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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 5-8-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff, my apologies.
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  Speaker 2: As we head out to the ramos Law hotline car
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  Speaker 2: dot com. We are joined by Jefflagwall at ESPN dot Comedy. Again,
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  Speaker 2: my apologies, Jeff. We had a lot going on today, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: We're using a Wi Fi in the outside of a
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  Speaker 3: grocery store. We're doing the best we can.
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  Speaker 4: Baby.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it was the highlight of our day, to
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  Speaker 2: be honest. Now we got we get delayed problems right now.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's hang on, Jeff. We're trying to fix all
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  Speaker 2: these things.
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  Speaker 3: Vix microphone, where speaker was up?
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  Speaker 1: What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay, all right, well, Jeff, as we head into
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  Speaker 2: another week worth of Broncos off season and kind of
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  Speaker 2: where they're at, checking the till on a few things.
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  Speaker 1: My first question is health of the team.
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  Speaker 2: I know we asked about Drake Greenlaw, that that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be at least a little bit of an issue.
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  Speaker 2: But to you, how big is both the health of
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  Speaker 2: Hufanga and green Law to the defensive cohesiveness I guess
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  Speaker 2: of the off season.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean they rolled the dice and that they
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  Speaker 5: these guys are gonna be ready. They felt really good
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  Speaker 5: about it all before green Law hurt himself and you
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  Speaker 5: know training, so again, green Law's thing is not supposed
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  Speaker 5: to impact you know, the regular season in any fashion.
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  Speaker 5: But I subscribe to the theory until I see him
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  Speaker 5: move myself, you know, on the field with my own eyes.
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  Speaker 5: Then I sort of reserve judgment. You know, bo Nicks
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  Speaker 5: did have you know, the procedure early in the off season.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be interested to see what you know, he's doing
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  Speaker 5: in the OTAs later. But this weekend will be pretty
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  Speaker 5: light work, you know. Tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday is the
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  Speaker 5: scheduled rookie mini camp.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see what they go through, but teams have dialed
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  Speaker 4: that back.
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  Speaker 5: I would expect them to be on the field, you know,
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  Speaker 5: a little over an hour and you know, just kind
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  Speaker 5: of a of a kick the tires type of practice
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  Speaker 5: for these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Jeff, we were talking about Nick Benito yesterday and
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  Speaker 3: about an extension. And I've been looking through all the
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  Speaker 3: different guys. I've been looking at their ages and what
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  Speaker 3: they're getting and so on and so forth, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: thinking to myself, Man, if they can get him for
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  Speaker 3: twenty million per year or just over that. That seems
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  Speaker 3: like a really it seems like a really really good
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  Speaker 3: place to be. I guess my question is, would you
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  Speaker 3: do that? And if so, do you think he's gonna
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  Speaker 3: continue to produce at this same level, because it feels
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  Speaker 3: to me like he is.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he looks you know, his all you can
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  Speaker 5: judge mode is by the resume, what they've shown you,
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  Speaker 5: And that guy has improved each season.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe more than anybody on the roster.
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  Speaker 5: And me he started one game as a rookie, So
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  Speaker 5: you're talking about a guy who did the work, has performed.
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  Speaker 4: Now defensively they're looking at too.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Zach Allen would like a new deal as well,
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  Speaker 5: and Benito's gonna be up, and you know, those are
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  Speaker 5: the kinds of things you're facing if you're gonna be
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  Speaker 5: you know, if you're gonna keep a defense together. So,
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  Speaker 5: but I think that's the going rate for a pass rusher.
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  Speaker 5: You want an edge rusher who has impact on games,
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna pay for it. And I think you know,
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  Speaker 5: the two most important positions on defense in today's NFL
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  Speaker 5: are edge rusher and corner. And you know, I personally,
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  Speaker 5: I believe teams should spend whatever they need to to
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  Speaker 5: keep those positions strong, because you won't.
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  Speaker 4: You won't be able to play without them.
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  Speaker 5: If you can't affect the quarterback, you can't play defense
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  Speaker 5: in the league right now.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering, by the way, Leggy, because they have
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  Speaker 2: people that have contracts coming up and they need to
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  Speaker 2: find extensions. We mentioned you just were talking about Benito,
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned Zach Allen Courtland, Sutton's contract is almost up.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to have to start making decisions on
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  Speaker 2: who is pla the long term plan?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Out of those three, could there be an odd man
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  Speaker 2: left out on who gets an extension?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I wouldn't think so.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they're still this year, they're wrestling with a
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  Speaker 5: little bit left over of the Russell Wilson stuff, but
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  Speaker 5: nowhere near the constrictions they had last year. So and
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  Speaker 5: the cap is is growing at a rate you know
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  Speaker 5: ten years ago people would have been stunned at so
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  Speaker 5: I think they have the ability. You know, they have
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  Speaker 5: done a few things behind the scenes that make it
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  Speaker 5: a little more difficult. They've added voidable dummy years to
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  Speaker 5: all of these contracts on a lot of their veteran guys,
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  Speaker 5: So that can make it a little more difficult for
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  Speaker 5: you to spread things out. But I think they have
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  Speaker 5: the room and the wherewithal. They certainly have the cash
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  Speaker 5: to do it. And that's one thing they have that
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  Speaker 5: maybe half the teams in the league don't have, is
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  Speaker 5: they don't have to worry about cash if they choose
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  Speaker 5: not to. If they make a decision about not spending,
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  Speaker 5: it's because they're deciding not to spend, not because they can't.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Leggy, how voluntary quotations are these voluntary workouts under
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  Speaker 6: the Sean Payton regime.
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  Speaker 5: I would say there's close de mandatory as except having
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  Speaker 5: the word mandatory on them.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: They've had good attendance though, But you know, I think
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  Speaker 5: getting guys to spend some of their off season time
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  Speaker 5: in Denver is not as difficult as I've known guys
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  Speaker 5: who've been the head coach in Buffalo who they used
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  Speaker 5: to have to pay guys additional money to come in.
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  Speaker 5: So so I mean that's uh, you know, they've had
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  Speaker 5: good attendance so far, but there I think most players
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  Speaker 5: feel like you better be a pretty prominent you know,
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  Speaker 5: if patser Tan chose not to come and he has
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  Speaker 5: not made that choice. He's been working. But if he
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  Speaker 5: chose not to come, I think you'd need to be
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  Speaker 5: a guy of that status and they'd still want him
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  Speaker 5: to be here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jeff, I don't know when that started in the
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  Speaker 3: National Football League, no clue, but I do remember specifically
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  Speaker 3: Mike Shanahan. Hey man, I don't care if the word
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  Speaker 3: mandatory is not in front of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a rats rip.
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  Speaker 3: I need you here. And look it paid off. He
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  Speaker 3: won two Super Bowl championships. But maybe it's been going
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  Speaker 3: on a lot longer than that. But I specifically remember
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  Speaker 3: twenty seven years ago whatever twenty that was the deal, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's been sort of the modern CBA most.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that it's actually not a well known thing
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  Speaker 5: or people forget, I think, but Mike is the reason
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  Speaker 5: the offseason looks this way in the NFL right now,
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  Speaker 5: with OTAs and specific dates, because I mean I was
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  Speaker 5: on the beat when Mike had a July a camp.
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  Speaker 5: It was the first time ever in the league, and
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  Speaker 5: the players I don't think they ever forgave him that year,
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  Speaker 5: but he had a July mini camp and and then
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  Speaker 5: the next labor negotiations, Uh, the the month long dark
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  Speaker 5: period appeared in the in the in the contract. So
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  Speaker 5: Mike Shanahan helped build this offseason schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask you a more general NFL question? And
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  Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers over the years have had I guess
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  Speaker 2: problem children at wide receiver repeatedly from Antonio Brown, Artevis Bryant,
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  Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson, Juju like. The list goes on and on.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what I've noticed as far as a trend.
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  Speaker 2: When Mike Tomlin decides I've had enough, typically doesn't end.
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  Speaker 1: Well. What do you think happens with George Pickens going
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  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys?
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  Speaker 4: I think that's a lot of that's up to George Pickens.
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, do you decide you know your
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  Speaker 5: way is the right way since you know you got
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  Speaker 5: your freedom, you were moved on, you know, and maybe
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  Speaker 5: in your mind you think, well, you know it all
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  Speaker 5: worked out fine.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's up to him. He's definitely talented. I
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  Speaker 4: mean I.
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  Speaker 5: Look at where I had him and coming into the
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  Speaker 5: league out of the draft that you look at it
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  Speaker 5: at what he can do, you look at his metrics.
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  Speaker 5: It is a talented player. But it is very telling
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  Speaker 5: when Mike Tomlin says, I'm good. I mean he said
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  Speaker 5: publicly last year the guy had to grow up after
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  Speaker 5: I think he had two personal foul penalties or two
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  Speaker 5: post play penalties against the Browns. Yeah, so when they're
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  Speaker 5: done with you, they're done with you in Pittsburgh. It
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  Speaker 5: is intriguing to me. It's all part of their big plan.
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  Speaker 5: I think to try and get a quarterback in next
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  Speaker 5: year's draft. That the Steelers already have twelve drafts and
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  Speaker 5: next year's draft, and they look like they're trying to
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  Speaker 5: shuffle the deck to have enough to move in the
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  Speaker 5: first round if they want to.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, off football subject, you've you've covered sports for a
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  Speaker 6: long time.
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  Speaker 1: Hell, you used to be on the hockey beat.
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  Speaker 6: I'let to ask you something about what we witnessed last night,
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  Speaker 6: the Nuggets get blown out in No cac In your
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  Speaker 6: history of covering these type of series, do games carry over?
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  Speaker 6: Do you think getting blown out like that could carry
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  Speaker 6: over to the next game or does it really matter?
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  Speaker 5: Beck, I think that's one part where we all wonder
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  Speaker 5: what the impact of coaching is in pro sports. I
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  Speaker 5: think recovery is a big part of good coaching, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and it's how that the stars and the coach set
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  Speaker 5: the mood after something like that happens. If everybody's you know,
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  Speaker 5: moping around and all of that, then it can have
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  Speaker 5: an impact that I've seen over the years, and it
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  Speaker 5: does show you we you know, we we all think
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  Speaker 5: the distance between good teams and bad teams is this
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  Speaker 5: really huge, or good nights and bad nights is this giant,
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  Speaker 5: Grand Canyon sized thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's not.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's two minutes of a game getting away from
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  Speaker 5: you and you don't recover, right.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that's the big part of coaching is recovery.
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  Speaker 6: I agree wholeheartedly, and that's why I'm trying to walk
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  Speaker 6: people off the ledge here. I really believe that if
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna lose, lose big. And I've always believed that
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  Speaker 6: because especially in a seven game series. This is not
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  Speaker 6: the NFL, it's not one and done. It doesn't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 6: I think it can only motivate at this point. So
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  Speaker 6: hopefully it works for the Nuggets. Jeffrey, I see a
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  Speaker 6: lot of the Broncos and Nuggets games. I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 6: be there tomorrow night, and they'll be there on Sunday.
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  Speaker 6: So I'll do some on the field reporting for you
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  Speaker 6: and send it your way.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best. I always appreciate the time. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah,