October 30, 2025 • 43 mins
0:00 - The Nuggets obliterated the Pelicans last night at Ball Arena 122-88. Sure the Pelicans are bad, but the Nuggets actually rose to the task and blew out a bad team. And, they looked good doin it. This is a DEEP team. The bench can actually play. Jokic is able to sit for multiple minutes (plural!) without the entire game unravelling. It's what we've needed to see for years now!
18:07 - How does the Broncos offense stack up to Houston's iron-clad defense? Will Houston's offense be able to crack Denver's defense especially with no PSII? Let's see what the numbers suggest.
35:30 - In the portal era, CFB head coaches can't be just head coaches. They already have to be planning for next season while they're in the middle of THIS season! Brett said it reminds him of politicians that are constantly on the campaign trail.
18:07 - How does the Broncos offense stack up to Houston's iron-clad defense? Will Houston's offense be able to crack Denver's defense especially with no PSII? Let's see what the numbers suggest.
35:30 - In the portal era, CFB head coaches can't be just head coaches. They already have to be planning for next season while they're in the middle of THIS season! Brett said it reminds him of politicians that are constantly on the campaign trail.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is six in the Morning with Brett Caine on demand.
Check out Brett weekday mornings at six on Altitude Sports
Radio ninety two to five and on the Altitude Sports
Radio App. There's the Horde in Denver. The Nuggets outscore
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the Pills.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sixty nine to forty one in the second half and
improved at three.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And one on the year.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Tonight the final from Ball Arena, Denver, one two Pills
eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We got to start with funk, a little bit more Nelly.
We gotta start with this. This is the vibe that
I need in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, you can't talk about Nolins without a little doctor
John too.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Let me tell you something. I don't know if you
guys know this or not. I might be breaking news.
You guys ready right for me to break news at
six o'clock in the morning. The Nuggets are really good.
They're really really good. And everything that we thought in
the offseason about the moves that were made and how
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they were made are proving to be true. When you
have a roster that is capable, and the Nuggets have
been here before. But I don't think quite like this.
I really don't where you got a team that can
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play well enough to allow your entire starting five to
take the fourth quarter off and not just win, but
win in a way that is so dominant. I mean,
outside of what a bad end of the first half,
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or they allowed New Orleans to get back into the game,
because they were dominating from the very start. You finish
the first quarter, you're up nine, You get to the
second and you're beating them. By god, man, it was
almost twenty points. And then at the end of the
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half you just kind of stopped. I don't know, You're
up fifty three to forty with a minute twenty left,
and you ended the half with the six point lead,
and you go, you know what. That feels very like
old nuggetsy where. And the odd thing was the starting
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unit was on the floor for that, but it felt
like very old Nuggets. You know, you're better, you kind
of play down in the competition, You allow a team
to hang around with you. And I was very curious
to see how the second half was gonna start, like
what were you gonna do in the third, And the
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answer was going a twenty nine to two run and
put the game entirely out of reach. That is wildly
encouraging and you're getting contributions from literally everybody. The only
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guy who didn't score last night was Hunter Tyson.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's it on both teams, by the way, Yes, like
he's a frequently guy that stepped on the court that
did not score at least one point, which is crazy, Nelly.
I've been I've been a part of baseball games where
everybody on my team has like three hits and you're
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the guy that goes over and you're.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Like, what happened? I actually had this, Nelly listened to
this one. It's a rare occasion, but it does happen
on occasion where you get the bat around the lineup
in the middle of an inning. So Nellie, I was
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like the third guy up in the inning. I struck
out my first at bat. The rest of my lineup
went around the order. I came up for the second
time in the inning and flew out to center field.
I had two of the three outs in one inning
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while everybody else eight. Hunter Tyson just had himself one
of those where just like everybody is getting whatever they want,
and I'll tell you that the things that are really
impressive right now. Jokich gets his fourth straight triple double
to start the year, and he's doing it with ease.
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I don't know how many of these, by the way,
have been through three. I know last night's was, I
know the games the game before was. I can't remember
the other two. But it's the ease in which he's
doing it. You know. Last night was the first time
I think Jamal Murray was a little bit off. And
guess what in the third quarter he knocks down like
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three straight threes and you're like, all right, well it
doesn't matter. All's well, that ends well. Christian Brown puts
up seventeen points, Aaron Gordon with nine, Cam Johnson was seven.
Like they could have, if not for a bad end
of the first half, beaten the New Orleans Pelicans by
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at sixty. I mean, it could have happened. They're just
so well built right now and they're so balanced. And
what makes this so excited is that their teams around
the league. OKAC is still one of them, obviously, that
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just has wave after wave that they can throw at you.
But I'm telling you, you have a depth on this team,
combined with the best player in the world on it,
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combined with a motivated Jamal Murray that you don't really
have a weakness right now, all the weaknesses that we've
pointed out in the past, depth, three point shooting, everything else,
it doesn't exist. Like you watch Tim Hardaway Junior come
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in the game, you're like, all right, the guy's a
bucket y ANDAs Falan shown, enters the game a legitimate
back up big that does a little bit of the
stuff that Jokic can do to where you don't have
to totally change your game plan whenever he's off the floor.
Bruce Brown going in getting more comfortable, I think as
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the season's going on, but playing really tough defense, making
impactful plays. And the guy that impressed me most is
the guy that probably looks the least impressive on the
box score the stat sheet. He finished the game with
five points, five boards, five assists, three blocks in his steel.
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There is in upgrade a jump that has been made
with Julian Strather's game that has to be acknowledged, or
I'm sorry, with a Peyton Watson's game that has to
be acknowledged. I'm still We'll get to Julian Strather in
a second. Peyton Watson is everywhere when he had that
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sequence of blocked shot and the ball trickles out to
guy in the corner who's got a wide open three,
and Peyton Watson, after blocking the initial shot, comes from
the opposite side of the hoop to get a fingertip
on the three point attempt. That's just straight up effort,
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and it's the exact type of mentality that you need
coming off the bench for a team that's starting five
is one thousand percent championship caliber. This is going to
be such a fun season.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You remember last season about I don't know one thousand,
two thousand, three thousand times, a lot of times you
kept saying the same thing over and over again. I
just want like two dudes on the bench who can
come in and not put the worst basketball you've ever
seen on tape while Jokic is sitting right. And this
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may be a hot take alert, I think we're finally
getting that. Like you said, Yonas Valentnis, fourteen minutes, six rebounds,
ten points, three assists.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That is the perfect stop gap for the Jokic minutes
that we've wanted for what feels like centuries.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Nelly, I am saying things like this now. It doesn't
apply last night because the entire bench started in the
fourth quarter. I'm saying Yonas Valentiunis needs to play more.
What position does he play? Center? Which means what that means,
I don't want Jokic on the floor as much as
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he is last night, being the exception would never exist.
The mo for the last three seasons is, oh my god,
how long do we have to wait until Jokic gets
back on the floor, because you'd watch a lead just
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disappear that fast the second he leaves, And now they
don't have to Like the bench unit comes in last night,
I'm not even kidding. Until the third quarter, the better
unit in totality, according to plus minus was the bench,
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your your main and key in core bench players. Valentiunas
was a plus fourteen, Hardaway Junior was a plus nine,
Bruce Brown was plus thirteen. Peyton Watson was a plus
twenty eight, and it showed when he was on the
floor Like that give me a really screwy stat sometimes
because it can depend on just who you're in the game.
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With plus minus, there is context that is I think
sorely needed to truly understand the impact of somebody's game
on a night to night basis. There is no question zero.
Peyton Watson's plus twenty eight in twenty three minutes last
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night was entirely real because he is doing. The effort
that he's putting out on both sides of the floor
is pretty remarkable. And the one thing I've always had
to keep reminding myself about Peyton Watson because I think
we've all liked his game. It's just a matter of
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is this gonna click. Peyton Watson is still a young player.
He's twenty three years old. This is his fourth year
in the league. But he didn't really play high level
competitive basketball on a consistent basis until like the tail
end of year two, and even that might be pushing
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it a bit, like he wasn't trusted in the postseason
until really last year. You go back and look at
even that second season that he had in the league.
His first year is basically like sit there and wait.
His second year was when the playoffs started. He would
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get a couple of minutes here and there, but not much.
Last year's when he became like a real member off
the bench, and you needed that out of necessity because
of injuries that were plaguing your roster This year. I
pray to God that Peyton Watson gets twenty two, twenty three,
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twenty four minutes a night.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Speaking to Peyton Watson, did you see the video that
I DMed you earlier this morning? I did not see.
You know what, I'm gonna bring it up on my screen.
I'm not giving little screen share. Yeah, so there you go.
So this was this play to me in caps lates
last night's game in a nutshell. So Pelican's going for
the shot brick of three. This is where Jokic does
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his He just catches the ball midair. Water Polo passes
it from he He's under the New Orleans hoop, and
he throws it effortlessly all the way across the court.
Look at that Peyton Watson is standing on the other
free throw line. Yes, makes the catch, makes the catch.
And now watch this Peyton Watson, he keeps his eyes
pointed backwards. He has his back turned to the Nuggets hoop.
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He's looking the other way. Lands with the ball, throws
a no look pass to Jamal Murray. Murray hits the
three buries it. I saw that, and I just I
thought to myself, Man, Denver is doing more damage to
the Pelicans than the BP oil spill. Right now, like
that play that was the game in a nutshell right there.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Do you know what it is? It's just his game maturing.
I mean, that's what it is. When you get to
a level of making plays like that and doing it
on a consistent basis, it's maturing. And the TEXTA says
all of this just from the Nuggets getting out of
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mpj's contract, Well, yeah, it allowed the depth. Now, if
you've listened to the show for any even small amount
of time, I think he'll understand. I am the last
person that's gonna bad mouth MPJ. I think he got
a bad rap here, and I thought he played his
role pretty well. His his things that he didn't do
well were limited by just physically he couldn't He had
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no lateral quickness because he's dropped, he's got drop foot,
and he had three back surgeries by the time he's
twenty three years old. He just couldn't move as well
as others. And I we talked about this the other day.
Now that the Cam Johnson stuff, I know it's been
a slow start and a slow on ramp in his
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time here in Denver, and I think it might take
a little bit more time to try and figure that out.
But Cam Johnson does do one thing much better than
Michael Porter Jr. Which is he defends way better. Have
you noticed how much better defensively the Nuggets are on
the perimeter. With Cam Johnson, they have a guy that
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is capable of staying in front of people, that's super lengthy,
that gets his hands up. Like there was a play
last night somebody gave him a little bit of a
I guess they called a jab step and kind of
got him off balance to where he was breaking towards
the hoop, and then it was a step back three
and he was athletic enough to still get a hand
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in the guy's face and force a misshot as opposed
to wide open shot. And that's something I just think
physically Michael Porter Junior couldn't do. But I think his
offensive game it'll start to find itself. You know, he's
starting to get a little bit more confident to where
he's hitting transition threes. It's just I don't got a
bad thing to say about anybody in the roster right now,
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which is a nice little change of pace. Even in
a game where Jamal was I mean, guy was something
like what one for ten or two for eleven or
something like that heading into the third quarter and then
buries three straight threes to kind of make up for
everything else. Aaron Gordon finished the game with nine points,
and you're like, cool, he played a perfect game. You know,
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he did exactly what he was supposed to do, played
his role. And that's the key here. You want to
play for this Nuggets team, with how good they are,
you have to play your role and accept your role.
And as long as guys continue to do that, you're
going to be in good shape. But that's a I mean, essentially, guys,
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it was what a forty point win last night over
New Orleans. And New Orleans is bad. Don't get me wrong,
I wouldn't. It's not like you should be sitting here
beating your chest about beating New Orleans. But I say
this all time. When you get to a certain level,
it's not about who your opponent is, it's about what
you do well.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And also, pick any Nugget season from the past five
or six years. This is a game that they probably
would have lost. And then in April we'd be sitting
here looking at how the seedings, Yeah, happening in the West,
and we'd go God, you remember that October game. I
don't know, it felt like late October when the Nuggets
absolutely blew onto the Pelicans at home. You remember that, God,
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that's a game you wish you had back right now.
We played that tune a bunch of times as well.
And so they took care of business at home, and
they beat up a bad team.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They would play up and down to competition, for sure,
and in the case this year, it's not true taking
care of people. And I think a lot of that
is built by a veteran bench and a presence that
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back to the Nuggets in a second. I was thinking yesterday,
you know, we we kind of dove into the numbers
of how this team, this Broncos team compares to twenty fifteen,
and how remarkably similar yards per game, points per game,
all of that stuff was to what they were doing
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ten years ago. There's another number you should be aware of,
and that is the Houston Texans are really good at Defensively.
You could argue that the Broncos have the number one
defense in the league, and I don't think you get
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too much pushback, But if you did get pushback, it's
because the Texans are number one, one in top five
in every category. They're the number one team in the
league in yards allowed, per game at two sixty six
point nine. They're the number one team in the league
in points allowed per game at fourteen point seven, and
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then their top five in both passing yards allowed per
game where they're fourth and rushing yards per game, where
their fifth. They do everything well. Now when you look
at the Houston Texans, have they faced total gangbusters opponents? No,
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but they face some good ones. They held the Rams
to fourteen points, they held the Bucks to twenty, they
held the Jags to seventeen. They shut out the Titans,
they held the Ravens to ten. The Seahawks scored twenty seven,
and then the Niners last week scored fifteen. They're really good,
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solid defense, and you look at their defense and their
depth chart, you see why. Derek Stingley, Will Anderson, Junior,
daneil Hunter, Sheldon rankins. They're very, very good from top
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to bottom. So the question becomes, this, your defense is good,
and so is theirs. The over under for this game
is thirty eight and a half, a wildly low number
for a professional football game. You're out. Patrick Certan, the
straw that stirs the drink, the guy who was voted
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the best defensive player in the league, last year, the
guy who you center your entire defense around. That you
build everything off the idea that I can leave him
without help and use my other ten players on the
field to shut down everything else the offense is trying
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to do. You might be the very rare occasion and
maybe the only time it happens this year at a
disadvantage on the defensive side of the football. So what
does that translate to? Your offense needs to play high
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level again? No, we're just talking about this with the Nuggets.
When you're a good team, regardless of the sport, it
should not matter nor depend on the team that you're playing.
It should depend entirely on what you do. So the
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Nuggets blow out the Pelicans last night, don't really care.
It's about you and your game and how are you
going to step up to the plate. The Broncos, if
they want to be a high level team, need to
be in the same place. This cannot be about, well,
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the opponent that we play does this, and this. You
need to inflict your will on somebody. The one thing
that is still unanswered. We're happy about it, but we
don't have a definitive sort of conclusion. The Broncos just
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put up forty four points last week in a game
in which the offense couldn't be stopped. Third play of
the game, they throw a pick and after that they
end the first quarter with one hundred and sixty total
yards and fourteen points. And they did that for four
straight quarters for basically the first time this year. Maybe
outside the CINCI game. I don't think you're expecting forty
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four to be put on the board. It's a little
too much against the defense of this caliber. But can
you play well enough to make up for what your
defense might lose with certain being out? And this is
where the responsibility falls on the shoulder of Bonnicks. He's
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a year and a half into his career now. The
arguments of young quarterback and still figuring things out are
starting to dissipate, as they should. You play against the
defense of this caliber and you're going on the road
in an early time slot to try and get the
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dumb can you outplay CJ. Stroud? Because I think the
game can come down to something as easy as that.
You got another quarterback that had the same thing. You
had a very hot start to his career and then
kind of cooled off for a second and now CJ.
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Stroud seems to be finding a little bit of a
rhythm again his last month worth of football. The team
is three and one. They are averaging what I say
the number was yesterday? Was it twenty eight points a
game in the last month? I believe, uh, twenty nine
points a game over the last four weeks. And CJ. Stroud,
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who had a really big struggle to start the year.
He started the year with two touchdowns and three picks
in the first three weeks of the season, now in
the last four has nine touchdowns to two picks. Can
Bow Nicks match or best that matchup on the field,
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because that's what it's gonna come down to. And if
you want to know how much can you trust the
Broncos to be true contenders for the AFC West, for
the AFC in general, for a Super Bowl, I think
this is a big indicator. You're playing a team that
has an elite level defense that you're gonna have to outscore,
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where points are gonna be tough to come by. Can
you put together enough doesn't have to look perfect, doesn't
have to be every drive, but what you can't have
is three or four drives that end in three and
outs quick off the field defense jumps back on because
my guess is it's gonna take the defense a minute
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to figure out what they do with et Certan. It's
gonna take them a while, whether it's Chris Abrams Drain
or whether it's John A. Barn starting in place of
Pats or Tan. The things that they have done defensively,
which is just ignore one side of the football field
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in the past game, You're probably gonna have to rethink
that strategy because my guess is, if they're picking on
anybody in this game, it's not gonna be Riley Moss.
He's the one that started a whole bunch you know
who hasn't John A. Baron and Chris Abrams Drain. They'll
look over to one of those guys and say, can
we pick on one of you? You don't have the
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experience in this league yet, you haven't been a starter
long term. Like I wouldn't be surprised at all if
Riley Moss is the guy that barely gets targeted throughout
the course of the game. You know, I saw a
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clip of Pats or Tan's podcast where he was talking
about Riley Moss and he said the same thing that
Balboni Jones said that he played on the show last
week or was it earlier in the week, that they're
just racially profiling Riley Moss, that the refs are Bobanni's
quote in fact, no, like, can you dig that up
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for me real quick? What Bomani said? What was it?
I think it was back on Monday about Riley Moss
and him getting these phantom pass interference flags, and he goes,
I can only come to the conclusion that it's straight
racial profiling. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I find that when there is a Caucasian brother playing quarterback,
white people treat him like they treat white basketball players
with startling levels of skepticist the crab in a barrel
phenomenon ten to come up. And that's how I felt
when they called that pass interference all Riley Moss. I
was like, come on, man, it's just profiling. I didn't
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think that was no penalty. Y'all just don't believe that
man was capable of playing defense. That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Sir Tanz said the same thing on his podcast that
he thinks he's being treated on well, I mean, tongue
in cheek, treated unfairly because of that. I don't think
that Riley Moss is going to be the target that
people are gonna try and take advantage of. It's gonna
be one of the newer guys. And so this is
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gonna be that rare occasion. Hey, offense, the defense has
builed you out in multiple stops already this season. It's
already happened, and you can point to specific examples, not
just over the course of four quarters, but even if
it's three or two or whatever. The reason you won
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the Titans game is because the defense kept you in it.
The reason you won the Eagles game. As much as
we give the offense this credit for this fourth quarter
eighteen points scored, come back win in Philly, that's great.
You gotta hold the Eagles to seventeen points to give
yourself a shot. The Jets game in London was a mess,
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and in that game, the defense put up points for
you and like had to for you to win that game.
You know it's the Giants game. We act like the
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score was thirty two to nothing and then the Broncos
offense scored thirty three unanswered. It was nineteen to nothing
going in the fourth quarter. Is that good? No? But
is that. If I just told you that a random
defense in the NFL entered the fourth quarter giving up
nineteen points, your reaction would be, Oh, that sounds normal,
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not like they played poorly, especially when you're getting no
help from your offense. So they've done this on multiple
occasions where they've bailed you out. Are are you capable
of doing the same. If you are, then I think
you're a team that should be taken very seriously as
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competing for very high levels of championship football, whether it's
division conference or whatever. If not, then there's gonna be
the same question marks that there's been around here for years.
When you feel like you got a decent football team,
it's the same sort of thing you'd feel from last year. Yeah,
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this team's good, they're playing okay. Oh we get the
Bills in the playoffs. Well that's a loss. We all
felt it, we all knew it, and it's why this
place wasn't on fire the Monday after that playoff game.
You knew the team wasn't quite good enough. I think
this is a real indicator this weekend. You know, it's
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not some sort of must win or anything like that,
but I do think it's an indicator of what your
team is capable of being. Reminder to you, guys, it's
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A couple of texts coming through here. Texsa says Seawn's
play calling is what scares me. I've had issues with
the game plan at times with Sean Payton. I still
think it's way more of a balance, at least this year.
The last couple of years have been different. I think
this year he's made a real into running the football
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because he trusts is running back in JK. Dobbins just
a man, and I think he has I mean, how
much can you really complain about a run pass split
When your team is third in the league in rushing
yards per game, They're doing that, the next thing becomes
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executing the play call. And I think at times there
has been bad play calls that you should have done
something different. The bubble screens drive me as nuts as
everybody else. But I also know there are times that
he calls a play and a guy's wide open and
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you miss it. That happens too, and if those things
are executed, maybe things look a lot different. Like bottom
line is the bulk of this is going to be
on bow Nicks to play well. He has to, especially
in a game like this where your defense took a
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little bit of a hit and you're going against the
statistically best defense in the league. So we'll get back
to this a little bit later. I want to remind
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Altitude Sports Radio, because Nelly, do you understand the worst no, no,
(35:57):
I want? Well, Sports Radio loves football. That's why yesterday
night to night obviously with us carrying all of these
different games. If there's a big game in the NFL,
you can pretty much guarantee that that thing is gonna
be on right here on Altitude Sports Radio now.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And by the way, just I'm really happy for you,
and I'm gonna let you finish. But I'm putting together
the schedule of games we're gonna have over the weekend,
and we're figuring out we're gonna have a college football
game in that ten am slot on AM nine to
fifty on Saturday. Yeah, And I texted our boss and
I asked them which game we're gonna we're gonna carry,
because let's go back to August when we're probably planning
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out what games you want to carry. If I told
you Saturday, November first noon eastern kickoff Penn State at
Ohio State, you'd probably say, yep, well.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's guarantee give me that game. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Now I'm sitting here on Thursday, October thirty the I'm
going don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
If we want to carry that game anymore. That's crazy. Yeah,
the fall off of Penn State is happy and so swiftly.
You know, there's something to college football right now. It's
funny that you mentioned that allow me to make a comparison.
(37:19):
I'm not somebody that follows politics super closely. Now, if
somebody tells you they don't follow it at all, I
think they're just lying. It's life. I mean, people who
make the rules of how you live your life, you
have to follow at least casually. And I would consider
myself a casual political follower. But there's something that I've noticed,
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and I promise this he'll directly get back to college
football in a second, is that I've known a couple
of people that have been in politics in my life
and they say the thing that they hated the most
is that once they get elected, it's very hard for
their sole focus to be on serving their constituents because
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they are so concerned and everybody is always on them
about you got a campaign for the next time that
an election comes around, because you're splitting your time up
a lot of times, especially towards the end of their terms,
so unevenly to the campaigning portion and the actual doing
the work that you're trying to serve two masters, and
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it's really hard to do. I think that college football
is finding themselves in a very odd place where they're
doing kind of the same thing. Recruiting has always been important,
and it's always been something to where you know, That's
where I look at it, like your term limits. Your
roster has a term limit. It used to be though,
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four years of it with an occasional guy or two
that would transfer out because the punishment for transferring, and
I think incorrectly by the way, was so severe that
a lot of guys didn't want to do it. Hey,
I want to get on the football field right now
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and I'm not playing right now. Well, if you want
to do that, you're gonna have to wait two years now,
because if you transfer, you got to sit out a year.
And I've always been a fan of I think you
should get one transfer in your career for free, and
then there should be a punishment after that. And I think,
I don't know if it, like the toothpaste is already
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out of the tube on that one. But I always thought, like,
if you if I commit to a school as a recruit,
and I committed to the school with the idea of
this coach is going to be there, and he has
told me that he's going to give me an opportunity
right away to play, and that's a big reason and
why I decided to go there, and then the second
(39:55):
I get there, you fire the coach. That doesn't seem
all that fair to me. And I've been through the
recruiting process at my lower level of recruiting. That happened.
But I took six seven visits. Every coach is gonna
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tell you don't do that, Nelly, did you see the
kids in my neighborhood are doing that?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
And I'm just like, ugh, dictionary dot com, you know
every year they released.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Their word of the year. Yes, sir, seven six seven
is the doesn't have a definition? What does the dictionary say?
It doesn't have a definition?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
That is their word of the year for twenty twenty five.
And I think their their definition was just like a
goofy silly thing that the youths doers.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
It's not even a word but numbers to go back
to it. It's like I took six or seven is
how I'd say it. Uh killed it. Different visits to
jucos in D two schools and one D one school
and all this different stuff. They tell you don't commit
to the coach, and I'm just like impossible, Like you
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know what I had, Nellie, I had a coach on
one of these visits. And he's a very nice guy,
but he goes, when you get here, we wake up
every morning and at six of the morning, we shave
our faces and we go to the gym. And I
thought he was kiddioes, I'm not kidding. We get up,
we shave our face every day. And so I took
that as, Okay, what are you trying to be like
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the Yankees. I'm in the middle of nowhere, Iowa. This
is junior college. What are we doing? And I get
that he was trying to set a discipline and run
his team with an iron fist. And I'm sure a
lot of people appreciated that. It just wasn't for me.
So when you tell me commit to the school and
not to the coach, impossible. That guy's in charge of
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my life for four years. He dictates what time I
wake up, what time I go to the gym, what
classes I take, when we practice, when we go on
the road, how we go on the road, Like, you're
in charge of every step of my life. So when
you commit to a coach and then the coach gets
fired or leaves to go to another school, and you
tell the player who did that hey, tough luck, buddy,
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Well that doesn't seem right, But now it's it's gone
so wildly in the other direction that I think coaches
are kind of like politicians. They're focused on the job
in the task at hand, but they got one eye
out for their their campaigning. They're always on the phone
with somebody else saying, who are you gonna get next year?
Because half of my roster is not going to be
here anymore.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
And that was also crazy a few months ago when
we were talking about the three quarterback carousel at CU,
and one thing that kept coming up with, Boy, you know,
if if coach prime doesn't feed all these different quarters,
you don't play Juju Juju's portal exactly, or who knows
how Salter will feel. It's You're right, it's not only
just coaching x's No's, it's egos and the portal fundraiser,
(42:50):
Gucci and Louie and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
It's it's all a giant fundraiser and it's keeping the
people that are donating to your campaign happy, but it's
also going to try and find new people that are
gonna donate to your campaign, knowing that those people are
gonna leave, like It's a really really weird spot to
be in, and I think it's affected a lot of
the way that guys kind of like, you can't you
(43:14):
don't have time to build chemistry anymore. Everything's in a microwave.
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Radio App. There's the Horde in Denver. The Nuggets outscore
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the Pills.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Sixty nine to forty one in the second half and
improved at three.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And one on the year.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Tonight the final from Ball Arena, Denver, one two Pills
eighty eight.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
We got to start with funk, a little bit more Nelly.
We gotta start with this. This is the vibe that
I need in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Well, you can't talk about Nolins without a little doctor
John too.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Let me tell you something. I don't know if you
guys know this or not. I might be breaking news.
You guys ready right for me to break news at
six o'clock in the morning. The Nuggets are really good.
They're really really good. And everything that we thought in
the offseason about the moves that were made and how
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they were made are proving to be true. When you
have a roster that is capable, and the Nuggets have
been here before. But I don't think quite like this.
I really don't where you got a team that can
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play well enough to allow your entire starting five to
take the fourth quarter off and not just win, but
win in a way that is so dominant. I mean,
outside of what a bad end of the first half,
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or they allowed New Orleans to get back into the game,
because they were dominating from the very start. You finish
the first quarter, you're up nine, You get to the
second and you're beating them. By god, man, it was
almost twenty points. And then at the end of the
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half you just kind of stopped. I don't know, You're
up fifty three to forty with a minute twenty left,
and you ended the half with the six point lead,
and you go, you know what. That feels very like
old nuggetsy where. And the odd thing was the starting
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unit was on the floor for that, but it felt
like very old Nuggets. You know, you're better, you kind
of play down in the competition, You allow a team
to hang around with you. And I was very curious
to see how the second half was gonna start, like
what were you gonna do in the third, And the
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answer was going a twenty nine to two run and
put the game entirely out of reach. That is wildly
encouraging and you're getting contributions from literally everybody. The only
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guy who didn't score last night was Hunter Tyson.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
That's it on both teams, by the way, Yes, like
he's a frequently guy that stepped on the court that
did not score at least one point, which is crazy, Nelly.
I've been I've been a part of baseball games where
everybody on my team has like three hits and you're
(03:47):
the guy that goes over and you're.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Like, what happened? I actually had this, Nelly listened to
this one. It's a rare occasion, but it does happen
on occasion where you get the bat around the lineup
in the middle of an inning. So Nellie, I was
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like the third guy up in the inning. I struck
out my first at bat. The rest of my lineup
went around the order. I came up for the second
time in the inning and flew out to center field.
I had two of the three outs in one inning
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while everybody else eight. Hunter Tyson just had himself one
of those where just like everybody is getting whatever they want,
and I'll tell you that the things that are really
impressive right now. Jokich gets his fourth straight triple double
to start the year, and he's doing it with ease.
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I don't know how many of these, by the way,
have been through three. I know last night's was, I
know the games the game before was. I can't remember
the other two. But it's the ease in which he's
doing it. You know. Last night was the first time
I think Jamal Murray was a little bit off. And
guess what in the third quarter he knocks down like
(05:21):
three straight threes and you're like, all right, well it
doesn't matter. All's well, that ends well. Christian Brown puts
up seventeen points, Aaron Gordon with nine, Cam Johnson was seven.
Like they could have, if not for a bad end
of the first half, beaten the New Orleans Pelicans by
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at sixty. I mean, it could have happened. They're just
so well built right now and they're so balanced. And
what makes this so excited is that their teams around
the league. OKAC is still one of them, obviously, that
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just has wave after wave that they can throw at you.
But I'm telling you, you have a depth on this team,
combined with the best player in the world on it,
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combined with a motivated Jamal Murray that you don't really
have a weakness right now, all the weaknesses that we've
pointed out in the past, depth, three point shooting, everything else,
it doesn't exist. Like you watch Tim Hardaway Junior come
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in the game, you're like, all right, the guy's a
bucket y ANDAs Falan shown, enters the game a legitimate
back up big that does a little bit of the
stuff that Jokic can do to where you don't have
to totally change your game plan whenever he's off the floor.
Bruce Brown going in getting more comfortable, I think as
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the season's going on, but playing really tough defense, making
impactful plays. And the guy that impressed me most is
the guy that probably looks the least impressive on the
box score the stat sheet. He finished the game with
five points, five boards, five assists, three blocks in his steel.
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There is in upgrade a jump that has been made
with Julian Strather's game that has to be acknowledged, or
I'm sorry, with a Peyton Watson's game that has to
be acknowledged. I'm still We'll get to Julian Strather in
a second. Peyton Watson is everywhere when he had that
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sequence of blocked shot and the ball trickles out to
guy in the corner who's got a wide open three,
and Peyton Watson, after blocking the initial shot, comes from
the opposite side of the hoop to get a fingertip
on the three point attempt. That's just straight up effort,
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and it's the exact type of mentality that you need
coming off the bench for a team that's starting five
is one thousand percent championship caliber. This is going to
be such a fun season.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
You remember last season about I don't know one thousand,
two thousand, three thousand times, a lot of times you
kept saying the same thing over and over again. I
just want like two dudes on the bench who can
come in and not put the worst basketball you've ever
seen on tape while Jokic is sitting right. And this
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may be a hot take alert, I think we're finally
getting that. Like you said, Yonas Valentnis, fourteen minutes, six rebounds,
ten points, three assists.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yes, there you go.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
That is the perfect stop gap for the Jokic minutes
that we've wanted for what feels like centuries.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Nelly, I am saying things like this now. It doesn't
apply last night because the entire bench started in the
fourth quarter. I'm saying Yonas Valentiunis needs to play more.
What position does he play? Center? Which means what that means,
I don't want Jokic on the floor as much as
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he is last night, being the exception would never exist.
The mo for the last three seasons is, oh my god,
how long do we have to wait until Jokic gets
back on the floor, because you'd watch a lead just
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disappear that fast the second he leaves, And now they
don't have to Like the bench unit comes in last night,
I'm not even kidding. Until the third quarter, the better
unit in totality, according to plus minus was the bench,
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your your main and key in core bench players. Valentiunas
was a plus fourteen, Hardaway Junior was a plus nine,
Bruce Brown was plus thirteen. Peyton Watson was a plus
twenty eight, and it showed when he was on the
floor Like that give me a really screwy stat sometimes
because it can depend on just who you're in the game.
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With plus minus, there is context that is I think
sorely needed to truly understand the impact of somebody's game
on a night to night basis. There is no question zero.
Peyton Watson's plus twenty eight in twenty three minutes last
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night was entirely real because he is doing. The effort
that he's putting out on both sides of the floor
is pretty remarkable. And the one thing I've always had
to keep reminding myself about Peyton Watson because I think
we've all liked his game. It's just a matter of
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is this gonna click. Peyton Watson is still a young player.
He's twenty three years old. This is his fourth year
in the league. But he didn't really play high level
competitive basketball on a consistent basis until like the tail
end of year two, and even that might be pushing
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it a bit, like he wasn't trusted in the postseason
until really last year. You go back and look at
even that second season that he had in the league.
His first year is basically like sit there and wait.
His second year was when the playoffs started. He would
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get a couple of minutes here and there, but not much.
Last year's when he became like a real member off
the bench, and you needed that out of necessity because
of injuries that were plaguing your roster This year. I
pray to God that Peyton Watson gets twenty two, twenty three,
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twenty four minutes a night.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Speaking to Peyton Watson, did you see the video that
I DMed you earlier this morning? I did not see.
You know what, I'm gonna bring it up on my screen.
I'm not giving little screen share. Yeah, so there you go.
So this was this play to me in caps lates
last night's game in a nutshell. So Pelican's going for
the shot brick of three. This is where Jokic does
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his He just catches the ball midair. Water Polo passes
it from he He's under the New Orleans hoop, and
he throws it effortlessly all the way across the court.
Look at that Peyton Watson is standing on the other
free throw line. Yes, makes the catch, makes the catch.
And now watch this Peyton Watson, he keeps his eyes
pointed backwards. He has his back turned to the Nuggets hoop.
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He's looking the other way. Lands with the ball, throws
a no look pass to Jamal Murray. Murray hits the
three buries it. I saw that, and I just I
thought to myself, Man, Denver is doing more damage to
the Pelicans than the BP oil spill. Right now, like
that play that was the game in a nutshell right there.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Do you know what it is? It's just his game maturing.
I mean, that's what it is. When you get to
a level of making plays like that and doing it
on a consistent basis, it's maturing. And the TEXTA says
all of this just from the Nuggets getting out of
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mpj's contract, Well, yeah, it allowed the depth. Now, if
you've listened to the show for any even small amount
of time, I think he'll understand. I am the last
person that's gonna bad mouth MPJ. I think he got
a bad rap here, and I thought he played his
role pretty well. His his things that he didn't do
well were limited by just physically he couldn't He had
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no lateral quickness because he's dropped, he's got drop foot,
and he had three back surgeries by the time he's
twenty three years old. He just couldn't move as well
as others. And I we talked about this the other day.
Now that the Cam Johnson stuff, I know it's been
a slow start and a slow on ramp in his
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time here in Denver, and I think it might take
a little bit more time to try and figure that out.
But Cam Johnson does do one thing much better than
Michael Porter Jr. Which is he defends way better. Have
you noticed how much better defensively the Nuggets are on
the perimeter. With Cam Johnson, they have a guy that
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is capable of staying in front of people, that's super lengthy,
that gets his hands up. Like there was a play
last night somebody gave him a little bit of a
I guess they called a jab step and kind of
got him off balance to where he was breaking towards
the hoop, and then it was a step back three
and he was athletic enough to still get a hand
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in the guy's face and force a misshot as opposed
to wide open shot. And that's something I just think
physically Michael Porter Junior couldn't do. But I think his
offensive game it'll start to find itself. You know, he's
starting to get a little bit more confident to where
he's hitting transition threes. It's just I don't got a
bad thing to say about anybody in the roster right now,
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which is a nice little change of pace. Even in
a game where Jamal was I mean, guy was something
like what one for ten or two for eleven or
something like that heading into the third quarter and then
buries three straight threes to kind of make up for
everything else. Aaron Gordon finished the game with nine points,
and you're like, cool, he played a perfect game. You know,
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he did exactly what he was supposed to do, played
his role. And that's the key here. You want to
play for this Nuggets team, with how good they are,
you have to play your role and accept your role.
And as long as guys continue to do that, you're
going to be in good shape. But that's a I mean, essentially, guys,
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it was what a forty point win last night over
New Orleans. And New Orleans is bad. Don't get me wrong,
I wouldn't. It's not like you should be sitting here
beating your chest about beating New Orleans. But I say
this all time. When you get to a certain level,
it's not about who your opponent is, it's about what
you do well.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
And also, pick any Nugget season from the past five
or six years. This is a game that they probably
would have lost. And then in April we'd be sitting
here looking at how the seedings, Yeah, happening in the West,
and we'd go God, you remember that October game. I
don't know, it felt like late October when the Nuggets
absolutely blew onto the Pelicans at home. You remember that, God,
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that's a game you wish you had back right now.
We played that tune a bunch of times as well.
And so they took care of business at home, and
they beat up a bad team.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
They would play up and down to competition, for sure,
and in the case this year, it's not true taking
care of people. And I think a lot of that
is built by a veteran bench and a presence that
they just didn't previously have. So it's a Nuggets ticket. Third,
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back to the Nuggets in a second. I was thinking yesterday,
you know, we we kind of dove into the numbers
of how this team, this Broncos team compares to twenty fifteen,
and how remarkably similar yards per game, points per game,
all of that stuff was to what they were doing
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ten years ago. There's another number you should be aware of,
and that is the Houston Texans are really good at Defensively.
You could argue that the Broncos have the number one
defense in the league, and I don't think you get
(19:54):
too much pushback, But if you did get pushback, it's
because the Texans are number one, one in top five
in every category. They're the number one team in the
league in yards allowed, per game at two sixty six
point nine. They're the number one team in the league
in points allowed per game at fourteen point seven, and
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then their top five in both passing yards allowed per
game where they're fourth and rushing yards per game, where
their fifth. They do everything well. Now when you look
at the Houston Texans, have they faced total gangbusters opponents? No,
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but they face some good ones. They held the Rams
to fourteen points, they held the Bucks to twenty, they
held the Jags to seventeen. They shut out the Titans,
they held the Ravens to ten. The Seahawks scored twenty seven,
and then the Niners last week scored fifteen. They're really good,
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solid defense, and you look at their defense and their
depth chart, you see why. Derek Stingley, Will Anderson, Junior,
daneil Hunter, Sheldon rankins. They're very, very good from top
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to bottom. So the question becomes, this, your defense is good,
and so is theirs. The over under for this game
is thirty eight and a half, a wildly low number
for a professional football game. You're out. Patrick Certan, the
straw that stirs the drink, the guy who was voted
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the best defensive player in the league, last year, the
guy who you center your entire defense around. That you
build everything off the idea that I can leave him
without help and use my other ten players on the
field to shut down everything else the offense is trying
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to do. You might be the very rare occasion and
maybe the only time it happens this year at a
disadvantage on the defensive side of the football. So what
does that translate to? Your offense needs to play high
(22:30):
level again? No, we're just talking about this with the Nuggets.
When you're a good team, regardless of the sport, it
should not matter nor depend on the team that you're playing.
It should depend entirely on what you do. So the
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Nuggets blow out the Pelicans last night, don't really care.
It's about you and your game and how are you
going to step up to the plate. The Broncos, if
they want to be a high level team, need to
be in the same place. This cannot be about, well,
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the opponent that we play does this, and this. You
need to inflict your will on somebody. The one thing
that is still unanswered. We're happy about it, but we
don't have a definitive sort of conclusion. The Broncos just
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put up forty four points last week in a game
in which the offense couldn't be stopped. Third play of
the game, they throw a pick and after that they
end the first quarter with one hundred and sixty total
yards and fourteen points. And they did that for four
straight quarters for basically the first time this year. Maybe
outside the CINCI game. I don't think you're expecting forty
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four to be put on the board. It's a little
too much against the defense of this caliber. But can
you play well enough to make up for what your
defense might lose with certain being out? And this is
where the responsibility falls on the shoulder of Bonnicks. He's
(24:25):
a year and a half into his career now. The
arguments of young quarterback and still figuring things out are
starting to dissipate, as they should. You play against the
defense of this caliber and you're going on the road
in an early time slot to try and get the
(24:47):
dumb can you outplay CJ. Stroud? Because I think the
game can come down to something as easy as that.
You got another quarterback that had the same thing. You
had a very hot start to his career and then
kind of cooled off for a second and now CJ.
(25:10):
Stroud seems to be finding a little bit of a
rhythm again his last month worth of football. The team
is three and one. They are averaging what I say
the number was yesterday? Was it twenty eight points a
game in the last month? I believe, uh, twenty nine
points a game over the last four weeks. And CJ. Stroud,
(25:34):
who had a really big struggle to start the year.
He started the year with two touchdowns and three picks
in the first three weeks of the season, now in
the last four has nine touchdowns to two picks. Can
Bow Nicks match or best that matchup on the field,
(26:01):
because that's what it's gonna come down to. And if
you want to know how much can you trust the
Broncos to be true contenders for the AFC West, for
the AFC in general, for a Super Bowl, I think
this is a big indicator. You're playing a team that
has an elite level defense that you're gonna have to outscore,
(26:26):
where points are gonna be tough to come by. Can
you put together enough doesn't have to look perfect, doesn't
have to be every drive, but what you can't have
is three or four drives that end in three and
outs quick off the field defense jumps back on because
my guess is it's gonna take the defense a minute
(26:48):
to figure out what they do with et Certan. It's
gonna take them a while, whether it's Chris Abrams Drain
or whether it's John A. Barn starting in place of
Pats or Tan. The things that they have done defensively,
which is just ignore one side of the football field
(27:11):
in the past game, You're probably gonna have to rethink
that strategy because my guess is, if they're picking on
anybody in this game, it's not gonna be Riley Moss.
He's the one that started a whole bunch you know
who hasn't John A. Baron and Chris Abrams Drain. They'll
look over to one of those guys and say, can
we pick on one of you? You don't have the
(27:32):
experience in this league yet, you haven't been a starter
long term. Like I wouldn't be surprised at all if
Riley Moss is the guy that barely gets targeted throughout
the course of the game. You know, I saw a
(27:55):
clip of Pats or Tan's podcast where he was talking
about Riley Moss and he said the same thing that
Balboni Jones said that he played on the show last
week or was it earlier in the week, that they're
just racially profiling Riley Moss, that the refs are Bobanni's
quote in fact, no, like, can you dig that up
(28:16):
for me real quick? What Bomani said? What was it?
I think it was back on Monday about Riley Moss
and him getting these phantom pass interference flags, and he goes,
I can only come to the conclusion that it's straight
racial profiling. Let's listen.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I find that when there is a Caucasian brother playing quarterback,
white people treat him like they treat white basketball players
with startling levels of skepticist the crab in a barrel
phenomenon ten to come up. And that's how I felt
when they called that pass interference all Riley Moss. I
was like, come on, man, it's just profiling. I didn't
(28:56):
think that was no penalty. Y'all just don't believe that
man was capable of playing defense. That's all it is.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Sir Tanz said the same thing on his podcast that
he thinks he's being treated on well, I mean, tongue
in cheek, treated unfairly because of that. I don't think
that Riley Moss is going to be the target that
people are gonna try and take advantage of. It's gonna
be one of the newer guys. And so this is
(29:21):
gonna be that rare occasion. Hey, offense, the defense has
builed you out in multiple stops already this season. It's
already happened, and you can point to specific examples, not
just over the course of four quarters, but even if
it's three or two or whatever. The reason you won
(29:45):
the Titans game is because the defense kept you in it.
The reason you won the Eagles game. As much as
we give the offense this credit for this fourth quarter
eighteen points scored, come back win in Philly, that's great.
You gotta hold the Eagles to seventeen points to give
yourself a shot. The Jets game in London was a mess,
(30:06):
and in that game, the defense put up points for
you and like had to for you to win that game.
You know it's the Giants game. We act like the
(30:26):
score was thirty two to nothing and then the Broncos
offense scored thirty three unanswered. It was nineteen to nothing
going in the fourth quarter. Is that good? No? But
is that. If I just told you that a random
defense in the NFL entered the fourth quarter giving up
nineteen points, your reaction would be, Oh, that sounds normal,
(30:50):
not like they played poorly, especially when you're getting no
help from your offense. So they've done this on multiple
occasions where they've bailed you out. Are are you capable
of doing the same. If you are, then I think
you're a team that should be taken very seriously as
(31:10):
competing for very high levels of championship football, whether it's
division conference or whatever. If not, then there's gonna be
the same question marks that there's been around here for years.
When you feel like you got a decent football team,
it's the same sort of thing you'd feel from last year. Yeah,
(31:34):
this team's good, they're playing okay. Oh we get the
Bills in the playoffs. Well that's a loss. We all
felt it, we all knew it, and it's why this
place wasn't on fire the Monday after that playoff game.
You knew the team wasn't quite good enough. I think
this is a real indicator this weekend. You know, it's
(31:55):
not some sort of must win or anything like that,
but I do think it's an indicator of what your
team is capable of being. Reminder to you, guys, it's
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A couple of texts coming through here. Texsa says Seawn's
play calling is what scares me. I've had issues with
the game plan at times with Sean Payton. I still
think it's way more of a balance, at least this year.
The last couple of years have been different. I think
this year he's made a real into running the football
(33:01):
because he trusts is running back in JK. Dobbins just
a man, and I think he has I mean, how
much can you really complain about a run pass split
When your team is third in the league in rushing
yards per game, They're doing that, the next thing becomes
(33:23):
executing the play call. And I think at times there
has been bad play calls that you should have done
something different. The bubble screens drive me as nuts as
everybody else. But I also know there are times that
he calls a play and a guy's wide open and
(33:45):
you miss it. That happens too, and if those things
are executed, maybe things look a lot different. Like bottom
line is the bulk of this is going to be
on bow Nicks to play well. He has to, especially
in a game like this where your defense took a
(34:07):
little bit of a hit and you're going against the
statistically best defense in the league. So we'll get back
to this a little bit later. I want to remind
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(34:53):
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six and we have that game obviously right here in
Altitude Sports Radio, because Nelly, do you understand the worst no, no,
(35:57):
I want? Well, Sports Radio loves football. That's why yesterday
night to night obviously with us carrying all of these
different games. If there's a big game in the NFL,
you can pretty much guarantee that that thing is gonna
be on right here on Altitude Sports Radio now.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
And by the way, just I'm really happy for you,
and I'm gonna let you finish. But I'm putting together
the schedule of games we're gonna have over the weekend,
and we're figuring out we're gonna have a college football
game in that ten am slot on AM nine to
fifty on Saturday. Yeah, And I texted our boss and
I asked them which game we're gonna we're gonna carry,
because let's go back to August when we're probably planning
(36:37):
out what games you want to carry. If I told
you Saturday, November first noon eastern kickoff Penn State at
Ohio State, you'd probably say, yep, well.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
That's guarantee give me that game. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
Now I'm sitting here on Thursday, October thirty the I'm
going don't know.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
If we want to carry that game anymore. That's crazy. Yeah,
the fall off of Penn State is happy and so swiftly.
You know, there's something to college football right now. It's
funny that you mentioned that allow me to make a comparison.
(37:19):
I'm not somebody that follows politics super closely. Now, if
somebody tells you they don't follow it at all, I
think they're just lying. It's life. I mean, people who
make the rules of how you live your life, you
have to follow at least casually. And I would consider
myself a casual political follower. But there's something that I've noticed,
(37:42):
and I promise this he'll directly get back to college
football in a second, is that I've known a couple
of people that have been in politics in my life
and they say the thing that they hated the most
is that once they get elected, it's very hard for
their sole focus to be on serving their constituents because
(38:04):
they are so concerned and everybody is always on them
about you got a campaign for the next time that
an election comes around, because you're splitting your time up
a lot of times, especially towards the end of their terms,
so unevenly to the campaigning portion and the actual doing
the work that you're trying to serve two masters, and
(38:28):
it's really hard to do. I think that college football
is finding themselves in a very odd place where they're
doing kind of the same thing. Recruiting has always been important,
and it's always been something to where you know, That's
where I look at it, like your term limits. Your
roster has a term limit. It used to be though,
(38:49):
four years of it with an occasional guy or two
that would transfer out because the punishment for transferring, and
I think incorrectly by the way, was so severe that
a lot of guys didn't want to do it. Hey,
I want to get on the football field right now
(39:10):
and I'm not playing right now. Well, if you want
to do that, you're gonna have to wait two years now,
because if you transfer, you got to sit out a year.
And I've always been a fan of I think you
should get one transfer in your career for free, and
then there should be a punishment after that. And I think,
I don't know if it, like the toothpaste is already
(39:32):
out of the tube on that one. But I always thought, like,
if you if I commit to a school as a recruit,
and I committed to the school with the idea of
this coach is going to be there, and he has
told me that he's going to give me an opportunity
right away to play, and that's a big reason and
why I decided to go there, and then the second
(39:55):
I get there, you fire the coach. That doesn't seem
all that fair to me. And I've been through the
recruiting process at my lower level of recruiting. That happened.
But I took six seven visits. Every coach is gonna
(40:15):
tell you don't do that, Nelly, did you see the
kids in my neighborhood are doing that?
Speaker 2 (40:20):
And I'm just like, ugh, dictionary dot com, you know
every year they released.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
Their word of the year. Yes, sir, seven six seven
is the doesn't have a definition? What does the dictionary say?
It doesn't have a definition?
Speaker 2 (40:31):
That is their word of the year for twenty twenty five.
And I think their their definition was just like a
goofy silly thing that the youths doers.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
It's not even a word but numbers to go back
to it. It's like I took six or seven is
how I'd say it. Uh killed it. Different visits to
jucos in D two schools and one D one school
and all this different stuff. They tell you don't commit
to the coach, and I'm just like impossible, Like you
(41:01):
know what I had, Nellie, I had a coach on
one of these visits. And he's a very nice guy,
but he goes, when you get here, we wake up
every morning and at six of the morning, we shave
our faces and we go to the gym. And I
thought he was kiddioes, I'm not kidding. We get up,
we shave our face every day. And so I took
that as, Okay, what are you trying to be like
(41:21):
the Yankees. I'm in the middle of nowhere, Iowa. This
is junior college. What are we doing? And I get
that he was trying to set a discipline and run
his team with an iron fist. And I'm sure a
lot of people appreciated that. It just wasn't for me.
So when you tell me commit to the school and
not to the coach, impossible. That guy's in charge of
(41:43):
my life for four years. He dictates what time I
wake up, what time I go to the gym, what
classes I take, when we practice, when we go on
the road, how we go on the road, Like, you're
in charge of every step of my life. So when
you commit to a coach and then the coach gets
fired or leaves to go to another school, and you
tell the player who did that hey, tough luck, buddy,
(42:07):
Well that doesn't seem right, But now it's it's gone
so wildly in the other direction that I think coaches
are kind of like politicians. They're focused on the job
in the task at hand, but they got one eye
out for their their campaigning. They're always on the phone
with somebody else saying, who are you gonna get next year?
Because half of my roster is not going to be
here anymore.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
And that was also crazy a few months ago when
we were talking about the three quarterback carousel at CU,
and one thing that kept coming up with, Boy, you know,
if if coach prime doesn't feed all these different quarters,
you don't play Juju Juju's portal exactly, or who knows
how Salter will feel. It's You're right, it's not only
just coaching x's No's, it's egos and the portal fundraiser,
(42:50):
Gucci and Louie and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (42:51):
It's it's all a giant fundraiser and it's keeping the
people that are donating to your campaign happy, but it's
also going to try and find new people that are
gonna donate to your campaign, knowing that those people are
gonna leave, like It's a really really weird spot to
be in, and I think it's affected a lot of
the way that guys kind of like, you can't you
(43:14):
don't have time to build chemistry anymore. Everything's in a microwave.
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