WEBVTT - Drive Time: Quarterback Offseason Capsule 2025 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.480 What is up, Dolphins, And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:16.160 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.919 we are getting into the positional capsules, taking a look 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.840 at the Dolphins offseason for twenty twenty five. Up today 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:25.840 the quarterbacks will take a look at the internals, the 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:29.120 free agents, and the draft prospects as we have graded 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.040 them accordingly so far. Today also talk about rams and 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.360 vikings a little bit more here from the Baptist Health 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:38.680 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:44.200 Drive Time Podcast. So it is time for the first 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.200 round of capsules, primers, whatever we're gonna call them here. 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:49.600 Over the coming weeks, we're gonna look at each position 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.239 group internally. We'll tell you who the free agent options 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.600 are and get into the tape on those guys and 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:58.160 the declared draft prospects. And let's go ahead and start 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.520 where we have literally always started on this. The quarterback 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.040 is that how everybody does it too? 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:03.640 Like you do? 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.319 You know, the same cadence quarterback, running back, wide receiver, 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:12.240 tight end, offensive line, defensive tackle, edge off ball, linebacker, cornerback, safety, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:13.800 Like every time I do that, just like the same 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.000 as the divisions you know, you start in the AFC, 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.440 you go east, north, southwest, and do the NFC in 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.520 the exact same order creature of habit I suppose. But additionally, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.440 you know, I've been trying to figure out how I 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.520 want to parse out the prospect stuff, and I was 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:30.200 thinking about, you know, cramming this Senior Bowl rosters in here, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.240 and you know, from a time perspective, I didn't have 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:34.800 enough time to get to all those guys, and I 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.720 want to make sure I'm what's the word I'm looking 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.640 for here, comprehensive on all the entire class, not to 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.080 mention that the Shrine Bowl has a bunch of talent 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.920 there as well. So I think that we'll just go 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:48.760 ahead and do it as I get to it, and 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.440 we'll update this as we go along. So sound good, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.400 Because I have like a couple of free agents I've done, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:55.600 I've got a bunch of draft prospects I've done, and 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.040 obviously our own internal guys are off top of the dome. 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.160 So let's go ahead and get into this with the 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.520 internal guys are our own quarterbacks, and we'll do this 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.840 like this. The first topic is going to be general 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.360 thoughts on the room, and I wrote this, you prefer 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.679 doing this how we did it in twenty twenty three, 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.520 where there's only one guy to evaluate, right, But this 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.480 year we saw four quarterbacks, three different starters. We hit 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:19.519 some incredible highs, including one of the best games against 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.639 a Sean McDermott Buffalo Bills team in his entire eight 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.680 year stint with the Bills, which was the second highest 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.760 EPA in a game by a quarterback two against the Bills. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:31.800 This year, we've seen a stretch of near perfect quarterback 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.040 play for like a five week span, but also some 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.760 of the more devastating lows, imaginable, absolute stinkers in the 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.840 pivot point games. And I'll be a focus this entire 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:44.400 offseason for how the Dolphins approach this, and we've seen 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.600 them the injury issues plagued the starting quarterback as well. 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:49.400 It's rebably the two things you're talking about when it 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.760 comes to this room. And then beyond that, what are 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.240 you going to do beyond the first quarterback because it 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.320 was an abject failure, not just this year, but going 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.000 back to really since Twoa's gotten here, the backup position 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.920 has been a train wreck since the Ryan Fitzpatrick existence. 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:05.840 So let's go ahead and kick it off with number 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:08.200 one to a tongue bai loa. I alluded to the 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:11.160 game in Buffalo in the intro. I think that was 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:13.880 the best game of his career and again, second highest 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.840 EPA in a game at Buffalo for any quarterback against 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.040 that McDermott defense over eight years, and I fall back 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:23.840 on that as a way to illustrate Tua's growth. He's 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.919 always had this exceptional recall that we've praised. I'll never 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:29.280 forget having him on the podcast when I was green 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.480 and terrible, interviewing talking about the game winning touchdown pass 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.720 at Alabama and he broke down the entire play for me. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.920 But you've also seen him demonstrate the checklist that a quarterback 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.240 must go through with his pre snap process. I even 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.160 asked him about this in a press conference and replied 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:43.880 to him like it's a lot man, and he jokingly 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:46.880 said he anybody can play quarterback, brother, which is not 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.800 true too. And look, maybe I'm preaching to the choir 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:51.560 here that agrees with me, because well, you're on my. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:52.440 Show, my channel. 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.520 But I feel like this is a hard point to convey, Like, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.080 for example, if I have cover two and we have 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:02.000 a route concept, that needs two and a half seconds 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.000 to remove the half field safety from the perimeter of 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.280 the field from a stagnant position. And then I need 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:09.720 to sell the underneath cloud corner who makes up the 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.160 underneath part of that cover two to give up his 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.440 outside leverage, maybe match something where he runs inside. And 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.720 all this does is freeze up what looks like the 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.560 most simple throw in football swing route to your running back, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:23.320 and it winds up being a neutral PFF grade, right, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.240 But the quarterback still has to read that coverage, go 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:29.840 through the process of threatening the flag route, threatening the 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.240 end break route, threatening those players to get them off 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 of their positions, to make them believe that they're going 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.120 to have to get to a new position to take 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.640 away a downfield throw. And all it does is freeze 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.000 up the swing route to maximize the run after the catch. 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:47.680 So the PFF grades don't internal. Don't know that internal 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.680 part of the play. I do because I know how 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.160 the offense works. So that's high level stuff, but you're 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.960 not going to get a good grade for it from PFF. 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.640 It's high level processing with the work being done between 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.400 the ears, and we only grade the physical that we see. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.239 That is where we miss the Mark, so that paired 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.320 with the accurate downfield shots last year, the added creativity 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.480 this year, which comes with a caveat that has put 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.440 him in peril a couple times. I think this is 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.920 one of the game's best quarterbacks and we should be very, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.480 very very grateful to have him. Now, he's got to 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.680 stay healthy. And his worst game of the year was 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.360 that Houston game, right, a game that we had a 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.720 chance to if we win that game, you know, the 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.000 hip injury is something else, but you're probably cruising into 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.000 the playoffs if you win that game. And I cannot 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.000 wait to watch this young man have that breakthrough in 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.200 one of these games, because it's coming. You know, as 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:34.279 we discussed on the wild Card Recap pod, those narratives 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.240 melt like butter in an inferno when they go away, 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.200 Like it goes away in the snap of a finger. 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.120 For instance, on Sunday, either Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.320 are going to erase a narrative one way or the other, right, 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.760 And I think to a will too, hopefully here in 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.280 twenty twenty five. And that's all without even acknowledging. Hey, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.840 you know, this dude played pretty damn well against Green 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.880 Bay last year in the game against Philly. Go watch 0:05:56.920 --> 0:05:58.679 the first half against the Eagles. Look at his numbers 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.200 and the throws he made in that game, and then 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.560 the drop touchdown pass the Tyreek Hill had in the 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.040 second half of that game, or the aforementioned Buffalo game 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.880 where the numbers were good for through four quarters. Like, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.000 he's not impervious to big game success. He's had it. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.159 We've just kind of melted down around him. He's just 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:17.320 had a few bad ones because hey, guess what, Beating 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.120 great teams is hard to do. Just ask Jordan Love 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.960 or Justin Herbert. And really it's not even a knock 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.920 on those guys. It's just the insane standard that we 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.360 hold quarterbacks to. And when I say we, I'm talking 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.839 about fans on social media and that stuff actually exists 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:31.599 inside buildings. 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:32.640 But you get what I'm saying. 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.600 He's had a passer rating over one hundred for the 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.560 third straight year, only Dolphins quarterback to ever do that. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.720 He has the third highest cumulative passer rating over the 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.760 last three years. Mahomes and Lamar Jackson are the only 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.320 guys higher. I mean, you guys have seen the charts 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.080 top right in every category, right, we are one season 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.839 away from this guy buttoning up two narratives and these 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.200 conversations being strictly about all the good that he has done, 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:58.599 and I think we'll get there very very quickly. The 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:01.680 rest of the quarterback room Tyler Huntley number eighteen. A 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.400 lot was asked of Snoop this year. You know, we've 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.240 lead litigated countless times how tough this offense is to 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.520 come in and grasp from the jump, and quite frankly, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.080 how hard it is to come off the bench and 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.000 play this position in this league. Teams that have to 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.960 start a backup for extended periods of times usually don't 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.960 sustain winning for very long. The Browns game was a 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.600 good snapshot of what he can do where you can 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.080 utilize the run game and in corporate play action off 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.200 that his running ability can generate single high looks, which 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.440 is obviously very attractive when you have the receivers that 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.720 you have. But I just had so many issues with 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:36.119 what he put on tape, going back to the first 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.880 stint and not processing anything at all, passing up open eligibles, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:44.640 a wonky delivery that can get a mechanics off sorts 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.320 and cause for like several misfires in a game on 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.160 layup throws like in the Jets game, for instance, and 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.840 then that's not going to change to the stage of 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.640 his career, and neither will. I think the poor decision 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.760 making we saw in that finale with potentially everything on 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.040 the line. The saving grace with his quarterback is his creativity. 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.280 But it's not special. It's not like he's a Lamar 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.240 Jackson level creator, certainly not special enough to mitigate all 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.400 the misses we see in the passing game, which again, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.520 you're willing to live with that if you have Josh 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.960 Allen or Lamar Jackson type skills but you don't. But 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.240 you can't be well Zach Wilson or Snoop Huntley and 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.440 have as many misses as he had this year. I'm 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.320 curious to see what the off season brings with this guy. 0:08:21.360 --> 0:08:24.200 For free agency standpoint, I would I would be willing 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:26.640 to offer him a minimum contract and see if he 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.840 wants to come compete and possibly even you know, if 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:30.760 you wind up with a Jelen Milroe in the mid 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.560 rounds of the draft, a guy that can you know, 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:34.480 help a quarterback like that ud be your scout team 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.880 service team quarterback. Like I'm interested as far as that goes. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.719 But if he comes into if we break camp and 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.439 he's the number two quarterback, I have a lot of concerns. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:43.480 Scaler Thompson. 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.640 I had something written out and I erased it because 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.120 he signed to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Hey, best of luck 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.760 in Pittsburgh, Skyler. I thought he was headed for a 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.120 spring league, That's what I wrote down here. But he's 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:55.480 gonna get a chance with the Pittsburgh Steelers. What this 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.240 room needs. Oh, how the priorities have changed. Man, First 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.000 it was getting in an adult in the room for 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:01.720 a young Tua. 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:02.960 Tua, where's dua? 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.040 Then he grew up out of that and went the 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:08.800 developmental route, right, But you invest nearly as low as 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.360 you can in developmental player in the seventh round. And 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:14.200 I thought, you know, Mike White's Jets tape had some 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:18.679 backup upside to it, not true starter upside, but his 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.840 game clearly hasn't evolved at all because he can't crack 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.760 the lineup in Buffalo. You know, massaging the situation with 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:27.200 Tua was the next kind of move, and you know, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.680 not bringing in a real challenger. I think that was 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.800 obviously a miss. But you know, I think that this 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.880 was a quarterback who you kind of had to repair 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:36.760 your relationship with him based upon how he was treated 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:38.880 under the previous head coach. And I think part of 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.200 that was, you know, not putting a quarterback they would 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.440 threaten his status. And whether or not you agree with that, 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.120 I don't really agree with it, but I think that 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.360 was part of the decision making that led to that 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.040 quarterback room looking like it looked last year. Then you 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.280 get the comp pick stuff, which I think was, you know, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.120 they were desperately trying to get themselves into this high 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.320 level or high amount of draft picks to kind of 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.160 repair what's been a broken draft haul the last two 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.840 years in terms of the volume of picks that you made. 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.280 And now you knew going into this year that you 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.560 probably needed to get like five contributors on rookie contracts 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.440 from this year's draft class, and that's why you go 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.280 with ten picks and try to make sure you get 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:14.040 those ten picks. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:15.760 But that's not the case this year. 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.160 And I think on top of someone that can win games, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.480 I think another strong voice in the room could help. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.600 I also think that you could stand to do a 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:26.160 developmental type signing, like a Trey Lance or a Zach Wilson. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.840 I like one of them. I don't like the other one. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.120 But I think you compare those two things like why 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.959 not it's if it's the reason you weren't a playoff 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:36.199 team in twenty twenty four and it's not that expensive, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.880 then let's attack it with a type of vigor that 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.080 gives you assurances, you know, to deal with tragedy or 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.240 you know, whatever you call losing a quarterback to injury. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.079 Before we get to the additional options here, additional assets, 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.800 this is not a position where you get that right now. 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.240 It's just two on the roster, but that will obviously 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.640 change in the coming months. First break right there, come 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:57.319 back and talk about the free agent quarterbacks available. We'll 0:10:57.320 --> 0:10:58.800 also do draft picks, and I want to get some 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.120 thoughts on the Rams and Viking game from Monday night. 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.040 That's all next Draft Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:11.120 brought to you by Autoonation. So I'm parsing through this 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:13.880 list of free agent quarterbacks and the draft as well, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.080 and I'm trying to decide for the best way to 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:17.760 do this, and we're gonna figure it out live here 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.120 on the program. I think i'll list them for you 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.680 and then do the breakdowns, because it kind of seems 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.000 like doing the list first will give it away and 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:27.800 kind of rud the suspense. Let's go ahead and list 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.040 my quarterback free agent rakings based upon guys that I've 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.319 watched so far, and it goes like this, Number one 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.280 is Sam Donald. I think that's a given, the contracts 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:38.080 will bear that out. Number two is Andy Dalton. Number 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.480 three is Trey Lance, and that's actually my cutoff. I 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.560 have two targets of interest, and I'm gonna tell you why. 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.280 I don't think Donald is one of them. I think 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.400 it's an obvious one. We'll break it down for you guys. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.600 And then I get to guys that i'm I'm I 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.200 could be convinced on, but I'm not crazy about, and 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.440 they go like this and this word number four, Justin Fields, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:59.080 number five, Marcus Mariota, number six, Jimmy Garoppolo, number seven, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.240 Jamis Winston, number eight, Drew Locke, number nine, Zach Wilson, 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.559 and some notable other names I have not watched yet 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.560 or done a workup on. I should say as Cooper Rush, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.640 Joe Flacco, Mac Jones, and Josh Dobbs. I can tell you, right, 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.640 now from watching live copy all season my whole life, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.840 I'm not gonna be interested in those four guys, so 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.200 we might not even do it. We'll see for comprehensive sense, 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:20.880 we might have to do it, but we'll see. But 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:22.640 here's what I do have for you, guys. The first 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.240 guy that I watched is the guy that I want 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:28.840 the most, and it's Andy Dalton quick game rhythm pro. Obviously, 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:30.400 he has lots of experience in this league. He was 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.559 drafted back in twenty eleven, so he's been around for 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.400 a millennium. Almost exceptional pre snap at the last scrimmage 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.240 with his cadence getting people where they need to go, 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.160 you can see him actually get guys a line. So 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.200 I think you can say goodbye to some of the 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.640 formational and procedural issues you've had in the past, and 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.000 the stats really bear that out. Last year he was 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.199 plus seven point three EPA on dropbacks under two and 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.440 a half seconds, such your quick game typically. That was 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.480 thirteenth in the NFL, compared to minus twenty six on 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.520 dropbacks over two and a half seconds, which is twenty 0:12:58.559 --> 0:13:00.520 second in the league. So get the all out quick 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.000 and you'll be okay with Andy Dalton. He's poised against 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.120 the blitz, not to be confused with pressure, because he 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.480 does struggle against pressure, and that comes from the comfort 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.680 of knowing how your protectional lines and that you have 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.040 the answer in the route concept, like Okay, I have 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.360 this vulnerability off my left, but I have this route 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:16.640 off to the right that I can hit with that 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.320 tilted defense. He understands the indicators the defense gives him. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.160 There's like a little I watched a couple of games 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.679 and he would throw a slant flat to the backside 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.720 to attack a blitzing will linebacker. He sees that he 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.920 stays in the hook and he immediately goes back to 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.040 the swings like all right, I know where you're leaning. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:33.600 Let me check to make sure you go there and 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.960 get the ball to that vacancy before it even plays out, 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.240 and it scores. It's a touchdown on the play, so 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.720 really impressive film work there. He can be somewhat declarative 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.000 where he will look it down, which you know some 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.200 of these pocket passers can do that because he probably 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.280 thinks he saw something and kind of maybe a little 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.800 bit stubborn to get off of it. Does not have 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.600 elite anticipation. I mean, we see the best in the league, 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:55.400 so it's hard to measure up to that. But he 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.120 will miss some throws with accuracy issues and he's not 0:13:58.160 --> 0:13:59.880 going to create offscript. But there's a reason this guy's 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:02.319 a backup quarterback available to you. The conclusion here is 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.560 a one year, top of the market free agent backup cost. 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.199 No developmental or upside to this quarterback, but I think 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:10.240 that he provides the most stability of anybody out there. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:13.600 Sam Donald is next aphabet alphabetically, but I'm not gonna 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.760 work him up. He's just so far apart from what 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:18.319 we're looking for, not even on my radar. Onto the 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.680 next alphabetically that is Justin fields, excellent in the design, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:26.920 run game, offscript creation, particularly with his legs added hat 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.120 in the run game, makes him a highly efficient red 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.160 zone option. In fact, I think the Steeler should have 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.720 gone to more Justin fields down the red zone, down 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.000 the stretch. And in fact, I would replaced him back 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.240 with Russell Wilson because Russell Wilson fell into all his 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.920 old habits. But that's a different conversation. But he's a 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.520 great short yard conversion rate type of quarterback. Still struggles 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.320 immensely to process and see the field. He can't see 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:47.920 s dude. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.080 It is bad. It is tough to watch. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.120 He's a one read and move off the spot, try 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.080 to bail on the clean pockets and doesn't play through 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.040 the progressions and thus doesn't move coverage and accordance to 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.080 how it should with the offense in terms of how 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.640 it should be executed. He throws with touch and exceptional trajectory. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.720 That was what made me love him, in addition to 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.640 his legs at Ohio State on those deep passes. But 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:11.480 it's pretty scattershot in these short to intermediate areas. My 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.040 conclusion is, if you go this route, you're not banking 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.560 on any upside. I think it's done. I don't think 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.280 he's gonna get better. He's played plenty of football and 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.840 demonstrated enough poor field vision that you can't expect it 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 to show up. He does, however, again offer you in 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.440 a playing time sense where he's not just your backup quarterback. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.840 He has a package for himself because of his ability 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.280 to run the football in both short yardage and in 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.920 the red zone. That part intrigues me. Everything else not 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.680 so much. And I'll tell you why. I think you 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:39.400 can get both those two things here. Jimmy Garoppolo's up next, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:43.920 alphabetically razor thin, physical skills that have deteriorated as he's aged. 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.520 He plays on time and in rhythm when the reads 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.000 are clearly defined. Does a great job throwing to space 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.720 off play action and a rhythm based passing attack. But 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.320 anytime he's asked to execute a true drop back and 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.000 decipher the leverage and coverage, you get errors. You might 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:58.880 get a couple of them, but he'll make a critical 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.480 backbreaking pick and cost your team a big football game 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:03.600 in a spot, or take a sack and lose the football. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.480 I think he's an option, but not a great option. 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.680 Plus he gets hurt like way more than two. What 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.200 does So I can't afford to make him QB two 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.240 and not have anybody else behind him and then lose 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:16.920 him in a preseason game or in training camp. But 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.360 just I can't trust that. The familiarity is one thing 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.920 my conclusion here is the one thing that's attractive about him. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:23.960 But at this stage of his career, I think it's 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.160 going to get worse. So I'm passing on this prospect 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:30.320 or this free agent. Trey Lance extremely comfortable with a 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.920 shifting launch point. You can boot him off play action 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.280 and run him on the move off his own read 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.680 and keeper looks. He throws the anticipation when presented with leverage, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:40.920 which I didn't think was on his tape previously. He 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:43.000 knows where he wants to go, but I think inherently 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.360 struggles to keep his eyes down the field with that 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.800 natural feel for the rush. He lacks feel for the 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.320 rush and clean areas in the pocket, something I feel 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.320 we can get there with more time and experience, because 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.480 he's played the least amount of football of anybody that 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.360 age that I can remember. He has seventeen college starts, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.680 you know, the pandemic shortened season costs a whole year, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:03.240 basically five starts. As a pro, I don't think he's 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.280 making protection changes and calls. Yet he takes sacks that 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:08.360 you can see coming from a mile away, and he 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.720 does bail in his fair share of clean pockets. But 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:14.399 I can accept that from a quarterback that has played 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.679 like twenty football games in the last seven years. I 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.880 can't accept that from a quarterback who's played sixty games 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.440 in the last six years. At a certain point, you 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.600 run out of rope, right he struggles to layer of 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:28.200 the football. Accuracy on touch throws is as unpredictable, like 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.679 as as my buddy JT. Santos's wedge game and golf 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.680 could come out floppy, could come out skullly anybody's guess. 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.080 But I think he can execute our on time stuff. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.720 He throws a curl against soft Cover one before the 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.040 receiver begins to even throw down back down the stem, 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.320