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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 9-13-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: John Our Broncos Insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five
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  Speaker 3: Start with the job and with a career. It's Leggy
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  Speaker 2: Five.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think there's two things. I mean, never gonna
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  Speaker 4: lose confidence. There's two things that take place in game.
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  Speaker 4: You're paying attention to how's the game unfolding? That that
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  Speaker 4: can affect greatly, you know, how you're calling your game,
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  Speaker 4: and then immediately the opponent you're playing relative to sequencing
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  Speaker 4: first down, second down, you know, and so that would
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  Speaker 4: be my just haven't done this a long time, That
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  Speaker 4: would be my first thought is, you know, how do
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  Speaker 4: we think this game is going to be played in
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  Speaker 4: and obviously being able to adjust if it's played differently.
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  Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many times I've thought a
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  Speaker 4: game was gonna go a certain way and then it
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  Speaker 4: ended up going a different way.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that fully explains forty nine dropbacks
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  Speaker 1: and bow Nicks's first NFL game on the road in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: But all right, Sean joining us right now as he
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  Speaker 1: makes this regular Friday visit to the program. It is
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald of ESPN. Jeff Legwald's appearances as always brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW
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  Speaker 1: Local sixty eight. Start with a job and with a career. Yeah, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you pointed that out at ESPN forty two pass attempts.
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  Speaker 1: We all got into that number forty nine dropbacks for
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  Speaker 1: bow Knicks in week one as you went back and
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  Speaker 1: reviewed the film. Why did Sean Payton get so enamored
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  Speaker 1: with having bo Nicks drop back in that game?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, date, it's even worse if dude, there's two
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  Speaker 2: rushing attempts that are actually passes but thrown behind the receivers,
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  Speaker 2: so they were technically counted as rushing attempts. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're doing pure raw data, it could be fifty one
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  Speaker 2: drop back in the game. And you know, my guess
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  Speaker 2: is you they again. I think offensive play callers in
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  Speaker 2: the in the NFL surrender on the run game far
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  Speaker 2: more quickly than they do on the pass game. You
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  Speaker 2: could you could have one bad run and you won't
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  Speaker 2: see it again for another half a quarter. But coordinators
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  Speaker 2: are willing to throw twelve incomplete passes and a pick
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  Speaker 2: and and it doesn't bother them at all. So I
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  Speaker 2: think some of it is just the time we're in,
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  Speaker 2: and I think some of it is Sean Payton as
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  Speaker 2: a play caller. I think he believes in my gut
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  Speaker 2: that he thinks he could sort of shoot his way
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  Speaker 2: out of it, you know, like like you know, a
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  Speaker 2: Steph Curry or something. And I think people just in
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  Speaker 2: the league, I think it's it's a you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's an affliction always that the past game is
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  Speaker 2: giving all game does not. But I think if bone
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  Speaker 2: Nicks drops back forty nine times Sunday, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a problem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So kind of along those lines. And you pointed this
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  Speaker 1: out as well today at ESPN, is that Javonte and
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  Speaker 1: Julia McLoughlin combined for eight carries of one yard or
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  Speaker 1: fewer last week. So did Sean get spooked into that
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  Speaker 1: by a lack of success rate and confidence in the
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  Speaker 1: run game? Like, there has to be some plausible explanation.
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  Speaker 1: I have to believe, and I could be dead wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I have to believe that that wasn't Sean Payton's plan
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  Speaker 1: going into the game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, Nate, I asked to you know, up
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  Speaker 2: to the game, did you want to throw it forty
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  Speaker 2: two times? And he said no, and he was pretty
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  Speaker 2: emphatic about it. So I too believe that. But I
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  Speaker 2: just I see it year after year, game after game
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  Speaker 2: play callers the run game, they get far more scared
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  Speaker 2: out of that after one or two unsuccessful plays than
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  Speaker 2: they do about unsuccessful pass plays. And I think for
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  Speaker 2: a play caller like Sean Payton this year, who knows
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  Speaker 2: the explosives in the Broncos offense may be hard to
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  Speaker 2: come by early on here, first down becomes really important.
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  Speaker 2: And when first down it starts going bad, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's when the throwing picks up as well. And first
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  Speaker 2: down went pretty bad early in Seattle.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff, I do have a question, but first I got
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  Speaker 5: to give you a shout out on the week we
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  Speaker 5: lost the iconic iconic James Earl Jones, the voice right
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  Speaker 5: voice to Darth Vader.
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  Speaker 3: You're calling in on the Darth Vader phone that keeps.
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  Speaker 5: Giving us the between each answer, So I you know
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  Speaker 5: what you really went top shelf to honor the man,
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  Speaker 5: and I appreciate.
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  Speaker 3: About that about you. Uh. By the way, I think
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  Speaker 3: it is the first time we've ever read Jeff in
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  Speaker 3: a car.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff has never been in a car when we've done
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  Speaker 5: an interview in five years.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jeff, what what the heck with.
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  Speaker 5: Audrich Estimate all of a sudden being outd were you
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  Speaker 5: were you hip to anything going on with him?
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  Speaker 3: When what happened? Was it on the leap play he
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  Speaker 3: got hurt?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: They they the Broncos contendant was on the second tarry
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  Speaker 2: and uh, Estimate obviously has been told not to say
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  Speaker 2: too much, so he didn't want to say too much
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room. Uh, but you know, I looked
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  Speaker 2: at the secondary and I guess I can sort of
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  Speaker 2: see it as well, but that the Broncos say it
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  Speaker 2: was on his second tarry of the game, and that's
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  Speaker 2: that's when the curt and they sort of didn't know
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  Speaker 2: it was gonna be that bad. And you know, until
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  Speaker 2: they did the tests on Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Talking to Jeff Legwald here on a Friday afternoon, Jeff
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  Speaker 1: dot com, Jeff. We saw a Steelers defense that absolutely
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  Speaker 1: suffocated the status Kirk Cousins on the road in Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: last week. Now, Mike Tomlin, who by the way, has
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  Speaker 1: an eight hundred career win percentage against rookie quarterbacks, Tomlin
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  Speaker 1: and company turned their sights on the young, fresh faced
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  Speaker 1: bow knicks of the Denver Broncos. You wrote about it
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  Speaker 1: this week. The Broncos they have to help bo if
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have any success in the short term,
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  Speaker 1: short term with him as their quarterback. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think they have to do?
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  Speaker 2: All You've got to contain their two edge players. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's especially Watt. I mean I went back and charted
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  Speaker 2: the the Falcons game a couple of times, and there
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  Speaker 2: are very few snaps in that game. If any where
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  Speaker 2: Watt isn't isn't destroying something in the play, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: just be knocking blockers into the into the path of
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  Speaker 2: a ball carrier, forcing bumbles, getting to the quarterback, pressuring
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  Speaker 2: on an interception. Uh And they only single blocked him
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  Speaker 2: by Mike count roughly twelve times. So that's through double
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  Speaker 2: teams and even a triple team on a couple of occasions.
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  Speaker 2: So if the Broncos plan on leaving Mike McGlinchey on
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  Speaker 2: his own against Watt and and go in a three
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  Speaker 2: wide set forty plus snaps like they did against Seattle,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a bad that's bad mojo right there.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they you know, the Steelers are offense
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  Speaker 2: wasn't much to look at, but unlike a lot of teams,
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  Speaker 2: they're very comfortable playing a game where they kick six
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  Speaker 2: field goals and get on the bus. They don't mind,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't bother them. They don't freak out. They just keep
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  Speaker 2: kicking field goals and keep beating you. So the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: really really have to be willing, I think, to slug
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  Speaker 2: it out a little more this week and take their
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  Speaker 2: shot that way.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, what's the stress level over there? That's the simplest
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  Speaker 3: way I can ask it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think he's really trying to protect a
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  Speaker 2: young team Andy, and I don't blame him. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's how you would do it. You got a lot
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  Speaker 2: of young guys, especially a rookie quarterback. These are you know,
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  Speaker 2: these are gonna be bumpy for the quarterback especially, and
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  Speaker 2: keeping his confidence is going to be important, so and
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  Speaker 2: again I think they just simply have to sort of
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  Speaker 2: do better and acknowledging he's a rookie quarterback. I felt
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  Speaker 2: like in Seattle they called the game as if they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to prove he was advanced beyond his years and
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  Speaker 2: he's not a rookie relly and all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But that's how it felt to me. And I think
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  Speaker 2: if they do that over these next few weeks, I
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  Speaker 2: think that would be ill advised. So I don't think
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  Speaker 2: the stress level is too high yet, but a loss
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  Speaker 2: and the home opener and then you know, this ten
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  Speaker 2: day road trip could do a lot for the stress
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  Speaker 2: level going either way.
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  Speaker 3: I think all right.
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  Speaker 5: Just for fun, we had old Craig Wolfly on yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: man as old school as they come.
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  Speaker 3: I asked him about the Run game.
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  Speaker 5: He had a great story about his grandpa telling him
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  Speaker 5: to pick up the sledgehammer and keep sledgehammering, and he said,
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  Speaker 5: after twenty minutes again and done anything, and the guy
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  Speaker 5: said keep going and finally broke the rock and all.
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  Speaker 3: That and the Run games like that.
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  Speaker 5: Give me a good Craig Wolfly story, if you got
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  Speaker 5: one from your time in Pittsburgh, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, I don't really have a christ story. He wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in my wheelhouse when I was there. But I will
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  Speaker 2: tell you a run game story from when I was
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  Speaker 2: Bill Cower's first season. That year, Barry Foster carried the
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  Speaker 2: ball I think almost four hundred times. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was like three to ninety. And we asked Bill Kauer
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  Speaker 2: in November, when are you gonna stop handing the ball
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  Speaker 2: to Barry? And he said when his arms fall off.
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  Speaker 2: So that was his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, four hundred carries, But you spurred
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  Speaker 1: a thought for me real quick, Jeff. I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at your your boy Mel Kuiper's twenty twenty five Big
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  Speaker 1: board this week, and he's got Travis Hunter at number one.
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  Speaker 1: He's got Shador Sanders right now at number fourteen. He's
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  Speaker 1: listing Shador third amongst the quarterbacks. He has him below
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  Speaker 1: Carson Beck and Quinn Ewers and Leggie. I don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if this is a thing, but you're the
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  Speaker 1: guy to ask, because you're the one that talks to
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  Speaker 1: all the scouts and you're the guy that pays attention
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  Speaker 1: to these things. You know, you talk about Barry Foster
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  Speaker 1: and four hundred carries, right there. You know, we talk
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  Speaker 1: about backs coming into the league and you can ding
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  Speaker 1: guys based upon how many carries they had at the
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  Speaker 1: college level and say, you're wearing the tread off the tires.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's gonna come into the league banged up. This
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  Speaker 1: is a big concern. I wonder with a quarterback like
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  Speaker 1: Shadure that takes as many hits as he does, is
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  Speaker 1: there any thinking that's along the same lines when you
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  Speaker 1: look at a quarterback that has been running for his
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  Speaker 1: life and taking as many shots as Shador Sanders has
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  Speaker 1: in his time at Colorado, that scouts might look at
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  Speaker 1: that and say, we would have real health concerns based
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  Speaker 1: upon how many hits this guy took at the college level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there is some of that. I will tell you
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  Speaker 2: right now. The concern people have with Shadur and you
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  Speaker 2: know other folks that see you and argue it or not,
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you NFL personnel people wonder, are half concerns
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  Speaker 2: about the hits he's taken, that aret the offensive line's fault,
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  Speaker 2: that he is simply holding the ball too long on
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  Speaker 2: too many plays, and that that's part of poor decision making.
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  Speaker 2: That's now not just a guy quote unquote trying to
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  Speaker 2: make a play. That's a guy making bad decisions and
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  Speaker 2: plays like the interception the other night, if those are
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  Speaker 2: the ones that are just enormous red flags to personnel
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  Speaker 2: people because he knows better than that, and his footwork
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  Speaker 2: is starting to deteriorate. I already compared some of theirs
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  Speaker 2: see you game video to game video from Jackson State. Now,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're not facing nearly the rush you are like
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  Speaker 2: he's facing as CEU. But his footwork is regressing some
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  Speaker 2: and that seeing him drop, and uh, I think he
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  Speaker 2: I think NFL people just want to see him do
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  Speaker 2: better on the plays that are not the offensive line issues,
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  Speaker 2: better plays he's extending for for no reason other than
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  Speaker 2: he wants something bigger down the field.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, there's a lot to chew on right there. From
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald. We'll be talking about it an awful lot
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  Speaker 1: as the season goes along, the buff season, the Broncos season,
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  Speaker 1: and as we get closer to the draft. Jeff Legwald,
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  Speaker 1: everybody ESPN dot com check is latest right there. It
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  Speaker 1: is on how the Broncos can help bote Nicks out
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  Speaker 1: both against Pittsburgh and going forward beyond that. But yeah, ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: That's where you get Leggy Jeff, beautiful work man. Thanks Buddy,
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Fellas,