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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We at Kansas City coming up here and the Broncos
broke the streak.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Last year. We were coming off of a rather large.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Loss to Baltimore, and as I was telling Nick in
the last segment, everybody I talked to this week seems
to have some sense of optimism about this game, despite
coming off a blowout loss and going up against undefeated
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah. Maybe for a couple of reasons. This team seems
to be resilient. We've seen it already this season. They're young,
hungry football team. I think the defense certainly was embarrassed
last week in Baltimore, and I believe the defense is
way better than what we saw last week. So I
(00:40):
would expect the defense to bounce back and give a
really good effort this week. The problem is, Kansas City
seems to be peaking. You know, this is kind of
how they do it. By mid season, things are coming
together for them. We look at that game Monday night
against Tampa. Kelsey had a game of the year, maybe
(01:01):
one of the best games of his career, and the
addition of Hopkins looks like just what they needed. That
gives Kelsey more room to work. You can let Worthy
take the top off and d Hop and Kelsey work
the middle part of the field. Kareem Hunt is a banger.
(01:23):
It's amazing they got this guy off the couch basically,
and he's playing at a really high level. But that
being said, Ben, this could be a trap game, and
maybe that's why Broncos Country is feeling optimistic about it.
It's a game on a short week, and they play
the Bills next week, one of their rivals, not that
(01:44):
we're not one of their rivals, but I think they
probably look at the Bills a little differently than the
Denver Broncos at this point. And Mahomes has that ankle injury,
which seems to be a nagging injury for him, hopefully
enough to slow him down, take the mobility out of
his game. Even better, maybe take some of the zip
off of this passes. Their secondaries beat up. Bo's getting
(02:08):
better every week, so there's some reasons to be optimistic.
I do feel like the Broncos will keep the game close.
I think they'll cover, and who knows, if it's close
in the fourth quarter, anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Last year's game in Arrowhead was fairly close.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The score final score was nineteen to eight, but You're
talking about a team that mostly held Harrison Butcker to
field goals all game. In fact, it was sixteen to
eight with about two minutes to go for Butcker hit
another fifty two yard field goal, put.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It out of range.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But you know, you look at this last year, Harrison
Bucker had four field goals and Pat Mahomes threw the
ball pretty well, mostly to Travis Kelcey and orra sheet Rice. Well, Rice,
in't there anymore? Pacheco's hurt. You talked about Kareem Hunt
right there, But a lot of the conditions that existed
for this game Arrowhead last year don't really exist this year.
(02:55):
Russell Wilson through two interceptions of that game only ninety
five yards passing. Obviously we got bo Nicks now, he's
looking much improved throughout the month of October.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And in November.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, no doubt about that. I feel like this team
is better than the team they had last year in Bonix,
as you mentioned, getting better and better, I think pretty
much every week. And you heard Spagnola, the defensive coordinator
from the Chiefs, throwing flowers at bon Nicks. Man. He
said a lot of nice things about bon Nicks. Trent McDuffie,
(03:28):
their Pro Bowl cornerback. Same thing. He said, he's a
good player, he's a good quarterback. So bon Nicks I
think is impressing people around the league, maybe even more
than he's impressing Broncos fans, because, as you know, doing
a nightly show, Broncos fans are kind of hot and
cold on him, and you know, it's kind of how
(03:50):
it is when you have a rookie quarterback. But I
feel like he is starting to figure it out, and
I do feel like Sean Payton is gaining more and
more confidence in him. He gains confidence and you're maybe
going to see him open up the playbook a little
bit and see if they can get something done here
against the Chiefs. They have to be able to run
the ball. That's been so inconsistent pretty much all season long,
(04:15):
and I think it's time for Audric estimate the rookie
at of Notre Dame. I mean, this is a guy
that's had very few carries. Obviously, he's put the ball
on the ground twice. We can't have that. But when
he does get a chance to carry the ball, he
breaks up they chunks the yards. Seems like every time
he carries the ball seven yards right ten yards, So
(04:35):
I would like to see a whole lot more of
him and maybe a little bit less of Javonte in
this game.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I think I'd like to see a little bit
of a pivot in terms of their roles. You know,
maybe Es maybe the early down guy, and Williams move
into more than p Ryan role from last year where
he's in there later catching the ball at a backfield,
that kind of stuff. I'm with you there, Oldred Casta
May averaging what six point three yards per attempt right now,
the best runner on the teams as Javonte is averaging
(05:05):
what three point eight knicks five to one in McLoughlin
three nine, So not really staggeringly good numbers from any
of the running backs thus far.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why not given estimate a shot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I do believe I'm with you on that that the
run game needs to be more consistent. That's just got
to be in order to build everything else they want
to build off of it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And it's been hit or miss.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Broncos have beaten up on the teams they should
have on the ground game, but against the other the teams,
the quality teams, it just hasn't quite been there, and
I'm not sure if that's a game plan issue. I'm
not sure if that's you know, just facing really good
opposing defenses what that is.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But that running game, you're right, it has not been consistent.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, when you watch the game in real time from
the booth, you can see that there are holes there
and a lot of times the running back doesn't hit
the hole or he makes the wrong cut. I think
it could be a vision problem for maybe both of
the backs. McLoughlin and and I love what you said
about let's let estimate take a shot at first and
(06:04):
second down back. Bring Javonte in on third down. He
can keep the defense honest because they know we can
run the ball. At times. He can also catch the
ball out of the backfield. I do think they missed
shamaj ap Ryan, who you mentioned, and he's been a
good asset for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was the
guy that was the third down back that was catching
(06:26):
balls out of the backfield. McLaughlin maybe could be that guy.
I'm not sure, but so far it's been Javonte and
I just feel like it's time for a change. Tyler today,
I don't know when he's coming off the ir he
showed a lot of promise. I was real excited about
that kid, and we may see him again here before
the season's over. But I think we're going to see
(06:48):
more estimate. Sean Payton hinted at that this week, and
that's good with me.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm here for talking with Rick Lewis, color analyst in
the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Rick, a couple more questions here real quick. Why are
we throwing the ball to little Jordan Humphrey so much?
With all due respect little Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Little Jordan's probably a bottom end of the roster practice
quad type receiver anywhere else, and yet he winds up
with the third most targets for the Denver Broncos at
thirty two targets to nine games, and has not had
the production necessary to warrant those targets.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, and it's been really frustrating. Two games in a
row we've opened the game with a little Jordan Humphrey mistake,
and that's really hurts this team. You can't get off
to a fast start when that happens. When you look
at the snap count, you're right, Little Jordan Humphrey is
wide receiver two in this offense most almost every team
(07:42):
in the NFL. I think he would probably be a
practice squad player. You know, he's a veteran player. He
does some things well, big body, wide receiver, he's a
willing blocker. But you know what, I've been scratching my
head about that the last couple of weeks too. I
would love to see them try to get the ball
to a playmaker. You know, Troy Franklin been kind of
(08:04):
hit and miss as well. Veley seems to be a
reliable receiver, but I don't think he's a playmaking receiver,
so I keep going back to Franklin. I think we
can all assume now that Mems just not going to
be a big part of this offense as he's been.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, he said in the Dog Outs and a Peers.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Apparently, same thing with Greg Dolsich. Looks like he's not
going to get out of the doghouse. That's another guy, though,
that can make plays for you. We saw that his
rookie year. He's got big tim talent. I don't know
what the problem is with him. He did have some drops.
He's not a good blocker, but you know, he was
supposed to be that joker guy. That Sean Payton loves
so much. Why don't you get him a shot again?
(08:46):
Let him dress up, you know, call some plays for him.
See what happens. You do have some guys there that
had the athletic ability to be playmakers, but they're not
really getting a chance to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Rick got a benefit coming up for Alzheimer's here rules,
so let's tellus a.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, Ben, thanks man. My band's going to be playing
a benefit for the Alzheimer's Association. It's going to be
November twenty second, so that is two weeks from tomorrow.
It'll be at the Buffalo Rose Golden, which is a
really cool historic venue, and all the profits are going
to go to Alzheimer's. It's going to be a great night.
(09:26):
You can get tickets at Buffaloosgolden dot com. You can
buy a table, you know, maybe your company would like
to buy a table or something. Like I said, a
great cause which is near and dear to my heart,
and I'm sure a lot of people listening have had
to deal with that horrible disease with somebody in their
family at some point as well. So two weeks from
(09:48):
tomorrow night Buffalo Rose Golden Rick Lewis project. Come on out.
We'll have some fun and we'll raise some money.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Looking forward to a Rick always appreciates your time. And
that'll conclude our what the Funk segment with Rick Lewis.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I love it? I love it? Man. Could you trademark
that or copyright that or something. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
If we can't get that done, we'll get our crack
intern team on it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Right now, this could be our future, Ben, this is it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's just the hatching of genius right now.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This is it. I love it. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm about to take care
We at Kansas City coming up here and the Broncos
broke the streak.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Last year. We were coming off of a rather large.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Loss to Baltimore, and as I was telling Nick in
the last segment, everybody I talked to this week seems
to have some sense of optimism about this game, despite
coming off a blowout loss and going up against undefeated
Kansas City.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah. Maybe for a couple of reasons. This team seems
to be resilient. We've seen it already this season. They're young,
hungry football team. I think the defense certainly was embarrassed
last week in Baltimore, and I believe the defense is
way better than what we saw last week. So I
(00:40):
would expect the defense to bounce back and give a
really good effort this week. The problem is, Kansas City
seems to be peaking. You know, this is kind of
how they do it. By mid season, things are coming
together for them. We look at that game Monday night
against Tampa. Kelsey had a game of the year, maybe
(01:01):
one of the best games of his career, and the
addition of Hopkins looks like just what they needed. That
gives Kelsey more room to work. You can let Worthy
take the top off and d Hop and Kelsey work
the middle part of the field. Kareem Hunt is a banger.
(01:23):
It's amazing they got this guy off the couch basically,
and he's playing at a really high level. But that
being said, Ben, this could be a trap game, and
maybe that's why Broncos Country is feeling optimistic about it.
It's a game on a short week, and they play
the Bills next week, one of their rivals, not that
(01:44):
we're not one of their rivals, but I think they
probably look at the Bills a little differently than the
Denver Broncos at this point. And Mahomes has that ankle injury,
which seems to be a nagging injury for him, hopefully
enough to slow him down, take the mobility out of
his game. Even better, maybe take some of the zip
off of this passes. Their secondaries beat up. Bo's getting
(02:08):
better every week, so there's some reasons to be optimistic.
I do feel like the Broncos will keep the game close.
I think they'll cover, and who knows, if it's close
in the fourth quarter, anything can happen.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Last year's game in Arrowhead was fairly close.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
The score final score was nineteen to eight, but You're
talking about a team that mostly held Harrison Butcker to
field goals all game. In fact, it was sixteen to
eight with about two minutes to go for Butcker hit
another fifty two yard field goal, put.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
It out of range.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
But you know, you look at this last year, Harrison
Bucker had four field goals and Pat Mahomes threw the
ball pretty well, mostly to Travis Kelcey and orra sheet Rice. Well, Rice,
in't there anymore? Pacheco's hurt. You talked about Kareem Hunt
right there, But a lot of the conditions that existed
for this game Arrowhead last year don't really exist this year.
(02:55):
Russell Wilson through two interceptions of that game only ninety
five yards passing. Obviously we got bo Nicks now, he's
looking much improved throughout the month of October.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And in November.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yeah, no doubt about that. I feel like this team
is better than the team they had last year in Bonix,
as you mentioned, getting better and better, I think pretty
much every week. And you heard Spagnola, the defensive coordinator
from the Chiefs, throwing flowers at bon Nicks. Man. He
said a lot of nice things about bon Nicks. Trent McDuffie,
(03:28):
their Pro Bowl cornerback. Same thing. He said, he's a
good player, he's a good quarterback. So bon Nicks I
think is impressing people around the league, maybe even more
than he's impressing Broncos fans, because, as you know, doing
a nightly show, Broncos fans are kind of hot and
cold on him, and you know, it's kind of how
(03:50):
it is when you have a rookie quarterback. But I
feel like he is starting to figure it out, and
I do feel like Sean Payton is gaining more and
more confidence in him. He gains confidence and you're maybe
going to see him open up the playbook a little
bit and see if they can get something done here
against the Chiefs. They have to be able to run
the ball. That's been so inconsistent pretty much all season long,
(04:15):
and I think it's time for Audric estimate the rookie
at of Notre Dame. I mean, this is a guy
that's had very few carries. Obviously, he's put the ball
on the ground twice. We can't have that. But when
he does get a chance to carry the ball, he
breaks up they chunks the yards. Seems like every time
he carries the ball seven yards right ten yards, So
(04:35):
I would like to see a whole lot more of
him and maybe a little bit less of Javonte in
this game.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yeah, I think I'd like to see a little bit
of a pivot in terms of their roles. You know,
maybe Es maybe the early down guy, and Williams move
into more than p Ryan role from last year where
he's in there later catching the ball at a backfield,
that kind of stuff. I'm with you there, Oldred Casta
May averaging what six point three yards per attempt right now,
the best runner on the teams as Javonte is averaging
(05:05):
what three point eight knicks five to one in McLoughlin
three nine, So not really staggeringly good numbers from any
of the running backs thus far.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why not given estimate a shot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
I do believe I'm with you on that that the
run game needs to be more consistent. That's just got
to be in order to build everything else they want
to build off of it.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
And it's been hit or miss.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
The Broncos have beaten up on the teams they should
have on the ground game, but against the other the teams,
the quality teams, it just hasn't quite been there, and
I'm not sure if that's a game plan issue. I'm
not sure if that's you know, just facing really good
opposing defenses what that is.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
But that running game, you're right, it has not been consistent.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Yeah, when you watch the game in real time from
the booth, you can see that there are holes there
and a lot of times the running back doesn't hit
the hole or he makes the wrong cut. I think
it could be a vision problem for maybe both of
the backs. McLoughlin and and I love what you said
about let's let estimate take a shot at first and
(06:04):
second down back. Bring Javonte in on third down. He
can keep the defense honest because they know we can
run the ball. At times. He can also catch the
ball out of the backfield. I do think they missed
shamaj ap Ryan, who you mentioned, and he's been a
good asset for the Kansas City Chiefs. He was the
guy that was the third down back that was catching
(06:26):
balls out of the backfield. McLaughlin maybe could be that guy.
I'm not sure, but so far it's been Javonte and
I just feel like it's time for a change. Tyler today,
I don't know when he's coming off the ir he
showed a lot of promise. I was real excited about
that kid, and we may see him again here before
the season's over. But I think we're going to see
(06:48):
more estimate. Sean Payton hinted at that this week, and
that's good with me.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm here for talking with Rick Lewis, color analyst in
the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Rick, a couple more questions here real quick. Why are
we throwing the ball to little Jordan Humphrey so much?
With all due respect little Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Little Jordan's probably a bottom end of the roster practice
quad type receiver anywhere else, and yet he winds up
with the third most targets for the Denver Broncos at
thirty two targets to nine games, and has not had
the production necessary to warrant those targets.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Yeah, and it's been really frustrating. Two games in a
row we've opened the game with a little Jordan Humphrey mistake,
and that's really hurts this team. You can't get off
to a fast start when that happens. When you look
at the snap count, you're right, Little Jordan Humphrey is
wide receiver two in this offense most almost every team
(07:42):
in the NFL. I think he would probably be a
practice squad player. You know, he's a veteran player. He
does some things well, big body, wide receiver, he's a
willing blocker. But you know what, I've been scratching my
head about that the last couple of weeks too. I
would love to see them try to get the ball
to a playmaker. You know, Troy Franklin been kind of
(08:04):
hit and miss as well. Veley seems to be a
reliable receiver, but I don't think he's a playmaking receiver,
so I keep going back to Franklin. I think we
can all assume now that Mems just not going to
be a big part of this offense as he's been.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Yeah, he said in the Dog Outs and a Peers.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Apparently, same thing with Greg Dolsich. Looks like he's not
going to get out of the doghouse. That's another guy, though,
that can make plays for you. We saw that his
rookie year. He's got big tim talent. I don't know
what the problem is with him. He did have some drops.
He's not a good blocker, but you know, he was
supposed to be that joker guy. That Sean Payton loves
so much. Why don't you get him a shot again?
(08:46):
Let him dress up, you know, call some plays for him.
See what happens. You do have some guys there that
had the athletic ability to be playmakers, but they're not
really getting a chance to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
Rick got a benefit coming up for Alzheimer's here rules,
so let's tellus a.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Yeah, Ben, thanks man. My band's going to be playing
a benefit for the Alzheimer's Association. It's going to be
November twenty second, so that is two weeks from tomorrow.
It'll be at the Buffalo Rose Golden, which is a
really cool historic venue, and all the profits are going
to go to Alzheimer's. It's going to be a great night.
(09:26):
You can get tickets at Buffaloosgolden dot com. You can
buy a table, you know, maybe your company would like
to buy a table or something. Like I said, a
great cause which is near and dear to my heart,
and I'm sure a lot of people listening have had
to deal with that horrible disease with somebody in their
family at some point as well. So two weeks from
(09:48):
tomorrow night Buffalo Rose Golden Rick Lewis project. Come on out.
We'll have some fun and we'll raise some money.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Looking forward to a Rick always appreciates your time. And
that'll conclude our what the Funk segment with Rick Lewis.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I love it? I love it? Man. Could you trademark
that or copyright that or something. We'll see.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
If we can't get that done, we'll get our crack
intern team on it.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
Right now, this could be our future, Ben, this is it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
That's just the hatching of genius right now.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
This is it. I love it. We'll talk to you
next week.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm about to take care
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