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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 9-27-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: two five. Pro Football, the insider.
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  Speaker 2: I've covered the league at while Jeff Legwald.
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  Speaker 3: He's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 3: IBDW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Start with the chomp and with the career. Date's Leggie
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  Speaker 1: on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: check on our friend Jeff Legwald right now, who is
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  Speaker 1: somewhere on the East Coast. The precipitation from Hurricane Helene
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  Speaker 1: is making his life an absolute nightmare today. Is he
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  Speaker 1: tries to somehow find his way up to East Rutherford,
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey. Jeff Legwald, where are you right now?
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  Speaker 2: I am in the vicinity of the nation's capital. So
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  Speaker 2: we're making progress.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So you're trying to get to Dulles. I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: then to fly toware new work. Probably yeah, I probably
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  Speaker 1: knew it. Okay, Okay, so that's the plan. Right now.
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  Speaker 1: What has your day been like? Because the Broncos got
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  Speaker 1: forced onto the tennis courts for practice today, what has
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  Speaker 1: your day been like trying to cover all of this
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  Speaker 1: out on the East Coast where Hurricane Helene is obviously
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  Speaker 1: ravaging things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, obviously, my little you know, my little drive in
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  Speaker 2: football isn't anything compared to what some folks are doing.
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  Speaker 2: So but the Broncos did go into the tennis courts,
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  Speaker 2: at which time Sean Payton, who's taken teams to the
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  Speaker 2: Greenbrier at least three times, announced that he had no
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  Speaker 2: idea the tennis facility existed at the Greenbrier.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. Nice, Sean hasn't been going and
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  Speaker 1: working on his groundstrokes Wimbledon dream going or improving his
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  Speaker 1: backhand with a lesson.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to announce anything, but the fitness center
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  Speaker 2: is in the tennis center, so I'm just gonna leave
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  Speaker 2: it that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, play, Jeff, we.
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  Speaker 3: Go, Jeff, what what's the week been like? Has it
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  Speaker 3: felt like a normal football week or what? Do you think?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean it's any The weather was just they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get much cooperation from the weather. They they made
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  Speaker 2: the best of it. The first day, you know, Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: they were on the grass because that the rain stopped.
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  Speaker 2: And then yesterday they were forced to be to the
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  Speaker 2: turf field. There is a turf field there you know,
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  Speaker 2: which was probably a normal practice and since they're playing
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  Speaker 2: on turf, they probably weren't too upset about that. But today,
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  Speaker 2: you know, last full day of practice. They'll do a
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  Speaker 2: walk through in New Jersey tomorrow, uh, but today, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the last regular practice of a game week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they were on the tennis court. So I had a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a of a COVID week vibe to it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when it was all said and done. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, he contends it was fabulous and that you know,
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  Speaker 2: everybody loved it, but you could tell I think that
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  Speaker 2: I think to support people with the Broncos were pretty
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  Speaker 2: hairy and you know, trying to make it all work.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually did have to switch their their team
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  Speaker 2: flight today. Originally they were supposed to take two planes
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  Speaker 2: out of Louisbourg, West Virginia, which is very close to
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  Speaker 2: the Greenbrier, probably ten minutes, but instead they had to
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  Speaker 2: because of the weather, they had to take buses to
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  Speaker 2: Roanoke and then go to New Jersey and that that
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  Speaker 2: was probably a fifty minute bus ride, and the and
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  Speaker 2: the monsoon conditions when we left.
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  Speaker 1: So in the end, what was intended for a convenience
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  Speaker 1: and whatever competitive advantage could be gained by being on
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  Speaker 1: the East coast, Leggie was largely nullified by the effects
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  Speaker 1: of a damn hurricane. Which it's just, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: the darnedest thing that that's what they got to deal
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  Speaker 1: with in this week that they were out there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure it's a week that many of them will never forget,
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  Speaker 1: and especially the people like you mentioned that worked for
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos support staff. But you know, best intentions I think,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure out of Sean Payton, but in the end
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  Speaker 1: it ended up not going great.
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  Speaker 2: No, and I you know, again, nobody can foresee you know, hey,
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  Speaker 2: category four hurricane is gonna come. You know you're wading
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  Speaker 2: you know, obviously staying in Florida in retrospect, which is
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  Speaker 2: where they had actually spoken to a couple of places
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, the IMT Academy and the Disney Sports Complex
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  Speaker 2: as well. They're tough to those two facilities about maybe
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  Speaker 2: spending the week there. But you know, hindsight, that would
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  Speaker 2: not have been great either, given how things went this
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  Speaker 2: week and you know the size of the storm and
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  Speaker 2: all of that. So in the end, probably getting on
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  Speaker 2: a plane and being home in Denver nine o'clock last
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night might have been the best thing of all,
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  Speaker 2: but I doubt anyone from the Broncos will publicly admit
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  Speaker 2: that at any point.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, So he had mentioned in his comments today
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  Speaker 3: that they asked for a couple of games back to
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  Speaker 3: back because they had so many in the you know,
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  Speaker 3: in this East coast trip or eleven o'clock window locally here.
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  Speaker 1: Are they going to do this again? I guess that
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  Speaker 1: was my question.
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  Speaker 3: Are they going to try to stay out east again
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  Speaker 3: later in the year or.
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  Speaker 1: Is this it?
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  Speaker 2: Andy? I think you will. They will do this anytime
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  Speaker 2: they have potentially you know, multiple early East coast Eastern
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  Speaker 2: time zone games. But I think it's something he believes in.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's very intent on sleep studies, and he
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  Speaker 2: believes that not switching the time zone is ultimately the
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  Speaker 2: trump card for any inconvenient otherwise on the trip, that
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  Speaker 2: they get more out of not switching time zones multiple
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  Speaker 2: times than they do you know, you know, anything sort
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  Speaker 2: of negative that would be on the trip in that way.
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  Speaker 2: So I think you will always do this when they
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  Speaker 2: can put games back to back in the East Eastern
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  Speaker 2: times ah.
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  Speaker 1: Sleep studies for the win I'm sure the penners are
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  Speaker 1: thrilled to hear that. Jeff Legwald. Everybody, he is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you right now by the International Brotherhood of Electrical
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  Speaker 1: Workers IBEW Local sixty eight. Start with a job and
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  Speaker 1: with a career, Jeff, Let's talk about the football matchup
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  Speaker 1: you pointed out today on ESPN dot com. The excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets sat quarterbacks on a league high seventeen percent
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  Speaker 1: of pass attempts and they don't send extra bodies all
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  Speaker 1: that often, largely doing this with four man pressures. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of challenge is this going to be for young
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  Speaker 1: bow Knicks going up against Robert Sala, who may not
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  Speaker 1: be the best head coach in the world, but the
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  Speaker 1: guy can call some defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I think the Broncos are gonna try
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  Speaker 2: and get the ball out of his hand as fast
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  Speaker 2: as possible and put him on the move a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: I think I think a stationary target. The longer he's
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  Speaker 2: a stationary target, the worse it's gonna be. I think. So,
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  Speaker 2: just judging from sort of the you know, what they
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  Speaker 2: have in the playbook and what matches up against the Jets,
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  Speaker 2: I do think, you know, he may tinker with a
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  Speaker 2: few of the Reid option things and put him in
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  Speaker 2: the shotgun plenty. But uh yeah, this this is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a lot closer to the first two weeks for
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  Speaker 2: Bonicks than than the last Sunday is in terms of pressure,
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  Speaker 2: terms of what he's gonna see. And you know, they
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  Speaker 2: drop set it into coverage at least almost every step,
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  Speaker 2: so that as a quarterback you better be pretty good
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  Speaker 2: at the coting then because that's a lot of bodies
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  Speaker 2: mingling back there. And you know, the Broncos haven't had
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  Speaker 2: many plays where receivers are getting awesome separation, so you
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  Speaker 2: know they're gonna need a big effort. And I think
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  Speaker 2: they will try to run the ball at least early
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  Speaker 2: to see if they can at least, you know, slow
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  Speaker 2: the Jets front down. But if that doesn't go well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Quinn Williams is a problem in the in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the defensive line, and that that will
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  Speaker 2: be the biggest issue as far as running the ball.
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  Speaker 3: Jeffinitely got like thirty seconds because Nate and I are
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  Speaker 3: trying to mind their pews and cues Nate Singleton. Nate Singleton,
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  Speaker 3: I just did it again, Alex Singleton, I didn't even
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  Speaker 3: mean to do that, Alex Singleton talk about the loss.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, that's a lot of snaps to replace.
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  Speaker 2: Now we did learn today Barton will wear the green dots,
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  Speaker 2: so that means he's getting most of the snaps, because
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't give the green doctor guy. That's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: bopping in and out situate show. So that's gonna turn
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  Speaker 2: out to be a big free agent signing if he can,
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  Speaker 2: if he can play pretty well with a lot of
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  Speaker 2: playing time. But it does look like they're going to
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  Speaker 2: have Barton do most of the quote unquote replacing.
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  Speaker 1: Of Singleton, Cody Barton, Green Dot guy Jeff Legwald somewhere
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  Speaker 1: near the Nation's capital, just dodging lightning and falling trees
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  Speaker 1: and whatever else is going on out there. Leggy, well
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  Speaker 1: done as always, man, Thank you for calling back and
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  Speaker 1: joining us on the show, and thank you for driving safely.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it, buddy, any time. All right, that's the
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  Speaker 1: great Jeff Legwalld brought to you by the International Brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: of Electrical Workers ib e W Local sixty eight. Start
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  Speaker 1: with the job and with a career,