0:00 - We're live at training camp again! Brett's excited for camp because the Broncos actually have momentum! The whole roster (almost) from last season is coming back, and they can build on a solid foundation.
14:03 - Quinn Meinerz cut off his dreads! They're all gone! Hopefully that's not where all his powers were contained. Also, the Broncos need a RB they can trust. RB by committee is fine, but you still need ONE guy to rely on in clutch situations. The leader of the committee.
31:56 - The Morris Twins think they could take the Jokic Brothers in a boxing match. That's...a take, right there. RIP Morris Twins 1989-2025.
14:03 - Quinn Meinerz cut off his dreads! They're all gone! Hopefully that's not where all his powers were contained. Also, the Broncos need a RB they can trust. RB by committee is fine, but you still need ONE guy to rely on in clutch situations. The leader of the committee.
31:56 - The Morris Twins think they could take the Jokic Brothers in a boxing match. That's...a take, right there. RIP Morris Twins 1989-2025.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is six in the Morning with Brett Kine on demand.
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
I mean having the same O line is incredible. We
can just pick up right where we left off. You know,
all of our you know, calls that we've developed throughout
the years. We already kind of know what to do.
You know, we can move through our installs faster. We
can get into you know, more detail work, more technique stuff,
and a lot of the stuff that we've been building
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through the foundation is just kind of I don't have
to really think about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
First and foremost, I think he's just a smart player.
But then it's like, Okay, you get on the field
and you see how accurate he is, what kind of
arm he has. I think that kind of especially the
first day oltas like first ball was over everybody's head
and I was like, wow, like you have to be
you have to count for those kinds of things, and
not every game that you play in the NFL, you're
going to play a quarterback that can launch it that far.
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And so for him, he has that ability to just
get it over the defense head and so that changes
your perspective on how to play him and so far
to see it as a teammate that he is. It's
a great person, great player.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We're back. I'm sitting here, I'm looking at Jesse's face.
I haven't seen Jesse, I believe in four years. Jesse
is always out doing something, but never somewhere where I'm
around until training camp comes around. That's right, We're gonna
see all of our old friends here, and by that
(01:42):
I mean the leaf blower guy and some of the
people who cut the grass. They are our best friends.
It's part of the joy of being here at training
camp Broncos Park, powered by common spirit for a season
that I don't think we've had in a long time
as far anticipation in what to expect, a full sort
(02:06):
of grouping of in actual NFL contending type of roster.
When you look at the way that this team has
been built, and I've gone over this before, but the
inside out approach d line, offensive line, get quarterback figured out,
build out. From there you get to a point where
(02:27):
you start filling in. I would say that the last quote,
last things on the list, which is linebackers running backs.
You're in a position right now where this team has
something they haven't had in about a decade, which is consistency.
I think it's one of the biggest details in all
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of sports. It's one of the reasons why teams like
the Avs and the Nuggets have found themselves where they
are over the last seven eight years. Is that when
you mostly keep things together from a full front office
business standpoint of guys at the top, people are most
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important to your organization. From a position standpoint, all kind
of hanging there together for years in build chemistry. You
start to build an actual winner and contender. It's just
how it is. And so you look at things like,
it's the first year, what was the stat that we had, Nellie,
do you remember the year that I threw out there?
I don't got it in front of me. Now, is
it the first year since twenty fourteen the Broncos have
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had the same head coach in quarterback in back to
back years.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
About that time, basically since the Manning days.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you really want to break
it down from that standpoint, it's it's purely in solely like,
first of all, how is that that possible? Second, of all,
Consistency at the top breeds success, because what does consistency
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actually mean if you got like you, if you run
a small business, you know you have these sort of
demarcations of what makes you successful. Hey, we've been open
for five years, ten years, twenty fifty whatever. What that
really indicates is that you've been doing things at the
top correctly for that long and that's why things stay
in business. The only way you get consistency year over
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year is if things are working. You don't stick with
something that's dying. And that's been the Broncos problem for
a long time. You know the amount of training camps
I got here in twenty nineteen. We've been through the flacos,
and we've been through the drew locks, and we've been
through the Teddy bridgewaters, and we've been through the It
goes on and on and on. In each camp, you're
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just saying, man, can they hold it together? Like for
the first time in a long time, you're looking at
a starting quarterback and saying, not all is he here
in back to back years because you had that with
Russell Wilson, But you're having confidence because there's success to
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back it up. Like I love the idea that there
is a if you take a step back, it is
a complete and utter not just disappointment, but failure, because
if you're in that spot, you're looking around the roster.
(05:30):
And I've tried to do this and and say this
in different types of ways, like do I think the
Broncos roster is the most talented in the league? No,
I don't. But do you find a real legitimate weakness
on it? At least as of right now, I don't
see it. I don't All of the weaknesses that I
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thought they had last year they've addressed, with maybe one
exception being finding some sort of veteran why out to
go number two to Courtland Sutton. But we're entering this
camp not having major questions. It's just where can you
fill in the little things and can a few guys
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step up? And we've seen a couple of these indications already.
You know, when you look at the linebacker spot, which
is which was seen as one of the weakest on
the team. Now they got guys who I think came
in and filled in admirably last year, especially after the
Alex Singleton injury. When you talk about guys like Cody
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Barton and Justin Sternad and a whole bunch of other dudes.
But this year you have an all Pro caliber linebacker
in Drake Greenlaw. Alex Singleton is coming back from his injury,
and he's always somebody that's got his nose around the football.
But you also have competition in this sense. They're really
high on Drew Sanders, and Drew Sanders could compete for
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a lot of playing time in that spot. Like when
you're this level where the Broncos are just playoff team
hoping to get a step higher than that which is
thrown into sort of championship contending echelon, those are teams
that have the requisite depth to fill in behind it too.
And that's kind of what my eye is out for
(07:17):
here is we're at day one at least of us
for training camp. And by the way, looking around this place,
you know they got the cranes out here. There's Jesse.
Are those little bleachers? Is that where fans sit? How
many seats? Is that? Oh? They're up here, they're up here. Okay,
I got you, Oh families over there. Okay, that makes
(07:38):
more sense. There's not a lot of room here because
there's a whole bunch of construction going on. But it's
weird just looking out to our left and not seeing
that big giant hill anymore. Just construction. But it's it's
always like I I know, there's a lot of people
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that'll be like, you know, once we get two weeks,
three weeks here, it's the same thing, blah blah blah.
I love training camp and I love the beginning of
this stuff because you just get that, like that little
chill is there in the morning. Now you kind of
feel that football coming and you're doing it with a
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football team that should be a viable sort of contending team,
not just for the conference, for the division. And it's
one of the main things that I'm focused on. You know,
I don't know if you can put yourself sort of
in that conversation without saying can you beat the Chiefs
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or not? Like are you part of this AFC West battle?
And the answers absolutely you are for now, yes, But
what do you think of Kansas City? How do you
stack up and how do you combat what they have?
Kannas City's got a very simple formula. We have the
best quarterback in the league, with a couple of really
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good pieces surrounding him and a really good defense. Sounds
like you got the defense part figured out too. Now
what kind of level can bo Nicks go to to
be competitive? Like if we've been over this, but if
you're asking that guy to be better or as good
as Patrick Mahomes, I just think you're setting yourself up
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for disappointment. He doesn't need to be that. You can
do things. You can be competitive without the same caliber
a guy right there. But you have to be sure
that everything else that you do is on point. That
all of the different things that you found this offseason,
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Like you gotta get a little bit lucky. You got
to make sure that Drake Greenlaws stays healthy and Whufangus
stays healthy. You've got to make sure that you commit
to a running game. You got to make sure that
Evan Ingram's gonna stay on the field. Like all these
different details are gonna be the ones that sort of
add up to it. And if you hear some of
the quotes, I mean, Nelly played them going into this
hour to start from some of the new guys here
(10:08):
who are pretty damn good football players, Hufanga being one
of them, Like impressed impressed by what they've seen from
Bownicks so far. Still surprised yesterday that NFL Top one
hundred that he's above a name like Jordan Love. I
don't think we're quite very yet. But again, he's someone
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that if if you give him enough time to throw
or enough time to make a decision, he's probably going
to make the right one. The credit to him and
the biggest credit I can give Bo Nicks in year one,
he wasn't a guy that made a lot of mistakes.
He did a few, but that is to be expected
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with rookies. You know, from what I thought you were
going to have before the season started compared to what
you finished with was on night and day. I was
one of the guys heading into the season last year
that thought the Broncos were gonna be pretty damn bad,
like potentially picking Top five bad, like potentially having a
shot at Travis Hunter. Bad. And to their credit, I
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don't think, and this is a credit to the coaching
staff and Sean Payton specifically, I don't think there was
any more juice to squeeze out of that team. I
think you got the absolute most that you could and
then they saw the ceiling of where that team could
go recognize the weaknesses and address them in the offseason.
When you finished the season last year and you lose
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by what you did thirty one to seven in a
playoff game to the Buffalo, and everybody kind of shrugged
their shoulders and said, Yep, that feels like kind of
what I expected. That means you did everything humanly possible
to get you to that point. But to use that
as a building block and a foundation to start and
then move forward from there, I mean, that's outside of
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your like bizarre Jaden Daniel's rookie season, where you go
to an NFC championship game, I think it's pretty much
the most you could have hoped for. But now you've
set a floor, you've set an expectation where anything below
that is not good enough. And I know it's the
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monotonous days out here that that players kind of get
tired of almost immediately. But the point is when they
step foot on this field, at least they have an
idea of Okay, this is where we finished last year.
If we want to get to this point, we have
to do this, in this, in this to continue to improve.
So a lot more to talk about with this as
we go along. Today three zero three five four nine
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two five. Just a quick update from yesterday. Me and
Berdo we're talking about Justin Field's being carted off, and
I just kind of thought in my head, if this
is you know, when they say carted off with the
lower it leg injury, you think it's pretty devastating, season
ending type of stuff. And it sounded like they at
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least avoided that part of it, that it was a
I'll pull this up now, dislocated toe to where he
could even be on the field today in some former
fashion according to Ian Rappaport, So it looks like they
dodged a little bit of a bullet there. But I
was curious if one of those one of these quarterbacks
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go down in New York, just felt right would they
be throwing a phone call out to Cleveland being like, hey,
one of your eighteen qbs can I has some But
it sounds like Justin Fields is gonna be all right.
So day one a training camp. Few different news in
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notes that I want to share from yesterday, not just
from here, but around the NFL that we'll get to
in just a couple of minutes. New He's back in
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I had a fun six years with with the locks.
It was just kind of time to let them go.
Too much maintenance, too much of a distraction kind of thing,
and it just kind of moving on to the next thing,
next journey in a game under Yeah, I've picked him
up off the ground in games and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, it's it's good to have some short hair.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Now, like a super cuts or something.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, I got a guy that takes care of me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That is one of the best guards in the league,
Quinn Minors the belly not Look, I wouldn't have the
hair to do it anyway, so I'm not the guy
to speak on it. I've always thought, as much as
people like don't they don't like man buns, if I
could do a man bund, I'd probably do one. I would.
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I'd be one of those guys like I would have
long hair for a while and then I have short
hair and long and it just kind of go, you
know how like Brad Pitt does it like he's I
got a buzzed head, and then the next time you
see him, he's got flowing locks. If I had hair
that could do that, I would do it that way.
Dreads would never be one of them. That feels like
dreads are meant to look like you don't care, but
it feels like it takes a lot of maintenance to
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keep that together. Nelly, you look like people in the
industry you hang out with the music industry might have
a few of those. Do you have to wear a
trash bag over your head when you take a shower?
How does that work?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
You know, believe it or not. I haven't been any
I haven't been in any white boy reggae band, so
I haven't really encountered any any dreads up close and personal.
They're not as big in the brass band circles that
I run in.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, but Miners is now. I don't know if it's
short hair or buzzed head. He had the old like
do rag cap looking thing on, but he doesn't have
the dreads anymore. And I would think when you're on
the field, I've always thought this, whether you're miners or
especially like a skill position guy. I'm trying to think
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of one that very famously had hair that was pretty
long who had Give me, why is this so hard
to think of one so skill.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
A play with long hair like Troy.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, but I'm thinking more like an offensive guy where
you're you like you have the risk of being tackled. Oh,
some of these guys.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I remember Cedric Benson with his dreads coming out of
his helm.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Cedric Benson. Okay, that's a good one. But if you're
one of these guys, are running back or a wide
receiver and you're like, you're running downfield and somebody grabs
you by one of those and Yanks, you're Yanks.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just feel like that's an unnecessary risk that you're
throwing out there now. Quinn minors, he plays offensive line.
He said, I'm picking my dreads off the field, so
it's being used for them, and to my knowledge, there
is no penalty for grabbing somebody by the hair. It's
like a woman's catfight. It's like you just know what's coming.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And by the way, he got a couple questions about
his haircut and then he studied at the School of
Sean Payton because this is what he said after any
football questions.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh goodness, but but we got the laugh.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That giggle was him, so that the difference between him
and Sean.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The giggle was different. The giggle, Yeah, it's absolutely different.
But I'm just like, I'm out here to have fun. Okay,
I'm out here to have fun. And what you know,
there's plenty of football question to ask him. Would he
rather be asked about his hair? Or do you think
guys are going to do good this year? I mean,
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there's gonna be a whole bunch of those throwing his
way over the next month and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And do you have access to the text line out there,
because we're getting a couple good suggestions of dread offensive
players coming out of the helmets.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah. I thought about Ricky Williams. I didn't know if
Ricky Williams was long enough. Larry Fitzgial was another one.
He had the almost ponytail look to it, right, But
I remember there was somebody specifically that got drugged down
by his hair, and I can't remember who that was.
All think of it in a little bit. We're out
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I've been the guy pounding the table for this all
off season. I think it's it's one of the most
important things that you could figure out, you know. It's
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it's kind of a similar feeling I had towards the
Nuggets offseason where I was like, once they got Valentunas,
it felt like the biggest move of the off season
to me was that. And I know that opening up
the space by trading Michael Porter Michael Porter Junior was
sort of the thrust in making all the moves go.
But for me the Broncos, it all came down to
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one detail, and it's find a way to run the football.
And by going out there and getting JK. Dobbins, by
going out there and finding RJ. Harvey in the draft,
that it can open up so much for this offense
that was just missing last year. You know, it kind
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of felt as if you were doing the you were
just trying to like run in NFL style offense with
the non requisite pieces to do so. You know, we
always talk about the idea of the NFL pushing away
from the running game and embracing more of the passing game,
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and the running backs don't matter anymore. And then you
look at the teams that are successful, and you're like, oh,
so most playoff teams had a running back that you
would take on your roster right now. Immediately think about it.
When you picture the best teams in the NFL, just
go through them in your head for a second. Think
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of the just the top five best teams. Immediately that
jump into your brain. What do they all have in common?
They got a running back that they trust, you know,
Buffalo had James Cook. James Cook pretty good. How about Baltimore?
Derrick Henry is the al right, Philly won the Super Bowl?
Who was their running back? The guy who ran for
two thousand yards? I mean, the Chiefs are kind of
the exception. The Chiefs didn't have a running game last year,
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but they have Mahomes in an excellent defense that made
up for it. But even all the other playoff teams,
Detroit had pretty much two of them and David Montgomery
and Jamier Gibbs, Tampa had Bucky Irving. Everybody had someone
that they trusted and the Broncos didn't. And it was
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obvious in the way that they first utilized the run game,
but also just the raw numbers that they put out.
And this year with JK. Dobbins, who is a veteran
back who's had success, who's only knock against him has
been health. And look, I don't take that lightly like
I understand that that's a big concern that a lot
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of people have. But he rushed for nine hundred and
six yards and nine touchdowns last year. The Chargers didn't
bring him back. Why because he got hurt and he
gets hurt a lot. And here's what the Chargers chose
in the offseason. Because if Moser was here and not
in Italy, he would say something of this ilk to me,
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because it happens every year when I get to training camp.
He would say, if he's so good, then why'd they
let him go? It's very soon. Who told you that
they prioritized health over the production with risk of health
and that's why they got Najie Harris. What does Najie
Harris have that JK. Dobbins doesn't. A clean sheet of
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no missed games in his career and at that position,
that's incredibly impressive. Those guys get hit a lot. Now.
I don't know if you saw the picture of Najie
Harris at Chargers camp, he's wearing a hood. You know
how you can like put the hoodie over your head
and pull the strings and then your hoodie just turns
into a little like, uh, spacesuit mask where you only
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got this much of your face showing. So it was this,
and then he was wearing giant shades and why does
he look like that? It can't be that cold over
in Chargers Camp. And then he go, oh yeah, that
whole firework in the eye thing might be a little
worse than we thought. Like, my guess is that thing
looks gruesome because Najie Harris is acting like he's a
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He's treating his face like Michael Jackson treated his baby.
What was his baby's name, Blanket? Was that his baby's name?
I think so the kid who was never seen by anybody.
By the way, do me a favor, Nelly, look up
Blanket Jackson and tell me what's going on there? What happened?
Where's that kiddo? It's probably not a kid. The kid's
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probably older than me.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So you're saying, basically, Naji Harris is doing Paul Dano's
version of the Riddler from the patent Batman movie.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's just the what's it called? The the rap? Not
sarane rap? What kind of rap? It or maybe it
is Saran rap. I don't know what it was, but yes,
he's just hiding whatever is going on with his face,
because my guess is if he walked into camp with
no hoodie, no sunglasses and we saw his face and
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be like ew. And for a guy who's never been
hurt before, just having one of those go off right
next to your eyeball has to be incredibly scary. And
those are My brother lit one of those things off.
It looked like a rocket ship, and I don't This
is why I don't trust fireworks. Things explode and you're
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just relying on here's what you're relying on to make
sure you're safe, Jesse, look at me for a second.
Here is the firework, the thing that goes boom boom, right,
that could very much hurt if it was at you.
And here's the difference from you being safe and not.
Here's safe and I'm the wind. That's all it takes.
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And now all of a sudden, you're taking mortar fire.
Najie Harris found out the hard way.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Now put it in reverse, Nazi. And also it answer
to your question, Blanket Jackson is twenty three years old
now and he has broken into the film business. He's
got a couple of movies out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
What does he look like?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
He kinda you can see a little bit of Michael
and him, like knowing knowing that he is Michael Jackson's son.
You could see some of the facial features, but I
wouldn't have been able to pick that out.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wait, it says his name is beg now BG Jackson.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, technically his his legal name is Prince Michael Jackson,
but he was called Blanket or big.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You're right if you didn't know. That's all I remember
is I'm seeing like the Google images of Blanket Jackson's face,
and right next to it is when Michael Jackson just
held the baby over a balcony, And you're like, look,
I'm not the world's best parent or anything like that,
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but I have not done that before. Have I held
baby Jamal Kele over the hoover dam Maybe sue me Anyway.
I bring up the running backs because it's the easiest
way to make your offense go, especially to a higher level.
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And here's Sean Payton on why they wanted to get JK. Dobbins.
He said, I think it was important he got the
playbook for five for the five weeks he's not here.
He's a quick study, he's been in two offenses, and
he's someone who's smart, so it's good for him to
get in here. I think it was important. Let me
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tell you, especially why Sean Payton loves JK. Dobbins. There
is a requisite detail that you must have as a
Broncos running back to get playing time in this offense,
and it's pass protection. And most times pass protection comes
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from people who have been here, who have been in
the league, who are not afraid to stick their nose
into something to protect their QB. Now that takes a
lot of responsibility. It also takes a lot of football
IQ and a lot of times younger running backs struggle
with that part. I think it's part of the reason
why object Estimate had a hard time getting on the
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field last year. Let go of the football a couple
of times. Wasn't all that effective when he ran it either,
but nobody else really was. Javonte Williams played a lot
because DeVante Williams would pass protect and I think this
is the uphill battle that Jaliel is climbing this year.
I think Jalil still makes the roster, but having somebody
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five ft six, it's a tough ask for that guy
to stick his nose into, you know, an edge rusher
and slow that guy down enough to where bo Nix
isn't taken a hit. But JK. Dobbins is to me
an incredibly important piece to this offseason because, first of all,
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like if your hopes and dreams all come true, RJ.
Harvey becomes a top ten running back in the league,
and running backs can do that immediately in their rookie year.
Happens all the time. Young running backs step in and
play well immediately because you get the ball, you find
the hole, and you break it. And younger guys have
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a lot more explosiveness than veterans do most of the time.
So I have high hopes. My hope is that r J.
Harvey is the guy who's your number one running back
tote in the Rock. But JK. Dobbins is going to
play and provides pretty incredibly veteran savvy insurance in case RJ.
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Harvey isn't what you think. And so I think that's
a big detail, like I don't RJ. Harvey or I'm sorry. JK.
Dobbins is just a really interesting guy just with the
way his career has gone. Remember, he was really really
good in college, comes out, gets drafted high, he takes
a couple of injuries, kind of throws a roadblock to
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his development at the beginning of the year. But for
his career, he has had four hundred and twenty nine carries.
In those carries, he has ran for twenty two hundred
and fifty two yards. That comes out to an average
of five point two yards per carry, which would be
the highest in years for the Denver Broncos if he
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was able to do that. It's here's a d til
from SI dot com. However, what many Broncos fans may
not know about Dobbins is that his five point two
yards per carry career rushing average is the second highest
among all NFL running backs with at least four hundred
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and fifty two attempts. On top of that, his big
play rushing percentage amounts to the which amounts to the
number of rushes of ten plus yards, is the third
highest among all backs since twenty twenty. This isn't some
guy that they just brought in that they're like, yeah,
I hope he's okay. JK. Dobbins should be someone who
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if he stays healthy, is a major contributor to the offense.
And once again, when you make these sort of investments,
both in the draft and free agency, at that certain position,
Sean Payton does not have an excuse to not run
the football. And I don't think that's going to be
a problem this year. I don't. I really feel like
(29:59):
it was a person and l problem last year and
not a schematic issue. Because if it was, if this
is all about I don't care who the running back is,
I'm not gonna run it anyway because I'm so confident
in my past game, then why even invest in the
running back position at all? Why not just say, you
(30:19):
know what, it's oddrec estimates a lil mcloffin in the
backfield this year, and then whoever else we can find,
why go out and make the moves, you know it's
it's what's really interesting is this. If you want to
make that argument, then why did Sean Payton make zero
investments in the wide receiver position outside of Pat Bryant
in the third round, who I don't know how much
(30:40):
is gonna play this year, and two pretty damn high
investments in the running back spot. So again I can
think this, or you can think the opposite way of me,
and I guess we'll find out about a month end
of the season who's right on this. But it just
I'm trying to to follow the bread crumbs here to
(31:01):
the most logical explanation, and that's the one that makes
sense in my head. Not to mention this is again
in the same way we talked about the Nuggets off season.
It used to be an off season of I hopes
of I hope Julian Strather gets better, I hope Peyton
Watson takes a step. I hope zig Naji is an
actual guy. And then it became an off season of
(31:22):
I knows, which is I know what Bruce Brown is,
and I know what Valentiunis is, and I know what
Tim Hardaway brings to the table, and I it's I know, Well,
guess what. There's an I hope with r J. Harvey,
but there's also an I know with JK. Dobbins. And
here's what I know about JK. Dobbins. When healthy, He's
a very very good back that is going to get touches.
So again, out here Broncos Camp, as we will be
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to the Broncos in a second. I saw this story
from on three Sports yesterday about here's the headline. President
Donald Trump assigned a college sports executive order that prohibits
third party pay for play payments to collegiate athletes. And
I read through it, and let me tell you, guys
(32:29):
what I found out. I have no idea. I'm stupid,
I could. I can't figure any of this stuff out.
And I feel like it's going to change every single week.
It's gonna be another story like this if you aren't
allowed to do this and this, and it's like, well,
there is a loophole that you can I'm just I'm
living under the assumption that college sports has no rules anymore,
(32:52):
and it's just whatever you want to do, you go
ahead and make it happen. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna
fake like we have this governing overseeing board like I
don't even know what the NC DOUBLEA does anymore. I
would love to be an NC DOUBLEA employee. Actually, does
somebody want to sign me up for a job like that? Somebody,
can you go on LinkedIn or something for me and
(33:13):
just let me know if there's a job in the
NC DOUBLEA, because I'm pretty sure that job is you
just kind of twiddle your thumbs for about eight hours
a day, and you know, huh, it's getting nuts out here.
I think that's all they do. So, like, here's I
guess a cliff notes version of this deal. You know,
(33:35):
this was after the House versus NC DOUBLEA settlement that
was officially approved last month, where two point eight billion
dollars in back pay goes to athletes who compete it
from I don't know, like the day after I got
done in college sports to present. I mean, everybody's got this.
(33:56):
Here's the problem. Everybody's got this idea of like we
need to do something, and then nobody really knows how
to do it. And to try and police this again
is going to be I think, forget difficult, I think
almost impossible. I mean, if you really think about this,
(34:16):
think about the amount of athletic teams in the NCAA
just n I mean you're talking thousands upon thousands upon
thousands of just teams, and I'm saying football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, swimming, diving, skiing,
(34:38):
all the other things you can think of. And then
take all of those teams and all those sports and
combine them by the amount of individuals. And you're telling
me you can tell in this era of college athletics
when someone got paid a little bit more from a
party that they should like. There's no way. There's no
(35:00):
way anymore. So this you can sign all the executive
orders you want. I don't think there's any chance that
this actually happens, at least in the way that they think. Now.
One idea that I think is really good comes from
Dan Lanning and doesn't have to do with nil, but
it does have to do with streamlining the collegiate football
(35:24):
season and making it just a lot easier. So here's
the idea. He wants to turn Week zero, which is
that initial week where there's like six or seven games
being played the Saturday before the opening in college football,
and he wants to turn that Week zero into Week one,
(35:46):
shift up the season, end the postseason earlier, eliminate the
month long playoff buys. And his quote is play these
games faster and sooner. College football belongs on Saturday, not
the NFL. And I totally agree with him, Like the
idea that you have the best teams in the country
waiting a month before they play their championship games is insane.
(36:07):
It takes away all momentum, it takes away all this like,
just play if you want to give them a buye.
I mean, of course that makes sense. Sure the NFL
does that, especially if you're one of the elite teams
in the league. If you're if you're the team that's
at the top of the heap in your conference, you
get a bye. Going in the playoffs makes total sense.
(36:28):
But there should be no reason for these guys to
be sitting on a month before they play again. And
so I look, Dan Lanning, I kind of waffle back
and forth on this guy. I think sometimes he says
some really smart things and sometimes he says some stupid stuff.
Didn't like the way he talked about CU, especially in
Dion's first year. But this is a great idea, a
(36:51):
fantastic idea. So Burtrow just showed up to get Jesse.
Jesse's got to eat. He's growing, boy, so we got
him his McMuffin. By the way, smart play there, Jesse
throwing the hash brown in the middle of the Sami.
Good call. But I just saw the story yesterday because
(37:16):
Berto asked me, he goes, what's going on? Oh? Oh yeah,
let's go another direction. Do you got the audio of
the Shack podcast. Okay, let's take a trip down memory lane,
shall we? Mark Keith and Marcus Morris. Oh, a tradition
(37:37):
unlike any other. Sorry, I'm super distracted out here because
now we got the the long hair guys. But also Nelly,
if you remember last season, every day around this time,
our boy Brandon Jones will be out here barefoot doing
shuffles across the field. And guess what, he's back. He's back.
Good to see him. That's how you know it's training
(37:58):
camp time. I'm hearing somebody modelawn and Brandon Jones is
out here barefoot in the grass. But Shack has a podcast,
and if we take a trip down memory lane. The
Morris twins were very upset with Nicola Jokic after the
hit on Mark Keith, so much to the point where
they were threatening him where the k a Twitter account
(38:20):
and said watch your mouth and these guys we're talking
trash back. That ended quickly until this got brought up
with the Morris Twins on Shack's podcast.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
I'll just say that I'm terrified of Jic's brother. Wow,
that one dude looks so enormous.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He's with like the Mohawks. The bigger they are big too.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
We ain't I'm not I'm six two seventy. It ain't
like I'm a small guy. I'm bigger than them.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
We can arrange this, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Really leave. One of them is as an MMA fighter, so.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
He'd have to like he'd be one.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
He can't do that.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
We can get it on so only boxing boxing, this
could be done. We are in Vegas, Shack, I'm going
with the Philly boys. No, I wasn't asking who you're
I'm just saying you should. You own everything. I feel
like you could set this up.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
So I would actually love to see this. I really
would like for youet buying another guys, don't spend another
dime on Jake paul By this fight. The bigger they are,
the harder they fall. They said about a man who
(39:43):
is twice their size, and he's not wrong. He's six
ten two seventy. That's one of the morest twins. I
can't tell them apart one of them. But but Nikola
Jokicic is seven feet tall, three hundred pounds, and he
looks puny. He looks like Jesse Trujillo compared to Strahina.
(40:09):
And did you notice one thing that I loved when
they said when Shack goes, isn't one of them an
MMA fighter? Talking about Naemania? Isn't that his name? Namania?
And Strahina? Yes? Did you hear the pause after that?
And they go, oh, well, then it just has to
(40:29):
be boxing. It's like, no kidding because of his an
actual street fight, he'd kill you. And that's the whole point.
I thought these guys were tough guys.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
And Shack, once again continuing his disrespective Yogic's.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Going, I'm gonna take the Philly boys.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I wouldn't take the Philly boys, Shaq, I'd take the
Serbian boys.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I've heard some stories about the Morris twins and them, like,
I guess they can fight, but I don't think that
they understand. Look, I don't care if I'm like Connor McGregor,
or Kabibe or one of these like elite fighters in
the world. You hear some well, Kabebe wouldn't be scared
(41:10):
by this because he has it. You hear somebody with
an Eastern European accent who also looks tough. You don't
challenge that. I don't know what you've seen in your life.
I don't know what you've been through, but I've seen
enough movies to understand that if I don't have a
weapon on me, this is a bad idea. But I
(41:30):
love that that, Oh yeah, we can fight him. Well,
what about the one brother who's in the mma? Uh
so he gonna be grabbing and stuff. It's like, yeah,
when with somebody, there's typically no rules. But god, I
would love to see it. I really would like. I
(41:52):
would pay if they made that. Hang on, what's the
price that you wouldn't pay? Like a hundred bucks? I'm
in I buy that fight for a hundred bucks. If
I take it to two hundred, two hundred dollars, yes,
you're still buying that fight. I think I am too,
And maybe that's my cap if nothing else, I'll watch
the highlights afterwards. Now, But I would pay a substantial
(42:13):
amount of money to watch that.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
You said, Jake Balkin Kick Rocks and Netflix, this is
the fight that they should broadcast. So my question is
between the Morris brothers and the Jokic brothers, whose complete
and total bare ass would you want to see on
Netflix as a part of this fight?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Hens Good's noise, no question, like, I just want to see.
I want to see if just the keyster on that
guy is bigger than any human being in the room
surrounding him, and I want him to just like Mike Tyson,
I want him to kiss the guy who's asking him
the questions. I get still my favorite part of that
(42:50):
entire fight because I couldn't really see it because it
looked like it was broadcasting like two K Mike Tyson
answering questions, kissing the reporter who happens to be his son,
thank you, and then walking away with just a bare
two butt cheeks filling the middle of my screen. Win
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Speaker 2 (00:20):
I mean having the same O line is incredible. We
can just pick up right where we left off. You know,
all of our you know, calls that we've developed throughout
the years. We already kind of know what to do.
You know, we can move through our installs faster. We
can get into you know, more detail work, more technique stuff,
and a lot of the stuff that we've been building
(00:42):
through the foundation is just kind of I don't have
to really think about it anymore.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
First and foremost, I think he's just a smart player.
But then it's like, Okay, you get on the field
and you see how accurate he is, what kind of
arm he has. I think that kind of especially the
first day oltas like first ball was over everybody's head
and I was like, wow, like you have to be
you have to count for those kinds of things, and
not every game that you play in the NFL, you're
going to play a quarterback that can launch it that far.
(01:08):
And so for him, he has that ability to just
get it over the defense head and so that changes
your perspective on how to play him and so far
to see it as a teammate that he is. It's
a great person, great player.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
We're back. I'm sitting here, I'm looking at Jesse's face.
I haven't seen Jesse, I believe in four years. Jesse
is always out doing something, but never somewhere where I'm
around until training camp comes around. That's right, We're gonna
see all of our old friends here, and by that
(01:42):
I mean the leaf blower guy and some of the
people who cut the grass. They are our best friends.
It's part of the joy of being here at training
camp Broncos Park, powered by common spirit for a season
that I don't think we've had in a long time
as far anticipation in what to expect, a full sort
(02:06):
of grouping of in actual NFL contending type of roster.
When you look at the way that this team has
been built, and I've gone over this before, but the
inside out approach d line, offensive line, get quarterback figured out,
build out. From there you get to a point where
(02:27):
you start filling in. I would say that the last quote,
last things on the list, which is linebackers running backs.
You're in a position right now where this team has
something they haven't had in about a decade, which is consistency.
I think it's one of the biggest details in all
(02:49):
of sports. It's one of the reasons why teams like
the Avs and the Nuggets have found themselves where they
are over the last seven eight years. Is that when
you mostly keep things together from a full front office
business standpoint of guys at the top, people are most
(03:10):
important to your organization. From a position standpoint, all kind
of hanging there together for years in build chemistry. You
start to build an actual winner and contender. It's just
how it is. And so you look at things like,
it's the first year, what was the stat that we had, Nellie,
do you remember the year that I threw out there?
I don't got it in front of me. Now, is
it the first year since twenty fourteen the Broncos have
(03:33):
had the same head coach in quarterback in back to
back years.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
About that time, basically since the Manning days.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, if you really want to break
it down from that standpoint, it's it's purely in solely like,
first of all, how is that that possible? Second, of all,
Consistency at the top breeds success, because what does consistency
(04:01):
actually mean if you got like you, if you run
a small business, you know you have these sort of
demarcations of what makes you successful. Hey, we've been open
for five years, ten years, twenty fifty whatever. What that
really indicates is that you've been doing things at the
top correctly for that long and that's why things stay
in business. The only way you get consistency year over
(04:25):
year is if things are working. You don't stick with
something that's dying. And that's been the Broncos problem for
a long time. You know the amount of training camps
I got here in twenty nineteen. We've been through the flacos,
and we've been through the drew locks, and we've been
through the Teddy bridgewaters, and we've been through the It
goes on and on and on. In each camp, you're
(04:47):
just saying, man, can they hold it together? Like for
the first time in a long time, you're looking at
a starting quarterback and saying, not all is he here
in back to back years because you had that with
Russell Wilson, But you're having confidence because there's success to
(05:08):
back it up. Like I love the idea that there
is a if you take a step back, it is
a complete and utter not just disappointment, but failure, because
if you're in that spot, you're looking around the roster.
(05:30):
And I've tried to do this and and say this
in different types of ways, like do I think the
Broncos roster is the most talented in the league? No,
I don't. But do you find a real legitimate weakness
on it? At least as of right now, I don't
see it. I don't All of the weaknesses that I
(05:50):
thought they had last year they've addressed, with maybe one
exception being finding some sort of veteran why out to
go number two to Courtland Sutton. But we're entering this
camp not having major questions. It's just where can you
fill in the little things and can a few guys
(06:12):
step up? And we've seen a couple of these indications already.
You know, when you look at the linebacker spot, which
is which was seen as one of the weakest on
the team. Now they got guys who I think came
in and filled in admirably last year, especially after the
Alex Singleton injury. When you talk about guys like Cody
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Barton and Justin Sternad and a whole bunch of other dudes.
But this year you have an all Pro caliber linebacker
in Drake Greenlaw. Alex Singleton is coming back from his injury,
and he's always somebody that's got his nose around the football.
But you also have competition in this sense. They're really
high on Drew Sanders, and Drew Sanders could compete for
(06:55):
a lot of playing time in that spot. Like when
you're this level where the Broncos are just playoff team
hoping to get a step higher than that which is
thrown into sort of championship contending echelon, those are teams
that have the requisite depth to fill in behind it too.
And that's kind of what my eye is out for
(07:17):
here is we're at day one at least of us
for training camp. And by the way, looking around this place,
you know they got the cranes out here. There's Jesse.
Are those little bleachers? Is that where fans sit? How
many seats? Is that? Oh? They're up here, they're up here. Okay,
I got you, Oh families over there. Okay, that makes
(07:38):
more sense. There's not a lot of room here because
there's a whole bunch of construction going on. But it's
weird just looking out to our left and not seeing
that big giant hill anymore. Just construction. But it's it's
always like I I know, there's a lot of people
(07:59):
that'll be like, you know, once we get two weeks,
three weeks here, it's the same thing, blah blah blah.
I love training camp and I love the beginning of
this stuff because you just get that, like that little
chill is there in the morning. Now you kind of
feel that football coming and you're doing it with a
(08:20):
football team that should be a viable sort of contending team,
not just for the conference, for the division. And it's
one of the main things that I'm focused on. You know,
I don't know if you can put yourself sort of
in that conversation without saying can you beat the Chiefs
(08:42):
or not? Like are you part of this AFC West battle?
And the answers absolutely you are for now, yes, But
what do you think of Kansas City? How do you
stack up and how do you combat what they have?
Kannas City's got a very simple formula. We have the
best quarterback in the league, with a couple of really
(09:02):
good pieces surrounding him and a really good defense. Sounds
like you got the defense part figured out too. Now
what kind of level can bo Nicks go to to
be competitive? Like if we've been over this, but if
you're asking that guy to be better or as good
as Patrick Mahomes, I just think you're setting yourself up
(09:25):
for disappointment. He doesn't need to be that. You can
do things. You can be competitive without the same caliber
a guy right there. But you have to be sure
that everything else that you do is on point. That
all of the different things that you found this offseason,
(09:46):
Like you gotta get a little bit lucky. You got
to make sure that Drake Greenlaws stays healthy and Whufangus
stays healthy. You've got to make sure that you commit
to a running game. You got to make sure that
Evan Ingram's gonna stay on the field. Like all these
different details are gonna be the ones that sort of
add up to it. And if you hear some of
the quotes, I mean, Nelly played them going into this
hour to start from some of the new guys here
(10:08):
who are pretty damn good football players, Hufanga being one
of them, Like impressed impressed by what they've seen from
Bownicks so far. Still surprised yesterday that NFL Top one
hundred that he's above a name like Jordan Love. I
don't think we're quite very yet. But again, he's someone
(10:29):
that if if you give him enough time to throw
or enough time to make a decision, he's probably going
to make the right one. The credit to him and
the biggest credit I can give Bo Nicks in year one,
he wasn't a guy that made a lot of mistakes.
He did a few, but that is to be expected
(10:51):
with rookies. You know, from what I thought you were
going to have before the season started compared to what
you finished with was on night and day. I was
one of the guys heading into the season last year
that thought the Broncos were gonna be pretty damn bad,
like potentially picking Top five bad, like potentially having a
shot at Travis Hunter. Bad. And to their credit, I
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don't think, and this is a credit to the coaching
staff and Sean Payton specifically, I don't think there was
any more juice to squeeze out of that team. I
think you got the absolute most that you could and
then they saw the ceiling of where that team could
go recognize the weaknesses and address them in the offseason.
When you finished the season last year and you lose
(11:36):
by what you did thirty one to seven in a
playoff game to the Buffalo, and everybody kind of shrugged
their shoulders and said, Yep, that feels like kind of
what I expected. That means you did everything humanly possible
to get you to that point. But to use that
as a building block and a foundation to start and
then move forward from there, I mean, that's outside of
(12:01):
your like bizarre Jaden Daniel's rookie season, where you go
to an NFC championship game, I think it's pretty much
the most you could have hoped for. But now you've
set a floor, you've set an expectation where anything below
that is not good enough. And I know it's the
(12:21):
monotonous days out here that that players kind of get
tired of almost immediately. But the point is when they
step foot on this field, at least they have an
idea of Okay, this is where we finished last year.
If we want to get to this point, we have
to do this, in this, in this to continue to improve.
So a lot more to talk about with this as
we go along. Today three zero three five four nine
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two five. Just a quick update from yesterday. Me and
Berdo we're talking about Justin Field's being carted off, and
I just kind of thought in my head, if this
is you know, when they say carted off with the
lower it leg injury, you think it's pretty devastating, season
ending type of stuff. And it sounded like they at
(13:04):
least avoided that part of it, that it was a
I'll pull this up now, dislocated toe to where he
could even be on the field today in some former
fashion according to Ian Rappaport, So it looks like they
dodged a little bit of a bullet there. But I
was curious if one of those one of these quarterbacks
(13:26):
go down in New York, just felt right would they
be throwing a phone call out to Cleveland being like, hey,
one of your eighteen qbs can I has some But
it sounds like Justin Fields is gonna be all right.
So day one a training camp. Few different news in
(13:47):
notes that I want to share from yesterday, not just
from here, but around the NFL that we'll get to
in just a couple of minutes. New He's back in
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Speaker 2 (14:04):
Yeah, I had a fun six years with with the locks.
It was just kind of time to let them go.
Too much maintenance, too much of a distraction kind of thing,
and it just kind of moving on to the next thing,
next journey in a game under Yeah, I've picked him
up off the ground in games and stuff.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, it's so.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
No, it's it's good to have some short hair.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Now, like a super cuts or something.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
No, I got a guy that takes care of me.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
That is one of the best guards in the league,
Quinn Minors the belly not Look, I wouldn't have the
hair to do it anyway, so I'm not the guy
to speak on it. I've always thought, as much as
people like don't they don't like man buns, if I
could do a man bund, I'd probably do one. I would.
(14:52):
I'd be one of those guys like I would have
long hair for a while and then I have short
hair and long and it just kind of go, you
know how like Brad Pitt does it like he's I
got a buzzed head, and then the next time you
see him, he's got flowing locks. If I had hair
that could do that, I would do it that way.
Dreads would never be one of them. That feels like
dreads are meant to look like you don't care, but
it feels like it takes a lot of maintenance to
(15:13):
keep that together. Nelly, you look like people in the
industry you hang out with the music industry might have
a few of those. Do you have to wear a
trash bag over your head when you take a shower?
How does that work?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
You know, believe it or not. I haven't been any
I haven't been in any white boy reggae band, so
I haven't really encountered any any dreads up close and personal.
They're not as big in the brass band circles that
I run in.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yeah, but Miners is now. I don't know if it's
short hair or buzzed head. He had the old like
do rag cap looking thing on, but he doesn't have
the dreads anymore. And I would think when you're on
the field, I've always thought this, whether you're miners or
especially like a skill position guy. I'm trying to think
(16:01):
of one that very famously had hair that was pretty
long who had Give me, why is this so hard
to think of one so skill.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
A play with long hair like Troy.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, but I'm thinking more like an offensive guy where
you're you like you have the risk of being tackled. Oh,
some of these guys.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I remember Cedric Benson with his dreads coming out of
his helm.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Cedric Benson. Okay, that's a good one. But if you're
one of these guys, are running back or a wide
receiver and you're like, you're running downfield and somebody grabs
you by one of those and Yanks, you're Yanks.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
You.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I just feel like that's an unnecessary risk that you're
throwing out there now. Quinn minors, he plays offensive line.
He said, I'm picking my dreads off the field, so
it's being used for them, and to my knowledge, there
is no penalty for grabbing somebody by the hair. It's
like a woman's catfight. It's like you just know what's coming.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
And by the way, he got a couple questions about
his haircut and then he studied at the School of
Sean Payton because this is what he said after any
football questions.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Oh goodness, but but we got the laugh.
Speaker 4 (17:09):
That giggle was him, so that the difference between him
and Sean.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
The giggle was different. The giggle, Yeah, it's absolutely different.
But I'm just like, I'm out here to have fun. Okay,
I'm out here to have fun. And what you know,
there's plenty of football question to ask him. Would he
rather be asked about his hair? Or do you think
guys are going to do good this year? I mean,
(17:34):
there's gonna be a whole bunch of those throwing his
way over the next month and a half.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
And do you have access to the text line out there,
because we're getting a couple good suggestions of dread offensive
players coming out of the helmets.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Yeah. I thought about Ricky Williams. I didn't know if
Ricky Williams was long enough. Larry Fitzgial was another one.
He had the almost ponytail look to it, right, But
I remember there was somebody specifically that got drugged down
by his hair, and I can't remember who that was.
All think of it in a little bit. We're out
(18:06):
here at training camp, and training camp coverage on Altitude
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I've been the guy pounding the table for this all
off season. I think it's it's one of the most
important things that you could figure out, you know. It's
(18:30):
it's kind of a similar feeling I had towards the
Nuggets offseason where I was like, once they got Valentunas,
it felt like the biggest move of the off season
to me was that. And I know that opening up
the space by trading Michael Porter Michael Porter Junior was
sort of the thrust in making all the moves go.
But for me the Broncos, it all came down to
(18:54):
one detail, and it's find a way to run the football.
And by going out there and getting JK. Dobbins, by
going out there and finding RJ. Harvey in the draft,
that it can open up so much for this offense
that was just missing last year. You know, it kind
(19:17):
of felt as if you were doing the you were
just trying to like run in NFL style offense with
the non requisite pieces to do so. You know, we
always talk about the idea of the NFL pushing away
from the running game and embracing more of the passing game,
(19:40):
and the running backs don't matter anymore. And then you
look at the teams that are successful, and you're like, oh,
so most playoff teams had a running back that you
would take on your roster right now. Immediately think about it.
When you picture the best teams in the NFL, just
go through them in your head for a second. Think
(20:00):
of the just the top five best teams. Immediately that
jump into your brain. What do they all have in common?
They got a running back that they trust, you know,
Buffalo had James Cook. James Cook pretty good. How about Baltimore?
Derrick Henry is the al right, Philly won the Super Bowl?
Who was their running back? The guy who ran for
two thousand yards? I mean, the Chiefs are kind of
the exception. The Chiefs didn't have a running game last year,
(20:22):
but they have Mahomes in an excellent defense that made
up for it. But even all the other playoff teams,
Detroit had pretty much two of them and David Montgomery
and Jamier Gibbs, Tampa had Bucky Irving. Everybody had someone
that they trusted and the Broncos didn't. And it was
(20:44):
obvious in the way that they first utilized the run game,
but also just the raw numbers that they put out.
And this year with JK. Dobbins, who is a veteran
back who's had success, who's only knock against him has
been health. And look, I don't take that lightly like
I understand that that's a big concern that a lot
(21:04):
of people have. But he rushed for nine hundred and
six yards and nine touchdowns last year. The Chargers didn't
bring him back. Why because he got hurt and he
gets hurt a lot. And here's what the Chargers chose
in the offseason. Because if Moser was here and not
in Italy, he would say something of this ilk to me,
(21:27):
because it happens every year when I get to training camp.
He would say, if he's so good, then why'd they
let him go? It's very soon. Who told you that
they prioritized health over the production with risk of health
and that's why they got Najie Harris. What does Najie
Harris have that JK. Dobbins doesn't. A clean sheet of
(21:49):
no missed games in his career and at that position,
that's incredibly impressive. Those guys get hit a lot. Now.
I don't know if you saw the picture of Najie
Harris at Chargers camp, he's wearing a hood. You know
how you can like put the hoodie over your head
and pull the strings and then your hoodie just turns
into a little like, uh, spacesuit mask where you only
(22:11):
got this much of your face showing. So it was this,
and then he was wearing giant shades and why does
he look like that? It can't be that cold over
in Chargers Camp. And then he go, oh yeah, that
whole firework in the eye thing might be a little
worse than we thought. Like, my guess is that thing
looks gruesome because Najie Harris is acting like he's a
(22:35):
He's treating his face like Michael Jackson treated his baby.
What was his baby's name, Blanket? Was that his baby's name?
I think so the kid who was never seen by anybody.
By the way, do me a favor, Nelly, look up
Blanket Jackson and tell me what's going on there? What happened?
Where's that kiddo? It's probably not a kid. The kid's
(22:56):
probably older than me.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
So you're saying, basically, Naji Harris is doing Paul Dano's
version of the Riddler from the patent Batman movie.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
It's just the what's it called? The the rap? Not
sarane rap? What kind of rap? It or maybe it
is Saran rap. I don't know what it was, but yes,
he's just hiding whatever is going on with his face,
because my guess is if he walked into camp with
no hoodie, no sunglasses and we saw his face and
(23:26):
be like ew. And for a guy who's never been
hurt before, just having one of those go off right
next to your eyeball has to be incredibly scary. And
those are My brother lit one of those things off.
It looked like a rocket ship, and I don't This
is why I don't trust fireworks. Things explode and you're
(23:47):
just relying on here's what you're relying on to make
sure you're safe, Jesse, look at me for a second.
Here is the firework, the thing that goes boom boom, right,
that could very much hurt if it was at you.
And here's the difference from you being safe and not.
Here's safe and I'm the wind. That's all it takes.
(24:09):
And now all of a sudden, you're taking mortar fire.
Najie Harris found out the hard way.
Speaker 4 (24:14):
Now put it in reverse, Nazi. And also it answer
to your question, Blanket Jackson is twenty three years old
now and he has broken into the film business. He's
got a couple of movies out.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
What does he look like?
Speaker 4 (24:29):
He kinda you can see a little bit of Michael
and him, like knowing knowing that he is Michael Jackson's son.
You could see some of the facial features, but I
wouldn't have been able to pick that out.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Wait, it says his name is beg now BG Jackson.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Well, technically his his legal name is Prince Michael Jackson,
but he was called Blanket or big.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
You're right if you didn't know. That's all I remember
is I'm seeing like the Google images of Blanket Jackson's face,
and right next to it is when Michael Jackson just
held the baby over a balcony, And you're like, look,
I'm not the world's best parent or anything like that,
(25:10):
but I have not done that before. Have I held
baby Jamal Kele over the hoover dam Maybe sue me Anyway.
I bring up the running backs because it's the easiest
way to make your offense go, especially to a higher level.
(25:32):
And here's Sean Payton on why they wanted to get JK. Dobbins.
He said, I think it was important he got the
playbook for five for the five weeks he's not here.
He's a quick study, he's been in two offenses, and
he's someone who's smart, so it's good for him to
get in here. I think it was important. Let me
(25:53):
tell you, especially why Sean Payton loves JK. Dobbins. There
is a requisite detail that you must have as a
Broncos running back to get playing time in this offense,
and it's pass protection. And most times pass protection comes
(26:15):
from people who have been here, who have been in
the league, who are not afraid to stick their nose
into something to protect their QB. Now that takes a
lot of responsibility. It also takes a lot of football
IQ and a lot of times younger running backs struggle
with that part. I think it's part of the reason
why object Estimate had a hard time getting on the
(26:36):
field last year. Let go of the football a couple
of times. Wasn't all that effective when he ran it either,
but nobody else really was. Javonte Williams played a lot
because DeVante Williams would pass protect and I think this
is the uphill battle that Jaliel is climbing this year.
I think Jalil still makes the roster, but having somebody
(26:58):
five ft six, it's a tough ask for that guy
to stick his nose into, you know, an edge rusher
and slow that guy down enough to where bo Nix
isn't taken a hit. But JK. Dobbins is to me
an incredibly important piece to this offseason because, first of all,
(27:21):
like if your hopes and dreams all come true, RJ.
Harvey becomes a top ten running back in the league,
and running backs can do that immediately in their rookie year.
Happens all the time. Young running backs step in and
play well immediately because you get the ball, you find
the hole, and you break it. And younger guys have
(27:41):
a lot more explosiveness than veterans do most of the time.
So I have high hopes. My hope is that r J.
Harvey is the guy who's your number one running back
tote in the Rock. But JK. Dobbins is going to
play and provides pretty incredibly veteran savvy insurance in case RJ.
(28:05):
Harvey isn't what you think. And so I think that's
a big detail, like I don't RJ. Harvey or I'm sorry. JK.
Dobbins is just a really interesting guy just with the
way his career has gone. Remember, he was really really
good in college, comes out, gets drafted high, he takes
a couple of injuries, kind of throws a roadblock to
(28:31):
his development at the beginning of the year. But for
his career, he has had four hundred and twenty nine carries.
In those carries, he has ran for twenty two hundred
and fifty two yards. That comes out to an average
of five point two yards per carry, which would be
the highest in years for the Denver Broncos if he
(28:54):
was able to do that. It's here's a d til
from SI dot com. However, what many Broncos fans may
not know about Dobbins is that his five point two
yards per carry career rushing average is the second highest
among all NFL running backs with at least four hundred
(29:14):
and fifty two attempts. On top of that, his big
play rushing percentage amounts to the which amounts to the
number of rushes of ten plus yards, is the third
highest among all backs since twenty twenty. This isn't some
guy that they just brought in that they're like, yeah,
I hope he's okay. JK. Dobbins should be someone who
(29:36):
if he stays healthy, is a major contributor to the offense.
And once again, when you make these sort of investments,
both in the draft and free agency, at that certain position,
Sean Payton does not have an excuse to not run
the football. And I don't think that's going to be
a problem this year. I don't. I really feel like
(29:59):
it was a person and l problem last year and
not a schematic issue. Because if it was, if this
is all about I don't care who the running back is,
I'm not gonna run it anyway because I'm so confident
in my past game, then why even invest in the
running back position at all? Why not just say, you
(30:19):
know what, it's oddrec estimates a lil mcloffin in the
backfield this year, and then whoever else we can find,
why go out and make the moves, you know it's
it's what's really interesting is this. If you want to
make that argument, then why did Sean Payton make zero
investments in the wide receiver position outside of Pat Bryant
in the third round, who I don't know how much
(30:40):
is gonna play this year, and two pretty damn high
investments in the running back spot. So again I can
think this, or you can think the opposite way of me,
and I guess we'll find out about a month end
of the season who's right on this. But it just
I'm trying to to follow the bread crumbs here to
(31:01):
the most logical explanation, and that's the one that makes
sense in my head. Not to mention this is again
in the same way we talked about the Nuggets off season.
It used to be an off season of I hopes
of I hope Julian Strather gets better, I hope Peyton
Watson takes a step. I hope zig Naji is an
actual guy. And then it became an off season of
(31:22):
I knows, which is I know what Bruce Brown is,
and I know what Valentiunis is, and I know what
Tim Hardaway brings to the table, and I it's I know, Well,
guess what. There's an I hope with r J. Harvey,
but there's also an I know with JK. Dobbins. And
here's what I know about JK. Dobbins. When healthy, He's
a very very good back that is going to get touches.
So again, out here Broncos Camp, as we will be
(31:45):
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Radio is powered by rob Most Law, the official injury
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(32:06):
to the Broncos in a second. I saw this story
from on three Sports yesterday about here's the headline. President
Donald Trump assigned a college sports executive order that prohibits
third party pay for play payments to collegiate athletes. And
I read through it, and let me tell you, guys
(32:29):
what I found out. I have no idea. I'm stupid,
I could. I can't figure any of this stuff out.
And I feel like it's going to change every single week.
It's gonna be another story like this if you aren't
allowed to do this and this, and it's like, well,
there is a loophole that you can I'm just I'm
living under the assumption that college sports has no rules anymore,
(32:52):
and it's just whatever you want to do, you go
ahead and make it happen. Okay, we're gonna we're gonna
fake like we have this governing overseeing board like I
don't even know what the NC DOUBLEA does anymore. I
would love to be an NC DOUBLEA employee. Actually, does
somebody want to sign me up for a job like that? Somebody,
can you go on LinkedIn or something for me and
(33:13):
just let me know if there's a job in the
NC DOUBLEA, because I'm pretty sure that job is you
just kind of twiddle your thumbs for about eight hours
a day, and you know, huh, it's getting nuts out here.
I think that's all they do. So, like, here's I
guess a cliff notes version of this deal. You know,
(33:35):
this was after the House versus NC DOUBLEA settlement that
was officially approved last month, where two point eight billion
dollars in back pay goes to athletes who compete it
from I don't know, like the day after I got
done in college sports to present. I mean, everybody's got this.
(33:56):
Here's the problem. Everybody's got this idea of like we
need to do something, and then nobody really knows how
to do it. And to try and police this again
is going to be I think, forget difficult, I think
almost impossible. I mean, if you really think about this,
(34:16):
think about the amount of athletic teams in the NCAA
just n I mean you're talking thousands upon thousands upon
thousands of just teams, and I'm saying football, basketball, baseball, softball, volleyball, swimming, diving, skiing,
(34:38):
all the other things you can think of. And then
take all of those teams and all those sports and
combine them by the amount of individuals. And you're telling
me you can tell in this era of college athletics
when someone got paid a little bit more from a
party that they should like. There's no way. There's no
(35:00):
way anymore. So this you can sign all the executive
orders you want. I don't think there's any chance that
this actually happens, at least in the way that they think. Now.
One idea that I think is really good comes from
Dan Lanning and doesn't have to do with nil, but
it does have to do with streamlining the collegiate football
(35:24):
season and making it just a lot easier. So here's
the idea. He wants to turn Week zero, which is
that initial week where there's like six or seven games
being played the Saturday before the opening in college football,
and he wants to turn that Week zero into Week one,
(35:46):
shift up the season, end the postseason earlier, eliminate the
month long playoff buys. And his quote is play these
games faster and sooner. College football belongs on Saturday, not
the NFL. And I totally agree with him, Like the
idea that you have the best teams in the country
waiting a month before they play their championship games is insane.
(36:07):
It takes away all momentum, it takes away all this like,
just play if you want to give them a buye.
I mean, of course that makes sense. Sure the NFL
does that, especially if you're one of the elite teams
in the league. If you're if you're the team that's
at the top of the heap in your conference, you
get a bye. Going in the playoffs makes total sense.
(36:28):
But there should be no reason for these guys to
be sitting on a month before they play again. And
so I look, Dan Lanning, I kind of waffle back
and forth on this guy. I think sometimes he says
some really smart things and sometimes he says some stupid stuff.
Didn't like the way he talked about CU, especially in
Dion's first year. But this is a great idea, a
(36:51):
fantastic idea. So Burtrow just showed up to get Jesse.
Jesse's got to eat. He's growing, boy, so we got
him his McMuffin. By the way, smart play there, Jesse
throwing the hash brown in the middle of the Sami.
Good call. But I just saw the story yesterday because
(37:16):
Berto asked me, he goes, what's going on? Oh? Oh yeah,
let's go another direction. Do you got the audio of
the Shack podcast. Okay, let's take a trip down memory lane,
shall we? Mark Keith and Marcus Morris. Oh, a tradition
(37:37):
unlike any other. Sorry, I'm super distracted out here because
now we got the the long hair guys. But also Nelly,
if you remember last season, every day around this time,
our boy Brandon Jones will be out here barefoot doing
shuffles across the field. And guess what, he's back. He's back.
Good to see him. That's how you know it's training
(37:58):
camp time. I'm hearing somebody modelawn and Brandon Jones is
out here barefoot in the grass. But Shack has a podcast,
and if we take a trip down memory lane. The
Morris twins were very upset with Nicola Jokic after the
hit on Mark Keith, so much to the point where
they were threatening him where the k a Twitter account
(38:20):
and said watch your mouth and these guys we're talking
trash back. That ended quickly until this got brought up
with the Morris Twins on Shack's podcast.
Speaker 5 (38:35):
I'll just say that I'm terrified of Jic's brother. Wow,
that one dude looks so enormous.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
He's with like the Mohawks. The bigger they are big too.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (38:48):
We ain't I'm not I'm six two seventy. It ain't
like I'm a small guy. I'm bigger than them.
Speaker 5 (38:53):
We can arrange this, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Really leave. One of them is as an MMA fighter, so.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
He'd have to like he'd be one.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
He can't do that.
Speaker 5 (39:03):
We can get it on so only boxing boxing, this
could be done. We are in Vegas, Shack, I'm going
with the Philly boys. No, I wasn't asking who you're
I'm just saying you should. You own everything. I feel
like you could set this up.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
So I would actually love to see this. I really
would like for youet buying another guys, don't spend another
dime on Jake paul By this fight. The bigger they are,
the harder they fall. They said about a man who
(39:43):
is twice their size, and he's not wrong. He's six
ten two seventy. That's one of the morest twins. I
can't tell them apart one of them. But but Nikola
Jokicic is seven feet tall, three hundred pounds, and he
looks puny. He looks like Jesse Trujillo compared to Strahina.
(40:09):
And did you notice one thing that I loved when
they said when Shack goes, isn't one of them an
MMA fighter? Talking about Naemania? Isn't that his name? Namania?
And Strahina? Yes? Did you hear the pause after that?
And they go, oh, well, then it just has to
(40:29):
be boxing. It's like, no kidding because of his an
actual street fight, he'd kill you. And that's the whole point.
I thought these guys were tough guys.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
And Shack, once again continuing his disrespective Yogic's.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
Going, I'm gonna take the Philly boys.
Speaker 4 (40:42):
I wouldn't take the Philly boys, Shaq, I'd take the
Serbian boys.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
I've heard some stories about the Morris twins and them, like,
I guess they can fight, but I don't think that
they understand. Look, I don't care if I'm like Connor McGregor,
or Kabibe or one of these like elite fighters in
the world. You hear some well, Kabebe wouldn't be scared
(41:10):
by this because he has it. You hear somebody with
an Eastern European accent who also looks tough. You don't
challenge that. I don't know what you've seen in your life.
I don't know what you've been through, but I've seen
enough movies to understand that if I don't have a
weapon on me, this is a bad idea. But I
(41:30):
love that that, Oh yeah, we can fight him. Well,
what about the one brother who's in the mma? Uh
so he gonna be grabbing and stuff. It's like, yeah,
when with somebody, there's typically no rules. But god, I
would love to see it. I really would like. I
(41:52):
would pay if they made that. Hang on, what's the
price that you wouldn't pay? Like a hundred bucks? I'm
in I buy that fight for a hundred bucks. If
I take it to two hundred, two hundred dollars, yes,
you're still buying that fight. I think I am too,
And maybe that's my cap if nothing else, I'll watch
the highlights afterwards. Now, But I would pay a substantial
(42:13):
amount of money to watch that.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
You said, Jake Balkin Kick Rocks and Netflix, this is
the fight that they should broadcast. So my question is
between the Morris brothers and the Jokic brothers, whose complete
and total bare ass would you want to see on
Netflix as a part of this fight?
Speaker 1 (42:29):
Hens Good's noise, no question, like, I just want to see.
I want to see if just the keyster on that
guy is bigger than any human being in the room
surrounding him, and I want him to just like Mike Tyson,
I want him to kiss the guy who's asking him
the questions. I get still my favorite part of that
(42:50):
entire fight because I couldn't really see it because it
looked like it was broadcasting like two K Mike Tyson
answering questions, kissing the reporter who happens to be his son,
thank you, and then walking away with just a bare
two butt cheeks filling the middle of my screen. Win
(43:13):
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