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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 3/8/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Krekman and Lin Dahl, presented by Colorado off Road Colorado Grown, Colorado Own,
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  Colorado off Road online at CEO off Road dot com. Altitude Sports Radio
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  ninety two five. Oh, let's get real football. He right now on
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  the Craigman and Lyndahl's show on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Our pal
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  Jeff Flangwaald of ESPN joins us on the ramos Law Hotline car accident You need
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  ramos Law medical doctor and attorney Ramoslaw dot com. Jefflangwald, how are you,
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  my friend? I'm good. We're doing great, Leggie. Let's start
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  with our buddy Tim Patrick. Your colleague Field Yates reporting a few minutes ago
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  some details on the restructuring of Tim Patrick's contract. We knew there was an
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  opportunity, opportunity for some savings there with Tim Patrick, but he will be
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  retained and will be on the roster. How did the Broncos make this all
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  work? Well? I mean we talked earlier that Tim Patrick's contract was going
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  to be one of the target points and Mike mcglinchy's contract as well, and
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  they both have been just that as we talked about a week ago. Uh,
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  and I think it's kind to call Tim Patrick a restructuring. It was
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  a severe haircut. I mean he went from you know, and and you
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  know, I mean imploding a building is a form of restructuring it. Yeah,
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  no, I mean you feel for Tim because two years he never caught
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  a pass from Russell Wilson. Wrap your head around that for a second.
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  But uh uh. He took a he took a reduction to the league minimum
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  for a veteran, which is, you know, just over a million million
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  two and then you know, some per game bonuses and so he will you
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  know, they saved about eight million there, They saved about they got eleven
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  about a I have a million cap space for kicking the can and mcglinchy's contract
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  a little bit so that bill will come doe later and then you know,
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  man Hurts his release created about two more million, just over two million more
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  rooms. So that's like twenty one or so million, depending on that.
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  You know, the exact numbers are probably a little different than that, but
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  roughly twenty one million in cap space, and they were roughly fifteen over after
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  they released, justin Zimmons, So that's where you put them. They're they're
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  under to start free agency. How much they can participate, They're still pretty
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  limited. Yeah, how more extreme could they get in? And do we
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  know for sure yet which year they'll take the bigger hit on Russ's dead dead
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  dead cap hit. Yeah, my understanding is they're still leaning toward the big
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  hit this year. But as of the last time I checked today with people,
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  no one was willing to say and decision has been made. But they
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  know they have a few days yet. I do know they are. They're
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  shopping around for defensive tackles. I think they want to participate there in the
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  middle tier. You know, whether that means in the legal tampering period,
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  you know, usually not. But the defensive tackle market got reset today with
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  the Ravens. Yeah, side of their amazing defensive tackle that sets the bar.
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  But so I know, I do know they do want to participate a
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  little bit with some very specific spots leading the way defensive tackles and you know,
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  maybe a defensive end. What about a veteran quarterback? Yeah, well
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  that's that. Quarterback is like a whole other conversation here. I mean,
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  yeah, they're shopping for quarterback. But you know, just do the math.
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  They were fifteen over. They're roughly twenty one under Now they're nowhere near
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  enough room to go shop at even for a middle tier quarterback. And you
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  know, I think they will like one or two of the quarterbacks enough to
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  think about trading down and taking one. Developmentally, maybe not for twenty twenty
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  four, but somebody they like. Moving forward, I think they might be
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  getting to that place. You know, it's just a matter of how the
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  board falls and what they think they can do at that point. But I
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  do still think they're going to sign a veteran or would like to, or
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  it will at least kick the tires on a few just to see what the
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  price is, all right, Legy, As we continue to try to talk
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  about saving money, and I know that any of the guys from last year,
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  I suppose they could try to still restructure. When it comes to Ben
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  Powers and Zach Allen. What do you think happens with Bulls and Sutton?
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  Though, I mean, again, it just is kind of it feels like
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  those are two of the guys mentioned by Russ. I'm still waiting to find
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  out if we're gonna have a rough side the Peyton side what's all said done?
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  Maybe not, but those are two big cap numbers that they could do
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  something with. Do you think they look there to trade those guys? Are
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  they just gonna leave it alone? You know? And I think everything is
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  on the table. I don't think if anyone's saying definitively they are are not
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  going to do something right now, I think that's misspeaking to the I don't
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  think there's anything not on the table right now. I mean, look what
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  they've done already. I mean, Judy's going to be in play simply because
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  he doesn't have any any weird bonus money left on his deal. He's going
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  to be playing out a fifth year option that is guaranteed. But that's a
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  relatively in the in the today's world of the NFL, that number is not
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  horrible. Uh. You know, for a team to take on for for
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  a wive or say, and there will be some interest. There will just
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  be a matter of Broncos Lebroncos think the pick is worth it that they would.
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  I do think they will get offered something for Jerry Judy, either before
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  the draft or you know, as free agency gets rolling. But I think
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  that's one to watch just because of the structure of the contract and you know,
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  Bulls and Sutton. You know they've already done McGlinchey. You know,
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  to create a problem later that's too big is not something they want to do
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  either. They don't want to do all this and then kick these cans,
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  multiple cans down the road, and two years from now they're doing all this
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  again. I don't think, at least from speaking to people, do it.
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  Yeah. No, I don't think that's what they want to do.
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  And I think they would have a hard time, Unlike New Orleans, I
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  think they would have a hard time selling Greg Penner on that As a long
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  term strategy. I think they would dearly love to take as much pain as
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  possible this year and hang in and see what they can do with a young
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  team team and then get move it forward. Jeff Legwell to ESPN with us
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  on the Ramos Law hotline. Uh, Jeff, want to way you to
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  weigh in on our conversation from last hour talking about Justin Simmons in the bigger
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  picture of the way the NFL is valuing the safety position, the the amount
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  of safeties out on the market right now that have been cut loose. You
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  know, we were having the discussion is safety play being devalued? Andy posited
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  that point. I pushed back a little because so many of these guys are
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  north of thirty, which teams just don't want to spend big money on guys
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  in their thirties. That maybe the safety position isn't in as much payroll at
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  least, you know, payroll wise as it would look. Where do you
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  come down on this right now, LEGGI are our team starting to look at
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  safeties like the running backs of the defense. I don't think anything that extrain
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  Nate. I think what you're seeing is a shortening of the window overall at
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  every position to what general managers and personnel people think is a good run with
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  your team. You know, it used to be if you've got two contracts,
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  two full contracts, that was a great run with a player with your
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  team. I think everyone is shortening that window now to rookie contract and change.
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  And you know, Justin's run here was eight years and that's very good.
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  But I think that's sort of the max window for a lot of guys
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  now. When I talk to personnel people, you know they're thinking more in
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  terms of how productive will the guy be on his first contract? And then
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  you know, where do you go from there? You know, and I
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  think it's more that I think that just happened this year that a lot of
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  safeties got paid, had the same number of birthdays, you know, And
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  you know, I just think it that group was an outlier. I don't
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  I don't think that's a trend yet that we can speak to, because every
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  defensive coordinator I know doesn't believe you can play defense in any fashion in today's
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  NFL without a mobile safety who can play down in the box and then still
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  have enough athleticism to get deep when he has to. And Justin Simmons will
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  have a demand. I've talked to guys already who think who've already said he's
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  an upgrade for who we have on our team. So I think he will
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  have interest. And it would shock me if Justin just doesn't go for as
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  good a winning situation as he can possibly get, even if it costs him
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  a little money. I think he's I think he's at that point where he
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  just wants to get to the big game and you know, take whatever contract
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  that takes to do it. All right, what do you think about Russ?
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  Russ all of a sudden, he's got to visit to Pittsburgh, which
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  who of course, Vegas was saying that was going to be the spot all
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  along. According to your colleague Adam Schefter, you had to stop off and
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  talked with the Giants real quick, and allegedly the Raiders wouldn't mind a conversation.
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  What do you think goes on with Russ? How quickly do you think
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  he signs? Well, hey, it's the best deal out there for a
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  quarterback. You're gonna get a quarterback for a million bucks and in the NFL
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  that's like ridiculous. So I think a lot of teams will be There's probably
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  a few more interested behind the scenes. I mean, it's uh, I
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  mean, I put Pittsburgh in my story the day I wrote you know,
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  we wrote that, you know, they announced they were going to release him.
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  I think a lot of people think if he vibes with Tomlin, I
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  think Pittsburgh feels like they have a playoff ready team and just need a little
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  bump in quarterback play. And if he goes to Pittsburgh, that's a play
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  action offense with a run component. Guess what, that's the Seattle Seahawks when
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  he was at his best, So and Mike Tomlin, I don't think a
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  quarterback's going to stray too far with Mike Tomlin as his head coach. So
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  I personally believe that would be a good situation for for Wilson if he,
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  you know, if he's up for it, because that that's gonna be a
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  play action, power based offense that will keep him clean with movement and under
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  center and and some of those things. So I think it's a good fit.
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  But I think there will be other people taking a look because again,
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  you're you're going to get him for vetter minimum because the Broncos are paying the
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  freight. Speaking of quarterbacks, like you what roster is Kirk Cousin's going to
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  be on next year? That's that's a great question, may I mean,
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  I don't you know, I've taught, I've asked people what do you think
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  the market is And a lot of it's just based on the anecdotal evidence that
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  people don't do great coming back from that injury. They do better than they
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  ever have now, but no question, that used to be a almost a
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  career ender in a lot of ways, but not the case anymore, and
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  especially skilled position guys have come back pretty well from it. But the jury's
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  kind of still out on quarterbacks, and you know, he's considered a high
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  priced guy with a lot of a big age and coming off injuries, so
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  I think would have to be the right spot. But people still think he
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  can play if the leg is right. All right, Legy, if you
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  had a choice, Pennicks are Bowers. I put this to Sanford yesterday.
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  Which skill set will be more unique if they're both sitting there at twelve?
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  For me, that Bowers is the grade. For me, I won't have
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  Penix created at twelve, but Powers will be a top eight player on every
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  board in the league, so you know, so for me, the value
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  play is is the tight end. But you know, there are many folks
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  who say quarter back or bust for the Broncos, and I know a lot
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  of them are fans. And I think the guy to watch down the board
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  a little bit is bo Nicks. I think he fits. And it's just
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  a matter of what the Broncos think of them, because we're not going to
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  know for sure until they have to show their hand. You know, they're
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  gonna things will be leaked, things will be thrown out there, things will
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  be lied about, and we won't know what they really think till they show
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  their hand, But from a football perspective and where he could be on the
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  board, I think bow Nicks is the fit of the of the guys.
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  You know that that could be in play if they trade down a smidge.
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  They want picks. If people don't think they want picks, they're mistaken.
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  They want picks in some fashion. They know the trouble they're in, they
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  know how to get out. So unless a quarterback they have graded twelve or
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  above is sitting there looking at him, I think they will likely right down
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  a smidge all right, real quick? Then what will be the ask for
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  mac Jones? What do you think that? What do you think the return
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  of mac Jones will be for New England? Anyway? Again, it's everyone's
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  so quarterback, you know, thirsty part of me thinks justin fields, whatever
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  deal comes out of that or whatever, you know, kind of however,
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  that table is set before the draft is going to sort of set the trade
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  market for for the you know quarterbacks who have been told to move on,
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  you know which is mac Jones is won? You know, justin fields?
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  You know the Jets are they gonna move Zach Wilson who they picked at number
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  two? Uh, you know all those guys are going to be in play,
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  and they're all coming off situations where their teams have said no, thank
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  you, including Russ. You know, maybe maybe Russ is the first domino
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  to fall in some fashion, but I think the trade market, at least
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  people are telling me justin Fields may, whatever the Bears do may may sort
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  of set how that all goes. Guys, you read Jeff Legwald ESPN dot
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  com, watch him on ESPN, and of course listen to him here on
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  Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. He joins us via the ramos Law Hotline.
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  Car accident you do need ramos Law medical doctor and attorney Ramoslaw dot com.
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  Jeff Legwald, beautiful stuff, man, Thank you, Thanks, that's
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  happy pride. It all right, Jeff Legwald with us right there,