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Chris Landry Talks NFL Draft and Caleb Williams · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry four to four thirty on Monday's NFL College and More. Chris,
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  welcome in, sir. How are you good, Jacob? How you doing,
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  man? We're doing good. Just talking through things, reading some crazy
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  scouting report from on You know how X is, Chris. You can our
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  Twitter X whatever you want to call it. You can find anything you want
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  out there and all kinds of stuff. I would expect you to talk about
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  this from this aspect, but I was reading an excerpt in the last segment.
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  Let me see. It's from let me tell you who he is?
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  Like, you may know the guy. It's an NF former NFL scout,
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  and I have no idea what his credibility is, like none of that stuff.
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  But it was on Caleb Williams, and I was reading it over the
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  weekend. Let's see where is there? It is right here, and it's
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  from a guy named Daniel Kelly, former Jets scout. Basically, I mean,
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  he breaks this thing down and basically at the end of the day says,
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  hey, look, stay away from Caleb Williams. He's a fourth round
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  pick. This is a disaster waiting to happen. But it's amazing the narratives
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  and what you see the varying of opinions of players at this time of year.
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  It is. It's one of the things that I think. It's one
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  of the we've talked about, like at the Combine, which it just got
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  back from last night, was you know, it's about medicals in as much
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  as you can get to know these guys, the physical part of how well
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  they play is not very difficult to ascertain. It's just, you know,
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  it's trying to find out what makes the what makes the guys stick. You
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  know, you can't ask a guy if they love football they work hard.
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  Of course the answer is going to be yes. You have to ask things
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  that's going to get you to the answer. And I think there's some interesting
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  things in today's modern athlete. I'm old school. I think people you and
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  people have listened to me here know that probably. But when I was running
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  the when I was the director of the Combine, it was a lot different.
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  We didn't have a lot of things. Guys they all wanted to work
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  out. And now it's a different world, and I think there's a lot
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  of things and I'm curious to see going forward in IL is gonna change this.
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  So Caleb Williams and I don't know, I can't verify this, but
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  reports are and I'm not talking media reports, but reports inside USC is that
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  he made over ten million dollars at USC in nil so he is and his
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  dad, Caleb Williams, has got a bit of a helicopter dad. So
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  you know, they're already these guys are gonna be businessmen in college. So
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  by the time they want to go to the NFL, it's like they've got
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  experience. It's they're not willing to just do whatever. And I'm not quite
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  sure. He's the first guy in forty two years that that never participated in
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  the medical physicals. Now he's gonna have to take physical with probably three to
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  five teams. Why wouldn't you want to take one physical and be done with
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  it. But is a little bit of a you know, I'm different,
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  I'm better than everybody. I don't need to do what everybody else does because
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  I'm that's you know, something that would concern me a little bit. But
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  I'd have to find out more about what is this guy like. Look,
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  I I just a quick example. You know, when Ryan Leaf came out,
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  you know, Mike Price talked him up. Great guy, Greg Guy,
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  Chris, He's great, He's this, He's that. People at Montana
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  when he went to high school not as excited about it. But you know,
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  you know what when at the combine and I asked him, he came
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  out same years Peyton Manning, And all Peyton Manning wanted to know in the
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  interview was how could he get one of those beta cam machines so you can
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  begin to look at film. But those are not like the old beta cams
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  you use in your house. These are like two hundred thousand dollars machines that
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  it's all digitized now. But he wanted when yes, Ryan Leaf, he
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  wanted he wanted to get his boys together. He wanted to take a trip
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  to Jamaica. That was what he wanted to do. That's all they can
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  talk about. Nothing wrong with that, but it tells you a little bit
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  where the mindset is. And of course Ryan Leef went through some rough times
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  personally, and it's actually doing what you do, is hosting radio and doing
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  stuff like that. So he's got his life together, but it's really more
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  about what a guy does. And listen, I think there's always that danger
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  that somebody could flame out. I beg Al Davis and Bruce Kebrick of the
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  Raiders, don't take your Marcus Russell. I knew, I knew him just
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  intimately, very well, and I knew how lazy he was, and I
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  knew that he was a bus waiting to happen at It wasn't like any brilliants
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  on my point at all. It just was obvious to me, not so
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  obvious that people didn't know them. When you get to know these guys and
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  you get to know the right people, that's when you can really determine what
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  you have because this is a big time investment people are making. Chris Andrey
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  on your radio Monday edition of the program, and of course Finam at Landry
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