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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 11-11-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety
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  Speaker 1: two five Pro Football.
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  Speaker 2: The insider I've covered while.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff Legwall he's the balloon popper.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't blow it up.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 3: the career. It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff Legwalld, time here on a Monday afternoon, Leggy.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ways to lose a football game.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you lose because you didn't play well enough. Other
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  Speaker 1: times you lose just because the other team was better.
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  Speaker 1: As you've had a chance to digest the entirety of
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  Speaker 1: the Broncos visit to Kansas City. Was that an execution
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  Speaker 1: loss or a talent loss for the Broncos? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday it was an execution loss.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that's, you know, other than the Ravens game,
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  Speaker 4: which is you know, is what it was. We all
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  Speaker 4: saw it. But other than the Ravens game, they have
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  Speaker 4: played playoff worthy defense. They sacked Mahomes more times than
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  Speaker 4: they've sacked him in any any game they've faced him.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they you know, Ja Kwon McMillan fell down
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  Speaker 4: in the end zone, but they largely handled Kelsey. They
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  Speaker 4: kept Hopkins from He had one big play when Sir
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  Speaker 4: Tam wasn't on him, and even that was an eighteen
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  Speaker 4: yard or wasn't like a you know, a bomb or something.
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  Speaker 4: So they've played well enough on defense. Sixteen is you
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  Speaker 4: know that that should put you in the ballpark of winning.
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  Speaker 4: It's just you know, they have a penalty that makes
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  Speaker 4: it a sixty yard field goal.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of the half.
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  Speaker 4: They you know, I think at one point in the
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  Speaker 4: third quarter they had ten yards of offense and then
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  Speaker 4: the block kicked the end the game. So I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's it's an execution thing on offense right now.
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  Speaker 2: And they they had two really good drives.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the one long touchdown drive was as good
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  Speaker 4: of a play calling sequence as Peyton has had with
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  Speaker 4: the Broncos. But then in the second half they again
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  Speaker 4: go away from some of the things they did when
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  Speaker 4: it was going okay, and you know, it's they're still
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  Speaker 4: kind of baffling on offense. And I think in the
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  Speaker 4: end it was an execution on offense. They could have
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  Speaker 4: put the game away with you know, one more better
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  Speaker 4: red zone trip.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Jeff, what what does happen in the second half?
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  Speaker 3: Is it is it self inflicted as maybe you suggested there,
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  Speaker 3: because you quit calling those same plays and running out
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  Speaker 3: those same personnel groups, or is it adjustments made by
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  Speaker 3: the other team that forces them to go into some
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  Speaker 3: of these stallouts offensively.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a little of both.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, you're never in the NFL, if you're
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  Speaker 4: playing anybody good, you're not going to keep you know,
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  Speaker 4: sort of being able to bang the drum the same
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  Speaker 4: way over and over again. I'm just saying in the
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  Speaker 4: first half, they were slightly more diversified.
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  Speaker 2: We saw some more tight ends, you know, we saw.
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  Speaker 4: You know, just some different or some route combinations they
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  Speaker 4: haven't used a lot of this year, and I think
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  Speaker 4: it was helpful, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And they really.
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  Speaker 4: Can't seem to find a way to fit a sort
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  Speaker 4: of traditional running game. You know, they're trying to create
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  Speaker 4: a running game with memes in the backfield and some
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  Speaker 4: fly sweeps and you know, all of these things to
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  Speaker 4: the perimeter, and you know, will that avoid some three
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  Speaker 4: and outs if they if they pound on the run
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  Speaker 4: game a little bit, I don't know that for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I just know that.
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  Speaker 4: When they get away from at least having the threat
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  Speaker 4: of Nicks under center a little bit or some play
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  Speaker 4: that defenses have an easier time. And that's what defensive
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  Speaker 4: coaches are telling me.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lagwall brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight. You start with the job,
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  Speaker 1: you end with a career, Jeff. The blockfield goal at
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  Speaker 1: the end, Leoshanal gets through, Forsyth put on his back,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Peart kind of a stab step to the outside,
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  Speaker 1: and the entire left side of the line just absolutely crumbled.
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  Speaker 1: You go back and watch the pat after the Courtland
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  Speaker 1: Sutton touchdown, it looked like that was already the case.
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  Speaker 1: How would you grade this out? And it's always tough
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  Speaker 1: to make these adjustments in game, But was there a
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  Speaker 1: coaching staff failure that led to that final play going
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City's way?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you're always gonna say yes because of
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  Speaker 4: the way it turned out, and that's you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: a bottom line business. Even coaches would tell you that.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean the Chiefs were pretty I know some
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  Speaker 4: folks with the Chiefs, and they said that Chanel had
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  Speaker 4: come to the sidelines or the other players had come
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  Speaker 4: to the sideline after the pat and said, this is
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  Speaker 4: something we could come back to, and they did. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, the Broncos have created some plays on special
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  Speaker 4: teams when they find a weakness or a crack.
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  Speaker 2: That's just good scouting. That's gonna happen sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think, you know, you can just say, oh,
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  Speaker 4: it's for size fault and you know that's it. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he had some help there in terms of
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  Speaker 4: you know, the outside edge cave two.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I thought the kick was a little low.
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  Speaker 2: I don't you know, I don't have.
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  Speaker 4: My pro tractor out to measure it, but in real time,
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  Speaker 4: in real time, it looked a slightly low to me,
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  Speaker 4: and I thought, even looking at it on video, uh,
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  Speaker 4: it may have because he got it with his wrist.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't even need to get it with his with
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  Speaker 4: his hands or his fingertips or whatever. So I think
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of things going on there. And yeah,
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  Speaker 4: some of it is is coaching that you don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe they did notice and thought we can get away
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  Speaker 4: with it. You know, we'll we'll get it next week.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's hard to switch personnel on special teams when
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  Speaker 4: when guys, you know, Matt Perk has a role in
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  Speaker 4: the offense. It's hard to switch guys around without injuries
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  Speaker 4: or anything on special teams sometimes during games.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Ley, you just made me realize something. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So every every player in the league with the next
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  Speaker 1: gen stats, they all they all have it chips, so
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  Speaker 1: you can you can put this pedometer on guys find
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  Speaker 1: out whatever their top speed was on a on a breakaway,
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  Speaker 1: I mean launch angle and VLO like we have it
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  Speaker 1: in baseball, like exit vlo and launch angle. When are
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  Speaker 1: we going to get it on field goal and attempts?
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  Speaker 1: This feels to me like the next most logical step.
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  Speaker 1: Now for the networks, you would think the.
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  Speaker 2: Chip and the ball would help you with that kind
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  Speaker 2: of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: But the first downs too, I still don't understand the
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  Speaker 4: reluctance to ditch.
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  Speaker 1: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but anyway, you know, it's it's I think it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just exacerbated by that they were so close.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they did everything right for most of that game,
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  Speaker 4: especially defensively. I'm not sure Mahomes has been under that
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  Speaker 4: kind of consistent four man pressures. I mean, they had
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  Speaker 4: a three man pressure that got home. I mean they
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  Speaker 4: they were on a heater yesterday. Everything they called on defense,
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  Speaker 4: for the most part, was a win.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they the Loan.
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  Speaker 4: Touchdown, they give up jay Con McMillan, who slipped a
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  Speaker 4: couple times this year, and coverage just slipped coming out
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  Speaker 4: of his back pedal, you know, when he tried to
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  Speaker 4: move to the ball. And you know, again, you would
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  Speaker 4: think giving up one touchdown against the Chiefs would put
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  Speaker 4: you in the ballpark, and it did put them in
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  Speaker 4: the ballpark. And they handled the last drive. You know,
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  Speaker 4: everything except the kick is perfect. They used up the clock.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing left there but the game winner.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we're at the midway point of the season, right,
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  Speaker 3: nine games now officially, or what was it the whole uh.
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  Speaker 1: Half of halftime of the Baltimore's.
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  Speaker 3: Right, I guess it's ten games sits now, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Five and five.
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  Speaker 3: Look, Lakey, here's my reason for asking this. From my
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  Speaker 3: side of things. You know, there's still some stuff I
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  Speaker 3: want to see Bownicks do better. Obviously, there's still some
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  Speaker 3: accuracy stuff. I'd like to see her, some downfield stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But man, that throw on third down to pick up
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  Speaker 3: a first down. Guys have Wilton in that situation, I
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  Speaker 3: thought he maybe had his best ball of the year
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  Speaker 3: to Cortland Sutton on the touchdown. Where are you at
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  Speaker 3: midpoint grade? If you will, probably should ask you a
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  Speaker 3: week ago, but whatever our show midpoint grade?
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  Speaker 2: What do you like?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want to see fixed?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit?
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  Speaker 4: Think I think they've put so much on his plate
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  Speaker 4: as footwork's just gonna have to wait now. They're probably not.
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  Speaker 4: They probably think I make too big a deal of it.
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  Speaker 4: But it's just my training over the years from coaches
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  Speaker 4: and scouts who've helped me, you know, digest film and
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  Speaker 4: evaluate players. But his footwork needs some need some addressing.
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  Speaker 4: And that's, you know, perfectly natural when you go from
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  Speaker 4: doing whatever you want as one of the best athletes
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  Speaker 4: on the field in high school and college and then
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  Speaker 4: you get to the NFL and you gotta you gotta.
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  Speaker 2: Dial it in a little more. That's just the way
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  Speaker 2: it is.
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  Speaker 4: But I do you know, I like talking to bow about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, his approach to things. I think he's got
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  Speaker 4: a good perspective on where he is as a player,
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  Speaker 4: and I do like that, and that is that's a
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  Speaker 4: big deal in a in a developmental you know in
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  Speaker 4: a developmental way, like he is honest with himself. He
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  Speaker 4: knows what needs to happen moving forward. And even yesterday,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he was one of the real you know,
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  Speaker 4: as a young guy, he was one of the real
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  Speaker 4: players to sort of stand up after that game and
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  Speaker 4: just say, hey, you know, we want to be the team,
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  Speaker 4: you know, making that last play to win.
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  Speaker 2: And and you can't.
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  Speaker 4: Stop until you are that team making that last play.
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  Speaker 4: And I thought that was an important thing. And and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I know it's a loss, and everybody's mad,
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I see the stuff when when you
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  Speaker 4: know the the prop bes don't work out for people.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, there's a lot of angst with that.
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  Speaker 4: I did it, but I thought I've been in a
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  Speaker 4: lot of locker rooms over the years. I thought that
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  Speaker 4: one handled a crushing loss just about as as well
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  Speaker 4: as you can. I mean, they they understood what it was,
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  Speaker 4: but they also understood their still sort of the number
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  Speaker 4: seven seed in the AFC, you know, as they wake
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  Speaker 4: up this morning and they play the two teams behind
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  Speaker 4: them in the weeks ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, we got one minute here. But earlier this season,
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton lamented the challenge of getting three different backs carries.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's using four different backs with Estimate up and
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Mims now being used in the backfield. What gives
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  Speaker 1: with the run game?
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  Speaker 4: I think Estimay is gonna get more work moving forward.
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  Speaker 4: That's just my gut. I mean, that's that's the way
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  Speaker 4: they're now. He said that today again, he said today
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  Speaker 4: he's gonna Estimate is gonna get more touches.
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  Speaker 2: Now, we'll see.
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  Speaker 4: He said that before and it hasn't come to fruition
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  Speaker 4: for some guys, but they have practiced that way last week.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see what this week looks like. But I think
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  Speaker 2: they like Estimate's decisiveness.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think the stat line looks a lot
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  Speaker 4: different if that seventeen yard carry holds up when Ben
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  Speaker 4: pos was called for a whole So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 4: they like his decisiveness between the hash marks, and that's
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  Speaker 4: where they can if they can get a run game
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  Speaker 4: in there. You watch the kind of room that creates
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  Speaker 4: for bon Nicks and that they need something in between
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  Speaker 4: the hash marks in the run game. And then suddenly
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  Speaker 4: the quarterback to the perimeter is going to be a
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  Speaker 4: big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, es to me, it looks like a fresher, younger
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  Speaker 1: a job and with a career, Leggie, excellent work.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Man, Thanks poutful Saye