Denver Broncos Trade Rumors Took A CRAZY Turn...

Oh, the Denver Broncos trade rumor just took another crazy turn. We have prediction markets with your Broncos surging to land a superstar. You have the most plugged in journalists in the NFL. Delete a tweet seconds after sending it. You got Sean Payton admitting that the Broncos were buyers at the trade deadline. All the breadcrumbs we've got to read through and get to the bottom of. And we have our first injury report before the Denver Broncos head to Carolina to mollywop the Carolina Panthers. We're breaking all that down and way more in this video. If you're new here, I'm a diehard Broncos fan named Ben, and it helps me in the algorithm out a ton. Hun, if you love the Denver Broncos, smash. Smash that like and subscribe button. We know that this was a trade deadline. Unlike any other time in NFL history, we've already seen just a disproportionate number of trades because I think so many teams see that their window is open. And it's just, I do not recall this many trades before we're even like we're a week away from the trade deadline still. And usually all this hot and heavy trade stuff doesn't happen until way further out. And they told us, get your popcorn ready because it's going to be crazy. And it already has been crazy. I love the fact that you look at like most of the big names who've actually landed great players. Are in the NFC and all the AFC teams who've gone out and got a player before the trade deadline are so far out of the playoff conversation that they're not even a threat. And so that just makes you even more excited for the Broncos. Like if we land one more piece, we're already favorites in the AFC, obviously, but that's just going to make us even more favorites. And we're going to talk about that. But here is another little breadcrumb that I thought was crazy. Interesting is that everyone is saying that it's the Broncos who will be targeting a running back. And Jonathan Taylor is obviously the bell of the ball when it comes to running backs. Now, I've broken down. I feel like he's pretty old, and that is a lot to give up for an aging running back. But it is still interesting to me to see that even though he took very few carries, actual handoffs in the game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, where the Colts were just destroyed on national television, you still see him get a veteran rest day. And that is very typical when a team is about to trade a guy away. They don't want him to pop a hamstring in practice. Just an interesting little breadcrumb. And you're even seeing their media be like, he needs a rest day. He barely even played. He's definitely about to get traded. So that's an interesting little nugget. We then hear a bunch of teams who are rumored in the sweepstakes for Jonathan Taylor who are dropping out. The Minnesota Vikings have seemed to turn their attention to the quarterback position and their front runners to either go out and get Daniel Jones or to get Kirk Cousins from the Raiders because the Vikings need a quarterback. Their defense is very good, but they need someone who can throw the ball. Obviously way more important than they need to go out and get a running back. So they have kind of dropped off of the list. And then it seems as if like the giants realize they're too far out and have more holes on that team than just running back. And that's a lot of capital for them to give up. So it is essentially the Broncos and the Bengals are the last teams really in this race here for Jonathan Taylor. Then another little interesting breadcrumb is that Ian Rappaport, who's one of the more plugged in journalists in the NFL. He's not a clickbait artist. He reports real news and has real connections. He came out and tweeted that. The Broncos are hitting up the phones and calling about a running back, and he specifically mentioned Jonathan Taylor, Brees Hall, and Tony Pollard. He immediately deleted that after, so I don't know. If the information changed or what's most likely is that, uh, Broncos PR said like delete that tweet. You don't say that. Cause we know Sean Payton runs a very tight ship and he likes to move in silence like the G and lasagna, like we always say on here. And then other interesting breadcrumb is that when you look at all the prediction markets, it actually has the Broncos as the highest odds to get Jonathan Taylor, even a higher odd than him landing with the Indianapolis Colts, which is what I thought was the most likely Likely scenario, all of these that according to the Hard Rock Cafe, they're Number here, I guess the Broncos have a 23% chance of getting Jonathan Taylor where the Vikings, uh, you can see they're dropped here to in fourth place, uh, Seahawks being right behind the Broncos at 17%, but that's an interesting breadcrumb. And then Sean Payton in his press conference today was asked like, are you guys buyers or sellers at the trade deadline? And Sean is so meticulous with his words. And he's like, well, we're one of the teams that's playing good. So we're definitely not looking to sell. He's basically, if you're putting us in a corner of are we buyers or sellers, we are sellers at this NFL trade deadline. So all of that really has me wondering, man, are the Broncos about to make a move for Jonathan Taylor? Now, the other side of this coin is how hard Sean Payton came out and made the point to say that he's happy with J.K. Dobbins. And that is not going to sound great to Broncos country, because I know there's a lot of Broncos fans who are upset with J.K. Dobbins But I just think it's important to hear. What Sean Payton said, and we have seen him at times when he's not happy with a player, everybody knows it. So Sean Payton isn't the type of guy who's going to blow smoke and rainbows. If he's mad at a player, everyone is going to know it. He threw Russell Wilson under the bus. He threw Randy Gregory under the bus, Frank Clark under the bus. We've heard him throw players under the bus before. And so when he comes out and says that all this stuff about JK's body language and all of that isn't a big deal, here's exactly what he said. He's like, that's not a hot button topic here with us. It might be a hot button ticket with you guys, but it's not with us. We heard Bo Nix come out and say like how thrilled they are with Jonah Coleman and how quickly he is learning these things. And you just take a look at what did this Broncos running back room look like last year in the AFC championship game? And you can't help but just look at this and be like, man, if the Broncos had Bo Nix there in the Super Bowl, even with this squad rolling out there for the AFC championship game, a A rookie in R.J. Harvey. And then you had Tyler Bidet, who we know Broncos country is all but given up on. Adam Prentice had a bunch of carries and targets and snaps in that game. And then Jaleel McLaughlin. So to automatically then put RJ Harvey now into a second year, we've seen him mature into that role to have JK Dobbins. If we are having him on a pitch count, knowing he'll be healthy by the time the playoffs roll around. And, oh, yeah, you're adding Jonah Coleman to the mix. You've got to feel way better about this running back room. And so that is why there are a lot of other folks who are plugged into this space who actually are saying the Broncos aren't going to trade for a running back. Instead, what ESPN and several other plugged-in media sources are saying is that the most likely scenario for the Broncos is that they go out and try to land offensive linemen. Now, I'll be interested to hear what all y'all think about this, But the guy that they're pointing to is the fact that... The Philadelphia Eagles, who are going to be without their starting quarterback the rest of the season, and Jalen Hurts, they're already down two offensive linemen who are starting at the beginning of the season, and they're basically out of playoff contention. And they had this guard, Landon Dickerson, who is an absolute dog. In fact, if you take a look at, here was him just like last week, right? So this isn't him of a long time ago, just like pulling and flattening a dude and completely opening the edge there for Saquon Barkley. We go back to the Super Bowl, and this is the clip that I pulled up because he is blocking Chris Jones and you hear all the time about double teaming an offensive lineman. How about like an offensive lineman actually like running, getting two guys. So he's the one who's like being double teamed. So you see him, uh, take care of Chris Jones and then take care of the, the pulling, um, edge rusher there. So like an absolute masterclass now, um, basically what, what the Broncos would be doing in this situation is switching from Ben Powers, and if you take a look at his PFF score, he's one of the lowest graded offensive linemen on this team right now. And basically, he's ranked 51st out of 75 guards in football with a pass grade of 47 and a run grade of 59. Now, it is worth noting that Landon Dickerson is coming back off of an injury. And so his PFF grades so far this season have been in the toilet. But if I think you are picking Landon Dickerson and making that trade, it's the fact that he is on the end of his deal. No guaranteed money there. He gets a chance to prove himself in a new place, and you hope that he returns back to where he was before that injury because if you look at last year's NFL Top 100, Landon Dickerson came in at 84, ranked even higher than Quinn Minerts. And so that would be just like a super interesting little wrinkle there if like Sean Payton, all this talk is about running back, is maybe to swindle some dudes. Maybe he's trying to get the Bengals to give up a bunch and go out and get Jonathan Taylor. He feels great about this running back room and instead he's, he's zigging when everyone else is zagging and he's going to end up with one of the better high ceiling guards. Obviously Landon Dickerson isn't playing that right now, but we know that he can get back to a pro bowl, all pro level, which he's played at for a lot of his career. So. A lot there to keep our eyes on. Let me know in the comments what you think. Obviously, we know the Broncos here are moving in with a chance to just like beat a record that none of us would have imagined with only two losses at that bye week with a crazy start to the schedule. And we know Sean Payton has really owned his prior division. He's gone in and I don't think he's... Yeah, he actually has not lost to an NFC South opponent since he has been head coach of the Denver Broncos. We swept them last year. This team is very similar to who we played last year. And really the Broncos on paper are so much better than the Carolina Panthers. And after the high of beating your division rivals with the Kansas City Chiefs, and then on the other end of it, you got your bye week, it'd be so easy for this team to lose sight of the goal and to, and to take a week off and just to be so hyped from last week that you, you get suckered into a loss. And I love how Sean has all these dudes locked in. And the Carolina Panthers stadium is a turf field. And so Sean Payton is so meticulous with the details that he has the Broncos practice indoors, even though it was a nice enough day to practice outside because he wanted them practicing on turf. And then he goes even one step further. He paints the Carolina Panthers logo on the 50 yard line of the practice field. And then he goes even one step further and he plays a little Peedie Pablo, who is a famous rap artist from Greenville, North Carolina. So it's like, man, Sean Payton. Does not believe in trap games, and Bo Nix said that. Like, there is no trap games. All of these guys are getting paid. You know that the Carolina Panthers are hungry for a win. They actually just fired their defensive coordinator, Ejiro Evero, a former Denver Broncos coach. You might remember the name. And so you know there's going to be, like, new defensive schemes. In fact, there's talk that there's switches being made from 3-4 defense to a 4-3 defense, and so this could be a trap game. But you just know Sean has all of these guys locked in and you could tell from press conferences today that these guys are locked in now. Other phenomenal news that the Broncos got today is that it is impressive that you've seen Broncos put up 30 points on, on the Rams who have a great defense, put up 28 points last week on a great defense with the Kansas City Chiefs put up 30 points on, on the Indianapolis Colts or on the Arizona Cardinals. But you got to remember, we've done a lot of this without the guy who I'm highest on in the receiving room. I'm even higher on him than Jalen Waddle. And that is Paddy Ice right here. He was really the bell of NFL training camp. It was really all the talk and eyes were on him. And in fact, the game he got hurt, the play he got hurt, was one of the most explosive plays of that 49ers game when he hurt his ankle. And so the great news here is that Pat Bryant is a full participant and not limited whatsoever. And he came back. We all feared the worst. And what we feared was that he was out for the season. And indeed, that was premature because he is not out for the season. He is going to be back for the Carolina Panthers. Could not be better news. He was the guy who dominated. Um, NFL training camp. And then you got to look this season in the four games he played, he was on, on the field for 56% of the snaps. And so I, it's going to be a huge, uh, boom to this Denver Broncos offense to have him back out there. Uh, and then really the only bad news that the Broncos got was that, uh, Wazirike was out, and then Chris Abrams-Drain also did not practice. And then the full list of other guys who did not practice, it looked like Zach Allen also got a rest day. Talano Hufanga did not practice, but he was at the facility, so hopefully he's back. The other guy, Brandon Jones, did not practice, so we'll keep you updated on all of that. But, man, I joined Pat Sertain, where not only do I say that, man, there is not another quarterback that I want to go to bat for than Bo Nix. Amen. You heard Pat Sertain go on Schultz's show and say that. But then also, he's upset at how little love the Denver Broncos are getting nationally. And he said, people need to wake up. We are the real deal. And I think you proved to the world that you're the real deal when you go into an early game in Carolina and you just absolutely mollywop the Panthers, which is about to happen. And Broncos country, we got a ton to believe in. Goodness. Sorry, guys. Thanks for watching guys. MAH!