Denver Broncos News Just Got CRAZY...

Oh my goodness, the news for your Denver Broncos just gets weirder by the second. One of the craziest stories I've ever seen, and whether intentionally or unintentionally, the Broncos sabotaged a division rival and one of the teams that they're about to play in the playoffs, and this should come as a shock to none of you, but I actually think it's phenomenal news for the Denver Broncos. We're breaking it down in this video. If you're new to the channel, I'm a diehard Broncos fan named Ben, and it helps me in the algorithm out a ton. If you love the Denver Broncos, if you would smash that like and subscribe button, well, Phrase they always say about great leaders is that they hire slow and fire fast. Well, Sean Payton did both of those things as the trade we all were excited about to get a very good cover linebacker, a guy who could really be in on third downs in Dayon Henley, agent zero, the former captain from the Chargers being traded to the Broncos for a fourth round draft pick and a fifth round draft pick next year. Well, evidently, Dayon Henley was flown to Denver and he did his physical. And his knee was not quite in the shape that the Chargers had made it seem to be when all of those offers were coming in. And so Sean Payton and George Payton called the Chargers back and said, hey, we're not comfortable giving a fourth and a fifth at the shape that his knee is in. And so would you be OK with a fourth and a seventh or a fourth? And we do a pick swap. And the Chargers were not OK with that. And so we canceled the trade. So the Broncos officially stood pat at the NFL trade deadlines. And there are some absolute wild things about this story that we have to talk about. I think, first off, it's the fact that, man, there are people already calling for a suspension of Sean Payton, saying that he did something wrong. Mike Kliss, who a lot of times is very critical of Sean Payton, came out and said the NFL was very aware of this every step of the way. So there are a lot of different things that could have transpired, and I'm going to go through them in no particular order. I need you to sound off in the comments on which of these scenarios do you think is most likely. So looking at it, I think the most likely scenario here is the fact that the Denver Broncos take player health extremely seriously and all the receipts prove it, that you just Just traded with a team that has a long history of... ...of Chargering and that they have been decimated with injuries. The reason they were bounced out of the playoffs last season was that the Chargers lost both their starting left tackle and starting right tackle to season-ending injuries. And injuries are not a fluke, and sometimes they are, but a lot of times it is because of the work that you do to keep your players healthy. And all of the Broncos' money has been going into sleep studies and this training facility. And Sean Payton, like... stocks these dudes to make sure that they're healthy. And if you look at the Chargers over these last couple of seasons, you just see that they're not just like more dinged up than the Broncos. They're one of the most dinged up teams in all professional football. That in 2023, the Broncos had 57 games missed by starters. The Chargers had 76. 2024, the healthiest year by far for the Chargers, would still be like the most injured team that the Broncos have had in a long time. And then you just look to last year where the Chargers had 106 missed starting snaps or missed starting games to starters where the Broncos had almost half of that. So obviously when you're trading with a team that is known for running players into the ground, it's super important to do your due diligence and make sure that Deion Henley is not going to go out there on the first wheel route in which he's guarding a, you know, a running back and tear his ACL. And so I think like that is probably the most realistic scenario out there is that the Broncos truly took an evaluation of this and said, The juice is not worth the squeeze with this injury history with his knee how it is. It is not worth it. The Broncos were also like very upfront with the fact that Deion Henley was not coming in to start. He was coming in to back up Alex Singleton and Justin Strnad, which I think is a crazy flex that you're saying, like, hey, Chargers, your captain, one of the best players in your defense, isn't even good enough to crack our starting lineup. Now, you know, you see Harbaugh absolutely livid at this scenario because just imagine the egg on the face of all of the Chargers organization and imagine how Deion Henley feels coming back into that Chargers locker room and just being like, yeah, I just packed up all my stuff. I cleared out my locker, but I'm back, guys. That is embarrassing. I feel horrible for him as a person, but I mostly just feel bad for the Chargers organization. Their fan base rioted about what a bad move it was, and then they're so bad they can't even execute on their bad move. They could have gotten a King's ransom for Khalil Mack, who's not going to be there next year. They could have gotten a ton of draft picks for a couple of their other defensive players or Derwin James. And like they have just completely like messed up this offseason or this upcoming offseason. I actually NFL Mike texted me and just said this could be a franchise altering move to lose out on two draft picks for a guy that the Chargers also already came out and said that they tried to sign with him next season. And then that wasn't working. So now if you're Deion Henley, the chargers have to keep paying him for the rest of the season. And he knows he's not back next season. So it is absolutely malpractice there for the Los Angeles chargers. But, and I love the fact that anytime Harbaugh is upset and Harbaugh is the one lecturing you about you trying to skirt around rules when you know, like Harbaugh can't even go back to college football because he's going to face a ban because he actually was cheating and is not allowed to ever go back and coach college football. So this. Coach who has yet to win a game this season can't even go back to the last state because he actually cheated. And now he's the one lecturing Sean Payton is very, very rich. Now, here's the actual part. You're seeing pro football focus say like, hey, this is a very common thing that basically you were OK with this trade when it was for a fourth and a fifth round because you thought he was healthy. It comes in and it's not in the shape that you thought it was. And so you you change the deal because it's not the player that you thought. Well, the really exciting thing to me would be what if there actually was more to it than just that? Because here's the actual facts of the matter. deal never actually made a ton of sense to the Broncos because we have two starting inside linebackers. We came out and said, Alex Singleton and Justin are keeping this job and neither of them are dinged up whatsoever. So the Broncos actually didn't need him. But there were two very inside linebacker needy teams who I have on very good authority actually offered a fourth round draft pick to the Chargers. They picked the Broncos fifth round draft pick because it was in In addition to that. So you had both the Buffalo Bills, and you see here this is the Buffalo Rambling saying the Buffalo Bills need inside linebacker help at the trade deadline. You have Sleeper Bengals coming out and saying the biggest need that they have with the Bengals is linebacker. So two of the teams who are going to need to be Broncos opponents in the playoffs to get to the Super Bowl both needed an inside linebacker. So did the Broncos intentionally kind of... Screw over the Bengals and the Buffalo Bills from getting Deion Henley with no intention of actually keeping him. So it really is nothing but great news for the Broncos because it's a sign that. Hey, we weren't going to bring in a depreciated asset because we feel great about this room, how it currently is. And in the process, you are also hurting the Buffalo Bills and the Bengals, who both were trying to get this same asset in there. And at the same time, you're just taking this organization that already has the reddest face on the planet because of how pitiful they've been this season. And now they're even more of an embarrassment in the NFL. So really, it is checking every single box you could possibly imagine. Weird news just continued to pile up here on the bye week. I thought it was going to be a really chill week. We're going to do profiles about other playoff teams. But Sean Payton went on yesterday and talked to Colin Cowherd. And one of the things that he brought up here and I watched it again to kind of the first time I watched it, what really stuck out to me was how much he loved Bo Nix and how much he put more of his endorsement behind Bo Nix. But on second listen, the thing that really stood out to me was like he never calls out players in media interviews like this. That's just not how he does it. He'll do it on the podium, he'll do it in a lot of different ways, but he came out multiple times and said, we didn't block them very well. He didn't say we didn't execute very well, he intentionally said we didn't block them very well, and he said we've got plenty of depth on this offensive line, and so it's like, hey, this group didn't block them well, but we've got a lot of depth, and it really had me thinking of our offensive line here, knowing that Zach Strief, a former left tackle for Sean Payton himself, the Broncos offensive line coach. Now has this like 14 day opportunity to really look at this offensive line. And I think he is looking at left guard right here with Ben Powers. And I think there might be a real world in which he's looking at Mike McGlinchey and saying, hey, what are some options here that I could do to beef up this offensive line? I think when you're looking at Ben Powers, I think the top pick as to who are you thinking about replacing Ben Powers with? I think. Knowing what happened last season when Ben Powers went out for 10 games, you brought in Alex Palcheski and the Broncos not only played well, I think that he was a part of that 11 game win streak the Broncos were on last season was with Palcheski. We ran the ball extremely well. I think particularly of that Dallas Cowboys game, we're running it all over the place and Palcheski was a huge part of that. In fact, Paltrow played so well that he actually got an All-Pro vote, and at this point in the time, nobody in the world would think that Ben Powers is playing anywhere close to getting an All-Pro vote. And so I think that might be an idea that you might be looking at if you're the Broncos. I think the other option would be Matt Pert. Now, he was a guy who actually filled in for Ben Powers immediately, but he actually tore his MCL in the game against the Jets, and so you can't really evaluate that tape. And then the other option would be our new rookie, Cage Casey, who we know Sean Payton went out of his way to just praise in this entire draft lead up. And if any ever you could have a guy who I think could step in and is smart enough to learn this offense, it is an older guy who is built like Cage Casey. And we know what he did here playing on blue turf with Boise, playing left tackle. I think, you know, at 10 games into the season now and being with Zach Strief and learning Learning this system, I think. He might be a guy that you could easily throw out there now after the bye week. And I think that is going to be what you see most different about the Broncos. And so perhaps the idea that the Broncos did not make a move for Tony Pollard. They did not make a move for Jonathan Taylor was because Sean Payton was like, I don't think a new running back behind the offensive line and the. The whiffs that we are seeing on this offensive line are going to do any better. You could put Barry Sanders himself back there and he is not going to outrun a bad offensive line. And so I think that is the biggest difference we're going to see from this Broncos team as we come out of this bye week is I think we're going to see a little bit of a mix up here on the offensive line. So great news because the Chargers are mad. The Bengals are mad. The Buffalo Bills are mad. Sean Payton is all smiles because he's just out there like. Colin Checkmate all over the place. Now, the one thing I will say is that because Roger Goodell has it out for Sean Payton, knowing our luck, Sean Payton will get a lifetime ban for doing something that is totally within the rules of the game. But for now, we can just absolutely smile because the Denver Broncos essentially fleeced the Chargers and have them even more embarrassed than before. The other thing I will say is that this does make me very fearful of that last game of the season against the Chargers. Because I think this is going to tick off the entire organization, essentially. And so you're already looking at the Broncos playing a winless organization in the last game of the season. Flags at that point don't matter. You just see dudes playing for revenge. And so I am really hoping that the Broncos have their seed locked up by the time that we play the Chargers so that we can just get out of there and get on to the playoffs without any injuries. But that's definitely going to be something that will be breaking down as we get closer to the Denver Broncos playoff push. It is a phenomenal day to be a Denver Broncos fan, and we, as always, have a ton to believe in. I got my voice back. Oh, and I almost have my jumper back. Come on. One more. Sweet mother. I got to move that in the bye week. I keep saying that I will this week.