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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 9-18-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this Broncos defense here for
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  Speaker 1: a moment. In fact, let's ask Jeff Legwald about it
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  Speaker 1: right now here on the Crankman and Lindahl Show as
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  Speaker 1: we are joined by Jeff Legwald of ESPN here on
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  Speaker 1: a Bud Light Football Friday. And Leggy, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: the Denver defense first. Last year, Trevor Lawrence had a
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  Speaker 1: very good day. Parker Washington had a very good day
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  Speaker 1: against Denver. Defense didn't look great in week one either.
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  Speaker 1: What do you expect to see in terms of adjustments
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  Speaker 1: from Vance Joseph for this game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think, you know, Nate, I think you have
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  Speaker 2: to look at it sort of as they, from their lens,
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  Speaker 2: and their lens is, okay, the assignments were okay, but,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how they carried them. I've said this after
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  Speaker 2: the game and this week that, Schematically, not the issue.
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  Speaker 2: It was just getting it done. You know, tackling is
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  Speaker 2: not a strategic problem. You know, tackling is a football problem.
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  Speaker 2: And I think, you know, the Broncos are going to
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  Speaker 2: feel like that they'll have a good plan for Lawrence
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  Speaker 2: and the Jags, but they have to just get much
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  Speaker 2: better at the basic things, you know, And it sounds
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  Speaker 2: almost too simple, but it's true. Get off blocks, and
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  Speaker 2: when you're in position, get the ball carrier on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a different mindset than, hey, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: come up with this really creative plan to handle this offense.
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  Speaker 2: They feel like they have that, and they felt like
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  Speaker 2: they had it against the Chiefs. It's more a matter of, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you have to actually accomplish the the task at hand.
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  Speaker 2: The plan can be great, but if you don't tackle
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  Speaker 2: people and get off blocks and stay in the correct gap,
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  Speaker 2: it won't matter what the plan is.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think... Boy, Jeff, I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: how to really phrase the question. What do you expect
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  Speaker 3: out of Bo to start this game? Nate and I
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  Speaker 3: were just talking about it. Nate went back, looked at
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  Speaker 3: some numbers, looked at some video, not throwing a waddle
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  Speaker 3: as much. I know it was a heavy... course of
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  Speaker 3: the questioning today and Sean promising they're going to get
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  Speaker 3: Waddle the ball. Do you think we're going to see
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  Speaker 3: a force feed of the screen game or what do
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  Speaker 3: you think they're going to try to do to unlock
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  Speaker 3: the guy they gave up a first round pick for?
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  Speaker 2: Well, he's open on plenty of plays. I've been through
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  Speaker 2: the chart of the game twice and have been through
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  Speaker 2: it plenty and even watching it live. He's open including
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  Speaker 2: the first play of the game. That's a fact that
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  Speaker 2: If Bo simply gets the ball out of his hand,
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  Speaker 2: when Waddle flashes across the formation, it's a huge gain,
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  Speaker 2: and you may not even be having the narrative they had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, right now. So he is open. It's, you know,
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  Speaker 2: quarterback's got to put the ball in there, and Waddle's
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  Speaker 2: just got to continue to do what he does. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's getting good releases. Now, he got bracketed
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  Speaker 2: a lot, so that is going to make Bo shy
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  Speaker 2: away in some initial progressions. But there were plays that
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  Speaker 2: were there when he was open. And when you get
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  Speaker 2: the chances and the opportunity when he isn't bracketed, that's
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  Speaker 2: when you've got to find a way to get him
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  Speaker 2: the ball. Because you can... You can force that to
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  Speaker 2: not happen from time to time. You can scheme it
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  Speaker 2: up so he doesn't get doubled. You can put him
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  Speaker 2: in a bunch. You can move him. And they did
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  Speaker 2: those things. And when he's in those situations, they've got
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  Speaker 2: to get him the ball. I don't think they can
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  Speaker 2: go into it thinking, okay, got to have 12 targets
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  Speaker 2: today or it's not a success. I think it's more
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  Speaker 2: a matter of every time you have done the right
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  Speaker 2: thing and gotten him free, that's when you've got to
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  Speaker 2: try to get him the ball in those situations.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, there was a really high pressure rate on Bo
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  Speaker 1: Nix in that game. As you went and charted and
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  Speaker 1: looked it back, and I'll just tell you, as I
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  Speaker 1: rewatched the game, my conclusion was it was a bad
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  Speaker 1: footwork and a bad pocket presence game out of Bo Nix,
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  Speaker 1: which really he took himself out of the ability to
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  Speaker 1: be able to make the plays when they were there
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  Speaker 1: further down the field. What was your conclusion as to
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  Speaker 1: kind of where the poor place stemmed from?
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  Speaker 2: I think, you know, A, you know, I think in
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  Speaker 2: all of our jobs in the world, there are moments
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  Speaker 2: when you can be pushing too hard to succeed.
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  Speaker 1: The caged mountain lion thing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think sometimes he gets really, really intense sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: And that's one of his great qualities when you're in
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  Speaker 2: the two-minute drill or something or when it's tight or
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  Speaker 2: when bad things are happening. But I think over the
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  Speaker 2: course of his career, if he has a mistake early
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  Speaker 2: in the game, it sometimes takes him a minute to
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  Speaker 2: recover and sort of recalibrate himself. And that is a
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  Speaker 2: hard thing for a player. I'm not saying it's easy,
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  Speaker 2: but I've seen it over and over, especially an interception.
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  Speaker 2: If he has an interception early in the game, I
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  Speaker 2: think if you go back and look at his QBR
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  Speaker 2: and all of it in the four or five possessions
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  Speaker 2: after a pick, I think you're going to find that
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  Speaker 2: it's a tough bounce back. And now you got fooled
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  Speaker 2: a little bit Monday because they come right back.
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  Speaker 3: Touchdown drive, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And he's five for five on the touchdown drive. But
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  Speaker 2: I think some of the damage quote unquote was, was
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  Speaker 2: done a little bit. Cause he, he never really got
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  Speaker 2: himself back in that rhythm and they didn't do him
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  Speaker 2: any favors, you know, give them some play action, uh,
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  Speaker 2: give them a few, uh, just run rundowns where he,
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  Speaker 2: he hands the ball off and completes the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: fake and watches the running back do his thing. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: You know, if your quarterback's having an unsettled night, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think keep dropping him back is the strategy you
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  Speaker 2: want to take. Because what happens there? They become the
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  Speaker 2: three-and-out offense when they're at their worst. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it all seems to fit together when they refuse to
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  Speaker 2: put the run game back in the equation. I would
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  Speaker 2: contend even... even a three and out or a one
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  Speaker 2: first down drive where you've run the ball four or
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  Speaker 2: five times is more helpful to settle your guy down
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  Speaker 2: than having him drop back and have to punt and
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  Speaker 2: do those things. And you guys know, I mean, you've
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  Speaker 2: heard me say it. I'm fascinated how NFL teams can
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  Speaker 2: live with 10 incompletions in a row and no one
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  Speaker 2: bats an eye. But if you have one run for
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  Speaker 2: two yards, the back doesn't see the ball again for
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  Speaker 2: 20 minutes.
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  Speaker 3: All right, talk about this Jacksonville team. What do they
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  Speaker 3: have to worry about with Jacksonville? What's the challenge that
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  Speaker 3: they're bringing in here? And how much of Travis Hunter
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  Speaker 3: offensively do you think we'll see?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they haven't used him much yet. I mean, it's still,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I think they're going to be very judicious.
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  Speaker 2: You know, and the trick to that is when you
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  Speaker 2: put a guy in, then, you know, everybody knows something's up. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's harder, almost more difficult to use him
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  Speaker 2: in a spot duty on offense and get them free. But,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the athleticism is undeniable there. So I think
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  Speaker 2: they'll be, you know, I think they're going to perceive
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  Speaker 2: it as, you know, some coaches call it specials. You know,
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  Speaker 2: those plays are specials. They're going to be on the
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  Speaker 2: lookout for those if he appears on offense. And, you know, overall,
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  Speaker 2: it's a well put together team. You know, what have
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  Speaker 2: they won? eight, nine games in a row, regular season
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  Speaker 2: games in a row. I think they're averaging 31 points
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  Speaker 2: a game over that stretch. That's big time football. You know,
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  Speaker 2: that's getting it done on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt, and Trevor Lawrence absolutely has it going.
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  Speaker 1: He's Jeff Legwald, everybody. Read his stuff. ESPN.com, that's where
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  Speaker 1: you get Leggy's reporting on what's going on with the Broncos. Plus,
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  Speaker 1: Leggy's doing a lot of video work. I've been digging it.
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  Speaker 1: Good stuff in there, Jeff. We appreciate it, man. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: No one wants to see that, really, but that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, you're very good on camera. You have a likable face,
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  Speaker 1: and you present with an air of authority. When I
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  Speaker 1: watch Jeff Legwald, I'm like, I'm learning football. I trust
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  Speaker 1: that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, you present with an air of authority, but you
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  Speaker 3: have a punchable face.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's been said many times.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing you can't do anything about.
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  Speaker 2: I've taken more than my share on the west side
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: No, hey, listen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and other things. You've got hobbies as well that
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  Speaker 3: seem to call that up, but okay.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, man, we appreciate it as always. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. See you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Friday.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Jeff Legwald with us on a Bud Light
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  Speaker 1: football Friday. Come see us here at Skippy's.