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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 3-17-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Je Legwald is our Broncos insider.
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  Speaker 2: Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football the insider
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  Speaker 1: Start with a job and with a career. IVW Local
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight.
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  Speaker 2: It's Leggy, we yet ye on Altitude Sports Radio five.
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  Speaker 2: Jet legwelld time here on a Monday his appearance brought
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  Speaker 2: Local sixty eight. Start with the job and with a career.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna talk to Jeff about his new job for
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  Speaker 2: this week, coming up a little bit later in the conversation. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: but we start with the Broncos, and and we start
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  Speaker 2: in this place right here, Jeff after free agency and
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  Speaker 2: what they did, adding Insidelnebacker, adding safety, adding tight end.
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  Speaker 2: In what ways, if at all, will that influence the
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  Speaker 2: way the Broncos approached the first couple of rounds of
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  Speaker 2: the draft.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Nate, I think it.
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  Speaker 4: The first thing it does is it tells you where
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  Speaker 4: they believe their biggest needs are, because that's been their philosophy,
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  Speaker 4: and free agency was to you know, attack biggest needs
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  Speaker 4: the most focused way you can, which is free agency.
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  Speaker 4: You're not dependent on how the board falls. It's who
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  Speaker 4: you like for you and can you make the number
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  Speaker 4: you know, get the players attention. That's that's all you're
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  Speaker 4: really looking at. So that tells you they really came
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  Speaker 4: away from their meetings after the season as good as
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  Speaker 4: their defense was, that's.
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  Speaker 3: Where they wanted to go. And I did.
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  Speaker 4: I do think they you know, I think ingram is
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  Speaker 4: a is a big upgrade for offense. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: he even gives them, you know, seventy eighty percent of
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  Speaker 4: his best season over the last four years, he'll still
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  Speaker 4: be the best guy they've had at tight end for
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  Speaker 4: quite some time. So and you know, the other two guys,
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  Speaker 4: it's just health. If they're healthy. You know, I know
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  Speaker 4: for a fact the Niners loved both those guys, and
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  Speaker 4: it was just a money health issue. And I think
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  Speaker 4: they're whether the Niners would admit it or not, I
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  Speaker 4: think they're inkling inside their own building, is that green
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  Speaker 4: Law is.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna come back very healthy and have a very good season.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff, would we talk about teams really trying to fill
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  Speaker 2: specific holes like you talked about right there. And look,
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  Speaker 2: it's always mock draft season. There's a new one every
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  Speaker 2: single week, three and sixty five days a year, all right.
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  Speaker 2: But also like prior to free agency, most every mock
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  Speaker 2: had Denver going either tight end or running back. Click
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  Speaker 2: very specifically, they got to fill the joker thing. And
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  Speaker 2: then the Broncos immediately go out and they sign Evan Ingram.
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  Speaker 2: When NFL teams approach these things, do they view like
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about filling specific needs? They view free agency
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  Speaker 2: is the best way to be able to do that specifically,
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  Speaker 2: I would think because these are established NFL players whose
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  Speaker 2: role you know who they're just they're plug and play guys.
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  Speaker 2: You put them in their lineup, you're confident what their
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  Speaker 2: production is going to be, versus draft picks, where there's
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  Speaker 2: always the potential of project.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, so.
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  Speaker 4: It's just your ability to see that player in plays
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  Speaker 4: you run in specific things you do, right, you get
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  Speaker 4: the best vision of that. You know, you know what
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  Speaker 4: you're getting. Now, do you do you get a free
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  Speaker 4: agent's best season of his career? Not usually, you know,
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  Speaker 4: not very often?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, but you get it. You get them coming
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  Speaker 2: off of the best season of their career. In the
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  Speaker 2: Broncos case, because they got injured dudes. But yeah, oftentimes
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  Speaker 2: you might have gotten an inflated version of a guy,
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  Speaker 2: but you.
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  Speaker 4: Know, you know that it's very easy for them to
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  Speaker 4: see the fit. You know, in fact, you're often going
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  Speaker 4: to have somebody on your staff who coached the guy,
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  Speaker 4: who you know has done something with the player along
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  Speaker 4: the way, whether it's offseason or in season.
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  Speaker 3: So just a lot more information.
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  Speaker 4: You know that your your inability to build your team
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  Speaker 4: that way though, is you know those the more players
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  Speaker 4: you have excelling on rookie deals, the more you can
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  Speaker 4: do in free agency. So it's really that weird dichotomy
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  Speaker 4: of the better you do in the draft, the more
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  Speaker 4: you can do in free agency, and that's I think
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  Speaker 4: that's what teams struggle with.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, Jeff, we've hit the quiet period.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think you told us some great information that
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people had talked about Friday? They're already
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  Speaker 5: kind of tight with the cap. Do you think they're
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  Speaker 5: done for this round of agency or do you think
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  Speaker 5: there could be another little surprise value signing or two
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  Speaker 5: before you hit the draft?
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  Speaker 4: You know, now it's just players deciding what's best for
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  Speaker 4: them to get back in the market next year. You
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  Speaker 4: know you're and you see so many one year deals now,
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  Speaker 4: like I say, after that two day negotiating window is over.
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  Speaker 4: If you're unsigned, for the most part, unless you're a quarterback,
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  Speaker 4: you're looking at one year deals for the team's number.
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  Speaker 4: So it's mostly now players trying to decide, Okay, what
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  Speaker 4: what gets me to free agency the best next year?
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  Speaker 4: Or if you're an older guy, where can I win?
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  Speaker 4: You know right now, that's that's what you're waiting on.
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  Speaker 4: You're trying to you're hoping, Uh, those people call you.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we I know, we get so enamored with
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  Speaker 4: free agency, but you know it's open until you know,
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  Speaker 4: the training camp starts right you know, essentially, so you
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  Speaker 4: know that there'll be looking the whole time. I bet
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  Speaker 4: you they bring in double digit players during OTAs and
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  Speaker 4: you know the rookie minni camp, we'll see some extra
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  Speaker 4: guys out there. They don't they'll keep looking. But to
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  Speaker 4: have a to have the room to do something significant,
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  Speaker 4: they'd have to adjust a deal or read or give
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  Speaker 4: somebody an extension, or or do something turn signing bonus
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  Speaker 4: or salary into signing bonus. They'd have to do something
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  Speaker 4: significant to get some room. They're they're in those single
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  Speaker 4: digit millions, you know, against the cap right now, which
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  Speaker 4: is with the draft coming up, and you know that's
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  Speaker 4: that's about as close as you want to be.
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  Speaker 2: Is it ramos Law dot com? Jeff, The cupro day
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  Speaker 2: is going to be televised. That's going to be an
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  Speaker 2: awful lot of fun. Uh Shador Sanders has become a
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  Speaker 2: very polarizing prospect. Surprise, surprise, somebody from that family is polarizing.
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  Speaker 2: What is what should do or need to show at
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  Speaker 2: Colorado's pro day? And right now, what are you hearing
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  Speaker 2: as the reasons for his quote unquote slide down the board?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know, I'm the wrong guy to ask
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  Speaker 4: about you know, is a player too confident?
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  Speaker 3: I just don't buy any of that bogus crap.
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  Speaker 1: I want my quarterback to be confident.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, what's he supposed to say? Oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not very good? You know that this fake humility
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  Speaker 4: crap is. I get so tired of old people being
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  Speaker 4: upset that young people are confident and young. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Okay, we're old. We're sorry. You know, they're young.
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  Speaker 4: They can't help it, you know, they're young. You know,
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  Speaker 4: let them be young. But anyway, that's a tirade for
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  Speaker 4: another day, when you've got to when you've got a
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  Speaker 4: whole hour for me. But uh, you know, I you know,
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  Speaker 4: part of the issue is just basic football things. He's
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  Speaker 4: not the biggest guy. You know, he's six a little
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  Speaker 4: over six' one two twelve. I believe at the combine
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  Speaker 4: that's not a big quarterback. So that's some people's trouble
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  Speaker 4: with him. Look, he does a couple things at an
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  Speaker 4: elite level that NFL coaches love. He's an amazing processor.
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  Speaker 4: Uh he knows what he's looking at. He's been trained well,
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  Speaker 4: and accuracy is spectacular. So that's an NFL quarterback and
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  Speaker 4: a first rounder in my mind.
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  Speaker 3: You know, is he the number one pick or all that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I don't care about all that. I just
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  Speaker 4: he's a good quarterback. He's a very good NFL prospect.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care where he would fit in last year's
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  Speaker 4: class and all that stuff doesn't matter to me. But
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  Speaker 4: he processes great, he's accurate as health and in the
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  Speaker 4: big moments he plays his best. And especially not this
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  Speaker 4: past season, but his first season in Colorado. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: come on, he he did more with less there than
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  Speaker 4: a lot of guys could have.
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  Speaker 3: He takes too many sacks, way too many.
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  Speaker 4: Like he won't last half a season in the NFL
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  Speaker 4: if he doesn't clean that up.
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  Speaker 3: So at his pro day, people are just gonna look
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  Speaker 3: for his rhythm.
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  Speaker 4: How do you throw the ball in your back foot,
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  Speaker 4: hits you know, how's your footwork coming out from under center,
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  Speaker 4: how does it look moving left to right out of
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  Speaker 4: the gun. All of those things, just little basic things
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  Speaker 4: you know they can't see.
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  Speaker 3: Are you going to be more responsible about taking sacks.
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  Speaker 4: Because you know nobody's going to be rushing him, but
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  Speaker 4: they can see his rhythm and his footwork and what
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  Speaker 4: he's been doing.
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  Speaker 3: But I my personal opinion is a lot of the criticisms.
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  Speaker 4: Is just you know, if you want to be mad
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  Speaker 4: at his dad, just be mad at his dad.
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  Speaker 3: Don't take it out on him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a high eye Q player. You mentioned the processor
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  Speaker 2: right there. Clearly, tools wise, he's probably lower on the list,
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  Speaker 2: and we know that but Leggy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Nate, I didn't want to interrupt you, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's not. He's he's not big enough to play the
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  Speaker 4: way Ben Roethlis play.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, so he can't take that many hits in the NF.
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  Speaker 4: Cannot play that way in the NFL. Ben could, Yeah
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  Speaker 4: he can. If he takes fifty sacks in the NFL,
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  Speaker 4: he won't make it.
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  Speaker 3: To the season.
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  Speaker 1: He's not Josh Allen. That's that's very clear.
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  Speaker 2: So in the and I mean this was door, but
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  Speaker 2: I mean this with every prospect, maybe just broadly generally
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  Speaker 2: tools versus football IQ slash processor. When evaluating a quarterback,
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  Speaker 2: does it come down to taste or does one truly
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  Speaker 2: make for a better future NFL player?
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  Speaker 4: Well, the athlete who doesn't understand what he's looking at
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  Speaker 4: and can't get the ball where he's supposed to is
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  Speaker 4: not going to fare as well as the processor will. Now,
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  Speaker 4: will the processor make you the throw in the last
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  Speaker 4: thirty seconds of a playoff game? That's the that's your
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  Speaker 4: that's your rub. You know, some people can't throw the
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  Speaker 4: way John Elway did when the game's on the line.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the the touchdown at the end of the drive.
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  Speaker 4: He might have killed the receiver, you know, with the ball.
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  Speaker 4: It's you know, that part of it, that's the rub.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the processor will be a better player overall
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  Speaker 4: for his career.
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  Speaker 3: But will he win you the game when you need
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  Speaker 3: him to win you the game?
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  Speaker 5: Jeff, I I've known you a long time. I don't
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  Speaker 5: think I've ever heard anything affect your voice the way
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  Speaker 5: this thing is the last couple of games.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's I told you earlier, this is my
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  Speaker 3: draft voice.
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  Speaker 4: I'm on the phone like fifty hours a day, and
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  Speaker 4: it's just stupid, and you know, it just happens. I
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  Speaker 4: don't have a great voice to begin with, So I
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  Speaker 4: apologize to everyone that you know from the jump.
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  Speaker 1: I beg to differ personally.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody loves the smooth, velvety tones of Jeff Lagwall.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, who's the other guy that's most hunter and shoud er?
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  Speaker 5: We know who's maybe the surprise prospect up there at
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  Speaker 5: see you?
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  Speaker 4: You know, I think people are are really liking Horn,
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  Speaker 4: you know, as a receiver, just the way he pops
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  Speaker 4: in and out of routes and his explosiveness at the
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  Speaker 4: top of the route. I think he's getting a lot
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  Speaker 4: of traction for Uh, for a lot of folks. You know,
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  Speaker 4: when I when I do ask scouts about their other guys,
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  Speaker 4: his name comes up an awful lot.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Jeff, you're gonna be out covering college buckets
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  Speaker 2: all weekend long. You are moonlighting as a college basketball
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  Speaker 2: writer right now.
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  Speaker 3: We got this annual, my annual moonlight that's right.
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  Speaker 2: So we've got we got this great bracket contest, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, it gives it gives more points for
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  Speaker 2: picking lower seeds in this tournament. You're gonna see uh
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  Speaker 2: coming up on Thursday out of ball RENI. You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see four double digit seeds in Montana, champions of the
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  Speaker 2: Big Sky uh Vcus coming to town. They're always fun
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  Speaker 2: my safety school Yale. And then you see San Diego,
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  Speaker 2: the champions of the Big West. Of the double digit
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  Speaker 2: seeds that you will see coming up here on Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Is there one that you like to pull the upset
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  Speaker 2: because somebody is going to.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean San Diego is uh, They're they're like
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  Speaker 4: awesome on defense. Yeah, I mean they got like one
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  Speaker 4: of the best defenders in the country. As I study
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  Speaker 4: all this, so I always give that a shot in
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  Speaker 4: the tournament, you know, because if a team like that
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  Speaker 4: hits any shots at all, they may they make it
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  Speaker 4: hard on you.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you know how these things work.
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  Speaker 4: If you get you get that into the second half
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  Speaker 4: and really tightens the squeeze on the higher seeds. So
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  Speaker 4: I always look for the best defensive teams uh in
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  Speaker 4: the upset specials, and I think they're probably the best
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  Speaker 4: defensive team of the double digit seeds coming.
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  Speaker 1: Here, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The Tritons of UC San Diego thirty six by Ken Palm,
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth in defensive rating by Ken Pom, which is really
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  Speaker 2: good for a program out of the Big West.
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  Speaker 1: Leggie says, if you're looking.
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  Speaker 2: For it for a high seed in Denver, maybe look
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  Speaker 2: for them to knock off Michigan.
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  Speaker 4: Their guy led then the nation had steals.
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  Speaker 3: But great, yeah, Hayden great, he led the nation and steals.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and obviously pick Illinois to win the national championship.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Legwold, everybody of ESPN, Leggy, good work as always, man.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks both. Let's see it all right.
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  Speaker 2: There he goes Jeff Legwold battling his way through today,
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  Speaker 2: plain hurt, which is what you need at this time
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  Speaker 2: of year.