November 6, 2025 • 42 mins
0:00 - Yesterday, the Nuggets beat the Heat at Ball Arena, and Nikola Jokic did Nikola Jokic things. How does he keep impressing us?? How does he keep finding new ways to dazzle?
15:52 - The Broncos need to strike EARLY against the Raiders tonight! Don't go scoreless for 3.5 quarters against the lowly Raiders! Come on! Let's get going, boys!
32:51 - Deion said in his recent presser that he won't tell us when he makes personnel changes. He said that's not his responsibility. It's on US to notice when he reshuffles coaching/staff. Is that a fair thing to say? Or does Deion owe us transparency?
15:52 - The Broncos need to strike EARLY against the Raiders tonight! Don't go scoreless for 3.5 quarters against the lowly Raiders! Come on! Let's get going, boys!
32:51 - Deion said in his recent presser that he won't tell us when he makes personnel changes. He said that's not his responsibility. It's on US to notice when he reshuffles coaching/staff. Is that a fair thing to say? Or does Deion owe us transparency?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is six in the Morning with Brett Caine on demand.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Brown has it on the right side. He throws it
off over to yok It's just a big possession here.
This is the first nail in the coffin type of
a possession. Aaron Gordon has it right side over to
Bruce Brown. Eight on o'clock, Jokich has it against where
looking for that first nail in the coffin up under
uckshot good Nuggets leaded by twelve one, eighteen to one
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oh six, and now they can start playing clock.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The domination of the Miami Heat, at least in the
regular season and postseason. I mean, the one in five
in the NBA Finals continues. I believe that is the
number now, eleven straight in the regular season, and if
you add that into the postseason, it's fifteen in the
last sixteen against them. Now it's just got their number.
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And I think it's always just kind of been like
you You've been able to out talent them, especially a game
like last night, don't have Tyler Hero. It's just it's
a really tough matchup for really anybody, and it's incredibly
tough when Jokic puts up thirty three fifteen and sixteen
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starting to hit a little bit of that stride. The
nice thing about Joker and where his game is at
right now is the accuracy. The efficiency has all kind
of come back, you know. For a guy who is
on the year attempting five threes a game to be
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shooting sixty one percent from the floor is incredibly impressive.
I mean, it's just it's hard to really put into words.
And Yo, give pushed back on this a few games ago.
If you remember, I was gonna say how easy he
makes the game look and what was the word that
somebody used with him in a post game if you remember, Nelly, Oh, effortless.
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They're like, you make it look so effortless, and he
kind of pushed back, He's like, it's not. And I
think people get confused with that about how difficult it
is for him to be able to do this on
a nightly basis against I got a lot of respect
for bam Outabayo. I think he's a really really good
player and super versatile for somebody who is his size.
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Now left the game, didn't come back after eight minutes,
but the Nuggets did and jokicch overall, they just kind
of put this pressure on people where there's not a
lot you can do about it. And I'm going to
continue to get my points and my rebounds and my assists,
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and you're gonna have to put up like a damn
miracle in order to even stemy some of my production. Now,
as far as everybody else in the roster, I think,
and I was the one that overlooked this the most.
I think I thought there would be an opportunity this
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year where they, out of all the signings and acquisitions
they made in the offseason to bring in Valanciunis and
Hardway and Bruce Brown and Cam Johnson and everything else,
that the one guy that I think would be least
felt on this roster was Tim Hardaway Junior, because I thought,
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in an ideal world, you have Julian Strather beating him
out for minutes. Is Julian Strather's younger and Tim Hardaway
Junior is now indispensable to that bench unit. He is
losing time to nobody. In fact, he is playing the
most minutes of anybody off the bench so far. No,
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you did get a lot of Bruce Brown last night
to again, he just looks like his normal self of gritty,
tough effort, play defense, knock down a couple of shots
when you have to. But you've been waiting and begging
for this infusion of the ability to score from the bench,
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and did Russell Westbrook have that yet? Kind of, but
not in the way that Tim Hardaway Junior's been doing it,
which is you're a threat every time you touch the basketball.
That play at the end of the first quarter where
it looked like you were going to go into the
second quarter with the game tied, and it was that
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weird little thing of Valanchounis missed a little bunny the heat,
get the rebound with like a second left and they
try and throw it out real quick. Bruce Brown gets
a hand on it and Tim Hardaway Junior just grabs
it in in like a millisecond, gets the shot up
for a three at the end of the game. I
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don't know how many guys you've had that could do that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Overall, the Nuggets five and two so far to start
the year. They had pretty poor defense to start the
game that they started to pick up over the next
three quarters. I don't know what it is about Norman Powell,
but why does he just light you up every time
he plays against you? No matter what uniform he's wearing.
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It just feels like that guy goes scors to earth
on the Nuggets every single time he plays against you,
Like he's a really good player for somebody, Like it
feels like he's finding the best parts of his game
now at thirty two years old, which is weird because
he hasn't been this type of player. But he does
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that every time, like every single time. So few other
things here. Texter says Jamal has been consistently inefficient. Not true.
If you think Jamal is having a bad year this year,
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then you're sorely a mistaken Jamal is shooting. If I
give you this, forty seven percent from the floor right
now is three point percentage has got to be a
little bit higher. But if you don't think that Jamal
looks more productive than he has in years past, then
I can't help you. I had no problems with Jamal
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to start this season. I think he's been fine, and
I actually think the spread within the starting five on
the distribution of points has felt pretty right game last
night where Aaron Gordon was playing really well. He was
able to dominate down low. He ended up with twenty
four points.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
School.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm not expecting perfection every single night. Did the team
play well or not? And the answers yes. And they've
done that for most of the year. Even in the
first game of the season that they lost to Golden State,
it's like you lost because you just kind of let
go of the rope at the end of the fourth quarter.
Doesn't mean he didn't play well. But for a for
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nugget standards, really brand new field, to a roster for
to look as good as it has, I think this
early in the season is great. I got no issues
with it. Texas says. Hardaway is more of a peer
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to Jamal than he is to Christian Brown, Bruce or Julian.
He's asked to do something different and this is I'm
gonna repeat things like this over and over again, at
least because this is the way that I think about this.
And this is not some sort of diss or something
like that to Tim Hardaway Junior, because he has been fantastic.
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The guy who's getting buckets off the bench is going
to be the guy who catches your eye the most,
Like when I tell you that Peyton Watson, who was
over four from the floor last night, had a phenomenal game.
He had ten boards, three assists, and two blocks. He
does something that nobody else off the bench can do too.
But it's not gonna be the thing that's super highlight. Really,
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everybody has asked to do something different. There's a different
role that you need to play, and I think that's
the beauty of what makes this team good right now
and has made them good in the past. There is
a very unselfish nature to statistically what you do because
you have to play your role. Why the best player
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on the planet who wears the same uniform as you
does not care what his stat line looks like. Jokics
doesn't care if he scores ten points or thirty eight,
as long as you're making the correct basketball decisions. And
so we can look at this and be like, oh, well,
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you know, am I disappointed without Cam Johnson has looked
so far, Yes, I think he's starting to get a
little bit more comfortable within this offense and what his
role is. He is not forcing anything. It needs to
be better, but he's not forcing anything. Again, I think
that this is almost an overthinking thing for him, where
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he wants to be deferential to the people who have
been in that starting five over the last few years,
and he doesn't want to rock the boat. And I
think it's admirable for him to think that way, but
it's also not allowing his production to to come through
in a way that I think that he's been used
to in the past. But I kind of look at
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everybody on the roster and I'm like, if this is
you know, they're pretty much set on a nine man
rotation right now. The only exceptions are every once in
a while, Julian Strather gets a few minutes here and there.
Occasionally if they think they need a defensive infusion within
their five, they'll put in Spencer Jones for a couple
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of minutes. But this is kind of what you got.
It's that starting five. It's valentiun it's it's hard Way,
it's Bruce, and it's Peyton Watson. And I would put
that nine up against anybody else's nine across the league.
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But I'll tell you what, here's what's crazy. So Jokich,
who is averaging a triple level right now by a
lot twenty four, thirteen and twelve is twenty four points
per game, because this is where the league's at. Somehow
this year is eighteenth in the league. Do you know
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how many people through this early portion of the season
are averaging twenty eight points a night or more? Nine
nine different people. But again, when you got Yokis playing
at that kind of level, it's just kind of fall
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in line. Take what you get when you get it.
The one disappointing thing I had last night, Jokic throws
this sick behind the It's like one handed over the
right shoulder, no look behind his head pass to a
cutting Christian Brown, and Christian didn't have the decency to
give him a shot attempt. Afterwards, caught it, dribbled the
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ball back out and I was like, that can't happen.
If Yokic throws a sick pass, I don't. Character's five
guys on you. You got to put the shot up.
You gotta give it an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
One Brett. Good news is they got a couple of
days well, I guess today and tomorrow to clean up
some of these little mistakes, because do you know what
their game on Friday is? Tell me they are going
to be hosting the Golden State Warriors in game number
two of the NBA Group Stage play. So I'll tell
you what they I need my boys to bounce back
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because they did not look good in the NBA Cup
Game one against Portland with that jump ball foul call. Boys,
do you want to hang a banner or not? I
take care of business, I swear to god.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I feel like the Nuggets try and lose their NBA
Cup games. I really think they look at it and
they're like, dude, I don't want to play an extra
game this year?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Can we not?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't think they cared at all about losing that
game one, and in fact, if they could just get
themselves out of this in a hurry, they might lose
on purpose on Friday, just as a team wide protest
of what that NBA Cup represents. But good game for
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the Nuggets yesterday. Now Broncos Raiders tonight Thursday night football.
I don't know how else to put this, And it's
very rarely that I'm in the Moser camp, but you're
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gonna have to come up with some sort of disaster.
It feels like to lose tonight and looks it's possible.
I think there's a way it could happen. It's rare,
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but it's given what the Broncos have done over the
course of the early portion of this season, it's not
crazy to think an offensive struggle could lead to some
weirdness tonight. So we'll get to that in just a second.
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including cancer patients who get blood donations a huge percent,
I believe Moser said the other day twenty percent of
blood donations go to people fighting cancer.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And they said, I participated in the company wide blood
drive that we had to kick this thing off. The
blood bus came down to ball Arena. Yeah, Bernie was
hanging out. It was a fun time. I think Connor
was down there and they were telling you that one donation,
just one pint of blood, can immediately impact three lives.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Yeah, and it's it's something that, look, it's a great
thing to do. It's something that I think we should
all do a little bit more. And you can sign
up through VI talent dot org slash Hockey Fights Cancer.
But Thursday night football is tonight with the Broncos and
the Raiders. Also, it's Thursday night. This is another Nuggets
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ticket Thursday.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Correct, that is correct. We'll have some keywords on the twenties.
You know the drill.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You guys know the drill. So every hour on the twenties,
got a keyword, your first keyword coming your way next. Yeah,
it's great. Uh, you guys haven't been good since this
guy dropped this thing. So, uh, you're playing against the
Raiders tonight. Your first keyword though, for our Nuggets ticket
Thursday is joker. Text joker in your first and last
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name to three oh three, five oh four oh nine
two five and we'll put you in ball Arena with
a pair of tickets were given away at the end
of this show, and each show has a pair. And
this is for the Nuggets game on the seventeenth against
the Bulls. And while you're a ball, you can check
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deals for five bucks, just for the best fans in
the NBA. But text joker in your first and last
name to three oh three, five oh four oh nine
to two five.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
I don't really think you had the word Thursday in
there enough. You're right, Do people know what day it is?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Thursday? Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Thursday, Thursday ticket, ticket, Thursday Thursday tickets. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Here's the deal. We know the Broncos are good. They're
a good team. I don't I'm still not sure how
good yet because of the offense. And the only thing
that would keep you from talking about them in a
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totally different context of bar none Super Bowl contender, blah
blah blah, is that their offense is so inconsistent. Here's
what the Raiders have done this season. They have two wins.
They won their first game of the year against the Patriots,
which is a great win, but I don't think the
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Patriots quite new. It's like Drake may was just starting
to get it because he had a few starts last year,
but he's never the full time starter officially, and the
Raiders took advantage of that situation. They then lost four
straight Chargers, Commanders, Bears, Colts, all tough games. They beat
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the Titans for the worst team in the league, and
then I've lost thirty one to nothing in thirty to
twenty nine to the Chiefs and the Jags over the
last couple of weeks. There shouldn't be really any question
of whether you're gonna win this game or not. They shouldn't.
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The only reason why there might is because of what
we've seen repeatedly, even against bad football teams that you've
played against. Where could the Raiders win? I don't know.
If your offense looks like it did against the Jets,
they could. Could the Raiders win? I don't know. If
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it looks the way that it did against the Giants
for three quarters, they could? You know, this whole like
hang around, hang around, hang around, fourth quarter explosion stuff
is just you're playing with fire. Do I think the
Broncos are gonna win? Tonight. Yeah, do I think they're
gonna win comfortably by a couple of school Yes, But
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when I ask anybody here in town who watches this
team consistently, do you think the Broncos offense is gonna
play well tonight? And everybody's answer is, I don't know.
That leaves room for air even against the worst teams.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Well, what comes to mind is actually the Broncos Raiders
game last year, when the Broncos were doing the same
thing they're doing tonight. They were wearing the throwback d
and it was an afternoon affair, and if you remember,
the Broncos didn't look good to start that game. Their
offense looked just as disjointed and ye anemic as always
until PS two had that one hundred yard pick six
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on Gardner Minshew. And you remember Gardner was trying to
make a tackle after he threw the pick and somebody
just blew his ass up. Yep, And we all thought
that play was going to be erased by a penalty.
He just put was it Zach Allen? I don't remember,
but somebody put Minshew on his backside, And once that happen,
offense took off. Yeah, game shifted that entire play. That's
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the reason the Broncos one That play right there was
the difference maker. And so I just don't want to
see that. I don't want it to I don't want
there to be just one play that completely shifts everything.
If you're a good team, then come out and start strong,
just like score in the first quarter. Am I asking
I asking for the world here? Brett?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, it's not asking for the world. So I'm just
trying to do quick math. Here is sixty five eighty seven.
So you had barely over one hundred yards of offense
in the first half of that game. Last year, I
ain't asking for the world here, And remember, it really
felt like that game was a turning point. Like that
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game was, you could almost look to that one specifically
and say that's where the season kind of changed, because
it could have gone in a pretty bad direction. They
had those two losses to start the year, the really
good win over Tampa. They squeak out that monsoon game
in New York against the Jets, and when the Raiders
were about to go up, it looked like seventeen to
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three could have had a completely different response to what
the rest of the season was gonna be but Danelli
to what he just said. The interception from PS two
opened the game up, and then in the second half
you started to find a rhythm on offense. Oh, by
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the way, jonah ellis, what's who you're looking for? Not
Zach Allen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Thank you Texters. That hit was glorious, man.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Text and I'm just trying to point something out it textually,
says Brett, you make it sound like the Broncos suck
for three and three force of a game, three and
three forces of a game on purpose. It's obscenely stupid.
They suck until the defense gets lazy or goes into
prevent It's not that they're doing it on purpose, but
there is a difference. You know what's funny. I just
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heard yesterday Dan Orlovski talking about he was asked this
specific question, and I wish we could get Dan on
the show, but he's got too many obligations now in
the morning with ESPN, because Dan's pretty good at what
he does, and they asked him about bow knicks and
the Broncos offense and what is the purpose for three
quarters of nothing in a fourth quarter of a lot?
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I think this is a really interesting perspective. He said,
bo Nicks is wired at such a highly competitive level
that he almost feels like he should be a linebacker
as opposed to a quarterback. And here's the reason why
he goes for three quarters. It feels like every snap
that he takes is the twelfth round of a heavyweight fight.
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Like he is trying to get everything out of every play.
And it's almost as if he calms down in the
fourth quarter as opposed to the first three. And I
totally agree with that. Like I've been saying this for
a while, I think that Bonnicks presses at the beginning
of games. And here's what happens. You get this highly
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complex Sean Payton offense. Every play is a different personnel
grouping that runs in. You got to recalibrate, all right,
who's on the field right now? Okay, got that? What's
a play called? Get that in? Oh, it's a super
long play call. Hang on, guys, you get up to
the line of scrimmage. You gotta read the defense, all right,
Who am I going to first? There's a whole bunch
of different things that are calculating in his brain at
the beginning, and I think for him, he wants to
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make the right play so badly that he ends up pressing, overthinking,
and a guy who's wide open over the middle of
the field is now missed because you're like, you want
to be so perfect on it. Now in the fourth quarter,
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I think it's much less chaotic for I think he
just kind of has the mentality of, however, it needs
to be done. I need to get to our end goal,
whether that's a drive down the field for a game
winning field goal, whether that's a touchdown, he gets us
back within striking distance, whatever it is. It's not so
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much wanting to be perfect. It's about let's just go
out and however, we got to make a play. Let's
make a play. He talked about this, by the way,
earlier this week. How can the offense get more consistent
in the first portion of the game.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I think, you know, if we can find a way
not to have to play the number one defense in
the league, that might help. But you know, they're trying
to keep us from scoring at the same time we're
trying to score. So it's not easy, and we found
ways at times. And the good thing is is we've
fooled guys like you to believe in that's easy.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
At some point in the game.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
So I think that's you know, we always want to
score every drive. That's you know, point blank period, that's
our goal. Uh. Sometimes we fall short of that goal
and we have to you know, rely on the next
drive and go go score the next drive. But you know,
I think at times we execute better than others and
then we just got to find a way to execute
all of them, like like they're the most important thing ever.
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And uh, it's always We're always really close. And so
that's the good thing.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Nelly. My hamstring is almost cramping up right now, so
I might need your talk, but I'm good for now.
My hammy is about to curl up into a ball. Though.
That is really weird. Uh, I'll tell you why. I'll
tell you why it's happening.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Can I guess why did you go to another beer
fest and start talking to smack with your boy who
could run faster?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is a cramp. This isn't a pulled hammie. This
is a cramp. Now, I freak a tunnel water over
the last few days, so this is I don't believe
in anything they say now about hydrating. I'll tell you
what made me a little bit upset about that clip
because I feel like this is way too nonchalant for me.
And this comes from both Peyton and bo Nix and
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a little bit of deon that we can get to later.
But why is the offense struggling in the early portion
of games and how can it get better?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I think, you know, if we can find a way
not to have to play the number one defense in
the league, that might help that little thing right there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I know it's a little cutesy offline and whatever, but
I think that would be fine had last week been
the outlier to the season. But this is what I've
been trying to get across to people, and it's part
of the reason as to why like I I like,
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I have high expectation for the Broncos I do. I
think when you have a defense like this, this isn't
something that you can just take for granted. They've had
good defenses in the past, they ain't had this, and
so I want the offense to be able to compliment
them in not an equal way. I want them to
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compliment them in a mediocre way. If this defense is
like a ten out of ten stud unit, I need
the offense to be like a five and a half like,
I'm not asking, as Nelly said earlier, I'm not asking
for the world. I just want them to be a
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ball and two million dollars. I just want to be mediocre,
and too often this season it hasn't been. And if
it was, if it was just sort of down the middle,
in which it's weird about this. You look at the
numbers for the Broncos offense and it does say that
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they're mediocre. Yards per game, points per game, like they're
all hovering sort of in the middle of the league.
But if you did the quarters one through three, you
know how much those numbers would drop. And if you
did just the fourth quarter, the Broncos would be the
best offense in the NFL. So what I'm looking at
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in this is if the offense can do their part.
And what I want to see is against a team
like this like the Raiders are bad, You're not only
going to play against a bad defense, You're going to
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be playing against a team that's going to give your
offense extra opportunities because they are not going to move
the ball on your defense and probably turn it over
because that's what Gino's done all year. I just want
the offense to get there. I want them to get
to a point to where it's like, how's the Broncos offense.
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You're like, they're all right, They're all right, can win
you a Super Bowl? And so when I look back
at the last week, and you know, people didn't like
my tone on Monday because the Broncos want to go, Yeah,
you won, but it's like, don't you want to don't
you guys see what this team can be.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're talking to my guy all wrong. It's wrong tone.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm just asking like, don't you guys see it too?
And so it would just be it would be such
a shame if the offense just for whatever reason, couldn't
find it and then you end up in a place
where you could have been competing for really big things
and the offense just didn't get there. And it's part
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of the reason why I was like, I was so
excited about the prospect of you know, when the Wattle
stuff was out there a couple of days ago, I'm like,
yeahn man, just trying to infuse something more into the offense,
like try and get it going. Why not again, not
yelling and screaming about them not making a move, And
by all indications they had multiple phone calls with Miami,
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and Miami just had a price that was too high,
not just for the Broncos, for everybody in the league.
So whatever. But all I'm saying is there is a
deaf with me, a definite feeling of God, this could
be so good if they just find this, and part
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of the frustration it's in there. It's in there. I've
said this for a while. The first time that I
really had this thought was when Jokic was winning his
first MVP and his second MVP and there were the
people that were doubters of Yokic. Things that you don't
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understand get really frustrating. For example, I was just trying
to put in a car seat base yesterday for a
newborn and we got it from a friend and I
didn't have instructions and I was losing my mind because
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they couldn't figure out the proper way to put it in.
I was angry. I've done this before, I know how
to do this, but it made me angry because I
didn't understand what I was doing wrong. I think the
same thing was happening with Joker. People doubt a Joker
because they didn't understand how a guy who looked like
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that and moved like that, puts up thirty, fifteen and fifteen.
And I think with this Broncos offense, they frustrate me
because I'm like, why can't it be better than this?
We went through the checklist earlier? Do you remember this, Nelly,
when earlier this week when I looked at moje, I
go mos or the wide receiver's good and he goes yeah.
Is the offensive line good? Is yeah? The running back's
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good yeah, quarterback good yeah? Play calling play caller good? Yes?
Then what's the issue here? And that lack of understanding
right now is what's really getting to me. And I
think part of the reason is bo Nicks just hasn't
been accurate enough. And I'll remind you I think that
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all kind of stems from he's he's trying so hard
to be perfect. So three oh three, five oh four
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against the bulls back after this Los Lonely Boys. I'm
going to replace something from a couple of days ago.
I don't ask people just genuinely what enters your mind
when you hear this and the question I ask afterwards?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Last week I asked you about changing responsibilities among your
assistant coaching staff. Yeah, and you mentioned, you know, those
things happen behind the scenes, you tweak things. Yeah. At
what point, though, after some of these losses, do you
kind of lose trust in having the people in the
right spots.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I might already change it, and you don't know. I
don't do stuff and blow the whistles in and make
major announcements. Hey, I don't. I don't do that kind
of stuff. I do it, and I let you guys
still take shots. You don't even know you You may
be shooting at the wrong target. So some things take
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place that you may not be privy to.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
At what point would we figure? At what point would
they be changes that we do notice?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Though that's up.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
To you to notice them. They may have already happened.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
That clip right there, combined with an article I saw
yesterday from on three Sports that CU has declined to
comment on the offensive play, calling situation? Why why you know?
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I know, like from yesterday there's I just had this
this feeling. I think as a fan base, I hate
to use the word deserve or ode or obligated or
something like that, because, you know what, life's not fair
sometimes and people run businesses in different ways. But do
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you think as a fan base you're owed to know
who's in charge? Does that kind of do? I think
that if Sean Payton said, uh, yeah, I'm taking the
play calling duties away from myself, and then when somebody says,
well who's gonna be call on plays and he goes
none of your business? I would argue that it is
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kind of our business, like instead of playing this game
of you know, I first of all, I don't understand
the strategy as to why you'd even do that. What's
the point and being so coy about who your play
caller is. It's a very important part of your team.
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But it's also I think it's something that has to
do with when you put in time and you put
in your cash, and you put in your your effort
and your passion into watching something like this, there has
to be some level of transparency and trust between you
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and your fan base. You know, this isn't like who's
gonna start on Saturday, and he goes, h, we'll see. Well,
I'm going to eventually figure that out when the game starts.
But as far as the inner workings of your organization
and what you do, I do think there's a level
of transparency that's necessary to keeping a fan base happy.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
And Brett, I know this isn't quite the direction you
wanted to go, but when you when you said you're
gonna play this clip, and what comes to mind every
time I hear that and Diaz says, I'm not gonna
just blow the whistle. That's a good jam though, that's
what I actually good jam. I just want to go
hyphi whenever I hear that cut from Dion.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I just but at the same time, it's just I
don't think you need to call a press conference and
sit Pat Sherman in front of everybody and embarrass him.
It's just like, hey, man, this thing hasn't been going well. Well,
Pat's gonna take a step down. He's go many coaching
the quarterbacks. We're gonna give these play calling duties over
to the tight ends coach. I don't see what's wrong
with that. And Pat Shermer's not some twenty four year
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old intern who's gonna be thrown to the wolves. He's
been hired and fired a bunch of times in his career,
and I think he probably gets it. But overall, do
you want to know why I think he's doing this?
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Because when he steps to a press conference and he goes,
I'm not gonna make players available to the media this week,
and I'm not gonna make coaches available this week. You
want somebody to blame, you blame me? Why would he
do that? Like? Is it a good show of leadership
to take responsibility that way? Yes? You know what else
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it is? He knows there's not a damn thing they're
gonna do to him.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I'm a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
He ain't going anywhere. I mean. And and here's the
other part. Or is this being too conspiratorial here, Nelly?
Does he not announce the Shermer thing because he was
hoping the following week when that tight ends coach took
over that if they threw up, you know, a thirty
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five piece on the board, he'd be able to go
to the press conference afterwards be like, see, I made
the change, and you guys didn't even know it. And
look how big of a genius I am because I
hired that or right, I promoted this guy and this
guy made you know what I mean? Is that? Is
that too conspiratorial?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I mean, I wouldn't put it past Dion.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I'm just I'm trying to find the reason as to
why you would you would do this.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Because it's not his job to tell you.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
But I think it kind of is That's where we disagree. Well, no,
I was not me personally, yes, but I think you
need to. You need to keep your fan base abreast
of how you're running, like the people who are at
the top. Do I like, we work for a pretty
big company here, Nellie at Ks. We get a lot
of different people and a lot of different jobs to
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do a lot of different things. Do I think that
I deserve to know who the CEO of the company
is or something? Kind of? I think that if you're
an employee, or if you're you're somebody who's actively involved
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within a corporation, that should I be able to go
on the website, look it up and be like, who
is in charge of this? Yeah? I think so? I
don't think that you know, again, I don't know why
I'd ever need to talk to the CEO. I'm just
trying to find some sort of comparison.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Some of this, though, Brett, if I may, some of
this kind of feels like a red herring because we're
sitting here talking about whether or not we're supposed to
know that the play calling duties are switched. Meanwhile, coming
off of a bye week, the Buffs have given up
one hundred and five points in two games. Yeah, I know,
after a bye week, and we're sitting here talking about
who's calling plays on offense. I think that's a smoke screen.
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Why are we talking about this porous defense when your
head coach is a Hall of Fame dB, and yet
we gotta sive on the field.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Because it's both because in that first game out of
the bye week, at halftime, yes, Nelly, they allowed three
hundred and eighty six total yards of offense, which is crazy.
What do they get on offense? Negative eighteen yards? I mean,
they're both really bad. And it TEXTA says, but you're
not a CU employee. I'm not. Again, I'm not talking
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about me. I think that diehard Buffs fans have spent
a whole bunch of cash to show up in Boulder
every single Saturday or spend every Saturday watching their games,
playing their Saturday around it. Deserve to know what's going
on with their team. That's what I mean. They aren't employees,
but they're consumers. I mean, if I don't need to
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know who the the offensive coordinator is, then why don't
I need to know who the head coach is? Why
not just hire an entire staff and don't say who's
in charge and we can all just figure it out
on our own. The reason is because you need to
know who's in charge, because you need to know if
this thing's going in the right direction or not, and
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who's the guy that's spearheading the whole thing. That's how
I think about the offense, and that's why I think
about the defense, especially with the head coach who is
more of a delegator like Deanna and Collin plays. So
I don't know, I just I find that whole situation weird,
and I don't know what the advantage is into not
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a feeling that I have that is mosueri ish of.
I think this game should be handleable in a very
easy way, So we'll get to that in just a second.
Recap the Nuggets there win last night. Jokic is a
great game. All that coming away with Mose lombarding Kine.
That starts next
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Brown has it on the right side. He throws it
off over to yok It's just a big possession here.
This is the first nail in the coffin type of
a possession. Aaron Gordon has it right side over to
Bruce Brown. Eight on o'clock, Jokich has it against where
looking for that first nail in the coffin up under
uckshot good Nuggets leaded by twelve one, eighteen to one
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oh six, and now they can start playing clock.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
The domination of the Miami Heat, at least in the
regular season and postseason. I mean, the one in five
in the NBA Finals continues. I believe that is the
number now, eleven straight in the regular season, and if
you add that into the postseason, it's fifteen in the
last sixteen against them. Now it's just got their number.
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And I think it's always just kind of been like
you You've been able to out talent them, especially a game
like last night, don't have Tyler Hero. It's just it's
a really tough matchup for really anybody, and it's incredibly
tough when Jokic puts up thirty three fifteen and sixteen
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starting to hit a little bit of that stride. The
nice thing about Joker and where his game is at
right now is the accuracy. The efficiency has all kind
of come back, you know. For a guy who is
on the year attempting five threes a game to be
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shooting sixty one percent from the floor is incredibly impressive.
I mean, it's just it's hard to really put into words.
And Yo, give pushed back on this a few games ago.
If you remember, I was gonna say how easy he
makes the game look and what was the word that
somebody used with him in a post game if you remember, Nelly, Oh, effortless.
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They're like, you make it look so effortless, and he
kind of pushed back, He's like, it's not. And I
think people get confused with that about how difficult it
is for him to be able to do this on
a nightly basis against I got a lot of respect
for bam Outabayo. I think he's a really really good
player and super versatile for somebody who is his size.
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Now left the game, didn't come back after eight minutes,
but the Nuggets did and jokicch overall, they just kind
of put this pressure on people where there's not a
lot you can do about it. And I'm going to
continue to get my points and my rebounds and my assists,
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and you're gonna have to put up like a damn
miracle in order to even stemy some of my production. Now,
as far as everybody else in the roster, I think,
and I was the one that overlooked this the most.
I think I thought there would be an opportunity this
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year where they, out of all the signings and acquisitions
they made in the offseason to bring in Valanciunis and
Hardway and Bruce Brown and Cam Johnson and everything else,
that the one guy that I think would be least
felt on this roster was Tim Hardaway Junior, because I thought,
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in an ideal world, you have Julian Strather beating him
out for minutes. Is Julian Strather's younger and Tim Hardaway
Junior is now indispensable to that bench unit. He is
losing time to nobody. In fact, he is playing the
most minutes of anybody off the bench so far. No,
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you did get a lot of Bruce Brown last night
to again, he just looks like his normal self of gritty,
tough effort, play defense, knock down a couple of shots
when you have to. But you've been waiting and begging
for this infusion of the ability to score from the bench,
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and did Russell Westbrook have that yet? Kind of, but
not in the way that Tim Hardaway Junior's been doing it,
which is you're a threat every time you touch the basketball.
That play at the end of the first quarter where
it looked like you were going to go into the
second quarter with the game tied, and it was that
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weird little thing of Valanchounis missed a little bunny the heat,
get the rebound with like a second left and they
try and throw it out real quick. Bruce Brown gets
a hand on it and Tim Hardaway Junior just grabs
it in in like a millisecond, gets the shot up
for a three at the end of the game. I
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don't know how many guys you've had that could do that.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Overall, the Nuggets five and two so far to start
the year. They had pretty poor defense to start the
game that they started to pick up over the next
three quarters. I don't know what it is about Norman Powell,
but why does he just light you up every time
he plays against you? No matter what uniform he's wearing.
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It just feels like that guy goes scors to earth
on the Nuggets every single time he plays against you,
Like he's a really good player for somebody, Like it
feels like he's finding the best parts of his game
now at thirty two years old, which is weird because
he hasn't been this type of player. But he does
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that every time, like every single time. So few other
things here. Texter says Jamal has been consistently inefficient. Not true.
If you think Jamal is having a bad year this year,
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then you're sorely a mistaken Jamal is shooting. If I
give you this, forty seven percent from the floor right
now is three point percentage has got to be a
little bit higher. But if you don't think that Jamal
looks more productive than he has in years past, then
I can't help you. I had no problems with Jamal
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to start this season. I think he's been fine, and
I actually think the spread within the starting five on
the distribution of points has felt pretty right game last
night where Aaron Gordon was playing really well. He was
able to dominate down low. He ended up with twenty
four points.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
School.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'm not expecting perfection every single night. Did the team
play well or not? And the answers yes. And they've
done that for most of the year. Even in the
first game of the season that they lost to Golden State,
it's like you lost because you just kind of let
go of the rope at the end of the fourth quarter.
Doesn't mean he didn't play well. But for a for
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nugget standards, really brand new field, to a roster for
to look as good as it has, I think this
early in the season is great. I got no issues
with it. Texas says. Hardaway is more of a peer
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to Jamal than he is to Christian Brown, Bruce or Julian.
He's asked to do something different and this is I'm
gonna repeat things like this over and over again, at
least because this is the way that I think about this.
And this is not some sort of diss or something
like that to Tim Hardaway Junior, because he has been fantastic.
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The guy who's getting buckets off the bench is going
to be the guy who catches your eye the most,
Like when I tell you that Peyton Watson, who was
over four from the floor last night, had a phenomenal game.
He had ten boards, three assists, and two blocks. He
does something that nobody else off the bench can do too.
But it's not gonna be the thing that's super highlight. Really,
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everybody has asked to do something different. There's a different
role that you need to play, and I think that's
the beauty of what makes this team good right now
and has made them good in the past. There is
a very unselfish nature to statistically what you do because
you have to play your role. Why the best player
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on the planet who wears the same uniform as you
does not care what his stat line looks like. Jokics
doesn't care if he scores ten points or thirty eight,
as long as you're making the correct basketball decisions. And
so we can look at this and be like, oh, well,
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you know, am I disappointed without Cam Johnson has looked
so far, Yes, I think he's starting to get a
little bit more comfortable within this offense and what his
role is. He is not forcing anything. It needs to
be better, but he's not forcing anything. Again, I think
that this is almost an overthinking thing for him, where
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he wants to be deferential to the people who have
been in that starting five over the last few years,
and he doesn't want to rock the boat. And I
think it's admirable for him to think that way, but
it's also not allowing his production to to come through
in a way that I think that he's been used
to in the past. But I kind of look at
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everybody on the roster and I'm like, if this is
you know, they're pretty much set on a nine man
rotation right now. The only exceptions are every once in
a while, Julian Strather gets a few minutes here and there.
Occasionally if they think they need a defensive infusion within
their five, they'll put in Spencer Jones for a couple
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of minutes. But this is kind of what you got.
It's that starting five. It's valentiun it's it's hard Way,
it's Bruce, and it's Peyton Watson. And I would put
that nine up against anybody else's nine across the league.
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But I'll tell you what, here's what's crazy. So Jokich,
who is averaging a triple level right now by a
lot twenty four, thirteen and twelve is twenty four points
per game, because this is where the league's at. Somehow
this year is eighteenth in the league. Do you know
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how many people through this early portion of the season
are averaging twenty eight points a night or more? Nine
nine different people. But again, when you got Yokis playing
at that kind of level, it's just kind of fall
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in line. Take what you get when you get it.
The one disappointing thing I had last night, Jokic throws
this sick behind the It's like one handed over the
right shoulder, no look behind his head pass to a
cutting Christian Brown, and Christian didn't have the decency to
give him a shot attempt. Afterwards, caught it, dribbled the
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ball back out and I was like, that can't happen.
If Yokic throws a sick pass, I don't. Character's five
guys on you. You got to put the shot up.
You gotta give it an opportunity.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
One Brett. Good news is they got a couple of
days well, I guess today and tomorrow to clean up
some of these little mistakes, because do you know what
their game on Friday is? Tell me they are going
to be hosting the Golden State Warriors in game number
two of the NBA Group Stage play. So I'll tell
you what they I need my boys to bounce back
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because they did not look good in the NBA Cup
Game one against Portland with that jump ball foul call. Boys,
do you want to hang a banner or not? I
take care of business, I swear to god.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I feel like the Nuggets try and lose their NBA
Cup games. I really think they look at it and
they're like, dude, I don't want to play an extra
game this year?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Can we not?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I don't think they cared at all about losing that
game one, and in fact, if they could just get
themselves out of this in a hurry, they might lose
on purpose on Friday, just as a team wide protest
of what that NBA Cup represents. But good game for
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the Nuggets yesterday. Now Broncos Raiders tonight Thursday night football.
I don't know how else to put this, And it's
very rarely that I'm in the Moser camp, but you're
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gonna have to come up with some sort of disaster.
It feels like to lose tonight and looks it's possible.
I think there's a way it could happen. It's rare,
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but it's given what the Broncos have done over the
course of the early portion of this season, it's not
crazy to think an offensive struggle could lead to some
weirdness tonight. So we'll get to that in just a second.
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blood donations go to people fighting cancer.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And they said, I participated in the company wide blood
drive that we had to kick this thing off. The
blood bus came down to ball Arena. Yeah, Bernie was
hanging out. It was a fun time. I think Connor
was down there and they were telling you that one donation,
just one pint of blood, can immediately impact three lives.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
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thing to do. It's something that I think we should
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But Thursday night football is tonight with the Broncos and
the Raiders. Also, it's Thursday night. This is another Nuggets
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Speaker 4 (15:43):
Correct, that is correct. We'll have some keywords on the twenties.
You know the drill.
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Raiders tonight. Your first keyword though, for our Nuggets ticket
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Speaker 4 (16:37):
I don't really think you had the word Thursday in
there enough. You're right, Do people know what day it is?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Thursday? Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
Thursday, Thursday ticket, ticket, Thursday Thursday tickets. Okay, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Here's the deal. We know the Broncos are good. They're
a good team. I don't I'm still not sure how
good yet because of the offense. And the only thing
that would keep you from talking about them in a
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totally different context of bar none Super Bowl contender, blah
blah blah, is that their offense is so inconsistent. Here's
what the Raiders have done this season. They have two wins.
They won their first game of the year against the Patriots,
which is a great win, but I don't think the
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Patriots quite new. It's like Drake may was just starting
to get it because he had a few starts last year,
but he's never the full time starter officially, and the
Raiders took advantage of that situation. They then lost four
straight Chargers, Commanders, Bears, Colts, all tough games. They beat
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the Titans for the worst team in the league, and
then I've lost thirty one to nothing in thirty to
twenty nine to the Chiefs and the Jags over the
last couple of weeks. There shouldn't be really any question
of whether you're gonna win this game or not. They shouldn't.
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The only reason why there might is because of what
we've seen repeatedly, even against bad football teams that you've
played against. Where could the Raiders win? I don't know.
If your offense looks like it did against the Jets,
they could. Could the Raiders win? I don't know. If
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it looks the way that it did against the Giants
for three quarters, they could? You know, this whole like
hang around, hang around, hang around, fourth quarter explosion stuff
is just you're playing with fire. Do I think the
Broncos are gonna win? Tonight. Yeah, do I think they're
gonna win comfortably by a couple of school Yes, But
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when I ask anybody here in town who watches this
team consistently, do you think the Broncos offense is gonna
play well tonight? And everybody's answer is, I don't know.
That leaves room for air even against the worst teams.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Well, what comes to mind is actually the Broncos Raiders
game last year, when the Broncos were doing the same
thing they're doing tonight. They were wearing the throwback d
and it was an afternoon affair, and if you remember,
the Broncos didn't look good to start that game. Their
offense looked just as disjointed and ye anemic as always
until PS two had that one hundred yard pick six
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on Gardner Minshew. And you remember Gardner was trying to
make a tackle after he threw the pick and somebody
just blew his ass up. Yep, And we all thought
that play was going to be erased by a penalty.
He just put was it Zach Allen? I don't remember,
but somebody put Minshew on his backside, And once that happen,
offense took off. Yeah, game shifted that entire play. That's
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the reason the Broncos one That play right there was
the difference maker. And so I just don't want to
see that. I don't want it to I don't want
there to be just one play that completely shifts everything.
If you're a good team, then come out and start strong,
just like score in the first quarter. Am I asking
I asking for the world here? Brett?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, it's not asking for the world. So I'm just
trying to do quick math. Here is sixty five eighty seven.
So you had barely over one hundred yards of offense
in the first half of that game. Last year, I
ain't asking for the world here, And remember, it really
felt like that game was a turning point. Like that
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game was, you could almost look to that one specifically
and say that's where the season kind of changed, because
it could have gone in a pretty bad direction. They
had those two losses to start the year, the really
good win over Tampa. They squeak out that monsoon game
in New York against the Jets, and when the Raiders
were about to go up, it looked like seventeen to
(21:05):
three could have had a completely different response to what
the rest of the season was gonna be but Danelli
to what he just said. The interception from PS two
opened the game up, and then in the second half
you started to find a rhythm on offense. Oh, by
(21:28):
the way, jonah ellis, what's who you're looking for? Not
Zach Allen.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Thank you Texters. That hit was glorious, man.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Text and I'm just trying to point something out it textually,
says Brett, you make it sound like the Broncos suck
for three and three force of a game, three and
three forces of a game on purpose. It's obscenely stupid.
They suck until the defense gets lazy or goes into
prevent It's not that they're doing it on purpose, but
there is a difference. You know what's funny. I just
(21:59):
heard yesterday Dan Orlovski talking about he was asked this
specific question, and I wish we could get Dan on
the show, but he's got too many obligations now in
the morning with ESPN, because Dan's pretty good at what
he does, and they asked him about bow knicks and
the Broncos offense and what is the purpose for three
quarters of nothing in a fourth quarter of a lot?
(22:23):
I think this is a really interesting perspective. He said,
bo Nicks is wired at such a highly competitive level
that he almost feels like he should be a linebacker
as opposed to a quarterback. And here's the reason why
he goes for three quarters. It feels like every snap
that he takes is the twelfth round of a heavyweight fight.
(22:47):
Like he is trying to get everything out of every play.
And it's almost as if he calms down in the
fourth quarter as opposed to the first three. And I
totally agree with that. Like I've been saying this for
a while, I think that Bonnicks presses at the beginning
of games. And here's what happens. You get this highly
(23:11):
complex Sean Payton offense. Every play is a different personnel
grouping that runs in. You got to recalibrate, all right,
who's on the field right now? Okay, got that? What's
a play called? Get that in? Oh, it's a super
long play call. Hang on, guys, you get up to
the line of scrimmage. You gotta read the defense, all right,
Who am I going to first? There's a whole bunch
of different things that are calculating in his brain at
the beginning, and I think for him, he wants to
(23:37):
make the right play so badly that he ends up pressing, overthinking,
and a guy who's wide open over the middle of
the field is now missed because you're like, you want
to be so perfect on it. Now in the fourth quarter,
(23:57):
I think it's much less chaotic for I think he
just kind of has the mentality of, however, it needs
to be done. I need to get to our end goal,
whether that's a drive down the field for a game
winning field goal, whether that's a touchdown, he gets us
back within striking distance, whatever it is. It's not so
(24:18):
much wanting to be perfect. It's about let's just go
out and however, we got to make a play. Let's
make a play. He talked about this, by the way,
earlier this week. How can the offense get more consistent
in the first portion of the game.
Speaker 5 (24:39):
I think, you know, if we can find a way
not to have to play the number one defense in
the league, that might help. But you know, they're trying
to keep us from scoring at the same time we're
trying to score. So it's not easy, and we found
ways at times. And the good thing is is we've
fooled guys like you to believe in that's easy.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
At some point in the game.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
So I think that's you know, we always want to
score every drive. That's you know, point blank period, that's
our goal. Uh. Sometimes we fall short of that goal
and we have to you know, rely on the next
drive and go go score the next drive. But you know,
I think at times we execute better than others and
then we just got to find a way to execute
all of them, like like they're the most important thing ever.
(25:23):
And uh, it's always We're always really close. And so
that's the good thing.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
Nelly. My hamstring is almost cramping up right now, so
I might need your talk, but I'm good for now.
My hammy is about to curl up into a ball. Though.
That is really weird. Uh, I'll tell you why. I'll
tell you why it's happening.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Can I guess why did you go to another beer
fest and start talking to smack with your boy who
could run faster?
Speaker 3 (25:47):
This is a cramp. This isn't a pulled hammie. This
is a cramp. Now, I freak a tunnel water over
the last few days, so this is I don't believe
in anything they say now about hydrating. I'll tell you
what made me a little bit upset about that clip
because I feel like this is way too nonchalant for me.
And this comes from both Peyton and bo Nix and
(26:10):
a little bit of deon that we can get to later.
But why is the offense struggling in the early portion
of games and how can it get better?
Speaker 5 (26:20):
I think, you know, if we can find a way
not to have to play the number one defense in
the league, that might help that little thing right there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
I know it's a little cutesy offline and whatever, but
I think that would be fine had last week been
the outlier to the season. But this is what I've
been trying to get across to people, and it's part
of the reason as to why like I I like,
(26:55):
I have high expectation for the Broncos I do. I
think when you have a defense like this, this isn't
something that you can just take for granted. They've had
good defenses in the past, they ain't had this, and
so I want the offense to be able to compliment
them in not an equal way. I want them to
(27:19):
compliment them in a mediocre way. If this defense is
like a ten out of ten stud unit, I need
the offense to be like a five and a half like,
I'm not asking, as Nelly said earlier, I'm not asking
for the world. I just want them to be a
(27:39):
ball and two million dollars. I just want to be mediocre,
and too often this season it hasn't been. And if
it was, if it was just sort of down the middle,
in which it's weird about this. You look at the
numbers for the Broncos offense and it does say that
(28:01):
they're mediocre. Yards per game, points per game, like they're
all hovering sort of in the middle of the league.
But if you did the quarters one through three, you
know how much those numbers would drop. And if you
did just the fourth quarter, the Broncos would be the
best offense in the NFL. So what I'm looking at
(28:24):
in this is if the offense can do their part.
And what I want to see is against a team
like this like the Raiders are bad, You're not only
going to play against a bad defense, You're going to
(28:46):
be playing against a team that's going to give your
offense extra opportunities because they are not going to move
the ball on your defense and probably turn it over
because that's what Gino's done all year. I just want
the offense to get there. I want them to get
to a point to where it's like, how's the Broncos offense.
(29:07):
You're like, they're all right, They're all right, can win
you a Super Bowl? And so when I look back
at the last week, and you know, people didn't like
my tone on Monday because the Broncos want to go, Yeah,
you won, but it's like, don't you want to don't
you guys see what this team can be.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
You're talking to my guy all wrong. It's wrong tone.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
I'm just asking like, don't you guys see it too?
And so it would just be it would be such
a shame if the offense just for whatever reason, couldn't
find it and then you end up in a place
where you could have been competing for really big things
and the offense just didn't get there. And it's part
(29:52):
of the reason why I was like, I was so
excited about the prospect of you know, when the Wattle
stuff was out there a couple of days ago, I'm like,
yeahn man, just trying to infuse something more into the offense,
like try and get it going. Why not again, not
yelling and screaming about them not making a move, And
by all indications they had multiple phone calls with Miami,
(30:12):
and Miami just had a price that was too high,
not just for the Broncos, for everybody in the league.
So whatever. But all I'm saying is there is a
deaf with me, a definite feeling of God, this could
be so good if they just find this, and part
(30:35):
of the frustration it's in there. It's in there. I've
said this for a while. The first time that I
really had this thought was when Jokic was winning his
first MVP and his second MVP and there were the
people that were doubters of Yokic. Things that you don't
(30:56):
understand get really frustrating. For example, I was just trying
to put in a car seat base yesterday for a
newborn and we got it from a friend and I
didn't have instructions and I was losing my mind because
(31:17):
they couldn't figure out the proper way to put it in.
I was angry. I've done this before, I know how
to do this, but it made me angry because I
didn't understand what I was doing wrong. I think the
same thing was happening with Joker. People doubt a Joker
because they didn't understand how a guy who looked like
(31:38):
that and moved like that, puts up thirty, fifteen and fifteen.
And I think with this Broncos offense, they frustrate me
because I'm like, why can't it be better than this?
We went through the checklist earlier? Do you remember this, Nelly,
when earlier this week when I looked at moje, I
go mos or the wide receiver's good and he goes yeah.
Is the offensive line good? Is yeah? The running back's
(32:01):
good yeah, quarterback good yeah? Play calling play caller good? Yes?
Then what's the issue here? And that lack of understanding
right now is what's really getting to me. And I
think part of the reason is bo Nicks just hasn't
been accurate enough. And I'll remind you I think that
(32:28):
all kind of stems from he's he's trying so hard
to be perfect. So three oh three, five oh four
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(32:49):
against the bulls back after this Los Lonely Boys. I'm
going to replace something from a couple of days ago.
I don't ask people just genuinely what enters your mind
when you hear this and the question I ask afterwards?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Last week I asked you about changing responsibilities among your
assistant coaching staff. Yeah, and you mentioned, you know, those
things happen behind the scenes, you tweak things. Yeah. At
what point, though, after some of these losses, do you
kind of lose trust in having the people in the
right spots.
Speaker 7 (33:27):
I might already change it, and you don't know. I
don't do stuff and blow the whistles in and make
major announcements. Hey, I don't. I don't do that kind
of stuff. I do it, and I let you guys
still take shots. You don't even know you You may
be shooting at the wrong target. So some things take
(33:48):
place that you may not be privy to.
Speaker 6 (33:50):
At what point would we figure? At what point would
they be changes that we do notice?
Speaker 3 (33:54):
Though that's up.
Speaker 7 (33:55):
To you to notice them. They may have already happened.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
That clip right there, combined with an article I saw
yesterday from on three Sports that CU has declined to
comment on the offensive play, calling situation? Why why you know?
(34:23):
I know, like from yesterday there's I just had this
this feeling. I think as a fan base, I hate
to use the word deserve or ode or obligated or
something like that, because, you know what, life's not fair
sometimes and people run businesses in different ways. But do
(34:48):
you think as a fan base you're owed to know
who's in charge? Does that kind of do? I think
that if Sean Payton said, uh, yeah, I'm taking the
play calling duties away from myself, and then when somebody says,
well who's gonna be call on plays and he goes
none of your business? I would argue that it is
(35:11):
kind of our business, like instead of playing this game
of you know, I first of all, I don't understand
the strategy as to why you'd even do that. What's
the point and being so coy about who your play
caller is. It's a very important part of your team.
(35:37):
But it's also I think it's something that has to
do with when you put in time and you put
in your cash, and you put in your your effort
and your passion into watching something like this, there has
to be some level of transparency and trust between you
(36:03):
and your fan base. You know, this isn't like who's
gonna start on Saturday, and he goes, h, we'll see. Well,
I'm going to eventually figure that out when the game starts.
But as far as the inner workings of your organization
and what you do, I do think there's a level
of transparency that's necessary to keeping a fan base happy.
Speaker 4 (36:26):
And Brett, I know this isn't quite the direction you
wanted to go, but when you when you said you're
gonna play this clip, and what comes to mind every
time I hear that and Diaz says, I'm not gonna
just blow the whistle. That's a good jam though, that's
what I actually good jam. I just want to go
hyphi whenever I hear that cut from Dion.
Speaker 3 (36:48):
I just but at the same time, it's just I
don't think you need to call a press conference and
sit Pat Sherman in front of everybody and embarrass him.
It's just like, hey, man, this thing hasn't been going well. Well,
Pat's gonna take a step down. He's go many coaching
the quarterbacks. We're gonna give these play calling duties over
to the tight ends coach. I don't see what's wrong
with that. And Pat Shermer's not some twenty four year
(37:11):
old intern who's gonna be thrown to the wolves. He's
been hired and fired a bunch of times in his career,
and I think he probably gets it. But overall, do
you want to know why I think he's doing this?
(37:34):
Because when he steps to a press conference and he goes,
I'm not gonna make players available to the media this week,
and I'm not gonna make coaches available this week. You
want somebody to blame, you blame me? Why would he
do that? Like? Is it a good show of leadership
to take responsibility that way? Yes? You know what else
(37:57):
it is? He knows there's not a damn thing they're
gonna do to him.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
I'm a man, I'm forty.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
He ain't going anywhere. I mean. And and here's the
other part. Or is this being too conspiratorial here, Nelly?
Does he not announce the Shermer thing because he was
hoping the following week when that tight ends coach took
over that if they threw up, you know, a thirty
(38:27):
five piece on the board, he'd be able to go
to the press conference afterwards be like, see, I made
the change, and you guys didn't even know it. And
look how big of a genius I am because I
hired that or right, I promoted this guy and this
guy made you know what I mean? Is that? Is
that too conspiratorial?
Speaker 4 (38:42):
I mean, I wouldn't put it past Dion.
Speaker 3 (38:44):
I'm just I'm trying to find the reason as to
why you would you would do this.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Because it's not his job to tell you.
Speaker 3 (38:50):
But I think it kind of is That's where we disagree. Well, no,
I was not me personally, yes, but I think you
need to. You need to keep your fan base abreast
of how you're running, like the people who are at
the top. Do I like, we work for a pretty
big company here, Nellie at Ks. We get a lot
of different people and a lot of different jobs to
(39:11):
do a lot of different things. Do I think that
I deserve to know who the CEO of the company
is or something? Kind of? I think that if you're
an employee, or if you're you're somebody who's actively involved
(39:33):
within a corporation, that should I be able to go
on the website, look it up and be like, who
is in charge of this? Yeah? I think so? I
don't think that you know, again, I don't know why
I'd ever need to talk to the CEO. I'm just
trying to find some sort of comparison.
Speaker 4 (39:51):
Some of this, though, Brett, if I may, some of
this kind of feels like a red herring because we're
sitting here talking about whether or not we're supposed to
know that the play calling duties are switched. Meanwhile, coming
off of a bye week, the Buffs have given up
one hundred and five points in two games. Yeah, I know,
after a bye week, and we're sitting here talking about
who's calling plays on offense. I think that's a smoke screen.
(40:14):
Why are we talking about this porous defense when your
head coach is a Hall of Fame dB, and yet
we gotta sive on the field.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Because it's both because in that first game out of
the bye week, at halftime, yes, Nelly, they allowed three
hundred and eighty six total yards of offense, which is crazy.
What do they get on offense? Negative eighteen yards? I mean,
they're both really bad. And it TEXTA says, but you're
not a CU employee. I'm not. Again, I'm not talking
(40:46):
about me. I think that diehard Buffs fans have spent
a whole bunch of cash to show up in Boulder
every single Saturday or spend every Saturday watching their games,
playing their Saturday around it. Deserve to know what's going
on with their team. That's what I mean. They aren't employees,
but they're consumers. I mean, if I don't need to
(41:10):
know who the the offensive coordinator is, then why don't
I need to know who the head coach is? Why
not just hire an entire staff and don't say who's
in charge and we can all just figure it out
on our own. The reason is because you need to
know who's in charge, because you need to know if
this thing's going in the right direction or not, and
(41:31):
who's the guy that's spearheading the whole thing. That's how
I think about the offense, and that's why I think
about the defense, especially with the head coach who is
more of a delegator like Deanna and Collin plays. So
I don't know, I just I find that whole situation weird,
and I don't know what the advantage is into not
(41:54):
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(42:38):
a feeling that I have that is mosueri ish of.
I think this game should be handleable in a very
easy way, So we'll get to that in just a second.
Recap the Nuggets there win last night. Jokic is a
great game. All that coming away with Mose lombarding Kine.
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