Von Miller joins Chris Harris Jr. and Brandon Krisztal to break down Denver’s eight-game win streak, Bo Nix’s rise, and how the Broncos match up with Washington. Von shares stories from Super Bowl 50, his bond with Chris, and his mindset chasing the all-time sack list.
Von Miller joins Chris Harris Jr. and Brandon Krisztal for an incredible conversation about legacy, rivalry, and why this matchup means something extra. Von reflects on his rookie connection with Chris, their bond through Super Bowl 50, and the emotions of missing the Ring of Fame weekend. He details his pursuit of the all-time sack list, the influence of DeMarcus Ware, how the game has evolved for pass rushers, and what makes Myles Garrett special in this era. Von also goes deep on Bo Nix’s emergence, explaining why the Broncos’ young quarterback isn’t scared, makes timely plays, and has the locker room behind him. The crew breaks down Denver’s eighth straight win, the rise of the Broncos’ defense under Vance Joseph, and how the Commanders defense plans to contain Nix for the first time. The conversation hits on culture, coaching, the new Broncos facility, and why this Denver team feels built to last. A must-listen episode with Super Bowl MVP insight and a ton of football wisdom.
00:00:01:28 - 00:00:20:06
Brandon Krisztal
You guys expect to see Chris Harris junior, but look who joined us. Or rather, I joined him. Super Bowl 50 MVP and fellow podcaster Von Miller joins us. Is football Friday starts now.
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Brandon Krisztal
A man that truly needs no introduction, certainly in these parts. And I say these parts, everybody checks out me and Chris every Friday. But a guy that was a rookie with you. The first round pick in 2011. Undrafted. Von Miller, it's great to see you, dude, because your commanders are hosting the Broncos. First time they've been here since all were here in 2017.
00:00:39:09 - 00:00:59:28
Von Miller
Yeah, it's, it's definitely, a lot of parallels. Man, me and me and Chris. Like, when Chris undrafted free agent came to the Denver Broncos. Like us, me and Chris spent so much time, I don't think people realized that, like me and Chris Harris, we spent so much time together. He. You stayed at. He stayed at the same, Emily apartments, too.
00:00:59:29 - 00:01:20:22
Von Miller
Like, I spent so much time with Chris Harris, and it was just one of those, like, rookie like, pairings that, you know, you wouldn't expect, but you would expect. Man, like me and Chris Smith, so much time and like, on and off the football field. And look at us now both 36 years old. My 15 years in the league, I got I got three kids.
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Von Miller
Chris. How many? I mean, you got four, man.
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Chris Harris Jr
Five girls.
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Von Miller
Yeah. Chris. Freaky man. Freaky man. Chris. I got, I got Bob, I got three, man. And it's crazy, man. Like, how do you know the relationships that you that you build, man. And when you build them right, they last a long time. So I really appreciate how, you know, having me a part of this podcast and, and, you know, spend time with y'all, man.
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Von Miller
And I'm ready to to talk some Broncos talk some football whatever y'all got for me.
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Brandon Krisztal
Well so I want to start because, Chris, I need you to fill him in. I'm guessing y'all have talked. But before we look at where we're at presently and look ahead, you were busy. But when I ran into you in the summer. Because people, I hope, realize Von's vision still going strong in Denver. So you've got your events there every year.
00:02:03:23 - 00:02:24:15
Brandon Krisztal
You're helping kids see better, get glasses, get contacts. You. We were looking at we knew Alumni Weekend Ring of Fame weekend was going to happen when it happened. And the teams that were available, there were four teams. There were two to play on Thursday and two on a bye. It was bills, Ravens, Steelers and maybe Bengals, if I'm not mistaken.
00:02:24:18 - 00:02:39:09
Brandon Krisztal
And you're like, well, bills are probably out, but you're looking. Otherwise you knew that you were going to be employed elsewhere and not be able to make it. So let's start with you and Chris. You can tell them what you missed, but as you saw it from afar and you made a video and all that, how how happy were you to see everybody there together?
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Brandon Krisztal
But then you don't miss a lot of stuff. I imagine your FOMO was a little high on that one.
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Von Miller
Yeah, yeah. You know, I got, you know, I got, you know, I used to have FOMO bad, but, like, I it kind of calm down, but FOMO was definitely back that weekend. I was trying to find ways on trying to make it. You know, maybe I could, like, fly out in the morning before the game and this and there.
00:02:58:06 - 00:03:17:05
Von Miller
But it just, you know, it just it just didn't work out, man. But I think one of the, the special moments for me, like Peyton Manning and Peyton Manning fashion, he's seen me like this minute and a half long, like, voice memo just telling me, like all the guys that was there. And you know what? Everybody was doing.
00:03:17:05 - 00:03:41:20
Von Miller
And like, how he missed me, like, this is Peyton Manning. This is this is this is Peyton Manning. Like, sending me a voicemail, like talking about, like, our reunion and all the guys was there and how especially for, you know, and, like, putting them up in a ring of honor and like, all the dope things and, like, Derek Wolfe would dress like you know, it was it was, definitely it was, it was definitely like, you know, special.
00:03:41:20 - 00:03:59:23
Von Miller
And you know me. It's me. Miss is me. Chris, a key. We got TJ on a group chat. We got, like, a little a little superhero group chat. We got Brandon McManus on there. So we we sang jokes all the time. You know that I found these. I one was crazy. Like, you get these? These memories just pop up all the time.
00:03:59:23 - 00:04:26:09
Von Miller
Like. And I seen them like to those guys bro. And we just roasting. So we still keep in touch man. But you know, those were some amazing times like. And when you're presently in those times you really don't even know, like how dope it was or how golden it was like going down in the basement, spending time at the facility and leaving training camp to go watch power and like all of this stuff, like, you really know, you really know, understand how special it is till you're not there no more.
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Chris Harris Jr
Right, man. And we definitely miss you. You know, it was it was good to see everybody. Thank only you and Dante too. Right there was the ones that Miss, but, you know, it was good to see everybody, you know, leave all jokes to everybody. You know, Robbie, just seeing just seeing everybody, man. It was a great time.
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Chris Harris Jr
And, the video you had, man, was great. It was definitely, you you they played at the right time because it was very emotional. Have to be, you know, seeing his picture and, doing his, his presentation, what they have for him and having his parents talk. But, you know, you did that message, man.
00:05:02:21 - 00:05:19:23
Chris Harris Jr
And Wolf missed it. You know, Wolf missed a special message again to Abbas. I was like, I'm like, Wolf, bro. We I got to somehow. We got to find a way to get that video back because you missed a message from mom, you know, give you credit for the act, you know? You know, he wanted that. You know, that is good.
00:05:19:27 - 00:05:36:19
Chris Harris Jr
And it was a good time. And, you know, before I got on here, I, we were looking at the SAT chart. I said, man, I need von at least I need at least four and a half, five, you know, then you can go ahead and settle on the sunset, man. But yeah, it's, about getting in that top ten.
00:05:36:21 - 00:05:59:25
Von Miller
Yeah. You know, I got the is right there. I got I got to get there at least, like I got to get there. I got to get to the markets. And then like, if, if God says the same, like I got number six, like, if I can get to if I can get to one Ford, if I can get to one 41.5 like I can, you know, start thinking about other stuff, like, it's hard to say that or word or it's hard to say any of those words that go with it.
00:05:59:25 - 00:06:22:02
Von Miller
Like, because I still feel good. I still got to make sure on the books, well, I can start thinking about like other stuff, like if I can get to like number six, because this is a huge gap between, Chris Doleman and Michael Strahan. You got 150 and 141, Mike 150. You know, maybe not get there. Well, I, I can get to I can get to six.
00:06:22:05 - 00:06:37:08
Von Miller
I can definitely get to, you know, DeMarcus but I want to get a little bit deeper it because you got you got guys like Myles Garrett TJ you know Leo mag Michael pass. You got all these other guys that's coming up. If I can get if I can get in there at six I'd be in the top ten for a while.
00:06:37:08 - 00:06:49:01
Von Miller
And you know, I came all this way this 15 years, all of these all all of these seasons, like, all of these injuries, like, I, I'm here now. I got to take advantage of the opportunity. If I can get to six, man, I'd be okay with it.
00:06:49:04 - 00:06:57:18
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, I pulled up the list. Yeah. So JJ because TJ just passed him 115 Myles Garrett 120. He may catch you before the season's over.
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Von Miller
Yeah E14 sags behind me.
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Brandon Krisztal
The way it's going. You know Chris obviously he and Ryan talk to Shelby every week on where the Harrises and I think Shelby in a lot of ways probably feels the way Derek, we'll felt with you. That whole team feels like the other guys can go get that as well. But I guess real quick, just because you look at this, this list and I know you spend a lot of time worrying about your legacy, but Myles is kind of your little brother.
00:07:16:23 - 00:07:31:24
Brandon Krisztal
I mean, you've known him forever. Yeah. When I met him, I said, hey, I work with your big brother. And he knew exactly what I meant because I told him I was in Denver. But how proud are you? Just as somebody who's watched him from when he got to College Station to who knows where he ends up on that list, but at the clip, he's going.
00:07:31:26 - 00:07:45:26
Von Miller
By the game. Yeah, he can get to it. You can get to Bruce Smith for show. He can he can get to Bruce Smith. He's not even 30 yet. You know he's he's 29 years old. He has 120 sacks. He's 80 sacks away. You know he's getting far. He had five sacks and four sacks and three sacks.
00:07:45:26 - 00:08:06:10
Von Miller
And that was all within the last three weeks. We went to Texas A&M. You know, he's from Dallas. You know, he went to Arlington. Martin like, I'm a I'm a fan of Myles. I'm a fan of Myles. And then you know, the crazy part is he's on a losing team like he's not right. He's not playing with he's not playing with like the Lee.
00:08:06:12 - 00:08:23:16
Von Miller
He's not playing with like you know he's not playing with like he, he got a they doing hard accounts and they doing all of this stuff to try to stop him. You know he's the best player by far on the team. He's playing. He's playing on the Cleveland Browns a losing team. And he's still able to you know how sacks like five sacks versus the Patriots.
00:08:23:19 - 00:08:41:12
Von Miller
And then another four sacks. How is now the four seasons after that. And he had three sacks versus you know the Raiders. So you know Myles is definitely a special person. He's a special player. There's absolutely no way you can like hate on Mike. There's no there's no way you can hate on Myles or be like this.
00:08:41:12 - 00:08:55:02
Von Miller
Isn't that bro. He's doing all this stuff is is definitely generational is definitely special. He's in his own lane. He's in his own path. And I'm definitely proud of it. It's definitely motivational inspiring you know see him do the things that he does.
00:08:55:05 - 00:09:17:29
Chris Harris Jr
Hey man, when we talk about pass rushing right. Has it changed. You know playing in the league so long you know especially you know when I was first first couple of years being a DB the offenses play style was different compared to what it is now is a is it has the game evolved or changed between the offensive line game and the pass rush game?
00:09:18:01 - 00:09:31:28
Von Miller
These offensive linemen, they get they get better, they get bigger, faster, stronger each year. They more athletic. They more athletic each and every year. These offensive linemen, even the ones that come off the bench, even the right tackles and the left out because they used to be like the right tackle is not as good as the left tackle.
00:09:32:01 - 00:09:58:02
Von Miller
But they got they got good left. The right tackle is just as good as the left, if not better as some teams where they, they, they best offensive lineman is the right tackle. So that's definitely changed from what they used to be. You know, the DBS are definitely you got guys like Patrick Certain and Jaycee Horn like the DBS or or only kid Stingley like bro you got you got some crazy DBS out there too.
00:09:58:05 - 00:10:05:28
Von Miller
Yeah. But yeah like everybody's getting bigger, faster, stronger. And you know, the game is definitely, you know, changing for sure.
00:10:06:00 - 00:10:24:25
Brandon Krisztal
Well, so with the game changing I'm curious because I go back you guys talked about Derek Wolfe I remember having Derek Wolfe I was still working at The fan. That's how long ago it is. Derek. Rookie year. And he came in a year after you guys and he comes in studio and I said, hey, what's it like learning from guys like Elvis Tuberville and Von Miller?
00:10:24:25 - 00:10:47:05
Brandon Krisztal
And he's like, Elvis is great. He teaches me technique and this and that. He's like the shit that von does. I can't do any of that stuff. I can't bend like that. I can't do any of the get off. But then to think about what you have started with the Von Miller Pass Rush Summit and then to see the receivers do it, to see the tight ends take it to a level they've taken it to, but I guess was it DeMarcus?
00:10:47:05 - 00:11:02:29
Brandon Krisztal
Was that kind of the turning point that made you want to give back and teach your craft beyond just being the, you know, superstar pass rusher that you were? And how much has that allowed you to keep playing because you've become truly a student of pass rushing beyond just being the physical freak.
00:11:02:29 - 00:11:22:06
Von Miller
Yeah. That's all. That's all. DeMarcus 100%. You know him being the type of teacher that he was. I remember when DeMarcus first came to the Denver Broncos, it was just like this. He was just so like hands on. I like look at it from this perspective and watch this offensive lineman. Now watch his knee right here like he was.
00:11:22:08 - 00:11:43:12
Von Miller
He was so laser focused like on everything. And it just really it really put like pass rushing as an art into like you know this crazy perspective. For me I was just trying to time to snap count and get from point A to point B as fast as possible. Like I wasn't thinking about the moves. I wasn't thinking about like, oh, I just did this double swipe right here.
00:11:43:12 - 00:12:03:17
Von Miller
Like, I'm gonna set him up. I was just trying to like, I'm really just out there. Who? I'm really just out there trying to. I didn't have no plan. Like, I was just out there just trying to do stuff. So, you know, DeMarcus definitely coming. Definitely coming to Denver Broncos and talking concepts and you know schemes incident like I don't even like back now like Derek could tell you like right now.
00:12:03:17 - 00:12:17:27
Von Miller
And I didn't I wasn't thinking about the offensive line like like like it didn't matter to me. Like if we got the slot like, I'm gonna I'm still going to spin into the slot or I'm still gonna run. It takes game. We still got to exit. Like I was never thinking about like slot or where offensive linemen going to be able to chip.
00:12:17:27 - 00:12:43:20
Von Miller
I was going to be like, but DeMarcus came in. He just he had such a his pass rush IQ was just so incredible. And he taught us so many different things about being a pass rusher, which in turn I just I just wanted to pay the for and that's why I created, you know, the pass rush summit really is just really I just wanted to get rid of the, the stigma, like football players just like this.
00:12:43:23 - 00:13:03:01
Von Miller
They really put us against each other for real. Like they they say like, okay, this guy's number one and this guy's number two. And then whatever guys they talking about, he'd be like, man, I'm not number two. I'm really number one. And it just create like this, this pride and this ego. It really it take it take away from us becoming the best football players we could possibly be because it's always something to learn.
00:13:03:03 - 00:13:23:23
Von Miller
Whether I can't move like you or not, whether I can spin or I got strength like you or not, it's always something that I can pick up from your game, and it's always something that you can pick up from my game and starting to pass or something was was definitely great to get like many guys in the same spot and really just talk pass rush talk mindset and talk moves.
00:13:23:23 - 00:13:28:24
Von Miller
So it was definitely DeMarcus 100% that that started that whole movement for me, for sure.
00:13:28:26 - 00:13:35:15
Chris Harris Jr
See DBS, we can't work together like that, right? We still had I don't think they still ever had a Db7 probably once.
00:13:35:18 - 00:13:39:13
Von Miller
It's too much pride, ego. There's too much pride and ego, right?
00:13:39:16 - 00:13:57:19
Chris Harris Jr
If I feel like they the cause, everybody feel like they number one when it comes to the DBS. But man, how do you want to finish this year? Man, I know that the season hasn't went out of y'all as I wanted it to be. Coming off the playoffs last year and and quarterback obviously being injured. Man, how y'all want to what's your goal to finish off the season?
00:13:57:21 - 00:13:58:14
Chris Harris Jr
We saw some sacks.
00:13:58:14 - 00:13:59:29
Brandon Krisztal
Now look at that.
00:13:59:29 - 00:14:04:07
Von Miller
That was my first one as a commander on the race.
00:14:04:09 - 00:14:06:12
Brandon Krisztal
You got Jordan Love. Had you sacked Jordan Love before?
00:14:06:13 - 00:14:09:27
Von Miller
No. I'm sorry. That's a crazy thing. Is Jake Martin, that's.
00:14:09:27 - 00:14:11:16
Chris Harris Jr
The famous under.
00:14:11:19 - 00:14:24:15
Von Miller
I said I had that sack with Jake Martin, and we we got three sacks that we split the season, so it easily could have been. I got five sacks. They could have eight. I'm split 3 or 4 sacks with Jake Martin. That's how I supposed to be. Everything happens for a reason.
00:14:24:15 - 00:14:32:29
Brandon Krisztal
No, that was something Zach Allen said the other day in the locker room. He said the worst part about having so many good pass rushers like, I get all these half sacks. You know, he's like, it's great.
00:14:33:01 - 00:14:33:29
Von Miller
That's another hashtag.
00:14:34:03 - 00:14:39:15
Brandon Krisztal
But right there half sacks and they count. But they don't count as many as single sacks. Not now in miles of racking up five a game.
00:14:39:15 - 00:14:40:15
Von Miller
Five a game I have a.
00:14:40:15 - 00:14:43:03
Chris Harris Jr
Ton of dance. And Sam, I need some dances here.
00:14:43:07 - 00:15:03:27
Von Miller
I like all man. Like, I think once you get to once you get, like to a certain level, it's like, I don't know, like it's it's all legacy. Like at this point it's all like, I don't be thinking about like, dancing or like. And then just to be honest, like I don't move like that. No. More like, I don't like where, like, hey, like, break it down like that.
00:15:03:27 - 00:15:10:21
Von Miller
No. More like I get, like, dip below and, but I can't, I can't do all that stuff. No, I hate saying can't what, like, bro, like those moves. Are you.
00:15:10:21 - 00:15:11:00
Chris Harris Jr
Sad?
00:15:11:03 - 00:15:15:01
Von Miller
He's real back in the day. They don't. They don't move like that no more.
00:15:15:01 - 00:15:22:24
Brandon Krisztal
So how much of that is you not being out as much? You don't even know what you're supposed to be doing, man. You know, I'm saying, like, if you're taking it easy and playing golf and just chilling.
00:15:22:29 - 00:15:41:06
Von Miller
Yeah, bro, I'm not on Instagram. Like, I don't know, like the new, like TikTok dances and none of that. Like I'm just, you know, I'm just out here just trying to get as many sacks as I can. I think it kind of it kind of started in Buffalo, like when I got a sack, it was just like, yeah, just passed Derek Thomas or like, yeah, just passed like Lawrence Taylor.
00:15:41:06 - 00:15:56:07
Von Miller
So it was really just a respect to like where I was on that list. It wasn't about like me, like really showing off and trying to make people laugh because I know we're going to watch film. It was just like now, like I just it's it's a certain point. And I got to I just passed like Lawrence Taylor.
00:15:56:07 - 00:16:11:20
Von Miller
And I'm just, I think the one where I pass Derek Thomas, like I just, I ran across the field with on the Buffalo Bills. I want to pass. Derek Thomas is one of my idols. I just ran down like the field like. And it was just like, bro. Like I didn't have a dance with it. I didn't have a dance for passing Derek Thomas.
00:16:11:20 - 00:16:22:24
Von Miller
Like they didn't dance back in the day. Like if he had a dance that he was doing, I probably would have did that after I passed like Derek Thomas. But he didn't have like a dance back in the day. They just, you know, beat on a chest and like, high fived each other so.
00:16:23:01 - 00:16:37:22
Brandon Krisztal
Well. So speaking of idols, because if and this is the beauty of being able to cover you since you were a rookie, we know about Derrick Thomas. And you switch from 40 to 58. You couldn't. If not, you'd have been for your whole career. But it didn't go like that. So we know about Derrick Thomas and then certainly DeMarcus.
00:16:37:22 - 00:16:52:09
Brandon Krisztal
And we've talked about how he came at a perfect time, not only where you were professionally, but certainly personally, that, you know, at that point in your life. And then it's third on the list because I know Kobe is you've taken on the moment, but is it Dirk? Was Dirk third for you? Dirk. In terms of like, those are your three sports idols.
00:16:52:09 - 00:17:12:00
Von Miller
Yeah. Dirk for sho. But 41 don't look as good as 24, you know. And and you got champ, you know champ for 24 and then you know Kobe. So and then champ was 24 here. Like we're with the commanders over the resumes back in. Well I he wore 24 here. So it was just like it just it just spoke to me in so many different ways.
00:17:12:00 - 00:17:21:04
Von Miller
And it was available and it was already somebody was already wearing 40, somebody was already wearing 58. So I was like, man, I'm just going to go with I'm just going to go 24.
00:17:21:04 - 00:17:32:21
Brandon Krisztal
And real quick, Chris, out of you saw us a couple weeks ago. But Nick Bonito, who said he wasn't the biggest NFL fan, he, like you guys, grew up hooping and I think it was pretty good AEW hoop or two. But he's like, Vaughn was my favorite player. So when the Super Bowl 50 team was coming on, you guys were coming back.
00:17:32:29 - 00:17:41:01
Brandon Krisztal
He's like, Vaughn was who I wanted to play like. So when you hear that from Nick me, I'm guessing he's probably told you that if you cross paths with them. But if not, I mean, he said it on the podium to.
00:17:41:01 - 00:17:41:29
Von Miller
Us that you were you.
00:17:41:29 - 00:17:42:08
Brandon Krisztal
Were.
00:17:42:14 - 00:18:02:02
Von Miller
You? He said that in London. Yeah. He said, you know, the crazy thing is, like, I'm really a sicko. Like, I see everything that I see, everything that everybody say is, I mean, like, especially like the Denver Broncos, like Cortland, like, I see everything according to, say, good boss, like Sean Payton. Like, even if we're not. Even if it's not like commander's week.
00:18:02:02 - 00:18:22:21
Von Miller
Like, that's just one of my teams. Like I'm a fan of all those guys. Just one of my that's just one of my team. That's really my team. Like, I used to be like a Cowboys fan, like growing up. But after you spend like ten and a half years at a spot and then they start to get good again and like they and like they could then like one of the Super Bowl favorites, like, that's one of my team.
00:18:22:21 - 00:18:40:19
Von Miller
So I'll and then I'll play with like Jonathan Cooper in a certain and I play with all those guys and PJ lot. But that was one of my team. So like I saw like I saw like him say to and it was dope bro. Like to see like a player like that. It's such a great player. Like have like he he got that's his space.
00:18:40:19 - 00:18:58:25
Von Miller
Like he that's his, that's his area. That's his space. You didn't have to like you don't ever have to say like Von Miller. You don't ever have to, you know, ever had to do none of that stuff. Like this is his time. Like, this is. That's his son. Like, this is that's his perspective. So for him to, like, take time out of his life to, like, insert like one minute, like he didn't have to do that.
00:18:58:27 - 00:19:03:26
Von Miller
So it's it's super dope to, you know, his stuff like that from the young guys for sure.
00:19:03:28 - 00:19:10:15
Chris Harris Jr
Enough all that though, you know you gotta you got to tap into that future beast mode, this man yesterday.
00:19:10:17 - 00:19:30:08
Von Miller
But you know, the crazy thing is I still bro, I still listen to the the, Eva album. The album that dropped, the day before the Super Bowl. Even the evil Evo drop Eva dropped the day before the Super Bowl in like, that year, like future we like we had always we had always been listen the future.
00:19:30:08 - 00:19:48:19
Von Miller
But in 20 1314 future was like becoming like what he is today. And he had been with like Cam Newton like the whole season. And he had been like, damn. And doing all this stuff. And Carolina going to games and Carolina though, and he had dropped that album. We was a San Francisco. We was waiting on an album.
00:19:48:19 - 00:20:05:09
Von Miller
We didn't know he was going to drop it, but he dropped in on iTunes like the day before the Super Bowl on Saturday and like it was program. I think it was like, you know, we back then, we listen to every single. We just we just play song number one and you just let it go like no shuffle.
00:20:05:09 - 00:20:14:23
Von Miller
And it got to like, no, it got to like song number seven. And future said, we bought the win. So let me just say hold on, wait. Who am I to win.
00:20:14:23 - 00:20:16:08
Brandon Krisztal
Like I said.
00:20:16:10 - 00:20:34:22
Von Miller
I said hold on wait. Who are the we're you down you. Some are the Panthers like. And it's crazy because you got to be like I think Howie Long used to say like he used to make stuff up in his mind like that had nothing to do with the guy on the other side. He used to, like, think that the guy on the other side was going.
00:20:34:25 - 00:20:53:18
Von Miller
Was trying to do something to his kids or try to kidnap his kids, like. And he said, like, going to like this mindset, like, just totally make up something in his mind. So when future made a song, he probably was not thinking about, like the Carolina Panthers, like beating the Denver Broncos in the Super Bowl. But in my perspective, it was like, no, hold on, wait.
00:20:53:21 - 00:21:01:22
Von Miller
No, you're not like we bought to win this game. So it was just another like another like motivation for us to go out there and play the way we played.
00:21:01:24 - 00:21:09:22
Chris Harris Jr
Everybody was against us. When you look at, you know, you had all the all the rappers was with cam. Yeah man. You know he had the culture. So it was they.
00:21:09:22 - 00:21:20:22
Von Miller
Had a culture, the doubt I mean think about it bro. Like black quarterback just won MVP. Like at the top at the top of his game. This is prom. Like Cam Newton like five.
00:21:20:22 - 00:21:22:24
Brandon Krisztal
Years out of winning a national championship and a Heisman.
00:21:22:24 - 00:21:38:24
Von Miller
Where he could throw on the pass he had like the swag. Carolina Panthers like he had like he had everything. Like he had like the culture. Like he had everybody. And he was just so swaggy. Like when he won and then like the charisma that he had, like with his interviews and all that stuff, like it was dope.
00:21:38:24 - 00:21:56:11
Von Miller
But like, hey, you know, we just use that as we just use that as fuel. You had Derrick Wolfe like dabbing in a Super Bowl, like like, yeah, me doing it like. Yeah, right. Like that's that was like the guy like. So you got to mock. You got to mock like the guy. So you got to.
00:21:56:13 - 00:22:13:19
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, it's it's funny because there's people that will say it and well Chris my echo it on your too nice. That's one thing is von is a great teammate and a great competitor. Are you talking about Trent Brown is the best right tackle in the league. And we're all looking at you like, okay, but plenty of people say that you broke Cam Newton after that super at that Super Bowl and he wasn't the same.
00:22:13:26 - 00:22:25:24
Brandon Krisztal
And his career you obviously played another five, six seven years I don't know if you would you would acknowledge that Chris you might give a little more credit to it. But he he wasn't the same. He obviously was never a league MVP again man.
00:22:25:24 - 00:22:34:08
Von Miller
Like you know, the crazy thing is like imitation is like where they say imitation is the.
00:22:34:09 - 00:22:35:13
Brandon Krisztal
Highest form letter is.
00:22:35:13 - 00:22:57:00
Von Miller
The highest form of flattery. Like all the stuff that really all the stuff that was doing in like trying to compete at the highest level, like Cam Newton was, he was the guy. Like he was the guy like he was what? Like we all like want it. Like he had everything that we wanted. Like he had, like the Instagram followers and like he had the culture.
00:22:57:00 - 00:23:13:25
Von Miller
Like everybody was talking about Cam Newton. He was super man. Like he was like the guy. So whenever you like the guy, like you got guys this, you got guys like me that's trying to like that's kind of like get you and like, you know, and that's just that's just out there just all it was like he was a guy.
00:23:13:26 - 00:23:30:01
Von Miller
We played in the Super Bowl. Like, you know, I didn't had no kids at the time. Like, you know, I I'm trying to like I'm playing like okay. I'm trying to like play for a new contract. Like I won't like everything that like I want to do, like everything I can was doing. Like, I want to win a Super Bowl.
00:23:30:03 - 00:23:44:21
Von Miller
Like I want my team. They had the whole team like them. You remember that? They had the whole, like, team, like damn in the whole damn like team picture. Like I want wanted to be us. Like I want to see. I want to see Coach Kubiak. Damn. And and, way Phillips and like like I wanted that for our guys.
00:23:44:21 - 00:23:56:29
Von Miller
Like. And that's that's all it was like he was the guy. He was a top man in the NFL. And I just wanted that for our guys. So we had to go out there and play the way that we play to make it happen.
00:23:57:01 - 00:24:19:06
Brandon Krisztal
Never know what's going to pop up. David just throwing stuff out. Oh how about this Super Bowl 50 highlights. And I was having this conversation with with my guy Ben coming over here that we remember plays from Super Bowls. And you might remember some Super Bowl MVP's. But you are at synonymous with a Super Bowl win, not just in Broncos country as any single Super Bowl is just about any.
00:24:19:08 - 00:24:37:08
Brandon Krisztal
Like if you ask people about Super Bowl 50. And Chris, I don't know, I'm curious when people bring up Super Bowl 50 to you, I imagine bonds, the first name that they bring up. Right? Like I can't remember. I'm not saying there are people equal to you. You're in a rare category, Chris. Do you get that? When people talk Super Bowl 50 just about how dominant and it was the whole dominant effort by the defense.
00:24:37:08 - 00:24:43:00
Brandon Krisztal
But those plays you made, the strip sack and all that. Is that the sense you've gotten Chris.
00:24:43:02 - 00:25:10:23
Chris Harris Jr
Oh yeah, for sure. You know, of course Maryland dominated the game, but everybody on the defense being able to just lock up, do their job and constantly bring heat to cam is, you know, always, always spoke about, but of course, you know, they got to get a great pay. Manning, you know, his credit to, you know, even though he didn't play his best that season, you know, he still was able to finish strong and just us having that belief that he could, you know, get us over the hump in the playoffs.
00:25:10:23 - 00:25:30:15
Chris Harris Jr
You know, that was all we needed. Right. Was that little spark like no, we know Peyton includes the times he was going to make those plays. And on defense, we knew somebody was going to make a play. Whether it's, to leave Wolf, you know, you never know who's going to make it in the league. We had so many dogs, that you never see a defense like that.
00:25:30:15 - 00:25:45:05
Chris Harris Jr
It's rare to have that many dogs on a defense. And, that's something that I don't think the Panthers were really. They understood. Made us, And I think cam might still be mad at me, you know? I mean, and walk out the, press conference.
00:25:45:05 - 00:26:12:23
Von Miller
So I think for me, you know, like, for me, that was like, that was one of the most, like, unique times, like as an athlete, because for me, it was never about like me. Like we were all so close, like, like I'm telling you like that that year was like it was just. It was so like special, like I didn't go into those those playoff games thinking like, I need to like, do this or I need to do that.
00:26:12:23 - 00:26:28:18
Von Miller
It was like, man, I want to do this for for coach Kubiak or Way Phillips or like, I want to do this because I want to hang with like Lee and Chris and like the type of stuff that we're going to be able to do. Like it was never like those playoff games, especially towards the end of the season.
00:26:28:18 - 00:26:49:14
Von Miller
Like when we got into the playoffs, it was never about like, I mean, I think whenever you able to tap into a spot where you're not doing it because if you're doing it for you, like you can kind of like kind of like let you know you like, oh, I get it next time or like, I'm tired today, but like, when are you doing something for somebody else is kind of like, nah, like I'm, I don't care how, like I got to do it.
00:26:49:14 - 00:27:10:01
Von Miller
Like I'm not by to let this person down. And we was just. We were just so close, man. Like Emmanuel, paid, like, just the way that team was built, like, with all the guys, and we all, like, kicked it. And I think whenever you doing something for somebody else, like you have, like, games like that, or you have like, special moments like that where.
00:27:10:04 - 00:27:28:29
Von Miller
Yeah, you having like you playing like you playing well. But it was never like for me, you see, after all of those plays, like I'm running back to the sideline to like, celebrate, like with my teammates or like, you know, find like, Coach Pug or like, you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm just trying to, like, get back with my guys so we can, like, work on the handshake that we've been working on.
00:27:28:29 - 00:27:49:18
Von Miller
I see Derek Wolfe and jump up like it was never like it was never about like me. I was always trying to, like, get back, like with the guys, man. And I think especially in this day and age, like individual success is team success. Like if Terry McLaurin go out there and fucking get, six touchdowns, like, yeah, Jaden threw him the ball.
00:27:49:18 - 00:28:08:20
Von Miller
Like individual success is team success. But at the end of the day, like for me it was about the team, especially at that point in my career, the way Coach Kubiak had ingrained it in us. Chris, like the way he talked about it and having like a quarterback like Peyton Manning, like it was like it was about the team and winning and like winning as a team.
00:28:08:22 - 00:28:16:03
Von Miller
And that was when you when you operating in that type of environment, like you get the most out of all your players.
00:28:16:06 - 00:28:20:06
Chris Harris Jr
Right. You know, because bringing Kubiak on was a little controversy. You know.
00:28:20:12 - 00:28:22:08
Von Miller
It was like, bro, what is going on? Like, we just want.
00:28:22:08 - 00:28:22:21
Chris Harris Jr
To.
00:28:22:24 - 00:28:42:16
Von Miller
We went to the playoffs. We just won a division four times in a row with Coach Fox like he didn't leading what listening. Coach Fox followed like what was going on like and Kubiak we like that. Kubiak ain't never been. Yeah, well we don't like what is going to we're going to do like and but immediately like when he got there like he, he brought us together were like we start having those training camp days.
00:28:42:16 - 00:28:46:05
Von Miller
Where was it a practice on like a day on a day off, like.
00:28:46:07 - 00:29:08:06
Chris Harris Jr
He he was a players coach. So he fit it. Even though people would say Fox, he was a players coach. Kubiak was the ultimate player's coach. You know, from being able to, you know, just coming in, get on the rookie's ass, like out the gate, you know, being able to just bring weight in and we just fell in love away system so fast.
00:29:08:07 - 00:29:32:17
Chris Harris Jr
I think it was just night and day, you know, guys were. Nobody had any complaints, with Wade coming in. So it was just a good fit. And Kubiak knew how to manage all the personalities, pretty well. And push people's buttons also to where we can, you know, tighten it up another, another notch. And he believed in us on defense, you know, he believed on us.
00:29:32:17 - 00:29:51:19
Chris Harris Jr
So when Kubiak said we need to go set him down and go win it, you know, we take that to heart, you know, and save them. Because way, man, way, all the coaches is there for you to love the man seeing those guys. And, they haven't changed either. A lot of them are, you know, done. Now, you know, Bill's done.
00:29:51:21 - 00:30:00:09
Chris Harris Jr
You know, a lot of them are hanging it up now. So, I think Joe Woods is still out there. They get an ass kicked out, but he's still out there, and,
00:30:00:11 - 00:30:15:22
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah, he's, he's he's with the Raiders, obviously. And they're not having the year they had hoped to have. You saw you sack and Geno Smith there. Let's but it's been it forward because two things. He and I were talking before you came on. We were just kind of talking about the Nuggets and Joker and all that.
00:30:15:25 - 00:30:31:09
Brandon Krisztal
And I was talking about how close the team was when they won the championship. You just mentioned it. And our pal Romi had talent who found on her show the other day on CBS. And he said, this is the closest team he's ever been a part of. And then because I want I want to hear from BJ with something he said the other day.
00:30:31:12 - 00:30:48:06
Brandon Krisztal
But V.J., when he talked Peter Schrager last week, said earlier in the year Bennett already had two sacks and says to him, hey, let's get I want Jonah LSD at this next sack. And B.J. had to like pull him back like, no, no, no, I don't need Sean chewing my ass if this doesn't go well, because the game was still like up in the air.
00:30:48:09 - 00:31:03:10
Brandon Krisztal
But BJ's point was these guys really are playing for each other. And so both of y'all can't speak. I mean, you just kind of did. But when the teams that special, no matter how good your teams might be, but that's a different level. And not every championship team, a really good playoff team has that. Yeah.
00:31:03:13 - 00:31:11:02
Von Miller
I don't want to say it like, you know, whenever you like and it kind of like build it kind of build up to that. Because you're on the Rams team.
00:31:11:02 - 00:31:17:16
Brandon Krisztal
You came in late start to jump in. But was the Rams team the same like they were else you really really good. But was it the same.
00:31:17:19 - 00:31:27:23
Von Miller
No it was it wasn't the same. But we did kick it but it just was in LA. So it's kind of like it's kind of hard to have like you in LA. It's kind of hard to like have like.
00:31:27:27 - 00:31:28:21
Brandon Krisztal
Can have club 50.
00:31:28:27 - 00:31:47:13
Von Miller
Everybody in the same. But like you can't, you can't like replicate it in Denver. That's all we had like but it kind of like built up to that. Like I would say like whenever we got like a Keebler like so we got it was one off season. It was at 2014. It was 2014 where we got a key t.j.
00:31:47:15 - 00:31:49:28
Von Miller
DeMarcus. And like I.
00:31:49:28 - 00:31:54:25
Brandon Krisztal
Was right after you lost Super Bowl 48 that yeah you got you get TJ and Emmanuel.
00:31:54:27 - 00:31:55:29
Von Miller
Yeah we get all those guys.
00:31:55:29 - 00:32:10:03
Brandon Krisztal
You get all four of those guys. We get DeMarcus. And to leave on the same flight coming from Dallas TJ's coming from Cleveland. And then obviously Emmanuel was in the building in Kansas City. And and they're on the phone with them. Like there's agents like yeah, you got to leave right now. Of course, the Broncos were.
00:32:10:03 - 00:32:28:02
Von Miller
Talking you know. So it just kind of like happened like that. And in Denver that's all we had. Like and a key like a key was really like the mastermind of all of that. Like he was like bro. Like we got to hang out. Like we got to kick it. Like we got a vibe like. And you know, I had the basement and like, bro, you know, the basement.
00:32:28:02 - 00:32:46:08
Von Miller
Kind of like Las Vegas. Like, you think it's 2:00 in the morning. It's really like 6 a.m., like, we're still in there. Like watching highlights from the week before, like playing cards. Like I had the poker table in there, like, well, you know, those those teams that have those type of bonds, you know they, they usually they usually go for a man.
00:32:46:08 - 00:32:52:14
Von Miller
And I just hope to, you know, see to this Denver Broncos team, you know, have some of those similarities for sure.
00:32:52:16 - 00:33:14:02
Chris Harris Jr
Oh they definitely do when every, every report you hear is everybody loves Bo Nix. Everybody has that belief. And now, one one tip I would say to y'all is y'all better be be ready in the fourth quarter, because somehow he always turns it up, another notch in the fourth quarter. Whether that's just being more accurate or running a little bit more with his legs.
00:33:14:04 - 00:33:32:00
Von Miller
Yeah. I mean, that was when I, when I yeah, yeah, he definitely he definitely runs the ball. I was you know, I was telling the guys like we played him in Buffalo. You know that was a huge point for us. Like Bo Nix is going to run the ball like they beat teams because he started scrambling. And you sound like an that takes that Texans game.
00:33:32:00 - 00:33:50:27
Von Miller
Like he starts scrambling the Giants game. He started scrambling like he not like Lamar Jackson fast but he fast. And then Patrick Mahomes Josh Allen he fast. And then all of those guys like he might not be like Lamar Jackson but he right underneath like he he's he crazy fast. He got a big arm and he just not scared bro.
00:33:50:27 - 00:34:07:29
Von Miller
Like that's a huge I don't know what term I don't know what term you could put that into. But like are you just saying scared out there bro. He's not out there playing scared like he he out there trying to make it happen. Like he he he taking his time going through these like he really trying to find guys like he he not out there playing scared.
00:34:07:29 - 00:34:26:21
Von Miller
And it's a lot of quarterbacks. The starters getting paid $55 million a year. And they be out there scared like they've had I don't want to say no names I would no no. But there's quarterbacks out there today like they they'd be out there skiing and you know Bo Nix he just he not out there scared. And I think everybody on the team just kind of follow suit.
00:34:26:23 - 00:34:40:11
Brandon Krisztal
Well so that's something that check this out. So I was on a big island CK up in Boulder last week. So he talked to Peter Schrager earlier in the week. And then he went up to his alma mater busted and didn't go great there for Coach Prime. But here's V.J. talking about Bo Nix and then Bo reacting to that.
00:34:40:11 - 00:34:42:00
Brandon Krisztal
And I wanted John to hear this real quick.
00:34:42:08 - 00:34:51:21
Von Miller
Say two things about Bo. Okay I think Bo Nix is the Broncos feature John Elway. He's going to be here for a long time because he's built for it.
00:34:51:24 - 00:34:53:03
Brandon Krisztal
He's built for it, I.
00:34:53:03 - 00:35:10:07
Von Miller
Promise you that. And number two about Bo Nix. We know on game day he got to make a play. Right. Because we watch it in practice all summer. All spring. He's going to make a play. His skill set man he's going to make a play eventually. You know so defensively offensively you know we just play as a team.
00:35:10:07 - 00:35:19:22
Von Miller
We talk about how we can win each game okay. It's sometimes the strategic of of of how we win in these games. But we know in the statement he got to make a play. It's tough and competitive.
00:35:19:22 - 00:35:19:29
Brandon Krisztal
And he's.
00:35:19:29 - 00:35:25:18
Von Miller
Smart and he wants to win every game. He plays. And he make timely plays too. And the boys love him.
00:35:25:20 - 00:35:45:29
Speaker 4
Well, that's that's quite something coming from a coach like that. Well respected not only in our organization but in the entire league. But obviously I know behind a statement like that comes a lot of work and responsibility. So, doesn't just happen in year or two, doesn't just happen overnight. So gotta continue to do my part.
00:35:46:01 - 00:36:11:10
Speaker 4
Do my role and, you know, becoming the player that this team needs me to be. And, I'm definitely not going to, slow down until I'm that and more so, I'm excited about the opportunity at hand. I'm excited about the team that we're building. I'm excited about where this organization is right now. Just all that to say, I know, I know, we got, you know, a long, a long way to go at the same time, but, we're building something.
00:36:11:10 - 00:36:35:26
Speaker 4
We got a great culture. And, you know, I appreciate, you know, that statement, but definitely work in, things behind the scenes that are gonna, you know, keep that, you know, I guess put some, power to that statement. So, let's definitely, slow down and compare me to John Elway for now, but, I coach V.J., he's he's unbelievable.
00:36:35:26 - 00:36:41:24
Speaker 4
He's a great coach, great encourager to his team. And that's why guys love playing for him.
00:36:41:27 - 00:36:51:18
Von Miller
Yeah I mean I John Elway that's kind of John Elway played a long time ago. So I think guys don't really know how like though John John Elway went to five Super Bowl.
00:36:51:18 - 00:37:06:20
Brandon Krisztal
Hey there's a documentary coming out. We just had John the studio when he page and Tom Green and Ron Paul a couple weeks ago. But I got to see the documentary. It's going to remind a whole new generation will remind fans and then teach a whole new generation of fans how good John is. But I think what B.J. saying there is that Bo has a lot of those same qualities.
00:37:06:27 - 00:37:21:27
Brandon Krisztal
And for both of y'all that once Peyton was gone, you know, you were part of Tebow mania. But once Peyton was gone, it was every year looking for that next QB, whether it's Case or Joe Flacco or Teddy Bridgewater. And so to see that they have the guy. And that is something that, you know, it's funny what we were waiting for.
00:37:21:27 - 00:37:39:27
Brandon Krisztal
You just walking around here. Jay Daniels comes in and is signing a bunch of helmets. And I'm like they have the guy here. I've talked to so many commanders fans. I've been in town since Tuesday, but when a team has the young guy that is going to be the guy, that's just so refreshing. And I got to thank you all as Broncos fans and you as a commanders player have to love that.
00:37:40:01 - 00:37:59:17
Von Miller
Yeah, I mean, I did before I was a commander before the commanders was like even in a picture like I did. I reached out to the Denver Broncos like I already knew like what was going to be said, like I already knew, like, hey, like we got we got Nick Benito and we got Johnny Cooper, and then they got two other guys on.
00:37:59:17 - 00:38:21:11
Von Miller
And even then I guess two. And not only do they get sacks, they like great players and they play special teams too. Like I already knew like what was going to be say it like it just wasn't room for me. And then even like if you think about it like this team is like so young and like so fresh, the average team age kind of get like spiked up a little bit because you got Mercedes Lewis on the team, but if it wasn't.
00:38:21:13 - 00:38:23:17
Brandon Krisztal
It was a rookie five years before. You guys.
00:38:23:24 - 00:38:40:24
Von Miller
But if it wasn't like if it wasn't for like Mercedes, like the average, you know, the average age of this team would be, what, 24 like 20, like 425 right in there. So like I, I did try, but it just wasn't it just wasn't a fit in like what? I mean, what I'm going to do, I'm gonna go back.
00:38:40:24 - 00:39:01:12
Von Miller
I'm gonna put back on number 58 and like, sit on the bench, like, come off the bench and wait for it when you look right, like me, like, say, no, it wouldn't even look right. Like me. Like winning. Like 58. Like, okay, I had the idea if I were to go and I couldn't wear 58 again, like, I think that me and a 58 jersey for the Denver Broncos, I think it's safe to say that that's like that's done.
00:39:01:13 - 00:39:04:18
Brandon Krisztal
Like you'd Kobe it you. So you go 40 I got be.
00:39:04:18 - 00:39:08:24
Von Miller
I got to wear another number. If I do go back I gotta, I got to wear like another number.
00:39:08:24 - 00:39:12:13
Chris Harris Jr
55 I got, I had that 4545.
00:39:12:18 - 00:39:13:04
Brandon Krisztal
Before.
00:39:13:06 - 00:39:37:29
Von Miller
I can't, I can't like wear it but like yet his team like man George Payton has done an incredible job like building this team up and like with the strategic like picks and coaches like Deshaun like having Sean Payton there like legendary coach. You know not just Bo Nix but Franklin. Nick Benito like Jonathan Cooper you know paying Cortland pay in Cortland again keeping Cortland at.
00:39:38:02 - 00:39:39:05
Brandon Krisztal
Zach Allen.
00:39:39:08 - 00:39:59:05
Von Miller
Bringing in Zach Allen, Garrett Bowles keeping Garrett Bose there, like Mike McGlinchey, like pampered starting like all it like he's done an incredible job. I see the game from like a genius perspective. He's done an incredible job. Like with this team. And this is always be my team. Except for this, this 60 minutes that we play them on Sunday.
00:39:59:07 - 00:40:19:00
Chris Harris Jr
The owner still, you know, they've done everything and putting everything in place, with the new facility, facility that they're building, these guys have, you know, there's no excuses for them to not to not succeed. You know, when we were there, we're kind of building all of that, you know, we needed maybe.
00:40:19:02 - 00:40:21:21
Von Miller
Like, hey, we need to cry. We cry. Oh, man.
00:40:21:27 - 00:40:25:07
Chris Harris Jr
It was tough. You know what I mean? Now they got it all handed to them. Now.
00:40:25:09 - 00:40:28:08
Von Miller
How does that new facility, how does that new facility look, though?
00:40:28:10 - 00:40:46:18
Chris Harris Jr
It's going to be fire. You know, it's they're going to have everything in one spot. The new stadium is going to be a it's a they're going to have to clear out of the hole pretty much, downtown, you know, to, to make some space for them. But it's going to be nice, man. And the owners did a hell of a job for on that alumni party.
00:40:46:20 - 00:41:03:15
Chris Harris Jr
Just take care of all the families it just given us. You know, the the the suite access unlimited food. I can't I have no complaints, man, that this is a great ownership. And, it's going to be hard for them to lose when they got the backing, like they do now.
00:41:03:18 - 00:41:07:11
Von Miller
Yeah. I, I heard about, like, that, new facility they're building.
00:41:07:14 - 00:41:16:07
Brandon Krisztal
Their million dollars. Truly state of the art. All football stuff, all the same level locker rooms right next to the weight room, right next to the indoor and right next to the practice field.
00:41:16:07 - 00:41:19:11
Von Miller
So they combining it right there with the indoor. Used to be they combining it right.
00:41:19:13 - 00:41:40:01
Brandon Krisztal
It's on the backside of the indoor indoor stadium where it is. Everything on the first level is football 55 to 58 parking spots underground for active the active roster the underground, underground and then everything. Some be in front of the team store where the team store was. And that's where it's three spaces that bring in 95, employees from downtown business side.
00:41:40:01 - 00:41:41:06
Brandon Krisztal
They're gonna be up on the top floor.
00:41:41:06 - 00:41:43:15
Von Miller
But certainly not going to be they're not going to be there, especially.
00:41:43:17 - 00:41:57:24
Brandon Krisztal
Because the stadium is about to be a thing of the past. In six years. I got to build a new. But you can build bigger suites if you don't have a bunch of office space there and you've got, but it's going to have this nice atrium. I mean, and they're really far along to be open in May, you know, it's going to be truly state of the art.
00:41:57:24 - 00:42:15:28
Brandon Krisztal
As nice as Dallas is Minnesota, some of these brand new ones, it's going to be at the top because these are owners and you've got one here and an ownership group that clearly has injected enthusiasm. But they see that PA survey where some owners are saying they want that gone. They're like, no, we want to be number one and everything we want.
00:42:15:29 - 00:42:20:03
Brandon Krisztal
A+ is across the board. That's how the what our family ownership group looks at it.
00:42:20:09 - 00:42:33:11
Von Miller
Yeah, that's I mean, that's the you know, we, we there I didn't feel I didn't have, you know, any complaints when I was there. Like, you know, we had to get it ready to go to Greca asking for the cryotherapy and this and that.
00:42:33:13 - 00:42:37:29
Brandon Krisztal
But at the indoor, it was around the way where I played flag football and I watched kids play soccer.
00:42:38:03 - 00:42:53:03
Von Miller
But. But at the end of the day, like we had everything that we needed to win the like, and they had redone that facility and they had injected money into that facility too, like, you know, it was good enough to get paid manning there, and it was good enough to go to two Super Bowls and win one.
00:42:53:03 - 00:43:10:24
Von Miller
So, yeah. But at the same time, like when to LA when you had none of that, even though, like L.A., like, you know, we didn't like. No, we was in like a college like we said, little college facility like facilities are always good. And you want to have the best facilities, but you know, you don't you don't need that to go in a school bus.
00:43:10:24 - 00:43:16:01
Von Miller
But it's dope to see. The Denver Broncos got everything that they need to be successful.
00:43:16:04 - 00:43:17:15
Chris Harris Jr
Okay. I'm good man.
00:43:17:18 - 00:43:31:17
Brandon Krisztal
Chris, do you want to look at let's look real quick at the game this week. And we'll get on out of here because you want to go watch all this football. And Vaughn I'm sure wants to see us kids. But you know we've got the, the well, the matchup as far as just this isn't the year y'all wanted.
00:43:31:17 - 00:43:54:09
Brandon Krisztal
And you know, I mentioned seeing Jayden. Offense you guys are good in some spots defensively it's tough because you haven't necessarily had the leader had your firepower. You are getting Terry McLaurin back. Come coming. Just when you look at what your keys are to getting to Bo Nix because you haven't sacked him yet. And slowing this Broncos team down which has won eight in a row.
00:43:54:11 - 00:44:15:13
Brandon Krisztal
What you know, I guess put on your analyst cap or GM Chris wants to be a coach one day, perhaps. You know, we know you want to be a GM. Yeah. But but what do you see from this Broncos team and how do you how do you try to slow him down or attack him? Because then you look at the defense led by B.J. and their top five in every category and number one in sacks, red zone and third down.
00:44:15:19 - 00:44:35:13
Von Miller
Yeah. So, I think it's just a perfect combination of, you know, pass rush and coverage. You know, we're going to go. You got Patrick certain, best corner in the league. You got, Nick Benito and and Jonathan Cooper, two of the best pass rushers in the league. And they just when they fire, they firing off on the ball.
00:44:35:15 - 00:44:54:18
Von Miller
Secondary is they don't have to of course you can cover all day. But you know they making his job easier certainly making their job easier. They got good linebackers in the middle. And for me the the the the cog that makes everything go is really Zach Allen in the middle. Zach Allen wrote the type of password that they got on the inside.
00:44:54:19 - 00:45:10:18
Von Miller
You know a quarterback has to stay at ten yards. They can just rush around the edge and get them. They throw the ball up in the air and throw. You got Riley Moss over there too. He's good. Who for one of the best safeties in the league. Like defenses that look at the offense. Bo Nix makes everything go this off his line.
00:45:10:18 - 00:45:43:10
Von Miller
And they got to is stout too. You got Gary Bo's and Mike McGlinchey at the tackles. You got Quinn miners All-Pro All-Pro right guard. Then they just pay the left guard and in the center as well too. So offensive line is is is held up nicely. You got Courtland Sutton, Mims, Franklin where they got some receivers too, and they fit right in right along in the scheme that that, that that, that Sean Payton I was about to say George Payton, but Sean Payton is, is a Hall of Fame Hall of Fame coach.
00:45:43:16 - 00:46:03:09
Von Miller
So he's just a perfect blend of everything that they're trying to do. Definitely a tough team. You know, as sometimes they start they start slow on offense. I feel I don't know what the reason is like when you sit and when you watch it like they got guys open and, you know, sometimes it just seems like Bo is is waiting for the big play.
00:46:03:11 - 00:46:17:03
Von Miller
You know, instead of just taking, like, a checkdown or something, like, he's that good of a player that he can just rely on his game and rely on his arm to, like, wait for the big play. But, you know, they always get it going, like like you had said in the fourth quarter, they turn it on like the stats on a fourth quarter, comebacks.
00:46:17:03 - 00:46:34:14
Von Miller
Whether it was the Eagles game or the Giants game or the Raiders like they, they they started clicking in the fourth quarter, they, they one of the most penalized team. They are the most federalized team in the NFL which is which is kind of weird. Like you got all these like you got all these great players.
00:46:34:14 - 00:46:37:09
Brandon Krisztal
And, and a Sean Payton coached team where he's never going to have.
00:46:37:09 - 00:46:40:24
Chris Harris Jr
Riley Moss got half of them.
00:46:40:26 - 00:46:42:03
Chris Harris Jr
Yes.
00:46:42:05 - 00:46:56:23
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah I mean he has nine. No one else only has more than five. And it is a bit of a head scratcher because he is such a good player and his coverage numbers are really good. But, yeah, they're obviously I mean, Chris, when you look at this matchup, what will it take is as much as you love you want to see him win on Sunday.
00:46:56:23 - 00:47:00:24
Brandon Krisztal
You like see him get a sack or two if it'll help his career numbers.
00:47:00:27 - 00:47:24:24
Chris Harris Jr
They gotta make the Broncos one dimensional. Make stop the run. Make them make ball, beat them, through the air. Even know what capable of doing that. That's that's a recipe. And then on the offensive side, they got to be able to run the football, keep the ball away from, you don't want Mario to sit in third and longs, third and, 12 and, you know, not in that range because then, like I said, the pass rush is coming.
00:47:24:24 - 00:47:43:20
Chris Harris Jr
So you want to make it third manageable. Run the football. They got a young running back over there. He's he's, give him the ball. He's making plays. I think, Debo is actually at a solid season with with the commanders, you know, find ways to contain to get him the ball. He's been able to get in the end zone, but, that would be my recipe.
00:47:43:20 - 00:48:02:03
Chris Harris Jr
You know, run the football, keep the ball away from the Broncos. Try to keep them, try to keep mariota out of third and longs to where he can, you know, possess the ball. And that's their best chance. You know for the Broncos. You know they just got to kind of come out fast. We play a team that's three and eight right now.
00:48:02:05 - 00:48:08:12
Chris Harris Jr
You got to start fast. And they did that by the Cowboys to see if they can do it again this week.
00:48:08:14 - 00:48:23:08
Brandon Krisztal
All right, let's do two things before we get out of here. First thing we do, because we do it every week. And it's good news on your side. Good news on the Broncos side. Real quickly. Here's our Bill and Pollock injury report coming your way.
00:48:23:11 - 00:48:41:24
Brandon Krisztal
All right, so your latest bill in Pollock injury report. I haven't seen the Broncos final report, but all signs trending to two. Coming back Alex Singleton, the early cancer detection on the testicular cancer. He's coming back Jonah Ellis with the hamstring. We'll see where he is. And then for you guys you're getting Jayden's close but already ruled out this week.
00:48:41:24 - 00:48:52:24
Brandon Krisztal
So he got Marcus Mariota. But Terry McLaurin back. Just give me one quick thought on what he does to because you know Chris talking about Debo. But bringing in a guy who's been so successful and such a mainstay in this offense.
00:48:52:28 - 00:49:09:14
Von Miller
Yeah. Scary Terry. Yeah definitely. He's a game changer. He's just one of those wide receivers that he can take, like a slant. The business. You can take a stop route the distance. He can get the deep ball like he's good after the catch. He's good at catching the ball. Like that's our guy, like, you know.
00:49:09:14 - 00:49:23:03
Von Miller
And you guys, you can win games without your guys. Like the strength of the team is the team. But just keeping it real like you got it. You want your guys out there and take it. There is definitely one of our guys and he's definitely one of the best wide receivers in the league, so it'll be good to have him back.
00:49:23:10 - 00:49:40:24
Brandon Krisztal
As it's when something pops up unexpected. You know, Terry gets a new deal, doesn't expect to miss four games, miss four more games. Jayden, coming off a big year, doesn't expect to miss as much time as he is. Then he comes back, hurts his elbow, but things happen unexpectedly. You need a game plan. Nobody. They'll help you out better than our friends at Bell and Pollock, the champions of the people for a reason.
00:49:40:24 - 00:49:52:17
Brandon Krisztal
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00:49:52:19 - 00:50:06:25
Brandon Krisztal
All right, let's do predictions. There's a special one. It's not going to pop up Texas and Texas A&M tonight. I know that's going to be on the TV at the house. Arch Manning is playing. It looks like do you text Peyton at all any kind of trash truck or you wait till after the game if it goes well.
00:50:06:26 - 00:50:16:27
Von Miller
No, I talked to, I'll talk to Cooper, man. He text Cooper. I talked to Cooper Manning at the beginning of season, and I'm a fan. Like, I'm a fan of the Manning's like. Or there's Eli Peyton.
00:50:16:29 - 00:50:18:14
Brandon Krisztal
Can you imagine? Did you.
00:50:18:14 - 00:50:31:06
Von Miller
Say. Oh, yeah, I just, I just, I just at Eli. But, you know, Cooper arch, I'm a fan of the Manning's, like, you know, you know, I want to see, you know, arch success, but it's it's just not going to happen versus Texas.
00:50:31:13 - 00:50:34:13
Brandon Krisztal
I was worried against, against South Carolina. I know you were worried.
00:50:34:15 - 00:50:48:17
Von Miller
It's just not going to happen against this Texas A&M team. Like, our defense is just is too stout. Marcel Marceau Reed is is starting to come into his own. He's starting to become one of the best quarterbacks in NCAA, AA and Casey Concepcion and I receive.
00:50:48:17 - 00:50:52:13
Chris Harris Jr
That number seven conception. Is that, he nice?
00:50:52:18 - 00:50:58:03
Von Miller
Yeah. It's. And it's just, you know, as much as you know, like you said the South Carolina game, he kind of had me like.
00:50:58:06 - 00:51:00:27
Brandon Krisztal
But yeah down 31 three or whatever. I'm not.
00:51:00:27 - 00:51:02:11
Von Miller
Playing on his team so I can be as.
00:51:02:11 - 00:51:03:11
Brandon Krisztal
Whatever was, you know.
00:51:03:11 - 00:51:20:28
Von Miller
I can I don't have to be politically correct and say the right stuff. But like very like this Texas A&M team is really, really good. Our defense is straight defensive line like, cash is has one of the best pass rushers in the league like Texas. They don't have nothing for they don't have nothing for us for sure.
00:51:21:00 - 00:51:31:27
Brandon Krisztal
All right. Let's jump to these NFL these NFL games real quick David Woods first up okay. This game's already started but bears Eagles do you do we want to guess a score or an hour into it I got the Eagles.
00:51:32:00 - 00:51:32:23
Von Miller
Got the bears win.
00:51:33:00 - 00:51:50:12
Brandon Krisztal
All right. You got the bears win. And I had the bears. I think to make it close. We're not going to use words beyond that bears up ten 310 and three with six minutes left in the second quarter. So can the every time the Eagles have lost after winning a bunch of games, they lost the next week.
00:51:50:12 - 00:52:13:00
Brandon Krisztal
So far this year, that's only happened once with the Broncos and Giants. But they lost last week. The heartbreaker to the Cowboys. Okay, the Texans are obviously jockeying to try to stay in that playoff race. They're getting C.J. Stroud back. Their defense with guys like Will Anderson. And I know you know Dylan Hunter really well. They're trending up and they've been doing this the last couple weeks that Davis Mills.
00:52:13:00 - 00:52:19:03
Brandon Krisztal
So in in the coming off that tough loss they blew it against the Chiefs. But I'll let you go first. Who wins Colts Texans Sunday.
00:52:19:03 - 00:52:36:11
Von Miller
And I got the Texans just to see the way they dismantled the Buffalo Bills. Like like in the bills. That's one of my teams too. Like I'm a huge fan of Buffalo Bills. Still to like to see the way they like. Did the bills like they're going to be a tough team and I definitely got them making the playoffs for sure.
00:52:36:13 - 00:52:43:06
Chris Harris Jr
Chris, I'm gonna go with the Texans. See their show coming back. They usually split every year. So I think they I got them splitting this year.
00:52:43:10 - 00:52:59:21
Brandon Krisztal
Well and they're going to see each other twice. The Colts went from having the 29th hardest schedule fourth easiest to the hardest for the last seven weeks, starting in Kansas City last week. They still go to Seattle. They get the Niners coming in. They get the Jags once more, plus the Texans twice. So I think this might be one of a couple more losses for the Colts.
00:52:59:21 - 00:53:19:03
Brandon Krisztal
Also Daniel Jones doesn't look right. They're saying oh he's good to go I was like he's look like he's a little gingerly there working out the other day. All right. Let's see what else we got. Niners and our guys Shelby Harris and Qadir Sanders and the Cleveland Browns. Or the Browns obviously beat the Raiders, but this is a different deal with the Niners coming to Cleveland.
00:53:19:07 - 00:53:38:28
Von Miller
And if if, if Brock Purdy play the way that he played, like last week, against the Panthers, they might make it close, but he still got the 40 Niners win it. Even if he do play like that. This 40 Niners defense is really, really good. Still. Really well coach Kyle Shanahan, we almost hear Kyle Shanahan with the Denver Broncos.
00:53:38:28 - 00:53:49:20
Von Miller
Like that would have been crazy to have Kyle Shanahan and Josh Allen. I know they were back in like you know we we way past had though like Kyle Shanahan I got Kyle Shanahan being the bro.
00:53:49:23 - 00:54:03:08
Chris Harris Jr
I'm like oh yeah I got to go with 40 Niners. It's going to be a good matchup. Watch it Trent Whales was miles I will love to see that see that matchup. But Christian McCaffrey's too much. I'm gonna have to go with the 40 Niners.
00:54:03:10 - 00:54:18:26
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. And this is obviously going to be different for sure. So I think I'm with y'all as much. I would love to see Shelby in the Browns get another win. Okay. Another team. Here's the Rams. Cam Newton's Panthers who I think of surprising people. They were in that game the other day. I think they had something to do with Brock Purdy and also kept him in the game.
00:54:18:26 - 00:54:28:06
Brandon Krisztal
Whatever it was. But they appear to be trending up. I like their coach Bryce Young's making enough plays and tech McMillan. That dude's a man. Yeah, but Rams are rolling.
00:54:28:07 - 00:54:48:28
Von Miller
Yeah. The Panthers would have had an opportunity to win that game if they could, if they could have had some type of offense, like they couldn't get it going on offense for whatever reason. It was. Defense play enough to win that game. I got the Rams like I got the Rams beating the Panthers. The Rams defense is on fire going against this Panthers team.
00:54:48:28 - 00:54:55:27
Von Miller
They're struggling. Yeah I got I got the Rams winning Matthew Stafford MVP candidate I got the Rams winning game.
00:54:56:00 - 00:54:57:05
Brandon Krisztal
Chris.
00:54:57:08 - 00:55:11:02
Chris Harris Jr
Rams is going to be a good matchup. Jaycee Horn Devonte Adams. But they just don't have enough offensive firepower on the you know the way sound McVay does it up on offense is going to be too much for the for the Panthers to hang in. So I'm going to go with the Rams.
00:55:11:04 - 00:55:26:18
Brandon Krisztal
All right. What else do we got. Navy probably 1 or 2 go oh there you go. Your team like you talked about the bills. And we think Aaron Rodgers is going to try to give it a go. He's got some brass on his hand. Steelers need to win because even with the Ravens losing Bengals are about to make it interesting I think as well as the Ravens aren't.
00:55:26:18 - 00:55:35:10
Brandon Krisztal
They're not just going away because they lost one tough game to a rival last night. I know I like the bills, but any way the Steelers pull this one out with my team at home.
00:55:35:11 - 00:55:54:00
Von Miller
No I don't I don't the Buffalo Bills like you know after getting embarrassed on Thursday Night Football. Yeah I you know not by the not it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen again. I just know the way coach McDermott, gets down. Josh Allen, like Josh Allen, is one of the most competitive people that I've ever been around.
00:55:54:02 - 00:56:10:10
Von Miller
I got the bills, you know, they they are. I mean, they they're not even. And then they're not even winning division right now. We want a division to last five years in a row. So I know this guy. Guys ready to go I got I know this guy. Guys motivated. It's never a question whether they. And when they get in the playoffs what type of team they'll be.
00:56:10:13 - 00:56:13:16
Von Miller
But I got the bills beating the Steelers.
00:56:13:18 - 00:56:32:15
Chris Harris Jr
I'm gonna go with the bills. So you know Josh Allen got a bounce back. He got to definitely bounce back get his team to bounce back. But the bills defense has been shaky all year. You know the secondary has been shaky. They haven't both has been solid. But you know they haven't got a real satiety pass rush like they had the last couple years.
00:56:32:15 - 00:56:46:01
Chris Harris Jr
So, I'm, but I'm gonna give them the edge. Has been the, the Steelers just because the Steelers often so trash right now. And Rodgers only guy he can throw to his Metcalf. And he's been iffy all season. So I'm gonna go with the bills.
00:56:46:04 - 00:57:01:22
Brandon Krisztal
And then is the final game that we've got. All right. I'll let von go last I'm going to pick the Broncos to win. I want to pick the Broncos to win. I'm not going to give a score, but I like the Broncos to win this game. Especially with Jayden not playing. That makes it an easier pick for me to make it.
00:57:01:24 - 00:57:12:03
Brandon Krisztal
Even though Marcus I think has has handled himself well because you can see, you know, when things are going right. He's still got plenty of good football left in him. Chris I'll let you make the pick and then von class.
00:57:12:05 - 00:57:25:07
Chris Harris Jr
Now I'm gonna go with the Broncos. I don't think it's going to be a high scoring game. No, I think it's gonna be a tight game on the weather. Could be like 18, 21. I wouldn't be surprised if it's if it's 18 to 14. I don't think it's going to be a big slogan.
00:57:25:09 - 00:57:39:18
Von Miller
Hey, you know, you know, I'm one of the most competitive, people that you ever been around, Chris. Like, if it's going to go that way, you know, I'm gonna leave it all out there on the field if it go that way or go that way. But I'm. I'm picking the commanders like, I got. I got a scary Terry coming back.
00:57:39:19 - 00:57:58:03
Von Miller
I know the type of guy that he is. You know, of course I'm in the room with these guys. You know, Coach Quinn is an excellent coach. Our record has nothing to do with the type. Of course it is. But, yeah, it Sunday Night Football, man. You know how you know primetime games, man? You know how I get when when the lights get all.
00:57:58:03 - 00:58:02:01
Von Miller
So hopefully I can just turn on one more time versus the Denver Broncos.
00:58:02:04 - 00:58:22:05
Brandon Krisztal
Yeah. This is always one of those where folks in Broncos country want to see you do like they're not going to be sad Bowden get sacked hardly at all. You get a bonus or two. If it's not a game changer, they'll just be happy because it'll help you creep up of the trucks. And I think about it because whenever you hang it up, we're going to be there in canton for your Hall of Fame speech five years later.
00:58:22:07 - 00:58:44:21
Brandon Krisztal
And then think about some of the coaches you play for. You talk about DK, Sean McDermott, obviously Sean McVay, and of course both Coombes and Foxy. But you played with Peyton Manning. You got to play in Tebow mania obviously. And then Josh Allen is certainly headed towards a gold jacket Matt Stafford gold jacket Jaden Moore a little early on but has the traits you you're pretty lucky there.
00:58:44:21 - 00:58:59:20
Brandon Krisztal
There were a couple lean ones there in between. But to play with, you know, your Hall of Fame helmet of just your teammates have the wear sign it, champ. Sign it. You know, doc, all those guys. I mean, it's, I imagine Chris to some of you guys, like, want started with. Y'all been friends since you were rookies.
00:58:59:22 - 00:59:06:22
Brandon Krisztal
You got to love. Still see him out there even if Peyton forgot about you on the Manning cast is like McManus. That's my only teammates still playing, you know?
00:59:06:27 - 00:59:17:28
Chris Harris Jr
And I love it, man. I love to see them boys still balling and, you know, D-line, you know? But, you know, he could possibly get 20 years. You never know. You know those pass rushers play for a long time.
00:59:18:01 - 00:59:36:17
Von Miller
But if I'm if I'm here like you know I shot them when you do before if we can get a rain check and I can be able to be here next year, like, there's no telling how many years that I can play like they do. Such a a good job here with the recovery and the type of, training staff that we have here.
00:59:36:19 - 00:59:58:20
Von Miller
The type of, coach, DK is like, you know, practice on Wednesdays. On Thursdays, you know, truly a fast Friday. I think we had ten plays total as a defense on Fast Friday. Yeah. If I'm able to be here another year, who knows how long I could play. But yeah, it was definitely good talking to young man Chris man like you don't you don't age bro.
00:59:58:21 - 01:00:00:06
Von Miller
Like Brandon.
01:00:00:06 - 01:00:01:22
Chris Harris Jr
You know they come on your show man.
01:00:01:22 - 01:00:08:27
Brandon Krisztal
Let me play range free range with Von Miller. How often can we can we see it because we keep seeing clips. We see the show.
01:00:08:27 - 01:00:25:19
Von Miller
So, you can get it wherever you go to watch wherever you watch your podcast at with a Spotify, wherever you, free range. Every Wednesday. You know, I talk about stuff that's going on in the league and, you know, free range is a play on my on my chicken farm, even though pasture raised.
01:00:25:25 - 01:00:27:01
Chris Harris Jr
I appreciate those tickets.
01:00:27:01 - 01:00:28:12
Von Miller
Preciate that. I got you.
01:00:28:14 - 01:00:29:28
Chris Harris Jr
So.
01:00:30:01 - 01:00:46:16
Von Miller
If it's out pasture raise is definitely is higher than free range. But I can have the pasture raised podcast. No no we get it. I think free range is a little bit better and it's more podcasting. But yeah, it's just free range with Von Miller and we're able to talk about, you know, whatever. And you know, it really fits me.
01:00:46:16 - 01:00:48:01
Von Miller
And you know, the type of person I am.
01:00:48:01 - 01:00:50:01
Brandon Krisztal
Almost you just going, right. You don't even have a Coke.
01:00:50:01 - 01:00:56:16
Chris Harris Jr
Can have a section. No. In between your show or a separate show where you talk about chickens. Well, people will listen to you on it.
01:00:56:18 - 01:01:04:06
Von Miller
Yeah. We talk. I mean, I talk about chicken. I mean, I talk about chicken. It's not like I don't like force it. But yeah, I got to talk about I got to talk about chicken like I have to.
01:01:04:06 - 01:01:04:27
Brandon Krisztal
You're an expert.
01:01:05:02 - 01:01:16:28
Von Miller
And people. Did you like the chicken? No. Like you? Yeah. I'm biased. I'm biased because this is my product. So I'm like, hey, like, you can taste like the quality and you can taste the type of lives that they live. But what do you think, Chris, when you when you try it.
01:01:17:01 - 01:01:32:13
Chris Harris Jr
Now, I love it. You know, it was perfect for the US that smoked the chicken that you that you sent me. So I had it on a smoker, you know, and it came like on a little mini fridge and everything, you know? Hey, I hooked it up, man. So, yeah, I mean, I can't wait to another order.
01:01:32:15 - 01:01:50:25
Brandon Krisztal
I can't wait to get some coming to to see me in Denver. But it's been awesome, you know, I know you got you got the kids at home, got A&M and Longhorns going to be a big weekend because it's always exciting when you see your friends with the Broncos because you didn't say we once today. Which which you did the previous couple.
01:01:50:28 - 01:02:07:11
Von Miller
Yeah. It'll be we after this weekend. There you go. And then you just never know man. Like do it with George Peyton. Like, you know, I, I haven't burnt any bridges anywhere. I went so, you know, maybe even if it's not me, like playing with the Denver Broncos again. Like, you know, who knows, I might be on that staff.
01:02:07:11 - 01:02:22:13
Von Miller
I might be in the front office. I'll be there. You just. You just never know. They I've had I've had an open door. I've had great relationships with all those guys. So you just you just never know. But right now, currently, you know, I'm with the commanders, and I'm just trying to do the same thing that that I did with the Denver Broncos here with the commanders.
01:02:22:13 - 01:02:24:03
Von Miller
So I appreciate you go.
01:02:24:05 - 01:02:41:18
Brandon Krisztal
Chris. It was awesome. It was worth the wait. I know he's one of your favorite teammates on your favorite people. One of mine too. I've been lucky enough to know you guys both since the day you got to Denver. And I hope all of our listeners and viewers enjoy this as well. So enjoy the rest of the football this weekend, and we will catch you next week on Football Fridays.