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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 8-29-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  Speaker 4: Oh all right, that's home the week eight o'clock days.
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  Speaker 5: We talked to Jefflagwold ESPN dot com and uh, nice.
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  Speaker 4: Day to do it is.
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  Speaker 5: The Broncos have cut down to fifty three man roster
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  Speaker 5: and getting ready for a week and a half from
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  Speaker 5: now opening up the season.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff, good to see you, buddy. How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm good. I noticed you guys. You know, come in
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  Speaker 3: with a little rock and roll band from my era.
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  Speaker 2: I guess I was just gonna ask you. I have
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  Speaker 2: never in my life asked you if you liked music
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  Speaker 2: or what kind of music you like? But clearly a
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  Speaker 2: little Boston coming back, You're uh got you.
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  Speaker 3: Going a little bit not, you know, most I liked everything.
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  Speaker 3: My playlist is nutty because you know, kids will do
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  Speaker 3: that for you. They enlightened me with all kinds of
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  Speaker 3: cool stuff. But yeah, no, I love it all.
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  Speaker 4: Leggy.
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  Speaker 5: With this cutdown to fifty three, uh, the fifty three
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  Speaker 5: man roster, what was the biggest surprise to you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that you know, I believed that they believed the
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  Speaker 3: words that this would be a young team. But it's
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  Speaker 3: been a while since, especially you know at the twos
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  Speaker 3: and the threes on the depth chart, it's been a
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  Speaker 3: while since we've seen a team, you know, sort of
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  Speaker 3: this young. They kept all the draft picks except one
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  Speaker 3: multiple undrafted. Uh. You know, if you go two years,
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  Speaker 3: two seasons or less. I think there are twenty three
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  Speaker 3: players on this team with two seasons or less experienced.
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  Speaker 3: So part of that is their own doing. You know.
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  Speaker 3: The Russell Wilson decision took the cap you know, down
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  Speaker 3: to historical tightness and I think we're seeing the result
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  Speaker 3: of that. But I do think they would have gotten younger,
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  Speaker 3: you know, whether or not they had the cap troubles
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  Speaker 3: or not. But but they are they are indeed very young,
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  Speaker 3: especially in the backup hole.
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  Speaker 6: We were all, I guess surprised by Tim Patrick, especially
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  Speaker 6: after the game he had against Green Bay, and they
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  Speaker 6: wanted to go young. I get it, But follow me
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  Speaker 6: on this. If they felt he was ready to play,
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  Speaker 6: if the injuries were behind him, and he's a proven commodity,
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  Speaker 6: and the goal this year is to make your young
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  Speaker 6: quarterback develop, make your young quarterback look good. Why not
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  Speaker 6: give your young quarterback that proven commodity.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it came down to I think Quinn
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  Speaker 3: Bailey's injury forced them to add another lineman, so that
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  Speaker 3: was a roster spot, and they were afraid they're going
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  Speaker 3: to lose Blake Watson on waivers, so that's a second
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  Speaker 3: roster spot. And they kept a third quarterback, so that
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  Speaker 3: is a third roster spot. On offense, that many of
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  Speaker 3: the scenarios they did even a week ago, you know,
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  Speaker 3: didn't include. And I think in a perfect world they
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  Speaker 3: wanted to keep six receivers. But when you added those
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  Speaker 3: three extra roster spots that they needed, and all three
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  Speaker 3: of them were on offense. I think he got caught
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  Speaker 3: and the squeeze there, especially when he doesn't play special
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  Speaker 3: teams and when you're making when a team's making those
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  Speaker 3: last six or seven decisions, that's always going to go
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  Speaker 3: to the special teams coach who says, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: need this, I need that. And Tim does not play
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  Speaker 3: special teams at this point, you know, after two years
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  Speaker 3: of this time of injury, that's not going to be
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  Speaker 3: on his docket.
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  Speaker 2: But Jeff, when I look at the guys who are
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  Speaker 2: on the practice squad and again little Jordan Humphrey seems
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  Speaker 2: to be going, you know, along the same route he
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  Speaker 2: did last year. But how does it work on a
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  Speaker 2: weekly basis where he could be on the active roster
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  Speaker 2: and play on any given day then go back down.
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  Speaker 2: How does all this kind of thing work? Because I
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  Speaker 2: would assume that he and maybe even a guy like Burton,
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  Speaker 2: depending on the opponent, might be able to do that,
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know the mechanism.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, most it's two two per game can come up
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  Speaker 3: from the practice squad, you know, so depending on what
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  Speaker 3: their injury situation looks like, or you know, but last
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  Speaker 3: year Humphrey was on the practice squad and played in
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  Speaker 3: every game, So it tells you you know their intentions there,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Burton and Humphrey balls. I think the
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  Speaker 3: agreement was when Sean Payton sat down with him, is
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  Speaker 3: just hang in there, be patient, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: bring you back and you'll have a chance to be
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  Speaker 3: elevated and make your usual game check because you're on
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  Speaker 3: the game day roster. But you can elevate two a week.
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  Speaker 3: That does not include the third quarterback, who can be
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  Speaker 3: in uniform and go in the game if the first
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  Speaker 3: two are injured.
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  Speaker 4: Legging the fifty three guys in the roster right now?
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  Speaker 5: Will those be the same fifty three when the season
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  Speaker 5: kicks off next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think every week you're gonna be
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  Speaker 3: able to ask that question because he this head coach,
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  Speaker 3: has made no secret uh he likes the waiver wire
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  Speaker 3: if he thinks there's a better guy out there. So
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  Speaker 3: I think they're always going to be looking and be fluid.
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  Speaker 3: But I think they've made the decisions they want to
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  Speaker 3: make so far, unless you know they've gotten a medical
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  Speaker 3: report on somebody who's getting treatment that they think needs
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  Speaker 3: a few more weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Leggy, I've asked you this before, and we brought this
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  Speaker 6: up on the show yesterday. No one had the answer.
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  Speaker 6: Can you please explain to me again why on game
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  Speaker 6: days the NFL only allows forty six players to play
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  Speaker 6: when there are all those inactives.
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  Speaker 4: Why don't they just.
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  Speaker 3: It's the dumbest thing ever. It's always been the dumbest
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  Speaker 3: thing I think. I think it's the cruelest thing in history.
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  Speaker 3: They do it for the super Bowl. Like you get
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  Speaker 3: all the way to the Super Bowl and somebody tells
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  Speaker 3: you you're inactive. You can't even wear the super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: uniform that day. It's just stupid. It's always been. When
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  Speaker 3: the competition committee starts to talk about it, there's always
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  Speaker 3: a coach or two that just thinks that's so unfair.
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  Speaker 3: If one team has fifty two healthy players and he's
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  Speaker 3: only got forty seven healthy players, and it's a rather
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  Speaker 3: arbitrary number. They didn't do the analytics back then and
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  Speaker 3: figure out that the average number of healthy players every
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  Speaker 3: week is forty five or forty six. They get none
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  Speaker 3: of that, so that number isn't even based on anything.
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  Speaker 3: Yet they still cling to it. But I do think
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot more momentum now, especially with the practice
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  Speaker 3: squads finally where they should have been twenty years ago.
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  Speaker 3: Finally they you know, I think there's some momentum to
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  Speaker 3: finally just say, you know, no game day and active.
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  Speaker 3: Every healthy player in uniform can play if he wants
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  Speaker 3: to or can. And but it is dumb. It's always
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  Speaker 3: been dumb, and even the league doesn't have a good
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  Speaker 3: answer for it.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, I'm going to recommend on our morning show
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  Speaker 6: there's three of us every morning, one of us is
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  Speaker 6: going to be an.
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  Speaker 3: Active Yes, yes, that would be good. I think they
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  Speaker 3: would call that a rotation. At some point.
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  Speaker 2: Well, depending depending it's usually Moser.
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  Speaker 6: Mosure's inactive most of the week.
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  Speaker 2: Depending on the segment, it's Vic.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Leggy, I'll tell you this.
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  Speaker 3: If I've been with Vic, when he suddenly looks down
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  Speaker 3: at his phone or something, and that's it, game over, Leggy.
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  Speaker 5: If Vic gets a mean text, he's inactive for about
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  Speaker 5: two segments afterwards.
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  Speaker 2: Inactive, we do, Vic, what are you doing? I'm fighting
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  Speaker 2: with somebody. I'll get back to you in a minute.
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  Speaker 3: Vic enough to do television with me and Vic and
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  Speaker 3: their television on like one tenth of a second notice,
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  Speaker 3: so sometimes I didn't even know we were on the air,
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  Speaker 3: and we were on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Leggy, can you can I ask you to psycho analyze
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  Speaker 5: my brain for a second and let me know this.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I don't want to Well, too bad,
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  Speaker 4: Too bad, you're taking a deep dive.
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  Speaker 5: I'm having this this sort of inner battle because when
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  Speaker 5: training camp started, I thought it was totally plausible that
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  Speaker 5: the Broncos could have been one of the teams picking
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  Speaker 5: in like the top five in next year's draft.
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  Speaker 4: And then camp went on.
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  Speaker 5: And I was like, you know what they got maybe
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  Speaker 5: not blue chip elite players, but solid players at a
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  Speaker 5: lot of these positions. And now I'm in the place
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  Speaker 5: of they're in a playoff team, nothing like that, but
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  Speaker 5: better than I thought at the beginning of camp. Is
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  Speaker 5: that training camp brain taking over and you just watch
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  Speaker 5: them every day so you start to like things more?
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  Speaker 4: Or is that real?
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel the same way?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's it's I just was talking to somebody, a
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  Speaker 3: younger writer in another city covering a team who asked
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  Speaker 3: me the same question, and I said, there are two
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  Speaker 3: in my time doing this, there are two prime moments
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  Speaker 3: of optimism around an NFL team, and that that's right
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  Speaker 3: after the draft and in the it used to be
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  Speaker 3: one week, but in the one or two weeks between
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  Speaker 3: the end of the preseason and the start of the
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  Speaker 3: regular season, those are the two highest points of optimism
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  Speaker 3: around any NFL team I've ever covered. And then teams
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  Speaker 3: play the opener and you know, you know, stuff happens.
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  Speaker 3: Half of them lose, you know, basically, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: but so it begins. But this is this has always
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  Speaker 3: been sort of an optimistic, optimistic moment around NFL teams,
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  Speaker 3: and it is around here. You know that it's a
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  Speaker 3: new season of fresh season, but you know it's eventually,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's like every college football whatever. Eventually the
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  Speaker 3: games get played and and all of the chatter is
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  Speaker 3: you know, goes into the distance. And sometimes because it's
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  Speaker 3: the only team you're looking at, you're kind of doing
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  Speaker 3: it in a vacuum. So as they do better as
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  Speaker 3: camp goes on, because basically they've practiced more, it sort
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  Speaker 3: of does mess with your head a little bit. But
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  Speaker 3: I would say they still have depth is years and
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  Speaker 3: we still don't know really who the finishers are going
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  Speaker 3: to be in the red zone until you see some
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  Speaker 3: of that. And look, you know, bo Nix has done
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  Speaker 3: absolutely everything a rookie quarterback's gotta do to win the job.
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  Speaker 3: But he is going to play like a rookie, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really unfair for people to expect him
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  Speaker 3: to not play like a rookie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff, real quick though, on the quarterbacks, talking to
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  Speaker 2: other people around the league, are your friends your people
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  Speaker 2: surprised they kept three? And what's the thought if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't keep three with Zach Wilson, as you talked about
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  Speaker 2: as an instant claim, would he be gone in someplace else?
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  Speaker 3: I think so much. I don't know that for certain.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't get anybody to tell me, oh, yeah, we'd
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  Speaker 3: claim him, because I think if they were interested, they
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  Speaker 3: were trying to keep it on the down low. But
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  Speaker 3: I think he would have pat. I just looked at
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  Speaker 3: the state of quarterbacking around the league. I mean to
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  Speaker 3: Kobe Brissett, just beat out Drake May and New England.
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  Speaker 3: If you know you're believing in that choice, that I
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  Speaker 3: got to think he would have ended up somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've told you guys from the start
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  Speaker 3: they like him here that isn't fake or phony. They
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  Speaker 3: really think the talent is there and that they can
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  Speaker 3: fix the rest and they want to see you know,
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  Speaker 3: they look they like everybody else, know what the Jets
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  Speaker 3: think or know how that went, but they've basically decided
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  Speaker 3: and I think it's the right move. You find out
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  Speaker 3: for yourself. You don't take the Jets where for it
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  Speaker 3: that he can't play. You figure it out for yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Definitely.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the ESPN dot Com last thing for you that
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  Speaker 5: you want to let you go. Uh, would you have
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  Speaker 5: a game tonight with a team here locally see you
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  Speaker 5: Buffs taking on NDSU.
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  Speaker 4: What's your outlook for the Buffs this year? What do
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  Speaker 4: you think happens?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've talked to some scouts who've made the rounds
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  Speaker 3: and uh, I think they have some concerns about the
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  Speaker 3: offensive line, Uh, particularly the right side. I think that's
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  Speaker 3: when you talk to pro personnel guys. And again that's
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  Speaker 3: not a gauge for how good a college team is,
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  Speaker 3: I know, but uh, there's concern that if are they
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to predect the quarterback any better
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  Speaker 3: than they did last year? And you know, our team's
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  Speaker 3: just gonna overload that side of the formation just to
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  Speaker 3: take advantage and you know that the turnover is so
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  Speaker 3: great up there with the with the portal, you know,
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  Speaker 3: more than even most schools. I think there really is
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  Speaker 3: some uncertainty about, you know, what is their talent level
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  Speaker 3: beyond the marquee guys.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Lagwel ESPN dot com joins us every single Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, leg you appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Bollos, you know, and let me know who's inactive
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  Speaker 3: next week.
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  Speaker 6: At this rate, I might be inactive for a while.