Andrew Mason
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Year XXVI covering the NFL & year XXI chronicling the Broncos, now for @DenSports1043. Also at MaseDenver on other platforms.
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Broncos edge rusher Jonathon Cooper was asked what he'd say to women who are Broncos fans who might be uneasy about supporting him in the wake of the allegations against him: "Yeah, honestly that, I -- that's hard. I feel like relationships are difficult. No excuses on my end. And I do apologize for anybody's feelings, truthfully, just because they have to be associated with me. I'm a grown man. I'm able to take things on the chin, and just want to say that I understand the concern; I understand the level of awareness, how serious these matters are. But the legal matters will take care of themselves, and yeah, things happen. Nobody's perfect, but there is also -- there's no excuses and I do hold myself accountable and yeah. things are going to sort themselves out. I promise that."
Andrew Mason769,291 görüntüleme • 5 gün önce
Broncos QB Bo Nix, on the state of his ankle and his recovery and return from the injury: "Let me see how to explain this: I've told y'all several times I'm all the way back. I feel really good. ... But I think when you go back and you look at a whole -- when you start from scratch in the offseason, when you go all the way back and you re-do it and you get ready for what is coming up in February, you're training looks like, sort of like a mountain. You're gonna climb and you're gonna peak at some point. I don't wanna be peaking until the playoffs. I don't want to be peaking at my best (until then) because you can't hold it the whole entire season. If you look at a training block, if you look at physical preparation, the guys that can build and grow and get to the peak -- which is the playoffs -- December, January, February, if you can get to that point and you can hold it, you'll feel really good and so, right now, it's like my freshman year in high school. I wouldn't say Week 4, was I exactly what I was Week 14 going into the semifinals and about to play for the state championship. My third year at Auburn, I would say the same thing -- I was peaking, and then unfortunately, I did get hurt at the end of the year. But for me, it's all about what's next, and for right now, we're in Week 6 going on 7. I feel as good as I've felt -- actually, I just spoke to our strength coach, I'm hitting better speeds than I have since being here. So, maybe I should have said that; that would have answered your question pretty easily. But I feel great and I think it's just important y'all understand the process of what it's actually like to go through the season getting your body ready for a 21-, 22-week season where you're playing elite teams week after week. So, I feel great, and I feel like each week I'm gonna continue to get better and better, and I'm exactly where I want to be."
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Broncos QB Bo Nix: "Honestly, really and truly, the biggest battle right now is like, you want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive, want to be aggressive, and then you see stats and you're like, 'Well, this team is causing the most turnovers in the league,' and then you're like, 'OK, well, I can't put my team in a situation where I'm turning the football over and putting our defense in a bad spot, giving them a short field,' and at the end of the day, it's like, who cares? Like, why would I go out there worried about throwing an interception? Why would I go out there trying to throw every football 50 yards down the field. Just play the play. If the play's there, hit it. If it's not there, check it down, run, throw it away, punt. Who cares? That's the play that I was dealt, and I have to do -- just remind myself not to play heroball. It's just one play at a time. Do exactly what I'm supposed to do, and who cares? If the play causes me to throw an interception and I forced it and that was there and I I liked what I saw, it may happen. It's going to happen. It's happened before. It may happen again. If it's not there, I'm not going to throw it into a team meeting. I'm going to check the ball down and we're going to move on. And that's just the play that's given to me, and I have to continue to just do that."
Andrew Mason125,892 görüntüleme • 13 gün önce
![Broncos coach Sean Payton details the circumstances of learning about Bo Nix's season-ending ankle fracture: "As he comes over [to the sideline], I kind of chest bump him, jab him, like, 'Fricking A.' And he's like, 'Careful.' It was then I'm like, 'You all right?' And he said, 'Yeah.' He goes, 'But, man, it's hurting.' And I said, 'What do you got?' He said, "My ankle," and I said, 'All right.' I said, 'You'll be fine,' and I tapped him in the chest again. I said, 'Just enjoy this field goal.' And so, we come in afterwards and at that point it's -- everyone's in there and celebrate. And I came and did the presser with you all. When I came back from that press conference, Beau (Lowery), our medical trainer, George (Paton), there was a group in my office and I knew -- they didn't say anything, but I knew there was something. We always meet after the game and discuss injuries, but that was early. And they said, 'Look, there's a fracture.' Showed me the x-ray. Immediately I walked down the hall. Bo was kind of sitting outside the locker room, leaning up against the wall. His wife, his parents, his family there, I think Stiddy, a few others. And I just asked him how he was doing, 'Are you hanging in there?' And I said to you guys last night, this is a strong-minded individual. Obviously it was disappointing right at that moment to get to this point. And so, that's essentially what took place after the game."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2012964633725063622/amplify_video_thumb/2012964066214510592/img/p-wMZ6TIX5OLIdoL.jpg)
Broncos coach Sean Payton details the circumstances of learning about Bo Nix's season-ending ankle fracture: "As he comes over [to the sideline], I kind of chest bump him, jab him, like, 'Fricking A.' And he's like, 'Careful.' It was then I'm like, 'You all right?' And he said, 'Yeah.' He goes, 'But, man, it's hurting.' And I said, 'What do you got?' He said, "My ankle," and I said, 'All right.' I said, 'You'll be fine,' and I tapped him in the chest again. I said, 'Just enjoy this field goal.' And so, we come in afterwards and at that point it's -- everyone's in there and celebrate. And I came and did the presser with you all. When I came back from that press conference, Beau (Lowery), our medical trainer, George (Paton), there was a group in my office and I knew -- they didn't say anything, but I knew there was something. We always meet after the game and discuss injuries, but that was early. And they said, 'Look, there's a fracture.' Showed me the x-ray. Immediately I walked down the hall. Bo was kind of sitting outside the locker room, leaning up against the wall. His wife, his parents, his family there, I think Stiddy, a few others. And I just asked him how he was doing, 'Are you hanging in there?' And I said to you guys last night, this is a strong-minded individual. Obviously it was disappointing right at that moment to get to this point. And so, that's essentially what took place after the game."
Andrew Mason2,727,172 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Broncos offensive coordinator Davis Webb, on what he learned during his four weeks as primary play-caller: "I think it was a smaller sample size than maybe you would like for a full season, but within the four weeks -- every week, operation was cleaner. Learned a ton about myself in regards of sending the plays in, getting the plays in early, how we go about game planning with Sean (Payton) in there. Just learned a ton through four weeks and really, really proud of the growth our staff showed, our players showed, and we were so close in a lot of areas. I think in the San Francisco game, you can see a few plays that were very, very close to being successful. Same with the week before against the Rams. We just didn't put a full game together consistently enough, and I take responsibility for that; I'm the play caller. But we all have a hand in this and hopefully we can get going this weekend a little bit faster."
Andrew Mason131,811 görüntüleme • 18 gün önce
Rockies outfielder Troy Johnston, who went 3-for-5 in the team’s win tonight: "So, coming from the Miami Marlins, when I walk around Miami, I never saw a Miami Marlins jersey. I never saw a Miami Marlins hat. I saw nothing of the sort. When I'm walking around downtown Denver, they are really excited about the Rockies. They want the Rockies to be good. This is a sports town. We are trying to put a good product on the field. I think Paul (DePodesta's) done a great job of that. I have never seen so many supporters of one team that I've actually been a part of, that I've been on. This city and this team wants to win.”
Andrew Mason1,162,401 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
Broncos RB J.K. Dobbins, who has played in 47 career games but has missed 49 (including playoffs) due to injuries, pushed back on the notion of being called "injury-prone." "Well, see, people say I have injury issues, but I don't. I've had two major injuries. That's it. It's not like I'm rolling ankles or -- it's not like I'm injury-prone. It's just the injuries that I've had have been unfortunate. ... There are two. That's only two, though. Injury-prone is like, 'Oh, you got this injury, that injury, that injury, that injury.' No, it's only two injuries, literally. And one took two years because it was my whole knee that got blown off."
Andrew Mason1,906,428 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
![Broncos coach Sean Payton, on the Eagles' "Tush Push": "I was one, that stood up in favor of [it] ... When all of a sudden, health and safety was pulled into that which, which might be the safest play in football, my bulls*** nose kind of went up."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1973084878905418109/amplify_video_thumb/1973084603964596224/img/4Adv8URJrECTvFub.jpg)
Broncos GM George Paton, on waiving fifth-round pick Justin Joly: "A talented player. We knew when we drafted him -- we knew he was raw, and we still liked the player. He's coming on towards the end of training camp. The tight end position is a tough position for a rookie. He missed a lot of the offseason, just a little bit behind. We wish we had another game or two. We still like the player. We think he's gonna to have a nice career. You just gotta make tough decisions to build the best 53 you can make."
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![Broncos coach Sean Payton said he had a specific field-goal rush called Sunday when the Colts attempted a 60-yard field goal -- just as he did on a PAT in New Orleans nine years ago. "But that's on me ... it's not on Darren [Rizzi], it's not on [Dondrea] Tillman," he said. "... The call was correct. That was leveraging." "... But my big regret flying home was, that (the field-goal rush call) more for a closer field goal. That's more for a gimme than a 60-yard attempt -- and that's on me."](https://image.24vids.com/tw-1967632197562839230/amplify_video_thumb/1967631860122697728/img/08EFfRHHdBEkqxky.jpg)
Broncos coach Sean Payton said he had a specific field-goal rush called Sunday when the Colts attempted a 60-yard field goal -- just as he did on a PAT in New Orleans nine years ago. "But that's on me ... it's not on Darren [Rizzi], it's not on [Dondrea] Tillman," he said. "... The call was correct. That was leveraging." "... But my big regret flying home was, that (the field-goal rush call) more for a closer field goal. That's more for a gimme than a 60-yard attempt -- and that's on me."
Andrew Mason1,021,151 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Two years ago leading up to the draft, Chris Simms had Bo Nix higher than most; Nix was his QB3. So, I followed up with Simms on this to look back at his pre-draft evaluation. "People draft offenses too much. That's the other problem," Simms explained. "So, they draft the offense of the team. That's how the busts happen. That's how Tim Tebow or Matt Leinart happen. Where they go, 'Oh, they win games and their stats are amazing!' And I go, 'Well, watch the game. Tim Tebow threw the ball one yard to Percy Harvin and he ran 80 yards and we go, 'Tim Tebow, amazing!' or Matt Leinart threw a screen to Reggie (Bush) and he ran 100 yards all over the place and we go, 'He's the No. 1 pick; he's a winner!' And that's how you bust on the draft. And with Bo Nix, what happened was, 'Oh, all he does is throw screens.' Well, here we are, Dante Moore, he's still throwing screens, he's got a big arm. That's the offense they run. And there was enough to see and go, 'This is a downfield throw, whoa, the ball popped out of his hand. He can do it with ease.' And then the decision-making and the accuracy. So, I feel like the narrative took over with Bo Nix rather than people just looking at what he is and what he does."
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Broncos RB J.K. Dobbins, standing up for Bo Nix: "Nah, he ain't miss no throws. He ain't miss no throws. He played a great game. We got his back. I got his back. He's a great quarterback. It's a team game. We lost. We lost as a team. It's not on him. It's not on him. ... I gotta make more plays for him, and that's it. He ain't made no bad throws, he just -- it is what it is. We gotta make a play for him, even if it's not a good- placed ball. Gotta make the play so, that's what it is."
Andrew Mason765,033 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce
Blocking has kept Marcedes Lewis in the league for 20 seasons — so long that when he was a rookie, he did the Oklahoma Drill in Jags camp, when Fred Taylor told him, “You keep blocking like that, you’re gonna be in the league for a long time.” Lewis said Taylor texted him this morning. “He’s like, ‘Man, you’re my hero. I can’t believe you’re doing this,’” Lewis said.
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Jarrett Stidham said he was "very disappointed" when he heard he lost the QB derby to Bo Nix. "I know I'm a starting quarterback in this league. I have zero doubts about that. And, it just didn't shake out my way. But I know what kind of player I am, kind of person I am."
Andrew Mason1,384,023 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce
Broncos LT Garett Bolles: "I'm pretty angry and frustrated. There's a lot of tears that came down my face yesterday. I've been here for a long time. And to get that close hurt really bad. But at the same time, I know exactly where this team is going. I know the future that we have. ... People want to come to Denver. I mean, I'll be shocked to see how many free agents want to come here. We got a young team, we got a quarterback. We got the best O-line in football. I don't care what anyone says; we do. That's just reality. Numbers don't lie. Stats don't lie. You guys can look that up. That's just reality. When you have a dominant O-line and a dominant defensive line, people want to come here. When you got a phenomenal quarterback in Bo, people don't give him the credit where he had, the season that he had was phenomenal. ... We have a great running back room. We got great receivers. Obviously, we need some key players to come in and do what they need to do by getting points on the scoreboard. We had a phenomenal defense. We have everything we need. We just need a couple more playmakers. And the sky's the limit for this team."
Andrew Mason283,964 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
#Broncos CB Pat Surtain II said, “We needed some humble pie, for sure.” He explains why:
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