which is one of my favorite things to do when you go
position by position. Yeah, you look at tape, you you sequester
yourself from your family for, I don't know, probably a month
to two months.
Look at game film, from all these college players for that long
and form your opinions, but let's look back here. Some
rookie Victory laps Osama. Bear, Laden says, which one of
these rookie quarterbacks will take the biggest jump next year
and he goes by the way,
it's Justin Fields. Hahaha.
Sims will definitely say Wilson though, not Fields is
Definitely one of the guys I look at for sure, there.
I am going to go with Wilson.
I mean, yes, I am
Fields. I mean, Fields the year, he played this year
already, it exceeded my expectations, for sure.
It definitely did.
You know, again he controlled the ball better than I gave him
credit for, you know, even when he tried to throw his power,
which was really concerned with me at Ohio State, when he went
through the ball with
power, the ball could fly anywhere,
you know, the way he handles himself, the athleticism,
all of it was really good.
Again, I know I'm the Zach Wilson guy, but I think I'm
capable when I've shown enough through my history that
like, I really didn't feel like it was him.
All right, then I wouldn't say it. I like being right more
than I do stubborn and the Zach Wilson thing to me again. Just
like, I tell a million people up here all the time because we
have Jets fans, everywhere.
Zach Wilson, the last four or five weeks of the year was
the best rookie quarterback out there. He was the best one. He
made more legit.
It in the pocket big-time throws than any of the other
guys, he made a lot of outside the pocket off schedule type
plays there
and I just look at that after he came back from the injury,
you know them getting their offense in line in the right place,
you know, you saw him have games with receivers heard he
still played. Well, I mean, they went toe-to-toe with
the Bucks and he played awesome. In that football game. We need
a lot of great. Wow. Moments in the inner end of the year.
I'm expecting that
to continue. I am Again,
now after that the guy that I think will make the next big.
Trevor Lawrence can make a big jump because it was not a good
year, you know,
it wasn't, you know, when we talked about it through
a few times towards the last five or six weeks in the year
liked his best place. I like this best place, but there was
a too many games. Have you and woe like
that was way too many Miss throws or way too many turnovers
and then a couple that with like what I told you I think
I might have been Paul where hey, you know, Oh,
I got somebody I talked to or multiple people. I talked to on
every team in the NFL and the one thing I always kept hearing
down the stretch, what I told you about Trevor Lawrence,
I think I told you it was this,
you know, even in pregame warm-ups. Everybody was like,
wow, it just doesn't come out of his hands, the same way as
Zach Wilson or is consistently smooth as Mac Jones, you know,
I literally had teams tell me, use the word embarrassing for
Trevor Lawrence and some pregame warm-up stores in of
the year.
Not doesn't mean anything, but so he has a chance.
Is to make a big jump and you see what he's capable of what
he did and week 18 against the Colts where he made some
eye-popping throws well, and if Kellen mon plays like five
snaps out of it.
That's a big jump. He's he Windsor jury's still out on him
jury's, still out. But definitely, I think the Old
Coach liked him. It doesn't sound like, it seemed like it
had something together. Definitely something there.
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a regular writer inner regular to The Sims unbuttoned podcast.
Christopher is a future GM. What were your favorite rookie
Victory? Laps this season, he goes some, I recall Max. Jones
Tyson Campbell Elijah. Molden
Paulson a Debo. Christian bar, more J. Okay. They are for
real. Yeah. Yeah. Those are good ones for sure.
Hey, my
are you seeing your list here? Oh man, Jalen Phillips down
the yep, I got it. I got it here. I'm all good. Thanks.
Jalen Phillips. And Miami was phenomenal. Yep. That was
against the grain,
right? Because you have people,
well, he was, he was liked him but injury history and like
concussion history and some things that were suspect about
him. That way. I love my the Tyson.
One. Yes, he he was. He was phenomenal. No doubt about it.
I was wrong about, you know, the other Corner up in Green
Bay, Stokes. He was really good. I should have
made him higher in my rankings.
Yeah, but overall, when I look at it, you know,
for the most part position-wise,
I'm happy with everything except for running back and
where I messed up with, like
Javion Hawkins from Louisville. Yeah, all rise. More
information on him that you didn't know. There was
a There's a little of that I think he's another one where
I think if I got to see the person I would have changed me
too for how small it sounds like he was. So that's where
I'm a little hamstrung a times of that. But Carter was
good though. You were hiring him. The Radley
is awesome. Especially towards the end of the year. He had
some some big-time flash moments.
Jalen waddle would be one. I'd look at to go. Damn. I should
have had him higher right? He'd prove to me that he was it
really Jamar Chase. Then Jalen waddle. Then Devonte Smith was
the way that receiving.
No class prepared out this year as far as on the field,
but, yeah, everything else
pretty. Pretty happy with that like to lose. Ooh, coming off
the edge. My man Jason away.
Yeah, that was crazy. I mean you you were head. No sax at
a Penn State member. Everybody was like, how are you? Never
had a sack of Penn State? It was like, I don't know. He's
kicking the s... out of everybody. I see him, you know,
college football is hard to get sacks. Every pass is an RPO or
a screen.
Nobody holds the ball, and has a drop back pass game.
So that's where that's a little
misleading, but, but I was happy. P, you've got some you
got some victory laps to take and we'll get through all of
those when you do the position group, it's always a good part
of the beginning of the podcast as we look back and see how you
did
the previous year, because I think you had some
some real hit.