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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 9-30-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 3: The insider I've covered while.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Legwald he's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 1: Out an off brow today, Monday night football double header
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  Speaker 1: starting at five thirty Tennessee and Miami kicking off the
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  Speaker 1: Dolphins two and a half point favorites with that game
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  Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium there in Miami six fifteen, Game
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  Speaker 1: number two, and this one's a fun one. The three
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  Speaker 1: to oho Seahawks the two to one Lions will battle
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  Speaker 1: at Ford Field. That one must see television tonight, that
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  Speaker 1: first game tonight. It's merely a placeholder. Jeff Legwald, never
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  Speaker 1: a placeholder, always a high light on the program. Joins
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  Speaker 1: us right now here on a Monday afternoon. Uh so, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: how is Tyler be Day? How did he get home?
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  Speaker 1: What airplane was he on? And how excited was Sean
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  Speaker 1: Payton to talk to you about him? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: How dare you ask about injury at his where do
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  Speaker 4: you think you are?
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  Speaker 3: You know? He uh? Uh.
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  Speaker 5: They were very happy for for Tyler be day. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: he took a commercial flight home last night. He was
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  Speaker 5: examined by doctors in in New Jersey. Uh, and then
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  Speaker 5: he returned on it after after the team had left
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  Speaker 5: on the charter.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: You know, there was some thought if if the doctor
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  Speaker 5: said he would have to stay overnight for an observation. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: somebody from the Broncos medical staff would have stayed in
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  Speaker 5: New Jersey too, But.
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  Speaker 3: As it was he was checked out.
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  Speaker 5: They put him on a commercial flight with the the
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  Speaker 5: Broncos staffer and they flew back. And I believe I
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  Speaker 5: was told. I was told last night when they were
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  Speaker 5: still in the air. I think they landed, you know,
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  Speaker 5: nine o'clock Denver time last night.
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  Speaker 3: He was he was with the team today.
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  Speaker 5: Peyton offered no update on the injury, however, so we're
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  Speaker 5: not sure if it's still just the back or if
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  Speaker 5: he suffered concussion symptoms when his head hit the ground
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  Speaker 5: after the play was over.
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  Speaker 1: And that's none of your business, Jeff, so please don't
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  Speaker 1: even ask about that, Okay.
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  Speaker 5: As as any and all coaches know, I will ask
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  Speaker 5: the questions.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I do, all right, Jeff?
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  Speaker 4: Were you a little surprised at the uh? I didn't
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  Speaker 4: watch the whole presser. I watched parts of it. Look,
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  Speaker 4: this is a good win. These are two good wins, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: I not pretty wins. There was a pretty one in
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  Speaker 4: Tampa Bay, I guess, but not a pretty one yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: But you went on the road. You found a way
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  Speaker 4: to win, to win two games people think you could in.
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  Speaker 4: Were you surprised at the mood or are you not
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  Speaker 4: surprised because he's frustrated by the offense.
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  Speaker 3: What was your read on all that yesterday?
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  Speaker 5: And I think it's all of the above. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it bothers him greatly when the offense isn't
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  Speaker 5: working and it's not. I mean he had bo Nicks
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  Speaker 5: had minus seven yards at halftime, and the Broncos, you know,
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  Speaker 5: Sean Payton's acting like it was a monsoon.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was rain, and I you know, I'm.
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  Speaker 5: Gonna be hard pressed if bo Nicks is going to
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  Speaker 5: be a starter for the Denver Broncos for a long time.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna play in a lot of games that where
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  Speaker 5: the weather is a hell of a lot worse than
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  Speaker 5: it was, you know, yesterday for one half in New York,
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  Speaker 5: and a professional quarterback should not have minus seven yards
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  Speaker 5: at halftime.
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  Speaker 3: That is, that is a sign.
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  Speaker 5: That what's being called, what's being planned, the execution, none
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  Speaker 5: of it is working very well. If you're minus. He
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  Speaker 5: was the first quarterback since nineteen ninety one to have
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  Speaker 5: more than three attempts and minus at least, you know,
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  Speaker 5: that much negative yardage at halftime of a game. And
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  Speaker 5: if it were not for this team's defense, they might
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  Speaker 5: well be owned four. So I mean that that's the
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  Speaker 5: stark reality, and I think, you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: think the defense is to be sort of celebrated. They're
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  Speaker 5: in the top four in every statistical metric except rushing defense,
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  Speaker 5: and even that after the last two games they're at twelve.
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  Speaker 5: So it's not like they're you know, deep in the
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  Speaker 5: in the pattern, but you're talking about a team that's
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  Speaker 5: number one, two or three or four in every other
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  Speaker 5: statistical metric on defense. They haven't done anything like that
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  Speaker 5: at any point in the season since Wade Phillips was
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  Speaker 5: calling plays for this team. So they do have defense
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  Speaker 5: figured out. The upgrades and the defensive line are working Andy,
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  Speaker 5: and I think that, you know, should he be in
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  Speaker 5: a better mood about that, probably, But he has always
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  Speaker 5: said it's harder to coach after a win.
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  Speaker 3: He firmly believes that.
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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. You start with a job,
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  Speaker 1: you end with a career. Jeff. I know you chart
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  Speaker 1: every single play and watch the film afterwards. You've been
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  Speaker 1: on the East Coast in a damn hurricane for the
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  Speaker 1: better part of what probably feels like an eternity. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much you've been able to do
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  Speaker 1: that today. But the Vance Joseph game plan that he
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  Speaker 1: put together, there was no spring Chicken he was messing
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  Speaker 1: with out there. That was Aaron Rodgers, and Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: was flummixed, to say the least, by the blitz packages
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  Speaker 1: that Vance Joseph was dialing up in the way that
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  Speaker 1: he was disguising the pressures that were happening out there yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I would think the first game ball from
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  Speaker 1: that game has to go to the Broncos defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: Of what you saw and of what you've seen so
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  Speaker 1: far on the film, how did he do it well.
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  Speaker 5: You know, he's using an awful lot of stuff he
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  Speaker 5: learned from Wade Phillips, and Vance has always said Wade
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  Speaker 5: had a huge impact on his career. Now Vance has
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  Speaker 5: added some of his own tweaks to it, but a
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  Speaker 5: lot of the Nickel Rush packages, some of the dime
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  Speaker 5: looks those are, that's a lot of Wade Phillips in there.
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  Speaker 5: And they got two free runners on Aaron Rodgers. And
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that I've ever seen that in a
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  Speaker 5: game Aaron Rodgers has played.
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  Speaker 3: I looked it up today. He hasn't had five.
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  Speaker 5: He hasn't been sacked five times in the game since
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  Speaker 5: twenty twenty, so it's not like this happens a lot.
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  Speaker 5: And they sacked Mayfield seven times, they sacked Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 5: five times. They act from nine different players right now.
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  Speaker 5: That tells you that's a lot of scheme and they
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of players that fit what they do.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, score one for a little continuity, you know,
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  Speaker 5: for keeping the bulk of the staff around.
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  Speaker 3: Jim Leonard has added some things.
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  Speaker 5: I recognize, you know, some of the stuff they're doing
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  Speaker 5: from from what I saw Wisconsin do, especially in some
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  Speaker 5: of the.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the rush looks.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, there's an awful lot of coverage things, and
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  Speaker 5: that tells you vance Joseph is open to ideas as well.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a.
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  Speaker 5: Lot good going on with the defense. And if anyone
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  Speaker 5: ever wondered what the true value of pat curtain could be,
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  Speaker 5: you're you're seeing it. They they're playing ten on ten,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and and that that changes things, you know,
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  Speaker 5: because wherever they put certain is impacting what the offense
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  Speaker 5: is doing, and they get some predictive items from that.
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  Speaker 5: And if you can get some predictive things on defense,
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  Speaker 5: that helps immensely. And Sirtan has taken DK Metcalf, Mike Evans,
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  Speaker 5: and Garret Or out of games. I mean, he has
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  Speaker 5: made them non factors so much so the quarterbacks just
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  Speaker 5: sort of quit looking while the game's in the balance.
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  Speaker 4: What else does the rest of that secondary do though,
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  Speaker 4: because a couple of times it looked like some coverage
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  Speaker 4: sacks too, Jeff, I mean, Riley Moss, Brandon Jones is
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  Speaker 4: starting to look like a real savvy signing beached PJ.
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  Speaker 4: Locke is look like he's living up to the role
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  Speaker 4: he's being asked to play. Talk about the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the secondary too.
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  Speaker 5: No, you know they they already had a piece that's
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  Speaker 5: important in all this. Jakun McMillan is one of the
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  Speaker 5: best nickel corners in the league. And if you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: play defense now these days, every good defense has a
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  Speaker 5: good nickel corner. It's just a must have. So you're
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  Speaker 5: starting with Certain and one of the better nickel corners
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  Speaker 5: in the league. And Riley Moss makes a mistake from
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  Speaker 5: time to time, but he is what an awful lot
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  Speaker 5: of corners have not been opposite of a player the
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  Speaker 5: caliber of Certain or Champ Bailey or a keep to Leave.
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  Speaker 3: He is competitive.
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  Speaker 5: He competes on every snap and I've really been fascinated
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  Speaker 5: to watch him. I had a chance to talk to
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  Speaker 5: him for a while one day at the Greenbrier, just
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  Speaker 5: to pick his brain a little bit about how he
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  Speaker 5: approaches things, and he is he has that competitive streak
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  Speaker 5: it takes to be the other guy, and he and
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  Speaker 5: Certain give them Andy. That's one of the biggest sets
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  Speaker 5: of corners in the league. And if you can play
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  Speaker 5: with that athleticism and that size, the reach, you know
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  Speaker 5: that the catch radius on defense, as it were, you
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of advantage and you can see it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and they're they're not making assignment mistakes either
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  Speaker 5: when they switch from man to zone or move certain
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  Speaker 5: off the main receiver.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, they're not making bus in coverage.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody's playing there, you know, playing the snaps the way
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  Speaker 5: they should. And you know, Vance Joseph actually mentioned that
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  Speaker 5: last week that one of the keys was that they
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  Speaker 5: have a good handle on the game plan by Wednesday already,
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  Speaker 5: and then Thursday and Friday, they're just reducing the mistakes
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  Speaker 5: every day and then by the time they play on Sunday,
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  Speaker 5: they're playing a pretty clean brand of football. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: some of those pis you're gonna take if you're a
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  Speaker 5: defensive coordinator, because you want guys fighting for the ball.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's not silly ones. They're not pulling the
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  Speaker 5: jersey to keep the guy from running away from them.
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  Speaker 5: They're they're competing for the ball, and I think all
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  Speaker 5: of those things. You know it it's a rush and
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  Speaker 5: cover league, and if you can do both, it looks
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  Speaker 5: like it does you know how it looked for the
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  Speaker 5: Broncos against the Jets. You know, again, thirteen point eight
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  Speaker 5: points of a game, they're surrendering ball rights that that
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  Speaker 5: should be a three and one or a four and all,
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  Speaker 5: you know a lot of the time, and it's you know,
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  Speaker 5: if they get anything at all on offense, they could
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  Speaker 5: start to build something.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Legy you celebrated it when the move was made.
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  Speaker 1: Is a savvy kind of by low acquisition for the Broncos.
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  Speaker 1: But yesterday we watched it play out in real time.
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  Speaker 1: John Franklin Myers, the Jets given up on him to
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  Speaker 1: try and get a Son Reddick. That absolutely is backfired
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  Speaker 1: on them and Franklin Myers yesterday, in particular the goal
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  Speaker 1: line stand that the Broncos put together and forced that
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  Speaker 1: field goal in the second quarter. Franklin Myers, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he blew up two of those plays basically individually by himself.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to just like eight plus five star
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  Speaker 1: kind of savvy move made by George Payton, John Franklin
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  Speaker 1: Myers is as good as it gets.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And you know what it doesnt is that it
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  Speaker 5: lets all the other guys play where they should. And
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  Speaker 5: that was a big problem in their front last year,
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  Speaker 5: either by injury or they weren't a lack of production.
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  Speaker 5: They were having to put Zach Allen and DJ Jones
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  Speaker 5: in spots where they really don't belong. And Zach Allen
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  Speaker 5: got double teamed all the time last year because no
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  Speaker 5: one else was getting a double team. And right now,
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  Speaker 5: you know, John Franklin Myers just changes everything because his
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  Speaker 5: effort level is the same on every snap, his production
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  Speaker 5: level is the same on every snap. And then you
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  Speaker 5: have a guy like Zach Allen who plays a higher
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  Speaker 5: percentage of snaps than a lot of defensive linemen in
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  Speaker 5: the league because he's got stamina and drive. They've got
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  Speaker 5: a good combination right now that really messes things up
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  Speaker 5: for offenses if you have that kind of motor up front. Collectively,
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  Speaker 5: now they have two players right now, Zach Allen and
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  Speaker 5: Malcolm Roach, that are in the top eleven in the
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  Speaker 5: league with pass rush win rates against single blockers. So
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  Speaker 5: that tells you the impact of John Franklin Myers. Those
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  Speaker 5: other guys are getting one on ones and they're winning.
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  Speaker 1: It's good analytics dropped in right there. Got some pass
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  Speaker 1: rush win rate from our guy, Jeff Legwald. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be writing about the defense all week long at
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  Speaker 1: ESPN dot com. Leggy, beautiful work as always, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Thanks Bella.
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  Speaker 1: We'll say you all right, Jeff Legwald with us right
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  Speaker 1: there on the Craig, Ben and Lindahl Show. As always,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald's appearances are brought to you by our friends
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  Speaker 1: at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: You start with a job, you end with a career.