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This week on Prime Cuts, John Middlecoff on the Cowboys, Dak Prescott problem, Nick Wright on Caleb Williams, and my top takes of the week. All right, let's welcome in John Middlecoff, former NFL scout three and out at the volume his podcast, the Justin Fields story broke, so apparently two or three teams were interested. He wanted the Pittsburgh Steelers, which is interesting because he has Russell Wilson in front of him. One thing I want to say, John, obviously
the Bears, this would have been really interesting. So let's say because I think the Bears desperately wanted this to work with Justin because they could have moved off Caleb Williams and gotten two first two seconds on a fourth you'd have been set for five years. So they were big.
They dine for Justin Fields to work. And I think had he caught fire at Thanksgiving like Jordan Love did in mid October and gone on like an eight game heater with eleven touchdowns, two picks, sixty four percent completions, they didn't win all the games, but they were really You watched them like Jordan Love and you thought, okay, there it is there's that two month stretch against multiple teams AFC, NFC Division games sellout on the road, and you watch Jordan Love at the end and you're like,
all right, dude can play. I'd like to see a few more, but dude can play. I think they kept waiting, John and they just kept waiting for the sixth game heater when so I think they kind of did give it to like December, and then they just went and then they watched them against Jordan Love and you're like, Okay, Jordan Love's done more than three months than this guy's done in three years. Do you believe they waited to the end or do you think they knew it Thanksgiving it was over.
Yeah, I don't think they waited till the end. I think they coming into the season they were hopeful, and then as the season materialized and played out and it was clear they were getting the number one pick, he was done. Because the conviction you have as a general manager when you pick your own player, right, we see it with Chris Ballard right now, Anthony Richardson, or those guys in Houston with CJ. Stroud, or even the owner with Bryce Young. You are you're very invested right, you
put all the work into draft them. You got to know him, and then you've gone all in to use your draft capital. Ryan Pols did not do that. He's not the GM that drafted him. So anytime that happens. Hell, you and I have been talking about this. Do you know what was on the forefront this weekend? And you've been hammering this home year two Thanksgiving as a player, Kenny Pickett got two years, they shift him.
Out of Yeah, yep, it was over like.
That, and that's one of the most loyal organizations. You and I know that Pittsburgh struggled with that because he was a Pittsburgh kid, so they share a stadium. So yeah, at that point. Yeah, I always say now, because of all the seven on seven drills in the camps, you get it used to get end of the third year, like Peyton Manning. First couple of years, you're like there's
something there, but a lot of interceptions doesn't move. I think it's Thanksgiving second year and everybody's like, raise your hand in the room and they were kind of never done with them.
I think making that trade and it has a chance to be one of the greatest trades of all time, right, with the Carolina Panther trade for Ryan Poulse. If Caleb Williams just becomes he doesn't even need to become Patrick Mahomes. If he just becomes a top ten quarterback, which the Bears have never really had, definitely in my lifetime, it's
a game changer for the franchise. But let's say they didn't have that pick and just had their ninth pick, they probably don't do this deal, not because they love Justin Fields, because they don't control their own draft. But once you get that number one overall pick, and he's so clearly such a talented player, right And the other thing is that resets the contract. The other thing that was on it's crazy. I just I like you just try to get away. This weekend in the quarterback action
was insane. The dominoes hit and they all started going. Contracts matter, And the reason Sam Howell and Kenny Pickett went for more than Justin Fields and Mac Jones, those guys have one year left on their contract. Neither we're gonna get their fifth year option, meaning they're a free agent at the end of the year. The Philadelphia Eagles did a pick swap from the third and fourth round because they get a guy on a two year contract, yeah,
making seven million dollars. Even Jerry Jones, well Trey Lance went for more than these guys. Yeah, because Jerry got him for two seasons. A little bit of an overpay. But the contracts and the money that this is not fantasy football in a vacuum. There are actual contracts, there's a salary cap, and that was a problem once mac Jones went for the sixth round pick. He has shown to play at a higher level than Justin Fields. Now, if I had to work with one today, I would
rather take a chance on Justin Field's. Yeah, but that was the comp for him, like they were never getting like some third round pick. That was the going rate. And I don't quite believe there are a lot of teams beating down the doors they were interested at this number. But look at all these quarterbacks. All the action happened Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, everyone was just patient. Let's see, we're not going to overpay.
If anything, in our minds were gonna underpay a six round pick Colin.
That's nothing well, and also a defensive coach is where he lands. So if I'm Justin Fields, I was praying that McVeigh wouldn't take Garoppolo, he'd take me. I was praying, if Donold goes to Minnesota, maybe Shanahan goes, get over here for a year. Like to me, it's so obvious, especially if you're justin Fields and you're thinking to yourself, I've had a defensive culture. I have a defensive coach. Just watch the league, watch what's happening. Go to an
offensive coach, Mac Jones, say what you want. He played high school in Jacksonville. He'll be close to family, you know, he can kind of reboot the emotional part of the sport. I got mom and dad around. And also it's an offensive coach. They've spent a shit ton of money in Jacksonville on offense the last several years. It may not work, but it's a better environment for him than defensive driven
Belichick in New England. If justin Field really chose Pittsburgh, you got Russell Wilson, who you know and I know is gonna get you know, quarterback one snaps first day of practice. And the second thing is it's a defensive culture that once against overspends for a linebacker. So I didn't that part of it I'm thinking when I read that Justin Fields had options, I'm like, I'd like to know the other options, because if one of them was
an offensive coach, I take it. Dallas is strange. It's a bad running back class, and Dallas really didn't make a big swing.
Now.
I thought they should have gotten Dereck Henry at the trade deadline last year. I thought, Paulard to me, is a kind of an average two. He's an off speed pitch Paular's not a one. Dallas tends to be insuler. Jerry likes to validate his picks. They have always re signed their picks to a higher level than anybody else in the league. Dallas didn't do a ton. Now they let go of Michael Gallup. We know they're going to pay Ceedee Lamb and Michael Parsonton Dak a lot of
money over the next two years. But I thought to myself, Dallas, you know this has been my knock on them. They'll be pretty good. But I'm saying this, go look at Philadelphia's skill people. I mean, from the tight ends, two backs, two receivers. Jalen Hurts a better offensive line than certainly Giants.
So Saquon should succeed just because the Eagles have a better front than the Giants do and a better quarterback and weapons, so safeties can't crowd the box against the Eagles like they can't against the Giants, so Saquon should be a hit. You start listing Dallas to skill people.
You have a B plus quarterback. If CD Lamb twists an ankle, you have there is no elite players there, Like to me, I understand in free agency you overpay, but I look at Dallas as an injury away to Seede Lamb as a lot of dependency on Dak.
I think they have a Dak Prescott problem, not because he's some bad player, but because of his contract situation. He has a second highest cap hit in the league behind Deshaun Watson, sixty million dollars for this one year. That's taken up like twenty four percent of their salarycount. But the problem is you could extend them and get that number way down. But are you comfortable giving him
a two hundred million dollar Russell Wilson extension? If he had shown you more the last two years when it mattered, they wouldn't hesitate. He would already have an extension. They would have had more wiggle room and they would have been able to sign players. I think they're a little terrified to give him a huge extent. They can say whatever they want, and Jerry never stops talking. It's entertaining, but their actions are telling you everything. You know that
they're at least hesitant. They may end up doing it, but they're at least for the first time thinking like this is are they going to play this year out on the sixty million dollar cont and just they can't be a one and done team in the playoffs anymore. And give this quarterback two hundred and fifty million dollars guaranteed money because ultimately Deck his last contract that he signed, how long ago, he was making forty million dollars and
he has statistically played a lot better since. What do you think he's asking for minimum? Probably four or five years a couple hundred million, two hundred million dollars guaranteed.
Have you seen the splits? So and I could be wrong on this. Dak has only won I think nine games in his career when he has under one hundred rushing yard support. I think that's the number. I did it last week on the show, and I don't have it in front of me, but there is an absolute. I mean, we have Mahomes in the Super Bowl leading the Chiefs in rushing. We have Josh Allen Lamar in big games leading the team in rushing. If Dak does not get one hundred yards rushing, his winning percentage is
like thirty five. And I think it was he only has nine career wins when he has under one hundred yards rushing. I think that's that's the number. He's very dependent. Remember he broke into the league with a great run game and a great oline. Yeah, and he was thirteen and three and he really shocked the world. But then people get filmed, they see limitations. Then he dips and
they get Amari Cooper. He goes back up. So between the O line, Zeke and Amari Cooper in his prime, Dak SOO was kind of needed elevation, whereas a Mahomes, we know this Mahomes elevates everybody. I mean, it's Travis Kelcey playing for eighty percent of the quarterbacks in this league is a really good pro bowler. He's not Travis Kelsey. He's not this. So I just look at Dallas and I'm like, you have these numbers, they're all telling and it's a bad running back draft. I didn't get it.
Yeah, I just think they're with the you know, they've had success statistically, obviously not in the playoffs. McCarthy's not he can say whatever he wants about I want to run the ball more. Look at his history. He likes to pass. He did it with Aaron Rodgers, He's done it with Dak Prescott. Like I just don't think he can say whatever he wants because that's coming from Jerry. He wants to throw the ball around the yard. And we've seen Dak in these spots now in the playoffs,
he's thrown to the other team. If you put Dak with one of the Shanahan guys where run first, Lafleur or Kyle and took the pressure, he would be much better situated. But McCarthy, because all of his success in the way I think he fundamentally views offensive football, spread it out and throw it around and Dak, like you said, he's not only not Mahomes, he's not Josh Allen. He can't do like physically with Justin Herbert. He is much better to be a balanced quarterback. That's most guys there's
two or three guys. Do you feel good? Even Trevor Lawrence. More likely he's gonna need some help. He's not gonna be able to carry You.
Think about this, Think about what the rookie quarterback. Think of what Sam Darnald is in hering in Minnesota. An elite running back, an elite left tackle, the number one receiver Jordan Addison, a two hawkinson tight end, and an offensive a really clever offensive coach. Sam Darnald. I think this year, if he stays healthy and they're kind of patient with him and they watch JJ McCarthy, Sam Donald could end up Not because he's brilliant.
He's got one of the best.
I mean, if if we ranked left tackle, star receiver, two receiver, tight end, running back, they'd be up there at top sixty. Sam Darnold's gonna do a Baker. You're gonna look up and go Minnesota's in the playoffs. Not because Baker's great, although Bakers always had talent, Sam's had talent. But I think Darnald has a chance to be the Bakers story next year. It's just there's just too many good players here. I look at Dak and I think to myself, this Green Bay young and good, Detroit young
and good. Here comes Minnesota, San Francisco rams I, Saquan Eagles. I my gut is in an offensive league. Dallas doesn't have enough punch. If I told you, Ceedee Lamb week eight goes down for a month and a half. This is not a playoff team.
Yeah, we'll see if. I mean, maybe they draft a wide receiver high. But you know, sometimes you hit on them and they become Zay Flowers and sometimes they become Jalen Rager, right or the dude the Chargers took. So it's a fifty to fifty coin flip ferguson the tight ends pretty damn good. But you know, solidly, I'm with you. I mean, they are very very and he's really on the two guys. And this is why financially, I wasn't shocked at all when they signed nobody. Dak takes twenty
three percent. They're paying to Marcus Lawrence a time. They gotta pay CD, they gotta pay Micah Parsons. No one takes care of his own guys that he drafts, like Jerry Joy. They if they had space, people would be lined up to go there. But they never have any space because he's over paid. Not luckily, he's drafted pretty well, so a lot of Zach Martin's and Ceede Lambs, and you know, you feel pretty good about a lot of
the Michaeh Parsons. But you make a wrong decision on Zeke or all of a sudden you not only have no cap, you're missing like you don't have as many good players as you should. And now they lose Dan Quinn. Now they get Mike Zimmer, But I'd say Dan's a little more positive. Mike's a little more old school negative. I get why Jerry likes him because he was there in the heyday with Dion, but that's something to keep an eye on him and Vic. Right there are two of I would put them just on a game to
game basis defense. No one knows more defensive football now that belichicks out of the league than those two guys. For this new generation that they are, they're old school. They're a lot to handle for these twenty three year old kids. Unless you're coming from Nick Saban or Kirby. Some of these guys are like, what the hell is this?
So it's a lot in discussions on podcasts or broadcasts with people who monetize headlines. That's not a knock on McAfee or Rogan, it's the business. Well, yeah, you're gonna be a topic, You're gonna get a headline. But the other thing is, you know with Aaron is that I kept thinking to myself, green Bay is laughing their ass off. Aaron goes. Usually when the star quarterback goes, it's a turbulent ear. I thought green Bay by the end of the year was better than were last year with Aaron.
Jordan loves got all these young kids. And my take on that presidential nominee thing is, you know, green Bay sitting or thinking, we told you like this, you're just gonna get headlines. Not all negative. But I don't think you have a non football locker room with Aaron. I just think this is who he is.
Yeah, I would separate the two. I thought the CNN report, I mean a decade old Yeah, hearsay, that's that's insane to report. I didn'tually if I was Aaron Rodgers, I'd be fucking pissed, like half the people in the media tweeting like give me, no one knows like that. That's that's extreme. The VP thing, it was like kind of believable because they're boys. That felt like Aaron, like we're
not doing quite enough. Remember when I took the pay cut, Like guy, hey, guys, I just rehabb my ass off, and we feel a little bit like the packers, like where are our moves? That's what that felt like, because I heard someone say this, and they were right. The VP doesn't pay fifty million dollars a year. He ain't gonna be the vice president. Rich people don't go into politics until they get older and bored. Aaron's still young
and rich, and he ain't leaving the NFL. But that did feel a little bit Green bayish, a little different tactic, but like, oh my god, come on, Aaron, that would have been one. If you respected your employer, you just would have just tweeted.
Out like this is the stupidest report ever, guys.
I can't wait to see it. OTAs because he did it about the Sandy hook, which obviously is a much more powerful headline than being the VP. A lot of people making fun of him, but it's also like you do like you're making a paid a lot of money. They've gone all in on you. They threw you a lifeline because you wanted out of Green Bay, and then what happened after that report? They've made some moves.
It did feel a little bit.
I couldn't do the you know, the source, gymnastics, the reporter, if they I don't know, but it did feel like, well, he might have had a little something behind that one.
He did it with a Jeopardy. Remember he flirted in the off season with Jeopardy. We don't think he wanted to do Jeopardy. That's not what he wanted to do. But I think to your point.
Does Jeopardy pay fifty million? I don't think it does. I think it pays well, but not fifty.
It's probably eight to ten, not fifty.
Yeah, it's Sam Darnold.
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All right, we bring in Nick.
Right.
You know, one of the things that I think is fascinating about Caleb Williams is that I think I've told you this story when I interviewed a couple of times President Obama. They give you by ten minutes to the second, that's what they give you, and then they cut you off.
And so the second time I interviewed him, I asked him a question that he clearly wanted to talk about, because he gave a long, well thought I'd answer, And my question was, you're the first president in my life to deal with the vile nature, the aggressive attack dog style of social media. Jimmy Carter didn't deal with this, Reagan, Clinton,
nobody dealt with this, George Bush. And it does, if not change policy, it does change the momentum and the direction of day to day operations when you're on the defense because of social media and reacting to it. And the reason I bring this up is so I always looked at what he was dealing with, having to have a beer with Joe the Plumber because something went sideways on social media, which is I mean that guy was adult. But the point being is Reagan wouldn't have had to
do that. He'd have to have dinner with Tip O'Neil, not a beer with Joe the Plumber, because you get this avalanche downhill on social media. So it's a reality of the stakes now, but what it creates these micro avalanches on policy decisions or just equipped from cable TV. So similar to Caleb Williams is the first an IL superstar, and so he paints his fingernails, or he jumps into the crowd to see his mother, or he's moody on the sidelines. No, he gets that because he makes more
than ninety percent of the coaches in college football. And I'm going to give him that because I remember my first contract and I thought I was king shit when I was making nothing and so a twenty two year old, So I look at Caleb. Whenever I hear the pushback on there's a little ego, I'm like, have you read Twitter.
Every year to counter?
Yeah?
So here's so here's maybe this is too galaxy brain, yeah, and maybe I'm just too pro kalb, but here here would be my if I you know argument as to why that's actually good. Caleb's the first one of the first superstar football draft picks that we know what he's like with money, good or for bad. It's so you understand what I mean, like he's not. It's not as you don't worry when this guy gets, you know, his first million dollar check, is how is he going to go off the deep end? Is he gonna you know
what I mean? Whatever, However, millions of dollars were going to affect him. They already had. And so again you can people can take shots at it, but it's a variable removed. You know what Caleb Williams is like rich because he's rich already, you know what I mean, And so and maybe it's not exactly the way you would like him to act. But again you said when you forgot your first contract. I I've told you this before.
I've never ever judged when people talk about athletes blowing money because I won fifty grand on who wants to be a millionaire? And I blew it immediately, and I was smart and should have known better. And it was only fifty thousand night when I was twenty two. I can't imagine if I had you know, got ten million. What I would have thought. But we know what Caleb is like with money, we don't you don't have to worry about that. I think that's actually a plus. Yeah.
I anytime you're the first dealing with something, it's difficult, right, like sometimes you know, I think about this all the time. I was kind of a talented, workaholic mess until I was like thirty three with my kids. And by the way, dad was a doctor, mom worked in the school, you know, lived in the same house. No abuse in my life. That's a bit of a mess. And how many athletes have don't have that structure or don't have you know, somebody in there. I mean, I've always known what to do,
for instance, with money. My dad was in the market, my dad had doctor friends. I had a mess until I was thirty three, and I think, forget this. So now now you have some of these kids and these nil kids they get money or these young athletes, oh iosa. I don't know what I would have done with one hundred thousand. Caleb made like four and a half million.
So that's my point. I do know what at twenty two with a college degree, with educated smart parents' successful parents I would do with fifty thousand, and the answer is gamble and go to the Gentlemen's Club every single night till it was gone, which is what I did. It was gone, I bought a television and nothing and good times for two hundred days. One some money, lost some money. The nights I won. I took my friends out. When people are like, oh, these guys are paying for
everyone else's lifestyle. Of course, because the moment you can afford the steakhouse, you don't want to go to the to Fuddruckers anymore. You just don't, right, and nobody wants to eat alone. So guess what we're all going. It's on me. It was again, I'm not an idiot. I knew fifty grand at you know, at eight hundred dollars a night, fifty grand is not going to last that long, boys, but it always felt like it would last longer than
it did. So yeah, I think everybody people that I'm not big into being judgmental on early twenties, because anyone who's if you had all your shit together in your early twenties.
You're boring. What Kansas City's becoming is New England, a more entertaining version so who beat New England in the Super Bowl. The Giants twice by an inch and the Eagles on trick plays and maneuvering. You got to a point in the AFC, even young Mahomes, nobody was at the end. They had the cheat code, they knew the
Rubik's cube. It is big. Ban and Pittsburgh were not sophisticated enough offensively, Peyton Manning having to go to Foxborough again, Andy Dalton, roll your eyes, Flacco, you know, may be able to do it once. But really they mastered the AFC. They had a weak division, They always played in Foxborough. They always got the buy for older teams, and it was like, oh, they win a game and they're in the ANFC Championship. That's what Kansas City. That's why hard
bought of the Chargers is good for the league. Now it's like they can't go on a two game losing streak.
Now.
I don't think the Chargers this year will quite be there. But I think what the Chiefs are becoming is their losses will only be in Super Bowls. I do not believe Burrow's health is trustable. I think Buffalo and Baltimore this was the year with a young KC offense in Kansas City having to travel. I think Kansas City is
going to be New England. The AFC is overwhelmingly because, by the way, there's a really big chance you're not going to get a quarterback as Gift that is Josh Allen or as electric as Lamar, or as accurate as Burrow. If they can't do it, you may not.
They can't. And if they can't do it, and two of them, two of those three got their shot at them this year in their building and lost and lost, and with a wounded Chiefs team now, so it's gonna be.
McVeigh and Stafford that knock them out.
It's gonna have to be or it's listen, it's football. So weird shit happens, right, you know what I mean? There is the you know, you look back on that New England run because when you look at it and you're like, how did from you know, the from the undefeated season until the sea how did they go seven years from that year to the Seattle Super Bowl without winning? And you look at it and it's like, there's a weird ass game against Rex Ryan and Mark Sanchez's Jets.
There was the game the Ravens just ran for three hundred yards like so weird stuff happens, yes, but there weren't many times it felt like a team just lined up and was you know what I mean, better prepared and better than them, and they Patriots played their best and lost. I you mentioned the Chargers if you were advising hardball, So I have been. I'm gonna say so, I'm gonna admit something to you that you will laugh at.
So I have the last two years almost compulsively. I use Pro Football Focuses mock draft tool where and it's a great I gotta give them credit. Man. It's a really cool thing where you can pick whichever team you want to control, and they're you know, their AI will draft for the other teams offer trades. Except trades there's pretty They have like the trade value chart in there, but you can and they have the you know, your big board players ranked. You do a seven round draft
or whatever. And then so I do a lot of those, and I send my favorite ones to Brett Beach like a man, Hey, go ahead.
I do the same to Less Snead. Okay, I take pictures of mock draft, send it and I say, am I close and he will say, we don't, we don't do this, we're interesting, and he'll give me very subtle reminders on that what they do.
So last year I had a guy and I feel I felt, you know, I was like, oh man, I've ruined my mock draft reputation. And one of the ones I sent him, I had the Chiefs I won't say the kid's name, taking a kid in the second round. And he was like, actually, not bad, except for your second round pick, player X, I think is undraftable because
of some something some whatever. And then I looked. I was like, I had the Chiefs taking a guy at fifty eight that did not get picked, oh boy by anyone in the real drafting, get picked by anyone, but regardless. So I'm really more locked into this year's draft class than anyone before because I keep doing these mock drafts. If you were advising Harble, let's just assume that it goes one, two, three, four, Caleb Drake, Jaden or Jaden Drake doesn't matter, and that Arizona stands pat it for.
They're like, we're not trading it, We're taking Marvin. So you're the Chargers. Yeah, the option to take neighbors to take the tackle all or to trade the pick with Minnesota for eleven twenty three and you know something else, what would you recommend they do?
Okay, So you know, I am a strong proponent of I picked the right career. You have to lean into certain advantages. And I use the metaphor all the time. Ride the wave. Life presents you with waves where all surfers take the wave. So I and I'll give a story to the audience. So when I first moved to Manhattan Beach, on Saturdays, I'd get a big coffee at Pete's Coffee or something. I would go down and I would watch the surfers. I'd walk out to the pier
and watch the surfers. And what I noticed over the course of time is the very best surfers did rode the fewest waves. They were very selective. They wanted the longest, so they chose the best wave. So I use that metaphorically in my life a lot. There's things I'm good at, things i'm not. I'm no longer trying to in you know, fifties and say trying to prove I'm good at everything. About fifteen years ago I came to the conclusion you
know ride the wave of life. And that was and I wasn't in Manhattan Beach yet, but it was really a crystallized moment where I watched this and I thought, God, the smartest surfers, they're not wasting their time on shit. They're just waiting an hour for the best wave. So if you're Jim Harbaugh, there is a wave you need to ride for two years. You have a significant advantage over every other NFL coach in college personnel because Michigan only recruits four and five star players.
You played against these kids, or you're recruited.
Against you know the odometer, you know all the backstart, you've met the parents. So if I'm the Chargers for the next two years, I do a ton of trading down.
I thought, I totally agree.
And like I would take the five. I'd say, min soda, you want a quarterback, you move up. We'll take your other one, A three or four. Yeah, So you have a wave advantage. Jim knows personnel. This was always the problem with Belichick after he seized power, after you know, multiple super Bowls, he didn't watch games on Saturday. He was a terrible drafter. Pete Carroll when he seized control for briefly in Seattle Paul Allen's illness. Jody Allen was not a football fan. Paul really kept his thumb on
the organization. Pete took control the front off the drafts went into the tank. You can't do both, Harbaugh for two years? Can Pete could early? So I would trade I have thought about this. I would trade down twice. I would trade down Minnesota to eleven and then by the way, because they need they need weird things like a center, like a tight end.
They probably take in that center for more. I think he is the three names. He's going to be available at twenty eight.
Yep, they could trade down to eighteen twenty and have thirteen picks. So I think again, back to the way you have to take. This is what won Pete Carroll the Super Bowl. So that hards in the fifth round as a Chiefs fan. That's so everyone's like, oh, are you afraid if the Chargers are gonna get Marvin Harrison or Malik Neighbors at five?
And I'm like, man, I hope they do. Not because those guys aren't good players, but because adding a great wide receiver to a team that just lost Keenan Allen, Mike Williams. That's not going to make them, you know, demonstrably better. They have too many needs. But if they if they like, like we just said, turn five into eleven, twenty three and something else, and then are sitting at eleven and say to the any team behind Denver and the Raiders who are at twelve thirteen, like, hey, do
you guys want a quarterback? Because these teams do? Do you want eleven? And now all of a sudden they have, you know, seventeen twenty three, a future first, an extra third, all these things. That's how the Chargers can very fast get right back into it. I have another draft thing that I want to throw at you if I may, Yeah, go ahead, It's okay, all right. So people think four quarterbacks can go in the top ten, right, the three guys and then JJ McCarthy, which I don't understand the
JJ McCarthy thing. I'm not a college football expert, but one of the teams I watched a lot was Michigan, and never once I watched Michigan was like, that guy's a future top ten pick. But what do I know? Yeah, So those four guys, Marvin Harrison and neighbors are definitely going in the top ten. People think of doonsday might be able to whatever. Let's say those two Joe all the best tackle and then maybe another tackle and maybe brock Bauers, maybe Roma Doonsay, here's why I say that.
I just listed eight, maybe nine to ten guys. They're all offensive players. So if you're there, this is similar if to the twenty twenty one draft, which had all those five quarterbacks and they went earlier or whatever, all of a sudden, Micah Parsons is on the board at eleven because only two defensive players have gone. If you're a team that needs defense, you might be able to get the third defensive player taken in this draft at
pick fifteen. Like that's not an exaggeration. Like there'd be the four quarterbacks, three wide receivers, brock Bauers at tight end, two or three tackles that everybody loves. That's a dozen players. And so if you need a defensive player, you might be able to get the best defender in the draft with the eleventh pick of the draft. Which is crazy, but I really think we could have ten straight offensive players off the board.
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