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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 9-8-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwell. Time here on a Monday afternoon, Jeff Legwall,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 1: IBW Local sixty eight. You start with a job, you
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  Speaker 1: end with a career. Your number two of the bow
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  Speaker 1: Nicks Sean Payton partnership critical to both of their careers.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, Jeff Legwall to ESPN with us right
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  Speaker 1: now and Leggy the defense dominant, the offense not so much.
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  Speaker 1: Quite frankly, based on what I watched in this training camp,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what I saw out of this team,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly Andy's on the same page is that I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't too terribly surprised by much of what I saw
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  Speaker 1: in Week one outside of some goofy decision making made
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  Speaker 1: by the Broncos, although Brian Callahan certainly won up that
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  Speaker 1: numerous times in that game yesterday. But in terms of expectation,
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  Speaker 1: where did that performance meet what you had for Denver?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, it's like you guys have said, it
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  Speaker 2: was the team we saw in training camp and the preseason.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you know, if an offense with its starters
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  Speaker 2: going against largely backups take six drives to score a
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  Speaker 2: touchdown in the preseason. They're probably going to start the
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  Speaker 2: regular season like they did now. The one advantage they
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  Speaker 2: have is I think they showed yesterday that the potential
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  Speaker 2: on defense is pretty immense if they can keep it
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  Speaker 2: all going and everybody stays healthy and all of those things.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, that is the defense I saw in
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  Speaker 2: training camp, and I'm not sure many NFL that I've
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  Speaker 2: covered many NFL games where a team had five possessions
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  Speaker 2: inside the other team's fifty start inside the fifty and
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  Speaker 2: not get a touchdown, or have four turnovers and they
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  Speaker 2: don't turn any of those into a touchdown, two field goals.
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  Speaker 1: That was it on four turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's you're not going to get that very often.
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  Speaker 2: Stuff To hold any NFL team to one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: thirty three yards or whatever is in this day and age,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's those are really difficult things to do
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  Speaker 2: in today's modern NFL. And I don't care who you
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  Speaker 2: do it against, it's still worth noting and saying, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, that was a pretty good effort.
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  Speaker 3: And I think Sean Payton that.
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  Speaker 2: Was kind of how his his demeanor was after the game. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he's obviously going to come to the defense
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  Speaker 2: of bo Nicks and the offense, because that's where he
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's an awful lot of him invested there.
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  Speaker 2: But even even Sean had to basically say, you know
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  Speaker 2: that that was one for the defense yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jeff, It's interesting to me because you had kind
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  Speaker 4: of given me a hint we should be ready for
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  Speaker 4: waggle plays and the boot keeps and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 4: and I didn't feel like they showed a ton of
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  Speaker 4: it necessarily during practices.
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  Speaker 3: Why were the Titans so ready for that?
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  Speaker 4: It felt like all the stuff I thought would be
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  Speaker 4: a surprise yesterday, the Titans were sitting in wait on that.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what happened there?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I think.
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  Speaker 2: Young mister Callahan has a pretty good handle on that
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  Speaker 2: sort of thing, given his history here. For one, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he worked on he worked on a staff that was
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  Speaker 2: very good at those plays. So I think when they
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  Speaker 2: saw some of the setups and you know, and the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos did it early in the game, I think they,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they sort of made quick adjustments to it.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm not sure the Broncos were as smooth there
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  Speaker 2: as they want to be. And I think some of
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  Speaker 2: that is you don't get those live reps in training
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  Speaker 2: camp and as many in the preseason as he used to.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I've.
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  Speaker 2: I think I what I saw, especially in the first
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  Speaker 2: half from the Broncos offense, is I kind of saw
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  Speaker 2: a team working through the kinks like you would normally
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  Speaker 2: do in a third preseason game when all the starters
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  Speaker 2: play through the half, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The old way. That that's kind of what I saw
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  Speaker 3: in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: And it wasn't until the second half, you know, especially
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  Speaker 2: for the run game, that they finally got some of
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  Speaker 2: that timing that that they're gonna want moving forward.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Leggy, who was an offensive performer yesterday for Denver,
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  Speaker 1: That that stood out to you that you would look
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  Speaker 1: back after that game and say, Okay, that guy. That
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  Speaker 1: guy showed me something yesterday about.
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  Speaker 2: Harvey did when he when he finally got decisive. I
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  Speaker 2: think he had a bit of a slow wind up
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  Speaker 2: in the game. And some of that is running back
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  Speaker 2: is such a drum beat position. You know, the third
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  Speaker 2: carry works into the fourth carry into the fifth carry,
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  Speaker 2: and they just didn't commit to it at all. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it's but I mean, you know, last year I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a mistake when Bo Nicks in his
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  Speaker 2: first start in the opener, had twenty two pass attempts
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  Speaker 2: at halftime against Seattle, and.
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  Speaker 3: Then yesterday he had twenty two pass attempts at halftime.
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  Speaker 2: And I just I still, you know, struggle to wrap
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  Speaker 2: my head around it. I ask everybody I can ask
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  Speaker 2: with the team, but that seems to be the tempo
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  Speaker 2: they want with him early in games. But I thought
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  Speaker 2: when the backs got more decisive because the holes were
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  Speaker 2: there in the first half, even in the limited work
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  Speaker 2: they did, and they just didn't make very much as
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  Speaker 2: some of those plays. There were a couple where I
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  Speaker 2: thought that's gonna go and then you know, it fizzled
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  Speaker 2: pretty fast. But second half, I thought Dobbins and Harvey
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  Speaker 2: were very decisive and it showed in the results. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they had you know, ninety yards rushing combined
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  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter. So I think they need that
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  Speaker 2: element and I think it would settle the quarterback down
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff, how concerned should we be about some of the
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  Speaker 4: injuries we know? I mean, obviously Malcolm Roach is on
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  Speaker 4: the injured list there for a bit, so you won't
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  Speaker 4: see him for four weeks, But what.
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  Speaker 3: About any idea.
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  Speaker 4: It felt like that calf string got announced a little
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  Speaker 4: bit late yesterday for Evan Ingram or are there concerns there?
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  Speaker 4: What do you know about green Law? Do you think
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  Speaker 4: green Law? I know that they haven't had a practice ship.
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  Speaker 4: Could he be any closer to coming back? And Oshan
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  Speaker 4: would answer it, But what do you know about this injury?
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  Speaker 4: This team that was so healthy feels a little banged
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  Speaker 4: up all of a sudden.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Andy is checking the injury report powered
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  Speaker 1: by Ramo's Law, the official injury law firm. Parker of
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  Speaker 1: Broncos Country Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would, again, from what I'm told after making
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  Speaker 2: the rounds last night a little bit. I think I
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  Speaker 2: think they will be surprised if Greenlaw doesn't practice at
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  Speaker 2: minimum this week. You know, maybe they get a little
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  Speaker 2: more than that. But I think they're very hopeful he'll practice.
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  Speaker 2: The Ingram injury I think will bear watching. Look, it's
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  Speaker 2: a non scientific study, but whenever a guy throws his
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  Speaker 2: helmet after he's been hurt, they know. I mean, they're
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  Speaker 2: not physicians, and I get it, they haven't been to
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  Speaker 2: medical school.
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  Speaker 3: But when a dude throws his.
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  Speaker 2: Helmet, he didn't get the report he wanted, So I
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  Speaker 2: think that will bear watching moving forward.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: That's some doctor Nick Riviera stuff right there. Well done
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  Speaker 1: by Jeff Legwold breaking it down as only decades of
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  Speaker 1: covering the NFL can leggy Nick Benito. My god, a
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  Speaker 1: four pass rush win rate yesterday for Nick Benito out there.
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  Speaker 1: His presence was felt instantly on the very first play
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  Speaker 1: of the game and a carry by Tony Pollard, and
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  Speaker 1: it did not relent for the entire game. Uh, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: is is it possible that a guy that was second
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  Speaker 1: team All Pro a season ago, a guy that got
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  Speaker 1: a contract extension with seventy million dollars and guaranteed north
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  Speaker 1: of one hundred million dollars, is it possible that even
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  Speaker 1: after all of that, this guy is somehow still underrated.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think he's underrated nationally because you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: not he doesn't have a cool celebration or you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's not on a podcast and he's just doing his
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  Speaker 2: football thing right now. And uh, you know, I will say,
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  Speaker 2: I know VJ takes a lot of heat, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: in my experience of being around Vance Joseph very good
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  Speaker 2: with edge rushers, very good at unlocking players with potential
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  Speaker 2: and very good with secondary players because that's he came
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  Speaker 2: up coaching DBS under Wade, So he's very good at
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  Speaker 2: at sort of finding potential in players. You know, Hassan
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  Speaker 2: Reddick until Benito Reddick was probably his greatest, you know,
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  Speaker 2: from beginning to end improvement guy. But I think Benito's
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  Speaker 2: gonna take that even further. And he just fits Vance's defense,
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  Speaker 2: you know, perfectly. And you know, certainly he can't keep
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  Speaker 2: up the pace he showed yesterday. You know that would
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  Speaker 2: be unreasonable to expect. But this is an impact player
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  Speaker 2: on a defense that gives you an awful lot of
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  Speaker 2: bad choices in protection. I mean honestly, you know, just
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  Speaker 2: objectively from a football perspective, you know, what do you do? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: If you're trying to slow him down?
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  Speaker 1: Mother?
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  Speaker 2: You know, after I charted some of the game last
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  Speaker 2: night and the rest of it this morning. But my
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  Speaker 2: favorite thing I uncovered in the charting was they had
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  Speaker 2: four rushes yesterday with six man pressures and they had
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  Speaker 2: sacks on three of them.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: So that's that's getting it done when you bring the house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've got it, man. Jeff Legwelt, everybody ESPN dot
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  Speaker 1: Com go read Leggy stuff best in the biz. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a great piece up on the performance of bon
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  Speaker 1: Nicks in week one. He'll have much more as the
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  Speaker 1: week goes along. Leggie will talk to you Friday Man.
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  Speaker 3: Take care fellas.