A one-time Super Bowl XXXV champion with the Baltimore Ravens, our pal Brandon Stokley now makes a living talking sports on the radio in Denver. Our favorite Cajun son comes home to Baltimore with insights on the dramatically improved Broncos under head coach Sean Payton and rookie quarterback Bo Nix.
SUMMARY KEYWORDS
Broncos improvements, quarterback situation, Super Bowl 35, sports radio, ticket collection, coaching career, Denver Nuggets, young quarterback, NFL injuries, Ravens defense, Lamar Jackson, Derek Henry, Mahomes comparison, Manning cast, ownership investment
SPEAKERS
Brandon Stokley, Nestor Aparicio
Nestor Aparicio 00:01
Welcome home. We are W N, S T, Dallas in Baltimore. We’re am 1570 Baltimore positive. Our friends at the Maryland lottery have us going out on the road doing a Maryland crab cake tour. We are doing an east side, west side. We’re going to be Cocos on the December 4. We’re going to be Gertrude December 5. We’re gonna be fadelies on the 12th. I’m gonna read the whole thing cost us on the 19th. And then I’m doing a whole bunch of new places for November, for Thanksgiving, and then I get to bring young, old friends back on. You know, if I’d have known better, we could have a Stokely cast, or a nasty cast, or a Nestor cast, but the Manning cast is the thing, and it’s broadcast right in this guy’s neighborhood. Brandon Stokely is our Super Bowl 35 champion. He is out in the Denver area. Folks don’t know he does that. He does my old job sports radio and Denver these days, and has done it for a number of years out there. And as the Broncos and the Ravens get together, it gives me a chance to to celebrate you. Brandon Stokely, how are you? How is your life? What’s going on out there? Got a decent football team, huh? Yeah, yeah, they’re not bad.
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Brandon Stokley 01:07
You know, still got a little ways to go trying to figure this quarterback situation out. But yeah, man, been doing radio out here for a little around eight years a little, and so I just moved to the morning show. So I’m doing from six to 10, which is nice. Get to get on the golf course a little bit earlier now. And yeah, looking forward to the game, you know, this weekend, and seeing what it seeing of the Broncos, how they stack up against, you know, one of the better teams in the NFL, in the Baltimore Ravens, is
Nestor Aparicio 01:41
that a Cleveland Browns ticket stub behind? Is that a ticket stub from the drive the away drive game? By any chance? What is that? Is that really what it is I had that ticket. I went to that game. I have that. I have my stub. But I reckon. How can I see that from so are you like bragging on the Browns victory there? Why is that out? Is that, did you win that in an auction? What’s that? Yeah,
Brandon Stokley 02:05
no, I collect tickets. I like tickets. And so that’s kind of a hobby of mine, and that’s just a cool one, you know, living in Denver now, that’s the, that’s the, you know, that’s a pretty cool place. So I like cool tickets like that. And I got a few of them up. Let’s see. Got,
Nestor Aparicio 02:25
8I’m sure you have a Super Bowl 35 or two in there somewhere. There
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it is. Yeah, I
Nestor Aparicio 02:29
was going to say I saw mine. Mine is part of a huge collage in the old W, N, S T studio with the front of the book you and me eating crab cakes and doing, you know, life takes us in funny ways. Did you know you were going to do sports radio? I mean, back when you were sitting out at the bar and eating oysters with me? Oh
Brandon Stokley 02:46
no. No, absolutely not. You know, just didn’t know what, what? What avenue I was going to go after football and try to play as long as I could. And and then it just kind of came out of nowhere. And so now I really do I enjoy it. It’s fun talk sports. And, you know, it’s work, work a few hours a day and get to talk sports. So it’s not a bad gig. I’ve really enjoyed it.
8Nestor Aparicio 03:13
You know, you say that that’s so flippant. 33 years in this, people think I work a couple of hours a day and just go golfing, right? Like, you know it’s, it’s really and I guess in your area, and we’ll get to the Broncos in a minute, but like, Dion’s thing up the roads been something for your area, right? Like, it’s a real phenomenon, because so many people, including my friend Chad Brown, and so many people played ball there or had some affinity for Boulder, right?
Brandon Stokley 03:41
Oh yeah. I mean, it’s been quite the whirlwind. The last two years, it’s been great. Brought a lot of great attention, and they see you. They went from one of the worst teams in college football to now they are, what, six and two and got a chance to win out. Probably might be favoring all the last four games, but get to even if they get to eight, 910, wins. I mean, that’s just remarkable, what he’s done. And they got two of the top players in all the college football and they got a guy and Travis hunter that we just haven’t seen anything like him. I play him both ways, playing over 100 plays a game at such a high level, it’s just really remarkable. And the turnarounds been remarkable. It’s been fun. It’s been entertaining. I tell you that it’s been a lot of fun. Where are
Nestor Aparicio 04:33
we in the world where we have, like, baseball players who pitch and hit, like, you know what I mean? Like, we’re just at a different thing, like the Bo Jackson thing, you were, you know, we were the same age, so we were kids with that. And just Jim Abbott, just amazing feats that it’s pretty amazing. You played as long as you did in the league. I often wonder, like guys, like, if you didn’t make it, what you would you have done? You’d have been a coach, right? You’d have been a teacher and a coach, right? Yeah,
Brandon Stokley 04:58
8I think I’d have been a coach. I grew. Up around it. My dad was a coach, and, you know, I’m not the smartest guy. I don’t know what else I would have done. I love sports, so probably, probably coaching was, was next on the list. You know, football, playing football didn’t work out. I would have been coaching football.
Nestor Aparicio 05:14
Well, you and guys like you are such a gift to me through all of these years, and we remain friends and we do the same thing. Now, look when the Denver schedule, when the sketch came out, saw Denver, I’m like, well, not much, you know what I mean, like in and I wondered about Peyton in baseball. I wonder about Terry Francona coming back, and people that come back and do it, Dick Vermeil did it in your era. And, you know, I think to myself, like, why are they at it? And then you look up, he’s got a young kid teams five and three. You mentioned you don’t know what else you would do imagine if you’re Sean Payton. And I would ask you if five and three, and I’ll hear that they’re soft and all this stuff. Hey, the Ravens lost to the browns and the Raiders there. They shouldn’t be smelling themselves around here at five and three, either. But five and three feels different in Denver right now, after what Peyton went through number of years ago, winning, it’s been a really couple, three coaches, quarterbacks, our buddy, Joe Flacco, I should say my buddy, your buddy too. Joe Flacco, there’s been a lot going on there. And now we look up, it’s Halloween. We just got our ass kicked, and injuries have set in here. And and I look and see, wow, could Denver come in here?
Brandon Stokley 06:24
Maybe? Oh, maybe. I mean, look, if you, if y’all let the Raiders go to Baltimore and win, and, yeah, the Denver Broncos could go to Baltimore and win. I mean, last year, what it was a Colts. I mean, they’re just, it’s just some of those head scratchers. Um, one week, ravens look like the best team in the NFL, and the next week, it’s, how do you let that happen? It’s a long season. And I think the important part is, is playing your best football and stay as healthy possible at the end of the year. And But certainly, yeah, the Broncos defense is a good defense and and over here we’re looking at it as a test for that defense going up against two real dudes they haven’t seen, you know anyone, like Lamar Jackson and Derek Henry all year. So what does this defense look like when you go up against, you know, one of the best offenses in the NFL, because they’ve done a great job. They’ve carried this football team trying to develop a young quarterback with not a ton of talent around him, Bo Nicks offensively. So defense has been playing great, and they’ve been finding different ways to win a football game there. Well, coach, football team. And so you know, if you know, if you’re the ravens, if, if you don’t give it away, it’s going to be tough for the Broncos to to go to Baltimore and win it but, but that defense has been good. They’ve been finding ways to get it done.
Nestor Aparicio 07:43
The quarterback, young guy. I mean, not you know, Peyton’s thing at all, right, like from Drew Brees on. I mean, that’s what he had forever and ever, a new one style. Clearly, the Russell Wilson thing was different coming into it last year, and he’s having success in Pittsburgh as well, but that switch this off season, and look, man, you’re a guy who played in the league, but you could be as critical you mean, you got a lot of Cajun rage, Cajun in you when all of this is going on and they’re getting their ass kicked, and last couple three times you and I gotten together hadn’t been a whole lot of good news to report around there, because they haven’t won a lot of ball games now of a sudden. I mean, you’re on the radio every day seeing this thing happen and saying, how’s this going to work with a rookie quarterback, and how do we get to 500 halfway through the season? How do they have a chance to be a wild card? How do they have a chance to compete? Because you were on some of these sort of tweener teams that the media didn’t think so much of, or you thought as well, they’re not going to win a whole lot of games. But when you find the lightning in a bottle, and they’re finding it in Washington right now, right when, and the bears as well, when you have a guy that can play a little bit, and you play responsibly, and the defense can keep you in games, maybe they don’t need to do as much if they’re not making mistakes.
8Brandon Stokley 08:56
Yeah, exactly. And you know the Broncos, since Peyton Manning left in 2016 2015 is last year, they it’s just been revolving door after revolving door. They tried to draft a quarterback in the first round. It didn’t work out. Then it was veteran quarterback after veteran quarterback. And it just it wasn’t working. Didn’t went down the Russell Wilson road, and that certainly didn’t work out here, and we’ll see how it finishes there in Pittsburgh. But you got to find that young quarterback, and you got to develop them, you got to give them a little bit of time. And you know, it’s a hard thing to do. It’s not easy. It’s not an easy thing to do. And so hopefully, you know, everyone here in Denver’s hoping that we found our young quarterback, because it’s not fun when you don’t have a quarterback. Man, it’s hard to win in the NFL, and Bo’s done a good job. He really has. It hasn’t been perfect. He’s had some things he’s had to work through, but last week was his best football game, and it was against the Panthers. But he looked, he looked. Good. He was going through his reads, his progressions, his footwork looked good. So and they gotta help him out. You know, the guys around him have to help him out, like, like with most young quarterbacks breakfast,
Nestor Aparicio 10:11
Oakley is our guest. He is out in the Rocky Mountain city. He’s up in the Denver, Colorado, bringing the five and three football team in a place he once played. And of all the dumb things I’ve ever said on the air, asking you, if you watch the game you played, it’s right up there, 33 years and you made a life there, and football is so important there, right? And seeing where they are, where the franchise has been. What do you make of Peyton, and what do you make of all of it. I mean, bowl and dying, different leadership, John Elway’s role, Peyton’s role, you guys living there and seeing it, and being a breathing part of it, trying to put it back together in a place like that, where there’s just really high expectations, but also kind of like a place where fans aren’t going to go away. You know what I mean? Like They prided themselves in the 70s on not having unsold tickets and when people didn’t show up. I mean, I’ve heard a lot of incompletes there, and as much as the buffaloes, we brought that up, and where that is, the Broncos are still a number one. And us, Kansas City next week, this is the kind of time where they they bust that the old Orange Crush, if they believe, if they believe, you five and five, two weeks from now, it’s we got a young quarterback we’re hanging in. Maybe he’s this, maybe he’s that, but if you catch lightning in a bottle, win one or two of these games, these are the ones where you say, Yeah, beating the Panthers or something, but they haven’t been to
Brandon Stokley 11:37
Baltimore yet. Yeah. You know, if they could get one of these two going to Baltimore, going to Kansas City, that would be huge. But they gave themselves a little leeway here by by getting to five and three until this right up against this, these tough two road games, it’s going to be tough, but yeah, it starts at the top, you know, ownership and very, very fortunate, the Broncos, they got a home run ownership group and and the Walton pinner group, Greg Penner, Carrie, Walton, Robson, Walton, great group. They’re invested. They want to win, and they’re putting money into the team, and they’re investing in the community. So very fortunate. There you see around the NFL, and I was on a lot of all my teams had great owners, so I was fortunate. But you look around the NFL, you probably could look down the road there, you know, couple years ago, and what if you don’t have the right ownership, the right owner, what it could do to your franchise? So, very fortunate baseball fan, dude, you
Nestor Aparicio 12:35
8think I’ve talked about it? Oh, there you go. There you go. I mean, you know, and I talk about, right, dude, we talk about it a lot. We talk about it a lot like you, what we’ve been through here as a baseball we, you know, we had her say dad here, right? I have my Baltimore Colts belt buckle over here, like you. Have your Indianapolis Colts ring over your shoulder, and it means as much to me. And, you know, you mentioned going through ticket subs and stuff. You and I will have a whole side conversation about collectibles and fun things that I I’ve gotten back into my Houston Oiler thing a little bit from the old days, because it’s so defunct, and they can’t win, they can’t lose this week, like the Baltimore Colts can’t win or can’t lose this week. So um, but in the case of what Denver and the Broncos are and what it could be defensively, dude, we’ve got problems here, and the fact that John’s talking about the highest paid, second highest paid player on the defense, not getting on the field and being a coach’s decision, and no speaking, and he wasn’t making plays. I’m talking about Marcus Williams and the back end. Then you lose Marlon Humphrey, you lose Nate Wiggins last week, you lose two defensive linemen in the middle of the game, and Brent urban went down. Travis Jones wasn’t doing well. Michael Pierce went down with the calf this week. It’s a different team when you start losing 345, players, when you’re like smelling yourself with four wins in a row, five wins in a row, we’re we’re freight training the bills on, you know, national TV, and to your point, I’m five days out on, oh man, ravens going to Super Bowl. They’re number one in the Power Rankings. Then you go to Cleveland and lay a steamer, a couple of guys get hurt, and you don’t move the ball, and you don’t run the ball. And to your point, Broncos defense a little bit more stat. I mean, I I see this as a little bit more of a balanced matchup. If you can keep Lamar in the pocket if you can tackle King Henry, yeah,
Brandon Stokley 14:24
strength on strength, you know, Baltimore’s offense against the Broncos defense. And it’s probably weakness on weakness, you know, I get it you and that’s the thing in the NFL, injuries determine a season, you know, and it’s hard to predict, predict and project what it’s going to look like. Week 13, week 17, if you lose a couple key guys, it’s just hard. It’s hard to win in the NFL, and so it’s hard to win on the road. It’s hard to win with a young quarterback and but yeah, I mean, you look at the matchup and Broncos offense, they. Don’t have a ton of talent, playmakers around Bo nicks, so they’re trying to win the old fashioned way, make a few plays, don’t turn the football over, and play really good defense. And you know, that’s their formula right now. But you know, if you don’t screw it up, if the opposing team doesn’t screw it up, I miss hard. It’s going to be hard for the Denver Broncos to go on the road against the ravens and score over, you know, 21 points
Nestor Aparicio 15:23
for you seeing this offense being so different than anything you ever played in, anything like it, and that’s before Derek Henry got here. By the way, I’ve been bragging a whole lot because it’s Trade Week here in the NFL, and the Ravens made a trade for a wide receiver on Tuesday, Tuesday afternoon, and this time last year, Luke and I were going back and forth. And you know, Luke, you know where every day we get after and talk football around here, and I’m like, Derek Henry changes his team. Derek Henry, they’ll win a Super Bowl. They’ll be unstoppable if somehow they could have wrangled Derrick Henry out of Tennessee this time last year when Dobbins wasn’t right. And keep our buddy Anthony Mitchell, your teammate, Anthony Mitchell’s boy, was running it before he got injured and all that. I’m like, if they had it, if they had somebody, you really had to stop your hips as a linebacker and a safety and an edge guy coming in on Derek Henry going that way, Lamar Jackson going that way, and, oh, but some Brandon Stokely cat, you know, cutting across the middle, or mark Andrews, or whomever, zay flowers, pick, pick your poison, and Aguilar, pick any of those guys. And just saying, now you got to contend with some real ish, right? What would you make if you were spry and you were zay flowers, or you were Spry, or even if you were an old fart like Aguilar, like you were a second time you came in here and you see this, what does that do in a huddle? What does that do when you get off the bus on Sunday? Brandon,
Brandon Stokley 16:45
that’s fun. That’s fun. I mean, you’re going to have great matchups. They’re not worried about the slot receiver, they’re not worried about the outside receiver, they’re not worried about the tight end. First and foremost, when that defensive coordinator gets up there on Wednesday and he’s talking to his defense. We got to stop Lamar Jackson. We got to stop this guy. We got to keep him in the pocket, and we have to stop him. Second now is Derek Henry. And then after that, you know, you start going through the receivers. They followers, Andrews, lively, you know, Bateman, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right? So that’s when it becomes fun, when you have a running game like they have, guess what? You’re going to have great matchups, one on one. Give me one on one all day. I love to see one on one coverage. So the receivers for the ravens, They got it pretty dang good.
8Nestor Aparicio 17:33
Well, I would say Brandon Stoker’s got it pretty dang good. He’s out in Denver, Colorado, doing sports radio, living the high life out there, ski slopes, Red Rocks, all the good stuff. Good, good college football going on now for sport town, all this great stuff happening, and the Broncos sort of coming to life. So from afar, when you see the Ravens lose a game to the Raiders, lose a game to the browns, I’m sure you watched every play of the chiefs game to kick off the season, and where Lamar is and where this team is, and how you played for John, you played for Eric twice. Ozzy, the old tree, how they put this thing together has been brilliant, and then how you keep it together and get guys onto the field and make it happen. Me, Ronnie Stanley’s been the greatest story, just getting back out on the field being able to do it at this level, because it’s such an important position. But, you know, last week they’re winning the Super Bowl. This week they’re going to the outhouse, and I’m sitting here talking them losing to Bo Nicks.
Brandon Stokley 18:32
Yeah, that’s NFL. It’s week to week, you know. And if you don’t bring your A game, you will lose. I mean, the other guys are paid professionals, I don’t, you know. And you got a little unlucky there that you played Cleveland without Deshaun Watson, you know. And it was Jameis Winston because they had no chance of it was Deshawn. And so you get unlucky there if you’re Baltimore, but you still got to win that football game. But, you know, sometimes a loss isn’t the worst thing. Now, you don’t want a bunch of losses, but sometimes it can kind of humble you a little bit, get you a little bit, maybe refocused when everybody’s been patting you on the back. So it’s a long season, and you know us as fans and media members, you kind of ride away ups and downs. One week you’re the best the next week you stink. So Baltimore is a really good football team. They gotta, they gotta, you know, play a little bit better defensively. It’s not to the standard that it was in the past. And get healthy, and they get healthy. Nobody wants to see that team. They don’t. And I know the questions out there, you know, can they take the next step this year in the playoffs? Can Lamar take that next step in the playoffs? And ultimately, they gotta figure out how to do it. You know, we had that when I was with Indy and Peyton Manning and and we finally had to get over that hurdle. We finally had to figure out how to do it and how to beat New England, and we finally got it done. So Baltimore definitely has those questions. And, you know, but look, it’s still a really, really good football team. And guess what, I’m not betting against them. I. Well, I,
Nestor Aparicio 20:00
you know, and I said last week, your shorter rest, playing a little later, like the whole part of it just felt a little like the game, division game. Jim Schwartz knows how to prepare for them. They had players. Miles Garrett, you know, that player that can make a difference. Darius Smith, you can’t do it without players. And you mentioned the Broncos. Um, you and everyone’s like, we’re in a skill position playing. You know, we’ve dropped a lot of passes around here, dropped a lot of picks around here on the defensive side. Give me, yeah, give me a little primer on the players to watch. Who are the Broncos. I don’t know much about the Broncos, man, like I watched everybody give Peyton all that love down in New Orleans and the whole thing going on there. But I look at the team and say, sir tan, sure, but you know the sort of an interesting cast of characters. And now all Manning’s, or excuse me, Peyton, I see Peyton and Manning, Sean Payton, not
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8your neighbor.
Nestor Aparicio 20:51
Sean Payton, Sean Payton’s guys, I’m sorry, right,
Brandon Stokley 20:55
yeah. Uh, well, offensively, got Courtland son, big, big, physical wide receiver runs good routes. Other than that, don’t have much there at the wide receiver position, the running back spot. Now their home run hitters, Jalil McLaughlin, good running back, solid running back in his second year. And that’s about it as a running back spot, you both Nick’s. He’s very athletic. He can make you pay with his legs. Now he’s not Lamar Jackson. They will have some design runs for him. And when plays break down, he can make you pay for it, and he’s done a nice job of that through the first eight games of the season. Defensively, they got they got just a solid group. Got a good defensive front. Zach Allen came over two years ago. This is second year with the Broncos from Arizona. Really good interior lineman. They’re outside edge. Guys have done a good job of getting to the quarterback, Jonathan Cooper, Nick Benito and Jonah Ellis, a rookie that they drafted out of Utah, done a nice job. And you got Pat certain over there playing as good as any corner in the NFL this year, and they do have a unicorn. They got a unicorn on the other side of Sir tan. And I thought I made that unicorn extinct back in 2000 and Super Bowl 35 but the white cornerback has returned the white Yeah, I know son of Jason C horn are related to him, not sure. But we got, we’re still doing some DNA testing, but it I think the White quarterback has returned, and Riley Moss, he is, and he is balling really, really good player, tough competitor, can run, can jump, great athlete. So he’s done a great job in his second year out of Iowa. So just a really good group that plays hard, plays good team defense. Brandon Stokely
Nestor Aparicio 22:46
is our guest. He is a Super Bowl. Not is always will be a Super Bowl. 35 champion. Not was is always will be and out in Denver as a neighbor to Peyton Manning, alright, couple things to go through. You guys have Kansas City next week we get Cincinnati short rest on Thursday night, kind of. And Cincinnati, they’re another one that knows how to prepare for Lamar seeing him in, like all of that season falling apart for them, um, but the mahomes thing. You guys going to see him next week. We see him in our nightmares. Lamar sees him in the kryptonite, like all of the, all the part of that. You had that with Brady. You also sort of had that with Peyton Manning a little bit because nobody else could beat him. Um, when you have that guy, it’s just, what do you make of the next level of you know, now that you’re a generation out of football, to see this kid doing this again, where you always say, like, it’s too hard to be Michael Jordan, it’s too hard to be you can’t win three, you can’t win before you’re 30. No way he’s doing it.
8Brandon Stokley 23:44
Yeah, it’s been impressive. Uh, early on, you know, they had weapons around him, and you look at Kelsey and his prime Tyree kill, and all of a sudden they remade that football team and trade away, you know, one of the fastest and toughest guys to cover in the NFL, and Tyree kill, and they just keep doing it. And it’s it’s really remarkable. Now, their defense is really good, and they played really good over the last few years. But what he’s able to do when it matters the most, the guy just finds a way to make a play, right? It doesn’t matter. It can look ugly for three and a half quarters, but it seems like at the end of the football game, he’s going to find a way to make a play to win the game, and that’s what special players do. And I think the great thing about mahomes, to me is he doesn’t care about stats. He really doesn’t. And you know, it’s nice when you’ve had a lot of great stats and you want a lot of Super Bowls, I think it’s easier to to operate that way, that way, but he’s a team guy. His teammates love him, and he just goes out there and wants to win. Doesn’t care about stats.
Nestor Aparicio 24:48
Russell Wilson’s team, six and two, and they’re in first place. And my boy, Mike tomlin’s A witch, right? I mean, I don’t know how they do it, but could you have I mean, it’s crazy. You might think five and three for the Broncos are in your own market, or as crazy as we think five and three is here because everybody’s the the bars higher here, the Pittsburgh thing and the Second Life, third life for Russell Wilson, I should say, at this point, astonished by that. Or no, not at all. Just wrong guy, wrong team last year.
Brandon Stokley 25:18
No, I mean, we’ll see it’s two games for us, that’s it. What jets and Giants. So it’s not like he’s beating top tier teams right now. We got to put in perspective a little bit. Now he’s played well. He’s done but first quarter and a half against the Jets, they were pulling them off the field. We can’t forget that. But he said, Well, I always thought that would be a good fit for him. They play great defense, they got a good running game, and they’re not going to ask him to make a lot of plays, so just play within the confines of the offense, and you’ll be fine. I don’t know if he’s been humbled over the last couple of years that were that when he was with the Broncos, just right wasn’t the right fit, obviously, with Nathaniel Hackett last year. If you look at his stats, last year, stats were actually pretty dang good. Didn’t turn the football over, didn’t throw interceptions, and threw for, you know, up 2829 touchdowns. So the he, you know, I think if you put him in the right system, he can still play good football. I think Pittsburgh, obviously, they know how to win, and they gotta. It’s like the it’s like the Ravens. They just keep on doing it every single year.
Nestor Aparicio 26:24
8Well, I tell you, you know, I’m a Monday Night Football watcher, going back to Howard Cosell and wanting to watch those oiler jerseys and Dan pastorini and Earl Campbell and Billy white shoes dance in the end zone back when I was a kid on Monday Night Football. But this Manning cast thing I have, I don’t watch it a lot, but when Flacco was on, I put it on when dad was on for because I’ve had them all on my show. I’ve I know Peyton this much. I still think, like, you hang out with him three days a week, and you guys are like, really good friends. Last time I checked in, I don’t know if you are or not. But do you watch the man in care? I need to ask. I mean, he doesn’t listen to the show. You’ll never know. But do you watch the Manning cast?
Brandon Stokley 27:01
Well, we’re having to sleep over tonight at my house. Next week is going to be at his house. So, yeah, you know, we’re we don’t want to only hang out. We sleep over and we cook for each other and do all of that. No, I see I see him, you know, just depends. He’s a pretty busy guy. Nestor right now.
Nestor Aparicio 27:21
But you guys are, you know, you’re in the Manning brotherhood. You’re like in, like a nephew, like a cousin, sort of, right? I’m
Brandon Stokley 27:28
the long lost brother that or Son, and the long lost son that Archie never had. He tells me that every time I see him.
8Nestor Aparicio 27:34
I mean, that’s what I know. Look, if one of my best friends was doing Monday Night Football every week, I don’t know that I’d be committed to watching it. You know what? I mean? Like, I might watch Joe Bucha just to get away from him a little bit. My wife would. My wife doesn’t listen to the show.
Brandon Stokley 27:49
Yeah? Well, you know, Archie, like I said, was, was he tells me that I’m the athletic kid that he never had. So I always appreciate that perspective from him, and he’s awesome, but he’s
Nestor Aparicio 28:04
your favorite. Manning, probably, right. He’s everyone’s favorite. Manning, right? Oh, maybe, yeah,
Brandon Stokley 28:10
8yeah. Without a doubt, Archie’s the man. Love that guy. I know I watch it when I you know, when I’m around, I watch it. I don’t love the guest honestly. I like, I like what it’s Eli Peyton, and if you want to put bill in there, put bill in there, you know, that’s fine. I just like, I like to humor. I like to get their perspective of things. I don’t really care about whatever comedian you’re putting on there. That’s not why I’m watching it, you know. I want to watch some football, and I want to hear their thoughts, and I think they do a really good job of it. I did make my cameo on there a couple weeks ago, which was, which was fun. I was a prop now, so he was, he was talking about the back shoulder throw, so I was the receiver that he was throwing the football to. So that’s, that’s the extent of my, really, of my Manning extra 15
Nestor Aparicio 29:01
seconds instead of 15 minutes. That’s fine. I mean, you look, hang on as long as you can at being an honorary Manning member. You’ll always be an honorary Baltimore in here, and always be Super Bowl 35 champion. We love Brandon Stokely. You gotta get back to your Denver thing. I will see you on the other side sometime soon. So
Brandon Stokley 29:18
I got we what a kid that I coached in high school for two, for two years. Well, maybe it was one. He was just one year there. Roger Rosengarten wrote, yeah, you know, you know
Nestor Aparicio 29:32
he’s the right tackle that that,
8Brandon Stokley 29:35
that is my guy. So y’all take care of him over there in Baltimore, that’s my guy. I saw him coach, yeah, well, I wish I wasn’t really coaching him. He was awesome, and he’s a great guy, so I’m always pulling for him. And see him out there playing a little bit, which is good to see. So y’all take care of him. All right,
Nestor Aparicio 29:53
all right, you and me and Red Rock soon. Brandon Stokely, I’m Nestor. We’re W, N, S, D, A of 1570, task ball. More we never stop talking Baltimore, positive.
