Welcome to it Broncos Country tonight, but with Albright, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith five six six nine. Here, you guys want to get involved in the conversation. You're gonna have Brandick Crystal live from the owner's meetings down there in Orlando. Here just a little bit, Cody, Warrick and join us in the next hour. Nick, how you doing. I'm doing well, man. How about yourself? I'm doing pretty good. I was just for everybody who can't tell Nick is at the remote studio, he's Uh, he's
in the Ferguson Dome for those who didn't know the Ferguson Cave. Maybe I don't know is it? Is it a cave? Is a dome? Uh? It would be more of a cave than a dome, because a dome would mean as though there is some kind of oval shape overhead, and I don't think that's the case. Mister Albright. Oh spake shu. I don't know what kind of fancy layer you have over there at super supervillain headquarters or superhero headquarters, whatever it may be. So wait, you're supposed to be
the super villain. I tried to slide that by you real quick too. I just you know, super super whatever. It's fun. We had had an interesting weekend thus far in the in the world of sports, you know, tany presser today. Obviously we had Sean Payton's comments this morning, which kind of have people a bit into tizzy. We want to get through, uh through some of that stuff as well. We've had some rule changes in the NFL. It definitely want to get your thoughts on the hip drop tackle
stuff. See you buff men's fall to Marquette despite putting up a fight in the second half there, but the women advanced weet sixteen for the see you lady buffs. Uh, that's gonna be uh, gonna be a lot of fun there. And obviously we'll have the I think are we having the game on? Can't we? Great? I'm not sure, it'll depend on what when it lines up with the Rocky schedule. Okay, all right, well check back. We'll get you in day for them on Thursday. Right.
So that's what I was gonna say. I didn't know. I know we had the opening day stuff, but I didn't know if it was early enough. I didn't know the schedule in that. So we're going to chance to get to all that. But let's uh, you know, let's start from from the top, the the oldest meetings down there. We get we get some rule changes coming in the the challenge now you don't have to get two correct, you just have to get one challenge correct, and then you get
the bonus third challenge. And I think that's a good I think that's a good addition. I don't think that's one that I'm too concerned about. But the hip drop tackle thing is the one that's got social media pretty wound up, as the NFL votes unanimously the band hip drop tackle the swivel hip drop
tackle. But Rich McKay came out and kind of clarified a little bit later that they don't want this to be as much of an in game thing as much as it is something that they are going to find players for during the week. Basically, go back and look at the tape and find players. I know how you feel about that, Nick, but why don't I get your thoughts on this rule change first of all, and then we can kind
of get into some of the minutia. Well. I don't like the room chain, to be frankly honest, because in my time, we never had the hip drop tackle. We've never really had that. And Roy Willmas used to play safety for the Dallas Cowboys infamous lead gave us the horse collar tackle because the majority of the time he was in trail position and he had the
pool guys down from the back. And for me, for years, I've always felt this when I retired, that tackling was something that most teams didn't spend a lot of time on. And then my time as a coach, that was one of my emphasis with San Francisco, trying to teach guys like Dj Reed, who now plays corner for the New York Jets, the proper techniques and was required as far as tackling. And I don't know how do you play defense in this league anymore when it just seems as though the rules
keep changing. And we've seen the competition Committee get together every single year and there was always a rule that's being changed to benefit some of the offense. And I know this last season and over the past couple of seasons we've watched
Ben the number of scoring opportunities actually dwindle. So for me, this is a way for the league to increase that and get back get those numbers backed up to what they were years ago when Jared Golf was playing for the Rams and he's playing against Patrick Mahomes on Monday Night Football and they put up a seat note as far as points is are concerned, but I really don't like this. I don't like it at all. Why don't you like it specifically?
Well, the reason I don't like it is because when you look at the emphasis, the emphasis is on tackle and are tackling and it is basically shaped around the idea and the concept of player safety and where's the player's safety when it pertains to this, Because we've seen running backs and tight ends and receivers getting bigger, stronger, faster, So what are defenders are supposed to
do? There's no way to defend themselves. It's almost like you want to create this this hashtag that I tossed out there, like defenseless defender and we've never heard that before, because how are you wanting guys to tackle guys from an angle? Guys who are one or two yards in front of him?
And once again, Ben, are we going to break this down to the realm of saying what's the runner gets outside the pocket and he gets down the field, the rules are going to be judge or the players are going to be judged differently tackling guys out in space and out in the field opposed to behind the line of scremers. Because you've seen so many games just like I've seen where you have Aaron Donald, who's an excellent running chase guy, pulled
offensive players down from behind. So how is it as official you're going to police this? Are you going to stop the game every single play? And or or I think you mentioned that Richard McKay said they're going to do this after the fact. And as a player that's been fined in this league five thousand dollars twice for socks for me, how how are guys in the PA gonna deal with this? Knowing as though guys are getting FedEx packages in the
mail, where guys are being deducted large sums of money. I mean, I don't like it. Well, and the idea, I mean, physics is going to cause some of these types of tackles, right, Like, I understand if you're deliberately grabbing somebody from behind and chopping at the knees, I get that. But if you're if you're trying to make a legitimate tackle and your body gets rolled because the physics of the situation swings your momentum that way, and they're really going to find you for that. I mean,
it just feels like this is another excuse to find players. It doesn't feel like that this solves anything. I understand what they're trying to get at with the injury portion of it. I get the intent, but this doesn't feel like it's in it. And it feels like in a game that is already probably over officiated, we're adding something else for the officials to watch rather than
the things they need to be looking for. Absolutely, because when we look at fines for more players, and that number is going to continue to escalate, and now you have to try to go get your money back from the league. And as a guy that been in that situation, nine times out of ten, they don't give it back. Then they give you a portion
of it back, but not a lot. Think about what we watched last year last year in Denver, watching Kareem Jackson play and he was fined time after time after time till it got to a point where he was out on the field and he was like ten almost like he wasn't even out there he couldn't even be the physical presence that he once was. But I'll tell you this, Ben, there is a solution to this problem that the league did not or has not explored. And what that is is that you have the
technology. Like like you the six million dollar man, We have the technology. And what that comes down to is using instant replay right, allowing coaches more time out so if they need to challenge or challenge opportunities to challenge these players to say, well, was that a bona fide penalty or not? Because the players are didn't defined after the fact. But we're talking about advancing
the ball for the offense. And we watched last year certain quarterbacks I shall not call their name that that had that Academy Award winning acting as far as the drama of saying that, oh look what happened to me? And we're going to see more guys do that, and it's going to turn into what we're seeing in soccer and what we're seeing with in the NBA as far as flopping is concerned, and to me, that's going to hurt the game.
Yeah, I'm this was one thing that I'm like, Okay, I understand the intent, but this has got to be better thought out, and it just doesn't appear to be well thought out to me. Like I said, it appears to be something that's a cash grab from players, and at the end of the day, is something that is going to cause officiating crews that are already over officiating to inject themselves more subjectively into games where we want less of that, Especially if you're like me and you'd like to put a wager
on it. The last thing you want is some gonna flag tackle that is a subjective judgment cole at the end deciding an outcome exactly. And once again, the league is all about protecting the integrity of the shield. That's why we've seen them clamp down oh Kevin Ridley and other guys for gambling outside of the league rules. So if you say that you want to protect the integrity of the game, once again, how do you police this right? How
do you police this somewhat in games, but more importantly as coaches? How do you coach through this part of the game. Because we know at some point a guy is gonna break away from me, how do you track him down from behind and make a secure tackle? And I know the whole idea in the league is low man wins. So for me, if I'm a player in this league and I'm thinking low man wins, and they're telling me what I can't do, restricting me from making tackles and doing my job,
now, guess what I got to hit you in your knee. And I can tell you right now there's not a single skilled player that would tell you, hey, this go ahead and just kind of ruin my career and take my knee out. They would tell you, hey, look, hit me up upper body, even if that means in my head, but please do not hit me below my knees. But if I am playing and I'm coaching, where's the strike zone? You tell me, Ben, where's the strike
zone? Yeah? I again, anything that adds subjectivity to sports, that adds to officiating and subjectivity, something I'm going to be opposed to, something I'm going to be against. I want. You know, we're still sitting out here wondering what to catch it is. You know it does catch it, dude. You know it's still one of those things where I'm like, man, like you know, anything that we're adding that it causes anything to
be subjective. I'm inherently going to be against and this. I'm all for player safety, but this doesn't feel like it necessarily made anything any safer. It just means that, oh, they're either going to flag this during the games and or find people during the week, and I mean, that's nobody's gonna want that. Well, here's what the league has decided to give the public. Right you're saying that people are still crying about the fact that the
game is still physical. This is where they're changing the kickoff rules and we're seeing rules after rules change in lou or in the de vein of player safety. If you want to do that, if you really want to do that, there are multiple ways. Because we already know that this is a physical game and you can get bumps and bruises. What you can do is actually make sure players have better healthcare after they finished retiring. That that's one way
to make sure that you handled the situation. But the other way that you can make sure that you are protecting the players. Why we're trying to increase games. Why are we're trying to increase regular season games. You can't increase the regular season game and tell me that you're trying to protect players. And then once again, you're protecting the offensive players. What about what about us on the defensive side? Then what about us? Well, you know,
on the defensive side. The loan concession, I guess, is that they did not change the fumble through the end zone for a touchback rule, which again I maybe I'm the loan supporter of, but I still think that's a good rule. The end zone has special rules, and if you fumble it through the end zone, you shouldn't be rewarded for fumbling it through the end zone. So I guess that's that. You guys, get what, But that's not that's not helping me and protecting me as far as you know,
health and well business is concerned. No, it's not. Well, think about this, Benjamin al Bright. You're playing corner and the team that you're playing against in the Baltimore Ravens, here comes Derrick Henry and guess oh, by the way, they just pulled the guard too. Now you got those two behemoth that that you're trying to slow down and stop. Tell me how you do that? Yeah, I don't. I don't have an answer for that. And that's that's part of the thing. I think there are I
think there are holes in the way that we officiate the game. I do understand, and I hate the way that the Competition Committee phrased it a while back when they talked about, well, we'd like to see scoring at a certain point. Well, no, that should not be your That should not be your Your goal shouldn't be to see a certain amount of points per game. That should not be your goal. Your goal should be to make the game as good as it can be. And the idea that relegating or changing
things to tilt the game and artificially inflate scoring is not a positive. I don't agree with you know, I don't agree with that. I you know, if if defenses have come up with ways to prevent scoring, it's incumbent on the the offense to adjust that, not the league rules committee to give him a free pass. Once again, I know this league, this league is always about being reactive, not proactive. And I know they want more butts in the seats and you can't. You can only get that by scoring
in bunches. And I totally understand. No one wants to see a nine to three game other than Nick Ferguson, right, I'm the only person that wants to see that type of game. But this is their way of dealing with that particular situation and trying to enhance and expand the brand itself based on the number of points that are scored. And then also think about this from
from this standpoint too. I know you kind of make your your daily wages, but that is something that they factored in as well, because when we look at fantasy sports, right, your guy kissed some cousins, we know he can. He can wreck up the stats on the stats sheet except for the except for those in a way column. But that is going to increase
the revenue that's coming in from fantasy and that's what they want. Well, right, absolutely, And you know what we need to do as a poll, which one is the bigger fantasy scammer, Kirk Cousins or Justin Fields. Neither one of them get wins, all of them wrapping up fantasy points. So if you want to sure, maybe maybe if we'll let the five six, six, nine zero, we'll let the text line answer that we was speaking of. The text line seven to two Oho says he got JJ McCarthy
going second overall at plus seventy five hundred. Last month, the same sports book had at plus five fifty today. Now, I have not heard that the Commanders were now JJ McCarthy, but that was a popular topic this morning, as Tom Pelisaro said that he'd heard that a little bit around the owner's meetings when talking about the Insiders show with Ian Rappaport and Mike Garifolo, I believe Weisch was on it. Well, when they're talking about that point,
that's not the person I've heard associated with the commanders. But if they do, if they did pivot to that, they do pull the trigger on that. First of all, you'd have yourself a great bet there, one hundred dollars winning you seventy five hundred dollars. Second of all, how do we feel about that? JJ McCarthy was a guy talked about back in January as the league being a lot higher on than fans were. I go laughed at
at the time. Now the guy's a top four lock. Well, things have changed over the past couple of weeks, and they will change leading up to the first round on April twenty fifth, because we're going to have some guys fall, some guys are going to rise because of that, and it's all doing part to the level of narratives that are being pushed out there. This coach, coach Harbaugh. I mean, he speaks candidly and highly of JJ McCarthy, as he should as a guy that helped him win a Natty.
But when we really look at JJ McCarthy, we have to say, okay, well when we look when we look at Washington, does he really fit there? What kind of quarterback is he? Now? I'm not high on McCarthy and I'm not low on him. He's one of those guys that are right there in between because you don't know what he's going to be.
But that's based on what you put around him. And when we can say that about any particular quarterback, but this is the time of the year, especially being at those owners meetings, where a lot of conversations start to come up. But I'm not believing that because if you're high on the guy, think about it, man, if you wanted to select a particular guy, are you gonna tell someone else who wants that same guy? No, you're not gonna do it. Just like dating. I'm not gonna tell Vinjamin R.
Bright. I'm taking out Peggy Sewer over there in the corner. I'm gonna go talk to Peggy Sue myself. Yeah, I mean it's in their best interests to drum that up, especially if they know somebody might be trading up for that. As a matter of fact, speaking of your report, he asked Sean Payton about trading up whether that was feasable and J. J. McCarthy the assumption from honest it was that quarterbacks don't want two three in the travel. You guys would have a long way to go potentially if you
wanted to come up. How realistic is you guys being a trade up team and how strong? I think that's realistic. I think it's realistic. I know your reports suggested otherwise, but it's realistic. No, it did. I would. I think it's realistic. What's what's hard to predict, though, is like what's on the receiving end. You know, I think it's good to be Monty today at Arizona, right, So it's hard to it's hard to predict what that cost is. And yet I certainly wouldn't say it's
unrealistic in we'll pay close attention to it. Yeah, I mean, Sean didn't need to be rude to Ian Rappaport, which she kind of was there. He was also rude to be ka by the way, I'll join us just on the other side here in a minute. But you know, I realistic is carrying a lot of water here, because I'm not sure how realistic
it is to get up to four. If he's saying it's possible, okay, I mean, if you want to play some ANIX games, is it possible, Yes, it is possible for the Denver Broncos to trade to four. Is it probable? Not really? And I think if you are the Broncos and you want them to trade up there, you're only Sinnara is hoping that Minnesota trades to three with New England, so there's no competition for that
fourth quarterback. Well, for me, it seems as though coach was talking out both sides of his neck, because you said he booked in his statement saying that it's realistic. But in between that, there's something that I paid close attention to. He said, it's hard to predict what's on the receiving end and what's going to cost. Right. Look, we all want to do a lot of things, but sometimes it's not realistic. You know what, I want to fly to the moon, but guess what I don't have
a rocket ship, right, So we look at the Broncos. They want to take a rocket ship and Pops possibly move up and get JJ McCarthy or whomever Sean Payton is identifying. But the truth is that you can't really get up there. And then what you're what are you sacrificing to get up there? Because it's not about what Sean Payton wants, what Broncos Country wants the team to do. It's like, can you get up there? Because when you look at Arizona and all those teams who're sitting between one and six,
it's whatever they what, whatever they asked for. You have to be willing to deliver to them. If you cannot, then you have to stay at pat where you are, which you and I talked about so many times on the show. Just say, man, Bumpet, move back, get some picks and try to be competitive this year. Yeah, I think I'm with you. And they will have plenty more time to discuss that and kind of break it down and what else Sean Payton said down there at the owner's meetings
when Bredick Cristal joins us. Next is the Broncos Country and I here on KOA. It's eight fifty am to ninety four ONEFM News Talk Sports. Welcome back to it, Broncos Country Tonight. Benjamin ol Brighten, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. We're gonna go out to the Kwait Cummspil Hotline to bring on Breddick Cristal live from down there. At the owners meetings,
BKA got a chance to talk to Sean Payton this morning's interesting stuff. Out of that, I felt like Sean Payton might have been a little of a little bit of a grouchy mood with some of his responses. What say you
b kay? Yeah? And I think it's just because Sean unless he's on the Competition Committee, which he was for a number of years and helped trying to get the rules change regarding pass interference that certainly affected the outcome of his team's game in the NFC Title Game a few years back, obviously, unless he's in that role, it doesn't seem like I think last year he was okay being here because he had a year off, but I don't think he
wants to be here. In fact, George Payton even mentioned that because Sean said yeah, George and I'll talk about players today. And then George told us that Sean and he'll sit in the back of the well, sit in the room while they're in these coach GM meetings together, and the owners are
in another set of meetings, and they'll be looking at players. So then I asked George like I followed up with him, and I said, how do you execute that without making sure your thirty one counterparts aren't just wandering by to see what's up on your screen? And he said, we sit in the back of the room. So that's how they're trying to maximize their time because they'd rather be at pro day's. And I imagine that we'll see George at Drake May's pro day at Carolina, we'll see him at Jade Daniels pro
day. And just like Sean told us today that they put JJ McCarthy through the paces on a private workout the day after his prod and gave them a bunch of stuff the night before at five o'clock that it was too much info to to truly memorize and digest completely. They do that on purpose, and so you got to think they'll do that for May and Daniels too. If given the opportunity, but that that's what they want to be doing right now
is getting ready for the draft. They've got their big draft meeting Tuesday, when I think they're gonna set their board, and so being here in a year with kind of a nine owners meetings right Other than the hip drop tackle thing and the kickoff, there's not really much more. There's I guess cal McNair getting full control of the team that his family already owns and getting all the shares. But beyond that, it's it's pretty quiet because it's quite interesting
question because the annual photo that they take with all the coaches. I saw that photo and there were certain things that I I that stood out to me. First and foremost, there were a number of coaches that come from the Mike Shanahan tree. But there was something else that someone pointed out to me that that really stuck out was in that ooto there was no Sean Payton. Have you heard as to why that Sean Payton wasn't in that annual photo.
Sean was actually asked about that, I want to say, by our guy Mike Cliss and said, hey, why weren't you there? And he goes, well, have you seen our right itinerary and he's like, have you seen it? He goes it said it was today. They decided to do it yesterday, so I think there were only twenty seven coaches, which means five were missing. I want to say maybe it was Mike Tomlin not in it. I didn't memorize who was and wasn't in it. Sean McVay,
Kyle Shanahan, were they both? And I don't know, but I know that I counted it twice and I counted twenty seven. Soe Sean made it sound like it wasn't his fault that he wasn't in the photo, although I know he was here because I saw him yesterday. I took the earliest flight I could, trying to avoid the snow, which I did successfully. But Sean was in attendance in the building. But if he didn't know that it was going on, then I blame the organizers. And he also brought up
a point He's like, what do they do with these pictures anyway? Because before social media and they've been doing it since before they would get out on Twitter and Instagram. I mean, do they have a yearbook somewhere that we just don't know about so he didn't seem to mind not being there. Bill Belichick famously was skip it all the time. Yeah, they do. They put that up every year. I don't know, you know what else they do with it as far as that goes. But I think you said twenty
seven. I count of twenty eight. Maybe a double count of somebody, you know. In terms of the things that are going on down on there. The big news today felt like the rules changed about the hip drop tackle. What was the skuttle butt down there about that is we heard it was a universal or unanimous vote to get rid of it. Yeah, and that's
just because the owners understand the player's safety component. And he had another rule, and I'm sure Nick has plenty of opinions about this, but designed to help the offense, right, Nick, you had to deal with bigger backs and big tight ends, and you want to get him down however you could.
You weren't really worried about tackling Jerome Bettis a certain way. You just wanted to make sure Jerome Betts was down right, and so if that meant having to use your body weight to roll them and get him down, you did. And so you've seen plenty of just over the last you know, week, ten days, plenty of dee, the players moaning about what this
rule change would end up looking like. And it was already supposed to be a penalty, but it's hard in real time to legislate, and so it'll be interesting to see what the unintended consequences are or are you gonna end up kicking guys out of a games? You're gonna kick really good players out of games that make a big stop, or will that lead to you know, a first down where it looks like a big stop is made on a fourth and one in the backfield and the ref determines that that you're using a hip
drop tackle. So I understand why the owners will vote unanimously on rules changes. And apparently they're pushing for the kickoff rule to change too, And is that just spurned by the league and by Rich McKay wanting to make a modification to add kickoffs back into the game, because then you also have injuries that are gonna yield. You know, that's the most dangerous playing football, and
the statistics backed it up, but now you've completely taken it away. You're saying, oh, well, we want some kick returns, So I'll be interested to see if they end up voting on it and passing it tomorrow what that ends up looking like, because no one's going to show any tricky formations or pooch kicks in the regular I mean in the preseason, so we won't
know till the regular season starts. So the Broncos didn't make any moves and free agency as it pertains to the most important position that we've been talking about for a while, at the quarterback position. So it just seem as though Janucci instead of all the quarterbacks currently on the roster. And we don't know what the Broncos are going to do as far as which quarterback they're going to select in the draft, But what did you come away with as far as
how Sean Payton an organization feels about Jared Stidham. They're certainly wanting to promote the idea that he could be a starter and win games. And Sean talked about that today, that those last two games weren't a fair representation of what they think of Jared and that they value him and that's why they went out and got him and gave him ten million dollars over two years. Despite having minimal results in his random starts in New England and those last couple starts with
the Raiders a couple of years back. And so I don't know if that's just preparing fans for Hey, if we don't get the quarterback we like, or we don't really fall in love with one of these guys, it's gonna be Jared Stidham. And there's still a handful of you know, veteran names out there, right Ryan, Tannehill, Jimmy g at the top of the list, and it's gonna be those guys in Ben de Nucci battling it out, but get ready for it and if it goes well, awesome, and
if it doesn't, then maybe they're in the Shadur Sanders sweepstakes. But I think that they're trying to because you've seen some of the national folks right. Ian mentioned it the other day, and we've seen other you know, I talk to people of the combine. Jeremy Fowler was talking about Stidham and Diana Rossini. You know you were standing right there, Ben when I asked her how do you fix quarterback situations? She's like, Jared stilldam is better than
people think. And so I understand that they're helping push that narrative out there. It'd be great if it's true. It just feels to me to this point until proven otherwise, Jared Stidham is the next Chase Daniel and if he can be better than that, if he ends up being the guy, even for a year, great, If not, then can you get shor whoever
the top QB prospect is next year. Well, one thing that I've said, and I've been critical of Sean Payton, and I think to the point where people think I'm a hater, and I don't hate him, I'm just you know, being critical. I think this. I think that if Sean Payton were to turn Jared still a mentally of viable starting quarterback, and by viable I mean able to bring an offense that is playoff contention worthy, that would be the point in his legacy where all of a sudden it would volt
him to the Hall of Fame because you did it. You know, you were there with Drew Brees, but everybody feels that you got carried by breeze. If you do it with Jared Stidham, that's that's a whole different world versus you know, people who say that there's not going to be any optimism for this football team if they don't go get the rookie quarterback. Am I am? I just out to lunch here? Or well, no, I
think that. And I was having this conversation with some folks related to the Broncos about the draft, and if they can't get that quarterback and they're sitting there at twelve, then Joe Alt's available, or what's the kid's name, Yeah, Joel, Right, he's John's kid. Joe Allt's available, Brock Powers is available. A guy that's going to help you for a bunch of years as a perennial Pro Bowl type. And so I fired back with old Joe Thomas was awesome for ten years? How many Super Bowls did he get
to? Or or JJ Watt three Defensive Players of the Year, how close did he get to a Super bol or Khalil Mack and and so it's not that awesome. Players aren't awesome, right, even Aaron Donald all those years before Matt Stafford got there. I said he'd get to a Super Bowl with Jared Goff. But I guess the other side of it because he said, oh, look how the Niners are built, right, and look how close they've gotten with Jimmy g with Rock Purty now, And maybe that's what we
have to ask yourself. If Sean Payton's going to play callers, Kyle Shanahan is and Brooks, plenty of people that think he's right in that in that same category, so some might have him higher. Can you turn Jared Stead him into Brock Purty if you've got enough pieces around him? And look, they don't have Christian McCaffrey on this roster or Adebo Samuel. For as much as you like Marvin Mims and they wear the same number, they're not the
same player. And even Brandon Ayuk, you know, are he and Courtland something the same? They're obviously similar in size, but you know, not the same player. So the point being, so if you had a Rock Bowers that mix and you whatever, can Jared steadm be be Rock Party? That'd be awesome? Right? That means that they're winning ten, eleven, twelve games. But it's one of those I'm gonna I'll believe it when I see it. You know, I went to Kansas, not Missouri, but
you're gonna have to show me that. But I do think, yes, it would be a feather in his cap if you can get to the playoffs, sad and even say Stidham, is you know a pro bowler this year? Right? Like his numbers are good enough, even if they're about what Russes were last year. If Sidnam puts up the same numbers as russ last year, he'll likely have a shot at being a pro bowler next year,
right he can. We appreciate the time. Keep it eye in the ground out there for us in Orlando and we'll check it with you later in the week. All right, sounds great, Thanks guy persolutely Fredick Cristal live from the owner's meetings down there in Orlando's jump out to the KAA common spirit traffic center checking with David Bryant. Can you turn Jared steadhim into rock party? Relative to his vision, it's kind of exactly where we saw it a year
ago. We felt like this is a player who can compete. We felt like he's got upside, a young player that's really played a limited amount of snaps relative to the years he's been in the league. Did anything change in those last two games leading to this season? I can't say, in fairness to him or the process definitively that anything did other than we still feel real positive about this player and we're ices to see him when he's getting a lot
more snaps and work with the ones. Welcome back to it, Broncos Country Tonight, Benjamin Albrighten, Nick Ferguson, Grant Smith here with you. That was Sean Payton answering the questions I guess on Jared Stidham as far as that goes. You know, BKA had some comments in the last segment about is Sean Payton and Jared Nick? Did you did you agree with that or no? I did not agree with those comments because they said that that was in the details, and I know that when you look at Jared Stidham, is
he a finished product? No, and ideas as though he should be close to it because he's been in the league for a significant amount of time. He spent the entire season behind Russell Wilson on his team and then coach Payden. You know, look, he made him a priority signing for a particular reason. There's certain things that he sees in Jared Stidham as being that particular guy. Me, just like BK, I grew up in Miami, but I have that show me Missouri type of mentality. So I got to see
it from Jared Stidham for me to somewhat buy into it. Well, yeah, and I'm not sure that we saw that last year. The two starts that we saw. I mean, I saw a guy who looks like he's a capable spots starter and maybe maybe with more reps he's a starter. But I didn't see it. Wasn't like when we were watching last game of the season where Kansas City rolled out of homes for the first time. You watch it game, You're like, Yeah, this kid's got it. You know,
you know it. You could see it right then and there, right this This wasn't like that. I didn't really kind of see that with Dim. I saw a player two where I liked his escapability at times. You know, he's a better foot athlete, I think than than given credit for. But I certainly didn't see wow throws. I saw wow play by little Jordan Humphrey, but I don't remember seeing any wow throws off the top of my head. And the idea, and this is me paraphrasing, I can't
say this in fairness to him and the process. Anything did other than what we still believe he is as a player. And that's Sean Payton me paraphrasing Sean Payton's words about Jared Stidham. Look this whole thing about fairness. Look, Jeff Stidham got a chance, as though he has in the past for two other franchises, to start the last two games. So he received a significant amount of reps during practice during the week. Did he receive all the
starting reps when Russ was the guy? No, But you're around guys. You developed chemistry with a lot of those guys who ended up playing in the game in those last two games with Stidham, can stead of developed develop into a guy Ben? Possibly that that is the hope of everyone here in Broco's country, and that is my hope as well. But also looking at what Kyle was able to do with brock perty and saying, well, maybe Stidham
can be brock Purty. See here, here's where the lines, uh, don't, don't don't mention you if you if you know Ghostbusters, you can't cross the streams. Ben, you can't cross the streams and you can't do that yere and saying okay, well, trying to say that Sean Peyton and Kyle Shanahan are on the same wavelength. No, because I've worked and I've been around Kyle. I've been around Mike McDaniel and that and that crew, and I watched them work. Kyle Man, he's a mad scientist when it
comes to putting players in positions, scheming players open. That's what the game is right now, because this is why the league wants to change how players that play defense tackles, because the scoring has been down and you have to come up with creative ways to get guys in bah Barak. I always go back to this. I look at what Sean McVay was able to do with pooking the court, Like, how does pook in the court get those stats? Ben? Yes, was he a decent wide receiver, Absolutely, But
Sean McVay, just like Cooper cut before him, moved him around. So this whole idea of saying that they're equal, I don't know. Maybe in certain circles, maybe with certain things, but once again, I need to see it. Broncos Country needs to see it in order for this fan base to truly believe it. All right, I'm with you on that. Seeing his believing in this particular case, I see that we got to hit a commercial break, but when we come back we'll get a chance to dive into
this a little bit further. You listen to Broncos Country to Night, Can't Wait