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They have a couple of quarterbacks. It's this this point, right? Like now you're seeing some of the quote unquote go to guys that want to talk.

Graph class. Start to come out with a couple of little things. It's it's in to now. Nobody's given out any rankings that I think we need to run down yet or anything, but just little bits and pieces. One was really intriguing this week from Todd McShay, right?

I'm McShay, so I'm watching the ESPN, and I hear Todd McShay talking and then McLeary, he kind of expanded on it, but McShay, he ranked his three quarterbacks right now. We're early in the process, and we've all seen how this draft stuff works, man.

I mean, if you start off as three guys, and then by the time the picks are about to roll in, it could be a totally, you know, just different group of guys after you get, you know, measurements.

High waste speed, all that good stuff, but McShay number one quarterback he has right now. No other than like we all expected Kenny pick it from Pittsburgh.

So yeah, Kenny pick it. He had a Malik Willis and Matt Correll, that was his order one, two, three, respectively right there. So when you hear that Kenny pick it has kind of boosted his way all the way up to the top quarterback in his class.

What's the first and that kind of comes to your mind all the way up. That's that's the key right like from where because I went back and I looked and I pulled all the resources who have, you know, analysts that that I trust that I want to hear their opinion. I might not agree with them, but it's worth looking at it right from from the majors like CBS and ESPN all the way down to some of the more eclectic guys that I follow.

Nobody had Kenny pick it in the top. Nobody I find that hugely hugely telling about what this season means for his evolution for his evaluation right.

This is the guy who's doing a lot of passes in this career and for him not to even be on the radar and then bump all the way up to McShay of all people's top player at the position. I think that's pretty incredible.

Yeah, and it just shows you how fast things can kind of change in the college football basket. You know, early on, we were looking at Spencer Ratler. I think teams had him or not teams, but, you know, sites had him potentially being a number one overall pick.

And now Spencer, he's not the number one quarterback on his team right now in college. So things change really fast. Another guy that people like with Sam how and we got to watch Kenny pick it and somehow really just live and kind of have a side by side comparison of what they look like and not just from us to statistical standpoint or how the game turned out, but just how the ball comes out their hands, you know, who handles the elements better.

You know, who's able to kind of move around and make plays more who's able to make the throws when needed. And that wasn't game that ultimately ended up being a good game going over time things like that. But can you pick it clearly is a guy who is standing out and maybe I don't want to say separating himself because just a couple of weeks ago, we thought maybe Matt Karau was separating himself from the rest of the class, but maybe looking like a guy that's ready to really kind of take that lead.

But the next thing that was really interesting from me watching that segment on ESPN was mechler Roy said that he thinks this is possibly the worst quarterback class since 2013, which had Gina Smith and EJ manual and shout out to Gina Smith, you know, I was on that Jets team that he was drafted to.

But you know, I remember what he was going through man as a guy can drafted to the New York City and just the expectations there remember those mark Sanchez there as well and I know I was just curious like, you know, what's going to happen with this quarterback thing, but I would hang out with Gina Smith and sometimes you know being a hotel room playing video games and things like that.

And you could just see the stress that he was under, you know, I mean, day drinking and all type of stuff. I was like, man, that's a lot of pressure to be the savior that's supposed to be the savior of the New York Jets.

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