09-12-25 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to a Broncos Country tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Benjamin Albright here with you short show post Rockies Post
Buffs edition. I guess tonight although post both really see
you got off to a sluggish start there against Houston,
managed to make it a little close near the half,
and in Houston started pulling away again. Ryan Stall all

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right in the debut, but see you just looked like
a team has a bit overmatched against against Houston, which
is a good football team. He's got a very good defense,
and their offense a bit of work in progress, but
still looked like it was doing pretty well. A couple
of news and notes. We will be uh on the

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air at eight a m.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
On Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
That'll be Broncos warm Up myself Zax Seegers, followed by
the BET three six five opening Line Daily Fantasy Show
and then lead right into Broncos Game Day and ultimately
Broncos Countdown to kickoff and then the game right here
on KOI lots to get to there, but we will
be starting at eight am. What I will say is
if you need a place to go watch the game,

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you should go meet us at the burn Down on
South Broadway. Myself, Nick Ferguson's gonna be there. A bunch
of people going to be there. We got giveaways, prizes,
they got Arta Tequila's going to be out there. They
get drink specials. You know, we obviously get You can
get registered for the flyaway to Las Vegas to watch
the Broncos take on the Raiders. We've got home game

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tickets to give away, tons of stuff. You got to
be present to get in on that, and got to
be present to win. So come on out to the
Burndown on South Broadway. I think we're getting there. Nick
and I are getting there about two, and we'll be
there through the game, obviously, So come on by, say hi,
watch a game with us, have a drink with us,
have some food.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
The Burndown food is so good if you guys, the.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Steak Freets there with the chimney cherry sauce that they've
got you guys like, I'm not. The read is supposed
to be over, but you really have to go ahead
and try their food there. It is absolutely phenomenal. The
atmosphere is great. All that kind of stuff with the
food is phenom Will get the Steak freach. I promise
you I would not steer you wrong on that one.
It is absolutely delicious. So come on out to the

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burn Down watch Broncos take on the Colts there with
myself and Nick and we're happy to hang out with
you guys, answer your questions you have, grab a couple
of drinks, all that kind of stuff. A lot of
fun looking forward to that two to four on Sunday.
One thing I wanted to get into that we're doing
around here this year this Coach's Corner segment. Dave Logan

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sits down with coache on Payton and they go over
a play from the previous week, break it down so
you guys can understand it and even deeper terms. I
think it's one of the coolest things that we do,
and so we're gonna be doing that. We'll get to
that here right now. This will be the Courtland Sutton
play that Dave and Coach will break down for you here,
and I just think this is really cool.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Guys.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Bo pumps once throws a ball to the Endzo Parland
doesn't make the test touchdown Denver twenty two yards. On
the strike, cork goes up like an NBA small forward,
shields the defender. Darryl Baker Junior out with his body,
comes down with it and the Broncos bounce in front

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with sixteen seconds to go in the half, nine to six.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
So, Sean, that was a big moment. Bo Nicks to
Courland Sutton. They gave you guys a lead right before
half time.

Speaker 5 (03:25):
Yeah, if you said, hey, did this half start the
way you wanted it to in this game? It didn't. Now,
defensively you know it did, and but offensively it didn't.
And you know, managing the clock and the timeouts at
the end of half an end of game is so critical.
There's there's ten different fifteen situations. Obviously you want to

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save your timeouts, and we had some challenges that we won.
But this is a two minute drill. Bo puts us
in pretty good position. And then you know, with the timeouts,
most of your two minute drives, two thirds of those
drives clock stopped and you're in the huddle, all right,
and when you really we did a we did a

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study and we took every two minute drill at the
end of the half or the end of the game,
and the average at the line call was like three
and a half you know, wow, Meaning so in our
two minute list beneath it. We have two minute huddle
calls that are in the game plan with that personnel
grouping if we feel like they fit that situation.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
If you're in the huddle, yeah, if you're in the huddle.

Speaker 5 (04:33):
So this play is is really the famous Bill Walsh
you know, two jet all go, which which the outside
receivers ran goes. The slot receivers get to the inside
edge of the numbers and if it's if it's cover two,
you can bend. Bill used to lock them and let

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the quarterback bend them. But we've evolved to where if
you feel a half safety look, you can bend your
route the outside receivers. The number one the number one rule,
and Bill Walsh has it written down in the notes
I have from a book release of your Life. In
other words, if the defense is rerouting you in a
cover two or rerouting you in a coverage and you

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can't get to your landmarks, the play is not effective.
So you got to be fantastic with the release, you see.
But we took that play and condensed it and then
gave it a little all go swerve, and so we're
going to get to the same landmarks, but from a
tighter formation, and I think Sutton the key was, look,
he's got up quarters. I mean he's got a safety

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or a corner closer to him. It's not a single
high and he's able to put him on his back
hip if you will. And Bo was staring. You know,
the running back needs to think this is my play
because he runs an option route and oftentimes we dump
it to him. But Bo can work those safeties a
little with his eyes. And it's an up and down throw,

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especially where that was thrown in the field, and I
thought he pumped holding the safety on the second receiver. Absolutely,
but more significantly, I mean to finish a two minute
drive and get the lead. Now we weren't excited about
the kick return that set up their field goal, but

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you know, the perfect end of the half is you've
deferred and you get the ball to start the half,
and you've managed to score at the end of the
second quarter going in, and then you get the ball
to start the second half, score score. You know you're
always looking to do that, No doubt about that last

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thought used to be back.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
I mean this is a long time again where in
a game situation, at a particular time, a quarterback would
either verbalize to you in the huddle or just do
it where listen. Almost no matter what the coverage is,
I'm coming to you with all the sophistication you have
now in the league, do moments like that happen?

Speaker 5 (07:04):
I think they do, and I think we can sometimes
create them with a call. Now, the challenge, the challenge
with I'm coming to you is if you get cloud
with safety over the time, you get it too. In
other words, then but but I would say with a

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number of red zone calls, for instance, certainly there's a
primary and there's an I'm coming to you, and then
but if you know, let's just say, you know you're
going to play a team that might you know, one
double fourteen, and then we've got to quickly see who
gets it. You know, it happened to us in New Orleans.

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In New England, Bill was fantastic and taken away and
the game starts and Jimmy Graham, I mean, holy cal,
it's halftime. He doesn't have a catch. And our energy
was spent so much on how do we get me
the ball? As opposed to well, who else should benefit
from this?

Speaker 1 (08:03):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (08:04):
And so but but to some degree, yeah, there'll be
some communication and and then we try to create those
each night with with calls great stuff.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Sean, thanks, yeah, thank you.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
That's the Coach's Corner segment.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
Dave Logan coach Sean Payton breaking down a play from
the previous week and kind of getting you inside the
mind of the coach and a deeper look at football.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And so you could be.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
The smartest guy or gal and your family get a
chance to listen to Dave and Coach break it down.
We'll do that every week. We will air that on
BCT That will air about six thirty five I think
every Friday, uh, and then we'll re air it on
Broncos Warm Up every Sunday. So if you miss it
on Friday or whatever, you miss the podcast, which you

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got Broncos Country that that the Complage podcast to get
if you miss it on there and missing on the podcast,
you can always get it on Broncos Warm Up and
get it there. And we love the fact that that
we're able to do that, We're able to bring you,
you know, all that kind of stuff, especially that you
know the deeper look like nobody else has that. Nobody

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else has that kind of uh, that kind of access
to coach.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Uh, that we do. And you know he and Dave
Dave obviously legendary high school coach here.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Getting a chance to chop it up and and really
get inside the play and inside the playbook a little
bit that I think, Uh, I think it's just fun
for a football nerd like me, it's a lot of fun.
So I certainly appreciate, uh, you know, getting a chance
to uh uh to do that.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
And they air that for you guys.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Broncos of Colts of course, squaring off in Indy on Sunday.
Colts have a corner problem schar various war Jalen Jones
both out for the game. Uh, questionable defensive end and
a lot to there the best pass rusher. They are
a defense that's a bit hobbled after they're a Week
one victory over a hapless mind Dolphins team. Excuse me

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and I as I look at it, Gay, I went
back and watch that game, and I think this team
is beatable at full strength, much less with the the
attrition that they have.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
And so you know, I look forward to a Broncos
victory here.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
You know, they starting corners David McKinnie, guy was out
of football last year. Can he Moore is more of
a nickel guy, I just you know, and they've got
a couple of practice squad guys down there. If I'm
a Broncos, I think I'm spreading this thing out. Put
a little tempo on there at times, just trying to
get them confused with guys that aren't normally out there
playing as many snaps as they do on the offensive side.
There are some things to worry about. You know, this

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isn't exactly the great show on turf, but the Colts
do have some weapons. They do have an offense that
that has the ability to match up. We saw a
little bit of that last year when the Colts got
out to a little bit of lead, a little bit
of a lead on Denver and we're kind of cruising
a little bit in that game before Jonathan Taylor fumbled
the ball crossing the goal line instead of completing through

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the gold line for a touchdown run and it ultimately
sparked a Broncos comeback. Daniel Jones has replaced Anthony Richardson's
at the quarterback position. Give him a little stability there.
Jonathan Taylor, who we all know, that's you know that
that's pretty self explanatory there at the running back position.
But Kevin Tyler Warren, the rookie at tight end UH,
presents some interesting challenges for the Broncos defense. The defense

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is gonna be short handed at the inside backer position
and a defense that has struggled at times fans have
struggled to times matching up with and containing opposing tight ends.
Their offensive lines pretty good left to right, Bernard Raymond,
Quentin Nelson, y Ol Prouh Tanner, Borderlini mcgon claves and
Braden Smith. They're pretty good offensive lines, not bad. And

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then the starting receivers uh, you know, Pittman and Alex
Pearce on the outside, Josh Downs in the slot. They
also got ad Ni Mitchell uh as well, and so
they've they've got some players uh in that receiving corps.
Daniel Jones doesn't have the strongest arm, but he can
make most of the throw. He has more mobility than
you think. And honestly, it's kind of funny because you know,

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I was talking with somebody up in Indie this week
and I said, we were talking and he said, you know,
bo Nix is the player everybody wanted Daniel Jones to
be when he was drafted. You know, mobile guy who
can make the throws. We done to the strongest arm,
but can make the throws. Smart guy, smart football guy,
that kind of stuff, And I thought that was kind
of funny in that regard. Now, this offense relies more
on the quarterback's legs certainly that a Sean Payton offense does.

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You know, there's a lot of Reid option type stuff
built into Shane Steichen's offense. They do mostly play an
eleven personnel seventy four percent of the time. When they
do bring it a second tight end or fullback. Moley
Cox kind of takes both those roles, but most of
what they do is three wide receiver read option type stuff.

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And you'll see you know, reading the end, keeping it
and then you know, have the option of a player
a pass player two. The majority of the passes off
that do go to the outside receivers, but the third
option is generally the tight end, and Warren is athletic
enough to warrant special attention there. So this is gonna
be I think it's gonna be a fun and interesting

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look at an interesting offense this week. At least, I
do believe the Broncos defense can handle it. Don't get
me wrong, as I talked them up, but there is
something to keep an eye on. They are better than
I think people think they are on offense, and that's
that's certainly something to watch. On defense, you know, they're
deep on the defensive line. If Latto's out, you're talking
about Quinny pay Taekwan Lewis and Samson Eckbomb. All three

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can rush the passer. Grover Stewart and especially the Forest
Buckner are are pretty good defensive tackles. They got Neville
Gallimore there as well, came over from the Rams. The
weak area for them a little bit is sort of
that linebacking core.

Speaker 1 (13:52):
They play a four two five.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
And Joe Bachi's a or Franklin they can be they
can be exploited a little bit.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
So those that's that's.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Something to watch. We already mentioned the corners. Tarvarius war
is probably the best corner. He's out concussion, Jalen Jones,
there's the hamstring, so you're you've got the XAVI and Howard,
Kenny Moore, Makai Blackman, and uh that's that's really kind
of uh it except for the practice squad corners that
they have, which is Chris Lamman's and Key Drane Calligan.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
So you know, not a very deep core.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
And I would suggest, you know, Gassam, try to run
some deep stuff early, get those guys tired, and that'll
that'll put you in a good spot. Nick cross Cam
bind them the starting safeties. They do like to run
a lot of too high type stuff, whether that's man
under or or zone under.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
They do run man a little bit more than certainly
more than they have in the past. They run man
more than the Titans did Week one. Titans we're running
man coverage about nine percent of the time. The Colts
run man about twenty five percent of the time.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
So a little bit more. You see a little bit
more man than than we saw then. But you know
that's that's uh.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
I think, uh, I think it can be a good
thing for the Broncos. I think seeing that that much
man can can be a good a good thing for
the Broncos.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
So I'm not put off by that at all. We
already mentioned the biggest contributors.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
You know, Pittman's more of a the Sutton type role,
Alec Pierce more of the Marvin Mims role. Pierce is fast, UH,
don't let him get away from you, and then they've
got Josh down so who I think is a better
slot receiver than it, but we've got currently he plays
pretty good football as well. The key to beating their
offense is on the right hand side, the right guard,

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right tackle, Gunclays and Brandon Smith.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
That's the key.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
You get pressure up there and and everything kind of
crumbles after that. So that's gonna be uh a job
for for this defense to handle. As far as the
Broncos go, mostly good news across the border on the
injury front of an Anger expected to be back, John Franklin,
Myer's back and a go. Nate Atkins probably not this week,
maybe next week. We'll see maybe a little run this week,

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but probably next week. Uh Drake Greenlaw probably next week well.
But everybody else looks like they're they're good to go.
So the offense looks healthy and looks ready to u
looks ready to crush it. So again, guys, come see
us down at the Burndown this weekend. Myself Nick Ferguson
h two to four pm down there at the burn
down a South Broadway. We've got tons to giveaway. Love

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to see you guys down there and looking forward to
that as well. Broncos Country to Night back Inpo.

Speaker 1 (16:34):
This Welcome to the.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
Broncos Country Tonight's post Rockies edition. I got a little
bit of stuff to get to. Busy news day for
the never Broncos. Obviously, I think the big news is
the preferred site for the stadium. The new stadium has
been announced. If you listen to KA, if you listen
to the broad cast, then you know in the Broncos
Insider segment, we talked about this about a month ago

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that this was coming. And the preferred news site for
the preferred site excuse me, for the new stadium is
the Burnham Yard. It's a state owned former rail yard
in West Denver. The Broncos had considered moving out of
the city, potentially to suburban Loan Tree, Aurora, all those
kinds of things, but this appears to be the site.

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As they put out the presentation today just saying quote together,
we're pleased to announce historic Burnham Yard and the heart
of Denver as the preferred site for the world class
retractable roof stadium, anchoring a dynamic mixed use district. Once
a vital rail yard that played a key role in
Denver's past, Burnham Yard now represents a transformational opportunity to

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reimagine the future with deep respect for the risk history
of the area. The addition of the retractable roof would
obviously mark a significant change from the current stadium. Many
Broncos fans have always taken pride and braving the snow
and cold and power feeld, but a roof could make
the stadium more attractive to large events beyond football. Roof
would allow Denver's games to be played in the elements

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while maximizing both the iron flexibility of the stadium and
its long term value to the community. The team does
plan to again use natural turf. The Broncos have said
that they have conceptual agreements to buy the rail yard
and twenty five acres of Denver Waters campus near the property.
A spokesman for the Colorado Department of Transportation, which owns

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Burnham Yard, said he didn't have any information on the deal,
but Governor Jerry Polis said he'd been in talks with
team owners Greg and Kerry Pennerson's twenty twenty two with
a focus.

Speaker 1 (18:37):
On Burnham Yard.

Speaker 2 (18:40):
Meanwhile, the site of the current Broncos stadium would return
to city government's control in twenty thirty if the team moves,
and that's when the team's lease expires, though it has
the option to extend it is needed. Mayor Mike Johnston
said the city will not spend any public dollars on
the stadium itself, and the team's owners similarly said that
quote in the spirit of tru say partnership, they would

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privately fund the stadium, but the city could fund infrastructure
improvements around the stadium, including reconstruction and reconfiguration of nearby
road bridges, as well as logistics and travel paths. Governor
Johnston and excuse me. Mayor Johnston, in a press release today,
said today's a remarkable win win win for Denver. The

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Broncos are staying in Denver, We'll finally up put up
the historic part of the yard for development, and we
get to reimagine the mile high stadium site as a
thriving community in West Denver. The Walton Penner Ownership Group's
private investment into building a world class stadium the heart
of Denver will open new possibilities not just for Burnham Yard,
but across the city. The approach would be similar to
how the city has handled the planned National Women's Soccer

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League stadium in South Denver, where the city is expected
to put seventy million toward roads, bridges, parks and more
for the neighborhood. It's just one major difference. The city
will own the land beneath the National Women's Soccer League site.
Broncos are expected to buy and retain ownership of Burnham Yard.
The Broncos noted that today's announcement was a meaningful checkpoint,
but added there's a long way to go and a

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lot of work to do. Burnham Yard was previously owned
by Union Pacific Railroad, which sold it to the state
for fifty million dollars back in twenty twenty one. The
site is fifty eight acres, shaped like more or less
like a banana, and has historic railroad buildings. It's pretty
close to I twenty five, and the nearest light rail
station would be the tenth and o Sage light rail station.

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Companies tied to the team have been buying buildings in
the area, and that's been reported by Business den for
quite some time. The team is also interested in acquiring
the property that belongs to Denver Water. To believe we've
got an agreement on that as well, making room for
a new Broncos stadium while keeping Denver Water hole. It's
been the subject of discussion and negotiation between the Broncos

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and Denver Water for many months. The utility finished construction
on a new headquarters near Burnham in twenty nineteen. The headquarters,
which is known as its administration Building, is going to
stay on the site, but the utility will need to
sell land and move buildings on the southern end of
its campus. Buildings that currently house never Waters operations and maintenance,
distribution trades, fleet meter shop, warehouse and health clinic workers

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all need to be relocated. The Broncos have agreed to
pay quote all costs necessary to fund Denver Water's relocation,
including but not limited to new property acquisitions, site prep
and construction. Funds from water.

Speaker 1 (21:29):
Rates will not be used to move them.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
The cost of moving Denver Waters facilities isn't totally clear,
but they've already made moves on sites at fortieth Avenue
and Clayton Street over in North Denver, as well as
two smaller properties near the current and planned stadium sites.
City has been negotiating for months to land the stadium,
and the Mayor's administration has pushed for significant new spending
in the area. Two of the most expensive projects, and

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Mayor Johnson's vibrant Denver bond package, are being prioritized, in
part because of the Broncos interest in the area. The
infrastructure spending proposals includes nearly ninety million dollars to remove
part of the eighth Avenue Viaduct, turning it into a
surface street through the old rail yard. Proposal also includes
another fifty million for repairs, reconfiguration, and a design for
a future replacement of the sixth Avenue bridge, which also

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crosses the rail yard. City officials note that both bridges
are in bad shape and would need work anyway. Voters
will weigh in on the overall spending plan in the
November election. Meanwhile, the team could put more than four
billion dollars into the stadium itself. The Denver post is
reported for comparison so far. Stadium near Los Angeles cost
five and a half billion dollars to build and serves

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as the home of the Rams and the Chargers. It
has a dome ceiling and normally has around seventy thousand seats,
although it's able to accommodate more than one hundred thousand
for special events. Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, opening in
twenty seventeen at the cost of one point five billion.
The Broncos owners argue they need a new stadium because
its current facility is nearly thirty years old, a point
stadiums often undergo complete replacement or extensive renovation. The team

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Mulso cited the evolution of fan expectations and a desire
to create a year round business with a mixed use
district built around the stadium. That mix use district could
include restaurants, stores, hotels, housing offices, c entertainment venues, or
the ambiguously named Dynamic public spaces. In the team press release,

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Broncos current stadium and power Field at Mile High, opened
back in two thousand and one, replaced Mile High Stadium,
which was built in nineteen forty eight. And power Field
cost about four hundred and one million dollars to build,
and seventy five percent of the construction was funded by
sales tax collected from two thousand and one to twenty
eleven from a six county area. The team could also
have tried to redevelop that site. City adopted a master

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plan for the current stadium area back in twenty nineteen,
but the team's new owners did not pursue that vision
of a mixed use neighborhood. Current stadium needed about seven
hundred million dollars in investment to remain viable for the
next twenty five to thirty years, per the Broncos assessment,
and said the city could now try to bring new
life to the empower Field site in the future. Burnham

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Yard obviously one of the last big undeveloped piece of
land in the city. Residents of Laoma Lincoln neighborhood I
hope for decades to see used for housing, retail, park space, etc.
Longtime neighborhood organizer still A You said the city drafted
a neighborhood plan back in twenty ten out lining these
potential uses. The city's expected to bring a new local

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planning process to support the stadium. Veltman of the stadium
could come with other mixed use development as well. The
Broncos are committed to a strong and inclusive community benefits
agreement process that will began immediately and will work hand
in hand with Denver City Council, the team said. You
believes the Broncos should stay in Denver and hopes that

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the community gets the best deal possible. Just letting it
sit there is not the best use of the land
because the land is an industrial site and needs significant remediation.
Whoever develops it will need a lot of money. And
obviously the Broncos have that community organizer Andrea Burrella, which
is the Broncos had chosen to move to the Lone
Tree West Denver has a long history of projects being

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dumped on the community with that neighborhood input. She said,
I also think it's just wasteful to be building another
stadium and we have a perfectly fine stadium. It's because
we have new owners. She said that I feel like
the rich and elite get to do what they want
and our community.

Speaker 1 (25:22):
Pays for it.

Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, the community's not paying for this one, as the
Walton Penner Group has made it clear that they will
be privately funding the entire stadium, while the city may
have some costs incurred due to logistics and things like that.
The Broncos obviously gowned by the Walton Penner Group, which
includes several members of the Walmart Empire, Rob Walton, Greg Penner,

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Walt Better, etc. Former US Secretary of state counta Lisa Rice,
investor and local National women's soccer leque co owner Melody
Hobson in British racing legend Lewis Hamilton. The Broncos obviously
debut in nineteen sixty here in Denver is one of
the original American Football League teams, joining the NFL back
in nineteen seventy.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
Team has won.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Three Super Bowls, most recently in twenty fifteen, and are
one to zero on the year after beating the Tennessee
Titans in their home opener. As far as the new
stadium goes, I think that this sounds like a win
win win for just about everybody. The fact that we're
not going to be using public funds, we're not going
to have to raise taxes for any of this, the

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fact that the Denver Broncos get to stay in the
heart of Denver, and you know, this stadium, which wouldn't
open until at least twenty thirty one, obviously still has
a ways to go. But we're in the we're in
the crawl stage now, we have the site sort of
the crawl stage now. Got several questions about all this

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stuff today, multiple people asking me about you know, things
like well PSLs and not referring to the abhorrent drink
the Ryan Edwards keeps trying to foist on me. Yes,
personal seat licenses are going to be a thing with
this stadium. I'll just spoil that surprise now, that is

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going to be a thing. So you know there is
there is cost that comes with this to the fans.
People have been asking about the roof. We had a
conversation with Demanti Leitch earlier today and he suggested what
I had suggested on KOW when we reported this originally,
which was that while it will have a retractable roof,

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the goal is to have that roof open as much
as possible, and that would be what we would be
looking at doing. So most games will be played unless
there's lightning in the area or it's just absolutely dumping snow.
I don't see too many scenarios where that roof would
be closed that or it's you know, bitter, bitter cold,
which we haven't really had too many of those. I
think what two games in the last fifteen years that

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would fall into that. So those are the main Those
are the main things.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
As is.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
The Broncles will play at the current site until at
least twenty thirty. It just depends on how quickly it
takes for this to get done. From what I understand,
the stadium, they don't have a final stadium proposal yet,
so the idea of anybody telling you what the stadiums
going to look like or any of that would just
be false. They do have a couple of concepts. Mostly

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they're shooting for a stadium that will seat seventy to
seventy five thousand, which would be in line with where
we're at right now, maybe a little light of where
we are right now, but not much. What else I'm
trying to think of all the questions that I was
asked today as I can run down the list, What
will happen with the empower Field site, Well, it'll revert
back to city control. From what I understand, there's a

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possibility of selling that office developmental land to have that
stadium raised and create an entertainment and residential district. And
then you would create a tunnel underneath the highway going
back over toward all the stuff that's back over on
the other side there, which would you know, would connect

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the situation they're doing over there at Ball Arena, you know,
and the idea would be to create, you know, a
whole district there a revenue and a money maker for
taxpayers or for the city. So from what I understand,
that's the idea. Obviously, there's things to work out and
all that, and plenty of time to work out on
all this. It's not something that's going to complete at
any time soon. Broncos players were excited about it, however,

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when asked about it, like patzertan what it would like
to play in a new stadium, very bluntly said, look
at that point of time, I would be in year
eleven of my time in the league. So to give
you an idea of how far off that is. While
it's twenty twenty five now and twenty thirty one seems
fairly closed in six years, it's still a full sixty
years out.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
And so that's you know, a.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
Lot of the guys that are playing for the Broncos now,
if not all of them, would barely be here anymore.
So conceptually a great idea in terms of asking those guys,
but the reality is almost none of them are ever
going to play in that stadium, if at all I do.
I am curious what you guys think about it. Obviously
that reporting had been done originally here on KOA back

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in mid August, the Denver Post putting out a formal
report on that in print today, with Parker Gabriel reporting
on that, I, in looking at this, believe that that
you know, they get the benefit of the pr portion

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of this, which is that they're paying for it. I
think you'd have a tough sell trying to get people
in Denver to pay for a billionaire stadium in this climate.
We've sort of seen a shift towards that in recent years.
While there has been and there are stadiums that are
being financed with some public money, like in Cleveland, quite

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a bit of that, Uh, not the case uh in
other places. Uh you look at for instance, Chicago where
their new stadium is going to be privately financed. Uh
SOFI in Los Angeles we talked about earlier. Uh, we
did not use public money. And so I think, you know,
there's there's a shift, there's sort of a populist rhetoric
shift into you know, why are we giving billionaires money?

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They're billionaires, Let them, let them do it and then
we'll figure it out. Well, you know, that cost gets
passed on to the fans either any which way you
slice it, it's just exorbitant personal seat licenses fees is
you know, as a part of.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
The way that they pay for that.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
So don't be surprised six years from now when that
comes down the pike, uh, that you're you know, you're
paying for these exorbitant b sls. And and that's why
I had a few other news items I wanted to
get to uh super quick. I don't know if you
guys watched the game last night between the Vikings and

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the Bears, but get booed off the field in your
debut for coughing up a double digit lead is not
exactly exactly the way you want to you want to
do it. And that's what happened with Ben Johnson there
from the Bears after the final two minutes drew the
most heat on Johnsony's real error came about twenty twenty

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game minutes earlier when he challenged the TJ.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Hocketson fumbled It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
And then halfway through the third quarter, you know, Hockets
had caught a short pass roll and had the ball
punched out. It appeared in the moment and on replay
to bend down Johnson challenged anyway lost the time out
and that that time out would be significant.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Later on in the game.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
Caleb Williams was kind of good until he wasn't connected
on every pass to the first quarter and a half,
but when he started missing, he started missing bad air
ball in the direction of DJ Moore. Late in the fourth,
when Chicago was driving down ten. You know the Bears
are going to score thirty seconds later anyway, but you know,
at the time that looked like a thing. There were

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several errors. The Bears scored left two to two on
the clock, so all they had to do was kick
it out of the end zone, and they were getting
a free time out back stoppage with the two minute warning,
and Johnson knew this and told Cayrol Santos to kick
the ball out of the back of the end zone
to prevent the clock from moving. Santos came up about
three yards short. Minnesota ran the ball out and killed

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out just enough time to avoid having to run a
play before the two minute warning. The Bears did force
the three and now, but then they only had nine
seconds with which to act instead of about fifty seconds
that they would have had to try to get a
field goal tie it. You could have just told Cayrol
Santos to kick the ball straight out of bounds, which
would have given the Vikings only five more yards of

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field position started the forty instead of the thirty five.
So you know, I don't know in this era of
we've got guys with big enough legs to kick these
sixty yard field goals, well, we don't have somebody who
can just boot one out the back of the inenzone
off the t feels weird. And and the fact that
that was not made impeccably clear to Santos, uh seems

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odd to me. But that's how it goes.

Speaker 4 (34:13):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
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