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Speaker 1: hoping for is this draft. This past draft looks like
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty draft when you have Jordan Love and
Speaker 1: Herbert and Burrow and Tua and Jalen Hurtz, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we have like five quarterbacks who eventually
Speaker 1: all get that second big contract. The league's better when
Speaker 1: the quality of quarterback is better. That's indisputable. And we've
Speaker 1: had some good quarterback years you know the legendary Jim Kelly,
Speaker 1: Dan Marino, John Elway years and years ago, but we
Speaker 1: recently twenty twenty had five guys four in the first
Speaker 1: round hit. The Drake May situation reminds me a lot
Speaker 1: of Sam Donald, and this is why I think he's
Speaker 1: going to struggle. So I like Sam Donald a lot
Speaker 1: out of college, and I like Drake May. I think
Speaker 1: they're his comp is accurate. But I want you to
Speaker 1: think about this. Both come out Sam Donald and Drake
Speaker 1: May of the Patriots as the number three pick. Both
Speaker 1: are from athletic families. Both played in weaker college conferences
Speaker 1: at the time they came out the ACC now and
Speaker 1: Donald's PAC twelve. Then they had remedial college coaching. Offensively,
Speaker 1: you know, Sam Donald did not have a Lincoln Riley
Speaker 1: at the whiteboard like a Kyler Murray or a Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield or a Jalen Hurts, where they come in kind
Speaker 1: of ready to play and have been well schooled. This
Speaker 1: is not a knock on Mac Brown, but the feeling
Speaker 1: was it was a pretty simplistic offense for Drake May.
Speaker 1: Both Drake May and Sam Donald are very very young,
Speaker 1: younger than you'd like. They both come into the league
Speaker 1: at twenty one. To give you some sense of how
Speaker 1: young that is, Kenny Pickett is already twenty six years old.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald just turned twenty seven a month and a
Speaker 1: half ago, right, a couple months ago. So Drake May
Speaker 1: Sam Donald come in very very young. They're both big enough,
Speaker 1: six three are up, both athletic enough, they both move well,
Speaker 1: arms are strong enough. But then they both go to
Speaker 1: the NFL. Sam Donald and Drake May inherit first time
Speaker 1: defensive coaches Todd Bowles and Drawn Mayo shaky o lines,
Speaker 1: no current when they enter it, no current cultural or
Speaker 1: winning momentum in the franchise, and a lack of weapons.
Speaker 1: Donald enters the league in twenty eighteen, faces Belichick twice
Speaker 1: a year and Sean McDermott, two of the top five
Speaker 1: defensive coaches. A year later at Brian Flores, remains an
Speaker 1: excellent defensive mind. That's rough. Sam Donald inherits that Drake
Speaker 1: may gets Sean McDermott and Robert Salah. Now McDermott's top
Speaker 1: five six seven coach, but as a defensive coach, he's
Speaker 1: near the top of the league and solid knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing on that side of the ball, just give
Speaker 1: you SIPs. Both Donald and Drake May are liked by
Speaker 1: people I trust, but they're not perfect. They're a little raw.
Speaker 1: They come in a little underdeveloped on the whiteboard, a
Speaker 1: little younger than you want. And Sam is now on
Speaker 1: his what fourth team Jets Carolina, San Francisco and now Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and he finally gets his best situation. Now, compare that
Speaker 1: to bo Nicks, who enters the league get twenty four
Speaker 1: years old, three years older than both May and Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: Denver has an offensive coach, a brilliant one. Denver's good
Speaker 1: at left tackle, wide receiver, and running back to have talent.
Speaker 1: Then Denver also drafts Troy Franklin, bo Nix's great college
Speaker 1: receiver had fourteen touchdowns alone for Oregon last year, over
Speaker 1: one hundred yards per game for Oregon last year. So
Speaker 1: think of all those advantages. And in that division that
Speaker 1: bo Nix inherits, it's not defensive coaches. There's one rookie
Speaker 1: defensive coach, Antonio Pierce, but it's Andy Reid and Jim Harbaugh. Situationally,
Speaker 1: Drake Man, Sam Donald little too young, young defensive coach
Speaker 1: shaky oline weapons, weaker college conferences, didn't have a great,
Speaker 1: brilliant offensive coach. It's rough. I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be rough for Drake Man. To me, of all of
Speaker 1: these quarterbacks, he's the one that could struggle, you know.
Speaker 1: You know, I like Darnald a lot, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he would have ever been great. There was about
Speaker 1: six starts in Carolina. Then there was the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: year with the Jets, year two where he had an
Speaker 1: eighty five passer rating, twenty one total touchdowns, only thirteen interceptions.
Speaker 1: You know, that's always been the bugaboo for Sam Darnold.
Speaker 1: And Darnald also loses out on the optics because Tom
Speaker 1: Brady had over two hundred interceptions in his career. I
Speaker 1: think it's two twenty or two twelve, but very few
Speaker 1: were awful, very few were memorable. Right, That last one
Speaker 1: in New England against Tennessee sticks in my head one
Speaker 1: of the Super Bowl interceptions. Same with Aaron Rodgers. Not
Speaker 1: that many terrible interceptions. Sam Darnold's picks at least one
Speaker 1: a Sunday Alla Koffle Alla Kaffle. So I am again
Speaker 1: I don't think Drake Mays as talented as Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: But I think he's bigger, stronger in moves just as
Speaker 1: well as bow Knicks. But the situation for bow Knicks
Speaker 1: and eventually a JJ McCarthy are just much better than
Speaker 1: they were for Donald or Drake May. I think the
Speaker 1: Vikings are one of the more fascinating teams in the league.
Speaker 1: Last year, when everybody was saying, hey, Rams were in
Speaker 1: a rebuild, I said, time out, it's a coach quarterback, weapons,
Speaker 1: left tackle league. If you can generate some pass rush
Speaker 1: and so I said, the Rams are going to be
Speaker 1: a playoff team or battle for a playoff team Minnesota Weapons,
Speaker 1: although Jordan Addison will be out probably for the first
Speaker 1: three to four weeks. Weapons, great left tackle, running back
Speaker 1: that can catch out of the backfield, smart offensive coach.
Speaker 1: It will all come down Donald because all the components
Speaker 1: are here as they were for the Rams last year
Speaker 1: and Stafford got down to the playoffs. No, Donald's not
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. So this will be I'll get my comeuppance
Speaker 1: on Sam Donald because my takeaway as their schedule is
Speaker 1: tough early, but it is. When you were selling the
Speaker 1: Rams last year, I said, if it's a coach quarterback,
Speaker 1: weapons protection, pass rush league, the Rams have it Minnesota does.
Speaker 1: The question is can the trigger guy Sam Donald pull
Speaker 1: it off. I've got my doubt. He's frankly just not
Speaker 1: accurate enough. His career completion percentage hovers around fifty nine
Speaker 1: to sixty percent. If it was sixty three, I'd be fine. Now.
Speaker 1: I think he'll get to sixty three to sixty three
Speaker 1: and a half percent with Kevin O'Connell. But with most
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that Kevin O'Connell will teach, mentor and coach, they'll
Speaker 1: be in the sixty five to sixty six percent. And
Speaker 1: that's the difference. With Donald's guaranteed mistakes. He can be wrecked.
Speaker 1: You've got to build him in. He just will not
Speaker 1: complete enough passes. But it is really built to win.
Speaker 1: They are bib. Minnesota is built to be the surprise
Speaker 1: team in the NFC like the Rams did last year.
Speaker 1: Smart offensive coach, protections, fine, a couple of weapons, generate
Speaker 1: somewhat of a pass rush. It's all there for Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and it's all there for Sam Darnel. It would be
Speaker 1: nice if I don't know, one time you guys would
Speaker 1: pull for somebody, I like, I'm always here pulling for
Speaker 1: your team. This one time but it does show you situationally,
Speaker 1: Caleb defensive coach in the hot seat, Jade and Daniels
Speaker 1: defensive coach. Drake may defensive coach. I think two of
Speaker 1: those three are going to be hits. But I would
Speaker 1: virtually guarantee it if Caleb was walking into this league
Speaker 1: with Kevin O'Connell or Jaden Daniels was walking into this
Speaker 1: league with Sean Payton. It does make it tougher. I mean,
Speaker 1: Belichick's the best coach of all time. Tom Brady has
Speaker 1: joked even on his documentary like Bill doesn't speak that language.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're watching the Steelers justin field Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: You're watching them. I mean, how many first downs did
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson have in like five series? Steelers can't get
Speaker 1: the offensive line right Buffalo for years, defensive coach can't
Speaker 1: get the offensive line right. I mean you start looking
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll to me in the end, his personnel on
Speaker 1: the offensive line was better than production. Pete Carroll couldn't
Speaker 1: get the offensive line right last several years in Seattle.
Speaker 1: So all this stuff matters. It's like, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a saying that parents use, you know, set your kid
Speaker 1: up for success. If your kid has anxiety, don't put
Speaker 1: him in situations where there's a lot of anxiety. It's
Speaker 1: the same for quarterbacks. There's only been four or five
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in my life. You know, Peyton Manning, John Elway,
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck. I think Trevor Lawrence to some degree. In
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, I think can overcome obstacles, bad coaching, cruddy gms.
Speaker 1: Not saying they've all had it, but I think they're
Speaker 1: good enough to be productive beyond that. I think Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray was c to that level, but most guys are.
Speaker 1: They're just not. Jayden Daniels, Bone Nicks, JJ McCarthy, Michael Pennix,
Speaker 1: Drake May. I don't think they're gifted enough to overcome
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