I have not done a mock draft, which means that Julian Council, Lockdown Panthers podcast at Julian Council on Twitter, is one ahead of me. So let me ask Julian, have you only done one mock draft?
Yes, Adam, and sorry for being late here. That is the one and only mock draft I have ever done in my life and ever planned on doing in my life. But as I told people in that tweet, man has a price. I didn't do that for free. I didn't do that for fun. I did that because people ask me, well, the five people Bleacher Report asking for some content and they come on. So, hey, I did that for that. And that's the reason they did it. Mock drafts still should be sent to hell. They're mainly pointless.
We see every year how wrong everyone is, even though it looks like everyone's got the first pick and that being Bryce Young. That's only what I've done. And that's the only one I'm going to do unless, you know, someone's throwing some cash. You know what?
If I can get a sponsor, I'm going to maybe I'll get you to do on Wednesday. Here's here's the thing. Did you believe? Have you believed in Bryce Young from the beginning or have you been swayed by recent comments? No, no. Recent comments.
Couldn't care less about those. And it's unfortunate because I think CJ Stroud's been the guy who's been this year's punching bag towards the end of the draft because we just have to carry on so long trying to come up with things to say about the draft. And we've run out of things to say probably a month ago.
So unfortunately that's been the case with him and his as to score. But as far as Bryce Young goes, I've been a fan since day one. I thought he's the best quarterback in college football the last two years.
One eyes and drove in 2021 for a reason. I thought he was even more impressive this past year when you looked at the talent around him. And I know people are going to roll their eyes and like, well, Bama has four and five stars every year.
They can portal anyone, whoever they want. Well, some of those guys are brought in from the portal like Jermaine Burton who left Georgia. Wasn't any good from Louisville who went down. There was injured the half the entire season.
He had the Georgia tech transfer to mayor Gibbs who was excellent and who I love. And then he had Cameron lot to his tight end. Like those are the only dudes he could depend on to throw to the last, this last, the last season they had to transfer in a tackle from Vanderbilt.
Y'all that's how bad the old line was at times in the 2021 season. When he won the Heisman, he wasn't throwing to the Garrett Wilson. He wasn't throwing the crystal lobby. He wasn't throwing the Jackson Smith and Jig, but he wasn't throwing to Marvin Harrison Jr.
He wasn't throwing to a Mecca, a Buka. It didn't have the same kind of talent that he had down Tuscaloosa that they have up in Ohio state that CJ Stroud played with and Stroud's an excellent player in his own, right? I'm not really trying to take anything away from him. I'm just trying to point out the fact that Bryce young had left town around in this past year than he had the year prior. And I thought he was more impressive in winning that game at Texas and putting on position to win in Knoxville against Tennessee and getting to overtime against LSU and then letting everybody know in his final game against K state that sugar bowl, that he was the best quarterback in college football last year and a year prior, Bryce young to me has obviously from the beginning been the clear cut best quarterback. The only concern has been his height and his weight, but he's six, three to 20. There would be no conversation at all about who the best player in the draft was.
And also Chicago would have stayed at one and taken him instead. Are you and I sharing a brain? This is because I've literally been saying this for two months that if anyone who watches college football knows Bryce, I'm, he's the best player. It's that simple, man. Right? It's like, look, I don't think he needed to be six, three to 20. I think if he was six, one, one 95, the bears would have kept the pick.
Yeah, I really, I really do. Here's here. This is my, my thought on CJ Strad, and this is where I've thought about him from the beginning. He had a great game against Georgia. Some people have thrown shade on him. Well, but he lost. I'm like, they lost to Georgia.
I mean, let's like losing to the Tennessee Titans at this point, the wage, the wager absolutely shanked it, right? But he, he played great in a high profile game. I have nothing against CJ Strad.
I look at him as somebody who can be a good NFL quarterback, but, and, and there's nothing wrong with being a good NFL quarterback, but you don't take good first overall. You've got, you've got like being Bryce young to me is the best. And if it was really close, then CJ Strad would be number one overall because then the height and weight would really matter.
But I think only the height and weight is making it somewhat close for people. But if I wasn't going to take Bryce young, I had to take it. I would take Anthony Richardson because he gives you the chance to be bonkers as good as physically talented as he is.
I agree. Like, I mean, CJ Strad, the thing about the Georgia game, like he was outstanding and I was everything that everyone wanted to see him be in that one game. The problem was it was only one game that we ever saw him play like that, where he was able to play.
He was able to use his lead. He was willing, not really able, but he was willing, but even had to, because a lot of times, cause I don't want to talk about Ohio state. Cause you know, what's going to happen. They're going to beat the crap out of the Minnesota's and the Iowa's and the Rutgers and the Maryland. And you're going to tune in whenever they play that marquee non-conference game, which it's been Oregon the last couple of years. And you know, they played Michigan at the end of the season. You see him in the Rose bowl.
Like those are the games that you watch. And in those games, like Stroud has looked really good. He's never looked bad in those games, but it's not like those situations where he's always having to try and carry the offense.
Like Bryce had to do last year. He's a phenomenal player. You do wonder, you know, how's he going to translate to the NFL? And he's never going to have the receiving talent that he had this past year at Ohio state. And also the two tackles, one of them, Paris Johnson, Jr. Is probably going number nine in the direction Chicago. He had ton of town around him, not just like with the skill position, but also with the offensive line, not to say that Bryce didn't have that as well, Bama, but again, they had to get a tackle from Vanderbilt to transfer into Tuscaloosa.
Just let that marinate for a second. I agree though, with the Richardson thing. And part of me has started to think of the last week, man, should that be who they just take instead as you look at the athleticism, just the physical talent, just a combined freak and his best football is ahead of him.
When he finally gets taught to work with his feet, his lower half and he gets the mechanics down. So that's how they're not doing that at Florida. Dan Mullen is not working with him.
Billy neighbor's not working with them. They're trying to win football games. They're not concerned about making sure that he has all of the fundamentals so that he can translate to the NFL game. So he gets the Carolina, which I think is the best situation for any of these quarterbacks and they could coach him up for a year. If that's what they takes.
I feel like he has the highest feeling. I just feel more confident based on what I saw with Bryce young and not having that much concern about his height and his weight and his durability to where like, I think that's the obvious pick where Richardson, man, I wouldn't hate that at all. If they decided, Hey, you know what? Let's just roll the dice, trip.
Number one, you're going to try the number one. You want to make a big splash. Well, the big splash is Anthony Richardson.
Yeah, there's, there's no question. And I would, I would go that route if I didn't think Bryce young was going to be great. And that's so, and to me, I think CJ Stroud is going to be good.
I think Bryce young is going to be great. What area Julian council locked on Panthers podcast, a mocker of drafts. If it, in the second round, when you pick it with 39, what is the area you hope that the Panthers address at 39? For me initially, it was wide receiver looking at what they have on this roster.
Okay. You bring it out and feeling he still, I think has probably year left of being a pretty solid player in the NFL, but he's getting up there and Minnesota is a team that still feels like they can, for whatever reason with Kirk cousins contend for a super bowl. And why would they let go of Adam Thielen if they felt like he could help them moving forward? So I, that clearly there's some sort of disconnect there and why he's here in Carolina, I think he'd be a good player for the Panthers this year, DJ charts, there's a reason that he's on a third team, but he's going to be somebody who they're going to hope to expand his route tree and have them be more than a deep ball prep, but that's a one year deal. If they don't have anybody on this roster right now in that wider super room, who you know is going to be here in four or five years time, like that's surefire number one. And I don't think there's any really number one wide receivers that are in this draft, especially that will be there available at not that 39.
So I've kind of moved off of wider here would be in the pick corner. You look at that and you see the issues that you have with Dante Jackson with his injury situation the last couple of years now coming off the most severe one was an Achilles. How ready is he going to be going to next season? And you saw back in week 17 against Tampa when they're getting cooked by Tom Brady, Mike Evans, if either horn or Jackson really horn is available, they maybe win that game and end up winning the NFC south. They need more depth. So you, Henderson and, and, um, Keith Taylor have just not shown enough for the last couple of seasons to really buy into either one of those guys as your number three guy, maybe a new staff helps, but really to me, it looks like edge rusher is a position that I would like for them.
They would address their 39 BJ was a Larry. Somebody has been mocked constantly over the last week to go to Carolina. He's an LSU edge rusher. He's got the pedigree.
He's got kind of skies. I think he has the, um, the versatility to fit into this new scheme that they're going to have here in Carolina. So I would love to see them address edge rusher losing us on Reddit.
It's unfortunate. I understand why it happened, especially for Hassan to go to build out view where it's hometown team where he had a huge year. They need to bring in somebody else. I don't know if you can depend on Marquis Haynes and Frankie Lou and combined for 12 seconds. Like they did this past season. Don't slander Frankie Lou.
Here's the thing. I'm just saying, I don't know if you can depend on him. That seven sacks again, that was the first year we saw him as a full time starter. He was excellent. I love them, but is he an as rusher?
Is he the guy that on third down, Hey Frankie, go get him. Is that what you really are going to bank on doing forward? I don't know. Maybe I just have a hard time thinking that's exactly what they want to do. All right, before I let you go, Julian council locked on Panthers podcast. Cause you mentioned that you thought that the Panthers probably had the, uh, a coaching staff that was the most conducive to, um, basically training a quarterback.
And you're right, by the way, I've said this for a long time. It is not the college's job to get quarterbacks ready for the national football league. It is their job only to win games, which is why so many quarterbacks are not ready to play in the NFL because they're, they're not taught the games are different. They, they, they both use the same looking ball. One w one has stripes, one doesn't, but ultimately these are two completely different sports. Uh, and I wish people would understand that more. Uh, what really, what jumps out to you about Carolina's offensive coaching staff? It's more than just your lawn.
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So you have the diversity of the principles that come from the McVeigh system. You have Parce Frazier, who was one of the youngest play callers. And I think they see the NFL last year as he was the interim play caller up there in Indianapolis, when Jeff Saturday took over as the head coach there, when Frank Reich was fired, he had parks for ages coming in here. It'd be the passing game coordinator of Joshua town.
Who's not that full removed from actually having played a position and been in the NFL. You have Jim Caldwell who has worked with Frank right before as Frank Greg was his assistant, but he's also worked out course as the head coach and having Peyton Manning in Indianapolis and having so many years of experience as a head coach, both in college at wake in the NFL and Detroit in both Indianapolis, but also, you know, having worked all these quarterbacks and having quarterbacks throughout his career. So having that kind of experience in this diversity of your staff and the positions that they play back when they were, when they were playing, but also the positions that they've been able to coach, like that's really what stands out to me that it's not just quarterback that they're equipped to work with. It's all the positions that I think they can get the most out of from their own playing experience, but also just the experience of where they've been throughout their coaching career so far. So I'm excited about the staff that they built both on offense and on defense and that Frank Reich was willing to go out there and to spend money on guys that he necessarily did not have like that kind of close relationship with, but just trying to find the best staff available. And that's certainly what Carolina I think has done, at least to the best of their ability over the last couple of months. Yeah, look, I've been very critical of David Tepper. I was critical of the hire of hiring of Matt rule because I felt like David Tepper was kind of grasping at shiniest object because he somehow Matt rule somehow convinced the world that he was the next great thing. And I think Tepper just without I don't know, I'm not going to say he didn't do due diligence, but he's a young owner to David. Right. They might not. But I'm not going to make that accusation. But I can say very, very easily he's a young owner and it takes a while to really understand how to how to do this correctly, especially if you plan on being a hands on guy.
It is very difficult. And we saw that manifest itself and how they went about trying to get quarterbacks and all of that. How many mistakes they made. But man, this coaching staff and I was team I was team Steve Wilkes. I thought Steve Wilkes deserved the job, but I will give them tons of credit because I think an all star coaching staff is probably too much hyperbole for me.
But Reich knows what he's doing. He's a good head coach. But Jim Caldwell to me is the star of this whole thing because Caldwell has so much experience with quarterbacks. And if you've got different different ages here, you've got Caldwell, you've got Josh McCown, who might still could could might still be playing in some situations. So yes, so much diversity, as you said. But I'm talking about generational diversity in this coaching staff. The one thing I will say is if it's not Bryce Young, if it's Anthony Richardson, which would be, again, my plan B, then he probably can't play year one. So you're probably going into this year with Andy Dalton as your quarterback, which means you probably have a high pick again next year. Yes, very true.
That's all in and out of people being like trade up for a great man. Oh, yes, that's that's coming down the pike. Julian Council, I thank you very much, my friend. Absolutely. You got it. Take care.
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