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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 10-21-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, our number two. We started right off with Jeff Legwald, Nate,
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  Speaker 1: against Tampa Chargers and Arizona two games tonight on Monday
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  Speaker 1: Night football. Right now, we chat with our pal Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Legwald of ESPN and Jeff, we start with Sean Payton
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  Speaker 1: today before we get into the week that was in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. We start with Sean Payton. He was asked
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  Speaker 1: today about bow Nix's footwork and how much can be
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  Speaker 1: done to help the issues of Bow's footwork during the season.
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  Speaker 1: Let's play that audio right now. Roll at spring.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you got to be careful you're not
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  Speaker 4: over coaching it. There are some things he does very
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  Speaker 4: well out of the pocket or climbing up in the pocket,
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  Speaker 4: and so I think we start with the focus on
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  Speaker 4: timing of the route, the depth of the route, you know,
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  Speaker 4: in the gun or under center, you know there's a three,
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  Speaker 4: five or seven, And we work on the rhythm of
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  Speaker 4: the play so that his feet marry up to the
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  Speaker 4: depth of the route. And then you know, the times
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  Speaker 4: where he's climbing the pocket or moving in the pocket.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're pretty smart about how much we say
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  Speaker 4: or or how much we try to fix.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, what did you make of that answer?
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  Speaker 3: Right there?
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  Speaker 1: Is it as simple as it's about timing, rhythm and
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  Speaker 1: if those things married together naturally, the young quarterback will
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  Speaker 1: have a more solid base underneath himself to throw the ball.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, that's the case with any play you know,
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  Speaker 5: start to finish. But you know, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's sort of the answer I would expect him to
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  Speaker 5: give in the season, because again, you there's just not
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  Speaker 5: time to you know, tear things down fund mechanically, down
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  Speaker 5: to the roots and then you know, get after it.
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  Speaker 5: You just kind of have to live with it the
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  Speaker 5: best you can right now and sort of take on
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  Speaker 5: the big stuff. To me, the most intriguing part was
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  Speaker 5: when he said, you don't want to overcoach it. And
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  Speaker 5: I mean I've seen him coach details on every player,
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  Speaker 5: you know, down to the to the finest details of all,
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  Speaker 5: so that that that surprised me a little bit. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, it sounded a little flip to me. But that's,
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  Speaker 5: you know again, it's it's the answer he almost has
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  Speaker 5: to give in the season is Look, he's the kids
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  Speaker 5: doing the best he can, and you know we're we
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  Speaker 5: got to do better around him.
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  Speaker 3: And and I think that's.
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  Speaker 5: You know again, that's a good answer for him right now,
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  Speaker 5: but it's it's not the whole answer.
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  Speaker 3: And he knows.
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  Speaker 5: That if you peel away some of the throws Thursday night,
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  Speaker 5: some of those are footwork issues where the route is
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  Speaker 5: SYNCD up very nicely and the play is run very
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  Speaker 5: nicely and the receiver is very open.
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  Speaker 6: Is there anything you can do in smaller doses to
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  Speaker 6: try to fix that, Jeff.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I think that the numbers show that
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  Speaker 5: when he's in play actions, he's productive and accurate, which
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  Speaker 5: is I asked him later today about play action and
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  Speaker 5: he he disputes any and all statistics regarding that. But
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  Speaker 5: you know, they've been in the bottom third most of
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  Speaker 5: the season in the use of play action, and you know,
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  Speaker 5: bo Nicks was very productive Thursday night in particular in
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  Speaker 5: play action, and it was the most play action they
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  Speaker 5: had used since week one. So I think the proof
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  Speaker 5: is there that I think his footwork syncs up a
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  Speaker 5: little better when he has to to do those things.
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  Speaker 3: I think he gets.
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  Speaker 5: A little more lax with the footwork when he's in
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  Speaker 5: he drifts and he's got time in the pocket, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, he sort of drifts out of the pocket
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  Speaker 5: or just leaves the pocket sometimes when he doesn't have to.
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  Speaker 5: But again, you know, he's a rookie quarterback. This is
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  Speaker 5: what is going to happen to rookie quarterbacks, especially guys
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  Speaker 5: who play in a college offense like he had an
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  Speaker 5: Oregon where the you know, the footwork and a lot
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  Speaker 5: of the things being asked are not in a you know,
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  Speaker 5: quote unquote NFL things.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwell brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Workers ib W Local sixty eight. You start with
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  Speaker 1: a job, you end with the career. Jeff Legwald with
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  Speaker 1: us here on a Monday LEGI, you wrote about the
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  Speaker 1: run game. They went for two twenty five on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: night against the Saints, most since what twenty thirteen when
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  Speaker 1: they went for two to eighty. I believe you wrote
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  Speaker 1: in that piece right there one of my big questions
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  Speaker 1: about the commitment to the run game. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton when he talked about it, said, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: really opponent specific, it's really game plan specific. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the things that I'm curious about, and you alluded
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  Speaker 1: to this in the piece, is bo Nicks is going
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  Speaker 1: to be more comfortable operating out of the shotgun, which
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  Speaker 1: does change how you approach the run game. Doesn't eliminate
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  Speaker 1: the run game, but it has it does change how
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  Speaker 1: you approach the run game a little bit. The shotgun
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  Speaker 1: versus under center part of the sort of bon Knicks dichotomy.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, what impact is that having currently on the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos run game.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Mat, I think you know now there are teams
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  Speaker 5: that run well out of the shotgun. I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to you know, I don't want to take that off
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  Speaker 5: the table, and I'm not endorsing, you know, a return.
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  Speaker 3: To nineteen eighty two and everybody runs.
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  Speaker 5: You know, fifty percent of the time, and you know
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  Speaker 5: all this stuff. Not I'm just saying that defensive coaches
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  Speaker 5: will tell you in the shotgun, you're you're sort of
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  Speaker 5: picking a direction, uh, simply by how you are aligned,
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  Speaker 5: unless you're in the pistol. But if the back isn't
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  Speaker 5: directly behind the quarterback in some fashion, that you are
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  Speaker 5: tipping your hand a little bit, unless you're willing to
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  Speaker 5: run a guy all the way across, which is a
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  Speaker 5: longer developing play, which is also easier to defend in
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  Speaker 5: some ways. So and I you know, these are discussions
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  Speaker 5: I had with Mike Shanahan and Gary Kubiak in particular,
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  Speaker 5: who who always said they liked the shotgun, but it
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  Speaker 5: limits you in terms of you know, deception or surprise
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  Speaker 5: or you know, percentages in the run game. And that
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  Speaker 5: that was when they weighed using the shotgun. That was
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  Speaker 5: a big part of why they chose to be under
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  Speaker 5: center a lot because of what it does for you. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: you don't you're not sort of declaring, hey, we're running
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  Speaker 5: to the right right now. You know, you've you've got
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  Speaker 5: a few more things open. But again, if you do
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  Speaker 5: it well, it can be done out of the shotgun.
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  Speaker 5: But uh, you got to have a lot of things working,
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  Speaker 5: and some of that is being able to block, you know,
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  Speaker 5: five on five out of open open formations.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I can remember C. J. Anderson telling me he
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  Speaker 6: always liked the quarterback under center. I can go either
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  Speaker 6: side with the ball, so they're not getting a cheat
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  Speaker 6: read on me, and I can get my running start
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  Speaker 6: as I get the hand off there. So you know what,
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  Speaker 6: it's not just OC and play callers. Sometimes it's even
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  Speaker 6: the backs and players themselves. All Right, Jeff, this team,
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  Speaker 6: how good can it be in the landscape in the NFL.
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  Speaker 6: You gotta watch a whole NFL Sunday yesterday, which I
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  Speaker 6: know you were working, but you're always living the football life,
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  Speaker 6: you know. I was asking it a little bit earlier.
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  Speaker 6: Had to talk with our buddy Mike Sandford. I'm not
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  Speaker 6: sure how many dominant teams are really getting this year.
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  Speaker 6: I think some of the teams we thought were really
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  Speaker 6: good are probably not. That it's still not even Halloween,
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  Speaker 6: so some teams kind of correct course in November and on.
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  Speaker 6: But how many good teams do you think they are?
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  Speaker 6: And what does that mean, for what the Broncos can
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  Speaker 6: maybe top out at is nine or ten wins. Unrealistic
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  Speaker 6: to think about for this team with the injuries at
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  Speaker 6: quarterback and other places on their schedule. This up for
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  Speaker 6: what they got left this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, anything's open to them right now.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this is the best they've been, you know,
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  Speaker 5: after seven games, you know, since twenty sixteen. Now our room,
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  Speaker 5: you know, all sort of remind people they were, they
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  Speaker 5: were above five hundred after the five game win streak.
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  Speaker 3: Last year.
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  Speaker 5: They were in this position you know, quote unquote much
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  Speaker 5: deeper into the year. So you know, I'm not even
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  Speaker 5: going to say they can you know, do better than
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  Speaker 5: that right now, but the potentials there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Carolina is the worst team in football.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're giving up thirty four points a game,
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  Speaker 5: which in the NFL is you know, unbelievable, but their
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  Speaker 5: last in nearly every defensive category. So you would think
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  Speaker 5: five and three is looking pretty good if they simply
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  Speaker 5: handle their business Sunday. But then I think that the
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  Speaker 5: heart of the matter comes up, you know, at Baltimore
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  Speaker 5: at Kansas City. You know, see how they do going
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  Speaker 5: through that section, and if they get through that section,
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  Speaker 5: around five hundred, you're in the wildcard race, you know,
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  Speaker 5: coming down the stretch. But the dominant team thing, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I would quibble that. I think the AFC has two
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  Speaker 5: heavyweights and and the Broncos get them on back to
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  Speaker 5: back weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they really do. I mean, and I made this point.
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  Speaker 1: This was on the Friday edition of the show. I said,
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  Speaker 1: right now, the Broncos are at best. They're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: the eighth best team in the AFC as we sit
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  Speaker 1: here today. And that's a and that's a best case scenario.
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  Speaker 1: It's you know, there's other four and three teams, the
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts of the world, you know, would like a
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  Speaker 1: spot in that conversation right now. But I'm gonna say Buffalo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Pittsburgh, Baltimore, and Cincinnati. I'll put all
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  Speaker 1: of them above Denver. I'll put Houston, Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers. That's seven teams right there in the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: That looks like that could very well be a playoff field.
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati's finding their footing. The schedule did them a huge favor.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the Chargers before, how good are they really?
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  Speaker 1: They're about to play for of those cupcakes right in
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  Speaker 1: a row. Are are are the Chargers right now? So
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  Speaker 1: they're in pretty good shape. But that's just it. Like
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  Speaker 1: if you are the eighth best team in the AFC,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, somebody else can have some bad luck. Somebody
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  Speaker 1: else can have a couple of injuries. You handle your business,
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  Speaker 1: You play the kind of defense you've been playing all
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  Speaker 1: year long. You take care of the ball and read
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lake well today at ESPN. You commit to a
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  Speaker 1: run game, and you've got yourself a playoff team right there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah again again. You know, look, you're the heavyweights are
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  Speaker 5: in the AFC. You know, I like Detroit and the NFC,
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  Speaker 5: of course, but yeah, in Minnesota. Minnesota plays the kind
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  Speaker 5: of defense you don't want to see on a postseason
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  Speaker 5: weekend with one week to prepare. But the real heavyweights,
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  Speaker 5: especially home game heavyweights, like playoff games in their stadium.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Pittsburgh's a heavyweight after what I saw last night,
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  Speaker 5: Buffalo's a heavyweight. Baltimore's a heavyweight. And of course the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone can tell me how the Chiefs aren't quite right,
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  Speaker 5: but I don't know. All I know is they just
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  Speaker 5: sort of win all the games and go home.
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  Speaker 3: Six and zero.
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  Speaker 1: They Brady was kind of making this point on the
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  Speaker 1: on the telecast of like anytime if they need two yards,
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  Speaker 1: they get three. You know, if they need five yards,
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  Speaker 1: they get six. There's nothing spectacular about what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They just they they do the thing that they have
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  Speaker 1: to do to finish with more points than you did
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  Speaker 1: every week.
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  Speaker 5: Well, and that sh look familiar to Brady because they're
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  Speaker 5: the Chiefs are currently the closest thing we have to
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  Speaker 5: those Patriots. They they don't just say this is our
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  Speaker 5: way of doing things. And I think this is why
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  Speaker 5: I think it's it's dangerous for the BRONC. Is there
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  Speaker 5: anybody else to do the whole this is what we
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  Speaker 5: do thing? You know, the Patriots, it's unprecedented what they
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  Speaker 5: did over two decades in a salary cap era. But
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  Speaker 5: they were a lot of things over those two decades.
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  Speaker 5: They were no huddle, they were too tight end. They
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  Speaker 5: were run the ball, they were chucking around every play.
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  Speaker 5: They were one word play calls, they were use all
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  Speaker 5: the play clock.
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  Speaker 3: They did everything. That's what the Chiefs do. Now. They
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  Speaker 3: lose receivers, they do other things.
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  Speaker 5: They lose backs, they do other things, you know, they
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  Speaker 5: play defense, they hang around, and they've got the alpha
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  Speaker 5: like like the Patriots did. So it doesn't shock me
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  Speaker 5: that he you know, he said what he said because it.
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  Speaker 3: Is the closest thing to them currently.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, I think the AFC again is just
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  Speaker 5: a lot tougher, and if the Broncos can sneak in
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  Speaker 5: on the back end of that, they're gonna have to
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  Speaker 5: do it and stay healthy on defense.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's the one thing that.
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  Speaker 5: Could topple them because they are they are getting by
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  Speaker 5: right now on one of the league's least impactful offenses,
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  Speaker 5: even after Thursday night, and you can only do that
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  Speaker 5: if you're going to play elite defense all the time.
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  Speaker 1: It's working so far. Jeff Legwall brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Start with a job and with a career. Read Jeff's
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  Speaker 1: latest at ESPN dot com. It is all about the
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  Speaker 1: Broncos run game and you will be a smarter fan
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  Speaker 1: as a result. Leggy, good stuff, buddy, Thanks Palace, We'll
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  Speaker 1: see it.