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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 10-14-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Langwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 3: The insider I've covered while.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Legwall he's the balloon popper. He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 2: IBBW Local sixty eight. Start with the job and with
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  Speaker 2: the career. It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's jump right into it. Jeff Legwald is with
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  Speaker 1: us here on a Monday afternoon. Jeff Legwald's Apparents, brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ib
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  Speaker 1: W Local sixty eight. Start with a job and with
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  Speaker 1: a career. Uh, Leggie, let's start on Patrick Sertan. We
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  Speaker 1: give it like pretty much a zero percent chance that
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  Speaker 1: he plays Thursday in New Orleans. Correct.
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  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I mean even at you know, we still
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  Speaker 5: don't know the severity of the concussion, but even at
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  Speaker 5: the most optimistic quickest movement through the protocol, it would
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  Speaker 5: be virtually impossible for him to clear all the hurdles
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  Speaker 5: before Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: And I you know, there's there's.
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  Speaker 5: No formal, you know, rule that I know of, but
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  Speaker 5: I think if a team ever did that, it would
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  Speaker 5: be thoroughly investigated by the league at some point if
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  Speaker 5: you you somehow turn the guy around to play after
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  Speaker 5: he left the game, Yeah, to play on the Thursday night.
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  Speaker 3: So uh, it will bear watching.
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  Speaker 5: I mean they're only going to practice and it'll be
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  Speaker 5: a walkthrough tomorrow, so we really don't have a good
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  Speaker 5: way to assess of where he is and and how
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  Speaker 5: he's doing yet. So I think that'll be next week
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  Speaker 5: before we have a feel for if this is going
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  Speaker 5: to be a multi week thing or not.
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  Speaker 1: Brutal, brutal luck for the Broncos. I mean, going to
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  Speaker 1: lose it for two games and it's the best player
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  Speaker 1: on your team. I mean, he's the straw that stirs
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  Speaker 1: the drink. Defensively, yesterday, the Broncos state very man heavy,
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  Speaker 1: even after Cirtan was out. Clearly that was Vj's game
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  Speaker 1: plan and what he wanted to do against the Chargers.
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  Speaker 1: It's just when you take the best man coverage corner
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  Speaker 1: in the league off the field, it certainly makes an impact.
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  Speaker 1: As you watched it, and I'm sure you've taken a
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  Speaker 1: look at the film, LEGI, what did you see as
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  Speaker 1: the greatest impact of not having Certan out there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it just took.
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  Speaker 5: It took almost the whole first half for the the
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  Speaker 5: guys who were in the secondary, you know, And a
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  Speaker 5: lot of this is because Jakwon McMillan suddenly has to
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  Speaker 5: play two very different playing the nickel and playing the
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  Speaker 5: outside corner. You know, they're both called corners, but it's
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  Speaker 5: not the same job, and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 5: different responsibilities in terms of play calls and all of
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  Speaker 5: those things. And the nickel guy is usually the verbal
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  Speaker 5: Q guy. He's got to get everybody squared away before
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  Speaker 5: the snap. And so they had McMillan playing outside in
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  Speaker 5: the in the base defense, and then he was pumping
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  Speaker 5: down to the nickel, and that's a lot to ask
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  Speaker 5: of him. And you know, he was limping pretty good
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  Speaker 5: after the game, and you know, I think they have
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  Speaker 5: listed him as as had they practiced today, he would
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  Speaker 5: have been limited with an ankle injury. And that doesn't
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  Speaker 5: shock me. I saw him in the locker room after
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  Speaker 5: the game. But I think the second half they settled down.
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  Speaker 5: Now that the Chargers were not throwing it nearly as
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  Speaker 5: much in the second half with the big lead, but
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  Speaker 5: they were far more sort of in tune with how
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  Speaker 5: it was going to work with Levi Wallace, McMillan and
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  Speaker 5: you know Riley moss in there because they did play
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  Speaker 5: the nickel a lot in the second half and they
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  Speaker 5: were a lot more I think on the assignments and
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  Speaker 5: I think they'll be able to do it, But a
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  Speaker 5: lot of this is hanging on Ken Wallace holed up
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  Speaker 5: on the outside, uh when they are in that nickel package,
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  Speaker 5: and I think people are gonna put him in a lot.
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  Speaker 4: Well, they did announced via Twitter they signed Quintin Newsome today,
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  Speaker 4: so that's probably a sign that they don't love the
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  Speaker 4: health in the room. But might have done that if
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  Speaker 4: you know, if it was just PS two, right lady,
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  Speaker 4: But it does tell you that they got some concerns there.
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  Speaker 4: And I will note that the Saints Chris Olave got
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  Speaker 4: a concussion yesterday too, so he's in the same boat
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  Speaker 4: as PS two. Not looking for him to play either. Hi,
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  Speaker 4: have you had a chance to even peek at al
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  Speaker 4: Spencer Rattler did? Do you think he'll still be the
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  Speaker 4: guy by the time the Broncos get to him Thursday?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 5: You know again, and it'd be you know, we don't
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  Speaker 5: know until they say so, but it would be hard
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  Speaker 5: for me to believe you could just flip it around
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  Speaker 5: for a Thursday game if you want to make a
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  Speaker 5: big change like that.
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  Speaker 3: So I think I think they're approaching it like they'll
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  Speaker 3: get Rattler real quick.
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  Speaker 4: Just I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I if Taysom
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  Speaker 4: Hill's ribs are better, do you think they'd start him
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  Speaker 4: or is that still too big a change Like you
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  Speaker 4: talked about.
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  Speaker 5: I think coming off the injury and only one real
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  Speaker 5: day of practice for a quarterback that's now he's been
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  Speaker 5: there a long time and knows what they're doing, So
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  Speaker 5: you know, he sort of asked the profile you could
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  Speaker 5: do it.
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  Speaker 3: If you want.
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  Speaker 5: But again, a guy coming off injury with one real
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  Speaker 5: day on the field, that's an awful lot to ask.
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  Speaker 5: But again, they've they haven't won since the two game
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  Speaker 5: outbursts to start the season, so you know that that
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  Speaker 5: puts everything on the table.
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  Speaker 3: If if you're the.
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  Speaker 1: Saints going back and looking at kind of what Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Ratler did yesterday, very good first half and not so
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  Speaker 1: much in the second half. It seemed as though the
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  Speaker 1: game plan for Todd Bowles, he was pretty happy to
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  Speaker 1: try and play coverage against him in that first half
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  Speaker 1: and Rattler had a little bit of luck. They got
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  Speaker 1: a special team's touchdown as well yesterday, that being the
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  Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints second half, they just sent the house
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  Speaker 1: after Spencer Ratler and he really really struggled against that
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  Speaker 1: kind of pressure. If your advanced, Joseph obviously take note
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  Speaker 1: of that. This could be a big rush five, rush
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  Speaker 1: six kind of affair for the Broncos coming up here
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially after you look at the you look at
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  Speaker 5: the second half of yesterday's game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I think Herbert threw.
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  Speaker 5: It eight times in the second half something like that,
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  Speaker 5: or you know, in that neighborhood. And but they were aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: They had their five and six man rush packages going
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  Speaker 5: in the second half, and they did it out of
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  Speaker 5: even the base defense fronts a couple of times. So
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  Speaker 5: that's a sign of some aggressiveness. And I think they
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  Speaker 5: would they would go after himsel if it was Rattler,
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  Speaker 5: because I do think they feel very good about Masson.
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  Speaker 5: McMillan and Levi Wallace has been in the league seven
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  Speaker 5: years and he started for the Steelers, so you know,
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  Speaker 5: he's played in an aggressive defense where a lots expected
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  Speaker 5: of the corner.
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  Speaker 3: So I I do think they.
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  Speaker 5: Feel good about who they have, but uh, you know
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  Speaker 5: that's not certain, and you're just not going to duplicate
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  Speaker 5: the comfort level you have with a guy like him.
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  Speaker 5: Certain brings you predictability because you know he's either going
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  Speaker 5: to handle his business or quarterbacks are just going to
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  Speaker 5: avoid them all together. So it gives you a lot
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  Speaker 5: more options as a play caller on defense, Uh, to
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  Speaker 5: have him in the lineup, so they'll they'll have to
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  Speaker 5: adjust and not be so visible and one on one
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  Speaker 5: matchups all the time with you know, I doubt anybody
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  Speaker 5: would follow a receiver at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, without certain All.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Lakey, you're so gret at explaining this. I did
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  Speaker 4: chat with Jeff Puttz here a bit today too. You
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  Speaker 4: guys have always given me the same answer, but let's
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  Speaker 4: visit it again. Why is it hard to take what
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  Speaker 4: you did in the fourth quarter and make it a
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  Speaker 4: full game plan?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know the reason I looks better for especially
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  Speaker 5: young quarterbacks, is because you know, think of it as
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  Speaker 5: a restaurant menu. When you're in the first quarter, the
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  Speaker 5: menu's got like seventy to one hundred items on it,
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  Speaker 5: and when you're in the hurry up or there're no
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  Speaker 5: huddle in the fourth quarter and catch up mode it
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  Speaker 5: might have ten or twelve items on it, So a
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  Speaker 5: quarterback is gonna be more comfortable in that scenario because
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  Speaker 5: there's just a lot less to deal with. And then
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  Speaker 5: you couple that with a defense back in its safeties
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  Speaker 5: off and it just wants to keep everything in front
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  Speaker 5: of it because it has a three score lead. That
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  Speaker 5: usually leads to some yards and even in the Broncos
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  Speaker 5: case yesterday, a touchdown or two. But it's not real.
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  Speaker 5: And even Sean Payton said after the game, you know,
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  Speaker 5: he's very hesitant to say, you know, that's a good
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  Speaker 5: thing and they should do it all the time, but
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  Speaker 5: it is that limited menu, and when they try to
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  Speaker 5: do it earlier in the game, it wasn't nearly as
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  Speaker 5: successful because the defense is playing you, honest at that point,
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  Speaker 5: they are playing you straight up. They're playing you to
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  Speaker 5: their game planned ways of doing things, and it was
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  Speaker 5: a lot bigger struggle for the Broncos. In fact, they
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  Speaker 5: they had two penalties and a turnover when they tried
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  Speaker 5: it earlier, when the defense was in its usual place.
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  Speaker 5: So if you do it a lot early in the game,
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  Speaker 5: you need a quarterback who's very comfortable when the backfoot
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  Speaker 5: hits to just deliver the ball, and if it goes
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  Speaker 5: beyond that, it gives the defense some nice predictability because
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  Speaker 5: they know they're working off a shorter menu too.
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  Speaker 3: So that's that's the crux of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's again you get that cover four look coming
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  Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter and you start to run a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of tempo. Nicks tends to get more comfortable
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  Speaker 1: as games go along, but still leggy. What what can
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  Speaker 1: show undo and what can they do offensively to help
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  Speaker 1: him out a little bit early earlier in games? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: And yet as I asked that question, I look at
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  Speaker 1: it and I go, you know what, that first throw
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  Speaker 1: to Mims, that's a good aggressive throw that an NFL
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  Speaker 1: quarterback has to be able to make, and he sales
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  Speaker 1: the damn thing and it gets tips and it gets
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  Speaker 1: intercepted right there, Like help him out, But also at
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  Speaker 1: some point, dude just has to make accurate throws.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, And the uncomfortable answer for everyone is
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  Speaker 5: some of this is just time.
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  Speaker 1: Rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 5: He has to be more comfortable in other things. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: yesterday they're in the shotgun probably eighty percent of the time.
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  Speaker 5: And that's fine, and teams succeed doing that, but you
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  Speaker 5: need a quarterback very comfortable moving the ball to all
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  Speaker 5: parts of the field. You put a guy in the
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  Speaker 5: shotgun and spread everything out to give him the clean looks,
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  Speaker 5: which is what they want to do with a rookie quarterback,
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  Speaker 5: give them the cleanest picture he can get. But to
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  Speaker 5: make that work, he's got to work all sort of
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  Speaker 5: sections of the field, and they're not. You know, they're
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  Speaker 5: basically working you know, a lot of defensive coaches, I know,
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  Speaker 5: divided into six six you know, blocks of real estate,
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  Speaker 5: and they're working the three by the line of scrimmage
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  Speaker 5: and that's roughly it.
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  Speaker 3: Right now. They still they've played six games.
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  Speaker 5: They have three plays of over thirty yards in the
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  Speaker 5: passing game. I mean some teams have that in two drives,
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  Speaker 5: and so it's it's just a combination. We know everybody
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  Speaker 5: wants him to grow up so fast, but a lot
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  Speaker 5: of this is until he's more comfortable under center, until
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  Speaker 5: he's more comfortable and condensed formations, until he's more comfortable
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  Speaker 5: in a three step drop, in a five step drop,
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  Speaker 5: until he's more comfortable doing more things. They're running a
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  Speaker 5: very limited playbook defenses.
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  Speaker 1: Know that, yep, mistakes made early and you're taking out
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  Speaker 1: of your script. And that's life for the Broncos with
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  Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. Jeff Legwald. Everybody ESPN read his stuff
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  Speaker 1: right there. He'll keep you updated on everything going on
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  Speaker 1: with her ten this week, but very very very extremely
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  Speaker 1: long shot that he would be able to go by Thursday. Leggy,
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  Speaker 1: good work as always, man, Thank you, Thanks dolls. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: of Electrical Workers ib W Local sixty eight. You start
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  Speaker 1: with a job, you end with a career.