00:00So we need to get this right.
00:01I want to ask you one final question and answer quickly if you can.
00:04I'm just trying to project because we all get asked questions sometimes
00:09that seem very obvious when people don't follow this as closely as we do,
00:13and I see myself not having an answer for this
00:15because we're going to hear about Jared Stidham,
00:17how good he is for the next two days and how this is going to be a real test.
00:21And the question I hear being posed to me, probably by a family member,
00:25is, well, if Jared Stidham is so good,
00:27how come he's not an actual NFL quarterback somewhere?
00:31So I think, like, if he said—
00:34Why does he not have a starting job?
00:36He's as good as we keep hearing about it.
00:38So I think some of it is, like, circumstance.
00:42He got hurt at, like, a critical juncture of his career,
00:45and he was dealing with a back injury in his second and third year,
00:48which is critical for a young quarterback.
00:51And, like, again, do I think he can be a 16—
00:55I'm not talking about that.
00:56And that's why people have to keep this stuff in context.
00:59I'm not crowning him.
01:00I'm saying, like, if you lined up the 32 best quarterbacks on the planet,
01:06he might be one of them.
01:08And that does not mean you're going up against Mahomes or Allen on Sunday.
01:14That does not mean that this isn't an incredibly fortuitous circumstance.
01:18I mean, think about what happened, right?
01:20Like, Saturday night, the Patriots dodged Josh Allen and then had the other team's quarterback
01:29get hurt on the very last play as he was beating Josh Allen.
01:32If Bo Nix gets hurt earlier in that game, Josh Allen might get through,
01:38and now that's what you're dealing with.
01:39So that's sort of—100%, that was, like, an incredibly fortunate circumstance,
01:44and it shouldn't be treated like anything other than that.
01:48But if you're asking me, do they have a competent backup?
01:51Yes.
01:52Follow the money.
01:54Okay.
01:54Like, they paid him $10 million over two years to outbid Vegas for him,
02:00and the Vegas people will tell you, we low-balled him and we shouldn't have
02:06because they were going to bring him back to compete with Jimmy Garoppolo that year.
02:11He got a little offended.
02:12He goes to Denver, signs the deal there, $10 over $2.
02:15And then, you know, he did enough in the last two years to get a raise off of that.
02:21So now he's making $12 over $2.
02:23And why, if he can't play at all, why did Josh McDaniels, who had him in New England,
02:29trade for him in Vegas and then try to get him here?
02:32Okay.
02:32So I just think you can follow that sort of thing.
02:35Again, doesn't mean he's a top-10 quarterback, but you're also not facing—
02:40you know, you're not facing some guy who can't get out of his own way.
02:45He's clearly proven something to the people who've worked with him.
02:48All right.
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