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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi, and Kane 9-12-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Is Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five, Moser Lombardy and.
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  Speaker 2: Kate Field Langwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 1: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 3: The insider I've covered while.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwall he's the balloon popper. He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 1: a career. It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  Speaker 4: Joined us every Thursday at eight o'clock. It is Jeff
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  Speaker 4: Legwell a ESPN dot Com Leggy as always, thanks for
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  Speaker 4: joining us this morning.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, I'm good. Are you guys doing good?
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  Speaker 4: First question out of the gates. If this is a
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  Speaker 4: purely football question, and it meant the Broncos have a
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  Speaker 4: better or worse chance to win, If Russell Wilson was
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  Speaker 4: starting ahead of Justin Fields with the Broncos have a
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  Speaker 4: worse or better chance to win.
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  Speaker 3: I think worse, but that's I know I'm in the
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  Speaker 3: Russell plays better than most people think camp I get that,
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  Speaker 3: I admit that, but I think Fields is still really
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  Speaker 3: raw and he's still one of those quarterbacks. And Josh
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  Speaker 3: Allen was like this earlier in his career. It's just
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  Speaker 3: part of the progression when when guys have that kind
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  Speaker 3: of mobility, they tend to lean on it too much.
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  Speaker 3: They tend to use it when they shouldn't. And he's
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  Speaker 3: still in that stage. He's still finding that good balance
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  Speaker 3: between water play as I could make from the pocket
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  Speaker 3: and when should I take off with this fabulous running ability.
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  Speaker 3: And I know Russ strays a little too often too,
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  Speaker 3: but I think the big play potential is still there
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  Speaker 3: with Russ, and if he was playing, I think it
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  Speaker 3: would be a tougher deal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that Sean Payton and the Broncos are happy
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  Speaker 2: the Russell Wilson returns to Denver. Theme is not a
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  Speaker 2: big play this week since he may not play. I
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  Speaker 2: want to ask you about Odric Estimate, who turns out
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  Speaker 2: estimated to miss four weeks minimum with the injured reserve.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to his ankle when did he injure it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I went back through the game video twice and
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  Speaker 3: I really couldn't see it. But you know, sometimes I've
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  Speaker 3: seen many occasions where guys leave the game and are
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  Speaker 3: on the plane or even the next morning, they show
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  Speaker 3: up and you know, a knee or an ankle or
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  Speaker 3: an elbow is just swollen beyond belief, and they don't
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  Speaker 3: even know sort of when they did it, but because
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  Speaker 3: he was still moving around when I saw him late
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  Speaker 3: in the game and then after after the game. So
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  Speaker 3: that's just one of those deals. But I knew, you know,
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  Speaker 3: yesterday afternoon, you knew somebody was going to i R.
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  Speaker 3: When they immediately signed Davis after the workout to the
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  Speaker 3: practice squad. You just knew there were things in motion,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, there were too many guys not practicing
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  Speaker 3: yesterday for one of them not to go to the
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  Speaker 3: short term.
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  Speaker 2: I arf my only guess when he fumbled the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember he tried to hurdle the guy and
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  Speaker 2: perhaps when he raised his leg up it got knocked around.
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  Speaker 2: That would be my only guess if it happening game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, again, I looked at it a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: and slowed everything down. I even looked at you know,
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  Speaker 3: some of the views. I had some end zone views
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  Speaker 3: that somebody from another team helped me with and you
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  Speaker 3: could sort of see him on the sideline a little
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  Speaker 3: bit too, and some of those that I didn't see
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  Speaker 3: anything in those either. But again, you know that's that's
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  Speaker 3: football craziness sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, we know that Estimate is gone for a month,
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  Speaker 1: but the other guys who are banged up, and again
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  Speaker 1: Week one did not spare the Denver Broncos and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of teams, but Garrett Bowles. You talked about Reynolds
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  Speaker 1: and Devon Valley Wattenberg, and I think Jonah Ellis is
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  Speaker 1: on that if I'm not mistaken. Do you have any
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  Speaker 1: idea where these guys are getting ready for practice today?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Alice practiced yesterday, but the other, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the other four guys that there's three guys now with
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  Speaker 3: Estimate moving to I you know, I doubt Derek Bowles
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  Speaker 3: with practice, but they were all you know in Jerseys
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  Speaker 3: working on a side field yesterday. That usually means you
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  Speaker 3: know you're in that range of maybe can practice if
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  Speaker 3: things go well in the rehead show. But of the three,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think Bowles was moving even as well as
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  Speaker 3: the other two guys were.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff Lake bold with his ESPN dot com how much
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  Speaker 4: of bo Nicks's debut was a bow Knicks not playing
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  Speaker 4: well and how much of that was no protection, no
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  Speaker 4: running game and dropped passes.
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  Speaker 3: I think it is about ninety. I tried to tell
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  Speaker 3: everybody would listen bo Nicks as a rookie quarterback, and
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  Speaker 3: he played about how rookie quarterbacks play in their debut
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  Speaker 3: on the road in a tough place. Yeah, they didn't
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  Speaker 3: protect very well, but you know, some of it, some
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  Speaker 3: of it as him. I think the I don't think
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  Speaker 3: the sideline helped them much. I thought they bailed on
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  Speaker 3: the run game. You know, I've said it on one
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  Speaker 3: of the other shows. I just I'm continually for three
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  Speaker 3: plus decades now, I'm always confused why one bad running
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  Speaker 3: play immediately takes the run game off the table, but
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  Speaker 3: coaches will call fourteen pass plays that don't work in
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  Speaker 3: a row true and keep throwing. And it's just always
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  Speaker 3: been that way, and I never get it. I asked
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  Speaker 3: coaches about it all the time and nobody has a
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  Speaker 3: good answer. But the Broncos did it again, you know,
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  Speaker 3: especially guys without sense of you know, roots in their
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  Speaker 3: coaching tree, like Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 3: They bail on the run game after one or two
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  Speaker 3: bad runs, But theyn't watch twelve incompletions and an interception
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  Speaker 3: without any problem at all. So I don't get it.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought they did bowet a disservice a little
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  Speaker 3: bit by not. I thought they were they almost game
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  Speaker 3: plan to prove he wouldn't play like a rookie, and
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  Speaker 3: I think it bit him in the bit him in
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  Speaker 3: the ass a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll ask the question we asked all of last season,
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  Speaker 2: why is it Orvin Mims a bigger part of the
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  Speaker 2: offensive game plan?
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  Speaker 3: And they're they're giving the same answer they gave last season,
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  Speaker 3: except they can't use Jerry's duty as an excuse anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But somehow the rotation doesn't work out for Marvin Mems
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  Speaker 3: And uh, you go again. I saw that their speed
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  Speaker 3: was not involved. You know, Troy Franklin was inactive, and
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  Speaker 3: Marvin Mims played twelve snaps and those are their speed
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  Speaker 3: guys at receiver, and uh, the Seahawks played defense like
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  Speaker 3: they knew the speed guys were not involved. And other
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  Speaker 3: people are gonna keep doing it to the Broncos. They're
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  Speaker 3: gonna squeeze, uh, They're gonna make bow Nicks throw to
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  Speaker 3: the sidelines, and they're gonna squeeze the Broncos from the
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  Speaker 3: top down in coverage. And if the Broncos don't get
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  Speaker 3: an answer to it, a lot of games are gonna
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  Speaker 3: look like Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, I watched a lot and I mean a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that Falcons and Steelers game. Am I overestimating how
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  Speaker 1: how good the Steelers defense really is? Or are they
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  Speaker 1: that good?
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  Speaker 3: Oh man? I don't think Tomlin's had a losing season,
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  Speaker 3: so I think it's always a pretty safe bet that
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  Speaker 3: they're gonna play pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: T Wat is scary, Jeff. He was. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was an absolute ball in a Chinese shop.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I you know, again, I can't remember the
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  Speaker 3: last time. You know that the Broncos haven't faced him
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  Speaker 3: a time, but they've never handled him well in any
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  Speaker 3: time they've played him. So and I think if if
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  Speaker 3: Garrett Balls doesn't play and Sean Payton decides to line
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  Speaker 3: up in three wide for forty two snaps, again, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a long day for the
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  Speaker 3: rookie quarterback and at some point they're just gonna have
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  Speaker 3: to admit he's a rookie and play that way. I
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  Speaker 3: did not get that sense in the opener, and maybe
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  Speaker 3: that's just a personal thing and people can take it
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  Speaker 3: for what it for what it's worth. But I think
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  Speaker 3: the biggest problem of the season opener was the dead
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  Speaker 3: ver Broncos didn't all gather together in a room and say, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: we have a rookie quarterback. How can we help him
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  Speaker 3: the most? And if that look if that means look
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  Speaker 3: a little more boring, or if that means lining up
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  Speaker 3: in big burly formations more often, I think they should
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  Speaker 3: do that, because again they go three and four wide
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  Speaker 3: as many times as they did against the Seahawks, you know,
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  Speaker 3: KEJ Watt, and they win Defensive Player of the Year
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  Speaker 3: in Week two, you know, for one.
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  Speaker 4: Of the more under talked about things. Because it's all
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  Speaker 4: focused on Bonnicks and the offense, I was curious what
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  Speaker 4: the defense is going to look like. I thought they'd
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  Speaker 4: be okay, but maybe take a step down from last year.
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  Speaker 4: I thought they were great in the first week. You know,
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  Speaker 4: they get turnovers, they got a couple of safeties in
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  Speaker 4: a half, the dynamic receiving core of DK Metcalf, Tyler
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  Speaker 4: Lockett and JSN were held in check pretty well. I
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  Speaker 4: thought they played great.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you know, the third quarter run defense.
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  Speaker 3: I think they gave up ninety yards rushing in the
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  Speaker 3: third quarter, and you know, they got caught a little
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  Speaker 3: bit by a lot of short possessions by their own offense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think they were I think they were
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  Speaker 3: dashed in the third quarter and couldn't sort of get
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  Speaker 3: themselves out of it. But other than that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they did what they you know, are asked to do.
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  Speaker 3: They they they created pressure and then they had two safeties,
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  Speaker 3: almost had a third. Uh you know, got the turnovers.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Metcalf was a non factor because Sir Tam was on
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  Speaker 3: them for every route except one. So I think they
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  Speaker 3: did do well enough, you know for the Broncos to
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  Speaker 3: get to win. You know, you know, just that run
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  Speaker 3: defense blip again. Uh, they got to get that wrinkle
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  Speaker 3: out because I think teams will sort of hammer hammer
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  Speaker 3: them a little bit with with sort of that pace
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  Speaker 3: on offense. You know, the Seahawks went tempo a little
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  Speaker 3: bit right after halftime and that the Broncos didn't really
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  Speaker 3: adjust to that. Till in the fourth quarter or late
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  Speaker 3: in the Thursday, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: Leg Wald, have you ever unknowingly published a romantic video
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  Speaker 2: on social media?
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  Speaker 3: Wow? I didn't expect that one, now, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: gotta say I successfully avoided publishing the romantic video. All right?
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  Speaker 1: Have you have you ever had romance?
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  Speaker 3: That's a that's a fair question.
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  Speaker 1: Well you have you have reproduce, So I'm gonna see
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  Speaker 1: the answer is probably yes, but I'm just saying no,
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  Speaker 1: I have.
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  Speaker 3: I have two amazing, spectacular children who have overcome their
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  Speaker 3: DNA in every way, So I yes, I have wonderful kid.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can voucher that. Jeffrey, You're the best, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate we'll see it. Thanks.
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