Latest / Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports / Jeff Legwold previews Preseason Game #1 with Moser, Lombardi and Kane 8-13-26

Transcript

Jeff Legwold previews Preseason Game #1 with Moser, Lombardi and Kane 8-13-26 · Jeff Legwold ESPN Broncos Reports

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: We'll go out to the ramos Law Hotline.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: Car accident you need ramos Law medical doctor and attorney
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: ramos Law dot com. We're joined as we are every
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Thursday at nine o'clock by Jeff Legwald. Leggy, what you
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: know about George and Tammy?
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: What you know?
• 0:11
  Speaker 3: We're standing by our man, Jeff Lagwald. Whos I'm sure
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: a big Tammy White Net fan.
• 0:16
  Speaker 4: Well, I did live in Nashville for ten years, so
• 0:18
  Speaker 4: I've heard that song a few times.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: Said, Uh, I guess I need your help, Leggy, because
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: I can't muster up the interest that people have in
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: who is going to be the backup quarterback?
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: How big of a deal is Stidham and Ellinger to you?
• 0:41
  Speaker 5: Well, what'd you think of the AFC Championship game?
• 0:45
  Speaker 6: Uh?
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: Not great. I don't know if Ellinger would have been
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: any better.
• 0:49
  Speaker 4: I guess, well, what if he runs instead of throwing
• 0:53
  Speaker 4: the ball?
• 0:53
  Speaker 5: True?
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: I thought the exact same thing.
• 0:55
  Speaker 6: In a lot of those situations where you just needed
• 0:57
  Speaker 6: two yards to pound out in the blizzard, having a
• 1:00
  Speaker 6: running quarterback in there would have made a huge difference.
• 1:04
  Speaker 5: I will say. You know, and obviously Sean.
• 1:08
  Speaker 4: Has liked Stidham from the you know from the very
• 1:11
  Speaker 4: moment he got here, Sean he Stidham was one of
• 1:15
  Speaker 4: his first you know, free agency pursuits. That wasn't a
• 1:20
  Speaker 4: lineman you know back in the day. So uh, you
• 1:24
  Speaker 4: know that that's a player they've liked. But he really
• 1:27
  Speaker 4: really likes Ellinger. And I would say if you talk
• 1:29
  Speaker 4: to personnel guys around the league, you know, there's no
• 1:33
  Speaker 4: law that says your backup quarterback sort of has to
• 1:36
  Speaker 4: have a similar skill set as a starter. But it
• 1:41
  Speaker 4: doesn't hurt. And I think Ellinger as a player is
• 1:45
  Speaker 4: a little more is closer to to what bo Nix
• 1:49
  Speaker 4: is as a player.
• 1:52
  Speaker 6: Why isn't bow Knicks playing them nite?
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: I think Vick this was the plan all along. If
• 1:58
  Speaker 4: it was a grass field, would he play? I think
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: the odds would be better. I just think it's a
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: turf turf field indoors, and why mess around with that
• 2:08
  Speaker 4: and just have him played the last two because he
• 2:10
  Speaker 4: probably only would play two preseason games anyway, So just
• 2:15
  Speaker 4: pick the other two, I think is what they were thinking.
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: And you know, again, why put him on field turf
• 2:23
  Speaker 4: for his first game back?
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: I think was part of that.
• 2:26
  Speaker 6: I want to follow up on that the other day
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: when Greg Penner met with the media, and I hate
• 2:30
  Speaker 6: those kind of media sessions where everybody's trying to talk
• 2:33
  Speaker 6: over everybody else and you're trying.
• 2:34
  Speaker 4: To get Yeah, everybody's got everybody's got a pet question.
• 2:38
  Speaker 5: And everybody's trying to get there. I hate them, right,
• 2:41
  Speaker 5: So it ain't good.
• 2:42
  Speaker 6: One of my questions was going to be, but I
• 2:44
  Speaker 6: just didn't have the wherewithal to ask. It was going
• 2:46
  Speaker 6: to be about grass fields, because Greg Penner obviously is
• 2:51
  Speaker 6: one of the supporters of grass turf. He not only
• 2:54
  Speaker 6: has grass turf here in Denver, he changes the turf
• 2:57
  Speaker 6: mid mid season, unlike some owners.
• 3:00
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure they did it with one game left.
• 3:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, yes, And I'm sure he fully supports every NFL
• 3:07
  Speaker 6: stadium has having real turf. Now, I wanted to ask
• 3:10
  Speaker 6: him about it, but I'm sure his answer would have
• 3:12
  Speaker 6: been pretty diplomatic because he doesn't want to throw other
• 3:14
  Speaker 6: owners under the bus.
• 3:16
  Speaker 1: But why can he do it while others can't. It's simple,
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: in my book, money, it's it's his money.
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: Well, look at everything they do. They're more willing to
• 3:25
  Speaker 4: now they have more money. Their ownership group is the
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: richest in the NFL. That's the bottom line right now.
• 3:32
  Speaker 4: As in the current ownership structure of teams, the Broncos
• 3:37
  Speaker 4: have the richest ownership group.
• 3:39
  Speaker 5: In the league.
• 3:40
  Speaker 4: But that said, he is willing to spend that money.
• 3:44
  Speaker 4: They have the practice facility that will change how people
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: think about practice facilities all over the league because they're
• 3:52
  Speaker 4: willing to spend the money. And they've replaced the turf
• 3:57
  Speaker 4: for home games several times, including with one game left.
• 4:02
  Speaker 5: In the twenty twenty four season.
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: I believe was that they they simply put in a
• 4:07
  Speaker 4: new field for the season finale, and uh, they're just
• 4:12
  Speaker 4: willing to do that. And all of the stadiums they've
• 4:15
  Speaker 4: toured extensively. Uh, they've looked at, you know, how they
• 4:19
  Speaker 4: maintain the grass field. I still think, you know, they
• 4:24
  Speaker 4: they haven't said anything about what you know, they've told
• 4:27
  Speaker 4: the architect or anything that you know, and they say
• 4:30
  Speaker 4: renderings are close. But it will stun me if we
• 4:33
  Speaker 4: don't see something like Tottenham Hotspur had in the in
• 4:38
  Speaker 4: the London Stadium where the field is grown under the
• 4:42
  Speaker 4: stadium and then.
• 4:44
  Speaker 5: Brought up for games.
• 4:46
  Speaker 4: Uh, so they could they could maintain that during the
• 4:49
  Speaker 4: winter much more easily than they than they can now
• 4:53
  Speaker 4: with just coils and and other heated heated it's the
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: entire field complex is under the stadium and they have
• 5:05
  Speaker 4: grow lights and the grounds crew. There's enough room for
• 5:11
  Speaker 4: them to sort of walk the whole field and maintain
• 5:17
  Speaker 4: the field, and then they just raise it up and
• 5:22
  Speaker 4: they would It also lets you do and if you
• 5:25
  Speaker 4: own the stadium and you're the penners and you can
• 5:29
  Speaker 4: have any concert you want and monster truck races and motocross,
• 5:35
  Speaker 4: you can make an awful lot of money. And guess what,
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: you don't wreck your field because it's beneath everything you're having.
• 5:43
  Speaker 4: You know, if they have a Taylor Swift concert there,
• 5:48
  Speaker 4: they just simply put up the you know, the platform
• 5:53
  Speaker 4: that the field is under, so they they never they
• 5:58
  Speaker 4: would never injure the girl ass or damage the grass
• 6:01
  Speaker 4: that they're going to play football on.
• 6:03
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 6:03
  Speaker 6: Italian mothers do exactly that with their couches.
• 6:05
  Speaker 5: They put plastic couches.
• 6:08
  Speaker 6: Never touch Yeah, you never touched the leather of the cloth.
• 6:11
  Speaker 5: Ever.
• 6:12
  Speaker 4: I will say I I had an Irish mom who
• 6:15
  Speaker 4: did the same thing.
• 6:16
  Speaker 5: We had the it's awful in the summer.
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: I think that's just like that's like that's like corporate
• 6:22
  Speaker 4: punishment in the summer is like, yeah, go relax on
• 6:25
  Speaker 4: the couch, and it's like being in a skillet.
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: Jeff, let me preface this with all due respect, repect, I.
• 6:33
  Speaker 5: Love I love it with all due respect. You really
• 6:36
  Speaker 5: stink the job.
• 6:37
  Speaker 3: No, you're you're really good at your job. And I
• 6:38
  Speaker 3: love your Bonix article with all due respect. You've got
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: the body of a sinner. Could you give them a
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: couple of snaps tomorrow night? I mean, who's who's gonna
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: snap the football for the Denver Broncos.
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: I can snap, I can multitask problem all right? No,
• 6:54
  Speaker 4: that's that's a real issue. I mean we don't want
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: to like, you know, everybody even you know, whenever you
• 6:59
  Speaker 4: talk to are like you pitch offensive line stories and
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: their eyes glaze over.
• 7:04
  Speaker 5: So I know it's not something we talk about.
• 7:07
  Speaker 4: But that's a real significant issue right now. And you
• 7:12
  Speaker 4: know they say it's not a reason, but I think
• 7:16
  Speaker 4: there's a percentage in the pie chart of why bo
• 7:19
  Speaker 4: Nix isn't playing tomorrow is that they may have Calvin
• 7:24
  Speaker 4: Throckmorton snapping the ball, who's really a guard and they
• 7:29
  Speaker 4: don't want to move Quinn minors over because now you're
• 7:31
  Speaker 4: messing up two spots.
• 7:32
  Speaker 5: You know, you're taking.
• 7:34
  Speaker 4: The best right guard in the league, and oh guess what,
• 7:39
  Speaker 4: your run game, which you've been working on all camp,
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: is pretty right handed in a lot of situations. So
• 7:46
  Speaker 4: moving minors out of there impacts something you've spent your
• 7:50
  Speaker 4: entire training camp working on in a big way. So
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: that's not just a small thing to just say all
• 7:57
  Speaker 4: minors can do it. In a game, you're messing up,
• 8:00
  Speaker 4: you're you know, you're impacting a lot of other things
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: in their offense if.
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: You do that.
• 8:05
  Speaker 4: So I think they still believe Wattenberg will be ready
• 8:09
  Speaker 4: for the opener. You know, as far as these three
• 8:12
  Speaker 4: preseason games, I think they're going to try and just
• 8:15
  Speaker 4: get through it. I mean, Dieter, Michael Dieter was a quiet,
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: really good free agent, signing for basically the veteran minimum.
• 8:24
  Speaker 4: The guy was an eight year you know, this is
• 8:26
  Speaker 4: ninth year, his eighth year in the league. He started games,
• 8:30
  Speaker 4: and to lose him, he was kind of going to
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: be their insurance policy, whether it was on the roster
• 8:38
  Speaker 4: or you know, one of the veteran practice squad spots.
• 8:41
  Speaker 5: But that was a good plan.
• 8:43
  Speaker 4: They made and it got torpedoed when they had you know, basically,
• 8:48
  Speaker 4: three centers get injured in a.
• 8:50
  Speaker 5: In a week.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Jeff Lagweld ESPN dot com. All Conversations with Legie brought
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: to you by the International Brotherhood of Electoral Workers IBEW
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: Local sixty eight.
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Start with the job and with a career. Can you
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: take a trip to hypothetical land with me? Per second?
• 9:05
  Speaker 6: Likeetic I love it?
• 9:09
  Speaker 5: Yeah, radio? What's the clip? Now we're doing the radio? Yeah?
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these are the hypotheticals, right, I love them. So
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: I read your article about bo Nix, and I think
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: you're spot on about everything. It feels like it's Taylor
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: made for him to have a good year earn a
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: contract extension. But here's what I thought about, Because tonight
• 9:27
  Speaker 2: we're going to see the debut of for Nana Mendoza
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: in Vegas, and let's say he becomes the number one
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: overall pick that they hope he is right, that he's
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: long term franchise quarterback for them. Hypothetically, you could have
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: a division in which mahomes Herbert, Mendoza and Knicks play
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: each other for the next ten years.
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: When does that ever happening?
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: Louise No, that's pretty stout, you know, to have something
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: like you know, back in the day when there were
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: fewer teams, you had more sort of these you know,
• 9:59
  Speaker 4: tougher matchup. But in the current salary cap world, I mean,
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: it's already a difficult division in that way. And I
• 10:07
  Speaker 4: would argue, you know, in my entire career, I've covered
• 10:11
  Speaker 4: nothing but AFC teams, So for forty years I've covered
• 10:16
  Speaker 4: AFC teams, and I've never seen the AFC have a
• 10:21
  Speaker 4: string of quarterbacks you have to get through just to
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: get to the Super Bowl. Yeah, I mean, just look
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: at who you have to get through if everybody makes
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: the playoffs.
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: I mean, you got to earn.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Burul lamar In Mahomes missed last.
• 10:36
  Speaker 4: Year, That's what I mean. And look who was still
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: left in the AFC. So you know, Josh Allen Whens,
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: you know, an MVP is still waiting. You got lucky
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: that all these other guys didn't even make it, and.
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: You still have to slog your way through.
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: And the division, this division would be of the core
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: of that, especially if if bo continues you know his
• 11:04
  Speaker 4: you know, his current progression. I mean, you can't argue
• 11:07
  Speaker 4: with the success rate we all quibble with the with
• 11:11
  Speaker 4: the mechanics of it all, with his mechanics, because there's
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: something to talk about there.
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: And it's real.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: But the bottom line is an awful lot of people
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: would take a team and a quarterback who have that
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: kind of record over the last two years.
• 11:29
  Speaker 6: I'm looking at the roster and it's so predictable because
• 11:32
  Speaker 6: the depth chart, you know, you can name every starter
• 11:34
  Speaker 6: the only and it's not a surprise, it's a pleasant move.
• 11:38
  Speaker 6: Marvin Mims is listed as a starter. Is he really
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: a starter?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: I mean, what do we make of this?
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: Well? I mean, hey, I always tell people that there
• 11:49
  Speaker 5: are a few.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: Things Sean Payton hates more in football than putting out
• 11:53
  Speaker 4: a depth chart in the preseason. He is not a fan,
• 11:56
  Speaker 4: you know, he dislikes it. He does it because you
• 11:59
  Speaker 4: have to all of these things. But the top three
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: receivers throughout this training camp have been Sutton, Wattle and
• 12:09
  Speaker 4: Mims and so yeah, and I think they lined up
• 12:13
  Speaker 4: in three wide more than anything else last year. So
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: that's their base formation and that's how they were listed.
• 12:19
  Speaker 4: So I think it's a real representation at that position.
• 12:24
  Speaker 4: Those are the three guys who've been the best. Now
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: Pat Bryant is in the mix there. I mean, he
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: is pushing those other three. Pat Bryant's performed as well
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: as any of those other guys.
• 12:40
  Speaker 5: Right Wow.
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: The reason I bring that up, Jeff, because as we know,
• 12:43
  Speaker 6: Sean Payton's a big guy receiver, coach, big guy, big guy.
• 12:46
  Speaker 6: Those are two little guys in the starting three there.
• 12:48
  Speaker 6: I mean, those are two guys that are my size
• 12:49
  Speaker 6: that are suddenly starting alongside Courtland sun Well.
• 12:53
  Speaker 4: And that's why I've told people, you know, when other
• 12:57
  Speaker 4: like when I'm making the rounds around the league talking
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: about the draft or players. Uh, you know, people have
• 13:05
  Speaker 4: asked me, what do you think he'd really play those
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: guys at the same time, And I'm still not convinced
• 13:09
  Speaker 4: he would extensively because he wants big bodies on the
• 13:14
  Speaker 4: boundary and where Mims is a great, great boundary receiver.
• 13:20
  Speaker 4: I just don't know that Sean would consistently play sutt
• 13:24
  Speaker 4: and Wattle Mims together. You know, I think Bryant's in
• 13:27
  Speaker 4: that mix right now because of that physicality.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: The name to watch for Tomorrow's game to you is
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: who Pat Bryant.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, if he gets a lot of snaps and
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: plays the way he's been, he's gonna score you know,
• 13:39
  Speaker 4: a touchdown in the in the early going.
• 13:42
  Speaker 5: Uh uh.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: But the guy I really want to see is uh,
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: you know, the young linebacker d I want to see him.
• 13:52
  Speaker 4: We'll see him go at it. He's having a he's
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: having a really good camp. And I was talking to
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Vance Joseph about him and the one thing they did.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Now he's been playing with like the twos and the threes,
• 14:05
  Speaker 4: but Vance immediately gave him play calling duties. So he's
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: getting the calls right from day one of camp and
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: they have told I've heard from multiple people he hasn't
• 14:21
  Speaker 4: missed any I mean, so that when you ask Sean Payton,
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: how does a guy.
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: Convince you he should make the team.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: All this stuff, his first answer is always does he
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: know what he's doing? And they don't talk about athleticism
• 14:38
  Speaker 4: at that point, at least Sean doesn't. I mean, he
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: just takes for granted that there is a baseline of
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: athleticism you're gonna need to survive in the NFL.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: But he always says does he know what he's doing?
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: And very few rookies or young players at this camp
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: for the Broncos have shown they know what they're doing
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: as much as Murdock cast.
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Is there any chance my favorite name in training camp
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: can make the team?
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: Joseph Man Jack the fourth at receiver.
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: You know, I ask you if they keep five receivers?
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: Come on, where.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Can he snap the football?
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Can he snap the Can he play special teams?
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: Jack? He's a man Jack, and he is a man Jack.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: But now, I just there's not a lot of room
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: anywhere on this roster that I'm actually very surprised they
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: did as well as they did signing their undrafted rookies
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: right after the draft, because most guys are in search
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: of of spots where they can make the team. But
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: being on the practice squad here is a pretty good
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: deal because you get to be around a great team,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: and teams poach their guys or at least try to
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: because they like developmentally what what players do here.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Jeff Lagwell ESPN dot Com choices every Thursday. Always appreciate it,
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: leg you, thank you, buddy.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: Thanks Fellas. No offense, Jeff, no offense, offense?
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: That's that's you always get that one as a as
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: a beat writer, Hey, no offense, but that that story
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: you wrote?
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Really, you've never written a bad story in your life.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: I've read everything good stuff, like you're the best