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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 10-28-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: two five Pro Football. The insider I've covered the while.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwall, He's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 3: He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 1: i BDW Local sixty eight. Start with the chomp and
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  Speaker 1: with the career. Dave's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: two five. Yeah, let's get right after it. Jeff Legwald
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  Speaker 1: is with us on a Monday to talk about these
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  Speaker 1: five and three Denver Broncos getting set to go to
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore this week twenty eight to fourteen. They knock off
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  Speaker 1: Carolina yesterday as Bowe Nicks plays his best game in
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  Speaker 1: an NFL uniform, two hundred and eighty four yards, three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: no picks, and a rushing touchdown to boot Uh Leggy.
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  Speaker 1: Let's let's start game plan wise. You take a look
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  Speaker 1: at that box score at halftime yesterday, Nicks twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: attempts and pretty damn good twenty one to twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: for two twenty and a couple of touchdowns. They only
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  Speaker 1: ran the ball thirteen times in that first half. Run
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  Speaker 1: game never really found its legs. Did John Payton see
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  Speaker 1: him matchup yesterday where two things could be possible at once?
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  Speaker 1: Number one, the Broncos could do some damage through the air,
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  Speaker 1: and number two, Bo Knicks could maybe get a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more comfortable in a pocket against a non existent
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  Speaker 1: Panthers pass rush.
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  Speaker 2: I think both those things are true, mate.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think he even sort of alluded to
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  Speaker 3: it after the game. He called it a confidence game
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  Speaker 3: for the quarterback, and I think it was. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he had them dropped back what twenty nine times in
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  Speaker 3: the first half alone, and I think that was with
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  Speaker 3: the intent of, Okay, this is a good week where
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  Speaker 3: he won't face many exotic looks in the pass rush.
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  Speaker 3: He will get a pretty static look on defense, and
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  Speaker 3: they have more team speed, you know, than the beleaguer
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  Speaker 3: Panthers defense. He even said today that they felt like
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  Speaker 3: they had a you know, a safety on the field
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  Speaker 3: they could hit. His quote was that we could run by.
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  Speaker 3: So they felt like this was a good matchup across
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  Speaker 3: the board. And you know, I just I just look
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  Speaker 3: at the damage he's done with bo Nicks against his
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  Speaker 3: former NFC South teams. I mean it's you know, three
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  Speaker 3: of their five wins are against the NFC South teams.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you could argue Knicks's best three games, you know,
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  Speaker 3: other than the moments in New Orleans when the ball
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  Speaker 3: was not where he wanted it to go, but the team,
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  Speaker 3: the offense's best moments are against those three teams. So
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  Speaker 3: I think all those things are true, and I think
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  Speaker 3: they got Nicks and the offense sort of in a
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  Speaker 3: good space mentally to now go get to the heart
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  Speaker 3: of matter now, you know, now it's about you know,
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  Speaker 3: are you gonna get some wins and get yourself into
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  Speaker 3: the wild card conversation.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Jeff eighty you mentioned those three games
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  Speaker 1: against the NFC South, eighty seven to thirty one. The
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  Speaker 1: Broncos have outscored those three teams, that being Tampa, New
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  Speaker 1: Orleans and then Carolina yesterday. Familiarity, old grudges or is
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  Speaker 1: it just that those three teams stink.
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  Speaker 2: All of the above.
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a reason, you know, there's a reason
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  Speaker 3: Sean dominated them for so many years. I mean, Tampa
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  Speaker 3: had some moments with Brady and you know, way back,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, the Falcons had some moments when when
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Shanahan was there, Matt Ryan's MVP season in Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I had a couple of brief runs with
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  Speaker 3: with Cam, you know, and I just think he owned
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  Speaker 3: that division when he was Saints and he still owns
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  Speaker 3: it as as Bronco coach.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Jeff, what went into fixing the footwork?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know?
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  Speaker 4: Did they talk about that? Did he put in extra
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  Speaker 4: work from the time off? I mean, was it just
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  Speaker 4: the fact that there wasn't a pass rush? We've not
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  Speaker 4: seen you talked about it a lot last week. We
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  Speaker 4: haven't seen that kind of footwork in a game. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't know all year, honestly, what went into that?
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  Speaker 4: Do you know?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was just an an unencumbered day, largely
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  Speaker 3: in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: And they've they've gotten much better.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you're you're seeing some concessions on Sean Payton's
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  Speaker 3: part to keep bo Nix and things he's very comfortable with.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the two of those things together were
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  Speaker 3: you know, his best day in his young career. Well,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, really the Panthers offered little resistance in
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  Speaker 3: the past rush.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long time since.
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  Speaker 3: I've charted a game where an NFL team really decided
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  Speaker 3: to just let the quarterback, you know, do whatever you
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  Speaker 3: want and we'll try to tackle, you know, and I
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's where they're at right now. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: the Broncos did what you do. You know, it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's no sympathy cards in the NFL. You know, you
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  Speaker 3: play who's in front of you and you count up
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  Speaker 3: the wins when the season's over. And the Broncos did
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  Speaker 3: exactly what they should do. Dot you know, early on
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  Speaker 3: it was that scenario you worry about, you know, early turnover,
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  Speaker 3: Panthers score on a short field, they're up seven nothing briefly,
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's a it's a bad day scenario.
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  Speaker 3: But then you know they simply didn't have it enough
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  Speaker 3: to stay in it. And and the Broncos took care
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  Speaker 3: of business until the fumble late late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So, Leggy, I want to bounce two names off
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  Speaker 1: of you for for Pro Bowl consideration for this Bronco team,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even all Pro consideration.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well, Zach Allen's one of them, because that's.
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  Speaker 1: You know that, you know, Big number ninety nine is
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  Speaker 1: on my list all right, And clearly Certan is gonna
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  Speaker 1: get all the love. Another interception yesterday on an atrocious throat,
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  Speaker 1: but still our guy just goes and makes plays and
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  Speaker 1: had a nice return after that. Riley Dixon right now
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  Speaker 1: has become a weapon for this team. You mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: early turnover. They drop a pun at the one, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the momentum changing play because then Bryce Young
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  Speaker 1: is throwing from out of his own end zone. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: this Bronco Special teams they have I believe, the best
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  Speaker 1: field position differential in the entire NFL. They're getting elite
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  Speaker 1: punting right now, Leggie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's that's one of those things you know,
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  Speaker 3: special teams coaches stay up late at night worry about
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  Speaker 3: We don't we don't talk about all of those things.
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  Speaker 3: But the winning teams do those those things properly, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And long ago that you know, there was this season
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  Speaker 3: when the Broncos only Pro Bowl there was a punter.
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  Speaker 3: I think Kuran one year was the only Pro bowler
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  Speaker 3: the team had. But uh, now he's he's having that
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  Speaker 3: kind of year and he's been far more consistent.
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  Speaker 2: I think last year, you know that.
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  Speaker 3: The special teams coaches and Peyton would sort of poke
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  Speaker 3: at the consistency, you know, and they've they've they've had
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  Speaker 3: him in a competition, you know, at times during Peyton's
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  Speaker 3: tenure here and they've.
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  Speaker 2: Done all those things.
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  Speaker 3: But he's had easily his i think his most consistent
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  Speaker 3: year here. And this isn't the easiest place to to
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  Speaker 3: be the punter, you know, it's it's hard to place
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  Speaker 3: the ball here. You don't you don't get the perfect conditions.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the indoor guys too.
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  Speaker 4: All right, I can't quite go off the old pro
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  Speaker 4: theme with Nate there, but let me throw in another name.
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  Speaker 4: And I've got to ask you, have you ever seen
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  Speaker 4: a guy make an interception like Jakwan macmillan did yesterday
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  Speaker 4: with the three sixty in the air. Looked like he
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  Speaker 4: was jumping and recognized halfway up. Oh he's looking and
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  Speaker 4: spun around for his pick. How good is he turning.
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  Speaker 2: Out to be? All right? This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: great finds. You know.
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  Speaker 3: This is good you know, personnel, good draft work, to
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  Speaker 3: find a guy who fits your system and then he
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  Speaker 3: is you know, everything you hope he is in terms
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  Speaker 3: of work, ethic and getting better. But he he's one
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  Speaker 3: of the best nickel corners in the league. It's I
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  Speaker 3: talk to people in the league every week who believe
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  Speaker 3: when certain is on the field. You know, they are
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  Speaker 3: the best secondary in football right now, and I think
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  Speaker 3: they're proving it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think they're.
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  Speaker 3: Number one in limiting past yardage per play. You know,
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  Speaker 3: they're number two in sacks, They're I think they're first
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  Speaker 3: in the red zone. I think they're or first their
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  Speaker 3: second in the red zone. First in goal to goal situations.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they're they're defending at all levels right now,
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  Speaker 3: and you cannot do that in today's NFL. And if
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  Speaker 3: your secondary isn't doing it, and you certainly can't do it,
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  Speaker 3: if he can't do it in the nickel, and they
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  Speaker 3: defend great in the nickel because McMillan's a big reason
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to Jeff Legwald here on a Monday afternoon. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Legwald's appearance is brought to you by the International Brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight. Start with a
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  Speaker 1: job and with the career, Jeff. Now it is on
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  Speaker 1: to Baltimore. Ravens lost a weird one yesterday against the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: Had a chance, by the way Kyle Hamilton could ended
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  Speaker 1: that game yesterday dropped an easy interception, So kind of
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  Speaker 1: a weird loss there for Baltimore. But John Payton knows
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  Speaker 1: the quality of team that he is about to go
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  Speaker 1: and have to play inside their own building right now.
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  Speaker 1: Between keeping his foot on the gas late in that game,
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  Speaker 1: running trick plays late, trying to keep the momentum going forward,
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  Speaker 1: and then some of his postgame frustration with the way
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  Speaker 1: that that game finished with his own team was that
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  Speaker 1: Shawn's way of telling everybody, mind your p's and q's,
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  Speaker 1: crank it up because things are about to get a
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  Speaker 1: lot tougher for us.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's all all of those things. He's always
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  Speaker 3: said he finds it more difficult to coach after wins,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And and I think he is just that's.
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  Speaker 2: Just his nature.
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  Speaker 3: And then and the late drive, a ninety eight yard
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  Speaker 3: drive for all the good the defense has done this year,
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  Speaker 3: and they have done the heavy lifting for this five
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  Speaker 3: and three team, Uh, those are the kinds of drives
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  Speaker 3: that get you beat in important games. And and that
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  Speaker 3: that one should sting. And I, you know, all of
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  Speaker 3: the defensive guys I talked to after the game, there
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  Speaker 3: was very little sort of celebrating about a win. There
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  Speaker 3: was a whole lot of that last Drive's gotta go
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  Speaker 3: type of thing, and you know, I think it does,
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  Speaker 3: and uh, because I think Peyton knows that this version
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  Speaker 3: of the Ravens they surrender tons of big plays on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive side. It's a very rare thing for them.
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  Speaker 3: But UH, there's been an off lot of weeks this
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  Speaker 3: year where they have they have surrendered the most big
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  Speaker 3: plays defensively, and so you know that opportunity could be there.
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  Speaker 3: But the flip side of that is they may have
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  Speaker 3: two MVP candidates on offense, so your defense has to
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  Speaker 3: get every possible stop it can uh to give you
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  Speaker 3: the best chance.
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  Speaker 2: And if you let them hold the ball, uh.
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  Speaker 3: With Derrick, Henry and Lamar doing their thing, you're you're
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  Speaker 3: asking for trouble and it won't matter how you know
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  Speaker 3: how difficult the Ravens defense has found it to be,
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  Speaker 3: because you won't get a crack at them if you
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  Speaker 3: don't have the ball.
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  Speaker 1: We will be previewing that matchup with Jeff Legwald on
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  Speaker 1: Friday here on the Craig and Lindahl Show. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: listening to them all week here on Altitude Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Flagwall, good work as always, buddy, Thank you, Thanks Bellows,