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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jonny Us talk about it.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Rick Lewis, Broncos color analyst, all around, good guy, morning
host on the Fox.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good morning, black Beard and.
Speaker 3 (00:08):
Red Beard, black Beard and red Beard.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
I'm glad I don't have a beard.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Yeah, you gotta be careful about this.
Speaker 4 (00:16):
Should be very thankful you don't have a beardy erck. Hey, guys,
good to see again. Ross he worked the game again yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, we done a lot of that lately.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You're not like the official parabolic mic dude in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I hope that would be my favorite job. That would
be my favorite job.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is that's a cool job.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
When did you start doing Broncos.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Coverage twenty I called one game at twenty sixteen and
then full time twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Okay, so you've never called a Broncos home playoff game either.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
No.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
In fact, last year was the first playoff.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Game, right, and that was a way and we lost.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
It was against.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Buffalo and they got blown out of the game. Yes,
this has got a whole different feel to it now.
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
That place was so loud yesterday, so.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
Lod I know, man, the fans have been bringing it
these last couple of home games and they need to
keep that up here in the postseason. It definitely makes
a difference.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Green Bay game in the Jacksonville game. I think
we're a little bit louder than yesterday. Yesterday. Yesterday, we're
super loud at the beginning, yes, and then not quite
as loud for the rest.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Yeah, it was a boring game.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
It was a boring I felt like the crowd got
a little flat. Yeah, as well, the team looked flat,
I thought yesterday.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Yeah, I did too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
And from you know again, I were, what fourteen and three,
and we've won eight games at home. Only only two
other teams that won eight games at home, and and
so we're doing great. But I still feel like with
an offense.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
And I was texting you.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
About this, I think you probably researched it after I
texted you. I think the last time the Bronco was
won at home without an offensive touchdown was two thousand
and six.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Did you find something more recent than that?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
I thought it was twenty fifteen. I did do some
research on it. I believe it was twenty fifteen at home,
which is the year they won the Super Bowl. Yeah,
according to our stat guy, Okay, Bob the expert.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
On what I was trying to get at is we
didn't have an offensive touchdown, and that's not going to
cut it.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
No, you definitely need to play better on offense if
you want to win a playoff game. Offense didn't score
a touchdown, but the defense did. And I thought, and
I haven't gone back to look at it, but it
felt to me like it was a fairly vanilla game plan. Offensively,
they didn't take shots down field like they normally do.
(02:36):
Bo got sacked four times. That's the most he's gotten
sacked all season. And the Chargers defense is a good defense.
They did have a couple of starters that they sat
Khalil Mack and Derwin James, but the rest of them
were playing and they played pretty well. I give them credit,
but the defense was balling yesterday. The defense made the
difference for the broncups.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Bo talked communication on offense.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
He said that he thought it didn't play with the
tempo and passion that they normally see.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Was that something that you saw on your side?
Speaker 4 (03:04):
I just felt like to me, and I don't know
if this is true or not, like they didn't want
to show too much. There's a chance they could play
the Chargers again in the postseason, and they have two
weeks now to heal up. Broncus had a couple of
injuries here late. They had a couple in the game
yesterday too. Two weeks to heal up. We don't know
who the next opponent will be yet, but I think
(03:27):
we'll see a better performance from the offense once we
get into it. Yesterday it was a bit disappointing offensively.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Any chance Dobbins is back in the playoffs, you.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Know, there's some talk about that. He was on the
sideline yesterday. You were probably chatting them up on the sideline.
He was on the sideline, and he's he was saying
he thought he could be back before the Super Bowl,
which would be maybe the AFC Championship game if they
get that far.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
You know, just so we're Claire.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
When I'm on the sidelines, I'm often right near all
these players, but I never say a word to them.
I just because in case they're superstitious, like.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What if we're winning.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
What if we're in the lead and I say something
to a player and then we lose, Right, So I
never say anything.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Which is a smart play. You don't want it. You
don't want to be chatting up the players.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
I never say not even hello. I don't say anything.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Yeah, if you did, I think Sean Payton would kick
you out of the game immediately.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Yeah, that's probably probably right.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
So after the game, when we win, I go out
on the field and take picture.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Or video of Susie Warden doing our interview. And whenever
I see.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Jeremy Crosshaw or punter who's Australian and I interviewed him
at the Beat before the season started and I said struth,
which is sort of an Australian thing for like wow
or oh my gosh. So whenever I see him on
the field, I say Jeremy Struth and he.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Smiles and keeps on running. But that's that's the extent
of my Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Yeah, if Peyton walks by, you don't mention anything about hey,
you know, it's kind of.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
A well, that would be hilarious. He would make ESPN
National News.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah, and I'd lose my job. Rick. For the most part.
Speaker 5 (05:12):
When you were talking injuries, I think the ones that
we did see yesterday all came back during the game.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
They did center Alex Forsyth, who's the backup center ankle,
and then Garrett Bowles had an ankle, and thankfully they
both came back because that would be a disaster with
this team, and did not come back PJ Locke and
never came back to play. From what I could tell,
did you see him Did you talk to him down
there on that side?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
I saw him on the sideline, still in his gear
and holding his helmet all that.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
But I don't think he went back in the game.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
And they need him too, because he's the backup safety. Yeah,
so they have two weeks to heal up these guys.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I feel like if I had to point out one
particular weakness of this team where that I felt disappointed
all year, it's tight end. I thought Evan Ingram would
be better, and I feel like we don't have enough
of a tight end threat that the defense ever needs
to take a great corner and put him on the
tight end, or a great linebacker and put him on
(06:11):
the tight end and get to give either a running
back or a wide receiver a little more room.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah, Evan Ingram has been the disappointment to you. Had
a decent game yesterday, made a couple of catches, Adam
Troutman Man, I went out on a limb pregame. In
the pregame segment with Ryan Edwards, he always asked me,
give me two players who are going to be the
players of the game. I went way out on a limb,
I said Adam Troutman. The reason I said that is
(06:35):
he needed five catches to get a bonus. Bo Nicks
and Sean Payton talked this week about how they wanted
to get him a bonus. He didn't even get a
target in the game, so made me look foolish, which
has never happened to me before.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
We were expecting a lot of passing in this game,
and we didn't get it right. And and and Bose
has seemed off on his charges off in the Jacksonville
game too.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They put a lot of pressure on him.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
He got sacked four times, as I mentioned, and seemed
like he was running for his life the entire time.
That's the most I think I've seen him pressured in
quite a long time.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
That was also probably the first time I've heard booze
yes coming from the crowd right during the offense. I mean,
it just feels like something Denver doesn't do very often.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
And while we're winning, Yeah, no, and we've seen this,
you know, during that that bad stretch, you know, five
six years ago. But no, not on the season like
this where they won fourteen games and getting booed at home.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
I mean it was just it was. It was a
smattering of booze.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
He liked that words where you look my vocabulary, It's
an excellent work. I worked Maven into the broadcast again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
I missed.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I missed it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Who are you talking to? How do you listen this?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't win?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Was it just for you? Oh?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Man? I missed it?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
So here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm pretty sure I'm doing the parabolics for the first
playoff game again. I can't wait for first home, first
playoff game, for first playoff game at all for me,
first home playoff game for you, absolutely, and please work
Maven into that one as well.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'll try to come up with another word for you.
But just paying attention this time. Man, what are you
doing down there?
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I can't tell you the players then man.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Rick Lewis is the Broncos color analyst host of Rick
Lowis show on one of three five the Fox.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
He's gonna be going down there again right now.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Good to see you, my friends, always, good to see you. Guys,
Go Broncos.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Co Broncos