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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 9-6-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 3: Thank you. Uh that's the week, dame. It makes everybody's
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  Speaker 4: joined as we are every week, this day a day later,
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  Speaker 4: but by Jeff Lagweld ESPN dot com.
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  Speaker 5: What's up, Leggy.
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  Speaker 1: Doing good?
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  Speaker 4: I'm I'm so pumped for this weekend for a multitude
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  Speaker 4: of reasons. You got to see Nebraska game tomorrow, but
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  Speaker 4: you got the opener of the season for the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: and the debut of bow Nicks just before we get
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  Speaker 4: to the actual game. Do you remember the good old
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  Speaker 4: days when Patzertan was the highest paid cornerback in the
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  Speaker 4: league and how fun that was. That's that's now done.
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  Speaker 4: But for him to get twenty four million dollars and
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  Speaker 4: basically reset in a big way the cornerback market. They
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  Speaker 4: think that this guy's not not a flash in the pan, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: They think he's a guy who could be like a
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  Speaker 4: Champ Bailey ten year starter, Hall of Fame type player.
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  Speaker 6: Correct, Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, it's always tough
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  Speaker 6: to say Hall of Fame type player just for me,
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  Speaker 6: you haven't been around the process. But he's you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's the best player on the team. He absolutely if
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  Speaker 6: you're at a personnel executive, I mean, what exactly is
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  Speaker 6: the risk factor for signing Pat? Certain he works his
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  Speaker 6: butt off, He plays his position better than anyone else
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  Speaker 6: in the league, and he's the rarest of athletes at
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  Speaker 6: the position in terms of size and speed and the
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  Speaker 6: rest of it. So you know, George Peyton the GM
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  Speaker 6: called it a no brainer like a year ago, and
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  Speaker 6: that's still the case. And I do think it is
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  Speaker 6: intriguing that this is a true extension. This doesn't really
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  Speaker 6: kick in in terms of the salary cap until twenty
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  Speaker 6: twenty six, so certain did them a favor, you know
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  Speaker 6: a little bit, and they made him the highest paid
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  Speaker 6: quarterer briefly, but you know, they did their part two.
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  Speaker 6: So I think it shows he wanted to stay and
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  Speaker 6: they very much wanted to keep him.
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  Speaker 5: Hell, Jalen Ramsey, who's now the highest paid, he had
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  Speaker 5: two years left on his deal. So it's proven around
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  Speaker 5: the league. If they like you in your quality, they're
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  Speaker 5: going to sign you at any point in your contract.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't really matter. Any surprises, Jeff. When they announced
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  Speaker 5: the captains, any one of those captains surprised you, was
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  Speaker 5: Bo Nicks a surprise in your brain?
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  Speaker 6: Well, just because he's a rookie. But you know, in
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  Speaker 6: my experience, I don't think I've ever seen the quarterback
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  Speaker 6: not be the captain. But it's just rare here certainly
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  Speaker 6: to have a rookie starter. You know. In the opener,
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  Speaker 6: since it hasn't happened since Lway, so we just haven't
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  Speaker 6: seen it here. But it would stun me if the
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  Speaker 6: quarterback wasn't the captain in any scenario, no matter who voted, coaches, players,
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  Speaker 6: or you know, however the ballot bots got talented. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: always look at some of the long standing guys in Wonder,
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  Speaker 6: you know, you know, Quinn Minors over Garrett Bowles and
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  Speaker 6: that type of thing. But captains are a funky thing,
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  Speaker 6: you know. I think Von Miller wasn't a captain until
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  Speaker 6: like this fifth or sixth year, and and Chris Harris
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  Speaker 6: Junior was never a captain. Uh So it's just it's
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  Speaker 6: an odd thing, you know, kind of how how it
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  Speaker 6: all shakes out.
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  Speaker 3: I was listening to Tyler and d Mack talk about
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  Speaker 3: it yesterday. I don't know if there's ballad box stuffing
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  Speaker 3: going on or whatever. It doesn't. It doesn't really affect
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  Speaker 3: me at all, Jeff, But why do you have six?
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  Speaker 3: What's the point of six captains on a football team?
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  Speaker 6: Dilted well, dow motion, really you're really diving in today. No,
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  Speaker 6: they've always had even back in Shanny's days, they would
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  Speaker 6: have five, five or sometimes six. But it's pretty common,
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  Speaker 6: you know, two on offense, two on defense, and one
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  Speaker 6: on special teams. The team.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, freaking they always have a special teams captain. Most
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  Speaker 4: you're surprised by this.
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  Speaker 3: It's usually yeah, but it's it's Uh, it's usually it's
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  Speaker 3: Keith Burns. That's my special teams captain.
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  Speaker 6: I got it. I got it. You know you want
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  Speaker 6: to see in the two a's, I got it.
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  Speaker 5: But finally, like hockey, it's wrong.
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  Speaker 2: That's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 5: If it doesn't have a I got the term to it,
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  Speaker 5: it's wrong.
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  Speaker 6: You know you want to see in the two a's.
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  Speaker 6: I completely understand. We'll still give you a hug. That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, Jeff to the game this weekend. I think we
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  Speaker 4: know the reasons why the Broncos could lose. It's a
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  Speaker 4: rookie quarterback going on the road in a tough place
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  Speaker 4: to play. Uh, it's it's a good receiving core for
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  Speaker 4: the Seahawks versus a pretty unproven secondary for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: Give me a reason they'll win this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: Uh. You know they're good enough on parts of their defense.
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  Speaker 3: We know.
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  Speaker 6: I think they're good enough to play good defense if
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  Speaker 6: they if they have to end. I guess if they
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  Speaker 6: will commit to running the ball, and I'm still not
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  Speaker 6: convinced they will, but if they will, they could win certainly.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think Riley Moss would be able to hold
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  Speaker 5: on to that position opposite pets Ortanna? Might we see
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  Speaker 5: a revolving door there.
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  Speaker 6: Nick, I I think as it stands right now, unless
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  Speaker 6: he you know, has a you know, sort of a
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  Speaker 6: Demari mathis struggle like last year with mathis that he
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  Speaker 6: stays put because athletically he's the easy pick. You know,
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  Speaker 6: you're talking size, speed, explosiveness. I mean, the guy is
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  Speaker 6: the guy is a top tier athlete at the position,
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  Speaker 6: so you want that on the field and between him
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  Speaker 6: and certain it gives them two of the biggest corners
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  Speaker 6: in the league, which is a you know, that is
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  Speaker 6: a luxury any team would like. And you know they're
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  Speaker 6: good at nickel with with Jakwon McMillan. What I think
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  Speaker 6: we'll see is I think they'll be more willing to
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  Speaker 6: sort of move McMillan and Moss around to try and
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  Speaker 6: get the ball to certain more. I think we will
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  Speaker 6: see some of that, uh as things move forward, just
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  Speaker 6: a more willingness to to move a couple of the
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  Speaker 6: pieces around because I think McMillan's a pretty versatile player.
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  Speaker 6: He can play obviously in the in the nickel slot position,
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  Speaker 6: but I think in certain scenarios he'd be very good
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  Speaker 6: on the outside too. And that gives you, It gives you,
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  Speaker 6: you know, some ways to get quarterbacks, you know, to
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  Speaker 6: go to the one on one sometimes which is going
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  Speaker 6: to be certain, which is they avoid all the time,
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  Speaker 6: and Banch Joseph said that people as the coordinator said,
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  Speaker 6: he wanted, you know, is his responsibility to find a
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  Speaker 6: way to force quarterbacks to have to go to where
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  Speaker 6: they don't want to.
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  Speaker 3: I said this earlier in the program. This is my
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  Speaker 3: formula to get a dub. You know, a tough place
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  Speaker 3: to play, we all know that, but you've got to
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  Speaker 3: control the ball. Zero turnovers, eat up clock, time of possession,
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  Speaker 3: and you need to force at least two. You do that,
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  Speaker 3: I think you win the football game. Does that sound fair?
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  Speaker 6: Always turnovers is the undefeated analytics. You know, we go
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  Speaker 6: looking for analytics that will always be the biggest one,
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  Speaker 6: you know, in any any week. But I think it's
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  Speaker 6: really important this. Mike McDonald is known throughout football for
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  Speaker 6: you know, I know defensive coaches who've gone and studied
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  Speaker 6: him for his pressure packages because he's so creative and
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  Speaker 6: so willing to do anything in the past rush pressure.
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  Speaker 6: The Broncos simply cannot have bow knicks at the line
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  Speaker 6: of scrimmage trying to figure out what he's looking at.
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  Speaker 6: They just got to get the ball out of his
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  Speaker 6: hand as quickly as possible. And if that means they
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  Speaker 6: don't throw a pass past nine yards, they need to
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  Speaker 6: do that, and they need to run the ball behind
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  Speaker 6: him and then you get a couple of turnovers. I
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  Speaker 6: think they have a good shot, but I think what
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  Speaker 6: rookie quarterbacks are like three and fifteen there you know
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  Speaker 6: all time if those stats matter to you, but I don't.
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  Speaker 6: This is not the week to say, Okay, bo Nicks
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  Speaker 6: is ready for the NFL, and they get all greedy
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  Speaker 6: and have him stand there and try and decipher things
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  Speaker 6: pre snap. They need to make it a quick hit
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  Speaker 6: game plan, get the ball out of his hands and
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  Speaker 6: protect him with the play calls. You know, just Jeff,
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  Speaker 6: that's what I think they need to do.
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  Speaker 5: Mike, you just said Mike McDonald is this genius blitzer
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  Speaker 5: and he drums up all these great blitz schemes and
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  Speaker 5: Mike God, how far can you take this? I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's like reinventing the wheel. What's so special about his
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  Speaker 5: blitz schemes? Just send more guys from different areas. What's
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  Speaker 5: the big deal here?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think from a you know, I only get
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  Speaker 6: too deep in the weeds. But what he does what
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  Speaker 6: a lot of guys don't do, is all eleven guys
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  Speaker 6: in the formation know everyone's everyone else's responsibility in the
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  Speaker 6: blitz package, So he can line a corner up and
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  Speaker 6: that the player is a corner, but he's lined up
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  Speaker 6: as the weak side linebacker. And if you're not prepared
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  Speaker 6: for that as a quarterback. As they jumble, you know,
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  Speaker 6: they don't line up in a very tidy formation. He
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  Speaker 6: is moving and jumbling things up, and all eleven of
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  Speaker 6: those guys know everyone else's responsibility, so he can line
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  Speaker 6: up the defensive end after the snap can be the
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  Speaker 6: strong side linebacker. And you've got no way of knowing
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  Speaker 6: that as a quarterback unless you are just you know,
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  Speaker 6: have seen it a lot and understand where the disguises
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  Speaker 6: are coming from. That's why I think it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I know they want bon Knicks, to do a lot
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  Speaker 6: of things in this offense. I just personally don't think
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  Speaker 6: this is the week to do that legy.
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  Speaker 4: At the risk of you calling me stupid, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: ask this question anyway. What's preferable a fourteen to thirteen
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  Speaker 4: win in which Bonnicks throws three picks or a thirty
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  Speaker 4: four to thirty one loss in which he throws four touchdowns.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I you know, I've always said here, I have
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  Speaker 6: friends for huge football fans. They would much rather lose
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  Speaker 6: a thirty one to thirty than win ten to nine,
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  Speaker 6: and I tease him about it all the time.
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  Speaker 4: But this is just strictly for confidence in bon Nicks
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  Speaker 4: as your QB. That's kind of what I'm asking.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I guess. I mean, you know, I think
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  Speaker 6: you certainly the win is the ultimate confidence because you
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  Speaker 6: could always go to him and say, hey, dude, don't
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  Speaker 6: worry about it. You know you won the game. And
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  Speaker 6: I think that's the ultimate confidence. You don't want the
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  Speaker 6: double damp, which is a tough day and a loss,
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  Speaker 6: because you know that's just not the way you want
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  Speaker 6: to open up.
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  Speaker 4: I think Tim Tebow might have something to say about, Hey, dude,
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  Speaker 4: it's Okay, you got the win.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah. Always always remember Kansas City. That was a
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  Speaker 6: special beery.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Lakewell, ESPN dot com. He joins us every single week.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for the update, Lego. We appreciate talking to you.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Bella, Take care.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Lakewell, ESPN dot com. All Conversations with Leggy brought
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