as a decision maker. Is that CJ, Stroud, once again,
It's tells top to again. Yeah.
I'll give I'll give Bryce young the edge here. Okay, I will.
I mean Bridge does some things though that are a little like
Joe burrow, we're like holy s***. He saw that fast.
Whoa, I didn't even see that I'm watching film, he got it up
and got into a whole like right away. Like I don't even think
the receiver was expecting that, you know,
his ability to go through reads and get to the right spot.
Quickly is really special, CJ. Stroud is very good in that
department too. And we're CJ, Stroud, furthers. It is
a little different. Is that,
you know, it's like one aggressive throw to another
aggressive. Throw decision.
Bryce isn't always like that, bro. This might be a hair more
conservative where he goes. Wait aggressive, throws that
open.
Let me just look to something here and just get five yards.
So we can be in second and six second and 5 and move on that
way too. But yeah, his,
you know, his smarts are certainly one of the greatest
qualities he's has and it jumps out when you watch their
offense and watch him, make decisions on a
play-by-play basis, all right? So who is the dumbest quarterback
who doesn't work through their progressions and read
Maybe as quickly as it's the to, you would think,
you know, Stroud young hooker and DTR are all really good in
that department. Okay,
Richardson. Hey, he we have moments in games, like I talked
about where you go, damn, he's on the money and seeing
the field great, but then there's other games or you go,
I'm not sure what he's looking at or what he's doing here,
and there's a little bit of that with Levis to,
so, I would say in that department really
probably Richardson still the least in that department.
But it's not by a ton.
It's not and it's not to like a point where
I'm going. Oh man,
this guy, he can't do it. He can't play quarterback. So
that's again. I want to make sure we emphasize that to your
point. This is the best of the best were talking about here
right in his progression as a quarterback, he might be ahead
of the curve, right? It's like his like, he's early stages
right? He's
early stages. He's just getting used to things. See, that's
the beauty of him. And that's where a lot of this is going to come
down with him, is just about the human, because everybody's
ass.
This the ability
it's just going to be like
you know, anything I've heard is the kids, a good kid, he
loves football, you know, now can that be portrayed to
the rest of the league in the coaches and everybody
to where they go? Yeah there's raw but damn, he's smart. We
taught him something, he gets it, he knew it right away. You
know, I taught him something about throwing and he picked it
up right away, just like Josh, McDaniels taught me about
the screen, right? As
long as you got that kind of guy,
then you're willing to deal with some of the rawness. And
I think that's the kind of Guy. He is but yeah he's probably
he's the least in that department right now you go
he's a good kid and then he walks up. He's 64 244 near like
you go
man.
Yeah grown man at this point. All right a couple more
categories here and this is good because we're kind of
nailing down exactly what you saw. Was some of these guys
I don't think we
necessarily went into it. This deeply on some of the skills.
Yeah it's right on Monday.
How about throwing on the Run? Yeah, this is Bryce. Young
actors. Also, this is like accuracy on the run, right?
With this question in. This is Bryce. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah this is
Bryce yunga. You know. That's where
he like we talked about his special
he is
and
you know
honestly
second in. That department is CJ. Stroud. Yeah.
Stroud is that is sexy and doesn't have quite
the different releases and all that. But man, Stroud on
the run is like, it's automatic.
You know, so I love that, right?
But young as automatic to and then young has,
you know, no look sidearm, I'm looking over here at the last
second, I came across the middle to get them on the run.
You know does have the different ways. He could throw
the ball when he is running
and he's even really good to his unnatural side. Running to
the left and throwing the ball that way. CJ strad, very good
in that department
you know,
hooker
Richardson and In Levis,
have a
Richardson, has some wow, throws on the Run. They have
a times. They try to beat two quarterback e and get over
the top of the ball
and that can lean like when you're on the run you can't
think I'm going to get over the top of the ball you're running
and if you want to be able to create a you got to use
the around
to create that torque to throw the ball down the field
and that's where, you know, Stroud
young and DTR
I think are better than the other three in that department
for sure. Yeah. Yeah, you can split it right in half. Yeah,
pretty. Pretty much. And I'm gonna give ya young the lead
there and Stroud second and DTR third.
How about kind of related to this? Yeah, playmaking Off
Script, right? So when the play breaks down and you got to make
something up and what your coach wanted to happen doesn't
happen.
Who do you want taking the snap?
this is, this is one where
This is like I think I'm into the Richardson. DTR Bryce young
conversation here, right?
Stroud. This is not like this is the thing we want to see
more of right. I think there's there's untapped potential
here.
We've gotten to see that he can do this
and he does it a little bit more
than people realize but not a ton.
Young wins this.
Hmm, young wins this. I mean
now again some of this is a little bit of our conversation
of like I don't know if he's gonna have these luxuries if
he's not at Alabama, right? And that's how you get to decipher
because there's tiny drops back. There's nobody around
them.
Nobody's open. Okay, he runs to the left.
Still nobody around him,
but nobody's open.
Oh, wait. Now somebody breaks through, he makes the guy Miss.
Now, he runs to the right, he sets up there, still blocking
the damn pass rushers. Nobody's open.
Also Somebody got free, how he makes the guy Miss and do this.
Is there some of that? Or it's like damn is that I don't know
if he's gonna have quite that much space and room in the NF
l-- against some of these Defenders.
I do think it's the Alabama Factor
but that's where he is special.
His patients especially for a smaller guy
to let things develop or
wait I'm not going to run here and I'm going to set up again.
Okay wait nothing's open. Okay I'll make this guy miss.
All right I'm going to set up again and make a throw.
It's pretty special for a college football player. You
don't see that very often or that kind of like again I get
into the natural,
he's like he's wise
for somebody his age.
It's a more mature way to play the game or
usually you know quarterbacks don't get that part until a few
years even into the NFL where they start to go.
Wait scramble set up scramble again, set up, right? I mean
Josh Island in my homes and even do that stuff really in
college a ton. So
that's where yeah, he's damn good in that department, right?
So who would you like to see more of that from her who
isn't able to improvise? Sighs. Yeah. Well you know like Stroud
as we said has an untapped potential there. He does. Levis
is the other one that I would say.
Yeah you don't see
a ton of that you don't. He's got I think he's capable.
He is, but his
throwing on the Run isn't always the best and
like I said is
his feel at time as off to me just as overall feel for,
how do I need to throw this ball? Where do I need to step
in? Pocket. When should I scramble and by time and do
that, you know,
one should I tuck the ball away. So it doesn't get
stripped here. Why? I'm in the middle of people, it's stuff
like that. That kind of just throws me a little off with
Levis last category, running ability. Well,
yeah you can yeah. I'll take the guy who's 244 pounds in
runs. What 4.44? Yeah. I'll take 444 I believe at 2:44.
Yes.
And like we just talked a He hasn't even reached his
potential in this department because he can do more
scrambling and backyard stuff. But
I mean, whether it's the scrambling or just
the quarterback design run stuff. I mean, come on that's why
your for a guy like him and you're willing to,
you know, draft them in the top half of the first round, was
some of the questions that we are talking about that in most
years. Have you talking about a player were like oh it doesn't
always read the field grade and oh, he can be a little
inaccurate.
I mean that never is 8.
15 pick, right? But when you couple it together with whoa,
that's eyes that ability to run.
Oh, and he's a good kid and he likes to work.
Okay, fine. We can deal with some of those issues we can fix
them, but his running is, yeah, it's off the charts. It's off
the chart, it's not even they don't even
take full advantage of it at Florida.
And I don't know why they might have been. Maybe they were
being nice and not trying to wear him out or have them take
on, you know, unnecessary punishment
as a college football.
Barb wire. But there was certainly a lot of games where
I was like, surely they're going to pull the guard and run
Richardson. Yeah.
Up the middle here, right?
Whoa, they're not. They're going to throw it. Whoa,
they're throwing a screen. So yeah, I think he's in the NFL.
I actually think he's gonna end up being a better Runner than
he was in college. So, you think right now in the NFL,
Justin Fields, do you think he's the most dynamic running
quarterback? Yes, good Anthony Richardson. Be
more Dynamic than Justin Fields. Even,
I don't know if he's gonna be a
is highlight,
like, The Yards down the sideline.
I think it's a little mixture of that. We'll see a few of
those but you know we're going to see some of that Cam Newton
to we're going to be like oh my gosh, he made a nice move in
the hole and then lowered his shoulder and that safety and
got 12 yards,
he ran over a safety
at the 6 yard Mark and got six more yards.
That's where, you know, that's where I think he's going to be
different than anybody we've ever seen. Or it's going to be
a combination of like fields and Cam Newton together. Yeah.
And that's where that could be very exciting.
Cited. It'll be fascinating to because you want to do what
the quarterback does best, right? But at the same time, we saw
with Trey, Lance last year, he was hurt for. I came basically
of the season, so it's like, you have to balance it in the
NFL. He is so gifted and your point is right? Yeah,
he's so gifted and so big
that. I feel like he never has to, like, put himself out there,
but a little too,
like, he has plays where he's like, he tiptoed like, oh,
there's three people about to converge on him and he kind of
tiptoes because he's not going to let them hit his knees. All
of that
and he kind of just bottles himself up
and he kind of takes the hits and rolls off them and you're
like damn you got seven more yards. There was three people
that just him there but he kind of protects himself
that way and does never really ever put himself in a position
or positions where I went.
Whoo, you know, he's vulnerable there, he needs to watch out
there, you know, so that's where
I think he understands how to protect himself and because
he's so physically gifted he doesn't need to be like I got
her. Run through the whole 1,000 miles per hour and and
lower my shoulder and go crazy that way. He's just always
under control that way. Well, you mentioned this with your
dad one time too. And I think it's
a really interesting point is that
people think that the running quarterbacks are more apt to
get injured because they're just taking more hits, but you
mentioned with him and he agreed that, if, when you're
a running back, you can kind of dictate how you take the hit.
And if you slide, if you go out
of bounds and tight could put a shoulder down where sometimes
when you're in the pocket, you can't
dictate that. You're just at the mercy of where the defender
is, all right?
100%. I think we took a look at Justin Fields worse hits last
year. Very few of them are when he's quarterback design, Runner
running the football. It's always like
eyes in the pocket. He's avoiding a guy. No.
Oh man, everything is collapsing to avoid this guy that us
all. I spun out to avoid this guy got crushed by a guy.
I didn't see right? Yeah, it was always those type of plays were
you worried about it
and that's where you just want to go. Hey the plays over, just
go down, take the sack, right? And that's where you hope he
got a little feel for it and I think he does. Does. But yeah
he's
he's a more natural thrower than Justin feels like his
motion to me
is more conducive to we can fix some of the issues
than Justin Fields was. I mean you know me I was a I was
a little low on just the fields and that department. Yeah and
I think hey we're seeing why I mean it's
people are still questioning those things.
You know, his fix was harder to me than what Anthony
Richardson's fixes as
Ours, the mechanics are
Richardson just has to learn to use his body a little bit.
Yeah, the motion is really Flawless and yeah, with Fields
over there was more to it than that.
Can I ask you this too? And this is a little bit. Oh, yeah.
And you're not because we're just talking about Justin
Fields right there and then Chicago Bears headed down right
from the number one. They had their pick. Yeah, they had
their pick of right quarterbacks and this draft
class right?
From what you've seen from the quarterbacks after looking into
them. Should they have stayed number one and taken
a quarterback?
No, I wouldn't have traded away. What? You got with Justin
fields for for any of that, you know, one, you know, I think CJ
strives the guy and okay, if you just were like fine, we
don't want to run this quarterback, run design thing
and
we're sold that he can't develop any more in the passing game,
then. Yeah, you go CJ, Stroud,
definitely.
But you know, I don't you can't be sold that he's
not going in the right direction as far as throwing
the football. And then, you know, I just don't think
like we talked about at the time you just don't trade away
that skillset. He's got. Now
they could do something special with that. So no, I'm all for
it. Pick number 9, there should be a marquee defensive player,
there's some sort of Marquee player there. Yeah.
s***. And even if they just go away, that's not, there's not
a marquee guy there to position we need. I wouldn't be shocked
if he saw the bearish trade down again. It's obviously on
Ryan poles, radar. He talked about wanting to do to trade
Downs, even in this whole process,
you know, but he didn't, he
was smart. He didn't want to mess with it,
but who's to say,
who's to say, it picked number. Nine,
Anthony Richardson, still available
Hendon hooker, whatever, and team X. And number 20
starts to go. Damn, he's there, we like him.
Let's go do it. And now they're picking and get another
first-round pick for next year, right? So he's got a lot of
possibilities here. I like what he did? I do? Yeah, it really
would be. Would you trade
CJ's shroud for Justin fields for another
first-round? Pick for DJ more? And as I piles up in
the assets, that the Bears, got It's like a no-brainer exact
date, of course, and take all those extra assets. That's
right.
Who doesn't run and in this draft class and maybe who you
don't want to run,
like, what does just
like, as far as a runner, like, running ability that like
that's just not part of their game and maybe they all got it.
Here's the here's the interesting thing.
This is where this is a fun class and again this is where
I get to do. The number one guy has the least questions for me,
but I think if we put all six of these guys in a race,
a 50-yard raised 40-yard race. Whatever. Yeah, that Bryce
Young's coming in last
Right? I don't know how great of a runner he's going to be.
Yeah, he's got wow, releases but not a. Wow, warm, he's
a wow, Scrambler
but not a, wow, Runner to me.
So that's just an interesting aspect there and then Levis as
we talked about, it's not a big part of his game. I do think he
can do it, you know, he's shown him. He's athletic enough
certainly can run and he can take shots and lower his
shoulder,
you get to see some of that stuff. But
yeah, I mean, you know, the, the
The best Runners of the group there's Richardson and DTR
those. Those are the two guys that you just go.
They can be really dangerous. If they break the pocket
young, I think can be to a degree. And as we saw with CJ,
Stroud, I think there's potential
to really grow in this department. He,
again, it's almost like Joe burrow and that says to,
it's a lot slipper more slippery. And the Moomin,
the pocket is really damn good.
And we didn't see Joe start to run here until like you're two
of his NFL career, right. And I think that could be one of
those things with CJ stride once he starts to realize okay
wait I got all the other quarterback stuff down. Now
the next element is
when to take off let me start using my legs as a threat and
I think he's going to get to that point. So that was the one
category where you have Bryce young down lower but you had
him first in a number of these categories. Obviously you like
CJ Stroud who's near the top and a lot of these categories.
Let me just ask you this before we move on to the homies
questions. If Bryce young were 63 215, like CJ, Stroud yeah,
do you think he'd be your number one quarterback?
I'd be closer, but I still think it would come down to
some of those throws were talking about,
you know? Yeah, of course,
the size scares me
definitely. Hmm. I mean
but
you know,
with the arm get better with that size 2 and I don't know,
you know that, that's what, that's where you do. I get
bothered by. Like I said, Those type of throws throws that
I look at to go know these are consistently
things that happen in the NFL and that you got to be able to do.
And that's again where I thought CJ, shroud
had a clear advantage over him.
You know, whether it is the power throws, the big throws
down the field into tight coverage is Tight Windows and
then of course, when you couple that with the people around
them and the people to do that is very
limited great throws in that department and Bryce Young's
tape. And that and then CJ, Stroud I go. There's a lot of
plays were things are closing in on them.
He's not fazed by it and he makes a big time throw.
Okay. So you know. Yeah, it'd make me feel better
and maybe he'd be up in Tier 1. Well, shroud, maybe that's
the better way to say it instead of the tear, you know, being
separate that