Tom Green sits down with CBS4 Denver lead sports anchor Romi Bean for a wide-ranging conversation on women in sports journalism, finding your voice in media, and navigating public criticism in the age of social media. Romi reflects on her unconventional path into broadcasting, the challenges of being taken seriously early in her career, and how authenticity became the foundation of her success. The discussion also dives into Denver sports, including the Broncos’ playoff matchup with the Bills, Bo Nix’s growth, Sean Payton’s leadership style, and why this era may represent one of the greatest stretches in Colorado sports history. Sponsored in part by GolfDEN. Visit golf-den.com to learn more.
Tom Green welcomes Romi Bean of CBS4 Denver for an in-depth conversation about the evolution of women in sports media, the realities of building a broadcasting career without traditional journalism training, and the importance of developing an authentic voice. Romi opens up about her early struggles with imposter syndrome, the stigma she faced after beginning her career as a Broncos cheerleader, and how she learned to establish herself as a respected sports journalist in a demanding industry. The discussion explores how social media has changed audience engagement, the pressure and criticism women in broadcasting continue to face, and why mental toughness is essential in modern media.
The conversation then shifts to Colorado sports, where Romi and Tom break down the Broncos’ playoff matchup with Buffalo, the pressure surrounding Josh Allen versus Bo Nix, and the role of defense and leadership in postseason football. They also reflect on the Nuggets, Avalanche, and the broader golden era of Denver sports, along with insights into locker room culture across different professional leagues. It’s a thoughtful, candid episode that blends media perspective with deep sports knowledge and personal storytelling.
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Tom Green
Hi, there. Welcome to another edition of the other Tom green show. Today I want to talk a little bit about women in journalism and, the path that they have taken, whether it be print or broadcast. And, start with a little story that as a boy, I grew up in New York City, and my godmother, Vivian Farrar, actually became the first woman to read the news and do the weather at a major station.
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Tom Green
She worked at Wpix, channel 11, in New York. And so when I grew up, I'd see my godmother doing the weather. And I think, well, that's normal women on TV. And then you come to realize it was pretty much all men reading you the news, reading you the sports, telling you about the weather. But she broke through. It was 60 years ago here in Denver that Dorothy Mock started to write a sports column for the Denver Post.
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Tom Green
She became the first woman nationally to have such a role working in a sports department full time. She had to work hard at it, but Dorothy Mock certainly was a legend in pushing women forward in journalism in Colorado and in America. Nationally, we've seen other women break through. Phyllis George famously on the NFL today. Gail sirens. Not until the late 80s, the first woman to do play by play of an NFL football game.
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Tom Green
Well, times have certainly changed. Opportunities are growing for women. But where does it stand right now? We're going to get a great chance to look through the lens of one such woman who's at the top of her game. Romi bean is our guest today, and I want to tell you a little bit about our friends at Golf Den.
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Tom Green
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Tom Green
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Tom Green
Okay. All righty.
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Tom Green
All right. Our guest today is Romi Bean from CBS sports. Great to see you. Thanks for coming in.
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Romi Bean
Thanks for having me on. This is exciting.
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Tom Green
So I talked a little bit about women in television, women in sports. And it's, you know, I've been around a long time, so I've seen that art grow a little bit. But you seem very comfortable in your position as the lead sports anchor at channel four.
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Romi Bean
Yeah. You know, it's I feel like it's something I've really grown into, and it took a lot of time. And one of those things that it's so cool to see the way the growth of, of women in sports and what it looked like even when I started, to now and jumping into becoming the first lead female sports anchor in Denver TV history, that was kind of crazy to me because it felt that, gosh, I can't remember what year it was at this point, but we're this far into the 2000s and there hasn't been one right before.
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Romi Bean
And so that was, I think, for me, an incredible responsibility and exciting to be able to step into that role and be hopefully, you know, a role model for other women. But since then, to see how many more women have come into this business, continually come into this business, and you look at all the people that have come before me and will continue to come after me.
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Romi Bean
It's just an exciting time.
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Tom Green
But Jenni Kavner did the show with me a while back, and she talked about that, that responsibility that when you do it now, there are young girls who are watching and saying, I can do that. But, you know, there wasn't one for her. But you didn't really grow up with it. With a youth career path pointing towards doing television or TV sports.
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Romi Bean
Yeah. No, I, people always say, how'd you get into this? I say, I fell backwards into it, so to speak, if you will. I grew up, I went to business school at Siu. I didn't study journalism, which has been one of those interesting things that, especially at the beginning of my career, a lot of imposter syndrome, which was such a challenge.
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Romi Bean
Right. Dealing with that plus kind of being a woman, trying to figure out what I'm doing and not being classically trained. But I think what's so beautiful about this business is especially sports specifically, it's different news, but sports, so much of it has to do with adding a tinge of your personality, you know, here and there and people can get the highlights anywhere.
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Romi Bean
They can look up a box score anywhere. So what can you bring to the table that's different? So I think for me, not being classically trained actually gave me a little bit of a different edge because it forced me to really dive into my authentic self and, and rely on that because I didn't necessarily have training to fall back on.
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Romi Bean
I mean, I was at first year, it was like I was learning everything, you know, breathing through a, fire hose, as they say. I remember I came on, you know, on TV, they call it a Mozart. So that's video and then a sound bite and they said, all right, do a voice on it. And I said, what's that?
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Romi Bean
Yeah. And my crew looked at me because they had just spent all these years live, working with Vic Lombardi and Gary Miller and the best of the best. Like, I can't even imagine what they were thinking. What is.
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Tom Green
She's not ready.
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Romi Bean
What do we have here? Yeah, but all of that just pushed me to work that much harder and to really dive into the role and eventually make it my own. But at first it was like, I just got to prove that I belong here.
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Tom Green
Well, you have a lot of qualities that I really admire. When I watch you, you and I have talked at length at times, but, you know, you have authenticity, which sometimes it's hard to get, but you also have a lot of positivity that you translate, about the way you feel, but also about the teams in Denver and a lot of energy.
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Tom Green
You work as hard as anyone. You're always everywhere. But those are are those natural qualities or those things that you feel is their responsibility that you have to develop and continue to drive.
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Romi Bean
Yeah, I think what the positivity is like. I just love sports. Right? And when young women or people, men ask me like, you know, what's the key to this business? And you'll hear this, you'll hear people say it all over and over again. You have to love it. The hours of this, this job are so silly. Yeah.
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Romi Bean
You know, and you give up your nights and your weekends and your holidays. But if you love it, you know, I think that passion just comes out because I love it. And being from Denver, getting to cover the teams that I grew up cheering for, literally and figuratively, I think adds to it. Kind of the institutional knowledge of having been here for all the years and understanding the history of this team, these teams.
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Romi Bean
When you look at the landscape of this year, where they are now. Yeah, how can you not be positive about it? Because you also understand that these times are fleeting. You know, you never know you sometimes you can have longer dynasties. And in hockey and basketball I mean, look at the Lions. Everyone thought they were Super Bowl contender.
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Romi Bean
They're out of the playoffs this year. So you know you have to enjoy the moments. You really do because they can leave so fast in sports. So I think I look at it from that lens a lot.
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Tom Green
When you talk about cheering for teams, obviously you were a Broncos cheerleader. You cheered in high school at Cherry Creek.
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Romi Bean
Yeah, I was a dancer. The dance on the dance team.
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Tom Green
And then. But it saying you're a former Bronco cheerleader, is that a double edged sword to some people? Give you credit for that or to some people say, you know, she's a cheerleader.
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Romi Bean
Well, you know, it's so funny about that. Time is when I first started. That's how I got into this business, right? Because I met Andy Lindahl, who was on the sidelines and I kind of expressed a little interest, and I'm kind of curious about that career. And he was so generous with his time and and teaching me the ropes a little bit.
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Romi Bean
And had I not been a Broncos cheerleader, I would not be here where I am today. So it is so much a piece of who I am and how I got here. And so but when I first kind of stepped into my role in television, I was kind of told, you know, maybe, maybe don't talk about being a cheerleader so much, right?
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Romi Bean
Which was really hard for me because I was a really proud of it, you know, and proud of the accomplishment of doing it. And the woman who helped me grow into, become and also knowing that war, I got here in so many ways because of that. So that was for me initially was a big challenge because it had always been such a positive, you know, and in the community, people always thought it was so awesome, right?
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Romi Bean
And it was such a positive. And all of a sudden it was almost looked at. I don't want to say a negative, but it was there was a lot of people and I would get comments all the time. You know, you're just she's just a cheerleader who wants to be on TV all the time. So it was like I had to break that stigma and I so I had it was a double edged sword in the sense that I had to prove that I belonged on this stage without the classical training of journalism school, being a woman in sports, and on top of that, being a cheerleader.
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Romi Bean
So people, a lot of people just thinking I was just a big fluff piece, right? And I was there for all the wrong reasons. And, you know, even internally, it was interesting. I kind of thought covering the Broncos, that it would be like, oh, you know, you were one of us, but it it wasn't at all. Yeah.
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Romi Bean
And it was, it was a very strange energy, I think initially and so but but now let me take it to it's come so full circle because it was one of those things where once I got to the point where I accepted that and I understood, like what my bosses were saying, we want you to establish yourself as Romi.
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Romi Bean
The sports journalist. Yeah, not Romi the cheerleader. Then it became less hurtful and I was like, okay, okay, I understand. And then coming kind of back around to being able to really talk about it again. And so I'd always say, yeah, how did you get your start? And. Well, I was a cheerleader and I did a radio interview and blah, blah, blah, blah blah and so on and so forth is one of those things that's kind of validating in the sense of, I've made it as Romi, the sports journalist.
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Romi Bean
And so Romi, the cheerleader is also another piece of my life. But you can kind of talk about, again, does that make sense?
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Tom Green
Yeah, but I think people who don't know would look at the through line and go, she was a cheerleader. She went on TV, of course, she she's very pretty. But I'm looking at it and going, that isn't how it went. There was there were some you had to work very hard behind the scenes to grow as a broadcaster, to commit to the career before the TV camera found you or you found the career in front of the camera.
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Romi Bean
Yeah, absolutely. It was a lot of and it felt like a lot of catching up because it started a lot of people. Obviously you'll study in school and you get your internships. And, you know, I started in my late 20s with it. And so it was a lot of kind of self-starter and finding mentors and luckily I had some amazing mentors.
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Romi Bean
And working my way back up, I started at the bottom of radio. I moved back in with my parents, you know, so that I could afford to do that and work my way up. But I think that's how it is with probably almost any career. People think, oh, you just got here, you're on TV or you do X, Y, or Z, but it's never that.
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Romi Bean
There's so much under like the iceberg under the water that you got to do to, to really climb up and get there. And so radio was such, I think, a good practice for me because it was so different in TV and it being more working my way up and fighting to get airtime and all of those little pieces and being a producer, being behind the scenes, I think was such a blessing because then you really a learn all the different aspects of it and like it makes you more grateful for, for me.
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Romi Bean
You know, I did always kind of want to be on air. So getting that on air time, knowing that it's because you work your way up the ranks, makes you more grateful to be there.
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Tom Green
Now in radio, you were you were like board a producer when you started, but they brought you on the air because you strike me as someone like you said, you wanted to get on the air, but it's like you get something to say, yeah, you've got something to say. And they started to create space for you. And you capitalized on the space that was created.
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Romi Bean
But I think it and it was one of those challenges of, of really finding your voice. Because when you're kind of going into, you know, sports journalism from just being a fan, it's you kind of come in first, first and foremost with that fan perspective and seeing how it kind of shifts and change and the finding your voice can be a challenge because especially when I first started there, it's almost overwhelming you.
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Romi Bean
You watch and you listen to all of these really accomplished, you know, people in their work. And I do think early on, I spent a lot of time trying to copy this first and try to copy this person because that's what they're doing, and they're successful or that, well, they're saying that so that works or that works, that works.
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Romi Bean
And it was kind of one failure after another because it wasn't me. And so it was really until I realized, well, what is what is Romi stance on it? And being confident in that, because knowing that when you're going to say that people, people like to dog on the media anyway, so they're not going to like it, and then there's going to be some people that don't like it because I'm a girl, you know, and then there's going to be some people that don't like it because maybe it's not that great of a take, which is fine as well.
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Romi Bean
But being kind of growing that thicker skin, I think I grew up, I didn't have very thick skin, and this business has helped me develop that, which is great because nobody, no matter what you do in life, not everybody's going to like it. So initially it was like, oh, I'd be hurt when I get so much negative feedback.
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Romi Bean
But all of that helped me grow. And then realize, you got to stick to your guns, right? What is your voice can't cave in because this person does like it or this person doesn't like it. But all that's such a growing process. And the thing is, you can only do it by doing it for me, because of the kind of pathway I took, I all I did all that in the Denver market, which is a little unusual.
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Romi Bean
A lot of times you can go make your mistakes in a smaller market. Nobody's going to remember Jacksonville, you know, small market. There you go. Right. But so for me, it was very much on display for, for in this market. And that was always kind of a challenge too.
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Tom Green
You talked about your bosses though, trying to, grow you a bit as, as Romi, the sports journalist. So there's input that you do have to listen to to some, regardless when you're hearing it from above. But when I talked about at the beginning, those those ceilings that existed for women before, have you looked at that or have you even felt it at times that there is some sort of, cap on growth, or do you have an awareness of where it was before, before you came along?
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Romi Bean
I think I have so much gratitude and respect for the women who have come before me. I think about, you know, Marsha Neville.
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Tom Green
Sure.
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Romi Bean
Coming down in the helicopter and everybody, you know, loved Marsha, but but Marsha was the only one doing that, you know, or you look at Susie Ward and all these women who've come before where it was so much more challenging. I feel that really blessed, I think for the era I'm in and it's so and honestly, it's so much better now, even when it was than when I started.
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Romi Bean
I feel like I don't look at it that way, like I'm aware that there are there can be, I guess, limitations. But I don't really look at it that way because I think for me, when I first started, I felt like I looked at it a lot that way and kind of had that. You know, mentality of maybe I'm not getting where I want to go.
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Romi Bean
Maybe. Does it have to do with the fact that I'm a female? And and for me, I feel like that was something that almost felt like an excuse, like it was like, no, Romi. Because. Because you got to be better. Because you have to improve. That's why you're not where you're at. It doesn't have to do necessarily with your gender.
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Romi Bean
And start.
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Tom Green
With yourself.
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Romi Bean
Start with yourself, you know? Man, woman, frog. It doesn't matter. You got to be the best at what you do. If you want to get those opportunities. So for me, I think that it's always been more about looking at from a positive lens. And I do feel like you have to surround yourself with the right people. Think we talk a lot about in this business about women, women supporting women, which is so important.
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Romi Bean
But we can't forget all of the men that really champion women and want them to be part of this business. And look at me as, you know, a professional, not as a female professional. All of my mentors, most of them have been male. And so I think that for me, I was I'm maybe blessed to be an opportunity where I, I try to really ignore the, the what's it like the,
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Romi Bean
The people, the attitudes that we're like, we don't like you because you're a female. Because there are. And I honestly, I had a Boston radio that really that was definitely.
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Tom Green
The line that was.
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Romi Bean
That was a big part of it. And maybe it's like, you know, maybe it's like you forget it. It's like the ex, you forget it and you just remember the good parts because that was kind of, a while ago. But those are things that I think just help me grow stronger and, you know, made me better. I really think so.
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Romi Bean
I just I look at the landscape in a really positive way because I think there's so many more outlets, so many more avenues to for women to get into this business. And it feels like it does just continue to grow. I think. Sure, there will always be roadblocks, but I really feel like there's a lot more people that want to see women succeed in this business than don't, and the ones that don't, they're always going to be there.
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Tom Green
Have a nice day.
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Romi Bean
That's fine.
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Tom Green
Have a nice day.
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Romi Bean
But the people that matter, I feel like a lot of them want you. If you if you're good at your job.
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Tom Green
Sure, sure. So it's the feedback that you get because I've, you know, been in the business for a long time. And feedback used to come in the form of an occasional phone call or a letter, and that evolved into email and that evolved into social media. And now but I was always stunned at the volume and the gritty, hard nature of some of the comments that my female coworkers would get.
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Tom Green
I mean, I was stunned that people would actually write these things down or send them, and I imagine you felt that as well. And these are things that you got to think nobody would say to you in person.
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Romi Bean
Yeah. I mean, I think some of the emails I still get are crazy. And I do get the, you know, go back to the kitchen, go. So weird.
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Tom Green
I really do still like yeah.
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Romi Bean
Which is just hilarious. And those are less and less. But I still get those. And you know, honestly a lot of the mean emails are from other women. So it's one of those things that you think oh men don't want women in this sphere. But it's not always that there's women that don't like women in the sports sphere.
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Romi Bean
Right. And that's okay. But you have to realize that. But that's who they are. And if they want again going back to it, you can't please everybody. But it is wild. Some of the emails that I get and a lot of, emails and most messages and DMs on, you know, on my appearance and my clothing choices and, and etc., etc., etc., you know, my, I got one recently from a woman who didn't like what I wear and feels I have a limited sports knowledge and blah, blah, blah.
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Romi Bean
And she said it much meaner than that, you know. And so I always like to write back and I just say, thanks for your feedback. Have a great day.
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Tom Green
Good to hear.
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Romi Bean
You know, thanks for letting me know. Appreciate you writing. And and I never hear back from them.
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Tom Green
But you, and, and all the women I've worked with are so harshly judged on your appearance and age, pregnancies, things that that women go through that, that people are just, say, the most often cruel things. And there was the Australian guy who did their Good Morning America show, wore the same suit for a year, and nobody said a thing.
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Tom Green
And it was one of those things, an example of of men and women being treated entirely differently by our viewing public. So, you know, I don't know if it's getting any better because with social media now, I imagine that becomes another form of input for you that you have to weigh and measure and kind of go, do I care what X4309 has to say about me?
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Romi Bean
Yeah. Or shout out to Adam Troutman with Dragon Slayer 69 things about my outfit. You don't like it, you know what? But it is true. With everything. I always make the joke. Oh, I'm just a few years away from aging out of TV and, you know, everybody giggles and laughs, but there's like a piece of reality underneath it that, you know, as a man, you can get gray and you're distinguished, right?
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Tom Green
Gesturing at me at the old. Yeah, when you age like you do age time.
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Romi Bean
Okay. You're not like you're not, you're not even full gray. No.
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Tom Green
I'm trying.
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Romi Bean
You know, it looks nice, but again, it's nice. It's distinguished. I can't go full gray. So there is a reality underneath that. That is a harsh reality. And one of those that I think is a bit tough to grapple with. You have to, realize that I think part of it is a reality of this business. So but you can't dwell on it and ruminate on it because then it's just it's just going to affect the work.
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Romi Bean
And with the social media aspect of it and the in regards to how I look and what I'm wearing, and I get it, I mean, the nastiest comments all the time. They always joke. My DMs are a dangerous place, like, don't go in there. But you know what? It's one of those things I talked about developing thick skin in this business.
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Romi Bean
It just comes with it being a public personality, whether that's in media or you're an influencer or whatever you are, whether it's right or wrong or indifferent, people feel they have the right to tell you really nasty things. And unfortunately, that's just part of it. And I think it's one of those things that you just have to separate, and you can't let the negative comments dictate how you're going to operate or what you're going to do.
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Romi Bean
Because if you think about it from an athlete perspective, you said earlier the things that people say like, oh man, you ugly, right? Okay. They would never it's the same thing as fans when they'll go online and be like, this player sucks. Would you say that to us? I never would say that to his face. So I used to remember a lot of times people probably wouldn't say, you know, if somebody came out to my face and said, I think you're ugly.
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Romi Bean
I might say, well, I respect you for saying to my face, thanks, that's so nice. It's better than with a profile with no picture on it. Yeah.
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Tom Green
So when I was doing TV sportscasting, that was how people saw you. And that was pretty much the end of it. Was those four minutes. Six minutes, whatever you had on the air to do sports. Then when I did radio, there's a lot more room for personality. You get to say things, comment on things, joke around with people, whether it's callers or guests or whatever.
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Tom Green
And, now with social media, you also get to send out what you want people to know about you. With work and outside of work, and you do that, you share a little bit about yourself. You try to let people know who you are and things like that. Is that also on your side, a bit of a fine line that you walk, or do you just go, look, here I am, this is me.
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Tom Green
Deal with it.
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Romi Bean
Yeah. You know, I think I'm more the latter now, but it is one of those things that, as it's grown, it was a challenge at first because it did feel like this really fine line. And again, going back to trying to establish myself, you know, as this professional, can I post this? Can I post this? But then every single time I fall back on authenticity, is this me?
00;25;24;28 - 00;25;43;23
Romi Bean
Is this who wrote me is right? And if it is, then I feel totally okay posting it, you know? And it all. I think people now are wanting to get to know who you are more because of social media, and it's who is that person. There's a lot of people that are honestly, I don't think I've ever seen me on TV.
00;25;43;25 - 00;25;44;05
Tom Green
They know.
00;25;44;08 - 00;26;06;00
Romi Bean
They know me from from social media, and then vice versa. There's people on TV who don't watch me on social media. So it's really interesting. So I think it's just another avenue to connect with your community. And that's the way I like to look at it, because that's a lot of fun. And you grow and you build this little community, like minded or not, in a way that you can't always on TV because there isn't the back and forth.
00;26;06;01 - 00;26;06;19
Tom Green
So one way.
00;26;06;20 - 00;26;10;21
Romi Bean
It's a one way. So this one being it a two way, I think that's what's really fun about it.
00;26;10;28 - 00;26;25;05
Tom Green
And you do engage you because you talk about writing people back who but and social media you do. You try to understand who you're speaking with by engaging or do you just kind of this was fun. Thanks.
00;26;25;10 - 00;26;43;02
Romi Bean
You know, I think I think it depends how much energy I have left in my in my social battery, really. But I do try to because I find that I think a lot of times if I'll just posted, not respond, then it then it becomes that one way street again. I think what's fun about social media is that it can be you kind of form these friendships with strangers.
00;26;43;02 - 00;26;52;29
Romi Bean
You know, for me, the challenge is always to not respond to the negative ones. Sometimes I just want to. Yeah, but what you realize is, like, you can't fuel those because they're just waiting for you to get back.
00;26;53;02 - 00;26;54;02
Tom Green
It'll keep going it. Right.
00;26;54;03 - 00;27;07;06
Romi Bean
Yeah. And but the people that are, you know, that I'll meet people, you know, on my live shows that are on location and say, hey, I'm this, this and this on social media. Oh my gosh, we talk all the time. And that's I love that. That's that's such a joy.
00;27;07;09 - 00;27;26;08
Tom Green
So you mentioned that the the shows you do live like the Monday show. I've enjoyed doing this show because it's the the broader format as opposed to that compact news hole. You'd have to fill as a sportscaster on, on the nightly news. Do you enjoy that part of it? You always get great guests, but it seems like that's like more fun for you.
00;27;26;08 - 00;27;45;01
Romi Bean
Yeah, that's I think my favorite part of the job is those live shows, because it's getting to sit down with great people, whether it's athletes or coaches in a different setting than a locker room scrum, where we're getting, you know, a lot of the, you know, you kind of know what you've been doing this long enough, you know, what answers you're going to get right.
00;27;45;05 - 00;28;13;27
Romi Bean
And a situation where you don't really kind of get to know them. And it's I think it's so nice to get to sit down and talk ball with them, but then also get to talk about, like, their lives with them. And my favorite thing is when I ask guys about, you know, their kids or I always look on their social media, we'll find something funny on their, you know, or interesting on there, or, you know, and kind of see them light up, talk about something else is is what I really enjoy and feel like you get to get to know these people that you see and you work with.
00;28;13;27 - 00;28;29;22
Romi Bean
Quote, quote, so much during the week, right? I mean, these Broncos players, you see them in the locker room three days a week. You know, you see them post game and you feel like you see them all the time, but you get to know them outside of the uniform. And that's kind of an opportunity to do that.
00;28;29;22 - 00;28;38;16
Romi Bean
And I really, really treasure and relish those moments to kind of build those working relationships and to see them outside of the guy who just plays ball.
00;28;38;21 - 00;28;41;08
Tom Green
Yeah. In the locker room, sometimes you can tell they're playing a part.
00;28;41;10 - 00;28;41;25
Romi Bean
Yeah.
00;28;41;26 - 00;28;50;06
Tom Green
And I got everybody. Some guys are pretty frank, some guys are pretty honest, but others just I have to perform this interview and get on with my day.
00;28;50;06 - 00;29;07;12
Romi Bean
And, you know, some of them, like, I get it, they've been asked the same question over and over or whatever. And they're great with, you know, giving us their time and always appreciative of their time, but especially now, more and more this day and age of social media, I think there's guys are maybe a little more careful, you know, about what they say.
00;29;07;12 - 00;29;27;12
Romi Bean
And and they always give us great respectful answers. And it's never an issue, you know, but I think to be able to kind of sit down a little more relaxed setting. And I also get it to there's 14 microphones in your face and 14, you know, cell phones and then a bunch of big cameras and you kind of want to just get in, get on, get on with your life.
00;29;27;12 - 00;29;47;01
Romi Bean
I always joke, we're like walking into these guys bathroom, you know? Yeah. So, you know, I get it. And you try and keep it. Keep it. I always try and keep it short. Keep it limited. Respect their time. Yeah. So you just you just get, you know, a little time with them. So to have a setting where you can kind of actually sit down and expand on questions and there's not ten people asking questions.
00;29;47;01 - 00;29;58;19
Romi Bean
So you really kind of get a chance to ask one, because you got to make sure everybody else gets one. Right. So, you know, that's all part of the job. But to get to sit down and kind of talk to them longer form is, it's a gift, I love it.
00;29;58;26 - 00;30;19;16
Tom Green
It's a common thought that the hockey players are the best guys. I throw in the baseball players is the worst guys. And then you put, you know, basketball in in football in the middle there somewhere. And my theory here's my theory on this is that at the end of a hockey game, they're spent at the end of a football game.
00;30;19;16 - 00;30;44;00
Tom Green
The guys you're talking to are spent the basketball player. You're talking to is spent. The baseball players run to first base four times to maybe track down two ground balls, and they've been there for eight hours, you know, chewing and and drinking coffee. I think they're wired and really want to be athletic. And yet baseball rarely allows you to actually be spent at the end of a game unless you've pitched or caught the game.
00;30;44;00 - 00;30;47;26
Tom Green
So but do you agree? The hockey players, they seem to be the easiest guys.
00;30;47;26 - 00;31;04;05
Romi Bean
Yeah, I think that is kind of a universal. And that's not really a knock on anybody else. It's more a credit to the hockey players is just you. Well first of all hockey locker room is is the best. The game ends and you are in there right. So every other one you're waiting and you could be waiting. There's the cool off period.
00;31;04;12 - 00;31;20;10
Romi Bean
You just go in there. Guys are still suited up. And they're always just incredibly honest. It feels like there's nothing off limits, right? You know, you can kind of ask them anything, and and you just get kind of the real raw answers. And I think a lot of it has to do people talk about the like, hockey culture.
00;31;20;10 - 00;31;38;06
Romi Bean
And I'll talk about this with, you know, like NFL players or a lot of like other athletes as well. And they kind of will gravitate to the same sense. Just the hockey culture is just fantastic and it's just different. And I think it's just a different mentality. And, you know, I don't know, I wish I could pinpoint exactly what it is.
00;31;38;09 - 00;31;56;12
Romi Bean
The hockey players are just incredible to deal with there. Make it so easy. I find that NFL players are fantastic. Yeah, maybe because they spend so much time around them. But I find that they're pretty honest and frank as well, you know, and it's one of those things that I think sometimes you look at the differences too. So hockey and basketball and even baseball, they play so many games.
00;31;56;19 - 00;32;06;09
Romi Bean
So for a lot of these guys, it's not it's not life or death with the questions. Right. It's almost like more of like a conversation. And it's not that big. Not that it's not that big of a deal. But you know.
00;32;06;15 - 00;32;07;22
Tom Green
We're doing it again. We're doing it.
00;32;07;22 - 00;32;08;06
Romi Bean
Again two.
00;32;08;06 - 00;32;08;19
Tom Green
Days.
00;32;08;26 - 00;32;27;11
Romi Bean
You know, and and then but with football you lose. And you know, every game feels like that could be your season. Yeah. And so sometimes you know those questions I think you have to be a little bit more delicate or just make sure you're structuring it in the right way because it's such a different setting. I think then if you go into a hockey locker room, you know, it's funny with baseball you say baseball.
00;32;27;12 - 00;32;30;24
Romi Bean
And honestly, I don't do that much baseball, right? Because.
00;32;31;01 - 00;32;31;17
Tom Green
Why is that?
00;32;31;17 - 00;32;47;10
Romi Bean
Well, we're so busy. And Ryan McMahon, bless his heart, who's, you know, obviously not here anymore, but we'd have, like, this running joke. I always show up an opening day and you say, nice of you to come once a year. Yeah. And I would say, Ryan, give me, give me another reason to show up. But kind of as a joke.
00;32;47;10 - 00;33;01;27
Romi Bean
But at the same time, when we, whenever I do cover baseball, a lot of them go work out afterwards. Like, they have these really different schedules where hockey, you go in there and football, you go in there in the locker room time that's dedicated. You just you want to get in, you want to get out and you get as many guys as you can.
00;33;02;00 - 00;33;10;00
Romi Bean
Baseball. It's like he could be waiting and he's watching film and he's eating dinner and he's working out. And so you don't get half the guys you need. So I think the structure of baseball makes it more challenging.
00;33;10;06 - 00;33;24;17
Tom Green
I have a lot of Denver sports to talk about with you, but I want to talk about your locker room, the CBS four locker room. At the end of a broadcast, you guys go back down to the locker room. And is it is it a lot of bitterness, a lot of anger, happiness? You guys get along okay.
00;33;24;22 - 00;33;29;26
Tom Green
Wait. You and Michael and Karen, you know, the CBS four locker room?
00;33;29;26 - 00;33;31;00
Romi Bean
Oh, yeah. After the.
00;33;31;00 - 00;33;32;08
Tom Green
10:00 show, it was a pretty.
00;33;32;08 - 00;33;54;15
Romi Bean
Uptight, like always, you know? You know, that's why I love doing sports. Because I think news can be hard sometimes, you know? And people are. It's a lot of a lot of downers. So I always say sports is like the desert. So I really enjoy coming in there in that. We talked about that positivity earlier. I think that's also why I try to bring that, because there's a lot of stuff happening in the world.
00;33;54;15 - 00;34;15;06
Romi Bean
And so to be able to bring something, sports is an escape for so many. So to know that you're the person that gets to decide how those stories are told is and you can do it in a positive way. I think it is fantastic. It's why I really like it. And of course, we got Rod Mackey and, you know, sports locker room now, which is fun, you know, to have him over from from across the street, as he likes to say.
00;34;15;08 - 00;34;22;25
Romi Bean
So it's fun. I think so much who you work with is so important. And you have a really great team and that makes such a big difference.
00;34;22;25 - 00;34;28;07
Tom Green
Yeah. And when you took over, you took over for Michael. Michael took over because Benjamin quit.
00;34;28;08 - 00;34;28;26
Romi Bean
Yeah.
00;34;28;26 - 00;34;29;12
Tom Green
Quitter.
00;34;29;13 - 00;34;30;23
Romi Bean
Danny left. Michael left.
00;34;30;23 - 00;34;41;18
Tom Green
Sports. So having Michael there was that good? Awkward. How did that feel when you were doing what was his job as he moved over to the Anchorage?
00;34;41;19 - 00;35;05;11
Romi Bean
Yeah. And honestly was so great. He was such a good sounding board for me. There was so many things where to have had such a good working relationship with him, where it's, I would just walk in the newsroom a lot of times and just pick his brain about this, that or the other, or when I took over, you know, that Monday show with the player guests and to pick his brain about, how he did that and, and kind of you know, the do's and don'ts and little things like that.
00;35;05;11 - 00;35;31;00
Romi Bean
It was it was so great to have him on site to be able to ask those questions. I think that helped me ease into the role in a lot of ways, because there was things that I wouldn't have even necessarily thought of. And, you know, he would lend a hand of advice. But even now, sometimes I'll go and he's kind of so far removed from sports, but I always try and drag him back in, you know, it's, and I'll just ask his opinion on it because I feel like we had such a good working relationship.
00;35;31;00 - 00;35;40;22
Romi Bean
It was, I couldn't have asked for a better situation. I'm so glad that he was in that same building. That helped me tremendously, I think, to move into that role.
00;35;40;24 - 00;36;03;16
Tom Green
So here we are in this magic place in Colorado sports right now, where the Broncos, as we record this, getting ready to take on the bills in the playoffs, the nuggets are playing through an amazing array of injuries and playing brilliantly. And the avalanche are just shredding the NHL on their way to the Olympic break. And spring training starts soon.
00;36;03;19 - 00;36;24;10
Tom Green
So, it must be hard to balance at this point. I mean, the Broncos become the preeminent story until they're done, and then you get post-Olympic break, post all star break and watch the the Avs and Nuggets go at it. But, this has been several years of the best of Colorado sports across the board.
00;36;24;12 - 00;36;42;15
Romi Bean
I mean it's unbelievable. It's unreal that the time that we're living in and I think having an awareness that it could end tomorrow, I think when you went down with that hyperextension and thankfully it was just a hyperextension, but it was that everyone's biggest fear though. Look at this team. Without your coach, they're six and three without your right there in the two C without yoga.
00;36;42;17 - 00;37;02;16
Romi Bean
But nonetheless, I mean this is the best basketball player on the planet. And those are the moments where you realize, oh my gosh, this could end tomorrow. Yeah, that could have been, you know, way worse. And so you just have to enjoy where we're at right now because where we're at is is unreal. I always I kind of keep thinking about it.
00;37;02;16 - 00;37;20;03
Romi Bean
It feels like there's been so many times where we've had two good teams. I don't know if there's a time where we've got three, three that are really genuine championship contenders, and I mean Nuggets and Avs have been on top of their game for so long already. It's just incredible this this window that we're in with.
00;37;20;05 - 00;37;24;13
Tom Green
They've already pocketed a couple of championships. So you know it's now we're in the gravy part.
00;37;24;13 - 00;37;41;10
Romi Bean
And championships are hard to win. But you feel like both are going to come away with at least one more. You know before before the legends the MacKinnon's and the coaches are not there anymore. You know. And the Broncos, you know, it's one of those things that in so many ways, you know, football is the heartbeat of the city.
00;37;41;10 - 00;38;01;14
Romi Bean
And so it's when they were down for that kind of eight year stretch. It's fun to see them back where they're at now, where they're competing, where we kind of say, this is the expectation that you've always had for the Denver Broncos. Is is to compete because, you know, there's just a vibe. There's just such a fun vibe around the city.
00;38;01;14 - 00;38;17;05
Romi Bean
And to see people with such a great Colorado is is a great sports town. I always tell people that, like, people here love sports. They want to root for their teams, even the Rockies. Look at the attendance. Right. So you hope the Rockies can get back there? I would love to have a playoff baseball. I've heard it's amazing.
00;38;17;10 - 00;38;42;08
Tom Green
Yeah it is. I mean, I think we're years away from that, sadly, as things sit now. But so the Broncos, getting ready for Buffalo. It's a it's a tough matchup for them in that the bills may be in. We'll find out in a few days and we may find out in a week or so. They may be that team that has that destiny feel to it like the Broncos did in, you know, way back when in 98.
00;38;42;11 - 00;38;53;03
Tom Green
So you wonder, you know, what are they going to put in front of Josh Allen. Yeah. How good can they be. Because they didn't seem like they were playing their best football at the end of the regular season?
00;38;53;03 - 00;39;07;01
Romi Bean
Yeah I honestly I can't wait. I mean this is what playoffs is all about. And it is one of those things where you look at the bills and man, they're banged up. But Josh Allen just puts on that that superhero cape. And I think even Vance Joseph said they always knew they're going to get to the Super Bowl is going to go through Josh Allen.
00;39;07;04 - 00;39;24;11
Romi Bean
And I always think Josh Allen must have the world. The weight of the world on his shoulders. There's no Mahomes, there's no burrow. Every every one, every national outlet is saying he's got to win it this year. It's a lot of pressure on him. You know. And I think for the Broncos it's last year. They were just happy to be in the dance.
00;39;24;12 - 00;39;32;00
Romi Bean
Yeah this year they have high expectations. But I think the pressure is different than it than it is. On Josh Allen. There is pressure.
00;39;32;00 - 00;39;32;10
Tom Green
On the Browns.
00;39;32;10 - 00;39;50;05
Romi Bean
I think there is pressure to succeed. But it's more of a group pressure. Yeah. Not just on Bo Nix right. Whereas for the bills it's it's on Josh Allen. It feels like but I feel like for the Broncos what continues to kind of impress me about this squad this year is the old sports cliche. They never get too high.
00;39;50;05 - 00;40;05;02
Romi Bean
They never get too low. But but it's true. I mean we'll go in there after a wins and are on that long. You know 567 game win streak. And the locker room is so measured time after time. It was like it was hard to tell. Are we talking to these guys after a win or a loss.
00;40;05;05 - 00;40;05;25
Tom Green
After the smoke.
00;40;06;00 - 00;40;23;05
Romi Bean
You know after the smell we got in after Club Dub. So maybe that's why maybe that's why. But they, you know, I think that this team, it just handles pressure so well. And that's what playoffs is all all about. They're 11 and 2 in 1 score game right. They trailed at one point in 12 of their 14 wins.
00;40;23;11 - 00;40;38;28
Romi Bean
So to me what sets you up better for the playoffs. And knowing you can win in those situations? I thought it was really interesting after the Jacksonville game, I think it was Adam Troutman that said, I mean, we went into that fourth quarter like still believing, yeah, we're going to come back and win. Yeah. And didn't work out that time.
00;40;38;28 - 00;40;56;04
Romi Bean
But this team knows they can do it. And I think those are the kind of intangibles that are really going to come into play in a game like this. And I'm a big defensive guy. I've always been a defensive stand. And this defense, you know, defense can win you championships. I believe it because it's true. And this is this is the defense.
00;40;56;04 - 00;41;15;13
Tom Green
Intangibles X factors. All those things are there. But I think for the Broncos in many ways it'll come down to Bo. You know because we've seen Great Bo and we've seen less than Great Bo. And it'll be because every snap, every possession, you know, as you as you're talking about in the playoffs, it's different. Everything now matters 100%.
00;41;15;13 - 00;41;17;21
Tom Green
Yeah. Every time they the center snaps you the ball.
00;41;17;21 - 00;41;34;21
Romi Bean
Right. And I think, you know Sean Payton said playoff experience is a is a myth but I disagree. I think you can look at last year and I think that experience for so many of them to be in the dance for the first time, it was crucial to come into it this time with they know exactly what to expect.
00;41;34;24 - 00;41;50;08
Romi Bean
You know, Zach Allen said it this week. I asked him about it in the locker room when he said, you know, playoffs is just a different speed, and until you experience it, you can't replicate it. Well, now they've all played at that speed and played against the team that knocked them out last year. I tried so hard to get the guys, you know, is there a little more juice in this one?
00;41;50;10 - 00;42;05;11
Romi Bean
Nobody bad? No. Nobody was biting. But there's got to be a little bit more juice. And now it's on your turf. And I think all of those things certainly factor into the Broncos favor. But I think Bo Nix, even this season, you saw kind of a happy feet at the beginning of the season, saw him settle in and really settle in.
00;42;05;11 - 00;42;22;04
Romi Bean
And and I think he is so measured. You know, he's one of those guys that he throws a pick goes to the sidelines okay. It's it's not going to rattle and derail him. And I think that's one of the reasons his team has so much confidence in him as well. But I think you're right in the sense that we know what the defense is going to do.
00;42;22;11 - 00;42;34;09
Romi Bean
We know what Josh Allen's going to do. I think the run game is a huge factor. Yeah, on both sides. I think it's going to come down to what happens on the ground. But at the end of the day, in crunch time, are we going to get crunch time? Bo. Because if you get crunch time Bo, then it's a good thing.
00;42;34;15 - 00;42;43;25
Tom Green
The only time we see Bo Rattle is when there's 14 seconds on the play clock, and they're still trying to tell him, you know, our substitute players, I mean, he was just snapped. He snapped. But does Sean pay?
00;42;43;26 - 00;43;01;22
Romi Bean
Yeah full time a little bit, which I feel like you love that fire, especially from a young player. You know, I think he is making it very clear this about things that maybe he feels like he's making it so they can't be successful. Right. And to feel like against such a tenured, respected coach like Sean Payton, to have to feel like that.
00;43;01;24 - 00;43;07;29
Romi Bean
Oops. That's a know. Chop chop chop. Let's go. I think that's a great thing. That's a good working relationship you got there between those two.
00;43;08;01 - 00;43;23;15
Tom Green
Sean's tricky though. You you deal with him. I really haven't dealt with him, but, you know, I watch all these press conferences and I watch him, and he's obviously got a wants to carry an edge as far as with the media. And he always does. And, you know, whatever you want to presume when you ask him a question, he'll tell you you're wrong.
00;43;23;15 - 00;43;45;28
Tom Green
Whatever it is. When the sky was blue, we'd look up and go, it's not relative to. Yeah. So, clearly he's good at coaching. He's he's been a great NFL football coach. But that relationship between him and the media, is that mostly contrived by him or why do you see any any idea why he is that way?
00;43;45;29 - 00;44;02;00
Romi Bean
You know what, I've got no idea. But for me and I always come back to this, he's a great coach and his players love him. And at the end of the day, that doesn't matter. What if you're winning, you know what I mean? And you've got, you know, you taking care of your players. I think that's what's important.
00;44;02;00 - 00;44;09;09
Romi Bean
And that's, you know, it could shout out Luka, you know, I don't know I don't know what the deal is between him and Logan, but.
00;44;09;14 - 00;44;10;05
Tom Green
Evan. Evan.
00;44;10;05 - 00;44;30;27
Romi Bean
Evan. But they got their deal. But, you know, it's, So, you know, one of the great mysteries of of this era of of Denver Broncos football. But, you know, honestly, I don't know. It doesn't it just doesn't bother me that much because I think it's like so much in this business, you got to, you know, take people for who they are and, and roll with it.
00;44;30;27 - 00;44;40;21
Romi Bean
And kind of that's Sean's personality with the media and and that's fine. You know what? You know, because again, I go back to at the end of the day, if you're taking care of your players, you're winning ballgames, right?
00;44;40;23 - 00;45;02;22
Tom Green
That's great. George Payton has done a job, You look at that roster and you know when when people were so upset, rightfully so, about the Russell Wilson contract. And people loved the trade and the trade didn't work out. Not many people love the extension. And that that didn't work out. But everything else he's done, not everything, but he's he's been hitting at a high clip.
00;45;02;27 - 00;45;03;04
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;45;03;04 - 00;45;23;22
Romi Bean
It's time to extend George George Payton I'm not sure when his contract ends, but he has been tremendous. And you know after the Russell Wilson failure a lot of people were calling for his head. And I never felt that way because I think first of all George is I mean he's brilliant and and he's, you know, got that true scouting heart and I saw him on the bye week up at the C you I can't remember.
00;45;23;23 - 00;45;37;17
Romi Bean
I think he was playing maybe playing LSU. I can't imagine there was a ton of players to scout. You know I saw him and it's like I was like, what are you doing up here? And it's, you know, he's just, at the end of the day, he's like a scout at heart. He wanted to, you know, there was some kids.
00;45;37;17 - 00;46;09;06
Romi Bean
He was looking and want some ball and watch some college ball. And he's in such a tremendous job. And I think he also deserves a lot of credit for you. Get a new head coach. And Sean Payton has a totally different vision than the prior head coach. And he has built a team around Sean's vision. He's gone to help find the players that fit what Sean wants, and I think that he deserves so much credit for for for doing that in the way of, you know, I don't know what his philosophy was, but he was certainly able to develop such a great, harmonious working relationship with Sean Payton.
00;46;09;06 - 00;46;20;11
Romi Bean
He's getting the players that he wants and able to do it and navigate it around that dead cap of Russell Wilson and have this team at 14 wins. So I can't say enough about George Payton.
00;46;20;11 - 00;46;38;10
Tom Green
He had to a tremendous because of Sean Payton. You know he had been the general manager calling the shots. And he knew when Sean Payton came in that Sean Payton was going to have a lot to say. Right. All or at least final say about things. So he had to become not subservient at all, but he had to become a good coworker.
00;46;38;10 - 00;47;07;10
Tom Green
And I thought it was interesting because along this parallel line, the nuggets GM coach relationship was coming apart with Michael Malone and Calvin Booth. And, as I was talking about the other day with Dennis was like, do you look at Calvin Booth differently now? Now that we're seeing Payton Watson and Jalen Pickett and Zeke Nnaji and all of these guys that Michael Malone wouldn't really let loose on the floor, play so well, do you see Calvin Booth as maybe gone.
00;47;07;12 - 00;47;10;28
Tom Green
He knew what he was doing Michael Malone and he couldn't figure it out though.
00;47;11;04 - 00;47;26;05
Romi Bean
Well I think it comes down to I mean you can talk about George and Sean Payton and Payton. There has to be a harmonious working relationship because if you have two different philosophies, which was clearly going on with the nuggets there with, you know, Calvin Booth and Michael Malone and who was right, who was wrong, that's your opinion.
00;47;26;05 - 00;47;43;23
Romi Bean
But either way, you have to be on the same page, because if you're not, that's what happens. And so, you know, that's what going back to George, it's even more credit to him for recognizing that. And right. And making sure all right, this is what Sean wants to readjust my path. And and now look at where this team is.
00;47;43;23 - 00;48;02;12
Romi Bean
And then so you look at the nuggets it's it's a great example of so much talent all over the place. And you have to have guys that are are working together. I think the other thing this is kind of an offshoot, but what's going on with the nuggets right now just shows you how many talented players there are in the NBA, the NFL, whatever it is.
00;48;02;12 - 00;48;26;11
Romi Bean
And they just need an opportunity. And you know, it's always hard that injuries often the way, but it just shows you how much talent there is. And a lot of these kids or guys might never get their shot. They might never get their opportunity. Player might play special teams their whole life. You'll be sitting at the end of the bench, you know, your whole life on the nuggets because of how good that starting lineup is.
00;48;26;14 - 00;48;44;09
Romi Bean
Yeah. If people don't even realize how talented you are, that's crazy. That's how talented right the starters are, but how talented the guys are down the line, they just never get their shot. I think about that all the time. Right? I think about guys who are special teamers that were some of the best, you know, in college. Right.
00;48;44;09 - 00;48;48;28
Romi Bean
And now you're just clawing to get, you know, 15 snaps. And it's just.
00;48;48;28 - 00;49;13;13
Tom Green
Like Jaquan McMillan who suddenly finds himself out on the field a lot and make play after play after play. And it's, you know, you need the playing time. And I want to ask you about talent in the sense of getting talent, keeping talent in the lens of Coach Prime because you've done the show with with Deon Sanders now for a couple of years and, he's one of the largest personalities in all of sports, certainly in Colorado.
00;49;13;13 - 00;49;26;13
Tom Green
How have you found working with him? And, obviously there's been a radical change in how people have been viewing See you football, from the excitement to the Heisman to what's been a struggle at times.
00;49;26;13 - 00;49;55;08
Romi Bean
Yeah. Excuse me. I mean, working with Coach Ryan has been such a joy. I love it, you know, kind of. We talked about doing getting that opportunity to sit down in a different atmosphere than just a press conference setting than just a locker room setting. And that's something that I've really enjoyed. Getting to know him a little more as a person and developing a really strong working relationship and and earning his respect, it has all been, a great challenge professionally, but also just a great joy.
00;49;55;08 - 00;50;13;05
Romi Bean
It's a lot of fun. And I think for me, the biggest thing that, you know, maybe I take out of it is, is how much he truly cares about his players. And we always have a player on the show. And to see how he interacts with those players kind of tells me everything that I need to know. But when you look at where Q is, I mean, this has been a tough this has been a tough ride.
00;50;13;07 - 00;50;34;10
Romi Bean
Obviously, with the departure of Shita and Travis and so many other playmakers. You know, I don't know what his expectations were for this year, but but, I, I'm sure he and everybody else didn't expect you to be quite as big of a struggle, truly, as it was. And, you know, I think that with the transfer portal now, college sports is tough.
00;50;34;10 - 00;50;35;12
Romi Bean
Now, I think the hard to.
00;50;35;12 - 00;50;35;29
Tom Green
Follow.
00;50;36;01 - 00;50;45;27
Romi Bean
It's hard to follow. And, and and I don't know what you do, and I don't know how you rein it in. And, you know, with Noel, I think it's great that players, are making money.
00;50;45;27 - 00;50;47;29
Tom Green
I think everyone else was.
00;50;47;29 - 00;51;02;18
Romi Bean
Yeah, I'm here for that part. I absolutely love that part of it. But, you know, the portal and the and the skipping town and the just leaving. You know, I at this point, it's like, you know, it's the Wild West. I don't know how you kind of cap it. I know they tried to do. Okay. Just one portal session.
00;51;02;23 - 00;51;03;13
Tom Green
Yeah.
00;51;03;16 - 00;51;04;24
Romi Bean
But it's just it's.
00;51;04;24 - 00;51;09;13
Tom Green
And who's going to decide, you know, I mean, the NCAA doesn't seem to matter anymore now.
00;51;09;13 - 00;51;24;02
Romi Bean
I mean, you know, they just got caught sitting on their hands. And I just think it's such a hard time to develop, you know, players and young men a lot of times because I think there's so much I think from I think about it from like a young athlete lens, there's so much pressure and there's pressure on social media.
00;51;24;02 - 00;51;47;22
Romi Bean
And even for some of these guys who hop in the portal that maybe aren't going to a better spot, but you're getting, you know, kind of all this publicity and attention and, you know, and you're getting maybe a little more money thrown at you, which go get your bag. I'm all for that piece of it. But in the regards to, you know, pushing through adversity and maybe you had a bad season and just happened and leaving like, I don't know if that's the best thing for a young athlete.
00;51;47;22 - 00;52;06;11
Tom Green
Yeah. Because college always had that, that there was a spirit that was a big part of college. I want to be above for a Hoosier or a Ram or whatever. And Indiana, I think is become, sort of a cautionary tale in their success in that I think other schools all around the country go, oh, we should do what Indiana did.
00;52;06;12 - 00;52;13;26
Tom Green
They were terrible. Three years ago. Now look at them. They're the best team in the game. And so why don't we do that? Yeah. Well, what do we need? Well, we need $100 million.
00;52;13;29 - 00;52;24;03
Romi Bean
You know, we need money. Money is part of it. And also, I mean, you got to give credit where credit is due. Coaching. I mean, it's just, Indiana. So easy to root for, right? Because. Right.
00;52;24;04 - 00;52;28;22
Tom Green
Because everything like that is not necessarily likable. But you like the Hoosier story.
00;52;28;23 - 00;52;49;16
Romi Bean
Just write the story of it and competing in that conference, and nobody thought you were going to be the guys that they kind of come out and you look out and they have, you know, how many five stars the way the rosters constructed. But it does feel like, in a way, is that one of those things where it's that's a petty, you know, almost like, well, different to what Saban did.
00;52;49;16 - 00;53;04;12
Romi Bean
But you know what I mean? That's it. So much of that has to do with him in the culture. And what he's built in almost feels like it's capturing lightning in the bottle. Yeah. Like, oh, is this going to be sustainable I don't know right. Are they going to turn into a powerhouse I don't know. Or is it just going to be this this short moment in time.
00;53;04;12 - 00;53;17;21
Romi Bean
But I don't know if you can replicate that. Right. And I'm sure other teams will try and copy it. But I just think what there's a lot of that has to do with him and it's and it's special in the way he's put that all together is I don't know I don't know if other teams can copy that.
00;53;17;27 - 00;53;21;14
Tom Green
Usually that the Indiana story is like the little team that could.
00;53;21;15 - 00;53;21;28
Romi Bean
Yeah.
00;53;21;29 - 00;53;29;26
Tom Green
And they just kind of find their way to and they're not they're killing people. Yeah. I mean they're killing good teams by 3 or 4 or five touchdowns.
00;53;29;27 - 00;53;49;25
Romi Bean
No, I mean it's unbelievable. It's almost akin to the average. I keep saying the average is good. They are embarrassing teams along the way. But I mean Indiana, every game you're like, oh my gosh. Yeah. They're just there and they're exposing weaknesses. You know everybody says oh, they kind of expose all the weaknesses in Ohio State. And then and then everybody copied that.
00;53;49;25 - 00;53;56;28
Romi Bean
I think they're just they're so well coached and disciplined and put together and and they just got all the make it. They've got everything.
00;53;57;05 - 00;54;14;02
Tom Green
I wonder if he could be a pro coach. It used to be I think the jump between college and pro coaching was so significant I'm not sure it is anymore. I think like, you know, if if the Raiders came to him and said you were going to draft Mendoza and we'll take you and there's no salary cap on paying coaches either.
00;54;14;02 - 00;54;28;21
Romi Bean
Yeah. No, I agree because especially now we go back to the transfer portal you got it's not you don't have these guys really anymore for four years. And a lot of times you're fielding almost to what feels like an entirely new team year to year. You're dealing with athletes who are getting paid and pay differential within the locker room.
00;54;28;26 - 00;54;45;12
Romi Bean
A lot of stuff that you deal with in the pros, right? Like they always say, these college guys will come in and pro athletes will be like, you know, I'm getting paid all this money. Why? I'm going to listen to you. Well, that's what college coaches, are dealing with now. So I think that the gap has closed a lot in college football has become.
00;54;45;19 - 00;54;59;06
Romi Bean
So it's always been a business, but so much more of a business in in the other little aspects of it. And, that I don't feel like it's as big of a jump anymore. I feel like, you know, if you're a good coach, you could do it.
00;54;59;09 - 00;55;18;12
Tom Green
Speaking of good coaches, Jared Bednar is doing pretty good. Yeah, he's not bad. Yeah, they're they're pretty good. They only lose every month or so. So that building, they finally, lost a game to the Maple Leafs the other night, but they've been killing it in the building, whereas the nuggets have been great but not great at home.
00;55;18;14 - 00;55;37;23
Tom Green
But you look at the avalanche I worry about, they're like they're playing the best hockey you could ever play right now. So they got about ten games left before the Olympic break. They got eight guys playing in the Olympics. Then you have the final push and because of the way they played, they almost have to win a Stanley Cup.
00;55;37;23 - 00;55;38;20
Tom Green
Yeah. Or else.
00;55;38;20 - 00;56;01;00
Romi Bean
Yeah. Yeah. It almost feels like there's the question a lot of people will say, well can they sustain it? And well, I mean, you know, what? Are you going to ask the guys to not play as well as they're playing? You know, tone it down a little bit. They're just not wired that way. But I think the piece that sometimes makes you a little nervous is you always look at, you know, it's like every team that wins the Presidents Trophy, you know, they get bounced early.
00;56;01;00 - 00;56;22;03
Romi Bean
And so there's all those kind of thoughts of like is it going in that direction? Right. But at the same token, they're just so good it does. This certainly feels like Stanley Cup or Bust, because it just feels like such a tremendous season that how can you not go all the way. But I will say that the Stanley Cup is the hardest championship in sports to win.
00;56;22;06 - 00;56;41;15
Romi Bean
Yeah, it's not really an opinion. I think that's a statement of fact. And honestly, I think if you ask athletes from other sports, which I have, they will always say, I mean, that's the hardest one to win because first of all, you know, there are seven game series and in baseball and in basketball as well. But these guys are beating the living piss out of each other every single night.
00;56;41;15 - 00;56;58;09
Romi Bean
It is literally a battle of attrition. It's some of the most physical play you'll ever see. They're playing every other night. You know, NBA sometimes take three days off. I mean, your travel good for you every other night and it is and it's just hockey of all the sports yet weird bounces. You know, you get that weird puck like just weird things happen in the playoffs.
00;56;58;11 - 00;57;17;20
Romi Bean
It feels so much more, in a lot of ways unpredictable than some of the other championships. There's so many reasons it's so hard to win. But again, I feel like the X factor for the Avs is Gabriel and Scott. Yeah, there is a a tangible difference when that man is on the ice and and it's not even necessarily his play though that's part of it.
00;57;17;22 - 00;57;25;24
Romi Bean
I don't know if I've ever seen such a difference when a leader is and isn't playing. And we have seen with the Avs and Gabe Landeskog.
00;57;25;28 - 00;57;26;21
Tom Green
He has an aura.
00;57;26;24 - 00;57;45;23
Romi Bean
He has an aura. He has a way of I don't know what he says to those men in the dressing room, but and and we heard a lot during that cup run that he was almost coaching them through that cup run in a way. Different to what Jared Bednar was doing. And I just it's fascinating. I think about it all the time because we see a lot of strong leaders on different teams.
00;57;45;26 - 00;57;54;11
Romi Bean
But I don't think there's anyone that has as big of an impact on the team, at least locally here, than Gabe does with the Avs. I mean, it's it's kind of unreal.
00;57;54;14 - 00;58;13;25
Tom Green
So they have, four segments left in my mind. Those those those last ten before the break, the break, the final push and then the playoffs. And it's, you know, it's they don't seem to mind the expectation. It's only going to go up. But I think the whole league is looking at them like who who's going to get in front of that.
00;58;13;28 - 00;58;33;05
Tom Green
It's going to beat them. And I always thought hockey is the one professional game at the high level where effort can still beat talent. Can't do it in baseball. You can't do it in football. You can't do it in basketball. Talent ultimately will win out. But in hockey, because of the nature of the game, you got to win the puck on the wall.
00;58;33;05 - 00;58;49;29
Tom Green
You got to be willing to stand in front. You got to be willing to move their guy from the front. You got to be doing all the dirty little things in hockey to win. And that's that's part of the beauty of it, because whenever you see the puck get turned over, it's okay. It's a turnover in a playoff game, it turn over and you go.
00;58;50;02 - 00;58;50;22
Romi Bean
Right, this.
00;58;50;22 - 00;58;52;09
Tom Green
Could be the game. Yeah right here.
00;58;52;09 - 00;59;07;07
Romi Bean
And you look at you know in hockey those third and fourth liners have massive roles. You could argue that it's of all the sports. They're the only ones where I'm not going to call them the backups. But you know what I'm saying. Have such a significant role in.
00;59;07;09 - 00;59;11;29
Tom Green
Less ice time. But they're often checking the other team's best line. If you have price change.
00;59;11;29 - 00;59;31;13
Romi Bean
We're not seeing Broncos backups playing the bills unless somebody is hurt, right? We're not going to see, you know, pick it in the playoffs a lot unless unless somebody can't play right. But but you're seeing those third and fourth liners have to do some of the dirtiest work. And the most physical work and the nastiest work and might not show up on the scoresheet.
00;59;31;18 - 00;59;48;22
Romi Bean
But you're absolutely right. If you're not putting in the effort of top to bottom. But really, the all of you are going to see significant ice time, right? And so it's like if if one person's effort is is dwindling, that's that's the one goal that makes the difference. Right. And you know and I love all the hockey phrase.
00;59;48;22 - 01;00;05;19
Romi Bean
You know you got to get into the hard areas right. You do the dirty work. But it's true more than more than any other sport is every single guy has to be exerting an amount of effort. And that goes back to why it's so hard to win a championship. You have to do that every other night for potentially seven games, four times over.
01;00;05;20 - 01;00;23;15
Tom Green
Yeah, you can get beat, but not because you weren't working, because then you got to go face Coach Landeskog as well as Coach Bednar and Coach Jokic. Has been a big thing and we've always seen him in uniform coaching guys up in timeouts. But coach yo kitchen is blazer. Yes. The last two games that's been a sight to see.
01;00;23;15 - 01;00;36;21
Tom Green
He's I think he's the most unique guy in Colorado sports. And maybe we'll go down as the most unique guy in Colorado sports ever. Not only for being the best at his business, but also for just being different than every other guy we deal with.
01;00;36;21 - 01;00;42;03
Romi Bean
Yeah, I mean, Utah, his basketball IQ is just I mean, it's just insane. It's unbelievable to just.
01;00;42;04 - 01;00;42;16
Tom Green
Play every.
01;00;42;16 - 01;01;07;28
Romi Bean
Night, every night. And when he's coaching and you can tell he's telling like he's yelling out the play to the guys because he I mean, he sees it all before it's coming. It's unbelievable. Watching that man play basketball is such a gift first of all, for his his skill level. But his IQ is tremendous. But like you said, I think that I feel like people here have kind of gotten over the but nationally, it's still that narrative of like, oh, Yogi treats his job.
01;01;07;28 - 01;01;27;25
Romi Bean
But it's really not that. I think that's what makes him so great and so unique. He loves basketball, but he's just way more than me and way more than most people has figured out work life balance. And to do it at that level, to be the best in your game. And, when you go home and you're a family man or whatever, you know what I mean?
01;01;27;25 - 01;01;44;22
Romi Bean
To have that I envy that. I think it's so incredible. And a lot of people say, you know, that's kind of the European compared to the American mindset of really understanding, you know, it it is in a lot of ways, his job. But it's not like, oh, he's just going in and clocking in. He loves it. He's so passionate about it.
01;01;44;22 - 01;02;10;25
Romi Bean
But to have that balance, I think we're just not used to seeing that right. You're used to and it kind of it kind of throws people off I think because you want to see people are used to seeing, you know, LeBron's workout videos in the off season, etc., etc.. And you know, you folks out there watching his horses, but like, hey, it's working and then some because when he's when he's on the court and when he's doing his his basketball job, he's the best at it and he works his tail off.
01;02;10;27 - 01;02;11;10
Romi Bean
But he's got.
01;02;11;10 - 01;02;29;08
Tom Green
Balance. Yeah. People question his love for the game. I think we all have to do is watch him play. Yeah, he loves to play loves. And he also loves watching his teammates play. Watching that he respects the game. His least favorite part of the job might be the interviews. And he's great at him. Yeah, he's very funny. He's very glib.
01;02;29;08 - 01;02;47;16
Tom Green
And you know the his English you know Landeskog is English is incredible. It's better than all of us who grew up here in America. But, Joker has fun with it. And, you know, he knows he's got to be interviewed every night, and he just gets up there and does it and puts up with it and gets on his way.
01;02;47;16 - 01;03;08;00
Romi Bean
But he's great. You know, he's like, he he's very drive like, but he's never rude you know. And he answers people's questions. And I always think, gosh I have so much respect for guys who English as a second language. Right. We're not asking him questions in Serbian, no questions in English and expecting him to answer. Right. I think that in of itself is just tremendous.
01;03;08;00 - 01;03;24;07
Romi Bean
Right. And you just kind of come somewhere else. You're forced to speak their language, you know? But but he is so great. All of his answers are always he just is who he is. And that's what you love about it. You just get you just get the honest answers. And sure, I'm sure you'd rather be doing something else.
01;03;24;13 - 01;03;31;08
Romi Bean
But he also like he doesn't make you feel that way in a bad way. It's almost in a in a lovable way because it's just
01;03;31;11 - 01;03;57;10
Tom Green
Yeah. Well he he's he's a marvel. The nuggets this year though have gotten the the Jamal Murray good game almost every game. Yeah. It's been incredible to see. We talked about the bench all stepping up and but David Adelman was for many people a big X factor. They they'd guest on him a little bit. As far as being a head coach in the beginning of the season, I think many people were doubting whether David Adelman was the man for the job.
01;03;57;10 - 01;04;13;21
Tom Green
Could he say what had to be said and get players to do what had to be done? I think this last month has been David Edelman's stamp of approval. He has really put his stamp on this team. He's gotten them to play for him and he's, I mean, he's he's done a terrific job.
01;04;13;22 - 01;04;35;05
Romi Bean
He's I mean, he's been tremendous. And I think he almost went in with a disadvantage. Like when you've got Nikola Jokic and you've got the rest of the lineup and Jamal Murray who's having an all star caliber season. And Aaron Gordon people will you know immediately kind of say well well oh you've got that lineup. You know, how can we tell if you're a good coach or not when you've got the best player on the planet, you know?
01;04;35;10 - 01;04;51;27
Romi Bean
And so then all of these guys go down. Everybody is talking about what the nuggets are probably going to be a playing team. They're the two seed in the West. Yeah. As we sit here right now playing with an a different cast of characters every night, I think it's such a testament to David Adelman and the kind of coach he is.
01;04;51;27 - 01;05;13;02
Romi Bean
And I mean, this is coach of the year material right now. What do you put up and what people thought was going to happen when Jokic and all the other starters went out. Not just Jokic saying that. How many you know man games they've missed right. With all of all of their starters. And to have the guys buy in I remember at the end of last season he came on my show and I asked him what's your challenge for Jamal Murray?
01;05;13;08 - 01;05;27;04
Romi Bean
And he said this as well. You know, I think in press conference as well. They said, I want Jamal to come in and start the season in game shape, not work his way up. You know, which is kind of which was always done. And to me, a huge testament to the coaches because look at what Jamal is doing.
01;05;27;04 - 01;05;50;18
Romi Bean
Yeah. He posed that challenge to Jamal. He said it. You know to me he said it to everybody publicly. I'm sure the conversations with Jamal and look Jamal at this point his career could say all right you know and come in however he wanted to. But look how Jamal has come in. And you know you have got your best players truly respecting your word and wanting to, you know, and seeing your vision and wanting to play for you.
01;05;50;18 - 01;06;07;25
Romi Bean
And I think that just speaks volumes. And you can see how everybody else buys in as well. Right? I, I think David Adelman is certainly a no B.S. kind of a guy. Yeah. But he knows how to to get to those guys. And, and I think when we look at what Jamal is doing and the challenge, he posed for him, I just think that speaks volumes.
01;06;07;25 - 01;06;26;00
Tom Green
He also challenge that the whole team after the Brooklyn game, when they didn't play so well against them, PJ and they they did seem to rally. And it's you know, it's one of those things where you always wonder when the coach when they stop listening. Yeah it doesn't David is not there clearly because they are listening. And you know, they've been asked a lot.
01;06;26;00 - 01;06;47;03
Tom Green
It's been asked of these players and the freedom with which they played. David's next big challenge will be when I get all these guys back, keeping what we've seen on the floor, that sort of intensity on the defensive end and also mixing in, I mean, obviously Zeke Energy's earned some minutes. Payton Watson we knew was going to get some minutes.
01;06;47;05 - 01;06;52;08
Tom Green
Jaylen Pickett these guys belong on the floor a little bit more. How do you find those minutes. There's only so many.
01;06;52;08 - 01;07;09;09
Romi Bean
Yeah. And I think you kind of have a Payton Watson problem now because what are you going to do now because he has proven his breakout that he has earned a lot of playing time. But you look at the nuggets starting lineup non injured. Who are you going to take out right. How do you balance those minutes. That's a challenge.
01;07;09;09 - 01;07;28;00
Romi Bean
And it's I'm excited to see how David Adelman handles it because that's not an easy job. That's a great problem. It's a great problem to have. But it's an enviable job. Right. And and how do you keep everybody and how do you keep everybody happy? I, I agree I think that's the next big test. But from what we've seen from him so far, I think he's the man for the job.
01;07;28;03 - 01;07;35;10
Tom Green
So here's, my final question to you. How many parades are we going to have this coming year?
01;07;35;12 - 01;07;35;25
Romi Bean
You know what?
01;07;35;28 - 01;07;41;16
Tom Green
Because there are three teams that really could see their season ending with a big parade.
01;07;41;18 - 01;07;44;15
Romi Bean
Well, I'm an optimist and I'm going to go with three.
01;07;44;16 - 01;07;45;07
Tom Green
You're going to go three.
01;07;45;07 - 01;07;46;08
Romi Bean
Oh I like three.
01;07;46;08 - 01;07;47;05
Tom Green
Positivity.
01;07;47;05 - 01;07;49;22
Romi Bean
Positive. It feels good. As we talked about the not.
01;07;49;23 - 01;07;50;13
Tom Green
Unrealistic.
01;07;50;16 - 01;08;10;13
Romi Bean
As we talked about the Avs. How can they not how can they not. But again hardest championship in sports to win. But I just feel I mean they it's hard to feel it's hard to bet against them. Right. So you got to feel really confident about the Avs. The nuggets again with all these starters out six and three without.
01;08;10;13 - 01;08;21;02
Romi Bean
You'll get the best road record in the NBA. So much they have done with so many guys down. Once they get everybody back you're two in the West and you don't even.
01;08;21;08 - 01;08;22;09
Tom Green
But there is a team ahead.
01;08;22;09 - 01;08;29;05
Romi Bean
Of you Arsenal. And you got to you know and there are a lot of people say well you got to beat OKC. But you know they took OKC to seven games last year. You know.
01;08;29;05 - 01;08;29;17
Tom Green
And there were.
01;08;29;17 - 01;08;50;09
Romi Bean
All. And it's really hard. It's really hard to go back to back in any sport. Yeah I never give the edge to the team going back to back. It's just so hard. And so and then, you know, I think, I think the Broncos might be the biggest question mark, but just because there's, you know, you get 3.5 hours on a Sunday or Saturday if, if you got a bad day.
01;08;50;12 - 01;08;51;00
Tom Green
One play.
01;08;51;00 - 01;08;58;28
Romi Bean
You know, worst day to have your bad day right. But but if they play their best ball then they can roll with anybody. So I'm going to go three.
01;08;59;01 - 01;09;08;02
Tom Green
I like it I like it. Romi I really appreciate you coming by. I know you're so busy right now covering the Broncos and all the other sports, but taking time to join me has been cool. Thanks.
01;09;08;02 - 01;09;09;12
Romi Bean
This was such a joy. Thanks for having.
01;09;09;12 - 01;09;14;05
Tom Green
Me, Romi. Being in CBS for fuboTV.
01;09;14;07 - 01;09;19;13
Romi Bean
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01;09;19;15 - 01;09;28;13
Tom Green
We're not doing any sports here. This is just kind of a wrap up. Okay.
01;09;28;16 - 01;09;46;05
Tom Green
Let me think. Here. Well, I can't take my time room. It's got to get going. Places to. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm taking Roman's time. All right.
01;09;46;08 - 01;09;49;06
Tom Green
Okay.
01;09;49;09 - 01;10;10;07
Tom Green
Obviously, it was great having Romi in today. Although I still have a little bitterness towards her employer. CBS four is the one TV station in town I never been working at. I got to work at two and seven and nine and 31, and I was hoping to go five for five, but apparently they like Romi more than me.
01;10;10;10 - 01;10;23;01
Tom Green
Hey, I like Romi more than me, too. My thanks to her for coming by. We're looking forward to seeing you again here for another edition of the other Tom green show next week.
01;10;23;04 - 01;10;24;13
Tom Green
They never hired me.
01;10;24;15 - 01;10;25;07
Romi Bean
They didn't?
01;10;25;09 - 01;10;29;26
Tom Green
Those assholes. Well, actually, I did talk with them. Well, and one time I was out or I was coming up or.