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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 7/15/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jet Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football,
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  the insider I've covered while je His appearances are always must listen radio You learn
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  a lot's leg Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Jeff Legwald time here on
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  a Monday after noon the ESBN Zone. Jeff Legwald joins us right now via
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  the ramos Law Hotline. Car accident You need ramos Law medical doctor and attorney.
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  Visit Ramoslaw dot com. Hello Jeff Legwald. A, uh, I'm
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  doing quite well. I want I want to hit you right away with the
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  most obscure football question I can possibly ask you. And I ask this based
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  upon ESPN dot COM's top ten quarterbacks in the NFL, which is out today.
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  Jeff Lagwald, who is the fifth best quarterback in foot ball? Wow?
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  Just out of nowhere? I know, think I know what the rankings
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  say. I want. I want the the hard, unvarnished truth from Jeff
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  Legwald. Okay, Leggy, Because we're we're assuming that there is a world
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  where everybody agrees, and I know that doesn't really exist, but that everybody
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  agrees. Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen in whatever
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  order you want to put them in. Obviously Mahomes at number one. That
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  that's the four quarter best quarterbacks in football, the four dudes that automatically elevate
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  their franchise to eleven to twelve to thirteen win territory, that can put a
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  team on their back and go and win a football game. After that,
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  Who's the next best quarterback in football? I'm a Stroud guy, I'll be
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  honest, all right. I really like Yeah, I like I like,
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  I like his arc and yeah, it's probably uh, pushing him a little
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  more to the forefront than he really is at the moment, but that's uh.
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  I like his trajectory and his potential, and i'd i'd go there.
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  And I'll also I'm a bigger I wouldn't put him fifth, but I'm a
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  bigger Jalen Hurts fan than maybe some of the personnel guys are too. All
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  Right, what do you think a rebound year for Aaron Rodgers looks like?
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  Then? Because I said, Jeff, we had talked a little bit about
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  Stroud, I think you know, one years of one year of evidence wasn't
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  enough for me to shove him fifth, even though we liked the year that
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  you got out of him. But if Rogers is healthy him back to form,
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  should he naturally maybe reassume a top five position. Yeah, obviously,
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  I mean the resume is the resume for him, for sure. It's just
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  over time. I've not seen that injury be very kind to older players,
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  and he's older. I guess, I guess I am just leaning on that.
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  I mean, certainly the specialist and medicine these days he can he can
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  get give him the best odds possible to come back from that. But history
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  has nothing kind to that injury for a lot of guys. And you know,
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  I just want to see it before I say, yeah, he can
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  get all the way back to his his level. But you know, his
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  advantage is like all those really you know, sort of can't and bound quarterbacks,
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  he can win with his brain if his body can just hold up just
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  enough to let him do it. The Brock Purty question. God, he's
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  got some good skill position talent around him. Any quarterback in football would kill
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  to have what Brock Purdy has. And yet can't take anything away from Brock.
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  He did an awful lot of winning with that group. But but but
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  what's really going on right there when you talk to people around the league,
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  like, how do you get an accurate assessment of what Rock Party the player
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  is inside a vacuum, not in the context of, hey, I get
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  the quarterback Kyle Shanahan's All Star team over here. Well, mat I think,
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  and I know some personnel guys who would say this as well, is
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  don't cheapen what the guy is doing at one of the perhaps the most difficult
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  job to do in professional sports. And I think it's unfair because a guy
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  has success to say I always got good players around him. You know,
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  Mahomes has some pretty good players around him and succeeds. Now Breck Purty is
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  nowhere near that level of individual talent. But I think in the NFL,
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  and we sometimes gloss it over. I think fitting into the place you are
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  as part of your individual talent is, you know, do you make the
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  most of the opportunity presented to you? Because they're all star, you know,
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  skill position guys are not. There are plenty of quarterbacks who would have
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  succeeded like Rock Purty did, or would have been too me first to succeed
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  like he Like he made the most best plays. I would say he made
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  the most good decisions. Not every most gifted player is going to make the
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  best decision every time because they're going to reach because they have the skills to
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  do it. So I don't cheapen a guy having the awareness and the ability
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  it is an ability to use what he has to the maximum. And I
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  think he's a better player than he's given credit for. And I think often
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  quarterbacks a great position to get the argument going, who's elite, who's not
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  elite? You know, the fact remains, even John Elway, who's one
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  of the best quarterbacks any of us have ever seen walk the earth, didn't
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  win a Super Bowl until his team was good enough around him. And it
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  didn't matter how good he was. You talked about maximizing, you know,
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  whatever you have athletically, taking what the defense gives you, making these sound
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  decisions. The brock Purty playbook, so to speak. Is that kind of
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  the plan for bow Nicks in year number one of like and honestly maybe years
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  two, three, and four of in a best case scenario, that's the
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  kind of football player the Broncos have. Yeah, And I think, no
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  matter how gifted you are, that's sort of the plan anyway. I mean
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  Mahomes is at his best when he's making the best decisions, you know,
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  in what he has in front of him. And you know, the gift,
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  the gifted part comes when you're lifting a play out of nothing, you
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  know, or repairing what is broken after the snap, you know what I
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  mean. That's the really gifted players. And that'd be an awful lot to
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  expect of a guy like Nix, you know, just starting out and that
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  you know, you really didn't see a lot of that, even in his
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  best games, his best plays, his best series at Oregon, you didn't
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  see a lot of him creating something out of you know, mayhem as it
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  were. It was more functioning within the framework. And that is exactly why
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  they took him. Sean Payton wants a quarterback to do essentially what he tells
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  him to do. You know, when you get this look, do these
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  things. When you get this look, do these things. That's what he
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  wants and that's what bo Nicks is going to have to do. You know,
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  when at what point he becomes the starter? All right? Jeff,
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  what teams most intriguing to you is were finally set to open some camp.
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  We've got through this stuff. I think We've had the fourth of July weekend
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  past now, some unfortunate news for a couple of teams, but you know,
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  that's kind of the weekend that the coaches you tell us, always dread.
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  If they can get through that without a lot of news popping, no
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  big deal. So who do you think is intriguing now that we're set to
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  what open camp next week? Yeah? You mean overall league wise? Oh
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  yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I like, you know, I'm
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  interested to see where that. You know, are the Texans going to continue
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  what they've started with that young group? I think is worthy. Certainly Rogers
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  is a great storyline coming in, and you know, locally here I think
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  people should and will always be intrigued by how the Chiefs get through. You
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  know, their they're off season, and you know, I've just the Harball
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  thing and with the Chargers is well worth some entertainment value because he's going to
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  say and do something during training camp. You know, their fans and maybe
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  even people league wide aren't quite ready for See. I was going to ask
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  you whether I was waiting for the Chargers to come up. They're just kind
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  of quietly sitting there, you know what I mean, And everybody is fascinated
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  with Harbaugh, and I think for once, what's kind of crazy. At
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  least to the first month of the season, they're maybe more attention on the
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  coach than the quarterback for the first time in justin Herbert's career. That may
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  be good for him. Frankly, he's made no secret he does not like
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  the magnifying glass very much. You know, he doesn't life participating and media
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  opportunities or marketing opportunities a lot of other guys you know do all the time.
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  So that may actually be good for him. And you know, Harpball
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  has a proven, pretty good proven record. If a quarterback will do what
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  he asks him to do, that there is some success winning to be found.
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  You may not have the individual you know things some other guys do,
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  and I think that's gonna be the challenge there, because I think Herbert was
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  in a position where he was a young guy with talent who is asked to
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  just make it happen, you know, do whatever you need to do to
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  make it happen. And that is not his environment anymore. It's going to
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  be far more structured, and I think how those two guys work through that
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  will determine how well they do right away. Jeff Legwald is with us on
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  the Ramos Law hotline car accident. You need Ramo's law, medical doctor and
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  attorney, visit Ramoslaw dot com. Let's go in the opposite direction. Teams
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  that are interesting for other reasons. Jeff, I'm gonna give you these seven
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  teams with the lowest win totals according to the odds makers in Las Vegas.
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  Which of these teams will have the number one pick in the draft next year?
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  Who's the worst of the worst. Four teams at six and a half
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  as they're projected total, the Giants, the Raiders, the Washington Commanders,
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  and the Tennessee Titans. Two teams at five and a half. That's the
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  Carolina Panthers and your Denver Broncos in New England four and a half the total
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  in Gerate Mao's first year as the head coach of the New England Patriots.
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  Of that illustrious seven right there, which one of these teams is headed towards
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  the number one pick in the draft? I think the Patriots have the most
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  to overcome. I mean, that's a pretty heavy vacuum you're stepping into.
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  And you know, Giron Mayo is a very respected coach, but that I'm
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  not sure guys who've been head coaches for ten to eleven years would be ready
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  for what's waiting for you there. And I think it's a pretty limited roster
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  as well. So and I think the Giants, the Giants are the team
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  when I talk to personnel guys, they're kind of the team where everybody trying
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  to figure out, Okay, what exactly were you trying to accomplish in the
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  off series? How does Brian Burns make sense? On that team? Jeff,
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  That's the one team where people are just like, I'm not sure what
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  they were doing or how that's gonna look. And you know they may not.
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  They may have enough of talent to avoid the bottom out, but any
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  of the any of that group, the common thread is is depth. You
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  know, like like that's going to be a problem for teams in that position.
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  And you know the Broncos are on that list. And you know,
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  some well placed or some unluckily placed injuries for any of those groups could send
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  you right over the edge. So you know that's always the factor, all
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  right, So now let me let me turn this question on its head.
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  Okay, there's always some team that's projected to be lousy. That makes the
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  playoffs. The Houston Texans last year one of the lowest totals on the board,
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  and they made the playoffs last year. Again, your seven teams,
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  the Giants, the Raiders, the Commanders, the Titans, the Panthers,
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  the Broncos, and the Patriots. Which one of that group can make the
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  playoffs this year? Well, if the youth comes through, you know that,
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  I don't know what make the playoffs. I think the Panthers can sort
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  of pick themselves up off the mat. You know, the quarterback has the
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  year two jump and they find a little bit of consistency. You know,
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  they could be better. And you know, I always think the Raiders are
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  more talented than they play. You just always kind of. I mean,
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  you just look at the star power. I mean, they got one of
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  the best defensive players in the league and they got one of the best offensive
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  players of the league. Yeah, that should translate into a big jump,
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  and somehow it never quite does, or at least recently. All right,
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  who wins Justin Simmons sweepstakes? I don't know how else to put it.
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  Where do you think he ends up? It's getting later and I knew you
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  had said Jeff after the first wave you that you thought he might wait it
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  out, look for the rights situation, because you do believe he wants to
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  win. Who do you think ends up getting the guy? I don't have
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  a good feel now, Andy, I'll be honest. That's a Titan.
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  I said on on your Guys' show. I thought the Titans were going to
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  be a good landing spot. And they did indeed sign a safety to a
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  multi year deal. It just wasn't justin Sivens Jeff Legweld. Everybody, ESPN,
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  that's where you go, that's where you read his stuff. Get all
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  of the latest right there, Jeff, beautifully done as always. We'll talk
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  to you Friday man. Thanks Mellas