Writer ETHAN STRAUSS on Purdy, Bad QB Stats and NBA vs NFL Contracts + Anonymous NFL People Weigh in on Purdy vs Baker Mayfield
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Guy Haberman
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
What some NFL people told me about Chris Simms' quote that the NFL thinks Baker Mayfield is better than Brock Purdy ... and then... (12:14) Ethan Strauss joins the show to discuss the Purdy/Baker thing, he shares the problem he sees with QB stats and evaluations, why NBA people don't freak out over contracts like NFL people and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, Guy here. Coming up on the show today, Ethan Strauss. Ethan Strauss, hold on, I'm lowering my |
| 0:08.5 | standing desk. Ethan Strauss, one of the most successful substackers. You could possibly find one of the |
| 0:15.4 | great success stories of Substack, which is no surprise because he was a very successful writer |
| 0:20.1 | before Substack, |
| 0:21.4 | and he writes about all kinds of things. |
| 0:23.6 | He's a Niners, and we text about the Niners. |
| 0:25.8 | I think he loves talking about the Niners, probably even more than he can write about the Niners, |
| 0:29.9 | and he writes about the Niners a fair amount in the NFL. |
| 0:33.9 | But he's an author, and this conversation has a lot about Brock Purdy, goes well beyond |
| 0:39.5 | the Niners, though, the way we think about contracts. As always, it's an interesting |
| 0:44.2 | winding road with Ethan. He, I was texting with him on Wednesday because I put out a |
| 0:50.2 | YouTube video called What Anonymous Scouts. |
| 0:56.7 | Actually, I should put that in this. |
| 0:59.7 | I'm going to put that right in a second. |
| 1:04.8 | And then after that, the conversation with Ethan Strauss. |
| 1:05.4 | Okay. |
| 1:06.7 | Good idea. |
| 1:07.8 | Glad I came up with that. |
| 1:13.5 | You just, this is like watching Paul McCartney write the words to along and winding road. Did you ever see that? I think that. Was that? Or maybe it was let it be. |
| 1:20.2 | Regardless, a conversation with Ethan Strauss coming up, but first, the thing that got us texting |
| 1:27.3 | on Wednesday to do a podcast to begin with, |
| 1:30.0 | this take from me. Oh, this is a good one today. You're not getting this anywhere else. I sent Chris Sims' |
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