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Ben Solak on the NFL’s Young Quarterback Landscape

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We’ve seen how a good quarterback can change everything for an NFL franchise nearly overnight. Brett Favre started a chain of succession that is looking to anoint its third champion in Green Bay. Tom Brady turned the Patriots into the greatest dynasty the sport has ever seen. And Patrick Mahomes is looking to three-peat in Kansas City. And in today’s NFL, it seems like the path to becoming an iconic signal caller is happening faster than ever before. So today, with the NFL season just around the corner, ESPN’s newly cemented NFL Analyst Ben Solak tells us what we can expect from this rookie class of QBs, and how ready this new generation is to take the league by storm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Ben Solak, we're excited to have you on the E-SPN team.

0:08.0

Welcome aboard my friend.

0:09.1

I'm going to ambush you with the question, how many snaps of the Hall of Fame game did you watch and why?

0:14.7

Every single one until the weather delay ended the game and I was devastated it did

0:19.2

because I'm watching fourth stringers watch my special teams rep enjoying it. I was a big draft coverage guys where I got my start in like late 2010s and so a lot of the guys who were playing in this game are like oh that dudes for me. I love watching these game Colin Johnson

0:34.3

again reps I remember calling Johnson to Texas I love it we call those sightings and you are

0:39.1

a younger man than I in one of the better analytical minds in the football space.

0:43.6

How do you feel about this generation of QBs

0:46.8

in terms of what we've got, let's just say,

0:48.8

for the next 10 years in the NFL?

0:50.6

I'm thrilled.

0:51.6

This feels like new frontier. It feels like we're entering a new

0:54.2

era of quarterbacking where the young guys can get really good really quick.

0:57.0

And I think that's going to be incredible for league health and league

0:59.5

excitement over the next like decade. Watching pre-season football games

1:04.7

to find guys you kind of know from their college careers

1:07.7

is my kind of carrying on.

1:09.6

Yes. There's a wave of young cubies fighting for air in the NFL.

1:13.0

Exciting rookies like Caleb Williams. C. B. C. B. fighting for air in the NFL.

1:23.2

Exciting rookies like Caleb Williams and Jane Daniels.

1:26.5

Second year starters like the Electric C.J. Stroud and the disappointing Bryce Young.

1:31.7

And even guys finally turning the corner like Tuataga Vailoa and Jordan Love.

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