they really are interested in a quarterback or not? What kind
of a smokescreen are they running? If you really are
interested in a quarterback, you don't talk about it. That
brings me to Lovie Smith,
the coach of the team that owns pick number 3
and number 13, He talked yesterday about the possibility
of the Texans. Drafting a quarterback. Who would
ostensibly supplant Davis Mills. Here's Lovie Smith.
You know, as a general rule, I guess you can have for
some teams have four.
I think once you get you have three quarterbacks on your
roster, you should feel pretty good about that. And we do
we keep all options open, but we feel good about our
quarterback room right now.
Leading off with Davis Mills. I've talked about him and my
feeling
are feeling about
who our leader would be.
You know what? I hate to say this.
When I listen to that and the way he explains it,
if we have three,
you know, that's good enough. It's
it matters. Who they are. Not. How many you have anybody can
have three quarterbacks? Hey, we've got three. Do you want
another one? No, we got three. We don't need for we're fine
with three. Well, who are they doesn't matter? We have three.
We don't need for.
We're fine with three.
I kind of I kind of
I kind of put them in the
it won't surprise me. If they snag somebody at 13, who plays
quarterback, that this is the way to do it. This is the way
to conceal, your intention. So somebody doesn't jump in front
of you at number 12,
the way the Bears did last year when they went from 20 to 12 to
get
Justin fields
that you don't want that to happen. So you act like you're
not interested. I just that clip. That's the first time
I saw that whole clip start to finish. My response is
I mean, maybe they're thinking about a quarterback and they
told Lovie Smith. Don't talk about is possibly drafting
a quarterback. Sell the idea that we're not doing it.
I don't put anything past these guys. I don't I don't know.
I don't think that's going to happen at 3:00. I expect that
it's not three. Yeah, I got your 13 as you're sitting in
The Sweet Spot. Really?
I think it a lot of waves especially if
you know again six and eight there's no quarterback there
13s and to be spot where teams that maybe do like one of those
guys might start to get antsy and go if your pits.
Are you make sure to go?
Wait is New Orleans. Going to take a
quarterback with one of those two picks? Maybe we need to get
up there. They are sitting in that spot.
I like I look at Davis Mills. I personally am not sold. I will
say that. I just look at it and go. Hey, there's things. I like
he really is. Well School knows how to play the position.
I'm not sure I'm sold on the talent enough to say. Oh, he's a
starting NFL quarterback for years to come. I'd like to see
a little bit more. You know, like I said, I know, he knows,
Knows how to play the position. He's got a good-sized. You
pretty good athlete. His arm is good. It's not great. It's just
barely above NFL, average arm strength, but he still can make
all the throws and
he passes the ball. Nice, like, you see here. It's smooth. It's
never wowing.
I just get the sense from people. I talked to down there
in the offseason that they really like this kid. Like
I got the sense that they feel like they might have stumbled
onto like,
you know, their version of Tom Brady.
To a degree. That's just my gut Feel Again, Mike. I'm doing
a lot of, you know, steak and potatoes here today to
challenge your pasta and meatballs, but
that's just the sense I got. And I think they're another
team. I look at to go. I don't think they will. They might
want to flirt with this or put it out there. But I think
they're going to stand strong with Davis Mills.
But again, this gets back to what we started this segment with
if these things are mandatory and you have to show up and
speak and again if they're not mandatory, why are you doing
it? Because it's an outdated mindset. Well, we got it. Gotta
promote the legs. Old-school Lidia. The League's, don't find
right? The ladies. Don't find the link that the reporters do
not need access
to the coach and or the GM in the days before the draft to
have things to write and talk about. Especially if there's
a good chance that they're being fed a heaping helping of BS.
But but I look at it this way, if what you're saying is 100%
accurate and it very well
may be a very well. Maybe I'm not doubting it. My point is this,
it's your incentive
if you love Davis Mills and you want to build around Davis
Mills to create some Of Doubt. Yeah. Yeah
that will get someone to jump you and take a quarterback. If
you don't want one. If we're going to force these guys to
speak and we know that it's a very competitive environment
where everything you say can and will be used against you.
And you are thinking
about a quarterback, you're going to say exactly what you
said yesterday. Why we want to quarterback. We have three.
I mean think about how ridiculous that is on the surface,
the money and I don't know if I would have picked it up from
reading the transcript. You need to see the delivery to
say, wait a minute. What it doesn't matter how many you
have is. No, we have Three. Do you want to quarterback? Now?
We've got three.
So I just
I'm and and look, Nick caesarea and Company they fall into that
Belichick Ultra secrecy mindset. And
if they really loved one of these guys are not going to
tell us, it's just going to play out this way. I just,
I have flagged the Texans. Now, as
possibly thinking about one of these guys. I could see. Kenny
pick it going to the Texans at 13 and I could see the Texans.
Concerned
that if they say anything to
suggest to anyone that they're interested in quarterback,
the Steelers, jump up the number 12 or higher. Sure to make sure
they get the guy they want. That's a very real Dynamic to
this process that we need to be sensitive. To,
I know 100%. I don't disagree with it all at all. I just it's
a weird year and
just between, you know, my own assessments and
just things I've heard from people leading up to the draft
and all that. I just don't Don't get the sense that will
see. One of these guys go in the top 13. I don't know.
I could
be wrong and maybe people get nervous here. But I think
that's one of the awesome things of the draft certainly
is the fact of just exactly how this quarterback thing is going
to play out. Yeah, we got,
we might, I think it's very realistic to think that like,
maybe only one guy that touches the ball goes in the top ten.
That's probably going to be Jameson. Williamson Jameson
Williams. I mean, does anybody else jump up in there with her?
I don't know,
but the quarterback.
Certainly hard to figure out,
it's hard to pin teams to it.
And I think there's a lot of teams in football that are
a little like,
I don't know where they're going to fall. I'd I'm not sure
what team is really going to make the move and that's where
I find it really intriguing because that's unusual. Like
you said to start the show.
Usually, we know
the teams that are going to be
Pirates or quarterbacks. Well, it's just we don't know which
quarterback, they like, but they're gonna do it and Bala
this year. It's weird. It's just like, oh, we're not sure
if they're Pliers, are not Odd, they might stand Pat. They
might make
a move. They might wait a little bit in the second round,
and that's different for what we've seen in past drafts. It's
going to make the second night,
not as fascinating as the first night, but
more fascinating than usual,
because once the dust settles on, who goes in the first 32,
then the table gets set for even more uncertainty in
the next 30 to that unfold on Friday.