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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 2-27-25 LIVE from the NFL Combine in Indianapolis · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Broncos Insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football
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  Speaker 2: I've covered the league a little while.
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  Speaker 3: Jef Legwall his appearances are always must listen radio.
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  Speaker 4: getting any fights down there with other media members.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a fighter, yeah, he Jeff, is that dust up?
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  Speaker 1: Is that dust up?
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  Speaker 5: To talk to the combine? So far?
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  Speaker 2: Not really? Uh, you know, just to I guess we
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  Speaker 2: just call that Thursday.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, of course.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Leggy, I just saw the amount of humanity surrounding
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  Speaker 3: Travis Hunter. Is it like that for most of the
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  Speaker 3: big stars. How many reporters are sitting there like cattle
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  Speaker 3: waiting to be heard?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was one of them, so yeah, now all
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  Speaker 2: the it's always been like that for the for the
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  Speaker 2: main guys. I mean now in the modern version of
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  Speaker 2: the combine and there were there were fifteen or so
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  Speaker 2: years when not many people came. But it's a different
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  Speaker 2: deal now, man, you know, and I you know, teams
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  Speaker 2: actually like the CEO guys handle themselves in front of
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  Speaker 2: all that.
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  Speaker 3: What are the takeaways from what Travis Hunter said? He
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  Speaker 3: said he is going to work out this.
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  Speaker 2: Week, right, you know, he didn't like officially declaratively say that,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the feeling. And he sort of hinted at
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  Speaker 2: it that he would do at least some of the workouts.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't I don't know definitively if he's
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  Speaker 2: going to run a Fordy and all of that, but
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  Speaker 2: I would guess at minimum he would do position drills
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  Speaker 2: if they want him to. And he seemed to indicate
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  Speaker 2: that teams have or he said, teams have interviewed him
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  Speaker 2: as primarily a wide receiver, and then some teams have
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  Speaker 2: interviewed him primarily as a defensive bank.
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  Speaker 4: Well, his quote today was, they say, nobody's ever done
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  Speaker 4: it the way I do it. I tell him, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just different. He wants to play one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 4: the snaps at both corner and why out. Just hypothetically speaking,
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  Speaker 4: let's say he does that somehow, and he's really good
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  Speaker 4: at both, and his first contract comes up, could he
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  Speaker 4: command like sixty five million a year? Saying I do
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  Speaker 4: both of these, pay me like both of them.
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  Speaker 2: I find it very difficult to believe a human being
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  Speaker 2: could play twenty three hundred snaps in the NFL four
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  Speaker 2: consecutive seasons to get to the second contract. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it will be a work in progress, and I
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  Speaker 2: think a lot of it, a lot of his ability
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  Speaker 2: to play two ways is going to depend on who
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  Speaker 2: his coaches, how the meetings are structured, and just the
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  Speaker 2: dynamics of doing it. Because I've said it's it's not
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  Speaker 2: his ability to get in the way, it's the snap
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  Speaker 2: count issue. Like for example, you know patser Tan missed
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  Speaker 2: a game this year, so he played just under a
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  Speaker 2: thousand snaps, But the previous two years, patzer Tan played
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  Speaker 2: about eleven hundred snaps in those years, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: on defense for him in an NFL season. And Travis
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  Speaker 2: Hunter played what thirteen hundred and forty five snaps at
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  Speaker 2: Colorado last year, so that leaves you only about two
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  Speaker 2: hundred snaps on the other side of the ball to
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  Speaker 2: get to his highest snap count you know, of his
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  Speaker 2: college career. So I just don't know that it is
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  Speaker 2: an amazing thing that we're even talking about it for
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  Speaker 2: a player who could who could probably do it if
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  Speaker 2: it physically possible. But I can't imagine a team would
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  Speaker 2: invest in what you're gonna have to invest in to
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  Speaker 2: get him in the draft and then allow him to
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  Speaker 2: play that many snaps and shorten his career essentially.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Jeff, I mean, it's just a human body can
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  Speaker 5: only take so much. You can be built different, but
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  Speaker 5: my goodness, gracious, I mean, fibers tear and that sort
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  Speaker 5: of thing. And I guess it would be feasible for
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  Speaker 5: him to play, you know, one position all the time
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  Speaker 5: and then play a little bit at the other position, right,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, could it be a dime package guy if
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  Speaker 5: he's a wide out? I mean, I guess I would
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  Speaker 5: try to think of a way to utize him as
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  Speaker 5: much as possible, but not kill the guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean again, I know it's not the popular thing
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  Speaker 2: to say, because we like, you know, folks like offense,
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  Speaker 2: but most gms I know and most coaches I know
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  Speaker 2: think the day to day dynamics of the NFL in
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  Speaker 2: terms of meetings practice snaps in practice, which we don't
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  Speaker 2: talk about in all of this two way play stuff,
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  Speaker 2: is the number of snaps you would have to take
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  Speaker 2: Monday through Saturday just to do it. But they say
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  Speaker 2: the avenue for him to play the most both ways
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  Speaker 2: would be to be a corner full time and to
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  Speaker 2: be a spot player on offense.
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  Speaker 3: They're never going to show their hand, nor should they,
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos and the coaches that are out there. But
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  Speaker 3: what will they pay most attention to this week? Where
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  Speaker 3: do you think their eyes are going to be averted?
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  Speaker 3: I see them looking at joker positions, but I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who.
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  Speaker 2: They are, right, you know. I think there's they are
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  Speaker 2: looking for that position, you know. And in terms of
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  Speaker 2: skill players, whenever Sean Payton talks about a matchup player,
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  Speaker 2: he's talking about a player he can line up at
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  Speaker 2: multiple places in the formation to cause a problem for
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  Speaker 2: the defense. So those are the kinds of players you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for, you know, versatile skill players who could line
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  Speaker 2: up wide, lineup tight, you know, to the line of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: maybe in the backfield, you know. So those are the
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  Speaker 2: kinds of guys you're looking for, as opposed to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a really dynamic running back who doesn't touch the ball
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  Speaker 2: very often, but that wouldn't be as much their priority.
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  Speaker 2: You know that the SMU running back who was a
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver for three years and a running back this
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  Speaker 2: year he rushed for fifteen hundred yards. That's the kind
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  Speaker 2: of guy you're really looking I think they're paying attention
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  Speaker 2: to because that's sort of a down the board player
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  Speaker 2: a little bit beyond the first round, and you know
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  Speaker 2: tight ends who can be impactful receivers, that's what you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for. Defensive, they're going to pay attention to the
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  Speaker 2: defensive lineman because it's a great class and they need
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  Speaker 2: one or two. I think I think those are the
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things that really dialed in on.
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  Speaker 4: How about I ask you about Gunner Helm, former Cherry
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  Speaker 4: Creek kid who played for Texas tight end and has
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  Speaker 4: a visit scheduled with the Broncos an interview schedule. What
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  Speaker 4: do you think of him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, again, that's those are all that is
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  Speaker 2: a position. They'll talk to all the tight ends here,
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  Speaker 2: So I don't think you should take anything from an
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  Speaker 2: interview scheduled. Uh, there's three levels of interviews here. There's
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  Speaker 2: the the longer interviews that you schedule, UH, and then
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  Speaker 2: there's the the shorter informal interviews UH you get in
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  Speaker 2: in these sort of mixed zones the players have with
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  Speaker 2: the with the coaches, and then there's UH the interviews
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  Speaker 2: position coaches do UH at the stadium when when players
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  Speaker 2: are moving between medical exams and all the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: And I just want every player talks to every team here.
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  Speaker 2: That's just how it works, and too much is made
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  Speaker 2: of did you talk to the Bengals? Did you talk
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  Speaker 2: to the Broncos? Every team meets with every player here
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  Speaker 2: in some fashion, face to face. One of the only
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  Speaker 2: rare examples of that is the Broncos did not talk
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  Speaker 2: to Jay Cutler the year they drafted him in the
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  Speaker 2: first round, But that rarely happens.
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  Speaker 4: Le you just to follow up on that. As far
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  Speaker 4: as skill position talent, we were talking about this earlier,
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  Speaker 4: Marvin Mims. It feels like to me an assumed players
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  Speaker 4: going to make a jump next year. But when you
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  Speaker 4: look at the sort of more raw data, he had
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  Speaker 4: thirty nine catches on the year last year he played
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  Speaker 4: in every game. Is it maybe jumping the gun a
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  Speaker 4: little bit to just assume that he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a guy who emerges as a big time weapon within
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  Speaker 4: the offense because they didn't do that until late in
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  Speaker 4: the year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, my question is why didn't you
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  Speaker 2: do that sooner? I think they've held him back rather
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  Speaker 2: than something Mims isn't doing. That's my opinion. I think
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  Speaker 2: they have been too slow to involve him. I think
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  Speaker 2: he showed down the stretch. I think he's forced them
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  Speaker 2: to think that the big jump is coming. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're acting like now you know or we saw it
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  Speaker 2: come in and he really came on at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the year. He came on because you gave him
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity, uh to come on. So I think he
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  Speaker 2: is an important part of the plan though. You know
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  Speaker 2: that the main issue schematically for them is that Mims
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  Speaker 2: and Troy Franklin primarily play the same position, the Z
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  Speaker 2: the Z position in the in the offense, so that
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  Speaker 2: means they're splitting snaps automatically.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the issue they got to have, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at the you know that the old traditional numbering the X, Y,
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  Speaker 2: and Z receivers in the three receiver set, they got
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  Speaker 2: to have more impact that the other two places. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they feel like Franklin and mm's can split
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  Speaker 2: that one job pretty well. But you know, Sutton is
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  Speaker 2: really the only X who gets a ton of action
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  Speaker 2: and Veley was a reliable target. But they need more
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  Speaker 2: impact than those other two spots too.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff, last thing thirty seconds or less? Please, just because
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  Speaker 5: I'm pushing the issue, Well, what's this scut about on
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  Speaker 5: your door? Are what are guys saying down there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's like all things most that you know, the
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  Speaker 2: combine is a negative process for the players. They're looking
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  Speaker 2: for your flaws and what you may not handle well.
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  Speaker 2: And you know the issue is, you know, in basic
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in coaching, people don't like that he retreats the
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  Speaker 2: pocket out the top, as they say, or retreats backward
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  Speaker 2: too often instead of climbing the pocket. He holds the
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  Speaker 2: ball too long, in their opinion, and they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: decide is that it decision or a habit. And that's
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  Speaker 2: ultimately what he'll battle in his draft position. But a
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  Speaker 2: really really elite thinker at the position that you know
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  Speaker 2: plays his best in the in the toughest time, so
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  Speaker 2: that's certainly in his favor. But the sacks are a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. I mean, we've all heard how much Sean
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  Speaker 2: Paige talks about it, but that's a big deal and
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  Speaker 2: people are troubled by that.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Lakewell, the ESPN dot conjerst is every Thursday, and
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  Speaker 4: this Thursday live from Indianapolis at the Combine Leg. You
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  Speaker 4: always appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, buddy, Thanks fellows.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Lakewell, the ESPN dot Comrade, you've got the International
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  Speaker 4: Start with the job and with the career.
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  Speaker 5: I'm happy for Jeff at the Combine because he is
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  Speaker 5: a pig rolling in absolute slop.