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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 2/27/24 · 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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  passionate gamers and betters across the state. It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  two five. It's Cregman and Lyndall. It's Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  We go to Indianapolis right now. Jeff Legwald is brought to you by
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  Jeff Lagwald, how you doing, man, I'm great. We're doing well,
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  Jeff. The Peyton's talk Sean and George and anything that was said today
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  that you were like, ooh, a hint was dropped, a direction was
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  perhaps, uh, you know, for shadow or anything like that. You
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  had your ears perked up. What you hear today, you know, Nat,
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  I'll tell you I think the just the tone and how they approached answers,
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  you could tell a lot of the sort of hey, it could all
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  still work out with Russell was really just lip service that you know they're acting
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  and using past tense and all of these things, that it will be over,
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  I think unless there's some remarkable intervention with owner CEO Greg Penner when they
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  get back from the combine next week. But it sounds like they will have
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  an organizational set of meetings when they get back from the combine next week that
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  Greg Penner will be included in. And after that I think we get the
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  formal decision on Russell Wilson, and just from working the rooms here, I
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  think the Jared Stidham and veteran quarterback to be named later is the bridge idea.
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  Unless one of these rookies they think they can actually have a shot at
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  in the draft, wows them and you know in this process, or they
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  meet somebody here they really think they should dive into a little more, all
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  right, you know. To that point, it was funny because George Payton
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  was asked both about moving up and moving back, and he said, clearly,
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  as you would guess, it's easier to move back than to move up,
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  mainly because you're taking the offers and not trying to put one together.
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  What do you think is more likely after talking everybody out there, Well,
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  I mean, there's a lot of ground to cover before you know that really
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  would happen in terms of pro days and the rest of it. I think
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  it's very clear that the run could really be on quarterbacks, and they may
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  be out of luck if they can't move up at all, But they would
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  be left with a very very very good player on the board who could be
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  like a ten to twelve year player, but just not a quarterback. And
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  I think that's what they're going to have to wrestle with when when the draft
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  weekend rolls around, because the quarterbacks are going to be overdrafted because they always
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  are. But given that most people are not real confident about next year's class
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  already, I think the run could be a little more vigorous this year,
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  and they could be left out because they really have no firepower to move up
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  without trading. You know what little talent they have right now, or you
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  know what little top tier talent they have right now on their roster. A
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  vigorous run. Jeff Legwall joins us from Indianapolis. Leggie, we played the
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  comments from Sean Payton about Marvin Mims. You know, when you're talking about
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  how many good players does this team have guys with potential, guys that very
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  well could be you know, real difference making talents as a part of this
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  team. Marvin Mims is a guy that jumps off the page. He's already
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  gone to one Pro Bowl, albeit as a special teamer. What did you
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  make of Sean Peyton's comments on Marvin Mims and what does that pretend for what
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  his role could be next year. I think they have big plans for him,
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  Nate. I mean, you know, in retrospect, I think even
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  Sean Peyton would admit they did not get the rookies involved enough. I do
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  know in house they feel like Riley Moss could be ready to be the corner
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  opposite of Pets or Ten, that that really is realistically an option for that
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  instead of having to go in a free agency or using that first rounder on
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  a corner they like, really like Riley Moss. When they went through their
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  review meetings right after the season, that was one player I know for a
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  fact they talked about a lot and trying to get him on the field,
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  and I think, you know, I think one of the things Sean Payton
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  would have to put on his lists that didn't go as well as they should
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  have is they did not get the rookie class involved, and it's a rookie
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  class they like in house, So it's really a quirk of the season.
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  You know. It's not like they were, you know, all in for
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  some kind of Super Bowl run, and yet they still didn't get the young
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  guys on the field. And that is one aspect that their their cap situation
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  and their draft picks situation this year is going to force them to they are
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  going to have to put the twenty twenty three draft class on the field next
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  year. In a lot of ways, Hey, Leggie, I maybe this
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  I should probably hold my water on this question. This would probably better be
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  better for a day where we're hanging out in studio we can really expand on
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  things. But still, I mean what you just said right there sort of
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  sparked something that I've kind of wondered about this team. And this question might
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  sound dumb on the sir, But in some ways, Leggy, and in
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  many different facets of the team, did the winning streak kind of mess things
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  up a little bit last year in terms of the plan, in terms of
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  the development, in terms of getting this organization in the best place it could
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  be going forward. You know this upcoming season and beyond. You know,
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  I don't think it's the win streak. I know where you're going, and
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  I I feel that I think it's what happens. It's like when you want
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  a young player to work on a particular item in his game, you can't
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  really get that done during the season. And I think I think coaching staffs
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  especially think so short term during the season. This week, you know,
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  that's their vision this week, and pretty soon it's past Thanksgiving, and these
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  guys you want to get playing time, you haven't. You haven't done it
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  because you're into this week. You know, we gotta get X number of
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  snaps for this veteran guy or we can't play, you know, he said,
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  He said multiple times now that couldn't get Marvin on the field more because
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  you know, he plays the same position as Judy. Well, you know,
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  it just shows that they're so dialed into dealing with the opponent that they
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  don't always deal with the ten thousand foot issues, which is uh and the
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  and the just the simple fact the NFL regular season is not a developmental time
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  and it just it just doesn't work like that unless it happens organically, and
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  he forced to put a guy on the field and he just you know,
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  he just takes off from there. But you know, their situation right now,
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  I think will keep them out of that. Next year, they're gonna
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  have to play young players and they're gonna have to deal with it, and
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  they're gonna have to get it right when they pick them because that they're gonna
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  have to be on field this time, they won't have the luxury or the
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  mistake of not playing them. All right, Jeff, you know, you
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  and I have covered a lot of drafts together, going way back to when
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  I was at the other place. So I just want you to give everyone,
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  give me, give everyone your philosophy on the lying season, because again,
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  you know, we're seeing it again. The Broncos are meeting with JJ
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  McCarthy, the oh they're going to talk about which first off, they ought
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  to interview every quarterback there. You know, they maybe even ought to fly
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  a couple in if they can, frankly, with what's going on. But
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  is some of that true? Is some of its smoke? Does it depend
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  on the situation? Where do you fall on this early info getting out about
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  who's meeting with who? You know they to say anybody's infatuated or falling in
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  love or really push this guy up the board. All that stuff is not
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  true most of the time. That players don't move that far on a board
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  already, and even overall, even from the beginning of draft prep before the
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  college football season till the weekend before the draft, players don't often move that
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  far on the board. When you hear that stuff, and I got news
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  for you, the Broncos and every single team here at the combine will meet
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  or talk to face to face with a position coach, a scout, the
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  head coach, the GM somebody or everybody in the organization. They will get
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  face to face with every single player who's here. And that's just a fact.
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  That's how they do it. You know, the sit downs they have
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  to schedule and are a little longer, but they'll they'll get in front of
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  every quarterback here in some fashion and they will likely put most or all of
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  them through some kind of video quick video test to see what their aptitude is
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  for diagramming and retaining information. They'll give them, they'll give them some quick
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  looks at formations and groupings, and then they will tell them to put their
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  notes away, and then they'll have them review it really quick. But they'll
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  do that with every every position, not just quarterback. But that's that's what
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  you're doing here at the combine. So when you hear so and so sitting
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  down with so and so, I wouldn't give that a lot of action because
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  they're getting in front of virtually all or all players who are invited here.
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  That's the whole point of this. Doing this in one place is so you
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  can get in front of them. Hey, Mike, you one last thing
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  I want to ask you about, and again Jeff Lakewold with us on the
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  Ramos Law Hotline, I want to ask you about your other area of expertise,
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  which is sports writing, okay, which is a big part of your
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  job. A guy that undoubtedly is on the mount Rushmore of pro football writers.
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  Peter King announcing his retirement in his column this week in his Football Morning
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  in America column, God, I've read Peace King every Monday for twenty some
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  odd years now, and it just it's been a part of my Monday prep,
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  getting ready for the radio, and just a part of enjoying and experiencing
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  the NFL. Peter King, I know, is a friend of yours.
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  You are mentioned routinely inside his great column. But for those of you in
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  the business, what what is what does Peter King mean to that profession?
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  I think what Peter was able to do was take a platform that allowed that
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  kind of expansive reporting and just h and the fact he would turn it on
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  Sunday night, you know, stay up all night and file that baby at
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  like five in the morning so it was ready to roll. And you know,
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  those things are all difficult and hard to do with the kind of information
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  he had and the sources he had and his you know, he took was
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  a really cool job and just made it his and almost created a format for
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  others to do notes, you know, notes columns or you know, multiple
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  items and deal with that kind of of depth. But you know, his
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  source list was impeccable. I think everybody who dealt with Peter over the years
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  in the league felt like he was honest and fair and he knew where he
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  stood and he tried to get it right every time. And I think Peter
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  also adapted to the digital age a lot faster than a lot of my peers
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  or his peers did. I think he was able to see it coming and
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  adapt, and you know, he was adding video to his you know,
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  that collection of stuff, you know when he especially when he moved to NBC,
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  and then you know, just just pulling that off every week is such
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  a heavy lift, and it was just part of who he was and what
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  he did and and uh, he took an awesome forum and just expanded it
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  into must reading and you never really heard anybody say, you know, you
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  know, Peter's been very public about a couple of things he thought he didn't
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  get right and he regretted in his career. But you routinely he he hit
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  the hit the ball on the on the seams. I mean, he just
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  hit it every time line drives. And we probably won't see anyone with that
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  kind of platform, uh doing it that way again in this day and age,
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  And you know, it's you know, for me personally, there's there's
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  an awful lot of guys I've spent a lot of time around in the business
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  who are retiring or getting bought out or moving on. And it's a little
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  bit odd, but uh, I think he probably deserves to take a break
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  because that I'm not sure folks would understand what a heavy lift that was every
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  week, and he did it with a smile on his face and with the
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  drive to keep doing it the next week too. Yeah, ten thousand words
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  every single Sunday night. I mean, when there was a big play,
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  when there was a big moment, a controversial moment, whatever it was,
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  Man Peter talked to those guys, and those quotes were in his column the
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  very next day. It was must read stuff, the great Jeff Legwold.
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  Everybody, ESPN is where you watch him, where you read him. He'll
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  be reporting on all the Broncos nonsense from the combine. Leggy, good stuff,
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  buddy, thank you, thanks fellows. We'll see it.