Chapter 1: Which quarterbacks are the Jets considering for backup roles?
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Chapter 2: What impact does Joshua Dobbs' release have on the Jets' quarterback search?
So in the adventures of Where Was Frank Reich? We got some interesting things going on out there. He was over there. Check it out, Drew Aller. He was over there. Check it down in Miami. Check it out, some Miami players, including Carson Beck.
Chapter 3: How does Ty Simpson's rise in mock drafts affect the Jets' strategy?
So they're definitely sniffing around the quarterback.
Yes, they are. Of course they are.
That is for sure, as expected. We also saw that Joshua Dobbs was released. He is someone that has bounced around many, many organizations, has had – Really high moments and really low moments.
He is now available as Tommy DeVito is going to be the prime backup in New England as the Jets continue to search for that backup, which is really important because if you are trying to win games and trying to keep this thing together, trying to keep your job if you're Aaron Glenn and Geno Smith goes down, you have to go to someone like Brady Cook again.
Chapter 4: What qualities are the Jets looking for in a new quarterback?
Chances are you're not going to be here the year after that. Yes. So it's got to be somebody competent. Now... Could that backup be one of these guys that they draft? I don't see it. I don't think that that would be the case, but I still think that they would bring in another quarterback of some significance that has some experience as a backup and a player in this league.
You know, the likelihood of Gino making it through 17 games. Yeah. I mean, what's the realistic, you know, especially on a bad team.
Chapter 5: How does Fernando Mendoza's performance influence the Raiders' decisions?
Yeah. Yeah, but I think he'll settle things down. Frank will settle everything down. The one thing I do know is I always talk to you about communication, and you know this from playing, even though you played in high school. But still, you all have to be on the same page.
And when you have a rookie back there like they did last year with Brady Cook, what ends up happening is that the other 10 guys are adversely affected because they're unsure of what the kid is capable of. So therefore, it affects their play. So if you bring in a veteran, and this is why I say a veteran is so important in a situation like this, is that you want to have the veteran back there.
And this was supposed to be Justin Fields, but it didn't work out. Or Tyrod Taylor, but he's always hurt.
Chapter 6: What are the updated win totals for the Jets and other teams?
You have to have a guy that's going to settle things down and keep the penalties. to a minimum, get in and out of the huddle, be able to make the checks at the line of scrimmage, and all the little nuanced things that every quarterback has to do. It's one of the reasons why they were going to go the route of either Geno Smith or Carson Wentz or somebody like that.
So now I do believe that they still are going to want a veteran backup, and they possibly do draft one of these kids, whether it be Carson Beck or Drew Aller. And the one thing I do know that really matters a lot to Frank are two things. Height.
well, we know about the physical traits, but I'm just talking about, he wants somebody that is smart and is, and has the leadership touch the, the leadership feel around them, uh, where there are players, uh, that they're playing with extreme, you know, extremely respected that player, you know, that's, you see that in Fernando Mendoza, you saw that, you know, uh,
throughout his season at Indiana, how much the players loved him, how, how much the players responded to him, how much the coach spoke glowingly of him. And then in the biggest of games, he played his best games. So those were all obvious to everybody.
Chapter 7: How does Ochocinco's take on the St. John's buzzer-beater relate to the episode?
You know, the, the, The stuff that I don't know about is what they're trying to find out now. What kind of person is the guy? Does he match all the things that they're looking for from the standpoint of where Frank comes from when it comes to coaching quarterbacks and teaching quarterbacks and developing quarterbacks? It happens every single year.
There is always a quarterback that rises up on the board and then gets drafted in the first round when no one had him going in the first round months prior to the draft. And it's happening again as Ty Simpson continues to climb.
up these draft boards now i haven't seen him in every mock draft in the first round but i mean when you look back to a couple of months ago and where he was scheduled or where he predicted rather uh to be picked to now i mean it's a significant difference and i think a lot of that is because of his interviews at the combine and everybody loved him and if everybody loves him at the combine that means that all the coaches love him and they want to take a shot on him yeah i was telling you that he had a good meeting with the jets yeah and i know for a fact that
Frank thought really highly of him. And that's a big part of this whole situation, feeling comfortable about a guy, reading into a guy, knowing his background, where he comes from.
Chapter 8: What are the highlights of UConn's recent basketball performance?
The thing about it is that when you really look at Ty Simpson, you have 15 games this past season. He played six games the previous season. It's not the 35 to the 45 games that you'd like to see a guy play in college, and you see the consistency there. Throughout that, I mean, you know, the kid is 6'1", about 210 pounds, so he's kind of on the lower end of the physical traits that you want, okay?
Fernando Mendoza is right there smack dab in the middle, 6'5", 245 pounds, can run if he has to run, will stand in the pocket, and he's extremely accurate. And the same thing I can say about Ty Simpson, he's really accurate too. And that's what you love about these kids is that, you know, hopefully both of them turn out to be really good players.
And the debate, I don't think there's really a debate as to who's going number one. I think the whole Dan Arvlosky thing that happened on ESPN was more about where are you drafting these kids? And he's saying that, at least as I interpret it, is that he's saying drafting Ty Simpson at 16 is better than drafting Fernando Mendoza as number one.
Well, it all really comes down to the needs of the teams that are picking and whether or not there is a clear number one quarterback. And I believe that clear number one quarterback is Mendoza because of how bright he is, how his players responded to him, the plays that he made in the biggest games, the size and strength, the arm, the accuracy.
And there's not anything about Fernando Mendoza that you – wouldn't want as a quarterback. So he's saying that the gap between those guys isn't big enough to... Well, I'm assuming that what he's saying, he may say that he's quarterback number one, but quarterback number one being drafted at 15?
To me, Fernando Mendoza, and I said this to you guys in the middle of the college football season, that the Jets should be thinking about Fernando, if you remember. And the reason for that was because of the number of the games that he had played early on in the season also, and he got better as the season went on.
Plus, there weren't any other quarterbacks that were really making a name for themselves at that point, and a bunch of the guys that were the top prospects were getting hurt. You hear a lot about guys talking about what kind of offense that he played in Indiana. If he goes to the Raiders, which I believe he will, he's going to have a great offense. He's going to have the Clint Kubiak offense.
That's the Mike Shanahan offense. That's his dad's offense. That's running the ball, play action, block it up, throw it down the field, and this kid fits that offense perfectly. You know, it's not going to be RPOs and all this other crap. And, you know, they're not going to want to expose him to all the, you know, hits and all that other crap. They want to protect him.
So I personally think, and I've thought since the middle of the year, that he would be the number one guy taken. Yeah, and to me, there's really no debate. And the amount of games he's played. And the fact that, you know, how about that run to win the national championship? Yeah, it was incredible.
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