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THE HERD - Hour 1 - Vikings are a mess, Lakers fans should be worried
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Colin Cowherd
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So what is happening right now with the Minnesota vikings who are $45 million over the cap and yet reportedly they want to okay and would have to pay. And so behind the scenes, they are going to cut Aaron Jones. They're moving off Hargrave. What's happening? Well, we start our show with that. What's happening is they know privately. Yeah, the J.J. mcCarthy thing, it's not working. You're not interested in Tua and reportedly Kyler Murray. If you're 45 million over the cap. They don't want to release veterans, especially a defensive lineman who was decent last year. Boy, you got to make a decision quick. First of all, he can't stay healthy. J.J. mcCarthy, whatever you think of him, I was never a fan at Michigan or at a college. Just my opinion. He can't stay healthy. He's missed 24 starts, so he may not be built for this league. I mean, think about Caleb Williams, the beating he took as a rookie in Chicago. Caleb Williams has never missed a start. USC with a battle line and the Bears his rookie year with a battle like Caleb Williams never misses a start. Bo Nix in Denver never missed a regular season start. So it may. J.J. mcCarthy's body may not be built for this league. He wouldn't be the only one. The second thing is when you watch him play, his confidence is all over the map. And I feel bad for the kid. Sometimes he is on fire and got a lot of juice on his ball and other times he looks lost and lacking confidence. And you can see both in an hour. And the numbers don't lie on JJ McCarthy. Completion percentage, passer rating was the worst in the league. And remember that is with Kevin o', Connell, a top five or six offensive coach. That is with Justin Jefferson, Jordan Addison, capable tight ends. So we, we always said when Kyle Shanahan said, hey, I'm going to move off a first round pick, Trey Lance, that sent a signal to everybody with a functional brain except the Dallas Cowboys. Probably not going to be a guy you give up draft picks for. The Cowboys did, right. Like when an offensive coach. I mean, remember Kevin O' Connell made Josh Dobbs work and throw for 350 yards without a practice. So the fact that JJ McCarthy is struggling with this coach, that receiving core, those tight ends playing indoors in a division, let's be honest, that doesn't have a great defense. The Bears defense wasn't very good last year. You know, the packers defense, minus Michael wasn't great. The Lions defense has been, you know, okay on the back end for years. So I think it's time. It is a skill to acknowledge mistakes. I mean, cruddy Arizona can't get rid of Kyler Murray fast enough. And two reports now say the Vikings are into TUA and Kyler Murray. So acceptance is the fifth stage of grief. So you got to get over the first four, like denial, anger, and bargaining. You got to get over them because this isn't working. They can say whatever they want, but The Vikings are 45 large over the cap. Now they're having to restructure and release veterans because they were built for a young kid to come in and play. That's why Chicago's roster is stacked. That's why Denver's roster is stacked, because you draft the quarterback in the first round, you have to pay him anything for four years. So at the combine, here's Kevin O' Connell discussing the timeline on the frustrating JJ McCarthy. We've seen some growth. We've seen some of that development time over, you know, time over time, but we're still talking about, you know, quite a few opportunities of that development phase and growth phase missed. We want them to be in a competitive situation because of some of that time lost. We've really got to push the. Push the gas pedal down and not replace development and coaching and teaching with anything, but really enhance it with a really competitive situation that I think our whole team will benefit from. For the record, not just a competitive situation, an expensive situation. They're 45 over the cap and they want to bring in Tua. People say things publicly. They are treading water. Already fired their GM backstage. Okay, so, yeah, I know they beat the Kings. Big party in Laker land. Sometimes you see video and it's troubling. And Luca had a really bad week last week. Finally, people acknowledging some of the obvious issues. But JJ Redick is frustrated because he can't make LeBron younger, and reportedly he can't make Luka listen. So there's video from Saturday night against the Warriors. And Luca not only blows off JJ Redick, he had to be controlled by Jared Vanderbilt. And I honestly think you'll see him coming off the floor here. I honestly think that Luca was so gifted. He turned pro at 13. Look at J.J. redick grabs him. Luka won't listen. J.J. redick barks, which he's prone to do. He walks, he follows him down the bench. And then he has words with him. He looks him in the eye. And then Luca gets ticked off. And LUCA eventually is J.J. reddick. Look, I mean, that's. That's a real confrontation right there. And then Lucas stands up and Vanderbilt gets in the way. That is a confrontation. But remember, Luca turned third, turned pro at 13. He made Real Madrid, made his debut at 16. He was the European MVP at 19. All the youngest turning pro. Real Madrid Euro MVP at the youngest ages ever. So it has been year after year of pandering and worshiping. And the other thing with Luca, from a very early age, he's always had the ball in his hands. In fact, since he entered the league, he has the highest usage rate. So he has been pandered to worshiped. He. Here's the ball. Control the offense. That's why he and LeBron don't play well together, because LeBron's better with the ball than he is off the ball. And LeBron can't, like, stem the deficiencies Luca has on the defensive end. So you can say whatever you want, but that piece of video is JJ Redick not pandering. JJ Redick Saturday night against the Warrior team. That is a mess. I mean, it's real video here. And J.J. redick follows him right down the bench. Lucas sits down and listen. J.J. redick, he is not a guy that's going to mince words. You don't have to like him. You can call him arrogant, you can call him whatever you want, but, I mean, this is a confrontation. This is JJ Redick a confrontation with Luka. And watch the way Luca, he stands up. So from 13 to 27 years old, and. And Luke had just turned 27 over the weekend from 13. 14 years of having the ball in your hands, getting your way, being worshiped. And then last week, all of a sudden, the media and the fans kind of turned and kind of went, bro, you're kind of bad defensively. You don't play with LeBron, and LeBron plays well with everybody. Here's J.J. redick. After that warriors win. Win. On some of the struggles recently, these guys want to do it, right? They. They're trying. I know our staff, myself, we're always looking for answers and solutions, partially just because of the disruption of lineups and different, different factors. You know, we, we just haven't had the, the continuity that I thought we were going to have coming into the year. And it's taken longer than I thought. But I'm confident we're going to get there. I will say this, I will defend JJ Redick. LeBron missed the first 1415 games. Austin Reeves missed another 1519 games. It's not a well constructed roster defensively or from a catch and shoot perspective. They need both. And yet they're kind of competitive with Denver now. They are not beating good teams. They're hammering the Kings and the warriors, whatever, but they're kind of hanging around in the playoff picture. Despite the fact they haven't had LeBron, they haven't had Austin Reeves for long stretches. Both are back now. But Brian Windhorst famously said after that Finals, remember that probably the moment of Brian's career, BW came out and said after that finals lost by Dallas, this guy's got to change. It's not going to work. You're not going to be a championship player. You got to commit to being in shape. You got to commit to the defensive end. It is just interesting that in the last week, the media, the fans, and now JJ Redick having a little confrontation. It reminds me of the first couple of weeks I worked with J. Max. Sometimes I had to walk him down to the end of the bench and had to give him a set of rules to play by. But, I mean, you would admit, you would admit. And I think this, I, I, I understand players barking at the refs. I do think that Luka is so dismissive of the officials. I, I, that bothers me. And, and I get it. Listen, Michael Jordan, LeBron complains a little. Magic complained a lot. Michael was obsessive. Lucas sort of in that vein, but, but just an interesting week in Luca land.
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Rob Parker
Yeah, for sure. Of course, this was during a win. We have no context. What quarter was this? What just happened? Luka was magnificent all weekend. Great. Last night against the Sacramento Kings. And here you are trying to stir the pot.
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Colin Cowherd
Oh, my gosh.
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Rob Parker
Drama. Let's settle down. Yes, the video doesn't look great, but I don't understand how Travis Kelce and Andy Reid are butting heads. That's competitive fire. Michael Jordan punches a teammate in practice. That's competitive fire. Luka and J.J. redick join. There's trouble in Laker Land. Like, I, it just feels like there's such a double standard for my Lakers right now that if they win, hey, they Beat a crap team, who cares? And if they lose, well, the sky's falling. This isn't working. Come on, you gotta be real. Colin, we're being a little harsh on Luca here.
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Colin Cowherd
I think we're being honest. And I think until the last 10 days, it's been all bouquets and flowers and birds chirping and pots of gold. In the last 10 days, people have said. I said this for years about Carmelo Anthony. Can anybody address the defense? Can anybody address the fact that he gets hunted in playoff series? Could anybody address the fact that I don't think he's in the greatest shape? That he didn't make players better doesn't mean Carmelo's not a Hall of Famer. I'm not denying the greatness, but you're talking about Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Michael Jordan. Lots of rings, lots of hardware. Luka's great. So therefore, the standard for Luka is, dude, you're playing for the Lakers with LeBron, Austin, Reeves, the standard should be high. I mean, again, what is the standard for the Lakers? To me, it's. It's. Maybe it's not the Dodger standard, but now the Dodgers owner own the Lakers. I can assure you the standard is, let's get a better front office and let's make some moves. Nobody is saying that. I mean, again, against bad teams, Lakers have been good last several years. That's never the issue. But the west has lots of good teams and they're all right now ahead of the Lakers. And that's who you have to get through to get to the finals. Oh, oh. Coming up, we told you. I strongly believe. I watch all these mock drafts. I read about 6 this morning and pff, came out with one. And whenever somebody doesn't have Ty Simpson, the Alabama quarterback, in the first round, I'm like, okay, mock draft person. Have you heard of the word desperation? Because the league is it that it uses desperation as deodorant. And Ty Simpson is going to get drafted in the first round. And I'll give Ty Simpson credit. He's pretty smart here. We'll talk about that coming up. 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Minnesota's interested, among others. Malik Willis could get 30 million. He's had like six starts. Tua who can't stay healthy. Concussion issues, y' all well documented. His cap hits over 55 million and multiple teams are interested. So I said, and I've been saying this Ty Simpson of Alabama doesn't do a ton for me. I do think he has a better than average arm. I think he has a good arm. He's going to go in the first round. It may be the Steelers at number 21. The jets have two first round picks. The Rams have two first round picks. Cleveland's got two first round picks. He's going in the first round. And and the reason I know he's going in the first round is because people are interested in TUA and they're interested in Kyler Murray and rearranging their financial deck. They're not interested in a 6:1 kid who had brilliant college coaching who's pretty accurate. I mean, again, I didn't love Jackson Dart, but Jackson Dart's only 1.5% of the new York Giants cap. Ty Simpson goes to the Rams. He doesn't have to play. He's going to be 1% of the cap. I mean, you have teams now shedding veteran players because they want tua. This kid stays healthy. He's pretty athletic. I think he has a really good arm. He doesn't have a lot of college starts, but people talk themselves into it all the time. So when I hear people say I don't know, I do. He's getting drafted and again, like the Rams, they have to play him for two years. But when you watch them and I watched a little of the combine, good arm size is fine. Not Great athletic ability is fine. I've seen a lot less talented quarterbacks. And the other thing that needs to be noted, one of the reasons that Jackson Dart succeeded and we talked about it on the show, because he had Lane Kiffin for three years. It is such an advantage to be a college quarterback and to have a head coach that understands the dynamics and the complexities of pro football offenses. Lane Kiffin does well. Look at who Ty Simpson's college coaches are. Nick Saban and Kalyn DeBoer. He's had elite coaching. So I always think that is, I mean, listen, Fernando Mendoza had Kurt Signetti. You tell me that doesn't help a little bit. I think it's a huge advantage, huge advantage to have a Kiffin or a Kalyn DeBoer. So here's Robert Mays last week from his podcast on taking a swing and drafting in the first round. Ty Simpson. If you don't have a quarterback, just take shots. Just keep taking shots. Tyler Schuck wasn't somebody that people were excited about heading into last year's draft necessarily. He goes 40th overall, which is a wasteland for quarterbacks historically. He looks good. If I were a Saints fan, I'd be excited about Tyler Schuck. And so I think that more often than not it is worth drafting these guys a little bit higher because let's say you miss on a guy in the second round if you don't have a quarterback, I think that's a downside you're willing to embrace because the upside is absolutely enormous. And the other thing is Simpson smart. Simpson's gone out to say, oh, I would love to play for Cleveland. Yeah, wouldn't we all. He's come out publicly and oh, oh, I, I know Todd Monkin. I, oh man, I would love to play for Cleveland. Cleveland's got the kind of low self esteem, they just love that. Yeah, that's the kind of thing you can get the jets all fired at. Remember when they drafted Johnny Manziel and the stories came out in Cleveland? He was like, hey, let's do this together, let's ride. Before Russell Wilson was saying it. You can these low self esteem franchises if you show any sign that you've always wanted to play for the Browns or the Jets. Come on, are you kidding me? J. Mac with the news. No, no, no, turn on the news.
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Rob Parker
This is the Herd line news. Well, you're on a heater today, coward, but must have had some week boozy weekend in Chicago, huh? Warm weather hits 50s. He's going crazy. I Love it. All right, let's get started with the NFL trade. Big one just went down. The Detroit Lions have broken up their great backfield of Montgomery and Gibbs. They ship Montgomery to Houston. I feel like it was maybe an overpay. I'm a little shocked here. A fourth round pick, a seventh round pick, and an offensive lineman in Juice Scruggs. Now, I did look up Scruggs. He has not played great so far. Second round pick, three years in the league has not showed really anything at all.
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Colin Cowherd
Houston. Now we'll have Montgomery and Woody Marks. That's a very above average tandem. Houston was a running back shy and I think, I think this is a good move by Houston. I. One of the reasons that, let's be honest, that CJ Stroud has regressed is they don't have a dependable run game. And when Woody Marks played, I always felt I got a better CJ Stroud. I'm not sure if the data says that, but I get Montgomery and Woody Marks. Okay. That's a top 10 running back combo. To me. That's a really, that's. That's Kyron Williams, Blake Corum, now Jameer Gibbs. And again, Detroit's front office. They'll find another running back somewhere because Jameer Gibbs is a star and they're not paying him for a couple of years. So I think they'll be fine. But I like this for Houston.
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Rob Parker
Yeah, I mean on, on paper, Col, it sounds good, but we looked it up. Montgomery is kind of a declining asset. 20, 23, he had 1100 yards, 13 touchdowns. He had 400 yards less the next two seasons. Okay. But kind of aging a lot of. Yeah.
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Colin Cowherd
But now Houston can pay attention to their offensive line. Yep. And that's, that's really. Their defense is great. They've got their edge rushers, they've got their receivers. They have their quarterback now they've got Marks as a one back. Montgomery's at two. Now they can go fill their offensive line. It gives them total clarity going into late April for Houston in the draft. I like it for Houston.
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Rob Parker
I'm going to say Detroit won this. More bites at the apple. You get a rotational piece on the offensive line. Even though Scruggs hasn't been great, I mean, now he's going to be surrounded by some all pros in Detroit. The culture's better there, I think on the offensive line in the last few years. I like this for Detroit. I've been on this like super bowl window closing thing.
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Colin Cowherd
I'm, I'm.
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Rob Parker
This is such a good Move. I believe that. I wonder if it's potentially a jar again and they're going to start to make good moves here. And I like draft picks, so we'll see what happens there with Detroit. All right, next up, Albert Brear. Colin is reporting from the combine that Max Crosby could be traded as early as this week. Here are the teams that were mentioned. The Rams. Okay, Eagles. Got it. Patriots, no surprise. Bills, Bears, and wait for it, Colin, the Dallas Cowboys. According to Brear, yes, the Dallas Cowboys could trade for Max Crosby. Now, that would be the height of stupidity for Jerry Jones to move off Micah only to give up draft picks. Remember, they want two. Two ones for Max to get back in bed with an edge rusher who's older than Micah Parsons. So I don't know if I believe the Dallas stuff or that's posturing from the agent, but certainly some really good contenders on that.
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Colin Cowherd
By the way, the Rams have two first round picks. They want a receiver. Keep your eye on Lemon from usc and then Max Crosby. I mean, if you're, if you're trying to beat the Seahawks. I mean, if you're, you're. You're looking around at the teams in your way, like Seattle, Max Crosby one side, Jared Verse the other. Yeah, I'm pretty interested in that. So remember, the Rams have two first round picks. They may not love Ty Simpson.
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Rob Parker
They, I don't think anybody loves. Except you. Would you give up? That's. What is it, 16? Is that the pick in the middle of the first round?
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Colin Cowherd
No, no, no, I'd give up. No, because the Raiders already have the first pick. I would give them my second pick, which is in the 20s.
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Rob Parker
Well, they might get a better offer. DJ Moore might be better than that. You know, like, it's going to be interesting. I wonder if Crosby's gone silent, so I wonder if his agent was like, bro, can you just not do any more podcasts? Can you not give out any more fodder? Let's just make it quiet. We'll get this done. Very interesting week coming up in the NFL, right? The next couple of days are going to be crazy. Let's keep an eye on.
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Colin Cowherd
This is. This is fascinating because I'm telling you, take out Miles Garrett. My, my next favorite pass rusher in the league is Max Crosby. Relentless guy against the run. You know, Micah doesn't defend the run. Micah's a splash player. Max can defend the run. He is a relentless, impossible to block one on one player. I love this. And for the record, if, if, if left, let's Say for instance, the Rams go and get him. You could go to the Rams and say, okay, we need something in return here beyond just a pick. Could the, could the Raiders say, we'll take another number one. What we'd like is another starter defensively. Something to think, maybe.
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Rob Parker
I just need to check Will and Will Anderson still in the league. The Houston Texans pass rush are calling. Max is not number two. He's good. He's good. He's not two.
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Colin Cowherd
Come on.
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Rob Parker
All right, let's go. Final story. How about this? My New York Knicks take down The spurs impressively 25 point blowout yesterday held Wemby and company to 89 points. I'm now a Spurs fan, so I can kind of justify some of the loss. But the Knicks, Colin, our staff put this together. Since January 21st, they've been one of the best teams in the league. 14 4, number one in defense, number one in points per game differential. Knicks are quietly cooking. Everybody's talking. Tatum, right?
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Colin Cowherd
I watched this entire game yesterday and by the way, it feels like the spurs have been on the road a lot. No, New York has played. New York's playing very well. Cat played well. They got off to a lead. They pulled away late. Just. The spurs did not have a second gear in the second half. Knicks played very, very well. They deserve credit. They, they, they played. And listen, defensively, if Wemby's not hitting threes, he can, you know, they, they. I know when Wemby's the be all, end all, probably the face of the league, but they move the ball around. He has possessions where he doesn't get a touch. He wasn't hitting on threes. And you look up and they just, that was the way to get back for the spurs and they couldn't.
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Rob Parker
So, so to justify the spurs, there's this San Antonio rodeo. I'm not a Texas guy, I don't know it, but San Antonio has not played at home since February 7th. I know you're a traveling man, you're on the road for three weeks, you're going to wear down. So the spurs got blitzed in the fourth quarter. They got run out of the gym. They did have two home games in Austin, you know, I don't know how close Austin is to San Antonio off the top of my head. But listen, man, that's a lot of time away from home. They had peeled off 10 or 11 straight. Yeah, like, it's not the worst loss in the world. It's a good win for the Knicks, if that makes any sense.
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Colin Cowherd
Yeah, it Was J. Mac with the news. Well, that's the news and thanks for stopping by the herd line. I will say, you know, everybody's got the money. Mock drafts. I, I watched a little bit of the combine. Not a lot, top teams don't go. A lot of top players, quarterbacks won't throw. So PFF came out with their mock first round pick and it's interesting, a lot of pushback, that Fernando Mendoza is a bit stiff. He's a fine prospect. My take is no, he's, he's like a bigger, stronger version. I remember meeting Matt Ryan at the other place in person and thinking, oh, he's a bright guy, he's going to do well. Basically the comp for him is Matt Ryan, but, but he's a legitimate £240. Matt Ryan looked about 215 in college. Maybe he's, you know, had a couple gallons of water before the weigh in combine. I don't know. But ask yourself this. In this PFF mock draft first round, only one teammate of Fernando Mendoza, only one, a wide receiver, late first round. And for the record, that receiver Omar Cooper's very good in a lot of mock drafts. He's not a first rounder. He's very top of the second round. By the way, Fernando Mendoza beat the Buckeyes. They have five players in the first round. He beat Miami. They have three players in the first round. He Beat Oregon, stomped them 56, 22. Beat him twice actually. And they have two players in the first round and several other Oregon in the second. So he beat 10 first rounders. And if you're just wondering how did he do against Ohio State, Oregon twice and Miami, when he played him, he was four. No completed 67.5% of his throws, eight touchdowns, two picks, 200 yards a game, which is throwing. Nobody was throwing for 200 yards against Ohio State. So if you're wondering about Fernando Mendoza against the three best teams he played, including Oregon, twice, he had one projected first round teammate. Colin. It's about Kurt Signetti. Oh it is because the year before, before Mendoza arrived in Bloomington, Kurt Signetti got beat by three touchdowns by Ohio State, yet beat the Buckeyes. With Mendoza and the year before when he played Notre Dame in the playoff, they trailed at one point, 27 to 3. So all I'm saying is Signetti is a great coach. That 16 oh is about the quarterback. The coach is excellent, but the coach was excellent the year before and they were getting boat raced by Ohio State and Notre Dame. So by the way, here's Fernando from the combine on the Hoosiers success, a lot of them were one score games, had a lot of tough defeats. Whether it was 49 of 50 to USC and Caleb Williams two years ago, whether it was 38, 39 to Cam Moore to the Miami Hurricanes the past year. Believe a lot of that experience of failing coming up so short has helped me in this new run with Indiana, wherever we've gotten behind and dug ourself in the hole with Penn State, with Oregon, with Iowa and be able to learn from those failures and make those into successes and then be able to help my teammates. For the record, he also beat Alabama this year, who has two players in the first round and he beat Penn State and they have a player in the first round. So if you look at all the teams with first round picks that he played, he's like 6 and oh, and he's completing nearly 70% of his throws. And I like Signetti, I think he's really good. But in fact, one of my favorite parts of Fernando Mendoza is that, and this is something that I think has been true forever with quarterbacks. He got the, you know, what kicked out of him at Cal for two years and that was a real thing, two or three years at California. So at one point Cal had Aaron Rodgers in the league and Jared Goff in the league. They still do. And now they're going to have Fernando Mendoza in the league and there's another Cal guy. And I think, you know, first of all, Cal is a very heady school, so you have to be smart to go there. But the other thing is quarterbacks that play at schools where they don't all have five star receivers. I mean, wouldn't you think, man, Alabama must have, Ohio State must have, you know, all these top schools, lsu, they almost have like seven quarterbacks in the NFL, they don't. A lot of quarterbacks come from Big Ben, Miami of Ohio, Goff and Rogers, Cal, Philip Rivers, Russell Wilson, Wisconsin, North Carolina State. A lot of that is because you have to elevate teammates. J.J. mcCarthy had a great coach, a great O line, a great offense. That's not the kind of internship that prepares you for the NFL. 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Mj. His team's won three straight, first time ever. So the less perfect your traits are, your size is the more perfect you need to be at the combine or on pre draft interviews. So Diego Pavia, wildly entertaining quarterback, five nine and a half, 205 pounds at Vanderbilt. So we're in an era last two or three years. It's been a bad time for small quarterbacks. So people now because of Tua and Kyler Murray are very and Russell Wilson's quick regression are out on small quarterbacks. So diego pavia maybe 8 years ago it was different when Russell Wilson was in his prime and getting guys like, you know, Johnny Manziel drafted. But now everybody's out on small quarterbacks and in my opinion should be. So this kid's five, nine and a half, five ten. That's about four inches shorter than I want and he weighs 205 pounds and he's got a very interesting personality and background. Very cocky, kind of a schmuck. During the Heisman ceremony and to further question his judgment, he was asked who's giving him sort of mentoring him during this process and he named Johnny Manziel. Here is the young Vanderbilt quarterback. Yeah, he's giving the. Given me the what to look out for, what it's like, how to stay in the process. And you know, he's given me some good advice for sure. And he always reaches out too, checks up on me, make sure I'm good. And he just like a, he's just a friend to me, you know. And so he's given me some mentorship. He's been around me, he's been around my family. He's just a great person. For those that really don't know, Johnny Manziel may be a blast and he may be a good time. Does this kid have an agent? Theo Vaughn needs to step in because that is exactly the opposite of what you'd want as your mentor because Johnny what? And Johnny, I've met Johnny. Johnny's a nice guy. Johnny's fun. People like Johnny, but like Pavia, small and cocky. That is not who you want, at least publicly being your mentor. Cause remember, Johnny Manziel wasn't just, you know, a miss. I hate the word bust, but he was a miss. He wasn't only a miss. It was how he missed. At one point, he was wearing a disguise at a Vegas nightclub in concussion protocol. I wish I was joking. So, like you say Johnny Manziel, and I mean, in NFL offices, it's like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you just say, yeah, he's got a little Johnny Manziel in him, people run for the exits. And again, Johnny could be a great guy. I think he is. I remember one time being in Florida and I had an Uber driver and he had taken Johnny Manziel, you know, two days earlier, we told Johnny Manziel stories for a half hour on my drive. Wildly entertaining guy. Funny, funny guy. Full of a lot of personality. So. But not a guy you want as a mentor when you were kind of a schmuck, which this kid from Vanderbilt was at the Heisman ceremony. So, yeah, yeah, this is one of. One of the. And he, you know, everybody's now out on small quarterbacks and it's very cyclical. There was a time when height was overvalued. Then there's a time recently, height is undervalued. I mean, watch this college tape we're showing you. He looks tiny. He makes Bryce Young look like Wilt. I mean, he is small, like at the college level. So I don't love that. I just. And I got again, young guy. But when you watch Fernando Mendoza and you listen to Fernando Mendoza, you just hear all this humility and gratitude and you could tell the support system's great. I, you know, if I was his agent, I'd just say, listen, you can like Manzel. I wouldn't bring that stuff up because that. That just screams, watch out. He's a good friend. He's a mentor. Well, then people are going to question your judgment and probably. Probably have a right to. So a lot of restructuring of contracts coming up. And through the years, I have said, in terms of when you win a Super bowl and the Seahawks are a recent example, four people, more than any other people, matter most. Owner, gm, coach and quarterback. So through New England's dynasties between Robert Kraft and a Scott Pioli and a Bill Belichick and a Brady, it was a. At worst, one of them can be an A minus or a B plus. A Kansas City's dynasty, it's the Hunt family, A Mahomes, a Annie Reed, a Brett Veach, a. I would say with the Seahawks, the ownership group, the Allen family, despite rumors, are going to sell. They've been committed for years. Very strong ownership group. Gm, A coach, a. Say what you want about Sam Darnold this year, a Now think about the Cowboys. I mean for the record, even in this has been going on forever, even to the niners dynasty. Eddie DeBartola, San Francisco a. Bill Walsh, a Montana Young a. A Carmen policy, John McVeigh a. You can have a B plus in there. It all starts at the top in the NFL. So if you look at the Cowboys right now, Jerry has become a C minus ish level owner Meddling. He calls himself the gm. Well therefore he's a D. The coach Brian Schottenheimer, I'll be kind C to C minus. So Dak right now is a buoy like keeping this thing afloat. So Jerry Jones said at the combine he sees the Cowboys being big spenders. Here he is. I would bet that we will spend more money in free agency than we have. The only way to push more is for me to go borrow some of my future. Okay. Expect me to go borrow some of my future. We have a chart for their free agents right now. Remember the Kenny Clark salary caps. Moving on up, they have two first round picks but they don't have a second and a third. So they have got to hit, they have got to hit on defensive players in the first round. Last 10 years. If you look at their highest paid free agents, they, they, you know, they're not necessarily big spenders in free agency because the Cowboys historically they pay their draft picks so that if you go Cowboys highest paid free agent in the last 10 years, it's, you know, Terrence Williams made 9 million. But they, they, they're not big spenders in free agency. You think of Jerry the oil maverick as a wild spender. He's not. He really isn't. They draft and then sign to validate their draft picks. They sign their own guys. So I look at all these draft picks. If I was Dallas, I'd like about four of these guys. Kate Otten at tight end, I think he'd be a great one or two tight end. I would love the center Tyler Linder ball but he's a fortune. So you know, it's one thing for Jerry to say we're going to spend, but the history is they do not spend in free agency. They draft kids and then tend to overpay them and that's where we're at. So Colin right? Colin wrong. Matt Hasselbeck this weekend combine. He worked with a lot of these quarterbacks including Ty Simpson. So excited to hear what Matt Hasselbeck did this weekend. J. Mack is sulking today a little after the, the punishment we offered for a Luca. It was a nice weekend for the Lakers. They beat a very bad warrior team and the Kings are the worst organization in the league, but they did they. I will say this, I watched the Nuggets yesterday, too. They are. What are they? Back of the Nuggets, like half a game or a game.
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Yeah. And they're only one and a half back of the Rockets for the three seed. So despite the sky is falling narrative, the reality is, hey, all they got to do is, I mean, they got Denver this week. So we get, we get Diamond Ayton or whatever his nickname is. What is deandre Ayton's nickname? Dominating against Jokic. That should be a fun matchup. And Luka against, you know, Christian Brown. I think the Lakers need to win that game. That's a big one for them. And they face two tanking teams. They're going to be fine. Totally fine.
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