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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 10-27-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwall brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Workers IBEW Local sixty eight. You start with the job,
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  Speaker 1: you end with a career, Legy forty four to twenty
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  Speaker 1: four of the Broncos just beat the doors off the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys yesterday. As impressive a four quarter showing as
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  Speaker 1: we have seen out of this team, dominated in the
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  Speaker 1: trenches on both sides of the football. When a team
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  Speaker 1: plays as well as the Broncos did in almost every phase,
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  Speaker 1: and you went back and looked at it and started
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  Speaker 1: diving into the film. What jumped out at you from
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  Speaker 1: that performance by the Broncos, Well, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know it's it's at the risk of banging the drum again.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I go back to what bo Nick said
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  Speaker 2: earlier this season, and it kind of went under the radar,
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  Speaker 2: you know from all of us. Maybe he said, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm quoting him, when we run, we score, And I
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  Speaker 2: think that's what you saw is when there is a
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  Speaker 2: committe and again I'm not talking about the fifty to
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  Speaker 2: fifty balance of your but in their three best rushing.
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  Speaker 1: Ball though they did get it yesterday, Leggy, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, then their three best rushing games this year they're
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  Speaker 2: far closer to you know, sixty forty, you know, fifty
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  Speaker 2: seven forty three. I mean, they're right in that realm.
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  Speaker 2: In the three games they've they've rushed for at least
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  Speaker 2: one fifty Now, granted it's against three of the of
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  Speaker 2: the poorer defenses they've faced, but I do think it
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  Speaker 2: sets their tempo and it helps Nicks over which, if
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  Speaker 2: you know, if I'm the Broncos, I want to do
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  Speaker 2: anything and everything to help Bo Nicks, you know, be better,
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  Speaker 2: be more comfortable, to keep advancing his career. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: they run the ball well. He throws four touchdown passes.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and I think coming off the the frantic,
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  Speaker 2: you know, absolutely frantic fourth quarter against the Giants, I
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  Speaker 2: thought that was a good way for them to sort
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  Speaker 2: of regain their balance and move through the game.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff. One of the numbers that really jumped out of me.
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  Speaker 1: They averaged six point four yards per carry yesterday. The
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  Speaker 1: backs averaged four yards to carry before contact. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's dominance in the trenches yesterday for the Broncos. The RJ.
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  Speaker 1: Harvey forty yard touchdown run, Jeff, isn't humanly possible to
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  Speaker 1: block on a play better than the Broncos did, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean block at every level, at multiple positions. Like
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  Speaker 1: I went back and rewatched it, like everybody just stuck
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  Speaker 1: their block. In the case of Quinn Minors, he did
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  Speaker 1: it twice on that play. But I have to imagine
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwold, appreciator of good fundamental football, you had to
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  Speaker 1: have liked that one.
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  Speaker 2: I did. And I mean that's what they're good. That
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  Speaker 2: this is a big, physical offensive line. It was constructed
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  Speaker 2: to be a big, physical, movement worthy offensive line. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, I have a scout friend who calls what
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  Speaker 2: Minords did on that play chalk outline plays where you
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  Speaker 2: just obliterated defender and he obliterated you know, two of
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  Speaker 2: the poor first guy. You know, I'm not sure when
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  Speaker 2: he got up after that play, he must have felt like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was on I was six yards away
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  Speaker 2: from here when I when I last was standing. So
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  Speaker 2: but no, that's I think it's what they do well.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it isn't vogue now and all of
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  Speaker 2: those things, but I do think there is a balance
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  Speaker 2: for them to find and I think, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: Sean Payton can see more and more of the success
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  Speaker 2: with it, maybe they're willing to go through some of
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  Speaker 2: the two yard carries and the one yard carries because
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  Speaker 2: they they had those yesterday, but we don't remember them
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  Speaker 2: because everything else was so good. But Dobbins had a
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  Speaker 2: few one yard carries. He had two carries for negative yardage.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Harvey had a carry for negative yardage, but
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  Speaker 2: you don't remember it because they just sort of stuck
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  Speaker 2: with it. And I think the other stat that jumps
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  Speaker 2: out to me that's important because I believe the draft
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  Speaker 2: is foundational for a team is six touchdowns from first
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  Speaker 2: or second year players that are all their own draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: I think that is you know, you want to be
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  Speaker 2: good over the long haul. That's the kind of thing
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  Speaker 2: you want to see.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, do they need to Nate Haates's take? At what
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  Speaker 3: point do you think about having a conversation with Dobbins
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  Speaker 3: about next year or beyond? Before you know it gets
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  Speaker 3: even pricier.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Andy, I think with a running back,
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  Speaker 2: I think most teams are going to like hang back
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  Speaker 2: and wait a few moments on that. But no, there's
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  Speaker 2: no question you want to talk about getting good value
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  Speaker 2: for a signing. I mean, he didn't signed to a
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  Speaker 2: mini camp. It was a mandatory mini camp. That's the
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  Speaker 2: last organized on field activity of the off season, and
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  Speaker 2: he signed during that, So that's about as late in
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  Speaker 2: the game as you can get somebody before training camp,
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  Speaker 2: so they're getting spectacular value. I know he wants to
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  Speaker 2: be here, and they certainly like him in the locker
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  Speaker 2: room as much as they do on the field, So
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  Speaker 2: I think I think they will address it. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure I get a sense right now that
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  Speaker 2: they're thinking of an addressing it, you know, right at
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  Speaker 2: this moment. But I think both sides would want to
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  Speaker 2: see something beyond this year.
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the caveat of all the excitement, the
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  Speaker 1: injury stuff. What do we know right now about Patcertan
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  Speaker 1: and Marvin Mimes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's pretty quiet on the certain front, which always
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  Speaker 2: makes me wonder because you know, even people I speak
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  Speaker 2: to on a regular basis are not you know, out
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  Speaker 2: in that realm right now. So I I you know,
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  Speaker 2: I know he was, he was going to go through
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  Speaker 2: all the evaluations and the tests. Uh, if it's the shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've seen guys including Champ Bailey play with
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  Speaker 2: a harness, you know, and and do it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Champ actually played with a harness on for much of
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  Speaker 2: the last many years of his career. So, uh, that
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  Speaker 2: is possible and still played an elite level. You know.
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  Speaker 2: If it's a if it's a peck injury or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, it's it's different. I was told it's a shoulder,
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  Speaker 2: but he again that's not guaranteed, not verified, not you know,
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  Speaker 2: don't take that to the bank or any of that.
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  Speaker 2: But he was being evaluated, you know, last night and
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  Speaker 2: this morning. So I think that's where they're at. They
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  Speaker 2: they will likely have MRI results in hand and making
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  Speaker 2: decisions at that point. You know. The other concern is
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  Speaker 2: they're a little light at tight end now if Atkinson's
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  Speaker 2: knee injury is going to be an issue, so they
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  Speaker 2: may be looking to to to get another tight end
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  Speaker 2: in here as well.
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  Speaker 1: And then this is just a protocol thing.
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  Speaker 2: Now, well he is in the protocol, and now it's
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  Speaker 2: just how you progress us brute. It was interesting today
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  Speaker 2: that Sean and some of us had thought this was
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  Speaker 2: the case watching it happen live, but they were really
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  Speaker 2: trying to get him off the field before that kickoff return,
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  Speaker 2: and they sent Tyler Beday on, and Beday somehow he
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  Speaker 2: and Harvey made the switch and Harvey came out instead
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  Speaker 2: of Mims, and the day went in and Mims actually
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  Speaker 2: ended up getting injured on that kickoff. But I'm also
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  Speaker 2: curious Mimes took a huge helmet to helmet Git earlier
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  Speaker 2: in the game, and I think the kickoff return was
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  Speaker 2: probably more residual after that earlier.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, did you guys notice the next
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  Speaker 1: past to Mimes? He dropped it and it was thrown
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  Speaker 1: directly to him. And as soon as I saw that,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, all right, okay, I did just
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  Speaker 1: my enough.
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  Speaker 2: I was really surprised the spotter didn't stop play. It
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  Speaker 2: was a big enormous helmet to helmet hit right on
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  Speaker 2: the Broncos sideline.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, Jeff, who else if you were to give us
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  Speaker 3: some of the unsung heroes of yesterday, who'd be a
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  Speaker 3: couple people that you maybe single out. I mean, there
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  Speaker 3: it just feels like the most well it is not
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  Speaker 3: feels it's the most complete game they played in quite
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  Speaker 3: a while, probably the most complete game of the Sean
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  Speaker 3: Payton era. I'm pretty u ready to say, but who
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  Speaker 3: would you single out of some unsung heroes?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you got to give Abram Strain some love, because
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  Speaker 2: that ain't easy. Hey go in for certain, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't change the defensive game plan much after he
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  Speaker 2: went in there. They dialed it back a smidge, but
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  Speaker 2: he was basically tossed in there and and and played
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  Speaker 2: like he did in training camp in the preseason. So
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  Speaker 2: I think he fared really well. I think Justin Sternod
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  Speaker 2: needs to get a little shout out for how he's
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  Speaker 2: He's he's a much better, more well rounded player than
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  Speaker 2: when he's been asked to do as much of what
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  Speaker 2: he's being asked to do right now before and he's
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  Speaker 2: actually carved out a sort of a nice niche as
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  Speaker 2: a pass rusher blitzer, but he's playing the run great.
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  Speaker 2: I think he and Singleton had a really good game
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  Speaker 2: as a group as a pair yesterday, and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: Paulchesky filling in the way he is. I'm just telling
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  Speaker 2: you that guy may be a guard for a long
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  Speaker 2: time now, whether he knows it or not, but he
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  Speaker 2: he is. He is playing really well. But I think
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  Speaker 2: I think those would be the guys I think off
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  Speaker 2: right right, off.
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  Speaker 1: Hand, bon nigs Back.
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  Speaker 2: Allen, bt Allen. It just consistently. You know, he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: get the sort of a flamboyance of Benito and Cooper.
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  Speaker 2: But much like Derek Wolf in the in the twenty
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  Speaker 2: fifteen group, not much good happens if you don't have
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  Speaker 2: that guy in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff bow was nineteen to twenty nine two forty seven,
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  Speaker 1: four touchdowns yesterday, did have the early interception, but boy
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  Speaker 1: did he ever bounce back from that. As the sample
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  Speaker 1: size grows larger, the more you watch this guy play football,
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  Speaker 1: what are the keys that tells for you the difference
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  Speaker 1: between good Bow and erratic Bow.
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  Speaker 2: I go from the ground up, Nate. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: his footwork is right, he's exponential, a better quarterback. When
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  Speaker 2: his footwork is wrong, you get the first interception. And
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  Speaker 2: even you know, Sean Payton even said after the game
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  Speaker 2: his feet got away from him a little bit, and
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  Speaker 2: that you know, look, that's true for every quarterback. I
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  Speaker 2: just think we've in this era, we've become so infatuated
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  Speaker 2: with the off platform throw that we forget over the
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  Speaker 2: long haul, you're still going to need that footwork, and
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  Speaker 2: the off platform stuff has to be like your you know,
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  Speaker 2: the the dessert you need once in a while. You
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  Speaker 2: know that play you got to make once in a while.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be your your foundational But when his footwork
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  Speaker 2: is right, that's when he's at his best. And I
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  Speaker 2: think he's getting better at understanding what defenses are trying
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  Speaker 2: to do to him. And that tells me he spends
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  Speaker 2: an awful lot of time breaking it down and that
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  Speaker 2: he's a he's a pretty accountable player and and sort
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  Speaker 2: of learning what what are people trying to do to
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  Speaker 2: me to make my life difficult?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well yeah, yesterday nobody made his life difficulty. Barely
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  Speaker 1: got breathed on h He's Jefflegwalld. Everybody, ESPN dot Com
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  Speaker 1: re leggy stuff right now. We'll talk to him again
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  Speaker 1: on Friday ahead of the Texans game. Jeff, great stuff
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  Speaker 1: as always, man, Thank you, thanks fellows.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see it