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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 4/29/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff Lewald is our Broncos insider Altitude Sports Radio ninety five Pro football, the
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  insider I've covered while Jeff his appearances are always must listen radio. You learn
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  a lot. He's Leggy. Altitude Sports Radio ninety five. Yeah, Jeff
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  Legwall time here on Monday afternoon. We welcome him into the program. Right
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  now, Jeff Legwald. We we choose to start today's interview in unique fashion.
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  We've never opened with this question, but why the hell not? Jeff?
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  What's in your backpack? Oh? My backpack all work stuff? Oh,
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  nothing but sportswriter stuff. We just do it on air sports. Yeah,
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  never mind, nothing extremeious said, no, there's no it's the no
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  fun league in the backpack. I'll tell you that right now. All right,
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  Jeff, Apparently bo Nick's the contents of his backpack. Impressive enough?
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  Uh for Sean Payton, You've seen the rest of the draft, plus the
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  Broncos, I I thought made a pretty savvy move to upgrade their defensive line.
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  I was happy to see that big picture how they do this weekend?
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  You know, when you factor in the trade, you know, and and
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  I thought, honestly, you know, I know we're all going to talk
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  about the Knicks pick for you know ever, you know, or just endlessly
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  until camp starts. When's he gonna play and all that. But I thought
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  in the middle of the draft they got amazing value. I mean, they
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  got to top one hundred players on a lot of team spoards, not just
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  my list, uh, you know, in the in the third and fourth
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  round, and you know that that was it was tremendous, tremendous value there.
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  So I thought they did well in the middle, and it seemed to
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  me, you know, depending on what you think that you know, I
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  honestly don't believe that bo Nicks was the twelfth player on their board or better,
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  but I thought they liked him enough to take them there. But I
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  do think otherwise they stuck to their board, or I think that really felt
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  like they stuck to their board. And when you put that much planning and
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  preparation into it, that's that's really how to smartly handle the draft. You
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  know. What I also like, Jeff, is that there wasn't a whole
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  lot of you know, picking from future trees, you know, picking apple
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  off the future trees, if you will, giving up draft picks from the
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  next future classes to move around this one too much, so you kept things
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  intact. And now you go ahead, who is your favorite player out of
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  the draft class? Who is the most maybe your gym or whatever that you
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  like. As far as the best player now worried about next year, who
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  do you think the best player they may have got is? Well, you
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  know, the best is hard for me. I think in terms of just
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  value, what you might get from the player from where you picked him.
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  I think Estimate has a really chance to be, you know, one of
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  those guys where we're talking about, oh man, you know they picked him,
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  you know, at the one hundred and forty seventh pick of the draft
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  and he's doing this. I think he has a chance to be an immediate
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  contributor if if they'll just play rookies moving forward. But I thought another very
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  high value pick and what is suddenly a crowded battle to start at corner opposite
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  U sir Can and I thought Abram Strain was a very very high value pick,
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  you know, really a competitive, feisty. I mean, this guy
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  credited with forty passes defense in the SEC. That's getting it done. So
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  I thought that was a real high Larus Peck right, and those two fifth
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  rounders. I thought we were well done. Well. Speaking of value,
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  LEGGI, you had Troy Franklin out of Oregon rated at number forty four in
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  your top one hundred. Broncos take him at number one two in the draft.
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  Obviously, the familiarity with bo Nicks is a bonus when it comes to
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  Troy Franklin. What else do you like there? Well, that's you know,
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  they don't have that element in their offense. I'm in favor of anything
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  that adds that kind of speed to you know, they are not considered a
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  fast team. So anything like any any player like him added to the equation
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  is a good thing, I think. And again, you know, are
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  you gonna play him more than you played Marvin? You know, Marvin Mems
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  played what three hundred and sixty eight snaps last year that you know, are
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  we going to see these guys? I mean, they loved them this weekend
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  when we heard them talking about it. But you know, well they love
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  them on the field, and he could add an element the Broncos don't have
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  if they play him, especially if Mims is in the formation too. Uh.
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  You know, look, it's interesting. I like the class you grabbed
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  a lot of the positions that we talked about. What are they going to
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  do with tight end though, Leggy, they still have a lot of tight
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  end choices. Are they gonna go ahead and hope that Dulcage stays healthy?
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  Do they like who was a Lucas Kroll they had last year? I mean,
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  they're just going to stick status quo at tight end? Well right now,
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  I think all of the above. I mean, I'm not sure.
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  I don't think I saw a tight end in the undrafteds even so u uh,
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  yeah, you know they what you said is true. They're hoping Dulphin
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  has passed his troubles and they do like Lucas Krawl in the next stare,
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  So I think yes and yes. And the board didn't fall their way and
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  it was not a particularly deep class, so you know, you know,
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  they had a shot at fours and chose to go the other way with the
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  quarterback. Obviously, I would have been intrigued, I guess a little bit
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  to see what might have happened had they had a second round pick. In
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  the upper third of the second round, I would have been intrigued to see
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  how they handled everything if that, But that's you know, are you suggesting
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  maybe grab Nicks then and not at twelve or later. I mean, I
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  you know again, it was an unprecedented quarterback draft. We've never seen anything
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  like it. There's never been anything like it. I just simply will tell
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  you, in all of the drafts I've ever covered, in all of the
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  personnel people in the league I've ever talked to, no team has ever had
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  six quarterbacks in the top twelve grades on their board. No team, not
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  one time, not ever. And that's how it was drafted. And if
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  you talk to people in the league, an awful lot of people are surprised
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  and yet not surprised it happened that way. But it was unprecedented its history,
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  and the Broncos were part of it. Yep. Jeff Legwald ad bo
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  Nicks at number thirty nine on his big board, his top one hundred,
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  which is available to you at ESPN dot com. You can see how the
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  Broncos stacked up. They took Jonah Ellis out of Utah, who Legwald had
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  at ninety five, Troy Franklin at forty four, they drafted him one oh
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  two, and then Chris Abrams Drain out of Missouri. Legwald sixty fourth rated
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  prospect in this class. The Broncos drafted him at number one, forty five,
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  So on the Jeff Legwalald board, some pretty damn good value that the
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  Broncos got. Jeff Legwall joining us on the Ramos Law hotline car accident You
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  The acquisition of John Franklin Myers from the New York Jets, the Broncos
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  essentially gave up nothing to acquire a player. They restructure his contract get him
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  into a very affordable spot. This is a very savvy acquisition where the Broncos
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  were able to scoop something up that the Jets had to get rid of.
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  Where does he fit into this team immediately? How much better does he make
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  this defense? Well, I mean depending how bow Knicks does in his career.
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  I mean right now, that's the best move of the weekend in terms
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  of immediate, immediate help. This guy's a it's hard to believe. It's
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  hard for me to believe that the Jets would give him up. But after
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  they signed Reddick, you know they took on Reddick. They couldn't keep him
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  for the money he was set to make. So his role as immediate starter
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  and heavy contributor, you know, he's been durable, productive, and the
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  guy gets interior pressure, which is a hard fine you know, and defensive
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  line play in the league, and he can consistently one of the better guys
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  on interior pressure. The sack numbers may not reflect it, but that's not
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  that's not everything with him as a player. And he can play probably all
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  three spots in the three man front, you know, in the nickel he
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  gets pumped out all the way inside. He can play both end spots.
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  And with Zach Allen, hard for me to find two more sort of high
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  motor defensive ends in the league right now than those two guys are real great.
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  Camp on the oh, go ahead, no finish off, Nate,
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  I just I was gonna say you camp on the name DJ Jones right there.
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  Suddenly that front three kind of looks like a little bit of a strength.
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  Go ahead, Andy, just real quick, Spencer Ratler, are you
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  surprised you feel as far as he did? Well? I mean, after
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  history has made I think people took a long breath at quarterback because when when
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  six go in the top twelve picks, that sort of resets and I think
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  this is what we're going to see now if teams have obviously shown they're gonna
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  draft quarterbacks not just a little bit above where they're graded, but a lot,
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  and that means there's not going to be a middle class. Probably in
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  the draft, you're you may not see too many more second and third round
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  quarterbacks because if people want them bad enough that they've already proven, uh,
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  they're going to take them uh and take them early. And I think that's
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  what happened. There was no middle class for quarterbacks in this draft after the
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  historical you know, party time. Uh if it was a long ways until
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  Rattler got taken as the next guy, but party yah. Yeah. Now,
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  I mean the Broncos were interested in Rattler, they had done a lot
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  of work on them. And I think that if the Knixt thing didn't work
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  out, uh, I think you would have ended up here with one of
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  either the third or the fourth round pick. And yet here we are.
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  It's bo Nix's world. Jeff Legwall to ESPN, Uh read this stuff right
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  there at ESPN dot com. Leg you beautiful work is always man. Thank
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  you. Take care both