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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 5/10/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Legwald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five Pro Football the
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  insider I've covered while Jeff leg his appearances are always must listen radio. You
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  learn a lot's leggy on Altitude Sports Radio ninety two five. Yes, it
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  is Craignan and Lindahl and we are doing football talk on a Scott Friday edition
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  Uh. Jeff Legwald ESPN, as you know, first round picks,
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  especially when they're a quarterback, eat up an awful lot of oxygen. But
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  an interesting perspective for Matt Bowen of ESPN, a colleague of yours who I
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  know you respect his work very much. Ten best fits for drafted players.
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  He includes Jonah Ellis, the edge rusher that the Broncos drafted in the third
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  round number seventy six overall out of Utah, as potentially a great fit in
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  Vance Joseph's defense. Why is that the case? Uh? Yeah, Matt,
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  Matt is one of the smartest people I know doing this. Was a
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  very smart player and now a very smart retired player doing good things in the
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  media. So when he he is I can assure people he has looked at
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  a lot of game film and really he didn't just pick out guys out of
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  nowhere, and he is a good fit. Vance has always liked players of
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  his profile, which is, you know, he'll trade a tick or two
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  on the on the stopwatch for a for a high effort UH player and in
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  the pass rush, especially with a proficient proficient work and his in his counter
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  moves and with his hands and all those things I mean Ellis. I think
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  Ellis was was a solid second round pick if there's no medical issues at all,
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  and uh I've talked to other teams who who also like the Broncos,
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  didn't have any uh any issues with his with his shoulder. So I think
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  he is a good fit and I think he is in the rotation very quickly.
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  Again. You know, I want to see him play these rookies.
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  You know, there were guys I thought were good fits last year, especially
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  you know, in the second half of the season, I thought Riley Moss
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  was worth a long look that that they never gave him. So if they
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  will put him on the field, I think he is a quick fit because,
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  as a rule, pass rushers are. It translates quickly. If you
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  get to the quarterback and pressure the quarterback in college, you will routinely,
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  routinely do it almost to your highest level as a pro if things go well,
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  and I see no reason why it won't for Alice as a player.
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  You and I have talked a bunch. I mean, again, this is
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  the rookie camp. You get the full lineup, you've seen everything kind of
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  filled out. What do you think you're gonna see this weekend? Well,
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  Jeff, I feel like I said that. I just looked at the schedule.
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  You're probably not gonna see much this weekend, right, you don't get
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  to watch the workouts. Now we get tomorrow's practice. We will see.
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  But again, Andy, there, they've taken a very different tact with this
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  in the past few years, and it hasn't mattered who the head coach was.
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  I mean, they're very conscious of transitioning from combine and draft prep to
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  football, and teams used to do it more drastically, and there was a
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  feeling injury resulted in that. So it will be a hybrid sort of conditioning
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  drills mixed type of thing. It won't be as ramped up as maybe a
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  rookie camp would have been ten years ago, but they'll get them out there,
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  and a lot of this weekend is getting them settled in for when they
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  join the the OTAs and some of the meetings when they get down the road
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  on how all this is going to look and where they should go and what
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  the hotel's like, and you know, all of those things. And it's
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  almost as much about that as this early look on the field. Now,
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  you know, for a couple of tryout guys or the undrafted guys that you
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  know, it might be a little bigger deal for them to sort of show
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  in the drills that they athletically can hang in. Hey, real quick,
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  then let's talk about these free agents that they signed that I'm curious about.
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  And I'm curious because of position. Here Dylan Leonard, the tight end out
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  of Georgia Tech, and then Thomas Yassman right from Utah. I guess he's
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  an international player designation. Tell me about the international player designation? Will that
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  help him maybe stick around into camp? What does that do for them?
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  They just don't count against the ninety andy, so it does give them an
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  opportunity to sort of take a slower ramp up if they need it, because
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  a lot of times those guys are a little behind and in just general fundamentals.
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  You know, often they're scouted on their athleticism first and then the thought
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  as we can fit them into things. I mean, they you know,
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  I think there is room this year for a couple of those undrafted. You
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  know again, I like the Wyoming tackle and the Memphis running back are probably
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  my two. Those are the two I had the highest grades on of the
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  group that they signed. Frank Crumb, Yeah, big tackle, lot of
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  Wyoming. It's six foot seven, giant. Yeah, large, large human
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  being right there? They real quick? What do you like about Blake Watson
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  five nine five? Doesn't say thumper to me? What is this a speed
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  guy? What do you think he can do? I just saw a lot
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  of vision with him, and you know it just you seemed to have a
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  really good sense of where the trouble was when he had the ball and how
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  to get away from it. And you know, he made some big plays
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  and some of the stuff I looked at, and I think there's room for
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  people who show they can, you know, put an impact play out there.
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  I mean, they've been short on impact plays, and I think that
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  gives anybody like him a chance because he you know, it's almost like the
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  same way as Julia McLoughlin made the team last year. If you show that
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  you have some of that impact potential, I think it really helps. All
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  Right, Leggy. To wrap up this conversation, our friend Jeff Legwald of
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  ESPN, I want to ask you a question in which I'm asking you to
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  do all of your favorite things, predict and speculate. However, I know
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  that you do this from a place of pure education, So I was I
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  was thinking about this as I was looking at this Broncos quarterback depth chart.
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  When they open training camp, first day, first team, the first time
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  the first team offense goes out there, who will be the quarterback? That's
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  interesting, You know, I don't I think I will assure you Sean Payton
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  will say it doesn't matter. Of course he will. He will preemptively say
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  at some point during the mandatory mini camp or OTAs or at some point he
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  will preemptively, unprompted, say it doesn't matter. Uh, And that's somebody
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  has to go out there and take the snap. But my gut says Stidham,
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  just because of a veteran NOD type of thing, and that's it.
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  I mean, I don't have intel on that or anything, but I just
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  think I just think Peyton's playbook is immense. I mean, the two I've
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  seen, we're one hundred and seventy, you know, had seven hundred plays
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  in them. Seven hundred plus plays the two playbooks I've seen from him.
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  That's a lot. And Stidham as a big head start on these other two
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  guys. And I think that's the only reason I would say that, Well,
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  Jess and I will. I don't think it'll mean much two weeks into
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  camp either, though. I believe if you give Bo Nicks those seven hundred
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  plus plays at five o'clock in the afternoon, he'll have them memorized by dawn.
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  Don't you worry about that. That's what we were told. Yeah,
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  he has that capability. But that's a large playbook. I mean, that's
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  that's and now you know, some of those are very small variations on a
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  core play, you know, so it's not like seven one hundred unique formations
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  or anything. But that is a large playbook, and when you get it
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  in training camp, you get the whole thing. You know, they'll do
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  installs in stages, but he has a head start unless these other two guys
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  are really going to grind it on their own here in the next few weeks.
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  Well, it's a large playbook of knowledge that Jeff Legwall drops on us
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  twice weekly here on The Kraikman and Lindahl Show, and we appreciate it as
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  always. Leggy, thanks for jumping on on a Friday. Have a great
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  weekend man, you two follows, I appreciate you