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He's my advands in the playoffs. What is up, Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we get Smarter about quarterback play. Jordan Reid from ESPN joins us to talk not just about this year's class, but about the evaluation process of teams and gms in twenty twenty four and how that's changed over the course of years, the disconnect between arm talent and actually playing the position of quarterback,
and a whole lot more. You don't want to miss that. Plus we'll talk about the class and finally a new signing. I'll break down all things tape and what you need to know about Tier Tart From the Baptists Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. My apologies for not having the Tier Tart
breakdown on the Monday episode of Drive Time. That would have been the original plan, but last Monday I ate a damn starburst and pulled the crown of my tooth off and come to find out that crown had been misplaced in some way, and so over the course of like eight years, a amount of decay build up on that tooth, and so I've made several trips to the dentist. Just had the root canal on Monday at ten am and was recovering all day, so didn't have a chance
to come update that for you guys. We are on the mend, we are feeling better, and we are watching football tapes. The Dolphins add Tir Tart. What a name that is, by the way, one of the best names in football since we last talked. And stop me if you have heard this part before. Former UDFA super super quick, first step plays with urgency and power. I mean the theme on the type of player that the Dolphins have
been adding since the arrival of Mike McDaniel. Just go read up on Tart in his time with the Titans, an early fan favorite that won the hearts of the fan base by hitting immediately in camp in preseason in year one as a UDFA out of in our second player from the school, now another Florida International University panther here with the Miami Dolphins. His final year there in college, he had ten and a half tackles for a loss which led the team, and one and a half sacks.
But how about this though his high school that he went to in the Philadelphia area didn't have a football team, and a local football coach saw him on the hardwood well the black top, playing hoop and said, yeah, I need that on my football field. I remember, like in the nineties or I guess this would have been two thousand, so that's not the same thing. But like you know, in the old days, you could just like walk around be like, oh, that guy looks like I can play football.
I can probably get him to come play football for my school because there's no like, you know, he's not being recruited by social media yet or whatever.
That's I digress.
Anyway, he transferred schools he didn't want up at Asa College in New York.
What's that?
Who knows, but quits after six games, in which he recorded five sacks in those six games because of a death of a family member heartbreak. Like hardship Man, he eventually wound up at Ellsworth CC in Iowa, May Toro Meniscus after two games. Like McDaniel talks about this all the time. How guys are hardened by their experiences, how they're shaped by their experiences. A lot of the guys that come through this locker room, McDaniel looks for guys
who kind of had a similar route as himself. What was the league that McDaniel was in, the AFL or the UFL or the btc.
FL like who cares?
It was a league that no one cared about, and he had to work his way back into the NFL. And the reason that I wanted to bring this background up and he went to FIU in twenty eighteen, the reason I wanted to bring up the background was I noticed this on his tape and this from NFL dot COM's Lance zerline and his scouting report. Compact three technique who plays with explosive power to make up for his
average quickness. Tart isn't slow or on an athletic, but he doesn't have the first step quickness to be a disruptive gap shooter or consistent pass rusher. He can be a little inconsistent with the timing and placement of his hands, but he has the power and leverage to control single blocks. With better technique, Tart can be a slow starter, but a strong finisher from rep to rep. His upside and brand of nasty could give him a chance to find
NFL work at some point. What's really interesting to me about that entire collection of words, But really the first sentence is that it's already wrong twice in that first sentence. I'm not saying it was wrong then. But Tart doesn't play a lot of three technique. He's almost always in the nose, and he's not slow off the football like at all. A good reminder the players can change and develop, right, But what else do you notice about that report? Some
nasty to his game. I've read that about Brewer, Driscoll, Gallimore. It seems like there's a prerequisite in the trenches down here in Miami to be kind of a tough SOB and looking at the report, like being inconsistent and getting better technique. He has done that because you watch his tape and it's all over his tape, consistent reps, consistent wins with his hands, good grip strength, the ability to
deconstruct blocks. In that same NFL dot Com report, an anonymous coach in the NFC so he didn't think that his team would draft Tart because of the pandemic and the lack of a medical report for him, but that he could become a player in the league one day just makes you think if he had had a shot, if not for his final season and being twenty nineteen during the pandemic, and what a crazy time that was for a lot of players who you know, coming from a small school from CC like those are the kind
of guys that kind of got screwed that time of our crazy, crazy universe. Here some numbers on him. Played a career high five hundred and twenty snaps in twenty twenty two last year was right around his sophomore season total three seventy eight and three forty four alike, he
played a buck fifty five as a rookie. That's nearly fourteen hundred snaps and they have been split with a fifty four percent rate against the As a pass rusher, it's actually the exact same career pass rush rate as Benito Jones, who I think is a better run defender in his game, then I think Tart's better both run and pass rush. But for Benito, I think the his strength is the run game, whereas Tart maybe it's a
little bit of both. I don't know, but he has forty three pressures, two and a half sacks, fourteen quarter hits, seventy nine tackles, seven passes defense, He made sixteen TFLs. When he wins, he wins fast, forty eight stops and a pick, And that twenty twenty two season produced nick approximate.
Value of eight.
He was a four last year and a four and twenty twenty one he was a one as a rookie, So that twenty twenty two tape is really damn good.
You go back and plug that on.
The first thing that jumps out to me is the first step quickness, Like That's why I laughed about the report originally. From there, he just continues to pick up and build speed. He's super quick and shifty. He uses that jittery side to side action with a lengthy wingspan and very good technique to shift and move and contort his man to get the advantage on him. Regardless of the angle that he rushes with, the Titans would usually line him up as a one shade of some sort,
think of either shoulder of the center. He's off of that either left or right shoulder of the center, playing either a gap, and when there's a backside run or when he's on the backside, I should say where it's the weak side of the formation, less players to that side. He would align at this forty five degree angle where it's like, I don't have a care about getting a
rib shot from the left guard right here. I'm going to go stab the center and control this block this backside a gap so I can detach no matter what happens with the center, and then he would work to get that displacement or knock back. Usually shocked him and took him back a couple of steps or so towards the strong side, and then if the play would roll out strong, he has the ability to work to get over the top with that.
Hand placement, with that swim.
You can't engage and swim over the top if you don't have really good initial hand striking, and that's what he has, and he has a good array of moves to do it, and the most notable is that swim with a quick swipe to the ribs, swim over the top and get yourself in pole position and then use the quickness to outrun them. But then he could also play the backside cut, back lane and has such good eyes and feel for when to hold the block, hold the block, hold the plot, get off and go make
the play. Very very good smart player that way. Then, of course, other times he's aligned to the strong side of the formation and his ability to penetrate the a gap from there would then force backs to either extend their track and bubble. And if back bubbles, that's what you want, man take more steps backwards, allow our cavalry three steps down to arrive. Because of that, he would do that on the front side runs or if they
kept it to the backside. He has the angle kind of ability to you, kind of like an edge rusher who bends the arc to get upfield quickly, penetrate when immediately across your man's face, and then wind it back and flag it back down on the backside. Extremely quick plays through power in the lower half.
Of his body.
He's just a squatty body, dumpy type of player, utilizes a very nice wingspan that he offers to deconstruct those blocks. And if you go back and watch the twenty twenty two tape, he and David Long had quite the propensity for getting off blocks of much much bigger players. I'm really curious see what his role here is going to be. He played mostly zero and one technique with the Titans. There was some three technique in there, but I don't know.
I can't imagine he plays the nose too frequently because that's just not Weaver has done in the past. He's always had three hundred and thirty pound plus guys in those roles. I would imagine he plays a lot more two, two, y and three technique here, and that's definitely you know, your nose pass rusher on nickel rushing downs again, super quick off the ball. Perhaps a platoon with Benito and then additional snaps as a two or three in base downs might be kind of the role I carve out
here for tier Tart in Miami. It's obviously tough to stack up double teams when you're flat out outweighed, but damn it if he doesn't give centers one on one, just a world of headaches with a nice combination of speed and power. So maybe he can play that nose tackle lot. I don't know's I'm conflicted there. I think he figures to serve something of an Adam Butler role as a nickel rusher. Do you guys, remember Adam Butler.
He was so fast off the ball that really would help stack up gaps and create runs for the linebackers. And the blitzing scheme of Flores and Boyer and Tart has that kind of quick and ability to open up lanes, and that combination of skills is what makes him so effective.
He can load up a bul rush and take you right to the quarterback that way, then the next snap he can swipe and swim and you're over your skis because you committed to initiating contact originally, try to cut him off at the pass and not let him get that power and that lower half extension into you. If they double and down block him, he probably doesn't really do much for you in that regard. That's kind of
the weakness I think here. That also happened with the one hundred million dollar man in the cold game in Kansas City last year too. Like not to be disparaging, but no player wins every time, and those types of blocks, when executed well by the offense, are very tough to get around. But that's really the negative I saw on
his tape. Maybe gives some ground on doubles, which is why he probably gives up his spot on obvious rundowns in heavy personnel, Like if it's twelve thirteen personnel, twenty one personnel, probably get a bigger body in there to play for Tartan he can come back on when they go to eleven personnel. I don't know, guys, I sound like a broken record here with this stuff. But these kind of free agent signings that good teams make, these
are it. That's what they do. They don't go out and make a splash at the top of the market. They just continue to stack up good quality football players for affordable cost value, not paying out the nose for one player, continuously building your depth. I just think we are such a deeper football team than we were a season to go. And I look at this D line rotation and look like they're still the draft and udfas and post June one and cut down day in August.
There are multiple avenues ahead to adding to the roster. But look at this D line, Like, ideally Phillips, Chubb and Seiler all play eight hundred snaps, right, but who knows what two and fifteen are ready for? But healthy ideally, which is what you anticipate getting at some point this year, at some point in the season, for discussion sake, we'll
call it eight hundred snaps. And if you need five thousand snaps out of five spots like Shaq Barrett's good for a solid five or six hundred, give or take. And then I think that tart is another five hundred plus level player, which takes us to like thirty one hundred snaps. So nineteen hundred snaps for Benito, Gallimore, Hand Harris, and Cam Good and then whatever comes of the draft slash, the rest of the offseason and the roster additions there. That's a very, very one on one way of looking
at it. But you certainly created a situation where someone could step forward and sees a bigger role, or you do now have the fallback option of making it up in the aggregate. I think about it all the time, how fortunate we were to not have injuries last year to guys like Seler and Wilkins, because almost nobody else played. What would you've done, It would have been Brandon Peelely and Deshean hand those roles. Now you have guys that can step in and fill those roles and feel a
lot more comfortable and confident about it. So that's the tr Tart skinny. I think we'll hear from him in the media eventually this week. I'm not sure when that's going to happen, but we'll keep your posts on that. Let's go ahead and take our first break right here. Come back on the other side and hear from the fantastic Jordan Reid of ESPN. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, joined today by one of my favorite recurring guests on
the show. I say that for all my guests, but I meet it once again today, Jordan Reid, ESPN. Jordan, appreciate you taking some time today out of your busy schedule.
Man, No problem, thanks as all ways, there's always a pleasure. It feels like we're doing this every year now at the combine and now here with just underw a month until the draft now, so spun time is definitely for the Dolphins now too.
I'm very routine based, Jordan.
I'll like have to just do things a certain way and stick to that routine as best I possibly can. Before we start talking about these quarterback prospects in this draft class, I wanted to ask you are you getting any sleep this month?
I imagine for you.
I know you're a father of two beautiful girls. With the month of April ramping up the draft process, do you sleep at all during April?
No, not at all.
It's kind of like, you know this as being the father of toddlers, kind of have to keep one eye open when you do go to sleep, just because there's draft and news that happened all different times of the night and during the day. So it's kind of like the lead up to Christmas. And that's what I compared when I talk to everybody. So Christmas is always on the twenty fifth. Then the draft is on the twenty fifth this year, so once that month of December hits,
it's kind of like the lead up to Christmas. For me.
Well, I can't wait for it either.
And we have Jordan on the podcast at the scouting Combine to give you kind of a Dolphins overview. But today I wanted to ask Jordan on the podcast to talk about the quarterback class because white Frankly, Jordan, we don't spend much time on that here, which I think is a very beneficial place for an organization to be in.
I remember for a long time for the Dolphins.
Every year you had to examine all the quarterbacks and I review all options because since Marino had retired, they didn't have one for a long time. But now we do have a pretty good guy into a tongue by Lowis. I wanted to start here and ask you a general a couple of general philosophy questions about just how you viewed scouting and also a very intricate question about this year's class and what I want to go to here is kind of a two part question, but I'll start
with this. I wanted to ask you who is the best anticipatory thrower going back to tow a tongue bai looa in this year's class, Like who do you think it is? Because in correct me if I'm wrong here, but when I watch the tape on a lot of these guys, a lot of the throwers will see it and then rip it. I'm curious if you think that's accurate. And who do you think is the best in playing on time and in rhythm in this year's quarterback class overall?
I actually would say Bo Nicks of Oregon for this question, just because of all the guys who I thought was the most decisive and then also attaching what I call their eyes to their feet, so everything moving in motion and in rhythm. I would go with bow Knigs just because everything is just so easy for him, especially in the shorts of intermediate areas.
And he's really polished.
I mean, the guy at a seventy seven percent completion percentage last year, which was the tops in the country. He has a lot of experience too. I think that's another fact of that he has over every other college quarterback or quarterback coming out in this just class. He plays sixty one career games, which is a lot retal quarterback. That is a wealth of experience for a college quarterback,
something that we have never seen before. As far as that meeting, you're that high number of starts, and he's a player that's really reinvented himself. When he first started his career at Auburn, a lot of people rolled him off after that, and then he goes to Oregon and he looks like a completely different player.
Now that's really interesting because and this is a fall up to the first part of the two part questions. So forgive me for getting off off the rails already here, but you know, I see these mock drafts and should buy him you consider a bow Nix or a Michael Pennox, And I keep thinking to myself, like, you know, Tua came out and he was twenty one years old, and these guys are twenty three, twenty four years old. They're
going to be that age come this summer. I'm curious is that a knock on prospects that have played that many games in college? Like you mentioned that he ranmited this game, But is there a sense in scouts minds that sometimes like he should dominate these twenty year olds because he's twenty three, twenty four year olds? Like how does the age play into Michael Pennox and both next as value?
I actually get that question a lot, and I've asked general managers, I've asked executives and people that actually work inside of the league. And the only time age becomes a bad thing, and usually it's called a red flag I'm on team's draft board, is when they're turning twenty five going into their rookie season. So as long as they're not twenty five going into their rookie season, it's not considered red flag. Now, I haven't talked to every
team in the league. Every team is going to be different based on how.
They view it.
But the teams that I have talked to, the only time they usually red flag of prospect for their ages when they turning twenty five going into their rookie season. And I've never seen experience being bad thing, and not
just talking about football but in life in general. The more experience that you can get, the more reps that you can get in college, I've always seen that as a valuable thing, just because what you always worry about with these young guys, whether they're twenty one or twenty four entering in their first year in the NFL, is how are they going to adjust to the speed of the game. Well, the more experience that you have, the more of those in game reps that you have is better.
It's got a better prepare you for the NFL game. Now, everybody is different, everybody has different slopes as far as how long it takes to adjust for the speed of the game. But those reps, they definitely are significant, especially you have some guys like a bow Knicks that may have been in a different system or maybe I've just not been up to par done the earlier years of their career, but the back end of their career thinks click for them, So that's not always what you want
to see. When did it click for these prospects, Sometimes with in their fresh run of the sophomore season, then they go on to finish their career strong, or other times there's like a Joe Burrow that had a monumental leaper, even a Jayden Daniels that had a monumental leap during their final season.
Yeah, I'm sure you know Zach Wilson, Trey Lance would love to have had two more years of college utic experience to get themselves better prepared for the NFL, because when you don't work out early in the NFL, you take the kind of that backup role and you have to work your way back in the way like Baker Mayfield did for us, and so very fascinating stuff, and that kind of provides a good segue into my next question, which is the original part two of the first question.
I was curious again your philosophical thought here because to that point about Zach Wilson our Trey Lance, you can have all the traits you want in the world. And this goes back to the anticipation anticipation question as well. But if you can't see it, you just can't play. Like I remember Josh Rosen down here in training camp, preseason, regular season. It was the same every time. It was just late, late, late, and so it didn't work out
for him. So my question is, how do NFL scouts approach a player who has all this physical talent but we haven't really seen them, you know, for lack of our term, actually play the quarterback position. Does that make sense? Like, how would we how should a scout? How should we scout a traitsy quarterback without some of the polish for instance, like you talked about there, like your top of twenty twenty class tu had that polish, right Burrow the end of the year, at the end of his career had
that polish. How do you view these quarterbacks that have that high end talent but the polish isn't there yet.
That's a really good question. How much time do we have as long as you want brothers? There's so many layers to this question. I ultimately think it comes down to patients with development and then just the situation that they're entering, and a lot of times what we see with the young quarterbacks is that they're getting rushed into a lot of situations and they're not ready. And it doesn't matter if you have a plus physical talent or
physical traits across the board. If you don't have the proper development and the proper infrastructure and surroundings, you could attend somewhat ruin that quarterback. And that's not to say the forty nine is ruined Trey Lance or the Jets ruined Zach Wilson, but I just don't think they were ready when they were rushed into action or when they had to go into the game, just because those lack of reps and then also just the impatience with their development.
We've seen this with Mac Jones a little bit too do in their earlier parts of his career, where he had I think a decent rookie season and then after that the infrastructure around it, they just weren't able to build it up for him. So a lot of it is tomline as far as with coaches and gms, how long do they have to be patient with those quarterbacks and also what is the developmental curve or.
Circumstances that they're entering into.
And a lot of times with the NFL teams, they just don't have the patience all the time to develop those guys. So if you invest that time in your patient with those guys, you really could.
Reap the fruits of your labor.
And a great example of that is Austin Jackson, who's already on the roster right now, just because you have to have that patience, and not just talking about Austin, but just in general of where they were patient with him. He was I believe he was drafted at twenty or twenty one years old, was labeled as raw as far as a pass protector, but run blocking was another area
of where he needed to improve. But those reps and just that patience with him and those in game reps were so valuable of where he ends up and he goes on to be a solid starter for the Dolphins now. So it's just a matter of having patience with them,
not rushing their development. But everybody isn't able to benefit from that, just because there's a different timeline as far as the leash, as far as these coaches and these gms are on, So there's a lot of times where they feel pressure to where they have to rush those guys into action.
There's an interesting dynamic there among those two quarterbacks, Lance and Zach Wilson, and also Austin Jackson, because I was thinking about this as you're answering that question. Those quarterbacks both were part of like the pandemic era quarterbacks, right, They had a year that was abbreviated because of the pandemic that cost them games and starts and valuable experience, especially in the case of Trey Lance who had his
entire season wiped out that year. And for Austin Jackson missed a big chunk of his career because of the bone marrow transplant with his sister. So it makes sense that these guys missing those college reps maybe takes a little bit longer to develop into the pro game. Jordan Reid, ESPN my guest today. I have another two part question for you. Jordan's what I'm doing. You're on the podcast today apparently, but I want to let you know ahead of time because you can answer it as you see
fit with both questions posts. So my question at the top is how you stack this class. Everyone has their own rankings top five or however far you want to go. But I'm also wondering who you think is that fifth quarterback assuming you do have Williams, Daniels, May and McCarthy's your top four, maybe you don't, But who is that fifth quarterback? And what's the range where that quarterback might come off the board after those first four?
Well, I think it's between two guys.
We've already touched on one already in both Nicks of Oregon, who had a magical season last year, and then also Michael pennockx Junior of Washington who's had a really good past two seasons after facing a ton of adversity during his first four years of his career while he was at Indiana before coming over to Washington.
It's tough to get a gauged on where those guys are going to go, just.
Because there's so many mixed opinions about him, factoring in the age, and then also the injury concerns and the mobility with Pennix, and then also just how much left is there to uncover with the development of bo Nicks. That's a big question mark about him. Has he really it is silling as far as who he's going to be on the next level, and then how much how much further does he have left to go as far as how much left is left to uncovered with his development.
So that's the big question mark about both of those two guys right now. But depending on who you ask, there's some people that believe Knicks could go as high as twelve to the Broncos, while there's some other people that are a little bit more comfortable with him in the back end of the first round or the early second round. I have him as an early second round pick right now, as well as Pinnis. I have both
of those guys as early twos. But also there's a lot of people that the medical situation with Pennix came back. He came back with a clean bill of health and he didn't receive any red flash or anything like that. For those of you that don't know, he's at two ACL surgeries and then also two shoulder operations as well, so that's why he missed those first four seasons when he was at Indiana, and then last the last two years at Washington. He's basically been healthy, So we do
have to give him credit for that. You saw the high end traits with Pinnix in that Texas game. That really was a lot of people's introduction to Michael Pennocks. But then we saw the opposite end of the spectrum with him against Michigan of where you saw some of those glaring weaknesses come out with him. So it's going to be really interesting to see where they do end
up going. But I feel comfortable with four guys going in the first round right now, with those other two guys being toss ups right now?
Do you go Williams and then how do you stack I'm assuming you go Williams first. How do you stack May and Daniels and McCarthy.
So I have it Williams, May, Daniels, and then McCarthy after that, and you know that quarterback too. Discussion as far as what Washington is going to do, it's going to be really interesting, just because I like putting myself in the shoes of the general manager as well as
the head coach when there's debates about a prospect. And I went back and forth a million times with myself and even my colleagues about who they're going to predict as far as who's going to be the second pick right now, and I just go back to the dan Quinn success with Matt Ryan and their.
Super Bowl run before they ultimately fell short. Unfortunately.
He's had experience with Dak Prescott, and then Adam Peters has had experience with Brod Peridy and then also Jimmy Garoppolo.
So those guys are more in the mold of Drake May.
Drake May is a little bit more mobile than all those guys, but as far as the prototypical pocket passers that are consistent with winning inside of it and then also have those A level traits that we talked about a little bit earlier, So that makes me favor that they could go May.
But also putting myself in Dan.
Quinn's shoes as a former defensive coordinator, which quarterback would give you the most trouble when you're game planning for those types of guys, And I just go back to Jayden and Daniels potentially being more of a headache from a game planning standpoint, just because the added in mobility and then just his improved pocket patients from inside of the pocket, So it could go either way.
I just went back and forth with it right there.
So it is a really really tough decision decision, but I do have May ranked slightly higher than Daniels right now.
Well, That's why I wanted to have you Ax.
I love the level of nuance of your show for trying to figure out what teams might prefer that way. And my last question before my final Dolphins quarterback question here is just real quick with with Jayden Daniels, like that real of him taking big hits at his size, It's it's kind of alarming. Do do teams are they are teams worried about that? Are they going to teach you ab how to play the game differently? Because I can't imagine he survives taking hits like that at the next level.
Yeah, I mean he has to learn, and I just think it's a matter of his competitive desire just trying to get every single yard on every single scramble. So the big thing that Jayden has to lear and what I want to see him develop in his game is that when he does decide to run, he's tucking it
to become a runner automatically. He's not looking down the field to see which defenders engaged on him and they're running up to him and they're leaving his guys wide open just because on tape and you see there's plenty of times with him when he touched the ball to run, his eyes dropped down immediately and he touched the ball, and he immediately becomes a runner no matter what. So the next layer to uncover of his game is running to make plays as a passer.
That's where I think he becomes really really dangerous.
And this is something that Lamar Jackson also added into his game a couple of years ago of where he became really lethal just because you don't know when he touched the ball.
He could reset and reset his eyes and reset his feet.
To become a passer now as well once the defense engages on him. So not only does Jaydon Dames have to learn to slide or get out of bounds and protect himself, but also there's some times of where you can indicate that you are a runner, but also go ahead and reset, get your eyes up and become a passer because there's so many guys that are open just because there everybody in the stadium has you circled when you tuck to run the ball. But once he resets
his eyes and he becomes a passer once again. After that, that's when he becomes really really dangerous and unpredictable. Once he toucks the ball.
And those sam LA football players can typically be the ones that's the spring, the big one, the big touchdown, the changes the game will go ahead and close. Here in a similar vein that we opened with, because you and Matt Miller just published a really cool dual article on ESPN Plus where you guys alternate landing spots for the quarterbacks throughout the entire class, not just the first round,
all seven rounds, and again never asserting the draft. If you try to assume something's gonna happen, you're probably gonna be wrong. But I do feel pretty confident saying the quarterback is probably off the menu for Miami at twenty one fifty five and the next pick is not until one fifty eight in the fifth round. Jordan, I have another two part question for you. Give me a quarterback you like in that range, and the second part is
bonus points. If there's a guy that you think fits that Mike McDaniel, the Kyle Shanahan, the Matt Lafleur, the Sean McVay who fits this system the best as a potential developmental quarterback.
Well, one I think they're gonna be big fans of is Michael Pratt of TWU Lane. He had a lot of buzz coming into the year, but he battles some injuries last season and scouts really hated that he missed that Old Miss game. I believe it was their second game of the season. A lot of evaluators had that one circled as what I call a resume game for him, just to see how he would play against an SEC opponent.
But he unfortunately missed that game. But if you go back and watch the USC tape a couple of years ago, he was phenomenal in that game. And he's a prototypical pocket passer about a six three, two hundred and fifteen pounds. Ken really does a really good job but decisive of being decisive from the pocket, really accurate. But he's just
not a mobile guy at all. So being in Mike McDaniel's system, in a system that really puts an emphasis on the middle of the field, RPO, some play action here and there, I think Prat could really do well in that type of scheme.
And not saying he's going to turn.
Into this guy, but it really reminds me of Kirk Cousins when he was coming out of Michigan State.
Kirk ended up being a fourth round selection.
I think Pratt could go somewhere in that fourth or fifth round range that could end up out playing his draft spot down the road.
Really really good stuff. Jordan Reid ESPN. You can find his work there. Check out that story on ESPN plus Jordan.
Thank you.
Was always at Jordan Underscore read on social and where you're gonna be on Draft night?
Man, You're going to be in Detroit, Rock City.
Yeah, I'll be in Detroit.
I'm getting there a day early this year so i can get settled in and just focus on draft, on my draft board and studying and seeing how it all turns out. I'm excited to see how it all shakes out.
Appreciate you man, You're the best. Thank you, Jordan.
Thanks as always, Travis.
And the way he goes always good stuff there with Jordan Reid from ESPN. We will be doing these every episode as we go along here, getting you guys ready for the draft, which now is just a couple of weeks away. I think it's what fifteen days as of this podcast coming out away from the twenty twenty four NFL Draft, our first first round draft pick in three years as well, assuming we stay in that spot. We'll find out what happens come draft night, all right before
we get out of here. Masters this week again, right, one of the best weekends of the year for the golf fan. I'm taking Jordan Speith. I know it's probably a bad pick, but he's kind of my favorite to watch because my friends always call me the Jordan Speath of our local golf troupe here in that I'm a bit of a head case. If I hit a couple of bad shots, I've never played golf again. If I hit back to back birdies or bars, I'm probably gonna
make the tour. So Jordan Speith, I side with Jordan Speith and the mental gymnastics and up and downs that he has throughout the course of a given round. Cannot wait to watch that tournament. Also, the Premier Card coming
out here soon. If you guys are South Florida based and you're a golfer, let me know because my Premier Card troop, which is get you good green fees, cheap green fees to all the nice courses in South Florida, one of my guys in the troop is no longer part of that troop, and so I need more people to play golf with to maximize the amount of golf that I want to play. So, if you are a golfer in South Florida with the premier card, get at me in the meantime, that is going to be my time.
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