WEBVTT - TALKIN' FOOTBALL 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.640 This is cut to it with Steve Smith Senior at 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:08.920 production of The Black Effect and I Heart Radio. I'm 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.720 Steve Smith Senior and I'm a little John and this 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.000 is cut to it. Good do it, Good do it. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.479 Let's get down to do it. Good do it. We 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.920 asked the questions you always want to know, but no 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:29.080 one ever asked, let's cut to it. You ain't heard 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:34.720 about it, then we're about to let you know. It's 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:41.400 all what's going on? What we're about to give you 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:45.280 a let's just talk about the Carolina Panthers, just talking 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.440 about what's going on here. You know, obviously locally you 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.360 got Baker. We have Baker Mayfield here, and you know 0:00:54.480 --> 0:01:01.720 I was I've been pretty what's the word I'm looking for? Critical? Yeah, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:09.240 let's use that extremely critical? Um. Critical. Yeah, I don't 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.880 know that has value. We just just wrote with that, um. 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.399 But you know, I'm really interested to see with Baker Mayfield. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.240 I think that's fantastic. You saw I don't know if 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.319 you saw it. We saw it, but um, I was 0:01:23.360 --> 0:01:30.039 going through the lineup top fifteen, top twenty quarterbacks and 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.560 we missed. We left a few out right. So let's 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:38.039 let's let's redo it, um, So we're just talking about quarterbacks. 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.520 The ranking is not of uh ranking order of this 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.919 guy's won, this guy's too, not not New America, not 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.400 not New America. Value are saying, I believe if I 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.680 say Aaron Rodgers is number seven, that I believe he's 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.760 number seven. I'm just because this is off the cuff. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.400 But it's also talking football in a way that we, 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.120 you know, sometimes we try to do and you can't 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.400 do it necessarily on TV. So let's just name some quarterbacks, 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.360 your top fifteen, top twenty quarterbacks at and and I, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.000 and let's just I'll entertain you by going down that path. 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:17.519 But I also talk about some other things that are 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.960 that are pretty funny that I think people don't realize. Right, So, um, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.920 give me, give me a quarterback. Aaron Rodgers, Okay, Aaron Rodgers, 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:32.560 about you, Joe my homes, my homes okay, Um, Dak 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.040 Prescott because I missed him last time, Okay, Um who else? 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:41.800 Josh Allen? There you go, Josh Allen okay, say Patty 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:48.440 Malmes yeah, uh, Justin Herbert all right? Um, car Matt 0:02:48.520 --> 0:03:03.960 Stafford okay, um Stafford? Um, Kylie Murray top yeah not 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:06.239 not not of you know, it's just kind of name 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.560 a guy seven eight nine, Okay, Lamar Jackson, that is 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.840 all right? What what what? I don't know quarterbacks? This 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.519 is a podcast or someone maybe like Lamar who that 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.320 we madic We had someone to the phone. They made 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.600 the like that. This may be first time listeners, man, 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:28.959 you know radio aniquette. First time caller. We'll give you 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:34.240 a T shirt. T shirt first off callers, long time listening. Right, 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:41.080 first time caller. We've got your online three right? Who else? Uh, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:47.000 Matt Ryan, it's your call, bro, it's not mom. This 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.440 is this you just said it's a podcast. I didn't 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:53.920 know how it was not the subject matter expert on 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:59.120 quarterbacks where you don't have yes, go right, Tom Brady 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:07.600 forgot about that guy. He's okay TV twelve. Let's go 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:16.680 justin uh not we are Joe Burrow Okay, okay, um, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:26.320 let's see um, let's see Lamar, Jake Plumber just messing 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:31.480 with you. He's doing mushrooms right now. No, he has 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:36.440 a mushroom farm. I just saw he has a mushroom farm. Now. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:43.520 He's doing for restaurants, for psychedelics, street pharmacists. No, he's 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:51.320 heavy into the fun guy, mushroom, um culture the funniest 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:57.839 far I consuming. I consume information that randomly. I'm always 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:01.840 concerned I get the wrong ones on your beats. That'd 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.800 be allowed pizza. The paint is dripping off the walls. 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.520 And I'll take random quarterback college for two hundreds, just 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:19.080 thrust fun guy? Uh? Who else? So we got a Cowboys? Um, Jimmy, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:26.680 would you say, Jimmy Garoppolo? That surgery went? But we 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:32.160 said top fifteen right, top fifteen, top twin, Deshaun Watson, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:43.080 Shawn Watson, got you? Okay? Um, Matt Ryan Carson wentz exactly. Oh, 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:48.919 Jalen Hurts, Yeah, I like Jann Jalen Hurts all right, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.719 number fifteen. Right, here's the best part. Baker Mayfield. Oh, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:55.880 we didn't say Derek Carr. We didn't say Russell Wilson. 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:06.800 Derek Carr got you dangerous Russell Wilson. Okay, Uh, here's 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:14.039 here's here's my point. Sixteen seventeen quarterbacks. Baker Mayfield is 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.000 in that conversation. Now, why am I talking about this? 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.440 Is why am I interested? As a forty Niners fan, 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.800 as a fan of football a lot of times and 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.640 fans regularly a lot of fans at times makes so 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:34.440 many emotional decisions without statistics, and even as an analyst, 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:38.239 I sometimes forget that. But what the point I'm trying 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:44.640 to make is if Baker Mayfield is a top twenty quarterback, right, 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:52.560 that's outstanding until the Carolina Panthers us Carolina Panthers, we 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.159 have benefited from that. However, one thing that is not 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:05.120 known is there's twelve other teams that are terrible. Think 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:10.480 about it, but the bottom line is the emotional thing 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.480 of saying we got a top fifteen, top twenty quarterback, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.440 you should be a But also, let's dumb it down. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.360 Hey bro, there's only thirty two teams, so it's really 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:28.360 not that great other thing unless you are not part 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:34.560 of the other twelve that are in purgatory toa. How's 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.880 he gonna be? We don't know. He has a plethora 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:42.320 of athletes, some additions there. He got some additions, But 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.160 do we know can he really throw the football on 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:53.920 time accurate for four quarters seventeen weeks? I'm not sure. 0:07:55.200 --> 0:08:00.320 His body of working college excellent, his body to work 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:05.480 in the NFL marginal. My point is saying all of 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.240 this is you could be a top twenty top fifteen, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:14.040 top twenty quarterback. But that doesn't necessarily mean that that's 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.960 gonna equal out to success. Absolutely, and sometimes we look 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:22.680 at statistics. I think statistics are important, but you can't 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.560 have so many. You can't talk about statistics so much 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.960 that we start to analyze and say, well, because Baker 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.920 Mayfield is in the top fifteen, or any quarterback is 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:36.520 in this top fifteen, but would you take Baker over 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:43.679 TB twelve? No, no, sir, okay, just say no, right 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:50.040 justin Herbert, Josh Allen, Dak Prescott. My point is that 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:55.240 we're advancing as a Carolina Panthers with Baker Mayfield, but 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:57.679 also we have to start looking at what's going on. 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.640 And so for me, looking at this train ends action, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.880 what the Carolina Panthers have done, I believe it's a 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.960 good move, step in the recreation, step in the right direction. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:13.559 Outside of Cam Newton, Statistically, the Carolina Panthers in there, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:20.280 almost thirty years of being in being a franchise have 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:28.240 only had a top fifteen quarterback twice. Wow mm hm. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:33.000 They've had top running backs, top tight ends, top wide receivers, 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:39.440 top defense, d N middle linebacker, whale linebacker, sand linebacker, safety, corner, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:46.520 but quarterback has not. They have rarely had a top 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:53.480 quarterback in there exist. Oh that makes my mind start 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.040 spinning because obviously the first question is is why or 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:00.600 how when you always hear that that's the most important 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.199 position in in in football. Now we all know scheme. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.439 We've learned a lot from you about you know, who's 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:10.720 my quarterback, who's my coordinator? When you start looking back 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:14.360 at the previous ten, fifteen, twenty Super Bowls, you know, 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.920 I can think of Peyton Manning that year. He didn't 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.319 have great stats, but they want because of that defense. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.800 I can think of Joe Flacco that year. He didn't 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.280 have a great stats, but they want because of that defense. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:28.520 Outside of that, it's the top two, three, four, five 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.880 quarterbacks that we would say in the league. And I 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:33.600 might have missed one or two and I'm not having 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.440 a research department poll. But so you think, if that's 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.839 your quest as a GM or as an owner, as 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.760 a head coach, if that's your quest for thirty years, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.600 how can whether it's the Panthers or team fill in 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:50.880 the blank, how can you miss that offense team fill 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:55.320 in the blank. Here's why, Because we talked about the NFL. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.520 We talked about the game of inches. Well we also 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.400 need to do us talk about the game of seconds. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.160 And what do I mean by that? If I if 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.920 I just break down Baker Mayfield versus Sam Donald, I 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.439 don't have the statistic and again this is just randomly talking. 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:19.400 I would look for how long the quarterback has the 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.520 ball and in the second amount of seconds he takes 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:27.079 to deliver the ball. Think about this and what I mean, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.280 And we moved the Baker Mayfield Sam Donald. Let's just 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:33.839 talk about football in general. If you're a quarterback and 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:40.439 your your processing system between you know I talked about quarterbacks, 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.679 you must confirm where you're going with the ball before. 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:47.400 Confirm where you're going before the snap of the ball, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.200 not discover. If you're discovering, it will slow you down. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.760 If you confirmed, they will do something and you will start. 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.000 Now mark off, Well, I was gonna go to the left, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:03.800 but they blitzed or they they did a scheme that 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.800 took away my primary target on the left. So now 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.599 I gotta go to my second primary And it's called progressions. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.280 He goes through his first progression, second progression. But if 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.800 you are discovering where you're gonna win the snap of 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:24.360 the ball. They're just safe. For giggles, two two seconds. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:29.560 Takes two seconds, but if it takes Tom Brady one 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:36.920 point seven, that's three tenths of a second. Those three 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:41.680 tenths of a second do through three things. They result 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:50.400 into a p BU, a incompletion or completion or a 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:56.320 pick three tenths of a second. Yeah, and those are 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.439 the things that don't show up on the average fan statue. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.480 Like they look at a QBR they're looking at a 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.920 completion percentage, but the average person, you know, they're not 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.400 they're not thinking about that or even taking that into consideration. 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.920 So everything you just said, it's almost like it's it's 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.920 stats plus, like what are the whole things when you're 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.480 looking at the quarterback, you know from a fans perspective 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.200 and to your point, like you you just think, oh 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.200 we got a top five, got a top ten, top 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.160 fifth QB, Well that and what else? Because if I'm 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.440 not mistaken, wasn't there like a year of even when 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.720 Ben Roethlisberg was really good, they still had a bad team, right, Like, 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.000 they weren't that good even though he was still performing 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.880 as a top ten quarterback. The team in totality, wasn't 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.240 that good? Right, So it's it's like that's great. But 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:39.240 then to you everything you're saying, like but what else? Right? Like? 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.440 What else is part of that story? Well? Part of 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.760 it is the stats that there are so many small 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:49.400 ancillary stats that are kept, data driven information that are 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.800 kept that your opposing team knows, right, they know on 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.439 third and two on the right hash, here are the 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.880 seven or eight plays that they're gonna run. Yeah. So 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.679 a lot of times when we're saying that it's predictable, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.320 the truth of the matter is it is predictable because 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:11.800 the formula is predicting what you're gonna do. That the analog, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:18.520 the information, the data is there. Now football has become 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:24.600 not just brute strength, but also intelligence, and not intelligence 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.760 of quarterback play, but intelligence of the people that are 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.400 on the staff. There are people who can't throw a frisbee, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.520 but they can tell you where you should throw the 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.800 ball in this coverage, at this yard marker, at this moment, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.280 with the sun ages and all that seven, with the 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.920 with the wind going two point seven miles per hour, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.320 and and and it's a you know, it's a blue 0:14:53.320 --> 0:15:01.200 moon half moon, right, Just all the those things, and 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.840 football has become so complicated at times that you can 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:09.360 almost over analyze football. And I think, as I know 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:13.080 for me, is I have to get back to there's 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.760 times where I am lazy with my words and not 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.280 saying why I dislike. So what are those It sounds 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.080 like you're saying intangibles, and what are those intangibles that 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.720 maybe that either you look for or when you're evaluating 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.800 the quarterback that you should that come top of mind. Well, 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:32.360 it's all in the last ten years has changed. Right 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.600 when when all of us were in here, when we 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.440 were all playing sports, it was about throwing a deep path? 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.560 Can you throw the gold posts? Can you throw this? 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.160 Can you throw that? Five step drop? Steven step drop? 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.840 Now everything is in the pistol formation. Seventy of the 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.960 time guys are in the pistol formation, right, So that 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.880 limits what kind of run plays you can actually run. No, 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:59.000 No thirty four wham, no thirty four power right there, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.680 I believe Eve, going back at my old stats, I 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:07.600 was looking at something small, ancillary stat. I believe Kansas 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:14.520 City last year gave the football on third and one 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.800 and fourth and one to their full back nine times. 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.040 Do you know how many times they got that conversion 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.000 on third and one and fourth and one, nine for nine. 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.160 Some stuff still works a good number because they're primarily 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:34.880 in such a pistol formation. HM and Patrick Mahomes is 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:38.960 so dangerous you have to respect both. Even with the 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.640 running back in there, you can still do a play 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:46.480 action drop the linebacker. Think and you got Travis Kelsey. 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:51.000 So when I look at the quarterback play, I used 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.040 to look at it as a receiver going make when 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.760 he's on the opposite hash and I'm running a eighteen 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.080 yard comeback. M When I come back to the ball, 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.720 where's the position of ball? Is it low? Is it 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.040 at my numbers? Is it a good spiral? Is it 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.560 starting to waiver? Those are the things right, drop back, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.600 three steps, five steps, highs, velocity, Does he have arc 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.960 on the ball when releasing it? Does he have pace 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:29.360 and touch on underneath routes? Those things aren't important anymore 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.680 because they aren't running those routes anymore. In college everything 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:35.679 is look at it, Look at the screen, look at 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:41.320 the picture on the sideline. Right there's man, there's teams, 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:44.760 and there's guys right now in the National Football League 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:51.199 or guys that played in college playbook was as stick 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:58.000 as a first grade reading book twenty plays. So is 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.720 that helping I be? Even's hurting And that's why, that's 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:08.639 why the twelve other teams are struggling to fine quarterbacks 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:14.239 are struggling fine important pieces because you really don't know 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.679 what you have until you get him in a building. 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.240 You don't know what his intangibles are. You don't know 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.000 if he has a reading disability. You don't know if 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.800 he has a process disability. And I'm saying all these 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:31.520 things because if you are only taught right in college, 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.639 I was in the number system, got to the number system. 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.720 It was as a post six. You know, an end 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.120 route by the tight end. But sometimes the tight end 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.520 number system was different than the wide receivers or seven. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.800 So you've got two sevens right, so you've got two 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:52.080 sevens corner routes and the tight ends work in the middle. Man. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:56.000 Now I came in the league, it was max want 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:02.920 uh max one thirty six choy x D curl or 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:11.680 want uh I write zip o recircle O was an 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:16.600 out by the number by the outside wire receiver inside 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:27.800 right receiver run a corner ola like a flag um 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.159 and then you had other routes where hunt street circle 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.879 or lay where a hunt hitch under streak on the 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:41.600 other side hitch in the circle. Sometimes one word told 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:47.119 everybody what to do. Sometimes numbers, but it all varies, 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.200 so you're not really sure. It took me a long time. 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.399 Great example of a guy who I believe got a 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:59.919 rough a rough time in the NFL that wasn't his 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.199 problem is a kid named Jason Campbell played at Auburn. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:07.640 Jason Campbell got drafted I believe by the forty Niners 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:14.680 or no, Washington got drafted by. So he played with 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.160 UH with Auburn drafted by Washington played with the forty 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:24.359 Niners as well. But think about this. Jason played maybe 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:27.640 how many years, ten years, like ten or twelve years, 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:31.760 nine years, and damn near had a new office coordinator 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:38.479 every year and including college. Think about it. We had 0:20:38.480 --> 0:20:41.920 his teammate on Rnny Brown. Think about that. Think about 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:45.200 as soon as you get this offense, you gotta switch. 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.720 How difficult would that be. Let's dumb this down. If 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:54.240 I'm working at a restaurant and we're making hot dogs 0:20:55.240 --> 0:20:58.520 for the winner and we're about to start a new menu, 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.639 and then we changed the whole our self of the 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:05.640 restaurant that's difficult. Can start all over. You gotta start 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:08.520 all over, especially if you don't even know how to 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:13.639 make the food. Everybody knows how to make a hot dog. 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.199 You just throw it them some water right now. If 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.200 you don't, I don't know how to operate your stoven. 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:21.680 And that's the problem in itself. Then all of a sudden, 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.359 you're going from making hot dogs, so now you make 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:28.720 a Mediterranean food with no passport, which means you've never 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:32.199 been there, you never experienced it. Those Those are the 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.439 things that fans don't understand some of these players are 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:41.120 dealing with. And I understand that people don't care. You shouldn't, 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:49.879 but it's also part of what's going on. I love 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.800 cut to It, and I love it even more when 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:57.119 you download us and subscribe, and you can follow us 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.440 on social media too, Smithie where where at at cut 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:05.600 to It? On Instagram? What about Twitter? At cut to It? Facebook? 0:22:06.320 --> 0:22:09.720 Cut to It featuring Steve Smith singr? What about online? 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:12.680 And you can follow us at cut to It podcast 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.880 dot com where you can buy merch and you can 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.360 subscribe to us wherever you listen to podcasts. I got 0:22:19.359 --> 0:22:22.920 all my answers questions. Um, yeah, I got all my 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:26.480 questions answered. That's what I'm here for. A brother cut 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:30.120 to a podcast dot com. I can tell you right now, 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:33.960 I think Baker's gonna win that win that competition. I'm 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:37.840 just saying that right now. You know, why is that? 0:22:38.600 --> 0:22:45.920 Because he's he's experienced adversity, right, and he's overcame it. 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:53.760 I would I would say Sam hasn't overcome his adversity yet. 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:56.080 Why do you say that? Have you not been watching? 0:22:56.160 --> 0:22:58.240 Just I'm just I'm just asking. I'm get in context, 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:02.919 so good, But he's at he's he's at because you 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:05.480 can you can argue that he's had adversity. I don't know, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.520 and is it? Will he get over the hump? I 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:12.560 don't mean, we just don't know. When Sam has gotten 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:16.879 rushed in the game. Does he look comfortable? No, I 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:20.760 know never no quarterback. Every looks comfortable under Durest, But 0:23:20.880 --> 0:23:28.440 Sam seems to make bigger, bigger mistakes under Durest. Baker's 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:32.160 makes everybody makes mistakes under the rest. But Baker has 0:23:32.200 --> 0:23:35.040 shown us that he can still win under the rest. 0:23:35.800 --> 0:23:39.480 Now that offense, what I'm interested in seeing is how 0:23:39.560 --> 0:23:43.879 Baker handles that offense and what Ben mcadoo's offense is 0:23:43.920 --> 0:23:49.720 compared to coach Stefanski because the coach, Coach Stefanski's offense 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:54.480 is built on play action, which is down the field 0:23:55.720 --> 0:23:59.600 and the running game. That's you can argue that with 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:01.479 Baker right like he's at a he's at a strong 0:24:01.840 --> 0:24:05.320 running he's at a strong running game. That affects your 0:24:05.359 --> 0:24:08.080 offense right, Yes, opens up the play action, yes, And 0:24:08.080 --> 0:24:11.639 that's the way this office is. The Kirk Cousins has 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:15.480 played under this offense, which he's behind on Tom Brady 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:21.720 as far as completions down the field, justin Jefferson is 0:24:21.760 --> 0:24:28.000 developing at an extraordinary pace. Adam thieling this offense, Clint Kubiak, 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:35.159 which is that uh uh uh Kubiak as well. And 0:24:35.200 --> 0:24:40.320 then you have Kyle Shannihan who's had it's been under 0:24:40.359 --> 0:24:47.080 this offense under Kubiak in Tennessee. I'm not not Tennessee Houston. 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:51.640 So he goes to forty nine Hackett. He's gonna bring 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:57.439 this kind of type of offense to the Broncos. The 0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:00.560 Jets now are trying to get that offense because of 0:25:01.040 --> 0:25:05.480 uh la Flour's Matt Lafore's brother La floor. That's with 0:25:05.520 --> 0:25:08.680 the Jackson and obviously Green Bay. You see how they 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.840 had tried to have that two headed monster running the ball, right, 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.960 So running the ball is efficient. But the question now 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:21.199 is gonna be can Christian McCaffrey stay healthy. When healthy, 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:23.919 he's one of the best. But the problem with Christian 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:29.639 isn't necessarily because he can't play. He could play, And 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:34.040 they're saying that we're gonna monitor his his workload. I 0:25:34.040 --> 0:25:39.280 think that's excellent in practice. He doesn't get hurt in practice. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:43.640 It's actually in the game. So how do you monitor 0:25:44.240 --> 0:25:47.720 the workload? Win? Most of the time. If he doesn't 0:25:47.760 --> 0:25:51.200 get two carries or twenty two touches or the ball, 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.200 it's a completely different offense. And that's kind of where 0:25:54.200 --> 0:25:58.800 I'm going with stats plus right, like what what what else? Right? 0:25:58.920 --> 0:26:03.480 Because there's other factors. The underlying factor is the health 0:26:03.480 --> 0:26:06.440 of Christian McCaffrey. Right, So it's great if if if 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:09.040 Baker is a top fifteen quarterback, and I hope that 0:26:09.040 --> 0:26:11.400 he's going to be a top fifteen quarterback, But what 0:26:11.440 --> 0:26:14.199 else happens if Chris McCaffrey gets hurt, if all the 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:16.280 other things, if the defense doesn't continue to take the 0:26:16.359 --> 0:26:18.879 steps forward that we know that they have or the 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:21.520 old line doesn't does it. So there are other things 0:26:21.600 --> 0:26:24.480 that you know. Just for me, I'm not looking at 0:26:24.800 --> 0:26:27.520 we got we got Baker Mayfield and we're there, Like, 0:26:27.560 --> 0:26:30.400 there's other things that still have to happen. I'm concerned 0:26:30.400 --> 0:26:33.960 about the defense because they're top top five defense. I 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:37.400 think they're all second overall. But how many times did 0:26:37.400 --> 0:26:41.720 they play and get warned down because they they can't 0:26:41.720 --> 0:26:44.320 get off the field because because the offense is making 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:46.639 them soon as they get off the field, the office 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:50.480 is making them get back on the field. So it's counterintuitive, 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:53.280 like you got three phases in football, but only one 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:56.920 phase is strong and another tour struggling. Right, So there's 0:26:56.960 --> 0:26:58.639 just a number of other things. Can they can they 0:26:58.720 --> 0:27:01.480 rush the pastor like we want them to be able? Well, 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:04.760 Russian and Passenger is gonna be interesting because Hassan Radi 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:09.840 is right, your your Hasan was a really good three four. 0:27:09.920 --> 0:27:13.879 You're running a hybrid for three, right, but you have 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:18.240 the players who actually are four three type. If you 0:27:18.359 --> 0:27:22.920 watch Derek Brown in college, looking at this offense a 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:29.040 three four type of defense, you want ladder of movement. Yeah, right, 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:30.919 that's what you want out of your three four. You 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:33.639 want your guy, your your three technique or your A 0:27:33.840 --> 0:27:37.560 or B gap clogger tackles, your tackles. You want them 0:27:37.600 --> 0:27:42.239 to move latterly to clogged up things. The problem with 0:27:42.359 --> 0:27:45.800 that is, Derek Brown is a dump truck. Do you 0:27:45.840 --> 0:27:49.400 know what a dump truck does? It goes forward and backwards. 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:52.920 It does not go ladder. You ever seen a dump 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:57.280 truck try to do a flipping you? Have you ever 0:27:57.320 --> 0:27:59.120 seen a dump truck do that? Have you ever seen 0:27:59.119 --> 0:28:02.080 a dump truck do a ten point turn? They never 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:04.520 I've never seen a dump truck to a three point turn. 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:07.880 It's always like a ten point big boo boo. It's 0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:13.760 it's crazy. It's a lot in that caboose. I'm not 0:28:13.840 --> 0:28:16.240 comment on another man's boost, No, no, I'm just talking 0:28:16.280 --> 0:28:22.000 about the trash. And it's so much and and so 0:28:22.160 --> 0:28:24.560 you're saying, what are you getting on? Why do you 0:28:24.600 --> 0:28:29.080 think that? Steve? Think about how excellent KK Short was 0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:33.159 in his defense, and look how his numbers declined and 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:38.000 the injury started mounting up when he lost his partner, 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:45.160 cried star Star was the dump truck which allowed people 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:52.320 had to handle this big old man, mammoth of a 0:28:52.400 --> 0:28:55.880 man with a double team. So allowed KK who was athletic, 0:28:56.680 --> 0:29:00.080