Rams talk with local memory.
DNVR CSU Rams Podcast is a Rams-focused sports show built around Colorado State football, basketball, and the Mountain West-to-Pac-12 backdrop. It mixes spring-practice notes, quarterback talk, transfer context, and local Colorado sports detours without losing the CSU thread.
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DNVR CSU Rams Podcast is a Colorado State show with a strong local pulse and a long memory. Its center of gravity is Rams football, especially the early Jim Mora period, the quarterback room, spring practice, roster turnover, and what the program has to become as the conference picture changes. The coverage is not just headline reaction. It lingers on who is getting run with the ones and twos, which players look the part in spring ball, what coaches are saying publicly, and where that might matter once August arrives. The show is comfortable saying the spring game was vanilla. It is also comfortable finding value in live reps, player body types, tight end usage, backfield receiving skill, and the practical shape of a quarterback competition. CSU basketball stays in the mix as well. Recent episodes spend time on Ali Farokhmanesh, rotation choices, first-year takeaways, NCAA tournament disappointment, and the portal realities that come after a season ends. The show often widens into the rest of the Colorado sports ecosystem. Nuggets and Avalanche playoff chatter, Rockies frustration, DU hockey, Denver Summit attendance, and general March Madness arguments all show up as part of the same sports life. That range gives the podcast a lived-in feel rather than a clean studio outline. It can be funny, weary, hopeful, and blunt in the same segment. The best moments come when local emotion meets reporting detail. A discussion of CSU's need to score more can sit next to a Rockies comparison, and the point still lands because it is really about fans wanting watchable teams again. Guests and interview clips add texture, including Brian Roth on expectations and Matt Mitchell on the quarterback room. The show also has an offseason gear, where all-Mountain West-era roster debates and deeper program-history arguments can fill the calendar without feeling forced. It is not detached national analysis. It is closer to a knowledgeable local conversation that has been through enough losing to treat optimism carefully. For Rams fans, that restraint is part of the appeal.
Made for: Built for Colorado State fans who follow football and hoops beyond final scores. It also fits Mountain West and Colorado sports listeners who like roster detail, coaching context, and honest local frustration.
What sets it apart: The show blends beat-level CSU specifics with the emotional texture of being a Colorado sports fan through uneven years. It makes spring-practice details, quarterback competition, and conference-era stakes feel connected rather than isolated.
The daily Colorado State Rams podcast, hosted by credentialed journalists, insiders and analysts. Justin Michael gives you the inside scoop on Jay Norvell, the CSU Rams, and the Mountain West prior to moving to the Pac-12. With appearances from some of your favorite players and coaches and other journalists around the country, DNVR Rams is the No. 1 Rams podcast in the world.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A CSU-first Rams show that turns hoops results and spring football notes into useful local context for invested fans.
DNVR CSU Rams Podcast is built for listeners who track CSU athletics as one continuous Rams calendar. Mountain West hoops, NIT pressure, spring football practice, and early reads on the 2026 football team sit close together here, with the show spending real time on what each…
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