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Speaker 1: This is the Drive with Dale Lolly and Matt Williamson

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Speaker 1: on Home of the Black and Gold Steelers Nation Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. I'm Dale Ally, he is Matt Williamson and

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Speaker 1: this is the Drive on Steelers Nation Radio and Matt.

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Speaker 1: A week ago, you mentioned that there have been fifty

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Speaker 1: nine different quarterbacks to start start games in the league

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Speaker 1: this week, not just play, but start games. Sorely for

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Speaker 1: Arizona was fifty nine because he was a Monday Night

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Right, Well, with Stidham starting, that would make sixty. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: is there any other new ones this week? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. There'll be some new old ones.

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Speaker 1: Bridgewater's gonna start, have Mike White's gonna start. But I

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Speaker 1: wonder how many quarterbacks have taken a snap is here?

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Speaker 1: I bet it's it's gonna It's gonna be almost seventy,

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Speaker 1: if not more. I mean, you know what he considered

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Speaker 1: Taysom Hill, what he considered the guy in Yeah, don't

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Speaker 1: know about Taysom Hill. I mean any wildcat. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm a direct snapped to Derrick Henry doesn't count. No.

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Speaker 1: But if you throw, if you regularly throw passes ten

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Speaker 1: passes this year, which actually he's done that in New Orleans. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he might count I think the quarterback. But I'm just

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Speaker 1: I'm looking here at Mark Sessler's quarterback index on NFL

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Speaker 1: dot Com. I assume he's gonna include car. He probably

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Speaker 1: didn't this thing one hour ago and get it up right.

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Speaker 1: So all kinds of movement this thing this week, I

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Speaker 1: can imagine. I mean, guys like Wilson got benched. So

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Speaker 1: you know, well, he still has Wilson in here at

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Speaker 1: thirty two, down two spots. He's he said he's the

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Speaker 1: worst quarterback of the league. Can't argue that. You can't

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Speaker 1: argue that. I guess we can play. Where would Mike

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Speaker 1: White go when we get to me. He's better than that,

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Speaker 1: He better than thirty two Zack Wilson at thirty one.

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Speaker 1: I was asked today, is Wilson going to go down

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Speaker 1: as a Jamacus Russell Ryan Leaf. Certainly I'm not quite there,

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Speaker 1: but I don't have much argument in his favor at

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Speaker 1: this point. Yeah, at thirty one, he has Russell Wilson.

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Speaker 1: Wow to Wilson's at the bottom of the are stuck

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Speaker 1: on the island together. That might be a little rough.

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Speaker 1: He's playing in thirteen games. I mean, I know how

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Speaker 1: bad it is. Don't get me wrong. He has twelve

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Speaker 1: touchdown passes in thirteen games. Um, they don't score points.

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Speaker 1: He's horrendous and the offensive surrendous. He's not entirely the

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Speaker 1: only noblem So riddle me this. If the forty Niners

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Speaker 1: traded out Purdy for Russell Wilson, they would be just fine.

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Speaker 1: They would be a better team than they are. The

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Speaker 1: Brock Purty stuff is getting a little crazy. We're going

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Speaker 1: to lose our mind when his name comes up, because

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Speaker 1: it's his name should be close to coming up, and

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Speaker 1: it isn't. But that's my point on Wilson. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if he was in the perfect environment, I don't think

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Speaker 1: we'd be saying he's I can't put Russell Wilson behind

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Speaker 1: the guy at thirty. I mean there's this trace McSorley exactly.

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Speaker 1: He should honestly, he should be thirty two. I mean

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Speaker 1: there's there's two or three non stars. In five games

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Speaker 1: this year, he complete passes, has completed fifty two point

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Speaker 1: seven percent of his passes. He's averaging five point two

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Speaker 1: yards per passe attempt, with no touchdown passes and four interceptions,

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Speaker 1: plus he has two fumbles, and again he's quarter may

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Speaker 1: not be on a team next year. He is not

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Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback, you know, like to be frank. I

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Speaker 1: mean I would rather play the Ravens with Huntley than

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's cute to put him thirty one. He's horrendous, he's

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Speaker 1: fun to pow on, but he's better than these non quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: I mean, would the Commanders be better off with Russell Wilson? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: You know he has Tyler Huntley down a spot, so

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Speaker 1: the hunt the Huntley train has slowed considerably. He's been

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Speaker 1: exposed for what he is, which is a fine cheap

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Speaker 1: backup to lamar At Russell Wilson better than this too,

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Speaker 1: Malick Willis, he's an no quarterback too. I mean the

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Speaker 1: Titans would be better off with Russell Wilson. Malick Willis

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be taking a red shirt year this year,

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Speaker 1: not starting games down the stretch hoping to get you

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Speaker 1: into the playoffs. He's averaging four point five yards per

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Speaker 1: past attempt. Four point five yards. Man, I mean I

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Speaker 1: now have him, and I think we all do. I

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Speaker 1: liked Wilson better than pick it coming out or will

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Speaker 1: his athleticism and a lore around draft time was really

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Speaker 1: intriguing to me. But it's pretty clear while he's why

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Speaker 1: he's a third round pick, but they don't let him

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Speaker 1: do anything. He's so far away, and and he's also

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Speaker 1: in the environment where we don't don't have any receivers.

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Speaker 1: Receivers give it to Henry. They have a formula. He

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Speaker 1: may end up having a great career, maybe a better

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Speaker 1: three yards per pastep, I mean he was okay against okids,

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Speaker 1: a little bit better. He gets the ball to London.

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Speaker 1: I give him some credit for that. Again. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a Russell Wiltonson supporter. He's better than all

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Speaker 1: these guys we've talked. Yeah, you know. Yeah, At twenty

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Speaker 1: six down a spot is Davis Mills. Fine, I mean

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Speaker 1: I think that is who he is, right, fourteen touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: thirteen interceptions, seven funds. Let's he's he's a guy that Okay,

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Speaker 1: if we had the he's he's a backup starting games

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Speaker 1: for the Houston Texas. He's gonna be Minshew, you know,

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Speaker 1: a good backup. You know, probably get a little better,

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Speaker 1: probably ends up on a bunch of teams for his

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Speaker 1: career at twenty five. Is Nick Foles? He maybe should

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Speaker 1: be thirty one. Like he average four point nine yards

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Speaker 1: per past attempted that game the other day he he

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Speaker 1: took like seventy two sacks or three interceptions. Yeah, he's looking,

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Speaker 1: he's watching it the rush. Yeah, he's just he's in

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Speaker 1: the thirties for me. I mean mc sorley is worse. Really,

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Speaker 1: these guys are all like should be like forty and

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Speaker 1: down in the world the people walking the planet. He's

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Speaker 1: not a top forty quarterback. Like if Mason Rudolph had

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Speaker 1: to start this week for the Colts. He's better than

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Speaker 1: all these guys, with the exception of Russell Wilson. Russell

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Speaker 1: Wilson is different. Oh is mac Jones holding steady? I

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Speaker 1: mean who's worse, Zach Wilson or mac Jones. I mean

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Speaker 1: that's the company he should be keeping right now. I

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Speaker 1: mean their career is not over. They're both first round

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Speaker 1: picks and they flashed. But that's the neighborhood Max going

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Speaker 1: right now, and I can't I can't put it on

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Speaker 1: him though. No absolutely, I mean they're not giving him

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Speaker 1: three and this guy just got Ben Taylor heineke. Okay, Carson,

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Speaker 1: where's Carson Wentz fall in this? You put Wentz or

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Speaker 1: Mike White in this neighborhood? Probably? Yeah, they're better than

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Speaker 1: the non quarterbacks. Yeah, and we named about six or

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Speaker 1: seven non quarterbacks. Uh. At two down a spot, DeShawn Watson,

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Speaker 1: he's actually he's actually played worse than this. Yeah, his

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Speaker 1: here's here's what he was three years ago. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if he has a really good game in either one

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Speaker 1: this point, yes, yeah, at this point in four games,

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Speaker 1: he's completed fifty seven point seven percent of his passes

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Speaker 1: for seven hundred and three yards. This isn't four games

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Speaker 1: five point seven yards per pass attempt. He's the only

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Speaker 1: one that was worse than right, two touchdown passes, three interceptions,

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Speaker 1: he's rushed for a hundred yards and he has a

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Speaker 1: rushing touchdown. He's not even like playmaking. No, he's he

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Speaker 1: looks lost and he's I'm not predicting. This wouldn't break

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Speaker 1: my heart if it happened. That trade might be a

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson trade. I mean, I expect him to be

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Speaker 1: a much better football player next season, no question. But

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Speaker 1: there's no he's not the savior, not the way, not

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Speaker 1: looking how he's played thus far, he doesn't look anything

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Speaker 1: like the Shawn Watson. And will he get it back

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Speaker 1: after seven hundred days of rest? And oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: he's had some things going on in his life. I

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Speaker 1: saw a story from out of Cleveland last night that

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Speaker 1: said that he checked off a something that he can show.

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Speaker 1: He showed he can be a bad weather quarterback? Did he?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't horrific. He was fourteen an interception. It's not

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Speaker 1: like he went out there. Kenny Pickett did more to

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Speaker 1: show that he could be a bad weather quarterback than

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Speaker 1: DeShawn Watson did. I mean it was awful, awful weather

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Speaker 1: and he wasn't. But they scored ten points. Checking the

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Speaker 1: in cold weather. Yeah, the Clemson at one. This is

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Speaker 1: how bad things are. One up six spots. Sam Donald,

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Speaker 1: that's right, I have him. He definitely belongs ahead of

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Speaker 1: these these guys. But it just shows you what's starting

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Speaker 1: season worthy of that. We talked yesterday Matt about why

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Speaker 1: scoring being down across the league. This is why. This

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Speaker 1: is why the best quarterback in the league with Sam Donald,

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Speaker 1: we've been brought at Baker Mayfield. He should be pretty close.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just because he has a one good game,

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Speaker 1: be in this neighborhood, you know, is he a great quarterback?

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Speaker 1: mean we would take I mean I might have him

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Speaker 1: end of before the season started, if he's quarterback in

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Speaker 1: the league by the end of the year, you take it, right. Well,

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Speaker 1: according to these rankings anyways, the best quarterback in the league,

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Speaker 1: including Mac Jones. I don't think any of the rookie

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Speaker 1: I think Mac Jones ended up like fifteenth or sixteen something.

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Speaker 1: He got way too high. Yeah, but I mean the

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Speaker 1: was dropping at nineteen up seven spots. Is Baker Mayfield?

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Speaker 1: would you rather if you had to win this game

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Speaker 1: he'll I think Baker Baker and Sam will they be

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Speaker 1: opening day starters next year. Well, there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: teams that don't have quarterbacks. Matt and I think they

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Speaker 1: signed Trabisky deals probably probably picked in a similar neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: and I agree, you get more and more chances. They've

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Speaker 1: put a little bit. Donald just played way better than

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Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield has. This sheet was overall like and you

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Speaker 1: saw them playing the same offense, and Darnald has been

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Speaker 1: much better. Donald's was a much better panther than the field,

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Speaker 1: without question. I don't know what to make the mayfield

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Speaker 1: guy that any any moment could go out and fumble

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Speaker 1: be intrigued if Stafford hung it up. If the Rams

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Speaker 1: things to him, I'd be curious. Can he maintain quarterback

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Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty two neighborhood? I'm sure he could do that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think it's a bar. Yeah, I

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