Here's the first quote.
And I know this one because I wrote the story at PFT the most
ridiculous thing I've heard is that I'm not the best player in
this draft. Who do you think that is? I think that's cave on
edge. Rusher cave on Thibodeaux Thibodeau, right? I believe.
I feel
like I've saw that as well. Okay, good. Good. Yep. He's
been pretty,
you know, adamant about being the best player in the draft.
Certainly hasn't been shy about throwing that out there.
We were talking yesterday about that. The Seahawks trading down
from 9if. He's still on the board and get more pics because
he's a very fascinating
Prospect to me, because
he has the high-end Talent. There is the criticism that,
you know, he takes some plays off and he doesn't bring it all
the time and there have been some cautionary tales in
the past about guys who don't have the constant constant constant
that you need,
you know, at the NFL level to be successful, but I think
the guys potential are all potentially great. We'll find
out. Yeah, we'll say yesterday to. Yeah, half of them are
going to be great. Half of them are not
Be great. There's only one way to find out. Let's see if they
can go be great in the NFL. All right, next one.
Do you know how to handle all the things that it takes to be
a quarterback? I definitely do. So, I think I am qb1. I wrote
this story too. So I know the and well, this isn't fair, but
then I'll go, I'm gonna get, I don't know
this one, but I'm gonna say
it's a Malik Willis.
Nope, womp-womp-womp. Dammit Kenny pick. It was getting
prospected quarterback huger than
that. So yeah. Well, yeah, listen.
That's that, that is what he does. Like, like we've talked
about. He's the most ready to go right now and he has
the highest floor
as well. But he's got the lowest ceiling in my opinion,
to out of the big-time quarterbacks in the draft are
so he can be ready to go and help A team out
right away and you're one and you can go. All right, we can
run our offense to a degree here with this rookie
quarterback because he's done in a little bit.
You made a great point yesterday, though. If Carolina
takes him. Yeah, they're gonna be in for a rude awakening. The
on day one. Yes, I What you wrote? How you? Yeah, I saw
that you kind of wrote about it in one of the Articles to and
you said it the right way. I think you even said it better
than I did. It's just it can cause problems in the locker
room until you play a game and then maybe, when he plays and
because go all, man, he's got it. But if you guy like him
goes down to Carolina that like I said, yeah, there's gonna
guys in
the locker room and go damn, same doll's arm stronger. And he's,
he's got quicker feet and a quicker release, and
damn. We took Kenny Pickett and you're going to have that combo
until people actually get to see pick a go on the field and
then go. Oh, well, he's just a naturally knows how to play
the game. But until then yeah, you're dealing with. You could
have a little controversy in your building a little bit
because the talent just doesn't smack everybody in
the face, right? We here GM's all the time, go like one of
the most nervous days of the year for them. Is that first
practice after the draft because they want to make sure
the first rounder looks better than the fifth rounder for
sure. Or are
you start to go? Oh, no, did I miss some things up? And that
goes that type of thing as well. Right. Where they want to
make sure? That guy we just draft. The tie is clearly
the guy
and it's as simple as couple of guys get in the locker room and
they're talking and one says, hey, what do you think a new
quarterback and then goes.
Yeah. Oh Donald sondheim's out there today, you know, right,
exactly, right? Alright, next quote. Somebody's always going
to think you're trash. I want to be happy. So I'm not going
to think about it, words
to live by. That's a good one,
that, that I think is where I'll go back to Malik Willis
one more time here. I agree on that one. All right, goodness,
I agree. All right. Good. That that was, you know, yeah.
People are Curtis critical of him certainly because he played
at Liberty. Yeah. Somebody yesterday
when we were talking about the he's a winner, right thing? And
how so much gets put on that, somebody emailed. Hey Malik
Willis loss to West Point and they only scored like 16 points
that day. So if you can't, if you can't beat Army, then you
know, you don't belong in the NFL basically, but again, it's
11 guys on the field at any given time and you have
a defense and you have a coaching. There are a lot of
variables. One guy is not going to change the outcome of a game
know if they're not and, you
know, teams like Army can be tricky because they play
a style of football that a lot of teams in college football.
Don't play again. So it also in there going. Oh no, the option
and all this stuff and you know the wishbone and I don't know
how the hell did defend it so that can be,
you know again, yes. It's an army was pretty good this year.
People got to stop looking at one win matchups matter, how
the gay, how one team plays, all of that Willis is raw. He
is raw. He doesn't get to see all the prototypical
quarterback things on a consistent basis. But when you
do get to see,
is a guy that has got a live arm, a big-time arm and a,
an act to move in the pocket and make some big throws that
way too. And that's what excites me about him.
Last one, from a corner back.
There's nothing that's changed over the past couple of years
to teams know, just by looking at the film that there is not
a difference who said that. Well, I'm gonna go with the guy that
ripped worked out yesterday. Derek's
Stingley. You're from LSU.
I feel like I saw them thing, right? Yeah, right, which
I want to throw a challenge flag because the film is not
the same as it was two years ago, his freshman year
because the sophomore year and then the junior year
it was underwhelming
and I don't look at his work out yesterday to be. Oh man,
that that close the door. He's for real. No, I don't the times
we get right. Mike for 43, 44 45.
That's that's four. Five at the NFL combine. A laser. This is
hand time. Human errors. Real
at a tenth so that I don't sit there and look at that and go.
Oh, wow. Damn. He blew me out of the water. He is a top ten
pick. I was wrong.
Yeah, and
looked at
his pro day was anywhere from 4 3, 3 to 4, 4, 5 and okay,
that's a problem. You got different surfaces. You've got
different timing, you've got
and we're talking about Flash exacts, not. I mean, it's
a tenth of a Second, it's hardly any time at all. But you know,
it's, it can be a huge difference when it comes to
how a guy is regarded. And if it's a 4-3-3. Yes, that's
pretty good for 450k. That's still fast, but not quite as
fast. And there are plenty of imperfections
in that question of how,
how quickly a guy covers
40 yards in a straight line without
pads on. And no football game being played, but four corners,
it makes sense because
Cuz what kind of recovery speed do you have? Exactly guy runs
by you? How quickly can you get back in position to do
something about it? Yes, exactly. And, you know, I hear,
we're sending out some
tweets of, you know, the official time from the workout
came out as for 43, 44 45. You see Jim Nagy here from
the Senior Bowl. He's trying to send what I said, you know, the
differences are a little. It's there's a difference between
an electric laser finish
as compared to like you're talking about a split second. A
guy trying to look at you know. With his hand and,
you know, his eyes at all that and see it all together and do
it. That way. There is a difference there,
but you said it right? That's, that's right, you know, you're
playing corner and you're covering guys that run for five
and four, four and high, four, threes, and like you said
yesterday, they know where they're going.
You better be faster
and you have to be, and it's a basic one for me, a corner
because the greatest ones in the history of the sport for
the most part and when you go to the,
you know, Darryl Greene, Deion Sanders.
Sanders Darrelle Revis champ, Bailey's of the world and
getting that conversation there for three guys. They're all for
three guys. If not for two guys,
and there's a difference between that and the mid four
fours and a 45 a corner.
They always say, in any election. The most important
guy is the one who counts the votes. I mean, in something
like this, the most important guy is the one with
the stopwatch and there's an art to that too. There is, when are
you hitting that button? Are you anticipating based upon how
he's getting down the line?
All right, here it comes. And I'm going to,
I'm going to time it so I'm hitting it just as
Passes the Finish Line.
Are you waiting to see him past the Finish Line? When I had
there is yes built in a tenth of a second easily right there.
That's, there's discrepancies there. Exactly, right, you
know, so they and and if you talk to Scouts a lot of them
have their own bill, different formulas far as what they look
for what they do.
So it's not consistent. It's a good Baseline for the Scout to
have in their book and they write that, but they all feel
much more comfortable about the guy that run a random to come
by, because they know it's scientific, and it's gotten
really scientific at
the Bye. To where? Yes, we have the laser finished. We got that
but they're going back and watching the tape
and then making sure the clock was started at the right time
as well. So it's theirs. It's foolproof,
you know, with this.
It's not we're just going to buy the guy that we think has
the most consistent thumb on the stopwatch. That's all we're
going by.