August 18, 2025 • 48 mins
0:00 - Coach and Raj go through the NFL Rankings of where Jarrett Stidham stacks up amongst all backup QBs. The rankings make the guys outraged and they discuss Stiddy's overall value.
16:37 - KJ's NFL Notes
36:52 - The fellas go around the sports world after a fun and exciting weekend!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Eighty seconds to play in the quarter, Steadam has time
watch on shidelined sight Franklin into the m zone, touched
down Brockles and a beautiful ball right on time from
Jared Stidham again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
What you see from them, I.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mean, they're doing great. They're playing with so much more confidence,
you know, Troy coming from last year to this year,
and then obviously Pat, you know, just he's a young
he's a young dude, so he's just you know, getting
his feet wet a little bit, but he's playing with
more confidence, you know, each time he gets out there,
and you know, really proud of those guys, and you know,
proud of the whole offense.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
After a week two preseason win against the Arizona Cardinals,
we welcome you back into the Morning Sprint RAJ alongside
the coach, Mike Sanford. Twenty seven to seven is the
fire and it's time to tell you who's in the groove.
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dot com. And I'll start it with that guy, Troy
Franklin four receptions, sixty seven yards, two touchdowns along of
twenty seven holding on to footballs and turning into a
red zone threat, a vertical threat that Jared Stidham can
just kind of throw the ball up to if he
gets onto his back shoulder, it feels like he's gonna
catch it now. Yes, he's going against twos, two and
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a half and threes with Arizona there, but any positive
news from a guy who had a cat or a
case of the drop seas last year, coach, I would say,
Troy Franklin out of the wide receiver group, that dude's
in the groove.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I gotta go with. Jared Stidham is my guy who
is just clearly in his bag. And yes, he is
in the groove. And that is the sixteen of twenty
three two hundred and forty yard, two touchdown, zero interception performance,
chasing up a really good performance in Week one of
preseason as well, has not has yet to take a
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sack in the preseason. I absolutely love what I'm seeing
right now from Jared Stidham, and that's that's a player
that I I have not completely bought in on at
any point in time as being a guy that not
only would be a plus backup, but potentially could be
a starter in this league. His trend as a overall
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player has just been developing. How about his Week one
fourteen to fifteen, So Jared Stidham has had how many
total incompletions? It's like five on the entire preseason. He's
playing a ton of football. Fourteen to fifteen, one hundred
and thirty six yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He had seven incompletions in the Arizona game. So was
that eight now?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep? I mean one in the You know what's interesting
of note as well? You know who else is in
the groove rush just the backup quarterback for whoever has
been the second quarterback in between Jared Stidham and Sam Ellinger.
They don't throw in completions if you're a backup for
the Broncos in a preseason game. So one in completion
in Game one for Jared Stidham Game two Sam Ellinger
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fourteen of sixteen just two incompletions. It's a really really
good stat line there. I mean, you're you're above thirty
attempts between those two air quote backup quarterbacks in those
preseason games, those guys have been dealing.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What did you see about Jacoby Brissett in that game?
Do you still see this guy can start in the NFL? No?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, he's he is the He's the definition of a
of a four to a quarterback. He's between a triple
A baseball player as a football guy and a major leaguer,
and so he always will be right in between. It's interesting.
I actually got to know jacobra Brissette a little bit.
It's got a really unique personality. His uh one of
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his former coaches at NC State is was my defensive
coordinator at Western Kentucky and we played at Charlotte and
I believe Jacoby Brissette was either I think I can't
remember exactly where it was, but he came to our
pregame meal and hung out with us. No, we actually
played ball State, so it was in Indianapolis, so he
was there at the Colts. He came to our pregame meal,
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hung out with us, and good, dude, really good dude,
but a unique personality. I just see him as a
perfect backup quarterback and that's about it.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Speaking of backup quarterbacks, where would you rank Jarrett Stidham
among the thirty two backups? Do you think he's a
top ten backup quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, and I believe he's compensated as such, if I'm
not mistake, I mean, certainly Kirk Cousins is compensated a
little bit more.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He signed as a starter, not signed as a backup.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What he is a backup?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Sports Illustrated ranked the twenty twenty five NFL backup quarterbacks.
Jarrett Stidham ranks in between Tyler or Taylor Heineke that's
a good one, and Tanner McKee at number twenty. Really
where Sports Illustrated has him?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Now, give me at number you have to do? You
have the top five, the full list, right, give me
the top five. Kirk Cousins, okay, is the best backup
of course, without a doubt. Jimmy Garoppolo, would.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You take Kirk Cousins? Excuse me today, would you take Jared,
Jared Stidham or Jimmy g Today?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Garoppolo has gotten to a Super Bowl dude, Okay, I
think I would take would I think I would take Garoppolo?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I would take trust Talking.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
About backups, so like, I don't really care about the
backup quarterback all that much. Number three, they have Daniel Jones,
but he's going to start likely, so do you want to, like,
do you want to replace him with you know, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I don't think number three I wouldn't take Would you
take Anthony richards right now over?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Are you gonna say Jared Stidam? Jared had him a
million times over? I think Anthony Richardson is a farce
of a quarterback you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You knew as look good? And I don't know where
he's at in the list. Tyson Badget is it Baigent?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Tyson Beagent is from Chicago? Not listed? That seems thirty
one of thirty two is where Tyson Beagent listen there
as the backup for Caleb Williams. Uh continuing on your
top five. Number four, Jake Browning with Cincinnati good when
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he stepped in for for Burrow where.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He's kind of what you want. Former Washington husky very
Bright can operate at a high level from a from
I mean now he was dealing for a while there,
dealing dealing.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Number five, Jackson Dart show me more. Do you take
Jackson Dart or Jarrett Stidham right now?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I would? I mean if for what the Broncos want
to do?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, if you need to, if if the Broncos are again,
let's say week eight, they're six and two and they
are in need of a quarterback. Jared Stidham or Jackson
Dark Stidham, Mac Jones at number six.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
He was dealing a little bit last week when the
Broncos played him.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I take Stidham over Jones. Would Marcus Mariota at number seven?
I've had a man crushed two, but it's always going
back to his Heisman years at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He's been. He's been an admirable pro, though not an
elite pro, but an admirable pro. Still has plus athletic trades.
He's got much more banked reps as a starter than
Jared Stidham. I would take. I would take Mariota.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Do you who he's the backup for?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Where is he again?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Marcus Mariota is the backup for Jaden Daniels in Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's a great I love the comp Yeah, and that's
a little bit what I see with bow Knicks and
what could be a great backup situation with Sam Ellinger.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Was the first team to really do that in terms
of like, I'm gonna find a quarterback archetype, and I
don't care about getting like the best backup quarterback, but
I want the guy who most is going to resemble
my starter. Baltimore did that with was it Huntley behind
behind Lamar Jackson? That felt like the first team that
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was like, we're just gonna get an archetype and we're
gonna find the guy that fits the archetype the best,
rather than a player who is very clearly like a
better quarterback, so we don't have to change the offense whatsoever.
It felt like for so many years in the NFL,
teams are just like, whoever the next best dude is,
he's gonna be our backup and if he's not a runner,
it's fine, we'll we'll we'll tailor the offense to a
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pocket passing backup quarterback.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Raji, you like you like breaking news.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Sure give it to me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
From ESPN's Adam Scheffer sources, the Cleveland Browns are naming
seventy three year old Joe Flacco is there. Week one
starting quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals sets up perfectly for
shaudor Man the entertainer, Cedric the entertainer, entertainer.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Where does shaduor Sanders walk in on the backup quarterback list?
Probably around thirty thirty one thirty two as of right now.
He should he showed us what he can do in
like a quarter and a half of preseason.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What we at What week will should dour Sanders be
the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I'm gonna guess that do. They have a tough schedule,
all right? So they start at home against Cincy since
he should win that game. They go on the road
to Baltimore. That's a loss. They're at home against green Bay.
That's probably dude Cleveland schedule.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So that's a great thing.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Though, listen to the first five weeks of this season
for Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Let the old man take all the lumps man.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Home against Cincy, on the road against Baltimore, home against
green Bay, on the road against Detroit. And then they
are in are they in England or I don't know
where they are. They have a seven thirty am game
on Sunday, October fifth against Minnesota, which is in Tattenham,
Tottenham on spy Tottenham, the Browns and the Vikings at Tottenham.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I think I like the Blacks the Vikings at Tottingham,
and then they.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Get rewarded by having to go back to the States
and then on the road to the Steel City and
take on Pittsburgh. They don't have like an eminently or
eminently winnable game until Week seven at home against Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Which is exactly when Schidor Sanders dude will be the
starting quarterback for the Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Cleveland is gonna suck this year? Oh no, What did
you make of the What did the Browns ever do
to anybody to deserve that start to the season.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What did you make of Dylan Gabriel's pose? I guess
it was in game interview where he was quoted, Oh,
I have it right here.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Okay, It's just part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
You know, there's there's entertainers and there's competitors, and I
totally understand that, and my job is to compete and
that's what I'm focused on doing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
He said it wasn't a shot at Sanders. Come on, man,
that's a shot at a dude who's in your quarterback room.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know what that sounds like? That sounds like something
that he's said in his own mind about the two
of them since draft day, or his camp is telling
you his camp, his people, and and then what I
don't like about this whole Dylan Gabriel thing. In fact,
I just don't like Dylan Gabriel period. I don't think
he's a very I don't think he's worthy of being
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a fifth round draft pick or what was he third round?
Third round draft pick?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Shudour was the fifth rounder.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He's tiny, he looked terrible in the preseason game, and
he's focusing on the wrong things. You know what shoud
or Sanders does that Dylan Gabriel doesn't do. He actually
goes out and plays well. And Dylan Gabriel's caught up
in this type of stuff, and it tells you it's
a little insight into his mind. And then he even
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had the built in, uh, the built in excuse for
why he said what he said and how what it
really meant, even though it was completely shade. You know
what's gonna happen though the media empire created by Dion
Sanders coach prime and his family and and all of
their peripheral are going to erase Dylan Gabriel from public
eye over the next three years. This is not gonna
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go well for Dylan Gabriel. And I don't know if
there's even been aneath, any kind of reciprocal anything's come out.
It's going to at some point.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It won't come out from Shaduur. It will come out
from someone within the camp correct, a defender of Shador,
whether it's Dion, maybe someone asks like Shiloh about it,
maybe over the court the last like week and a
half a camp. It'll come out for I'm a shoot
do or defender, and it's fine. Like Sanders, the better
quarterback is a better quarterback, He's the better quarterback. Yeah.
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I think Week seven home against Miami is probably solid.
What a great text message from nine the nine four five.
I went, what did Cleveland ever do to deserve the
first six weeks of the season that they have? And
they go, they signed Diddy, That's what they did to
do to deserve it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Wait who they said, did he? I didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Sean Watson?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, indeed.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Uh there's some you know, baby oil in those miss yeah,
that's kind of where we're going.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, m.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, dude, Cleveland's got a murderer's road to start.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So somebody, somebody full spot to bring in real quick.
I want to I want to address the the nine
to seven five here. You guys are ridiculous. Why don't
you give it some context and play a few seconds
before his response, what is the question that reporter is asking?
So the question was how do you how do you
deal with in interviews when you're preparing to play football games,
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dealing with the NFL as entertainment. He answered the question
The shade was the shade, The shot was the shot.
And you know what, it's coward to use the out
that he used to say that he was answering that question.
That is a that is a banger of the line
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as the kid, as the ghol kids call it. Nowadays,
there are entertainers and there are competitors, and I'm the competitor. Okay,
so cool, I get it. I'm the one in the
arena right now. You've said that before you knew exactly
what you're doing, and you prepared to say it afterwards.
That's not what I meant. You knew exactly what you're doing.
And honestly, Dylan Gabriel, you're not a good football player.
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You stink You're not going to be on an NFL
roster in three years you are, You're going this route
is a bad decision for you, and I could care
less context my butt. That's not context. That's that is
a that's a SoundBite that he was very very careful
to choose, and it was throwing shade at another quarterback, who, oh,
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by the way, is still in the same quartback room,
in the same locker room as you right now. But
it won't be long, Dylan, you won't be around very long.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So if it's Week seven home against Miami that Schadour
takes over for I'm assuming like a one in five
Cleveland team at that or yeah, one in five Cleveland team,
it's a really cushy landing spot for him. He gets
to start at home. Then you go on the road
to New England, who could be a vastly more improved
version of the Patriots this year. They could be, but
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they're still gonna be either third or fourth in the
AFC East. Then you get a bye week to diagnose
those first two starts of his career and then you
go on the road to the New York Jets, who
are just gonna suck. Now, Yeah, you get thrown into
the fire in week four of Shador's projected starting career.
That's Week eleven against Baltimore at home. That's gonna be
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a really difficult game. But that's the perfect spot to
put this dude in. If he's the backup man, he's
gonna play. He's gonna play half the season. The NFL
schedule makers indirectly gave Cleveland the perfect roadmap for making
a fifth round quarterback their starter of the future. They did.
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It's a perfect spot for them to put him in
Week seven against Miami. I hope he doesn't take a
quick time out. Kj's NFL Notes are coming up. On
the other side. PhD will join you guys from twelve
to three and eight and Andy on your drive home
from three to six pm Happy Monday on altitude ninety
two to five. Every day here on the Morning Sprint,
we go through the biggest stories around the National Football
League with kjs ANDFL notes. Broncos coming off of a
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twenty seven to seven Week two preseason victory against the
Arizona Cardinals, Jarrett Stidham, Evan Ingram, and Troy Franklin all
balled out in this one. kJ what is first?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
You know this is truly preseason because I'm leading off
NFL NO with Jared Stidham. Jared Stidham of all people.
Stitty was sixteen or twenty three passing with two hundred
and forty yards and two touchdowns. Both touchdowns went to
the emerging second year wide receiver, Troy Franklin. Here is
Jerry Stidham pulling his best. Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No, it's obviously great.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's obviously great to be back in front of the
front front of the home crowd, the best fans in football.
And luckily, you know, we were able to put up
some points tonight and move the football. And you know, everybody,
everybody that played tonight, offense, defense, special teams just played
really compliment complimentary, and uh we had we had a
lot of fun. Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant, what you see
from them, I mean, they're doing great. They're playing with
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so much more confidence, you know, Troy coming from last
year to this year.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And then obviously Pat, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Just he's a young he's a young dude.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
So he's just you know, getting his feet wet a
little bit, but he's playing with more confidence, you know,
each time he gets out there, and you know, really
proud of those guys, and you know, proud of the
whole offense.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
kJ. I love you, man, but don't ruin my new
found love affair with the improved DNA disposition composition. She
should say of Jared Stidham by throwing Russell Wilson on him.
I love you man, You're You're the best in the game.
Truly are the best in the game. That was your
first real miss, right there? Man? Yeah? Did you I mean,
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do you think up and then drag him down? Do
you think that Stiddies was nearly as cornballish as a
Russell Wilson? And no, of course not. There was nobody
who's core was more. That was more of a Scotty
Gage problem, my fellow nine news pal. He started listing
off everybody that he needs to talk about. I love you, kJ,
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just don't don't don't don't don't.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You don't do scouts on her scouts honor.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I got you?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You happy to be as a backup quarterback. You gotta
be everyone's best, right right? You can't be stand offers
as a backup quarterback. You gotta be a glue guy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I used to there's a there's there's a saying in
the Bobby Patrino coaching family. It's say like, why are
you such an Ebes guy? Ebbes as in like ee
b s I'm like Ebbes, what do you mean? You're
just an Ebbes? Everybody's buddy? Eb everybody I'm trying to
hold my roster. It's actually like making fun of somebody,
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like do you have any dog in you? Or are
you just an Ebes guy? In football? I got some
Ebbs to be. I've always been everybody's buddy?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Am I getting on the field? Am I on the team?
Am I getting paid?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Another?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Everybody's body?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Another slogan that I love more from one of my
one of my favorite co workers I worked with in football,
Phil mcgagan, got to you gotta be who you can
afford to be, man, And that's what Jared Stidham is
doing right. You just got to continue to be who
you can afford to be.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We're gonna keep making sure that we have our weekly
quarterback dinners in Castle Pines Village. Yes, we're gonna to
go to Mexico after the season with ladies.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We're gonna have matching pajamas with our wives. The quarterback
wives are gonna We're gonna be perfect. No your role, yep,
be who you can afford to be. Jeli McLoughlin also
a player that I think is done a really good
job of being who he can afford to be. Instead
of showing disgruntled, Julil McLoughlin, just keep showing up. I'm
gonna get my chance. If I show that I'm frustrated
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because you went out and got all these dudes, it's
not gonna bode well for me. I gotta make this
roster kJ what's next? O?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I love that?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Okay, Broncos sight in. Evan Ingram had to play that
broke the game open a fifty yard catch and run
to set the Broncos up for their first score of
the game. Here's Evan Ingram kind of in a very
jokingly way kind of meeting he's getting a little old,
a little long into too fear.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Troy had a great blok half of the catch, broke
a tackle.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I show the freaking store.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
This is a good play, good play to start the game,
good good play for the offense, great play, they just
get the drive going. It was it was fire said
it was really fire. Just the energy, just the fan engage.
How many fans showed up preseason games? Kind it was
crazy for that to be a preseason gay, I can't
wait to do We've one.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I feel like stirring the pot today.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh, let's stir it. Let's get weird it.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Did he not score that touchdown simply because he's getting old?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, no, no, no, no no. He looked fast, he
had accelerated, He broke tackles.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
There's like two tight ends in the league that were
gonna score from ninety five yards Brock Bowers. Maybe it's
Brock and that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I don't know who else he would throw in that category.
Maybe Harold fannin junior because he's a he's an undersized
I mean, the guys that fit the art type of
joker smaller, don't carry around six foot six, two hundred
and sixty five pounds. It really is Brock Powers, Evan Ingram.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Like Kelsey ain't doing it from ninety five? Is Kittles
he still having.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Got some jew he does. He's in that category.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Ryd and Andrews probably aren't making it ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I would. I would say McBride would have the chance.
He's not huge. McBride's two forty five.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
John hus Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean what we saw last year's show that he
can be that guy.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Oh you know who's the sneaky one, Tucker Craft. He's
a Yeah, Tucker Craft could go ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, he's got some.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He's got some wheels.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
He's got some wheels. He's got some and he and
he is tough to tackle. He's he runs through porous
secondary tackling one more. Kyle Pitts just got the size
speed ratio to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Okay, so maybe there's five dudes who can do it
from there, could.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But probably wouldn't not with the He didn't get hocked,
he didn't get walked down. It was just more as
he's running through there's just a convergion of pursuit a
SAT there's safeties that are playing top down, they were
above the play. It was a little bit different than
just a pure I got caught because I'm old.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Can you have a cheat code like does Taysom Hill count?
It's kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Cheating and at this stage I don't know that he
runs away with that. I don't I really.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Don't speaking a longer than tooth. He's probably longer than
tooth there, No, he was great. That shows you why
they went out and got him right, A chunk play
from a tight end. What is that? I haven't had
that here in ten years? So you're hope and no
a fan was gonna be Nope, it's been delightful to
have him so far. It's all you needed to see,
right that. You're checking off boxes as the preseason goes along, right, Like,
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you saw what you need to see out of Nick
Benito in preseason week number one box checked. See you
don't want to see it or don't want to have
you in a game for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Didn't love the start of Bonnicks versus the forty nine ers,
But so what do you get? You get Thursday against
the Cardinals in a joint practice against their entire starting defense.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Check the box balls out, check the wide receivers. Oh,
is Troy Franklin know how to catch a football? Yes?
He does.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, In fact, he knows how to catch multiple elite
catches in the end zone. In his second preseason game.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Is Pat Bryant to safety blanket check the box.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
R J.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Harvey. Does he have the burst required out of a
guy that's checked the wrap it in the second round?
At the tailback position? JK Dobbins. Do we see him
in training camp almost on a weekly basis as the guy, Oh,
you look, you need to see it.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I see a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You want to see. But do you or do you
want him be fully healthy for the season.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You know, if I have to choose between the two,
it's healthy for the season. But I still feel like
I need JK to make someone miss and then turn
like what should have been three yards into seventeen yards,
and maybe I won't see that until the regular season.
He's the only guy that I'm still waiting on, like
a kinda need to see something.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I believe he has it, but I haven't seen it
yet because he obviously just hasn't been given the touches.
kJ keep it going.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
The Cleveland Browns are signing former Texas wide receiver Isaiah
bund days after grand jury declined to indict him on
a sexual assault charge. He has a contract of three
years worth three point zero one eight million fully guaranteed
and Obviously all of this comes out that he makes
the announcement on Instagram last Thursday that he is signing
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with the Cleveland Browns after everything was properly and formally
dismissed by all parties. If this is all behind Isaiah
Bunn and he can just focus strictly on football now,
which player could end up being the bigger steal from
the twenty twenty five draft for the Browns should do
or Isaiah should do?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Or Sanders without question? Because a he's a quarterback be
he's shown to be the most electric quarterback in the Browns,
extremely outed in a very mid quarterback room. And Isaiah
Bond has baggage that Shador Sanders does not. And granted
he was he the grand jury declined to indict him
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on this sexual assault charge. But it does follow you.
And I know, innocent til proven guilty, it does follow you.
And that's just the unfortunate nature of the world we
live in. Shaudor Sanders had a squeaky clean reputation. He
got a couple speeding tickets. It's very different.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
If Shaudor Sanders starts football games for the Browns, he's automatic.
If he starts a game for the Browns is a
fifth round draft pick. He's automatically more valuable than Isaiah
Bond could be, even though the dudes run a sub
four four forty, right Like, that is the most valuable
position in the sport, in all of sports's quarterback. And
if you find a guy in the fifth round for
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any number of reasons and he starts odd game, you win,
You win the draft, you win, And it's gonna happen
this year. And we told you.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Unless there's something that takes place over the next ten
days between training camp preseason Game three where either Shador
Sanders blows up or they sixty Yeah, they look at
Shador as a cancer, which I doubt they will because
he played really well. What I found out is.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
That Joe Flacco can ball out.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We have a lot of Orgon Duck fans here because
there's a lot of people that were on Team Dylan
or just maybe it's just a bunch of csu rams
that absolutely despise shad Or Sanders on everything.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
See you did he play Oklahoma too?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He bounced around a lot of places you see f Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I would assume there's a lot of Sooner fans.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Orgon Ducks yeah, but they should hate him, right. Yeah,
it wasn't good anywhere. It was just okay. It was
like whatever the surrounding cast around Tilly Gabriel was. He
was about that and he never was a boat raising guy.
Because that that roster at Oregon should have they should
have been in the national championship game. How they don't
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get there is still I still don't get it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can you say the same thing about bo Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You can Auburn nowhere near the roster to be able
to win a national.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Get there? That is the Oregon Duck way of doing
things that like you look great and then you never
get it done when it really matters. Mariota was Mariota
got some didn't They got a lot of macked by
Alabama or Ohio.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
State got after him too in a national championship thought
it was Bama.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I could be completely You're you were in French college
football world back.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The reason I remember this, do you want to know
how crazy college football is? I was the offensive coordinator
at Boise State. I had been at Stanford the year
before as the quarterback coach and wide receiver coach. I
get a call after Ohio State wins the Sugar Bowl
and beats Alabama. I get a text from Urban Meyer.
I should say, hey, we want Tom Herman's leaving to
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take the Houston head job. We want to interview you
for the offensive coordinator quarterback job at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
It was Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I flew out there with my wife. I spend about
two full days while they're preparing for Oregon. They're trying
to figure out how to block the two massive defensive ends,
the four techniques, which was Armstead, Eric Armstead and DeForest
Buckner humongous human beings, like frankly immovable objects. And I'm
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watching film with their staff. I said, have you guys
watched the unbalanced cut up? And they said, what do
you mean? I said, when you go when you go
either tackle over or you have an an unbalanced offensive line,
they shift their their defensive line. They're like, are you sure?
I go pull out the twenty thirteen's Stanford versus Oregon film.
It's all we did, and we obliterated those guys because
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you get those two big dns to play in gaps
instead of played directly over offensive time. It's four eyes.
They did it in the National Championship Game and how
many yards did they rush for it was it was ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The national title game in twenty fifteen was a forty
two to twenty Ohio State dropping of Oregon. They rushed
for Ezekiel Elliott rushed for two one hundred and forty
six yards and four scores. M hm, Cardale Jones thirty
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eight rushes or sorry, twenty one attempts for thirty eight
yards and a touchdown. Dude, Eziel Elliott ran the ball
thirty six times in that game.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Wasn't much tread left on those tires? Who were there?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
The crap? You told me that Urban Meyer owes you
a national championship ring? Is that what you're trying to
tell me?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, I turned down the job too, By the way,
you know what was else else was going? Do you
remember that Zach Smith, the receiver coach that had the
domestic abuse with his Yeah. That when I went back
two years later and I looked at the dates of
those text messages, that's when I was actually there in
their meeting room. He was getting those text messages and
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it was going to Shelley Meyer, Urban's wife. I'll say this,
when I was in that room, I could tell there
were high levels. I'm talking high levels of dysfunction in
that room. It felt like it. Tom Herman felt like it.
Urban felt like it. Zack Smith felt like it. It
was wild. I got home, Yeah, I got home to
the hotel. Room stayed on campus at Ohio State. They
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have a hotel. They have their own hotel. They put
you in the Blackstone or something that my wife, Amory,
had gone out with Shelley Meyer, Urban's wife. Great night.
They you know, went to a wine bar in Columbus,
had a you know, a great galleas night. Amrie. She's like,
how was it? Was it awesome? And I was like, yeah,
I was, yeah, it was interesting. Is yeah. She's like,
you don't want this job, dude. I go, no, it's
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very dysfunctional. kJ keep it rolling.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Well. One of the stories beyond preseason games that came
out this weekend was Bengals star dn Trey Hendrickson is
now exploring Trey options with the permission of the Bengals.
According to Diana Russini This Morning Quote, teams that have
recently inquired about Bengals star Trey Hendrickson were told Cincinnati's
asking price included a young defensive player and a twenty
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twenty six first round pick. According to league sources, the
player heading back does not have to be a pass
rusher end quote, which got me to thinking, if you're
the Broncos, which you think about trading future star cornerback
Jade Bearing and next year's first for Trey Hendricks.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
No no, no, no no no no no no. I
want my first round pick next year because I want
the future wide receiver one in the room or the
future joker tight end. I don't know, in the room.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Do you still have having Ingram for three or four
years after what we saw he's got Definitely, he's got
some juice. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I want toys around the bone, Nicks, and you have
a good enough pass right and.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The toys that you added this year have already proven
to be really fun toys. Yes, And you know what
Sean's really excited about. You know what this week is? Man?
Where does he get to show off his toys this week? Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sean's so excited to go back. He loves going back
to New Orleans and just showing off like all of
his things.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
And I got hotter, Yeah, this is his I got
hotter week. I won the breakup. Although he was kind
of the one that caused the breakup.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
There was there's some dysfunction at quite Ohio state levels
of dysfunction. But there was a boun who has been
known to probe gens. Oh God continued, please, oh man.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
No, I'm not trading. I'm not trading for Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
You don't need it. From a pass Russ standpoint, I'm
not giving up a first rounder. And the returns on
Jade Baron are He is a tackling machine.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Is a tackling machine. He's rugged, he's physical, He's got
a vocal presence to him. He is intelligent. You hit
on every one of your draft picks so far except
maybe one, and who do you think that might be?
We did see an improvement in the preseason game. Who
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is the one draft pick, raj that you are not
extremely bullish on that the Broncos got in the twenty
twenty five NFL Draft.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
The Frickin' punter in the sixth round exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Jeremy Kraushaw had a better day. Penny two punts fifty
four and a half yards, But I hated a touchback.
I don't like you're an Australian punter OSSI rule football guy.
You're supposed to be able to pin your opponents inside
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the twenty yard line. Jeremy crashaw Man, No more.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Do we put too much stock into him being a
sixth round pick when he was really a seventh round pick.
He was the last selection of round six. It's not
like you took him at the at the top. It's
not like you took him, you know, when Jimmy Horn
or Lejonte Wester was sitting there, or you obviously weren't
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going to take a quarterback, you know, Kyle McCord sitting
there as maybe a future backup. You didn't take him
before any of those guys. You took him to the
last pick of the sixth round. Would we be as
upset about a drafted punter looking as bad as he has,
and he has looked objectively bad. Would it be as
upset if he was a seventh round and not a
sixth rounder.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I'm more upset because you moved on from Riley Dixon
because he's accused.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Dude, you didn't want to pay him punch an LSU
Tiger in the face after hurdling him on a fake punt.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Big fan.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for in my punner. If
you know one else was great about Riley Dixon. You
can throw the football well. You never noticed him, and
that's a good thing when you're a punner. Yeah, you
don't want to notice a punter. Yep, you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
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one for sports talk. You guys are listening to Altitude
Sports Radio ninety two to five. Few things I want
to grab bag here from the weekend, and I don't
know if I can grab the bag that you were
talking about in the break Coach trying to derail my
head for fifteen minutes ago program?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
What I do, man? Just having a good old fashioned
conversation with my Paler Alex.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, you guys could have a microphone in here, we're
in break. We would get fired, but you guys would
have a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I'm I'm highly appropriate.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Few things that I want to wrap up from the weekend.
One Scottie Scheffler. While he's not Tiger Woods, he's also
like not not Tiger Woods. The Guy's inevitable. Was trailing
Bobby McIntyre at one point over the weekend by seven strokes,
going into Sunday trailing by four, and by the time
the turn hit he had already tied. And then oh
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lo and behold, he's one stroke up on McIntyre, playing
with the guy and then chips in from the rough
behind the seventeenth green to take a two stroke lead
that he would walk away with the BMW Championship. The
guy is just he's inevitable, and he's one of my
most fun watch in sports right now because it's it's funny.
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He just continues to make all these shots look easy
because they are to him, and I know he's gonna win,
but I still have to watch. I'm still glued to
the television.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
One of my favorite things Bennett Scheffler, Scotti Scheffler's son,
since Bennett Scheffler was born.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Oh, I saw this. It's like the uh, it's like
the new England sports fan who was born when Tom
Brady took over from Bledsoe.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Since Bennett was born, and he's like, what two years
old something like that. A year and a half, eighteen months,
eight PGA tour wins, two majors, one Olympic gold medal,
two playoff wins, twenty three top tens, sixteen top fives. Alright,
there's it's good, Dad bought right there. Dad.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Strength is what that is.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Man.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
The other thing that I saw Rob Manfred, the commissioner
of Major League Baseball, as the rock He's come back
on Sunday to beat the Arizona and.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Telling everybody, Man, the Rockies are scorching hot, playing nearly
five hundred baseball since the all start.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
The Rockies need to win seven of their final thirty
eight games of the season to guarantee that they will
have a better record than Chicago did last season.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
When Chicago, I've been saying all along, there's there's no
chance that they're going to break that record. The Rockies are.
They're not good at making history. Even if it's terrible history.
They're still not good at it.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, they take three of four from Arizona after taking
two of three on the road against Saint Louis. Now
it's you have to take on the Dodgers, who are
starting to play a little bit better baseball after slumping.
You have a four game set with them that starts
tonight as Yoshiyamamoto goes up against Kyle Freelan. So that's
gonna be difficult to maintain the hot streak. But you
just need to find a way to win seven of
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thirty eight and you automatically get forty two wins and
you're not the woeful Chicago White Sox. Would you rather
tie with the White Sox and be forty one and
one or not have a share of the record at all?
Do you like you want the full record or you
don't want it?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah? If you if you tie the record, that's that
would be that's even worse. That would be peak rockets.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
It's even worse than going forty two and one twenty
And I would even argue, like you want to you
want to shatter it, like make it, make it count.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
They're not going to. There's there's there's no way Rockies
are playing in baseball right now? Man, problem is, is is
it gonna be like? Is it gonna be impactful whatsoever
for the future of the franchise. Still aren't seeing a
bunch of like the young young prospects that you've acquired
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
It's this isn't a oh, They're automatically going to be
a seventy five win team next year. No, No, this
is a this is a three to five year reset.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
There's gonna be some some still gonna suck next year
forty five to sixty five win seasons.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But as I said, Rob, did you see what he
floated this weekend? Major League Baseball is talking about possible expansion.
Right so, the Athletics are expected to be in Vegas,
and they could add two different teams, whether it would
be in Charlotte, another team in Canada, or a team
in Nashville, something like that, like maybe another team in Texas.
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They want to add two more expansion teams. And if
they were to do so, Manfred hinted at the idea
of realigning baseball geographically and that would help out the
Rockies so much. Dude, you would then move away from
having to be in the same division as the Dodgers.
And there's been a bunch of like proposed geographical realignments,
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but in uh, the one that I saw on Sports Illustrated,
you would be in a Northwest Division with San Francisco, Seattle,
the Athletics, and the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Now you lose the you for I like for my Giants, but.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
You can't guarantee that you're the worst team in that division.
Like the A's at least have some really young, promising prospects,
but they always find a way recently to kind of suck.
It's not the same as the heyday of the Billy
Bean years. But like you're if you take those four
teams Giants, Mariners, Rockies and A's, I can't guarantee that,
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you know, three years down the road, the Rockies are
automatically the worst team in that division. And you know what,
when we're looking for silver linings with the Rockies, that's
a silver lining.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
We were asked the question if the Rockies trend in
a better direction at the end of the season, is
there any chance the Rockies can draft number one overall
with the anti tanking rules, there's zero change that's consecutive
years of horrific baseball, they're projected to have their highest
draft what is it, number tene highest they can pick
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period is number ten. They will be the.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Worst team in baseball at the end of the season.
They will pick ten in the next MLB draft.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
So is it is it third? In your third consecutive
year of being in the bottom three of baseball, that's
when they cap it so that you can have you
can have two bad seasons and get the number one
overall and back to back. Here it's cut.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
That's kind of ridiculous for baseball, Like you're not guaranteed
to get a bona fide stud with the number one
pick in baseball. It's getting easier as the years go by,
but you can still more so than any other sport,
any of the four major.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Except for NBA has the lottery, which which spins it
all up anyway, right, Like, you can't tank intentionally to
make sure you get the player right because there's not
a great there's the probability of getting that ball to
drop figuratively and literally.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
There's a greater chance to swing and miss on the
number one pick in baseball, though, as compared to basketball, hockey,
and football.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Because the quarterbacks, the position and the nature of it.
Is the National Football League the only the only sport
where the tank rules are really applicable, Like there should
be tank rules because people they need a quarterback. And
when there is a generational quarterback, think Peyton Manning when
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he was coming out. Think I mean it was said
about Caleb Williams. But I didn't see that same that
same information, that same data. The NFL is is there
is no tanking rule in the NFL. Right in saying that, no,
should there be?
Speaker 4 (44:39):
I haven't seen it be enough of an issue yet.
Cleveland was as close as we got to it. But
even when Cleveland was that bad, they never succeeds. Like
outside of Joe Thomas, they never really success or successfully
hit on any of those ipapes.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
What is major League Baseball lottery? Has that been around
for a long time? I thought it was always just
order of finish.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
I don't ask me, man. I'm not going to pretend
to be an expert on Major League Baseball's draft system.
I know as much as the Rockies can't select higher
than tenth.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
There's a there's a lottery there doesn't wait, it does,
It's one through six are determined by weighted lottery drawing
a non playoff team.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
There does not need to be a draft lottery in
the NFL yet, until it becomes a problem, which it
really HAPs it's not. It's not a problem. Teams have
a harder Teams have a harder job of keeping the
number one overall draft pick when they suck that season
than tanking for it. Like there's more teams that win
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a game in Week sixteen or seventeen when they're a
two win team and they screw their franchise out of
a number one, two or three pick. Like that happens
far more often than you see a team going, oh,
they're really you know, they're they're tanking for caid Club
Nick this year. It's not an issue in football right now.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
If somebody is tanking for caid Club Nick right.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Now, he's the number one quarterback prospect right.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Now, then their franchise has bigger issues. And I don't
dislike kid clubinc. But you should never tank for a
player that's been his starting quarterback at Clemson for what
seems like ten years and has done essentially nothing of
major significance.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
It Clemson's combined for fourteen losses in the last four seasons, and.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Kate Clubnick has been that guy.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Not all four years, it is for two years. Dj
Ui Ungalle was the starting quarterback three years ago for them,
and he was also terrible. It's been the whole like
post Trevor Lawrence fall off for them. Club Nick could
could run all over the ACC this year. Clemson's gonna
be a problem. Clemson is gonna win the ACC. Clemson
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will be a playoff team. I'm not taking for that, dude, though.
He's a fun dual threat quarterback. Don't get me wrong,
but I'm not. I'm not taking him at number one overall.
It was the year to take a tackle number one overall.
All right, that's gonna do it for us today. Thank
you guys so much for hanging out with us. If
you missed any of the show, to search the Morning
Sprint wherever you get your podcasts, including the Chris Armis
show that we had at ten forty five today. It
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was a fun day, right. We re debuted the Broncos
Big Play replay. We shook off the rust of there.
That felt good. We're gonna have that again coming up
Monday after the Saints and the Broncos play the final
preseason game of the year. PhD is coming up next.
Don't go anywhere but for coaching for kJ. I'm RAJ.
We'll see you guys tomorrow morning at ten. Have a
great rest of your Monday, Denver.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
And then a lot of talk about, you know, year
two under Bobby. I guess maybe year six under you
doesn't sound quite as exciting to the eye. But I
guess have you have you learned anything that I guess
sorry question?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I.
Speaker 7 (47:45):
Guess is there anything new that you've learned about yourself
that you're looking to take into this year? I guess
I should just lead with that.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Some people are really stupid.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
Eighty seconds to play in the quarter, Steadam has time
watch on shidelined sight Franklin into the m zone, touched
down Brockles and a beautiful ball right on time from
Jared Stidham again.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
What you see from them, I.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Mean, they're doing great. They're playing with so much more confidence,
you know, Troy coming from last year to this year,
and then obviously Pat, you know, just he's a young
he's a young dude, so he's just you know, getting
his feet wet a little bit, but he's playing with
more confidence, you know, each time he gets out there,
and you know, really proud of those guys, and you know,
proud of the whole offense.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
After a week two preseason win against the Arizona Cardinals,
we welcome you back into the Morning Sprint RAJ alongside
the coach, Mike Sanford. Twenty seven to seven is the
fire and it's time to tell you who's in the groove.
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dot com. And I'll start it with that guy, Troy
Franklin four receptions, sixty seven yards, two touchdowns along of
twenty seven holding on to footballs and turning into a
red zone threat, a vertical threat that Jared Stidham can
just kind of throw the ball up to if he
gets onto his back shoulder, it feels like he's gonna
catch it now. Yes, he's going against twos, two and
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a half and threes with Arizona there, but any positive
news from a guy who had a cat or a
case of the drop seas last year, coach, I would say,
Troy Franklin out of the wide receiver group, that dude's
in the groove.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I gotta go with. Jared Stidham is my guy who
is just clearly in his bag. And yes, he is
in the groove. And that is the sixteen of twenty
three two hundred and forty yard, two touchdown, zero interception performance,
chasing up a really good performance in Week one of
preseason as well, has not has yet to take a
(02:08):
sack in the preseason. I absolutely love what I'm seeing
right now from Jared Stidham, and that's that's a player
that I I have not completely bought in on at
any point in time as being a guy that not
only would be a plus backup, but potentially could be
a starter in this league. His trend as a overall
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player has just been developing. How about his Week one
fourteen to fifteen, So Jared Stidham has had how many
total incompletions? It's like five on the entire preseason. He's
playing a ton of football. Fourteen to fifteen, one hundred
and thirty six yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
He had seven incompletions in the Arizona game. So was
that eight now?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yep? I mean one in the You know what's interesting
of note as well? You know who else is in
the groove rush just the backup quarterback for whoever has
been the second quarterback in between Jared Stidham and Sam Ellinger.
They don't throw in completions if you're a backup for
the Broncos in a preseason game. So one in completion
in Game one for Jared Stidham Game two Sam Ellinger
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fourteen of sixteen just two incompletions. It's a really really
good stat line there. I mean, you're you're above thirty
attempts between those two air quote backup quarterbacks in those
preseason games, those guys have been dealing.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
What did you see about Jacoby Brissett in that game?
Do you still see this guy can start in the NFL? No?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
No, he's he is the He's the definition of a
of a four to a quarterback. He's between a triple
A baseball player as a football guy and a major leaguer,
and so he always will be right in between. It's interesting.
I actually got to know jacobra Brissette a little bit.
It's got a really unique personality. His uh one of
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his former coaches at NC State is was my defensive
coordinator at Western Kentucky and we played at Charlotte and
I believe Jacoby Brissette was either I think I can't
remember exactly where it was, but he came to our
pregame meal and hung out with us. No, we actually
played ball State, so it was in Indianapolis, so he
was there at the Colts. He came to our pregame meal,
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hung out with us, and good, dude, really good dude,
but a unique personality. I just see him as a
perfect backup quarterback and that's about it.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Speaking of backup quarterbacks, where would you rank Jarrett Stidham
among the thirty two backups? Do you think he's a
top ten backup quarterback in the league.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yes, and I believe he's compensated as such, if I'm
not mistake, I mean, certainly Kirk Cousins is compensated a
little bit more.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
He signed as a starter, not signed as a backup.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What he is a backup?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Sports Illustrated ranked the twenty twenty five NFL backup quarterbacks.
Jarrett Stidham ranks in between Tyler or Taylor Heineke that's
a good one, and Tanner McKee at number twenty. Really
where Sports Illustrated has him?
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Right?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Now, give me at number you have to do? You
have the top five, the full list, right, give me
the top five. Kirk Cousins, okay, is the best backup
of course, without a doubt. Jimmy Garoppolo, would.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
You take Kirk Cousins? Excuse me today, would you take Jared,
Jared Stidham or Jimmy g Today?
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Garoppolo has gotten to a Super Bowl dude, Okay, I
think I would take would I think I would take Garoppolo?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I would take trust Talking.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
About backups, so like, I don't really care about the
backup quarterback all that much. Number three, they have Daniel Jones,
but he's going to start likely, so do you want to, like,
do you want to replace him with you know, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I don't think number three I wouldn't take Would you
take Anthony richards right now over?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Not?
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Are you gonna say Jared Stidam? Jared had him a
million times over? I think Anthony Richardson is a farce
of a quarterback you.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
You knew as look good? And I don't know where
he's at in the list. Tyson Badget is it Baigent?
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Tyson Beagent is from Chicago? Not listed? That seems thirty
one of thirty two is where Tyson Beagent listen there
as the backup for Caleb Williams. Uh continuing on your
top five. Number four, Jake Browning with Cincinnati good when
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he stepped in for for Burrow where.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
He's kind of what you want. Former Washington husky very
Bright can operate at a high level from a from
I mean now he was dealing for a while there,
dealing dealing.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Number five, Jackson Dart show me more. Do you take
Jackson Dart or Jarrett Stidham right now?
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I would? I mean if for what the Broncos want
to do?
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yeah, if you need to, if if the Broncos are again,
let's say week eight, they're six and two and they
are in need of a quarterback. Jared Stidham or Jackson
Dark Stidham, Mac Jones at number six.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
He was dealing a little bit last week when the
Broncos played him.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
I take Stidham over Jones. Would Marcus Mariota at number seven?
I've had a man crushed two, but it's always going
back to his Heisman years at Oregon.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
He's been. He's been an admirable pro, though not an
elite pro, but an admirable pro. Still has plus athletic trades.
He's got much more banked reps as a starter than
Jared Stidham. I would take. I would take Mariota.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Do you who he's the backup for?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Where is he again?
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Marcus Mariota is the backup for Jaden Daniels in Washington.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
That's a great I love the comp Yeah, and that's
a little bit what I see with bow Knicks and
what could be a great backup situation with Sam Ellinger.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Was the first team to really do that in terms
of like, I'm gonna find a quarterback archetype, and I
don't care about getting like the best backup quarterback, but
I want the guy who most is going to resemble
my starter. Baltimore did that with was it Huntley behind
behind Lamar Jackson? That felt like the first team that
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was like, we're just gonna get an archetype and we're
gonna find the guy that fits the archetype the best,
rather than a player who is very clearly like a
better quarterback, so we don't have to change the offense whatsoever.
It felt like for so many years in the NFL,
teams are just like, whoever the next best dude is,
he's gonna be our backup and if he's not a runner,
it's fine, we'll we'll we'll tailor the offense to a
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pocket passing backup quarterback.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Raji, you like you like breaking news.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Sure give it to me.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
From ESPN's Adam Scheffer sources, the Cleveland Browns are naming
seventy three year old Joe Flacco is there. Week one
starting quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals sets up perfectly for
shaudor Man the entertainer, Cedric the entertainer, entertainer.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Where does shaduor Sanders walk in on the backup quarterback list?
Probably around thirty thirty one thirty two as of right now.
He should he showed us what he can do in
like a quarter and a half of preseason.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What we at What week will should dour Sanders be
the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
I'm gonna guess that do. They have a tough schedule,
all right? So they start at home against Cincy since
he should win that game. They go on the road
to Baltimore. That's a loss. They're at home against green Bay.
That's probably dude Cleveland schedule.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
So that's a great thing.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Though, listen to the first five weeks of this season
for Cleveland.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Let the old man take all the lumps man.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Home against Cincy, on the road against Baltimore, home against
green Bay, on the road against Detroit. And then they
are in are they in England or I don't know
where they are. They have a seven thirty am game
on Sunday, October fifth against Minnesota, which is in Tattenham,
Tottenham on spy Tottenham, the Browns and the Vikings at Tottenham.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I think I like the Blacks the Vikings at Tottingham,
and then they.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Get rewarded by having to go back to the States
and then on the road to the Steel City and
take on Pittsburgh. They don't have like an eminently or
eminently winnable game until Week seven at home against Miami.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Which is exactly when Schidor Sanders dude will be the
starting quarterback for the Cleveland.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Cleveland is gonna suck this year? Oh no, What did
you make of the What did the Browns ever do
to anybody to deserve that start to the season.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
What did you make of Dylan Gabriel's pose? I guess
it was in game interview where he was quoted, Oh,
I have it right here.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
Okay, It's just part of it.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
You know, there's there's entertainers and there's competitors, and I
totally understand that, and my job is to compete and
that's what I'm focused on doing.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
He said it wasn't a shot at Sanders. Come on, man,
that's a shot at a dude who's in your quarterback room.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know what that sounds like? That sounds like something
that he's said in his own mind about the two
of them since draft day, or his camp is telling
you his camp, his people, and and then what I
don't like about this whole Dylan Gabriel thing. In fact,
I just don't like Dylan Gabriel period. I don't think
he's a very I don't think he's worthy of being
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a fifth round draft pick or what was he third round?
Third round draft pick?
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Shudour was the fifth rounder.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
He's tiny, he looked terrible in the preseason game, and
he's focusing on the wrong things. You know what shoud
or Sanders does that Dylan Gabriel doesn't do. He actually
goes out and plays well. And Dylan Gabriel's caught up
in this type of stuff, and it tells you it's
a little insight into his mind. And then he even
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had the built in, uh, the built in excuse for
why he said what he said and how what it
really meant, even though it was completely shade. You know
what's gonna happen though the media empire created by Dion
Sanders coach prime and his family and and all of
their peripheral are going to erase Dylan Gabriel from public
eye over the next three years. This is not gonna
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go well for Dylan Gabriel. And I don't know if
there's even been aneath, any kind of reciprocal anything's come out.
It's going to at some point.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
It won't come out from Shaduur. It will come out
from someone within the camp correct, a defender of Shador,
whether it's Dion, maybe someone asks like Shiloh about it,
maybe over the court the last like week and a
half a camp. It'll come out for I'm a shoot
do or defender, and it's fine. Like Sanders, the better
quarterback is a better quarterback, He's the better quarterback. Yeah.
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I think Week seven home against Miami is probably solid.
What a great text message from nine the nine four five.
I went, what did Cleveland ever do to deserve the
first six weeks of the season that they have? And
they go, they signed Diddy, That's what they did to
do to deserve it.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Wait who they said, did he? I didn't know that?
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Sean Watson?
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, indeed.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Uh there's some you know, baby oil in those miss yeah,
that's kind of where we're going.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
No, m.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah, dude, Cleveland's got a murderer's road to start.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
So somebody, somebody full spot to bring in real quick.
I want to I want to address the the nine
to seven five here. You guys are ridiculous. Why don't
you give it some context and play a few seconds
before his response, what is the question that reporter is asking?
So the question was how do you how do you
deal with in interviews when you're preparing to play football games,
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dealing with the NFL as entertainment. He answered the question
The shade was the shade, The shot was the shot.
And you know what, it's coward to use the out
that he used to say that he was answering that question.
That is a that is a banger of the line
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as the kid, as the ghol kids call it. Nowadays,
there are entertainers and there are competitors, and I'm the competitor. Okay,
so cool, I get it. I'm the one in the
arena right now. You've said that before you knew exactly
what you're doing, and you prepared to say it afterwards.
That's not what I meant. You knew exactly what you're doing.
And honestly, Dylan Gabriel, you're not a good football player.
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You stink You're not going to be on an NFL
roster in three years you are, You're going this route
is a bad decision for you, and I could care
less context my butt. That's not context. That's that is
a that's a SoundBite that he was very very careful
to choose, and it was throwing shade at another quarterback, who, oh,
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by the way, is still in the same quartback room,
in the same locker room as you right now. But
it won't be long, Dylan, you won't be around very long.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
So if it's Week seven home against Miami that Schadour
takes over for I'm assuming like a one in five
Cleveland team at that or yeah, one in five Cleveland team,
it's a really cushy landing spot for him. He gets
to start at home. Then you go on the road
to New England, who could be a vastly more improved
version of the Patriots this year. They could be, but
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they're still gonna be either third or fourth in the
AFC East. Then you get a bye week to diagnose
those first two starts of his career and then you
go on the road to the New York Jets, who
are just gonna suck. Now, Yeah, you get thrown into
the fire in week four of Shador's projected starting career.
That's Week eleven against Baltimore at home. That's gonna be
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a really difficult game. But that's the perfect spot to
put this dude in. If he's the backup man, he's
gonna play. He's gonna play half the season. The NFL
schedule makers indirectly gave Cleveland the perfect roadmap for making
a fifth round quarterback their starter of the future. They did.
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It's a perfect spot for them to put him in
Week seven against Miami. I hope he doesn't take a
quick time out. Kj's NFL Notes are coming up. On
the other side. PhD will join you guys from twelve
to three and eight and Andy on your drive home
from three to six pm Happy Monday on altitude ninety
two to five. Every day here on the Morning Sprint,
we go through the biggest stories around the National Football
League with kjs ANDFL notes. Broncos coming off of a
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twenty seven to seven Week two preseason victory against the
Arizona Cardinals, Jarrett Stidham, Evan Ingram, and Troy Franklin all
balled out in this one. kJ what is first?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
You know this is truly preseason because I'm leading off
NFL NO with Jared Stidham. Jared Stidham of all people.
Stitty was sixteen or twenty three passing with two hundred
and forty yards and two touchdowns. Both touchdowns went to
the emerging second year wide receiver, Troy Franklin. Here is
Jerry Stidham pulling his best. Russell Wilson.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
No, it's obviously great.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
It's obviously great to be back in front of the
front front of the home crowd, the best fans in football.
And luckily, you know, we were able to put up
some points tonight and move the football. And you know, everybody,
everybody that played tonight, offense, defense, special teams just played
really compliment complimentary, and uh we had we had a
lot of fun. Troy Franklin, Pat Bryant, what you see
from them, I mean, they're doing great. They're playing with
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so much more confidence, you know, Troy coming from last
year to this year.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
And then obviously Pat, you know.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Just he's a young he's a young dude.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
So he's just you know, getting his feet wet a
little bit, but he's playing with more confidence, you know,
each time he gets out there, and you know, really
proud of those guys, and you know, proud of the
whole offense.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
kJ. I love you, man, but don't ruin my new
found love affair with the improved DNA disposition composition. She
should say of Jared Stidham by throwing Russell Wilson on him.
I love you man, You're You're the best in the game.
Truly are the best in the game. That was your
first real miss, right there? Man? Yeah? Did you I mean,
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do you think up and then drag him down? Do
you think that Stiddies was nearly as cornballish as a
Russell Wilson? And no, of course not. There was nobody
who's core was more. That was more of a Scotty
Gage problem, my fellow nine news pal. He started listing
off everybody that he needs to talk about. I love you, kJ,
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just don't don't don't don't don't.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
You don't do scouts on her scouts honor.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
I got you?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
You happy to be as a backup quarterback. You gotta
be everyone's best, right right? You can't be stand offers
as a backup quarterback. You gotta be a glue guy.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I used to there's a there's there's a saying in
the Bobby Patrino coaching family. It's say like, why are
you such an Ebes guy? Ebbes as in like ee
b s I'm like Ebbes, what do you mean? You're
just an Ebbes? Everybody's buddy? Eb everybody I'm trying to
hold my roster. It's actually like making fun of somebody,
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like do you have any dog in you? Or are
you just an Ebes guy? In football? I got some
Ebbs to be. I've always been everybody's buddy?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Am I getting on the field? Am I on the team?
Am I getting paid?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Another?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Everybody's body?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Another slogan that I love more from one of my
one of my favorite co workers I worked with in football,
Phil mcgagan, got to you gotta be who you can
afford to be, man, And that's what Jared Stidham is
doing right. You just got to continue to be who
you can afford to be.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
We're gonna keep making sure that we have our weekly
quarterback dinners in Castle Pines Village. Yes, we're gonna to
go to Mexico after the season with ladies.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
We're gonna have matching pajamas with our wives. The quarterback
wives are gonna We're gonna be perfect. No your role, yep,
be who you can afford to be. Jeli McLoughlin also
a player that I think is done a really good
job of being who he can afford to be. Instead
of showing disgruntled, Julil McLoughlin, just keep showing up. I'm
gonna get my chance. If I show that I'm frustrated
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because you went out and got all these dudes, it's
not gonna bode well for me. I gotta make this
roster kJ what's next? O?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
I love that?
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Okay, Broncos sight in. Evan Ingram had to play that
broke the game open a fifty yard catch and run
to set the Broncos up for their first score of
the game. Here's Evan Ingram kind of in a very
jokingly way kind of meeting he's getting a little old,
a little long into too fear.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
Troy had a great blok half of the catch, broke
a tackle.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
I show the freaking store.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
This is a good play, good play to start the game,
good good play for the offense, great play, they just
get the drive going. It was it was fire said
it was really fire. Just the energy, just the fan engage.
How many fans showed up preseason games? Kind it was
crazy for that to be a preseason gay, I can't
wait to do We've one.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
I feel like stirring the pot today.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh, let's stir it. Let's get weird it.
Speaker 6 (21:20):
Did he not score that touchdown simply because he's getting old?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
No, no, no, no, no no. He looked fast, he
had accelerated, He broke tackles.
Speaker 4 (21:31):
There's like two tight ends in the league that were
gonna score from ninety five yards Brock Bowers. Maybe it's
Brock and that's it.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
I don't know who else he would throw in that category.
Maybe Harold fannin junior because he's a he's an undersized
I mean, the guys that fit the art type of
joker smaller, don't carry around six foot six, two hundred
and sixty five pounds. It really is Brock Powers, Evan Ingram.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Like Kelsey ain't doing it from ninety five? Is Kittles
he still having.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Got some jew he does. He's in that category.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Ryd and Andrews probably aren't making it ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
I would. I would say McBride would have the chance.
He's not huge. McBride's two forty five.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
John hus Smith.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
I mean what we saw last year's show that he
can be that guy.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Oh you know who's the sneaky one, Tucker Craft. He's
a Yeah, Tucker Craft could go ninety five.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, he's got some.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
He's got some wheels.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
He's got some wheels. He's got some and he and
he is tough to tackle. He's he runs through porous
secondary tackling one more. Kyle Pitts just got the size
speed ratio to do this.
Speaker 4 (22:53):
Okay, so maybe there's five dudes who can do it
from there, could.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
But probably wouldn't not with the He didn't get hocked,
he didn't get walked down. It was just more as
he's running through there's just a convergion of pursuit a
SAT there's safeties that are playing top down, they were
above the play. It was a little bit different than
just a pure I got caught because I'm old.
Speaker 4 (23:15):
Can you have a cheat code like does Taysom Hill count?
It's kind of.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Cheating and at this stage I don't know that he
runs away with that. I don't I really.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Don't speaking a longer than tooth. He's probably longer than
tooth there, No, he was great. That shows you why
they went out and got him right, A chunk play
from a tight end. What is that? I haven't had
that here in ten years? So you're hope and no
a fan was gonna be Nope, it's been delightful to
have him so far. It's all you needed to see,
right that. You're checking off boxes as the preseason goes along, right, Like,
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you saw what you need to see out of Nick
Benito in preseason week number one box checked. See you
don't want to see it or don't want to have
you in a game for the next two weeks.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Didn't love the start of Bonnicks versus the forty nine ers,
But so what do you get? You get Thursday against
the Cardinals in a joint practice against their entire starting defense.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Check the box balls out, check the wide receivers. Oh,
is Troy Franklin know how to catch a football? Yes?
He does.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Yeah, In fact, he knows how to catch multiple elite
catches in the end zone. In his second preseason game.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Is Pat Bryant to safety blanket check the box.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
R J.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Harvey. Does he have the burst required out of a
guy that's checked the wrap it in the second round?
At the tailback position? JK Dobbins. Do we see him
in training camp almost on a weekly basis as the guy, Oh,
you look, you need to see it.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
I see a little bit more.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
You want to see. But do you or do you
want him be fully healthy for the season.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
You know, if I have to choose between the two,
it's healthy for the season. But I still feel like
I need JK to make someone miss and then turn
like what should have been three yards into seventeen yards,
and maybe I won't see that until the regular season.
He's the only guy that I'm still waiting on, like
a kinda need to see something.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Come on, come on.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
You got it.
Speaker 4 (25:03):
I believe he has it, but I haven't seen it
yet because he obviously just hasn't been given the touches.
kJ keep it going.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
The Cleveland Browns are signing former Texas wide receiver Isaiah
bund days after grand jury declined to indict him on
a sexual assault charge. He has a contract of three
years worth three point zero one eight million fully guaranteed
and Obviously all of this comes out that he makes
the announcement on Instagram last Thursday that he is signing
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with the Cleveland Browns after everything was properly and formally
dismissed by all parties. If this is all behind Isaiah
Bunn and he can just focus strictly on football now,
which player could end up being the bigger steal from
the twenty twenty five draft for the Browns should do
or Isaiah should do?
Speaker 2 (25:52):
Or Sanders without question? Because a he's a quarterback be
he's shown to be the most electric quarterback in the Browns,
extremely outed in a very mid quarterback room. And Isaiah
Bond has baggage that Shador Sanders does not. And granted
he was he the grand jury declined to indict him
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on this sexual assault charge. But it does follow you.
And I know, innocent til proven guilty, it does follow you.
And that's just the unfortunate nature of the world we
live in. Shaudor Sanders had a squeaky clean reputation. He
got a couple speeding tickets. It's very different.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
If Shaudor Sanders starts football games for the Browns, he's automatic.
If he starts a game for the Browns is a
fifth round draft pick. He's automatically more valuable than Isaiah
Bond could be, even though the dudes run a sub
four four forty, right Like, that is the most valuable
position in the sport, in all of sports's quarterback. And
if you find a guy in the fifth round for
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any number of reasons and he starts odd game, you win,
You win the draft, you win, And it's gonna happen
this year. And we told you.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Unless there's something that takes place over the next ten
days between training camp preseason Game three where either Shador
Sanders blows up or they sixty Yeah, they look at
Shador as a cancer, which I doubt they will because
he played really well. What I found out is.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
That Joe Flacco can ball out.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
We have a lot of Orgon Duck fans here because
there's a lot of people that were on Team Dylan
or just maybe it's just a bunch of csu rams
that absolutely despise shad Or Sanders on everything.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
See you did he play Oklahoma too?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
He bounced around a lot of places you see f Oklahoma.
Speaker 4 (27:46):
I would assume there's a lot of Sooner fans.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Orgon Ducks yeah, but they should hate him, right. Yeah,
it wasn't good anywhere. It was just okay. It was
like whatever the surrounding cast around Tilly Gabriel was. He
was about that and he never was a boat raising guy.
Because that that roster at Oregon should have they should
have been in the national championship game. How they don't
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get there is still I still don't get it.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Can you say the same thing about bo Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
You can Auburn nowhere near the roster to be able
to win a national.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Get there? That is the Oregon Duck way of doing
things that like you look great and then you never
get it done when it really matters. Mariota was Mariota
got some didn't They got a lot of macked by
Alabama or Ohio.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
State got after him too in a national championship thought
it was Bama.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
I could be completely You're you were in French college
football world back.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
The reason I remember this, do you want to know
how crazy college football is? I was the offensive coordinator
at Boise State. I had been at Stanford the year
before as the quarterback coach and wide receiver coach. I
get a call after Ohio State wins the Sugar Bowl
and beats Alabama. I get a text from Urban Meyer.
I should say, hey, we want Tom Herman's leaving to
(29:05):
take the Houston head job. We want to interview you
for the offensive coordinator quarterback job at Ohio State.
Speaker 4 (29:10):
It was Ohio State.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I flew out there with my wife. I spend about
two full days while they're preparing for Oregon. They're trying
to figure out how to block the two massive defensive ends,
the four techniques, which was Armstead, Eric Armstead and DeForest
Buckner humongous human beings, like frankly immovable objects. And I'm
(29:34):
watching film with their staff. I said, have you guys
watched the unbalanced cut up? And they said, what do
you mean? I said, when you go when you go
either tackle over or you have an an unbalanced offensive line,
they shift their their defensive line. They're like, are you sure?
I go pull out the twenty thirteen's Stanford versus Oregon film.
It's all we did, and we obliterated those guys because
(29:55):
you get those two big dns to play in gaps
instead of played directly over offensive time. It's four eyes.
They did it in the National Championship Game and how
many yards did they rush for it was it was ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The national title game in twenty fifteen was a forty
two to twenty Ohio State dropping of Oregon. They rushed
for Ezekiel Elliott rushed for two one hundred and forty
six yards and four scores. M hm, Cardale Jones thirty
(30:30):
eight rushes or sorry, twenty one attempts for thirty eight
yards and a touchdown. Dude, Eziel Elliott ran the ball
thirty six times in that game.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Wasn't much tread left on those tires? Who were there?
Speaker 4 (30:42):
The crap? You told me that Urban Meyer owes you
a national championship ring? Is that what you're trying to
tell me?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
No, I turned down the job too, By the way,
you know what was else else was going? Do you
remember that Zach Smith, the receiver coach that had the
domestic abuse with his Yeah. That when I went back
two years later and I looked at the dates of
those text messages, that's when I was actually there in
their meeting room. He was getting those text messages and
(31:10):
it was going to Shelley Meyer, Urban's wife. I'll say this,
when I was in that room, I could tell there
were high levels. I'm talking high levels of dysfunction in
that room. It felt like it. Tom Herman felt like it.
Urban felt like it. Zack Smith felt like it. It
was wild. I got home, Yeah, I got home to
the hotel. Room stayed on campus at Ohio State. They
(31:32):
have a hotel. They have their own hotel. They put
you in the Blackstone or something that my wife, Amory,
had gone out with Shelley Meyer, Urban's wife. Great night.
They you know, went to a wine bar in Columbus,
had a you know, a great galleas night. Amrie. She's like,
how was it? Was it awesome? And I was like, yeah,
I was, yeah, it was interesting. Is yeah. She's like,
you don't want this job, dude. I go, no, it's
(31:55):
very dysfunctional. kJ keep it rolling.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
Well. One of the stories beyond preseason games that came
out this weekend was Bengals star dn Trey Hendrickson is
now exploring Trey options with the permission of the Bengals.
According to Diana Russini This Morning Quote, teams that have
recently inquired about Bengals star Trey Hendrickson were told Cincinnati's
asking price included a young defensive player and a twenty
(32:25):
twenty six first round pick. According to league sources, the
player heading back does not have to be a pass
rusher end quote, which got me to thinking, if you're
the Broncos, which you think about trading future star cornerback
Jade Bearing and next year's first for Trey Hendricks.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
No no, no, no no no no no no. I
want my first round pick next year because I want
the future wide receiver one in the room or the
future joker tight end. I don't know, in the room.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
Do you still have having Ingram for three or four
years after what we saw he's got Definitely, he's got
some juice. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (33:09):
I want toys around the bone, Nicks, and you have
a good enough pass right and.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
The toys that you added this year have already proven
to be really fun toys. Yes, And you know what
Sean's really excited about. You know what this week is? Man?
Where does he get to show off his toys this week? Oh?
Speaker 4 (33:26):
New Orleans.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Sean's so excited to go back. He loves going back
to New Orleans and just showing off like all of
his things.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
And I got hotter, Yeah, this is his I got
hotter week. I won the breakup. Although he was kind
of the one that caused the breakup.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
There was there's some dysfunction at quite Ohio state levels
of dysfunction. But there was a boun who has been
known to probe gens. Oh God continued, please, oh man.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
No, I'm not trading. I'm not trading for Trey Hendrickson.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I'm not.
Speaker 4 (34:02):
You don't need it. From a pass Russ standpoint, I'm
not giving up a first rounder. And the returns on
Jade Baron are He is a tackling machine.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Is a tackling machine. He's rugged, he's physical, He's got
a vocal presence to him. He is intelligent. You hit
on every one of your draft picks so far except
maybe one, and who do you think that might be?
We did see an improvement in the preseason game. Who
(34:36):
is the one draft pick, raj that you are not
extremely bullish on that the Broncos got in the twenty
twenty five NFL Draft.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
The Frickin' punter in the sixth round exactly.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Jeremy Kraushaw had a better day. Penny two punts fifty
four and a half yards, But I hated a touchback.
I don't like you're an Australian punter OSSI rule football guy.
You're supposed to be able to pin your opponents inside
(35:14):
the twenty yard line. Jeremy crashaw Man, No more.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
Do we put too much stock into him being a
sixth round pick when he was really a seventh round pick.
He was the last selection of round six. It's not
like you took him at the at the top. It's
not like you took him, you know, when Jimmy Horn
or Lejonte Wester was sitting there, or you obviously weren't
(35:41):
going to take a quarterback, you know, Kyle McCord sitting
there as maybe a future backup. You didn't take him
before any of those guys. You took him to the
last pick of the sixth round. Would we be as
upset about a drafted punter looking as bad as he has,
and he has looked objectively bad. Would it be as
upset if he was a seventh round and not a
sixth rounder.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
I'm more upset because you moved on from Riley Dixon
because he's accused.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Dude, you didn't want to pay him punch an LSU
Tiger in the face after hurdling him on a fake punt.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Big fan.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Love that.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Yeah, that's what I'm looking for in my punner. If
you know one else was great about Riley Dixon. You
can throw the football well. You never noticed him, and
that's a good thing when you're a punner. Yeah, you
don't want to notice a punter. Yep, you don't.
Speaker 4 (36:25):
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(36:48):
one for sports talk. You guys are listening to Altitude
Sports Radio ninety two to five. Few things I want
to grab bag here from the weekend, and I don't
know if I can grab the bag that you were
talking about in the break Coach trying to derail my
head for fifteen minutes ago program?
Speaker 2 (37:04):
What I do, man? Just having a good old fashioned
conversation with my Paler Alex.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Well, you guys could have a microphone in here, we're
in break. We would get fired, but you guys would
have a wonderful time.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I'm I'm highly appropriate.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
Few things that I want to wrap up from the weekend.
One Scottie Scheffler. While he's not Tiger Woods, he's also
like not not Tiger Woods. The Guy's inevitable. Was trailing
Bobby McIntyre at one point over the weekend by seven strokes,
going into Sunday trailing by four, and by the time
the turn hit he had already tied. And then oh
(37:42):
lo and behold, he's one stroke up on McIntyre, playing
with the guy and then chips in from the rough
behind the seventeenth green to take a two stroke lead
that he would walk away with the BMW Championship. The
guy is just he's inevitable, and he's one of my
most fun watch in sports right now because it's it's funny.
(38:03):
He just continues to make all these shots look easy
because they are to him, and I know he's gonna win,
but I still have to watch. I'm still glued to
the television.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
One of my favorite things Bennett Scheffler, Scotti Scheffler's son,
since Bennett Scheffler was born.
Speaker 4 (38:23):
Oh, I saw this. It's like the uh, it's like
the new England sports fan who was born when Tom
Brady took over from Bledsoe.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Since Bennett was born, and he's like, what two years
old something like that. A year and a half, eighteen months,
eight PGA tour wins, two majors, one Olympic gold medal,
two playoff wins, twenty three top tens, sixteen top fives. Alright,
there's it's good, Dad bought right there. Dad.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Strength is what that is.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
Man.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
The other thing that I saw Rob Manfred, the commissioner
of Major League Baseball, as the rock He's come back
on Sunday to beat the Arizona and.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
Telling everybody, Man, the Rockies are scorching hot, playing nearly
five hundred baseball since the all start.
Speaker 4 (39:07):
The Rockies need to win seven of their final thirty
eight games of the season to guarantee that they will
have a better record than Chicago did last season.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
When Chicago, I've been saying all along, there's there's no
chance that they're going to break that record. The Rockies are.
They're not good at making history. Even if it's terrible history.
They're still not good at it.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Yeah, they take three of four from Arizona after taking
two of three on the road against Saint Louis. Now
it's you have to take on the Dodgers, who are
starting to play a little bit better baseball after slumping.
You have a four game set with them that starts
tonight as Yoshiyamamoto goes up against Kyle Freelan. So that's
gonna be difficult to maintain the hot streak. But you
just need to find a way to win seven of
(39:52):
thirty eight and you automatically get forty two wins and
you're not the woeful Chicago White Sox. Would you rather
tie with the White Sox and be forty one and
one or not have a share of the record at all?
Do you like you want the full record or you
don't want it?
Speaker 2 (40:09):
Yeah? If you if you tie the record, that's that
would be that's even worse. That would be peak rockets.
Speaker 4 (40:14):
It's even worse than going forty two and one twenty
And I would even argue, like you want to you
want to shatter it, like make it, make it count.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
They're not going to. There's there's there's no way Rockies
are playing in baseball right now? Man, problem is, is is
it gonna be like? Is it gonna be impactful whatsoever
for the future of the franchise. Still aren't seeing a
bunch of like the young young prospects that you've acquired
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
It's this isn't a oh, They're automatically going to be
a seventy five win team next year. No, No, this
is a this is a three to five year reset.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
There's gonna be some some still gonna suck next year
forty five to sixty five win seasons.
Speaker 4 (40:58):
But as I said, Rob, did you see what he
floated this weekend? Major League Baseball is talking about possible expansion.
Right so, the Athletics are expected to be in Vegas,
and they could add two different teams, whether it would
be in Charlotte, another team in Canada, or a team
in Nashville, something like that, like maybe another team in Texas.
(41:20):
They want to add two more expansion teams. And if
they were to do so, Manfred hinted at the idea
of realigning baseball geographically and that would help out the
Rockies so much. Dude, you would then move away from
having to be in the same division as the Dodgers.
And there's been a bunch of like proposed geographical realignments,
(41:44):
but in uh, the one that I saw on Sports Illustrated,
you would be in a Northwest Division with San Francisco, Seattle,
the Athletics, and the Rockies.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Now you lose the you for I like for my Giants, but.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
You can't guarantee that you're the worst team in that division.
Like the A's at least have some really young, promising prospects,
but they always find a way recently to kind of suck.
It's not the same as the heyday of the Billy
Bean years. But like you're if you take those four
teams Giants, Mariners, Rockies and A's, I can't guarantee that,
(42:27):
you know, three years down the road, the Rockies are
automatically the worst team in that division. And you know what,
when we're looking for silver linings with the Rockies, that's
a silver lining.
Speaker 2 (42:36):
We were asked the question if the Rockies trend in
a better direction at the end of the season, is
there any chance the Rockies can draft number one overall
with the anti tanking rules, there's zero change that's consecutive
years of horrific baseball, they're projected to have their highest
draft what is it, number tene highest they can pick
(42:59):
period is number ten. They will be the.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
Worst team in baseball at the end of the season.
They will pick ten in the next MLB draft.
Speaker 2 (43:06):
So is it is it third? In your third consecutive
year of being in the bottom three of baseball, that's
when they cap it so that you can have you
can have two bad seasons and get the number one
overall and back to back. Here it's cut.
Speaker 4 (43:20):
That's kind of ridiculous for baseball, Like you're not guaranteed
to get a bona fide stud with the number one
pick in baseball. It's getting easier as the years go by,
but you can still more so than any other sport,
any of the four major.
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Except for NBA has the lottery, which which spins it
all up anyway, right, Like, you can't tank intentionally to
make sure you get the player right because there's not
a great there's the probability of getting that ball to
drop figuratively and literally.
Speaker 4 (43:53):
There's a greater chance to swing and miss on the
number one pick in baseball, though, as compared to basketball, hockey,
and football.
Speaker 2 (44:01):
Because the quarterbacks, the position and the nature of it.
Is the National Football League the only the only sport
where the tank rules are really applicable, Like there should
be tank rules because people they need a quarterback. And
when there is a generational quarterback, think Peyton Manning when
(44:21):
he was coming out. Think I mean it was said
about Caleb Williams. But I didn't see that same that
same information, that same data. The NFL is is there
is no tanking rule in the NFL. Right in saying that, no,
should there be?
Speaker 4 (44:39):
I haven't seen it be enough of an issue yet.
Cleveland was as close as we got to it. But
even when Cleveland was that bad, they never succeeds. Like
outside of Joe Thomas, they never really success or successfully
hit on any of those ipapes.
Speaker 2 (44:54):
What is major League Baseball lottery? Has that been around
for a long time? I thought it was always just
order of finish.
Speaker 4 (45:01):
I don't ask me, man. I'm not going to pretend
to be an expert on Major League Baseball's draft system.
I know as much as the Rockies can't select higher
than tenth.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
There's a there's a lottery there doesn't wait, it does,
It's one through six are determined by weighted lottery drawing
a non playoff team.
Speaker 4 (45:19):
There does not need to be a draft lottery in
the NFL yet, until it becomes a problem, which it
really HAPs it's not. It's not a problem. Teams have
a harder Teams have a harder job of keeping the
number one overall draft pick when they suck that season
than tanking for it. Like there's more teams that win
(45:40):
a game in Week sixteen or seventeen when they're a
two win team and they screw their franchise out of
a number one, two or three pick. Like that happens
far more often than you see a team going, oh,
they're really you know, they're they're tanking for caid Club
Nick this year. It's not an issue in football right now.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
If somebody is tanking for caid Club Nick right.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Now, he's the number one quarterback prospect right.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
Now, then their franchise has bigger issues. And I don't
dislike kid clubinc. But you should never tank for a
player that's been his starting quarterback at Clemson for what
seems like ten years and has done essentially nothing of
major significance.
Speaker 4 (46:17):
It Clemson's combined for fourteen losses in the last four seasons, and.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Kate Clubnick has been that guy.
Speaker 4 (46:24):
Not all four years, it is for two years. Dj
Ui Ungalle was the starting quarterback three years ago for them,
and he was also terrible. It's been the whole like
post Trevor Lawrence fall off for them. Club Nick could
could run all over the ACC this year. Clemson's gonna
be a problem. Clemson is gonna win the ACC. Clemson
(46:44):
will be a playoff team. I'm not taking for that, dude, though.
He's a fun dual threat quarterback. Don't get me wrong,
but I'm not. I'm not taking him at number one overall.
It was the year to take a tackle number one overall.
All right, that's gonna do it for us today. Thank
you guys so much for hanging out with us. If
you missed any of the show, to search the Morning
Sprint wherever you get your podcasts, including the Chris Armis
show that we had at ten forty five today. It
(47:06):
was a fun day, right. We re debuted the Broncos
Big Play replay. We shook off the rust of there.
That felt good. We're gonna have that again coming up
Monday after the Saints and the Broncos play the final
preseason game of the year. PhD is coming up next.
Don't go anywhere but for coaching for kJ. I'm RAJ.
We'll see you guys tomorrow morning at ten. Have a
great rest of your Monday, Denver.
Speaker 7 (47:29):
And then a lot of talk about, you know, year
two under Bobby. I guess maybe year six under you
doesn't sound quite as exciting to the eye. But I
guess have you have you learned anything that I guess
sorry question?
Speaker 4 (47:43):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I.
Speaker 7 (47:45):
Guess is there anything new that you've learned about yourself
that you're looking to take into this year? I guess
I should just lead with that.
Speaker 2 (47:54):
Some people are really stupid.
Speaker 1 (47:57):
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