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Jeff Legwold joins Moser, Lombardi and Kane 3-5-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: We joined as we are every Thursday from the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: of one Jeff Lagwall at ESPN dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Legy, good morning before I cook Yeah, oh, are
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  Speaker 2: you going to cook up some takes for us?
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  Speaker 3: I just cook up the info right now?
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  Speaker 2: What's the info exiting Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of fast guys in the draft. I'll
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  Speaker 3: just leave it at that. They like set records everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Is that? What do you think this is? Is this
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  Speaker 2: just the evolution genetics thing? Like you go?
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's it's my thirty ninth combine. So I've
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  Speaker 3: seen the players thirty nine years ago, and I've seen
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  Speaker 3: the players now. They certainly, you know, in the early days,
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  Speaker 3: nobody trained for the combine. Mike Mamula is really the
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  Speaker 3: first guy to show up after having trained running the
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  Speaker 3: forty doing the cone drills. He was the first guy
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  Speaker 3: to sort of crack the combine code. And since then
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  Speaker 3: guys come more ready. But this was a fast group,
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  Speaker 3: and the average and the averages were the fastest because inexplicably,
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  Speaker 3: the slower guys the guys who really should have elected
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  Speaker 3: not to run, and the faster guys were like, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: we'll just run anywhere, and they did that.
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  Speaker 1: Just a quick follow up because I there's one guy
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  Speaker 1: that I was really interested to see if the Broncos
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  Speaker 1: would make make a run at and that's Kenyan Sadik
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  Speaker 1: out of Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: He runs four. That's done now, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Good? You know, actually I would say, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and I know he's he probably wakes up four out
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  Speaker 3: of ten days wishing he had never said the word
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  Speaker 3: joker here, but because we constantly asked him about it. Now,
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  Speaker 3: But the Vanderbilt tight end has the look of that player.
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  Speaker 3: He's a former quarterback Eli Stowers, former quarterback, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and athletically almost every bit athletics as Sadiq. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: another guy proven in a big conference SEC conference. He
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  Speaker 3: went against the best linebackers and safeties in the drafts.
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  Speaker 3: So there is that athletic tight end and probably in
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  Speaker 3: the range they could get him if if that interests them.
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  Speaker 4: I'm curious, Jeffery, you come up with your top hundred
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  Speaker 4: every year. Does the results of the combine affect your
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  Speaker 4: order of business there? Do you make changes after you
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  Speaker 4: watch a guy shine or perhaps fall flat on his face.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, Vic, it's more than medical information I hear about
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  Speaker 3: at the comp that moves people. The workout. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's great on TV and it's a lot of interests.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there are tons of people in the stadium
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  Speaker 3: now coming with you know, get the tickets and watch
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  Speaker 3: the workouts. But the teams don't move the guys that
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  Speaker 3: much after the workouts. It's more of a confirmation, you know.
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  Speaker 3: And with with all the electronic tracking now, they have
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  Speaker 3: a better idea of how fast guys are before the combine.
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  Speaker 3: But when you see, you know, how a guy runs.
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  Speaker 3: You know, some guys look labored when they run. Some
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  Speaker 3: guys are smooth, and you know. That kind of stuff
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  Speaker 3: they take note of. But as far as moving guys
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  Speaker 3: whole rounds or something after a combine workout, that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: happen very often, unless it's more of a football character.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't do the work before the combine, they may
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  Speaker 3: punish you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Lagland with this ESPN dot Com All conversations with
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  Speaker 1: leg Year brought to you by the International Brotherhood of
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  Speaker 1: and with a career. All I've heard, not just now,
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  Speaker 1: but really all college football season is there's Nanda Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: and then a giant gap and then everybody else. If
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  Speaker 1: you had to guess right now, because people always overvalue quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: how many get drafted the first round?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe two? You know, I think even this for me,
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  Speaker 3: the second one won't be a first rounder. But Simpson, well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's I don't know yet where I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: put my second quarterback. Simpson is the guys whose name
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  Speaker 3: you hear the most. And he did throw at the Combine,
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  Speaker 3: so he you know, that was good on his part.
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  Speaker 3: I think for some quarterback coaches, a healthy nuss Meyer
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  Speaker 3: is intriguing. You know, everybody knew he was hurt this
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  Speaker 3: past season, but he revealed that the Combine he did
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  Speaker 3: it the second day of fall practice, and it hurt
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  Speaker 3: to throw the entire season, and that he just had
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  Speaker 3: it taken care of an abdominal injury, taking care of
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  Speaker 3: just before the Senior Balls. So I think nuss Meyer
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  Speaker 3: at the Senior Bowl and the Combine has people sort
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  Speaker 3: of going back and doing the work on them and
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  Speaker 3: watching the healthy games as it were, because you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to learn much watching an injured guy try to throw.
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  Speaker 3: So I think that's the guy. People left the combine
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  Speaker 3: at quarterback trying to Okay, we gotta we got to
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  Speaker 3: get the information straight. We gotta get we got to
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  Speaker 3: get the grade right.
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  Speaker 4: Have you heard these talks, these whispers that the Jets
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  Speaker 4: through that tag on Breese Hall because the Broncos were
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  Speaker 4: knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 3: I think they think people were knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. You know, I still have a hard
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  Speaker 3: time and even you know, I talked to a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people with the Broncos at Indy. I have a
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  Speaker 3: hard time believing you're gonna pay top dollar at running
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  Speaker 3: back and then split the carries, and you know, until
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  Speaker 3: they convinced me they're going, you know, running back A
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  Speaker 3: and running back B, then okay, you know, I'll bite
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  Speaker 3: for the big money contract at running back, but to
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  Speaker 3: go big for Breese Hall or Kenneth Walker or anybody
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  Speaker 3: else and then say RJ. Harvey is a big part
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  Speaker 3: of the offense. You know, I think that's a tough
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  Speaker 3: one financially because you can spend that money on people
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  Speaker 3: who might touch the ball more receiver, tight end or
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  Speaker 3: you know, even you need starters at inside linebacker right now,
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  Speaker 3: or you have a big donut and your defense.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So back back to the running back, would it
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  Speaker 4: makes sense? Could they actually get somebody in the first
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  Speaker 4: or second round to fill that position? And who are
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  Speaker 4: the targets you might have in mind for the Broncos
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  Speaker 4: at running back?
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  Speaker 3: You know that a thirty the thirtieth pick is basically
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  Speaker 3: a second rounder. So when I look at like, okay,
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  Speaker 3: who would they put there? You know, I think beyond
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  Speaker 3: the first round, I think I think the Arkansas guy
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  Speaker 3: gets a long look. Mike Washington a bigger back. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he's one of the fastest guys that heavy to run
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  Speaker 3: at the combine.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't he like six to two or six three.
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  Speaker 3: Six two? He's a big back and he would be
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  Speaker 3: a nice compliment. The thing I like about him is
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  Speaker 3: his game video said a lot about him before he
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  Speaker 3: even got to the combine. This isn't hey, that guy
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  Speaker 3: really worked out awesome at the combine. Let's hand him
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  Speaker 3: the ball. This guy was a good player in the SEC,
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  Speaker 3: and you know he has the game tape that backed
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  Speaker 3: up the workout. That's the thing I look for at
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  Speaker 3: the combine but to me, he was the most athletic
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  Speaker 3: beyond Jeremiah Love, who the Broncos would love to have,
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  Speaker 3: because thirty two teams would love to have that guy,
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  Speaker 3: but unless they trade twenty nine picks up, they're not
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  Speaker 3: getting him. So I'd be looking at the bigger backs
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  Speaker 3: beyond that, because you know, again you want you want
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  Speaker 3: to compliment. You don't want r. J. Harvey and then
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  Speaker 3: another guy like r J. Harvey?
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  Speaker 1: Can I throw out a name and this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be super nerdy and specific, but trying to be a
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  Speaker 1: good moral support for my wife who watches the Huscars
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  Speaker 1: every weekend.
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  Speaker 2: EMITTT.
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  Speaker 1: Johnson looked like an impressive back who could run between
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  Speaker 1: the tackles for a later round pick.
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  Speaker 2: Is he somebody that you think is all right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? You know, and I just finished watching him yesterday
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  Speaker 3: a bunch, so again fits that mold. I think there
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  Speaker 3: are better athletes, yeah the position and who are more
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  Speaker 3: comfortable with sort of the Broncos way of doing the
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  Speaker 3: run game. Now we don't know what that scheme's gonna
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  Speaker 3: look like, because that was the big thing. Sean Payton
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  Speaker 3: was wandering down the hall, you know, day one of
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  Speaker 3: the offseason. You know, the day after they lose, talking
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  Speaker 3: to coaches about was how they're going to fix the
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  Speaker 3: run games. So but he actually had one of the
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  Speaker 3: best moments of the combine. And he walked in the
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  Speaker 3: media area and got up on mistakenly got on Jeremiah
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  Speaker 3: loves podium. They got podiums with the signs on the front,
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  Speaker 3: and he mistakenly miscounted and he walked up and he
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  Speaker 3: started talking and people started asking him questions. Who didn't
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  Speaker 3: know that was Emma Johnson and somebody from the league said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: that's podium four. You're on podium three. And then he
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  Speaker 3: looked out and said, y'all thought I was Jeremiah and
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  Speaker 3: then he walked off. It was hilarious. I thought it
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  Speaker 3: was really funny.
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  Speaker 4: That's great, all right, So running back, I agree with you.
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  Speaker 4: You got to get a different type of back. Then
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  Speaker 4: there's this tight end situation. Evan Ingram is considered a
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  Speaker 4: tight end, but he looks like a receiver. Is it
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  Speaker 4: the position player or is it the way they use
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  Speaker 4: the position? What's the problem in Denver? And could Davis
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  Speaker 4: Web utilize Evan Ingram differently?
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  Speaker 3: Year? Yeah, you know that's the issue is you got
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  Speaker 3: Ingram obviously can get open and get the ball. I
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  Speaker 3: mean a guy had fifty catches or whatever, so he
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  Speaker 3: can get the ball. Their issue is they had three
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  Speaker 3: touchdowns from the entire position group, and not one of them,
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  Speaker 3: not one averaged more than nine point two yards a catch.
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  Speaker 3: That's the issue. You know, it's not getting them the ball,
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  Speaker 3: it's what happens after. So you know, the two way
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  Speaker 3: tight ends, the bigger guys, they're harder to find in
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  Speaker 3: the draft, Like Kate Otton would be a guy in
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  Speaker 3: free agency I think fits that more two way. A
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  Speaker 3: little bigger can play in line if they want him to,
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  Speaker 3: and he's the Tampa guy and he catches the ball,
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  Speaker 3: it gets open on crossers, shallow crossers, you know, seam routes,
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  Speaker 3: all of the things that are in show on Peyton's
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  Speaker 3: offense for the tight end. So I would look for
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  Speaker 3: a bigger guy in free agency, and then maybe in
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  Speaker 3: the draft one of the athletic movers, and that's that's
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  Speaker 3: sort of the combo you want. And then if you
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  Speaker 3: have those two players and Ingram, I think you're suddenly
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  Speaker 3: very sturdy at tight end.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is a possibility legging because I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's one rule in the Sean Payton offense.
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  Speaker 1: And I know Davis Webb's taking over, but he's still
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  Speaker 1: gonna have an influence. You have to be six foot
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  Speaker 1: three to be a wide receiver in this offense, because
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  Speaker 1: Marvin Mims can't get on the field despite production. So
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  Speaker 1: I know somebody who's available who's six foot three and
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  Speaker 1: averages twenty two yards per catch, and that's Alec Pierce.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that that's a possibility they'd be sniffing
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  Speaker 1: around him this free agency?
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  Speaker 3: Certainly should, but you know that's that's the big money.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's gonna get big money, and the Broncos
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  Speaker 3: obviously have big money. But what is it? What's the
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  Speaker 3: kind of receiver they need?
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  Speaker 1: Just sorry to jump in, what is it with him?
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  Speaker 1: And look, he has a thousand yard season last year,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not in eighty catch eleven yard guy. He's
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  Speaker 1: a forty five catch, thousand yard guy. Why doesn't he
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  Speaker 1: get the ball more often? If he's so effective when
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  Speaker 1: he gets it?
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  Speaker 3: You know, probably just the guys who run the extended routes.
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  Speaker 3: Takes longer for them to free So depends on how
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  Speaker 3: long the quarterback's got to to find it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: or before he hits the top of the rout his
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  Speaker 3: top of the route, the other three guys hit their
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  Speaker 3: top of the route five steps ago. So that's that's
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  Speaker 3: some of it too. And you know, before he got hurt,
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  Speaker 3: Daniel Jones was getting hammered, you know, by password. So
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  Speaker 3: some of it is just a factor of that, and
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  Speaker 3: some of it is you know, when guys run intermediate
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  Speaker 3: deep a lot, you're not gonna have the volume, but
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  Speaker 3: that the other guys are.
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  Speaker 4: How much of a player will the Broncos be on
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  Speaker 4: the first cup days of free agency.
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  Speaker 3: I think they have very specific guys they've targeted vic
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  Speaker 3: so like I think they're very active. This regime is
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  Speaker 3: very active about getting those players as quickly as I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they signed Ben Powers and McGlinchey like two seconds after
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  Speaker 3: the green light went on, you know, so that they'll
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  Speaker 3: be active in that three day wind up, the so
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  Speaker 3: called tampering period where you can where you can start
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  Speaker 3: framing out deals. Yeah, well you can just frame deals out,
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  Speaker 3: nobody can sign them and you can't give guys a
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  Speaker 3: physical to make sure you're right before free agency opens.
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  Speaker 3: So but they'll be framing yeah, and you can even
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  Speaker 3: say i'll see you tomorrow, you know type of thing,
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  Speaker 3: but you just can't sign any paperwork.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Agwal at ESPN dot com joins us every single Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Just last couple of things here. When it comes to
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  Speaker 1: what they're looking for in the offseason, we know it's
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  Speaker 1: the the skill position talent.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody wants top grade.
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  Speaker 1: But if they keep their pick at number thirty overall,
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  Speaker 1: what odds do you give that that's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a defensive player? Because Sean Payton, I think has only
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  Speaker 1: taken a couple skill position guys in his career in
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  Speaker 1: the first round.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a strength of the board. You know. I
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  Speaker 3: try to warn people just because you want a receiver
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  Speaker 3: doesn't mean you should take one and leave twenty eight
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  Speaker 3: better graded players on the board. I just don't think
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  Speaker 3: that's how teams operate or should operate. So the strength
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  Speaker 3: of the board is going to be a defensive player,
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  Speaker 3: because that's the first three rounds of the draft are
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  Speaker 3: pretty heavy defense in my mind. I mean, there could
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  Speaker 3: be more safeties going on the first round than running backs.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean that just tells you what it looks like.
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  Speaker 3: I think inside linebacker. Given the number of people they
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  Speaker 3: talked to at the combine formally, I mean every again,
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  Speaker 3: every team talks to every player at the combine. So
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  Speaker 3: all the nine and sixty three reporters who keep asking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, every player, did you talk to the Bengals
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  Speaker 3: did you talk to Yeah, they talk to everybody. That's
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  Speaker 3: why it's the combine. But I think inside lineback, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a grade that fits that spot. If
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  Speaker 3: the Vander, you know, the Vandy tight ends there, I'd
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  Speaker 3: sure take a long look at that. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that he will be, but if he was, I think
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  Speaker 3: that would be a quality pick too. And you know
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people are mocking him for a safety,
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  Speaker 3: and there's a ton of talent there, and that's you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's a special teams player, and you know, it's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of things you can do with with a big
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  Speaker 3: time safety.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty seconds here. I know that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, for quarterbacks, appearance, how you carry yourself was
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  Speaker 1: all something that factors in and matters. If you're an
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  Speaker 1: offensive lineman and you have a mullet with bright red
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  Speaker 1: hair in a mustache like Jennings Dunker has, do you
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  Speaker 1: think looking like this as an offensive lineman doesn't improve
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  Speaker 1: your draft stock because it feels like Quinn minors, it
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  Speaker 1: really helped them.
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  Speaker 3: I think you move about ten slots and you have
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  Speaker 3: the lush the lush main like that. I mean, come on, Plus,
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  Speaker 3: he's a big ten lineman. There's nothing better. Yeah, a mullet.
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  Speaker 3: You got a mullet guy from the big ten, working dude.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's all you need.
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  Speaker 1: You If you tell me this guy played on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive line for the Iowa guys I'm in.
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  Speaker 3: I will say that's half the guys I knew in
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  Speaker 3: high school right there. That's the.
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  Speaker 2: Leggy. You're the best.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for the info is always we'll talk next week.
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  Speaker 1: So your fellows, Jeff Lake well ESPN dot com always
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