8/13/25 Hour 1 - Cross talk, Broncos practice today, Sean Payton comments to Kay Adams,

00:00 Cross talk.

23:40 Broncos practice today.

38:55 Sean Payton comments to Kay Adams.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Andy Lindall's with us as well as uh Nate Krepman
rolling in here. Do you think of practice today? There?

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Brother?

Speaker 3 (00:05):
You know how I felt about practice. I wished I
hadn't gone, But it is what it is. So it's
a walk through. It's if our defensive player would be
highly annoyed, I would. I would literally just be like,
what do we we go do your walk through so
we can go do things. So we're babysitting the offense. Well, dude,
they're not babysitting. Feels a little strong. And I heard

(00:25):
Jeff's interview with you, and so I do think there's
coaching going on. I got no problem with the coaching.
But Tyler, again, I'll ask you or I won't.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
I could say where he is there?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Didn't that feel more like a you go do your
walkthrough and we'll go do ours kind of today?

Speaker 5 (00:41):
Well, the whole practice was different. They every practice is
more or less the same. You start out with the
same periods. You do team run, you do night on still,
excuse me, you do nine on seven, you do seven
on sevens, you do one on ones, then you get
back together for your team periods. They skip seven on
seven to day they skip nine on sevens to day.
They went straight to a team run period, which I

(01:04):
was kind of like, oh about maybe, actually we're about
to have a relatively intense day today because they're gonna
get a whole bunch of team periods in. I would
say they had three, maybe four like pretty full action
periods and then my gosh, did it just grind to
a slow, slow pause? How many times did he pull

(01:25):
that team together and have a ten minute conversation with him?

Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (01:29):
So I don't know, it's just dmak. I've not seen
what I saw today felt like something we'd.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
See in OTAs.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
We've seen plenty of OTA's right, this didn't This just
didn't feel training camp to me. Didn't you and I
have covered twenty some camps together. It just didn't feel
training camp.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
It almost felt like a little bit different Friday practice. Yeah,
in season Friday practice.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
You had asked about the mood out there. There's zero intensity,
There's zero It just was.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
It was hot.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
It was like the last hot day it.

Speaker 8 (02:00):
Was, and it just was.

Speaker 6 (02:03):
It just was so slow paced.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Like Tyler had said, he would drive.

Speaker 6 (02:07):
Him nut, man, I think I'd brain lock on some
of this.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
All right, So does that set up for a bad
day or a good day tomorrow?

Speaker 6 (02:15):
I hope a good day. They ought to be. They
ought to be chomping at the bitch. I bet you that.
I bet you get a good day for this reason.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I think coaches, they'll get out of the way tomorrow, right, Tyler,
we won't see any more of this. I think we'll
see I think I think we'll just go and I
think they'll be relieved to just let's play.

Speaker 8 (02:30):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I hope I'm right, and we need to see bow
rip it up a little bit, right.

Speaker 6 (02:34):
I mean, i'd like.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
To, you know, listen, after last year's preseason and and
all that. I'm not going to freak out because it's
it didn't look good last year most of the time.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
They did the first two games, So this just me.

Speaker 6 (02:46):
But here's the only difference.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
They keeps saying, said this to me yesterday.

Speaker 6 (02:50):
They do have to get off to a good start.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
He can't afford one of these classic Sean Payton starts
here in Denver with until the first year.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Yeah, first must win. I agree, they're a mess in Indie.
They don't have a quarterback, and Tennessee, you have a
rookie quarterback on the road and they're the worst team
in the league last year.

Speaker 8 (03:06):
Come on, man, you gotta win them. Both must wins
because the next three are all tough, so so you
have to win the first two games there must wins.
That can't be a slow start.

Speaker 9 (03:14):
It.

Speaker 8 (03:15):
But again it goes back to the topic from earlier
in the week, is like, ha bow has bo earned
his way out of any concern Like don't we give
him the benefit of the doubt because of what we
saw out of his rookie year?

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Oh? Yeah, I mean it's they're all in on Bo.
I mean, you'd be a you'd be a moron to
not see how Sean Payton feels about bo Nicks. Why
do you think he's been blabbing and flapping his guns
so much? Sure, it's all right because it's all about
Bo and it's all about how smart I was.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
Tell you what do the thing? Do the thing? Because
I got a question.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
K KS FMHD one, Broomfield, Denver, Boulder.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
I feel like I've derailed you a couple of times.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, you know, we get to it when we get
to it.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Uh, can we all in this room agree? If you
go and really listen to comment from Bow. I had
a laugh at it. I know you guys talked about.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
It earlier, says I sucked.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
No, I think he'd liked I.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
I think he's done with the noise coming from his
head coach.

Speaker 4 (04:07):
I think he's to the point of, yeah, all right, man.
I like with Kay Adams he just had where he says.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
Of course the goals the Super Bowl, we don't need
to talk about it.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
We're trying to ignore the noise.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
And I think he'd like Sean to just quit telling
everybody nationally how good he thinks they're gonna be.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
Every comment he's had is about his annoyance with Sean.
He doesn't want that. He doesn't want to be named
one of the four best quarterbacks. He's literally telling his
coach to shut up.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
You can you can feel his skin crawl though in
his tone of voice. Can you not?

Speaker 8 (04:38):
Yes, I heard the Broncos today. They were referred to
as the hipster pick in the NFL right now, no
doubt about it. They are the hipster pick. They we
said it yesterday. They were last year. It was the Texans. Yeah,
because C. J. Stroud came on the scene and Ryan's
impressed and he, you know, he plataued he plant toed.
I don't. I wouldn't say he had a bad season,

(04:58):
but he didn't. It wasn't just like he didn't go
back up. He didn't lawn sure anything else like that,
Like there was a courts correction, because that's what the
NFL does to you.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
If you want to order a I p A or
a complicated coffee drink at Starbucks, you're picking the Broncos.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
Yes, you got a man bun, rob.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Till you got a man bun. You love the Broncos.

Speaker 8 (05:20):
Yeah, and then as I love an I p A.
I'm not picking the Broncos to win the Super Bowl though.
That's but but if you brewed your own beer in
your garage, yeah, you got some.

Speaker 4 (05:33):
Green bag there too, And that may be a reason.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
If you're in an I p A Beer club, you
can get a club.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
Hey, you be a couple of times stunts stouts.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Lady Amanda, who I just saw at the high school
get together, the reunion still remembers the pumpkin beer that
I made.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
You went to high school with a man.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
No high school reunion a thousand people there.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
I didn't get invites to that NAT. It was only
there two and a half years.

Speaker 8 (06:02):
I was only there five weeks, and they did. I
think that's yes, But guess what I made it. I
made it a thing called mister beer. Do you get
a b BEERD guy with the fan?

Speaker 3 (06:12):
But if you made it in a mister beer, always
sold it Christmas when you need a Christmas idea that
I think it.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
Was purchased a target. It was a plastic keg.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
You do not qualify it.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
I made an all right, pup, I was gonna say
I was it was.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
She won't quit talking about it. I go up to
the man, I go, you realize blue Moon makes the
same thing, don't you.

Speaker 8 (06:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
If he's like, no, I want you to make another one,
I was like, it was a forty dollars beer.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
Well, if you've had.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Six bottles for forty bucks by the time I bought
all the stupid agreement.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
He's the biggest hipster here at the station him.

Speaker 4 (06:45):
Am I wrong?

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Are you?

Speaker 8 (06:46):
I won't argue that closest would a spring rank spring
is almer sister. He's number two on our show, maybe
number two of the station springs out.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
He didn't think there was a he man character named
Fisto and I'm looking at her.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Here he skips leg Day. Look at him. There he is.
There's a Fisto just making.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
The character fist.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
He's right here.

Speaker 8 (07:09):
It's a gut deep cut. He man.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
This from the eighties.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Never went to leg Day, never went to leg Look
at him tiny legs.

Speaker 8 (07:17):
On the one far right.

Speaker 6 (07:22):
Days Now, just Spring.

Speaker 4 (07:23):
Was like, the guy's not named fist. Yes he is.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
His name's Fisto. It's nothing but fist.

Speaker 4 (07:28):
Listen, there's a lot of things going on in the eighties.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
You guys are all Broncos fans.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Then I guess, yeah, man, I listen, I I don't
think I let me ask you this.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
I'll ask you that.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Nate just sort of self embraces the hipster.

Speaker 8 (07:43):
I completely did him.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
But he's very hip. He's much hipper than I am.

Speaker 8 (07:48):
It's it's not an insult in the slightest bit. I'm
a complete snob. I'm a total hipsters.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Why this show works, honestly, I don't think they need
to go to this. I think they need to win
a playoff. What if this is twenty fourteen Broncos where
you get a free agent class that gets some chemistry together.
Now in twenty fourteen, it was DeMarcus where he keep
to leave and TJ Ward what if this year that's
what Evan Ingram and I don't know, you got your

(08:16):
Evan Ingram, you got your Troy Franklin comes into his
own and R. J.

Speaker 6 (08:20):
Harvey.

Speaker 8 (08:21):
Such a weird comp though, because fourteen was such a disappointment.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
Well it was.

Speaker 10 (08:25):
Well, if everybody don't shut up this one in all seriousness, though,
if this team goes and wins a playoff game this
year and goes to the divisional round and they win
double digit victories in bo Nick's second season, we'll all
look at it and say, oh, there's a clear trajectory here.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
If they didn't finish second in the division that.

Speaker 8 (08:44):
Was the Chargers. They were third last year, but.

Speaker 7 (08:46):
Didn't didn't the fourteen team win twelve regular season games? Yeah,
I believe it was very good regular season.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Yeah, but you were coming off a super Bowl and
you'd already set the standard and all that.

Speaker 8 (08:56):
Down the stretch there was the run pass, there is
all the coaches were looking for other Johns.

Speaker 3 (09:01):
Oh my god, every report coming out. I don't know
what coach was left. By the time, del Rio was
already to the Raiders. Fox was telling Chicago, don't hire
anybody yet, and Gase was sure he was getting the
Niners job.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, oh that's right. He got on that story. Is
there is there a year not for everybody?

Speaker 8 (09:19):
Wouldn't you have to go back to the eighties almost
to compare like where the team is at currently in
the build to where they're trying to get go nineties?

Speaker 3 (09:30):
All right, you called the games. They they had a
little ninety six vibe, I guess, but ninety six they
were thirteen and three.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
I can't even go there.

Speaker 8 (09:37):
And John was already a legend by that.

Speaker 4 (09:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (09:39):
But here's the thing. So when Shanan's first year, everybody
forgets his first year they went eight and eight.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, now it's just the first year because then he
figured out I want to run Terrell Davis Moore, They
got rid of Rod Bernstein, and then they go and
go go thirteen and three with the against you know,
and lose to Jacksonville. He flips out Aaron Craver for
a real back in your Iliini Howard Griffith, and away
we go, and they maybe they've been a few.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Capitules, but hey, you're paying for it later. Who cares it?

Speaker 8 (10:09):
Was called circumvention.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Okay, you know, look, it's not my fault. You can't
do the accounting. Well, you got guys in the NFL office.
It should have done better math.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
Dude, if you knew you could just pay out a
half million or so dollars for a super.

Speaker 4 (10:20):
Bowl, Yeah, you're like, I'm in.

Speaker 8 (10:21):
You'll do it every time.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
It sound like you're forfeiting the super Bowl.

Speaker 8 (10:24):
You'll do it everything.

Speaker 3 (10:25):
And I do feel like, because remember John, some thought
maybe John was never going to get back to greatness
after the Wade Phillips stuff, and John ended up. They
re established themselves all that. They had a veteran coach,
he had a plan. I again, I think if they
get and you're looking at eleven, they could look at eleven,

(10:45):
they could go ten wins and it could be ten
better wins than a year ago.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Get to the playoffs. And I'm not upset.

Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yfc's not easy, man.

Speaker 3 (10:53):
It's like we've all forgotten Joe Burrol, Lamar Jackson, Josh
Allen and Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 6 (10:58):
Just to name it.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
I don't think we.

Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, we're talking about.

Speaker 8 (11:06):
Twice last year.

Speaker 1 (11:07):
But the fortunate thing about that is too stroud two
of those guys are in the same division with Berrow
and Jackson So you know, okay.

Speaker 4 (11:13):
Well you're homes and yours.

Speaker 1 (11:15):
I got you, but you're not accounting for the AFC South,
which is weak, and you know, if you can play
well enough, like as a wildcard team, if you play
well enough, you could be facing an AFC South champion
and you have a shot there.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
You do, no, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Get me a better matchup. I don't know, maybe luck
out and get yourself a home games.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Would you take Broncos Texans in in Texas as a
first round.

Speaker 3 (11:37):
Over Broncos Buffalo of course, Baltimore.

Speaker 8 (11:41):
Yeah, that's where you want to be. Yeah, you at
minimum you have to finish second in this division and
be the five seeds. It's a great call, though, you
take it because they don't Houston or Jacksonville or wherever
you're going, probably not Indianapolis. But you're in a good situation.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Nothing in camp has my hope quelled for the season period.
They don't look great right now. The offense like it
to look better. I hope they go whoop on the Cardinal.
I'm still excited for football this fall.

Speaker 8 (12:04):
I still think they can win this division, like, and
I'm again, I'm.

Speaker 4 (12:08):
Gonna get that IPA.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
I said it a month ago though, Like I like
this team to win the AFC West, and I do
it one on the strength of what they are defensively.
And if you want to talk about hipsterism, I'm looking
at Kansas City's offensive line and I'm saying they got
problems over there. I love it.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
The hipster pick of the day.

Speaker 8 (12:27):
Josh Simmons at left tackle is a rookie first round pick,
number thirty two overall. Like that, that's that. I think
he's going to be a good NFL player. But that's
the kind of guy that Benito can feast on all
day long. They got questions in three positions on that Audi.

Speaker 6 (12:41):
I just think he's got a sore foot.

Speaker 8 (12:43):
Yeah, I think he's fine.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
He's not fun either, yeah, Series, I want to have
some fun. Yeah, I want to have some fun.

Speaker 8 (12:52):
Okay, you want to have some fun today, DMAC. You
want to tune in today at four twenty. Okay, of course,
of course you want to tune intil.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
That's my style.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
But once you've recovered.

Speaker 8 (13:05):
But you know where we're going in four twenty. We
are going to the armpit. Of America Saint Louis, Missouri
to talk to our friend Benjamin Hoffman of the Saint
Louis Post Dispatch.

Speaker 1 (13:14):
To a serious hipster talk on the show.

Speaker 8 (13:17):
And he has to explain why the Cardinals lost two
series this year to the Colorado Rocks.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Did you see did you see the crowd today for
that game?

Speaker 8 (13:26):
I did not.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Was anybody there, Holy count nobody was.

Speaker 8 (13:29):
I bet it was miserable.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
No, I mean it's really hot and it's horrible humidity.

Speaker 8 (13:34):
I didn't watch one second of that game today. I
followed it on gamecast.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
It was actually a remarkable game. Yeah, you realize Nard.

Speaker 8 (13:41):
Goodman to run bomb in the ninth on top of
hitting Lean Calmer moniac.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
You should have seen the play you made in center
fields and the ninth.

Speaker 8 (13:50):
Inningh there you go. See. Good things are happening right now.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
They've won two out of three. The fact that I
hope people made money on it because we were talking
about it.

Speaker 8 (14:00):
Oh, you were all over it. We were drumping it
all afternoon yesterday.

Speaker 1 (14:04):
We had several texters, I may maybe a dozen or
so people that did bet based off what we had.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Said a guy, as soon as you.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
Left it, you got to be kidding me with that number, though,
great last night, you could be one of the worst
teams of all time, and you don't lose more than
eight games, And not only do you not lose more
than eight games, but five times in a row that
it happened to you win the ninth games.

Speaker 3 (14:29):
It's okay, say, but what's more, what's more impressive? What's more,
what's the bigger shock to the system that they've lost
eight in a row five times, or that five times
they've failed to lose the ninth that no, which.

Speaker 1 (14:44):
One may definitely that because if you look at the
wake up the worst teams ever, they all have losing
streaks more than eight games, all of them, and some
are epic, some are over twenty games. So the fact
that you could still be considered the worst team ever
but not have a losing streak as bad as all
those other terrible teams is actually kind of incredible, Like

(15:06):
it really is amazing. No, that's the number. It's bananas. Now.
They may today they didn't because they won today, but
they have lost eight one to nine and then lose
six in a row after that, you know, probably, so
something like that. And they did that in April, by
the way, when they were really incredibly.

Speaker 6 (15:20):
They're coming home right the four.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Against the Diebacks and three against the Dodge by the way,
darting tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (15:25):
So right now, let's see after the last couple of
victories I believe. Okay, So run differential as of today
would be minus what three twenty six I think now
by one minus three twenty six. Last year the White
Socks were minus three to zero six. So the Rockies
need to get to work a little bit too, not
have the worst one the bottom.

Speaker 1 (15:44):
The bottom line will ultimately, I know what you're saying,
but the bottom line is ultimately wins and losses.

Speaker 8 (15:49):
Ultimately, I mean, run differential explains just how crappy you
are while you're losing.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
The I understand.

Speaker 8 (15:53):
I mean it means like it's not just bad luck.
You are legitimately the worst.

Speaker 1 (15:57):
No matter, no matter what happened. They're in the arguments,
no matter what happens. Yeah, as one of the worst
of all time, no doubt about it. But do you
think they'll get ten more wins?

Speaker 6 (16:08):
I was gonna say it's ten wins for you too.

Speaker 8 (16:10):
The war.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
We're almost in single digits on this bad boy. Do
you think they.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
If they let you down by one win.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
I am tempted to fly to San Francisco to watch
the final three game series to be part of it.
If it comes down to that checked out, they lose, right,
you get into weird, weird situations about other teams not given.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
September when it's over and they all do the call
ups like That's why I don't think this will happen.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
If you want my honest, I think the Rockies will
have incentive. Cannot be the worst team, so I think
that will matter to that.

Speaker 8 (16:49):
Let's let's look at this though. Okay, so the next
four against Arizona Diamondbacks are they're checked out. Next four
against the Dodgers. After that, LA is in a dogfight
right now that they gotta win, and Diego actually overtook
the division lead.

Speaker 1 (17:02):
Uh.

Speaker 8 (17:02):
Three in Pittsburgh, Pirates suck, they're done. Three in Houston,
they're in a dogfight with Seattle. Yeah, they'll play three
against the Cubs. Cubs are good fighting for their wild
card life because the Brewers won't freaking lose it. The
San Francisco, San Diego it's gonna matter, Dodgers, it's gonna matter.
Four in San Diego. That's a rough stretch.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
Yeah, he might need You might need to get your
ten before the last few. Yeah, you got Although the
Rockies tend to bite the Padres.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
He got a weird thing over there.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
I don't know that that series is really good.

Speaker 8 (17:31):
Straight against the Padres, Dodgers Padres, that's a bad spot.
Although you got three against Miami, who you You're three
and o this year against the Marlins.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
They won't care? Is that at home?

Speaker 8 (17:39):
It is three against the Angels there they're they only
care if they're playing the Dodgers. Three in Seattle, that
matters to Seattle, and then three in San Francis. So
there's there's very winnable games coming up against teams they
will have nothing to play for. I think they're gonna
get there. I think they will surpass the twenty four
White Sox real quick.

Speaker 1 (17:57):
I heard this and I thought it was hysterical. That
show Hayo time. He has the investment advice strategy of
George Costanza.

Speaker 8 (18:07):
He's a botched real estate deal, by the way.

Speaker 1 (18:11):
He he is really an innocent who is surrounded by
a bunch of green legs. Oh yeah, I think there's
a lot of that I think he was put into
like a baseball camp, like at eleven years old. He
never really went to high school. Did you know that
they like the Dominican Japan does that they take their

(18:31):
studs and they put him in these baseball places that
really don't care about education. I think he's just a
very innocent. I think Michael Porter Junior thinks he's an
innocent and I think he's just surrounded by a lot
of greedy people that put him in bad situation.

Speaker 8 (18:45):
One PJ just wants to help out his buddies.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Man, I guess about that.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
That's all he wants to do. That wasn't suspicious? Yeah?
By the way, tonight fun rematch Otani v Troute haven't
seen it is the final at bat of the twenty
three Baseball Classic. Yeah, Tany is pitching tonight.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
By the way, can I just say one last week
a Savannah Banana rule. I wish they would put a
Major League baseball a Savannah Banana rules. Lads, Well, there's
a couple that I like. I like the designated I
like the designated runner once an inning. I think that
would be fun. I love the golden hitter concept that
you could put any batter you want once a game,
into any situation you want, no matter where you are

(19:25):
in the line.

Speaker 8 (19:26):
And they talk about doing that in base extra inning. Yeah,
Manford already brought it up.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
I love that idea.

Speaker 8 (19:31):
Yeah, why not?

Speaker 6 (19:32):
You know what I want? If you walk, you gotta
get to base and everyone's going to touch it for it.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
I don't like that. Here's why I don't like that.
It's too easy if you have a runner on second,
for that runner to score. It's disproportionate that you're not
a hipster.

Speaker 8 (19:47):
Listen, man, go watch some Friends re runs? All right, Yeah,
go listen to some Dave Matthews band. Isn't some boneless
Wings and Apple be ease?

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Man?

Speaker 6 (20:01):
Is It wouldn't?

Speaker 3 (20:02):
Wouldn't it's always sunny in Philadelphia? Be the Hipster showed.

Speaker 8 (20:06):
That's a hipster show, That's what That's what I'm saying. Yeah,
Dmax Basic, you.

Speaker 6 (20:13):
Know I need your hipster shows.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
We are based.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
Do you not do ps? Are you not into p
s L the old Pumpkins spice? You're not gonna be
rocking around with that.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I don't like chucking out four donuts at one time.
But hey, mister.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
Water bottle, I can rehydrate.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
So far, the best thing of training camp is mos.
Your pounding donut holes is the highlight of training. You're
gonna look at Tyler's beasting. It's legit. That's number two.

Speaker 8 (20:38):
Wait, Tyler got stuck in the face today here camp, Yes,
that's wild. Cosmider got stung yesterday. Well I know where
I'm not standing. Well, apparently if you're over six five,
you trouble for the bees. The light pattern. It's the
tall guys. He got stung on the face. Dude on

(20:58):
the temple, that's garbage.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
I was like, is that they're gonna swell up? I
was hoping he'd have like a what look like because
I got I got the hickey marks from getting the
cupping going on. I wanted him to get like I
want him to get the pimples.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
But thankfully Nate and his wife have their own home
brewed medicine to put on.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Listen, hands they still hold hands. What I'm legit, he's
gonna You're not gonna live. I know it's wild.

Speaker 6 (21:25):
He and his wife like each crazy physical affection.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
This is the happiest.

Speaker 1 (21:30):
Married guy holding hands.

Speaker 4 (21:32):
I got a buddy whisky, my guy that owns Mike
or cow guy. He and Nate could compete for happiest
married guys.

Speaker 8 (21:39):
Yeah. I like my wife. I think it's amazing, crazy,
It's my favorite person in the world. Yes, I'm a
I'm a wife guy.

Speaker 1 (21:48):
Okay, Nate, all right, Oh I think you better than me?

Speaker 3 (21:53):
He is, yee mind didn't even hold the door for
me to get the trash out.

Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yes see, there's all kinds of different ways to be
at life. It is the Craign and Lindahl Show. Yeah,
we're gonna talk to Benjamin Hawkman today at four twenty.
He has to, he has to explain the Saint Louis Cardinals.
He he is. We're making him stand up and take
the bullets for that garbage franchise that went two and
four against the Rockies this year. Plus Hooch is always fun,

(22:28):
so we're looking forward to having him today on the show.
Cynthia Freeland coming up stops by today. Yeah, twenty minutes
after five o'clock where I want nothing with next gen
stats out of her. That's all I'm hoping to get today.
I want nothing but but Nick Benido get off stats
and bo Nick's time to throw and completion percentage over expectation.

(22:51):
It's all I want today out of Cynthia Freeland. Just
give me nothing but the hipster numbers. I'm here for
them all day long.

Speaker 6 (22:58):
All right, Yes, do this's she is a friend of
the program.

Speaker 8 (23:02):
Yeah, one of our faves. So Cynthia Freeland is going
to stop by today as well. We have so much
to do here on this fine radio show. It is
the Craigman and Lindahl Show. We will take a quick
break Andy when we come back. Sean Payton talked to
his favorite reporter, Kay Adams, and yeah, Sean Payton once
again trumpeting all of the expectation. We'll listen to that next.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
You've got the Krekman and Lynn Dahl Podcast. Listen live
every weekday from ten am to noon on Altitude Sports
Radio ninety two five and on the Altitude Sports Radio App.

Speaker 8 (23:41):
It's Nate, it's Andy. It's Craigman and Lindahl on Altitude
Sports Radio ninety two five. Training Camp covered John Altitude
Sports Radio powered by Ramos Law, the official injury law
firm partner of Broncos Country. Yeah it was. It was
ramp up for joint practice day today down there at
Dove Valley and Andy, as you described a marked lack

(24:03):
of intensity out there with practice today, it was it
was teaching day, but almost basically a glorified walkthrough.

Speaker 6 (24:12):
Well, it really was, and I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 (24:14):
I don't think it was intended to be that they
came out in shells. You know, Tyler confirmed it was
the shells. So we're using all the stuff, you know,
we're using the proper terminology.

Speaker 6 (24:24):
Look, man, it just was, uh, it just it's just
been really.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Interesting and I don't even know what words to use
to describe it. That's what's holding me up here. And Neate,
I just have not seen a lot of training camp
days like this.

Speaker 8 (24:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Normally when I see stuff to give you the idea
of the pace, and unfortunately listeners aren't going to be
able to I like to try to, you know, give
descriptive words you can imagine in your head. It literally
was walked through speed a lot. And this looked like
something we would witness from the top of the hill
in the spring, where they have no pads on. They're
wearing the helmets and the jerseys and that's it. Yeah,
And there's a lot of stopping and teaching and so

(25:01):
on and so forth, and it just was, you know,
granted there were a couple of lively team periods, but
you know, at one point, they're doing red zone and
I'm getting ready to I was talking to Leggy and
Nick Ferguson, just you know, guy stuff whatever, gonna walk down.

Speaker 6 (25:18):
And watch this thing.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
And so I keep watching the play the practice, right,
and I'm like, man, he's talking to him, all right,
stay here, bs a little bit more. And for five
minutes or so, I'm just I'm like, dude, is he
gonna Are we gonna.

Speaker 6 (25:32):
Do a goal line again? What are you doing down there?

Speaker 8 (25:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (25:34):
And it got to the point where they ran two plays,
like he runs another play.

Speaker 4 (25:38):
I start to walk to the other end of the field.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
He stops and brings them back up again.

Speaker 3 (25:42):
I never ended up walking down there, because after another
five minutes of talking, he just called it.

Speaker 8 (25:48):
So Sean alluded to this yesterday. Last week, the rhythm
was off because they had the joint practice with San
Francisco on a Thursday, and then they played on Saturday
this week, and they had travel thrown in there as
well last week. At least this week they didn't have that.
So I think that yesterday's practice, which I didn't think
was terribly intense either, at least had more intensity to it.

(26:11):
But by the way Andy watch practice today, I was
beholden to other commitments today.

Speaker 6 (26:17):
I wish we had traded day.

Speaker 8 (26:21):
But we'll both be back out there tomorrow to watch,
you know, the Broncos and the Cardinals run into each
other and that's gonna be an awful lot of fun.
But Sean, he said it yesterday, and I think when
you describe what today's practice looks like, it kind of
is starting to make sense to me. I think that
Sean Payton is frustrated by and granted it was his
own decision, but did the decision to have two different

(26:43):
weeks of joint practices because the rhythms of those weeks
are so different, the ramp ups are so different. And
he said as much yesterday of just like I don't
know if I'd do this again.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Yeah, I found that kind of interesting because now again,
this is one of the things I was chatting with
Lakey Nick about what I thought was interesting watching this
for the first time because we've never seen a Bronco team.
I don't think we've seen certainly in Denver, we haven't
seen two teams roll in and normally what it used
to happen. I remember it under Fangio, and I believe
we also saw an under haacket where you practice.

Speaker 6 (27:17):
For two days back to back.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Right, because there's always the revenge day for whatever team.
Matter of fact, we saw it with the Rams in Peace.

Speaker 8 (27:24):
So this was clearly because there was two separate ones.
They're doing it only one.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Day, only one day, well, I asked, I asked, which,
But here's what you get.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
You don't get the revenge practice.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Instead, for the Niner Niners, the revenge practice ended up
being the game Saturday where Sala decided I'm gonna blitz
and you're not gonna do this to us again and whatever.
There's a lot of people that still seem to think
there's a solid Peyton thing.

Speaker 6 (27:49):
That's a little weird, but.

Speaker 8 (27:50):
You know what, I think there is. Yeah, Oh, I
think there absolutely is. That's why Robert Sala was sending
exotic blitzes at bo Nicks. Although it's not as though
bo Nicks hasn't seen a pass roy.

Speaker 6 (28:01):
But yeah, maybe they didn't have a check plan.

Speaker 8 (28:03):
Yeah, have that ready to go. But but but at
the same time, listening to Sean Payton yesterday and having
this conversation, it finally crystallized in my brain what it is. Okay.
You know, you know when somebody asks you, uh like
two months in advance to make like a social commitment
on a weeknight, and you're like, yeah, sounds great, No, Brode,

(28:25):
can't wait. And then the day comes and you're like,
I don't want to do this thing. I don't want
to go to that. Yeah, yeah exactly. That's it's I'm exhausted.
I just want to go home and go to bed.
I don't want to do I don't want to go
to a concert on a weeknight. What are we doing
right now? Right exactly? And it was you three months

(28:49):
ago when you were like, hey, no problem, I can't wait. Yeah,
because you were four drinks in and you decided that
making a commitment on a Wednesday night was a good idea.
That's Sean Payton right now. Now it's the week up
and he's just like, I can't believe I agreed to
do that.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
You're absolutely right, But again I'm kind of surprised because
what I like about it is, you know, look I
said it earlier.

Speaker 8 (29:10):
The intensity's good, The intensity's good. What I do tomorrow,
But also, like, doesn't it take away some of the
the careful attention to detail that a especially then an
offensive coach like Sean Payton wants to spend.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
It does But now, look, I would understand if it
was last year and you were bothered by this, and
you were you were juggling this, you know, alleged quarterback
competition from a year ago, but not These are your guys.
These are your guys. Okay, this is your group. For
the most part, it's it's unchanged now again, you're working
in Evan Ingram. I think, as we said yesterday, you

(29:45):
got guys playing like Troy Franklin playing a new role
and r. J. Harvey you're trying to get worked in.
But for the most part, these are your guys. These
are your guys. So I what I would do if
I'm Sean, I'm going full board tomorrow are ones vers
year ones. I'm gonna get a ton of work in
and get us What if then nobody plays Saturday?

Speaker 8 (30:02):
Oh well yeah right, No, I agree with you. I
absolutely agree with you, because I think that what we
saw the other night was a weird let down coming
off of the joint practice. Now again, like who they
could have a great joint practice tomorrow, they could have
a great performance against Arizona, and we could be talking about, hey,
Broncos look like they're they're right back on track and
the progression leading up to week one that we need

(30:24):
to see, maybe they're gonna get to that place. Sean
Payton goes on the Kay Adams Up and at Them's
podcast yesterday, a little shout out to Rainier wolf Castle
and Sean Payton talking about what makes him think the
Broncos are a contender. A couple of minutes here, this
is Sean Payton and Kay Adams.

Speaker 2 (30:46):
I think we've improved on what was already a very
good defense, and we've improved quite a bit, and then
offensively in the run game. And then the first thing
everything everyone looks at, even free agents when they look

(31:06):
at deciding on teams is do they have a quarterback
that can And I think the people that have seen
both play in person in our division have seen, you know,
his skill, set, his feet, his ability to get us
into the right place. And then I think I think

(31:30):
it gets back to a series of acquisitions, not just
one specific and you have to be comfortable, like the
first meeting with our team in the offseason program, and
we we're not into phase one, two and three, like
we'll spend six weeks in phase one where they're just
over here lifting and running, and then when it comes

(31:53):
time for the OTAs, we'll move into phase three. But
that first team meet was, Hey, I don't want to
be uncomfortable or phased at all by discussing what it's
like to play in the Super Bowl, what it's like
to win a division, and make no mistake, and with

(32:13):
all due respect, what Kansas City has been able to
accomplish has been remarkable.

Speaker 6 (32:19):
So there's a tremendous amount.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Of respect there for their run. And so I've always
in this league thought of the three goals is when
your division, best seeding possible win a super Bowl. And
I just think that, yeah, on a near like. And
then I would say for us, like more specifically is

(32:44):
starting fast this year. You know we didn't back two
years ago. A year ago we started hing two and
then bounce back. But us starting fast at home and
not putting ourselves in a hole where maybe Week sixteen
could be played for something differently than it should be

(33:04):
because of your start.

Speaker 8 (33:07):
Wow, there was a lot in there.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
There was, and yet one of the sentences I'd love
to hear he didn't finish.

Speaker 8 (33:15):
So defense is better, agreed, yep. And defense was already awesome.

Speaker 6 (33:19):
Yep.

Speaker 8 (33:20):
Run game. My response to that, Andy, honestly is we'll see.

Speaker 6 (33:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (33:26):
Yeah, all two reasons. I'll believe you have a run
game when you prove it. And I'll believe you have
a run game when you run the ball.

Speaker 3 (33:31):
Yeah, exactly that that those are the two reasons. Yeah,
you are you gonna use it if it proves.

Speaker 8 (33:36):
It, exactly like I I think that R. J. Harvey
is fun. I think that Dobbins is a good player.
I like the depth of the position. I like your
offensive line. Okay, prove it that that that's my reaction there.
It was interesting when he talked about Nicks. He talked
about his feet and his ability to get the offense
into the right place. That's that's such a Sean Payton

(33:59):
way to discred a quarterback that he loves, isn't it.
Which is good? That's Sean Payton should love the quarterback
for the reason that he wants them to be good,
that they execute his offense and execute his plays properly
with good feet and the ability to get the offense
into the right spots. You know, he mentioned the acquisitions,
didn't really specify too much right there, but we know
who he's talking about. He's talking about a Grim and

(34:19):
green Law and Hufonga, like there were good acquisitions for
this team. Then he went into his phase daya Tribe
and you could literally hear kay Adam's eyes glaze over. Also,
he skipped phase two somewhere in there, but I'm sure
it happened. And then he actually got to what I
thought was the most important thing that he said was

(34:40):
the importance of starting fast. It's exactly what we talked
about in cross talk today. Andy of like the first
two games or must wins. You gotta beat Tennessee, you
gotta beat Indianapolis. Can't mess around with those games. They
should win them. They should win them. But like they
must wins in week one and two, a three and zero.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Start is absolutely out there for them. It is is Look,
the Chargers are charging and getting everybody hurt.

Speaker 8 (34:58):
They got problem.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
You know, we'll see how healthy they are, but get
to that when you need to. You got to have
those first two games. There's no way you can lose
the Titans game.

Speaker 7 (35:08):
Period.

Speaker 3 (35:08):
Yeah, that's just a we cannot have a Raiders of
Shawn's first year here, cannot have it. So that's gonna
be important. Yeah, I I well, what was phase two?
What was Phase three? So now you got me counting
the phases?

Speaker 8 (35:25):
They got into phase three and OTAs. Phase one was
six weeks and then phase three was OTAs. I still
don't know what phase two is. I've tried, but that's here.
But also what's weird about that is like, doesn't every
coach have like a different definition.

Speaker 6 (35:37):
Okay, but let me ask you this to you.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
See when you're talking, it's like when you're in high
school and you're like, I got to second base and
you're like, I don't know what that?

Speaker 3 (35:43):
What bases are we playing on a common field exactly? Anyway,
were you old enough there was a second base?

Speaker 8 (35:52):
See what you do?

Speaker 6 (35:53):
See what you do?

Speaker 8 (35:54):
I know.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
Here's my thing?

Speaker 3 (35:55):
Why will he not finish the sentence about bo because
he keeps he's done in like four five times this
offseason where he goes they want to know you have
a quarterback, and then he goes into another thought. I
don't know if he stops himself, like I want him
to finish the sentence one time. I feel like I've
heard that answer where you've got a quarterback that.

Speaker 6 (36:14):
Can what what finish the thought?

Speaker 4 (36:17):
We all think we know what the end of.

Speaker 6 (36:19):
The thought is, right, But I'm not positive that can.

Speaker 4 (36:23):
Does he not want to?

Speaker 3 (36:24):
Like he walks up to the door and then rings
the doorbell and runs away.

Speaker 6 (36:29):
Just tell me what can win the Super Bowl? Can
be the MVP? Please finish the thought one time?

Speaker 8 (36:35):
I think I think what he loves about Nix is
that he views him as the perfect profile for what
he is trying to do that Sean Payton is. And
I think he takes pride in this that he views
himself as a coach that is less enamored with traits
and and more with what is programmable with his player.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
See that's just it again. He's his perfect quarterback because
he doesn't. We talked about this yesterday. He does not
want Caleb Williams. He probably I would have been It
would have been fascinating had they passed on bon Nicks
and still looking for one this pass draft.

Speaker 6 (37:14):
What would his level of interest have been in this
group of quarterbacks?

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Yeah, because quite honestly, for hearing how bad they all sucked.
They all came out and actually had some pretty decent debuts.

Speaker 6 (37:22):
I don't know if it'll mean anything.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
Jackson dart through a TD should where Sanders look better
than expected. Even Tyler shucked through a pick and then
came back and threw a touchdown. Did so most of
the rookies actually had an alright debut. I would have
been real curious to see if any of these guys
would have fit his profile, and because my gut tells
me they wouldn't have. And it's all the more reason
he was more motivated to make sure he got Nicks.

Speaker 8 (37:46):
Yeah, it was. He was hot to get bon Nicks.
He was like bon Nicks is he excels at exactly
the things that are important to me in my system
and what I want to do.

Speaker 6 (37:54):
Which is don't change my plays. Yeah, and don't don't
you know.

Speaker 3 (37:57):
I'll give you three options, pick one of those, but
don't be don't you know, don't.

Speaker 6 (38:00):
Screw it up.

Speaker 8 (38:01):
Run my beautiful offense perfectly. I know, by the way,
I hate third and long.

Speaker 6 (38:05):
Yeah, well, yes, which.

Speaker 8 (38:07):
Guess what is somebody that has watched the last decade
of Bronco football I also hate third?

Speaker 6 (38:11):
Is that why he didn't run the ball.

Speaker 3 (38:12):
More, did he just not trust his run game because
unfortunately they were in third and long. More because the
run game couldn't pick up a couple of yards and
because of anything like QBS in passing game.

Speaker 8 (38:20):
I don't think you're wrong about that. In the slightest bit,
it's the Craikman and Lindahl Show. We'll take a quick
break when we come back. My goodness, I have got
a college football note for you, Andy. It we are
in a new day and age in college football, amateur
sports no more. I'll explain to what I'm talking about next.

Speaker 9 (38:46):
You've got the Krekman and Lyndahl Podcast. Listen live every
weekday from ten am to noon on Altitude Sports Radio
ninety two to five and on the Altitude Sports Radio app.

Speaker 8 (38:59):
Nate Craig been along with Big Popa himself, Andy Lindahll.
We are with you today until six pm. Cynthia Freeland,
NFL Network and Broncos preseason sideline reporter. She'll join us
coming up at five twenty plus, we go to Saint Louis.
At four twenty Benjamin Hawkman has to explain himself for
the Saint Louis Cardinals, who twice this year, Andy have

(39:22):
lost series to the Rockies.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
That won't make the Cardinal faithful mad at all. You
think you get some hot Broncos talking about coaches and quarterbacks,
go to Saint Louis and talks and baseball.

Speaker 8 (39:34):
Rockies four and two against the Cardinals this year. By
the way, this is now five teams this season. The
Rockies have a winning record against five teams that they
have been able Nationals, the Nationals, the Cardinals, the Cardinals,
the Marlins. Okay, remember they took two to three against Minnesota,
we'll say the Twins, and they took two to three

(39:55):
against the Pirates. Yeh, yeah, so you know, not the
not the toughest slew out there. By the way, the
Rockies owen six against the Dodgers, owen six against the
Mets this season, and uh oh and three against Boston,

(40:15):
owen three against the Cubs, oh and three against Detroit,
oh and three against Texas, own three against Toronto, owen
seven against the Phillies. Yeah. So basically, if the Rockies
play anybody, could they defeat them rather soundly, we should add,
So got rough to be a Cardinals fan today, all right, Andy?

Speaker 6 (40:38):
So they weren't psyched to begin with.

Speaker 8 (40:41):
I don't. I don't think so. It's been a disappointing
season for them. Wild news out of the Big Twelve
conference today? Did you see this?

Speaker 6 (40:51):
Thank you?

Speaker 8 (40:53):
That's right, The Big Big Twill is the Big Twelve,
the Big Twelve. The announced today they will release injury
availability reports for all football conference games this season, as
well as men's and women's basketball. In football, the Buffs

(41:17):
and all other Big Twelve programs will be required to
provide a daily injury report starting three days before the
game and yet one more ninety minutes before kickoff, listing
players as available, probable, questionable, doubtful, or out, depending on

(41:40):
whatever the status may be. That's right. No more playing
it fast and loose with the injuries. No more Kyle
Whittingham pretending that Cam Rising was gonna play every week
or anything else like that. No mystery to it whatsoever.
Dion and every other coach in the Big Twelve is
going to have to put out an injury report this season. Yeah,

(42:01):
uh huh. No more, is Travis gonna play? Willie play?
Won't he play? We're gonna have real injury reports in
college football?

Speaker 6 (42:09):
Why do you do that?

Speaker 8 (42:12):
So so there's this this little business. Uh yeah, it's
it's called sports betting. Yes, this tells you not that
it hasn't always been popular, right, but but thus getting
in bed with the institution.

Speaker 3 (42:26):
As college sports. Uh huh, I guess we need to
let the gamblers know.

Speaker 8 (42:31):
Yep, who is playing and who is and who is not.
So the gamesmanship, the advantage whatever it is that came
from withholding all injury updates that you possibly could, sending
out a player that you knew damn well wasn't gonna
play and put him through warm ups just for a
mind game against the opponent. Uh, that will be no
more in college football. It's now professional sports. Yeah, and

(42:56):
it has been for some time, but they're starting to
act like it in more and more different ways.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
How long before we just see this as what it is?
True minor league football and you don't even have these
athletes required to go to class I've said this for
a while. Why not just create a system, especially with
them getting paid student employees, drop the scholarship. Well, listen,
I mean I'm gonna paint this another way too. This
is why I would have a problem with it. Again,

(43:24):
I've known a few I've known. I've had a few friends,
Mark Schlaret among them, whose kids, like Daniel went to college.
You went to Arizona, started U and LV then went
to Arizona. I would always ask Mark, just, you know,
in your little whatever talk with your friends, has your
kid doing in school? And we'd have these talks, and
one time I remember, he goes Andy. He's just there
for baseball. He's just there for baseball. That's basically what.

Speaker 6 (43:42):
He's there for.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
And frankly, how many other athletes are the exact sent
you were there for the sport that you play that
is your major in college.

Speaker 6 (43:48):
Frankly, there's nothing wrong with it.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
Because guess what, you go to college, you hope to
get a job. And how many of us you and
I a little bit different, but how many friends do
you have that are not working in the actual degree
field that they got Deree in? I was, I know
a million people.

Speaker 8 (44:02):
So and I'll raise my own hand here. Okay, I
went to a big ten school. I went to the
University of Illinois. I was a I was a speech
communication major.

Speaker 4 (44:11):
Yeah, weren't we all?

Speaker 8 (44:12):
Okay, speech calm right here?

Speaker 6 (44:15):
Same?

Speaker 8 (44:16):
All the jocks were in my major. Sure, okay, so
so who am I to talk trash? By the way,
when we talked to Alex paul Chesky last week, he
was like, oh, you know my old old line coach,
Luke but Kiss. You were at Illinois at the same
time as him, and yeah, Luke and I were in
classes together. We did group projects together. Quite frankly, he
was kind of a no at all, but whatever. He

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was fine. Okay, the name Butts exactly he was. He
was a campus celebrity, royalty from the moment that I
literally sat next to him at freshman orientation, and what
I marveled at was like, I gotta look at what
a uh Division one offensive lineman looked like, because as
I was sitting next to him, we were both wearing

(44:58):
shorts in the auditory, and I just couldn't help but notice, like, dude,
my leg is like twenty percent of the width of his. Yeah,
it's a big, dude, large human. So I gotta look
at D one guys. But no, my point here being
is that I was starting some some college football prep
early this morning and I was I was reading some
stuff and they listed the players majors in there, and

(45:22):
it was a school where a bunch of guys were
majoring in American Studies, and it was like all the
dudes were in American Studies except for the freshmen. It
just said freshmen because they didn't have declared majors yet.
I was like, what the hell is American studies? What
is that?

Speaker 6 (45:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (45:37):
Uh huh, And then I googled it and went to
the school's website for it, and they were still building
out the website. So I'm not really.

Speaker 6 (45:42):
Sure sure because it really wasn't. Yeah.

Speaker 8 (45:45):
Yeah, but it's to your point, They're they're not there
to become scientists.

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Well, and so you know what I say, let's just
let's just strip it all down. They're there to try
to be football players. And if they're making an I
OWE money, I would. I would take all the academic
requirements way. If you matter of fact, you don't get
a scholarship, you get your inn IL money.

Speaker 8 (46:03):
I get another to go to school.

Speaker 6 (46:04):
You can pay tuition with your in IL money.

Speaker 8 (46:06):
So I didn't know Daniel Schlera at the front of
the program. I didn't know that he went to UNLV.

Speaker 6 (46:10):
He did. He started at UNLV.

Speaker 8 (46:12):
Okay, do you know the name of the UNLV baseball
team I don't. Okay, So so the basketball team is,
of course the Runing Rebels. The football team is the Rebels.
The women's basketball team is the Lady Rebels. The baseball
team I'm not making this up, Andy, is the hustling Rebels.

(46:34):
Why they hustling I don't know, because because in Vegas
that can mean something different. The hustling Rebels, which I've
never been to a hustling Rebels game, real fast. I
hope they play the every day I'm Hustling song as
they run out there. Yeah, you bet, you better bust
it down to first on a ground out to the
second baseman. You better go.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
We're the hustling Rebels, exactly.

Speaker 8 (46:58):
The coach has an automatic talking point right there, the
hustling Rebels.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Do you want to know one of the reasons why
I left. You probably heard this from me, but that
you know it goes to you and LV it was
it was imperative they not be on the strip at all,
And he said trying to get anywhere in town with
having to drive around the strip was a complete pain
in the ear.

Speaker 8 (47:15):
What's also interesting about it is like, and I've had
a ton of friends that have gone to U and LV,
And there were athletes in U and LV guys that
I've worked with and things like that, and I used
to ask them like, was that tough for you guys,
like unless you played for like Tarks teams in the
early nineties where it was just like you know, wink wink,
nudge nudge. Most of the athletes were just like I

(47:36):
was a college kid. I didn't have any money. Yeah,
there was nothing for me on the strip now in
the NIL days, live it up kids, but yeah, like
typical college kids, they're just like, yeah, we didn't go
to the strip.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Remember, every Buddy CIRCA tried, Everybuddy's at CIRCA tried to
keep the QB at UNLV last year.

Speaker 8 (47:52):
Been in a strip recently. You can't afford anything over.

Speaker 3 (47:55):
There, by the way, top notch text from John But
for hipster Nate, you're yoked. You may not have d
one quality five No, not really no but no, But
I but I could tell you.

Speaker 8 (48:12):
The price of the store brand booze at every liquor
store in town. So I bet you Luke but Kiss
couldn't have done that. Yeah, take that. I think he's
like the old line coach with the packers now or
something like that. Yeah, yeah, he's been he's been around,
he's all over the There's a bunch of dudes that
I went to college with a are NFL assistants. Aaron

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moorehead was was one of them. Yeah, there was a
bunch of those dudes. It's so funny, Like I'll be
watching NFL games on Sunday and just occasionally it'll just
be like, oh, yeah, class with that guy. I know that,
I know that dude. Uh huh. Yeah. Injury reports in
college football and it's a new day. Many report it's

(48:54):
a new day in college football. Yeah, that is the
the day and age that we live in. We'll talk
to who's coming up here? Add four twenty as that's
Benjamin Hawkman. By the way, if anybody doesn't remember, but
Benjamin Hackman, former Denver Post guy, he's gonna have to
explain why the Cardinals lost two out of three games
this week to the Rockies. By the way, Kyle Freeland,
last night, Andy career strikeout number nine hondos?

Speaker 3 (49:17):
Did you also then an interesting fact on the broadcast,
I believe the first time in his career he got.

Speaker 4 (49:23):
An eighth inning out.

Speaker 3 (49:25):
Was it really something to that effect somebody if you
heard it texted in three or three five h four
O nine two five. I believe it was like the
first time in his career. It was either the first
or the second, because I think he had a no
hitter bid.

Speaker 6 (49:37):
But yeah, they.

Speaker 4 (49:38):
Had some wild fact that.

Speaker 8 (49:40):
He just Kyle Frielan has zero career complete games. Yeah,
that's probably right. That's that is very there's a very
good chance that that is correct.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
He did take that no hitter into the ninth a
few years.

Speaker 8 (49:53):
Ago, but no career complete games. Yeah, that's right, because
maybe it was his first. Wait when did he get
replaced this last night? They replaced him in the eighth, right,
it was in the eighth.

Speaker 3 (50:02):
Maybe he was gonna maybe they thought he'd get through
it and maybe.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Seven and a third last night and then Bodnik got
him out of trouble. Oh I know.

Speaker 6 (50:09):
Is that it's crazy that he doesn't have a complete game?

Speaker 8 (50:14):
I mean in his career.

Speaker 3 (50:15):
Is he not one of the better pitchers in Colorado
Rocki's history. He's arguably the best. Arguably Okay there the
second time he got to in his career, he got
to the eighth. That's why I got it out And
in the eighth.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
Thank you, Yeah, Drew said it. I was like, that
can't be right.

Speaker 8 (50:30):
Well, it's wild too because he's never been a huge
strikeout guy, right, so like as as kind of a
semi pitch to contact kind of dude of what he's
been through most of his career. Like usually those guys
can keep pitch counts down.

Speaker 6 (50:48):
Well, I would not have guessed that never no people
are coming in.

Speaker 3 (50:51):
It's the second time in his career other than the
no hitter bid that he got an out.

Speaker 6 (50:55):
In the eighth thing.

Speaker 8 (50:56):
That's wild, that's insane, that is wild. Yeah, nine hundred
careers strikeouts? Now, can you name the two Rockies with
more career strikeouts than Kyle Freeland?

Speaker 6 (51:07):
Aaron Cook?

Speaker 8 (51:10):
No, keep going, tell you what think about it? The break,
getting the hunt, three oh three five? Who are the
two pitchers in Colorado Rockies history with more strikeouts than
Kyle Freeland. We'll have the answer next