This week on After the Horn, the guys react to Victor Wembanyama’s statement playoff performance and what it means for Nikola Jokic, SGA, the Nuggets and the future of the Western Conference. Then it’s on to the Avalanche, who finally get rolling again against Vegas, with John Tortorella, Jared Bednar, the goalie debate and the “best Avs team ever” conversation all on the table. Plus, the crew breaks down the Broncos’ newly released schedule, revisits the Tim Tebow what-if, weighs in on the PGA Championship, and takes the usual scenic route through old coaching stories, funeral songs, Redbird Farms chicken and baseball umpires who may or may not know the rules.
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Welcome to After the Horn. Things that we are now sure of. Like we are now sure that Victor Wembanyama is the best thing to come out of France since pasteurization. And now French fries. Well, with with Spirit Airlines down the tubes, we are sure that the Broncos now have the worst schedule in America.
00;00;37;29 - 00;01;04;22
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After the horn runs, Tom green, Woody Paige, I'm trying to think about all the good things that have come out of France. How about all the French Canadian hockey players rise? The cinema fries, the cinema, the cinema. What else is great that's come out of France? The wines, wines, the baguette. Baguettes. Yeah. The train to London. The tunnel flight back home.
00;01;04;24 - 00;01;33;10
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So Victor Wembanyama goes out last night and does something that I think was surprising to many people. He took a giant image and made it bigger. He got on the big stage and he made very clear something else that you guys are not helping. No. As bad as he took a giant step last night. Well, I've been I've been under the weather physically, so that was where my thought went right away.
00;01;33;10 - 00;01;50;00
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But. But you're trying to think of the last time you saw a revolutionary performance. We mean, bird's great, Michael Jordan. Great. But probably not to go back to Lou Alcindor and, you know, just somebody wilt where you looked at the game and went, what are we going to do about him? What are we going to do about that?
00;01;50;01 - 00;02;12;16
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When you're seven six at least and you're that athletic, this is what it's going to be. And I'll just quote Nikola Jokic who said not long ago. I'm glad I got my MVP because I'm not getting any more in the future. They're all going to be him. He's far and away the most dominating player and the best player in the league.
00;02;12;17 - 00;02;46;20
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He is he is to. This time we've had notions about the Joker who is the best player in the world right now. But let's don't vote again next week. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because what's happened is, is to basketball as wilt was, will totally dominated. He couldn't win championships all the time. Rarely one Russell guy was around, but nobody could ever stop Will Chamberlain.
00;02;46;20 - 00;03;10;13
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And nobody's going to be able to stop Wembley. So. So you watch Wembley last night though, and I think everyone knew how good he was. But I don't think enough of America had seen him. It seemed like a lot of people were just catching the train, but it was also biggest game, biggest shots. I mean, when they needed him, I thought he jumped off the page as not just this tall guy who you can't guard.
00;03;10;14 - 00;03;33;06
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He ran the game. He's also got an edge to him, which I like. He's not afraid to throw an elbow, he's not afraid to run you over. And he is what I think most people don't realize. He's much, much, much more valuable on the defensive end than he is the offense. And he had 40 and he had 40 points.
00;03;33;10 - 00;03;52;08
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You he alters the entire way that the opposition runs their offense. So you can you can see it. If you make a lot of threes, you might you might have a night against if you can make a bunch of threes, if you're the Celtics and you fire up 60 of them and you can make 30, you might beat the Spurs, but you're not going to beat them.
00;03;52;08 - 00;04;21;04
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Taking it inside two other aspects of it. I think that they did such a good job of scouting him. And Popovich was still coaching then and said, this is the guy. Well, what they've done one correctly is they hired the right guy. When Popovich decided to step aside and said, here's my guy, I want him to be because they've got a guy that's perfect for Mitch, John for him.
00;04;21;04 - 00;04;49;10
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And they also have done an incredible good job, I think, of surrounding him with the right kind of people that are going to supplement what he does well, and that's really what the nuggets haven't always been able to accomplish of getting the same amount of of of depth and value and guys that can play right pieces. Jokic Yeah it's interesting I just saw I since I'm talking about you.
00;04;49;10 - 00;05;27;02
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Could you just saw somebody said that the nuggets have to get younger. Well that's kind of what exactly San Antonio did. They got young athletic talent. The nuggets have got to not to take this away from our discussion. But the nuggets have to get rid of the Bruce Browns who and guys of his ilk if they're going to be able to play with both Oklahoma City and San Antonio because they've got basketball players when other teams now in the Western Conference are getting athletic persons.
00;05;27;03 - 00;05;46;28
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So I will get to the nuggets because I think there's an interesting line to be drawn between the nuggets and this series. But I think Popovich is real genius, was in winning the lottery because I don't think anybody was taking anybody else. It wasn't like Popovich was the only guy going, you know, we should take that was pretty good.
00;05;47;00 - 00;06;06;04
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But they got him. So I do want to ask you about the nuggets because that's how they played both the Spurs and the Thunder this year. These close really good games that go down to the wire and a shot is made or is shot is missed. And for all of the negativity surrounding the nuggets exit this year and it's Minnesota.
00;06;06;04 - 00;06;27;22
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It's always Minnesota that seems to do them in. Would they have been competitive on the floor last night. I'm not saying would they win but they match up well. Joker plays very well against Wembley. He's probably the best player in the league against Wembley. And they you know they struggle with the Thunder but they take the Thunder to you know I would answer I would answer it this way.
00;06;27;22 - 00;06;48;18
Unknown
If Jamal Murray and Aaron Gordon were healthy I would say yes, that they could play with those. But Aaron Gordon wasn't healthy. Payton Watson didn't play. So the nuggets as we last saw them, would not be competitive with those teams if they were all healthy. Maybe so. But as they were as they went out. The answer would be no, they would not be.
00;06;48;20 - 00;07;16;01
Unknown
Could I give an addendum to what you say? Yogic doesn't play against somebody that's in his realm and his fear. He's got a guy now. Yeah, that he's got his wilt. I'm not talking about, you know, SGA, we're not talking about the guys that are great players in the NBA. We're talking about a great player that he recognizes is going to be better than him.
00;07;16;02 - 00;07;45;28
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He's already said it. Yeah. But I think what's interesting is I think that game why he's played so well is he gets up. That's something he gets up for. Yeah that this is his I agree personal adversary. Can I say one more thing about that game last night. That should because when Binyamin clearly and justifiably gets all the headlines, one of the reasons the Spurs won the game is the incredibly good job they did on SGA.
00;07;45;29 - 00;08;08;26
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Yeah, I mean, he had no room. He had no airspace. How many games have we watched OKC where he just takes over the game and shoots 18 for 22, but he also gets 16 free throws. Yeah. But what I'm saying is every point he got, he had to work his ass off for. And at one point in that game I think he was five for 20.
00;08;08;27 - 00;08;26;06
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That's unlike you like the Spurs in the series I think the Spurs are going to win the series. Certainly. I think they have their number. I think they had it all year in the regular season. The Spurs aren't lacking in confidence. They're probably in that locker room. Why do you think hey possible that they'll beat them? I think I have a reason why they'll beat them.
00;08;26;06 - 00;08;52;24
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They dominated them during the regular season. The first three times they blasted them, I think. And then they they came into this with the confidence of, hey, they're not any better than we are. So I think that I'd rather I'm looking now at a San Antonio Knicks NBA finals. Well then root for Cleveland. But you know what? I'll tell you another reason why I think the Spurs are going to win.
00;08;52;24 - 00;09;19;22
Unknown
Because nobody repeats anymore in the NBA. Yeah. Nobody once in a blue moon. What is wrong with that? I had a I had a group, a pastor and his wife at a, at a event one night after the Broncos had won Super Bowl 50. And they said, aren't you hoping they win another one next year? And then we win next three if Payton stays around and I said, don't be so greedy, greedy, let other people.
00;09;19;22 - 00;09;37;05
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I said, I know I'm a sportswriter, I'm not a fan. And I get where you're coming from, but it's good to have somebody else there. It's good to have the Chiefs away from it. For a while. I thought one of the great statistics that came out this week was the MVP award. That goes to SGA wins it comfortably.
00;09;37;06 - 00;10;01;02
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Jokic is second, Wendy's third. But Jokic became the third guy ever to finish top two in the MVP in six straight years. And the guys he joins it's I think it's Bird and Russell or you know it's like Hall of Fame guys. But you know six straight top two. It's phenomenal. What do you do with that. Do you do you go to Ripley's Believe It.
00;10;01;05 - 00;10;20;18
Unknown
No no I get a little page I just it's more I think it's great to be top two for six years. But then when you look at the company you keep, that's a pretty thin. When you guys were against each other, you worked together. You were against I mean, did you did you feel comfortable finishing second to the other guy?
00;10;20;20 - 00;10;38;21
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No, that was probably not. No, I was, you know, you know me. My competitive fire. Oh, yeah. Tom wouldn't speak to me for years. You know, if anything. Good. I just wondered if we were sitting here, and I go, so how many times did you finish second to. Like, most, most every year. You know, we didn't have any of those.
00;10;38;22 - 00;11;06;10
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Actual. Sure you did. Don't they have farmland or outland or something? Maybe they don't. They had stuff, but it was all kind of, you know, I never took it seriously because it was a group of guys pizza in South Dakota that were deciding who's the best sportscaster in Denver, so it didn't make any difference. I we didn't I saw him, but we weren't there for Wilt Chamberlain.
00;11;06;12 - 00;11;25;12
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Right. Is that fair? I saw him at the end. I saw him as a Laker, I saw him, I saw him in the garden many times against Russell. Yeah, I saw him coach the same. Yeah. That was not. Yeah. May not have been. Well that wasn't his best thing that he did out in San Diego. He knocked off some of those 20,000 while he was there.
00;11;25;14 - 00;11;34;26
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And volleyball. Do you think that Wimbledon can be for the two of you?
00;11;34;28 - 00;12;00;06
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Top three players that you've watched in a long, illustrious career? This this takes it. It's I think it's too early to answer that. I mean, injuries play a role if he plays like this. He goes on and he gets better and better and doesn't get hurt. Yes, he's 22 years old. There's so much left for for me. Doctor J was in my career of covering that.
00;12;00;06 - 00;12;24;12
Unknown
Doctor J and Michael Jordan were by far, and my third that I put in there is Bill Russell, because even though he wasn't athletically the best player in the league, he wasn't the most successful statistically in the league. But the guy wasn't. He was. He was. It's easy. He was the most successful. I would not athlete of all, would not subtract his athleticism.
00;12;24;13 - 00;12;45;13
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I mean he was he was he was short of an Olympic high jumper. I mean he was just he was incredible first guy. And I honestly forgot about that I don't think I ever knew. That's that's good information. No. He was the first cut. The last cut on. That'll be in 1960 for high jumping. Yes. Yeah. Late in your life, when people are gathering and talking about you.
00;12;45;14 - 00;13;11;07
Unknown
Well, Tom brought up that. Yeah that he brought up the bet. Jokic was second MVP second pick for. Don't you two straight when should have won the MVP. Well I you know I just because of the longevity of the season I thought SGA was you know the best player through a year on the best team in the league.
00;13;11;08 - 00;13;30;25
Unknown
Oh so you give it you give the best player to league. Always go to the free throw line. Most I can't I don't enjoy watching him play. So I think I think when Bunyan was the single best player in the NBA, the regular season was another month long. He probably would have been. He could have been. But I mean, I mean, like, again, I say this all the time.
00;13;30;25 - 00;13;47;13
Unknown
I'm retired. I have NBA League pass. I watch a ton of you. You're not retired. You show up here I, I have a friend who tries to tell me that he works a guy that, you know, and he works like maybe, maybe eight hours a week and I go, you can bullshit the other people. Don't. Not with me.
00;13;47;14 - 00;14;03;29
Unknown
You never missed a tee time in your life. So I'm not working. I'm in here with two friends. The winner of this series is the NBA champ that the East is going to show up. But I don't see either the Cavaliers of the Knicks being able to deal with either of these teams. I'm with you I think San Antonio.
00;14;03;29 - 00;14;44;29
Unknown
But if do you think that's the same thing about the National Hockey League. So let's let's talk about the avalanche. Let's because the way they advanced since it was a week ago, they've had a long week off. But the the way they accelerated suddenly past Minnesota in that game five was not really the stuff of legends. But if you were there, the electricity in that building, when McKinnon found that little spot by Wall Street's ear and then, you know, you go the other end and natives makes the brilliant past and and Brett Kulak scored his biggest goal as an AB.
00;14;45;01 - 00;15;11;02
Unknown
Yeah. That's right. And all of a sudden it was it was an incredible game. But this goes to an age old question that the three of us have debated for a long time. Is it better to have a long break in the middle of a playoff series? Or if you're rolling like the ABS are, boom, boom, boom? Do you want to kind of keep it like in every other day or, you know, I don't know the answer to this.
00;15;11;03 - 00;15;37;12
Unknown
Well, both teams are getting a lot of time. Sure they are. Sure you do. You you know the answer. You you don't you don't want you don't want that much. I'm going to give you the same answer, and I'm going to give everybody watching the show or listening to it read. Smith gave me the story on that. Brett Smith said to me, most famous sportswriter in the history of country.
00;15;37;12 - 00;16;02;05
Unknown
Yeah. And I said, give me, give me some advice. He said. First of all, try and write as much as you possibly can, because when you get through with one and it sucks, you go, well, I'll get them tomorrow. I tend to look at it based on that statement. If you think about it, it's funny, but that you want to keep going when you tend to.
00;16;02;08 - 00;16;23;01
Unknown
When you you guys play a lot of golf, and I played as much golf at a period of time. And and now if I play once every two weeks I it's just suck, suck. But when you're feeling good when you got it, you want to keep going. You want to keep going. Do you do you really want to take a week off?
00;16;23;02 - 00;16;44;21
Unknown
No. Well, the one thing I would say is if you're like, say, say you had the best defenseman in the world and he was banged up and he was sore. Wouldn't you think a week off might be a good thing for him? For him? Yeah. But how about the other 20 guys? Well, not for everyone. But you also have, you know, lesson and get if you're missing your starting quarterback and you got to put a dog in there.
00;16;44;23 - 00;17;06;24
Unknown
So you got a week off. So they move on. The series will finally get underway between the Vegas Golden Knights and the Avs. And I think and the biggest star in this series as far as content is going to be John Tortorella. He's going to take over. He's going to say stuff. He's going to do stuff he already has.
00;17;06;24 - 00;17;33;10
Unknown
When they finally were they eliminated Anaheim, you know, he famously ditched the media and the NHL has slammed him with that taken the team's second round pick and he gets $100,000 fine. But he by nature I think, can't help himself. And he'll be the biggest star of this series. However, what was funny about that when he took over the team, he said, it's not about me coming here.
00;17;33;10 - 00;17;57;11
Unknown
It's about what these boys are going to do. I'm all, I'm here all about the players. And I'll be damned if two weeks later, it's not all. It's not about the boys, it's about him. But that's the story of his life. He's a guy that you would want to coach your team as long as for a while. As long as you get him out of here pretty quickly and move on.
00;17;57;13 - 00;18;19;15
Unknown
I went through the list of, what is it, six teams now that he's that he's coaching the National Hockey League and all of them where so thin with him so quickly that he is. Here's the brilliance of what he is doing is that he is taking the pressure off the players. Sure he is. It is going to be on him.
00;18;19;15 - 00;18;40;13
Unknown
You both are right. It's going to be on him. You've got on the opposite side. You got what may be the most handsome coach in the history of the National Hockey League, who does his stuff. I think Toe Blake would argue with you about that. Scotty Bowman punching. You know, Jared Bednar was out at Inverness last week. And I'll just say this.
00;18;40;13 - 00;18;59;00
Unknown
I've met him out there a few times. What a nice nicest guy. And he's a big dude. There's a lot of and yeah, what a nice guy. People are bothering him and he knew how to handle it. I bet you he'll let John Tortorella get all the press. He'll just win. Yeah, he'll just win because. Because he's got a better team.
00;18;59;03 - 00;19;22;03
Unknown
Yeah. So you got the one guy not talking to the press. You got the other guy talking to the press saying, oh, this is the best team. Oh we're playing. Yeah. This is a lot better team than what we do. And so he's taking that stance. He's decided which is a normal stance for him. I think the only time he really gets his gripes in is when his team is not doing it.
00;19;22;04 - 00;19;49;22
Unknown
If his team's not playing well he'll he'll tell you he'll go right up to the brink there. Sometimes I think one of the other great threads in this series is Mitch Marner, who was was such a big name for years in Toronto and for Toronto was always about failure. And he was coming up for his New deal. And so he did a sign in trade where they sent him to Vegas this year for Nicolas, who now once again gets traded to the Avs mid-season and has had a great postseason, got three goals already.
00;19;49;23 - 00;20;09;20
Unknown
But but Marner is now playing like Toronto. Always thought he would be in the playoffs. He's playing great, but that that little connection there that sees Nick War on this side and Mitch Marner on that side and everyone in Toronto going, well that looks like fun. I think the abs are just way better than Vegas. The only games.
00;20;09;22 - 00;20;28;22
Unknown
I'll say the abs in five. I the only thing. And I don't think Jared Bednar will let this happen. A human nature. If I put myself in that position, I'd be looking across the country at that team that has not lost a playoff game played in a week and a half. Yeah. And I'm thinking, okay, it's going to be us and them in the finals.
00;20;28;22 - 00;20;53;02
Unknown
How do we match up. That's the worst thing you can think we'll be looking at. Don't be looking that way. Just say hey convince yourself respect the opponent. That Vegas is really good and we're going to have to play our ass off to beat him, even though in reality, I don't think I'm saying there was a there was a famous song by a great guitarist and singer who said, who wrote and sang Carolina's On My Mind.
00;20;53;04 - 00;21;15;11
Unknown
I don't want that. So if Bednar fascinates me because I do know him and I do like him a great deal. So I have a great bias about him. But one of my favorite things over the last couple of weeks has been the critics of him, and hockey has great critics. It's just everybody's got an opinion and they're all they're all smarter.
00;21;15;11 - 00;21;36;03
Unknown
And in this case, everyone knows more about hockey than the guy who had the best record in the league this year and is eight and one. And they can't believe how he's screwing up this goaltending thing. He's making a mess out of it because he doesn't know his time. How many times in your career within the thousand, have you been told you don't know anything about hockey?
00;21;36;04 - 00;22;16;12
Unknown
Yeah. Every time that you guys say anything about hockey, even hockey fan. Oh, hockey. Hockey fans are the worst from the standpoint that they know hockey. But you don't know hockey. The coach doesn't know hockey, the players don't know hockey. But this guy that's sitting up three rows from the top of the arena knows more about hockey. I've never, you know, people call me go, you know, you really you really defame the Broncos and you know, but there's only one group of fans that call you up and say you don't know anything about hockey.
00;22;16;15 - 00;22;36;24
Unknown
Hockey fans. And I go, I think I know as much about you as hockey because you are allowed in the building, so you shouldn't be. So we had this discussion about whether this team can earn the mantle as the best avalanche team ever. And I'd say one case that you could make for that is they've overcome that idiot Bednar.
00;22;36;26 - 00;23;05;14
Unknown
I mean that for despite all his mistakes in there having. Well, you know, that'd be a good question because Jared Bednar, the best avalanche coach, he'll be the first with two cups if he gets a second. Because because I brought that up to you week ago. And I noticed that that that became a national kind of story about is this the best avalanche team of all time if they went to.
00;23;05;16 - 00;23;42;08
Unknown
That's certainly have entered the chat at that point, do you think and I kind of said this, who of those teams that they're fighting against for greatest all time team, which one of those would if they win. So not that one but the 96 and the oh one. But would they have the best team that featured a a player be another player and see a man in goalie?
00;23;42;11 - 00;24;06;12
Unknown
I would take the 96 team just because of Patrick War. They we never had a debate over who was best in the net when Patrick Wall was here. Yeah, they didn't think about should we use both goalies or what should we do. I don't know, they didn't have to worry about it. He was in my time in Denver, the most confident athlete I was ever around.
00;24;06;18 - 00;24;28;21
Unknown
And he backed it up. So this last team that won the cup with Kemper, you have to remember Pavel Francos went six and oh in the postseason. Who was about to throw that. But he had to throw that team out so well you know but that still is Landeskog. That still is McCarthy making this up. But when you look at Adam Marsh and you dead Marsh foot Sakic Forsberg.
00;24;28;22 - 00;24;47;13
Unknown
Let's go down the list. Yeah. Lemieux. Kaminsky. Oh man. That was such a that was such a it'll be it'll be. And then they go out eight more wins. This this is your favorite thing. Then they go out at one point and they get one of the greatest players in the history of Boston Bruins. Yes. And that into the team.
00;24;47;14 - 00;25;08;14
Unknown
And I mean and at least the avalanche have kind of done they've gone out and gotten guys that are damn good possible. You know that's why I loved Pierre Lacroix. I mean, he was so damn good at saying we're one piece away, we're one guy away. If I can pry Ray Bourque out of there, you know what? That'll put us over there.
00;25;08;16 - 00;25;25;26
Unknown
He was just with those ahead of his time to make the trade for while making the trade for Bourque. You're trading for the biggest names in the game that some people think may have gone past their prime. And you look at what they did this year, you know, you talk about adding a war and a kulak and some of these guys, they've made a big difference.
00;25;26;01 - 00;25;43;08
Unknown
But it's not like I don't you know what though? I don't know, maybe we did think that war was past this time. I just think I think the hockey world did. Maybe they did. I just thought he was pissed off in Montreal and wanted a fresh start. And, you know, he because, I mean, he had a lot of good years after 96.
00;25;43;10 - 00;26;19;15
Unknown
So I just think he got mad. He clearly wasn't. He was a high strung person. He was a volatile person. He was a quirky person. And I think all those things contributed to him leaving Montreal. I think more that than, God, this guy can't play anymore. You're talking about he an angry person. A good friend of mine was his next door neighbor and said after he lost that game 70171 or whatever, and he came home and he destroyed the door.
00;26;19;18 - 00;26;38;17
Unknown
I bet he was big on destroying doors. Well, and he also had that panel between him and the the other coach and his in his first game. That was was his first game. Yeah, I think it was his first game. Breaking down the Plexiglas. Yeah. Remember that. So, how important is it that they get off to A20 start?
00;26;38;20 - 00;27;05;24
Unknown
I don't think it's that important. I think they could split the first two and they could go into Vegas and win the next two. I don't think it matters when you're as good as the how. How are they play? I mean, we've seen a couple of periods, you know, where they just seemingly couldn't find it. What seems so natural to them to play with great tempo and connection and like that first period against Minnesota in Game five and the way they played in game three, you know, you just go, where does that come from?
00;27;06;02 - 00;27;31;18
Unknown
We're going to go double goalies. Well I don't know who's going to start. I mean I think that will be an interesting decision. But I don't think yes, whatever Jared Bednar says I'm down with, I'm not telling him which goaltender to play. Man, I never I mean, you covered 14. I didn't Broncos coaches. I'm old though and I never heard, you know Dan Reeves I disagreed with everything.
00;27;31;24 - 00;27;55;10
Unknown
Mike Shanahan I never heard you disagreed with him. I don't care who he plays at quarterback. I'm down with it. Well, if Wade Phillips says it's true, I'm going with him. If Shanahan decide if Shanahan decided to play like, you know, Kubiak over Elway, I might have I might have questioned. So what would be what would be the comparative we have like with Tebow and Orton or something like that?
00;27;55;12 - 00;28;21;15
Unknown
That was even better. Bednar will make the right call. Hasn't he earned everybody? I think he might. He might know his team better. Even house fan. Yeah, the most famous of which we are basically three of hockey fans. Yeah. The most famous game that Tebow ever had in that didn't involve the University of Florida that he won in overtime with one pass.
00;28;21;17 - 00;28;46;08
Unknown
Yeah, there was a major belief and great deal of discussion and a strange possibility that he wasn't going to start that game. You know, it's so tricky. And we'll just defer here because we're going to talk about the Broncos schedule in a minute. But Tebow I thought, always presented a variety of problems for coaches. But one of them being a left handed running quarterback means who's your backup.
00;28;46;13 - 00;29;10;22
Unknown
Like, do we going to go with a right handed traditional passer? And all of a sudden everyone has to adjust. You know, it's like you're kind of stuck with a style that you can't really it's, you know, oh, sure you could because Kyle Orton could have. Yeah. Could throw left handed. You could throw away again. Yeah. It's a shame that Tim Tebow at some point, didn't come to the conclusion that most of the rest of the country did that.
00;29;10;23 - 00;29;33;18
Unknown
Hey, you could play pro football if you just play another position. Yeah. You know, and he could have had a long career because he was a really good kind of guy. But I'll, I'll say this I don't think it's ever been a quarterback in the last 40 years who got more chances than Tim Tebow did. He had to go to four different organizations to tell him, but you can't play it.
00;29;33;20 - 00;30;00;05
Unknown
Even the Mets. I used to talk. I used to talk to John Fox about it, and I'd say, why not make him into something that's, you know, one of those toys that Transformers. Yeah. I said, well, why don't you do something? We had a conversation in a private room one day, just bullshitting about me saying to him, were you playing because it happened with the Saints?
00;30;00;08 - 00;30;22;08
Unknown
That you play him at wide receiver, you play as running back on certain plays. He could have been a great. What are we seeing now where you know Philadelphia. Oh yeah they do the toes push. Yeah the push. He could have been a great touche push kettle guy if you had been a a a fox was an old world coach.
00;30;22;09 - 00;30;43;10
Unknown
Let's say that. Yeah. That's who was really dealing with him. That he was not going to go out of his way to maybe figure out just McDaniels had already figured out that Josh McDaniels told me even before the draft that he had fixed Tebow. He was on there and fixed him so he wasn't going to make it. He wasn't going to make him a tight end.
00;30;43;11 - 00;31;08;00
Unknown
He wasn't going to make him a wide receiver. But Fox, I think if if they had a coach in there, maybe if we'd Phillips was the head coach and you had a an offensive coordinator June Jones kind of guy. But Grant got Joe Cap the Super Bowl right? I mean, you could I can answer the question a little bit and I'll do it quickly.
00;31;08;03 - 00;31;33;25
Unknown
Most coaches, managers, whoever they are, have a hard time telling people, you can't do this. And I'm going to give you a quick example. I've always liked Trevor Story. Good athlete, good guy Trevor Story. If you go by the advanced metrics, this year is the worst player in Major League Baseball. He's hitting under 200. He can't make the throw from short to he should be playing second base.
00;31;33;25 - 00;32;07;04
Unknown
Now he has a sports hernia and he might be out for a long time. He may need surgery. The Red Sox don't have the balls to go to him and say, hey, you should be playing second. And if you're not playing second, you may not be playing for anybody, anywhere. And I think it's true in sports, whether it's Tim Tebow or a Trevor Story, when people get to a certain level and Tebow had it in spades because he might not have been a long term veteran, but he was a star in the league.
00;32;07;04 - 00;32;29;07
Unknown
And I think it's hard to tell guys that have accomplished a lot. And it's tough. You don't you don't look at it the way we do. You don't see it like we do. When you told Fox that, did he say you don't know hockey? No, no, he told me because how that conversation started was.
00;32;29;10 - 00;32;55;02
Unknown
He still said that I was wrong, that he shouldn't have had paid Manning go for the, you know, go back on the field. And we love telling us we're wrong. It's in their DNA. The only coach that would that would tell us our would tell us that we're wrong, but then privately say, hey, you're not so stupid for a dumb looking guy was dumb because Doug would say, that's a great idea.
00;32;55;03 - 00;33;14;19
Unknown
I can't believe a dipshit like you would come up with it. Every other coach would love to tell you. Oh, damn. Couldn't wait to tell you you were wrong. What do you know? Well, how many teams you how many teams you played for? I wrote one week that he should let John Elway call the plays. And it was before the game in San Francisco.
00;33;14;19 - 00;33;38;14
Unknown
And he goes, you're an idiot. But I'm going to do it. And they get beat 38 to 6. And at the at the press conference afterwards, not really the five guys. He goes, And then I thought, you know, that's a good question. You and I someday should sit down and come up with a list of how many coaches told us we didn't know shit.
00;33;38;17 - 00;33;58;17
Unknown
It would be a long list. Would the answer be all of them? Pretty much all of them. I mean, I would be moved, Doug and a few others, but most every. And some guys would do it in a very nice way. Not like Dan, who would just say, you don't know shit. Some guys would need to be asked, some guys wouldn't have to, but some guys would say, hey, I really like you, but that's like a cockamamie thing.
00;33;58;17 - 00;34;18;11
Unknown
I think mine would be more because, yeah, because I had a lot because, we're going to do that someday. We should do that on the golf course here. Nobody here. Nobody gives us. How many guys told us we didn't know? Shit. I have a long, long list. Well, the first guy in Denver to tell me that I didn't know.
00;34;18;19 - 00;34;40;20
Unknown
First guy was Ray Moran. Oh, wow. The old of the Colorado Rockies hockey team. He got in. He got in first. Well, it's nice we're number one. And the first one for me was John Ralston. John said. He said succinctly to me, go back to New York, where you came from. And I said, New York, I really Tennessee, I can go to New York.
00;34;40;22 - 00;35;08;13
Unknown
I'm from Tennessee. What the over Woody's shoulder, we added the chalkboard. Just want to let you know read out today's for those listening. It says, I was surprised that Latasha didn't jump into that Tebow because she, you know, with the high school in in Florida and got a great wealth of she's been handed buff Tebow in Colorado. And you sat there quietly for the entire program and didn't mention anything about Tebow.
00;35;08;18 - 00;35;27;25
Unknown
I will tell you, my one little Tebow thing is that in high school for cheerleading, I was voted most likely to marry Tim Zibo because I know there's something test with him in high school that that that fell apart. You still have a chance. He could get divorced. Did you get him out of rebound? Let's. Let's hit the blackboard real quick.
00;35;27;26 - 00;35;47;00
Unknown
It says, got my friend in elephant for his room. He thanked me. I said, don't mention it. Nice one. That's another good one. You like it? That's the blackboard. We'll talk about the Broncos schedule in a second. But first we want to talk about our good friends at Red Bird Farms. Did you know they've been around for more than 70 years?
00;35;47;02 - 00;36;09;10
Unknown
Obviously we're talking about quality. If you're going to last 70 years. Redbird Farms chicken is the best. And people nowadays are paying even more attention than normal to how their food is raised. And so Redbird Farms is doing it differently. They're doing it better. And that's why more and more people are asking for Redbird Farms and for someone, if you go to the grocery store, you got to do what I do.
00;36;09;11 - 00;36;30;07
Unknown
You stand right over the poultry case and insist on Redbird Farms. Even if nobody's stopping you, just say it out loud. It's kind of an attention grabber. So anyway. Make sure you get the best when it comes to chicken. And by the best, of course, we mean Redbird Farms. And as I like to say, you can grill it, you can fry it, you can put it on palm.
00;36;30;09 - 00;36;51;02
Unknown
But whatever you do with it, make sure you're using Redbird Farms. I learned ain't it rhymes? Okay. You came very close. Very close. Hey, before we go on, I'm thinking the guys that aired me out, did Bill Mallory ever air you out? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Me too. See, we would have a great time with this. Chuck Fairbanks never did because he never cared.
00;36;51;05 - 00;37;15;23
Unknown
He didn't try. But people don't care. But I would go in. Chuck spent more money on his office than he did on recruiting that year. Famously comes here and he was with the Patriots. And I go in there and first time of just mano a mano conversation. So what do you think is the most important thing you've got to do this year?
00;37;15;25 - 00;37;20;23
Unknown
And he said, son.
00;37;20;25 - 00;37;28;03
Unknown
The most important thing that I have to do is.
00;37;28;06 - 00;37;44;17
Unknown
I'm waiting. I said, I play good football, have a good offense. Oh, the greatest important thing that I have to do this year with this team is.
00;37;44;20 - 00;38;04;28
Unknown
He never answered. It just makes his way. He didn't never. He never finished as soon as well. With Chuck, it was usually once he took the drag on that cigarette. Yeah, he could hold that sucker in there for like, 30s. So you'd be waiting for an answer and be like.
00;38;05;01 - 00;38;22;10
Unknown
No, it's just like hoping you'll go away. You know? Red Miller aired me out a couple of times, and God rest his soul, he called me one day. This was probably 3 or 4 years before he passed away. He took me out to lunch and he goes, you know, I yelled at you a few times and he looked at me and goes, damn it.
00;38;22;10 - 00;38;41;04
Unknown
I'm sorry, Ron, I didn't mean to do that. I didn't really know. And I said it was so nice. It was like he wanted to get it off his chest. Which reminds me, because we talked about another guy last week who's a friend of ours who passed away, and it made me think of the the legacy of the Denver Gold coaches, Red Miller, Mouse Davis, Craig, Greg Morton.
00;38;41;06 - 00;38;56;29
Unknown
I mean, that's all nice guys, but but also a really cool list because you think of the USFL as kind of a punchline. And the Denver Gold were always owned in a crazy thing. You ever watch the is it the UFO now? Oh no, I don't yeah, I have a friend of mine that watches it and I go get a life.
00;38;57;01 - 00;39;29;27
Unknown
Well, I'm a friend who watches the few I fell. If I'm passing it by. Do you coach? Well, sort of. As I'm passing by the coach, we'll be talking to the quarterback and it's on the loudspeaker. Yeah. And I go, okay, I don't quite get that. And I move on, but I, I, I know what they're doing. I wish that a story about Dan Reeves, though, is I'm working at the Rocky Mountain News when he comes here as coach.
00;39;29;29 - 00;39;47;26
Unknown
And then I go to the post and he calls me and he says, congratulations on living in Denver Post. But you piss me off. And I said, how could I piss you off about this? Then, Reeves? He said, well, when I came here and I read your stuff, I didn't want my father to read your stuff. Hold on.
00;39;47;26 - 00;40;06;07
Unknown
I got to stop that phone going. Yeah, you don't care about. You said I didn't want my father reading you, so I took the dimmer post subscription. The other paper. Yeah, yeah. And he said you moved to their post. Now, I got a call, the Rocky Mountain News, and tell my dad that he's now going to be reading a tabloid newspaper.
00;40;06;07 - 00;40;27;15
Unknown
And I said, that's not right. That's right. Well, Dan's, Dan's old team, the Broncos learned of their schedule. Did you ever the phone ring any time you were on TV? I never bring my phone in here. I don't know why I brought it into my daughter last week. Brain day I was doing, but I did. But did that ever happen to you on air?
00;40;27;22 - 00;40;46;27
Unknown
The only time it happened to me. It's a quick story. I was working at Fox and I was interviewing the late, great comedian Norm MacDonald. Oh, wow. And he was so good and so funny. He was the best. And we're about I'm doing a half hour with him and about 15 minutes in, his phone rings and he goes, excuse me.
00;40;46;29 - 00;40;58;15
Unknown
Mind if I get this? And we're live? I go, no, go ahead. And so funny. He takes the phone and he goes, yeah, what's going on? I'm talking to what's your name?
00;40;58;18 - 00;41;15;04
Unknown
Well, that's how it works. So for most of your career, though, in a lot of my career, there was no cell phone to have on your. There wasn't a cell phone. Hadn't quite. We didn't have cell phones. All I had was all I had was Bob Palmer. Somebody. That's why somebody used to. Some guy used to walk in and hand you the piece of paper.
00;41;15;04 - 00;41;35;03
Unknown
And you'd say this just in. Yes. And you'd read it. There were no cell phone. Like, there's. I think he's with channel nine, but Chris Bianchi. Yeah, yeah. Great. Guy is a weather person. He's doing his entire weather performance, put it that way without his microphone. Yeah. And they're waving at him and stuff like that and he doesn't know.
00;41;35;03 - 00;41;58;11
Unknown
And I thought that had to happen. Pretty people always forgot to put their mic on. The guy I went through, whatever it was 45 years. I was the only guy ever to go through an entire career without a single blooper. Everything went right all the time. You never, ever, ever. One thing going, I never mispronounced anything, never got anything, never got anything wrong.
00;41;58;12 - 00;42;31;17
Unknown
Perfect 100 out of 100. Unbelievable. Let's put that in there with that, with that yogic thing. Another worthless information. All right. The Broncos schedule. When you die, I'm going to come there. And we don't care about the Broncos schedule. We're having more fun talking about this Broncos. We gotta we gotta get there right when you die. Let me ask you before we get to the Broncos schedule, have you gone to your daughter and said, when I die, here's the music that I wanted my funeral.
00;42;31;18 - 00;43;02;27
Unknown
No, no, I have in my will that my my daughter is to take my shavings. Whatever's left to monarchy. I've told this to so many other people. I think it's probably gotten back to her, to monarchy. It's on the big island of Hawaii. And there's a par three famous, one of the most famous. Spread the ashes over the stand on the green, spread the ashes, not realizing that the the wind always blows and it's going to blow in.
00;43;03;00 - 00;43;26;17
Unknown
All my ash is going to blow in her face. That's from The Big Lebowski. And the last word she'll say is, oh, dad, not again. But you did they play? No one is the way I'm in. I don't really care about the ashes because my feeling is, as Robert Klein, I interviewed him once to told me famously over at Fox, once I die, I don't give a shit.
00;43;26;23 - 00;43;45;16
Unknown
I just don't really don't care. The moment I'm dead, it doesn't matter. That's what I thought about with Doug. Yeah, because I said, I don't care about the ashes. I do care about the music. And so with one of my daughters, I have given her three songs. And about every six months, I test her to see if she's up on the three songs.
00;43;45;19 - 00;44;07;20
Unknown
I'm guessing she is. She? She is. You probably don't stress much, are you? See, I'm bringing mine forward with you. That happened when they threw the. Are you using the Big Chill music? Although I'm not using the Big Chill music. Although I do like the Big Chill music. Have you ever changed these three? These three? I've thought about changing.
00;44;07;23 - 00;44;27;16
Unknown
You might go to the open. Well, could you give them to us? Okay. They're kind of off the wall. I mean, one of them is till I die by the Beach Boys, because it's just got such a great sentiment. You know, I I'm a leaf on a windy day. Pretty soon I'll be flying away. In other words, we're all just passing through.
00;44;27;23 - 00;44;50;25
Unknown
And there's no. You know I'm a rock in a landslide. You know I'm a cork in a bottle. That's in a current state the day I die. What he. Shouldn't it be the day that I died? No, don't. Till I don't get involved in this. And it's a beautiful committed. The other one picks the other one. Just because I really like it is in my life.
00;44;51;00 - 00;45;08;13
Unknown
Which I think is Lennon's first really great song. And it says it's a sentimental song about life and love, and I think it's great. And the last one is because the guy kind of got to know, and I liked and I loved his song, and it said, there's a place in the world for a Gambler by Dan Fogelberg.
00;45;08;13 - 00;45;31;08
Unknown
I know now there's you. And he became friends. Friends? Yeah. That's great. There's a, there's a lot of and they play in that order. Not necessarily. I don't care the order, but I'd like him to be like, okay, could I go after you die? Go tell her that the fourth would be relax, I rank goes Hollywood. Yeah, I would fit right in, I think I think I'm thinking about that.
00;45;31;08 - 00;45;50;02
Unknown
Relax. Don't remember. If you make a change, are you adding or is simply add? If I make a change, I'm not coming out. Nothing's coming out. But I might add 1 or 2 more. But for me, I'm just going to add relax. Don't do it. Well, when you're going to die, you know, you relax. I don't know why I'm thinking about that later.
00;45;50;04 - 00;46;09;29
Unknown
So it certainly removes a lot of the stress in pondering the Broncos schedule. Yeah it does. After those two, there's all I know about the Broncos. We've got about because some of us showed up late. We've only got about six seven. But we want to get into that Broncos game. Let's get into the Broncos because we've got your the beginning and end are hard middles.
00;46;09;29 - 00;46;35;05
Unknown
Kind of nice. But you got to get to the middle but they start. The problem with these schedules is you talk about them in May or in late April when they come out. And then by October you're going, this is nothing like what I thought it was going to be. I couldn't understand why there's so much hue and cry in this town about about playing, man, those first six games and that first day games and I everybody plays.
00;46;35;07 - 00;46;57;25
Unknown
They're one place you look. The strength of schedule is the loveth, the other is 15th. Guess what? We have no idea what the strength of schedule is, because you don't know what Jacksonville will be when they come to town. My point who's playing? Is Patrick Mahomes going to play in the first Monday night game. My goodness alive I don't understand.
00;46;57;25 - 00;47;20;26
Unknown
If you look at that. And you know I'm willing to bet you that during the middle of the season its schedule probably Broncos have a few off center games. I'll tell you what I like by week 10th. That's about right. That's a good place right in the middle. You don't like the middle. And I like that you're playing San Diego in the last game because that game, every meeting more than it did last year.
00;47;20;28 - 00;47;54;16
Unknown
I also liked the fact that you're playing indoors several times. I think that's good. And I also like Christmas. I, I think I think a road team doesn't want to play on Christmas. They want to be home right with their family. And guess what? The Broncos will go out there and play on Christmas against the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo Bills and think the Buffalo Bills got to get on a plane and go all the way back to Buffalo on the night of Christmas night after losing 36 to 9.
00;47;54;17 - 00;48;12;14
Unknown
Yeah, but the Buffalo Bills might have some other thoughts about that game. Okay. Based on the last time, the last visit here, you've looked at it. Everybody's looked at it. Your first impression and maybe I'm doing it wrong, but I looked at it. You know, you do the old wins and losses thing and I have them finishing up seven and five.
00;48;12;15 - 00;48;38;12
Unknown
They're only going to play 12 games. They're going to stop what the world's going to end or what's going to happen. Seven and five. That's where I'm the most famous person in football who told me that they took the first showing of the schedule and went through every one. John Elway did it every year. He would sit down on the day that it came out and go down and go, yeah, we're.
00;48;38;13 - 00;49;00;03
Unknown
And he said, and I always had to sit there and go, I'm not going to win in in Oakland because he always lost to the right things. I think they caught a big break, opening with Kansas City on the road. First off, their second game is also not here. Yeah not a there's more pressure on Kansas City in a home opener than there is when you're in a road divisional game.
00;49;00;03 - 00;49;19;04
Unknown
There's a second thing is they may not have Patrick Mahomes. So if they don't he's ahead of schedule. Bo Nix is behind schedule. Who knows. There's a lot of time to look at them. There's a killer that's next to last. They're playing at New England man. How many times. You know I don't think New England is going to be very good.
00;49;19;06 - 00;49;36;07
Unknown
See who's coaching them by the end of the season. I think New England's got so many things going on right now. I don't think New England's. I think New England is going to be one of those teams. Woody that got to the Super Bowl. Lost the Super Bowl and there's a lot of history on this. The next year the bottom fell.
00;49;36;08 - 00;49;58;18
Unknown
I think the league in general thinks the Broncos and Patriots both overachieved this past year, and that their comeuppance is coming because all companies have to eventually come up. Come up. Explain that to me, please. I think both I think both teams, you know, were better than advertised and you know, all right. I accept that. But what are they doing as vengeance?
00;49;58;21 - 00;50;24;07
Unknown
Vengeance as a result of that vengeance? Vengeance? Geez. No, I just think the other teams, you know, you look at teams that struggled last year, but you don't mean that. They said, oh, here because the computer. No, no computer does the schedule. So nobody nobody got scared. You know I think maybe you're right on the Patriots. But I think people generally the football public, the experts that I watch on television, I think they have a healthy dose of respect for the Broncos.
00;50;24;07 - 00;50;43;10
Unknown
You know, where the pulse of this team is going to be taken. It's not going to be what happens in Denver. People are going to say, what's going on in Kansas City. Yeah. When is he coming back and is he going to be him? And then you still think of the Chargers who last year couldn't keep an offensive line healthy.
00;50;43;11 - 00;51;06;15
Unknown
It was bad luck if you want to look at it that way you know they're better. See I think they're going to a tough time winning the AFC West. It's whether or not Patrick Mahomes can come back quickly. He's ahead of schedule supposedly and fully. That was the most important you say me insane with with the Chargers. It's about Herbert.
00;51;06;16 - 00;51;32;12
Unknown
So you were going and they went out and got Denver zone guy could have coached here the coast of Miami Dolphins. They brought him in to work with McDaniel in Las Vegas. They got the number one draft pick and they got Gary could be executed and they got Clint Kirk, Kubiak. There are projects they ask you, when was the last somebody when they came out and said it was very unsuccessful.
00;51;32;13 - 00;51;52;17
Unknown
Oh my God, it did not go well. Let's be honest. The fact that he's alive is it. I always love that the surgery was successful. Well, hell yes, it was successful. You know what was successful? I got paid, I got through it. Guy didn't die on the table. It's all good. All right, PGA Championship. Let's do it real quick because we're good.
00;51;52;18 - 00;52;11;27
Unknown
It was great. It was a bunch. I thought it was boring. Yeah. On Sunday till the end. But the last nine holes weren't. No, but I get your point. On Friday and Saturday it was a little I think it was Kevin Kisner who said there were so many guys. There were a ton of that had 30, but everyone got to a green and they had 35ft for birdie.
00;52;11;27 - 00;52;32;09
Unknown
And it was a two putt contest. Yeah, you could make two. They put those flags in tufts. The pins were in tough spots and they've got a problem with five and a half five hour 45 minute rounds. And when you're putting pins in those places that's it. Don't like the PGA in May the PGA and I don't like it.
00;52;32;11 - 00;52;57;00
Unknown
It doesn't belong there. Well it doesn't August. August. It doesn't belong there. It's considered one of the top four. It's not the the the players play. The places they play are not that great. They try. They didn't even try to really make them tougher. But the players made it tougher. But the next two coming up. Yeah real thing.
00;52;57;03 - 00;53;16;25
Unknown
Yeah. Shinnecock. So they got a great champion though I mean a really likable guy who's different you know. And that's the one thing he gets so many. For years we had the robot. Did you know him before this. Well I knew of him and I'd seen his two gloves and I'd known a little bit of his story, but I think it was a good opportunity to learn about it.
00;53;16;26 - 00;53;36;00
Unknown
I felt like at the end of it, I felt like this was. And I've said this before, it seemed like they were interviewing everybody about serial killers, because if I went, oh, you never meet a guy that says anything bad about him. Why, he is the nicest guy in the world. I never heard anybody call him the nicest guy on tour.
00;53;36;01 - 00;53;54;02
Unknown
Give me a break. I think that everybody in our audience are saying, who is the guy? No one was interviewing Rory on Sunday and that Rosen over yet. And he said, well, if Aaron holds up, there won't be one guy in this field that's not happy for him. And I thought, wow, how many guys can you say that about?
00;53;54;03 - 00;54;10;00
Unknown
Everybody has got at least one guy thinks he's an asshole, don't they? I mean, the best story from the post game was Justin Thomas. He talked about, you know, he posted that 65 and all of a sudden it looked like he might even be in a playoff. And he said he told the story about it at the Greater Hartford Open or something.
00;54;10;00 - 00;54;26;24
Unknown
He finished like way the other guys were on the front nine. And he goes and meets a buddy and he says he has 4 or 5 beers. And then he's like, two hours later, he's still he's still the clubhouse leader. And he's like, you know, I got one problem with Justin Thomas. And it's the same problem I have with Jordan Spieth, and it's probably my fault.
00;54;26;24 - 00;54;50;12
Unknown
I watched that Netflix documentary Full Swing, which I've watched on a lot of these guys, and I really there's a ton of them I liked a lot more. Justin Thomas and Jordan Spieth came off to me as two spoiled country club elitist kids entitled, and so it's hard for me to root for Justin Thomas because I think I keep going back to that much more of an errand.
00;54;50;12 - 00;55;09;12
Unknown
Rye guy. I like Aaron Rye. Well, I'll tell you who I liked. Who I really liked was Matt Fitzpatrick after watching that show. Yeah, I liked Brooks Koepka more because he was open and honest. He was at his lowest struggle. I don't know if you saw that one. He was great there showing him video of Scottie Scheffler and he goes, I just can't do that anymore.
00;55;09;13 - 00;55;28;09
Unknown
His wife was in that one too. She made a few appearances in a bikini like back, but I liked him more after that. I, I don't understand. I have a great friend who's a trust fund baby. I call him Lucky Sperm. Yeah, that's my nickname for him. That's what friends he hasn't worked at in his life. I'm not upset about it.
00;55;28;09 - 00;55;44;10
Unknown
I'm happy that. No, I'm. You know, I have a friend who was a trust fund baby to an absolute great guy. Never. So when Ivy League school never worked a day in his life, he didn't flaunt it over me. What about me? Trust fund, baby? Well, you kind of flaunted a bunch over me. I'm a little sick of you.
00;55;44;11 - 00;56;06;00
Unknown
Yeah, the flaunt her. You're the flaunt goodness. So? So Jordan Spieth when you're up in an airplane and you got a camera on you and you know they're actually recording you, okay. You can come off in a way that is a little bit more likable than look at those sleds down there. Look at those fucking sleds and look at us.
00;56;06;01 - 00;56;29;07
Unknown
Bring me another drink. Right. I mean, he's right. We are, we are. But you don't have to fly. You don't have to rub our nose in it. Why? Why? Because that's not all. Guess what? I have friends that. What a person you I have every week. You don't. This show is almost over, and you're not going to be able to get to the one person that you talk about every week on this show.
00;56;29;12 - 00;56;49;29
Unknown
Who is exactly that? We have a guy in the white House that is looking down on you and say, what a slamming it, what our without saying one word about that and you got to bring that dick up. I mean, come on, I got a lot of friends that are way more successful than me. They all have one thing in common.
00;56;50;00 - 00;57;11;25
Unknown
They don't have money. Yeah, they got money, but they don't make me feel like I'm somehow less than I am. I go to the store, I buy Redbird Farms, but I don't flaunt it. You don't flaunt it. That's the word for the day. It you fry, flaunt. Look it up, you fry it. What were the things? Steam it, cook it, put it in.
00;57;11;25 - 00;57;38;02
Unknown
Pollard have his private as long as prepare it for him. Redbird farms. Yeah. And you don't flaunt it? No. And don't flaunt your red. No flaunting that is going to do it for after the Hornets. What don't you. What game are you of all of those you looking forward to I want to end on that of well the next two I mean obviously I'm looking for which Rockies Rangers tonight is one.
00;57;38;04 - 00;57;58;23
Unknown
I would say I'm really looking forward to game one. I want to see game one of the of the Avs and the Knights and see how that that shapes up. And I think game two of the Western NBA final is going to be because Oklahoma City knows that that's that for them. Yeah, that's a wrap. If they can't find a way to to outdo Wembley on in game two.
00;57;58;25 - 00;58;20;21
Unknown
So those are my games. As far as the Broncos schedule, I don't know. After the of the 12 games, can I can I my last question that I thought about after all that, do you think there's a guy that plays for the Thunder that's going to go after windy? No, I mean Luke Dort would be your your guy right.
00;58;20;23 - 00;58;38;28
Unknown
But so Caruso's also got you know you can't win be what are you going to do. Hit him in the knees. You go after Wembley. You're going to roll a rolling block on him and try to take him out that way like a cornerback would. You'll become the least popular thing to come out of France. I'm thinking about I'm going to ask.
00;58;39;01 - 00;58;59;13
Unknown
I'm thinking we should fly out Bagus for one of those games. Okay. Is that a yes? Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, I think I don't think that series would be all that competitive. I well, it'll come down to Carter Hart, their goalie who has been playing well in the postseason. But I would not say he's one of those guys.
00;58;59;16 - 00;59;17;09
Unknown
Normally when they had they really didn't play well all year. That's why Cassidy got fired. They I watched they didn't play that well. They weren't that good. Which reminds me Tortorella gets fined $100,000. He got paid whatever his salary is for eight games. So he got a 10th of his salary. 100 grand is a pretty good bite out of that.
00;59;17;16 - 00;59;37;12
Unknown
It's not the whole thing. It is. But you never know when it comes to teams or people getting fined. And we know this how many times an organization picks up, we got the tab. We got it. Thanks for doing it. I'm glad you said that. We got it or I'm glad you made that. We got it. So that happens a lot.
00;59;37;19 - 00;59;55;22
Unknown
So I'm going to try to close the show with. No, I just usually we always fake close the show a couple times. Anybody else is there any other like you brought up the president? We don't need to get into Rangers. Rockies tonight. Who you got? Who's on the bump for those two teams? I think they're both going with pitchers.
00;59;55;25 - 01;00;19;24
Unknown
Did you see I got the Rangers because the Rockies tell you I got the over last night. Do you see the Mets Nationals game? They go to extra innings. And I think the Mets scored 9 or 10 runs in the 10th. It was it was a record. So in the middle of the extra innings, the Nats want to put a position player on the mound and the umps wouldn't let them.
01;00;19;29 - 01;00;43;04
Unknown
Said there's a rule. Well Blake Butera their manager, goes yeah, that rule changed a couple of years ago. We can do it. So the umps had no idea. They didn't know the rule, and they ultimately can hear them on their earpieces talking to New York. And they had to make the announcement. They they were you know, Washington is allowed to put a position player on the you know what I do like, you don't know the great thing.
01;00;43;10 - 01;01;10;17
Unknown
You know, what I do like because I watch way too much baseball. I love the fact and it happens at least six times a game. The guy, the element the umpire stops, calls, walks out in front of home plate and goes, the dipshit is challenging my strike call. Some of them are very mellow. Some of them are like batter challenging a strike call you.
01;01;10;20 - 01;01;32;06
Unknown
And now they've got. Which is amazing. I didn't think of this. Now they've got stats like last Diaz. Yeah, like 90% of the time they challenge him. He's wrong. I mean, this is like. But proving to people that some of these guys should be bartenders and not umpires. Well, it also gives you if you're a player and you know Lars is wrong a lot.
01;01;32;07 - 01;01;48;09
Unknown
It gives you more impetus to tap the helm. It does. Think about, as we heard earlier in the program, that he did 45 years of sports and he never made it, never made a mistake. If there had been a challenge thing we've been sitting might have been a mistake. I should have been a home plate umpire. I would have been challenged a lot.
01;01;48;10 - 01;02;13;08
Unknown
But I do like how they come out. Dipshits challenge spike. Call your job. By the way, when you do arrive is to go over what he says during the program and see if he ever makes a mistake. Oh yeah, because he said he's never made a mistake. Well, the old story is I made a mistake once. I thought I was wrong and I wasn't.
01;02;13;10 - 01;02;33;11
Unknown
So just keep that in mind because you've spent years telling me I'm wrong about stuff, so I. I want because I admit that I've been wrong. Of course, you know what? If I had to sit here and tell you guys all the things I've been wrong on my life? We'd be here. I don't have enough life left to get through.
01;02;33;12 - 01;02;52;27
Unknown
Oh, well, let's play those three songs. Get those three songs ready. We go out today, get those three songs ready. I'm sure our faithful viewers and listeners will be able to reach out and tell me all the things I've done wrong, or you can just leave it alone like a kind person might. You can reach us at Athey, at Gorilla Sportsnet.
01;02;52;28 - 01;02;57;19
Unknown
Thanks again. Hope you enjoyed the show. I know I did. Fellows, we'll see you next week. You bet. Hope so.