going to surprise people. The most usual your lower on, so
your higher on, DTR your higher on Hendon hooker. Yeah. Or
maybe slightly higher on CJ, Stroud than some of the people
out there.
You are definitely lower on this player. Yeah
you're tied for fifth quarterback is
is Will Levis Kentucky
right and and again I like will love us.
And I'm totally
totally in the reality of like will love is could certainly go
in the top two at 10:12 picks of the draft, right? I'm
totally. I get it
a little bit again to me he's got a little bit of
the boom-bust factor here
he does and maybe even less of a bus just because of like
Richardson's ability to run and do that. Yeah,
you know, that's where I give him a,
you know, a little bit of an advantage but
you know, but love is first off the
Positives are. Yeah, his size his toughness, it's off
the charts.
You know,
his body is rocked up.
And I'm going to say it's to rocked up. Do you hear me?
I like rocked up. Bodies to rocked up. Bothers me. It's
a little too tight and muscle-bound got a rock down.
Well, yeah,
just tell me how many great quarterbacks you've seen that
are rocked up through your time in life. Like, tell me what
the great quarterbacks are that are rocked up that had guns like he
did at the combine none.
Brady Quinn, Brady Quinn, and Tim Tebow exactly. Right.
Right. Would not be the poster child. I would want to be named
after, as far as if I was trying to be a quarterback.
All right, so that I don't love that. But
toughness, he is a good athlete. And here, don't get me
wrong here.
You take his 10, best throws his 20 best throws.
They're up there with anybody.
It's like oh whoa laser show,
right? He can he can throw in lasers like CJ strata
Richardson. The problem is
there's just it's too few and far between
you know you heard me talking a little bit before the podcast
started. It's just a little too all over the place, the ball
itself and the mechanics
both of it. And out of the
is decision-making,
he's kind of towards the bottom of the list in that department
too.
Well, I think you put him in Richardson, out of the guys we
talked about today is the bottom of the department and
the in the decision-making
process, right? So there's that, you know,
and then yeah, what I talked about with the inconsistencies
and throws and you know,
even seeing the field, I don't love all the time.
But yeah the the mechanics and the inconsistencies there
bother me to he's too flicky it the Motions a little all over
the place every throw
he tries to do it all with his hips and I don't even really
know how to explain it. The ball can come out very low
inside arm and
there's know what it's like he wants to create a separation
between his upper and lower half, but then it doesn't
reconnect. And he just kind of lets it.
Why through? And this is like, man, like a little bit. What
I said with Richardson before
where, there's just too many throws where you go dim, you're
too good to miss that throw. How do we miss the five-yard
shallow Cross by, you know, two yards. Right? There's some of
that or even it's completed. It's a little off Target
and then doesn't have maybe the
natural feel in the pocket
that the other guys do
and I mean, all of them, I think they all have better feel
than he does in the pocket, even Richardson there in that
department. Richardson's, good in the pocket,
you know? Like I said, he's to the point. Sometimes you're on
like Ron you're a freak run, right? So there's there's that
as well that that
I think, you know, bothers me and that department. And
unlike the other guys, especially the top guys,
right? When we get into Stroud and Bryce young and hooker,
you know, I'm also into. Hey, things aren't perfect, right?
And like, I talked about, there's like, a 10-yard Crosser
and your feet are a little
Cockeyed. And okay, you're not gonna be able to get your
shoulder in the perfect. Throw you just got to get it done.
He's open and you got to get it on there and get the but
I don't care if it's a perfect fire whatever just get it
done with your athletic ability, your hand, your arm
and get it out there, right? Those guys all do it hooker,
young Stroud, like, consistently easy.
He misses that element a little bit. I just say, I'll just
the ability to play and get it done a little there.
It's not as good as those guys in that department, despite all
that. Yeah. Yeah, I noticed don't you did not want to leave
him out of the top five, no created another spot for him.
Why?
Well, him and DTR, I didn't know where to go here, because
his potential is greater than dtrs.
It is,
you know, and I know there's a part of me that goes man that
often suck there and he couldn't be protected. So
there's a lot of that as well, right.
You know,
but people that have him. Hi Chris. Yeah, to your point,
yeah, say that the offense was a mess last year, they had less
time.
Last they did. Look at his 2021 tape the shirt whole lot better
and if you see that one, you're more convinced that what he and
be definitely is. And there's, there's something to that.
Still, some of the same problems I saw though, when
I went back last year to with some of the, you know,
inconsistencies in the throes and emotion, still some every
game, some eye-popping throws,
but every game just a bunch of throws we go. I mean, how do
you under 300 that go right, you got em, you got
the strongest arm and college football. I don't be
under throw that.
Why does he get a stop?
Why is it the jump ball now?
Now it's just and that's because it's the Motions all
over place. The mechanics are all over the place but his
ceiling is high
and you know, I know he's a smart kid but I can't lie from
your point. What you just said there. There's a few times
where I wrote in the notes like,
is, is he the problem with the offense. So they not trust him
to do more,
you know? And they sought because you can get in
the second quarter and be like, this is the fifth time I've
seen this place. The second quarter like is that
partly because Don't know that again and I don't, but I, those
are things. I wonder, I don't know.
And then, like I said, in the combine
with the mechanics, to remember, in the combine, I was like
the feet were, there's like segmented. They're not always
in rhythm with how he's throwing the football, he'll
get to the top of the drop and stand there. Flat-footed,
and then Skies, he's getting ready to throw decide. He wants
to Hitch and get his legs into it or sometimes he steps
backwards or sometimes the foot goes in the bucket. You know.
There's just a little bit of that that scares
me a little bit let alone. Alone with his feel in
the pocket, the natural intuition to just get it done, right? And
then the inconsistencies in the mechanics, that's why I got
them tied for number five.
But I also want to say
would I be shocked and a few years of like we went here and
three years from now. You're a guy, he's just starting
quarterback. He got it all together. He figured it all out
and he put it together and he's a really good starting
quarterback. No I wouldn't be shocked. And I
think all these guys have that chance to be that his just
little a little all over. Over the place. It's raw and it's
few and far between. As far as the big-time high-level throws,
I think we have his heatmap. You talked about,
you know, the the routes and the plays and wasn't a whole
lot of variety perhaps because that him was that
was that the coaching staff, was that the talent around him.
So here's the heat map it seems like quite a few behind
the line of scrimmage middle of the field not very few outside
the numbers which is surprising for a quarterback with his
arm strength, I guess
it is, you know,
They just, the offense didn't lend itself to that a whole lot.
So, that was the big thing. It's a little bit. Again,
a little that San Francisco 49ers scheme, that they were
running sure where a lot of that is over the middle,
you know, but to that, too.
I don't think he's the greatest in that department as far as
being able to trust where the balls going to go. And some of
those the power's out the problem,
he can throw a laser on a 20 yard out route sure
but it's just can be a little bit all over the place as far
as the location of that football. Yeah. But yeah, you
know that's definitely that's one. That's again
the evaluators are going to have to decipher
when they talked to him and all that is this the offense was
this you you know and kind of get a feel for where his mind
was and that whole system and what the plays they were
calling their, but
yeah, it didn't help him. And like I said, out of all
the quarterbacks to he's the least protected, I do want to make
sure I give him Credit in that department. You know. That's
the one thing I do like about him.
You know, I don't want to say one thing. It's
one of the positives that I really like about, I didn't
mean it to come out like that. Yeah, is that he played NFL
football from the standpoint of, he had a people in his face
and he take took a lot of hits, you
know, all year long and
that will be life in.
FL unless you're playing for, you know, two or three teams in
the league and if you're new to this pod you you had to correct
yourself there and say I like more than just one thing about
it.
Often times you react to
to win the love is gone too far. The haters gone too far
you know and so it's like will love us. Obviously still is
high on your list. Here is interior number four for you
but perhaps some of the love out there for him that we've
heard. And I do think people are
a little skeptical of that season last year and so I don't
think you're necessarily way off base or out of bounds with
your ranking of will here. I feel like it's just a little
all
Churchill based. It's a little. That's where it's all from
strong-armed, Matthew. Stafford is a count. Forearm strength
that I've heard out there. Sure I get that it's not Matthew
Stafford do as far as it's like I mean I'm Matthew Stafford
coming out. I can still remember
his last year of Georgia. Just I was going damn, this guy's
a number one pick. I mean he's just slinging around everywhere
and it's on the money you know. So yeah. From
I know what they mean in theory, but it's not that
and see. That's what I mean, too. Many people are putting
into the potential. Oh it's Josh Allen.
And I want to go. No,
you know, again Josh Allen
some of these throws there. They were incomplete but they
were on the money. They weren't like this, right. They might
have been a mighty might have been the greatest decision or
it might have been you know
he threw it through a 40 mile per hour wind and I went off
the receivers face, right? These are like know the target
was missed period. There's some different, there's a difference
in that. Not all incompletions are created equal
and then I think like I said the natural
the the probably the least elusive out of the group.
And the natural field plays, were probably the least. And
I think with that and like they said, the, the accuracy and
consistency are probably what led me to put them where I put
them.
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