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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 2-24-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald. Let's join him right now. We're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for the combine ESPN Zone Jeff Lagwald. He joins us
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  Speaker 1: here on a Monday afternoon. Jeff Legwald's appearances brought to
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  Speaker 1: you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW Local
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight. Start with a job and with a career.
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  Speaker 1: What up, Leggy, We're doing great man, Leggy. We we
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  Speaker 1: have been talking about the Broncos needs to upgrade offensive
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  Speaker 1: skill position talent. One of your colleagues there at ESPN,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Shatz, suggested bold move trade up to draft Ashton Genty.
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  Speaker 1: Before we get to the should they Let's just go
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  Speaker 1: with informationally, Leggy, what would it cost to get up
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  Speaker 1: high enough to think about adding Ashton Genty to the Broncos.
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  Speaker 2: You know you probably gotta go from twenty to you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got you gotta get a feel for the for
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  Speaker 2: the board. If you're the team, do you have to
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  Speaker 2: go to ten? You know you're gonna have to go higher. Now.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of people in the league would
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  Speaker 2: say you don't have to get into the top ten
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  Speaker 2: to get a running back, but you know, this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of an odd class of running backs because it
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  Speaker 2: goes from gent as a first round grade, and then
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  Speaker 2: most of the other backs. You know, the next group
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  Speaker 2: of backs is probably ranked somewhere between thirty five and
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  Speaker 2: forty five on people's boards. So that's kind of what
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  Speaker 2: you're dealing with. My thing for trading up is the
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  Speaker 2: player you're trading up for that you know, is the
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  Speaker 2: gap between him and the and the player you could
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  Speaker 2: get at your spot or later. Is that gap big
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  Speaker 2: enough to dictate you give up what you're going to
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  Speaker 2: have to give up. And you know, I personally believe
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos are still at a place where they need
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  Speaker 2: any and all young draft picks to keep being added
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  Speaker 2: to this roster so they can be ready for the
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  Speaker 2: long haul. And you know, if you're going to move
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  Speaker 2: up up, you're giving up prime, prime picks. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you're you're probably giving up one more pretty good pick
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  Speaker 2: to move up with the first round?
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  Speaker 3: All right, which player is? And I think I've asked
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  Speaker 3: you this before, but I can't remember your answer, so
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask it again. Which players worth trading up for
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  Speaker 3: Warren or Genty for the Broncos situation for their needs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean again, it's it's how far you got
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  Speaker 2: to go. If you've only got to go a couple
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  Speaker 2: of slots, then both guys are.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's say they got to go to ten.
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  Speaker 3: For the sake of the conversation, LEGI, let's set the
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  Speaker 3: table there. They got to go from twenty to ten.
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  Speaker 3: What are we looking at?
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  Speaker 2: I think that price is high. You're probably giving up
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't have the charts in front of me,
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  Speaker 2: but you're you're probably giving up a day a late
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  Speaker 2: day two pick in there, somewhere a third or you
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  Speaker 2: know somewhere in there, and you know we all you
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  Speaker 2: got to do is look at uh, you know, Nick
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  Speaker 2: Benito wasn't all pro. He's a second round pick. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of you want to give up when you
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  Speaker 2: need players? I think one running back? Doesn't you know?
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  Speaker 2: Right now? Outweigh the two guys you could get with
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  Speaker 2: two picks in the first two days of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwell to ESPN Combine Draft. We're getting ready for it,
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  Speaker 1: Leggy's let's think curveball, okay, because naturally we all just
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  Speaker 1: go right to running back and tight end when we
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  Speaker 1: start talking about Denver in this draft. Yeah, but there's
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  Speaker 1: also a need for good young defensive linemen on this
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  Speaker 1: team price controlled defensive lineman. And you've talked about this,
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  Speaker 1: the need to not put yourself in a corner so
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  Speaker 1: that you have to take a tight end in round one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start talking about guys that could be available at
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  Speaker 1: number twenty on the defensive line. Like obviously Mason Graham
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  Speaker 1: is going to be long gone out of Michigan, But
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  Speaker 1: are there other pieces that you could like in a
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  Speaker 1: world where Denver maybe goes defensive line at number twenty.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, and Sean Payton has done that in
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  Speaker 2: his time with the Saints. You know, they have looked
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  Speaker 2: at defensive line in the first round on several occasions
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  Speaker 2: in his time there, and that you could put a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of names in the hopper defensive line and come
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  Speaker 2: up with a player worthy of the bottom of the
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  Speaker 2: first or the bottom third of the first round. It
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  Speaker 2: was the strongest position group at the Senior Bowl, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, just take your pick, especially on the interior guys,
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  Speaker 2: and it it'll be the strongest overall position group here,
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  Speaker 2: probably an Indy if you're just going by graded players.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a big guy draft, So it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be interesting to see how the first round goes
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  Speaker 2: because the big guy positions are a lot stronger than
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  Speaker 2: some of the skill positions. And maybe that's that's because
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  Speaker 2: those are the guys making the real money in nil that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Broncos at that twenty spot, you know
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for an upfield, attacking defensive lineman. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the young guy.
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  Speaker 1: From Oregon, Derek Harmon, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Harman Mississippi. The young guy from Mississippi had a tremendous
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  Speaker 2: senior goal. I mean, those are the types of players
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  Speaker 2: I'd be looking for if I'm the Broncos, and there
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  Speaker 2: will be more of those players available at twenty when
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  Speaker 2: their pick comes around than those other spots.
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  Speaker 1: I'm curious about Kenneth Grant out of Michigan. It's six
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  Speaker 1: foot three, three hundred and forty pounds. My god, could
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  Speaker 1: that guy be a fit in Vance Joseph's front.
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  Speaker 2: He certainly could be. Again, you know you could in
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  Speaker 2: rounds two, first, one, two, three, and four you can
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  Speaker 2: just put names of defensive lineman in the hat and
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  Speaker 2: you will pick out somebody who can compete right away
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  Speaker 2: for your team. It's that deep a class I think
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  Speaker 2: in in the defensive line, all right.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to the draft chart since
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  Speaker 3: you had mentioned it, then I do have another question
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  Speaker 3: for you. But this is wild and Nate, you like
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  Speaker 3: the math. I pulled one up that's on draft tech
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  Speaker 3: dot com legy. So they're valuing the Bronco pick at
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  Speaker 3: eight fifty at number twenty. That's how many points are
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  Speaker 3: getting for that in order to get up to ten,
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  Speaker 3: which is Chicago that drafted that pick is valued at
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  Speaker 3: thirteen hundred. So if you're really going to get to
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  Speaker 3: true value for value, they'd have to get up their
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  Speaker 3: second round pick because that's at three eighty. Their third
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  Speaker 3: round pick is only valued at one sixty five when
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  Speaker 3: making these trades, and maybe I'm sure you know we
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  Speaker 3: don't like a guy anyway, so let's just pick up
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  Speaker 3: a pick. How close do you have to get to
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  Speaker 3: the true value of the two picks there? How close
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  Speaker 3: would they have to get to thirteen hundred points to
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  Speaker 3: make the trade? Would you say.
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  Speaker 2: It'll cost you more this year any Because it's a
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  Speaker 2: center board, most teams will have between fourteen and twenty
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  Speaker 2: first round grades, and that that'll be fewer than a
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  Speaker 2: lot of recent years. So in teams' minds, the top
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  Speaker 2: fifteen picks are higher in value. Whether that's true or not,
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  Speaker 2: but they believe they're higher in value than they would
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  Speaker 2: be in like four of the last five drafts. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it will cost you more to get up there,
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  Speaker 2: because again, it's a thin first round that drops pretty
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  Speaker 2: heavy after picks, you know, player fifteen or sixteen. So
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  Speaker 2: if you're the Broncos, you're hoping you have a at
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  Speaker 2: least two of your first round grades still on the
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  Speaker 2: board by the time pick twenty rolls around.
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  Speaker 3: You're a fascinating show. On First Draft Today on ESPN,
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  Speaker 3: between Field Jates and Mel Kiper, they were talking about
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  Speaker 3: Travis Hunter and his value. Kuiper said he feels that
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  Speaker 3: Travis Hunter would have been higher rated than any of
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  Speaker 3: the receivers last year.
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  Speaker 1: Do you agree with that?
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  Speaker 2: I do not, at least for my study of them.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't mean he's not a spectacular player, but he's
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  Speaker 2: He's a lot less refined at receiver than he is
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  Speaker 2: at corner, and I think most teams even now see
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  Speaker 2: him as more of a work in progress as a
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  Speaker 2: receiver than as a corner.
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  Speaker 1: Got those ball skills, though you can't fake that part.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, you know, get him you know, give him
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  Speaker 2: two routes he likes and leave it at that. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm just talking as a well rounded prospect that you know,
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  Speaker 2: full time receivers are going to be more refined.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't think you know, he would have been
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  Speaker 2: higher than Malik Neighbors or or you know, in that
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  Speaker 2: category of receiver.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lakewald brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight. Start with a job
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  Speaker 1: and with a career. Jeff Lakewald is going to be
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  Speaker 1: from Indianapolis all week long. Like you. We appreciate it, man,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks Ellas