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00:02 - I'm not excited about him,
00:05 and maybe it's just because he's not as flashy
00:08 as some of these other guys.
00:09 He was a winning player.
00:10 There's no question about that.
00:12 But in terms of building a franchise,
00:16 I don't know if I was a fan of a team,
00:18 I'd be extremely excited if I used the top 10 pick
00:20 on J.J. McCarthy.
00:21 I'll put it to you that way.
00:23 - Now listen, it's draft season, it's combine week,
00:26 it's a week of hot takes.
00:28 Everybody's got something to say,
00:30 and everybody thinks they know right now.
00:34 But my day started with me being flabbergasted
00:37 by somebody on Twitter.
00:39 They sent me the video of some dude
00:41 that wants to trade the number one pick
00:43 and the ninth pick of the draft for Josh Allen.
00:46 - Now I know that guy.
00:46 - And somehow thinks that it's a great deal
00:48 for the Buffalo Bills.
00:50 - He's a good guy, Ryan.
00:52 - He got traction going, that's what it's about.
00:54 - He got traction.
00:56 But not in a million years.
00:58 - No, I'm like, who says no?
01:00 (laughing)
01:02 The Bills are trading Josh Allen
01:05 for the first nine pick in the draft.
01:06 - No. - It's like, okay, man.
01:08 He's like, well, you know what,
01:09 he could be better than Josh Allen.
01:10 I'm like, all right, dude.
01:12 So that sort of angered me.
01:13 And then I played the clip last night,
01:15 I got ambushed, although I was warned right before,
01:18 'cause we play a clip every night from this show, right?
01:22 - Yeah.
01:23 - So we play a clip.
01:24 So I was warned before, they're like,
01:25 oh yeah, you're gonna like this one.
01:27 I was like, what do you mean?
01:28 I was like, what, what, what?
01:30 They said, it's about your boy, J.J. McGowan.
01:32 I was like, oh, really?
01:32 I was like, oh.
01:33 So I sort of, so I was listening intently.
01:36 I was just steaming, steaming during the whole segment.
01:41 I told them after, I said, hey,
01:43 I said, save that effing tape, huh?
01:45 I said, I want Carver and Davis from Atacon record.
01:48 And saving what they said.
01:52 But it's amazing how polarizing,
01:54 listen, we're in a modern era, bro.
01:56 Everything's polarizing.
01:57 Everybody's polarizing, right?
01:59 But J.J. McCarthy, I gotta tell you what, Carver,
02:02 for a kid that went 27 and won, right?
02:05 And just won the national championship,
02:07 he's not getting a lot of love from the public.
02:09 But you know who he is getting love from?
02:12 NFL coaches and general managers.
02:14 And they're the ones that matter.
02:16 You don't matter, I don't matter.
02:18 The people on Twitter don't matter.
02:20 You know who matters?
02:21 People that are employed by NFL teams
02:23 to make these decisions.
02:25 Owners matter.
02:27 So that's what's fascinating about this.
02:29 But Brady Quinn, your guy, Notre Dame,
02:33 you're a Notre Dame guy.
02:35 Brady Quinn had a great point about J.J. McCarthy.
02:38 He said, it was harder for J.J. McCarthy.
02:40 He goes, trust me, as a quarterback,
02:42 it's a lot easier to drop back.
02:43 Caleb Williams, bro, played like,
02:45 he didn't play any meaningful games this year.
02:48 Does Drake May ever play in a meaningful game?
02:50 Oh, he's a gunslinger, he takes chances.
02:52 Yeah, you're playing Wake Forest in a meaningless game.
02:55 Oh, he threw 52 times a game.
02:58 Good for him.
02:59 Good, okay.
03:00 Okay, fine.
03:01 You know what I mean?
03:02 J.J. McCarthy's playing against
03:03 the best teams in the country.
03:05 Right, kid lost one game.
03:06 And we can go back, Carver.
03:08 He won a state championship in Illinois, all right?
03:12 With Nazareth High School.
03:14 I guess that was a fluke, right?
03:16 But for the record, they're not some power or anything.
03:18 They won when he was there.
03:20 All right, the kid has literally lost
03:22 three games in his life.
03:24 Now, that doesn't mean he's never gonna lose the NFL.
03:26 Trevor Lawrence barely lost any games in his life.
03:28 And we've seen this stat before,
03:31 where guys are dominant in their careers.
03:33 But, let me, okay, people say, well, he was on Michigan.
03:36 All right, Carver, you've watched college football.
03:39 Has Michigan, did Michigan ever win before him?
03:42 Like, they suddenly, was it a coincidence?
03:45 Okay, no, he's a game, you know.
03:47 The other one we hear, he's small.
03:49 He's six foot three.
03:51 He's six foot three, 202 pounds right now.
03:56 I don't know if he's gonna step on the scale.
03:57 I hear he's gonna get up to 210.
03:59 For the record, everybody, Joe Burrow is 6'3", 215.
04:03 I guess JJ's too small.
04:04 He just turned 21 a couple of weeks ago.
04:07 All right, let's get into his numbers right now.
04:09 We can get into yards and blah, blah, and all this stuff.
04:12 No, let's go with QBR.
04:15 QBR, college QBR rankings, ratings.
04:19 Number one in the country, Jayden Daniels, 95.7.
04:24 I'm not saying Jayden Daniels
04:25 isn't an explosive great quarterback.
04:27 I think JJ McCarthy's more, you know, they're different.
04:32 But Jayden, number two, Carver, was Bo Nix, had a 91 rating.
04:37 JJ McCarthy, number three, 89.2.
04:40 Here's Dylan Gabriel.
04:41 It's funny, 'cause I thought Dylan Gabriel
04:42 put up a ton of numbers last year, didn't he?
04:44 Well, his quarterback rating was less than JJ McCarthy
04:46 at 87.3.
04:48 To put in context, Jayden Milrow was ninth in the country
04:53 at 83.6, Panix is 10th, 83.4, Caleb Williams, 82.3.
04:58 Oh, where's, oh, there's Drake May,
05:01 below Jordan Travis of FSU, Carver.
05:03 Down there at 14 with his QBR rating.
05:06 So let's see how this plays out.
05:07 You don't know, I don't know.
05:10 Drafts are like trades, bro.
05:12 We'll judge in three years, Carver.
05:14 You know what I'm saying, bro?
05:15 But don't sleep on JJ McCarthy.
05:17 I'm telling you, the kid is gonna be a winner in the NFL.
05:20 He needs to land in the right situation.
05:22 You put him on the New England Patriots with nothing,
05:25 he's gonna be screwed.
05:26 He'll look like Mac Jones.
05:28 You drop this kid on the Minnesota Vikings
05:30 with Justin Jefferson, with Jordan Addison,
05:33 and with the tight end that they've got,
05:35 and you know what I mean?
05:37 You put him on the Atlanta Falcons,
05:39 and you're gonna be a winning team.
05:41 The kid's a winner, he's gonna be a winner in the NFL.
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