Speaker 1: Day one Broncos training camp. At least the portion open
Speaker 1: to the fans is in the books. I thought practice
Speaker 1: out there today was I think the fans were maybe
Speaker 1: expecting a little more fireworks than what they got. I
Speaker 1: was expecting a larger crowd than what they got. By
Speaker 1: the end, it felt like that maybe, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: sixty five seventy five percent full. They're on the berm overall.
Speaker 1: I thought the quarterbacks were a little shaky today. Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson got his day up with the ones, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the running game.
Speaker 2: The running backs look good.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice to see when we get the pads
Speaker 1: on we can get a better look at and everything.
Speaker 1: But as we as we sort of see it right now,
Speaker 1: the main competitions, which we've already described the course of
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks are at the center position, in which Wattenberg
Speaker 1: appears to be in the lead right now, at the
Speaker 1: inside linebacker position opposite Alex Singleton. They've rotated Jonas Griffith
Speaker 1: and Cody Barton through that, and then over there at
Speaker 1: the corner position opposite Sir Tan and Ja Kwan McMillan,
Speaker 1: and it looks like that we've seen a rotation so
Speaker 1: far of tomorrow, mathis Riley Moss and Levi Wallace, and
Speaker 1: that those those appear to be the main sort of
Speaker 1: camp battles, at least at the top of the roster.
Speaker 1: Obviously guys will be battering battling for depth and.
Speaker 2: And spots and the practice squad as well.
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Speaker 2: I want to hear what you guys, what questions you.
Speaker 1: Guys have, because I want to tailor coverage this year
Speaker 1: to what it is that you guys want to know about.
Speaker 2: Everybody that I talk to, you always wants.
Speaker 1: To hear about the quarterbacks. Okay, cool, I know you
Speaker 1: want to hear about the quarterbacks. But what else do
Speaker 1: you guys want to hear about? What do you want
Speaker 1: to know so that we can tailor coverage to that Specifically.
Speaker 1: One of the things that one of the myths, the narratives,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, that we sort of
Speaker 1: busted already this week was the premature demise of Javante Williams.
Speaker 1: We had outlets around town writing out his obituary, and
Speaker 1: I didn't particularly understand that Javonte Williams is absolutely dominated,
Speaker 1: taking almost every rep with the ones that there is
Speaker 1: to take, and he is the guy. He's dropped something
Speaker 1: like ten pounds, gotten a little bit healthier, got a
Speaker 1: little more spring in his step, and you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's fully all the way back finally from that
Speaker 1: devastating injury he suffered nearly two years ago. So I
Speaker 1: think that Javante is going to have a huge role
Speaker 1: in this offense. I think Odric Estimate is going to
Speaker 1: have a role in this offense. I think Julia McLoughlin
Speaker 1: is going to have a role in this offense. I
Speaker 1: think if we're asking about an odd man out right now,
Speaker 1: that would appear to be some MAJIPI. Ryne p Ryan,
Speaker 1: of course, was the kind of the third down back
Speaker 1: for the Broncos last year.
Speaker 2: Caught quite a few passes out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: And you know, he did a good, pretty good job
Speaker 1: with pass protection, but he had some untimely fumbles and
Speaker 1: you know, kind of he's always been a guy who
Speaker 1: has sort of a violent running style and it's worn
Speaker 1: him down. You know, anytime you had him out there's
Speaker 1: a starter by the time he gets bulk carries or
Speaker 1: he gets to a certain amount of carries by the
Speaker 1: time he gets to the second third game of doing that,
Speaker 1: you know, he tends to be a guy that wears
Speaker 1: down a little bit. And so I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I know, the Broncos save I think three million dollars
Speaker 1: if they do move on from him, versus, for instance,
Speaker 1: one point five for Javonte, save three million dollars, and
Speaker 1: you can work Javonte and you know, an estimate into
Speaker 1: into a different load share with with McLoughlin sort of
Speaker 1: being the the spark back, and I think that rotation
Speaker 1: wi workout. You've also got a couple of the guys
Speaker 1: vying for a spot on this roster in Blake Watson
Speaker 1: who's been injured, and and Tyler Batty and I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, baby, maybe.
Speaker 2: A practice squad guy Watson.
Speaker 1: I believe, and it is a personal belief that they
Speaker 1: had sort of a a kick return role kind of
Speaker 1: carved out for him and then maybe he would come
Speaker 1: in and be another, you know, another spark back kind
Speaker 1: of thing, because he does have that extra gear.
Speaker 2: But with him being injured, don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he factors in now to those
Speaker 1: plans when we're seeing what looks like a pretty healthy
Speaker 1: rotation from the backs that I've already mentioned. Five six
Speaker 1: six nine zero is the text line, appreciate appreciate some
Speaker 1: of the texts coming in already. Brian wants to hear
Speaker 1: about the long snappers. Well, we only have one right now,
Speaker 1: and Mitchell FERBONI. If we get another one and there
Speaker 1: suddenly develops a blazing competition for long snappers, I will
Speaker 1: do my best to bring you the up to the
Speaker 1: minute coverage that you all deserve. On that, none of
Speaker 1: the three quarterbacks have varied from their attire. Jared Stidham
Speaker 1: is a short sleeve hoodie guy, Zach Wilson's long sleeve
Speaker 1: T shirt a headband guy. And Bo Nix is you know,
Speaker 1: I just drink water at practice, not gatorade. We're in
Speaker 1: the regular uniform with no flare. He does not wear
Speaker 1: pieces of flair at all, So adjust your quarterback rankings accordingly.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys got a chance this
Speaker 1: afternoon to watch the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. What a
Speaker 1: chaotic mess. I don't know if you guys had a
Speaker 1: chance to see this thing or not. The pyrotechnics and the.
Speaker 2: Metal and everything else. A six kilometer river parade was planned.
Speaker 1: Organizers wanted to make the ceremonies accessible as possible. They
Speaker 1: gave away two hundred and twenty two thousand free tickets
Speaker 1: eighty giant screens around the city for everybody to watch.
Speaker 1: So due to the sheer size, they didn't have the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do a full rehearsal, and so the ceremony
Speaker 1: began with a video interlude that field World Cup winner
Speaker 1: Zenadize a Dane running through Paris, a huge fireworks display
Speaker 1: of the tricolor and the nation's being introduced, starting with Greece,
Speaker 1: and then the boats sort of continued being introduced with
Speaker 1: another interlude featuring Lady Gaga singing in French. But the
Speaker 1: I think the chaotic nature of it failed to sort
Speaker 1: of grip viewers who were already beginning to turn it
Speaker 1: off at the start. Uh.
Speaker 2: Twitter was was pretty hilariously brutal.
Speaker 1: Uh, people calling it horrible, the most boring ceremony ever. Sorry, Paris,
Speaker 1: this is the worst ever, dreadful, What an awful opening ceremony.
Speaker 1: It was sort of damp, and further when rain started
Speaker 1: to come down on the thousands of spectators as they were,
Speaker 1: uh they were.
Speaker 2: Getting drowned a little bit.
Speaker 1: Uh they had it was a one point a a
Speaker 1: headless Marie Antoinette uh singing.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's sort of is is it a flex
Speaker 1: if you're the country that beheaded your queen at one
Speaker 1: point and you're you're you're pointing back to that is
Speaker 1: is the opening welcome ceremony?
Speaker 2: I I don't know.
Speaker 1: There were jokes all over Twitter and people were talking about,
Speaker 1: you know, Germany's gonna have to reinvade France after this ceremony.
Speaker 2: It was just, uh, it was. It was. It was
Speaker 2: chaotic and ridiculous, and.
Speaker 1: The people watching, everyone that I saw watching didn't seem
Speaker 1: to understand and or appreciate the ceremony as it was.
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts of you do we care?
Speaker 1: Do we care about the Olympics, you know, opening ceremonies,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Do we do we care
Speaker 1: about any of that kind of stuff? I mean, I
Speaker 1: was talking with Nick last night and I remember in
Speaker 1: the nineties being very attuned to the Olympics.
Speaker 2: I remember, you know, specifically.
Speaker 1: I think it was like nineteen ninety six where I
Speaker 1: was talking about having a you know, a high school
Speaker 1: teenage crush on the the one gymnast, the short Way
Speaker 1: Dominic Mochianu. I vaguely remember that, but I remember being
Speaker 1: attuned to the Olympics specifically early nineties with the Dream
Speaker 1: Team and then you know Dream Team too, and I
Speaker 1: sort of the high school years where I was sort
Speaker 1: of into that, and.
Speaker 2: Then I just kind of tuned out.
Speaker 1: I kind of quit watching the Olympics over time, and
Speaker 1: I guess I've checked back in here or there. There
Speaker 1: have been some gimmicks that have sort of brought me
Speaker 1: back in at times, having Snoop Dogg announced things as
Speaker 1: frankly hilarious, so that that is something that gimmick worked
Speaker 1: on me a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I'm not one of those people who can really.
Speaker 1: Name all the Olympians anymore, or even name all the
Speaker 1: sports that we're in in the United States. Is the
Speaker 1: betting favorite to the prohibitive betting favorite to win the
Speaker 1: most medals and and dominating this thing? But I guess
Speaker 1: I don't know if it is a combination of poor
Speaker 1: marketing on the Olympic side, of things that those personalities
Speaker 1: and those names aren't is widely known, or if it's
Speaker 1: my own ignorance and inability to or unwavering in attentiveness
Speaker 1: to it that have have sort of brought that to
Speaker 1: bear as it were. Now, I just I don't know.
Speaker 2: I can't. I haven't been psyched about it.
Speaker 1: Maybe I started getting some highlights of something and it
Speaker 1: starts drawing me in. I did watch a little bit
Speaker 1: of the exhibition basketball stuff, and that that probably is
Speaker 1: your best hook for me at this point. But I
Speaker 1: used to love the Olympics and I used to have
Speaker 1: the goofy sports too.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that a little bit last night.
Speaker 1: I curling, like I would get way into curling for
Speaker 1: no reason. And you think that, like, you know, a
Speaker 1: degenerate gambler like myself would love to this kind of stuff,
Speaker 1: to put money on this kind of stuff. I just
Speaker 1: I just don't. I just haven't. So I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: You guys, tell me, are you are you tuning into
Speaker 1: the Olympics or not? In a text line right now,
Speaker 1: does not appear too, does not appear to be very
Speaker 1: into the Olympics. I can't read that one on the
Speaker 1: air Brian, but I appreciate it. Someone asked if fifteen
Speaker 1: pieces of flair is the bare minimum? I mean, if
Speaker 1: you want to do to bare minimum, if you just
Speaker 1: want to do the bare minimum. Here we you know
Speaker 1: Brian over there's got thirty pieces of flair. So and
Speaker 1: he's over there selling the cheesy shooters and extreme fahetes.
Speaker 1: So we did get a text that I want to
Speaker 1: read here from the four oh seven that says, Ben,
Speaker 1: I want to know how the depth is shaping up
Speaker 1: on the offensive line, particularly in areas one as the
Speaker 1: tackle position.
Speaker 2: We know the.
Speaker 1: Starters will be, but you'll have Polsowski, Pert and Crumb
Speaker 1: battling for backup positions. So think when Bailey and Calvin
Speaker 1: Throckmorton are probably battling for one position on that line,
Speaker 1: who are you seeing and where do you think those
Speaker 1: battles stand. Well, I would say that on the offensive
Speaker 1: tackle battle, Crumb would probably just based on the reps
Speaker 1: thus far be a distant third of those three that
Speaker 1: you mentioned, Pelshawski and Pert would probably be the backups.
Speaker 1: Bailey and Throckmorton may be fighting for one spot. Bailey
Speaker 1: has had a knack for sticking around on the Broncos roster.
Speaker 1: There were several jokes made today about Calvin Throckmorton's haircut,
Speaker 1: which is vaguely boy bandish, beieverish if you will.
Speaker 2: Thanks keithan Orlando.
Speaker 1: I think that the real battle there is the center position,
Speaker 1: and then once we know who takes that job, whether
Speaker 1: it's Alex Forsyth or Luke Wattenberg, and Wattenberg has had
Speaker 1: the bulk of the reps thus far, or Sam Mustaffer,
Speaker 1: who I don't think is going to win it but
Speaker 1: was certainly brought into to be a veteran.
Speaker 2: In the room. I think after that then you sort
Speaker 2: of know.
Speaker 1: How many spots are available after that to keep his depth.
Speaker 1: And the thing I'll say about this is making you
Speaker 1: fifty three is not what it once was. With the
Speaker 1: advent of the practice squad being what it is now
Speaker 1: and how many spots it has, and the call up
Speaker 1: rules where you can keep guys on there for multiple
Speaker 1: call ups and all that kind of stuff, it's a
Speaker 1: de facto roster extension. And so you could have a
Speaker 1: situation where you have like only seven or eight offensive
Speaker 1: linemen on the fifty three, but you've got five guys
Speaker 1: on the practice squad that you could rotate through, calling
Speaker 1: up week to week and you know, and sort of
Speaker 1: go from there. And so some of these battles, the
Speaker 1: down roster battles, where I would have paid more attention
Speaker 1: or been glued to who's going to be the guy
Speaker 1: to get the last spot here, it doesn't It doesn't
Speaker 1: resonate as much because these guys are going to make
Speaker 1: the practice squad and they're going to be there anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, You're not. It's not a situation where if
Speaker 1: they don't make it, they're just not gonna be around you.
Speaker 1: Probably most of these guys are going to make the
Speaker 1: practice squad, you know, And so instead of ninety guys
Speaker 1: getting cut down to fifty three, what you really have
Speaker 1: now is ninety guys getting cut down to fifty three.
Speaker 1: But then you know, you're bringing in twenty guys for
Speaker 1: the practice squad. So really only like twenty of these
Speaker 1: guys you know, ended up getting moved on from and
Speaker 1: some of them stay in the area so they can
Speaker 1: rotate through the practice squad. So I don't know, I
Speaker 1: hear you on that, and you're probably correct in the
Speaker 1: sense that Quinn and Calvin are probably fighting for one
Speaker 1: offensive line spot due to the nature of the competition
Speaker 1: between Forsyth and Wattenburg.
Speaker 2: That said, is it really that.
Speaker 1: Big a d which one wins it and the other
Speaker 1: one's on the practice squad other than for contractual issues
Speaker 1: for them, I mean their money, right, But in terms
Speaker 1: of in terms of a team perspective, I don't think
Speaker 1: it matters.
Speaker 2: You know, both guys will.
Speaker 1: Probably be around, one will be on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: one will be on the fifty.
Speaker 2: Three, and you go from there.
Speaker 1: And if one of the guys, you know, I'll play
Speaker 1: the other, maybe they swap that out at some point
Speaker 1: or something. But the reality is those down roster battles
Speaker 1: feel like they've taken on a lesser importance because of
Speaker 1: the expansion of the practice squad five six six nine
Speaker 1: zeros text line, I don't think that. I think the
Speaker 1: battles that matter are the starting position battles and where
Speaker 1: we talk about the linebacker next Alex Singleton, whether it's
Speaker 1: Cody Barton, Jonas Griffith, the corner position, which especially interests me,
Speaker 1: between Damari Mathis, Riley Moss, and Levi Wallace. To a
Speaker 1: lesser extent, treymont Smith, although I think he makes the
Speaker 1: team by virtue of his special teams, and will probably
Speaker 1: be on kickoffs.
Speaker 2: The center position, which we've mentioned.
Speaker 1: Alex Forsyth and Luke Wattenberg, and then of course quarterback,
Speaker 1: where everyone is laser focused between Jarrett Stidham, bo Nix,
Speaker 1: and Zach Wilson. And I would say to my mind,
Speaker 1: at this point, Jarrett Stidham is firmly in the lead
Speaker 1: at number one, boon Ennis is firmly number two, and
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson is firmly number three, And that's probably sort
Speaker 1: of to be expected. Jarrett Stidham has a year in
Speaker 1: this offense, He has a year around most of these
Speaker 1: guys as players, and so he's going to have a
Speaker 1: better grasp of things and and sort of the game
Speaker 1: will slow down for him a little bit more because
Speaker 1: of that. That doesn't mean that Bonix won't catch up,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean it won't catch up in camp, doesn't mean
Speaker 1: Bonix is a bust, doesn't mean any any of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I hate it when people go that
Speaker 1: direction with it. The reality is, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, this team wants Bonnicks to take the job.
Speaker 1: That's what they want. Right You drafted him in the
Speaker 1: first round. You want that to happen. But Sean Payton
Speaker 1: is not going to accelerate the pro pross just because
Speaker 1: bo Nick is a rookie. He's not John Payton wants
Speaker 1: to win football games. He's gonna go with the guy
Speaker 1: who on day one he believes gives him the best
Speaker 1: opportunity to win football games. We'll see bo Nicks at
Speaker 1: some point this year, whether that's Week one, whether that's
Speaker 1: Week fifteen, whatever, We're going to see bo Nicks some
Speaker 1: point this year because they'll need to see what they
Speaker 1: have before going into next year. But as it sits
Speaker 1: right now, if you're wrapping camp right now, before we've
Speaker 1: ever put the pads on, I would suggest that Jared
Speaker 1: Stidham looks like he's in better command of this offense,
Speaker 1: and he should Does he hang on to that lead?
Speaker 2: How long does he hang on to that lead?
Speaker 1: Those are questions that I think will come up, but
Speaker 1: I think it's important to contextualize that again with he
Speaker 1: has a year experience in this offense, and with these
Speaker 1: players and bow Knicks and Zach Wilson have a matter
Speaker 1: of weeks a dozen practices maybe to have kind of
Speaker 1: sort of gotten acclimated to this, and so at this
Speaker 1: point you would expect the veteran who's been around to
Speaker 1: be in the lead.
Speaker 2: Now. I like some things out of bow Nicks.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's you know, he's got
Speaker 1: a little athleticis into his game that you shouldn't count out.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he tries to get the
Speaker 1: ball out quickly and not take negative plays. Those are
Speaker 1: things that will definitely play into Sean Payton's love of
Speaker 1: his game. But as it sits right now, there are
Speaker 1: moments you can see out there where he looks a
Speaker 1: little frenetic. It hasn't slowed down for him. He's still absorbing.
Speaker 2: You know, what is it? Defenses are throwing at me,
Speaker 2: what is this play?
Speaker 1: Call?
Speaker 2: What is play that we're running?
Speaker 1: And that leads to being out of sync in other areas,
Speaker 1: being off balance, and you know, part of Zach Wilson's
Speaker 1: game is thrown from weird platforms. But bo Nicks, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's supposed to be fairly robotic. And you know
Speaker 1: there have been times where you've seen him off platform
Speaker 1: or you see him, you know, hurrying to get the
Speaker 1: ball out rather than perhaps sticking with something to see
Speaker 1: if it shakes open in these type situations, and I'm
Speaker 1: not privy to what specifically Sean Payton is coaching him
Speaker 1: to do in those scenarios. I don't know if the
Speaker 1: advice is to just get it out or the advice
Speaker 1: is to hang with it. But there are some moments
Speaker 1: there where you kind of wish he'd hang with it
Speaker 1: just a little bit, just to sort of see if
Speaker 1: something would shake open, and you know, maybe set yourself
Speaker 1: a little bit better to make the throat. When we
Speaker 1: come back, I want to get a little deeper into
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Speaker 1: I got a few texts during the break, not a
Speaker 1: lot of you excited about the Olympics. Not a lot
Speaker 1: of you excited about the Olympics at all. Somebody did
Speaker 1: say that there's a good gimmick for surfing this year,
Speaker 1: which I didn't realize was an Olympic thing because they're
Speaker 1: in Tahiti and surfing like the most dangerous wave in
Speaker 1: the world. Okay, maybe if I see some highlights of
Speaker 1: that and then I'm like, oh, that's cool, you know,
Speaker 1: But as it sits right, there's nothing I just I
Speaker 1: mean American basketball, yeah, but beyond that, it just does
Speaker 1: not feel like there's anything there that's that's just an
Speaker 1: overwhelming draw for me. Someone nine says, I remember Montreal
Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy six, all the great American boxers. I
Speaker 1: think we won eight of nine Golds or something ridiculous.
Speaker 2: That's a couple of.
Speaker 1: Years before I was born. I was born nineteen eighty,
Speaker 1: so I obviously do not remember that at all. Five six, six,
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Speaker 1: up seven point thirty tonight, the Colorado Rocky's taking on
Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants.
Speaker 2: Full coverage right here on Kawa.
Speaker 1: A couple of other things around training camp today, just you know,
Speaker 1: kind of notes Greg Dulcich if he can stay healthy, man,
Speaker 1: he's starting to really show that promise. You know, you
Speaker 1: start to see it out there. The tight end position,
Speaker 1: which has been a liability for the Broncos for quite
Speaker 1: some time, might might be a position of strength if
Speaker 1: they can if they can keep everybody healthy. You know,
Speaker 1: Adam Trautman is is sort of limited as a receiver,
Speaker 1: but as an end line blocker, he's a pretty decent player.
Speaker 1: And then you've got Lucas Kroll, who you know, when
Speaker 1: he gets done building his own wing for the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame, his looked pretty decent out there, and Greg
Speaker 1: Dulsage and Dulsage, I think everybody knows that the hamstrings can.
Speaker 1: If you can find a way to keep the hamstrings healthy,
Speaker 1: then you might have a player on your hands there,
Speaker 1: because when he's out there, I mean, it's a noticeable mismatch.
Speaker 1: It is a noticeable speed difference with him out there.
Speaker 1: And I know when the Broncos drafted him, they thought
Speaker 1: of him as a chess piece, a mismatch weapon, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, and we've seen flashes of it, you know,
Speaker 1: we've seen flashes of it, whether that's training camp, you know,
Speaker 1: before he got hurt, some preseason games, or I believe,
Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, the the London game. I believe
Speaker 1: that was the game where he sort of showed out
Speaker 1: a little bit. His rookie year back in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: he had a pair of touchdowns, four hundred yards receiving,
Speaker 1: started six games, playing in ten.
Speaker 2: But there was a game in there, and I'm trying
Speaker 2: to remember now.
Speaker 1: I know there was the game against the Jets where
Speaker 1: he got targeted a lot that year, and I think
Speaker 1: it was back to back games. I think it was
Speaker 1: the Jets, and I think it was the Jacksonville game
Speaker 1: kind of back to back where he sort of kind
Speaker 1: of came into his own for a minute there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: between those two games, he had fourteen targets, ten receptions,
Speaker 1: and like one hundred and thirty eight yards over those
Speaker 1: two games. I would have liked to have seen that player,
Speaker 1: you know, stay healthy and get more opportunities. Six four
Speaker 1: two forty five with the speed that he has is
Speaker 1: is an interesting combination. And we've seen what Sean Payton
Speaker 1: can do with tight ends. Historically, he's over the course
Speaker 1: of his career, he's had four All Pro seasons out
Speaker 1: of tight ends. I think two of those were Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham almost Jeremy Shockey, and I'm trying to remember the
Speaker 1: other one feels cook or I don't have to go
Speaker 1: back and a look, but he he's had four All
Speaker 1: Pro seasons out of tight ends. The offense, the Sean
Speaker 1: Payton offense needs the tight end to be a productive
Speaker 1: pass catcher.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: You need the X receiver, the half back, and the
Speaker 1: tight end to be productive volume pass catchers. The Z
Speaker 1: receiver in Sean Payton's offense and the slot receiver sort
Speaker 1: of traditionally have have been clear out guys, guys with
Speaker 1: speed to burn, you know, backside of the play and
Speaker 1: we're going deep. If we get the one on one,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take our shot, you know kind of guys.
Speaker 1: And they've drafted guys to that, to that effect or
Speaker 1: brought guys into that effect over the years.
Speaker 2: You go back and you look at the rosters.
Speaker 1: He had guys like Ted Ginn, Defrey Henderson, Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 1: those types on the back side of the play, and
Speaker 1: Marvin Mhams figures to occupy that where Josh Reynolds will
Speaker 1: work the slot. You look at some of the SWA
Speaker 1: slot guys. They've had trek wand Smith, you know, guys
Speaker 1: like that. They're athletic, maybe not burners, but certainly athletic.
Speaker 1: They sort of have archetypes of what they want out
Speaker 1: of players. And having a guy like Dulsic who sort
Speaker 1: of fits that, that guy you can you could split
Speaker 1: out a little bit, you can move around then off
Speaker 1: the line. Why if you've got a productive volume pass
Speaker 1: catcher at the tight end position, the Sean Payton offfense
Speaker 1: really starts to hum. We've seen rotations of guys through there.
Speaker 1: Taysomhill even played that that tight end position for a while,
Speaker 1: played a little bit of everything I think for Sean
Speaker 1: Payton except on the old line.
Speaker 2: But if you've got if you've got guys that.
Speaker 1: Could catch passes as a tight end, that's going to
Speaker 1: open things up for everybody else.
Speaker 2: Because the way that they the way they layer this thing.
Speaker 1: And we saw with Michael Thomas over there at the X,
Speaker 1: we saw Marcus Colston over there at the X. They
Speaker 1: love to run that slant with the X receiver and
Speaker 1: they love to run those choice routes with the half
Speaker 1: back out of the backfield.
Speaker 2: And so with the tight end. They have a routtree
Speaker 2: that usually consists of inbreaking stuff. It's you know it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's a stick route, but there is a square
Speaker 1: in There's a lot of that square end stuff. And
Speaker 1: if you've got somebody who can snag and pull kind
Speaker 1: of the linebacker out of the way or pull the
Speaker 1: safety out of the way, that means either that ex
Speaker 1: receiver is going to get a one on one on
Speaker 1: the slant or the halfback coming underneath that is going
Speaker 1: to get a one on one with the linebacker.
Speaker 2: That's the idea.
Speaker 1: The idea is to use these guys to pull defenders
Speaker 1: into different areas where you can get one of these
Speaker 1: you can get one of these other position players in
Speaker 1: sort of a you know, one on one situation and
Speaker 1: let them out athlete the other guy, right, And that's
Speaker 1: sort of the basis of uh, you know, the Sean
Speaker 1: Payton off. There are other you know, there's obviously more
Speaker 1: complex than that. I'm being reductive, but to give you
Speaker 1: a basic idea. They sort of have archetypes and Greg
Speaker 1: Dulsige sort of fits that that volume pass catcher, tight
Speaker 1: end athletic guy archetype that you can move around. You
Speaker 1: can move him outside all of a sudden, you move
Speaker 1: Greg Dulsitch outside, you move him from from inline, you
Speaker 1: move him outside the way they used to do Jimmy Graham. Well,
Speaker 1: that that prevents that presents a problem. You can't put
Speaker 1: a corner over there because he's too big and too tall.
Speaker 1: You can't put put a linebacker over there because he's
Speaker 1: too fast.
Speaker 2: So you're move in a safety. Well if you roll
Speaker 2: that safety.
Speaker 1: Now of a sudden, you've rolled coverage to that side,
Speaker 1: you got the burner on the backside, and you're hoping
Speaker 1: your guy shakes free.
Speaker 2: So again, the idea here.
Speaker 1: Is just to create situations or scenarios where you're you're
Speaker 1: pulling defenders into space and allowing your guys to shine.
Speaker 1: And I think that having somebody like that that is reliable,
Speaker 1: that threatens defenses that they have to take notice of
Speaker 1: will help free everything up for some of the other guys.
Speaker 1: And so we're all we're all hoping that Greg Greg
Speaker 1: Dulca she excuse me, could sort of come into his own,
Speaker 1: stay healthy, and be the guy that they had envisioned,
Speaker 1: and that then head coach Nathaniel Hackett was obviously giddy
Speaker 1: about in the draft room when they when they went
Speaker 1: out and got him. I think thus far, they're sort
Speaker 1: of a exhalation for media that are watching. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's run a few and so far, so good. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen an injury yet. I think the day the
Speaker 1: pads come on is really going to be telling. I
Speaker 1: think once we start having contact, that's gonna be telling.
Speaker 1: And we'll see at that point whether Greg Dulsic can
Speaker 1: stay healthy, whether the hamstrings hold up, and whether he's
Speaker 1: somebody that this team can rely on to be a
Speaker 1: productive playmaker or.
Speaker 2: Be a guy.
Speaker 1: The defense is paying enough attention to that that you
Speaker 1: can get other guys the football in one on one
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Speaker 1: The text line we did have somebody earlier asking me
Speaker 1: about practice squad salaries. Practice squad players are paid. It's
Speaker 1: a weekly salary. It's based on their experience. If you
Speaker 1: have two seasons or fewer, you get twelve thousand dollars
Speaker 1: per week, which equates to two hundred and sixteen thousand
Speaker 1: dollars for eighteen weeks. If you have over two seasons
Speaker 1: of accumulated time, it's between sixteen to one and twenty thousand,
Speaker 1: six hundred per week, which is between two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine thousand, eight hundred dollars and three hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight hundred dollars for the eighteen weeks. Eighteen weeks
Speaker 1: obviously includes a bye week because you get paid for
Speaker 1: the buye when you're on the practice squad as well.
Speaker 1: Practice squad players, for those asking, do do receive benefits
Speaker 1: like medical, dental, vision, prescription, DOUG coverage and all those
Speaker 1: kinds of resources.
Speaker 2: So they do get those things.
Speaker 1: Those salaries, however, the practice are non guaranteed. They do
Speaker 1: count against a team's salary cap, so if you were
Speaker 1: tight on the cap, I guess you could skip money
Speaker 1: by shortening your practice squad players are paid during the
Speaker 1: bye weeks, which I already told you, and continue to
Speaker 1: receive their weekly rate if they make the playoffs. So
Speaker 1: if you make the playoffs, you continue to get practice
Speaker 1: squad money. Practice squad contracts end one week after the
Speaker 1: team's final regular season or postseason game, and at that
Speaker 1: point the player becomes a free agent. So there, there
Speaker 1: you go. The only other question I saw in here
Speaker 1: about practice squad was about travel with the team, and
Speaker 1: usually they don't.
Speaker 2: Usually they do not travel with the team.
Speaker 1: There have been times or instances or cases where they
Speaker 1: have done that, but it is not the normal practice
Speaker 1: around the NFL. There's nothing to prohibit them from doing that,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's how that goes. They generally don't
Speaker 1: have the practice squad players in the team picture. You're
Speaker 1: rarely dress or on the sidelines. There are instances, again
Speaker 1: where they have done that, but you rarely, you rarely
Speaker 1: do it, and at home games you usually and they
Speaker 1: usually put you in the suite. They usually have a
Speaker 1: suite for you if you're if you're a practice squad player,
Speaker 1: and you usually just watch the game from there. So
Speaker 1: all you ever wanted to know about the practice squad,
Speaker 1: there you go. Now you know, knowing us half the
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Speaker 1: Kyle Freeland is taking on Kyle Harrison as the starting
Speaker 1: pitchers tonight. The Rockies thirty eight and sixty five fifth
Speaker 1: in the West, the Giants forty nine fifty five to
Speaker 1: fourth in the West. Rockies five and five over the
Speaker 1: last ten, Giants four and six. The Giants are currently
Speaker 1: one and a half run favorites over under his eight
Speaker 1: on that game, both teams struggle with pitching. Rockies thirtieth
Speaker 1: in the league with a five point five e al
Speaker 1: Ray Giants four to four to three is good for
Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the league as well. Both teams batting
Speaker 1: average against her among the bottoms as well. The Rockies
Speaker 1: allow a two eighty seven batting average against the Giants
Speaker 1: two fifty nine. That's good for thirtieth and twenty eighth
Speaker 1: in the league. Looking forward to Jack Corgan Jery Schimmel
Speaker 1: on the call in that one we come Back. I
Speaker 1: want to get into this historic landmark case that has
Speaker 1: been settled House versus the NCAA and what it means
Speaker 1: for college athletics, specifically college football, but broader in the
Speaker 1: college athletic ranks, because there's a lot of staggeringly large
Speaker 1: changes that are about to come, especially with the wild
Speaker 1: Wild West of the NIL over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: So we get into that we come back. You're listening
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