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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 1-15-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwaald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football the
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  insider I've covered Jeff leg Wall. His appearances are always must listen radio.
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  You learn a lot. Ront five Betsafe Colorado, the exclusive club for passionate
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  gamers and betters across the state. It's Leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two
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  five. Here's Naden Anti driven by Colorado off Road. Final minute of the
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  opening half right now in Buffalo, a two touchdown lead on the Steelers at
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  twenty one to seven. As yes, we have a Monday afternoon MLK Day
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  football game on CBS right now. Thank you snow in Western New York.
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  Let's jump out to the ramos Law hotline car accident. You need ramos Law
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  Jeff Langweld of ESPN. Leggy. Let's let's start with the game that is
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  in progress right now, Buffalo and Pittsburgh. I think every football fan on
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  the planet would like to see Buffalo get this victory and get a Chiefs Bills
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  game in Orchard Park next week. But from what you've seen out of this
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  one, so far, are you giving the Steelers a puncher's chance to get
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  back in this thing? I always do, mate. I mean, they
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  have there's almost nothing about them that has a playoff profile in the playoffs other
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  than the Steelers, and they have Mike Tomlin. That's it. Yeah,
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  they get out game, they get out score. I mean, it's just
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  unbelievable. But if they can, they've kept it close enough where they can
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  keep running the ball, and that's really their shot is to just pound away
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  at them and get enough possession to keep it out of Josh Allen hands,
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  because without TJ. Watt, that defense is just not the same. You
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  know, if he's in there today, you know, now you're really talking,
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  but you can see. And then when they take Hayward out, you
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  know, because he can't play every snap. The Bills have been smart enough
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  to either check into the run right away or or already have one going.
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  But I think those two things impact the Steelers. But if they can run
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  the ball in the second half and keep it close enough to do that,
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  they have a shot. And like one bad turnover turns into a bad day
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  for the Bills, and that in that scenario, well, the good news
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  is Josh Allen, sometimes known for a bad turnover. Yeah, well that
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  good news for good news for Pittsburgh certainly. It really is amazing how the
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  Bills have gone from that sort of this well rounded team to oh my god,
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  we're just gonna let Josh do everything and we hope it works out.
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  Ye, Jeff, I don't know if you heard or not. They did
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  alright on the streaming numbers the other night. I'm sure Amazon has really psyched
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  to hear that a playoff game out did anything that they did. Are we
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  looking at the future of the NFL playoffs? For all the griping that went
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  down and Congressman getting upset and all that other stuff that should NFL fans be
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  ready for more paywalls for a playoff game? In your mind? Well,
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  you know, I think this one was sort of a quirky paywall. I
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  mean, I know a lot of people who just sort of have peacock as
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  part of their table package or whatever, so they didn't consider that like a
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  paywall for a playoff game. They already had it. So I mean,
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  I think it depends on how you think about it. I do know that
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  the NFL is such a long and really you know, hard earned relationship with
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  over the air television that more people can see. It would be hard for
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  me to believe they would totally abandon it now, you know, will they
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  split stuff up and all of that. I can see that because they're you
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  know, even the players union wants them to pursue as much revenue as possible
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  and and I don't know, we all gripe about officiating and pace of games
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  and boring and Thursday night games stink and all of these things. And every
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  year, you know, forty nine of the top fifty watch shows or NFL
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  games. So as long as it's in that wheelhouse, I think anything's possible.
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  But again, it would be really hard for me to believe, you
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  know, as long as you know, however long I go cover in the
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  league, it'd be hard for me to believe they're off, you know,
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  sort of the over the air as much consumption as possible television in that time.
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  Jeff Lagweldon ninety two five broad to You My Bet, Save Colorado,
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  the exclusive club for passionate gamers and betters across this Leggy. The career of
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  Jared Goff, it has been quite the tail. I mean, here's a
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  guy won a lot of games, including going to a Super Bowl as a
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  member of the Los Angeles Rams, and then ultimately the organization deciding, yeah,
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  well there's a hard ceiling on what you're capable of being able to do,
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  and will make a blockbuster move in order to be able to upgrade.
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  And you can't argue with anything the Rams did. They won a Super Bowl
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  as a result of having done that, or largely in part because they did
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  all of that. But there is Jared Goff, a guy whose confidence was
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  shot and a guy who I still think had a lot of development to do
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  as an NFL quarterback, and Dan Campbell and Ben Johnson ultimately, you know,
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  sort of reconstruct him into being a very good NFL quarterback. Not elite
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  of the elite, but Jared Goff is like a solid second tier NFL quarterback
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  and a guy you can absolutely win games with. As you've talked to people
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  the league, what insights can you give us, How did the Lions do
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  this to get this kind of play out of Jared Goff? Well, I
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  think may like any quarterback, if you give him a physical front, and
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  then the Lions invested in protection, and I don't think enough of that is
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  done in the salary cap free agency NFL. I think I think that's the
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  hardest position group to hold together over the long term. It's the hardest for
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  gms to sort of dig their heels in and invest in when when the lower
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  and the public clamor is for always to go for skill and all of those
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  things. But I in my experience, I have seen more quarterbacks undone by
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  what's in front of them rather than what's in their helmet. And because of
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  the dominos fall then because then your confidence goes, then your footwork goes.
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  You get hit a lot, you're hassled a lot, you can't go through
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  your progressions, and you stunt your growth because of things that are out of
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  your control. And it's one of the smartest things the Chiefs did with Mahomes,
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  It's one of the smartest things the Ravens did with Lamar Jackson. You
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  have to have the whole piece of the puzzle. And I think often quarterbacks
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  either totally flame out or even mini flame out because the teams aren't ready for
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  them to play when they do. And I think that happened to Golf a
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  little bit. I think there was one thing when he came out I believe,
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  and you know, again this is my memory, so good luck.
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  But I think he was sacked like eighty three times in college, and I
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  know that was a concern of mine when I broke him down that year,
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  is he took so many hits and he took them clean and they weren't they
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  weren't brush offs or spinouts. I mean, he took them clean. And
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  I thought that might be a cern in his early development, and I think
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  it was a little bit. But he is. He has done the work
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  too to be where he is and they have helped him be that. And
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  again you're talking about enough talent to be one of the top two players on
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  the board for a lot of teams that year. What's so wild about it,
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  Jeff, is that that thing that you talk about right there, and
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  you may have seen this breakdown according to next Gen stats when he was not
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  pressured yesterday for me, clean pocket golf twenty one of twenty one, two
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  sixty six and a touchdown when he was under pressure. I believe one of
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  six for eleven yards was what he did in that game yesterday. It's wild.
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  Again, the talent level. You got to remember, the talent level
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  is top two player on the board. Yeah, at least twenty teams.
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  I talked to you before. Now, I never I often don't put the
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  quarterbacks that high myself, but teams had him in the top two. That's
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  a lot of talent your working. That's not like a surprise arrival, you
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  know, for it's just but it just shows you, especially in today's NFL
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  with you know, simulated pressure has become the rage on defense, and uh,
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  the more you can keep your quarterback clean, the more availability's going to
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  have down the field because those simulated pressures come at a cost defensively, and
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  you do leave holes and you give you keep your guy clean. They're going
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  to find him, all right, Jeff, we expecting Caleb Williams to let
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  us know he's coming on into the draft. What's your way too early evaluation
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  before the combine on him? Oh? Just you know, gifted, a
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  gifted player, but you know he he will have the transition A lot of
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  guys do who have been the best athlete on the field for as long as
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  they can remember. You know, how long can I hold the ball?
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  When to say when on a play? You know in college, you if
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  you're athletically better than most of the other guys, you can basically run around
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  as long as you want until something good happens that goes away. Even for
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  the best of the best in the NFL, they closed the windows on you
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  faster, they dissect you quicker. You get like three weeks before they start
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  really taking you apart. And that's the transition for even a guy that's gifted
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  as Caleb I personally. And again, you know, you may get a
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  lot of argument from folks. I don't see the level of progression and accuracy
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  I saw on c J. Stroud when I looked at Stroud last January.
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  But as we are seeing now, that's an awfully high bar. And it
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  doesn't mean Caleb Williams is not an awesome player, but we're seeing how good
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  c J. Stroud it really is as well. Yeah, along those lines,
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  Jeff, I mean, for what Stroud has done is rookie year.
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  This was not a Texans team. Even if you like the fact that they
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  could add CJ. Stroud and will Anderson in a single draft, would you
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  should have? That's phenomenal, But to not only win your division in year
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  number one, but then to go in and blow out a team in the
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  playoffs, the way that they did in Stroud showing the kind of touch on
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  the football, the kind of accuracy that he has, the way that he
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  has elevated those skilled position guys lost his best receiver in the Denver game,
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  Like what CJ. Stroud is doing? Kind of to your point, you're
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  not supposed to be this good, this fast, No, but he's I
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  thought he was special. And I look, my top one hundred is my
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  top one hundred. It's out there. But I argue plenty with a lot
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  of people. Last year, I just saw deep ball accuracy I had not
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  seen in a very long time. And look, I think most Pro Days
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  and combine throwing sessions, I call him prom night. You know you're gonna
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  look good. It's just the way it is. And but his throwing,
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  the fact he threw a at the combine, the fact he did it was
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  cool. And the session I've done that every combine in Indy. I haven't
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  been in all the workouts every year, but in all the years I've been
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  in the workout, that's the best throwing session I've ever seen an Indy with
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  unfamiliar receivers. He was on the numbers every time. And that was receivers
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  who weren't consistent with their depths and the routes and all those things. But
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  that session was I looked at Lewis Riddick and I said, this guy is
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  so QB one and Lou looked right back at me and he said, it's
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  unbelievable. And it was a great session. And again that's a small,
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  tiny, tiny piece in draft evaluation, but it showed you his composure in
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  a big moment. And he's done nothing but show that. You know,
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  since you I was saying this to Nate earlier, you always tell us that
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  when the Mike Shanahana offense is run properly, it was most difficult to defend
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  indefensible. When gone right, it's indefensible. Did Lafloor give us the best
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  example of that yesterday? Those first seven drives? That's that's classic, Mike.
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  I mean, that's I felt like, you know, it's two thousand
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  and five and I'm watching I'm watching them do their thing, Jake watching Plumber
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  and everybody do their thing, or you know, it's it's ninety eight and
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  John and those guys are doing their thing, and that is that offense under
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  center play action. Linebackers have no idea false steps everywhere at the snap.
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  You know, when I look at draft guys, I freeze the snap.
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  I freeze the video at the snap to see who takes the wrong step.
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  And yesterday, if you froze the that game at the snap, you would
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  have seen false steps by probably all three linebackers, especially in the first half
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  when they were playing for real. All three linebackers probably at false steps on
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  all of those play action plays. Talking to Jeff Legweld here on a Monday
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  afternoon, Jeff Legwald brought to you by Betsy of Colorado, the exclusive club
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  for passionate gamers and betters across the state. Leggy we saw reports today,
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  including one from your colleague Adam Schefter, that the Chargers have completed today's head
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  coaching interview with Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh. The combination of Jim Harbaugh, weirdest
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  man in America, and Dean Spanos can the Chargers land the big target on
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  this one? I think this isn't a franchise that fired a guy after a
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  fourteen and two seasons, so you never know what they're going to be up
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  to, right. I think this is a part where you don't know yet.
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  But the next part is where you wonder about harbwall He has gone this
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  far with many teams before is even told a couple teams, including my understanding
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  is the Broncos that yeah, he thought he would like that job and has
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  not. So you know, we'll see if it goes anymore. But I
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  think he will have to convince the Spano says that you're you're not going to
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  rein in the quarterback as it were. I think that's the challenge if you're
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  hardball, you got to you got to present that whole thing. You know,
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  are you going to be a four tight end offense and do all of
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  those things that I think some of that would be very good for Justin Herbert
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  frankly, but I think he will have to tell the Chargers or any other
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  team. Uh you know what, we see a little of the Miami Dolphins
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  or the forty nine ers in your offense too. I think that's part of
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  it. All. Right, When do you think the next part of the
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  cycle heats up with Johnson extending out as everybody who's the guy everyone's waiting on?
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  How about I put it that way? Is there a candidate now?
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  Well? I think now the Dallas thing is really going to be the the
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  Mondo Domino, you know, is is if because you know, Jerry Jones
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  told people, you know, after the game down there, that he would
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  take a couple of days, not that Jason Garrett offered a pretty astute observation
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  on the postgame show yesterday was that he, in his experience, Jerry was
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  always really good talking about the coaching and the players one or two days after
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  the game, and then the emotion would kick in and the big move would
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  get made somehow. So I think that's I think most people in the league
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  are kind of waiting that forty eight hours to see what happens there. But
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  he I think everyone and I know in the league has said McCarthy would be
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  judged on the last game the Cowboys played, And if that's going to be
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  the judge, I don't think all those twelve and five seasons will be enough
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  to save him. And if Bill Belichick is really in play there, the
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  internet will explode, Yeah, sure will. A situation where Bill would go
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  working for Jerry would be pretty entertaining. And yet you know Bill Parcells took
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  that gig once upon a time, So there is a world where maybe Bill
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  wants to do it. Legy. Last thing, anything that you have seen
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  in the postseason thus far that has altered who you think will ultimately be picking
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  up the Lombardi Trophy. I mean, we haven't seen that the two brute
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  force teams play at Baltimore San Francisco, but look, you know it's played
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  out the way we've talked about with you guys. I mean, physicality is
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  playoff football. And if you're not physical and Cleveland, you know, for
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  example, was not physical. That was not the Cleveland defense anybody saw all
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  season except the physical. This time of year, you're getting shoved around,
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  like Miami should have run the ball forty seven times yesterday, and they tried
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  to be who they were, and it's just metality is everything this time of
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  year. Always keep your eye on that. Jeff Lagwell, good stuff is
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  always, buddy, Thank you, nice fellas. We'll see it.