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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 4/26/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Je Langwad is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football the
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  Insider. I've covered the league a little while Jeff from leg Wall. His
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  appearances are always must listen radio. You learn a lot on Altitude Sports Radio
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  ninety two five. We knew how the first part of the draft was going
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  to go, and then as it went, you just never know how how
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  things are going to shape up. But you know, right there around pick
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  twelve, I get a phone call and I'm just extremely excited and honored for
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  it to be the Denver Broncos. And I truly can tell you this,
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  if I could pick, uh, you know where I wanted to go,
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  I was going to pick Denver because of the relationships that we had built throughout
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  the process. You know, I just felt like it was a great fit
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  for me. And I'm just excited to get that phone call. Yes,
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  that is new Broncos quarterback bow Nicks drafted with the number twelve overall selection.
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  That's right. Sean Payton has chosen to place his eggs into the bow Nicks
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  basket, joining us right now to discuss he is with us on the Ramos
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  Law Hotline. Car accident you need Ramos Law medical doctor and attorney Ramoslaw dot
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  com. It is NFL reporter for ESPN R pal Jeff Lagwald. What up,
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  Leggy? How are we doing? Follows? We're doing good? Jeff
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  bon Nicks was selected by the Denver Broncos at number twelve. Why do they
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  do that? I guess desperation, you know, opportunity met desperation, and
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  and you know they've they've longed for a quarterback, quarterback of the future,
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  a long term solution, and in a historic first round, unlike any other
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  first round I've ever seen in my career, they made bow Nicks the sixth
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  quarterback off the board of twelve picks. So we are to believe that of
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  the twelve highest graded players in this draft, the Denver Broncos had six quarterbacks
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  among them. So it's just unlike anything I've ever seen. And you know,
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  if they get it right, no one's going to care or remember or
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  any of it. But I think bo Nicks is going to need every bit
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  of his composure and maturity to come into a situation where so much is going
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  to be expected of them. Yeah, Leggy, you had bo Nicks rated
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  as your number thirty nine prospect in your top one hundred. This year,
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  the Broncos take him there at number twelve. You use the word, but
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  I kind of wonder about the balance on this a little bit. Is it
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  just that Nicks was an unusually good fit for Denver so they had to take
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  him at twelve or was it the speckles of desperation that were all over it?
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  Probably both, Nate. I mean, that's there's a school of thought
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  in the in the scouting world that value is always in important, but that
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  if you see your guy, take your guy, you know, don't don't
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  mess around and trade down eight nine spots to get an additional pick or two,
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  and then you know, somebody else takes him and then you're left with
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  with nothing. You know. The issue is is really that this was in
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  the illogical first round overall league wide, and there's I've never encountered a team
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  in my thirty seven years of doing this that had six quarterbacks with first round
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  grades on them before any single draft I've ever reviewed or been a part of.
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  It's never happened, or I've never had a team official scout, GM
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  coach. I've never had one person from one NFL team tell me in one
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  NFL draft, they had six first round grades on quarterbacks. So this this
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  draft was historical. We've never seen anything like it. The only comparison and
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  we have is the gold standard in eighty three. You know, which three
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  of the six Hall of say three of the six quarterbacks taken in the first
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  round or Hall of famers, and yet only two of those guys were taken
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  in the top ten. All right, Leggy, how I was reading your
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  draft evaluation online? How soon should we expect him to start? I mean,
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  what what does this do to the quarterback competition? And I guess may
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  and I kind of asked a question yesterday, why did you trade for Zach
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  Wilson? Then? I mean, this is I keep coming up with the
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  Josh McDaniels twenty ten analogy of you know, you started with Kyle Orton,
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  then they added Brady Quinn, then they go and draft him Tebow because Josh
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  just loved being around the guy. How soon should we expect bo to start?
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  Is he the expected starter? Do you think coming into camp? Where
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  does this all rank? Oh? I don't think we you know, we
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  gotta see every buddy on the field and see what happens. But you know,
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  the fact he's a little older, the fact he's played more games than
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  perhaps any Power five quarterback is ever going to play because of the COVID situation.
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  You know, there was a long time when Philip Rivers is fifty one
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  games was like the unreachable thing, and Nick's had sixty one. So he's
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  got a part of his resume that other guys don't have that give him an
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  advantage. You know. You couple that with a coaching family and all of
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  those things. He's got a little bit of a head start compared to you
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  know, maybe a guy who's played one or two years full time. But
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  we also don't have any data at all about how Sean Payton will handle a
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  rookie quarterback. Nobody's ever seen it. I've told people I know people who've
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  coached with Sean who have told me even they don't know how it will go,
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  or how he will handle it, or what his timetable will be.
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  So a lot of us is kind of just wait and see. I mean,
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  certainly in the public domain, you're gonna have the constant you know,
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  anybody anytime somebody who isn't named bo Nix throws an interception where you're you're gonna
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  hear people asking when is bo Nick's gonna play? All right, let me
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  follow up with this too, because I've tried to explain this. You've talked
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  to me about it. Sanford's talked to me about it. Others have talked
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  to me about it. What's the throw that most concern you that bo is
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  going to need to make that his arm doesn't seem that he's not good at.
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  How about I put it that way, what are the throws that he
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  will struggle with? Some of it we don't know yet, and you know
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  a lot of it is it's just the data saying. You know, in
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  the Oregon offense, it's hard to find the the NFL deep out, you
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  know, it's hard to find the the skinny posts, you know, the
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  slot fade. You just don't see a lot of the intermediate and deep part
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  of the field. I mean, again, a third of his completions this
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  year, a third we're at the line of scrimmager, behind the line of
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  scrimmage. I mean that skewed data. Now, the Broncos say they took
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  all of those throws out of the equation and he still fared very well in
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  their analytics. So Their contention is one of the criticisms of scouts of Knicks
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  has been armstrength and the ability to push the ball to the far hash.
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  Their contention is they addressed that in the private workout and saw what they needed
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  to see when they took all the short throws out of the equation. Talking
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  to Jeff Lagweld here, after round one of the NFL drafts, the six
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  quarterbacks go in the top twelve. The top three were certainly predictable. Pennix
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  at number eight to Atlanta was a stunner. Minnesota moved up a pick to
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  get JJ McCarthy at number ten, and then the Broncos take their guy bone
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  Nicks at number twelve. All of that said, leggy, accurate, quick
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  processor game manager. Again, normally you can find those kind of guys in
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  this second or third round, but the Broncos chose to take him at number
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  twelve. What specifically about bon Knicks do you see where you're like, Okay,
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  this absolutely can work in a Sean Payton offense. Well, that's what
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  I mean. He his the fit is he doesn't take sacks. It's he's
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  really really that may be his biggest awareness strength. Right now, I've taken
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  last year, Leggie. That's pretty impressive. He understands where pressure is coming
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  from, he understands what he needs to do with it, and he understands
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  it before the snap, which in that you know, look, you got
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  to give him all the credit in the world. That is a that is
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  a hot commodity quarterback, and it is hard to find, and it doesn't
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  really develop as much as coaches always hoped it does. You know, a
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  lot of it is like pass rushers. You know, you can either sack
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  the quarterback or you can't. You know, you can either have the ability
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  to process pre snap where the pressure is coming from, or you don't.
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  And he's really good at that, and he moves the ball, he gets
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  the ball out, and as we all know with the decision to release Russell
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  Wilson, those two items are pretty damn high on Sean Payton's list. Don't
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  take a sack and get the ball the hell out. And he does those
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  two things very well. All right, If he's going to do that even
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  better, he's going to need guys to throw to Courtland Sutton. We'll see
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  how that story plays out. Still kind of a question mark in the tight
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  end position. Third round leg. He doesn't look like they're going to be
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  getting into the second round lest some wacky happens. Let's say they sit pat
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  like they did last night. Who is going to be available that he could
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  actually get some offensive help with in the third round, which I know is
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  tough to project, but do you think it'll be like who do you think
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  they'd even target in the third round? At this point, you can't really
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  target any even that's look how many picks they are away from seventy six,
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  you know right now, it's you know, they're one run from having a
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  you know, one run at a position from having a restack almost you know,
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  if six pass rushers go in the you know, in a twelve picks
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  fan in the second round, then you know you're you're stuck. But there
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  should be a tight end who could contribute pretty fast. There should be a
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  receiver or two, and there should be an edge player two and you know,
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  maybe a corner. But it's you know that this draft sinds out pretty
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  fast in the day three, So I think you're going to see teams really
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  digging in and not moving around the board much unless they see specific guys they
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  want. So they're gonna have to see how it falls, but I think
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  they'll have a look at those positions. Talking to Jeff Legweld here, as
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  we're said to get round two under way this evening, Broncos will pick in
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  the third twelfth pick of the third round. That's number seventy six overall.
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  Leggy from a macros perspective, taking a look back at round one, who
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  impressed you last night? Which picks did you really like? There was a
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  lot of chalk in this draft, But now looking back on it, whose
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  work did you like in round one of the draft? Yeah? I think
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  the teams that were patient and did the proverbial trust the board did very well.
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  I mean, and you know, the Raiders ended up with a top
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  three, top four player on a lot of teams boards, one pick after
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  the Broncos. So I thought they did at aut Chicago, you know,
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  they just stayed put. They took the quarterback they liked, and they got
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  one of the top three receivers, you know, they so you get to
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  bracket that, you know. I thought Dallas Turner was a great pick,
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  would have been a great pick here. Uh. He was one of my
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  favorite players on the board, and I thought I thought the corners. The
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  top two corners went a lot later than I thought they would, And I
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  think the teams that got those guys will be will be pretty happy. Yeah,
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  there's good players all over the teams. We were talking about this before,
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  Leggy. I mean, look at Philadelphia. They we talk about the
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  Eagles as a trade up candidate with Denver to go and get to the corner.
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  They just hung out in twenty two and the guy fell directly into the
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  lap. Yeah. May I mean the the Ravens have made a living,
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  Yeah, just sitting and waiting for awesomeness to fall their way. And they
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  did it again. And this is and you know and this isn't you know
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  all bow Nicks did with an answer to the phone and say yes, thank
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  you. But the issue for the Broncos and the big picture is how many
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  Pro Bowls did you leave on the board? Uh? Because they had when
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  their pick rolled around, they had whoever was the best, the highest rated
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  defensive player on their board, whoever it was was available. So the top
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  three edge rushers were available, the top two corners were available, the best
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  tight end was available, and two of the best receivers were available, and
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  they took a player they likely had ranked behind all those guys, whether they'll
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  ever admit it or not. Real quick, Jeff, you spin me back
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  to that. You know what, We're tight. Just let Jeff go.
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  It's all right, we'll save it from Monday. Jeff, how about that
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  one. Your draft's all done? Well, We'll never let you go,
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  Jeff, because we love you, but we will talk to you on Monday.
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  We appreciate it as always. Excellent draft breakdown, Jeff leg Waald,
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  Thanks man, Thanks hellos