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