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[Assistant] Of all time, I guess it just depends on how the draft, how the players pan out, but it's just fascinating how long it would take for them to be a dominant team in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you don't wanna, I've seen some, cause some of the pictures from the homies that are there on Twitter, there's some big homies out there.


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[Assistant] We don't want to make them mad. So it's always good to get your dad's perspective on all that stuff. You can tell he wanted to talk about the draft and the teams that he thought did well and some of the colleges out there. It really is impressive when you look at these colleges like LSU and


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[Assistant] You know, you're hearing a lot more of it now with the NCAA going to pay, you know, can they be compensated, some of these players for their likeness and it's like, well, is it going to throw off the balance of power in college football? There is no balance of power.


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[Assistant] Who you were really impressed by and who, who chose not to go to the draft or were ineligible. And he says, P.S. Ahmed, your smile is A1 considering your brushing.


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[Assistant] So a lot has come out about me and my hygiene or lack thereof. I don't like that in this quarantine. But you've watched a lot of film. You've seen, uh, uh, what is it? Jamar Chase from LSU, top receiver over there, you know, of course.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence at Clemson. Who has jumped out at you for guys that weren't eligible for this draft but you might have come across in your film study?


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[Assistant] Pete Demalemalemalitis does, he always comes through immediately. Brevin Jordan, the titan from Miami.


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[Assistant] Good segue to Brian Neal, who asks, are the Bears better now? Was it dumb for them to pick a tight end? Cole Comet is their first round pick, or their first pick of the draft. We had holes in the O-line, corner, safety, they could have addressed sooner, we didn't even draft a safety, so what do you think about what the Bears did?


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[Assistant] And there, it makes sense. There were a lot of, you spoke about receivers with the Bears and what can they do there. A lot of questions from the homies about the receivers because this was one of the deepest receiver drafts that we have seen and will see for many years to come. John Paschal.


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[Assistant] So Denzel Mims, a lot of people high on him. You were not quite as high on the Baylor wide receiver. He was the 13th wide receiver taken, 59th overall. Last year, DK Metcalf was the 9th wide receiver taken, 64th overall. So they were taken in similar


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[Assistant] Parts of the draft, you find any other similarities there between those two receivers?


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[Assistant] Steve McDettmer said, you the man, thanks for not spilling the goods on Brandon Ayuk. So that was, uh, he was thanking you for not pumping him up too much. Uh, and Timo Buker says,


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[Assistant] Uh, what did your boy Kyle love about Ayuk? And I did think that was interesting because Ayuk was a guy that you mentioned I think when you were talking with Paul about your favorite wide receivers in the draft. And I know you probably talked to Kyle about the wide receivers and so he didn't spill the beans that they were super high.


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[Assistant] According to some reports, the number one wide receiver on their board.


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[Assistant] It fell, it fell their way, and John Lynch did tell Peter King that IUK and CD-LAM were tied atop their wide receiver boards. Right. They were both there 1A, 1B. Would have been fine taking them at 13, like Kyle was asking you if they should, should do that, but when Kinlaw fell to them,


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[Assistant] That made it too easy for them. They were as high on him as you were on him, thinking he's a top five talent. I mean that, that's like best case scenario. Remember that question we got last time we did an AMA, uh, that was about would the Colts have rather just kept that 13th pick and gotten Kinlaw and you said, I don't think Kinlaw's getting there. He got there and the 49ers did exactly that.


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[Assistant] Cause you might like DeForest Buckner the player better, obviously more of a track record, he's done it in the NFL, he's proven it, but you always have to factor in the money and what that...


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[Assistant] You know, $20 million locked up in one player prevents you from doing other things. And so it's not all about just which one would you, would you rather have. It's like that rookie contract for the quarterback that seems to be advantageous to most teams out there. All right, let's go over to running back real quick. Uh, Tom Canfell.


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[Assistant] Asked if Josh Jacobs was in this draft, where does he rank as far as running backs go? And I know for a fact, you're very high on Josh Jacobs last year. He did nothing this year to, to sour you onto him. He did get hurt at the end of the year, but he, he proved a lot in that John Gruden offense. Uh, he was the 24th pick last year.


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[Assistant] It almost looked like we wouldn't have a first round running back this year, but, uh, Clyde Edwards, the layer was taken with the last pick of the first round by the Chiefs. Josh Jacobs, was he better than any running back, uh, this year? And would he have been a first round pick this year as well?


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[Assistant] Over 700 yards, almost 812 games, only got 12 attempts per game, so wasn't running a whole lot, but was fairly productive when he did run. Uhm, so you think will Zach Moss be the bell cow, or will it be a 1A and 1B with Singletary?


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[Assistant] Here, uh, a couple quarterback questions here. Uh, this one is not about the draft, but is, uh, some recent news with Jameis Winston. I thought this one was interesting. Uh, jhhill4 asked you on Instagram,


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[Assistant] Can you talk about how Jameis Winston stats for his first five years?


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[Assistant] Touchdowns per game. They both were tied with 1.7 touchdowns per game. Yards per game. Jamus has the advantage, although yards per game is up a league wide now from when Peyton was first starting his career. But the big one, interceptions per game. I was waiting to see this one.


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[Assistant] Jamus 1.2 interceptions per game. So Jamus averaging fewer interceptions per game in his first five years than Peyton. Now you just told me not to look just at the numbers and I did it.


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[Assistant] Peyton though was playing with uh, clear vision and Jamis has been playing practically blind. So you gotta factor all, you gotta, you gotta factor all that in there to who knows what the LASIK surgery will do for, for Jamis Winston. It'll be fun to, fun to find out if he hits the field. Alright, a couple more here Chris. Rob


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[Assistant] Do you think Joe Burrow? Do you think Tua? Do you think Justin Herbert will show up in your top 40 NFL quarterbacks list?


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[Assistant] He's, he's trying to figure out your future aspirations here, because you look at so much film this month, you have a knack for it, you were able to single out, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, Lamar Jackson a couple years ago as your favorite quarterback. DK Metcalf last year. It keeps happening. You seem to have an eye for talent. You've done it before with New England. Chris, do you ever have that, uh, that itch to get back in the league in some capacity?


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[Assistant] Although you can take me with you, Chris. I can travel too. You know, I say, hey, the time might be right for both of us to try to figure out what the, uh, what the next chapter is in the future. Yeah. And I, and I, and I really enjoy, and not to blow smoke up your, up your rear, but you're the rare breed who, who has an opinion. Uh, but


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[Assistant] Does not also think you're a know-it-all, and you're willing to be wrong and willing to learn from your mistakes and see why things turned out the way they did. Which leads us to the real final, the real final question. Mehmet209, how the hell do you spell Pete, Pete Demolomolomolomolomolitis' name?


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[Assistant] So I'm not even sure that I have it correct in my phone, but that is not what I have here. Okay, Pete just texted confirmation.


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[Assistant] D-A-M-I-L-A-T-I-S. He goes, Sims, you were just a bit outside with yours. You were close. You had many of the right letters, not necessarily in the right number.


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[Assistant] Alright, great job, great job by the homies out there. Those were some really good questions. I'm honest like that.


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[Assistant] That first question from, uh, what was it, Steve? Steven Brown about, could this year's draft class one team win the Super Bowl in two years? I'm gonna be thinking about that all the rest of the day here. I thought that was a good one. But Chris, well done as always. Say hi to your dad. Thank you to your dad again. Uh, for me, uh, that's it.


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[Assistant] So yea, I think the whole pod today, Chris and you know, we can't talk about anything in under an hour. So this, this, the whole thing should be, uh, about wide receivers, I think in the 99 club, but we'll, we'll throw in at the end there, but you got 10.


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[Assistant] 10 wide receivers, you're right, this was all sparked because Michael Thomas got the, uh, the 99, the exclusive 99 on Madden. One of only five players to get the 99.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but the, the Madden, uh, game has released all the rankings for the receivers, and so it was Michael Thomas 1, and he got the 99, DeAndre Hopkins 2, he got a 98, then it went Julio,


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[Assistant] Who got the 97, Tyreek Hill, Devonte Adams. So there's your top five and then the rest of them just to fill them out. Amari Cooper, Mike Evans, Stefan Diggs, Keenan Allen and Odell Beckham Jr. So that was the Madden 99 and that did spark this debate.


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[Assistant] Mainly because Chris, Michael Thomas getting the 99, we thought of you immediately because of how much you hate Michael Thomas and the entire Saints organization.


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[Assistant] That's a good point. I hadn't thought of that before. It seems like they could work that into the game where if you're, you're in a Sean Payton offense, like all your wide receivers get plus two or your quarterback gets a plus 10, uh, or something like that. But that's true. Yeah. They want that offense to be high performing. So they got to rate. Well, yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] What about a new franchise, a new video game franchise, the Chris Sims?


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[Assistant] It's like you already have the game, the Sims, but you do the Chris Sims and you impart your wisdom of the offenses in there, the players, and then you bring me along and I do the halftime report.


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[Assistant] Uh, so is this list the same as your quarterback list? Is your top 10 here the 10 wide receivers only on 2020 alone? Not looking at the past performances. Is this who you would want on your team this year?


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[Assistant] So how do you think about this? Because uhm, if you bring in a wide receiver, say you have a top 10, that would change depending on what kind of offense you want to run too, right? So like a, if you're running a Kyle Shanahan offense, maybe Deebo Samuel is one of the top 10 receivers in football for you, uh, but not overall for everyone else. So how did you, how did you think about that?


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[Assistant] If I'm hearing you right then, so the receivers you're going to rank higher in your top 10 are receivers who you think could excel in multiple kinds of offenses. Is that fair to say?


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[Assistant] We are about to go along right now. Number 10 on the Christmas. I can't believe we're doing this again. Number 10 on the Christmas.


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[Assistant] I love watching him play. And I love those receivers that just pop up and you're not thinking of them. You don't think that they're going to be one of the upper echelon guys. And all of a sudden they, they proved you wrong in an offense that wasn't even conducive necessarily to, uh, to wide receivers. You're right. And noting that his yards, uh, after the catch per reception, it went up by a whole yard.


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[Assistant] Uh, from 2018 to 2019, so trending in the right direction. A couple things I noted about Courtland Sutton too that are interesting is that


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[Assistant] I looked over at Pro Football Reference and they track some of the, uh,


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[Assistant] The eye test stats, they got people who track, you know, broken tackles, some things that you wouldn't necessarily just see on the stat sheet.


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[Assistant] Portland Sutton, number one in the NFL last year in broken tackles according to them with 12. The next highest was DeAndre Hopkins at nine. So a guy that's able to separate, get yards after the catch, the main reason is because he's a tough physical dude and he's got those broken tackles.


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[Assistant] Some of them don't mean anything, some of them are just crap, but every once in a while some make sense.


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[Assistant] Jerry Judy, right? The rookie, uh, receiver out of Alabama. You got KJ Hamler, who you really like the small fast guy out of Penn State might not be a faster receiver in the draft. Um, which goes to show that that's going to help Cortland Sutton because another thing that stuck out to me


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[Assistant] Uh, the highest percentage of a team's targeted air yards. Who was thrown to the most?


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[Assistant] Courtland-Sutton was number one, 43% of the time the ball was in the air, it was going towards Courtland-Sutton, so.


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[Assistant] That shows you that defenses knew he was going to be targeted and they still couldn't stop him a lot of the times. And now going into this year, you got other dudes you got to worry about. And so that's only going to help Cortland Sutton. Only going to help him out.


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[Assistant] So, Cortland Sutton, number 10, who you got just ahead of him, Chris?


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[Assistant] I kind of had this preconceived notion of Stefan Diggs. I knew he was a good route runner and he is obviously might be the best in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Um, but I thought this was interesting is that he, he's not like the Julian Edelman. He can play that role, but where he's just getting the, you know, the catch a yard down the field, five yards down the field, yards before completion.


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[Assistant] Uh, per reception. So that's like how far down the field were you when you caught it? He is, he is number four in the NFL where he was last year, 13.1 average yards down the field when he caught the ball. And so he's a, he's a dude that runs these precise, you know, short out routes, but he more times than not gets down the field. And that was a little surprising to me.


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[Assistant] So how do they all work together? And producer Pete Dimalan-Malaitis brings this up about, you got Cole Beasley, short zone slot wide receiver. You got John Brown. He's a deep threat. So how do you think they all fit together with this offense?


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[Assistant] Stefan Diggs was 8th in the Madden rankings. He's 9th on your list. Coralyn Sutton, by the way, was 27th on the Madden rankings and is in the top 10 for Chris Simms. So those are 8, or those are


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[Assistant] 10 and 9. Let's get to 8 and number 8 on your list, Chris.


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[Assistant] I was just going to say that word disappear. It's so weird with Amari because he had those years in Oakland where you're like, wow, he is going to be one of the top receivers for years to come. And then all of a sudden you're like, what happened to Amari Cooper? Was it John Gruden's office? It was just so puzzling.


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[Assistant] And then the same thing, you're right, happened on a game by game basis where he just, I'm looking at a game against, uh, New England. I don't know the exact circumstances here, but two targets, no catches, a game laid against the Rams, two targets, one catch. It's like, where'd he go?


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[Assistant] Yeah, he, uh, he just seems so fast and got that precision too.


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[Assistant] You're just, you're right, outside of just not showing up. And then because it's like in the same breath, you can say he could go off for 15 catches and 200 yards in any game as well. I wonder if he's...


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[Assistant] You know, he seems tough to cover and tough to scheme against for defenses. I don't know if that's just cause he's got the speed and the position, uh, precision of the route running. Is that, is that what it is, Chris?


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[Assistant] I'd take him on my team, Amari Cooper at number eight, but Chris would take the person at number seven, just ahead of Amari Cooper. Number seven, Chris.


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[Assistant] Question for him obviously is the injury played just nine games in 2018, played no games, uh, last year. The toes are, that's a super pesky injury. It just seems like the slightest thing, you land wrong.


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[Assistant] And you're out for a, for a number of games there. And so, I mean, that's the biggest question mark for me with AJ Green. It seems like teams are feeling like he can do it. At least the Bengals do, but I don't know. That just seems like a huge, huge red flag for me for AJ Green.


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[Assistant] An early happy birthday to AJ Green. And yeah, I mean, his numbers speak for themselves. Whenever he's played at least 16 games, he's been over a thousand yards, uh, played 13 games in 2014, was over a thousand yards. But you do wonder, I, I, I'm super curious to see Chris how


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow handles, I mean, it's not a great offensive line there in Cincinnati. Uh, someone mentioned when we were talking about quarterbacks who might lead the league in interceptions, I saw someone tweet at us after our podcast and say, I think you should throw Joe Burrow's name into the ring there as a rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] I'm just curious how it's all gonna work out. I mean, it definitely has a potential for disaster with the offense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, okay, so AJ Green at number seven on your list. We're getting closer to the top five. Not quite there yet. Number six, Chris.


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[Assistant] You did that, and you did that even last year, you did the hand slap thing where you do the thumbs and snap at the end. He's your guy.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people we wanted to see it work out with Baker Mayfield and Odell Beckham and just see those two personalities also produce a high flying season. But then he ended last year with just 64 yards per game.


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[Assistant] By far the worst of his career. Never been in the 60s before. And it was a 23-yard reduction from the previous season. A couple things jumped out to me when I was looking at the numbers, Chris. One of them...


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[Assistant] Was they have a, a stat on football reference intercepted when targeted. So when the receiver has been targeted, who, uh, how many times did the quarterback throw an interception?


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[Assistant] Exactly, part of the problems for Odell Beckham had nothing to do with Odell Beckham, but I will point out, uhm,


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[Assistant] Despite the injuries, this is a next-gen.


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[Assistant] Fastest wide receivers with the ball on a catch. I went through and saw all the receivers last year who was fastest, had to have the ball after a catch.


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[Assistant] Odell Beckham was the second fastest recorded last year. He was going against the Jets in week two. It was the 89 touchdown, 89 yard touchdown. Was that it?


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[Assistant] So he went 21.7. So when healthy, the fastest or one of the fastest wide receivers, uh, in the NFL, by the way, Michael Hardman had a two that were faster than that Tyreek Hill, not even up there. He just runs fast all the time, but wasn't top top end speed.


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[Assistant] If he can prove he is healthy, he will make it back up into Chris's top five, but he is not there right now. This next man is number five, Chris.


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[Assistant] How will, you know, having Kyler Murray throw to him be different than Deshaun Watson? What will be different this year, you think, with DeAndre Hopkins?


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[Assistant] Let me throw this at you real quick, cause I don't know how much to read into it. Maybe I shouldn't read anything into it, but uhm, on next gen, they have this thing called expected yards after the catch. And so what they do is they, they look and see, okay, when you caught it, how fast were you running? Where were the other defenders? How much extra yardage should you have gotten according to their algorithm? So I don't know.


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[Assistant] So what do you think when we look back and say he would have stayed on Houston his whole career or now he's, you know, got another chapter with Kyler Murray. Is his ceiling higher with his quarterback being Deshaun Watson or is his ceiling higher as a receiver with Kyler Murray, you think?


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[Assistant] Cliff is good. Cliff is a smart guy. I put him in the Chris Sims category of evaluating talent. What was that quote that he had about Patrick Mahomes when he was coming out of college that one day he's going to be the highest paid player in the NFL and of course his thoughts on Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] Much like you, Chris, the dude knows what he's talking about when it comes to quarterbacks and offensive.


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[Assistant] Uh, if you ever get invited to his house, invite me over because that was the most impressive room I've ever seen. Remember that during the draft and they showed him in the house wherever he was in the Arizona Phoenix area? Oh my god.


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[Assistant] His camera was like in a corner of one of his, uh, office rooms there. Yeah, right up the par. Uh, okay, so DeAndre Hopkins, number five. Uh, we're going to number four. Who's just ahead of D-Hop.


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[Assistant] He's been over, over a thousand yards and has not necessarily played in every game.


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[Assistant] Uh, every season either. Uh, the deep ball too. He can do that big, as you mentioned, uh, the yards before completion per reception. I mentioned before with Stefan Diggs, Mike Evans, top three in the NFL. So he's getting down the field before he's catching the ball better than just about every other receiver out there. That's the question.


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[Assistant] Will he be able to continue to do that with Tom Brady? Will Tom Brady be able to utilize his talents and showcase those talents of Mike Evans?


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[Assistant] Best receiver that Tom Brady has ever played with. If you put Randy Moss number one.


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[Assistant] Uh, will he be the second best receiver given that we get on the field here actually in 2020. You got Edelman, you got Wes Welker, Antonio Brown for one game.


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[Assistant] Yep. Alright, so Mike Evans is number four. You like him a lot, but you like three other guys better than Mike Evans, who's a monster. Alright, number three, Chris.


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[Assistant] Good eye for Sean Payton, second round pick, 47th overall in the 2016 draft out of Ohio State. Yeah, 6'3", 212 pounds, pretty big for a slot receiver.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the numbers are ridiculous. I mean, that offense with Drew Brees and Michael Thomas is just the perfect marriage. Uh, 125 catches in 2018. That was the most in the NFL. And then last year crushed it with 149, uh, and over 1700 yards. It's ridiculous.


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[Assistant] Led the NFL in yards after the catch last year. Never heard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, stays on the feet. You're, you're right. He just missed, you know, no, no game. You know, he played and he's played in all but one game is rookie year. He missed one game. It looks like there. Um, and he catches the ball too. And a lot of that might be a function of some of those shorter passing routes, but in the NFL, no one caught a higher percent of their targets.


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[Assistant] than Michael Thomas which is crazy when you consider that he got 185 targets so he got more targets than anyone and caught a higher percentage than anyone.


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[Assistant] You just said so many nice things about Michael Thomas there, but for the Saints fans that just see the tweet tweeted out after we're done here with Michael Thomas 3, you are going to get crunked. Won't even matter how many nice things you just said.


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[Assistant] Alright, Michael Thomas, great receiver, number three. Your top two. We're into your top two, Chris.


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[Assistant] He's led the NFL in yards per game three times, led the NFL in receptions once.


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[Assistant] Uh, looks like, you know, he's got 15 yards per catch. I mean, yeah, he's just been able to be consistent through his, I think it's nine year career, um, so far. So what, you as a quarterback, I'm kind of curious because you said Julio can do it all, right? He's just not that big guy, jump ball kind of receiver. Do you take, would you always take a guy like,


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[Assistant] Julio over a guy like, you know, Michael Thomas or like a Tyreek Hill, who's a, who's a fast guy. Like is, is it ultimately the Julio Jones type of receiver? Big dude is still fast. I can throw it up. He's like a safety valve that you're going to take 10 times out of 10 in the NFL.


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[Assistant] That was pretty cool in a couple respects. There was kinda, I led you down that path with the question. And then as Pete notes here, you made your own segue into number one. I felt like that.


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[Assistant] That was like podcast magic right there and I, you're not supposed to call that out. You're just supposed to like live it and then just let it happen. But I thought that was pretty cool. Uh, yeah. Tyree kill. I am surprised. I would not have thought.


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[Assistant] Tyrekel, I actually didn't think of who you'd have at number one, but for some reason I didn't think it was, uh,


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[Assistant] That is a fast team and what now they got, uh, uh, what is it, uh, Edward Zellare, uhm, coming in is out of the backfield there. Wow. Chiefs are gonna, I mean, this has the chance if we play in 2020, which we hopefully do. Uh, yeah, Clyde Edward Zellare, if they play in 2020,


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[Assistant] Man, this is a fast, we might see some records be broken and Patrick Mahomes has already thrown for 50 touchdowns in his career.


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[Assistant] She must have been tired, because normally she does really enjoy the podcast. But it was when we were doing the X's and O's. That's a little much. It was too much for her.


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[Assistant] I'm good, we're back in person here. We're back in person, baby. Is it gonna be less weird for you this time? Because last time we were here in person, it was the first time that you had done a show with another human, right, next to you in probably, what, five months? Yeah. Right? Since March. And you said that at a certain point, you were getting distracted by looking at my mouth moving, and it just was weird for you.


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[Assistant] Now we're back at it. We do have a lot going on in this one. This is a fun one. And I'm getting like more energy as we get closer to the season. Because for a while there it was like we had the draft. And that was super exciting.


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[Assistant] And then the draft was cool, and then it was like, okay, now what? Are we gonna have Fallfall?


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[Assistant] And so there's a little bit of a lull, but now that we're back to practice.


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[Assistant] I feel like that's really cool. You know it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I feel like I've got like a good feeling with the next few pods we got here.


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[Assistant] We're gonna see if I can get these rudimentary questions correct. Right. I have not looked at them. Like rudimentary. Very rudimentary. From what I hear.


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[Assistant] We're gonna give your favorite team on the offensive side of the football. We've talked about this a couple of times. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We're making a fake team. We're putting it in a city that doesn't have an NFL franchise. We're actually putting it in a state.


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[Assistant] That has never had. A franchise. A pro sports team, probably. Yea, you're probably right, right. Uhm, and we're gonna fill it with your favorite players that are currently playing football. Good, I like that. So all that to come, but Chris, let's start with the news, right? Earl Thomas, cut by the Ravens. You talked about it with Mike on PFT.


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[Assistant] Kind of comes, I would say, not out of left field after the last couple of days when we've heard about him, but this is a guy you signed four years, $55 million just last season.


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[Assistant] Uh, one of the best to ever do it at that position, back when he was with Seattle. And now you cut him. You just set him loose. What's your just initial reaction to how this all went down there?


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[Assistant] Which is strange. You don't just all of a sudden give someone 4 years and 55 million dollars. Unless you feel like there's competition form out there. So they got tricked. They might have gotten tricked by the ancient or something happened there.


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[Assistant] Even if he's not at the level that he was, he's still significantly better than anything else you currently have on your roster.


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[Assistant] So you think, like, ability wise right now, Deshaun Elliott, what has he played, six games in his career, he's had injuries for his career, third year with them, could get up to speed and bring his level of production. They also got a guy that they drafted in the seventh round, Gino Stone, out of Iowa, kind of like there, with his physical abilities.


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[Assistant] The hook here, because, you know, you, you.


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[Assistant] Uh, but there was a breakdown of leadership somewhere. You just couldn't get him to buy in. And if these were recurring problems, you were not able to nip them in the bud, uh, until it got to the point where he's punching other players and you gotta, you gotta walk away from a four year, $55 million deal that has a lot of.


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[Assistant] Dead cap space gives you a lot of problems now moving forward. So I don't want to take the team completely.


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[Assistant] So Pete wants to know where he would be if you did a hypothetical wide receiver, I'm sorry a safety ranking.


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[Assistant] But it seems like that's not unusual for him and his, uh, interactions.


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[Assistant] He's got a, it's a huge red flag for him. For any team that even if they had a need, it's a huge red flag now because you look at the culture in Baltimore and be like, man, that seems like a pretty good culture there. And if you were an outlier there and the team kicked you off, uhm, and they didn't want you around, that's a problem. You hope that if you're the signing team that he's going to be able to learn.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Which some players are able to do, I can imagine. And if you come in and you're Earl Thomas and you're thinking of your leadership role as being a guy that's gonna get on top of other players and yell at them, I'm the man, or is your leadership role


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[Assistant] This is inside football right here. I was right. Uhm, okay, so Earl Thomas is out there. We'll see if anyone picks him up. Ready for the ask me anything. Let's do the podcast here. Alright, hit me with the sound. We don't have it.


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[Assistant] Feet goes perfect. Uh, okay, first one is from Max Boss Max. You ready for this one? I like that. Can you shout out my dad, Mike Purden? He listens to every episode.


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[Assistant] Okay, that's a future segment right there.


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[Assistant] Alright, this one comes from 49ers with four S's who retweeted the question today. Very upset that we didn't answer it last time.


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[Assistant] Which happens. I know. We don't get to all of them all the time. Mostly because Pete doesn't give us the questions, you know, but that's the main reason. But we're getting it this time, so don't be mad at us. What did Belichick see in Jimmy G?


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[Assistant] That made him want to move off of Brady for him. I understand age and system fit, but you've talked about his physical requirements to play for New England in the past, or the physical requirements to play for New England in the past. I know you don't love Jimmy G's physical tools, so why did Belichick love him? So what did Bill Belichick see in Jimmy Garoppolo?


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[Assistant] And even after that transformation though, it still seemed like Bill Belichick wanted to move on to Jimmy Garoppolo.


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[Assistant] And it's almost like they want the opportunity to prove that they can win without a great elite quarterback. You know, the Jarrett Stidham. You know, it's like, we can, we can win


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[Assistant] So that leads us to O'Connell Dara. O'Connell Dara. Who asks, Hey Chris. Hey. What would you say is the worst case scenario for the Pats next year? How badly could the CAM experiment go? So you just said you think it will go well. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Former coach with the Patriots, now with the New York Giants, that is Joe Judge.


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[Assistant] Patrick Ermlich, who says, will Joe Judge surprise people this year with how the team performs?


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[Assistant] So he's making everyone run, right? That's a big story at a camp right now. First day they had the assistant coaches, which the assistant coaches on the team are crazy, right? I mean, you got Jason Garrett, you got Brett Bielema, you got Freddie Kitchens. And so they're out there running laps.


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[Assistant] That's what it comes down to. Does he care about me? Does he care about me, not only as a football player, but is he trying to make me better just overall? You know what I mean? Yeah, he's a better human being. Better human, better football player, does he care?


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[Assistant] It is like, I can tell that from watching. Uh, let's go Seattle's offense, right? We talked about the Seattle Scheme, which we hit the quota. We have to do that every pod. I'm keeping track. Seattle Scheme. Seattle Scheme. I'm like, okay, we got it in.


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[Assistant] It's like a, it's a sponsor at this point. Sponsored by the Seattle scheme. Uh, this one is from Ellie Pong. Right. Says, which quarterbacks could you put in Seattle's offense and have them be successful?


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[Assistant] So we've said that, uh, Russell Wilson is Herculean in his efforts a lot of times to make that offense look good, especially late in games when all they can do is throw the ball and he pulls it off somehow.


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[Assistant] In regular season games, when leading by just four points at halftime, I will take wins over yards any day of the week.


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[Assistant] They were carried by their defense for sure. For a while. With their best teams. And here's a question about


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[Assistant] Defenses coming up here in September from, uh, Justin Sandhu who says, do you think defenses will have an early advantage in the season due to no pre-season?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I think too, we talked about this before, is that the fact that there are no fans in the stands, the fact that there's gonna be, it's gonna be quiet, it's gonna be quiet in all these stadiums, that could help the defense communicate


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[Assistant] Just with the fact that no preseason games haven't had that work together. This one, you talked about passing yards.


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[Assistant] So we had one last year, one 5,000 yard passer, Jameis Winston. Oh baby. Uh, this one comes from William Spencer.


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[Assistant] Says, can you give us the 2020 League leaders in passing yards, receiving yards, and


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[Assistant] So I looked at it. So see if you can agree and I'll give you some time to look at the numbers here.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes was hurt a bit last year.


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[Assistant] That's true, and Mahomes was 10th, he had 4,000, but he missed two games. He missed two, yea. He's not going to get. Two and a half. 1,100 yards in two games. Right. Or in two and a half games. Uhm, I am going with. Yea.


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[Assistant] Tablet over there, okay? Am I with my pen? Okay, hold on, I got it.


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[Assistant] Uh, receiving. Yes. So this was a landslide. Yards or receptions? I think either way. Yards. Yards. Pete says yards. Last year it was a landslide. Michael Thomas, 1700 yards. Second was Julio with 1300.


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[Assistant] Chris Godwin, Travis Kelce, Devonte Parker, Keenan Allen after that. Uhm, I almost, my dark horse here?


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[Assistant] Just like we mentioned with Matthew Stafford throwing the ball a lot. My dark horse is Kenny Galladay. Who? He's a dark horse for me. But I don't see any way, you know, barring injury, that Michael Thomas does not lead.


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[Assistant] D. Hopkins. Alright, I just tricked you into going with someone other than Michael Thomas. Oh no. Uh oh. Look what you did to me. Okay, and finally rushing, this one, it was Derek Henry last year leading the NFL, 1,540 yards. Nick Chubb was second, 1,494. And you had McCaffrey, Ezekiel Elliott.


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[Assistant] Carson after that, Lamar Jackson. I, I kind of wanted to go Lamar Jackson for some reason. I was like, ah, that'd be kind of, cause he was only what, 300 yards off the leader last year? He wasn't far. I was like, that'd be kind of a cool pick. Uhm, but, I am not gonna do that.


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[Assistant] I'm saying he'll play all 16 this year. Yeah. Saquon Bark.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and he had just rushing yards last year. Josh Jacobs had 1150 in 13 games. Yeah. So missed three games. He just died. Still was close. Alright, so that's cool. We're down. We have made our predictions and here's another predictions one.


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[Assistant] Uh, 2020 playoff teams. This run from, uh, Injim Chow, who's a regular contributor to the mailbag here to the Ask Me Anything. What are some teams that didn't make the playoffs last year?


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[Assistant] But have a good chance of making it this year. Okay. You see this every year, right? How many teams is it usually on average? I think it's like four. Four teams. Oh, five to six. Oh, he says five or six. There you go.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know I like the chargers. Yes. So I'm going to say chargers.


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[Assistant] Tyrod's gonna be awesome. I'm rooting for Tyrod this year. Pittsburgh for sure. That defense is awesome. Big Ben healthy. Get him back in.


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[Assistant] I was just going to say Indianapolis. Phillip Rivers, 7-9 last year without him, more consistent quarterback play. You got, uh, the running back Jonathan Taylor there to help out. Uh, I like them.


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[Assistant] Because if, if Pittsburgh's better, and if Baltimore's still good,


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[Assistant] No. I think you gotta leave someone out. Although, they might be able to squeak in at eight and eight or something.


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[Assistant] So who's vulnerable there then? You think Houston's vulnerable? Tennessee's vulnerable?


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[Assistant] Alright, here it is, we're gonna go back in time. One thing I can't do is history, because I don't remember stuff.


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[Assistant] I have a really hard time remembering things that happened like more than a year or two ago.


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[Assistant] And he didn't, you're right, you do have, you're very similar in that. And Derwin James didn't appreciate it enough, I don't think. He didn't realize how crazy that was that you. You're right, you're right.


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[Assistant] You know the play, uh, me, I just, yeah, yeah, it was incredible. Uh, we're going back to early 2000s. Uh oh. This one from, uh, Bradley Clem3. Uh oh. Said better defense, 2000 Ravens or 2002 bucks. Oh.


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[Assistant] So you got all these names. You got Derek Brooks versus Ray Lewis. You got Peter Bolware versus Simeon Rice. Sam Adams. Tony Saragusa versus Warren Satt. You got Chris McAllister versus Ronde Barber. Rod Woodson versus John Lynch.


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[Assistant] When you go back to your reunion tour with the Bucks, you're going to have to tell them that.


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[Assistant] Pete notes that in 2000, the defensive player of the year was Ray Lewis. 2002, it was Derrick


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[Assistant] Right, right. It kind of leads in, you were just talking about the Super Bowl teams, into SpudAustin83. Uhm, uh oh, are you blowing up?


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[Assistant] You got so many things going on. You got a show that is now partly on Peacock. Yes. And also on NBCSN. Yes. You got a podcast that's on wherever you get your podcasts and YouTube. You're on Instagram. You're on Twitter. You do none of it yourself, but you're everywhere.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so here is SpudAustin83. Hi Chris and Ahmed. Love the podcast here in Northern Ireland. So there we go. We automatically- What's up?


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[Assistant] Playoff football can lead to not always having the best team winning. Over the last 20 years, who has been the worst team?


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[Assistant] This happens in football, whenever you have a tournament style, right, I always would argue this with my...


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[Assistant] With my friends, because I would say the BCS, remember that with college football is as terrible as it was. And you have points here. I was like that gives you a truer champion because at least you're going to have two with a top, you know, three or four teams in college football. They're going to win the championship where if you throw 16 teams into a tournament.


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[Assistant] You can get the eighth best team winning your championship that year.


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[Assistant] Automatically I kind of thought of the Giants, even though what they did was amazing in the Super Bowl. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, I think that's the one. So Steelers, 2005 Steelers, who won, uh, Super Bowl XS.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's uh, let's end it there. Okay. And let's move on. We want to get to your fake NFL team, fill out the offense here. We want to do that. But before we get there, let's do the obvious movie trick.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I've only watched one of them. Okay, so Pete had them, he had them blacked out, so I could not see these beforehand. Okay. I am reading them now. Let's go through them rapid fire style.


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[Assistant] I have. I've seen it a couple of times. One of the rare movies I've seen. I know that because Kevin Spacey ruined...


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[Assistant] I don't know how that happened, but I saw it one time and then I think a friend was watching and I was like, I'll watch it again. Cause it's kinda cool.


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[Assistant] Uh, name the Will Ferrell character that went streaking after a Snoop Dogg concert at that frat house in Oregon.


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[Assistant] Baseball guy, that was, we would run that on MLB Network, like all off-season long. Classic. Classic. Just on loop. So I saw that from time to time.


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[Assistant] Name, this one from jkurtis68, name the four characters from the Wizard of Oz. Uh, the lion, the tin man, Dorothy, the, uhm, the, the witch, right? Is that four? The toto.


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[Assistant] Hobbit 2343. I've done pretty well so far. You have. What car is Marty McFly's time machine? Uh, the DeLorean.


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[Assistant] Wow. See, these are movies I've seen. Back to the Future. I love Back to the Future.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and here's a note. Ahmed had Back to the Future at number three in his top five movies last year.


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[Assistant] Thank you, Pete, for noting that, because I would have forgotten. You forgot? You forgot? It was your top three? My top, uh, yeaah. Top five. Uhm, he's number three. Yeaah, so I remember that one. I did actually fairly well. You did.


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[Assistant] Can you make a fake team in a fake city? Brand it. Give them colors. So we're not gonna give them colors yet. We're not gonna brand them. Well, we are gonna give them a name. But we have settled.


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[Assistant] On where we're awarding the Chris Sims franchise. Right. We've given a team to Rapid City.


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[Assistant] And I had to look before the podcast if Rapid City was in South Dakota or North Dakota.


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[Assistant] And it is in South Dakota, but at the same time, I feel like this is a victory for North Dakota. It's a victory for all the Dakotas, right? It is. I don't know that there's a rivalry.


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[Assistant] Yes, Rapid City Rushmore's. Right. Which I'm a little hesitant because Rapid City does get a lot of pub already for having Mount Rushmore right. I did not know that. I didn't know it was in Rapid City.


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[Assistant] For the Dakotas. A team for the Dakotas. Right. This is a team for the Dakotas. Which I was doing uhm, some searching on Google Trends.


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[Assistant] You can search for what areas of the country are searching for what or what is trending. I searched just NFL


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[Assistant] I kid you not. And in the top five states that came up that was searching NFL stuff.


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[Assistant] Both Dakotas came up as searching for the most NFL content on Google. Is that right? So there's a need. Wow. We're filling a need. Okay. In Dakota. Wow. I feel like we're kind of heroes. Sure. I feel like a hero too. So if you're from North or South Dakota, uhm. Are your heroes in here? Don't worry.


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[Assistant] If you're from either of those two states, we are your heroes. Uhm, okay. Uh, so let's fill out your team. Let's do the offense real quick.


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[Assistant] So quarterback, we're going to go. So here's the rule. It's your favorite player that's currently playing.


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[Assistant] He's got to be an active player, this is your favorite player, and it's not how they're currently playing, it's not the best player right now, it's like at some point you loved this guy so much, and he's still playing that we're putting him on the table.


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[Assistant] And Pete guessed two. We both guessed for quarterback Aaron Rodgers. You know it. Okay, that's easy. I gotta go with they Rodgers of Aaron's. Running back, we both have the same one here too. We both guessed that you would pick Saquon Barkley. You're right, I'm going with Saquon. Two for two. Wide receiver, we both guessed. We got three wide receivers. Okay, I put three.


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[Assistant] Second one we have a disagreement, and I think he's right, and I think I might be wrong. He goes DeAndre Hopkins, I go Mike Evans.


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[Assistant] Alright, I guessed for your other receiver, Julio Jones, and he guessed Stefan Diggs.


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[Assistant] Uh, tight end, I dropped the ball big time. Because there was one time, and I don't remember when it was, I think it was like a year ago. Who knows, even now.


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[Assistant] You were very passionately talking about Jimmy Graham. And I couldn't remember if it was good or bad. You really liked something that he was doing, or you really disliked something that he was doing. I've come to find out it was the latter. Yes. Uhm. So your Jimmy Graham guess is wrong. Jimmy Graham was my guess. And Pete guessed George Kittle.


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[Assistant] I should have thought of that one. Alright, your offensive line here, and I don't know that I went left tackle, right tackle, because I figure on your offense it's all interchangeable. Yes. We can move guys around. They can be flexible.


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[Assistant] I mean, if a guy can play left tackle, I'm sure he can shuffle the other way and play right tackle. So I'll go with the four tackles that we had, we said. We all said different people. Pete and I said different people. I hear the four. I said David Bakhtiari, I said Jason Peters, and he said Ronnie Stanley and Laramie Tunsil. Ooh, good ones. You're all wrong. Really?


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[Assistant] Well it's your favorite players, you should be. It is.


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[Assistant] You got the Trent Towers here. At this point, I think it might be worth it to fill out the whole offensive line with Trents. Can we? I don't know if we can.


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[Assistant] Alright, in your center, we both agree. There's no way you're gonna get this. Okay, well then we're on.


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[Assistant] He was. Four years in Kansas City. I don't know why I thought for a second I was wrong. He was a second round pick, 55th overall in 2011. Out of? What, college? I don't know.


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[Assistant] So I got five, Pete got four. Yeaah. Okay, and he notes here, homie, Diogo Mendez submitted a lineup and almost nailed it.


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[Assistant] So he had Mahomes as your quarterback. Okay. That's a huge miss though. I feel like that should disqualify him. He doesn't even know me. I mean, you love Mahomes, but he had OBJ, Tyreek Hill, Mike Evans, nailed your wide receivers. He had Kittle. Okay. He had running back AP. He had Adrian Peterson. I, I, you don't want to, honestly. Hmm. You want to, you want to put him on. I will say he kind of slipped


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[Assistant] Good, so we're gonna stop this pod and I'm gonna clap soon.


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[Assistant] And if it's anything like the last time we did it, you will berate me at some point and make me look dumb.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you can check that out with a separate video. You can also check out Peter King, his podcast. Got a one-on-one with Patrick Mahomes. Man.


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[Assistant] Uh, spoke of the third and 15 play in the Super Bowl, what he needs to improve upon in 2020. Also wraps up his training camp tour with an interview.


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[Assistant] And then, uhm, time permitting, the Rapid City Rushmore's defense. Yeah, we'll do that. So think about that. Yep. I want to try to be better than five. I got a good, I got a good.


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[Assistant] Aw, baby, there he is. I mean, who cares about me? I know I'm Chris Simms unbuttoned, uh, podcast, but look at this triple threat over here. Ahmed Fareed, playing the introduction music, hosting the show.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll see how that goes. This is the first time, you're right, we're gonna see that face. He's gonna have to connect to this link.


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[Assistant] On his iPad, I don't know what's gonna happen. And what I'm really most concerned about is...


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[Assistant] I say this all the time, the good teams at football, and I went through this on the show today.


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[Assistant] You know, the Atlanta Falcons, it's Kean O'Neal. Now, he was hurt last year. You want to know why their defense, you know, falls off? It's because they're missing that kind of guy. You know, the Dallas Cowboys.


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[Assistant] You know, Malik Hooker, first round pick from Ohio State hasn't quite worked out. He's been injured. Uh, so there's that. We know who Seattle's is. Who else am I missing here? What are the two teams have I missed or not hit on?


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[Assistant] I don't think it's gonna change me completely. I would still, if we were not on a podcast or anything, argue with them that it's just a little too comforting for quarterbacks at times.


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[Assistant] They never throw the ball to the short middle, right? Or something like that. And they might just void it. And then just do something crazy. You know, that's not sound.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I say, like, if there's 53 guys in a locker room, you know,


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[Assistant] And I think that's hard for people to realize sometimes, let alone, like dad's saying, the process is flawed. It's a weird process.


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[Assistant] And not to say that the other guys can't do that either, I just think Shanahan's the aw- the best at that. And then, man!


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[Assistant] Wink Martindale with the Baltimore Ravens who we've talked about. Gosh, Vic Fangio out in Denver.


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[Assistant] You know, there's, there's a lot, you know, Mike Zimmer. Okay, I'm going Belichick. And then.


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[Assistant] You know, they could be a team that could end up 11 and 5, 12 and 4, and he has great stats to go along with it and does it. Carson Wentz is another guy I'm gonna throw out there. He would be one, certainly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt. That's a good way to say it, dad. And you know, dad, while you're here, because I know I said this on the show, but Ahmed, you need to hear this, because, you know, people who get mad about Jamal Adams wanting a new contract and things like that, well, I mean, hey,


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[Assistant] But just off the top of my head, okay? Here's some ones, just rookies that, I mean, first off, Josh Jacobs get him, again, for year two, it's only gonna get bigger and better. I really have no doubt there. I know.


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[Assistant] I, I expect Kareem Hunt rookie year type numbers. I think you could see 12, 1300 yards Russian, you know, five, 600 yards receiving and a number of touchdowns. So I would say jump on that. Jonathan Taylor with the Colts will be another one I'd tell them to jump on. Yes.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. You know, hey, the first-round receivers, I'm not going to bring them up. They're all, of course, got a chance to be awesome, fantasy-wise. But Michael Pittman with the Colts in the second round, I would tell you watch out for him. And then, who else am I missing? Michael Pittman, I want to talk about, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, Chase Claypool for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who I think can be...


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[Assistant] I think he'll have a niche within that offense out in Las Vegas, to where he'd be one I throw at, real kind of dark horse, but don't be shocked if he shows up to that offense this year and makes a lot of plays.


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[Assistant] This is, it's, it's a tough one. Alright, so let me just narrow it down, cause I'm thinking this out too, okay? Like, when I look at Brandon Ayuk, with Deebo Samuel Hurt,


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[Assistant] Uh, or, you know, top 30 pick. Justin Jefferson, there's no Stephon Diggs there this year. So now it's him and Adam Thielen. Gotta think he's gonna be a major focal point in the pass game. You know, they just don't have that many weapons really to go to. You know, CD Lam...


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[Assistant] That's a simple offense. He can do it all.


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[Assistant] He's NFL ready. He's been in a similar West Coast type offense that Kubiak runs. And, you know, like I said, I just don't think there's anybody else there other than Phelan that's going to take away the ball from him a whole lot. And I think he'll have a nice package within that offense.


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[Assistant] That's where I feel like I gotta find some sort of speed guy to go there.


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[Assistant] But I know Michael Thomas will beat the crap out of anybody and he's fearless, let alone he's got some speed, some arm length and wingspan there.


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[Assistant] He's plenty fast and then he can fight and be big and tough and strong too. And then I'm going with Khalil Matt. I'm going with Khalil Matt.


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[Assistant] That's it. I mean, that's it. Julio Mack is, for me, one of the pound for pound strongest people I've ever seen or been around. And even when I watch on film, it translates to the football field as well.


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[Assistant] Uhm, did the career live up to what I thought it would be? No, I won't lie. I mean, Roy...


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[Assistant] I mean, he was, he was, him and Derrick Johnson were the two best players I played with in college on our Texas team.


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[Assistant] I mean really, we might not get to do it the next pod, but we're keeping tabs of all these things for future pods when we do open up again. So, you know, you can always send questions. I'm going to try to be better interacting through social media immediately.


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[Assistant] And then I saw the A to make me think, okay, it's not Montreal, it's monarch or mana something, and I just put it together. I'm really smart, man. I'm really smart.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, so I do respect your opinion. I've liked everything you've said about uniforms really up into this point throughout our podcast. Other than the colts your colts take, uh, I think you've been pretty spot on. Now,


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[Assistant] Alright, I get it. Whoa, okay. You know, whoa, there's a little small slither of blue in there. I don't know, it gives it some edge. I like the helmet looking like it's matte blue with that yellow that pops like that. And then...


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[Assistant] You know, I, I don't know, I, I'm a sucker for all of the same uniform color. So I like that all blue look.


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[Assistant] Has been just crapping all over this uniform. But uh, I don't know, I'm liking it a lot.


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[Assistant] And I, you know, I like the simplicity, plus I don't view the Rams as a team, as one of those traditional uniforms where I'm like, oh, it's so great, they should never change it.


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[Assistant] I think this is kind of fitting for 2020 in LA. And I would think with those color schemes, it's going to be very popular with like the 30 and under crowd. I mean, again, you look at popular sneakers or things like that right now. Everybody's looking for those, you know, colors that pop.


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[Assistant] Uh, and do that, and I think that, that fluorescent, soul, yellow, whatever they got there in that blue, are gonna do that. I don't know what it is. I just like it. I really do.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm not going to lie. They were in the running for my top five uniform. I'm not going to lie. They might be in there. Yeah. Pete Dimmalittle little lightest lightest will tell you I they were on my original short list.


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[Assistant] So we'll see, but out of all the new uniforms that were released, okay?


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[Assistant] I know you like the Chargers, I like the Chargers one as well, but where would you rank the Rams out of the new release uniforms? Where do you think?


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[Assistant] I think the two LA teams are my favorite ones. I, I do.


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[Assistant] I think that I like both of them a whole lot. I'm with you with the Browns. I think that's probably in my running as number three. And I think the Falcons will be my least favorite of all the ones that I've seen released to this point.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's the one that I'm least impressed by. Not that I like hate it. I'm not going to sit here and go, oh, it's one of the five worst uniforms in football. Uh, but I think out of the ones that were released this year,


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[Assistant] I got a jersey upstairs of that. So, uh, it is, it's a cool uniform. I even like when they wear their orange jersey too. I mean, that's cool as well. So I can get behind that and hey, they were one of those teams we've been talking about. They rebranded and all of a sudden they became a winning football team.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. They don't care. And I, I got word from them. They're, they're not changing. They don't care what I say. So yeah, nothing's happening there. My number five will be the Washington Redskin.


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[Assistant] Is my least favorite, if anybody's watching on YouTube. Uh, because again, I love the burgundy-yellow combination. It's very rare in sports. My favorite though is when they wear


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[Assistant] In the old school days or this picture right here if you're watching on YouTube is the big thing, the white jersey with the burgundy pants or I like when they wear the white pants


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[Assistant] I don't know, the helmet itself is interesting to me, the color combination, the tradition of it all, and


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[Assistant] Yeah, hey listen, it's a plain simple look. It stays with the tradition. They were on kind of my...


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[Assistant] Yes, Chicago Bears, they made one of my top five helmets, but I love the Bears look. Again, the stripes on the socks, meeting the stripes on the shoulders. You know, that's been a staple for that uniform for a long time. I do love the helmet.


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[Assistant] I love the jersey too. I do. And I think the thing I like about the Bears is, you know, they have some variations, but simple variations. I love when they wear their all white. I think it's one of the best uniforms in football when they wear their all white with that blue helmet. Or when they wear their all blue. I'm big into that uniform look.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I'm a fan of the Bear's uniforms and a lot of their different looks, but specifically those two are some of my favorites.


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[Assistant] Dolphin's going number three. Okay. I mean, I, you know, again, it's an okay. They're a middle of the road to me. I don't know. I mean.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I, I got nothing to say there. I mean, they obviously can play tough football. I guess it's just our lifetime. We haven't seen them play so much tough football.


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[Assistant] Like when I think of the Dolphins good, I just think of like Dan Marino and passing yards, but no running game and no defense.


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[Assistant] Uh, so maybe that kind of like infiltrates my brain and they're thinking of that uniform a little bit as well. So, okay.


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[Assistant] I like some of their, their new variations of what they're doing too. They're kind of going old school as well, which I do like that. My number three.


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[Assistant] I'm going new school here. I'm going new school. This is my only new school uniform on my list. The Seattle Seahawk.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I'm usually not a fan of the new age uniforms, but I just feel like the Seattle Seahawks found something to me. And like the Minnesota Vikings, they were one of the first teams to have that matte helmet that didn't shine like that, which I think is very cool. Not one of my favorite helmets, but I think when you tie it all together, it is one of my favorite uniforms in football.


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[Assistant] It's just like a different uniform altogether than the rest of football. I mean, they were really one of the first ones to go to this.


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[Assistant] You know, whatever, these new age looks, you know, some people say the Nikefication.


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[Assistant] You know, they can wear the gray pants with the white jerseys, the gray pants with the blue jerseys, the blue pants with the white jerseys. So I really like all of it and, uh, pretty cool. And again, a team that had no tradition. So I'm always in favor of those types of teams to go try something new. Like nobody's putting your old uniform in the Holy grail. So let's try to do something else.


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[Assistant] It's America's team, it's in this, you know, we associate it with winning because that's when they became an America's team. And, you know, too.


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[Assistant] Anybody that's ever been to a football, NFL football game in person when the Dallas Cowboys are in that stadium, you could say what you want, but if you're in that stadium and they start to walk on the field,


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[Assistant] As soon as those helmets start showing out of the tunnel and you're like, oh man, here come the cowboys.


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[Assistant] I mean, there is, there's just something nostalgic about it, the history of it, whatever. And it's a clean, simple look, which we talk about a lot, I feel like here, with most of these new uniforms. And I'm not going far off the Richter scale here with my next pick either. Going to Pittsburgh Steelers!


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[Assistant] You know, they were one of my favorite helmets. And, you know, again,


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[Assistant] It's just an iconic look for me. Those yellow pants, the way they pop, that solid big black stripe they have going down the edge that they've had since the start of time.


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[Assistant] The, the cool old school stripe around the shoulder that I like. And then of course, you know, this was one of my favorite helmets, uh, as well because, hey, you know, the yellow, the three stars on the side, one side not having any emblem at all. And of course the numbers in front, I think all of it together.


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[Assistant] No, no, it's not. I don't know why they don't break out all whites. In the 70s they used to wear all white. And...


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[Assistant] Definitely on that. That is something I want to take some credit for. Cause I really, the last few years, tried to beat that into Kyle Shanahan's head about the white cleats. And I know he likes white cleats anyways, so.


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[Assistant] I didn't have to, uh, you know, I didn't, I'll take some credit is what I'm saying there. I like the 49ers uniform. They made my long list here of teams in the running. Just couldn't pick them. You know, just to, you know, as much as I love Kyle Shanahan, too many bad memories when I was growing up from that 49ers team. Alright.


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[Assistant] So, that really bothered me. Wait, and now I'm getting text messages, so hold on. I gotta do this.


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[Assistant] I love when the Dallas Cowboys, which they don't like to wear these uniforms, their, their navy blue.


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[Assistant] Uh, Jersey, because they view it as bad luck for years and years. And here's, this is a game, I think specifically,


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[Assistant] No. Well, Nicole, if you could show the picture from Ahmed's Cowboys picture and then show mine, they have two different types of silver pants. And the silver pant they wear with their white jersey is a little different. If you could see, it's almost got a green tint to it.


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[Assistant] So those are two things we need to ask him when he pops on here.


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[Assistant] Maybe late 70s, but other than that, that's about the only change they've ever made.


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[Assistant] So dad, so those are players and I know like, I'm interested to see where you're going with this as far as today's players or co, you know, because I know also you think Bill Walsh was a game changer, uh, right? I mean, correct me if I'm wrong. Go, go, go ahead, go through the rest. I know you put Vince Lombardi in that category.


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[Assistant] Coaches, player, whatever it is that comes to your mind in this conversation that's relevant to right now that's changing the game or changing what it might look like in the future.


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[Assistant] I was going to say that the whole offensive team is, is predicated around Mahomes and Lamar Jackson. Russell Wilson, they still want to play defense and run the football. They didn't bring him in there and go, oh man, it's so amazing. Let's just change things right away. And Ahmed, I'm not disagreeing with you because he did change the game in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] Throwing sidearm and off different platforms and different arm angles and all that. It's a necessity in the NFL. And Mahomes has just glorified it and made it cool to where it's gonna be a game changer. Cause I think, like dad's saying, you're gonna see it more and more. And he's already seeing it with all these high school kids he throws with.


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[Assistant] And I think he's broken that mold. So now we're starting to see some of these type of guys, Ed Oliver drafted in the top 10 a few years later, right? Same type of guy. So he broke the mold from, oh, if you're a defensive tackle, you got to be 315 pounds and the biggest human on earth.


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[Assistant] Sorry, so dad, just to further that, I mean, I'm with you. I don't know where the hell he ends up at this point, too.


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[Assistant] But the other thing added on to what you're saying, what comes along with Cam Newton, you know, is...


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[Assistant] Who's the guy that's got, you know, the bravado and the self-confidence and can deal with somebody that's that talented and big and handsome and a star like you're saying, and of course is going to challenge whoever the starter is as far as talent level on the practice field every day. What, who, who comes to mind when you put it that way?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I'm not so sure that works either. I mean, even as I'm saying it out of my mouth, that could cause dysfunction in the locker room there. So I'm not so sure I believe that one either.


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[Assistant] So basically you're taking three super freaks who are really self-confident in their abilities.


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[Assistant] Well, I think if I had to look at teams and, you know, again, everything is positive right now. You're right about that. All right. The first team that comes to my mind right now, it'd be the Jacksonville Jaguars. And there's things on their team I like. Don't get me wrong, but I'm going to throw them in that conversation right now.


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[Assistant] I think I'm gonna throw the Detroit Lions in that conversation for right now too. I am. You know, there's just too many, I know I'm sorry and you're from Detroit and I'm rooting for them. Cause you know, I know Matt Patricia and Dan Quinn.


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[Assistant] But again, I just, you know, what is the offense?


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[Assistant] I don't, those are the first two that jump out to me. Hey, you know, you know, I love the New York Giants and I think they're headed in the right direction, but they're probably another team that comes to my mind right off the bat.


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[Assistant] You know, they're trying to get their offensive line together. There's no one go to wide receiver on the team. You know, they got Saquon and Daniel Jones, defense, a lot of questions there on that side of the ball. I don't know. Those are the three that probably jump out to me right away. Dad, you got any other ones that you think of there?


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[Assistant] So there's four, that's probably would be my fourth team I would throw there too. And then okay, if we're going to make it to round five, it's Miami or the Washington Redskins. I think it's one of those two teams.


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[Assistant] I think because of that, I probably look at Washington as being that team and a little bit because of what dad said, hey, they're a team that's in rebuilding, right? There's not a ton of offensive weapons there right now.


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[Assistant] They have a rookie quarterback who is not getting the benefit of having a second off season here to grow and he's going to be learning a new system and new things like that to where I would probably make the Redskins one of those five teams too.


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[Assistant] Come on, he's got nothing to do. You know, I mean, I had to tell him.


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[Assistant] But, you know, if T Higgins gets close to what, you know, I think he might be a, might be able to be as an NFL football player. And I think dad likes T Higgins a lot too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you look at that. You got a little bit of everything as far as the wide receiver position. I mean, they really do. You know, let alone they got a good little slot receiver and Alex Erickson and things like that. So, you know, a lot of times,


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[Assistant] When people talk about your wide receiver room needs to be like an NBA basketball team and it needs to be diversified to where you go. You got the small point guard who's the jitterbug slot guy. You know, you got the post up guy who can get on the block and post up. Well, that's T Higgins. He's going to be, Oh, I'm covered. Just throw it to me. I'm big and strong and I'll catch it anyway.


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[Assistant] You know, then you need that awesome shooting guard. Well, that's AJ Green. He can do everything and he's just dangerous. So there, it is very talented group.


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[Assistant] Uh, just a few question marks there and they gotta prove it. They gotta go out there and prove it now too, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's something that, you know, you read that out loud, it certainly jumped on my radar a little bit.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. And I think, I think dad, you know, the point he makes with the running back thing. Yeah. I mean, I've talked about that a lot. I think that is going to be a continuing trend because I think that kid is who's out there going up, you know, and has a good big picture, you know, overall look of what football is.


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[Assistant] You know, we see it every year where we see five or six receivers drafted in the first two rounds.


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[Assistant] Whether you want to play A.J. Brown or Deebo Samuel or DJ Moore from the Carolina Panthers or, uh, Loviska Chanal, who was drafted by the Jaguars in the second round this year, 20 years ago.


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[Assistant] But I think at some point, like dad said, they realized, why the hell do I want to get in 50 car crashes every game when I can play 11 years and make a lot of money and be a wide receiver in the NFL and do that. And I think you will, I think it was all the reasons dad stated, you're, you're going to continue to see that, let alone, I also think these kids, the running back thing, and then like,


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[Assistant] And it's different. You know, 6-4 is a point guard in the NBA. And I think that kid has realized too, wait, the hell with that, I'll go play ride receiver and do that. And you know, listen, I think AJ Green or some of those, and they probably could have played in the NBA, but not to the level they could have played receiver in the NFL. And I think you're seeing that come into the NFL a whole lot too.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's a four year investment and then you're going to be going in year three or four, you're going, all right, who are we going to have to start, you know, replenishing our running back room? Who's going to be the backup? Who do we need to start thinking about the starter? Because


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[Assistant] You know, other than the super freaks, they all start to fall off about after year five for the most part. And it's, it's rare that the running backs can stay to that level. So I think that's a, it's a good point. I'll try to do my best there. You're right. I'm trying to stop.


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[Assistant] I think he was good. He sent me a text with a bunch of question marks, okay?


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[Assistant] So that's why I panic. You know, and I'm sitting here, of course, hey, it's the, the COVID-19 era. I'm being, don't buy an iPad right now. So I could see the damn text messages popping up on the screen and I saw dad, question mark, question mark. And I'm like, what is he talking about? And I'm like, oh no, we're late. So we better get on that. Yeah. He wasn't too pissed. We got lucky there.


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[Assistant] Well, I think this is a point that's overanalyzed sometimes. I do. And I think people look too hard to find the it factor like you're talking about. You know, and I don't know, what is the it factor?


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[Assistant] You know, you tell me. I mean, I understand what people are trying to say. He's a natural leader. He's, you know, great in the big moments. Uh, you know, he's, you know, never, never blinks under the, you know, the big lights of a big game or whatever it may be. You know, I understand what people are saying.


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[Assistant] But, you know, when you talk about guys who have the it factor, it's like, who is it? Oh yeah, Patrick Mahomes has it, right? And I want to go, yeah, he's got it. But you know what he's got first is he's got a whole lot of talent. That's the first thing, right? So to me, that's the first thing I'm always looking for.


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[Assistant] You know, one, just, just at a base level, when I first start looking through the quarterbacks and just going through, and I usually go first through where like, all right, let me watch 50 to 80 throws just to get a feel for some of these guys. And then I go back and I start to really deep dive and study them.


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[Assistant] You know, and that's what took my eye to a guy like Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, with Lamar Jackson, you know, the first thing I, woah, holy cow, he can run. Wow, woah, special, holy cow. And then I went, alright, well, let's see what the throwing looks like. Damn, his arm's strong, man, he can make some crazy throws.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then when I went back to go the deep dive, I went, okay, you know, he's a little inaccurate with some of the throws. I get that. You know, decision making could be a little bit better here and there, but the big thing was,


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[Assistant] What got me to life is the talent level. And yes, I'm big into the first thing I'm going to look at is the arm. You know, the arm is big. And not to say it's the end all be all, you know, Joe burrow didn't have an arm this year that I looked at and just went, whoa, oh my gosh, this is, this is a slam dunk.


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[Assistant] You know, best arm in football? No! But I-


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[Assistant] When I looked at those first 50 to 80 throws, I went, man, wow, he's accurate. Boy, he can make all the throws. Like I said, I wasn't like, oh wow, it's so powerful and amazing. He can make all the throws. And then, you know, as I sat there and then I go back into the deep dive.


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[Assistant] And you start to go, holy cow, is he unbelievable in the pocket? So,


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[Assistant] You know, an unbelievable making plays when there's nothing there to be had. So it always does start with the physical ability to me. You know, and again, I understand that it's not like everything, but when you take really the top 10 quarterbacks of all time or the great quarterbacks of all time.


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[Assistant] And then once you get to that, you start to see, do the other things match up to that level? Okay, is this guy a good decision maker? Does he know how to take care of the football? You know, does he have a good sense of movement in the pocket while he's trying to look down the field?


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[Assistant] You know, all of those things then are the things you look for to go, okay, I saw the guys got high on ta- high on talent.


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[Assistant] Now, does he know how to play the position and the little nuances and details of the position that could possibly make him great? And, you know, there you go.


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[Assistant] You know, let's take a guy like James Morgan for the New York Jets who drafted him in the fourth round. When I went through my first 50 to 80 throws that I tell you about to look at,


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[Assistant] I went away and I put a star next to him because I said, man, there was some really good throws in there. Whoa, this guy's more talented than I thought.


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[Assistant] This is, it's pretty, it's a little reckless. It's loose. You know, he just is going to fire the ball into a crowd every now and then and not care. And that's what makes him end up being a third or fourth round talent. But


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[Assistant] But there's a chance to be something in the NFL. So I guess long story short, I know I'm mumbling here a lot and please ask me a question after. The first thing I am looking for is physical ability and can you do the things physically to make an AJ Green or a Julio Jones or any of them look good? And then if you don't have those guys,


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[Assistant] Can you do enough to make some average joes look good on your offense? And that to me, you know, you gotta have some talent to make that happen.


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[Assistant] But yes, listen, the support system and all those things, it's a great discussion. It really is.


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[Assistant] You know, that's why in a lot of ways, I think we're seeing more and more top 10 quarterbacks work out in the NFL and things like that because the teams have realized.


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[Assistant] So, they go all in on, let's make our guy look good. Let's put the proper support around him. You know, and there's a few that didn't happen. A.K.A. maybe a Mitchell Trubisky. Maybe one that jumps out to me there. You know, coaching changes, not a lot of talent on him early on in the career, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not trying to say he definitely would have been awesome if you put him somewhere else. There's some issues there, but I think that's real. You know, I would say Drew Brees. Again, I, I get, you know, there's a reason the Chargers got rid of Drew Brees because they didn't think he played well enough.


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[Assistant] But then he went to another system that said, wait, you know, we shouldn't be trying to make him throw 40 yard lasers down the field and 70 yard bombs. That's not what he's good at.


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[Assistant] He's a good quick decision maker who's a good athlete and can get the ball out of his hands really quick and like.


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[Assistant] Hit the bullseye like 99 out of 100 times. And Sean Payton, what did he do? He saw that and he goes, man, I gotta, I can support him in this.


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[Assistant] And devise an offense around them. So it's very important. It's important for just about all of them, Ahmed, except for like the really special, gifted, gifted guys, like a Mahomes, a Rogers, a Brett Favre, a John Elway. You could have thrown them in any shit offense, and we still would have gotten


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[Assistant] You know, so, but those are rare breed type of guys who have such great physical ability. It just doesn't matter all the time of what they are in. But for the 99 other percent of the quarterbacks in football, they need that development and support like you're talking about.


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[Assistant] But he's not on the Dallas Cowboys and he's behind that shit offensive line we talked about with my dad there in Cincinnati. So then we just think, oh, he's a good running back, but how great is he? You know, and it's, no, he's, he's actually really physically great. He just, I don't care who you are in football. You need a little help at times.


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[Assistant] To accentuate, you know, what you're doing. It's one of the things I try to tell my little boy all the time because he's like,


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[Assistant] You know, at times, if I say something to him, like he's throwing a football.


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[Assistant] Oh dad, stop, you're putting too much pressure on me. And I go, Philip, I don't give a damn what you do. I'm just trying to give you a little help here. I'm not trying to put, I don't care if you ever play football in your life.


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[Assistant] And I said this to him last week, I actually said, don't play football. I'd rather you be a baseball player or a tennis player to where you could just work at it and be good and you don't have to depend on it. Why dad? Why? And I said exactly what I just said to you, cause you could be the best player in football and if you're on a shit team, nobody will ever know it.


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[Assistant] So non, like non-football legends in my mind. Yeah, non-football. Jeter is certainly one of them at the very top.


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[Assistant] LeBron James is certainly one of them at the very top. Yeaah, he is. I love LeBron.


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[Assistant] Now, I'm not gonna say, when I was growing up, I loved Michael Jordan and Air Jordan and all that. I mean, how could you not? I mean, it just, I was prime time age for a guy like Michael Jordan to where I was just sucked in. And mom, you gotta get me the new Jordan. Dad, I need the new Jordans. I mean, yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I like LeBron more than Michael Jordan. Now I've not, Michael Jordan's the best basketball player I've ever seen. So, I, I, he's better than LeBron James as a basketball player, but I think I like LeBron the person and I don't know, the way he acts and plays a little bit more. That's just me. So those two.


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[Assistant] I'm a pretty big Muhammad Ali fan, like...


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[Assistant] I enjoy watching his old fights. Uh, I would recommend anybody


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[Assistant] Go wa- watch the documentary. Maybe this should be the next movie, uh, When We Were Kings.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. I mean, even Magic Johnson, I think growing up would probably have been in that car, you know, and the fact that I've been around Magic Johnson a few times in my life and I just don't know if there's a nicer man and a more charismatic man than him in my whole life. Like quick story, I'm at the quarterback challenge.


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[Assistant] Alright, one year and we're out in Hawaii. Dad brought us out there for the quarterback challenge. Magic Johnson was there in the hotel because he was really good friends with Warren Moon and I guess he was out in the area. So I got to meet Magic Johnson and I'm just like, I mean,


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[Assistant] Hey, sit down, and I, I sat down, it was just me, Warren Moon, and Magic Johnson for lunch one day, cause he was that nice and like, talked to me for 25 minutes. Later on that year,


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[Assistant] There's a Giants game. People start to go, hey Magic Johnson's in the booth back there, I used to sit in the mezzanine level.


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[Assistant] So, I'm walking up the stairs finally at some point just to go get a coke or a pee, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] And I see Magic Johnson and I'm like, I'm not gonna say anything or be a jerk or anything like that. But as I'm walking by the box, he kind of looks at me and we make eye contact and I wave.


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[Assistant] And guys like Magic Johnson, it's what they do off the field and off the court, but I also respect a whole lot too.


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[Assistant] Well, I know we did, but I, you're right. I mean, I'm kind of, I was kind of excited to do it with you in person. Uhm, my only thing is like,


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[Assistant] There's no food at NBC Sports right now. And of course I'm up at 5.30 in the morning doing the show and I gotta eat something between then. So it just made sense to go home. But like, you wanna make a pact maybe next week? You wanna do it together in person? Do something like that?


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[Assistant] We had similar weekends then. It's good to hear. Yes, because you're right. I'm on the same issue, Ahmed. Like, we have well water here. And when you don't have electricity, the pump brings the water to the house.


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[Assistant] We do, we had a genera- we have a generator.


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[Assistant] And, when the power first went out,


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[Assistant] The generator kicked on but nothing in the house kicked on.


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[Assistant] And there's no water in the toilet, and you're like, oh wait, I gotta go to the bathroom. Like, what am I gonna do?


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[Assistant] And I found myself walking up to my pool.


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[Assistant] No, don't do that, you're right. And well done by you, uhm, intentionally wearing the dark shirt today because...


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[Assistant] You know, there's been a lot of talk about your armpits on social media and things like that, so. Alright, good. You're looking good so far. Looking good.


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[Assistant] I am and you know, I, I mean, it's great to hear. And again, we're going to have to continue to be creative, you know, but my, my expertise or where I love to dive into is football and preseason football, X's and O's, scouting, schemes, things like that.


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[Assistant] We're, we don't have that. So we're going to have to make do with what we have right now. And that's where like people with the podcast too.


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[Assistant] I've been tossing around the idea, maybe we'd get into more X's and O's, maybe we'd ask the fans to ask more specifics about what a scheme, this scheme is, or how's it taught, or this specific play that might have been important last year, and we break that down. I mean, I'd love to do that stuff too, and of course, if we're gonna be in person,


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[Assistant] I appreciate that too. I know. I sit there and look at that group text and I'm like, oh yeah, great idea. I'll only have to sit there for nine hours and watch film to figure that one out, but no problem.


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[Assistant] Well, it's a great question, and I think the first thing is, they're like, yeaah, more times than not,


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[Assistant] I understand what he's trying to say. You know, if you have more ball speed, right, and you throw the ball at the same trajectory, then yeaah, the guy that can create more speed with the football should be able to throw it farther. And that's, that's true for the most part.


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[Assistant] But not always because there are some like other factors that go into throwing a deep ball, right? Like Vinny Testaverde and his time could throw at 80 yards.