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Chris Landry on J.J. McCarthy and the Value of 40-yard Dash Numbers · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris is the hype around and we talked to you about him before, but
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  he just continues to climb around. J J. McCarthy a lot of mock
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  drafts. Again, we take that for what it's worth mock drafts, but
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  moving him up to number three, I mean, look, how high is
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  this guy gonna climb? And this is the product worth the hype. I
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  think he'll be a top ten pick. I think the three that are mentioned
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  JJ, and I think Michael Pennix will all be drafted in the first round
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  for kind of what I talked about last week, the supplying demand, the
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  importance of the position, the fact that these guys are so valuable. And
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  I think here's the thing with j. JJ is more of a cerebral guy.
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  He's got a good arm. He's you know, he's not asked in
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  that offense at Michigan to carry his team, so he's you know, he's
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  not going to have the numbers and do those things. Am I as confident
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  in him as I am in Jaden Daniels, for example. No, but
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  I think he's a guy that's gonna be pretty good. I don't know exactly
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  where he's gonna go yet, but I think he's gonna go in the top
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  ten. Because as it gets closer and closer, the teams that don't have
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  a quarterback, what do you do? So see right now, the teams
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  that are still in the quarterback race, Let's see what happens in free agency.
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  What do the Falcons do? Do they make a run at Kirk Cousins?
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  What about Denver? Do they make a run at Kirk Cousins? Does
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  Kirk Cousins go back to Minnesota? I mean, just as an example,
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  Well, what happens there? One of those teams may not be as inclined
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  to go for a quarterback, but one that doesn't might be more inclined to
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  go and maybe even move up to get him. So look, this could
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  this be another situation like when the Giants took Daniel Jones? Possibly? I
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  think I think JJ is better, but time will tell. I think he's
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  gonna be uh a top ten, top twelve pick in this draft. I
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  did, Chris, Let me ask you this before we go to break forty
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  times. When you look at like Xavier Worthy out of Texas four two to
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  one, breaks a record, Nate Wiggans four two eight, I mean there's
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  some all unbelievable times. But that four to two one. Does that move
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  a player's stock potentially up? Or is it a is it minimal or negligible?
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  What is the value on a high forty time but then a record boarding
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  time? Well, here's the thing. It to me, no one should
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  be surprised. When we did it on landryge football dot com, a forecast
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  who's going to be the fastest guy? He was the guy, and the
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  whole tone was he's going to be chasing John Ross and could he get in
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  the you know, sub four to two fives? And he did, so
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  it wasn't a surprise. If you're watching one film, that's exactly what he
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  is. He's he's a speech so it's not gonna up. It shouldn't have
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  been because it's what he did. He does on film all year long.
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  Now he's a different type of guy. He's got some size, he's not
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  great in the fifty to fifty balls. So what he is on film is
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  what he is on film. Speechter is what I expected what he is in
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  terms of speed. Here's the kind of the little uh misnomer about forties.
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  I'm more concerned about statistical measurables with regard to bodies or ten yard times or
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  short shuttles. Do they meet a certain metric, for example, if they've
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  you're Worthy ran four two one, which he did, or he ran four
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  three five, it doesn't make Hillabeine's difference fast as fast. Okay, Now,
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  if you tell me a corner doesn't look fast on film and he comes
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  to the combine and he runs four six eight, think there is no corner
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  is going to live in the NFL running four or they say it's it's just
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  you can't live there, you can't survive there. So that's if you if
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  you meet a certain metric, if you're a certain minimal speed, you're fine.
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  Anything above that is is gravy. You know, as we say in
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  Louisiana, Lania, it's just it's extra. It's great. But you know,
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  you shouldn't take Xavier Worthy if you thought he was the you know,
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  mid first round, you shouldn't move him up and top off because he ran
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  four two one. That's none that make him a better player. But he's
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  fast, and he knew he would be fast. It's just more of can
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  you meet a certain metric? And there wasn't any doubt that he was going to