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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 2/12/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football,
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  the insider I've covered a little while, Jeff leg Wall. Jeff, his
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  appearances are always must listen radio. You learn a lot. Brought to you
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  It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Yeah, it's Jeff
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  Legwald. Time here on a Monday after noon. As the Chiefs win Super
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  Bowl fifty eight, twenty five to twenty two, and the twenty twenty three
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  campaign is officially in the books. Jeff Lgwald of ESPN with us right now
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  on a Monday. Jeff Lagwald is always brought to you by Betsafe Colorado,
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  the exclusive club for passionate gamers and betters across the state. All right,
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  Jeff, I I will allow you to revisit the question that I asked you
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  on Friday, because now we have new information. Is that guy the second
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  greatest quarterback of all time? You know he's he's still with those other guys
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  with me, and all right, it's a great company to be in.
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  I mean, there's no bad answer there would. You know, you're in
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  a small group of quarterbacks. Certainly when you get your third you know,
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  there's still the Bradshaw, the Montanas and obviously Brady. But you know,
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  in the Super Bowl era, you know, here's the thing, Nate,
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  and we talked about it Friday, some we've never seen this trajectory in the
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  Super Bowl era of a twenty eight year old quarterback who's I think won the
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  division every year, he's been a full time starter. What's he played in
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  now five conference championship games already, you know, the four Super Bowls.
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  You know, it's we've not seen this trajectory on a player this young.
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  You know, Brady to me still is a little different animal in that respect.
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  But for a twenty eight year old guy, I'm not talking seasons,
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  I'm talking age for a twenty eight year old guy to be where he is,
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  and look, you know, it's almost exactly this scenario we talked about
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  Friday. Talent top to bottom, just raw talent, graded talent. You
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  I know a lot of people who would say, yeah, the forty nine
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  ers are talented at more places, but in the end, you know,
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  the most special player on the field had a minute whatever, And that was
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  just enough time to throw a game winning touchdown pass to a guy who wasn't
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  caught a touchdown pass all year. So I mean, it just shows you
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  where he's at. Jeff, I'm to ask you would just ask Lindsay,
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  because we talked to Lindsay about the whole you know, the Shanahan, the
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  overtime thing. I was curious, is the clock tick down? Are we
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  treating this like the fourth quarter because the Chiefs had not finished their possession,
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  therefore the game wasn't tied. Are we going to just keep going? Obviously
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  we learned it was just going to keep going, So why time it at
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  all? Why why not just play it till it ends? Do you think?
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  I think just the structure of the competitive clock that you wanted to resemble
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  what it does during the regulation game. I mean the other sports, you
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  know, hockey's always timed the extra period and all of that, and I
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  think Andy, honestly, there's also natural rest breaks when the clock's running.
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  You know, it stops on out of bounds and completion, So I think
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  you have to figure out how you're going to do those stoppages as well,
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  and you'd have to time the stoppages anyway, and the play clock even if
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  the main clock wasn't running. So I think they just keep things resembling as
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  close. But I think now when you look at it, certainly taking the
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  ball first looks like a tactical error because the other team gets to play four
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  down football then, no matter what, they're in four down situation all the
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  time. And I think, you know, ultimately, as we run this
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  out longer and get more data, that may be something people look at,
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  because I do think it's an advantage. I think the Chiefs had an advantage
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  knowing no matter where they were on the field, they were in four down
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  territory. Yeah, it's because you think about it, they face that fourth
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  down and one from their own thirty four yard line. If they have the
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  ball first, Andy Reid might punt right there. You know you're giving up
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  a chance to win the you know the other team can win it out right
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  then when you put it away right and and and like there's the flip side
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  of it too, though, Jeff of like, you know, when Kyle
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  Shanahan said we want the ball third, like we want the ball if it's
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  in a sudden death situation. We think we're at an advantage to get the
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  ball first, which also it makes sense in that part of the conversation as
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  well. And Andy and I were talking about this, like this is where
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  Mahomes just sort of messes everything up. That's what you're saying, is right,
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  And I would I would. I would go as far to say almost
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  maybe Burrow too, but almost anyone else. You take the ball first and
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  put the heat on them. Right, really cranked the pressure because I don't
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  care about analytics and the Super Bowl with the game on, the guy doesn't
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  feel heat, you know. Did you see how calm he looked. It
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  was like it was a first quarter drop in September. I mean, he
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  really, that's where we're at with him. He's gonna have to be injured
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  or a lot of his teammates injured, or they have a bad year in
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  free agency. I mean whatever, He's in the mix the minute he puts
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  a helmet on every season, and we saw yesterday why And I used to
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  say, There's been a lot of great quarterbacks I've seen in my career,
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  but I've always felt like Montana had this inevitability about him about winning. I
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  thought Brady had it, and I think Mahomes has it. There's just this
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  little feeling of inevitability, like no matter what you do, because they figured
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  it out. You know that the Niners had a good plan. Steve Wilkes
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  coach the hell of a game for the Niners. They pinched the safeties in.
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  They dared the Chiefs to throw it down the field. They were not
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  afraid of anything the Chiefs had down the field. And the Chiefs still found
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  a way to mix some motions and you know, run a little arrow and
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  ran that little arrow concept with the with the tight end motion that they did
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  it multiple times, including the game winning played. I think Andy Reid has
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  since told everybody that you know a place called corn Dog and some fashion.
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  So but it's just a little concept that every time they ran it it was
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  it was successful. Jeff Legwold with us here on the ramos Law Hotline car
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  Jeff. The piece that I want to read, uh from you, I'm
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  gonna I'll be your editor for a moment. I want to assign this to
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  you. But I'm but I'm genuinely right now I can just not on the
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  radio Mahomes yesterday nine carries for sixty six yards. Okay, he converted on
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  on zone rate keepers twice in that game and a third in one situation in
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  a fourth and one situation. Ultimately, I think his legs were the difference
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  in that game. Once he started running like that really opened things up for
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  Kansas City and got them in a better rhythm in terms of play calling.
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  Here's the funny thing about Patrick Mahomes is he's an excellent runner, and yet
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  he's not a running quarterback. I wouldn't define him as such. And he
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  can beat you with his legs in so many different ways. Can defensive coordinators.
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  And this is where it's like you dig into your contacts, talk to
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  defensive coordinators, talk to game planners like can you put a spy on Patrick
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  Mahomes or is that just an invitation for him to destroy you with the numbers
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  advantage down the field? Like is there a way to be able to curb
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  that all with him? You know, Kelsey negates the spy concept for the
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  most part, because Kelsey's gonna work the hash. He's gonna go, He's
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  gonna have all those choice routes on the hash where he gets to decide am
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  I going inside? Am I going to fake leverage inside and go outside?
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  And that's really that's that's sort of the area where the spy's gonna be working
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  sometimes on the inside. And I mean, look what happened when the Niners
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  tried to blitz him yesterday. He just he makes you he's just he's that
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  guy. I mean, we can figure out ways too. You know,
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  they had a sort of the code early. You got to get there with
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  four and you can't let him extend. You know, You've you've got to
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  make him retreat and and it worked the game. Yeah, the minute he's
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  not retreating is you're in a lot of trouble just because once he sort of
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  gets around you. And they did a really good job of it. But
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  again, he's really good. Andy Reid's really good. And there you know,
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  we talked Friday about the element of you know, how much is it
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  worth to have been in that situation more than the other guys. I mean,
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  their whole offense was calm. They didn't jump off sides, they didn't
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  mess up motions. You know, they had a couple of snaps where you're
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  like, man, that was closed, but in general, they played with
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  you know, game on the line, composure and that that's tough to beat.
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  I will say what makes him so difficult as a runner is he makes
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  really good choices. He doesn't waste, he doesn't waist downs. Like even
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  the biggest run to get the conversion, that's a naked bootleg. Watch what
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  the line does at the snap. They're not firing, they're sort of shuffling.
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  That's a pure naked bootleg. That's a really risky call in that situation.
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  But he he's you know, when he fakes the the play action aspect
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  of it, he understands what he's looking at and that it's not going to
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  be a problem, and he makes a good choice, so it ends up
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  being a game deciding play. Like he seriously watched the guy, right,
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  it looks like he's got a poop the whole time that he's out there running.
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  He's pooping on your plans. That's what he's doing. Wow, all
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  right, No, I mean, he's so creative and he makes good choices.
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  There's lots of guys in the league who can run, run around,
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  escape people, school people. You know, once in a while, make
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  this play where you go ohing on you and the next ten times they try
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  it, you know, it's just horrible. He makes good choices. There
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  are no wasteful runs, I think, is what I Holly would put it.
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  All right, So, if you're in charge of the Broncos, the
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  petents are gone. Leggy's been hired. Great find like something about your appearances
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  on Altitude Sports Radio goes that's the guy. What are you doing to start
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  to construct something to take on this Chiefs dynasty? Because Nay and I talked
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  about it in the first hour. I think what this does if nothing else
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  Leggy and I knows aren't into being logical or patient or any of that,
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  but it should tell you you need a build for the first time. I
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  think there's no denying for anybody in Broncos country. There is not a quick
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  fix. It's not we're a quarterback away or this or that. You need
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  a build. What are you doing to start the build? Well, you
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  know you got to do it in April somehow, so you got to start
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  positioning yourself. And you're not positioned in this draft to sort of start it
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  in earnest, but you can start it in this draft. You know,
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  this could be the draft where people talk about these three starters came out of
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  you know, this draft. But you know it's very clear that, you
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  know, free agency is always going to play a part. I'm never going
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  to deny that. I mean, the two thousand, you know fifteen,
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  the you know twenty fourteen free agency class that became a Super Bowl winner.
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  It showed you what three the agency can do on a draft built team for
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  the Broncos. And you know, I think that's a good model. You
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  know, that's a good good model. Build through the draft, and you
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  have the biggest checkbook in the league. So when you want to take a
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  swing, you can get anybody you want. And I but they have to
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  accept the first part of it, I think. And I'm, uh,
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  you know, we don't know if they have that inclination or not. Are
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  they are they they need a patient year, at least one year where you're
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  just gonna have to sort of eat your Brussels sprouts and and live with it
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  because they're they're in a tough spot. Right by the way, it's always
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  a vegetable. Is there a vegetable? Jeffy likes. You don't like broccoli,
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  you don't like Brussels sprouts? I actually like it. I like them
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  all, but my kids. I usually use the ones my kids would turn
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  away. You know, that's how my that's how my brain works. But
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  no, it's you know, I think sometimes we all get wrapped up and
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  like there's this unlimited number of solutions, but there are only two ways to
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  acquire players in the NFL. You can pick your own or sign somebody else's.
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  Those are it. You know, you don't have this long list of
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  of ways to do it, and signing somebody else's is as your predominant way
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  to do it, has never really worked. We look how many Chiefs on
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  that field last night are Chief Chiefs you know picked. You know that they
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  built the secondary. You know their corners, they might have the best tandem
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  of corners in the league. You know, they're all pro. Picket corner
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  is a draft pick. Mahomes is a draft pick. You know, Kelsey
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  is a draft pick. The whole, almost the whole, you know,
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  the interior, three up front are picks. You know, It's just that's
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  it. That's how to do it. And certainly, if you win the
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  lotto at quarterback, you're gonna be very good. But you got to get
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  a quarterback and a good enough team around him to get it done. Yeah.
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  I mean, and this is where Andy Reid deserves credit. Is like
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  they didn't really win the lottery at quarterback, you know, like they identified
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  a guy, they took him at number ten, they developed him. He
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  sat for a year behind Alex Smith, like they they built the team before
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  he started. And he's gotten better every single year of his career. And
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  Andy Reid has done all of that work real quick, Leggy. Last thing,
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  report from Ian Rapaport yesterday Broncos keeping all options on the table at quarterback,
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  including the possibility of reopening talks with Russell Wilson about restructuring his contract to
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  keep him in Denver for twenty twenty four. What do you make of this
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  note from Rapaport? Is this optics or is there a real chance of that
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  happening and Russell going along with it? You know, I said it Friday,
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  I still believe it from from all of the people I've spoken to.
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  I think this is more a you have no chance of trading him unless you
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  and I think the feeling is there's there's a very slim chance of trading him
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  in any scenario because of the contract. But you have absolutely no chance of
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  trading him if everyone firmly believes you're going to release him. But most people
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  believe that anyway, So and I you know, look, I've written many
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  sentences in my career with the words possible or could I always temper reports that
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  say a team would be open to the possibility. Yeah, I'm I'm open
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  to the possibility. I will be six four tomorrow, but I don't know
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  that that's really going to happen. Would you be able to dunk if unbelievable?
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  Leggy Man, good stuff is always, buddy, Thank you, Thanks
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  bos all right, the great Jeff Legwald with us right there on a Monday
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  afternoon breaking down Super Bowl fifty eight. Jeff Legwald on ninety two five,
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