Saint Jameis and why Jalen Hurts to the Eagles will be 'Taysom Hill on steroids'

Yahoo Sports NFL

Yahoo Sports

Nfl, Football, News, Sports, Sports News, Pro Football, American Football

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The 2020 NFL draft concluded on Saturday afternoon and the New Orleans Saints were quick to make an addition to their quarterback room. No, not just seventh rounder Tommy Stevens out of Mississippi State. They also reportedly are agreeing to terms with former division rival and first overall pick Jameis Winston.After discussing the new format of the NFL draft and the highs and lows of the virtual broadcast (especially the Kingsbury residence in Arizona), Terez Paylor & Charles Robinson react to Jameis' new landing spot. How will he fit with Drew Brees and the newly-extended Taysom Hill? (8:35)Speaking of utility-knife backup QBs like Taysom Hill, the Philadelphia Eagles turned heads on Friday night selecting former Oklahoma and Alabama quarterback Jalen Hurts in the second round. Charles explains how this could portend a massive shift in how football is played and why Hurts will be used like, "Taysom Hill on steroids." (23:35)In the second half of the show, the guys break down two teams whose drafts they loved in Baltimore and Cleveland (35:30) and two teams whose drafts they hated, Green Bay and Houston. (41:50)Stay up to date with the latest NFL news and coverage from Yahoo Sports on Twitter @YahooSportsNFL.Follow Charles @CharlesRobinsonFollow Terez @TerezPaylorTag your questions for the guys on Twitter with #YahooNFLPodcastCheck out the rest of the Yahoo Sports Podcast family at https://apple.co/2Abi8jk or at yahoosports.com/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Yes, sir, welcome to the Yahoo Sports NFL Podcast.
0:14.0	I'm Yahoo Senior NFL Writer, Terres Payler.
0:17.0	You're my main man and fellow senior NFL writer Charles Robinson.
0:20.0	Hey and Charles, the draft is done.
0:22.0	Little three day event, kind of took our minds off everything going on in the world right now
0:26.4	But I'm curious about your opinion on the optics of the draft.
0:30.7	Were you buying Roger Gond Dale's fireside chats?
0:34.0	It was, I thought it was interesting the way that they set Roger up for sure.
0:41.0	Like it was a very FDR, as you said, fire side chats kind of a moment. That was interesting. I also like that they sort of tried to deconstruct him like the common man as each day passed.
0:57.6	Like eventually we got down to the t-shirt and and you know I'm sitting there and I'm like
1:02.2	I wonder if Tress is watching this right now,
1:04.2	just like I am going, oh, see he is just like us.
1:08.3	Yeah, right, he's wearing a shirt.
1:11.3	Plus 40 million bucks. Guaranteed that anybody watching was thinking the same thing
1:19.8	just for the sheer fact that you know the 40 million dollar salary even in New York that's
1:25.1	you're killing it you're killing the game by the way I'm not hating the player you
1:29.9	know I'm not hating it like hey whatever you know you get what you can in this world I understand that all
1:34.8	things considered though I kind of feel like as far as broadcasts go to Charles it went off
1:40.1	okay man like it was a pretty good broadcast aside from a few extra
1:44.5	pauses after analysts will get thrown questions like it's just a touch too long
1:49.5	but aside from that it felt like a normal draft and who would have thought we'd be able to say that.
1:54.5	But well aside from all the quote in these tough times commercials,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Yahoo Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Yahoo Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.