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Jeff Legwold joins Kreckman & Lindahl 3-7-25 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

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  Speaker 1: Oh and running. Gosh, what a day.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I can't wait to talk to Jeff Flagwald.
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  Speaker 2: And the NFL does so many things right, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: the NFL would love a trade deadline day that looks
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  Speaker 2: like this day in the NHL. Not only does I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: it's been exciting for the Avs, but the whole NHL
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  Speaker 2: is drunk.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get over it. There's been so many trades today.
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  Speaker 2: So Jeff Lagwald as we welcome you on, and we
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  Speaker 2: want to remind everybody that Jeff's appearances are always brought
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  Speaker 2: to you by.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on real quick, Jeff, I'm getting it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting it.
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  Speaker 1: Got to get it right, got to get the sponsor right.
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  Speaker 2: He's brought to you by the National There it is
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  Speaker 2: brought to you by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
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  Speaker 2: IBEW Local sixty eight. Start with a job, in with
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  Speaker 2: a career. We got to get that start, We got
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  Speaker 2: to get that right. We love our electrical workers, So
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  Speaker 2: congratulations to them. Seriously, will the will the NFL ever
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  Speaker 2: be able to get here? I know you're an old
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  Speaker 2: NHL guy. You love to talk hockey. When we can, Jeff,
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  Speaker 2: there's guys going everywhere this has just been an insane day.
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  Speaker 2: And it tells you how many teams think they've got
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  Speaker 2: a shot in the NHL.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's the biggest thing to me I took away
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  Speaker 3: from it, as all these teams think they have they
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  Speaker 3: have a chance, and the the ranting and thing. That's
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  Speaker 3: that's unbelievable to me. But anyway, did.
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  Speaker 2: Did some of that much tell you he thought that
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  Speaker 2: might happen? Now, I was worried about Vegas, but I
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  Speaker 2: believe I mentioned.
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  Speaker 3: That to you. We did. That's Uh, it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: hard to take rolling in here. That's in a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks too.
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  Speaker 1: Right, literally a week from Sunday the sixteenth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, anyway, No, it's I don't think the NFL
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  Speaker 3: could ever have it, just because of the structure of
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  Speaker 3: the cap and the way contracts work, and that you
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  Speaker 3: take the deal, uh you know, when you trade a player,
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  Speaker 3: and and it just seems like a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: deals in the NHL are shorter, you know, than than
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  Speaker 3: some of the NFL deals of the marquee guys, at
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  Speaker 3: least until they get the seven year, eight year deal
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  Speaker 3: and all of those things. But yeah, that there's been
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  Speaker 3: some crazy NFL trade deadlines. But it's been decreasing as
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  Speaker 3: the years go by, as people get better with the CAP.
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  Speaker 3: But in the early years of the CAP sometimes it
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  Speaker 3: got a little nutty.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta, I gotta put this out there.
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  Speaker 2: Because I was mentioning payphones and stuff to Mark Springer,
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  Speaker 2: who was too young to deal with those as a lad.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody kept asking, didn't we get a deal screwed up
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  Speaker 2: in the NFL because of the fax machine?
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  Speaker 1: It was Elvis Dumerville famously, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The great, the great fax machine meltdown.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Spring's got a ton of questions and we're a little
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  Speaker 2: bit uppaced, just in case Nelson calls. I want to
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  Speaker 2: get as much out of you as we can before
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  Speaker 2: we talk to you, as to have. But uh, you
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  Speaker 2: had said earlier in the week, and I think you've
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  Speaker 2: told now two shows, because I think you told the
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  Speaker 2: Morning Show and you told PhD that the Broncos will
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  Speaker 2: look to seek a second receiver. What isle are they
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  Speaker 2: shopping in your mind? Is it the DK Metcalf file,
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  Speaker 2: is it the Cooper Cup file? What are we looking at?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I don't know if we have a
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  Speaker 3: good handle on that. I just know they they waved
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  Speaker 3: off debo pretty hard, but they didn't even consider it.
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  Speaker 3: So I think they're going to be very sort of
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  Speaker 3: how he fit with the team and the offense. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody's fired up about Metcalf, but I think
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  Speaker 3: he's averaged sixty yards a game for the last three years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're not You're not getting the player at
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  Speaker 3: his best year. I think sometimes we look at that
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  Speaker 3: stuff and we we think we're getting the all Pro
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  Speaker 3: season or you know, the best season. Gotta take it
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  Speaker 3: as a whole thing. You know, would DK Metcalf succeed
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  Speaker 3: in Sean Payton's offense with all the slant routes and
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  Speaker 3: and all theough you know, all of those things over
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  Speaker 3: the middle, Yeah, of course he would. But they that
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  Speaker 3: they're a team that cannot give up draft capital. Then
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  Speaker 3: they spent three years ditch and draft picks, and they
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  Speaker 3: will never dig out of the hole completely if they
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  Speaker 3: keep ditching draft picks. That's been proven over and over
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  Speaker 3: again in the league. And I think if they had
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  Speaker 3: had all their picks the last three years, I'd say
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  Speaker 3: they'd be more of a player in the trade market.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, I think it would be a mistake
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  Speaker 3: for them to give up too much draft capital for
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  Speaker 3: any receiver, And as of a few weeks ago, I
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  Speaker 3: think that was their feeling in the building. Now if
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  Speaker 3: they changed their mind right here on the doorstep, then
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  Speaker 3: that's a whole different thing. But you can't give up
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  Speaker 3: that much draft capital over three years and then think
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  Speaker 3: you're a player in the trade market and think you're
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  Speaker 3: going to be able to compete in the AFC and
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  Speaker 3: the AFC West.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, on the trade market, you got to give I
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  Speaker 4: mean the Seahawks want, according to Diana Russini, a first
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  Speaker 4: and a third.
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  Speaker 1: What about the free agent market?
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  Speaker 4: The books don't love the sports books don't love the
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  Speaker 4: Broncos to get DK Metcalf. They don't love them to
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  Speaker 4: go sign DeVante Adams, who's probably going to be a
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  Speaker 4: little price here. But the Broncos are the fai to
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  Speaker 4: sign Cooper Cup. Is that the guy?
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  Speaker 3: Did?
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  Speaker 1: Do? You do you think that's the guy?
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  Speaker 4: Because because the the sports books are saying Cups the guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they think they have some info. I guess, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know Spring, I think he'd be the guy for
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  Speaker 3: a year. I mean, you got to look at it.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta look at the o'dominer on that one and
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing uh to me? And with Cup it's
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  Speaker 3: an age factor. You know, how much you think he's
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  Speaker 3: gonna give you two years from now? Uh? And how
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  Speaker 3: much are you willing to give up to do that? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: But certainly again he you know, a guy with that
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  Speaker 3: technical ability and route running and and you know he
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  Speaker 3: he had the Triple Crown for crying out loud, he
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  Speaker 3: won the Triple Crown. But you're not getting that player
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  Speaker 3: right now. And that's what you have to I think
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  Speaker 3: they have to consider.
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  Speaker 2: All right, what do you expect Monday? The tampering begins.
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday they start signing deals. We get to talk to
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  Speaker 2: you Monday. What will we be talking about? Do you
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  Speaker 2: think that day? What do you think might out the
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  Speaker 2: door or move out the door?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I'm gonna be intrigued. And if they're you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I think their draft strategy will be clear by
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  Speaker 3: who they talk to, you know, if the running back
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  Speaker 3: class blew them away, if you know in the pre
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  Speaker 3: draft run up here, does that mean they don't talk
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  Speaker 3: to a free agent running back? But I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 3: intrigued to see if they're in on a tight end
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  Speaker 3: like Juwan Johnson. Just to bolster things? Do they do?
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  Speaker 3: They pursue a receiver, you know, uh, but I do
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  Speaker 3: think defensive tackle will be at least a position they
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  Speaker 3: look at and try to talk to people and see
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  Speaker 3: what the numbers are, because that's that's really what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 3: That happens some at the combine a little informal of
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  Speaker 3: how much is your guy looking for type thing? But
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  Speaker 3: you know, the tampering period is really okay, what are
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  Speaker 3: the numbers really gonna be? How much is it gonna cost?
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  Speaker 3: And how many years are you looking for?
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  Speaker 4: On defensive line? Zach Allen wants a contract extension. Then
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  Speaker 4: I saw John Franklin Myers on Twitter say hey, I
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  Speaker 4: want one too, even though he's not gonna get Zach
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  Speaker 4: Allen money. Javon Hargrave, defensive tackle got released by the Niners.
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  Speaker 4: Jonathan Allen got released by the Commanders.
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  Speaker 3: Today.
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  Speaker 4: The two dudes in house, the two dudes out of house.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think they do?
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, I think the free agent receiver
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  Speaker 3: market will be impacted by the glutt you know, not
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  Speaker 3: everybody's gonna get money. And I think the defensive line
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  Speaker 3: market I think Milton Williams will get the money. The
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  Speaker 3: Eagles defensive tackle will get the contract. I think in
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  Speaker 3: free agency among the defensive tackles, Broncos have to do
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  Speaker 3: something I think with Zach Allen because he and Benito
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  Speaker 3: will be up at the same time if they don't,
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  Speaker 3: so you can either deal with one or both of
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  Speaker 3: them this year, whether that's a September thing like Certain was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, or Minors was later in the year. I
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  Speaker 3: think in November of the season. You know, whether they
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  Speaker 3: do that for Zach Allen, but Alan or Benito if
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  Speaker 3: you're going to keep both. To me, I would think
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  Speaker 3: in the house they think they have to do one
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  Speaker 3: of them, whether it's in an extended free agency period
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  Speaker 3: or right before the season or early in the season.
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  Speaker 2: Real quick, Chris Godwin, what do you think is he
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  Speaker 2: got a shot at getting talked to by the Broncos
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  Speaker 2: because you said you're not giving up draft picks for him, right.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't. Again. You know, they may change their mind,
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  Speaker 3: but I you know, as of the combine and before that,
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  Speaker 3: they were really intent on keeping as much draft capital
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  Speaker 3: as they could because they know the issues that come
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  Speaker 3: when you go multiple years like that it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you don't recover from that in one wild card season,
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  Speaker 3: you know where you played the worst division in football
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  Speaker 3: for four of your games for your wins. You don't
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  Speaker 3: recover enough if you keep giving up picks. But you
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  Speaker 3: know they'll look at everybody, but you know what they
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  Speaker 3: will actually move on. I don't think we're gonna know
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  Speaker 3: until you know, right when the everything gets going and
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  Speaker 3: people start agents want to shop one offer against the other,
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  Speaker 3: then I think you start. That's when you start seeing
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  Speaker 3: the names. Is when the agents want Okay, I got
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  Speaker 3: this from Team A, and they go to Team B,
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  Speaker 3: C and D.
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  Speaker 1: All right before we let you go Pats or Tans.
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  Speaker 2: Talking to Rich Eisen yesterday said some of the guys
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  Speaker 2: thought the Greenbrier was haunted. Did Jeff Legwall get any
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  Speaker 2: of those stories out of that? Was there hauntings at
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  Speaker 2: the Greenbrier?
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  Speaker 3: That was definitely a topic of conversation amongst some of
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  Speaker 3: the guys in some because where they had some of
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  Speaker 3: them staying and then some of the outlying sort of
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  Speaker 3: houses they have that next to the hotel that that
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  Speaker 3: did come up. We did not have that problem twelve
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  Speaker 3: miles down the road at a little cheaper hotel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well maybe the Civil War battlefield wasn't so close
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  Speaker 2: to that one.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Leggy, can't wait to talk to you Monday, because
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  Speaker 2: that's another fun day. We've got a great couple of
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  Speaker 2: bookend days and some gay games in between. So looking
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  Speaker 2: forward to talking to you Monday. Tell them we'll read
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  Speaker 2: you at ESPN dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, my friend.
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  Speaker 3: Damn right, that's our guy.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Lagwald has always brought to you by the International
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  Speaker 2: Brotherhood of Electrical Workers IBW Local sixty eight.
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  Speaker 1: Start with a job, in with the career