7-29-25 - Sutton signs an extension/Mitigating injuries, new-look RB room/Luka Doncic's revenge body

0:00 - Courtland Sutton signed an extension with the Broncos! 4-years, $92 million. Good for Court. Do we like the contract? Is it the right value for Sutton's production?

14:27 - Training camp is always about mitigating injuries. It's always a fine line of getting guys into football shape with full-on drills, but also wanting to keep everyone safe. So far, the Broncos have had a handful of injuries in this camp, but none of them seem TOO catastrophic or season ending.
Next, how is the new-look running back room shaping up as the team begins padded drills?

31:51 - Luka Doncic is looking SVELT. He's literally on the cover of Men's Health Magazine. He's a coverboy. Nico Harrison created a monster. Truly.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
But here's a thirty one next deep he's gusly see
the touchdown.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Sutton take beat mcduffy, the old pro Portland Sutton Lesso's
a thirty two.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Yard touchdown pass and Nick with his second touchdown pass today.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
You know one of the things that he does well, certainly,
he's a strong target, he's smart, he's one of our
I would say, clearly one of our leaders on this team.
So there's a lot of things that he brings to
the table.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
What the word is big brought both way?

Speaker 1 (00:57):
You feel me in the threads, hold on, check me out,
set me up, set me I in the threat Man, Broncos,
don't you sold out?

Speaker 2 (01:04):
Man? Come on, man, best man basing the league? Kill me? Yeah,
another day out here at Broncos Park, and guess what
the long awaited answer to the question is here.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Courtland.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Something's gonna be around for a while longer. And I'll
be honest, I was the guy that I was very
hesitant to give him that kind of money. Not because
of anything out of a trust or his game even
it's just about what happens to guys who turn thirty

(01:47):
at that position, and they obviously think that he is
going to have at least another couple of years. Now,
this is a four year, ninety two million dollar extension,
but it's not really four years ninety two million dollars.
I'll get to that in just a second. But you
look at wide receiver contracts across the league and there

(02:11):
are guys who are paid very, very highly. You have
Jamar Chase making forty million dollars a year, Justin Jefferson
getting thirty five, Ceedee Lamb thirty four, DK Metcalf thirty three,
even Garrett Wilson getting thirty two and a half. Uh
Terry McLaurin said he wants to make north of thirty

(02:34):
three million dollars a year. So when you look at
it in that kind of context, it's look, man, I've
always said this about him, and I think it still applies.
A four year, ninety two million dollar extension comes out
to twenty three million dollars a year. Let's see who

(02:57):
that puts him in the category of. And you guys
tell me if this right, Michael Pittman, Nicocollins, Calvin Ridley,
DeVante Adams, now Chris Godwins, Stefan Diggs like that feels
about the place that he should be. And one thing
about Courtland, He's been compensated I think commensurate to his production.

(03:20):
I think for a while he wanted the pay bump
last year. I don't blame him for feeling that way.
He got a little bit of some incentives that he
hit in making a Pro Bowl and having a good season.
He is by far the number one wide out on
this team, and I think hugely important to this team.
There's always a balance to this discussion, though. The balance

(03:43):
is this, sometimes we tend to over evaluate your own guys.
You think that your guys are better than the rest
of the league does. Every team, every fan base does this.
And then there's some occasion in which somebody might not
be as good as other people perceive them, but for

(04:06):
your specific team, they are that important. The perfect example
I always give is Aaron Gordon. I don't know how
many people around the league see Aaron Gordon as this
unbelievably awesome player that they need, but guess what, for
the Nuggets, he is absolutely vital to their success with

(04:29):
what he brings to the table. And that's kind of
what it feels like it is for Courtland Sutton right now. Now.
If this extension was four years for thirty million dollars
a year, I'd have a little bit of a problem
with it. Twenty three fine, especially on top of that
knowing that forty one million of that is guaranteed, not
even half. So you can look at this. If this

(04:52):
comes out to twenty three million a year, it's more
like a two year extension, which fine, fine, Like it's
added according to Mike CLIs, So this extension is come on, Internet,
don't die on me. Now. It's added to this year's

(05:15):
payout though, if that makes sense. So he's getting a
bump this year, which is what he needed and what
he probably deserved after last year for being honest. The
one concern that I have about Courtland Sutton is you guys,
show me the wide out who turned thirty and then
kept the same level of play.

Speaker 5 (05:34):
That's it an eye connection, Brett, What do you what
details do you need to know?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Oh, Mike Cliss just had something. I was just making
sure that this this extension does it add Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
This is a four year dollar extension. Per source. It
is added to this year's fourteen million dollar payout.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Yeah yeah, so, I mean we're talking about really a
two ish year contract with maybe a few bucks guaranteed afterwards.
But Courtland Sutton is twenty nine going on thirty. He
had a base salary of thirteen to five this year

(06:18):
and then got an extra half a million in a
roster bonus, so they're gonna throw some money on top
of that this year. The point, though, is this is
that he's a He's the kind of player that I
think the Broncos would value more than others. But when

(06:40):
you turn thirty, it starts to drop off really quick
for a bunch of different guys. There's some exceptions, but
if I want to hear from you, if you guys
got answers to this, and you guys, you guys can
find prime examples of players like this that have turned
thirty at that position and then started to well, I guess,

(07:03):
I guess kept the same level of play for a
few years. I want to hear it. And it's really
difficult when you start to get into naming some of
the top dudes, Like when you start talking about some
of the all timers in the sport. Okay, maybe they
could do it, yeah, Jerry Rice, But how about just
your normal sort of dudes. Because I even know guys

(07:24):
like Julio Jones. He turned thirty and then every year
was a gigantic step down to where he was out
of the league at like thirty three, thirty four. It's
just difficult, It's all I'm saying. But for his role
on this team, and especially his role that he provides

(07:47):
for bo Nicks, which is the ultimate safety blanket. You know.
I just watched last night the the three and a
half minute sort of blurb for the NFL Top one
hundred when bow Knicks came in at number sixty four,
and I think Nick Benito said in talking about bo Nicks,

(08:07):
we know if he's throwing it to Courtland Sutton, it's
going to be a touchdown. Like that's how they feel
about him. And I give Courtland Sutton this. He's another
guy that's been here for a lot of losing and
he was not the reason for the losing, but he
was here and he kept his he kept his effort
level as high as possible and helped turn this team

(08:33):
around in a pretty gigantic way. If you think about
the wide receiver room right now, the Broncos have a
lot of proven commodities on this team. They have a
lot of proven guys in the defensive line, a lot
of proven guys in the secondary, proven guys on offensive line.
The only guy that I think has proven still at

(08:59):
wide receivers Courtland Sutton. I'd love to say that Marvin
Mims is part of that. I have no idea, Like
that's a matter of are you going to continue to
commit to a guy like Marvin Mims. Are you going
to are you going to actually make him a focal
point of the offense. These are still questions. But in

(09:19):
the case of Sutton, Sutton's the only guy that I
think is the guarantee that you know exactly what that
guy brings to the table every single game. Like not
to be all fantasy football about it, but he's one
of those guys if he's on your roster and you
put him in your fantasy lineup, you know you're getting
like seven catches for eighty yards and hopefully a touchdown.
He's just that kind of guy, you know. And I've

(09:41):
thought about this. A texture brings this up and I
think it's a valid point. Sutton has never relied on
speed to win. Hopefully his strength on contested catches ages
really well, and I think that part could. But there's
a difference between speed. This is what I was talking
about Pat Bright yesterday. So Pat Bright runs this quote

(10:01):
slower forty, and there's a difference obviously between the forty
speed and the game speed. Like you can look at
examples like Cooper Cup and Amen ros Saint Brown as
guys who had bad forty times that were pretty damn
good wideouts, but you got to get open. And that's
the more concerning part. As he starts to age again,

(10:25):
I'm not mad about this at all. I'm happy because
if you didn't have that heading into the next year
or two, you don't have anything tangibly reliable. Yet you
hope that guys like Vele and Troy Franklin and Pat
Brian could become guys that are that are reliable in
your offense. But right now he's the answer. He's the

(10:47):
only one, and so for him to get this contract,
he is obviously a best friend of bon Knicks within
that offense, and they were the best weapon offensively by
far that you had, and again, I think the price
is right, and I give Sutton a lot of credit
for this. A lot of guys can tend to maybe

(11:10):
overvalue what they're worth is and part of that is
maybe the market spoke for him. But we've kind of
been through it. Where is Courtland Sutton in If I
just gave you a giant mixing bowl with names of
wide receivers on it, how many do you lay out

(11:31):
in front of Courtland Sutton till you say he's the
next best one? It's probably around twenty, maybe a little
bit later, maybe a little bit earlier. It's probably around twenty.
You know, me and Berno did a little bit of
this last week. There's a lot of guys that you
would say are pretty close to him where it's like

(11:53):
you can flip a coin and take one or the other.
But I think the price is right, the role is right.
I just get a little bit concerned about what's gonna
happen over the next couple of years, and if he
can keep this level of play up, considering he's gonna
be the wrong side of that number three on the

(12:13):
front end of his age. A lot of people bring
up people who are still good into their thirties, Texas,
says Chris Jones. That's not a wide receiver. That's the
only concern I have. It's hard to keep that going
once you hit this age. But I'm happy for Courtland.
I think that he has played probably a little bit
beneath what he should be paid. He should have been

(12:33):
somewhere around you know that twenty to twenty three range,
which he's at now, certainly last year. But him getting
the contract is it provides security for what has been
your best weapon over the last couple of years. And
nothing would make me more happy than in the next
couple of years you find a bigger weapon. And what

(12:56):
could help him age a lot more is finding a
true number one wide out who's about twenty two years
old now. If you're able to throw him on the
field and next to Courtland Sutton in the in the
coming years, I think that can help out a lot
with making sure that he's gonna be able to keep
his uh, keep his level of play commensurate to where

(13:19):
his role should be on the team. So Courtland Sutton
lockdown for at least another couple of years with guaranteed money.
It's a four year contract overall, ninety two million dollars
and you heard from from Sean Payton. I mean we've
talked about this. If Sean Payton, I think I said

(13:40):
this yesterday, Jesse, I got a type. I like blonde
chicks always. Half don't know what it is about it,
It's just always something that I've been attracted to. Uh.
Sean Payton loves six foot four giant budded wide receivers
and nobody fits that bill more to a t than

(14:04):
what Courtland Sutton does. So he's got a type. I've
got a type. And I look at Champagne toke respect,
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So Courtland Sutton with the extension, and again the big
worry that I had was what was the price going
to be? First of all, and second of all, what
does this look like? Two years from now, and I

(14:51):
think the price is a perfectly fine if you want
even want to call it a risk, I don't even
know how risky it is, but it's perfectly fine for him. Secondly,
the things that are happening at camp over the last
couple of days. It was padded practice yesterday. Although when
you say that you think there's gonna be a lot
of hitting, there really wasn't. There was some like initial contact.

(15:13):
You could hear some pops, nobody getting taken to the ground,
and part of that you're trying to conserve people to
make sure they aren't hurt or they aren't injured or whatever. Well,
injuries are gonna happen regardless. We saw that happen with
Drew Sanders already. By the way, do you have to
quote on Peyton's update on Drew Sanders. I think it's

(15:35):
the first one that he had yesterday that maybe it's
a little bit less severe than originally thought.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Here's sean backdate just on Drew, because there's been a
lot written. The news for us was good news in
that it's a ligament in his foot and it's not
a tendon.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
What does that mean?

Speaker 4 (15:56):
It's going to be certainly north of four to six weeks,
but the tendon was what we were concerned about, so
I'm not going to try to spell it. But the
ligament repair is a much easier one than that of attendance,
so we were all pretty happy with that. I'll update

(16:17):
you when we get a timeline.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
So it's he said north of four to six weeks,
so this should take I'm assuming by that comment it
should take him into the regular season at least a
little bit or right up to it. So somebody like
me I talked about I thought Drew Sanders had a
shot to beat out Alex Singleton for the starting linebacker spot.
That's going to be exponentially harder now because he's gonna

(16:41):
be off the field and he's been off the field
for most of his career. So if he does do that,
he's gonna have to do it in the middle of
a game, which he's totally capable of. But speaking of
Alex Singleton, he walked off the field yesterday and again
that doesn't seem to be too bad of an injury.
Remember last year he had the knee he missed most

(17:02):
of the season. So he walks off the field with
trainers and had a busted up thumb that is going
to keep him out from what Mike Cliss was reporting
about a week and then they can club it up
and he can get back out there and play. So
it's at least with that injury, he's not going to

(17:23):
miss any regular season time. I don't know how much
he'd play in preseason games. You know, he's one of
those guys that kind of feels like you know what
you got and you don't need to see too much
of him in the preseason, but injuries are always kind
of something you're keeping an eye on. You know. Mike
McGlinchey was in pads yesterday, didn't do too much stuff,

(17:45):
not too much work, but we all know that that's
gonna be sort of the key this year. Now. I'll
tell you this, one thing that is exciting when you're
watching this is keep in mind, I'm very aware that
this is all just camp and they aren't really hitting

(18:07):
and it's maybe not full speed and blah blah blah.
I'm really impressed by RJ. Harvey. I think that he's
got I was talking to a couple of guys yesterday.
He just looks like a running back and I don't
know how to describe that to you, it's like sort
of shorter, stocky, big leg, but he's got explosiveness. When

(18:29):
he sees a hole, he can hit it. When he
needs to mounts it outside, he can. He's got a
gear that it feels like no Broncos running backs have
had for the last few years. And I think that
applies to JK. Dobbins too. You know an interesting thing
about JK. Dobbins. He is since twenty twenty second in

(18:52):
the NFL among big play run percentage, which is how
many carries does it take before this guy rips off
at least a ten yard run. I think his percentage
was something of our remembering correctly, something like ten point
two percent, So once every ten carries he'll get ten plus.
There is a giant gap that existed last year in

(19:15):
that you just had guys and I don't mean disrespectfully
to anybody like Javante or Audric Estimate or Jalil or whoever,
but you just had a bunch of dudes, and you're
looking for guys who can actually break open a game
and be a threat on the ground. I think that
even in the short little instances that we've seen out

(19:36):
of guys like RJ. Harvey or JK. Dobbins. They have
an explosiveness that did not exist last year. You know,
I keep going through this kind of idea of what
did the Roncos running game do last season? And there
were twenty yard runs that that's what ESPN considers big
runs on here, twenty yard runs. Each one of the

(19:58):
guys I just mentioned had won the longest run of
the year I believe was Blake was a Blake Watson
or Tyler Baday had like a forty three yarder. The
lack of a threat from the backfield was noticeable, I think,
not just for opposing defenses, but for your own coaching staff.

(20:23):
I think that they recognized it too, and it's why
they kind of gave up on it multiple times last year,
and they probably shouldn't have. They were able to get
away with it in some games, still win despite that.
But you want to run an offense at a high level,
and you want to do that with a young quarterback
that's going into year two that's probably gonna need some help,
more tape on them, more chances for defense. As a

(20:45):
game plan. You get running game going it, it's a
total game changer and they've sort of like planted a
couple of seeds in JK. Dobbins and R. J. Harvey
waiting for this stuff to grow, and I think that
it could emerge as things that's really fun and fun
in Bronco's running backs have not existed. God man, really

(21:08):
since I've been here. There's a couple of like Philip
Lindsay moments. Even Melvin Gordon when he wasn't fumbling, made
a couple of plays. But you're just looking for somebody
to bust a game wide open, and who can do that?
The answer is nobody last year, and I think that's
why they made this concerted effort to do it. But

(21:30):
you watch the way that that you know, Harvey can
sort of plant his foot and get upfield in a
way that I just haven't. I didn't see anybody do
that last year, and I start thinking about, you know,
what are they gonna do in that room? I think
that Harvey and JK. Dobbins are locks. Everybody outside of
that I'm not sure. You know, you root for guys

(21:52):
like Godric Estimay, you root for guys like like Julia McLoughlin.
Would I be surprised if both of them were on
the roster or none of them were. Not really And
here's what I mean, Like Julie's a very tough case
to try and lay out. You just look at the

(22:12):
way that they're built. Audric Estimate feels like he should
have the advantage in that department because he's just a
big guy that can do a couple of different things
where he's big enough to pass protect, he is big
enough to get a couple of yards on short yardage
down in distances. But there's something that they just didn't like.

(22:33):
And it could be that he fumbled the ball a
couple times early in the season. You know, one of
the plays he fumbles on was actually a great play.
Or if you remember, he hurdled a defender, he got
hit and then fumbled, but like the hurdle was nice.
But I think there's just there's a couple of I'm

(22:55):
still weird a out about the inactive in the playoff
game for Rodrick Estimate and for Jaliel. Jaliel's had a
big disadvantage because of size. Like that's just it, and
people seem to think, again, I really like Jaliel. I
like his story, I like the player he is, I
like his work ethic. But when you're five foot six,

(23:21):
you need to have some special quality to you, and
there's a few guys that have it. Darren Sproll certainly did.
He was able to do returns. He would catch the
ball out of the backfield like he was just he
was a different kind of guy for his size. And
people think that Jaliel, because he's small, that he's really fast.
I don't know if he's any faster than even if

(23:44):
you talk about top speeds, like I think he's really
good in short yardage stuff like as far as getting
a burst, But if you were to measure top level speeds,
I'm not even sure that Jalil's faster than Rodrick estimate,
Like if I had the most start at the goal
line and run forty yards, by the time you got
up to forty, I think they're moving at about the

(24:05):
same speed. And that's why you didn't have a whole
bunch of those big runs from Jilia last year. And
that was my whole point with him. I was like,
if he is such this like unique sort of scat
back get into open space and then blow by people,
why was the longest run only twenty one yards? And
so I think some people have him for a lock
on the roster. I think that he's likely to make it.

(24:27):
I don't know if it's a lock, cause again, you
have to try and figure out what is your what's
your superpower? Like every professional athlete has one. It's actually
a fun game to play if you think about guys
on the roster, what do they do that is just
superhuman that nobody else can that makes them special? Like
Jokic has a couple of different categories of those and

(24:50):
that's why he's the best player in the world. Insane IQ,
insane touch court vision, ability to pass, like shoot, he
he does it all. Jamal has a superpower. Jamal is
if you need a bucket late in a game, I'm
gonna get you a bucket. Ag has a superpower. He

(25:13):
is able to defend one through five and he is
able to cut to the rim in a way that
is just really really rare. Jamal ware made a shot.
And when you talk about guys on this roster, guys
on the Broncos, Certain's superpower is he's six foot four
and he moves at like a four to three speed

(25:36):
and is able to cover anybody. You know. Zach Allen
is just a monster in the middle that can push
you around and do whatever you want. Nick Benito's is
his athletic ability. Courtland Sutton his superpower is very simple.
It's his ability to go up and get one out,
jump somebody high point of football and come down with it.
What's the superpower? What's the thing that you that separates

(25:58):
you from the pack. And I think last year all
the running backs were like, yeah, they didn't really have one.
This year, I think that you can see a little
bit of like that initial cut and got speed from R. J. Harvey.
There's really good vision with JK. Dobbins. You know, superpowers
also come with what do you call it? They're Kryptonites.

(26:22):
What is kryptonite called. I know it's it's the metaphor
that everybody uses. But if that's a superpower, what's the
opposite of a superpower? Nelly Google superpower antonym for me?

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Plays I want a word wow antonym.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
I'm glad to see your word of the day toilet
paper is going to good use.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Do people actually have word of the day toilet paper?
Is that a thing?

Speaker 5 (26:42):
I mean, I've heard about it. I don't know if
it's if it's legit but you said I would.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
Just put Steve Nelson quotes on there so I could
wipe my.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Bump man spicy kanner. Okay, the I put superpower antonym.
The opposite of a superpower could be considered a weakness
or a vulnerability.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Okay, vulnerability. I like that weakness was too easy. Vulnerability.
What's your vulnerability? JK. Dobbins is easy. It's is his health,
his ability to stay healthy. Now you can go through
this with all these different guys. My point is when
it comes to guys like Rodrick Estimain and Jaliel, you
need to have a superpower to keep you on the team.
What is it for you? And I don't know if

(27:20):
they have one quite yet, And there's been a lot
of chances for you to provide the evidence of that,
you know. I will say this about Jalil though to
his credit, he was your best running back last year.
And I don't even think it's close. Javonte led the
team in yards, but as far as he was at
like three and a half yards per carry, Jaliel was

(27:42):
well over four. Wasn't even closed between the two. I
just want, I want this season. How's this for a
goal to we all get on the same page for this.
When it comes to the Broncos running game that last year,
I'm gonna do the full tally. Hang on, there was
too many games in which you would look at. I

(28:06):
like the way the ESPN does this if you look
back at the schedule from last year, and he gives
you the final score, and he gives you leading passer,
leading rusher, leading receiver, and last year for the Broncos,
in a grand total of eighteen games if you include
the playoff game, bo Nicks was the leading rusher in one, two, three, four, five, six,

(28:30):
six games out of the eighteen. You can't have bow
Nicks leading the way for you a third of your
games over the course of the year. Just can't happen.
And bow Knicks is super athletic and he's got ability
to get out of the pocket and run. He's not
Lamar Jackson. And just for reference, let's look at that
a guy who is as good as anyone at running

(28:52):
the football from that position. Lamar Jackson had one game
which he led the team in rushing because Dereck Henry
led it the rest of the way. Who's another one.
Let's talk about Josh Allen. How about Josh Allen. Josh
Allen was one, two, three, three games for Josh Allen.

(29:17):
The rest of these were James Cook because James Cook's
are really good back.

Speaker 5 (29:22):
I like the way you're doing this. You're going one, two, three,
three games.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
The only one that I think would be the exceptions.
I think Jaden Daniels did that a lot for Washington
last year, So let's count it out for Jade. Yeah,
he's got a lot on here. He's got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine different games for Jaden Daniels on which he did that. Now,

(29:52):
I would tell you that Jaden Daniels is that feels
like a necessity to make the rest of his game go.
Nicks needs to have that as a threat. I don't
think that needs That's not an install right. They aren't
running quarterback keepers in Denver. That's at the plan. It's
bo Nicks drops back, nobody's open, he takes off, finds

(30:14):
open space, and then and then picks up fifteen to
twenty yards. That's what he does.

Speaker 1 (30:20):
Shot back to the other team.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
Boy, you don't want that to happen. So the point
is you need to have I want that category right
there of leading rushers on the season. I want that
to be like, give me a Josh Allen number, you
make it three three different games, and we're cool. But
that is gonna be totally reliant on commitment to the game,

(30:44):
the running game, first of all. Second of all, ability
of the running backs. And I think the ability is
I mean outside of what as far as the biggest
jump you've made in a just pure talent level year
over year at a certain position. I think tight end's
probably number one, because you had literally nothing there last year.

(31:06):
Now you have Evan Ingram, which we'll get to him
a little bit later. Evan Ingram, despite like his physical
stature being not what I expected, he is still incredibly
fun to watch and has the ability to get open
and he's been doing that consistently in camp. So he's
probably the biggest jump as far as a position group.

(31:28):
But I think that running back is right behind him.
I think they are a lot better talent wise than
they were last year, and hopefully that will translate into
committing two more to the run game. So again, out
here at Broncos Park for another day of training camp.
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after this. All right, just in case anybody didn't know this,
I'm gonna share some information. Brett learned something during the break.
Do you know that we like the But what I
learned is if you take a sparkling water and you

(32:11):
put a liquid IV powder pack in it, it becomes
a bomb. I had no idea that was a thing.
I know that now. So you think mentos and diet
coke is cool, please try one of those for a second.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
See what happens. Point of order. What flavor of liquid
IV did you use?

Speaker 2 (32:31):
Yeah, here's the thing. I didn't plan this. Well. I
have a lemon lime carbonated water and I had a
BlackBerry peach Liquid IV. But the BlackBerry peach liquid IV,
because it's a bomb, obliterated any lemon lime that's in there,
and it's just BlackBerry peach.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Now, well, thanks for your service, Bill and I and
now we know.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Just a PSA to everybody listening. I don't want this
to happen in your office. I was outside. We can
let this dry here on the concrete where we're sitting,
so we're fine. AnyWho, there is something that I'm okay,
there's a TV show my wife used to watch because
my wife was incredibly smart, smarter than me, more successful

(33:14):
than me, better person than me, better parent, better. What
is she doing with me? Nobody knows. I'm just here.
But she has disgustingly awful TV habits. It's ridiculous. It's
it's the her worst quality. If I'm being fully honest,
it's that she will watch the worst of the worst

(33:36):
if you think of First of all, she watches that
Real Housewives show and it's always a reunion episode, And
I'm like, how do you have reunion episodes every episode
without an actual show, because it's just them.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
I want to vomit.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, it's just them yelling at each other. So she'll
watch that, or she'll watch uh say Yes to the Dress,
Or she'll watch uh uh those shows where it's, oh god,
what do they call them? Where it's always a mystery
about who murdered the wife or the husband or whatever.
Those kind of shows. She watches all that stuff.

Speaker 5 (34:14):
Oh, she liked true crime documentaries or more like that
fake shows.

Speaker 2 (34:18):
No, No, they're real shows, but they're always about like
somebody got killed and it was a family thing. And
nobody knows how. And she'll watch that for like two
hours straight.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Oh one of those Cold Case.

Speaker 5 (34:31):
Yes, yeah, like that show so much was killed in
Topeka at nineteen eighty.

Speaker 2 (34:35):
Right, right, So she just watches all this stuff and
I'm like, babe, you're too smart for it. She gives
me the same answer every time she goes, I just
want to turn my brain off for a couple hours,
and I go, you know what, it's a good answer.
I'll accept it. But one show she watched was something
called Chloe Kardashian's Revenge Body And what is this about?

(34:58):
It's about guy breaks up with chick? Why because you're fat?
Like that's kind of the show. And so what Chloe
Kardashian does is, sweetheart, I'm gonna get you in the
best shape of your life so you can stick it
to him. And I'm like, Okay, weird premise for a show.
You seem to enjoy it, got it. Lukadancic is like

(35:22):
on that show, there is no question in my mind
that Lukadancic has hit up. Chloe Kardashian just been like,
what do I have to do to stick it to
Nico Harrison? Because if you've seen the pictures of Lukadancic.
Now he's got like no sort of they do the

(35:44):
side by sides of post trade Luca who first puts
on a Lakers uniform to Luca now in the off season,
and it is sort of Nico Harrison's fault, he said,
because everybody's get an answer to why would you make
what feels like the dumbest trade ever? Why would you
do this? And his answer is what conditioning? That's what

(36:09):
he said. He he couldn't come out and just say this,
but what he wanted to say was he's fat all
the time. That's all he was thinking. Okay, that's it.

Speaker 5 (36:19):
And look at Yeah, he's not just cut. He is
on the cover of Men's Health magazine. He is the
cover feature story on a fitness magazine because Nico Harrison said,
your fat, get bent enough of this fried food in Dallas.

Speaker 3 (36:37):
You're going to the Asie Bulls.

Speaker 5 (36:39):
Get ready to learn Asie Buddy in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
And he has he really has. Uh shout out our tradition.
Brandon Jones is barefoot shuffling across the field every day.
We could see Brandon Jones do that in six forty five. Uh,
but he goes, and I would caution people in this
sense he has done this before. And then the season

(37:04):
starts and then the pounds start tacking back on. By
the way, if there's any better sort of social experiment
we need about the food here in this country and
what it does to you. Look at every European player
when they first come over here. Remember jokicch like four
years ago, what he looked like at that media day
Jesse where even me I was like, that's big, really

(37:29):
really big. But it's amazing what just a little motivation
like that can do. And Nico Harrison, unless a miracle
happens in Dallas, is going to go down as like

(37:51):
the name that you bring up as the joke when
you're just pointing, you know, it's like you've been Sam buied,
You've been Thurman munsened. That's gonna be Nico Harrison. He's
going to be one of those names that we talked
about all the time, like what kind of moron would
do something like this. You're going to be the butt
of the joke for like decades after this. And here's

(38:14):
the thing. All Sam Boui did was be drafted and
not be Michael Jordan that was his only sin. Nico
Harrison traded away a generational player for nothing in return
and then said, yeah, he was fat, so I couldn't
deal with it anymore. Like have you considered talking extensively
about that with him? You know? He also mentioned defensively

(38:38):
wasn't good enough and stuff like that, but it was
mostly just the body and Luka Doncic is in probably
the best shape of his career now. So interesting to
see from Afar. Yesterday we told you there's gonna be
a press conference at eleven o'clock with Dion talking about health.

(39:03):
So Dion announced that he had and I believe it's
had bladder cancer in which they've gotten that fixed. They
said he has quote cured of that and he will
coach this year. I feel bad for Dion the amount
of health issues that he has had to go through.

(39:27):
You know, we know the stuff with his feet, we
know the blood clot stuff, but then to throw this
on top of it was really, really, I'm sure, impossibly difficult,
and it's good to see that he's coming on the
other side with good news, and in even better news

(39:48):
is that he's going to coach. You know, I didn't
think that was gonna be some sort of farewell right
off into the sunset sort of press conference. Dion strikes
me as one of those guys, and a lot of
coaches are built this way. They can't sit still, you
know what I mean, Like they're just guys. They always
have to be doing something, and there's plenty of people
in life like that. Like I think about the idea

(40:12):
of retirement years from now, and I don't think I
can just sit there, you know what I mean. I'm
not I have to do something. I'm not saying I'm
going to work especially hard, but you'll probably hear me
on a podcast I'll be eighty five years old. I
think it'll be like I think le Brocos did the

(40:32):
right choice a quarterback, Like I'll do some podcasts like that.
You aren't gonna get rid of me. Although by that time,
what does AI take over all the podcasts and then
we don't matter anymore. I've actually thought about this. Do
you agree with me? Jesse? I feel like this might be,
might be maybe I'll be proven wrong, and I hope not.

(40:55):
I think that this medium, which is straight up talking
giving opinions, is pretty AI proof. You can find ais
that will do that but there's something about the human
mind that I think the creativity of it cannot be
taken over by robots. Movies, different story, they can do that.

(41:20):
But if you heard have you heard one of these
chat GPTs, try and tell a joke. It's ridiculous. Hey, robots,
if you're listening, you're so unfunny.

Speaker 4 (41:27):
Your own little internet shows are driving me crazy.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
Yeah, think about it that Sean Payton's going to be
saying that in fifteen years to what a room full
of Tesla robots. Yeah, you guys, little AI shows are
driving me nuts. You just aggregate all of this information,
you spit it out. It's boring. All I'm saying is

(41:55):
with Dion on the sideline, how did we get from
Dion to robots?

Speaker 5 (41:58):
My bad because you were saying, now, Deion Sanders can't
sit still. He's got to be something. You're still gonna
be podcasting when you're eighty. By the way, name for
your podcast Denver Denchers. Is that anything Denver Dencher's is good.
I like that, But Dion is you know I've discussed
this before. The only small fear I had yesterday because
I didn't think he was gonna step away from coaching

(42:20):
or anything just because I don't.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
I don't. He has to be doing something, and I
believe him when he says he loves it here. I
don't think there's any reason for him to lie about that.
But if he were to step away to do something else,
if he was like, Hey, I'm gonna step away and
then I'll do TV analyst stuff again like he used
to on the NFL network. The marriage of CEU and him,

(42:46):
they are together but also separate, to the point to
where if he left, you can't do business as usual. There.
Things change. I think a lot of the national interest
dries up, and I think some money dries up. So
it just it would become a very difficult thing to
try and navigate your way through. And look, that day
is going to come one day, and it could come

(43:07):
one day soon, who knows, but hopefully not. It's just
good to know that he is, first of all, quote
cured of that. Second of all, that he's going to
be on the sideline all year. So three zero three,
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