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or not, they've signed someone. We're going to break it down live from the

Xfinity studio here inside the DNVR bar and we are the DNVR Broncos podcast. Got my

guy Henry Chisholm. We got Dion behind the camera and it is March madness.

Season Zach seems rocking and rolling with you. Henry, how are we feeling on the

first day of March madness? Feeling good. Just watching basketball. So Lexi's at

town, which she was disappointed about to miss all this. But she's on the other

side of the country, which means for the next four days, it's all basketball.

I can't even imagine how much basketball you're going to watch. It's going to be

pretty crazy. I'm sure people can guess what's behind Henry's screen. No, because

this is America. And in America, we have March madness on during the work day.

If you're not doing that, then you should probably get kicked out or something.

It should probably just be a holiday today and tomorrow, because productivity has to

drop for everyone in America. And also the day after Super Bowl should be a

holiday, which actually, I believe in a couple of years, when they expand to 18

games, they'll push Super Bowl back to President's Day weekend so that Monday will be a

day off. I hope everyone is enjoying some college basketball today. And we can enjoy

it because the Broncos have finally made an outside free agent signing on today's show.

We got a big show. We're going to hear from Jalen Waddle, who talked to the media for

the first time since the trade went through. We're also going to talk to Brian Baldinger

about the trade and what Jalen Waddle brings to the Broncos. But let's first start off

with the breaking news of the day, Henry. The Broncos have officially signed their first

outside free agent. And it's a backup safety Tyson Anderson from the Cincinnati Bengals.

Does this move just get you going? I've been saying I've I'd really like some defenders

from that Bengals defense. That's what that's what the Broncos are missing. But no, it's

a backup safety. I was on the draft pod this morning. So I haven't had a chance to really

dig in too deep. But the fit makes sense. It seems like the doors very much open for a drafted

safety. You wonder what they're going to do with the third safety position. And when

you make a move like this, you say, you're probably not going getting like some exceptional

third safety to plug in who's like, could should be a starter somewhere. But we're going

to try to use three safeties. And it didn't make sense for them for a lot of reasons.

When you make this move, you say, okay, it should be a tick in front of Jale Skinner and

Devon Key in terms of just like what he's done in defense because he played a whole bunch

for the Bengals. I believe in the past couple of years, I did like the quick research yesterday

when there was the rumor and then stopped immediately when the rumor stopped. But it does

leave the door open. I think when you've got kind of those vets, the special teams guys,

it leaves the door very much open to go draft a safety as well to kind of throw in there.

But you no longer feel like we have to draft one early who we think can play right away.

It's a good, good clean move. Probably not much to worry about.

Yeah, exactly. It's probably going to come in near the vet minimum there. Last year,

he played 6% of the Bengals defense and snaps. So he actually wasn't a reason that the Bengals

defense was that bad. He played 83% of the special team snaps. So core special teams guy.

And Henry, what's interesting about this is the Broncos and Sean Payton's got here.

They've made one of these signings, the second week of free agency, every single year.

And not a single of those guys has actually like made the team or had an impact on the team.

But it seems like when they sign these guys, it's like, okay, there's your veteran special team

are just going to be great. Since the Broncos and Sean's been here, they've signed these guys,

and they just have not panned out. So we'll see if he pans out. And honestly,

this is going to be a little bit of a test for JL Skinner and for Devon Key. Like, can you beat out

fourth year guy that we're bringing in to be the backup safety? And so this is just competition

at that safety spot. And we'll see where it goes from there. But the Broncos first move

is unsurprisingly special teams because they like to pick up those type of veterans right there.

That's the update on the front of Broncos free agency. We'll see if they continue to make moves

this weekend or next weekend. Probably more moves along these lines, especially after the big

move that the Broncos made by trading for Jaylin Waddle. And the trade became official. You guys

did an awesome 90 minute special show yesterday. I was supposed to join you. And to break down

Jaylin Waddle's press conference. And then his press conference was an hour and five minutes

after the time that they expected. So wasn't able to. But we've got it all for you right now. And

before we dive in Henry, the news everyone wanted to hear. Jaylin Waddle is officially

wearing number 17 with the Broncos. Yeah. No, I make sense. He was going to get that one more

the other. Good for him. Can start ordering the jerseys, I guess. You like it? Yeah. Yeah.

It's his number. I was going to say actually think 17 is a bad number for a receiver, but he pulls

it off well. And it is his number. Back at Bami, he was wearing it. He wore it Miami. So absolutely

love that. I think there's going to be a lot of 17 jerseys in the stands this coming season.

Yeah. No, I'm curious where he would rank. They'll definitely make them. Oh, yeah. They'll

make them. They make court. And so you'd think those are kind of the two receivers. They'd make

dobbins last year. I wonder if they start making them this year. Make dobbins. No. I mean, one year

deal. Sign and lay. Yeah. Obviously made bow. And then I think they made some Evan Ingram at some

point, but I don't remember seeing a lot of them. So I was kind of your group. I think they made

some more Marvin jerseys than you might have expected as well. Okay. But yeah, it's kind of

interesting, but you'd think Waddle will be a big seller. Yeah. I would think so. I definitely

think he'd be a big seller there. And so Henry, before we dive in and actually get to hear from

Jalen Waddle. Yes. Thank you. Before we hear from Jalen Waddle, I want to make a point about

when we heard from Jalen Waddle yesterday, this is the first time that in the Sean Peyton era,

the Broncos have had an introductory press conference for a free agent signing or someone that

was traded. So first time in the Sean Peyton era. And it's not like the Broncos haven't gone out

and made some big time moves. Obviously, they spent like hundreds of millions of dollars the

first year with Michael Glynchee, Zach Allen, Ben Powers. The next year, they had that down year

where they weren't able to spend a lot because they had the cap pit of Russell Wilson. But last year,

they went out and they spent money, Evan Ingram, Dre Green, LaTalino, Huffunga. The only way that

we were able to hear from those guys was Benny got them on the show last year. He did not have

those guys. None of those guys had introductory press conferences except for Jalen Waddle.

Which is interesting because so you go back through and say, Zach Allen, Ben Powers, Mike Glynchee

was the first class. McGlynchee, probably the biggest name of the group. If anybody got one too.

Yep. If anybody would have got one, you'd think he would be kind of highest rated.

But Waddle would beat him out just in terms of like,

right. Goodness. I guess. Yeah. Yeah. You go through and say,

nothing the year after would have moved the needle. But the Funga Greenlock Ingram is

interesting. We would have thought all three of those. Right. Because they're very,

they would be about in that Jalen Waddle tier of player. All like different paths to get there.

Maybe Greenlock the lowest. It's helpful to Funga because the all pro. Right.

Is a separator. Right. But then with the injuries and some of that, you're a little bit removed.

So yeah, I am surprised. And I think the whole reason for that was when Sean came here,

if you remember, his whole thing and his opening press conference was we're not going to show you

what we're doing, but no, we're working behind the scenes. We're working. We're not going to show

it. And so he brought that attitude because it was a complete opposite of what the Broncos had

the year before when they literally followed the Broncos around in their coaching search and put

it out on social media and on YouTube. And obviously Russell Wilson was all about grabbing the headlines

and the attention and Sean say we're putting an end to all of that. But I think this shows just how

significant it is for the Broncos internally that they wanted to go and show off Jalen Waddle.

It's also the first time that any free agent or trade has done an interview with the Broncos

themselves right after Eric DeLaladita, a one-on-one right after. So it's significant. And you know

who signs off on all this? Sean Payton, right? These things don't happen if Sean Payton doesn't have

the approval right there. And so it just shows how pumped Sean is for this. So it was actually

was kind of a big moment yesterday. Now we didn't get to see him in person, but he was in the Broncos,

past the physical, became official right after the show ended yesterday. And now we got to hear

from him. And I'll tell you what, man, he is a stand-up guy. He's a fantastic teammate. We just

continue to hear stories come out of Miami from teammates, but also from media members that are like

dang. He was one of the bright spots in a low season for the dolphins last year. I'm going to

miss talking to him. So we get to interact with him. Broncos country gets to fall in love with him.

And I think Broncos country is already beginning to fall in love with him. And so let's,

let's hear from Jalen Waddle. And let's hear from him right after this break.

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And welcome back to the DMVR Broncos podcast here. A Jalen Waddle special part two. Henry,

let's hear from Jalen Waddle. He doesn't get very long answers. But short and sweet gets to the

point. And let's hear his initial impression of the Broncos and what the first 24 hours of being

a Bronco has been like. It's been great. My time has been great. It feels like home, feel like

family. Everyone's been welcoming. So it's been great. Boom, it's been great. Feels like home,

feels like family already. Man, it must have been a great 24 hours with it feeling like home

and family already. I think the biggest thing I learned from the press conference yesterday is

he's not much of a talker. Yeah. Doesn't really have much to say. And then you

realize that he's like best friends with Pat's or Tan. You're like, okay, it makes sense.

They probably just sit there and look at each other. Wow. No need to talk. Oh, they need

his other's company. Yeah. He doesn't, doesn't speak for long, but he is a very nice guy.

Too nice. One of the things that really stood out to me, though, and we'll get to this with

some other answers. Actually, you know what? No, let's just dive into it. No, I'm not sure which

angle to take. If we want to hear from him more right now, or if we want, oh, oh, actually,

this is where I was going to go shout out to Parker Gabriel for this scoop. So one of the reasons

why it feels like home and feels like family is so he found out about the trade Monday morning,

went to the Dolphins facility and said goodbye to everyone there. Then he flew immediately to

Denver. So he was in Denver on Monday night. And he had dinner with Bo Nix and some of the Broncos

teammates on Monday night before that getting into the building on Tuesday, passing his physical

officially trade going through. So that's a really cool thing. Bo did that right right away,

even with a baby just a couple weeks old. Yeah. If I had a baby, I'd be trying to get away from

the baby too. Yeah. No, it's it's good. We like we like when they go to dinner. Yeah, with

their with their teammates, we I like it. You're being said. Yeah. No, no, no, it's a good thing.

That's yeah, I'm sorry. Broncos to crack to me said it was Tuesday night for everything.

I need some. Oh, the throat. What do they call the throwing the throwing camp? Oh, yeah. Yeah,

yeah. Those those really only matter when you're a Peyton Manning or when you don't have a

quarterback and then they do the the passing camp and then you're like, oh, man, this guy's

taken taken leadership right now. Exactly. Simeon's doing exactly. No, not doing it, I think.

And then it's you blow that out of proportion. But with Bo here, no worries on that end.

Okay. So what what does Jalen say? He brings to the Broncos. Let's hear from him.

Um, I think I'm just bringing another playmaker to the team.

Um, someone that can help out and, um, you know, try to make plays the best of my ability.

Pretty spot on. I mean, we saw his second year in the NFL when he was the playmaker in the

NFL, led the NFL in yards per catch it over 18 yards. And I think that's a very precise way

because he's not just a route runner. He's not just a deep threat. He's not just a yards after

the catch guy. Uh, he's, he's an everything guy. He's a playmaker. And that's exactly what he is.

It is interesting. I think the next gen stats, one of those guys brought, uh, posted this morning.

But so top speeds on routes, 22, there are 2022 and 2023. He hit 20 miles per hour, 20 times.

Wow. 2024 and 2025 only two times. So, so RK and I talked about yesterday's look like there's

a touch less, but he's made up for that because he's just been like, he knows what he's doing now.

Like he actually is playing receiver versus at the time. It's more so just like run really fast.

Um, it was kind of kind of interesting. Yeah. And I mean, someone in the toy to Chad Jake is

playing out here in a four, three, six, 40 time. I think it's also going to be, I think Sean is

really Sean and Davis Web are going to use the Broncos speed with Marvin Mims with Waddle with

Troy Franklin, uh, by wearing teams down and defenses out by just sending all of these guys

on go routes left and right. So by the time the third quarter and fourth quarter come around,

especially when people are playing in Denver in the mile high, they're just, they're absolutely

gas and then Waddle can just burn by him right there. Um, we also have a, uh, comment from Jake

who says he's sort of mentor the young ins. That's not the only reason he's here, but I absolutely

loved his approach yesterday when talking about the receiver room. He was asked, what's it like to

be, uh, the number one receiver here? How does that change? He completely shrugged that off and

said there's not a number one here. And then he, he went on to go and talk about the wide receiver

room. And I thought this answer was great, which is how much praise he heaped on this entire

receiver room, despite yesterday being about him. So let's hit the clip about him talking about

the lot of talent in the receiver room. It's gonna be a fun group. Um, they got a lot of talent,

court, mar, Troy, Pat, the Jordan, um, I'm here to help in every, you know, fashion, um,

making plays, um, and I'm learning, I'm excited to learn from them and them to learn from me. So

it should be fun. It should be great. I love that he went through and listed every receiver except

for Bandy. Sorry. Sorry Michael Bandy, but Russell Wilson. He, it is, it is. He hit a little

Jordan. He hit court. He didn't even call him like Marvin Mims. He said, Marb. He knows, he

said court. He knows these guys nicknames. All right. I clearly these guys are probably a dinner

as well. Uh, Troy, I love that. I think this is, uh, this is just shows the type of person

and the type of teammate and the type of player that the Broncos are getting is in a world full of

devil wide receivers. Yeah. The Broncos are getting someone that fits in this room extremely well

and it just reminds me of Cortland Sutton because Cortland Sutton, uh, could have been a devil wide

receiver the past seven years with the Broncos, but instead he's just been the ultimate me guy. I

mean, we've seen him have a game against the Norland Saints where he had zero catches and he didn't

complain about that right after you see some other guys around the league that get zero catches

in a game. And even if the, even if the team wins like the Broncos did, uh, they just start freaking

out on the sidelines, start reading books, start complaining to the media. And that's just not the

culture that Sean Peyton's setting here. So he clearly did his homework. The Broncos did and

Sean did with, uh, with Jalen and man, they got a team first guy, not a me first guy. There was

another answer. Well, he was asked about his personal goals, uh, and he completely shrugged that

off and just pointed to team goals, uh, doing anything I can to help the team win and, and stack

wins left and right. So I think that this is, uh, this is really impressive because this is the

one position that on the entire team that you have to kind of worry about like, okay, are we getting

divas? And the Broncos don't have those divas here. Yeah. AJ Brown would have never named all the

other receivers. Yeah. No, no. He would just said those other guys. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He

probably would have been like, yeah, it feels great to be the number one without Devante Smith

breathing the down my neck right now. And it's like, dude, come on. What are you doing, man? Right.

So actually, we have that clip when he was asked, what are your personal and team goals?

What do you, uh, what, what do those look like? Here was his answer.

I wouldn't say nothing personal. Um, I would say for the team, um, just take a week by week, um,

and you know, try to go out there and play a good brand of football and, um, you know, try to

stack some wins together. Um, I think I'm just bringing another. I love it. It's, uh, team first,

not me first, uh, and I think that this is something that Sean Peyton values so, so much.

And that's why he brought guys back like Justin and Alex Singleton, uh, and, uh, moved on from

other guys, not just this past year, but in years past where it wasn't that vibe as much. And

even though Sean Peyton, I trust him being able to handle any character inside of a building. Uh,

he doesn't want to have to do that. And he knows how sacred that locker room is. So I think that's

just think that my biggest takeaway from yesterday, because I knew how good of a player.

Jayden Water was before yesterday, but that was my biggest takeaway yesterday. It was man,

they got, they got a really good guy too. And if you're best friends with Pat, Pat's about

as good of a guy as you can get, probably mean you're a good guy as well. Yeah. No, I definitely.

And he also said that he wants, uh, he wants Pat to, uh, show them the ways in the community and

get him involved in some charity work. So, um, he's pressing the buttons. He's sitting all the

buttons right here. What was the quiet? Oh, I think it was, are you going to get involved in the

community? Yeah. That guy knows the stuff. No, I don't think so. I think, I think I'm just

going to focus on the football. Um, speaking of Pat's or Dan, they've got a unique bond. Of course,

they played football at Alabama together. They both came in as freshmen in 2018. Both one

and national championship together in 2020. Both went in the 2021 draft. Both were top 10 picks.

Jalen Wattow went sixth overall. Pat's or Dan went ninth overall. And they have been best friends

since they were roommates together at Alabama, uh, and inseparable at Alabama and the draft process.

Now they were separated over the past couple of years, one in Miami, uh, the other one in Denver.

And so Jalen talked about joining Pat as teammates now. Here's what he said.

Um, it was special. He was one of the first cars that I made. Um, you know, we talked about this

early and not career. We want to get together and play with each other. So just seeing it happen.

And, um, it's special. The dream come true for these guys. I wasn't ready for that. I thought

that was important. Did you not listen to the other four clips? They're all about eight to 10 seconds

by on the plane. That's the key. Oh, man. Uh, yeah. PR loves it. This land on the plane left and right.

Um, and he's, uh, I, I could let's do it for much longer though, because he just sounds like he

has so much joy at the very end. He yelled a big thank you to the media for talking with him today

or yesterday. Um, and man, it's going to be, and then so the other thing about Pat's or Dan,

the viral clip that went out this past week when Jalen was asked, he was at a boxing UFC boxing

fighting. I don't know what it was. Who's like an off brand? I don't know what it was.

Octagon. They were in a cage or something. They were in something. Jalen wasn't there. He was

just watching. And he was asked, um, with a guy holding a PlayStation 2 remote as, uh, yeah,

as a microphone, which I thought was very interesting. I don't live in that. We're, I live in the football

world. Not the, yeah, I was shocked by that as well. Mid-tier MMA world. But so this guy asked Jalen,

if you could fight any player in the NFL in a ring who would it be? And Jalen immediately said

Pat's or Dan and said he'd beat the F out of him. And then went on to say he beat the dog shit

out of the body. And so that went viral online. He obviously said it playfully as a joke. Uh,

and then Pat, quote, tweeted it and said, you have a little too much drip in your chip.

Dip on your chip. Thank you, Dion. You want to translate that for me? I, well, I'd rather,

what would the translation of Zaxby? I don't know. I think you have a little too much confidence.

If you just put some earrings on your chip, trip on your chip. On your chip? What is your chip?

A metaphor. Right. Oh, there's kids.

Oh, it literally means that. Oh, right, right. I thought I was talking about Bella jewelry he

was wearing. I'm like, he's not actually wearing jewelry. So then you imagine drip on the chip

would then be like a chain or like some, but why would too much be bad? I mean, I think you can

never put enough salsa on a chip. The chip would just be a weird place to put it. Well, right.

Oh, it's about having a ring. I see. So Pat's calling him out for being five, ten, one,

eighty five and not six, three, two, five, like him. Also, Dion producer might actually be our

intermediary considering he was teammates with Jalen Waddle. Did you get the scoop from him yesterday?

I don't know when you asked him. Dion, did they ask you about him yesterday? We got to get the

whole story right now. So Dion, you grew up with Jalen Waddle. You were teammates with him. You

also are on a magazine with him. Why have we just not toss the show to you yet? Dion, take over.

No, I played seven on seven with the Jalen. So don't downplay that.

If you could think about it, like obviously the best players from the entire city were trying to

come together to be on the same team. Right. We played on seven on seven together. So if you look

up fast seven on seven Houston, you'll probably see some crazy Jalen Waddle highlights. If you look

up Jalen Waddle, a piscable high school crazy highlights because his high school was like maybe 10

minutes away from one. Yep. So were you were you going up against him one on one? No, because we were both

like I played running back. I played a little slot behind him. You know what I mean? But I played

running back. So we're both on offense. But for us, it was just about cooking the defense. Did you

did you know he was that good? He's been a freak forever. There's a stand that came out. They said

in high school, he scored on 54% of his targets. That's pretty crazy. He was targeted. Every time he

called the ball, he scored a touchdown. That's pretty crazy. That is wild, holy cow. Man, there you

go. One of one of Jalen Waddle's teammates, you're going to have to lure him into the not lure him.

But you're going to have to get him into the bar and on the show. That is that is really,

really cool. And obviously then Jalen Waddle, I mean, everyone knew he was that good coming out

of high school because he was five star, went to Alabama, played pretty much right away. How about

this stat? This blows my mind about how good Jalen Waddle was in Alabama, his final season,

which was only his third year at Alabama. Henry, in the first four games of the season, they were

all against SEC teams. And he had almost 600 receiving yards, four touchdowns, I think 26

catches. He was averaging 150 yards per game. And then he broke his ankle to effectively end

the season. He came back to the national championship game win the Alabama won the national championship.

So he was there for that. But he was on pace for one of the best seasons that a receivers

ever had. And he did this against SEC competition. That just shows how good he was and why he was

a six overall pick. He also have Lance Zeerlein. Zeerlein, right? Yeah, that's a draft analyst who,

wait, let me just pull up this quote because I want to make it get it right. Coming out of the draft,

Lance said about Jalen Waddle thrilling game breaking talent who will come into the league is one of

the fastest receivers to ever play the game. That's who the Broncos got. Playmaker fastest hell.

He's been special since he was 14, according to Dion. And man, Broncos getting absolute dog.

Good guy speaking, a good guys. Let's ask Brian Baldinger, his opinion on Jalen Waddle. That's coming

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And shout out to everyone who's tuning in with us. We need a Baldi emoji for the supporters club

people because I mean, we've already got a lot of people dropping in just Baldi's right now.

What would that be? How would you make a Baldi emoji? It'd be the crooked pinky.

Yeah. So just like a fist and then the feet, the pinky.

You can have the open hand with the pinky off to the side.

Yeah, that's true. Like really out to the side. I like that. That's a good one.

Baldi was looking sharp last week when we talked to him. Excited to talk to him today.

A couple more notes on Jalen Wadow when I was just scanning things, was hoping to give them to

you guys yesterday, but wasn't able to with with the Broncos press conference going long.

He had the second he's he's an elite vertical threat.

He had the second most receptions on vertical routes last year at 21 court and

Sutton right behind him at 20. The Broncos have two of the top five guys in terms of efficiency

and connection on on vertical routes last year. It's this is going to be not game changing

because both already good at throwing the deep ball, but it's going to just take him to number

one in the league in terms of being a deep ball passer. And the crazy thing about this is

it's going to prove everyone wrong who just thought he was a check down merchant.

Even people last year were still calm down merchant. Jalen Wadow is only going to help with that.

And let's go out to the Xfinity mobile call in line where we've got our guy Brian

Baldinger Baldi last week. He told us on the show you you were thinking Broncos are going to

trade for a receiver and they did Jalen Wadow is a Denver Bronco. What's your initial thought

on him joining the Broncos? Initial thought was wow. I mean to give up the first

a third and a fourth to go get a receiver. It seems like a pretty high price tag, but it kind

of makes the team pretty complete right now. You know when you think about what they have added

whether it's bringing JK Dobbins back, you know bringing the majority of the defense back.

I think Bonix has to love it. He's 27 years old. He's been highly productive, highly healthy.

He's a great route runner. I think it's time for Broncos fans to learn how to do the

Wadow right now because obviously when he gets to the end zone, that's what he's going to do.

Yeah, it's interesting because it's been a few years since somebody's traded a first round

pick for a receiver. And so you go back and look at those guys from 2022 where they're a bunch.

And you see like AJ Brown, for example, down in Tennessee, getting like a thousand yards of

season and then immediately jumps up to the 1400s per season when he leaves Tennessee gets to

Philly. You see Stefan Diggs, very similar, that 1100 with Minnesota goes on and leads the NFL

in receiving yards with Buffalo, 1500, 1500. I think back to back years in Buffalo. Do you think

that when we look at Wadow who's producing it about the same level as those guys did is the

upgrade from that two attack by Loa, Mike McDaniel offense to the Champaite and Bonix offense,

the type of jump that could lead to that sort of change in terms of production?

I don't know. He's had some unbelievable years. He led the league in yards per catch,

18 yards of catch. He's had a thousand yard seasons. When two was healthy and him and Tyrick

were going, I was pretty explosive offense. I mean, no Bronco fan wants to remember today,

these scored 70 against him, but you know, that being said, we got to see how he, like how he can

choose, because I think you can use him in a variety of ways. I think he can play inside. He can play

outside. You can run him in motion. You can have him as a match-up guy right now. I think the offense

is a whole lot better. I think Portland Sutton in his role as a true extra seeker gets a little

bit more defined right now because they got a real speed guy that can work the middle of the field.

He's an excellent route runner. This is a question right now of building timing with Boat at this

point. Yeah, and Baldy, you mentioned court just how much this helps him. What do you think this

means for the other receivers on the team? Troy Franklin, Marvin Mims, Pat Ryan.

Well, if you want to get on the field and you want to be a part of this offense, it's going to make

that room very competitive, you know, just to get playing time. Did you know Cortland and Jalen

are going to be out there? So depending on the sets, depending on down distance, who's going to

be the third? Is it going to be Troy? Which guy is going to be the number three receiver? Very few

teams put four receivers on the field at one time anymore. We just don't see it. So not to say that.

And this has really been Sean's thing. I mean, there are two back offense. Most teams in this league

are heavy, two tight ends. We've seen the emergence of three tight ends sets throughout the league.

So you want to be that third receiver right now. All right, Pat Bryant, Troy, like, you know,

Marvin, like who's who's going to be that guy? I think it's going to be very, very competitive to see

who gets it. Yeah, I'm excited just to see what Jalen looks like on the field. Like you said,

how they use him because the deep stuff, the speed we've seen it, like you just can't cover him

down field and all the different because it could be the post, it could be the corner. But underneath,

I was surprised how effective he is. Like those speedouts, the way that he's able to get the

release force of guy inside break back out. He seems to, is it crazy? Say he's one of the league's

better route runners. He's a good route runner. I don't know if he's Jackson Smith and Jigba good.

Stefan Dixon is prime good, but he's good because, you know, the key to being a great route runner

honestly is, it's, it's, it sounds simple, but it's hard is can you, can you change direction

without losing speed? Like you, they're out. You're just talking about it. You just run a speed out

and against them and I don't care who you are at corner. Like you're going to respect the speed.

You're going to give them some cushion. And so he, he makes it look like he's running just a go route.

He breaks it off and he's coming back to the ball. I mean, I feel like that's there just about

any time he wants it. There's going to be some pretty easy completions. You don't want to run that

go route and make it is, you know, stop at 15, come back to 12. Like he can do that with the best

of them. So the speed and his burst gets him open quite a bit. And so there's really no route he

can't run right now. I love that, Baldi. And one of the things you told us going into free agency

was probably the number Broncos number one need, I believe you said, is a is a true number one

receiver. It was no disrespect to any of the receivers on the Broncos roster. And, and we

totally understood where you were coming from. Does Jalen fit that? Is he that good where he is

that true number one that the Broncos now have? He's better than what they have. I don't know if he's

the best number one. But I think the number one receiver, it gets a tag which is, which is,

which is important. But it's, is do you have a go to guy when you got to make a play? Like I think

that's what the go the number one receivers do. Like, like they just put them in places where they

know they can win. They know they can get that third down completion. They know they can get a

drive starter. They can finish drives. I don't know. Because like you said, okay, DK Metcalfs

the number one. He is, but he can't run routes the way Jalen water can. Now, would you like a

six foot four X that can run like DK? Yeah. But they're hard to find. You know, his size, I think

that's the only, that's the only thing that knocks him down just a little bit. Like he just isn't

that big presence. Even Justin Jefferson is bigger. Jamar is stronger. You can pick a part

different guys. But I think he's a complete receiver. And so there's a place for Jalen water

on the slate to be, you know, to get hard target in 120 times, which I think he will this year.

Yeah. And I'm curious how Sean likes the bigger receivers. He likes the big targets.

It makes a lot easier, especially for a young quarterback to see him and then hit him. And if

you miss it a little bit right, he's got the long arms to be able to reach out and make those

grabs. One of the things that Tua is really good at, even as, you know, they've been like the

ups and downs is just those touch throws in the placement on some of those. And a lot of Jalen

success over the middle seems like it's coming on like layered throws over the linebackers

or just hitting perfectly in stride. Do you worry at all that maybe Jalen did look a little

bit better in the middle of the field because Tua had some of that, which is something, you know,

Bo just hasn't been all that successful over the middle of the field yet.

I would say the one thing about Tua is he was in, he saw the field very well. And he was in a

hurry to get rid of the football. And the more injuries he incurred, the quicker he got rid of

the football. So he needed a guy to win quickly. And that's what Tyrick and that's what Jalen did.

I call him the blurred brothers for a couple of years when they played together because it was

just what it was. But I think he could win quickly in the middle of the field. Now Bo is not in

that big of a hurry. The way Tua was to get rid of the football. So in some ways, it may allow

him to develop deeper routes than what he's did. Unless you just do a go route on three steps and

just put it up there. Let him go run underneath it. He wasn't really running a lot of those routes.

So I think with Bo, he might have a chance to actually get him on some deeper routes than what

he's running right now, which should open up everybody underneath. And then so Baldi with the

younger blur brother in Denver. Now, what does that mean for Bo and his expectations? Because we saw

a really impressive Ricky season. We saw a jump in year two. Now with this sort of weapon,

can we expect another significant jump in year three or with just how good he's been these

first two years? Should we temper the jump expectation? It's hard to make the same jump that he just made.

You know, to make another quantum leap like that. But I he just looks like a player that's just

going to continue to improve. Third year in the system. Not a lot of guys get that luxury in

this late three years in the same system. Same play call or I know Sean's not going to

technically calling plays, but same system. Like I think it's a luxury right now, especially

young guy that you know played a lot of games at college. You know, you look at him now in the last

five years. He's going to he's going to play over a hundred games. Like he's played a lot of

football and they go into his third year this off season. Healthy third year in the system.

You add water right now. I think there's another jump form. You know, because he's been largely

healthy up until obviously, you know, the last injury, but which was just weird to me. But, you know,

largely he's going to be just fine here this off season. And I think a third year in a system,

I would expect another jump. I just don't know how big, but you know, they're going to be the

favorites to win the division this year. And you know, you look at the roster. You can look at,

you know, they still have seven draft picks left. They don't they can just sit there and

literally take the best player available at any position right now because I feel like the roster

is pretty complete. Yeah, I feel that way too. I'm curious what you think about Kourtland Sutton's

role in this offense, because it's getting like that true X they isolate him a lot. We saw a lot

of that from Jalen Waddle as well last year, especially after Tyree went down. Do you think they

use Kourtland differently? And what does just the game look like for Kourtland now that you do have

a receiver like Jalen on the other side? You're probably drawing more number two corners. Yeah, I,

you know, like, you know, look, Kourtland is going to beat a lot of corners. It's just because of his

size and, you know, his ability to use his size. I mean, he's not as big as Michael Thomas was

when Sean had him into Orleans when nobody could cover him just because of his size. Like, I don't

think he's going to get targeted like that. Well, there was a great place for Kourtland Sutton right

now. You know, you might see a lot of that where Jalen might draw the number one corner. I don't

know that that's going to be a big deal. A lot of teams don't have that type of defense where they

just get these corners that travel with your best receiver. There's so many different ways to move

these guys around now. You see Jamar and Justin. You see these guys are all over the field now.

Just to, just to be able to, you know, get guys off press coverage, you know, stack routes and

bunch formations. There's so many ways to kind of loosen things up right now. The way play callers

are designing offense. So I think there's a good place for Kourtland. I don't know that he's kind

of have a diminished role just because Jalen's coming in this. They're going to have two really

good receivers that can win in a variety of ways right now. Baldi, final football won for you here.

You mentioned the draft Broncos don't have the first pick until 60 second in the draft after

trading that first rounder away. And you mentioned Broncos just go best player available. If,

if you got to choose though, which position it is, which position do you think would

would be the best use for the Broncos first pick in the draft?

I don't think you could ever go wrong with drafting in the trenches. They lost John Franklin Myers.

Like, you know, Zach Allen is not going to get younger. He's still a great player, DJ Jones.

You can't go wrong. He's a good draft for defensive front seven players, inside linebackers

and defensive line. It's a great draft for it. It's probably the strength of the draft. And

probably as good as we've seen. So you can't go wrong with drafting those positions right now.

You can't go wrong with drafting, depth of the offensive line. Just knowing contracts come up,

you want to keep somebody, you want to, you know, how much you're going to pay to keep

somebody in free age. I don't have the contracts in front of me of, you know, Ben Powers or any of

the guys, a Wattenberg or any of the guys up front right now. But you can't go wrong with just

adding depth to those positions. Absolutely. Love it, Baldi. Before you get out of here, the weather's

been incredible. I know you've had to spend some time in the ocean here. What's the most recent

marine animal that you've seen down there? Well, I wasn't there, but like, right, I'm in

Fort Lauderdale right now, but right off the coast, late last week, there was a whale sighting,

like literally 500 feet off shore. Wow. Okay. Now, I've never seen a whale, all right, in

Fort Lauderdale ever. I've never heard one. You can hear him from miles away. But I'm going out

there. It's rough today. It's too rough to go out there today. But as soon as it comes down,

I'm going out there to look for that whale. I love it. I'm going to be looking for updates on

the whale watch and look forward to catching up with you next week, Baldi. Thanks for joining us.

My pleasure, guys. Enjoy it, man. See you.

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before in Fort Lauderdale. That is the same thought. It's also nice just to have things

to ask Baldi about. Where did they go? Last week, we thought we were going to have

three or four free agents to talk to you about. Tell us about Alex Singleton,

which we've asked you about before. Instead, he just get to dig into everything about

Jalen Waddle. What do you think of his impression of Jalen?

Which part? I think he basically got it right. Jalen is limited. There are things that other

receivers can do that he can't do. Just because of his size? Yeah, just because of his size.

He's a smaller target. You don't see so many of the toe tap tracking the ball with the

sideline catches, which occasionally those smaller receivers sometimes have more like you think of

like Antonio Brown was just like a magician on the sidelines and would always real those in.

Justin Jefferson's another guy a little bit bigger, obviously, but makes some of those like

tricky over the shoulder where you say if you can just put the ball right on him, he's going

to find a way to get it. And then there's obviously the bigger guys who can go up and just

catch the ball over the top or the guys who can make the crazy one handed catches.

OBJ and I'd say like hands are even potentially like a plus for Jalen.

They just aren't like the freaky plus that separates that top tier of like

Jamar Chase once a game. Yours can be like, wait, he was open and I didn't think he was open.

And there's like that list of like eight of those guys. Or maybe not even that many.

And then just the fact that he's a little bit smaller target. It's a lot easier to get a ball to a guy

who's bigger because it's literally just an easier throw. Like if I'm this big versus this big,

it's different. And if I'm this big, then my arms mean I'm this big. It's like, who is that

boy here? Oh, very few receiver. I mean like AJ Brown is. AJ Brown's got that with.

He didn't get it. Oh, oh, yeah. No, we're talking about something else. But yeah, I think I think

that those are kind of the limitations that make him like Baldi said, like he's not just somebody who

it's third down. He's automatically just your go to guy. But there are a lot of things that you

like based on almost anything the defense can throw at him. And so you have to he has to get that

separation in order to be successful. And luckily, he's really good at getting a separation.

Yeah. And that's a great way to put exactly what Baldi said. And it it fits an

exactly we've been talking about. We've been talking about how he is a top 10 receiver in the NFL.

Like right right around there, you can argue 12. You can probably even argue eight or seven

depending on the year. And he can continue to get up and into that top 10. Well, Baldi said

is he's he's not Jamar Chase. He's not Justin Jefferson. And I don't think anyone was expecting

that. If you wanted Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson, you probably have to give up three first

round picks, which would be an insane thing to do for a wide receiver. And instead, you gave up

the 30th pick in the draft. So I think that Baldi really played it out well to about how he

is going to benefit Courtland Sutton. This is a good thing for Courtland Sutton. And it is going

to be interesting to see how that third receiver position plays out. Does one person by the end of

the year really step up into that role and take that job for moving forward for the next few years?

Or is it just a continuous cycle of those three guys? It's going to be interesting to see. I just

really hope that Marvin Mims still gets a chance. Speaking of Marvin Mims, happy birthday, Marvin Mims

turned 24 years old today. That is insane. I feel like Jalen Wattles a pretty young receiver

for being in the league for a couple of years. He's 27. Marvin Mims has been in the year

in the NFL for what three years now. And he's turning 24. So happy birthday to our guy,

Marvin right there. But I just hope that Marvin still gets an opportunity as a receiver because

man, it seems like anytime he gets an opportunity, he just absolutely shines, including 155 receiving

yards, two touchdowns and the playoffs last year, just in two games. Incredible. Yeah. I also,

I pulled up the Madden ratings, which are always kind of like an interesting take on things.

So they have 20 guys in front of Jalen, including Court, which is kind of interesting.

But again, like you go to the top of the list and it's guys like Jamar. So what does Jamar do?

He's fast enough to beat you deep. He's got the routes to each underneath. He's physical enough

to beat the press. He can go up and while he's not the biggest himself, he plays bigger because

of the strength and the explosiveness and then just has like the insane hands to make the crazy

catches too. Yeah. And so again, like in every kind of every one of those boxes you look for,

oh, run after catch as well. Yep. You can give them the ball and screens. So in every one of those

boxes, he just grades out about as high as you can. Yep. And that's why 99 overall. But you go

through and see like, okay, Puka, similar to Wattle, I think in a lot of ways, not as fast.

Wattle has the speed. Yep. But in terms of the separation, Puka is like a step ahead and then

just has more of like the one handed like goes and gets it. And you kind of go through and just see

like where things, where things change, like a Monterey St. Brown last speed, but then even up

another tier with some of that stuff. Right. JSN, Justin Jefferson, CDLAM. Like you go through and

then realize that there is kind of that tier of like they have him near. Same, same actually

as Garrett Wilson and Malik neighbors. Malik, you would say, I'll probably say that. Right.

Exactly. Like it's something like Malik. It's both those guys in terms of like that comp.

And it's very similar because like Malik does make some of those crazy catches. First of all,

like the tracking which which adds some of that value. Yeah. Not quite as crafty as Wattle.

Garrett Wilson does make more catches outside his frame. Maybe does have a little bit more of the

routes, but doesn't have the speed. Right. So just kind of interesting. Can you go through the

tiers? Like they're a tick behind a chrysalave, a tick behind a, as a flowers, which is, again,

doesn't mean these are perfect. A tick behind the T Higgins. So I don't know. It's it's just kind of fun

to go through like the overalls or specifically Jalen's 86 started the year at an 85 got up to

an 86 by the end of the year. I love it. Let's get to 90 this year. Decay and 85 pure speed.

I wonder, say even have Wattles a tick faster, but then you have the size for all the jump ball stuff

down the field, but you don't have any of the routes. And so that's why you say Wattle in front.

And again, like not perfect ratings by any means, but just to kind of compare to the guys in

that tier. Man, there just are so many. There's so many receivers. So many good ones. So many good

enough. It's like there are so many good receivers in the NFL. So few great quarterbacks in the world.

Right. Offensive line probably goes more toward the quarterbacks where there's fewer of them.

Then you actually then you actually need receiver might be the wealthiest position in terms of

just like the talent that's there. And that's it just makes it interesting when you try to figure out

who would you prefer. Because you like you. If you were to ask me what receivers I put in front

of Jalen Wattle, Terry McLoren wouldn't come to mind. But then you see the list and you're like,

that's true. There Terry McLoren also does exist. You just wouldn't really think of it.

But even out there, it's like maybe maybe not quite as fast as Wattle, but close to it in the

craftiness and proven and all that sort of stuff. It's like what do you do with the Devante atoms at

this point? If you're planning for the future, you certainly want Wattle, but Devante is still

kind of doing his thing. Even if at any moment, it could all crash. And that's why when you say like

where does he rank against other wide receiver ones in the NFL, all of a sudden he's waiting. But

if by the end of the year, you're saying he's actually in the top eight, you're not surprised at

all, but there are just so many guys who have different skill sets or similar, whatever it may be,

who are also just coming off like a 1200 yard season or something. And you're like, well,

you have to do that. But it is it is interesting to see like Cortland in 87 Wattle in 86. And it's

just like yeah, because yeah, so Madden has Cort as a Broncos number one. Right. And if you're a

defense, how do you play? It's not it's not as simple as like if you're the Broncos, do you just put

Pat on Wattle or do you say put Pat on court? You'll go to about that with Riley on the other side

who's twitched up a little bit more. And you're probably just leaving safety help regard like

it is interesting and how you decide to defend these guys, especially just with the size differences

with that's unique size. Right. You probably are just leaving Pat on one side, Riley on the other,

you're not following your way. Probably not. And then you're right, safety help for Wattle. And if

that's what a team with like a true number one corner, right. And you don't worry too much about the

I guess drop off isn't the word because there is a significant drop off because it's Pat. But

but guys who are good at what they do on the other side of the second corner, like if if the Broncos

aren't following Jalen Wattle, if they were to game plan, you'd imagine, I mean, what what team would?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the matchup question, which which allows the Broncos to do more with those

matchups, too. Right. Like you're going to know more. So this guy's going to be on the right. This

guy's going to be on the left. Yep. And how do we want to attack? Man, it's a great point. It's a great

question. Gen X hive mind says we have one A and one B at wide receiver. As of as of today. Yeah,

exactly. As of today, I still don't think it's out of the question that the Broncos will have a

one C at wide receiver by the end of the season. And it would be, I mean, just look at Troy,

look, I mean, look at Troy's progression. Man, 200 yards as a rookie, 700 yards, his second year,

that's why I was comfortable with the Broncos going into this season with the receiver group they

had. Now, I love the addition of Jalen Wattle because it just upgrades instantly. And I still

think it allows Troy to become that guy. But man, with Troy, if he just takes another step,

not even a massive step, another step, he's at a thousand yards right there. Now, obviously,

probably hindered in terms of like actually getting there with bringing Wattle and but then memes.

What if they just actually use him as receiver like they have in certain games as like a full-time

receiver? And man, he's a thousand yard guy. He's been on incredible pace. And then Pat Brian

might be Sean's favorite receiver on the team or at least favorite young receiver on the team.

And so I mean, he just has all the upside in the world too. And that's probably a reason why

you won't see a one C receiver evolve is because they're just all three going to rotate. But man,

I think all three of those guys have the talent and opportunity to potentially become that type of

guy and be like right up there with court and Jalen in a good way. Yeah. I think

you just don't know how it's going to play out. And I've gone back and forth and back and forth

like the the fact that Jalen Wattle is he was third and catches 10 to 20 yards down field

in the middle of the field, the middle third of the field. It's like he is incredibly successful

there. Bo of every of the 33 quarterbacks he threw the most passes ranked 30 second and passer

rating out of those 33 in the middle of the field. In that particular box where Jalen Wattle is

and so like to me, this whole thing, like whether the trade was worth it, whether the Broncos

have like this high powered offense might just come down to what happens in that box.

Like is that like Jalen Wattle is the answer to that? And it turns out the problem was you just

didn't have guys like receivers who excel in that area or is it Bo just isn't great throwing

over the middle of the field. And so all of a sudden you lose some of the value that he brings.

Yeah. In a perfect world, obviously, you just say like, oh, this is perfect, which opens up

Evan Ingram underneath and all that. But that to me is the real swing is what happens in that

box 10 to 20 yards down field. Because if you get I mean, then your linebackers are off and back

and what does that do for the run game? And then the the nickel is pinching in the safeties are kind

leaning in. You're opening up the boundaries for your other guys. Like

that's what it all hinges on. And I think it's just it's kind of on Bo. It's like you know that

you have one of the, maybe he isn't one of the three best even if he was production wise,

one of the three best, but one of the very best in the league in that spot. Can you use a player

like that? If you can, then all of a sudden, that's when the huge numbers become possible. That's

when you're saying like, yeah, Jalen could get back to 1300 yards. And court could take a step

production wise, despite having somebody else because things are just so much easier for him on

the outside. Evan Ingram could take that jump. And if you have all these guys kind of taking that

step because you've unlocked that part of the field, that's where you start saying like, oh,

Bo's passing yards could just this could be the year it takes a leap and you've kind of found

the formula and it's 40, 400 or whatever from here on out. Yeah, excellent, excellent point.

We are going to wrap up this show with the super chat. And that's coming in over time. Go to

ddnvr.com where the conversation continues online. And we hit this super chat from our friend

mile high saying who says the Broncos trading for Jalen Waddle shows how committed they are to

bonics in the future as the franchise quarterback kudos to George Payton and Sean Payton getting

bow and elite weapon. Oh, you're 100% right mile high saying this definitely shows that you don't

trade a number or a first round pick if you don't believe in your quarterback right there. And I

think this is I haven't actually said that out loud before because it's just well known that

boze the franchise quarterback. But this is like them absolutely putting their money with their

mouth is with this right again. It's curiosity too though. And you added the guy who's really good

at the thing that you're not so good at. Which which way does that tip? Because like one of those

things is going to win out. It's either both struggles over the middle of the field or Jalen is

good over the middle of the field. And and so in some ways you're getting this test at this point

to see like are you because if Bo gets that down then all of a sudden what's the weakness right

like there isn't really any weakness left right especially if you get like second half of the

season bow and not if you don't just wait the whole season equally where he struggled a little bit

early on. So I think it certainly is investing in the passing game with bo being the centerpiece

these are quarterback centerpiece of the passing game. But also it is a question of this is a little

bit like we got you the Ferrari. Go go win the race. Yeah. Absolutely. Love it. It's a great way to

put it great points by Henry great points by Baldi. We appreciate everyone who joined us today.

That's going to do it for me this week. Ryan and Henry are going to take into the weekend tomorrow.

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