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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 3/25/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Krekman and Lindau presented by Colorado off Road Colorado Grown, Colorado owned, Colorado
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  off Road Online at COO off Road dot com, Altitude Sportswittio five. Yeah,
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  look, we felt it was in the best interest of our team.
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  And you know, now as we go forward, obviously we're in the middle
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  of free agency, we're preparing for the draft. You know, we look
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  both both of those avenues to to not only address quarterback, but to address
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  the other spots on our team. I think the draft is one element and
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  we're kind of in that phase now, and yet there's still a few possibilities
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  relative to guys that are currently in this league or have played in this league.
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  But yeah, I mean, I think that we've got a pretty good
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  plan place, and we understand what we're doing and we're gonna be smart about
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  it. That is Sean Peyton owners meeting today. Right now, we meet
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  with Jeff Legwald on the ramos Law Hotline. Car Accident You need ramos Law
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  Medical doctor and attorney ramos Law dot com before any Broncos stuff. Leggy,
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  not a bad game last night there in Memphis. At any point did Kelvin
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  Samson look over at you and ask you if you wanted to suit up for
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  Houston. I was right a roll man. I had a few minutes in
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  me. You a three corner three guy or what do you do? Are
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  you the you know as a as a former Washington general, No, I
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  can, uh, I can still sling it from the corner. Yeah,
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  he's a power guard, is the That's how I described the game of Jeff
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  Calvin said, I did. He was my spirit animal for a minute because
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  he was talking about the walk and who had to play late right why they
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  took him out right near the end of the game for defensive substitution. And
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  he said something like he moves like me, like I love him. He
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  was like, I love him, but he's he got my athleticism or something
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  like that. So I thought that was pretty funny too. Anyway, now
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  that Cam was that was amazing. I've seen a lot of hoops games.
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  I've covered a lot of tournament games over the years, and I'm not sure
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  I seen anything quite like that, just but you know, to be courtside
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  for the raw intensity as one of the most intense basketball games I've ever seen
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  pro or college. Just the level and that you know, despite all of
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  the fouls. You know, Houston has four guys file out and another guy
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  finished with four. But despite all those fouls, they let them play like
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  crazy through the whole game. So if they had called it like some games
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  are called, those guys would have been fouled out before halftime. I mean,
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  the the buzzer beater obviously was amazing. It was incredible that A and
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  M was even still in that game. The way that Shed played in overtime,
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  I think Calvin Samson is a great, great in game coach. You're
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  you're right, Like, I mean, a one ninety five overtime game for
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  a trip to the Sweet sixteen like that, It's been one of the best
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  games of the tournament. Like obviously we know see you Florida was awesome the
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  other day, but maybe Houston and Texas A and M surpassed it for best
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  game of the tournament. Just it was just a ferocious game. It was
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  just ferocity in that game. I'll tell you, I I really liked Shed
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  before I saw him up close like that, But the more I watched him
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  play, the more I just thought he is everything you would want on your
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  team and every fashion just a lot him with his teammates in between during play
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  stoppages, and there are times when Samson just lets him coach on the floor,
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  and just how he plays at both ends of the floor. I mean,
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  the guy is just really you know, I'm no pro hoops guy,
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  and you know, in terms of evaluation, but you know, he just
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  looked like a nugget to me. I mean just the way he plays,
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  shares the ball and all those things. And I guess selfish l'd like to
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  see the local franchise find a place for him. So there you go,
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  Calvin Booth, tune in Jeff Legwald offering up the scouting report right there.
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  All right, Leggy, let's uh, let's delve into the your your actual
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  scouting area of expertise, and that is quarterbacks. And boy, everybody's talking
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  about quarterbacks today. At the owners meetings, Sean Payton used the word realistic.
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  He says, it's realistic that the Denver Broncos could be trading up,
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  to which I said, really, So I asked you, Jeff Lake,
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  well, is it realistic that the Broncos could look to move up in the
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  draft. I'm not sure how, and I'm not sure, uh, I
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  mean, the way it's been explained to me, you know, both in
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  house there and around the league, is that no one's really sure the teams
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  with those picks are going to give them up, you know, especially you
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  know beyond the number one. You know, I guess that's why everyone is
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  looking at Arizona. You know. It's it's kind of that's the hot button
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  right now. And I'm just gonna ask you this. I mean, I
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  have and I'm not you know, I'm not all into let's make everything a
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  nutty conspiracy theory. But I have spent a lot of time with Sean Payton,
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  you know, in terms of the beat writer coach, and if they
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  were really really interested in JJ McCarthy, do you think he would have offered
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  that off. No, the answer is no, they're all lying right now.
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  I am talking about you know, Kevin Seffert, who I work with,
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  h was at the table in my stead today. Kevin Seafert sat in
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  for me at Sean Payton's table this morning. So he was the one side
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  I in Sean Payton the whole time. In essence, I was there,
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  It's just Kevin was Kevin was handling business, you know, on Kevin's telling
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  me, you know, oh yeah, he said they they've worked him out
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  the day after his pro day. I just look, I get it.
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  They Yes, they did that, and I will tell you they've done it
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  with other quarterbacks on this board too, in some fashion. Whether Sean Payton
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  was there or not would be different, but they have done that with other
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  quarterbacks. They've done that with other players, And if they were truly truly
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  interested in JJ McCarthy, I just don't know that he would just offer that
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  up out of nowhere when I have had him tell me he wasn't going to
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  tell me a hamstring injury I saw with my own eyes was actually a hamstring
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  injury. So I just offer that up as a caveat for everyone. I
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  think they want people to think they're interested in JJ McCarthy because I think they
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  think that helps them do whatever it is they want to do with that pick.
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  So you know, again, take any and all information from now until
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  when the names start to go at your peril. It's all. And it's
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  I say this every year because I think it has to top out at some
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  point, but it's it's worse this year than in any draft I've ever dealt
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  with. So nineteen eighty six is the first year I do any evaluations.
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  So there you go. It's it's ramped up to a level I haven't seen
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  before. Oh well, there's a ton of business going on down there.
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  The new unions. Yeah, yeah, the new unis are coming out and
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  they're coming after the draft. They they they're pretty They're way down the road
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  on this. They've sent Penner and all of the team officials have been the
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  Nike out in Oregon. They've done all that. They had the mock ups
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  in at the Broncos an early, early, early round. There was some
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  concern in house by the Broncos that they hadn't changed them enough. So they
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  have gone back and forth on this for quite a while, and they will
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  be veiled in whatever fashion they're gonna do. They can't like, there's some
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  things they can't do. But I've been told it will be very quickly after
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  the draft. People will see these And at one point the old d was
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  back involved. But there again, there's been a lot of back and forth
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  between Nike, the league, and the Broncos on this. Hold on.
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  You said, how different are they? Do you have any idea? You
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  seem to have got some intel. I saw an early mock up a while
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  back and but that one was long gone in terms of if it's really going
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  to be there or not. It was. There was not a lot of
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  change in that one, and I think the Broncos wanted that to find that
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  sweet spot between changing the uniforms and not like this extreme makeover that would make
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  people's heads explode. So I think they're trying to find the sweet spot there,
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  and they've done a ton of focus group stuff. So there there are
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  a lot of citizen Broncos fans out there who have seen some kind of uh,
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  you know, uniform saying because they've been part of a focus group uh
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  or two. But yeah, there, it's pretty well done. It's just
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  a matter of when they want to show it to the world. So uh,
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  but they they did. They loaded up the plane and went to Oregon
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  and did all of that a while back. So this is this is way
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  down the road. George Peyton's saying today, Leggy, that the Broncos were
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  involved in the free agent quarterback market, that they continue to be involved,
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  and that they will add a veteran quarterback. Who is he talking about,
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  right? You know, I'm not sure they could specifically be pinned down this
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  point. I mean, we all know the names. I mean that the
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  field is the field right now, and it's not field, it's yeah,
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  no, I mean, but you know what I'm saying. We've all seen
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  the names a million times. Who's left and what they can do? Yeah,
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  I mean, I think some of it really is based on they want
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  to see in a perfect world, they'd like to see how they draft unfolds.
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  Who do they get and what's the timetable on that player? If they
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  get anybody. I mean, they're not guaranteed, you know, with No.
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  Two. If nothing happens in the first round quarterback wise, okay,
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  that changes the dynamic plenty, because now you're down the board and maybe your
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  time frame, you know, is different for the guy. It doesn't mean
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  you like the guy any less, it just means your expectation and your time
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  frame for his readiness might be different. So I do think they want to
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  see how they think all this is going to unfold before they commit X number,
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  because they don't have enough cap space to just sort of do whatever they
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  want with a veteran backup right now. It's got to fit, you know.
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  So I don't think they want to spend any extra dollars that they they
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  would have to without knowing what the other part of the equation looks like.
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  All right, well, we got plenty of time to speculate on that because
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  I had a follow up. But we'll just figure it out. Maybe they
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  got a magical hidden quarterback. Maybe Uncle Rico's coming out of retirement before we
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  gets out of here. The way he phrased it, you know, guys,
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  who's better in the league? Makes me think you know? Or are
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  you trying to get somewhere to come back? Last name who's available? Their
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  best name we could come up with is Philip Rivers. I don't know who
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  else you're talking to. Matt Ryan, you're gonna get him out of the
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  broadcast booth. To me, what are you thinking about? Bring back Drew
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  Brees? Drew Brees's that guy? Real quick though, We got to get
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  your comment the hip drop tackle. A lot of the players said they didn't
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  want it out of the game, but it's out of the game. I
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  was watching videos on all the major channels, including yours today, trying to
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  figure out what they're worried about. Will this be ruled? Will this not
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  be ruled? They said something like only allegedly the only one that will be
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  the only technique that will be flagged. Was only used like what was the
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  number do you know? Leg? Like two hundred sometimes so barely once a
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  game. But do we worry this goes into a pass interfearance area where they
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  get loose with the interpretation and not necessarily of the dropping of the weight on
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  a guy's backside of a guy's leg. Yeah, I think you know,
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  the way it reads is that you've actually got a land on the lower leg.
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  I think ultimately they discovered there were like fifteen or sixteen injuries from the
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  play, And the way I saw it written was that you actually have to
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  land on the lower leg while you're doing it. And there's an awful lot
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  of people that just think it's it won't be flagged. It'll be something you
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  get fined for on Tuesday. You know. It's like, oh, yeah,
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  you had a hip drop tackle in the game. Here's you're fine and
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  all of that. You know, like the like the helmet to helmet.
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  A lot of the helmet to helmet players are fine that that weren't flagged in
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  games. I just don't, you know, I know some officials and I
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  know some former officials. I don't know how that is going to be officiated
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  in real time in a game unless it's just so painfully operate. Everyone's using
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  the one on Mark Andrews as the example. But yeah, that's like the
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  most clear one you can find. That one's easy two official, you know
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  what to officiate? What's what about the one off to the side a little
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  bit or a tough angle. I just don't know how we You know,
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  we're always riding the officials that they skink and they don't do that. You
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  know that it's bad, it's awful officiated. It's never been worse. Well,
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  it's because they've made the game almost impossible to officiate. And I think
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  it's all timately, if the goal is to take every injury out of football,
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  you're not going to be able to do it. It's just it's almost
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  like we don't want to accept that for our entertainment, these guys put an
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  awful lot at risk, and like we're uncomfortable with that idea, so we're
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  just going to keep adding rules that we think will make us feel better about
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  the level of injuries and all of that. I just don't know that this
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  was some rampant problem. I do see the grievous ones, but I gues
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  it's gonna be awfully hard to officiate. I think a lot of guys are
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  going to get fined for plays that weren't flagged in games. Guys. Read
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  Jeff Legwoaldsbroncos coverage at espn dot com, watch him on ESPN, listen to
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  him here on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five because dude knows what's up.
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  Plus check his latest college basketball stuff as he was in Memphis covering one of
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  the best games of the tournament there last night. Leggy, beautiful work,
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  buddy, Thank you Nis. No, we'll see