would them at pick number 62.
I'm fascinated by that just because it kind of the things
we talked about and you've already laid out the you know,
the points of you know it. Yeah. Crapshoot.
Yeah, do we really believe that this guy's the guy are we gonna
do it? Just because we kind of need a quarterback and we got
to appeal to our owner and the fanbase that Carolina is
fascinating to me,
you know, first off Kenny picket. It sounds like he's
going to be the guy that you know, they fancies the most
Already, I understand that but man,
you know number six pick Kenny pick it. I just
I don't I don't see. That doesn't sound right and I'm
never mad at a team for going in on the guy. They want to go
in on, but
I really don't. Look at these guys is in a traditional year
of it was a strong quarterback class is looking at them going.
These are top 10 picks. I don't, that's where the Saints
thing will be talked about yesterday. Just go what,
you know, you're going to. Are they really going to trade away
two of these?
Pigs to go get one of these guys this year.
I just don't think it's a class that warns that but yet we know
how important the position is and teams get desperate. And
they do want to send a perception after their fan base
that sometimes they make these moves and they're not warranted
and they can talk themselves into. Yeah, get under that Echo
chamber. Where they start saying. Oh, he's got efficacy
and, and, you know, and this is where it's important to have
a front office that Has
different ideas that has an atmosphere where
people can really speak up and communicate these ideas without
being insulted without being called stupid. You want to have
a welcoming environment where everyone can bring to
the table, whatever they think, good bad, or otherwise, you
don't want to seal off the thinking in any organization.
This applies
anywhere and everywhere, but especially in a setting like this,
you get locked onto the wrong guy
and you got a bunch of Yes, Men, and yes, women in the
Relation saying good idea, boss good idea boss. Yeah, that's
what I think. Yeah, and that's why that's why I worry about
Carolina. You know why? You know why I'm learning more
about David Tepper. I mean, David Tepper did not become one
of the richest owners
in sports and Forbes, just put out their list of the top 10
richest owners in all of sports, and there's only one
NFL owner on it. And it's David Tepper. He didn't get that way
by being a shrinking violet. He is a guy
that gets what he wants. He's decisive
and, and I don't think. He's got a force of personality.
I had a story recently and I can't I can't tell the story
without potentially outing my source, but it underscored, for
me.
The David Tepper is a type, double A positive
take-no-prisoners. Tell it like it is. This is my team. This is
my decision. This is my way
and if you have that emanating from the top of
the organization and you make it clear, we are finding right
quarterback, right? We are getting
quarterback. Why couldn't we get to show? Watson, why
couldn't we get this guy? Why couldn't we get that guy?
They're taking a quarter, but I'd be stunned. If they don't
take a quarterback. It seems so desperate to get a franchise
quarterback. And if you fail, you'll be back there
in a year or two
to get another one. Yeah, because it doesn't cost you
like, it used to know. It doesn't. And like Scott Federer
kind of said and that little, you know, clip we showed
earlier, you take your Cuts, or you take your swings until you
hit, you know, and
that seems kind of be what they're doing. And,
and I'm With you Mike as much as I look at it and go. I don't
think they should take the quarterback there. I have
the feeling or feel like they're going to do that for sure
because of David Tepper because of everything you're talking
about and then you know you explain to
you know, just as far as
yes, you have that kind of guy who's so adamant about it.
You're right that, you know, the owners Adam about
the quarterback. He's going to get the answers, he wants to know.
And then out of the group, we are talking about, you know,
you know, I like Matt Correll the best. I do
hands down without That excites me the most and I think can be
the most talented in the NFL
Willis. Need some work, but has a high ceiling and some
big-time potential but it's very backyard e football still.
So that's got to be worked on
pick it. Like we talked about well school, right knows where
to go with. The ball is played in kind of a pro-style offense.
All of that is really good, except there's nothing
physically to go. Wow. He could be
a top five quarterback one day
and that's what to me with the other issue with Carolina when
I think about Kenny Pickett go in there. At number 6, right?
Because that seems to be the one that, you know,
most commonly gets linked and I understand for a team that
needs to win right now, pick, it's ready to go. But here's
the thing that would I would be concerned about, if I'm in
Carolina to and you're going to draft Kenny, Pickett. They're
going to draft Kenny picket. They're going to take go on
the practice field for their first. Oh ta and they're going to go.
Oh my gosh, the guy we drafted at number 6, his arms not as
good as Sam do nodes. It's not as a quicker release. He's
actually
not as quick as him in the pocket
his aren't and And that's going to be a tough thing to
do. That's so that's not going to be the greatest. Look either,
you know, like we've talked about before when you want
a guy to come in and start and play, you want them to be, you
know, the more talented guy, especially when he's a top ten
draft pick to wear like the locker room and everybody just
goes.
Whoa. Hey man, team made the right pick there. You see that
guy what he was doing on the field today.
You know that goes a long way
that that would worry me. If I'm in Carolina with the situation,
allergist, say this, before we wrap it up because this is
an important aspect even though it doesn't justify its own set.
Eggman, there is an ugly awkward prms unfolding for
the Panthers right now, as it relates to the construction of
this gigantic
headquarters in facility in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where
the folks in Rock Hill didn't come through with some funding
mechanism. 250 million in Bonds, were supposed to be
sold. And so David Tepper, pulled the plug on
construction. He's got a couple hundred million of Steel in
the ground that they have to
pay him back for
he's by all indications and appearances. Just walking away
from this. Grow it. You didn't live up to your end of
the bargain.
I'm out. I'm done.
And that already
is creating some very strong comments from some local
politicians and it is not going to bode well for the connection
between community and team, they need something
like any picket or a Malik Willis a franchise quarterback
to turn the page on this to get people to not pay as much
attention to this mess that they have. It's another reason
why these decisions get
made by owners and do.
Don't buy the idea that the owners aren't involved. I got
a laugh out of it. When Jimmy has, I'm the owner of the brown
said last week. The Sean Watson decision was a football
operations thing, not ownership. That's a lie.
They want to be able to blame it on someone else when it
blows up in their face. That's it's an extension of
the homeless guy told me to take Johnny Manziel. It's never
the owners decision because the owner needs to have someone
else to blame. That's why I respect Jerry Jones.
He's willing to take the heat
for the bad decisions. The Cowboys make sure
everybody else. They got they got their finger in the stew,
but When it all goes south. It's not their fault. It's
nothing they did. They didn't make the decision
so they can blame it on somebody else.
And I don't know that,
that David Tepper can pull that off because I think we've kind
of figured out that tempers the guy who's driving the bus,
right? But, but remember that, when the owner acts like it's
not on the owner. It's on the owner. The owner, the owner is
not sitting back saying, hey, whatever you want to do is fine
with me. No, not with those type
of decisions. You're right about that, you know. Yeah, if
it's the third corner on the roster or a free agent like
a we're looking for
You know, a nickel linebacker. Okay. Yeah, the owner is not
involved in that, but when it comes to the type of decisions
you're talking about,
no doubt about it, first round, quarterback
paying a guy 230 million dollars guaranteed. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. He had nothing to do with that. Right? They just said,
hey, we're gonna hey, mr. Handsome. We're going to offer
the greatest contract ever to a guy
that's got issues. We don't need to really hear your
opinion. Okay. See you later. Yeah, right. I mean, come on.
You kidding me.