Smile High Morning Show
Thu. Sept. 19: Look Ahead To Broncos-Bucs, CJ Stroud-Caleb Williams Exchange, Callers
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I'm honor of the armies of the North, General of the Felix legions. Father to the true Emperor Marcus Aurelius. - And has been to a murdered boy. - Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. - Whoa. - And I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. - I am here tonight. - I am! - Oh man. - The greatest light in the history is cinema. - It's up there. - Next to. - It's up there. - Proud of the plate so close the strike zone will disappear, yeah. - Picture statement. - Or other great lines, movies, history, such as-- - Well if you're here and I'm-- - And I'm here, well doesn't that make it-- - Or time. - Or other all time great lines, such as-- - Those first few years were tough or handy. - Little Shawshank in there. - Yeah, he got to. - Yeah. - No Jeff today. He's sick or whatever. You know, we're all playing her, Alex. (laughing) - I'm playing her. - I'm playing her too. - I got-- - I'm dinged. - I got a stone, something going on. My gold bladder is about to explode. I don't know what's going to, but do you know what? I'm here. I'm here. And I'm here to compete, okay? Against the Josh Dovers and Cecil Lammy's, no Lammy, no Lammy. - No Lammy. - I mean, look at the talent we have at Mile High Sports right now, just in this other room alone. Dan Morman, the king of high school sports. Man, this guy and Ryan Casey just owned the scene. Is Ryan Casey still doing it? - No, damn. - But he's still a ledge. - Anyways, Sean Drowt are the handsomest man. Most distinctive voice in Denver Radio. Allegedly. Doug Ottawa, man, this guy every time I see him. He's got a new, he's got a new dime on him. I'm like, Doug, where are you? Me and these chicks, he's stud enough. And then Brian Blood, he's a old school man. Here are my, you know, blood reminds me of Don Johnson. He's got a lot of Don Johnson in him. He's just kind of like, you know the very first episode of Miami Vice, where Don Johnson just driving at the first like, ♪ And I can feel it ♪ ♪ Going to be here tonight ♪ Oh, no. - That's nice. - That's blood. Oh my God, you should see this guy. He's got style, he's oozing my cheese. Just the, what? - The man's one of a kind. - Yeah, and you got a little anillopiro, you know? He's got a little Christopher Moltasante in him. He's got a little, you know, kind of gamer guy, you know? I'm not sure what's going on with anillop. He's a dreamer, vintage, you know, he's a vintage cat. Danny Bailey, man, shoot. Have you seen this guy in person, ladies? I don't know what you're doing out there. Put these other guys, but yeah, that's the whole crew. And then Nate, man. Well, anyway, 303, 3-1, 13-40, the hot-- - I like this hype train that you're going on. - Well, you know, the whole crew is here. We got to fire them up for their meeting because, you know, Nate's going to tear them down. You know, then he's going to-- - Rip them a new one. - Well, you know, shoot. Well, I should have got that Jimmy John's hookup again. Remember when I showered everybody with Jimmy John sandwiches like a week or two ago? - The whole Minis. - Yeah. I was just, you know, here, take some Minis. As many as you want, don't be like Ryan Edwards. Don't fill up your cargo shorts with a bunch of stuff from the press box. You can't take press box food home for, like, the family later. That's a big no-no. They changed all the rules because of Ryan. 'Cause he was lining his pockets with Ziploc bags. - It's like how many he could fit in there, right? - Well, it was just like, you know, he was last. Like, give me some tots, Napoleon. And he was like, "It's your own gosh." Okay, let's move forward, real sports. No Jeff, today's got strep throat. I mean, he's out on assignment is what I meant to say. - Right, right. Totally, busy. - Have you seen Osmosis Jones? - No. - See it for one. - God. - And two, do you think for Christmas we can get Jeff the immune system? You know what I mean? It's like, oh, there's some herd. I can't make it and all that. I got to, you ever pass a kidney stone? - No. Can't say I have. - Well, imagine getting kicked in one of your balls, Zach. One of the balls, those are two balls. There's only one really hurts for some reason. And then your back hurts, your tummy hurts. And last night I cried a tear of pain. It hurts so bad. They say that like, I was kind of wanting to throw up. It's like a symptom, kind of like when you throw up, you want to feel better. It's like, I think I throw up, make me feel better. That's, you know, I don't know. Golf ladder, golf, I've passed kidney stones before. I have a little collection of them, actually. You know, Tansonite? I make Dansonite. These little rocks, they come out. They look like salt. They're beautiful. They're like crystallized. - Okay. - They're so mean. - I'm trying, yeah. I don't have enough for a whole chain yet. But if Rordan, Shane wants to get at me, you can find me off of Rapahoe Road in a glorious street, one half mile east of I-25. - On a Rapahoe Road? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Open Monday through Friday 'til late, Saturdays and Sundays 'til five, or online at shanko.com. - Got it down. - Okay. Let's move on to real sports now. What's the most relevant sports news that we have to talk about? That's a must. I mean, what do you, what's just like? Is it the Hall of Fame stuff? That's kind of fun stuff we're talking about? - A lot of Broncos. - Yeah, I wouldn't say that's the most relevant, but I enjoy that stuff. - Okay, what's the most relevant? The Broncos trying to find a way to bounce back, or see you kind of trying to play their way back into public favor and maybe into the top 15. And then before we start talking about, you know, them being a top 25 team with a win or two here. - Right, I would say both of those. Either Broncos or Buffs, or they are by far the two biggest. - What's more important though? What's the question? - Yeah, Broncos. Broncos Bucks, I think, is more important. - Are we seeing this clearly? I think the Broncos take a beat down from the Buccaneers this weekend. Hate to see it? - Yeah, yeah, we all picked Tampa Bay in a big way. Yesterday, even the Hooters girls did. They weren't, their faith is going down on the Broncos, like everyone else. I think so. I don't know, I think this one's not close. - I don't think it's anybody going down on the Broncos. I think it's the Broncos going down on everybody else these last few years. If you know what I mean, giggity. - Yeah, yeah. - All right. - Yeah, I think it's not good right now. And if they win this game, I'll be more than surprised. I would be pretty much shocked if they went on Sunday. They find a way to win. 'Cause I don't see how it happens. Tampa Bay's better in basically every area. I don't know how it's done. - No, they're like, Tampa Bay's a team that we're actually, they surprised everybody out good. They were last year. And they may be taking that next step. The only knock on them, knock. What am I speaking Chinese? Yeah, the knock on them is that we don't know how high bakers ceiling is with this team. We think we know like, oh well, you know, they're a 10-win team and gonna get bounced in the first round of the playoffs. I think that's probably what a lot of people think. But look at what the NFC is. I mean, what are we talking about here? I'm not a real big believer in Green Bay. It might take them another year to learn how to kind of win high level win. - Green Bay. - With, yeah, what did I say? - Yeah, you said Green Bay. - Yeah, with Jordan Love. - I'd be back this weekend already. - Yeah, you know, the NFC feels pretty wide open for the taking a little, but it seems like the 49ers and everybody else because it's a lot of hate on Nick Siriani. Tons of hate on Nick Siriani. I know he's kind of goofy. He's trying to put systems in that'll make it easier for players to understand. So, you know, when you look like a goof, when you talk like a goof like that, it's hard for people to kind of take you seriously, but some people are just goofy. - Yeah. - Some people are just kind of hot and goofy and goofballs. He's got some Ted Lasso in him. - He runs hot on game day too. Have you ever seen him on the sideline? - Yes, he's crying and stuff. - Never, never. He's always got tons of them. - Literally, right, you know. - Yeah, National Anthem. - Yeah. - No Sean style. - Yeah. - Okay. - What, yeah. - Oh, just, yeah, I was thinking about, I was looking at their numbers Tampa Bay on defense. They've given up very few points, but they've given up a ton of yards. - So what does that tell you? - They're like fourth in points allowed but 28th in yards allowed. They've been really good in the red zone. - Yeah. - And tells me that. - And they're not as good in the open field. - Exactly. They've allowed a lot of rushing. - So, as Bonix got to throw that ball around, find some tight ends, find a way to make court and something look like the number one receiver when he's like, - Fine. Yeah, ideally. - Go to the receiver. - Get him going. - I don't see how they could pull this thing off. I'm down on it. But again, like man, the NFL's will shock you, will surprise you, will knock your socks off. Is this the week the Broncos defense really comes into their own, puts that complete game together, which it's not that they have and it's on the offense. It's really truly on the offense. And the offense just kind of sustains drives. Maybe you're not getting a lot of points, but you're getting over to the kind of midfield. You're pinning them back, it'll help your D. Go get you an early score. We've said, and I've been saying this for years now. Go get you an early score. Don't wait. Change the complexion and the dynamic and the butterfly effective where this game is going by just going out there and, man, being great right away. Your best stuff, right off the bat. I hate slow starters. Slow starters. - Yeah, zero points is-- - Or no starters, you know? - Man. - Let's go to break on time as usual. No, Jeff, he'll be back. I don't know, tomorrow, the next day. I'm not really sure. But you got mean, you got Alex. If you want to join the conversation, 303-831-1340, the hotline, as well as the text line. Hit us, 98.1 if I'm 107.5 HD3. - Hey, did Gil give you something yesterday? - Oh, yes. - Okay. - He called me to tell me about it. - Good call. - Tell me about it. - He did. Do you know what it is? - I have an idea. - Okay. - Something to do with a guy who just went into the hall. It's super secret. - Okay. - It's very valuable, and it's badass. - Then he was, he was talking about the water boy too, and his thoughts on that movie. - What? - 'Cause you dropped off a jersey. - So he re-watched it? - Yeah. - I don't think he re-watched it, but he just doesn't like Adam Sandler and wasn't a fan of-- - Gil needed some charity items. So I got him a coach Klein, Henry Winkler signed a jersey from like the college Louisiana Tech or whatever fake college it was. - Is it? - It looks like almost like a Clemson jersey or like a weird Bronco jersey. - Like a Mud Dogs jersey? - Mud Dogs, yes. And it has Coach Klein on the back. It's like number one. He signed it. Henry Winkler, he's the fawns, and he inscribed it, Coach K. It's Beckett certified. It is badass as the fawns, bro. So I dropped that off for Gil in a couple other things. - That's gonna go for a lot. - I think it should. - Really? - I think it's gonna go for a ton of money. - That's a rare item. - Oh, it's a badass item. That's gonna, if someone's gonna frame that, I think they're gonna frame it before they oxygenate, that's the centerpiece of someone's man cave or office or whatever. So I was happy to do it for Gil. - It's a hot item, yeah. - Yeah, good guy. - Eh, you know. I'm a giver. We wanna hear from you guys talk to us. Someone's got a fill in for Jeff Slacker. You guys gotta pick it up. Text line and hotline. It's my life sports. ♪ Love isn't always on time ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ For the line ♪ ♪ Love isn't always on time ♪ ♪ Oh, oh, oh ♪ ♪ Come on, Harry, we wanna say good night to you ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Holding me back ♪ - This is the Smile High Morning Show with Danny Williams and Jeff Gersh. ♪ I'm in your head ♪ - Yeah, it's a fun one. I kinda didn't like Harry Styles before this one and Watermelon Sugar High. - Oh, this is as it was. - This is as it was? - Yeah. - Watermelon Sugar is pretty good, though, too. - Yeah, that's what I'm saying. These two, this one made me like him. I didn't really like him before, but maybe I didn't know him well enough, but he comes back to get more bangers. Speaking of, let's go out to the hotline. A man of many traits, he put in a Facebook, all the things he's doing right now. Jack of all trades. It's Kyle Berry. Hey, Kyle. - Hey, and you liked it on Facebook. You never liked anything on Facebook. - I never have ever. - Yeah. - And I saw you right there, you know, I saw you. - That's awesome. - First, like. - Can someone else see the things I like? - On Facebook? - Yeah, yeah, my mouth. - Like someone could click on my things, all the things that I like. - Oh, I don't know about that. 'Cause I'm out if so. - I like if they see a post, they can see who I like. - I'm gonna go on like that. - You can't go to your profile and be like, these were all of his likes. - Okay, I see. - You have to get off the Hooters Facebook page. - Oh, hey. - What do you do, baby? - What are you doing? Kyle, what's going on? - Hey, I called in because I wanted my roses. And to see if you guys knew a little bit of a trivia question, guess who had the highest yards per carry for the Broncos on Sunday? - Alex. - Nick's. Or Beatty? - Yeah, Tyler Beatty. - How many carries? - My name's Slim Shady. I'm the lead singer of D12. - Beatty. - When it comes to Beatty, you're like the master on Beatty. - He got dropped, they picked him back up and signed him off the practice squad. And he had one carry for nine yards. - Yeah. - And a catch, too, right? - Yeah. - So-- - Think about that. - That's cool. Hey. - Okay. - Hey, Alex. Good for you, bud. - Good for you, bud. - Good for me. And I wanted to make fun of Alex because he didn't know about Osmosis Jones or Tansonite. - Yeah. No, no, he didn't know about it. He didn't know about Osmosis Jones, but he didn't know about Tansonite, Tansonite. Tansonite. (laughing) - You're really making Tansonite? - Yeah, I got like four rocks from previous painful experiences. (laughing) Imagine like a giant pea, like a little rock, a pebble, like bigger than one, like the stick in your shoe, goes all the way through your body and comes out of your wiener. - Oh my God. - Yes. - The pain. - It's the worst pain I've ever had. They say it's like a male giving birth, but I've seen birth and it's not what you'd want it to. - Oh my God. Okay, well, I wanted to also call about a primetime dog. So I have this thing that I'm putting together. It's like a theory. And it's about primetime dogs. And tonight you have the New York Jets at home against the New England Patriots. And they're minus six, okay? And the Chiefs are exempt from this rule. So the Chiefs play the Falcons and you can't bet on the Falcons. But I think tonight for anyone that gambles, you can go with the Patriots to make some pretty good money because I think there are flaws to Roger's game and he might be exposed tonight. What do you guys think about that? - What I like about what you said is I don't think the Jets are the type of team for one or even know how to be the team that's blowing anybody out yet, yet, ever. But now, and maybe down the road, they could evolve into that. So I agree. It's a division matchup. Those are always close, no matter what the records are. And the Patriots have kind of been surprising to start the season. - And yeah, it's Thursday night football. And Thursday night football is a little wacky and every Patriots game has been close. - They're always under those Thursday night. - And the pizza bagel for the most part. - They're always under 31-10 last week. I think, yeah, Kyle, the Patriots have looked a lot better than people have thought. - Yeah, they've been a big surprise. - You know, beating Cincinnati and then going to over- - Would you trade right now everything on the field, all the players, take their jerseys off and put Broncos jerseys on them and take the Broncos players and put them in New England? Would you trade what they have for what we have? - Uh-uh. I don't think so. - That includes coaches, that includes coaches, Kyle. - I don't think what names like Sir Tan on the roster that I would do. - Names like Sir Tan and then what? - Sir Tan, we have Sir Tan. - Hey, boo, play that one again. (laughing) - You gotta start somewhere, so what's their one down? If we got Sir Tan, what's their Sir Tan? Who's the Sir Tan on their team? - We don't wanna hear any new stuff. We want you to play the hit. - I'm telling you, New England don't even have a Sir Tan. - Here's what I'm saying they have, okay? They might have a better core than us and some depth. They have a quarterback that was drafted way higher than ours and he's way younger than ours. Okay? - You're a believer in May. They're the believers in May that they started Brissette. - No, he's young. Brissette is the closest thing to a starter that a backup is in this whole league. He's probably the best backup in the league, him and Gardner Minshu. And that's why teams keep giving them opportunities to start because they're low, low end starters or high, high tippy tear to the top end backups. Give him some respect on his name. - I just know what I'm getting in Sir Tan. I don't know what I'm getting in May. So I would take Broncos roster. - No, I know what I'm getting in Nix. It looks like I don't know what I'm getting in May. - You and Yucky. - Hey, Ryan, do you want the Bonix rookie card for now? - I got it now. - I'm thinking maybe we changed that to like a Sir Tan rookie card. - Maybe I'll get him both after all the pain. - I hope thinking why I'm the Bonix rookie card. - Are you coming in or ever again? Or what's your problem? - Yeah, I'm coming in tomorrow. - So you're telling all the listeners right now that looking forward to like, people are gonna make, I'm telling you right now, Kyle. Some people are gonna be like, hey, they heard this now. They're gonna make it a point to listen to the show tomorrow because they're know it's gonna be you and me probably. If Jeff doesn't come, it's gonna be a big football Friday. edition of the program. You're committing right now to this program. - Hey, my flat river mortgage hot take, you're gonna like the way you look. - I guarantee it. - Jeff plus six and I'm in tomorrow. - Damn. That's what I got. - Sweet. All right, we gotta go get stuff. - All right. Later. - Bye. Kyle Barry, they'll be in tomorrow. Let's go back up to the hotline and get him real quick. It's our guy, Juan. Hey, awesome, Juan. - He said he's gonna rock 'cause we're gonna lose by six, huh? - No, no, he was talking about the. - Oh, I thought we played the Jeff this week. - No, no, Thursday night, but we're talking about jets and the Patriots coming up tonight. We play this weekend, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa Bay and Juan checked this out. JJ and I were in Florida like a month or six weeks ago. Maybe a little more than that. We went to the Tropicana field to see the race, but on the way home, I took a little route where we drove right by Raymond J. Stadium to the Tampa Bay Bucks play. It's pretty cool, Stadium looks pretty cool. - Folks, they're gonna win. - Do you believe that? - That's awesome. - Yeah. - I'll tell you this, it's a must win. - I like it, Juan. - And one thing, I'll tell you, Juan, you're bold for saying that, okay? Because they don't got a lot going for them. And the Buccaneers do. They're kind of cooking right now, but. - You're gonna have a hard to get ready and we're gonna have 200 yard coffee. - You know, if you kind of, the Broncos got to have it, I'll tell you what's important in the NFL and what matters, a sense of urgency. When you have a sense of urgency and you're back against the wall, you'll see bad teams do great things. Or you'll see teams that are up against the wall produce. Or you'll see on the flip side a team that, well, they're already out in front of the, big division lead, cleanse the playoffs late, they come out and they get beat. It's all about the effort and the motivation in life. And the Broncos are desperate, the Broncos are desperate for it. Maybe Tampa Bay is a little bit pumped up. They're reading all those headlines, all the, you know, Baker Miffle's getting commercials again. - Yeah, I just got one thing to ask you though. Okay, the college players are getting paid, right? - I'm sorry, what? - The college players are getting paid. - Yeah, well, not all of them. They're not the scrubs at CSU. Maybe got like five, six, eight players at CSU getting paid. Maybe 15. - I understand, understand. So the Army, Navy, and Air Force, they don't get paid, right? - I have no clue if that's true or not. - I doubt it. - I doubt it because you get paid by the, you know, the scholarship and the, - Yeah, I'm doing the service for the country. - That's a good question. I'm sure we can find that out. But, you know, how do you, if you're one of these schools, lower a kid who's considering a career in the Air Force, but he's also a four, three, two-star prospect who could go to a division one. How do you lower that kid? Because there is something to have in a football program to help you land and lower some of America's finest. - Yeah, because I'm just saying that we're still doing good right there. The Air Force is still doing good. And it just, it just just tells you that, that money can't buy you everything, and it's good to have money, but at least our first guys are standing up the winning, and he's got to be cheering sports on, right? Having a good day, even the WNBA, even though they're hating on our lady. - Hey, hey, down here, you never liked her. You never liked Kate, and you didn't like her from the beginning. - Who, who, who, who did I not like Taylor? - Who did I not like Taylor? - You never liked the Maggie? You never liked the Avalanche? - Red Dog. (laughing) - Get this guy out of here. (laughing) - Come on, Red Dog, y'all. (laughing) - We gotta go. (indistinct) - Late, 303, 83, I think it's calling from a walkie talkie. Did you hear a niner in there? (laughing) Let's go to break on time, as usual. - Hey, shouts to Juan, though. I think that's the first guy I've heard all week, pick the Broncos in this game. - Yeah, nobody, not, usually that's weird, man, when like 100%, that seems like out of 100%, people are picking a team, or a fighter, or, I mean, whatever it is, it tends to go the other way. Now we've seen that a million timesap. That's why Jeff does that all the time. Jeff gets that feeling that like, it's just like a hedge. It's a natural, but he doesn't bet, but that's like a natural fine value in it. - Yeah. - And bet against the public, 'cause a lot of times the public's wrong. Public's built off emotion, and last week, and the week before, and the books are looking forward to the next week, and what's happening, you know, literally right now, and the next week. Now I have 'em last week. That's why people are like, what, that's the right number? That's a weird, you know, lines move. Oh, lines move, but Vegas is so good, those guys are, it's weird. And Vegas has been good since before we had AI robots telling us the pics, you know, in a million times simulation. You know what I mean? - Yeah, they've always known. - All right, Danny. - And it's a new one here, the one that won all the awards, Kyle told me. - This one here? - Yeah. - Yeah, we know this one. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This has been there for a minute. Turn it up a little bit. ♪ I wanna kill her ♪ - Let's start, Taylor. ♪ All my mornings are one day ♪ - We'll talk about it on the other side. Danny Williams, no Jeff, there's Alex Becker filling, and you guys have to pick up Jeff Slag, Kyle, and one, great job. Let's hear it from you guys, it's my last place. ♪ The effects were temporary ♪ ♪ And I love you, it's ruining my life ♪ ♪ I love you ♪ (upbeat music) - The Smile High Morning Show, weekdays at 10. Here are your hosts, Danny and Jeff. ♪ And I'm going through it ♪ ♪ I just can't say I don't love you ♪ ♪ 'Cause I love you ♪ - Nice choice, banger. 301, 1340, the hotline as well as the text line. Thanks for being with us, lots to talk about. We'll have to read your text. We'll take your calls, no Jeff today, it's Alex and I. Tomorrow will be a football Friday, a big one, they always are, comes and goes pretty quick here. This football season, we're already in the thick of it. We already feel like the Broncos are toast. They go pull off a win here, it changes everything. Changes totally everything in the complexion of the whole season. It changes the whole complexion of what they can be. They go and get a win early as compared to one in four, one in five last year, one in five and they won five straight. One in five and they won five straight, six in five, that's what my brain is telling me right now but I need you to tell me otherwise. So we know and Sean Payne's telling us guys and every one of those guys has been on a team where they're pro or collegiate that had a two, three, four game skid, stumbled out of the gate, couldn't find wins and closed strong, found a way, made a bowl game, made the playoffs, not tons of playoff guys on this Broncos roster but it's not totally unfathomable or without. - Without fathom. - Yeah, it's not. They can, you get a win here and then people think differently about you. It's time to let Bonyx use his legs but not at a desperation. But what designed, RPO, right? And you gotta make it easy for this guy. If Bonyx has to rush for 60 yards to help set some other things off, and you gotta put him at risk a little bit, well, what are we doing here? What are we saving him for? To drop back and not throw the ball to drop back and do things that are over his head right now? If that's the case, you just gotta get Stidham or Zach Wilson in there who at least aren't, you know, have butterflies in their tummy to where they're throwing up on the sidelines, film like that and Bonyx isn't doing that. He hasn't done that. I'm just saying, you're a rookie, you know, there's a ton of pressure on you. This is different than you ever thought. The speed of the game, the size of the guys, you're feeling overwhelmed. Anyone, you know, shooting on every job works out. You know, some people take Jonettes, but, you know, you qualify, you know, I get hired, you know, it works out or doesn't work out, I guess. But, you know, sometimes you're in over your head and I hope it's not the case with Zach Wilson with Bonyx. I hope they're holding him back. And now I hope that's what that was. But now we gotta see it. I mean, I'm not saying anything that nobody is not thinking out there. So I'm almost like I'm wasting our time here saying it 'cause it's simple and we know it. But it's just gotta look better and be better because we said too, Alex, if they are just around six wins and it's not the win total we want, then it's gotta look good at least. It's gotta like look like, okay, I'm seeing this now. Don't forget, paid manning, leveling and pigs and all these other great quarterbacks. Josh and Alex, they sucked at first. I mean, they're teams, at least. But you saw it, something out of them. We need to see something. - I think about five games for me for rookie quarterback before we make any judgment about Nix. - That's just a general, no matter if you're-- - I think five games is fair. Two games is way too quick. You know, obviously not encouraging, but about five or six games. Oh, I thought you meant winning as a rookie. - Oh, no, before we get to win five games-- - Before we get to win five games-- - If we get to win five games-- - We'd be like, okay, they should make a change. Maybe look at Stidham, maybe look at Zach Wilson. I think that's enough time. That's a good enough baseline, I think, to judge Nix. Maybe after that, after that Raiders game in week five. But yeah, way far too early to panic and make a change. - It's easy to panic though, right? Don't you feel like can you feel the fan base? You've seen a million games, you've covered games, you're a media professional. - Being blunt about it, the offense has sucked for eight or nine years. It's been carried by the defense. - It's the fear. - And I'm just sick of it. - Yeah, it's fear and pain too. It's like the pain of just, we're seeing the same thing over again, and you get these bad feelings and it's hard to kind of imagine the players. Going gets tough, tough gets going. We're around here, fans and media guys are ready to stick a fork in these pigs and bury 'em. And we got to talk each other back off the ledge a little bit. - Yeah, it's like this season's felt a little different, I guess in the preseason, a rookie quarterback, saw all that success in the preseason, but it has not carried over whatsoever to the first two weeks. And it's starting to feel like the past since 2016, all over again, the past eight years. It's not a different season. But I guess any given Sunday, they could shock the world and go into Tampa Bay and even if they make it a close, respectable game, I'll feel pretty good about that if Nick's plays well, even if it's another loss. - No, no, no, I mean, imagine a 30, 27 loss. - I'd feel good about that. - And I know we touched downs. - Then we haven't yet used to playing the defense, but also let's go out there, let's keep pace, let's trade punches, they're a good team too. A good defense is still gonna have some days where they're gonna give up some points. It's about the offense and the defense kind of complimenting each other in a way to where when the clock strikes zero, you win the game. And that's part of the battle plan, man. And that's so many things going on a field, you know? It's like baseball, you know? Okay, let's talk about there and talk to him. Okay, all right, go take him out after this. Go take him out after this batter. And who are we bringing in? Bring in Johnson. Okay, so I mean, like those are tactical moves that could-- - Yeah, that could cause the outcome of your baseball game, but man, you're positioning the guys. You're coaching them up, you're skilling them. - Skilled. - Skilled. - You're skilling these guys, okay? You're skilling these guys, you are scheming. You are literally telling this guy where to stand on the field and what to do at all times. It's gotta come together. The guys gotta have some kind of talent. There's gotta be a leader, you know, like within that group, there's just so many things, football's hard. Football's so hard, and when it goes wrong, it's easy for it to go wrong-er, you know? And when it goes right, like we said, man, that fast start. He was checking all the boxes as training camp went along. He's cooking now. As the preseason started going, hey man, he can do this. This dude, he looks the part. - He's meant for this. - I mean, it was just like, okay, keep moving forward. It's clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean, clean. And then, you know, now we're feeling like they were bamboozled a little bit. - Hoodwinked. - Fulls goal. - Let us stray. - Yeah. - Run a muck. - I mean, just, it's tough. He's gotta look good this week. And the problem is his chance is to look good. Well, do you know what? It's Seahawks who have had a nice start. - They have talent. - And they're playing a playoff team right there in the thick of the playoffs for the last couple few years, let alone the last decade, but just more over recently. Doin' what they are right now, okay? The Steelers win games like that for 50 years of Steelers football. They do that. And Tom and does that to rookie quarterbacks over and over and over again. I mean, like, it's record because rookie quarterbacks is super special and impressive. So now those are excuses. Hopefully justified excuses because now you go play a Tampa Bay team that might be a little high on their horse or not as good as advertised. And we just played two gritty gutties. Maybe this defense is gonna loosen up, find some holes and maybe the Broncos now after going and playing against two majors teams are gonna go play in a Kaba AAA tournament now and cook. - That's good. Yeah, I like that. - You know what I mean, does that make sense? - It's a let down spot for Tampa Bay, right? - Totally. The NFL is totally-- - Coming up right in high, just beating Detroit in Detroit. - Yep. - Loose to them in the playoffs last year. - Oh, and the league's a balancing act and kind of a lot of averages. Jeff says the water finds it's level. - Level, right? - And then you're coming home against a bad Broncos team, you're thinking this is gonna be a walk in the park. So yeah, Sean Payton, feel like Sean Payton's years in New Orleans, they always played well in Tampa Bay. They always gave Brady trouble. - Yeah. - Those last couple of years and he's had a lot of success at that stadium. So hopefully that means something on Sunday. - Let's go to break. Good stuff, Alex. You're a pro. We will come back. We got a lot of stuff we gotta wrap this bad boy up with. Greenwood automotive, go check those guys out. They're incredible. They're great, they treat you so good. And I was just there the other day and their group of, you know, workers and a family is powerful, man. They are awesome. They're gonna treat you so good and they're gonna put zero pressure and even they got great cars. Go check them out, okay? Dady Williams, Alex Becker, no Jeff. We'll be back tomorrow if not. And Kyle will be. And you guys, it's my life sports. (upbeat music) ♪ Got a prince new record ♪ ♪ That's what I said now ♪ ♪ Got some mixed love box ♪ (upbeat music) - This is the Smile High Morning Show with Dady Williams and Jeff Gersh. ♪ Is a curious thing ♪ ♪ Make a one man win ♪ - I love this song. It's a great song. I wish I knew a little bit more Huey Lewis songs. We just got tons of bangers. We all know about a lot of 'em. We just got tons. But I wish, you know, I think if I knew a little bit more about Huey, I would love him a little bit even more than I do. I might have to dab a little bit more in some Huey Lewis. - He's good. - Do a deeper dive. - You know, he's like a big Giants fan, all that kind of stuff. Just go Giants, go into those games for years. - Heck yeah. - He probably used to go hang around like, you know, Nolan Ryan used to go to, I mean, Garth Brooks used to go to like Rangers camp every year. A lot of guys do that. - Oh, George, George Aged W. - Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. - Yes, during that, I mean Garth Brooks. - Oh, Garth Brooks. - Garth Brooks, what did I say? - You did. - Oh, yeah. - You did. - You know, he used to go like, you know, training camp. We get a uniform, we go like, we're count for a few days. (laughing) - You know? - Well, Farrell. - Yeah, I'm gonna play for every team. - Yeah, that's right. Okay, let's finish strong before we get out of here. Are you strong Alex, 'cause I'm strong? - Are you strong? They said I'm strong, are you strong? I said, we strong, man. - Jeff is actually weak right now. Super physically weak. - In bed, brittle. - In bed, yeah. - Get him a nurse. - Well, anyways. We'll see if Jeff makes it more. - Night nurses from Jersey. (laughing) - Four times, how many times did he watch it? (laughing) - Way too many, or zone good. - Okay, let's see what we need to get in here before we get out of here. Hold on one second, notes. All right, Bryce Young. - How about, how about you saw the clip right between Stroud and Caleb Williams? - Oh, I love that little bro. - What did you think about that? - I thought he was just trying to offer him. Well, two things. Caleb was disrespected. Tell people exactly what happened. - Okay, so they met on the field after the conclusion of the Sunday night game. - Nothing crazy about that. - Yeah, the Texans won, so Stroud's in a good mood. He went up to Caleb Williams, kind of gave him some advice. - A bunch of audio on it. Like you could hear him crystal clear though. - Like don't take so many hits, you know, just your normal stuff. Keep getting better, keep balling, all that stuff. Williams listened, he seemed a little disinterested though, like dismiss it. - He never looked him in the eye. - Right. - He looked off to the side, not a full embrace, and kind of goes like appreciated. - Right, so I don't know if he was upset 'cause his team just lost, or if he just doesn't want to hear it from this guy. - Okay, there you go. Two things, I think about that. I think Stroud was just trying to give another young quarterback some love. And Stroud's trying to be like, you know, let's, we're like the next Allen in my homes, man. You know what I mean? - Yeah. - Like let's do this kind of like, he was trying to engage a little bit. Caleb Williams was like, you ain't gonna talk to me like that. I'm older than you, maybe being older than you or something like that. - I saw there one month apart. - Oh, see, I just made that up, I love that. So, and then he's saying like, you know, I used to, you know, ball against you in college and stuff like that, you ain't nothing. You know, I'm it. - Yeah. - Like you're not Aaron Rodgers. - He believed. - Yeah. So, uh. - My age, bro. - I thought that, I thought that a little bit. So, probably somewhere in the middle, did he try to big bro him? Maybe a little bit. But Caleb Williams should understand that CJ Stroud is now not only one of the best players in college football, he's one of the best players in the NFL. That's just the truth. - Totally. - It's what it is. So, you know, you wanna, you know, keep your enemies close, right? Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. - Is that the thing? - I think so. - Yeah. - He was saying as a rookie last year, other older quarterbacks did that to him, you know, went up to him after the game. - Oh yeah, for sure. I mean, of course. - If he was just trying to, you know-- - All day long, you see it everywhere. - Hands, you see it all the time. - I don't see anything wrong with that. - Ah, you know, I don't either, unless you wanna make something of it. You know, don't stop. No stuff won't be no stuff. - Okay. - But also, do you think Caleb Williams is a little too cool for school attitude? - Caleb Williams, too cool for school. He needs to get humbled a little bit. - I think so, yeah. When you're the number one pick, though, like the ego and all that kind of stuff, I don't mean it in a bad way. I actually mean it in a really good way. Because it fuels this guy to have achieved everything he has in life. And I said, I actually like a little jerk face in my quarterback. I kind of like that. So I personally don't have a problem with that kind of stuff. And it's a lot of things to be a lot of pressure, too. You got the weight of the literally the whole world, or at least the whole state of the world. You know, you've got the weight of the, the whole world, or at least the whole state, the whole region, all bears kind of nation country. - Bears country? - Yeah, so you got all that kind of pressure on you and you got to live up to it. And you always got to be perfect. And that's kind of hard because some guys don't want that pressure. And then sometimes like, I'm done trying to be perfect. I'm just going to be like Kyrie or Hardin or Kanye, or like, you know, guys, you just don't give a damn anymore. But you got it. You're a brand. Each guy, you know, you're a brand, bro. So, would you right now trade a second round pick for Bryce Young, the Broncos second round pick next year for Bryce Young? Say they got some turmoil. Say they decided we are blowing this thing up. We got no confidence and no belief in this guy. And we're not going to play him again. We're going to play the third quarterback and go out, go to work out Cam Newton, which they did. You hear that? - Just like now? - Yeah, it's like a few days ago. Before we ever put this guy back on the field of-- - And maybe say his agents just like we won out. We'll never play for you again. This is toxic. He won't ever compete for you again. He's going to threaten you with going on IR and making you fulfill that contract. Let's not put all that beef out there. Go see if there's a trade partner for before this thing gets real ugly. Get us out of here. Call the Broncos, call someone like that, and see if you're going to take a second round pick for last years. Number one overall pick who was great in college at Alabama, balling against the Georgia's and the Ohio State's and all those schools and cooking. He was great. - Yeah, tore up the SEC. - I thought he was going to be a better version of Kyler. I thought he had some lot of Kyler in him size and stuff like that. And then, you know, I want Stroud set off. I just thought that, hey, these guys are both going to be great players. But I think those days are over. I think days of having success and a chance in Carolina are over because if you're moving on from him this quick, well, then two things have to happen. You've got to fire the coach, okay? And instead of the coach getting himself fired, he benched Bryce Young and is trying to save his own job and he's going to go show the world what I can do with the competent quarterback in Andy Dalton. So I don't know, you know, shoot. I might put a little flyer on, you know, on Carolina this weekend because they can't be any worse. And Andy Dalton does know what he's kind of doing. I think the problem is they're not very talented. I think they're the worst. They got the least talent in the NFL because who's there, Sir Tan? Who's there? - JC Horn. - Okay, who's their minors? Who's their, you know, the Broncos have some talent? They are rebuilding. I don't think Carolina's worth a damn. And I could be wrong. I really could be wrong. Okay, Cecil could come in here and tell me how much young talent they have for that, you know. But I just think how can you have success with the incompetent coach and the worst talent in the league? No chance. That's what you got. I take Bryce and I'm going to Harpy. I would definitely trade a third rounder for him. I would definitely trade a third rounder for him. A second rounder, come on, Alex, let's do it. - Yeah, they've given up so many draft picks the last couple of years for players, for a coach. - Yeah, but like high round picks too. The draft picks are but bombs most of the time anyways. I mean, draft pick is just value in itself. We know that in general, let alone here in Denver, draft picks, man, how many? This team isn't where it is because we couldn't draft. - He could be good. - He could still be good, but-- - He's just too young to not-- - He looks like a JV kid playing bar. - How old is Bryce Young? - He's tiny out there. - Bryce Young is 23 years old. - 23. He's younger than Bonix. He's younger than Zach Wilson. He's younger than all these guys. He'd come in here and we'd have to cut Zach Wilson. - If you like state them so much, you know, I guess. Love the guy, won't you marry him? All right, that's the whole show. Let's save some for tomorrow. I promise you guys a good one tomorrow. Thanks for rolling with us today. We'll see what happens with Jeff. He doesn't have to come any sick and be sick. It's all good. Great job, Alex. - Thank you, I should be in tomorrow. I was, you know, no one else can do this. So I gotta be here. - Well, I got a lot going on today. So I'm, you know-- - I wouldn't be mad at you if you had to do this though. - Yeah, I feel you. I'm sorry to put so much pressure on you, but we love you around here. - Hey, you didn't get sick? - Yeah, I get it. We appreciate you guys and we love you guys. Good night, Sheila. - Good night. - Good night. - Thank you, Sheila. - Bye, Siri. - Bye, Sheila. - I'll never forget tonight. - Bye, Terry. - All right, now, whatever, go aside. Bye, Sheila. - Bye. - Bye, Sheila. - Bye, you're not gonna get hurt. - Bye, Terry. - Bye, bye, bye, bye. - Bye, sweetie. - Bye, sweetie. ♪ Got proof, got ♪ ♪ Man, man, man, man ♪ ♪ I guess I got my swagger back ♪ ♪ Got, man, man, man, man ♪ ♪ Truth ♪