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Speaker 1: afternoons or.

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Speaker 2: How are you what's going on? Are you guys doing?

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Speaker 1: We're doing great, man, six in a row. We're we're just, uh,

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Speaker 1: we're flying high here in Denver. It's it's been a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun, man, Yeah, pretty good. What's uh, what's

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Speaker 1: what's your reaction to the Broncos win streak.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think I'm more interested in how it's

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Speaker 2: come than in just the winning itself. Like, you know,

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Speaker 2: Denver being a talented enough team to be you have

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Speaker 2: six in a row, Like okay, Like it's not like

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Speaker 2: totally surprising, you know, but it's been tough. It's been

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Speaker 2: a lot of last second, it's been a lot of

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Speaker 2: game on the line, do you make the player not?

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Speaker 2: There's been a lot of defense, you know, And I

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Speaker 2: think as the Broncos have sort of remade their roster,

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Speaker 2: and you know, we've talked about this, but like I

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Speaker 2: don't know that the offense is you know, as high

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Speaker 2: powered as it's probably going to eventually be This is

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Speaker 2: a defense first team with you know, mostly pretty good

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Speaker 2: special teams, and you know, I thought that was a

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Speaker 2: tough win, a well deserved win against a probably pretty

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Speaker 2: underrated Texans team. He's you know, Sean Payton and his coaches,

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Speaker 2: especially Vance Joseph, are you know, really really pushing all

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Speaker 2: the right buttons?

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Speaker 3: So Ian obviously everyone watched the game last night, the

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Speaker 3: Seattle Washington game, and Jane Dames suffers the injury. And

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Speaker 3: when you think about dan Quinn, he's been taking a

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Speaker 3: lot of firing brimstone today. Well you saw that injury.

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Speaker 3: Were you one of the individuals that possibly said, well,

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Speaker 3: maybe he should have taken him out before that injury?

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Speaker 2: You know, I sort of was because I feel like

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Speaker 2: I cover injuries for a living, you know, so you know,

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Speaker 2: anytime the game is no longer a doubt, I'm always like,

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Speaker 2: get the guys out because I just I don't see

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Speaker 2: the upside. Now. If you're dan Quinn, who, by the way,

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Speaker 2: did you know take the blame for this today said

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Speaker 2: it was one hundred percent that you know, he blew it,

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Speaker 2: and you know he wanted to get something positive before

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Speaker 2: before the game ended. I understand that. I mean, he's

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Speaker 2: got different things to think about that I do. It

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Speaker 2: was just, you know, the overall result was just so

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Speaker 2: dramatically bad that it's just hard to fathom. So, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's been a unbelievably forgettable season for the Commanders, you know,

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Speaker 2: really the opposite of last year. Last year everything went

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Speaker 2: as good as possible. This year it's solving as bad

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Speaker 2: as possible. And I thought that really put the capra

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Speaker 2: on it. Last night.

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Speaker 1: We got the trade deadline in less than twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the Jalen Phillip Steel got done earlier today.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you get asked all this all the time.

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Speaker 1: What's on the horizon here? Are you hearing any rumblings

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Speaker 1: of some stuff coming up, maybe even including the Broncos.

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard anything involved in the Broncos, you know,

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Speaker 2: I know they were looking for a blocking tight end

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Speaker 2: and then they signed Mercedes Lewis and actually, like you know,

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Speaker 2: if you've fallen along close, so you could see that's

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Speaker 2: already paying some dividends, especially run game wise, and you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't, judging from what's available, I don't really get

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Speaker 2: the sense it'll be overly active. You know, like there

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Speaker 2: are some names, but how many names are really good

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Speaker 2: enough to make a dent? You know, probably a few,

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Speaker 2: but not that many that would be that would do

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Speaker 2: what I would say. So I think we'll see some.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that Denver is going to do any

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Speaker 2: And you know, if you're if you're a team that

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Speaker 2: wants to build it the right way, giving up you know,

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Speaker 2: fourth and fifth round draft picks for aging veterans who

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Speaker 2: are going to leave their team. I just don't know

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Speaker 2: that that's like what you're trying to do, honestly.

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Speaker 3: So with the Packers losing Tucker Kraft or a tight end,

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Speaker 3: and I know we're talking about, you know, trades. We

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Speaker 3: know the tight end is an integral part of what

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Speaker 3: Michael Floyd wants to do with that Packers' offense. But

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Speaker 3: you think that there could be a trade where the

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Speaker 3: Packers look to bring in another tight end opposite Luke Muskgrave.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've looked at this and I've talked to

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Speaker 2: people about it. Two problems. One is like I don't

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Speaker 2: know who that is, you know, like is it David

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Speaker 2: and Joku? Like he's expensive and he's a rental But

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Speaker 2: like the biggest issue is if you're the Packers and

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Speaker 2: you gave up, you know, so many draft picks for

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Speaker 2: Micah Parsons, do you want to give up more? You know,

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Speaker 2: do you want to say, all right, we're going all

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Speaker 2: in or do you want to just say, you know what,

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Speaker 2: let's trust our team, let's trust our program, trust our

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Speaker 2: GM and just you're relying the guys we have. I mean,

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Speaker 2: injuries suck. I hate it for them. This is a

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Speaker 2: bad one because he's a really, really really good young player.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know where they go to replace him

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Speaker 2: on someone else's roster.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent. Joe Walt another one, really tough injury

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Speaker 1: there for the Chargers. You know, I've lost both their tackles.

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Speaker 1: Do you think they might be a little more active

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Speaker 1: for offensive line considering the situation they find themselves in.

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Speaker 2: You know again, I just don't know who. Yeah, like

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Speaker 2: nobody is trading good offensive linemen. It's like it's funny because, like,

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe besides quarterback, I think offensive linemen might

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Speaker 2: be like the least likely to get traded. They're just

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Speaker 2: so hard. Even if you're a team that has an

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Speaker 2: offensive lineman, you only kind of like you're still sort

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Speaker 2: of like, oh man, I don't want to trade this

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Speaker 2: guy because like I might have to play him, you know.

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Speaker 2: So it's like there's that all over the league, and

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Speaker 2: that's what's crazy. So I don't know, I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: really it's it's really tough if you're the Chargers and

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Speaker 2: because like I don't know where it comes. It comes

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Speaker 2: in scheme and it comes in depth. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I would say that's that's a really rough one for

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Speaker 2: the Chargers of the team that you know, seems like

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Speaker 2: it's playoff bound and seems to have a lot going

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Speaker 2: for it.

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Speaker 3: Ian how would you describe, I guess the resurgence of

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Speaker 3: now Seattle quarterback Sam Donald.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I would say we've actually seen this before.

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Speaker 2: I'm like fascinated by this, and you know, not just

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Speaker 2: because I talk about quarterbacks a lot, but because like

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Speaker 2: he was a failure in a couple of different places,

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Speaker 2: got in the right system, got great coaching, flourished and

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Speaker 2: then even though he flourished last year with the Vikings,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people, including the Raiders, were still like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I don't know who his feeling Is, and I'm sort

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Speaker 2: of like, aren't we seeing it? Like he was so

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Speaker 2: good last night, and it really makes me wonder about

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Speaker 2: all these quarterbacks that we give up on. It's like, oh,

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Speaker 2: this guy sucks. This guy sucks, like Mac Jones a

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Speaker 2: backup for the Jaguars forty nine ers backup, he's not

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Speaker 2: very good. Well, he's played really good for an injury

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Speaker 2: ravaged team. Like my guest, is will get traded and

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Speaker 2: get some money next year. So like I've seen it before,

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Speaker 2: we saw with Baker as another great example, Baker's gonna

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Speaker 2: end up making you know, one hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 2: dollars or something like that after everyone gave up on him.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing, and I think it really should inform all

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Speaker 2: of our conclusions that we make about these quarterbacks, because like,

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Speaker 2: we shouldn't give up on a lot of these guys.

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Speaker 1: One hundred percent agree, Ian always great man. We will

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Speaker 1: check in with you next.

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Speaker 2: Week, all right, look forward to our guys.

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Speaker 1: Take care, I appreciate it you, and wrap up for

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