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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 5-11-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into it with Jeff Lagwald. We're
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  Speaker 1: out here at the Old Town Tavern in r Vada,
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  Speaker 1: five thirty pre game six o'clock puck drop tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sorry, LEVI wants to nominate Mark Johnson for best
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  Speaker 2: burger in Denver. Get him out, But we don't know burger.
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  Speaker 2: We're not sure Mark Johnson. I don't know if Jeff
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  Speaker 2: makes a good burger.
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  Speaker 1: How could he not find midwestern fellow? Uh? Jeff Legwald
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  Speaker 1: is with us here on a beautiful Monday afternoon. We're
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  Speaker 1: having an audio an audio issue.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted to ask Jeff if he's got grill skills.
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  Speaker 1: Grill skill.
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  Speaker 2: Now he's a Midwestern I think you guys come equip
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  Speaker 2: with that at birth, don't you.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a part of the requirement.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, But I also know he doesn't eat a lot
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  Speaker 2: of red meat, so I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, you can, you can have
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  Speaker 1: the skills and yet you can serve two others.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's in the DNA R right. I think we're good, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: you have grill skills. If I wanted a burger, could
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  Speaker 2: you whip me up a good one?
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  Speaker 3: Her Yeah, I can play in any stadium. Andy, I'm ready.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well, well, put is about it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you want to you want to use the briquettes,
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  Speaker 3: you want gas, I'm in you know, whatever you need.
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  Speaker 1: He's got it, man, He's he's versatile. All right, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: let's uh, let's talk about bo Nix's ankle some more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because we haven't covered it enough.
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  Speaker 1: So what's what's the latest and the greatest ankle surgery
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  Speaker 1: recovery that has ever happened with the follow up expected
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  Speaker 1: until it wasn't and now is back on track. What
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  Speaker 1: is what is actually happening with bow Nicks right now?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know again, I I uh circled Sewan back
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  Speaker 3: during after after practice Saturday, notice that just to be
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  Speaker 3: clear on where things were.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm sure I was happy you did that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's always happy when circle it back. But I
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  Speaker 3: think you know, in his mind, you know, he's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna I don't think he'll say this publicly, but I
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  Speaker 3: think he honestly believes if bo Nicks is one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent ready to go when training camp opens all as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what they believe in house, very confidently. They think,
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  Speaker 3: you know Unfortunately, like any injured player, bo Nix's off
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  Speaker 3: season will include a lot of staying in Denver, going
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  Speaker 3: to the team complex every day, and rehabbing his injuries.
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  Speaker 3: So he'll be he According to everyone I've spoken to,
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  Speaker 3: he will be one hundred percent ready to go a
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  Speaker 3: couple weeks before camp opens at the end of July.
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  Speaker 3: But they also say, and Sean said this publicly, was
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  Speaker 3: in the mandatory mini camp he could get some limited work.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's that's the last thing of the off season program.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be the third week of June, and that's I
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  Speaker 3: think that's where it stands. But if he does nothing
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  Speaker 3: in OTAs that we see, you know, in team drills
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  Speaker 3: eleven on eleven, you know, if he throws off to
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  Speaker 3: the side, that's a different thing. But if he does
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  Speaker 3: nothing in the team drills, in OTA and mini camp,
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna be unbothered by that because they fully believe
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  Speaker 3: he's ready to go when training camp opens and he's
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  Speaker 3: in year three. They've had no changes to the playbook really,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Davis Davis Webb is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: play caller. But the the portfolio of information bo Nixon
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  Speaker 3: is dealing with is something he knows already, so I
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  Speaker 3: think that's where it is. You know again, I think
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  Speaker 3: they're still doing a lot of sweeping up after you know,
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  Speaker 3: basically dismissing it during the draft weekend and then it
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  Speaker 3: gets out. I do know behind the scenes, they seem
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  Speaker 3: very upset that the information got out, which is frankly
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  Speaker 3: kind of naive for so many people who've been in
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  Speaker 3: the league for so long.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, you know what I love about talking to
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  Speaker 2: guys like you is you guys can watch these these
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  Speaker 2: rookies do limited work, which it was very limited work
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  Speaker 2: this weekend, and then go to mini camp. But you
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  Speaker 2: can get a feel for who may have an effect.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I stand next to you, Leggy and Javonte Williams.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just pull a name out you go. Do you
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  Speaker 2: know what I remember? Leg you told me two or
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  Speaker 2: three times that kid's got something, that kid's got something.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking watching this dude run a little, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a little drill off to the side, and but you
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  Speaker 2: saw something there, so you can pick up on it.
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  Speaker 2: And Javante ended up been a pretty good career there.
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  Speaker 2: Any rookie make you think, all right, that kid's going
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  Speaker 2: to be a factor from what limited stuff you saw
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  Speaker 2: this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think the usual you know, suspects, really the
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  Speaker 3: people you would think that I think, I think Jolly
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  Speaker 3: h Jolie. I think it's Jolie now, but justin Jolie
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  Speaker 3: will will have an impact. I think if they're willing
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  Speaker 3: to just play him in the situations where he can
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  Speaker 3: impact the most the earliest, I think he could have
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  Speaker 3: impact quickly. It's very easy to see he is comfortable
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  Speaker 3: in the passing game.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: He is unbothered by contact, which is what I look
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  Speaker 3: for when you're evaluating tight ends in the passing game. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: as draft prospects, you look for the people who can
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  Speaker 3: work through that because in the NFL, the level of
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  Speaker 3: contact you get as a receiver is many, many times
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  Speaker 3: more than you've ever experienced it in college. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know Tyler o'needham. You can see the movement skills
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  Speaker 3: and the length. Now those guys until the pads go on,
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  Speaker 3: it's really hard to make a definitive. But you like
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  Speaker 3: the length and his quickness out of his stance. Those
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  Speaker 3: are all things that trend pretty well for a defensive lineman.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I like Jodah Coleman as a as
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  Speaker 3: a Day two prospect when he was in the draft,
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  Speaker 3: and I like him right now. That's a that's an
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  Speaker 3: NFL body, and he'll pass protect immediately, which trends to
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  Speaker 3: get some third down snaps. If he simply shows he
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  Speaker 3: can hold up doing that in the preseason, which I
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  Speaker 3: think he will. That's a physically strong individual who's ready
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  Speaker 3: to play against NFL players.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lakeweld with us Monday afternoon, reacting to Bronco's mini
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  Speaker 1: Cam Kraigman and Lindahl live the Old Town Tavern in Arvada,
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  Speaker 1: Ralston and Wadsworth come out here and watch Game four,
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  Speaker 1: The Wild and the Avalanche right here at the Old
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  Speaker 1: Town Tavern. Listen to it on Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: two to five. Jeff, speaking of tight ends, Caleb bl Owner,
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  Speaker 1: seventh round, seventh rounder out of Utah now going into
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  Speaker 1: his second NFL season. From what you have seen and
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  Speaker 1: heard of Caleb Blowner an athlete they like, does he
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  Speaker 1: have any promise to his NFL future?
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  Speaker 3: All right, you know, I'll be honest, and I think
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  Speaker 3: I said it on your guys' show last year. I
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  Speaker 3: thought he could have played red zone snaps last year. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know again, I always prefaced that with I get
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  Speaker 3: I'm Timmy the sports writer, But that guy, that's a
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  Speaker 3: rare athletic skill set, you know what he has. And
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  Speaker 3: I saw that guy in person play in the NCAA
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  Speaker 3: Basketball Tournament, so I'm very familiar with kind of what
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  Speaker 3: type of athleticism he has. And he's not small. You're
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  Speaker 3: talking about a two hundred and sixty five, two hundred
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  Speaker 3: and sixty seven pound guy, by my eye, and that's
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  Speaker 3: who can you know, the vertical is worthy of a
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  Speaker 3: very good college basketball team, which he played on at
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  Speaker 3: Baylor and BYU and Utah. So all of that is rare,
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  Speaker 3: and I think, you know, there's a small amount of
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  Speaker 3: it is that the bar is so high with the
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  Speaker 3: Broncos to get on the field in terms of what
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  Speaker 3: the coaches want you to know and what they want
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  Speaker 3: you to be proficient at. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 3: teams sort have tossed him in last year, maybe in
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  Speaker 3: some spot duty, but that's not really Sean Payton's mindset.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to be able to especially after last season
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  Speaker 3: when they felt like they had gotten a little predictable
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  Speaker 3: in some situations. They don't want to be where you
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  Speaker 3: can tell what they're up to by their personnel groupings.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they want him to be proficient enough
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  Speaker 3: to get on the field, and I will be surprised
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  Speaker 3: if he does not compete for snaps pretty vigorously in
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  Speaker 3: training camp because he has athleticism. Frankly, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the other guys don't.
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  Speaker 2: No quarterback signings not a shock. Is Nathan Peterman someone
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  Speaker 2: that gets revisited later if something happens to Ellinger in
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  Speaker 2: this case, or was that just camp arms?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 3: I think you know there's a chance. I mean he
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  Speaker 3: Sean Payton was pretty clear he didn't think they really
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  Speaker 3: needed another arm to get through June work. You know,
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  Speaker 3: he said they might think about it for training camp
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  Speaker 3: if they were in a pup situation physically unable to
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  Speaker 3: perform when camp opened for Bonnicks, and they're not at
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  Speaker 3: this point. If something changed there, maybe in some kind
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  Speaker 3: of timetable switched. But it is funny to me because
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  Speaker 3: you know, Peterman's taking a lot of heat as an
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  Speaker 3: NFL quarterback. But it's a lot like those videos you
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  Speaker 3: see where the twelfth guy on an NBA team walks
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  Speaker 3: in and wins like fifty seven games in a row
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  Speaker 3: with the rec center, you know, against guys who think
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  Speaker 3: they're really good. I mean, Peterman was just he was
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  Speaker 3: so overqualified for what was going on there this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: He he pretty much did whatever he wanted. But that's
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  Speaker 3: a thirty two year old guy who's been around, and
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  Speaker 3: it was it was a lot like finger painting for him.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it would even be hard to judge,
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  Speaker 3: even for you know, the coaches, for what the value was.
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  Speaker 3: But I thought Warner showed some things. He's just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's a little undersized and he's always going to have
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  Speaker 3: to battle that. But he really did show some proficiency,
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  Speaker 3: which a week after he had been in Kansas City
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  Speaker 3: Chiefs practices, I thought was very telling for him. And
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  Speaker 3: I would think they'll at least discuss, you know, is
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  Speaker 3: that worthy of a practice squad spot, you know, later on,
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  Speaker 3: just because he looked like he had the brain power
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  Speaker 3: to make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna ask you the classic question again, Leggy,
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  Speaker 2: because I guess I'm intrigued by it. Yet again. We
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  Speaker 2: do get two post camp signings, a corner and a receiver.
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  Speaker 2: Why and heck you not even think about it? Seeing
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  Speaker 2: in the corner. Those seem to be the two most
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  Speaker 2: lockdown positions on the team, but especially receiver. We talk
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  Speaker 2: to you all the time about what roles could be
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  Speaker 2: left in that receiver room. Yet they signed what three
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  Speaker 2: or four in the college undrafted and then they signed
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  Speaker 2: one out of this rookie mini camp. What are they
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  Speaker 2: looking for that they don't have or is this just
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  Speaker 2: specifically special team stuff?
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  Speaker 3: And Andy, those two positions take the more they track
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  Speaker 3: everything electronically. Now the data for practice, you know how
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  Speaker 3: many steps you've run, how many yards you've run, All
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  Speaker 3: of that is tracked, and there are very there might
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  Speaker 3: not be two other positions in a training camp situation
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  Speaker 3: or in a off season workout situation that that cover
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  Speaker 3: more ground. So you need more bodies to get through
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  Speaker 3: everything you'd like to this time of year without crushing
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  Speaker 3: your your frontline players. So a lot of it is
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  Speaker 3: that just that you're the real estate those positions cover
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  Speaker 3: is frankly, just more in these types of workouts that
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  Speaker 3: they're doing that they'll do next month. So some of
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  Speaker 3: it is that you want to go into training camp
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of bodies at corner and a lot
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  Speaker 3: of bodies at wide receiver and enough arms at quarterback
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  Speaker 3: to get you through. And I think they're just positioning
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  Speaker 3: for that. And with the practice squad so big now,
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  Speaker 3: almost every GM I discussed this with firmly believes in
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  Speaker 3: today's league you cannot have enough corners and everyone's gonna scour, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as many places as they can to have
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  Speaker 3: corners they like in house. And even though the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: are deeper than almost every team in the league at corner,
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  Speaker 3: they always want a couple more.
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  Speaker 1: Just waiting those high step count positions out there. By
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  Speaker 1: the way Ley schedule release on Thursday, you got any hints,
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  Speaker 1: you can drop any any nuggets that you're hearing out there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, you always get a lot of hints
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  Speaker 3: that if you play in the Northeast. I guess is
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  Speaker 3: what you know?
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  Speaker 2: You're really you know, Yeah, because we've got Eagles Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: On Thanksgiving, they announced that we.
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  Speaker 3: Needed we needed more opening weekend from the NFC East.
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  Speaker 3: I guess, yes, I guess that's another. But no, I
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  Speaker 3: have not heard much. No. Look, Broncos are fourteen and three.
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  Speaker 3: They're gonna get a heavy dose of prime time. They're
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  Speaker 3: gonna get a heavy dose of the odd day.
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  Speaker 2: Game, you know, on the holiday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're gonna get you know, they're going
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  Speaker 3: to be in the mix for all those and I
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  Speaker 3: think the next couple of days we might hear a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. But right now that they're not on the
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  Speaker 3: frontline burner as far as the leakage.
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  Speaker 1: Goes, okay, well you don't want to be on that
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  Speaker 1: burner with the leakage. That's Jeff Legwald, everybody, ESPN dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff will talk you on Friday. We'll have a schedule,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll talk to you on Friday. We look forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. Man, Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll know what I'm going to be doing this fall.