Hey, everybody, welcome to another episode of Purple Insider presented by Fanduel, Matthew

Collar here. And look who's back on the show, Trevor Sikima of pro football focus. Trevor,

we got a lot to talk about. And I really want to focus on quarterbacks,

quarterback play, quarterback theory, quarterback thoughts, feelings and emotions. You are the

draft maven now these days at PFF. And so why don't we, why don't we look back a little bit

to start with the conversation of J.J. McCarthy and begin with that draft,

work our way through what is going on right now, look forward into the future and see what we

can come up with. I want to, I want to know, I'm sure I asked you then, but I don't remember what

you said about J.J. McCarthy when he was coming out because I've gotten

a lot of questions from fans about, well, should they have seen something in these mechanics

when he was coming out in the draft? Why did they think that certain things are fixable?

Are certain things still fixable? But going back to 2024 when he was coming out, where did you stand on how much he would be able to improve things like footwork and the accuracy, which I think was talked about a fair amount when he was a draft prospect.

Yeah.

So it's it's a it's a multi-layered conversation, right?

And I think that with J.J.

McCarthy, when you watched him when he was at Michigan, there were moments, right? And I think that there were the moments that you watched him and you went, like, there it is. Like, that is a fantastic quarterback. You feel great about that. But of course, I think everybody talked about this similarly. He wasn't asked to throw a lot, right? He played for some very stacked Michigan teams,

right? And just they had a great run game, a great offensive line, a phenomenal defense behind

him that ended up being a catalyst for them winning a national championship. And McCarthy was part

of that. I don't want to take him away from it, but it's not like he was the sun in the universe,

right? It's not like it was all revolving

around him, but there were still good moments. Here's an example. You know, when I look at

quarterback play, there's two areas that we have the ability to sort of shrink down the data

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