Was it unfair to make the Broncos play like this?

Absolutely not.

Absolutely not.

Stephen A.

Had brought this up all the time, right over the last several months.

Who didn't want the bubble, who resisted it.

If players were saying, No, we don't want to go into a bubble.

We're gonna exercise personal responsibility.

Then these are the risks you take.

If everyone was on what was on the I r right and they were just missing a lot of players because of that, what they have to play the game.

Well, if you don't want to play the game, forfeit the game, that's fine.

You could forfeit the game.

That's your right, But that's gonna be an L.

If you like your only chance to try to win that game, they don't need to reschedule it.

Nothing like that is playing when or take your loss.

Hold that.

That's how it goes, right?

I mean, like, this is Stephen A.

This is not that complicated.

I know it sounds harsh, but you want to get through the season yes or no.

We're playing football in the middle of a highly can contagious and tricky disease a pandemic.

So these are the risks you take.

And by the way, did someone break protocol in the quarterback room?

Right on the Broncos?

So hold on a second.

It comes down to personal responsibility.

If you're the players, you don't exercise any or or enough, and then there's a covert outbreak.

You're missing players the other team should have to forfeit.

Should have to postpone.

No, no, you play the game, take your lumps, move on the on leeway you postpone Stephen A.

Is if there's a threat of contagion.

If the medical experts say you can't play this game because they were gonna transmit the disease, Fuck, I get it, postpone.

Other than that, you play the game and be, you know, come what May Max.

I'm not.

I'm not getting into the particulars in terms of because I totally agree with you about the contagion part.

I also agree with you from the standpoint that look, you know, the players had an opportunity to have a bubble.

They didn't want a bubble.

Here is where we part ways, and I emphatically disagree with you.

I'm thinking about the fans in this regard Max.

This is an extreme situation.

There are alterations.

There are exceptions that are made when extreme circumstances take place.

They did not have a quarterback.

According to folks in the NFL, the Broncos actually called toe.

So to try to beg the NFL to allow their quality control coach to come onto the field and play quarterback for them because he knew the playbook, that's how desperate of a situation it waas.

So you are the New Orleans Saints and you walk into a game playing against the team that literally not figuratively, literally has no quarterback.

There's nobody to play the position.

I would have rather had them.

They have been made to forfeit the game than be subjected to that kind of stuff because again, you're playing.

You still got defensive players.

You still playing a football game is still a violent sport.

Somebody could ultimately go out there, get themselves hurt, etcetera, etcetera.

I understand this kind of stuff comes with it.

I get it.

But I'm saying that there are extreme circumstances that could take place at a time where you're literally looking at the game of saying we're really going to play this game.

You have a situation where no quarterback was available.

And when I heard the news Saturday night Max, when I heard the news Saturday night, no quarterbacks are available for the Denver Broncos.

You know what I actually thought about and tried to speak to the NFL about, but I couldn't get anybody on the phone over the weekend.

I actually think that it's got to a point where the NFL should halt the season for two weeks so everybody could get their ducks in a row.

Everybody could get their act together and then come back after that two week hiatus and have a bubble kind of atmosphere in their respective cities.

Just enforce it for the last month to six weeks.

That's how bad it was Saturday.

You can't to me you're cheating the fans, even though they weren't any in attendance there watching on TV.

When you tell a football team to show up without a damn quarterback, that's extreme.

I didn't anticipate that happening, Stephen A.

I think that's a good if.

If they come back in a bubble, then I agree with you because now they've had enough time.

You brought this up last week.

There's enough time.

Okay, You guys didn't have to bubble up and be away from your families for that amount of time.

But for a shorter time frame, it did in the n b A.

They did it.

Major league baseball in the playoffs.

I'm with that.

I support that idea if they come back in a bubble.

Otherwise, no, because it's just gonna get worse.

It's not getting better.

It's getting worse.

So what's two weeks gonna dio?

They're gonna be more outbreaks.

So I I love your idea of a two week hiatus followed by a bubble and finish the season that way, if you could get the players to agree.

But as far as this game went, you talk about, they had to play without a quarterback.

Why would that be?

Why did they have to play without a quarterback?

Could it be because the quarterbacks weren't wearing masks and socially distancing?

Because that seems to be the reason for which they apologized, right?

So hold on.

Now we know it's a pandemic.

We know it's contagious.

We know the best way to fight it is socially distanced.

Wear a mask mask is probably number one according to the data.

Right, So they let it slip, then they didn't have a quarterback.

What should happen after that?

One of two options.

Forfeit the game, Take the L or play the game.

You risk the injury and you take the L.

They opted to play the game, but either way, the other team should not be punished for their lack off, which I kept hearing before the season.

Personal responsibility.

They didn't take it.

They lose the bubble idea.

Stephen A.

I'm on board two weeks in a bubble.

I'm certainly not an advocate of.

I'm certainly not an advocate of those who followed protocol, and we're ready to play suffering.

I get that part.

All I'm saying is that there are millions of fans that are watching we actually do matter to.

Okay, even though we're not in.

Attendance were watching on our television sets.

And if you're living in the city of Denver or your anywhere in the nation and you're a Denver Broncos fan and you don't have a quarterback to me, you're not qualified.

Play the game, period.

You should.

To me, there's not a game that should take place.

If the quarterback position is a position that you're supposed to have fulfilled, obviously so and you don't have any of your dudes eligible to play none of them.

To me, you shouldn't be playing the game.

But what's the difference?

Tell me what the difference is between what happened to the Broncos.

Quarterbacks don't wear a mask.

They wind up with co vid.

They can't they don't have quarterbacks to field.

Right, And let's say a team where the quarterbacks were riding of some a motorcycle or something like that and there was an accident.

They all got hurt there on the IR.

What's the difference?

We know that there is a physical danger and that you need to take certain steps to protect yourself and and others.

And they didn't and as a result, they weren't available to play.

If they had an accident from careless behavior and weren't available to play, we wouldn't talk about postponing the game.

They'd have to play without a quarterback, and that's what happened.

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