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Speaker 2: Ian my friend, Good afternoon, Hope you had a nice weekend.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 3: I did. What's going on? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Well, we obviously it was a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: different world last week when we had John. We're talking

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Speaker 1: about all the moves the Broncos have made, which was

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Speaker 1: a lot of bringing back their own guys.

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Speaker 2: And then suddenly, Jalen Waddell, that deal gets done. What

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Speaker 2: was your reaction to it?

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Speaker 3: I would say, honestly, my reaction was finally, now, you know,

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Speaker 3: I was definitely hearing some talk and some things when

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Speaker 3: we were talking. The problem is I was kind of

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Speaker 3: hearing that. I've been hearing that for like the last year.

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Speaker 3: I remember around the trade deadline, it became pretty clear

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Speaker 3: that something was going on and maybe all right, the

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Speaker 3: Broncos re interested and it's like you know, you call

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Speaker 3: a million times, you can't get the price. You can

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Speaker 3: get the price, and then it's like, you know what,

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Speaker 3: maybe this will be better dealt dealt with kind of

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Speaker 3: just in the off season. And look, you know, the

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Speaker 3: the offers then where I would say somewhat similar to

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Speaker 3: what you know, the Broncos gave up this time, it

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Speaker 3: was like, you know, basically the equivalent of like a

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Speaker 3: one and a three. It was kind of convoluted, but

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Speaker 3: it was a one in a three essentially, And you know,

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Speaker 3: I thought the price was was pretty good. I mean,

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Speaker 3: first of all, if you're the Broncos, you know, you

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Speaker 3: give up a first rounder, but it's like, you know,

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Speaker 3: it's the thirtieth pick or whatever. It was like, that's

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Speaker 3: you know, probably more in line with second round value,

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Speaker 3: and you get a guaranteed, really really good player, and

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Speaker 3: that's you know, there's a lot to like in that

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Speaker 4: And hey it's Rick Lewis here is mister big stuff?

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Speaker 4: Your your walk up song? Did I miss that?

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Speaker 3: No? I don't know. I must have been listening to another.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, if not, it should be your walk up

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Speaker 4: song because it sounded great and then you popping on

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Speaker 4: with us, so we were.

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Speaker 3: Talking about I appreciate it. The whole world needs a

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 4: We're talking about the value of the trade and you

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Speaker 4: just kind of touched down that a bit. We haven't

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Speaker 4: really got into which of the Broncos wide receivers UH

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Speaker 4: will be affected in a negative way, Troy Franklin, Marvin Memes,

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Speaker 4: who's going to get less targets when you add Jalen

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Speaker 4: Waddle And I think Jaalen Waddle and Courtland Sutton are

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Speaker 4: both capable of having big season, thousand yard season seasons each.

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Speaker 4: But what do you think happens with Franklin and Mems?

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Speaker 3: You know, I think it's a great question, and I

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Speaker 3: don't know that we know the answering. I think a

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Speaker 3: lot of people are immediately like, all right, well, you know,

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Speaker 5: Of pay everybody but the quarterback, you know, you're in

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Speaker 5: a pretty good place to spend to bring in high priced,

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Speaker 3: Out in the field. You know, I think Waddle is

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Speaker 1: Ian are you what are you hearing on David and

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Speaker 1: Joku and some of these I saw you tweeted about

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think it's either way till after

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Speaker 4: We're talking ianport Ian uh tight end. Evan Ingram had

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Speaker 4: fifty catches, but it was a quiet fifty catches. A

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Speaker 4: lot of people disappointed in his season. How is this

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I wondered about Ingram to you know,

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Speaker 1: Ian last couple here for you, so Jackson Smith and Jake.

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Speaker 1: But what a what a deal he got today resetting

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Speaker 2: Far in the league times.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he is a he is a truly great player,

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Speaker 3: But you know what teams generally do now is if

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Speaker 3: so I think it makes sense. You know, again, I'm

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Speaker 1: All right, last one I have for you. I want

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Speaker 1: What was the assessment of that trade from around the league?

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Speaker 2: What are people saying?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's funny you asked, because what generally happens is

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Speaker 3: I mean, George Payton does a really nice job. It's

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Speaker 3: He's still young, he's in a reasonable contract, Like this

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Speaker 3: say for Miami it's a little bit different because you know,

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Speaker 3: little more, but like you know, they're gonna they're in

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Speaker 3: a hundred million dollars of dead money this year. This

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Speaker 3: and so, like you know, just having a jail and

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Speaker 3: I thought that trade for them was probably a smart move.

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Speaker 2: Always great. Ian, Really appreciate the time it inside man.

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Speaker 2: Thank you all right, good talking.

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Speaker 3: To you guys. Take care. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Ian Raphport