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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A lot of football this weekend, and if a playoff weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'll tell you what we started off with the Tensons
at the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hunt is the bat Mahomes in the gun inside the
one third in goal. It's a shotgun stamp, it's a
handoff the Hunt cattle block from Kelsey touchdown.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Get the Chiefs scoring right.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
There on a one yard touchdown one by Kareem Hunt.
Kansas City third and goal, leading by one fourth quarter,
Mahomes and the gun receivers in tidy gets the knee
high shotgun snap.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He's growd, we crows as he's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Being tackled and it was caught in.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
The end zone by Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What I crap by Kelsey, But what a play by
Mahomes and browd will go to a knee and that
is it and the Chiefs with the coup down odd
zero's on the clock, and the Chiefs will advance to
their seventh consecutive AFC Championship game.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Those calls courtesy of Westwood One's Kevin Harley and man,
the Chiefs just keep finding ways to win.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That they do. And you know it's interesting because you
look at the yardage.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That Houston put up over the course of that game.
One of the fascinating things over the course of this
weekend US turnover differential really was it teams that won
the turnover battle won these games period, put blank heads down.
It wasn't a particularly stellar day from Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But he got the job done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Sixteen to twenty five, one to seventy seven of the touchdown,
no interceptions.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They spread the ball out with the running backs a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Kareem Hutt most effective eight carries forty four yards and
a touchdown over on.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The Texans side.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Stroud nineteen to twenty eight, two hundred and forty five yards,
eighteen carries eighty eight the touchdown for Joe Mixon, Nico
Collins eighty one yards of the air, Dalton Schultz sixty
three through the air. But I think you look at
that tape at Dalton Schultz, whatever his contributions were through
the air when he had to block, what, my goodness
was that embarrassing?
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And what else was embarrassing in that game was some
of the officiating and some of the calls that Patrick
Mahomes got in that game. Have you changed your tune
yet about people come play. I ain't about the refts
after seeing some of those late hit calls.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, I thought that game was poorly officiated. But I've
not changed my tune on that. It's something a losers too.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Loser's whined about officiating end of the day.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You can't like at the end of the day, you've
got to make the game where it's not close enough
to worry about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If you know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I mean, these are It's funny to me because it's
always whining about whoever's winning at the time.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When Tom Brady was was back with the Patriots, that
used to be the wonder Oh it's old us. Well
maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, it's just when you're a superstar, you do
you get some of the calls.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Also, like the NBA, you know, Lebron James and Michael Jordan,
they got some calls that other guys don't because you
protect the faces.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Of the league.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And I'll say this, I lived in Kansas City when
when John Elway was quarterbacking here in Denver, the dude
said on the other side, like you're sitting where those
fans were sitting at that point, what like, we'll get
across the vision.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like, God, how did we get rid of that guy?
He's so good?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I did?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I thought it was kind of a bad look for
Patrick Mahomes to flop on that one play. But and
on the other side of that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I'm all for the league cutting down the flopping, But.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
On the other side of that, if he's getting the calls,
I mean, that's just playing to win the game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, for me, if you're gonna have a sky judge
kind of thing, they would be looking for that because
somebody flopped and if you flopped, you get the penalty
goes the other way kind of thing. Like that's something
I would institute to get rid of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah, kind of like the fine for flopping now in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right, And so I would do a fine.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I would do the penalty yards going the other way,
and you know, and that'll stop that stuff real quick.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And shout out to Travis Kelcey real quick. I think
he became the all time leading receiver and the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Seven catches, one hundred and seventeen yards and a touchdown
was basically their offense in that game. They had five
completed passes to a wide receiver all five to exavi
your worthy In that game, everything else was a back
or a tight end catching the ball.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
For Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Second game, our commanders taken on the Detroit Lions first
out of.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ten at the forty one. They'll sling the pass out
to the left side.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
It's mcclorn breaks two tackles down the left sideline of
the forty mporn motor too the thirty inside the twenty
still eyes feeted to ten and he'll dive into the
in zone for a Washington touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Had a shotgun.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Staff to go off out of an empty backfield, looking.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Left all the way. Throwers at left a grd.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
It's intercepted, picked off and down the.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Sideline goes Kwan. Martin breaks a tackle at the ten.
Marton inside the five. He's gonna take it all the
way for a Washington touchdown.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Hurts the tight end of the left side, Brown wide left,
McLaurin wide right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Out of a shotgun, I'm third down. Daniels to throw
looking for Ertz.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
He's got it just across the goal line for a
Washington touchdown.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
The final seconds tick off, and for the first time
since the nineteen ninety one season.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
The NFC Championship Game will feature Washington.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
The Commanders were in command from start to finish.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Post calls courtesy of Kevin clude Coogler with west Wood
one and man Jaydeon Daniels doing things a rook quarterback
has never done this. Dude, I'm a believer now, yeah,
oh now, it took me a minute. I kind of
fell off in the second half of the season a
little bit, as Cliff Kingsbury offenses are known to do.
But they pulled it all out in that game, and
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the defense stepping up with some big plays.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was the big thing. The Washington defense had been
a liability all year.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Dan Quinn is starting to get that unit to play
the way they need to be playing going forward. They
were a man defense most of the year. Jared Goff
was actually his best brought up against man defenses.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But in this particular game twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Three or forty three thirteen, a lot of production but
only one touchdown, three interceptions.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There. You had Dave Montgomery throw pass for twenty yards,
Teddy Bee had two gloves.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Got in there, went one of one for a three
yard and then Jamison Williams of course through that one
ball that was intercepted. Yeah, fourteen carries one hundred and
five yards for Jamier Gibbs on the ground, one rush
sixty one yards and a touchdown for Jamison Williams. Dave
Montgomery got seven carries as well. They were trying to
get a touchdown and they didn't. On the receiving side,
Tim Patrick had a catch for twenty two yards. Sam
Port caught the only touchdown, and I'm on ross Saint Brown.
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He catches one hundred and thirty seven yards of note
over there on the Washington side.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jayden Daniels twenty two.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
To thirty one, two hundred ninety nine yards, two touchdowns,
no turnovers. Brian Robinson fifteen carries, seventy seven yards, two touchdowns,
Jane Daniels sixteen more carries fifty one yards.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Eckler got in there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You had Jeremy McNichols score a touchdown on the receiving side.
I mean Brown six catches ninety eight yards, Terry McLaurin eighty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Seven and a touchdown. Zach Ertz got a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Fascinating, fascinating the way Washington's playing, you wouldn't think looking
at him, but this is gonna be a team that's
gonna beat Philadelphia at all in Philadelphia. But you know what,
at this point it's been magic. It might just be
a team of destiny.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Who knows.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, I hope so Man. I would love to see
Washington and the super Bowl and Jayden Daniels Man, I
just got to go back to him real quick. Did
you see the story on him? You probably already know this,
but I didn't the VR story I did.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I actually help put that out there over Twitter last
couple of days.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Do you think that is gonna be the norm going
forward after seeing this success of him?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Absolutely, And it's part of the reason.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'll tell you this ties into general manage re search Newmark,
So Jade and Daniels. Newmark used to be in football
technology with the Detroit Lions. And so when Jaden said, hey,
if you're the guys are gonna bring me in, I
need you to implement this system with the VR.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That I got down there in Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And this VR system was was invented by this this uh,
this guy in this gal and they it failed in soccer,
like they were they had invented it for soccer and.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The company was going bankrupt. They had nothing else.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They turned it like they pivoted the technology and changed
some things for American football.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it works like a dream.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It speeds the process up that you're doing this by
one point seven times, so that you're already used to
speed of the game when you're doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, So just fascinating stuff you guys, get you just
to read up on that you really should And what
a great story.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Uh there in Washington. Let's head two day two. Rams
take it on.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
The Eagles pick the hand up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
There's a lane to the right personal God twenty five
twenty for cook God count the sideline, good card.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Touchdown Eagles forty four yards so.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
They're down at four.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Gets a hand up, open land.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Partly explodes partly down the right side line.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Will anybody catch him?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Touch seven?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Say God Parkley Ay like for fine sixty two yards
to the house tay two yard line. That's the Philadelfia
opens up hand off.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's partly running to the left, partly gets by everybody.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Say cup party is gone. Tuckstown on a.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Snowy Sunday, sat up Barkley has dominated.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
For the Eagles were down a thirty eight seconds left.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Rams break the huddle fourth down and eleven, Stafford takes
the snow looking snapper throw to the right side.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is in took lad Philas Who's gonna hold up Nig Tumman.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
The celebration starts if a city of winter in law.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Those calls courtesy of Iron Eagle with Westwood one and
Man Giant owner John Marr probably not sleeping too well
last night.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It was the start of two snow games and snow
Kwan Barkley twenty six carries, two hundred five yards, two touchdowns, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Four catches for twenty seven in the year two. Just
you know for Grits Jaylor hurts.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Fifteen to twenty one, twenty eight. They're gonna have to
figure out more in that passing game. They'll gonna get
past Washington. But this is gonna be a fascinating game
to watching the NFCS. You get division rivals going head
to head, and you know they have quarterbacks they can
win it for you on the ground.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, and man, just the X factor Saquon Barkley. It
just seems like every single game lately he's breaking at
least one sixty yard touchdown run. In this game he
breaks two and I love the way he was looking
back at Jared Burst after his comments about Philly's fans
on that first touchdown, just kind of letting him know, hey,
we heard you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Bro eight nine mad boxes. It does not matter.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He is absolutely He's say gone Barkley at that point,
he goes from snow quand to sagone.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I'm just saying, how was.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It to see like a true snow game in the playoff?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I like that there were some people that were bickering
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh hope steal other teams win or whatever. Man, I'm like, man, yet,
that's part of it. I don't I don't have any
any issues with snow games, and I honestly I hate
doing games. I do hate them.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah, I'm glad the Bills aren't aren't aren't covering their
field with their new stadium, like it looks like they
have the covers of.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Fans man the fields, right, yeah, break that's so uh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Stafford twenty six to forty four three twenty four two touchdowns,
one of the better performing games that he has had
relatively speaking for the cold and the snow.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I was so ready to rub it in your face. Yeah,
just saying.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Kyri Williams got over one hundred yards on the ground
that lost the fumble, pooking the coua six catches ninety
seven yards.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Cooper cup who has clearly lost a step.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He had managed to.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Get five catches for sixty one yards on seven targets
in that one.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
That catch from Nikua the sideline, Ellen trying to mount
that comeback on incredible and.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What everybody thought would be the game of the week
turned out to be the game of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Baltimore taken on Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Awen is gonna line up on the center, Gilly his
right behind him, play clack down.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
To two now one won. Allen takes the snap.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Drives ahead into the end zone. Touchdown Bills a one.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Yard touchdown run for Josh Allen and Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Has taking the lead.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Colvin splits out wide left, Allan Waits gets the snap.
Allen keeps it up the middle, powering to the gold
mine in the its own touchdown Bills. The second touchdown
run of the first stab.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
For Allen two pointer ties the game. Here's the snap.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Jacksonville run to his right, he looks, he throws.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It is dropped.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It is dropped, and Brews was open at the pie line.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
And dropped it Allen back to the line of scrivitge
hands under center, takes a snap, drops to an e
and now it's official for the first time since for
the seventh time in franchise history, the Buffalo Bills are
going to the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Those collins courtesy of Ryan Raankey with west Wood One
and Man, I fund a little bad for Mark Andrews
dropping that two point conversion. I thought he was gonna
have a chance to make up for that thumbo earlier
in the game and just didn't pan out that way.
But man, the game panned out exactly how he hoped
it would, with a nice, tight game all the way
till the end.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Very fun one to watch.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mark Andrews five catches sixty one yards, But all anybody
gonna remember is a fumble and a drop at the
end there on the two point conversion.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't know what he was doing running.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
When you catch a ball and you get in your
in the open field, do not run horizontally. Ever, any
coach will always tell you, do not do that, because
what's gonna happen. You're gonna get by blindside, peanut punched.
It's gonna happen, and sure enough they did. This game
is all about the turnovers again, we go right back
to it. Buffalo played a perfect game with no turnovers. They
weren't the most inspiring team on offense, but they didn't
make mistakes, and in the end, Baltimore was just unable
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to execute. You go back if you look, and there
were a couple of missed this extra points in the
Philly game that could have cost them in this one.
But this one was all about just the way that
Baltimore could not execute when they needed to, and it
came down there at the end, and you've had a
bunch of people hyper analyzing that Lamar Jackson play. Look, yes,
Chris Sims is technically correct, Lamar Jackson was a step
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light throwing the ball. But if you go back and
watch the play, it looks to me like he's using
his legs and heading that direction and trying to get
the safety and the other guys to bite down on
him so that he's gonna have a cleaner window one
on one to Mark Andrews on the outside against the
corner and he could power his way in because Andrews
ran that route short of the pilot, so it looks
to me like Lamar's trying to bake those guys, suck
those guys up. So he gets the one on one
and then tries to like put it real soft into
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his hands, and Mark Andrew's momentum is carrying him the
other direction.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's just a lack of execution both ways. Your receiver,
you got to catch that. You're a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's some things you need to clean up a little
bit there as far as that goes. But now, end
of the day, the great football game between two themes
and the Buffalo comes out on top.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, here's Lamar Jackson addressing those turnovers post game first.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Half to costly turnos. Not r holding the safety, me
just knowing the covering, me knowing it was a man
throw a BS inter session we gave we it was
seven seven at the time. I believe they scored after
that battle back, uh fumble. She now tryna make something happen.
You know, couldn't throw up. It was like a a
RPO place, so I couldn't really throw the ball to
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uh likely you know, the officers line down the field
until I was trying to make something happen. I tried
to screech the ball slipped up man Ron Meta picked
it up, got some yards. I think that led to
points for them.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So it's a team effort out there.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know, he been busting his body making places happened
out down nfield for us.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
UH came up short.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
And like I been saying all season, every time we
had situations like this, turnovers play a factor. Pennanties play
a factor. Today, Well tonight, the turnover can't happen, you know,
and that's why we lost the game, cause, as you
can see, moving the ball wonderfully, it's hold onto the
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
For my language, knowing tired.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I love those comments from Lamar Jackson. We talked about
Dan Campbell in the show taking credit or taking the
blame when the team falls short, and Lamar Jackson did
the same thing in his postgame comments.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, and that's what it was at the end of
the day against Buffalo. If you turn it over and
they don't, they're gonna beat you like they're here to create.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
An extra possession or two and grind you down. And
that's in the end what they did.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And you know, everybody that was saying that defense was
too small to stop Derrek Henry, I mean, Derek Henry
only hit one eighty yards in that game, eighty four
yards eighty four sixteen carries eighty four yards, they're still
five to three of carry, but seventeen other Kimo one play.
It was weird how they didn't really use Derek Henry
as much as you thought they would. And it's fascinating
because you go back to last year with Baltimore and
Todd Munckt totally changed up what they did in the
playoffs and they wound up losing. They were trying to
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throw the ball over the yard when they were a
run identity team. They at least tried to run and
kept it pretty balanced in this one. But the run
was working and they still we were not using it
as effectively as it was like.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Twenty one yards for Henry at halftime, and then that
one driving in the third quarter he had like seventy
and then they went away from it again.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, it didn't make any sense to me either.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, people overthinking themselves in the play else this kind
of the stuff that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Interesting matchup.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I remember, gosh, how many years has it been with
Joe Montana and Jim Kelly took.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
On each other. Chiefs of Bills in the AFC Championship.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder how many times that of get talked about
this week, Broncos cuntry night.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We'll be back in for this.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We go right on to the KWA comms put hot. Well,
I don't bringing a good buddy, lat Sanderson from Mile
High huddle. Lance, how you doing this evening?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Good then, Mans, Good talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, good to talk to you too. It's been an
interesting week as we start.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To get some of these notifications of coach hirings and
things like that. Ben Johnson obviously taking the job with
the Chicago Bears today. Detroit defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is
expected to take the job with the New York Chats
once Lance Newmarket's hired there as well. Interestingly, I think
because there are factors in play for the Denver Broncos
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of both these hires and the factors of this, Darren Rizzy,
who I think was probably, if not the at the
forefront of these special teams coordinator search for the Denver Broncos,
is very much in play for the special team's coordinating
job in Chicago, and I would be surprised if he
didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And then Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Who served on Sean Payton staff as a defensive backs
coach for five years, knows quite a few people on
the Broncos staff, and I would not be surprised if
one or two people did leave this staff to go
be in New York. How different does it feel to
have the Denver Broncos coaches be.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Wanted as opposed to the way it's been the last
few years.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Well, it's actually really fun and quite honestly that the
one that's the most intriguing to me is Van Joseph
and the way that this defense.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
Played, the way they turned around from giving up seventy points.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Against the Miami Dolphins in Week three of last season
to being one of the best defenses in the NFL
this last year, if not the best defense. If we
really want to break it down, we can do that.
But I mean, like Dang Joseph getting interviews. I believe
he interviewed with the Jets. I believe he interviewed with
the Race as well. Like that's one guy. Jim Leonard
is another guy that would make a lot of sense
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for other teams to target. Like it feels really different,
you know, Like the way that we're sitting here talking
in January about this Broncos team where.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You're you're looking at assistant coaches, coordinators getting looked at.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I think Davis Webb was also and talks about maybe
getting your offensive coordinator job this this year, like it's
a way start contrast to the way that we've talked
about the Broncos in the last five seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Dude, well, it definitely is. And and that's that's part
of the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I think it goes to speak to the success or
at least the foundation of success that the Broncos have
late over the last couple of years in getting away
from Nate Hackett. As we look at, you know where
the Broncos are this year, they made the playoffs. That
was not something I think that that a lot of
people expected five and a half wins at the sportsbook totals,
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but easily besting that and and then you know, even
if you got bounced in the opening rounds, making the playoff.
So the year that I think everybody thought we were
playing with house money has certainly got to be considered
a success. The question becomes what does this team do
with expectations of success, which is what's going to happen
next year. You've made the playoffs this year. Now people
are going to expect you to make the playoffs. And
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this is a young team, and I'm interested what your
thoughts are on the potential of this team to now
have to live up to expectations rather than just you know,
playing as loose as they did this past year.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Well, I think the big thing is is just looking back.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
At like you said, you know that five.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
And a half wins was the win total coming into.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
This season, and obviously you win ten games, you go
to the playoffs. But when you look back at like
throughout the season. I wrote an article at Mile highuddle
dot com right after the regular season ended and like,
the big five takeaways that I have going forward for
this team is one, You've got more money. You've got
more draft picks. You got better depth coming in obviously
got what fifty five million dollars in salary cap space.
(19:54):
Moving up, you got a full complimentary pick of a
set of draft picks. You got your big time players
in big time moments, making the biggest plays when you
absolutely needed them to have, like Courtland sudden one handed
catches against the Los Angeles Chargers. You got Martin Ms
the big game that he had against the Bengals. You've
got Nick Benito, you know.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Making the big time pick six against the Browns.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You've got the other one against the Colts. You've got
Pastor Hams another pick six. Like you got your big
time players making the biggest plays when you need them
the most. And then when you look at like the future,
like George Peyton, these draft picks are starting to pan out.
Jonathan Cooper just got a big time extension. Quinn Miners
just got a big time extension. Look at Brandon Jones
coming in as a free agent acquisition. You look at
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Ben Powers, big time free agent acquisition. George Peyton is
starting to really show his craft as the general manager
and building this team in the right way. And then
you've got Sean Payton as your head coach. You've got
Vote Nicks as your quarterback. This the foundation is starting
to build itself moving forward. And as this team has
started to grow and grew from what Week four through
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the rest of the season, you can see there's a
lot of optimism for this team right now, like you
should be optimistic about this Bronco the team moving forward,
and as these expectations starts to build. I think that
because this roster is so young, as built in just
the right way and a lot of people really underestimated
the talent that they have, this team could really start
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to scare some teams in the ASC.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I think so too, And I think that's that's the thing.
I think they snuck up on people a little bit
this year. I don't think people were expecting much out
of the Denver Broncos. I think, you know, you look
at the national narratives surrounding bo Nicks. I think they
stuck up on some people. I don't think that level
of disrespect is going to be there next year. And
that's good, you know, for the fan base to finally
feel respected. But at the same time, you know, I
think the other side of that is just that nobody's
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sleeping on you anymore, and it makes you makes your
job a little bit more difficult because people aren't underestimating you.
Now that's said, I believe that, you know, the Broncos
are good enough football team that they're not going to
need to just sneak up on people. I don't want
people to think that, but there is there is an
element to that. You know, when you're young and people
don't have tape on you. Now you're going to have
defensive coordinators around the league getting tape on Bonex and
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they're gonna have an whole off season to study it.
It's going to be interesting to see how they counter
punch bow and how he counter punches what they throw
at him. You look at this offense, and obviously there
are some skill position needs, but wide receiver has never
really been a priority for Sean Dayton. Getting a playmaking
tight end, having a stable of running backs opens things
up for everybody else. What do you think the biggest
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need this offseason for the Broncos is?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Well, this is I'm so glad you went in this
direction because obviously tight end obviously running back are big
time needs. But let's look at the defense a little
bit here. I mean, I know you've got Jonathan Cooper
with the biggest tension. You've got Nick Bonito who's probably
going to get an extension as well. That room still
needs a difference maker, Like I know, the needle had
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a great season this year, Cooper had a great season two,
and it looks like Jonah Ellis is a guy that's
a good guy moving forward for rotational depth, but really
mainly a guy that is like scares you as an
offensive coordinator, a guy that we really need to game
plan around, A guy that as a pass rusher can
really make a difference. I know that again, Benito had
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what ten sacks this season. He had a couple of
touchdowns as well defensively, but as a run defender, he
still has a lot of work to do and a
lot of work to grow in that aspect. Jonathan Cooper
is probably the best run defender at the edge position
this year. Why are we talking about playmakers on the
offensive side of the football right now?
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Why are we not talking about maybe adding a replacement
for a guy like DJ Jones. You know, Kenneth Grant
from Michigan might be a guy that the Broncos could
look at to help the defensive line up front. Maybe
get Michael Williams from Georgia. Like, there's definitely different opportunities
to look at this roster.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Try to rebuild it in the draft. And also understand
that the tight end group, the running ground back group
in this draft is so deep and you can find
players like a tray Bon Henderson, like a Quinn John
Judkins or a guy that I really fell in love
with today watching tape in DJ Giddens from Kansas State.
That's that player that really intrigues me to help add
to this this running back room, the tight end group.
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You got Harold fannin junior from Boston College. You've got
Gunner and Helm from Texas. There's not necessarily a guy
that at the top of this draft like yeah, pull
some leveland Tyler Warren with David Graat, but you can
still add pieces to the defense to help it grow
and continue to get better, and also add pieces to
the tight end and running back room in later in
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the draft this year.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I agree talk with Las Sanderson from Ali Huddle here
on Brocos Country tonight, I do tend to agree that
you can. You know, you don't have to make running
back or tight end the first pick. You do need
to add to the room, but you don't need to
do it right away on the defense de side by
the way to but you know't have thirteen to.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Have sex this year.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You know there are people that scare You got John
Frank Lamyers, you got Zach Allen there, you got Coop,
you got Benito, those kind of guys. I do think
they need adds athleticism at the inside back or they do.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You absolutely nail the head. You've got to find a
replacement for DJ Jells.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Jones filled in admirably, but he's not a natural zero
tack and he's not a natural nose, and so you're
gonna have to find somebody I like to get out
of Kentucky the Ondi Walker. I mean six six three
forty five with sub five forty athleticism. That's that's something
you you know, you got to at least raise your
eyebrow at and then you know, I think they need
to get stronger at the safety position too. Brendon Jones
was a revelation, but PJ. Locke was not what they
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had hoped that and needed him to be this year.
So I think you need to get I think you
need to get better there. Obviously we've had people out
there suggesting bring Justin Simmons back. I don't know that
that's necessarily in the cards, but I wouldn't totally.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Rule it out.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
No, Honestly, I think that you should probably go to
free agency if you If you remember correctly, this free
agency class tracks with one of the better safety classes
that we've seen in recent history was the twenty twenty
one NFL Draft class. You've got guys like Richie Grant
from from Atlanta, who really is I liked him a
lot better coming out of UCF than I watched him
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at Atlanta. But you got Turbine Mary, You've got Talifolo
who Tala Noah Hufanga excuse me? Uh, the from.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
The San Francisco forty nine ers as.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
A free agent. Uh, you've got the kid.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
Out of Miami. His names escaping me right this second.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
But there's a handful of different safety prospects that are available.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
In this free agency class, and I think that the
Broncos can go.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And get a bargain kind of guy like Marcus Williams
is maybe a guy if you want to overspend on
a on a free agent theory, Marcus Evs from.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
The Raiders, Uh, Julian Blackman.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Kondrat Diggs as a veteran guy like there's there's a
handful of different safety players and even a linebacker. Uh,
there's a handful of guys there. I think that quite honestly,
if you're looking to build this team correctly moving forward,
you've got to look to the draft to help build
the young talent around bo Nicks to help him grow
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and just continue to become a franchise quarterback in the
NFL and allow him to get continuity with players around
him that just accentuate his skill.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Said hey, Lance Grant Smith here speaking of free agents,
which one of the Broncos free agents you want to
see most return to the team. You got guys like
DJ Jones, Cody Barton, of course, Javonte Williams, Michael Burton.
Which one of those guys you think the Broncos need
to bring back?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Man, Honestly, I think that DJ Jones is probably the
one that I would like to see brought back the most,
but I'm not sure that they can actually afford to
bring him back with a deal that he's going to
want somewhere around eight nine ten million dollars a season,
like he's an elite run stuffer and that he's got
some ability as a pass rusher. That would be the
one guy that really stands out to me. But in
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terms of the rest of the free agents, I mean,
Cody Barton was a great villain, but still a replacement
level linebacker. Maybe we can get Alex Singleton back and
put Cody Barton back and get the true identity of
what this linebacker room wanted to be. But honestly, there's
nobody that's really leaving this team that I'm pounding the
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table for them to bring back right now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Tyn Land said, or soon of myle Hull, I'm kind
of in the same boat. There's not any of the
free agenc I mean, Mike Burton maybe, but I'm not
sitting I'm not sitting there dancing on the table for it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know, I do believe that there are some things
that we need.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You go back and you look at the history of
the Sean Payton offense and when it was most successful.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Sean Payton has.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Had three different All Pro tight ends in four different seasons.
Having that playmaker at that position is really what has
been opened up the offense for everybody else. And you know,
I think Juwan Johnson, a free agency of somebody, they'll pursue,
But you need to go to the draft for somebody
else as well. You don't need to go out and
overpay a bunch of receivers. And that seems to.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Be the direction that, for whatever reason the fan base
wants to go. Is that how you see it.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
I've heard that as well. I mean, obviously we've got
Chris Godwins, You've got t Higgins. That those are guys
that are being just thrown around as the Broncos needs
to go and get this guy. I don't necessarily agree
with that. I think that you could do better in
the in the draft, and this wide receiver class is
probably not the best class if you really need a guy.
But like sitting at number twenty overall, if you get
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a Mecca Buca from Ohio State.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Like that's that's a perfect compliment to Colton Sutton. It's
a different skill set that you have within the rest
of the UH, within the rest of the wide receiver
room like that, that's the player that I'm very intrigued by.
Luther Burden out of Missouri is another one with some
catch and run ability, working horizontally over the middle of
the field. That would make a lot of.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Sense to me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
But I think the big thing is what is the
what is the situation with Colton Sutton. Obviously the you
know they.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Were talking about maybe trading him earlier this season, there
was a contract situation that was ongoing. They they he's
still on the last year of his deal coming into
twenty twenty five, Like, what is the situation with Colton
Sutton and how does that future move forward with how
this Broncos wide receiver room looks like?
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Like I think with Sutton.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
There's there's some building blocks there. He's obviously a leader
in the locker room. He's a player that was the
number one wide receiver for this.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
Team this season, and him and bow Knicks have a.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Very good rapport. They showed consistency there, like maybe you
don't need to go in upgrade Courtland Sutton. Why do
you need to go spend money on a thirty million
dollars wide receiver when you've got a guy that's making
just shy a twenty million that can do a lot
of those same things. Like to me, I think that
you need to add around in the tight end room.
You need to rebuild this running back room from the
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ground up. And unfortunately, Javonte Williams is probably a goner.
And honestly, I don't know exactly how much they trust
Audric estimated they sat him down in the Bill game
and played a guy that had not seen a single.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
Snap since Week four against.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
The Jets, and they gave him two carries. The running
back room to me is a big time priority in
helping bo Nicks just continue to grow as a quarterback.
You got to start with a good running game and
this offensive line number.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
One run block win rate offensive line in the NFL
this season.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Start running the football more and maybe starting at yourself,
Sean Dayton and sticking with the running game.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, I tend to agree with that, all right, Lance
talking with land status of form, Mylie Huddle, if I
give you a magic wand you could change one thing
about the Denver Broncos going in to this next year,
what would you do with that magic wand.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
O oh man, get more depth. I think that's the
one thing that you really need to focus on, is
getting deeper in all levels of the offense, all levels
of the defense. You've got to start to figure out
a way to build through the trenches on the offensive
and defensive line. You've got to build better depth in
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the secondary because when Riley Moss was off the field,
this defense was really, really not good. I mean, Chris
Abrams Draine played pretty well in the sparing time that
he played, but when you lose Riley Moss and your
defense completely changes in terms of schematically and what Danc
Joseph had to do with the players that you had.
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When Tatris Ortan tweets his ankle, now all of a sudden,
you're giving up four hundred yards a game through the air.
Depth is a major concern for me and the safetyes
PJ lock Well, I love him, I love the tenacity
he plays with. He's just not a guy that I
think he can move forward with. So the safety room
is a big need that you need to have Bill
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moving forward. Depth just overall depth in every facet. Depth. Depth.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Depth with you as Lance Santas and my huddle, always
appreciate the time.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
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Speaker 11 (32:33):
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Speaker 2 (32:33):
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Speaker 7 (32:34):
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Speaker 11 (32:37):
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Speaker 7 (32:39):
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the fold. For this to get you back on the
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Speaker 2 (32:48):
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Speaker 1 (32:56):
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Speaker 11 (32:57):
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Speaker 7 (33:01):
Thanks for having me. Been able to talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
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Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'd be back after this.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
We've done studies, you know, sixty percent of the time
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
That doesn't make sense.
A lot of football this weekend, and if a playoff weekend.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'll tell you what we started off with the Tensons
at the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
Hunt is the bat Mahomes in the gun inside the
one third in goal. It's a shotgun stamp, it's a
handoff the Hunt cattle block from Kelsey touchdown.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Get the Chiefs scoring right.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
There on a one yard touchdown one by Kareem Hunt.
Kansas City third and goal, leading by one fourth quarter,
Mahomes and the gun receivers in tidy gets the knee
high shotgun snap.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He's growd, we crows as he's.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Being tackled and it was caught in.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
The end zone by Kelsey.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
What I crap by Kelsey, But what a play by
Mahomes and browd will go to a knee and that
is it and the Chiefs with the coup down odd
zero's on the clock, and the Chiefs will advance to
their seventh consecutive AFC Championship game.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Those calls courtesy of Westwood One's Kevin Harley and man,
the Chiefs just keep finding ways to win.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
That they do. And you know it's interesting because you
look at the yardage.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
That Houston put up over the course of that game.
One of the fascinating things over the course of this
weekend US turnover differential really was it teams that won
the turnover battle won these games period, put blank heads down.
It wasn't a particularly stellar day from Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But he got the job done.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Sixteen to twenty five, one to seventy seven of the touchdown,
no interceptions.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
They spread the ball out with the running backs a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Kareem Hutt most effective eight carries forty four yards and
a touchdown over on.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The Texans side.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
CJ.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Stroud nineteen to twenty eight, two hundred and forty five yards,
eighteen carries eighty eight the touchdown for Joe Mixon, Nico
Collins eighty one yards of the air, Dalton Schultz sixty
three through the air. But I think you look at
that tape at Dalton Schultz, whatever his contributions were through
the air when he had to block, what, my goodness
was that embarrassing?
Speaker 7 (01:50):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
And what else was embarrassing in that game was some
of the officiating and some of the calls that Patrick
Mahomes got in that game. Have you changed your tune
yet about people come play. I ain't about the refts
after seeing some of those late hit calls.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
No, I thought that game was poorly officiated. But I've
not changed my tune on that. It's something a losers too.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Loser's whined about officiating end of the day.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
You can't like at the end of the day, you've
got to make the game where it's not close enough
to worry about that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
If you know what's coming.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
I mean, these are It's funny to me because it's
always whining about whoever's winning at the time.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
Too.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
When Tom Brady was was back with the Patriots, that
used to be the wonder Oh it's old us. Well
maybe he does.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
You know, it's just when you're a superstar, you do
you get some of the calls.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Also, like the NBA, you know, Lebron James and Michael Jordan,
they got some calls that other guys don't because you
protect the faces.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Of the league.
Speaker 7 (02:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
And I'll say this, I lived in Kansas City when
when John Elway was quarterbacking here in Denver, the dude
said on the other side, like you're sitting where those
fans were sitting at that point, what like, we'll get
across the vision.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Like, God, how did we get rid of that guy?
He's so good?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
I did?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Uh? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I thought it was kind of a bad look for
Patrick Mahomes to flop on that one play. But and
on the other side of that.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
And I'm all for the league cutting down the flopping, But.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
On the other side of that, if he's getting the calls,
I mean, that's just playing to win the game, right.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, for me, if you're gonna have a sky judge
kind of thing, they would be looking for that because
somebody flopped and if you flopped, you get the penalty
goes the other way kind of thing. Like that's something
I would institute to get rid of that stuff.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Yeah, kind of like the fine for flopping now in
the NBA.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Right, And so I would do a fine.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I would do the penalty yards going the other way,
and you know, and that'll stop that stuff real quick.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And shout out to Travis Kelcey real quick. I think
he became the all time leading receiver and the playoffs.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Seven catches, one hundred and seventeen yards and a touchdown
was basically their offense in that game. They had five
completed passes to a wide receiver all five to exavi
your worthy In that game, everything else was a back
or a tight end catching the ball.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
For Kansas City.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Second game, our commanders taken on the Detroit Lions first
out of.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Ten at the forty one. They'll sling the pass out
to the left side.
Speaker 8 (03:56):
It's mcclorn breaks two tackles down the left sideline of
the forty mporn motor too the thirty inside the twenty
still eyes feeted to ten and he'll dive into the
in zone for a Washington touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Had a shotgun.
Speaker 9 (04:08):
Staff to go off out of an empty backfield, looking.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Left all the way. Throwers at left a grd.
Speaker 9 (04:12):
It's intercepted, picked off and down the.
Speaker 8 (04:16):
Sideline goes Kwan. Martin breaks a tackle at the ten.
Marton inside the five. He's gonna take it all the
way for a Washington touchdown.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Hurts the tight end of the left side, Brown wide left,
McLaurin wide right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Out of a shotgun, I'm third down. Daniels to throw
looking for Ertz.
Speaker 8 (04:31):
He's got it just across the goal line for a
Washington touchdown.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
The final seconds tick off, and for the first time
since the nineteen ninety one season.
Speaker 8 (04:44):
The NFC Championship Game will feature Washington.
Speaker 9 (04:49):
The Commanders were in command from start to finish.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Post calls courtesy of Kevin clude Coogler with west Wood
one and man Jaydeon Daniels doing things a rook quarterback
has never done this. Dude, I'm a believer now, yeah,
oh now, it took me a minute. I kind of
fell off in the second half of the season a
little bit, as Cliff Kingsbury offenses are known to do.
But they pulled it all out in that game, and
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the defense stepping up with some big plays.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
That was the big thing. The Washington defense had been
a liability all year.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Dan Quinn is starting to get that unit to play
the way they need to be playing going forward. They
were a man defense most of the year. Jared Goff
was actually his best brought up against man defenses.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
But in this particular game twenty.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Three or forty three thirteen, a lot of production but
only one touchdown, three interceptions.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
There. You had Dave Montgomery throw pass for twenty yards,
Teddy Bee had two gloves.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Got in there, went one of one for a three
yard and then Jamison Williams of course through that one
ball that was intercepted. Yeah, fourteen carries one hundred and
five yards for Jamier Gibbs on the ground, one rush
sixty one yards and a touchdown for Jamison Williams. Dave
Montgomery got seven carries as well. They were trying to
get a touchdown and they didn't. On the receiving side,
Tim Patrick had a catch for twenty two yards. Sam
Port caught the only touchdown, and I'm on ross Saint Brown.
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He catches one hundred and thirty seven yards of note
over there on the Washington side.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Jayden Daniels twenty two.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
To thirty one, two hundred ninety nine yards, two touchdowns,
no turnovers. Brian Robinson fifteen carries, seventy seven yards, two touchdowns,
Jane Daniels sixteen more carries fifty one yards.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Eckler got in there.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
You had Jeremy McNichols score a touchdown on the receiving side.
I mean Brown six catches ninety eight yards, Terry McLaurin eighty.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Seven and a touchdown. Zach Ertz got a touchdown.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Fascinating, fascinating the way Washington's playing, you wouldn't think looking
at him, but this is gonna be a team that's
gonna beat Philadelphia at all in Philadelphia. But you know what,
at this point it's been magic. It might just be
a team of destiny.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Who knows.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Yeah, I hope so Man. I would love to see
Washington and the super Bowl and Jayden Daniels Man, I
just got to go back to him real quick. Did
you see the story on him? You probably already know this,
but I didn't the VR story I did.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I actually help put that out there over Twitter last
couple of days.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Do you think that is gonna be the norm going
forward after seeing this success of him?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Absolutely, And it's part of the reason.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I'll tell you this ties into general manage re search Newmark,
So Jade and Daniels. Newmark used to be in football
technology with the Detroit Lions. And so when Jaden said, hey,
if you're the guys are gonna bring me in, I
need you to implement this system with the VR.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
That I got down there in Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And this VR system was was invented by this this uh,
this guy in this gal and they it failed in soccer,
like they were they had invented it for soccer and.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
The company was going bankrupt. They had nothing else.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
They turned it like they pivoted the technology and changed
some things for American football.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
And it works like a dream.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
It speeds the process up that you're doing this by
one point seven times, so that you're already used to
speed of the game when you're doing stuff.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Genius.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, So just fascinating stuff you guys, get you just
to read up on that you really should And what
a great story.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Uh there in Washington. Let's head two day two. Rams
take it on.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
The Eagles pick the hand up.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
There's a lane to the right personal God twenty five
twenty for cook God count the sideline, good card.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Touchdown Eagles forty four yards so.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
They're down at four.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Gets a hand up, open land.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Partly explodes partly down the right side line.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Will anybody catch him?
Speaker 9 (08:17):
No?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Touch seven?
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Say God Parkley Ay like for fine sixty two yards
to the house tay two yard line. That's the Philadelfia
opens up hand off.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It's partly running to the left, partly gets by everybody.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Say cup party is gone. Tuckstown on a.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Snowy Sunday, sat up Barkley has dominated.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
For the Eagles were down a thirty eight seconds left.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Rams break the huddle fourth down and eleven, Stafford takes
the snow looking snapper throw to the right side.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Is in took lad Philas Who's gonna hold up Nig Tumman.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
The celebration starts if a city of winter in law.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
Those calls courtesy of Iron Eagle with Westwood one and
Man Giant owner John Marr probably not sleeping too well
last night.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It was the start of two snow games and snow
Kwan Barkley twenty six carries, two hundred five yards, two touchdowns, oh.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Four catches for twenty seven in the year two. Just
you know for Grits Jaylor hurts.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Fifteen to twenty one, twenty eight. They're gonna have to
figure out more in that passing game. They'll gonna get
past Washington. But this is gonna be a fascinating game
to watching the NFCS. You get division rivals going head
to head, and you know they have quarterbacks they can
win it for you on the ground.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Yeah, and man, just the X factor Saquon Barkley. It
just seems like every single game lately he's breaking at
least one sixty yard touchdown run. In this game he
breaks two and I love the way he was looking
back at Jared Burst after his comments about Philly's fans
on that first touchdown, just kind of letting him know, hey,
we heard you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Bro eight nine mad boxes. It does not matter.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
He is absolutely He's say gone Barkley at that point,
he goes from snow quand to sagone.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
I'm just saying, how was.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
It to see like a true snow game in the playoff?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I like that there were some people that were bickering
about it.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Oh hope steal other teams win or whatever. Man, I'm like, man, yet,
that's part of it. I don't I don't have any
any issues with snow games, and I honestly I hate
doing games. I do hate them.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Yeah, I'm glad the Bills aren't aren't aren't covering their
field with their new stadium, like it looks like they
have the covers of.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Fans man the fields, right, yeah, break that's so uh.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Stafford twenty six to forty four three twenty four two touchdowns,
one of the better performing games that he has had
relatively speaking for the cold and the snow.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I was so ready to rub it in your face. Yeah,
just saying.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Kyri Williams got over one hundred yards on the ground
that lost the fumble, pooking the coua six catches ninety
seven yards.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Cooper cup who has clearly lost a step.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
He had managed to.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Get five catches for sixty one yards on seven targets
in that one.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
That catch from Nikua the sideline, Ellen trying to mount
that comeback on incredible and.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
What everybody thought would be the game of the week
turned out to be the game of the week.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Baltimore taken on Buffalo.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Awen is gonna line up on the center, Gilly his
right behind him, play clack down.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
To two now one won. Allen takes the snap.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Drives ahead into the end zone. Touchdown Bills a one.
Speaker 6 (11:21):
Yard touchdown run for Josh Allen and Buffalo.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Has taking the lead.
Speaker 6 (11:26):
Colvin splits out wide left, Allan Waits gets the snap.
Allen keeps it up the middle, powering to the gold
mine in the its own touchdown Bills. The second touchdown
run of the first stab.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
For Allen two pointer ties the game. Here's the snap.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Jacksonville run to his right, he looks, he throws.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
It is dropped.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
It is dropped, and Brews was open at the pie line.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
And dropped it Allen back to the line of scrivitge
hands under center, takes a snap, drops to an e
and now it's official for the first time since for
the seventh time in franchise history, the Buffalo Bills are
going to the AFC Championship Game.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Those collins courtesy of Ryan Raankey with west Wood One
and Man, I fund a little bad for Mark Andrews
dropping that two point conversion. I thought he was gonna
have a chance to make up for that thumbo earlier
in the game and just didn't pan out that way.
But man, the game panned out exactly how he hoped
it would, with a nice, tight game all the way
till the end.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Very fun one to watch.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mark Andrews five catches sixty one yards, But all anybody
gonna remember is a fumble and a drop at the
end there on the two point conversion.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I don't know what he was doing running.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
When you catch a ball and you get in your
in the open field, do not run horizontally. Ever, any
coach will always tell you, do not do that, because
what's gonna happen. You're gonna get by blindside, peanut punched.
It's gonna happen, and sure enough they did. This game
is all about the turnovers again, we go right back
to it. Buffalo played a perfect game with no turnovers. They
weren't the most inspiring team on offense, but they didn't
make mistakes, and in the end, Baltimore was just unable
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to execute. You go back if you look, and there
were a couple of missed this extra points in the
Philly game that could have cost them in this one.
But this one was all about just the way that
Baltimore could not execute when they needed to, and it
came down there at the end, and you've had a
bunch of people hyper analyzing that Lamar Jackson play. Look, yes,
Chris Sims is technically correct, Lamar Jackson was a step
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light throwing the ball. But if you go back and
watch the play, it looks to me like he's using
his legs and heading that direction and trying to get
the safety and the other guys to bite down on
him so that he's gonna have a cleaner window one
on one to Mark Andrews on the outside against the
corner and he could power his way in because Andrews
ran that route short of the pilot, so it looks
to me like Lamar's trying to bake those guys, suck
those guys up. So he gets the one on one
and then tries to like put it real soft into
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his hands, and Mark Andrew's momentum is carrying him the
other direction.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's just a lack of execution both ways. Your receiver,
you got to catch that. You're a quarterback.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
There's some things you need to clean up a little
bit there as far as that goes. But now, end
of the day, the great football game between two themes
and the Buffalo comes out on top.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
Yeah, here's Lamar Jackson addressing those turnovers post game first.
Speaker 10 (13:57):
Half to costly turnos. Not r holding the safety, me
just knowing the covering, me knowing it was a man
throw a BS inter session we gave we it was
seven seven at the time. I believe they scored after
that battle back, uh fumble. She now tryna make something happen.
You know, couldn't throw up. It was like a a
RPO place, so I couldn't really throw the ball to
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uh likely you know, the officers line down the field
until I was trying to make something happen. I tried
to screech the ball slipped up man Ron Meta picked
it up, got some yards. I think that led to
points for them.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
So it's a team effort out there.
Speaker 10 (14:32):
You know, he been busting his body making places happened
out down nfield for us.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
UH came up short.
Speaker 10 (14:37):
And like I been saying all season, every time we
had situations like this, turnovers play a factor. Pennanties play
a factor. Today, Well tonight, the turnover can't happen, you know,
and that's why we lost the game, cause, as you
can see, moving the ball wonderfully, it's hold onto the
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
For my language, knowing tired.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
I love those comments from Lamar Jackson. We talked about
Dan Campbell in the show taking credit or taking the
blame when the team falls short, and Lamar Jackson did
the same thing in his postgame comments.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Yeah, and that's what it was at the end of
the day against Buffalo. If you turn it over and
they don't, they're gonna beat you like they're here to create.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
An extra possession or two and grind you down. And
that's in the end what they did.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And you know, everybody that was saying that defense was
too small to stop Derrek Henry, I mean, Derek Henry
only hit one eighty yards in that game, eighty four
yards eighty four sixteen carries eighty four yards, they're still
five to three of carry, but seventeen other Kimo one play.
It was weird how they didn't really use Derek Henry
as much as you thought they would. And it's fascinating
because you go back to last year with Baltimore and
Todd Munckt totally changed up what they did in the
playoffs and they wound up losing. They were trying to
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throw the ball over the yard when they were a
run identity team. They at least tried to run and
kept it pretty balanced in this one. But the run
was working and they still we were not using it
as effectively as it was like.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
Twenty one yards for Henry at halftime, and then that
one driving in the third quarter he had like seventy
and then they went away from it again.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Yeah, it didn't make any sense to me either.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, people overthinking themselves in the play else this kind
of the stuff that happens.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Interesting matchup.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
I remember, gosh, how many years has it been with
Joe Montana and Jim Kelly took.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
On each other. Chiefs of Bills in the AFC Championship.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I wonder how many times that of get talked about
this week, Broncos cuntry night.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
We'll be back in for this.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
We go right on to the KWA comms put hot. Well,
I don't bringing a good buddy, lat Sanderson from Mile
High huddle. Lance, how you doing this evening?
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Good then, Mans, Good talk to you again.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Yeah, good to talk to you too. It's been an
interesting week as we start.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
To get some of these notifications of coach hirings and
things like that. Ben Johnson obviously taking the job with
the Chicago Bears today. Detroit defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn is
expected to take the job with the New York Chats
once Lance Newmarket's hired there as well. Interestingly, I think
because there are factors in play for the Denver Broncos
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of both these hires and the factors of this, Darren Rizzy,
who I think was probably, if not the at the
forefront of these special teams coordinator search for the Denver Broncos,
is very much in play for the special team's coordinating
job in Chicago, and I would be surprised if he
didn't take it.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
And then Aaron Glenn.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Who served on Sean Payton staff as a defensive backs
coach for five years, knows quite a few people on
the Broncos staff, and I would not be surprised if
one or two people did leave this staff to go
be in New York. How different does it feel to
have the Denver Broncos coaches be.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Wanted as opposed to the way it's been the last
few years.
Speaker 7 (17:32):
Well, it's actually really fun and quite honestly that the
one that's the most intriguing to me is Van Joseph
and the way that this defense.
Speaker 11 (17:40):
Played, the way they turned around from giving up seventy points.
Speaker 7 (17:43):
Against the Miami Dolphins in Week three of last season
to being one of the best defenses in the NFL
this last year, if not the best defense. If we
really want to break it down, we can do that.
But I mean, like Dang Joseph getting interviews. I believe
he interviewed with the Jets. I believe he interviewed with
the Race as well. Like that's one guy. Jim Leonard
is another guy that would make a lot of sense
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for other teams to target. Like it feels really different,
you know, Like the way that we're sitting here talking
in January about this Broncos team where.
Speaker 11 (18:14):
You're you're looking at assistant coaches, coordinators getting looked at.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
I think Davis Webb was also and talks about maybe
getting your offensive coordinator job this this year, like it's
a way start contrast to the way that we've talked
about the Broncos in the last five seasons.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Dude, well, it definitely is. And and that's that's part
of the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I think it goes to speak to the success or
at least the foundation of success that the Broncos have
late over the last couple of years in getting away
from Nate Hackett. As we look at, you know where
the Broncos are this year, they made the playoffs. That
was not something I think that that a lot of
people expected five and a half wins at the sportsbook totals,
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but easily besting that and and then you know, even
if you got bounced in the opening rounds, making the playoff.
So the year that I think everybody thought we were
playing with house money has certainly got to be considered
a success. The question becomes what does this team do
with expectations of success, which is what's going to happen
next year. You've made the playoffs this year. Now people
are going to expect you to make the playoffs. And
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this is a young team, and I'm interested what your
thoughts are on the potential of this team to now
have to live up to expectations rather than just you know,
playing as loose as they did this past year.
Speaker 11 (19:26):
Well, I think the big thing is is just looking back.
Speaker 7 (19:29):
At like you said, you know that five.
Speaker 11 (19:30):
And a half wins was the win total coming into.
Speaker 7 (19:32):
This season, and obviously you win ten games, you go
to the playoffs. But when you look back at like
throughout the season. I wrote an article at Mile highuddle
dot com right after the regular season ended and like,
the big five takeaways that I have going forward for
this team is one, You've got more money. You've got
more draft picks. You got better depth coming in obviously
got what fifty five million dollars in salary cap space.
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Moving up, you got a full complimentary pick of a
set of draft picks. You got your big time players
in big time moments, making the biggest plays when you
absolutely needed them to have, like Courtland sudden one handed
catches against the Los Angeles Chargers. You got Martin Ms
the big game that he had against the Bengals. You've
got Nick Benito, you know.
Speaker 11 (20:15):
Making the big time pick six against the Browns.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You've got the other one against the Colts. You've got
Pastor Hams another pick six. Like you got your big
time players making the biggest plays when you need them
the most. And then when you look at like the future,
like George Peyton, these draft picks are starting to pan out.
Jonathan Cooper just got a big time extension. Quinn Miners
just got a big time extension. Look at Brandon Jones
coming in as a free agent acquisition. You look at
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Ben Powers, big time free agent acquisition. George Peyton is
starting to really show his craft as the general manager
and building this team in the right way. And then
you've got Sean Payton as your head coach. You've got
Vote Nicks as your quarterback. This the foundation is starting
to build itself moving forward. And as this team has
started to grow and grew from what Week four through
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the rest of the season, you can see there's a
lot of optimism for this team right now, like you
should be optimistic about this Bronco the team moving forward,
and as these expectations starts to build. I think that
because this roster is so young, as built in just
the right way and a lot of people really underestimated
the talent that they have, this team could really start
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to scare some teams in the ASC.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I think so too, And I think that's that's the thing.
I think they snuck up on people a little bit
this year. I don't think people were expecting much out
of the Denver Broncos. I think, you know, you look
at the national narratives surrounding bo Nicks. I think they
stuck up on some people. I don't think that level
of disrespect is going to be there next year. And
that's good, you know, for the fan base to finally
feel respected. But at the same time, you know, I
think the other side of that is just that nobody's
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sleeping on you anymore, and it makes you makes your
job a little bit more difficult because people aren't underestimating you.
Now that's said, I believe that, you know, the Broncos
are good enough football team that they're not going to
need to just sneak up on people. I don't want
people to think that, but there is there is an
element to that. You know, when you're young and people
don't have tape on you. Now you're going to have
defensive coordinators around the league getting tape on Bonex and
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they're gonna have an whole off season to study it.
It's going to be interesting to see how they counter
punch bow and how he counter punches what they throw
at him. You look at this offense, and obviously there
are some skill position needs, but wide receiver has never
really been a priority for Sean Dayton. Getting a playmaking
tight end, having a stable of running backs opens things
up for everybody else. What do you think the biggest
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need this offseason for the Broncos is?
Speaker 7 (22:36):
Well, this is I'm so glad you went in this
direction because obviously tight end obviously running back are big
time needs. But let's look at the defense a little
bit here. I mean, I know you've got Jonathan Cooper
with the biggest tension. You've got Nick Bonito who's probably
going to get an extension as well. That room still
needs a difference maker, Like I know, the needle had
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a great season this year, Cooper had a great season two,
and it looks like Jonah Ellis is a guy that's
a good guy moving forward for rotational depth, but really
mainly a guy that is like scares you as an
offensive coordinator, a guy that we really need to game
plan around, A guy that as a pass rusher can
really make a difference. I know that again, Benito had
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what ten sacks this season. He had a couple of
touchdowns as well defensively, but as a run defender, he
still has a lot of work to do and a
lot of work to grow in that aspect. Jonathan Cooper
is probably the best run defender at the edge position
this year. Why are we talking about playmakers on the
offensive side of the football right now?
Speaker 11 (23:35):
Why are we not talking about maybe adding a replacement
for a guy like DJ Jones. You know, Kenneth Grant
from Michigan might be a guy that the Broncos could
look at to help the defensive line up front. Maybe
get Michael Williams from Georgia. Like, there's definitely different opportunities
to look at this roster.
Speaker 7 (23:55):
Try to rebuild it in the draft. And also understand
that the tight end group, the running ground back group
in this draft is so deep and you can find
players like a tray Bon Henderson, like a Quinn John
Judkins or a guy that I really fell in love
with today watching tape in DJ Giddens from Kansas State.
That's that player that really intrigues me to help add
to this this running back room, the tight end group.
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You got Harold fannin junior from Boston College. You've got
Gunner and Helm from Texas. There's not necessarily a guy
that at the top of this draft like yeah, pull
some leveland Tyler Warren with David Graat, but you can
still add pieces to the defense to help it grow
and continue to get better, and also add pieces to
the tight end and running back room in later in
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the draft this year.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
I agree talk with Las Sanderson from Ali Huddle here
on Brocos Country tonight, I do tend to agree that
you can. You know, you don't have to make running
back or tight end the first pick. You do need
to add to the room, but you don't need to
do it right away on the defense de side by
the way to but you know't have thirteen to.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Have sex this year.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
You know there are people that scare You got John
Frank Lamyers, you got Zach Allen there, you got Coop,
you got Benito, those kind of guys. I do think
they need adds athleticism at the inside back or they do.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
You absolutely nail the head. You've got to find a
replacement for DJ Jells.
Speaker 2 (25:02):
Jones filled in admirably, but he's not a natural zero
tack and he's not a natural nose, and so you're
gonna have to find somebody I like to get out
of Kentucky the Ondi Walker. I mean six six three
forty five with sub five forty athleticism. That's that's something
you you know, you got to at least raise your
eyebrow at and then you know, I think they need
to get stronger at the safety position too. Brendon Jones
was a revelation, but PJ. Locke was not what they
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had hoped that and needed him to be this year.
So I think you need to get I think you
need to get better there. Obviously we've had people out
there suggesting bring Justin Simmons back. I don't know that
that's necessarily in the cards, but I wouldn't totally.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Rule it out.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
No, Honestly, I think that you should probably go to
free agency if you If you remember correctly, this free
agency class tracks with one of the better safety classes
that we've seen in recent history was the twenty twenty
one NFL Draft class. You've got guys like Richie Grant
from from Atlanta, who really is I liked him a
lot better coming out of UCF than I watched him
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at Atlanta. But you got Turbine Mary, You've got Talifolo
who Tala Noah Hufanga excuse me? Uh, the from.
Speaker 11 (26:06):
The San Francisco forty nine ers as.
Speaker 7 (26:08):
A free agent. Uh, you've got the kid.
Speaker 11 (26:10):
Out of Miami. His names escaping me right this second.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
But there's a handful of different safety prospects that are available.
Speaker 11 (26:17):
In this free agency class, and I think that the
Broncos can go.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
And get a bargain kind of guy like Marcus Williams
is maybe a guy if you want to overspend on
a on a free agent theory, Marcus Evs from.
Speaker 11 (26:28):
The Raiders, Uh, Julian Blackman.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
Kondrat Diggs as a veteran guy like there's there's a
handful of different safety players and even a linebacker. Uh,
there's a handful of guys there. I think that quite honestly,
if you're looking to build this team correctly moving forward,
you've got to look to the draft to help build
the young talent around bo Nicks to help him grow
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and just continue to become a franchise quarterback in the
NFL and allow him to get continuity with players around
him that just accentuate his skill.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Said hey, Lance Grant Smith here speaking of free agents,
which one of the Broncos free agents you want to
see most return to the team. You got guys like
DJ Jones, Cody Barton, of course, Javonte Williams, Michael Burton.
Which one of those guys you think the Broncos need
to bring back?
Speaker 7 (27:19):
Man, Honestly, I think that DJ Jones is probably the
one that I would like to see brought back the most,
but I'm not sure that they can actually afford to
bring him back with a deal that he's going to
want somewhere around eight nine ten million dollars a season,
like he's an elite run stuffer and that he's got
some ability as a pass rusher. That would be the
one guy that really stands out to me. But in
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terms of the rest of the free agents, I mean,
Cody Barton was a great villain, but still a replacement
level linebacker. Maybe we can get Alex Singleton back and
put Cody Barton back and get the true identity of
what this linebacker room wanted to be. But honestly, there's
nobody that's really leaving this team that I'm pounding the
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table for them to bring back right now.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Tyn Land said, or soon of myle Hull, I'm kind
of in the same boat. There's not any of the
free agenc I mean, Mike Burton maybe, but I'm not
sitting I'm not sitting there dancing on the table for it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
You know, I do believe that there are some things
that we need.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
You go back and you look at the history of
the Sean Payton offense and when it was most successful.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Sean Payton has.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Had three different All Pro tight ends in four different seasons.
Having that playmaker at that position is really what has
been opened up the offense for everybody else. And you know,
I think Juwan Johnson, a free agency of somebody, they'll pursue,
But you need to go to the draft for somebody
else as well. You don't need to go out and
overpay a bunch of receivers. And that seems to.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Be the direction that, for whatever reason the fan base
wants to go. Is that how you see it.
Speaker 7 (28:46):
I've heard that as well. I mean, obviously we've got
Chris Godwins, You've got t Higgins. That those are guys
that are being just thrown around as the Broncos needs
to go and get this guy. I don't necessarily agree
with that. I think that you could do better in
the in the draft, and this wide receiver class is
probably not the best class if you really need a guy.
But like sitting at number twenty overall, if you get
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a Mecca Buca from Ohio State.
Speaker 11 (29:11):
Like that's that's a perfect compliment to Colton Sutton. It's
a different skill set that you have within the rest
of the UH, within the rest of the wide receiver
room like that, that's the player that I'm very intrigued by.
Luther Burden out of Missouri is another one with some
catch and run ability, working horizontally over the middle of
the field. That would make a lot of.
Speaker 7 (29:28):
Sense to me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
But I think the big thing is what is the
what is the situation with Colton Sutton. Obviously the you
know they.
Speaker 7 (29:36):
Were talking about maybe trading him earlier this season, there
was a contract situation that was ongoing. They they he's
still on the last year of his deal coming into
twenty twenty five, Like, what is the situation with Colton
Sutton and how does that future move forward with how
this Broncos wide receiver room looks like?
Speaker 11 (29:53):
Like I think with Sutton.
Speaker 7 (29:56):
There's there's some building blocks there. He's obviously a leader
in the locker room. He's a player that was the
number one wide receiver for this.
Speaker 11 (30:02):
Team this season, and him and bow Knicks have a.
Speaker 7 (30:04):
Very good rapport. They showed consistency there, like maybe you
don't need to go in upgrade Courtland Sutton. Why do
you need to go spend money on a thirty million
dollars wide receiver when you've got a guy that's making
just shy a twenty million that can do a lot
of those same things. Like to me, I think that
you need to add around in the tight end room.
You need to rebuild this running back room from the
(30:26):
ground up. And unfortunately, Javonte Williams is probably a goner.
And honestly, I don't know exactly how much they trust
Audric estimated they sat him down in the Bill game
and played a guy that had not seen a single.
Speaker 11 (30:40):
Snap since Week four against.
Speaker 7 (30:42):
The Jets, and they gave him two carries. The running
back room to me is a big time priority in
helping bo Nicks just continue to grow as a quarterback.
You got to start with a good running game and
this offensive line number.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
One run block win rate offensive line in the NFL
this season.
Speaker 7 (30:57):
Start running the football more and maybe starting at yourself,
Sean Dayton and sticking with the running game.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, I tend to agree with that, all right, Lance
talking with land status of form, Mylie Huddle, if I
give you a magic wand you could change one thing
about the Denver Broncos going in to this next year,
what would you do with that magic wand.
Speaker 7 (31:15):
O oh man, get more depth. I think that's the
one thing that you really need to focus on, is
getting deeper in all levels of the offense, all levels
of the defense. You've got to start to figure out
a way to build through the trenches on the offensive
and defensive line. You've got to build better depth in
(31:37):
the secondary because when Riley Moss was off the field,
this defense was really, really not good. I mean, Chris
Abrams Draine played pretty well in the sparing time that
he played, but when you lose Riley Moss and your
defense completely changes in terms of schematically and what Danc
Joseph had to do with the players that you had.
(31:57):
When Tatris Ortan tweets his ankle, now all of a sudden,
you're giving up four hundred yards a game through the air.
Depth is a major concern for me and the safetyes
PJ lock Well, I love him, I love the tenacity
he plays with. He's just not a guy that I
think he can move forward with. So the safety room
is a big need that you need to have Bill
(32:18):
moving forward. Depth just overall depth in every facet. Depth. Depth.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Depth with you as Lance Santas and my huddle, always
appreciate the time.
Speaker 7 (32:30):
Brother, It's good to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (32:33):
Ben.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Hey.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
I smelled your Stetts in Cologne. It was horrible.
Speaker 11 (32:37):
And if you're if that's if that's the steps in Cologne.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
Brand of the veteran blend you're supposed to bring to
the fold. For this to get you back on the
taking it for granted podcast, you're going to need to
step it up way better than that. Dude is awful.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yes, Stepson is a horrible colowne and I would never sir,
I'm going with go with sex Panther. I'm here, I'm
hearing that it's made with bits of real panthers.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You know it's good.
Speaker 11 (32:57):
I I appreciate it, buddy, sixty sixty percent of the time,
it works every time.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
Thanks for having me. Been able to talk to you later.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Yes, sir, take care Land Sadderson Mile High, Hoddle Rackess Country, and.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
I'd be back after this.
Speaker 7 (33:07):
We've done studies, you know, sixty percent of the time
it works every time.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
That doesn't make sense.
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