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Thanks for watching us on YouTube. Subscribe, like, rate us, review us, give us five stars. You only give us four stars. I'm inclined to believe you are a hater. It is Thursdays with Deontay. Deontay, Leah de Ringer. What's going on? Good to be here, man. I'm glad to be able to get in with you. I know we were trying to get this lined up a couple of weeks ago and got out the bed and just not feeling right. So glad to have gone from doubtful to probable again. Yalta got up one day and his neck was hurting. Like my buddy Charles said, nobody used to have a bad back. I got a lot of football injuries that every once in a while want to remind me that they happen and that I haven't dealt with them and they're not going away until I do. Don, he hit us at an hour that was so early that you know his neck was fucked up because he shouldn't have been awake. Like that was not I'm awake to let you guys know. That is while I'm awake. Exactly. I'm not supposed to be awake. And this has forced me out of my bed. And I know when I close my eyes again, I ain't getting back up. So let me just let my guys know that they ain't going to see me today. Well, look, we got a lot of NFL topics we want to get to. We'll get to A.J. Brown a little later. We get to Mike Vrable a little later. But first, the NFL draft Thursday night, I saw that you did your evaluation of Fernando Mendoza.

And I thought the way you went about it was very interesting because I say on my end that he's the number one pick in this draft.

Right.

He's not the number one pick in every draft, but I'm not sure how that answers to like what kind of NFL quarterback that

means that he would be. What did you come back with? Honestly, I had just been hung up over and

over again with, okay, so what does this trait mean in an NFL context, right? Like, it's very

rare. You get a number one overall pick and you're haggling over is this enough arm strength

is this enough mobility is this enough processing of understanding coverages and knowing where to go

with the ball is this enough pocket management right like with joe burrow i had some questions and

then i went back and watched and it was like oh no this is my fuck is a wizard in the pocket this is

going to work right like he might not be Peyton man, but he's doing a very kind of poor man's Peyton Manning kind of impression in the pocket as far as knowing what to do, how to avoid pressure and get the ball out of his hands. I mean, we've seen it work out in the league. I would say even last year with Cam Ward, there are just some throws that he will make or some decisions that he would make. she would say, I'm not sure if you should make that decision, but those are decisions that number one overall picks make. Those are throws that number one overall picks make. And I think that you saw enough athleticism and pure arm strength to be able to kind of wrap your head around that. I'm not saying that Fernando Mendoza doesn't have a strong enough arm or doesn't have enough mobility. But it's just so often I'm watching this film and I'm like, I've heard Matt Ryan's name brought up and I keep waiting for the Matt Ryan plays. I remember Matt Ryan coming out of Boston College. And it was very clear that that was him. And then Luke Kikli, I boss in college after, but it was him and a whole lot of just dudes,

and he was finding ways to win games.

I don't know if I see Fernando Mendoza as the same kind of engine of an offense at the NFL

level that people might see as far as some of my buddies out in the media space.

Well, I think it's an interesting question with him because he's going to a very interesting quarterback division,

right?

Right.

I mean, we don't know what it'll mean that Patrick Mahomes had a tour in ACL, right?

Like, I still think that he'll be upper echelon quarterback in the NFL, but also Patrick

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