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Jeff Legwold joins PHD 9-18-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football I Insider.
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  Speaker 3: I've covered the league a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwall, He's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 1: 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: i BBW Local sixty eight. Start with the jomp and
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  Speaker 2: with the career. It's Leggie on Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: two five.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Baker fan, like you know, I've always liked
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  Speaker 3: that guy, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's got from Boxie. I think he's a
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  Speaker 1: tough guy.
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  Speaker 3: And he's played great.
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  Speaker 2: He's played great.
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  Speaker 4: I've had a lot of fun with Baker through the years,
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  Speaker 4: been involved in a lot of interesting stories with him,
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  Speaker 4: and I'd like to see him do well.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Legwald's colleague at ESPN, Adam Schefter on Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Legwald is brought to you by the International Brotherhood
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  Speaker 4: of Electrical Workers ib e W Local sixty eight. Start
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  Speaker 4: with the job and with the career. First of all,
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  Speaker 4: we should just find out what's going on there, Jeff,
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  Speaker 4: in terms of guys practicing or not practicing, help things
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  Speaker 4: down there at Common Broncos Park at Common Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: I'll be corporate good for you, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, paying you to.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you never know what's the latest with that stuff, Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know everybody who you would not expect to
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  Speaker 3: be practicing at least uh. You know, we don't know
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  Speaker 3: the level of participation of some guys, but obviously mcglinchy's
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  Speaker 3: nowhere to be found. You know, I would expect him,
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  Speaker 3: unless they've gotten a different report in the last twenty
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  Speaker 3: four hours, to maybe go to short term. I are
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  Speaker 3: here with some kind of official designation when the when
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  Speaker 3: the league waiver wire hits. But beyond that, we got
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  Speaker 3: to wait till after practice to see what he what
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  Speaker 3: he thinks of Baron Browning especially think of the other guys.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's the guy of most interest for folks
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  Speaker 3: with a foot injury.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, I mean to come out the gates with drama. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, did you want brock Bowers? Is
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  Speaker 2: that the guy that you kind of identified that you prefer?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I felt at that time, Tyler, that he was
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  Speaker 3: the best player on the board Broncos pick came. I
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  Speaker 3: had him in the top four in my rankings because
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  Speaker 3: My feeling all along, and I said it in April
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  Speaker 3: after they picked Nicks, was that they could have had
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  Speaker 3: Bowers at twelve, and I think, given my information from
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  Speaker 3: other teams, I think they could have gotten nicked later
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  Speaker 3: in the first or early in the second. The Broncos
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  Speaker 3: are vehement that someone else would take Nicks before they
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  Speaker 3: could do that, but I my information at that time
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  Speaker 3: from talking to teams was that was not the case.
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  Speaker 3: So it's just a matter of who you believe. But
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  Speaker 3: I think there was a scenario they could have had both,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that would look pretty good right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it would. I mean, I said, I watched the
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  Speaker 2: entire Raiders game this weekend, and I'll admit I was
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  Speaker 2: on air saying twelve is way too high for a
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  Speaker 2: tight end. I don't care who he is, but I
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  Speaker 2: was watching that Raiders game this weekend. My goodness, does
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  Speaker 2: this guy look like the real deal? My question for
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  Speaker 2: you would be, do you think that Brock Bauers, if
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  Speaker 2: we selected him, would he have made more of an
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  Speaker 2: impact on this team? If Zach Wilson was his quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: then bo Nicks. Will I guess long term even well?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I guess that's one of those that
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  Speaker 3: can we can all chew on. I think it's difficult
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  Speaker 3: to say anybody right now and have a huge impact
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  Speaker 3: in the passing game if they're not going to push
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  Speaker 3: the ball down the field any more than they are,
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  Speaker 3: or you know, or protect any better than they are.
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  Speaker 3: I think they've got so many issues right now it's
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  Speaker 3: hard to say if other people were involved, they'd be
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  Speaker 3: doing better. But I mean my early concern and it is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I get it, it's two games, but I
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  Speaker 3: I've written this ride many times with young quarterbacks, and
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  Speaker 3: I see bo Nix's footwork already deteriorating because of either
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  Speaker 3: pressure he's seen or hits he's taken. And I think,
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  Speaker 3: to me, that is the immediate concern. They've got to
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  Speaker 3: get his footwork squared away, or the accuracy is going
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  Speaker 3: to continue to be an issue.
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  Speaker 1: We got Minshews you just mentioned Raiders now now starting
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  Speaker 1: for Vegas. We saw the comeback with Atlanta with Cousins
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  Speaker 1: Donald starting the season. To and know, is any of
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  Speaker 1: these guys that have moved from teams in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of those cases just kind of been journeyman type guys.
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised that any of the success any of
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  Speaker 1: those guys are average or another one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Scotty, I think immediately. I think those
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  Speaker 3: guys are playing about how I thought they would. You know,
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  Speaker 3: to me, the real thing to watch, and it's not
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  Speaker 3: a guy who changed teams, But to see what Clint
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  Speaker 3: Kubiak has done with Carr is epic and it just
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  Speaker 3: shows you that if you you know, I think the
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  Speaker 3: best offenses in the league right now are either using
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  Speaker 3: a high dose of pre snap motion or a high
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  Speaker 3: dose of play action. That the Saints lead the league
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  Speaker 3: in play action right now. The Broncos do neither, and
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  Speaker 3: I think that's part of the issue. I think either
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  Speaker 3: got to get on the parade or not. But on
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  Speaker 3: talking to defensive coaches around the league who who believe
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos are going to continue to struggle until they
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  Speaker 3: adapt a little bit with what defenses are doing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, do you think that that is just Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 2: philosophy or do you think that he's simply just holding
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  Speaker 2: it back because he doesn't think Bonecks can handle it yet?
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  Speaker 3: You know, Todda, I'd be dishonest if I said I
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  Speaker 3: knew for sure. I think it's a little both, frankly,
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  Speaker 3: but I know people who've coached with Sean who believes
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  Speaker 3: that he's he honestly truly believes in all the things
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  Speaker 3: he's done over the house with great success too. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that there is that, but I think at this
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  Speaker 3: moment in the league, the Broncos aren't doing a lot
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  Speaker 3: of the things on offense that they're really good productive
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  Speaker 3: offenses are doing. But that said, there are four quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: in the league right now without a touchdown pass and
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  Speaker 3: three of them are rookies, and the fourth one has
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  Speaker 3: benched in Bryce Young. So this is not a problem
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  Speaker 3: unique to the Broncos or bow Knicks. This is what
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  Speaker 3: you get when you start a rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Looking well, is there a leash anywhere on bow Knicks
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  Speaker 1: in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know, Scotty. I think it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: say that you would do that. I think that really
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  Speaker 3: adversely affects the guy's confidence when you're trying to do
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  Speaker 3: the opposite, which is build up that confidence. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a matter of if you're just worried
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  Speaker 3: he's the player is going to regress, so you know
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  Speaker 3: badly if you keep playing him. But you know, that's
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  Speaker 3: the kind of stuff they're going to have to weigh
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  Speaker 3: if they continue to get injuries at the rate they're
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  Speaker 3: getting them and struggle at the rate they're struggling.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Legwalder our guests who's been deeply involved with the
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame for a long long time. So the
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  Speaker 4: initial list is out here today, one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 4: something guys, Jeff Damarius, Thomas, Rod Smith, Brandon Marshall, Receiver,
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  Speaker 4: Wes Welcome, Clinton port Is, Tom Naylan, Mark Shlaret, Neil Smith,
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  Speaker 4: Bill Romanowski. You keep to leave Jason Eland dre Blig
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  Speaker 4: out of all those guys, in your opinion, who has
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  Speaker 4: the best shot to actually make the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 4: in that group?
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's that's tough to wrestle these days. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: receiver right now is the toughest posssion to get a
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  Speaker 3: crack through, because I think there are twenty six for
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  Speaker 3: intelligible receivers who have ten thousand yards receiving and Damarius
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  Speaker 3: and you know, Rod's numbers don't come up to some
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  Speaker 3: of these guys who are waiting, but I believe their
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  Speaker 3: play is at the level of where I put guys
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  Speaker 3: in this search, which is I'd certainly love to argue
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  Speaker 3: with them and that they deserve their day in the room.
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  Speaker 3: I think players like Ron Damarius certainly deserve their day
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  Speaker 3: in the room. And I think Rod is a better
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  Speaker 3: all around productive football player than some of the receivers
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  Speaker 3: we put in in recent years. So I've always been
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  Speaker 3: a big proponent of them. And you know, Tom Nalen
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  Speaker 3: certainly on the scale of center play through the years,
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  Speaker 3: deserves to be considered, but that that is actually one
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  Speaker 3: of the most difficult positions to get any can.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, appreciate it, Jeff, We'll talk to you
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  Speaker 4: next week.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Leggy, Thanks Fellas.