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Jeff Legwold Joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 6/6/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  It's got to Jeff Legwald on the Ramas Law hot Line, Car Accident,
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  Ramas Law, medical doctor and attorney Ramas Law dot Com. Jeff Football question
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  for you. Could Micah Parsons hit two hundred in an MLB season as he
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  claims he can. I'm gonna say no, you know, and I offer
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  Michael Jordan as proof positive. But great point. The Birmingham Baron's legend.
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  Hey, I get thinking. You also Chris Bryant, who's hitting a buck
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  eighty right now this year. Ye, speaking of baseball and Chris Bryant,
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  he comes from your part of the country. Thank you for that acquisition there,
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  Jeff Legwald, could you at least warned Rockies fans and Rockies faithful that
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  this guy couldn't play anymore? I didn't know that was on my docket,
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  But I I always wonder about guys who who've you know, won the rings,
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  and you know, you don't know where they're at physically in their career.
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  You know, honestly, I did hear before he signed here that a
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  friend of mine who covers baseball a great deal, said that the Cubs did
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  have concerns about him physically. So it's not shocking it's worked out this way,
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  jeff Is there a wide receiver in the National Football League that isn't whining
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  right now? Or is every guy whining at some Oh, well, the
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  guys they just got Jefferson's not whining. Is everybody else whining at this point?
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  I can't swing a dead or Madillo by the tail without hitting a wide
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  out now complaining about his contract, you know, most that's kind of position.
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  I want the ball more. I mean I can remember, you know,
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  Jerry Rice, you know, saying you should get the ball more at
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  times, and he's Jerry frickin' Rice getting the ball all the time. So
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  I don't I think it's just the nature of the position. And in the
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  NFL it is the greatest quirk of quirks. Your contract is obsolete almost the
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  moment you sign it. I mean, it's just like the train just keeps
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  moving, you know. So all these guys who signed deals justin Jefferson signs
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  his deal and all the rest of the deals are suddenly, you know,
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  back on the back burner again. And I just think it's the nature of
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  the beast. Yeah, but just to that point, Tyreek Hill is whining
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  and he just set the market in twenty two, less than two years ago.
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  He set the market. Now he's like, hey, I need more.
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  I'm like, dude, you you just became the highest big wide out
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  ever. You set the markets and now you're now he's screaming again. I
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  don't. I just can't. I can't believe it. Well, you know
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  again, it's it's the only way they have to to get contract adjustments.
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  And frankly, you know, I over the years, I've become far more
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  jaded the other way because when teams cut guys, they don't care how many
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  years they got left on their contracts. I mean, Russell will said,
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  do we need anymore? You know, justin Simmons, Russell Wilson. We've
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  seen it here. So you know, I think it's hilarious when teams always
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  go, well, the guy's got a contract, and nobody moves on from
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  contracts more quickly than NFL teams, and they whine the loudest when their guys
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  are are asking for more money. So I just take it as part of
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  the business again, because it's you know, the market is being reset all
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  the time, and you know, I think we have to remember sometimes agents
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  are on commission, so they like the they like the dollar figures to go
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  up and get changed. So leggy on that subject. The top thirty highest
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  paid non quarterbacks is as follows a lot of wide outs, a lot of
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  defensive linemen, and three offensive tackles. Here's my questions. Let me just
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  start this off. I want just a yes or no on these. Okay,
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  would you rather have Patrick's or Tan or dkay metcalf I'm sorry you would
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  have Cirtan over to Yeah, you understand the question, Okay, sir Tan
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  or Nico Collins cir Tan. Why aren't corners getting paid like wide receivers then
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  if they are just as valuable as some top end wide receivers. Cirtan's contracts
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  coming up, and I'm sure he's looking at thirty five million for Justin Jefferson.
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  My responsibility is to stop that one on one. Why don't I get
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  that money? I think the expectation of people I know in the league is
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  that Cirtan sets the market for corners and the Broncos can either decide to do
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  this or not. But uh, I've I've had people, I've had personnel
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  guy, and I know it's not popular here because everybody wanted them to take
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  the quarterback that year, no matter what, no matter who was on the
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  board, no matter what. I get it. But I've had people who
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  in the league who evaluate personnel every single day tell me Cirtan's the best defensive
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  player among the three best defensive players in the league. So that's where we're
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  at, and he's gonna get paid. The Broncos are gonna have to pay
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  him, and I think they're gonna have to convince him they're on the right
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  track to get it all done. They're gonna have to make him the highest
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  paid guy at the position, and I think they're gonna have to convince him
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  they're on the right track setting setting the market. What does that mean as
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  far as AAV and your guests, like, what is the average salary he'll
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  get per year? Because right now, right now, number one I think
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  is Jayia Alexander at twenty one millionaire. Yeah, he's going over that.
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  I mean, he's better than Gyroon Alenxanders. I mean, I he's one
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  of the best players I've seen in my time covering the team here. So
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  you know, he just is is the rarest of combinations, and they're gonna
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  have to pay him. To keep them. I mean, they could do
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  the dance down the road with the franchise player and all that and keep them
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  an extra year. But if they want to keep Patrick's certain long term,
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  they're gonna have to act like they mean it to do it. You know,
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  Jeffy, it's interesting you say that too, because I remember Mini camp
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  or rookie camp right first time I saw him on the field, I'm like,
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  oh my god, this guy. You couldn't you just tell from the
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  beginning that this guy is just special, He's just different. He's just that
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  guy. No Moji's is he's their best player and it ain't close. And
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  again, he's one of the best, if not the best, defensive player
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  in the league, and you know, we maybe we don't appreciate that because
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  they're not you know, he's not in a playoff matchup against you know,
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  the best receivers in the league, and and you know you can you can't
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  avoid him, you know, if you're an offense. And that's part of
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  it too, that we often don't see his best because people choose not to
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  challenge him. Jeffrey, have been to a couple of TA Days, and
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  I don't know the answer to this question. Perhaps you do. Who is
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  currently the Broncos starting tight end. I just think they it's just gonna matter
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  what what grouping they're in, honestly, I mean, if it's if it's
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  a run fit, it'll be you know, a different set of guys.
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  They that's a hole in their offense right now, and you face nickel defenses
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  sixty seventy percent of the time. That's not a good place to have a
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  hole in your offense. That that's a matchup. The best offenses in the
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  league are winning. Uh, And they don't have a lot of impact there
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  right now. I mean, they've got young guys they like, but uh,
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  you know, that is certainly a pretty glaring spot right now in the
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  passing game for them. You know. On top of that leag so they're
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  not gonna have a tight end. They'll be the first NFL team generation.
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  He keeps you know, Sean Payton loves krawl. He thinks he's got potential
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  in the passing game. And you know, Troutman's kind of a high brid
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  can play the rundown and the pass downs. And you know, Dulcitch we
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  don't know yet. You know, they keep Champayton keeps saying he'll be on
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  the field sooner rather than later. But we you know, they need that
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  to work out or they're going to have a big hole in their offense.
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  But again, the best offense is in the league right now. Have that
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  player, and it's almost universal because that's that's where you can win in the
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  nickel. You know, when teams started playing this much nickel defense, the
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  tight end became a huge weapon, even bigger than normal. And you know
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  they haven't had that for quite some time. Finished this question, leg As
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  we sit right now, the Broncos season will be a success if blank,
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  they don't have many injuries. That's not a This is not a deep team.
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  This is not a deep team. That's that's what I keep coming away
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  with as I as I watched practice. And then if they if they're fortunate
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  like last year, you know, maybe they can slug it out and see
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  what happens. But if they have injuries, I think it's gonna be a
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  slog Is it unfair for me to say the Bronco season will be a success
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  if bow Knicks looks like he's a franchise quarterback regardless of record, like if
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  they have five wins, but you're like, you know, what this guy
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  can play? Is that all that matters? That might be for them.
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  I think it's gonna be a you know, we don't know how Sean Payton's
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  gonna do with a season like that at a rookie quarterback. We've we've never
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  seen it. Nobody's ever seen it, you know. I know guys he's
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  coached with, who wonder what that would look like, you know, if
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  it's that kind of struggle with a rookie quarterback. But I will say,
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  and I've said this, uh, you know before, I think at some
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  point he's just gonna have to decide bow Knicks is going to start or the
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  developmental clock stops in September, because you don't get any rep yes, if
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  you're not the starter, and I mean you don't get any reps. It's
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  you're basically a classroom quarterback if you're not playing. So the decision is just
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  throw him in the pool, or make the commitment that he's sitting for the
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  year and just say it. Because I don't think the bo Nicks goes in
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  the lineup halfway through the season that that doesn't help his developmental clock at all.
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  It may make everybody feel better. But I think at some point in
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  training camp they're just gonna have to make the decision. Is either starter or
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  are we going to commit to sitting them a year and do the Mahomes thing
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  and bring him in for the for the finale and get it going for twenty
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  twenty five. Please don't do that, Denver, Please? Well, I
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  mean, you gotta you gotta get I mean, is it really good for
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  a guy to get? Uh? I mean, my my issue with this
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  for playing him right away was they finished eight to nine last year and I
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  still believe they've had more talent leaves than come in. So you're taking a
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  team that didn't make the playoffs that may or may not be even as good
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  as it was last year, and you want to just throw the rookie in
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  there no matter what. You got to decide if that hurts him more than
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  helps them, and that will be the decision. Frankly, can they protect
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  him well enough and run the ball well enough to make his rookie year productive?
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  I mean, they didn't get Zach Wilson for almost nothing, because throwing
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  a rookie quarterback in is an easy thing to do. Leggy, as we
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  celebrate D Day, the eightieth anniversary, wasn't your father? He was in
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  D Day as actually, so my dad was in D Day. What was
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  his role? He was in an infantry artillery unit, so he uh,
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  he was. He was on the beach pretty early in the process. So
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  he didn't talk about by chance he did not you know, I didn't ask
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  him that specifically, but I gotta believe he would have mentioned that if that
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  happened. But could you imagine storming the beach? Oh wait, there's Yogi
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  autographed, Give me a little cover. It's hysterical. He was in a
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  lot of the hotspots, battle the bulls and all. I mean, it's
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  amazing, are Gone forest and all that. I mean. He was in
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  some of the brutal things. And the closest he came to to ending it
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  all was the day before they're set to come back to America. He and
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  his buddy were jacking around and they flipped the jeep over. God. So
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  he he lived through all of the crap in World War Two, and he
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  almost off himself jacking around with a je The closest he came to ending it
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  all the day leg Walled j was born. Geezh Leggy God bless your dad.
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  I mean, that's an amazing story, and God bless everybody. You
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  and I will talk about this sometime. I know you're always working, you're
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  always busy, but there's an open invitation to come with me, or to
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  go to the house there and say, mayor or whatever whatever it is you
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  want to do sometime. I'd love to some time. No, I know
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  you've said, you've mentioned that to me. It is on my bucket,
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  my bucket list of thanks to do. You're gonna stop working, man,
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  you're working all the time. I will say, he went to he went
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  into the army with jet black hair, and he came home with white hair.
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  So I'm not sure it was. It was all fun and adventure.
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  It was leggy. God bless your dad, and thanks always for for joining
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  us. Man. Always appreciate it. If out