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🗓️ 18 April 2022
⏱️ 78 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, that's right. Two smart guys that used to play quarterback. We weren't smart enough to keep playing quarterback though. We're stupid enough to host podcasts. That's what we do. |
| 0:14.0 | Talking in front of a mic. I don't know. There is a like a line of being too smart for your own good playing quarterback. Now it seems to be less. I don't know why now than maybe when we grew up. Right now it's like the smart guy seems to be a little bit different from what we're talking about. |
| 0:43.0 | The smart guy seem to be able to process it and be smart. Right. But I do feel like and you correct me if I'm wrong here. My take is wrong here because this is a take. It's not like I've done real research here. Okay. But I do feel like as I was growing up. There was like I talked to my dad's coaches in front. And like if you were too smart at quarterback. They were literally like, well, he's like too smart. He's asking too many questions. He's reading too deep into this subject. Right. There's a little too analytical. Like you're too good for your your |
| 1:13.0 | too smart for your own good here. I know where it's just like they question everything. And I was with a few quarterbacks like that in my career. And I had a head coach that was like you're too smart for your own good stop asking so many fucking questions. I'm not going to say who it was. But there was really that. But it doesn't seem to be an issue anymore. And then with Eli Manning's of the world and all these other guys have great. Really smart. You know wonderlick scores. Yeah. It seems like that's a myth now. And I would say smart and really smart. Just a reaction take to what you just said. |
| 1:43.0 | But it's it's wonderful to be super smart on the front end. Yes. The right questions grasp all this terminology and all these concepts. But at some point in the moment, you got to turn that off. And it's not about being smart. Yeah, out of your own way. Right. The right reactions. Right. So I mean, that's where people say always too smart to play. Right. If he's thinking about it in the moments and trying to analyze that. That's the problem. Then you can't play. You're right. There's the guys that I was with. Never like that. There was two. And it's just like, wait, dude, the guys wide open down the middle. I know he's a second read. Yeah. But just fuck. |
| 2:13.0 | You can throw it to him. He's open. Forget it. I know coach said you had to go here first. But you saw it. Just go there. Right. And I guess. And that's what makes like Peyton Manning and Brady who they are. Yeah, exactly. They are the smart guy. Like you're talking about before. But then they have like the instincts and the natural feel for the game to be like, okay, I'm not a robot. Like, you know, coach said I'm supposed to do this. But I just noticed this. And I'm going to throw it there. Right. And yeah, it's how you're right. Okay. That was a good talk. I had the same one of these four same wonderlick is down Reno. Did you really release was not quite the same. Not quite the same. |
| 2:43.0 | Yeah, just just a bit off. So wait, wonderlick Dan Marino. Yeah, I feel like I have a pretty good feel. I think it was it. Was it really late 20s? It was me. I figured it was marine or all way. It was very average. It was very. I think it was marino. L way was pretty up there. I believe L way was up there. Okay. I mean, L way whichever one of those two dudes was kind of middle of the pack there. I think Marino was considered middle of the pack, which is where I was as well. Okay. I was a middle of the pack guy. We should wonderlick it now. I would love to. It's actually fun test. Can you get it? I mean, I'm sure we can. |
| 3:13.0 | I mean, all these agents are. I don't even remember taking it, but I don't remember like what the questions were about or anything. It's just like it's it's 60 questions progressively get harder. One through 60. So they just keep getting harder. I took the test twice. I know I've told it on here before. Once illegally a scout. My senior in college, right? Yeah. Just smuggled you the wonderlick. He went. No, he went. He's like, Hey, when practice over the day. He's an old scout. It was kind of famous around the league. |
| 3:43.0 | Yeah. I've told people in the NFL about this. And they're like, Oh, yeah, he's on the outside. He would do that. That's for sure. Hey, he came over to me as I was getting dressed for practice, right? Which scouts weren't even allowed to be in the locker room. But he was one of these guys. It was like, I fuck it. I'll bend the rule here. And he came over to me and I'm getting dressed. Hey, Sims, after practice, just come see me in this room over here. I'll be in there. Just five, 10 minutes. So I need you for it. Okay. Cool. I know. But you know, he was around a lot. And I liked him. And he talked balls. Oh, yeah. Okay. Cool. Sure. But then I went in there. |
| 4:13.0 | And he goes, Hey, I just want you to take this. It was the wonderlick, you know, and I was probably at about a month left in college football season. Yeah. And I took it. I did pretty good. I think I got a 27 on that one. Yeah. But then when I went to the combine, I got, I'm peak could probably look it up. I think I got a 24 or maybe a 23. Okay. Someone there. But it was all because I didn't know a few of the vocabulary ones. Like the one I took at school. I just got lucky in the vocab questions. We're like, I know these ones. Yeah. And I remember I got 22 shit. Fuck you. It's supposed to say 23 or 24. |
| 4:43.0 | But I got into the NFL. I remember going, damn, like some of the vocab was ever in the middle. Yeah. I just didn't have the feel for him. And that's the difference. I don't, I wish I did remember. Yeah. We'll do that. Maybe we should do that like dead time early June. We'll take a wonderlick. I remember the Giants had me take a 400 question multiple 400 questions. No doubt. And I got the sweet windbreaker for it. Yeah. Oh, cool. I made up for it. Yeah. I was so pissed taking the giant test. Awful. I was so pissed. I did it at the senior ball. And I was literally like, |
| 5:13.0 | I remember, you know, college football ends, go home for a few days, train, go to the senior ball, I'm practicing all this. It's been a crazy busy time. And the Giants go go in the room here and take this test. And I'm like, okay, sure. |
| 5:27.0 | Question test. Okay. It's an hour and 45 minutes later. I'm still here taking this test. Yeah. And I was motherfucking the Giants. Yeah. There's one fucking team in football that knows me. It's, and I've been around them though. I whole life. I was in the locker room at three. Yeah. I know all of you people that just gave me the test. And like, I think with the Giants test, I think I didn't answer like the last 40 questions. Really? I think I just said you should have been like, I just wrote, like, my name's Sim dad 2225 Super Bowl. That's it. You know me. Yeah. Yeah. I anytime I had a physical |
| 5:57.0 | problem. I came to the locker room. You know everything about me. Come on. I heard we're talking online today. Yeah, you're right. Yeah. Good side track. Yeah. That's all right. Good. All lines and quarterbacks and wonderlicks. Yeah. Before we get to top five, which I think is top six. Yeah. I know you like it. Yeah. A lot of a first round picks there. I think we have some some traffic up top as we like to say. I sensed when we were talking quarterbacks slow while ago. I'm like, I think he likes Malik will listen. You said it more than he has him ranked. You said it. |
| 6:27.0 | So go ahead and take it from there. Yeah. I'm in the quarterback rankings. Listen, you know me. I'm not one that usually changes my rankings around a whole lot. |
| 6:34.1 | What's the wrong with that? No, and I try not to because I put all my, I mean, I go hard on my evaluations. I don't go like, oh, let me watch a little but then I'll come back to it a few weeks later and see if I change. |
| 6:45.0 | I try to go all in up all at once. And that's what I do. But yes, if I had to make a switch right now, I'm going to make, um, |
| 6:52.2 | sleep. Corral at one. I think Corral is still the only guy to me that's worthy of a top half of the first round pick. |
| 6:58.3 | But Malik will is number two and Kenny pick at number three. I would like to make that change as far as Willis was my three pick. It was my two. |
| 7:05.5 | Let's flip those around. What was the deciding factor? You know, I think really what I came down to is as the more and more, I just thought about it. |
| 7:12.8 | And I'm not going to lie. My dad led me down this road a little bit. My dad reads my notes. Right. He likes to look at it and stuff. |
| 7:19.9 | And hey, send me a picture of these notes. I do it. And he was kind of looking at it. He made a comment to me about two weeks ago. |
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