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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 9-26-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: But like football Friday Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five,
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  Speaker 1: but like the official beer sponsor of the Denver Broncos,
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  Speaker 1: remember to enjoy responsibly. Friday afternoon means we talked to
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald here on the Correctman and Lyndahl Show. Jeff Legwald,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 1: IBW Local sixty eight. Start with the job and with
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  Speaker 1: a career. The rare occasion where it's a Friday and
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  Speaker 1: yet we will still have yet another discussion with Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Legwald before the Broncos kick off. That's the fun of
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  Speaker 1: Monday night football. We'll talk to Leggy coming up here
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  Speaker 1: on Monday. But right now, let's talk about the latest
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  Speaker 1: with the team and Leggie, I would say the legs
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  Speaker 1: with the team is taking a look at this injury
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  Speaker 1: report right now. Everybody was a full go today at practice.
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  Speaker 1: So despite the dra Greenlaw absence, which kind of continues
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  Speaker 1: to hover over this team, the Broncos in the very
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  Speaker 1: least going into Week four, are in a good injury position.
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  Speaker 1: The question is Evan Ingram, how much is he gonna
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  Speaker 1: to see the ball on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's what they've really been missing Nate,
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  Speaker 2: and I think it's been painful, painfully evident, and even
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  Speaker 2: in the games he's left early. And you know Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 2: he was clearly clearly compromised with the back injury during
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  Speaker 2: the game. So they need him. And you know again
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  Speaker 2: that this week he's he's looked good on the practice field.
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  Speaker 2: You know, again, nobody's tackling you out there, but he
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  Speaker 2: was moving well and he looked like he did in
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  Speaker 2: terms of movement, uh, like he did in camp. So uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's somebody they sorely need. They are not challenging defenses
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  Speaker 2: at all in the intermediate area of the field, and
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  Speaker 2: people know it, and uh, they're not going to change
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  Speaker 2: their habits until the Broncos, you know, sort of forced
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  Speaker 2: them to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you to that point, and you wrote about
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  Speaker 1: it today on ESPN dot com. Like, there's the metrics
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  Speaker 1: that are bad. They stink on third down, bone Knicks
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifth and QBR. We see all of that. The
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  Speaker 1: numbers clearly aren't good. But what is striking you right
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  Speaker 1: now or what is standing out to you as you
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  Speaker 1: have watched these games on film and looked at the
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  Speaker 1: charts about where bone Knicks is throwing the ball right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, defenses want him to push it wide,
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  Speaker 2: and he has been forced that way a lot on
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  Speaker 2: key downs, especially so that the it's a rare or
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  Speaker 2: you know, rareer. But defenses are sort of dictating to
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos at times, especially I think on pivotal h
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  Speaker 2: third down plays and red zone and you know, teams
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  Speaker 2: have at least two of the Broncos opponents have really
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  Speaker 2: chosen to sort of gang up on Courtland Sutton. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, with with mixed success, they you know, they've
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  Speaker 2: still gotten the ball to Sudden, especially in the Chargers game,
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  Speaker 2: even though he was clearly their they're number one target
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  Speaker 2: on defense. But you know, teams are pushing Nicks outside
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  Speaker 2: the numbers. That's where a lot of the mistakes have come.
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  Speaker 2: And the intermediate field part of the field is where
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos and Knicks really made it happen last year,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And and and they're not allowing that. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they and the Broncos haven't run the ball well
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  Speaker 2: enough to sort of dig the safety out of those
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  Speaker 2: situations or at least make defenses commit to other things. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're getting away playing light boxes against the the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos in the run game and and in the passion game,
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  Speaker 2: they're forcing the ball where they want it to go
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  Speaker 2: instead of where the Broncos wanted to go.
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  Speaker 3: Leg I think I'm gonna save a lot of my
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  Speaker 3: Cincinnati specific questions for Monday from when we talk to you,
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  Speaker 3: but I want to ask you. Obviously a lot's been
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  Speaker 3: made for good reason, because it's crazy how different the
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  Speaker 3: numbers are. But a lot's been made over Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 3: record in September compared to October. Now, you and I
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  Speaker 3: have joked, and we've joked about it on the air
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  Speaker 3: off to everything about the gigantic play sheet that he
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  Speaker 3: brings in. It seems every game does he pare down
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  Speaker 3: those plays? What do you think is the secret? What
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  Speaker 3: is the reason that he's so much better in October
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  Speaker 3: in his career than he is in September.
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  Speaker 2: Well, my initial thought, Andy is that he asks a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a defense. You know, they're heavy personnel shifting,
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  Speaker 2: you know, three and four players moving on and off
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  Speaker 2: the field after almost every play, a big volume of plays.
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  Speaker 2: I think his offenses, even when Drew Brees in his
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  Speaker 2: tenth eleventh year in the offense, I think they need
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  Speaker 2: a few weeks. You know, in the preseason, people don't
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  Speaker 2: play as much as they used to nearly, and it's
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  Speaker 2: almost like a preseason extension for him, and I I
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  Speaker 2: think if we go back and dive in to a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those numbers, we will probably see at least
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  Speaker 2: some sluggishness on offense and a lot of talk about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, where are the big plays and that type
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  Speaker 2: of thing. So I think it may just take a
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  Speaker 2: minute for all he wants to do on offense to
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  Speaker 2: get going. And he sort of keeps alluding to that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, over the last couple of weeks that I
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  Speaker 2: essentially asked him yesterday, you know, you do you have
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  Speaker 2: an identity or do you have a section of plays
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  Speaker 2: you think you can lean on right now? And he
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  Speaker 2: basically said no. And you know, I think that's very
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  Speaker 2: telling that he even will admit publicly they don't have
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  Speaker 2: an offensive identity right now. And he is the play
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  Speaker 2: caller and the head coach that you know that all
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  Speaker 2: roads lead to him in that regard. But I think
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  Speaker 2: he at least has records. It is an issue right now.
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  Speaker 1: So five touches for R. J. Harvey, twelve touches for JK.
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  Speaker 1: Dobbins last week, Jeff, like you talked about in the
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  Speaker 1: struggle to find an identity for this offense, when are
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  Speaker 1: we going to start to see it emerge from the
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  Speaker 1: backs from the run game. And really, I mean we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about the lack of a run game. They also
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  Speaker 1: they've not exactly crushed it throwing the ball to the
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  Speaker 1: backs so far this season either, Leggie. Right now, where
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  Speaker 1: are they at in that progression?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Nate, I think all the sort of the
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  Speaker 2: offseason acquisitions. You know, they signed Dobbinson free agency in June,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Harvey, they trade up for to taking the draft.
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  Speaker 2: They signed ingram to the biggest free agent signing on offense,
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  Speaker 2: and none of those things are really incorporated in the
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  Speaker 2: offense yet. So you went through all this trouble to
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  Speaker 2: make these additions, and they have not been smoothly added,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And it maybe just because I'm old, but
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  Speaker 2: I really struggle, just as you know, being there to
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  Speaker 2: chart and observe and report and all the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: I really struggle to watch them have a three play
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  Speaker 2: scoring drive with three impactful run plays and then it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's you know, they're not perishable you can use them again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can bring those plays back in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And it's still very difficult for me to watch them
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  Speaker 2: do something like that and never come back to it
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the day. And it was obviously clearly
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  Speaker 2: something they had that worked against the Chargers defense. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think until they figure out where you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're they're doing play action more than they have in
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton's past. So that element is there. But I
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  Speaker 2: think Knicks probably should or or could go under center more.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that the run game will get their
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  Speaker 2: past game going. I don't think they can live right
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  Speaker 2: now in the modern NFL, which is you throw to
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  Speaker 2: set up the run. Now, I think they have to
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  Speaker 2: sort of go back the old way to get the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback calm down a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jeff, I want to ask you about Riley Moss.
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  Speaker 3: What kind of year do you think he's having. You know, again,
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  Speaker 3: when you're the guy that's always in the highlight, that's
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  Speaker 3: giving up the reception, fans are gonna get frustrated with you,
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  Speaker 3: But it feels like he's in the right place an
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  Speaker 3: awful lot of time. How would you how would you
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  Speaker 3: describe his season so far.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's having a pretty good year, and I
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  Speaker 2: know people are going to beef about that, but I
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  Speaker 2: find corner is a lot like a tackle on offense.
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  Speaker 2: You could have fifty good plays and two bad ones
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  Speaker 2: and everyone's gonna say you had a bad game, Whereas
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  Speaker 2: if you're an edge rusher and you have forty five
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  Speaker 2: block plays but you have a sack, everybody's gonna say
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  Speaker 2: you had a pretty good day. So I think overall,
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  Speaker 2: I think he competes. I think he's athletic. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's tough. I think he tackles well, but he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get picked on because your choices are all bad when
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  Speaker 2: you face the Broncos defense and it's running well. But
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of his completions have been very good,
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  Speaker 2: tight window throws by quarterbacks. You know, if you sure
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get beat, it's just the way it is
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to play opposite a Sir Tam. But
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  Speaker 2: I think he has the right mentality, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he's done far more right than mistakes. And that's all
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get, or that's really what you got to
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  Speaker 2: shoot for at that other corner spot. Because I got
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  Speaker 2: news for you, there will be very few guys below
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  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl level or all Pro level that are going
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  Speaker 2: to survive with that kind of competition or attention from quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 2: And he's got the mentality to do it. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's important.
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  Speaker 1: Yehs, the dirt man. I think he's having a good year,
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  Speaker 1: Leggie Like honestly, I think the secondary has played really well.
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  Speaker 1: The pass rush has been fantastic. I know the linebackers
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  Speaker 1: have taken a ton of guff and maybe this is
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  Speaker 1: a bigger picture question, but Jeff, right now, how are
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  Speaker 1: you grading this defense out at stopping the run? Is
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  Speaker 1: this a good run defense right now?
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  Speaker 2: I think they've been just okay. You know, the Taylor,
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  Speaker 2: the big Taylor pop, you know, skew some of the
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  Speaker 2: numbers a little bit, but they're still missing tackles. I
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  Speaker 2: think a defense that can be as good as this
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  Speaker 2: one should not miss tackles like they do sometimes. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that's the September thing and it gets better, or
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that's just the defense's you know, Achilles heel. So
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  Speaker 2: we don't know the answer to that yet, but I
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  Speaker 2: think they will settle down a little better when they
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  Speaker 2: tackle more or tackle more efficiently in the run game especially,
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  Speaker 2: and I think occasionally they get turned up front a
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  Speaker 2: little bit because they're so aggressive in attacking the line
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  Speaker 2: of scrimmage that occasionally somebody's going to hit you in
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  Speaker 2: the right gap, and I think they've had some of that.
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  Speaker 2: But they're a really funky defense to look at analytically
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  Speaker 2: because they they sack people like crazy. Yeah. There, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they're heavy analytics numbers. Their efficiency numbers are still top
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  Speaker 2: ten in the league, and they've given up two three
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  Speaker 2: hundred yard passing so it's really an odd, odd mix.
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  Speaker 2: And some of that, you know, is big plays and
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  Speaker 2: those will stew the raw numbers sometimes but they still count.
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  Speaker 2: But they're rushing the pass or at an elite level.
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  Speaker 2: I think the last two games are what six sacks
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  Speaker 2: and twenty quarterback hits. I mean, that's that's getting after it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's two quarterbacks that just played really well
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  Speaker 1: facing a lot of daunting pressure against Denver. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if Jake Browning can replicate that. On Monday. We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk to Jeff Legwald again on Monday afternoon ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Monday Night Football. Mister ESBN himself, Jeff Legwald. Everybody read
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  Speaker 1: his stuff at ESPN dot com. It is the best.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Leggy, Thanks Fellas.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see it