Early impressions of this season's rookie quarterbacks + J.J. McCarthy's season-ending injury, with J.T. O'Sullivan
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🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
From excitement over Caleb Williams' debut to disappointment over J.J. McCarthy's season-ending knee injury, we already have plenty to talk about regarding this season's rookie quarterbacks. Robert Mays and former NFL quarterback J.T. O'Sullivan dive into early impressions on the rookies, and discuss what McCarthy misses out on by losing his rookie year, on this episode of The Athletic Football Show.
Host: Robert Mays
With: J.T. O'Sullivan
Executive Producer: Michael Beller
Producer: Michael Beller
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. I'm Robert Mays. Really fun show for you guys today. J.T. O'Solvin, who does great work over at the QB School, YouTube channel, Patreon, all that stuff. He did videos on pretty much every single one of the rookie quarterbacks this week. So when I was trying to figure out who I wanted to talk about this with, he was a great option. He's watched them all. He's got takes on them all. So that's what we're doing today. We are going to talk about the first round quarterbacks, the first round rookies, and our initial impressions of them from their first starts in the preseason. Not any more complicated than that, but a really good conversation with JT. |
| 0:38.0 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:45.2 | Joining me now from the QB School YouTube channel and Patreon community, which I am a part of. |
| 0:49.9 | It is JT. O'Sullivan. JT. How you doing, man? I'm doing awesome, Robert. What's up with you, |
| 0:53.3 | man? On the road, living that life. |
| 0:54.9 | I love it. |
| 0:55.5 | I certainly am. |
| 0:56.7 | I'm in a, |
| 0:57.8 | I'm not going to say the name of the hotel, |
| 0:59.5 | but I'm at a hotel in Green Bay, Wisconsin right now, one of the many hotels here. That's what they have here. |
| 0:51.1 | They've got 40 hotels because they know they need to house everyone that's coming in for all of these games. |
| 0:57.0 | I've stayed in those extended stays out there. |
| 0:59.4 | It's interesting living. they need to house everyone that's coming in for all of these games. I've stayed in those extended stays out there. |
| 1:12.5 | It's interesting living. |
| 1:14.9 | I was at Packers Camp today, and I got Vikings camp next week, and that'll be it. |
| 1:18.5 | So it's been a fun stretch, but I'm looking forward to being home for a little while. |
| 1:22.3 | I wanted to have you on today because we wanted to talk some preseason football, and on your channel this week, |
| 1:27.3 | you broke down pretty much every single rookie first |
| 1:30.2 | round quarterback that got extended snaps or any snaps in the preseason. |
| 1:33.9 | So we're going to hit all those guys today. |
| 1:35.5 | We're talking about Caleb Williams, Jaden Daniels, all the big names. |
| 1:38.7 | I wanted to start, though, with some unfortunate news earlier today, probably about an hour |
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