The Art of Drafting a QB
NFL: Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah & Bucky Brooks
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The quarterback touches the ball during every play, so it makes sense that teams would go to great lengths to find the right talent, especially when it comes to picking a QB during the Draft. On this episode of the NFL explained. podcast, Mike Yam and Michael Robinson talk about all the considerations that teams take into account under this special circumstance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | NFL Explained is a production of the NFL in partnership with IHeart Radio. |
| 0:14.8 | It's a brand new addition to the NFL Explained podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | Mike Yam joined as always by my good friend, Michael Robinson. I thought about you when I was getting dressed this morning. What? Yeah. Hear me out. Okay. I don't know where this is going. You and I were doing the NFL Total Access podcast together and I got made fun of for not having large muscle. So I said I would wear an extra small shirt the next time that we work together. |
| 0:38.1 | I did not go down that path. But believe me, when I was putting the sweater on this morning, I was like, do I go, do I go Smedium? And I was like, you know, no, I can do it? Yams, I thought you were going to say, do I go do some pushups or I didn't work out this one. No, no, no, no. |
| 0:53.5 | Let me just take smaller clothes to make myself look bigger. |
| 0:56.4 | Let me not work out. |
| 0:57.5 | I actually worked out this morning, which is part of the, I felt swell, swall. Swole. Swole, man. Yeah. So I thought I could have, but I decided not to go down that path. Legitimately excited for today's podcast. And by the way, I always talk about the DMs that are |
| 1:10.9 | coming in. Legit. So many great questions. Mailbag episode was terrific. We got more mailbag |
| 1:18.6 | episodes down the road. This one I'm excited about because I think you are uniquely qualified |
| 1:24.1 | to discuss this topic. It's all about how to draft a quarterback, why it's so hard to get it right. |
| 1:31.4 | But I'm going to start with an old school cliche, hardest thing in sports. |
| 1:34.7 | Okay. |
| 1:35.2 | Is to hit a baseball. Are you buying that or no? |
| 1:37.8 | It's very tough to hit a baseball, dude. Like, it is. But to me, what a quarterback has to do, to manipulate a defense, to be able to read a |
| 1:48.1 | defense, to be able to understand what the offensive game plan is, to understand what |
| 1:52.6 | the team game plan is, oh yeah, and you got other 300-pound grown men who run a 4-5 who |
| 1:58.3 | were trying to come rip your head off. |
| 2:00.4 | That's tough, |
| 2:01.3 | yams. That's really tough. And I had a coach one time, Mike Nolan, give us an example. He told |
| 2:06.1 | us that we passed around a football and we just talked about what the football meant to us. And you |
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