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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 11-10-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Every Monday, we talked to Jeff Legwald. He is brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW
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  Speaker 1: Local sixty eight. Start with the job, end with a career, Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: We begin with the concerning and scary news, although hopefully
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  Speaker 1: we believe it's going to have a happy ending. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about Alex Singleton, his diagnosis, his surgery, and his
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  Speaker 1: bout with testicular cancer that he's dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, he told the team this morning so
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  Speaker 2: that he had been had surgery Friday to remove a tumor.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, as we've all sort of tried to
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  Speaker 2: put in a story and all that, I mean, just
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  Speaker 2: the timeline of it is is pretty amazing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: he takes a random drug test leading up to the
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  Speaker 2: Houston game, you know, the usual league mandated, Hey, your
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  Speaker 2: name popped up, you gotta go see the you gotta
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  Speaker 2: go see the test guy this morning, and he was
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  Speaker 2: found to have a level of a hormone that can
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  Speaker 2: sometimes be a marker for testicular and ovarian cancer. So
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  Speaker 2: when you when you get an elevated reading of that
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  Speaker 2: and you haven't been taking that hormone, they will immediately
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  Speaker 2: send you to get checked out. He did that, and
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  Speaker 2: then it finds out a week ago Monday, last Monday,
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  Speaker 2: that the tumor is indeed cancerous. They believe, so surgery Friday.
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  Speaker 2: He plays in the game. Thursday. I spoke to him
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  Speaker 2: in the locker room, you know, he did a little
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  Speaker 2: group thing with a few of us, and then I
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  Speaker 2: spoke to him after that just about some things, and
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  Speaker 2: he gave sort of no indication, Hey, tomorrow I'm having
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  Speaker 2: cancer surgery. But you know, that's that's what happened. He
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  Speaker 2: spent the weekend at home and then, like I say,
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  Speaker 2: he informed most of his teammates who didn't know. A
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  Speaker 2: select few and a select few of the Broncos hierarchy
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  Speaker 2: knew what was happening, but most people did not. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, so today was a pretty emotional team meeting
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  Speaker 2: for everybody. And I asked him today what his post
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  Speaker 2: operative you know, recovery looks like, and you know, will
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  Speaker 2: he be tested? He said, he will be tested specifically
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  Speaker 2: for the to make sure that you know, the hormone's gone,
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  Speaker 2: so that that marker is not reading off of anything
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  Speaker 2: else in his body. And he said he did have
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  Speaker 2: a cat scan that indicated he did not have other
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  Speaker 2: cancer at this point, so but he didn't even know yet,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how often he'll be screened for, you know,
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  Speaker 2: additional cancers in the future or any of that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So it's led to a couple of questions from
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  Speaker 3: people that were football related. A I know, he said,
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  Speaker 3: I just keep seeing timelines. I'm assuming you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a direct timeline, lady, because again we're watching ESPN and
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  Speaker 3: that's your place. And if they had the timeline, they'd
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  Speaker 3: have the timeline. Any idea what the rough timeline for
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  Speaker 3: return to play for him might be? In a couple
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  Speaker 3: people have asked in relation to this, do we know
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  Speaker 3: anything about Drew Sanders and would he be close to
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  Speaker 3: coming back?
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  Speaker 2: Well as far as Singleton's timeline, even he didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: Today he's still waiting. They haven't even given him the
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  Speaker 2: total pathology report from the tumor that they removed, so
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  Speaker 2: he's waiting on that. The doctors are waiting on that
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  Speaker 2: to plot what his treatment, if any, moving forward, would
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  Speaker 2: be and kind of where his checkups will be and
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  Speaker 2: all those things. He said, At one point, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he'll miss the Chiefs game for sure. They have a
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  Speaker 2: bye week and then again, even he didn't have his
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  Speaker 2: specific timeline. So I think if people are putting specific
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  Speaker 2: timelines out there, I don't think they know before Alex
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  Speaker 2: does what those are. But he did offer up at
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  Speaker 2: the end of a little conference call with a few
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  Speaker 2: of us that, uh, you know, he didn't think it
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  Speaker 2: would be four or five or six weeks. So that
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  Speaker 2: to me, that tells me in his mind, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's working off of a two three you know, two
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  Speaker 2: or three week window there. And Sanders is you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've seen him around the facility every day, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: until he is formally returned to practice, you know that
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  Speaker 2: that twenty one day window isn't isn't open, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's kind of where that's at. Would I
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  Speaker 2: would expect they do whatever they want, you know, whatever
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  Speaker 2: they need to have a fill in it linebacker justin
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  Speaker 2: Sternod you know, goes in no matter what it is.
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  Speaker 2: So I would think he's he will play against the
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  Speaker 2: Chiefs there.
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  Speaker 1: And stern has again mostly had a pretty good year.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legweld everybody ESPN dot com. So Jeff, uh, let's
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  Speaker 1: let's shift over then to the football side of things.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton had a Zoom press conference earlier today, he
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  Speaker 1: was asked extensively about bo Nix's recent struggles right now,
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  Speaker 1: What is the Broncos plan, if there is any that's
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  Speaker 1: been indicated to you to get things settled down and
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  Speaker 1: find some consistency out of this offense.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think all involved, you know, believe there is
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  Speaker 2: an issue with the clock in bo Nix's head as
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  Speaker 2: far as what's a clean pocket, what isn't a clean pocket?
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  Speaker 2: When should you move? When should you not move? And
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  Speaker 2: I think that's what they're sort of focusing on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the footwork and making sure he isn't using his movement
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  Speaker 2: skills until he has to, because he is, he is
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  Speaker 2: moving and adjusting in clean pockets and that's affecting his
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  Speaker 2: accuracy right now. And you know, again I don't I
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  Speaker 2: don't put it totally on him, but you know that
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  Speaker 2: is part of it. He's gonna have to address and
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  Speaker 2: work on, and that is something the Broncos are looking at.
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  Speaker 2: And that's you know, the issue, guys, is always the
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  Speaker 2: same is during the season, day to day is so
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  Speaker 2: game plan heavy. They have such limited time to run
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  Speaker 2: the reps of the plays they're actually going to run.
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  Speaker 2: In the game. It's really hard to do a lot
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  Speaker 2: of drill work, you know, in the practice time outside
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  Speaker 2: of the meetings and all the rest of it, especially
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  Speaker 2: for a quarterback. There's no player on the team who
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  Speaker 2: is in meetings with coaches more than the quarterback, So
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  Speaker 2: it's really hard to get those guys into sort of
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  Speaker 2: drills you would do in May and June and July
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  Speaker 2: and even in camp. But you know, I think they
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  Speaker 2: Davis Webb does do drills with guys on a daily basis,
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  Speaker 2: limited work, and we see a lot of those, and
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  Speaker 2: I think they'll step up some of them that are
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  Speaker 2: very three step specific, five step, seven step specific drills,
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  Speaker 2: just to get the timing and to make sure he's
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  Speaker 2: getting that back foot settled and rotating and getting all
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  Speaker 2: the you know, hips and shoulders through the ball the
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  Speaker 2: way he should.
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  Speaker 3: Jeff, I'm gonna ask you this question, and it's based
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  Speaker 3: off others reporting, and I'm not trying to have you,
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  Speaker 3: you know, talk about another person's reporting, but let's be honest.
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  Speaker 3: For me, I feel like I know when Colin Cowherd speaks,
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  Speaker 3: he's probably talked to Sean Payton in some shape or form,
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  Speaker 3: and Cowherd and Chase Daniel, two guys who seem to
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  Speaker 3: have known some things about what Peyton was going to
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  Speaker 3: do before he's done them, have suggested that maybe there's
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  Speaker 3: some tension between Bo and Sean. You're around these guys
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  Speaker 3: both every day. I know you talked to both of
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  Speaker 3: them extensively. As a guy that's in the building, how
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  Speaker 3: would you say your impression of the relationship is right now?
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  Speaker 2: I would say it's not going well. So both guys
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  Speaker 2: are peeved, you know, And I think you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you want to classify that that is specifically his tension
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  Speaker 2: between them, you know, it could be. I mean, nobody
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  Speaker 2: spends more time with Sean Payton than the starting quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: and no one's gonna take more heat from Sean Payton.
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  Speaker 2: No player on the roster on the Broncos roster will
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  Speaker 2: now or ever take more heat than the starting quarterback
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  Speaker 2: from the head coach. And I think we all have
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  Speaker 2: to remember Sean Payton is a disciple of Bill Parcells.
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  Speaker 2: He honestly believes because he was taught this way. Discomfort
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  Speaker 2: is a coaching tactic, and making people uncomfortable is a
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  Speaker 2: coaching tactic. I mean, Will Lutz has talked about all
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  Speaker 2: the stuff Sean Payton says to him before he kicks
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  Speaker 2: in a practice to make him uncomfortable. So nobody's gonna
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  Speaker 2: get more of that than bo Nicks. And if it's
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  Speaker 2: not going well, you know, I don't think any of
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  Speaker 2: us like to get hammered at work over and over again.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think there's probably the vocational tension of
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  Speaker 2: football it ain't going well. And knowing bow Nicks, I
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  Speaker 2: haven't been in all the meetings, and I preface all
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  Speaker 2: of this by saying I ain't in the quarterback meetings,
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  Speaker 2: but having spoken to bow Nicks plenty, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: there's any way he has taken all of the criticism
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  Speaker 2: and just simply walked out of the room. I would
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  Speaker 2: guess he's got enough moxie and backbone to answer back
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  Speaker 2: from time to time. And you know, perhaps that's what
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  Speaker 2: people are reporting. I bet they've had some exchanges, but
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  Speaker 2: none of that's out of the ordinary either. I mean
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  Speaker 2: John Elway argued with every coach he had. Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 2: argued with every coach he had. I mean I've heard
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  Speaker 2: of discussions between Peyton Manning and Adam Gase. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't put on cable TV. So, uh, it's a
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  Speaker 2: natural thing. But yeah, I would guess it exists right
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  Speaker 2: now just because they're not either one of them getting
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  Speaker 2: the results they want.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when the offense isn't doing well, nobody's going to
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  Speaker 1: be in a good mood. By the way, Mark Moser
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  Speaker 1: does regularly get hammered at work, But that's an entirely
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  Speaker 1: different it's a.
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  Speaker 3: Different kind of thing. It's a different hammer, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's a different kind of thing, right there,
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald. Everybody. ESPN dot com is where you read
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald's Broncos coverage. His latest on Alex Singleton is
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  Speaker 1: up right now and you should check it out. Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent work is always man. Thank you. We'll see if
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  Speaker 1: fallas Jeff Legwald brought to you by the International Brotherhood
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  Speaker 1: of Electrical Workers ib W Local sixty eight. You start
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  Speaker 1: with a job and you end with a career.