John Favreau
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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I think the fact that he is somewhat divisive purely as a football prospect is actually leading to a lot of this skepticism. Or let me rephrase that, not leading to a lot of it, but maybe amplifying a lot of this skepticism.
When we talk about his personality here, I think there is some sensitivity because historically, a lot of the traits, some of the words being thrown about brash, overconfident, have been assigned to black quarterbacks in the past disproportionately. So when you hear that here, you know, immediately, I think Spidey sense kind of goes off. What's kind of...
I wouldn't say funny, but ironic, though, is that who he is as a player is actually the opposite of the quarterbacks that we have assigned— the stereotypes, pardon me, that NFL teams and anonymous scouts have assigned to quarterbacks, black quarterbacks in the past, where they have over-indexed on emphasizing the athleticism at the expense of things like accuracy, football intelligence, processing, all of that.
So to actually answer your question— I think Schroeder-Sanders is accurate. He is tough. He is very smart. He throws with anticipation. He's a good processor. He throws over the middle of the field. He is not a great athlete, and he does not have great arm talent.
So in some ways, there's like a little bit of Tua Tungavailoa to his game, to be honest, which is to say he wins with anticipation and accuracy, not with arm strength.
Oh, he's so cute. He looks the same, but little. Same haircut. This, to me, it drives home... I just think being the son of a really famous person is so complicated. And I think it leads to... a lot of different outcomes, maybe could be leading to him performing confidence in a way that maybe, I don't know, I don't want to psychoanalyze or speculate here, but I think it's very difficult.
And yeah, I mean, the fact that he even got to this point and has continued to be is like, hard of a worker and as driven, because again, you know, I know I probably sounded like I was damning with faint praise, but to stress his football IQ, I mean, this is a kid who on tape, you see him reading coverages, post-snap, identifying the leverage defenders.
Clearly somebody who has grown around football, been around football, pardon me, his whole life and actually leaned into that from the mental side of it. And that to me should be appealing to an NFL team.
Being like the perfect quarterback prospect is, is really, it's walking such a fine line. It's like being a woman, to be honest. Like, you want to be confident, but not too confident because then you're cocky. You want to be assertive, but not too assertive because then you're aggressive. You know, you want to be smart, but not too smart because then you're questioning authority.
You know, you got to be, you want to be nice, but not too nice because then are you a pushover? It's, you know, it's just got to like be just right.
Her husband who lives in a different place, it should be noted. I think one thing I found, there's a lot of things that are interesting about this. One thing I find interesting is, Dan, so much of the time when we think about chatbots and her, we think about, you know, the Joaquin Phoenix character being this kind of loner. This woman's not a loner. She has friends. She has a husband.
This flies in the face of a lot of stereotypes, I think, that we have around artificial intelligence and chatbots to begin with, obviously starting with her gender. So there's that element of it. It feels to me less like a woman who... is like so isolated and this is her way out. More just like, hey, this is like entertainment. It's like another thing she can use to like spend her time.
Maybe it's a stand in for therapy for people, you know, which is another side of the whole AI thing. That was the read I had on it. The other thing I was curious about was to how good it was. So this woman is so addicted to this product, and it is an addiction, that she's spending money on it for a subscription, but it resets every week. Leo forgets who she is, so she has to coach him up.
She also has to coach him up to be sexy with her because ChatGBT doesn't allow it, so she's come up with all of these workarounds for it. So much so that In the article, it links to a Reddit post she did where she teaches other people how to do this and also had some of her chats with him. Did you guys click on any of these?
I did because I wanted to see, like, how good is this? Like, how good is that? And again, I know I've been something of an AI skeptic because just because every time people talk about how good it is and how useful it is, I go to it and I look at it. It's not good. But here's an example of a woman who's like, this is working for me. It's not good. It's like, I'm sorry.
These chats are not, everybody always says that. Great. Show it to me when it's good. But these chats are, they're not like particularly, it's not well written. It doesn't seem personalized to me. The sexual stuff is, you could find better sexy stuff and like, you know, the erotica show. It's just, it's, it's, it's, and the guy, they're like, she was shy because his photo was, too good looking.
It's AI slop. It doesn't look like a man. It looks like a, you know, AI drawing of a man. So that was something I found interesting because this whole article is, I mean, it's obviously good enough to suck this woman in, but I found it to be really, really bad.
Yeah, don't read it.
I didn't read this one.
I would also like to quibble with the idea that any of this is new. Like, okay, so like a woman who's not getting something from her partner, so she, you know, or maybe wants something else or wants entertainment or wants connection, goes to the internet. I mean, chat rooms were doing this for people in the freaking early 2000s.
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