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Jeff Legwold previews Broncos vs Chiefs with Moser, Lombardi and Kane 10-29-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Altitude Sports Radio 92.5's Pro Football Insider.
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  Speaker 2: I know what my eyes tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald.
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  Speaker 2: I look at it a lot and I ask a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: It's Leggy.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, Jeff, Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: On Altitude Sports Radio 92.5.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he continues to have those touches and then
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  Speaker 4: where you want to even get him more touches. That's
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  Speaker 4: sometimes a challenge, but certainly he's deserving. You say that
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  Speaker 4: a lot, Sean.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 3: To get Marvin more touches. I know.
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  Speaker 2: What's the barrier?
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes it's coverage, right? And then, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: trying to find those personnel groupings where, you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: got a number of guys that are starting to, that
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  Speaker 4: are healthy and playing well. So hopefully we can find
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  Speaker 4: those opportunities.
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  Speaker 6: That's Sean Payton and that was Jeff Legwald who joins
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  Speaker 6: are we doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Great, how are you guys?
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  Speaker 3: Good.
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  Speaker 6: Let's just start here. I know you have to take
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  Speaker 6: the opponent into account for stuff like this, but did
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  Speaker 6: the offense turn maybe a little bit of a corner
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  Speaker 6: last week, or was that just a bad opponent that
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  Speaker 6: you took advantage of?
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  Speaker 2: Probably a little of both. You know, I, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, anytime, you know, that, that whole deal that
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  Speaker 2: confidence is driven by, you actually make something happen to,
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  Speaker 2: to give you confidence. So I think that the fact
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  Speaker 2: they were able to, to finally, uh, uncork some big plays,
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  Speaker 2: that's always going to help, no matter who you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: And the fact that you do it and it ends
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  Speaker 2: up being a two-touchdown win, I think that does help.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they still wake up today and Bo Nix
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  Speaker 2: is near the bottom of almost every advanced metric you
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  Speaker 2: can have for a quarterback, and the offense is still
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  Speaker 2: down among the teams that are struggling. So in the
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  Speaker 2: big picture, probably not fixed, but in the short term,
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  Speaker 2: it certainly gives them a boost and they at least
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  Speaker 2: get a glimpse of what they can do if they
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  Speaker 2: can just put together, especially on third down, do a
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  Speaker 2: little better on third down, do a little better on
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  Speaker 2: first down. Maybe it makes some things happen.
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey, is Jonah Coleman running back one?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he probably won't start games, but I think they
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  Speaker 2: answered that question, Vic, when they're trying to close it
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  Speaker 2: out Sunday in Arizona, who was the guy on the field?
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  Speaker 2: It was Jonah Coleman. I think it's intriguing. He's only
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  Speaker 2: got 19 carries, but his percentage of runs of 10
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  Speaker 2: or more yards is already one of the highest in
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  Speaker 2: the league. So that gets your attention and I don't
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  Speaker 2: care what team you are or what coach you are.
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  Speaker 2: That that's the kind of stuff where you got to
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  Speaker 2: raise your eyebrows and say, all right, that, that guy
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  Speaker 2: probably needs to see the ball more, but you know, he,
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  Speaker 2: the head coach loves JK Dobbins. Dobbins still does plenty
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  Speaker 2: of good work in the offense. I think he will
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  Speaker 2: be like the guy starting games and the, and the
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  Speaker 2: first guy in the rotation, but Jonah Coleman's getting the
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  Speaker 2: ball more, and that's just how it's going to be.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff, it's weird. You're a journalist, so you've got to
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  Speaker 5: do journalistic things. We just talk about stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll say this.
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  Speaker 5: The shine has come off the Chiefs. I just don't
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  Speaker 5: fear them anymore. I don't care what happened in week one.
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  Speaker 5: Broncos didn't tackle, but they were at the point of attack.
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  Speaker 5: I just don't. For some reason, I just, probably a
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  Speaker 5: lot of good reasons, I just don't fear this team.
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  Speaker 5: I feel really good about Sunday. That's how I feel.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Mo, it's just a weird year for them already.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got a story about an offensive tackle
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  Speaker 2: being asked to leave a meeting because he won't take
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  Speaker 2: his feet off the desk. You know, they work out
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  Speaker 2: a kicker who was suspended for 10 games for off-the-field conduct.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Mahomes looks frustrated at times because they don't,
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  Speaker 2: You know, Kenneth Walker's been a revelation. Where would they
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  Speaker 2: be without him? You know, had they not signed him,
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  Speaker 2: this could really be something, you know, a little uglier.
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  Speaker 2: But I think this is a textbook case of you're
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  Speaker 2: a really good team and you had a really good run,
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  Speaker 2: multiple championships, but you did not handle the draft well
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  Speaker 2: to keep yourself up on the perch. We're for as
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  Speaker 2: long as possible. I don't think they have drafted that well.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's starting to catch up with them,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we say all that all of us
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  Speaker 2: and they're, they're five and one. So, you know, as
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  Speaker 2: long as that guy's at quarterback, it's the great equalizer
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  Speaker 2: in NFL history. If you've got one of the guys
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  Speaker 2: at quarterback, he can, he can lift, he can clean
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  Speaker 2: up a lot of the mess and, and, I think
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  Speaker 2: Mahomes just has to more and more, and Walker's going
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  Speaker 2: to have to stay healthy for them to maintain all this.
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  Speaker 6: Jeff Legwald with us. All conversations with Leggy are brought
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  Speaker 6: Local 68. Start with a job and with a career. Leggy,
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  Speaker 6: how much of this game changes, at least based on feel,
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  Speaker 6: if Zach Allen can't go?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, everything changes. He's having not just a Pro Bowl year,
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  Speaker 2: he's having an All-Pro year, and A lot of what
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  Speaker 2: they do up front is based on he's a high-volume
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  Speaker 2: snap guy who plays really, really well on most of
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  Speaker 2: those snaps. So I'll be interested to see today and tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what it looks like.
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  Speaker 5: But is it that bad? I mean, it's a hammy, right?
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  Speaker 3: Is it that bad? Hammies are hammy, dude. You know hammies.
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  Speaker 3: Hammies take time. I don't care who you are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and, you know, it's– he– He, you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: something that came up because he finished things out Sunday
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  Speaker 2: and had his usual snap count. But he did get
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  Speaker 2: rolled up weird on one of the plays. And that probably,
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  Speaker 2: you know, got worse on the flight home and then
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  Speaker 2: on Monday. So, like I say, if he's moving around,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at all as they go through stuff today
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  Speaker 2: and tomorrow. But, you know, he wasn't really even off.
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  Speaker 2: among the side group, which is usually the guys who
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  Speaker 2: are getting ready to come back to practice.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to your Q & A
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  Speaker 3: with Sean Payton about the usage of Marvin Mims. Nellie,
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  Speaker 3: if you can play that again, because I have a
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  Speaker 3: particular question I want to target after hearing this. Hold, please.
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  Speaker 4: Nellie continues to have those touches and then where you
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  Speaker 4: want to even get him more touches. That's sometimes a challenge,
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  Speaker 4: but certainly he's deserving. You say that a lot, Sean. What?
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  Speaker 3: To get Marvin more touches.
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  Speaker 4: I know.
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  Speaker 2: What's the barrier?
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  Speaker 4: Well, sometimes it's coverage, right? And then, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: trying to find those personnel groupings where, you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: got a number of guys that are starting to, that
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  Speaker 4: are healthy and playing well. So hopefully we can find
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  Speaker 4: those opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. You asked what's the barrier. Did he want to
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  Speaker 3: say quarterback's got to throw him the ball? Is that
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  Speaker 3: what he wanted to say, but he just couldn't say it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so because this is– I'm not talking
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  Speaker 2: out of school here. This is something I've asked Sean
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  Speaker 2: to face-to-face. I find it fascinating when he says– you know,
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  Speaker 2: got to, got to try to get this guy more
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  Speaker 2: touches or that, like there's some mystical beating who makes
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  Speaker 2: the decision. And it's really him, you know, and it's,
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  Speaker 2: I'm fascinated when he, when there's this continued, this is
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  Speaker 2: a three year struggle now to somehow get Marvin Mims
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  Speaker 2: the ball more. And I am really, and That's why
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  Speaker 2: I sort of asked him what's the barrier because the
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  Speaker 2: implication is you call all the plays. You design the
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  Speaker 2: game plans. You are in charge. So I'm just not
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  Speaker 2: sure who he has to ask. to get Marvin the
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  Speaker 2: ball more. So I guess that's where I was going
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  Speaker 2: with that.
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  Speaker 5: I know what it is. It's basically this look. When
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  Speaker 5: everybody's healthy, we like these other guys better for what
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  Speaker 5: we do.
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  Speaker 3: Period.
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  Speaker 5: End of story. And if we need to go to
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  Speaker 5: him because Pat Bryant's been out, now Waddle's going to
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  Speaker 5: be out, then yeah, maybe he'll get the ball a
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  Speaker 5: little bit more. But there's no denying that when he
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  Speaker 5: gets the ball in his hands, things happen.
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  Speaker 2: No, in terms of impactful... things that happen when a
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  Speaker 2: guy has the ball. He's got to be among the
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  Speaker 2: team leaders. You know, I will say, I think sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Sean has a very, he came up in
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  Speaker 2: personnel with a lot of people around him that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've dealt with over the years. And that group of people,
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  Speaker 2: Parcells and a lot of those folks, have very definitive
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  Speaker 2: profile numbers for what they think each position should look
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  Speaker 2: like And that profile for those guys are receivers who
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  Speaker 2: are a lot bigger than Marvin Mims. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: bottom line. So Sean is sort of fighting his training there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a lot of times when they start
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  Speaker 2: to up the, the ante about getting him the ball,
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  Speaker 2: he'll sometimes he gets dinged injury wise, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: has an ankle or something happens and, And then they
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  Speaker 2: dial it all the way back, and then it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like this process to get him the ball again.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's where they're at right now is
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  Speaker 2: he's coming back from having some injury early in the year,
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  Speaker 2: and now they're trying to ramp it up again, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see how successful they are.
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  Speaker 6: Jeff Legwald, ESPN.com with us. Jeff, when the Broncos were
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  Speaker 6: absent Pat Sertan and Riley Moss for a second, but
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  Speaker 6: Pat Sertan, Jaday Barron steps in, and he plays well. Now,
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  Speaker 6: if it looks like Pat Sertan is healthy again, does
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  Speaker 6: Johnny Barron just not see snaps? Do you think they
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  Speaker 6: try and mix him in?
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  Speaker 3: What do they do?
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  Speaker 2: They probably do a little more of a mix and match.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they look like, you know, Riley Moss is standing,
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  Speaker 2: hasn't dropped anywhere, you know, around this team. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he had the rib injury and they started to mix
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  Speaker 2: and match a little more. I think they might stick
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  Speaker 2: to that pattern a little more than they did early
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  Speaker 2: in the year when everybody was healthy. But, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Sertan's going to play Sertan snaps and they'll figure out
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  Speaker 2: the rest. But I don't think it should be underestimated
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  Speaker 2: of in this day and age, in the current NFL,
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  Speaker 2: corner is one of the most important positions. And they're
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  Speaker 2: the deepest team in the NFL at corner. And I
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  Speaker 2: think it's helped them. You have to say that's a
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  Speaker 2: good plan Because a lot of teams are scrambling when
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos don't have to. I mean, they're 7-0 now
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  Speaker 2: since 24 in games Sertan doesn't play.
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  Speaker 5: That's just crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any other team could survive that kind
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  Speaker 2: of removal of talent from their secondary. You know, what
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  Speaker 2: do the Patriots look like when Gonzalez is out? What
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  Speaker 2: do the Rams look like when McDuffie's, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: McDuffie was out at this is why you want to
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  Speaker 2: be deep at corner in, in the current modern NFL.
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  Speaker 5: What's the story with the, do you know anything about
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  Speaker 5: Kansas city's injuries and what they've been dealing with, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Snead or the, uh, the tackle more or
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  Speaker 5: anybody of that nature? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to be thinking most everybody's working toward being
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  Speaker 2: available among that group, uh, for the game. But, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, uh, I think they think Rasheed Rice
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  Speaker 2: will be back for the game and have that other
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  Speaker 2: group available too.
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  Speaker 3: How much does it hurt your heart as a lifelong
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  Speaker 3: Cubs fan to know that a team that half the
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  Speaker 3: payroll in the division just won the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's this crazy notion that you draft well and
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  Speaker 2: develop players. I don't know where they get off having
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  Speaker 2: the the deepest minor league team in the league right
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  Speaker 2: now they might have the best player in minor league
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  Speaker 2: baseball waiting for a team that won the world series
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  Speaker 2: and you know go out sign a lot of pitchers
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  Speaker 2: who throw high velocity we you know the cubs seem
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  Speaker 2: to have decided they they don't want to work that
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  Speaker 2: trend so yeah i think it's uh i think the
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  Speaker 2: plan's working out fine but you know the But Wrigleyville
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  Speaker 2: sure has a lot of nice office buildings now. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad they're building something. It just isn't a baseball team.
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  Speaker 6: And that is Jeff Legwald. ESPN.com joins us every week.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Leggy. Thanks, fellas. We'll see you.