0:00 - As training camp is ramping up here in Denver, and players are reporting. Yesterday, PSII & Mike McGlinchey were asked about expectations for their squad, and the sky's the limit.
14:21 - Who hates Denver as a whole more than Nick Wright? ESPN recently said the Broncos have the 6th best roster in the NFL, and Nick isn't buying it. He argued that last season was full of fool's gold.
31:16 - Speaking of people we're getting sick of hearing from...Brett's tired of Indiana Football Head Coach Curt " I Win...Google Me" Cignetti flapping his gums, and Curt was back at it again yesterday.
14:21 - Who hates Denver as a whole more than Nick Wright? ESPN recently said the Broncos have the 6th best roster in the NFL, and Nick isn't buying it. He argued that last season was full of fool's gold.
31:16 - Speaking of people we're getting sick of hearing from...Brett's tired of Indiana Football Head Coach Curt " I Win...Google Me" Cignetti flapping his gums, and Curt was back at it again yesterday.
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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 five and on the Altitude Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ass ESPN had its analytic writers ranked the thirty two
best rosters as Sean Payton effect Denver's at six and
thirty two.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Dead last is the Saints.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So I'm gonna suggest it is not a coincidence that
the Saints have nosedive in personnel to dead last in
the league analytically and the Broncos are suddenly six. And
to me, Andy Reid, Sean Payton, and Sean McVay have
sort of separated from the league in coaching. If you
look at the rising Broncos, not only was the culture
broken in Denver, the quarterback was broken, the dead cap
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money was going to be unbelievable, the offensive line was
a mess. By the end of his first year, it
was a top twelve offensive line. That's Sean Payton, and
right now they're considered to have the sixth best roster
in the league.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Colin Cowhard a couple days ago talking about Sean Payton
as the Broncos open up campy yesterday. In a year
with anticipation and real tangible optimism that has not existed
in a while. For where the Broncos were when Sean
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Payton took over, I think that everything that Colin Cowhard
talks about there is absolutely true. I think that they
have miles better of a roster than when he first
took over. And I think that he is largely responsible
responsible because he built this football team in actual, like
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old school traditional way. Everything about team building from him anyway,
came from the idea, I'm going to start from the
trenches outward, and that was his focus. He got here,
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the offensive line got a heavy investment in Ben Powers,
Mike mcglenchee to also put next to Garrett Bulls, with
the drafting of Quinn Minors and then figuring it out
at center. Remember they started with Cushion Barry and then
Cushion Barry left and took that giant megadeal in Tennessee.
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I think it was that he was the highest paid
center in league history at the time he signed that contract,
but really beefed up the offensive line the following year.
He worked farther out. Obviously had to get the quarterback. Okay,
let's go ahead and do that, and then this year
they've made investments in the running game with RJ. Harvey
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and JK. Dobbins. That's how you're supposed to kind of
build this The only thing I suppose that as an
exception is not a lot invested in the wide receiver group.
Now you could say guys like Devon Vele and Troy Franklin,
and maybe they can both break out in a way
that you see it this year. Maybe it just took
a minute for those guys to kind of incubate. But
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that's how you're supposed to build a team. You know.
It's the same thing when you look at the defensive side.
He got here in the investments they made were defensive line.
When you have, I guess at the time a very
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limited bank of star players. Will they go out and
they signed Josh Allen, They invest in like Nick Benito
and Jonathan Cooper, they go out and they trade for JFM.
They re signed DJ Jones this offseason. Like everything is
about keeping a strong front and building out from there.
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And I give both Sean Payton and George Peyton a giant,
giant check mark in the credit column for recognizing where
the needs were to start and then being able to
hit on it. You know, even the moves that looked
odd at the time when you're talking about an eighty
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five million dollar cap hit for a quarterback who was okay,
when you talk about letting go of Justin Simmons and
bringing in Brandon Jones, which to me felt like an
immediate sort of step down, and Brandon Jones was great
last year. All these tiny moves have built the Broncos
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in a place where you were able to have, for
the first time since I've been here, the chance to
go out and get the quote luxury positions. You know,
you have these cornerstones that are almost a must in
order to be competitive. You need to have a good quarterback.
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You need to have a good left tackle, you need
to have a good corner, you need to have a
good playmaker, you need to have a whole bunch of
these good things edge rushing. But they have hit on
so many of those things that it made it at
least at least possible for you to go out and
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then just kind of invest in what you felt like
was a an actual missing hole. And so I give
them total credit. They started up camp yesterday. We're gonna
be out there starting on Friday, and there is there
is to me a huge reason in a huge progression
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towards actually being contenders. Like and I know everybody's kind
of asking the question. It's funny, this was this was
asked to Mike Rabel yesterday, and I just chalked this
up to because here's what happens on stuff like this
when training camp opens up, or when it's the Nuggets
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media day, or when it's the Avs media day, or
when it's the first game of the season for the Rockies,
the home opener. You get people that typically are not
at these press conference settings asking questions about teams that
they don't cover on a day to day basis. And
I feel like this is what had to happen yesterday
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during the Titans ownership press conference. So I believe if
this was the Titans owner and GM And here's one
of the questions first day camp for Tennessee, simple.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Question, the team you put on the field tomorrow, can
that team win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Listen, we have that's always the goal every year.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, we also realize that we have a lot of
work to do on this roster. What are you doing there?
Tennessee is going to be one of the worst teams
in the league. They just were last year. They were
picking number one overall. I don't think that they think
their team is good enough to win the Super Bowl
this year, and that shouldn't be their sort of goal.
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They're gonna say that. They're gonna say, hey, the goal
is to win the Super Bowl every single year, but
in order to get there, you need to take your progressive,
incremental steps, and I think the Broncos have done that.
They're in a place where you ask George Peyton or
Sean Payton, is the goal to win the Super or
do you think that this roster can win the Super
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this year? The answer should be hell yeah, I do.
And that's what I'm talking about, the place you haven't
been in a long time. In fact, I mean a
couple of the first questions right out of the gate
for both PS two and McGlinchey, or just that and Nelly,
if you could get just cut one for either one
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of these guys, I mean the questions the same. One
for PS two is how high are the expectations for
the team this season? One for McGlinchey is if he
feels like it's a championship team and the answers in
both of those situations should be Yeah, I think we
should win the division, make the playoffs, and get in
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the super Bowl. Let's start with PS two. PS two.
The guy who's just fresh off the brand new Jordan
brand endorsement that he signed, the guy who is widely
seen as the best defensive player in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
He said this, I mean, you know, you want to
set expectations pretty high, but uh, you know what I mean,
you can't let that, you know, allow yourself to unwaiver
from the fact that, you know, we still got a
lot of goals accomplished as a team. You know what,
You're gonna take a day by day in training camp
and just keep on shopping in iron, shopping our two bucks,
and just keep on getting better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I hate on the grid iron. So how about the
other one, Mike McGlinchey, who is he's He speaks as
if he is a team leader, and I believe that
he is. But Mike McGlinchey is one of those He's
one of those like really cerebral offensive linemen. You put
a microphone in front of him and he sounds really good.
He was as the same thing. Do you feel like
this as a championship team.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Mike, Well, I mean, we haven't even practiced yet, but
certainly we feel like we could be. But we got
to put in the workday in and day out, and
you know, we're obviously very very excited about what we
have here. Everybody feels a little bit more comfortable with
the experience we gained last year and in the year
that we had and knowing that that it's still not
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good enough, and so we're really excited for the opportunity
to come into work and earn a chance to be
at the top of the NFL. And that's what we're
gonna try to do.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I really think that they should have their sights set
on it. You know. I know that there can be
different sort of tiers of teams that make the postseason.
The Broncos last year was certainly one of those teams.
We all went in that Bills game saying, yeah, probably
not going to go well, but you know what, you
made it here. Once you've done that, the next step
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is you have to be a championship contending team.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It kind of reminded me when the Nuggets made that
run in the bubble and they got to the Western
Conference finals, ever since that point, it felt like, all right,
you should be right there in the mix of a
championship discussion. Unfortunately for him, they'll or for them, they
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lost their second best player throughout the next two playoffs,
which scaled it back a bit. But once he got healthy,
wouldn't you know it, You're hoisting a trophy at the
end of it. I think the Broncos are in the
same place. Like, depending on uncontrolled circumstances like injury, you
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should be looking at that Lombardi Trophy as your goal
for the end of the season. You should be looking
at taking down the chiefs for the AFC Western Division,
like you should look for a divisional crown. And this
isn't just pumping tires of a team that, like you're
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overinflating it before the season starts. That's who they should be.
You know, there are detractors, there are people that don't
think the same way, and we'll get to some of
that audio in a bit. But you gotta love these
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first couple of days of camp and the questions that
people get. Here's another example, once again from Tennessee. So
Mike Vrabel takes over. He's got his first training camp
in Tennessee, and this is what happened.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
answered thomas question or typing on your phone or tweeting.
I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering that question,
and I can go back through it, but i'd rather not.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know what this feels like when I give a
take and then I go, what do you think? Vic?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
answered Thoma's question or typing on your phone or tweeting.
I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering that question,
and I can go back through it, but i'd rather not.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I feel like I'm Mike Vrabel at times with Vic
when he doesn't listen to me.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Yeah, Hey, he's gonna fit in very well with the
culture of Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's got a little bit of mass whole in him already.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
And I you know you sent me that you send
me that video And I opened it and I saw
a Vrabel standing there with the Patriots logo on his shirt,
and I went, did Brett send me a video from
like two thousand and six? I totally forgot that he's
the coach there now he's no longer with Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, I sorry, I said Tennessee, I met New England.
See I still got that confused.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Now I did the same thing. I thought you sent
me a video from when he was a player, But no,
he's the Patriots head coach. And I wonder how many
Duncan lattes he had in the morning before saying.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That, Well, I just Mike Vrabel is not the kind
of dude that's gonna mess around. But I got some audio, Look,
we get We gave you the one from Cowherd to
start the show, and Cowherd because again I'll repeat this
to you, guys, Cowhard has some inside dope on the
Broncos because because him and Peyton their boys, and so
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him saying that he thinks Sean Payton has done a
fantastic job in Denver surprises nobody because they're friends. The
next answer you're gonna hear when we come back is
also unsurprising because this guy hates Denver. But he had
some thoughts about the Broncos roster. We'll get to in
just second stagram. All right, So we gave you the
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audio of Colin Cowherd where he had some raving reviews
of the Broncos roster heading into this season. How about
the least shocking thing in the world. There's someone who
doesn't think that, and his name is Nick. Right now,
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they're basing this off of ESPN ranked the most talented
rosters in the NFL. The Broncos ranked sixth, and I
don't think when you're just looking on paper, it's that crazy.
I really don't. So from top to bottom, they have
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the Ravens won, the Eagles, two Lions, three Bills for
Chiefs five. After that it's Broncos, Commanders, Rams, Bengals, Niners, Vikings.
He goes on from there, but they have them sixth.
Here's Nick Wright's take on Fox Sports one, which ranking
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do you disagree with the most?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Broncos at six is one of the most ridiculous things
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Flat.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
So I just want to remind America about the Broncos
last year. Okay, they had an awesome defense, there's no
denying it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
They had an awesome defense.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
That probably got better. Yeah, I think the defense should
be great.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
They don't have a single guaranteed difference maker at wide receiver,
tight end, or running back. I like the kid they
drafted in the second round, but again he's a rookie
second round running back.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
JK.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Dobbins is a huge risk every year and had a nice.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Season when he played last year.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
But all that said, they were like, oh, they're a
you know, you don't want to see the Broncos and
they get curb stop thirty one to seven in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This is about a three minute long answer. I'll just
give you that piece of it for now, but I'll
say this. They were that last year with a rookie quarterback.
That's what they were. I don't think anybody could deny
that that team has gotten better on both sides of
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the football, at least heading into this season. They really
didn't lose anything and they gained potentially if they're healthy
in all pro level linebacker and in all pro level safety.
They havelastically improved their tight end position by getting Evan Ingram,
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Because whatever you think of Evan Ingram, he's better than
whatever sort of hodgepodge you had last year. The running
game in which your leading rusher averaged three point seven
yards per carry, again, health being a major factor here,
is better than that. In JK. Dobbins and the potential
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of R. J. Harvey has to be better. They got
better at all these different spots, and they already won
ten games last year. Now he goes on to say
that this was a five and five football team who
didn't beat anybody who was, you know, decent or something,
Teams with the good quarterbacks, teams that made the postseason,
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and he'd be right now, I tell you this. The
losses suffered by the Broncos last year. A six point
loss to Seattle Week one with a rookie QB, A
seven point loss to Pittsburgh thirteen to six in Week
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two of a rookie QB. A seven point loss to LA.
Although LA beat you up pretty good in that game,
that score is actually closer than the game seemed to be.
They got stomped by Baltimore forty one to ten. They
lost on a blocked what what was it forty yard
field goal to Kansas City sixteen to fourteen, then lost
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by seven again to LA later in the year, and
then lost by six in overtime against Cincinnati. I don't
think you'd look at really any of those outside of
Baltimore in probably that first LA game and say the
Broncos were dominated by somebody on the flip side. The
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wins that they had, I'm going to give you for
a ten win seaton, the amount of wins that were
within seven points. It was that monsoon of a Jets
game in Week four where they won ten to nine,
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And that's it, Like the thing that makes me the
most happy, the most optimistic. The Broncos might have had
trouble in struggled with teams that were better in the league,
but when they won, they kicked the snot out of people.
Twenty six to seven over Green Bay, thirty four to
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eighteen over Vegas, thirty three to ten over New Orleans,
twenty eight to fourteen over Carolina, thirty eight six over Atlanta,
twenty nine to nineteen over Vegas, that weird forty one
to thirty two game against Cleveland, thirty one thirteen to Indianapolis,
and then thirty eight to nh in over case the
final week of the year. If they won those games
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on some weird freak circumstances, like you could put the
New York game in that, you could put the Cleveland
game a little bit in that. There were games that
were closer than scores indicated, like Indianapolis that was not
a thirty one to thirteen game, but you found a
way to get yourself there. The point is this, if
they won those games on some weird bounces, and you
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had the losses to better teams, then I could fully
understand how you could you could make that case. You know,
It's something like when you look at turnover differential year
over year, and if a team has just a really
big year in which they pick up a lot of fumbles,
it's hard to get that to replicate. Interceptions are one thing.
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That's about timing, that's about jumping routes, that's about a
skill as a defensive back. Balls that hit the turf
bounce weird, and sometimes some years they they go your
fa some years they don't. But those wins over those
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teams weren't flukes. You crush them. Like the biggest thing.
To me, the biggest indicator you can have for what
a good football team is is a team that when
they face someone that they are favored and better than you,
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look like you're favored in better than them. And in
every instance last year the Broncos did that. They were
undefeated when favored in games. The difference if you want
to be a real contender now is you get those
like hopefully not giant point spreads because they shouldn't be.
But you play those teams that are better and you're
a three point dog on the road, can you take
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one of those that, to me is going to be
their separator? But as far as them being ranked sixth
in overall roster before the year starts, it kind of
makes sense to me because it does look like on
paper this team is i mean pretty close to without weakness.
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There are positions in which if guys step up that
would be the case. But just to go through this,
whatever you think about Knicks, bo Nicks is at least okay,
He's at least decent, So that one's taken care of.
Your offensive line is a very very good offensive line,
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very good tight end with Evan Ingram is at least okay,
and your wide receivers are okay. You know, could you
have some room for improvement? Do you need guys to
step up in a lot of those offensive categories, specifically
like playmaker? Yeah, but I think they have guys who
can do it. When you look at RJ. Harvey's and
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Marvin Mims and guys like that, I think they can defensively,
that's where it feels like you're just you're in a
great position. The guys lining up up front, Zach Allen,
DJ Jones, John Franklin Myers, Nick Benito, Jonathan Cooper, Jonah Ellis,
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Malcolm Roach, that's a great group of guys. Your secondary
Cirtan Moss, Baron McMillan, Brandon Jones, Hufonga, PJ. Locke, like
that's that's not only a good group, that's a good
group who has depth. And then your linebackers. You know,
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one thing I'm really interested in, by the way, is
I think there's gonna be a battle because Dre Greenlaw
is going to be your starter, assuming he's healthy. Alex
Singleton's coming back off that injury, and I'm a big
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Alex Singleton guy. He's always around the football. But I wonder,
because they really like Drew Sanders, if Drew Sanders is
going to be somebody who could at least challenge him
for playing time. But I don't think it's insane whatsoever
to start thinking about them on paper being very very good.
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Texas says the record of teams the Broncos beat last
year was sixty four and ninety and that includes the
free win with the Chiefs, another Texter they beat one
good team. All those teams you just listed are not
playoff teams since Nati would have fared better in the
playoffs than Denver, and Denver won't get lucky again this
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year and we'll miss the playoffs. LA will take that
wild card spot just for the record, so we're all
playing along at home together. The Chargers made the playoffs
last year, anyway in a while at cad spots. What
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do you mean take theirs like you can give me
that The Broncos had a softer schedule last year. They
did because they finished the previous year back in twenty
twenty three third in the division. And that's what you
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get while making the playoffs. Last year. The Broncos also
finished third in the division. They are going to be
playing a host of teams again that will not make
the playoffs. In fact, in the first I would say
seven or eight weeks, Tennessee ain't making it, Indianapolis probably won't,
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New York both of the New York teams won't, and
Dallas probably won't. That's five the ones that can make
the playoffs Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Philly. They have a
tougher schedule towards the end of the year. All I'm
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telling you is, if you don't think that this Broncos
team has put themselves in a position to compete with
and be a top ten to twelve team in the NFL,
then I don't know what more you want from them.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
And also, Brett, I don't know about the whole I
hate when people bring this up, the whole strength of
schedule thing. You can only play the teams that are
in front of you, and that's who you play, and
then great. I mean, look, okay, the Eagles last year,
what was the strength of their schedule? Did they beat
up bad teams? Did they only play good teams? I
don't know who cares they won the Super Bowl. I
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always hate this argument. And also look at some of
the teams that Broncos played last year. They were supposed
to be good. People were out here crowning the Jets
as Super Bowl champions. The Buccaneers were supposed to smash them,
and they took care of business after their tickle fight
vacation at the Greenbrier. I just hate the schedule strength argument.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
If get another sneeze coming, hang.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
On, oh grip and rip it, Bud. That's a good one, right,
that was solid.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I always tell people, don't you try and be quiet
on those. You gotta let the demons out, they're inside you,
atua them away. That's what you have to do. The
strength of schedule thing is, Look, it's an argument that
is based upon trying to predict what next season is
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going to look like. And from that standpoint, I kind
of get it, because you're just judging off of what
teams are going to look like this upcoming season. But
to your point, Philly wasn't facing exactly murderers row throughout
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the course of the year. They finished with fourteen wins.
But just just if you're going to play that game,
then we can do that with the Super Bowl champions
real quick. They beat Green Bay in week one, remember
that was the Brazil game in which Jordan Love got hurt.
They then lost to with Lana in week two. They
beat New Orleans by three in week three. They lost
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to Tampa by seventeen. In week four, then they beat Cleveland,
the Giants, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Dallas. That was the first ten
weeks of their season.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So a lot of good excuse me, not a lot
of good teams in that stretch, a lot of batter
middling teams.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You just rattled off right there. They faced two playoff teams.
It was Green Bay with I heard Jordan Love and
it was Tampa. That was it for the first ten
weeks after that, then they faced Washington, then they faced LA.
Then they faced Baltimore, Carolina, Pittsburgh, Washington again, Dallas, New York.
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So they had a few towards the end of the year.
Now to their credit, beat Baltimore beat LA. Won those games.
That's why they were the Super Bowl champions. And the
Broncos were just happy to make the playoffs. They weren't
on the same level. This year is when those things
should change. That's all I'm understanding, or that's all I'm
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trying to get across. Like, you want to play that
schedule game, then go ahead. But you get to eleven wins,
you're going to make a wild card spot and probably
can compete for the division. And any other year that
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I've been here and people talked about the Broncos and
the way that I'm talking about them right now, I
would have told you to pump the brakes. I don't
think you should. You should have high expectations for this team,
because if not, then what are you waiting for. I've
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said this multiple times. I don't I know, Okay, I
guess I don't know. I don't think that bone Nicks
is a Mahomes Burrow elite quarterback in this league Josh
Allen Lamar Jackson type. I don't think he's that. I
do think he's good enough to win you a bunch
of all games. And once you get in that damn tournament,
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once you get in that playoff, one game samples, weird
stuff happens. But you can always get in touch with us.
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So look a lot more at the Broncos to get
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to today as they opened up camp yesterday. I also
got something else, a guy that I'm getting tired of.
You want to talk about somebody who runs his mouth
more than what his resume says. We'll get to it
in just a second. Stick around. Yes, I figured I
was gonna have some Ossie coming my way today. I figured,
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you know, if Moser was here, good lord, it would
we might have music going during segments from Black Sabbath
or Ozzy Osbourne. There's one guy that's driving me nuts
though if you remember, and I guess I'll set it
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up this way. There's a man last year that's team
outperformed expectation in a big way and their coach was
loud and brash about it. Pretty simple, I win google me.
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That's the guy, Kurt Signity, the head coach of Indiana.
So in his defense, kind of everywhere that guy has been,
that guy has won a whole bunch of games. He
coached at IUP and was fifty three and seventeen. He
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coached James Madison before getting to Indiana, where he was
fifty two and nine over five years, and then his
first year at Indiana they were eleven and two, made
the College Football Playoff, ranked tenth of the country, and
lost in the first round of the playoffs. So they're
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talking about scheduling at Big ten media days and Kurt
Signity said he is quote adopting an SEC scheduling philosophy.
That's what he said, and here's what he meant. Indiana's
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non Big twelve, non conference games over the next few
years look like this old Dominion Kennesaw State in Indiana State.
This upcoming year, CSU in Western Kentucky, the year after
Kannesas State, Indiana State in UMass the year after that,
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Austin p and Eastern Michigan in twenty twenty eight, and
then Ball State, Eastern Illinois and Western Kentucky in twenty
twenty nine. And they said, man, why aren't you scheduling
actual opponents for your non conference? And he goes, essentially,
why should I if the SEC doesn't. That was his answer.
(34:01):
I do think it's ridiculous that the SEC the one
that bothers me the most. I think the SEC crosses
over and they play Power five games in the non conference.
They'll have like one now, is it Oregon? Not? Usually
sometimes it is, though. My beef with them has always
(34:22):
been one thing that they get the bye week game
in like Week ten. That's what's never made sense, and
I always talk about in college football there needs to
be a structure to It's already so hard to evaluate
who the best team in the country is to start with,
and then you convolude that with the SEC plays an
(34:46):
eight game conference schedule where the Big ten plays a
nine and this team plays nine and this team plays
they want to play ten conference games, like, it's so different,
you know it would be Again, I try and make
this comparison because the college football is the NFL's minor league.
(35:07):
I think it's part of the reason why they have
the playoff now is first of all, it's a chance
to make money, but second of all, it feels a
lot more aligned with what their parent program does. A
lot of the rules in college football are based upon
what the NFL does. You know they add a two
minute warning, why, well, the NFL has it. They have
(35:29):
their own little quirks sometimes on how they do things,
but again, overall, it's sort of a copy paste of
what the NFL has. And imagine if the AFC West
had to play eight divisional games and the NFC East
had They've decided they're going to play four or something.
(35:54):
How do you begin to evaluate that and compare teams
when they don't even have that in common with one another. Like,
the first thing I would do if the NCAA, if
they still want to pretend like to have some power,
the first thing I would do is go out and say, SEC,
you're playing non conference games because so is everybody else.
(36:16):
So you can base and you can't throw one of
those non conference games in Week ten. That's not allowed anymore.
Like that's where you see teams get tested late in
the year. Injuries pile up, Guys are tired, bodies are sore.
Can you get through the ringer before the end of
the season. I don't think you're allowed just to have
(36:38):
like a preseason game that's thrown in there. You shouldn't
be anyway. So even with all of that being said,
my beef with Kurt Signetti is why are you talking
as if you've been doing this for like fifteen years
and you're at the top of the heat. If somebody like,
I don't know, Dabo Swinning wants to say that, if
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someone like Ryan Day wants to say that, if somebody
like it's another big non SEC coach, I would have said, harball,
Obviously he's not there anymore. James Franklin. I guess if
(37:18):
they want to do that, then fine. This guy's been
in Indiana for a season, had a good year. But
I don't think you've earned the right to talk that
trash to anybody. And he's been doing it quite a bit.
But again, pretty simple, I win google me. It's it's
not even as if I totally disagree with him. But
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my beef, he's got this confused. My beef isn't with
who they schedule. If you want to play a cupcake
and play a cupcake, you just shouldn't do it three
quarters the way through the season. That's all those are
reserved for weeks one through three. If you want to
breeze through that at three and ohero and not really
(38:01):
be tested, then that's your decision. But you cannot go
out and schedule Tennessee Chattanooga right before you play Georgia.
Can't happen three oh three, five, four, nine, two five.
(38:25):
So Jokic is still doing his his China tour, and
god is he popular there. He's really popular with a
player by the name of Hanson Yang, who was a
first round pick this year. If you remember, Hanson Yang
was the very, very tall gentleman that was sitting in
the crowd on draft night, heard his name get called
(38:47):
and had to walk in between a few accountants on
his way to the podium. Hanson Yang is also a massive,
gigantic fan of Jokic and wants to model his game
after him. So this is a little back and forth
between Jokic and a Chinese reporter. There's an interpreter in here,
(39:11):
but just listen.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He is good.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So we're just starting at
Yo Kitchen's a.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yeah, the video is kind of tough to hear and
without without the images translate the audio. But for context,
I think we played the clip a while ago where
Hanson Yang was at Summer League and people were asking
him about Yo Kicic and they asked him, what will
you do when you see him when you get the
chance to face him, and he said, I'm probably gonna
ask him for a picture.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
A picture in an autograph. Yea right, uh huh. So
here's what Jokic said back.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
He is good. He's good. I think I'm happy when
he gets in the prime that I'm going to be
out to believe. Probably I'm not. Actually, yeah, he's talented.
He's talented. Yes, we can have a picture of whatever
he wants. Said the only if he played bad against me,
(40:03):
Let's say like that, if I destroy him and I
score a lot of points, then yes, if he do that.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
No, if I destroy him, then yes. I'll tell you
what really caught my ear when I first heard that,
As he said, the good thing is when he's in
his prime, I'll be out of the league by then.
Into uh no, never mind.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I was like, even he gets in the prime that
I'm going to be out to the league, probably.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I'm not. Actually he was about to say like two years.
I was like, no, You're not going to be out
of the league in two years. And he caught himself too,
which is good, but that freaked me out for a second. See,
there's one thing I can't get rid of. You know.
Some people have this this constant fear that maybe they're
(40:49):
gonna get fired from work, or this constant fear like
maybe my girlfriend's cheating on me or something. They have
that in the back of their head. My fear that
plays on a loop is that Yoki is just hangs
it up, just goes I'm done. And that happens just
first of all, soon and second of all out of
the blue. A season ends and Jokics looks in the
(41:16):
camera after the last game of the season and goes, uh,
I had a lot of fun, but I'm out of here.
See you never. I can't get over it. I can't.
So I'm glad he caught himself himself once he started
talking about that. I do love this though. You want
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to know how you're sort of a generational guy. Is
you inspire an entire group of kids coming up to
play in your style, and Jokichi's is so unique. It's
the same thing as what Steph did. When Steph got
in the league, he was so generational and so different
(42:02):
that you started seeing I think for it's it's been
bad for the sport overall, for the youth anyway of
kids hucking up threes from the logo, but that is
a total and complete homage to what Steph Curry is.
(42:24):
You've heard multiple people now, especially people outside the United States,
which I think is even more interesting, but a lot
of Europeans and now this this Chinese basketball player Hans
and Yang talking about I want to be Jokic. And
first of all, I think everybody should strive to play
the way that Jokic does. Just mentally you can't do
(42:47):
the things he does. But as far as being somebody
who is ultimate team guy, pass first, find different ways
to get a bucket, like that's the way you should
do it. Steph Curry plays the way Steph Curry does
because Steph Curry Steph Curry and can shoot the ball
from wherever he wants and make it. Ninety nine point
(43:09):
nine percent of us can't do that, but you can
develop a post game. So we'll get back to that
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Ass ESPN had its analytic writers ranked the thirty two
best rosters as Sean Payton effect Denver's at six and
thirty two.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Dead last is the Saints.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
So I'm gonna suggest it is not a coincidence that
the Saints have nosedive in personnel to dead last in
the league analytically and the Broncos are suddenly six. And
to me, Andy Reid, Sean Payton, and Sean McVay have
sort of separated from the league in coaching. If you
look at the rising Broncos, not only was the culture
broken in Denver, the quarterback was broken, the dead cap
(00:49):
money was going to be unbelievable, the offensive line was
a mess. By the end of his first year, it
was a top twelve offensive line. That's Sean Payton, and
right now they're considered to have the sixth best roster
in the league.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Colin Cowhard a couple days ago talking about Sean Payton
as the Broncos open up campy yesterday. In a year
with anticipation and real tangible optimism that has not existed
in a while. For where the Broncos were when Sean
(01:26):
Payton took over, I think that everything that Colin Cowhard
talks about there is absolutely true. I think that they
have miles better of a roster than when he first
took over. And I think that he is largely responsible
responsible because he built this football team in actual, like
(01:52):
old school traditional way. Everything about team building from him anyway,
came from the idea, I'm going to start from the
trenches outward, and that was his focus. He got here,
(02:19):
the offensive line got a heavy investment in Ben Powers,
Mike mcglenchee to also put next to Garrett Bulls, with
the drafting of Quinn Minors and then figuring it out
at center. Remember they started with Cushion Barry and then
Cushion Barry left and took that giant megadeal in Tennessee.
(02:43):
I think it was that he was the highest paid
center in league history at the time he signed that contract,
but really beefed up the offensive line the following year.
He worked farther out. Obviously had to get the quarterback. Okay,
let's go ahead and do that, and then this year
they've made investments in the running game with RJ. Harvey
(03:05):
and JK. Dobbins. That's how you're supposed to kind of
build this The only thing I suppose that as an
exception is not a lot invested in the wide receiver group.
Now you could say guys like Devon Vele and Troy Franklin,
and maybe they can both break out in a way
that you see it this year. Maybe it just took
a minute for those guys to kind of incubate. But
(03:31):
that's how you're supposed to build a team. You know.
It's the same thing when you look at the defensive side.
He got here in the investments they made were defensive line.
When you have, I guess at the time a very
(03:52):
limited bank of star players. Will they go out and
they signed Josh Allen, They invest in like Nick Benito
and Jonathan Cooper, they go out and they trade for JFM.
They re signed DJ Jones this offseason. Like everything is
about keeping a strong front and building out from there.
(04:19):
And I give both Sean Payton and George Peyton a giant,
giant check mark in the credit column for recognizing where
the needs were to start and then being able to
hit on it. You know, even the moves that looked
odd at the time when you're talking about an eighty
(04:39):
five million dollar cap hit for a quarterback who was okay,
when you talk about letting go of Justin Simmons and
bringing in Brandon Jones, which to me felt like an
immediate sort of step down, and Brandon Jones was great
last year. All these tiny moves have built the Broncos
(05:02):
in a place where you were able to have, for
the first time since I've been here, the chance to
go out and get the quote luxury positions. You know,
you have these cornerstones that are almost a must in
order to be competitive. You need to have a good quarterback.
(05:24):
You need to have a good left tackle, you need
to have a good corner, you need to have a
good playmaker, you need to have a whole bunch of
these good things edge rushing. But they have hit on
so many of those things that it made it at
least at least possible for you to go out and
(05:45):
then just kind of invest in what you felt like
was a an actual missing hole. And so I give
them total credit. They started up camp yesterday. We're gonna
be out there starting on Friday, and there is there
is to me a huge reason in a huge progression
(06:10):
towards actually being contenders. Like and I know everybody's kind
of asking the question. It's funny, this was this was
asked to Mike Rabel yesterday, and I just chalked this
up to because here's what happens on stuff like this
when training camp opens up, or when it's the Nuggets
(06:33):
media day, or when it's the Avs media day, or
when it's the first game of the season for the Rockies,
the home opener. You get people that typically are not
at these press conference settings asking questions about teams that
they don't cover on a day to day basis. And
I feel like this is what had to happen yesterday
(06:55):
during the Titans ownership press conference. So I believe if
this was the Titans owner and GM And here's one
of the questions first day camp for Tennessee, simple.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Question, the team you put on the field tomorrow, can
that team win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Listen, we have that's always the goal every year.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Yeah, we also realize that we have a lot of
work to do on this roster. What are you doing there?
Tennessee is going to be one of the worst teams
in the league. They just were last year. They were
picking number one overall. I don't think that they think
their team is good enough to win the Super Bowl
this year, and that shouldn't be their sort of goal.
(07:39):
They're gonna say that. They're gonna say, hey, the goal
is to win the Super Bowl every single year, but
in order to get there, you need to take your progressive,
incremental steps, and I think the Broncos have done that.
They're in a place where you ask George Peyton or
Sean Payton, is the goal to win the Super or
do you think that this roster can win the Super
(08:00):
this year? The answer should be hell yeah, I do.
And that's what I'm talking about, the place you haven't
been in a long time. In fact, I mean a
couple of the first questions right out of the gate
for both PS two and McGlinchey, or just that and Nelly,
if you could get just cut one for either one
(08:21):
of these guys, I mean the questions the same. One
for PS two is how high are the expectations for
the team this season? One for McGlinchey is if he
feels like it's a championship team and the answers in
both of those situations should be Yeah, I think we
should win the division, make the playoffs, and get in
(08:42):
the super Bowl. Let's start with PS two. PS two.
The guy who's just fresh off the brand new Jordan
brand endorsement that he signed, the guy who is widely
seen as the best defensive player in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
He said this, I mean, you know, you want to
set expectations pretty high, but uh, you know what I mean,
you can't let that, you know, allow yourself to unwaiver
from the fact that, you know, we still got a
lot of goals accomplished as a team. You know what,
You're gonna take a day by day in training camp
and just keep on shopping in iron, shopping our two bucks,
and just keep on getting better.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I hate on the grid iron. So how about the
other one, Mike McGlinchey, who is he's He speaks as
if he is a team leader, and I believe that
he is. But Mike McGlinchey is one of those He's
one of those like really cerebral offensive linemen. You put
a microphone in front of him and he sounds really good.
He was as the same thing. Do you feel like
this as a championship team.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Mike, Well, I mean, we haven't even practiced yet, but
certainly we feel like we could be. But we got
to put in the workday in and day out, and
you know, we're obviously very very excited about what we
have here. Everybody feels a little bit more comfortable with
the experience we gained last year and in the year
that we had and knowing that that it's still not
(10:00):
good enough, and so we're really excited for the opportunity
to come into work and earn a chance to be
at the top of the NFL. And that's what we're
gonna try to do.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I really think that they should have their sights set
on it. You know. I know that there can be
different sort of tiers of teams that make the postseason.
The Broncos last year was certainly one of those teams.
We all went in that Bills game saying, yeah, probably
not going to go well, but you know what, you
made it here. Once you've done that, the next step
(10:35):
is you have to be a championship contending team.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
It kind of reminded me when the Nuggets made that
run in the bubble and they got to the Western
Conference finals, ever since that point, it felt like, all right,
you should be right there in the mix of a
championship discussion. Unfortunately for him, they'll or for them, they
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lost their second best player throughout the next two playoffs,
which scaled it back a bit. But once he got healthy,
wouldn't you know it, You're hoisting a trophy at the
end of it. I think the Broncos are in the
same place. Like, depending on uncontrolled circumstances like injury, you
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should be looking at that Lombardi Trophy as your goal
for the end of the season. You should be looking
at taking down the chiefs for the AFC Western Division,
like you should look for a divisional crown. And this
isn't just pumping tires of a team that, like you're
(11:43):
overinflating it before the season starts. That's who they should be.
You know, there are detractors, there are people that don't
think the same way, and we'll get to some of
that audio in a bit. But you gotta love these
(12:04):
first couple of days of camp and the questions that
people get. Here's another example, once again from Tennessee. So
Mike Vrabel takes over. He's got his first training camp
in Tennessee, and this is what happened.
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
answered thomas question or typing on your phone or tweeting.
I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering that question,
and I can go back through it, but i'd rather not.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know what this feels like when I give a
take and then I go, what do you think? Vic?
Speaker 6 (12:44):
I mean, whether you were in a coma when I
answered Thoma's question or typing on your phone or tweeting.
I don't know, but I spent five minutes answering that question,
and I can go back through it, but i'd rather not.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
I feel like I'm Mike Vrabel at times with Vic
when he doesn't listen to me.
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Yeah, Hey, he's gonna fit in very well with the
culture of Massachusetts.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's got a little bit of mass whole in him already.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
And I you know you sent me that you send
me that video And I opened it and I saw
a Vrabel standing there with the Patriots logo on his shirt,
and I went, did Brett send me a video from
like two thousand and six? I totally forgot that he's
the coach there now he's no longer with Tennessee.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, I sorry, I said Tennessee, I met New England.
See I still got that confused.
Speaker 7 (13:29):
Now I did the same thing. I thought you sent
me a video from when he was a player, But no,
he's the Patriots head coach. And I wonder how many
Duncan lattes he had in the morning before saying.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
That, Well, I just Mike Vrabel is not the kind
of dude that's gonna mess around. But I got some audio, Look,
we get We gave you the one from Cowherd to
start the show, and Cowherd because again I'll repeat this
to you, guys, Cowhard has some inside dope on the
Broncos because because him and Peyton their boys, and so
(14:01):
him saying that he thinks Sean Payton has done a
fantastic job in Denver surprises nobody because they're friends. The
next answer you're gonna hear when we come back is
also unsurprising because this guy hates Denver. But he had
some thoughts about the Broncos roster. We'll get to in
just second stagram. All right, So we gave you the
(14:23):
audio of Colin Cowherd where he had some raving reviews
of the Broncos roster heading into this season. How about
the least shocking thing in the world. There's someone who
doesn't think that, and his name is Nick. Right now,
(14:47):
they're basing this off of ESPN ranked the most talented
rosters in the NFL. The Broncos ranked sixth, and I
don't think when you're just looking on paper, it's that crazy.
I really don't. So from top to bottom, they have
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the Ravens won, the Eagles, two Lions, three Bills for
Chiefs five. After that it's Broncos, Commanders, Rams, Bengals, Niners, Vikings.
He goes on from there, but they have them sixth.
Here's Nick Wright's take on Fox Sports one, which ranking
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do you disagree with the most?
Speaker 8 (15:36):
Broncos at six is one of the most ridiculous things
I've ever seen.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Flat.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
So I just want to remind America about the Broncos
last year. Okay, they had an awesome defense, there's no
denying it.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
They had an awesome defense.
Speaker 8 (15:51):
That probably got better. Yeah, I think the defense should
be great.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
They don't have a single guaranteed difference maker at wide receiver,
tight end, or running back. I like the kid they
drafted in the second round, but again he's a rookie
second round running back.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
JK.
Speaker 8 (16:07):
Dobbins is a huge risk every year and had a nice.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Season when he played last year.
Speaker 8 (16:13):
But all that said, they were like, oh, they're a
you know, you don't want to see the Broncos and
they get curb stop thirty one to seven in the playoffs.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
This is about a three minute long answer. I'll just
give you that piece of it for now, but I'll
say this. They were that last year with a rookie quarterback.
That's what they were. I don't think anybody could deny
that that team has gotten better on both sides of
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the football, at least heading into this season. They really
didn't lose anything and they gained potentially if they're healthy
in all pro level linebacker and in all pro level safety.
They havelastically improved their tight end position by getting Evan Ingram,
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Because whatever you think of Evan Ingram, he's better than
whatever sort of hodgepodge you had last year. The running
game in which your leading rusher averaged three point seven
yards per carry, again, health being a major factor here,
is better than that. In JK. Dobbins and the potential
(17:24):
of R. J. Harvey has to be better. They got
better at all these different spots, and they already won
ten games last year. Now he goes on to say
that this was a five and five football team who
didn't beat anybody who was, you know, decent or something,
Teams with the good quarterbacks, teams that made the postseason,
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and he'd be right now, I tell you this. The
losses suffered by the Broncos last year. A six point
loss to Seattle Week one with a rookie QB, A
seven point loss to Pittsburgh thirteen to six in Week
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two of a rookie QB. A seven point loss to LA.
Although LA beat you up pretty good in that game,
that score is actually closer than the game seemed to be.
They got stomped by Baltimore forty one to ten. They
lost on a blocked what what was it forty yard
field goal to Kansas City sixteen to fourteen, then lost
(18:32):
by seven again to LA later in the year, and
then lost by six in overtime against Cincinnati. I don't
think you'd look at really any of those outside of
Baltimore in probably that first LA game and say the
Broncos were dominated by somebody on the flip side. The
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wins that they had, I'm going to give you for
a ten win seaton, the amount of wins that were
within seven points. It was that monsoon of a Jets
game in Week four where they won ten to nine,
(19:17):
And that's it, Like the thing that makes me the
most happy, the most optimistic. The Broncos might have had
trouble in struggled with teams that were better in the league,
but when they won, they kicked the snot out of people.
Twenty six to seven over Green Bay, thirty four to
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eighteen over Vegas, thirty three to ten over New Orleans,
twenty eight to fourteen over Carolina, thirty eight six over Atlanta,
twenty nine to nineteen over Vegas, that weird forty one
to thirty two game against Cleveland, thirty one thirteen to Indianapolis,
and then thirty eight to nh in over case the
final week of the year. If they won those games
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on some weird freak circumstances, like you could put the
New York game in that, you could put the Cleveland
game a little bit in that. There were games that
were closer than scores indicated, like Indianapolis that was not
a thirty one to thirteen game, but you found a
way to get yourself there. The point is this, if
they won those games on some weird bounces, and you
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had the losses to better teams, then I could fully
understand how you could you could make that case. You know,
It's something like when you look at turnover differential year
over year, and if a team has just a really
big year in which they pick up a lot of fumbles,
it's hard to get that to replicate. Interceptions are one thing.
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That's about timing, that's about jumping routes, that's about a
skill as a defensive back. Balls that hit the turf
bounce weird, and sometimes some years they they go your
fa some years they don't. But those wins over those
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teams weren't flukes. You crush them. Like the biggest thing.
To me, the biggest indicator you can have for what
a good football team is is a team that when
they face someone that they are favored and better than you,
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look like you're favored in better than them. And in
every instance last year the Broncos did that. They were
undefeated when favored in games. The difference if you want
to be a real contender now is you get those
like hopefully not giant point spreads because they shouldn't be.
But you play those teams that are better and you're
a three point dog on the road, can you take
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one of those that, to me is going to be
their separator? But as far as them being ranked sixth
in overall roster before the year starts, it kind of
makes sense to me because it does look like on
paper this team is i mean pretty close to without weakness.
(22:18):
There are positions in which if guys step up that
would be the case. But just to go through this,
whatever you think about Knicks, bo Nicks is at least okay,
He's at least decent, So that one's taken care of.
Your offensive line is a very very good offensive line,
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very good tight end with Evan Ingram is at least okay,
and your wide receivers are okay. You know, could you
have some room for improvement? Do you need guys to
step up in a lot of those offensive categories, specifically
like playmaker? Yeah, but I think they have guys who
can do it. When you look at RJ. Harvey's and
(23:01):
Marvin Mims and guys like that, I think they can defensively,
that's where it feels like you're just you're in a
great position. The guys lining up up front, Zach Allen,
DJ Jones, John Franklin Myers, Nick Benito, Jonathan Cooper, Jonah Ellis,
(23:23):
Malcolm Roach, that's a great group of guys. Your secondary
Cirtan Moss, Baron McMillan, Brandon Jones, Hufonga, PJ. Locke, like
that's that's not only a good group, that's a good
group who has depth. And then your linebackers. You know,
(23:46):
one thing I'm really interested in, by the way, is
I think there's gonna be a battle because Dre Greenlaw
is going to be your starter, assuming he's healthy. Alex
Singleton's coming back off that injury, and I'm a big
(24:07):
Alex Singleton guy. He's always around the football. But I wonder,
because they really like Drew Sanders, if Drew Sanders is
going to be somebody who could at least challenge him
for playing time. But I don't think it's insane whatsoever
to start thinking about them on paper being very very good.
(24:30):
Texas says the record of teams the Broncos beat last
year was sixty four and ninety and that includes the
free win with the Chiefs, another Texter they beat one
good team. All those teams you just listed are not
playoff teams since Nati would have fared better in the
playoffs than Denver, and Denver won't get lucky again this
(24:52):
year and we'll miss the playoffs. LA will take that
wild card spot just for the record, so we're all
playing along at home together. The Chargers made the playoffs
last year, anyway in a while at cad spots. What
(25:12):
do you mean take theirs like you can give me
that The Broncos had a softer schedule last year. They
did because they finished the previous year back in twenty
twenty three third in the division. And that's what you
(25:33):
get while making the playoffs. Last year. The Broncos also
finished third in the division. They are going to be
playing a host of teams again that will not make
the playoffs. In fact, in the first I would say
seven or eight weeks, Tennessee ain't making it, Indianapolis probably won't,
(26:00):
New York both of the New York teams won't, and
Dallas probably won't. That's five the ones that can make
the playoffs Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Philly. They have a
tougher schedule towards the end of the year. All I'm
(26:21):
telling you is, if you don't think that this Broncos
team has put themselves in a position to compete with
and be a top ten to twelve team in the NFL,
then I don't know what more you want from them.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
And also, Brett, I don't know about the whole I
hate when people bring this up, the whole strength of
schedule thing. You can only play the teams that are
in front of you, and that's who you play, and
then great. I mean, look, okay, the Eagles last year,
what was the strength of their schedule? Did they beat
up bad teams? Did they only play good teams? I
don't know who cares they won the Super Bowl. I
(27:00):
always hate this argument. And also look at some of
the teams that Broncos played last year. They were supposed
to be good. People were out here crowning the Jets
as Super Bowl champions. The Buccaneers were supposed to smash them,
and they took care of business after their tickle fight
vacation at the Greenbrier. I just hate the schedule strength argument.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
If get another sneeze coming, hang.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
On, oh grip and rip it, Bud. That's a good one, right,
that was solid.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
I always tell people, don't you try and be quiet
on those. You gotta let the demons out, they're inside you,
atua them away. That's what you have to do. The
strength of schedule thing is, Look, it's an argument that
is based upon trying to predict what next season is
(27:49):
going to look like. And from that standpoint, I kind
of get it, because you're just judging off of what
teams are going to look like this upcoming season. But
to your point, Philly wasn't facing exactly murderers row throughout
(28:09):
the course of the year. They finished with fourteen wins.
But just just if you're going to play that game,
then we can do that with the Super Bowl champions
real quick. They beat Green Bay in week one, remember
that was the Brazil game in which Jordan Love got hurt.
They then lost to with Lana in week two. They
beat New Orleans by three in week three. They lost
(28:32):
to Tampa by seventeen. In week four, then they beat Cleveland,
the Giants, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, Dallas. That was the first ten
weeks of their season.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So a lot of good excuse me, not a lot
of good teams in that stretch, a lot of batter
middling teams.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
You just rattled off right there. They faced two playoff teams.
It was Green Bay with I heard Jordan Love and
it was Tampa. That was it for the first ten
weeks after that, then they faced Washington, then they faced LA.
Then they faced Baltimore, Carolina, Pittsburgh, Washington again, Dallas, New York.
(29:10):
So they had a few towards the end of the year.
Now to their credit, beat Baltimore beat LA. Won those games.
That's why they were the Super Bowl champions. And the
Broncos were just happy to make the playoffs. They weren't
on the same level. This year is when those things
should change. That's all I'm understanding, or that's all I'm
(29:30):
trying to get across. Like, you want to play that
schedule game, then go ahead. But you get to eleven wins,
you're going to make a wild card spot and probably
can compete for the division. And any other year that
(29:53):
I've been here and people talked about the Broncos and
the way that I'm talking about them right now, I
would have told you to pump the brakes. I don't
think you should. You should have high expectations for this team,
because if not, then what are you waiting for. I've
(30:15):
said this multiple times. I don't I know, Okay, I
guess I don't know. I don't think that bone Nicks
is a Mahomes Burrow elite quarterback in this league Josh
Allen Lamar Jackson type. I don't think he's that. I
do think he's good enough to win you a bunch
of all games. And once you get in that damn tournament,
(30:38):
once you get in that playoff, one game samples, weird
stuff happens. But you can always get in touch with us.
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So look a lot more at the Broncos to get
(30:59):
to today as they opened up camp yesterday. I also
got something else, a guy that I'm getting tired of.
You want to talk about somebody who runs his mouth
more than what his resume says. We'll get to it
in just a second. Stick around. Yes, I figured I
was gonna have some Ossie coming my way today. I figured,
(31:23):
you know, if Moser was here, good lord, it would
we might have music going during segments from Black Sabbath
or Ozzy Osbourne. There's one guy that's driving me nuts
though if you remember, and I guess I'll set it
(31:44):
up this way. There's a man last year that's team
outperformed expectation in a big way and their coach was
loud and brash about it. Pretty simple, I win google me.
(32:06):
That's the guy, Kurt Signity, the head coach of Indiana.
So in his defense, kind of everywhere that guy has been,
that guy has won a whole bunch of games. He
coached at IUP and was fifty three and seventeen. He
(32:29):
coached James Madison before getting to Indiana, where he was
fifty two and nine over five years, and then his
first year at Indiana they were eleven and two, made
the College Football Playoff, ranked tenth of the country, and
lost in the first round of the playoffs. So they're
(32:51):
talking about scheduling at Big ten media days and Kurt
Signity said he is quote adopting an SEC scheduling philosophy.
That's what he said, and here's what he meant. Indiana's
(33:12):
non Big twelve, non conference games over the next few
years look like this old Dominion Kennesaw State in Indiana State.
This upcoming year, CSU in Western Kentucky, the year after
Kannesas State, Indiana State in UMass the year after that,
(33:35):
Austin p and Eastern Michigan in twenty twenty eight, and
then Ball State, Eastern Illinois and Western Kentucky in twenty
twenty nine. And they said, man, why aren't you scheduling
actual opponents for your non conference? And he goes, essentially,
why should I if the SEC doesn't. That was his answer.
(34:01):
I do think it's ridiculous that the SEC the one
that bothers me the most. I think the SEC crosses
over and they play Power five games in the non conference.
They'll have like one now, is it Oregon? Not? Usually
sometimes it is, though. My beef with them has always
(34:22):
been one thing that they get the bye week game
in like Week ten. That's what's never made sense, and
I always talk about in college football there needs to
be a structure to It's already so hard to evaluate
who the best team in the country is to start with,
and then you convolude that with the SEC plays an
(34:46):
eight game conference schedule where the Big ten plays a
nine and this team plays nine and this team plays
they want to play ten conference games, like, it's so different,
you know it would be Again, I try and make
this comparison because the college football is the NFL's minor league.
(35:07):
I think it's part of the reason why they have
the playoff now is first of all, it's a chance
to make money, but second of all, it feels a
lot more aligned with what their parent program does. A
lot of the rules in college football are based upon
what the NFL does. You know they add a two
minute warning, why, well, the NFL has it. They have
(35:29):
their own little quirks sometimes on how they do things,
but again, overall, it's sort of a copy paste of
what the NFL has. And imagine if the AFC West
had to play eight divisional games and the NFC East
had They've decided they're going to play four or something.
(35:54):
How do you begin to evaluate that and compare teams
when they don't even have that in common with one another. Like,
the first thing I would do if the NCAA, if
they still want to pretend like to have some power,
the first thing I would do is go out and say, SEC,
you're playing non conference games because so is everybody else.
(36:16):
So you can base and you can't throw one of
those non conference games in Week ten. That's not allowed anymore.
Like that's where you see teams get tested late in
the year. Injuries pile up, Guys are tired, bodies are sore.
Can you get through the ringer before the end of
the season. I don't think you're allowed just to have
(36:38):
like a preseason game that's thrown in there. You shouldn't
be anyway. So even with all of that being said,
my beef with Kurt Signetti is why are you talking
as if you've been doing this for like fifteen years
and you're at the top of the heat. If somebody like,
I don't know, Dabo Swinning wants to say that, if
(36:58):
someone like Ryan Day wants to say that, if somebody
like it's another big non SEC coach, I would have said, harball,
Obviously he's not there anymore. James Franklin. I guess if
(37:18):
they want to do that, then fine. This guy's been
in Indiana for a season, had a good year. But
I don't think you've earned the right to talk that
trash to anybody. And he's been doing it quite a bit.
But again, pretty simple, I win google me. It's it's
not even as if I totally disagree with him. But
(37:40):
my beef, he's got this confused. My beef isn't with
who they schedule. If you want to play a cupcake
and play a cupcake, you just shouldn't do it three
quarters the way through the season. That's all those are
reserved for weeks one through three. If you want to
breeze through that at three and ohero and not really
(38:01):
be tested, then that's your decision. But you cannot go
out and schedule Tennessee Chattanooga right before you play Georgia.
Can't happen three oh three, five, four, nine, two five.
(38:25):
So Jokic is still doing his his China tour, and
god is he popular there. He's really popular with a
player by the name of Hanson Yang, who was a
first round pick this year. If you remember, Hanson Yang
was the very, very tall gentleman that was sitting in
the crowd on draft night, heard his name get called
(38:47):
and had to walk in between a few accountants on
his way to the podium. Hanson Yang is also a massive,
gigantic fan of Jokic and wants to model his game
after him. So this is a little back and forth
between Jokic and a Chinese reporter. There's an interpreter in here,
(39:11):
but just listen.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
He is good.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Oh I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So we're just starting at
Yo Kitchen's a.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Yeah, the video is kind of tough to hear and
without without the images translate the audio. But for context,
I think we played the clip a while ago where
Hanson Yang was at Summer League and people were asking
him about Yo Kicic and they asked him, what will
you do when you see him when you get the
chance to face him, and he said, I'm probably gonna
ask him for a picture.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
A picture in an autograph. Yea right, uh huh. So
here's what Jokic said back.
Speaker 3 (39:41):
He is good. He's good. I think I'm happy when
he gets in the prime that I'm going to be
out to believe. Probably I'm not. Actually, yeah, he's talented.
He's talented. Yes, we can have a picture of whatever
he wants. Said the only if he played bad against me,
(40:03):
Let's say like that, if I destroy him and I
score a lot of points, then yes, if he do that.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
No, if I destroy him, then yes. I'll tell you
what really caught my ear when I first heard that,
As he said, the good thing is when he's in
his prime, I'll be out of the league by then.
Into uh no, never mind.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
I was like, even he gets in the prime that
I'm going to be out to the league, probably.
Speaker 1 (40:28):
I'm not. Actually he was about to say like two years.
I was like, no, You're not going to be out
of the league in two years. And he caught himself too,
which is good, but that freaked me out for a second. See,
there's one thing I can't get rid of. You know.
Some people have this this constant fear that maybe they're
(40:49):
gonna get fired from work, or this constant fear like
maybe my girlfriend's cheating on me or something. They have
that in the back of their head. My fear that
plays on a loop is that Yoki is just hangs
it up, just goes I'm done. And that happens just
first of all, soon and second of all out of
the blue. A season ends and Jokics looks in the
(41:16):
camera after the last game of the season and goes, uh,
I had a lot of fun, but I'm out of here.
See you never. I can't get over it. I can't.
So I'm glad he caught himself himself once he started
talking about that. I do love this though. You want
(41:41):
to know how you're sort of a generational guy. Is
you inspire an entire group of kids coming up to
play in your style, and Jokichi's is so unique. It's
the same thing as what Steph did. When Steph got
in the league, he was so generational and so different
(42:02):
that you started seeing I think for it's it's been
bad for the sport overall, for the youth anyway of
kids hucking up threes from the logo, but that is
a total and complete homage to what Steph Curry is.
(42:24):
You've heard multiple people now, especially people outside the United States,
which I think is even more interesting, but a lot
of Europeans and now this this Chinese basketball player Hans
and Yang talking about I want to be Jokic. And
first of all, I think everybody should strive to play
the way that Jokic does. Just mentally you can't do
(42:47):
the things he does. But as far as being somebody
who is ultimate team guy, pass first, find different ways
to get a bucket, like that's the way you should
do it. Steph Curry plays the way Steph Curry does
because Steph Curry Steph Curry and can shoot the ball
from wherever he wants and make it. Ninety nine point
(43:09):
nine percent of us can't do that, but you can
develop a post game. So we'll get back to that
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