Tuesday: Quinn Ewers draft slide

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
All right, let's talk about Quinn Yours. It wasn't too
long ago that we thought he would be a first
round draft pick, if not the first player taken in
this year's NFL draft, And we kind of knew that
it was about ready to be Arch time at Texas
and that Arch would be the quarterback to start the
twenty five season. And while there's a lot of people
that think he'll come out next year and go to

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the NFL in twenty twenty six, and he might, the
money may just be too attempting to do so. He
may also like the fact that he's got one more
chance to be a college kid. And with the money
that he's making in Austin, I'm sure and the money
that he has in whatever Manning trust fund that's there
is likely to take care of him for a long

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long time. It just depends on what he wants to
start his NFL legacy and if he has one or not,
which all indications are that he will be. And I
think that Arch Manning is a better football player and
a better quarterback than Quinn Yours. I've always been critical
of Quinn Yours. One of my biggest critics of him
was him skipping his senior season at South Lake Carol

(01:10):
And it goes back to what I always talk about
the love of the game and the best the best players.
The best players don't fear injury, even over money. The
best players play when they are given the opportunity to play,
and they don't necessarily use the game just as a paycheck.
If the if the if the standard for a star

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quarterback in the NFL is forty million, then they're going
to ask for forty million, And if it was four
hundred thousand like it used to be, they would play
for four hundred thousand. They love the game. We have
so many athletes, and I don't think that yours is
necessarily in this boat, but we have so many players
these days. They start to specialize that has sport at
a certain age, simply because they see the zeros behind

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the decimal point on so many of the contracts that
their favorite player are getting. And it's intoxicating to in
a number of ways when they dream about the fact
that they're going to make this much money, and they're
able to attract friends that aren't really their friends, and
girlfriends who aren't really their girlfriends, and people in their

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circle that aren't really there for their best interest because
they know if they hang around enough, they may get
some of the crumbs that fall off the forty million
dollar train. If they get there, there's weight. I've said
this about the NBA for years. I would say seventy
percent of the league cares more about the lifestyle that
the league gives them than actually playing basketball. I've said
this about Joe Embiid and to a certain extent, Kawhi

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Leonard and other players who have a low threshold a
tolerance of pain that they don't they look for reasons
not to play because they want to be healthy enough
when they're not playing to be able to spend the
millions of dollars that they have and do the fun
things that they do outside of basketball. I always always

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believe that you are the best at what you're the
best at if you're passionate about doing it to the
best the level. The reason Tiger Woods is the best
golfer in our lifetimes is because he worked out it
hard than anybody else did. The reason that Tom Brady
is the goat is he was a sixth round draft
pick and he didn't settle for that, and he didn't
care how much money he got. His entire thought was

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I'm going to go play football because it's fun. And
we have way too many people that loved the game
at five and six and seven years old, and at
twenty two, all of a sudden, they don't love it
very much anymore. They're just counting it as a business
and they're just counting trying to see how much money
they can get and how much money they can save.
And I think those are the things that and I

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don't know that quinn yours is that, but I do
know that it is. I thought it was very sad
that he skipped his senior season at South Lake Carol
because he didn't want to quote a risk injury. Now
I know some people in that area that follow that
team closely, and they told me this was dad. This
was dad advising him to skip. This was dad almost

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insisting that he skipped. And too many times parents get
in the way of what the kids want to do
and the fun that they want to have. And he
was solely looking at this as a business decision. And
that's fine if Quinn wants to do that. But I
bet you one day, when he's fifty years old, he's
going to be setting up looking man. I really wish
I'd played that one other year. Those are ten and
for South Lake Carroll's purposes, sixteen games because they would

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have gone to the state championship with or without him.
Those are sixteen games of your life that you're never
going to get back. And when you talk about we'll
talk about Pete Rose situation a little bit, but you
talk about Pete Rose the player, you talk about Magic Johnson,
you talk about Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant. They
couldn't wait to put that uniform on and go perform.
And I think that's missing from a lot of players.

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Whether that was Quinn yours with his high school decision
or not, I don't know. But again, he missed out
on sixteen games. I think he's in a really good
spot at Miami. I just don't think the lifespan of
Tua is going to be that much long. I mean,
the football lifespan is going to be that much longer.
He's even a minor concussion by our standards, could potentially

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keep him from ever playing football again. And Tua is
one of those guys that loves the game. He knows
the risk, he knows what the doctors have told him.
He knows he gets hit in the head again, it
may be more serious than just you know, getting carted
off in an ambulance. It may or walking off the field.
It may be life threatening or certainly a quality of
life threatening if he gets hit again, and he's willing

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to go through that because he loves the game. Zach
Wilson is the quarterback right behind him, number two on
the list right now. But Zach Wilson, to me, has
been constantly overrated his entire life. UTSA played Brigham Young
during the COVID season in twenty twenty out in Utah,
and Frank Harris was the better player at quarterback in
that game than he was, and you know, BYU was

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the better overall team, but they almost got beat and
you know, if this and if that, but UTSA need
about twenty five more seconds to potentially win that game
and a call that didn't go their way. But anyway,
I think that he's in a good spot because he'll
have a chance to resurrect his career with a coach
that is very offensive minded and very open to innovation

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offensively in Mike McDaniel. So maybe while this story is
still not completely written on quinn Ewers' career. And maybe
this is a San Francisco type thing where Tua can't
play because of injury and Zach Wilson can't play because
he's not very good, and like the forty nine ers
had to do with Brock Perty, they throw quinn Ewers

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into the mix, and in the beginning he just doesn't
mess it up. He just performs and gets first downs
and gets touchdowns and wins a game or two, and
all of a sudden he's sitting in the driver's seat.
I'll lah Rock Perty looking at a forty five to
fifty five million dollar contract. So while there's some doubt
about what he's been able to accomplish because of injuries
and some doubt about his love of the game because

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hes kept his high school season, he certainly has an
opportunity to write another chapter in his football life. And
if he works out at Miami the right way, I
think the in the kind of the dominoes fall where
they need to, he could be really good for the
Dolphins in the future.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Yeah, he's he He can basically be what Rock Purty
is or was uh for for the San Francisco forty
nine ers because you know, they they have they have
weapons there. They have they have a solid running back
with a chan uh they have if they don't trade him.
They have solid wide receiver corps. They have Tyreek hill

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and wattle, they have waddle uh, they have a you know,
decent tight end. So there are pieces there. It could
be the situation of, hey, just don't mess it up,
which if when they give it more than likely to
Zach Wilson first, if he can't you know, manage the ship.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Well, what if what if the coaches pay attention to
practice reps a lot more or anybody else that does.
What if the best practice player is Quinn yours? Now
that Quinn's not going to supersed to as long as
Tua can play, But I think QB two going into
week one could be Quinn if he has the better
training camp.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I think I think that's that's a very high possibility
as well. You know, again for me, taking off my
Longhorn's glasses hard for you to do. The biggest thing
for Quinn was was the deep ball accuracy uh when
he came in. That was the biggest you know negative
in his in his mechanics. When you're still overthrowing xavi'er

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Worthy by twenty yards. It's like, dude, come on, now,
how are you overthrowing a guy who can run as
fast as lightning? He worked on it. He still wasn't
great accuracy wise when it came to deep ball. But
if you're just asking him to Sudor Sanders style, hey,
we just need your twenty yards, twenty five checkdowns, quick outs,

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you know, five yard whatever, quinn Ewers can do that.
But again it goes back to if if he stays healthy,
I think he definitely has the potential to be a
solid I hate to say career backup, but look.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
At Mike McDaniel's offense. Now, you do have to throw
the deep ball in the NFL, but Mike McDaniel is
one of those offensive, innovating guys that he's going to
get the ball in players' hands and let athletes do
what athletes do. And I love those kind of offenses.
They're kind of college based offenses to a certain extent,
and they but and they're complicated. But I think that

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Tua runs it well and yours isn't isn't Tua in
terms of mobility, But he's not slow either. Yeah, this
is he's not going to just stand in the pocket.
He doesn't have to move around a lot. But you can.
You can swing things to Tyreek Hill, you can get
things out to waddle, You can throw it across the
middle of the tight end. And you don't have to
throw at seventy yards downfield. You may have to throw

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at thirty and you may have to throw it out
route to the sideline with some zip on it so
it doesn't get picked off. But for the most part,
you just have have to run the offense and do
your part. You don't have to be bat Mahomes, you
don't have to be Josh Allen. You just have to
manage the game. And I don't put two in the
top ten of quarterbacks in the league, maybe the fifteen

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to eighteen range somewhere around in there. But the offense
runs efficiently with Tua in there because it's designed for
those quick hitting plays. And I don't know how far
Tua can throw the ball accurately either, But I don't
ever remember him throwing seventy yard bombs to somebody. He
gets the ball to Tyreek Hill or to Wata or
to a Shane, and they go out and do the
things that they can do athletically. I think this is

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a really good spot for quinn yours, and I love
the fact that he's got an offensive minded quarterback coach
as his head coach to kind of to mentor him along.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
I think the other thing is and some of this,
for the most part, wasn't any fault of his own,
but they look at probably the interceptions, because his interceptions
were a little high.

Speaker 1 (10:54):
But that comes back to being able to make decisions
more than anything else.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
A lot of those a lot of those interceptions weren't
on Quinn. They were tip balls, balls or bad routes,
things like that exactly. But I think one of the
things that NFL coaches will show you in film because
you're going to have interceptions in practice, and it's what
do you see And remember the game is another two
or three notches faster in the pros and it will

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be in college. So if you're going to throw the
out pattern to the sideline, and it has to be
you have to throw it before the receiver breaks and
it's got to be there the second he turns around.
You wait any more than that, the quarterback is too
quick to pick it off. It's just another step or
two faster, and that's something that he'll have to adjust to.
I think if he can stay healthy, he'll have an
opportunity because I just don't know how much longer Quinn

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yours can play. All Right, We've got more NFL news
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