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Speaker 3: I didn't know if you're gonna play one of Rick's

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Speaker 4: What's up?

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Speaker 5: Rick?

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Speaker 2: What's up?

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Speaker 4: Brian?

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Speaker 6: Going to be back with you? A beautiful day? Where

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Speaker 4: Oh? I said, well, you sure on Sunday?

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Speaker 2: Well, and what's so today?

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Speaker 3: And then Monday was like that too. I was saying

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Speaker 3: you know, one day, twenty four hours difference. It's a

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Speaker 3: blizzard twenty four hours ago and now it's in the forties.

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Speaker 3: And in the forties the Broncos probably win that game.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, I don't want this is your first

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Speaker 2: I definitely want to give you a chance.

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Speaker 3: But by the way, just so people know, from a

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Speaker 3: over the next three hours. Rick, I'll give you a chance.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, man, it was the missed opportunities. A bummer,

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Speaker 3: So to say you're to lose your offensive MVP halfway

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Speaker 2: Some incredible coaching and incredible performance by these players.

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Speaker 2: Let's go in here from bon Nick Media.

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Speaker 5: Monday. Just had a lot going on. When able to

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Speaker 5: but it didn't work out. Wanting to open it up

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Speaker 2: We'll begin with Zack Stevens at the NBR. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 8: The athletic hey bo Sean said that you were in

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Speaker 5: you got to get ready for next year. And that's

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Speaker 9: What can you share about the procedure itself and then

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Speaker 5: Yeah? Well it's a very quick procedure, very easy operation,

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Speaker 5: I'm excited for this off season. I think, uh, the

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Speaker 10: Pressed well on everybody else in this call, it feels

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Speaker 10: the same way.

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Speaker 4: But I wish you a speedy recovery.

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Speaker 5: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: You welcome so Sean, George, Greg Penner, They've all expressed

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Speaker 10: extreme confidence that you'll be no worse for the wear

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Speaker 10: once you recover from this, it's not gonna be a

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Speaker 10: lingering issue. But I'm wondering if you have that same

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Speaker 4: Two parts here.

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Speaker 11: One exactly how it happened, because it looked like the

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Speaker 10: And then also Sean Payton said a couple of times.

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Speaker 11: One he said you've had three surgeries on this ankle,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, nothing predisposed, nothing that was there originally. I might

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Speaker 1: Parker Gabriel the Denver Post, hey Bo, A little bit

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Speaker 1: of a different speed here, but Davis Web obviously appears

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Speaker 9: I think turned thirty one last week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, just speaking for myself, I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: knows how to communicate with your players and with me.

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Speaker 5: He's helped me in two years just consolidate, make things

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Speaker 5: You know, I think highly of him. I know he's

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Speaker 5: an awesome you know whatever. In whatever role he's in,

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Speaker 2: Christ Thomas and the Gazette.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, hey both, thanks a lot for doing this.

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Speaker 2: I'm hoping you could.

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Speaker 10: Regarding the injury, speak to the outpouring of support you

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they were great. It was devastating, and those guys

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Speaker 5: But you know, for that, it's uh, you know, that's

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Speaker 5: It's frustrating that it ended like that. But you know,

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Bonux press conference right here on ka Uh, Well.

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Speaker 5: Well, it was terrible, it was uh, you know, very

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Speaker 5: All adversity sort of tests you and challenges you and

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Speaker 5: It can change real quick. And you know, literally it's

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Speaker 2: All right there.

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Speaker 3: That was Bonus's press conference as the Broncos, of course

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Speaker 3: wrapped up their season. We're gonna have a plenty of

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Speaker 3: time to react to that, Rich just toquit a quick

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Speaker 3: of the hour.

436
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought that was quite interesting, especially the discussion

437
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Speaker 6: about his ankle, which is what I've been really thinking

438
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 6: about here the past week or so. How is this

439
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:17,600
Speaker 6: going to work out moving forward? The ankle is a

440
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Speaker 6: weight bearing joint. Obviously, to me, that's kind of a

441
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:25,440
Speaker 6: tricky situation. If he's had what three broken ankles, it's

442
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 6: been reported a couple of surgeries apparently, And I thought

443
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Speaker 6: it was interesting how we answered that question that he

444
00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 6: didn't like that that came up, it was made public.

445
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Speaker 6: And was he talking about coach Peyton. I believe Coach

446
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:41,960
Speaker 6: Peyton's talked about it twice. Now, Yes, Yeah, I thought

447
00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 6: that was interesting too. But for me, that would be

448
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,960
Speaker 6: a bit of a concern that many injuries to one joint.

449
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Speaker 6: There's twenty six bones in your foot and ankle twenty

450
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 6: six bones, so there's a lot of things that can

451
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 6: go wrong in that part of your anatomy. And let's

452
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Speaker 6: hope he's good to go, because you could see some

453
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Speaker 6: what a huge difference he's made for this football team.

454
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Speaker 6: If he's playing that game Sunday, Broncos are going to

455
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Speaker 6: the super Bowl.

456
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll have more reaction to that coming up

457
00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:14,640
Speaker 3: next right here on KOA. A lit bit of Bonnicks

458
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Speaker 3: from moments ago, carried that full press conference, which was

459
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:21,640
Speaker 3: really cool opportunity there. We'll hear more from Bonux coming

460
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,240
Speaker 3: up in just a little bit. But yeah, I know

461
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,040
Speaker 3: he sounded as up beating as you could possibly be.

462
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:30,320
Speaker 3: Rick under the circumstances. Certainly disappointed. I thought what Sean

463
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Speaker 3: Payton said yesterday when he was talking about the missed

464
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Speaker 3: opportunity to play against one of his contemporaries, that Drake May,

465
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Speaker 3: who was drafted in the same class.

466
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Speaker 2: That's sort of hit me.

467
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Speaker 3: Right, Like as far as thinking about that missed opportunity

468
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:47,320
Speaker 3: as a football fan, Drake May versus bo Nicks rival Reneude,

469
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying with when it comes to

470
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Speaker 3: the Broncos and the Patriots and what that could have meant,

471
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Speaker 3: and even in the snow and all that, I mean

472
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Speaker 3: just yeah, there was a little bit of a longing

473
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Speaker 3: moment there I mean, we missed an opportunity that the

474
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Speaker 3: Broncos missed an opportunity to go to the Super super Bowl.

475
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,080
Speaker 2: But football fans also missed that one too.

476
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know we talked about this in the

477
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Speaker 6: pregame on Sunday.

478
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,440
Speaker 4: Your heart breaks for bo Nicks.

479
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 6: Having a season like that, takes you all the way

480
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Speaker 6: to the AFC Championship Game and then he can't finish.

481
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Speaker 6: I mean, that must have been a rough week for him,

482
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:20,200
Speaker 6: no doubt about it. Rough rough Sunday for Broncos country,

483
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:21,479
Speaker 6: for everybody.

484
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 4: And a lot of people are really down. You know.

485
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,800
Speaker 6: I talked to some people on Monday that said, man,

486
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 6: I just feel like I'm having a bad day today,

487
00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,640
Speaker 6: like there's a cloud over my head. When the Broncos lose,

488
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,560
Speaker 6: especially big games like that. It's always been like this

489
00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,959
Speaker 6: in this city. The city's definitely a Broncos town. And

490
00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,040
Speaker 6: when they lose the big games, man, you feel it.

491
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,240
Speaker 6: And you and I Ryan and Dave Logan and Susie

492
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 6: and our great crew that broadcasts the games.

493
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:50,879
Speaker 4: We're fully vested in it. You know.

494
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 6: We put a lot of work into it too. And

495
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Speaker 6: we got that close to going to a Super Bowl

496
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Speaker 6: and it may never happen again.

497
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Speaker 4: No, you just you just never know.

498
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Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, man, And we're glass half full of

499
00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 3: people by design, you and I and so there's a

500
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 3: little bit of a like I've kind of turned the page,

501
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 3: like I'm already there, but I've had a chance now

502
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 3: for a couple of days talking about.

503
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Speaker 2: So I'm here for you.

504
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 3: We're also here for the listeners if they still feel

505
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 3: like they need to vent.

506
00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,399
Speaker 2: Or be frustrated about it. I mean, it's it is

507
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: a frustrating thing. I did.

508
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Speaker 3: Like as we heard from Bronco's on our Great Penn

509
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 3: today and you know, he had sort of a message

510
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,720
Speaker 3: at the beginning of his press conference like he typically

511
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,679
Speaker 3: does at the end of the season, and you know,

512
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,439
Speaker 3: once again sort of reiterating how they're not satisfied, despite

513
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:36,679
Speaker 3: the fact that it was a fun season, they're not

514
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Speaker 3: satisfied with the result.

515
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Speaker 2: Er I'll try that again.

516
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Speaker 13: It's a Broncos country, a huge thank you.

517
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 2: You know, I think you all saw it.

518
00:24:46,960 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 13: We really re established a strong home field advantage this

519
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,400
Speaker 13: year and our fans were just just incredible.

520
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Speaker 2: Main messages were not satisfied. We know we have a

521
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:58,359
Speaker 2: lot of work to do.

522
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Speaker 13: We've obviously made a lot of progres and in the

523
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Speaker 13: last four years, but we're gonna work our tails off

524
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Speaker 13: this offseason and and come in next year ready to go.

525
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Speaker 3: He also said it was an unbelievable season. And I

526
00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,320
Speaker 3: said this on Monday to Dave. I said, you know,

527
00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 3: multiple things can be true. You can be frustrated, you

528
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 3: can say you're not satisfied because you can't be satisfied,

529
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 3: and ultimately, if you want to be one of those teams,

530
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 3: you're not satisfied unless you win the whole thing. And

531
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Speaker 3: I talked to coaches, former players. I remember, you know,

532
00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,960
Speaker 3: going back and forth with Alfred on good versus great seasons,

533
00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 3: and he said, in the end, there's only one team

534
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:37,520
Speaker 3: that's happy. And the reality is that's that's very true.

535
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,359
Speaker 3: Even if you say, well, fourteen wins, you won the

536
00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 3: division round, you hosted an AFC championship game, those are

537
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Speaker 3: all markers of things that before the season started, Rick,

538
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 3: we would have been over the moon about That's true,

539
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,439
Speaker 3: But then being that close is also true.

540
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Speaker 4: Yeah, once you get there, you.

541
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Speaker 6: Got to finish. We got to taste, We get to

542
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 6: a little taste. It's the thinking, hey man, we're going

543
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,159
Speaker 6: to San Francisco. We're going to the super Bowl, and

544
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Speaker 6: I think for me personally, I would have felt better

545
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,600
Speaker 6: with the backup quarterback if they lost by two touchdowns

546
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 6: instead of three points where they gave them the game.

547
00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:19,639
Speaker 6: In my opinion, the Broncos gave them that game that

548
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 6: was our game to win. That was the most disappointing

549
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 6: thing to me.

550
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:25,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost it more than the Patriots won.

551
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And the defense played great. They played as good

552
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 4: as they could play in that game.

553
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Speaker 6: And we knew it was going to be uphill battle

554
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 6: with your backups quarterback, but honestly, I expected him to

555
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,560
Speaker 6: be better. For me, all Jared Stidham had to do

556
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 6: was play like he did Sunday without the two turnovers,

557
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 6: and they win that football game, and especially the fumble,

558
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:55,680
Speaker 6: the backwards pass fumble, which gave them a quick touchdown,

559
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 6: the only touchdown they got in the entire game. And

560
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,040
Speaker 6: so I was disappointed, and Jared's did him And we

561
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,679
Speaker 6: heard all week, you know, from Sean Payton, Jehn Payton

562
00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,760
Speaker 6: really really built him up and pumped him up, and

563
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 6: I started going, yeah, okay, And honestly, when you look

564
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 6: at the numbers, take those two turnovers away. He played okay,

565
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 6: he was okay throwing the ball. He was better than

566
00:27:19,359 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 6: Drake May. But those two turnovers turnovers are going to

567
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 6: kill you every time.

568
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Speaker 3: Well, on the second one, I mean, you know, sort

569
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 3: of last ditch effort at that point, and actually a

570
00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 3: little tip of the cap but we haven't talked about

571
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:31,919
Speaker 3: it on the air yet, but the tip of the

572
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 3: cap to Mike Brabil who the Broncos decided to substitute

573
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 3: right there, and the defense gets an opportunity to match yep,

574
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,560
Speaker 3: and so he had the biggest guys, his defensive linemen

575
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 3: come on the field and then go off the field

576
00:27:45,440 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 3: and they're just eating. They ate like twenty five seconds

577
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 3: of clock. And that was on the Broncos for substituting

578
00:27:51,440 --> 00:27:52,080
Speaker 3: at that moment.

579
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 2: You didn't need to.

580
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 3: But that was one of those things where over the

581
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 3: course of the season we've been talking about, Hey, Sean

582
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 3: wants to subsue guys in and out, he wants to

583
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 3: have different look and throw teams off. Well, in this case,

584
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 3: you had you didn't have timeouts to be able to

585
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 3: stop the clock, and so the Patriots took advantage of it.

586
00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 3: And so as it ticks down, you start getting nervous

587
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,919
Speaker 3: if you're a backup quarterback, and then we got to hit

588
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,720
Speaker 3: the ball man, we gotta go, and then you force

589
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 3: a pass down the right sideline to Marvin Mimsen. That's ultimately,

590
00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,639
Speaker 3: in my opinion, that last turnover was more to do

591
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,600
Speaker 3: with the substitution and Mike Vrabel speeding up the clock

592
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Speaker 3: of your backup quarterback.

593
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, and Sean Payton gets criticized a lot for he's

594
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 6: always rotating players in and out of the game, which,

595
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 6: as you said, gives the other team the opportunity to

596
00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 6: do the same thing. And it was just one of

597
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 6: those games. If Bonnicks is playing, they win that game.

598
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 6: That game set up perfectly for a bon Knicks comeback.

599
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 6: He would have found a way to win that game.

600
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 6: And he would have made plays with his legs like

601
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,520
Speaker 6: Drake May did too. That's one thing we were really

602
00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 6: missing out. Jeered Stidham had a couple of runs that helped,

603
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 6: but he's know bow Nicks and we knew that, and

604
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 6: so that's why I was so disappointed and so discouraged afterwards.

605
00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:09,680
Speaker 6: We were just so close and I just know if

606
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 6: bo was out there, they would have won that football game.

607
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 6: We'd be making plans for going to the Bay Area

608
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 6: on Sunday and doing radio row for the week, right,

609
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 6: and then calling a Super Bowl game the following week.

610
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Speaker 4: So yeah, you know, I'm still.

611
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 6: Trying to shake it off, man, As you can tell,

612
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 6: I'm still and I haven't had.

613
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 4: A chance to talk about it on the radio that much, right,

614
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 4: But yeah.

615
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 3: Okay, I knew, listen, I knew what I saw the

616
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 3: schedule that we're going to be on here today. I

617
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 3: knew there was going to be a little bit of

618
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 3: you know, let's let's get Rick Lewis on the couch,

619
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Speaker 3: let's Sydney, let's let's let's get this thing sort of.

620
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 2: Chat it out. Because I knew that I had.

621
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Speaker 3: A couple of days, including almost a four hour post game,

622
00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 3: to talk it out. And so I'm already onto my

623
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 3: optimism of thoughts of what this off season can be

624
00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 3: and how we're going to build this thing.

625
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 2: And you know, we have plenty of time to talk

626
00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:58,960
Speaker 2: about those things too.

627
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 3: But I said, I knew that you specifically have not

628
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 3: had a chance to discuss it. So and there's probably

629
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 3: some fans out there that maybe didn't even listen to

630
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 3: sports talk radio for a couple of days after this one.

631
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Speaker 2: Next.

632
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Speaker 3: I know when I used to not be in this

633
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,480
Speaker 3: industry after a bad Broncos loss, I did not listen.

634
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:17,120
Speaker 3: I did not want to hear about it. I didn't

635
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 3: want to I didn't want to talk about it. I

636
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 3: didn't want people to ask me about it. I just

637
00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:22,680
Speaker 3: wanted nothing to do with it. So maybe it took

638
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 3: people a couple of days. So maybe they're just tuning

639
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 3: in for the first time and saying, all right, yeah,

640
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 3: now I'm ready to kind of move on, but there's

641
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 3: got to be a little talk through.

642
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 6: I mean, same thing Monday. I didn't listen to any

643
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 6: sports talk. Yeah, I didn't listen to your show. I

644
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 6: didn't listen to any I just had had it.

645
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Speaker 4: We're really good.

646
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Speaker 6: There, Can I say one more thing and then I'm

647
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 6: gonna start. You guys crushed it, I'm sure. Yeah, we

648
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 6: were really One other thing that really bothered me about

649
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 6: Stidham and he's a venturing quarterback and I know he

650
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 6: hasn't played in two years. He kept bailing out of

651
00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 6: the back of the pocket. Yeah, and that killed them.

652
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,960
Speaker 6: You know, in set of stepping up, he's spinning around

653
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Speaker 6: and trying to escape up the back and I've really

654
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Speaker 6: heard him too on that that fumble, what passed, whatever

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Speaker 6: it was, and all right, I'm done, Okay, we can

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Speaker 6: move on. Thanks for letting me vent Broncos.

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Speaker 3: Country's absolutely if you need more, I do want to say,

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Speaker 3: We're going to hear more from Greg Penner in a

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Speaker 3: second as you're mentioning that that play. I am so

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Speaker 3: unbelievably grateful and I'll probably say it many times over

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Speaker 3: the course of the show whenever we get to great

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Speaker 3: pinners sound that we have the ownership brood that we

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Speaker 3: have here for most two reasons same but after the embarrassment,

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Speaker 3: the national embarrassment of the Bills last week, where you

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Speaker 3: have the owner jumping into the middle of it complaining

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Speaker 3: about the refs, talking about how well this player wasn't

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Speaker 3: this guy's draft pick, he was actually the coach that

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Speaker 3: we just I mean, we have we have the best

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Speaker 3: owners in all of sports here and it sounds self serving, right,

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Speaker 3: but I'm just saying, like Greg was all class today.

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Speaker 14: He didn't complain about that call, he didn't complain about anything.

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Speaker 14: He's acknowledged and owned every ounce of it and said

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Speaker 14: we're not satisfied.

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Speaker 3: Instead of putting all the money. I just it needs

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Speaker 3: to be said. We're so lucky here and we knew it,

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Speaker 3: and we knew when they bought the team.

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Speaker 6: Yes, we said the same thing, and man they yeah,

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Speaker 6: moving forward, We've got everything in place for a nice

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Speaker 6: run here with Bonix at quarterback.

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Speaker 3: Still have a lot of Sean Payton and George Peyton's

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Speaker 3: sound to get through. Rick Lewis, Ryan Edwards with you

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Speaker 3: five six six nine zero or Kae Comma spirit health

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Speaker 3: text line this text. I appreciate you guys being critical

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Speaker 3: of Sidham because you're the first, well re you Rick

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Speaker 3: of the first guy to say what need to be said.

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Speaker 2: I think the Stidham criticism is.

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Speaker 3: An interesting thing because it was one of those maybe

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Speaker 3: we were sort of gassed up a bit into thinking

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Speaker 3: that Stidham could maybe do a little bit more. And

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Speaker 3: I'll say I wrote, I wrote that roller coaster, right,

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Speaker 3: I had fun with that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we change my avatar.

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Speaker 3: On Twitter, and you know, believe when Shawn says, you know,

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Speaker 3: just watch right after Bonix went down and believe in

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Speaker 3: se And you know, we spent all week we were here,

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Speaker 3: We spent all week talking about the times he had

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Speaker 3: other backup quarterbacks coming in what he was able to

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Speaker 3: do with them.

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Speaker 2: I bought into it. I absolutely bought into it.

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Speaker 3: But for me, it's like, and I tend to be

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Speaker 3: like this in general, what's our other alternative. Are we

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Speaker 3: going to sit here and say, well, maybe we shouldn't

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Speaker 3: be excited about this because other backups look bad? It's like, well, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean we could definitely do that. And that's that's

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Speaker 3: an acknowledgement that I think is just obvious because other

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Speaker 3: backups do.

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Speaker 2: Tend to not look like starters.

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Speaker 3: But then there's also this like, hey, I'm really excited

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Speaker 3: about my team. It's been a wonderful year. Sean Payton says,

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Speaker 3: let's go. So let's go, and I think I think

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Speaker 3: that that's fair. But when we got into the game,

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Speaker 3: to your point, it became a pair. Even with exception

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Speaker 3: of the one drive, with the long past of Marvin

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Speaker 3: Mams and the touchdown, it became apparent what it looks

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Speaker 3: like when you haven't played football in over seven hundred days.

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Speaker 4: It did, It did pretty quickly.

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Speaker 6: As you said, My expectation for still it was just

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Speaker 6: to be solid.

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Speaker 4: He's a veteran backup quarterback. He's still a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 6: I expected him to be solid and he wasn't, So

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Speaker 6: that was the disappointment for me. He did hit a

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Speaker 6: couple throws. He had two throws in the game that

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Speaker 6: he hit and they got a touchdown on one of those.

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Speaker 6: But the mistakes he was making I didn't expect him

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Speaker 6: to make as a veteran backup. He's been in the

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Speaker 6: system three years, and it became kind of a scramble

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Speaker 6: drill for him. And then when the weather turned, you

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Speaker 6: know what, I still thought the Broncos were going to

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Speaker 6: win this game because they'd been doing that all season

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Speaker 6: until New England just started pounding the ball on the

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Speaker 6: ground that first first drive of.

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Speaker 4: The second half.

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Speaker 6: That's when my heart started thinking, like, man, where's bou Bo?

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Speaker 6: With Bo they win that game, I think there's no

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Speaker 6: way they lose that game with him. Agreed, they gave

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Speaker 6: the game to the Patriots. Patriots didn't win it. Broncos

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Speaker 6: lost the game. And I'm not putting it all on Stidham.

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Speaker 2: He's a backup quarterback, right, That's just it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a backup quarterback.

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Speaker 6: I just was expecting him to play better than he did,

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Speaker 6: and I'm sure he was too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, if I go I bet Peyton was too exactly.

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Speaker 3: I think if you go through the five reasons, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean, however you want to rank them, he wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: He would be probably in there, but he wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: my top one. I mean, I think the fumble, sure,

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Speaker 3: but again there's a certain amount of like what did

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Speaker 3: we expect to happen? And I'll, like I said, I'll

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Speaker 3: acknowledge myself. I bought into it, hopefully looking a little better.

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Speaker 3: And I even talked about it during the course of

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Speaker 3: the week of like, hey, is there a way you

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Speaker 3: can sort of insert sit him in a bit like

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Speaker 3: a point guard into the offense, because there was a

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Speaker 3: times bo Nicks has been that for this team. Now

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Speaker 3: he is that that's maybe understelling Nicks a bit. I'll

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Speaker 3: acknowledge that. I mean, Nicks does.

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Speaker 2: More than that. We we saw very plainly how much.

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Speaker 4: They need Bo Nicks, Yes we did.

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Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, like there's a certain amount of

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Speaker 3: what they do schematically where you could say, as a

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Speaker 3: backup quarterback, could just need you to do these simple

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Speaker 3: things and if you can execute these things, everybody else

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Speaker 3: around you will do their job and even Sean said,

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about Jarrett. I'm worried about the rest

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Speaker 3: of the guys doing their job well. I would say

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Speaker 3: the offensive line was a reason. There's struggles of the

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Speaker 3: offensive line were a reason why they lost that game.

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Speaker 3: And maybe I even put in a little bit more

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Speaker 3: of the loss in this game on some of the blocking.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they couldn't run the ball.

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Speaker 3: Obviously, we couldn't run the ball, and there was free

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Speaker 3: rushers at him constantly.

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Speaker 6: And Drake may first round draft pick. He's in the

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Speaker 6: MVP conversation. He didn't have a good day. No, he

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Speaker 6: made a couple of plays with his legs, but the

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Speaker 6: one thing he didn't do didn't turn the ball over.

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Speaker 3: There's some spectacular stuffrom Greg Peller. When we come back,

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Speaker 3: I when it gets to some of that, I think

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Speaker 3: you're really going to enjoy this.

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 3: We have more Sean Payton, George Payton stuff to get

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Speaker 3: to Rick Lewis and studio on Ryan Edwards as Kowa