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Speaker 2: our look back of the Jets twenty twenty four draft
Speaker 2: with the college scouts.
Speaker 1: The draft is.
Speaker 2: Full of stories and we've got three special ones today
Speaker 2: on wide receiver Malkai Corley, quarterback Jordan Travis, and defensive
Speaker 2: back Quantes Stiggers. The feeling going into the draft was
Speaker 2: the Jets would take a wide receiver early after selecting
Speaker 2: Penn State tackle Olu Fashionu in round one, GM Joe
Speaker 2: Douglas traded up in the third round to take Western
Speaker 2: Kentucky's Malkai Corley at the top of round three and
Speaker 2: four stellar seasons with the Hilltoppers, the five eleven, two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen pounders set the school record with two
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty nine receptions for twenty nine hundred and
Speaker 2: forty three yards and twenty nine touchdowns. He was Aaron Rodgers'
Speaker 2: favorite receiver in the draft. Scouting director John Carr, along
Speaker 2: with senior regional scout Jonathan Stiegel and national scout Don
Speaker 2: Green Here are going to provide us with all the
Speaker 2: background on a Yat King who saw things through at WKU.
Speaker 3: I'll say that the guys did a great job that
Speaker 3: handled that area. Was Jonathan Stiegel was the primary there,
Speaker 3: with Dom Green being the national scout and then Phil
Speaker 3: Savage being the third look with Malachi, and each and
Speaker 3: every one of those guys were consensus with their grades
Speaker 3: what they had on him, and same thing with the
Speaker 3: character that they got on the young man. Being a
Speaker 3: former coach, this guy right here, I was super excited
Speaker 3: when I turned on the tape with Malachi.
Speaker 4: He's tough, he's competitive.
Speaker 3: You know, he has the ability, in my opinion, to
Speaker 3: play inside and outside, so he gives us some versatility.
Speaker 3: He love his play strength and what's been said by everyone,
Speaker 3: his outstanding run after the catchability. This guy has such
Speaker 3: great spatial awareness and he's so physical. Sometimes he's looking
Speaker 3: for to run through people as opposed to run away
Speaker 3: from them, and he's successful in doing those things. But
Speaker 3: he brings a competitive edge that I think will fit
Speaker 3: well within our wide receiver room. She's so super excited
Speaker 3: about Malachi. He was a favorite in the room as
Speaker 3: far as him being there or I think we moved
Speaker 3: up and for him to be there.
Speaker 4: It was kind of a fired up moment for everyone
Speaker 4: in the room.
Speaker 5: The key some of us scouts have been saying is conviction, right, Like,
Speaker 5: from the scouting staff to the coaching staff, this was
Speaker 5: a player that it's felt like everyone in the building
Speaker 5: had a feel for. We love the way the kid plays,
Speaker 5: we love him with the ball in his hands, we
Speaker 5: love his mentality. I know it's been documented. You know that,
Speaker 5: you know he'll run over a relative if he has to.
Speaker 5: Like it all goes back to what I said earlier
Speaker 5: that we want to get to know these kids, and
Speaker 5: we feel like Malachi is a kid that when the
Speaker 5: game is on the line, when the balls in his hands,
Speaker 5: he wants to win and that's what we want. And
Speaker 5: he's got that sense of urgency in his mind that
Speaker 5: he wants to be the best.
Speaker 2: Well, what was Friday actually like as the weight increased
Speaker 2: for you guys as staff knowing that, Hey, listen, we
Speaker 2: like a lot of prospects for our next pick.
Speaker 1: We really want Coreling.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 3: I mean we had, you know, a certain amount of
Speaker 3: receivers on the board that we really liked, and obviously
Speaker 3: Corley was in that list and some of those guys
Speaker 3: were taken there in the second round, you saw a
Speaker 3: slew of receivers started getting drafted there in the second
Speaker 3: after the first round guys went and so there was
Speaker 3: conversations on the phone with trying to get back there
Speaker 3: in the end of the second that maybe pick up
Speaker 3: a pick and get Malachi. And you know, sometimes it works,
Speaker 3: sometimes it doesn't, but it worked out perfectly. Joe was
Speaker 3: very patient and talk to everybody. He made sure he
Speaker 3: exhausted all of his avenues before we decided just to
Speaker 3: wait for him at seventy two, which was our third
Speaker 3: round pick, and we were able to you know, make
Speaker 3: a good deal with Carolina to get the top of
Speaker 3: the third and get our guy. So there was a
Speaker 3: lot of conversations over the phone and everyone talking to
Speaker 3: everyone to see if we can move in and get
Speaker 3: our guy. But it worked out perfectly for us.
Speaker 6: You know, going in there. The last couple of years,
Speaker 6: this guy's always made plays in that offense. You know,
Speaker 6: it's pretty unique. You know, he's got a lot of
Speaker 6: short targets and screen passes, but the guy's always making
Speaker 6: big plays off of those, either running over or running
Speaker 6: around guys. And when you get to see the guy
Speaker 6: You're like, Okay, this makes sense. I mean he's a
Speaker 6: well built receiver. I mean, the guy's built. He could
Speaker 6: play running back, you know, in the in the body
Speaker 6: sense early on, you know, like I said, you know,
Speaker 6: going in there in the past and watching from Bailey
Speaker 6: Zappi throwing balls to him to the quarterback this year,
Speaker 6: and I mean the guys at highlight film you know,
Speaker 6: watching him, he's just you get the ball in his hands,
Speaker 6: he's going to be productive, and he's so tough and competitive.
Speaker 7: Well for a wide receiver. You know, I'm an old,
Speaker 7: old line guy. So I mean, you got to be
Speaker 7: able to catch. It's called wide receiver for a reason, right,
Speaker 7: So you got the ability to catch the football. But
Speaker 7: it's more than that. You gotta be able to run routes.
Speaker 7: You gotta be able to move inside outside as far
Speaker 7: as your alignment. So you got to have a great
Speaker 7: mental feel for the game, you know, and you got
Speaker 7: to be able to separate as a route runner. So
Speaker 7: your quarterback's got a good window to throw to. So
Speaker 7: but Malachi watched watch him, you know, about this time
Speaker 7: last year, started really digging into him. Really really fun
Speaker 7: player to watch because he's a. He's really physical, he's tough,
Speaker 7: he's strong, and he's really good as a runner after
Speaker 7: the catch. So he's the guy with a background and
Speaker 7: as a running back, and he was really fun to watch.
Speaker 7: He's one of the more exciting players to me this
Speaker 7: time last year heading into the ball.
Speaker 2: How big of a week was it for him down
Speaker 2: at the Senior Bowl? As far as I know, he
Speaker 2: played Ohio State during the season, but for you guys,
Speaker 2: it's pro scouts to watch him against the bust of
Speaker 2: the bust.
Speaker 4: It was big.
Speaker 6: Like I stated before the offense State run, he doesn't
Speaker 6: run a lot of pro style routes, so putting him
Speaker 6: in the position to do that, he did good. I mean,
Speaker 6: he still has work to do because he hasn't done
Speaker 6: a lot of it, but you could see the speed,
Speaker 6: the strength of quickness in the hands. You know, hard
Speaker 6: league's physical, and he's not going to shy away from
Speaker 6: any of that. I mean, his mindset is to catch
Speaker 6: the ball and find the end zone and he did
Speaker 6: a good job of that, and I thought he had
Speaker 6: a good Senior Bowl week.
Speaker 7: You know, people leave for whatever reasons, but you know,
Speaker 7: you each case is his individual, you know, from from
Speaker 7: the next You know, you can't really compare, but I
Speaker 7: would say that it does. You know, it leaves you
Speaker 7: feeling warm and fuzzy about a player's stability and loyalty
Speaker 7: when they've been you know, asked to leave and all
Speaker 7: that stuff, been hit with a lot of big time
Speaker 7: offers to leave, you know, so it kind of you
Speaker 7: get a better idea of the of the makeup of
Speaker 7: the kid and what's really important to him to stay somewhere,
Speaker 7: be really successful, be with his teammates, be loyal to
Speaker 7: those that have gotten to that point in his career.
Speaker 2: Do you think this is a good spot for him
Speaker 2: when you look at the situation, like anybody wants to
Speaker 2: play with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 2: But as far as like the way the receiver room
Speaker 2: is set up with Garrett's versatility, Mike a traditional big
Speaker 2: acts you can go up and get it and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. You guys got some dup, But can you
Speaker 2: talk about like how you think Corey fits.
Speaker 1: In with the group?
Speaker 4: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, Garrett can do both inside and out,
Speaker 6: and I think Malachi will be able to do the same.
Speaker 6: You know, he'll need some more outside refinement. But having
Speaker 6: the versatility to do both is huge at this level.
Speaker 6: I mean, it just gives you more balance and a
Speaker 6: threat instead of just having one, you know, one standout guy,
Speaker 6: you know, adding Mike and having the size you know
Speaker 6: to play big and contested situations on the outside, and
Speaker 6: having Garrett and Malachi if they're all in the field,
Speaker 6: to work all levels of the defensive backfield.
Speaker 2: It wasn't exactly a secret the Jets would add a
Speaker 2: quarterback in the draft.
Speaker 1: The questions we all had was when and who.
Speaker 2: In the fifth round, with the one hundred and seventy
Speaker 2: first pick, Joe Douglas grabbed Florida State quarterback Jordan Travis.
Speaker 3: So Jordan Travis in the southeast, Andy Davis was the
Speaker 3: primary area of scout. Ja Mandalizi was our national scout
Speaker 3: there and Phil Savage was the third look for Jordan.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you guys, we're going to be in the
Speaker 2: business for a developmental quarterback. Joe Douglas has emphasized that
Speaker 2: he'd love to have a quarterback factory here. You have
Speaker 2: a very good situation there with a future Hall of
Speaker 2: Famer Aaron Rodgers being your starting quarterback. You got Ty
Speaker 2: rod Taylor, an established guy behind him as well. You
Speaker 2: add a third to the mix here, can you speak
Speaker 2: to Jordan's evolution as a college player in Tallahassee great.
Speaker 3: Value pick for us here in that fifth round. And
Speaker 3: you know, if he didn't get injured, he probably would
Speaker 3: have going to higher than where we selected him. Right,
Speaker 3: you're looking at a young man that changed the course
Speaker 3: of Florida State's football.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: As far as he's a winner, he's been a winner
Speaker 3: everywhere he's been. He's a good leader, he's a competitor.
Speaker 3: You know, his athletic ability as a dual thread ability,
Speaker 3: being able to do things when on his arm, but
Speaker 3: his legs he shows good. He has a good arm,
Speaker 3: and he's accurate with his throws. And he's a good
Speaker 3: decision maker. You know, he took care of the football.
Speaker 2: In forty nine college games, Travis hit on sixty two
Speaker 2: point one percent of us passes for nearly nine thousand
Speaker 2: yards with sixty six touchdowns and twenty interceptions. A dual
Speaker 2: threat at Florida State, Travis was a key to the
Speaker 2: seminals resurgence.
Speaker 1: He sustained a serious leg injury against.
Speaker 2: Northern Alabama in November, though area scout Andy Davis and
Speaker 2: National Scout Jamandalisi spoke about Travis's college journey and what's ahead.
Speaker 1: Draft day itself.
Speaker 8: Joe's really good about trying to keep us updated and
Speaker 8: what guys are in consideration, just for us to know, okay,
Speaker 8: we might be needed. And I would say with Jordan
Speaker 8: in particular, there was a lot of positive, positive comments,
Speaker 8: I guess from the coaching staff, from the personnel staff,
Speaker 8: Like I knew that if we were going to go quarterback,
Speaker 8: that would be a guy that was going to be
Speaker 8: in the mix. So I was, you know, ready, I's
Speaker 8: prepared and just excited that you know, when a time
Speaker 8: to pick one, it was, it was Jordan.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think it's been said it's the most important position
Speaker 5: in all of professional sports. It's quarterbacks. So identifying guys
Speaker 5: that you know we can develop and sure there's gonna
Speaker 5: be guys going on day one, day you know, day two,
Speaker 5: those those guys are really good players, and we identify
Speaker 5: Jordan as a guy on day three that similar to Olu.
Speaker 5: You know, he's in a situation where he's able to
Speaker 5: learn under one of the best. But not only that,
Speaker 5: we feel like Jordan is built to learn.
Speaker 2: You were in teleassy, what's the scouting report from the
Speaker 2: perspective of him on the field, and also then tangibles,
Speaker 2: because when you're targeting a guy at that position, you
Speaker 2: need a guy who can lead, who is a worker,
Speaker 2: who is well liked. I mean a quarterback position. You're
Speaker 2: going to ask for a lot from those dudes if
Speaker 2: you're bringing them in the building.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So Jordan, it's his stories unique, right. He started at Louisville,
Speaker 5: had some bumps in the road, goes to Florida State
Speaker 5: and it wasn't perfect early on, And to me, I
Speaker 5: look at that as it was an opportunity for Jordan
Speaker 5: to really go through some adversity and he came out
Speaker 5: on top. Mike Norvell does a great job down in
Speaker 5: Florida State, and he identified Jordan as a guy that
Speaker 5: could change their program and he did just that. And
Speaker 5: I think that was evident this year. You know, they
Speaker 5: went they went thirteen and OHO and you know when
Speaker 5: when Jordan got injured, it's one of those moments you
Speaker 5: kind of remember where you were when it happened, because
Speaker 5: I remember watching on TV and myself and Andy Davis
Speaker 5: were texting each other and just the you felt for
Speaker 5: the kid. You felt for the program because you kind
Speaker 5: of knew, like this was really going to hurt their chances.
Speaker 5: I personally felt they had a chance to win it all,
Speaker 5: and when Jordan went down, you knew they were going
Speaker 5: to get punished for it a little bit. But that
Speaker 5: just speaks to his value as a player. But also
Speaker 5: just seeing the crowd and seeing his team mates, you
Speaker 5: got a sense for the person, like how deflating it was,
Speaker 5: not just for his teammates, but the fans and even
Speaker 5: as a scout, I mean, you feel terrible for the kid,
Speaker 5: knowing all he had accomplished, but you know, he's a
Speaker 5: kid that you know brought them to the top. You know,
Speaker 5: Florida State was a team that had some kids come
Speaker 5: in from the portal at skill positions. Johnny Wilson and
Speaker 5: Keon Coleman and Jean Bell and Trey Benson, Like these
Speaker 5: are all skilled players that they came in from other
Speaker 5: schools and Jordan was the one that brought them all
Speaker 5: together and really got that offense rolling. So he's a
Speaker 5: kid like through the process you get to know him,
Speaker 5: and we got to meet with him at the East
Speaker 5: West Game. I know he came out of thirty visit.
Speaker 5: Coaches spent a lot of time with him, but like
Speaker 5: you feel like this kid's got the intangibles that if
Speaker 5: we're going to take a shot on a guy to
Speaker 5: learn under Aaron and Tyrod, this this is the guy.
Speaker 8: Physically, the ceiling is as good as really Jordan wants
Speaker 8: to be. It's hard to really cap him because he
Speaker 8: is such a good athlete. I think the situation that
Speaker 8: he's coming into is excellent for any quarterback, but especially Jordan.
Speaker 8: You've got Aaron and then Tyrod, So for Jordan, I
Speaker 8: think it's a good situation. You can recover, sit back,
Speaker 8: learn from two excellent NFL vets.
Speaker 1: I've been with the.
Speaker 2: Jets since two thousand and one and covered every draft
Speaker 2: since then. The path of one quantest Stiggers to the
Speaker 2: Jets is on paralleled.
Speaker 1: This is a defensive back who.
Speaker 2: Never played it down to college football. He played in
Speaker 2: something called the Fan Control League, where seven players lined
Speaker 2: up on each side. He ultimately played in the Canadian
Speaker 2: Football League and then became draft eligible. Stiggers became a
Speaker 2: Jet in round five. Here's Director of college Scouting John Carr,
Speaker 2: Area scout.
Speaker 1: Drew Morris, Senior regional.
Speaker 2: Scout Jonathan Stiegel and National Scout Jay Manalisi. I'm the
Speaker 2: kid with the blue helmet.
Speaker 4: Great story right here, I mean this one.
Speaker 3: I think a lot of guys that were so when
Speaker 3: we made the call to him, the different people that
Speaker 3: talk to him on the phone when we.
Speaker 4: Made our selection.
Speaker 3: There were so many people higling this young man because
Speaker 3: of his story, right you know.
Speaker 6: He I think he got overlooked some in high school.
Speaker 6: You know, he accepted an offer to Lane College in Tennessee,
Speaker 6: planned on attending there, and right when he had signed,
Speaker 6: his father was in a catastrophic car accident. Father later
Speaker 6: passed away that summer. You know, contest has a big
Speaker 6: family at home with a lot of siblings, and he
Speaker 6: felt he was the man of the house because he
Speaker 6: was the oldest of the siblings. So he needed to
Speaker 6: go home and work through things to help his mom
Speaker 6: out financially. So he did that. You know, he never complained.
Speaker 6: He did everything there to help out. And I think
Speaker 6: his mother just saw, you know, him still having the
Speaker 6: passion to play. So that's when she looked into the
Speaker 6: player Control Football, which is run by some former pro athletes,
Speaker 6: and he did that and he stood out a Canadian
Speaker 6: scouter coach had a tie down there with that and
Speaker 6: noticed them, so they gave him a tria, you know.
Speaker 6: Contest told me that, you know, he was going into camp,
Speaker 6: you know, and hadn't played, but he was making plays
Speaker 6: and he thought at one point they were going to
Speaker 6: cut him, is what they had told him up there.
Speaker 6: But he kept making plays and started starting and ended
Speaker 6: up winning the CFL Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 3: And it worked out where, you know, he was able
Speaker 3: to get on the East West Shrine through the rules
Speaker 3: they said, he can you know, participate in the East
Speaker 3: West Shrine and be a draftaball type player.
Speaker 9: I started hearing about quantest stiggers, probably from those guys
Speaker 9: and some rumblings around the NFL and probably December at
Speaker 9: the latest, like early January in terms of, hey, this
Speaker 9: guy was the defensive Rookie of the year, not really
Speaker 9: knowing the full story. Obviously, I'm a college guy. I
Speaker 9: got enough college guys to worry about, and our pro
Speaker 9: department is on the CFL guys. So then you come
Speaker 9: and say, okay, well this guy got invited to the
Speaker 9: East West Shrine game. Okay, well, I guess based on
Speaker 9: circumstances he's now in the college world. So we got
Speaker 9: to the East West Shrine game. I have the receivers
Speaker 9: as a cross check position, so I'm obviously watching the
Speaker 9: receivers a lot of one on ones, a lot of
Speaker 9: one on ones, and the guy in the Toronto Argonauts
Speaker 9: helmet is standing out a little bit at corner, you know.
Speaker 9: But I got a lot of receivers to watch. So
Speaker 9: probably day two, I go up to John Stiegel and
Speaker 9: he has the corners as his cross check position.
Speaker 6: And I'm watching and I'm like, who is this guy
Speaker 6: in this helmet that I've never seen before? And They're like,
Speaker 6: that's the Canadian kid, and I'm like, okay. So I
Speaker 6: was kind of like all right, but then he kept
Speaker 6: showing up making plays and I'm like, well, this kid's
Speaker 6: pretty good, you know. And Drew Moore says to me,
Speaker 6: he looks pretty good. I'm like, well, he's the best here.
Speaker 9: And then a little bit later, probably day three of that,
Speaker 9: I get a text, Hey, you're gonna be the primary
Speaker 9: on quantest stickers. Based on the fact that he didn't
Speaker 9: play college football. He doesn't really have a state that
Speaker 9: he falls into for any of us, right, So, because
Speaker 9: I have the CFL background. They assigned him to me.
Speaker 9: I've done a couple of the Canadian guys in the
Speaker 9: past and just being able to get information. So actually,
Speaker 9: luckily my buddy Vince, who's the assistant GM at the
Speaker 9: Toronto Argonauts, is at East West Shrine. Should I shoot
Speaker 9: him a real a quick text, Hey do you want
Speaker 9: to meet after practice? And luckily again he's staying at
Speaker 9: the same hotel as us, So after practice we meet
Speaker 9: down in the lobby and spend about an hour going
Speaker 9: over all the background on Quantes Stiggers. Obviously, his his
Speaker 9: story has been well documented in terms of how he
Speaker 9: got here and through the Fan Control League, and they're
Speaker 9: just sitting there like, wow, this is wild in terms
Speaker 9: of all the things that he's overcome and and everything.
Speaker 9: And it was amazing how strongly those guys in Toronto,
Speaker 9: the coaching staff there, the administrators there felt about Quantest Stiggers.
Speaker 9: I think you look at like Jeff albricks reaction after
Speaker 9: spending you know, a day with that guy when we
Speaker 9: had him in on a thirty visit, and that's the
Speaker 9: way that the Toronto Argonaut staff felt about that guy.
Speaker 9: So this is a guy who's been through so much
Speaker 9: adversity and has so much mental fortitude and come out
Speaker 9: the other side so much better for it that, you know,
Speaker 9: we look at a guy like that and hey, this
Speaker 9: guy is not going to fail, Like it's not in
Speaker 9: his DNA to fail. Like every opportunity he's had, he's
Speaker 9: made the most of it. So you got to love
Speaker 9: the story of Quantes Stiggers. And it helps that he's
Speaker 9: a really good football player as well.
Speaker 3: When you're looking at that, because CFL play is totally
Speaker 3: different from the NFL play, right, and he had a
Speaker 3: lot of success there, and so obviously you want to
Speaker 3: see how's that translated into the to the league and
Speaker 3: transferring to the league.
Speaker 7: And.
Speaker 3: A lot of that you saw in the one on
Speaker 3: ones during the week, right and where he had to
Speaker 3: play press coverage, sometime you had to play off coverage,
Speaker 3: and you saw the feet, the quickness, the close the
Speaker 3: ball skills opportunities he made there. So it showed that
Speaker 3: he can do it on this level. He's covering guys
Speaker 3: that are going to have opportunities to play in the NFL,
Speaker 3: and he was a guy that kind of showcased in
Speaker 3: the game him as well, you know, just as far
Speaker 3: as his awareness, you have good eyed discipline, and so
Speaker 3: it really helped him for having a good week. And
Speaker 3: not only just the Jets, but I think all the
Speaker 3: other thirty one teams had a lot of interest.
Speaker 4: In this kid.
Speaker 3: I think he took up several visits, you know, in
Speaker 3: the month of March and April because of the traits
Speaker 3: that everyone else saw. So it really helped him at
Speaker 3: the East West Shrine and some of the good things
Speaker 3: that he did. But the one on ones was really
Speaker 3: big for us to be able to say, this guy
Speaker 3: can do it. He can do it on our life.
Speaker 5: The kids from Atlanta, so they sent me to his
Speaker 5: workout at a high school on a Friday afternoon. Really
Speaker 5: it's been a really unique process. But the kids checked
Speaker 5: every box and Tony Odin got to work them out
Speaker 5: and fell in love with them, and all the way
Speaker 5: down to Bobby Mastrodi and Jeff Ulbrick. I mean, everyone
Speaker 5: just loves this kid and the story is unique. But
Speaker 5: to be honest with you, like, we don't we don't
Speaker 5: care where they came from. We just look at the
Speaker 5: player and we we evaluate them.
Speaker 1: And oh, so this is interesting.
Speaker 2: You said you worked them out at a high school.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
Speaker 5: It was an NFL regulated workout, you know, being that
Speaker 5: he played in the CFL, I think there's some confusion
Speaker 5: on where legally we can work him out. But because
Speaker 5: he's from Atlanta, his agent decided to find a high
Speaker 5: school in Atlanta and they worked it with the Kennesas
Speaker 5: State and Georgia Tech Pro Days. And I didn't know
Speaker 5: anything about Quantes, you know, John and Drew didn't a
Speaker 5: lot of the leg work in John Carr and they said, hey,
Speaker 5: since you're going to Georgia Tech, why don't you swing
Speaker 5: over to this high school at three o'clock on a Friday.
Speaker 5: And that's where all the scouts.
Speaker 1: What are you looking for at the workout?
Speaker 8: Is?
Speaker 1: This is after East West, It was after.
Speaker 5: The It was during the pro day circuit in March,
Speaker 5: so it was after the East West. And you know,
Speaker 5: he didn't get to go to Combine because of his
Speaker 5: unique story, so this was his combine. So we you know,
Speaker 5: a bunch of other scouts in the league were there.
Speaker 1: There's how do you do it? The work hut?
Speaker 5: It was great, It was great.
Speaker 4: He did good.
Speaker 5: He was he was the only one there, so he uh,
Speaker 5: you know, we had to kind of make sure he
Speaker 5: caught his breath. I mean he he ran a forty,
Speaker 5: walked back to the start and ran a second forty.
Speaker 5: He didn't have like thirty guys in between. Yeah, but
Speaker 5: there's coaches there. I've never been to a pro day
Speaker 5: that they had at the high school, and I didn't
Speaker 5: even think about it. We actually school was still in session,
Speaker 5: so when we went to go do height and wait
Speaker 5: bench press, there's actually a gym class going on, and
Speaker 5: so we did that. We went out to the field.
Speaker 5: I think school got dismissed, so a bunch of the
Speaker 5: kids came out. It was it was really cool, you know,
Speaker 5: seeing the support that he had. But he had a
Speaker 5: great workout, caught the ball really well, moved around really well.
Speaker 5: I filmed it with my cell phone so I could
Speaker 5: get it back to the office and you know, coach
Speaker 5: Owden got to work out work him out separately as well.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the call.
Speaker 2: Everybody in the nation pretty much has seen it by now.
Speaker 2: Jeff Aulberg was getting an emotional on the line. You
Speaker 2: get Bobby Mustrodi get up.
Speaker 10: There is what's happening.
Speaker 3: Man, Man just just hit man. Really really enjoyed his
Speaker 3: poss going to get a super Bowl.
Speaker 8: You fired up.
Speaker 10: It's their mant crowd.
Speaker 3: It was shaking.
Speaker 10: You should man, right, you deserve this morment bit right,
Speaker 10: so well deserved, Like your story is so unique, so special.
Speaker 10: You're going to be an amazing part of this defense,
Speaker 10: this organization.
Speaker 4: And I'm fired up, yeah, breaking out right now.
Speaker 10: I'm about to cry. I'm about to cry.
Speaker 11: You really impress a lot of people. I'm getting emotional now.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 11: Listening to you when haven't you and my office fillos
Speaker 11: fifteen minutes was incredible.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 11: And we're looking for you to do some good things
Speaker 11: for us here and join the team. You know, Defense
Speaker 11: is unbelievable, parocious. We expect you to come in and
Speaker 11: do a great job.
Speaker 4: Brother, Yes, sir, man, that's the point.
Speaker 3: I appreciate y'all, but give me this opportunity to breath
Speaker 3: of my career. Man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I promise you I won't regret it now. We
Speaker 4: ain't gonna regret you. Brother. We're really happy about this.
Speaker 11: You come see me when you get here, right, Yes, sir,
Speaker 11: good luck, brother? Hey care bye.
Speaker 2: Little Birdie told me that John Carr was telling am
Speaker 2: Stroda you got to get on that call.
Speaker 3: So myself along with so many others because of you know,
Speaker 3: we have so you know, Eric, we have a lot
Speaker 3: of meetings prior to the draft, right and you know,
Speaker 3: we have a security meeting and to kind of go
Speaker 3: through guys and make sure that you know, we're not
Speaker 3: bringing in criminals to our football team.
Speaker 4: And you know, Quantee was a guy that.
Speaker 3: Nostrodi fell in love with and it's time that he
Speaker 3: spent with him, and like I said, I went through
Speaker 3: his story and that's he felt like, this guy.
Speaker 4: Can handle anything after what he's gone through.
Speaker 3: And so for us to be in that room and
Speaker 3: for him to be in there at that time, you know, myself,
Speaker 3: Joe Douglas, so many other people felt like you got
Speaker 3: to get on this call, right, you got to speak
Speaker 3: to this guy, and it was pretty special to see.
Speaker 3: You know, Bobby's been with us for such a long time.
Speaker 3: It's just organization and he loves this organization. He loves
Speaker 3: bringing in the right type of people. And so for
Speaker 3: him to get on there and get emotional, that was
Speaker 3: pretty cool.
Speaker 9: The impact that he had when he came into are
Speaker 9: building on the thirty visit, and you see the reactions,
Speaker 9: like I said, from all of those guys, in the
Speaker 9: building where he's bringing guys to tears when we draft
Speaker 9: this guy, multiple people to tears in the draft room.
Speaker 9: Some of you guys saw on tape somewhere out in
Speaker 9: the hallway of that Like, is the most special part
Speaker 9: about quantest Stiggers. And I think you just combine like
Speaker 9: the person that he is and everything that he brings
Speaker 9: to the table, also with the aspect of, wow, this
Speaker 9: is a really, really good football player even without the story.
Speaker 9: So you take all those traits and then you put
Speaker 9: in the can't fail type attitude that he's always brought
Speaker 9: to his approach, and you see a guy who's going
Speaker 9: to be really successful.
Speaker 6: It's about as unique as it gets. I mean, the
Speaker 6: feel good part of the story. I mean, this is
Speaker 6: something you know why I love scouting, you know, to
Speaker 6: be able to be a part of you know, some
Speaker 6: of these guys' stories and where they've come from and
Speaker 6: how they've gotten there. I mean, his is very unique.
Speaker 2: What is it about this kid that really capture a
Speaker 2: lot of people in the organization as far as hey,
Speaker 2: we want this guy to be here.
Speaker 5: I think I think that you know, I don't want
Speaker 5: to speak for Brick or Bobby, but I think it's
Speaker 5: the fact that this kid should not have been here, right, Like,
Speaker 5: he goes to Lane College twenty twenty, he ends up
Speaker 5: putting football because of you know, some personal things going
Speaker 5: on his life, and at that point in his life,
Speaker 5: I don't think the NFL was ever an option. Like
Speaker 5: it's just the odds. You know, that kid making it
Speaker 5: to the NFL, we're really you know, extreme. And then
Speaker 5: you know, he gets into this Fan Control League, and
Speaker 5: I think the Toronto Argonauts deserve a lot of credit
Speaker 5: because they're the ones that kind of found him. From
Speaker 5: the Fan Control League. He goes into the CFL. I
Speaker 5: don't think anyone knew of him at the time. He
Speaker 5: ends up being Rookie of the Year. So again, like
Speaker 5: I don't think he should have been in the CFL,
Speaker 5: but he gets there and he makes the most of it.
Speaker 5: I don't know that he should be in the NFL,
Speaker 5: but I have a feeling he's going to get here
Speaker 5: and make the most of it. Like the talent's there,
Speaker 5: there's no question, don't get me wrong. But like, just
Speaker 5: with his story and all that he has had to
Speaker 5: go through, the odds were against him. And here's a
Speaker 5: kid that came out on top, and I think people
Speaker 5: spend fifteen minutes and they hear the kid. You know
Speaker 5: what he's been through and how important this is to
Speaker 5: him to make it. It's hard to bet against the kid.
Speaker 2: We hope you enjoyed the Scouts Eye on the Jets
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four draft class. There are a lot of
Speaker 2: people who contribute to this project on the content side,
Speaker 2: but also we'd like to salute all the Jet Scouts
Speaker 2: under Joe Douglas.
Speaker 1: We only talked to a few, but they all
Speaker 2: Played their part in the making of this class.