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Ep.46: Damaged goods · Football Junkies podcast

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Alright folks the final countdown begins. Okay, the trade deadline is not even right around the corner
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It's on our street and we have a lot to talk about with it
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Okay, as well as last night's game between the Texas and the Jets
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We might there might be some red flags that are starting to pop up with a certain quarterback that we need to talk about
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Okay, as well as a
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controversial topic that needs to be addressed with all the you know conundrum that is going on with this Anthony
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Richardson
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Situation which is why aren't quarterbacks not being allowed to develop?
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I think it is a topic that you know for quite a while
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We've probably put off and I think this is probably the perfect opportunity to talk about this
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Okay, we're gonna try to keep this thing light and right. Okay, all of this in more. Okay on the
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46th episode, that's right 46. We are not too far away from being 50 episode cast game
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Okay, 46 podcast. I am your host with the most just know this
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I'm gonna drop this junkie bomb for you right now to
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Two big major trades are going to happen before the trade that line you heard it here first on the football junkies podcast
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I am your host your GM who currently is not on the team right now, but don't you worry about that?
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Okay, I'm all these things and more. Okay. I'm your chief
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Bag road dominance. Okay. I'm your chief
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Meteorologist for the bag. Okay. I am all these things and more but best believe the most important title that you must know
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And remember is I'm your host kale. You already know what I'm getting ready to say. Okay, so guess what?
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Now you're probably driving. You're probably cleaning. You're probably doing something, but guess what?
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Well, if you're driving keep on driving. I don't just just just keep on driving. Okay focus on the road
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But for everybody else guess what?
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Stop what you're doing and on three one two three. Let's lock in
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All right folks, let's get into the meat and potatoes of everything that is going on in the
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League right now and
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Everyone is talking about the trade deadline now me personally you would have thought that you know
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We would have had some more trades, you know popping up very small trades popping up at this point
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But you know, I guess not I guess everybody is waiting till after the slate of games that are gonna happen on Sunday
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well, hopefully that is the case because
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Yeah, so far it really hasn't been a whole lot of movement
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I mean sure you've had Josh Uche being traded and dee-hop getting traded and cam Robbins and getting traded
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But it's like we need more. Okay. There's a whole bunch of speculation. There's a whole bunch of rumors and this and that and whatnot
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I need to hear something. I need to see something because why that allows me to give the fix that you guys love and or need
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Okay, so will you know what do we really want to talk about? Let's talk about the game first
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Let's talk about last night and then we'll go into everything else again. I'm letting you guys know right now
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This episode is going to be fairly light. Okay, it is going to be light. I'm just letting you guys know now
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last night's game it was
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Anybody's game the jets needed this more than the text simply because the jets have been on a dry spell for the for the last few games
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Now and they needed to get into the wind column and they finally were able to do it
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So let's just get into the stats first and then we'll dive into all the deep analysis and all those different types of things
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So CJ strout was 11 for 30 191 passing yards
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6.4 yards per attempt in a 36.7 completion percenters. Okay, and a 46.7
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Quarterback pressure rate. Okay now remember that number and that metric. Okay, I'm gonna go deep into that
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Okay, Joe mixin 24 attempts for 106 rushing yards 4.4 yards per carry one touchdown three rushes of 10 plus yards or more
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Okay, Tink Dell nine targets for six receptions
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126 receiving yards 21 receiving yards per reception. Okay, Aaron Rogers 22 for 32
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211 passing yards three touchdowns 6.6 yards per attempt a
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68.8 completion percentage in a
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26.5 quarterback pressure rate. Okay, Garrett Wilson 10 targets for nine receptions 90 receiving yards two touchdowns and
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10 receiving yards per reception breeze hall 15 attempts for 74 rushing yards
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4.9 yards per carry and three rushes of 10 plus yards or more now when we look at last night's game, you know, I
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Definitely thought that the Texans were definitely going to win simply because they were better equipped to beat the jets on both sides of the ball
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Okay, the offense is
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Playing very well their run game is very solid and that defense sharks in the water. Okay, and clearly
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That's not, you know, that's not what happened now
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Can we say, you know, maybe this was just a bad game for CJ Stroud?
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Yes, you probably could could allude at that
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But you know, I think something that that definitely needs to be talked about is, you know
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This offensive line didn't didn't look that good last night. The pass protection was not good and in granted
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The jets were going after CJ Stroud every single time he was hiking that ball
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They were going after him and most of times Quentin Williams was leading the charge. Okay him matching up with whoever that guard was
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barbecue barbecue chicken alert
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barbecue chicken alert, okay
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He just kept on getting through every single time every single time putting CJ Stroud on the ground put him in the ground put him in the ground
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And then you have a son reddit doing his thing and then you have Solomon Thomas doing his thing Michael Clemens doing his thing
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You had that defensive line was eating glass night. They were creating pressure pressure that I think CJ Stroud
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Could not handle and in doing so it costed them the game
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Because when we really look at things when you look at people like DJ Reed that that's doing his job
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by the way, DJ Reed is
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Definitely a sleeper of a cornerback that not a lot of people talk about he has shown a lot and man
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Oh man, if he becomes a free agent next year, I will love for the Steelers to get him
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But don't like his about that. Okay, I get back into the game. So this is what I will say
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It's a great win for the Jets because this puts them back in the winning column. They needed this win to
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Silence the naysayers the haters all of the doubters all of the people that said their season was over
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Okay, but at the same time this raises questions for the Texans because you know, do you think they should probably go after?
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You know an interior offensive linemen because again the interior offensive line was getting beat up
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They were getting beat up or four quarters straight and there was nothing they can do about now the secondary the secondary was doing their thing
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You know, they was holding their own against people like Devontae Adams and Garrett Wilson and company, but again that that line
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that line
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It just wasn't doing his job
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I don't know if they were still in Houston or what but they did not do well and it costed them the game
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That's just what it is now. This is a much needed win for Jeff Albrecht
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Just as much as a much needed win for Aaron Rogers
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Now the question is this can they continue to stack up more wins and could they possibly turn their season around?
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The answer is yes and the reason why I say that is because when you look at the the remaining part of their schedule
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Their schedule, it's not super difficult, but they could win, right?
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So their next opponent the card goes then after that then it's the Colts and then they're on a buy
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They have a late buy which late buys come in the clutch sometimes because that allows them to rest
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recover recuperate and
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Sort of like in the thick of things of the season because that's when you're really gonna need some rest because you're gonna be going through a
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Gondola you're gonna be most likely facing, you know at least two of your division rivals where that be in the middle part or
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You know the or the last two games of the season, right?
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So after their buy they go begin Seattle Miami
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Jacksonville the Rams
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Buffalo and then Miami again if we're being real here
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The toughest opponent that they will probably have to go up against is Buffalo Buffalo in in in Indianapolis
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Those are gonna be the toughest teams that the Jets are gonna really have to go after
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Well, maybe you could probably throw in Seattle as well
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Everybody else it's fair game if we're being real here everything everything else is fair game the Colts
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That's fair game at this point the Jaguars
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That's fair game a lot of these a lot of these teams are in situations where they're about to you know
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Either make a decision where they're either about to tank prepare themselves for next year or they're gonna try to see
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You know what what they can do with the remaining part of the season now when we shift things over to the Texans though
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The Texan schedule is a little bit difficult
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The only reason why I say that's because next week they have to go up against Detroit
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Then Dallas then Tennessee then Jacksonville then they're on their buy, which is even later. Okay week 14. They come back
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Face Miami then Kansas City then Baltimore then Tennessee if we're being real here
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The teams that they could probably beat is Dallas no disrespect to the Cowboys fans
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Tennessee
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Jacksonville and Tennessee again
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That's it. Those are only games that they could probably like you know really do their thing really impose their will
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But Kansas City late into the season. Oh, that's gonna be a that's gonna be a shootout
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That's gonna be a bar fight going up against Baltimore
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That's gonna be a bar fight in Detroit Detroit ain't no slouch either. So again
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This is we are hitting that part of the season
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I will continue to emphasize this and I will continue to say it until I can not say it anymore
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we are entering that part of the season where every game matters and
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especially your division rival games because they can be the equalizer and
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Either pushing you up for seed in the playoffs or put you down in the seed to where you're having to go
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Begins a tougher opponent that's on a hot streak and you don't want that so again
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this is
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It's a loss
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But at the same time this could be a loss for the Texas that's needed to get them
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refocused
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Relocked in and prepare themselves for you know for the remaining part of the season now the question is this
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With Stefan Diggs being out for the season
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Should the Texas probably go after a receiver as well, you know
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I I think it's something that they would have to probably consider at this point because
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Joe mixing, you know, he was doing his thing when Joe mixing was getting the ball
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He was doing his thing. They were getting first downs. They were extending, you know extending the field and whatnot, but again
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CJ Stroud just did not look like himself last night
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Some of the throws some of those routine throws. He just wasn't not making and you know, he was he was getting brute
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He was gonna beat up. He was gonna beat up pretty bad last night
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So hopefully, you know, he can have a turnaround game and you know silence a lot of the
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Critics and whatnot that are saying he's going through a sophomore slump and all those different types of things now
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Let's go into something that is a little bit more controversial
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That I think definitely needs to be addressed at this point with everything that is going on with Anthony Richardson
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and that is the lack of quarterback development and the lack of patience that is given to a lot of these
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Quarterbacks first, you know, I was definitely one of those people that was on the fence about this and I was like, you know
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What maybe he was tired. Maybe he just didn't like really, you know, maybe he just needed to catch his breath or something
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but it's like
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Sometimes when we say things publicly, they come back to haunt us, right?
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And there was a there was a there was a podcast that he was on
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I forgot what the podcast is my apologies to them. No disrespect to them and he basically said, you know
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Then the fell is easy. It's not really that hard and
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You know, that's that
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That's false. That's false my friend. That is very false
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Because when we look at things if the NFL was so easy, there wouldn't be a whole bunch of people fighting for roster spots
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There wouldn't be a whole bunch of people that are settling for being on the practice squad for two or three years and
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Never get a real opportunity to have a starting role
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Let's be real here. Let's really be honest here because
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You know, when you say things like that and then you come out publicly and then you say, yeah, man
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I was I was just tired. They're gonna eat you up, man
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they're gonna they are going to get you and
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You know, I understand the the Colts had had to make a decision because it probably did
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Create some friction in the locker room, but at the same time
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You knew what you were getting when you drafted Anthony Richardson
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You knew that you were getting somebody that did not have a whole lot of playing experience
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You know that he was a late bloomer. You knew that so if you knew that he was a late bloomer
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Why in the world did you commit to drafting him that high?
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Why because again a lot of times
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we as
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Fans and even people probably in front offices. We look at the ooze and eyes of various players
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Oh, they can throw the ball this far. Oh, they're super athletic. Oh, they're super fast. Oh, they're they're super strong
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all those all those different intangibles but not at the
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experience or the the
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Baggage or the time it's going to take in order to bring the best out of them
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That is why a lot of times people do not per you know progress
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Well when it comes to that transition from college to the pros we see it all the time a lot of those first round picks don't hit and
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By by year three. They're already being floated around for either being traded or being cut
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Just because they haven't been able to really show anything because people give up on them so quickly and in some ways
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It's like damaged goods, right?
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You get something and you know, you realize that it's a little bit damaged and you just get rid of it, right?
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Better yet
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Imagine yourself being a kid and you're going past a toy store and you see the toy store that you know and that you love it
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Before I go any further this probably shows you how old I am because you don't even have toy
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Toy stores anymore, but moving forward
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But imagine you're going past a toy store and there's a particular store
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There's a particular toy that you really like and it's in front. It's in the front part of the store
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I'm talking about they got it going off. You got it doing its thing and whatnot
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And then they got a big old sign over it come get this toy now
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That's what you're going to do. You're going to be interested in it
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You're going to see it before everybody else sees it before your parents see it before your other siblings see it
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All those different types of things and guess what you're going to get pulled into it
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And then you're gonna want to feel it you're gonna want to experience it and before you know it guess what?
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you're gonna want that toy and
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That is exactly what happens a lot of times when these quarterbacks are drafted into the first round you like the ooze and
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Oz you like the things that they do
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But you don't recognize
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The toll and the amount of resources that I have to allocate in order to bring forth their best potential and their best version of
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Themselves because the fact of the matter is when Bryce young was in Alabama and he was doing his thing
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Oh my god, there was a whole bunch of people saying oh, he's a franchise guy
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He's gonna change a franchise
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Look at look at you know the way that he runs look look at the arm
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You know that that big throw that he made all those different types of things
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But now that he's been in the league. Oh, I keep on hearing oh, he's washed. Oh, he can't play the NFL
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We can't fit in the league now. They got get him out of here. They got to do something with him
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Where where was this when he was in Alabama? Where was this? Where was this?
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I didn't see it
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I didn't see a whole lot of people identifying the various red flags and you know the things that he may have to
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Overcome when he comes into the league. I didn't see that all I saw was a whole bunch of people praising
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He has a big arm. He's athletic
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He can roll out the pocket and he can do this and he can do that. That's not what it is
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Okay, and Mel Kuiper said this best and you know, this is a pretty long quote
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But you know, we are going to get through it. Okay. He said this on the Chris Canty
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Podcast is on ESP and shout out to Chris Canty. So this is what he says. Okay, and I quote develop doesn't exist
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They don't develop quarterbacks anymore. They force feed them. They expect them to be great
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They don't like them to work through struggles
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Struggles are not tolerating anymore from a young quarterback bad reads and accurate throws
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Interceptions mistakes aren't allowed anymore. You're expected to play at a seven-year level when you're a rookie
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second-year quarterback the development
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Okay, this is important the development the growth of a quarterback to work through make progress
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You're not allowed to do that anymore. You're not allowed to because mentally and physically you're destroyed
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You're destroyed by getting beat up because you're out
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Maybe some of these quarterbacks behind a bad offensive line or they're getting beat up mentally by everybody
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Media fans everybody saying you stink. You shouldn't you shouldn't have drafted this guy
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Let's draft this guy this year get him out of here
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It wasn't like that back in the day and now we're chewing them up and spinning them out early
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So the development of a quarterback doesn't exist
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That's why I get down to who needs to go back
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Gives as much time in college as you're allowed to get get as many starts in college as possible
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Eli did it Peyton did it others have done it go back and get those extra dozen
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Extra doesn't excuse me extra dozen plus starts and that'll help you deal with the scrutiny and the expectations
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That are there for a rookie second-year quarterback in the national football league now
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He is right
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He is right for once there is something that I can agree with on Mel Kuiper
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Which is a lot of quarterbacks now
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Do not have a whole lot of playing starts and do not have a lot of experience under their belt
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We see on a on a yearly basis at least three three quarterbacks that are drafted in the first round
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They do not succeed now
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Some of that is because of the situation that they are you know put into some of that is because of a
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Lack of attention that the front office, you know gives them some of that is because of you know
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Them not having the right coaches and whatnot, but a lot of times they get thrown away like what damaged goods
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Case in point Sam Darnall and the Jets got rid of Sam Darnall
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Everyone was labeling Sam Darnall as a bus everyone saying he can't be a starting quarterback in the national football league
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He can't do it. He can't do the basic necessities to be a quarterback and then guess what?
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He went through a little bit of a little bit of you know turbulence went to the Panthers
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Okay, cool, then work out the best then he goes to the 49ers
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Spends a year under there. Okay, cool goes to the Vikings
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Has an opportunity to compete with JJ McCarthy. Unfortunately, JJ McCarthy gets hurt
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He becomes a starting quarterback and now we are seeing the best version of Sam Darnall that we have ever seen
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This was the version of Sam Darnall that everyone thought that that the Jets were going to get
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But a lot of times when you are put into bad situations
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Like a lot of these quarterbacks are
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The expectation is you are the game changer. You are the person that changes everything that creates a culture and
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Exceeds all expectations when it's like no you can't do it and a lot of times
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It's even more difficult for quarterbacks who are who are coming from well not coming from but who are coming after a
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Legendary franchise quarterback is
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Instantly what's going to happen is there's going to be a comparison
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Everything that that quarterback does in the first year of their career
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They're always going to compare it to the legendary quarterback
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And if they do not hit certain thresholds or if they do not do certain things that that legendary quarterback did
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Guess what's going to happen? Oh, they're instantly going to throw them another bus
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They're gonna say get them out of here. We should have kept that legendary quarterback for one or two years
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I've seen it and it does not end well and a lot of times some people can persevere through it
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And you know they have successful careers and then there are then there are others who crack under it and they can't handle it, right?
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Case in point a lot of times when we look at quarterbacks
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They want to be put into stable organizations stable environments
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Because if you don't put them into stable environments guess what's going to happen
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You are not going to see the best out of them case in point
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Bryce him going to the Panthers that was probably the worst place that he could possibly go to because why you have a
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dysfunctional owner you have a dysfunctional front office that has not given you the
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The supporting cast that you need in order to be successful, right?
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Sir you got Xavier Leggett. Cool. He's a rookie, but you really don't have a good offensive line
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You have a running back, but you really don't use him as much because Trevor Hubbard is doing more than what he's doing
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You don't have a productive tight end
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You didn't have a defense so exactly how in the world can you expect them to be?
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What they were in college if you don't surround them with talent a
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lot of times
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quarterbacks are kicked to the curb because a
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lot of times GM's are in the mindset that you know
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College always produces at least three to five starting caliber quarterbacks a year and so some people they'll just say you know
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What we'll just chop it up to the game
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We realize that we messed up will try again and keep trying again and keep trying again and keep trying again
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Waiting to see for one quarterback to hit and by the time they do that they don't wasted years of
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Prime players careers we see it all the time and even then when we go back to to this Anthony Richardson situation
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You have to allow him to go through
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The the bumps and bruises that is to be a franchise caliber quarterback
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You're going to face backlash
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You're going to upset some people in your locker room in the front office in the organization of your team
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You're going to but guess what?
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This is how you learn this is how you become better
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This is how you grow and if you don't do it now guess what you'll never have a chance to do it
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But let's get into some some comparisons
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Okay, because I was able to do a comparison of three different quarterback classes. Okay, so we're going to do the quarterback class of
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2023 with Anthony Richardson was was in we're going to do the
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2004 quarterback draft class great a very great
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quarterback draft class and then we're going to do the
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2018 quarterback draft class. Okay, so in 2023, right?
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Anthony Richardson had only started 13 games in college
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13 games Bryce young started 27 games in college CJ Stroud
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Started 25 games in college, right now. You're probably saying, you know
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You probably have to factor in COVID and those different types of things and you probably can you most likely gonna have to
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But the fact of the matter is
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Anthony Richardson has the least amount of college starts
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Then the other first round quarterbacks and both Bryce young and CJ Stroud
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That's not good. That's not good. I get it. Your draft stock may be high. I get it
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You know, you may see that you're being mocked super high and with you being mocked super high
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That means you make more money than everybody else. I get all that but there's at some point
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Sometimes it's just best to just spend that one more or two more years
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Just so you can get more starts because again
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the old saying goes
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Experience is his best teacher and how in the world can you be better equipped?
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better experience to go to the next level of
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Playing football if you don't have a whole lot of experience, right?
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That's like giving somebody who has no experience a
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Supervi a man and a manager job to
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Oversee, you know 30 people when they don't have no experience doing it. They're not gonna. They're not gonna succeed
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They're not it's instantly going to be a fail now when we look at the 2004 quarterback
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Draft class Eli Manning have 43 big Ben had 38 Philip Rivers had 49 college starts
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49
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now that
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Transitioned over to when they were drafted and they got into the league because a lot of the things
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That they saw and that they experienced in college. They can now take that with them, right?
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They were there wasn't a whole lot of
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Teaching that that these teams had to do for these quarterbacks because why they were seasoned
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They know what to do. They know different cadences formations all those different types of things
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Even then if you wanted to come back even a little bit more recent 2018
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Lamar had 38 college starts Josh Allen 27 Sam Donald 27 Baker Mayfield 48 Josh Rosen 30
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You're seeing a pattern here, right a lot of these quarterbacks are
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Prepared not only mentally, but they are prepared physically
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For the toll that is you know that is expected of them when they go into
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You know the NFL compared to Anthony Richardson who's only had 13 college stars and he's and he's young
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So he's still trying to understand all of these, you know all of these things now
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Compared to a lot of these quarterbacks who they've already gone through
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You know various different things and they know this and they know that and all those different types of things, right and
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You know when we look at it
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There is a lack of
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development
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Case in point the 49ers the 49ers when the when trade lands was coming out of North North Dakota State University
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Oh my god, they were head over heels for him. They moved
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All the way up they move past five spots
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to get trade lands and as soon as train lands got hurt and then once he started to
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Not really to to struggle a little bit and then you had various, you know people
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Various, you know hall of fame players they used to play for the 49ers like Joe Montana Steve Young
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Say certain things about trade lands. Oh, it was over
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That experiment was over. They shipped him. They shipped him off to Dallas
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Never to be seen from or heard from again. Now. He's a backup. I don't even know what I don't even win
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He'll get another opportunity to play again. That is just one of the just a few well not even few but many examples of
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Teams who just completely just give up on a quarterback and I get it
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You want you you want them to you know be the face of the franchise and you want them to win games and you're in the business
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To win games and I get all that I really do but I feel like we don't give quarterbacks
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Enough grace to go through, you know the bumps and bruises of being a franchise quarterback because a lot of times
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These quarterbacks are being thrusted into the leadership role
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You are now the face or one of the faces of this team, right?
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And so that is a lot to tack on for a rookie regardless of how old they are regardless of
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You know, whatever compliment accomplishments that they have
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That's a lot to take on right and even then this goes back to a stat that I pulled up
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In previous episodes of God, I think was the episode with the curse of the first
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But basically him bow if you don't know who him bow is he's one of the people for for ESPN for for get up
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He did he so he compiled some stats and so basically he found
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Basically 20 drafts spanning from 2000 to 2018, right and basically
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Here is the percentages of hit or miss rates based off of the position, right?
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quarterback quarterback
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26 hits
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30 misses a
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46% hit rate a
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46% hit rate
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That is not good
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That is not good and of that 46% you could probably
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Flex it a little bit simply because again
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It's also really based off of what situation that they are put into
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Because sometimes some quarterbacks are lucky enough to be drafted into a stable organization
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Like the Ravens like the 49ers like the Patriots
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Like the Steelers and whatnot
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stable organizations that are going to give them
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You know not only time but also going to try to surround them with weapons just to see okay
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What do we have in this quarterback, right?
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Perfect example, can you pick it?
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Can you pick it was supposed to be the you know the leader of the team?
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but because of his actions and not wanting to suit up
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You know to be the backup quarterback for Mason Rudolph that ruffled the feathers within the locker room and then
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To even put more fuel to this flame
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They tell him we're gonna bring in competition
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They told him that they told him that before they made any of the decisions that they made
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Prior to getting Russell Wilson and whatnot. They said we are going to bring in competition
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So we can try to bring the best out of you because we still believe in you and guess what he didn't like it and he left
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He wanted out because he couldn't handle it
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again
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quarterback
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It's not it's not what people think it you know what people think it is it really isn't if you are a quarterback next year and next year's draft
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You sort of have to consider. Hey, do I want to wait another year and you know build up more reps?
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And you know get myself better prepared or do I want to just say you know effort and then just go because when if you have that mindset
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Most likely you're going to be put into a crappy situation. You're gonna be put into a team that is
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Going through a rebuild that has lost a lot of their star players that has limited cap space and a dysfunctional front office and ownership
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That's what you're gonna walk into now to some people. They're probably say
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I know it'll straighten yourself out and in my second or third year
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It's no problem, but a lot of times it doesn't and a lot of times that carries that that carries with you
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You know at least the first half of your of your career
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And then by the second the second half of your career when you start making some real money
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you want to go into you want to go into a place that's stable that you don't have to worry about the owner looking over your shoulder or
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You know your your head coach being in the hot seat or you know your office of coordinator not being the best and whatnot
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Again, I get it. It's hard, but again, there are certain things
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Not even certain things, but we have to give quarterbacks time
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Not everybody grows the same some people are late bloomers and take a little bit longer to
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Really, you know bring out their best potential some people are a little bit early
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You know you just put them in and you know, they're guns blazing, you know the first game of their career
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Not everybody is the same and so, you know when you have that on top of
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Not surrounding them with the right weapons and the right offensive coordinator and putting them into the rights
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You know the right system to be successful if you don't do those small little things
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It's gonna have a major effect on the quarterback. It really is case in point
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Look at the Ravens the Ravens realize that okay
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We have this dual threat quarterback who can beat you with his legs as well as his arm
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We have to surround him with talent and what did they do?
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They started to
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Get him better receivers. They started to get him, you know a better offensive coordinator and what and now look it's paying off
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You have to invest into your quarterback like how you buy a house
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When you buy a house, you don't just buy a house and then you just don't put no furniture in it
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and you don't put no no good China and
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No good plates and spoons and you know knives and whatnot
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You don't put up no TVs no beds or anything like that. No, you got to put that stuff in there
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You got to make sure that the grass is cutting you got to invest into this thing because if you don't invest into it
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You're not gonna get anything out of it and that's what happens a lot of times with these quarterbacks
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They they throw them into crappy situations. Let's say okay fix it and a lot of times they can't it's not a fix it type of thing
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It's a thing where the front office has to realize. Okay, we need to rewrite this wrong right here
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We need to you know draft this player to fix this we need to you know
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Fix the offensive line or whatnot look at Andrew Luck
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Andrew Luck is a perfect example of what happens when the team and the organization
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Does not invest into the quarterback the right way
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They allowed Andrew Luck to get beaten up for a majority of his career
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And by the time that he was done taking all all that abuse he was done with it
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He had mentally checked out. He didn't want to do it anymore because why they took too long to invest
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Into protecting him and surrounding him with the right weapons
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It happens we see it more and more and more
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Even there even times where there are quarterbacks who don't want to listen who don't want to take the advice RG3 for example
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Kyle Shanahan and Mike Shanahan were telling him listen if you want to survive in this league
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You're gonna have to slide they brought in baseball players and experts to show RG3
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How to slide he didn't want to listen and guess what happened?
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Shortly after he didn't last that long in the league. So again moving forward. I think we
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We as fans have to be a little bit more grateful with these cornerbacks. Yes, it's not fun losing
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Yes, you want to have bragging rights when you go in the barbershop when you go to school when you go to work
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When you're spending time with your family, but again, they are human just as much as we are now
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I'm gonna end this episode with the trade talk because yes, we have to end it with trade talk because why I mean
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And we're only a few we're only a few days away, you know before the trade that that line is over
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So these are just a few names that I thought of you know, and they're probably they'll probably will be more and hopefully will
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Have a very active trade that line
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You know season so I have Bryce young Buddha Baker today. This white David got child Mike Williams
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Coral and Sutton Jacobi Mars Greg Newsome adori Jackson Darius Layton Mike Edwards and Zadaria Smith
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Now for Bryce young and Buddha Baker, I left them blank simply because I don't know
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Where exactly they would go. I really don't especially for safeties safeties are
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are very
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It's very rare to see a safety like really get you know traded to you know a better situation
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Even when you when you really break it down
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Where could someone like a Buddha Baker go?
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Because everybody else has a pretty good solid safety
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Honestly speaking here like where could you really go same thing for Bryce young?
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You wouldn't be the third string quarterback
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You probably be the fourth string quarterback or practice squad quarterback, right?
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Tredavious white me personally I would say either the chiefs or the commanders just because he is a veteran corner
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both of those teams are winning teams and
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You know, they would have him
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Probably unlimited reps. Honestly speaking here now
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Does does Tredavious white does he feel like he can still play?
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You know outside corner like how he used to who knows right?
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They even got you I would say 49ers Steelers and Ravens and the reason why I have those three teams is because all three of those teams
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You know probably need to add more depth at a defensive line, especially interior defensive line
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So, you know, you want to you want to try to?
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capitalize and reinforce that line because you're about to hit that point where the run game is going to be more
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You know more efficient is going to be used more
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You know in various offenses
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So you want to make sure that that line is not only creating pressure, but is limiting the run
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Okay, Mike Williams Texan Steelers 49ers and commanders the commanders do need another receiver
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The Steelers do need another receiver the 49ers definitely need another receiver and the Texans need another receiver
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Especially with Stefan Diggs, you know going down and especially for the for the 49ers with you know
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brand-new being out for the season so
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You know, could he possibly you know be moved soon?
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I really don't know
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Especially, you know with Alizarre going down last week and being and being put on IR not last week
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But yesterday and him being put on IR
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That you know shifts the focus of Mike Williams now being more involved and you know in the offense
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Same thing with Coral and Sutton Coral and Sutton is going to be looking for more for more money
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So, you know the Broncos are winning right now
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So I don't think the Broncos would want to give up, you know, Coral and Sutton if they do it would have to be something
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Significant I don't think it would have to be you know something like a 4-4-5 round pick like you would have to talk
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About almost maybe your first round pick for maybe Coral and Sutton. So Kobe Myers. That's very unique
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He's very unique simply because you know the Raiders
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I don't know if the Raiders will be willing to get rid of Jacobi Myers. I don't know and if they do the question is
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what would be the asking price for it because
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You can't demand more than what Devonte Adams, you know went for you can't simply because he still has a few years left on his deal
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He has a pretty fairly high cap hit. I think around 10 million if I'm not mistaken
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So, you know, you have all those different types of things Greg Newsom. That's a very unique one
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the commanders do need another corner and
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You know you you add a young feisty corner and Greg Newsom to that commander's defense. That's a problem
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That's a big problem. That is a very big problem same thing, you know with the Chiefs the Chiefs
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You know, they want to bolster up that defense a little bit more
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So, you know, what what better person than to do it with you know, Greg Newsom
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Same thing with the Dory Jackson. He's not really being utilized as much with that Giants defense
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So maybe it's time for him to you know to be put into a different situation
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Darius Layton, I don't I'm skeptical with Darius Layton simply because you know
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Are the Giants going to try to extend him before the season is over?
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Are they, you know, you know keeping him for the next quarterback that they draft?
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What exactly are they going to do for Darius Layton because again outside of Malik neighbors?
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He's the second best receiver on that team Jalen Hyatt. I couldn't tell you the last time that he's done something
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Honestly speaking here Mike Edwards
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Again, I don't know because he's a safety and you know safety's
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safety's really aren't traded as much and if they do they're put into
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either worse situations then you know, then what they were previously in or
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You know, they're just simply released and then Zidarius Lyons Ravens 49ers all three of those teams need
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Pass rushers immediately. They need somebody that can plug and play right now
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But hopefully we see something crazy happen
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Who knows you may you may see something after after this episode because remember
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every time that we are getting ready to start
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Start the episode or doing the episode or the episode is getting ready to
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Get ready to be published guess what something happens before I end this episode
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I do have to break some news unfortunate news guard Kenyon green for the Texans is out
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For the season with a shoulder injury
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My guess is probably a torn peck or something like that
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But prayers to him and whatnot. Hopefully he makes a speedy recovery. The question is what are the Texans going to do now?
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Because I know they have Kendrick green
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The question is are they going to move forward with him for the rest of the season?
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Are they going to try to bring us somebody else to possibly, you know add reinforcements in?
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