Diante Lee

You're obviously not getting a Lamar Jackson.

Anything can happen once the ball's in his hands type of quarterback either.

But I do think you can get Pro Bowl level production, maybe, you know, three to five times over a decade in the perfect scenario, which I think you should be pretty happy with if you're making a draft for a quarterback number one overall.

Yeah, I wouldn't say that it's like a chasm between the two, but there is a clear delineation for me between what Fernando Mendoza is stepping in the league and the questions that I still have about a Ty Simpson coming into the league, right?

And some of this is maybe unfair because we just have a much wider body of work.

with Fernando Mendoza between what he was at Cal two years ago at Indiana, what he was this past year as a Heisman winner.

We just have a wide breadth of throws.

We have a pretty complete passing profile for him.

With Ty Simpson, you're really talking about two-thirds of one regular season.

for him being the guy at Alabama.

And then I think it's really hard to try to square what you saw for the first two-thirds of the regular season with what he was post-injury because he was certainly a different quarterback.

I mean, I'm sure the people who watch college football in January can remember what he looked like in the Rose Bowl before he was ultimately benched.

And that was just very clearly just not a guy who could contribute because he was so banged up.

So I think that, you know,

With that said, it is really interesting to me to see where the discourse is at right now.

I'm really struggling to try to figure out if you're Dan Orlovsky.

I think Chase Daniels shared this opinion as well.

I would really struggle to try to figure out exactly why it is that anybody would feel so certain that you're getting a QB1 type of prospect from a Ty Simpson if you were to draft him this year.

GMs would never be getting fired, right?

If it was that easy.