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Jeff Legwold 10-23-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Langwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 2: I've covered the league a little while.
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  Speaker 1: Chef Legwald, He's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 1: Start with the jomp and with the career.
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  Speaker 4: It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio five. Yeah, Jeff, brought
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  Speaker 4: Local sixty eight. Start with a job and with a career.
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  Speaker 4: Seeing the news Jeff that Bryce Shawn will start instead
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  Speaker 4: of Andy Dalton, How, if anything, does that change the
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  Speaker 4: uh the focus for the Broncos this week?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure it changes, you know, what the
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  Speaker 2: hell they would sort of attack one of the league's
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  Speaker 2: worst offenses. But I think it does give them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: at least the indication of who to look at as
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  Speaker 2: they prepare here, so you know, just on the specific
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  Speaker 2: things each guy does better or worse, but uh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that their offense as a whole there is is either
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  Speaker 2: last or near last in every statistical category right now,
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  Speaker 2: no matter who's the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff We've been having a pretty hearty conversation about whether
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos should be buyers at the trade deadline, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm just curious your thoughts. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: this team's in a position where it makes sense to
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  Speaker 1: make a mid season addition? And I'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: specific example that we were talking about afterwards, But I'm
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  Speaker 1: just curious your thoughts there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I you know it, certainly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: fans would want them to be, you know, out there
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  Speaker 2: looking that you know, they they have almost one hundred
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  Speaker 2: million dollars of cats they can't use right now because
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  Speaker 2: of dead money or guys on injured reserve, and they
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  Speaker 2: only have about five million in cap space, and they've
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  Speaker 2: already redone all of the contracts they can do to
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  Speaker 2: make cap space big enough to add a player, you know, already,
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  Speaker 2: like they added three years three voidable years to Courtland
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  Speaker 2: Sutton's contract, a player they didn't even want to give
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  Speaker 2: a raise to so they could sign pets or canned. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, at this point in the year, you could
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  Speaker 2: add a guy because his salary is pro rated and
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  Speaker 2: essentially say we're turning all of this salary into bonus
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  Speaker 2: and give them the cash and take the cap figure down,
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  Speaker 2: but you'd have to add some voidable years and all
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  Speaker 2: of those things things they've already done, probably too much
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  Speaker 2: for teams that are really concerned about a soundar cap
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  Speaker 2: problem down the road, you know already. So yes, they
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  Speaker 2: can do it, but it would be a heavy lift,
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  Speaker 2: and and they're already creating a lot of trouble for
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  Speaker 2: later that they would only be adding to. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: are they good? Are you really good enough right now
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  Speaker 2: to like sort of make that move, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: know that's a tough call to me.
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: What about what about selling? And the one positional group
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about was actually edge rushers, not because
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  Speaker 1: you don't like him, You love all of them. But
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  Speaker 1: do you think that the Broncos can realistically hold on
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  Speaker 1: to all four of these guys because they all kind
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  Speaker 1: of come up for contracts around similar times.
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  Speaker 2: Right, I mean, that's that's also a reason you would
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  Speaker 2: sort of, you know, look around and see what you
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  Speaker 2: could get. I think I think they really like how
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  Speaker 2: it's coming coming together right now. You know, they they
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  Speaker 2: are creating, uh, you know, one of the best pass
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  Speaker 2: rushers in the league without sort of the dominant, you know,
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  Speaker 2: marquee edge rushers, So I think they like the group
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  Speaker 2: as is. I think it would take a pretty good offer. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: it would surprise me if before the deadline gets here
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  Speaker 2: that somebody doesn't at least tap the microphone about one
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  Speaker 2: of their quarterbacks to just given the state of affairs
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  Speaker 2: around the league right now, including.
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  Speaker 3: The team on your schedule this year maybe in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 3: how's Boonicks done? What have you seen progression wise and
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  Speaker 3: what are some of the true numbers that maybe we
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  Speaker 3: haven't paid close enough attention to to show that there's
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  Speaker 3: probably a lot of improvements to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Scotty, I think that he's got this weird combination.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I've seen it as drastic as this.
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  Speaker 2: You know, for a long time, he's in the top
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  Speaker 2: eight in attempts PAS attempts. I think he's tied for
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  Speaker 2: eighth right now. So he's busy. I mean, he's one
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  Speaker 2: of the busiest quarterbacks in the league. And he's also
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  Speaker 2: one of the worst in the league in completion percentage
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  Speaker 2: and yards per completion. So throwing a lot. They're asking
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  Speaker 2: him to throw a lot, and he's not completing a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the shortest passes, so it is really it's
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  Speaker 2: a weird combination, and they seem bound in determined to
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  Speaker 2: keep him busy no matter what the numbers tell them.
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  Speaker 2: I thought in New Orleans it was I thought they
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  Speaker 2: had to be different because Sean Payton probably felt like
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  Speaker 2: there were so many people on the Saint staff that
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  Speaker 2: knew his offense that to me, they actually played the
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  Speaker 2: way they should more often. But he will not commit
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  Speaker 2: to that beyond you know, its opponent driven. But to me,
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  Speaker 2: they used more play action than any game they've they've
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  Speaker 2: had since Week one, and they used him on called
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  Speaker 2: runs and he was far more comfortable in those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of situations. I think he had a you know, I
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  Speaker 2: think he had over half his sixty percent of his
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  Speaker 2: passing yards out of pet play action. So but I
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  Speaker 2: asked him, you know, Sean Payton about play action Monday,
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  Speaker 2: and he he shoved it aside as if it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: a non existent stat So, uh, I think that's the
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  Speaker 2: way they should play. Whether they will do that or
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  Speaker 2: not remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what's your prediction for most cliche answer? To make
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  Speaker 4: it seem like the Panthers are any good at anything today.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think you're gonna hear?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know the phrase you have to look
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  Speaker 2: at the film will be shut in some fashions, we
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  Speaker 2: don't go by numbers. We don't go by then, and
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  Speaker 2: you got to look at the film.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so we're going to we'll look for that. Well,
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  Speaker 4: listen for we got to look at the film. If
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  Speaker 4: you guys only looked at the film, if we looked
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  Speaker 4: at the film, Okay, don't look at the numbers, look
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  Speaker 4: at the film.
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  Speaker 2: Get your seat or they get paid to. There'll be all.
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  Speaker 4: Right, Jeff will enjoy it today. It's you know, on paper.
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  Speaker 4: Games aren't played on paper, Jeff. We all know that
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  Speaker 4: they're not played on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Mac, you know you've been on this, you know
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  Speaker 2: we've all been around here a while. That this is
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  Speaker 2: one of those games where I've seen over the years
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  Speaker 2: where if they don't score early, the home crop gets
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  Speaker 2: really mad. Yeah, and that that to me, I have
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  Speaker 2: seen that cause a little trouble over the years, that
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  Speaker 2: like if they don't score the first two drive.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you got a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of peeve to people like raining down on the home team.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, if this is if This is like ten and three,
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  Speaker 4: ten to three Broncos at halftime. It is going to
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  Speaker 4: be seventy thousand booze as they walk off the fields,
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  Speaker 4: even if they're.
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  Speaker 2: Leading enough to pick up your raw, fewery and buncore.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Jeff, we'll talk to you next week. Thanks Jeff,