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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi, and Kane 10-3-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: The backus at Shakers Studios. Serious Lawyers for the serious
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  Speaker 1: Lander Kicks if MHD one Grifield, Denver, Boulder.
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  Speaker 2: G Denver. It's Nate Krekman Samuel Lindahl join us from
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  Speaker 2: Gregman and Lindall today at three.
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  Speaker 3: This is Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Moser, Lombardy
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  Speaker 3: and Kin.
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  Speaker 4: Jill Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 3: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 2: The insider I've covered while Chef.
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  Speaker 1: It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just making sure we're making sure what I said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not giving you opportunities. No, I don't need an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity at my press companies.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want.
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to discuss injury. See if he's going
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  Speaker 2: on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see, all right, we'll see Zephyr fair, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see anything else. Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: LEGWALLDO VSPN dot com. Leggy, don't even think about asking
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  Speaker 4: me that question, don't you dare?
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  Speaker 3: Ever?
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  Speaker 2: Well, then I just asked it again. That's that's what happened.
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  Speaker 3: If you, if you ever asked me how I'm doing,
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  Speaker 3: I swear to God we're gonna get into it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, Leggie, we we heard that exchange in a Monday show.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, that night I did a show A Coach
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  Speaker 3: with Coach and d Mac and I couldn't believe it was.
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  Speaker 2: You probably weren't shocked, Vic, after standing in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of those rooms with me, But.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I'm not shocked. But I was really upset.
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  Speaker 3: I was upset for this reason. We saw a man
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  Speaker 3: on the field that had to be stretched out, and
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  Speaker 3: we obviously are all concerned and empathizing and sympathizing, and
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  Speaker 3: I get it. He probably wanted to alert the family first, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: but you're just exchanging information because people are genuinely concerned,
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  Speaker 3: and his reaction to that genuine concern was out of pocket.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like it, and I have no problem. Sean
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  Speaker 3: Payton known that that was ridiculous. Having that kind of
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  Speaker 3: exchange about a man's injury is ridiculous. It's not about you, Sean,
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  Speaker 3: It's about the God that got hurt. It's not about you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care if it's your press conference. It's about
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  Speaker 3: the God that got hurt. That's my thought.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I guess I conveyed later that the
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  Speaker 2: thought was, you know, sort of America saw this young
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  Speaker 2: guy go out on the off the field on a backboard,
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  Speaker 2: and you know that's you know, my job is to
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  Speaker 2: get updates information and people can answer questions anyway they choose,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, but to me that it's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: low key exchange on my list of exchanges I've had
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  Speaker 2: with head coaches over thirty eight years. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: I just thought because of the appearance, the optics of
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  Speaker 2: a you know, Tyler Baday going off the field on
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  Speaker 2: a strap to a backboard after collapsing on the sideline,
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  Speaker 2: that you know, telling people he was going to go
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  Speaker 2: home on the plane or that he would be back
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  Speaker 2: in Denver, you know later that night. I didn't think
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  Speaker 2: was too much, But you know, that's I've always said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, my job's to ask the questions and people
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  Speaker 2: can answer them anyway. They choose Jeff.
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  Speaker 4: Lagwe with a ESPN I com so to the game
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  Speaker 4: LEGI look, I don't know who would have had, especially
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  Speaker 4: after an zero to two start. The Broncs at five
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  Speaker 4: hundred through four weeks. But what's your biggest takeaway from
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  Speaker 4: the last couple And we can talk more specifically about
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  Speaker 4: the Jets game, But is it just about this defense
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  Speaker 4: and how good they are? What's the main takeaway for you?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean the defense has played four and o
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  Speaker 2: good in my opinion, but that you know that it
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  Speaker 2: is what's carried them. I mean they they have one
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  Speaker 2: touchdown pass as a team, and they haven't run the
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  Speaker 2: ball very well except for a couple of halves of games.
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  Speaker 2: They're not doing much heavy lifting on offense. This is
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  Speaker 2: decidedly a defensive effort, and you know it will be
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  Speaker 2: difficult for any team to keep up the scoring defense
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  Speaker 2: pace the Broncos have going right now. You know, thirteen
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  Speaker 2: point eight in the NFL is you know the same
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  Speaker 2: homecoming weekends. You know that's that's hard to do in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, keep anybody under twenty. Even so, they're they're
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  Speaker 2: doing some stuff defensively. I think, you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: Vans Joseph has done a really good job of mixing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things from you know, his time with
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  Speaker 2: Wade Phillips. I see a lot of Wade Phillips's influences.
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  Speaker 2: I know I've talked to Mike Sandford about it, but
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  Speaker 2: you know there's there's Jim Leonard influences in there, the
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  Speaker 2: new secondary coach, and that just tells you Vance is
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  Speaker 2: something a really good coach needs to be. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a good listener because I see a lot of influences
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  Speaker 2: and I certainly see a lot of things Vance believes.
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  Speaker 2: And they have nine different players with sacks right now,
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  Speaker 2: and that's certainly something Vance Joseph believes in.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's sticking with the theme, it is Mike Sanford,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm filling in formosure today. So
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  Speaker 1: the show got dumber and a lot less cool, But
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  Speaker 1: you just sticking with the theme of defense. With the
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  Speaker 1: amount of pressures, particularly even six man seven man hits
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  Speaker 1: cover zero has been it's showing up at a higher
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  Speaker 1: rate than any other team in the National Football League.
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  Speaker 1: The performance of the defensive backs in particular Riley Moss,
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  Speaker 1: Patzertanu in Jakwan McMillan. What do you what do you
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  Speaker 1: make of just that trust that Vance Joseph has in
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  Speaker 1: them to play Manda Man coverage with no safety help
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  Speaker 1: on a fairly high percentage of the snaps.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's a luxury. A lot of NFL
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  Speaker 2: teams don't have Mike. I mean, you know, here's what
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  Speaker 2: we see, here's my here's my awesome analysis of you know,
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  Speaker 2: study pastser Tan's pretty damn good. And I think Riley
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  Speaker 2: Moss is ahead of schedule, really competitive player. And I've
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  Speaker 2: always felt if you're going to be the corner opposite
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  Speaker 2: the alpha, the biggest thing attribute you can have is competitiveness,
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  Speaker 2: because you just you just can't get bothered by what happened,
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  Speaker 2: And no matter how much you'd like to be bothered
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  Speaker 2: by it, or how much a normal person would be
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  Speaker 2: bothered by it, you can't get bothered by it. And
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  Speaker 2: Riley Moss is competitive, he's tough, he's athletic. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that is a that's a quality draft find for them.
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  Speaker 2: And McMillan is one of the best nickel corners in
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  Speaker 2: the league. So they have probably the best corner, one
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  Speaker 2: of the best nickel corners, and they have one of
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  Speaker 2: the best young corners in the league. And that gives
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  Speaker 2: you the luxury if you're vance Joseph to play a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the cover zero because you feel like you
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  Speaker 2: can match up because the number one receiver, you know,
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  Speaker 2: for the opposition needs a you know, basically the route
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  Speaker 2: of his life on every play to get the ball.
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  Speaker 2: And unless patch Er ten makes a mistake, and he's human,
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  Speaker 2: he'll make one or two. But they really have a
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  Speaker 2: luxury a lot of teams don't have, and it really
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  Speaker 2: sort of reflects, you know, what football is right now.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have corners like that, you're really going
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  Speaker 2: to struggle to play defense in the league and it's
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  Speaker 2: a difficult position to get that many people that you
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  Speaker 2: feel comfortable with.
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  Speaker 3: Legy I think these next two home games are huge,
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  Speaker 3: monumentally huge for various reasons, primarily the fact that you're
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  Speaker 3: playing two division rivals, you're tied with those rivals, you
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  Speaker 3: have a chance to take a leg up. You're playing
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  Speaker 3: a team this week that you haven't beaten in eight tries.
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  Speaker 3: It's been four years. My question to you is what
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  Speaker 3: happened to the Broncos home field advantage when it was
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  Speaker 3: truly an advantage. Even the Bronco teams of yesteryear that were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, mediocre, they always won it home. You always
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  Speaker 3: had that assurance home games were like, Okay, don't worry
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  Speaker 3: about it, they're at home. That's gone. What happened to that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got I think about that a lot, because
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm like you, It used to be even
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  Speaker 2: average Bronco teams would be you know, five and three
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  Speaker 2: at home back in the sixteen game schedule years. I
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  Speaker 2: think my opinion is they've wasted a lot of not
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  Speaker 2: awesome defensive efforts, but good defensive efforts they've wasted over
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  Speaker 2: the years because it's been a long time since they've
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  Speaker 2: been a consistent offense that sort of knew what it was.
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  Speaker 2: I year after year and even this year, I see
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  Speaker 2: Bronco offenses sort of not play to who they are,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I've said it, and I know people
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  Speaker 2: are probably sick of it, but this is yet another
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  Speaker 2: year where they're playing offense the way they wish they
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  Speaker 2: were instead of what they are, and I think that's
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  Speaker 2: why the home field advantage is gone. I feel like
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  Speaker 2: Mike Shanahan's Broncos teams and Gary Kobiax and even you know,
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  Speaker 2: back to Dan Reeves. I think those teams played to
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  Speaker 2: who they were, what their roster was, what they could
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  Speaker 2: do best, and I don't always feel that way over
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  Speaker 2: the last eight years of offenses the Broncos have put
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  Speaker 2: on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Javante entered that game last week averaging two yards to carry,
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  Speaker 4: and then he had sixteen carries for twenty two yards.
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  Speaker 4: Did he find something last week?
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  Speaker 2: Like the Broncos Final was something? I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm an old man. I like duo in the run game.
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  Speaker 2: I like you know, inside tosses. I liked, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the inside zone plays. I think they had more things
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  Speaker 2: that he does better, Like we were just talking about
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  Speaker 2: just play to what you can do better, and he
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  Speaker 2: was more decisive when they ran those plays. I think
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  Speaker 2: it was a combination of both. It was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I have a comfort level with this, and he was
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  Speaker 2: far more decisive in those plays. Now you know, I
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  Speaker 2: charted it and I haven't added it up. If some
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  Speaker 2: of it may be anecdotal or it might be full
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  Speaker 2: of crap, but it just felt like they were doing
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  Speaker 2: more of those power looks on the interior and they're
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  Speaker 2: better at that than they are pushing it to the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: Leggy, I'm actually looking at the stats right now, and
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  Speaker 1: right now, the Broncos are fourth in the NFL and
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards over expected plus forty four when running in
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  Speaker 1: between the tackles, and then conversely when running outside the
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  Speaker 1: tight end surface twenty fifth at negative thirty one yards
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  Speaker 1: rushing yards over expected. And it's so interesting to think
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  Speaker 1: about the interior pass game, excuse me, the interior run game,
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  Speaker 1: and also contrasting that versus what maybe Sean Payton is
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  Speaker 1: going to want to do in terms of face sing
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  Speaker 1: a Raiders defense that's twenty second in the league in
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  Speaker 1: pass efficiency on the defensive side of the ball. Can
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton lean into the success that it found in
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  Speaker 1: the second half to make the I guess the next
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  Speaker 1: right decision to get to three and two?
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  Speaker 2: And want to know in your division, Well, if you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's certainly helped the Broncos mic if if Max Crosby
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  Speaker 2: didn't play, he's he's spent a nightmare for them over
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  Speaker 2: the past few years. But I you know yet, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I you know again, it's only a year. In four
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  Speaker 2: games but I consistently have seen Sean Payton leave the
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  Speaker 2: running game during games because it's you know, I just
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  Speaker 2: feel like he's trying to get to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the other things on the play sheet that he wants
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  Speaker 2: to get to. So I, you know, I don't often
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  Speaker 2: see with him, and just in my limited time watching
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  Speaker 2: his offense, but I would often see Shanahan and Kubiak
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  Speaker 2: just pound the same plays as a defense until they
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  Speaker 2: figured out a way to stop them. I don't think
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  Speaker 2: these Broncos always do that, and sometimes I think that
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  Speaker 2: lets the defense off the hook. They did it a
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  Speaker 2: little more in New York because out of necessity, you know,
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  Speaker 2: would they have looked that way on a sunny day.
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  Speaker 2: I have my doubts. So I think that's the question
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  Speaker 2: if at least until a rookie quarterback gets his feat
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  Speaker 2: under him. And I don't have any idea why the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos seemed to be in such a rush to sort
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  Speaker 2: of prove bo Nicks is not like other rookie quarterbacks
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  Speaker 2: instead of just giving him some help. And how they're
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  Speaker 2: calling games, and what you're saying is how would really
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  Speaker 2: help him? Is you know, even if runs are stinky
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  Speaker 2: from time to time. Just keep pounding it in there.
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  Speaker 2: You've proven it can work if you just hang in
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  Speaker 2: there with it a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Leggy, Can I interest you in my top five games
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  Speaker 2: Certainly, vic I love you. Would you remember when, all.
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  Speaker 3: Right, somebody hit the commercial break and we'll get to.
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  Speaker 4: That right, exactly right. Jeff Owys appreciate the time.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Leggy, Thanks smell. Let's take care.
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