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Jeff Legwold Joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 5/2/24 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Jeff LEGWALLDESPN dot com is joining us. Hello, Leggy, So we
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  got a chance now to uh go through the draft and if there's any good
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  news, and I use your Top one hundred as my bible. On draft
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  day, Jeff, uh, the Broncos came away with four top one hundred
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  picks. Yeah. No, I thought the strength of their draft is right
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  in the middle when they uh, you know, Abrams dream a really good,
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  tremendous value pick, probably one of the best value picks of the whole
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  draft for any team. And then you know the I thought the receiver was
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  a high value pick, and then I think, ultimately you know it,
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  maybe you know estimate who sees the playing field first among all of the rookies
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  with any substantial playing time. Yeah. You know, it's interesting because drafts
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  are evaluated obviously a couple of years later, and we always try to reach
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  conclusions days later. Is bo Nicks the number twelve overall pick if Sean Payton
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  isn't making that pick, or do you think he lingers into the second round
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  like Sean Payton is convinced he can turn him into a competent starter in this
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  league, he's not involved. Is he still waiting to get picked in the
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  second round? Probably not, Vick. I donould even go as far as
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  to say, and will never knew this, they will never admit it.
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  But I think there's very little chance bo Nicks was among the top twelve players
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  on their board. I mean, in all the years I've done this,
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  thirty seven now, I've never had one team in one year ever tell me
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  they had six quarterbacks graded in the first round. Not one time has that
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  ever occurred, or has anyone ever told me that that a draft had six
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  quarterbacks rated as first round picks. And we saw six quarterbacks be half the
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  first twelve picks of the draft. So I don't think that pick happens if
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  Sean Payton's not the coach and the draft doesn't all the way it did.
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  And this was a historical draft. This quarterback class, you know, probably
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  better than some and wors than some over the last twenty years. It was
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  drafted like the greatest quarterback class of all time. Yeah, it's so interesting
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  to think about Jeff in that regard when you lay it out like that.
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  And we knew that they were not going to pick up the fifth year option
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  on Zach Wilson. I didn't expect them to. But you know you've got
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  Sean Payton saying, well, no, they're all going to compete. Is
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  there any way anyway, any scenario that you can envision that Bonitz will not
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  be the starter come week one? Yeah? I mean I never think.
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  I never assume a rookie is is going to get it all. You know,
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  all the ducks in a row as that were to be ready week one.
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  Do I think you will play next year? Yes? And you know
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  my only question now is we're told it's a competition, and now I want
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  to see it with my own eyes if it's a fair fight, and you
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  know, you can tell by who gets the reps and when they get the
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  reps and all of those things. Like in twenty sixteen, Uh, Trevor
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  Simmeyon won a quarterback competition that was not a fair fight for him, but
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  he wanted anyway. Uh. But that's what I want to see. I
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  mean, if if they're gonna call a competition, I want to see if
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  it really is or if it's just you know, if it's gonna be greater
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  on a curve and their intention is to start Nick as soon as possible.
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  Do they possibly keep all three of these guys Zach, Nick, Nixon,
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  h and Sid them. Do they keep all three or who goes here?
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  Thick? I would keep all three in this in today's world, quarterback world,
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  that there's a high value chips. Uh, you know, you can
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  move them along later for something to draft it maybe whatever. And just at
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  the injury rate in the current NFL, I believe a depth chart should be
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  as strong as possible no matter what. And financially there's no impact in keeping
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  them all. I mean, tell the Jets are paying uh, I think
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  at least half Zach Wilson's salary. So if bow Knicks is on a rookie
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  deal and Jared Stidham's on a on a fairly reasonable two year free agency deal,
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  so financially, there's no reason not to. And you know, if
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  if you're a strong willed head coach and you let everybody know this is the
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  order of the depth chart and deal with it. And I don't think you
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  have any locker room issues either. So uh, you know, I I
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  believe they're still thin overall and they might as well be as strong as they
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  can be at the most important position. Why was Troy Franklin still available in
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  the fourth round. He's a smaller receiver. You know that the NFL is
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  is about that five yard you know, can you handle the physicality? I
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  mean, let's face it, in that conference, I mean I would look
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  at game after game and and not see a cornerback put his hands on a
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  receiver. Ever, that's why SEC players are much safer bets in the eyes
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  of NFL scouts because they play more of the NFL way in that conference.
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  And defensively, that was not a great league. There's a lot of catch
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  and run like seven on seven, so you're not getting the full data point.
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  And he checked in at the combine under one hundred and eighty pounds.
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  So you know that's a little guy. Yeah, a little guy, just
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  a physicality issue. But he's tremendous. I I thought, I obviously thought
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  he was a very good player. I had him well into the second round
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  in my top one hundred. I think he was a great value pick because
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  he's an element they don't have in the offense. And now you're you know,
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  we just watched Marvin Mims play all of three hundred some snaps his rookie
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  year. He would bring something to the offense if they will actually put them
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  on the field. Hey, Jeff, I'm going to make a proclamation right
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  now in a commitment to you. I'm gonna make a commitment to my my
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  mates here on the show. By June fifteen, I'm gonna check in it
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  under one hundred and eighty pounds. You said this, what more? No,
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  But I'm going full on, full on Franklin here right. I'm gonna
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  check in at under one hundred and eighty. I'll make you deal because I
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  need to put it on way. I'd like to check in around there too,
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  Jeff, what do you need? What do you need to check in
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  at? I like to stay where I am I'm status quo guy. That's
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  that's why I handle You're honestly you. When I look at you and take
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  this as a compliment, you have not changed in twenty years. Swear to
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  God, you look the same as you did twenty years ago. Some much
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  say I'm wearing the same crap. Oh Jeff, we only got a limited
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  time here before I let you go. Guy, I want to get your
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  thoughts on this, the stuff that's happening in Boulder right now where Dion and
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  and Shador taking I mean they're clapping back at people on Twitter. I was
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  just wondering when you see Shoudor say something about a player is no longer with
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  the program. I don't even remember him. He must have been very mid
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  What are scouts like, Am I making too big a deal of that?
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  Or do scouts look at that and be like, Hm, I don't like
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  a quarterback saying that stuff about former teammates. Well, I mean they don't
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  like it. The quarterbacks supposed to be the sort of the CEO and you
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  know, and get people fired up, and they need fired up challenging when
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  they need to be challenged. I think NFL people would rather see shud Or
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  challenge that player when he's on his team, you know, to raise his
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  level and not dismiss anybody in the locker room. It all counts if you
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  play well. You know, it counts less. You know, talent and
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  performance are the great equalizers in anything, and you know, a lot more
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  leeway is given the talented people. We see that an offense of life,
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  but it does count and they aren't keeping score, so uh, you know,
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  that is always something the NFL is going to put into equation, especially
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  at quarterback, where the penalty for mistakes is so high. I mean,
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  you you miss on a quarterback in the first round, you're probably getting fired
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  at some point if you're the GM or the or the head coach, unless
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  you're the Niners, then you're fine. Unless well, I mean they they
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  they rallied, they found another quarterback. That's that's how you know. Again,
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  if they don't find party and aren't in the super Bowl conversation after that
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  move, yeah, people probably get fired. But you know that's why the
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  draft is important. You know, find solutions to your problems. Jeff Lewell
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  ESPN dot com. He joins us every single Thursday. Always appreciate the time,
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  Ley, Thank you buddy. Thanks allos. We'll see it, but
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  that is Jeff lakewell ESPN dot com,