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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 4/19/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football,
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  The Insider I've covered a little while Jeff leg His appearances are always must listen
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  radio. You learn a lot's Leggy Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Yes
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  it is Jeff Legwald. Tom In a Friday afternoon, he joins us on
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  Visit ramos Law dot com. Jeff Legwald with us on a Friday, Leggy,
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  how are you man? I'm great? Are you guys? We're doing
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  well? Leggy Okay, I'm gonna have a non quarterback portion of the conversation
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  when it comes to the draft. So I think Joe Waltz going seven to
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  Tennessee after that tackle is kind of up in the air. You got Fuagga.
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  You have jac Latham, who we have talked about for the Broncos.
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  If they were to go tackle, what's George Peyton brought up as a possibility
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  the other day. If they were to go tackle at twelve? Number one,
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  who is best fit? And number two? How do you make that
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  guy fit in his rookie year? Well? I mean, I think if
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  you're go tackle there, you're thinking I think they're thinking you get a little
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  time before a decision on bulls has to be made, or you know,
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  I think because of mcglinchy's contract the plan, that he's very positioned specific,
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  at least I think he's various positioned position specific that you're thinking it's a left
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  it's a left tackle, and I know that there will be some value of
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  the board there for them, but it would still surprise me, I think
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  because he also said yesterday George Peyton, that pick has to hit and it
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  has to be an impact player, which which to me says impact player in
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  the short term. So you could certainly get a long term solution at tackle
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  there, but that's not the immediate impact unless you're gonna move Bowles, you
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  know, in some fashion upon the arrival of the new tackle. I guess
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  that's that's where I come down on it. All right, Jeff, you
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  know what, I'm just gonna get out of the way because I like it
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  when you and Nate have a hearty, robust debate. All right, Nate,
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  tell him who your guy is at quarterback and let me just hear the
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  give and take, because honestly, I don't. I don't. I'm not
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  out on your dude, but he's one of the guys I've got negative reviews
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  about for multiple people. Oh, I like Drake May. Leggy, where
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  do you come down on Drake May? You know, I personally think he
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  won't be there when lebron because they're picking. I can't imagine. I've also
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  put him deeper deeper in the round or you know, I had twenty one
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  first round grades. I gave him one of the first second round grades at
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  quarterback. You know, obviously physicality he is. You know, if you
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  drew it up on a drawing board, that's what a quarterback looks like.
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  I think developmentally, he's there's some work to do there, and he's a
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  little behind, you know, a couple of the other guys, and in
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  my mind, but he's certainly at least the information I have right now,
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  I would be stunned if he was even an option for the Broncos at twelve.
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  He's going top three, right, you know, I still yeah,
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  I mean, we all the conventional wisdom is that four quarterbacks are going in
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  the top five picks, and you know, I just continue to offer that
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  that will be historical. And I had nobody tell me this season that this
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  was the best quarterback class they had ever seen or anything close to that.
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  So I still struggle with on draft day, will this very sort of normal
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  regular quarterback class be drafted in a historical fashion. But you know, an
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  awful lot of people sure think it could happen. So yeah, I think.
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  I think the possibility of four quarterbacks going in the top five picks is
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  very real, and I think I think people around the league are mocking it
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  so they're ready in case it happens. It's just never happened before. And
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  you know, five quarterbacks in the top twelve has only happened one other time
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  ever since the merger in nineteen seventy, and that was in nineteen ninety nine.
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  Did you grade JJ McCarthy above Drake May? One spot? Really close
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  grade for me, And most of it is we don't have the data on
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  McCarthy, right, you know, it's it's a projection pick, and I
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  factor in, you know, the sort of the possibility of ascension for the
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  player. How much room to grow is there? Because I believe that's part
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  of the pro equation, and I think there's just more room for him to
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  grow than than Drake May right now. I mean May at twenty one years
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  old, big athletic freak. I think he's only going to get stronger.
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  My here's the thing, and Jeff, I don't disagree with you that I
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  think that Drake May is more of a project. He needs to be drafted
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  by a team that is going to be fully committed to him and he play
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  him right away. That's my concern. A team that plays him right away
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  will not get the fruits of their labor because can he play through the issues
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  with his footwork. That that's going to be my biggest question on him.
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  But Andy and I talked about this yesterday and i'd like to get your read
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  on this. On Drake May, I think that his I think his arm,
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  I think his his accuracy, his athleticism is good, but it's not
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  elite. But I think that Sean Payton would be intrigued enough by those items
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  and he would look at, okay, some of the pre snaper recognition stuff,
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  maybe missing some of the layup throws, forcing things, And I think
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  it's fair to wonder a bad North Carolina team how much was he forcing things?
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  But I believe that Sean Payton. A coach like Sean Payton would view
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  a prospect like Drake May and say, there's a hell of a lot of
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  things this guy has that just don't grow on trees. I can coach up
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  the other stuff and let me tag onto that Leggy. We've heard a lot
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  of people say bo Nicks is the ideal fit for what Payton wants to do.
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  Are they saying that because they don't think May would be there? Given
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  the true get Let's just isolate it to two. If Nixon May's meant miraculously
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  are both staying there? And I say that form May at twelve, which
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  way do you think he's going for Sean Payton? I mean May is a
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  better prospect, So you know, I mean my my comp for May and
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  my evaluation not in terms of size or you know, physical things, but
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  he decision making and his eyes are what concerned me, and particularly in the
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  red zone. And my comp is is sort of Jay Cutler, who was
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  the SEC player of the Year at Belle was last year at Bandy and he
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  had to play a lot the same way May has had to play to lift
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  his team. And Jay never really left those red zone decision making issues completely
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  in the past, no matter how good his coach was. Now, Mike
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  Shanahan has always contended if things had worked out and and Pat Bollen didn't fire
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  him, that he believed he could iron all those things out. But we
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  never saw it in Jay's career, even as gifted physically as Jay was,
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  and that that would be my concern. You know again, you know sportswriter
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  guy talking about the quarterback guys, guys from Chicago used Timmy a lot when
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  we're when we're taught, when we're discussing, you know things. But now
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  that's my concern with Drake man it. You know, look, I gave
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  him my second grade of the second round. That's not like a bad prospect.
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  That's a really good prospect. So it's not like I'm dinging the guy
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  or anything like that. I think bo Nicks would be a huge overreach in
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  the first round at twelve, and almost virtually everyone I've talked to in the
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  league believes the same thing. Here's my question on bon Nicks, Leggy and
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  the evaluation there in trying to project what he'll be as a pro. His
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  average depth of target when he was at Oregon, We've never seen a quality
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  NFL prospect that had numbers that minuscule, that was constantly throwing the ball that
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  shallow. And again, I know, this is what is what pro day
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  workouts and for this is what combine is for all of those things. But
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  like, how do you take a prospect like Boon Nicks and project what he'll
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  be as a pro when he's going to be asked to, you know,
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  occasionally fling the ball down the field or at least to the intermediate level.
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  Yeah no, I mean again, you're working without data. That's why evaluators
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  love evaluating SEC players because you answer more questions. They face better competition every
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  week, they face better schemes every week, they face everything that is more
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  closely relate to the NFL game every single week than any other player in any
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  other league in the country. And you don't have the data with Nicks and
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  some scouts, whether it's fair or not, it probably isn't fair because of
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  how well he played at Oregon, but some scouts can't shake how it all
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  looked in the SEC. You know, when he was playing in the SEC.
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  So all of those things are part of the evaluation. But I think
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  it's the number I've heard is sixty percent of his throws line of scrimmage or
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  behind the line of scrimmage, and that is enormously high total. All right,
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  Jeff, I got to ask you, you know, the mocks are
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  making the round. Apparently there's this leaked proto type of the Broncos. Jersey's
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  not exactly loving what I've seen. I know you've hinted that you did get
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  a glance at some of these. Note I'm not sure anyone's actually seen the
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  final product. I guess a. I know you're busy with what you got
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  going on draft wise. Have you been able to see what's been making the
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  rounds on Twitter as the Broncos new uniforms. If so, how close are
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  they to what you think they're gonna be? Uh? You know, I
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  haven't seen much on social media today. It pretty hard on getting my stuff
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  done, But you know, and I guess I'm I'm I'm an odd duck.
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  I know, but the uniforms that really doesn't move the needle for me
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  much. But you know, I uh, you know, I've seen a
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  few early prototypes that had some described to me and uh again, I I
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  they were looking for a change, but not too big a one and that's
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  how it's always been praise to me. But I have not seen the ones
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  making the rounds. One. We've got white and blue triangles on the on
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  the home ones. They're on the sleeves, so like top of the sleeves
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  white with almost a blue stripe below it, and then the rest of the
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  sleeves orange. What do you come down on triangles in the top five shyeah,
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  yeah, you know, geometry, Uh, you know, always big
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  for for for geometry, but uh uh you know, And that was one
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  I thought, like wedges, like wedges on the shoulder, Yeah, that
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  was that was a version that had been described to me pretty early in the
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  process. Are the wedges of orange cheese that are that are on the sleeve
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  because I believe the packers they've got a monopoly on that more cheddar, more
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  cheddar. But you know, and I think you know, again there was
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  there was some leaning early on by the folks at Nike and everything that you
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  know, it would have a little flavor of of the older Bronco uniforms in
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  there somewhere, and those triangles or whatever. We're part of the very first
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  or some of the very first jerseys, So wouldn't shock me well, Jeffery
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  reminds me of a uniform. There was that bucking Bronco uniform they had that
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  the Raiders just absolutely slaughtered them in back in ninety three Wave Phillips first year.
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  You're giving me nightmare flashbacks to that thing. By the way, not
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  a fan. Are these going to be fanatics manufactured? And if so,
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  we'll be able to see the tucked in portion of the jersey through the pants,
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  so it looks like the players are all wearing diapers. Yeah, that
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  would be a huge a lot of angry guys. That'd be a problem if
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  that works out. Really small numbers on the back numbers, and that's like
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  censor day broadcasts. By the way, did you guys have it as see?
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  This is this is a deep pull, I know, but did you
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  guys have it to see? So Nike's already getting all this heat from Major
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  League Baseball? Then they they they did the release on the track and field
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  uniforms. It was all the Olympics uniforms for this summer and like the the
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  speedo sort of bikini bottom things for the track and field team. Yeah,
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  they're pretty sexy. Well that those are high contegs. Some of the female
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  athletes have said we can't wear these. Yeah, they're gonna Hey, we're
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  gonna have to combine. Spill out happening again, Chris, you have to
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  do some wax before you go wearing that platform. Dude, you have to
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  get a kenon. Barbie's what you're gonna have to do. Welcome to Paris.
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  That's what well done. We wait, Jeff, everybody see that one
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  coming out of Leggy. Leggy were six days away? Who they taking in
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  the first? Tell them before we let you go exactly in the first we
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  got three more times to ask you. Who is it today? Timmy,
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  I'm still thinking edge rusher is the strength of the board right then, Jared,
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  especially if the quarterbacks go four quarterbacks go on the top four or five
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  or seven picks, Uh, edge rusher, They're gonna be looking at an
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  edge rusher and maybe even have a crack at bowers. Jared Verse, all
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  right, there we go, give me some bowers. Uh. Leggy good
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  stuff is always buddy, Thank you, thanks Bells. We'll see it.