Sean Gentile

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Sean Gentile of The Athletic coming up in 20 minutes to talk Penguins Islanders from last night and Penn's Red Wings tonight.

So, Nick, did McCarthy say anything about where he would have drafted Will Howard?

Did he expound upon this?

Like, I just don't understand.

how Mike McCarthy has this love affair for this quarterback, and Sean McVay didn't.

Like, McVay, wouldn't he have taken him in the fifth round and just be a backup?

Or Kyle Shanahan and said, ooh, we got such great value out of Brock Purdy in the seventh round.

Maybe we can see a similar thing with Will Howard that quarterback guru Mike McCarthy sees.

That's what I don't understand.

Yeah, I mean, he said if, you know, I was around, he wouldn't have been around in the fifth or sixth round, so that...

It kind of leads me to believe he would have taken him in the fourth, which is kind of where everyone thought he would have gone during the draft.

I think everyone thought he was going to go in the fourth round.

I don't blame him for thinking that.

I thought that Will Howard was about a fourth-round prospect when I watched him.

And so it seems like that's where you would take him.

And that's right around where you take a guy that you want to develop and see if they can become something.

Maybe they become a backup.

Maybe they become more.

But that's kind of where...