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Jeff Legwold joins Moser Lombardi and Kane 4/11/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  dot com, jeft Legwallet espn dot com. What's up, Leg? Good
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  morning, Hey, Jeffrey. The further we get on here, it just
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  appears the Broncos are taking their own sweet time finding anybody else to be a
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  quarterback on their roster. Now, maybe they have some grand plan to the
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  draft or whatever, but this looks like Jared Stidham City Baby, at least
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  for the time being. But they are just chilling out when it comes to
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  a QB. Are they not? Well? Most you know, I know
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  again people accuse me of being the party crasher and and all of that,
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  but that's I tried to warn people there. They were in a tight box,
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  you know, the minute they they made the decision to release Russell and
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  their ability to move around was gonna be limited. I mean there, they
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  can't really move up, really, uh they don't. They don't have the
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  firepower other people do, and there might be only one or two teams interested
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  U and even thinking about that, you know, everybody's looking at Arizona and
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  possibly the Chargers in that window there for the move up teams and you know,
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  moving back they can do. But there's a lot of teams interested in
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  doing that as well. So and when they sat out free agency, they
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  were they were sort of letting everybody know because a lot of these What told
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  me was a lot of these veteran quarterbacks were signing for backup jobs when they
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  would have had a chance to compete for a starting job. And I don't
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  know anybody I've ever met in my thirty seven years who played quarterback in the
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  NFL who didn't want to compete for a starting job. So you started,
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  what's that? I didn't know you were thirty seven? Go on? Oh
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  yeah, I wish I was this shirt. No. When these guys were
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  signing for backup jobs, the league was telling you the Broncos were sitting it
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  out. Well, you know what's funny, Leggy, is it it's becoming
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  more and more apparent to me that the Broncos, just at least with that
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  first round pick, aren't getting a QB. That's just the way it feels
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  right now. So I'm like, Okay, so you have the number twelve
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  overall pick. What does that look like. I looked to the last twenty
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  years of the number twelve overall pick, and in the last twenty I picked
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  up maybe four guys that I would say didn't live up to that billing.
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  You got names like Vitavea and Fletcher Cox and Marshawn Lynch and Hellodi Nada and
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  Nodell Beckham Junior just the last three years was Jamiir Gibbs, Jamison Williams,
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  and Micah Parsons. I'm like, this is an enviable spot to be to
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  find somebody who's like you consider a franchise piece. Again, I take a
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  lot of craft for saying it, but if you stay there, you're getting
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  one of the best players in the draft. Everybody else up in front of
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  you is going quarterback crazy. I'm gonna keep saying it because it's true.
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  I had not This was, frankly the lead in it will be the lead
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  in to my top one hundred. But I did not have a single scout
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  or GM tell me during this college football season that this was the best quarterback
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  class they'd ever seen. Yet we're all acting like it's gonna get drafted like
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  the best quarterback class we've ever seen. And it's either gonna happen that way
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  and be a stunner, or the reset will take place. When teams are
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  actually making the picks. But this is not the best quarterback class ever,
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  and if five quarterbacks go in the top twelve, it will be drafted like
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  one of the best quarterback classes ever. And that's my issue with all of
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  this. Yes, they need a quarterback, but you can't just take one
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  who isn't good enough at twelve. How legit, leggy are these whispers we
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  continue to hear about Dak Prescott and Sean Payton making a deal happen in Denver.
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  Well, the Cowboys have done this to themselves. I mean, there
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  are people I know in the league who think the Cowboys are going to take
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  a quarterback in this draft. So if they do that, then you know
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  they've let Prescott go all the way to the end of this deal. You
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  know, they they've put themselves in this part of the rumor mill, and
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  until they do something with Dak, I think he is in play in some
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  fashion. If the Broncos, you know, that would sort of look like
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  a Russ redo. Yeah, I was just going to see that. This
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  time it would be Sean Payton's version, you know, Okay, I want
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  to do it, you know type of thing. I let you guys do
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  it now. I want to do it, so Jeff, Why But why
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  am I so torn on Dak? I think he's good. I think he's
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  a good quarterback, but I don't know if he's I mean, he had
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  thirty six touches last year for forty five hundred plus yards. That's flipping awesome.
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  And then they lost. But the why can't I? Yeah, But
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  then why can't I? Why can't I get all jected up about him?
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  Man? Well, you've got to decide how you're going to look at quarterbacks
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  in the modern era. And you know, a lot of people, I
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  know, if a quarterback hasn't won a Super Bowl, he stinks and that's
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  just how they feel about it. You know, he's not good enough when
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  there are so many other things that have to happen for guys to win Super
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  Bowls. I mean, Peyton Manning waited years and years and years and years
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  to win a Super Bowl. He didn't win until six, you know,
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  eight, I mean whatever it was. I mean, he waited. Uh.
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  You know, Dan fous is in the Hall of Fame number one one.
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  You know there's guys in gold jackets never won Super Bowl. And that's
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  it's more about how we discuss quarterbacks. If you just think everybody who didn't
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  win a Super Bowl stinks, you're not going to be excited about guys who
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  didn't win them. But uh, it's hard to find him. We've never
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  seen the desperation level at quarterbacks higher, I don't think. And that's why
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  it always feels like turmoil all around the NFL. Uh for all the teams
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  who can't figure out how to deal with the fact that Patrick Mahomes is twenty
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  eight years old. Leggy, I'm going to give you five names. Let's
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  say a huge quarterback run happens. I'm going to give you five names of
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  players I want you to rank one through five. Who you would draft first
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  to last out of these five Roma Mitchell rock Bowers, Jared Verse, or
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  Flaga the State. Uh At. I would have to be honest and tell
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  you where I have them graded. Uh it would be Browurs or Donsday one
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  too for me. Okay, are you done? By the way, are
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  you done with your top hundred? I have turned it in, which is
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  always a nervous exercise. Wait wait, wait, look, you guys know
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  you've seen me do this. I'm gonna take so much craft because I put
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  the quarterbacks where they belong. Yeah, you're right, but you're right.
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  But so wait, wait, wait, so I know this is I'm just
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  gonna remind everybody I've had CJ. Stroud as QB one last year and I'm
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  not letting that go. Yeah, yeah, yes, Now, Leggy,
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  I remember I've done this with you the last couple of years. Now that
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  this is official, I know it doesn't get released until like the week of
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  the draft, right early that week the twentieth. It will run on the
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  morning of the twentieth. Okay, so I get please please address your concerns
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  at that point. I get today, and I get next Thursday to play
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  a game with you that I like to play, which I ask you a
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  number. Wait, towards the back end of the top one hundred. Can
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  I do that with you again? This year? You get two? You're
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  not getting that. That's fine. One today, one next week, and
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  these will be beyond fifty. Okay, But I'm just gonna say, I'm
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  gonna give you a number. You tell me who's there? Okay, yeah,
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  sixty seven? How would you pick? Sixty seven? Trade running back
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  Florida State? There you go? See? All right, juice, dude,
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  what I told him I can't do above fifty. Maybe next week we
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  do like fifty two and let you. When I was in school, above
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  sixty, hey, we sign your checks. He like you. When I
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  was in school, you keep them money. I like it. I was
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  in school whatever I had to do, like the big term papers and all
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  that kind of stuff. That day I turned it Into'm like, oh,
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  thank god, I got this crap out of my face and I don't have
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  to work on it anymore. But that's why I probably could never go back
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  to school. It just kill me. Do you feel the same way after
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  you've done all your your entire list? Do it feel like, oh,
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  just deep breath time? Or what? Well? I mean, I I
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  reviewed five and eighty players to do this thing, and I don't know I'm
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  a moron to do it. Nobody else would, even you know, I
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  got a job, you know. Uh, this is kind of like a
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  side hustle. So I don't know how many hours does this take? How
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  many like if you had to put it together, how many hours do you
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  think it takes to put this top on it? I don't even want to
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  know, because then I would be the dumbest team of being alive. In
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  Well, you know what, it takes people like you to dig into it
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  because otherwise there's no content. Without you, we have no content. What
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  about you were useless? Where else would I know like that Trey Benson's the
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  sixty seventh best player in the draft? I would have no idea to me?
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  To me is you know like you know? And I take it for
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  what it is. I mean a lot of people think, you know,
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  you're just some guy who covers the Broncos. Why should I give a crap
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  what you think about the draft? But uh no, on the best scouts
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  who one of the best scouts whoever lived is the guy who taught me all
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  this, you know, almost forty years ago. So I really owe it
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  to Sea Obricado that he is one of the best NFL scouts who ever walked
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  the earth, and he should be in the Hall of Fame. And and
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  it's actually interesting because Scott De Stefano, a Broncos scout, actually won the
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  Seaobricado Lifetime Achievement Award this year for his work in scouting. And Scott,
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  I'm pretty certain is the longest tenured scout in the NFL right now, and
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  he works for the Broncos. Well, I'll leave you with this like,
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  because it's turned into more than just a cottage industry, this draft analysis and
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  boards and top one hundred. I don't say it very often, Vic,
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  but I was one of the first at a newspapers. Well, I know
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  you were, I know you were, But let me ask your opinion on
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  this true or false. There are just too many mock drafts. It's just
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  jumped the shark. Now well that the issue is they people complain about them
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  all the time, but they are one of the best traffic ice there in
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  the internet world. They always get traffic. That's why people do them.
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  Uh but yeah, that and just in the in the in the glass offices,
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  in the in all of the digital media companies, a mock draft is
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  money. Well, they get traffic here because DMAT goes through every single one
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  from twelve to three every single day, and there's like eight of them on
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  there that they go through. And I agree with you, there's just too
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  many, and I don't know why people do them. Our second pick of
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  our mock draft comes at nine o'clock this morning, by the way, so
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  stay tuned for that. Uh, Jeff, you're the absolute basket talking to
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  you about it. Thanks, No, let's have a good day. Jeff
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  like well at ESPN dot com. Back to the nuggets when we return.
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  I know we got the flash, but what was bigger? Was it Yokich's
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  performance or was it the spurt that we got late from Christian Brown. We'll
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  get to it next. You've got more master's ting off in ten minutes.
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  We will keep you up to day in all the scores throughout the course of
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  the show. You know that feeling you get, ye