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Jeff Legwold on PHD 8-14-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: John Langwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football the Insider.
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  Speaker 1: I've covered the league a little while.
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  Speaker 2: Chef Legwall, he's the balloon bopper. He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 2: Brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 2: IBBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Start with the jomb and with the career.
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  Speaker 3: It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Five.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it starts with just the periods. You know, you
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  Speaker 4: start with like, all right, what do we want to
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  Speaker 4: get accomplished. We have a shell maybe you know each
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  Speaker 4: of us have had a number of joint practices. We
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  Speaker 4: sent over a rough shell. Then they looked at it.
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  Speaker 4: He had some tweaks that we want to do and
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  Speaker 4: change because we're only with him once. If you recall
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  Speaker 4: last year with the Rams, we had two days, so
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  Speaker 4: one day we focus more on punt, the other day
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  Speaker 4: kick return. In this practice, we've got two periods. One
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  Speaker 4: will be a kickoff and the other will be punt
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  Speaker 4: punt return, and so we'll get those four field goal.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Legwell from ESPN joins us. Brought to you by
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  Speaker 3: the International brother Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 3: Start with the job and with the career, Jeff, what
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  Speaker 3: is left to prove here in terms of big storylines
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  Speaker 3: with the Broncos this week, Well, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Mac, I still think they've got some position battles
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  Speaker 1: still undetermined. You know, corner, I still don't think they've
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  Speaker 1: you know, they've got the same two guys making the rotation,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't think they've made a call there yet.
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  Speaker 1: You know how the Brandon Jones, the safety, you know,
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  Speaker 1: today was the first day he really even practiced, like
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  Speaker 1: the second day of camp. So that's that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They still got to get done along the way. I
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  Speaker 1: did ask him today logistically, you know, in his own mind,
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  Speaker 1: did he want to have starters named, you know, after
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  Speaker 1: this game? And he sort of said yes. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's because you know, things happen pretty fast
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  Speaker 1: after you know, once the third preseason game goes down,
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  Speaker 1: then it's all about getting down to the fifty three.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I think that corner spot, you know,
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  Speaker 1: kind of linebacker, some of the rotations and all that fuff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then ask you real quick with the injury news
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  Speaker 3: to JJ McCarthy being out for the year, does that
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  Speaker 3: change anything with the way the Broncos may approach the
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  Speaker 3: third quarterback in terms of perhaps looking at if there's
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  Speaker 3: a trade deal out there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, I think they would look at that
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  Speaker 1: at receiver, at running back. I think ultimately, if you
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  Speaker 1: think you're gonna waive somebody who has interest, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: shop them first, you know, to see if you can
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  Speaker 1: get that that Day three pick. You know that you
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  Speaker 1: that could help you. I mean, you think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Devon Vley is a seventh round pick. You know, those
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  Speaker 1: picks aren't nothing. So I think they will shop or
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  Speaker 1: at least gauge interest in several players on you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a bubble at receiver and running back. I think
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  Speaker 1: they will.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think is more likely they carry three
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks and they try to shop one of those quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tyler, You know, if you'd ask me a
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  Speaker 1: week ago, I probably would have said two definitively. But
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  Speaker 1: I just know, I just know how much he thinks
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  Speaker 1: is Zach Wilson, and he thinks he thinks there is
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  Speaker 1: a player in there. And they got to see a
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  Speaker 1: really nice glimpse of that. I mean it got lost
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  Speaker 1: in you know, the bow Knicks hyper believe. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, Yeah, it was against threes, but you know
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  Speaker 1: that ain't his fault. He can only play who's in
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  Speaker 1: front of him. But he looked like a guy who
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  Speaker 1: has made some repairs in his game. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it continues to do that. The chances of them keeping
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  Speaker 1: three keeps going up.
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  Speaker 5: You mentioned Aileen and you and I last week we're
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  Speaker 5: talking about Dayley too. I've been in love with him
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  Speaker 5: since camp started. I mean, this guy he's shown almost
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  Speaker 5: every single day. Is there any question? I asked coach
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  Speaker 5: Samford this too, any question? He's your third best receiver
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  Speaker 5: on the team, if not higher.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Scotty, he might be if you're really
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  Speaker 1: greeting the meritocracy as it were. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: playing wise, he has been in this camp. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's it's a whole different deal when you're going
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  Speaker 1: against ones all the time and all that. But he
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  Speaker 1: and he's, uh, you know, if he doesn't make the
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  Speaker 1: fifty three, they've made an awful, grievous mistake because he
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  Speaker 1: should because the guy is playing great. And I think
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  Speaker 1: ultimately they're gonna end up keeping probably an extra receiver
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  Speaker 1: or an extra offensive lineman, and that's going to cost
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  Speaker 1: him in other spots, you know, and some of these
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  Speaker 1: other choices.
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  Speaker 2: We've talked a lot on our show about Samaj p
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  Speaker 2: Ryan and Tim Patrick in all likelihood might be painful cuts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, fan favorites guys that are good at football,
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  Speaker 2: but you might have to move on from him. Number one,
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  Speaker 2: would you agree with that assessment? And number two, any
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  Speaker 2: other guys you would put in that conversation?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know p Ryan, especially as a guy,
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  Speaker 1: I think they would sort of gauge interest out there
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  Speaker 1: because he does a lot of the things coaches like,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, if the team is thin at running back,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's a walk in contributor. So I think certainly, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean to keep p Ryan right now, you got
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  Speaker 1: to keep an extra running back in my mind, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Some years they might be able to
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  Speaker 1: do that, but I don't know they have the room
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  Speaker 1: this year to do it even if they wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: So I think he's certainly on the bubble. I think
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  Speaker 1: I think Tim as much as everyone thinks of him
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  Speaker 1: as a person and a player, when they invoke your
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  Speaker 1: name on a draft pick on draft day, you're you're
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  Speaker 1: already on the clock. And they said when they drafted
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  Speaker 1: Bailey he was just like Tim Patrick. So I think
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  Speaker 1: he shut on the clock since then. And and they
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  Speaker 1: the rookie has done nothing to disappoint or dissuade a
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  Speaker 1: choice from rappening. And I think corner is a spot
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  Speaker 1: or you know, maybe a veteran name or two gets
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  Speaker 1: gets bounced for for a younger player. And I think
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  Speaker 1: I think safety is still convoluted. You know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know kind of how all that's going to shake out.
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  Speaker 1: If you're if you're only going to keep four, then
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  Speaker 1: that's probably a veteran player or two getting being sent
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  Speaker 1: on his way to.
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  Speaker 5: Where's Troy Franklin sitting right now?
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  Speaker 1: I think he's a guy they don't. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: will always tell you know, I I always make the
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  Speaker 1: mistake of thinking more guys are going to get claim
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  Speaker 1: than actually do. So I preface that by saying that's
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  Speaker 1: my mistake every year. But I know gms who say
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  Speaker 1: rookies who are day one or day two picks or
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  Speaker 1: automatic claims, and you know he would be that if
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  Speaker 1: but he's he's really struggled with the physicality of being
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  Speaker 1: a receiver. In the NFL and getting off the jam
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  Speaker 1: and you know, and it's just not something he had
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  Speaker 1: to do in Oregon's offense. And it's really showing because
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  Speaker 1: when he is when he is challenged in at the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmager in the five yard zone, he really
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  Speaker 1: struggles to get himself free.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, though, I personally find it insane the
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  Speaker 2: idea of thinking that they would move on for Troy
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  Speaker 2: Franklin right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I can't. I'm saying I can't. He's
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  Speaker 1: an automatic claim for I can think of five gms
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  Speaker 1: I know who have told me through the years, any
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  Speaker 1: rookie who is a day one, day two pick that
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  Speaker 1: was on their board they're grabbing. So uh now it
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  Speaker 1: is a little yeah, And I just can't imagine they
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  Speaker 1: would do that. I mean, they trade it up to
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  Speaker 1: get them, you know, they like them. It's just but
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  Speaker 1: that you know, has he been one of the five
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  Speaker 1: best receivers in camp. No he hasn't. So that costs
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  Speaker 1: somebody a job maybe, and you know in the short term.
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  Speaker 1: In the long term, they you know, they obviously think
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be there a while.
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  Speaker 3: All right, great job, Jeff, as always, thank you Jeff Legwell,
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  Speaker 3: brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 3: IBEW Local sixty eight. Start with the job and with
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  Speaker 3: the career. Let's get to everything that happened with Broncos
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  Speaker 3: training camp today. Coming up next on PhD