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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman and Lindahl 2-27-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Let's jump right into some football discussion. Jeff Legwald of
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  Speaker 1: ESPN joins us right now. He is live in Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking combine. Jeff Legwald, I don't know how much
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  Speaker 1: you can help yourself with the measurables, but Sonny Styles
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  Speaker 1: certainly seems to be styling his way into a higher
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  Speaker 1: first round pick. What is he getting done this week
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  Speaker 1: at the Combine?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Just everything? How about that he's getting everything done?
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  Speaker 2: He's been the maybe what teams would say, the guy
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  Speaker 2: who's been the best interview. What he did on the
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  Speaker 2: field last night was ridiculous, and his game tape, for
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  Speaker 2: you know, his career and especially this past season was exceptional.
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  Speaker 2: So there are no boxes that Sunny Styles doesn't check
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  Speaker 2: as a draft prospect, and that's why he won't wait
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  Speaker 2: very long to hear his name called on draft Day.
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  Speaker 2: I love that the uh the Broncos had a formal
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  Speaker 2: interview with Sonny Styles, but unless they're going to trade
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  Speaker 2: twenty slots up in the first round, they have no
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  Speaker 2: shot at getting it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff, If I was to set the total at
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  Speaker 1: three and a half over or under three and a half,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Buck guys go in the top ten of
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  Speaker 1: this draft over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wild.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's an amazing group. And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: two best forties you know, Now, granted, the forty yard
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  Speaker 2: desh isn't everything, but the two best forties among the
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  Speaker 2: linebackers last night were teammates from Ohio State, and they're
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  Speaker 2: two of the best players on the board. And again,
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  Speaker 2: when when you're talking about the combine and what it
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  Speaker 2: means and all this, I think it's always important to
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  Speaker 2: remember the guys who do great here and have exceptional
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  Speaker 2: game tape. That's those are your elite prospects. And Rvel
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  Speaker 2: Reeves might be the best player on the draft board,
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  Speaker 2: and Sony Styles are two of the elite blue the
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  Speaker 2: scouting coding of blue players on the board.
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  Speaker 4: Jeff, I'm curious your opinion, do you, because again, it
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  Speaker 4: feels like the Broncos have had a lot of linebacker interviews.
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  Speaker 4: And then maybe you're gonna tell me it's just coincidence,
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  Speaker 4: because because all right, that's because the Bronco you know,
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  Speaker 4: the I guess the linebacker group was in there earlier
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  Speaker 4: than some of the other position groups.
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  Speaker 3: But is this a team that tells us what they're
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  Speaker 3: doing or is this a team.
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  Speaker 4: When it comes to George Payton, Sean Payton, do you
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  Speaker 4: find that you can't really trust him until the pick
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  Speaker 4: is made?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Like again, I for background, like Mike Shanan never talking
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  Speaker 4: to Jay Cutler before drafting him and all that, Like,
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  Speaker 4: how do you think this team operates when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: I think they operate on due diligence and when they
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  Speaker 2: you know, Sean Payton earlier this week's here in Indy,
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  Speaker 2: you know, named positions he considered musts for the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: in the offseason, and he named linebacker and he named
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  Speaker 2: running backs. So I think you know, they've been public
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  Speaker 2: about there. They're gonna do their due diligence and free
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  Speaker 2: agency and the draft on those two positions. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I think they're truthful about that. Now. As far as
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  Speaker 2: who they're interested in, they they they're no more uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, clear on that publicly than any other team.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, you know, last year, I think Sean Payton
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  Speaker 2: forbid anyone in the building to speak R. J. Harvey's
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  Speaker 2: name publicly before the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff leg Well ESPN joining us from Indianapolis. He's with
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  Speaker 1: let's jump to guys that are already in Broncos uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: News of the Day j Kwan macmillan second round tender
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  Speaker 1: roughly five point eight million dollars for this upcoming season.
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  Speaker 1: We've had the discussion on this show Absolute No Brain
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  Speaker 1: or to bring back Jaquon McMillan. What are next steps
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  Speaker 1: now for the Broncos and if you could try and
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  Speaker 1: ballpark us out at contract, what's that look like for
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  Speaker 1: Jaquan McMillan.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't I'm not sure what you know
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  Speaker 2: that there aren't many comps for you know, Nickel Corner,
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  Speaker 2: uh and all of those things, and sometimes you know,
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  Speaker 2: unfortunately for Jaquan, your your level of contract progression reflects
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  Speaker 2: on how you came into the league and and you know,
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  Speaker 2: coming in as an undrafted and making a team that's
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  Speaker 2: sometimes that's a longer road to a bigger deal. But
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  Speaker 2: I think this is just a step in the process.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I think they certainly want to bring it back,
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  Speaker 2: they want to talk about something longer. But I think
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  Speaker 2: the issue will be will somebody come uh, sweeping in
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  Speaker 2: to force their hand a little bit. And sometimes teams,
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  Speaker 2: you know, sort of want to let everybody else set
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  Speaker 2: the mark. And with a restricted free agent, you have
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to let other people tell you kind of
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  Speaker 2: what the value of your player is out there instead
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  Speaker 2: of just what the the agent is telling you or
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  Speaker 2: what you think your data tells you. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's some of just tendering him now, but I think
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  Speaker 2: they hope to get something done. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: I think a lot of that too is when they
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  Speaker 2: sit down in the building, what's the long term plan
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  Speaker 2: for John A. Baron, you know, a first round pick
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  Speaker 2: moving forward? But in their perfect world, they have all
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  Speaker 2: the corners they want back on the depth chart.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Jeff, we are live at Ball Arena
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  Speaker 4: in front of the Mammoth game coming up tonight that
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  Speaker 4: I've got to call. You're hearing shake Down Street in
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  Speaker 4: the background. I don't know how much that's coming through,
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  Speaker 4: but they are warming up for their big performance later.
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  Speaker 3: If you'll feel right now, I'm taking it there you go,
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  Speaker 3: yeah it. Hey, Jeff, what are some tight ends that
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  Speaker 3: you think will work?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that is a position that I'd love to
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  Speaker 4: see them add to and I love Frankly, I I.
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  Speaker 3: Would not care if they traded up for Kendrick Sidik.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that will happen.
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  Speaker 4: Give me some names that you're kind of interested in
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  Speaker 4: watching that you think might fit the type of tight
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  Speaker 4: end that Sean Payton likes because he's not always looking
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  Speaker 4: for the joker, even though he is right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now you know they one named the sort of
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  Speaker 2: watch and the best world is. They did have Max
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  Speaker 2: Claire from Ohio State. Uh, they did have a you know,
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  Speaker 2: one of their formal sit downs with him. I think
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  Speaker 2: they've taken a long look at injuries from Texas. Jack Endrees, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of a guy who flashed some downfield
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  Speaker 2: ability with Texas even though he didn't get that many,
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  Speaker 2: uh that many targets. But you know, I think those
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  Speaker 2: are kind of the guys you're you're you're looking for,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Dallan Bentley from Utah, Utah As they have
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  Speaker 2: plenty of guys in the Broncos locker rooms for Utah,
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  Speaker 2: so they obviously like what the program produces there, including
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  Speaker 2: a tight end they took last year in the drafted loner.
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  Speaker 2: So but they they've made the rounds here. You know
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  Speaker 2: they they've They've had plenty of their formal sit down
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  Speaker 2: slots taken up by tight end, running back and inside linebackers.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, what do you think of Kate Aughton out of
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, veteran tight end four years in the league,
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  Speaker 1: certainly more of a I guess the term is two
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  Speaker 1: way tight end because you can use them in line,
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  Speaker 1: you can split them wide if you want to. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: does Kate Oughten check this Sean Payton boxes so to speak,
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  Speaker 1: if they're going to keep Evan Ingram around?
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  Speaker 2: I do? I think so, because they I think they
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  Speaker 2: need more players that sort of don't tip their hand
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  Speaker 2: by when they're in the game. So anybody who has
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  Speaker 2: at tight end, who has that two way ability gives
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  Speaker 2: you that flexibility to not be showing people, Okay, when
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  Speaker 2: this guy's in, it's most often a run set, and
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  Speaker 2: when this guy's in, it's most often this collection of
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  Speaker 2: pass routes. So yeah, I think any player like Atton
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  Speaker 2: who has that can play on early rundowns and can
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  Speaker 2: play in long yardage downs balls, I think certainly helps them.
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  Speaker 4: Again, this is all shaken out like it is going
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  Speaker 4: to be a defensive pick if they stay at thirty.
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  Speaker 4: Just the more I see some of these studs, some
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  Speaker 4: of the freak numbers. Everything you promised us a month
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  Speaker 4: ago is coming true and looks like it's going to
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  Speaker 4: continue to come true.
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  Speaker 3: Out at Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 4: There is an offensive lineman, maybe a top pick they
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  Speaker 4: could survive surprise us with. Is there a position that
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  Speaker 4: would surprise you at thirty, Jeff, I've done a lot
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  Speaker 4: of drafts with you, and obviously you don't know what
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna get. You've told us all there's a pretty
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  Speaker 4: good chance you're not even to have a first round
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  Speaker 4: grade on a guy at thirty anyway. But is there
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  Speaker 4: a position that would be a surprise at thirty for you?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? I guess I And you know, folks may be
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  Speaker 2: surprised by this, but it would surprise me a little
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  Speaker 2: if it's a wide receiver because they've been so adamant
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  Speaker 2: about both the GM and the head coach have been
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  Speaker 2: so adamant this week about what they've invested in that
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  Speaker 2: room already and how much they like it. So I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's a smoke screen. I think they really, really,
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  Speaker 2: really do white their situation at receiver if healthy. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, again, if you get down to pick thirty
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  Speaker 2: and there's a receiver who's in your top eighteen on
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  Speaker 2: your board, you're taking the receivers. So but that'd be
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  Speaker 2: that'd be kind of a position where I'd be intrigued
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  Speaker 2: to see who's on the board if a receiver came
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  Speaker 2: off at thirty for them and Andy, I got some
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  Speaker 2: more bad news for you. The corners just ran and
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  Speaker 2: fifteen fifteen of them ran under four or five. So
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  Speaker 2: it is a defensive board. My friend.
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  Speaker 4: Oh look, Dmax, you guy that hates the corners, not me,
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  Speaker 4: you can talk to him about that. I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I what if the corners the guy you gotta go get?
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  Speaker 4: The corners the guy you gotta go get, because again,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that they're gonna be able to afford
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  Speaker 4: to Radley Moss at some point. I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I think there's a number of guys that you get
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  Speaker 4: to get. Now that safety, what about the safety from Toledo.
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  Speaker 4: This is not what I wanted to ask you, but
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  Speaker 4: the safety from Toledo it seems to already be getting
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  Speaker 4: a ton of buzz.
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  Speaker 3: I know, we told you there was a mock that
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  Speaker 3: had him there.
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  Speaker 4: After the testing, do you think there's any chance he'll
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  Speaker 4: still be a guy that could be there.
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  Speaker 1: It's a manual McNeil Warren.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying, could be the next M and Warry.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a good law firm, a manual McNeil and Warren.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, make the call?
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  Speaker 3: Is that?
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  Speaker 2: And when when you're in trouble right now, the safeties
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  Speaker 2: are just now getting ready to run right Okay, they're
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  Speaker 2: keying it up. So but he what people like about
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  Speaker 2: uh McNeil Warren is that, uh, he gets the ball
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  Speaker 2: out on the ground. I mean he he forced nine
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  Speaker 2: fumbles in his career. Uh and that's a pretty good
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  Speaker 2: total for a safety. So and he's really uh uh
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  Speaker 2: range long and rangy as a player. So he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of got that long frame. And what that means is
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  Speaker 2: suddenly you can be a four to five eight guy,
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  Speaker 2: but you play like a a four four nine player
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  Speaker 2: because of your reach. And and that's why when you
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  Speaker 2: hear scouts and GM's talking about he, you know, players
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  Speaker 2: being long, that's why they want it, because the speed
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  Speaker 2: quotient becomes a whole different thing.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Broader question before we get you out of here,
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  Speaker 1: philosophical all you've covered. I believe this is your fifth
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  Speaker 1: or sixth George Peyton draft that you have covered. Now
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  Speaker 1: as you have gotten to know the way that Peyton
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  Speaker 1: and Peyton work together and kind of what they're looking for,
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  Speaker 1: do you feel as though you have a good sense
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  Speaker 1: of as you watch players, as you listen to players,
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  Speaker 1: you can think to yourself, Oh, this guy sounds like
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  Speaker 1: a Broncos kind of guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know that that's the Sean Payton does one
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  Speaker 2: very big thing that every GM or scout loves, and
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  Speaker 2: that is he has a very clear and definitive idea
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  Speaker 2: what he's looking for at every position, and that that
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  Speaker 2: that clear choice to him has definitive parameters tight weight, speed, character.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they they very quickly take players off their
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  Speaker 2: board who don't fit that that profile. And I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, George Peyton has a very good understanding of
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  Speaker 2: what that is. And you can go through I can
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  Speaker 2: go through my draft evaluations and my reports, and I
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  Speaker 2: can very quickly remove plenty of guys who have no
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  Speaker 2: shot at getting drafted by the Broncos because they don't
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  Speaker 2: fit one of those things.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, we got about a minute Brett Beach apparently
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  Speaker 4: said that like twenty of his players of his top
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  Speaker 4: seventy five already gone because of nil deals. Do you
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  Speaker 4: believe that this draft has been affected to that length
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  Speaker 4: as well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, but you know, I think I think some
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  Speaker 2: of that is a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Just talking in the bar, having a little fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems a little enhanced. Let's say, Ah.
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  Speaker 4: But maybe he's visited the Rocky Mountain Men's clinic there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go. There's no question at the back
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  Speaker 2: end of since nil really got cranked out, the Day
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  Speaker 2: three has been severely impacted. I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people feel like the boards are dinner from top to bottom.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think, uh, you know, there's a handful
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  Speaker 2: of guys who have been would have been in the
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  Speaker 2: in the first round conversation, but it wouldn't have meant
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  Speaker 2: like six or seven more first round grades in this draft.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think those kinds of players stayed behind because
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  Speaker 2: you if if you're a first round pick or even
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  Speaker 2: a high two, there aren't many nil deals that are
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  Speaker 2: going to beat the guaranteed money of what you would
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  Speaker 2: have been as a draft pick.
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  Speaker 1: To that point, Jeff, like, now that we're like we're
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  Speaker 1: beyond the COVID window and everything else like that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard comments being made the next year's draft is
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  Speaker 1: expected to be an historically great draft.
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  Speaker 2: Loaded, loaded. Everybody's already positioning for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what what do you what have you heard on that?
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  Speaker 1: And how is that impacting uh teams thought processes.
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  Speaker 2: I think you'll see a lot of drafts, weekend trades,
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  Speaker 2: and even trades leading up to it that include twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven draft picks because people want them because they
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  Speaker 2: they do see a very right now, you know, And
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  Speaker 2: that's always sort of like the strength of schedule thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, how does how tough does the team's schedule
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  Speaker 2: look before the season? Sure is always different, but no,
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  Speaker 2: right now it projects to be a really really good draft. Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: you know, since you know, the twenty twenty four draft
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  Speaker 2: was considered pretty good and you know, on par with
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  Speaker 2: some of those were the first round the true first
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  Speaker 2: round grades push eighteen, nineteen or twenty something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lakewell and everybody ESPN from Indianapolis at the combine
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  Speaker 1: breaking it all down for us. Leggie will talk to
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  Speaker 1: you Monday.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, dude, Take carefuls We'll see him