Were the Broncos in the wrong for how they handled the Daiyan Henley situation?

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:01)

Today on the DNVR Broncos Podcast, Jim Harbaugh is Butthurt, and we are going to do our bi-week awards. Let's get it all in right now.

DNVR Broncos Podcast on Friday. Coming to you from the Xfinity Studio, right here in downtown Denver, Colorado. And you have a first ever lineup. Today, RK here, of course, joined by DNVR General Manager Andre Simone. And on the ones and twos, we've got All-City Regional Production Manager. Is that right?

Andre Simone (0:42)

That's right.

SPEAKER_3 (0:44)

That's the correct title.

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:45)

Shane Diefenbach, who is famously related to undefeated UCLA starting quarterback, Ty Diefenbach.

Shane Diefenbach (0:54)

That's correct.

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:55)

I was going to ask.

Shane Diefenbach (0:55)

Big 10 player of the week.

Ryan Koenigsberg (0:57)

Big 10 player of the week.

Andre Simone (0:58)

You and Ty, you guys text in this season?

Shane Diefenbach (1:02)

He, I sent him a couple of nice texts, and he responded with one singular fire emoji response to my text message.

SPEAKER_5 (1:09)

I love that. I love that.

Shane Diefenbach (1:10)

We're really close right now.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:11)

You guys are tied in.

Shane Diefenbach (1:13)

Yeah.

SPEAKER_5 (1:13)

Fucking tied.

Shane Diefenbach (1:14)

Famously also friends with JoJo Siwa.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:17)

He is or you are?

Shane Diefenbach (1:18)

He is. Not me. Wow.

Andre Simone (1:21)

I'm familiar with that.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:24)

What about JoJo Williams?

SPEAKER_6 (1:25)

I'm friends with him. Yep.

Andre Simone (1:27)

Very nice. Nice young man.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:29)

Any other JoJo's in our life?

SPEAKER_6 (1:33)

No.

Andre Simone (1:33)

Okay. No. No JoJo's.

Ryan Koenigsberg (1:35)

We've got a lot to talk about today.

And I'm sure we'll figure out a way to make some nonsense in as well. No, I doubt it. But let's start with the trade deadline. I think this will probably be the last time we talk about it. It'd be nice. Until like a linebacker misses a tackle, then we'll have to hear every single time that happens about how Daiyan Henley would have made that play.

Andre Simone (1:59)

Okay, I need to.

Ryan Koenigsberg (2:00)

But at least in terms of a segment on the show dedicated to this, I do believe this will be a bow tied on the whole thing.

Andre Simone (2:08)

Nice.

Ryan Koenigsberg (2:09)

Yesterday, Jim Harbaugh spoke, which good things rarely happen when he does that.

But he was salty, very, very salty about the way things went down. I want to play the whole clip and then we'll react to it. And we'll also hear Mike Kliss or the Broncos. However, depending on how you look at it, of response to these claims. So let's hear from Jim Harbaugh.

SPEAKER_6 (2:38)

So what happened with the trade?

SPEAKER_5 (2:41)

What happened with the trade? Here's what I know from talking to Joe.

The Broncos based a pass fail on a medical grade based on whether we would take less compensation and we wouldn't and we didn't. And in my opinion, it's one of those loopholes that the league should really look into because it sets a bad precedent and continues to set a bad precedent.

SPEAKER_6 (3:12)

Is that something that even passed a deadline, or even allowed to do is renegotiate terms, depending on physical, in that part of the process, how does that work? It was already passed the deadline, by the time they had it in the law.

SPEAKER_5 (3:30)

Yeah, really, it shouldn't be, but apparently it is. That's why it's a loophole, and teams should not have the ability to do that. I mean, it's a medical grade, it's a pass fail for a medical grade, and they told us they weren't going to pass them if it was a fourth and a fifth, which was agreed upon, and they would not pass them for that. They would pass them for a fourth and a fill in the blank.

That was, I don't know what to call that, but that's what it is.

SPEAKER_6 (4:16)

So they trade down the second extension to it as part of the food adjustment program for them.

Ryan Koenigsberg (4:26)

There you go.

Andre Simone (4:28)

Very confusing.

Ryan Koenigsberg (4:29)

Gotta start by saying, that is a known ape man.

Andre Simone (4:33)

Yeah.

Ryan Koenigsberg (4:34)

That's kind of hard to watch.

Andre Simone (4:36)

He's been waiting all season to have something to get mad about that he can't blame himself for. Yeah.

Ryan Koenigsberg (4:42)

Yeah. That was like... Because, you know, I hate the Chargers. I've never really been a Harbaugh guy. But once in a while, he says something kind of funny. And he's got a good reel of things where he's, you know, just popping off, like calling Justin Herbert the greatest quarterback of all time and things like that.