Podcasts about Denver, Colorado

Two teams take up most of the air here, in different registers. The Broncos supply is beat reporting and draft arithmetic: what to do at pick 62, whether Ben Powers' $18.1 million cap hit gets extended or cut, why a safety cannot fix a defense with no pass rush. The Nuggets supply is a running argument about Nikola Jokic and the players around him, replayed by hosts from different seats: Rudy Gobert losing a between-the-legs bounce to Anthony Edwards, Jamal Murray scoring 30 while going 0-for-8 from three. Around those poles sit a Rockies show, the Avalanche coach taking questions, a roundtable across all four teams, and a small group with nothing to do with sport.

What Denver is

Denver is Colorado's capital and largest city, set where the high plains meet the Front Range of the Rockies about a mile above sea level, which is the Mile High name some of these shows borrow. The metro area holds roughly three million people and teams in all four major North American leagues: the Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rockies. That concentration is why the listening sounds the way it does.

The Broncos: pick 62, the cap sheet and the beat

Locked On Broncos - Daily Podcast On The Denver Broncos and the DNVR Denver Broncos Podcast run parallel title sequences through the same April problem, "DRAFT PLAN: Denver Broncos IDENTIFY Six Players They Like at Pick 62" on one and "Mock Draft Roundup: Who will the Denver Broncos select with Pick 62?" on the other. The DNVR clips have the hosts arguing that a safety cannot fix a defense short of pass rush and front-seven talent, then noting that Dane Brugler's seven-pick mock leaves no room for seven new players. Locked On's sit on the money side -- the extend-or-cut choice Powers forces, Sean Payton ranking 29th of 32 coaches on the players' report card -- and it sounds the way that reads: a personnel question, a pause for context, a cap number, and back around.

1st And Orange Podcast is the Denver Post pair, Parker Gabriel and Luca Evans, and its clips are about having been in the room: Sean Payton back at the podium in street clothes about an hour after Will Lutz's winner, on the night Bo Nix was hurt at Empower Field; Payton describing his challenge before the Buffalo game as staying "quick, decisive, daring". Bourbon, Broncos & NO B.S. Podcast is the fan side of the same playoff run, a string of pregame titles that includes "Pregame Podcast - Broncos vs Patriots AFC Championship - Bourbon, Broncos & NO B.S.", where the clip weighs how much Payton can ask of Jared Stidham, who in the hosts' telling has not been playing all year.

Broncos Country Tonight and Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports are the radio pair, and they sound distinct. The former is titled by date and hour with a guest attached -- "07-22-26 Hour 1 of Broncos Country Tonight with Steve Atwater" -- and runs on questions and pushback, half analysis and half banter; that hour has Atwater recalling the fourth-down moment when John Mobley's pass breakup secured Super Bowl XXXII. Legwold is the measured end, joining Kreckman and Lindahl or Moser, Lombardi and Kane to reason rather than headline: Mike Vrabel winning a play by showing zone after the Broncos expected man, Jokic belonging first or second in any MVP ranking. Broncos Country BLITZ!!! and McChesney Unchained are older Broncos shows whose clips reach back to Russell Wilson's 26 touchdowns and eight interceptions and to a playoff case built on Teddy Bridgewater and running the ball 55 to 60 percent of the time.

The Nuggets: one player, many seats

The Nuggets shows cluster around a playoff series with Minnesota, and the DNVR Denver Nuggets Podcast, Pickaxe and Roll and Locked On Nuggets - Daily Podcast On The Denver Nuggets each carry a Game 1 clip. DNVR's postgame has Murray's 30, the 16 free throws he earned against a defense pressing up into him, and a note that he looked tired after 39 minutes; Pickaxe and Roll's Ryan Blackburn lingers on the Gobert handoff that kicked away into a Denver runout and on holding Minnesota to 17 third-quarter points; Locked On Nuggets counts Bruce Brown's eight points, seven rebounds, three assists and five steals in his playoff return. The same people move between these shows: Blackburn is on both Pickaxe and Roll and Locked On Nuggets, and Jeff Morton predicts Denver in five as a Pickaxe and Roll guest and talks alone on his own CSG Podcast.

CSG Podcast is where the argument becomes a monologue, one continuous push with mid-thought corrections: Jokic's 48 points and 13 rebounds against Victor Wembanyama, a third quarter he played in full while Denver outscored Golden State 40-21, his reported answer on Wemby, "Brother, you just shoot." MoodSwings: with Liv Moods is the other solo show and the more emotionally invested one, its takes backed by numbers: Jokic at 29.9, 12.4 and 11.1 a game, Murray's 53-point night with nine threes. Mile High Hoops, from Jake Shapiro, is the cap-mechanics show, arguing that NBA flexibility has become a substitute for actually cutting payroll.

Rockies, Avalanche and the four-team table

The DNVR Colorado Rockies Podcast, billed from the DNVR Bar in downtown Denver, is a seller's show in its clips: from the Ryan McMahon trade to the Yankees, the case that Seth Halverson and Victor Vodnik should only go for top-five prospects or an overwhelming return, and that Mickey Moniak's power surge makes the deadline his peak selling window.

Hockey is small next to the two big beats and arrives through the coach. The Jared Bednar Avalanche Coach Show is long, layered questions that Bednar confirms or corrects: offense, defense, goaltending and finishing each down five to 10 percent through an injury stretch, workload and mental fatigue behind starting Blackwood in net for Game 4 against Minnesota, Cale Makar missing games but not seriously hurt before the playoffs. After the Horn is the roundtable, a panel with the game still fresh and decades of memory underneath; its clips take a flat Minnesota series and turn it on the Nuggets' front office and bench: the only path is a bold offseason built around Jokic, and David Adelman "does not belong" as coach.

Off the field

Away from sport the scene is small and made of three unrelated things. Rush To Reason is John Rush's conservative talk show, hour-titled and dated like the sports radio, with titles that keep returning to Colorado -- "HR3: AI, Money, and Colorado’s TABOR Fight—What You Need to Know Now (7-22-26)" -- though the clips here are the national end, China's Middle East oil having to pass the Strait of Malacca among them. BLAME is the 9NEWS investigative series, and its clips come from chapters like "The Fear All These Years | Chapter 10: Swift Justice": the 2013 Nevada law that eventually put Alex Ewing's DNA into CODIS and tied him to the 1984 Bennett family murders in Aurora, a stare Mike Meyer says ended only when he threatened to shoot, Nancy Berry's 911 call from a house where her family is bleeding and the attacker may still be inside. Driving You Crazy is the practical one, an explainer that keeps pulling back to what a driver would actually ask: what a car does when its driver goes unresponsive (GM's can slow, put on the flashers and call OnStar), whether buying less car most of the year saves about $15,000.

Where to start

• The Broncos from inside the building: 1st And Orange Podcast. The draft-and-cap version: Locked On Broncos or the DNVR Denver Broncos Podcast.
• The Nuggets as a running argument: the DNVR Denver Nuggets Podcast postgame, then CSG Podcast for one voice with no patience for consensus.
• All four teams in one conversation: After the Horn.
• Not sport at all: BLAME for the Ewing case, Driving You Crazy for the roads.

The Denver feed on this page plays clips from these shows.