Trevor Lawrence, who was the
first pick last year, exact
Wilson of the Jets. The second pick Trail ants, the 49ers
third pin. Yeah, just Infuse. Just on the other side of
the top ten,
which of those guys makes the biggest jump.
I think it's one, and two
is the jump, the big jump and I'm Trevor exactly the guy
I look at it and again, maybe I'm biased because I love them in
my first evaluation, but I, you know, me, I try not to be and
call it for what it is. And what
I saw last year.
I still think they're top-end Talent
is the Greatest of the group that Jones, you know, I'm not
get putting him up there because
he, he did pretty damn good last year. I don't know if his
jump will be as maybe his extravagant, or as big as
a Trevor Lawrence, or his act Wilson,
and I got one of my bosses here and Sam. Flood is an England
fan. He wants me to boost him up a little bit more, but
I think I do look at Trevor and Zack, they've given them
a support system around them. Finally, I think both of them.
You look at it going. They got some weapons to play with here.
This year, their line should be better and then
Hey what? Maybe I'm a sucker for, you know, throwing and
their ability to spin the ball and make special throws those
two to me are special in that departments funny. I didn't
even mention Mike Jones. In my mind, he wasn't a rookie. He's
just his
assembly line and do end up that they put out on the feet.
I know I do and they are
because the next question is, who's most likely to have
a slump? They really set him up
to take a step back when you've got belcheck saying he's made,
dramatic improvements. I mean,
Josh McDaniels. Has gone. You've got a failed head coach.
Who was a special teams coordinator
as your quarterbacks coach. You've got a failed head coach,
who was a defense coordinator offensive line coach, how are
you really going to get more out of Mak Jones this year than
you got last year? If he has dramatically improved, I just,
I'm worried, they're setting a bar for him that may
be too high.
I mean, it's rare to hear them praise like that, but I think
he's done enough up there that it's open their eyes. And
I think the next step, like well, why would they even say it?
I don't know. We, that's what's
weird. Maybe they're just trying to, you know,
Again, still some confidence in the team him himself,
you know, and
that's maybe I guess the only thing I can think of their fan
base just to go. Hey, it's getting better. We like what we
see here and
we've talked about, they love to formulate their team around
the general, they are big into that. And I think with him,
like I hear you with, you know, maybe setting them up to fail
or whatever else, but they seem to have great confidence in
him.
And I think the big thing
that they probably want to see from him more than anything
last than compared to last year. It's A few more
explosive plays big plays, we talked about that, you know,
early on, in the year and then we got a few more as the year
went on. But you know, pushing the ball down, the field,
making a few power throws.
Hey, he is a pretty good athlete and can move around
the pocket by some time. Let some people get open, make some
plays like that, make some place outside the realm of
the Playbook. I think that's what they're kind of excited about
to
one of the realities to you have a quarterback, who's
a natural leader in everything that he says and does, or you
have to,
you have to play a role in it as The coach and you have to
make sure everybody else understands. This is our guy.
Yeah. And I don't know that Mac Jones is yet to the point where
he walks through the door and he's Peyton Manning and Tom,
Brady. And I think they're trying to maybe
speak. That's what I mean. I think exactly, right. I think
that's what they're trying to do and then just being in New
England being around Josh, McDaniels
man did they always,
you know, pump that thought.
And as I told you, when Brady hurt his knee, with the Pollard
thing, I went up there was going to go up there for
a workout. They said, sorry, we don't want even caused
the confusion here. Matt castles are guy. Why we're sorry we're
really sorry that we brought you up here
and wasted your time and all that and I really respect
the decision because to me that's what you should have done. If
you're running the organization, as much as
I would have loved to have been up there and bit
apart, I would have been a worth a damn because I wasn't
healthy, right? And I told the number of teams during that
process, like, know, if you need me to play, don't sign me.
Ice turned down, big money from the Kansas City Chiefs
during that time, but I respect them for that, that they did
that today. At least I give you a meal or something. When you
went up there and they told you, sorry. Why do we bring
a network?
Anything, you know?
Yeah, they were. Okay, I signed the
ice, I remember, I've sitting in a
sitting in an office like all these tapes at first
and I was just like, man, this place is crazy and I saw out
there alone for a while and I figured there was something
going on. I was like, what's going on here and they kept
coming in. Hey we'll be with you in a minute. We'll be in
a minute. We'll be there in a minute
and then they came in there like,
Hey we're sorry yeah we're sorry, Scott Pioli, but
I really respected the honesty and I respected the
wait, we don't want to confuse the situation or have
the boston media. The first time Matt Cassel has a bad game
going. Let's put zum-zum zum-zum. That wouldn't happen.
You don't think would happen.
Don't have it now back then.
I think they like me a little more back. Then, how much you
turn down from the Chiefs? I'd I'm just kidding. It was, oh,
it was. It was enough to tell her. I don't care you, don't
you take a nap? Well,
that's like that
but I, it was like around 1.5 million dollars,
but I
had promised still say about, well, he knew I wasn't ready,
there was a few things, there was a few teams I had told.
About that process. You know, they knew they were going to be
released. I had some teams interested in me and trading
for me
and I kind of got the word to them. Like you don't want to
trade for me. You meant to make me a backup or a third
Stringer, that's great, but I need a little bit more time to
get healthy here before you want me to like be dependent to
help
your football team and
that was tough. But I didn't want to have that on my
conscience and that's why I went to Tennessee. Ultimately,
because I knew I was gonna have to play and they understood
where I was at and they were going to let me kind of work
behind the scenes and get back to,
you know, as close as I could.
Do it healthy, you mentioned time, we are quickly running
out of time and the question that will dress when we return
is, whether it's time to be seriously concerned about
Matthew, Stafford's, elbow will discuss that next on this
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