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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 2/9/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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This song Jeff Legwell. Time here on a Friday afternoon Craign and Lindahl on
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Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Leggy, I don't I'm not even gonna
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let you warm up. We're just gonna just we're just getting cal Well.
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He's got to use the ga let's go. If you want to get ready
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to rock, my friend, there's a gavel right here. I'm gonna smack
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it on the table. Jeff Legwald, right now on Friday afternoon before we
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get to Sunday. Yes, who is the second best quarterback that has ever
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lived? Wow? I'm sure I can name the first. No warm up,
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I'm just gonna go under by the ring theory that it's Brady existing the
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Brady and you almost have to thank you, Yes, who's number two,
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number two? Number two? Well, if you're going by championships, outo
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Graham played at ten straight and they and they won eight of them in what
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era pre NFL? I mean it's pre Super Bowl era, pre rotary phone,
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pre spiral, probably pre spiral even no, I'm not really I always
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when people leave him off the lists, it always makes me laugh. But
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anyway, uh, I think most football people I know would probably go a
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group of three for the next the Montana Menaja quarterback, Yeah, Peyton,
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and then Unitis, because Unitis is the last, really of the great great
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ones who called all of his own plays. Five time first Team All Pro,
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three time MVP Johnny Unitis and he called his own and a haircut you
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could set a watch too, and called his own game, which to me
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is that's he's the last frontier there. That's kind of the last grouping we're
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saying. Manning didn't call his own well, he called his own, but
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it was off with a head. You got a radio on the hellmet you
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got Unitis was their soft these days. Unice was tasked with the game starts.
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It's in your hands. I'll talk to you between series. You weren't
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holding up sandwich boards with SpongeBob on it or whatever, you know. And
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he's kind of the first guy to sort of run the real two minute drill
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to and all that. So I think you always got to keep him in
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the county. You're not even putting mahomes in the conversation. He will be,
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will be do he? I don't. I don't like taking twenty eight
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year olds to the gold jacket town already. But the guy is, he's
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the next Brady I if he's spontaneously can busted right now, he's getting a
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gold jacket probably, So Yeah. I mean I've been in the room a
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long time. I'm in quarterbacks with multiple Super Bowl wins, and he's he's
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been the whole thing, you know, creative, big moments, lifted his
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team. I mean, there's no box he doesn't get to check as the
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best in the league right now. This is his sixth year as a starter.
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I gave he goes to the Super Bowl sixty six percent of the time
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when he's a starter. Yeah, no, it's ridiculous. Yeah, and
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he just I don't know, his playoff records ridiculous, and I think I
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I had the stat with you guys the other day, but it's still his
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last six postseason games. The last six postseason games the guy has played,
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he's They've only surrendered five sacks and he has no picks. He's the only
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quarterback in the history of the playoffs to go a six game span and not
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throw a pick. LEGI you like this one. We had this one the
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other day. Next gen stats. In this postseason, running three games,
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he has been sacked on six percent of his pressure to drop backs, not
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his total dropbacks. When they get pressure, he gets sacked six percent of
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the time. That's when you start talking about quarterbacks in the draft and what
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you're hoping for. That kind of awareness you might never see in your career
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as a scout. You might see it twice. Really, And I think
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the other stat I saw that was phenomenal was I think he has one ball
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that isn't considered catchable in the playoffs. Really, I think he has one
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ball that is not considered catchable. That's amazing. The throat that he made
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to wrap up the AFC Championship game, it's just phenomenal. Vs. Again.
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You know, we talk about it a lot here because you know,
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the Broncos are the Broncos here, and you know it's religion, and the
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dude's twenty eight. Man. I just you know, and I keep saying
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it, and I know people are tired of it, probably, but no
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we are. If your plan is ay, we're gonna go and get a
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quarterback better than him and then things will be awesome, you better have another
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plan. You will never get another quarterback, but nobody will. And he
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will stop winning when he either gets hurt or just tired of it. And
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I don't get a sense he's ever gonna get tired of I think he is.
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He's like Brady. Peyton was like this, but Peyton's body sort of
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failed him, you know, going down the stretch. You know, Brady
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was still chucking it that last year. His arm wasn't quite what we thought
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it was. But I think Mahomes wants to win as much as possible.
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Like, I don't think there's a level of jewelry or accolades that would make
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him say, Okay, I feel good now. We use the phrase the
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Jordan era. That's that's what he's in right now, you know, like
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MJ walked away for two years, and niquim Olajuan, you know, wins
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two NBA titles and I'm not going to dismiss those titles. It's a great
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era of the NBA, right, And he went out and did it.
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But Jordan was in his whatever, baseball, whatever you want to determine,
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its sabbatical that he had going on right there, Like since since Mahomes has
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gotten to the league. Let's see, Brady got one because he beat Mahomes,
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which I think Patrick Mahomes got so much better because of what happened that
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day against Stampa's defense and then and then Mats that takes sometimes Matt Stafford and
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the Rams snuck in and got one because Burrow actually went in and beat Patrick
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Mahomes. But that's kind of it. Like I think there's gonna be guys
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in this era, and there's I mean Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson and Joe
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Burrow, and I mean these are these are truly great quarterbacks. These guys
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will be in Canton one day and yet Leggy like they're not him. They
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might not win rings because they just played at the same time as this guy.
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No, it's the Brady impact. Yeah. And you know when we're
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looking at the quarterbacks of the Brady era and people say, oh, he
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only won whatever, only well, it's because the other dude was yeah,
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Breeze Manning Rogers. Yeah. And the ultimate compliment, like a football person,
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a coach in the league or a personnel guy in the league can give
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a quest quarderback is if you put him on the Bills, they'd probably win
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trophies. If you put him on the Ravens, they probably win trophies.
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How about the Broncos. That'd be tough to drag. But you know what
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I'm saying, Oh yeah, yeah, if you put him on any of
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those teams in that upper tier, they're the chiefs. I think. Now
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you still got to match it. Reid has been masterful and how he's year
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by year they've sort of escalated it a little bit and changed it and tweaked
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it like this year. This year, I have been so impressed about how
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they they did. And not just because I've been griping about it for a
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billion years, but they went two and three tight ends, They ran the
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ball, sometimes, they went play action. They put him on you know,
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they did stuff with him. You know, he's the queen on the
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board. You can go anywhere and do anything. And yet they still did
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whatever they had to do to maximize the rest of the roster around him,
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and that that's the match. I mean, you know, Belichick did it
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with Brady and he does it with Mahome. I think one of the great
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evolutions that happened in his career was and Leggy, you know you observed it.
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It happened I don't know what five six years ago, the sort of
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the revolution of two high safety defenses and going with going with heavy shells and
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forcing offenses to have to work their way down the fil matriculate down there in
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the red zone and we'll take our chances. And that's kind of what it
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went through. And quite honestly, it was a reaction to Mahomes and Kansas
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City and for half of that season, I want to say it was the
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year they went to a Super Bowl against Stampa. They everybody, everybody was
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like, oh, guy's gone, Oh my god. And then you know,
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he again, he showed what he is. A sixteen play scoring drive
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doesn't bother that guy. No, he will never get away from what he
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needs to do. And he's efficient enough to be able to convert all of
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those downs. Like that's the gift that he has that maybe the other guys
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don't, is all of a sudden, like they just miss on that third
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and four. They don't have any they don't have the patience to live to
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sort of live with quarterback humility when they're great. And Brady had it,
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and I think Peyton even sometimes, and I talked with Peyton about this.
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Sometimes you just snap at some point, you just jacket, you know,
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up the sideline when you shouldn't. But Brady, if they had to hand
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the ball off thirty five times, he handed the ball off thirty five you
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know, the winning part of it never escaped. And that's the feeling I
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get from my homes. He if he went twelve of sixteen for two ten
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and two touchdowns in a Super Bowl win, he'd be like, cool,
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Yeah, I didn't care. Hand me the ring and I'll put it on
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my mantle with the rest of the stuff. But he, you know,
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again, he's the alpha, and you know, the great, you know,
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the one sort of always emerges and an era. But he, I
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think even he in the world of alpha's, he's even a little more just
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because of the physical gifts. Okay, let's circle back then, is he
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the second best quarterback of all time? Today? Not today? Not today?
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I can't disrespect decade, will you? Will you change your opinion on
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certain up again? No? You know, I think when you get to
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double digit seasons, you know, you know, it just it's just tice,
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the flavor of ice cream you like. Essentially is how a scout puts
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it to me sometimes when you talk talking about you know, is it really
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do you like the recent guys because you think situational defenses? You know,
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unit has faced one defensive look essentially all the time. Yeah, you know,
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man coverage on the outside, you know, four man pressure. You
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know, just you know, when a guy blitzed, it was like,
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oh my god, here comes a blitz. You know. Now they're switching
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two and three plays on every down. You know, they're rolling coverage.
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So it's a lot harder to play quarterback now, even off the field too.
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So I think there is some recency multipliers and all of that. But
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I don't disrespect people who played, and a lot of that is my Hall
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of Fame hat. You know, if you dominated the ear you played in
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and you can't penalize a guy for not being born. Sure, later,
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but yeah, I mean, if he wins Sunday, he's already in the
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in the smallest of classes of quarterback, he'll be ahead of Brady and pace
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age twenty eight thirty and in in sort of an offense that you think they're
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going to let him do his thing like you never felt like the Patriots were
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just letting Brady loose. Other than the no huddle year when they broke the
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the four wide, five wide, no huddle gun move fast, yeah,
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one word, one word, play calls, when they dropped all that on
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everybody that that was I felt like that was the only year they really just
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let him rock, And I felt the rest of the time they were just
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kind of reeling them in. But it's different with my homes. I think,
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you know, Andy Reid knows what he's got, He does whatever he
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has to, and he's not retiring people. Now, why would you?
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I asked that all the time if you're a football coach, and look,
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it's a in a lot of ways, it's a hard life. Yeah,
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you make a ton of money, you're famous, you get free cars and
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all the rest of it, but there's a price tag on that lifestyle of
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all the time, every day. But the pressure is but if you are
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in that vocation, you've waited your whole life. And many, most virtually
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all coaches will coach and never get a crack at that to go cruise control
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like he's got I mean it's cruise control. Well, he's in there.
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I mean, he's just so good at I think he showed more this year
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as a coach in a lot of ways than he had before because he he
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really adapted this year. I mean really, like the greatest gift you could
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give, especially an offensive mind like Andy Reid in mahomes is he can do
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anything he can think of, right, Like, there's nothing that is so
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nothing off the board, and they do some stupid stuff. But like,
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because you have the insurance of knowing exactly even if this doesn't work, we
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can go back and play it by the numbers for X number of snaps.
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All right, guys, we got a bronco in the Pro Football Hall of
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Fame. Jeff Legwald is going to tell us about Randy Gradishar going into Canton,
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going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Plus Andy and leg you
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will be taking you home on a what's your piculumne Kansas City twenty seven niners
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twenty four. All right, that was almost the exact score. I think,
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really see brilliant mind I went. I think I went twenty seven twenty
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three in our little thing. There you go. That's gonna do it for
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uh, for me this afternoon. Yeah, you want to tell you what
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you're doing. I'm this is cool. I love this. I'm We're going
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to the to the dads and Daughters dance. It's awesome. I'm happy for
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you you did. Those are the crush those are the moments. Are the
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moments. I'm gonna I'm gonna go show off the moves and uh, I
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don't maybe do that, Okay, you gotta walk the fine line between embarrassment
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and participation. Lucy's Lucy's young enough, it'll be it'll just be melt your
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heart cute. Yeah, well, Lucy hits the middle school on that.
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And then you want to down on the old pee wee herman dance. He
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wants to break out. I might spike the punch due. That's gonna do
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it for me this afternoon. Leggy and the rest of the way Krekman and
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Road online at CEO off Road dot com. Altitude Sports Radio ninety five.
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Oh yeah, it's a Scott Friday as we take you home. Nates off
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to enjoy his evening with his daughter, Jeff Legwalld along Mark Springer working as
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magic as always. We're at super Bowl weekend. Please to have you along
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real quickly because it's Scott Friday. I can't wait to announce this show.
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tell everybody that this is going on finally, so frankly, it should just
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be our show anyway, all right, Jeff, you know you've waited a
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long time for this. It's funny because Randy Gratis Shar has waited forever,
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right, but you four decades. Well, you get stuck with some of
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the splashback when it doesn't go right. So how did you feel to finally
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be able to tell Randy Gradish, are you are, in fact Surrey member
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of the Hall of Fame. Well, I didn't get to tell them,
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but I'm glad they did well. But you got but you got to talk
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to him out of training camp, and now I know you. You were
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cautioning everybody, this may not be we saw stamp. We saw it wasn't
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a rubber stamp to two of the committee people that subcommittee. One senior candidate
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didn't make it, and the coach finalists didn't make it. So remind me
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who was the coach, Buddy Parker, a former Alliance coach in the fifties.
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Uh, but again it you know again, everybody was like, assuming,
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oh, he's it. He kept telling people, well, just there's
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still one more deal, a lot of work and discussion to be done.
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But it just went to show you that it is a seven member class and
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it's the smallest class in a bunch of years. So it wasn't a rubber
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stamp. But I'm so happy for Randy and his family and his friends and
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his former teammates. I mean, everybody's happy about it. They I do
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know. They flew Tom Jackson and Billy Thompson in to be part of the
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door knock surprise for him. And I think you can see that on the
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web. If people are fired up there and they're going to show, they're
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going to show it tomorrow. I mean, they're gonna show the full thing
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tomorrow. But I think the Hall of Fame put up like a minute and
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a half so you could just see how Stundy is when he walks in and
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sees you know. Uh. I think Attwater was in there with his gold
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jacket on and again they when he saw Tom Jackson, I think he he
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was practically speechless. So you you've said for a long time that the Orange
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Crush Defense deserves to have Hall of Fame representation. I said in the meeting,
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it's the biggest omission in the Hall of Fame. I thought, do
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you think, because look, I also know, and not just from you.
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You and I have talked about it. I've I've watched a little of
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the man's career. Louis Wright deserves to me, will this help him?
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I don't know. I mean I just look at that, You're like,
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I just I look at I look at Randy's track, and I wrote this
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down because I've I've got an enormous file on Randy obviously, but he you
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know, he he last played you know what was his last year, eighty
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nine or eighty three? Eighty three? Eighty three is last year was eighty
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three. He was not a finalist for the Hall of Fame for the first
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time until two thousand and three, so that's twenty years. So he's a
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finalist in three and eight, and that's it. As a modern era finalist,
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you have a twenty five year window. He was a finalist twice and
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then he was a centennial finalist in the Centennial class, the big class,
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and he didn't get in. I was stunned when I finished my presentation in
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that meeting, a bunch of people told me why I think he's in and
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he was not on that list. That's probably one of the more disappointing phone
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calls I've ever made to another human being is to tell him that not this
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time, he did not make it. So again, I'm super happy for
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Randy and his family and it will be life changing for them all, because
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I know because every guy I know who's gone through it says it's life changing.
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So good for him. Well, look, I'm happy for the town.
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I mean, there were a lot of every Bronco fan. You know,
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you've heard it all. You've been out to camp a number of times.
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He needs to be Randy needs to be Randy. Randy's finally and do
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you mind telling me? I hope I'm not asking you something that I'm not
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supposed to, but give me the dad. Look. Bill Belichick helped with
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this a little bit, did he not? You know Bill, when you
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talked to him, did he not that? You know he was here very
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early in his coaching career for one year, and you know he gave me
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some stuff up. But Bill's not gonna tip. He's coached so many guys
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and he knows so many voters are going to come at him about so many
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players that at some point he can't say sixty guys our Hall of famers.
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So he's very tempered when he talks about anybody. But if, of course,
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he had great things to say about Randy, but you know, I
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will give you my They have a moment in the meeting when the discussion goes
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however long it goes, and it's a cat fight, and it's a it's
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a throwdown because there are only a few slots and frankly, all of the
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finalists are probably Hall of famers most years, so you're gonna leave over half
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of you know, two thirds of them on the floor. Essentially, they
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are not going. So you always know it's gonna be a miserable vote.
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It's gonna be a miserable next day. Everything's gonna be miserable. But there's
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a moment after the throwdown where the presenter gets the last word. Okay,
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and I'll tell everybody the stat I use for my last word. Essentially,
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there are nineteen people who've walked the earth who've been the defensive player of the
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Year and a pro bowler at least seven times. Nineteen eighteen of them were
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in the Hall of Fame. Those eighteen were selected on their first few years
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of modern eligibility. Randy Gradishar was the nineteenth human being. And a lot
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of people told me that was a stat they had not heard, even though
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I had said it in the meeting before. But a lot of voters weren't
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there in a wait, a lot of voters weren't on the Centennial committee,
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so a lot of these selectors were hearing all of this, a lot of
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it. You know, you send out and printed form. A lot of
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it before the meeting, long before the meeting, and you talk to people,
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but a lot of them had not heard it in that setting ever.
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You know, if you weren't in the meeting in two thousand and eight,
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and there were very few of us left on the committee who were there are
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even fewer of us who were on there three. So it was an important
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thing, you know, And I I think a lot of people said that
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it was an impactful item, and you know, I'm just glad again.
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I'm happy for his family. I can't imagine how happy they all were in
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private when they got to find out and just sort of the aftermath of that
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day. Well, look, I'll just say it. He gave you a
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big old hug a training camp because he knows how hard you've worked for this.
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You know, you've done a lot of work to make sure these Broncos
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got into the hall. I want to ask you something. I'm gonna change
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directions a little bit, but you know what, so we can't get a
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chance to talk about this earlier, because you know, it's me and Nate
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show, and that's just what happens. I went to Larry Zimmer's memorial today
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and one of his eulogists was Steve Foley. And Steve Foley talked about a
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different time and it look it caught me and Sean Payton is shutting down access.
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But he's like a lot of modern coaches. Okay, the access has
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changed. I think the relationships have changed. But both Dave Logan and Steve
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Foley talked about the relationship with the media decades ago, not I mean years,
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but decades ago. And Steve told this story that you know, Larry
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was a great He was a Cajun, so he had a great nose for
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good food, if you will, and so is Steve Foley. That's what
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they bonded over when Steve was you know, part of the Morocco teams and
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Larry was calling the games. And so Steve told this story about how he
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was sitting in the defensive backs room sharing some of his mom's gumbo with his
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teammates and Larry, you know, was going about whatever duties he had that
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day, smelled the gumbo, went in there and just gave a little knock
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out the door. It was like, uh it, may I have some
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please? Because he's a Cagun. Right, no, right, So anyway,
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and Steve said of course you can't come on in. They shared a
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meal and he just talked about the relationship between broadcaster or media and the old
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guard. How different was it back then? Just I thought it was a
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cool story. Can you speak to more about how maybe it was more communal
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than it was now? It wasn't communal, there just fewer of us.
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There's no internet, you know. You know, the number of outlets was
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far fewer. You know, even in the biggest of cities. You know,
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there'd be one beat writer per paper. You know in that town.
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You didn't have the swarm of people. And I mean early in my career,
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and I tell younger reporters this all the time. It's kind of a
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bummer you missed on this, because it's really how you learned the game.
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And you learned scouting, and you learn how to chart, You learned really
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what to look for. You learned who really got beat and coverage and not
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just the guy who's running close to the receiver. You learn blocking combinations,
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you learn all of those things. I mean, I sat with coaches when
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I covered the Steelers. I would get there very early every morning, very
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early, and Ron Earhart would was the offensive coordinator and he'd say, hey,
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lady, come on down, and I'd sit with him for an hour
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and watch him grade film and we talk and he'd say, what do you
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see And it was just an exchange. It was off the record, you
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know, I can't quote him. And when it was time for him to
26:21
get with the players and everything, he'd say, all right, see you
26:22
later, and I'd go back down to the media room. You know.
26:25
It's just, you know, there was just not that. It's not that
26:29
way anymore as social media is changing game. There's just I mean, there's
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there's forty fifty media people out are of Broncos practice on a Wednesday, no
26:38
matter how many wins they have. You know, now, granted, is
26:41
one of the biggest media corps in the country, and I don't think people
26:45
realize that. Coaches don't realize it till they get here, you know,
26:52
And so that that's the just the number of the volumes different. Even even
26:56
the best teams when I first started covering a league would only have a handful
27:00
of people around them every day, right which in New Orleans, for example,
27:06
what in the biggest media And I think that's been a shock to Sean
27:08
Payton in a lot of ways too. It's just the number of people that
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are out there every day, you know, and everybody's trying to get something.
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You know, you're trying to make unique content. Everybody's got a boss,
27:22
you know, saying what are you getting me? And all of those
27:26
things. But that that part of it was different Now when they, you
27:30
know, were mad at you, it was a lot easier to get right
27:32
in your face too and tell you about it. So you learned. You
27:34
learned that aspect of the job too. A lot of it is managing the
27:38
situation, you know, sticking up for yourself, being right, doing the
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work you know it forced you. You better be right. You're going to
27:48
say somebody got beat un theer covered. I mean, there's way too much
27:51
of that in what's written and said now when people don't know and they don't
27:55
check. Players hate it. You know. The one thing players tell me
28:00
a lot is they like that I talk to him, I to eye,
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face to face. I got something to ask, I ask it right to
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them. They never have to be trying to figure out what I'm doing.
28:12
I tell them what I'm doing right up front. There's no dancing around.
28:17
I just tell them, and they say they like it that way, and
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that's how it used to be done. It's not done enough anymore that way,
28:23
and I try to help people do it that way because it's the way
28:29
you should do. He is Jeff Legwalden. Again, we're all celebrating.
28:33
It's into that's the that's a great thing for Randy and his fan Again,
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it's you know, there's only three hundred and eighty some of all the guys
28:44
who've ever played in the NFL over a century, only three hundred and eighty
28:48
those guys the special club. And then when it's it's the hardest one to
28:52
get into and it's unbelievable, and you know, you talk, you know,
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and I see these guys all the time at water and here's them,
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Zimmerman and TD. And it changes their lives. It changes their lives.
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Even the most jaded, angry player who's waited a long time, the minute
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they get the jacket, it's all all good. It's all good. Past
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no one ever, no one ever asked Floyd Little, how long did it
29:18
take you get in the Hall of Fame? He just you're justam yeah,
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all right, he's Jeff Legwell, we're gonna come back. We'll talk a
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little bit more about this game coming up here as we wrap it up and
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hour, and we'll wrapping it up on a staff Friday. Thanks to Mark
30:03
Springer that said to maneuver through some land mines here, he's making it happen.
30:07
Our studio, our studio has been fantastic. Honestly, I did a
30:11
move when I was at the other place, and you know I've told you
30:15
I was. When we moved into this new studio, I was concerned.
30:18
I'm like, man, there's always massive bugs and we've not had any.
30:21
But today we got a few, simply because I probably said something yesterday I
30:25
should not. You know, I do the wammie on people. You said
30:27
the guy had a no hitter. Yeah, I did what you did.
30:30
Goalies got the shut out. It's a great call. So I'll take responsibility
30:36
for this one. By the way, a lot of people writing in until
30:38
you thank you, because sharp means a lot to people. Randy got himself
30:42
in. But well, but unfortunately the fight of the politics. You know,
30:47
sometimes you got to go into Congress and push the bill through, which
30:49
is what you did. It's just the process of it. Oh well,
30:52
so hard. It is the hardest Hall of Fame to get into. And
30:56
it's just unbelievable. All right, let's talk Super Bowl that we're yeah,
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coming up on Sunday. But what are the keys for both teams? In
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your mind? Well, it's it's really who can have the discipline to win
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the game because you may have to do things how you don't want to do
31:14
them, like the forty nine ers may have to run the ball more than
31:18
they want to because that's the huge matchup with the Chiefs. Chiefs are one
31:22
of the worst. They've done great on defense all year. They're creative,
31:26
they're aggressive, they're tough to face, they're tough to figure out. Their
31:30
coverage looks are difficult. The one thing they haven't done is defend the zone
31:34
run. They're one of the worst in the league, but they don't face
31:40
a lot of attempts because people are afraid of Mahomes and they're afraid of the
31:45
three and out, the dreaded three and out. When you run the ball.
31:48
That's why coaches quit running the ball all the time. You know,
31:51
first and ten gain of two run games over, you know, forget it,
31:55
we're out. But they may have you know, I don't think Kyle
32:00
Shanahan can call a game like he did with the Falcons when the Patriots came
32:05
back on him. When they were still chucking it around. They were in
32:07
seven step drops on short yardage situations. I specifically looked at a third and
32:14
one the other day from that game where they're in a seven step drop.
32:19
You can't do to me. Look, you know he knows football, he's
32:23
a Super Bowl coach, But to me, you can't do that. You
32:28
gotta gotta have the discipline to win the game. And I think the Niners
32:32
and the Niners have to find a pass rush they haven't had so far,
32:37
so they may have to blitz more than they want to. What has happened
32:39
there? Why? I mean you look at the names, yoh wow,
32:43
they generated much and some of that is they're not as good at corner as
32:50
they have been and their safety got hurt. Safety was such a good player.
32:53
So they've had to adjust coverages and they can't hold it always long enough
32:59
for the guys to get there. So I think that's some of it too.
33:01
It's been a coverage issue too, And I think if their corners don't
33:06
have great games, that's gonna be a tough day for them, because I
33:10
think and their linebackers too. The one way Andy Reid may pull those linebackers
33:15
away from the line of scrimmage is to go to that two and three tight
33:21
end look and force them away from the line of scrimmage. So I think
33:25
a lot of that's got to happen for the Niners. For the Chiefs,
33:29
you got to keep my homes clean, obviously, and and I think defensively,
33:35
you know, they've got to be rock solid on the just in you
33:40
know, Kyle will be creative with the crossers and the you know, the
33:45
bootlegs and the misdirection, and they have to be very disciplined with their eyes
33:51
and their key point, their watch points to to keep things in front of
33:55
them. You know, if they let Kiddle get loose or McCaffrey, you
34:00
know, suddenly it's a it's a problem, you know. And I but
34:05
I you know, I was talking to a couple of people today about it.
34:09
The Chiefs schematically are a lot like the Ravens and the Ravens played the
34:15
Niners what week sixteen, Yes, it was a disaster party around there.
34:21
It was disaster for pretty feign interceptions. I think he was like nineteen to
34:27
thirty two, nineteen to thirty three, something like that in the game with
34:30
four picks and that schematically, the Chiefs have a lot of elements of that.
34:37
So I think that game probably got a lot of traction in the video
34:44
room this week and last week for the for the Niners, because they will
34:47
see a lot of the same stuff, and you know, again a lot
34:51
of it's the moment. Who can be you know, who's willing to take
34:55
a chance once in a while to Russian extra guy or you know whatever,
35:01
run a trick, play, do something out of the ordinary, because sometimes
35:06
that's what it takes to real quick let's uh, let's quick fire. Uh
35:09
yeah, boom boom reaction to the k Adams stuff, you know, and
35:13
I guess just we'll call it to Sean Payton meaning today, I mean it
35:16
was on Rich Eisen he did you know, Adam Shine, he did k
35:20
Adams. He was all over the place. He was sporting a Zebra Technologies
35:24
fleet. So maybe they were sporting. They paid him money to go make
35:29
the tour man paid the way. How quickly do we get the QB decision?
35:31
That's what they were all pressing them on, when well, they can't
35:34
do anything else till they make it, right, it's the decision that fuels
35:37
everything. How active are you in the draft? What do you you know?
35:40
But could it be a next week thing that we hear the decision or
35:44
like is constraint on that? Do they have to know when they got to
35:46
be under the cap before free agency opens? Okay? Top fifty one,
35:52
top March, so three weeks away? Yeah, I think it's March twelfth
35:55
or something. Okay, so maybe about a month away. Yeah, But
36:00
could make it in house the decision and not tell anybody, I guess.
36:04
But I think if you're going to say he and Russ have a great relationship,
36:08
I think you would give them the most time possible to find a new
36:12
place. But yeah, I mean I think some of the He definitely had
36:17
more of it. I mean I asked him specifically at the end of the
36:21
season, would you keep us? Is there a scenario where you keep us?
36:23
And he kept saying well, yes, Otherwise it would have been said,
36:27
Hey goodbye, you know. That was his quote to me when I
36:30
asked the question. So they have laid this scenario out that there is this
36:36
sort of possibility they keep them, but nobody in the league believes it.
36:40
I think they're hoping to at least get enough believability where there if there is
36:46
a trade out there in the unlikely event, and I mean unlikely event,
36:52
that there is a trade partner out there, that they would come forward if
36:55
they didn't think you were really going to cut them real quick on that trade
37:00
him. Can they still break the cap hit up? Or is that eat
37:01
the cab? Still? That dead money still crushes you. But you could
37:05
get some of the cash part of it, gotcha, you can negotiate some
37:08
of the dead money. Is the dead money? Sure, they can't fix
37:12
that. But it would have to be all eighty four million, I think
37:15
the So it'd be that would be the real big hit. Yeah, that'd
37:20
be the Matza ball. It would be the It would be the most over
37:23
two years if they release them. It would certainly be the most ever for
37:29
any team in one year if they trade them. All right, so that's
37:32
the interesting stuff, all right, tell me who's winning this thing. I
37:37
still like the Chiefs in a close game just because of sort of the Mahomes
37:40
factor. Now, talent, you know, one to fifty three. Sam
37:45
Jisco probably has a little more talent on that roster, but the quarterback means
37:49
a lot. It's a big ask of purty no matter what. It's a
37:54
big ask for any quarterback who has not been in that situation. And it
37:59
is the one time where I honestly think Super Bowl experience matters. I don't
38:06
think it matters much at left tackle. I don't think it matters much as
38:08
safety. It does matter at quarterback because managing your emotions. Again, if
38:15
you play football for a living, it does hit you at some point,
38:19
either during the anthem or when you run out for the warm ups or during
38:23
the ninety minute halftime. You know it hits you at some point. You
38:29
may never get this again, you may never play in this game again in
38:35
your career, and it hits you. And the people who can manage that
38:38
do the best. All right, Well, he is Jeff Lakeweald, So
38:42
there it goes. Uh. I want to pick the Niners, but I
38:49
can. I mean, locally, you know it'd be cool for you're about
38:54
the seeds again and Kyle. You know I used to see Kyle out of
38:58
practice. Yeah, like you know, a college kid, you know,
39:01
high school kid, you know, Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, you know,
39:05
it'd be cool if some of those guys a bit get a ring. Sure,
39:09
all right, well, everybody have fun. I'll try to tweet out
39:12
a little drinking game that we'd put good. Have good snacks. Wings are
39:15
dip? I don't know what's on the my docket. What would you prefer
39:20
wings or dip? I don't know, pretty dip? All right, popper
39:25
and popped it yet again. He's Jeff Blake, while we always love having
39:30
him along. And Mark Springer produces this show for my partner Nate Crekman.
39:34
I am Andy Linda. All everyone, enjoy your Super Bowl weekend. Burdos
39:37
coming up next with a little bit of the Blitz, and then the Nuggets
39:39
and the Kings will play a little basketball tonight. Also, if you're around,
39:44
check out the Colorado manmut they're trying to get back on the winning track
39:46
against Panthers City down in Dallas. Good Night, all,