August 11, 2025 • 44 mins
Reaction Monday on the Morning Sprint! How much of this was fixable vs how much of this was the Broncos taking the 49ers for granted. Coach and Raj go through who shined and who didn't. Also, Bo Nix got snippy with the media but why? Coach explains why Bo Nix took the subpar performance serious and what it means for the rest of preseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mspearn said, a lot of the starters out there for Denver,
including Nick Bonito, is coming off the edge that is
in the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
No one as Heady put it down.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Head He's finally.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Caught by the former forty nine er Talanoa Hupunga.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The speed of a rookie on display.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Look, there'll be a lot to a lot of film
to cover, not even from just the game, but also
you know, going back to the practice we had the
other day, I thought we started slow.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That was disappointing. Both both first units.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Started slow, but they finished off pretty hot.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
In preseason week number one, a thirty to nine victory
for the Broncos over the San Francisco forty nine ers,
Jared Sidham comes in two touchdown passes nearly perfect fourteen
and fifteen for one hundred and thirty six yards. Yes,
the first team offense outside of R. J. Harvey did
struggle the first series for the defense just because of
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a long gain over the head of Jakwan McMillan didn't
look great. And then well the second time through, the
third time through, the fourth time through with the ones,
the one point fives and the twos on the defense.
But well, they showed you why it's terrifying. And the
main reason why as we walk me into the morning
sprint here on a Monday, is well, the guy who
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wears number fifteen, he's pretty good. Alex Is the Lee
smokes is Nick Benito good?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Three plays in a row, essentially three sacks for all
intents and purposes, Matt Jones was running for his ever
living life sack. And then really, I don't even know
if Nick, as we heard there from the radio broadcast,
bo knee toe Bonito, bo knee to Nick bo knee toe.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Bonita fish big.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know, not sure, but Nick Benito was was
a one man He was a one man wrecking crew.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It was it was, it was outstanding.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I went back and rewatched the first series and Nick
Benito also was a one man wrecking crew. He had
a quarterback hit in that in that series. It's just
the only difference was that Mac Jones was getting the
ball out quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
In that first in that first series.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Jake Kwan McMillan, a little bit of an up and
down performance for the for the nickel that is competing
with rookie Jade Baron ends up giving up a massive
play to rookie Jordan Watkins.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
A fifty yard reception on what was that the third
play of the game or something like that.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You could actually, for a moment there see why mac
Jones appeared to be the answer in New England for
for for at least a it was a year. It
was a year, and then it wasn't. And then you
could see in the second drive why mac Jones is
not the answer because he gets sacked and he makes
bad plays. The the Denver Broncos defense is the real
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deal that is on full display. I was shocked rush
that they played at all, especially the guys like Zach
Allen Nick, Benito patzer Ten, the second Talano who fought
that was the big one.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Right, So I said, no way, green Law, this happened
where Greenlaw gets the day off. And yes, Greenlaw has
been dealing with a you know, I wouldn't call it
an injury, but he hasn't been fully healthy like Hufanga
has at Camp. Right, they were both dealing with injuries
from last year and trying to treat them with kid
gloves during the off season. But Hufanga ever since camp
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started has been full go all the time. Now, Greenlaw
had that little issue where he came up laying on
a one on one drill, missed a couple of days
of practice. He's been touching go. I guess I understand
when Greenlaw got the day off. I was expecting number
nine as well to get the day off and Hufanga nope.
And your starter's played a lot, but the defensive starters
played solid minutes. Now on the offensive side, they left
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a lot to be desired, especially in the past. Bow
underthrows Franklin once he underthrows Sutton in the corner of
the end.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Did have an absolute don't forget about this.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
The throw of the day for Bonix was a seed
to Courtland Sutton on the kind of the fade ball
where he took a little bit of air out of
it Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And this was on the second or third play of
the game.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That was on the.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Fourth, It was early incomplete two. It was on the
left side.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Bonicks threw a dime.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was actually I think he had a completion Detroit
Franklin on a hitch route as like an RPO slot hitch.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I know which one you're talking about, left side.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It was very early.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It was a little pop play feel play. He just
quick faded.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It was a perfect, perfect throw and it was in
the hands of the left shoulder. Yep, it was in
the hands of Courtland Sutton. It was It was thrown
away from a potential safety that could have patted the
ball down. It looked I mean, it looked like a
great throw, an absolutely perfect throw.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was first and ten, third, third offensive play of
the game.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, because you move the sticks on the second offensive
play the game. Yeah, Franklin, a little hitch rout you're throwing.
You're replacing the like the Nickel was playing the run
fit and bow Nicks in shotgun put the ball in
the belly of the I believe it was R. J.
Harvey and uh sees the nickel activated throws a quick
hitch easy money. The nine yard game was it. That
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looks sweet and then you know, I'm like Bow's in rhythm.
It looks pretty good. And then that dropped from it
was a drop from Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Hit him in the hands.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
After that, there really wasn't any good bow.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There was one throw and he had to be helped
because Troy Franklin had to climb.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I thought, I thought that was a terrible You didn't
like it with with a really really good pocket.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That ball sailed on him.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
He looked flat footed, he looked out of rhythm, and
I think bow after that drop from Courtland Sutton, the
remainder of his of his basically two and a half
series did not look good to me.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That was the fourth and five throw after the safety.
Like the offensive series, they get the ball back fourth
and five, they're driving, they stay in the red zone.
Now it ends up stalling. But that was a high
bullet throw. Franklin has to use every piece of six
foot three in his vertical to go get that ball.
So bad throw, but it gets the job done. I
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think that was the last like maybe it's not good,
but it's funny. I want to use this word. It
was positive.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yep, it was a positive play.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It was I think the biggest development of that play
was Troy Franklin catching a ball that he shouldn't catch,
or that he hasn't catched. He hasn't caught historically as
a Denver Bronco seems like a lot of those balls are.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Barely missed. It ah just off the figure.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
In terms of the first team offense, it spot Man
Franklin was a bright spot.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Harvey was a bright spot. Ish dude. I don't know
about Ish. I know people are looking at the box score.
Oh well, he never really broke something open. He didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The eleven yard run he had was was a great run.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Three and a half yards isn't anything to write home
about it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It was the day itself looked like you could put
Javonte Williams from.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The last season.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I completely dis can I finish my.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Stag course for you, you know, decapitate me. They rush
It was Javanta Williams. But what you never saw from
Javontay Williams at all in the last two seasons.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Was the burst to get to the edge, the explosives.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, so you and I are going to say something
very similar. Yes, the difference between r J and Dravante right,
like you didn't have the wow play, like the gash
play that you got from like Blake Watson, you didn't
have the wow play from r J.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That was, like, Watson look kind of sweet that he did. Tyler,
those two Tyler Day touches the ball, I'm like, I
love him.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
He's good.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Those two guys look fast and explosive.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And I know it was against third stringers, so.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We're gonna say something very similar here. Harvey felt, I
guess underwhelming to say people because there wasn't the big
gash play. He had seven carries. I counted four, if
not five times that he was either contacted behind the
line of scrimmage or should have been contacted behind the
line of scrimmage. And it is because of the burst
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to get to the outside right the offense in terms
of their outside zone run game. When they got to
the edge, you found positive yards. But Day did Harvey did.
If if Dravonte Williams is total in that rock, it's
seven carries for twelve yards, not twenty five.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Like I was very I that eleven yard gain, that
eleven yard gains gone.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I was really impressed with his ability to make the
first guy miss when it should have been either no
gain or tackle for loss.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Here's my my summary of RJ.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Harvey in his first snaps as an NFL player on
an NFL field in a quote unquote game, he belongs.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yes, where I'm not quite yet with r J. Hard
he is.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He's special and as a second rounder when you're taking
running back, you you're not expecting special, but it's still
a pretty marquy pick.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Did you see not to be the the you know,
hypothetical or looking in the rear view mirror, did you
happen to see Traveon Henderson? See what he did.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
First time he touched the ball?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Was it ninety three yard touchdown on a kickoff return?
And then he looked like the real deal after that?
And you know, I'll be perfectly honest. The guy that
I was in love with out of Ohio State was
Quinn Shawn Jutkins, who is not playing for the Cleveland
Browns because he's still dealing with a potential case that
he got off field distractions, things that are going on
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in his personal life. Traveon Henderson, it's just one preseason
game rush, but he appears to be the class of
this running back group that came out in twenty five
so far aashing genty three carries what negative.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Negative one yard? I was giving you crap about that
on Friday. I had to other players that I saw
in this Broncos game that stood out to me. You know,
how's this players that go you belong? Is there another?
Is there one on the offensive side that you see
outside of our j Harvey.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You belong?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant, yep, yeap wrong that little seven
yard out route that Troy Franklin.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I would argue that we've kind of we're kind of
almost in his rookie year part two right now, because
because the rookie year was uneven, there were plays that
you say, oh my gosh, he has to make that play.
And then he made a player too that you said,
that's an NFL player. Jerry's still out, so to Trey,
Troy flank Troy Franklin, Yes, Pat Bryant, Yes, he looks
like he belongs.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You belong, You belong. Defensively, John A. Barron, you belong.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, dude, I know it's one preseason game and he'll
and what like two or three tackles or something from him.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Did you notice when he hit people the people like crumbled, brother,
it ain't you belong. It's special.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You're a dude.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You're a dude.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
He is a contact defensive back that first tackle that
he has the right side out route on second and
ten that he holds it was no leaky yards man.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, but is Sean Pate stopped?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So is John A.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Baron the Drake greenlaw of defensive backs where he hits
people and they fall to the ground like a sack
of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Second and ten, right after the will Nuts forty two
yard field goal. Baron, I don't know who the receiver
was for San Francisco stuffs the dude after four and
a half yards belongs. He is a first round draft
pick and he showed it.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How long until he takes over that job?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean McMillan had a McMillan was up and down
like he had a pick.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Was awesome? It was great.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Did the pick not remind you of the the Jamis
Winston game pick for Jamis Winston prayed away those pick sixes?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So much more to get into about this game. Let's
get into it. Jaquan McMillan versus John A.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Baron?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Are the arrows both up? Is McMillan's down? Is Baron
ready to take that spot from McMillan. We'll get into
it on the other side. So much more to break down.
Coach was I wouldn't say on the call, but on
the broadcast for nine News, you did great. You had
a cheering session, all the all the valor homies. It
awesome to watch on social media.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
If you guys didn't seen it, the nasty beard with
a suit, it's a weird look.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Coach, you look great. You sounded great. We'll continue to
get more of your analysis from week one of the
preseason Broncos and forty nine Ers. It's altitude ninety two
to five.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
It's been a grind, but to be here and just
understand that that guys, he's gonna give me to the
other side. He's always gonna get you to the other side.
You're gonna go through adversity, You're gonna go through through
certain storms. He told his disciples on a boat, like
you're gonna get to the other side. Before they got
on the boat and they were going through the storm,
and and and they were trying to wake them up,
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and they didn't understand, like like like what's going on,
what's going on? But he told them like, you're gonna
get to the side. You walk by faith, not by sight.
So just understanding just the process, like I'm gonna go
through a lot of things that that's gonna challenge me,
that's gonna push me. It's gonna test my faith, uh
and test my commitment. But if I could just stay
strong and stay true to who I am, it'd be good.
But this organization and these guys in the room, in
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the locker room, they keep pushing me.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I try to carry myself obviously like a vet even
though I'm not yet, to try to carry myself in
such a way and knowingly that I'm gonna go through
certain things and to be able to adjust through certain
circumstances and situations.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Who needs Jameis Winston anyways? You got ja baron Rev
Rev YadA.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That Reverend can hit now too.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
As terrible as the first as terrible as the first
team offense was in terms of its passing game, again,
I liked what I saw out of RJ.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Harvey.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I liked what I saw out of the young receivers
in Franklin and in Pat Bryant. The passing game, especially
from both not great. I suppose the protection wasn't great,
and I want to get into it. We'll get into
this in a couple of minutes because I do want
to continue to talk about jah Day versus McMillan for
a couple of seconds, So.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
You should probably stay tuned if you want to go
to the board. We're gonna go to the board, to
the board, and we're going to.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Don't peak too soon.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
In just a few minutes, we're gonna go through the
third and six.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I just want a kJ to be prepared to go
to the board.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
From the Denver nine that results in a safety, because well,
if we're gonna rip intact Richardson, I think it was
third and six or five from the nine?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Is this Denver fourteen? Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
From the Denver nine?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Okay, then I might have the wrong clip.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I believe it's third and six from the Denver nine,
Denver or nine, third and six from the Denver fourteen
from the fourteen? All right, broke, We're gonna go through
the safety, right because if we're gonna rip into Anthony
Richardson for not being able to pick up a blitz
in the preseason, we have to do so with bone nicks.
Now back to the secondary and Johd A. Baron and
Jakwan McMillan McMillan's pick and the rest of his play
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is it enough to balance out getting torched for fifty
on this third play of the game. Jaquan McMillan is
a really valuable member of this football team. But you
drafted ja Day barn Is the first pick of your
draft in the twenty five NFL draft, and he's at
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a solid camp. Nothing that's like Ben like that. That's
what we kept talking about. We want to see him
play live football because I think some of the rugged
nature of who he is as a player wasn't able
to be on full display in a training camp, tag
off environment. You saw that this guy belongs and he
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is physical, and he gives a different le physicality than
Jayquan McMillan. The fifty yard passed that Jaquan McMillan gave
up to Jordan Watkins, the rookie. I forgot where he's from.
Maybe Old miss sounds right, Is that right? You should
know you're Mississippi guys back there.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, he from Old Mish, Mississippi, by way of Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Okay, Louisville. Yeah, he actually grew up in Louisville. Louisville.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
That was a great cover. That was a great cover
rep from Jaquan McMillan. If you remember it. It was
not wide open.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, he's kind of blanketed. He just never turned and
got his hands up.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It was a great throw by Mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It was a great catch by Jordan Watkins, and frankly, yeah,
he didn't play the ball great, but the coverage piece
of it was sticky, sticky coverage. I believe that preseason
Game two will give the opening for Jade Baron to
run with the first unit.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But I don't even know do you even play the
first unit defensively? I think you saw probably what you
need to see. I bet Sean.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
The overall feeling from in the postgame press conference was
a frustration, disappointment with how they first units started on
both sides of the ball, but other like, unlike the
first string offensive unit, that first string defensive unit, once
they got settled in there, they looked to be who
we know they are.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
There was one plate that the touchdown.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I hated the touchdown they gave up got to the
outside twelve.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No nobody set the edge. I didn't like.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I love rathery it was, but it felt like an
eight nine twelve yard run because it was started downhill
and it bounced out far around the left edge, and
that's one where you know, frankly, that's got to be
boxed in there by Riley Moss jumping outside to force
it back inside, and then that plays like a one
two yard run that was not discipline wise.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
They didn't love that snap.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I think the Denver Broncos have themselves a very special nickel.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I think he's gonna be a.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
There's gonna be an upgrade over ja Qui McMillan. I
think that's gonna happened really quickly. But I think ja
quand McMillan where his value comes in is you're going
to play teams that have three or four dynamic wide
receivers and you're gonna play dime personnel. When we play dime,
it's because there is only maybe a tight end on
the field. But if it's an Evan Ingram type who oh,
by the way, I didn't even realize Evan Ingram played
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in this game until I went back and rewatched the
entire game.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Do you guys see like turns he turned like double
digit snaps?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, but one target, I mean it was quiet. It's
a quiet Evan Ingram Day, which is okay, fun, not
big deal. Ball doesn't always find you, especially in short
yeah three a three drive appearance.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's not a he's not a volume shooter.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
No, Yeah, John A Barn special and I could just
tell and covered snaps that he had. I went back
and watched it on the NFL Pro app or NFL Plus,
whichever one shows the preseason. They got they got some
special and John Ay Barron. He is definitely an upgrade
over ja Quon McMillan. But you have the luxury of
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ja Kwon McMillan for another year, you're gonna ultimately he's
gonna go get paid somewhere else because he has good
enough film.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He's got great ball skills. Like it's very very clear
that when he gets his head turned around and plays
the ball, something special can happen.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
He is an interception machine man.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
If that interception is made eighteen inches closer to the
middle of the field rather than the sideline, he may
bring that back for six. Like when he turns around
he plays the ball, he's good. So I don't think
it was an arrow down day for McMillan. I thought
it was an arrow honestly, I thought it was a
slightly up arrow for him, but the fact that he
has a first round draft pick that plays you know, yes,
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he plays the same position, but they're gonna use Jah
Day in the in the nickel far more this year.
Maybe it's a little bit of a hot seat thing
for him. Maybe it's a little bit of all right,
this whole season is going to be my audition to
make fifteen million somewhere, sixteen million somewhere as a cornerback two,
or maybe on a really bad team, bad defense, a
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cornerback one at a bargain bin price. Okay, moving on
from them, we have to talk about the worst decision,
maybe the worst pickup of the day, and that was
you're in the shadow of your own goalpost and bo
Nix turns around, he missues Troy Franklin, Robert Salas sends six,
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and it turns into a safety coach, let's go.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
To the board. Well, let's do so well.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I think Robert sala and Kyle Shanahan, we're sick and
tired of the national narrative about top four or top
five quarterback in the National Football League. According to Sean Peyton,
also probably sick of hearing about the Denver Broncos being
super Bowl bound according to Sean Payton and his belief
in this team, which is good.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I want that, Okay, I want.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That super Bowl bound in thinking a team has enough
to win the Super Bowl or very.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Different correct, correct either way, Robert said, game plan for
Sean Payton and bow Knicks just to put that fully
out there into the universe. That is a gentleman's agreement
that oftentimes preseason games our base offense versus your base defense.
The pressure that bo Nicks ended up getting the safety
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called on him for intentional grounding was a very very
good disguise, very exotic pressure. So to bow Knicks's left
left of center, this is the this is the look
I've been telling you about which Josh Allen, excuse me,
Zach Allen.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Zach Allen.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Oftentimes they'll put three defensive linemen to the left sides
or right side, and they will isolate Zach Allen away
from that three receiver or three defensive line overload.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
So if you look at this as this clip, defensive
lineman one, two and three all to the left.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Luke Wattenberg ultimately has to make a decision of how
he wants to protect this right So Luke wattonb sees
the linebacker then come up and walk up into the
open gap that's created on the right hand side.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So this is what is typically called a five to ozho.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
A five oh is the offensive line puts up five fingers.
So if you ever see this when you're watching football,
you can see sometimes the quarterback will go up and
give them five fingers. A five oh means that there
are five blitz threats at the line of scrimmage that
are immediate blitz threats. Okay, So the offensive line will
take it from center, will go fan out with the
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left guard and the left tackle for those three d
linemen that are over shifted on the left hand side.
Your right guard, okay in this case is your right
guard Quinn Minors is going to take the walk up
linebacker number forty, and your right tackle, Mike McGlinchey takes
the singled up defensive end. That's kind of that Zach
Allen guy. So then really, your responsible tailback's got to
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look to any of those five guys. They're all accounted for,
but I gotta take whatever else backer or nickel shows
up in this picture, and we call that the island
is the five D lineman, and ultimately everything outside of
the island belongs to the tailback. Well end up walking
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up nickel back number twenty six to the left side,
and they also walk up a safety to the boundary
of the side where the will linebacker also walked up.
They bring both guys, so that means that they're technically
both on Jaquan McMillan.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
McMillan has both Excuse me, this was JK. Dobbins. I
believe JK.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Dobbins is the running back, not Jai Kwan McMillon. He's
on my mind, that is who their tailback is.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Respecting you want to handle Robert Solla, You're not doing enough.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
JK.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Dobbins ends up going stepping to the linebacker or safety
that's on the right hand side, thus freeing the nickel
number twenty six Chase Lucas, who's a reserve player, not
a starter. They ran this pressure to perfection. Now, bo
Nicks didn't prepare, and I heard his postgame press conference.
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He talked a lot about the thing about preseason games.
We can have some of his soundbites here. Preseason games,
you don't go in as a quarterback with a set
protection plan. You don't go in with a set game plan.
You look at general looks that are typically air quote
looks for rookies and young players to just get their
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feet wet on both sides of the ball, their base looks,
and you use your general rules. This is the type
of blitz that Robert Salla said, You know who one
of my best friends in the coaching industry is. It's
Nathaniel Hackett. Screw you, Denver, I hate you, you stink
and I can't stand you. This was a This was
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a tribute to Nathaniel Hackett from Robert Sala.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What should bo Nicks have done here?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Because there really wasn't a a bas answer in his
protection plan.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We're talking about how's this when when the protection is broken,
like you have already taken your three step drop and
you can either feel or hear the nickel corner blitzing
from your your weak side, right from the left side
of Bo Nicks on a third long sit.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Very similar to the free runner that came with the
Indianapolis Colts and Anthony Richardson. Would he end up like
dislocated of dislocated a finger finger now he took the hit,
never saw the guy coming.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
We're talking about a quarter to a half of a
second of reaction time for this quarterback. So what I
would have liked to have seen him do is throw
that ball through the middle to Detroy Franklin.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
And that's where Bo should have known that he needs
to replace a blitzer with the football, because the blitzer
was coming to Troy Franklin's side. The free runner therefore
that he is not a cover player. The short crossing round,
the short crossers, a shallow cross shallow crossers. They're taught
in football when you're running that two to four yard
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shallow crosser. When you see it's called the flush principle.
When you see backers or nickels flushing down the toilet,
then you got to give your eyes to the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
It's the flush principal. And Troy did it. Troy looked
back for the football and there is nobody.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh yeah, there's twenty twenty five yards of space for
him to catch and take up all the field. Now,
because it's preseason, and again I do want to take
preseason with a grain of salt. Right, Yes, the offensive
has been struggling against the number one defense during camp.
They struggled on Saturday against the Niners. But it is preseason.
And the reason why I say this is did Bo
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make a business decision there? Because if he stays in
and throws that ball to Franklin, he's getting lit up.
It's a quarter a half second. I don't think he
gets lit up.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I don't think Bo saw the nickel the one who
came Scott free twenty six Lucas?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Was it Chase Lucas?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So he said Chase Lucas.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
When when he I don't think he saw him coming
Scott Scott free. I think he was.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Actually in his vision reading the concept down the field.
But Bo had good enough pocket awareness, so, like you said,
feel and over here that nickel coming free. Had he
diagnosed it better and known that Chase Lucas was part
of the pressure package, he would have known to replace
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that blitzer with the ball and he would have gotten hit.
But it's one of those I always say at the
quarterback position, it's one of those where you retreat with
dignity and you get hit as you're essentially backpedaling. Think
Patrick Mahomes lives this life right. Everybody tries to blitz him.
He throws the ball off his back foot they hit him,
but he kind of just takes like an extra five
six step backwards and you just those don't hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Those don't hurt, like a like the blind blindside shot
that Anthony Richardson took. What I I Bow was caught.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
He was caught basically not seeing the nickel, and his
escape plan was he did the best he could, which
was to try to spin out of it. And even
Bow and his postgame presser mentioned that he just wasn't
cognizant enough with where the line of scrimmage was because
if that ball had gotten past the line of scrimmage,
he would have been okay because there was a receiver
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that could have been deemed in the general area. The
problem was that ball was what four yard shive of
the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I don't think it was anywhere close.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah he was. It was short of a line of scrimmage.
I mean it was a it was a desperation throwaway.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The ball went out at the eight and the line
of scrimmage was the fourteen.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Didn't you feel like I felt like there was a
snap where I think it was Nick Benito in one
of his four pressures where the same thing kind of happened.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It was the Yeah, it was the third of the
three pressures. He had the quarterback, or he had the
sack on first and ten six yard sack. He had
a back to back sack with him and jon Fan.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Frank I think the statisticians gave it to Franklin Myers,
but that.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Was it was a Banino sack. Yet he had first
contact and had his hand on the quarterback. It's a
Banito sack. The second effort was the sack too.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It is insane. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So the third play in that three plays where it
goes first and ten, second and sixteen, third and eighteen,
Benito gets his hands again on uh, who's the quarterback?
Mac Jones gets his hands on Jones, and Jones throws
it away there. I thought that probably could have been
intentional grounding too, but I guess he was out of
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the pocket. I guess he was.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
It was kind of the same thing, and I, you know,
both of them should have been intentional grounding. I heard
a lot of people saying that the bon nixt one
wasn't because he got out of the pocket. Actually, I
think Ryan Harris on the call said that that should
not have been intentional grounding. He was in between the
hashes when he threw it, because retreating he's between the hashes,
that's between the tackle box.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
The NFL hashes are so dang narrow.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Fact, like the tackle box sometimes goes outside of if
you have fairly wide splits to you know, two sometimes three,
maybe even four foot splits, then you are outside of
that of that hashmark to hashmark area. And the fact
that the ball didn't didn't travel pass the line of
scrimmage and it really was no receiver within five yards
certainly behind the line of scrips. I think the one
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that was a mac Jones who threw it, that was
that was short of the line of the one that should.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Have been a I thought it was, Yeah, it was
mac Jones mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
That one at least appeared there was a there was
a receiver within about seven yards. But still like, if
the ball doesn't travel to the line of scrimmage, that
should be grounding.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
So I think both of them should have been a grounding,
all right.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Typically at ten forty five on Mondays, we are joined
by Rapids head coach Chris Armis. We're going to push
that to eleven thirty. They're in team meetings right now,
so off the hold off. So if you're looking for
the Chris Armis show, just wait up until eleven thirty
this morning and we'll talk with the Rapids head coach.
Final things here, Give me the quick cliff notes on
the bow Knicks safety. Give me three points what needed
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to be better?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Replace the blitzer with the football. See see that JK.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Dobbins needs to recognize that Quinn Miners had picked up
somebody and get back and travel to the nickel. Two
three bow Nicks needs to throw that ball out of bounds,
pass the line of scrimmage if possible.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's a tough play to make though.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Good things to learn in preseason week number one. That's
coach Mike Sanford. Alex Ryan Emy. This is the morning
sprint on altitude.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, it's it's a different evaluation, but I still evaluate
pretty tough.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Obviously there's some things you can't quite control for a
preseason game. A lot you don't really know going into it.
But you know, my favorite part with the preseason is
just reacting to what you get. Sometimes in the game
you got to react because it's not something you prepare for.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So that's really how you can treat.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
A preseason is just get out there and see things,
react how you would on a play, and just you know,
take the ball where you're eyes lead you, and you know,
like I said, it's not always gonna be planned, and
you know you're not always gonna be prepared for a look.
So that's sometimes what preseason gives you a lot of hah.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Does that sound like what I talked about during the
break their raj.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You made it seem like Bo Nicks was a little
bit snippier in his postgame presser, And honestly, like a
minute after that, Bo gave and bow never does this.
Bo gave three answers that totaled five seconds yes in
response after that, and that was when what happened on
the play that led to the safety. Bo just goes,
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I didn't get the ball pass the line of scrimmage.
End of answer.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
And that reminds me of Bo's interception against the Steelers.
I was in that postgame presser Adam Powerfield last year
and Bo gave almost the identical answer, and he looked
and he kind of looked at him like hmm, like
I'm I'm not gonna give you a SoundBite that makes
me seem like a jerk, but I'm gonna give you
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the eyes that me then let you know that you're
being You're like, I'm not okay.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Like the very next question after that was, well, bod,
you asked for a third series, and he goes, no,
I did what I was told. That was a one
and a half second answer. He was like, listen, I'm
I'm cool. I'm pissed with how I played. I'm pissed
without the first first team played. But and this is
going back to a point that you made about you know,
ten fifteen minutes ago, did they get like caught with
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their pants down against San Francisco throwing blitzes like that?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Is that a bad thing? Is that something to panic about?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
No, there's a there's a wink wink gentlemen's agreement in
preseason football that you don't you don't bring kitchen sink pressures.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And it's not necessarily because you're trying to uh give
a benefit to the opponent. It's because, well, if you
bring those pressures, you are putting out on tape pressures
that you may utilize during the season. Correct, That's that's
kind of the gentleman's agreement, am I right?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That is gentlemen's agreement.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
But I think there's no love lost whatsoever between the
current staff of the forty nine ers and the Denver
Broncos and Bonnicks, right, and Robert Sala is the guy.
If you remember two years ago the first time that
Robert sala came to town to avenge the death of
his old friend Nathanuel Jakins game, Yeah, the Zach Wilson game.
Do you remember that one? Remember that game at all?
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Kind of it's kind of gross, but I mean he
had some pressures for old Shawney Shane and he wanted
to get.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Some hits on all riss.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I remember that one very very distinctly. And that's the
thing like Robert Sala he's a really good defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
It was the Breecee Hall game.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Let's be very olnes. It was what was the final
score of that game, thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
In Week five, the Broncos fell to one in four
Russ went twenty of thirty one for two touchdowns. Your
top runner was Jalia McLoughlin nine carries sixty eight yards.
Zach Wilson on the opposite side, the Blue and Orange
had one hundred and ninety nine yards, no touchdowns and
a pick. But Breeze Hall twenty two carries one hundred
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and seventy seven yards in a score, including a seventy
two yard gash.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Remember that I was at a game as a fan
a spectator.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I was at that game too. I was burn I
remember that game being incredibly hot. If you were sitting
in the East sands. I was sitting in the East ends,
like upper deck and burning my face off.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
So I think Bo wanted to make very clear to
the media here in Denver, and he's right, Okay, He's
right his I went back and watched the press conference
last night just I wanted to hear the whole tone
of Bo.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
It was a good tone.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
It was a resolute tone. It wasn't a panicked tone.
I'm not worried at all.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I'm not not worried at one bit about bow Nicks.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I think there was some there was some breaking of
the code by Robert Sola and they probably expected a
little bit of that. But when you have a guy
that's in I think Robert Sala is one of five
defensive coordinators in the National Football League that I put
into the mad scientist category. They just cook up like
it's like it's a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico that
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is run by a chemistry teacher at a high school.
They cook up some nasty pressures and that's.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What Robert Sala did.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
So you can't really prepare for which one of the
catalog Robert Saala is going to bring in a dad
gum preseason game, and he brought it, and Boonix made
it very clear that those are things in the in
the regular season. I'm ready for that. That's something that
I'm prepared for because you spend hours on the film
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and the answer and then hours walking through what the
protection check would be, and the quarterback makes that protection check.
And he talked about it in his postgame presser. It
was all about just singing it and reacting and playing
simple football. Am I worried about bo No, But the
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combination of a training camp you and I've been at
every single day that's been available to the public into
the media.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Where it hasn't looked.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Like your quarterback has ever gotten comfortable because you're playing
against the best.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Defense this side of shoot. I don't know this side
of maybe who else would be in that conversation Philly. Philly,
for sure, Philly, but they lost a lot. They did it.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I mean the championship tax Houston.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
They feel like they have the ability to be a
little bit more their secondary terrifying. Yeah, Pittsburgh's always you know,
when they're right, They're always right, you know, pretty right there.
What I would tell you about all of that is
to say that bo Nix himself and this most importantly,
this whole starting unit, that that performance against the forty
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nine ers, combined with not a great training camp off
defensively because you never got in rhythm because your defense
is that good.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
You gotta have a.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Good preseason performance against Arizona, and you know what, I
think it's gonna work out just fine.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Is it enough that you had positive you had positive
feedback coming off of the first It's amazing that I'm
splitting hairs. This this fine, this early. You had positive
feedback in the first half of the joint practice with
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
That's good stuff and that's what that's not predicted to
have happened.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Is it enough that coming up on Thursday? Right, the
Broncos have an off day today, They'll be back in
camp Tuesday. Wednesday. We'll be out there tomorrow and on Wednesday,
and then Thursday the Cardinals come for a joint practice, right,
and then you have your your next preseason game here
at home against the Cards. Would it be enough if
you dominate Arizona in the joint practice from an offensive perspective,
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one on ones, and then maybe a similar thing happens
in the preseason game. Would you be like, Eh, it's okay,
we saw it during practice. It doesn't really matter during
the game, or do you have to have a good
performance in week two?
Speaker 5 (39:05):
My feel and my feelers that are out there would
tell me that I think Bo himself has been given
some there's some stake in it for him as it
relates to decision making for playing in preseason games. And
I believe Bo is gonna want to in a game
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to get the feel backed because games are very different.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I wonder if they get a first half it's at home.
I wonder if they get the first full half.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
I think that you you say that you're playing probably
three or four series, and if you just have that
one series where you it's just clockwork, see Yanks, guys,
then we're good.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
We'll see a Week one and you know what you know.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I'm gonna tell you, Broncos Country, you're gonna get that
preseason Game two is gonna be bo Knicks offensive unit.
And guess who's guess what Sean Payton's gonna do for
this pres loosing.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Game game plan? Yebo, yep, because he did it last year.
He did it last year.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Going back to the game planning comments and what you
gathered from Bow's response about well, we can only react
to what we see. We don't game plan for those
types of looks in the preseason again, namely talking about
the safety that happened on the Broncos fourteen where he
throws it out of.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
The couple of the other pressure looks too. I mean,
a lot of people are saying the old line looks
looks terrible.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I'm like, you guys are idiots.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
This is a top five offensive line returning from all
metrics both number one in past protection and in top
five and run blocking by PFF. This is not a
bad unit. They just didn't prepare for Robert sla avenging
the mistreatment of his little bestie that likes to you know,
dance at practice and have basketball hoops in his team meetings.
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Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Is there something to be said for you haven't earned
that yet? Who Bo, You haven't earned that respect, You
haven't earned the I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bring
heavy pressures every time against your number one offense because
it's the preseason. We just go base offense based defense. Now,
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if he's Aaron Rodgers, if he's Matthew Stafford, if he's
Patrick Mahomes, and he has the same response like, hey,
we don't do that in preseason. And again I'm very
much paraphrasing based off of the feel that that you
got from the from the postgame presser a year ago.
Today he was third on the depth chart. Have you
earned that yet? I don't think you ever earn it.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
If you're playing in a preseason game, there is a
possibility that any and everything could happen. And that's why
a lot of people don't play their starting quarterbacks in
preseason games because of this very thing. What if bo
Nick's on that on that incredible kitchen sink bullets that
roberts Allah drew up in the dirt and installed right
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in time to get Denver in a backed up situation
inside of their own fifteen yard line.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
What if that would have been a true blindside hit.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
What if that nickelback that came fresh Scott Free off
the edge. My guy's name was Chase Lucas. Chase Lucas.
I think that was Chase Lucas. What if Chase Lucas
had had gone low on the tackle. That's what franchises
have to think about with regards to the decisions to
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play your starting quarterback in preseason games, Like, for example,
like Patrick Mahomes. You mean to tell me that like
a team playing against Patrick Mahomes. Granted it would be
an NFC team, right, These are always cross the vision
because you don't want to see a team that you're
going to play in the playoffs until potentially the Super Bowl.
That's why Patrick Mahomes like rarely plays in preseason games.
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If anything, it balls out of his hands. So I
don't know what the right Anne serious like. That's the
hard part is like I as a coach, I want
my quarterback to be in rhythm. I want my quarterback
to be at the height of his confidence when the
season starts. I do think that for BONICKX and Sean
Payton that requires playing against Cardinals. The Cardinals I don't
think there's going to be incredibly bad blood between the
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Cardinals organization and Sean Payton, Like was my guy Gannon
is the is the head coach there?
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Uh for the Cardinals? Is it Robert Gannon? Jonathan Gannon?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
That sounds correct.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Yes, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
He and Sean Payton have a long history of beef
like Robert Salad does with Sean Payton.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Maybe vance Joseph to say about Arizona.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Maybe he's the Robert Salon the equation this weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
But does he need to just all out? Did you
see a rush eight? Did you see Kyler mur Did
you guys see Kyler Murray's interception that he threw? No idea.
It was arguably the.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Worst decision I've ever seen in my entire life of
watching any NFL game.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
You like, threw it directly to a defender.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
It was a callege double points weekend, So I get it.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
It looks it's what it looked like.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
I think he just he was confusing call of duty
from actual football. He was looking at an enemy and
used the football as his weapon to pier some straight
in the chick.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
He's launching a grenade just cooking one. Hey, I was
really accurate on that on that shot.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Confirmed kill. It was a confirmed kill.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Mspearn said, a lot of the starters out there for Denver,
including Nick Bonito, is coming off the edge that is
in the air.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
No one as Heady put it down.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
Head He's finally.
Speaker 5 (00:24):
Caught by the former forty nine er Talanoa Hupunga.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
The speed of a rookie on display.
Speaker 5 (00:30):
Look, there'll be a lot to a lot of film
to cover, not even from just the game, but also
you know, going back to the practice we had the
other day, I thought we started slow.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
That was disappointing. Both both first units.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Started slow, but they finished off pretty hot.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
There.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
In preseason week number one, a thirty to nine victory
for the Broncos over the San Francisco forty nine ers,
Jared Sidham comes in two touchdown passes nearly perfect fourteen
and fifteen for one hundred and thirty six yards. Yes,
the first team offense outside of R. J. Harvey did
struggle the first series for the defense just because of
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a long gain over the head of Jakwan McMillan didn't
look great. And then well the second time through, the
third time through, the fourth time through with the ones,
the one point fives and the twos on the defense.
But well, they showed you why it's terrifying. And the
main reason why as we walk me into the morning
sprint here on a Monday, is well, the guy who
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wears number fifteen, he's pretty good. Alex Is the Lee
smokes is Nick Benito good?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
Three plays in a row, essentially three sacks for all
intents and purposes, Matt Jones was running for his ever
living life sack. And then really, I don't even know
if Nick, as we heard there from the radio broadcast,
bo knee toe Bonito, bo knee to Nick bo knee toe.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Bonita fish big.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
I don't know, not sure, but Nick Benito was was
a one man He was a one man wrecking crew.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It was it was, it was outstanding.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
I went back and rewatched the first series and Nick
Benito also was a one man wrecking crew. He had
a quarterback hit in that in that series. It's just
the only difference was that Mac Jones was getting the
ball out quickly.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
In that first in that first series.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
Jake Kwan McMillan, a little bit of an up and
down performance for the for the nickel that is competing
with rookie Jade Baron ends up giving up a massive
play to rookie Jordan Watkins.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
A fifty yard reception on what was that the third
play of the game or something like that.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You could actually, for a moment there see why mac
Jones appeared to be the answer in New England for
for for at least a it was a year. It
was a year, and then it wasn't. And then you
could see in the second drive why mac Jones is
not the answer because he gets sacked and he makes
bad plays. The the Denver Broncos defense is the real
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deal that is on full display. I was shocked rush
that they played at all, especially the guys like Zach
Allen Nick, Benito patzer Ten, the second Talano who fought
that was the big one.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Right, So I said, no way, green Law, this happened
where Greenlaw gets the day off. And yes, Greenlaw has
been dealing with a you know, I wouldn't call it
an injury, but he hasn't been fully healthy like Hufanga
has at Camp. Right, they were both dealing with injuries
from last year and trying to treat them with kid
gloves during the off season. But Hufanga ever since camp
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started has been full go all the time. Now, Greenlaw
had that little issue where he came up laying on
a one on one drill, missed a couple of days
of practice. He's been touching go. I guess I understand
when Greenlaw got the day off. I was expecting number
nine as well to get the day off and Hufanga nope.
And your starter's played a lot, but the defensive starters
played solid minutes. Now on the offensive side, they left
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a lot to be desired, especially in the past. Bow
underthrows Franklin once he underthrows Sutton in the corner of
the end.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
Did have an absolute don't forget about this.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
The throw of the day for Bonix was a seed
to Courtland Sutton on the kind of the fade ball
where he took a little bit of air out of
it Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
And this was on the second or third play of
the game.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That was on the.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Fourth, It was early incomplete two. It was on the
left side.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Bonicks threw a dime.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
It was actually I think he had a completion Detroit
Franklin on a hitch route as like an RPO slot hitch.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
I know which one you're talking about, left side.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It was very early.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
It was a little pop play feel play. He just
quick faded.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
It was a perfect, perfect throw and it was in
the hands of the left shoulder. Yep, it was in
the hands of Courtland Sutton. It was It was thrown
away from a potential safety that could have patted the
ball down. It looked I mean, it looked like a
great throw, an absolutely perfect throw.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
It was first and ten, third, third offensive play of
the game.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Yeah, because you move the sticks on the second offensive
play the game. Yeah, Franklin, a little hitch rout you're throwing.
You're replacing the like the Nickel was playing the run
fit and bow Nicks in shotgun put the ball in
the belly of the I believe it was R. J.
Harvey and uh sees the nickel activated throws a quick
hitch easy money. The nine yard game was it. That
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looks sweet and then you know, I'm like Bow's in rhythm.
It looks pretty good. And then that dropped from it
was a drop from Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Hit him in the hands.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
After that, there really wasn't any good bow.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
There was one throw and he had to be helped
because Troy Franklin had to climb.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
I thought, I thought that was a terrible You didn't
like it with with a really really good pocket.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That ball sailed on him.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
He looked flat footed, he looked out of rhythm, and
I think bow after that drop from Courtland Sutton, the
remainder of his of his basically two and a half
series did not look good to me.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
That was the fourth and five throw after the safety.
Like the offensive series, they get the ball back fourth
and five, they're driving, they stay in the red zone.
Now it ends up stalling. But that was a high
bullet throw. Franklin has to use every piece of six
foot three in his vertical to go get that ball.
So bad throw, but it gets the job done. I
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think that was the last like maybe it's not good,
but it's funny. I want to use this word. It
was positive.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Yep, it was a positive play.
Speaker 5 (06:29):
It was I think the biggest development of that play
was Troy Franklin catching a ball that he shouldn't catch,
or that he hasn't catched. He hasn't caught historically as
a Denver Bronco seems like a lot of those balls are.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Barely missed. It ah just off the figure.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
In terms of the first team offense, it spot Man
Franklin was a bright spot.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
RJ.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Harvey was a bright spot. Ish dude. I don't know
about Ish. I know people are looking at the box score.
Oh well, he never really broke something open. He didn't.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
The eleven yard run he had was was a great run.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Three and a half yards isn't anything to write home
about it.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
It's a little bit.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
It was the day itself looked like you could put
Javonte Williams from.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
The last season.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I completely dis can I finish my.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
Stag course for you, you know, decapitate me. They rush
It was Javanta Williams. But what you never saw from
Javontay Williams at all in the last two seasons.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
Was the burst to get to the edge, the explosives.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Okay, so you and I are going to say something
very similar. Yes, the difference between r J and Dravante right,
like you didn't have the wow play, like the gash
play that you got from like Blake Watson, you didn't
have the wow play from r J.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
That was, like, Watson look kind of sweet that he did. Tyler,
those two Tyler Day touches the ball, I'm like, I
love him.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
He's good.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Those two guys look fast and explosive.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
And I know it was against third stringers, so.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
We're gonna say something very similar here. Harvey felt, I
guess underwhelming to say people because there wasn't the big
gash play. He had seven carries. I counted four, if
not five times that he was either contacted behind the
line of scrimmage or should have been contacted behind the
line of scrimmage. And it is because of the burst
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to get to the outside right the offense in terms
of their outside zone run game. When they got to
the edge, you found positive yards. But Day did Harvey did.
If if Dravonte Williams is total in that rock, it's
seven carries for twelve yards, not twenty five.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Like I was very I that eleven yard gain, that
eleven yard gains gone.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
I was really impressed with his ability to make the
first guy miss when it should have been either no
gain or tackle for loss.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Here's my my summary of RJ.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
Harvey in his first snaps as an NFL player on
an NFL field in a quote unquote game, he belongs.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Yes, where I'm not quite yet with r J. Hard
he is.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
He's special and as a second rounder when you're taking
running back, you you're not expecting special, but it's still
a pretty marquy pick.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
Did you see not to be the the you know,
hypothetical or looking in the rear view mirror, did you
happen to see Traveon Henderson? See what he did.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
First time he touched the ball?
Speaker 5 (09:22):
Was it ninety three yard touchdown on a kickoff return?
And then he looked like the real deal after that?
And you know, I'll be perfectly honest. The guy that
I was in love with out of Ohio State was
Quinn Shawn Jutkins, who is not playing for the Cleveland
Browns because he's still dealing with a potential case that
he got off field distractions, things that are going on
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in his personal life. Traveon Henderson, it's just one preseason
game rush, but he appears to be the class of
this running back group that came out in twenty five
so far aashing genty three carries what negative.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Negative one yard? I was giving you crap about that
on Friday. I had to other players that I saw
in this Broncos game that stood out to me. You know,
how's this players that go you belong? Is there another?
Is there one on the offensive side that you see
outside of our j Harvey.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
You belong?
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant, yep, yeap wrong that little seven
yard out route that Troy Franklin.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
I would argue that we've kind of we're kind of
almost in his rookie year part two right now, because
because the rookie year was uneven, there were plays that
you say, oh my gosh, he has to make that play.
And then he made a player too that you said,
that's an NFL player. Jerry's still out, so to Trey,
Troy flank Troy Franklin, Yes, Pat Bryant, Yes, he looks
like he belongs.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
You belong, You belong. Defensively, John A. Barron, you belong.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, dude, I know it's one preseason game and he'll
and what like two or three tackles or something from him.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Did you notice when he hit people the people like crumbled, brother,
it ain't you belong. It's special.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
You're a dude.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
You're a dude.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
He is a contact defensive back that first tackle that
he has the right side out route on second and
ten that he holds it was no leaky yards man.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yes, but is Sean Pate stopped?
Speaker 3 (11:25):
So is John A.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Baron the Drake greenlaw of defensive backs where he hits
people and they fall to the ground like a sack
of potatoes.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Second and ten, right after the will Nuts forty two
yard field goal. Baron, I don't know who the receiver
was for San Francisco stuffs the dude after four and
a half yards belongs. He is a first round draft
pick and he showed it.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
How long until he takes over that job?
Speaker 3 (11:55):
I mean McMillan had a McMillan was up and down
like he had a pick.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Was awesome? It was great.
Speaker 5 (12:00):
Did the pick not remind you of the the Jamis
Winston game pick for Jamis Winston prayed away those pick sixes?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
So much more to get into about this game. Let's
get into it. Jaquan McMillan versus John A.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Baron?
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Are the arrows both up? Is McMillan's down? Is Baron
ready to take that spot from McMillan. We'll get into
it on the other side. So much more to break down.
Coach was I wouldn't say on the call, but on
the broadcast for nine News, you did great. You had
a cheering session, all the all the valor homies. It
awesome to watch on social media.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
If you guys didn't seen it, the nasty beard with
a suit, it's a weird look.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Man.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Coach, you look great. You sounded great. We'll continue to
get more of your analysis from week one of the
preseason Broncos and forty nine Ers. It's altitude ninety two
to five.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
It's been a grind, but to be here and just
understand that that guys, he's gonna give me to the
other side. He's always gonna get you to the other side.
You're gonna go through adversity, You're gonna go through through
certain storms. He told his disciples on a boat, like
you're gonna get to the other side. Before they got
on the boat and they were going through the storm,
and and and they were trying to wake them up,
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and they didn't understand, like like like what's going on,
what's going on? But he told them like, you're gonna
get to the side. You walk by faith, not by sight.
So just understanding just the process, like I'm gonna go
through a lot of things that that's gonna challenge me,
that's gonna push me. It's gonna test my faith, uh
and test my commitment. But if I could just stay
strong and stay true to who I am, it'd be good.
But this organization and these guys in the room, in
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the locker room, they keep pushing me.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
You know.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I try to carry myself obviously like a vet even
though I'm not yet, to try to carry myself in
such a way and knowingly that I'm gonna go through
certain things and to be able to adjust through certain
circumstances and situations.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
Who needs Jameis Winston anyways? You got ja baron Rev
Rev YadA.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
That Reverend can hit now too.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
As terrible as the first as terrible as the first
team offense was in terms of its passing game, again,
I liked what I saw out of RJ.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Harvey.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I liked what I saw out of the young receivers
in Franklin and in Pat Bryant. The passing game, especially
from both not great. I suppose the protection wasn't great,
and I want to get into it. We'll get into
this in a couple of minutes because I do want
to continue to talk about jah Day versus McMillan for
a couple of seconds, So.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
You should probably stay tuned if you want to go
to the board. We're gonna go to the board, to
the board, and we're going to.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Don't peak too soon.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
In just a few minutes, we're gonna go through the
third and six.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
I just want a kJ to be prepared to go
to the board.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
From the Denver nine that results in a safety, because well,
if we're gonna rip intact Richardson, I think it was
third and six or five from the nine?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Is this Denver fourteen? Does that sound right?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
No?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
From the Denver nine?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Okay, then I might have the wrong clip.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
I believe it's third and six from the Denver nine,
Denver or nine, third and six from the Denver fourteen
from the fourteen? All right, broke, We're gonna go through
the safety, right because if we're gonna rip into Anthony
Richardson for not being able to pick up a blitz
in the preseason, we have to do so with bone nicks.
Now back to the secondary and Johd A. Baron and
Jakwan McMillan McMillan's pick and the rest of his play
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is it enough to balance out getting torched for fifty
on this third play of the game. Jaquan McMillan is
a really valuable member of this football team. But you
drafted ja Day barn Is the first pick of your
draft in the twenty five NFL draft, and he's at
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a solid camp. Nothing that's like Ben like that. That's
what we kept talking about. We want to see him
play live football because I think some of the rugged
nature of who he is as a player wasn't able
to be on full display in a training camp, tag
off environment. You saw that this guy belongs and he
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is physical, and he gives a different le physicality than
Jayquan McMillan. The fifty yard passed that Jaquan McMillan gave
up to Jordan Watkins, the rookie. I forgot where he's from.
Maybe Old miss sounds right, Is that right? You should
know you're Mississippi guys back there.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yeah, he from Old Mish, Mississippi, by way of Louisville.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Okay, Louisville. Yeah, he actually grew up in Louisville. Louisville.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
That was a great cover. That was a great cover
rep from Jaquan McMillan. If you remember it. It was
not wide open.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
No, he's kind of blanketed. He just never turned and
got his hands up.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
It was a great throw by Mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
It was a great catch by Jordan Watkins, and frankly, yeah,
he didn't play the ball great, but the coverage piece
of it was sticky, sticky coverage. I believe that preseason
Game two will give the opening for Jade Baron to
run with the first unit.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
But I don't even know do you even play the
first unit defensively? I think you saw probably what you
need to see. I bet Sean.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
The overall feeling from in the postgame press conference was
a frustration, disappointment with how they first units started on
both sides of the ball, but other like, unlike the
first string offensive unit, that first string defensive unit, once
they got settled in there, they looked to be who
we know they are.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
There was one plate that the touchdown.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I hated the touchdown they gave up got to the
outside twelve.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No nobody set the edge. I didn't like.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I love rathery it was, but it felt like an
eight nine twelve yard run because it was started downhill
and it bounced out far around the left edge, and
that's one where you know, frankly, that's got to be
boxed in there by Riley Moss jumping outside to force
it back inside, and then that plays like a one
two yard run that was not discipline wise.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
They didn't love that snap.
Speaker 5 (17:50):
I think the Denver Broncos have themselves a very special nickel.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I think he's gonna be a.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
There's gonna be an upgrade over ja Qui McMillan. I
think that's gonna happened really quickly. But I think ja
quand McMillan where his value comes in is you're going
to play teams that have three or four dynamic wide
receivers and you're gonna play dime personnel. When we play dime,
it's because there is only maybe a tight end on
the field. But if it's an Evan Ingram type who oh,
by the way, I didn't even realize Evan Ingram played
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in this game until I went back and rewatched the
entire game.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Do you guys see like turns he turned like double
digit snaps?
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, but one target, I mean it was quiet. It's
a quiet Evan Ingram Day, which is okay, fun, not
big deal. Ball doesn't always find you, especially in short
yeah three a three drive appearance.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
He's not a he's not a volume shooter.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
No, Yeah, John A Barn special and I could just
tell and covered snaps that he had. I went back
and watched it on the NFL Pro app or NFL Plus,
whichever one shows the preseason. They got they got some
special and John Ay Barron. He is definitely an upgrade
over ja Quon McMillan. But you have the luxury of
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ja Kwon McMillan for another year, you're gonna ultimately he's
gonna go get paid somewhere else because he has good
enough film.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
He's got great ball skills. Like it's very very clear
that when he gets his head turned around and plays
the ball, something special can happen.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
He is an interception machine man.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
If that interception is made eighteen inches closer to the
middle of the field rather than the sideline, he may
bring that back for six. Like when he turns around
he plays the ball, he's good. So I don't think
it was an arrow down day for McMillan. I thought
it was an arrow honestly, I thought it was a
slightly up arrow for him, but the fact that he
has a first round draft pick that plays you know, yes,
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he plays the same position, but they're gonna use Jah
Day in the in the nickel far more this year.
Maybe it's a little bit of a hot seat thing
for him. Maybe it's a little bit of all right,
this whole season is going to be my audition to
make fifteen million somewhere, sixteen million somewhere as a cornerback two,
or maybe on a really bad team, bad defense, a
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cornerback one at a bargain bin price. Okay, moving on
from them, we have to talk about the worst decision,
maybe the worst pickup of the day, and that was
you're in the shadow of your own goalpost and bo
Nix turns around, he missues Troy Franklin, Robert Salas sends six,
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and it turns into a safety coach, let's go.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
To the board. Well, let's do so well.
Speaker 5 (20:29):
I think Robert sala and Kyle Shanahan, we're sick and
tired of the national narrative about top four or top
five quarterback in the National Football League. According to Sean Peyton,
also probably sick of hearing about the Denver Broncos being
super Bowl bound according to Sean Payton and his belief
in this team, which is good.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
I want that, Okay, I want.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
That super Bowl bound in thinking a team has enough
to win the Super Bowl or very.
Speaker 5 (20:56):
Different correct, correct either way, Robert said, game plan for
Sean Payton and bow Knicks just to put that fully
out there into the universe. That is a gentleman's agreement
that oftentimes preseason games our base offense versus your base defense.
The pressure that bo Nicks ended up getting the safety
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called on him for intentional grounding was a very very
good disguise, very exotic pressure. So to bow Knicks's left
left of center, this is the this is the look
I've been telling you about which Josh Allen, excuse me,
Zach Allen.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Zach Allen.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
Oftentimes they'll put three defensive linemen to the left sides
or right side, and they will isolate Zach Allen away
from that three receiver or three defensive line overload.
Speaker 4 (21:47):
So if you look at this as this clip, defensive
lineman one, two and three all to the left.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Luke Wattenberg ultimately has to make a decision of how
he wants to protect this right So Luke wattonb sees
the linebacker then come up and walk up into the
open gap that's created on the right hand side.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
So this is what is typically called a five to ozho.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
A five oh is the offensive line puts up five fingers.
So if you ever see this when you're watching football,
you can see sometimes the quarterback will go up and
give them five fingers. A five oh means that there
are five blitz threats at the line of scrimmage that
are immediate blitz threats. Okay, So the offensive line will
take it from center, will go fan out with the
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left guard and the left tackle for those three d
linemen that are over shifted on the left hand side.
Your right guard, okay in this case is your right
guard Quinn Minors is going to take the walk up
linebacker number forty, and your right tackle, Mike McGlinchey takes
the singled up defensive end. That's kind of that Zach
Allen guy. So then really, your responsible tailback's got to
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look to any of those five guys. They're all accounted for,
but I gotta take whatever else backer or nickel shows
up in this picture, and we call that the island
is the five D lineman, and ultimately everything outside of
the island belongs to the tailback. Well end up walking
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up nickel back number twenty six to the left side,
and they also walk up a safety to the boundary
of the side where the will linebacker also walked up.
They bring both guys, so that means that they're technically
both on Jaquan McMillan.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
McMillan has both Excuse me, this was JK. Dobbins. I
believe JK.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Dobbins is the running back, not Jai Kwan McMillon. He's
on my mind, that is who their tailback is.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Respecting you want to handle Robert Solla, You're not doing enough.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
JK.
Speaker 5 (23:55):
Dobbins ends up going stepping to the linebacker or safety
that's on the right hand side, thus freeing the nickel
number twenty six Chase Lucas, who's a reserve player, not
a starter. They ran this pressure to perfection. Now, bo
Nicks didn't prepare, and I heard his postgame press conference.
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He talked a lot about the thing about preseason games.
We can have some of his soundbites here. Preseason games,
you don't go in as a quarterback with a set
protection plan. You don't go in with a set game plan.
You look at general looks that are typically air quote
looks for rookies and young players to just get their
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feet wet on both sides of the ball, their base looks,
and you use your general rules. This is the type
of blitz that Robert Salla said, You know who one
of my best friends in the coaching industry is. It's
Nathaniel Hackett. Screw you, Denver, I hate you, you stink
and I can't stand you. This was a This was
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a tribute to Nathaniel Hackett from Robert Sala.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
What should bo Nicks have done here?
Speaker 5 (25:07):
Because there really wasn't a a bas answer in his
protection plan.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
We're talking about how's this when when the protection is broken,
like you have already taken your three step drop and
you can either feel or hear the nickel corner blitzing
from your your weak side, right from the left side
of Bo Nicks on a third long sit.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Very similar to the free runner that came with the
Indianapolis Colts and Anthony Richardson. Would he end up like
dislocated of dislocated a finger finger now he took the hit,
never saw the guy coming.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
We're talking about a quarter to a half of a
second of reaction time for this quarterback. So what I
would have liked to have seen him do is throw
that ball through the middle to Detroy Franklin.
Speaker 5 (25:56):
And that's where Bo should have known that he needs
to replace a blitzer with the football, because the blitzer
was coming to Troy Franklin's side. The free runner therefore
that he is not a cover player. The short crossing round,
the short crossers, a shallow cross shallow crossers. They're taught
in football when you're running that two to four yard
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shallow crosser. When you see it's called the flush principle.
When you see backers or nickels flushing down the toilet,
then you got to give your eyes to the quarterback.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
It's the flush principal. And Troy did it. Troy looked
back for the football and there is nobody.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Oh yeah, there's twenty twenty five yards of space for
him to catch and take up all the field. Now,
because it's preseason, and again I do want to take
preseason with a grain of salt. Right, Yes, the offensive
has been struggling against the number one defense during camp.
They struggled on Saturday against the Niners. But it is preseason.
And the reason why I say this is did Bo
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make a business decision there? Because if he stays in
and throws that ball to Franklin, he's getting lit up.
It's a quarter a half second. I don't think he
gets lit up.
Speaker 5 (27:06):
I don't think Bo saw the nickel the one who
came Scott free twenty six Lucas?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Was it Chase Lucas?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
So he said Chase Lucas.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
When when he I don't think he saw him coming
Scott Scott free. I think he was.
Speaker 5 (27:18):
Actually in his vision reading the concept down the field.
But Bo had good enough pocket awareness, so, like you said,
feel and over here that nickel coming free. Had he
diagnosed it better and known that Chase Lucas was part
of the pressure package, he would have known to replace
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that blitzer with the ball and he would have gotten hit.
But it's one of those I always say at the
quarterback position, it's one of those where you retreat with
dignity and you get hit as you're essentially backpedaling. Think
Patrick Mahomes lives this life right. Everybody tries to blitz him.
He throws the ball off his back foot they hit him,
but he kind of just takes like an extra five
six step backwards and you just those don't hurt.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Those don't hurt, like a like the blind blindside shot
that Anthony Richardson took. What I I Bow was caught.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
He was caught basically not seeing the nickel, and his
escape plan was he did the best he could, which
was to try to spin out of it. And even
Bow and his postgame presser mentioned that he just wasn't
cognizant enough with where the line of scrimmage was because
if that ball had gotten past the line of scrimmage,
he would have been okay because there was a receiver
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that could have been deemed in the general area. The
problem was that ball was what four yard shive of
the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
I don't think it was anywhere close.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Yeah he was. It was short of a line of scrimmage.
I mean it was a it was a desperation throwaway.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
The ball went out at the eight and the line
of scrimmage was the fourteen.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Didn't you feel like I felt like there was a
snap where I think it was Nick Benito in one
of his four pressures where the same thing kind of happened.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
It was the Yeah, it was the third of the
three pressures. He had the quarterback, or he had the
sack on first and ten six yard sack. He had
a back to back sack with him and jon Fan.
Speaker 5 (29:11):
Frank I think the statisticians gave it to Franklin Myers,
but that.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Was it was a Banino sack. Yet he had first
contact and had his hand on the quarterback. It's a
Banito sack. The second effort was the sack too.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
It is insane. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
So the third play in that three plays where it
goes first and ten, second and sixteen, third and eighteen,
Benito gets his hands again on uh, who's the quarterback?
Mac Jones gets his hands on Jones, and Jones throws
it away there. I thought that probably could have been
intentional grounding too, but I guess he was out of
(29:45):
the pocket. I guess he was.
Speaker 5 (29:47):
It was kind of the same thing, and I, you know,
both of them should have been intentional grounding. I heard
a lot of people saying that the bon nixt one
wasn't because he got out of the pocket. Actually, I
think Ryan Harris on the call said that that should
not have been intentional grounding. He was in between the
hashes when he threw it, because retreating he's between the hashes,
that's between the tackle box.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
The NFL hashes are so dang narrow.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Fact, like the tackle box sometimes goes outside of if
you have fairly wide splits to you know, two sometimes three,
maybe even four foot splits, then you are outside of
that of that hashmark to hashmark area. And the fact
that the ball didn't didn't travel pass the line of
scrimmage and it really was no receiver within five yards
certainly behind the line of scrips. I think the one
(30:29):
that was a mac Jones who threw it, that was
that was short of the line of the one that should.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Have been a I thought it was, Yeah, it was
mac Jones mac Jones.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
That one at least appeared there was a there was
a receiver within about seven yards. But still like, if
the ball doesn't travel to the line of scrimmage, that
should be grounding.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
So I think both of them should have been a grounding,
all right.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
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Final things here, Give me the quick cliff notes on
the bow Knicks safety. Give me three points what needed
(31:11):
to be better?
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Replace the blitzer with the football. See see that JK.
Speaker 5 (31:14):
Dobbins needs to recognize that Quinn Miners had picked up
somebody and get back and travel to the nickel. Two
three bow Nicks needs to throw that ball out of bounds,
pass the line of scrimmage if possible.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
That's a tough play to make though.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Good things to learn in preseason week number one. That's
coach Mike Sanford. Alex Ryan Emy. This is the morning
sprint on altitude.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Well, it's it's a different evaluation, but I still evaluate
pretty tough.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Obviously there's some things you can't quite control for a
preseason game. A lot you don't really know going into it.
But you know, my favorite part with the preseason is
just reacting to what you get. Sometimes in the game
you got to react because it's not something you prepare for.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
So that's really how you can treat.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
A preseason is just get out there and see things,
react how you would on a play, and just you know,
take the ball where you're eyes lead you, and you know,
like I said, it's not always gonna be planned, and
you know you're not always gonna be prepared for a look.
So that's sometimes what preseason gives you a lot of hah.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Does that sound like what I talked about during the
break their raj.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
You made it seem like Bo Nicks was a little
bit snippier in his postgame presser, And honestly, like a
minute after that, Bo gave and bow never does this.
Bo gave three answers that totaled five seconds yes in
response after that, and that was when what happened on
the play that led to the safety. Bo just goes,
(32:36):
I didn't get the ball pass the line of scrimmage.
End of answer.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
And that reminds me of Bo's interception against the Steelers.
I was in that postgame presser Adam Powerfield last year
and Bo gave almost the identical answer, and he looked
and he kind of looked at him like hmm, like
I'm I'm not gonna give you a SoundBite that makes
me seem like a jerk, but I'm gonna give you
(32:59):
the eyes that me then let you know that you're
being You're like, I'm not okay.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
Like the very next question after that was, well, bod,
you asked for a third series, and he goes, no,
I did what I was told. That was a one
and a half second answer. He was like, listen, I'm
I'm cool. I'm pissed with how I played. I'm pissed
without the first first team played. But and this is
going back to a point that you made about you know,
ten fifteen minutes ago, did they get like caught with
(33:26):
their pants down against San Francisco throwing blitzes like that?
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Is that a bad thing? Is that something to panic about?
Speaker 5 (33:33):
No, there's a there's a wink wink gentlemen's agreement in
preseason football that you don't you don't bring kitchen sink pressures.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
And it's not necessarily because you're trying to uh give
a benefit to the opponent. It's because, well, if you
bring those pressures, you are putting out on tape pressures
that you may utilize during the season. Correct, That's that's
kind of the gentleman's agreement, am I right?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
That is gentlemen's agreement.
Speaker 5 (34:00):
But I think there's no love lost whatsoever between the
current staff of the forty nine ers and the Denver
Broncos and Bonnicks, right, and Robert Sala is the guy.
If you remember two years ago the first time that
Robert sala came to town to avenge the death of
his old friend Nathanuel Jakins game, Yeah, the Zach Wilson game.
Do you remember that one? Remember that game at all?
(34:24):
Kind of it's kind of gross, but I mean he
had some pressures for old Shawney Shane and he wanted
to get.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
Some hits on all riss.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
I remember that one very very distinctly. And that's the
thing like Robert Sala he's a really good defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
It was the Breecee Hall game.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
Let's be very olnes. It was what was the final
score of that game, thirty one twenty one.
Speaker 3 (34:46):
In Week five, the Broncos fell to one in four
Russ went twenty of thirty one for two touchdowns. Your
top runner was Jalia McLoughlin nine carries sixty eight yards.
Zach Wilson on the opposite side, the Blue and Orange
had one hundred and ninety nine yards, no touchdowns and
a pick. But Breeze Hall twenty two carries one hundred
(35:06):
and seventy seven yards in a score, including a seventy
two yard gash.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
Remember that I was at a game as a fan
a spectator.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
I was at that game too. I was burn I
remember that game being incredibly hot. If you were sitting
in the East sands. I was sitting in the East ends,
like upper deck and burning my face off.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
So I think Bo wanted to make very clear to
the media here in Denver, and he's right, Okay, He's
right his I went back and watched the press conference
last night just I wanted to hear the whole tone
of Bo.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
It was a good tone.
Speaker 5 (35:43):
It was a resolute tone. It wasn't a panicked tone.
I'm not worried at all.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
I'm not not worried at one bit about bow Nicks.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
I think there was some there was some breaking of
the code by Robert Sola and they probably expected a
little bit of that. But when you have a guy
that's in I think Robert Sala is one of five
defensive coordinators in the National Football League that I put
into the mad scientist category. They just cook up like
it's like it's a lab in Albuquerque, New Mexico that
(36:13):
is run by a chemistry teacher at a high school.
They cook up some nasty pressures and that's.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
What Robert Sala did.
Speaker 5 (36:20):
So you can't really prepare for which one of the
catalog Robert Saala is going to bring in a dad
gum preseason game, and he brought it, and Boonix made
it very clear that those are things in the in
the regular season. I'm ready for that. That's something that
I'm prepared for because you spend hours on the film
(36:41):
and the answer and then hours walking through what the
protection check would be, and the quarterback makes that protection check.
And he talked about it in his postgame presser. It
was all about just singing it and reacting and playing
simple football. Am I worried about bo No, But the
(37:01):
combination of a training camp you and I've been at
every single day that's been available to the public into
the media.
Speaker 4 (37:10):
Where it hasn't looked.
Speaker 5 (37:13):
Like your quarterback has ever gotten comfortable because you're playing
against the best.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Defense this side of shoot. I don't know this side
of maybe who else would be in that conversation Philly. Philly,
for sure, Philly, but they lost a lot. They did it.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
I mean the championship tax Houston.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
They feel like they have the ability to be a
little bit more their secondary terrifying. Yeah, Pittsburgh's always you know,
when they're right, They're always right, you know, pretty right there.
What I would tell you about all of that is
to say that bo Nix himself and this most importantly,
this whole starting unit, that that performance against the forty
(37:56):
nine ers, combined with not a great training camp off
defensively because you never got in rhythm because your defense
is that good.
Speaker 4 (38:04):
You gotta have a.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
Good preseason performance against Arizona, and you know what, I
think it's gonna work out just fine.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
Is it enough that you had positive you had positive
feedback coming off of the first It's amazing that I'm
splitting hairs. This this fine, this early. You had positive
feedback in the first half of the joint practice with
the forty nine ers.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
That's good stuff and that's what that's not predicted to
have happened.
Speaker 3 (38:32):
Is it enough that coming up on Thursday? Right, the
Broncos have an off day today, They'll be back in
camp Tuesday. Wednesday. We'll be out there tomorrow and on Wednesday,
and then Thursday the Cardinals come for a joint practice, right,
and then you have your your next preseason game here
at home against the Cards. Would it be enough if
you dominate Arizona in the joint practice from an offensive perspective,
(38:53):
one on ones, and then maybe a similar thing happens
in the preseason game. Would you be like, Eh, it's okay,
we saw it during practice. It doesn't really matter during
the game, or do you have to have a good
performance in week two?
Speaker 5 (39:05):
My feel and my feelers that are out there would
tell me that I think Bo himself has been given
some there's some stake in it for him as it
relates to decision making for playing in preseason games. And
I believe Bo is gonna want to in a game
(39:26):
to get the feel backed because games are very different.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
I wonder if they get a first half it's at home.
I wonder if they get the first full half.
Speaker 5 (39:33):
I think that you you say that you're playing probably
three or four series, and if you just have that
one series where you it's just clockwork, see Yanks, guys,
then we're good.
Speaker 3 (39:46):
We'll see a Week one and you know what you know.
Speaker 5 (39:48):
I'm gonna tell you, Broncos Country, you're gonna get that
preseason Game two is gonna be bo Knicks offensive unit.
And guess who's guess what Sean Payton's gonna do for
this pres loosing.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
Game game plan? Yebo, yep, because he did it last year.
He did it last year.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Going back to the game planning comments and what you
gathered from Bow's response about well, we can only react
to what we see. We don't game plan for those
types of looks in the preseason again, namely talking about
the safety that happened on the Broncos fourteen where he
throws it out of.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
The couple of the other pressure looks too. I mean,
a lot of people are saying the old line looks
looks terrible.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
I'm like, you guys are idiots.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
This is a top five offensive line returning from all
metrics both number one in past protection and in top
five and run blocking by PFF. This is not a
bad unit. They just didn't prepare for Robert sla avenging
the mistreatment of his little bestie that likes to you know,
dance at practice and have basketball hoops in his team meetings.
(40:53):
Nathaniel Hackett.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
Is there something to be said for you haven't earned
that yet? Who Bo, You haven't earned that respect, You
haven't earned the I'm not gonna I'm not gonna bring
heavy pressures every time against your number one offense because
it's the preseason. We just go base offense based defense. Now,
(41:15):
if he's Aaron Rodgers, if he's Matthew Stafford, if he's
Patrick Mahomes, and he has the same response like, hey,
we don't do that in preseason. And again I'm very
much paraphrasing based off of the feel that that you
got from the from the postgame presser a year ago.
Today he was third on the depth chart. Have you
earned that yet? I don't think you ever earn it.
Speaker 5 (41:41):
If you're playing in a preseason game, there is a
possibility that any and everything could happen. And that's why
a lot of people don't play their starting quarterbacks in
preseason games because of this very thing. What if bo
Nick's on that on that incredible kitchen sink bullets that
roberts Allah drew up in the dirt and installed right
(42:02):
in time to get Denver in a backed up situation
inside of their own fifteen yard line.
Speaker 4 (42:08):
What if that would have been a true blindside hit.
Speaker 5 (42:11):
What if that nickelback that came fresh Scott Free off
the edge. My guy's name was Chase Lucas. Chase Lucas.
I think that was Chase Lucas. What if Chase Lucas
had had gone low on the tackle. That's what franchises
have to think about with regards to the decisions to
(42:32):
play your starting quarterback in preseason games, Like, for example,
like Patrick Mahomes. You mean to tell me that like
a team playing against Patrick Mahomes. Granted it would be
an NFC team, right, These are always cross the vision
because you don't want to see a team that you're
going to play in the playoffs until potentially the Super Bowl.
That's why Patrick Mahomes like rarely plays in preseason games.
(42:55):
If anything, it balls out of his hands. So I
don't know what the right Anne serious like. That's the
hard part is like I as a coach, I want
my quarterback to be in rhythm. I want my quarterback
to be at the height of his confidence when the
season starts. I do think that for BONICKX and Sean
Payton that requires playing against Cardinals. The Cardinals I don't
think there's going to be incredibly bad blood between the
(43:17):
Cardinals organization and Sean Payton, Like was my guy Gannon
is the is the head coach there?
Speaker 4 (43:22):
Uh for the Cardinals? Is it Robert Gannon? Jonathan Gannon?
Speaker 3 (43:28):
That sounds correct.
Speaker 4 (43:29):
Yes, I don't think.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
He and Sean Payton have a long history of beef
like Robert Salad does with Sean Payton.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
Maybe vance Joseph to say about Arizona.
Speaker 4 (43:39):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Maybe he's the Robert Salon the equation this weekend.
Speaker 4 (43:42):
But does he need to just all out? Did you
see a rush eight? Did you see Kyler mur Did
you guys see Kyler Murray's interception that he threw? No idea.
It was arguably the.
Speaker 5 (43:52):
Worst decision I've ever seen in my entire life of
watching any NFL game.
Speaker 4 (43:56):
You like, threw it directly to a defender.
Speaker 3 (43:59):
It was a callege double points weekend, So I get it.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
It looks it's what it looked like.
Speaker 5 (44:04):
I think he just he was confusing call of duty
from actual football. He was looking at an enemy and
used the football as his weapon to pier some straight
in the chick.
Speaker 3 (44:14):
He's launching a grenade just cooking one. Hey, I was
really accurate on that on that shot.
Speaker 4 (44:21):
Confirmed kill. It was a confirmed kill.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
Why do you keep saying it's a bad play. Our
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