Speaker 1: Finally, we've been talking about this for the last guys.
Speaker 1: She feels like the last forever. I mean, it's finally,
Speaker 1: it's finally here. So fellas, let's get right to it,
Speaker 1: starting with the home opener. The opener this year is
Speaker 1: at home September seventh against the Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Titans, and I guess the question will.
Speaker 1: Be Ryan, where we see cam Ward as the starting
Speaker 1: quarterback of the Titans or not?
Speaker 3: Well, I guess they could always go to Will Levis theoretically,
Speaker 3: but yeah, you draft the guy first number one overall,
Speaker 3: and you sort of think that he's going to be
Speaker 3: the guy. They're not the Cleveland Browns who are benching
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield, so yeah, you think cam Ward is going
Speaker 3: to be in there, and I don't know, it feels
Speaker 3: like it lines up pretty nice for the Broncos. I mean,
Speaker 3: you get too far ahead on this thing, but you
Speaker 3: think about it in terms of facing a rookie quarterback
Speaker 3: in his first start ever on the road and thinking
Speaker 3: about how great this defense was last year getting after
Speaker 3: the quarterback. I really like this as a setup for
Speaker 3: the Broncos in Game one.
Speaker 4: Without getting too disrespect full to an NFL franchise, is
Speaker 4: about as good as an opener as you could hope for.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a as.
Speaker 4: Good a warm up game, I think, as you possibly
Speaker 4: could could want. Whether it's Cam Ord or whether it's
Speaker 4: it's Will Levis. The Tennessee Titans are not a great
Speaker 4: football team. They're trying to get better, but they still
Speaker 4: got holes to fill. And honestly, the first two weeks
Speaker 4: in the season open up about as nice as you'd
Speaker 4: like for the Broncos before it really starts to get
Speaker 4: kind of weird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gets kind of weirdt the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: You know, last year the Broncos had their first two
Speaker 1: regular season games.
Speaker 2: On the road.
Speaker 1: That was tough enough, and then two games excuse a
Speaker 1: game on the road, then coming home against the Steelers,
Speaker 1: and then two more games on the road, so three
Speaker 1: the first four. Even though the home opener this year
Speaker 1: is going to be at Empower Field at Male High,
Speaker 1: the next two games are both on the road. They'll
Speaker 1: be in Indianapolis to face the Colts on September fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and then the first Divisional game pops up in week
Speaker 1: number three, September twenty first, with a road game in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, to face the Chargers.
Speaker 5: That's gonna be a challenge.
Speaker 3: I mean, the Chargers last year were much they were
Speaker 3: I a would say much improved, but they were improved
Speaker 3: with Jim Harbaugh. And you sort of think because of
Speaker 3: the expectations of that team, who again, we're a playoff team.
Speaker 3: They got absolutely hammered in the postseason against Houston, they're
Speaker 3: gonna have a bit of a chip on their shoulder
Speaker 3: as well, and so that that's gonna be Again you're
Speaker 3: talking about sort of a clash of two teams that
Speaker 3: feel like they should be vying for the AFC West.
Speaker 3: This is a weird division now, especially now that you've
Speaker 3: added Pete Carroll with the Raiders. I don't see any walkovers.
Speaker 3: There's no teams in this division. I think the Broncos
Speaker 3: just added automatically are that much better. So they're gonna
Speaker 3: have to earn it every single week. But I do
Speaker 3: think that in the long run that's gonna be valuable
Speaker 3: to them as they do make a put postseason push.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you first home game against the Titans and you
Speaker 4: first Rode game against the Colts, those feel like games
Speaker 4: that are eminently winnable for the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 5: Based on what we see right now as we.
Speaker 1: Sit here today, who's the starting quarterback for the Colts
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones that second second game.
Speaker 4: Daniel Jones. I think he's gonna be out a rich
Speaker 4: In camp and I think he'll be the starter. He's
Speaker 4: more consistent. You know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: Richardson has better tools, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 4: Jones is more consistent. And then you you know, you
Speaker 4: on the road and what has been for many years
Speaker 4: at a fact, a home game for the Broncos out
Speaker 4: there against the Chargers, So he's certainly been a lot
Speaker 4: more orange in the stands and there's been the powder blue,
Speaker 4: although under horrible that may change. They're a physical football team,
Speaker 4: and that kicks off a stretch of games there that
Speaker 4: I think might kind of be brutally tough for the
Speaker 4: Broncos because you're basically going to have a primetime game
Speaker 4: against the the Bengals, a short week game on the
Speaker 4: road at Philly, then you're on into London.
Speaker 5: Like it's that's going to be a rough stretch of games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll talk about that next three game stretch
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Broncos home game that's coming up here
Speaker 1: in the next few minutes as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, bent Ben kind of teased it.
Speaker 1: The first prime time matchup of the twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: regular season that comes on September twenty ninth. That is
Speaker 1: the second home game of the season. So the first
Speaker 1: four games, two at home, two on the road. The
Speaker 1: home game on a Monday night against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 5: Once again one of the best offenses in the league.
Speaker 3: Whatever you think about Cincinnati's upcoming year, and of course
Speaker 3: we'll have discussions about whether they improved it enough on defense,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be good offense.
Speaker 5: Joe Burrow. They brought back both their star wide receivers.
Speaker 3: That brought back Mike Asiki, and that game was so
Speaker 3: recent for Broncos fans, you're not gonna forget about it,
Speaker 3: and I imagine the team won't forget about it as well.
Speaker 5: This is a little bit of revenge opportunity.
Speaker 3: Here at thing for the Broncos to take down the
Speaker 3: Cincinnati Bengals in a game that they probably thought they
Speaker 3: should have won last year when they went to overtime.
Speaker 3: So that's gonna be a really interesting game. Obviously not division,
Speaker 3: but in conference, and those games do matter when things
Speaker 3: kind of get down the stretch. And for Cincinnati, you're thinking,
Speaker 3: we got to get off to a faster start that
Speaker 3: we did last year because that was part the reason
Speaker 3: why they found themselves out of the postseason is they
Speaker 3: got off to such a slow start.
Speaker 1: So been more speculation. Obviously we don't know. But by
Speaker 1: week four this fall is the Bengals roll into the town.
Speaker 1: Do you think Trey Hendrickson will be part of the
Speaker 1: Bengals team?
Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think there's any way they can
Speaker 5: pay him what.
Speaker 4: He wants to pay on what he's demanding to be
Speaker 4: and frankly rightfully so, but what he's demanding to be paid.
Speaker 4: He's not going to play on a new contract. And
Speaker 4: I don't know where the money's coming from here. I mean,
Speaker 4: they have just powed so much money in that offense.
Speaker 4: You made Jamar Chase the highest paid non quarterback in football,
Speaker 4: a wide receiver making forty plus million dollars.
Speaker 2: Then let's not for your t Higgins too, right, And
Speaker 2: then you t Aggains.
Speaker 5: You already got to Joe Burrow money.
Speaker 4: And the Cowboys are going to get this Parsons thing
Speaker 4: done fairly soon before the season. That's gonna put Hendrickson
Speaker 4: in line for a forty five plus million dollars per
Speaker 4: year pay day. I have no idea where Cincinnati would
Speaker 4: even come up with that. They don't have the cash,
Speaker 4: let alone the cap to make that happen, and so.
Speaker 5: I don't believe it. I believe they'll trade him.
Speaker 4: I know Washington had inquired previously about Hendrickson. I think
Speaker 4: they'll try to Builo this summer and see if they
Speaker 4: can't get Trey Hendrickson off the Bengals.
Speaker 1: So the first four weeks they open do the Broncos
Speaker 1: at home against the Tennessee Titans that game on September seventh,
Speaker 1: and then two road games at Indianapolis, facing the Colts
Speaker 1: on September fourteenth, then traveling to Los Angeles to play
Speaker 1: it so far against the Los Angeles Chargers that game
Speaker 1: on September twenty. First, we just mentioned. The first primetime
Speaker 1: game is a Monday night home game September twenty ninth
Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Bengals. The next week before we get
Speaker 1: to the London game. The next week, October fifth, the
Speaker 1: Broncos travel to the city of Brotherly Love to face
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles and a rematch with
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Vic Fangio.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's going to be a tough game.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that we sometimes look at these games,
Speaker 3: especially on paper, and say, I feel like that could
Speaker 3: be a win, like we talked about with the Titans
Speaker 3: and the Colts, and then you look at this game,
Speaker 3: you're like, that's at Philadelphia against a team that, again
Speaker 3: is pretty complete.
Speaker 5: I know they lost some guys.
Speaker 3: In free agency and there's expectations and maybe a bit
Speaker 3: of a step back, but at this point they're not.
Speaker 3: As we sitting here had this conversation today, That's not
Speaker 3: how I'm feeling about this game. This feels like one
Speaker 3: of those you go in, you compee, you do the
Speaker 3: best you can, Hopefully you come out of that thing relatively.
Speaker 5: Unscathed, and you get ready for the New York Jets.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't ever want to dismiss a game as
Speaker 4: far as like, you know, putting it in your head that
Speaker 4: it'd be a loss, but on paper, you're talking about
Speaker 4: playing prior to this, you got to beat them up
Speaker 4: game against the Chargers.
Speaker 5: You know that's going to be physical. You've got to a.
Speaker 4: Shootout on a Monday night, probably against the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 4: a short week, early East Coast game against the reigning
Speaker 4: Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles, and looks like a pretty
Speaker 4: tough ask for anybody.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. And the game is at eleven
Speaker 1: am Denver time, right.
Speaker 2: Which early morning is always tough.
Speaker 1: I think for the teams that are traveling back East.
Speaker 1: I would suspect based on where the next game is,
Speaker 1: that the Broncos will stay in Philadelphia, more than likely
Speaker 1: leave from Philadelphia flying to London because the next game
Speaker 1: the following Sunday, October twelfth, the Broncos and the New
Speaker 1: York Jets from Toddingham Stadium. That is a seven point
Speaker 1: thirty am Denver time on Sunday, and the Jets, a
Speaker 1: team that nobody fellows really knows too much about except
Speaker 1: justin fields, more than likely will be the starting quarterback
Speaker 1: and they have a new head coach.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Aaron Glynn's now the head coach, and we've always
Speaker 3: liked Aaron Glynn. I think that we have a lot
Speaker 3: of respect for Aeron Glynn, but it's tough to know
Speaker 3: what when he's a rookie head coach, what they're going
Speaker 3: to look like. And that is Week six, so we'll
Speaker 3: have a little more information about that team by then.
Speaker 3: They've got some offensive talent, for sure. They've always had
Speaker 3: a really good defense.
Speaker 5: I mean, the last several years are really good defense.
Speaker 3: It's not going to be I think that you oftentimes
Speaker 3: look at this game and you say, well, the Jets
Speaker 3: have historically just been a bad team of the last
Speaker 3: decade plus. This is a game that the Broncos should
Speaker 3: absolutely win, and they should, but there's the unknown factor,
Speaker 3: especially with Justin Fields and no, Ben, you're not a
Speaker 3: big Justin Fields guy, but he offers a lot as
Speaker 3: athleticism with his legs that that's not going to be
Speaker 3: a walk in the park in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean anytime, I mean, looking at the schedule,
Speaker 4: you're just coming off of already, you're coming off of again.
Speaker 4: You get that physical game against the Chargers, you got
Speaker 4: the Monday night game against the Bengals, a short week
Speaker 4: game against the Eagles, and you're flying overseas to London
Speaker 4: to take on the Jets. That's a brutal stretch of
Speaker 4: football right there. I don't think the Jets are going
Speaker 4: to be particularly good on offense. Justin fields is hashtag
Speaker 4: not good. So you know, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 4: think they're going to be particularly effective on offense. I'm
Speaker 4: not a big fan of the offensive coordator and is
Speaker 4: a first time offensive coordinator they got too, But beyond that,
Speaker 4: that defense is plug and play. Aaron Glenn's a great motivator.
Speaker 4: You know, you never know overseas what you're going to
Speaker 4: get as far as that stuff goes. I think on paper,
Speaker 4: on a neutral field, you say probably a Broncos win here,
Speaker 4: but in London, you know who knows?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you.
Speaker 1: All right, let's recap the first six games. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you, guys, what you think the record will be
Speaker 1: at that point. The Broncos open at home against the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, followed by two can say becutive road games
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis to face the Colts, and also the next
Speaker 1: weekend on the road against the LA Chargers in La.
Speaker 1: Monday Night football comes to the Mile High City the
Speaker 1: fourth game of the regular season, as the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: rolled to town. The next weekend, the Broncos on the
Speaker 1: road against the world champion Philadelphia Eagles, followed by a
Speaker 1: trip across the Pond to face the New York Jets
Speaker 1: that game at Tottenham Stadium on October twelfth.
Speaker 2: So after six games with three being.
Speaker 1: On the road, actually four if you count the road
Speaker 1: game in London, so two home games and four road
Speaker 1: games of the first six, Ryan, what do you have
Speaker 1: the Broncos record?
Speaker 5: I feel like you would accept three and three. You'd
Speaker 5: probably like to be four and two, I think ideally.
Speaker 5: I mean, you obviously want to win all of them.
Speaker 3: That goes without saying, but you'd be looking at that
Speaker 3: as an opportunity to go for into knowing that maybe
Speaker 3: the Eagles and Chargers games is gonna be the toughest
Speaker 3: ones in that group. But you feel like the home
Speaker 3: games you definitely should have. You should have that Indianapolis,
Speaker 3: you imagine again taking on Daniel Jones, Jones or Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3: You feel like you're a better team than that. And
Speaker 3: then once again. The Jets game. It's a little bit
Speaker 3: of a wild card because it's out there in London,
Speaker 3: but that's a game on paper today, I feel like
Speaker 3: you're gonna want to have so four and two three
Speaker 3: and three is acceptable, knowing that you're to probably have
Speaker 3: to get a game later on the season and win
Speaker 3: that bat.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty much with you on that.
Speaker 4: I think that anything less than three and three you're
Speaker 4: you're very disappointed. I think three and three and four
Speaker 4: and two are realistic numbers. I think that Chargers game, man,
Speaker 4: you're gonna have a physical football team. They struggled with
Speaker 4: that last year. They struggled with it, so hopefully they
Speaker 4: got some of that shorn up. That Eagles game looks tough.
Speaker 4: I just you know, on paper right now, not seeing
Speaker 4: that as a win. So I think four and two
Speaker 4: is probably what you come out of this.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree with any of that.
Speaker 1: I think back to last year's Chargers game, and the
Speaker 1: Broncos had every chance to win that game last year
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles and early the second half, well at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, and then the second
Speaker 1: half kind of got away from them, and there were
Speaker 1: some things that were exposed on the Broncos defense for sure,
Speaker 1: but I'm not ready to say that that will be
Speaker 1: a game that the Broncos. I mean to me, that
Speaker 1: game doesn't feel like the game in Philadelphia when you're
Speaker 1: playing the Eagles run. As you said, we're not saying
Speaker 1: it's not a winnable game, but I would say four
Speaker 1: and two, and maybe the optimistic side of me says
Speaker 1: five to one.
Speaker 2: We'll see either way.
Speaker 1: I think the Broncos would probably take that record.
Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: we're through six games. So after the game in London
Speaker 1: and the game and the team more than likely flies
Speaker 1: back immediately following that game, the Broncos, you would think
Speaker 1: would have a.
Speaker 2: Bye week, but they do not. They come back home.
Speaker 1: They'll have a home game the following Sunday, which is
Speaker 1: October nineteenth, against the New York Football Giants and possibly
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the question, right, Is it gonna be Russ
Speaker 3: this time? Didn't get a chance to see him last
Speaker 3: year and he's with the Steelers. He was hurt at
Speaker 3: that time. I say hurt air quotes maybe, but he
Speaker 3: was hurt last year. Now it's going to be Russell Wilson,
Speaker 3: Jameis Winston who's also there, and of course they traded
Speaker 3: up for a rookie quarterback in Jackson Dart.
Speaker 5: So it could be one of those three. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I freak out about any of
Speaker 3: the quarterback matchups in that I think more than anything,
Speaker 3: I'm excited to see Milik Neighbors versus Patzer Tan. That
Speaker 3: for me is gonna be one of the like the
Speaker 3: matchups in the game that I'm most excited about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: Interesting because the Giants are coming off into fact oh buy,
Speaker 4: they'll have Thursday Night football, so they have ten days
Speaker 4: stretch there where they're off to get rested up. While
Speaker 4: the Broncos are coming off that whole that brutal series
Speaker 4: back to back where you had the short week against Philly,
Speaker 4: you went to London, and then you come back home.
Speaker 4: Thankfully a home game for Denver. But again you're catching
Speaker 4: a Giants team that you may not think is that good.
Speaker 4: But they'll be plenty of rested up and have the
Speaker 4: extra days to prepare, So this game might be a
Speaker 4: trap game for the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 5: You want to keep your eye on that.
Speaker 4: I'm not too scared about the you know, the Russ
Speaker 4: or Jamis, whatever little we do see Jameis throw for
Speaker 4: a million miles on that game than when he was
Speaker 4: at the Browns last year. I'm not too concerned about it.
Speaker 4: I do think the Broncos pull out a win here.
Speaker 4: It's the next game.
Speaker 5: I'm worried about.
Speaker 2: Next game.
Speaker 1: That bit is referring to following Sunday, another home game
Speaker 1: October twenty sixth, as the Dallas.
Speaker 2: Cowboys roll to town. You're worried about the Dallas game.
Speaker 5: Dallas is going to catch people naping this year. They're
Speaker 5: going to be a good football team.
Speaker 4: You're really high on Brian Schottenheimer, not just that They've
Speaker 4: made some personnel moves that you know in that offensive line,
Speaker 4: the run game. I mean, I think they're going to
Speaker 4: be a much better team that The coordinator they hired
Speaker 4: as an offensive line coach, he used to be with
Speaker 4: the Arizona Cardinals. The stuff he did over there I
Speaker 4: thought was pretty good as well. I think Dallas is.
Speaker 5: Going to catch people napping this year.
Speaker 2: Who's going to carry the ball for him?
Speaker 5: Well, it'll be a platoon.
Speaker 4: I mean, Javonte will be involved in that, although he's
Speaker 4: probably going to be more of the pass catching back
Speaker 4: for him.
Speaker 5: They'll use a platoon in a rotation there.
Speaker 4: You know, it's not going to be if you've ever
Speaker 4: seen a Brian Schottenheimer offense, it's a three.
Speaker 5: Headed rushing attack. I don't share your concern.
Speaker 3: At least done on paper, and we get closer to
Speaker 3: the game, maybe you feel a little bit different.
Speaker 5: But for the Dallas Cowboys, they've got a lot to
Speaker 5: prove this year.
Speaker 3: Right now, I think a lot of people are thinking
Speaker 3: about them as a team that really hasn't done a
Speaker 3: lot this offseason. They didn't spend a lot in free agency.
Speaker 3: Once again, some mixed reviews on how they felt about
Speaker 3: the draft. That took a really good interior offensive line
Speaker 3: in the first round that we all like. But you know,
Speaker 3: more than anything for the Dallas Cowboys, this is an
Speaker 3: interesting year for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: Ceede Lam's always going to be Cee Lamb.
Speaker 3: He's a really good player, but interesting kind of prove
Speaker 3: it year on the defensive side of the ball too.
Speaker 5: I don't know there's such a don't forget George Pickens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had they added George Pickens, So if he doesn't,
Speaker 3: that wide receiver room, by the way, he's just on
Speaker 3: his face, just the personality of that wide receiver room
Speaker 3: is very vintage Dallas Cowboys. Dave, I imagine you would agree
Speaker 3: with that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's going to be interesting to see really.
Speaker 1: Because you know, Ceedee Lamb's going to get the ball
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, so how do they fit George Pickens
Speaker 1: in that offense? You we all know that Brian Schottenheimer
Speaker 1: is a guy that wants to run the ball and
Speaker 1: then develop the play action passing game. So I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be chuck the ball
Speaker 1: forty five times and when Pickens has gotten in the
Speaker 1: first two or three weeks twelve to fifteen targets total.
Speaker 2: I just want how that room will be and how
Speaker 2: he'll act.
Speaker 4: Well, I'll say this, Brian shot Imer was the offensive
Speaker 4: coordinator of the Seahawks during the let Russ Cook year,
Speaker 4: the near MVP year he had, and they did throw
Speaker 4: the ball a little bit there. They built off the run,
Speaker 4: but they did throw it quite a bit. You'll see
Speaker 4: Pickens take most of the vertical routes and then you
Speaker 4: go see Ceedee Lamb take the between the numbers in
Speaker 4: the mid game, and that's that's kind of how they'll
Speaker 4: they'll work that thing. But Jayden Blue and Javonte Williams
Speaker 4: will be two running the one two punch in the
Speaker 4: run game.
Speaker 2: So we are through eight games with one interesting note.
Speaker 1: After the Broncos go to London and face the Jets
Speaker 1: on October twelfth, four of the next five games are
Speaker 1: at home. So I don't know if the if the
Speaker 1: league schedulers felt like they were doing the Broncos a
Speaker 1: great favor in that regard.
Speaker 2: I think it would have been better had they had.
Speaker 1: A bye week following the Jets game in London, but
Speaker 1: that's not the case we've had. We've talked about the
Speaker 1: Giants and the Cowboys. Cowboys in town to face the
Speaker 1: Broncos on October twenty six, now November two, on another
Speaker 1: eleven AM game. That's this will be the second eleven
Speaker 1: AM Denver time start of a game the upcoming season.
Speaker 1: November second, the Broncos travel to Houston to face the
Speaker 1: Houston Texans. They the Texans took a step back last year,
Speaker 1: and I think CJ. Stroud may have taken a step back.
Speaker 1: The protection was not nearly as good. What kind of
Speaker 1: club as we sit here and play with everybody else's chips,
Speaker 1: what kind of club do we envision Houston at this
Speaker 1: time of the year having when the fall rolls around.
Speaker 5: Well, we like CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud and they certainly you know Nico Collins health.
Speaker 5: I don't think they're gonna have Tank Dell available to them.
Speaker 3: He's not expected expected to be available for much of
Speaker 3: the season this year.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I I they fired their offensive coordinators, so I'm gonna
Speaker 3: kind of see if that.
Speaker 5: Change ended up helping them.
Speaker 3: They didn't really do a great job, I thought this
Speaker 3: offseason and the offensive line, they kind of made some
Speaker 3: interesting choices, sort of shipping off some some key players there.
Speaker 3: So you know, on a face value conversation, a paper
Speaker 3: value conversation, it's gonna be a good game, especially when
Speaker 3: you think about how they do have a commitment to
Speaker 3: the defensive side of the ball with their head coach
Speaker 3: and his background.
Speaker 5: But I say, right now, I think it's a game
Speaker 5: that they should win.
Speaker 3: Honestly, as we see here today, the Texans are probably
Speaker 3: gonna beat up on some inferior opponents in their division,
Speaker 3: but the Broncos should be the better team.
Speaker 5: They should win this game. Yeah, I mean, they got
Speaker 5: a new offensive corner, Nick Kayley.
Speaker 4: You know, I respect him as a football mind, but
Speaker 4: it's yet to be seeing what he is as an
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator and a play caller. And that offensive line
Speaker 4: might be worse than it was last year in terms
Speaker 4: of talent. I mean, they they've shuffled some things around,
Speaker 4: but I don't know that it's necessarily better.
Speaker 5: We'll have to see.
Speaker 4: They're gonna have a great defense to Miko Ryan's gonna
Speaker 4: have a great defense, and you can.
Speaker 5: You can bank on that. But it should be a winnable.
Speaker 2: Road game for the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 1: So we're through the November second matchup on the road
Speaker 1: against the Houston Texans. When we come back, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about the Broncos second opportunity to play in prime time.
Speaker 1: That'll come up on November six, and we'll tell you
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Speaker 1: up to speed. But we're through November two as the
Speaker 1: Broncos travelers Houston, Denver.
Speaker 2: In case you're just joining us.
Speaker 1: They will open up September seventh, the home game against
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, then two road games the fourteenth of
Speaker 1: September at Indianapolis against the Colts. The twenty first of September,
Speaker 1: they traveled to Los Angeles to face the Chargers. All
Speaker 1: three of those games are two h five start Denver time.
Speaker 1: First Monday night game, first primetime action for the Broncos
Speaker 1: at home September.
Speaker 2: Twenty ninth against the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 1: Then they travel the Philadelphia to play the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion Philadelphia Eagles. That is an eleven am start on
Speaker 1: October fifth, then across the pond they go to play
Speaker 1: at Tottenham Stadium in London on October twelfth against the
Speaker 1: New York Jets.
Speaker 2: That, by the.
Speaker 1: Way, you can set your alarm and get up a
Speaker 1: little bit early, as that game will start at seven
Speaker 1: thirty am Denver time.
Speaker 2: The next two games are at home. In fact four
Speaker 2: the next five are at home.
Speaker 1: October nineteenth, they host the Giants at Empower Field at
Speaker 1: Mile High that's a two well five start. The next
Speaker 1: weekend the Cowboys rolling the town. That's a two to
Speaker 1: twenty five start. On October twenty sixth, the road game
Speaker 1: sandwiched in between those two home games on each side.
Speaker 1: November tewod Denver travels to Houston to face the Texans.
Speaker 1: That is the second eleven am start of the season.
Speaker 1: That game will be shown on Fox, and then two
Speaker 1: home games Thursday night game November sixth against the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders and Ryan we haven't talked about that. I
Speaker 1: think all of us here expect the Raiders to be better.
Speaker 1: I think that's the respect level for Pete Carroll on
Speaker 1: what he's been able to accomplish. But that an interesting game.
Speaker 1: The second primetime game of the season for the Broncos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Geno Smith coming to town. Ashton Chancey, who they
Speaker 3: selected with the sixth overall pick, we'll get our first
Speaker 3: opportunity to see him. It's a Thursday night home game.
Speaker 3: You gotta win those. I mean, that's just that's just
Speaker 3: sort of what it is. Absolutely, the Raiders are not
Speaker 3: going to be a pushover. I don't think this year.
Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean you approach this to anything other
Speaker 3: than you are the home team.
Speaker 5: You need to represent. This has to be a win
Speaker 5: for you.
Speaker 3: Whatever expectations you have the season, these are the games
Speaker 3: you have to have.
Speaker 5: So you'll play the Raiders.
Speaker 3: A month from then, and I know we'll get into
Speaker 3: that here in a little bit on the road, but
Speaker 3: that game in division, you gotta have it.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I tend to agree.
Speaker 4: You're you're coming off a road game at Houston and
Speaker 4: you get the you know, you get.
Speaker 5: The Raiders a division. It's gonna be interesting. Man.
Speaker 4: Pete Carroll squaring off against Sean Payton again, I feel
Speaker 4: like we're back in the uh you know, back in
Speaker 4: the NFC playoffs here about a decade ago.
Speaker 5: But I don't think that. Uh.
Speaker 4: I like what Pete Carroll does. I like what Hekro
Speaker 4: does and turning things around. I don't think the Raiders
Speaker 4: are going to quite be there in year one, so
Speaker 4: I'm hoping that this Thursday night game won't go as
Speaker 4: as rough as it potentially could, because that game right
Speaker 4: after that is one you definitely got circled.
Speaker 2: And the game right after that.
Speaker 1: Ben is referring to the first time the Broncos in
Speaker 1: this upcoming twenty twenty five season we'll see the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs. That will be a home game November sixteenth,
Speaker 1: so ten days after the Thursday night matchup against the Raiders,
Speaker 1: the Broncos will be at home facing the Chiefs a
Speaker 1: two to twenty.
Speaker 2: Five start from Empower Field at Mile High.
Speaker 3: It'll definitely be a different matchup than the last time
Speaker 3: they saw the Chiefs, which was against the backups and
Speaker 3: ended up being a route and the Broncos win into
Speaker 3: the postseason result of it, you got the buy on
Speaker 3: the other side of it. But I mean, this is
Speaker 3: the thing with the Kansas City Chiefs. So many people
Speaker 3: are predicting a bit of a step back season. I
Speaker 3: think it's more about the other team sort of catching up,
Speaker 3: I think is what I'm looking at. This AFC West
Speaker 3: is going to be so how much have the Broncos
Speaker 3: Raid and Chargers closed the gap with the Chiefs. That's
Speaker 3: going to be sort of the fascinating discussion because I
Speaker 3: don't think the Chiefs are going to suddenly forget how
Speaker 3: to play football. It's gonna be a good game, but
Speaker 3: once again, you're getting them at home in that first one.
Speaker 3: It's another guy to have it.
Speaker 4: First of first two to twenty five kick of the season.
Speaker 4: They only only get two this year. That's going to
Speaker 4: be It's gonna be interesting. The Broncos played the Chiefs
Speaker 4: tough at Arrowhead last year. We all remember the field
Speaker 4: goal at the end of you know the so we
Speaker 4: all remember that, and then of course he beat.
Speaker 5: Up on the backups to end the season.
Speaker 4: So I think that this team feels like that they're
Speaker 4: already caught up, that they feel like that they can
Speaker 4: compete with Kansas City.
Speaker 5: I think they think they showed it at Arrowhead.
Speaker 4: I think they're looking for revenge on that, and certainly
Speaker 4: they're beating up on the backups.
Speaker 5: Wasn't that revenge whether or not they got to the
Speaker 5: playoffs because of it.
Speaker 4: So I expect the Broncos to have this game circled starred, gold,
Speaker 4: starred and ready to roll in this in this matchup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Denver will have a buye the next week,
Speaker 1: So the weekend of November twenty third, the Broncos.
Speaker 2: Will have a buye. So let's stop right there.
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs game at Empower Field at Mile
Speaker 1: Hig represents the eleventh game of the season. Fellows, what
Speaker 1: record do we give to the Broncos? And again, we're
Speaker 1: having some fun with us. It's may lots of things
Speaker 1: can happen. But if you had to pick after eleven games,
Speaker 1: what the record of the Broncos would be, what say you?
Speaker 3: I feel like you're pretty happy with a seven and
Speaker 3: four start at that point. I mean, maybe a couple
Speaker 3: of mistakes.
Speaker 5: End up happening.
Speaker 3: I mean, again, it's the NFL, right, there's surprises every weekend.
Speaker 3: So if you end up being six and five, I
Speaker 3: don't think you're too angry about that, but knowing you're
Speaker 3: gonna have to make up some ground on the other
Speaker 3: side of the bye week. But I think seven and
Speaker 3: four would be ideal for me, knowing that there might
Speaker 3: be a stumble in there. Like I said, the Houston
Speaker 3: Texas game is like the one you'd like to have. Well, Houston,
Speaker 3: Texas might be a little bit better this year.
Speaker 5: Who knows. So seven and four would be ideal.
Speaker 4: That was the exact number I had projected for that
Speaker 4: far into the season.
Speaker 5: I think if you get there, you're happy with that.
Speaker 4: I think if you're six and five, you're probably not
Speaker 4: as happy with that, even if it is a winning record.
Speaker 5: I think you kind of need to be seven and four.
Speaker 4: Looking at the back part of the sketch, yeah, I agree,
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 1: In fact, I actually have the Broncos eight and three.
Speaker 1: You'll go after eleven. But listen, I like it's optimistic.
Speaker 1: I'm optimistic to a fault. No, seven and four wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a wet blanket. But let's see what we have
Speaker 1: in the last six games of the season. November thirtieth,
Speaker 1: after the bye week. In fact, the next two weeks
Speaker 1: following that bye week, the Broncos will be on the road.
Speaker 1: November thirtieth, another primetime matchup. This will be a nighttime
Speaker 1: game in Washington against the Commanders.
Speaker 5: I can't wait for this game.
Speaker 3: Like you just circle certain games that I mean, you're
Speaker 3: talking about Jayden Daniels Ben's favorite Dan Quinn, his favorite coach.
Speaker 5: He has a tattoo and everything. I won't tell.
Speaker 3: You you trying to be trying to be transparently, Okay,
Speaker 3: why does.
Speaker 5: He make it that face?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 5: Never mind?
Speaker 3: Anyways, that game right there in prime time is going
Speaker 3: to be one of the talk of.
Speaker 5: The league kind of games.
Speaker 3: When we get to that week, Week thirteen, everybody's gonna
Speaker 3: be sitting there waiting for that game to start because
Speaker 3: it's gonna be two young, ascending quarterbacks and two really
Speaker 3: good deep teams. Washington, of course, went to the NFC
Speaker 3: Championship game last year. The Broncos made it's the postseason
Speaker 3: they expect to be going further. I can't wait for
Speaker 3: that game. I think that's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 3: fun on the road. Gonna be tough, but you're coming
Speaker 3: off of bye, so some optimism should be there.
Speaker 4: Well, they're both coming off of by Washington's buye is
Speaker 4: also the same week as Denver, so both teams will
Speaker 4: be coming off of bye for that game. I'm looking
Speaker 4: forward to getting out there, seeing some friends that coach
Speaker 4: Pagano is on that staff, get a chance to say
Speaker 4: hi to him. Uh and it'd be a fun, exciting game.
Speaker 4: I had a chance to chop it up with him
Speaker 4: via text a little bit earlier today. I will tell
Speaker 4: you this is a game that the whole league is
Speaker 4: looking forward to watching as these two young quarterbacks, these
Speaker 4: two football teams take each other, uh, take each other
Speaker 4: on NBC.
Speaker 5: Is excited already about having it on Sunday Night Football.
Speaker 2: Uh it is.
Speaker 4: It is gonna be h It's gonna be a fun
Speaker 4: game and you get to see Bownick square off against
Speaker 4: Jaydon Daniels. I think that's the kind of matchup fans
Speaker 4: on paper at the beginning of the season, when these
Speaker 4: schedule release things come out, I think they love seeing that.
Speaker 1: I mean as excited as Denver fans are for this
Speaker 1: upcoming season, and I think rightfully so. Given the fact
Speaker 1: that the team went to the playoffs last year they
Speaker 1: found their quarterback in bow Knicks, you can multiply that
Speaker 1: with respect to how the fans in Washington feel about
Speaker 1: the Commanders. That team hard to believe, but that team
Speaker 1: got to the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 2: Last year, losing to the Eagles on the road.
Speaker 5: They're getting rewarded for that this year.
Speaker 4: By the way, Washington will have eight primetime or standalone
Speaker 4: games this year.
Speaker 2: Eight.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say right now, I think Washington will take
Speaker 1: a step back. As great as Jaydon Daniels was last year, undeniable,
Speaker 1: he was spectacular. I think they'll come back to the
Speaker 1: pack a little bit. We will see, all right. After
Speaker 1: that road game on November thirtieth against the Commanders, they
Speaker 1: then are back on the road December seventh, as they
Speaker 1: will travel to Las Vegas to play the Raiders, a
Speaker 1: two zero five start that will be shown on CBS.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so you're playing the Raiders twice within the month, right,
Speaker 3: so one month apart and this is the road one.
Speaker 3: So you think eventually the Broncos probably stub their toe.
Speaker 3: This feels like a bit of a stub their toe
Speaker 3: kind of game. But hey, the Raiders, as Ben said,
Speaker 3: this might be the beginning of the next era more
Speaker 3: so than established team at this point. But it's a
Speaker 3: late enough of the season. We're gonna know a lot
Speaker 3: about the Raiders at that point. So once again, are
Speaker 3: you the team that thinks that you can get beyond
Speaker 3: ten wins this season, maybe even push for.
Speaker 5: The AFC West.
Speaker 3: It's probably a game you have to have and that
Speaker 3: includes sweeping the Raiders because the other one's a Thursday
Speaker 3: night game.
Speaker 5: I think they're going to win this game. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's the Raiders. It's late in the season.
Speaker 4: The Raiders are already a team that doesn't really have
Speaker 4: a ton of depth on top of all that, so
Speaker 4: unless they get really lucky with health issues at this
Speaker 4: point in the season, they're probably scrape in the barrel
Speaker 4: for defensive players.
Speaker 5: And I suspect the Broncos will win this with that.
Speaker 1: I know it's late in the season, but that could
Speaker 1: easily be a game with two outstanding rookie running backs
Speaker 1: and Ashton gent and r J.
Speaker 3: Harvey, Oh yeah no, and then that's gonna be one
Speaker 3: of these storylines, right, I mean more so than Gino Smith.
Speaker 3: And I mean no, no offense to Gino, due respect,
Speaker 3: all due respect to Gino. Yeah, I think you're more
Speaker 3: considered about the running game. I think that's that's where
Speaker 3: you start with that team, and you you know, you
Speaker 3: talked about it for a while, but I mean the defense,
Speaker 3: they really still haven't done a lot there. Max Crosby
Speaker 3: is certainly a guy you're gonna pay attention to, but
Speaker 3: they spent most of their efforts this offseason working on
Speaker 3: the offensive side of the ball, and of course they
Speaker 3: still have a star tight end out there in Rock
Speaker 3: Bowers that you're gonna definitely have to worry about because
Speaker 3: he almost single handedly out beat you until Patzertan had
Speaker 3: to pick six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh, you know, I just think I think
Speaker 4: the Raiders are have the beginnings of something there, and
Speaker 4: I think if with Pete Carroll that in two three
Speaker 4: years they're going to be.
Speaker 5: A very competitive football team.
Speaker 4: But I think right now you're you're probably a few
Speaker 4: players on defense short of being where you really need
Speaker 4: to be too seriously compete.
Speaker 1: The last four regular season games for the Broncos will
Speaker 1: have the team at home for three, which I think
Speaker 1: is really pretty pretty key for the Broncos as they
Speaker 1: wrap up that regular season, starting with the game at
Speaker 1: home and in Power Field at Mile High December fourteenth.
Speaker 1: You never know how the weather will be, but the
Speaker 1: team that comes in is used to playing in bad weather.
Speaker 1: Should it be that way in Denver, that is the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers a two to twenty five start on Sunday.
Speaker 3: It's so hard to separate what we just saw from
Speaker 3: them in the postseason. Like for me, when I think
Speaker 3: back to Jordan Love in that postseason game against the Eagles.
Speaker 5: And how bad he looked and how bad they looked.
Speaker 5: But they're a very good regular season tip and that
Speaker 5: was the Eagles, and that was the Eagles, right, So
Speaker 5: it was.
Speaker 1: The team to play the Eagles the last game of
Speaker 1: the season, the last game of the postseason. That didn't
Speaker 1: look very good on offense either.
Speaker 3: So it's hard to separate that out. I think Green
Speaker 3: Bay's going to show up here. They're going to be
Speaker 3: ready to go for this game. But that being said,
Speaker 3: it's at home and you got to win that game.
Speaker 3: So I like the Broncos winning this one. I still
Speaker 3: worry about the Eagles. Excuse me, the Packers pass catchers.
Speaker 3: I know they had it Matt Golden through the draft,
Speaker 3: but you know, typically those rookies take a little while
Speaker 3: to make an impact.
Speaker 5: And then defensively, they didn't amost nothing.
Speaker 4: They had a Nat Hobbs at the nickel who was
Speaker 4: a very good nickel corner, but they had they didn't
Speaker 4: do anything else on that defense.
Speaker 5: It has not been particularly good.
Speaker 4: I think Lafleur is a great coach on the offensive
Speaker 4: side of the ball will be coached very well, but
Speaker 4: I think it's an eminently winnable game for the Denver
Speaker 4: Broncos last three games after the Packers game on December
Speaker 4: twenty first, the Broncos will remain at home and face
Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 2: Now, I know a lot of people, and I was
Speaker 2: one of them.
Speaker 1: They thought Jacksonville would be pretty good last year and
Speaker 1: that didn't work out. How do we think Jacksonville just
Speaker 1: buy and large? What kind of season are the Jaguars
Speaker 1: looking at?
Speaker 5: Duvall?
Speaker 3: I have no bearing whatsoever on who they're going to be,
Speaker 3: but I'd say I'm a big Brian Thomas junior fan.
Speaker 5: Like that wide receiver. He's legit, he's a good player. Yeah.
Speaker 3: So they've got the makings of a good offense. They've
Speaker 3: they've They've definitely got some talent. It's just it's really
Speaker 3: about Trevor Lawrence, right, I mean, what do you see
Speaker 3: from him? How can the new coaching staff really impact him?
Speaker 3: And will he be the quarterback that they always thought
Speaker 3: he would be? Or at this point in the season,
Speaker 3: we're talking about December twenty first, At that point, are
Speaker 3: we saying that era is on its way out and.
Speaker 5: They're gonna be looking. Liam Cohen's gonna be looking for
Speaker 5: a new quarterback. Well, we'll see.
Speaker 4: I will say this, Denver has been Trevor Lawrence's kryptonite.
Speaker 5: He's played him twice.
Speaker 4: They've been the two worst games of his career in
Speaker 4: terms of yards per attempt thrown back in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one and twenty twenty two three point six yards perttempt
Speaker 4: in twenty one four point three and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: That was, of course, the London game where some intrepid
Speaker 4: reporter famously nearly broke his ankle on the cobblestone streets.
Speaker 2: I won't mention him.
Speaker 4: My name trepid, huh and trepid I but no, I
Speaker 4: believe it's a very wittable game again for the Broncos.
Speaker 5: The Jacksonville may have the right coach. Now they might.
Speaker 4: I don't know what Liam Cohen is as a head coach,
Speaker 4: but I will say that again, they've got a few
Speaker 4: pieces on offense, you don't know if the quarterback is
Speaker 4: the guy. And then on defense there's still lacking talent,
Speaker 4: Like they just don't have enough defensive talent to keep it.
Speaker 2: Ooh, I love that that will live forever.
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Speaker 1: two five five. We have two more games to hit here,
Speaker 1: So the Broncos are through fifteen games December twenty fifth man,
Speaker 1: is this a big one? Merry Christmas? The Broncos and
Speaker 1: others will be spending Christmas Eve and Christmas and then
Speaker 1: a big game coming up six fifteen start on Christmas
Speaker 1: Night at Kansas City against the Chiefs.
Speaker 5: Gonna be such a bear.
Speaker 3: I mean, and that goes without saying, right arrowhead in December.
Speaker 3: We talk about this every single year. You just don't
Speaker 3: could be a tad big colds could be.
Speaker 5: A bit of a cold.
Speaker 3: It's Christmas night. What's the crowd going to be like
Speaker 3: for this game? And what's a stake like? That's the thing, Like,
Speaker 3: if the Broncos are doing what they hope to be
Speaker 3: doing at this point, if they're around ten wins going
Speaker 3: into this game, it's gonna be really fascinating because you
Speaker 3: have a chance to win this game and maybe win
Speaker 3: the division.
Speaker 1: I have I have them at eleven wins, okay, going
Speaker 1: into that game.
Speaker 4: I have been ten short week on the road in
Speaker 4: Kansas City on Christmas.
Speaker 5: That's a tough ask. That's a tough ask for anybody.
Speaker 4: I would not be counting on that being even though
Speaker 4: they may have that game circle because of what happened
Speaker 4: to Arrowhead last year. That's just that a tough ask
Speaker 4: to go on the road on a short weaight arrow
Speaker 4: ahead and win.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I agree.
Speaker 1: So the last game of the season, Ryan, you were
Speaker 1: mentioning the game in Kansas City could be a game
Speaker 1: that ultimately would decide who wins the AFC West, possibly
Speaker 1: who solidifies playoff position.
Speaker 2: And I look at that as being true.
Speaker 1: And then the next week exactly the same possibilities. The
Speaker 1: Broncos will wrap up their regular season schedule. It's a
Speaker 1: home game now. They haven't decided yet as to what
Speaker 1: day they will play this game on, but the Broncos'
Speaker 1: final regular season game will be played at home against
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh the LA Chargers.
Speaker 3: They swatch your last year. You've got to find a
Speaker 3: way to get this one. We talked about. The other
Speaker 3: one is obviously Week three. Who knows kind of with
Speaker 3: that game early in the season, where these two teams
Speaker 3: are at at the end of the season, whatever your
Speaker 3: expectations are, you can't let the Chargers sweep you again.
Speaker 5: It just can't happen. So this is this is going
Speaker 5: to be a win.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, It's gonna be a tough, physical football game
Speaker 4: to end the season. It will probably be on that Saturday,
Speaker 4: just kind of last year. You know, you saw how
Speaker 4: that was just to probably get moved to that Saturday
Speaker 4: and be more of a prime time even though it's
Speaker 4: not officially. If there's if there's something, if there's something
Speaker 4: to play for it, and then that's that's most likely
Speaker 4: what will happen.
Speaker 5: At this point.
Speaker 4: It's still it's least to his TVD on the schedule,
Speaker 4: but it'll lined up probably being that type of game again.
Speaker 4: Tough game, tough team, tough physical football team. It's funny
Speaker 4: every year when you when you tabulate these out, the
Speaker 4: running joke is everybody picks their team to finish ten
Speaker 4: and seven, right, because it's a safe number.
Speaker 5: And you know, all of analyst don want to look stupid.
Speaker 4: When I when I tallied this out, I ended up
Speaker 4: finishing out the Broncos the regular season at ten and seven,
Speaker 4: losing both those last.
Speaker 2: Two games ten and seven. I have them at eleven
Speaker 2: and six, Ryan, what you have.
Speaker 5: Man eleven and six as well?
Speaker 3: Honestly, I think that that's the game gets you to
Speaker 3: eleven and six is that Chargers game at the.
Speaker 4: End, and ten and seven, I should say, in a wildcard.
Speaker 2: So I wanted to so let me who do you
Speaker 2: have one in the division? Kansas City?
Speaker 5: Kansas City?
Speaker 2: Okay? Uh it.
Speaker 1: It is a little interesting that with the Raiders obviously
Speaker 1: played twice and the Chiefs played the Broncos twice, all
Speaker 1: four of those games come after come November sixth or later.
Speaker 1: So the last couple of games key and I'm not
Speaker 1: sure because they don't have the rest of the NFL
Speaker 1: team schedules. But the Broncos wind up their last two
Speaker 1: games in Kansas City and home against the Chargers. So
Speaker 1: a lot of things in terms of as AFC West
Speaker 1: supremacy could be decided in those last two weeks.
Speaker 5: No question.
Speaker 3: And again, you're gonna have a week and a half
Speaker 3: after the Thursday night game against the Chiefs at Arrowhead.
Speaker 3: Hopefully you're feeling okay after that, depending on the outcome.
Speaker 5: Now you come home and you got a week and
Speaker 5: a half off.
Speaker 2: Before the Chargers.
Speaker 3: I mean again, even if it's Saturday, it's still pretty
Speaker 3: close to a mini buy.
Speaker 4: That's the one saving grace I think at that Thursday
Speaker 4: night game, that Arrowhead game is the fact that you
Speaker 4: do get the de facto by that extra time.
Speaker 5: For the for the Chargers, I think that'll be good, and.
Speaker 3: Especially if it ends up being a very consequential game,
Speaker 3: which you got to imagine because it's in the AFC
Speaker 3: West and the Chargers are probably not going to be
Speaker 3: a bad team this year.
Speaker 5: It is going to be I think they could be
Speaker 5: the other wildcard team.
Speaker 4: I honestly think that the Broncos, I mean, depending on
Speaker 4: how this plays out, especially with that Chargers game could
Speaker 4: finish second or third in the division and still get
Speaker 4: the wildcard, depending on how the Chargers play this year.
Speaker 1: So you think there might be three teams again, just
Speaker 1: like last year from the AFC West to make the playoff.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 5: I think the ANFC South is going to have one.
Speaker 4: That's going to be whoever wins that mediocre division and
Speaker 4: then you look at you'll see the city. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: East you got one out of there.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not buying the Dolphins, Patriots, or Jets at this point.
Speaker 4: So really that comes down to the NFC, the AFC North,
Speaker 4: and that division cannibalizes itself a little bit. But you
Speaker 4: know who's gonna come out of there, and it'll be
Speaker 4: Baltimore and whoever else that comes out of there. So
Speaker 4: the Steelers probably probably, if we're being honest here, probably
Speaker 4: the Bengals and Browns probably missed out.
Speaker 5: And so that's probably that would be my AFC prediction.
Speaker 1: Last three minutes or so, as we wrap up our
Speaker 1: schedule release show with the Broncos, are you guys have
Speaker 1: the not that the games will count because they don't,
Speaker 1: but important in terms of evaluating talent, you guys have
Speaker 1: the preseason schedule.
Speaker 5: Too, correct.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So they're going to be at San Francisco for
Speaker 3: the first one, and that's going to be joint practices
Speaker 3: for the forty nine ers. They come home for Arizona,
Speaker 3: which is usually one of the games they play.
Speaker 5: They usually the.
Speaker 3: Final game they do in the preseason, but they're doing
Speaker 3: it in week two, and then the final one will
Speaker 3: be at New Orleans.
Speaker 5: Wow, final final preseason game.
Speaker 1: I mean, normally speaking, teams don't like to get out
Speaker 1: of plane and fly that far. But interesting, So at
Speaker 1: San Francisco, what's the weekend there?
Speaker 5: They haven't determined the weekend, first weekend in August.
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken, I'd have to go back and
Speaker 4: don't check that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, three preseason games and again a lot of evaluation.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And the interesting thing now, and it's been that way
Speaker 1: for a while, you know. It used to be when
Speaker 1: they had four preseason games. Teams will play their starters
Speaker 1: in preseason game number three for maybe three quarters, and
Speaker 1: then in preseason game number four, hardly any of the
Speaker 1: starters played. Now with three some some teams subscribe to
Speaker 1: the theory of not playing the starters in the last
Speaker 1: which would be the third preseason game, but but quite
Speaker 1: a few still play their guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think if you, especially if you got
Speaker 4: positional competition there as you're trying to whittle down to
Speaker 4: fifty three, you kind of want to get another in game.
Speaker 5: Set of eyeballs on it.
Speaker 4: The new formula seems to be one quarter for the
Speaker 4: starters and in the first game, a half for the
Speaker 4: starters in the second game, and the rest most of
Speaker 4: your your prime players in the third one. That seems
Speaker 4: to be kind of the new formula most people follow.
Speaker 4: What I'm interested in this, are we going to have
Speaker 4: joint practices with San Francisco out there in San Francisco
Speaker 4: or with Arizona here.
Speaker 2: I don't think we will with New Orleans.
Speaker 4: Out there in New Orleans, but any of the other
Speaker 4: team I'm wondering if we're gonna have joint practice scrimmage
Speaker 4: type stuff, you know, in addition to those games.
Speaker 2: They are going to do that in San Francisco, Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure. I don't I don't know whether they'll do it.
Speaker 3: Or not.
Speaker 5: That's all I mean.
Speaker 3: It's tough to know, but I mean, you're right, it's
Speaker 3: going to be good evaluation time. And as you mentioned
Speaker 3: how much Bone's gonna play. I mean, house does he
Speaker 3: need to play to get tuned up for the season.
Speaker 3: And this is a team that is bringing back a
Speaker 3: lot of their core. So maybe the expectation with the
Speaker 3: Broncos is whatever tune up can be very small and
Speaker 3: then you get a chance to hit the ground running
Speaker 3: in the regular season.
Speaker 2: All right, So again.
Speaker 1: We have the Broncos with this schedule, and we will
Speaker 1: have the schedule up on our website. We have the
Speaker 1: Broncos or I had them eleven. I'm eleven and six
Speaker 1: or twelve six? Eleven and six? You had them eleven
Speaker 1: and six?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 5: Then you had him ten and seven because you have
Speaker 5: them losing the last two games, yes.
Speaker 2: You have. You have the Chargers beating them at home.
Speaker 2: I do. I want you to rethink that position.
Speaker 1: That is going to do it for our special schedule
Speaker 1: release on the Broncos Radio Network, and we hope you've
Speaker 1: enjoyed it and getting ready for some great football coming
Speaker 1: up this fall. It won't be long until it is here.
Speaker 1: We will say so long for Ryan Edwards and Benjamin
Speaker 1: al Right, I'm Dave Logan, thanks for being with us.
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