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The change is the worst trop No, no, no, no.

But you act like the Broncs have already won this game, that it's a given to the number one overall seat in the AFC.

What if they lose this game, it is a disasterination.

If they lose this game, the season's over.

Eighty ways.

Yeah, you're clearly not gonna do Jack squad in the playoffs exact So like pack your bags just playing the trip to Cobbo.

Made Guys, if they just saying it would.

Be one of the most epic upsets in NFL history.

You think this team is right for one of those?

Let me say this.

I was thinking about this in the last fifteen minutes.

Again, go ahead.

You know who's who's starting probably is Trey Lance.

Right.

You know who Trey Lance is a step up from and has a similar game to.

Is Chris Oladope.

Yeah, he's like a better Chris Soli.

Dopea he is.

The Broncos don't blowout teams.

This is gonna be a close game.

They can play nothing, but they're nothing but scrubs, and it's still a bit.

Close game if they don't finish in the red zone, if they give up a big punt return, if they lose, and the giveaway takeaway, yes, it'll be a close game.

Peyton about the giveaway takeaway today, Yes he was.

He was pointing out there's only one team that's been in the negative that's actually won a Super Bowl in giveaway takeaway in the Super Bowl.

But Tyler pointed out, this is a good one.

The Broncos are minus four going into twenty fifteen's playoffs, were plus.

Four when they won the Super Bowl.

During the playoffs, so you got to turn that around, and Sean's focused on it.

It would be an epic collapse that seems hard to imagine.

But this but this is why we play the games, right, this is why we love sports because it could, It might, It might even if there's a zero point nine percent chance that would happen, I guess, or the turf Monster jumps up and bow gets hurt in the first quarter, some of the ridiculous.

Line kartt Stidham wins the game.

No, Jared Sidham should win this game.

Sam Alaner should win this game.

I think Kendall Hite come in and win the game for the Broncos.

On this man, y'all are super cocky.

It's crazy, but I just handle the ball lose.

I don't think the difference between kaky and just being like analyzing what's right in front of us, I don't know.

I mean, but there's a difference between Nikola Yoki to Anthony Edwards, right, they both got swagged.

One's cocky is hello and one's not right.

There's a difference between you know what I'm talking about on.

The playing field, for the players themselves, for us not actually in the game.

We can just analyze it and say, yeah, there's a reason this spreads jumped up to eleven and I started a segment.

I'm just not going to watch the playoffs the game.

I'm if they lose, that's an indictment on them.

So we started the segment and the Broncos are favored by seven and a half.

When we finished the segment, they were favored by eleven and a half.

That hardback just spoke right now.

He was talking right now.

It happened during while we were on the air, why and why did he keep Why did why do he announce it so early?

Why not just keep it under wraps with Peyton and the Broncos.

Yeah, just in the speculation.

I guess throughout the week.

You just don't want to deal with it.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know sand for doing here.

I forgot that.

Mike's f HD one Broupe Field, Deaford, Boulder, there's for you.

Yeah, thanks?

Man.

Did you have a you have do you have a good Christmas?

You have a good weekend?

Man?

You had a good NFL Sunday?

Oh yeah, it was fun.

You're uh, you're your Colorado Avalanche.

Damn, man, that's ridiculous.

I don't even know what to say.

They had no business winning that game against Vegas.

They're done three times by two goals, no reason that they shouldn't even.

Got to point out of that gate.

They McKennon sucks a shootouts that he wanted as a fourth shooter.

He wasn't even the first three.

Let's put the best player in the world fourth and what that was a ridiculous shoot out?

Go that was absolutely stupid.

Fine, No, that was dumb.

He was put on the brakes.

What I've never seen anybody know that.

It looks stupid because he doesn't have dangle move.

So he was like, what can I do?

Put up some snow.

Carter Hart had no idea what where, what a day was going?

He was like, what where what?

And all of a sudden, it's in the back of the That was a pretty spectacular shootout.

Gole, No, you were good.

Scringer, that's a little You're right, that's a harsh man you shootout.

You're not watching enough shootouts like Trevor Zegris, my boy like that, the dipsy dangle.

On the ass.

I'm saying, you're acting.

Like it's the best shootout goal you've ever seen.

Good Vegas who tried to go between his legs and they couldn't figure it out.

It was a good move.

That's a classic like pee wee hockey move.

That like a lot of eleven year old's figure out.

I think he screwed it up.

And then like in his correction, he was like, well, guys, I'm going between the legs here.

Screwed that, great man.

And what I mean, do you have a would you a I'll give you I'll give you a tricky as question.

Tricky as question, is the time to put Gay back on the third line and put up on the top No.

I mean, I mean he scored that, he scored the goal to tide it late right like he did.

Well, you would just move Gave back down to the second line.

Gabe.

Gabe's playing very well.

He was.

Really you want to mess with one of the greatest teams in hockey right now?

Right?

You know what I'm talking about?

Like, let me and the long term plan was always for Gabe to be on the top line.

It's where it's his rightful spots.

It was just up to him to reclaim it.

And I think he has reclaimed it.

But so you're saying, oh, I'm not the only one.

You're saying that he has been promoted to the first line and now just kicking first.

He was demoted to the third line.

He was, and then he's playing very well.

That's without that's Lekanon arguably works better with McKinnon and Natus.

So are you talking about like when when l Oc comes back, when Logan comes back an extra.

I'm thinking about right now, not not, it's not depending on it.

I think I think game's playing very well right now.

He does the grimy gritty things.

But who works better with McKinnon.

Won a Stanley Cup on the top line with Miko Ranson and everybody works And there's you know what I mean.

I think everybody like you, Gavin Bridley could put up forty goals if he would.

You know what I mean, Like with that top line, if you don't have Landiskog in it.

And Lecky is that top liner who is doing the jobs nobody else wants to do with consistency.

Landiskog's bigger.

He like he'll camp out right in front of netminders, like he.

Just finds a way.

Man.

You know what, let me let me ask you.

Let me ask both of you this question, because I was just thinking about it.

I was thinking about it because of Josh Manson lately, and because what Tim Hardaway Junior is doing with the Nuggets, and because what Jialiel did with the Broncos.

And there's a there's means.

Bringer had a conversation while like a couple of years ago about athletes that you had to be there, you had to see it, understand, Like we were talking about people say Steve Atwater will hit you really hard, but unless you saw it on the field and you're like, oh, he just tried to murder that guy.

That guy should be dead.

It's a hard but we were talking about people who were just pros pros, just pros pros.

And Tim Hardaway Junior is a pros pro, you know what I mean?

Like, you know, we were.

Talking about him with Scott earlier.

The only thing is he wasn't supposed to be playing this many Adam.

Was it the Christmas Day game that Adaman was like, I don't want to play Tim forty We have to play Tim forty two.

Are you gonna get some Reggie Jackson flashbacks where it was good for a while.

Yeah, and then he just but then there was just there's no juice there.

At the end.

Yeah.

So I got just a pinch nervous about it.

But if I asked you who on the Broncos is a pros pro, like just the guy just shows up and does his job, you think it's that's a good one.

Ze Courtlandton Courtland's a pros proro.

Quinn Minors, Well, he's an All pro.

He's the best, but he's an offensive lineman, a pros pros is guard.

It's Mike mclinchy in terms of just like Mayor mcglinchy is is you guys like to call him, he's the guy that is.

He is, uh first his first class in every single way.

Yeah he is.

He's a veteran, he's been around the ups and the downs of the game, and he's intelligent.

Yeah, he's a pros pros.

I mean of guy who's gonna mess with the lot stupid.

There's no there's no foolishness with right.

Right.

They show up and do their job, and they do it well and everybody respects him.

Green Law isn't a pros pro.

He's a wild card nut.

But you need some of those, You need those two.

Yeah, you can't just.

All be pros pros.

You gotta have some just lunatics too, Like when you agree green Law it's a bit of a you know, lunatic.

He is the kind of guy that you've whacked on this roster and unfortunately you lack him about about every third game now, because that's what his track record is, is that both he and JK.

Dobbins.

You know what, would you say that either one of those guys have been disappointments in terms of what you signed them to do.

No, what they just haven't.

I mean, no, Dobbins JK was great until he got hurt, which was his history.

Sure it was.

I would argue, both guys have given you exactly what you signed up for.

You're gonna probably get somewhere between eight and ten games.

And a lunatic and an injured dude.

Yeah, well he's a well who is the lunatic?

Who's well Manson when he goes full manimal on the aves?

Maybe is the lugic, But who's who's a lunatic on the Nuggets?

If you if you need that, dude, just like, yeah, okay, I'll take he starting to fight, I'll take that.

Yeah.

He started talking about he wishes he wishes there was fighting in basketball compared to hockey.

Because first has been watching too much hockey between the benches.

I think I think Christian Brown is a.

Little bit of a lunatic too, But you know he ain't around right now.

He went through his his Walter White trajectory, got his got his, did he not?

He's like Heisenberg, Like Christian Brown is not Christian Brown anymore.

He's Heisenberg ever since he's joined the starting lineup.

But talk about a cold ass move.

How about on Christmas, Jokic getting a haircut before he does media.

So can you imagine those poor media people that were just hanging around.

Who's doing that though?

Just somebody on step because I thought it.

Was just his wife who just weir wear wearing nonmonia.

Yeah, I think he's definitely got some type of Adriatic barber that just travels.

When you got max contract money, you have a barber on stand.

But see Joker dislike.

He doesn't hate the media, he just doesn't like doing media stuff.

And so when you have to, when he knows he has to do media stuff, the game ends and he goes in and he works out.

This is this.

Is Christmas, which he doesn't really care about because his Christmas, by the way, is on January seventh.

Looked it up, so you know his the Orthodox religion.

It's so he doesn't care about that, right, no care.

The game is insane, right, it's uh over time?

Now?

Can wait?

Make everybody wait while I get a haircut.

He went up at one am.

If there is if there is a haircut that is able to be be done in about four to eight minutes, it'd be nicole, same haircut.

You know what I would love to a joker, grow out the flow before the career is over.

You know what I mean?

Just go full, just like Mullet that thing or something.

He'd look weird, wouldn't he before tap out?

What do you think about the Chargers?

Just Gift shocked?

What the hell are you?

And?

Hey, we were on last night and I worked with Harball.

This was coach I worked with Harriball.

I know what it's good.

I actually did.

I never thought in a minion I thought he'd come in here with you know, just like, why are you shocked?

Anger?

It's hard.

I'm shocked because Jim Harball loves winning football games, period point blank.

Here's the other part of the story that I'm a little bit shocked by is the continued dominance that Jim Harball's had over Seawan and in the Denver Broncos.

I guess it's not like there's gonna be an asterix by this one.

So he's is he?

Is he just gonna yield that.

Maybe Jim Harball wants to play the Broncos at a later date.

Yeah, I was.

I was thinking about that.

I was like, what does he do?

Because you know, Harball is not scared of Chompayton.

But a seating is on the line for the Chargers.

Yeah, not that it necessarily matters.

Right, they could play nobody and still get the seventh seed.

Right, They're in the sixth seed right now, Got under your head right now, they're probably gonna drop to the seventh seed.

Get under your head to spring.

Yeah.

Do you think that Jim Harbaugh would rather play first really first year playoffs?

Starting quarterback Drake May and the and the New England Patriots who have a have a have one win over a team with a winning record this year?

Do you realize that?

And they're thirteen wins right now.

One of them is against the team that is currently above five hundred bills.

It's their only game that.

Was early in the season.

And Drake May has not even to play Elite Football game online.

And that's who they would play if they lose, in all likelihood, would be the Patriots and.

Then the and then who would you get next if you win that game?

The Broncos.

And that's a pretty good path for Jim.

Instead of let's say, if they hold onto that sixth seed, what are you looking at Jacksonville probably which.

Is not nobody?

Yes, you really want to play Jacksonville right now.

So jackson we're thinking Jacksonville is a more complete team than the Patriots, right.

I think that Trevor Lawrence is his trial team.

But even even that, quarterbacks win playoff games.

Yeah, And if if you'm not saying that you can't be a first year starter in the NFL playoff world and not have success, but I would, I would say that there is a there has been a lot to be desired as it relates to Drake May in tight spots.

Sure in college included.

Sure, he didn't win any games of consequence at University North North Carolina.

So Drake mays the front runners, which is saying, coach.

He's good.

I do you think he has been a kick over rated?

Although no, no, no, I mean, well, yeah, in terms of comparing him to like, oh, he's already Josh Allen, He's already Joe Burrow something like you.

Don't think he looks better than any other quarterback taken in that draft, you know what I mean?

Like both certainly looks like the second best quarterback.

I forgot, I forgot, I forgot if ifro Perty wouldn't have looked like the greatest quarterback on Earth last night.

You're right, that was.

Ael, like everybody's sleeping on Jade and Daniels.

And because yeah, yep, he's done toast.

Although what I am saying is that Sean Payton made a great decision in drafting Bow where he did, but it might end up still hurting you because the best quarterback that you're gonna end up running into Drake May for the next ten years in the playoffs.

Try you know what I mean, You're gonna to get by that guy?

How many how many seasons in a row?

Are the Broncos of the Pages going to end up running into each other in the playoffs in the them not too distant future, at least that's.

What it appears to be right now, things can change.

This is weird.

Is weird.

I cannot but.

That Baltimore can get to the Do you guys really trust Mike Rabel and Josh McDaniel's long term?

Well, I think Rabel's the year right now, say long term, I'm saying you're you're saying that the Patriots are going to be here every year?

Yeah, you're right.

Do you trust the two of them?

Like Rabel had a couple of good moments in Tennessee.

They were, but it went bad when it went bad because he's one of these coaches that rubs people the wrong way over time.

He's got a shelf life.

Yeah, well they rubbed Tom Brady the wrong way year in and year out.

But he responded to that.

They're an incomplete team.

They're going to add pieces still, they're gonna add weapons.

I'm impressed with what Stefan Diggs is doing there.

He's been like he's showing glimpses of his former self.

Well, the Patriots often sure looks.

I mean it does look explosive.

I guess that's the one thing I can say about Drake is that he's a touchdown just waiting to happen.

Right.

He's very he's so composed.

He's got the size that a bow nigg And you know Bo's mister happy feed.

Bo's like, I'm moving my feet.

I'm moving my feet sometimes, you know, it leads to bad footwork.

Drake is just like a statue who's and he's.

Got that height.

He's like what six three six four every maybe, I mean, he's just everything's in his sight.

It's so easy for him.

Where's Bo.

He's like looking over the line sometimes like where is everybody?

Drake's gonna be damn good.

Yeah, he's gonna be really good.

Yeah, I don't know if I don't know if any of these second year quarterbacks are there.

Well, that's why.

Everybody thinks the playoffs are so wide open, because the best teams on are on the AFC side are all these young quarterbacks, you know what I mean?

Outside of Josh and whatever.

You think Jags and Trevor are gonna go coach?

What do you think of the Bills this vision to go for two?

I thought it was the right decision, and I think Josh Allen just needs to make a throw.

I'd agree that was there for him, right.

I said it earlier today.

Remember when John Elway took a lot of criticism for saying that Josh Allen wasn't accurate enough because he didn't hit the net at the Senior Bowl.

Sure, Josh Allen, Yeah, that same guy missed the entirety of the net.

He missed the apparatus.

That was just a bit out there.

That was that was Bob yuckerstyle right there.

But canny one great quarterback drag you to a super Bowl this season in the NFL.

Who is who is the who is the great quarterback right now in the playoffs?

That is as a known commodity, Stafford the only Stafford and Jalen Hurts are the only known commodity.

Allen does have the the tools and the experience, and he hasn't done in there though he's been there.

He's been, he's been in the playoffs, been deep in the playoffs, he hasn't won it.

And that's my point with Drake May.

Like even watching how he shrunk.

Did you watch the game against the Bills.

What a couple of weeks ago, when Drake May got the football after that really really long, sustained comeback and he had a chance to go win this thing, he looked like he reverted back to North Carolina.

Drake May that never won anything.

Sure, seven and five, Drake May Man, I'm not, I'm not.

I'm not bought in on Drake Okay, No, certainly bought in.

I'm bought in on the tools.

I'm bought in the accuracy.

I think when it's clean, he's really good.

When it gets really tight, that's where Bo Nixus thrives because Bo, let's just be honest, guys, Bo as a pure thrower of the football.

It's not great.

Sure, there's a reason he misses.

There's reason that his completion percentage is what it is, and it's not a top ten completion percentage.

His his tight window throwing percentage is poor and it has been in two years.

What about that, dude is good when the game's on the line.

What about the winner of the Sunday night game.

You're given the winner of the AFC North any chance Steelers are Ravens.

Whoever comes through, I.

Give him a chance to get to the playoffs.

I cannot believe Baltimore is playing for a playoffs spot after the season that they've had.

We still don't know if Lamar is gonna be able to go this week?

Right, they want him to go?

Was out there?

Yeah, at a certain point though, you want, uh, there's a former MVP too to be the guy, right, I will say, even though he.

Henry, that was that was some like old school, like dam what what is going on?

Derrick Henry?

Like two hundred and what was it?

Two sixteen and five?

Four touchdown?

Five touchdowns?

How many?

How many touchdowns did did Derek have yesterday?

Four?

And rush for two sixteen?

Past I mean, he blew past two legendary backs right on the on the all time list, including O.

J.

Simpson.

I think with what he did yesterday, But man, I cannot believe that team's going to Tyler.

Had eight carries for sixty yards.

That was It's almost as if you're starting to have fun unlocking what Derek Henry can be with Tyler Huntley playing quarterback as opposed worrying about the Yeah, you know the potential malcontent right now that is Lamar.

Ja staying up too late playing video games.

Apparently.

I don't know though, Like, come on, Lamar gives them the best chance to win a Super Bowl, right, I.

Mean, I'm assuming that the Baltimore and Lamar are going to be linked for the rest of his career.

But if he moves on, that'd be it.

If Baltimore moves on from both their head coach and their quarterback in the offseason.

But the Steelers can win this game.

Steelers can win.

You gotta think TJ.

Watt's gonna play, right.

I felt like he well, I mean, they lost the Brown they got him.

I know this week if they were without their two best like, it's amazing.

They are a little bit of a different team, and they don't have TJ.

Watt, and they don't have DK Metcalf and DK not him.

That's and he playing this week.

That's on DK, though you know.

What I mean.

That'd be what costs the Steelers is DK decided to punch a Lions fan coach did like Miles Garrett seemed to say, like, the reason Pittsburgh lost that.

Game is because they were way too focused on me instead of actually win in the game.

No, the reason is because, No, the reason that they didn't have DK Metcalf and they lost the game is because Wikipedia puts people's real names on out there, and Decaylin Metcalf did not like it.

I can't believe that fan had a presso week, like, uh, dude had a press.

You can call Steph Curry Wardell and he doesn't care because he's a he like that guy gets it.

You call DK de Kaylin and he loses his mind.

I don't get it, man, your government name, your government name, bro gave you that name?

Man?

Yeah, get out of your parents right.

Your mama called you, Decaylin.

I'm gonna call you.

What's even wrong with dekaelin?

I don't see it's I mean, it's not a name I've ever heard, but it's fine.

Also, But once again I will fans need to not pick fights with, you know, dudes like DK.

You know what, don't you go?

Like, I feel like you should not hit a fan.

Not you should never strike a fan for uh talking trash.

But if they do, that's what you deserve.

That's what you get, man, what you got?

Coach?

Did you guys know what JK.

Dobbins real name is?

Now?

No, what's the JK stand for?

Okay?

So what what did we say that DK Metcalfs was Kaalin?

I don't know what the K is is a part.

Of the JK Dobbins is ja kalink Dobbins.

I know this, I know this, no way and a jakal.

I never would have guessed that I would either.

I would have gone with like, you know, Joseph King.

Yeah yeah, yeah, no, that's with a C.

But I can't spell.

All Right, we gotta do this.

We gotta take a break because we've just been sitting here talking.

This is not this is kreikman.

Those two chuckle LEDs in here today, Mark Sprayer.

Let's name the show.

Coach, Mike Sanford on Mark Bruno.

This is Kikman called the Klan Show.

Along with Kin.

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Jake quellin, where's Jake Quelinett?

No, Jake Quallen here?

Yeah?

Uh do you mean Jacqueline?

Okay Ron, So that's how it's gonna be.

Yeah, I want to play okay Man, Come on you, Jake Quallen.

Mm hmmm, Jay Kellen?

No, wait, how do you how do you pronounce Jk's first name?

Now?

Jaquelin?

Jaquelin is now Klein for DK and Jaquelin for JK.

And that was Jacquelin, a fictional football player from one of the Key and Peel sketches, which did cross my mind as soon as you heard when we were talking to Klein and Kalen.

Is there a chance that good somebody in Broncos Country can coax JK.

Dobbins into being angry enough to get back out on the field for the Broncos by calling him man.

The Broncos defense.

I mean, offense would look all up different right with j if JK was still there?

Isn't it possible that he could be back for the Super Bowl, although that seems like a pipe dream when we saw that report.

I wanted to play against his former team, the Chargers on Sunday.

Yeah, I'd love it.

If they need him against this Chargers team that's rolling out, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't risk the foot for that.

Well, you, being the degenerate gambler you are, that have probably hedged a few bets on the Broncos against hapless teams.

Have you loved your bets?

Have you loved the coverage of the spread?

Again?

All of those spots.

When's the last time they covered a spread?

It has been a hot second?

Well, Packers, the Broncos players there.

Were home dogs, their home dogs covering.

Oh my god, we'll say, we'll say like as clear favorites.

Yeah, they never covered.

No, they don't cover.

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All right, I want to I want to get back to I mean, the kind of to me shocking news that we just heard.

What thirty forty five minutes ago where coach Harbaugh came out and said that Justin Herbert is not going to play in this game against the Denver Broncos this weekend.

Matter of fact, they're probably they're not going to play a lot of guys this weekend against the Denver Broncos, which means Dean Broncos are most likely gonna win the game and become the number one overall seed in the AFC West.

But once again, Coach Spring, you tell me what do you think the thinking?

Am I overthinking why Harbaugh's making this decision?

Or is it just like my team isn't healthy right now I can rest them this week and get as healthy as possible.

Or is he I mean, you know, is he dip diving chuck in the Broncos.

I think that Jim Harball actually wants to play the Broncos after they beat the Patriots.

Okay, but not the weekend because if they won this week, the Chargers beat the Broncos this week, they would most likely have to come back here next week and face the Broncos again in the first round of the playoffs.

If if New England wins, because both if New England and Denver Broth lose, still gets the Let's just Chargers Bronco.

The Chargers beat the Bronco chock.

This has turned into the biggest overused term on all of our shows.

Chock were It's not even in our show thing.

This isn't this is a national thing.

Who started Is this a Colin cowhard thing?

Like a gambling term?

I don't know who started it, but cho chalk is what's expected the most likely.

More games scout.

But yeah, the Chargers would because the Broncos would be the wait would be the two and the Chargers would fall to this.

No, they'd be the six and the Broncos would be the three.

Do you understand assuming that Jacksonville came here, assuming that Jacksonville and New England win both.

Win, yes, both of those teams.

Okay, I want to say let's just go chalk because he because the Broncos should win this game, and if the Broncos lose this game, that is any indictment on them.

Yes, that's what Tyler was saying to this gamester deserve win.

The Broncos are not losing this game.

They're gonna make it unbelievably close, uncomfortable and you're gonna go into the playoffs.

But with the narrative that.

Hold on Chiefs game last year when the Chiefs rested all their dudes, that was the last week of the season, right the last week of the season.

Broncos housed him and then they go in and then they get crushed in Buffalo.

But granted it was their first four.

Now that was really really rested Chiefs team like that.

They played nobody Mad Chargers as well.

Would we all agree though we made the same I made the same mistake.

I'm not gonna speak on anybody else's behalf, but last week in Kansas City, to assume that because Chris Oladokin was a quarterback, that you're gonna be playing against practice squad players everywhere, you weren't.

You played against the Chiefs, a team minus Patrick Mahomes and game you might have lost it right corner, But yeah, a lot of star power still out there, Chris jo it was all there.

Their big dogs, all.

Their big dogs was injured.

And the matter of fact, on offense, I will say this, and I think I mean you might have had this conversation when we were doing that ass game where I was like every time I looked up, it felt like the Broncos defense was doing that thing where they were creating havoc and everything.

But then every time I'd look up, all of a sudden, Kansas City was in field goal range, you know what I mean, all of a sudden they're kicking it and I'm like, wait, wait, bait bait, wait, wait, bait baba.

What's going on with this Broncos defense?

Like it used to be bend but don't break, and now it's just bending.

Man, what's happened to the Broncos defense in the red zone?

Coach?

Why?

Amy?

Why?

Why are they giving up more points now than they did before?

Or is that just the nature of the NFL?

Everybody everybody gets better this season.

I think a little bit.

There's more data points out there in terms of film and how to attack vance Joseph.

I mean, there's there's something to be said too for the fact that the Broncos defense was so dominant for such a long stretch of the season.

It's it's really hard to do that for seventeen weeks to be that good and that dominant.

I still think, like the Chiefs game, I thought the defense was was good, Like going to the final draft of the game, Chiefs had less than one hundred yards total offense.

Well, the reason the Kansas City is able to get at least ten of their points was a Bonux interception in their own territory and a kick return.

So that's it.

I think the other team.

I think that Vance Joseph didn't want to show oh, any of his main looks, blitz looks against Kansas City, a lot of four man rushes.

They only sacked all the Doakin once in that game.

He just didn't I mean, he didn't drop back much, yeah.

To take a five step drop or anything.

He was just like, get it out.

This Chargers game it could look similar.

I mean, like I said the first segment, Trey Lance is like a more advanced version of Chris Holddoakin.

They're similar players.

You know what we're missing though this Sunday.

What we're missing Kim Becker.

How's that because she's in Utah.

Because of long time Charger legendary backup quarterback that I didn't.

Know she Oh that's a thing a huge East Stick fan.

No, I didn't know that either.

Well, coach waited taking to them.

I don't even know who's look straight?

Is it?

Having Nelly on, having Nelly on the ones and twos back there, I knew that he was gonna be on the I don't.

Think that all.

But Steve Nelson is here today because of one thing and one thing only, and that's Mark Springer.

No, well, Kevin just put him on the skeed.

No, you know, years and years and years ago, when Steve Nelson was just an inter Oh yeah, they came to Springer and they were like, should we hire Steve Nelson.

It wasn't even that I went to them and said you should hire Steve Nelson.

Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying.

I don't think el Nelson knows this that his entire Oh you.

Don't any that Steve does anything.

Anytime Steve does anything, well, I make sure to tell people, you know, I'm the reason he has this job.

And man if he if Mark Springer is the radio machine, I'm just one of the cogs to even be.

Doing Nelson right now.

If Springer wouldn't have vouched for you.

Usually the next Kenny g or something like that.

Probably, no doubt what I mean.

Also, before you take that as a career, just be like, listen, dude, you're gonna be made fun of for fifty years, but you also could be Hella rich.

You say I getting made fun of.

I get Kenny G's I want to Kenny g Bro if I get his sax prowess, his paycheck and his hair, sign me up right now.

No questions ReSpectacle, Nah no, no have you do you remember the story about Kanye West paying which one to Kanye West paying that dude to come and serenade him and Kim one time, and like he made like a five million dollars.

Just to come play, And what is going on?

Like that's anyway we got.

We got a little sideways.

We got a little sideways.

What were we talking about?

I was, yeah, I disagree wholeheartedly about the Steve Nelson being here solely because of Mark Springer.

I don't think that.

I think it's because he certified lover and knower of ball.

Okay, you think that's what it is?

Tell you what this guy loves ball?

No, The problem is the thing that he loves more than life itself.

The thing he loves more than anyone on the planet is the San Francisco forty nine ers, and those chuckleheads might host the Super Bowl.

Looking good man, you know what.

The two teams that scare me right now, and I don't know if they have anything similar is the San Francisco forty nine Ers.

And no, no, no, you know noa Warts I got, I got Rams were were on that list, not anymore dag Wars.

So damn Houston Texans, man, I know I would one eight straight games.

Coach you, you and your Hill Country Texas, get out.

Of run into that defense.

Defense is man's let's see, I was thinking the Broncos defense is the best in the league.

Is Houston's better?

Right now?

Chargers in a walk?

Jags and Chargers would meet right now if nothing changed, and if.

It was chock, it was if it was shock.

If it's chock, but it's chock, the Patriots would host the Bills.

The Jags hosted Chargers and the States.

That's why we got to project shock.

Okay, it's gonna be Broncos with the buy at least according to chock theory.

All right, it's gonna be the because the Patriots hosts the Dolphins.

They're gonna win that game, So the Patriots will be the two seed.

The Jaguars play the who they play the Titans?

I think they host the Titans.

You mean this week?

Yeah, Yeah, they're gonna waste the Titans.

They're gonna win.

Okay, So that means that the Chargers dip down to the seven, the Chargers will play the Patriots with the Bills will jump up to the six, and they will play the Jaguars.

That's what's likely to happen.

How about this question, what do you think what's the lowest seed that's gonna be remaining after the Walker?

What team do you think is most likely to come to Denver to face the Broncos in that game.

The lowest remains the remaining seed that.

Makes it out of the first round.

My heart hearts to tell me the Denver Broncos are going to take care of business and beat the Chargers, and I'm gonna have all of us.

Are gonna have still have the same asterix that Sean Payton bonis as Broncos quarterback head coach Combo have yet to beat the real version of Jim Harbaugh.

Yeah, justin Herbert and the Chargers, and you're gonna get the rematch.

That they'd have to go into New England and win, which is very pop I think they will.

Wow, you think the Patriots that they're they got they got weaknesses that can be exploited in the playoffs, is what you're trying to say.

Yeah, and I think the biggest weaknesses is well, twofold Drake May hasn't been in a lot of these spots.

Yeah, and when he has been in it the one I watched, the one I saw, he looked like somebody that was gripping the football too tightly.

Now against the.

Bills, why why is it?

Why is it that Drake made his exact opposite of bow Knicks Where Drake is Lucy like man, he is a front but and bow it feels like it's so tight until it actually means something in the fourth quarter and then he's like, hey.

Man, let me ask you this.

Where did Drake May play his college football?

You're saying that big time.

You're saying that Auburn and Oregon a little bit different in.

Some big spots.

Brother, really okay?

For eleven years of college football, yes, yes, all he's done is played in front of one hundred thousand people with frequency, Okay, in big, big spots.

Whereas Drake May was just he was worried about the Independence Bowl in front of eighteen hundred in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Who do the two of you think is the best team in the NFL right now going into the play with one one.

I do think it is the Rams.

I don't know if they win it.

I just think on paper they're the best.

Matthew Stafford is a monster this year.

I'm assuming he's terrified.

I'm terrified of him.

Well, I'm assuming he's like Davante Adams.

Hamstring will be good to go is the beast.

The defense is very good.

You know, Jared Versus is so underrated.

They also have a run game yep.

With Kyron Williams and Blake Korham.

It's the most complete team.

I don't believe in San Francisco when you're when you're with that, you.

Don't believe what they did.

You see that game?

Yeah, against an Okay Bears defense at home?

Get five?

Sorry, Steve, look man, nobody.

Believes in your Niners, Steve Man, nobody can cares.

I don't think you care.

McCaffrey went off last.

Yeah.

Party does look really good, right, really good?

Yeah?

And I have been on team don't sign Party to a big, massive NFL starting quarterback deal.

And right now I say he is playing as well as any quarterback in the NFL.

Yeah, listen, man, I mean I like both quarterbacks.

Just no Nick Bosa, Brandon Ayuks driving past the stadium driving ninety.

Kyle Shanahan is dealing right now?

Is he is dialing it up?

I can't.

It's gonna be ridiculous.

All they have to do is win this weekend, right, and then they get a home game, home game, home game, super Bowl?

Right?

You do think you guys want to know what last night was?

That game?

It was by far the two best play colors play designers in pro football, and it's not even close, but not in.

That class like Ben Johnson and Kyle Ben Johnson is.

So that's what these two guys like McVeigh to me, is more of a like a holistic head coach, where Ben Johnson's a big motivator guy.

Yea.

You know who else is kind of dealing this year, man, Liam Cohen too.

Yeah, and they all kind of come down the tree.

Ben Johnson is the one guy that didn't come from that tree, right.

He's he's a bit self made.

He is a bit self made.

He was like a just a random assistant.

Like Mike Shanahan, Kyle Shanahan in the tree.

And then it's Kevin O'Connell, Mike McDaniel, Sean McVay, Sean McVay, Matt Lafleur, Liam Cohen, Sean McVay, he was with the Rams twice, Matt Lafleur.

Those guys all come from really, Kyle Shanahan slash Mike Shanahan.

Sure, Liam So.

Liam's everyone say he's a punchable face, he's a good football coach.

He and Mike McDaniel did this in Miami.

They're like badassed up, like Liams.

Liam's on like ozempic or something.

Daniels's like the South Beach and then he fully embraced like the Miami Vice.

Yeah.

Now mc daniels like, you know, got six shades on and he looks like a pimp.

Yeah right, Liams.

You look at how Liam looked when he took the job to now, Like Liam's.

Like he's like a stylist.

If the Jacksonville ever wants to if he won a Super Bowl for that team, he'd be a legend of Duval that that that play.

They would build.

Statues of him like he was messy or somebody you know what I mean, they would That's how they would love that.

Why did Why did Liam Cohen?

When he got the job, he looked like the nineteen eighties version of the movie The Mask.

Oh wow remember that?

Yeah?

Man, yeah that guy.

Yeah, that dude looks like he looks goofy.

He's happy to be there now.

He's like he's like a bat.

He's like he's like an Instagram male model for for clone brand that you buy on on just on social media.

But you know, you know who's a right of all these guys is Sean Payton.

And they all hate him too.

Oh yeah, I'm sure because he's not one of them, and they're not listened.

To the younger generations.

Like Sean predates all of them, and he comes from the Bill Parcells tree, which is like a bygone right, which is.

Like as old school as old school.

But Sean wants to he wants to reminded of everybody.

I'm hip too.

I wear Jordan's and give him out for hard counts.

How about Sean?

How about Sean?

On Twitter?

He was like replying to some tweets this week, Well.

He's feeling himself.

They won a game and then they won the division, and he's just like, yeah, baby, let's go.

Although I hear the AFC West shirts are ugly, right.

Why because they went, according to chock uh see, just too much.

Who wants I won the division?

Gear?

You wear that proud?

Do you wear that proud?

Win the whole thing?

It's the equivalent.

When I was coaching at Boise State, we would we would our goal was to go to a New Year's six Bowl game, the festival, but en route we would win the Mountain West Championship and the gear would come in.

I'm like, gosh, that's so cheap.

That is the cornball as the worst worst year of all time.

I also do think that's what Sean was alluding to today when he said, like they're ugly, like we are.

We don't care about winning the West, like it was a goal of ours and we want to do it, but it's not like we're going to celebrate.

I thought you meant like he just thought the T shirts were cheap that it seems one of those guys like listen, man, my thread count is in the two thousands, right, Like he's one of those guys like my my bed sheets are silk or what, there's no question there, because yeah, he's not buying.

An Egyptian I'd say go not in two thousand Thread County.

He's ad twenty thousand.

Ah wow, just one of them stupid numbers.

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You have a little voice crack there, maybe possibly who knows little puberty Pubert.

Listen man, it's uh.

We're coming up on the halfway point of both the Avs and the Nuggets season here in just a couple of weeks, so we rocking and a rolling.

We're almost done, well, almost done.

Yeah right, it'll be July thirty first tonight.

So your Broncos are winning and your Avalanche are winning.

Your Denver Nuggets did not win last game.

They lost in Orlando.

Now they're in Miami.

They're gonna take on the heat tonight.

You can hear that right here on the station.

In just over an hour and twenty minutes, something like that.

All that heat, don't give you, just some of the heat, give it all to me.

The Colorado Avalanche will be hosting the La Kings.

The ABS are looking to win there fourteenth.

Straight at home.

Spring what is it?

Is it?

Fourteen thirteen at this point, fifteen oh two at home, fifteen oho and two at home.

Yeah, I think this is gonna be a I think they're looking for the fourteenth straight at home.

They're already on sixty three points.

Man, we're not even in we're not even in January.

For it's just dump, just dump, just dumb.

Crazy thing is the Stars have fifty seven of them bad boys.

Yeah, fifty stars.

Though.

You gotta be so just like if you're Vegas, man, if you're Vegas, you got to be so angry.

You're like, we did everything right, we did everything you're supposed to do to beat the Avalanche, and somehow, some way, they still found a way to beat us.

And you know what I mean, that has to be frustrated.

How about it, dang Eastern Conference.

You want to talk about parody?

Yeah?

Yeah.

The first place Red Wings, tied with the Hurricanes for forty nine points, have only eleven points more than the very last place Eastern Conference team, the Blue Jackets yep.

Whereas obviously on the Western Conference, the discrepancy is sixty three points for the leader Avalanche versus thirty three points for the cellar dweller Canucks.

That's a thirty point disparity.

I know.

That's crazy.

I know.

Although here's what's crazy.

Even crazier.

At the bottom of the Western Conference is Vancouver, and Vancouver's telling their fans that they can still make the playoffs this year.

They still make a wild card this year playoffs.

And it's because they're like five points out, six points out of it.

Why something like that?

You know what, half the season ago, you can convince your fans of anything.

This is good news for the Apps because I give you some almost some good news.

I was like, is Darcy Kemper starting for the Kings tonight.

He's been good since he's been in LA if I won the Cup with the Nabs.

No, it's gonna be Anton Forsburg starting for the Kings tonight, and Kings probably Black Chargers.

Huh Yeah.

Those LA teams are just gonna gift better probabilities of win to the Denver team.

I still I don't understand Harbaugh is thinking.

When I do, I mean, what what?

What?

Like coach said Harbu, maybe those kind of one of those crazy coaches is like, I don't care if it's pre season or let me let me tell you the number one reason they are resting their starters, Okay, because they don't have their two tackles and Justin Herbert is getting demolished it back there, he's got he's coming off of a broken left hand, he's banged up.

They're thinking, we just got to get these dudes a little healthier.

And if we're gonna sit Herbert, we may as well sit everybody else.

We just got to make sure we're ready for Game one.

And like I've been saying, the AFC is so similar that it really doesn't matter if you're the five or seventh seed.

You're going on the road no matter what.

Now, would you like.

To improve your seeding because if there is an upset fest in the AFC playoffs, Hey, who knows the sixth seed Chargers could host the AFC Championship game against the seventh seeded I don't know, Bills.

Like it's not not entirely out of the realm of possibility.

So they're punting on that possibility.

That's the only thing they're punting on when you think about it, is the long shot of hosting an AFC Championship against the Bills.

I'm telling you right now, if I'm Jim Harbaugh, what he has to solve is not any more that he has to have a winning record in the regular season or make the playoffs.

You know what, the Chargers haven't been able to do really historically as a franchise outside of the San Diego Superchargers.

They got obliterated in the Super Bowl, but the Chargers haven't been able to win postseason games.

With Justin Herbert as a quarterback.

They've done what's the what's the verb that we've all come up with, charger, They've charger did.

Jim Harbaugh wants to create the best path forward for his team to win playoff games and get deep into the playoffs.

And I would say that for him right now, I would say probably the best path forward is go play the Patriots and Drake may He's never even touched the postseason.

Wow.

He hasn't sniffed the damn thing.

Wow.

Okay, So you'd rather face Drake in New England than like Josh in Buffalo, even though it would be it would be Jacksonville.

That's who it would likely to be.

If they were to beat the Broncos, they probably go to jackson and.

Jacksonville is I mean?

They are a wagon right now and they beat the breaks off the Chargers.

Remember when they.

They did beat the breaks off the Chargers just a few weeks ago.

It was like three weeks ago, like thirty five to six.

Also, that's where the Brandon Stay Chargers went when Trevor Lawrence and Doug Peterson had that big comeback.

And don't forget like people forget this about Trevor Lawrence.

Everybody's talking about him like Baker Mayfield last year in Tampa.

He's had some ups and obviously some downs, but it hasn't been just bad bad, bad, and then oh my god, gosh he's back, and or he's arrived after his fifth year of mediocrity or below average football.

I think that it's all about mashups and the best version of the Chargers.

If they can get some rest, they can get some guys back in healthy, We'll see what it ends up being with.

I know that Slater's out out right.

Yeah, he's out out.

I think alt is out out too, Okay.

I think that they like their chances against essentially a rookie quarterback in Drake May.

I mean, he's the second year starter, but he's not.

He's not a second year starter like bow Next as a second year starter.

Sure it was a half year starter if.

You put Herbert out there in Denver, and Denver's got everything to play for.

Without Slater and Alts, it's just more of the same.

And maybe, look, I'll give Justin Herbert and the Chargers a ton of credit.

Like the Monday night win against the Eagles, They've had a couple of those in this stretch until they finally succumbed to the Texans on Saturday, where Herbert's just getting pounded.

He keeps coming, but he's.

Jim Harbo's right, like he's a warrior.

He's he's played the toughest ball of his career.

But you're subjecting him to that again, You're subjecting him to getting pounded because you don't have two tackles, even if you somehow get the win at what costs because Justin Herbert is going to still get destroyed or would have still gotten destroyed by Bonito and Cooper and Alan, so he just would have been even more battered.

And then the next week they.

Got to go play a playoff game.

All right, I mean, man, Jim Harba wants to he wants to play the Patriots, beat him, come back and play the Chargers or excuse me to play the Broncos and do what he's done.

Frankly against Sean Payton.

He's beating Sean Payton.

Guys.

Yeah, well he has a winning record against shot, right, I mean, right now he's three and oh he's three.

He's three, and.

Oh yeah, that's not too bad.

You know, here's a team that we haven't mentioned.

We talked about San Francisco what they can do if they went out, but that that means they have to win this weekend with the team who currently has the number one overall seed in the NFC.

You guys think about the Seahawks.

Do you think San Francisco's gonna get Seattle this weekend and take over that number one spot and get to buy and or do you think Seattle's for real?

I think both teams are really good.

I think they both have really good defensive coordinators.

I love what Seattle's done under Michael McDonald defensively, Sam Donald's I mean, what he was able to accomplish on Sunday Night Football last week was that was a big moment to say I'm here, Uh, we're gonna, We're gonna take over this NFC West lead.

I actually thought it was game set match, to be honest, I thought it was over little.

I didn't expect the forty nine ers to be on the just the unbelievable close to the season they've been on.

I think they're both.

I think they're similar football teams.

Yeah yeah, well, I mean you get the defensive edge to Seattle now he's got one of the best defenses in the.

League, and the offensive edge of the Niners.

Well, I mean I wouldn't say that because they put forty whatever on.

Right now Purty's playing a little bit better than than Darnold.

Would you agree?

I agree that the X factor for Seattle, like I think their offense is a little weak except for Jackson Smith and Jigby is a dude who can go man.

And this is the time of year where.

Like your quarterback can throw up some ducks, but can you just outposition the defender and come down with balls that you that that and a replacement level receiver, wouldn't you know?

Like I know that the Bills lose that game ultimately to the Eagles, but a couple of their receivers made some big time catches on some kind of not great throws.

It just went up and came down with those things, Like Brandon Cooks, there was another dude.

And if you haven't in Jigba Smith and Jigby, you know, this is the time of year where you're the Broncos.

You need court This is where Courtland Sutton comes in.

Handy, you know, can you It might not be the best throw, but can you just take that thing in?

It's a separator.

So at least Seattle does have a freaking stud at receiver.

I think that I mean the NFC, the group of teams that currently are in the NFC playoff picture, I think more of those teams have an opportunity to make it to the Super Bowl than over here in the a f C.

Does that make Does that make sense?

You know what I'm talking about.

I think there's better team.

The top teams in the a f C are better than these mid level teams that are making the playoffs in the a f C compared to the NFC, where I'm like, man, who knows who comes out?

I don't know.

Like Phil Philip came out of it would shock me.

The Rams came out, it wouldnt shot me.

If the Niners came out of there, wouldn't shock me.

Hell man, if the Packers came out of there, wouldn't shock me.

You know what I mean.

It's It's just one of those where you looking at the NFC and I'm like, oh, I don't know, because that when the Bears meet the Packers, I started I started looking at Chicago and being like, you know what, I might believe in the Bears.

I'm a Bears believer.

Now I will say this about the NFC.

I can cross off the Packers.

They're done.

You got Micah Parsons.

Out, Jordan Love hurt, You're dust, You're done, I say that.

Tucker Craft out yea, Krishon Watson banged up.

Yeah, the winner of the NFC South, I can cross you on.

You're done, You're done.

The AFC North also comor get out of here.

With that Listen is playing.

This year?

I know, but can I cross them off?

Can I go to.

Team Lamars super I mean, you know, one of those teams should make.

The playoffs in an AFC field without the vaunted Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes.

That's exactly what a Lamar Jackson Ravens team has been waiting for.

He hasn't even played or played well for the entirety of this football season.

I'm not in team meetings and everybody's leaking it to the press.

I'm not saying that I love it.

I'm just saying they're gonna go win the damn Super Bowl.

I'm just saying, can I cross them off?

Can I write them off?

I'll tell you this man, John Harbaugh doesn't feel the same way about his quarterback as Jim Harbaugh feels about his beloved Justin Herbert.

This was him this I think it was on Saturday.

Every week he's he does things that are reserved for only the best in the game.

He heroic.

Uh, just the kind of competitor he is.

And we all, we all so many feed off it.

We all feed off it.

You know.

There's yeah, I don't know that I have the kind of ran out of the the superlatives.

Really, I mean, it's just damn, just don't change.

He's Uh, he's just I think he's the best there ever was.

He played he played extremely well against the Texans.

The best that it was what he playoff off of me?

Harbor, all right, we'll be reb