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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 6/13/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football,
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  coverage of mandatory miniature camp. Uh. Jeff Legwald of the two days that
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  you saw where the players were compelled contractually, uh to be in attendance.
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  Did any Broncos pop for you? Was there? Was there anything that you
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  saw where you were like, Okay, they're on the right track there.
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  Well, I mean, you know, it's it's such a controlled environment,
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  you know it. I've told people sometimes we get lost and with the purpose
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  of the time of year is OTA's and Minie camp is really the coach is
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  just trying to get everybody familiar with assignments. They're not necessarily you know,
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  grading depth chart performance. You know, they do have a depth chart,
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  and there are starters and our backups and all of that, but the basis
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  of it all is they're really checking everyone's understanding of their assignments. So that's
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  that's kind of the prism I look at it through and I did see,
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  you know, of the rookies and he and he's not going to get talked
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  about given the you know, quarterback is all encompassing everything right now. But
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  you know, I thought Jonah Ellis looked like a guy who's gonna contribute something
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  right away for their defense. And I thought Nick Benito looked really good in
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  the OTAs that we were in on and then you know, just just as
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  far as his movement, reaction and all those things. So I'm kind of
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  I was unsure where they were going to consistently create pass rush opportunities. And
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  now I think I see enough athleticism there overall for them to mix and match
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  and do some things that can be that can be really good for the defense.
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  You know, I'm glad you brought up the name Nick Benito right there
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  when you sort of think of like hinge players of like this thing could really
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  swing in a good direction. Possibly. Nick Benito is one of those guys
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  of like, okay, if there's another next step right there, and he
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  can become a reliable double digit sack kind of producer, then you know,
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  vance Joseph has a chance to meet maybe do something on this defense this year,
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  because I think that the depth up front is better than what they had
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  a year ago. Like, there there appears to be improving of that area
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  of the field. The question is can there be consistent pressure to be able
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  to help out the second area, et cetera. Like Benito to me is
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  one of those guys of like, okay, if there's if there's a big
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  leap forward there for that guy, like they could really have something. Yeah,
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  And honestly, it's it's sort of a hidden item, but it doesn't
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  have to be that big e lite because you know, in terms of analytics,
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  Nick Bonito created among the best number of pressures last season as any rusher
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  per SMAM, and you know a lot of defensive coaches will tell you that's
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  a pretty good indicator of how a guy's playing. Now, he didn't turn
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  those pressures into very many sets, and we you know, they weren't consistently
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  good enough up front, But I think this year, if you turned pressures
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  into sacks. I mean, Zach Allen isn't playing out a position now,
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  you know, DJ Jones isn't because John Franklin. He changes the whole equation.
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  And now if you get a pressure, you could be running people into
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  sacks they didn't get last year. And that's that's what I mean. It
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  doesn't have to be that big a jump for a player like him to to
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  really suddenly pop in the eye of you know, the public, so to
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  speak. But I think defensively, you know, defensively, they're sort of
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  in I think, in better shape depth wise in a lot of places than
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  they are in offense right now. I think that's that's one thing that I
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  came away with as well. All Right, if the quarterbacks are going to
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  perform a key element to that will be the offensive line. How good do
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  you think they'll be? You know, the only decision they're making Andy's center,
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  and you know they're not making it with any sort of rookie players.
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  They're are making the decision with people who've been either here or around a while.
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  So I think they feel pretty good. Again, it's all injury faced.
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  You know, and I think mcglinchy and Bulls can't miss any time.
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  I think they're really thin on the perimeter. If those two guys were injured
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  for any significant amount of time, I think it would be really hard for
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  them to cover it up without just going full blown, you know, too
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  tight end all the time. So if the starters stayed in the whole way
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  like last year, you know, they only have one game where the same
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  five guys didn't start. If they get that again, I think they have
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  a good chance at performing pretty well. Obligatory quarterback question time, now,
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  Jeff Lagwald, how did they look? What did you make of Sean Payton's
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  rotations during mandatory mini camp and going back through OTAs and how does that all
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  translate to, you know, training camp and actually getting ready for a football
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  season. Well, and I'll tell you I was intrigued. I asked him
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  yesterday, did you see anything in this camp that would determine how you do
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  things or in the off season program that will determine how you do things in
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  training camp? And he actually, if you really look and listen to what
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  he said, he actually did not commit to them starting training camp with equal
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  reps again. You know, He essentially said, that'll be considered, but
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  we haven't made that decision yet. And I think that's a pretty significant,
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  pretty significant door to leave open. You know, it would have been very
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  easily for him to say, you know, yeah, we're going to do
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  it the same way when camp opens, all three guys, and he did
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  not. He did not say that. In fact, he took great pains
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  into not saying it. In my mind, so that's what I want to
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  see when they come back. Is it a two man race? Is it?
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  You know, are they leaning one way and you know, one guy
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  gets I think the first week of camp will be certainly something to keep an
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  eye on for that, you know, is it really still a three person
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  battle? Again? It was so assignment oriented for those guys. There were
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  an awful lot of areas of the field, none of them challenged because they
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  either weren't asked to or did not shake out that way. Now, Davis
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  Webb, the quarterbacks coach, was asked, you know, how do you
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  keep guys from being conservative in a quarterback battle? And his quote was,
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  we don't want to be checked down Charlie's So I think it's something they are
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  aware of. And he said he did not think that was the case in
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  the OTAs in the mini camp, but I certainly did. I certainly thought
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  that was the case all right. So I'm asking you, based on performance,
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  just your opinion, how do you think if they have eliminated maybe one
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  guy getting as many reps as the other two, how do you think it
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  would shake out on performance? How would it look. I don't know that
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  they have Andy because I think each guy played his trump card effectively. Stidham
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  was showed composure, comfort level the other guys don't have. Wilson showed athleticism
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  the other two guys don't have. And Nick showed what they wanted him to
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  see, which was maturity, and you know, his decision making and accuracy
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  was was good. And again in a limited menu, you know, it
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  was kind of a brunch menu instead of the full blown, you know,
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  dinner menu type of thing. But they all three played their trump card.
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  So I think if they were going to limit the race in any fashion to
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  open and I'm not saying they are, I just said I thought it was
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  intriguing, he would not fight at that. But if they do cut it
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  down, I think they're they're doing it on projection rather than what they saw
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  and you know on the field when we were there. Jeff Legwalden, you
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  watch him on ESPN, you rate him on ESPN dot com. So September
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  eighth, Broncos will be in Seattle offense takes the field for the first time.
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  Who will be lining up at tight end for the Denver Broncos An excellent
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  question. They you know, until I see him on I'd say Dulphins until
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  but until I see him in who they said he well, they said he
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  was going to be ready for what we saw and he was not so uh,
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  But they also say it was just a precaution, so you know.
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  I but he is who they want on the field when they want to throw
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  the ball, and that room will be far less productive if he's not right
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  now, you know, it's business as usual and he can't get it,
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  you know, or you know, the struggles continue. I mean, it's
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  never a guy's fault when he gets injured, but it's still frustrating. It's
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  troutman if if they can't get him on the field, but they'd like it
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  to be dulcin You're not buying Sean Payton's Lucas Kroll hype. Is that what
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  you're telling me, he'll get plenty of snaps, especially you know if they
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  they try to mesh you know, what they want to do on third down
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  type, that type of thing. But Dulphin's changes the equation if he's ready
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  to play, because he again like the quarterback that you know, he he's
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  athletically different than all of the other guys. Yes, you know, and
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  it's just it's very obvious when he plays that he can be impactful. But
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  you know, I can't express to people enough how much they need that position
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  against nickel defenses. In today's league. There's not a good offense in the
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  league that doesn't have that impact player. All right, let's go back to
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  Nate's phrasing of the question, because I kind of like that. Come September
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  eighth, as we get on the plane they get on the plane anyway to
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  travel to Seattle, will you Audric estimate Javonte Williams and samaj p Ryan all
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  be in that same running back room or do you think they shed one of
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  them? Well, if they're they're most likely going to keep Burton for sure,
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  because he's a fullback and the only fall back and he plays every special
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  teams known to man Uh for them, you know that that's a that's a
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  pretty big running back room. You know you're talking five five players. Uh
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  So it's hard for me to believe they would keep five running backs. It's
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  been a long time since we've seen, uh seen them do that, so
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  uh, I guess I would say no. Jeff Legwald, everybody ESPN we
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  say yes to his appearances every time that he comes onto the show, filling
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  us in on what's going on at mandatory mini camp this week. No preank
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  today, Jeff Lagwalld summer vacation starts soon, so long as nobody gets arrested
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  or anything else like that. That's a fourth of July post fourth of July
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  thing. He's fine, He's gotta tell mid July. You're telling me there's
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  no crime in June. No, Jeff, am I wrong? You always
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  tell me it's the fourth of July weekend that gets these coaches nervous. That's
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  the one. You know. Anytime you got Festivus, fireworks and uh and
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  halfy hour, I think it's uh that could be a tough combination, or
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  we let you go. Favorite water athlete, Date's got a great question for
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  his personal four pack of water World tickets. He's given away. We defined
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  we we could have come up. We came up with stuff in the water,
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  under the water, near the water. Frankly, what do you got
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  your favorite athlete? Aquatic athlete? Michael Saltz. That's where I'm going.
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  Good, mister, easy guy? Are you good? You know, I
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  apologize he won all the gold medals. I'm sorry about that. You know,
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  history lesson just a little bit. I thought you were asking me my
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  favorite. I'm sorry, Jeff Lego hyping up this, Wayne Gretzky, this
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  Michael. If you heard of these guys, they're pretty good. What this
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  Tom Brady? Oh yeah, let's let's pick against secretariat. That's great strategy.
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  There's not some forties swimmer that you saw that Johnny Wey smaller, Johnny
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  Weis smaller. Yeah, first time. That would be my favorite. That'll
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  be my favorite water athletes. The guy that swammed the English Channel whatever you're
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  talking about. Yeah, leg was in high school when that kid was in
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  elementary school. That's all. Jeff Lewald. Everybody, Yes the month.
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  If you haven't heard, you're just gonna take it legal Leggy good as always,
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  buddy, Thank you, And it's an off season month. I'll just
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  let you know that it's Legwald's off season two. Thanks Leggy. There he
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  goes everybody. Jeff Legwald with us on a Thursday afternoon