Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight, but with all bride, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith. I see noted Kansas State and Missouri basketball enthusiast Michael Cooper back there as well somewhere. Yep, I'm getting both barrels, both barrels today. Five six six nine Zero's the text line. I finally found my car, all is well, I can go pick it up tomorrow. Dude, been without a car for like almost a week at this point. You know what the great thing about it is that years ago that would have been a
huge problem. Yeah. Today we have Uber we do, yes, we do. We have a ride sharing services. We got our feet seats. I could just go walking. Yes, people don't don't do enough walking anymore. Apparently there's a whole fad out there where you just run for an extended period of time. It's called it's typic called jogging or yogging soft shadow. Yeah. I don't know, I don't know how it's pronounced. But yeah,
so that's that's good. Saturday. You and I got out there to the Mattress Firm a Quebec Square. We had a great time with the miles of mascot The Broncos cheerleaders. Rod Smith was out there. In fact, we're gonna replay our interview with Rod in the third hour tonight, so if you guys missed that on Saturday, we had like a big long interview with Rod Smith. I said some interesting stuff. We're gonna get a chance to get to that tonight in the in the third hour, We've got Roby Bean
joining us. Uh no one, Clark Kellogg. It's gonna be next week, I believe, yep, okay, but a big showy gree How was your weekend? My weekend was great. It was interesting because Grant wasn't there, and I wish she was because this past weekend we learned more about dead innovations than I cared to learn. But all great information though. I mean, look, I'm a little nervous. Put this guy in net in the beds is gonna trip somebody like me up at some point. Well, hey,
as they say, got to be more careful. I'm just saying, like a Rod was making some valid points, very valid absolutely, because these beds now, they're like there was a smart and then there was the smart pro right super smart yes, meaning that your bed you could actually connect your phone to interface with your bed, like, uh, Shannon did it? Yeah right, Shannon was running running the end. He was running the show through the bed. He was playing music like through one of the beds.
And apparently they've got like uh these these memory settings or whatever you know, like like you know, they have the settings in your car, Like you can push the button and it'll adjust your car to the driver one, driver two or whatever. I'm like, man, this is this is begging to get me in trouble. So yeah, you know, I'm getting there. I'm getting ready to push the button, and the bed is like do you
want the other side for Kelly or Michelle? Am I fighting down? If you have frequent visitors, these were not the bids for you because they had USB ports, They had beds that elevate side to side, temper straight, They could warm the bed up, cool it down, firm yes, and after if you wanted the crackling sound of a fireplace without having a fireplace, you can do it for you. Are they comfortable? That's all I really care about. The Yeah, I mean the beds. What do you need?
This seems seems like a little too much for a match. Okay. The first thing I asked. I said, wait a minute. With all these features, at some point, you're gonna tell me there's a cup holder somewhere. Actually there's seven. If you right here, you have to fold out tray for breakfast and a mini fridge underneath exactly. And it had the light illumination under the bottom you could turn off via remote control. Somebody was I was like, you don't already have lights on your back? No,
no, see, so what I'm talking about. But Rod came up with this idea about you know who your frequent visitors might be, and you know, they had the beds where you have a certain temperature for each side, the firmness, and then all of a sudden, the conversation just ran in a different direction, like what if the bed somehow said the wrong name? And I was like, yeah, you get in bed. And also the other side is like way softer than it was before. Yes, And You're
like it's like Goldie locks. Your bed is not like Goldie locks. Temper pedick straight, trying to dry stitch on me, and I don't need this. I was like, man. At first, I was like, man, this is a lot of cool features. And then I was like, no, now this is going to come back to bite me. And see that's the first thing my mind went to when the guys started telling me about all these features. I was thinking, like, wait a minute, James
Karen made a movie about this. It's like Terminator right, what you say, what happened to Ben Man? Yes, death by bed right, it's smothering him to sleep. You haven't been home in three days, Benjamin. It's like a it's like a bed like of what is it? Five nights of Freddy's right? Nder right? The ben gets hot. The bed's like you didn't shower before you got on me? Yes, see changes the firmness, the super hard so that you get out to go. Do you know
your second shower today? I know exactly. So it's like, man, listen, I love technology. It has made our lives so much easier. And when we look at sports, we get different angles, you get stopped
motion, like it's it's a scene out of the matrix. But at some point, I mean, I draw the line in the sand when it comes to having my bed equipped with so much technology, and even you know they got smartphones, smart cars, smart homes, I'm like, no, we got I got to draw the line somewhere right because your home may say, you know what, you're not leaving today? Hi, robot, you can't leave the house. Yes, you're gonna press the wrong button and it's just
going to fold you up in half and how thousand run your house? Hello? Okay, I'm just saying, is it just me or do we have too much technology in certain areas. It's supposed to make our lives easier, too, but okay, really, really does it make our lives easier? These smartphones? How many things that people have on their smartphones that they hope
that no one finds out? That someone always finds out. Hey, Grant, I've been meaning to tell you if there is an untimely passing on my part, I need you to speed over to my place and delete my browser history immediately. I gotcha, Thank you, ID some screenshots and then like a computer on fire. Oh good one man. It's technology is great, man, but it's getting a little out of hand. I'm just saying, that's just me. Cooover was giving me the Hawaiian Hello a little while ago.
I'll see it just because you were talking about his team. That's why that's the middle thing. The seven pe nine says your mom gets both barrels. Yeah, it just she does. We got a big show tonight, Artie said, romey Bean's gonna be on seven thirty five. Got that Rod Smith interview eight thirty five. The NFL six back a little bit later. Some other surprising news to some I guess listeners to this show will know better.
Saturday, Justin Fields was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a conditional sixth round draft pick that would have the potential to become a fourth round draft pick if he plays fifty one percent of snaps in the coming season. Pittsburgh Steelers immediately announced that Russell Wilson will be the starter and Justin Fields is the backup. I was not surprised. There were five total teams that called about Justin
Fields. The Broncos, We're not one of them. The teams that called were in New England, the LA Chargers, the Indianapolis Colts, and the Philadelphia Eagles. Of those teams, only the Eagles made an offer, and it was a very similar offer to the one that the Steelers offered. Ultimately, the Eagles ended up trading for Kenny Pickett instead. You know, I liked, I rather like what Pittsburgh Steelers did. And I'll say this, Ryan Poles, is something that he wanted to do because he said that,
Look, he wanted to put Justin Fields in a great position. Now, for me, it's crazy because you could have done that when he was a member of your team. And I know you're not one of those individuals who are high on Justin Fields, but I feel as though this sets both the Pittsburgh Steelers and both Russell and Justin up perfectly because when you look at how both of those contracts are structured, it gives Pittsburgh an opportunity to kick the
tiers on both quarterbacks. Russ goes in as the starter. If things don't work out, you have a younger version of Russell in the building, right, And it's just like, okay, you turn over an entirely new leaf.
Every quarterback, Mister Trubisky, can he Pickett, Mason, Rudolph, All of those guys are now being shipped off to other teams, even knat Pickett has been placed in a great position with a team he's familiar with, that's in his hometown, the Eagles swears backing up Jalen Hurstchy and usually when
guys are traded. You don't see guys put in position where they succeed, Like when you think about what George Peyton has done with he did with Von Miller and Bradley Chubb, that rarely happens that you would sit to teams that set you up financially or from a winning perspective. So looking at how this thing shapes out for everyone involved, everyone's gonna get what they needed. Well, yeah, we'll see. I think, you know, I thought that that was where he was gonna go. I think that for him, that
was probably the best setup. Obviously Arthur Smith the offensive coordinator there you know in Pittsburgh, Now that's gonna be That's gonna be good for both of them as well. Interestingly, only two quarterbacks in the NFL has combined over the
last two years for one hundred plus interceptions in sacks. You know who they are, Russell Wilson and Justin Fields or do you know why, Let's put some context on it, because that's one of those things that are often thrown out there, that they both hold the ball too long in an attempt to make plays. Right, But isn't that like you put Josh Allen in there? Kyler Murray, Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, right, because sometimes that phrase is just to be tossed out there. These guys lead the league in
sacks. But the other part is not added which you add it, which the fact that they are mobile quarterbacks, which is different from your traditional pocket passers. The two longest quarterbacks in the NFL in terms of time to throw, Justin Fields by far holds the ball the longest in the NFL. It's not even close. Russell Wilson is the second longest, and it's way behind
where Justin Fields is before he before he throws the ball. Now, some of that number is elevated by the fact that they're scrambling around and that adds to the amount of time they're holding the ball before they throw it. So
there's a buy die by with that. It is. The difference between the two is that Russell Wilson historically has been a winning quarterback doing that, where Justin Fields is ten and twenty eight as a starter in his career right, and once again, to even talk about Fields in his situation even more, I think you have to speak to as as to why a player like Fields
is doing that. They're not only trying to extend plays, but not having adequate weapons around you and pass protection will force players who have that capability to hit that button right now. It's almost like an eject button form. They're sitting in the pocket, they're looking and looking, Okay, it's not there. Bo't hit their escape patch. Let me get out to my right, let me get out to my left. And I still feel as though that is a key to centur for a lot of quarterbacks in this league. That's
why we have more quarterbacks who fit that kind of description. You look at Josh Allen, you look at Patrick Mahomes. They hold the ball at the high rate. Maybe not as high as maybe a Russell or Justin Simmons,
but they do hold the ball. And for me, if I am a defender, those are the quarterbacks that make it really difficult to defend against because they're going to break contain and you always hear dB coaches talk about plaster, plaster, plaster, and that means you got to make sure that you grab and latch onto a guy that's in your particular area, and that makes it harder to defend because if that mobile quarterback starts to get outside the pocket,
frequently you now have to dedicate someone specifically with stopping them the one area they diverge, because if you look at Russell Wilson, you look at Justin Fields, some one area where they most of their stats are Apallo the one area where they diverge in the fourth quarter. Russell Wilson let the NFL and fourth quarter comebacks, game winning drives and had the number one scoring offense in the NFL. Justin Fields was at the bottom or in the bottom three of every
statistical category in fourth quarter passing. Well, he is the way that without me being in a room with Pittsburgh, so it was in their management. They were probably taking what you said into consideration. And usually when you hear that, it all depends on what side of the fence you sit on.
Ben. When you hear a quarterback has so many fourth quarter comebacks, someone say, well, that means that you were trailing and you had to get back in the game, which is true because not every quarterback and every team you're not going to lead for seventeen games all four quarters. It's not going
to happen. But they're thinking, okay, but with their defense and the move that they're making defensively and Russell's ability to do that and have those fourth quarter comebacks, that is going to bowl well for them because they know that. Hey, listen, you're in the tough AFC North with some great quarterbacks Burrow, Lamar Watson. You're going to be in some tough divisional games, and when you look at the remaining of the AFC, those games are going
to be tighter. So you need someone who has experience and doing that, and you hope maybe through osmosis it rubs off on j Justin Field. I feel like that that's the best situation for Justin Fields in the end. I'm not a big Justin Fields guy. I'm just not. I thought he was kind of slow at processing the field. I thought he got himself in trouble sometimes. I think he's an old world athlete, a top one percent of the top one percent athlete. But as a quarterback. I'm not building my
team around that, you know. I mean, I'm building my team around in Alan. I'm building my team around in my home. So I'm building my team around guys who absolutely can pass the football at any level, accurately, on time and consistently. And the mobility is a big plus. It would have been out. Now, Josh Allen wasn't always that guy. He wasn't, right, he developed into that guy. But that's the old Bill Walsh rool. If they don't have it by three year three, they're not
going to get it. Alan had it by year three. Malves had it by year one. Yeah, but Alan, to his credit, had some weapons around him, which made the first two years. I mean, those firstw years we pretty good. They got digs in the third year, right, and that's when it started to take off. Yes, And I'll give Joe Brady some credit for a little for that. And what's the ken Dorsey was fired out? Listen, even though Dorsey was fired you have to give
Dorsey a little credit. He developed him exactly. So once again, when we when we discuss this about any quarterback, even these quarterbacks currently coming out, these are the things that we have to make sure that we discussed and put in context because it is not just the player by himself. That player has a unique skill set, don't get me wrong, But can you, as a coordinator, signal caller, can you enhance what that guy brings to
the table? Yes, upgrade exactly. That's that's basically what it is. And that's the question that we should have or maybe that to context which we should speak in. Can you, as an offensive coordinator upgrade this guy from what he is to what you were projecting him to be? And if the Steelers do that with Russ and Justin, they look like geniuses. If they don't, they were low cost flyers that didn't cost them. It cost him
one point two million dollars and a six round draft pick. Still, I mean, either way, they looked like they looked like steel And that's I mean, like Kudo bron I didn't want fields here, but I'll and and the Broncos did not call. But that that is a I that is a steal. I don't already say the teams are called. They can't remember if I told your nun no, no, you did not, that that is information. I will tell that you can seal. The Eagles and the Colts
both called. The Eagles were the only other team to offer. Then they offered a similar deal. Uh, the New England Patriots called, and they were hanging around there. They hadn't they hadn't offered, but they were hanging around to you know, up until he was dealt to the Steelers. And he was dealt to the Steelers because he told his representation Dave, I'll geta told uh Ryan Poles he would rather go to the Steelers than the Patriots.
Uh. And then the other team was the Los Angeles Chargers. Interesting put uh put Jim Harball, let him. Let him get another with Greg Roman. But he is saying, I get it. But here is what essentially has happened with what you're suggesting in the moves that were made. Look at what Doug Peterson did down in Jacksonville. You already have Trevor Lawrence. So you know that the Patriots with the new head coach and Gerro Mayo, wanted out from under Mac Jones. So you trade for him. You give him
a six round pick. Form that's nothing, but you essentially have two quarterbacks who were drafted in the same draft, right in the first round, one number one overall, one fifteenth. They're now on the same squad. And what we're saying is teams are now starting to understand not how valuable the starting position is been, but the guy in waiting is. Because I think last
year we saw sixty different quarterbacks started the NFL game. So we know either a guy's going the backup is going to get in either because the starter was either injured or did not play productive enough. So you have to have that
guy in waiting. If you don't, you're in trouble. In the fact that Ryan Poles tried to set Justin Fields up and Phil's had an opportunity to choose where he wanted to go. That finally, the Pittsburgh not to excuse me, finally the Chicago Bears did something favorable for Justin Fields to succeed, and they did it on his way out. I think they did things. I mean, they had a DJ Moore last year who would be a top
five wide orceive with anybody else that's last year. And then even with what he was doing last year with DJ Moore, he still wasn't getting credit for that. So outside of DJ Moore and Cole Comet when he was healthy, where else was he going with the vault? Well, Darl Mooney, and then they had the two backs that he mostly threw it to as well. Well. I mean, it's it's six and one half does the other. We'll figure it out. We'll see. Time will tell on that five six,
six times of text line. Russ is a fumbler. According to the seven one nine. Well, if you think he's a fumbler, he fumbled sixteen times over the last two seasons in thirty games. Justin Field's fumbled twenty six times into fewer games in twenty games. If there was something that I would say I would love to see Russ do a lot better is bass security. It's almost similar to a running back. A running back is taught like once you get around several bodies, yep, the first team, you have
points content, you have to cover it up. That's where he needs to get better. And sometimes we've seen running backs do it some Miiji p Rhyd did it this year. When you're fighting for extra yards, you're trying to get that stiff farm out there to get those defenders off of you, and sometimes you become relaxed with that eight point suppressure. Like Bobby Turner, you should talk about you need the eight point sup pressure and Russ has the ability
to do that. So that that is the one thing that I would say I did not like about his game, that he he needs to get better moving forward. Well, he does. But fields, on the other hand, like I said, Russ had sixteen fumbles, he recovered I believe six of them in thirty games. Justin Fields had twenty six fumbles in twenty eight games. So Justin Field had ten more fumbles in two fewer games. That's
carrying the ball away from your body. Got it. If you're going to be a quarterback, run on the ball, you gotta wrap it up. We gotta wrap the segment up. We'll be back on the other side after this. Welcome back to it, Broncos Country tonight. Benjamin ol Brighten, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. Five six six nine zero four one ols. So what are we doing a quarterback? Well, that's a good question. Right now, we got Jared stead Of, Ben de Nucci,
the nuts, the nuts. I think the Broncos are obviously going to draft the quarterback. The question is where and how I think more or less who, Well, that's the who we want to get to those yes, I I mean we know Sean Payton likes JJ McCarthy. I just man, I don't think the Broncos have the amo to get there based on what the Vikings did, an acquisition of another first round pick, and you know,
hearing things out of Minnesota that Quasy Dofo Mensa, their GM. They're gonna be at the workout of McCarthy. They really, they really like it and maybe a head fake though it's either may or McCarthy for them, I just don't know which one. Well, you know what, that's a crazy thing about this time too, because we get pumped fake a lot because they were a couple of years ago. Everybody was trying to tell you it was Mac
Jones at three and I'm like, no, this is Trey Lance. I knew it was Trey Lance because people on both sides started telling I don't want to say lies, well, let's call them have truths. And this information gets out there and it circulates and it comes from different sources and idea, since it's coming from different sources, then it must be true. But we
eventually find out. But Minnesota is positioning themselves if they wanted to, if they wanted to move up and make JJ McCarthy their guide to add with another JJ and justin Jefferson, it is something that they could do. And then if some of the roomors say are what they say they are, and once again you got to take them with a grain of salt. That McCarthy is beloved by one Sean Payton, then he could be off the board, which therefore believe bo Nicks. Yeah, so it's gonna be interesting to see what
they do. I again, I just do not believe that the Broncos had the ammunition to get up and get one of the Big four. And they're all gonna be gone by six. All four of those quarterbacks are gonna be gone by six, which means if the Broncos want to get involved, they have to hope that their guy is there at either four or five and then mortgage in their next three drafts in order to get there. And I just I can't see the fan base being okay. I can't see the Sean Payton
being okay with that. I know he's been aggressive in the draft of the past, but you're really gonna mortgage everything. Some fans would be happy about that because now the team has finally had their quarterback of the future sort of speak. You have a quarterback. Only three years from now will we be
able to tell if that panned out or not. So, in the mind of certain individuals, give up whatever you need to give up to get that guy that you want, because obviously the headache that has been for the past couple of years, the Bronco's not having a quarterback that they can truly call their own, not someone else's guy, right that it was, you know, I guess regifted and given to you. No, no, no, no, you want your own present, someone that you can get behind,
not someone that another fan base has rooted for. No, you want your own I'm not gonna say homegrown talent, but essentially a guy that's coming in day one that's been drafted by this particular franchise. Yeah, and I think that's you know, that's the thing. I think the fan base is clamoring for the guy. They want to get behind the guy. That kind of thing. But it's it's tough because you're in a tough spot. You're picking at twelve. You've got Minnesota who has the ammunition to leap frog you.
They've got a fort extra first this year, and you know it's tough to You've got a Raiders team that might even move up. It's just a it's just a tough ask. You're already I mean, the Niners move from twelve to three a couple of years ago for Trey Lance, and it cost them three first rounders and a third that's what the that's what the going rate is. This year's first, next year's first, the year after that's first and a third rounder. The Broncos already don't have a second rounder, So you're
mortgaging everything if you're gonna do that, literally everything. I get that, But where Broncos fans are now in this organization is now that's what you may have to do if you think that what whichever quarterback that's out there, he is the guy in that Peyton can actually make that guy anything, or let's just say even sixty percent of what Drew Brees was with him in New Orleans. They're willing to take that risk. That's sixty percent of Drew Brees,
is why. I mean, yeah, last year, Okay, well that that's better than not having anything at all. Because keep this in mind, most fans would take sixty percent of Drew Brees. If Sean Payton could create that with whomever he drafts over what they they've seen of Jeffstonman and finding two games of the season, you not. I would not. It's not with what it would take to do that. I'm not mortgaging three first cent a
third to go get sixty percent of Drew Brees. If I'm trading that it better before Drew Brees, Well, that that ships unless you know a cryo chamber somewhere. We got the cloning technology at cloning Sheep. I can't, but they can't. They can't clothe and I pone in Hall of Fame quarterbacks. If that was the case, we'll go out there callin John Elway or Peyton Medding again five six six nine zeros in tex last six four to six says I think Peyton did the right thing, not citing one of the retreats.
If he's rebuilding, which clearly he is, rollerstin them draft someone in mid rounds and next year started attempting to be competitive. I'm not posting someone night say. Ben said the Broncos would have a new quarterback last week. What didn't happen, I said, I thought they would have a new quarterback last week. And what didn't happen was Minnesota output them for San Darnald. I thought they were gonna get the the San Donald thing done. I really
did. I think they thought that too. I know the pr out there now is so they weren't really in and all this stuff, which is crap. But I thought they were gonna get sand Donald don After watching so many quarterbacks go off the board in free agency, I was thinking that Donald would be that guy. And we'll we'll never know the true story, and I wish that I can call it Donald and ask him, like, did the
Broncos pursue you? And was it the fact that Minnesota gave you an offer you couldn't refuse or it was just like you just in view the Broncos as a team where you felt as though you can live out your best years you have remaining statistically in the league. Well, he'signed a one year deal with Minnesota, and the reason that he did that is because it gave him a clearer path to start. Even with a trade up for a rookie, gave him a clearer path to start. He doesn't have to battle anybody. It's
gonna be him until the rookie takes over. So all he has to do is hold the rookie off for one year. He bet on himself and he has kind of the Mayfield situation. Oh, by the way, he gets to throw to Addison and Jefferson. That's not a bad life. That's not
a bad life. And you have Aaron Jones if Aaron Jones out of the backfield, and let's not take anything away from Coominson, yes, from the Minnesota Vikings defense, and you're going to a system that you know familiar to you, right, So I think that there was a for Sam Donald. Sam Donald viewed minnesot it was a much much better landing spot. And by the way, it ended up being a de facto trade in Minnesota because Josh Dobbs today. So I with the forty nine ers, see, I don't
get that one. I really don't very interesting. You don't. You don't think that Josh Dobbs and San Francisco the reason I as or not. Listen, Josh is a smart guy. So I know that he's smart enough. I think he was what is it astrophysicist, yeah, astrophysicist, yes, so he can get he can grasp the concepts of any system. But I
just look at his athleticism. It is not something that fits traditionally what Kyle Shanahan wants to do, unless you're telling me after watching Pat Mahomes run the ball on them and he didn't run wild on him, he run it a couple of times that Kyle is willing to make an adjustment that would be interesting. I'm I'm here, sad. I think Dobb's look bigger in that system. We'll see. Uh. We got Roby Bean coming up seventh thirty five.
You guys gonna stick around for that. The six pack EO five Rod Smith interview from this weekend eight thirty five, that's gonna be going up as well. Let's check in with Travick Dave O'Brien. Welcome back to it Broncos Country tonight. Benjamin Olbriden, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you, seveone nine. Ask where the Broncos have interest in Malik Willis, to which I would ask why, and I would follow that with no, they don't, But why would they? I don't. I mean, you're talk about
a guy who couldn't beat out will Levis. Well, first of all, he didn't look like he belonged on the field. The skill set does not. Despite what you may think of Malik Willas as a quarterback, his skill set itself does not fit what Sean Payton was exactly. So wants the elastic pocket passing play in structure quarterback if they have a little mobility, cool, But I get tired of people who and and every time I say that, the first thing that what about Taysom Hill. He thought he was gonna turn
Taysom Hill into that, well the back. If you look at the quarterbacks as Sean Payton's drafted Taysom Hill, Nick Stevens, they're all Tony Romo clones. He all thinks, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no, both. Taysom Hill was not a Romo clone at all. He was just like kind of a same body type, same passing structure, the same same mobility. He was a souped up version of Tim Tebow. But these guys are all like He's looking at him, like, that's
my new Tony Romo. Sean Payton's looking at all these guys like Nick Stevens, who wound up turning into a full back by the way out of Mississippi State. They are souped up Tebos because the scale here is Tebow to Romo, right, and Babe thinks he's gonna turn him into into Romo, and more often than not they turned into Tebo. You take that Toyota super Room, right, and no, no, Toyota Supra super yes, and then you just kind of soup it up with some Uh No, no, no
we're not. We're not putting the soup can exhaust. No, no, we're not put the giant the giant t bag spoiler on it. Yes, by the fast quarterback. No, that's exactly what it was. That idea needs to die. Like never mind, I mean taysm was the quintessential gadget guy. That was not why he was drafted. He was drafted to be the next quarterback job. Buten was going to develop and turned him into The idea might have been there initially, but the skill set wasn't all there completely.
Like, if we're talking about a fantasy guy, you're not using Taysom Hill and putting him as your backup quarterback. You're gonna put him as maybe you're tight end because most likely he's going to be in that position a lot as long as being a quarterback. No, that's that's not who he is. Even though he did get paid as though he was a quarterback. Yeah, they signed it. He wasn't drafting, he was undrafted, but they signed it. He signed He signed him to be that. He signed him
to be that guy. Well, he's the first one with Green Bay. That was the thing. He was on the what was it like the practice squad or whatever they were training camp, and then Sean Payton sided to be the guy. He was six foot two, two thirties, built thick, and he was like, Okay, he's this guy who can be my next Tony Romo and he's not. And then you go back and you look, Nick Stevens was the same build like they like, Sean Payton has a type. Well, I guess we all have types, don't we. Wait?
I look, no, Grant makes a lot. Had a type? Yeah, yeah, yes, so it makes a lot. Did have the type? I don't know that I have a type, but we all looked the same with the lights off. Well, look, man, Sean has a type. We all have a type. And right now he's sticking to his type because he in his mind, his type is going to get him to where he wants to be and for him, that's the only thing that matters. And I'm okay with that? Did you just you bet a damn sure?
Get so tight? Well? But what I'm what I'm trying to get at here is that Sean Payton is who was there when Tony Romo was brought in, never played thoroughman didn't play while Sean pap was there, but he was. He was there in the quarterback room and I feel like that and by the way, that was who Sean Payton wanted to be his quarterback, but Dallas wouldn't give him up. Back then, they I think they were playing Quincy Carter at the time and Anthony Wright. I think Ryan Leaf even
played a couple of games there. My boy Cletch Stterner played a game, but at the time Tony Romo hadn't played. Nobody knew what he was yet, and Sean Payton wanted to bring him to once that was going to be his guy. They Dallas wouldn't let him go, so they shopped around the free agent market. They struck out on the first choice, and when Miami failed Drew Brees due to physical they failed him on his neck. The doctor's
there because Nick Saban wanted Drew Brees. Pete Carmichael, who had been the quarterbacks assistant quarterbacks coach with the Chargers, convince Sean Payton to bring Drew Brees in and the rest, of course is history. But Sean Payton hasn't gone out and tried to draft Drew Brees. Look at the guys he's drafted.
Those guys are aren't Drew Brees archetypes. But what he's recognizing is the skill set that he feels as though these quarterbacks possess, and the hopes is developing them into something as close to what Drew Brees was, because those are the qualities you have to identify first when you're bringing someone in at a quarterback. And for me, look, I like Vanella ben Do I stray too far
off the path? I either right or left? Not so much because I know what I like and I know what I like has worked for me. Now for Sean Payton, he now has to prove that after all these years, he can finally find that guy that has a couple of those characteristics that Breeze might have possessed. And I know his biggest thing, Like a lot of individuals who are OC's, you go back to how quickly can a player process information? See, that's a bigger topic. I want to save that
one for tomorrow because there's so much to explore there. But that's what he's looking for, skill set size processing. Hopefully you can get it, because if he does, everything's happy around here. If he doesn't, then I got to look at your sad face every day. It's a very sad face, very sad face. Somebody deserves that. Broncos Country Night, We'll be back.