August 15, 2025 • 47 mins
0:00 - Coach and Raj address some other pressing issues in Denver Sports, including Nuggets and Avs, before we circle back to Broncos!
13:34 - KJ's NFL Notes
33:39 - The fellas end the show by explaining where the Broncos roster ranks by position across the NFL. Raj goes off about some of the rankings and why it says the Broncos still have room to prove the doubters wrong.
13:34 - KJ's NFL Notes
33:39 - The fellas end the show by explaining where the Broncos roster ranks by position across the NFL. Raj goes off about some of the rankings and why it says the Broncos still have room to prove the doubters wrong.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm going to admit to something that I think might
be a little bit despicable about me.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Is it more despicable than what I revealed to you
about me? That is against everything that my wife has
told me to do in my lifetime, which is Raj.
I'll admit to you, and I'll admit to all of
our our fine listeners, I am guilty of pooping in
the powder room.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That it's decisive. Yeah, that is a divisive topic.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man, yep, three oh three five, four nine two five?
Is it okay? Where there's Is it acceptable in your
own home to poop in the powder room?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Uh? When when you are only home with the family,
the answer is yes.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And if in mixed company, the answer is no. If
powder room sounds dumb or like soft? The half bathroom
the half bath, are you allowed to poop in the
half bath or is that is that a liquid?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Only in mixed company?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
With the family, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
See I've been told even with the family, But I
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm sorry for you that your booty is on lockdown.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well it's not because I break the rule every single day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A despicable thing about me. In the workplace, we have
a colleague who's leaving us today. She's been here for
a very long time in sales, and I don't know
if this is the case, but her name is Jill,
and she always gives me food like she always orders
too much food for herself, and she realized that I
will eat anything that she gives me. Now I think
(01:52):
she also stalks the fridge with like coffee creamers and
oatd milks and stuff like that, but she doesn't put
her name on them. I've been using the oat milk
in the coffee creamer for five years, and now I
fear that I will no longer have coffee creamer to steal.
If your name's not on it in the fridge, and
(02:13):
it makes my coffee taste better, I'm using it. I'm
using a very small amount of it, but I'm using
it if your name is If your name is on it,
I won't touch it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
When you start your morning out how many coffees are
ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I have a coffee as soon as I get out
of the shower and like.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Home coffee, coffee wouldn't apply to to the consumption of
somebody else's oat milk or creamer.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Correct, that's my own. And then I come to the
office and I have at least one here during the
show or prior to the show, and then I steal
someone's oat milk because their name is not on it
in the fridge.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I agree with three three.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Just drink black coffee like an adult.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I agree there's only one way to drink coffee, and
that's uh from the gas station, sitting on a burner
for hours and with nothing added to it, scalding hot
at one hundred and two degree temperature. That's my kind
of man coffee right there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I've always been a little scummy in not being prepared
like that. That is a non prepared version of me
to have coffee in the morning. I don't have my
own creamer here. I just bum it off of someone
who doesn't have their name on it. And I hope
that just by taking a little bit much like I
was a sixteen year old in high school, and like
you pour a little bit of voc out the sky
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bottle and then you put some more water in it.
You hope Mom and Dad don't notice. I'm doing the
same thing with the coffee creamer here. I did the
same thing when I was growing up playing hockeymen. I
never had sock tape ever, but I used sock tape
every single day.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Trying to think what those things are for me that
I probably inappropriately bummed from others, Like what did.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You bum in the football locker room that you never
had but you always needed to use?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh it was. I went through a big phase of, uh,
just because you're you're going to practice, sometimes two practices
will walk through into practice and you just don't want
to kind of sit in your stew all day. Right,
big gold bond guy back in the day. I've kind
of moved on from goldban I've graduated from Goldbonnndle Tingle. Yeah,
it's kind of nice, little how's your father kind of
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action going on down south. But I would always bump.
I would bum the the the gold bond, you know,
it's it's in the shaker with the little you know,
it kind of looks like a would you say, like
a flower shaker. Right, I'd use that, but it wouldn't
touch anything crazy, It just kind.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Of they just put it back in someone's stall all
the time. Is that bad? Are you sure you never
grazed it a little bit? No one wants, you know,
under barrels sweat on their gold bond, never grazed. Okay,
if you can commit that you never grazed it, then
you're open so big.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What are these what are they called again? Like girdle,
the hurdles, what's the no, like just tight fitting box compressions. Yeah,
compression shorts. I would take the compression shorts and do
the big open gold bond hold upside down about four
to six inches above and then just like three tight
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little squirts of the gold bond powder. And it's powder,
so it's not really a squirt. It's like a pump.
It's three powder pumps, three poofs. So I never touched
no zero contact, acceptable, unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Acceptable, more acceptable than me being a scumbag and stealing
sock tape. That's a scumbag move for me.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I think I never would borrow anybody else's deodorant and
gets gross.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, it's weirds.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just spies spray dedorant. Despise it like hurts like
burns from like it's wrong with your skin.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, just like from you know, under your arm man
like open sores.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
And stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You know, ah gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I had a question on the text line, ROJ do
you think the Avs improved or got worse in the offseason.
It's an interesting question going into this year, right because
anything outside of, in my opinion, winning the Western Conference
is a failure this year that I think will likely
cost Jared Bednard's job. I love Betsy, I think he's
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the right coach for this team, but you do have
to perform when McKinnon mccarr are at the top of
their peaks. I think they got I think they got better.
They shored up to center. A guy in brock Nelson
who fits here, who works Wealth, Na Chushkin works Wealth Landiskog.
That is that is a a data driven fact that
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that second line is really good. They got bigger, meaner,
and longer on defense, which is something that they lacked
amendously sure against the rest of the or the rest
of the Western Conference. Now, the bottom six is not
as good on the forward group, I'll give you that.
If you look at the bottom six and certainly at
third line center, you go, oh, do we really like that.
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The fourth line's stellar. That fourth line of Jack Jerry, Parker,
Kelly and Logan O'Connor, and I know Connor is gonna
miss a couple of months to start the season, that
is one of the best fourth lines in hockey. Yes,
that's fine. It really comes down to whether or not
you you think you need more than thirty points thirty
to forty points out of third liners this year. If
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you are of the thought process that you need more
than forty points out of your third liners, every single
one of them, then the Avs got worse. If you're
of my thought process, where I think the Avs saw
major holes in their roster and they addressed them. Second
line center and getting bigger, meaner, and more veteran on defense.
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They addressed those things. Therefore, I think they got better.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
What was the biggest off season acquisition or resign for
the Apps.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Probably brock Nelson and then Brent Burns very shortly after that.
I think Burns changes who they are. It changes their outlook.
As I wave goodbye to my coffee creamer lady over
the last five years that she walks out of KCRA,
she was.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
My peloton buddy. She was a big peloton rider, and
we would always compare stories and notes from our favorite
Peloton instructors.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Cool Kendall.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Kendall's been gone three years, I think for three years. Yes,
so I did cancel my my peloton and sold that
bad boy it's time to get really fat, really puffy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, dude, I think they got better. I think they
made good signings. I wish they had done a little
bit more to shore up that third line, but I
don't know how much they could have done. Granted the
issues with the salary cap that they're coming up against,
knowing that you have to pay Cale mccarr a big time,
knowing that you're still trying to figure out what's going
on with Marty Natchius. Is he here for the long term?
(09:08):
I understand like the gun shy nature of like, hey,
we're gonna sink three million dollars over the course of
four years for a third liner, when you go, we
need those three million to give to Kale, like it
has to happen. I understand that. I get it. I
think they got better in goal a full season. Mackenzie
Black when he kidding me he's a top five goaltender
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in the league last year from the moment he stepped
foot on ball Arena ice until the end of the year.
I've already told you he is my dark horse Vesna
candidate this year at twenty five to one. I think
they got better, I do, and I think Dallas got worse.
And that's the one thing that has been holding you
back from success is Dallas.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
For the Avs and what's been the Achilles heel. Then
moving on from Pete to Borr might be the number
one thing that got better for the Abs as it
relates to the to the matchup.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The done nothing and they got better.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that style of play. I mean, that's the kryptonite
for the for the Colorado Avalanche, it just is the
mucket up. Yep, you gotta you gotta dump and chase
like just not the Avs best way of playing. They
play that beautiful game. And when you started eliminating the
ability to play center and you become more perimeter, the
Avs become what you fear the Avs are, which is
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at times finesse. They end up looking finesse against teams
like the Peter Debor led Dallas Stars. I'm glad he's
gone now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Their roommates on the other side of ball arena like
the Nuggets. If you ask that question, it is an
unequivocal yes, they got better.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Guy, we haven't talked much about Yonis Valentinis. He's good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's playing well for Lithuania right now. In your ow basket,
was was just fine for that. I think they had
to win against Greece and he played well, played some
solid minutes. The answer for the Nuggets is they got
better because the biggest hole with the Nuggets, and it
has been since the championship, is what the heck happens
in the non Jokic minutes, and they hadn't addressed that
for two full seasons. They finally do so in this offseason.
(11:07):
Michael Porter Junior is now going on podcasts and talking
about gambling vices and how's His vice has always been women,
but he understands how guys get pulled into the well.
If I just tell my buddies, I'm gonna hit the
under on this thing, they might be able to walk
away with ten K. The NBA can't be thrilled with
Michael Porter Junior right now. And you think you think
the Nuggets are happy that, but if they don't have
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to deal with the VPR crisis.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
No question, especially with his brother right right, it's Michael
Porter Junior. What do you talk about. Is he saying
that he's he's a recovering addict with females or is
he he says currently, he.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Says everyone has their vice, right. For a lot of guys,
it's sports gambling. Sometimes it's drugs, or it's liquor. And
he goes, you know, my vice for forever has been women.
And I think it was kind of like tug in cheek. No,
but he would go on to say, like, this is
how this happens is that the guys realize they can
make their their buddies. Who if you come from nothing
and your buddies have nothing, Here's how a guy can
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walk out and pay his mortgage for a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The stories out of the NBA over the course last
fifty years have been wild, but just you know, you
have apartments in every NBA town that you visit, like
there's there's some uh, there's some stories in that league.
The Association's always been one where I think the big
vice is is the plurality of relationships on the of
the female side. Big one, big.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
One, Yeah, dude, the Nuggets got better in the off season,
they filled their holes and not having to answer. And
I don't know how much is actually gonna come from
the MPG podcast scenario, but the the league can't be
thrilled that he's going on there saying I understand why
guys do this. You can't not with how close you are,
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Mike to the biggest gambling scandal in the NBA since
Donnie Right, That's that's what Johntay Porter, Porter is. It's
the biggest scandal since the referee scandal. They banned a
dude for life from the NBA. And you're talking about
that understandings your brother, and you're trying to like sympathize
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with the situation that's happening. I'm just happy the Nuggets
don't have to deal with that right now.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
All right, what we'ld be talking about first story without
a doubt, but out of doubt that come out yesterday,
two days ago, two days ago.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Kj's NFL notes are coming up. On the other side,
will pop some tops, tell you guys what we're watching
this weekend. Coming up at eleven forty five PhD noon
to three today and then Nate and Andy take you
home on your drive back from work into the weekend
from three to six pm, it's altitude every day here
on the morning Sprint, we go through the biggest stories
in the NFL with kj's NFL Notes, and we have
so much sound to get through with Sean Payton coming
(13:43):
from yesterday's joint practice with the Cardinals Saturday evening, Week
two of the preseason. Do not expect to see starters
in that game.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
That is correct. Roger's shun talked about that, and he
explains why this game specifically is the game that he
chose in regards to them not starting.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Fair question. I probably was gonna get to this. I
haven't done this before. I haven't had two joint practices before,
so I'm gonna I'm not gonna play. Neither Jonathan or
myself are gonna play the ones. Now, there'll be a few,
like there's five, five, six players that are on an
eight play pitch count that we consider ones, but maybe
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lack of reps or for whatever reason. So we're gonna
feature really two phases, you know, the twos. And when
I say the twos, don't read into you know. Basically,
there's gonna be a group in the first half and
a group in the second half. But your front line,
O line, D line, QB corner. You know, I'm gonna
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sit those guys only because of the uniqueness of two
of these in a week's time frame. And then next
week I'm going to play those guys, you know, eight
to ten plays and get them out. So I kind
of have a plan as to how they'll play in
New Orleans. But that's what you can expect going into
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this game.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Shawnee Sean heading back to New Orleans, wants to show
off a few of his shiny new objects, wants to
show off his quarterback yet again. It's two years in
a row. Who are the five or six players. Let's
have a little quick conversation about that. Who could be
the five or six players that Sean was referring to
that will get those reps. I'll start John ay Baron, Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
R J.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Harvey, Yes, rookie, rookie, you need to he didn't run, he.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Didn't dig it, he did it with all. I got
one for you, Patrick Bryant, Sure that'd be good, right.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, I have one that It's not a rookie. Marvin
Mims he's not playing. Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Because he had a great practice. I thought he had
a good practice. He had one kind of semi dropped
that was a low throw, But I thought he I
thought he showed up in that joint practice, and you,
like you saw him make plays that you haven't seen
him make with form of consistency.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I agree. But if you're not gonna put Courtland Sutton
on the field, doesn't that open up Marvin's ability to
show you, Hey, this is what I can do on
the outside, this is what I can do as a
as a featured wide receiver. I know he's not the
proto type for a guy to be slotted.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Too much value in him as a returner. It's two
time Pro Bowl returners. So when Sean puts it out
into the universe that we're not playing our ones, and
you all of a sudden put Marvin Mims, former second
round draft pick, two time Pro bowler at the return position,
I don't think you play him.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I don't play anybody on the offensive line. Zero's isn't
playing zero. I'm not playing McGlinchey. Although mcglinchy got beat
up yesterday in that final move the ball period, Kalais
Campbell beat McGlinchey like a rented mule. At the end
of practice yesterday, there were two sacks and it was
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Campbell and I can't remember who else was on the
right side of that line. And maybe it was a
little bit more of the fact that you didn't have
bulls out there, so it wasn't like the full starting five.
Mcglinchy got at a tough go a couple of times.
Are we going to see edvan Perk got beat a
couple of or got by Campbell once?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Are we going to see Evan Ingram do anything in
a preseason game this year?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I hope. So it just.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Felt like he didn't play in Game one, even though
he recorded snaps. There's one.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
There's also not a reason to have him out there
without Bo, Yes, exactly. So Bo's not playing, then I
don't play Ingram.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Then do you play Mims?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, because I want to see more of I want
to see more touches. I want to see more than
just a bubble screen to Marvin Mims. And he's not
gonna get those looks. If Courtland Sutton's on.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
The field defensively, Pat.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Bryant's on the field, Troy Franklin's on the field, he's
not gonna get those looks.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Defensively, we'll see Lavelle Bailey, who's not a one, but
his played basically function one.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
One one plus.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Joan Ellis one plus. I don't know if we'll see
John Ellis. What do you think? I mean, he's added
a crazy good camp.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Nick in there.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So if you put Nick Benito in there right now,
he should be you should be kicked square in the
in the family situation there, family lineage.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I think you just named your six guys. Sure, that's fine.
I don't play Zach Allen, I don't play JFM.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Chris Abrams Drain plays.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Does Jade Baron play and Ja Kwan McMillan not play.
That's a weird both. Probably do you think Jayqwan McMillan
as a VET plays, Yeah, because I don't want to
put patzer ten or Riley Moss in the game. Well,
neither those guys are playing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You're running, You're very quickly running out of cornerbacks.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, you got a bunch of guys. They just names.
Rhys Taylor's on here, there's names, there's guys.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Here's one I was thinking about because he hasn't played yet.
Alex Singleton, Is there any chance that maybe he gives
a couple of snaps?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He got a ton in the joint practice, and that's
what kind of it felt like, just being out there, kJ,
And I know you didn't have a chance to be
out there because you're in here doing a phenomenal job
producing the show as we were on assignment, you think
you said, yes, Sir Alex Singleton. That was That was
his preseason, probably all encapsulated into one one practice. He
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got a lot of work that was good. kJ.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
What's next, Let's find him in twenty twenty seven and
see where we're at.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Between you running back, wide receiver, inside linebacker, defensive line,
and safety. There's more than enough competition to go around
as far as the Broncos right now. But one position
Sean Payton is realistically considering keeping is three quarterbacks on
the fifty three mayor roster.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Maybe she touched upon it.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
What's your view on possibly keeping three quarterbacks on the
fifty three?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's just it's a topic.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Meaning to get Sam's doing the practice, LIT think well
that gets discussed as well. So when we discuss.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
These, we try to.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
How many players last year were claimed that quarterback. How
many players were claimed as later round. We get these
percentages to help us predict. You know, we felt like
Jaliel two years ago was going to be a practice
squad player, and then in San Francisco, I think he
has one hundred and twenty some yards and it's like,
well there goes you know, So we discussed those risks
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and for long, long hours, like you're right on it,
Like we discussed that.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
This is Groundhog's day till last year? Do you remember,
I think it was about the exact same time, almost
the exact same presser. It was Bo Nicks, Jared Stidham,
Zach Wilson, three quarterbacks on the roster. It feels almost identical.
And yes, Sam Allen Gary has had a great, great
preseason training camp, Yes he has.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
He throws a great ball, don't get me wrong. But
what you just said is the reason why there's no
reason to keep a third quarterback on the roster.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What did they do with Zach? What was Zach Wilson's deal?
Again last year, it was like the emergency three? What
was the emergency three? QB? How do you how do
you even phrase that? I can't remember it because I
think Zach Wilson was suited No, he wasn't suited up,
but he was on the sideline. The emergency it's like
an e bug allows teams to designate a third quarterback
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on the game day roster who can only enter the
game if the first two quarterbacks are injured or ejected
during the first three quarters of Are those guys in
full uniform? I can't even remember.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They Uh, I would assume they are, because how did
you enter? They do have to be on the team's
fifty three man.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Roster, so how does that affect their ability to be
claimed in waivers? If you don't have them on the
initial fifty three, you can be claimed.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's just who's gonna The emergency claimterback thing is just
a game day rule unless there's.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Like massive injury situations in preseason. Who's gonna claim Sam
Ellinger because you have to put him on the active roster?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I mean someone might claim him.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think, do you not have to put him on
the active roster though? Yeah, roster and you acquire you
acquire their contract and in its full regular season mode?
Is that how you like?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Last year Bailey Zappi was was picked up in the
offseas he's in. Malik Willis got traded like Desmond Ritter,
Ben Denucci, Brett Rippen or other quarterbacks that got picked up.
The reason why you don't keep three quarterbacks is because
you went Isn't this deja vu? Didn't we see this
last year with with Zach Wilson. You could get Zach
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Wilson again this year. His name is Sam Ellinger. You
can get Sam Ellinger next year. I don't know who
his name is next year, but you can draft him
in the fifth round. There's no reason to keep three dudes,
especially when there's other players on the team, Audrey. If
I'm Audric Gastman, they keep a third quarterback, I am
losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Should should have ran harder? Should he use your brute
strength to run through people's face like Marson?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
If you snaps, Ellinger won't give you snaps.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Here's what Ellinger will do for you. Ellinger will be
a much cheaper option as your two once you move
on from Stidham.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what a fifth rounder next year?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
But you know what you got in Sam Ellinger?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, you don't, You have no idea?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, you don't based off of practice? Yes you do.
You know way more than somebody that right now is
playing at two lane. You know nothing about that. Somebody's
transferred there. Somebody. Oh is Jake Rhetzlaf, the BYU quarterback
that had.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Jake Reetzlof on the team. Also Jackson, Judge, Cayden Samongza,
and Brendan Sullivan for all of you two lane Green
Wave enthusiasts out there.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, Jake kretzlaugh, it'd actually be a really good, really
good thirty.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Again, I've loved the way that Ellener's throwing the football,
but I'm not a proponent of keeping three quarterbacks. You're
not gonna need it, knock on wood, but like you're
not gonna need it.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's like it's like going into an offseason as a
hockey team and like actively rostering three NHL.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Goal Would you rather keep odric estimate based off what
we've seen almost no special teams value.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I'd rather keep Tyler Beday.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, Tyler Bedaan and Blake Watson.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Woking, Davis Walking, Gets Caughting, Samuel Wingers on this team.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'm gonna raise hell red zone specialist.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I love that guy. He's not gonna make the team,
but I love him kJ what's next.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Let's find him in twenty twenty seven and see where
we're at.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Arizona Cardinals inside linebacker Mac Wilson, Senior, also in Alabama native,
just like bow Knicks, talked about how things went for
the Cars defense yesterday and what they have to improve
on after facing a bow Knicks lead offense.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
How do you feel about how things went overall for
the defense?
Speaker 7 (25:36):
I feel like we did pretty well. You know, some
things that we got to clean up still, but I
feel like we stopped to run pretty well. Gotta clean
up some things in a passing game, but overall, I
feel like we made a step forward.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I'm getting bow too. Yeah, from him to any.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Profession there, Yeah, Bo, you could tell he definitely made
the year two leap, just just comparing you know what
I saw last year with him as a rookie, and
he was out there making no look throws and stuff,
and you know, I'm just really just happy from for him. Honestly.
You know, a guy who's from Alabama. I'm from Alabama
as well, so I'm extremely powered to to to see
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you know, where he what he do the rest of
his career and things like that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I would love mac Wilson on this team, by the way.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He looked great. Did he not look great?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He looked awesome. I was like, who's to run stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Er?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Had a pass defense yesterday? Is the was it like
the red zone extended?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Where did he play college ball? Was he a Florida State.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Guy mac Wilson senior? I do not know where he
played football. No, he looked great, though.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
He's in Alabama Saban guy Alabama, like pure Saban linebacker baller.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
He looked great. And for him to say those things
about Nixon, say those things about this team.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I thought Bull looked great yesterday, Bo looked.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
The first team offense looked.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
They look fantastic. And it's what the doctor ordered. It's
what Bone needed.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Like, I know there's a lot of times where you
guys go out there on Twitter and you see these
these cheesy, overhyped videos about what the Broncos did in
fact aggregator account and mainly like what Bonnicks did in practice.
I know you see those a lot of times. If
you saw them yesterday, they're actually true.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yes, we with our own sets of eyes, so four
total eyeballs would verify that the Broncos offense in Bone
necks yesterday They were exactly what cheesy internet show guy
tells you about bonecks every day. So yesterday internet shows
are driving me crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Keep it going.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Behind him in twenty twenty seven and see where we're.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
At as the door is closing on all of the
off season what if type of questions. Uh, one deck
came up yesterday and was able to be asked to
Arizona tight end Trey McBride is what type of tight
end is he? And is he the best tight end
in the NFL right now? Trey McBrien spoke about that,
and it also gave Sean Payton a chance to glaze
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another one of his junkers.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Can make your case for being the best tight end
in football?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
As that matter to you, little, No, it doesn't matter
to me.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Obviously I think I'm a great tight end, and I
think for what, for what we do in this offense,
I do a good job, you know, but things like that.
But you know, there's a lot of great tight ends
in this league, and you know, just to be considered
one of the top is a huge honor to me.
And uh, you know, grew up watching so many of
these guys, so just to be in the same conversation
as them is a huge honor to me.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, I mean, look, that's a joker, right, And so
when you and you.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Get paid, those.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Those players become more difficult than the blue chip receiver
out here that we can lean to double. It's just
it's just a little bit harder. And then when you're
not putting any game plan in yeah, you know, in
other words, you're spending you know, a night and a
half with what you're you know, you can appreciate then
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a play like that, they're so they're so, they're so
quarterback friendly. When you get one, they're hard to find,
they're they're valuable.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Trey McBride, Fort Morgan, Mustang Baby, big Time Hooper two.
You said it earlier on the show, Raj, and I
can't say it enough again. Got to utilize one of
your first two round picks in the next two years
to get an a lead tight end, either that.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Or Marvin Harrison junior type of guy. But you're not
going to be selecting now.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
That's the interesting thing, man, is that the value on
tight ends has changed so much.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It has, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Trey McBride, Now, I believe he's going into what year four?
He was drafted in twenty twenty two two three four.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
This is year McBride has played three full seasons in
the league. He was going into his fourth. He was
drafted fifty fifth overall. That was midway through the back
half of the second round.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
And back to back draft, a tight end has been
selected in the top thirteen picks. In this past year,
two tight ends were drafted in the top thirteen picks.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, everyone is searching for George Kittle in Travis Kelt.
Everyone's trying to find.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That player if the Broncos are who we think they are.
Although you gotta stay around for our last segment here
because the NFL just released excuse me, ESPN dot Com
just released position rankings every position group in the National
Football League compared to other position groups. You'll be surprised
to hear where the Broncos. Some of their positions are ranked,
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but one of them in particular. The position value on
tight ends has gone through the roof and the Broncos.
If you are who you think you are, you're gonna
be outside of that elite tight end category. You're gonna
be drafting some somewhere between twenty five and thirty two.
I don't know you move.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Up or do you just need to find the guys
who didn't go to marquee programs? Right? Is that the
reason why I train?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Have you heard anything about Harold Harold.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Harold ale ingram youse types of guys?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Right, he's the other one.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The other one was Gunner Helm out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
But that's it's a Marquet program. But yeah, I guess
he's been good.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I saw this text come in from uh the nine
to one regarding the quarterbacks and why I would never
want you to keep a third one they go. Rag
doesn't want three quarterbacks because his philosophy is that if
Bo gets hurt, the Broncos should tank the rest of
the season. Because Raj isn't worried about the people, the
fans who buy tickets. That's not the case.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I have learned that about you. You don't care about
the little man.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I literally just I did a full segment on saying
that I care more about Colorado fans than my born
and bred New York met fandom. That is my philosophy,
but it is value based. It's not based off of
like I want to take away a season of contending
from the fan, like if Knicks gets hurt and he's
gone for the rest of the season, and it's different
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because this team is like so good defensively that you
could find a way to make the playoffs. I just
look back to the Matt Castle season with the Patriots, right,
that was fun, it was awesome. They won eleven games,
they didn't make the playoffs. Like, would the Patriots in
two thousand and eight have been better if Matt Castle
wasn't on the team and they won four games and
they were able to draft like Darren McFadden in the
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top ten or Chris Long or Jake Long number one overall, Like,
would they have been better in the long term? Now,
granted they still won super Bowls because Tom Brady, they
would have been better in the long term right by
losing a bunch of games than getting a marquee draft pick,
because if that quarterback goes down, you probably don't have
a chance to win a Super Bowl. I'm more interested
in bettering the team for the long run and gearing
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up than being like, oh, yeah, that's awesome, you made
the playoffs. But he got blown out by Baltimore because
Bo couldn't play. It's not that I don't care about
the I care about the team. I care about maximizing value.
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comes out with their positional rankings the best, the worst,
and then one through thirty two. They've got the Broncos
at tenth overall, but some position groups they can't stand
with the Broncos have to offer. We'll talk about it next.
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
The off seasons of both the Abs and the Nuggets
and which one was more successful Nuggets, which we established
Who do you have? But I'm gonna ask you KJS, well,
who do you have is the most impactful offseason acquisition
for the Nuggets. Who's gonna who is gonna move the
needle for this team the most? Cam Johnson and his
(35:01):
valentiunis or Hardaway Junior.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You could also throw Bruce Brown in there too.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh, you absolutely can.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
My answer is Valentinis because you haven't had a proper
backup five since the days of Plumbly Valentunis is for me,
that is the most impactful addition that you can make
is figuring out how to not suck at center behind NICOLEI.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Or even just wave the white flaggers surrender and say yeah,
we're not even gonna try to, We're.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Just gonna hope that you can deal with it.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, or just play everybody the whole game.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Hardaway from three makes me excited. That and Bruce's ability
to come up and not only handle the ball but
also be dangerous from three is nice, but it's got
to be valentunas it has to be.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
He didn't even mention your actual starter you acquired, No,
I didn't kJ who you got.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I got Bruce le b I think his ability to
beat the sixth man, seeing what he brought to the
championship team, I think is going to be very vital.
He's just he's the biggest chemistry addition to the Nuggets,
I think in the Nikolejki era, and.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Even more than Deandrex Scord, even more than DeAndre on
the ox Cord.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
He plays because he actually plays, and I think that matters.
I think him being able to help reset the culture
the way it needs to go under David Adelman will
be just as integral as Cam Johnson's insertion into the
starting line up.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
My guy was, without question is the starter you added
in Cam Johnson, I think. But what we're gonna we're
gonna see with Cam Johnson, Nikola Jokic is gonna find
a liking to this player high basketball IQ reads the
floor well in right in the right spaces. I'm wondering,
just by virtue of the fact that Michael Porter Junior
is no longer a Denver Nugget, were there times where
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Nikola Jokic had some frustration from a basketball IQ standpoint
with a Michael Porter Jr. Probably, I think Cam Johns
and for the first time in his career to play
for a team that's a legit contender to win a title, Man,
he's gonna come alive.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Speaking of big time offseason acquisitions and how it changes
your position groups, the NFL and ESPN came out with
their rankings of positional groups and they have the Broncos
overall at number ten, which I think is solid. Like
that's kind of where people have the Broncos as a team,
is that you should be a playoff team in the AFC,
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and if everything goes well, you can jump up into
the elites. If some injuries happen or if there's regression
from bow Knicks, maybe you fall out of the playoffs
by one game. But ten is a really really solid
starting point for them. Where they get hammered though, is
a position that they spent big time draft capital and
free agency dollars on, and that's running back. Now, the
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running back room last year it was terrible. It was
arguably the worst in the league. But they still have
Denver at number twenty, sandwiched in between Carolina and Pittsburgh.
Even though JK. Dobbins and RJ. Harvey have been added
to that roster, have those two editions, they haven't done
anything across the national landscape for people when they think
(38:14):
about Sean Payton in the running game, I.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Think the national landscape of like the narrative surrounding JK.
Dobbins is that he he can be a bit of
a flash in the pan, then he's injured or he
has a sem type of drop off.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
R J.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Harvey is an unknown. It's a bit of an unknown, right.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
But LA moves up into seventeen even though they bring
in a guy in Naji Harris, who I think a
lot of people around the league go, are is he
running on racing slicks right now? Like there's not much
tread left on that tire? And also, who's the other guy,
an unproven Omarion Hanson. Yep, that's kind of the same thing.
It's literally the same running back room.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Where the Denver Broncos last season in this same article
release it could be I could be correct on this
and not one hundred percent sure, but I'm gonna be
in the ballpark. Were they twenty ninth in the NFL
at the quarterback position a year ago, they had to
have been. I think it was like that has actually
down there. I think it was dead on twenty nine.
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My point being RJ. Harvey, the rookie JK. Dobbins, the
semi inconsistent performing the last couple of years, up and
down injury history a little bit. Did ever Broncos have
the opportunity to take this twenty ninth ranked running back
group and it be the equivalent to what they did
with the quarterback room, where it has improved from twenty
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nine to I believe on this year's less seventeen seventeen,
which is a significant improvement.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And again that's kind of where a lot of people
think Bonix is well as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
This let's talk about this one rush. Do you think
the Broncos have good edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I think they have excellent edg rushers. I think they
have one of the most terrifying pass rushes in the league.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Well, according to ESPN dot com, the Deva Broncos are
the twenty third best edge rushing position group in pro football.
That's Nick Benito thirteen and a half sacks, Jonathan Cooper
new deal, new deal, Jonah Ellis. I'd say, just what
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I've seen training camp wise and last year early before
the injury, fantastic player arrow up on him, and then
DeAndre Tillman, who's been a quality player, certainly not a
top top tier type player. That's an incredible underad under
ranking for that position group.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
The reason why they're ranked so so low there is
because again while Benito had a great season at thirteen
and a half sacks, he doesn't play nearly enough in
terms of the other elite pass rushers in the game
to garner that type of money, and I think therefore
garnered the type of respect that a guy like you know, TJ.
Waugh or Miles Garrett end up commanding across the league.
(41:03):
Because if you look at edge rusher's Pittsburgh number one,
Minnesota is at number three. Vegas with Jacks with Max
Crosby is number five in Hutchinson, even though he was
injured last year, comes in at number seven with Detroit. Yeah,
the reason why they're back down there is because it
does feel like the talent level falls off when you
get to Jonah Ellis and when you get to DeAndre
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Tillman and your top tier pass rusher doesn't feel as
dominant as the other teams who rank in the top
ten of edge rusher in terms of like the position ranking.
That's the reason why they're back there. You and I
have already gone I have already gone through this. Nick
Benito's great. If he plays sixty two percent of the
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snaps off.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Ball linebacker, how good are the Broncos off ball linebacker.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Alex Singleton is a tackling machine.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Albeit is he a fully healthy and appears to be
a guy that has a ton of a gas left
in the tank.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
He's a tackling machine when he's on the field. He's
always with he's like top five in the league every year.
The question on him today is.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
What I don't know?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Is he gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Sure? Other inside linebacker they call it off ball linebacker
Drey Greenlaw? Like him, love him? What's the question on health?
The edge rusher group was ranked what twenty third? So
do you think the inside linebacker group would be ranked? kJ?
What do you think? Just I don't think you've seen this?
Eighteen is my guess. What do you think kJ?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I'll say sixteen?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
They're ranked number four on ESPN dot COM's positional ranking.
Is that a little bit of an over evaluation? How
about corner corner.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Corner should be top five in the league?
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Even hold on, how are they not top five in
the league when they have the best defensive back, if
not defensive player in the league. They have a legit
one of the best two corners in the league in
Riley Moss. And it shows what happens when he's not
on the field. The defense it doesn't turn to crap,
but it's certainly not the best in the world. And
then they utilized a first round draft pick on a
corner who his early returns when he's out there against
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live football players is a menace of a tackler.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Thirteenth best corner.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I disagree with that is way more upset about that
edge rushing.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
That one's insane. Safety group. Brandon Jones Tallano who Fongo
acquired in the offseason, and PJ. Locke Top tens number six, Sure.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah, give it to me is the same. Who's number one?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Is it? Number one is the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Kirby Joseph is solid?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yep. Is the safety room better than the corner room
for the Broncos. They're kind of the same, and then
it all leads to overall corner.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
The corner room has the higher end talent, but safety
is good enough to both have decent depths.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
So we established running back was twenty nine out of
thirty two. Wide receiver. I'm just gonna give it to
you and not let you have a cliffhanger thirty one
out of thirty two. The wide receiver room for the
Denver Broncos is picked to be the thirty first best
wide receiver room in Pro foot.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Because they don't have they don't have a one one.
But we love Courtland Sutton, we do, but they don't
have They don't have Justin Jefferson, they don't have CD Lamb,
they don't have Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
But we were told this entire roster is going to
win a Super Bowl. How can you have a thirty
Although no one.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Said that, No one has said that yet. Everyone's been
talking about how the if you're talking about like the
national pundits, it's been this could be your dark horse.
They look really good. This is my like trendy pick
to pick or to win the Super Bowl. And then
Sean Payton goes, yeah, they could be like my two
thousand and nine team, or they could be like the
twenty eleven team that probably should have won it all
and then found a way to choke at the end
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of a divisional round against Jim Harbor in the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Surely tight ends can't be John surely screwed them up.
Surely the tight end group for the Broncos can't be high,
can it? Number twelve? They love, they love there, they're
all they believe in the Joe Care All things added,
and it doesn't quite make sense. The math doesn't math.
The Denver Broncos have the tenth best overall roster. I
(45:24):
agre football. I agree with that. I don't agree with
thirty first receiver room, twenty ninth running back room, twenty
third edge room, thirteenth corner room.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
All right, coach, it's that time on a Friday. PhD
is coming up next from twelve to three to eight
and Andy three to six pm on your drive home.
But as we get into the weekend, let's pop some tops. Coach,
what are you looking forward to watching seven.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Thirty pm, nine News the Dever bro You're watching yourself? Shocker,
I'm a narcissist. I'm gonna be popping a top the
Denver Broncos and getting some deep cot on Joaquin Davis
and Jerwan Newton as Sam Ellinger takes it, probably three
quarters of play. It is gonna be a blast against
(46:10):
the Arizona Cardinals and in power field we're bat baby.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
I am going to I'm gonna be a masochist here
and I'm gonna watch like the worst team in baseball,
the New York Mets go up against one of the
hottest teams in baseball and the Seattle Mariners in the
Little League World Classic Game, and they're just gonna get
pummeled because well they're the Mets and they lose, and
I deserve to, you know, I deserve to wallow in
my own punishment. That's what I'm gonna watch. So I'm
(46:37):
gonna pop a top to it and I'm gonna sad
drink to the Mets sucking. That's what I'm gonna do.
Normally this is like a happy, happy thing, but that's
how I feel right now as a fan.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I'm sorry about that rush bet you know what, dough Man,
Happy Friday to you. Enjoy your Friday.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Let's ask the same question back back to back yet again.
Next show that we do on Monday.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm going to admit to something that I think might
be a little bit despicable about me.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Is it more despicable than what I revealed to you
about me? That is against everything that my wife has
told me to do in my lifetime, which is Raj.
I'll admit to you, and I'll admit to all of
our our fine listeners, I am guilty of pooping in
the powder room.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Mmmm.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That it's decisive. Yeah, that is a divisive topic.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Man, yep, three oh three five, four nine two five?
Is it okay? Where there's Is it acceptable in your
own home to poop in the powder room?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Uh? When when you are only home with the family,
the answer is yes.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
And if in mixed company, the answer is no. If
powder room sounds dumb or like soft? The half bathroom
the half bath, are you allowed to poop in the
half bath or is that is that a liquid?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Only in mixed company?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
With the family, of course.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
See I've been told even with the family, But I
do it.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
I'm sorry for you that your booty is on lockdown.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Well it's not because I break the rule every single day.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
A despicable thing about me. In the workplace, we have
a colleague who's leaving us today. She's been here for
a very long time in sales, and I don't know
if this is the case, but her name is Jill,
and she always gives me food like she always orders
too much food for herself, and she realized that I
will eat anything that she gives me. Now I think
(01:52):
she also stalks the fridge with like coffee creamers and
oatd milks and stuff like that, but she doesn't put
her name on them. I've been using the oat milk
in the coffee creamer for five years, and now I
fear that I will no longer have coffee creamer to steal.
If your name's not on it in the fridge, and
(02:13):
it makes my coffee taste better, I'm using it. I'm
using a very small amount of it, but I'm using
it if your name is If your name is on it,
I won't touch it.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
When you start your morning out how many coffees are
ahead of you.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I have a coffee as soon as I get out
of the shower and like.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Home coffee, coffee wouldn't apply to to the consumption of
somebody else's oat milk or creamer.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Correct, that's my own. And then I come to the
office and I have at least one here during the
show or prior to the show, and then I steal
someone's oat milk because their name is not on it
in the fridge.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I agree with three three.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Just drink black coffee like an adult.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I agree there's only one way to drink coffee, and
that's uh from the gas station, sitting on a burner
for hours and with nothing added to it, scalding hot
at one hundred and two degree temperature. That's my kind
of man coffee right there.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I've always been a little scummy in not being prepared
like that. That is a non prepared version of me
to have coffee in the morning. I don't have my
own creamer here. I just bum it off of someone
who doesn't have their name on it. And I hope
that just by taking a little bit much like I
was a sixteen year old in high school, and like
you pour a little bit of voc out the sky
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bottle and then you put some more water in it.
You hope Mom and Dad don't notice. I'm doing the
same thing with the coffee creamer here. I did the
same thing when I was growing up playing hockeymen. I
never had sock tape ever, but I used sock tape
every single day.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Trying to think what those things are for me that
I probably inappropriately bummed from others, Like what did.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
You bum in the football locker room that you never
had but you always needed to use?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Oh it was. I went through a big phase of, uh,
just because you're you're going to practice, sometimes two practices
will walk through into practice and you just don't want
to kind of sit in your stew all day. Right,
big gold bond guy back in the day. I've kind
of moved on from goldban I've graduated from Goldbonnndle Tingle. Yeah,
it's kind of nice, little how's your father kind of
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action going on down south. But I would always bump.
I would bum the the the gold bond, you know,
it's it's in the shaker with the little you know,
it kind of looks like a would you say, like
a flower shaker. Right, I'd use that, but it wouldn't
touch anything crazy, It just kind.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Of they just put it back in someone's stall all
the time. Is that bad? Are you sure you never
grazed it a little bit? No one wants, you know,
under barrels sweat on their gold bond, never grazed. Okay,
if you can commit that you never grazed it, then
you're open so big.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
What are these what are they called again? Like girdle,
the hurdles, what's the no, like just tight fitting box compressions. Yeah,
compression shorts. I would take the compression shorts and do
the big open gold bond hold upside down about four
to six inches above and then just like three tight
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little squirts of the gold bond powder. And it's powder,
so it's not really a squirt. It's like a pump.
It's three powder pumps, three poofs. So I never touched
no zero contact, acceptable, unacceptable.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Acceptable, more acceptable than me being a scumbag and stealing
sock tape. That's a scumbag move for me.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I think I never would borrow anybody else's deodorant and
gets gross.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, it's weirds.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I just spies spray dedorant. Despise it like hurts like
burns from like it's wrong with your skin.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Well, just like from you know, under your arm man
like open sores.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
And stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
No, I'll give you that.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
You know, ah gosh.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I had a question on the text line, ROJ do
you think the Avs improved or got worse in the offseason.
It's an interesting question going into this year, right because
anything outside of, in my opinion, winning the Western Conference
is a failure this year that I think will likely
cost Jared Bednard's job. I love Betsy, I think he's
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the right coach for this team, but you do have
to perform when McKinnon mccarr are at the top of
their peaks. I think they got I think they got better.
They shored up to center. A guy in brock Nelson
who fits here, who works Wealth, Na Chushkin works Wealth Landiskog.
That is that is a a data driven fact that
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that second line is really good. They got bigger, meaner,
and longer on defense, which is something that they lacked
amendously sure against the rest of the or the rest
of the Western Conference. Now, the bottom six is not
as good on the forward group, I'll give you that.
If you look at the bottom six and certainly at
third line center, you go, oh, do we really like that.
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The fourth line's stellar. That fourth line of Jack Jerry, Parker,
Kelly and Logan O'Connor, and I know Connor is gonna
miss a couple of months to start the season, that
is one of the best fourth lines in hockey. Yes,
that's fine. It really comes down to whether or not
you you think you need more than thirty points thirty
to forty points out of third liners this year. If
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you are of the thought process that you need more
than forty points out of your third liners, every single
one of them, then the Avs got worse. If you're
of my thought process, where I think the Avs saw
major holes in their roster and they addressed them. Second
line center and getting bigger, meaner, and more veteran on defense.
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They addressed those things. Therefore, I think they got better.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
What was the biggest off season acquisition or resign for
the Apps.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Probably brock Nelson and then Brent Burns very shortly after that.
I think Burns changes who they are. It changes their outlook.
As I wave goodbye to my coffee creamer lady over
the last five years that she walks out of KCRA,
she was.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
My peloton buddy. She was a big peloton rider, and
we would always compare stories and notes from our favorite
Peloton instructors.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Cool Kendall.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Kendall's been gone three years, I think for three years. Yes,
so I did cancel my my peloton and sold that
bad boy it's time to get really fat, really puffy.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, dude, I think they got better. I think they
made good signings. I wish they had done a little
bit more to shore up that third line, but I
don't know how much they could have done. Granted the
issues with the salary cap that they're coming up against,
knowing that you have to pay Cale mccarr a big time,
knowing that you're still trying to figure out what's going
on with Marty Natchius. Is he here for the long term?
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I understand like the gun shy nature of like, hey,
we're gonna sink three million dollars over the course of
four years for a third liner, when you go, we
need those three million to give to Kale, like it
has to happen. I understand that. I get it. I
think they got better in goal a full season. Mackenzie
Black when he kidding me he's a top five goaltender
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in the league last year from the moment he stepped
foot on ball Arena ice until the end of the year.
I've already told you he is my dark horse Vesna
candidate this year at twenty five to one. I think
they got better, I do, and I think Dallas got worse.
And that's the one thing that has been holding you
back from success is Dallas.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
For the Avs and what's been the Achilles heel. Then
moving on from Pete to Borr might be the number
one thing that got better for the Abs as it
relates to the to the matchup.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
The done nothing and they got better.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Is that style of play. I mean, that's the kryptonite
for the for the Colorado Avalanche, it just is the
mucket up. Yep, you gotta you gotta dump and chase
like just not the Avs best way of playing. They
play that beautiful game. And when you started eliminating the
ability to play center and you become more perimeter, the
Avs become what you fear the Avs are, which is
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at times finesse. They end up looking finesse against teams
like the Peter Debor led Dallas Stars. I'm glad he's
gone now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Their roommates on the other side of ball arena like
the Nuggets. If you ask that question, it is an
unequivocal yes, they got better.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Guy, we haven't talked much about Yonis Valentinis. He's good.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
He's playing well for Lithuania right now. In your ow basket,
was was just fine for that. I think they had
to win against Greece and he played well, played some
solid minutes. The answer for the Nuggets is they got
better because the biggest hole with the Nuggets, and it
has been since the championship, is what the heck happens
in the non Jokic minutes, and they hadn't addressed that
for two full seasons. They finally do so in this offseason.
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Michael Porter Junior is now going on podcasts and talking
about gambling vices and how's His vice has always been women,
but he understands how guys get pulled into the well.
If I just tell my buddies, I'm gonna hit the
under on this thing, they might be able to walk
away with ten K. The NBA can't be thrilled with
Michael Porter Junior right now. And you think you think
the Nuggets are happy that, but if they don't have
(11:28):
to deal with the VPR crisis.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
No question, especially with his brother right right, it's Michael
Porter Junior. What do you talk about. Is he saying
that he's he's a recovering addict with females or is
he he says currently, he.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Says everyone has their vice, right. For a lot of guys,
it's sports gambling. Sometimes it's drugs, or it's liquor. And
he goes, you know, my vice for forever has been women.
And I think it was kind of like tug in cheek. No,
but he would go on to say, like, this is
how this happens is that the guys realize they can
make their their buddies. Who if you come from nothing
and your buddies have nothing, Here's how a guy can
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walk out and pay his mortgage for a couple of months.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
The stories out of the NBA over the course last
fifty years have been wild, but just you know, you
have apartments in every NBA town that you visit, like
there's there's some uh, there's some stories in that league.
The Association's always been one where I think the big
vice is is the plurality of relationships on the of
the female side. Big one, big.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
One, Yeah, dude, the Nuggets got better in the off season,
they filled their holes and not having to answer. And
I don't know how much is actually gonna come from
the MPG podcast scenario, but the the league can't be
thrilled that he's going on there saying I understand why
guys do this. You can't not with how close you are,
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Mike to the biggest gambling scandal in the NBA since
Donnie Right, That's that's what Johntay Porter, Porter is. It's
the biggest scandal since the referee scandal. They banned a
dude for life from the NBA. And you're talking about
that understandings your brother, and you're trying to like sympathize
(13:09):
with the situation that's happening. I'm just happy the Nuggets
don't have to deal with that right now.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
All right, what we'ld be talking about first story without
a doubt, but out of doubt that come out yesterday,
two days ago, two days ago.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Kj's NFL notes are coming up. On the other side,
will pop some tops, tell you guys what we're watching
this weekend. Coming up at eleven forty five PhD noon
to three today and then Nate and Andy take you
home on your drive back from work into the weekend
from three to six pm, it's altitude every day here
on the morning Sprint, we go through the biggest stories
in the NFL with kj's NFL Notes, and we have
so much sound to get through with Sean Payton coming
(13:43):
from yesterday's joint practice with the Cardinals Saturday evening, Week
two of the preseason. Do not expect to see starters
in that game.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
That is correct. Roger's shun talked about that, and he
explains why this game specifically is the game that he
chose in regards to them not starting.
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Fair question. I probably was gonna get to this. I
haven't done this before. I haven't had two joint practices before,
so I'm gonna I'm not gonna play. Neither Jonathan or
myself are gonna play the ones. Now, there'll be a few,
like there's five, five, six players that are on an
eight play pitch count that we consider ones, but maybe
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lack of reps or for whatever reason. So we're gonna
feature really two phases, you know, the twos. And when
I say the twos, don't read into you know. Basically,
there's gonna be a group in the first half and
a group in the second half. But your front line,
O line, D line, QB corner. You know, I'm gonna
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sit those guys only because of the uniqueness of two
of these in a week's time frame. And then next
week I'm going to play those guys, you know, eight
to ten plays and get them out. So I kind
of have a plan as to how they'll play in
New Orleans. But that's what you can expect going into
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this game.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Shawnee Sean heading back to New Orleans, wants to show
off a few of his shiny new objects, wants to
show off his quarterback yet again. It's two years in
a row. Who are the five or six players. Let's
have a little quick conversation about that. Who could be
the five or six players that Sean was referring to
that will get those reps. I'll start John ay Baron, Yes.
Speaker 6 (15:43):
R J.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Harvey, Yes, rookie, rookie, you need to he didn't run, he.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Didn't dig it, he did it with all. I got
one for you, Patrick Bryant, Sure that'd be good, right.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah, I have one that It's not a rookie. Marvin
Mims he's not playing. Why not?
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Because he had a great practice. I thought he had
a good practice. He had one kind of semi dropped
that was a low throw, But I thought he I
thought he showed up in that joint practice, and you,
like you saw him make plays that you haven't seen
him make with form of consistency.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
I agree. But if you're not gonna put Courtland Sutton
on the field, doesn't that open up Marvin's ability to
show you, Hey, this is what I can do on
the outside, this is what I can do as a
as a featured wide receiver. I know he's not the
proto type for a guy to be slotted.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Too much value in him as a returner. It's two
time Pro Bowl returners. So when Sean puts it out
into the universe that we're not playing our ones, and
you all of a sudden put Marvin Mims, former second
round draft pick, two time Pro bowler at the return position,
I don't think you play him.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
I don't play anybody on the offensive line. Zero's isn't
playing zero. I'm not playing McGlinchey. Although mcglinchy got beat
up yesterday in that final move the ball period, Kalais
Campbell beat McGlinchey like a rented mule. At the end
of practice yesterday, there were two sacks and it was
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Campbell and I can't remember who else was on the
right side of that line. And maybe it was a
little bit more of the fact that you didn't have
bulls out there, so it wasn't like the full starting five.
Mcglinchy got at a tough go a couple of times.
Are we going to see edvan Perk got beat a
couple of or got by Campbell once?
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Are we going to see Evan Ingram do anything in
a preseason game this year?
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I hope. So it just.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Felt like he didn't play in Game one, even though
he recorded snaps. There's one.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
There's also not a reason to have him out there
without Bo, Yes, exactly. So Bo's not playing, then I
don't play Ingram.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Then do you play Mims?
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Yeah, because I want to see more of I want
to see more touches. I want to see more than
just a bubble screen to Marvin Mims. And he's not
gonna get those looks. If Courtland Sutton's on.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
The field defensively, Pat.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Bryant's on the field, Troy Franklin's on the field, he's
not gonna get those looks.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Defensively, we'll see Lavelle Bailey, who's not a one, but
his played basically function one.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
One one plus.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Joan Ellis one plus. I don't know if we'll see
John Ellis. What do you think? I mean, he's added
a crazy good camp.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Nick in there.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So if you put Nick Benito in there right now,
he should be you should be kicked square in the
in the family situation there, family lineage.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
I think you just named your six guys. Sure, that's fine.
I don't play Zach Allen, I don't play JFM.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Chris Abrams Drain plays.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
So let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Does Jade Baron play and Ja Kwan McMillan not play.
That's a weird both. Probably do you think Jayqwan McMillan
as a VET plays, Yeah, because I don't want to
put patzer ten or Riley Moss in the game. Well,
neither those guys are playing.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
You're running, You're very quickly running out of cornerbacks.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, you got a bunch of guys. They just names.
Rhys Taylor's on here, there's names, there's guys.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Here's one I was thinking about because he hasn't played yet.
Alex Singleton, Is there any chance that maybe he gives
a couple of snaps?
Speaker 7 (19:27):
Now?
Speaker 3 (19:27):
He got a ton in the joint practice, and that's
what kind of it felt like, just being out there, kJ,
And I know you didn't have a chance to be
out there because you're in here doing a phenomenal job
producing the show as we were on assignment, you think
you said, yes, Sir Alex Singleton. That was That was
his preseason, probably all encapsulated into one one practice. He
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got a lot of work that was good. kJ.
Speaker 6 (19:52):
What's next, Let's find him in twenty twenty seven and
see where we're at.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
Between you running back, wide receiver, inside linebacker, defensive line,
and safety. There's more than enough competition to go around
as far as the Broncos right now. But one position
Sean Payton is realistically considering keeping is three quarterbacks on
the fifty three mayor roster.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Maybe she touched upon it.
Speaker 7 (20:17):
What's your view on possibly keeping three quarterbacks on the
fifty three?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's just it's a topic.
Speaker 6 (20:23):
Meaning to get Sam's doing the practice, LIT think well
that gets discussed as well. So when we discuss.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
These, we try to.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
How many players last year were claimed that quarterback. How
many players were claimed as later round. We get these
percentages to help us predict. You know, we felt like
Jaliel two years ago was going to be a practice
squad player, and then in San Francisco, I think he
has one hundred and twenty some yards and it's like,
well there goes you know, So we discussed those risks
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and for long, long hours, like you're right on it,
Like we discussed that.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
This is Groundhog's day till last year? Do you remember,
I think it was about the exact same time, almost
the exact same presser. It was Bo Nicks, Jared Stidham,
Zach Wilson, three quarterbacks on the roster. It feels almost identical.
And yes, Sam Allen Gary has had a great, great
preseason training camp, Yes he has.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
He throws a great ball, don't get me wrong. But
what you just said is the reason why there's no
reason to keep a third quarterback on the roster.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
What did they do with Zach? What was Zach Wilson's deal?
Again last year, it was like the emergency three? What
was the emergency three? QB? How do you how do
you even phrase that? I can't remember it because I
think Zach Wilson was suited No, he wasn't suited up,
but he was on the sideline. The emergency it's like
an e bug allows teams to designate a third quarterback
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on the game day roster who can only enter the
game if the first two quarterbacks are injured or ejected
during the first three quarters of Are those guys in
full uniform? I can't even remember.
Speaker 2 (22:10):
They Uh, I would assume they are, because how did
you enter? They do have to be on the team's
fifty three man.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Roster, so how does that affect their ability to be
claimed in waivers? If you don't have them on the
initial fifty three, you can be claimed.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's just who's gonna The emergency claimterback thing is just
a game day rule unless there's.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Like massive injury situations in preseason. Who's gonna claim Sam
Ellinger because you have to put him on the active roster?
Speaker 2 (22:41):
I mean someone might claim him.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
I think, do you not have to put him on
the active roster though? Yeah, roster and you acquire you
acquire their contract and in its full regular season mode?
Is that how you like?
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Last year Bailey Zappi was was picked up in the
offseas he's in. Malik Willis got traded like Desmond Ritter,
Ben Denucci, Brett Rippen or other quarterbacks that got picked up.
The reason why you don't keep three quarterbacks is because
you went Isn't this deja vu? Didn't we see this
last year with with Zach Wilson. You could get Zach
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Wilson again this year. His name is Sam Ellinger. You
can get Sam Ellinger next year. I don't know who
his name is next year, but you can draft him
in the fifth round. There's no reason to keep three dudes,
especially when there's other players on the team, Audrey. If
I'm Audric Gastman, they keep a third quarterback, I am
losing my mind.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Should should have ran harder? Should he use your brute
strength to run through people's face like Marson?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
If you snaps, Ellinger won't give you snaps.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Here's what Ellinger will do for you. Ellinger will be
a much cheaper option as your two once you move
on from Stidham.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
So what a fifth rounder next year?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
But you know what you got in Sam Ellinger?
Speaker 2 (24:00):
No, you don't, You have no idea?
Speaker 7 (24:01):
What?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
No, you don't based off of practice? Yes you do.
You know way more than somebody that right now is
playing at two lane. You know nothing about that. Somebody's
transferred there. Somebody. Oh is Jake Rhetzlaf, the BYU quarterback
that had.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Jake Reetzlof on the team. Also Jackson, Judge, Cayden Samongza,
and Brendan Sullivan for all of you two lane Green
Wave enthusiasts out there.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, Jake kretzlaugh, it'd actually be a really good, really
good thirty.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
Again, I've loved the way that Ellener's throwing the football,
but I'm not a proponent of keeping three quarterbacks. You're
not gonna need it, knock on wood, but like you're
not gonna need it.
Speaker 7 (24:43):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's like it's like going into an offseason as a
hockey team and like actively rostering three NHL.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Goal Would you rather keep odric estimate based off what
we've seen almost no special teams value.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
No, I'd rather keep Tyler Beday.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
Yeah, Tyler Bedaan and Blake Watson.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Woking, Davis Walking, Gets Caughting, Samuel Wingers on this team.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
I'm gonna raise hell red zone specialist.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I love that guy. He's not gonna make the team,
but I love him kJ what's next.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
Let's find him in twenty twenty seven and see where
we're at.
Speaker 5 (25:18):
Arizona Cardinals inside linebacker Mac Wilson, Senior, also in Alabama native,
just like bow Knicks, talked about how things went for
the Cars defense yesterday and what they have to improve
on after facing a bow Knicks lead offense.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
How do you feel about how things went overall for
the defense?
Speaker 7 (25:36):
I feel like we did pretty well. You know, some
things that we got to clean up still, but I
feel like we stopped to run pretty well. Gotta clean
up some things in a passing game, but overall, I
feel like we made a step forward.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
I'm getting bow too. Yeah, from him to any.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
Profession there, Yeah, Bo, you could tell he definitely made
the year two leap, just just comparing you know what
I saw last year with him as a rookie, and
he was out there making no look throws and stuff,
and you know, I'm just really just happy from for him. Honestly.
You know, a guy who's from Alabama. I'm from Alabama
as well, so I'm extremely powered to to to see
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you know, where he what he do the rest of
his career and things like that.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
I would love mac Wilson on this team, by the way.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
He looked great. Did he not look great?
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He looked awesome. I was like, who's to run stuff?
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Er?
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Had a pass defense yesterday? Is the was it like
the red zone extended?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Where did he play college ball? Was he a Florida State.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Guy mac Wilson senior? I do not know where he
played football. No, he looked great, though.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
He's in Alabama Saban guy Alabama, like pure Saban linebacker baller.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
He looked great. And for him to say those things
about Nixon, say those things about this team.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
I thought Bull looked great yesterday, Bo looked.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
The first team offense looked.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
They look fantastic. And it's what the doctor ordered. It's
what Bone needed.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Like, I know there's a lot of times where you
guys go out there on Twitter and you see these
these cheesy, overhyped videos about what the Broncos did in
fact aggregator account and mainly like what Bonnicks did in practice.
I know you see those a lot of times. If
you saw them yesterday, they're actually true.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
Yes, we with our own sets of eyes, so four
total eyeballs would verify that the Broncos offense in Bone
necks yesterday They were exactly what cheesy internet show guy
tells you about bonecks every day. So yesterday internet shows
are driving me crazy.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Keep it going.
Speaker 6 (27:41):
Behind him in twenty twenty seven and see where we're.
Speaker 5 (27:44):
At as the door is closing on all of the
off season what if type of questions. Uh, one deck
came up yesterday and was able to be asked to
Arizona tight end Trey McBride is what type of tight
end is he? And is he the best tight end
in the NFL right now? Trey McBrien spoke about that,
and it also gave Sean Payton a chance to glaze
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another one of his junkers.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Can make your case for being the best tight end
in football?
Speaker 4 (28:09):
As that matter to you, little, No, it doesn't matter
to me.
Speaker 7 (28:12):
You know.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Obviously I think I'm a great tight end, and I
think for what, for what we do in this offense,
I do a good job, you know, but things like that.
But you know, there's a lot of great tight ends
in this league, and you know, just to be considered
one of the top is a huge honor to me.
And uh, you know, grew up watching so many of
these guys, so just to be in the same conversation
as them is a huge honor to me.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Yeah, I mean, look, that's a joker, right, And so
when you and you.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Get paid, those.
Speaker 6 (28:39):
Those players become more difficult than the blue chip receiver
out here that we can lean to double. It's just
it's just a little bit harder. And then when you're
not putting any game plan in yeah, you know, in
other words, you're spending you know, a night and a
half with what you're you know, you can appreciate then
(28:59):
a play like that, they're so they're so, they're so
quarterback friendly. When you get one, they're hard to find,
they're they're valuable.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Trey McBride, Fort Morgan, Mustang Baby, big Time Hooper two.
You said it earlier on the show, Raj, and I
can't say it enough again. Got to utilize one of
your first two round picks in the next two years
to get an a lead tight end, either that.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Or Marvin Harrison junior type of guy. But you're not
going to be selecting now.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:33):
That's the interesting thing, man, is that the value on
tight ends has changed so much.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It has, hasn't it.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Trey McBride, Now, I believe he's going into what year four?
He was drafted in twenty twenty two two three four.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
This is year McBride has played three full seasons in
the league. He was going into his fourth. He was
drafted fifty fifth overall. That was midway through the back
half of the second round.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
And back to back draft, a tight end has been
selected in the top thirteen picks. In this past year,
two tight ends were drafted in the top thirteen picks.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Yeah, everyone is searching for George Kittle in Travis Kelt.
Everyone's trying to find.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
That player if the Broncos are who we think they are.
Although you gotta stay around for our last segment here
because the NFL just released excuse me, ESPN dot Com
just released position rankings every position group in the National
Football League compared to other position groups. You'll be surprised
to hear where the Broncos. Some of their positions are ranked,
(30:37):
but one of them in particular. The position value on
tight ends has gone through the roof and the Broncos.
If you are who you think you are, you're gonna
be outside of that elite tight end category. You're gonna
be drafting some somewhere between twenty five and thirty two.
I don't know you move.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Up or do you just need to find the guys
who didn't go to marquee programs? Right? Is that the
reason why I train?
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Have you heard anything about Harold Harold.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Harold ale ingram youse types of guys?
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Right, he's the other one.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
The other one was Gunner Helm out of Texas.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
But that's it's a Marquet program. But yeah, I guess
he's been good.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I saw this text come in from uh the nine
to one regarding the quarterbacks and why I would never
want you to keep a third one they go. Rag
doesn't want three quarterbacks because his philosophy is that if
Bo gets hurt, the Broncos should tank the rest of
the season. Because Raj isn't worried about the people, the
fans who buy tickets. That's not the case.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I have learned that about you. You don't care about
the little man.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I literally just I did a full segment on saying
that I care more about Colorado fans than my born
and bred New York met fandom. That is my philosophy,
but it is value based. It's not based off of
like I want to take away a season of contending
from the fan, like if Knicks gets hurt and he's
gone for the rest of the season, and it's different
(32:07):
because this team is like so good defensively that you
could find a way to make the playoffs. I just
look back to the Matt Castle season with the Patriots, right,
that was fun, it was awesome. They won eleven games,
they didn't make the playoffs. Like, would the Patriots in
two thousand and eight have been better if Matt Castle
wasn't on the team and they won four games and
they were able to draft like Darren McFadden in the
(32:29):
top ten or Chris Long or Jake Long number one overall, Like,
would they have been better in the long term? Now,
granted they still won super Bowls because Tom Brady, they
would have been better in the long term right by
losing a bunch of games than getting a marquee draft pick,
because if that quarterback goes down, you probably don't have
a chance to win a Super Bowl. I'm more interested
in bettering the team for the long run and gearing
(32:51):
up than being like, oh, yeah, that's awesome, you made
the playoffs. But he got blown out by Baltimore because
Bo couldn't play. It's not that I don't care about
the I care about the team. I care about maximizing value.
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the other side, Coach talked about it. ESPN dot Com
comes out with their positional rankings the best, the worst,
and then one through thirty two. They've got the Broncos
at tenth overall, but some position groups they can't stand
with the Broncos have to offer. We'll talk about it next.
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Speaker 3 (34:38):
The off seasons of both the Abs and the Nuggets
and which one was more successful Nuggets, which we established
Who do you have? But I'm gonna ask you KJS, well,
who do you have is the most impactful offseason acquisition
for the Nuggets. Who's gonna who is gonna move the
needle for this team the most? Cam Johnson and his
(35:01):
valentiunis or Hardaway Junior.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
You could also throw Bruce Brown in there too.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
Oh, you absolutely can.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
My answer is Valentinis because you haven't had a proper
backup five since the days of Plumbly Valentunis is for me,
that is the most impactful addition that you can make
is figuring out how to not suck at center behind NICOLEI.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
Or even just wave the white flaggers surrender and say yeah,
we're not even gonna try to, We're.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Just gonna hope that you can deal with it.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, or just play everybody the whole game.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Hardaway from three makes me excited. That and Bruce's ability
to come up and not only handle the ball but
also be dangerous from three is nice, but it's got
to be valentunas it has to be.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
He didn't even mention your actual starter you acquired, No,
I didn't kJ who you got.
Speaker 5 (35:53):
I got Bruce le b I think his ability to
beat the sixth man, seeing what he brought to the
championship team, I think is going to be very vital.
He's just he's the biggest chemistry addition to the Nuggets,
I think in the Nikolejki era, and.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
Even more than Deandrex Scord, even more than DeAndre on
the ox Cord.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
He plays because he actually plays, and I think that matters.
I think him being able to help reset the culture
the way it needs to go under David Adelman will
be just as integral as Cam Johnson's insertion into the
starting line up.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
My guy was, without question is the starter you added
in Cam Johnson, I think. But what we're gonna we're
gonna see with Cam Johnson, Nikola Jokic is gonna find
a liking to this player high basketball IQ reads the
floor well in right in the right spaces. I'm wondering,
just by virtue of the fact that Michael Porter Junior
is no longer a Denver Nugget, were there times where
(36:51):
Nikola Jokic had some frustration from a basketball IQ standpoint
with a Michael Porter Jr. Probably, I think Cam Johns
and for the first time in his career to play
for a team that's a legit contender to win a title, Man,
he's gonna come alive.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Speaking of big time offseason acquisitions and how it changes
your position groups, the NFL and ESPN came out with
their rankings of positional groups and they have the Broncos
overall at number ten, which I think is solid. Like
that's kind of where people have the Broncos as a team,
is that you should be a playoff team in the AFC,
(37:30):
and if everything goes well, you can jump up into
the elites. If some injuries happen or if there's regression
from bow Knicks, maybe you fall out of the playoffs
by one game. But ten is a really really solid
starting point for them. Where they get hammered though, is
a position that they spent big time draft capital and
free agency dollars on, and that's running back. Now, the
(37:52):
running back room last year it was terrible. It was
arguably the worst in the league. But they still have
Denver at number twenty, sandwiched in between Carolina and Pittsburgh.
Even though JK. Dobbins and RJ. Harvey have been added
to that roster, have those two editions, they haven't done
anything across the national landscape for people when they think
(38:14):
about Sean Payton in the running game, I.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Think the national landscape of like the narrative surrounding JK.
Dobbins is that he he can be a bit of
a flash in the pan, then he's injured or he
has a sem type of drop off.
Speaker 7 (38:30):
R J.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Harvey is an unknown. It's a bit of an unknown, right.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
But LA moves up into seventeen even though they bring
in a guy in Naji Harris, who I think a
lot of people around the league go, are is he
running on racing slicks right now? Like there's not much
tread left on that tire? And also, who's the other guy,
an unproven Omarion Hanson. Yep, that's kind of the same thing.
It's literally the same running back room.
Speaker 3 (38:55):
Where the Denver Broncos last season in this same article
release it could be I could be correct on this
and not one hundred percent sure, but I'm gonna be
in the ballpark. Were they twenty ninth in the NFL
at the quarterback position a year ago, they had to
have been. I think it was like that has actually
down there. I think it was dead on twenty nine.
(39:18):
My point being RJ. Harvey, the rookie JK. Dobbins, the
semi inconsistent performing the last couple of years, up and
down injury history a little bit. Did ever Broncos have
the opportunity to take this twenty ninth ranked running back
group and it be the equivalent to what they did
with the quarterback room, where it has improved from twenty
(39:40):
nine to I believe on this year's less seventeen seventeen,
which is a significant improvement.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
And again that's kind of where a lot of people
think Bonix is well as a quarterback.
Speaker 3 (39:48):
This let's talk about this one rush. Do you think
the Broncos have good edge rushers.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I think they have excellent edg rushers. I think they
have one of the most terrifying pass rushes in the league.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Well, according to ESPN dot com, the Deva Broncos are
the twenty third best edge rushing position group in pro football.
That's Nick Benito thirteen and a half sacks, Jonathan Cooper
new deal, new deal, Jonah Ellis. I'd say, just what
(40:19):
I've seen training camp wise and last year early before
the injury, fantastic player arrow up on him, and then
DeAndre Tillman, who's been a quality player, certainly not a
top top tier type player. That's an incredible underad under
ranking for that position group.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
The reason why they're ranked so so low there is
because again while Benito had a great season at thirteen
and a half sacks, he doesn't play nearly enough in
terms of the other elite pass rushers in the game
to garner that type of money, and I think therefore
garnered the type of respect that a guy like you know, TJ.
Waugh or Miles Garrett end up commanding across the league.
(41:03):
Because if you look at edge rusher's Pittsburgh number one,
Minnesota is at number three. Vegas with Jacks with Max
Crosby is number five in Hutchinson, even though he was
injured last year, comes in at number seven with Detroit. Yeah,
the reason why they're back down there is because it
does feel like the talent level falls off when you
get to Jonah Ellis and when you get to DeAndre
(41:24):
Tillman and your top tier pass rusher doesn't feel as
dominant as the other teams who rank in the top
ten of edge rusher in terms of like the position ranking.
That's the reason why they're back there. You and I
have already gone I have already gone through this. Nick
Benito's great. If he plays sixty two percent of the
(41:45):
snaps off.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Ball linebacker, how good are the Broncos off ball linebacker.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Alex Singleton is a tackling machine.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Albeit is he a fully healthy and appears to be
a guy that has a ton of a gas left
in the tank.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
He's a tackling machine when he's on the field. He's
always with he's like top five in the league every year.
The question on him today is.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
What I don't know?
Speaker 2 (42:10):
Is he gonna be healthy?
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Sure? Other inside linebacker they call it off ball linebacker
Drey Greenlaw? Like him, love him? What's the question on health?
The edge rusher group was ranked what twenty third? So
do you think the inside linebacker group would be ranked? kJ?
What do you think? Just I don't think you've seen this?
Eighteen is my guess. What do you think kJ?
Speaker 5 (42:34):
I'll say sixteen?
Speaker 3 (42:36):
They're ranked number four on ESPN dot COM's positional ranking.
Is that a little bit of an over evaluation? How
about corner corner.
Speaker 2 (42:50):
Corner should be top five in the league?
Speaker 3 (42:53):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
Even hold on, how are they not top five in
the league when they have the best defensive back, if
not defensive player in the league. They have a legit
one of the best two corners in the league in
Riley Moss. And it shows what happens when he's not
on the field. The defense it doesn't turn to crap,
but it's certainly not the best in the world. And
then they utilized a first round draft pick on a
corner who his early returns when he's out there against
(43:17):
live football players is a menace of a tackler.
Speaker 3 (43:21):
Thirteenth best corner.
Speaker 2 (43:22):
I disagree with that is way more upset about that
edge rushing.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
That one's insane. Safety group. Brandon Jones Tallano who Fongo
acquired in the offseason, and PJ. Locke Top tens number six, Sure.
Speaker 2 (43:39):
Yeah, give it to me is the same. Who's number one?
Speaker 3 (43:41):
Is it? Number one is the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (43:43):
Kirby Joseph is solid?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yep. Is the safety room better than the corner room
for the Broncos. They're kind of the same, and then
it all leads to overall corner.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
The corner room has the higher end talent, but safety
is good enough to both have decent depths.
Speaker 3 (44:03):
So we established running back was twenty nine out of
thirty two. Wide receiver. I'm just gonna give it to
you and not let you have a cliffhanger thirty one
out of thirty two. The wide receiver room for the
Denver Broncos is picked to be the thirty first best
wide receiver room in Pro foot.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Because they don't have they don't have a one one.
But we love Courtland Sutton, we do, but they don't
have They don't have Justin Jefferson, they don't have CD Lamb,
they don't have Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
But we were told this entire roster is going to
win a Super Bowl. How can you have a thirty
Although no one.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
Said that, No one has said that yet. Everyone's been
talking about how the if you're talking about like the
national pundits, it's been this could be your dark horse.
They look really good. This is my like trendy pick
to pick or to win the Super Bowl. And then
Sean Payton goes, yeah, they could be like my two
thousand and nine team, or they could be like the
twenty eleven team that probably should have won it all
and then found a way to choke at the end
(44:59):
of a divisional round against Jim Harbor in the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
Surely tight ends can't be John surely screwed them up.
Surely the tight end group for the Broncos can't be high,
can it? Number twelve? They love, they love there, they're
all they believe in the Joe Care All things added,
and it doesn't quite make sense. The math doesn't math.
The Denver Broncos have the tenth best overall roster. I
(45:24):
agre football. I agree with that. I don't agree with
thirty first receiver room, twenty ninth running back room, twenty
third edge room, thirteenth corner room.
Speaker 2 (45:34):
All right, coach, it's that time on a Friday. PhD
is coming up next from twelve to three to eight
and Andy three to six pm on your drive home.
But as we get into the weekend, let's pop some tops. Coach,
what are you looking forward to watching seven.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Thirty pm, nine News the Dever bro You're watching yourself? Shocker,
I'm a narcissist. I'm gonna be popping a top the
Denver Broncos and getting some deep cot on Joaquin Davis
and Jerwan Newton as Sam Ellinger takes it, probably three
quarters of play. It is gonna be a blast against
(46:10):
the Arizona Cardinals and in power field we're bat baby.
Speaker 2 (46:16):
I am going to I'm gonna be a masochist here
and I'm gonna watch like the worst team in baseball,
the New York Mets go up against one of the
hottest teams in baseball and the Seattle Mariners in the
Little League World Classic Game, and they're just gonna get
pummeled because well they're the Mets and they lose, and
I deserve to, you know, I deserve to wallow in
my own punishment. That's what I'm gonna watch. So I'm
(46:37):
gonna pop a top to it and I'm gonna sad
drink to the Mets sucking. That's what I'm gonna do.
Normally this is like a happy, happy thing, but that's
how I feel right now as a fan.
Speaker 3 (46:48):
I'm sorry about that rush bet you know what, dough Man,
Happy Friday to you. Enjoy your Friday.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
I'll do my best.
Speaker 3 (46:54):
Let's ask the same question back back to back yet again.
Next show that we do on Monday.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
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