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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 8-15-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Training camp coverage on Altitude Sports Radio is powered by
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwall to ESPN makes his Friday afternoon visit ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Broncos Cardinals tomorrow night. Leggy, besides the obvious answer
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  Speaker 1: of health, what answers are Sean Payton hoping to get
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  Speaker 1: out of tomorrow Night's game?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, first of all, he's clearly made the
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  Speaker 2: decision with gannon Uh, with the with the Cardinals to
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  Speaker 2: basically hold their starters or most of their starters out
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  Speaker 2: of the game Saturday because of the joint practice and
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  Speaker 2: the reps they got. And so I think largely the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos team on the field tomorrow night will largely be
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  Speaker 2: the second teamers to open the game.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe a smattering.
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  Speaker 2: Of of you know, a few guys who didn't get
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  Speaker 2: enough practice reps in Peyton's mind. But so that tells me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they're they're diving a little more into some
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  Speaker 2: of these deeper decisions that running back, you know, corner
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  Speaker 2: wide receiver, you know, trying to sort the field beyond
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  Speaker 2: the front liners. And you know, frankly, that's their toughest
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  Speaker 2: and most important decisions out of this camp.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they started Camp Nate with the.
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  Speaker 2: The starting twenty two or twenty four thirty, you know roughly,
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  Speaker 2: you know in pen So I think that they're down
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  Speaker 2: to the tough decisions because they know they're going to
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  Speaker 2: release players good enough to be on a fifty three somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: which means you're probably not getting them back.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: We've kind of had a little back and forth going.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how much.
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  Speaker 5: It hasn't been too spicy, but Nate feels like Tyler
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  Speaker 5: Bidet is probably moving into a good position and maybe
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  Speaker 5: isn't quite as safe as that the days say, and
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  Speaker 5: maybe McLoughlin isn't as safe as he was a year ago.
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  Speaker 5: Mike Sanford getting that vibe too. I feel like every
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  Speaker 5: time I watch McLoughlin, he's the one making a play.
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  Speaker 5: Is it in either or with Bede or McLoughlin, or
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  Speaker 5: might they keep both? And where does Watson factor in?
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  Speaker 5: How do you see this thing kind of shaken?
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  Speaker 3: Right now?
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  Speaker 2: I would see them as the three in the four
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  Speaker 2: right now. Bedet and mcglove. I think they both could
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  Speaker 2: make it in the in the scenario I've watched in practice,
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  Speaker 2: because when Bedet appeared sort of in the two minute
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  Speaker 2: drill in practice, that's always an indicator of your trying
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  Speaker 2: to expand the portfolio and maybe look at at different ways.
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  Speaker 2: But I think to me the important thing to remember
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  Speaker 2: was when they expanded Bedet's portfolio, they did not bump
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  Speaker 2: McLoughlin down. He stayed in his usual reps. Those are
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  Speaker 2: the kinds of things I tend to chart during practice,
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  Speaker 2: and had he lost more reps, I'd say it isn't
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  Speaker 2: either or.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps always locked up.
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  Speaker 3: SIT's either or at this point, you know, with a
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  Speaker 3: week and a half to go.
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  Speaker 2: But I think at this point, at this moment, as
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  Speaker 2: you ask me, I think those would be the the
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  Speaker 2: other two running backs. If they keep four right now.
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  Speaker 2: That can change, obviously, but right now I think those
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  Speaker 2: are the four.
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  Speaker 1: Leggy Elsewhere, offensively, what are position battles to watch? Backup,
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  Speaker 1: offensive line, end of the rotation, receivers, what's happening at
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  Speaker 1: tight and give us a breakdown of other spots to
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  Speaker 1: watch Offensively?
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  Speaker 3: You know I would watch.
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  Speaker 2: You know, part of me thinks it's weird to say this,
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  Speaker 2: but I'd pay attention to who doesn't play, who isn't
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  Speaker 2: a starter because I think they're worried they're not going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to get some of these guys to
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  Speaker 2: the practice squad they'd like, especially at receiver. I know
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  Speaker 2: they love Loan as a prospect a tight end, and
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  Speaker 2: he's barely touched the ball in a visible situation. You know,
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  Speaker 2: how much are they going to expose him out there
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  Speaker 2: in a preseason game. But I would watch the receiver rotation,
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  Speaker 2: you know, from the from the start of the second
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  Speaker 2: quarter on. That's a tough, tough decision for them, and
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  Speaker 2: they they're really it may force them to keep an
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  Speaker 2: extra player there. I mean, and they sort of have
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  Speaker 2: a hidden roster spot. You know last year they kept
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  Speaker 2: three quarterbacks. You know, I don't get a sense yet
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  Speaker 2: that they would do that. I know they like Ellinger
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  Speaker 2: a ton, but you know, do they think he would
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  Speaker 2: be claimed if they exposed him? I think ultimately will
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  Speaker 2: be the question. But I'd watch receiver. I'd watched corners,
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  Speaker 2: you know, some of those corners in the second half,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the special teamers. What what rookie or first year,
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  Speaker 2: second year guy really make Some then happen on special
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  Speaker 2: teams to force them to keep him you know, because
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  Speaker 2: I think that you know, the deeper safety spots are
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  Speaker 2: are sort of in question too. So it's we're talking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, second third special teamers.
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  Speaker 3: You know when you're when you're looking this time around.
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  Speaker 5: All right, while we're talking about balancing roster numbers of
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  Speaker 5: position groups and what about inside linebacker?
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  Speaker 4: It's an interesting group.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like you got a lot of very spicy
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  Speaker 5: contenders for that beyond you got, first off, you got
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  Speaker 5: two veterans that have a little bit of an injury
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  Speaker 5: history when we talked Dre Greenlaw and Alex Singleton. And
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  Speaker 5: then you've got some exciting players inside there that they
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  Speaker 5: think could be intriguing. One of the guys that you
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  Speaker 5: told us to watch last week and fifty four Harris
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  Speaker 5: I believe it were fifty five Harris, right, wasn't that
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  Speaker 5: his name there, Jeff, that you picked on your fantasy team.
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  Speaker 5: But you also could use like a John A. Barron
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  Speaker 5: as a diningbacker. You could probably get away with a
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  Speaker 5: maybe Hufanga being a dinebacker.
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  Speaker 4: What are they going to do with that position?
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  Speaker 3: Do you think? Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think they got to be cognizant, Andy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they they haven't had their you know they're allotment uh play.
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  Speaker 2: I mean Singleton and Greenlaw both missed time. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, yesterday, you know, Sean Payton is still talking
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  Speaker 2: about Drake Greenlaw having some scar tissue, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: his leg, and that that's an issue they're gonna have
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  Speaker 2: to work through, and that they still want to get
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  Speaker 2: him some working pads and and all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But yet, Jordan Turner is the undrafted rookie I really like, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's he's kind of a what they don't
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of right now.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of that you know.
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  Speaker 2: Throwback, a little bit of a throwback thumper in there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a big ten inside linebacker, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that's a guy who could squeeze in if they feel
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  Speaker 2: like they got to have another another player at that
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  Speaker 2: position because of the you know, the miss time Singleton
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  Speaker 2: and Greenlaw have have had. And I think Kareine Reid
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  Speaker 2: has done another undrafted rookie has done plenty to get noticed.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime you have, you know, an interception like he did
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  Speaker 2: in the preseason opener, they got to pay attention to that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And Drew Sanders is gonna miss some weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, how they position that, does he open
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  Speaker 2: the year on ir to come back later. You know,
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  Speaker 2: all of those things could impact what it looks like
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  Speaker 2: an inside linebacker.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald, we're previewing tomorrow night's Broncos Cardinals game Denver,
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  Speaker 1: a three point favorite. Training camp coverage on Altitude Sports
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  Speaker 1: firm partner of Broncos Country. Jeff, Let's let's shift to
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  Speaker 1: a guy that won't be playing tomorrow night, and that
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  Speaker 1: is Nick Benito procedure to remove a bone spur on
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  Speaker 1: top of his foot. What insight do you have about
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  Speaker 1: timeline seriousness, et cetera on the Nick Benito situation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they sort of had to convince Nick that this
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  Speaker 2: was really only going to take a week because he
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  Speaker 2: was he didn't want anything to wreck his momentum. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken to him recently, and you know, he was
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  Speaker 2: he was feeling good about where he was at.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know how he could not after the series.
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  Speaker 2: That one series alone in the forty nine ers game
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  Speaker 2: was fairly ridiculous. But he was limping a little bit,
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  Speaker 2: you know, during that game, and it was something you know,
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  Speaker 2: they were he was curious about why it was hurting,
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  Speaker 2: and they obviously looked at it and found this bone spur.
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  Speaker 2: They've told him, you know, you're back on Monday or
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday early next week, and that very good chance he
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  Speaker 2: could get some snaps against the Saints and Sean Payton
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  Speaker 2: because of this back to back joint practice. He has
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  Speaker 2: said some of the starters will play against the Saints
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  Speaker 2: for you know, six to eight snaps, and Benito right now.
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  Speaker 3: He's under the impression he would be one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Leggie, I got a Benito related question for you, and
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  Speaker 1: I know you didn't write this, but it was on
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  Speaker 1: the site where your work is published. Okay, on ESPN
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  Speaker 1: dot com today, Mike Clay put out a ranking of
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  Speaker 1: every position group in the NFL, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos rankings. Like I was like, okay, I see it.
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  Speaker 1: The one that like had me screaming at my computer
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  Speaker 1: screen and I don't get emotional about this stuff. The
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  Speaker 1: Broncos edge rushers were ranked twenty third.
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  Speaker 4: In the NFL. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The two starters last year, Nick Benito first off. Benito
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  Speaker 1: is the second team All Pro. The two starters, Benito
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  Speaker 1: and Cooper both had double digit sacks last year. You
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  Speaker 1: add onto that at Tilman had five sacks, Ellis had
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  Speaker 1: five sacks, like thirty four sacks combined out of that group,
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  Speaker 1: that was more sacks than five teams in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: had in totality all of last year. How the hell
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  Speaker 1: would anybody justify And again, Leggy, I know you didn't
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  Speaker 1: write this, but how does anybody justify saying that the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos group of edge rushers are the twenty third best
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know I'd heartily disagree with the ranking.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, So, I don't know how a team could have
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  Speaker 2: sixty three sacks and you rank any of their defensive groups.
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  Speaker 1: You know, below ten, a topso three season in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the NFL in terms of team sacks, and
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  Speaker 1: you're telling me their edge rushers are twenty third.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: He also had the corners ranked lower than the safeties
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  Speaker 5: on his defense.
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  Speaker 1: Are also makes no sense. The defensive player of the
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  Speaker 1: damn year is one of your corners and loss is
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. Also, like, the inside linebackers were ranked fourth,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the one where I was like, the
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  Speaker 1: hell are you talking about?
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  Speaker 4: They're not fourth?
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  Speaker 1: Like that was the one where I was just like,
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  Speaker 1: not even close. But then you miss so bad on
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  Speaker 1: edge rush and on corner. I just, Leggy, what was
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  Speaker 1: you got a lecture? This person is a lecture coming
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  Speaker 1: from me.
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  Speaker 4: Make an angry phone call on our behalf.
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  Speaker 2: Leggie, Well, I would argue, if Sir Tan stands out
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  Speaker 2: there by himself, he's in the top ten. If they
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  Speaker 2: just send Pat out, he's in the top ten. That's
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  Speaker 2: the top ten secondary. If no one else is even
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  Speaker 2: on the field.
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  Speaker 1: Like D line seventh even, I think that's a little low,
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  Speaker 1: but like, okay, it is a top ten defensive.
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  Speaker 4: Line to me.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think some of it maybe who knows,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I know Mike very well. We talk a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know. Some of it could be draft positioning.
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  Speaker 2: Some of it could be you know, what does your
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  Speaker 2: fantasy league give points for?
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  Speaker 3: You know, all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I certainly if I did that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing and I was drafting a defense, I
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  Speaker 2: take a long look at the at the Denver Broncos.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Leggy, have you seen bridges of Madison County?
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a tough one.
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  Speaker 2: Not probably not in its entirety.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Leggy, have you heard of the movie Bridges of
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  Speaker 1: Madison County.
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  Speaker 3: It's a Clint Eastwood movie. You would not expect.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you again.
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  Speaker 5: Description a Clint Eastwood movie, you would not Clint Eastwood
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  Speaker 5: rom Coy.
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  Speaker 3: With a forty five.
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  Speaker 4: That's why.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm just saying, if you know, if you were
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  Speaker 2: a guy and you didn't want to tell your buddies
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  Speaker 2: you enjoyed the Bridges of Madison County, you could just say,
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  Speaker 2: I watched the Clint Eastwood movie last night.
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  Speaker 3: Guilty Pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: It is well said, Uh, Jeff, how did Bonnicks look
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  Speaker 1: at you yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Well, he looked good.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, this whole best day of camp thing
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  Speaker 2: that got out of control. I just you guys know
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  Speaker 2: how I feel about Twitter scouting of training camp practices.
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  Speaker 2: But he had a pretty good day. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not ready to I just don't do that sort
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  Speaker 2: of thing.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's irresponsible for me to sit here and
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  Speaker 2: tell fans, Bronco fans who really want to know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on that the ebb and flow is so strong
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  Speaker 2: every day between good and bad, and it's not. He
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  Speaker 2: was more in rhythm yesterday, and that's what you want
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  Speaker 2: to see. You just want to see the guy being
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  Speaker 2: rhythm with some comfort level. And that could mean they
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  Speaker 2: didn't install an extra sixty five plays that morning, or
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  Speaker 2: he had a better breakfast, or you know, training camp
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  Speaker 2: is just this day to day drum beat, and I
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  Speaker 2: would advise people who enjoy football to take some of
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  Speaker 2: the Evan flow reporting of each day with a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a raised eyebrow.
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  Speaker 3: But he was in rhythm.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's why he will not play Saturday
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  Speaker 2: night is because he had a nice day in rhythm
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  Speaker 2: and that you'll get plenty of Jarrett's did him on
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  Speaker 2: Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: That's It's honestly.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I wondered about after practice yesterday
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  Speaker 1: is a first Sean was in a good mood after
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  Speaker 1: practice yesterday. How could he not be as well as
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  Speaker 1: his first team offense played, and in addition to that,
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  Speaker 1: as good as both look Because I thought Bo, especially
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  Speaker 1: man coming off the preseason game and on Tuesday, I
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  Speaker 1: was just like, hey, he's not real sharp right now
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was like, Okay, he's definitely gonna be
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  Speaker 1: playing on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 4: And then he looked.
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  Speaker 1: He looked good enough that I think Sean felt comfortable
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  Speaker 1: that he could then, you know, take his foot off
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  Speaker 1: the gas.
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  Speaker 5: Is it a good time for a break for him?
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  Speaker 3: Two legy?
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  Speaker 4: I mean you kind of hinted it.
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  Speaker 5: You know, this is a grind and there's no look
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  Speaker 5: Seawan's focused on him. He's not focused on this three
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  Speaker 5: man competition.
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  Speaker 3: That never really was.
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  Speaker 5: But this really is Bo's first camp getting the full diet,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the full buffet of showing up in his business.
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  Speaker 5: Is Is this maybe a good time for a little
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  Speaker 5: break halfway through camp or whatever?
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  Speaker 3: The preseason?
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  Speaker 2: I should say always you know what we you know,
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  Speaker 2: I I've told coaches in the past that I've covered
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  Speaker 2: I think they should at times, as people are grading
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  Speaker 2: their quarterbacks and they get tired of it, they should say,
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  Speaker 2: right after practice today we installed X number of plays,
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  Speaker 2: X number of situations. So yes, things were a little
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  Speaker 2: choppy because we gave the guys forty eight pages of
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  Speaker 2: information they had to digest before they went to the
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  Speaker 2: practice field. So, you know, I think that's some of it.
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  Speaker 2: Some days guys have bad days because the coaches want
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  Speaker 2: them to have bad days. They want them to be challenged,
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  Speaker 2: to be stressed, and Bo Nicks gets more of that
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  Speaker 2: on the Broncos than any other player. If Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 2: going to stress a player and push him hard, bow
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  Speaker 2: Knicks is going to be at the front of the line.
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  Speaker 2: So I think yesterday you saw he was in a
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  Speaker 2: nice rhythm, very comfortable with what they were going to do,
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  Speaker 2: and had that not gone well, my gut is from
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  Speaker 2: knowing everybody involved, he would have played some.
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  Speaker 3: Saturday, and he still might.
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  Speaker 2: But my information at this point is that Jared Stidham
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  Speaker 2: will probably play because they feel pretty good about where
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  Speaker 2: bo Nicks is in this training kit.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so along those lines you mentioned the you know
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  Speaker 1: that there are days where there's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: massive avalanche of information that gets piled onto bow Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: But also Sean Payton's favorite bow Knicks talking point is well,
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  Speaker 1: I gave him a gigantic binder at five o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon, and the next morning he knew the entire
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  Speaker 1: thing thing. This is where we come to the question,
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  Speaker 1: and Andy and I have had this discussion, Leggie, is
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  Speaker 1: are we reaching the point where it would behove bo
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  Speaker 1: Nicks if Sean Payton would shut the hell up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think Sean has made the conscious decision. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna put the whole team on notice right from August.
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  Speaker 2: I want everybody's attention. I don't want anybody feeling good
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  Speaker 2: about the wild card trip last year. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: anybody telling them how great they are. I'm gonna beat
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  Speaker 2: everybody to the punch and tell them how great they
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  Speaker 2: are and that I am going to push them every
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  Speaker 2: second of every day to be that great. I think
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  Speaker 2: that's what he's done. I had a good indication in
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  Speaker 2: May this was going to be his approach to all this,
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  Speaker 2: and I think he has chosen to go public with
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  Speaker 2: how good he thinks this team is because he wants
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  Speaker 2: them to know that's his expectation. And if you're bow Nicks,
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  Speaker 2: whether you think that's a great idea by your head
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  Speaker 2: coach or not, you were at the epicenter of all
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  Speaker 2: of it. You are the guy on the you're on
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: the hottest burner. You're just in the middle of it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: And I think that's just if you're gonna be Sean
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Payton's quarterback, I think that's going to be part of
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: the deal. And I think that's one very big reason
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: bow Nick sought out Drew Brees. This offseason to have
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: a discussion about all that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: In Nick's comments to Kay Adams earlier in the week,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: again it was we haven't done anything. It was we
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: got to walk the walk, Like the hype is great,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: but we need to go out and we need to
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: do it and it's not about talk. And when you
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: hear that, it's just like, is there is there an
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: indication that some of this pressure I call the term
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that the Broncos are everybody's hipster pick to win the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl right now in the NFL, and that Bo
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Nicks may not be wild about the position that he's
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that you're talking about right there, Leggie, of being dropped
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: into the middle of the damn volcano.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, there's no way Sean Payton isn't telling his
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: team in the meetings you haven't done anything yet.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: There is no way that is not being discussed. There is.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, he has made very clear.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: He's told him I'm going to tell you what is
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: required to be as good as I think you are.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: That's been his message in house.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And that's a tough message, you know, and it and
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: he couldn't do it if the players didn't know. He
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: has won a super Bowl you know that this is
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: not a gamut. A gambit a coach who has not
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: won can pull off. This is a coach who's won
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: telling his team I've seen it, I know it, and
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you you are in. But this is what it takes
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to get there. I think the messages are combined. It's
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: just when he goes public they aren't combined in that moment. Yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: they've been combined when he's given it to the team.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: And you know, really, you know, we we tend to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: forget because he acts mature, but bo Nicks is a
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: very young quarterback and this is his first real foray
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: into what Patrick Mahomes deals with every hour of every
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: football day. People expect me to win trophies, you know.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: And I think he's just getting used to it. And
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: he's a level headed young guy, and he's he has
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the right approach in my mind, and I like I
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: like that he says, hey, we haven't done anything yet.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I think that's a good sign that he's willing to
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: step out and say that.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's spoken exactly like a former you know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: an Alabama kid that played at Auburn. I think that's
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: exactly what that sounds like. Gotta bow Nix. Great, great
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: appearance by Jeff Legwald today. Go to ESPN dot com,
• 21:06
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• 21:09
  Speaker 1: messages on social media. But then read Jeff Legwald and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: be well informed. Jeff Legwald, everybody of ESPN dot com. Leggie,
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: good work as always, Man, Thanks both