, Nick, Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And I'll say this really quickly.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The one thing that I was hoping to see that
I didn't see. I wanted to see someone hug and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Embrace coach Payton.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
It's just put they all around and say, big dog
is okay, it's put your head on my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Maybe a couple of months from now, they're not there yet.
You got to leave some room to grow still, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, but I just thought that for me, if I
were in that locker room, I would have been silly
enough to walk up to coach Peyton and do that everything.
Just kind of put my arms around him, say go ahead,
big dog, put your head on my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was all good, We're here, we want team.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
There was some hugging on the sideline, you know, before
the the you know the clockhead zero there, you know,
like Orland Sudden was to come over to him and yeah,
I mean the guys were showing the love there too.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So yeah, but see, see that's different.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
See that that locker room is different.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, the locker room is sacred. It's becomes so sacred
that the that the players want to.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Keep the media out.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, cameras in there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Now, right, this camera's in there now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But I wanted to see in that moment when coach
Peyton was at his most vulnerable, right where he was
at his most vulnerable to see a player or players
go up to him and hug him and embrace him
in that particular moment. And who's to say that that
didn't happen. We just didn't get a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, yeah, it could have happened later. What do you
think he's gonna do with that game ball, Nick? I mean, man,
that's gonna be a prize possession, you know what.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't put that thing
in gold. Right, just just go and just say I
beat the Saints, that's all. Just I beat the Saints
on it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Special night for the Broncos for sure, And you know,
the team really bounced back to you know, after that
Chargers game, you knew it, like right from the opening
kick there, that opening drive. It didn't lead to points
there for the Broncos, but you could just tell there
was something a little different with this team. And you
know what, we got a lot to get into here
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breaking down the big Broncos victory over the New Orleans Saints.
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Speaker 6 (17:12):
Design quarterback keep running left side. It's a block from
bolls Nix is free instead of twenty five twenty. He stumbles,
He sends out of ten, hit from behind and knocked
to the turf inside the five and a run of
thirty three yards for Bo Nicks.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're back here on Broncos Country tonight. I am Phil
Malani filling in for Benjamin all right here in studio
with Nick Ferguson. Nick, I know we talked about this.
You love seeing Bo use his legs.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Absolutely because the game has changed.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This is this isn't nineteen eighty four, right, The game
is it's an evolution. Either you're getting better or you
getting worse. And watching Bo use his god given ability,
that was a sight to behold. And man, I was
home going nuts, like, Yes, this is what I've been
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calling for.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This is the Bowl that I've seen at Auburn, at Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Right, And I said, people make the comparison of Bowl
to Drew Brees, and I can understand why, but Bo
is not Drew Brees, and Drew Brees.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Isn't bou And the great thing about it. This was perfect.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It's almost like the football guys wrote this up themselves,
because when the Broncos called the design quarterback run, they
were happen to be talking to Bow in the booth,
I mean Drew Brees in the booth, and he was like, see,
this is what Bo does. This is where he feels comfortable.
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He's at home.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And he was like, well, that kind of looked like
Taysom Hill esque. Well I wouldn't go that.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Far, but Bowl, that's seventy five yards on the ground.
I can tell you as a defender, that makes your
job that much more difficult. I got to worry about
the I got to worry about wilde receivers. In this
case with the Broncos, we don't have to worry about
tight ends because they don't really throw.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
To the tight ends. But now you got to worry
about a run.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
A guy who runs just as well as a running
back at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's a thread, that's a threat, that's a thread for Yeah.
And then the Broncos like, just let Bo be Bo, right, Like,
why do you think you think that they're hesitant to
let him run? One because of injury, but two they're like, hey,
we're each week, we're just trying to get you to
grow and develop and be the quarterback. And maybe if
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we let you do this stuff, you're not going to
be working on the other part of your game that
we're trying to grow.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, no, no, no, no, no, that doesn't mean that
that's gonna happen. I mean you're taking advantage of Bo
Nixon's skill set. Yeah, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's
not going to focus on the things that make him
a better quarterback, like his footwork, Right, that's where he
needs to get better just because of that. No, you're
not going to run into that situation because if I'm
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not mistaken, and I'm not saying this is who Bo is,
but I'm making a comparison just on a skill set
and skill set alone.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Cam Newton was the MVP of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And he faced off against the Denver Broncos in Super
Bowl fifty, right, and how the Carolina Panthers were able
to do that was because Cam's ability to throw and
his ability to run. And to me, we see more
dynamic players on both sides of the ball in today's game.
It's not like when I was a kid you just
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had a running back that who was just a grinding
out running back, and then you had to bring in
your third down specialists like Dave Megan. When I was
growing up, I remember Dave Megan being that guy for
Bill Parcells with the New York Giants, and today's game,
you don't need that guy.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Ava Kamara is that guy who's every down back. You
could do anything.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So for me, I'm not a fan of handicapping any
player on either side of the ball. If a guy
has a unique skill set, feel you, you is your
job as a coach to enhance that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And what we saw last night was Bo doing Bo.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean it was Uh we talked about it
earlier this week.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Nick.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We you know, we just want to run and move
the chains, you know, like, hey, get the running game going,
get Bo going, and that's going to open up other stuff.
Like look, I think that this Broncos offense still has
some ways to go, you know, like, uh, there's there's
a lot of area that it can continue to improve.
But one thing, from an offensive perspective, you got to
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present a threat. And maybe the passing games sometimes it's
not there.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
That it's not a legitimate threat. All the time.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So hey, let's use this bo using his legs. That's
a threat. Let's start out with that, and then other
things all open up. You gotta you gotta make the
defense fear something. And last night the Broncos seem like
it's started with bow running and then it transitioned to
Javonte running the ball, and the Broncos offense was it
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looked like a totally different offense than we've seen in
a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
To help put it in perspective, think about the Baltimore Ravens,
who the Broncos is gonna have to play here in
about three weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So you gotta have Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You have to worry about, and then you have to
worry about that man child of a running back and
Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right, So for me, the game is about who has.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
The most weapons to deploy to put the defense on
their heels.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And you're right with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Javonte running it open up plays because let's go back
to the play. That bowl kind of a mass is
seventy five yards. On the day, the Broncos did a
lot of things and we'll get into them, but on
this particular play that I haven't seen them do all
season long. They had Troy Franklin motion from left to right.
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So the first thing that's doing is drawing the eyes
of the defense what's going on. And then because the
Broncos were so effective on the ground with Javonte, it
was a.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Fake toss to Javonte. Everyone went that way. Then the
Broncos pull I think it was Garret Boul's.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
And maybe being powers right getting out in front of
him and he ran down the field. I haven't seen
the Broncos do that all sea's long. They didn't even
do that with Russell, to my understanding, where did.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It come from?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, why all of a sudden they did they
decide to unleash it last night.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Look, I don't know who made the decision, who was
part of it, who said.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What all I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Saying is, whomever it was, keep doing it, right. If
it was Sean Payton, keep doing it, because once again,
if you're realizing that there's something unique about bo and
you try.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
To kind of get into some rhythm of a flow.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And that was it, keep doing it. Yeah, it darked
last night, and albeit it was against a Saints team
that couldn't stop a nosebleed. Yeah, the whole idea is
bloody their faces. We're gonna keep running either with Bowl
or with Davante and you have to stop it.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I mean, like you could tell right off the bat
that something was different last night, you know, I guess
the Saints, Like you could just tell that this team
was the one they were playing with an energy that
like this, it felt like the Saints weren't matching. But
then it just felt like things were rolling right off
the bat, like guys were open even when they were
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throwing the ball, Like it just seemed like right away
you're like, oh, the Broncos got this, Like I think that,
like the final score that wasn't even representative of how
you know how much of a dominating victory that was
for the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yeah, it was like give me some ben Ye he's
in some gumbo mona me.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And it was great to see the guys go out
there and play the way that they play, especially on
the offosite side of the ball, coming off a game
on Sunday against the Charges where it looked.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like man it was diar.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, But to go out there on a short week
and just kind of put things together. And I'm not
saying that the Broncos offense is a complete team right now,
but it showed you what they can be. That's the
thing that's so exciting. Yeah, what we saw last night
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was Bo doing Bo.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Nick's in an empty set, takes a shotgun, snap, rolls
to his right, pumps and throws. He's got an open
receiver who makes the catch and scampers out of bounds.
That is Troy Franklin. That's a design role. The pocket
moving right. Franklin opened outside the numbers on the Broncos side,
it is a gain of thirty are first down Denver.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We are back here on Broncos Country tonight. I'm film
Malani filling in for Benjamin alright here with Nick Ferguson.
Let's get into some more bow talk here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Nick.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We just spent the last segment talking about how he
was able to use his legs so much and the
really got the Broncos offense going. Let's talk about his
arm a little bit. There are a couple of passes
that you know, we're circulating on social media for sure,
where you know he had two guys wide open and
the ball a right in the middle there. What do
you see when you see Bo struggle a little bit
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with his accuracy.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
For me, the first thing I go back to is footwork.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
That's your base, and that's where you live as a player,
and especially if you are a quarterback. Because if it's
what I'm going to say, hopefully I don't go of
anyone's head, but this is something to consider.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like where that quarterback points his foot.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's that direction, and it's almost pointing your foot and
your belly button towards where you want to throw. And
sometimes you'll see bow throw off his back foot or
he doesn't have a solid base where he can really
push and drive the ball down the field. And for
those fans who are listening and go back, and I
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know people made fun of this, you would see Dak
Prescott doing.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
This kind of like secure type.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yes, that's what it looked like Secura dancing, but that's
him working on that hip torch. And every single year
when quarterbacks come out, you hear draft analysts talk about, well,
that guy has a lot live on.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I don't give a damn about the live arm.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
What I'm looking at is what's going on above the
neck and what's going on below the waist because your feet.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Is going to dictate it.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And what I mean by that when you see a quarterback,
he's going through his progression of reads number one, number two,
and you'll see him go number one is not there.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And then he changed his direction with his head and
his body.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
As he going to a different direction, he now has
to reset his feet, he has to come to balance,
and now he has to transfer the weight from his
back foot to his front foot.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And then release the ball.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And it's and it's his legs that help guide him
when he's throwing the ball. So any quarterback, like if
you took me, you and Grant outside right now and
say throw the ball, there's a chance that one of
us can throw the ball like maybe thirty forty.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Yards, but if he definitely could right now, okay, you
definitely could. Hey I was JV quarterback. I got it. Okay,
So that means, boy, you gotta.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You're gonna outthrow me because because of my shoulders, right,
my ball is not gonna go that fall. But the
whole point is once you stand up and you now
use your legs, you're able to drive.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The ball down the field even more.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That's where your powers coming from. Powers coming from the
ground through your legs and delivering the ball. It's kind
of like a golfer, you know, where they hip right
at the last second.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Comes through.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Same thing with throwing the football there, and also the
timing too, nick like with it when you're dropping back
one to three boom, you're hoping the ball is coming
out right around that time. And that's how the routes
are designed too. Like Hey, the timing with the quarterback
dropping back is when the guy's supposed to be breaking
open and it should look nice and pretty, but sometimes
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it doesn't always look like that. And a couple of
times there you know he's back peddling, he's trying to
avoid a sack or something he's thrown off that back foot,
and sometimes you just don't know where it's going.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well. The thing for him also too, when he's in
the shotgun, so he's already sixty seven yards of death,
so he's already in is his five to seven step drop.
What I'm seeing is some of his problem is that
he has some space sometimes where he can climb the
pocket and make a better throw. But in stands sometimes
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he stays at seven eight and he may drift maybe
ten to twelve. How he's trying to make that throw.
It's like, climb the pocket right now, make that throw
easier for you. That's why when we see Bow, Nick's
in a hurry up or two minute offense.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's timing. It's quick, quick, fast, so he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Have that much time. He's hit the bad foot, boom out.
Hit the badfoot, boom out. These are the things that
I'm seeing. But I know I've said some positive things
about Bow and got some negative feedback on social media.
Those people can penal stands and kick rocks. But my
whole point is that what I'm seeing from Bow right
now are all fundamental issues.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, that can be corrected.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Okay, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Because bo has played a lot of football, and he's
certainly at the college level.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
You know, he's played over sixty games.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So now that he's in the NFL, how much coaching
can you receive at that point after you've played so much.
You have some just instincts that are in you that
you're like, this is how I do things. How do
you break some of that? Because I agree with you Nick,
when I he bow throws some of these you know,
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some of his throws.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
They look really.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Good like he when he's solid and his base is
there and he's looking sharp. I think that he looks
good like he could drive the ball and it looks
nice and uh, well, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
What, there's a lot to unpack there, and I don't
want to just kind of leave people on the edge
of the seats, but we'll leave you there for just
a second. Still more for us to unpack about this
whole bone in situation
Listen.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'm proud of every one of you on a short week,
I'm telling you, and it's this is this is any
type of well, it's difficult. We can always use that
as a cop out, but man, the mental grit and
the wherewithal to say, hey, we're we go on the
road Thursday night and play the way you did, all right,
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but but you prepare during the week that way. And
I appreciate everyone of you. And the reason why this
was hard is we're in session right now, and I
tell you all the time, I'm not going to remember a.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Lot of things when I get older, but I'm going
to remember.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
These moments Champagne and the Broncos getting a dominant win
and emotional win. And we'll be breaking it down for
the next few hours. Here I am Filmlani, Hello and
thank you for joining USA here on Broncos Country to
I am filling in for Benjamin Albright and I'm here
in studio with the always entertaining Nick ferguson what's.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Going on Phil and sweet emotions.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Darn right, I have to say this, I've never seen
coach Peyton in this particular position where he's being as
vulnerable as he is and typically when you look around
the league, we don't see a lot of coaches in
this particular way the players might have. But I'll say this,
I played for Bill Parcells and I've never ever, ever,
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ever seen Bill Parcells display that type of emotion ever. Now,
Bill reminds me of my dad. Like my dad, my
dad only knew one emotion when I was growing up,
and that was frustration and anger. Now, it wasn't until
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I played for the Broncos that I saw another side
of my dad that was similar to what the players saw.
An experience with coach Peyton where my dad got choked
up and he cried and he said that he can't
take credit for anything that I've become as a man,
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and the reason being because to kind of give the
audience and you guys a little insight, Like my father
was around when I was a kid, but he wasn't
around so to see that I was able to achieve
what I achieved without him, He was very emotional in
that particular moment, sort of like you know Coach Peyton,
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because players in their coaches that's a father son type
of relationship. And to see Coach Peyton express that type
of emotion on that type of night breeze, going into
the Ring of Fame and knowing he's playing the same
to me, that's big, that's big.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I think that it was like an opportunity to reflect
a little bit for him.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'm sure, like being there in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
You know what he meant to that city, what he
still means to that city. I mean, winning the Super
Bowl there, rebuilding the city after Katrina. It probably was
a good opportunity for Sean to just say, hey, look this,
sometimes this game of football can be bigger than just football,
you know.
Speaker 5 (03:31):
And seeing all.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Of the people that he saw pregame there, you know,
catching up with Drew Brees before the game, seeing Gailee Benson,
the Saints.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Owner before the game.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
It was probably an opportunity for him to just reflect
a little bit about his career, where he's at now
with the Broncos, and I imagine that you see, Okay,
look what I built, Look what I helped be a
part of their New Orleans. It makes you appreciate what
the process is like too, and say, you know, we
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know what it takes to get to that mountaintop to
win a Super Bowl. And he probably had a chance
to think about where he's at now in his life.
You know, he that was something he talked about a
lot last night, was you know, him getting older and
like trying to remember things. And you know, he probably
just had an opportunity to look back and be like, man,
(04:26):
I've accomplished a lie here. I appreciate what the process
is like. And he's probably hungry to do that again
here in Denver.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Well, I'm sure he's hungry to do that here again
in Denver. And once again I go back to the
idea that as fans, we never really get a chance
to see coaches in a very vulnerable emotional state. And
I think about Bill Belichick and how people on the
outside view him, but those who know him and play
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for him say that he's a different person. And even
though I know I said that Parcells, like my father,
would only show one particular emotion, Ah, not so much true,
because I just said that my dad cried and I
didn't figure that. But Parcells courted me in the office
when I was a young Jets player, and I thought
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he was going to be the hard, stern Bill Parcells.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
But he was different. He was more human man, He
was more human, and he.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Sat in the room for about an hour and a
half and he spoke to me, and he talked to
me like, and man, I've been watching you for a while,
and if you do these certain things in your career,
you ended up playing a decade. And he became different
in that moment. I guess I became a parcels guy
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from being in that moment and just kind of playing
and just doing what I need to do on the field.
But coaches have a soft decide that most fans and
media members don't get a chance to see.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
And this is.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Why I'm saying that this is great for those players
in that Broncos locker room club.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Dub as they coined it. I don't know there was
a lot of smoking. Now. I couldn't see last night.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
He was there. Yes, it's like what.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Yes, But but it's great for players to see that
they're coaches, they are men, and they are leading men,
but to see them vulnerable in that moment.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
For me, this could be a pivotal moment for.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
The Broncos organization because as we know Sean Payton, we
know him as a guy that may not show those emotions.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Most definitely, I think like any kind of a fathersome
relationship like that, there's got to be that human element
every once in a while, you know, like he can't
just be so rigid, so firm, so strict all the time,
showly with a coach, you know, like you got to
have you got to show your guys like, hey, I
care about you as people too, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Like that way.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Like I just feel like I feel like one Champagne
is like a master motivator, Like he really I feel like,
understands the pulse in the tone of his locker room.
And if you want guys to like run through the
wall for you and just and just like walk through fire,
they got to really care about you as the coach.
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And I feel like the Broncos players did that last night, like,
you know, going there and playing the way that they
did on a short week, like he said, they did
that for him, you know, like obviously they want to
win the game and play hard and stuff, but to
do it like the way they did that was that
was them showing love to coach. And then in the
locker room, he's showing the love back.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
And I surely believe that, Phil, because I know Coach
Payton tried to downplay it and so did the players
going back.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
To New Orleans. Oh, it's just another game. No, no,
it's not. No, it's not. You're coming off a loss
to the Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
It's a short week, and yeah, the Saints are without
several of their key players. But you know how important
it was for a coach to get that win, right,
And I believe Greg Penner gave Sean Payton the game
ball that tells you right there, everyone everyone knew you
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because had the Broncos lost that game, Oh it's happen,
it's dark and gloomy outside, but.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
That cloud would have been right over them. It uc help.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
It's the training facility or is it commonis right now?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Okay, no what it is, but it would have been
a dark cloud over the facility.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
And I think that Shawn even like in his at
the press conference afterward at the podium, you know, like
he was talking about Pastor Tan's pick six and said
like it's moments like that when I'm eating apple sauce
and I'm an old man, It's like I'll be running
to bring that, you know. So he was in that,
He was in that mind frame last night after the game, well,
(09:06):
my first.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Thing that I would have asked coach was like, how
are you going to remember that? Coach? I mean, you
say you're not gonna remember most things, but you're gonna
remember that. Not to be technical, coach, but once again,
those are the moments that binds a team, right when
we hear so many times when businesses and the team
(09:28):
culture they're trying to create a winning culture, right, and
we always questioned what does that culture look like and
what defines that? And for me, I think that was
one of one of those moments. And it takes me
back to playing here with the Broncos because you said
something to me, Well, you mentioned something earlier as far
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as you know, coaches being able to motivate.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Players, and how does that happen?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
And I just think about what it was like playing
for Mike Shanahan and what it was like playing for
Pat Bolan as the owner and playing injured and hurt.
Those are two different things, right, But guys were willing
to do it. And you said running through a wall
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or what.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Was it fire?
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Yes, and that's what the organization stood for when I played.
There were moments in my career as a member of
the Denver Broncos that I was injured and I was hurt,
and I shouldn't have played, and any other scenario.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I shouldn't have gone back out their field.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
But the thing that made me go back out there
I looked at Mike Shanahan's face. I looked at my
teammates faces, yes, and and and Mike was cyber coach.
Mike's not gonna say anything. Mike's just going.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
To look at you, like if you get injured.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Mike is here, lean back and he'll look and he's
looking for the thumbs up with thumbs down. And every
time he looked at me, I get the thumbs up,
even though my body was like, no, hey, don't ask
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Why do you give my thumbs up?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
But I did that, And that moment in the locker
room is in my opinion, once again going to change
the culture to where both Sean Payton the pinners and
George Peyton is trying to get this team too.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
It's like how a collective is always greater than the
you know, individual, do you know what I mean? Like
the sum of the parts is greater than the individual part.
Speaker 4 (11:32):
Yeah, but Phil, you you have to you have to
know and feel in your bones that they actually give
it down.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, Like once.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
You know that they care, it's no host bar. Yeah,
you walking through flame, walking through a wall, walking through
a wall with flame make a difference at that point, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
And you don't want to let down your teammates, no,
you know, And like whenever you like to talk back
to like some of the guys who are on like
that Super Bowl fifty team, or really any great team, Nick,
I'm sure you're two thousand and five team, there's like
a bond there that like it sticks with you, you know,
and those teams are always like so tight, so close.
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They've got the coach that's leading the way, and it's
all just jeled perfectly, and you know, it takes time
to build that that doesn't just happen overnight.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
I'm sure that the Broncos.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Spending that week together at the Greenbrier out there on
the East Coast and just spending that time together building
the camaraderie, I'm sure that made a big difference. And
just over time you develop these relationships, you know, with
your teammates and with the coaches, and you're willing to
do whatever it takes, you know, like you talk about
Mike Shanahan being quiet kind of reminds you of like
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a father who's like, I'm not mad at you, I'm
just disappointed, and you don't want to disappointment. It's like
way worse than you know, your dad being angry at you.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Yeah, it's one of those things.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I don't know how it worked for you, Grant or
the listeners, but you know, when I was a kid,
this would always get me in check.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Well wait till I tell your father, what do you
need me to do? Right? It was always.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
That's knew the belt was coming out.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Well, well listen.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
In my family it was you know, spare the rod,
spoil the child. So we live in a different time now,
but it was it was that thing, Grant.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
It was.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
It wasn't like I do with my kids now, where
you're going to get a firm talking to no, no, no,
you might get a firm.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Backhand right right on a bare bottom exactly.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
But but but but but it worked right at that time.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
It definitely work.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
And to say that is that you don't want to
disappoint either your mother or your father, but especially your
father and father.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
Figures that I had over the years who were who
were coaches.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You don't want to disappoint them. I'm
here for you. I know you're counting on me to deliver.
Sean Payton's counting on this team to come through for
him in an emotional game, a game that really was
so important to him. You know, he's now beaten every
team in the NFL, you.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Know, yeah, well yeah, I mean fifteen years.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Seventeen now yeah, yeah, So you know, I think that
legacy things like that are really important to him too,
Like he just understanding his place in the game, what's
important and uh, you know, that was a big win
for him, and I think that he just wanted to
show some love there that Hey, I appreciate you guys.
You mentioned the injuries and hurt and stuff on a
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on a short week. I'm sure those guys their bodies weren't,
you know, fully recovered from that Chargers game, but it
didn't matter. They were going to go out there and man,
they played one heck of a game, Nick, Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And I'll say this really quickly.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
The one thing that I was hoping to see that
I didn't see. I wanted to see someone hug and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Embrace coach Payton.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
It's just put they all around and say, big dog
is okay, it's put your head on my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
It's okay.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Maybe a couple of months from now, they're not there yet.
You got to leave some room to grow still, you know.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Yeah, but I just thought that for me, if I
were in that locker room, I would have been silly
enough to walk up to coach Peyton and do that everything.
Just kind of put my arms around him, say go ahead,
big dog, put your head on my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
It was all good, We're here, we want team.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
There was some hugging on the sideline, you know, before
the the you know the clockhead zero there, you know,
like Orland Sudden was to come over to him and yeah,
I mean the guys were showing the love there too.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So yeah, but see, see that's different.
Speaker 5 (15:43):
See that that locker room is different.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Yes, the locker room is sacred. It's becomes so sacred
that the that the players want to.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
Keep the media out.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Yeah, cameras in there.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Now, right, this camera's in there now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
But I wanted to see in that moment when coach
Peyton was at his most vulnerable, right where he was
at his most vulnerable to see a player or players
go up to him and hug him and embrace him
in that particular moment. And who's to say that that
didn't happen. We just didn't get a chance.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Yeah, yeah, it could have happened later. What do you
think he's gonna do with that game ball, Nick? I mean, man,
that's gonna be a prize possession, you know what.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
I'm surprised.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't put that thing
in gold. Right, just just go and just say I
beat the Saints, that's all. Just I beat the Saints
on it.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Special night for the Broncos for sure, And you know,
the team really bounced back to you know, after that
Chargers game, you knew it, like right from the opening
kick there, that opening drive. It didn't lead to points
there for the Broncos, but you could just tell there
was something a little different with this team. And you
know what, we got a lot to get into here
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breaking down the big Broncos victory over the New Orleans Saints.
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Speaker 6 (17:12):
Design quarterback keep running left side. It's a block from
bolls Nix is free instead of twenty five twenty. He stumbles,
He sends out of ten, hit from behind and knocked
to the turf inside the five and a run of
thirty three yards for Bo Nicks.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
We're back here on Broncos Country tonight. I am Phil
Malani filling in for Benjamin all right here in studio
with Nick Ferguson. Nick, I know we talked about this.
You love seeing Bo use his legs.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Absolutely because the game has changed.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
This is this isn't nineteen eighty four, right, The game
is it's an evolution. Either you're getting better or you
getting worse. And watching Bo use his god given ability,
that was a sight to behold. And man, I was
home going nuts, like, Yes, this is what I've been
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calling for.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
This is the Bowl that I've seen at Auburn, at Oregon.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
Right, And I said, people make the comparison of Bowl
to Drew Brees, and I can understand why, but Bo
is not Drew Brees, and Drew Brees.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Isn't bou And the great thing about it. This was perfect.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It's almost like the football guys wrote this up themselves,
because when the Broncos called the design quarterback run, they
were happen to be talking to Bow in the booth,
I mean Drew Brees in the booth, and he was like, see,
this is what Bo does. This is where he feels comfortable.
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He's at home.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
And he was like, well, that kind of looked like
Taysom Hill esque. Well I wouldn't go that.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
Far, but Bowl, that's seventy five yards on the ground.
I can tell you as a defender, that makes your
job that much more difficult. I got to worry about
the I got to worry about wilde receivers. In this
case with the Broncos, we don't have to worry about
tight ends because they don't really throw.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
To the tight ends. But now you got to worry
about a run.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
A guy who runs just as well as a running
back at quarterback.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
That's a problem.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
That's a thread, that's a threat, that's a thread for Yeah.
And then the Broncos like, just let Bo be Bo, right, Like,
why do you think you think that they're hesitant to
let him run? One because of injury, but two they're like, hey,
we're each week, we're just trying to get you to
grow and develop and be the quarterback. And maybe if
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we let you do this stuff, you're not going to
be working on the other part of your game that
we're trying to grow.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Well, no, no, no, no, no, that doesn't mean that
that's gonna happen. I mean you're taking advantage of Bo
Nixon's skill set. Yeah, that doesn't necessarily mean that he's
not going to focus on the things that make him
a better quarterback, like his footwork, Right, that's where he
needs to get better just because of that. No, you're
not going to run into that situation because if I'm
(20:01):
not mistaken, and I'm not saying this is who Bo is,
but I'm making a comparison just on a skill set
and skill set alone.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Cam Newton was the MVP of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
And he faced off against the Denver Broncos in Super
Bowl fifty, right, and how the Carolina Panthers were able
to do that was because Cam's ability to throw and
his ability to run. And to me, we see more
dynamic players on both sides of the ball in today's game.
It's not like when I was a kid you just
(20:33):
had a running back that who was just a grinding
out running back, and then you had to bring in
your third down specialists like Dave Megan. When I was
growing up, I remember Dave Megan being that guy for
Bill Parcells with the New York Giants, and today's game,
you don't need that guy.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Ava Kamara is that guy who's every down back. You
could do anything.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
So for me, I'm not a fan of handicapping any
player on either side of the ball. If a guy
has a unique skill set, feel you, you is your
job as a coach to enhance that.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
And what we saw last night was Bo doing Bo.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah, I mean it was Uh we talked about it
earlier this week.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Nick.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
We you know, we just want to run and move
the chains, you know, like, hey, get the running game going,
get Bo going, and that's going to open up other stuff.
Like look, I think that this Broncos offense still has
some ways to go, you know, like, uh, there's there's
a lot of area that it can continue to improve.
But one thing, from an offensive perspective, you got to
(21:36):
present a threat. And maybe the passing games sometimes it's
not there.
Speaker 5 (21:41):
That it's not a legitimate threat. All the time.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
So hey, let's use this bo using his legs. That's
a threat. Let's start out with that, and then other
things all open up. You gotta you gotta make the
defense fear something. And last night the Broncos seem like
it's started with bow running and then it transitioned to
Javonte running the ball, and the Broncos offense was it
(22:06):
looked like a totally different offense than we've seen in
a long time.
Speaker 4 (22:10):
To help put it in perspective, think about the Baltimore Ravens,
who the Broncos is gonna have to play here in
about three weeks.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
So you gotta have Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
You have to worry about, and then you have to
worry about that man child of a running back and
Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Right, So for me, the game is about who has.
Speaker 4 (22:34):
The most weapons to deploy to put the defense on
their heels.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
And you're right with.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Javonte running it open up plays because let's go back
to the play. That bowl kind of a mass is
seventy five yards. On the day, the Broncos did a
lot of things and we'll get into them, but on
this particular play that I haven't seen them do all
season long. They had Troy Franklin motion from left to right.
(23:04):
So the first thing that's doing is drawing the eyes
of the defense what's going on. And then because the
Broncos were so effective on the ground with Javonte, it
was a.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Fake toss to Javonte. Everyone went that way. Then the
Broncos pull I think it was Garret Boul's.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
And maybe being powers right getting out in front of
him and he ran down the field. I haven't seen
the Broncos do that all sea's long. They didn't even
do that with Russell, to my understanding, where did.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
It come from?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Nick?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
I mean, why all of a sudden they did they
decide to unleash it last night.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
Look, I don't know who made the decision, who was
part of it, who said.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
What all I'm.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Saying is, whomever it was, keep doing it, right. If
it was Sean Payton, keep doing it, because once again,
if you're realizing that there's something unique about bo and
you try.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
To kind of get into some rhythm of a flow.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
And that was it, keep doing it. Yeah, it darked
last night, and albeit it was against a Saints team
that couldn't stop a nosebleed. Yeah, the whole idea is
bloody their faces. We're gonna keep running either with Bowl
or with Davante and you have to stop it.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
I mean, like you could tell right off the bat
that something was different last night, you know, I guess
the Saints, Like you could just tell that this team
was the one they were playing with an energy that
like this, it felt like the Saints weren't matching. But
then it just felt like things were rolling right off
the bat, like guys were open even when they were
(24:42):
throwing the ball, Like it just seemed like right away
you're like, oh, the Broncos got this, Like I think that,
like the final score that wasn't even representative of how
you know how much of a dominating victory that was
for the Broncos.
Speaker 4 (24:57):
Yeah, it was like give me some ben Ye he's
in some gumbo mona me.
Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's kind of what it was.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
And it was great to see the guys go out
there and play the way that they play, especially on
the offosite side of the ball, coming off a game
on Sunday against the Charges where it looked.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like man it was diar.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, But to go out there on a short week
and just kind of put things together. And I'm not
saying that the Broncos offense is a complete team right now,
but it showed you what they can be. That's the
thing that's so exciting. Yeah, what we saw last night
(25:40):
was Bo doing Bo.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
Nick's in an empty set, takes a shotgun, snap, rolls
to his right, pumps and throws. He's got an open
receiver who makes the catch and scampers out of bounds.
That is Troy Franklin. That's a design role. The pocket
moving right. Franklin opened outside the numbers on the Broncos side,
it is a gain of thirty are first down Denver.
Speaker 3 (26:01):
We are back here on Broncos Country tonight. I'm film
Malani filling in for Benjamin alright here with Nick Ferguson.
Let's get into some more bow talk here.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Nick.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
We just spent the last segment talking about how he
was able to use his legs so much and the
really got the Broncos offense going. Let's talk about his
arm a little bit. There are a couple of passes
that you know, we're circulating on social media for sure,
where you know he had two guys wide open and
the ball a right in the middle there. What do
you see when you see Bo struggle a little bit
(26:33):
with his accuracy.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
For me, the first thing I go back to is footwork.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
That's your base, and that's where you live as a player,
and especially if you are a quarterback. Because if it's
what I'm going to say, hopefully I don't go of
anyone's head, but this is something to consider.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It's like where that quarterback points his foot.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
That's that direction, and it's almost pointing your foot and
your belly button towards where you want to throw. And
sometimes you'll see bow throw off his back foot or
he doesn't have a solid base where he can really
push and drive the ball down the field. And for
those fans who are listening and go back, and I
(27:16):
know people made fun of this, you would see Dak
Prescott doing.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
This kind of like secure type.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Yes, that's what it looked like Secura dancing, but that's
him working on that hip torch. And every single year
when quarterbacks come out, you hear draft analysts talk about, well,
that guy has a lot live on.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I don't give a damn about the live arm.
Speaker 4 (27:37):
What I'm looking at is what's going on above the
neck and what's going on below the waist because your feet.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
Is going to dictate it.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And what I mean by that when you see a quarterback,
he's going through his progression of reads number one, number two,
and you'll see him go number one is not there.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
And then he changed his direction with his head and
his body.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
As he going to a different direction, he now has
to reset his feet, he has to come to balance,
and now he has to transfer the weight from his
back foot to his front foot.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
And then release the ball.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
And it's and it's his legs that help guide him
when he's throwing the ball. So any quarterback, like if
you took me, you and Grant outside right now and
say throw the ball, there's a chance that one of
us can throw the ball like maybe thirty forty.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Yards, but if he definitely could right now, okay, you
definitely could. Hey I was JV quarterback. I got it. Okay,
So that means, boy, you gotta.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
You're gonna outthrow me because because of my shoulders, right,
my ball is not gonna go that fall. But the
whole point is once you stand up and you now
use your legs, you're able to drive.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
The ball down the field even more.
Speaker 3 (28:51):
That's where your powers coming from. Powers coming from the
ground through your legs and delivering the ball. It's kind
of like a golfer, you know, where they hip right
at the last second.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
Comes through.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Same thing with throwing the football there, and also the
timing too, nick like with it when you're dropping back
one to three boom, you're hoping the ball is coming
out right around that time. And that's how the routes
are designed too. Like Hey, the timing with the quarterback
dropping back is when the guy's supposed to be breaking
open and it should look nice and pretty, but sometimes
(29:23):
it doesn't always look like that. And a couple of
times there you know he's back peddling, he's trying to
avoid a sack or something he's thrown off that back foot,
and sometimes you just don't know where it's going.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
Well. The thing for him also too, when he's in
the shotgun, so he's already sixty seven yards of death,
so he's already in is his five to seven step drop.
What I'm seeing is some of his problem is that
he has some space sometimes where he can climb the
pocket and make a better throw. But in stands sometimes
(29:55):
he stays at seven eight and he may drift maybe
ten to twelve. How he's trying to make that throw.
It's like, climb the pocket right now, make that throw
easier for you. That's why when we see Bow, Nick's
in a hurry up or two minute offense.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
It's timing. It's quick, quick, fast, so he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
Have that much time. He's hit the bad foot, boom out.
Hit the badfoot, boom out. These are the things that
I'm seeing. But I know I've said some positive things
about Bow and got some negative feedback on social media.
Those people can penal stands and kick rocks. But my
whole point is that what I'm seeing from Bow right
now are all fundamental issues.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Yeah, that can be corrected.
Speaker 5 (30:32):
Okay, let me ask you about that.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Because bo has played a lot of football, and he's
certainly at the college level.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
You know, he's played over sixty games.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
So now that he's in the NFL, how much coaching
can you receive at that point after you've played so much.
You have some just instincts that are in you that
you're like, this is how I do things. How do
you break some of that? Because I agree with you Nick,
when I he bow throws some of these you know,
(31:03):
some of his throws.
Speaker 5 (31:05):
They look really.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Good like he when he's solid and his base is
there and he's looking sharp. I think that he looks
good like he could drive the ball and it looks
nice and uh, well, you know.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
What, there's a lot to unpack there, and I don't
want to just kind of leave people on the edge
of the seats, but we'll leave you there for just
a second. Still more for us to unpack about this
whole bone in situation
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