aren't necessarily locked into a quarterback with the sixth
overall pick. I mean, that's smart because
you don't want, whoever is drafting after you to know
you're locked into a quarterback. And then they
better jump ahead of you to get the quarterback that you may be
trying to get. He says they've evaluating everything
that they have by way of quarterbacks and trades and
free agents etcetera. We always talked about this. They've
they've been kissing frogs and I think they're done with
kissing frogs. You can't. Hey, let's get Teddy Bridgewater.
Maybe he'll
become a franchise quarterback. Oh, no, he didn't let Sam
Darnell. Maybe he'll become a franchise quarterback. Oh, no,
he did. Let's get Cam Newton. He used to be a franchise
quarterback, maybe become one again. I'll know he didn't mean
what we are. Jimmy Garoppolo meant no.
We already know like at some point,
the guy is who he is.
You're not going to make him into someone who he isn't.
And I don't know why David Tepper thought that if we just
do something differently,
a guy who hit a ceiling elsewhere
is going to bust through it here,
but I think they've understood now,
that's not the way that we're going to find the quarterback
that we For the next ten years. No, I mean, no, and listen.
I'll be the first to tell you. I was one of those that thought
Sam Donald would work. So, I mean,
you know, again, we
David Tepper, we look at it. But as a guy, I looked at
the same darn tough situation and when
well, the Jets they've been so bad. The guy does got some
talent. I think maybe that could work. I really thought
that that had some, you know, potential obviously. It did not
work
and now. Yeah, you're in danger. You can't do the Jimmy
Garoppolo thing, I think because of what you just talked
about gotta stop. Doing the, you know, retreads or wait,
this team didn't want them, but we'll take him to make him
better. That doesn't make sense.
Pick number six. They're gonna be sitting there pretty,
you know, with looks like just being able to take whatever
quarterback they want. But will they do it? And that's the big
thing to my kind of the Panthers to me, or one of
the Intriguing teams. Yes.
There's a quarterback need.
But yes, no, it's not a class that blows everybody out of
the water.
And yes, this might be Matt rules last year like we talked
about last week and Do you want to let him do the evaluation
and pick the quarterback? If you're not sure he's going to
be here after next year.
So there's a there's a few things at play here with
Carolina when you talk about quarterback and I'll be
interested to kind of see where this all goes is as far as
that's concerned. Yeah, ask Matt Nagy
if we're talking about math. Yeah, that's right. Maggie, how
it goes,
you draft that quarterback. And look, it was a mess for
the Bears last year. They gave up this year's first round pick,
they bring in Justin fields and I saw somebody from the Chicago
beat suggesting that if Fields, you know,
It really do. Well this year. He may not be the long-term
answer that.
That's why you don't let a GM and a head coach who have any
chance of entering the last year of their tenure
trade up and get a quarterback.
Because if the next regime comes in and says it went
really like this guy, you're setting your team back. Yeah,
your waist throw sticks. Yeah,
Darren Gant tweets that Matt rules says the NFL has
a tendency to rush rookie. Our backs. But it's important to
think long-term about the development that. Yes. Yes. And
yes, quarterbacks do get rushed. Yes.
First round quarterbacks. Do you better be ready to put that
guy on the field? Unless you got a pretty good quarterback?
Who can play until the guys ready. The NFL is a one year at
a time proposition. Now every season is unique and there's
pressure on every team to be competitive every year
and the way things have gone in recent years, more rookies are
ready to play than not. So if you're going to use a top ten
pick on a quarterback,
you better think he's ready to play. Play
and I know that there are exceptions. Right? Pat Mahomes
was one of them but for the most part, I look at it this
way,
you're talking about top 10 pick,
if you're not going to use it on a quarterback who's ready to
play? Use it on someone else. Who's ready to play?
Get the most out of that rookie contract.
Get the Difference Maker. Who's going to be on the field week
one. Helping you win football games.
If you want to project, don't make it a top ten pick. That's
I that's the that I hear you. I don't listen to learn dividing.
Yeah. No, I think I been here to that a little bit.
I would, I know what you're saying. No. Yes, we do tend to
rush it but like you said
but right now quarterback sure is ready as ever to come into
the NFL to play and we've discussed this a lot and I'll
between growing up seven on seven. High schools are
throwing more all these camps. Everybody's got a quarterback
coach.
The kids are ready to throw and play in the NFL. It's not
pretty. I'm still one that I'll sit here and tell you I'm
always I'm a Believer in get them out there right away.
Let them take Take their lumps. Let them get used to the game.
Now, with so also when you're sitting with Carolina to is,
you know, we're in a,
we're in a quarterback draft class where, yes, I think Matt
Correll is the best one. I think he can play in any system
because of his skill set or whatever. But
there's still some. Hey, you'd like to see him play more and
get a little bit better in these areas. And to be a little
bit of like, I could see it being a little bit of a bumpy
road for a guy who Justin of the NFL
and getting used to what it takes. Their,
you know, is that the guy Carolina wants to go down with
here. Matt, Rule and Company the might be their last year.
That's where I look at it for them to your point, Mike where
I like, I look at Corral and Willis. Who have?
I think a much higher ceiling than Kenny, pick it.
But pickets the guy
that's ready, but he doesn't have the oh wow skill set
and that's where it's another little wrinkle or interesting
thing about this. Where yeah, you could take him at 6:00 and
go, okay. He's ready. He's ready to play. But I think
there's a very real possibility that two or three years down
the road from now we're going
Hey, yeah, Kenny pig is ready to play and he was the most
School than enough already, but these two might be these two
are superstars are about to break out and be Superstars.
And that's I think got to play into this Dynamic here. A
little bit to for Carolina are these teams looking at
quarterback in the top 10?
Meanwhile, Matt rule also said that he believes Sam. Darn old
will take a huge step this year and that new offensive
coordinator. Been McAdoo. Will be a big part of it. I
they're going to they're going to kiss the Frog again. Yeah,
that sucks.
Rocco, see. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Go ahead. Sorry.
I didn't mean to cut you off, but I was having the same
thought. It's like another guy where it's like, well, we're
not sure.
It didn't work out the first time, but,
you know, we're just hopeful, it'll be better this time.
I don't know. Now, now there is a chance that that's all bull.
Crap, is Pete points out. Matt rule told us to our faces two
years, right? I
can't wait to coach Cam Newton while they were actively trying
to trade. And, you know, he did get a chance to coach Cam
Newton. It just was a year and a half later and not. Not
the way that he meant it when he said. It's so
that may just be puffery. See,
this is the problem. And
I understand that
with so many media obligations and so many different reporters
and the teams having their own media Outlets.
There's a compulsion for coaches to speak but you really
do have to be careful what you say. And when you start talking
to openly about what your plans are in the draft, you really
are, risking getting jumped by someone
mean that. That is part of the cloak. Dagger of the draft. You
don't want anyone to know what you're going to do. And at
the end of the day, you want
to be able to say the guy. You got was the guy you wanted all
along? Yeah. I'm surprised that that more teams. Don't keep
the cards close to the vest. Find a way to say something
that ultimately says, nothing Nick. Saban is the master of
this. Go back and read his transcripts. He always seems
like he's saying something because of the way he says it.
Yeah, when you go, look at what he actually said, I got
something.
Vision saying it.
He didn't say anything. Yeah, I just said something he. Well.
He didn't say anything. Did you said? Yep, you said something
for sure. And there's no, you're right.
He gives you away
like a great comment. That kind of encompasses it all but
doesn't really dive into the specifics of like his situation
or answering it. He gives you like a boy,
you know, a banner statement. And he goes, oh, that was
a cool way to say it. And now I've never heard someone
package of that way, but you're ready. Never really gives you
any details behind it. There's something to be said about.
That this mat rule been McAdoo, Sam, Donaldson situation
again to be very interesting. I know, you know, we all look at
it and go. Oh wait, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo a maybe that
go, maybe they get desperate and go there. But
again, you know, you listen to people around the NFL last
year. I think the 49ers had interest in Sam Darnell.
I mean, I think there's a lot of people that will look at and
go.
No, Sam Darnell's got
more physical ability than Jimmy Garoppolo. I mean,
everything about them. So maybe that's where they just go. Hey,
maybe it was a bad situation for Sam Donna. Listen, they
couldn't run the ball that. Well.
They didn't have a great old line last year.
And Joe, Brady was not ready for the NFL yet. That, that
that's the other thing, too. Just least offense. Am darn
a little bit. You heard me say, I think by about week five last
year week six. I started going
man. It's I see this. This is the I've seen this place seven
times and we're in the second quarter. I've seen this
formation in this run,
you know, every week,
you know, it became a little too proud. Dick table that way
to where it didn't give Sam Garner much of a fighting
chance either. So maybe Ben McAdoo can help that situation
out.