12-5-25 *INTERVIEW* KOA Sports Ryan Edwards on the Upcoming Broncos-Raiders Game

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let me go right to Ryan Edwards, co host of
KOA Sports. Here on KOA and Ryan, let's just preview
the Raiders Broncos game a little bit. We always want
to beat the Raiders. We hate the Raiders almost irrationally.
So but if we're going to be rational about this game,
what do we need to know?

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Well, we need to know that, Yeah, the Raiders are
struggling there to and ten. They've been eliminated from the playoffs,
so they are playing for nothing at this point other
than pride and maybe to be spoiler for the Broncos.
I Meanwhile, the Broncos are are getting relatively healthy. A
couple of injuries popped up yesterday that they're going to
want to monitor, Zach Allend and practice. Pat Bryant got

(00:38):
a limited practice because of a hamstring and DJ Jones
is still not practicing. So now the Broncos have a
few kind of knicks here. But this is a game
that they really should win, and they probably should win handily.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
It might be there just the kind of thing that
sticks in your memory when it happens, and so maybe
it doesn't happen as often as I think, but I
have this sort of sensation that sometimes these spoiler team
teams that are playing for nothing except pride tend to
play better than you would expect and end up actually spoiling.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Certainly, it's Division Game two, right, So the Raiders were
more or less playing for nothing a few weeks ago
when they played Thursday Night and it was a ten
to seven game, and the Raiders play tough. They are
going to show up and they're going to get the
Broncos more or less all they can handle. It's just
more at this point a bit of a talent gap
between the two teams. Plus I think the Broncos coaching

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staff is going to hold that ten point performance at
home against the bad Raiders team on this team, they're
going to kind of hold that over these guys. So
I imagine they're going to come out with a lot
more focus in this one.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
It seems to me that an area that the Broncos
still really need to improve in is the running game,
especially with JK. Dobbins being out. Now, do you see
people who are currently on the Broncos that you think
could really kind of help them get the running game
to at least closer to where it needs to.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Well, they really believe in r. J. Harvey, the rookie
they took in the second round. And I mean, of
course this point that there's not really much that you
can say otherwise to say that you shouldn't try at
least continue to try to get him more involved. Sean
Payton said last week, he we drafted this guy to
be a runner, not just a receiver out of the backfield.
But so far we've seen mostly out of the backfield
his work. So I do think that their expectation is

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to get him more involved in the running game going forward.
And then once again, Jalil McLoughlin is the guy that
is handled last ye even last year over one hundred kerry.
So they think that they are fine and there right now.
But if they continue to look okay, So what's your prediction, Well,
I think the Broncos are going to win this thing.
I mean, at this point, like I said, there's a
lot more to play for for the Broncos, and in

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fact that they win this game than they own the
tie breaker if it comes down to it on common
opponents versus the Patriots for the one seed. So there's
a lot of motivation here for the Broncos. I like
the Broncos to win this thing in the neighborhood of
like twenty seven to maybe seventeen.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Very good. Ryan Edwards co host KOA Sports here weekdays
three pm to six pm. Have fun with your whole
broadcast day on Sunday. Ryan, we'll talk with you soon.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
I appreciate it and thank you.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Okay, all right, well that's it for today. Thank you, Gina,
thank you Dragon, Michael Brown. Next, have a wonderful weekend.
Go Broncos.