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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 5-1-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 4: Jeff BLAKEWELLDESPN dot com joins us on the ramos La
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  Speaker 4: hot Line, recapping the week that was, weekend that was
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  Speaker 4: in the NFL Draft and legging. We talked at him
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  Speaker 4: schefter earlier. I'm gonna I asked him this question. I
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  Speaker 4: want to ask you on paper, on paper, after selecting today, barn,
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  Speaker 4: you see what they did in the off season. The
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  Speaker 4: starting lineup defensively for the Broncos, true or false? Is
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  Speaker 4: the best on paper in the NFL?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, I don't have a wall in front
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  Speaker 5: of me, but it's in that it's on the podium
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  Speaker 5: for sure.
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  Speaker 6: If that's yeah, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they have the Defensive Player of the Year,
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  Speaker 5: so that's a great place to start. But they are
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  Speaker 5: one of the best, one of the one, two or
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  Speaker 5: three best lineups on paper. But you know, you need
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  Speaker 5: Benito to have another big year. You need you need
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  Speaker 5: to be healthy, you need all of that stuff. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they they're definitely. I mean in the advanced metrics they
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  Speaker 5: were number one last year by a wide margin, even
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  Speaker 5: with some of the Bobbles Stanza Defensive Player of the
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  Speaker 5: Year and then you know barn makes them better. He's
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  Speaker 5: playing in this defense from the moment he walks through
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  Speaker 5: the door in a variety of ways, I think.
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  Speaker 4: So you do think that starts outside Nickel, Like where
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  Speaker 4: does he start doing that?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's really when they get him in the
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  Speaker 5: building and they start putting them through the paces. How
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  Speaker 5: fast does he learn, you know, and and how much
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  Speaker 5: can he handle? Initially? I think their plan is to
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  Speaker 5: see how much they can give him, and they hope
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  Speaker 5: and believe he'll digest it quickly, and I think he
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  Speaker 5: will play in a variety of roles. But I think
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  Speaker 5: it would be a mistake to say, at least until
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  Speaker 5: I hear differently. Right now, the plan is to work
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  Speaker 5: them at a lot of things, but we'll see if
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  Speaker 5: that really transpires when he when he gets on the field.
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  Speaker 2: I also think, Jeff, it's it's a choice they made
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  Speaker 2: because this is where the modern day NFL is gone.
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  Speaker 2: I mean gone other days when you stick with four
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  Speaker 2: defensive backs. Most of the time it's five, sometimes it's six.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we see teams flood the field with defensive backs,
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  Speaker 2: and he could play at any position in that secondary.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, other than stir ten. He's he's likely a more
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  Speaker 5: talented player than the guy who's playing.
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  Speaker 6: You know, that's just a fact. The guy is an ultra.
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  Speaker 5: Ultra talented player at at a variety of things. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's you know, gone ore the days where you just say, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we got four corners, everything's good, or even two corners
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  Speaker 5: and everything's good. That's I mean, we saw last year
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  Speaker 5: Riley loss has hurt for a couple of weeks, and
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  Speaker 5: the Cleveland Browns looked like the you know, the Heyday Chargers,
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  Speaker 5: you know, going up and down the So you can't
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  Speaker 5: have enough of them. And I know people, you know,
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  Speaker 5: in this era of fantasy football, everybody wants offense, everybody
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  Speaker 5: wants weapons and all that stuff. But I've said all along,
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  Speaker 5: if the Broncos strategy is to win the division, oh,
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  Speaker 5: they'll just be consistently better on offense than Mahomes and
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  Speaker 5: the Chiefs. I just think that's a bad strategy over
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  Speaker 5: the long term. I think it's a better idea to
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  Speaker 5: go the other way, make life difficult on other offenses,
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  Speaker 5: and then score as many as you can with the
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  Speaker 5: guys you have on offense.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff.
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  Speaker 7: They were third in points per game and total points
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  Speaker 7: given up, good stuff, top seven in terms of yards
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  Speaker 7: per game, So they're already right there. I don't want
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  Speaker 7: to be a Debbie downer here. You said one thing
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  Speaker 7: that I completely agree with. Health is big for this team,
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  Speaker 7: really big. They only had one major injury on the
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  Speaker 7: defensive side last year. If you do see it regressing,
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  Speaker 7: even with Baron as the first round pick, what does
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  Speaker 7: that look like or is it just, hey man, they're
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  Speaker 7: decimated by guys going down. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously, if Sir Tan misses a lot of time,
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  Speaker 5: that's a big chunk of the defensive plan, you know,
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  Speaker 5: off the table. I think the key for them though, is,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the guys up front, John Franklin, Meyers, Zach Allen,
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  Speaker 5: all those guys, DJ Jones, they have to have the
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  Speaker 5: kind of year they had last year. They all played
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  Speaker 5: at the top of their abilities. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 5: almost every defensive lineman they had had their best year personally,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and most consistently good year personally of their careers.
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  Speaker 6: So they need more of that.
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  Speaker 5: I think if if there was a regression, to me,
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  Speaker 5: it would come if if they could not win up front,
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  Speaker 5: or if the two guys they sign in free agency
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  Speaker 5: aren't healthy. I mean, Green Laws already hurt and he's
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  Speaker 5: not even here yet, so or he's here, you know,
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  Speaker 5: getting healthier, but you know he's got a thigh injury
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  Speaker 5: that's going to keep him out of most of the
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  Speaker 5: off season work, you know, and see you in training camp.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the kind of stuff that gets you and
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  Speaker 5: pulls you back from where you think you're going to be.
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  Speaker 4: I know you hate these, like k predict the futures
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  Speaker 4: type of questions, but in your best estimation, the bigger
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  Speaker 4: impact on the offense this year will be Evan Ingram
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  Speaker 4: or RJ.
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  Speaker 5: Harvey, potentially Harvey, you know, I think, but again it's
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  Speaker 5: are they going to commit to it.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's all great.
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  Speaker 5: We spent a ton of time talking about running backs
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  Speaker 5: and who fits and who would be good in the draft,
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  Speaker 5: and but if they don't hand them the ball, it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't matter, you know. And coming down the stretch last
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  Speaker 5: year the second half of the season, every week he
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  Speaker 5: would say they have to find more in the run game,
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  Speaker 5: and then they wouldn't give the guys the ball, and
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  Speaker 5: then you know, Estimate is a healthy inactive in the
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  Speaker 5: playoff game. So you know, I think it's more up
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  Speaker 5: to them. I think Ingram is a great signing for
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  Speaker 5: the money they got him for, and he fits their offense.
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  Speaker 5: It's just he's not much of a run after the
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  Speaker 5: catch guy, and I think that's the issue. He'll be
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  Speaker 5: a high volume target, but it's how much impact do
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  Speaker 5: they have after the catch?
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  Speaker 6: So I think I think other players could have more impact.
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  Speaker 5: I think Mims is poised for a big year if
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  Speaker 5: they just commit from week one and just say he's
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  Speaker 5: in the rotation and let him play. Because at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the year, I thought you know Cortland Sutton
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  Speaker 5: is their one, but I thought Mims was just the
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  Speaker 5: most stressful for the defense.
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  Speaker 6: At the end of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Real impact, and they need real impact because this year
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  Speaker 5: will be very difficult for bo Nicks. Your second year
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  Speaker 5: is brutal because a whole bunch of defensive coaches have
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  Speaker 5: spent a whole bunch of time just dismantling your game
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  Speaker 5: on video and they just do. They want to do
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  Speaker 5: nothing more than just to give you tons of things
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  Speaker 5: you don't like.
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  Speaker 2: How worried shabronco fans be about the health of Drake Greenlaw.
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  Speaker 2: He's got that quad injury that occurred during offseason conditioning
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  Speaker 2: whatever he was doing. How long is it gonna take?
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  Speaker 2: Is this going to be a reoccurring issue?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 5: The way it's been explained to me vic is they're
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  Speaker 5: not like immensely concerned, but it is basically a cu
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  Speaker 5: in training camp type injury for practicing in the defense.
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  Speaker 5: Like I we will not see him in OTAs or
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  Speaker 5: mini camp or any of that.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think. I don't think that's the plan right now,
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  Speaker 6: So you know, August.
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  Speaker 5: I think and even then it may be a slower
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  Speaker 5: wind up to come in But the way it's been
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  Speaker 5: explained to me is they did not expect him to
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  Speaker 5: miss any regular season time with this at all.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not a good sign. The last thing you
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  Speaker 2: want is damage goods for a guy who's coming off injury.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 5: I mean when they sign these two guys, we've always said,
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  Speaker 5: if you know, you know, they got them for the
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  Speaker 5: contracts they did because they're coming off injuries. They wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: have been able to sign these guys at the amounts
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  Speaker 5: they did if they were had been totally healthy. So
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  Speaker 5: they benefited from that, but they also need it. They
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  Speaker 5: need good fortune moving forward or it really tempers, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the impact of their signing, and they're a little thin
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  Speaker 5: at linebacker if green Law isn't going to be healthy
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  Speaker 5: all year. They did not really. I thought they would
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  Speaker 5: go there with one of the picks at some point,
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  Speaker 5: and they didn't really go inside linebacker, uh anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're a football encyclopedia, and Jeff Lagwold is
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  Speaker 4: mister no days off. You're always up to something with
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  Speaker 4: your job. But are you gonna park your butt on
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  Speaker 4: the couch tonight with two screens up and watch the
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  Speaker 4: Abs and the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 6: I will do my very best to do that.
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  Speaker 7: You mean to do your very best? What does that mean?
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  Speaker 5: Well, there's been a couple of news items happened in
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  Speaker 5: the last couple of days, like what so I've I've
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  Speaker 5: been chasing a few things.
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  Speaker 6: The very tragic. Uh oh yeah, totally. Yeah, Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 6: that's Uh, that's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, Jeff, speaking of you, you're speaking of the
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  Speaker 2: l Way Jeff Spurbek situation. Uh, Jeff, Jeff's the longtime
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  Speaker 2: marketing agent for for John that their their buddies. I
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  Speaker 2: got to know Jeff pretty well when he was in town.
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  Speaker 2: He was working with that seven sellers and right, I can't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the words for what occurred. Now. The
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  Speaker 2: investigation is looming and all that business, But I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much more you've uncovered. There is there any
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  Speaker 2: other new news with that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think anybody, you know, no agency, or
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  Speaker 5: body of folks I've talked to, believes there's anything.
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  Speaker 6: Going on.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's just such a a freak accident of sorts.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's you know, it's very common for if
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  Speaker 5: someone dies that they have to go through the investigation
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  Speaker 5: to see what happened and what occurred, so that that's
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  Speaker 5: all that's happening now.
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  Speaker 6: But what a what a horrible thing.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they're at an event and enjoying life and
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  Speaker 5: then you know a few.
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  Speaker 6: Seconds or all.
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  Speaker 5: That is the difference between that and it's just when
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  Speaker 5: you do those stories and you know some of the
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  Speaker 5: people involved.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's just a you know, the family, it's a
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  Speaker 6: terrible think. You're right about that.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Jeff always going to talk to you think for
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  Speaker 4: the breakdown of the Broncos draft, and we'll talk to.
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  Speaker 2: You next week.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks Palace, We'll see it.
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  Speaker 7: Just to finish up on that. It's really sad, and guys,
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  Speaker 7: we've all been there a billion times. I mean, it
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  Speaker 7: could happen to anybody. Scary and sad, just a bummer