Speaker 1: Go off, Bason, go out of your mind butt a
Speaker 1: homecoming win on a rainy night here in bowler, HiT's
Speaker 1: sober in one over time, thirty eight and thirty one.
Speaker 2: A bit more pep in their step? Why not? The
Speaker 2: Broncos had come on the road and beaten Tampa Bay
Speaker 2: here at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa by a final
Speaker 2: score of twenty six to seven.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to it, Broncos country tonight, Benjamin ol Brighten,
Speaker 1: Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. Five six, six,
Speaker 1: nine zero is the text. And I'm gonna run out
Speaker 1: to the commons sparrel hotline though right away. Bring on
Speaker 1: a good friend from CBS, that is romy Bean Roamy.
Speaker 1: Exactly how low were the valleys and high were the
Speaker 1: peaks in the final five seconds of the CU game?
Speaker 2: For you? Oh that was an ald timer. I got
Speaker 2: to tell you what, when when Will Shepherd dropped that
Speaker 2: first hail Mary, I was like, all right, well they
Speaker 2: gave it a go, Like okay, I'm packing my bag,
Speaker 2: getting ready to go to post game, like lightning doesn't
Speaker 2: strike toys come on and then the you know, it's funny,
Speaker 2: the Lejontay Western catch actually posted that and you can
Speaker 2: hear the collective silence, like the whole stadium holding their breath,
Speaker 2: and then he comes up with it and you see
Speaker 2: it from all the angles that he came up with.
Speaker 2: It just absolutely unreal, the swing of emotions, and then
Speaker 2: to end it the way that it ended with Travis Hunter,
Speaker 2: give the man the heisman. I mean, unbelievable and all
Speaker 2: time finished. One thing about this Colorado team. You will
Speaker 2: be entertained one way or the other.
Speaker 3: BROMI, Yeah, you will be entertained, that is one thing
Speaker 3: for sure. But the guy who was really entertaining is
Speaker 3: shardor Sanders, because that pass doesn't get down to field
Speaker 3: unless he actually do it. How impressed have you been?
Speaker 3: What's your door? Understanding the challenges that he is still
Speaker 3: fighting through witches, the protection of the CU buffs alone.
Speaker 2: I think the thing about Shadi Sanders and why everybody
Speaker 2: always says when two's on the field, you always got
Speaker 2: a chance, is because he finds a way to fight,
Speaker 2: especially mentioned the protections. Sometimes he's waiting for these long
Speaker 2: developing plays to develop for too long, and so you're
Speaker 2: getting these sacks which can be split right between the
Speaker 2: protections and sometimes it's him. But when it comes down
Speaker 2: a crunch time, when it comes down to needing a
Speaker 2: big play, Chador finds a way to make it happen.
Speaker 2: And I think something that got lost in the conversation
Speaker 2: too is even the play to Marion Miller, that touchdown play,
Speaker 2: which was bonkers as well Amari and keeping his knee
Speaker 2: off the ground, but Shador evading the sack and making
Speaker 2: that one happen. He has an ability to make plays
Speaker 2: happen when they just shouldn't be happening the way he
Speaker 2: immediately kind of read that defense rolled out for the
Speaker 2: hail Mary. He's a playmaker in that way, and that's
Speaker 2: why a lot of people will say he'll be he'll
Speaker 2: be a great fit in the NFL, because when things
Speaker 2: aren't going right, when things are falling apart around him,
Speaker 2: finds the way to make a big play happen.
Speaker 1: Who's the better magician over the weekend? Was it Chador
Speaker 1: on that play or was it bo don't call him,
Speaker 1: Michael Vick on the sack would be sack? I guess lost.
Speaker 1: This guy coming around the edge and he takes off
Speaker 1: of the twenty plus yard run.
Speaker 2: That is that is a that's a tough question. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to give it to Shador because of the
Speaker 2: timing of the play, the zeros on the clock, what
Speaker 2: it meant to that game, an absolutely unbelievable impact play.
Speaker 2: Has to give it to Shador. But Boe Nicks showed
Speaker 2: that he has got what Russell Wilson didn't, not to
Speaker 2: knock on Russell what a lot of quarterbacks don't. And
Speaker 2: he just has that instinct that he can feel the
Speaker 2: rush coming up behind him. A lot of guys will say, right,
Speaker 2: you can't teach that you have it or you don't.
Speaker 2: You've got it. He feels it. And how many times
Speaker 2: in the past, how many Broncos quarterbacks we've seen that
Speaker 2: exact same play and they just get crushed right with
Speaker 2: a guy flop and right on top of him. And
Speaker 2: bow showed that, well, I guess not a young age technically,
Speaker 2: but it's very young in his NFL career that he
Speaker 2: has got that ability to escape and make good plays.
Speaker 2: And so to give you so much excitement of what
Speaker 2: it what could be next? From BONI? What is it?
Speaker 3: What does it say about the Broncos? Because here's the
Speaker 3: team is heading into Week four and the same conversation
Speaker 3: continues to come up how the run game has yet
Speaker 3: to get on track. And I know after the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: still his game, there was kind of a word commitment
Speaker 3: to the run game, but we haven't seen it thus far.
Speaker 3: In to boot your quarterback once again. Is now up
Speaker 3: there as far as averaging five point nine yard to carry,
Speaker 3: which puts him thirty six. I believe when you look
Speaker 3: at quarterbacks and running backs, that's eleven slots ahead of
Speaker 3: some of the running backs in the league. But what
Speaker 3: does that say when the Broncos are still saying the
Speaker 3: same thing, we can't get the run game going.
Speaker 2: You know, it's one of those things you love to
Speaker 2: see bow run. He should not be the leading rusher
Speaker 2: on the tape. You don't want to see that by
Speaker 2: any means. And I think that it's very clear it's
Speaker 2: the time to make a change at running back one.
Speaker 2: So we'll move off and Tyler today that new pronunciation.
Speaker 2: I don't know when that happened, but anyway, have shown
Speaker 2: to be so much more explosive, so much more dynamic
Speaker 2: than Javonte Williams. I get bringing in Javonte. You know,
Speaker 2: when you want to keep drivs going, you know, kind
Speaker 2: of a bruising third down back. I think that's a
Speaker 2: better fit in this offense right now. I think he's
Speaker 2: clearly having a rough start to the season. It feels
Speaker 2: like he still has never been him felt since the injury.
Speaker 2: You wonder if his confidence is not a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I think it's time to give Julia mcgofflin running
Speaker 2: back one have him starting the game, because every time
Speaker 2: he gets out there, he's just so much more dynamic,
Speaker 2: and you could feel a lot more confident. I think
Speaker 2: in a run game picking up when you have that dynamic,
Speaker 2: I think they got a shuffle the depth chart there
Speaker 2: at running back and move Javonte Williams down, And I
Speaker 2: just think.
Speaker 1: You do well at least find at least figure out
Speaker 1: a distribution plan that makes sense. I think you can
Speaker 1: move Tovonte more to this Samantre, p Ryan Roll and
Speaker 1: Tyler Bady Bidet. I call him Battie. I mean to me,
Speaker 1: it feels like you've just you know, you've missed the
Speaker 1: market here third times to charm when you're gonna people
Speaker 1: talk about your last name. I call him a batty
Speaker 1: because he's busting them off like a batty. But I
Speaker 1: look at the end of the day, finding the hot
Speaker 1: hand is sort of the way to go here. I
Speaker 1: liked that Javonte was breaking a couple of tackles. Of course,
Speaker 1: he broke one and then fumbled the football and the
Speaker 1: play that got him into the doghouse. But you know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna be what this team wants to be,
Speaker 1: and you could sort of see what Chempayte wants to
Speaker 1: do here, you're going to have to find a way
Speaker 1: to run the football with the backs in addition to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. And they did run the rpo there. We
Speaker 1: saw that nick where they had little RPO play Bo
Speaker 1: kept it and got a few yards out of it.
Speaker 1: But they're gonna have to find a way to establish
Speaker 1: that run in order to set everything else up. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who's back there, whether it's Jalie, where
Speaker 1: it's Javonte, whether it's Tyler Baty, whether it's Order Guestime whomever.
Speaker 1: He doesn't feel like they've had any sort of commitment
Speaker 1: to that whatsoever. How do how does this team find
Speaker 1: a way to take the ball out of the quarterback's
Speaker 1: hands and establish the run in a sense, in a
Speaker 1: way that makes sense for this offense.
Speaker 2: You know, this is one of those things that frustrates
Speaker 2: me so much because I asked all these people who
Speaker 2: play foot ball and all those football people like you
Speaker 2: just kind of like, don't you just have to do it,
Speaker 2: like you're going to commit to the run. You have
Speaker 2: to commit to the run even if you get a
Speaker 2: bunch of those little two yard game two yard game.
Speaker 2: You just see how quickly they abandon the run game.
Speaker 2: And it requires discipline, It requires coaching to stick to
Speaker 2: the run game and not abandon it when things aren't
Speaker 2: aren't going well. Because, as you all know, every cliche
Speaker 2: in the book, right, running game is the quarterback's best friend,
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. But it's so true, and it's big
Speaker 2: for the offensive line as well, who played great. Don't
Speaker 2: get me wrong, they absolutely played great, But running or
Speaker 2: offensive lineman traditionally do love the run game. Right, they
Speaker 2: get to be the bullies, you're the one hitting first.
Speaker 2: So I think it just comes down to coaching. You
Speaker 2: have to commit to the run game. And I think
Speaker 2: of all kind of well not all, but we've certainly
Speaker 2: seen with this team there's no sort of consistencies. Really,
Speaker 2: they don't ride the hot hand, so the best way
Speaker 2: to get that going is Okay, I said move Javonte,
Speaker 2: maybe don't do that. Do what you said, Ben, Just
Speaker 2: whoever is the hot hand? Key feeding the hot hand? Right,
Speaker 2: You got to have that consistency. I think a lot
Speaker 2: of times with the running backs to just be feeling it.
Speaker 2: And it seems like whenever somebody's feeling it, we don't
Speaker 2: see him again, like two weeks ago, baby, good day,
Speaker 2: bad a sorry, bust off that sixteen yard run and
Speaker 2: then we don't see him again. So you got to
Speaker 2: keep feeding the hot hands. I know it's not that simple,
Speaker 2: but that's a great place to start.
Speaker 3: Well, here's another great place to start, and talking about
Speaker 3: feeding the hot hand, let's talk about Dance Joseph in
Speaker 3: that Denver Broncos defense, because I'm gonna tell you, I
Speaker 3: don't think vance and that defense gets enough credit because
Speaker 3: everyone's talking about Bowl. Nick. So I'm gonna give you
Speaker 3: an opportunity, Romie, come on, spread some love and let's
Speaker 3: talk about that Broncos defense.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'm so glad you brought it up. Nick. It's true.
Speaker 2: It's an offensive league, it's a quarterback league, and obviously
Speaker 2: when you got a rookie quarterback. That's what everybody's gonna
Speaker 2: focus on. But that defense give it up seven points
Speaker 2: and having seven sacks, it's the same number, like, are
Speaker 2: we serious right now? Has been playing so well and
Speaker 2: so cohesively as a unit, because if you look at
Speaker 2: le Broncos offense realistically, you got one all pro in
Speaker 2: there right in Pat Sartan, But everybody else is playing.
Speaker 2: They're playing so well together and so much credit to
Speaker 2: Vance Joseph. They're all elevating each other and really playing
Speaker 2: so well as a whole unit as one unit, and
Speaker 2: the guys up front and the guys in the secondary,
Speaker 2: everybody's playing just they're playing really really good team defense.
Speaker 2: And you're seeing Riley Mossitt think he's going to grow
Speaker 2: into great player. Zach Allen's having a fantastic season. But
Speaker 2: when you look at this defense right just on paper,
Speaker 2: the only name that stands out, so to speak, is
Speaker 2: Pat Sartan, And look what these guys are doing. I
Speaker 2: get so much credit to Devanced Joseph and it's system
Speaker 2: being so player friendly and these guys really having so
Speaker 2: much pride. This is one of those things where they
Speaker 2: can get tiring when for how manteen years now the
Speaker 2: defense has known, gosh, you've got a whole team to
Speaker 2: you know how many points just to give the offensive chance. Well,
Speaker 2: finally the offense showed showed some lines. But even to
Speaker 2: the first two games, they just walked into this third
Speaker 2: game with the pride of we're going to do our jobs.
Speaker 2: We're going to do it so well, and we're going
Speaker 2: to keep this team in it. And to see them
Speaker 2: not get frustrated and really elevate everyone around them, I
Speaker 2: think has been so impressive and so much credit events Joseph.
Speaker 2: I mean this time of year ago, everybody's calling for
Speaker 2: him to get fired, and look at him now, right,
Speaker 2: it's just awesome.
Speaker 1: Well, and there have been a lot of great stories.
Speaker 1: I mean, Andrea Tillman has his first game, comes out,
Speaker 1: gets two sacks with the Denver Broncos. Riley Moss, I mean,
Speaker 1: you got everybody in their mother going, wait, that's a
Speaker 1: white guy. I haven't seen that so much since they
Speaker 1: heard that Rick Astley wasn't an African American. Look, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at this defense, and you know, we were worried
Speaker 1: about some of the turnover, but as you start to
Speaker 1: look at it, I mean, this is really a really
Speaker 1: good defense just across the board, and the additions that
Speaker 1: they made only supplemented that. Going out your John Franklin Myers,
Speaker 1: you know, I went the biggest Cody Barton fan, but
Speaker 1: he fills in the Josie Jewel role. You know, you
Speaker 1: look at this thing and Brandon Jones, who had huge
Speaker 1: shoes to fill with Justin Simmon's moving on to the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. What a great interception against Pat Mahomes last night,
Speaker 1: but huge shoes to fill and what does he do?
Speaker 2: He comes in and he fills them.
Speaker 1: You know, he's come in, he's been productive. Shout out
Speaker 1: to Brandon Jones, and shout out again to his next
Speaker 1: point out that damans Joseph for putting this thing together.
Speaker 1: The Broncos have a top five defense in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and it's going unnoticed right now because everybody's staring at
Speaker 1: the quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they mean, they've just amen touche to everything you said.
Speaker 2: And a guy like Brandon Jones is an interesting one too,
Speaker 2: that there are off season acquisitions where nobody really talks
Speaker 2: about them. Not the local media was standing right, but
Speaker 2: like nationally, nobody's really talking about bringing in Malcolm Roach
Speaker 2: and John Franklin Myers and Brandon Jones. But all of
Speaker 2: these additions have been huge additions. And I know we
Speaker 2: talk about the Broncos as a young team, and they
Speaker 2: are a young team, and you look at this defense
Speaker 2: and there are a young team, but they've got the
Speaker 2: veteran leadership is so strong as well. There's not as
Speaker 2: many of them, but you know, you could pat in
Speaker 2: the backfield. Even PJ. Locke is young, but he really
Speaker 2: has a great sent to me's a great, great leadership.
Speaker 2: Brandon Jones, he's a little bit older. You know, you
Speaker 2: got Alex Singleton and then you got these older guys.
Speaker 2: I know, Malcolm Roach and Franklin Myers are newer to
Speaker 2: the team, but they just kind of there's more veteran savvy,
Speaker 2: I think than people see that. Everyone's just saying, oh
Speaker 2: they're young and hungry. Oh they're young and hungry, and yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a lot of young guys, but there's a lot
Speaker 2: more veteran leadership than people are talking about.
Speaker 3: Well, Romie, I'm gonna back up for a second because
Speaker 3: before you, Joan has been and I were having a
Speaker 3: conversation and I want to get your input on it
Speaker 3: because you were at Folsom Field for Saturday's first Big
Speaker 3: twelve win over Baylor, and I said I had no
Speaker 3: problem with the students rushing the field, but Ben, being
Speaker 3: Debbie Downer, he has an issue with it. Do you
Speaker 3: take issue with the fans celebrating with their team and
Speaker 3: a great team win by running on the field.
Speaker 2: Inflicted? And here's the reason why I'm conflicted because in
Speaker 2: the last two years to you, fans have rushed the
Speaker 2: field too many times. And this is coming from a
Speaker 2: CEUO alumni. And here's the thing. I get it. When
Speaker 2: I went to see you, they were not good. I
Speaker 2: rushed the field once in my entire outside of your career,
Speaker 2: actually at CU because there was one game worth rushing
Speaker 2: the field for, you know, and then then coming off
Speaker 2: of the year before last, they were one and eleven.
Speaker 2: So yeah, your kids are gonna run the game because
Speaker 2: you're excited, especially if you're a senior. And I totally
Speaker 2: get it, and it's awesome, but I think also at
Speaker 2: certain points it's like you don't need to rush the
Speaker 2: field every single time. And I think SEU students in
Speaker 2: general are just not used to winning, so they get
Speaker 2: over excited and then they want to rush the field
Speaker 2: every single time. But I don't think you should rush
Speaker 2: the field every single time. Yeah.
Speaker 1: For me, it's rushing the field for beating Baylor. It's
Speaker 1: a five hundred team, it's a Vanderbild of Big twelve.
Speaker 2: What are we doing here? You know, say, I'm back
Speaker 2: from behind wind, there's a lot of those.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm glad for coming behind and winning.
Speaker 2: I'm all for it was an awesome win though, right, Yeah, absolutely, it.
Speaker 1: Was a magnificent win. I was sitting there pumping my fist,
Speaker 1: you know, like, yeah, it was its great. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I'm not rushing the field for that.
Speaker 1: I you know, it's very rushing. The field is reserved
Speaker 1: for championships, making a championship, or busting a long streak
Speaker 1: that you haven't that you haven't busted before. That kind
Speaker 1: of stuff. That's just me, man.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's this wet blanket that I carry around
Speaker 1: with me that that Nick is nodding his head about.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, that's just my Yeah, life sort
Speaker 1: of take on it. Yeah, and should should we just
Speaker 1: give Travis Hunter the Heisman? Now?
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, this guy watching this young man in person,
Speaker 2: is I can think of no other word than it
Speaker 2: has been a gift. Like I am like soaking up
Speaker 2: every single game because it's unbelievable to see him in
Speaker 2: person and to see what he does. And the truth is,
Speaker 2: when you talk about the Heisman, it's the best player
Speaker 2: in college football. Nobody is doing what Travis Hunter is doing.
Speaker 2: Nobody else can do what Travis Hunter is doing. I
Speaker 2: don't see anybody else with one hundred and third receiving yards,
Speaker 2: some ridiculous catches and then the game saving forced tumble,
Speaker 2: like simply nobody's doing what he's doing. He is truly
Speaker 2: one of one. I can't wait to see what this
Speaker 2: turned into when he goes to the NFL. That is
Speaker 2: a whole other conversation. But I think he's the best
Speaker 2: player in college football. He deserves the Heisman, and he
Speaker 2: absolutely should be in the conversation all year if he
Speaker 2: continues doing this, because because nobody's doing what you're doing.
Speaker 1: On he's a freak, he's a mute, He's the best
Speaker 1: player in college football.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: Mark Johnson said, up, well quickly before we let you
Speaker 3: get out of here, I would be remiss about and
Speaker 3: bring this up. Charlie Blackman spend fourteen season here with
Speaker 3: the Colorado Rockies, saying that he is going to call
Speaker 3: it quicks after the game against the Dodgers. What do
Speaker 3: you find memories of one Charlie Blackman.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, it's crazy. It feels like an end
Speaker 2: of an era right from his entire fourteen years in
Speaker 2: the Major League with the Rockies. You wish he could
Speaker 2: have gone to more playoff games, but Charlie was always
Speaker 2: He gave you so many memories on the field. It
Speaker 2: always felt like if these improbable moments that Chuck would
Speaker 2: have a crazy homer. I think he's like top six
Speaker 2: in Rockies franchise history in like ten categories. Right, He's
Speaker 2: just been a staple for so long, and you gotta
Speaker 2: give up for the walk up song, Like the course
Speaker 2: shield simple is not going to be the same without
Speaker 2: that walk up song going forward. It's very sad, but
Speaker 2: also like as a media member, Charlie was always great
Speaker 2: in the locker room in the clubhouse, like very sarcastic,
Speaker 2: very made it very clear, I don't am not really
Speaker 2: interested in talking to you guys, that I'll talk to
Speaker 2: you guys anyway. And he was always very real about
Speaker 2: it and just a great person to be around. He
Speaker 2: was great for the young guys. You'd always see, we'd
Speaker 2: always you know, go to Spring training just for you know,
Speaker 2: just a couple of days every year. But the impact
Speaker 2: he's always had on the young players, I thought was
Speaker 2: always fascinating to watch how he was just coaching them
Speaker 2: up from the beginning from always. But really it's just
Speaker 2: like his personality and his impact on the organization. It's
Speaker 2: you're gonna miss him, he's an Alzheimer. Well, Romie, we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna miss you until the next time we get a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to you. Roby Bean from CBS. We
Speaker 1: always appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 2: Oh you know what, guys, what a joy to talk
Speaker 2: to you after a couple of wins. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: Changing my name to all Bright with two ws in
Speaker 1: there because we're not taking anywhere else.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 1: Here we go, romy Bean. We appreciate you as always.