Brian Baldinger: The MASSIVE opportunity the Denver Broncos have vs the Chiefs & Patrick Mahomes

Brian Baldinger: The MASSIVE opportunity the Denver Broncos have vs the Chiefs & Patrick Mahomes

The Broncos have a massive opportunity on Sunday against the Chiefs and we are going to talk about that. Plus, we’re going to talk with our guy Brian Baldinger and give an update on a very important player. We’ve got a little injury news about JK Dobbins. The whole show starts now. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Huh. The Broncos can do something this weekend, Brian, that no one in the NFL has been able to do in a decade. And I can’t wait to tell you about it on the DMV Broncos podcast live from the Toyota Lounge driven by your local Front Range Toyota stores. We are presented by Bet 365. Use that code DNVR365 when you sign up. We got football back tomorrow night. And if you deposit $10 over at Bet365 after using that code DNVR365, place a $5 bet. Win or lose, you’re going to get $200 in bonus bets in your account. Man, we are getting closer and closer to this Broncos Chiefs game. He’s Ryan Cisber. I’m Zach Stevens. We got Dion and here behind the camera today. RK, how you doing? Doing great, man. Sun always shines during a Denver Broncos win streak. Beautiful weather today, tomorrow. I mean, it’s beautiful. It is. It is crazy. It feels like still the end of summer to me. Yeah. Uh yeah, winter can’t arrive until the Broncos lose. So, sorry skiers. And I don’t think it’s going to arrive on Sunday. Have you So, did you see Loveland Ski Resort opened yesterday or I think yesterday? Um and uh I saw a video of someone going up to ski lift. You couldn’t see snow. There was no snow on the ground yet. It’s still open somehow. That’s crazy. There’s going to be like a lawsuit from the ski resorts to the Broncos. Well, if anyone can pay that lawsuit, it’s probably the Broncos. Bring it on. Exactly. Um, so Ryan, you mentioned it. Broncos sevengame win streak. If the Broncos beat the Chiefs on Sunday, and this isn’t was what I was referring to at the beginning of the show, but if the Broncos beat the Chiefs on Sunday, this would be the Broncos longest win streak, I believe, since 2012. Yeah, they won 10 in a row then. I think 11. 11, I think. something like that. Something cra and that was just regular Oh, well, yeah, it was only regular season. Sorry about that. Um, and uh because in 2015 the Broncos went on a sevengame win streak uh on their way to Super Bowl 50. Broncos are at seven now. They did not get to eight that year. So, Broncos have an opportunity to do something that the Broncos haven’t done in over a decade. Which is why I’m just like trying to get everyone to enjoy this. Like, I don’t I don’t How could you be miserable during sevename win streak? It It’s such a great question. And again, like it’s cool to have conversations about how the team can be better, what we need to see from Bo Knicks, like whatever. We do that on the show every day. But to be like miserable, which a lot of people are while your team has won seven games in a row is I just can’t imagine because like if you’re going to be miserable then then what is even the point of all this? I mean, we’ve been pretty miserable for rightful reasons over the past decade. Now is certainly not the time for that. Is it all because of Bo? No, it’s because people love points. So, it’s the offense. If the Bron were winning every game by one point and it was 44 to 43. Yeah. Everyone would be ecstatic. It’d be a blast. But well, the crazy part about that is they would have a worse chance of winning the Super Bowl. 100%. We saw that in 2013 with the Broncos. And we saw it in 2015 with the Broncos. Yep. The number one offense against the number one defense in a Super Bowl. The number one defense won in 2013 and in 2015. Yeah, it’s crazy. I mean, we just had we just did uh the Denver Sports Podcast and the conversation was which team is the closest to winning a championship? And I think it’s it’s fair to say the Broncos don’t feel nearly as close as the ABS or Nuggets right now. But the big thing we kept talking about is like if you were able to somehow get the one seed, then you just have to win two home games and you’re in the Super Bowl. That’s crazy. With this defense, yeah, I’ll take that all day over a great offense in the playoffs. You’re going to get cold games in a mile high in January. You got to win two of those. Give me the dominant defense. As painful as it is to watch Jeremy Craw play so much every week, you know, he leads the NFL in punts. Yes. The Broncos have put him more than anyone. Yet, the Broncos also have the most wins in the entire NFL. And Ryan, to your point, not only give me the Broncos dominant defense, the best defense in the NFL, give me the best home team in the NFL. 5-0 at home this week. 10 straight wins at home dating back to last year. And by the way, yes, the Kansas City Chiefs did come into town in that win streak. Patrick Mahomes didn’t play, but regardless, the Broncos still won that game. Um, I’m I’m right with you and I’m happy that we’re bringing the vibes up in Broncos country. And Ryan, I think everything flips with how this team is viewed this Sunday. I mean, truly. Yes. Whatever happens. Oh gosh, you’re right. Yeah, I was thinking just the positive side, but you’re right. I mean, we think it’s negative now. Please, Broncos, you got to come through because we got a by-week next week. We got two weeks to think about this game because this opportunity is massive. It cannot be overstated enough. And put put aside last year’s playoff game and last year’s game when they had to beat Kansas City in order to make it to the playoffs because those a playoff game doesn’t equate. Regular season game, Ryan. This is the biggest regular season game. And sometimes I I might say must win a little too much. I don’t talk about the biggest game since that often. So, I don’t feel like I’m just blowing this one up to blow it up. This is the biggest regular season game the Broncos have had um because of what it can do for them and how much it can hurt the Chiefs. So, I said the Broncos have an opportunity to do something this Sunday that no one in the NFL has been able to do in over a decade. And what I’m talking about is you can essentially eliminate the Chiefs from winning the AFC West this Sunday. Not not necessarily the Broncos win the AFC West cuz unfortunately you have the Chargers right there. You can eliminate the Chiefs from the AFC West. And Ryan, since Pton Manning stepped away after the 2015 Super Bowl 50 season, the Chiefs have won the division every gosh darn year. Yep. 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 20. They can make it end. So, it’s not including 2025 because the Kansas City Chiefs have a top 10 offense, have a top 10 defense, have a top 10 passing attack, have a top 10 rushing attack on offense and defense. Yet, they’re five and four. And we talked about, yeah, they did lose to some good teams. They lost um to the Bills in Buffalo. They lost to another uh really good team, the Eagles. Um exactly. Uh but they also lost to the Jags. Like this isn’t a team that has only lost to the the superpowers in the NFL. You want to know why they lost to the Jags? Why? Cuz Patrick Mahomes threw a pick six. Oh, is that the 99 yer? You’re absolutely right. They can uh drop the Chiefs to five and five. I think everyone in the NFL, everyone will be rooting for the Broncos outside of Kansas City. We’ll be rooting for the Broncos this weekend. I completely agree. And everyone is getting to watch the game. This might as well be a prime time game. I don’t know if you’ve seen the map. Um I don’t know what the other games are at that time. Must be something in the Northeast. Yeah, like Ohio based on what I saw. It was like a little pocket in like the Ohio area. Yeah, because the Patriots play on Thursday night. So it’s not that one. Yeah. I mean, you’re getting you’re getting Nance, you’re getting Romo and you are getting the whole nation watching and rooting for the Broncos. Yeah. Yeah. It’s a crazy thing. And you could send the Chiefs to five and five. More importantly, you can send them to one and two in the division. Um, and you’re right. I mean, it’s not it wouldn’t be 100% that they’re eliminated from winning the division, but man, you would need a double collapse uh from the Broncos and the Chargers for that to happen. And I can’t speak to the Chargers because I’m just watching their team kind of like fall apart one piece at a time. Um, but there’s no way the Broncos are going to win this game and then fall apart after that. No. No. On an eightgame win streak going into the by-week when then you get to come uh off of that and potentially play on Sunday Night Football. Really quick, because I’ve seen a lot of people ask about uh will the Broncos Sunday night game against Commanders be flexed? We will officially know the deadline for the NFL to do that is this coming Tuesday. So, they could do it before, but they have to let us know by that game right now. And Ryan, I think you brought up a really good point when this was mentioned last week. This is a Denver Broncos. This is a team that the country wants to see. Yeah, I I understand the the thought. I don’t know what other games are on that weekend. Um and maybe if you had like a Chiefs Bills, which obviously isn’t happening, right? Trying to think of like another matchup that would really be like, uh, we got to get this in there. This was crazy about the NFL this year is there’s not a lot of mustwatch teams. No, there’s not. I don’t know if there’s any. No. Uh, so I I think the game will be fine. It’s going to stay in there in that Sunday night football window because people want to see the Broncos. They do. They do. And they want to see this defense. They want to see Shawn Peyton. He’s obviously a big time draw. And I hope that we beat the Chiefs this week, obviously. And then just give the national audience the ugliest football game they’ve ever seen and win. Why do you want that? Cuz I just I I’m just tired of the way they’re talking about us. I want them to have to suffer. That’s very, very fair. Give me two zero. Two zero. What a dominant defensive performance. Winning safety. Oh my god. As time expires. Sure. Oh my goodness. Uh, no. Give me uh 44 to 10 cuz I want to see Bo. I want the the slander on Bo to stop. Really quick, Ryan, just because you were talking about that you talk about how there’s not very many good games here. There are Oh, I’m looking at the wrong week. Um, there are in week 13 you have uh So, only games, this is also something to keep in mind, the only games that can be flexed are the ones that are in the 2 p.m. window, Denver time. So, I’m I’m pretty sure that’s the case. I don’t believe 1pm games can be flexed down to prime time. They can be flexed down to the 2 p.m. window, but not really. Um, now you’re making me question myself. So, I know nothing about this. I’m not I’m not con contradicting you. I’m just surprised. Oh, the also other thing with that is uh that’s Thursday week uh or that’s Thanksgiving week. So, you’re not going to get any of those three games. Um and that’s Green Bay and Detroit. That would be a good one to flex. Can’t do that. Uh you have Kansas City in that one. Um the games on Sun, you also have a Black Friday game. That’s the Bears and Eagles. So actually you got four pretty good games in that Thursday and Friday. So disrespectful to college football. That’s our day. It’s really true. And yeah, in the NFL’s now taking it over. Um so you have I don’t think there’s a good matchup there that can be flexed out. I’m just I’m trying to see if there’s any teams with winning records. There’s one game with teams with winning records and that’s Buffalo playing Pittsburgh and that is in that 225 window. That doesn’t move anyone. Um the Broncos are guaranteed to be 8 and three at worst going into that game with with a lot on the line. Yeah, there’s no way that’s getting flexed in my opinion. I I completely agree. And you look at that Monday night game, it’s uh the two-8 Giants against the 8-2 Patriots. Um they’ll probably want to keep that one and they’ll probably want to keep this one. Um, so Ryan, there’s even more opportunities for the Broncos besides just putting the grave or putting the Chiefs in their own grave in this game. It can impact the Broncos even more. It can impact the Chiefs even more. Let’s dive into more of these specifics. Plus, the locker room knows how important this game is, and we’re actually going to hear from inside the locker room just about how important this game is after I give a shout out to our friends over at Omaha Stakes. Ryan, I had my Omaha steaks delivered about a month ago and I think my first three meals were Omaha steaks because it’s just so good. And you dive in to the chicken which is just absolutely delicious. Uh we did a couple different things with the chicken. But what’s so convenient is it’s just like, oh, I don’t even have to think about dinner. Just what sauces do I have to add to this chicken in the crock pot? What sauces do I add to this burger that I’ve got? And then of course, how do I make fire? How do I make? 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Deposit $10, place a $5 bet, and you can get $200 in bonus bets. Win or lose. If you bet on the Nuggets last night, boom, you’re a winner right there. Whether it’s bonus bets or not, you were going to win on them. They’ve got to be really damn good against the spread this year. Yeah, I had uh an ABS against the spread, Nuggets against the spread parlay last night that come on uh was great. Nuggets actually kind of messed around with the spread at the end of the game. It was killing me. Was it 9 and 1/2? 8 and 1/2. 8 and 1/2 and it got down to eight at one point and then Yok three and I was like, “Thank God.” He always comes through for us. Um and uh really quick, Ryan, because yesterday we were dealing with some some uh some heavier topics. Um we wanted to celebrate this today. Taco Tuesday was yesterday and we’re always celebrating it. Let’s celebrate it right now. All right, my friends. Taco Tuesday and we’re going with the crispy chicken menu this week. Right here we’ve got us a little crispy chicken Frank’s Red Hot Burrito. Let’s give this a try. Oh yeah. How would you How would you describe that in one word? Ooh, I would describe this as flavorful. You got that crispy chicken crunching in there and then you got that nice hit of Frank’s Red Hot, which if you know me, you know I love Frank’s Red Hot. Taco Bell mixing it up with Frank’s Red Hot in the burrito. That’s fire. All right. They also have this one. If you like the the the idea of the crispy chicken burrito, but you’re not in on the Frank’s Red Hot, I think this one’s got like a avocado ranch in there. Mhm. Mhm. Look, you can’t go wrong with either one. I’m going to go the Franks Red Hot. I want that extra kick, but that avocado ranch is like smooth. It’s got a nice avocado flavor to it. Happy Taco Tuesday, my friends. Crispy chicken with Frank’s Red Hot in a burrito. I mean, that might just be the best combo you can have. You got to try it. You really got to try it. Did you want to uh say who was recording that? Man, they’re coming for Dion in the comments. It’s crazy. That was his first Taco Tuesday, you know. Give him a break. I thought you guys did a great job there. Um, so Ryan, getting back to this Broncos game. Um, when it comes to the Broncos themselves in this game, wait, really quick. Yes. This, we got to make this quick cuz now people are going to be mad at me that I distracted from Broncos. Tacos, do you eat them? Do you turn your head to eat the taco or do you turn the taco to eat the taco? Is Was this brought up by Cam? This was brought up by Cam Scataboo on like a Twitch stream or something last night. Um, look, here’s the thing. Because he was saying like, you got to dominate the taco. Turn the taco for you. Um, pause. Uh, I I just if you turn the taco, you’re going to spill what’s in the top of it. Yeah. No, you’re right. And in the back. So, you got to have respect for the taco. Turn your head. Sometimes it’s okay to be submissive, especially when it comes to Especially when it comes to a taco. I’ll let a taco dominate me all day. Wow. I mean, if if that’s what it means in order to to make a good. Yeah. There you go. All right, let’s move on. Although Cam Scatteraboo can’t say that with his mentality. That’s true. He he has to lose half the taco. He He’s just in Yeah. to stay on brand. He’s dumping out all the lettuce, tomatoes, cheese, and then, you know, he’s just going in with his hands to get all the scrapes from the from the floor that fall down. Um, okay. So, uh, I I’m not ashamed with what I said. uh Toyota chat. Um so Ryan, the Broncos, this is the one game on the schedule at the beginning of the year where it stands right now. This is the one game that the Broncos can show the country they are legit have arrived are a Super Bowl team. Because right now, Ryan, the Broncos are tied with the best record in the NFL. We know that they’re tied with the 8-2 Patriots. They’re tied with the 8-2 Colts. at you look at Super Bowl odds which kind of tells you how the country is truly feeling about the team uh and they’re they’re in the top 10 but they’re at the back end of the top 10. I think they’re right around 8 plus400 plus 1600. It keeps going up. People are starting to believe in them a little bit but they they aren’t on pace with where their record is right now. You beat the Chiefs that flips and the Super Bowl odds are going to sky go skyhigh through the roof. Um but then also the country’s gonna say this Broncos team is legit. They’re going to say 9 and2 and they’re going to say you just beat the Chiefs. Yep. You’re legit. The Broncos odds are dropping rapidly. What is it? Plus 1,800. Wow. I swore yesterday or two days ago is 16 or 14. Maybe JK Dobbins. That’s true. Um that’s pretty wild to me though. The Chiefs still at plus 550. And the reason for that, you know, there’s always a reason in Vegas is because everyone’s thinking like, “Oh, I can get the Chiefs at great value right now.” Like they’re five and four. So, everyone’s thinking, “I’m going to go bet on them.” Um, and Vegas is saying like, “No, you aren’t.” Yeah. And they’re still the favorites, right? Yeah, they are the favorites by a considerable margin, plus 550. Next is the Rams at plus 650. Next is the Eagles at plus 750. And that’s where this opportunity for the Broncos becomes so large. Yeah, listen to the teams that I’m talking about. Do any of these teams scare you? No. The one that scares me is honestly the Chiefs. Totally. And if you beat them, they go to five and five. Guys, right now the Chiefs are the eighth seed in the AFC. That means if the playoffs were to start this weekend, the Chiefs would be at home watching the games and not because they’re on a buy because they are out of the playoffs right there. So, you beat them, you drop them to five and five. You help yourself out by maybe not having to play them or anyone having to play them. And this, you said second was Rams. Um, yeah. Okay. Matthew Stafford’s on fire right now and they do have some weapons, but hey, if the Broncos are going to go up against anyone uh and shut him down or if the Rams are going to go up against anyone and get shut down, it’s against this Broncos team with the pass rush and an immobile Matthew Stafford plus uh the the secondary they have. And then you said the Eagles is third. Yep. Oh, the Broncos went into Philadelphia and beat the Eagles. They won’t have to do that in the playoffs. It’ll be a neutral sight game, dude. So, I just had to go look at this cuz I’m like 1,800, man. That is high. I bet on the Broncos to win the Super Bowl before the season. I got it at plus 2200. That was what? That was eight wins ago. That’s crazy. Broncos were had a zero win percentage then. Now they’re at 800. Yeah. Wow. I got Yeah, that’s that is pretty crazy that the Broncos are 8-2. They’re in first place. They are tied for the number one seed right now and they have gone up 400 points. That’s kind of unfortunate for you. It is unfortunate, but it’s great for people that want to bet on the Broncos. Right now, you can almost get in at the start of the season odds. Totally. And we’ll talk about the injuries here in a second because the injuries are unfortunate. Um, but I’ll touch wood before and after I say this, you still have dodged the big one. Yeah. As long as JK Dobbins is back at some point, you know what I’m saying? Like, you’ve had injuries at key positions. And by the way, none of them have led to you losing a football game. That’s incredible. Uh except for if you want to go back and say like Drake Greenlaw would have helped you in the first three weeks of the season. That’s true. Um but other than that, like you lost Ben Powers, you lost PS2, you’ve this is going to be the third game without him. Y um you you know, so you’ve been able to sustain everything that’s been thrown your way so far. Obviously, it’s unfortunate that the toughest battle you’re probably gonna have to fight with injuries and the team all is happening at the same time where you’re most injured against the Chiefs, but um you want to be peing at the right time and that is still completely on the table. Like this team could be getting its most healthy, God willing, late in the season. Yep. 100% that you’re you’re spot on with that. Whereas you see another division rival that we haven’t talked about much say the Chargers Ryan they have suffered injuries and guys aren’t coming back. They’re two tackles maybe the most important people on this team outside of Justin Herbert to protect Justin Herbert are done for the entire season. We have not seen that when it comes to the Broncos right now. We will get into those injuries in just a second. But Ryan, why this game is also just so much bigger uh and it can’t be emphasized enough how how big of an opportunity the Broncos have in this game is because the locker room knows how big of a game this is. Talked to Nick Bonito a couple of nights ago and he was asked just about how big this game is and Ryan, he went further maybe you and I even have. Let’s hear from Nick right now. Yeah. Yeah, no, it’s going to be a really important game for I would say both teams honestly. Um, we’re trying to keep our lead in the division and they’re trying to, you know, keep stacking these wins to get up there. So, uh, it’s going to be a big game for both teams and, you know, I know we’re going to be going have a good game plan and be really excited for the match up. The Chiefs have kind of run the division for the last almost decade really. Do you guys view this as a chance to kind of assert yourself, you know, in in the division and really in in the the AFC? Yeah, I mean, and I said it the other day on Thursday night. I mean, you know, this division’s been run by the Chiefs for so many years now. So, I mean, if we’re going to want to be that team to to win a division and, you know, reach the goals that we said we want, we’re going to have to go through them and beat them. So, um, we’re excited for the opportunity. Because of that, Nick, is it a little more satisfying taking down Patrick Mahomes and and this team in this game? Oh, yeah. I mean, that’s the guy everybody looks to when it comes to sacking the quarterback. I mean, he’s one of the best in our game. So, for sure. I feel like you hear national pundits say that all the time. Oh, a division until someone knocks the Chiefs off, the division runs through them. And it’s right. But to hear that come from the locker room from a leader of your team, from one of your best players, Ryan, that shows me that if they win this game, they’re they’re going to know that they’re Super Bowl contenders. They’re 100% going to believe it. If they don’t, I don’t think they’re going to be two down because they’re still going to be eight and three. But they’re probably going to have that in the back of their mind like, damn, we we need to we need to beat them and beat them in an entire season as well. Nick’s not thinking this that the division still runs through them. In my opinion, if they win on Sunday, Sunday night, he’s thinking this is ours. Some breaking news happening right now that you can handle over there and I’ll talk for a second. Um, and then we’ll talk about what the breaking news is in just a second as well. Oh. Um I it does. It does. And there are certain mountains that you have to climb when you are trying to get to a championship. There are certain things that you have to prove to yourselves to win a championship. And I think, you know, the Broncos still have two opportunities in this season to beat the Chiefs. And it’s not as if they haven’t done it. They did do it two years ago. Um and obviously they got the the win at the end of the season last year, which, you know, I think it’s fair to say doesn’t count. But that when you’re when there’s a team that has been to the Super Bowl as many times as the Chiefs, when there’s a team that has won the division as many times as the Chiefs, you just have to prove that you can beat them. You just have to do it to for yourself. And it and once they get over that hump, like winning a close game against a good team was a a hump for them to get over. They did it against the Eagles. Boom. Sevename win streak unlocked. Yeah. um you win this one and a whole new level of confidence is unlocked where you say, “Okay, well, we can beat the defending champs or the defending champs of this division for what 10 10 years in a row.” Uh and a team that has been to the Super Bowl however many years in a row. Yeah. If we can beat them, we can do anything. And so that that’s another thing of just from a mental standpoint, if you get by them, you feel like there’s there’s no reason why you shouldn’t win the Super Bowl. 100%. You are spot on with that. And Ryan, you did mention the breaking news right now. Adam Shfter with it first. The Broncos, everyone wanted to make him a move at wide receiver last week before the trade deadline. Sean said, “I’m just going to bring in an old friend back.” Broncos are signing Lil Jordan Humphrey off the Giants practice squad. And according to Sheper, he’s expected to play this Sunday. Let’s go. I love this. I love it. Um there was weird amount of hate towards Lil Jordan when he wasn’t here. Yeah. or when he was here and I think people started to miss him when he wasn’t. Um there are certain things that a Shawn Payeyton offense does that needs a little Jordan Humphrey in there. And so yes, people are mad like why is he getting snaps over Troy Franklin and Marvin Mims. Um and you’ve seen some of those snaps go to Trent Sherfield this year. And actually Trent I thought had his best game against the Raiders in terms of doing those little things, blocking uh on the outside and and things of that nature. Uh, but when a guy’s available who you know who can do it and does it right and does it well, you go get him. Uh, he has a relationship with Shawn Peyton. He has a relationship with Bon Knicks. And I felt like there was a missing piece with no Lil Jordan out there. So, I’m I’m excited to have Lil Jordan. He’s going to do things that you might not see on the TV copy. Uh but you know, if you follow the the all 22 guys on Twitter, you’re going to see things come out the next uh you know, the next day or the next day two days where you’re like, “Wow, Lil Jordan, he just works his ass off out there.” 100%. And people in the Twitter chat are saying, “Oh, with Lil Jordan, that means more screens incoming.” Well, you’re damn right cuz it’s a Shawn Peyton offense and Shawn Peyton likes to run screens. But Ryan, the screens have been ineffective at times because the receivers that he has out there aren’t able to block. And Shawn has has specifically said if if they’re not going to do their jobs, then we’re going to replace him. Well, Lil Jordan’s about the perfect guy that you want to replace him with. Um, so he is going to be that that role that we’ve seen and man, he’s really good at it and he’s someone that Shawn trusts. Totally. I’m I’m excited about this. It’s uh there’ll be a big play as soon as this week where you just say like, “Ah, that’s all Lil Jordan.” It’ll probably be Henry on the postgame show like calling him the number one Bronco of the game or something. Yeah. um because he made a huge block on the edge that sprung a touchdown. Man, that’d be huge. That would be absolutely huge. He’s also made some like sick plays with a ball in his hands as a Bronco. He has that one where he broke three tackles, I believe, on a 40-yard touchdown. Was that against the Chiefs? It might have been. Yeah. Yeah. So, welcome back to Denver, Lil Jordan Humphrey. Um okay, let’s welcome in our guy Brian Baldinger after I give a shout out to the delicious food over at Taco Bell. Ryan broke it down for us. I just every single week when we do Taco Tuesday, I’m amazed at how there’s just always new stuff coming out over at Taco Bell. Yet, they keep the classics as well. Crunch Wrap, I don’t think gets enough love on this show. It’s my personal favorite over at Taco Bell. Uh, and of course, the new Flamin’ Hot Frito grilled cheese burrito. Talk about just the best. Another great combo, spicy grilled cheese burrito. I mean, essentially what Taco Bell does is they just go out and they say, “Okay, what are the best uh combos of things? Let’s put them all together.” What does everyone love? Let’s do it. Exactly. It’s like it’s just simplistic gen G genius right there from Taco Bell. Uh so if you want to get any of this plus the best deal in food, the $7 buffs box, which comes with four Taco Bell classes and a player collectible cup for just $7, you can do that in Colorado. And of course, Taco Bell is a proud partner of CU Athletic System, donating $1,000 to the Golden Buffalo Scholarship Foundation for every CU touchdown scored in 2025. Liv Moss at Taco Bell. Also, shout out to our friends over at Kurslight. Um, man, big big course light weekend. This weekend, I’m going to play so buffs are on by. 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Baldi, how are you doing, my friend? I’m doing great, guys. It’s good to be with you. Uh looking ahead here to week 11 and your game uh Sunday obviously in Denver is uh the marquee matchup this week. So I’m looking forward to everything. Man, we are too baldy. And we’ll just dive right into that game. We talked about just how big of an opportunity this is for the Broncos. One of the biggest games that they’ve had in a very long time and also a huge game for the Chiefs because they’re sitting at five and four right here. Uh it we I at least I think this is an opportunity for the Broncos to essentially eliminate the Chiefs from the AFC West picture and and title. Is this that big of a game for both teams? It could be. I mean, honestly, if you win, you’re up by three and a half games on the Chiefs. Um you know, and you’ve got what six to play. So, I mean, it would be a huge advantage. It’d almost be um impossible to overcome. I saw Mahomes this past weekend in Leach at the Texas Tech BYU game and it just so happened his byee worked out with the big game that his alma mada played. But uh you know he certainly knows what’s at stake right now. They did not play well the last time they played and so I’m sure that they’re looking to get back on the right track. They’ve won a lot of games in Denver since he’s been there, but you know this is about this is about this year. It has nothing to do with anything that’s happened in the past. Baldi, what do you see as the key to this game for the Broncos when it comes to finding a way to beat this Chiefs team? You know, it’s I don’t think it ever really changes. Um, you know, Buffalo beat the Chiefs because they affected Mahomes. They hit him 15 times. They sacked him three times and their their offense had been like they had won three in a row and they looked like they were all the way back and suddenly when Mahomes was flat on his back from Joey Bosa or you know Gregory Russo whoever it was I mean they weren’t completing a lot of deep balls and so like I don’t know what’s going to happen at left tackle for the Chiefs but it’s been an issue. Uh, I don’t know if Simmons is back now and his issues are over with, but you know, they had a band-aid over there and it wasn’t good. And that’s Nick Bonito’s side. And I would think it’s going to a big part of this is is going to be the Broncos pass rush, which is really ignited this entire franchise over the last two years. I mean, they have got to get their takeoffs on against Mahomes. And when you can affect him, you can keep the score down and you can make this a very winnable game. Well, and Baldi, is there any team that’s better equipped to do that than the Broncos? I mean, you touched on it there, but when you say that’s the key, and I see some stats that say this year when Mahomes is pressured over 25% of the times he’s 1 and4 and the Broncos have the best pressure rate since nextG stats have been available since 2018. I mean, it does that say that the Broncos are going to win this game? Well, I mean, you look at the last game. I mean, it wasn’t an offensive jogger or not, but I mean, Gino Smith finished the game on one leg. They were blowing protections, you know. I mean, over and over again. Um, I’m not saying the Chiefs, you know, they’ll they’ll be better. They’ll be better than the Raiders up front. But, I mean, they they they couldn’t, you know, sustain any offense. Even after the interceptions, they couldn’t sustain any offense. It’s hard to sustain offense if you can’t get your feet set. They made accurate throws. They they had, you know, when they got everybody back, including Rasheed Rice and Xavier Worthy, they look like they were unstoppable. Except if Mahomes has doesn’t have time, he can’t get the ball to those guys. And so, I think it’s the key. I I don’t think there’s any team better equipped. They’ve got 46 sacks in 10 games. Do the math. I mean, they’re on record pace right now. Um, I think all those guys are hungry. They’ve had 10 days to get ready. Uh, I would think that they’re going to be as fast twitch as ever and I’m sure the crowd will only help fuel it. Baldi, why are the Chiefs and why is Andy Reid so good off of a by-week? So, uh, Andy Reid, you know, came from the Packers in 1999. I remember I went to his opening press conference and met him that day. I got to know him over the years, especially in Philly and that’s where I was and did a lot of Fox games. He is the master of tinkering. Like there there’s like a lot of people have hobbies. They play golf. They do all these different He doesn’t do anything. His thing is you give him a pen and a film and uh some blank paper, he will come up with new plays. He’ll come up new plays. He’ll come up with new designs. He’ll look at what has worked, what hasn’t worked. He’ll figure out ways to um get his team ready for things that he needs to say. Um because he really is a great communicator to everybody. I I I don’t think there’s anybody at preparing better than Andy Reid. Um there’s record proves that over the years both in Philly and in Kansas City. And so that’s what he does. He tinkers like late into the night. He doesn’t need much sleep, maybe three and a half, four hours at the very most. Like he’s thinking about game planning. You talk to Momes on any given Sunday, he’ll tell you that there’s eight to either plays or concepts that are in the game plan there. And it could be a red zone formation. It could be anything, but he’s constantly thinking about how to attack and I think the players really feed off of that as well when they see that game plan this week for Denver. So then Baldi saying that since Vance Joseph has got here a couple of years ago, in the past four games during Vance Joseph’s tenure as defensive coordinator, uh the Chiefs are averaging 11 points per game against the Broncos. Now to be fair, the most recent one was when Patrick Mahomes didn’t play. So you take out that one, it’s 14.5 points per game. That’s pretty damn good. Do you think that’s Vance Joseph having a little upper hand against Andy Reid or do you think it’s more so the the talent that they’ve had on the defensive side? Well, I don’t want to take anything away from Vance. I mean, Vance does a great job and um it’s it was a great hire. I mean, he knows how to game plan specific. Um I’ve seen them with threeman rushes, you know, when everybody thinks they’re going to bring the house. But it, you know, it helps that, you know, I don’t know what Certan status is right now, but it helps that, you know, they uh they have fortified this team. You can see what Greenlaw and what Hoffanga have done for this defense. Um, they’ve been able to retain, you know, Zack Allen and sign, you know, Bonito and, uh, you know, I mean, they’ve got they’ve got the horses up front to get after you and if there’s a weakness up there, they’re going to exploit it. And it’s it it it I kind of what I enjoy watching the most from the defense is how everybody’s celebrates everybody else’s success. If Malcolm Roach gets a sack because Zack Allen got instant se, you know, penetration, he’s just as happy for Malcolm as he would have been for himself. And I feel like it’s a very unselfish group, a talented group, and I think a coordinator that has everybody’s attention. So, it’s it’s impressive. It’s impressive what the Broncos have been able to do. Uh, but to get this one done, they’re going to have to get production out of their offense. What is missing right now? What What do they have to do to get this thing unlocked? Well, I I think that there’s two things. I think one, you have got to run the ball effectively. I mean, every offense wants it. They want some level of balance. You don’t want to put it all on the quarterback. You want to be able to run the ball effectively. They they’re dropping too many passes. I mean that they got to stop that. Okay. And then I think every offense basically their scoring is in direct proportion to the explosive plays and you get a play of 20 yards or more on any given drive, your chances of scoring on that drive, you know, grows exponentially. And so I think it’s u running the ball more effectively. It’s making sure that you look the ball in your hands and do the proper things catching the ball and then I think getting your explosive plays. You know, you’re looking at four, five, six, if you could get four or five explosive plays in a game, um the chances of scoring in the 20s is pretty good. Baldi, it seems like watching Bo recently that his footwork has just really sped up. Maybe maybe too much. It looks like he has kind of antsy feet back there and maybe that’s impacted his accuracy. Sean talked about it and said it’s it’s better to have that problem and have to slow everything down than have to try to speed things up for a quarterback. How easy is that for Shawn to to help Bo kind of slow down and just take a breath? Because we’ve seen him play at at a very very high level. How difficult is that to do midseason? First of all, I agree with the the statement that Sean made. Um, no, because there’s too many guys that play quarterback in this league. They think they’re playing baseball and they think that, you know what, I got four at bats here and if I get a hit on one, I’m already like at two, you know, and and or if I if I don’t get a hit against the ace pitcher, I can get him tomorrow. And pitchers, there’s quarterbacks that think like that, they’re just too lackadasical. I’d rather have a guy that’s speeded up, fast twitch, you know, getting ready to throw the ball and then, okay, let’s back off a little bit. You know, I do think he’s extremely mobile. he um is looking to create space in order to get you know throws down the field to buy time and so you can get ahead of yourself sometimes the emotions uh the adrenalines all those things can kind of speed you up I’ve heard that from Brett Favre I’ve heard that from a lot of quarterbacks uh especially when they start the game they can start fast because the emotion so there is something that you have to do to sort of calm yourself and stay in in the moment almost like almost like a I don’t know uh like a like a yoga meditation type thing to calm yourself a little bit so that you don’t get too high or feed off the emotion too much or play too fast and so you could just do what you have to do in order to make the throw like you make it on Friday afternoon. Baldi, last one for me and I would be remiss if we went an entire interview with you without asking you some sort of offensive line question. Um Quinn Miners gets so much love. Um, Palo’s got a lot of love for what he’s done filling in, but I feel like what Garrett BS has been doing is been a little bit underrated. What What has he done this year? Well, I mean, in the last game, you you didn’t hear I mean, when Max Crosby was over there, you didn’t hear his name, not once, you know? I mean, so I think uh that’s a good thing. It’s a good thing that Garrett Bowl’s name is a mention. It means he’s not committing penalties. He’s not uh, you know, putting them in a negative situation. So, he’s playing consistent football. And that’s kind of what all left tackles hope. I think both Garrett BS and Watenberg are highly underrated. I remember when Watenberg was competing for the starting center job last year. And you know, he’s a kid that kind of came out of nowhere. But he’s a he is a very consistent good football player. And your offensive line is going to be as good as your center. If your center is weak, your line is not going to be great. It just isn’t. You’re going to have too much penetration. You’re not going to get things done in the run game that you need to get done. I think both those players deserve a lot of recognition. I love that, Baldi. And final one for me. Do the Broncos get this done? Do they go to nine and two? Do they extend their wing streak to eight games? How do you think this game unfolds in Denver? Oh, I think you’re going to get the very best of the Chiefs. So, you’re going to have to see them at the very best. They they’ve been rested. They’ve had two weeks. They got a week off. Uh they know what’s at stake. to fall behind three and a half games. They know that’s almost impossible to make up. So, I think you’re going to get the best of the Chiefs. I think the Broncos defense is the best part of this entire, you know, whether Chiefs offense or Chiefs defense. I think the Chiefs the Broncos defense is the best. Um, I don’t know. I think it probably comes down to the final possession. Can Mahomes get get it done again the way he’s done so many times? Can they can they, you know, deliver the knockout punch, you know, on Mahomes when he has the ball last? because I think it’s going to come down to the final possession, man. Strength on strength. I absolutely love it. Baldi, thank you so much. Looking forward to talking to you next week. All right, guys. Enjoy it, man. It’s gonna be fun. I can’t wait to watch it. Oh, man. We can’t wait either. Awesome stuff from our guy Baldi. And what I’ll say if it does come down to that, typically the Chiefs are like the best in those situations. Not this year. We talked about it yesterday. They are 0 and4 in one score games. It sounds crazy to say, but that’s just been the Chief’s truth this year. Man, I’m stressed. I’m stressed. It’s Wednesday. And it’s awesome to hear from a national perspective. Baldi covers every team. He’s really close with the Eagles. But for him to be like, “No, this this is the game.” Totally. Um I love this feeling, man. I feel alive. I know. I know. I know. This is great. Thank you, Broncos. it. I feel like the atmosphere is going to be like the AFC Championship game when you had the Patriots come to town and it was the orange out and it was beautiful weather because the Broncos were winning. Uh and I just man I can’t wait. I can’t wait either, man. I’m I’m just thinking about this uh this watch along and how stressful it’s going to be. You’ll probably see me at my highest and my lowest all at once. Yeah, that’s very true. Make sure to come to the game or come to the bar if you’re not going to be at the game this week. going to be an awesome time. Make sure to swing by the bar for every game, too. Nuggets, ABS, uh, we got it all. It’s it’s the place to be. Um, and really quick, we do have people have been asking, what’s a JK update? What is a Pat Certan update? What’s a Marvin Mims update? We got updates for you on all those guys. Let’s get to those after. 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We’ll find out. Again, Broncos, uh, have taken the practice field right now. We’ll get an update in just over an hour and a half. So, stay tuned to DNVR Broncos on Twitter for your updates there. But, um, unfortunately, I don’t think he’s going to play, but I do still think he’s trending to being back after the buy. So, not putting him on IR was the right decision. Uh, and it’s a bummer to not have him in this game. Yeah. And I hate to say this, but you did kind of like buy yourself the luxury of doing this by winning the last two games. Yeah. Um, it’s true. Yeah. It doesn’t mean that this isn’t a playoff game that you should pull out all the stops, but when you really boil it down to it and you say like, is it worth taking a risk here? Because his injury is one that can be reinjured. Um, you just say like, no, like we got to get him healthy. Let’s be at our full strength. So, in my opinion, unless he’s feeling 100%, you don’t need to rush it this week. Yeah. Unfortunately, because I would love to say yes, you do. But if I’m being smart, I don’t think you do. Yeah, I uh I I agree with you right there. So, don’t expect to see number two out there. If there’s good news, we will deliver that tomorrow on the show. There is good news when it comes to Marvin Mims. Uh Ryan, the Broncos released Michael Bandy, which opens this the door for Marvin Mims to play on Sunday. I fully expect him to play. He started playing practicing at the end of last week which is a very encouraging sign. Shows that he is moving through the concussion protocol. I expect him to practice this week and play on Sunday which is huge because in games like this you cannot lose on special teams. And unfortunately the Broncos have not been great on special teams with or without Marvin Mims but certainly they’ve been worse without Marvin Mims. Having him back is going to be huge in a close game like this and then especially on offense too. That’s what I was just about to say. Um he’s also averaging four yards per se uh four yards of separation per route run down the field. Um he’s he’s your deep threat. Yeah. And Troy Franklin’s really fast, too. He’s part of this, too. But the combination of those two guys put so much stress on the back half of a defense. Um and Sean’s gonna have some stuff ready for Marvin this week. I 100% agree with you. And we heard Baldi say explosives are going to be so key for this Broncos offense against the Chiefs team. Man, Marvin is that guy. And you tell me if this is good news or bad news. Ryan, let me give you all the information first. So, uh, Henry and I really broke down in depth where we stood with JK Dobbins on Monday. Then yesterday comes around and the only piece of news we get uh, of actually we get two pieces of news. The first one comes out, you can pull up the tweet from our friend Christo Mason, Chris Thomasson of the Denver Gazette. He tweeted, “Boncasers, I’m told they’re considering what to do with running back JK Dobbins in his foot injury. I was told placing him on injured reserve is being considered.” That second sentence, Ryan, I think just broke the heart of Broncos country. Um, but then some good news. A couple of hours later, the Broncos made their moves for the day. They did not place JK Dobbins on IR. And remember, there’s two big days to go on IR in a week. One is Tuesday. The other one is Saturday. So, there’s a couple of things we’re going to follow throughout this week. Yesterday, it’s really good he did not go on IR. And Ryan, if the Broncos were certain he was going to go on IR, he they would have done it yesterday so that they could bring another running back up or sign another running back to have him practice all throughout this week to have him for the game on Sunday. So, clearing yesterday was a big hurdle. Will he practice today, tomorrow, and or Friday? We’ll be following that this week and giving you that updated news. That’ll obviously be be a big indicator for if he’s going to play on Sunday and then Saturday is the other day when guys go on IR. And if he does not go on IR Saturday, it means he is not going to go on IR, barring a big setback, touching wood there, um which I would not expect. So that is the other major hurdle for his long-term output. Does he go on IR on Saturday? Yeah. And here’s what I think needs to be considered with IR um is if you go on IR, the by-week just doesn’t count. Yeah. Uh, so that means that you are missing this game, you’re missing the Commanders game, you’re missing the Raiders game, and you’re missing the Packers game. So, you’re not coming back until December 21st against the Jags if you do that. And I think the way that the by-week fell this year actually really messed with the Broncos decision-m uh as to whether guys were going on IR or not. And so, it may just be one of those situations where they’re like, man, we are in a title race. Yeah. Right now. And so if we can get JK back by the Packers game, then we have to do it. Um and so it it’s interesting. But as it relates to JK, some I had a epiphany uh during the break or right before the break. Um what does Lil Jordan Humphrey do best? Block. Blocks where? On on the perimeter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh what does RJ Harvey do best? Oh, he runs on the perimeter or catches the ball on the perimeter. Yep. That’s why they went and got Lil Jordan. Um because they know they’re gonna have to run on the outside. Uh now, we would love That’s a good point. Great point. We would love for for R.J. to unlock his interior running ability during this stretch where we expect him to have to play quite a bit. But in the end, you you play to your strengths. RJ Harvey strength is running on the edge. get ready to see like a 1920s style running game. Sweep left, sweep right, sweep left, sweep right. Uh because that’s what that’s what they do well in they brought they just brought in little Jordan Humphrey to help them do that even better. And then especially this game if you’re limited with JK or if you’re without JK. Um avoid Chris Jones too. That just might be a good idea. And then so how do you avoid Chris Jones? Well, you go to the outside. You go to the perimeter right there. And this game, you can kind of build your roster around this game because you have a by-week the following week, then you have a long week the next week until you don’t play on Sunday night. So, uh, you can adjust your roster just for one game, which, uh, the Broncos and Sean are going to take every opportunity to do, and they clearly are. Yeah, this could be fun, man. Uh, I really hope that that RJ reaches the next level here. If you go back and watch that Chiefs Bills game, um, James Cook was running through some big holes big time. R.J. can do that. And guess what? When he gets through there, he’s gone. Y So, I I I’m crossing my fingers that they’re they’re able to get him out into space and create some big holes for him because look, losing JK is going to hurt. He was so good at turning something into nothing multiple times this year where it’s like he’s stuffed in the back field, boom, jump cut, three yards, first down. Yeah. Um and RJ is it would just be impossible to expect him to do that at this point, right? He’s like still just getting his feet wet in the National Football League. But if you can get him some space, uh it could get fun. It could get really fun. And the the desperate part about the Chiefs, Ryan, just adds to even more how big of a win this would be for the Broncos because there is no doubt the Chiefs are the more desperate team in this game. The you you mentioned it, the Broncos have have given themselves leeway uh to drop a game. You don’t want to drop a game, but the Broncos aren’t the desperate team. if they are able to uh give the Chiefs this big time blow when they’re the most desperate team, man, that’s going to be huge. And Shawn Peyton knows that. That’s why he’s going to break out all the stops. Uh any trick plays will come out in this game. Uh and that’s what’s going to make this game so fun because both sides, Andy Reid’s going to feel that as well. And um Andy Reid did not go to the BYU Texas Tech game with Mahomes because he wanted to be dialed in for this Broncos game. How demoralizing would that be for the Chiefs losing this game when uh when they’re putting all their resources into it? So, I think Sean’s gonna have some fun things dialed up for his new Joker, RJ Harvey. Yeah, I hope Mahomes was really living up that top 10 win on Saturday night. Uh and uh maybe our guy Baldi helped. Yes, we I asked him. I did my part. You did. You did your part last week. He was probably over at Eevee May’s barbecue in love overeating. Uh that having a couple more cocktails. Yeah, they have free beer there. Oh, well then come on. Yeah, and if you’re hanging around Baldi, I have to imagine those are going back. Exactly. All right, let’s get to some super chats before we get out of here. First one coming in from team Jokic who says, “Hey, Zach. Uh oh, it’s Christian who emailed you earlier. Thanks for responding. Been a lifelong dream to intern at DNVR. Hope to meet you both this summer.” Good luck there, Christian. that would be awesome to have you here. Um, and uh, let me know if I can help you through the process as well. Thanks for the email. And Rusty Cleveland, who is a supporters club member. Remember, that’s such a a simple way to support us directly. You just go to YouTube, the main screen of our YouTube. You can become a supporters club member right there. And uh, you get a little icon there, which will upgrade as you uh, as your membership continues to go on. And I actually saw some people in the chat had become supporter club members today as well. So shout out to all of you. We appreciate you. And Russy Cleveland says, “Stats show that Chiefs play their worst this year when they face pressure from defense. I predict Vance Joseph gets a game ball for a masterpiece job Sunday.” I’ve had like 12 different feelings about the way this game is going to go just during this show. Um, but one of them is just like, do you remember the Chiefs Bucks Super Bowl? Oh, yeah. And Mahomes just could never be on solid ground. He’s just running around the entire game. Uh, and that that that wears on you like he has it in him to make I would even say upwards of eight plays like that during a game. Uh, but if you have to do it every play, it’s unsustainable. And there’s a real chance that this Broncos defense could put that level of pressure on them. 100%. And and I mean, you mentioned that um when he is pressured 25% or more, he’s 1 and three this year. When he’s pressured 25% or less, he’s 4-1 this year. And the Broncos lead the entire NFL uh since the start of the NextG era with a 42.9% uh pressure rate. That’s what I was just going to say. I was like 26% would be a massive disappointment. It It would be. It would be. And that points right there that the Broncos should win. Man, I’m excited for this. Yeah, I’m so freaking pumped and I can’t wait to continue to break this game down with all of you tomorrow. We’re going to have some big time injury updates tomorrow, so make sure to stay tuned. Plus, we’re giving our final picks. We will see you tomorrow at noon on the DMV Broncos podcast. God bless. on it. [Music] [Applause] Like the mayor

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0:00 – Intro
1:00 – Welcome In
5:30 – The Massive Opportunity The Broncos Have
27:40 – Broncos Breaking News
32:28 – Brian Baldinger Joins The Show
48:32 – Injury Updates
56:09 – Final Thoughts On Chiefs Game
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