10-21-24 Romi Bean with Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're gonna be right out to the Ka Coummon spiritual hotline,

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A very hot Our friend Rugby Bean from CBS Colorado, Robey,
how you doing this evening?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
I'm doing good. How are you guys doing? I am.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
It's my first night back in a while.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
I'm trying to keep.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
It all together, trying to keep the voice together. Nick
is shaking his head at me as sometimes I even
succeeded that. But we'll see people who are keeping it together.
The Denver Nuggets are keeping the.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Core flour together.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Aaron Gordon signs an extension here in the last hour
or so. What do we think about the Nuggets keeping
Aaron Gordon around? I love it.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I think it's a great move erin. Gordon's such a
good fit on the Nuggets and it's kind of crazy.
What do you think about before he came to the Nuggets.
I don't want to see his career was flailing, but
you know, it just was. He was kind of falling
off if you really, just wasn't in the right spot,
and it just sucks. A perfect fit here. He works
so well. Obviously a chemistry with Nicola Jokich, but he's

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great for also the everything kind of the mentality. I
think the in locker room leaderships just a perfect fit
in every way for this Nuggets offense for everything they do.
And he's just a great human being as well, right,
He's kind of a mister Nugget, as people like to say. So,
I think that is a fantastic move, a huge piece
if they want to do what they want to do. Well.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
With that being said, romy do you think that this
signing keeps the window open for Nikola Jokis in the
number of years that he has with the Nuggets for
them to try to want another Tiger.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, And I think, you know, I think everything that
the Nuggets are doing from this point until Jokic that window,
I guess closes, is to keep that window open for Nikoliokic.
And you love to see it. Right, they're making all
that they're doing, all the things that ownership that management
should be doing to make sure that one their best
player is happy with the situation. These are the players

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that Nikoliokic wants to be surrounded by. He wants to
make sure that they're there. You know, he's got to
say in these things, right, and if he doesn't want
to play there, that player will be gone, and if
he wants to play there, that player will be there.
So you know, Calvin Booth says they're gonna do everything
they can to make sure they win a lot of
championships in Yokush's window. And and they're they're talking, they're

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talking to talk, but they're walking the walk right now.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Let's again talking with CBS is romy Bean romy It's uh,
it was an interesting, I guess week in Colorado football. Obviously,
the Boss got out there, punished the punished Arizona on
their home turf. The Broncos on Thursday night in prime
time got out there punished the Saints, a shortheaded Saints
team albeit uh in prime time. And we get the

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Carolina Panthers coming to town. Things looking up for football
around the state.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Right now, Yeah, no kidding. I think it's a pleasant
surprise really on both with both teams that they're really
coming along and seem to be improving each week. And
really you look at both teams and the defenses on
both teams have just been absolutely spectacular. You know, between

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the Albert Livingston and advanced Joseph Guide, we are having
the time of our lives right now. Where you really
are but it is amazing what both defenses are doing.
When you have defenses that play like that, you're always
going to stay in the game. And I think for Colorado,
especially offensively, when you really didn't have much of Travis Hunter,
to continue to just guys continue to step up is

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really impressive. And you got to give the offensive line
credit because we dog them when they're bad. But boy
did they give Shadora Queen pocket to work with. And
when he has that, he really is one of the
best quarterbacks in the nation.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I mean, when we look at the See You Buffs,
they have exceeded expectation for most and for all those
they've done exactly what they anticipated. If the See You
Bobs were to make it to a Bowl game, does
coach Prime become National coach of the year? Do you

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see that happening.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
I don't know. I think that's hard because I think
he might have to get to the playoffs to be,
you know, national coach of the Year. I think if
you look at it a big picture, it's taken seven games.
They already exceeded their win total from last year and
from the year before that. They went from one win
to four wins to now they're seven games in and

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there at five. I mean, what he's done and we'll
see how the season ends, but you can certainly make
a case for him to be Coach of the Year.
But I just think probably when it comes down to it,
it'll be right. How many ranting teams have you played?
I think all of that stuff played into it. But
to your point, they think you could certainly make an
argument for it, especially if they finish up with eight
ninety ten wins this season. The turnaround that he's had

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in a.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
Short time, it's just spectacular, you know, talking about teams
that are having success right now on the football side
of things, but on the other side, over all the ice,
the Abs have been struggling. They can't stop anybody. They
really just have not looked like the same team. Part
of that, I think is the youth right now. Is
they've got players out that'll be back.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
A little bit later.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
But to what do we attribute the as struggles?

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Certainly in the season, yeah, I mean the first four games,
I mean that was rough. The first two were absolutely goaltending.
Then they kind of became the guys in front of
them and you just started to almost wonder, like is
there's something sour in the locker room, and I don't
necessarily think that is, but I still think that there's
First of all, you're missing a lot of guys. The

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hockey salary cap is like ridiculously small, especially compared to
other professional leagues, and when you are without guys that
are chewing up a tremendous amount of your cap in
Gablandeskog and Valves Chushkin, it's really hard to compete, like
playing and simple, right, And so I think that obviously
they've kind of found a little bit of groove the
last two games, which is great, but you know, it

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paints the big picture that we certainly hope Gablandascott comes back.
We're pulling for it, everyone's pulling for it. But if
he doesn't this year, you've got to make a decision
because it's holding the team back. If he's not going
to come back with the Valda Chushkin, you know, they've
made the decision that they're gonna trust him. I don't know,
you know that's something that you hope that he doesn't
let you down. A herd postseason in a row. So

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I think that stuff really loves large now again if
Gave comes back, I think that I think everything made
them and so I think it changes the dynamic of
so many things. But you just don't really know when
that timeline is and when that's going to happen, and
so I think it kind of hangs over everyone's head
a little bit.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
But isn't it up to the Avalanche Brass and Jared
Bennar to kind of fast track that because, like you said,
because there's so much money invested in lendis God, that's
kind of time that the team's hand behind their back.
And once again you have a corporate of guys, almost
like the Nuggets, Well, you have a corporup of guys,

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and you can't waste cal mccarr in the years that
he has just kind of waiting for Gabe. But shouldn't they.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Kind of speed this up?

Speaker 3 (06:56):
And if Gabe can't make the situation or decision based
on this, hell, should they be willing to make the
decision for.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
I mean, I think so. I think I think it's
one of those things we've been waiting for, I mean
two seasons now for this right for Gabe to come back,
and it's just kind of been hanging over everyone's head
for all this time, and so everyone is saying, you know,
the people within the organization that I've talked to is
that he's definitely coming back this year. But when he
comes back, is he the same player? That becomes another

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discussion as well. But I think has to be a
very real, realistic discussion. Right this is we've never seen
somebody like come back full strength, I think, especially in hockey.
So I think there are still a lot of decisions
ahead as well on what that comes. But at some
point you have to make a decision one way or
the other.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know, we've talked about this before, but you know,
Gabe still has a seat on a sweater, so there's
no one with the captaincy on the ice, and that
to me still feels a little bit weird. I think
you need to empower somebody who's actually playing, you know.
So I think that at some point you have to
make that decision. But I do I don't think they'll
make that decision before this year is over.

Speaker 1 (08:03):
I do.

Speaker 2 (08:04):
So you hope that games comes back, and in the
meantime they have to find it within themselves as the
players to galvanize themselves. But you know, beyond that, if
we are going to go like Ex's and all that.
I do think that there is a goal heading issue.
Does this team good enough to compete in the playoffs
with their goaltending as is not right now? No, So,
you know, hopefully Georgia just started off in a slump,

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but that's something that has to get better.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Talking with Roby Bean from CBS four Colorado, Robby, as
we look ahead to the Broncos on Sunday, you got
the Carolina Panthers, our old friend Jero Vero, the outlaw
Josie Jewel. But this looks like a very wittable game
for the never Broncos. As soon as you look beyond that, though,
all of a sudden it looks a little bit more difficult.
You've got the Baltimore Ravens, you got the Kansas City
Chiefs getting a great October. Building up this record and

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building up these teams is a good thing. But what
do you think about where we're going to be and
looking at this thing at.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
The end of Dame. Yeah, I mean, I think this
Panthers game, as you said, it is very winnable. I
don't think that the Broncos are at a point where
they would be overlooking anybody like you can certainly look
at this, I guess as a trap game because it
just seems so winnable. But I just don't think that
the Broncos are at a place right now where they're

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good enough or you could even take hockey enough to
overlook the Panthers. I think they will come out and
they're really looking to build on what they've been what
they've been building to this point, So I'm not really
concerned about them overlooking it. But it certainly is one
that you have to get because, as you said, the
next two are a little bit of a bear. But
the season honestly opens up pretty nicely. When you looked

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at it at the beginning of the season, you didn't
think Cleveland was going to be a mess. You didn't
think Cincinnati was going to be looking the way Cincinnati
looks right now. You know, Vegas is has completely raided itself,
so they're a mess, you know. So all of a sudden,
you look at the schedule and I think it's opened
up pretty nicely for the Broadcos to have a lot
of success down the stretch. But you got to win

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the games that you're supposed to win, so you have
to beat the Panthers, and you don't want to just
beat them, You kind of want to beat them to
a pulp a little bit like you did the same
to give you some good momentum as then you take
on a tough stretch right on the road to Kansas
City and with Baltimore. So this is a key one.
But the season has really opened up nicely, especially with

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the way the defense is playing. I think when your
defense is playing like that, you've always got a chance.
You got a chance in a lot of games. So
I think the Broncos are going to have a chance
in a lot of games as long as the offense
can continue to build and keep doing kind of the
good things that we've seen and do stick to the
run game, dominate on the ground if they can, and
you know, as Bonux continues to get more and most

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shuttled used his legs, I think there is an opportunity
for the team to brack up quite if you win well.

Speaker 3 (10:52):
When when we saw something last week Thursday that we
hadn't seen around here in two years, and what I
mean by that, coach Sewn Vayton changed something in his offense.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
What was the reason, why and how it happened. I'm
just happy that he did. But when you saw some
of the moves and the pre slat motion, things that
are not known and associated with Sean Payton's offense and
allowed bo nixicin it to a rhythm, what was the
first thing that you thought?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I loved it him and more. It felt like this
was a game that, even though Sean Payton down played it,
man he wanted to win, and he wanted to really
really win and keep that mentality going for the next games.
I thought it was great at the beginning of the game,
as everybody was talking about both what work was certainly concerning,
but he started to settle in, which was good to

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see to kind of and to see Sean kind of
mixed in some of those things that we just hadn't seen,
and I think a lot of us had thought, all right, well,
I guess this just isn't gonna happen. It was really
great to see. I think the most interesting thing, of course,
was the lack of Courtland Sutton. It was very interesting.
I know that you know, Sean schemes game to game

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and whatever he think is going to work to win
that game. That's what he's gonna do. But I do
think that's an interesting situation that bears watching. I mean,
to have your number one receiver, you know, only guy
that's getting big money in that room, get one target
and zero catches. I don't know if there's something more
going on there or not, if there's something to read
between the tea leaves, but I find that pretty peculiar

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talking with as four as Roby being Robby. Do you
think the Broncos can make any.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
Moves at the trade deadline?

Speaker 2 (12:34):
Maybe I don't. I don't really see them making any
big splash moves one, right because they're still kind of
under under Russ's cap. And two, I don't know who
you're trading. If you were going to kind of send
somebody out, I don't know how much value they would
necessarily get right for a lot of the guys. And

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it kind of seems like in the past year or
so that Sean hasn't been super willing to trade out
as guys from the offers that we seem to hear.
So I don't I always like somebody to make a
big flash move, but it's hard for me to see it,
especially with this way this year is going. I think
big picture is still building towards something bigger in the future. Right,

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They're not on the making A big trade is not
going to be the difference between contending for a championship
or not, because that's not where they're at right. I
think that this team as is, if you continue to build,
you probably crack the playoffs. But I don't know that
a big trade would make kind of a difference towards
the ultimate outcome of this year. Rowie.

Speaker 1 (13:35):
We appreciate you joining us as always, look forward to
catching you on the CBS, eating news, doing the sports,
and look forward to talking to you again next week.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Oh you guys look back.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Thanks for having me on.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
All right, to take care, We'll we be CBS four