BRONCOS SQUAD SHOW: How the Denver Broncos CRUSHED the NFL Draft

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I'm an elopeiro, and I think it's safe to say the Denver Broncos understood the assignment

when it came to the NFL draft.

I'm Cody Rohrk, the Denver Broncos added every piece of depth that they needed to to bolst

in the roster.

I'm Sarah Bedinger, the Broncos not only understood the assignment, but I think they get

an A+.

I'm Nick Ferguson, and the Broncos got a running bag.

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We got the full squad here today, and Elopiro, Cody Wark, Nick Ferguson, and Sarah Bedinger.

What's up, fellas?

How are we living?

Great.

Great, man.

The draft was great.

You know what?

Football is almost here.

I'm stoked about it.

Cody, what do you mean football is almost here?

God darn it.

It's here.

It's here.

It never leaves.

Yes.

We don't got one-on-one right now.

You're not be lining it up.

Actually, we got to make it happen, man.

I've been working on my T-step with a 28-CL, so I'm ready, man.

I'm yoked up.

I'm fired up.

What do the kids say?

These days, what it's just like, I don't want to say the wrong one because it might also

be bad.

I'm going to say, like, bricked up is one of them, but what does it mean to be chopped?

What does it mean to be chopped?

Chop means you're like ugly.

Yeah.

Chop is ugly.

You are pretty chopped.

Brother.

You better chill out.

You're a little raw, Jeremy.

I'm looking good, man.

Hey, I don't get the mustache right now, bro.

You need a haircut.

You got to get a haircut.

You're looking like you were just under the streetland.

Well, long ago.

Can I tell you why I haven't gotten a haircut, like, at least in the last couple of weeks?

Until the abs and nuggets went in no to championship.

No.

No.

My barber is a Minnesota Timberwolves fan, and so I'm not going to go get my hair chop.

Oh, really?

You doing that?

I'm not going to go get my hair chop.

When this dude's playing against the nuggets in the playoffs, like, that's just kind of my

thing.

I don't know.

That's the whole different fandom.

I'm, yeah, I'm not accustomed to that fandom.

You know, I just, when I'm trusting someone with my hair and my looks, and it's like, he's, you know, on the opposite side of the, uh,

it grows back, man.

It'll get back.

But what if it's, my buddy's got some really bad haircuts before.

Not from this guy, but different guy.

I don't know.

I would say, you know, here's the thing.

I would say when you talk about trust, trust in Georgia, Sean Peyton.

Amen.

Amen.

And, uh, just a quick thing of why I'm so excited for football season.

Like, I've had a blast doing the nuggets in the avalanche, but Cody, I've romanticized waking up early and going to training camp.

And training camp is like, what am I like?

I feel like the first week I'm kind of like, okay.

Like it's kind of like the same old song and dance, but I'm actually excited for training camp and everything that comes with that.

And of course, it's on the regular season.

We're a bit of a voice away, brother, from training camp, but the good news is we do have OTAs.

We do have mandatory mini camp, which, you know, the month of June is going to be fun for us.

Working mini camp is coming up Mother's Day weekend.

So I'm sure I'll be there.

I don't know if you're going to be there, but it's going to be fun.

Yeah.

We'll have some fun with the no doubt.

The schedule comes out soon too, right?

Yeah.

So there's going to be some really, really fun things to kind of break that.

It's a good time.

If you're a Broncos fan,

it's good that the draft is now concluded because we got all the action that we were kind of hoping for.

And now it really kind of sets the stage for everything that's to come, which for the fan base, they, you know what, before the draft.

It was rough.

It was a tough time because there wasn't a lot of stuff going on, but here we are.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, the Broncos really addressed a lot of the needs and position groups that we had all kind of talked about, right?

They got a couple of tight ends.

They drafted a running back.

They addressed offensive line.

They addressed defensive line.

And so I think over arching here, Sarah, the Broncos did just a really good job of saying, OK, like we need to get depth and we need to address certain positions.

And I think considering the fact that they didn't have a first round pick, you really can't be upset at all with how the Broncos handle the draft.

No, it feels like they nailed it.

Honestly, I mean, and when you factor in Jalen Waddle, it looks even better, right?

Because you go out and you address the trenches with two of your top three picks.

We had plenty of discussions about that here on the squad show and kind of the merit behind, hey, invest in the trenches.

Some of the guys are getting older.

You just lost JFM and free agency.

So I love that strategy that they took.

And then yeah, going after the skill positions to next point in the show open, Broncos actually got a running back who, you know, fits perfectly for what this team needs.

And then you go out and you get a tight end who can catch the ball really well.

Barely any drops over the past two seasons for Justin Jolie, you double up at tight end.

That was something we talked about wanting to potentially, I mean, just everything other than going after the linebacker position, which will be an interesting thing to discuss on today's squad show.

The Broncos almost did fan service with the way they invested their draft phase.

Yeah, I would agree with you as well. And I think Cody, like, to Sarah's point, I haven't really seen any fan base.

That's like too fired up.

I know there's a lot of people that want to mic Washington over like a Jonah Coleman type of thing.

It's a separate conversation that we could have.

Because I think Jonah Coleman fits the overall scheme of what this offense is trying to do.

But all security.

Yeah, exactly.

When it comes to just like, you know, checking a box, checking a box, checking a box of like all these different position groups.

That's exactly what the Broncos were able to go out there and do.

Yeah, I mean, they they double dip to it at a position of need and Sarah and I've been kind of doing some bonus episodes of locked on this week where we're talking about, you know, the undraft the guys, the seventh round picks, kind of going in reverse order here to highlight that.

But really loving the Justin Jolie and Dalin Bentley picks here for Denver, because both of those guys, they categorize themselves differently in this offense.

Down in Bentley could be the guy who learns from Adam Trautman and then eventually takes off down the road, maybe a year, two years from now.

And then Justin Jolie is the perfect type of player who kind of replicates what Evan Ingram does in this offense.

Though I will say he is more of a physical blocker.

He loves the physicality.

Whereas I think Evan is more of a speed finesse type of guy.

And there's nothing wrong.

Like Evan will take certain angles and chip guys.

But Justin Jolie goes out there and he looks to put dudes in the dirt, which I was breaking down his film.

And I am ecstatic with that pick.

I think both these tight ends have a lot of room to grow.

But I think the Broncos, they're in a position where these guys don't have to play right away.

And that's okay.

Yeah, I'm with you 100%.

And I think there are some guys that have the opportunity to come in here year one and make a legitimate contribution.

We'll talk about that throughout the course of the program.

But Nick, I mean, kind of feeding off what Cody and Sarah said.

It seems like the Broncos did exactly what they needed to do.

Yeah, they did.

If you listen to what both Sean Payton and George Payton said, you know, during the whole draft process and even the day of the draft,

it was all about adding development of players.

And when you look at the majority of these players, you're saying that, you know, you're not expecting any of these players to play right away.

And as crazy as it seemed with the Broncos not having a first round draft choice, some of the fans were a little upset.

We know what it was like in free agency, but ideas that that proved that the team was in a good spot.

All you have to do is kind of plug and play guys and build for the future because some of these guys who were drafted,

the guys who are in front of them who are going to be started this season, we're expecting a lot of production out of these guys.

But these guys maybe after the season or two season, they're going to be experiment deals.

So the idea is to get in early, get these guys into the mix, get them kind of indoctrinated into what the system is on either side of the ball.

And make sure that these guys know what they need to do once you, you know, they're up to bat or per se.

But, you know, the Broncos told you a lot about how they feel about this squad.

And looking at the number of players on the offensive side of the ball that they selected.

And looking at the fact that, hey, listen, even in free agency, they had, well, on drafted players, I think like three or four wide receivers.

That's not to say that all those guys are going to make the team, but they feel as though they want to make that room more competitive.

In a tight end room, they want to make this room more competitive.

And Jolie, I'm interested to see what he does in year one.

That made, there are two players who I, well, let me take that back.

Three players, I think in this draft that could possibly see a significant amount of playing time this year, known a Coleman from the running back standpoint.

Jolie, as I mentioned, and Tyler, oh, yeah, I'm hoping I'm pronouncing his name right.

Those are the three players that I expect to see play at least 50 to 60% of the time this upcoming season.

Kind of stole what I was going to ask everybody. I was going to say, why don't we all go down the, around the room and say, who we think will probably play or, let's, we could do that.

But let's maybe change it up.

Who do we think out of this rookie class?

And AP, I want you to share your thoughts on this as well.

One player that you feel like will have the biggest impact out of all the rookies versus just a few, because I agree.

I agree with every guy that you said, Nick.

But who do you think, if you had to choose one, let's start off AP.

I'd have to say is Jonah Coleman, just because I think running back is not that it's a question mark.

And I don't want to project or forecast anything, but just history tells us that JK Dobbins will miss a couple of games here and there throughout the course of the season.

And I think RJ Harvey has been solid.

Right, I think there's room for RJ Harvey to grow, but I think there's also room for desire in that running back room.

And going back to the initial point that we made there, I just think Jonah Coleman schematically fits with this Broncos offense is trying to accomplish.

And when you just look at the running back position as a whole, it's just become a revolving door, right, which is.

We'll talk about like Jordan love and or not Jordan love.

I'm forgetting the kid, what the heck's the kid that got touched by the car? Jeremiah love.

And what the Cardinals did there as well, which was bizarre pick in my opinion.

But I think Jonah Coleman has of all the rookies, the guy who has the ability to have the most immediate impact on this Broncos team.

I think that I think that's fair and to your point, you talked about JK like the Broncos envision Jonah Coleman as like he can play the role JK does like JK and RJ are two different runners stylistically.

And I would say inside this scheme, when they were both healthy, you saw just how different that usage was with them when JK was healthy and then they would go to RJ was kind of like this finesse and then smashing dash kind of concept Jonah Coleman.

He may not be the fastest, which I don't care about having a burner running back. I don't think that's necessarily as important.

But can you have a guy that can get you a first down on third and short, fourth and inches in an AFC championship game when it's fourth and one.

Do you trust this guy to go out there and do that with Jonah Coleman? I do.

It allows RJ to kind of stay in his role as that all around, you know, can run the football, but primarily is going to be a weapon out of the backfield in the past catching game here for the Broncos.

Jonah Coleman, he can catch out of the backfield, but he's going to be that stylistic, thumper running back that if something happens to JK, it's going to be it's going to be Jonah that goes up and plays the JK role while not making RJ have to go back to that role.

We had to do a little bit of everything. I just don't think that was in his game. Maybe it could, but this kind of protects that.

Well, and I think to that point, Cody, like when when JK Dobbins went down, I think you had to see the Broncos kind of alter their their running game approach, right.

And I think you hit the nail on the head by by drafting a Jonah Coleman running game.

Yeah, exactly.

The little running game that they did have, they had to alter for RJ Harvey to play to his strengths. So now I think you can keep the integrity of whatever your running game looks like with a Jonah Coleman, assuming he lives up to his potential.

And there's a lot of Jonas now, Jonah Ellis, Jonah Coleman is going to be, you know, they're going to be so when you're talking to Sean, you can all say, hey, you know, what's your plan with Jones, I don't know who Jonah Ellis Jonah Coleman that we have to now be my own.

Yes.

Well, you got the offensive Jonah versus the defensive Jonah there, but Sarah, if you had to choose one player, who would it be or is it Jonah Coleman?

I think it's going to be Justin, Joey, I do because the Broncos, you know, they use 12 and 13 personnel at tight end so often. And I don't want to write off like I know Nate Adkins is still on this team.

I know that they want to go big a lot of times. I think Justin, Joey can play the little Jordan Humphrey role. I think he can be on the field in three tight and sets. I think he can play a substantial like we saw Nate Adkins make a big impact as a rookie.

I think it's really catching, you know, 50 passes or anything like that, but you now have somebody who can do that, I think I think that Justin, jolly skills as a receiver and his big hands, his ability to play split off of the line of scrimmage from the slot.

He can play out wide more than 50% of his snaps last year at NC State were played either in the slot or out wide so he can do all those different things for you.

It's a better blocker on the perimeter than little Jordan Humphrey or pretty much anybody that played that big slot role for the Broncos last year. Let's just be honest, the perimeter blocking was not good.

So I think that Justin, jolly can do that for you and he can be on the field when you're in your heavy personnel and offer a much more, let's call a spade spade, much more dynamic threat as a receiver than pretty much anybody else that was out there in 13 personnel last year because that wasn't even really where Evan was playing a ton.

It was in 13 personnel. So I just, I know the Broncos aren't going to be in those books, you know, 100% of the time, but maybe 40, 45% of the time they'll have two tight ends or more on the field. And so I think that's where you're going to see Justin, jolly make a big impact.

I want you guys to look at me. I want you to look at me real quick. I got a plan here. Okay.

Imagine this Ferg as a safety. Think about it this way. Justin, jolly, Evan Ingram, when the Broncos go three back pistol, right? They come out in the pistol. They got jolly and they've got Evan Ingram as the two guys next to bonix. And then you got either JK RJ or Jonah behind him in the pistol. To me, oh, the things you could do out of that has me feeling very excited.

Very nice. Well, I'm going to say this. I'm going to go with Jonah Coleman. Here's why because when we think about the lack of running game that the Broncos have had over the past couple of years, this is why this kid was actually drafted. This is why RJ Harvey was drafted.

This is why for two years in a row, the Broncos brought back JK diamonds because they know that element of their offensive scheme has been somewhat on the milk carton. It's been missing.

And here's the other thing about, you know, Jonah Coleman. We know he is not a burner, but we know that he is a physical down here runner and he can move the pile.

And it's funny, Cody, that you brought up fourth and one when he was drafted, I was thinking like, you know what, what if he was a part of the Broncos in that situation with Jared stood on the fourth and one, right?

Things would have looked entirely different. And that's not a shot at RJ Harvey is just calling it what it is. RJ Harvey, I still think is a hell of a running back.

He should be better in the second year, but having a guy like Coleman, I think he's like 5, 8, 5, 11, 20, 20 pounds.

You know what is like to hit a guy with that low center of gravity hiding behind those linemen. Hey, man, I feel for opposing defenders because someone's going to get run the hell over.

But here's the other thing with Jalen Wato, now part of the Denver Broncos, guess what, fellas? You can't put nighmen in the box.

Now the Broncos get a favorable box and you can run against four or five men in the box. And because of Coleman's skill set, that's going to give him a lot of opportunities.

And you guys tell me people on the chat, are you a believer in Jalim McLaughlin in this particular offense? Are you a believer in Taliban day?

I'm going to say hell no because you have three running backs who are who look damn near the same because of the height and the girth they're with and being lower body guys with those big thighs to me.

This is a perfect situation for the Denver Broncos.

I have a question for everybody. I want and I have a follow up point to make from it. Who do you guys think is going to get the two minute roll in the back though?

Do you think it's going to be Jonah Coleman? Because that was really Tyler Badez roll this past year. There's a lot of two minute work, a lot of hey, we're going hurry up past game. He's out there on the field.

So do you think that's now going to be Jonah Coleman?

He's got to earn it, but I think he can. I absolutely think he can. I think if anything, he's projected right now to take over Badez roll as that third down back that past pro situation, you need it.

I very much could see that because guess what you need in two minute, you need good past protection because the one thing you don't want in two minutes is going backwards or having a quarterback getting sacked. So I can see that.

Absolutely. What do you? What do you guys think? I would agree. I would agree. How many how many past attempts when we saw Tyler Badez out running routes? Did he actually dropped last year, right?

What a significant amount. And that derailed the momentum of the offense at that time. And listen, I know Sean Peyton, but more importantly, I know his mentor and build part sales.

No, he's probably telling Sean, hey, listen, man, you got to change something about your offense because you wanted that guy to be Dave mega. He is not Dave mega. He may look like him in size and body, but he's not catching the damn ball on third down.

Now, and when you have a running back that can run routes and third on third down situations or more importantly, Cody knows this, a guy with soft hands that you know, he can look the ball in turn up feel and the not guys over to me.

That's an element of the Broncos passing game. We saw a glimpse of it last year with JK diamonds when he was healthy. Also, we saw a big time with RJ Harvey, who had what like five, six, seven red zone reception touchdowns.

So, so this is what the Broncos are trying to build. They're trying to build a backfield where they can throw anything and an opponent and where they're backsized down.

Yeah, I think it's versatility in the Jonah Coleman draft selection, but I also think it's some insurance like we talked about earlier about if JK Dobbins does go down and I'm knocking on wood.

But again, history just tells us that JK Dobbins will probably miss a handful of games here or there and into Sarah's question to, you know, about third down usage in the two minutes, really I think Jonah Coleman is going to have to earn that for sure.

I don't know if he's going to be that guy, you know, week one unless he just has an exceptional training camp and really shows out in the preseason, but I'd say it's a fair expectation by the time we get to week eight week nine.

Somewhere in the middle of the year, just like we kind of say, just like we saw RJ Harvey kind of blossom into his role.

I think it's fair to kind of project the same thing for Jonah Coleman coming up here in his rookie season.

So, I'd love to see that. Why don't we ask?

I think it'll be on this roster for Denver, one of them will always be an active. I think you have to have four.

So what Coleman Harvey Dobbins, who do you think's the fourth?

So whoever can do what RJ does, whoever's the whoever's I'd say best suited to maybe fill into that RJ role.

I think it may be McLaughlin because even in the towards the end of the season, McLaughlin got a little care a couple of carries here and there and he looked pretty decent.

It's only Tyler Bade that didn't really do much with the reps that he had.

Yeah, I agree that's fair.

All right, let's hit a quick break when we come back.

Let's continue along with the conversation. We talk about which rookie we think will have the biggest impact in year one.

But why don't we take a look at which rookie were most excited about in general for their NFL career with the Denver Broncos?

All that more when we come back right here on your lockdown Broncos squad show.

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So I think I know the answer to this question just based on how the conversation's been going.

But I'll kick it to Sarah first, which draft pick do you think has the most upside that the Denver Broncos selected here last week or over the weekend.

Hmm.

This is a good question.

Yeah, this is a good question because up to me that that was really the strategy of day three is getting guys that you feel like have upside because I think if you're talking about, you know, out kicking the coverage in terms of draft status.

I'll go I would go with Mr. relevant red Murdoch.

But I think Tyler own yet him is on a trajectory that's like if you picture the, the, you know, I don't know what those are.

The graph.

You want to call it a progress graph curve.

Yeah, the bell curve exactly.

So at Iowa State, you know, he's kind of like slowly creeping up.

And then we're at this kind of like midway or partial midway point on his development from Texas A&M where they do a lot more like stuff that you will see the Broncos do in terms of what they ask of defensive lineman.

Get your hands on guys, the stunts, the all the loops, all those other things that they were talking about after the draft, right.

It's kind of at that midway point on the upward trajectory.

And I think as he gets coaching from Jamar Cain, bands Joseph, all the other, you know, Zach Allen, you know, all these guys that are going to help him in his pro career.

I think Tyler own yet him is kind of getting written off in a way for a top pick like the Broncos invested pick 66 in him, not because they didn't know who else to take.

I mean, he's replacing John Franklin Myers, Sean Payton said that, not me. So I think that there is a huge upside for him as a past rusher with 34 plus inch arms, he's athletic, he's instinctive and arch just ask archmaning.

I mean, how quickly he can get to the quarterback because he will knock somebody out.

So I think absolutely own yet him has the highest like upside long term, although I think you could look at any of the day three picks and shove them into that category.

I mean, real quick on on yet him. I, Nick, I'm curious to get your opinion here because Sarah alluded to what Sean Payton's kind of envisioning him for him with his role is taking over that of JFM.

But isn't there like a natural.

I want to say an advantage, but when you're anchoring, you're playing on a defensive line that already has the Benito's the Allen's the Cooper's of the world, not that necessarily makes life easier for him.

And his defense is already going to have their hands so full with Benito and Allen and Cooper on yet a mic.

It's some pretty favorable looks early on that he might be able to take advantage of.

Yeah, and it's interesting you bring that up because when you have John the Cooper and Nick Benito and Jack Allen, who on yet him actually talked about in his, I guess, presser, you know, after the draft, he was drafted.

That's a lot because what that means is though, with guys like that on the defensive line, you're going to have a lot of one on one matchup.

And you know, when you look at the way that he played at Texas and in the scheme, you played in, he played all over the place.

He played the zero, two, three technique, five, and having that level of versatility gives Vance Joseph a number of opportunities to align him to take advantage of those inside twists, games and stunts, which I think he was great on because.

He had explosion, but more importantly, for a big guy, his size, especially dating back to time when he was younger playing, you know, running back, he's got quick feet.

And that's one of the things that drew the Broncos to him was his athleticism.

So, yeah, I mean, he's one of those players that I would say would have a lot of upside because right now, you got, you know, Waza Rique, you got to Savion in those particular places.

And I'm not going to say like neither one of those guys last season really set a blaze or a trail for themselves.

And a lot of that had to do with John Franklin Myers, but even with that being said, the Broncos win in this direction because they were not really sure that Savion or a Waza Rique can emerge and be a dominant player.

And you put on get him next to a Zach Allen and John Franklin, not John Franklin Myers, but Malcolm Roach, it's going to create a lot of opportunities.

And that's where you want to live because you want guys who are penetrated when you look in this division along.

Now, you look at what Kansas City did at their running back position, right?

That to give you pause to say, we need to make sure that we have interior guys that can put a lot of pressure on opposing teams running game.

And I expect for him to do that this season.

Cody, well, you also need to, you know, Zach Allen's not going to play every snap. He would, if he could, if the team would let him.

He may, like, if there's 80 snaps into game, he'll play 78, like he'll come off, you know, for one.

But when you need to protect your investment in Zach Allen, right? He's one of the best players in terms of creating pressure.

You obviously, quarterback kids have been a phenomenal thing that he's brought to the table.

But you want to protect him as the years go on. And that's why your death needs to be good. I mean, that's why I think JFM played so well is because, for example, when he would get a double team, Zach Allen would be getting a one-on-one and would be winning.

When Zach's getting a double team, didn't you got JFM getting a one-on-one and winning and not being pushed around, like you had guys that weren't getting pushed back by the offensive line.

They had dudes that could anchor down or create backfield penetration. And I think for Onyad and where he'll probably, they'll work on getting him stronger.

That'll probably be the developmental emphasis for him.

He does have some pass rush moves, but the thing that benefits him as a rusher is his first step, his get off. He's very quick. He's shifty.

And he's going to get that work with Jamaican. And the way that the Broncos, for example, they'll crash DJ Jones. They'll line him up as a one tech and they'll slant him inside.

And then they'll loop the other guy around inside the A gap. That's where I think we're going to see Onyad and probably have a little bit of a bigger impact right away.

This is the question, and this is why I'm glad the Broncos were not in the dress. I said it a few weeks ago. I planted my flag and I said, it's going to be defensive line and it'll be in that.

So not to do a victory lap here, but sometimes you just got it.

I was going to say that's the definition of it.

That is.

100%.

It's weak sauce.

Sometimes you've got to flex on people. It's all right.

You know, unless Christian Brown dunking after getting punk by Jed McDaniels, that's another whole conversation.

Oh, man.

Don't need to get me started about the nuggets, man. I'm irritated with them.

I wish you could sit next to your life.

I wish you were covered in the nuggets with me. Hi.

Sitting next to Cody during Broncos games is fun. I can only imagine what it's like.

Well, maybe maybe for the every day or club next year, we'll mic myself up during games and you know, we'll have someone like it.

Stuff that Cody says, you know, because I kind of do.

I don't know if you want that out.

I don't know if you want that out there.

I do say some crazy things. Ryan Blackburn does a good reversing.

But that's my thing. I always do.

It's my own way of doing a reverse jinx.

You know, big play happens. Oh, that's it.

They're not going to come back from this one. You know, I always say that and everyone's like, oh, I'm like, brother, you know, just like y'all got to be around me all the time.

It's fun.

I'll say this like maybe.

I think an underrated player to maybe keep an eye on here, especially as you are going to have four players that are going to have expiring deals out to this year.

I'm curious to see Miles Scott, the safety out of Illinois.

I've been watching tape on him on the all 22 and man, I like what I see.

This is a guy who from the last couple years, his first year at DB to now he has gotten so much better as a tackler.

He's a high volume tackle guy too. I mean, 131 solo tackles in three seasons.

That's hard to do.

But he has elite level ball skills.

You know, he's got the ability to track the football.

He does a great job disguising.

I was actually watching a game as I did my film breakdown on Washington versus Illinois, seeing he and Jonah Coleman a little bit like there's times where they're running opposite to his side because he's always the safety that's going up there and making plays.

This could be one where I think Miles Scott will probably play special teams right away.

And he could be a guy that they maybe throw in there a couple of years around depending on what they do with Brandon Jones.

But Jail Skinner's contract is up after this year.

Devon Key will be I think an exclusive rights or restricted free agent this upcoming season Tyson Anderson said to be a free agent.

There's a lot of questions right now at what the safety outlook is going to look like and who fungus deals going to be up in two years.

So I like the player that they added and he's not anywhere I think close to being who he can be just yet, but man, for a guy who used to play receiver.

You would have never known when you watch him play he's not afraid of contact. He likes hitting people and that's something that I you know I like about his game.

Well, Miles Scott would be more of a reserve safety because his interesting you bring up done key Devon Key is just waiting for his opportunity.

And once Brandon Jones if he decides to leave that would be an excellent opportunity because I know they really love Devon Key not just on a special team side of it.

And Jail Skinner, man, he just hasn't lived up to expectation. He hasn't taken that next step.

So his job is therefore jeopardy and think about it this way.

You have Devon Key who was a health of a special team player.

Jail Skinner is known for being a special team player and they just added a guy and Tyson Anderson who's known for special teams.

But he's also, you know, a guy who knows, you know, the passing game coordinator who was in Cincinnati with the passing game coordinator.

So it's going to make for an interesting love of competition, but Miles Scott does have an opportunity to be a reserve safety.

And he can do that for maybe two to three years before he gets his opportunity.

I like it. I like it. A lot of upside with these picks for the Denver Broncos. Let's hit a quick break when we come back.

Let's dive into Mr. Joe Lee here a little bit because I know tight end was a massive position of emphasis from us.

I know the fan base has been pounding their head against the wall trying to figure out what this tight end position or what this tight end room might look like moving forward.

The Broncos draft, not one, but two of them will talk about that next really come back right here on your lockdown Broncos school watch out.

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I don't know.

Not that wasn't me brother. I don't know what you talking about.

You're the only one who would do that.

No, I saw your little audio levels light up.

Might have been my fire, my fire alarm, my smoke alarm.

Okay, all right.

All right.

I have a buddy of mine, just a quick tangent.

His smoke detector beeps like every 60 seconds and he claims that's how it's supposed to be.

No, it's not.

That's what I keep saying.

He's like, that's how you know it's working.

Come on, man.

Dude, I'm going to clip this incentive to him because you should be both.

That is not how it's supposed to work.

The best news is that you hope you never hear your freaking smoke detector go off.

But you got to make sure the green light is there.

And there's no red light underneath it.

It's like everything every 30, 60 seconds or whatever.

Beep, beep.

He also drives no seat belt on.

So that thing's just going off.

I'm sorry. What?

Yeah, brother.

I bet he I bet he pumps his gas.

You know who it is.

Yeah.

You know who it is.

What would you do?

Yeah. Does he does he pump his gas with the car on?

I don't know about that one.

That one.

That one's actually like a myth though, I think.

Or does he drive?

Does he drive left foot right foot, left foot, break right foot?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, dude's a marvel.

Dude's a marvel.

Yeah.

Oh, he's a man.

This is what it sounds like.

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You know.

I give him any roug yet.

I don't give this guy.

Roug yet.

Oh.

I want to go off the off the beaten path every once in a while.

It's nice.

It's definitely fun.

Okay.

Let's talk about tight end fellas because I think we can talk about offensive line a little

bit on the program today too as well.

But like we expected some running back conversation with Jonah Coleman of course.

Talked about the defensive line.

But I think tight end is maybe the most.

Interesting position for the Denver Broncos just because they don't really have much of a future there.

And even Evan Ingram last year was like fine.

But I think Broncos country expected a lot more out of the tight end for the last year.

They draft a couple of guys.

Dalin Bentley there on the seventh round.

And then of course Justin Jolie in the fifth round.

Jolie in particular like one thing that I had been told from a couple of people that cover the NFL and you know are into with the Broncos.

And he has some of the highest upside as a past catcher in the tight end room.

You know probably tight end two tight end three in the draft when it comes to pure offensive skill set of catching the ball.

I think this is exactly the type of guy you want to see the Broncos target.

100% it is I mean he's that move around like Cody mentioned earlier and somebody that you can split out into the slot out wide.

He does all those things massive hands.

I mean he's got the I think untapped potential as a yak player which you didn't see a ton of at NC state even though they kind of still fabricated a lot of touches to go his way.

So I'm interested to see the year one vision for him because it's important that we don't forget the sentiment at the end of the year.

When we're all fired up about the way the season ended right and and I'm sitting here and calling out hey Frank Crumb was the best past catching tight end the Broncos had this season.

And that wasn't an indictment on Evan Ingram because I think they misused Evan but at the same time you really got nothing from Adam Trotman from obviously Nate Adkins who missed a lot of time with injury Lucas Crowell missed a bunch of time with injury Caleb loner even with all the injuries couldn't get called up off the practice squad.

And so you call in Marseilles Lewis like it was just the it's the opposite of an embarrassment of riches at a position right.

So you go out and you draft two guys that now I think project really well to play for you immediately and the the trait that they both bring to the table that the Broncos I know they know they needed is that they don't drop passes like they don't just look at Justin Jolie from last year at NC state.

I think he dropped one or two passes all year long down Bentley in his first year with 76 targets zero drop passes so I think what you're getting in these two guys is sure handed outlets.

Do they need refinement as blockers yes who doesn't coming out of the college level to they need to improve their strength when they're you know asked to actually block especially against edge rushers yes but who coming out of college doesn't need that.

So get these guys in a whatever fast track you need to be ready to at least chip and be competent as blockers because you didn't do that with Greg dulcich he wasn't ready like Greg looked lost in those games against Tampa Bay and the jets back in that 2023 season right before he got cut.

So the Broncos have to figure out what did we do wrong there where did we fill him because well now he got another contract from the dolphins so what did they figure out that we didn't it's time to look in the mirror.

You drafted the right guys I think especially above where they were projected to go so now how can we fast track them to play and not do this whole song and dance about seniority and you know Nate addkins has paid his dues nobody said that i'm putting words in their mouth but that's the perception from my end is that there's this like these guys have had their letterman's jackets for years now right there they've been around they know the offense they they were the first ones to show up in the last ones to leave like.

That was the sentiment that I was sick of at the end of last year and watching all these failures offensively that the Broncos have to correct and I think they've got the right guys but you've got to give him the right opportunity.

And I'm curious as to what those opportunities are going to be right because I think you're still obviously going to try to maximize what you've got out of every room we know that Adam Troutman is a favorite of Sean Payton so you know where are these snaps going to come necessarily for some of these young guys Cody.

Well I think it depends on really what we learn from Davis Web when he takes over his play calling because really if he's going to be the play caller he's also going to be in charge of personnel so how is his personnel utilization a lot different than what Sean did i that's one thing i'm curious for and I think maybe something that'll help that process is and they have coaches to do this but it wasn't efficient last year where Davis Web calls a play and based on hey we get five yards were on.

We're cross midfield they have a guy that says okay we already have a plan for this we know we're going to go 12 personnel short yardage over the 50 these guys are already on alert like when I coached and when I played we are like when I played our coaches were always say fun alert fun alerts third down it's like whatever happened why not why not PA Taylor why is always fun alert you know it's just those little things right there I think will be a little bit different and that's kind of an unknown question that we have right now is what does that look like with Davis versus.

Sean and I do think maybe during maybe during rookie mini camp they might actually let us meet with the coordinators i'll be curious to hear maybe if that's something that is asked to Davis if not i'll try to ask it as well when that that chance comes but it has to be they have to use this position a little bit more.

Adam Troutman if he is going to be out there he can't just be just the blocking guy they need to feature him a little bit more in the passing game or also just becomes a little bit rudimentary at that point.

You know what I was just thinking about like typically during coordinator days after practice like it would be Sean and everyone flocked events right like it's going to be interesting to see how much attention Davis Web gets because no one wants to talk to Joe Lombardi like I don't mean that in a bad way but like we all knew it was Sean's office we're like three people like it's like the peanut gallery talking to Joe Lombardi now I think there's going to be a lot of people obviously wanted to talk to Davis Web and see what his vision is for this offense but Nick just you're overall thoughts here on the tight end room and how the Broncos try to navigate.

Well they told you everything about what the Broncos thought of the current tight end room before they added these two guys joley and Bentley and even just think about it we said here where you know and watched and listen and we read a lot of things about Broncos country fans and how upset they were about the Broncos not doing anything in free agency and they were running it back with some of the same players and they were really upset about the tight end.

And the way I look at it you know these young players have an excellent opportunity because there's no one on the Broncos roster right now as a veteran who's been in this offense one of two years that we can honestly say you know they are those dudes we can't really say that because Nate Ackin is great inside the red zone he got injured we know he's not going to stress the field vertically when we look at Adam Trotman he is considered by far

the best blocking tight end that the Broncos have on their roster and if we were to compare him to other blocking tight ends in the league he probably end up being 32nd and we know what Evan Eram is going to become when he comes to blocking listen man let's let's keep it real man I mean that's the way we look at it because if you watch Adam Trotman and I'm speaking to you guys not as a person that hates him but a guy that played the game and I'm going to play the game.

You can play it against some great blocking tight ends it is blocking at the point of attack it is not just getting in the way can you hold that guy for at least three to four seconds to give your quarter back an opportunity to give the running back an opportunity and I can say before certainty no that didn't happen and if it did you wouldn't have these two guys on the roster so Joe Lee is going to be the flex tight end set to take Ingram's you know place and when you look at Bentley

Bentley is going to take Adam Trotman's place now if I'm talking directly to these young these young tight ends this is what I would tell them Nate Ackins is the current fullback Burton is no longer on this team he's in Cleveland so if you want to have longevity not just with the Denver Broncos but in this league learn how to watch film on cow juice check right.

Juice check is a tight end or tied in fullback by position but that's not what he is he's a move God he can do a variety of different things if these guys can learn to do that they not only make both both next life easier but it does the same for Sean Payton and Davis well but what I do know the Broncos out of currently on this team I don't believe there's a lot of faith in these guys because if it were

why did you draft these two tight ends and I know you didn't take him in the first and second round for each one of those guys have unique skillsets well I'll say this to in terms of early on in the draft when Denver you know was at 62 set the pick is 62 from what I understand they liked Max Claire out of Ohio State they felt like he was probably more the more well-rounded tight ends in terms of this guy can be an inline blocker you can also be a pass catcher for you the lots Angeles Rams out of nowhere snipe them even though they have four or five different

tight ends right now including last year they drafted Terrence Ferguson so for me that was a little bit of a surprise and maybe that changed things for Denver maybe that's what influenced them trading back there you know a lot of people are saying well what about you know Eli Stowers from what I understand I don't know if the Broncos were as high on Eli Stowers as maybe they were other guys I think they liked him but did they love him I don't think they loved him so you know factoring all that into the equation so now for them it's like all right instead of going out there and getting one guy who we think can maybe be an

overall producer we're going to double dip at this position and we like this guy's upside in Justin Jolie and we also think Dallin Bentley has some potential that's been

untapped into considering the type of off and see played in at Utah and both these guys can come in and they're two different types of tight ends ones in inline why ones

and move around F something that Sean Payton George Payton said in the pre draft press conference if you want either of these types of guys they're in this draft they took two of them I like that approach yeah I like it as well

and I believe what tight ends the only position like they double dips on defense but two tight ends yeah because they went running

back offensive tackle yeah safety linebacker so yeah they double dip a tight end which I think says something

for sure real quick here before we hit a break there I know you were beating the drum about offensive tackle

and they did accomplish that with their fourth round pick in cage Casey out of Boise State yeah he's

kind of getting slept on a little bit in the overall discussion because obviously the Broncos

haven't established starting five and five guys that have been together for the last majority the last three years right so

you haven't established a line you're taking somebody a developmental potential starter for the time being if there's like a championship belt for

ending the streak of not drafting an offensive tackle I'd say cage Casey gets to have that belt until it's stripped away from him if they transition him to the guard position on a full time position

which we know the Broncos have talked about they envision him being able to be a guard full time or even a center I think that was thrown out

there by one of the guys I think it was Reed Burkhard or the the scouting director I can't remember which one said that but

they do view him as having starting qualities there at guard so what we could be looking at here is the potential of

cage Casey taking over for Ben Powers in 2027 and then like Nick just alluded to a little bit ago you know Justin

Jolie taking over for Evan Ingram in 2027 so the Broncos were out for developmental starters and they also compared by the way

this was the Broncos by who made this comparison they compared Jonah Coleman's game to that of JK Dobbins so

if you're reading between the lines and if you're following the bread crumbs and reading the tea leaves here

you might have with your top three picks on day three three starters for 2027 that this team saying hey

the the sand timer we flipped it upside down when we drafted these guys it might take until next year at this time

for you to be talking about them as legit starters but that's what the vision is I think for those three guys

especially with cage Casey at left guard yeah there's upside right there's a future it seems like at a few of

these positions with how the Broncos went about their drafts and obviously we'll see what to see not all

these draft picks pan out always but I think on paper schematically a lot of these guys make a ton of

sense for the Denver Broncos just with regards to their positions of need and where this organization

is heading into the future good picks like here's the thing and you guys just want to why I hate

mock drafts I'm going on another frickin mock draft rant this week buckle up the consensus big boards

or where guys going mock drafts aren't a real gauge for where they could or should go in the NFL draft

and I think that's what gets people so frustrated like it's just there's a level of ignorance that

comes with that to where whoa the Broncos drafted this guy I didn't see him going here I didn't

even know who this guy was there must be a terrible pick go back and watch the watch the player like

go back and watch tape like that's the thing and a lot of people in the pre draft process they

listen to what other people say versus going out there and doing their own research like if I'm

hearing about top defensive lineman prospects I'm going to try to go and watch as much film as I

can about those players so I can have a better opinion I could read and I trust people who also

put in the work but that doesn't mean that Dane I'm not going to hold Dane broodler Daniel Jeremiah

is like the end all be all I value their opinion but I also need to form my own especially if I'm

going to be trying to inform and educate the masses and share my perspective there's not a lot of

hey I'm going to learn about this guy myself I'm just going to read this stat box or say this oh

hey good pick that pick that's why I absolutely hate like right now you're seeing it draft great

draft great this team gets an A this team we don't care about your damn draft grades that

stuff does not matter it's just low-hanging food content judge brother I could go on a tangent

all day about this Cody I'll add this for Broncos fans who have any concerns about cage Casey

remember the Raiders drafted this running back in the first row who played at Boise who cage Casey

block for name is Ashton Gentie so just keep that in mind 240 yards per game that offense was

averaging that year he started every game at left tackle I mean he's got that versatility to play

guard tackle but it's also Broncos kind of got two for one there Ben power is going to be a free

agent after this year could he play guard yes he can what if Garibles in the next couple of years

decides to just up and walk away well now you got a guy who can learn that and yes we have other

guys in poucheski and Frank Crumb but it gives you more darts more options in the house and that

seems like how the Broncos want to approach it versus going out there and spending big on an

offensive lineman you get cost control especially because you just paid Quinn miners you just

paid Luke Wattenberg you got those guys locked in for the near future garris still has some time

but ultimately as you got to pay bonix you can't have the most expensive offensive line in the league

and pay your quarterback and have some of the pieces you have defensively Broncos are doing this

in my opinion the right way the way that not a lot of teams do and it's going to require some

trust fall exercises but that's why you develop players yeah I'll go ahead sorry I was just

going to say just to throw it out there really quickly if Garibles does want to do anything else he

does appear to have a future in the automobile repair industry I just wanted to throw that out

can we get him a guest appearance in that Netflix series tires with Shane Gillis absolutely

might as well JJ water appeared in it so might as well Garibles protector of the year award

automatically she go to him for that my favorite bulls subplot you've probably heard him talking

about it in the locker room Cody is how he might have a future in broadcasting he was like running

the DJ booth when he was at Utah like that was like really it's college gigs yeah I think you

talking about it like Scotty Gaines or something once I'm in the locker room so not just a lot of

good stuff he does a lot of good stuff right now like especially like for speech therapists like

especially the bulls jenny pejorum speech therapy institute today have created their it's great

my wife's to speech therapists so that made her fall in love even more like the broncos so that

was really a cool thing kind of tying in her world to like our world so to speak um he's going

to do a lot of great things I think when his playing career is over um I wouldn't I wouldn't be

opposed to seeing him do something like that yeah no I'm with you 100% all right let's hit our

final break when we come back we'll put a bow on the show I want to get you guys this opinion we've

talked a lot of broncos obviously because it's our bronco squad show but which team not name the

broncos do you think was the most surprising with how they handled the NFL drafts we'll talk about

that we come back right here on the program all right final segment here locked on baronco squad

show nila pure kuddy works here bed and your and nick Ferguson appreciate each and every one of

you that are live with us on youtube we appreciate the chat and everyone watching after the fact

and of course listening on the locked on broncos audio feed you guys are the absolute best

one thing I do want to say kind of going back to the the previous conversation we just have like

obviously we're all tapped it right like kody you're at the you're at the facility as much of

any of us here I'm with you at practice on there on game days nick you played for the organization

you're around the team still say you do great work on in the in the website space and obviously

here on the show as well like I don't think we're for lack of a better phrase glazing the broncos

because of what they did in the NFL draft what I'm just saying these dang this dang young

generation slang that just now I mean that's that's the term is like when you go crazy but like oh my

gosh they did this they did that like they they were crazy like I think objectively though like

the broncos did a really good job of addressing these positions of need like and it's not just us

being homers or being biased and whatnot like I'm looking at through his unbiased of lenses I can't

like I'm looking at the pics of broncos made oh my okay this makes sense that makes sense this

makes sense right well to that point I mean the only position that you know you could really question

is linebacker right because ultimately we went into the draft I think that everybody in broncos

country if we couldn't have Jacob Rodriguez it was take the next best linebacker on the board right

so we're talking about all these we went through so many mock draft scenarios where we're talking

about every linebacker that could have possibly been available from the second round to the fifth

round and and any mock draft scenario that had a linebacker going later than the fourth round I mean

you might as well have just made yourself given somebody a pitchfork and say hey come after me

because for saking the linebacker position was not acceptable in broncos mock draft you know

this offseason so I mean the linebacker spot I think is one where they really decided

they're comfortable with what they have which has been an unpopular take from a lot in broncos

country myself included from the beginning of the offseason because like I said Dakota they could

have traded up three four spots and got Anthony Hill from Texas and they decided not to do that the

Texans I think anticipated that the Broncos might want him and jumped up two spots ahead of them

to take him and so if you really wanted Anthony Hill why would you not move up to get him if you

felt like that was such a piece that you had to have if you they obviously really didn't want

Devon Lloyd because he signed for a pretty reasonable contract they obviously didn't really want

Kaden Ellis because he signed for a very reasonable contract the Broncos perception and I think

Reed Burkhart talked about this as well but their perception of Sternad and Singleton is vastly

vastly different than what the the fan basis perception of those guys is and even from a lot of

us in the media myself included like I don't I don't know if that's the right decision but I will

say I love the red Murdoch pick I mean you want to talk about we we have got a bonus episode of

the show on red Murdoch I put him in my final mock draft on Thursday before the draft in the fifth

round I think the Broncos stole him with 257 I think he's going to make the team I think he's

you know got all the abilities to potentially start for you down the line don't want to put too

much expectation on a seventh rounder but at the same time like this was a draft where we talked

about wherever you take somebody the only mistake is don't you know not taking one and the Broncos

wait until the very last pick to not to take one and I think you got two guys at linebacker in

red Murdoch and Tori in York who I mean you want to talk about two plus rounds later than you

should have got him in New York's case I mean he could have been a fifth rounder red Murdoch could

have been a fifth rounder so that's the way I viewed the way they invested in this position is

a couple of dogs who are going to come with chips on their shoulders and say hey I'm going to outplay

my status as a seventh rounder or UDFA yeah I think it's a good point I think there's a lot of

upside with red Murdoch for sure and ultimately we'll see once we get to you know OTA's mini-camping

all that kind of stuff how these guys start to round and form from the Broncos here in their rookie

seasons but okay you know really quickly I want to touch on what an ad to what say or just say

about Murdoch see since they know Murdoch is not probably going to start the season maybe maybe

later in the season due to injury or as the team is starting to figure out what they're going to do

with Alex Singleton here's a great thing that every I know George Payton was excited about the number

of sports fumbles that Murdoch actually created and the way that I look at it for my first thought was

dude if he can do this on special teams yeah in what they are now now you get now you're putting

bo-nicks on a short field and potentially turning the ball over and dare I say the Broncos are

scoring points on special teams because that's a unique art so much so when when someone punches

the ball out what is the first thing everyone goes oh the peanut peanut Tillman punch right but

there's been other guys who've been punching a ball out but Murdoch said that he's kind of

specializing and he watched film and he figures out how to do this from an elite standpoint so if

he can do that he's going to make the Broncos special teams better but here's what he's also going

to do because he has a unique skill set for he's going to do an impractice so we're going to see a

lot of balls on the turf and practice which Sean Payton's going to be really pissed off about it

but that's what practice is for you learn how not to turn the ball over in practice so you're better

in the game so he's going to impact both special teams defense and the offensive side of ball

yeah no I like it a lot so excited man excited it feels like to the point that Cody made earlier

in the show like now we've gotten through the draft we can start to project and look forward and

get excited for what this season is going to be now that we have a little bit more of an idea of

what the team is going to look like with those draft picks but okay before we get out of here just

quick fun little question which team surprised you the most without the handle the NFL draft I

know there's a few of the popular ones that are being talked about but was there a pick in the

first ground or just a body of work with their draft status that kind of surprised you more than

another I honestly I'd like the Jets draft I thought when you talk about first round they probably

had the most impactful draft you know you go and you get David Bailey you second overall pick

you get Kenyan Siddeck out of Oregon who was in my opinion a unicorn this year at the

tight end position and then they trade back into the end of round one to get Omar Cooper Jr.

a wide receiver out of Indiana they they loaded up good depth and good talent not only that too they

the angelal ponds they got him my only concern with New York I think they had a great draft

I just don't think they have the right head coach and they certainly don't have the quarterback

that's the only thing that I would say right now you know on K club Nick's not going to be

the quarterback of the future maybe he does but I don't think Aaron Glenn is it unfortunately

and I don't think that Gino Smith is the guy that's going to take him to the Promised Land

Sarah your thoughts yeah I love the Jets draft I mean you got to set the table for a quarterback

next year's draft is going to be legendary I mean in terms of what NFL teams are expecting that's

not I don't think that's hyperbole at this point I think every NFL team proves I think there was

only one 2027 selection traded during the entire draft which you normally see a lot of those

future picks changing hands and so I don't that I might be wrong about that somebody might

trade it a late rounder but I think that's accurate and I think the AJ Brown trade from what

from what reports are saying is going to be for a 2028 first round pick so everybody is like

if you want one of my 2027 draft picks don't because you're not getting it so but I think in the

terms of the team that surprised me the most in the draft our boy Dary and in the chat spoiled my

answer I thought the Rams like Ty Simpson was such a dumb pick for them not because he's a bad

player or he's a bad kid but because of the context of where they're at they're repeating the

Aaron Rogers Jordan love I would call it a mistake I know the Packers have a franchise quarterback

but when you're in a Super Bowl window you need to do everything that you can to leap through

the Super Bowl window and there was like jokes made at the time about how little the Packers had

invested in you know the supporting casts around Rogers in terms of not drafting a skill player

for over a decade and I know that the Rams aren't in that realm but Devante Adams is 33 years old

Pukinakua looks like he might be a little you know I don't know what's the appropriate word

to use on this format but I don't know what's going on with Pukinakua I'll put it that way

and you know they're drafting an idea he's biting people yeah so I mean that tells you

everything you need to know so with that first round pick why are you taking Ty Simpson

when Kenyon Sadik is right there because you turned around in the second round and took Max

Claire so you got a worse prospect you could have had the best prospect at that position when you're

trying to go out all this 12 13 personnel looks and Sean McVay was very mad like and he can say all

he wants he can try to walk it back all he wants he was mad about the Ty Simpson pick you can hear

it in his voice when he's on the phone call with Ty Simpson the kid is just experienced the greatest

moment of his life and he's like let's go make history coach and he's like crying on the other

end of the phone and Sean yeah he's like yeah so anyway yeah he's like not paying attention he's

totally disengaged he's totally emotionally like checked out he's mad at less need I can tell I

don't care what he says I'll make that assumption the Rams have the dumbest draft strategy in the NFL

and that's saying something because the 49ers and John Lynch are using chat GPT to make their pick so

I think the Rams ultimately and we may find out this and you know what eight months I can't help

wonder if the Rams did the Broncos a favor and they're going to lose the Super Bowl because they

didn't take Kenyans to Deek who I like and what their first round pick against the Broncos I love it

well I'm going to say something that's going to be considered to be blasphemous on this program but

you ask the question and I'm going to give my take not not so much surprise but addressing things

of me I got to stay within the FC West and look at the Kansas City Chiefs what they did they took

four defensive guys to fill some major holes and went within a defensive side of the ball and they

feel as though that was a part of their team that had drastically changed over the years and I

agreed to a certain point because when you look at Spags defense and the reason why the Chiefs made

it to a couple of Super Bowls it was because of his defense being able to turn the ball over being

able to turn those turnovers into points from a defensive standpoint and being able to shut teams

down a slow the run game so they knew that they had to adjust they just watched the Denver Broncos

defense going back to back years increasing and franchise sack totals so they knew they had to

make some changes and they lost two gods in a secondary to the Rams so they they they needed to

kind of to re up so this is the organization that I even last year when Patrick Mahomes was

struggling then he got injured a lot of Broncos fans celebrating like oh the Kansas City Chiefs

are on the downside no they are not buddy and by them reloading on the defensive side of the

ball it gives them a chance just like any of the 31 other teams it doesn't necessarily mean

that's going to get you to the Super Bowl but I thought they did a great job because from a running

running back standpoint they got Walker and then they added Emma Johnson from Nebraska so they're

telling you right now what they want to do they want to stop people on defense and they want to

run the ball and if you really think about it that's less kind of philosophy sound really familiar

that's exactly what the Denver Broncos want to do I think it's a fair point and it's going to be

interesting to see how the AAC West shapes up this year because you know what does Kansas City

look like you know when this Patrick Mahomes come back obviously the Chargers got McDaniels now right

the Raiders sure I don't think you're going to be very good this year it seems like they have

a bit of foundation moving forward and of course I mean how the Broncos are doing the the team that

I'll highlight here is the Arizona Cardinals and I understand why they take Jeremiah love

but like it feels like you could have traded out of that pick for a team that want to move up and get

Jeremiah love and get some assets they also draft Carson Beck like that was a definition of me it

just darts on a dark board and hoping that one of them hits a bulls I mean that's just

either out here was not very happy no I mean that that organization just seems like a relatively

ship if you're going to draft Jeremiah love why not keep Kyler Murray at that point you know who's

over there Nathaniel Hackett's over there is it kind of makes sense yeah the worst owner I mean

arguably one of the worst owners in the league right now and their fan base talks about that all

the time and so they're just a poorly run organization that has no vision that nobody wanted to go be

the head coach of that they can't decide who to even take with the third overall pick they're

taking the dead money on Kyler Murray they have no plan at quarterback behind Ty Simpson other than

Carson Beck like miss me I'm glad to not be an Arizona Cardinals fan or any part of that media

situation either because like covering that team would be a nightmare like and I like the core of

Jeremiah love and Marvin Harrison Jr. Tramick Bri one of the best tight ends in the game but talk

about not being able to look in the mirror and and it's like people who think that they can sing and

they go on American Idol and everybody laughs because they suck so bad yeah that's what the

Cardinals are the equivalent of as an NFL franchise is like we're an NFL team baby you know what I'm

saying like and they get up and they look themselves in the mirror every day and they're like I can sing

dang it my mom says I can sing and then they go onto the field and they're like oh wait we're going

back to the top 10 of the draft every single year the Cardinals are a joke and I like I like Jeremiah

love I think he's gonna do well in the NFL but they have no that this yeah the Cardinals are

do the broader back play them this year do they are the Broncos yeah great good news that's

all you need to know so Sarah just called the Arizona Cardinals William Hong she bangs she bangs

why does everybody ask me that who the heck is that oh my gosh I love it I love it I love it well

yeah definitely some interesting draft from the Rams the Cardinals the chiefs the jets of the

Steelers had an interesting approach the 49ers as well yeah stay clean terrible 49ers terrible

I mean this is this this draft was bad and that's why the Broncos trading for Jalen Waddle

circle it all back was such an awesome decision like in hindsight especially this draft stunk

the Broncos got the right guy and they've got the right guys running this thing that's why like

Cody said the draft boards who freaking cares what the draft boards say although the Broncos

aligned more with the consensus this year than any year previous that I can remember and still

these folks are giving them C C plus grade C minus I I could go on and on guys so Anil you go

ahead and shut down this show because well we'll have some fun with it on Friday as well but yeah

no two thumbs up for the Broncos and how they approach the draft ultimately we'll see how these guys

end up projecting in their rookie season but I think we're all on board with the direction that

the Denver Broncos took but a good stuff today as always gentlemen for Cody works here about

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