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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 4-14-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football, the insider
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  Speaker 2: I've covered Jeff Legwall.
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  Speaker 1: His appearances are always must listen radio. We learn a lot,
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  Speaker 1: brought to you.
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  Speaker 2: By the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Start with a
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  Speaker 2: job and for the career IBW Local sixty eight. It's
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  Speaker 2: Leggy lef ye ye on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Jeff Legwald time, and I'm Monday afternoon here
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  Speaker 1: on Craigman and Lindahl Jeff Legwald, brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: You start with the job and you end with a career,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Jeff uh oh, we're inside two weeks to
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  Speaker 1: go to the start of the NFL Draft. We are
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  Speaker 1: that much closer. By the way, what's our release date
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  Speaker 1: of the top one hundred? Where are we at on this?
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  Speaker 3: I believe it's the twentieth twentieth?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so we are six days away. So what are
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  Speaker 1: we talking? Their Saturday Sunday and Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Summer Sunday week from yesterday?
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  Speaker 1: We go math. That's not my strong suit right there. Okay, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking a look at your top one hundred right now.
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  Speaker 1: Running backs. Okay, obviously everybody wants to connect Denver to
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  Speaker 1: a running back. George Peyton has said we're going to
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  Speaker 1: draft a running back. We don't, as we've discussed on
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  Speaker 1: this show at number twenty, is that a good place
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  Speaker 1: to use a pick on a running back? Well, they
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  Speaker 1: also got fifty one and eighty five. Who's your favorite
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  Speaker 1: running back in this draft or Sean Payton's offense that
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  Speaker 1: could be available in that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the guy I like better than a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people and where you've seen him, probably by most
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  Speaker 4: is Travion Henderson. I think he's the best pass protector
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  Speaker 4: on the board at the position. He's a good receiver.
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  Speaker 4: I love him as a runner. He's one of my
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  Speaker 4: favorite players on this board. And we're still mashing through
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  Speaker 4: some of the numbers and everything to get it put together.
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  Speaker 4: But will I will almost certainly have him a lot
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  Speaker 4: higher than a lot of people. I think he could
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  Speaker 4: be there for them at fifty one, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: down the board for them, I like ATN Trevor ATN
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  Speaker 4: and you know, I just think, but again, at running back,
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  Speaker 4: you could pull a guy in Day three even that
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  Speaker 4: will have a role for your team as a rookie
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  Speaker 4: in this class. This class is really something, and they
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  Speaker 4: have between the Senior Bowl, the Combine, Top thirty visits
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  Speaker 4: and Zoom meetings, they've met with almost every gradable running
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  Speaker 4: back that can catch a football out of the backfield.
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  Speaker 1: Seven yards per carry on the ground in traveon Henderson. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: that's you like a number like that. Now, you know
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  Speaker 1: he's not going to have Ohio State's athletic advantage necessarily
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  Speaker 1: in every single game, but still that's a great number
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  Speaker 1: to see. Twenty seven receptions, two hundred and eighty four yards.
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  Speaker 1: He did have a touchdown last year. We know that
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  Speaker 1: Sean Payton wants to be throwing two backs on early
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  Speaker 1: downs and feature that as a huge part of his offense.
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  Speaker 1: As you have scouted Henderson, how do you like his
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  Speaker 1: fit in that way?
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  Speaker 4: I think he's a great fan. I think you'd be
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  Speaker 4: a much better receiver as a pro and more active
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  Speaker 4: I think than he was in college. And again in
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  Speaker 4: the biggest thing that keeps our rookie running back off
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  Speaker 4: the field on third down and even second and long
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  Speaker 4: is pass protection and because most guys aren't asked to
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  Speaker 4: do it ever in college, and two of the best
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  Speaker 4: pass protectors at the position on the board are Henderson
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  Speaker 4: in ATM.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get into the case of Shdou Sanders.
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  Speaker 5: It's interesting, Jeff, because I wanted to ask you about
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  Speaker 5: and based on I heard on Get Up this morning,
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  Speaker 5: which was a whole lot of bait as to who
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  Speaker 5: likes him, who doesn't you know. Peter Schrager new to
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  Speaker 5: your network now, he was saying I've not talked to
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people in New Orleans or Pittsburgh that
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  Speaker 5: he sure is even in love with Shodor just yet.
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  Speaker 5: Adam Schefter tweeting before you came on that now Shodor
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  Speaker 5: is gonna have one more final private workout in Boulder
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  Speaker 5: for the Giants, And a lot of people said this morning,
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  Speaker 5: Schreger among them U Graziano talking about it, that they
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  Speaker 5: don't think the Giants are really interested other than maybe
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  Speaker 5: if he were to fall to them.
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  Speaker 3: In the second round, maybe they'd have some interest there.
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  Speaker 5: What do you think is going on, first off, with
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  Speaker 5: Shodar's draft stock. I mean, you've told us that he's
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  Speaker 5: kind of been up and down for a few people
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  Speaker 5: and I'll tell you what answer that first, and they
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  Speaker 5: got to follow up about the Saints in particular. But
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  Speaker 5: what do you think is going on? Do you think
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  Speaker 5: the Giants are interested at three? Or do you think
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  Speaker 5: they're trying to get some action on a trade there?
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  Speaker 4: It could be everything andy at this point. Now, it's
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  Speaker 4: pretty drastic to go do the whole Make a guy
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  Speaker 4: go through a private workout and convince his agent it's
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  Speaker 4: worth his while to go through a private workout if
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  Speaker 4: you're not genuinely interested in I'm you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: a lot of teams have him graded closer to the
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  Speaker 4: top of the second bottom of the first as just
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  Speaker 4: a pure grade. But he's a quarterback, so anything can
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  Speaker 4: happen with him. I guess I am troubled, as a
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  Speaker 4: four decade guy in the draft critiquing business, that this
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  Speaker 4: notion that he's falling. I think he's just been graded
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  Speaker 4: differently by teams, and I think people should really remember
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  Speaker 4: that he's not tumbling on the draft board or anything
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  Speaker 4: like that. No matter how people phrase it, He's like
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  Speaker 4: any player. Some guys are fired up for him and
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  Speaker 4: other guys are not. I mean again, I can find
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  Speaker 4: you a scout who thinks every player on this board
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  Speaker 4: is not worth the pick they have. And it's just
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  Speaker 4: the nature of the business again that you know, his
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  Speaker 4: processing is great, his his big moment play is great. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, he's built to be a pro and mentally,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it isn't gonna be too much for him
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  Speaker 4: to be somebody starting quarterback. It's you know, he's not
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  Speaker 4: a very big guy and athletically in the NFL there
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  Speaker 4: will be you know, he will have difficulty running away
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  Speaker 4: from defenders like he did at times in college. And
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  Speaker 4: and that's those are the issues. And you know, it
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  Speaker 4: has nothing to do with is you know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: is he a good prospect or not. It's just part
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  Speaker 4: of the evaluation. But I I personally would would think
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  Speaker 4: he should be graded, you know, on the bottom third
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  Speaker 4: of the first round or early second round.
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  Speaker 3: Right, let's talk Saints specifically.
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  Speaker 5: Now, everybody's saying the Saints are gonna have interest because
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  Speaker 5: Derek Carr is hurt a Do you think that that's
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  Speaker 5: actually true? And be is that really a good situation
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  Speaker 5: for Shud or like, shouldn't they have loved him before?
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  Speaker 3: Should cars status effect?
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  Speaker 5: Is it really a good situation if they're only drafting
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  Speaker 5: you because all of a sudden a guy got hurt.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and it would be hard for me to believe
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  Speaker 4: a team would just suddenly take a guy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: from where he had been graded and move him drastically
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  Speaker 4: because they've had some injury news. You're you're not doing
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  Speaker 4: the draft right if if you're doing that. But I
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  Speaker 4: think overall, there certainly have to be interested in another
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  Speaker 4: quarterback solution since the one they had is probably not
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  Speaker 4: going to be available for the whole season. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they're in the quarterback business on draft day, and and
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think that makes them an intriguing team
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  Speaker 4: to watch. But for Shadoor or any other quarterback, I
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  Speaker 4: don't think it would be awesome to go there with
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  Speaker 4: their perennial cap difficulties and you know, yet another new coach.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, I think only difficulty up the road
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  Speaker 4: until they they peel the salary cap issues all the
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  Speaker 4: way down to the to the bare bones and fix them.
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  Speaker 4: But they seem intent on never doing that.
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  Speaker 1: They're not, and this is one of the struggles you
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  Speaker 1: have as a perennially top ten drafting team in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: So that said, Jeff, you're if you're looking at the
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  Speaker 1: teams that you could connect Shador to. We're quite frankly
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  Speaker 1: any quarterback, any quarterback needy team in the NFL right now,
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  Speaker 1: what's a good landing spot? Like, is there one currently
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL amongst the quarterback needy teams?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Is it maybe Pittsburgh? What what is it right now?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, again, I know it. It's a money thing,
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  Speaker 4: and it's significant money. So I'm not gonna sit here
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  Speaker 4: and pretend I understand what it would be like to
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  Speaker 4: give up that much money, because I don't understand what
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  Speaker 4: that would be like. But I would want to be
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  Speaker 4: like Lamar. I would want to come down to the
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  Speaker 4: bottom of the first round and land with a playoff team.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I would want as a player. So to me,
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  Speaker 4: Pittsburgh's attractive because it's stable. They've always been stable. You know,
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  Speaker 4: history says if some reason they want to find another
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  Speaker 4: coach after Mike Tomlin, it will probably be another ten
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  Speaker 4: year guy because they always hire ten fifteen year guys
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  Speaker 4: as their head coach. So if again, it costs you
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  Speaker 4: significant money in your first contract, So I don't downgrade that.
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  Speaker 4: But any rookie quarterback I would want to come down
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  Speaker 4: the board a smidge and you end up with a
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  Speaker 4: much better team around you, with much better infrastructure, with
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  Speaker 4: most likely coaches who have been in place. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 4: there isn't this turnover and you know, yet another rebuild
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  Speaker 4: or anything like that. But you know, again, I know
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  Speaker 4: it's a big money thing and there's a little ego
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  Speaker 4: involved of you know, you were taking whenever in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Top one hundred coming Sunday, Jeff Legwold, everybody,
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  Speaker 1: ESPN dot com. Leggie, get back in the lab man.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you're done quite yet, but I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: you're getting close. Keep up the good work, dude
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  Speaker 4: Thank care, follas, we'll see it.