August 25, 2025 • 47 mins
0:00 - Coach and Raj discuss what parts of the preseason will benefit this team in 2025 and what parts we shouldn't worry about as much.
15:06 - KJ's NFL Notes
34:53 - Coach and Raj discuss the other top stories in sports right now! They end the show with which player(s) are in the groove for the Broncos to end the 2025 NFL Preseason.
15:06 - KJ's NFL Notes
34:53 - Coach and Raj discuss the other top stories in sports right now! They end the show with which player(s) are in the groove for the Broncos to end the 2025 NFL Preseason.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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(00:35):
Armis for joining us, even though he has the wrong
stance on peanut butter and jelly creations. You're absolutely incorrect.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There is only one option there, and it is the
traditional smucker's grape.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's what you don't like. I don't like getting like
a jelly missile.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
How good is it when that's that sandwich has been
sitting in your in your backpack all day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'll give you that, and it's all it's all kind
of it's it's it's kind of seeped through the dollar
seventy nine cent Kroger brand bread.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
See, I'm a wonder like if I'm going purest cool
and the wonderbread has almost entirely been absorbed by said
grape jelly. Yeah, and it's it's gelatinous, you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Know what it's. It's best is if you make a
few of those things throw them in saran wrap. Then
you throw them in like your backpack when you're skiing,
and three hours into the day it still has the
same like mushed up soaked through the bread, but it
hasn't just gotten completely soggy because it's cold enough. That's
the that's the most elite version of a PB and
(01:35):
J and then I can deal with the grape crap.
Was it you that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Actually gave me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at
Broncos practice because you saw how it dang hungry it
was you didn't complain. Then you looked over at me
and you said, here you go, man, You and Brett
just show up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You never have any food, and I just see you
guys emaciated and complaining about how hungry you are. I'm
the one who showed. I show up with a granola bar,
a power bar, a off, a PB and jay, a sandwich,
I show up with with waters man. That's all I
need is okay? Thank you appreciate that. I just need
my water. I'm just here feeding the poor. Tell you
(02:10):
what you know I love about my new life of
being a high school coach and a radio broadcast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What is that from a kind of a tax bracket standpoint,
I'm back in peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Man. That's a good place to be, A really good place.
Great world.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The most recent Broncos cuts and now we don't have
to have a fifty three man roster until two pm
Mountain tomorrow, but cuts are coming.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, fast cam Akers just got cut from the
the Saints, and your Broncos cuts are Clay Web, Josh Pickett,
Micah Abraham, Andrew Farmer and the biggest one and the
saddest one of all, my training camp crush, Joaquin Davis.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know what, though, I get some good news on that.
Tell me when was Joaquin David cut early or late
in the process?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Early?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Very early? And I think there's a reason for it.
Are they kind of sandbagging the rest of the National
Football League? And first cut Joaquin Davis? We didn't like
that guy. He was no good. They didn't give him
a whole lot of run in the preseason games, did
they not? No, they didn't. By cutting him early, are
you gonna let him just kind of sit there and
just waste away and cut land?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, maybe some teams are like, oh, we don't want
to jump the gun too early because maybe there's a
bigger name wide receiver that being established.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Guy. I think that it's sneaky. I think George and
Sean Payton are playing some checkers and then cash o
Squaqueen Davis number eighty, and then you get him on
the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would be really, he was my my training camp Darling.
I fell in love with one players.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Getting He's gonna end up on the practice squad he is,
and I'm gonna be great with it. I'm gonna be
super happy.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Other roster cuts that we've seen coming, like Jalen Virgil
former Bronco got cut by the bill. Uh, he's no
longer going to be there. There's gonna be like twelve
hundred players that are available come two pm tomorrow. Also,
big news coming out of Washington, Terry McLaurin three year
deal up to ninety six million dollars for Jaden Daniel's
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favorite target.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So didn't doesn't seem like much of an overpay? Do
you think that's an overpay? He's getting basically court that's
fairly competent comparable to Courtland Sutton? Are we Is that
what he got basically court In Sutton money four million
dollars more?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sutton was four years ninety two million.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
How much of that's guaranteed?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Though his guarantee is forty one?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Okay? So would you say ninety six for McLaren.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Is nineteen to ninety six. I didn't say. I didn't
say guaranteed. That's the kind of thing I've seen is
up to ninety se to ninety.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Six is putting him in the exact category of Courtland Sutton.
Do you think that Courtland Sutton and Terry McLaren are
the same guy?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Spot Track has it as three years ninety six million,
thirty million dollars signing bonus.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So Courtland got one more year. So average annual value
is is significantly more for McLaurin.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The guarantees have not filtered through at least what I'm
looking for right now. The guarantees are not coming through.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
What do you make of we had this, We had
this conversation six weeks ago, RAJ that scary Terry felt
like he was attempting to get into that justin Jefferson,
Davante Adams, and more recently T Higgins, Jamar Chase category.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Of receivers in terms of compensation.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
When indeed, when in fact, his numbers mirrored more so
that of Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I mean he's high at thirty two million dollars. He
is in terms of average salary, he is Garrett Wilson,
AJ Brown, I'm ross Saint Brown, all right, it's about right,
It's about it. I think the number for Terry McLaurin
is solid. He's not a top five.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Wide receiver one in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, but I don't just outside of it, right, And
I don't think he's as low as fifteen.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
What's the what's the number one through five? Who are
the receivers that are average annual value? Highest paid?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Chase, Jefferson, Lamb, Metcalf, Perfect, Wilson, and then right after
that number seven is will Be.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin perfect. It's about where he deserves
to be. I think it's number yep.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Maybe the reason why they wanted to hold out a
little bit more is that did you want a four
year deal? Instead of the three year deal. Considering McLaurin
is twenty nine right, because you're you're not going to
get another long term, super lucrative deal as a thirty
two year old wide receiver. Maybe you won one more
year of health there, right, because that's that's the Sutton deal, right,
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twenty nine years old is when you sign it, you
get four years at twenty three per But I think
that's pretty solid. Like Courtland shouldn't be at twenty eight million,
Like I'm not paying Courtland Nico Collins and t Higgins.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And ty he kill money. No, no, no, no, it's the
right thing. It's one hundred percent the right the right
deal for Terry McLaurin. It was the right deal for
for Courtland Sutton. Courtland Sutton ends up. What is he about?
Number sixteen average out annual value? Is he top fifteen?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Courtland Sutton, he's like down at eighteen or ninety.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Right, it's about right correct. We would say that he's
probably outperformed. Maybe he's outperformed where he was drafted. He's
outperformed the reputation that he has of being kind of
a a lower half, lower tier true wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think he has the ability to outperform that contract.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think it's a team friendly deal.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Especially with what we saw. I'm not just going to
take the four receptions that we saw in Week three,
although I think it was very clear Bow and Courtland
have a there's a connection there, There is a anytime I'm
looking for a big play, fourteen is where the ball
is going. Now if you need third and seven, Patrick Bryan,
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I think is going to dominate those those throws, and
maybe Evan Ingram, although does he feel like a little
bit more of a downfield threat, not just like find
eight yards and sit.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The addition of Ingram is actually gonna unlock Sutton because
now you can't utilize some of your over the middle
coverage to be able to take away your starting X receiver.
So you can't you can't poach a boundary safety with
as much frequency because you're gonna have to have some
You're gonna have to have some understanding of where Evan
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Ingram is. He's going to be a massive part of
this offense. So some of the big plays are gonna
be available for BOONEX to Courtland Sutton, and then if
you can unlock Marvin Mims and keep Troy Franklin's a
cent going and then if JK. Dobbins in this offensive
line is what you think they are, all of a sudden,
you probably have a top ten offense in the National
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Football League, a real like bona fide top ten offense.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Did you walk away from preseason Week three and the
three series that Boe in the first team offense got
against pretty much the whole first team defense from from
New Orleans? Did you walk away more or less confident
than you were going into? More confident? More confident even
though there was a three and out. Yeah, and then
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there was a drive that was helped incredibly buy a
really bad penalty on Ocario Davis.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The good the good news is that you already know
what you have because a lot of these players in
the offense side of the ball are proven. They're proven players.
They've done it in National Football League contests. Evan Ingram
is a proven commodity. Coroyland Sutton Bonnicks have already proven
that they can do it. All you needed to do
was for those players to prove to themselves that they
are ready to be who there who they are, which
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is a really good offense, elite offense. Now you're not
there yet. Can it grow into one? Maybe? And the
key to all of that, RAJH all of it is JK.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Dobbins.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And is this offensive line an overall blocking unit? And
is Sean Payton the play caller going to be a
bottom excuse me, a top ten rushing offense. If you're
a top ten rushing offense this year, we know that
the where the weapons are good enough in the past
game to be a team that can make a serious
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run this year for the.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
AFC will call it your leaders. Last year in team
rushing yards, Baltimore just south of thirty two hundred, the
Eagles just north of three thousand, Washington at two thousand,
six hundred and nineteen, Tampa Bay just over twenty five
hundred yards, Green Bay fifth at two four hundred and
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ninety six yards. To get into the top ten from
last year, you have to be at twenty one fifty ish.
Were you at eighteen hundred last year? Yes, nineteen oh eight.
Is that what is what the team rushed for last
year to get into the top ten, which is the Falcons? Sorry,
you have to be a little bit north of what
(11:17):
I just said. The Falcons were the number ten rushing
team in the NFL last year four and a half
yards per carry in total twenty two hundred and nineteen
yards get you the number ten spot back in twenty
twenty four. It's doable.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
If you get into that spot, you are going to
you're gonna win twelve or thirteen games, You're gonna compete
for the AFC West title, and you're gonna be acquitted
to to have a brand of football with great defense
and a rushing attack that will travel in the postseason,
that can play in bad elements. And that's the question
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right now. Shot Payton won a Super Bowl in a
domed environment with home field advantage. Can you can you
throw the ball with the type of frequency that Sean
Payton typically likes to and play in an AFC that's
probably gonna come down to either a road game in
bad weather or a home game in bad weather, because
(12:13):
this division ain't coming down to The AFC is not
going to probably come down to a dome team or
a team that's playing in really good ones.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
The reason why I hate that you see Kansas City
twice late this year, you don't get them early. That's
why I love that you see Kansas City late that's
why you love it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's why I hate it, because Sean Payton knows he's
gonna have to run the football for those meaningful contexts.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Seventy percent of your top ten rushing teams last year
made the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Can you name the three teams that were in the
top ten that did not make the playoffs? One I've
already given to you. Atlanta was number ten, didn't make
the playoffs. So give me two more teams that were
inside the top ten that did not make it. I'll
give you one hint. One is a bell cow rushing
back running back and the other one is a mobile quarterback.
(13:06):
Do you want Steelers? Do you want the teams that
made it?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Steelers are just outside at number eleven, but they know
I don't think the Steelers made the playoffs. They did
get lost.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
They were one and done. They made the playoffs one
and done again.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Shows how irrelevant they are when they actually get to
the playoffs. Right now, they were number eleven last year
at twenty and sixty six yards, mobile quarterback and a
bell cow running backs. The teams that made it. As
you continue to think, here again, Baltimore, Philly Washington, Tampa Bay,
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Green Bay, Detroit, and then the next two teams at
seven and eight are non playoff teams, followed up by
the Bills at number nine and the Falcons at ten,
which is the third non playoff team in the top
ten from last year.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Drab me nuts thinking about who a bell cow running
back is that didn't make the postseason. It wasn't the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Nope, forty nine ers were just outside number twelve at
two thy one hundred and sixty three yards. One NFC team,
one AFC team, NFC.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So you got mobile quarterback, Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, there's your mobile quarter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Two thy four hundred and fifty one yards. They did
not make the playoffs last year. They rushed for five
point three yards per carry, which was good for number
two league wide.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Give me the college of the Belcal running back where
he attended.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He went to Wisconsin. He's a stud. You're gonna kick
yourself for this. Jonathan Taylor, Oh gosh, the Colts. Yeah
ran the rock. Here you go. Putnam had it three
oh three, five four nine two five is where you
can reach us today. Kj's NFL notes are coming up
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on the other side. That's the coach, Mike Sanford, Alex
Ryan Eman. You guys are listening to Altitude Sports Radio
ninety two to five coming off of a perfect preseason
from the Broncos. Every day here on the morning Sprint
at eleven twenty, we go through the biggest stories in
the NFL. We are like twenty six hours away from
twelve hundred dudes looking for football jobs as tot day
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is nearly upon us. That timing is two pm tomorrow
for those fifty three man rosters to be finalized and
sent into the league. Mister Granderson, what is first today?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
The Broncos were one of four teams to go undefeated
in this twenty twenty five preseason, and bow Knicks and
company played a part in that. But Saturday was another
reminder that they still have some work to do. They
got better as that quarter as the first quarter went along,
but it was a little interesting, and there was a
moment between the second and third drive where bow Nicks
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and Courtland sudden, you know, they kind of had a
conversation about getting back on track, and here's bow Knicks
talking about that and why and why Courtland is so
passionate about playing in a preseason Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was great.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
You know, he's a really great veteran on a team
like this to have and you know, just to see
him go out there and play that hard for a
preseason three games just really unique.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Happy for him.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
No, he's going to have a really strong start of
the year and along with a lot of other guys,
but it's good to have that back and forth, just
kind of see the field in his eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then you know, make some adjustments.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I agree wholeheartedly having a receiver that is a ninety
three million dollar man also give that type of effort
in a preseason game. It's why Courtland Sutton is not
He's not just valuable to this team, he's invaluable. He
is irreplaceable because Sean Payton wants a culture builder at
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the recite receiver position that's selfless, is not going to
be the prima donna that sits out in a postseason
game or excuse be a preseason game, and wants to
deliver the goods and make his second year quarterback that
type of continuity going into the regular season.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That's a love story there. I think Sutton's stock is
higher than it ever has been and because he was
so good in his first two years.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
He's a really good player.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Man, he's a really good football player.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But what what the Broncos fan base and the Broncos
franchise has learned is he's even a better person. You
hear that from everybody. That's not just something that he's
a great guy. We love him. No, he's genuinely respected
and beloved by everybody on that roster, and it makes
a big difference.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You want to hear something that's not so cool regarding
the not so cool, we just need another another cup
of coffee, brought one coffees. One Coffee's the team's last
year that finished the preseason undefeated, the New York Jets,
the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Tennessee Titans, the Chicago Bears, and
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then finally you get a playoff team, the Minnesota Vikings.
Preseason perfection last year not so high?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Were the Bronco You said, the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right, Oh no, they're they're undefeated right now? Were they
not undefated last year? They were not undfeated?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Last year they lose two and one, I'd beat the Packers?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Are they three? And last year's yeah? All right, there
we go never mind two years in a row. Man,
I looked right over. I'm an idiot. They weren't correct.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I want to make sure because I said that right
after the game on nine News.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're right, You're right, You're right, back to back years.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I do.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I think it matters. And and bow Knicks was when
he was asked about it, he said, every single time
that you put on these pads, it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I agree with them. Your mindset, team with team. Other
teams with no losses this preseason. Miami no losses, but
they didn't tie a game. Baltimore went three and O,
Cleveland three and oh, Denver, the Giants, the Bears again
with a tie in there. And those are your undefeated
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teams in the preseason. The Bears will not make the playoffs.
The Giants will not make the playoffs. The Browns will
not make the playoffs. The Bears won't make the playoffs.
I don't think they will. The Dolphins will not make
the playoffs. They're not gonna, dude. The NFC North is brutal.
It's not that I don't think like Caleb Williams can
take a step forward. I think he can. He's got
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a crazy array of things to throw to, dudes to
throw to. But your division is Green Bay, Minnesota and Detroit.
Like Minnesota is the worst team out of those three
that I just named, and it's only because they have
essentially a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
All right, question, if you are a second year quarterback,
would you take the defense and offensive line that Bo
Nicks has with the Denver Broncos or would you take
the slew of weapons that Caleb Williams has in the
past game.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The answer going into year two is defense and offensive
line without a doubt. But if you were to ask
me that question in twenty twenty eight, I'm going with
the Bears weapons. And it's just because you're so young
in the league now it you know, the league has
a full year of tape on you. Yeah, I take
that Bronco's line, Broncos defense right now, But three years
from right now, I'm at this.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look at this group of DeAndre Swift's your tailback, DJ Moore,
Roma dun Say, Luther Burden the third. Your two tight
ends are Cole Kamet and Colston Loveland. It's that's crazy.
The offensive weaponry in Chicago's nuts. They're just not going
to be able to keep Caleb Williams upright, which is
a huge issue. They did go out and get Joe Thuney.
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They went out and got Drew Dolman, the pro bowler
from the Atlanta Falcons the center. They're way better. Darnell
Wright's your right tackle, Braxton Jones your left tackle, and
then Jonan Jackson rounds out. You're starting five. It's better
than what it was a year ago, had a two
pieces defense. And exactly your same answer is it is
that as appetizing, does it get to as fired up?
(21:00):
Probably not. Are you selling as many wide receiver jerseys
as you are in a in Chicago right now?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Probably no. But we just gushed about Courtland something we've
been gushing about Pat Bryant, the possibilities of what Evan
Ingram can do down the field. The only thing you
don't have is like, I know what DeAndre Swift I
would love to have here in Denver. I don't really
know what's gonna happen with the running back room kJ
what's next.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And it's not etched in concrete.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I agree with Jashan, it is not etched in concrete.
But the tough part of the preseason is, uh, you
gotta cut people right, and so far they've already cut
outside linebacker Jordan Farmar or former depending on how you
say it. Wide receiver joaqum Davis, the one that Rodgers's
has been gushing over, ye me and and coach and
coach they've been gushing over him.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Cornerback Mike I Love, he's all right, he'll be back
practice squad.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I'm skidding. And maybe cornerback michaeh Abraham, cornerback Josh Pickett,
in offensive guard Clay will.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh Clay Webb.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Clay Webb was a player on one of those Saturday
semi scrimmages that really was in a scrimmage. He airmailed
about twelve snaps and I said, you know what, she'd
come and play for us over at Pallad. We're pretty
good at that too. In the record, you were skipping
the same we were skipping him. They weren't air mild,
although your punts are handled. The second one, beautiful, Yeah,
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was play the game the game that is, you get
a chained for that one.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
But one player that was on the potential fence coming
into preseason game number three was Odrick Estimate, and he
talked to the media after and uh, let's just say
he still feels like he's on the fence in regards
to whether he'll stay or whether he'll go.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
He made the team is not up to me. It's
up to the coaching stiffe and it's honestly up to God.
And I feel like I did what I needed to
do to put myself in position to be on it.
But end of the day, it's Sean knows what's best
for the team and I'm between my trust and guy,
and I feel like I did what I needed to do.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You'll feel proud of what you've done this offseason and
you're getting in the end zone and all that.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Yes, I'm proud of my progression. I definitely got better
towards from last year to this year, and from the
beginning camp towards the end, I definitely progressed a lot.
And that's all you could do is progress in this league.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Awesome answer to a really tough but very hard hitting,
honest good question there from Scottie Gage and that news
rodri Kesterabay's got a bit of an uphill battle to
make this roster, but I do, I do really respect
the young man for how he handled himself and what
really played out to be a pretty challenging training camp
and a pretty challenging preseason.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean he was option. He was option number Z.
I mean a letter Z.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
If you looked at the running back position group, he was.
He was every single preseason game, every single practice in
training camp, was the last guy to get reps.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
He's the entire running He's not making the team. I
am glad that he got run at the end of
the game and that he looked fine. He looked like
he was serviceable, that he could go in and be
a third option on a team that desperately needs running backs.
And I do hold that he gets that ability when
he's inevitably cut over the course of the next twenty
six hours. He's just not as good as JK. Dobbins, R. J. Harvey,
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Julu McLoughlin, or Tyler bedeck As It's cut and dry,
and I would, honestly Blake Watson showed me more, way more.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I mean, I would argue that Blake Watson at when
he was healthy and he was was getting the ball
in space. He showed burst, he showed athleticism, he showed
a full skill set. Blake Watson is going to be
the player that I believe makes the practice squad. Now
that he's actually a little bit banged up, he'll clear waivers.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And the difference between like right estimate, brings a different
body type, but it's not as draft. It's not like
he's Drone bet ast back then.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
He hasn't run that way, man. I mean he was
better in the preseason in Game three, but that's against
the the very end of the roster, against the team
that's probably going to go one or two wins and
fifteen or sixteen losses. This in the Saints.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Like if he was Brandon Jacobs tote in two fifty
five back there, I go, sure, that's that's a unicorn.
His measureables really aren't that all that different than R. J. Harvey, JK.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Dobbins. He's like just what an inch or two taller
than them and a little bit thicker, a little bit
bigger biceps.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He just went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's theeze, the Golden Gras. Yeah, and he had big biceps.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
There's some shine there, big biceps. kJ.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What's next and it's not etched in concrete.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Shador Sanders took some heat over the weekend for his
body language quote unquote after finding out he would not
go back in for the two minute drive to close
out Cleveland's undefeated preseason Hey coach Kevin Stefanski explained why,
and then Shador came right after him in the locker
room and he talked about whether he'd do anything differently himself.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Honestly, we didn't play great as an offense in the
second half. That's that's never on one person. Uh So
we can be in and then we can be better
in a bunch of areas. And just felt like we
wanted to give Snoopa a.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If I could go back and do anything, I mean,
it's always everything in life if you had that chance.
But we don't have the lecture if you travel back
in time as a kid.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I want to go back and do things differently.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
So overall, of course, you know you wish you can,
but in the battle, the moment, in the heat of
the battle, you know you want to be that out
you want to be that dog. You want to be
out there in that final two minutes drive. So you know,
of course, of course small things, of course, frustrade, but
that's what happens. You know, when you want a player
to be able to change.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The Francise shadure three of six fourteen yards. He tripled
the amount of yardage in sacks five sacks only forty
one yards.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
There have been an ungodly amount of positive days for
the Sanders family over the course of the last five seven,
twenty five years. For you take dis Yeah, I mean
years of Hall of fame for the Sanders family, who
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clearly is very much in the in the public eye.
It's the obsession of the entire National Football League. The
weekend Saturday and Sunday was a no good, awful, very
bad weekend for the Sanders family. Between Shiloh Sanders being
waved after being ejected, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can't throw a punch when you're a a bubble guy.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Did you notice do you think that at NFL's Twitter
account is going to update its followers with Joaquin Davis
being waived by the Broncos Because at NFL it updated
its followers that Shiloh Sanders had been waived by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's a mod that knows what they're doing.
(27:56):
I knew that would get I'd love to see how
many views and clicks that it would get.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It did not help that Dylan Gabriel looked solid. It
did not help that Joe Flacco continued to be the
forty year old version of Joe Flacco where he just
like doesn't make all that many mistakes in preseason and
then can be like a three touchdown, three interception guy
during the regular season. Now again, Cleveland's gonna dude, they're
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gonna suck like there is a very we already painted
the picture. They could be zero and six through their
first six weeks. It's a brutal schedule for the Browns.
It was a bad weekend. Shadour looked like the running
around like a chicken with your head cut off version
of Shador. Yeah, and sometimes it works and then sometimes
it's catastrophic like it was on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Shador looked like the quarterback that National Football League evaluators
predicted that he would look like. And that's why he
dropped all the way to to pick or to round
number five, because you can't take you can't take those
types of sacks. You can't play that type of hero
ball when the players that you're facing are that much
faster than they were in college, namely than the Big twelve,
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which good conference, but third fourth best conference in college football,
big drop off after Big Ten and SEC.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Pick your poison between the ACC and the Big twelve.
They're kind of the same to me. You got a
couple of teams the top that go like, if they
get hot, they could scare.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Someone like State, good football team. Man, there's years Florida State.
Damn they're okay. You look at Clemson a few years ago.
If they put it together a kid club, Nicks are like,
I could see Clemson being a semi final team. But
then the rest then you go like Wake and Duke.
What's NC State? Same thing in the Stanford State? Right?
(29:42):
Nothing more Atlantic cal than Stanford in California, the cal
Golden Bears in the Stanford Cardinal. How about Stanford losing?
And Andrew lux Debut is the general manager of a
Stanford Cardinal losing to Hawaii WWI staks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Walk off field goal for the Rainbow Warriors.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Do you hear about the field go from Hawaii? He
told me he learned he self taught from Japan. Self
taught field goal kicking by watching YouTube when he was
when he was like a middle schooler, and he kicks
a game winning field goal for Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
How cool is that self taught YouTube kicking? How sick
would it be if you were the dude to turn
Hawaii into like a legit program? Did it? It happened?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
A cold bredent Dan Jones Man, Cole Brennan, June Jones.
I mean they'll never buy a my tie ever again. Oh,
Colt Brennan rest in peace. June Jones, still kicking, still Drake.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I love him my tie and Co's having the tie
up there and heavened he serious?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
But you know what, what what what flavor or what flavors?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I'm just a straight up the monkey pot my tie
on mawie man with the the passion fruit foam on
the top.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Can't beat it. Okay, give me seventeen of them. Okay,
so on vacation, my tire a peenie claude that's served
in a real fruit glass, a fruit.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm not a big frozen drink guy, either of mine.
So I'm gonna go my tie. Okay. Do you like
him served in fruit?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They charge you like fifty bucks for it and you
get like one eighth of the amount of liquid.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, if I have my choice, it was an
actual glass but like if someone hands me a my
tie in a pineapple, I'm not gonna turn it away.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Don't not serve that out of bed. Don't serve me
one cocktails and a dadgum thing of fruit and a
shell of fruit, because I don't want it to be
one eighth cocktail. I want one cocktails.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Serve it to me. I want eight eighths cocktail.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Serve it to me in a forty four ounce big
gold cup. I'll take the optics out of twenty four
ounces of my tie. Wait, coach up in a week.
Can't j keep it going?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
There's a guy in Washington that I think can afford
you a lot of my ties, Coach, if you so
choose so. Pro Bowler wide receiver Terry McLaurin has reached
an agreement on a three year, ninety six million dollar
contract extinction with the Commanders and it comes with a
thirty million dollars signing bonus. And now obviously this contracts
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takes him through twenty twenty eight. Now that the holding
is over, are the Commanders back in the lead of
teams to be the favorites to dethrown the Eagles to
come out of the NFC?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I still I believe when I see it the Eagles
defense and offensive line and ground game and Sakuon Barkley
and Jalen Hurts squads, I still think they're the team
to be in the NFC. I think they're They're built.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But who's on deck? I think that's what what Kj's
going after is, like, if Philly's there, who's the team
that has the best you know, Buster Douglas punch.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Whit out wide open? I still think the Commanders are
It's still wide open, Detroit, dude, They're The loss of
their offensive play color is going to be massive. Ben
Johnson is really good, and the shoes that were filled
are filled by a coach that has not had the
best track record as a play caller in the National
(33:09):
Football League, and that's John Morton. It's a great coach,
great receiver coach. He webed Troy Franklin, you know, with
some some unbelievable sideline tongue lashings last year in Denver
at training camp. He got him into a great split place.
But I just don't know that the combination of Johnny
Morton and David Shaw is going to be able to
(33:30):
fill in the massive shoes of Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Does the NFC feel like the ACC or the Big Twelve? Yeah,
you got a couple of teams up there where you go. Yeah,
you can do it if everything goes your way.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I think I think Clemson is the Eagles of the ACC.
They're legit Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Washington is Arizona State with Sam Levitt, Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yes, and then Iowa State is maybe Detroit.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Top heavy than the rest of the rest of the
conference is like I'm not at mine. Minnesota is a
team to keep your eye out on.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
They're just such a question mark with the quarterback again,
I keep call Central Intents and Purposes.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
JJ McCarthy is a rookie first year quarterback YEP, first
year starting quarterback in his second year. Is it pro.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
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It's a wild week of football here on Altitude Sports
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It is the game of the week, number one against
number two Texas and arch Manning visit Ohio State on
(35:24):
ninety two to five. You'll have the Rapids in Kansas
City later on that evening at City. Did I say
Kansas State?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
No, no, no? I Then you said it right? Did you
say that Texas plays Ohio State this weekend?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Number one, number two Texas at Ohio State. Dude, at
the shoot.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
College football is so bad, unbelieved.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Week one.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
My heart rate just went up to like a one
ninety two. Hold on, somebody, somebody grab the uh.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Grab it? What are those things called?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Tape it down there, sparky the da I give you
a little dah colpers that go on your chest. Tuck it, yeah,
on your chest?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Exciting? Is that going to be? Coach? Just clamped?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
We have?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Do we have Labor Day weekend? This is coming Monday too. Yeah,
this is Labor Day weekend. It's a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And I brilliantly scheduled my third high school gaming on
the following Saturday, so Monday can be kind of a
day off.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Is balling' Let's go Sunday. You'll have Notre Dame at Miami,
a five thirty pm kick on ninety two five. And
then is Monday versus the Convince? It sure is? And
then TCU at UNC. That's the Bill Belichick debut in
NC doua a football, the Horned Frogs and the tar Heels. Okay,
six pm on Monday, Labor Day on ninety two five.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I said football is my thing betting.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Talk about a guy who likes, you know, having some clamps.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
On his betting odds. Bill Belichick his his fairly fairly
young girlfriend still still together, right, rush that we know
still going strong. Sure, what do you put the odds
on that she'll be on the sideline in UNC year zero? Oh? Really?
(37:08):
No chance?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Huh no way, right, no way.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
I don't know she was running that damn program. Man.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
No, she's not gonna be on the side. Maybe pre game,
not during the game. I could see pre game, you know,
you you have a huge walk up to a six
pm kick. I could see that. But she will not
be on the sideline in the game. There's too much
of a distraction. You can't bring that into your program,
right right, no way. This is a solid sports weekend too,
(37:42):
Like did you see do you watch the Tour Championship
at all? Tommy Fleetwood? First time in one hundred and
sixty four career starts, this guy's been like a top
fifteen the Cup right wins the FedEx Cup, hasn't He's
had six runner up finishes, six third place and isshes
in one hundred and sixty four starts over the course
(38:03):
of I believe eight years on tour. He's always been great.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And then he but he won won the Big one
twenty five million, and that's the that's for like the
the it's like NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Is essentially the point total aggregation. Did he win the
tournament also?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So they took away it's a good question. This year
they took away like the starting strokes thing. The way
that the FedEx Cup playoffs worked last year is that
you get in like the first one hundred and twenty
players get into the first event, and then they cut
down to you know, seventy five, and then the second
event they cut down to thirty and you walk into
the Tour Championship with the last thirty players. But last
year what they did is you start with like Scotty
(38:41):
Scheffler started like ten under park something crazy like that,
and he's got a lead on all these other dudes.
It was confusing as hell. So they took that away.
So he won the tournament and won the cup. Had
they kept those strokes in, Fleetwood would have won the tournament,
but Scheffler would have won the FedEx Cup. Cheffler would
have won by one in the old rules.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, how in the world is ship.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Did they took quick?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
How many events did Tommy Fleetwood win this year?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
One?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's his first PGA Tour victory ever and it was
a twenty five million dollars, but with the consistency of
which he was second or third got him into the
top thirty, and it.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Made him superior to what has been a generational run
for Scotti Scheffler.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I don't know. Tell that to the New England Patriots
when they lost to the Giants. That's the thought, right,
get to the is there a major left?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Are we've done?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
No, we're done. The Ryder Cup happens at the end
of September.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
The Pgachip, Scotty, Scotty, that's right, that was that was
the last one, right.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Last one? No, the last one is the Open Championship
in it was in Ireland when you were at Port Rush.
Did Scotty win that too? Scotty won that too.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
The PG and he but yet he doesn't win the
FedEx Cup. No, And they're not related to how many
majors you win.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
It It is sore of related. You get points based
off of every tournament that you play in and then
they get to the final three.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yes, Scotti Scheffler the most dominant player in golf in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Without a doubt. Then why in God's green Earth is
he not the FedEx Cup champion. Again, ask the Patriots
why they win the Super Bowl. No, it's not, dude.
It was the smartest thing you can do in every
other sport.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Nobody cares about the stupid FedEx Cup in every other sport.
Scotti Scheffer didn't win. It's dumb in every best most
dominant player in golf, and it's not even closed.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
During the regular season, you accrue points or wins, and
then you get to the playoffs and you get seated,
but your record goes away. Right, So so in your
your thought process, the two thousand and seven New England
Patriots should have a Lombardi Trophy. That's that's the way
your thought process works.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Here, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
You're not playing head to head. I mean, you're not
playing like they're. They're not playing head to head. It's
not like a stroke play championship like you will stroke play.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It's not a match play championship. You're not going but
you're still playing against those dudes. I think it makes sense.
She gets to the playoffs, wipes the slate clean. You
played good enough to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
But Scotty Scheffler, if there's something that rewards the best
player in golf for that year. It should be going
to Scotty Scheffler because he was so dang doo.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
He'll get the award, He'll be like the player of
the year. That's fine. But to win the Tour Championship,
you got it. I don't know. You gotta peak at
the right time if you.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Want to, or you just got to be the first
place loser more than anybody else's and then peak.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
At the right time. Eli Manning, the guy might be
a Hall of Famer one day, because twice did they
go nine and seven the year and like ten and six,
like they were just a mediocre football team, and they're like, hey,
we're hot, all right. That was one of my favorite
things I saw this weekend. And then the big dumper
Cal Rawley hits two home runs, becomes the greatest power
(41:55):
hitting primary catcher of all time. He has forty nine
dogs this year, which is more than salth Perez nine. Man,
are we getting are we getting around the this?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Is there a new steroid era?
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Is it a is it a high T level? Is
it the trail?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I think it's just I think the way that the
game is going right now is Is this the Scotty Runner?
Is this the Scottie pull up? This era of maybe
major League baseball? What do you trying to say?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Just we gotta test some samples here. Oh my god,
chech some tea levels.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Man sal Perez hit forty eight back in twenty twenty one,
Johnny Bench had forty five back in nineteen seventeen. Hobby Lopez,
the Great uh Atlanta Brave hit forty three back in
two thousand and three. Cal Rawley continues to rake. Paul
Skins mows down the Rockies on Sunday as the Rockies
go from hot to not so hot, and they get
(42:48):
swept by one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball.
Rockies have five to win, five to win. They are
thirty seven and ninety four. They have five games to win.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
I can't believe they're already had ninety four losses.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Man, they're gonna do it. They're gonna stave it off.
But you went from taking three out of four against
Arizona to splitting with the Dodgers, who could very well
win a World Series again this year, and then you
score one run combined you get blown out by Pittsburgh
eighteen to one. On a three game road trip, just
absolutely manhandled by a horrible baseball team. And now you
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have to go to Houston. You bring Chicago home, which
is a road game because Cubs fans here just flood Corsfield.
It baffles me that you like that, you think that
Scotty should have started so far ahead of everyone.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Scheffler, Yeah, yeah, yeah, should have.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Kind you don't think it's you don't think it's good
enough that like so he has all those points and
they they matter for the first two rounds of the playoffs. Yep,
Like to the point where where Rory McElroy didn't show
up for the first round of the playoffs because he
had enough points that he could just not show up
a cru zero points and get into the second The two.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Sports that you get this basically this Cup Chase race.
There are two sports where the biggest events are front loaded.
Daytona is the biggest NASCAR event, the Masters is by
far the biggest event in golf, and they're front loaded
in the season. It's just a dumb attempt to try
(44:34):
to make a front loaded sport at the tailor season,
and honestly, Raj, it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
It was not nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
No, it was an appointment viewing for me. It just
happened to be on the team. And that's what NASCAR.
But I want to see one's Daytona and Talladega, especially
the big NASCAR fans, Well excuse the casual NASCAR fans
that tune in from time to time.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Some man.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
For me, it's golf. It is power ranking. For me,
is number one Masters, Number two is the US Open
because you know the courses, and number three is the
is the British the Open, chap number four, PGA, PGA
number five. If you get a Ryder Cup that year, yep,
maybe you could throw a Ryder Cup at number three.
And then.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Oh yeah, it's again. It's a it's a The reason
why I brought up it was a field good story
for a dude who's like a genuinely loved guy around
the sport that finally got it. Whatever happened to that
Tiger Woods golf thing. Is it gone TGL No, it's
the thing it's going into going into year two, coming
up in a couple of weeks. No, I was bored,
and I thought it was kind of cool because Tiger
(45:41):
Woods was on my television I loved the love the athlete.
All right, before we get out of here on a Monday,
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Speaker 3 (46:01):
The entire Denver Broncos football team is in the groove.
That sounds so ridiculous to say you already had the
defense going onto the groove.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Nope, this is a.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Team that's ready to play. It is game ready certified.
Every single piece is shown, whether it be in joint
practices or in preseason games. This team is the best
Denver Broncos team that you fielded in a decade. And
I'll stand by that this team needs to win postseason game.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Zah oh plural, look at you. Cortland Sutton is my
player who's in the groove after week three. I just
love the way that he looks deep down the field.
He is a big threat in the red zone. He
looks as versatile as he has ever looked in his career.
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Armis for joining us, even though he has the wrong
stance on peanut butter and jelly creations. You're absolutely incorrect.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
There is only one option there, and it is the
traditional smucker's grape.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's what you don't like. I don't like getting like
a jelly missile.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
How good is it when that's that sandwich has been
sitting in your in your backpack all day.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
I'll give you that, and it's all it's all kind
of it's it's it's kind of seeped through the dollar
seventy nine cent Kroger brand bread.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
See, I'm a wonder like if I'm going purest cool
and the wonderbread has almost entirely been absorbed by said
grape jelly. Yeah, and it's it's gelatinous, you.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Know what it's. It's best is if you make a
few of those things throw them in saran wrap. Then
you throw them in like your backpack when you're skiing,
and three hours into the day it still has the
same like mushed up soaked through the bread, but it
hasn't just gotten completely soggy because it's cold enough. That's
the that's the most elite version of a PB and
(01:35):
J and then I can deal with the grape crap.
Was it you that.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Actually gave me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at
Broncos practice because you saw how it dang hungry it
was you didn't complain. Then you looked over at me
and you said, here you go, man, You and Brett
just show up.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You never have any food, and I just see you
guys emaciated and complaining about how hungry you are. I'm
the one who showed. I show up with a granola bar,
a power bar, a off, a PB and jay, a sandwich,
I show up with with waters man. That's all I
need is okay? Thank you appreciate that. I just need
my water. I'm just here feeding the poor. Tell you
(02:10):
what you know I love about my new life of
being a high school coach and a radio broadcast.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
What is that from a kind of a tax bracket standpoint,
I'm back in peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Man. That's a good place to be, A really good place.
Great world.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
The most recent Broncos cuts and now we don't have
to have a fifty three man roster until two pm
Mountain tomorrow, but cuts are coming.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
You know, fast cam Akers just got cut from the
the Saints, and your Broncos cuts are Clay Web, Josh Pickett,
Micah Abraham, Andrew Farmer and the biggest one and the
saddest one of all, my training camp crush, Joaquin Davis.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
You know what, though, I get some good news on that.
Tell me when was Joaquin David cut early or late
in the process?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Early?
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Very early? And I think there's a reason for it.
Are they kind of sandbagging the rest of the National
Football League? And first cut Joaquin Davis? We didn't like
that guy. He was no good. They didn't give him
a whole lot of run in the preseason games, did
they not? No, they didn't. By cutting him early, are
you gonna let him just kind of sit there and
just waste away and cut land?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah, maybe some teams are like, oh, we don't want
to jump the gun too early because maybe there's a
bigger name wide receiver that being established.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Guy. I think that it's sneaky. I think George and
Sean Payton are playing some checkers and then cash o
Squaqueen Davis number eighty, and then you get him on
the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
I would be really, he was my my training camp Darling.
I fell in love with one players.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Getting He's gonna end up on the practice squad he is,
and I'm gonna be great with it. I'm gonna be
super happy.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Other roster cuts that we've seen coming, like Jalen Virgil
former Bronco got cut by the bill. Uh, he's no
longer going to be there. There's gonna be like twelve
hundred players that are available come two pm tomorrow. Also,
big news coming out of Washington, Terry McLaurin three year
deal up to ninety six million dollars for Jaden Daniel's
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favorite target.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So didn't doesn't seem like much of an overpay? Do
you think that's an overpay? He's getting basically court that's
fairly competent comparable to Courtland Sutton? Are we Is that
what he got basically court In Sutton money four million
dollars more?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Sutton was four years ninety two million.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
How much of that's guaranteed?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Though his guarantee is forty one?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Okay? So would you say ninety six for McLaren.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Is nineteen to ninety six. I didn't say. I didn't
say guaranteed. That's the kind of thing I've seen is
up to ninety se to ninety.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Six is putting him in the exact category of Courtland Sutton.
Do you think that Courtland Sutton and Terry McLaren are
the same guy?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Spot Track has it as three years ninety six million,
thirty million dollars signing bonus.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So Courtland got one more year. So average annual value
is is significantly more for McLaurin.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
The guarantees have not filtered through at least what I'm
looking for right now. The guarantees are not coming through.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
What do you make of we had this, We had
this conversation six weeks ago, RAJ that scary Terry felt
like he was attempting to get into that justin Jefferson,
Davante Adams, and more recently T Higgins, Jamar Chase category.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Of receivers in terms of compensation.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
When indeed, when in fact, his numbers mirrored more so
that of Courtland Sutton.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
I mean he's high at thirty two million dollars. He
is in terms of average salary, he is Garrett Wilson,
AJ Brown, I'm ross Saint Brown, all right, it's about right,
It's about it. I think the number for Terry McLaurin
is solid. He's not a top five.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Wide receiver one in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
No, but I don't just outside of it, right, And
I don't think he's as low as fifteen.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
What's the what's the number one through five? Who are
the receivers that are average annual value? Highest paid?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Chase, Jefferson, Lamb, Metcalf, Perfect, Wilson, and then right after
that number seven is will Be.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
AJ Brown, Terry McLaurin perfect. It's about where he deserves
to be. I think it's number yep.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Maybe the reason why they wanted to hold out a
little bit more is that did you want a four
year deal? Instead of the three year deal. Considering McLaurin
is twenty nine right, because you're you're not going to
get another long term, super lucrative deal as a thirty
two year old wide receiver. Maybe you won one more
year of health there, right, because that's that's the Sutton deal, right,
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twenty nine years old is when you sign it, you
get four years at twenty three per But I think
that's pretty solid. Like Courtland shouldn't be at twenty eight million,
Like I'm not paying Courtland Nico Collins and t Higgins.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
And ty he kill money. No, no, no, no, it's the
right thing. It's one hundred percent the right the right
deal for Terry McLaurin. It was the right deal for
for Courtland Sutton. Courtland Sutton ends up. What is he about?
Number sixteen average out annual value? Is he top fifteen?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Courtland Sutton, he's like down at eighteen or ninety.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Right, it's about right correct. We would say that he's
probably outperformed. Maybe he's outperformed where he was drafted. He's
outperformed the reputation that he has of being kind of
a a lower half, lower tier true wide receiver.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
I think he has the ability to outperform that contract.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
I think it's a team friendly deal.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Especially with what we saw. I'm not just going to
take the four receptions that we saw in Week three,
although I think it was very clear Bow and Courtland
have a there's a connection there, There is a anytime I'm
looking for a big play, fourteen is where the ball
is going. Now if you need third and seven, Patrick Bryan,
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I think is going to dominate those those throws, and
maybe Evan Ingram, although does he feel like a little
bit more of a downfield threat, not just like find
eight yards and sit.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
The addition of Ingram is actually gonna unlock Sutton because
now you can't utilize some of your over the middle
coverage to be able to take away your starting X receiver.
So you can't you can't poach a boundary safety with
as much frequency because you're gonna have to have some
You're gonna have to have some understanding of where Evan
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Ingram is. He's going to be a massive part of
this offense. So some of the big plays are gonna
be available for BOONEX to Courtland Sutton, and then if
you can unlock Marvin Mims and keep Troy Franklin's a
cent going and then if JK. Dobbins in this offensive
line is what you think they are, all of a sudden,
you probably have a top ten offense in the National
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Football League, a real like bona fide top ten offense.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Did you walk away from preseason Week three and the
three series that Boe in the first team offense got
against pretty much the whole first team defense from from
New Orleans? Did you walk away more or less confident
than you were going into? More confident? More confident even
though there was a three and out. Yeah, and then
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there was a drive that was helped incredibly buy a
really bad penalty on Ocario Davis.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
The good the good news is that you already know
what you have because a lot of these players in
the offense side of the ball are proven. They're proven players.
They've done it in National Football League contests. Evan Ingram
is a proven commodity. Coroyland Sutton Bonnicks have already proven
that they can do it. All you needed to do
was for those players to prove to themselves that they
are ready to be who there who they are, which
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is a really good offense, elite offense. Now you're not
there yet. Can it grow into one? Maybe? And the
key to all of that, RAJH all of it is JK.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Dobbins.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And is this offensive line an overall blocking unit? And
is Sean Payton the play caller going to be a
bottom excuse me, a top ten rushing offense. If you're
a top ten rushing offense this year, we know that
the where the weapons are good enough in the past
game to be a team that can make a serious
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run this year for the.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
AFC will call it your leaders. Last year in team
rushing yards, Baltimore just south of thirty two hundred, the
Eagles just north of three thousand, Washington at two thousand,
six hundred and nineteen, Tampa Bay just over twenty five
hundred yards, Green Bay fifth at two four hundred and
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ninety six yards. To get into the top ten from
last year, you have to be at twenty one fifty ish.
Were you at eighteen hundred last year? Yes, nineteen oh eight.
Is that what is what the team rushed for last
year to get into the top ten, which is the Falcons? Sorry,
you have to be a little bit north of what
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I just said. The Falcons were the number ten rushing
team in the NFL last year four and a half
yards per carry in total twenty two hundred and nineteen
yards get you the number ten spot back in twenty
twenty four. It's doable.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
If you get into that spot, you are going to
you're gonna win twelve or thirteen games, You're gonna compete
for the AFC West title, and you're gonna be acquitted
to to have a brand of football with great defense
and a rushing attack that will travel in the postseason,
that can play in bad elements. And that's the question
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right now. Shot Payton won a Super Bowl in a
domed environment with home field advantage. Can you can you
throw the ball with the type of frequency that Sean
Payton typically likes to and play in an AFC that's
probably gonna come down to either a road game in
bad weather or a home game in bad weather, because
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this division ain't coming down to The AFC is not
going to probably come down to a dome team or
a team that's playing in really good ones.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
The reason why I hate that you see Kansas City
twice late this year, you don't get them early. That's
why I love that you see Kansas City late that's
why you love it.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
That's why I hate it, because Sean Payton knows he's
gonna have to run the football for those meaningful contexts.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Seventy percent of your top ten rushing teams last year
made the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Can you name the three teams that were in the
top ten that did not make the playoffs? One I've
already given to you. Atlanta was number ten, didn't make
the playoffs. So give me two more teams that were
inside the top ten that did not make it. I'll
give you one hint. One is a bell cow rushing
back running back and the other one is a mobile quarterback.
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Do you want Steelers? Do you want the teams that
made it?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Well, Steelers.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Steelers are just outside at number eleven, but they know
I don't think the Steelers made the playoffs. They did
get lost.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
They were one and done. They made the playoffs one
and done again.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Shows how irrelevant they are when they actually get to
the playoffs. Right now, they were number eleven last year
at twenty and sixty six yards, mobile quarterback and a
bell cow running backs. The teams that made it. As
you continue to think, here again, Baltimore, Philly Washington, Tampa Bay,
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Green Bay, Detroit, and then the next two teams at
seven and eight are non playoff teams, followed up by
the Bills at number nine and the Falcons at ten,
which is the third non playoff team in the top
ten from last year.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Drab me nuts thinking about who a bell cow running
back is that didn't make the postseason. It wasn't the
forty nine ers.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Nope, forty nine ers were just outside number twelve at
two thy one hundred and sixty three yards. One NFC team,
one AFC team, NFC.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
So you got mobile quarterback, Give it to me.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
The Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Okay, there's your mobile quarter.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Two thy four hundred and fifty one yards. They did
not make the playoffs last year. They rushed for five
point three yards per carry, which was good for number
two league wide.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Give me the college of the Belcal running back where
he attended.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
He went to Wisconsin. He's a stud. You're gonna kick
yourself for this. Jonathan Taylor, Oh gosh, the Colts. Yeah
ran the rock. Here you go. Putnam had it three
oh three, five four nine two five is where you
can reach us today. Kj's NFL notes are coming up
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on the other side. That's the coach, Mike Sanford, Alex
Ryan Eman. You guys are listening to Altitude Sports Radio
ninety two to five coming off of a perfect preseason
from the Broncos. Every day here on the morning Sprint
at eleven twenty, we go through the biggest stories in
the NFL. We are like twenty six hours away from
twelve hundred dudes looking for football jobs as tot day
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is nearly upon us. That timing is two pm tomorrow
for those fifty three man rosters to be finalized and
sent into the league. Mister Granderson, what is first today?
Speaker 6 (15:32):
The Broncos were one of four teams to go undefeated
in this twenty twenty five preseason, and bow Knicks and
company played a part in that. But Saturday was another
reminder that they still have some work to do. They
got better as that quarter as the first quarter went along,
but it was a little interesting, and there was a
moment between the second and third drive where bow Nicks
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and Courtland sudden, you know, they kind of had a
conversation about getting back on track, and here's bow Knicks
talking about that and why and why Courtland is so
passionate about playing in a preseason Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
It was great.
Speaker 7 (16:05):
You know, he's a really great veteran on a team
like this to have and you know, just to see
him go out there and play that hard for a
preseason three games just really unique.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Happy for him.
Speaker 7 (16:16):
No, he's going to have a really strong start of
the year and along with a lot of other guys,
but it's good to have that back and forth, just
kind of see the field in his eyes.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
And then you know, make some adjustments.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I agree wholeheartedly having a receiver that is a ninety
three million dollar man also give that type of effort
in a preseason game. It's why Courtland Sutton is not
He's not just valuable to this team, he's invaluable. He
is irreplaceable because Sean Payton wants a culture builder at
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the recite receiver position that's selfless, is not going to
be the prima donna that sits out in a postseason
game or excuse be a preseason game, and wants to
deliver the goods and make his second year quarterback that
type of continuity going into the regular season.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
That's a love story there. I think Sutton's stock is
higher than it ever has been and because he was
so good in his first two years.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
He's a really good player.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Man, he's a really good football player.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
But what what the Broncos fan base and the Broncos
franchise has learned is he's even a better person. You
hear that from everybody. That's not just something that he's
a great guy. We love him. No, he's genuinely respected
and beloved by everybody on that roster, and it makes
a big difference.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
You want to hear something that's not so cool regarding
the not so cool, we just need another another cup
of coffee, brought one coffees. One Coffee's the team's last
year that finished the preseason undefeated, the New York Jets,
the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Tennessee Titans, the Chicago Bears, and
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then finally you get a playoff team, the Minnesota Vikings.
Preseason perfection last year not so high?
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Were the Bronco You said, the Broncos.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right, Oh no, they're they're undefeated right now? Were they
not undefated last year? They were not undfeated?
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Last year they lose two and one, I'd beat the Packers?
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Are they three? And last year's yeah? All right, there
we go never mind two years in a row. Man,
I looked right over. I'm an idiot. They weren't correct.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I want to make sure because I said that right
after the game on nine News.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're right, You're right, You're right, back to back years.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
I do.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I think it matters. And and bow Knicks was when
he was asked about it, he said, every single time
that you put on these pads, it matters.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I agree with them. Your mindset, team with team. Other
teams with no losses this preseason. Miami no losses, but
they didn't tie a game. Baltimore went three and O,
Cleveland three and oh, Denver, the Giants, the Bears again
with a tie in there. And those are your undefeated
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teams in the preseason. The Bears will not make the playoffs.
The Giants will not make the playoffs. The Browns will
not make the playoffs. The Bears won't make the playoffs.
I don't think they will. The Dolphins will not make
the playoffs. They're not gonna, dude. The NFC North is brutal.
It's not that I don't think like Caleb Williams can
take a step forward. I think he can. He's got
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a crazy array of things to throw to, dudes to
throw to. But your division is Green Bay, Minnesota and Detroit.
Like Minnesota is the worst team out of those three
that I just named, and it's only because they have
essentially a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
All right, question, if you are a second year quarterback,
would you take the defense and offensive line that Bo
Nicks has with the Denver Broncos or would you take
the slew of weapons that Caleb Williams has in the
past game.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
The answer going into year two is defense and offensive
line without a doubt. But if you were to ask
me that question in twenty twenty eight, I'm going with
the Bears weapons. And it's just because you're so young
in the league now it you know, the league has
a full year of tape on you. Yeah, I take
that Bronco's line, Broncos defense right now, But three years
from right now, I'm at this.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Look at this group of DeAndre Swift's your tailback, DJ Moore,
Roma dun Say, Luther Burden the third. Your two tight
ends are Cole Kamet and Colston Loveland. It's that's crazy.
The offensive weaponry in Chicago's nuts. They're just not going
to be able to keep Caleb Williams upright, which is
a huge issue. They did go out and get Joe Thuney.
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They went out and got Drew Dolman, the pro bowler
from the Atlanta Falcons the center. They're way better. Darnell
Wright's your right tackle, Braxton Jones your left tackle, and
then Jonan Jackson rounds out. You're starting five. It's better
than what it was a year ago, had a two
pieces defense. And exactly your same answer is it is
that as appetizing, does it get to as fired up?
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Probably not. Are you selling as many wide receiver jerseys
as you are in a in Chicago right now?
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Probably no. But we just gushed about Courtland something we've
been gushing about Pat Bryant, the possibilities of what Evan
Ingram can do down the field. The only thing you
don't have is like, I know what DeAndre Swift I
would love to have here in Denver. I don't really
know what's gonna happen with the running back room kJ
what's next.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
And it's not etched in concrete.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I agree with Jashan, it is not etched in concrete.
But the tough part of the preseason is, uh, you
gotta cut people right, and so far they've already cut
outside linebacker Jordan Farmar or former depending on how you
say it. Wide receiver joaqum Davis, the one that Rodgers's
has been gushing over, ye me and and coach and
coach they've been gushing over him.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Cornerback Mike I Love, he's all right, he'll be back
practice squad.
Speaker 6 (21:49):
Well, I'm skidding. And maybe cornerback michaeh Abraham, cornerback Josh Pickett,
in offensive guard Clay will.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
Oh Clay Webb.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Clay Webb was a player on one of those Saturday
semi scrimmages that really was in a scrimmage. He airmailed
about twelve snaps and I said, you know what, she'd
come and play for us over at Pallad. We're pretty
good at that too. In the record, you were skipping
the same we were skipping him. They weren't air mild,
although your punts are handled. The second one, beautiful, Yeah,
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was play the game the game that is, you get
a chained for that one.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
But one player that was on the potential fence coming
into preseason game number three was Odrick Estimate, and he
talked to the media after and uh, let's just say
he still feels like he's on the fence in regards
to whether he'll stay or whether he'll go.
Speaker 8 (22:40):
He made the team is not up to me. It's
up to the coaching stiffe and it's honestly up to God.
And I feel like I did what I needed to
do to put myself in position to be on it.
But end of the day, it's Sean knows what's best
for the team and I'm between my trust and guy,
and I feel like I did what I needed to do.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
You'll feel proud of what you've done this offseason and
you're getting in the end zone and all that.
Speaker 8 (22:59):
Yes, I'm proud of my progression. I definitely got better
towards from last year to this year, and from the
beginning camp towards the end, I definitely progressed a lot.
And that's all you could do is progress in this league.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
Awesome answer to a really tough but very hard hitting,
honest good question there from Scottie Gage and that news
rodri Kesterabay's got a bit of an uphill battle to
make this roster, but I do, I do really respect
the young man for how he handled himself and what
really played out to be a pretty challenging training camp
and a pretty challenging preseason.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I mean he was option. He was option number Z.
I mean a letter Z.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
If you looked at the running back position group, he was.
He was every single preseason game, every single practice in
training camp, was the last guy to get reps.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
He's the entire running He's not making the team. I
am glad that he got run at the end of
the game and that he looked fine. He looked like
he was serviceable, that he could go in and be
a third option on a team that desperately needs running backs.
And I do hold that he gets that ability when
he's inevitably cut over the course of the next twenty
six hours. He's just not as good as JK. Dobbins, R. J. Harvey,
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Julu McLoughlin, or Tyler bedeck As It's cut and dry,
and I would, honestly Blake Watson showed me more, way more.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I mean, I would argue that Blake Watson at when
he was healthy and he was was getting the ball
in space. He showed burst, he showed athleticism, he showed
a full skill set. Blake Watson is going to be
the player that I believe makes the practice squad. Now
that he's actually a little bit banged up, he'll clear waivers.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
And the difference between like right estimate, brings a different
body type, but it's not as draft. It's not like
he's Drone bet ast back then.
Speaker 3 (24:44):
He hasn't run that way, man. I mean he was
better in the preseason in Game three, but that's against
the the very end of the roster, against the team
that's probably going to go one or two wins and
fifteen or sixteen losses. This in the Saints.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Like if he was Brandon Jacobs tote in two fifty
five back there, I go, sure, that's that's a unicorn.
His measureables really aren't that all that different than R. J. Harvey, JK.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Dobbins. He's like just what an inch or two taller
than them and a little bit thicker, a little bit
bigger biceps.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
He just went to Notre Dame.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
That's theeze, the Golden Gras. Yeah, and he had big biceps.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
There's some shine there, big biceps. kJ.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
What's next and it's not etched in concrete.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
Shador Sanders took some heat over the weekend for his
body language quote unquote after finding out he would not
go back in for the two minute drive to close
out Cleveland's undefeated preseason Hey coach Kevin Stefanski explained why,
and then Shador came right after him in the locker
room and he talked about whether he'd do anything differently himself.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
Honestly, we didn't play great as an offense in the
second half. That's that's never on one person. Uh So
we can be in and then we can be better
in a bunch of areas. And just felt like we
wanted to give Snoopa a.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
If I could go back and do anything, I mean,
it's always everything in life if you had that chance.
But we don't have the lecture if you travel back
in time as a kid.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
I want to go back and do things differently.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
So overall, of course, you know you wish you can,
but in the battle, the moment, in the heat of
the battle, you know you want to be that out
you want to be that dog. You want to be
out there in that final two minutes drive. So you know,
of course, of course small things, of course, frustrade, but
that's what happens. You know, when you want a player
to be able to change.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
The Francise shadure three of six fourteen yards. He tripled
the amount of yardage in sacks five sacks only forty
one yards.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
There have been an ungodly amount of positive days for
the Sanders family over the course of the last five seven,
twenty five years. For you take dis Yeah, I mean
years of Hall of fame for the Sanders family, who
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clearly is very much in the in the public eye.
It's the obsession of the entire National Football League. The
weekend Saturday and Sunday was a no good, awful, very
bad weekend for the Sanders family. Between Shiloh Sanders being
waved after being ejected, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
I can't throw a punch when you're a a bubble guy.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Did you notice do you think that at NFL's Twitter
account is going to update its followers with Joaquin Davis
being waived by the Broncos Because at NFL it updated
its followers that Shiloh Sanders had been waived by the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That's a mod that knows what they're doing.
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I knew that would get I'd love to see how
many views and clicks that it would get.
Speaker 2 (28:01):
It did not help that Dylan Gabriel looked solid. It
did not help that Joe Flacco continued to be the
forty year old version of Joe Flacco where he just
like doesn't make all that many mistakes in preseason and
then can be like a three touchdown, three interception guy
during the regular season. Now again, Cleveland's gonna dude, they're
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gonna suck like there is a very we already painted
the picture. They could be zero and six through their
first six weeks. It's a brutal schedule for the Browns.
It was a bad weekend. Shadour looked like the running
around like a chicken with your head cut off version
of Shador. Yeah, and sometimes it works and then sometimes
it's catastrophic like it was on Saturday.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Shador looked like the quarterback that National Football League evaluators
predicted that he would look like. And that's why he
dropped all the way to to pick or to round
number five, because you can't take you can't take those
types of sacks. You can't play that type of hero
ball when the players that you're facing are that much
faster than they were in college, namely than the Big twelve,
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which good conference, but third fourth best conference in college football,
big drop off after Big Ten and SEC.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Pick your poison between the ACC and the Big twelve.
They're kind of the same to me. You got a
couple of teams the top that go like, if they
get hot, they could scare.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
Someone like State, good football team. Man, there's years Florida State.
Damn they're okay. You look at Clemson a few years ago.
If they put it together a kid club, Nicks are like,
I could see Clemson being a semi final team. But
then the rest then you go like Wake and Duke.
What's NC State? Same thing in the Stanford State? Right?
(29:42):
Nothing more Atlantic cal than Stanford in California, the cal
Golden Bears in the Stanford Cardinal. How about Stanford losing?
And Andrew lux Debut is the general manager of a
Stanford Cardinal losing to Hawaii WWI staks.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Walk off field goal for the Rainbow Warriors.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
Do you hear about the field go from Hawaii? He
told me he learned he self taught from Japan. Self
taught field goal kicking by watching YouTube when he was
when he was like a middle schooler, and he kicks
a game winning field goal for Hawaii.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
How cool is that self taught YouTube kicking? How sick
would it be if you were the dude to turn
Hawaii into like a legit program? Did it? It happened?
Speaker 3 (30:26):
A cold bredent Dan Jones Man, Cole Brennan, June Jones.
I mean they'll never buy a my tie ever again. Oh,
Colt Brennan rest in peace. June Jones, still kicking, still Drake.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
I love him my tie and Co's having the tie
up there and heavened he serious?
Speaker 6 (30:44):
But you know what, what what what flavor or what flavors?
Speaker 2 (30:48):
I'm just a straight up the monkey pot my tie
on mawie man with the the passion fruit foam on
the top.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Can't beat it. Okay, give me seventeen of them. Okay,
so on vacation, my tire a peenie claude that's served
in a real fruit glass, a fruit.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I'm not a big frozen drink guy, either of mine.
So I'm gonna go my tie. Okay. Do you like
him served in fruit?
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I hate it.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
They charge you like fifty bucks for it and you
get like one eighth of the amount of liquid.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I mean, if I have my choice, it was an
actual glass but like if someone hands me a my
tie in a pineapple, I'm not gonna turn it away.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Don't not serve that out of bed. Don't serve me
one cocktails and a dadgum thing of fruit and a
shell of fruit, because I don't want it to be
one eighth cocktail. I want one cocktails.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
Serve it to me. I want eight eighths cocktail.
Speaker 3 (31:38):
Serve it to me in a forty four ounce big
gold cup. I'll take the optics out of twenty four
ounces of my tie. Wait, coach up in a week.
Can't j keep it going?
Speaker 6 (31:49):
There's a guy in Washington that I think can afford
you a lot of my ties, Coach, if you so
choose so. Pro Bowler wide receiver Terry McLaurin has reached
an agreement on a three year, ninety six million dollar
contract extinction with the Commanders and it comes with a
thirty million dollars signing bonus. And now obviously this contracts
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takes him through twenty twenty eight. Now that the holding
is over, are the Commanders back in the lead of
teams to be the favorites to dethrown the Eagles to
come out of the NFC?
Speaker 3 (32:26):
I still I believe when I see it the Eagles
defense and offensive line and ground game and Sakuon Barkley
and Jalen Hurts squads, I still think they're the team
to be in the NFC. I think they're They're built.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
But who's on deck? I think that's what what Kj's
going after is, like, if Philly's there, who's the team
that has the best you know, Buster Douglas punch.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Whit out wide open? I still think the Commanders are
It's still wide open, Detroit, dude, They're The loss of
their offensive play color is going to be massive. Ben
Johnson is really good, and the shoes that were filled
are filled by a coach that has not had the
best track record as a play caller in the National
(33:09):
Football League, and that's John Morton. It's a great coach,
great receiver coach. He webed Troy Franklin, you know, with
some some unbelievable sideline tongue lashings last year in Denver
at training camp. He got him into a great split place.
But I just don't know that the combination of Johnny
Morton and David Shaw is going to be able to
(33:30):
fill in the massive shoes of Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Does the NFC feel like the ACC or the Big Twelve? Yeah,
you got a couple of teams up there where you go. Yeah,
you can do it if everything goes your way.
Speaker 3 (33:42):
I think I think Clemson is the Eagles of the ACC.
They're legit Super Bowl contender.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Washington is Arizona State with Sam Levitt, Yes.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Yes, and then Iowa State is maybe Detroit.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
Pretty good, pretty good.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Top heavy than the rest of the rest of the
conference is like I'm not at mine. Minnesota is a
team to keep your eye out on.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
They're just such a question mark with the quarterback again,
I keep call Central Intents and Purposes.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
JJ McCarthy is a rookie first year quarterback YEP, first
year starting quarterback in his second year. Is it pro.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
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right here on ninety two to five at ten am
on Saturday. Wrapping things up here on a Monday, the
Morning Sprint RAJ alongside the coach Mike Sanford kJ Grant
(35:00):
spinning things on the ones and two's behind the glass today.
PhD will take over next from twelve to three. Nate
Andy on your drive home from three to six pm.
It's a wild week of football here on Altitude Sports
Radio ninety two to five on Saturday, starting at ten am.
It is the game of the week, number one against
number two Texas and arch Manning visit Ohio State on
(35:24):
ninety two to five. You'll have the Rapids in Kansas
City later on that evening at City. Did I say
Kansas State?
Speaker 3 (35:31):
No, no, no? I Then you said it right? Did you
say that Texas plays Ohio State this weekend?
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Number one, number two Texas at Ohio State. Dude, at
the shoot.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
College football is so bad, unbelieved.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Week one.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
My heart rate just went up to like a one
ninety two. Hold on, somebody, somebody grab the uh.
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Grab it? What are those things called?
Speaker 3 (35:53):
Tape it down there, sparky the da I give you
a little dah colpers that go on your chest. Tuck it, yeah,
on your chest?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Exciting? Is that going to be? Coach? Just clamped?
Speaker 3 (36:05):
We have?
Speaker 2 (36:05):
Do we have Labor Day weekend? This is coming Monday too. Yeah,
this is Labor Day weekend. It's a great weekend.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
And I brilliantly scheduled my third high school gaming on
the following Saturday, so Monday can be kind of a
day off.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Is balling' Let's go Sunday. You'll have Notre Dame at Miami,
a five thirty pm kick on ninety two five. And
then is Monday versus the Convince? It sure is? And
then TCU at UNC. That's the Bill Belichick debut in
NC doua a football, the Horned Frogs and the tar Heels. Okay,
six pm on Monday, Labor Day on ninety two five.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
I said football is my thing betting.
Speaker 2 (36:45):
Talk about a guy who likes, you know, having some clamps.
Speaker 3 (36:47):
On his betting odds. Bill Belichick his his fairly fairly
young girlfriend still still together, right, rush that we know
still going strong. Sure, what do you put the odds
on that she'll be on the sideline in UNC year zero? Oh? Really?
(37:08):
No chance?
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Huh no way, right, no way.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
I don't know she was running that damn program. Man.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
No, she's not gonna be on the side. Maybe pre game,
not during the game. I could see pre game, you know,
you you have a huge walk up to a six
pm kick. I could see that. But she will not
be on the sideline in the game. There's too much
of a distraction. You can't bring that into your program,
right right, no way. This is a solid sports weekend too,
(37:42):
Like did you see do you watch the Tour Championship
at all? Tommy Fleetwood? First time in one hundred and
sixty four career starts, this guy's been like a top
fifteen the Cup right wins the FedEx Cup, hasn't He's
had six runner up finishes, six third place and isshes
in one hundred and sixty four starts over the course
(38:03):
of I believe eight years on tour. He's always been great.
Speaker 3 (38:06):
And then he but he won won the Big one
twenty five million, and that's the that's for like the
the it's like NASCAR.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
Right, the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
Is essentially the point total aggregation. Did he win the
tournament also?
Speaker 2 (38:20):
So they took away it's a good question. This year
they took away like the starting strokes thing. The way
that the FedEx Cup playoffs worked last year is that
you get in like the first one hundred and twenty
players get into the first event, and then they cut
down to you know, seventy five, and then the second
event they cut down to thirty and you walk into
the Tour Championship with the last thirty players. But last
year what they did is you start with like Scotty
(38:41):
Scheffler started like ten under park something crazy like that,
and he's got a lead on all these other dudes.
It was confusing as hell. So they took that away.
So he won the tournament and won the cup. Had
they kept those strokes in, Fleetwood would have won the tournament,
but Scheffler would have won the FedEx Cup. Cheffler would
have won by one in the old rules.
Speaker 3 (39:01):
Yeah, how in the world is ship.
Speaker 2 (39:05):
Did they took quick?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So?
Speaker 2 (39:06):
How many events did Tommy Fleetwood win this year?
Speaker 3 (39:08):
One?
Speaker 2 (39:09):
That's his first PGA Tour victory ever and it was
a twenty five million dollars, but with the consistency of
which he was second or third got him into the
top thirty, and it.
Speaker 3 (39:20):
Made him superior to what has been a generational run
for Scotti Scheffler.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I don't know. Tell that to the New England Patriots
when they lost to the Giants. That's the thought, right,
get to the is there a major left?
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Are we've done?
Speaker 2 (39:34):
No, we're done. The Ryder Cup happens at the end
of September.
Speaker 3 (39:37):
The Pgachip, Scotty, Scotty, that's right, that was that was
the last one, right.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Last one? No, the last one is the Open Championship
in it was in Ireland when you were at Port Rush.
Did Scotty win that too? Scotty won that too.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
The PG and he but yet he doesn't win the
FedEx Cup. No, And they're not related to how many
majors you win.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
It It is sore of related. You get points based
off of every tournament that you play in and then
they get to the final three.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Yes, Scotti Scheffler the most dominant player in golf in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Without a doubt. Then why in God's green Earth is
he not the FedEx Cup champion. Again, ask the Patriots
why they win the Super Bowl. No, it's not, dude.
It was the smartest thing you can do in every
other sport.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Nobody cares about the stupid FedEx Cup in every other sport.
Scotti Scheffer didn't win. It's dumb in every best most
dominant player in golf, and it's not even closed.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
During the regular season, you accrue points or wins, and
then you get to the playoffs and you get seated,
but your record goes away. Right, So so in your
your thought process, the two thousand and seven New England
Patriots should have a Lombardi Trophy. That's that's the way
your thought process works.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Here, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
No, you're not.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
You're not playing head to head. I mean, you're not
playing like they're. They're not playing head to head. It's
not like a stroke play championship like you will stroke play.
Speaker 2 (41:03):
It's not a match play championship. You're not going but
you're still playing against those dudes. I think it makes sense.
She gets to the playoffs, wipes the slate clean. You
played good enough to get to the playoffs.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
But Scotty Scheffler, if there's something that rewards the best
player in golf for that year. It should be going
to Scotty Scheffler because he was so dang doo.
Speaker 2 (41:22):
He'll get the award, He'll be like the player of
the year. That's fine. But to win the Tour Championship,
you got it. I don't know. You gotta peak at
the right time if you.
Speaker 3 (41:28):
Want to, or you just got to be the first
place loser more than anybody else's and then peak.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
At the right time. Eli Manning, the guy might be
a Hall of Famer one day, because twice did they
go nine and seven the year and like ten and six,
like they were just a mediocre football team, and they're like, hey,
we're hot, all right. That was one of my favorite
things I saw this weekend. And then the big dumper
Cal Rawley hits two home runs, becomes the greatest power
(41:55):
hitting primary catcher of all time. He has forty nine
dogs this year, which is more than salth Perez nine. Man,
are we getting are we getting around the this?
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Is there a new steroid era?
Speaker 2 (42:07):
Is it a is it a high T level? Is
it the trail?
Speaker 4 (42:09):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (42:09):
I think it's just I think the way that the
game is going right now is Is this the Scotty Runner?
Is this the Scottie pull up? This era of maybe
major League baseball? What do you trying to say?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Just we gotta test some samples here. Oh my god,
chech some tea levels.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Man sal Perez hit forty eight back in twenty twenty one,
Johnny Bench had forty five back in nineteen seventeen. Hobby Lopez,
the Great uh Atlanta Brave hit forty three back in
two thousand and three. Cal Rawley continues to rake. Paul
Skins mows down the Rockies on Sunday as the Rockies
go from hot to not so hot, and they get
(42:48):
swept by one of the worst teams in Major League Baseball.
Rockies have five to win, five to win. They are
thirty seven and ninety four. They have five games to win.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
I can't believe they're already had ninety four losses.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
Man, they're gonna do it. They're gonna stave it off.
But you went from taking three out of four against
Arizona to splitting with the Dodgers, who could very well
win a World Series again this year, and then you
score one run combined you get blown out by Pittsburgh
eighteen to one. On a three game road trip, just
absolutely manhandled by a horrible baseball team. And now you
(43:32):
have to go to Houston. You bring Chicago home, which
is a road game because Cubs fans here just flood Corsfield.
It baffles me that you like that, you think that
Scotty should have started so far ahead of everyone.
Speaker 3 (43:49):
Scheffler, Yeah, yeah, yeah, should have.
Speaker 2 (43:53):
Kind you don't think it's you don't think it's good
enough that like so he has all those points and
they they matter for the first two rounds of the playoffs. Yep,
Like to the point where where Rory McElroy didn't show
up for the first round of the playoffs because he
had enough points that he could just not show up
a cru zero points and get into the second The two.
Speaker 3 (44:11):
Sports that you get this basically this Cup Chase race.
There are two sports where the biggest events are front loaded.
Daytona is the biggest NASCAR event, the Masters is by
far the biggest event in golf, and they're front loaded
in the season. It's just a dumb attempt to try
(44:34):
to make a front loaded sport at the tailor season,
and honestly, Raj, it doesn't really work.
Speaker 2 (44:44):
It was not nobody really cares.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
No, it was an appointment viewing for me. It just
happened to be on the team. And that's what NASCAR.
But I want to see one's Daytona and Talladega, especially
the big NASCAR fans, Well excuse the casual NASCAR fans
that tune in from time to time.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
Some man.
Speaker 3 (45:01):
For me, it's golf. It is power ranking. For me,
is number one Masters, Number two is the US Open
because you know the courses, and number three is the
is the British the Open, chap number four, PGA, PGA
number five. If you get a Ryder Cup that year, yep,
maybe you could throw a Ryder Cup at number three.
And then.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
Oh yeah, it's again. It's a it's a The reason
why I brought up it was a field good story
for a dude who's like a genuinely loved guy around
the sport that finally got it. Whatever happened to that
Tiger Woods golf thing. Is it gone TGL No, it's
the thing it's going into going into year two, coming
up in a couple of weeks. No, I was bored,
and I thought it was kind of cool because Tiger
(45:41):
Woods was on my television I loved the love the athlete.
All right, before we get out of here on a Monday,
it's time for our groove. Toyota, who's in the groove
after three weeks of the preseason coach who for the
Broncos is in the groove going into Week one as
the Broncos host the ten Titans on September seven.
Speaker 3 (46:01):
The entire Denver Broncos football team is in the groove.
That sounds so ridiculous to say you already had the
defense going onto the groove.
Speaker 2 (46:11):
Nope, this is a.
Speaker 3 (46:12):
Team that's ready to play. It is game ready certified.
Every single piece is shown, whether it be in joint
practices or in preseason games. This team is the best
Denver Broncos team that you fielded in a decade. And
I'll stand by that this team needs to win postseason game.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Zah oh plural, look at you. Cortland Sutton is my
player who's in the groove after week three. I just
love the way that he looks deep down the field.
He is a big threat in the red zone. He
looks as versatile as he has ever looked in his career.
That's my guy. Start here, go anywhere, groove Toyota on
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That's gonna do it for us today, for Coach Mike Sanford,
for kJ Granderson behind the Glass, my name is Alex
mm PhD is coming up next from twelve to three.
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by the Game of the Week on Saturday ten am,
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