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Anthony Richardson meets with Raiders + Panthers, Doug Pederson joins the show, & an interview from Rashid Shaheed · NFL Now

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  Speaker 1: My name is andrews Ceciliano. This right here is my
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  Speaker 1: good friend Brian Balding. Do you know what today is? Baldy? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: What else? I know? It's March thirtieth? What else? It is?
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson's Pro Day? It is. I thought you were
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  Speaker 1: going to say it's opening day in baseball, but yes,
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  Speaker 1: it is Anthony Richardson's Pro Day. You know what it
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  Speaker 1: also is and in Hooker's Pro Day, Hendon Hooker's Pro Day.
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  Speaker 1: It's exactly one month draft, twenty eight days, four weeks
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  Speaker 1: from today. Baldy didn't know there was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a quiz. That's not on him. Rock Gardless, We've got
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  Speaker 1: a big show, and we're going to show you not
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  Speaker 1: only Anthony Richardson, but Hendon Hooker on the football field
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  Speaker 1: as well. Richardson Pro Day video coming up shortly from Gainesville. First, however,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo was here with info because this is always
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  Speaker 1: big Garafolo Info. As I go out of order here,
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  Speaker 1: we just show the vo of the coaches. That's on me,
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  Speaker 1: not on anyone else. Pete Carroll and there's Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 1: Frank Reich was there, Doug Peterson was there, all there
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  Speaker 1: to see Mike Garafolo's information, obviously because they were watching
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  Speaker 1: NFL Now on their mobile devices. Hi there, Mike, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here we are. It's important how he throws. It's also
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  Speaker 1: important with whom he meets the night before the night
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  Speaker 1: before the pro day dinner list was who the Carolina Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: but also a meeting with the Las Vegas Raiders. And
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  Speaker 1: if this sounds familiar, this is exactly how it went
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  Speaker 1: for Bryce Young and c J. Strout. Young. I know
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  Speaker 1: for sure because I was there covering the Alabama Pro Day.
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  Speaker 1: He met with the Raiders after he was done dining
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  Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers. So clearly the Raiders definitely in
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  Speaker 1: the mix for these quarterbacks, depending on how things fall
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  Speaker 1: and whether they're going to be able to slide up.
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  Speaker 1: This is something and that they have explored previously. Richardson's
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  Speaker 1: certainly showing the ability. Now. If you watch the protay
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  Speaker 1: on NFL Plus, you saw you heard Steve Smith during
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  Speaker 1: the workout talk about Yeah, the skill set is there,
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  Speaker 1: but some of the finer details are missing in Richardson's game,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why this guy is more of a developmental prospect.
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  Speaker 1: So there has been buzzed and Thomas Davis was one
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  Speaker 1: of the ones that started with this when he mentioned
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  Speaker 1: it on Total Access a couple of weeks ago that
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  Speaker 1: maybe the Panthers wind up taking Anthony Richardson with that
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  Speaker 1: first overall pick. I don't know if I'm necessarily buying that,
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  Speaker 1: because again, it's an incomplete prospect that we're looking at here,
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's going to take a while to hone
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  Speaker 1: the finer details of his game, whereas maybe Bryce Young CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud more ready to play right away. But it is
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  Speaker 1: certainly in the conversation and something that's been buzzed about.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're looking for the ability, if you're looking
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  Speaker 1: for the ceiling, it was certainly on display today. Yeah. Also,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, before I before, Yeah, he did hit
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling. Way to go, Andrew, Also you missed que earlier,
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  Speaker 1: I missed Mike and this one. Osiris Tarrence, the offensive
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  Speaker 1: lineman for the Florida Gators. As Tom report, if he
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  Speaker 1: had dinner with the Tennessee Titans. He also has meetings
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  Speaker 1: coming up with the Falcons, the New Orleans Saints, and
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams, another gator that's got a shot
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  Speaker 1: to go in Round one. Again. That was for Tom
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  Speaker 1: Palaceo reporting that earlier. So a lot of interest in
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  Speaker 1: Osiris Tarrance, who you could see did some workouts today,
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  Speaker 1: who looked very good at the Senior Bowl when he
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  Speaker 1: had him working in the middle of that line down
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  Speaker 1: inomobile real quick, doubling back to the dinners for the quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know were they in the same restaurant, because
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  Speaker 1: in Tuscaloosa it's been reported they were at the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: and Panthers defense or dinners were in opposite sides of
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  Speaker 1: the same restaurant. Yeah, Bryce Young, Yeah, of course it's
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  Speaker 1: been reported. I told you that that day he got
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  Speaker 1: up from the Panthers table and he just walked right
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  Speaker 1: over to the Raiders table forgot and he sat down
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  Speaker 1: with him. It wasn't a dinner with the Raiders, Like
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  Speaker 1: it's up. If a guy doubles up on meals, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a bad you know. Yeah, So it was
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  Speaker 1: like he had his knee here and then note all
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  Speaker 1: the thanks, I ate already. I'm good. I ate right
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  Speaker 1: over there. That's the way it went. Okay, it's reported.
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  Speaker 1: Could mean you, you know, we're off and running. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Mine watching the show that day you were hosting it.
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  Speaker 1: I was hosting because I mean I was watching. I
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  Speaker 1: mean two very different things. Bryce Young. One according to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah's mock draft three point oh Anthony Richardson. Four
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  Speaker 1: There interesting is he in a conversation Mark Ross? And
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  Speaker 1: four could be in the conversation with what he did.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially at three somebody wants to get up and trade
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  Speaker 1: to where Arizona is, Mark Ross, you were taking notes?
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  Speaker 1: Would you see today in Gainesville? Man? After ten years
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  Speaker 1: of star proteins, I probably saw something today. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen it in in a quarterback pro day. He did backflips
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  Speaker 1: after the workout was over with, So I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: that one before. But hey, look at this point with
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, you already know that the guy can work out.
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  Speaker 1: He crushed it at the combine and the physical test
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  Speaker 1: portion of it. You know he has a live arm.
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  Speaker 1: You know he can move around. So when you saw
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  Speaker 1: him today at this throwing session, you saw those things.
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  Speaker 1: You saw the live arm, you saw the movement. But again,
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  Speaker 1: as we keep talking about with these throwing sessions, how
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  Speaker 1: much does that really translate to how they play on
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  Speaker 1: the field. If people like Anthony Richardson and they want
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  Speaker 1: to sell Anthony Richardson, it's all about what you saw
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  Speaker 1: today and all the physical attributes that you think you
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  Speaker 1: can develop, and you'll have to sort of talk your
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  Speaker 1: way through the film and say the inconsistencies I see
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  Speaker 1: on film, the lack of vision, the sort of the production,
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  Speaker 1: the lack of wins. You'll have to talk yourself into
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  Speaker 1: that and keep selling yourself on this physical specimen that
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  Speaker 1: we have here. We can develop that into a quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: So at this point, there it is. There's a black
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  Speaker 1: backflips right there. Have never seen a So Anthony Richardson,
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  Speaker 1: you've got that vote. But Baldie, it's really about reconciling
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  Speaker 1: the physical attributes. Can he be the Josh Allen, the
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  Speaker 1: next Josh Allen, because he's going to be the measuring
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  Speaker 1: stick of not great film, but the physical attributes, or
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  Speaker 1: will he be another guy that really didn't perform well,
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  Speaker 1: just has vitical traits that doesn't develop. That's what you
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  Speaker 1: really have to reconcile where you take Anthony Richardson. You
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  Speaker 1: have to look at the resume here, Mark, I mean
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  Speaker 1: the resume says back red shirt in twenty twenty, back
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  Speaker 1: up in twenty twenty one, a fifty three percent completion,
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in twenty twenty two as a starter, thirteen starts.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if we just look at what happened this
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  Speaker 1: past season in the NFL, I mean Kenny Pickett started
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  Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh forty nine starts at the University of Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 1: Black Purdy forty seven starts, with his time at Iowa State.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, playing matters and what we're what you're seeing
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  Speaker 1: what a lot of us are saying, Yes, back flips
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  Speaker 1: and crushing a combine and pro days, it's great. But
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  Speaker 1: the experience of playing the position and just everything from
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  Speaker 1: recognition of defenses too, where to go in the progression,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff is what quarterbacking is all about. And
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  Speaker 1: he lacks in the expi arian's department. How do you
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  Speaker 1: make that up with just physical traits? You better go
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  Speaker 1: to a place, I believe Mark, where he can sit
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  Speaker 1: and watch and learn while he maybe gets you know,
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  Speaker 1: a series here, series they're a package here package there
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  Speaker 1: unless you just want to go back and run Barry
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  Speaker 1: Switzer's you know, wishbone with him, and you could probably
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  Speaker 1: plug him in if you did something like that. I
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  Speaker 1: want to show the video two here of him hitting
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  Speaker 1: the roof. As Michael Jordan once said, the ceiling is
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  Speaker 1: the roof, and the ceiling is quite high for him.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like a lottery ticket, Mark, isn't it?
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  Speaker 1: And I hear everything both of you guys are saying
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  Speaker 1: about the lack of experiencing inconsistency and how raw he is.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, DJ and Bucky this morning almost comparing
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  Speaker 1: it to like Tesla or Amazon. You have the chance
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  Speaker 1: to buy this stock and the stock Mi Crater, but
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance that you are getting rich on this stock.
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  Speaker 1: And someone is going to sit here, Mark, aren't they
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  Speaker 1: gonna go? I can't pass this up, no question, Someone's
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  Speaker 1: going to take the guy, take them high. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it just takes one team, no matter what we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, in four teams and in draft rooms, you're
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  Speaker 1: going through all this with your area scout might not
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  Speaker 1: like Anthey Richardson at all. Your quarterback coach might love him,
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  Speaker 1: your GM might love him. Your head coach Martin might
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  Speaker 1: not like. So this is the issue that you have
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  Speaker 1: in draft rooms of you're having these same conversations. It's
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  Speaker 1: not as if whoever takes him, everybody is on board
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  Speaker 1: with this. You have these discussions for months with Anthey Richardson,
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  Speaker 1: with all these scouting staffs. But the issue is when
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  Speaker 1: I look at who are the great players in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL right now at the quarterback position, they were great
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  Speaker 1: players in college except Josh Allen. He's the only exception
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  Speaker 1: that we keep going back to. But the boroughs Jalen Hurts.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about Jalen Hursts development, well, that young man
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  Speaker 1: was a dominant player at two different high profile schools.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't as if he came out of nowhere and
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  Speaker 1: had these tools. So he really is an outlier as well.
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  Speaker 1: Great players were great players. That's the concern. But draft
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  Speaker 1: rooms right now, scouting departments, coaching staffs, they're through all
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  Speaker 1: this as well. Well. I mean, you bring up Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: who was a fifty six completion quarterback at Wyoming, and
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  Speaker 1: you look at what Jalen Hurts has done. Both those
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  Speaker 1: guys have taken their games to next level and really,
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  Speaker 1: what it comes down to with both those players is
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  Speaker 1: just their absolute love and devotion to the game, in
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  Speaker 1: addition to the maturity the leadership being loving and being
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  Speaker 1: the face of the organization facing the press every day,
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  Speaker 1: giving them those answers that they give them, Like if
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  Speaker 1: they believe Anthony Richardson has the maturity and the love
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  Speaker 1: and devotion of the game, it's going to help springboard
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  Speaker 1: these teams to take in that risk with him. And
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  Speaker 1: because risk comes reward and if he has that inside
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  Speaker 1: of them, and I don't know how you discover that, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you've you've been in those battles yourself, you
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  Speaker 1: know as a guy that was personnel director that if
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  Speaker 1: I knew that, I'd feel a lot better about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: taking them high in this draft, Trey Lance, or rather
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  Speaker 1: I beg your part in Anthony Richardson one on one
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  Speaker 1: coming up with Tom Palisero and Steve Smith. Momentarily, guys
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  Speaker 1: will hear from the quarterback himself at Trey Lance out
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  Speaker 1: the head, Thank you, Mark, Thank you bald to here
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  Speaker 1: on the brain because we are going to talk now
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  Speaker 1: about the third overall pick in the twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: draft who has barely played all of eight games and
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  Speaker 1: four starts the forty nine ers, or two and two
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  Speaker 1: in those starts. Jed Yard, Niners owner was asked at
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  Speaker 1: the annual meeting if he has any regrets with trade
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  Speaker 1: and up given away so much and taking Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't change anything that we've made about the decision
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  Speaker 1: with Trey. I think Trey has a chance to be great.
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  Speaker 1: But it's a bonus when you get somebody at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the seventh round that ends up coming in
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  Speaker 1: and being very impactful for your team. And I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I've said it multiple times with the quarterbacks, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was Alex and Capp, you know, I mean watching Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: and Jimmy and Trey and now you know Brock and
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  Speaker 1: Trey and Sam, you can't have enough good quarterbacks. Like
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  Speaker 1: I wish that we can go back in time and
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  Speaker 1: Steve Bono could be my third string quarterback behind two
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  Speaker 1: future Hall of famers, Like that's fantastic. That gives you
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  Speaker 1: a chance to win and be very, very successful in
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  Speaker 1: this league. Again, you can't worry about well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Trey hasn't played as many games as we would have liked.
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  Speaker 1: It's not his fault. I mean he got injured in
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  Speaker 1: Mike erfoliback with us it is not his fault, but
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  Speaker 1: still interesting comments. Here's the forty nine ers going to
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  Speaker 1: a off season full of quarterback questions, brock Purty coming
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  Speaker 1: back from the injury, Kyle Shanahan intimate in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of days ago that maybe it's a little longer than expected,
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  Speaker 1: but still very much up in the air, and John
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  Speaker 1: Lynch Mike saying, yeah, sure, we'll listen to trade calls
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  Speaker 1: and anyone. Well, but what do you just say about
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  Speaker 1: brock Purty and his recovery time frame? Right, even if
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  Speaker 1: it's the best possible scenario, it's six months, it's right
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  Speaker 1: up against week one before he is fully cleared. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be throwing at three months, that's the hope,
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  Speaker 1: But you're not going to see him taking the full
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  Speaker 1: compliment of reps. It doesn't seem in training camp or
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  Speaker 1: the preseason. So they're still an opportunity here for Trey Lance.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not a surprise that the team all the
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  Speaker 1: way up to ownership is talking positively about Trey Lance
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  Speaker 1: and saying the things that have happened to him are
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  Speaker 1: sort of out of his control. Look I can't give
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  Speaker 1: him a complete grade, and nobody can. His grade is incomplete.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what his statement as to whether or not
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  Speaker 1: he can be a starting quarterback in this league, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's for the forty nine ers or anybody else, that's
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  Speaker 1: incomplete as well. So there's a great opportunity in front
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  Speaker 1: of Trey Lance here. Yes, as the depth chart stands
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  Speaker 1: right now, and as the forty nine ers have laid
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  Speaker 1: it out, brock Purty is a topic, but he's just
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  Speaker 1: not going to be ready to be a full go
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  Speaker 1: for this spring, which is the first opportunity, which is
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  Speaker 1: OTA's into mini camp, into training camp, into the preseason.
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  Speaker 1: It's all there for you, Trey Lance. You could still
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  Speaker 1: make a statement about being this team's quarterback, or at
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  Speaker 1: least somebody else's teams. He's still twenty two years old.
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  Speaker 1: Some other teams that got you. He doesn't turn twenty
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  Speaker 1: three until that. He's thrown one hundred and two career
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  Speaker 1: NFL passes in the regular season, Mike meantime, So I'll
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  Speaker 1: have some free agents out there getting jobs. How about
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: Marvin Jones going home? This is cool. Marvin Jones, the
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  Speaker 1: veteran wide receiver going back to Detroit, where he spent
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  Speaker 1: five seasons. I believe twenty sixteen to twenty twenty still
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  Speaker 1: got some good football left on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: thirty two. There's that deal right there, one year, three
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  Speaker 1: million dollar contract. Now there's incentives that can take it
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  Speaker 1: up to five million. It's a pretty good deal for
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  Speaker 1: a veteran wide receiver at this stage of his career,
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  Speaker 1: especially given what we've seen of the free agent market
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  Speaker 1: right now and now you look at a Lions team period,
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  Speaker 1: but a Lions receiver room looks pretty good to me, right,
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  Speaker 1: especially if Jamison Williams can make that jump in his
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  Speaker 1: second year, another year removed from his knee injury. I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Ross Saint Brown. I mean, it's a good, good
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  Speaker 1: group of wide receivers for Jared goff to throw two
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  Speaker 1: up there in Detroit. Jared Goffway literally ran into yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't looking up on the sidewalk and actually ran
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  Speaker 1: into That is terrible pocket awareness, terrible I'm gonna pocket away. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Well, he looks for bigger guys that he
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  Speaker 1: come at him in it, far bigger than me. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. Mike coming up next, spiking a big, good
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  Speaker 1: size On Endon Hooker as well, and he could be
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  Speaker 1: climbing up draft boards or maybe he was going to
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  Speaker 1: be a first round pick, regardless who cares about the
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  Speaker 1: day injury. The Tennessee Pro Day in the spotlight coming
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  Speaker 1: up next, as we talked about the first round quarterbacks,
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: we would be totally remiss if we did not mention
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  Speaker 1: Hendon Hooker because he is showing up in more and
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  Speaker 1: mock more and more mock drafts. On night number one,
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  Speaker 1: he should when you turn on the tape, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: the injury. Let's get to know the Tennessee quarterback. Hook
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  Speaker 1: a round with the shot John John's for the hands.
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  Speaker 1: Let's gets coming from family of quarterbacks. My father played
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in North Carolina ANTI. They recently just took his
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  Speaker 1: number out of retirements to give it to my little brother,
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  Speaker 1: who was now the quarterback in North Carolina ANTI. I've
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  Speaker 1: learned a lot from my father, who put the ball
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  Speaker 1: in my hands at a young age, and all the
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  Speaker 1: things that he taught me I talked to my brother
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  Speaker 1: was perfect, Stay confident, and I do the things that
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  Speaker 1: we've been taught to do with a whole lot going.
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  Speaker 1: Man's there got it, Hendon Hooker Tennessee quarterback. I'm from Greensboro,
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina, the Hoop State as we call it. Played
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  Speaker 1: a lot of basketball growing up, really family oriented. At
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  Speaker 1: any time we had a family vacation, it was usually
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  Speaker 1: evolving around sports, So a huge sports background there. Roll
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  Speaker 1: there was no Hutch drive to the say. Me and
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  Speaker 1: my brother came up with a scripture athletic comic book,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the ABC Scripture for Athletes, and it has a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cool attributes in it, a lot of cool pictures
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  Speaker 1: that's attracting to the eye for kids to help them
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  Speaker 1: build their faith as well as you know, kind of
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit more sports oriented as world. An
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  Speaker 1: NFL team should draft me because of my leadership, how
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  Speaker 1: I connect with others in my football IQ. I'm extremely cerebral,
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  Speaker 1: and my love for the game and my competitive nature
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  Speaker 1: and how I want to dominate every time I step
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  Speaker 1: on the field and play every play like it's my
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  Speaker 1: leg I steps into the end zone draft night, I'll
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  Speaker 1: try to be a tough guy, kind of hold back
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  Speaker 1: to tears, but I don't see it happening. I think
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  Speaker 1: everybody around me knows how hard I worked in all
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  Speaker 1: the dedication that I put into my craft and who
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  Speaker 1: I do it for my family and friends and my
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  Speaker 1: community as well, because it's gonna be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: joy and a lot of tears. I guess hey, handed
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Hooker can play man. Look at Bucky Brooks list of
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: his top five quarterbacks, Handed Hooker is sitting there at
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: number three, behind c. J. Strada, Bryce Young, the guys
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: that everyone thinks are going one and two in some order,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and ahead of Anthony Richardson and Will Levis. Hendon Hooker
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Tennessee pro Day a little bit later today. Granted he's
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: still coming back from a knee injury. I'm not going
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: to do that much November nineteen, was that knee injury? Yeah,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that's one concern. Also age a concern. He's twenty five
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: years old, obviously a transfer student, Baldi. When you put
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: on the table, what do you see, Well, you see
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: a guy mark that has a lot of experience. He
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: starts at Virginia Tech, wins the job there, transfers all right,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: goes to Tennessee, which is a more been franchise in
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Knoxville at this point with Josh Hypel doesn't start right
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: away in twenty twenty one, but takes over puts Tennessee
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: on the map Whip's Alabama this year with his five
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: touchdown performance. Watching his run right here getting away from
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: will Anders City Company, he had one legitimate target in
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Jalen Hyatt to throw the ball to Outbeit the offense
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: is classic spread offense, a lot like what Baylor used
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: to run half field reads all that, but Mark He's
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: got a big frame, He makes good deliveries, he can
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: extend plays. He's a hard guy to get down to
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the ground, and you watch him just throw the football.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: He looks like a natural to me throwing the football.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I just think there's a lot to like. You have
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: to get over the ACL injury. You have to get
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: over the age you'll be twenty six years old, or
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the season next year. But if you're just looking at
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: a guy that can go and throw the football and
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: knows what he's looking at, Hendon Hooker gets you excited.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: I think, by one, I love Hennon Hooker. I mean
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: when he's my third guy and he's closer to me.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: The CJ stroud is that CJ is to Bryce Young.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But that's a whole other conversation that we have and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the attributes you talked about there when you just watch
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: him play. He looks like he knows what he's doing.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: He's got a quick mind, he's got quick eyes. He's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: in command, he's a playmaker. He has poised in the pocket,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: he's got vision. I just love the way he plays
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the game and the way he elevated the program was
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: productive and one. And then you talk about the pedigree. Look,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that's something that his dad was a quarterback, his younger
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: brothers a quarterback. This guy's mature. I think the age
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: actually works in his favor. You just look at the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: way he handled himself in that interview. Guys will gravitate
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: towards him. He has natural leadership ability. The kneed obviously
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: will have to be worked out. But I'm sure the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: team's in the first round. Everybody has prided and pulled
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it that had him in the facility. So I just
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: love what Henn and Hooker has to offer there. A
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: team is going to get a steal. This guy can
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: step in right away. The maturity's going to help him
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to handle all those situations he's going to get. He's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the sleeper for me. You know, we're talking about him now,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: but when we're highlighting Richardson and Levice yeah, they're younger,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: but they might take two or three years. Actually, if
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: there ever anything, this guy's ready made and ready to go.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Andrew assuming that knee is ready by September and he's
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: getting there. Not expected really to do anything today at
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that Pro day, but he's going to talk to teams.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And he was out of the field at the combine
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: while the other quarterbacks were throwing. He has been present
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: all along the way year in this process. Coming back
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: to Tennessee Pro Day today, also TCU Pro Day today.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: A lot of first round talent on this field here.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: I love it, including for Bigga pardon us. Quintin Johnston,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver who last year as the Horned Frogs
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: blew up and went to the National Championship Game, also
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: did the same with over a thousand yards receiving. He
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: is a big body, Baldi, what do you see, Well,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: he's your classic X receiver. I mean, you know he's
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: he's sixty three and change, he's two hundred and fifteen pounds,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: he can fly, he wins jump balls. He's your go
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: route guy. I mean he's your classic big X. You know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the guy opposite ty end the line of scrimmage. A J. Brown,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, he's that guy. I remember Mark, when DK
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Metcalf came out of Old miss they said, oh, he
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: can just run go routes, And that's what they're kind
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: of saying about Quentin Johnston right now. He's kind of
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: a you know, one trick pony, that kind of thing.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: But I just think this guy has a chance to
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: develop because he's got explosive speed. He's a game breaker.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: He can work the sidelines with all the back shoulder
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: stuff that you got to be able to do the
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: go routes where you're bisecting the numbers the sideline. I
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: just think he's a special talent. And while there's a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: lot of receivers in this draft, I don't see a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: lot of just big exes. Mark like Quinton Johnston in
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: this draft. You're right, that's his biggest selling point. Baldie,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: all the other top guys, A Flower, Jordan Addison, High
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: there little guys. So when you're in a draft room,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you're talking like, here's the big guy we want, And
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: some teams aren't crazy about drafting smaller receivers. So Quinton
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Johnson already has an advantage. When you start stacking these
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: guys and you mentioned his skill sets sort of a
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: you know, go route slants. They run a lot of
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: overs with him, So draft him and do that with him.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Don't draft him and try to have run curls and
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: comebacks and double move routes. That's the onus on where
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: you're coaching staff and your scouting staff have to be
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: on one accord and say this is what this guy
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: does really well and what we bring him in here.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Let's have him do that run those routes. The one
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: of the concerns I do have with him is the hand.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: So today at his pro day, he'll have to show
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: if he catches the ball clean. That'll alleviate a lot
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of concerns with him. He didn't run the forty. Looks
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: like he's fast, so on tape that you didn't run
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the forty at the combine, so that'll be important as
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: well to determine some teams how fast he actually is.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And he didn't do the shuttles, so that'll also kind
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of alleviate. Well, if he does great in the shuttles,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: people will match that up and say, you know what,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: he doesn't look like he's got great change of direction
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: on film, but he ran the Shuttle as well. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: big day here for Quentin Johnson. A lot of positive
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: attributes that teams will try to sell, can alleviate a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: lot of concerns today at his pro day. Andrew big
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: day for the top big receiver in this draft obviously
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: in Waco. Not love it as I messed up my
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Texas geography a little bit earlier. Don't forgive you. Yeah,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I hope So second in eight Dalton get it to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the factor. He's got room around twenty five fifty ten Shahed,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL. Play action for Dulton, looking to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: throw dust. Throw deep, He's looking for Shahid. Shahid will
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: make the catch and he will score the touchdown beautifully
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: brought down by Shahid. He's like, this game is easy.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Touchdown Week one, touchdown Week two. Snap back to throwers,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Tason looks throws deep, frostamental is wide open, and that's
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: gonna be shah Rusheed just speed. The guy was electric
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: last year as a rookie, and the PF people are
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: naming Rashid Shahid as their breakout wide receiver potentially next
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: season as he enters year number two with the New
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Orleans Saints as he's back here in southern California in
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the off season Enlive with Us on set. Good to
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: see Rashid. Thank you for having me. What do you
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: think of that breakout player your second season? That's an honor.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: It means a lot to get the eyes of you know,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus and you know, the the honor to
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: have my name out there, it means means the world.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, think of think of where you've come in
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a year. A year ago. You're recovering from that ACL injury, right,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: you're getting ready for the draft. You're getting ready obviously
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you're trying to rehab that injury. You didn't get drafted, Rashids,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you didn't even sign with the Saints until May. And
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: here you are after scoring touchdowns last year and doing
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: all those great things as a rookie. Man. It's beautiful. Um,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the journey, it's meant a lot. I've had a lot
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: of people, good people in my circle to keep me
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: grounded throughout that process. M You know, it was a
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: tough time back back then, not knowing the uncertainty of
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: what team. You know, if a team is going to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: give me a shot after the ACL injury, and you know,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the Saints did, and I kind of I'm thankful for
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: it and everything is has turned out very still blows
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: my mind that you didn't sign immediately after the draft. Here,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: it didn't sign until May second. Rashid set the FCS record,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: the all time record with seven career kickoff returns. Then
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you get to the NFL. You don't play till week six.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: That's okay. Let's put on the screen here. The very
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: first time Rashid touched the football, you did this. Take
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: me through it. So as you see a five sleep
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to the right to the boundary, you know, I was
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: kind of, you know, hoping my receiver out there, I
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: can just get a block. He did his job perfectly,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and I got the ball. I didn't see anybody out there,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: and I just you know, used my speed and made
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: a cut, a couple of cuts, and I was able
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to get an end open field and you're gone, forty
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: four yard touchdown run. The second time you touched the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: ball was next week, week seven, Rashid, look what you did, man,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: so beautiful pass, beautiful ball. Can't complain And I was
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: able to capitalize on the play. Great play call. I
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: was early on the game and I was able to
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: take the top off. Get going to score board for
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a fifty three yard touchdown. The very first two times
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: you got the ball in the NFL, you scored touchdowns. Rashid.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to pull the tape up, but what
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: happened on the third time he touched the ball? Why
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: couldn't you score? Um? Disappointing. I know, I was just
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: so disappointing. I got a lot of got a lot
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: of craft for that. But it's okay, you really you
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: really did? Yeah, yeah, of course what they say, um right,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: entry Scar literally well, I mean you automatically became a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: piece of that offense, as did fellow rookie wide receiver
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Chris Alave, a guy that you knew from growing up
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a little bit, competed against obviously in San Diego. How
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: cool was that to be playing together on the scene,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: man and men everything. It was awesome. Um, the impact
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: that he had, you know, as a rookie. Um, he's
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: obviously one of the best rookies in the league. I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: felt like he should have been Rookie of the Year.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: That's just my biased opinion. But the kid's a star.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a star for a long time.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Works hard. Um, as you can see by the highlights,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: he's he's a difference maker and he's going to be
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: for a long time. I said, growing up here in
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: southern California and San Diego, you obviously saw a lot
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of the Raiders on TV. Now you're getting Derek Carr
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: as you're a quarterback. Big smile there, what do you yeah?
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so excited, great dude, been watching for a
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: long time. Um, he's gonna come in and he's gonna
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: compete and be a leader that the team needs. And
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: so excited to work with him and you know, get
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: get some chemistry down and you know he's going to
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: throw a lot of deep balls and planning to be
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: on the opposite side of that and you know catching
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: for him. And I'm super excited. Great guy, I'm going
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to be a great teammate and I'm excited to work
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: with Have you guys made plans yet as he got
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: in the group together or figured out a day when
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: when he's going to throw with you guys, Not quite yet.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: We will have a bunch of opportunities in the near future. Um,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you know Ota is coming up and everything, and I'm
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: sure after that we'll have plenty of time, and we'll
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: take a receiver trip and I'm sure we'll have a
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: lot of a lot of workouts to do. You have
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: any any advice here for the guys we're one month
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: from the draft who have no idea where their next
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: step on this for a whole journey is going to
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: take them. Well, would you tell those guys? I would
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: tell him to enjoy the process. Um, you never get
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it again. Um, you know, take it day by day,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: continue to find things to get better at. And um,
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: you know it's the same game that you've been playing
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: since since you're a little kid. And Um, like I said,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: enjoyed the process. It's journey, but it's a fun journey.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: And like I said, you want to get it again.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: So take a day by day and just enjoy it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Your process this offseason much different than the last season.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Coming back for the injury, but trying to stay healthy,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: trying to get in the best shape. Tell me about
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: where you're working out, Yes, right here on the shirt
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: EBS Fitness saying clost to Mesa, California. I've been working
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: out with Crief Byrd and Marcus Steps. You guys had
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: on the show A couple of weeks ago, loving it,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: having a great time out there. It's a beautiful place
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: to work out at. Can beat so Kyle, but Ebs
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: as well, where I've been training at and loving it
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: and trying to keep my body in shape, you know,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: stay staying physical, physical, good shape. And it's been going
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: well so far. Very big year number two in New Orleans,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Weber States, Rashid Shihi, good luck man, thanks for coming,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, appreciate it and if we'll now
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: continues here coming up next back to Florida. More on
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson, how he looked, where he thinks he's going. Tom, Hello, Sarah,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: how to go? Anthony Richardson threw about forty five passes
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: during his pro day throwing session on Thursday here in Gainesville.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: He closed it out with a deep shot and then
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a back handspring as he ran down the field with teammates,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: once again putting that rare athletic ability on display. Several
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: head coaches were on hand, including the Panthers Frank Reich
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and the Seahawks Pete Carroll, who both have been attending
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: all the quarterback pro days as they ponder what to
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: do with their top five picks. Also were general managers
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: on hand from the Titans and the Raiders. The Raiders
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: took Richardson out to dinner on Wednesday night. They're also
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: bringing him in for a visit next week. NFL Now
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