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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 1-16-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: When you got a bit y' lean into it? Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Legwall to ESPN, he's got a busy day ahead of
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  Speaker 1: himself tomorrow covering Broncos and Bills out there at Mile High.
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  Speaker 1: Leggy is with us right now on a Friday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: and Leggy, we start with this, what's the deal with
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Loner? What's going on? What? What?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of mind games are Darren Rizzy and Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: trying to play on us.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's mine game, but uh, I
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  Speaker 4: would have I think I've seen enough in practice that
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  Speaker 4: he would have been an intriguing red zone addition to
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  Speaker 4: the roster for me, even if his route tree was
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  Speaker 4: limited or even you know, and you'd be tipping plays
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  Speaker 4: probably when you brought him in. But uh, he's a
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  Speaker 4: he's a rare athlete, and I think he could have
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  Speaker 4: scored some touchdowns this year. But that's just my little
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  Speaker 4: timmy the sports writer scouting.
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  Speaker 3: Report on that.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, it's you know, it's probably one of two.
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  Speaker 4: They either have a very specific plan for him in
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  Speaker 4: some special team's role or even in the offense, or sometimes, uh,
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  Speaker 4: if you're you know, if your roster is healthy the
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  Speaker 4: way the Broncos are. Every player on the active roster
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  Speaker 4: practiced this week, so that is rare health for a
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  Speaker 4: team this late in the season. If you're that healthy,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes it can be a little bump for a guy
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  Speaker 4: who's been on the practice squad all.
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  Speaker 3: Season and didn't get an elevation.
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  Speaker 4: So it can be a lot of things. But I'm
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  Speaker 4: intrigued by it. I hope he's active, and I hope
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  Speaker 4: he gets to play in the game because I liked
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  Speaker 4: him coming out. I like the athleticism, and I've got
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  Speaker 4: to believe an NFL coach can find a way to
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  Speaker 4: turn a guy with that kind of length and vertical
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  Speaker 4: jump into a red zone option.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you know what, I would definitely take that
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  Speaker 2: if they can get that going, because, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: the tight Ends production again, despite getting a joker, as
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  Speaker 2: we were all promised, that tight End production has been
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  Speaker 2: a little bit lacking in my book. But whatever, what
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  Speaker 2: is As we get to the end of the week,
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  Speaker 2: you've told us all the breakdown. You got to test
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  Speaker 2: the edge on these guys. Rundy is great, on and
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  Speaker 2: on and on. Who do you think is the main
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  Speaker 2: featured back tomorrow? Is it can remain r J.
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  Speaker 3: Harvey.
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  Speaker 2: It is Surprises with an actual healthy dose of Julia McLoughlin.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that they've had a feature back for
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, but I think it's, you know, Harvey's
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  Speaker 4: in the you know, they tag plays for personnel. Sean's
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  Speaker 4: very big on tagging very specific groupings in plays for
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  Speaker 4: specific personnel, and you know, Harvey's still getting tagged for
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  Speaker 4: more plays than the rest of the guys. So but
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  Speaker 4: I do think Julio has opened their eyes a bit
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  Speaker 4: that every time he touches the ball. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: easily their most decisive runner at the moment, and he's
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  Speaker 4: frankly been the most productive of late. So I think they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're in the same old riddle, you know.
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  Speaker 4: They they say they want to get the ball in
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  Speaker 4: the hands of guys like that more, and then we
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  Speaker 4: don't always see that. You know, Mimes will continually be
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  Speaker 4: the exhibit.
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  Speaker 3: A for that.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, and I think, honestly, you know, and Mike,
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  Speaker 4: you've called plays, but I think the quick perimeter shot
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  Speaker 4: to Mims is really a run play that could work
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  Speaker 4: against these guys that you know well, you know, some
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  Speaker 4: pin and pull I think would be great in the
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  Speaker 4: run game against these guys.
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  Speaker 3: Anything where you can fold the corner.
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  Speaker 4: On this defense with Jaliel or Mims or even Harvey,
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  Speaker 4: I think it's gonna work. And I think the only
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  Speaker 4: reason the Broncos are playing the Bills tomorrow is because
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  Speaker 4: Jacksonville didn't do it enough.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and especially with the defense, it's fairly banged up,
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  Speaker 5: particularly in the back end. Jordan Poyer a huge part
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  Speaker 5: of the of the run defense is probably you know,
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  Speaker 5: he and Cole Bishop have have had to tidy up
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  Speaker 5: some things that maybe have gotten screwed up on the edge.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think is what would be the reason
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  Speaker 5: that the Denver Broncos don't run the football more than
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  Speaker 5: fifteen times tomorrow? Is it would there be any reason
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  Speaker 5: for that? And I'm talking about real designed handoff runs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Jacksonville. I thought the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: But Jacksonville had fourteen carries by their running backs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah in that game.
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  Speaker 4: And you know Twoting, I think he had forty seven
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  Speaker 4: yards on three consecutive carries.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, four carries in the game. It was it was
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  Speaker 1: a miscarriage of football justice.
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  Speaker 4: He touches the ball one more time in the game
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  Speaker 4: and that the Broncos have to avoid. But you you
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  Speaker 4: do that because of what Leon Cohne did, and you
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  Speaker 4: and Sean Payton can't do. You cannot fall in love
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  Speaker 4: with the idea of of you know, like in hockey,
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  Speaker 4: that the power play goal doesn't count unless it's a
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  Speaker 4: one time or in the goalie doesn't move. You know,
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  Speaker 4: if you're more interested in being pretty and all the
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  Speaker 4: rest of it, you get sucked in.
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  Speaker 3: Or you get too enamored with the fact.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, they're missing safeties, so now we're going to attack.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to attack those areas of the field. The
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  Speaker 4: only thing the Bills really do well on defense is
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  Speaker 4: the skui's coverage looks in the passing game, and to
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  Speaker 4: allow them to do that and not have to commit
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  Speaker 4: a safety to the line of scrimmage would be I
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  Speaker 4: think that would be a bad move. And for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 4: And I think if they get the running backs up
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  Speaker 4: in you know, into the twenties, you know, get them
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  Speaker 4: into the twenties, I think you're having a nice balanced
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  Speaker 4: day where you're controlling the issue.
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  Speaker 5: Like this is a follow up to the run game question,
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  Speaker 5: because the West Coast offense in these these complex systems,
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  Speaker 5: will go in with three calls. You'll have the lead call,
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  Speaker 5: which could be a run, and then a can or
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  Speaker 5: a kill, and then maybe an alert for an egregious look.
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  Speaker 5: And a lot of the onus goes on the quarterback
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  Speaker 5: position to get into the right call, and sometimes it's
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  Speaker 5: get out of a said run. Do you do you
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  Speaker 5: sense it all that there's any has been any any
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  Speaker 5: part of that equation as it relates to bo Nicks,
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  Speaker 5: that that Sean Payton hasn't been pleased with it with
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  Speaker 5: the run game in particular. Do you think it's just
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  Speaker 5: more just preference of throwing the football and throwing the
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  Speaker 5: quick screen game from Sean Payton over potentially bo Nix's
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  Speaker 5: involvement in checking the run game.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's it's probably the latter. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: Sean likes I mean, he he believes in switching out personnel,
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  Speaker 4: you know, every play. He believes in moving around the
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  Speaker 4: play card. You know, he doesn't you know, I've watched
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  Speaker 4: play callers through the years, you know, just hammer away
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  Speaker 4: with the same three plays because nobody stops him.
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  Speaker 3: That that's not really in his vein.
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  Speaker 4: You know, he doesn't really do that much, even when
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  Speaker 4: things are going great. So I think a lot of
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  Speaker 4: it is him. I think the other part of it,
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  Speaker 4: Mike is I think they get in trouble sometimes because
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  Speaker 4: they have the you know, the kill the killer can
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  Speaker 4: call and then the alert calls when they don't get
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  Speaker 4: bo to the line scrimmage quick enough, if they're too
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  Speaker 4: slow in the huddle, if they're too slow switching the
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  Speaker 4: personnel out. I think that's when things get frustrating for
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  Speaker 4: Bowl and the offense because he can't get to all
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  Speaker 4: of the things they'd like to get to, and they
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  Speaker 4: end up snapping sometimes when they're not in the play
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  Speaker 4: they want to be in, but there's two on the
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  Speaker 4: play clock, and you just got to live with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this isn't a week for frustration and sideline squabbles,
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  Speaker 1: that's for sure. Jeff Legwall to ESPN is presented by
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  Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Start with a job, end with a career. Let's flip
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  Speaker 1: to the other side. The matchup of this Broncos defense
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  Speaker 1: against Joe Brady and josh Allen Leggy. If you had
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  Speaker 1: to point to a single individual on this Broncos defense
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  Speaker 1: and say he is the most important in this matchup,
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  Speaker 1: who would you say it is?
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of a toughie. I mean, I guess i'd
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  Speaker 4: see what I'm here for, which is a cop out.
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  Speaker 4: But I think Nick Benito Dre Greenlaw would be my composite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason I say that is because you know
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  Speaker 4: their only real chance on offense is to get the
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  Speaker 4: Allen Cook combination going, and then they control down in
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  Speaker 4: distance on you. You can't let them do that. But
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  Speaker 4: you got to keep Allan where you can find him.
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  Speaker 4: You got to keep him in the pocket, You got
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  Speaker 4: to keep them from vertical escapes, you got to keep
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  Speaker 4: him from off schedule. And I think it's very telling
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  Speaker 4: that the two opponents who marry line of scrimmage, run
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  Speaker 4: defense and coverage and rush the best that the Bills
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  Speaker 4: have faced this year sacked Alan the most times. Houston
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  Speaker 4: got him eight times, Philly got them five times, and
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  Speaker 4: they all both of those defenses can control you in
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  Speaker 4: the middle at the point of attack in the run game,
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  Speaker 4: and they can keep your quarterback where they can find them.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what the Broncos do well.
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  Speaker 4: But they need high end days from everybody, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: the trouble starts when Allen's off schedule and moving, and
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  Speaker 4: if you let them have third and two s, third
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  Speaker 4: and threes, third and ones, that's not where you want
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  Speaker 4: to be with a team that can run the ball,
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  Speaker 4: if you let them.
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  Speaker 1: Real quickly, Leggie, what do you know about the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: preparation for the tush push this week? And how much
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  Speaker 1: focus they put into it and what they want to
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  Speaker 1: do personnel wise there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean I think they're trying to make sure
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  Speaker 4: they have the right personnel grouping. So I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's big that everyone is healthy and they have choices.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there really isn't much strategic there. You just
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  Speaker 4: have to find a way to keep those internal guys,
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  Speaker 4: you know, make him have to go out to get
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  Speaker 4: apps to find the to find the space.
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  Speaker 3: Don't give them the gap.
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  Speaker 4: You can't give them the a seven yard quarterback sneak
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  Speaker 4: right over the the you know, the.
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  Speaker 3: One, the a gap. You can't give him that one.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: You got to make him have to hunt, uh for
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  Speaker 3: the gap.
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  Speaker 4: So that that I think that's I think they want
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  Speaker 4: to control that middle three area and and see if
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  Speaker 4: you can just at least get a little stalemate going there.
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  Speaker 3: So he has to churn a little bit leggy.
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  Speaker 2: If you're a Bronco fanc you'd be you be concerned
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  Speaker 2: that today's wind may stick through at least what I
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  Speaker 2: guess Chris Pianki told the Midday Show the first half tomorrow, Well.
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  Speaker 4: I guess i'd I'd say, well, then you should run
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  Speaker 4: the ball more but that just beIN.
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  Speaker 2: Did wonder would that mean it's going to be you know,
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  Speaker 2: that'll help Sean stick to the game plan.
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  Speaker 3: There, I will throw.
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  Speaker 4: Out to you, you know, if we're in reading the
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  Speaker 4: tea leaves business. We didn't talk the other the other
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  Speaker 4: day after practice how excited he was that they had
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  Speaker 4: thrown the ball so well in the wind.
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  Speaker 3: So I'll just leave that with you. I don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, real quick, before we let you go. You know
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  Speaker 2: every year you and I have done I don't know
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  Speaker 2: countless because I've you've been joining my radio shows for
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  Speaker 2: a decade and a half. Are you shocked by how
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  Speaker 2: many coaches got let go in this cycle? Legy, we
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  Speaker 2: always do this thing, but holy cow, what are we
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  Speaker 2: up to?
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  Speaker 3: Ten? Ten?
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  Speaker 4: Ted gotten gotten too emotional, The whole process has gotten
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  Speaker 4: to owners are too emotional. There's too much responding to
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  Speaker 4: this social media whatever. But it's weird out there. I
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  Speaker 4: mean a friend of mine, I covered the Steelers way back,
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  Speaker 4: so I still know a lot of people there, and
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  Speaker 4: he sent me some clips where people people are celebrating
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  Speaker 4: on the radio that Tomlin has stepped down as coach.
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  Speaker 4: A guy who never had a losing season in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: years and won a Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 3: Look, I grant you, he's lost.
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  Speaker 4: You know that it's been many years since they've had
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  Speaker 4: a playoff win. I got it, But he didn't have
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  Speaker 4: a losing season for nineteen years, and people were saying,
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  Speaker 4: it's the best day of my life as a fan.
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's it's become like people just want blood
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  Speaker 4: and I don't think about I always tell people about
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  Speaker 4: you know, I know in the business when they're frustrated
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  Speaker 4: with their jobs and want to quit or walk out
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  Speaker 4: or yell at the boss, and I say, well, your
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  Speaker 4: first step is.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me what you're going to do tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: And I would always ask a team, you can get
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  Speaker 4: rid of a coach, but tell me what you're doing tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to hear that you're you're putting the
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  Speaker 4: search together after you fire the guy. You should have
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  Speaker 4: a plan. And but the fact that Harbaugh and Tomlin
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  Speaker 4: are out, I don't think Tomlin walks away if he
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  Speaker 4: doesn't feel all of the angst around the team, And
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  Speaker 4: I just think it's too emotional. There aren't ten qualified
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  Speaker 4: candidates ready to be head coaches and you're just doing
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  Speaker 4: this again in two years a lot of these teams.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwall the most qualified candidate. We talk to him
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  Speaker 1: every Monday, every Friday on the Craigman and Lindahl Show.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to him Monday after Broncos bills. Leggy, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna do the thing. I haven't done this
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  Speaker 1: to you all year long, but I'm gonna do this.
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  Speaker 3: Score this thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to score. I just I simply want
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  Speaker 1: you to allude to are we talking about an AFC
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  Speaker 1: championship or are we talking about the draft when you
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  Speaker 1: join us on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: I think this defense is good enough to talk about
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  Speaker 4: an AFC champion.
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  Speaker 1: There it is. Jeff Legwald ESPN dot com. Leggy thinks
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  Speaker 1: so emotional.
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  Speaker 5: He's just he said, he's just emotional. He's like all
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  Speaker 5: these owners.
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  Speaker 1: Clinical man, clinical. That's how my guy does it right. There,
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  Speaker 1: won't be swayed by the winds in the slightest bit.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwalald with us there on a Friday afternoon