Most Valuable QB Draft with Nate Tice & Lindsay Jones
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🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Based on age, contract and of course, traits, how will our panel of experts draft the league's best QB's? Nate Tice and Lindsay Jones both join the pod for a special Most Valuable QB Draft. Who will be the top 5? Bottom 5? Any QBs that were left out? Let us know on social media!
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| 0:00.0 | This is the athletic football show. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome to the athletic football show. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Robert Mays. |
| 0:19.5 | Really fun show for you guys today. |
| 0:21.8 | Nate Tice is here. |
| 0:22.9 | Lindsay Jones is here. |
| 0:24.3 | We are doing a most valuable quarterback draft. |
| 0:28.0 | Before I get to those guys, let me lay out what that means. |
| 0:31.7 | Instead of ranking the top 10 quarterbacks in the league, which I've done before, |
| 0:35.3 | a lot of other people do. |
| 0:36.5 | I want to do a little bit differently. I wanted us to draft the most valuable quarterbacks in the league, which I've done before, a lot of other people do. I want to do a little bit differently. I wanted us to draft the most valuable quarterbacks in the league. And that means |
| 0:41.9 | not just for 2021, but for the next five years, quarterbacks included independent of their |
| 0:48.5 | surroundings. Now, the guys they play with, if you were starting with these guys in their current |
| 0:52.6 | contracts, current age, |
| 0:54.7 | how would they be drafted? One more bit of housekeeping. One more little parameter here. |
| 0:59.1 | We are not going to include Deshawn Watson in this list. We did not feel like we should. |
| 1:03.0 | We didn't feel like it was appropriate to speculate on what his future would look like. |
| 1:07.2 | It just didn't seem like it should be part of this because it's just it's a separate |
| 1:10.9 | consideration so going into this just know that to Sean Watson is not going to be part of |
| 1:15.5 | this list that's something that we can revisit at a later date and I wanted to include Nate and |
| 1:20.4 | Lindsay in this process and I'm very excited to get started guys thank you very much for doing this |
| 1:25.7 | thanks I'm so excited I really missed doing the mailbag pod with you guys last week. So I'm really excited to be part of this trio, finally. If you were on that mailbag pod last week, I think we would have gone through three questions because Robert and I, we are so excited. We have all this space. We're going to answer all these questions. And then like we were on like question four after like an hour and 10 minutes. I was like, okay. I want to get it tighter if Lindsay was involved. I would have up to my hosting duties a little bit. So we went over the order last night. I was originally going to do a snake draft, but I think the logistics of that just |
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