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Jeff Legwold Joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 6/13/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Mackus and Shanker Studios. Their passion is Justice, Kicky c F MHD one
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  Profield Genfer Boulder, Denver. It's Nate Krekman saying you Lindahl join us for
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  Kreigman and Lindall today at three. This is alt two Sports Radio ninety two
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  five, Moser, Lombardi and Kane. Jeff Langwald is our Broncos insider Altitude
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  ramos Law dot com. And we're joined as we are every week every Thursday
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  at eight o'clock by Jeff Legwald of ESPN dot com. Leggy, what's up,
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  buddy? Morning fellas. So I know there's a there's probably some things
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  that you have taken away from the first couple of days of mandatory camp.
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  But can I ask this. I've heard not only from a couple of local
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  guys, a couple of national guys have also said, do you know how
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  I think the best running back for the Denver Broncos is it's Julia McLoughlin.
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  I go, I think that's easy to say because this would be the time
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  of year with no pads where a guy like Julil would stick out. Correct,
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  Like, once you get the pads on that that changes some things.
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  But what's your assessment of Jalil so far? Oh, he's had a good
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  off season, there's no question. And look, you know, I'm never
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  going to minimize that guy's effort because he is He is renowned for being at
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  the facility at six point thirty in the morning doing his conditioning, long before
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  they even practice. So you know, you want to know the Bronco player
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  probably putting in the most time who isn't a quarterback, It's Julil McLoughlin.
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  But to make any assessments about a run game this time of year, I
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  would caution people that that it's like seven on seven for quarterbacks. I watch
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  my brethren in the business tweet throws off seven on seven and it just makes
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  me shake my head. It's those those are teaching devices. These are you
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  know, they're The run game this time of year is an assignment teaching device.
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  It's not a personnel grading time. They are doing assignment football right now.
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  Where are you on this play? What do you do? What are
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  your responsibilities? They're making very little judgments about who will carry the ball in
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  September, and that's all I would say. You know, I don't want
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  to be the get off my lawn guy, but I'm just telling you right
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  now, this time is more about assignments than performance, and training camp will
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  be about performance. Leggie, Why did coach Payton decide to cancel the last
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  day of any camp? Because an extra two hours if you think you've had
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  a good camp is it's a nice reward for the players. And you know,
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  I don't know this notion that if they went another two hours they'd go
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  to the playoffs. I'm not sure that's a jump I'm willing to make.
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  But I think he was really happy with the attendance they had. I think
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  he was really happy with the effort. So this is his way of acknowledging.
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  Plus I think he had a little, you know, I procedure he
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  had to have done too, so that you know a little of that.
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  I just think it almost trivializes the need for this mini camp then, I
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  mean, it's just about control. I want you guys here. Every team
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  we want you guys here. Oh you're here, all right, last day
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  off the entire offseason's always been that way, vic. I mean, Mike
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  Shanahan used to openly say I don't want too big a gap in between one
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  off season activity to the other. And I'm old enough on the beat to
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  remember that Mike Shanahan once had a mini camp in July. So, uh,
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  you know, these are all CBA collective bargaining issues. I mean,
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  I am certain the union at some point will attempt to change the schedule again
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  and the league will push back. But you know that it's always the battle.
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  The players would like more time off, the coaches would like to see
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  them more. So you know this is these kinds of things are always going
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  to happen. But I think coaches throughout history my entire career, they occasionally
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  like to have like a reward they give the players, and waiving the last
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  day of mini camp is one of the oldest, most traditional awards that there
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  is, because you know, he tells them in the morning meeting and they
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  can all book their flights and away they go. Speaking of attendance, Cortland
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  Sutton did show up like he's said he would, and he said all the
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  right things. Jeffy also said and use the word stalemate, which I found
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  to be very very interesting when intimating that maybe I won't show up for training
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  camp on time or whatever the case may be. And I'm like, don't
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  go down this road, dude, don't do that. Don't call their bluff,
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  dude, because you're not gonna win this one. I know he wants
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  to raise I know that every damn wide out around the league wants more money
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  now because of what Jefferson did and so on and so forth. But I
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  don't I don't see this as being a good thing. I mean, what's
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  your what's your feel your vibe regarding the Sutton and Bronco situation. Well,
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  mos, I mean, you know, as you guys know, my uh.
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  I think players only have a limited number of ways to get the message
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  to the team that they'd like at least the discussion about their contract. Now,
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  if you're Courtland Sutton and you're hearing a lot of people say, hey,
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  dude, you have a contract, get in there, my response would
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  be, Russell Wilson had a contract. Justin Simmons had a contract, and
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  the Broncos really didn't give a crap about either of those contracts. They just
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  released those guys. So this notion that Courtland Sutton should show up and not
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  complain or say anything because he has a contract, I don't buy that.
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  And I don't buy it ever, because when the team is done with you,
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  they're done with you. They cut you. They don't care how many
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  years left. I mean, do we even remember how many years Russell Wilson
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  had left on his contract? We do not. Well, Jeff, I
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  completely agree with you, though, but what kind of leverage does he have
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  other than I'm not showing up. I don't disagree with what you're saying.
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  I'm just saying I don't think he has many options here, man, if
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  any well, I mean, my opinion is is after watching red zone drills
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  in the offseason program, Courtland Sutton might be the only finisher in the group
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  in the red zone. That's his leverage. Do they want to score touchdowns
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  or not? I mean they You're talking about a team that had eight rushing
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  touchdowns last year, you know, tied for thirtieth in the league, and
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  Courtland Sutton had ten of the receiving touchdowns the team had tied for fourth in
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  the league. I mean his leverages. Of the guys they have on the
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  roster, he's the only one that has consistently scored touchdowns, So he does
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  have some leverage here. He has enough leverage that Sean Payton did meet with
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  him yesterday morning individually to go over some of this. You know, whether
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  he misses camp, that's an expensive decision most I mean you you know,
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  he came to mini camp because for three days you can get fined one hundred
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  grand. It's a lot more expensive in training camp because you get fined every
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  day you're gone. And you start talking ten, eleven, twelve, twenty
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  days. That's a there, very expensive proposition. So you know, maybe
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  he misses a little and comes in. But I think the fact that two
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  of them met yesterday morning, you know, tells you it's on the front
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  burner enough at least for the head coach to sit down with him for an
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  extended period of ten Jeff LEAGUELDESPN dot Com with us, can I ask you
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  about another contract? And this guy is going into the final year of his
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  deal. He's thirty two years old, he's a bit of a polarizing figure.
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  Do you think they try and work anything out with Garrett Bulls or are
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  they going to let this thing end and then just see what happens next year.
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  Well, you know, they've shown right now they're sort of inclined to
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  let it go a little bit. I mean, this is this is further
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  along that it gets, if you know, for a lot of teams,
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  if you're going to keep him, I will say he's moving much better this
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  time of year right now than he was last year at this time of year.
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  So to me, he looks physically better than he did last June and
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  July to of my untrained medical eye. But again, it is that he
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  was an older player when he came in the league, so this was always
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  going to be a you know, I think Garrett was twenty four or twenty
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  five when he came into the league, So this was always going to be
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  an issue. But those are hard players to find. They don't really have
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  another one right now ready to go. I was just gonna say they paid
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  a boatload for the guy on the right side of the offensive line to bookend
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  that side. You have somebody who whatever you think about Garrett Bulls, he's
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  at least okay, like he's at least reliable, Like he's almost always there.
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  He always said that about him. Outside of a broken leg, he's
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  always been in the lineup, and he's he's he's rebounded from struggles on the
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  field A lot of guys wouldn't have, I mean, and a lot of
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  that was Mike Munchak, you know, coaching him. But I think he's
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  responded to the current coaching staff. I think they'd like to have him.
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  But if you're Garrett's representative, you're certainly going to put going out how much
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  you're paying the right tackle, you know, right now, and that's just
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  business. But I think they will, you know, unless they have a
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  replacement who's even even or better, which they do not right now. I
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  think they'll They'll end up having some kind of conversations with him, and Garrett
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  would probably want to stay in some fashion. But until I see a plan
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  B, I got to believe that he's playing a he's still playing a.
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  Jeffrey. Do you think they at any point with even envision keeping three quarterbacks
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  or is one of these guys going to get cut after camp? Yeah?
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  I think the new practice squad rule is the wild card that you can elevate
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  a guy seventeen times during the season if you want to. I think the
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  issue is a lot of gms I know believe people are just going to claim
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  quarterbacks on waivers no matter what, just because they're quarterbacks. Now the issue,
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  you know, if you do claim, you got to put him on
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  your fifty three, so that I think the question would be who could you
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  get through waivers if you wanted to bring him back to the practice squad.
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  But they face a kind of a quirky decision because you know, the guy
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  with the natural talent and the big arm, you know, it's going through
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  a career rehab a little bit. And Zack Wilson, you know, Jared
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  Stidham. I think most people in the league consider him to have hit his
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  ceiling or almost hit his ceiling. We don't know. Maybe he would if
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  a full time starter, maybe he would really take off. You know,
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  I can't say that for sure. It's an intriguing position because you know,
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  do you want to go young young, you know Wilson Nicks and and have
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  that unreliability factor in there, or do you want a safe bet and then
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  a young guy. I think that's the decision they're gonna have to make.
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  Yesterday in the show, it was it yesterday the day before pulled up all
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  the Broncos finishes from last year, and I guess I didn't realize it in
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  the midst of that season, Jeff, But they had one one hundred yard
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  receiving game and that was out of the rookie on two catches in Week two.
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  I believe it was or never saw the ball again and never saw the
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  football again, right, Like, what the heck? They didn't have a
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  one hundred yard rusher at all all of I mean, the offense was pathetic.
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  It was so pedestrian and pathetic. It has to be better, correct,
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  I mean it has to. It has to. There's no jam,
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  there's no explosive, there's there's there's no booth, there's no nothing. What
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  are we doing well? Was id offer? Again? I've been saying this
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  all off season. Can you say they've had more talent come in than leave?
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  I mean, it's the quarterback and I throw twenty six touchdowns in fifteen
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  games like Russell Wilson did. Probably not, Probably not. You know,
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  if Courtland is an here on time, do they have a receiver who can
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  have ten touchdowns. You know, we're not even you know, I believe
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  Marvin Mims will be a very good pro. But do we know for certain
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  and as much craft as people talk about Jerry Judy, do we know for
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  certain they have a player that can even play to that level? Right now?
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  We don't know, you know we I think they hope estimate can add
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  to the run game, but I think this year we're Sean Payton's real test
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  is will you commit to running the ball as much as you're gonna have to
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  because of everything else? You know, a young quarterback probably and that you
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  know, I just I've written a story about this that's going to run.
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  But you know, find me the playmakers that you know for certain can be
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  playmakers. And that's tough to find right now because again, you want to
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  fire coaches every two years. This is this is what the constant rebuild looks
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  like. Jeff Label, DESPN dot com. We got thirty seconds, Jeff.
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  One last thing quickly, I was thinking about this. Sean Payton does
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  not like his players to be out in the spotlight all that much. He
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  isn't like somebody who goes to the beat of their own drum. What do
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  you think it looks like if Aaron Rodgers is the quarterback of the Broncos under
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  Sean Payton, how does he handle what he's doing in New York right now?
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  Probably a different set of discussions, frankly. I mean it's a you
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  know, Robert Sali is a defensive coach, and a lot of times in
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  that scenario sometimes I don't know this, I'm not around the Jets all the
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  time, but sometimes a defense or guy from the other side of the ball
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  will let his offensive coaches handle the now. Belichick did not do that for
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  certain, and you know, John Harbaugh, a former special teams coach,
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  is highly involved in every part of the you know, so I don't know
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  that that's the scenario in New York, but it has that look a little
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  bit. Yeah, But you know, I think that's any any situation like
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  that I put on the head coach and the GM, you know, you
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  should have sat down and taken care of that and had specifics already on your
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  desk about how this is going to go and how this is going to look,
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  be going to be here or not. You know, all of those
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  things should be taken care of long before it happened. Jeff LEGWOLDESPN dot Com
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  joins us every single Thursday. Always appreciate it, Leg you, thank you,
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  buddy, Thanks Malla, Take care, Jeff. Jeff Legwold, ESPN
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  dot Com back after this