tweeted out today on Monday that the Bears are likely to
deal the top pick in the draft, which
Is really a totally unsurprising know what it means
is that clearly they were going to keep just in fields. I don't
know anybody other than talk show hosts,
who basically wanted Justin Fields traded by the Bears. You
know, Justin Fields
has been a
C+ to be quarterback. Rookie quarterback in his first and
second year hasn't been great.
8, but he hasn't been sacked Wilson, either. And I think
that it's ridiculous
to trade up
to take Justin Fields. He has one and a half
Goodyear's overall with a bad Supporting Cast,
and then he talked about trading him.
I think it's a much better idea
to hold on to him
and to trade down. Your thoughts
II would agree with you look. I mean, this is the
To cool third season, right? Because after that, then
the Bears have to decide whether or not they're going to
pick up his fifth year option. But I've, I think that you've
seen enough with Justin feel so understand that the tools are
there. Right. It's not like, we're talking about
a quarterback who we think can't throw. He can't hit it pass or
he can't do anything
with his legs, right? And that makes him
really effective as a QB, we've seen Justin Fields do some
incredible things. Now, the Bears haven't won that many
games but it's like, you said, Peter if you put A better
Supporting Cast around him then. Who knows what happened?
Since I don't, even though it was a different regime that
drafted him.
Yes, I do. I think he has shown enough where you're saying to
yourself. Let's continue to work with these tools. Let's
continue to see if we can craft a good team, and let's see what
he does in his third year. And if you
have to pull the ripcord after that, then that's a different
story. But I think right now, there's no reason really to
pull it on Justin Fields. When
you don't have let's call it an Andrew Luck, right? Coming out
in the draft and that's not say that Bryce young, CJ, Stroud
will love us. Richardson those guys, they're not going to be
really good players,
but there is nobody to that level of the Andrew La Crema
trouble, Lawrence, Joe burrow or you're like, no, no, that's
why you get the ejector seat on this particular quarterback for
the other one.
It's not Daniel. Jeremiah made a great point to me that
Over the last 12, drafts.
There have been six times where a team has traded higher into
the top five of the draft. In other words, they were either
outside the top five. Are they were in the top five and then
traded up
even higher as the bears bears did in 2017 with Mitchell ter
Biscay.
But and in every case here are the six players that teams
traded up to get. And by the way,
traded more than 100, sent
as dictated by the old Jimmy Johnson trade chart, which
Is certainly not gospel but it's interesting. But anyway,
here are the six quarterbacks
Robert Griffin, the third
Jared Goff, Carson Wentz,
Mitchell term, Biscay Sam darn old trail ants.
It is just startling.
When you look at some of the trades that were made to go and
get those players and look, it's possible. Possible
that trail ants may turn into a big star. You know, no one has
given up on him yet, but there's not a single one of
those quarterbacks, the closest one is golf. There's not
a single one of those quarterbacks who's become a big
star. And, and,
and I thought Jeremiah made a really, really good point to me
when he said essentially think about, you know, these pieces
and these, this is my words not Jeremiah's but Carolina's
sitting there at number
Nine, they've got an absolutely desperate owner
in David Tepper who wants a long-term, starting quarterback
yesterday.
And how great would it be if there he is sitting
you know on the border of North and South Carolina
you know, basically on the border of the Deep South
and if they could get the Alabama quarterback
who has been great for the last two years
and and look I'm not saying That Bryce young is going to be
a great NFL player.
I don't think anybody knows if he really will be.
However,
you know, if they could trade up,
if Carolina could trade up and get Bryce young,
you might be looking at a package that would approach
what I'm about to say that would approach,
you know, in order for the first pick, in the draft,
for Chicago, to trade down,
they could come away
With the ninth pick
in the draft this year, which is Carolina's first round pick
Carolina, second round pick, which is 39 overall,
and first-round picks in each of the next two drafts.
And you might say, oh my god, that's way way too much.
Well, the problem is
there are Desperados
in the top 10 of the draft Houston picks to Indianapolis
for Vegas 7, Carolina, 9.
They all need quarterbacks so
I will not be surprised if somebody in that
lineup gives Chicago and offered, can't refuse.
Yeah,
excuse me.
No, I mean it's interesting because there are so many teams
that seem to want to go the route of Young quarterback as
opposed to veteran quarterback when you do that. I mean, it's
Team Construction. Question to write a, how do you
make sure that your team is at its best
So from the standpoint of your contracts and also who
the players are. So if you're going with the young q b, that means
that you have
more flexibility to add guys in free agency to trade for
players, that may be disgruntled in other places and
then give them big contracts, you know, kind of like we saw
with the Philadelphia Eagles did with AJ Brown last year
because they've got Jalen hurd's
on the rookie deal. So
you can do different things
if you say, all right, let's use our draft capital and move up
and get this guy. Really like in the draft as opposed to
maybe waiting for an Aaron Rodgers to see what he's going
to do or signing somebody like Derek Carr or then like I don't
know going somewhere and getting more of a bridge
quarterback perhaps like a Jimmy Garoppolo right there.
There's still options on the table but if you really want
that homegrown guy then sometimes you got to give up
a lot to go get in especially if you're going to try to do it at
number
one overall.
I'm not I'm not sure how it's all going to fall. Fall miles.
But I sense that there's going to be some significant
difference of opinion
on the best quarterback in the draft.
And the reason I would say that is that you know, Bryce, young
May measure.
I'm just going to guess five eleven and a half,
something like that.
They're going to be some teams that are not going to like that
period and they might just say, hey look CJ Stroud's four and
a half inches taller.
He is, he's got a more electric arm than Bryce young does. Even
though
young can make every throw.
I mean we'll love is probably has the best arm of the three
of them
and and obviously you know, the other the wild-card guy Anthony
Richardson from Florida has a terrific arm to but I wonder
whether those four and that four to four and a half inch
difference. Difference between Stroud and Bryce. Young
is going to be a Difference Maker for
some teams
in the top, five of the draft. I don't think it's just
the height you. I think it can be the weight. You know Bryce
young is he is slight. So whether he comes in
on a somewhere for 180, 190 pounds, I don't know exactly
what it would be, but you know, that's another thing that teams
take into account because your quarterback has to be available
so that durability Factor does come into play. A little bit.
And, you know, I don't necessarily think that those
things are disqualifying.
Let's say for Bryce young, to be drafted early. I don't think
that, that has to be the case at all, but it's something that
teams have to think about, right. There is, there are
exceptions. Yes. But by and large and teams have all this
data that
they've collected of players who are successful at their
positions, right? I mean, this goes back years and years and
years and years and years. And so that's why When
you talk about a quarterback being a little shorter of
quarterback, you can little slider. Wait, that's why you
have to say. All right, we can have this data. But then also
what does the tape save? What does are also our research say?
And how do we
all put this puzzle together? So that we get, what we believe
is going to be an accurate picture and accurate projection
of what this guy can be
in his NFL career, it's a lot that goes into it.
I think it's pretty logical to suggest that young and Stroud
in some Form, go one and two.
I think the big question is, whether Anthony Richardson,
could pass will Levis will Levis. Took a lot of sacks last
year,
in a rebuilding year at Kentucky
and he threw a bunch of pics. He didn't have a great year, he
had a toe injury,
he had a shoulder injury,
he lost one day of Robinson, who was
his security blanket in 2021.
So
You know, I think there's going to be some skepticism about
will Levis. I'm skeptical about him because the guy puts
mayonnaise in his coffee
and I'm dead serious.
There's a video out there of will Levis
squirting. A huge amount of mayonnaise in his coffee.
Swirling, it around with a spoon
and taking a big sip of this
formerly, black coffee, but now
coffee ruined with
Thick gooey, mayonnaise.
I mean, I'm sure that I caused a few people
in the last 14 seconds, to
to vomit while on the treadmill, listening to this podcast.
But anyway, Levis, I've thought he'd be a great guy to go to
Josh McDaniels because McDaniels is one of those guys.
He loves
the project and week, Dan has done a really good job with
Jared Stidham. I can see McDaniel saying let's sign.
Jared Stidham. For the next two years.
He's a free agent. Let's sign Jared Stidham.
Let's draft will Levis and bring them along slowly
and who knows Stidham might
win this job and for sleves to have to go elsewhere. But
anyway, I think I think Vegas would be interesting. The
other,
the other guy Anthony Richardson
miles, I don't know what you've heard about them, but
it over the weekend making some very cursory calls.
Out the quarterbacks. And there's a tremendous amount of
interest in Anthony Richardson even though we only 16 games at
Florida and only started for one year at Florida. I think
there's a fascination with them because I mean, this is a guy
who had touchdown runs of
80 and 81 yards while at Florida 64 230 to a huge guy.
And yet runs like a rabbit.
I think he could be a really, really interesting project for
some coach out there. You can you watch the highlights and he
looks the part, right? I mean, you like you just said, there's
those runs
that he had four touchdowns in their electrifying. And it's
something that you don't often see out of the quarterback
position especially and he has the arm talent to make
the throws. It looks like but it's just. Can you be
Right. Can you make the throws? Can you make the layups
to quote,
Indianapolis GM, Chris Ballard that throws? You have to make
that we're closer to the line of scrimmage? How do you do
that? So, I think that
if you go to the right system
and you know, you are around a coach that can patiently, teach
you everything that you need to learn. There's certainly is
great potential for Anthony Richardson, but it becomes man,
where does he go?
And is there so much pressure?
For him to play early on that he doesn't get the time to
marinate and develop the way you might need to. So that that
to me is going to be really interesting to see like where
he falls in the draft. Because
I mean if you're a first round pick then a sensibly they've
got five years to see what you can do, right? Because the 5th
year option, if you go later than that,
then you're kind of on the clock almost a little bit
sooner in some ways because
you were as Desmond, Ritter
yes. Yes, exactly. Yeah. So it's going to be really
interesting. I mean, I don't know exactly what
everybody thinks about him. Neither does any. But
you know you when you have a prospect like that where
there's so much projection and there hasn't been as much film
that you can really look at it becomes,
how do you get him to the right place where he can succeed?