earlier this week. The
moment between Mike Purcell
and Russell Wilson where Purcell got in Wilson's face
and I think Wilson understood
not the best idea to
take this guy on. I think I would lose this one. Here's
Nathaniel hackaton that interaction.
Yeah. When we were up there obviously was addressing Mike
on the personal foul that he had talking with him as he
passed by me.
Heard him. Say, you know, let's go
and did not know. Know that it was directed to any specific
person look like it was just you want everybody to start
going
and wanted to get a spark.
So that was really all that I heard. I talked with Mike after
talk with Russell everybody, everybody's good part of it,
it's emotional game. You want every one of your football
players who
want to do anything to win
and you want them to hold each other accountable. You want
them to
try to fire each other up? I've always believed that. It's
a little different coming from a coach
and then coming from a player I think that whenever it comes
from a player, you know, those guys that means a lot to them.
So I I appreciate his passion and understand it, I just don't
want to get that personal foul
and that situation but besides that, you know, I mean
I love when the guys are
fired up. I mean, that's what we ask for when we want
everything fired up.
Yeah, I mean look, they got it. They got a try to spin this one
into chicken salad. I mean herself
in a moment of high emotion
and
pointed passion. Given it to the guy, who's one of the main
reasons why they keep losing games because he's just not
getting it done. Russell didn't know what to do there.
He didn't know how to deal with that and I wouldn't either.
I'm not taking that guy on.
He's getting in my face he's all fired up and he's a guy
that just got a personal foul out on the Field. So,
it's just that, that is a glimpse of the frustration that
the defensive players have to be feeling in Denver right now
miles. And, and yeah, Russell Wilson's, going to be
the centerpiece of that frustration.
You sure is. I mean I
a few weeks ago or I guess this was now over a month ago
when the Broncos and Chargers played on Monday Night Football.
I went to that game
at so fi stadium and it was very clear,
just the sense of frustration that Justin Had
at the podium, right? And it wasn't so much that he was
trying to direct it at anybody. He was just trying to
internalize everything so that he could have a proper response
instead of just a reaction and
know. I can appreciate that from somebody who is
a defensive player and who was a leader on that team, you want
to try to make sure that everybody stays together but at
the same time
without good that defense has played that. Well, that defense
has played. It has To wear on you at a certain point that
they can't score more than 16 points consistently
so I don't recall. The last time I saw a defensive player
during a game, go up to the quarterback
and Shout like that
that that's something we don't usually see.
And especially when it's a guy is big as Mike Purcell, and
he's going up to somebody with the stature of Russell Wilson.
That is Stark. It is very, very Stark.
So they've got a lot of issues that they've got to deal with
and I don't blame Mike Purcell for being frustrated, but when
that stuff boils over, it doesn't help you at all.
No. And they have I think a real challenge holding it
together. These final six weeks to the credit of Nathaniel hack
at the Players continue to play hard.
How long will that last? And you know, the debate has been
raging should the Walmart Moguls just get rid of
Nathaniel Hackett now and there's an argument to be made
that it makes sense because you could let EJ ever row
takeover and audition on the John. Let's see what he can do.
Let's give him some wraps. Let's give him some
experience with. I've been talking about how important that is
and maybe he lays the foundation to become the coach
next year, and you go with a defensive minded team, just
like the Seattle Seahawks defensive-minded team with
an offense, it does just enough,
that's how we go forward with this,
but I continue to believe and I continue to hear that they're
committed to letting Nathaniel he could get through
the season.
It is so rare that a coach gets fired during his first year,
they just don't want to add their names to that very short
list of
first-year debacles even though,
I didn't hire him,
they want to just get through this season and for now
I expect that they'll be able to. But who knows maybe that
Purcell
incident with Russell Wilson is just the first
step toward all out dysfunction that could descend on
the Broncos between now and January the 8th miles. I mean, we just
don't know
because at some point at some point, as you get close to
the end of a season, it's human nature to start making business
decisions on the field to start protecting your body. If you
don't want to get surgery,
you don't want to have your offseason wrecked. You don't
want to have your contractual expectations completely implode
because you got an injury in a meaningless late regular season
game. We're going to start seeing maybe
less of a lack of effort,
less of a lack of
or less less effort, excuse me, less of a lack of effort. What
the hell was that? Less effort, less will
less fight from the Broncos than what we've seen so far.
That's going to be the big challenge for Nathaniel Hackett
to hold everyone together as they get to. The playing out
the string portion of the Season.
No, I think they're kind of, they're
right at this playing out, the string portion
of the schedule. And it's not like they're gonna
face the Northwestern. Wildcats is you threw them under the bus
earlier, right? They're still playing good teams
and I think they got Baltimore, this Wildcats honest, two and
a half against the Broncos,
what's that?
Wildcats - two and a half against the Broncos.
Yeah, I guess. So. But that's,
I don't know. It's, it's just like I said, it's weird because
you come into this season with all these expectations, right?
And Russell Wilson is supposed to be the guy who is The Heir,
Apparent, whatever you want to call it. To Peyton Manning
who helped that franchise when the Super Bowl and Super Bowl
50 back in 2015 which just, it feels as long ago as that was
now and And when you come into the season with
the expectations that they had,
and the defense is performing to those expectations.
And the offense is just so far behind them.
I mean, if they could score,
even 18 points per game, I then they would probably be at 500
right now,
but they can't do it.
So that I think all of that pressure and all of the stuff
that comes with,
you know, not just the external expectations, but the internal
expectations of winning. When you bring in a quarterback, who
was supposed to elevate you to a whole new level.
When it fails this much.
It affects everybody within that organization. So they've
got a lot to figure out and these last six weeks
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