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Jeff Legwold Joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 12-4-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Lombardi and Kaine with Matt Smith, and we welcome Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Legwall to the program more than Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing that, Eggs, I'm great. How are you
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  Speaker 2: guys doing well?
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  Speaker 3: Doing well?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're sitting here with a ten and
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  Speaker 1: two football team, tough not to be doing well, and
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like the coach is doing pretty well too.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about about you, but we were breaking
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  Speaker 1: it down a little bit earlier. Jeff Sean was in
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  Speaker 1: a pretty good mood yesterday. Kind of reflective too.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: That's sometimes that's uh, you know, that's kind of a Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: a Wednesday thing. You know, he's had a break from
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  Speaker 2: us for a day or so, and maybe maybe that helps.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm sure ten wins are pretty good salve for
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  Speaker 2: anything going on with your team.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of the signing to that receiver
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  Speaker 3: to the practice squad.
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  Speaker 2: I think you said, you know, that's all. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a former second round pick. And you know, Vic,
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  Speaker 2: every GM I know in the league, you know that
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  Speaker 2: first or second round picks that appear not you know,
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  Speaker 2: every draft board in the league is different, but you
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  Speaker 2: know a lot of the players are in the same
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  Speaker 2: talent neighborhood in terms of grades. So that's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: talented player to be out on the street this time
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  Speaker 2: of year, you know, when because practice squads are so
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  Speaker 2: big now finally that the level of player out on
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  Speaker 2: the street available isn't quite as high as it used
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  Speaker 2: to be. So, I mean, this guy had sixty one
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  Speaker 2: catches last season, So I think that's a pretty talented player.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're going to be willing to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at and you put him on this practice squad
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  Speaker 2: initially to basically do that, take a look at him,
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  Speaker 2: see what he may be able to give you.
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  Speaker 3: So they think they could fix him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, you know, again, he had sixty
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  Speaker 2: one catches last year. Yeah, the Browns weren't very good,
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  Speaker 2: but uh, you know, the list of Broncos receivers that
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  Speaker 2: have had sixty one catches over the last five or
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  Speaker 2: six years is fairly short. So uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: just think it's a talent question, and he did. Sean
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  Speaker 2: Payton did say yesterday that you signed guys like this
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  Speaker 2: for two reasons, to if they can help you now
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  Speaker 2: or if you think they can help you later. And
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  Speaker 2: I think this may be one they take a look
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  Speaker 2: at to see, you know, maybe is there something there
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  Speaker 2: for for down the road too, or if they need
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  Speaker 2: because you know, they had two receivers on the practice
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  Speaker 2: squad already. Who who they like? So they thought enough
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  Speaker 2: of them to relim in.
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  Speaker 4: Why four teams in four years? Why is he available?
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  Speaker 4: How did he get all the way down to the
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  Speaker 4: Denver Broncos nobody else wanted him with? It's a story?
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  Speaker 4: What's his malfunction? He just said it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know that he has one. I think
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  Speaker 2: it'd be unfair to just say, well.
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  Speaker 4: Why didn't work out in Buffalo? Why they I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I don't get it. If this guy can play, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know. I'm not too excited about it.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, Well, he's on the practice squad, so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure it's impacting your life and a great deal in.
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  Speaker 4: Fact, it will not. That's an excellent point. It will
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  Speaker 4: not impact my life. Has a huge drop. As soon
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  Speaker 4: as he ended he has a huge drop of the
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  Speaker 4: end zone in the AFC Championship game, then it will
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  Speaker 4: affect my life. But until then, I don't give a
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  Speaker 4: rats rip. Excellent point.
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  Speaker 1: Let's check the injury report powered by Ramos Law, the
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  Speaker 1: official injury law firm partner of the Denver Broncos, Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: The first injury report came out yesterday. Any interesting news
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  Speaker 1: anybody questionable or potentially might not play this weekend?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, I you know, I think they you know,
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  Speaker 2: with Sir Tan back and you know Jonah Alis, one
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  Speaker 2: of their outside linebackers, didn't play last week because of
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  Speaker 2: an illness. You know, I think he'll be He looked
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  Speaker 2: okay yesterday, ready to go. So I think they're a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good shape. It's a pretty short injury report for
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  Speaker 2: for this late in the season, but you know, as
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  Speaker 2: far as that the you know DJ Jones, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he left Sunday's game with the ankle right ankle injury.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be surprised if he plays, but we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: he's out there at all today.
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  Speaker 4: MM.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that there's a possibility they get JK.
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  Speaker 3: Dobbins back for the playoff run? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: You know, I keep hearing. They'd have to go pretty
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  Speaker 2: deep to get them back and maybe even make it
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  Speaker 2: all the way to the Super Bowl to have a chance.
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  Speaker 3: It's that kind of injury healed differently for different guys.
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  Speaker 3: On I know, he had to have a surgical procedure done,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean I've seen different rates of healing, is
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  Speaker 3: what I'm I'm getting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, that's true for for you know, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those types of injuries. I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a running back, this is a little more of
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  Speaker 2: a difficult injury, you know, to your foot than it
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  Speaker 2: may be at other positions where you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: move so much in space and open space. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's been conveyed to me so far. They'd have to
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  Speaker 2: go really deep, maybe even the Super Bowl for him
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  Speaker 2: to be back.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about this with Chad Brown, But I'm one
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  Speaker 4: of the assumption, Jeff, that the Broncos offense is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. I mean, you can try to get their
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  Speaker 4: running game going more or whatever, but you're gonna have
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  Speaker 4: to dance with the girls that brung you at this point.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's what I think. Anyway, maybe not, maybe
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  Speaker 4: they get better and you never stop trying That's what
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  Speaker 4: Chad's point. You never stopped trying to get better. But
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  Speaker 4: should we look at the Broncos offense and just see
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  Speaker 4: this is what you got on any given week. You
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  Speaker 4: can do this or do that. We really don't know,
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  Speaker 4: and the defense is always going to keep you in
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  Speaker 4: every single game from this point forward.
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  Speaker 2: Well, wells, I guess my question would be, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure they're ever going to take a look
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  Speaker 2: at this, because you know, people always adjust to what
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  Speaker 2: you do, so it may not be a long term solution,
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  Speaker 2: but it's curious to me that they have routinely and
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  Speaker 2: almost always succeeded in the two minute and four minute
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  Speaker 2: situations when the menu of plays is much shorter for
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  Speaker 2: the quarterback. So, and I'm not saying bo Nicks can't
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  Speaker 2: handle the full playbook, because that's not true. He can.
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  Speaker 2: He knows the full playbook. He's well versed in the
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  Speaker 2: full playbook. But for whatever reason, the pacing of how
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton calls the game, how they get the play
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  Speaker 2: into the quarterback, all of that functioning, they're much better
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  Speaker 2: at it when some of that is off the table
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  Speaker 2: and when any team and I don't care if it's
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  Speaker 2: Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or you know a rookie quarterback.
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  Speaker 2: When you go to the two minute and the four
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  Speaker 2: minute situations, it's a different menu of plays. It's much
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  Speaker 2: more condensed, so you can move quickly, and the and
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  Speaker 2: the checks and the and the audibles and and the
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  Speaker 2: bailouts are much clean, more cleanly defined because they have
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  Speaker 2: to be. And it's it's amazing to me that this
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  Speaker 2: team suddenly has a very good offense in those situations.
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  Speaker 2: So I would do that more. Now that said, defenses
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  Speaker 2: are gonna react because they always do. And it may
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  Speaker 2: not have the success rate for entire games because you
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  Speaker 2: are showing defenses fewer things. But I'd be curious to
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  Speaker 2: know if you did that for bigger segments in games,
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  Speaker 2: how it would look.
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  Speaker 4: I would that's it. I would love to see a
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  Speaker 4: hurry up sometime, right?
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  Speaker 2: Why not you not even rock and hurry up. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just talking to construction, like go any pace you want,
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  Speaker 2: but you menu use the menu you use in the
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  Speaker 2: two minute and the four minute that that'd be what
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  Speaker 2: I'd want to see. And I'm not even talking about
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  Speaker 2: going fast or you can go any pace you want,
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  Speaker 2: But I say try that out, because it seems the
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  Speaker 2: players are far more comfortable in that situation.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think that is, Jeff? Do you think
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  Speaker 1: that is because it's more quick game involved. There's not
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  Speaker 1: as much for BO to read there. You can go
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  Speaker 1: at whatever pace and whatever gear, whatever tempo you want
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  Speaker 1: to go to. But things are maybe just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more scaled down.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think scale. I think scaled down is is
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  Speaker 2: not what I'd say. I think it's more clearly defined.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you have more ab, A or B choices
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  Speaker 2: if you're a receiver, more A or B choices if
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  Speaker 2: you're running back, And I think that's I think things
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  Speaker 2: are just more clearly framed out because they have to be,
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  Speaker 2: because everyone's got to be super efficient and fast, and
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  Speaker 2: I just think they're you know, his playbook is enormous.
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  Speaker 2: It always has been. He's piled up yards and points.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's got a long resume of teams that
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  Speaker 2: scored tons of points. So I'm not saying it doesn't work.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying this group, for whatever reason, and even even
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  Speaker 2: Sean I think, has called better games in those situations.
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  Speaker 2: Uh And but but that's I'd be curious if they
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  Speaker 2: if they used sort of the moving along menus and
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  Speaker 2: just rant it at any pace they wanted to, just
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  Speaker 2: to see what it would look like.
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Bill, uh, Bill Belichick, and Roubbert Kraft have been
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  Speaker 3: named finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame that class,
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  Speaker 3: which means another year without Mike Shanahan and Dan Reeves.
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  Speaker 3: Safe to assume that they're not gonna sneak in any
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  Speaker 3: means here or no.
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  Speaker 2: No, that that that Belichick the pick. Okay, He's the
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  Speaker 2: guy from the coaches subcommittee, So Mike, Mike cannot And
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  Speaker 2: I had tried to warn people, you know, this was
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  Speaker 2: Bill's first year on the ballot, and it would be
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  Speaker 2: tough for anyone, to anyone to move past him as
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  Speaker 2: the one, as the one finalist from the coaching.
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  Speaker 4: Why can we just do both? Why can we do both?
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  Speaker 4: Why can we do all three? What not?
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  Speaker 2: Why that's not how the vote, That's not how the
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  Speaker 2: Hall is constructive?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, tell the Hall is good, get bent. These
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  Speaker 4: guys deserve to be in. I'm tired of waiting. It's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I know that's your thing, Jeff, but it
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  Speaker 4: just it bothers me an awful autumn.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Jeff, I wanted to ask you about the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: run game because you talked about their offense and how
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  Speaker 1: efficient they can be in those specific situations four minute offense,
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  Speaker 1: two minute drill, but they are thirty first in the
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  Speaker 1: league in three and outs, second worst in the league.
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  Speaker 1: There's a ton of inconsistency there without JK. Dobbins at
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  Speaker 1: least in the fold. In the immediate they turned to RJ.
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  Speaker 4: Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: How do you think the Broncos feel about how he's
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  Speaker 1: progressed throughout the course of his rookie season. Now as
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  Speaker 1: we barrel towards the postseason with a lot on his shoulders.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean he's he's definitely gonna have to have
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  Speaker 2: a very big stretch run here. If they're an awful lot,
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  Speaker 2: they're relying an awful lot on him, I would say
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  Speaker 2: in most personnel guys I talked to in the league
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  Speaker 2: would say is they were a very good power team
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  Speaker 2: with their line in the run game. But some of
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  Speaker 2: that is muted now. I mean, think about R. J.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey is the big back. Suddenly he's two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: five pounds and I don't think anyone book well, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's big in the real world, but two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty pounds is big in the real world, but you
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  Speaker 2: don't see any offensive tackles who are two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: eighty pounds. So in the world of the NFL, I
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  Speaker 2: think they have to create more space in their run
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  Speaker 2: game to make it work, and that'll be a challenge
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  Speaker 2: if teams keep loading up the line of scrimmage on them.
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  Speaker 2: So I think a little more play action would be
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  Speaker 2: helpful too, but that's that's harder to do out of
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  Speaker 2: the shotgun and get people to buy it. So I
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  Speaker 2: think you may see a smidge more RPO type looks
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  Speaker 2: here with bo coming down the stretch, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: say that for certain, but it would shock me if
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  Speaker 2: you don't see a little more of that, because they've
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  Speaker 2: got to get some of those safeties and linebackers to
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  Speaker 2: at least glance in a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: So there's no big hanging out on the street that
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  Speaker 3: just waiting for a job.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think with practice squads VIC, now you
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  Speaker 2: know twelve guys, that's an awful lot of players that
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  Speaker 2: used to be on the workout circuit this time of
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  Speaker 2: year that are that are with somebody else. That's why
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  Speaker 2: you're seeing so many teams sign guys off practice the
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  Speaker 2: squads that that didn't used to happen very often. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it was generally considered it it had to
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  Speaker 2: be a really pressing situation for you to to grab
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  Speaker 2: somebody off a practice squad. But now you you see
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  Speaker 2: two and three guys every day almost get getting signed
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  Speaker 2: off a practice squad from someone.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. They're going to crush the Raiders. I'll
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  Speaker 4: worry about it down the line. Hey, Jeff hot.
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  Speaker 2: Street meet Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeahs made you made the Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Are you a fan of I mean.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean. Listen, I'm I'm I'm on
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  Speaker 4: Long Island right now. Okay, but I'm going to the
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  Speaker 4: City Island. Hey, I.
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  Speaker 2: Covered Stanley Cup Finals at the Nassau Coliseum long ago.
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  Speaker 4: That place was that place, I'm you know, don't you
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  Speaker 4: miss the It was a dump and the visiting locker
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  Speaker 4: room had this The hallway had this smell because you're underground,
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  Speaker 4: it's look like mold. Uh but uh but you but
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  Speaker 4: you missed that, don't you now? These all these antiseptic
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  Speaker 4: places was.
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  Speaker 2: Like it was like a gondola.
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  Speaker 4: It was a wooden it wouldn't and it's wooden't and
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  Speaker 4: like the wood, it's all wood. Anyway, I miss it.
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  Speaker 4: But so anyway, tomorrow in New Yorleans of the street
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  Speaker 4: meet exactly walking. I'm gonna walk the streets and give
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  Speaker 4: me some street met Jeff. You know that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not uh, you know, that's not really on
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  Speaker 2: my tour when I go to New York is to
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  Speaker 2: get to get.
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  Speaker 4: That for a guy who orders every meal off a
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  Speaker 4: board on a wall. You know you sound kind of
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  Speaker 4: snoppy regarding the street meet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'll hit up I'll hit up a car anytime,
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  Speaker 2: but you know that's just not on my New York list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Jeff. We appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much, man.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwall brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight. Start with a job
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  Speaker 1: end with a career on the other side. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask Vic Lombardi a really bold question. Quite frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what his answer is gonna be, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: do it next