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I'm Robert Mays.

Joining me today, it's our Broncos writer at the athletic, Nick Cosmiter. Nick, how you doing, man? I'm doing good, Robert. Thanks for having me. I appreciate you doing this. I know today has obviously been very hectic for you, as it always is, for our writers who cover teams that have just fired their head coach. And that is what has happened with the Broncos. Obviously, news came down. We were recording part two of our Week 16 recap. We hit it a little bit with me and Nate earlier, but wanted to take a step back and actually with some time to think about it, consider all the angles to it, talk with someone who has thought a lot about this and has had some time to think a lot about this. Before we dig into what comes next for the Broncos, everything that

led to this moment, Jerry Rosberg was just named the interim head coach for the Broncos. He was the

special assistant that the Broncos hired early this season to help with game management decisions.

I'm trying to say all of the company terms here as I explain who he was supposed to be and why.

What do you think about Rossberg being the interim over a guy like Adjero Evereaux who

works the players every day, has done a great job this year? It was a little bit surprising that

news, I think, to a lot of people. I was a little bit surprised by that. I think Egero Ewero,

you know, there's a little bit of a complicated dynamic there in that, I think Adjero Evereaux, you know, there's a little bit of a complicated dynamic there

in that, you know, Jero Everro is like one of Nathaniel Hickett's best friends, you know, on the planet. They were the best men at each other's weddings. Right. Just have been connected at the hip for a long time in this game. And so you do wonder whether there was any sort of reluctance on the on the part of

Everett, although I would imagine that, you know, Nathaniel Hackett would have, you know, would have

endorsed him to go ahead and take that, you know, for his own, his own career. But, you know, it is certainly

a different situation. Perhaps if it was had happened earlier and there was, there was more time for

Evera to actually gain something from that experience, maybe perhaps it would have been different. But with only two weeks to go, I'm just not sure how much you really would benefit, you know, kind of from getting that that run. Yeah, it doesn't really matter. You know, obviously I think that it would be nice for a GEO to get that chance to be a head coach in any capacity as he's trying to forward his career.

And I have to assume he'll be in demand this offseason as a defensive coordinator and maybe more.

I mean, based on how good of a coordinator he was over the course of this season, he will definitely be having some conversations with teams.

And that would have been a nice little feather in his cap for his resume.

But ultimately, probably not the most important thing. After yesterday, after that game against

the Rams in front of the entire national audience in front of children on Nickelodeon, which

real tough conversations with some parents and their kids after that game, I have to assume,

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