Latest / 3 and Out with John Middlekauff / LIVE from The NFL Combine Day 3, Longtime NFL reporter Albert Breer stops by, NFL Films Sr Producer Greg Cosell joins the show
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- 0:01Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on everybody, John Middlecoff three
- 0:17Speaker 1: Now Podcast? How are we doing? Hopefully everyone is doing well.
- 0:21Speaker 1: We are back in Arizona, off a little sleep and
- 0:25Speaker 1: uh ready to enjoy some sun, get out of the
- 0:28Speaker 1: freezing cold weather.
- 0:29Speaker 2: I guess it. Honestly wasn't that cold.
- 0:31Speaker 1: I've been to India when it's definitely been colder and snowing,
- 0:34Speaker 1: so we avoided that. But today we will talk to
- 0:38Speaker 1: Albert Breer, who information gatherer in the National Football League,
- 0:45Speaker 1: and we will also talk to Greg Cosell, who knows
- 0:50Speaker 1: quarterbacks as well as anybody, and turns out he was
- 0:53Speaker 1: friends with Bill Walsh, so we'll talk to Greg co self.
- 0:56Speaker 1: That will be the show today on this Fugazi Friday,
- 0:59Speaker 1: because You're boy is out of gas.
- 1:02Speaker 2: So we banged out some interviews when we were there
- 1:04Speaker 2: and that's what we will do today. So we'll go
- 1:07Speaker 2: with Albert Breer and then Great co Sell. You guys
- 1:10Speaker 2: know the drill. Subscribe to the podcast wherever you may listen.
- 1:13Speaker 1: You can catch obviously all the video up on Netflix
- 1:16Speaker 1: and enjoy. Let's dive into Breer. Okay, here with the
- 1:20Speaker 1: mister information Albert Breer, I watch your mail bags on
- 1:24Speaker 1: YouTube all the time, and I've obviously Colin you just
- 1:29Speaker 1: you feed me full of information.
- 1:31Speaker 2: So this is obviously a big week for people like you, yep,
- 1:34Speaker 2: coming in. What's the buzz out there on the street
- 1:38Speaker 2: right now?
- 1:38Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think this is like an interesting
- 1:40Speaker 3: off season.
- 1:42Speaker 4: I think the free agent market is what it's always been.
- 1:46Speaker 3: There has been for the last few years with the
- 1:48Speaker 3: caps escalated to the point where if you want to
- 1:50Speaker 3: keep a guy, you generally can, So you're starting to
- 1:53Speaker 3: hear about tags, right like so George Pickens, Alec Pierce,
- 1:57Speaker 3: Brice Hall. It winds becoming a really really thin market,
- 2:02Speaker 3: and so I think that that goose is the trade
- 2:04Speaker 3: market create some more conversations between teams where you know,
- 2:08Speaker 3: teams that have needs that they need to fill have
- 2:10Speaker 3: to get a little bit more creative.
- 2:12Speaker 4: And then you know, I think, like.
- 2:14Speaker 3: For me, at least, like over the last couple of weeks,
- 2:17Speaker 3: you know, I'm just trying to cram and learn as
- 2:19Speaker 3: much about the draft class as I possibly can.
- 2:21Speaker 4: And and that's interesting.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Too, because I feel like there are a couple of
- 2:26Speaker 3: stories in this year's drafts. I mean, the first one
- 2:28Speaker 3: I think is that it's Fernando Mendoza, and then who
- 2:30Speaker 3: the hell knows at quarterback? There may be only one answer,
- 2:34Speaker 3: and if that guy's going first overall, it's going to
- 2:36Speaker 3: leave a lot of teams, you know, in March looking
- 2:39Speaker 3: for some sort of answer, whether it's the bridge or
- 2:41Speaker 3: something else at quarterback, you know. And then I think
- 2:45Speaker 3: the very top of the draft you don't have like
- 2:49Speaker 3: the prototypes, like the Cyborgs, you know what I mean.
- 2:51Speaker 3: There's no Calvin Johnson receiver, there's.
- 2:53Speaker 2: No Miles Garrett, Miles.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Garrett defensive end. You know, there's no Pine steel tackle.
- 2:58Speaker 3: So you know, it's for.
- 3:01Speaker 4: The teams at the top.
- 3:01Speaker 3: It's sort of interesting like where once you get past
- 3:03Speaker 3: Mendoza going to the Raiders, you know, the Jets, the Titans,
- 3:06Speaker 3: what do these teams do? Are you comfortable taking David
- 3:10Speaker 3: Bailey or Rvel Reese, you know his edge rushers. Rvel
- 3:12Speaker 3: Reese is kind of more of like a Micah Parson's hybrid.
- 3:15Speaker 3: Are you comfortable taking Spencer Fano that high?
- 3:18Speaker 4: Or do you look at you go.
- 3:20Speaker 3: Non premium position, whether Jeremiah Love or a Kleeb downs.
- 3:24Speaker 3: You know, I think it's interesting from that standpoint, although
- 3:26Speaker 3: it does sound like from what I can from what
- 3:28Speaker 3: I can gather, there's some good depth. So like once
- 3:31Speaker 3: you settle into the bottom of the first round, second
- 3:33Speaker 3: and third round, you can do some really good work.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Okay, let's just start with Fernando. I mean, I'm biased.
- 3:38Speaker 1: I'm a big SPI tech guy. Last year was weird. Obviously,
- 3:41Speaker 1: the Pete thing, the quarterback. You've You've covered a lot
- 3:45Speaker 1: of the Brady situation. He lives in Florida, so it's
- 3:49Speaker 1: not like he's in the building every day.
- 3:52Speaker 2: You get drafted.
- 3:52Speaker 1: I mean, Indiana, you're Ohio state guy. Indiana turned into
- 3:55Speaker 1: Ohio state in like two years. Somehow, it doesn't get
- 3:58Speaker 1: much better than what he did. The Raiders have a
- 3:59Speaker 1: lot of issues, the Max Crosby thing hanging over. Just
- 4:03Speaker 1: your thoughts on Fernando going to a team that's obviously
- 4:05Speaker 1: not that good.
- 4:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think like it's it's
- 4:11Speaker 3: interesting because you know, I do a big thing, you know,
- 4:14Speaker 3: every year with DJ and with McShay and kind of
- 4:18Speaker 3: have them like I had them.
- 4:20Speaker 2: I was like, so.
- 4:20Speaker 4: Where do they THE'SE got? War would Fernando rank historically?
- 4:24Speaker 4: And this is sort of what I've.
- 4:25Speaker 3: Gotten from teams too, Is that like he would be
- 4:28Speaker 3: in the class two years ago, I would have been fourth,
- 4:30Speaker 3: beyond the big three and ahead of McCarthy, Pennix and Knicks. Yeah,
- 4:35Speaker 3: you know, and then and then you look back a
- 4:36Speaker 3: few more years and it's like, well, over the last
- 4:38Speaker 3: five years, where would he be fourth or fifth?
- 4:41Speaker 4: You know, depending on how you look at him versus
- 4:43Speaker 4: cam Ward.
- 4:43Speaker 3: So he's a really good prospect worthy of going first overall.
- 4:49Speaker 3: I think the question that the Raiders are going to
- 4:52Speaker 3: be asking internally is we think he can be like
- 4:55Speaker 3: a top ten quarterback Kenny elevate and.
- 4:57Speaker 4: Become a top five quarterback? And and you know, what
- 5:01Speaker 4: do you do need to do around him to get
- 5:02Speaker 4: him there? And the compside, you know, the comp I've
- 5:05Speaker 4: heard that I.
- 5:05Speaker 3: Like the most is golf. You know, you hear some
- 5:07Speaker 3: of the Matt Ryan too, you know, can you like,
- 5:12Speaker 3: do you see yourself in five years paying somebody like that?
- 5:14Speaker 3: And who knows what it's gonna be? Seventy five million,
- 5:16Speaker 3: eighty million dollars a year's good? Like is he going
- 5:19Speaker 3: to get to a second contract with you? So those
- 5:21Speaker 3: are the sorts of questions you're asking. He's a really
- 5:23Speaker 3: good player. I think, you know, it's just I think
- 5:27Speaker 3: in a in an era now where we're seeing these
- 5:31Speaker 3: quarterbacks get to the second contracts and it's almost like
- 5:35Speaker 3: if you see your own guy, you draft and develop
- 5:37Speaker 3: and you have to pay him at the top of
- 5:38Speaker 3: the market. So like you know what Jordan Love and
- 5:42Speaker 3: Justin Herbert gets affects what to a tongue of a
- 5:45Speaker 3: Lowa gets. So now you got Tua on top of
- 5:47Speaker 3: the market deal, and now that looks different once he's
- 5:50Speaker 3: not on his rookie deal anymore and you can't put
- 5:52Speaker 3: as much around him, and now he doesn't look like
- 5:54Speaker 3: the same player. These are all the sorts of arguments
- 5:57Speaker 3: that like you're going to have to make on Fernando
- 6:01Speaker 3: Mendoza if you're in that room and you're gonna have
- 6:03Speaker 3: to kind of play Devil's advocate with a lot of
- 6:04Speaker 3: that stuff. Or does Tom Brady look at him and
- 6:09Speaker 3: identify with them and say, you know, chip on his shoulder, Cal,
- 6:14Speaker 3: you know, like leaves Cal goes to Indiana like he's
- 6:17Speaker 3: kind of got you know. And again DJ and McShay
- 6:20Speaker 3: made this point. Both of them made this point to me,
- 6:22Speaker 3: like there's like a lot of like kind of parallels
- 6:25Speaker 3: between him and Brady.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Tall accurate sees the field. Well all that, so, I
- 6:30Speaker 4: know I gave you a lot there.
- 6:31Speaker 1: But we'll see And I know where DJ and Micshay
- 6:33Speaker 1: come at it from like a twenty thousand foot view,
- 6:36Speaker 1: and if I view it from the lens of like
- 6:38Speaker 1: I lived in the Bay for a long time. What
- 6:40Speaker 1: Shanahan likes and now Kubiak's there. They you know, the
- 6:44Speaker 1: cam Ward, the traits, Matt. I've been around Andy Reid.
- 6:46Speaker 1: They like traits, the Shanahan's accuracy, smarts. They're gonna like
- 6:51Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza do what I call a lot.
- 6:53Speaker 4: Yeah, they like having a joy set.
- 6:55Speaker 1: I think Fernando Mendoza would shine for a lot of
- 6:57Speaker 1: the Shanahan type guys. Like I think now They're offense
- 7:00Speaker 1: isn't quite set up and they need some receivers. The
- 7:02Speaker 1: running back again, I'm spiked that guy. Disagreed with the
- 7:06Speaker 1: value six overall for the little guy. I mean, he's
- 7:08Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on him to be a really
- 7:10Speaker 1: really good player, but he is a talented player. Showed
- 7:12Speaker 1: some signs at the end. I think he fits that
- 7:14Speaker 1: offense really really well well.
- 7:16Speaker 3: I think that's fair, you know, and like he can
- 7:18Speaker 3: move and again he's really accurate. He sees it fast,
- 7:22Speaker 3: he sees and you know, I I do think like
- 7:26Speaker 3: if you look, and I think one of the main
- 7:29Speaker 3: biggest criticism we're gonna here on him is like the
- 7:31Speaker 3: amount of RPOs that Indiana.
- 7:33Speaker 4: Ran, but.
- 7:35Speaker 2: Top running team in the country, right, yeah, And.
- 7:37Speaker 3: You saw, but you saw some things like in big
- 7:39Speaker 3: spots where he made big throws, you know, I mean
- 7:41Speaker 3: the Penn State game, I think is probably the most
- 7:43Speaker 3: obvious one, you know, but in the the Ohio State game,
- 7:47Speaker 3: like the throw he made, I think there was Charlie
- 7:49Speaker 3: Becker down the sideline to put my guys away, Like
- 7:53Speaker 3: I was in the stands for that one.
- 7:55Speaker 4: He I mean, that was a really I.
- 7:58Speaker 3: Mean a high end O high state defense with four
- 8:01Speaker 3: guys who I think will be first round picks in
- 8:03Speaker 3: this year's draft and maybe more in the next couple
- 8:07Speaker 3: drafts that he was going against. And he was making
- 8:09Speaker 3: big plays in the passing game down the stretch of
- 8:12Speaker 3: that game.
- 8:13Speaker 4: You do see it in spurts, and it's just I.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Think you have to trust that that's gonna grow and
- 8:18Speaker 3: there's gonna be there's gonna.
- 8:19Speaker 4: Be more of that as you feel.
- 8:20Speaker 1: You watched John l waydoc on Netflix, Yeah, those guys
- 8:23Speaker 1: got hit in the eighties.
- 8:24Speaker 2: It looked like a UFC fight. Yeah, And that.
- 8:26Speaker 1: For honestly, one of the most impressive things in Fernando
- 8:29Speaker 1: Mendoz's career is the first play in the Ohio State
- 8:31Speaker 1: game when he got hit like it was nineteen eighty
- 8:33Speaker 1: oh yeah, the NFL two plays.
- 8:35Speaker 4: Later, Kathen Curry, I think hit him right.
- 8:36Speaker 2: I mean he got clock like the dude on the
- 8:38Speaker 2: like Sarkt in the hockey.
- 8:39Speaker 4: His little brother came in and exactly.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Ran one play and he came back. I could see
- 8:43Speaker 1: Brady like, because that's the end off.
- 8:45Speaker 3: That's what Brady that and that I think is what
- 8:47Speaker 3: Brady is gonna look for. Like I I know this,
- 8:49Speaker 3: like I remember, you know, covering Brady when he was
- 8:52Speaker 3: a younger player, and he changed over the years and
- 8:55Speaker 3: sort of sel there's a self preservation to his game.
- 8:57Speaker 3: But if you watched Brady when he was young, he
- 9:01Speaker 3: took monster hits.
- 9:02Speaker 4: And I remember talking to his coaches and like how.
- 9:05Speaker 3: They said, like he gives the receivers the line, he
- 9:09Speaker 3: gives them an extra second He gives everything an extra second,
- 9:12Speaker 3: gives the lineman an extra second to block, gives the
- 9:15Speaker 3: play an extra second to develop, gives the receivers an
- 9:18Speaker 3: extra second to get open because he's willing to take
- 9:21Speaker 3: the hit, you know. And that was Brady when he
- 9:23Speaker 3: was young. Now, of course it changed. I think after
- 9:25Speaker 3: the acl like there were I think he realized, like,
- 9:28Speaker 3: I'm not gonna last going this way.
- 9:30Speaker 4: But that's who Brady was when he was younger. It
- 9:32Speaker 4: was one of the most.
- 9:33Speaker 3: Important pieces of his game. And I mean I saw
- 9:37Speaker 3: that hit like it looked like.
- 9:39Speaker 2: I thought he was dead.
- 9:41Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, I've at the stadium thought he was
- 9:42Speaker 1: out for the game, right, and their season was over right, I.
- 9:45Speaker 3: Mean I thought I thought Ohio State at that point
- 9:48Speaker 3: was going forty five to nothing, you know what I mean.
- 9:50Speaker 4: Like, and obviously I was mistaken on that one.
- 9:52Speaker 2: But he but his toughness, I mean, that's a huge part.
- 9:54Speaker 2: I think's the most underrated part of quarterback.
- 9:56Speaker 1: Even today, you don't get hit his You've still got
- 9:58Speaker 1: to be tough, right and he And speaking of tough,
- 10:01Speaker 1: the biggest story with the Raiders is Max and yeah,
- 10:04Speaker 1: you're out on the street the buzz and spy text.
- 10:06Speaker 2: They don't.
- 10:06Speaker 1: They clearly love that, like he represents everything you'd want
- 10:09Speaker 1: to play. He's probably one of the most well respected
- 10:11Speaker 1: player by every coach in the NFL.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Right, but how do they not? I mean, he's twenty eight,
- 10:14Speaker 2: twenty nine, had some injuries.
- 10:15Speaker 1: I heard you talking about it last week of like,
- 10:18Speaker 1: you know, his market's still pretty I think you get
- 10:21Speaker 1: two first round picks because the amount of teams that
- 10:22Speaker 1: would be bidding on him.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean he's under contract, I think the question
- 10:26Speaker 3: with him, So most of the guys who've been traded
- 10:28Speaker 3: for two first round picks have been like smack in
- 10:31Speaker 3: the middle of the prime of their careers. So Max
- 10:33Speaker 3: a little different than that. Max cost a lot though,
- 10:35Speaker 3: Max Max micas Max is going to be twenty nine, right,
- 10:39Speaker 3: Max's Max has finished the last three years injured. Doesn't
- 10:41Speaker 3: mean he's injury prone, but the facts of the facts,
- 10:44Speaker 3: he's finished the last three years injured. So that's a
- 10:47Speaker 3: piece of it too, you know, And it's how does
- 10:49Speaker 3: he project going forward?
- 10:50Speaker 2: Now?
- 10:50Speaker 4: The upshot of.
- 10:51Speaker 3: It is his contract is tradable, and his contract gives
- 10:54Speaker 3: his new team control and if he's not like going
- 10:58Speaker 3: to be pounding the table for a contract adjustment. If
- 11:01Speaker 3: he's happy to go with his exist is existing contract
- 11:04Speaker 3: somewhere else, well then you know you could look at
- 11:07Speaker 3: and say, we'll get good three good years of him
- 11:09Speaker 3: out of him. Well, we'll be able to get at
- 11:11Speaker 3: least three good years out of him. So I don't
- 11:14Speaker 3: know about two first round picks. But like, and the
- 11:17Speaker 3: only thing that gives me pause there John is the
- 11:20Speaker 3: is the age piece of it. And it's just historically
- 11:23Speaker 3: you look at it and the Khalil Max, the the
- 11:26Speaker 3: the Micah Parsons. Those guys were at the end of
- 11:29Speaker 3: the rookie deals when those things happen.
- 11:31Speaker 1: The difference though, is with those guys you obviously had
- 11:33Speaker 1: to trade the two first round picks, but then you
- 11:35Speaker 1: had to give him historic extensions. Yeah, right, this different
- 11:38Speaker 1: exact might have to my think with the two first
- 11:41Speaker 1: round picks, it's like a house seven people want to buy.
- 11:43Speaker 1: I think they were all the good teams would be
- 11:45Speaker 1: interested in Max Crosby, so you get three. How many
- 11:47Speaker 1: people were really bidding for Micah because he had to
- 11:49Speaker 1: sign the contract.
- 11:50Speaker 2: Well, if it's it's kind of a unique deal.
- 11:51Speaker 3: I mean and and like part of that's sliding too,
- 11:54Speaker 3: and that like because this like some of those deals,
- 11:57Speaker 3: like the Coalil Mac deal, the Michael Parsiy seal, those
- 12:00Speaker 3: happen in training camp, so you don't know what that
- 12:02Speaker 3: first round pick is now. Like I think the two
- 12:06Speaker 3: Super Bowl teams will be involved if he becomes available,
- 12:09Speaker 3: and those two teams have the thirty first and thirty
- 12:12Speaker 3: second picks, that means like they're not.
- 12:15Speaker 4: Going to get away with like just get like Whereas
- 12:17Speaker 4: if you have the.
- 12:18Speaker 3: Twentieth pick or you have the fifteenth pick, then obviously
- 12:21Speaker 3: that's going to change the value and the fact that
- 12:23Speaker 3: we know where those picks are versus like some of
- 12:25Speaker 3: these guys that got traded during training camp where you're
- 12:28Speaker 3: a lot of its guesswork, you know, changes the equation too.
- 12:32Speaker 1: Lesson Sean at the thirteenth pick, because Atlanta they've been
- 12:35Speaker 1: known to do some crazy stuff.
- 12:36Speaker 2: Do you think Max gets traded?
- 12:41Speaker 4: I I don't.
- 12:44Speaker 3: I don't know, just because I know Max is really principal.
- 12:50Speaker 3: I know he's got the loyalty to Mark Davis, the
- 12:52Speaker 3: loyalty to the Raiders.
- 12:53Speaker 4: The desire to be a one team guy.
- 12:56Speaker 3: I also know like he had a good conversation with
- 12:58Speaker 3: Klint Kubiak. My question is, like the Tom Brady Alex Guerrero,
- 13:04Speaker 3: like that whole part of it.
- 13:07Speaker 4: Can they get that ironed out? Can they get that?
- 13:10Speaker 2: Like?
- 13:10Speaker 3: Because I do think that there was a part of
- 13:12Speaker 3: it for Max And this is like just me talking,
- 13:15Speaker 3: but like I think for Max, like a big piece
- 13:17Speaker 3: of this is like what does he have to compete
- 13:19Speaker 3: for if he hasn't been competing for championships, which the
- 13:22Speaker 3: team hasn't been good enough for him to compete for championships?
- 13:25Speaker 3: All pros statistical benchmarks, being able to say like I
- 13:32Speaker 3: answer the bell every week for my teammates, and I
- 13:35Speaker 3: think like last year he kind of felt like that
- 13:36Speaker 3: was taken away from him, you know, And is he
- 13:41Speaker 3: going to hold on to that?
- 13:42Speaker 2: I don't.
- 13:42Speaker 3: That's the part that's really hard to project, Like how
- 13:46Speaker 3: long does he hold on to that? And then I
- 13:48Speaker 3: think the other piece of it too is like we're here,
- 13:51Speaker 3: these teams are talking to each other, Like does what
- 13:54Speaker 3: people are whispering to the Raiders affect it too, you
- 13:57Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like where if the Raiders don't
- 13:59Speaker 3: think the market is as hot as people think, for him,
- 14:03Speaker 3: I think it'll be for him, Like, does that affect
- 14:06Speaker 3: their well, their willingness to go back in and try
- 14:08Speaker 3: tomend fences.
- 14:09Speaker 1: One takeaway ahead from yesterday is I think most people
- 14:13Speaker 1: casually think, oh, they don't like AJ Brown, he's a
- 14:15Speaker 1: big pain.
- 14:16Speaker 2: I think the Eagles internally like AJ Brown. Yeah.
- 14:18Speaker 1: I think the players like him, the coaches like him.
- 14:20Speaker 1: The view on the outside is different, I think than
- 14:22Speaker 1: the inside. I just thought, like, well, he's older, makes
- 14:25Speaker 1: a lot of money. Just get they have to give
- 14:27Speaker 1: Hi away for a thirt Like, I actually don't think
- 14:28Speaker 1: they're just giving him away, Like I came away like
- 14:31Speaker 1: I think this a J. Brown thinks a little more
- 14:32Speaker 1: complicated than you assume.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Is that fair? Yeah?
- 14:35Speaker 4: I mean I think it's. Look, they've got some cap
- 14:38Speaker 4: issues coming down the Pike's true.
- 14:39Speaker 3: And they've got some things that they're gonna have to
- 14:41Speaker 3: clean up. And you know the way you clean those
- 14:44Speaker 3: things up is you move older players off the roster
- 14:48Speaker 3: and get you really younger, really young players on the roster.
- 14:53Speaker 2: And so he's done that over the last coup.
- 14:55Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think that that part of it can't
- 14:57Speaker 3: be ignored. That it's well, like if somebody's offering a
- 15:01Speaker 3: first round pick and something else for him, which I
- 15:02Speaker 3: don't know will be offered at this point, because I
- 15:04Speaker 3: do think he's I think he's lost his step. Like
- 15:06Speaker 3: I think he's still a really good player, but I
- 15:08Speaker 3: think he's lost his step. But if somebody comes to
- 15:10Speaker 3: you with the first round pick and say a fourth
- 15:11Speaker 3: round pick or whatever, that's two players that are gonna
- 15:14Speaker 3: be on your roster for cheap and.
- 15:15Speaker 4: You have to take the cap hit.
- 15:17Speaker 3: But I think that stuff can be overblown sometimes too,
- 15:20Speaker 3: just in that, well, you're gonna have to take this
- 15:22Speaker 3: cap hit.
- 15:22Speaker 4: It's like that's not disappearing.
- 15:24Speaker 3: If you hang on to him, like that's gonna like
- 15:27Speaker 3: that mortgaged money that's sitting there on your that's eventually
- 15:31Speaker 3: going to hit.
- 15:32Speaker 4: Like so one way or the other, you're gonna have
- 15:34Speaker 4: to account for it at some point. Makes it interesting.
- 15:38Speaker 4: I'm with you, Like I think he's a good guy
- 15:40Speaker 4: who's liked in the locker room all of that.
- 15:42Speaker 3: Like, I think Jalen Hurts has more problems in that
- 15:44Speaker 3: regard than AJ Brown, does.
- 15:48Speaker 4: You know.
- 15:49Speaker 3: I think that's one where how he can kind of
- 15:53Speaker 3: sit back and.
- 15:55Speaker 4: I don't think he needs to shop him.
- 15:57Speaker 3: I think people will naturally come to him and then
- 15:59Speaker 3: he can say it from there.
- 16:00Speaker 1: The team in your backyard, where they you think they're
- 16:02Speaker 1: kind of rattled by how the Super Bowl went.
- 16:06Speaker 2: Where's one of those I think.
- 16:08Speaker 3: Well, I think if you look at the way that
- 16:10Speaker 3: they handled the trade deadline, they were playing really well,
- 16:15Speaker 3: and I still think that there was a caution we're
- 16:19Speaker 3: not there yet, and a realistic look at the roster
- 16:23Speaker 3: and like looking at it and saying, well, this is
- 16:26Speaker 3: great and we're doing awesome, but is this really like
- 16:30Speaker 3: the roster that we'll be able to sustain for the
- 16:32Speaker 3: next five years? And the reality of it is at receiver,
- 16:35Speaker 3: they're relying on Stephan Digson mac Collins. At tight end,
- 16:37Speaker 3: they're relying on Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper. Their right
- 16:40Speaker 3: tackle is Morgan Moses. Like they're older at a bunch
- 16:44Speaker 3: of positions. And I think there's a little bit of
- 16:46Speaker 3: like a cautionary tale there to some degree with the
- 16:49Speaker 3: commanders last year, where the commanders got old in a
- 16:52Speaker 3: hurry fast and like it went from all right, this
- 16:56Speaker 3: stuff's all working out now, we're all in. We're trading
- 16:58Speaker 3: for Lattimore, we're trading for debo or trade waiting for Tunsil.
- 17:02Speaker 2: They got old.
- 17:04Speaker 3: And what happens to teams, They get old, they get hurt,
- 17:07Speaker 3: they get hurt, they get hurt, and so.
- 17:09Speaker 4: Now you got the injuries. Now they're getting beat up.
- 17:11Speaker 3: And now you look at it, and I think they've
- 17:13Speaker 3: only got five picks, so they're gonna have to move
- 17:15Speaker 3: around to three.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Texans have their second round pick right pick thirty seven.
- 17:18Speaker 3: Right right, So you're looking at all of these moving
- 17:21Speaker 3: pieces here, and you know, so I think for the Patriots,
- 17:26Speaker 3: they have sort of taken this approach, We're staying the
- 17:30Speaker 3: course and we're gonna keep building. And that doesn't mean
- 17:32Speaker 3: they wouldn't take advantage of an opportunity like a Max Crosby.
- 17:35Speaker 3: I think they would, But I believe they've got eleven picks,
- 17:39Speaker 3: and you know, I think the intention has been, like
- 17:41Speaker 3: to build something sustainable. And I think they also recognize
- 17:45Speaker 3: that there are a few of those key positions or
- 17:47Speaker 3: they're already kind of naturally.
- 17:49Speaker 4: Older and they're gonna need younger players.
- 17:51Speaker 1: So a couple quick news these questions before you get
- 17:53Speaker 1: out of here. The news on Davis Webb yesterday. From
- 17:55Speaker 1: the outside, I know you're pretty dolled in on this.
- 17:57Speaker 1: It looks like file fires Lombardy. He maybe could have
- 18:01Speaker 1: got the Cardinals or one of those type jobs he
- 18:03Speaker 1: had to like promise him to play calling to keep
- 18:05Speaker 1: him around.
- 18:06Speaker 2: Is that a fair assessment of that situation.
- 18:08Speaker 4: Yeah, I think.
- 18:08Speaker 3: I mean, I think it wasn't as Andrew Siciliano trips
- 18:11Speaker 3: over its credential, somehow held it together. I guess if
- 18:15Speaker 3: I was doing the Olympics for the last three weeks,
- 18:17Speaker 3: I'd be worn out too.
- 18:19Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think you.
- 18:24Speaker 2: Know, were you surprised by that? Did you know that
- 18:27Speaker 2: was coming?
- 18:27Speaker 3: And I would say it wasn't. I don't think it
- 18:30Speaker 3: was just the head coaching situations. It was also like
- 18:34Speaker 3: the Giants that kick tires on him as a coordinator,
- 18:37Speaker 3: the Ravens at kick tires on him as a coordinator, and.
- 18:39Speaker 2: So they were gonna lose them.
- 18:41Speaker 3: I think what's fascinating about it is you just you
- 18:44Speaker 3: look at it and where they're at now, and like,
- 18:48Speaker 3: it's not like Sean Payton failed as a coordinator. It
- 18:51Speaker 3: failed as a play caller, and that's been his calling
- 18:53Speaker 3: card for a quarter century. So I think it shows
- 18:55Speaker 3: you how he values Davis web on his staff. How
- 18:58Speaker 3: maybe bon Nick's value use Davis web on his staff,
- 19:01Speaker 3: because you really look at that and it's like, that's
- 19:05Speaker 3: not an answer for the next ten years. If Davis
- 19:07Speaker 3: Webb does a good job, he's gonna be gone, you know.
- 19:11Speaker 3: And so now what do you do? Do you go
- 19:12Speaker 3: back to Sean calling the plays. I think it's fascinating
- 19:15Speaker 3: from that standpoint in that it's it's not a guy
- 19:18Speaker 3: who is failing as of court as a pet play caller.
- 19:21Speaker 3: He's one of the best play callers of his generation.
- 19:23Speaker 3: It's something he's done has been central to his job
- 19:26Speaker 3: for twenty five years, like going all the way back
- 19:29Speaker 3: to the Giants, you know, when I was in college,
- 19:33Speaker 3: and you turn it over to a guy who I mean, realistically,
- 19:39Speaker 3: if he does a good job, is gonna put you
- 19:42Speaker 3: in a position where you're gonna be looking for another
- 19:43Speaker 3: play caller, whether it's Sean or somebody else in a
- 19:45Speaker 3: year or two.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Well, obviously Tomlin next year will be in the mix.
- 19:47Speaker 1: He's gonna be one of the main candidates if he
- 19:49Speaker 1: wants to. Who knows, maybe he's just so rich and
- 19:51Speaker 1: over it all and just goes to the TV starre.
- 19:53Speaker 2: I watch some of the Braven's press conference, Anthony Weaver
- 19:56Speaker 2: I was like, God, this guy sounds like a head coach.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Yeah, that guy's gonna but Davis Webb, it feels like
- 19:59Speaker 1: it's gonna have a ton of momentum if the Broncos
- 20:01Speaker 1: are good to be one of the top candidates.
- 20:02Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he was squarely in it. I'd say
- 20:05Speaker 3: I'd say he was the runner up for the Raiders job.
- 20:07Speaker 3: I'm not saying that Clint wouldn't have gotten it if
- 20:09Speaker 3: Davis hadn't pulled his name out, but I know he
- 20:11Speaker 3: was a really strong candidate there.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Philip Rivers like Davious No, I'm saying, but it's Philip Rivers.
- 20:16Speaker 2: Another guy candidate for next year.
- 20:18Speaker 3: Is So I'm going to be interested to see if
- 20:21Speaker 3: Philip Rivers goes inn SIY State because his son just
- 20:25Speaker 3: committed there, and I think Philip has a desire to
- 20:29Speaker 3: eventually coach in the NFL.
- 20:30Speaker 4: I know there were only a few teams he was
- 20:31Speaker 4: willing to listen to.
- 20:32Speaker 2: He was willing to.
- 20:33Speaker 3: Kind of go out therefore, and the reason why, and
- 20:36Speaker 3: it's not like an arrogance or anything like that. I
- 20:39Speaker 3: think it's really important for him to finish coaching his son.
- 20:42Speaker 3: And I remember in conversation with him, and this is
- 20:46Speaker 3: probably when Connor was eleven or twelve years old and
- 20:48Speaker 3: he was still playing for the Chargers, and he said
- 20:51Speaker 3: to me, and I asked him the retirement question, and
- 20:54Speaker 3: he basically said to me, he was like, well, I
- 20:57Speaker 3: am on a timeline here. He's like, my dad coached
- 21:00Speaker 3: me in high school.
- 21:01Speaker 2: I want to coach Gunner.
- 21:02Speaker 3: I want to coach, and I want to coach my
- 21:04Speaker 3: son's plural. I want to have that experience that my
- 21:08Speaker 3: dad had. I want them to have the experience that
- 21:10Speaker 3: I had. And so I think like the ability to
- 21:15Speaker 3: coach his son his senior year in high school is important.
- 21:19Speaker 3: And I do wonder with his son now committed DENC State,
- 21:22Speaker 3: is that where he winds up and even and if
- 21:25Speaker 3: NC State were to make a change after this, that's
- 21:27Speaker 3: one to watch where it's like, does he look at
- 21:30Speaker 3: it and say, I'm going to go be the head
- 21:32Speaker 3: coach at DENC State for the next four or five
- 21:35Speaker 3: years and then coach my son, maybe coach both coach
- 21:39Speaker 3: both my sons through that and then and then go
- 21:42Speaker 3: to the NFL. I think it's an interesting thing.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Schefter puts out the Trent Williams thing about thirty minutes
- 21:47Speaker 1: before John gets up on the podium. I would imagine,
- 21:49Speaker 1: I don't know if the forty nine ers would want
- 21:51Speaker 1: that out, So maybe Trent, I mean going back and
- 21:54Speaker 1: forth there, What do you make of that situation?
- 21:56Speaker 3: I think in the middle of the negotiation, I mean,
- 21:59Speaker 3: I'm like, I think they've been through this with Trent
- 22:01Speaker 3: so many times now.
- 22:03Speaker 4: They've obviously got.
- 22:04Speaker 3: A lot of experience with the uncomfortable contract negotiations. I
- 22:07Speaker 3: think it was a consecutive summers where it was like
- 22:09Speaker 3: Bosa every year it was Deebo Bosa an iuk, right,
- 22:13Speaker 3: like a three consecutive off seasons. So like they've dealt
- 22:17Speaker 3: with these situations before, they've dealt with them with Trent specifically.
- 22:21Speaker 4: I just think he's too freaking important.
- 22:23Speaker 3: Like I would argue he might be the most indispensable
- 22:26Speaker 3: player in that team, including the quarterback.
- 22:28Speaker 4: And I think Brock's a really good player.
- 22:30Speaker 3: You know, but I think he makes a decent offensive
- 22:36Speaker 3: line look better than it is, Like he's that good
- 22:38Speaker 3: to left tackle and so I think he knows it.
- 22:41Speaker 3: And I think, you know, there's every year now I
- 22:44Speaker 3: think you're kind of in that position where it's like, Okay,
- 22:46Speaker 3: like what do we need to do to get him back?
- 22:48Speaker 3: And I would think, I know how much Kyle thinks
- 22:51Speaker 3: of him. I would think they're going to do everything
- 22:52Speaker 3: they can to get him back.
- 22:53Speaker 1: And least, but not least the Sam Donold situation, the
- 22:56Speaker 1: impact that had on Minnesota. How cool of a genuine
- 22:59Speaker 1: human interest story him winning It had a lot of
- 23:01Speaker 1: ripple effects throughout the league. I mean you've been covering
- 23:04Speaker 1: the league a long time. You ever seen a like
- 23:07Speaker 1: basically in.
- 23:07Speaker 2: The dirt it was? It had an Alex Smith vibe.
- 23:09Speaker 1: But Alex Smith never won that many playoff games, let
- 23:12Speaker 1: alone win the Super Bowl.
- 23:13Speaker 2: I mean, I just don't remember.
- 23:15Speaker 1: And a guy that was like universally liked, It's like,
- 23:18Speaker 1: it's not like kind of an.
- 23:19Speaker 2: A hole, you know, you know everyone loved him.
- 23:20Speaker 3: When you go back to the Jets people, you go
- 23:22Speaker 3: back to the Panthers, like, everyone loves Sam Darnold.
- 23:25Speaker 2: Did that have lasting impacts on the Minnesota situation? Is
- 23:27Speaker 2: that overblown?
- 23:28Speaker 4: Yeah?
- 23:28Speaker 3: I mean I think, like I think one thing you
- 23:30Speaker 3: look at again, like I talked about earlier, like the
- 23:33Speaker 3: almost like automatic you have to pay if you draft
- 23:35Speaker 3: and develop a quarterback and it works out you almost
- 23:37Speaker 3: have to pay him at the top end of the market.
- 23:39Speaker 4: There's no like B level quarterback contract.
- 23:41Speaker 3: I think some teams look at like what happened with
- 23:43Speaker 3: Sam and it's like, well, wait a second, they got
- 23:46Speaker 3: him at like half of what Dak cost, right, So
- 23:48Speaker 3: Dak is at sixty. They got Sam after that at thirty?
- 23:53Speaker 3: And why why they because he played really well for Minnesota.
- 23:57Speaker 3: Why did they get him at that rate? Is it
- 24:00Speaker 3: just because of perception? Is it just because he's not
- 24:03Speaker 3: the former first round pick anymore because he's changed teams,
- 24:07Speaker 3: And so I think there's that element of it. You
- 24:09Speaker 3: know what Baker what Tampa wound up getting Baker for.
- 24:12Speaker 3: We'll see what happens with Daniel Jones in Indianapolis.
- 24:15Speaker 4: But I do think like there's.
- 24:19Speaker 3: If I'm a team the way I'm looking at and
- 24:20Speaker 3: having I think some teams are thinking this way.
- 24:23Speaker 2: You know.
- 24:24Speaker 3: It's more like, do I feel like I have to
- 24:27Speaker 3: take a quarterback in the first round or the draft,
- 24:30Speaker 3: or if I'm eighty percent of the way there and
- 24:32Speaker 3: a guy but I maybe don't think he's going to
- 24:34Speaker 3: be great?
- 24:35Speaker 4: Am I better off.
- 24:36Speaker 3: Having like a high end, high end, high end bridge,
- 24:39Speaker 3: like a former first.
- 24:40Speaker 4: Round pick come in and be that guy.
- 24:43Speaker 3: I actually think like maybe the best example if it
- 24:45Speaker 3: was Alex Smith, because when Andy Reid went and got
- 24:48Speaker 3: Alex Smith, if you remember, they had the first overall
- 24:50Speaker 3: pick that year, a thirteen, and I remember there.
- 24:53Speaker 4: Were people who thought like, oh, they're gonna take Gino Smith.
- 24:55Speaker 2: EJ.
- 24:56Speaker 3: Manuel was the only first round quarterback that year. If
- 24:58Speaker 3: they had forced it, what that would have looked like
- 25:00Speaker 3: instead of just taking Eric Fisher and then having Alex Smith.
- 25:02Speaker 3: And what Alex Smith allowed for them was Alex Smith
- 25:06Speaker 3: gave you a good level of quarterback play you're a
- 25:09Speaker 3: playoff team, allowed you to establish a program, you're building
- 25:12Speaker 3: your roster up, and then you got to the point
- 25:14Speaker 3: eventually where it was like you could just survey. You
- 25:16Speaker 3: weren't forced into a single year where it's like, yeah,
- 25:18Speaker 3: we have to get him now. It was like, all right,
- 25:21Speaker 3: we don't like this year's we don't like Oh that
- 25:23Speaker 3: guy right there, mahomes like, let's keep an eye on him.
- 25:26Speaker 3: It gave them the flexibility to kind of cherry pick
- 25:29Speaker 3: when they were gonna go get their franchise quarterback and
- 25:32Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of power in that. I
- 25:33Speaker 3: think the worst place you can be in is like
- 25:36Speaker 3: your pigeonholed into a single year. Like if you're a
- 25:38Speaker 3: team that needs a quarterback now and you don't and
- 25:42Speaker 3: you don't have the first pick, you're not the Raiders.
- 25:45Speaker 4: I mean, what do you do?
- 25:47Speaker 2: Malie Willis, Yeah, I mean what do you do?
- 25:49Speaker 3: And like that's that's the thing is like, if you
- 25:51Speaker 3: have like that bridge, you're not forced into that sort
- 25:53Speaker 3: of pick.
- 25:53Speaker 2: Okay, last question. I know you like big picture league questions.
- 25:56Speaker 1: I was talking to Howie yesterday just about how much
- 25:59Speaker 1: this event has changed, and then last night had a
- 26:01Speaker 1: few Tito Sodas with some gms and they said, every
- 26:03Speaker 1: interview now you've said the kids are like, yeah, I'm
- 26:05Speaker 1: not really gonna work out, not gonna do anything, and
- 26:07Speaker 1: they're just like the league.
- 26:07Speaker 2: And again they're not even mad at it. But you know,
- 26:10Speaker 2: you've talked about moving this event.
- 26:13Speaker 1: This event's important for the interviews and obviously the coaches
- 26:17Speaker 1: being here. The league likes all that stuff. But is
- 26:20Speaker 1: the combine going to exist in like ten years this case?
- 26:23Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 26:23Speaker 3: I mean, like I think it will, but like I
- 26:24Speaker 3: don't know what form it's going to exist in. I
- 26:27Speaker 3: think I think there's some degree of the league shot
- 26:30Speaker 3: itself in the foot a little bit. If they had
- 26:33Speaker 3: just left this for what it was and stopped trying
- 26:36Speaker 3: to turn it into something that's not, you know, then
- 26:40Speaker 3: I think you probably still have a really good thing here.
- 26:43Speaker 2: I think with the.
- 26:45Speaker 3: Element of just commodifying everything and like trying to like, hey,
- 26:51Speaker 3: how do we turn this new event or that new event,
- 26:53Speaker 3: how do we like the players have agency now, you
- 26:56Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, and the players are coming
- 26:58Speaker 3: into the league, like these guys have already made money,
- 27:01Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
- 27:02Speaker 4: Like, so, like, how's a guy like that going to think?
- 27:04Speaker 3: Well, I think Marvin Harrison, you know, a couple of
- 27:07Speaker 3: years ago was the turning point. It's Marvin Harrison came
- 27:10Speaker 3: in and he was in the first class of high
- 27:12Speaker 3: school athletes to go into college and be nil as
- 27:15Speaker 3: true freshman, right, And Caleb was in that group high
- 27:18Speaker 3: in il right, right and high nil. And so he
- 27:21Speaker 3: came into it and for three years now he had
- 27:23Speaker 3: been thinking about things through that lens. It's like, I like,
- 27:29Speaker 3: look what I've done the last two years? Why do
- 27:31Speaker 3: why am I going to go work out, Like all
- 27:33Speaker 3: I can do is hurt myself there. You know, why
- 27:36Speaker 3: would I not want to do it in the most
- 27:37Speaker 3: comfortable environment, where is the proof that there's something And
- 27:40Speaker 3: at the time, he's a top five pick.
- 27:42Speaker 4: So it's like, like, don't I have a lot more
- 27:44Speaker 4: to lose than I have to gain?
- 27:47Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean like like that, like like I
- 27:49Speaker 3: have way more to lose than I have to gain.
- 27:51Speaker 3: Like the best thing I can do is just do
- 27:53Speaker 3: everything in the most comfortable environment and confirm.
- 27:55Speaker 4: What people think of me and then be done with it.
- 27:58Speaker 3: And so, like, I think it's some of that stuff
- 28:02Speaker 3: what you're talking about as a result of the players
- 28:05Speaker 3: having more of a business mindset and having been through that,
- 28:08Speaker 3: like viewing themselves as like now I'm a commodity too,
- 28:11Speaker 3: and I have to treat my I have to handle
- 28:13Speaker 3: myself that way. And so you know, I think it's
- 28:16Speaker 3: looking at all these little things as part of the
- 28:18Speaker 3: process with more scrutiny, and again, like it's not going
- 28:22Speaker 3: to be the same for a guy who's going in
- 28:23Speaker 3: the top ten versus a fourth round. A fourth round
- 28:25Speaker 3: pick should be doing everything here the fourth round pick,
- 28:28Speaker 3: Like all thirty two teams are here. This is my chance.
- 28:30Speaker 3: You know, if I think I'm going to do well
- 28:32Speaker 3: in the drills, do it here? Shows how competitive I am.
- 28:35Speaker 3: If you're a top ten pick, what motivation do you
- 28:37Speaker 3: have other than like being a quote unquote competitor.
- 28:40Speaker 4: Like that's really it?
- 28:42Speaker 2: You know.
- 28:42Speaker 1: One more quick League one the International Series. I've been
- 28:45Speaker 1: saying forever, You've talked a lot about this. I think
- 28:48Speaker 1: in a couple of years the league is going to
- 28:49Speaker 1: sell like a ten to fifteen game pack. It's like
- 28:52Speaker 1: Thursday night all over the Australian Morning thing. Australia's cool,
- 28:56Speaker 1: like and I get it. They love sports and it'll
- 28:57Speaker 1: do cool. They got to fly like eighteen hours to
- 28:59Speaker 1: Australia and I get it.
- 29:00Speaker 2: It's week one.
- 29:02Speaker 1: It does feel like Roger whenever you like one of
- 29:04Speaker 1: his lasting impacts, his last two raw of like growing
- 29:07Speaker 1: the League final, he thinks they're going international. Yeah, and
- 29:09Speaker 1: they've already gone, but like we're gonna be more of
- 29:11Speaker 1: an international sport.
- 29:12Speaker 2: Can that even work?
- 29:15Speaker 4: Yes? I think they like it. I mean I think
- 29:19Speaker 4: they see if you.
- 29:20Speaker 3: Look at like I would urge people to look at
- 29:23Speaker 3: like the Premier League viewership numbers seven hundred and fifty
- 29:26Speaker 3: million people watching Dwarf like a regular season game Dwarf
- 29:29Speaker 3: the NFL, And like, I think that's what they're looking
- 29:33Speaker 3: at right like, and they've some of these teams have
- 29:35Speaker 3: worked with some A soccer teams. There's cross ownership there.
- 29:37Speaker 3: The the you know, Jet of course is one. Obviously,
- 29:40Speaker 3: Stan Kronke Own's Arsenal. The Glaziers in Tampa, they own
- 29:44Speaker 3: Manchester United. So I think it got to a point early.
- 29:49Speaker 4: In Rogers' tenure. This is a big picture thing.
- 29:52Speaker 3: Early in Rogers' tenure, so you're talking like his first year's,
- 29:56Speaker 3: oh six, eighth, nine, ten, they sort of came to
- 29:58Speaker 3: the conclusion like we're killing it domestically.
- 30:02Speaker 4: So we can't grow up anymore. So we have to
- 30:05Speaker 4: grow out. And that man growing adding inventory.
- 30:09Speaker 2: How do you add inventory?
- 30:10Speaker 3: You go back to LA with two teams, You add
- 30:14Speaker 3: all of these international markets, you go to seventeen games,
- 30:17Speaker 3: you expand the playoffs, like all that is football, all
- 30:20Speaker 3: that Thursday night football, All that is is adding inventory
- 30:23Speaker 3: for people to buy from them. And so like if
- 30:27Speaker 3: this commissioner's charged Roger Goodell's charge was twenty five billion
- 30:31Speaker 3: in annual revenue, and it looks like he's going to
- 30:33Speaker 3: get there. Like the way to do it was never
- 30:37Speaker 3: sit on our hands and do things the way they've
- 30:40Speaker 3: always been done, which was plenty lucrative. If his charge
- 30:44Speaker 3: was for the new breed of owners was no, like
- 30:48Speaker 3: you go and operate like a Fortune five hundred company.
- 30:52Speaker 3: You go and operate like one of the big tech companies.
- 30:54Speaker 4: This is the way to do it.
- 30:56Speaker 1: In five years, Brian roll App will take over a
- 30:58Speaker 1: five fifty billion dollar industry.
- 31:01Speaker 4: We'll see, We'll say, thanks Albert, all right, thanks shall.
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- 33:03Speaker 2: Okay, let's dive into my main man, Greg co cell.
- 33:07Speaker 1: Okay, here with with Greg co cell As. Colin likes
- 33:11Speaker 1: to say a football meets sandwich. And I've been talking
- 33:16Speaker 1: to you over the last couple of days. We got
- 33:17Speaker 1: a lot going on. How many combines is this for you?
- 33:20Speaker 6: You think my first one was nineteen ninety nine, It's
- 33:22Speaker 6: been a while, been a while. Nineteen ninety nine there
- 33:24Speaker 6: might have been like three national writers that were at
- 33:27Speaker 6: the combine.
- 33:28Speaker 2: That was it?
- 33:28Speaker 1: Really pretty coot. I was talking to someone the other day. Football,
- 33:32Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of sad. I mean, we still
- 33:33Speaker 1: love the games and watch the games. You break them
- 33:35Speaker 1: all down. It's become a lot of this. I mean,
- 33:37Speaker 1: it's it's a television show.
- 33:39Speaker 2: It's an event. Yeah, it's an event.
- 33:41Speaker 1: As much as it is the game. And this thing
- 33:43Speaker 1: is to look at all these digital shows. I know
- 33:45Speaker 1: that's the one thing you noticed. It's not just no
- 33:47Speaker 1: radio shows. These are digital digital shows.
- 33:49Speaker 2: I know. That means they got to see my face.
- 33:51Speaker 2: That's tough. Where do we start the draft class? Right?
- 33:57Speaker 2: The quarterback Fernando Mindow thoughts.
- 34:01Speaker 6: Well, you know it's funny. Obviously, I feel like the
- 34:03Speaker 6: Super Bowl was just played yesterday. So I'm I'm just
- 34:05Speaker 6: getting started. Although what I normally do, John, is i'd
- 34:09Speaker 6: get a baseline. Every summer, I'll watch maybe one hundred
- 34:12Speaker 6: and twenty guys that are likely to be in the
- 34:15Speaker 6: draft the next year. You know, you know how it
- 34:17Speaker 6: is twenty twenty five guys drop out for whatever reason,
- 34:19Speaker 6: but at least I get a baseline of guys. So
- 34:22Speaker 6: right now, I'm just getting into it. Because of my
- 34:25Speaker 6: NFL work, I can't really start till maybe mid till
- 34:27Speaker 6: late January. So I've done Mendoza in detail, you know.
- 34:31Speaker 6: And it's an interesting study. And you know this because
- 34:35Speaker 6: you know this is what you do too. It's an
- 34:37Speaker 6: interesting quarterback study because we've reached a point where people
- 34:41Speaker 6: just say a quarterback has great traits because he can
- 34:44Speaker 6: throw it hard and he can run around. And then
- 34:47Speaker 6: I keep thinking to myself, that's not really the key
- 34:50Speaker 6: to playing quarterback in the NFL. So when people look
- 34:54Speaker 6: at Mendoza, they don't see a guy that necessarily has
- 34:57Speaker 6: a hose and they can run around. They are a
- 35:00Speaker 6: little uncertain as to how he fits into being a
- 35:03Speaker 6: you know, a quarterback prospect, but he he kind of
- 35:06Speaker 6: knows how to play the position, you know, to me, quarterback,
- 35:10Speaker 6: and I was very fortunate in my career. Maybe the
- 35:12Speaker 6: best thing that ever happened in my career was Bill
- 35:15Speaker 6: Walsh taught me the quarterback position. So when I watch quarterbacks,
- 35:19Speaker 6: I think about the subtlety of it, the detail, the nuance,
- 35:22Speaker 6: the discipline, craft element of it. And well, I'm not
- 35:25Speaker 6: going to sit here in say Mendoz is a perfect prospect,
- 35:27Speaker 6: but he plays it more like that than the guys
- 35:30Speaker 6: who just you know, have the hose and run around.
- 35:33Speaker 2: And I'm not.
- 35:34Speaker 6: Sure a lot of people really understand that that is
- 35:36Speaker 6: a really important part of playing quarterback consistently at the
- 35:40Speaker 6: NFL level.
- 35:41Speaker 2: I think Bill Walsh would have liked for Fernando Mendozo, Yeah,
- 35:43Speaker 2: I think he would have. Can you go back to
- 35:45Speaker 2: the Bill Walsh relationship how that started? Yeah? Oh yeah,
- 35:49Speaker 2: So I've never heard that.
- 35:50Speaker 6: I got to sign what you know, back in the day,
- 35:53Speaker 6: you know, working at NFL Films and I did a
- 35:55Speaker 6: lot more documentary type films and I got a sign
- 35:57Speaker 6: to do a Bill Walsh project, and my boss at
- 36:01Speaker 6: the time said, you know, we want you to do
- 36:04Speaker 6: it because you know, you know, you love football, and
- 36:06Speaker 6: you go out and you know, meet Bill Walsh and
- 36:08Speaker 6: you know, so I went out and.
- 36:12Speaker 2: He was not coaching in the NFL, so.
- 36:17Speaker 6: Early nineties maybe early nineties maybe, Yeah, that sounds about right.
- 36:21Speaker 6: So I go out and do you know, do what
- 36:25Speaker 6: I'm doing. In fact, I remember what we did. I
- 36:27Speaker 6: went out and I brought.
- 36:31Speaker 2: Film.
- 36:31Speaker 6: It wasn't coaching cap because we didn't have it, but
- 36:33Speaker 6: film of like twenty quarterbacks, you know, going back to
- 36:36Speaker 6: like Johnny Unitas, and basically it was just Bill put
- 36:41Speaker 6: the camera on. He's watching, you know, on a on
- 36:43Speaker 6: a big screen, all these quarterbacks, maybe twenty quarterbacks, and
- 36:49Speaker 6: just commenting on, commenting on them, you know, just let
- 36:52Speaker 6: them go free form. So we're done with it. And
- 36:56Speaker 6: I don't know, for whatever reason, he must have saw
- 36:59Speaker 6: something in me, like me, and he basically said, you know.
- 37:02Speaker 2: Hey, let's go out to lunch.
- 37:03Speaker 6: And I'm like talking to me, you know, and obviously
- 37:06Speaker 6: I've got a cameraman there, a sound man from films
- 37:08Speaker 6: and the whole deal, you know, and he and I
- 37:11Speaker 6: just went out to lunch, and I mean I didn't
- 37:15Speaker 6: have much to say. He's just talking and I'm listening.
- 37:17Speaker 6: But that happened like four or five times in my
- 37:19Speaker 6: career where I was just with Bill Walsh like that,
- 37:22Speaker 6: and it just, I mean what I learned. So when
- 37:25Speaker 6: I watch quarterbacks, I think about doing it the right
- 37:29Speaker 6: way on every play. I don't think in terms of
- 37:32Speaker 6: man he can run around. Now, we know the games
- 37:34Speaker 6: evolved and changed, and you know, defenses have gotten a
- 37:37Speaker 6: little more detail, a lot more detail.
- 37:39Speaker 2: They do a lot of different you know, we know
- 37:41Speaker 2: all that.
- 37:42Speaker 6: So the element of movement can be a factor, you know,
- 37:46Speaker 6: but obviously you can be great without it. I mean,
- 37:48Speaker 6: look at Tom Brady. You know he didn't have to
- 37:50Speaker 6: run around to be great. But the point is is
- 37:53Speaker 6: that that's what I think about when I watch quarterbacks.
- 37:55Speaker 6: I think about playing the position the absolute right way
- 37:59Speaker 6: on every snap.
- 38:00Speaker 2: You know. You know this.
- 38:01Speaker 6: Coaches don't roll the ball out and say, hey, let's
- 38:04Speaker 6: run around today and see what happens. You know, it's
- 38:07Speaker 6: everything is detailed.
- 38:09Speaker 1: I think if we when I Super Bowl Week, we
- 38:12Speaker 1: went to this like event for the nineteen eighty nine
- 38:15Speaker 1: to forty nine ers in on stage it was Joe Ronnie,
- 38:18Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, who's actually sneaky, very underrated.
- 38:21Speaker 2: The place he would make. Jonathan Taylor could fly, Harris Barton,
- 38:25Speaker 2: you're talking, No, you're talking about the receiver John.
- 38:27Speaker 1: John Taylor, John Taylor. Yeah, and he made some plays.
- 38:30Speaker 1: They were kept talking like.
- 38:32Speaker 2: Yeah, nine yard touchdowns against the Rams.
- 38:35Speaker 1: Just because he played with Jerry Rice overshadowed a little bit.
- 38:38Speaker 1: You're watching him fly. You're like, this guy in this
- 38:40Speaker 1: league to incredible.
- 38:42Speaker 2: But I think it. Let's just take like three of the.
- 38:44Speaker 1: Best five quarterbacks of all time, Joe Tom Peyton, they couldn't.
- 38:49Speaker 2: Joe was more much more athletic than Joe had an
- 38:50Speaker 2: athletic feet, but he wasn't a run around guy. Yeah.
- 38:53Speaker 1: It was accuracy, timing, understanding, knowing like it's okay to
- 38:57Speaker 1: dump the.
- 38:57Speaker 2: Ball, quarterback position exactly. Yeah. Has that been lost? Do
- 39:00Speaker 2: you think in the NFL a little bit?
- 39:02Speaker 6: I don't think it's been lost among coaches. I think
- 39:04Speaker 6: it's been lost the way that media people and fans
- 39:08Speaker 6: talk about it, but it's not lost amongst coaches.
- 39:11Speaker 1: So like the two Super Bowls that Patrick won a
- 39:14Speaker 1: couple of years ago, in those two years where their
- 39:17Speaker 1: team wasn't as explosive.
- 39:19Speaker 2: It's like the nineteenth thas, right.
- 39:20Speaker 1: I look, because I was doing a segment he threw
- 39:22Speaker 1: he had one turnover in those seven playoff games. I
- 39:25Speaker 1: bet if you went back and watched, he was closer
- 39:27Speaker 1: to a game manager.
- 39:28Speaker 2: And they hate that urn. But just like managing the game,
- 39:30Speaker 2: making sure I don't screw up.
- 39:32Speaker 1: Right, they beat the Ravens. They scored seventeen points, right,
- 39:35Speaker 1: I bet Bill Wals should have been like, that's the
- 39:36Speaker 1: best that kid's ever played in those seven games playing
- 39:39Speaker 1: not the bombs to Tyreek Hill, right, But we love
- 39:42Speaker 1: the bombs to Tyreek Hill.
- 39:43Speaker 2: Oh well, everybody loves that.
- 39:44Speaker 1: Yeah, But I'm just saying that's the position to win
- 39:46Speaker 1: the game at the biggest games that are in the
- 39:48Speaker 1: late teen, you know, seventeen to nineteen.
- 39:50Speaker 6: The efficiency of the position comes from executing the subtleties
- 39:55Speaker 6: of the position play in and play out.
- 39:57Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where the.
- 39:58Speaker 6: Efficiency comes from, you know. And and you know, obviously, look
- 40:04Speaker 6: who thought Walls thought Montana was a great prospect and
- 40:08Speaker 6: not many others did at the time because he saw
- 40:11Speaker 6: it in a different way. You know, he saw he
- 40:13Speaker 6: wasn't worried about arm strength or or what we now
- 40:16Speaker 6: call today arm talent. You know, he wasn't worried about that.
- 40:20Speaker 6: He was worried about the ability to play within timing,
- 40:25Speaker 6: throw the ball accurately, and accurately meant precise ball location,
- 40:29Speaker 6: not just you know, where do you throw it?
- 40:31Speaker 2: Not not just oh I'm throwing it to you, but
- 40:33Speaker 2: where do.
- 40:34Speaker 1: You You watch these documentaries on the Niners that he
- 40:36Speaker 1: would like, make him redo it if Joe.
- 40:38Speaker 2: Ristine was off.
- 40:40Speaker 6: It's funny you say that because one of the things
- 40:42Speaker 6: I did with the Walls of the times you would
- 40:44Speaker 6: talk is we went out and he brought out after
- 40:47Speaker 6: they'd retired Joe, Jerry, Rice and Roger.
- 40:50Speaker 2: Craig, and we're doing a piece.
- 40:51Speaker 6: You know, I'm not there, and he's back coaching like
- 40:54Speaker 6: Montana would make it throw and you go, no, Joe,
- 40:56Speaker 6: come on, we're doing that again that ball. I mean,
- 40:58Speaker 6: he was coaching after they you know, they were all retired.
- 41:01Speaker 1: You know, like what would Bill Walsha about like Kleb Williams,
- 41:04Speaker 1: who makes incredible plays in these biggest moments, but it's
- 41:07Speaker 1: pretty inefficient right games.
- 41:09Speaker 6: He would work every single day on his lower half
- 41:13Speaker 6: because his lower half can be all over the places
- 41:15Speaker 6: you probably know, and he would work every single day
- 41:19Speaker 6: on that because you know, he just misses too many
- 41:21Speaker 6: routine throws. He can make special plays, and obviously his
- 41:25Speaker 6: his arm in terms of the way the ball comes
- 41:27Speaker 6: out of his hand, is special, but you know, he
- 41:30Speaker 6: just misses too many routine throws.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 41:32Speaker 1: To me, you know, I would imagine Ben Johnson the Bears,
- 41:35Speaker 1: the layups, the basic stuff, because if he can do that,
- 41:37Speaker 1: he can be a really good play right right, And
- 41:39Speaker 1: that to me, all off season's the special down the
- 41:42Speaker 1: he can do that in sleep. It's like, hey, a
- 41:43Speaker 1: wheel route, you gotta hit this guy in stride. You
- 41:45Speaker 1: know you gotta be on time. He can do that,
- 41:48Speaker 1: But but can you coach that up right?
- 41:49Speaker 2: It's a really hard balance.
- 41:51Speaker 6: I talked to a coach yesterday, and you know, because
- 41:54Speaker 6: I'm always fascinated by how you coach the quarterbacks that
- 41:58Speaker 6: have the ability to make special, improvisational plays, because on
- 42:02Speaker 6: the one hand, you don't want to tell a guy
- 42:04Speaker 6: never to do that, But on the other hand, those
- 42:08Speaker 6: guys tend to leave throws on the field because they
- 42:10Speaker 6: will leave the pocket too early. Because that's just the
- 42:13Speaker 6: way that they feel innately.
- 42:15Speaker 2: Russell Wilson started doing that. Yeah, yeah, you couldn't function.
- 42:18Speaker 6: Now his is a little different because of his size,
- 42:20Speaker 6: But even Mahomes, Josh Allen, those guys will leave throws
- 42:24Speaker 6: on the field within the structure of that particular past
- 42:28Speaker 6: design because for whatever reason, that's just who they are.
- 42:32Speaker 6: So you know, my guess is you don't want to
- 42:35Speaker 6: tell them never to do that. But on the other hand,
- 42:38Speaker 6: if you know these coaches, as you know, work a lot,
- 42:40Speaker 6: and if they design it and it's there and it's clean,
- 42:43Speaker 6: you want the guy to throw the ball.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Do you think that's why some of those guys with
- 42:47Speaker 1: the Walsh roots, even if it's indirect, like you know
- 42:51Speaker 1: Shanahan or you know Andy didn't work for Walsh, but
- 42:54Speaker 1: he worked for Home right right, you know Alex Smith.
- 42:57Speaker 1: You see the guys that Shanahan likes, the Kubiaks, Mike Shannahan,
- 43:00Speaker 1: who I don't think work.
- 43:01Speaker 2: For Walsh but work for Seaford with right right right.
- 43:03Speaker 1: They can be cool with Jake Plumber or you know,
- 43:06Speaker 1: they like Kirk Cousins, like they value things that go
- 43:09Speaker 1: back to those roots their offense.
- 43:11Speaker 2: As you probably know, you know the way it is.
- 43:15Speaker 6: Let's say with Kyle Shanahan, who obviously is you know,
- 43:19Speaker 6: comes from his dad and comes down that tree. Maybe
- 43:21Speaker 6: it's not the pure Bill Walsh, but it's you know,
- 43:24Speaker 6: more of that school. Let's say for those coaches, the
- 43:30Speaker 6: star is the play caller, you know, you know, in
- 43:33Speaker 6: Kyle's offense, he's he's the star.
- 43:35Speaker 2: He's the poster child of the team.
- 43:37Speaker 6: Right Whereas let's say a Josh McDaniel's offense, he's giving
- 43:41Speaker 6: the quarterback all the answers to the test, and the
- 43:45Speaker 6: quarterback has to figure out which answers apply based on
- 43:48Speaker 6: a given play call and what he sees from the defense.
- 43:51Speaker 6: Whereas with Kyle that's not the case at all. He's
- 43:54Speaker 6: the quarterback, as you know, he doesn't The quarterback doesn't
- 43:56Speaker 6: do anything. He's not calling the protections, he's not changing play.
- 44:00Speaker 2: Now.
- 44:00Speaker 6: Granted, if he sees maybe an obvious blitz, maybe flip
- 44:04Speaker 6: it or yeah, yeah, but he's.
- 44:06Speaker 2: Not really doing a lot you know that.
- 44:08Speaker 6: Yeah, The quarterback is the executor of the play callers play.
- 44:13Speaker 1: Kyla said that he and Cousins has talked about this.
- 44:16Speaker 1: Cousins fought for it, He gave him the opportunity to
- 44:19Speaker 1: do it, and like the next day cousins like that's crazy.
- 44:22Speaker 1: I have like seven things on my plan. You take
- 44:24Speaker 1: it back right right now, right, And there's only so
- 44:26Speaker 1: many Peyton Mannings or Brady's who can do it at
- 44:28Speaker 1: that highway, correct, And that's what makes the position so crazy.
- 44:30Speaker 1: Like let's just say you flip Drake May and Brock Perty.
- 44:33Speaker 1: I think Drake made probably pretty good for Kyle, right,
- 44:35Speaker 1: I would agree, but the Party thing, the way they're
- 44:37Speaker 1: playing it would not probably look very good.
- 44:39Speaker 2: Right.
- 44:39Speaker 1: I bet Purdy could do it, you know, once he
- 44:42Speaker 1: got Yeah, but I just mean, like, just you carry
- 44:44Speaker 1: the offense you play on, you would be a.
- 44:46Speaker 6: Lot well right now, if Purdy all of a sudden
- 44:48Speaker 6: was dropped into a Jash McDaniels offense, he'd be lost
- 44:52Speaker 6: because that's not the way he's been coach to play
- 44:55Speaker 6: the game.
- 44:56Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your take on Party?
- 44:58Speaker 1: Because he's a pretty polarizing play And I don't know
- 45:00Speaker 1: why I like wal liked him.
- 45:02Speaker 6: Yeah, I like Purty you know again, you know people
- 45:06Speaker 6: like this and you know, is he the top five
- 45:08Speaker 6: of you?
- 45:08Speaker 2: I don't get into that.
- 45:09Speaker 6: I think he can execute Kyle's offense at a pretty
- 45:12Speaker 6: high level. And I think that's that's what the forty
- 45:16Speaker 6: nine ers want. You know, he can execute it at
- 45:18Speaker 6: a pretty high level.
- 45:19Speaker 1: I guess I didn't quite understand until I got here.
- 45:23Speaker 1: You know, Sean Mannion goes back to Oregon State. I mean,
- 45:26Speaker 1: he's got like pro style roots as a player, right
- 45:28Speaker 1: right right as a coach, right, that's what they're implementing
- 45:32Speaker 1: with the Eagles. So the idea you get rid of Stoutland,
- 45:35Speaker 1: who's not that type of run game guy, that they
- 45:38Speaker 1: are going to be a version of the Kyle Shanahan
- 45:41Speaker 1: offense with Jalen Hurts is that the way you take
- 45:44Speaker 1: it as well.
- 45:45Speaker 6: That's what it sure seems like because of the people
- 45:47Speaker 6: they brought in to coach on offense. So in their mind,
- 45:51Speaker 6: they must believe that Jalen Hurts can do it. I'm
- 45:54Speaker 6: not going to sit here and say he can or can.
- 45:56Speaker 6: You know they think he can. I would say that
- 45:59Speaker 6: the way Jajalen has played up to this point in
- 46:01Speaker 6: his career, that's not stylistically how he's played. You know,
- 46:05Speaker 6: he hasn't been a true timing rhythm guy. So they
- 46:10Speaker 6: must feel he can do it because that's what they've
- 46:12Speaker 6: committed to. That's what their offense is going to be. Now,
- 46:16Speaker 6: the question is did they bring did they change that
- 46:20Speaker 6: because of the run game? Because that run game in
- 46:22Speaker 6: that offense is really good with you know, now you're
- 46:26Speaker 6: going to see a lot more motions. You're going to
- 46:27Speaker 6: see a lot more pre snap movement, You're going to
- 46:29Speaker 6: see a lot of things that help the run game
- 46:32Speaker 6: because you know that pre snap movement emotions really helped
- 46:37Speaker 6: the run game as well. You know, in many ways
- 46:39Speaker 6: they helped the run game even more.
- 46:41Speaker 2: What did you see when you were breaking down Jalen
- 46:43Speaker 2: this year?
- 46:44Speaker 1: The struggles came from and they I mean, I don't
- 46:46Speaker 1: know if it ended up this way, but at one
- 46:48Speaker 1: point time in December they led the league in three
- 46:50Speaker 1: and outs in that town.
- 46:51Speaker 2: That's embarrassing. I know that can't happen now with those players.
- 46:54Speaker 6: You know, I don't think to me, Jalen was any different,
- 46:56Speaker 6: you know, than he's always been. I mean, you know,
- 46:59Speaker 6: keep in mind when they won the Super Bowl, they
- 47:01Speaker 6: were nine or ten games that year. Well, he didn't
- 47:03Speaker 6: throw for two hundred yards. They're not a passing team.
- 47:06Speaker 6: I mean, they had the historic running season by Barkley
- 47:09Speaker 6: and the number one defense in the league, and Jalen
- 47:11Speaker 6: never turned it over and they were phenomenal on fourth down.
- 47:15Speaker 6: So they were a sense of four down offense. If
- 47:17Speaker 6: they got past midfield and it became fourth or let's
- 47:20Speaker 6: say four and less, three and less, they were going
- 47:23Speaker 6: for it every time and they would convert because that's
- 47:26Speaker 6: where Jalen's mobility became a huge factor, even if he
- 47:29Speaker 6: didn't run, just you know, getting him out of the
- 47:31Speaker 6: pocket il around.
- 47:32Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
- 47:34Speaker 6: So you know, they were not a passing team, so
- 47:38Speaker 6: I didn't I don't think he was necessarily any different.
- 47:41Speaker 6: Their run game was terrible, relatively speaking. Their old line
- 47:44Speaker 6: was bad. So you know, the question becomes can Jalen hurts?
- 47:51Speaker 6: And this is a this is a tough question because
- 47:54Speaker 6: the reality is, and this is the answer you get
- 47:57Speaker 6: and you can't argue it is. They've been in two
- 47:59Speaker 6: of the last four Super Bowls. He's played well in both.
- 48:02Speaker 6: He was the MVP and one. And you know, so
- 48:04Speaker 6: when people say that, what do you say.
- 48:07Speaker 1: Nothing, right, I got a ring and I got a
- 48:09Speaker 1: lot of money, exactly right, what do you say?
- 48:12Speaker 2: So? But you know, the.
- 48:13Speaker 1: Philly and I know how he they like winning games
- 48:16Speaker 1: now like Super a couple of years ago, and it's like,
- 48:18Speaker 1: can he win games?
- 48:20Speaker 2: You look in that conference. Well, that's why they made
- 48:22Speaker 2: the change.
- 48:23Speaker 6: Obviously, they think that this change will be can't.
- 48:26Speaker 1: I can't lose that Niner team Sala rolled out me,
- 48:29Speaker 1: you and seven of us, I know, and that's got
- 48:31Speaker 1: to be one of the worst losses in Eagles history.
- 48:33Speaker 1: When you look at the talent gay, I.
- 48:34Speaker 6: Would agree, and I'm sure that's why major changes were made.
- 48:38Speaker 1: So to me, like specifically with him, he's a dual
- 48:42Speaker 1: threat quarterback who no longer wants to run.
- 48:46Speaker 6: It seems though. Yeah, I mean again, we're not in
- 48:49Speaker 6: the building. I don't know if he tells the coach.
- 48:50Speaker 2: I'm just well, I'm standing, well, you watch him. They
- 48:52Speaker 2: don't call run plays, No, they don't.
- 48:53Speaker 1: They could have the Niners could have been gashed by
- 48:55Speaker 1: He's a great runner like his I've always said I
- 48:58Speaker 1: thought he was gonna be a running back out of
- 48:59Speaker 1: college because I think it was a bad college right,
- 49:01Speaker 1: a prospect, right, But I thought, like, this guy could
- 49:03Speaker 1: be like Frank Gore because his natural feel. He's not
- 49:06Speaker 1: like a Lamar speed guy, but he clearly, just I
- 49:08Speaker 1: don't really want to do it. They had one run
- 49:10Speaker 1: in that nighter game. I think they're called back like
- 49:12Speaker 1: you could do this every play for like thirty yards.
- 49:14Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 49:14Speaker 6: And by the way, in twenty twenty two when they
- 49:16Speaker 6: went to the Super Bowl and lost to the Chiefs,
- 49:19Speaker 6: that run stuff.
- 49:19Speaker 1: The design run like ten carries a game. It was
- 49:22Speaker 1: a huge part of their offense. Huge part.
- 49:24Speaker 6: But again, you know, I don't know. I don't know
- 49:28Speaker 6: if he tells the coaches. I don't want to write run.
- 49:30Speaker 6: I don't know the answer to that, but it'll be
- 49:33Speaker 6: That's going to be one of the most interesting things
- 49:35Speaker 6: to watch is how that offense works, you know, which
- 49:38Speaker 6: is obviously a totally new offense.
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- 51:41Speaker 1: I remember, like when I first got in the NFL
- 51:43Speaker 1: in like twenty ten to eleven, people were like that
- 51:46Speaker 1: new or like Philip Rivers is one of the best.
- 51:48Speaker 2: Quarterbacks in the league. I love Philip Rivers.
- 51:49Speaker 1: You know, and anytime and again this gets back to
- 51:52Speaker 1: the Jalen things like well I got a ring, I'm
- 51:53Speaker 1: one of the best players, Like, well this guy people
- 51:55Speaker 1: think this guy's better, right. We all kind of think,
- 51:58Speaker 1: you know, Mahomes even though he didn't play that well
- 52:00Speaker 1: last but his resume speaks for himself. Question Lamar and
- 52:03Speaker 1: Josh's resume speak for themselves. Herbert's a pretty polarizing player
- 52:07Speaker 1: because of the playoff games. I don't know where you stand.
- 52:09Speaker 1: I mean, I think he played for my team any
- 52:12Speaker 1: day of the week.
- 52:12Speaker 6: I agree with you, and I think most people in
- 52:14Speaker 6: the league would tell you that he's incredibly gifted.
- 52:16Speaker 2: And then he's a really good player.
- 52:19Speaker 6: You know, look this year, I mean he played behind
- 52:22Speaker 6: arguably the worst offensive line of football.
- 52:24Speaker 2: I mean they were playing backups to backups to backups.
- 52:28Speaker 2: I mean, you know, so he in a broken hand.
- 52:31Speaker 6: I know, so we'll see. I mean, but yeah, he's
- 52:34Speaker 6: You talk to people in the league. They don't have
- 52:36Speaker 6: any issue with Justin Herbert.
- 52:37Speaker 1: I think one guy who's really impressed me the last
- 52:40Speaker 1: couple of years, and McCarthy deserves credit for this, is
- 52:43Speaker 1: again another guy playoffs that he had a three year
- 52:45Speaker 1: stretch where he just two of the games against the
- 52:47Speaker 1: nine Ers.
- 52:47Speaker 2: She was not good. But Dak's really become a really
- 52:49Speaker 2: good player.
- 52:50Speaker 1: And if they do a good enough job, like if
- 52:52Speaker 1: the version of he's at right now was on some
- 52:54Speaker 1: of those teams like three years ago, they would be
- 52:57Speaker 1: a major factor. Again if he just played one of
- 52:59Speaker 1: the player I thought the year they lost the Niners
- 53:01Speaker 1: in the second round, if he had just played like
- 53:03Speaker 1: he had been playing, they could have won the Super Bowl.
- 53:04Speaker 1: Their defense was awesome. I've been impressed with Dak's like
- 53:08Speaker 1: Corinth as a player.
- 53:09Speaker 6: But the point is is what you're talking about is
- 53:10Speaker 6: what we were talking about initially about the quarterback position
- 53:13Speaker 6: because Dak is well, he's not a statue. He's a
- 53:16Speaker 6: pocket quarterback man.
- 53:17Speaker 2: He doesn't move.
- 53:19Speaker 6: So, I mean, why has he become a really good quarterback?
- 53:22Speaker 6: Because he he executes the the you know, the nuances
- 53:25Speaker 6: of the position. He plays the position at a high
- 53:28Speaker 6: level from the pocket.
- 53:29Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's Bill waltsh would like this version
- 53:32Speaker 1: of Dak without question, without question.
- 53:35Speaker 6: You know it's and as you know in college, now
- 53:39Speaker 6: there's Mendoza is a little bit of an admiration. But
- 53:43Speaker 6: college is not sending a lot of like true pocket
- 53:47Speaker 6: quarterbacks to the NFL. No, because you know Mendoza and
- 53:50Speaker 6: maybe this is an easy comparison and it's not an
- 53:53Speaker 6: exact one, but Mendoza would be more like the Gared
- 53:56Speaker 6: Goffs of the world. He's not a run around guy. Now,
- 53:58Speaker 6: could he run in a straight line if he has to? Yeah,
- 54:01Speaker 6: but he's not a playmaker.
- 54:03Speaker 2: He's not like Russell Wilson, Deshaun Watson. No, he's not
- 54:06Speaker 2: a playmaker. Yeah, my question is not that long ago.
- 54:10Speaker 1: You just looked around the league, Eli Manning, Peyton Manning,
- 54:12Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Carson Palmer, they all kind of look the same,
- 54:14Speaker 1: you know, six' four to sixty.
- 54:16Speaker 2: Six, yeah where did that human being? GO i, know
- 54:18Speaker 2: he's not playing college or high school. Football, no because
- 54:21Speaker 2: they have to still exist on this.
- 54:22Speaker 6: Planet it's because what's happened now is it's, like, Look
- 54:27Speaker 6: i'm older than. You so WHEN i grew up in
- 54:29Speaker 6: my formative years and let's say the late sixties early,
- 54:31Speaker 6: seventies the two biggest sports In america were baseball in.
- 54:35Speaker 2: Boxing so where did the best? Athlete baseball play?
- 54:37Speaker 6: Shortstop so now what's happening is the best athlete is playing.
- 54:41Speaker 6: Quarterback so now you're getting guys that are great. Athletes
- 54:45Speaker 6: so they can, run they can, move maybe they have big.
- 54:48Speaker 6: ARMS i MEAN i would think a good example of
- 54:51Speaker 6: that you filed college, football, Right, yeah would probably be
- 54:54Speaker 6: The TEXAS a AND m.
- 54:55Speaker 2: Kid, Yeah Marcel. Reed, yeah you, know you, know.
- 54:59Speaker 6: Really good, athletes pretty explosive, mover big. Arm you, KNOW
- 55:04Speaker 6: i haven't. STUDIED i don't know if he's a good
- 55:05Speaker 6: quarterback or, not BUT i mean those are the kinds
- 55:08Speaker 6: of players that now have become. Quarterbacks and those guys
- 55:11Speaker 6: because they can. Run you, know teams want to. Win
- 55:15Speaker 6: so whether you're in high school or, college the coach
- 55:17Speaker 6: wants to, win so they use what he, has which
- 55:21Speaker 6: is the ability to move and.
- 55:22Speaker 1: RUN i THINK i read an article from Like Bruce
- 55:24Speaker 1: feldman coaches because now we get a lot because the
- 55:27Speaker 1: money's so.
- 55:27Speaker 2: Bright in, college coaches kind of bounce back and.
- 55:29Speaker 1: Forth and one THING i THINK i read, is you
- 55:32Speaker 1: know why some guys that bounce from THE nfl to
- 55:35Speaker 1: college and it's a little difficult for them because in the,
- 55:38Speaker 1: pros as a defensive, coordinator you defend the running back
- 55:42Speaker 1: right and the pass. Game but in college you defend
- 55:45Speaker 1: the running, quarterback the running.
- 55:46Speaker 2: Back and the pass game.
- 55:47Speaker 1: Right it's a huge element of, it which, well and
- 55:50Speaker 1: don't Forget Lamar jackson like five.
- 55:51Speaker 2: Years, no most people don't run that level offense in THE.
- 55:54Speaker 6: Nfl the other thing about college which makes it, different
- 55:56Speaker 6: and you know this is the hash marks the wide
- 55:59Speaker 6: side of the field and just like The Grand, Canyon so,
- 56:02Speaker 6: SO i, mean you can do a lot of things
- 56:03Speaker 6: to the wide side of the field that are incredibly
- 56:06Speaker 6: difficult to. Defend there's just too much. Space THE nfl
- 56:11Speaker 6: is not like.
- 56:11Speaker 2: That, no it's. Not it's.
- 56:12Speaker 1: Tighter, yeah BEFORE i get you out of, here this draft,
- 56:16Speaker 1: CLASS i, mean you watch general, amount especially the tough,
- 56:19Speaker 1: guys doesn't feel like a Who, no not a lot of.
- 56:23Speaker 1: Pols Jamar Chase's Joe all another non. QUARTERBACK i think
- 56:29Speaker 1: are The chiefs at nine gonna feel pretty. Good they're
- 56:31Speaker 1: gonna get as good of a player as a team at.
- 56:32Speaker 2: Four like what's the.
- 56:34Speaker 1: Difference that's my point is that it's not like there is, like,
- 56:37Speaker 1: Oh Joe all goes and there's a huge.
- 56:38Speaker 2: Drop, well you know how the draft.
- 56:40Speaker 6: Works, normally there's probably in a normal year fifteen to
- 56:44Speaker 6: eighteen players that have true first round. GRADES i would
- 56:48Speaker 6: bet this year there's. Ten, Yeah AND i think the receiver,
- 56:52Speaker 6: Group i've done twelve. Receivers i'm done with. THEM i
- 56:54Speaker 6: would bet that those twelve, Receivers i'm not done with.
- 56:57Speaker 6: Receivers i've done with those. TWELVE i would bet that
- 57:00Speaker 6: twelve are going to be in the eye of the.
- 57:01Speaker 6: Beholder you, know it depends on the guy and how
- 57:05Speaker 6: you think he fits in your.
- 57:06Speaker 2: Scheme BECAUSE i don't think there's a.
- 57:07Speaker 6: Receiver and this is my WHAT i feel based on
- 57:11Speaker 6: the tape study of these twelve, GUYS i don't think
- 57:13Speaker 6: there's a. Receiver you're gonna go, WOW i gotta have that.
- 57:17Speaker 6: Guy he can do.
- 57:18Speaker 1: Anything you're not big on THE usc, guy you, know
- 57:23Speaker 1: relative to where you see.
- 57:24Speaker 6: Him, YEAH i mean, again you, know AND i KNOW
- 57:27Speaker 6: i know what you mean by saying you're not. BIG
- 57:29Speaker 6: i think relative to, RIGHT i think that he's he's
- 57:33Speaker 6: gonna probably be five or eleven one ninety. Five he's
- 57:36Speaker 6: not a super. Athlete he's not truly. Explosive, yes he's very.
- 57:40Speaker 6: Competitive the guy WHEN i finished watching who came to
- 57:46Speaker 6: my mind Was Kalios.
- 57:47Speaker 2: Shakir and you, KNOW i know someth round.
- 57:49Speaker 6: PICK i, think who's been a fifth round at a, Boise,
- 57:52Speaker 6: yeah who's been a nice?
- 57:53Speaker 2: Player by the, way, good really?
- 57:55Speaker 6: Good, Yeah and it's really good run after, Catch and
- 57:58Speaker 6: that's all kind of reminded me.
- 58:01Speaker 1: Of.
- 58:01Speaker 2: NOW i know some people are talking them.
- 58:03Speaker 6: UP i MEAN i saw someone compare him To molak
- 58:07Speaker 6: neighbors And i'm, thinking come, on, yeah, No.
- 58:11Speaker 1: Milik neighbors different. Animals, yeah, EXACTLY i Mean malik dighbors talent.
- 58:14Speaker 6: One and by the, way the one thing about, receivers
- 58:16Speaker 6: as you well, know is because teams throw the ball
- 58:20Speaker 6: and depending on the, scheme and a guy could come
- 58:23Speaker 6: in the league and Catch lemon could go to a
- 58:26Speaker 6: team and catch eighty balls and people say he's, great you,
- 58:29Speaker 6: know AND i have no problem with, that but just
- 58:31Speaker 6: as an evaluation of the player and who he, is
- 58:35Speaker 6: he's not a top ten pick in a, draft but
- 58:37Speaker 6: he might.
- 58:37Speaker 2: Be well, You.
- 58:38Speaker 1: SHAKIR i was with Some lions people last, night not
- 58:42Speaker 1: anyone that's for the, team but people that cover the,
- 58:44Speaker 1: team and we were talking About, Amen. Raw these guys
- 58:47Speaker 1: are all not drafted in the first. Round you know
- 58:50Speaker 1: The Saint brown was the fourth. Round, People samuel was
- 58:52Speaker 1: the second, round right. Right you know you can get.
- 58:53Speaker 2: These physical guys historically later and then it.
- 58:55Speaker 6: Depends, Look i'm Under Saint brown taking nothing away from
- 58:59Speaker 6: him BECAUSE i stand that as far as competitiveness and all,
- 59:01Speaker 6: that he's off the. Charts but he played in A
- 59:05Speaker 6: Ben johnson offense that is maybe the best schemed pass
- 59:10Speaker 6: game in THE nfl in terms of against, zone in
- 59:14Speaker 6: terms of spacing of, routes how it all works, together
- 59:17Speaker 6: you know the details of how you put together pass.
- 59:20Speaker 2: Game he's really good. Though yeah, No i'm Saying Ben
- 59:22Speaker 2: ben is really.
- 59:23Speaker 6: Good yeah, yeah, Yeah so again we're Not i'm not
- 59:27Speaker 6: taking anything away From Mon Ross Saint. Brown i'm not
- 59:29Speaker 6: with him every. DAY i, mean he's probably great in
- 59:32Speaker 6: so many. Ways but if you just look at like pure,
- 59:36Speaker 6: talent you're not gonna say that He's jefferson Or.
- 59:39Speaker 2: Chase what About?
- 59:41Speaker 6: Pooka puka is a fascinating. Guy he's, big he's. Physical
- 59:49Speaker 6: have you ever seen a player like? HIM i, MEAN
- 59:52Speaker 6: i guess on a certain, level and Maybe i'm. Nuts,
- 59:56Speaker 6: debo you, know at his best was. Similar when't you
- 59:59Speaker 6: say sim.
- 1:00:00Speaker 2: Learn just because guys fall off of. Them, yeah, yeah,
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: yeah he's runs through Like Adrian peterson or. Something But,
- 1:00:05Speaker 2: PUKA i mean He's puka's a better route runner. Probably.
- 1:00:08Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah he's a fascinating. GUY i mean he's turned
- 1:00:10Speaker 6: into a, great great.
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: RECEIVER i think the Problem i'll get you out of
- 1:00:13Speaker 1: here on this on players like, that you, know to
- 1:00:16Speaker 1: invest in how much receivers, cost it's how long is
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: their shelf?
- 1:00:20Speaker 2: Life right?
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: Right because you go you look at some of the outside,
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: guys you, know LIKE, jsn he's gonna be able to
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: play for a long time with his skill.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: Set you look At, debo it just ended pretty.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: Quickly, Yeah and you, Know puoka in the dominant, fashion
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: like he's gonna be able to maintain this for seven straight, Years,
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: LIKE i don't.
- 1:00:35Speaker 2: KNOW i, mean don't Forget.
- 1:00:36Speaker 6: Puoka he's, great BUT i mean he's a physical, Player
- 1:00:39Speaker 6: that's What i'm.
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: Saying, YEAH i mean he plays is you know what?
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: Off how long can you maintain playing a one hundred
- 1:00:43Speaker 1: percent breaking? TACKLES i mean the year he had the
- 1:00:47Speaker 1: last couple of years.
- 1:00:48Speaker 2: Is Like, Jesus, no he's he's he's better than change The. Rams,
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: yeah he's better THAN i thought he'd.
- 1:00:53Speaker 6: BE i, mean no, quese he's probably better than pretty
- 1:00:55Speaker 6: much everybody thought he'd.
- 1:00:56Speaker 2: Be, yeah McVeigh. Included, yeah oh, yeah, yeah yeah, Yeah.
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: GREG i appreciate, you and enjoy the rest of. Combine all,
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