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Don Hahn (0:00)
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Peter Rosenberg (0:13)
All right, so no more time to waste here on Don Hannah Rosenberg because we want to talk to the people at 1-800-919-3776. And we got to get back to some Cody Bellinger who will be a Yankee for the next five years and $162 million. But Alan, what, what nauseated you so much about the prospect of Mel Kuiper saying tie Simpson to the New York jets at 16? And here is Mel. So just to let let you react here, Alan, here, here's Mel on mocking Simpson to the jets. He's 23 years of age. His father's a coach. Nick Saban's there with him, advising him.
Alan (0:48)
So he had heard first round, you.
Peter Rosenberg (0:50)
Think about Ty Simpson. I said he could have been top five. He would have continued through offensive line, let him down. Ryan Williams didn't have the year expectant. He had no running game. Ty Simpson obviously goes to a team that you say, can they screw it up? Can they affect, hey, let him sit for a little bit. He's only has 15 starts, but again, put a little weight on that frame. This kid's so competitive, he won't let a play die. He fights to bitter end a little too much. He'll figure that out. Ty Simps, like I said, at this point at 16, we were talking top five back in October, I think would make sense for the New York jets or the Steelers or the Rams late first round.
Don Hahn (1:21)
Yeah. What he's basically saying is this is a guy that you draft and then you just kind of hope to develop him. You put some more time into him. Right. You're not drafting him to play him right away. The problem is that you could do that in some other places and here in New York, you can't do it because you don't have another option. You draft him and within, within days, people are going to be how fast can you get him in? And this is a guy that doesn't have a lot of reps in college. And what have we seen over the years recently from a lot of these quarterbacks that come out of college and they don't have a lot of game experience? What do we see? It doesn't work. You can ruin a quarterback by throwing him out there and just it's got to be better. He'll figure it out. It doesn't work like that. You can ruin a player that way. And the jets are really good at that. Ruining a player I don't want. That's why I don't love this. Now again, Mel's doing what he does because for Mel, this is the player that makes sense at this number. Team needs a quarterback. This is the next best quarterback. This is the guy you take. So we did a little more digging. So he also did a big board rankings. So where's Trinidad Chambliss in this whole thing? He does have him as the third quarterback. Best quarterback in the draft. He has him ranked third. But he doesn't have him in his mock first round, which means he doesn't see him as a first round pick. That's fine with me. I have no problem. As I said, I feel like these picks need to turn into plug and play immediate players now. And if that means that 16 pick goes to a team that wants a quarterback that they can stash and develop and they want to take him there, great. Give me some draft capital and I can always get into the second round or be in the second round. And if Chambliss is there, if he's available, that's the guy I would probably rather get. Now I know the knock on him is that he's six one. Barely. They feel like he's small and small quarterbacks don't really work out. He has also talked about how he does want to go back to Ole Miss. He just did an interview. I'm reading some of the quotes here. He's making it pretty clear how much he loved it there and he feels like it gives him more time to develop. But he's 23 years old. If you give him a. If he knows I could be a first round pick next year with another college year under my belt, then maybe he wants to stay for that rather than be a second round pick. But you also don't know. I mean, Carson Beck was in college for seven years. Did his stock go up or go.