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Welcome to it, Broncos Country Tonight
Post Rockies edition. Benjamin all right here

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with you. I hope you're enjoying
your evening. Five six sixty nine zero

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is the text line you guys want
to get involved in the conversation. Congratulations

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to South Carolina game Cocks women's basketball
team, who beat Caitlyn Clark in Iowa

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to complete a perfect season. When
the women's in CUAA Championship eighty seven to

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seventy five. Clearly South Carolina the
best team in the nation all season,

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and their depth was just too much
for Iowa. The loss ends a record

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breaking career for Kaitlyn Clark. Leads
is the old time score of both men's

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and women's NCAA basketball score thirty to
lead Iowa on Sunday, but obviously not

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enough. Chipped in eight boards five
assists as well. The reason I'm talking

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about that is, you know,
afterwards, I jumped online and, as

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you usual, well, saw the
cesspool that is Twitter or X or whatever

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you call it. I'm calling it
Twitter. I'm not calling it X.

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I don't you know. Sorry,
Elan, You'll just have to deal.

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I got on there and I saw
the cesspool that was people bickering back and

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forth, and it leads me to
wonder, is framing everything through the lens

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of who is the goat? Ruining
sports culture? Is framing everything through the

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lens of who is the greatest of
all time? Ruining sports culture? Because

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as I looked online, I had
one giant group of people saying, well,

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Kayler Clark never won a championship,
she can't be the greatest of all

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time, which is stupid. I
mean, you could be the best player

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and not be on a good enough
team, not be able to carry four

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cowboys to a championship, or in
this case tell women, with all due

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respect to Iowa's basketball team, like, I hate the way that we frame

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everything through that conversation. Now is
Dan Marino nodded the discussion for greatest quarterback

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of all time because he didn't win
a Super Bowl? Because Dan Marino was

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absolutely, by the tools, one
of the greatest quarterbacks of all time,

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by the numbers, one of the
greatest quarterbacks of all time. So I

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hate the way that we do that
and the toxic culture that emanates from that.

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Last year, it was impossible to
believe that both LSU was a great

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basketball team and Caitlyn Clark was a
great player, and the same thing played

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itself out again this year was South
Carolina. How is it implausible for people

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to figure out that South Carolina is
a phenomenal basketball team and Caitlin Clark he

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is a phenomenal player. Why can't
you hold both opinions? Why can't I

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not be worried about arbitrarily defining nebulous
terms like the greatest of all time?

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Why do I have to quantify it? Why can't I appreciate greatness in front

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of me? And as usual,
the Internet, of course couldn't handle it.

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And so what we get is a
tox success pool of people bickering back

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and forth along arbitrarily divided lines,
sometimes Rachel, and it just baffles me.

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I look at this thing, and
I'm like, you can appreciate greatness

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on both sides, you know,
city here and covering the broncos. I

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can appreciate the greatness of Pat Mahomes, just like I could appreciate the greatness

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of Tom Brady, just like I
could appreciate the greatness of Peyton Manning.

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And does it matter who you're going
to title the greatest of all time?

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Is it bad? Do we need
to really qualify that. Is having that

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definition intrinsic to appreciating the greatness?
Does it provide more enjoyment? Does it

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make it better? Even if you
settle that question, is is anything solved

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by settling that question, Because in
settling that question, you really have only

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settled it for yourself. You're not
settling it for anyone else. Sports talk,

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and a large portion of sports talk, has become junk Who's on the

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mount? Rushmore of this who's the
greatest at that? It's lazy sports talks.

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It's lazy talk and jealous lazy debate. It's not even debate. It's

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arbitrarily contrived content. To my knowledge
of been guilty of it. I don't

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want to adopt a wholier than that
attitude. I'm sure I've done plenty of

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lazy things in my life, but
I just I don't understand how everything has

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got to be something that's divisive.
Why couldn't we all celebrate that women's basketball

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was front and center for half a
minute. You know, we were actually

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tuning in to watch women's basketball.
We all were. It's okay, you

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could admit it. You could tell
on yourself. I know you're listening right

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now. No, I would never. Yeah, you would, you did?

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We all did. It doesn't mean
I'm suddenly like buying WNBA jerseys,

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but I enjoyed watching women's basketball for
a change. Okay, we all did.

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Branding personalities helps helps to build those
kinds of audiences, giving you something

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to root for. That's one of
the things that for all the negatives about

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fantasy football and gambling, it's that's
what they've done. They've given you individuals

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to root for them. We do, and once here's an individual to tune

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in for, we do tune in. But why does it always have to

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be about why do we have to
put a title? Uh, she's the

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goat, he's the goat? Well, okay, maybe why do you think

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that? Or why not? Okay? Now is anything solved by you having

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that opinion? Tell me what more
enjoyment you got out of that game by

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knowing that Caitlyn Clark was or was
not the greatest of all time? What

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did it enhance for you? Nothing? So we spent pointless hours with a

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ramped up rhetoric debating something that did
not matter. It did not add an

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ounce of joy to your life.
You didn't you weren't happy debating. You

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were frustrated that the other person didn't
see your point of view. You aren't

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happier now because you didn't change any
minds. No whate ever changes anyone's mind.

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When's the last time somebody changed somebody's
mind? On the internet, we

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pour countless hours into quibbling over the
most trivial nonsense. Appreciate greatness, all

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of it. Appreciate greatness that's on
your team while it's there because it's fleeting.

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Appreciate greatness in your opponents because it
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you win, when you defeat that, when you find a game plan and

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execute and it works, you don't
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play the accomplishments of anybody in order
to enjoy sport. There are already enough

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things to bicker over. This world
already has enough things in it that are

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divisive. Sports and athletics are supposed
to be the thing that unites us,

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the true meritocracy, a level playing
field for all, And somehow we've decided

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to take that down. The first
take called pizza whatever it's called road,

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the ruiner of all things sports talk. When they started getting the political guys

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putting the formats on these morning shows. God made it unbearable to listen to.

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I just get this stuff too.
Do you hear what Skip Burst stephen

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A here? And with all due
respect to them, is they figured out

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how to maximize an audience. And
if that's your goal, congratulations. If

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your goal is only to continue to
draw in the maximum sized audience, then

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that's what your content is going to
be geared toward. And it's gonna be

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clickbaity content. It's gonna be fake
debates, it's gonna be goat arguments and

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Mount rushmoores. It's gonna be bad
magazine, radio or TV. I hate

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that stuff. I just got.
I hate that stuff. I just don't

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have the time for it. And
that's not my goal anyway. I mean,

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you work at entertainment, and you're
measured by whatever you're measured by,

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and in this case, for us, it's ratings, and so I have

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an appreciation for growing an audience,
but this is not my goal. My

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goal every night is to sit here
and entertain and inform And I probably have

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those two in verse order, because
I want to be informative. I want

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to pass along to you guys.
The stuff that I have, information I

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have that you may not, and
vice versa via the text line, information

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you have that I may not.
I'm down to lord something because at the

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end of the day, we're all
just dudes and chicks. Wanted to talk

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ball, right, wanted to have
a good time, wanted to forget the

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stresses of work, the anger that
we've built up at the world around us

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over the course of a day,
and release that into something hopefully fun.

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Hopefully that's what we do here at
the end of the day. I hope

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that everybody listening to this has come
away with something new. Every day that

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I walk in and get in front
of this microphone, I hope that I

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come away knowing something I didn't before
I got here. And we have great

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people that, you know, that
help us out with all this, Grant

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and Coover and you know, Nick, and I feel like, you know,

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I feel like a lot of people
treat this like, well, I

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gotta put this rundown together and I
gotta I gotta program this show. And

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you know that's not I've never been
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way. And there are you know, there are people that look at me

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horrified when I you know, people
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When I try to explain what it
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do here is try to enjoy it, inform and enjoy. That's why I

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think I get so irritable when people
say that I hate Sean Payton. I

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don't hate John Payton. I don't. I've been more critical of him than

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I've been of I think any coach
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Denver, and that's because Sean Payton's
the first coach that we've had here that

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wasn't a first time head coach advanced
Joseph You had Vic Fangio, you hd

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Nate Hackett. Sean he coached in
the league for fifteen years. So yeah,

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my criticism towards him is gonna be
a little harsher. I'm not gonna

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have as much leeway early on because
he's not learning things. He already knows

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them. He's been in the league
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the top guy he knows. But
I don't hate Sean Payton, and I

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want Lebroncos to succeed. I want
this to be fun. I want sports

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to be fun. How many little
girls watching what should have been a crowning

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moment in women's sports were forever turned
off by sports because you had adults bickering,

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putting each other down over something they
didn't need to put each other down

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about. Who cares? Is Kaylen
Clark the greatest of all time? I

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don't know, certainly the most prolific
scorer. Do we need to wait into

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the minutia of it is having or
applying that arbitrary title which isn't awarded by

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anybody but us individually, adding to
anyone's experience. You could say it.

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We all know the answers now,
So at the end of the day,

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what are we doing? Let's find
a better way to do this? And

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for my part, I'm going to
find a better way to do this too.

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I'm going to make sure that each
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this microphone, I'm not presenting something
lazily that's not the thing. We won't

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have a bad segment here or there. I might have an idea that turns

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out not to be a good one, but I want to make sure that

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I'm giving you the maximum amount of
effort that you're giving in listening to the

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show. You're depositing your time with
me. I don't want to fill it

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up with bickering over nonsense. I
don't want to waste your time quibbling over

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who's the greatest of all time?
It doesn't matter. Did you enjoy yourself,

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did you have fun? Did you
bond with the loved one while you

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were watching sports? A son and
a daughter. Did you get the opportunity

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to create a cherished memory that at
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hold deer and reflect on. Those
are the things that matter. Because I

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can tell you there isn't a moment
in my life and maybe I'm really talking

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to me here because I think we've
all seen my social media. There isn't

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a moment in my life where I
reflect on something and I say, you

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know what, I'm really glad I
had that argument on Twitter. I'm really

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glad I showed that bozo I educated
them. They didn't in any way change

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their minds, but I got a
couple of good digs in. There hasn't

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been one time in the entirety of
my forty three plus years on this planet

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where I've sat there and said,
I'm sure glad I spent that extra time

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on Twitter creating the mount rushmar of
quarterbacks. I can't reflect on anything I've

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ever done in programming a segment.
I can't find one memorable segment where we've

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had a top four of anything or
a goat conversation, except for that time

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we talked about goat yoga and Giovanni
Carmazzi. That one was pretty funny.

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So my point is this sports is
supposed to be fun. Sports talk,

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I feel like, is supposed to
be fun. It's supposed to give you

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a safe space to lement certain things. But in the end, it's supposed

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to be fun. We're not doing
any goat conversations here. We're not doing

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any out rushmoors here. Listen to
Broncos Country Tonight, Koa, go back

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to It, Broncos Country Tonight,
Benjamin all right here with you Post Rockies

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Edition five, six six nine zeros
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of good texts coming in there.
Appreciate you guys putting up with my extended

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rant in the last segment. I
just want this stuff to be fun.

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I want it to be I wanted
to inform, but I want it to

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be fun. And I'm tired of
the vitriol. I'm tired of the negativity.

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I'm tired of it all. So
we're gonna do our best to keep

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it fun. Then, speaking of
fun, we need to talk about what

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John Calipari did. Speaking of basketball, John Calipari left Kentucky and he's going

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to take over as the new head
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and a lot of people are confused
by that. Calipari had been at Kentucky

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for fifteen seasons. He had won
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Done very well there. I mean, if you're in Kentucky, you're expected

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to. But it hadn't hadn't been
great lately, been bounced by Saint Pete

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in Oakland the last two years,
and that is not yetting it done at

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Kentucky. He did win a championship
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He's been to quite a few elite
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that national championship. I'm pretty sure
I'd have to go back and look.

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I'm pretty sure there were two seasons
they didn't make the tournament. One of

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those was when postseason was canceledu to
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the championship, was it to twenty
twelve. I think the next season I

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think they were in the NIT But
other than that, Kentucky was always always

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there Memphis before that. So Arkansas
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I think had been ready to move
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been the same since before. Covid
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the football side they figured out,
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this. I'm getting out the game. We saw what happening, Nick Saban

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and I all changed the way you
recruit, and some coaches were not prepared

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for that. We're not cut out
for it. I still think John Caliparry

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is a heck of recruiter, but
it had not been the same. And

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you know, to be honest with
you, the last three years, well

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four seasons really they went nine and
sixteen and twenty twenty one, and then

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the last three seasons they'd made the
tournament combined thirty nine and fifteen on the

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regular season, but got bounced in
the round of sixty four, the out

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of thirty two and the rout of
sixty four again by teams like Saint Pete

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Oakland. So Kentucky was ready to
move on. I was talking to people

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with our fans of that, you
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as this thing was kind of breaking
yesterday, and yeah, I was kind

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of the same. It's kind of
one of those things like Arkansas is getting

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a good recruiter, question is whether
or not even coach, and that it

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was kind of a win win for
both parties. Traditionally speaking, going from

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Kentucky to Arkansas would be a step
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eighty five it went the opposite way
when Kentucky hired Eddie Sutton, and Sutton

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had to quote, I would have
crawled all the way to Lexington. Kentucky

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has a high bar. It's gotten
to the point where it's like it's like

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the you used to be in football
in Miami, or the bar had gotten

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so high that if you don't win
at a certain level, they're going to

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they're gonna get to the point where
they want to move on. Col's recruiting

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class has always had style and flair. You got to witness John Wall at

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the Davis Devin Booker four trips to
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though, put a lot of players
in the NFL or NBA, But Kentucky

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really has fallen out of favor with
him since twenty eighteen. They took that

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loaded thirty eight no team to the
national semi finals and then got upset by

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Wisconsin and it just wasn't the same
after that. They've won one NCAA tournament

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game since twenty nineteen, and there's
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I think was a little frustrated that
there wasn't a larger nil commitment,

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and now he's getting that five year
deal at Arkansas worth eight million, seven

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and a half to eight million dollars
a season in salary and another seven and

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a half million to eight in NIL
commitment for him. I think that's I

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think that that is what is he
looking for. I think that he wanted

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that sort of commitment. Obviously the
biggest booster at Arkansas in this case,

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John Tyson. Tyson foods familiar with
with Calipari. They're they're they're sort of

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friends. So after Eric Musselman bolted
for USC, Arkansas comes up with probably

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the best get that they can get, and Kentucky, who wanted to fire

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cow but didn't want to pay the
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to buy him out of his contract. Gets to move on for free.

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They don't have to pay the money. And it's kind of interesting because this

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contract didn't have a buyout like cal
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point. The university had to buy
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and so this sort of creates a
situation that's the best of all worlds.

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The biggest question is how many of
his top recruits are going to jump

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out of the deals with Kentucky they
have and head to Arkansas. Will he

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be better at utilizing the portal?
These days in college basketball, the two

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biggest things are NIL deals in NBA
development period, point blank ended discussion.

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Being a blue blood doesn't really matter
my anymore. Teams are built via the

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nil and transfer portal. Anyone can
buy a player, not just shoe companies

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or old established under the table recruiting
operations. Kentucky still remains a major brand

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without Calipari. It'll be interesting to
see who fills those shoes, whether it's

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Dan Hurley or Chris Beard or whomever. This is a rare situation where you

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get a win win, I think
where everybody wins five six, six nine

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zeros text line, get in some
football here. One of the players that

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I had touted that the Broncos should
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On Sunday, News broke that Texas
defensive tackle Devondre Sweat was arrested for

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d w I k x A.
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booked at Travis County Jail at two
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driving well intoxicated, Class B misdemeanor. Bond set at three grand. Sweat's

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a big nose tackle, was a
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Trophy. Not a big sack guy, but at the nose able to,

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you know, to kind of push
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that the Broncos have hoped that that
Mike Purcell and you know and others would

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fill You put him with DJ Jones
and Zach Allen Allison. You got a

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pretty good front three eating up those
blocks. And for advance Joseph defense that

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it's essential bravan Joseph defense. You've
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There eating up those blocks so those
linebackers can shoot the gaps. And

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I think Devandre Sweat would have potentially
bet that guy. Sweat is a u,

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a big dude, three hundred and
sixty six pounds. But now it's

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going to be uncombing on teams interested
in him to ask some questions, like,

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for starters, why was Sweat allegedly
driving drunk at two in the afternoon

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on a Sunday? How much alcohol
does it take to get a three hundred

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and sixty six pound man above the
legal limit of point oh eight. Sweat

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was a guy who already had to
answer questions about his partying early in college,

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told teams that that stuff was behind
him. Apparently it's not. I

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think a lot of teams are concerned. What am I bringing in here?

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This is a guy who's already going
to be a weight management guy. What

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happens when I give this guy a
bunch of money? What if you're the

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general manager of the drafts and he
drives drunk and he kills somebody? What

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in your decision making matrix thinks it's
a great idea to go have too much

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to drink and go driving. Three
weeks before the draft, and it's not

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like you don't have an example there
in state dak Prescott at a Duy he

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went on to have no issues,
but he had one right there prior to

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the draft. You have one staring
you in the face. As an NFL

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prospect, your job is to keep
your nose clean an ace a month's long

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job interview. Devandre Sweat did not
do that. Hearkens back to the days

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when the Green Bay Packers signed Corn
Robinson, who blew multiple chances in Minnesota,

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finally by drunk driving and leading the
cops on a high speed pursuit.

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I don't know if everybody remembers that
one or not. And look that one

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up. Charged with DWI and feloty
fleeing. It's back in August of two

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thousand and six, I believe made
the Pro Bowl after alcohol problems had derailed

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his career. In Seattle, police
clocked his blue BMW Siday doing one hundred

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miles an hour to fifty five mile
an hour zone, refused to stop,

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and was finally arrested by police ten
miles away from where the bright Vikings hold

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their training camp. Was charge of
fleeing police, two DWI and three other

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misdemeanors. Field test measured his blood
alcohol at point one point one. You

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just have to make sure that you're
not getting a guy who's going to present

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those kinds of problems. Sweat was
a guy who was already projected as a

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Day two draft pick, and that
may be something that pushes him down draft

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boards, and rightfully so, if
you're a general manager, your job is

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on the line here. You taking
a guy who was known to have partying

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issues early in his collegiate career,
looked like he finally put it together in

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his final season. Got one job
and that's to get prepared for the NFL

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Draft. And he's out there drinking
during the day on a Sunday. Bro

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you're drunk driving at two in the
afternoon on a Sunday. I think I'd

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have some questions. And Sweat was
somebody I wanted here in Denver. Felt

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like Vance and Sean Payden could have, you know, kept him in line.

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I feel like having that big body
here at the knows as a space

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heater would have been huge for this
defense. Probably not to be now,

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although to be fair, the Broncos
do have most of their picks outside of

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the top one fifty and I guess
he could follow that way. Now.

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I just don't understand. I don't
understand having everything in front of you and

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knowing like all I have to do
is make it to this day and get

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drafted. Teams will have questions,
Teams will have a lot of questions for

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him, and he still has some
visits lined up. I don't I don't

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know how that's gonna go. It
was a quick note today, but the

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Chargers being interested in Marquez Valdez.
Scantling started his career four seasons in Green

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Bay, past two in case C
win his Super Bowls, Chiefs didn't want

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to pay twelve million to keep him
this year. With the Chargers cutting Mike

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Williams and trading away Keenan Allen Valdez
Scantling, it is one of the few

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available options with some name recognition.
The Jets seem to have abandoned the Aaron

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Rodgers friends and former teammates plan may
not have many other options. The Charger's

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gonna be scary, man. This
is not gonna be a pushover football team

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at the Broncos, who just whizzed
passed the last couple of years. The

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Broncos cut wins over the Chargers with
Drew Locke run on the show. Jim

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Marvel is going to have that team
ready to play and you know, getting

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some speed in there, which they
do need. It's been a problem for

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that team for the last few years. I think could be beneficial. They're

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gonna be a ground and pound team
with Gus Edwards leading the way. But

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you've got Herbert there and he can
throw. Now that scantling would give him

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somebody to build off of play action, get him the deep ball. Be

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interesting to see what that number comes
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