Speaker 1: When does the draft actually start? It used to start
Speaker 1: at night. When does it start? Now?
Speaker 2: Six o'clock?
Speaker 1: Okay, our time, six pe our time.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, we don't normally talk about sports on the show,
Speaker 1: but let's be real people. We live in Denver, Colorado,
Speaker 1: and on Thursday and Friday of this week, everyone is
Speaker 1: going to be a buzz with what the Broncos are
Speaker 1: going to do. So, in an effort to help you
Speaker 1: sound like you know what you're talking about, and more importantly,
Speaker 1: help me sound like I know what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: we're going to talk to Anthony, who has been deep involved, steeped,
Speaker 1: if you will, in the comings and goings of the
Speaker 1: Denver draft situation. Yesterday, Yeah, thanks to kind of a
Speaker 1: crazy turn, rumors started getting out and being publicized that
Speaker 1: the Broncos were going to trade up to get a
Speaker 1: running back. Yes, what do you think the chances of
Speaker 1: that actually happening are going to be?
Speaker 2: I think, unfortunately it's pretty low. And that is coming
Speaker 2: from someone who really wishes that they had the capital
Speaker 2: and the wherewithal do it. I just at this point,
Speaker 2: especially with the news continuing, I mean, this is just
Speaker 2: the the week of smoke screens the week of all
Speaker 2: the misdirections.
Speaker 1: Let me ask a question about this, because you know,
Speaker 1: I love the psychology of a good smoke screen. Yes,
Speaker 1: what would be the benefit for the Broncos or anyone
Speaker 1: else kind of shoving that that rumor out into the world.
Speaker 1: Are they waiting to see who's gonna call? Are they
Speaker 1: waiting to see if anybody's interested in trading down?
Speaker 2: Could get people to call. It could also, just like
Speaker 2: Sean Payton did last year in getting the Vikings to
Speaker 2: go get JJ McCarthy, it could get teams to give
Speaker 2: up capital to go for players that they actually don't want.
Speaker 2: That way they're boring falls their way, and the guy
Speaker 2: they actually want that they wouldn't clearly ever really talk about,
Speaker 2: falls right in their lap or within like distance to
Speaker 2: go up and trade for.
Speaker 1: Let me just ask you, though, because this ownership group
Speaker 1: seems very straightforward, very buttoned up, very squared away.
Speaker 2: They don't.
Speaker 1: That sounds like an Al Davis move. What you're saying
Speaker 1: right there? Are they really like? Is Sean Payton a
Speaker 1: schooldugery guy? Is he a Shenanigan's man? That's not how
Speaker 1: I have always viewed him.
Speaker 2: He is, and he plays chess in doing so, Okay,
Speaker 2: he's very calculated. He knows exactly.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's who he wants in this draft. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing already.
Speaker 2: And this goes back to last year and essentially he
Speaker 2: was freaking out that someone like the La Rams were
Speaker 2: going to take bo Nicks, for example. So he is
Speaker 2: going to do whatever it takes to make sure he
Speaker 2: gets his guy. And again, these misdirections are a part
Speaker 2: of it. And yeah, you heard yesterday three independent sources
Speaker 2: that are saying the Broncos are potentially one of the
Speaker 2: teams that are looking to trade up, but it may
Speaker 2: not be for running back. Ian Rappaport RNFL Net're getting tired,
Speaker 2: said Koe Sports yesterday. He thinks that they were to
Speaker 2: trade up, which is possible, he thinks it would be
Speaker 2: for a wide receiver, not for a running back. And
Speaker 2: we've all heard the Broncos say that they like their
Speaker 2: wide receiver room. So I mean Matthew Golden of Texas
Speaker 2: as the guys that could go after Ted McMillan is
Speaker 2: a guy that could go after At Arizona, there's a
Speaker 2: couple of good wide receivers, but I don't like the
Speaker 2: wide receiver class, and I don't ascessarily think that should
Speaker 2: be the move. I think you should be for running back.
Speaker 2: And and the problem is the rumors today that the
Speaker 2: Browns at two overall again the Broncos for those that
Speaker 2: know the Broncos are at twenty overall, the Browns at
Speaker 2: two overall, and the Giants at three overall. There's rumors
Speaker 2: that they are fielding calls to move off of those picks,
Speaker 2: potentially teams that are calling them and looking trade. Problem
Speaker 2: is that could be for a couple players and they're
Speaker 2: not quarterbacks. That could be for one Travis Hunter, who
Speaker 2: the Browns are play gonna take it two, or the
Speaker 2: unfortunate one that I think it also could very well
Speaker 2: be because he is just astronomically risen up boards. I got.
Speaker 2: That is my absolute number one dream scenario, and that
Speaker 2: is Ashton Jancy, the running back out of Boise State.
Speaker 2: There is now talks that first everyone's saying, okay, he's
Speaker 2: gonna go six to the Raiders. Sure, Then we're hearing
Speaker 2: yesterday maybe five to the Jaguars. Now people are saying
Speaker 2: maybe the moving up to two or three could be
Speaker 2: a team going that high to get him. So if
Speaker 2: if that high five or six wasn't possible for the
Speaker 2: Broncos to get jant eight. I mean, it's just now
Speaker 2: it's just further out of range.
Speaker 1: So do you think there's any truth to this or
Speaker 1: do you think it was just a smoke screen?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think there's I think there's I think there's
Speaker 2: some a little bit of truth to it. I don't
Speaker 2: say a lot, but I would like to think that
Speaker 2: there's a little bit to it because I think the
Speaker 2: Broncos are her position roster wise where they kind of
Speaker 2: need instead of really the depth. And this is why
Speaker 2: I hate the trade back situation in the scenario. I
Speaker 2: think they need that those that game breaking talent. I
Speaker 2: mean that's what all That's what everyone was literally telling
Speaker 2: me out of the Super Bowl. Anyone I would talk
Speaker 2: to would say, literally, just get bo Nick some weapons.
Speaker 2: If you want to get them a weapon, get guys
Speaker 2: that are the game changers, the difference makers, the Ashton
Speaker 2: Janet's of the world. There's are there's some wide receivers
Speaker 2: that'll make a difference, but they need those top level
Speaker 2: guys to take the roster up to the next level.
Speaker 2: So I don't like the idea of trading back. I
Speaker 2: love the idea of trading up. I think Ashton Janety
Speaker 2: is going to be on the range, but there's two
Speaker 2: other running backs of Marion Hampton and Traveon Henderson, who
Speaker 2: would be the number one, three down back on this
Speaker 2: team immediately.
Speaker 1: And I gotta tell you, after being a Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: fan during the Marino years and watching him never get
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl because they never had a running game,
Speaker 1: I am inclined to say, we've got to get the
Speaker 1: running game just incredibly, incredibly good and let some of
Speaker 1: our wide receivers who are very young come along a
Speaker 1: little bit more. And I'm with you, I'd rather see
Speaker 1: your running back. We'll find out though, on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: obviously the draft will go on all weekend through all
Speaker 1: the rounds, and we'll have all the coverage here on KOA.
Speaker 1: I know the guys on the afternoon show are ready
Speaker 1: on Thursday to just jump in, and it's exciting for
Speaker 1: running