Preaseason Reaction Monday on the Morning Sprint! Coach and Raj discuss why it's no turning back for Shedeur and the Browns know that the cat is out of the bag.
KJ's NFL Notes
Coach Chris Armas joins us for his weekely show and he talked about how the Rapids continue to climb knowing their season is winding up. Also, Darren Yapi is starting to let his star glow and Coach Armas details why. Lastly, Coach talks about the why and how of taking advantage of the weaknesses of an opponent.
Coach and Raj go through how Bo Nix and Sean Payton will respond to Saturday's minor let down.
KJ's NFL Notes
Coach Chris Armas joins us for his weekely show and he talked about how the Rapids continue to climb knowing their season is winding up. Also, Darren Yapi is starting to let his star glow and Coach Armas details why. Lastly, Coach talks about the why and how of taking advantage of the weaknesses of an opponent.
Coach and Raj go through how Bo Nix and Sean Payton will respond to Saturday's minor let down.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Defense Stop the Run, Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
To play Fat Shader Sanders and the track and it
is broader through a touchdown by Kenyan Davis to go
back prom Sanders red ball plays of five probably got
to my mom.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Pick from a quarterback who underwhelmed here with the Broncos
and bow Nixon, that first team offense, we've been beating
that horse dead.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
To quarterback.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Who man?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
After that first series with Shador, which was the most
Shadoor Sanders ass series I have ever seen in my life,
running around for dear life, throwing balls off your back
foot somehow turning things into like fifty yard scrambles for
a first down. The next three series that shaduor Sanders played,
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that's a fifth.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Round starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He looks really good.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Who what a funk?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I did? I just never knew that. See, my problem
with Shadoor Sanders' situation in Cleveland was the manner in
which he arrived in Cleveland. I was concerned that he
was ever going to have the opportunity to even do
what he was able to do, which is get meaningful
preseason reps. Because, mind you, this is a quarterback room
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that on paper right now has Deshaun Watson. I know
he wasn't going to be a part of the preseason activity.
See Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel, Snoop Putley, and
Shadoor Sanders. So I was concerned that Shadoor Sanders was
he ever going to get the opportunity to really play
play because a rain rain, that's a lot of human beings. Yeah,
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with rain rain, it's a lot of human beings that
you got to deal with to be able to have
a chance to even get reps. Well, guess what happened.
Kenny small hands picket, he gets wally pipped. Dylan Gabriel
five foot nine, all five foot nine of him drafted
ahead of Shador Sanders. They both have hamstring issues. Dude,
this is like the Sanders family. Okay, they just keep
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showing up and keep proving people wrong. Shiloh did it, man,
Shiloh played well in his preseason game. You called it.
I mean, I have a bet that if he makes
the active fifty three, I'm buying a Shiloh Sanders Tampa
Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Bet that we made this bet and I get nothing
out of it. If I win the bet.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You just get to look at it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I don't even get.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
The like, I'm not a jersey guy, so I'm not
going to like miss the jersey. But I get nothing.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Out of this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I go back to, shoot, how did we let you
do that? Just because I just spoke it?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I made a bet with you, really did make a
bet with air.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It was an air bet.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I didn't push that it was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was like a self deprecating bet, like, oh, I'm
gonna I'm gonna have to pay one hundred and ninety
five dollars for a Shiloh jersey. Dad gummet because I
think I secretly want a shallow Sanders jersey because it's
so such a niche jersey, no question, and you know
what you have to do, like it has to.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Be the creamsicle jersey. Oh i'd be nass absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh yeah, So Shaudor Sanders, let's talk about his journey
all along, starting back in high school. Started out at
basically a school that his dad created, right Prime Prep,
and everybody just sits there and thinks, well, yeah, it's
because his dad. Right, So college recruiting granted Shade or
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had air quotes offers. But just everybody that's out there
to understand that reported scholarship offers are not actual committable offers,
Just so everybody understands that they're two completely different things.
You can have thirty five offers and only three of
them are actually committable by that school. You can have
five offers and none of them are committable. Happens all
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the time in the recruiting world. I remember when I
was a college coach in the roughly twenty eighteen twenty
nineteen kind of right in that era where Shadoor Sanders
came out. You know what I said as a college
coach when I evaluated Shador Sanders State, Yeah, it's just
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because his dad's the head coach of his team. Yeah,
do you really want to deal with all that? You
know how many other college coaches, me being one of them,
had the same thought process about Shadoor Sanders and ignored
what the film was telling you. The dude can play
all right, let's fast forward, is it? Jacksonville State? Excuse me,
Jackson State? Sorry, Jacksonville State's in Alabama. He's at Jackson State.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, Jacksonville State is in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is That's where rich Rodriguez came from the northeast
Alabama because there's a city in Alabama College Jacksonville, Alabama.
So it does make sense you can have there's multiple cities.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So it's a great Uh, it's a great It's always
sunny episode on how Charlie thinks that, Like, like if
you if you're in Pennsylvania, you're always in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
That's how I feel right now.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So Chadoor Sanders, while he's at Jackson State, I'm at
CU start hearing the rumors about coach Primes probably a
very viable candidate to come to see you. He ultimately
comes to see you. He obviously brings his louis and
(05:39):
the best pieces of his louis came with him from
Jackson State to see you. And that was the tandem
of Travis Hunter and Shadoor Sanders. What did I think
at the time, I don't know, if I don't know
if Chador is gonna be that guy. And Saint FCS
football the Saint one Double A. This isn't HPCU football
(06:01):
This is freaking yeah. This is the Big twelve. What
did he do?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Big twelve?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What did he do? He went out and bald and
he proved the doubters wrong. So I'm gonna I've been
one of those doubters, man. And that's why I came
to the conclusion that I came to about midway through.
It was the Colorida State game for me last twenty
twenty three when I saw Shador did what he did
in like a ninety seven yard drive to win the
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game with time expiring and it must have a two
minute situation. He actually put that one in overtime, then
won it in overtime, and then I saw it again
against Baylor. It's like, there's nobody in the right now
in college football that is better acquitted to play in
the National Football League as a quarterback where the game
comes down to a possession. Almost every NFL game comes
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down to one possession, And do you have a quarterback
that can perform in that scenario time and time again?
Shador Sanders proved it. But then guess what the NFL
people did. They said, do you really think he's good enough?
Is that really going to translate? Do you really want
to deal with that, all that comes with his dad
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and with all the hype and all the do you
really want to deal with all that?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And there was fan fare going into the Week one
preseason matchup. He comes in, you know, playing his own
music and his new rap album or whatever it is.
I've never actually listened to him, but all that said, Man,
there is something to say along the line.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Starting as a high school player, I was a college coach,
college quarterback coach. I said, do you really want to
deal with all that? And you look past what really matters,
which is what the tape? And then again does it
at Jackson State? Yeah, but it's Jackson State? Do you
really want to deal with all that? Is he really
going to be able to do it at this level? Yep?
He did it. So the NFL decided, all the decision
makers and this is like the proof that Shador's not
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as good as everybody was making him out to be. Well,
the NFL said, he's not a first three round draft pick,
so he obviously is in a first three round draft pick.
Rojwood got lost in all that, man, is that the
game of football is pure. It's pure, and the purity
of the football is watched the tape. Your film is
your resume, and at every step of the way, what
is Shadoor Sanders shown That is resume outside of taking
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big sacks, outside of the negative plays which all involved
basically negative yardage plays because of getting tackled behind the
line of scrimmage to extend a play, he doesn't turn
the football over. He's crazy accurate. His two touchdown passes
were next level. Those are high degree of difficulty throws.
The game is pure in Shador. Sanders has proven at
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time again his resume is damn good as a quarterback
because what he does on film is worthy of being
the starting quarterback in Cleveland. Guess what, dude, there's no
turning back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got the King, you got Lebron James.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Now, for better or for worse, this is this is
Tim Tebow and Denver right. Whenever it gets unleashed, you
can't turn back. Right Because now, if you start Joe
Flacco in week one, two or three, and Flacco throws
for three hundred and fifteen yards and three touchdowns and
three picks, you will hear the boo birds begging for Shador.
(09:12):
Because we've now seen fourteen of twenty three hundred and
thirty eight yards and two touchdowns and we see it right,
and no.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Picks because he doesn't throw interceptions. That's a crazy thing
about you door. He doesn't throw interceptions and he's a
high volume, high ceiling throw of the football.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Now it's preseason week one. He caught up with Miles
Garrett on the sideline. I want you guys to hear this.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Hi mouth you think like my spist work on you?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
No, it worked today?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
What come you though?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Back to that? Took?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
So like what you're looking at like when you're chasing it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
True, I'm just looking how to get upfield on you.
I'm gonna see you back to what my guys are.
You're trying to get up and outside of Hey, if
I cut that where you're gonna go. You're not to
go run away from me?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
You know, Like what's what you're going?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You turned this play.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Because then practice you do me getting faster the farther
you go.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Let me get gamine.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That bad didn't play.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The reason why I want you guys to hear that
is one of the first things that Miles Garrett says,
and it's about the spin move that shador is. I mean,
I wouldn'tay he made famous in college, but he was
well known for in college is how to extend to
play and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Spun out of a lot of sacks, a whole.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Ton of sacks and turns him into either touchdowns or
huge games. Miles Garrett goes, it worked today now. He
looked good in week one of the preseason.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It worked today.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Now just holding onto the football and running around and
spinning when the Browns are playing in the middle of November,
does it look the same? Does he have the ability
to transfer that from the preseason into the regular season
as a full time starter, And.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You are right, like, he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
He really doesn't throw, really doesn't throw that many picks'.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So that's my point is he doesn't. So I got
a attext from zero seven nine to six. Excuse me,
schedule doesn't throw interceptions and you want to ignore the
drive killing negative plays and sacks. I agree with that.
The sacks are that's that's the problem. That's been the
downside in four years as a full time, high volume
thrower of the football. Mind you, Shador Sanders every one
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of his four years as a starting quarterback between Jackson
State and CU threw for at least one hundred more
attempts then Anthony Richardson threw in his entire career at
the University of Florida, which was three hundred and twenty
nine total total attempts. Shador Sanders had four hundred and
thirteen attempts, four hundred and eighty three, four hundred and
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thirty and four one hundred and seventy seven attempts in
his college career. His interception total thirty touchdowns his freshman
year to eight interceptions, forty touchdowns to six interceptions his
second year twenty seven touchdowns in his first year at
CU to just three interceptions, and then his final year
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he threw for nearly forty touchdowns in the Big Twelve
to just ten interceptions each and every year. Is a
high volume thrower. He was well above the three to
one interception touchdown to interception ratio.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
If you just take his final two years at Colorado
and I understand Division one NCAA football at that version
of the Big twelve is vastly different from even the
two worst teams in the NFL playing against each other.
His average interception percentage right, which is interception two attempted
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pass and he was the highest volume thrower of the
football in college, right, yes, one point four percent. In
the NFL last year, where do you think that would
have ranked?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He would have been in the top three for best
in the National football really close.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He would have been tied four top six, tied with
these names. Jalen Hurts, low volume thrower, low volume thrower,
safe throws just behind or just behind Hurts, just behind
Burrow at one point four, just behind Josh Allen at
one point two.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
The other quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Sorry, I said one point four percent, right, he'd be
tied with Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow. He would be
ahead of Wilson Stafford, tag of I, Looa Daniels, Mahomes,
Murray Nicks. The league average last year in terms of
interception percentage was two point two. Again far cry from
the Big twelve to the NFL, But the numbers tell
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you he doesn't throw that many interceptions.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
You are correct there.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Does he hold on the football too long?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Does he take too many sacks?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yes? Of course. And the quarterback the quarterback development and
or evaluation I that I've accumulated over the last several years,
decades really of coaching and playing the position. I had
a hard time myself looking past that. I'm not going
to pretend that doesn't exist. I would say that I
thought Shaduur threw on schedule more in the game with
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Cleveland than he did at times. Was Ceu di DoD
you agree that like it wasn't it didn't look like
backyard football every snap.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
The first series did.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And then he said the first series was Shadure Sanders
running around with his hair on fire, hoping that someone
doesn't get his hands on him. The rest of it
was fine. The first series was very much backyard football.
I'm faster than you. I'm just gonna find a way
to get it done. Positive story though, Man, Like I
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was excited, I told you that that was like the
only thing I was excited about watching this weekend outside
the Broncos game was Shoudur on Friday Night, And it.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Lived up to the billing.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It was exactly what we said it was going to be.
The entire nation tuned into it. And people want to say,
are we going to talk shad Or Sanders and Cleveland
Browns football and on this radio station the whole year. No,
We're gonna talk to de never Broncos. But It's a
fascinating storyline. And I tell you what's gonna happen. Joe
Flacco is going to be your gate, your day one starter.
Schauduar Sanders will be starting for this football team by
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week five and there is no looking back. That's what
the fans need, That's what the fans want. And you
know what, unlike Tim Tebow, the spectacle of Tim Tebow,
Shoulduar Sanders can He can toss that pill around. If
you don't think so, watch his two touchdowns he threw
International Football League game he hit the preseason. The dude
can play football. Keep doubting him, keep talking trash about him,
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and he'll do what he can. He's done everywhere, keeps
proving everybody wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
We will continue taking a peek at what else happened
around the National Football League in Week one of the
preseason with kj's NFL Notes. Chris Armis of the Colorado
Rapids will join us at eleven thirty, so don't go anywhere.
NFL Notes and the Rapids head coach on the other side.
Every day here at eleven twenty on the Morning Sprint
with coaching Raj we go through the biggest stories in
the NFL. With Kj's NFL, it's been talking a lot
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about Shduurgh Sanders and his nice debut again, can it?
Can it continue into meaningful football. We'll have to see
what happens there with the Browns. But kJ what is first?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Well, despite all of the bad plays that we've been
talking about today from Sam Peyton starters, he still believes
in his guys so much so that he wants to
keep adding more and more. I'll call the pressure on
the twenty twenty five Denver Broncos to be better than
last year's playoff team.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Look, I love the lead in all right, so I'm
going to pretend that wasn't part of the question. The
question was is this team better than last year's I
think this tea this year's team has a chance to
be But I think the biggest thing we always talk about,
you're not ever picking up where you're left off. But
(16:58):
I do think this year's team has a chance to
be better. We've had a depth at certain positions we
didn't have a year ago.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
We were in the.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Largest cap deficit dead money in the history of maybe
all of sport, but certainly in the NFL, with ninety
some million We're not in that position this year. You know,
it's two thirds of an operating budget. So but this
team's going to have to They're going to have to
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do that, you know, and same amount of games, one
game more. You know, they're they're going to write this
chapter and we're going to all be here for it,
and our jobs to it is to to try to
accomplish that and in but we're right at the beginning
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with a lot of work ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I certainly agree with Sean Payton, and you can see
the depth and you saw that in week one of
the preseason. Yeah, is it concerning that the offense looked
as bad as as it did under Bonicks?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Sure, little concerning.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I would hold off the panic buttons until after they
play the Cardinals this weekend. Now, if it looks like
crap this week and this weekend against Arizona, then maybe
we start, you know, breaking the glass and trying to
figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I highly doubt it will look at bad.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Highly doubt.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
The depth that we saw in the secondary, the depth
that you see at running back now, and the depth
that you see at wide receiver are three things that
make me very very excited Tyler bit Baday. Every time
he touches the ball continues to find a way to
get yards. Blake Watson is a gash runner.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
R J.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Harvey can get to the outside now.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
While he didn't hit any home runs, he made a
lot of positive plays for things that should have been
tackled behind the line of scrimmage. And then you have
guys like Devon Vele making catches, Troy Franklin catching bullets
that he should not have had.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Or didn't last year or not last year.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Growth in your third round pick out of Indiana or sorry, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Looks like a dude.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
He looks like he just looks like a safety blanket.
And that's what you drafted him to be. That's all depth, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And it's also an improvement over what Pat Bryant was
basically last year's team, it was little Jordan Humphrey. Pat
Bryant's a big improvement over the little Jordan Humphrey draft Reynolds.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Isn't Trent Surfield supposed to be little Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's hard to say. Body type wise. Sherfield's smaller. It's
not a big guy, but he's a he'll do anything.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
He's your special teams.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He kind of like he's a better spec teamer than
little Little Jordan Humphrey was a better like he's a
high end gunner, high end on kickoff return. He's hold
off player, really good and actually spend having a great
training camp too. Trent Sherfield's gonna find himself into the
rotation as a wide receiver. Sean used the term wide
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receiver five. There's many times where I wonder if he's
gonna be used snap wise, similar to Little Jordan Humphrey,
who last year Little Jordan we established was the second
most used wide receiver for the Denver Broncos in.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Terms of snapcott in sanity.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That could have happened with Sherfield wouldn't surprise me because
he'll do everything right.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Just make sure it's not five wide, because Leggy will
lose his mind. kJ what's next?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I just threw it away.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
He didn't get the ball to the line.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Shimmish coming off the top.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Off the top, bro Leggy hates five wide. We An'll
know he even hates two by two.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
No, dude, like he would like a three year stretch
where like he was this hail bind on.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Make sure everybody he wasn't wrong.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
They sucked at it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
They did blame it on Russell Wilson. Both Nick stepped
up to the podium behind Setting Peyton on Saturday. And
the one guy not getting enough love today is rookie
running back R. J.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Harvey.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Bow Knicks may sure to give his flowers to the
rookie as he takes on his first game as a pro.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Yeah, it's fun to watch him go out there and compete.
You know, he's he's young, He's got a lot of
ball left ahead of him.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
He's got some juice.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
He can get out of the backfield, catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
His routes are great.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
He runs the ball really well, and he's just going
to learn and grow and continue to get better with
the run schemes and all that kind of stuff. It's
hard as a as a a newcomer that your first
time really going live to to see how everything develops.
But it's going to take time and and you know,
he's just going to get better over time, and each
each rep he gets, he's going to get better at it. Uh,
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He's going to see a lot more as he goes
down the road, and he's just going to be able
to add a lot of tools to his toolbox as
we go.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
So I'm excited for him, excited for the whole running
back room.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I thought they did a really good job.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
They run the ball, tough, ran the ball physical, got
some first downs, you know, broke a lot of tackles,
which is always good to see. And so that's a
good room right now.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I loved what I saw out of r. J.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I've said it multiple times in the show already today.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I know did he break enough tackles for you? And
for all of you? I'd love to hear that three
oh three, five, four nine to two five jumping the
shop the text line, one price, one person, one hour.
Did you see enough as a guy that can break
tackles in the National Football League? In addition to the
burst that you did see, I think all of us
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could agree we saw the burst from r. J. Harvey.
Did you see enough in terms of breaking tackles and
and and and actually creating those leaky yards where you
pushed the pile.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Four when he got outside the when he got outside
the tackles, he was able to turn negative plays or
no gain plays into positive yards. Now, does that mean
he was breaking actual tackles, not necessarily he was getting
to the edge and making positive plays. He was breaking
four arm tackles that were made below the waist. It
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wasn't like he was running through somebody you know.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
In It wasn't Marshawn Lynch. No, it wasn't beast mode.
It was, but there was only one of those guys.
Well I was.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I was very, very pleased with the ten or sorry,
the nine touches and the ten targets in terms of
like passes and actual touches. From from a running back perspective,
I liked it a lot. I thought the people were like,
oh r J. Harvey, like, doesn't look like I thinks crap.
He belongs I just don't yet know.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Special.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One player showed special yesterday, and that was Jeanne Berts.
In my opinion, one young player showed special. Everybody really
showed that they belonged. Youknew I showed special. The guy
that I've been saying could be groomed to be the
the defensive line joker l shoes own, Oh savi on
jos naby on Jones Man. He was involved in that
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fumble recovery. He had two tackles. He looked really active
and I was excited about that. Keep watching Big ninety
five man, that's the guy that I'm excited about.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Mister Granderson, give me one more.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I just threw it away.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
He didn't get the ball of the line scrimmish.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Over to weekend, we uh saw Kate Adams hit to India.
She talked with Shane Stikeen and multiple players from the
Indianapolis Coltson Shane Steiken, he kind of took us behind
the curtain on what he's looking to do coming up
in regards to his quarterback battle moving forward.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Are you changing any of that plan now because of
what happened? Well, Daniel's start this week against Green Bay,
but he'll play a couple series and then Anthony will
get the bulk of the work, you know, for the
first half after that.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
How are you gonna make this decision?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Well, yes, you know, we're gonna look at it. I
talked to them about those guys.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Consistency when he consisted of that position. Joint practice this
week will be big for him, and then obviously going into.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
The game, hearing that voice just makes me just it
cracks me up. Shane Steiken's brother was my roommate in college.
My best man in my wedding. They sound the exact same.
And then Shane Stikeen was my dad's graduate assistant at
both Louisville and at UNLV. He's just the biggest goofball ever,
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so taking him seriously is so hard for me.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
We'll put a pain in the cold. It is time
to catch up with the head coach of your Colorado Rapids.
Typically we do this at ten forty five on a Monday,
but we didn't want to interrupt the Rapids meeting. So
it's time for your Chris.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Armishew fines perfect ball up the sideline for Yappie, sprinting
to the top of the eighteen yappy to his right shots.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yappy opens the scoring sensational from Colorado.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
In transition, Navajo dribbling forward, cuts to his right, sprays
it to Yappie Yappy in.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The eighteen Yeappy in the corner with the brace. The
Rapids are up.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Zero in the seventieth minute.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
That's the minimum of five minutes. It's gonna be a
reset here for Minnesota. We should be out of time.
We should be out of time.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
We are out of time for the third time.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
The Colorado Rapets.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Will win away from Dick's Morning Goods Park, a vital
three points to begin the final nine games of the.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Seat, coming off of a two to one victory against
Minnesota as they look ahead to taking on Atlanta in
just five days from right now, the head coach of
your Colorado Rapids, Chris Armis, as we welcome into the program.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Coach, congratulations on the win and welcome man.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks guys, good win for the boys, good win for
our club. Good to be on the show with you, guys.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Coach Armis, I'm just gonna throw this out there in
the universe. When we talked to you last week, the
news of Georgia Mihailovich signing a record deal which brought
in tons of revenue for the Rapids with Toronto FC,
and some of the some of the tough challenges of
the season, staying healthy ups and downs of this season,
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it did feel like the world was kind of coming
to an end as it relates to the Rapids. This
was an unbelievable victory. It was tons of fun to watch.
There were major tactical changes that you and your staff employed.
Would you say that this was your biggest victory as
the head coach as a skipper of the Colorado Rapids.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Uh, it's a memorable one and a and a really
important one for this year at this very moment for
what it means for the playoff push. You know that
the life without Malovich, which you know, we end up
tying Cruise AZUL essentially to two and and then going
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on the road. It says a lot about the togetherness
of this team. It says a lot which makes me proud.
So no, it's you know, we won the Rocky Mountain
Cup last year at home.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Second one was pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's probably the big one. But yeah, this was this
is up there because it was just such a a
test of will and determination. It was hot and humid,
it was hard, just hard. And Minnesota is one of
the best teams in the conference. It've only lost a
few games at home all year. And the way our
guys went there and they don't make excuses, they went
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after it and we go on the road to win.
It's what gives us a chance every time. But yeah,
such a great victory.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
In your postgame pressor you talked about surprising Minnesota with
a tactical decision on the back end. Can you walk
us through what that was and why the decision was
made to go to three center backs.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, the Minnesota plays for let's call it a five
to two, three, a three, four to three. They played
three center backs and what they do challenges a lot
of teams because the three strikers play very close, but
they play with wing backs that open you up, and
they have central mifielders that can they can just hurt you.
(28:42):
When you try to take away one thing, they go
the other thing. They try the other thing, they go
to the other thing. So we tried to We thought
this could surprise him. They they wouldn't think that we
would try a new formation that almost matches up with them,
so all the space that they're looking for, they'd always
have a rapid in front of them. So it actually
disrupted them. You can see they tried some different things,
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and even at halftime, I said, Fellas, I could see
what they were doing at the end of the first half.
This is what I think they're going to do in
the second half, and they actually did it. So we
actually were really prepared and we got that part right.
But the boys, I mean, listen, we there's x's and o's,
but this was a battle of much.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It was.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was stress, it was the humidity. You can see
the guy's brains were melting. You could see the decision making,
the sharpness. And it's difficult, but some adjustments at halftime
to run hard in transition, knowing we would create these
big transition moments. More guys have to get into the box.
And they did that. Yappy, Rafa. I mean Calvin Harris amazing,
(29:43):
scored too. Maybe could have got a couple of more.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, we're talking to the Robert Sala of MLS adjustments
and tactical Robert Sala, I thought you.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Were talking about the shiny head.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No, no, we've been talking for the last hour. Coach Armas.
You'd love this as as a New Yorker. But Robert,
it's not necessarily the greatest head coach in league history.
But I was not afraid to essentially hang up double
birds at Sean Payton and Bownicks and bring an unbelievable
variety of pressures in a preseason game to say I'm
avenging the loss of my friend Nathaniel Hackett and what
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happened to him in Denver. But neither here nor there.
We move on, Darren, Yappy, this is a player that
if you look at the ceiling of what Darren Yapi
can be, this is this type of player that has
quality athleticism, length, top end speed, power to be somebody
that even in the US national team playerpool, if he's
playing at that level, not only do rapids have the
(30:38):
ability to be that much more dynamic and scary to defend,
but this is a guy that you don't have the
body type with a lot of frequency even in the
national level. Tell me about just when Darren Yappi has
the confidence to put in the back of the net,
what that does for him and for this team.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, listen, if he's getting on the scoreboard, it takes
pressure sure off of Navaja, Right, So even Calvin Harris,
when you have these fast guys that are also powerful
and strong around Navarro, it just takes pressure off of
our main guy. We had to we try to keep
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those guys in and around each other. So it's just
it's this tough situation for opposition back lines to deal with. Listen,
you know, Darren Yappy, he's still a young player, but
he has some of the intangible things you can teach.
He's athletic, he's a wonderful human being. He's humble, he's
got a good process. He plays with big passion, and
(31:39):
he's a high character kid. But but yes, well he's
got the big potential. Guys. Yesterday he takes over the game.
But in the second half you're almost saying, ah, do
we need to make some changes. We're looking a little
bit flat. He can do better. So it's and all
of a sudden he comes to life, and it's almost
like a new It's almost like you subbed in a
new guy all of a sudden, and he starts torching
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the back line. So he has big potential. He can score.
He's got to imagine a young guy with that body.
He can use it even more to hold up the
play for aerial duels, be even more so for me.
He's with scratching the service with him and he's already
got six or seven goals this year.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Soscell text to the word center to three oh three,
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pack at tickets to see the Rapids take on Atlanta
coming up on the sixteenth. Coach you mentioned you specifically
game plan to go on the road against a team
(32:39):
that plays well at home, right, Like you made those
decisions because Minnesota is so stingy, right and you wanted
to somehow surprise them. On the opposite side of the equation,
Atlanta comes to Denver in five days time. They'll have
a week in between their last game where they had
a one to one draw.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
They have not won a game on the road this year.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Do you make similar adjustments knowing that a team struggles
on the road, much like Minnesota is dominant at home.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Listen, we it's it'll be uh interesting. They've done some
different things. Atlanta. They're not as easy to game plan
against because it's their searching for solutions themselves. I think
the most important thing come this next game home against
Atlanta is to bring bring it, bring the energy, bring
the intensity, Overwhelm them, run them, over play with verticality,
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suffer this team, suffocate this team. Put them at this
altitude they're not used to it. If they don't like
they're on the road, maybe they like being like being
on the road at altitude even less. We have to
be able to ramp this thing up in a way
that puts them in a faster game than they want
to be in now. Structurally, we'll have a plan for
sure to take away some of their top players. They
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have a really talented roster in the attacking core. So
we have to well well listen every team because it's capable.
So we we will not be talking about this team
has one on the road. We will be saying, fellas,
it's another team in our in our way to our goal.
We've got to run them over. That's how we have
to approach it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Saturday night, the sixteenth, that's your last time to see
the Rapids at home until September thirteenth. Get your tickets
today at Colorado Rapids dot com slash tickets. Coach, thank
you so much for your time. Great win and continue
the hot streak when you guys return home.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Appreciate you guys. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
The head coach of your Colorado Rapids. It's Chris Armis.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Text the word center that's center to three oh three,
five oh four O nine two five for your chance
to win a family four pack of tickets to go
see the Rapids take on Atlanta this Saturday evening. One
more time, center to three oh three, five oh four
O nine to two five will give away those tickets.
On the other side, we'll get back into the struggles
of bow Knicks in the first team offense and whether
(34:48):
or not that extends bo Nicks's preseason here in just
a couple of minutes. But I did want to ask
you what what was the craziest thing you saw this weekend? Well,
for me, I just did tell you this in all
fair and soft the air.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
And the people don't know that.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
So on Instagram, it's the magic of on Instagram, all
of my my fine friends from various places of employment,
of which I have several, no more magic. I saw
just about everybody I know it a Savannah Bananas game
over Saturday and Sunday. Is that right? Was it Saturday
Sunday or Sunday Monday? They gone played two games and
(35:24):
they're gone, okay, so packed. You see all these people
having all this fun and they're getting pictures of bananas
they got they're dressed up as bananas, or they're dressed
up in some one hundred and twenty dollar jersey that
they purchased, and it looks like you would be in
a position where you're looking at it and being like, man,
(35:45):
I just wish I was there right now. You would
think I would have had fomo, but it led me
to create a new contradictory acronym to fomo. I had Gimo.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Gimo was gimo.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Geo g g I n o glad I'm not t there?
God bad? What about gilo lot I'm left out?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Hard, They're not good. You got the dude, I do
not like. I don't like. I'm sorry. I know so
many of you are right now are driving around like gosh,
still on it. You four khi from your banana day.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Man As for me and my family, I will never
never waste how I'll say this, I will never invest
money in attending a banana's event.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
kJ craziest thing you saw this weekend?
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Well, I just told you. Like Coach said off the air, dude,
Texas is AP number one, and his having me crazy
because they've done nothing to earn it.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Speaking of Texas, how bad did Quinn Ewers look in
a pre Pretty bad? I was told at every step
of the process with quinn Yours I started. I was
recruiting his high school, and I was told that he
is the biggest can't miss prospect maybe in the history
(37:24):
of high school recruiting, and I was when watched him
in practice, I'm like, really, he looks like a slow
twitch athlete. He is a good, good pastor of the football.
But every time I play, I watch him play the
actual game of football. Just not it. Man, talk about
a fall from grace. You remember that guy like it was.
(37:44):
He was the savior of Ohio State football never started there,
had to transfer. It's one of the first big nil guys.
Never even really got any return on investment at Ohio State.
Goes to Texas. Oh He's Texas is gonna win a
national championship with him there. It never happened.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I mean, they got as close as they've been since
Vince Young was.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
There close only counts and horseshoes in ang Gredades Rush.
What was the craziest thing you saw or the dumbest
thing saw, the most disgusting thing you saw this weekend.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I saw three wild things. Andrew says, it's called Joe
mo The joy of missing out.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I was good with I just couldn't.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
I didn't miss out.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Gimo is good. Glad I missed out.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, that's what I should have said. That's a good one.
I saw three wild things. I told you guys, I
was gonna watch a little bit of a NASCAR race
for like the first time in my life, because there
was a Syracuse forty four car zipping around Watkins, Glenn
and upstate New York.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Did you see what happened after the race?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
The dude who won this race, Connors Zillish. You know
how they they climb out of the driver's side window
because like the doors don't work. It's just like one,
you know, crash cage, just with a engine that goes
super duper fast. He was climbing out of his car
because he won the thing to get on top of
his car and you know, pop a bottle of champagne
(39:04):
and drink one or one beers.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
With his buddies.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
His foot caught and he fell out of the side
of the car, smacked his head and his neck on
the pavement and was out cold, like they were nervousy.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
It sounds very video of it. The video is like
he's lucky to be alive. It's insane.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Now, what what a organization is this?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
This is NASCAR? You want a NASCAR want a NASCAR race?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Or a series.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, dude, I'm telling you, craziest thing out cold.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Now.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
He's fine. No neck injuries, dude, he has. He broke
his collarbone, but he's lucky to be.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Like his freaking collarbone after a win broke his collar.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
His name Connor is Zillish, nineteen year old. Oh my gosh,
it's nasty. Yea NASCAR sprint series, I think, is what
it was. I don't pretend to really know NASCAR, but
that's what I tuned in for.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
It was the Mission two hundred, so this is usually
Was that a Saturday or was that because usually the
big right, the big event is on Sunday? Yep, So
it's the Have you ever been to a NASCAR event? Yeah, dude,
they're so fun.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
I love The in field of NASCAR events is crazy
and the only one.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I was up was at the Watkins Gun for run
tailgating at a NASCAR event, which was crazy. When you
hear the engines rev up, it sounds like there's like
seven hundred and seven forty sevens that are starting their
engine at the exact same time. It's the loudest, most
incredible spectacle and it's something I never thought I would
like which to all of you Savannah and Bananas people
out there, that's probably what I need to go. Somebody
(40:33):
needs to force me to go to an event so
I could say, you know what, it was a really
cool event in person.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
So if that wasn't the craziest thing I saw, obviously
there was the really scary, the scary injury in the
Lions and Falcons game that just like basically ended the
game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
The World Surfing League went to Tahiti this week and
a played at a break called Joe Pou or Joefu
I can't I actually don't really know how to pronounce it.
There was a twelve year old girl competing and it's
like the thickest, fastest wave in the world and this.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Twelve year olds just ripping. It was the coolest thing
I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Little girl with a helmet, just like ripping around getting
out of there a wave that would kill you were.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
On right, And I grew up. I grew up in
the surf culture, bodyboarding, body surfing, skateboarding, everything like all
the X Games, I guess Coastal X Games that post
the Mountain X Games is where I grew up in
Orange County, California. And the craziest thing. I had kids
in my in my high school and middle school that
looked like like tiny, like no definition, and you just
(41:39):
watch them just anything on a board sport. You're like,
how do you do that? Insanity? And it's like there's
really no Like. You look at a football player and
you're like, that guy's good. He's got huge quads or
he's built. You look at a surfer you're like, I
don't know, man, and then they are a skater and
they just rip things. You're like, dude, that is so cool.
(42:00):
I wish I could do that. So instead you're I
get to be really average as a skater and a
surfer and really averages a football player just kind of
just just average everything. Pick your poison, baby, you know
what jack of all trades, man, I'll tell you what.
I could still get out there and catch them. I
could still shred the nar in the Pacific.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Still could who was very average, if not below average
Bonnicks in that first team offense. Now, you mentioned something
to me in the break was if there's one positive
that comes out of this, it extends the preseason life.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Is that really a positive though?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
For fans.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
It is fans. It is for the fan experience, for
the fan experience.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Right like I have for the media my notes of
the first half of the Broncos game. Like I am
in mid season note taking forms.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
That was beautiful. I did the same thing I was.
I was at the nine News sports desk hanging out
with my guy Chris Taveries John here's here's the second
page my second half notes. Well, they kind of don't exist.
So for fans, yeah, that's awesome. More one give it
to me baby, Now do does that put Sean Payton
in a tough spot? If bow Knicks needs to play
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more preseason football and this starting offense needs to play
a bit more preseason football to just get that feel,
that's all. Like you, you don't need to play three games.
I want to make that clear with bow Knicks in
the ones. Frankly, you don't need to play a full
half against the Cardinals. Would I think that bow Knicks
needs himself and I think Broncos country would love to
(43:30):
see this as a result is because of a bit
of a challenging training camp against an unbelievably good defense,
and because of a i'd say a fairly uneven performance
in joint practice on Thursday against the Niners, where you
started really strong and then it appeared that the forty
nine ers defense finished strong, right, which is good. That's
a good day. That's not a bad day, to make
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it clear, but the forty nine ers defense, their backups
and their thirds man. You scored three points. And the
only reason you scored three points because you inherited a
takeaway Dann near midfield. That's how you got your points.
You in fact scored two points for them. For the
other team, by the way you was safety.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
You had net one point.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
You netted one point three drives against not one starter
for the forty nine ers. So what Bonix needs right now,
he needs that that feeling of coming off after leading
it really clean drive and it could be the first drive,
and you know what, if that's the case, shut him down.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Nine plays, three minutes and fifty two seconds, seventy five
yards and a.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
A Bonix touchdown to Troy Franklin back corner of the
end zone. A little nine yard touchdown reception. Yep, just
all sweet little little bootleg off of a wide zone
play action. Troy Franklin ran in a corner out. You
just loft feathered up there. Bonicks Denver Broncos offense were
good to get.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
He tried to feather two passes, the two that he
were or the two passes that he was short on
the was it a Courtland Sutton corner?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yep down the field and then at Troy Franklin, go
ball And both of them they were those the football
up to the air.
Speaker 5 (45:06):
They were ducky.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
They were ducky, and they also both could have been
picked up.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Like I love you rh I love you Ryan Harris,
I really do.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Brother.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
You said it was a really good or well thrown
ball to Troy Franklin. I thought it was a duck.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
It was not a good throw. And both of those
throws like people would say, well, gave him a chance. Well,
unfortunately they had a step on the defensive back. Yeah,
guess who you actually gave a chance give a chance
to the defensive back.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
Troy Franklin.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Ball should have been intercepted. Frankly, both of them could
have been intercepted. And the Sutton ball, I think if
you have the first Sutton ball was great, that was
a Sutton drop.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
We're not talking about no.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
The Sutton corner in the end zone that was underthrown
and led to a field goal, and he was open.
I think if you give Bo three balls, five balls,
four out of the five are in the corner Sutton
gets his hands on.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Would you just say this though, like for anybody who
has any crazy reaction to what happened in the preseason
game with the three drives of the offense, that's kind
of what we've been watching every day at practice.
Speaker 11 (46:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
It's about what it's been like. So are we supposed
to be surprised? No, But you know what. The remedy
to all that is rush is the Arizona Cardinals coming
to town. One really clean offensive touchdown drive and man,
you are ready to be good enough to play in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Fellas. It feels like football, It really does.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
It took every piece of my being not to do
a big play replay today, and you know what, I'm
gonna promise it to you a week from today. We
will do big play replay on Monday against Week two
Broncos and Cardinals. We will have that on Monday.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
I'll break down the Kyler Murray call of duty set
that he's gonna have as well.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
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Thanks that for hanging out with us. PhD is coming
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Defense Stop the Run, Talk.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
To play Fat Shader Sanders and the track and it
is broader through a touchdown by Kenyan Davis to go
back prom Sanders red ball plays of five probably got
to my mom.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Pick from a quarterback who underwhelmed here with the Broncos
and bow Nixon, that first team offense, we've been beating
that horse dead.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
To quarterback.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Who man?
Speaker 4 (00:45):
After that first series with Shador, which was the most
Shadoor Sanders ass series I have ever seen in my life,
running around for dear life, throwing balls off your back
foot somehow turning things into like fifty yard scrambles for
a first down. The next three series that shaduor Sanders played,
(01:06):
that's a fifth.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Round starting quarterback.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
He looks really good.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Who what a funk?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I did? I just never knew that. See, my problem
with Shadoor Sanders' situation in Cleveland was the manner in
which he arrived in Cleveland. I was concerned that he
was ever going to have the opportunity to even do
what he was able to do, which is get meaningful
preseason reps. Because, mind you, this is a quarterback room
(01:34):
that on paper right now has Deshaun Watson. I know
he wasn't going to be a part of the preseason activity.
See Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dylan Gabriel, Snoop Putley, and
Shadoor Sanders. So I was concerned that Shadoor Sanders was
he ever going to get the opportunity to really play
play because a rain rain, that's a lot of human beings. Yeah,
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with rain rain, it's a lot of human beings that
you got to deal with to be able to have
a chance to even get reps. Well, guess what happened.
Kenny small hands picket, he gets wally pipped. Dylan Gabriel
five foot nine, all five foot nine of him drafted
ahead of Shador Sanders. They both have hamstring issues. Dude,
this is like the Sanders family. Okay, they just keep
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showing up and keep proving people wrong. Shiloh did it, man,
Shiloh played well in his preseason game. You called it.
I mean, I have a bet that if he makes
the active fifty three, I'm buying a Shiloh Sanders Tampa
Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Bet that we made this bet and I get nothing
out of it. If I win the bet.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You just get to look at it.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
I don't even get.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
The like, I'm not a jersey guy, so I'm not
going to like miss the jersey. But I get nothing.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Out of this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I go back to, shoot, how did we let you
do that? Just because I just spoke it?
Speaker 5 (03:00):
I made a bet with you, really did make a
bet with air.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
It was an air bet.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
I didn't push that it was.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
It was like a self deprecating bet, like, oh, I'm
gonna I'm gonna have to pay one hundred and ninety
five dollars for a Shiloh jersey. Dad gummet because I
think I secretly want a shallow Sanders jersey because it's
so such a niche jersey, no question, and you know
what you have to do, like it has to.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Be the creamsicle jersey. Oh i'd be nass absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Oh yeah, So Shaudor Sanders, let's talk about his journey
all along, starting back in high school. Started out at
basically a school that his dad created, right Prime Prep,
and everybody just sits there and thinks, well, yeah, it's
because his dad. Right, So college recruiting granted Shade or
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had air quotes offers. But just everybody that's out there
to understand that reported scholarship offers are not actual committable offers,
Just so everybody understands that they're two completely different things.
You can have thirty five offers and only three of
them are actually committable by that school. You can have
five offers and none of them are committable. Happens all
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the time in the recruiting world. I remember when I
was a college coach in the roughly twenty eighteen twenty
nineteen kind of right in that era where Shadoor Sanders
came out. You know what I said as a college
coach when I evaluated Shador Sanders State, Yeah, it's just
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because his dad's the head coach of his team. Yeah,
do you really want to deal with all that? You
know how many other college coaches, me being one of them,
had the same thought process about Shadoor Sanders and ignored
what the film was telling you. The dude can play
all right, let's fast forward, is it? Jacksonville State? Excuse me,
Jackson State? Sorry, Jacksonville State's in Alabama. He's at Jackson State.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Well, Jacksonville State is in Alabama.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is That's where rich Rodriguez came from the northeast
Alabama because there's a city in Alabama College Jacksonville, Alabama.
So it does make sense you can have there's multiple cities.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
So it's a great Uh, it's a great It's always
sunny episode on how Charlie thinks that, Like, like if
you if you're in Pennsylvania, you're always in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
That's how I feel right now.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
So Chadoor Sanders, while he's at Jackson State, I'm at
CU start hearing the rumors about coach Primes probably a
very viable candidate to come to see you. He ultimately
comes to see you. He obviously brings his louis and
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the best pieces of his louis came with him from
Jackson State to see you. And that was the tandem
of Travis Hunter and Shadoor Sanders. What did I think
at the time, I don't know, if I don't know
if Chador is gonna be that guy. And Saint FCS
football the Saint one Double A. This isn't HPCU football
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This is freaking yeah. This is the Big twelve. What
did he do?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Big twelve?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
What did he do? He went out and bald and
he proved the doubters wrong. So I'm gonna I've been
one of those doubters, man. And that's why I came
to the conclusion that I came to about midway through.
It was the Colorida State game for me last twenty
twenty three when I saw Shador did what he did
in like a ninety seven yard drive to win the
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game with time expiring and it must have a two
minute situation. He actually put that one in overtime, then
won it in overtime, and then I saw it again
against Baylor. It's like, there's nobody in the right now
in college football that is better acquitted to play in
the National Football League as a quarterback where the game
comes down to a possession. Almost every NFL game comes
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down to one possession, And do you have a quarterback
that can perform in that scenario time and time again?
Shador Sanders proved it. But then guess what the NFL
people did. They said, do you really think he's good enough?
Is that really going to translate? Do you really want
to deal with that, all that comes with his dad
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and with all the hype and all the do you
really want to deal with all that?
Speaker 4 (07:16):
And there was fan fare going into the Week one
preseason matchup. He comes in, you know, playing his own
music and his new rap album or whatever it is.
I've never actually listened to him, but all that said, Man,
there is something to say along the line.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Starting as a high school player, I was a college coach,
college quarterback coach. I said, do you really want to
deal with all that? And you look past what really matters,
which is what the tape? And then again does it
at Jackson State? Yeah, but it's Jackson State? Do you
really want to deal with all that? Is he really
going to be able to do it at this level? Yep?
He did it. So the NFL decided, all the decision
makers and this is like the proof that Shador's not
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as good as everybody was making him out to be. Well,
the NFL said, he's not a first three round draft pick,
so he obviously is in a first three round draft pick.
Rojwood got lost in all that, man, is that the
game of football is pure. It's pure, and the purity
of the football is watched the tape. Your film is
your resume, and at every step of the way, what
is Shadoor Sanders shown That is resume outside of taking
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big sacks, outside of the negative plays which all involved
basically negative yardage plays because of getting tackled behind the
line of scrimmage to extend a play, he doesn't turn
the football over. He's crazy accurate. His two touchdown passes
were next level. Those are high degree of difficulty throws.
The game is pure in Shador. Sanders has proven at
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time again his resume is damn good as a quarterback
because what he does on film is worthy of being
the starting quarterback in Cleveland. Guess what, dude, there's no
turning back.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Now.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You got the King, you got Lebron James.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Now, for better or for worse, this is this is
Tim Tebow and Denver right. Whenever it gets unleashed, you
can't turn back. Right Because now, if you start Joe
Flacco in week one, two or three, and Flacco throws
for three hundred and fifteen yards and three touchdowns and
three picks, you will hear the boo birds begging for Shador.
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Because we've now seen fourteen of twenty three hundred and
thirty eight yards and two touchdowns and we see it right,
and no.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Picks because he doesn't throw interceptions. That's a crazy thing
about you door. He doesn't throw interceptions and he's a
high volume, high ceiling throw of the football.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Now it's preseason week one. He caught up with Miles
Garrett on the sideline. I want you guys to hear this.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Hi mouth you think like my spist work on you?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
No, it worked today?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
What come you though?
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Back to that? Took?
Speaker 5 (09:47):
So like what you're looking at like when you're chasing it.
Speaker 6 (09:51):
True, I'm just looking how to get upfield on you.
I'm gonna see you back to what my guys are.
You're trying to get up and outside of Hey, if
I cut that where you're gonna go. You're not to
go run away from me?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
You know, Like what's what you're going?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
You turned this play.
Speaker 5 (10:11):
Because then practice you do me getting faster the farther
you go.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Let me get gamine.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
That bad didn't play.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
The reason why I want you guys to hear that
is one of the first things that Miles Garrett says,
and it's about the spin move that shador is. I mean,
I wouldn'tay he made famous in college, but he was
well known for in college is how to extend to
play and.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Spun out of a lot of sacks, a whole.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Ton of sacks and turns him into either touchdowns or
huge games. Miles Garrett goes, it worked today now. He
looked good in week one of the preseason.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
It worked today.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Now just holding onto the football and running around and
spinning when the Browns are playing in the middle of November,
does it look the same? Does he have the ability
to transfer that from the preseason into the regular season
as a full time starter, And.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
You are right, like, he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
He really doesn't throw, really doesn't throw that many picks'.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
So that's my point is he doesn't. So I got
a attext from zero seven nine to six. Excuse me,
schedule doesn't throw interceptions and you want to ignore the
drive killing negative plays and sacks. I agree with that.
The sacks are that's that's the problem. That's been the
downside in four years as a full time, high volume
thrower of the football. Mind you, Shador Sanders every one
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of his four years as a starting quarterback between Jackson
State and CU threw for at least one hundred more
attempts then Anthony Richardson threw in his entire career at
the University of Florida, which was three hundred and twenty
nine total total attempts. Shador Sanders had four hundred and
thirteen attempts, four hundred and eighty three, four hundred and
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thirty and four one hundred and seventy seven attempts in
his college career. His interception total thirty touchdowns his freshman
year to eight interceptions, forty touchdowns to six interceptions his
second year twenty seven touchdowns in his first year at
CU to just three interceptions, and then his final year
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he threw for nearly forty touchdowns in the Big Twelve
to just ten interceptions each and every year. Is a
high volume thrower. He was well above the three to
one interception touchdown to interception ratio.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
If you just take his final two years at Colorado
and I understand Division one NCAA football at that version
of the Big twelve is vastly different from even the
two worst teams in the NFL playing against each other.
His average interception percentage right, which is interception two attempted
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pass and he was the highest volume thrower of the
football in college, right, yes, one point four percent. In
the NFL last year, where do you think that would
have ranked?
Speaker 3 (13:05):
He would have been in the top three for best
in the National football really close.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
He would have been tied four top six, tied with
these names. Jalen Hurts, low volume thrower, low volume thrower,
safe throws just behind or just behind Hurts, just behind
Burrow at one point four, just behind Josh Allen at
one point two.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
The other quarterbacks.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Sorry, I said one point four percent, right, he'd be
tied with Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow. He would be
ahead of Wilson Stafford, tag of I, Looa Daniels, Mahomes,
Murray Nicks. The league average last year in terms of
interception percentage was two point two. Again far cry from
the Big twelve to the NFL, But the numbers tell
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you he doesn't throw that many interceptions.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
You are correct there.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Now.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Does he hold on the football too long?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Of course?
Speaker 5 (13:56):
Does he take too many sacks?
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Yes? Of course. And the quarterback the quarterback development and
or evaluation I that I've accumulated over the last several years,
decades really of coaching and playing the position. I had
a hard time myself looking past that. I'm not going
to pretend that doesn't exist. I would say that I
thought Shaduur threw on schedule more in the game with
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Cleveland than he did at times. Was Ceu di DoD
you agree that like it wasn't it didn't look like
backyard football every snap.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
The first series did.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
And then he said the first series was Shadure Sanders
running around with his hair on fire, hoping that someone
doesn't get his hands on him. The rest of it
was fine. The first series was very much backyard football.
I'm faster than you. I'm just gonna find a way
to get it done. Positive story though, Man, Like I
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was excited, I told you that that was like the
only thing I was excited about watching this weekend outside
the Broncos game was Shoudur on Friday Night, And it.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Lived up to the billing.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
It was exactly what we said it was going to be.
The entire nation tuned into it. And people want to say,
are we going to talk shad Or Sanders and Cleveland
Browns football and on this radio station the whole year. No,
We're gonna talk to de never Broncos. But It's a
fascinating storyline. And I tell you what's gonna happen. Joe
Flacco is going to be your gate, your day one starter.
Schauduar Sanders will be starting for this football team by
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week five and there is no looking back. That's what
the fans need, That's what the fans want. And you
know what, unlike Tim Tebow, the spectacle of Tim Tebow,
Shoulduar Sanders can He can toss that pill around. If
you don't think so, watch his two touchdowns he threw
International Football League game he hit the preseason. The dude
can play football. Keep doubting him, keep talking trash about him,
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and he'll do what he can. He's done everywhere, keeps
proving everybody wrong.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
We will continue taking a peek at what else happened
around the National Football League in Week one of the
preseason with kj's NFL Notes. Chris Armis of the Colorado
Rapids will join us at eleven thirty, so don't go anywhere.
NFL Notes and the Rapids head coach on the other side.
Every day here at eleven twenty on the Morning Sprint
with coaching Raj we go through the biggest stories in
the NFL. With Kj's NFL, it's been talking a lot
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about Shduurgh Sanders and his nice debut again, can it?
Can it continue into meaningful football. We'll have to see
what happens there with the Browns. But kJ what is first?
Speaker 7 (16:18):
Well, despite all of the bad plays that we've been
talking about today from Sam Peyton starters, he still believes
in his guys so much so that he wants to
keep adding more and more. I'll call the pressure on
the twenty twenty five Denver Broncos to be better than
last year's playoff team.
Speaker 8 (16:37):
Look, I love the lead in all right, so I'm
going to pretend that wasn't part of the question. The
question was is this team better than last year's I
think this tea this year's team has a chance to
be But I think the biggest thing we always talk about,
you're not ever picking up where you're left off. But
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I do think this year's team has a chance to
be better. We've had a depth at certain positions we
didn't have a year ago.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
We were in the.
Speaker 8 (17:09):
Largest cap deficit dead money in the history of maybe
all of sport, but certainly in the NFL, with ninety
some million We're not in that position this year. You know,
it's two thirds of an operating budget. So but this
team's going to have to They're going to have to
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do that, you know, and same amount of games, one
game more. You know, they're they're going to write this
chapter and we're going to all be here for it,
and our jobs to it is to to try to
accomplish that and in but we're right at the beginning
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with a lot of work ahead of us.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
I certainly agree with Sean Payton, and you can see
the depth and you saw that in week one of
the preseason. Yeah, is it concerning that the offense looked
as bad as as it did under Bonicks?
Speaker 5 (18:05):
Sure, little concerning.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
I would hold off the panic buttons until after they
play the Cardinals this weekend. Now, if it looks like
crap this week and this weekend against Arizona, then maybe
we start, you know, breaking the glass and trying to
figure out what's going on.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I highly doubt it will look at bad.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Highly doubt.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
The depth that we saw in the secondary, the depth
that you see at running back now, and the depth
that you see at wide receiver are three things that
make me very very excited Tyler bit Baday. Every time
he touches the ball continues to find a way to
get yards. Blake Watson is a gash runner.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
R J.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Harvey can get to the outside now.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
While he didn't hit any home runs, he made a
lot of positive plays for things that should have been
tackled behind the line of scrimmage. And then you have
guys like Devon Vele making catches, Troy Franklin catching bullets
that he should not have had.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
Or didn't last year or not last year.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Growth in your third round pick out of Indiana or sorry, Illinois.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Looks like a dude.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
He looks like he just looks like a safety blanket.
And that's what you drafted him to be. That's all depth, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And it's also an improvement over what Pat Bryant was
basically last year's team, it was little Jordan Humphrey. Pat
Bryant's a big improvement over the little Jordan Humphrey draft Reynolds.
Speaker 5 (19:24):
Isn't Trent Surfield supposed to be little Jordan Humphrey.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
It's hard to say. Body type wise. Sherfield's smaller. It's
not a big guy, but he's a he'll do anything.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
He's your special teams.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
He kind of like he's a better spec teamer than
little Little Jordan Humphrey was a better like he's a
high end gunner, high end on kickoff return. He's hold
off player, really good and actually spend having a great
training camp too. Trent Sherfield's gonna find himself into the
rotation as a wide receiver. Sean used the term wide
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receiver five. There's many times where I wonder if he's
gonna be used snap wise, similar to Little Jordan Humphrey,
who last year Little Jordan we established was the second
most used wide receiver for the Denver Broncos in.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Terms of snapcott in sanity.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
That could have happened with Sherfield wouldn't surprise me because
he'll do everything right.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Just make sure it's not five wide, because Leggy will
lose his mind. kJ what's next?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I just threw it away.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
He didn't get the ball to the line.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Shimmish coming off the top.
Speaker 5 (20:20):
Off the top, bro Leggy hates five wide. We An'll
know he even hates two by two.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
No, dude, like he would like a three year stretch
where like he was this hail bind on.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Make sure everybody he wasn't wrong.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
They sucked at it.
Speaker 7 (20:32):
They did blame it on Russell Wilson. Both Nick stepped
up to the podium behind Setting Peyton on Saturday. And
the one guy not getting enough love today is rookie
running back R. J.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Harvey.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
Bow Knicks may sure to give his flowers to the
rookie as he takes on his first game as a pro.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
Yeah, it's fun to watch him go out there and compete.
You know, he's he's young, He's got a lot of
ball left ahead of him.
Speaker 5 (21:00):
He's got some juice.
Speaker 10 (21:01):
He can get out of the backfield, catch the ball.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
His routes are great.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
He runs the ball really well, and he's just going
to learn and grow and continue to get better with
the run schemes and all that kind of stuff. It's
hard as a as a a newcomer that your first
time really going live to to see how everything develops.
But it's going to take time and and you know,
he's just going to get better over time, and each
each rep he gets, he's going to get better at it. Uh,
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He's going to see a lot more as he goes
down the road, and he's just going to be able
to add a lot of tools to his toolbox as
we go.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
So I'm excited for him, excited for the whole running
back room.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
I thought they did a really good job.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
They run the ball, tough, ran the ball physical, got
some first downs, you know, broke a lot of tackles,
which is always good to see. And so that's a
good room right now.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I loved what I saw out of r. J.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Harvey.
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I've said it multiple times in the show already today.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I know did he break enough tackles for you? And
for all of you? I'd love to hear that three
oh three, five, four nine to two five jumping the
shop the text line, one price, one person, one hour.
Did you see enough as a guy that can break
tackles in the National Football League? In addition to the
burst that you did see, I think all of us
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could agree we saw the burst from r. J. Harvey.
Did you see enough in terms of breaking tackles and
and and and actually creating those leaky yards where you
pushed the pile.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Four when he got outside the when he got outside
the tackles, he was able to turn negative plays or
no gain plays into positive yards. Now, does that mean
he was breaking actual tackles, not necessarily he was getting
to the edge and making positive plays. He was breaking
four arm tackles that were made below the waist. It
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wasn't like he was running through somebody you know.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
In It wasn't Marshawn Lynch. No, it wasn't beast mode.
It was, but there was only one of those guys.
Well I was.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
I was very, very pleased with the ten or sorry,
the nine touches and the ten targets in terms of
like passes and actual touches. From from a running back perspective,
I liked it a lot. I thought the people were like,
oh r J. Harvey, like, doesn't look like I thinks crap.
He belongs I just don't yet know.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Special.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
One player showed special yesterday, and that was Jeanne Berts.
In my opinion, one young player showed special. Everybody really
showed that they belonged. Youknew I showed special. The guy
that I've been saying could be groomed to be the
the defensive line joker l shoes own, Oh savi on
jos naby on Jones Man. He was involved in that
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fumble recovery. He had two tackles. He looked really active
and I was excited about that. Keep watching Big ninety
five man, that's the guy that I'm excited about.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
Mister Granderson, give me one more.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I just threw it away.
Speaker 10 (23:54):
He didn't get the ball of the line scrimmish.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Well.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Over to weekend, we uh saw Kate Adams hit to India.
She talked with Shane Stikeen and multiple players from the
Indianapolis Coltson Shane Steiken, he kind of took us behind
the curtain on what he's looking to do coming up
in regards to his quarterback battle moving forward.
Speaker 9 (24:13):
Are you changing any of that plan now because of
what happened? Well, Daniel's start this week against Green Bay,
but he'll play a couple series and then Anthony will
get the bulk of the work, you know, for the
first half after that.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
How are you gonna make this decision?
Speaker 5 (24:26):
Well, yes, you know, we're gonna look at it. I
talked to them about those guys.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Consistency when he consisted of that position. Joint practice this
week will be big for him, and then obviously going into.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
The game, hearing that voice just makes me just it
cracks me up. Shane Steiken's brother was my roommate in college.
My best man in my wedding. They sound the exact same.
And then Shane Stikeen was my dad's graduate assistant at
both Louisville and at UNLV. He's just the biggest goofball ever,
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so taking him seriously is so hard for me.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
We'll put a pain in the cold. It is time
to catch up with the head coach of your Colorado Rapids.
Typically we do this at ten forty five on a Monday,
but we didn't want to interrupt the Rapids meeting. So
it's time for your Chris.
Speaker 11 (25:10):
Armishew fines perfect ball up the sideline for Yappie, sprinting
to the top of the eighteen yappy to his right shots.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Yappy opens the scoring sensational from Colorado.
Speaker 11 (25:24):
In transition, Navajo dribbling forward, cuts to his right, sprays
it to Yappie Yappy in.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
The eighteen Yeappy in the corner with the brace. The
Rapids are up.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
Zero in the seventieth minute.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
That's the minimum of five minutes. It's gonna be a
reset here for Minnesota. We should be out of time.
We should be out of time.
Speaker 7 (25:46):
We are out of time for the third time.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
In twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
The Colorado Rapets.
Speaker 11 (25:52):
Will win away from Dick's Morning Goods Park, a vital
three points to begin the final nine games of the.
Speaker 4 (25:59):
Seat, coming off of a two to one victory against
Minnesota as they look ahead to taking on Atlanta in
just five days from right now, the head coach of
your Colorado Rapids, Chris Armis, as we welcome into the program.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Coach, congratulations on the win and welcome man.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
Thanks guys, good win for the boys, good win for
our club. Good to be on the show with you, guys.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Coach Armis, I'm just gonna throw this out there in
the universe. When we talked to you last week, the
news of Georgia Mihailovich signing a record deal which brought
in tons of revenue for the Rapids with Toronto FC,
and some of the some of the tough challenges of
the season, staying healthy ups and downs of this season,
(26:44):
it did feel like the world was kind of coming
to an end as it relates to the Rapids. This
was an unbelievable victory. It was tons of fun to watch.
There were major tactical changes that you and your staff employed.
Would you say that this was your biggest victory as
the head coach as a skipper of the Colorado Rapids.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
Uh, it's a memorable one and a and a really
important one for this year at this very moment for
what it means for the playoff push. You know that
the life without Malovich, which you know, we end up
tying Cruise AZUL essentially to two and and then going
(27:26):
on the road. It says a lot about the togetherness
of this team. It says a lot which makes me proud.
So no, it's you know, we won the Rocky Mountain
Cup last year at home.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
Second one was pretty sweet.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's probably the big one. But yeah, this was this
is up there because it was just such a a
test of will and determination. It was hot and humid,
it was hard, just hard. And Minnesota is one of
the best teams in the conference. It've only lost a
few games at home all year. And the way our
guys went there and they don't make excuses, they went
(28:00):
after it and we go on the road to win.
It's what gives us a chance every time. But yeah,
such a great victory.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
In your postgame pressor you talked about surprising Minnesota with
a tactical decision on the back end. Can you walk
us through what that was and why the decision was
made to go to three center backs.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Yeah, the Minnesota plays for let's call it a five
to two, three, a three, four to three. They played
three center backs and what they do challenges a lot
of teams because the three strikers play very close, but
they play with wing backs that open you up, and
they have central mifielders that can they can just hurt you.
(28:42):
When you try to take away one thing, they go
the other thing. They try the other thing, they go
to the other thing. So we tried to We thought
this could surprise him. They they wouldn't think that we
would try a new formation that almost matches up with them,
so all the space that they're looking for, they'd always
have a rapid in front of them. So it actually
disrupted them. You can see they tried some different things,
(29:03):
and even at halftime, I said, Fellas, I could see
what they were doing at the end of the first half.
This is what I think they're going to do in
the second half, and they actually did it. So we
actually were really prepared and we got that part right.
But the boys, I mean, listen, we there's x's and o's,
but this was a battle of much.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
It was.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
It was stress, it was the humidity. You can see
the guy's brains were melting. You could see the decision making,
the sharpness. And it's difficult, but some adjustments at halftime
to run hard in transition, knowing we would create these
big transition moments. More guys have to get into the box.
And they did that. Yappy, Rafa. I mean Calvin Harris amazing,
(29:43):
scored too. Maybe could have got a couple of more.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
Yeah, we're talking to the Robert Sala of MLS adjustments
and tactical Robert Sala, I thought you.
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Were talking about the shiny head.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
No, no, we've been talking for the last hour. Coach Armas.
You'd love this as as a New Yorker. But Robert,
it's not necessarily the greatest head coach in league history.
But I was not afraid to essentially hang up double
birds at Sean Payton and Bownicks and bring an unbelievable
variety of pressures in a preseason game to say I'm
avenging the loss of my friend Nathaniel Hackett and what
(30:15):
happened to him in Denver. But neither here nor there.
We move on, Darren, Yappy, this is a player that
if you look at the ceiling of what Darren Yapi
can be, this is this type of player that has
quality athleticism, length, top end speed, power to be somebody
that even in the US national team playerpool, if he's
playing at that level, not only do rapids have the
(30:38):
ability to be that much more dynamic and scary to defend,
but this is a guy that you don't have the
body type with a lot of frequency even in the
national level. Tell me about just when Darren Yappi has
the confidence to put in the back of the net,
what that does for him and for this team.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
Yeah, listen, if he's getting on the scoreboard, it takes
pressure sure off of Navaja, Right, So even Calvin Harris,
when you have these fast guys that are also powerful
and strong around Navarro, it just takes pressure off of
our main guy. We had to we try to keep
(31:16):
those guys in and around each other. So it's just
it's this tough situation for opposition back lines to deal with. Listen,
you know, Darren Yappy, he's still a young player, but
he has some of the intangible things you can teach.
He's athletic, he's a wonderful human being. He's humble, he's
got a good process. He plays with big passion, and
(31:39):
he's a high character kid. But but yes, well he's
got the big potential. Guys. Yesterday he takes over the game.
But in the second half you're almost saying, ah, do
we need to make some changes. We're looking a little
bit flat. He can do better. So it's and all
of a sudden he comes to life, and it's almost
like a new It's almost like you subbed in a
new guy all of a sudden, and he starts torching
(32:02):
the back line. So he has big potential. He can score.
He's got to imagine a young guy with that body.
He can use it even more to hold up the
play for aerial duels, be even more so for me.
He's with scratching the service with him and he's already
got six or seven goals this year.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Soscell text to the word center to three oh three,
five oh four oh nine two five, That is center
to three oh three, five oh four oh nine to
two five for your chance to win a family four
pack at tickets to see the Rapids take on Atlanta
coming up on the sixteenth. Coach you mentioned you specifically
game plan to go on the road against a team
(32:39):
that plays well at home, right, Like you made those
decisions because Minnesota is so stingy, right and you wanted
to somehow surprise them. On the opposite side of the equation,
Atlanta comes to Denver in five days time. They'll have
a week in between their last game where they had
a one to one draw.
Speaker 5 (32:56):
They have not won a game on the road this year.
Speaker 4 (32:58):
Do you make similar adjustments knowing that a team struggles
on the road, much like Minnesota is dominant at home.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Listen, we it's it'll be uh interesting. They've done some
different things. Atlanta. They're not as easy to game plan
against because it's their searching for solutions themselves. I think
the most important thing come this next game home against
Atlanta is to bring bring it, bring the energy, bring
the intensity, Overwhelm them, run them, over play with verticality,
(33:29):
suffer this team, suffocate this team. Put them at this
altitude they're not used to it. If they don't like
they're on the road, maybe they like being like being
on the road at altitude even less. We have to
be able to ramp this thing up in a way
that puts them in a faster game than they want
to be in now. Structurally, we'll have a plan for
sure to take away some of their top players. They
(33:50):
have a really talented roster in the attacking core. So
we have to well well listen every team because it's capable.
So we we will not be talking about this team
has one on the road. We will be saying, fellas,
it's another team in our in our way to our goal.
We've got to run them over. That's how we have
to approach it.
Speaker 4 (34:08):
Saturday night, the sixteenth, that's your last time to see
the Rapids at home until September thirteenth. Get your tickets
today at Colorado Rapids dot com slash tickets. Coach, thank
you so much for your time. Great win and continue
the hot streak when you guys return home.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Appreciate you guys. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5 (34:23):
The head coach of your Colorado Rapids. It's Chris Armis.
Speaker 4 (34:26):
Text the word center that's center to three oh three,
five oh four O nine two five for your chance
to win a family four pack of tickets to go
see the Rapids take on Atlanta this Saturday evening. One
more time, center to three oh three, five oh four
O nine to two five will give away those tickets.
On the other side, we'll get back into the struggles
of bow Knicks in the first team offense and whether
(34:48):
or not that extends bo Nicks's preseason here in just
a couple of minutes. But I did want to ask
you what what was the craziest thing you saw this weekend? Well,
for me, I just did tell you this in all
fair and soft the air.
Speaker 5 (35:02):
And the people don't know that.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
So on Instagram, it's the magic of on Instagram, all
of my my fine friends from various places of employment,
of which I have several, no more magic. I saw
just about everybody I know it a Savannah Bananas game
over Saturday and Sunday. Is that right? Was it Saturday
Sunday or Sunday Monday? They gone played two games and
(35:24):
they're gone, okay, so packed. You see all these people
having all this fun and they're getting pictures of bananas
they got they're dressed up as bananas, or they're dressed
up in some one hundred and twenty dollar jersey that
they purchased, and it looks like you would be in
a position where you're looking at it and being like, man,
(35:45):
I just wish I was there right now. You would
think I would have had fomo, but it led me
to create a new contradictory acronym to fomo. I had Gimo.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
Gimo was gimo.
Speaker 3 (36:03):
Geo g g I n o glad I'm not t there?
God bad? What about gilo lot I'm left out?
Speaker 5 (36:23):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Hard, They're not good. You got the dude, I do
not like. I don't like. I'm sorry. I know so
many of you are right now are driving around like gosh,
still on it. You four khi from your banana day.
Speaker 6 (36:41):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Man As for me and my family, I will never
never waste how I'll say this, I will never invest
money in attending a banana's event.
Speaker 5 (36:52):
kJ craziest thing you saw this weekend?
Speaker 7 (36:55):
Well, I just told you. Like Coach said off the air, dude,
Texas is AP number one, and his having me crazy
because they've done nothing to earn it.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Speaking of Texas, how bad did Quinn Ewers look in
a pre Pretty bad? I was told at every step
of the process with quinn Yours I started. I was
recruiting his high school, and I was told that he
is the biggest can't miss prospect maybe in the history
(37:24):
of high school recruiting, and I was when watched him
in practice, I'm like, really, he looks like a slow
twitch athlete. He is a good, good pastor of the football.
But every time I play, I watch him play the
actual game of football. Just not it. Man, talk about
a fall from grace. You remember that guy like it was.
(37:44):
He was the savior of Ohio State football never started there,
had to transfer. It's one of the first big nil guys.
Never even really got any return on investment at Ohio State.
Goes to Texas. Oh He's Texas is gonna win a
national championship with him there. It never happened.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
I mean, they got as close as they've been since
Vince Young was.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
There close only counts and horseshoes in ang Gredades Rush.
What was the craziest thing you saw or the dumbest
thing saw, the most disgusting thing you saw this weekend.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
I saw three wild things. Andrew says, it's called Joe
mo The joy of missing out.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Yeah, I was good with I just couldn't.
Speaker 5 (38:24):
I didn't miss out.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Gimo is good. Glad I missed out.
Speaker 5 (38:27):
That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah, that's what I should have said. That's a good one.
I saw three wild things. I told you guys, I
was gonna watch a little bit of a NASCAR race
for like the first time in my life, because there
was a Syracuse forty four car zipping around Watkins, Glenn
and upstate New York.
Speaker 5 (38:41):
Did you see what happened after the race?
Speaker 3 (38:43):
I didn't.
Speaker 4 (38:44):
The dude who won this race, Connors Zillish. You know
how they they climb out of the driver's side window
because like the doors don't work. It's just like one,
you know, crash cage, just with a engine that goes
super duper fast. He was climbing out of his car
because he won the thing to get on top of
his car and you know, pop a bottle of champagne
(39:04):
and drink one or one beers.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
With his buddies.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
His foot caught and he fell out of the side
of the car, smacked his head and his neck on
the pavement and was out cold, like they were nervousy.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (39:16):
It sounds very video of it. The video is like
he's lucky to be alive. It's insane.
Speaker 3 (39:23):
Now, what what a organization is this?
Speaker 5 (39:26):
This is NASCAR? You want a NASCAR want a NASCAR race?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Or a series.
Speaker 5 (39:30):
Yeah, dude, I'm telling you, craziest thing out cold.
Speaker 3 (39:34):
Now.
Speaker 5 (39:34):
He's fine. No neck injuries, dude, he has. He broke
his collarbone, but he's lucky to be.
Speaker 3 (39:40):
Like his freaking collarbone after a win broke his collar.
Speaker 4 (39:44):
His name Connor is Zillish, nineteen year old. Oh my gosh,
it's nasty. Yea NASCAR sprint series, I think, is what
it was. I don't pretend to really know NASCAR, but
that's what I tuned in for.
Speaker 3 (39:55):
It was the Mission two hundred, so this is usually
Was that a Saturday or was that because usually the
big right, the big event is on Sunday? Yep, So
it's the Have you ever been to a NASCAR event? Yeah, dude,
they're so fun.
Speaker 5 (40:09):
I love The in field of NASCAR events is crazy
and the only one.
Speaker 3 (40:11):
I was up was at the Watkins Gun for run
tailgating at a NASCAR event, which was crazy. When you
hear the engines rev up, it sounds like there's like
seven hundred and seven forty sevens that are starting their
engine at the exact same time. It's the loudest, most
incredible spectacle and it's something I never thought I would
like which to all of you Savannah and Bananas people
out there, that's probably what I need to go. Somebody
(40:33):
needs to force me to go to an event so
I could say, you know what, it was a really
cool event in person.
Speaker 4 (40:38):
So if that wasn't the craziest thing I saw, obviously
there was the really scary, the scary injury in the
Lions and Falcons game that just like basically ended the
game in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (40:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (40:51):
The World Surfing League went to Tahiti this week and
a played at a break called Joe Pou or Joefu
I can't I actually don't really know how to pronounce it.
There was a twelve year old girl competing and it's
like the thickest, fastest wave in the world and this.
Speaker 5 (41:06):
Twelve year olds just ripping. It was the coolest thing
I've ever seen.
Speaker 4 (41:10):
Little girl with a helmet, just like ripping around getting
out of there a wave that would kill you were.
Speaker 3 (41:15):
On right, And I grew up. I grew up in
the surf culture, bodyboarding, body surfing, skateboarding, everything like all
the X Games, I guess Coastal X Games that post
the Mountain X Games is where I grew up in
Orange County, California. And the craziest thing. I had kids
in my in my high school and middle school that
looked like like tiny, like no definition, and you just
(41:39):
watch them just anything on a board sport. You're like,
how do you do that? Insanity? And it's like there's
really no Like. You look at a football player and
you're like, that guy's good. He's got huge quads or
he's built. You look at a surfer you're like, I
don't know, man, and then they are a skater and
they just rip things. You're like, dude, that is so cool.
(42:00):
I wish I could do that. So instead you're I
get to be really average as a skater and a
surfer and really averages a football player just kind of
just just average everything. Pick your poison, baby, you know
what jack of all trades, man, I'll tell you what.
I could still get out there and catch them. I
could still shred the nar in the Pacific.
Speaker 4 (42:16):
Still could who was very average, if not below average
Bonnicks in that first team offense. Now, you mentioned something
to me in the break was if there's one positive
that comes out of this, it extends the preseason life.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Is that really a positive though?
Speaker 5 (42:32):
For fans.
Speaker 3 (42:33):
It is fans. It is for the fan experience, for
the fan experience.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
Right like I have for the media my notes of
the first half of the Broncos game. Like I am
in mid season note taking forms.
Speaker 2 (42:44):
I saw it.
Speaker 3 (42:44):
That was beautiful. I did the same thing I was.
I was at the nine News sports desk hanging out
with my guy Chris Taveries John here's here's the second
page my second half notes. Well, they kind of don't exist.
So for fans, yeah, that's awesome. More one give it
to me baby, Now do does that put Sean Payton
in a tough spot? If bow Knicks needs to play
(43:07):
more preseason football and this starting offense needs to play
a bit more preseason football to just get that feel,
that's all. Like you, you don't need to play three games.
I want to make that clear with bow Knicks in
the ones. Frankly, you don't need to play a full
half against the Cardinals. Would I think that bow Knicks
needs himself and I think Broncos country would love to
(43:30):
see this as a result is because of a bit
of a challenging training camp against an unbelievably good defense,
and because of a i'd say a fairly uneven performance
in joint practice on Thursday against the Niners, where you
started really strong and then it appeared that the forty
nine ers defense finished strong, right, which is good. That's
a good day. That's not a bad day, to make
(43:51):
it clear, but the forty nine ers defense, their backups
and their thirds man. You scored three points. And the
only reason you scored three points because you inherited a
takeaway Dann near midfield. That's how you got your points.
You in fact scored two points for them. For the
other team, by the way you was safety.
Speaker 5 (44:11):
You had net one point.
Speaker 3 (44:12):
You netted one point three drives against not one starter
for the forty nine ers. So what Bonix needs right now,
he needs that that feeling of coming off after leading
it really clean drive and it could be the first drive,
and you know what, if that's the case, shut him down.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
Nine plays, three minutes and fifty two seconds, seventy five
yards and a.
Speaker 3 (44:33):
A Bonix touchdown to Troy Franklin back corner of the
end zone. A little nine yard touchdown reception. Yep, just
all sweet little little bootleg off of a wide zone
play action. Troy Franklin ran in a corner out. You
just loft feathered up there. Bonicks Denver Broncos offense were
good to get.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
He tried to feather two passes, the two that he
were or the two passes that he was short on
the was it a Courtland Sutton corner?
Speaker 3 (45:00):
Yep down the field and then at Troy Franklin, go
ball And both of them they were those the football
up to the air.
Speaker 5 (45:06):
They were ducky.
Speaker 3 (45:07):
They were ducky, and they also both could have been
picked up.
Speaker 5 (45:09):
Like I love you rh I love you Ryan Harris,
I really do.
Speaker 2 (45:12):
Brother.
Speaker 5 (45:13):
You said it was a really good or well thrown
ball to Troy Franklin. I thought it was a duck.
Speaker 3 (45:17):
It was not a good throw. And both of those
throws like people would say, well, gave him a chance. Well,
unfortunately they had a step on the defensive back. Yeah,
guess who you actually gave a chance give a chance
to the defensive back.
Speaker 5 (45:29):
Troy Franklin.
Speaker 4 (45:30):
Ball should have been intercepted. Frankly, both of them could
have been intercepted. And the Sutton ball, I think if
you have the first Sutton ball was great, that was
a Sutton drop.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
We're not talking about no.
Speaker 4 (45:39):
The Sutton corner in the end zone that was underthrown
and led to a field goal, and he was open.
I think if you give Bo three balls, five balls,
four out of the five are in the corner Sutton
gets his hands on.
Speaker 3 (45:51):
Would you just say this though, like for anybody who
has any crazy reaction to what happened in the preseason
game with the three drives of the offense, that's kind
of what we've been watching every day at practice.
Speaker 11 (46:01):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
It's about what it's been like. So are we supposed
to be surprised? No, But you know what. The remedy
to all that is rush is the Arizona Cardinals coming
to town. One really clean offensive touchdown drive and man,
you are ready to be good enough to play in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (46:19):
Fellas. It feels like football, It really does.
Speaker 4 (46:21):
It took every piece of my being not to do
a big play replay today, and you know what, I'm
gonna promise it to you a week from today. We
will do big play replay on Monday against Week two
Broncos and Cardinals. We will have that on Monday.
Speaker 3 (46:36):
I'll break down the Kyler Murray call of duty set
that he's gonna have as well.
Speaker 4 (46:40):
For coach Sanford Homrage kJ behind the Glass. Love you guys,
Thanks that for hanging out with us. PhD is coming
up next. Don't go anywhere as Coach just ruins the
entire studio for everyone. Jesus Christ, Coach, this is why
we can't have nice things. Maybe we'll see you tomorrow
morning at ten. Tune in to find out you've.
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