WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:03.319 Walk back to a Broncos Country Today's All Bright, Dick Ferguson, 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:05.559 Grant Smith here with you. Five six six nine zero 3 00:00:06.040 --> 00:00:09.039 is the text line. Thanks to Steve Atwater for joining 4 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.480 us in the first hour. Thanks to Ryan Michael for 5 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:13.919 joining us in the last segment as well. You may 6 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:16.480 stay part of that God Brocos Country dot Com, slash podcast, 7 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:20.480 where Wage podcast, Apple iTunes, Spotify, the Totally Free, Awesome 8 00:00:20.480 --> 00:00:23.000 and redesigned iHeartRadio app. Well you get to take it 9 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.879 for Granted podcast as well. A new episode just dropped. 10 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:30.399 Get your tissues ready, keep a box of I recommend 11 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:34.960 the ala Vero Kleenex. It's got the alo in the Kleenex. 12 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:36.840 It's got the ala in the Kleenix. Yeah, you get 13 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.039 loationed while you're crying, right, so you don't rub the 14 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:40.719 paper and then rub a ross spot in your nose. 15 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:41.560 It didn't moisturize. 16 00:00:41.600 --> 00:00:43.799 Hold on, man, isn't that stuff like getting to your 17 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:45.240 tear ducks and your eyes and burn. 18 00:00:45.719 --> 00:00:47.600 Well, you're not putting tissue directly in your eyeball. I 19 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:48.079 mean well, I. 20 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:50.439 Mean your your tears come out to your tear ducks. 21 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:54.479 Some people actually stick the tissue, right, but your dad 22 00:00:54.479 --> 00:00:56.119 below the eyeball and then you know, you get the 23 00:00:56.119 --> 00:00:57.159 moisturizer right there. 24 00:00:57.679 --> 00:00:59.840 I don't know about that. Yeah, it's great when you 25 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:02.159 have running nose or something. Especially, Yeah, when you're sick, 26 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.920 you get the running nose. You're not crying. Do you 27 00:01:03.920 --> 00:01:05.480 put vasiline right there? Don't need to do it. 28 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:07.079 The ali vera puts it red in It's a natural 29 00:01:07.079 --> 00:01:08.159 plant puts it red in there. 30 00:01:08.359 --> 00:01:10.519 Let's be a fan of this. Yeah, you're all naturally 31 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:11.159 you want to put the. 32 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:13.760 Chemical vaciline into there, but you're not doing the natural 33 00:01:13.799 --> 00:01:18.079 alveras even a box from here. 34 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.400 But it's the one with the what's the one with 35 00:01:20.439 --> 00:01:22.640 the body snatcher? So yeah, we got a body snatcher 36 00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:23.519 Dick Ferguson in here. 37 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:26.519 I'm just I'm just saying, I know how used you 38 00:01:26.519 --> 00:01:29.040 have a cold? Wiping too much when you're wrong on 39 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:32.920 your nose, it gets a little dry. And obviously talking 40 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:35.359 about clean aches and alabara just took me back to 41 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.200 when I was a kid. My mom had like this 42 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:40.680 this remedy, right, And I don't know where. 43 00:01:40.519 --> 00:01:41.120 It came from. 44 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:43.640 I think maybe mom's passing down, But I mean he 45 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:46.000 was always chicken soup Cambo's chicken soup. 46 00:01:46.200 --> 00:01:47.840 Put all that damn sodium. 47 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:52.319 In it, right, Canada dry ginger real right, has no 48 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:53.040 ginger in it? 49 00:01:53.239 --> 00:01:56.840 Nope at all. Right, So the Redheads aren't cattibalizing themselves. 50 00:01:59.480 --> 00:01:59.719 No, no. 51 00:02:00.519 --> 00:02:02.920 And then it was Vic's vapor roupe. The rub it 52 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:05.120 on your chest and on your throat. Yeah, an old 53 00:02:05.200 --> 00:02:06.519 old time cure for the dark agent. 54 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:11.560 I'll tell you man, that's what My mom would just 55 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:14.000 stick their hand in that little bluetube and just come 56 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:14.879 out with a hand full of. 57 00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:18.479 U And it was right. I put it on your chest, 58 00:02:18.560 --> 00:02:20.199 in your back, and they were like you good. See 59 00:02:20.240 --> 00:02:22.319 in the hells of Ohio. My parents would just give 60 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:24.680 me a little shot of whiskey, shut me up, and 61 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:28.879 you go right to see your throat. How does that help? 62 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.000 Try to picture hand your old grant looking for the 63 00:02:31.080 --> 00:02:33.280 pappy that wapel back there. 64 00:02:33.319 --> 00:02:35.280 I got a cold. We were a little too poor 65 00:02:35.319 --> 00:02:37.159 for that. We were more of a gym bean family. 66 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:39.879 Give it the bird the wild. 67 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:45.680 Wait, Gray, that's one hell of a remedy because I've never. 68 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:46.560 Heard of that before. 69 00:02:46.639 --> 00:02:49.039 Now, Pappy's warl cross syrup, you never heard that. No, 70 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:50.719 you do the you do the you know the lemon 71 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.400 and honey. You think you said you put a little 72 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.080 shot of bourbon in there? 73 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:59.960 Never yeah, oh yeah, yes, lemon and honey burbon, not 74 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.800 some right out of your throat just too. That's right, 75 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:05.039 So I can grow this beard, and then that's right that. 76 00:03:06.759 --> 00:03:09.360 I was denied the alcohol version. So that way, that's 77 00:03:09.400 --> 00:03:11.120 the remedy for Ben. If you want to grow in 78 00:03:11.159 --> 00:03:11.759 space your. 79 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:14.360 Hair, it's a lemon, honey and subourbon. That's why forty 80 00:03:14.400 --> 00:03:15.680 years old it looks like I have alopecia. 81 00:03:17.560 --> 00:03:21.240 Five six text slide speaking of Dry, the Rocks run 82 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.879 game coming up? Dry, who's gonna be here next year? 83 00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:25.400 I mean, that's the May figures to be here because 84 00:03:25.400 --> 00:03:28.680 he's on the rookie deal. But are we bringing Javonte 85 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.360 Julil back? Do we need a clean house? 86 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:31.120 What do we need to do here? 87 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:36.199 I don't believe that you need to uh necessarily clean house. 88 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.840 I think the first thing to do before you come 89 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:41.240 up with that idea, Ben, is go back and reevaluate 90 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:45.000 what's been going on with the running back position and say, well, well, 91 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:48.840 these guys are not adequate enough to get the job done. 92 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:54.240 Because when you look at Javonte Williams. Right, like when 93 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:57.639 he first came into the league. Obviously he rushed for 94 00:03:58.319 --> 00:04:03.080 almost almost thousand yards or four touchdowns. He suffers the injuries, 95 00:04:03.120 --> 00:04:05.400 a lot of things happened that changed a little bit 96 00:04:05.520 --> 00:04:08.159 as far as how the team utilized his ability. 97 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:09.759 But I mean, he had the. 98 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:11.960 Same amount of touchdowns this year as he had in 99 00:04:12.039 --> 00:04:14.400 year one, and two of those touchdowns he got on 100 00:04:14.439 --> 00:04:18.240 a Thursday night game against the New Orleans Saints against. 101 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.600 The team that was short handed, shorthanded, notorious for giving 102 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:24.000 up plays. And by the way, that was the. 103 00:04:23.959 --> 00:04:28.399 First time all season a long that Jafonte actually scored 104 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:29.959 a rushing touchdown. 105 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:32.480 So my question is, here's a bigger question. 106 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.959 Well, you look at the fact that that the Broncos 107 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:40.319 have not had a thousand, nine thousand yard rusher one 108 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:44.079 hundred yard rusher in a game. That's right in the 109 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.240 Champagnon errawor the last time they did it was with 110 00:04:46.279 --> 00:04:49.839 the Sean Payton's guy and he did it. There you go. 111 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.279 Latavious Murray was the last person, right, And do you 112 00:04:54.319 --> 00:04:58.040 remember what happened during that time, because Latavious rushed for 113 00:04:58.079 --> 00:05:00.519 I think one hundred and three yards against Arizona then 114 00:05:00.560 --> 00:05:05.040 they play the Rams on Christmas Day and that's when Nata. 115 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:07.639 You got diausted because you had the offensive line fighting 116 00:05:07.639 --> 00:05:08.959 Brent Rippan on the sideline. 117 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:11.759 Yeah, zact, let it rip our hYP Yes. 118 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.399 So that's kind of crazy to know that the Broncos 119 00:05:16.560 --> 00:05:19.560 haven't had a one hundred yard rusher in a single 120 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.879 game from a single player since twenty twenty three. 121 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.920 It barely had fifty yard rushers all year. Uh you 122 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:30.040 look at you look at the running backs this year. 123 00:05:30.120 --> 00:05:32.959 Javonte Everage thirty yards a game, Chili leverage thirty one 124 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.040 yards a game. Estimate twenty three yards a game. That 125 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:38.800 doesn't even it barely adds up to one. 126 00:05:38.800 --> 00:05:42.040 Hundred by itself. Okay, but my biggest question doesn't add 127 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:45.000 up to one hundred. It does my math. So even 128 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.639 if you were to that's eighty four yards a game 129 00:05:47.680 --> 00:05:49.439 between the three of them, exactly. 130 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:51.279 So, even if you want to change the running backs 131 00:05:51.319 --> 00:05:54.600 for the Denver Broncos, right, you got to change the 132 00:05:54.600 --> 00:05:57.480 philosophy as well. And what I mean by that is 133 00:05:57.519 --> 00:06:00.160 going back and watching a Buffalo game I find to 134 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:05.800 be refrustrating to watch. Savante gets a carry rush for 135 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:10.160 five yards, He's taken out. You had taler Berday come in, 136 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:12.720 he rushed for seven yards and he's taken out. 137 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.439 And I'm trying to understand. 138 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:19.439 What's the overall ideology associated with it. 139 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:23.040 If you can help me out, those out there listening. 140 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.519 To the show, help me understand, because I don't understand it, 141 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:29.319 because I thought the idea was keep the ball away 142 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:32.360 from Josh Allen by running the ball, right what we 143 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:35.560 saw Coach Payton actually write that on his call sheet. 144 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:40.399 Run it, but it's you're not utilizing your running. 145 00:06:40.120 --> 00:06:44.839 Backs, and everyone's asking the question as to why it 146 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.879 isn't really truly the running backs like the ability to 147 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:48.519 run the ball. 148 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:49.639 Is that the reason that. 149 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:53.319 The Broncos have been ineffective as far as having a 150 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:56.199 hundred yard rusher over the past two seasons. 151 00:06:56.639 --> 00:06:59.879 I mean, I don't know. I think it's more scheme. 152 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:02.920 I think it's more play call than it is, UH player, 153 00:07:03.120 --> 00:07:04.920 because we've seen these guys be able to get these 154 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.519 kinds of yards when they're given enough to be able 155 00:07:07.519 --> 00:07:10.040 to do it. My problem here is you're gonna have 156 00:07:10.079 --> 00:07:11.360 to go to the draft to address this. 157 00:07:11.959 --> 00:07:12.160 UH. 158 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:14.199 To add to the room. You can't add to the room. 159 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:15.680 There's no but First of all, in free agency's not 160 00:07:15.680 --> 00:07:17.920 gonna be anybody to add what are you gonna add 161 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:19.959 Naji Harris on a nine million dollar deal in a 162 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:24.240 paying that especially not really run what would you what 163 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.319 would you add? You know, I mean the Aaron Jones, 164 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.120 Naji Harris, those are the top two guys. After that, 165 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:33.360 it drops off a cliff, Jeff Wilson, AJ Dillon, the 166 00:07:33.399 --> 00:07:36.959 ghost of Nick Chubb, Like that's that's what we're doing. 167 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.480 I mean, And then you've got Alexander Madison and then 168 00:07:40.519 --> 00:07:42.879 you get into a whole slew of nobody's after that, 169 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:46.480 Like it's it's the free agent running back group here. 170 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:49.879 There's there's nobody that you want out of this group. 171 00:07:49.879 --> 00:07:50.920 So what are you gonna have to go to the 172 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.120 draft if you're gonna do that? And I know you 173 00:07:53.120 --> 00:07:55.279 get everybody their mother talking about asking Janty. First of all, 174 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:57.000 I don't think he's there guy. Second of all, I 175 00:07:57.040 --> 00:08:01.079 don't think he's gonna be there to me, if you're 176 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.360 looking at guys that sort of fit the mold of 177 00:08:03.399 --> 00:08:06.720 what Sean Payton wants. O Marion Hampton out of North Carolina, 178 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:10.199 Caleb Johnson and Iowa Judkins at Ohio State those guys 179 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:13.160 kind of fit the body types when you start to 180 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:14.879 look at that Nick Singleton's going back to school. 181 00:08:14.920 --> 00:08:18.560 By the way, if you want like a bruising. 182 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:20.439 North South guy, maybe Khalil Mullings out of Michigan. 183 00:08:21.600 --> 00:08:22.959 You know, he's six two two thirty. 184 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.160 But it's like there's just not there's not a lot 185 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:27.800 of room here, So it's gonna have to be you'd 186 00:08:27.839 --> 00:08:29.800 have to make a commitment to get these guys going, 187 00:08:29.839 --> 00:08:33.039 which and you'd think that Sean Pate would recognize that 188 00:08:33.039 --> 00:08:35.360 because his most successful seasons came when they had a 189 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:37.759 strong rushing attack, not when they were slinging the ball 190 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:38.200 over the ark. 191 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:38.480 Yeah. 192 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.759 But being for me, it doesn't make a difference what's 193 00:08:40.919 --> 00:08:45.200 running back you bring in here, right, veteran or riocky. 194 00:08:45.000 --> 00:08:46.159 They're not gonna use them enough. 195 00:08:46.519 --> 00:08:51.080 If there's not a steady commitment to utilizing that player's skills, 196 00:08:51.639 --> 00:08:54.960 it really makes no sense. And the way that I 197 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:57.840 look at it from a defensive standpoint, it's not all 198 00:08:57.879 --> 00:09:02.200 about how many carry there's a single running back actually 199 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:06.240 received in a given season or a given game to 200 00:09:06.320 --> 00:09:10.039 me's touches, Right, I told granted this before, I look 201 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:13.279 at it like it's fantasy football. I need to get 202 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:17.240 this guy as many touches as possible because now you 203 00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:19.960 put that on the hearts and minds of preparation for 204 00:09:20.240 --> 00:09:21.919 defensive coordinators and players. 205 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:23.519 We have to stop this guy. 206 00:09:23.759 --> 00:09:25.759 And it's not just about you know, getting in the 207 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:28.559 bare front and what I mean by that is gapped 208 00:09:28.559 --> 00:09:30.720 out across the board and you're just gonna clog up 209 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:32.759 every gap and you're gonna say, well, we're gonna force 210 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:33.360 you to plug with. 211 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:34.720 One hand tied behind your back. 212 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:39.159 No, you need a guy that's like a Chase Brown, right, Well, 213 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:41.519 you can give it to on an outside zone, you 214 00:09:41.639 --> 00:09:44.320 run gap scheme with him, but also you can flex 215 00:09:44.399 --> 00:09:46.320 him out and you can match him up with safeties 216 00:09:46.559 --> 00:09:49.679 and linebackers and you know you still can win. That's 217 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:53.159 the evolution of what I would love to see this 218 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:58.360 Broncos usage, not running, the usage of their running back. 219 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.120 Get to Yeah. And for me, I mean, I think 220 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.200 that's the thing. Excuse me, I want to see I 221 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:05.879 want to see them use the. 222 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:09.120 Running backs more because that's really sort of where we're 223 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:11.480 at with this thing. It's it was obvious that the 224 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:13.720 plan or what should have been the plan to to 225 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.639 beat Buffalo was keep the ball out of the Bill's 226 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:19.399 hands so they can't run it downhill on you, and 227 00:10:19.559 --> 00:10:22.440 we did the opposite of that. We came out with 228 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:24.679 the deep strike. Okay, you got them on their heels 229 00:10:24.679 --> 00:10:26.600 with the Troy Franklin thing. Congratulations, you got him. 230 00:10:26.600 --> 00:10:26.879 Happened. 231 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:28.360 Now we need to go to the ground game. Now 232 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:30.080 we need to establish that. Now we need to get 233 00:10:30.120 --> 00:10:33.720 that going. Now we need to have sustained lengthy drives. 234 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:35.600 We scored two and a half minutes off the thing, 235 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:38.360 and then we never scored again. The closest we came 236 00:10:38.480 --> 00:10:40.879 was clanking a fifty plus yard field goal off the upright. 237 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.600 It was I mean, whatever happened from here's the plan 238 00:10:46.759 --> 00:10:48.360 to in the game? 239 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:51.519 That changed, Like I don't understand. 240 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:54.000 And I don't understand if it's you know, again, is 241 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.080 this all on play calling, because it feels like that 242 00:10:56.120 --> 00:10:58.159 there's some missed backside cuts at times as well. 243 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.399 But you know, I don't know. You're going to have 244 00:11:01.440 --> 00:11:02.720 to run the ball to be successful. 245 00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:06.720 And Sean Payton's winningest seasons came from when they had 246 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:11.840 a top rushing attack, So what's the problem with doing that? 247 00:11:12.039 --> 00:11:16.519 Was this just about getting Bonux reps because I'm coming 248 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:20.240 up dry when I'm looking for answers, Well, you were. 249 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:23.120 Coming up dry, just like the balance in the run 250 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:26.759 game for the Broncos came up dry and you gotta 251 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:27.639 sprink some water on it. 252 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.039 Man, you got to plan some seeds right, water. 253 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.600 That grass because ideas, wherever you water the grass using 254 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:34.960 the grass actually grows. 255 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:37.879 And you need to do that with the run game. 256 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:41.720 Now, I will say this to you know, Coach Payton's 257 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:45.039 offensive credit is that that going back and watching in 258 00:11:45.080 --> 00:11:47.720 the games, not just the Buffalo game, but the games 259 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:51.320 over the season, there was some creativity that eventually started 260 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:55.000 to evolve that we saw Marvin MAM's kind of utilizing 261 00:11:55.000 --> 00:11:58.039 the scheme, and I was thinking, okay, well, this is 262 00:11:58.080 --> 00:12:00.120 what I was anticipating. 263 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:01.399 The time, this is what I wanted. 264 00:12:01.519 --> 00:12:04.559 More like, when there's a positive play, you know, the 265 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:06.840 part of me as a fan, I thirst for more. 266 00:12:07.159 --> 00:12:10.000 And when the well is tapped off and some guitars 267 00:12:10.039 --> 00:12:12.200 out the like, I get a little frustrated. I get 268 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.159 a little frustrated because I'm like, there's your juice right there, right, 269 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:19.399 utilize the juice. And I would have loved to see 270 00:12:19.639 --> 00:12:22.799 Marvin Mims utilize more in a vertical passing game. Yeah, 271 00:12:22.799 --> 00:12:26.159 because when you do that, you open up more of 272 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:30.080 the run lanes. Because that is something that defensive coordinators 273 00:12:30.080 --> 00:12:30.879 have to think about. 274 00:12:30.919 --> 00:12:33.159 When you put Marvin Mims in the backfield, it tells 275 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:34.240 the safeties to come down. 276 00:12:34.440 --> 00:12:37.399 It's coming to him. He's not going vertical from the backfield. 277 00:12:37.519 --> 00:12:39.120 Come down, especially after. 278 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:41.320 What we've seen over the past couple of weeks with 279 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:44.200 going you know, you go back to the Chargers game, 280 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:47.720 the Bengals game in Kansas City Chiefs game, and I 281 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:49.279 was looking for and when you. 282 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:52.240 And I talked about a particular play, it was in a. 283 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:55.440 Second quarter, nine minutes and forty eight seconds, right. 284 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:57.279 After you ripped off a six yard run with Chavante 285 00:12:57.440 --> 00:12:59.399 and then what are you doing throwing the ball behind 286 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:02.120 the line of script image to Marvin Mims in the backfield? 287 00:13:02.120 --> 00:13:04.960 As you pointed out on it, defense is on alert. 288 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:07.799 And the first that once again when I when I 289 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.120 watch film and I tell Ryan Edwards this because sometimes 290 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.519 Ryan thinks that, well, he said, Nick, you're kind of 291 00:13:14.600 --> 00:13:17.080 like Ben And I was like, what do you mean, 292 00:13:17.120 --> 00:13:18.840 I'm kind of like Ben right all the time. 293 00:13:19.039 --> 00:13:21.879 Well, well, we know that. 294 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:25.080 But the idea is just like, well, well Ben loves 295 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:26.919 to just kind of pile on coach Fagan. 296 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:27.799 I say, I'm not. 297 00:13:28.559 --> 00:13:32.799 I can't change the defensive eyes that I develop over 298 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.440 the years, and I look at and I evaluate games 299 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.480 based on that. Like if you tell me you and 300 00:13:38.519 --> 00:13:42.440 the shotgun, you got Marvin Mims in the backfield offset 301 00:13:42.480 --> 00:13:44.600 to the left and Javonte to the right, and I 302 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.639 know for three games you've been using him a certain 303 00:13:46.639 --> 00:13:49.080 way and the swing passes and then he goes from 304 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.120 left to right and he's swinging. I'm like, something's up. 305 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:53.559 Something something is up. 306 00:13:53.600 --> 00:13:58.840 So with that being said, use your strengths to your 307 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:01.720 advantage on as though you're gonna draw the defense. 308 00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:03.960 I was waiting on that particular play. 309 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.480 I was thinking, Okay, well maybe Bo's gonna fake it, 310 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:09.120 throw it downfield, or he's gonna throw it to Marvin, 311 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:12.080 and Marvin's gonna throw it downfield, right, But none of. 312 00:14:12.080 --> 00:14:14.559 None of that materialized. It didn't, and he had the 313 00:14:14.759 --> 00:14:17.200 lost three yards and I was like, dang it. 314 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.000 And it took an opportunity to put you back behind 315 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:21.320 the chains in an area where you were in plus territory. 316 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:23.399 You can't you can't throw the ball behind the line 317 00:14:23.399 --> 00:14:25.440 of scrimmage. One, once you cross the fifty, you should 318 00:14:25.480 --> 00:14:26.879 never throw the ball behind the line of scrimmage. 319 00:14:26.919 --> 00:14:29.679 You just shouldn't. It's very rare place where you're gonna 320 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:29.840 do it. 321 00:14:29.960 --> 00:14:32.639 A third and long after you've gotten knocked back, you 322 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:35.679 might run a screenplay, but you're not throwing the You don't. 323 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:38.000 Once you get plus territory, you don't throw the ball 324 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:39.279 behind the line of scrimmage. 325 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:43.279 No, you don't unless you're gonna break your own tennessees 326 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:45.000 and throw it down the field. 327 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:46.639 That's the only time that I would be. 328 00:14:47.120 --> 00:14:48.960 If you're said it's a double pass or something, then yeah, 329 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:50.799 but the intent is still to push the ball behind 330 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:51.120 the line. 331 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:52.559 Yeah, you don't take it like. That's the thing. 332 00:14:52.559 --> 00:14:54.320 Once you're getting a plus territory, you don't put yourself 333 00:14:54.360 --> 00:14:56.480 in negative place, and if you teach your quarterbacks, you 334 00:14:56.519 --> 00:14:58.799 don't take sacks there. You know, it's just one of 335 00:14:58.840 --> 00:15:00.200 those things like you don't live to fight an other 336 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:02.639 day there, get rid of it, you know, you don't. 337 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:04.559 You don't hang in there trying to make something happen, 338 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:05.480 live to fight another day. 339 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:10.279 And that's why, like when with they fake the the punt, right. 340 00:15:10.360 --> 00:15:12.639 I thought that was that was perfect, yeah, and I. 341 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:14.799 Thought, Okay, the team's gonna get some points off of that, 342 00:15:15.120 --> 00:15:16.919 and no one is though, and then we came up 343 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.600 drying on that, right, but knowing that. 344 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:20.799 Points are a premium, that there was. 345 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:23.039 Gonna be another shot where it's gonna be another aggressive 346 00:15:23.159 --> 00:15:26.240 move some something fleet flicker whatever it is, throw back 347 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.720 the ball, both throw back the corner. I didn't see that. Yeah, 348 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:30.440 I didn't see it. 349 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:30.960 I don't know. 350 00:15:31.240 --> 00:15:33.120 I'm just the point now where I need some of 351 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:38.480 Grant's parents coughser cough remedy at this point, Well, we 352 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:40.000 got a whole six pack coming up next. 353 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:52.159 Western our tackles, help the receivers on the official home 354 00:15:52.240 --> 00:16:01.759 of THEOS. All Right, all night, Kowa, welcome. 355 00:16:01.440 --> 00:16:03.279 Back to my broncost country. Tonight. 356 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.679 All right, think Ferguson grat Smiths five six six nine 357 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:07.519 zero text lone. 358 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:08.840 Time for the NFL six pack. 359 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:12.799 It's time for the NFL six pad. I'm gonna trade 360 00:16:12.799 --> 00:16:16.440 a lot of insight and insight information you can't find 361 00:16:16.480 --> 00:16:20.919 anywhere else. No. Six the top six NFL headline. 362 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:24.440 What well with the loss yesterday? 363 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.960 Contract talks with Kevin O'Connell get front and center in 364 00:16:28.000 --> 00:16:31.159 Minnesota Jay Glazer's report and multiple teams are interested in 365 00:16:31.240 --> 00:16:32.440 trading for Kevin O'Connell. 366 00:16:32.480 --> 00:16:35.080 Certainly not idle talk. There is tension in the. 367 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:37.320 Relationships, stemming largely from the fact that he did not 368 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:40.720 get an extension after his second season. Now he's one 369 00:16:40.759 --> 00:16:42.600 year away from free agency, could be willing to let 370 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:46.240 it ride if necessary and hit the market, betting. 371 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.360 On himself for one more year. 372 00:16:48.440 --> 00:16:52.039 Entering the final Sunday of the regular season, his earning potential. 373 00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:52.919 Was as high as it could be. 374 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:57.159 Here's the question, Well, the two sides agree on consequences 375 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:00.519 of a two game tailspin, the vikings over either hand. 376 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.720 O'Connor can always say you know what I'm out, He 377 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:06.400 voluntarily coaches a lame duck, can make himself available to 378 00:17:06.440 --> 00:17:09.720 anyone and everyone. In twenty twenty six, beyond money, O'Connell 379 00:17:09.720 --> 00:17:12.160 could be looking for more, say and roster construction that 380 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:15.160 our alignment with the general manager in a situation where 381 00:17:15.160 --> 00:17:16.880 he'll have more of what he needs to put a 382 00:17:16.920 --> 00:17:19.279 team together that can get to the playoffs and win 383 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:20.559 when the postseason arrives. 384 00:17:21.839 --> 00:17:23.599 But O'Connell contract obviously should. 385 00:17:23.400 --> 00:17:24.920 Be the first order of business for the Vikings right 386 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:26.000 now that the season is any. 387 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:26.960 But will a deal be reached? 388 00:17:27.319 --> 00:17:28.920 Will they keep him for one more year, let him 389 00:17:28.920 --> 00:17:30.839 become a free agent, or take the best offer they 390 00:17:30.839 --> 00:17:32.880 can if teams want to trade for him. On the surface, 391 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:36.480 O'Connell seems too good nature to play hardball. But his dad, 392 00:17:36.599 --> 00:17:38.720 as many of you may or may not know, as 393 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.000 a retired FBIA. 394 00:17:39.759 --> 00:17:41.880 Agent who was partially responsible for. 395 00:17:41.799 --> 00:17:43.680 Taking down John Gottie. 396 00:17:44.680 --> 00:17:48.200 So you are suggesting maybe he unlisten his dad to 397 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:50.559 do absolutely what Benjamin. 398 00:17:50.880 --> 00:17:55.000 It's in the family of DNA to match wits with 399 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:55.799 the rich and powerful. 400 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:57.680 So if the if the wolf's snowed off for Kevin, 401 00:17:58.200 --> 00:18:00.160