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Episode 8- NFL/ NBA takes · The So-Called Sports Analysts

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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to another episode, episode number eight of the so
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called sports Annalyist. I'm your Hostop Falls Report till I'm good to be back
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with you guys, and we're gonna go in and get straight into it like
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to Like I talked about in episode seven, I was gonna tell you guys
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about a team that should go all in next year in the NFL. And
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that team that I'm talking about is the Jacksonville Jaguars. And one of the
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main reasons why I believe they should go on in is because they have a
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rookie quarterback or a franchise quarterback on a rookie contract deal. And so this
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is gonna be the last year that he is going to be on a rookie
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contract. Because we've seen other players get get paid, like Patrick Mahomes,
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Joe Burrows about to get paid, Justin Herbert's about to get paid, Janna
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Hurts is about to get paid. So you have all of these quarterbacks that
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get paid. If they live up to their first round pick hype, they
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get paid and pretty heavy too. So now it's gonna be looking it's gonna
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be around fifty to sixty million. If Daniel Jones is gonna get forty five
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million. Well that's according to reports, so just imagine what Trevor Lawrence is
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gonna get. And you could just go down throughout this roster. Most of
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their core is gonna be coming back from last year. They have playoff experience
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now, and you have a great head coach and Doug Peterson. You have
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good weapons. You have Christian Kurt Calvin Ridley, who some people they forgot
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about, who they traded mid season four. When he was healthy and on
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the field, he looked like a top ten receiver. So you're gonna let
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Christian Kurt go up against the number two dbs. Then you have Zay Jones
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being able to play in the slot or outside too, so you have plenty
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of weapons on the outside too. Then you have a running back in Travis
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Etn who did look good last year. And then you have Evan Ingram.
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You're gonna need to pay him, but you have plenty of weapons around,
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weapons around Trevor Lawrence. Then an offensive line that's only going to be getting
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better for them. Then you have twenty three million dollars in cap so you
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can make some moves, maybe trade for somebody you could possibly trade for a
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Jalen Ramsey or maybe go sign somebody in free agency. But going throughout their
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stats and everything, they're passing offense, it was a top top ten passing
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offense in the NFL and they're giving up the few fifth few as sacks throughout
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the entire league, So their offense wasn't the problem. It was just a
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matter of Trevor Lawrence getting up to speed learning the new system from Doug Peterson.
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That's also another thing. Doug Peterson's gonna be coming back, and so
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is a offensive coordinator, so he has some familiar familiarity there, so he's
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not gonna have to be learning different different motions, different play calls, different
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different schemes, nothing else. So it's gonna be the exact same for him.
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So it could just be a just plugging for most of these players too,
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because I believe the only player that's a free agent for them that's a
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big time free agent is Evan Ingram, and even at that he is or
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he was a good tight end throughout the season, but if they do lose
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him, that won't be that big of a loss. And then they played
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discipline football on offense. They had the eighth fields penalties on offense in the
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second fewest holdings, So not only were they get in protection for Trevor Lawrence,
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but they weren't causing costly penalties or nothing like that. But the main
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problem they did have last year was their defense. But even towards end of
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the year, their defense slowly started to get better because look what they I
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know, they gave up twenty seven points in the first half to Justin Herbert,
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but in the second half of that game, their first playoff game,
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they only give giving up three points. And the Chargers offense, they're really
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good offense. They just couldn't get nothing going. If you're an account it
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as a mixture of the charge of choking and the Jaguars defense. It's a
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mixture of everything. But the main thing that needs to be fixed is their
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passing defense and then their red zone efficiency. So the red zone efficiency,
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what they were allowing teams to score touchdowns. It was sixty seven percent,
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So as long as you got in between the twenty yard line of the Jacksonville
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Jaguars defense, you were most likely going to score. But one thing that
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I can say about this defense is that their defensive line and their linebackers.
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They're a nice young core because you have Josh Allen, then you have Trayvon
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Walker, then you have Dwan Smoop, so you have key defensive lineman there
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that are going to be there another year and then keep the same scheme and
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be able to improve off of that because these are all young players. Josh
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Allen he's barely in his fourth or fifth year. Trayvon Walker it was his
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rookie year last year and he started to come come on early or late.
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And then you could also sign in free agency with that twenty three million dollars
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in cap, you could go sign at Duran Payne, at Javon Hargrave to
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improve the run game. And even at that the run game it wasn't that
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bad. They allowed the ninth fewest rushing yards per game. It was just
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the main weakness for this defense was passing defense. And I think especially with
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the offense like the Jacksonville Jaguars and having a young quarterback that's only going to
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be getting better, you just need a defense that could make key stops,
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maybe two to four stops in a game, and Trevor Lawrence he could handle
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the rest. So maybe you could have top fifteen defense, just middle the
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pack defense where it's a bend don't break defense. Improve on red zone efficiency
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just so if Trevor Lawrence does happen to throw a pick or not score on
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a drive, maybe they'll just give up a field goal or two to keep
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them in the game. But what they can't do is be the twenty fourth
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ranked defense like they were last year. So and another thing that they did
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do was so it's very confusing with the Jacksonville Jaguars because they have a good
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defensive line and a bad secondary, and usually you end up paving or a
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quote unquote good secondary. Just look at the Philadelphia Eagles for example. You
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had that defensive line get in right after the quarterback right away, and they
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were able to they were able to stop them, get sacks, picks,
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They had one of the most team teams with interceptions other than the Dallas Cowboys.
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But with the Jacksonville Jaguars, they had the eighth highest pressure rate,
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but their secondary was ranked twenty eighth in the NFL and they gave up over
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a three hundred yards per game. So that's one thing you could also do,
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maybe instead of signing a defensive lineman, which obviously would help defensive line.
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You could you can't always have enough of that. You could always get
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more, but maybe you go in in the draft or free agency and you
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go get a cornerback. Like some of the free agency players this year is
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Jesse Bates. He's a safety and he's a top five safety in the NFL.
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So maybe use that money for him to improve that secondary. Have a
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strong back end because you have a guy like Tyson Campbell who is a rookie
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dB last year and he was one of the best defensive backs rated Pro Football
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Focus in the NFL. And I know Pro Football Focus it has a bad
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reputation as far as great in players. But at the end of the day,
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they're watching the film, they're breaking down this tape. I'm not saying
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it's an end all be all, but it has to provide some good context
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behind it. But like I was saying, some of the other free agency
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players, Yeah, Patrick Peterson, he's an older veteran. Maybe he could
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teach these younger guys what to do. You have James Bradberry, but he
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is going to want a big contract. Maybe they are willing to spend spend
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that much. You have Jamal Dean, Adrian Amos, Jordan Poyer, Marcus
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Peters, Jonathan Jones. Those are a little bit lower class defensive defensive backs,
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but they could still get the job done and be better than last year.
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And that's a big difference between being the twenty fourth ranked defense to be
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in the middle of the pack or even top ten, because maybe their defensive
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line gets better because who knows how much Trayvon Walker ends up getting better for
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them, or you could end up going into the draft. And I've been
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looking at a few secondary players. There's plenty of secondary talent and these first
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first round, second round, and third round. I'd say that, but
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other than that, I don't know if you could find the late gems.
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After looking at everything, I feel like, whoever you draft at the top,
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those are gonna be the one standing out. I don't feel like you're
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gonna have a Tarik Woolin like you did last year with the Seattle Seahawks,
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a fifth round pick that ended up becoming a pro bowler. But who knows,
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but just me looking at it, they have nine draft picks this year,
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so they're gonna be able to draft to draft some secondary players, and
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you have five of them in the first three rounds. So some of the
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guys that I'm looking at is Christian Gonzalez. He's a defensive back, mostly
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placed corner. He's a sophomores. He's around six two, and he has
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a perfect capabilities to be doing everything. Great athlete can flip the hits,
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got good feet, footwork, and he's able to jam receivers off the line.
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And he's very fast too, So maybe you'll go that route. Because
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you have Tyson Campbell, who is a smaller dB, you maybe want to
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pair him with the bigger dB because usually or a Nowaday's NFL, you don't
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have a smaller defensive back becoming your number one cornerback role. Just look around
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the league at the top cornerbacks. Trayvon Diggs he's around six one, Sauce
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Gardener he's around six two, Jalen Ramsey six two. So it's very rare
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that you find cornerbacks that are number one cornerbacks that are under six foot or
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Another guy that I was looking at is Devin Witherspoon. He's six foot exactly,
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and I think he's the best defensive back in this class by far.
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He has the ball hawking skills and he's willing to stick his head in the
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tackle box, and he could play Manda Manuel and he's just a flat out
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baller. He reminds me of just a little bit more aggressive Trayvon Diggs,
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which sounds crazy, and what I mean by aggressive not so much ballhawk,
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but as far as sticking your nose in the box, as far as tackling
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running backs, tackling skill position players. And we already know Trayvon Diggs he's
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an all pro type of player. So maybe you go get him. I
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don't know how far he would drop down in the draft, but maybe you
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trade up, because this should be an all in situation, like I've been
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saying, because you only have so many opportunities to cash in, especially in
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the AFC, because you have Patrick Mahomes who now with this contract, he's
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making forty five million and after this fall in off season, he's gonna be
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the tenth highest paid quarterback and he's the best quarterback in the league. So
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you're gonna have the Chiefs there, You're gonna have the Chargers there, You're
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gonna have the Bengals there, Ravens, depending on Lamark Jackson, maybe the
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Dolphins, and there may be some other names that I'm forgetting, but you're
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gonna have plenty of teams there that can't compete. And one thing that we
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do notice is that the Chiefs are always gonna be there because look at these
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past five years, they've had home field advantage throughout the entire playoffs. So
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you're gonna have to beat out excluding the Chiefs, the Chargers, the Bills,
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the Bengals, the Ravens, and obviously injuries happening everything. So next
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year it's the perfect opportunity to do this or like I was talking about with
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these other this last defensive back I want to talk about. His name is
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Joey Porter Jr. He's from Penn State. He's around six two, about
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two hundred. He could play both defense or cornerback, and he could play
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safety. And he's a very fast cornerback or cornerback and safety, very physical.
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He reminds me of a Jamal Adams type, but a little bit better
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as far as pass defense because he's very aggressive, very quick. So I
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think he could be a role right there. And say, for instance,
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you're playing nickel defense. A nickel defense that's where you have an extra cornerback
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instead of an extra linebacker, maybe he could be playing that nickel role and
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he could still stick his nose in the box, or you go out and
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get a true safety like Brian Branch. So there's penny of pieces that the
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Jacksonville Jaguars are going to be able to draft in here. And another reason
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why I think that the Jacksonville Jaguars they should go all in is because they're
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in a terrible division and they have the perfect opportunity to go six and O.
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And we know in order to get home field advantage, you must dominate
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your division, and they are more than capable enough to do that. Let's
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just look at the Chiefs throughout the AFC. They've been dominating the Broncos,
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the Raiders, and the Chargers and that's what leads them to get in home
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field advantage and they have very few losses obviously with a good coach and good
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quarterback or great quarterback. And I think the Jacksonville Jaguars they have the same
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thing. And depending on what Trevor Lawrence does, maybe he could take that
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next step because let's just look at the tight ends. They're an older team,
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they have quarterback question marks, and I know I talked about Derek Carr
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last week going to the tight ends, and that was more of a sleeper
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pick and more and more likely. It looks like it's going to be the
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Jets. But they're an older team and you have Derrick Henry. He's gonna
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be getting older. Who knows how much longer he's gonna last. Just look
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at Ezekiel Elliott. He was dominant for a four year period and now Derrick
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Henry he may be reaching that age where he may start the I'm not saying
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he will, but that could happen more and more likely as the years go
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on. Then, yes, they do have a good head coach and Mike
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Vrabel, but you're able to match that with Doug Peterson and then another team
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you have as a Texans. We really don't even have to talk about the
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Texans. They're rebuilding. They got a new culture, you got Damiko Ryan's
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in there. Who knows they're gonna have possibly a new quarterback or wait another
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year. Offensive defensive line they can be had, and and last year the
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Jaguars they just dominated the Texans, and the Texans they're only gonna be getting
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worse and the Jaguars are only gonna be getting better. And obviously you have
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the Colts in that division. It just makes me laugh because they went from
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a team that was so promising with Andrew Luck to a team that who knows
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what's gonna happen with them. They have quarterback question marks. Maybe I don't
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know, maybe Matt Ryan he's the guy that you stick with, but we
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saw how that went last year. The offensive line went from a top three
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offensive line to being out of the top ten out for no reason. The
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only good piece there is Jonathan Taylor, and you could stack the blocks against
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him, and yes, they do have a good defense, but there's only
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so much your defense can do to keep you in the game. At the
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end of the day. This is an offensive league. So they have a
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perfect opportunity to seize this division and take advantage of it. Because the only
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quarterbacks I can say that are better than Trevor Lawrence like by far is Patrick
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Mahomes and Joe Burrow like throughout the whole entire league. So they should go
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all in, and I believe if they don't it'll be a big mistake.
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But since we were talking about quarterbacks and who's better, I've been wanting to
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get into this for a while and we're gonna get into the my top ten
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quarterback rankings and my quarterback rankings. It takes everything into account based on how
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they played last season, the coaching, skill, positions, and everything around
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them doesn't look like they're peaking up or peeking down, and their contract,
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so everything is taken to account about about this. So let's go ahead and
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get straight into it. So Number one, this shouldn't be a question right
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here, Patrick Mahomes. He's by far the best quarterback in the National Football
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League. You have the best coach in the league, and you read,
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you have the best tight end. You have a running back in Isaiah Pacheco
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who out of nowhere became a top fifteen running back in the league. Then
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you're only gonna be getting more skilled position weapons with you having over ten plus
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draft picks this year and having a lot of salary cap, so they're only
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gonna be getting better. So this shouldn't have been a question as far as
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who is the number one quarterback. He's already going into debate as far as
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being a top three quarterback ever, so let alone him being number one on
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a quarterback list that I made. But number two, it's Joe Burrow.
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I believe he is a tier below Patrick Mahomes. I believe Patrick Mahomes he's
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on a tier by himself. He's the next few quarterbacks. They're on the
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same tier right here. So Joe Burrow, he obviously has everything. He
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has the poys, the discipline, he has an accuracy, he could move
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just enough in the pocket. He has weapons with Jamar Chase, so my
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JP, Ryan, Joe Mixon, T Higgins, We'll see how that goes
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with contract. But still has a good team around him hating hers, so
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you have plenty of pieces that are around them or around him. So he's
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able to make plays and he has the intangibles in order to lift his team
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up. And we saw that him going to the Super Bowl in his first
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healthy season, then a second healthy season going to the AFC Championship and putting
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up a fight against Mahomes and a really good team against the Kansas City Chiefs
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who have one of the most underrated defenses. So even though in the AFC
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Championship game he did not have a quote unquote good game, I do believe
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he did the best bearing any other quarterback that would have played that Kansas City
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Chiefs defense, because that Kansas City Defense defense showed what they can do and
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look what they did to the Philadelphia Eagles in the second half. So Joe
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Burrow, I'm pretty sure this that doesn't surprise you all. Joe Burrow be
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number two, but number three I have lam Our Action Jackson and this may
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be a shock to everybody. And I know Lamar Jackson, he hasn't played
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or he didn't play towards the last or the back half of the season.
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But let's not forget how good Lamar Jackson was when he was playing, because
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he was an am VP before Patrick Mahomes, before Josh Allen and Joe Burrow
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got in the a VP hype. Lamar Jackson he is the most dynamic and
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explosive players, or if not, you could argue saying somebody else's better.
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Top three in the NFL. And one thing that I wanted to see from
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Lamar Jackson this year is can he improve on his accuracy and his deep ball?
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And he showed that throughout the year. And with what Lamar Jackson was
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working with, I know he had a good run game, but after so
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much they could stack the box against you and the weapons he had. Mark
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Andrews, who yes, he is the second best tight in the NFL,
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but then you have Rashod Bateman as your number one wide receiver who gets hurt
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every other game. So Lamar Jackson had no weapons, a subpart offensive line,
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and a good running game. Greg Roman, he wasn't that bad of
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a play caller. It's just that's what he had to work with. But
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this is why it's interesting right here, because Lamar Jackson, he may be
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one of the first quarterbacks I could think of in a while. Well,
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this happened with Tom Brady, but I didn't consider Tom Brady a top three
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quarterback when he went to the Bucks, but potentially a top three quarterback going
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somewhere else and competing for a championship. So I believe that Lamar Jackson me
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having him number three, that's based off of me believing he may be going
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elsewhere, potentially to the Jets or the Dolphins, who have even better skilled
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positions and a better defense than what Lamar Jackson had. So there's it's just
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ridiculous that I could see Lamar Jackson not being a top ten quarterback, let
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alone a top five quarterback. And he can compete with any quarterback in the
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NFL, and that is including Patrick Mahomes has the one of the highest winning
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percentages in the National Football League. So I feel like this is a no
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brainer right here. Having Lamar Jackson number three and number four, this where
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it started to get a little bit trickier right here. So this is the
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last person I'm having this tier. It's going to be Josh Allen. And
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I was kind of a little skeptical at first put in Josh Allen as my
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fourth rated quarterback. But at the end of the day, he has all
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the tangibles. He could run around, moving the pocket, has accuracy,
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he has been an MVP candidate several years, and he's always a threat no
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matter if he's running or if he's throwing. And with him having all those
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weapons alongside him, that shore does help too. With Stefan Diggs, Gabriel
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Davis, and Dawson Knox, potentially they could get a better number three wide
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receiver because having Cole Beasley as your number three wide receiver in the National Football
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League is not so much good anymore. Maybe four or five years ago that
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would have been a good thing. But Josh Allen, he is always a
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VP candidate. He can do almost anything you'd ask a quarterback to do.
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And let's not forget that Josh Allen last year did sprain his throwing elbow in
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the middle of the season, and after that we saw somewhat of a decline.
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So we didn't even get a healthy Josh Allen last year and they made
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it to the Divisional round and lost to a better team in the Cincinnati Bengals.
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So I believe that Joe Burrow, March, Jackson, Josh Allen,
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that's one tier by itself. And then this next tier right here. I
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believe it's the quarterbacks that you can argue for being top five, but I
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can also see you arguing them for not being top five. These next three
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quarterbacks and number five I have Jalen Hurts, Jitaln Hurts. He took the
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biggest step out of all of these quarterbacks that I have on my rankings,
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and what he just did in the Super Bowl it was good to see.
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I believe Jalen Hurts he had over three hundred and eighty total yards throughout the
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Super Bowl and with the team that he does have around him and A J.
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Brown, DeVonta Smith, Dallas Goddard who we'll see with Miles Sanders,
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but you still have a good team around him. Then you have an offensive
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coordinator. You're gonna have a brand new offensive coordinator coming in. So that's
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why I believe he took a dip down. I had him over Josh Allen,
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but since he is getting a new coordinator, I have to drop him
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down to five because he is gonna have to learn I know he is under
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Nick's Harrianni, but he's gonna have to learn somewhat different language, terminology,
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not so much scheme, but you're gonna have to learn basically another playbook because
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you're gonna have to get another style for what this coordinator likes to run.
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He's gonna have to get used to what you like to run and what's your
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strengths. So, but he is still a top five quarterback. He is
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gonna get paid this offseason, and he does deserve it. So I don't
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I don't believe this is a question right here, Janalen Hurts being a top
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five quarterback and number six I have Aaron Rodgers. I did have him top
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five, but after that darkness retreat, I'm just kidding, but Aaron Rodgers,
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this should be no question right here. Aaron Rodgers. He still is
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a most accurate quarterback. He could throw off of any arm angle that you
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can ask for. He is on the Packers, though, and he does
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not have that many weapons alongside him. Aaron Jones and Christian Watson are the
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only ones that are for sure. But Christian Watson I wouldn't consider him a
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top fifteen quarterback, and Aaron Jones, I don't know if I would consider
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him a top eight running back in the league. So he still does have
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good pieces. We'll see what they get in the draft. Maybe he gets
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traded somewhere else. There's been talks about the tight ends, the Jets,
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the Raiders. We'll see about that. I believe the best landing spot for
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him is the Jets and the Raiders. Then I'd say the Packers because you
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have the defense around and then you have the skill position players around them.
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So Aaron Rodgers, he's been a top five quarterback throughout ten plus years,
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So him dropping down a number six, I don't believe that's a vendetta against
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him. So that's why I have Aaron Rodgers as my sixth raded quarterback and
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number seven. I just talked about him just a while ago. It's Trevor
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Lawrence being a seventh rade quarterback, and I believe this is where this tier
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ends. As far as quarterbacks. You could argue for being top five or
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not being top five. Trevor Lawrence he's one of the young gun slingers.
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He's an improviser, he's accurate, effective, he could do anything that you
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want a quarterback to do. It's like if you built a quarterback in a
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lab, you'd get Trevor Lawrence or somewhat similar to him. The only thing
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you could say he is not as good at compared to everybody else is his
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mobility. But even at that, he's still top ten in that department too,
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And he has good weapons around him, like I talked about, you
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have Christian Kurt, Calvin Riley is gonna come back, Evan Ingram etn and
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a good coach and Doug Peterson who could call up nice plays in order to
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put them in the right position. So Trevor Lawrence being number seven, and
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I think he could take the biggest jump like I said Jalen Hurts did last
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year, becoming a top five quarterback. Potentially Trevor Lawrence, he could make
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that leap. Ends up becoming a top three quarterback and passing all of those
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quarterbacks that I just listed. And now I'm gonna go to number eight.
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These last three I have him in this last year where it's a quarterback that
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needs pieces around him to win a championship and to actually contend. So number
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eight I have Justin Herbert. Like I said about Trevor Lawrence, he has
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all the tangibles that you need. And you have a new offensive play caller
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and Kelly Moore. And yes, I know a bunch of Cowboy fans they
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did not like Kellen Moore, but at the end of the day, he
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has to get credit for producing top five offenses year after year. And you're
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gonna have weapons around him with Austin Eckler, you're gonna have herenna have Mike
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Williams, you'dna have Keenan Allen around him. And he's only gonna be able
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to improve. We'll see how much this team stays the same with the contract
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that he has, but he should be able to make the right play.
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And number nine, I have the infamous Dak Prescott. He did not play
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so well in the playoff game, and he did not really play that well
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all this year and got hurt. But I still do believe he is a
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top ten quarterback if you just look at just his surrounding body of work,
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and he still does have good pieces around him. You have Ceedee Lamb and
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Tony Pollard and the offense. I broke it down maybe two or three weeks
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ago. You guys could check that out about the offensive play calling and how
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it's gonna be a simplistic game plan for Dak and as far as him having
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to do just simple things and this turnover prone season, I don't think that's
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gonna really happen again. I still do think he's gonna have eight plus interceptions
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because nowadays you look at every top ten quarterback, they have plenty of interceptions
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just from taking chances. Whether that's early in the season or in the late
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window of a game, You're gonna have a quarterback willing to do that.
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And Dak Prescott he does have trust in his abilities, which I should expect
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from a top ten quarterback to do. So. Yes, I know I
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am a Cowboys fan, but I am realistic about my quarterback. So that's
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why I have him ranked night and number ten. Lastly, I have Jared
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Goff Jared Goff. Surprisingly, he did the last two months of the NFL
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season have one of the best statistical statistical seasons as far as any quarterback.
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He had the most passing yards, most touchdowns, at least interceptions out of
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any quarterback. And you have a team like the Detroit Lions, who have
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good pieces. You have a Monroe st Brown, you have Jamison Williams,
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who was their rookie wide receiver they drafted early, is going to be fully
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healthy throughout this entire season. Then you have DeAndre Swift, you have Jamal
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Williams. So they're surrounded or he surrounded with the good supporting cast and an
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offensive line. The only thing I can say is the defense. But again
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this is just based on what their side of the field is. And Jared
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Goff even the last game against the Packers, it was like a playoff game
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that they played, and he played better than Aaron Rodgers in which I had
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him being the sixth best quarterback in the National Football League. So I don't
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think Jared Goff he can make a jump, but I do believe he can
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stay consistent enough to being a top ten quarterback in the league. And I
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know jar Jared Goff. He had a one eighty throughout this whole season,
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and he progressed throughout the year. I'm gonna talk about a team in the
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NBA that went the exact opposite way, and that team that I'm talking about
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is Atlanta Hawks. So that Atlanta Hawks in twenty twenty one, for the
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first time in over fifteen plus years, made the Eastern Conference Finals and lost
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in six games to the eventual champs of Milwaukee Bucks. And they looked like
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they were going to be one of the best teams in the National Basketball Association
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for years to come, having a young star and TREYE. Young, Kevin
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Herder, John Collins, DeAndre Hunter. You had plenty of pieces around him.
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But now that's looking very bad for them. So before I made this,
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before I'm making this video, Nate McMillan. He just got fired from
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the Atlanta Hawks and after starting off twenty nine and thirty, so below five
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hundred, they're gonna have to be looking for another coach too. And so
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maybe there's been talks about Quinn Snyder potentially joining the Atlanta Hawks, but I
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don't know how much that would be as far as the jump wise, because
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we saw Quinn Snyder with the Utah Jazz and they got out coached in several
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playoffs series. But then they do have an interim coach in Joe Prunty.
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He coached for the Milwaukee Bucks in twenty eighteen and he filled in for Jason
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Kidd who got fired throughout that season halfway and they finished twenty one and sixteen
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under him. And that's when the Boston Celtics it was a rookie year or
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Jason Tatum. They made it all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals and
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they lost in the first round to the Celtics. So Joe Prunty, he's
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not gonna be a life or life saver like Shock Vaughan for the for the
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Brooklyn Nets, who bring a different energy to the team. So you're basically
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scrapping everything for this Atlanta Hawks team mid season and I don't think they're gonna
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be able to recover from that. And then after the Atlanta Hawks, they
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traded for de jont Murray. In the middle of the offseason, they traded
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they traded three to four unprotected first round picks, which means they have no
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say so for what the San Antonio Spurs choose to do. It with those
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picks. They could either give those picks back to the Hawks, depending if
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they're worse, or they could keep those picks or if they're even better.
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And there were supposed to be a quote unquote Big three. Obviously they're not
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a Big three, but a quote unquote Big three and contend in the Eastern
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Conference, which now looks like the dominant conference. And I don't think they
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have a brighter future than the Milwaukee Bucks then and the seventy six ers,
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even in the Brooklyn Nets and the Brooklyn Nets they just traded away Kevin Durant
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and Kyrie Irving and then the Atlanta Hawks. They're negative thirty nine million in
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cap space and they put in all of their pieces and to Trey Young and
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John Collins, and they're taking up forty percent of the cap for the next
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five years. So they have to play like all star caliber, superstar caliber
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players, and they are not those type of players. And then you have
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Dejante Murray, who got traded by the Spurs because he needed to get paid.
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So this offseason he's gonna be getting paid and he's going to be demanding
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thirty to forty million per year, So they're gonna be forced to sign Dejante
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Murray into a contract because they went all in and looking at this team,
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they're gonna be stuck. And the main reason that they are stuck is because
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Trey Young and Trey Young. If you just look at the stats, if
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you just look at them, he's averaging twenty seven points per game, you
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could think, oh, okay, he is having a good season. He
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is a superstar caliber player. But if you dig just a little bit deeper
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in the stats, not so much. He's shooting forty two percent from the
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field's one, that's one of the worst field goal percentages and the NBA.
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Then you have him shooting thirty two percent from three, and he's a quote
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unquote the next Steph Curry, and he has a worse three point percentage than
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Patrick Beverley and the same as Russell Westbrook. So that should showed just as
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much as how good of a three point shooter he is. The only reason
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he does score twenty seven points per game is because he shoots a lot of
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shots, mainly a lot of threes, in order to get those points.
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And then he's a liability on defense, so it's not like he can make
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a play or if he's having a bad night, he can make up for
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it on defense compared to these other superstar players. And he's six foot five
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eleven at tallest, so even if you wanted to try on defense, he's
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gonna get exploited by even smaller guards like Donno Vimitchell in this conference, who's
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six two sixty three. Then you have John Collins who's having one of the
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worst years statistically, even worse than his rookie season. So in John Collins
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rookie season, he averaged twelve points a game, fifty nine percent from the
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field, seven rebounds, thirty four percent from three. And this year,
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with the contract where he's demanding twenty eight million dollars per year for these next
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five years, he's averaging thirteen points a game, fifty percent from the field,
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seven rebounds, and twenty four percent from three. So it seems like
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he's getting worse in declining, and he has played all the games this season.
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But I feel like this is an outlier because we're not going to really
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see John Collins these next few years play a full season again, and even
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at that, the season isn't over, So who knows what happened, But
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baron injury, you obviously don't want to see injuries, but just looking at
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his consistency as far as staying on the court is very rare that he stays
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on they're all eighty two games. Then Dejante Murray, who's looking like even
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more of a disappointing trade because again once again with Trey Young, if you
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just look at the stats, it looks like de Jante Murray is having an
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all star type season, but he's averaging twenty one points a game six and
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sists five rebounds, So it looks like they're putting up stats and it's more
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John Collins. But I believe it's just from those two guard players that's making
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John Collins even worse than what he actually is. And the main reason that
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people were arguing for this Atlanta Hawks trade was because the Jonte Mury would make
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up for Trey Young defensively. And just last year with the San Antonio Spurs,
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j Janta Murray had one seven point five defensive rating, so the lower
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the defensive rating, the better it is. This year, he's averaging a
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one fourteen point seven defensive rating, so he has gotten worse defensively and he's
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less efficient. Last year, he shot fifty three percent from the field this
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year forty six percent from the field, and the three points percentages stayed the
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same around thirty six thirty seven percent. But he was brought in defensively to
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make up for Trey Young and he can't even do that, and to have
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Tray Young be playing off ball and that's not working either. So they had
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to go to their last resort and fired Nate McMillan. But I don't think
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he was the problem here because he got a words team to the Eastern Conference
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finals where they beat the Philadelphia seventy six ers, who are arguably at that
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time in twenty twenty one, one of the best teams in basketball. So
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that meant that the Hawks should be one of the best basketball teams in the
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league. But now I don't even think that they have a better future or
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a better present the majority of the teams in the Eastern Conference, let alone
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the Western Conference, where there's always big trades being made and where they have
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more of the superstar players. So I don't know what they could do.
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Maybe they could blow it up, but I don't see anybody trading for Trade
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Young and the contract that he has making fifty plus million dollars and giving back
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valuable assets. I can see them giving up for Shrump instead of receiving first
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shound picks because Trey Young, he did look like a promising player at first,
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but now it looks like he's resist selling and it showed that he's an
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inefficient player that can't play defense. But the stats look good. So I
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don't know where they can go exactly, but it's not gonna be good no
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matter what they do, and it's going to be disappointing for whatever happens,
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let alone if they don't make the playoffs this year. But that's gonna go
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ahead and wrap it up. I appreciate you guys tuning in and I'll be
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back with you guys episode nine, so six o'clock on Saturday. That's when
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week I will be breaking down some divisions in the NFL as far as where
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their future is or where they should go. But we'll get into that next
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