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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 11-14-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 6: There are these steps. There'll be some more adversity, but
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  Speaker 6: you know there is a poise with him. I think
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  Speaker 6: his teammates in the huddle talk about it. The third
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  Speaker 6: down play was significant because right at that moment then
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  Speaker 6: we controlled everything, the clock, the game, and I think
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  Speaker 6: it was funny. After the game, you know, you're going
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  Speaker 6: across the field and I see Andy and a few
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  Speaker 6: of the other guys, and I see Patrick and known
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  Speaker 6: him and he just turned to me said you got one.
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  Speaker 6: And I think he told bo, hey, we're going to
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  Speaker 6: have a lot of good games and h and that's
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  Speaker 6: that's something coming from him.
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  Speaker 8: com as we do every single Thursday. Jeff, So, I
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  Speaker 8: heard a couple of different clips. It was that and
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  Speaker 8: if you can play this for Leggy as well, Nelly,
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  Speaker 8: give me Travis Kelcey on his podcast as he was
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  Speaker 8: talking about bow Knicks in the game last week against
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  Speaker 8: the Broncos.
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  Speaker 7: Just real quick, Payton's got those guys motivated and playing
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  Speaker 7: great ball on the offensive side to bow Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: Holy, that guy will ripping it yeah in the first
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  Speaker 4: half football man.
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  Speaker 8: Uh So, two big compliments seemingly from two of the
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  Speaker 8: best players in the league at their positions in Patrick
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  Speaker 8: Mahomes and Travis Kelcey. How did you evaluate the bow
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  Speaker 8: Knicks game in Kansas City, Jeff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think he's he's getting better at what they
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  Speaker 5: do best, I think is how I would put it.
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  Speaker 5: I think they're really finding some of those uh areas
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  Speaker 5: on the field where they feel like they can get
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  Speaker 5: an advantage, and he and Courtland Sutton have have got
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  Speaker 5: it pretty dialed in at this point. You know, again,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you talk to defensive coaches around the league,
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  Speaker 5: and this isn't me, this is defensive coaches. They say
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  Speaker 5: there are parts of the field the Broncos don't challenge,
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  Speaker 5: and that that would be an issue, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: deeper they go into this, and if they do make
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  Speaker 5: the playoffs, that that will be an issue. And his footwork,
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  Speaker 5: this is going to be his footwork until the offseason.
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  Speaker 5: That's just he's got too much on his plate right
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  Speaker 5: now probably to worry about all of that. But I think, uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, I've told people I think after that game
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  Speaker 5: and the way it ended, I thought he showed some
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  Speaker 5: of the best perspective about all of it.
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  Speaker 9: And I think the best thing bo Nick said after
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  Speaker 9: that game.
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  Speaker 5: Was, you know, even including all of the good things
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  Speaker 5: he did, he he stood there and he said, you know,
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  Speaker 5: at some point, we've got to go down there and
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  Speaker 5: score a touchdown on our own. And to me, that
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  Speaker 5: says an awful lot about the young guy and where
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  Speaker 5: he is right now and in his development because opponents
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  Speaker 5: always usually not always, but usually say that stuff after
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  Speaker 5: they've won the game.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I uh, if the Brooks made the field goal,
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  Speaker 3: Jeff would would they be like, oh, yeah, man, he's rad.
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  Speaker 9: No, I don't.
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  Speaker 5: It's not been my experience to get a lot of
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  Speaker 5: those comments from guys after they've lost the game to
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  Speaker 5: the people, unless the performance was just so amazing they
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  Speaker 5: couldn't deny it. But now, the last drive was his
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  Speaker 5: best work of the year and he was really composed, uh,
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  Speaker 5: and they made a couple of really good plays uh
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  Speaker 5: in there, and you know, it was it was much
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  Speaker 5: better than sort of how they handled things just before halftime.
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  Speaker 5: So even even in games, he's sort of adapting and
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  Speaker 5: and and doing things pretty well in spots.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, it just sucks that he's denied his first comeback
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  Speaker 7: victory in the NFL because he was right there.
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  Speaker 4: Is it right there for the time, But it was there.
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  Speaker 5: Fifty nutes and fifty nine seconds of doing what you're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to do.
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  Speaker 7: Leggy, any details on what transpired over the course of
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  Speaker 7: the week. Longtime Special Teams coach Mike Westoff walking away
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  Speaker 7: clearly health reasons can you provide more details to what
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  Speaker 7: happened there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, you know, both Sean Payton and other people have
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  Speaker 5: said that he was experiencing some blurry vision and in
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  Speaker 5: one or both of his eyes, that's you know, for
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  Speaker 5: at least a week week and a half, and.
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  Speaker 9: Was trying to deal with it.
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  Speaker 5: And then after uh, after the game, uh dialed up
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  Speaker 5: sort of the medical evaluations and went through a lot
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  Speaker 5: of tests and and scans and all of it to
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  Speaker 5: see what was going on.
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  Speaker 3: And and the.
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  Speaker 5: Doctors essentially told him, look, you it's probably time you
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  Speaker 5: don't coach anymore, uh and deal with this. And uh,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Sean Payton in particular mentioned, uh stress, the
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  Speaker 5: stress of coaching was in the equation there somewhere.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 5: We all internalized stress differently, we all handle it differently,
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  Speaker 5: and it and it shows up differently and all of
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  Speaker 5: us too. So I think they felt like the stress
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  Speaker 5: of coaching wasn't helping him deal with the the medical issue.
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  Speaker 5: So uh, that's why the decision was made. But and
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  Speaker 5: uh I had only heard part part of this story
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  Speaker 5: last offseason, but Peyton filled in the gaps yesterday and
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  Speaker 5: saying that, you know, originally the plan was west Off
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  Speaker 5: would only coach last season with the Broncos, but that
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  Speaker 5: actually Greg Penner had talked to him in the at
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  Speaker 5: the at the end of last season and and sort
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  Speaker 5: of asked and and convinced west Off to come back
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  Speaker 5: for one more year. So originally the plan was he
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  Speaker 5: was only going to coach the one year.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Jeff, what are we looking at in the Atlanta
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  Speaker 3: Falcons with a poor defense in a pretty dang good offense.
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  Speaker 3: What are we looking at?
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  Speaker 9: That's what you're looking at most.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I will say after charting a bunch of
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  Speaker 5: their UH games and series, I will say there, they
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  Speaker 5: are one of the worst pass rushing teams I've seen
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  Speaker 5: in quite a while. They do not get much pressure
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  Speaker 5: on the passer.
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  Speaker 9: So if did we get.
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  Speaker 5: They are last in the league two in sacks per
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  Speaker 5: past attempt, which I like as a sack stat two.
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  Speaker 5: But so if Nis is under duress Sunday, the Broncos
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  Speaker 5: are definitely doing something wrong.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 8: On top of that, speaking of protection, let's just go
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  Speaker 8: back to last week for a second. Broncos received the
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  Speaker 8: kick this weekend against Atlanta. They take the opening drive
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  Speaker 8: for a touchdown. Ten play drive seventy five yards boom
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  Speaker 8: score is foresythe still on that field goal unit.
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  Speaker 5: You know, it's hard to change guys in and out
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  Speaker 5: and look, I you know, I know, especially what betting
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  Speaker 5: has done to postgame reactions about things. But if anybody
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  Speaker 5: thinks that as Alex Forsyth's loan fault, then you're not
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  Speaker 5: looking at it closely enough. And I will say there's
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  Speaker 5: probably been twenty three instances or so this year we're
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  Speaker 5: on an extra point or a field goal, the Broncos
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  Speaker 5: have had a player on the ground and I didn't
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  Speaker 5: hear one person say crap about that. So, yes, he
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  Speaker 5: got bowled over, he got beat. But it's very common
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  Speaker 5: with that spot in the line. In the kicking game,
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  Speaker 5: you can't the players say you have to die slow.
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  Speaker 5: You can't get bowled over all the way so quickly.
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  Speaker 5: That was the mistake from the player, But I think
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  Speaker 5: he's still out there. You don't have many linemen up
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  Speaker 5: on game days, so it would take a pretty radical switch,
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  Speaker 5: you know. I guess you could put rock Morton up
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  Speaker 5: on the game day roster and move people around, but
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if people have noticed. But in the
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  Speaker 5: kicking game, you invert or you flip. You flip the
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  Speaker 5: line because it's a right footed kicker, but like Garrett Bowles,
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  Speaker 5: the left tackle is on the right side of the
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  Speaker 5: kicking line, so things are flipped and things are a
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  Speaker 5: little different in the kicking game.
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  Speaker 4: Is odric Estimate RB one from here on out?
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  Speaker 5: You know, he sure looks like they're sure acting like it.
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  Speaker 5: I'll say that now whether you know, I don't know
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  Speaker 5: that we'll see one back here get you know, sort
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  Speaker 5: of the traditional bulk of the carries, but he's making
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  Speaker 5: the most of his time right now.
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  Speaker 9: You can't ignore the six yards of carry they need.
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  Speaker 5: They need more power between the numbers, and he gives
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  Speaker 5: them that, which that frees up bone nicks on some
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  Speaker 5: of the play action and the bootlegs and even the
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  Speaker 5: called runs for knicks to the outside will be a
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  Speaker 5: lot better if Estimate is running with power between the numbers.
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  Speaker 5: And I think it was a pretty big deal that
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  Speaker 5: the running back in the formation on the last drive
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  Speaker 5: last weekend was was Estimate.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff.
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  Speaker 3: I feel pretty good about not only this weekend but
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  Speaker 3: the coming weeks. And again I don't want to put
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  Speaker 3: any card on top of any horse, but man, I
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  Speaker 3: think this team could be nine to five. You get
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  Speaker 3: by the Falcons, I think gonna beat the Raiders, Browns,
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  Speaker 3: and Colts. That's my opinion. You take your chances against
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  Speaker 3: the Chargers. Does that seem pretty fair to you or
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  Speaker 3: is that is that crazy thinking?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I get we don't know yet how this team
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  Speaker 5: would handle prosperity, and with a younger team, that's always
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  Speaker 5: an issue. You know, you start feeling pretty good and
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  Speaker 5: and a game gets away from you, and uh, but
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  Speaker 5: I've said before that uh, and I put it on
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  Speaker 5: our you know, our air at ESPN was that I
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  Speaker 5: thought the Atlanta game was one of the most important
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  Speaker 5: tipping points for are you going to be a playoff
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  Speaker 5: team or not. I know it's an NFC game in
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  Speaker 5: terms of tie breakers and things, but uh, I think
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  Speaker 5: they need this game to get themselves in good shape
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  Speaker 5: because you know, right now they're in the seventh spot
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  Speaker 5: and they have the advantage and that they will face
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  Speaker 5: the two teams behind them, Indianapolis and Cincinnati. So the
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  Speaker 5: fact they get to face those two teams head to
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  Speaker 5: head is a big deal, especially if they get this win.
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  Speaker 3: Can I forget about the Dolphins? Can I forget about them?
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  Speaker 3: I'm scared. They'll They're a totally different team with Tua,
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  Speaker 3: totally different. They could make a run.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Should I forget about him?
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  Speaker 9: No, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the bottom of the AFC playoff race is
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  Speaker 5: really you know, the AFC is so top heavy.
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  Speaker 9: The heavyweights are the real heavyweights in the league, and.
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  Speaker 5: The gap between them and that next group, which would
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  Speaker 5: probably include the Broncos, I think is pretty significant. And
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  Speaker 5: if you don't think the gap is significant, I would
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  Speaker 5: ask you to look at the Baltimore game one more time.
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  Speaker 8: Then, Jeff All last year, I feel like I asked
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  Speaker 8: you a question that I just gave up on this season,
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  Speaker 8: but I'm gonna bring it back. Because Marvin Mims had
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  Speaker 8: seven touches. Were they super impactful? No, But it was
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  Speaker 8: interesting to see him out there lining up at running
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  Speaker 8: back early in the game. Are they making a conscious
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  Speaker 8: effort to try and get him more touches now and
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  Speaker 8: try and get him in positions where he can use
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  Speaker 8: his speed and athleticism.
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  Speaker 5: Well, he certainly wouldn'tut him at running back if you
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  Speaker 5: were not really really trying, because that that's a significant
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  Speaker 5: sort of concession to the idea that they got to
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  Speaker 5: get the ball in his hands in some way, because
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  Speaker 5: that that's not a simple as simply telling a guy, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to line up in the backfield. That's a
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  Speaker 5: whole different set of parameters. You know, a player's got
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  Speaker 5: to deal with and not everybody. You know that that's
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  Speaker 5: a testament to him as a player to be able
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  Speaker 5: to do that in a week's time basically. I mean
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  Speaker 5: there were there's a smattering of snaps where he lined
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  Speaker 5: up as the single setback you know, back there, so
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  Speaker 5: and I think from a you know, I don't get
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  Speaker 5: too deep in the weeds and the football nerd them.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, when you put him in the game
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  Speaker 5: as the third wide receiver but he's actually lined up
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  Speaker 5: at the running back with a full back in the lineup,
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  Speaker 5: that does a lot of quirky things to a defense that.
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  Speaker 9: May get you a big play down the road in
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  Speaker 9: the passing game.
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  Speaker 7: I just like putting your most explosive players on the field,
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  Speaker 7: and I think, however you play them, wherever you play them,
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  Speaker 7: is this smart thing to do. I don't care where
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  Speaker 7: you line up, give them the ball. I mean San
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  Speaker 7: Francisco's shown us that it doesn't matter where you play them,
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  Speaker 7: give them the ball, give them the opportunity to explode.
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  Speaker 4: And I think they're finally doing it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah they can.
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  Speaker 5: I I know coaches get tired of me blathering on
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  Speaker 5: about it, but I think overthinking is a disease in
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  Speaker 5: the NFL, and sometimes it is simply put your best
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  Speaker 5: guys on the field and see what happens.
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  Speaker 9: And and they're doing that.
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  Speaker 5: You know, estimates playing more. They're doing more things on
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  Speaker 5: offense they wouldn't have done with the quarterback other than
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  Speaker 5: bow Nicks. I mean, they're they're making the concessions, the
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  Speaker 5: movement that they maybe should have done a little earlier
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  Speaker 5: this season. They're they're doing it now at a pretty
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  Speaker 5: important time.
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  Speaker 8: Jeff Lakewell ESPN dot Com joins us every single Thursday.
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  Speaker 8: Always appreciate it, Leggy, thank.
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  Speaker 4: You, buddy.
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  Speaker 9: All Right, I'm gonna get to work now.
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