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all right let's bring him on Bruce Feldman covers everything except the NBA and we're done talking it right now Bruce it's good as always to see you buddy Bruce Feldman Fox Sports college football reporter so you spent a lot of college football reporters cover the draft but you have a lot of sources on this and there's a lot of interesting things here for instance um we've said from the beginning uh JJ McCarthy much like Alabama quarterbacks played with a lead a great run game usually the best coach usually the best roster outside of an occasional Ohio State or Georgia game he was playing downhill I tend to like quarterbacks who either give me huge numbers like a burrow at a football Factory okay or they're Overcomers they carry people uh Mahomes or you know those kind of guys in college where they're asked to carry people he didn't really do either he didn't give me huge numbers didn't carry anybody that's what worries me when you talk to Scouts on JJ what part of his game Bruce is under the radar the biggest part really is his athleticism I don't think people give him enough credit for just what a Dynamic Athlete he is you would see him make and create and run when they really needed him to you saw that against Ohio State in some critical situations um you saw it actually in the playoff where he would do some really athletic things the sample size is much smaller even though he played a lot of games you know you remember he was not in there's a handful of games in the Big 10 he was not even in in this late and you know in the third quarter he wasn't in the fourth quarter um I just think what you're getting with him everybody likes him in the interviews they're impressed by how he conducts himself how football smart he is I think there's an aura about him they like um you know there's you'll hear some comparisons a little bit like oh he's kind of a brock py kind of quarterback in terms of what what they think they're going to see in terms of what he was asked to do but he in terms of like he's much more athletic than than Kirk Cousins yes um so I think those comparisons I don't think they're they're spoton I can see some of the overlay for that um he is a guy from one of the coaches I talked to in the NFL this week who felt like both JJ and Drake may they were guys who were going to need a little more time yeah especially Drake may but both of them you know look and they're both younger players they're not Michael penck they're not Bo Knicks who had been in college football for six years and had played a ton these guys hadn't played that much um and I think that's what's going to be interesting to see you know how high he goes and where he goes yeah we said yesterday if he is if JJ is Kirk Cousins with mobility and inexpensive that's a a quarterback in the NFL I mean Kirk is a borderline a you lack a little bit of juice moving and he's expensive that limits the roster well if he's got juice moving as you say and he's cheap that's pretty good quarterback for the record Sam darnold probably the starter if they got McCarthy much like McCarthy has a little juice athletically so you'd have kind of quarterbacks who play the same style so that's interesting interesting I think the other part with Sam and it's good to mention him was you know I think you and I are both very high on him coming out of college really good athlete I think temperament leadership was really good he went into a bad situation and I think he buckled with that I mean there's the famous clip from unan ghosts yeah and I think that's the challenge and the and the risk with all these young quarterbacks if they go into a really bad situation um you can ruin them and I think that's why you know it's maybe 50/50 on the quarterbacks who get drafted I think almost all of them have a lot of talent yes it's just I think people tend to forget Patrick Mahomes you know sat for a year behind Alex Smith who was a guy he could really learn from and learn the right things and then he's an Andy Reid system you know whereas you go someplace else you don't have you're forced to play maybe the quarterback room is not very good there's nobody you can lean on and then also there's no Andy Reid you're you're with a defensive guy or a firsttime offensive coordinator it's it's it's a really kind of like fix Dynamic that you're they're walking into so Jaden Daniels I was told is Washington they believe is the best fit so Cliff kingsberry is used quarterbacks who are mobile and accurate um and I like Jaden a lot I watched him at Arizona State he was really thin he's still pretty thin but he's developed the numbers are pretty profound um is there anything I see a little Lamar uh looks good in the pocket um Brian Kelly can be tough on quarterbacks here ran through him but he loves this kid and this kid just got better I mean if you look at the two years with Brian he got better so he's coachable are there any concerns with Jaden what do the scouts say that you hear Scouts really like them um the stuff I heard from coaches especially it's like first of all the Arizona State part three offensive coordinators in three years that program was in disarray around him right um he continued to physically develop love how he grew at LSU you know he was he was very good as a transfer his first year and then he made dramatic Improvement as a passer how he saw the field no turn in 2023 yeah um you know he there is some Lamar I mean he's not as physically strong as Lamar I think the the a little bit of the only hesitation you get on some people is you know in terms of outside the number throws he has a good enough arm it's not an elite arm um but he's accurate he has a work ethic that people love um and then his ability to extend plays and you see him show up in a lot of B games you know you watch what he did against against Alabama you watch what he did like and granted he has two first round receivers he was throwing to but um he was going up against a lot of Big Time athletes how about Arizona State against Herbert at Oregon wild shootout you look like you're watching two firstr quarterbacks years ago and he's in a bunch of those right and I I think that he is a guy to me the more people you talk to the more you're like oh there's a lot of people who actually feel more comfortable with him than any quarterback in this draft so let's talk about Caleb Williams he is uh going to Chicago obviously I have maybe because I know him a little bit and I know a lot of people around him my take has been the fingernails uh the jumping into his mom's arms um even people some people push back he's a little cocky with you in the interview I'm like first of all anytime you're the first anything it's difficult he's the first nil superstar in a Major Market let's give him a little pass if he got into his feels a little I mean I know at 21 when I got a new pair of shoes I thought I had game okay kid was making four million bucks more than the assistant coaches so I I just think we you know La money nil I can get over fingernails I think he has a sense of humor I've talked to him three or four times I think he's a bright quick funny kid very confident any of that stuff were even Chicago though all the stuff the peripherals I don't know how much it wores Chicago I know there are people in the draft process who love his talent but are have some concerns about him in terms of like you're going into you know I just mentioned the the chief situation he gets compared to Patrick Mahomes a lot fair or unfair Patrick Mahomes got to be behind got to be behind Alex Smith for a year and watched him right that's not this situation you have Tyson Badin and you're gonna have Brett rippen that's not Alex and a defensive coach and also yeah defensive coach who you know is definitely you know maybe he'll get another year after this year but it's not not like the ideal situation you have a first time offensive you know a new offensive coordinator who's going in there then on top of that um you know you don't have the Andy Reid factor of a guy who knows exactly what he's doing running an offense and running a team so I think there's a lot of stuff that's TBD now maybe Keenan Allen becomes the guy he can lean on and say hey you're supposed to do it this way because look he won a Heisman at USC and he had a great but like this past year was a Borderline Disaster for USC right they should have they shouldn't have been that bad right and so I think some of the stuff about okay you know is he going to be the team guy is he going is he going to listen to the people around him who is he listening to um I think those are things that people have legitimate concerns I don't think it's like oh the fingernails or whatever like a lot of that stuff I think is more anecdotal and separate but I think the the the bigger things are um you know how is he going to respond to you know real adversity but also trying to be the face of a of a team and going into a locker room and hey we're all about winning games not about you know all this other stuff that was going on with him at USC is there a player because none of these quarterbacks are quite ready I saw a quote yesterday from Bill bich he said the only player he's ever had in his career that was ready week one year one was Lawrence Taylor he said it doesn't there's definitely no Lawrence Taylor in this draft this is not a good defensive you you know Frontline draft sure um is there a player I kind of think it's Harrison that's just ready to be productive right away yeah I think Harrison and adun are really polished and character-wise really solid now the guy who I've heard the most stuff so this past you know couple of weeks I've been talking to a lot of NFL position coaches and Scouts the one because I would have been saying the two of them are the closest thing to K Miss terms of character they're really polished they're both good siiz guys um but it's the one who is the is the wow guy is actually Malik neighbors I mean there are NFL receivers coaches I talk to who think Malik neighbors is the number one lot of yards after catch potential just just incredibly explosive just has this dog mentality um and is so Dynamic and you know one of the receivers coaches I talked to two days ago said he's the best receiver coming out of college in a long long time he said I would have said since Jamar Chase and Jamar Chase had great film I actually think he's he he has more explosive than Jamar Chase now he's not quite as physically strong but he's not that far off it um you know it looks like to me it's a quarterback left tackle draft I think all drafts are now receiver drafts I just think they all are because but this one's much better than the one last year you had Quinton Johnston whose hands were spotty you know you didn't have a lot of big guys this draft is much better than last last year I don't remember a draft with eight left tackles like early is that is that the UN is that the position Joe Al I've been told I've heard there's a lot of people alt doesn't have a huge ceiling but should be good really quickly you know he'll be a two-time pro bowler not Trent Williams that's what I would heard from a an executive in the league they like alt they don't love any of the tackles but they like about eight of them to 10 of them there's a kid at Duke that can go inside outside Oregon State kid people say is like as good a run blocker you'll see tackle you just won't see him any better in the anywhere on the planet is that the best position in this draft you think I still think it's receiver um because I think you have three elite players at the top of it you know Joe Al to me is is maybe in that realm I don't think he's as far um you know you can get guys offensive lineman also where I think there is not to the Dre quarterbacks but there is kind of a boomer bust feel to some of them right so you know you mentioned Oregon State um Troy fanu at Washington similar kind of player where really physical there's coaches in the in the Pack 12 who actually thought Troy was a little better than TSI from Oregon State but they're both you know they're bruisers they're physical guys who I think can play outside but also if you need them can are good enough to play inside as well and versatile and smart and tough um there's a couple of I don't want to say real Boomer bus guys but Tyler gon from Oklahoma Bill Bebo is the old line coach there he was with Lincoln before he's an old leech guy he has cranked out a lot of star NFL got a lot of linan gon might be the most talented guy he's ever worked with but he's really raw so you may be getting a couple of years where he's got to work through it he you know he kind of came to offensive line really late um and then you have a guy in am Marius Mims at Georgia is this enormous guy you know 68 340 um you know people worry I talked to in the NFL worry a little bit about just in terms of durability when somebody's that big sure he's only played started seven or eight games um but there are a lot of offensive tackles that are interesting you just don't know you know do they go in the the 18 to 30 range um you know Barton from duke people like him because he can play so much I don't think anyone loves him in anyone spot he can play three spots yeah is he is he going to be a lead at any of them I I don't know you know you have a really good Center in from Oregon and Jackson's power Johnson Zack Fraser is a really good Center that people really like West Virginia yeah so it's a I think it's a good offensive line draft Yeah uh finally um Deion Sanders 14 players leave um I said earlier transfer portal 90% of the players that you get or leaving are not foundational um quarterbacks matter more than any I don't look at this as he's got a sales pitch some kids fall in love with the pitch and move on what do you make of what's happening at Colorado I think it's in it's kind of reflected of a lot of what's going on actually around the country just to not to the same degree and I don't want to say this is the exact or this is a CU thing but I think one thing I'm hearing a lot of in this cycle is you're seeing a lot of kids go back into the portal and after not being in there very long and what is happening is a lot of players are finding out that that the things they were being told they think they're getting aren't exactly what they're getting they're not getting that much because they may be told yeah it's going to be $400,000 or it's going to be $200,000 but it's a car that you're getting a rental you're not you don't own it so it's not like you or I could turn around and sell it right right it's a house that they that you're being you have access to but you don't own it so there's some of those things that I think are are uh are are tough for a lot of the the kids to to figure out right now they think they're getting one thing they're not it's there's a lot of times I've heard stories of guys who think they're getting 8 or 900,000 they maybe end up with 200,000 um so you get some frustration on that end I again I don't think this is you know in Dion's case at Cu uh they were so bad when he got there and he made a you know a huge overhaul of the program and I think a lot of it is now you've had a handful of assistants Sean Lewis's offensive coordinator is now the head coach at San Diego State so you've had some people come and go I suspect you know especially with shador there they will go as they go into a new league from one win to four wins at least I think eight um you know I get it they're I I think they will be you know significantly better I don't know how much better than eight but you know I I wouldn't you know you're going to see a lot of guys especially with grad transfers come and go yeah and I just think that people are looking for the right fit and sometimes people are constantly hitting the reset button like the kid on the video game who doesn't like the start of it and then all of a sudden like let me start that all over again good seeing your buddy as always Bruce Feldman the ATL uh athletic um Fox Sports you've upgraded your shooting guard here I think I've seen I know Jason fancies himself as a shooter no you couldn't have JM and Jordan the same backc court it would be uh it would it it would it would basically be a black hole it would be no passing bad shots it would be and Kobe white you'd be fun to watch but I'm not sure you'd defend anybody I think there's more Jordan pool going on here yeah you too kind hi everybody it's me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the latest from the herd including exclusive behind the scenes videos and more wherever you may be however you may be watching thanks again for making us part of your day

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