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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 4-10-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwall time here on a Friday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwald's appearances are brought to you by the International
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  Speaker 2: Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBEW Local sixty eight. You start
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  Speaker 2: with a job and you end with a career, Jeff.
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  Speaker 2: We know that the top one hundred is in its
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  Speaker 2: finishing stages. We'll get to that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: But first, congratulations Gregan Carrey. It's about time things went
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  Speaker 2: okay for them in life. They now have forty percent
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  Speaker 2: of a baseball team. Jeff, What does this news today
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  Speaker 2: say about what Gregan carries overall vision is for what
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to do in Denver.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it shows what they've said, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they want to have a presence here, you know, they
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  Speaker 3: I think they've been very cognizant of not wanting to
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  Speaker 3: appear like they just showed up, you know, in Denver
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  Speaker 3: and Colorado to be you know, sports owners. They you know,
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  Speaker 3: they were very clear, as was Rob Walton. You know,
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  Speaker 3: when they purchased the Broncos that they've they've you know,
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  Speaker 3: spent time in Colorado, have lived in part time in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: Uh So, I think this has all been an important
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  Speaker 3: part of their approach and how they've done things, and
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  Speaker 3: I you know, I think they're business people. I think
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  Speaker 3: they feel like this is a good chance to add
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  Speaker 3: to the sports portfolio, you know, of what they already
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  Speaker 3: had in business and in sports. So I think they
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  Speaker 3: see it as a good investment. And you know, does
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  Speaker 3: it mean you know, years and years and years for
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  Speaker 3: now they they own more of the team. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that we know that yet, but they
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  Speaker 3: certainly were interested enough to get forty percent. That's not
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  Speaker 3: like you're buying.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, substantial, you know whatever. That's not Tom Brady the Raiders, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You're you're in, You're in it. I mean even Rob Walton,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he's got a ten percent share of the Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 3: I believe, So you know, this is even you know,
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  Speaker 3: obviously significantly more than than that. So it's, uh, they
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  Speaker 3: must feel good about the baseball and what it can mean,
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  Speaker 3: because I don't I don't get a sense they were
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  Speaker 3: looking for things that were just sort of happy talk investments.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted real ones.
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  Speaker 4: Is there anything maybe that we don't see where they
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  Speaker 4: could benefit. I mean, obviously more profit they'll share in
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  Speaker 4: some profit of the team when and if it does
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  Speaker 4: even better than it's doing right now, all those sales,
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  Speaker 4: all those Glazilla sales. Like what else where might they
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  Speaker 4: benefit from this?
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  Speaker 1: Jeff?
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  Speaker 3: I think you know, whatever kind of impact this gives them,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in the search of the sports entertainment district
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  Speaker 3: around Course Field, you know, there's this, give them an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to be involved with that because that with what
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  Speaker 3: they're planning around the new Broncos Stadium, that's a pretty
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  Speaker 3: significant downtown footprint, you know, and in this city for them.
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  Speaker 3: So I think you know, all sports owners are cognizant
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  Speaker 3: of where what real estate and other ventures can mean
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  Speaker 3: around the teams you own.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwell ESPN joining us here on a Friday afternoon, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: the top one hundred?
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  Speaker 1: Is it?
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  Speaker 2: Is it officially complete? Is it in the hands of
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  Speaker 2: an editor? Where is it right now?
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  Speaker 1: Did you click send?
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  Speaker 3: Not yet a week a week from Sunday, but I
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  Speaker 3: think send will be clicked this weekend at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what happens at the very end? Okay? Are you
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  Speaker 1: in the stressing part? What are we doing? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Like, what what are you looking for to maybe move
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  Speaker 2: number seventy two all the way up to sixty seven.
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  Speaker 1: What do you looking for right now?
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  Speaker 3: I was just going to say, I was just telling
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  Speaker 3: this to someone else. Today. I'm at the stage where
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm the biggest moron on the planet to
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  Speaker 3: sort of have a job covering a team and all
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  Speaker 3: that takes to do it, you know, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to do it right, and then to do this on
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  Speaker 3: top of that. I'm at that stage now, or I
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  Speaker 3: am an idiot and I am awful for I will
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  Speaker 3: go back and look at a player valuation I've done.
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  Speaker 3: I will go back and I will check all of
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  Speaker 3: my data. I will go back and look at all
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  Speaker 3: of my notes from all of the interviews I did
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  Speaker 3: about that player with scouts and coaches and everybody. I'll
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  Speaker 3: look at all of it, and then I'll move the
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  Speaker 3: guy to spots.
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  Speaker 1: And for what for what?
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  Speaker 3: No one cares. I mean, no one's going to come
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  Speaker 3: up to me at the grocery stores say, dude, you
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  Speaker 3: should have had that guy in eighty seven. No way,
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  Speaker 3: no way, is he in eighty four?
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  Speaker 1: All right, So, Jeff, that's one of my from at
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: One of my favorite things, and I know it's one
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  Speaker 2: of your favorite parts of the top one hundred every
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  Speaker 2: single year. And I don't know how much you can
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  Speaker 2: give us, but number one hundred it's always your thing,
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  Speaker 2: it's always your your kind of your pet prospect. So
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  Speaker 2: to speak, at number one hundred, what can you tell
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  Speaker 2: us today about number one hundred?
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  Speaker 3: It's down to two players?
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, you haven't even settle ahead of the game.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't even settled on one yet.
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  Speaker 3: And this is what I'm talking about. And I've been
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  Speaker 3: going back and forth on something absolutely no one else
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  Speaker 3: on planet Earth. Uh huh cares too much about. And
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  Speaker 3: I will probably have an ulcer and an aneurysm together
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  Speaker 3: picking number one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, tell people why in a list of one through
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  Speaker 2: one hundred prospects, why number one hundred means so much
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  Speaker 2: to you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the very first year I did it for publication,
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  Speaker 3: Not the first year I did it, but the first
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  Speaker 3: year I did it for publication, some thirty some years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Meaning of one time, he was only doing it for fun.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, pay improve my improved myself, but it became my
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was a good way to say, this
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  Speaker 3: player isn't in the top one hundred, but boy, keep
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  Speaker 3: an eye on him. You know, could be a really
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  Speaker 3: intriguing player, and I've i've you know, hit on a
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  Speaker 3: few over the years, and one who played here, Brandon Marshall,
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  Speaker 3: the receiver, was the number one hundred one year.
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  Speaker 1: A great career for Brandon Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why it's always just been a fun thing
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  Speaker 3: for me to say, Hey, you know, it does mean
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  Speaker 3: you're probably getting one raw no matter what happens. But
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was a fun way to point
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  Speaker 3: out a cool prospect maybe people hadn't thought much about.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So I am curious.
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  Speaker 4: Was this class as hard because you guys, you've talked
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  Speaker 4: about it not as much value in the later rounds.
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  Speaker 4: It's just not been as sexy a draft. Teams are
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  Speaker 4: looking towards next year versus this year. Has it been
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  Speaker 4: harder because of that to get your one hundred out
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  Speaker 4: or was it easier?
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  Speaker 3: It's harder handy in some ways because the depth of
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  Speaker 3: this draft is centered in a lot of defensive positions.
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  Speaker 3: There's lots of edge rushers, there's lots of corners. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's a good draft, a really good draft at some positions,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, on draft Day, you know you're just
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  Speaker 3: not going to have that many of those players get
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  Speaker 3: selected where they belong because teams have needs and they
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  Speaker 3: don't always draft, you know, best player available, they draft
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  Speaker 3: best player they need that's available. That can impact how
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  Speaker 3: it all looks. But this board is difficult because the
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  Speaker 3: talent is very concentrated at probably three or four positions
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  Speaker 3: along the way.
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  Speaker 2: All right, guys, look for the top one hundred. It's
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  Speaker 2: coming soon. We'll have a bigger preview of it coming
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  Speaker 2: up on Monday. Jeff Legwold, everybody, ESPN. Jeff, go back
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  Speaker 2: to the lab. We appreciate it, man, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: Fellas