04-28-25 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome into it.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Broncos Country Tonight Benz with Albright here with you post
Rockies edition, post Draft edition as well right here on KAA.
Thanks you guys for listening. Short show obviously tonight, short show,
tomorrow night, full show Wednesday, myself and Nick Ferguson.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
Obviously we'll have a full show.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Really get to break this stuff down then, but for now,
get to do the short show recap and all that
kind of stuff for you guys. I hope you enjoyed
the draft. Interested to hear what you guys thoughts are
on the broncost draft class, the undrafted free agents. You
know it was. It's an interesting social media reaction thus far,

(00:43):
because thus far, what I have seen is a lot
of fans being sort of upset at the at the
broncost draft class, sort of feeling let down by the
Broncost draft class. And I, yeah, I'm I'm not. I'm
not one of these people that that has an instant reaction.

(01:03):
I get that I'm in the business where that's supposed
to be required of you, and and I get that
you you know, we're supposed to do draft grades and
and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
I just I don't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
How you get a grade somebody hadn't seen play on
the field. How are you going to grade somebody you
haven't seen playing the system? Like, I don't, I don't
really understand how to do that. So that's not what
you're going to get out of me. I just I don't.
I don't, I don't understand, And I'm not gonna be
one of the people who has to do instant reaction

(01:34):
for content. I'm just I'm just never going to be
that guy. So love me, hate me whatever, I don't care.
But that's not what you're going to get out of me.
If you want me to grade the draft classroom three
years ago, I'm happy to sit down and do that.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
We can do that on Wednesday, or I do that
tomorrow or whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
But I'm not going to grade a draft class right
after the guys have been drafted and we have no
idea what these guys are like at the pro level.
So if you're looking for that, I'm sure you can
find that kind of hot takeer re someone where else
that said, we will review the draft class, and we'll
go over some of this stuff, and I'll try to

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give you a little bit of information that I know
that may or may not be out there yet, then
you guys can kind of do with that what you will.
So without further ado, the Broncos first pick and the
only pick that they actually drafted at the position they
had an original draft pick, meaning they moved up and
down the bord all over the draft, but they never

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traded away the twentieth pick. They they held it the
entire time, and they took Jada Baron out of Texas
and that's how you pronounced it, ja day like a
z h a day, kind of sort of jah day.
He was a corner of versatile corner out of Texas.
Mostly plays the it's Connplaine slot, you know in the NFL,
and there's some there's some area to move him around

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where you can sort of make him a safety or
maybe sort of slide him into that's what's called the
star role, which is basically a safety with the responsibilities
of a corner or if you're playing like a four
two five. So there are, uh, there's a little bit
of versatility there, but the main thing that he's gonna
be doing is playing the slot corner. Uh, He's not
gonna be taking Riley Moss's job. It'll be Sir Tan

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Moss and Jade in the slot. Jaqua McMillan will be
the one that just sort of backs him up. Uh.
And if they need to go to a dime package
or something, then you've got a kind of a dual
slot role with McMillan and and Baron doing that. Baron
is uh he's a big nickel. He was at the
right place at the right time.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
You know.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
He does really good coverage underneath and and and recognize
his route well, plays stronger than his size. He has
good instincts. I wouldn't say that he had uh, you know,
like deep recovery speed, so somebody gets on the fly
and he's in trail that that could be a problem.
But beyond that, I you know, I would say that

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he's a pretty good corner. Ryan would say he's a
little grabby uh times, but you know, when you're playing
in the slot, you kind of get away with a
little bit. I thought he tackled a willing certainly, a
willing tackler tackled pretty well, you know, and he's he's
going to be a physical inside nickel corner who can
who can contribute early on the Broncos from what I

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was told had a top ten grade on barn In fact,
the number that was giving me his inside of the
top ten.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
They had a top ten grade on him and the
blue chip purple sticker. You know, we talk about this
stuff all the time, whatever you have at the top
of ear. They had that grade on him, and they
had mocked him to the Miami Dolphins. They thought he
was going to go to Miami. They thought Miami was
going to take him. Miami, of course needs a corner.
They're gonna be trading Jayalen Ramsey away. They need they

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need corners. And so they had mocked him to Miami.
And so when Miami didn't take and instead took Grant,
there not our producer, the mammoth defensive tackle from Michigan,
Kath Grant. When they took Grant, all of a sudden,

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the Broncos kind of raised an eyebrow, like huh, and
they started looking around and they had the next landing
spot for him as Arizona. Arizona also needs corners. Of course,
they took will Johnson the second. So they you know,
they kind of kind of raised an eyebrow, but they're like, well,
we gotta we gotta see if he gets past you know, Arizona,
possibly Cincinnati, but really you know Arizona before we start,

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you know, changing our plans up here at twenty, because
up till that point the draft was going roughly is
expected for them, and they were on a potential trade
back out of twenty with the New York Giants, where
they would ultimately go back and select the running back

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Trayvon Henderson. And for those of you who saw my
draft puzzle, there was somebody who figured it out and
it was the first you can see from the Capitol
letters in the in the tweet, tell it saying trade down,
make pick, and then you can see for the four pictures,

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three of those pictures would work for Hampton, three of
those pictures would have worked for Igbuka, who was not
on the Broncos radar, and but it needed all four
for it to work for Traveon Henderson, who would have
been the pick if they'd gone backwards out of twenty.
But when Johnny Barron, who they had a top ten
grade on uh fell into their lap at twenty, they

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nixed the idea of trading back and went ahead and
took somebody that they didn't think was going to be
there for him. That addressed a need and it sort
of set the tone for the rest of their draft.
You know, they recognized at that point and you know,
in losing that mid back and that additional second rounder
they were probably gonna was out on Mason Taylor and

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that sort of uh, you know, they they they got
to the point where they were comfortable with that decision
that that getting Jah Day outweighed the possible losses of
of Henderson and and Taylor because you could.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Wind up with R. J. Harvey, who they had very
high and ultimately acquired.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
And some other players, and so you know, they weighed
that at that point and they went ahead and made
the picking at Jade Baron.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
I don't think.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Anybody had Baron mocked to the Broncos at twenty. Nobody
in the market that I saw had that, and so,
you know, it was sort of it was sort of
fascinating to watch the reaction to that. I was I

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was stunned because I you know, I didn't think they'd
do that. I thought they'd stick to their guns and
move down and take Treyvon Henderson. Ultimately, they drafted Baron.
He's a he's an incredible, uh person to speak to.
I don't know if you've heard in the interviews or
anything like that, very well put together, goals oriented guy. Uh,
tons of initiative, you know, respectful and all that kind

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of stuff. True, but you're talking about a kid who
when you talk to him, you're like, Okay, this dude's
got a plan, he's got a path to execute that plan.
You know, he's got a he's got a goal, he's
got a process, and he's got a will And if
you can find those things out of out of anybody
in any path in life, whether that's football or business
world or whatever, if somebody's got a goal, they've got

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a path or a process to get to that goal,
and they've got the willpower to execute it, you're probably
going to find somebody who's going to be highly successful.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
And and so.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Baron Is is really that dude. Phenomenal athlete. But but maybe, uh,
maybe one of the more fun people to talk to
in terms of you know, how he views uh everything,
how he views life, how he views this process. And
so getting a chance to talk Timberly sold me on him.

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I mean, his play, he's worth it at the twentieth pick,
even if he hadn't been that guy in the interview,
you know he's worth it. At that point in the
second round, the Broncos started getting active on Day two,
moving around. They traded out of pick fifty one by
giving up fifty one, eighty five, one, twenty two and

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two oh eight to acquire fifty seven, seventy four, one
eleven and two thirty. What that essentially means is they
moved down six spots in the second round UH in
an effort to move up nine.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Spots in the third ten spots. Give me eleven spots
in the fourth, UH.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
And then they moved down twenty two I think in
the the two thirty would have been the seventh or
whatever six I think it's seventh round.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
UH.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
And then they traded again. When they got on the
clock with that fifty seventh pick, which they'd acquire from
the Panthers, they were on the horn with the Lions.
They moved back three spots. At this point they gave
up fifty seven and then that two thirty pick they
got from the Panthers and acquired sixty and one point
thirty from the Alliance. So essentially they moved back three
spots in the second in an effort to move up

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one hundred spots from the second to the third, to
the seventh to the six excuse me, and with that
pick at sixty, then they finally made their pick and
it was Central Florida running back RJ. Harvey, and Colorado
fan should be familiar with him. They saw him in
the CU game, which may have been one of the
worst games actually of Harvey's career. Harvey one of the

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most explosive runners in college football last year, the most
ten plus yard runs. You know, he's the thing that
bothers me or the thing that has bothered me.

Speaker 1 (10:41):
I guess I should say.

Speaker 2 (10:43):
Is the amount of people that keep trying to tell
me he's small and that you got another Jaquan McMillan.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
And let me be.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
The first to tell you that anybody who tells you
that RJ. Harvey is Jakwan McMillan or philm lindsay has
no clue what they're talking about. R J.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Harvey is.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
You know, he's short at five eight, but he is
not undersized in the least. He's not even close to
the size of guys like like Phil lindsay or j
Qua mcmillion. Excuse me, Julian McLoughlin. Hey, when I do that,

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Julian McLoughlin, it's it's ridiculous. Tulim McLoughlin, who's roughly you know,
the same height, there is twenty pounds lighter, twenty pounds
lighter than R. J.

Speaker 1 (11:48):
Harvey.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Harvey runs faster and is bigger. Harvey is basically the
same size as Aaron Jones, you know, he's a little
shorter and about three pounds lighter from what Ashton Chanty is.

Speaker 1 (12:02):
So the idea.

Speaker 2 (12:05):
That that McLoughlin is, you know, this is somehow a
Jalil McLoughlin thing, and and they get the same running
back or whatever. Those nerds have no idea what they're
talking about, just just no clue. You know, he's this
is a guy who's who's a lot closer to the
size of, like I said, Aaron Jones and Ashton Janty

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than he is to those guys Phil Lidsay and Julia McLoughlin.
Those guys are you know, one hundred and eighty five
pounds backs. They're they're they're very light.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
You know. R. J.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
Harvey is a two hundred and five pounder with a
chance to put a little bit more weight on. You know,
it could be closer to to Tan at the NFL weight,
which is closer to the size of a guy like
an Alvin Kamara. So you know, again, I whatever you
think of of Harvey, if you were, you know, maybe
let down by that or whatever. Again, for me, I'm
giving that a chance to play out on the field.

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I don't I don't want to prematurely great a player
because he didn't match up with what I wanted to
happen or what I thought might happen or whatever, and
then sit there and berate that instead of allowing the
vision to play itself out. I've been plenty critical of
Sean Payton. You know, everybody around town says I hate
the guy, which is stupid. If you watch the Colorado PROD,

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you would have seen me and him standing next to
each other, literally right next to each other.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
You know.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
The idea that that we hate each other is just
flat out wrong and stupid. And I don't know what
to what to say to people on that, but I
am critical where I think it's warranted, and he respects that. So,
I you know, whatever that said, I thought Harvey's a
pretty good pick. I think Baron and Harvey are probably
your early contributors out of this draft class, outside of

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course the punter who will get to it a little
bit with that amazing mustache. But you know, Harvey's a
guy that gives you a dynamic weapon. And I think
the biggest thing on him is his vision. You know.
That's the one thing I think that people complained about,
and especially with Javonte, was that these running backs seem

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to not have the vision. They would just you know,
they just miss wide open holes at the offensive line
was was creating for them. Uh, and and give away
free yardage. Harvey's a guy who come to a complete
stop and wait for something to open up.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
He's he's he can be a quick twitch guy. He
accelerates quickly. You're talking legit four four speed, you know.
And and he's at five eight and the weight that
he is, like, he's not light by any means, I
mean to a weight you're still you're about middle of
the pack, you know, running back maybe you know, maybe
slightly light, you know, you know two ten is kind
of the number, but you may be slightly light. But

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but at five to eight in that you build like
a bowling poll. You know, and being that short makes
you tough for guys, especially these days, if you get
on the outside the perimeters and these lengthy dbs that
a lot of these cover three defenses demand, it's tough
for those guys to get low to make a tackle,

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you know, It's tough for those guys to get under
that and make a tackle with leverage. And so I'm
kind of interested to see how Harvey does in this offense.
I'm interested to see what Sean Payton's plan is there.
You know, I'm again not trying to laud these picks
just because they're Broncos, not trying to any of that

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kind of stuff. But I the vision. I can see
the vision on the first three picks that they made.
And we'll get to Pat Bryant here in a little bit,
probably in the next segment, but I can see the
vision in the first three picks. Now there's some others
I have questions about im. We'll get to that here
in a minute. But I see the vision with R. J. Harvey,
I see the vision with Jade Baron, I see the

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vision with Pat Bryant, and I'll get into that here
at the moment. But I like I can understand the why.
And so for me, I am excited to see those
guys plugged into this team and see what they can do.
You know, Harvey gives them a dimension they haven't had.
They you know, they had estimate and of course Duvante

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and Julio mclofflin on the field quite a bit last year,
but they just didn't get a lot of rushing production
out of those guys they they brought, you know, and
then we had the debacle the Buffalo Tobacco where we're
bringing Beaty in to run the ball and then we
don't run the ball. But I think Harvey gives you

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something that we're going to see some productivity out of
I'm not saying you need to make him your first
pick in a you know, in a fantasy draft or anything,
but I do think you're going to see some some
production out of him that'll take some of the pressure
off of bow Nicks next year. And that's that's really
what the other portion of that is is all about.
When we come back, I'm gonna get into the rest
of this. We'll get into Pat Bryant, you were listening

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to Broncos country tonight right here on KA It's a
fifty AM ninety four one FM News Talk Sports. Welcome
back to it, Broncos Country Tonight, ben' m albright, y'ar
with you, post Rockies edition, post Draft edition, too short
show tonight short showed tomorrow night, and then a full
show at our regular schedule time on Wednesday. Myself Nick
Ferguson would be a lot of fun. Get a chance

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chopping up with Nick. I haven't seen him since Friday
of the draft, haven't had a chance to talk to
him since she'd or got drafted. He's been pretty vocal
about some stuff, including the crank call stuff, which that's
just gross. I mean, like this is gross, is dumb,
you know, like, on the one hand, you got a
twenty one year old man stealing prospect phone numbers off

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his dad's iPad in order to create a video for Cloud.
I guess of them crank calling these guys pretending they're
about to be drafted or whatever, just stupid. And we'll
get into a little bit of that on Wednesday. I
think so far the Falcons have said they're not disciplining
Jeff Ulbrich, who allegedly didn't know that his son had

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stolen those numbers.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
But you know.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I mean, before I get into talking about Pat Bryan here,
I'll say this. I I look and not everything is
life or death, and and certainly this isn't. But you know,
if I was in the when I was in the army,
if you know, you had opsec, and if anything had
gotten out, any sensitive information had gotten out, it would
have been my fault.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Didn't matter who, you know, didn't matter if it.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
Was on my iPad of my house and my you know,
brother or something took it and uh and and ran
with it, and so it was still been my responsibility.
It's called down downtrace accountability. And I think that's one
of the biggest differences when it comes to the opinion
on this, because a lot of the lot of the
military guys I know versus the civilians have different opinions
on it. Is most of the military guys I know
are all like, yeah, you know, Jeff Alberch has to

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take acountability for that. The civilians are like, it's a
prank call, who cares? And I think that just I
think that just sort of delineates the two different worlds
A lot of times that did civilian and.

Speaker 1 (18:48):
In vets live in.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
He's sort of the You know that that that got
me about accountability and responsibility in this particular case, I
think that the falconship puts something on Albert's file, you know,
a warning, slap on the wrist, but a warning.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
And then Bara's son from menfl events for a couple
of years. I mean you, you know, you knowingly stole
sensitive information off your father's laptop to try to popularize
your social media account. Like you know, I know social
media's toxic. Believe me, I know that better than probably anyone.
But like, what that's what you're doing for clout that

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that social media attention economy is so addictive that you
would break into your dad's iPad for prospect phone numbers
to crank call people and look.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Like an idiot.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
I mean, you're gonna you look like an idiot making
the calls anyway. And he's someone sitting on the he's
not necessarily the one making the call. He's sitting on
the couch with his buddy there. But you know, it's just,
I don't know, it just rubbed me the wrong way.
It's not just that it's like a shadoor thing, because
there were other prospects that got crank called Mason Graham,
Tyler Warren. That wasn't just Chadour And I don't know
if there's those guys making all those crank calls, but like.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
What are we doing? You know, like what do we do?

Speaker 2 (19:58):
There's there's a vast difference between between the Jerky Boys
and roy D Mercer. Where you're in the comedy arena.
Friends have set you up for something and you know
it's it's understood that that's a bit and then it
gets revealed at the end and all that kind of
stuff versus this, which was meant to be antagonistic, you know,

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I mean, whatever you think of should or Santa's where
you like them or don't. There was certainly a disappointment.
There was certainly a sitting there and one of the
biggest moments of your life and you've got rejected over
and over and over and over and over for two
full days. You've had two full nights to sleep on

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that rejection, and you've got people sitting there trying to
spin you up and genya up.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
And it wasn't for comedy. It was for attention, right,
you know.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
I used to love listening to this stuff, Like I said,
you know, the Jerky Boys are particularly the roy D
Mercer bit like that.

Speaker 1 (20:55):
That used to be one of my favorites.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
But there's a difference between the comedy arena and then
doing that in real life. And I hope that for
Jacks Olbridge, it is my hope that at the lowest
point in his life, there aren't people there trying to
kick him while he's down, you know, And maybe this
moment is the lowest moment in his life, but I

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hope in that moment there aren't people aggressively trying to
sit there and get attention off his misery. At the
end of the day, I hope he learns a lesson
from this. I hope others learn a lesson from that.
And you know, we get a chance to talk with
Nick about that. On Wednesday, I talked a little bit
about or J Harvey and Jade baron the Broncos. With

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their third pick, which they picked at seventy four, was
Pat Bryant, the wide receiver at Illinois, And this one
was surprising to a lot of people. A lot of
people thought that Bryant would be somebody that would go
a little bit later. A lot of people were calling
this a reach. People were not particularly happy or kind

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with his pick as it happened, and you know, I
was a little bit stunned. I was like, well, there's
all these other receivers out there that I thought, you know,
we're perhaps.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Better fits.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
In the interest of full disclosure, when I looked at
the tape, Pat Bryant was not somebody that I had
broken down at any you know, in any real depth.
I'd seen some TV copy stuff, but I didn't get
into the tape on Pat Bryant. I didn't think Pat
Bryant was a it was a Day two type target.
I thought that was a Day three flyer guy, and
boy was I wrong. Sean Payton called him a three

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year starter with a sending production said he's got the
ability to play inside now. It reminds him of Michael
Thomas in terms of traits and if you look at him, yeah,
he's kind of the poor man's Michael Thomas in terms
of testing numbers and you know, in size, and he's
the kind of guy that Sean Payton has repeatedly taken
chances on and you know, and and done well with.

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And so we'll see Bryant, for his part, is a
guy that had one of the best catch rates in
college football, free game winning catches. The moment was never
too big for him, willing blocker. And then you know
he got on the phone with us and man, what's
that the interview? I you know, you hate to sit
there and change an opinion based on talking to somebody, right,

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And I harkened back to when Josh McDaniels decided to
be the lone person to take Tim Tebow in the
first round because of an interview at the combine. But
I get it. I get it. I get being enamor
to somebody. You're like, oh, this dude wants to win.
This guy speaking my language. We got to get him

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on board.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
This guy is it. Maybe he doesn't have all the
things I'm looking for. We coach that up.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
This guy's got the attitude, he's got the desire, he's
get to want to. You go back and you listen
to the interview that we had with Pat Bryant, and
I tell you he sold myself. He sold Ryan Edwards
and Ryan's the biggest you know, steals and reaches guy ever.
He sold Nick Ferguson, the former defensive back in the NFL.

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That interview, Man, he's going to give this wide receiver
room a grit and an edge that it doesn't have
right now. You need a Tim Patrick in that room,
and that's Frankly who this guy reminds me of the most.
You need an Emmanuel Sanders in that room. It's all
well and good to have great players. It's all well

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and good to have great character guys and all that
kind of stuff. But it's nice to have somebody get
that gives you an edge too, It gives you a
little grit. And this is that dude. He's sitting there
talking about how he loves to you know, he loves
to block, considers that part of his game. When the
ball's in the air, it's his and his only no block,
no rock, I'm the only one.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
Coming down with.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's not ninety ten balls, it's mine. I love that
aggressive attitude.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
I love that grittiness. And we'll see if he's you know,
if he's able to surprise people at the NFL level.
This is another thing like when Sean Payton was hired.
This is one of those things that I told you
he has a very specific, two very specific types at
wide receiver. He doesn't like to pay a whole wide
receiver room. Generally they'll pay one guy and that's you know,

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maybe they'll have a mid level veteran, but besides that,
but they generally pay one guy and that's about it.
And that's that's the construction of it. They have two types.
He's got those big body, long, strider, sure handed you
know guys at the X and then he'll use one
of those type guys as a power slot, you know
as well. And then he likes a straight burner back
there as a Z. And you can see that look

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at the Marcus Colston's and the and the Michael Thomas's,
you know, and then you go over and look at
that Z position where they had the the Ted Ginns
and Deverie Henderson's and Brandon Cook's. Sean Payton has very
very specific arc types just across the offense that he likes.

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The quarterbacks all have to embody some of the same
traits the tight ends. He has two types for running backs.
He you know, he loves a battering ram or two
and then a jitterbug or two. Sean Payton has archetypes.
You can sort of see it with Pat Bryant. You

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see it. You see exactly what he sees in them. Now,
will Pat Bryant ascend to that level of production? We'll
see Typically receivers take a full year before they really
start to hit their stride and pan out year two.
But I'm talking to Pat Bryant man, I was sitting
there him, R. J. Harvey and Jaddet Barron. I was like,
all right, I see the vision with these three. It

(26:49):
was the picks that came after where I started to
be like, all right, what do we what exactly are
we doing here? The Broncos took Pat Bryan to pick
seventy four, and then they made yet another trade, acquiring
pick one oh one there at the end of the

(27:10):
third round and one thirty four from the Eagles, and
they gave up one to eleven, one thirty and one
ninety one. Basically, they paid the price of pick one
ninety one to move up ten spots to get Saveon
Jones at one oh one and moved back four spots

(27:38):
to where they would ultimately select Ugh Robinson a little
bit later. Savion Jones people were talking about him being
an edge when he was drafted.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
He's really not.

Speaker 2 (27:49):
Yes, he's sort of a forty three defensive end, but
in this defense. He's really more of a more of
a thirty four end. He really plays more of the
John Franklin Meyers role than he does John or h
Nick Benito's role. And it'd be interesting to see how
they deploy, because I believe that's how you have to
deploy him. This is sort of a John Franklin Myers clone.

(28:12):
He doesn't appear to be. I mean, maybe you get
down on the goal line or short yarded situation you
want a stouter end, and you could sort of use
him there too. Maybe you're taking Nick Benito if it's
a you know, if it's a third and one, fourth
and one, maybe you're taking Nick Benito off the field.
Put this guy on to you know, shore up the
run fit there. Maybe make you a little stouter, but

(28:34):
in reality, he's he's like two hundred and eighty pounds.
He's you know, he's a a John Franklin Myers defensive
end and not a not a not an edge rusher
like you would look at with John Cooper or you know,
Ellis or Franklin, I mean Benito, you know those kind
of guys. And and so sort of fascinating to me
because I'm like, all right, if we're making this move.
Does this either make John Franklin Myers expendable. Is he's

(28:55):
a guy who's looking for a new contract, does it
shouggest shift to more of an even front or is
he just gonna plug into that. You know that Franklin
Meers role and grow, and so that's that's sort of
you know that with that pick. If you're drafting guys

(29:15):
on day two, you're expecting production by year two. When
you draft a guy on day one, the first round,
you're expecting to plug them in and go like they
should be ready to play at the NFL level. When
you draft a guy on day two, that's the second
and third round, you're hoping that they're ready to go,
but you're expecting them to be ready to go by

(29:36):
year two. And then when you draft guys on day three,
those are your dart throws, special teamers, things like that,
character concerns, injury concerns, things like that that you're hoping
it will grow into that someday. Save Ian Jones end
of the third round, one of the last picks in
the third round. You know, it really is built more
like a forty three, and so it's go be interesting

(30:00):
to see what that role is, how soon he contributes,
what it is that he brings to the table, and
if he makes certain people expendable at pick one thirty four,
that's the other one acquired from the Eagles. This was
one that had a lot of This was the one

(30:21):
that really sort of started lighting Broncos country's hair on fire,
and that was selecting Ke Robinson from Alabama. Now, he's
a he's a fifth year seenier, kind of a tweeter
type body, and there are flashes of potential here, but
you're talking about a guy who was really a special
team's ace, didn't really get on the field all that much. Now,

(30:43):
Nick Saban did come out and say is one of
the better special teams guys we ever had at Alabama.
So that's that's certainly a stamp of approval from Nick Saban.
And sort of wondered if in round four we're getting
a Darren Rizzie pick here, you know what it is,
what exactly does qu Robinson ring to the table? Now,
keep in mind, and he's an outside backer, keep in

(31:06):
mind there is no inside backer drafted here. The Broncos
already knew about Drake Greenlaw's injury for those of you
who don't know, Drake Greenlaw at a slight quad strain.
And for those who don't know what a quad strain is,
a it's a slight terror smolt there. There was some
reporting out of NBC that it was a full terror

(31:27):
that he could miss time. I talked to somebody as
close to Drake green Law as you can possibly get
who called that maloney. We tweeted about it yesterday, you know,
and I said, look, you said, it's a slight tear.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Won't he won't even affect his season at all.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
The Broncos already knew about that prior to the draft,
so if they felt that this was something that they
needed to address, then they would have addressed this in
the draft. And Q doesn't really address that either. Again,
not an inside guy outside linebacker edge Usha. This is
a guy who's closer to the Nick Benito's and the
John Coopers. Really more of a special teams Like I said,
special teams. So I'm interested to see because what is

(32:09):
it exactly that that you're bringing here? You really just
did you really draft a special teams linebacker a round
for this guy? Better be something else to get a
pick like that on that We had a long gap
after that, and plenty of time to dissect that pick
on our coverage there on KOA. I want to shout

(32:31):
out everybody who was involved in that before the Broncos
traded four times or the fourth time, I should say, uh,
giving up pick one ninety seven and moving back, splitting
that into picks two sixteen and two forty one with
the Houston Texans and drafting quite possibly the greatest mustache

(32:53):
since they drafted Nick gar Giulio last year. Taking the
punter from Florida and Ozzie punter named Jeremy Crowshaw. He
was a very effective punter in terms of placing opponents
inside the ten yard line, very very precise Punter're gonna
have to do a little bit better with the hangtime,

(33:16):
you know. But you're talking about an Aussie putter, and
you guys can break that down all you will, But
we needed a punter and I get that. I mean,
there were people that were upset with a sixth round putter,
but it was the top punter. Everybody's bord u sort
of get it. And then at the seventh round, Sean
Payton pulled to Sean Payton and the last time he

(33:37):
went and got a basketball player and made him a
tight end.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
We got Jimmy Graham.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
This time he goes to Utah and gets Caleb Lohner,
a's six foot seven forward from the Utah basketball team
who has fifty seven total snaps since the seventh grade,
has one season a full added tackle football fifty seven snaps.
This past year, he had four receptions that you to.

(34:09):
All four went for touchdowns, which I guess is pretty efficient.
If you watch the CU game he grab one in
that one too, but a fascinating pick nonetheless, And I'm
certainly here for Sean Payton to be able to draft
those kinds of guys when he feels convicted. Loaners should

(34:29):
have no trouble learning under future Hall of famers Lucas
Crowl and Rob Gronkowski. And if you don't get that joke,
I don't know what to tell you. Tomorrow, I'm gonna
get into a few more thoughts on this. I'm going
to tell you about some free agency you should be
looking at. Appreciate you guys being along for the rides.
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