Speaker 1: Rick, are you doing buddy?
Speaker 2: Hey? Man? I love that open? You got Alan Roach
Speaker 2: to do the open to my segment? Man, I'm not.
Speaker 3: Worthy well, to be fair, Road found out we were
Speaker 3: doing an intro and he volunteered himself, and he's like,
Speaker 3: I got to be a part of that. I got
Speaker 3: to be a part of what's going on there with
Speaker 3: Broncos country tonight and what the funk with the legend
Speaker 3: Rick Lewis.
Speaker 2: I love it, man, I love it. I love the open.
Speaker 2: What the funk happened on that field goal attempt is
Speaker 2: the story of this week. You know, when you consider
Speaker 2: that the Chiefs players and coaches were aware of the
Speaker 2: problem the Broncos were having on the left side of
Speaker 2: their offensive line on not only field goals but extra points,
Speaker 2: you would assume the Broncos also knew that, and then
Speaker 2: what happened like there was no adjustment made. Apparently It's
Speaker 2: going to be really interesting to watch what happened Sunday
Speaker 2: when they played the Falcons, see what they do there
Speaker 2: with Alex Forsyth or whatever they're going to do on
Speaker 2: that side of the line, because you cannot let that happen.
Speaker 2: This team would have been six and four and then
Speaker 2: the driver's seat really for the postseason. So that was
Speaker 2: a huge disappointment. I got to tell you guys, though,
Speaker 2: I heard you guys talking about bone Nicks. You know,
Speaker 2: one of the cool things about traveling with the team
Speaker 2: and broadcasting the games on the road is it's like
Speaker 2: you're behind enemy lines. That's how I feel when I
Speaker 2: go in there, and it's a really cool feeling to
Speaker 2: be walking in there with your soldiers, with your people,
Speaker 2: your crew, behind enemy lines. And when I was out
Speaker 2: there at halftime, you know, made my sprint to the
Speaker 2: restroom before a hundred other men got in there. And
Speaker 2: I'm listening to these old Kansas City media dudes, these
Speaker 2: grizzle old guys, you know that have probably been doing
Speaker 2: this for forty years, and they were talking about bon Nicks,
Speaker 2: and they were talking about the Broncos, and they were
Speaker 2: saying things like, man, this club is good, this club
Speaker 2: is good, and that kid is good. Man, that kid
Speaker 2: can spin it, you know. So I'd just like to
Speaker 2: listen because you can you can get a good feel
Speaker 2: what the media from the other team thinks about your team.
Speaker 2: And man, they had nothing but good things to say
Speaker 2: about the Broncos and Bow, Nick, So take that for
Speaker 2: what it's worth.
Speaker 4: Well, with that being said, Rake, what more would you
Speaker 4: like to see from Bow? And the reason I asked
Speaker 4: that question because doing that conversation that Ben and I
Speaker 4: had before you came on, he was talking about some
Speaker 4: comments some individuals who from NBC made as far.
Speaker 1: As comparing Bowl to tas some heel.
Speaker 4: So, is there anything that you've seen that would give
Speaker 4: you an indication that they're going down the right roll?
Speaker 4: And also what would you like to see Bow start
Speaker 4: to do in these next couple of games?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't see the Chase in Hill comparison at all,
Speaker 2: other than the fact that Bow is a good running quarterback.
Speaker 2: Bow obviously much better arm talent than Taysom Hill ever
Speaker 2: dreamed of. I'd like to see Bo run more, you know.
Speaker 2: The last couple of games, Nick, it seems like he's
Speaker 2: pulled back from that aspect of his football game, and
Speaker 2: I think that's a big weapon for him. Though maybe
Speaker 2: they told him, you know, try not to run so much,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of step up in the pocket, see
Speaker 2: if you can make some throws, which he did, but
Speaker 2: I think that is such a big element for him.
Speaker 2: I would like to see him continue to use his
Speaker 2: legs here down the stretch, which makes things really really
Speaker 2: difficult for opposing defenses. As you know better than anybody,
Speaker 2: that's a tough thing to defend. And he's a much
Speaker 2: better runner than anybody thought he was going to be.
Speaker 2: So if he continues to develop as a path we
Speaker 2: did see that last week against Kansas City, I'd like
Speaker 2: to see him still continue to run the ball when
Speaker 2: he gets the chance.
Speaker 3: Tyler Rick lewis color analyst of your Denver Broncos. Rick,
Speaker 3: the Broncos alway knew this was going to be a
Speaker 3: tough stretcher apt Baltimore. You're at Kansas City, but the
Speaker 3: third game you get to come home and you take
Speaker 3: on the Atlanta Falcons. They're a team that is almost
Speaker 3: the antithesis of the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: All gas, no.
Speaker 3: Breaks on offense, but that defense is bad.
Speaker 1: They're worse than the league in sacks. They can't pressure
Speaker 1: the quarterback.
Speaker 3: As we look forward to this matchup, this could potentially
Speaker 3: be a huge day for bo Nicks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's kind of looking that way. Ben
Speaker 2: and the Falcons are beat up if they have like
Speaker 2: a mass unit on their injury report, sixteen guys today
Speaker 2: and then a big weapon for them just popped up
Speaker 2: on the injury report today and that's Darnell Mooney. They're
Speaker 2: very talented wide receiver who's having a Pro Bowl year.
Speaker 2: He popped up today with an achilles and I think
Speaker 2: we all know how tricky that can be, especially for
Speaker 2: a skill position player, and he's really really good. And
Speaker 2: you mentioned their defense. The other defense is really they struggled.
Speaker 2: They've got a bunch of injuries on that side of
Speaker 2: the ball as well. They have a tough time stopping
Speaker 2: the run and the pass. So this should be a
Speaker 2: game where the Broncos should be able to score some points,
Speaker 2: you know, get into that mid twenty twenty seven point range,
Speaker 2: and if they do that in the Broncos defense plays
Speaker 2: like they've been playing, Broncos really should win this game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Broncos defense has been playing exceptionally well all
Speaker 4: season long in I mean the linch band as to
Speaker 4: why the Broncos are where they are right now. But
Speaker 4: this aspect of the Broncos team that hasn't really gotten
Speaker 4: own check just yet, and that is the running game.
Speaker 4: And based on what we saw in the final minutes
Speaker 4: of that Kansas City game. Everything leads to Aldric Esime
Speaker 4: being the lead back from here on out. When you
Speaker 4: watch these games with Dave Logan, when you call the
Speaker 4: game and you watch how these guys play, do you
Speaker 4: think it's time for the Broncos to make Audric Esime
Speaker 4: the lead back?
Speaker 2: You know what, I'm comfortable with that. I said that
Speaker 2: last week going into the game, assuming he's not going
Speaker 2: to fumble the football, and certainly you could see that
Speaker 2: they trust him. He was the guy in there at
Speaker 2: crunch time when they were getting into position for that
Speaker 2: game winning field goal that got blocked. I think we're
Speaker 2: going to see more and more of him. The one
Speaker 2: thing we don't know about him is how is he
Speaker 2: in pass pro? Can he catch the ball out of
Speaker 2: the backfield or is he just more of a one
Speaker 2: dimensional power running back. And if that's the case, that's fine,
Speaker 2: because Javonte is good at catching balls out of the
Speaker 2: backfield and he's their best guy in pass pro. So
Speaker 2: I'm comfortable, you know, letting him be the primary ball
Speaker 2: carrier and maybe Julie and Javonte are more your third
Speaker 2: down backs. I think that's probably a pretty good combination.
Speaker 2: What I'm really concerned about this week, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to ask you, Nick, having played for as long as
Speaker 2: you did, would you play in a game like that
Speaker 2: and you laid it all out there in the field, man,
Speaker 2: you left your heart on that field. And then a
Speaker 2: devastating loss like that, how do you get back up
Speaker 2: for the next week? I mean, you can only afford
Speaker 2: to think about that for one day, that's Monday. But
Speaker 2: is it possible for this team to regroup in time
Speaker 2: and play with that type of intensity and energy this
Speaker 2: week against the Falcons?
Speaker 4: Yeah you can, because Rake, you have more games to
Speaker 4: be played in the season. Le Broncos are still trying
Speaker 4: to keep there and hold their playoff position. Right now,
Speaker 4: I'm thinking's the seventh seed. And yeah, it frustrated a
Speaker 4: lot of individuals. It was disappointing. But use that anger,
Speaker 4: Use that frustration, don't you know? Point fingers at Alex ForSight,
Speaker 4: they're the guys on the offensive line, because if you're
Speaker 4: totally honest, the games there never came down to that
Speaker 4: single play. But you can use that negative energy to
Speaker 4: go out there and punish the Falcons on both to
Speaker 4: the ball, make them feel you're anger and your frustration
Speaker 4: for losing that game that you should have won on
Speaker 4: the road against Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we know they're a well coached football team
Speaker 2: with a veteran head coach on On Baydon and these guys
Speaker 2: mostly a younger, hungry football team. They've shown that they're resilient.
Speaker 2: I hope that's the case Sunday. They need to I
Speaker 2: wouldn't say this is a must win game, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to say they need to win the game on Sunday. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that they do.
Speaker 3: I mean, we knew this was a tough stretch, but
Speaker 3: you know, we thought they could come away with one
Speaker 3: of three. This could be the one of those three
Speaker 3: that come away with. We've talked a little bit about
Speaker 3: other guests maybe in the early down back, but in
Speaker 3: this game, and I'm with that.
Speaker 1: I've supported that.
Speaker 3: I've been talking about that, maybe a role reversal where
Speaker 3: you put Javonte in the Samaje roll fro Lasher.
Speaker 1: I've be talking about differcult weeks.
Speaker 3: This game is the game that I would feature Jaliel
Speaker 3: in because I've been watching the Falcons and I got
Speaker 3: to be honest, they're slow on defense. Maybe you can
Speaker 3: go sideline to sideline and take and use Jaleel in
Speaker 3: that speed to wear this thing out early and get
Speaker 3: something going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. It seems like all their
Speaker 2: speed is on the offensive side of the ball. And
Speaker 2: I'm also hoping that that the Broncos will be able
Speaker 2: to complete some you know, some long throws to Troy Franklin,
Speaker 2: Marvin Mims, Courtland Sutton, whoever. But that's one thing that
Speaker 2: this offense has lacked, not only just a consistent running game,
Speaker 2: but that vertical thread. Who's it going to be? Troy
Speaker 2: Franklin look like he might be that guy, but he
Speaker 2: dropped two of them and bow overthrew him on another one.
Speaker 2: But I do think that Troy Franklin is showing enough
Speaker 2: promise that he could be that guy. It's interesting what
Speaker 2: they're doing with Marvin Mims to kind of trying to
Speaker 2: turn him into a you know, Deebo Samuel two point
Speaker 2: zero type player. I think they'll probably continue to tinker
Speaker 2: with that and see if they can, you know, get
Speaker 2: some success with that. And I think it's a good idea.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a totally different look than what we've
Speaker 2: seen here in the first half of the season.
Speaker 3: Rug we gotta get going here. But you got a
Speaker 3: benefit coming up here soon. You want to tell us
Speaker 3: about it?
Speaker 2: What the funk? Then yes, I'll be laying down the
Speaker 2: funk at the Buffalo Rose on a week from tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: that's November twenty second. It's a benefit for the Alzheimer's Association.
Speaker 2: All the profits will go to Alzheimer's. It's a cause
Speaker 2: that's near and dear to my heart. My grandmother had it.
Speaker 2: And my band's gonna be playing a full two hour
Speaker 2: concert from seven to nine, and tickets toron sale. From
Speaker 2: what I hear, all the tables up front are already
Speaker 2: sold out, but there's still some good seats left. Go
Speaker 2: to Buffaloosgolden dot com and get your tickets and hopefully
Speaker 2: I can get Nick Ferguson out there next week. I
Speaker 2: did invite him and his wife.
Speaker 3: Well, he does have a show to do right here
Speaker 3: at Broncos Country, But if we let him off the hook,
Speaker 3: maybe he'll be able to get out there and do that.
Speaker 2: Rick.
Speaker 1: We always appreciate your.
Speaker 2: Time, cause, man, yes, a good cause. Let's you let
Speaker 2: him off the hook.
Speaker 3: We'll see if Dave Tepper, if Grinch, Dave Temper will
Speaker 3: let us off to.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see what happens, sir Rick. We always
Speaker 1: appreciate time, buddy.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, thanks, that's
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