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Jeff Legwold on Polumbus, Hastings, & Dmac 1-3-24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Radio. Yeah, let's get to our guy, Jeff leg While out there,
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  for passionate gamers and betters across the state. Jeff, how would you describe
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  the situation the Broncos are in now at this moment? Road or do you
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  want to give him the Lieutenant Dance skill? One thing at a time.
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  I would say at this moment, not just for the Raiders game, but
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  in general where they find themselves at all, if they are really going to
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  release Stussell Wilson, as benching him would seem to indicate they're gonna, I
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  think it puts him in a very difficult spot. I'd go as far as
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  to say it's unprecedented in the in the history of the salary cap. Well,
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  we put up a forrest gumps, Uh what do we call this scale?
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  Lie the timeline of of of Bad and it's with Lieutenant Dan's life.
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  So we got kind of at the top of the heap, you Lieutenant Dan,
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  young guy going to war fit whatever. Then all of a sudden the
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  battle happens. That's our second scale, and he started to go down.
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  Then he's in the hospital to Dan legs, No Legs, didn't want the
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  ice cream. And then there's a New Year's party, depressing, just gone.
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  And then he's challenging God on top of a mask, you know,
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  maybe getting a little bit more of his count. And then he's got the
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  new shiny legs and married and Mary a new wive, new shiny legs.
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  Where is the Broncos on that scale? Yeah, they're not to the new
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  part, I guess I would say a long way from the new part.
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  Now they if they really and again, you know, until they officially do
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  it, we sort of have to dance around. But I don't think there's
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  anybody on the on the planet who believes they're not going to release Russell Wilson.
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  If they really do that, then they'll take the biggest dead money hit
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  any team's ever taken, by at least forty million, forty million, bigger
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  than anybody's ever tried in the history of the salary cap. They have.
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  They started the season with the twenty fourth oldest roster in the league. They
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  only have six draft picks, two of them on the first two days of
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  the draft, no second rounder, and they still don't have an answer at
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  quarterback and really no way to sort of improve that. And you know,
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  I ask people all the time, now, what are you realistically think the
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  chances are that the starter behind center in twenty twenty four opening day is actually
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  better than Russell Wilson? I would say zero. Well, so you got
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  him in the in the bed with the bedpan and the you know, the
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  no legs and you know, I mean you got them kind of load.
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  Tell me objectively, how the Broncos have a better starting quarterback in September of
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  twenty twenty four than Oh, no, matter how you feel about how Russell
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  Wilson has played, but tell me who's better some mid level free agent and
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  now you're your quarterback room has sixty million dollars. All right, well,
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  let me ask you this. You're right, I wouldn't disagree whatsoever. Let's
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  turn to the start of twenty twenty five. Would their quarterback be better?
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  Meaning essentially they would draft the quarterback and that guy after a year like Mahomes,
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  year. He is better, there's a better future. He's that guy.
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  What about those? Hey, I gotta draft the quarterback team, Matt,
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  you don't have any draft. You know, you have a roster with
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  three first round picks on it because there's been so much turnover and so much
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  trading of the first round pick. So your only way to move up in
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  the first round is a team that already only has three first round picks on
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  its roster would have to trade more first round picks to move up. And
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  I would say there's no way for the Broncos to have enough juice to get
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  up to get either of the top two quarterbacks in this draft. Trade Patrick
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  Sutan in a first round draft pick for twenty twenty five and give the Bears
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  Jerry Jus look at really, look at what Carolina gave Chicago, and you
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  tell me if that's enough or not. I forget it off the top of
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  my head, refresh my memory. I mean it's it's multiple first rounders.
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  And I mean patser ten is going to be a free agent, so his
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  trade values impacted if you're sending him to a team that can't resign him,
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  you know, So I think it's I think it's fun to talk about,
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  but I don't think it's very realistic to say the Broncos have enough. And
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  again, you're trading first round picks for a team that already is so talented
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  thin they only have three first round picks. There are teams in the league
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  that have eight first round picks on offense or defense, and they've got three
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  on the entire roster, which lends my next question. I mean, this
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  roster, you're talking about second six picks for this knixt draft, no second
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  round picks. Right now, you're sitting at fourteen. It probably would have
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  done you and served you better had you lost last weekend and this coming up
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  weekend, to maybe creep to nine or ten, depend on what other teams
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  do. But that being said, I mean, not only do you not
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  have an answer a quarter back, there's a whole bunch of positions you don't
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  have an answer for either, isn't there Yes, I mean they're they're I
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  don't think I know a lot of people are firing off at confetti cannons because
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  they're going to get rid of us and all that. But I think people
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  really need to objectively look at the decision. In my opinion, was made
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  a year or too early. All they had to do was ride it out
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  for another year. But it looks like they're going to choose not to do
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  that. And like the Packers, the Packers positioned themselves to take on Aaron
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  Rodgers' dead money. They had a quarterback on his rookie deal that they liked,
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  They have the youngest roster in the NFL, and they had thirteen draft
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  picks last April thirteen. That's how you take on dead money. And they're
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  going to make the playoffs probably, so that's a team in position to make
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  that decision. The Broncos made a decision in my opinion, that they were
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  not in a position to make. Well, is this is this ownership Sean
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  Payton or George Bayden? Who has the biggest stamp on this? God,
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  I think it's everybody. There's no way, you know, you could do
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  this. I mean that, you know, Russell says, uh, the
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  top tier people you know, Greg Penner or George Peyton came to him with
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  the contract, you know, discussion and and Sean Payton that you know.
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  I refuse to believe a head coach isn't privy to penching the starting quarterback you
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  know, if he doesn't do something with his contract. What's your biggest shake
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  your head moment of this whole thing that's played out over the past week.
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  Uh, you know, you Mac from talking to everybody, and I talked
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  to a lot of people around the league in how in house here, I
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  think the fact they didn't they didn't tenor the discussion as a discussion. Uh
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  you know, my sources are that it was an ultimatum. So I think
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  they brought a sledgehammer to a discussion fight. Okay, good stuff, Jeff
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  enjoy. Uh you got are they inside or outside today? They're all tied
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  today? Then they h you know, they crank some hells bells right to
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  your practice. Maybe you're new team, dude. Did they put the Raiders
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  logo in the middle of the field the Raiders logo? Isn't he in the
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  middle of the field? Do they know the games inside this week? Uh?
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  You know, I don't know what's the old say trust but verify,
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  verify? All right? Jeff, alright, like we talk to you,
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  Do they know the games inside this week? Well? I don't know.
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  You know what, you know what what they might not PhD two five