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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 10-31-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: The backus at Shaker Studios, Serious Lawyers for the Serious Leader, Kicks,
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  Speaker 3: This is Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  Speaker 1: Moser, Lombardy and Kine and John Langwald is our Broncos
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  Speaker 1: insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 4: The insider I've covered while.
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  Speaker 2: Jef Legwald he's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 4: Start with the job and with a career.
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  Speaker 3: It's Leggye on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five, joining
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  Speaker 3: us as he does every Thursday on the Ramos Law
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  Speaker 3: and attorney at Ramos Law dot com is Jeff Legwald
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  Speaker 3: of ESPN dot com.
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  Speaker 2: First and foremost, Leggy. Do you believe in ghosts?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, I'd like to think I don't have
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  Speaker 6: all the answers to everything, so perhaps, but I've never
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  Speaker 6: encountered one.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just say that that's.
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  Speaker 2: A good answer. I like that answer.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know everything, but I haven't encountered it, so
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  Speaker 3: mild skepticism. Let me ask you one more question because
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  Speaker 3: I guarantee this is going to be a no. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: I'm wrong. You don't strike me as a sweet sky.
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  Speaker 3: Are you into Halloween candies? Like the leftovers that aren't
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  Speaker 3: given out to the kids? Do you partake?
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  Speaker 4: I do not? That's it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Wait, are you like Xavier legged? Hey, let me before
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  Speaker 3: we get to bron because I know it's a big weekend.
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  Speaker 3: But let me play this from Xavier Legate. He's the
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  Speaker 3: rookie wide out for the Panthers. They're going to Germany
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  Speaker 3: in a couple of weeks, and he's concerned about the food.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, food, how they got that?
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  Speaker 4: They have good chocolate?
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  Speaker 2: But what is your what are your though?
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  Speaker 4: You say you're a picky.
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  Speaker 6: Eating what are your those?
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  Speaker 4: I don't eat seafood. I don't eat like pepples and
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  Speaker 4: onions and all there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't really eat vegetables like people like pizza.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, like I just study eating this.
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  Speaker 1: Greeese eat like stream maids and green peas to.
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  Speaker 3: Be cooked in baton?
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  Speaker 4: Grees do they have to be cooked in bacon?
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  Speaker 1: Grease?
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  Speaker 2: That pasta.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I eat some pa.
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  Speaker 4: Chicken steak regular.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: All right, listen, like that sounds I guess that sounds
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  Speaker 2: like a leggy diet.
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  Speaker 3: It's chicken in steak and some pasta, but not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of veggies, onions, peppers?
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  Speaker 2: Am I close?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 4: But that's all right? So what is it?
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  Speaker 2: What's the goat to?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 4: I eat food? Like everybody know what are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 2: All right to the Broncos. Okay, huge weekend, like you're huge.
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  Speaker 2: You see, he doesn't like it when you try and
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  Speaker 2: get personal. I should have known that. That's my bad.
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  Speaker 2: That's my bad.
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  Speaker 4: I just though I'm not all that interesting, I would
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  Speaker 4: agree with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't have to sell me on that fact.
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  Speaker 4: Brother, I'm in an empty media room. This is my
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  Speaker 4: life and in there. All right.
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  Speaker 3: Uh so this weekend, agree or disagree with this statement,
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  Speaker 3: I'll make I think the Broncos this is uh, there's
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  Speaker 3: a real opportunity that they they lose by a lot,
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  Speaker 3: that the Ravens could get them pretty good, but they
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  Speaker 3: should keep the game within striking distance.
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  Speaker 2: Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I mean only Jacksonville, and I'm trying to think of
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  Speaker 6: who else, and the Raiders have given up more points
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  Speaker 6: in the AFC. So, I mean Baltimore scores a ton.
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  Speaker 6: I mean that their offense is just amazing, but they
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  Speaker 6: surrender more big plays than everybody else does in the league.
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  Speaker 6: They're you know, they're last in past defense because everybody's
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  Speaker 6: losing by three scores and they have to throw all
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  Speaker 6: the time. But they give up a ton of big plays.
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  Speaker 6: They've given up a ton of points. This is not
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  Speaker 6: really the Ravens defense we've grown accustomed to. So if
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  Speaker 6: you can somehow manage their offense, which is really tough, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: you can hang in and you know teams have this year,
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  Speaker 6: but eventually, you know, Lamar and Derrick Henry they just
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  Speaker 6: keep leaning on you and then you make a mistake
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  Speaker 6: on defense. You don't fill a run fit, you get
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  Speaker 6: greedy and you chase Lamar, you know, for a sack
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  Speaker 6: instead of keeping them in the pocket. You know, all
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  Speaker 6: those things turned into a huge play. They you know,
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  Speaker 6: their big plays aren't eleven yards big players are you know,
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  Speaker 6: eighty five And that's kind of where they're at. But again,
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  Speaker 6: they give up a ton of points. So if the
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  Speaker 6: Broncos defense can sort of manage themselves and hang in that.
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  Speaker 4: I think they could. They could do some things.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, I've argued that this is the first real, gigantic
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  Speaker 1: litmus test for this Broncos team because I I suppose
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm crazy, but I have a ton of respect
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  Speaker 1: for Baltimore. I mean, I love Lamar Jackson, I love
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  Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. Their offensive line is gigantic, They've got a
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  Speaker 1: stud tied end. They have a lot of things going
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  Speaker 1: for them. But Bodenicks needs games like this. If he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the Broncos quarterback for the next ten years,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna find himself in a boatload of games like this,
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  Speaker 1: important games for the franchise. How do you view this
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  Speaker 1: test against Baltimore and that young quarterback taking that next step?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean it's you know, it's cool for them
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  Speaker 6: in the locker room to be five and three. It's
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  Speaker 6: been a while, you know, since this team's been able
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  Speaker 6: to do that. But truth be told, you know, they've
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  Speaker 6: they've beaten three two and six teams and won one
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  Speaker 6: in seventeen, so it's not like they've you know, if
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  Speaker 6: they had not had the NFC South this year on
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  Speaker 6: the cross division, you know, on the schedule, I'm not
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  Speaker 6: sure we would be talking about a five and three
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  Speaker 6: team right now. But you know, they don't have to
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  Speaker 6: apologize for that. But this is the first game against
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  Speaker 6: somebody who believes they will be in the playoff conversation,
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  Speaker 6: you know, come January. So yeah, I think. And it's
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  Speaker 6: on the road. You know, that's been a while since
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  Speaker 6: they've won a big game on the road that mattered,
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  Speaker 6: that that the game still mattered, you know, a few
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  Speaker 6: weeks after they won it. They've won some road games
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  Speaker 6: that in the moment were cool, but you know, a
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  Speaker 6: few weeks later, because of what happened, they didn't matter anymore.
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  Speaker 6: So this is the first real you know, two weeks
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  Speaker 6: in a row. You know, you get at Baltimore at KC,
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna find out an awful lot about what you
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  Speaker 6: really are at this moment.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The encouraging thing despite the teams that they've beaten, they've
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  Speaker 3: beaten them in the way the good teams should beat
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  Speaker 3: those bad teams, which is no doubters, like you're just
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  Speaker 3: counting down the clock at the end of the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: The big thing here is, I mean you mentioned it.
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  Speaker 2: The Ravens surrender a.
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  Speaker 3: Whole bunch of yards and a whole bunch of points,
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  Speaker 3: and they do most of that through the air. I
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  Speaker 3: believe they're the number one run defense in the league.
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  Speaker 2: This is a.
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  Speaker 6: Huge So everyone asked the surrender and they lose them
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  Speaker 6: by fourteen, you know, in the second quarter.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, and that's what I'm getting at.
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  Speaker 3: Like this for maybe the first time in which the Broncos,
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  Speaker 3: let's say they win on Sunday, it's going to have
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  Speaker 3: to be because bo Nicks wins them a football game,
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  Speaker 3: right Like, he's gonna have to play a huge hand.
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  Speaker 6: He's throwing interceptions in three games, they've lost all three,
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  Speaker 6: So I mean that turnovers are you know, he's still
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  Speaker 6: one of the worst starters in the league putting the
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  Speaker 6: ball down the field. This completion percentage overall is one
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  Speaker 6: of the worst.
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  Speaker 4: In the league.
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  Speaker 6: But what he has done which a lot of rookies
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  Speaker 6: don't do, which is do not turn the ball over.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they've traded safety for turnovers, and that's worked
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  Speaker 6: against bad teams. But at some point they're gonna have
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  Speaker 6: to find a happy medium of at least some risk taking.
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  Speaker 6: But they don't get crazy, you know, sideways in the
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  Speaker 6: turnover margin, because again he's thrown picks in three games
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  Speaker 6: and they lost all three, and he looked unsettled in
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  Speaker 6: all three because I think, like a lot of young guys,
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  Speaker 6: if he makes a mistake early in the game, it
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  Speaker 6: takes him a quarter or so to get himself out
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  Speaker 6: of it. I think we've seen that. You know, the
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  Speaker 6: weather and you know against the Jets early in the
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  Speaker 6: game had him all out of sorts on the sideline,
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  Speaker 6: you know, until the rain let up a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: So he's you know, like a lot of young players,
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  Speaker 6: you know, he's got he plays with that emotion after mistakes,
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  Speaker 6: and he's got to avoid those early. And again, you know,
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  Speaker 6: especially in these road venues, Baltimore is a tough place
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  Speaker 6: to play. You know, everybody knows Arrowhead is a tough
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  Speaker 6: place to play. You can't make that early mistake and
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  Speaker 6: give them a short feel.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, Again, I may be in the wrong here, you
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  Speaker 1: know more than me, but I just think Baltimore is
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  Speaker 1: really good. And now they're a game back of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: so the urgency factor is going to be there, and
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  Speaker 1: they're coming off that dumb loss. That's all that makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to you is that does that feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: a little trupidation or am I am I overstating it?
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  Speaker 4: If your quarterback's going for his third MVP, you're good.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just it. You know that.
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  Speaker 6: That's kind of the universal sign if you're any good.
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  Speaker 6: If your quarterback's going for his third MVP award, and
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  Speaker 6: right now he'd probably win it if the vote was taken.
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  Speaker 6: But Derrick Henry's taken them to another place on offense.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's an unbelievable addition, and they don't need They
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  Speaker 6: sort of, you know, spice him in early in the
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  Speaker 6: game and then they just drop the hammer on you,
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  Speaker 6: you know, when they feel like they've got you a
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  Speaker 6: little wobbly. Suddenly he's getting ten carries in a row
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  Speaker 6: and I've only seen one carry in the games I've
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  Speaker 6: looked at where he's sort of, you know, the defense
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  Speaker 6: has imposed something on him. They went forward on a
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  Speaker 6: fourth down in the red zone last week and they
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  Speaker 6: had a direct snap to Henry and he lost two
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  Speaker 6: yards and just been the only carry I think I've
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  Speaker 6: seen so far where he didn't mash somebody and go
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  Speaker 6: for like eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Jeff, I'm also enamored with him, and I always
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  Speaker 1: have been. You know, we come from a time when
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  Speaker 1: the league was full of great running backs in different kinds,
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  Speaker 1: right tailbacks and and very soon.
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  Speaker 4: But this guy rare, rare, this.
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  Speaker 1: Guy, Oh my god, and I love to watch him
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  Speaker 1: play the game. I don't know why I'm so in
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  Speaker 1: or with him. I guess I just end because he's
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  Speaker 1: such an anomaly.
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  Speaker 6: We you know, in scouting parlance, you've got a big
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  Speaker 6: back with long speed. I mean when he gets to
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  Speaker 6: the sideline, he just chews up the angle. You know,
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  Speaker 6: he runs back, he runs past corners, he runs past guys,
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  Speaker 6: he outweighs by forty pounds. I mean, it's you know,
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  Speaker 6: it's he's in an once he gets that momentum, he's
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  Speaker 6: got that long stride. He looks like he's not even
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  Speaker 6: really moving, and suddenly no one catches him.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of quick ones here, Legi Jeff Lakewall at
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  Speaker 3: ESPN dot com with us, Uh, we're almost midway through
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  Speaker 3: the year offensive MVP so far as who.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard for me to get away from Lamar.
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  Speaker 5: There's just no Broncos. Broncos offensive MVP. You know that's
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  Speaker 5: a that's a tough one. They haven't been great on offense,
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  Speaker 5: you know, really, you know, I guess i'd say, you know,
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  Speaker 5: pick a guard. Those are the guys who are playing
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  Speaker 5: the best.
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  Speaker 6: And I know that's not you know, sexy and all that,
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  Speaker 6: but those guys are playing at an elite level, both
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  Speaker 6: minors and ben powers in the in the heavy analytics world. Ah,
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  Speaker 6: they're They're one of the best guards in the league,
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  Speaker 6: both of them at both win rate in run game
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  Speaker 6: and pass protection. So that's that's a rare thing to
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  Speaker 6: have both your guys in the in the top you
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  Speaker 6: know tier of those groupings. You know, you got to
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  Speaker 6: give bo Nix a lot of credit. They threw him
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  Speaker 6: in the deep end of the pool.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, and we've seen it, you know, the growing pains.
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  Speaker 6: Again, this is a very low impact offense right now,
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  Speaker 6: and he is struggling to be accurate, you know, beyond
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  Speaker 6: ten yards. It's tough for him right now. But you know,
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  Speaker 6: I like the way he's managed things and you know,
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  Speaker 6: the running component.
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  Speaker 4: But I think one of those linemen to me is
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  Speaker 4: the MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And then finally, speaking of accuracy, Anthony Richardson in his
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  Speaker 3: second year, but he had any starts his rookie year
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  Speaker 3: two has been benched for the season.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like for Joe Flacco, did he get benched?
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  Speaker 3: What percentage of that was him tapping out of the game,
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  Speaker 3: And what percentage is that he's completing forty four percent
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  Speaker 3: of his passes this year?
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  Speaker 6: Well, forty four pretty epic. Yeah, you know, that's that's
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  Speaker 6: that's tebolesque, you know around here.
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  Speaker 2: Actually worse than Tbo. Tibo was forty six.
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  Speaker 6: Forty six and that was a struggle. You know that
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  Speaker 6: the game in Kansas City will always ring in my mind.
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  Speaker 6: When he was at one completion it was for a
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  Speaker 6: touchdown basically. But anyway, Uh, I'd say fifty percent tapping
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  Speaker 6: out for quarterback is is a big deal. And uh
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  Speaker 6: he's a young guy. And I you know, I give
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  Speaker 6: the kid credit. He was honest, he owned it, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and I give him tons of credit for that because
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people wouldn't have.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: But I I think if I was the head coach,
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  Speaker 6: I had to call the time out and just stop
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  Speaker 6: the game and told him get back in and you know,
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  Speaker 6: do your thing. But anyway, I think it was an
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  Speaker 6: awful big deal. And the forty four percent is you know,
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  Speaker 6: he's been basically big plays or nothing. This year, his
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  Speaker 6: yards per attempt and yards for completion are huge. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: but you hadn't hit very many of them.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Lakewell the ESPN dot comy joins us every single Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: I always appreciate it, Leggy, Thank you, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks to get back to work now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, stay safe the Sala way. Don't let
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  Speaker 2: the ghost get.
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  Speaker 1: You, buddy.
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  Speaker 4: I'll go find some food.
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  Speaker 3: Be careful seafood, you might be allergic. Jeff Lagwell the
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