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Hello, Jackson's welcome to the podcast,

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and today it is amazing

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to hear from Dave Logan, who's the voice

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of the Denver Broncos. But I know I have a

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lot of play by play guys on this podcast.

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This is hardly a revelation. This

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is the most interesting play by play man in

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the world. I have to say that I've labeled him

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that because Dave is one of the few

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people in the history of the world to

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be drafted by the NFL,

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Major League Baseball, and the NBA.

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That's right, and he played in the NFL for the

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Cleveland Browns, eventually for

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the Broncos, made his way into

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the broadcast booth as the voice of the Broncos.

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Not only that, but wait, there's more. I sound

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like an old infomercial. Dave

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has also won eleven state

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championships as a high school football

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coach. You want to talk about overachiever,

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that's Dave Logan. But most

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importantly we're talking about the Texans

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verse. This is the Broncos. We will get into some

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of his personal life later on in the pod,

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so check it all out. Our conversation with

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Dave Logan. Dave, how's

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it going, my friend? I imagine a lot better in the last

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five games.

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Hey, Mark, great to catch up with you. Yeah,

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I mean, obviously you would know. It's

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a lot more fun broadcasting

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games when the team is winning and the atmosphere

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is a lot better. And so they're on a five game

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winning streak, and you know, I don't

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think anybody saw that coming after a one and five

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start, but they've been able to turn

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things around and play much better football

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and find ways to win close games.

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All right, when the team got blown out by

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Miami, did you think this was even

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remotely possible? What were your thoughts

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at the time, and what's been the difference

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as they've turned it around.

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Well, I mean, in all honesty,

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no, this is my thirty

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fourth year calling Broncos games, and I

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have never seen not only

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have I not broadcast one, I've not played in

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one. I've not even witnessed the game

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like that where an NFL team gives

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up seventy points. So at

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that point, I think it was in an all time low. I

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mean, we thought there could be all sorts

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of changes, whether coaching changes

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or player changes. I

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think everything was sort of on the table. But I think

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to Sean Payton's

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credit and also to the player's credit.

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They righted the ship, and that's

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that's easier said than done, right, I mean, I think it's

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I think it's it's a pretty good job

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by them, and I think, I think Mark,

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what they've done is they've found

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a formula that works

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for them. They want to run the ball, they

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want to limit turnovers,

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and the defense has been on almost

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and historic run in terms of creating

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turnovers. They've had fifteen turnovers

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in the last four games. They've created

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sixteen in the last five the five game winning

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street they've created sixteen turnovers.

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So that it's worked

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for them now and they are playing

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with confidence, which I think is really important

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even at the NFL level, and playing

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pretty good football.

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Dave Logan, Bronco's voice joining us on

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Texans Radio. Dave, what is the secret

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or the formula to the takeaways? What is

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the theme on how they are taking

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the ball away from the opponent during this streak.

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Yeah, I don't know that. I don't know that there would

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be one thing. I think,

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you know, a couple of couple of guys

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have really stepped up when given the

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opportunity. I think Ja Kwan McMillan has

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been huge for them. He's come

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in and played at the nickel back. He's made

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He's made a bunch of big, big plays.

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He had a two game stretch where he had, you

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know, two interceptions and two caused

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fumbles, and so they and

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I think they've been a little bit more aggressive defensive

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land. I think part of that is they've been able to do a better

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job against the run. They

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were not good against the run, and they're in the early part

3:52

of the season and they've had moments.

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I mean, they gave up over one hundred and sixty yards rushing

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against the Vikings, but then they come

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back and play the Brown last week in Denver and

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they were better. They were better against the rush.

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So I think it starts with that,

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their ability to try to try to control

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that running game and get you into situations

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where they know you're you're gonna

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have to throw it, which is certainly the recipe for

4:15

most NFL teams.

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What about Russell Wilson Dave because

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I look at the passing yard total, it's

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not like he's throwing for buckets of yards

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here, but he does have a lot of touchdown

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passes. What's been the difference for him

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and the success formula.

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I think mark last year. Honestly,

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I think Russell was really humbled. I

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mean, it was just a disastrous season.

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And this is a guy that had had

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really nothing but success coming from

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Seattle, and

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then he comes here and I mean,

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nothing worked. He looked nothing like the

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same guy. The offense was bad,

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the entire team was bad. Obviously, they

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changed coaches, and then you bring in Sean Payton,

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and I think Sean has done a good job with Russell

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sort of just hitting him back on track,

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and so he's he's more willing

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to run this year. He had three kneel

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downs last game, but he had eight eight

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legitimate rushes. And there were

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times last year where he would step

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up into the pocket, pocket would open, he

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just wouldn't run. But he's running

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now. A couple of those last week were designed

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quarterback runs off his own reads, so that

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I think has helped him. And he's been really

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good in the red zone. He's got twenty touchdown passes,

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fourteen or four interceptions. He's

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got no interceptions in the red zone,

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and so I

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think he's he's been accurate, and

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I think the offense has helped him. I mean they're they're

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right now, they're going to run the ball.

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I mean they're going to stay patient with the run and

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not have him take a lot of chances

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in the passing game, and so far it's been

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successful.

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Yeah, I noticed that that he's running the ball

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a little bit more. Is that a huge

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key in their running game overall?

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Because I noticed the production is up. You mentioned it

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yourself.

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Yeah, I don't know if it's a huge key. I think

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I think his willingness to run, and

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again I think you know, just you you contrast

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last year to this year, he just

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for whatever reason, my assessment would

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be he just wasn't willing

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to run. He wasn't looking to run. There

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were opportunities where in the

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past in Seattle you would see the pocket

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open and he'd take off him. He's he's

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really one of the one of the best dual

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threat quarterbacks that the league has seen the last

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twenty years. But

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that was not the case last year. Now this year,

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he's more willing to do that. He's

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been he's been aggressive in

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when things break down in the pockets, stepping

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out and picking up positive yards.

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Instead of last year, I

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think he got a little big play

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happy trying to look for the big

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plays and create those. I mean, big

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plays normally happen. They just sort

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of happen right off the running

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game, off heavy play action. But

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last year it just wasn't a good

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mesh with the offense and Russell.

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Dave Logan, Broncos voice, joining us on Texans

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Radio. Dave, what about Sean Payton?

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Do you think that the sluggish start,

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the bad start was maybe a major

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cultural adjustment to Sean

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Payton and the way he does things, because

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clearly he's had a lot of success and

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now you're seeing the success recently with the

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Broncos, now that he's been in there for a bit.

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Yeah, maybe, I think Mark he's he's

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buttoned up. For sure. There's

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a different feel at the

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Broncos headquarters, I think for everybody,

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and I'm assuming that the

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field is different for players as

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well. These players have told me that. But

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when you look back, I mean, this is going to be

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a season depending on how the last six

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games go. I mean the Broncos are six and

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five now, but they had three home games,

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losing to the Raiders, losing to the Commanders,

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and losing to the Jets. I mean those are

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three teams given the circumstances of

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those three teams, and they had leads

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over those three teams at halftime in

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all three games and wound up losing.

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And so I mean what they've done since

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then makes it even more remarkable

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when you've been in the league a long time

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too, When you when you give away a home

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game to a team that you're

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better than and that you should

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beat, you got to go steal

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one somewhere. I think they stole one in Buffalo,

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and may have stolen one at home against Kansas

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City, breaking that sixteen game losing

8:24

streak. But yeah, I think the culture

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is absolutely different with Sean

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Payton, and I think right now everybody

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would have to say it's working. Dave.

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You're a unique individual being

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drafted in Major League Baseball

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by the NBA Kansas City Kings

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and by the Cleveland Browns. So

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why did you choose football? I know you're a great

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in all three what led you to

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choose football? And can you discuss

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that a bit, because that is unbelievable

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that you were drafted by all three sports.

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Oh gosh, it's

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a long time ago. I can tell you that, But I mean I can drafted

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in baseball out of high school and back

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then the rule has since changed,

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but back then, if you sign a professional

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contract, you could not play any

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sport in college. So

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we notified all the major league teams

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that I was going to go to college and

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do that, and I got drafted by the Cincinnati Reds,

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and then I went to college at the University

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of Colorado. I played both football and basketball,

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and intending to play baseball as well,

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but the coach that recruited

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me to play football got fired after my sophomore

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year. The new coach didn't want

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me to play baseball in the spring, wanted me to get

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involved in the spring football program. But

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in terms of the choice,

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I had broken my ankle playing basketball

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CU shortly

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before the NFL draft, and

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I think it probably hurt me a little bit in terms

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of the draft position. But

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I can't give you an answer in terms of why I picked

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the NFL. I just thought that point, let

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me just go ahead and try this. And I really did

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think, Hey, if if the NFL

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doesn't work out, I'm gonna

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go back and try try

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to sign on with the Kings and see what happens

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there. But fortunately for me, the

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situation in Cleveland was good.

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We all remember the campaign the most interesting

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man in the world. You are the most interesting play

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by play man in the world. There's no question. With all

10:22

this extra curricular stuff, your background

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and the fact that you coach high school football.

10:27

What have you won eight state championships something

10:29

like that in Colorado?

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Well, we've won

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eleven and we're actually playing

10:36

Saturday. We're playing

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Saturday in the state championship

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this year. Normally it's held at

10:43

in Power Field at Male High which

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is the Broncos Stadium. This year's we moved up

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to CSU

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on the campus of Colorida State

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University. So listen, I've

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been I've been blessed to

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excuse me, be able to work with kids for a long

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time. It's thirty one years as a as

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a head coach, and I love kids, and I love football.

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I think the I think football is the greatest

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team sport in the world that can teach teach

11:08

life lessons to so many

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different young people. And so

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it's it's been a great run. It really

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has.

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All right, So you'll coach at a state championship

11:18

game on Saturday and broadcast the Broncos

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at the Texans on Sunday. So

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you're gonna take an early Sunday morning flight. Is that the

11:25

plan?

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Well, I've the plan is to

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try to get down there the last NonStop

11:30

from Denver to Houston. I

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think I have a reasonable

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chance to make that, so we're

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keeping our fingers crossed on that.

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Well, you've never missed a game, right, despite

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coaching all this high school football.

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No, I've never missed a Broncos game. And I've never missed

11:46

a high school game either.

11:47

Wow, you must have had a lot of running through

11:49

the airport scenes. I'm going back to an

11:51

old ye.

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I'll tell you what I've got. You

11:54

know, I've got a handful plus of stories

11:57

that you would just shake

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your head. And I mean I got very, very lucky.

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But it has been There

12:04

have been some late night calls

12:09

trying to get a private plane, realizing

12:12

how much money that would cost, and it's

12:14

but you know what, in the end, I've

12:17

never missed a game. I've had a couple of very

12:19

close calls, but you

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know, it's been worth it. Dave.

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It's such a pleasure to catch up. Best

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of luck in the championship game on Saturday,

12:28

and we hope you make it here safe and I look

12:30

forward to seeing you on Sunday.

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My friend down's good Mark, look forward to seeing

12:33

you too.

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There's Dave Logan, voice of the Denver

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