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[Assistant] You know, one thing I'd say about Russell, hey, he looked lost last year, but I still think he can turn it around. The situation or the difficulty of his situation, I should say, was worse than I remember when I went back and started to break him down. He couldn't run the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, like Gino, it was horrible past protection. It was worse than Gino's past protection. Right? And he was in a new system and a place and all that and I think all those things led to a less than what we're used to Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] I think so, but you know, again, I'm not trying to give them a free pass here either. Like, oh well, I mean, I stand by what I said. They're still there where at a point where you go, man, you're just, you're Russell Wilson. You're too good to not throw that ball or see that.


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[Assistant] But I think all the, a lot of stuff was playing into that. And I guess that's where I'm giving them a little bit of a, you know, reprieve, free pass, whatever you want to say there.


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[Assistant] That maybe I didn't quite give it the credit for the situation being as tough during the season as I do right now. That's where I would say. But like, like you heard me say, it's like he didn't trust his eyes last year. He didn't trust what he was seeing. He was watching the pass rush way too much. There were games where you go,


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[Assistant] Man, he left like 8 completions for 150 yards on the field here because he didn't, he was looking at the rush or looking to run or didn't want to get off the first read and go to the second read and was, you know, I still think looking at the rush. But here's the other thing too. You know, I explained the situation not being conducive to being awesome at quarterback, certainly, right?


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[Assistant] You know, maybe he was a little negative on his physical ability because I was holding him to a standard of like Russell Wilson still three or four years ago. Have the skills declined to a degree? Sure. But like again, this is where the exercise is awesome. When I start to watch them one after another, right?


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[Assistant] And I, I, I go woah. Oh good thing I did this, cause Russell's arm is stronger than this guy, stronger than this guy, stronger than this guy. Oh yea Russell lost a step, but he's still faster than that guy, faster than this guy, faster than that guy, and more mobile than this guy.


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[Assistant] So sometimes you lose it as compared to where the standard of the player was in your mind, and I think maybe I wasn't as, uhm, you know, forgiving of him as I should have been in that department.


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[Assistant] Put Gino in front of Russell Wilson just because of one year. Even though the year was better, I know that. I just can't say he's a better quarterback still at this point. You know, like I said, there was some things, you know, that worked in favor for Gino, worked against Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] You know, like I said, this is still an explosive arm. His, he can get it out so much faster than I realize he can at times. That's the one thing I did not give him credit for. Also, I'll say this too. He's got more releases.


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[Assistant] Then I felt like I saw in years past, but more than I give them credit for too. There's a lot of sidearm throws or let me just flick it real quick and get it out whatever way I gotta do just to get this done.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's where, you know, it's, it's impression, impression.


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[Assistant] But like, impressive I should say. But like, pocket presence and patience in the pocket, that all went backwards.


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[Assistant] That was the thing that's just like, hey, stand in there, read the play out, don't look at the rush, right? Don't abandon the pocket, the pocket's fine, just because the first read's not there, don't run, right? And again, there was games and plays.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, you can get into it and go, whoa, I mean, he makes some throws in the Chiefs game late in the year where you just go, I mean, they're top notch, like, only a few people in football could do that. Right? Uh, but then he has games where,


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[Assistant] It's the Rams late in the year and he makes a few bad decisions and you go, why are you trying to force that? But they're not good. They can't get anything going on offense and he's taking it upon himself.


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[Assistant] To make it go. And that's where you start to go, yeah, well, I, you know, I've watched the first eight passes and nobody was open. So on pass number nine, he tried to make it happen because he's getting paid 250 million, right? And that's where I tried to give a little bit of like, I guess, leeway a little bit for the situation he was in.


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[Assistant] Rebuild him, retool him, rewire him, and teach him things he didn't know.


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[Assistant] And I think that's gonna be the big thing. And see, that's where, you know, I get back into that where, you know, you can't run the ball and they can't pass protect, right?


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[Assistant] It, it, and you're the new quarterback and you're expected to be the savior. I think it just led to some bad habits where he just, he tried to take over and do things with just his physical ability.


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[Assistant] And the team wasn't good enough to even help him in that department, let alone, yeaah, his physical ability.


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[Assistant] It's not like I was saying five years ago where he could probably, five years ago, he could probably have been in that situation and scrambled like he did in the 49ers game to beat them early in the year and done that a whole bunch of times and got them out of trouble a bunch. And we'd have been like, man, they won the game. Russell's amazing, even though they couldn't run it or protect it. No, he can't do that to the same extent anymore.


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[Assistant] He needs to work the offense more. He needs to trust what he sees there.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, but like I said, he still has game-changing physical skills. Right?


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[Assistant] And he just has to get back to playing the position, uh, uh, uh, the right way. And he's another guy I would say, like I said about some guys last week.


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[Assistant] Where last year was a more collection of plays rather than running an offense. Still has great touch power and he's a phenomenal deep ball thrower still. And still can make wow plays.


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[Assistant] I just wrote at the end, not sure I gave credit to how bad they were in the situation he was in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, fire the coach again. Well, I don't want to say that right there, right? I don't think Sean Payton is the, uh, first off, I got respect for Doc Rivers, so I'm not sure how to take that. So maybe he is the Doc Rivers of the NFL.


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[Assistant] Well, like, Sean Payton where I would say is different, and I don't know enough about the basketball specifics, but Sean Payton is definitely one of the best offensive minds we've seen in the history of football. Right?


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[Assistant] To me, he made a quarterback in Drew Brees who was really good and he made him look great. Right? That to me is where he's special. And I think he really knows how to support the quarterback and take the pressure of all that's there on the quarterback and simplify it and make the game a little easier that way. You know, and again,


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[Assistant] Don't get all into team things and comparing individuals by using team accolades, right? You know, Sean Payton probably would have gone on the Super Bowl more times too if he had the legion of boom on defense and all of that too. There's just different scenarios there. I think both are to be respected.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and Sean Payton's in no jeopardy of losing his job anytime soon.


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[Assistant] If Russell Wilson struggles the first four or five weeks, he's gonna get benched and they're gonna play Jared Stidham. Like, he's not gonna get a free pass here, for sure. Man, they're both under a lot of pressure.


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[Assistant] They really are. The pressure, I think, with Russell Wilson is probably greater. Higher expectations for that club. High expectations, the contract, Sean Payton, I think he's very aware of his legacy. He went to this place because he wanted to be at a place where he could be the Patrick Bahomes or Josh Allen, make offenses around me, I'm gonna carry the team. So I would say it's more on him.


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[Assistant] You know, there, Tannahill, there's pressure, but I think they're also a team that doesn't make it all about the quarterback, and the people behind them, I don't think are as threatening, like you're saying, as Jared Stidham is right now. So yeaah, I'm with you, and I think Russell's under more pressure here.


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[Assistant] Those are one, those are those long shots that like you go, if you got extra change, that's the one you take. Because like if they go 11 and 6 or 10 and 7,


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[Assistant] I just, you know, I don't know, Sean Payton, quarterback position, we know how wins get, you know, you win some games, a quarterback gets the credit for that, right? Does the DB win that often, the defensive player of the year? I mean, it's not a ton.


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[Assistant] You know, Darrell Rivas, of course, wanted, I think, once or twice back in the day. But yea, it's, it's, it's not always that position. Uh, the Broncos, to me,


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[Assistant] They're a team to, I would say watch out for. I would. It's just, you know, again, they go back into the conversation of like, okay, you're probably in the toughest division in football. Right. That's rough. Right? You know, the schedule itself is tough.


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[Assistant] You know, so, you know, how can they, how can they do get, you know, what kind of star are they going to get off to? Raiders and commanders to start the year? Dolphins, Bears? I think, you know, this is a team that's, the defense should be good.


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[Assistant] Have top ten physical ability. Okay? That's where I would say.


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[Assistant] And yes, if they can put it all together, put the position the right way, right?


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[Assistant] You know, have some people around them to support them the right way. I think they can all show that type of ability. Those would be the three guys in that group where I could say, I really think they could be, they could be big risers or they could be the one next year we could look at and go, they moved up 10 spots or 12 spots. You know, they have that type of potential.


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[Assistant] I wasn't ready to go there yet. Yeah, there's definitely a little bit more of a prove it factor. I also think that people gotta look, if they went back and we watched film with Jimmy Garoppolo, you'd go, damn, he did play good last year. You know, I know Brock Purdy got to be a part of the team was just getting right and got to go on the run at the end of the year. So everybody goes, well, look what he did and the team was.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, you know, Jimmy got part, it was unfortunately part of the year where the team was working out some kinks, had some injuries, wasn't playing their best football and they were starting to play their best football and boom, he got hurt. Right? But I mean.


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[Assistant] Again, that's what I think. When you go back and watch Jimmy, it was a lot of good decisions, big time throws, standing in the pocket, you know? I mean, what were Jimmy's, Jimmy's stats last year? 16 touchdowns, 4 interceptions, right? I mean, you know, threw the ball down the field, was accurate, all of that. I mean, Jimmy played really damn good. And I would say, too,


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[Assistant] You know, and again, Brock Purdy was really good too. Yea, I want to see more from Brock before I can just say, oh, he's a better quarterback than Jimmy Garoppolo. Yea. You know, the team was hitting on all cylinders more when Brock Purdy took over, so he, he got the benefit from that. But I would say if we took like,


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[Assistant] You know, missed the rows or plays last year. Brock Purdy would probably have more than Jimmy Garoppolo. It's just, the 49ers, we kinda hit it on it in the playoff game with the Seahawks. And I know we hit it on the podcast the next day. And if you think back about the game, early in the game, there was, I mean, he missed some wide open, but they should have been up.


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[Assistant] They were still wide open later in the game, so it didn't matter, and we all forgot about it, and they won. But that's, you know, that's something I always talk about, right? Where, yea, they were so good, we forgot about his mistakes.


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[Assistant] Everything, right. And I feel like, yes, if we went back and went, you know, tick for tack or however they say it, whatever, that Garoppolo last year actually left less on the field than


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[Assistant] What you're talking about, yeah, they're, they can they run the ball? Can they protect? And yeah, is Todd Bowles going to play a, let's play defense and run the ball.


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[Assistant] Just, I was trying to do old school football coach. Uh, but that, that's, yeaah. I understand that worry there. Yeaah. If Bruce Arians was the guy, that'd be, you know, wide open offense. I think it'd fit Baker Mayfield. He is a no-risk, no-biscuit type of guy with a big arm.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, that team's got some questions and like we talked about earlier, I mean, I think we look at them and go, they're not as good as the Saints or the Atlanta Falcons on paper right now.


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[Assistant] As much as anybody in the top 25 because of the way Cleveland screwed him over and then just being in, you know, some tough situations last year. Alright, Pete, do we have one more? I see Pete writing in one more question. He's like, do we have one more? Tua, here we go. Tua, we are coming to assassinate you later today, Mr. Sims. From Tuanon.


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[Assistant] Alright, and, and as, you know, I talked about when I made the list and all that, that 9 through 21, 22 range, holy crap, was that tough. Uh, it's nitpicky there, and uh, it'll be nitpicky with our next pod and the next group of guys we talk about.


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[Assistant] Man, it was hard waking up today. It was hard, it hurt me. I was at the sun too much yesterday.


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[Assistant] I need to go, uh, repunish myself. Yea, you probably got right up and drank some coffee. It didn't even make it worse. Seriously, right, exactly. Yup, no doubt. Alright everybody, hope you enjoyed the countdown. There was 19 through 14 in the books, right? 14, yea, we got to 14. We did. Alright, you know where to find us, keep sending in the questions.


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[Assistant] We'll read them if they're polite, okay? And if they're intelligent. If you're a jerk, maybe we'll read them. We'll see.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, and thanks again as always. Manning down the ship here. We'll be back on Thursday. We'll release the next group. Hope everybody's good. Having a good, nice few days. And I am not closing out very good today. Clap it up. Clap it up. There we go, we got it. We got it back.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, what's up mofo? We brought Kentucky to New York City, aka Connecticut. We're right outside of, you know, you got the deal, whatever, as Chris says. Tri-state. Yeah, tri-state area. It's all predicated in New York City. I mean, we don't exist if it weren't for the New York City.


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[Assistant] Right, so Connor Rogers is here, Chris Sims, Chris Sims on Button, episode 486. We're gonna hit a little Ask Me Anything today. It's the weekend after the Derby.


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[Assistant] Connor Rogers was at the Derby. I saw you had a little New York flair in Kentucky. A little bit. Yea. It was good. I mean you didn't go dark that day on TV. You weren't like Johnny New York like all black and doing all that.


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[Assistant] All right. That was cool. I gotta go. I'm going next year. As I've always said, I mean, gotta do it. My family's all there. My dad grew up right around the corner and I think 150th anniversary. I'm going to try to try to hit up the Derby and enjoy that one. Glad you're back. All right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Connor's driving the ship today, as you guys could tell. Ahman's out. He had a long weekend. He did an unbelievable job. It's awesome. Pre-game for the Derby yesterday. He was in Atlanta for baseball. So now we're going to hit it up and Connor, I'll lay out for you and let you just take over the show from here on out.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, he's got an incredible running ability. I hope you're watching this on the NBC Sports, uh, NBC YouTube page right now. You know, to, to kind of dissect his technique there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't like that. And our guy is right there as far as, you know, the English male. He's a listener and knowing what I mean by independent contractor.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well it's just, the body has to be used with the arm, and sometimes he's just a little too army altogether. Now this isn't bad, he gets his shoulder to the target pretty good, he gets a little turn.


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[Assistant] into it. So those are good things from Justin Fields. Do I love his arm slot and the fact that that elbow goes, we throw through the elbow.


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[Assistant] No, I don't love that. Watch how it goes elbow, right? And then hinges up there like that. You know, there's not a lot of great, great throwers in the history of football who threw the ball like that.


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[Assistant] Now we've seen improvement, but yes, is that like perfect to me? No.


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[Assistant] No, but I do again like the base and the shoulder turn, which will help out the fact that I don't love the rest of the motion.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well one, like, I don't think it always, it's the connection with the rest of the body. So now it's like, yeah, we turn the body, we do this, but


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[Assistant] You know, again, like if you were going to punch somebody, or you were going to get an arm wrestling match, would you want to throw your elbow up? Is that the position of power? No. Right.


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[Assistant] You know, you wanna have it a little lower to where now you can bring the whole body in with it and have force behind it. So that's where...


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[Assistant] You know, I think there's that, there's the, the element of when you get like that, the arm can get too loose and floppy and it's hard to replicate it one throw after another.


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[Assistant] You know, that's why mechanics are important. You're not always going to have the best feel every day, right? You've been an athlete. You know, some days you get a basketball and you just go, damn, it just feels good. And I can just, I'm just hitting everything and you don't even know why, right? And then two days later you go, you come out there and you're going to shoot a basketball and you go,


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[Assistant] Man, I was on fire the other day. I'm gonna just take off right where I was the other day. And all of a sudden you go, damn, I can't get it to go in. I don't have my fuel today. What is that? Well, that's when mechanics come in.


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[Assistant] That's when mechanics go, oh, I don't have my A game feel today. So wait, let me keep my, you know, I'm talking basketball here. Let me keep my shooting in. Let me, you know, extend my arm more. Well, that's the same with throwing.


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[Assistant] You know, there's going to be days where you're not going to have it. And that's where base shoulder turn, you know, how you're lined up appropriately to the target and all that. So where your, where your weight is transferred on your back leg, then you can rely on those on days where you go, Ooh, I'm a little off, right? I'm off. But like technicians.


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[Assistant] You'll never know. Like, Brady's off day, he's going, I'm off, and we're going, damn, he's, he's 9 for 11 right now. He's not off, off, like, right? Same thing for pitchers. Exactly, exactly right. So that's gotta be fixed, and that's what we're gonna be watching for here.


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[Assistant] You know, the next stage of development. We saw them run the ball. He does that at a very elite level, right? We love that because we thought that buy some time to grow in the passing department here. But yeah, this is the year where it's gotta grow and it's gotta be, you know, the next step up in that department as far as the Bears want to be.


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[Assistant] Exactly, the same thing every time. Right, exactly right. So I just go, ooh, this guy's a bad day, you're not even gonna know, cause he just, he relies on doing all the other things right and lets the arm be the benefactor instead of the main factor, right?


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[Assistant] You know, hey, Anthony Richardson, he's got a little of that floppy arm, arm gets in the air, and that's where you see the ball go all over the board. Intermediate stuff. Exactly where. So that's where it's gotta be fixed, but...


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[Assistant] Again, I liked everything we saw from that video other than that elbow thing, and I'm not sure that'll ever get totally fixed with him. It might not. And that's where he's gonna have to continue on that shoulder turn and creating opposites and doing everything that way.


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[Assistant] It's like a floater almost sometimes. It's a floater. See, look on the left. That, that's how a dead, he just is basically throwing you a knuckleball back, right? And it's just flipping whatever way possible. Now the guy on the right, uh. That's him at the senior ball. That's him there at the senior. Yep. Yep. I was, I saw 74 and I was like, is that Tipman? That's who I thought I started to think of as the Wisconsin kid at first. But, so there's your more traditional one to one,


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[Assistant] Yes, you're gonna snap that and the shotgun here is what we're talking about mainly here. Now the ball is gonna spin a little bit and spiral and be in a spot where


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[Assistant] It's easy for the quarterback to get the ball in his hands and adjust it real quick if I gotta get the laces or hand it off. And what the other thing is with the dead ball where you don't like that, I mean, one, yeah, that's the number one thing.


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[Assistant] As, you know, you like the quarterback to have a little bit of a, you know, consistent feel of the kind of ball you're going to get.


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[Assistant] A dead snap ball, one, yeaah, there's going to be reorganizing in your hand more often. Two, a dead snap ball, two, you know, it, it, it's not going to float through the air the same way. It's not. You're going to get knuckle balls or it's going to be like, whoa, oh, oh, okay, I got it. Right. So it's not going to be a smooth trajectory all the time. I think that's probably the biggest thing.


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[Assistant] And, you know, you're trying to limit the amount as far as you want the quarterback, like, getting the snap should almost be like, secondary.


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[Assistant] Right? It should become so machine like that. You don't think about it, right? Basically, you can watch it kinda come into your hands, but you're also kinda looking at like, wait, did the free safety come? Let me see the safeties.


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[Assistant] Did they rotate? What coverage am I getting? So it should be that seamless. Now you're getting knuckleballs thrown back at you, you know, all of a sudden, yeah, my eyes aren't on the free safety blitz or the strong safety and where he's rotating. And I think that's probably the biggest thing. And especially in this day of RPOs, right?


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[Assistant] Let me get the snap. Let me get the ball. I gotta actually fake the ball with a handoff and try to throw it really quick or do something like that. It's a lot happening and I don't think that snap is going to be as consistent.


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[Assistant] And I think the other thing too, you know, is, you know, get it going now. I'm just a believer in don't dip your toe in the water, jump in.


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[Assistant] Let's just jump in and get going. So by the time training comes, camp gets here, you're not even thinking about it in its second nature. And I don't think it's going to be a big adjustment for John Michael Schmitz when it's all said and done. It's probably better to mess up in May around the rookies than messing up in August.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. I would think they continue with that second grip we saw there from the senior bowl. That they continue to push that and okay, yeaah, we have a bad snap here and there. Okay, we deal with that now and that's why we're


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[Assistant] Levis has played a good amount, right? He played a lot of, a good amount of football here. In a pro-style offense. In a pro-style offense, right? To where Levis is more like...


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[Assistant] His is almost like, hey, we'd, we'd like him to refine a lot of things.


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[Assistant] You know, yes, he understands these concepts, but we want him to work on, you know, mechanics. Oh, Richardson? I'm talking about Levis first. Oh, Levis first. Okay, yep. Right? He's, we know he's good in the, I'm just trying to give the background on why that perception is out there and I can understand it. Yep. Right? Where Levis, it does, hey, I'm for play anybody.


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[Assistant] Again, I just want to make that clear. But I can understand why that is out there with Levis. He's been in the pro offense. Hey, there's some mechanical things we gotta work on. We know he's had, you know, uhm, you know, lots of reps.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, this would be a good time for, okay, he understands, you know, how to read a defense and the plays, but now we can refine on, hey, stay here in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Let's throw this ball, this curl route the same way 10 times in a row. Let's not have two or three different release points or whatever else. You know, there's that where, you know, again, Richardson needs that too. Don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] I think he needs it more in the sense of he's got to get out there and play and see the field and rotation of safeties and learn and just to learn a little more that way. I'm always in favor, you know, uh, who was that, TB Kits right there? TB Kits, yea. TB Kits. I'm always in favor of people playing. But I think with a guy like Richardson, why you're hearing that more is just that


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[Assistant] That's his number one detriment is that he hasn't played enough and to sit on the bench for another year.


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[Assistant] And not get reps again. To me, I would worry about that aspect where I go, hey, Levis has played a lot. Okay, let's let's let him sit back and learn from Tannahill so he can be a little more consistent and read field, read the field to get a little better feel in the pocket and stuff like that. And we think he can grow that way. The situations are different. Again, I'm all for playing, but I think that's probably where that


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[Assistant] Teach everybody Gardner-Minshew offense here and go down a road like so far, you go, hey, we're pretty good in the Gardner-Minshew offense. Now Anthony Richardson, you start and we're going to start doing these plays, right? No, I'm with you. Grow that, you know, all together there. Shane Steichen, Anthony Richardson, I think that's why that draft pick


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[Assistant] You know, made a lot of sense. But, you know, again, I'm one to let them play no matter what. I really am.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I, I think Richardson, it is more imperative for him to get out there and get those representatives levist right now.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where it's different from him and Levis too. Levis doesn't have that to rely on. Levis doesn't get the weight.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna get the defense out of these crazy coverages cause they have to worry about me running the football with the quarterback power run here and now they're playing cover three instead of, you know.


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[Assistant] The game will be simpler for Richardson. He'll see simpler looks. And yeaah, they'll be able to play that like we talked about in the, you know, before the draft and the fact of letting him develop and get better.


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[Assistant] Because of the run game and the simple looks he'll get on the defensive side of the ball allow him to grow slowly but surely in the drop back pass game.


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[Assistant] You know, he took them to the AFC Championship game. They were the number one seed. I know he threw three interceptions in the game. I know. He's done a lot of damn good. You gotta get there first. Exactly. And I don't think...


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[Assistant] That yes, I do think Levis was drafted to be the replacement, replacement for Ryan Tanahal. I get the sense that yeah, Malik Willis is.


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[Assistant] Not in the, I don't want to say in the dog house, but they're not, um, hopeful that he maybe can turn into what they want. I think that if he showed enough hope for them to think, Hey, wait,


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[Assistant] When Tannahill's done this year, he can be the guy and run the offense. They wouldn't have drafted Will Levesch. They wouldn't even have been thinking about it. They wouldn't have been in talks of maybe they trade up to pick number three to get the guy, right? So I think all those signs show you that


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[Assistant] There's no confidence in Malik Willis there right now and he's gonna have to earn that back, you know, with, with the preseason and practice. And, and I think, you know, Tannahill,


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[Assistant] I think in my heart of hearts, I do think this is the last year, but if they go to the playoffs and win a game or...


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[Assistant] Get deep into the playoffs? Do I think they're just gonna go, oh, okay, Tannahill, you're out of here? Could I see them signing him up for another year or two-year contract that they can get out of after a year, whatever? I certainly could see that. So, I do think that Levis is the guy in waiting, but I don't think it's gonna be a short leash like you're talking about with Tannahill.


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[Assistant] Dean Winters, he's a San Francisco guy for sure, as far as fitting that scheme. Run and chase. Run and chase, one gap guy, you know, he's not gonna be the guy you want to take on blocks and shed people off that way. No, it's more about


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[Assistant] You know, speed, see the hole, shoot your gun, fly through it, make a tackle, create chaos, right? That's the 49ers. So, that's where he fits. He's a smaller linebacker. I, what I wonder, a little bit, with like a guy like Dee Winters too, alright? Yeaah, he could play linebacker for them, and there's things about his game that,


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[Assistant] You know, he's not a natural ball hawk, right? When I saw this question, I had to look back at some of my notes in the breakdown.


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[Assistant] I did not love his just natural ball hawking skills. Of course his size was a little bit of a detriment. And then out of like the other smaller linebackers, I didn't, you know, I didn't think he was as good through the trash, right? When you're that small, you got to be able to avoid a blocker, weave through it and make a tackle. And I thought that's an area where he's got some growth. And here's what I'll ask you, Connor.


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[Assistant] You know, one of the things I wrote in my notes is like, I don't know if they make him a linebacker. I don't know if they make him Hufanga. They might make him like a in the box, camp chancellor, strong safety type. I think they could play with either one of those here through OTAs.


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[Assistant] He's down by the line of scrimmage with, yeaah, you're there for tackling and he's got, you know, coverage-ability within the realm of tight ends and running backs.


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[Assistant] Find a spot for him, and then maybe he ends up being who fungus back up, who knows? Or maybe he does find a spot at one of those linebacker positions, but, uh, hey, he fits the overall mantra of what the 49ers are on defense.


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[Assistant] Just go, don't think about it, you know, and create chaos and we'll see if they can get the most out of him.


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[Assistant] One, I know, you know, I don't think I'm speaking out of turn. Shanahan has great respect for Sam Darnold. Like, Shanahan has always had his eye on Sam Darnold.


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[Assistant] He's, he's probably looks at it and goes, wait, this guy's been in some messed up situations. This guy's got some skill. I can make this work. You know, I just got to teach him some things. He's got to get some success, a little confidence back. He's been in some fucked up situations. I mean, as tough as it gets for quarterbacks in the NFL for a young quarterback, especially. Yeah. But you know, again, yeah, Sam Darnold.


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[Assistant] Out of that group we just talked about, those three guys, he's gonna be the most consistent best thrower of all of them. He is. He's gonna have as far as like, you know,


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[Assistant] The impressive 20 yard outroutes, he's gonna, you know, he's gonna win that battle.


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[Assistant] Now, can he slide in the pocket and, you know, get his body in the right position and just be a natural playing the position and still hit the 20 yard out like Brock Purdy could? Or go, oh wait, I slid in the pocket and now that corner closed the gap a little bit, I shouldn't throw it.


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[Assistant] You know, old Sam Donnell might throw and throw an interception. You know what I'm saying? So those are the things Shanahan has to get at him. That's where he's not as good as Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy has great feel for the game. He's a natural at the position. But yes, Fergus OB4, I do think that Sam Donnell would be the starter. You know, again, I don't know that.


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[Assistant] But just from what I've seen from Trey Lance, what I think of Sam Darnold, yeaah, I think he'd beat Trey Lance out in the training camp.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I don't think it's any, you know, secret. We know the 49ers have flirted with trying to trade Trey Lance. I think that says a lot to you, right?


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[Assistant] That's what he does, right? So yes, he's a schemer. And again, that's why, you know, sometimes you've heard me maybe not give credit to Brock Purdy and maybe some of the receivers at times because of that. You know, I just think of like, think of the Seattle game, the Seahawks, the playoff game.


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[Assistant] I mean, Shanahan designed plays where it was play action and Brock Purdy was over the left tackle.


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[Assistant] And he had a guy on the receiver on the left side, whether it was Ayok or Debo Samuel, running an in-cut across the field and Brock Purdy was hitting it five, six times, where there's like nobody in the screen on 20-yard crossing routes, right? And it's not even a crossing route, it's an in-cut.


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[Assistant] Where they realize, wait, if we get things flowing this way, they don't cover as the guy comes out the back door, and they kept hitting that. And it's like, you know.


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[Assistant] The next day, it's like, oh, Brock Purdy's amazing, Deebo Samuel's amazing, and I'm like, I'm always the guy that's like, wait, these people were wide open, and then they're like, oh, you hate Brock Purdy, and I'm, but that's where Shaneahan's a master. Yes, he puts his guys in spots to succeed.


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[Assistant] And hopefully they can take advantage of that after that. And that's what he's always looking for at the receiver position.


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[Assistant] He's pointing the weakness of a defense. He knows it as well as the defense of coordinators. He knows how to, he knows how to, you know, one


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[Assistant] Man, we were worried about McCaffrey over the left guard, coach. Yeah, well, Shanahan screwed you. He kept dangling it out there, you know, for that. And I think that's really where he's a master. He knows where you're going to go to once he starts to beat you to death in certain areas. And then he plays off of that as well.


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[Assistant] You get injuries, the other team gets an injury, or they just come out with a different game plan, right? That's where, you know,


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[Assistant] Really good coordinators, the Sean Paytons, the Shanahans, the Andy Reeds, they can adjust seamlessly. And like, you don't even realize it where you go, I don't, or I don't even realize it. I'll be watching the game again the next day, go, oh man, this team did this, this, and this. I didn't realize this early in the game. Man, and the Chiefs or Shanahan, they did a great job of adjusting and changing things on the fly. And that's why those guys are special.


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[Assistant] We're kind of in a rebuild mode, and I'm getting towards the end of my career, and I don't want to be a part of that, right? Which I understand. I totally get it. And then of course, yeaah. He's on the-


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[Assistant] He's at a point and he's at a status where he's looking at it and going, wait.


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[Assistant] There's guys at Receiver that are making 8, 9, 10 million dollars more a year than me right now. Are they really that much better? Right? So I think those are all things that are kind of playing into this DeAndre Hopkins situation. But ultimately, I mean, I don't know how you feel. I don't think he's going anywhere. Because I think the age...


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[Assistant] Wait, we trade for him? We're paying him a lot of money? He has a good first 10 games and now he wants a new contract and we gotta pay him 25 million a year. And we just traded to get him and all that. I just think there's too many moving parts there with Deandre Hopkins. That's why I think he ends up staying this last year in Arizona.


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[Assistant] It's one of these now where him, where it can maybe come back into play is you get into, okay, teams are doing OTAs last week, this week, here we go, we're getting going here. Where you get to June, teams now they've had maybe six, nine OTA practices, and maybe there's that team out there that goes,


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[Assistant] We have, we have, we're not good enough a receiver. Like we have a problem. We need, we need somebody else, right? And that's where he's got to hope that that problem arises for somebody.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe they start to flirt with, hey, let's call Arizona again and see if we can't work something out for DeAndre Hopkins. But I think that's the only scenario. But in my heart of hearts, I battle my original answer and what you're saying. I think he's going to be there because of the things we said.


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[Assistant] Well, Detroit's the first one that pops to my head, like, easily. Right?


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[Assistant] I think so. And again, you know, I know people talk about the draft and all that, and I know I hit on it last week, but okay, yeaah, they overdrafted.


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[Assistant] A few guys. So what? Those are the guys they wanted that made their team better. Those needs that we talked about that needed to be filled are filled. So why do people though, oh, that's bad? Cause you drafted the superstar running back.


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[Assistant] Ten spots before I thought he should be. Okay, okay. So they got what they wanted there. So that, that's the easy one I think I look at. There's some interesting ones this year. I mean, how could you not look at the Jets in that conversation? Yea. I mean, the Jets are- They're Baron Rogers now. Right. It's a little different. And they're loaded as is. I mean, they're loaded. So those are two right away. Uhm, but let me throw a few others.


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[Assistant] Watch out for Atlanta. That's the one that intrigues me. Yeah, Atlanta and New Orleans. I'd sit there and go, there's just more talent on those two teams than people realize and there's more size up front. They're not gonna, those two teams, I sit there and just go, there's not gonna be too many teams that are gonna be able to overpower them or if there's gonna be any team. They're gonna be able to hand, there's a reason


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[Assistant] So he's the quarterback of the Saints. Everybody else. I love Atlanta, but yeaah. Desmond Ritter, I gotta see a little bit more. But they certainly have a lot of the pieces to make that type of run. And the other team I'm gonna throw out there too is, I mean, Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Green Bay's roster is still damn good. It is, on both sides of the ball. I wouldn't be shocked if they, I don't think they're gonna fall off a whole lot. I wouldn't be shocked if they're right back in the thick of things there, at least in the NFC playoff picture.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean listen, I'm with you in that Bill's conversation, alright?


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[Assistant] There's gotta, I would like more talent on both sides there. As far as corner and wide receiver. I mean, nobody is, is banging the drum more than me on the Bills and difference makers at that. Now here's the one thing I'll say with the Bills. You know, uhm, first round pick from Florida last year, he'll be better.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Elam, right. Then the Bedford, uh, or, uh, the kid from Villanova. Yes, who, uh, who did pretty well as your Christian. Benford. Right, Benford started over Elam.


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[Assistant] So, he'll be back in the fold. Trudevius White's gonna be better and healthier, right? He was not himself last year. He didn't look right. No, he was missing a gear. So, you know, those are the things that are positive there. Now,


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[Assistant] You know, other teams, and again, I'm just seeing this question.


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[Assistant] You talk about a team contender, that's a spot where, you know, I know they made some adjustments there this year.


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[Assistant] And, uh, sign some people and trying to get bigger in that area, but that's one area where I go, hey, that's a contender, a team that, hey, they got Kendricks in the middle to help them out and they got, uh, what, Morgan Fox, right? Yep. Those are the two guys there. And I feel like I'm missing somebody else that they got too as well.


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[Assistant] No, no. So that was another one. Uhm, let me just see here too, if there's anybody else that jumps out to me as far as contenders. We're at the 49ers' corners. It's definitely a spot of weakness for their football team. I don't, it's a weakness, I don't know if like,


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[Assistant] They want to be better at it, knowing Shanahan and these conversations I've had with them through the years.


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[Assistant] I think key values, I'm gonna have a great pass rush and I can't have great corners to go along with it too. I can't pay everybody. So that's the area he looks at to kinda go, okay, I'm gonna cheat in this area and not spend a lot of money. I think that's one for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, Dallas running back thing is, is, is certainly real there. If Tony Pollard's not healthy altogether. Right? Who else? We missing anybody else here that jumps out to you guys that I'm missing here?


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[Assistant] Is it a luxury to them? It is a little bit, I agree. I mean, they got Irv Smith, where I think they think there's some potential there, right? And then, you know, yea, there's a lot of talk there, but, you know, I'm always, yea, like,


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[Assistant] Is he just supposed to just have an all-star team? He's got the best three receivers in football right there. You know, they've got a pretty damn good running back crew there as well now. So yea, that's one area they've cheated on. I'm trying to, you know, Seattle's O-line.


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[Assistant] That's hopefully going to be improved here this year. That's one that jumps out to me. Uhm, you know, the Giants as far as a contending team and their corner play, right? I know that's something that has been in question. I think they addressed that pretty well in free agency and of course in the draft in the first round. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good question. I hope I hit on some of them. There's probably one where I need to think about it a little bit more and I probably could have came up with other ones, but very good question. Let's try to find one for the Chiefs before we close out.


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[Assistant] I don't look at anything to go glaringly this. You know, the O-line thing is, I mean, that's Andy Reid's cup of tea right there. Yea, they lost Wiley, but they got Jawan Taylor. They still got a lot of other good offensive linemen there. You know, so I think they look at it, Lucas Niang, who I think there's still a lot of positive vibes for there. So they got, they got options. I don't, you know,


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[Assistant] D-Line is maybe the one thing, yea, you can look at that, but again, with their drafts, they got Carl Aftis last year, he's gonna be better, they signed Ominyehu, you know, I don't know if I look at it, those young corners they got, they're only gonna get better, so I don't really look at too many things, you know, that are an issue with the Chiefs altogether.


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[Assistant] What were you doing? You didn't watch me and Ahmed in the barn? You didn't watch me in a little tipsy with a little smokey? I mean, what are you doing? That wasn't boring. He clearly watched the generic network coverage. Those boring ESPN NFL network guys. How dare they.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I think that he's probably talking about the top end talent, right? And just that. They're sure. You know, I don't think Jalen Carter got hyped as much because people were scared to because of the off the field stuff.


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[Assistant] So I think people there, I think some of the networks were scared to go all in and show everybody how awesome he was and like go over the top with praise. Because what I, I mean again, I think you're in agreement, he's the best deep tackle I've ever evaluated ever since I came in. 100%. That's hard to say. You know, Devon Witherspoon? I, I mean...


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[Assistant] You know, again, I like Devin Witherspoon more than I like Sauce Gardener or the kid out of Louisiana who got drafted by the Texans last year. Oh, Stangley. Stangley? Yea. So, there were some big time guys there.


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[Assistant] You know? I had Witherspoon ranked higher than both. I mean, I don't think people realize how special. As Witherspoon is. Yeaah. Right. I mean, he's special in every area. I think Tyree Wilson's special. Right? Damn, B. John Robinson's special. So I'm challenging your overall thought of the boring there. But I think overall, listen, I don't know if it's like,


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[Assistant] I think the top end guys had high grades just like all years. To me it was the next group of guys that was different. I agree. Right? That's where it is. And that's where the draft was interesting. I think there was, everybody looked at it, there was like a premium of like 15 or 20 guys and everyone looked at it like, these are, you know,


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[Assistant] Top end players, first round picks, these guys, uuuh, at the end of the first,


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[Assistant] In a lot of years, I think we're probably second round picks and things like that, but it was a year that wasn't deep and it was a little bit more about, ooh, I have this specific need and let me get it. And I think that's where the drop off was in my opinion, Connor.


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[Assistant] It's not like in Alabama or Georgia, so the hype's not around. Now everybody knows how awesome he is.


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[Assistant] And then again, he's, you know, our guy here more than likely is watching Will Anderson highlights going, this doesn't look as good as most years, and I know I'm having fun. Uh, well yeaah, I think he was overdrafted, but I will push back against that part. I think the top of the draft there was pretty damn talented.


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[Assistant] It's just that yes, as we went farther down, it became a little less impressive.


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[Assistant] Wait, they're going to fall a little bit because people are worried about their injury concern. So they didn't get to, you know, blow these people up in the two weeks prior to the draft to say, hey, this is number three pick, the number four pick, blah, blah, blah. Because everyone, Nolan Smith, yeah, everybody loved him, but he didn't get the hype he deserved because everyone was, oh, there's an injury concern. He might fall. So I don't want to sound like I love him too much.


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[Assistant] And then he falls to 30 and I look wrong, when no, he was a top 10 pick, top 15 pick for sure.


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[Assistant] There were just some concerns there. So, uh, there was a lot that went into this draft, I think, as well.


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[Assistant] Well, I think long term as far as the tight end position.


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[Assistant] I think yes, the Darren Waller, knowing that group out there between age and like I said at the time, between age and injury, they'd rather get rid of you a year earlier than be stuck with you next year and go, damn, we can't get anything for him because he hurt his knee again and now nobody wants him. Right? So that's what, that's what they're, they're, they played that angle. I think they're going to be happier with, with Jimmy Garoppolo. You know, one, I think there's a prior relationship. There's a, there's something they liked about Jimmy Garoppolo.


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[Assistant] And drafting him anyways, and I think he's got a little bit more of a mentality of what they want at the quarterback position. Stand in there, you know, pull the trigger into a tight window, let it loose there, where Carr might have been a little careful for them in that department, and I think that's probably, let alone Carr just had a bad year. He didn't have his best year, you know?


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[Assistant] We saw Carr miss a lot of plays and throws towards the end of the season where he went, man, he's made those plays in other years. You know, but whether it's the Steelers game, the Rams game at the end of the year, there were so many plays where you're like, man, Derek Carr missed that throw, missed, made that interception. How? Why? Right? Uh, so I, I do think it's going to be,


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[Assistant] A positive for them, and I think Mair with his blocking ability really probably couples better with their offense altogether than Waller does in that department.


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[Assistant] He's got a base in this offense already. He's played in it. For Carr, it was a total 180 from anything he had ever been to, right? If anybody listened to my podcast early on in the preseason and stuff.


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[Assistant] And it's just all of that. So it's a lot to digest. And there's gotta be a little bit of a period of like, hey, you know, let's be patient. It's the New England way. Let's let this kind of work itself out here. And again, even though they went 6-11 in a bad start last year,


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta go back and go, they blew a 17 point lead to the Jaguars. They should have beat the Rams. They should have beat the Steelers. I mean, there's a number of games you can go through and go, they should have won that game. And knowing that group out there,


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[Assistant] Right? Again, this is where my dad's from, this school of coaching and all that. They're gonna blame the quarterback when you don't win those games. Knowing that group? Definitely.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is the group that like, oh, we lost the Super Bowl because Tom Brady didn't play good enough. They don't give a shit who you are, right? That's how they talk, right? We didn't get, we didn't go to the NFC Championship game in 89 with the Giants because Phil


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[Assistant] Didn't play well in the divisional playoff game. He sucked in the divisional playoff game. That's how they talk. So that's, I guarantee that. And then as I tried to break it down too, I just know being in New England and how they think too of like Wallers.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jacobi Myers becomes available, I think for maybe a price tag that was a little lower than they were expecting, right? And I think they looked at that and went, wait, there's a good tight end class? So wait, we can get a guy for four years?


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[Assistant] Another receiver for three years, and there's a tight end that's super talented, but ooh, there's a lot of iffy things here and it's just a coin flip of whether it works out. That group right there went, uh, we'll go the Jacobi Meyers safer bet. And that's the way they think in New England or Las Vegas now. It's a tough division, but I like


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, again, I'm very high on the two quarterbacks from USC and the Washington kid. Yea, they look, oh, Pennex is a stud. To me, those are the two best. I've seen the kid in North Carolina. I know he can play the position. He's a good player. His physical ability does not jump out to me like those two. I mean, Caleb Williams is


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[Assistant] As close as you're gonna see to being like a slick Patrick Mahomes college holeball player.


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[Assistant] And Pinnock is like, you know what I was saying it right? Pinnock? Penix. Penix. Penix. Penix is...


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[Assistant] Watching Gonzalez up in Oregon, you know, watching, uh, some other Pac-10 guys and seeing him throw the football. Yeah, those are two guys to me that I think they would have been the top two quarterbacks maybe in this year's draft that they came out. That's just my thought, but I'm definitely in love with them.


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[Assistant] Ball explodes out of his hands, perfect spirals, has great control of it, and he's a big strong guy too, it looks like too. So, uh, yeaah, that, that, I think those, you know, mainly, I'm trying to think if there was anybody else.


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[Assistant] Uh, that jumped out, like D, you know, DBs, receivers, that I kinda peeped, but I can't say anybody does off the top of my head.


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[Assistant] Right, right. So they just kept pying. So it is, it's extremely, extremely hard. But, you know, within the spirit of that question, uh, he is definitely going to be on, on team's minds there as far as when he came down to the stretch of the season and who's ever, you know,


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[Assistant] Towards the bottom of the list of the draft order there, they're going to be thinking about Caleb Williams.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, between him or just, you know, anybody. The guys on Michigan, a defense, you know, whatever. You saw, you saw Marvin Harrison Jr., uh, a lot. But yeaah, and what's cool with the Pac-10, with those two quarterbacks there, you know, I don't know, can USC and Washington play in the Pac-10 title game? That could be kind of cool.


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[Assistant] Bo Nix is another guy that I would say, oh, through the process I looked at and went, man, athlete, size, and has a powerful arm. Yea, a little bit of a playmate.


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[Assistant] Top secondaries over the last 10 and 15 years. I mean, you're talking about some Patriot secondaries that were special there with Gilmore and even Aqib Tlaib.


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[Assistant] Gosh, you go back to the Broncos secondaries, right? Super Bowl champs, right? Akita Lee, Chris Harris Jr., right? T.J. Ward, man, you know, again, the Legion of Boom, of course, is in that conversation. So am I going to throw those


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[Assistant] There's like a lot to like, there's potential to be that. And that attitude's there to be that kind of secondary where it's like, hey, you come over the middle, we're going to knock you out and, or you're not even going to catch the ball anyways. Cause we're going to be all over you like glue. They're going to, they got all of that to go. So I'm excited for the Seahawks defense. I really am. And I don't, you know,


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[Assistant] They got a lot of versatility, let alone like guys who are kamikaze that I like. So, I'm not gonna put it in a top tier of anything over the last 10 or 15 years, but I think pure physical ability.


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[Assistant] Adams digs with a rocket up his ass, and, you know, the rest of those corners, and Wolin, and Witherspoon, and damn, Mike Jackson's a player. Yep. Like, and, and so is Jordan Lu- I mean, uh, Julian- That was a sneaky signing. Sneaky, like- Yeah. Free safety, nickel, can do a little bit of everything there. I mean, it definitely has a chance to be one of the top secondaries in football.


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[Assistant] Oh, Bradley Roby's on that too, right? Damn. Damn, I think you're right. That is absurd. That's your swimming in talent. Yeah, that defense was special. That really was. I don't know, are we missing any other top tier secondaries? You know? Of course the Rams one was pretty damn good. It was pretty good. Right?


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[Assistant] But, uh, that's probably, I think, the end of the special ones right there.


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[Assistant] I try to take all of that into account. There is some value with all of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, my, my big thing is when I watch tape or anything, one, just, hey, is the ball, is he going to the right place with the ball, right?


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[Assistant] You know, if there's a guy open, does he have control of the football to put the ball where he wants, right?


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[Assistant] You know, now, then it goes into like, okay, wait, can we go above and beyond? Hey, there's nothing there. Or, ooh, man, everybody's pretty covered, like pretty well. You're going to have to make a really high level throw here to get it in, right? I'm going to give more value into some stuff like that. That's where I love CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] Right, oh, nobody's open, ooh, he can buy some time, set up.


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[Assistant] Oh, now somebody is open, right? That's where I'm big into it. And then my biggest thing too, and this is where QBRs and everything, and Pete, you know, this is one of Pete's favorite things about me, but this is where, is what's there to be had. See, too many of the grading systems go, ooh, positive grade, you got a five yard completion right there. And I watch the game back and go, there's a guy open down the middle for a 30 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] That's, I don't give that a positive grade. I'm with ya. You know? Or, you know, the opposite end of that spectrum or whatever there. So, that's where, you know, the analytics can be a little different. Oh, he didn't throw an interception all game. Okay, great. But he didn't take one chance or make a play for his team.


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[Assistant] He did nothing. Oh, this guy threw an interception in the game? Okay, yeaah. Saw he threw an interception, but he made 12 other throws that


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[Assistant] And that's where I've been, you know, I know you don't, I'm not trying to, you don't listen to me all the time, but I know you listen every now and then. Absolutely. And I've been trying to say to people like, you know, like the day and age of


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[Assistant] 10 years ago where Drew Brees throw for 72%, have a quarterback rating of 120 and, you know, I only threw 5 interceptions of the year. Like to me that style of football is kind of gone. It's like... Look at the draft. The draft is telling you that. Exactly. Look at the teams, you know, look at the teams again who have been successful the last few years. You know, one, like I, like two years ago, as I've told people,


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[Assistant] You know who led the League of Interceptions? Matthew Stafford, two years ago, won the Super Bowl, right? That, and that year, right, alone, he led the League of Interceptions, Josh Allen,


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[Assistant] Where they went, they, he was up there in interceptions. Joe Burrow was up there in the top six in interceptions. Mahomes was number nine with interceptions, right?


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[Assistant] You know, Brady was up there with interceptions that year. So, you know, that's where, again, I think the game is going and a little different than maybe the past. And yes, that's where they mess up. It's hard to quantify. It's hard to quantify some of that. And, you know, let me just look at last year. Let's just like, cause that was two years ago, right?


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[Assistant] I know Allen was up there. Allen was up there. Kirk Cousins is up there. Right? Dak Prescott is up there. So Prescott, Kirk Cousins, and Josh Allen are all in the top three. All in the playoffs. All with like big time thriving offense. Mahomes is seven. Right? Burrow was seven.


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[Assistant] So, Geno Smith, the amazing year, was 10th with interceptions. I think that speaks to it again. You gotta, you wanna be an explosive, scary offense, you're gonna be aggressive, and you're gonna take some chances. Yeah, you're gonna turn the ball over a little bit, but I think there are numbers you can live with when you're making the


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly. I think that's their, their love, right? They love Swiss Army knives. That's what they want. And he's like, he's a guy that's, yea, strong, safety.


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[Assistant] End of the line, you know, third down, outside linebacker. Whoops, I'm dropping my coffee mug.


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[Assistant] I mean, he can kind of do wall of that, you know, let alone probably going to have, you know, special teams value early on in his career and all those types of things. I think that's really what it is for them. It's, they're always looking for specialized people, uh, or versatility along their front seven. So he can run, hey, one,


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[Assistant] One third down, we got two D linemen on and four linebackers and five DBs. And next time we got one D linemen and it's five linebackers and, and you know, five DBs and you don't know who's butts and who's coming, who's dropping, who's covering. That's kind of, I think kind of the beauty between the Marte Mapu kind of pick. It's almost,


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[Assistant] No fear. I mean, that's where Kyle Dugger, Jabril Peppers type of role that they got up there, I could see him being in that kind of, you know, mold there.


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[Assistant] You know, and, oh, we were playing a team that's got two good tight ends this week. Okay, we need Dugger and Mapu out there together. You know, a little bit. One can blitz, one can stop the run, they both can cover, do whatever. I think that's probably what they're looking at with that player.


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[Assistant] I thought Mac really towards the end of the year did a lot of good things. I thought physically he actually looked better than the year before, like the arm looked better. The arm had more pop on it. You know, early in the year where I'll say it was a negative is, I mean, you guys, I mean, it's...


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[Assistant] It was some stupid turnovers. You know, he cost them the Ravens game, right? There was some plays there where, again, I'm all for being aggressive. He had a few plays early in the year where it was like, wait, you're off your back foot and you're just gonna throw a jump ball to three guys in the end zone and you don't think the Ravens might catch it?


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[Assistant] Right? There was just some things there where you went, how? But I think that also led into what?


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[Assistant] You know, why does he do that? Why was he forcing some of those plays? Cause the offense wasn't good. So he was probably going, wait, I got to try to create something. I got to make a play here, right? So I put more of it on the offense for sure. I think you're going to see a big bounce back year for Mack Jones. I am a believer. Again, the beauty of Mack Jones is,


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[Assistant] He's not a guy, this is not Aaron Rodgers or Mahomes or Josh Allen where you just go, hey, just, you can play in any offense, make it happen.


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[Assistant] There's a reason the McDaniels and the Sean Patons and the Kyle Shanahan's of the world like a Mac Jones. Cause they know, wait, I can throw a whole playbook on him and he can process it and then go out and play and be free and do all the right things that way.


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[Assistant] Puttin' Tom Brady in a simple offense, and you're like, yeaah, he can make the throws, but you're not taking advantage of all that Tom Brady can do for ya. He could check to this, and get to that, and do this, and do that, and see this guy as he's droppin' back, and adjust the play on the move, and, and, you know, those were all cut off from, uh,


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[Assistant] You're in a meeting and you go, wait, wait, coach, what if they do this? And they go, well, we haven't seen them do that. So they're not going to do that. And then you get in the game and of course they do that. I mean, I can't tell you how many times that happened to me in my career. That's the nightmare for quarterbacks. You know, I had a game against Arizona in 2004. We prepared for something.


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[Assistant] We thought we had them on lock. We had em, we got em. We got in the game and they changed it all around. And I was a young player. Was making my second start ever.


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[Assistant] And everything grew and had kind of wires for that week. It was, it was, it wasn't right. Right?


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[Assistant] They changed it. They knew they must have self scouted. And we didn't have answers. And it was a horrible like, wait, you taught me to do this and follow these rules and none of these rules are existing with how they're lining up. So what do I do? That's the worst thing for a quarterback.


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[Assistant] There's, there's, and there's only a few that can really pull it off the right way, right? Or, or make the right adjustments the right way, either way. Yea, it's a little bit of an overrated talking point.


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[Assistant] I think this was part of the love of Aaron Rodgers and why they went all in on it.


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[Assistant] I think they're still looking to salvage the Zach Wilson thing. I think so too. You know, I think they looked at this and go, wait, we can get Rogers, which is great for us now, and it's actually the best for us maybe long term to continue to develop Zach Wilson. I think that's why they went so far down the road.


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[Assistant] And, you know, didn't go all in on Derek Carr or maybe Jimmy Garoppolo because of some of that because of this angle. Again, you know.


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[Assistant] There's, I know I've taken a lot of flack. I made him my number one quarterback over Trevor Lawrence. Yea, as it looks right now, I'm wrong. I get it. I hear you.


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[Assistant] That's right. Right. Right. And I also want to be like, hey, wait, I'm also the guy that told you Trey Lance and Justin Fields have problems throwing the football and I got shouted at for it. And that's the truth. And now nobody wants to go, hey, Chris, you were right about that aspect.


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[Assistant] It pisses me off in this business sometimes, but I do think that's why they did that. And, you know, I think too, he's the guy that


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[Assistant] Every organization gets scared to get rid of. They get, there's a reason like Sean Payton liked him coming out in the draft and Shanahan liked him.


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[Assistant] You know, you heard other top offensive guys going, ooh, I see some Rogers, Mahomes-ish type traits, right? You know, we see some throws, they've seen things in practice and games where they go, that's special. And they don't want to give up on that. So we'll see where it goes, but I think it's in a good spot for, at least for him to grow in the right direction.


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[Assistant] He, and again, you know, they're gonna have a greater appreciation for Zach Wilson when this OTA's get done. Because the receivers too, they're gonna start to go, damn, Wilson's arm is actually as strong as, they're gonna appreciate his physical ability more. And now he can refine things. But again, we've seen some high level stuff from Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] He played some good football, and he was kind of a machine throwing the football. You know? Had Brady and the Bucks on the ropes. The Bucks game comes to mind for me. Right! I mean, he had some good games there. You know?


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[Assistant] He beat the Jaguars and Trevor Lawrence that year, down the stretch of the, I mean, did some really positive things. Last year, it started off okay, but then he got lost in this, let me throw it sidearm, let me step here and throw it this angle and that angle, and it just all compiled into worse and worse play for him.


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[Assistant] Rodgers is one of those guys that we talk about where I'd like to see him be a little more aggressive, right? He's, he's my been, anybody that's been listening to my podcast over the last year and a half, everybody knows that's my complaint about Rodgers the last few years. It's just a little bit of conservative nature.


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[Assistant] Now, I think realistically, can we see a year here of like,


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[Assistant] I'm going to say low 30s in the touchdown pass department and like eight or nine interceptions.


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[Assistant] Right, that's where I think, I don't think this is an offense that's conducive of, and nor do I think they want to play where


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[Assistant] That's the way they're gonna play. I don't think they're gonna open it up and yeah, just go, oh, let's just throw the ball every play and do that. No, no way. Salah's not from that in Seattle and San Francisco before that. Nathaniel Hackett's not like that.


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[Assistant] He wants balance, I know that. We saw that not only in Green Bay, but even when he was the Jaguars offensive coordinator before that. So, you know, I would, I would expect it to what you're saying, Connor.


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[Assistant] I think so. I do agree with the book. I do too. I mean, I can't pick him to win the division.


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[Assistant] You have to see it. I gotta see it. The divisions, like we've been talking about. Divisions, hell. I've never seen it this good. I mean, again, I'm dead serious. I don't think it's ever been this good from top to bottom, at least in my lifetime. I know in the mid-80s there, like the Dolphins, Jets, and Patriots were pretty damn good.


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[Assistant] Right, they were. It was a five, it was different than two. It was Buffalo and the Colts were also in the division as well. So, there is that, but I, I, yeaah, I mean.


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[Assistant] The team, the Jets team, I think is as talented as you guys have been in a long time, maybe since the Rex Ryan years. I agree. Right? Yea. Now look at that, and really probably look at it and go, I think your offense has got more talent than that.


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[Assistant] I do think they're a playoff caliber football team. The defense is special and I think it's only going to get better.


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[Assistant] You know, of course we think the offense is going to be better, right? So yeaah, I look at them as like, kind of what BetMGM does. A playoff team that I don't expect them to win the AFC East, and I don't expect them to see them in the AFC Championship game either. I don't.


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[Assistant] But I don't think it's crazy with their roster. I don't. You know, but yea, it's, it's some teams that are battle tested and really damn good in the AFC, uh, that, you know, I gotta see it to believe it first, to say they're gonna dethrone Mahomes or Joe Burrow or any of them in the AFC.


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[Assistant] We can win, I mean, as we know. Single-handedly. He's right. Alan, like Mahomes, this is like a one-man show. They can almost do it by themselves. That's where they're scary.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's, that's where you look at it and go, hey, that's a, that's a positive. It definitely is, but like you said, that's just not a given against that guy or the Patriots who, yea, you're more talented than the Patriots too as the Jets, but the Jets, Patriots are good. We know that. And of course they're coached and they usually game plan the right way.


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[Assistant] Crazy mofo, and you bet $100 on the Jets to win the Super Bowl. If you win, you will make $1400. But if you lose, you still get $100 worth of free


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[Assistant] Well, I think the, the, you know, Camara, you're getting here to the end, right? It feels that way. Right? So that's where I think they're planning for the future. Miller's a player.


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[Assistant] He really is. I mean you talk about bouncing off tackles. One of those guys where you're like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, it doesn't look fast, but yet people don't seem to catch him a whole lot there. Right? So he could be a bell cow type running back. Uh, I think that's the positives with him. And then, you know, even in the pass game.


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[Assistant] It wasn't a thing, he was like huge in a TCU, but...


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[Assistant] I don't think he racked up a huge number of receptions there or anything like that, right? But I didn't remember having any issues with him in the pass game, right? So, and again, I think they're a team with that old line and what they do, they got a chance to really pose some problems for you on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Michael Thomas being back at receiver, you know, Olavi, our man Rashid Shahid, right? They got some heat there, Jawan Johnson at tight end. So there's some things to like about that Saints football team.


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[Assistant] You're definitely not struggling and Jamal, you know, I like Jamal Williams. I do. I think Kendrick, Kendrick, Kendrick Miller has a, you know, a chance to be a little bit more explosive or a big play oriented type of guy compared to Jamal Williams.


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[Assistant] He's the guy. He's the guy. I mean, he was in the shotgun, pass protecting, and doing all that stuff, so he certainly should feel comfortable in every aspect of a NFL offense.


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[Assistant] They're not as good as the young talented guys in the league. I don't know, you know. Nobody wants to dictate.


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[Assistant] No, Capspace or, oh wait, you know, guys, yeah, it's a lot of wear and tear and history and the numbers show that those guys usually get hurt. Wait, we're gonna give Capspace to a guy that, you know, might not be able to play for us for the whole year, do that type of stuff there, and is not that special of a player anymore?


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[Assistant] You know, so, Kareem Hunt, let me just say this, I do think he's better than Fournette and Zeke Elliott at this point in his career. I agree too. I would certainly say that, but I think he's a-


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[Assistant] I know, there's probably a team or two that I'm missing where I go, ooh, he could maybe be the starter, but I'm not even sure about that actually as more I look at the teams here. I think he's really, you'd want him as your really awesome number two. That's what Kareem Hunt still is. Still a really good number two, but I don't know if I look at any team and go,


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[Assistant] He should start over that guy. Do you? Is there anybody that jumps off?


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, okay, Arizona's a team where I look at, right? Are we missing anybody there? There's no bonafide star running back or anybody like that there where I can go, okay, maybe he could be a starter there. They re-signed James Connor, right? He's still there. He's in Arizona, yep. He's in Arizona still, right? Yeah.


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[Assistant] A lot of places. So that's the only place I can, you know, maybe one place I'd look at, you know, uh, Carolina maybe? Another one? And Miles Sanders, though. Oh, Miles Sanders is there too. It's tough, man. It's tough. I'd put him in that class, so that's another team where I could go, okay, maybe he could start there. But after that, I think it's a short list.


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[Assistant] I don't break down anything like that. No tapes, play, strategy. Just have fun. Just have fun. Do we, you know, if we have a catch, or maybe we're watching Mahomes or Burrow, I might go, hey, look what he does when he throws, or hey, keep your front shoulder in.


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[Assistant] You know, but no, it's about having fun at this point. He's in sixth grade.


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[Assistant] He, uh, right now is in baseball season, so we're worried about pitching the ball right now.


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[Assistant] You know, throwing heaters. That's all we're worried about right there. Uh, just letting him enjoy being a kid and playing the game and, you know, we'll get into that stuff as he gets older if he wants. If he wants it too. He's got to want it. I'm not going to be the dad that's going to be like, Hey, Shadara Sims. That's not the way my dad was. My dad was not like that at all. I mean, at all.


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[Assistant] To the point where, you know, yeaah, I mean he never taught me anything really until maybe my freshman year in high school he'd tell you where he'd start to go like, hey just think about this on your follow through after you throw the full ball. But he was, you know, involved in his own career and let me do my thing and I will do that with my son as well.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I think by the freshman year, he had given up on everything except for football. He played football. And he didn't even really care about it that much anymore. And I think it was because he had a psycho dad and everything else where it just became too overbearing and annoying. Don't do that. Let kids be kids.


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[Assistant] You don't have to be a pro at 8 years old. It doesn't matter, right? Just, you know, play all sports, develop all kinds of skills.


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[Assistant] And you get to high school, then you can start taking the next step in, alright, hey, maybe if you really want to do this son, then let's start going lessons and start going up to the next level of preparation.


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[Assistant] Here he is, he's got it going. He definitely does. But if I have to cheat, yeaah, I cheat with Connor Rogers. That's right.


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[Assistant] It's Monday AMA, Wednesday I'm it'll be back in...


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[Assistant] Hosting and we're gonna I think do something very similar along those lines as far as just dissect certain things around the league. We might take a few subjects and do it on our own and then we want questions from you once again because guess what happens on Monday?


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[Assistant] Next Monday, it's here once again, the Chris Simms Top 40 quarterback countdown. It's been about, let me check.


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[Assistant] We'll see where it goes. Brady's number 41, uh, Jalen Hurts. Where will I have him? That's the other one. Tua. Those are the ones I get the most flack over. It's gonna be, yea. I think we all know who the top three or four are. That's for sure. Alright everybody, peace out. You know where to find us. Omid back Wednesday. Everybody be good. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Yo, yo, yo, thanks for watching homies. It's the off season, but you know there's no off season for us here at Unbuttoned.


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[Assistant] My draft prospect rankings, my sims top 40 quarterback countdown and videos of me and NFL QB's playing catch and talking about their development and mechanics. Again, thanks for watching. Remember to subscribe. Peace out homies. See you soon.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm involved. That's, that's in the works. That's, uh.


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[Assistant] Not really something that I like to play out in the media, that's something.


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[Assistant] Just the way I think they want to do business, I want to do business, we prefer to keep that between us. You know, whenever you have guys on the team that need to be paid, that's always on your mind. You want that to be a focal point, so we're working to make that happen.


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[Assistant] Pretty clear on what I want in the contract and what I think is best for myself and the team. And so, you know, we're on the road to making that happen. You gotta have good players. You can't, you see...


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[Assistant] I mean, doesn't matter how good your quarterback is, if you don't have good players around them, you're not going to be a very good team.


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[Assistant] I hope all of you are good out there, ready for some football this week. I hope your brains have cleared of cloudiness from the 420 holiday. Mine's barely, it's still filtering out, okay. That's the question. That is the question, it's me here either way, but hope everybody's good. Ahmed, what's up man, how are you?


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. I don't, maybe, maybe I don't know how it's going to come out of my mouth, but I have a pretty good, uh, understanding of what is, or at least some, some general vicinity as far as the topic is concerned. Same, I think we're similar in that way.


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[Assistant] I'm going more on the who I think each team will take approach this year. More predictive is kind of the game plan, you know, and, uh, as I was kind of starting down this road on Wednesday and Thursday and starting to jot it, I did text


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[Assistant] And they agreed, they liked the predictive part too. So yeaah, that's what I went on. It's not necessarily going to be true to my board.


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[Assistant] But it's gonna be true more to, yeaah, things I've heard, you know, whatever the consensus is out there, uh, all of that, not necessarily, you know, what I would do in that instance. If there was a spot, again, there's some spots here where I didn't have a feel or had no clue, okay?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I tried to put myself in their shoes and make an educated guess, and of course I'm going by a little bit of my own evaluation there either way, but yeah, throughout is more about


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[Assistant] No trades. I went chalk. I mean, again, when you show, show me somebody that's ever predicted a trade really right. Right. So it's like, yeah. Did I think about Houston doing this? And you know, I know there's the Tennessee Titans and oh, Detroit's got two picks and the Eagles certainly have wiggle room. I understand that.


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[Assistant] You know, trade certainly can go down. Uh, I get that. We do have a lot of years, like we were bringing up too, where I feel like it's been limited trades. And yeah, it's just too hard to call it that way. So yeah, I kind of just, I went chalk.


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[Assistant] It's, the way it's lined up right now, I didn't make any changes, uhm, to the, the current order. Now, you know, we'll see where it goes. But it's, it's certainly shaping up like it could be a very interesting drive. I think there's like a, a few things that play into this and we'll get into that as we go.


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[Assistant] That's, that's definitely the worthwhile question.


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[Assistant] If you're, if you're trading up at number three, then I would think that Jalen Carter's on the board. Or if there's some quarterback, of course we can maybe get into that conversation too.


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[Assistant] But Jalen Carter's the best player in the draft. So, you know, would the Cardinals take him? Are they comfortable with the off-the-field stuff? Monte Osenford, their GM, he's from New England, sometimes they don't mess with guys like that. You know, maybe they look like, we have enough distractions in our organization right now, we don't want to take a chance on that, let's just go with a safe bet. I could see it going a bunch of different ways there.


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[Assistant] But yeaah, the cardinal is at three. You know, I think here's the interesting thing in the draft, right?


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[Assistant] And you and I were kind of spitballing here before we started the show.


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[Assistant] The draft is not super talented, as we know. It's, it's one of the least talented drafts, at least I can remember, since being on this side of things, alright?


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[Assistant] And then, you know, with some of the best players, there's real questions. Like there's real questions. Like, okay, yeah, we got Jalen Carter off the field stuff. We got Tyree Wilson. Everybody's best pass rusher in the draft, but he's got a foot injury that I think scares people. We got Jackson Smith and Jigba, who not only is, I know all over the place.


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[Assistant] Without the injury concern, he's all over the place as he grades out the injury. Some teams got him in the 10 to 20 range, some teams got him in the second round without even talking about injury. So there's that, that aspect. There's Nolan Smith, one of the best edge rushers in the draft, but he's a little undersized and he has injury history too. There's Dalton Kincaid.


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[Assistant] Top 15 player for everybody on their board. Got a back issue.


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[Assistant] He hasn't been cleared yet. So these are all, and then you get into the quarterback conversation and then the CJ Stroud conversation right now and all that. That's what you go, oh wow, this could be a very exciting first round. It's all over the place. And there's two schools of thoughts that I told you about, right?


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[Assistant] I talked to some teams that go, there's not that many good players, there's not many game-changing players, and if one's available, we're gonna take our crack and get it. And then there's other teams that are going, there's not many good players in the draft in general, so we're just gonna make sure we get a good one, a safe one, just a guaranteed, gonna contribute to our team.


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[Assistant] High floor guy, right? So there's a few teams that think high floor guys are gonna be valued more than the high ceiling guys in this type of draft. And then I talked to, like I said, a few teams that were like, no, we're going, we're shooting for the high ceiling guys. We gotta take a chance. We need, we want a difference maker that way. And that again, I think will lead to the interesting first round.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't wait till the last second. Nope. You know, as you know, I, you know, I, in years past, I haven't always done it this way too, to be predictive. I've kind of just gone off on my board. You know, I'm not as easily swayed by people I talk to, as you know. Like, I don't just go, oh,


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[Assistant] So, you know, that, that's where you can never tell. And, and you know, I had to, you know, just, you never know. There's been years, like, I even think, I was thinking about this when I was doing it too, cause I had a few guys in my draft where I was like, man, this guy's a better player than being drafted at 29 or whatever.


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[Assistant] But it happens every year. I was thinking about it as I was doing the Derwin James draft, right? Derwin James, any friend I talked to in football, anybody, top five player


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[Assistant] Top 5 player. Might be the best player in the draft. I think he's the best. Top 5. Definite top 10. There we were, sitting on draft 90 of his, whoa, it's pick 17 and Derwin James is still there.


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[Assistant] And like the whole league had him in the top 10. But I can't remember exactly what happened. It didn't work out for him and the teams that needed a safety ended up getting something else or whatever and all of a sudden he's sitting there. So it's just an example of you never know is what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the, the mystery of the draft really will start at number two with the Houston Texans. But yeah, Bryce Young is the guy they're most comfortable with. And I, I understand that. You know, again, he's not my favorite cup of tea or, or what I would want as a franchise quarterback, but he has a lot of the traits that you do want. I get that.


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[Assistant] So they're comfortable with the size. They love his football brain and IQ and they feel like he's a natural and they're comfortable I think in the style of play they're going to play here with him that they can make that work with Bryce Young. But yea, they tipped their hand last week too.


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[Assistant] I mean, we know, everybody knows it, let alone when Scott Fitterer starts to talk about their training regimen to make sure he's got weight on him and stuff like that. They kind of gave it away on that one too.


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[Assistant] So you never get everybody on the same page, but you just want to make sure you can get everybody within thoughtful football discussions.


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[Assistant] The meetings, the off the field stuff, the personal meetings, watching film together a little as a group that you all go, okay, wait, wait, I might've liked the other guy, but I get why we're taking this guy. That's where you just would like to get the organization to as a whole, right? Of course you're going to have a few guys in the room that go, ah.


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[Assistant] I wish we had that quarterback. I like him better. I don't trust this, but for the most part, you know, as long as you limit that and have the guys that go, okay, I get why we like him. I mean, he's the man. And so there there's that and they're comfortable with that.


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[Assistant] You know, and I think too, again, the element in the room here is the CJ Stroud conversation. You know, it's an uncomfortable conversation to have. So we'll save that. We'll save it for when we get to CJ Stroud.