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Chapter 1: What insights does Robert Griffin III provide on the NFL Draft aftermath?
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Chapter 2: How does Robert Griffin III evaluate Sean McVay's coaching style?
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Nick Wright stopped by earlier. Yeah, the Aaron Rodgers situation at the end in Green Bay and the end in...
new york it was uh you know it was not to aaron's liking the way he was treated but again i think sometimes aaron as smart as he is lacks self-awareness it's like bro you're going to darkness retreats we're getting close to the season we need answers he came out of that and green bay is like nice knowing you and he was kind of shocked by it it's like i'm shocked that he was shocked not by what green bay did the new york jets you know during the roberts holidays it was like well i'm gonna be in egypt
I don't think that's ideal. Word got out, and he was kind of glib about it. And then Aaron Glenn's a new coach. He's like, not interested. So basically what the Steelers did, they came out and there was a tender sheet, and they just said basically today they came out and said, here's what you can make. Here's when you can sign and report, and we can match any offer.
They took control of the situation, which I don't blame them. That's what employers do. Nick Wright earlier on Aaron Rodgers. I don't know why they don't simply get out of the Aaron Rodgers business.
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Chapter 3: What is the future outlook for Aaron Rodgers according to RG3?
He is not, the juice is not worth the squeeze, and you cannot, with a new head coach, with new players, with a new system, build any type of culture when it's, you think during OTAs, guys are taking Drew Aller or Will Howard reps seriously when they're like, well, Aaron's going to be the guy, and Aaron's going to... freak out if we don't know his hand signals and his cadence.
I just think they should get out of the Aaron Rodgers business. It doesn't make sense anymore. Yeah. And I and I do think, you know, when you're in your prime is different. But as you age and you know what teams don't want to be in the NFL is desperate. They don't all have to be great, but they've got to feel like we're building something. It's like Wall Street.
You'll sometimes you'll see like Wall Street. There'll be a report. Meta is getting rid of nine thousand employees. The stock goes up. Because they have certainty. They know what Meta is doing. If Meta came out and said, we may let go of 8,000 people, maybe we don't. And the stock goes down. Like Wall Street and the NFL, people like certainties. And with that, RG3, Robert Griffin is joining us.
We love having him on. He watches college football for Fox, does that. He does pro football. One of the rare guys in the industry that knows both and does both very well. And so I look when I look at that tender sheet, which I'd never heard of the exact term of it before. Basically, it's Pittsburgh saying we're going to control this. Here's your raise. We're going to match every offer.
It feels like to me we played nice. But Aaron. This point forward, we're going to kind of control this. Now, as a former player, is that how it feels to you? Yeah, Colin, it definitely feels that way. And, you know, I hear what Nick Wright is saying. But when you look at the Steelers roster and you're going through so much change, right, you had Mike Tomlin for 19 years.
You want some form of stability at the quarterback position. And right now, without Aaron Rodgers, you're looking at Mason Rudolph, Will Howard and Drew Aller. Like at this point, you say to Aaron, hey, man, if you want to come back, we'll take you back because at least we know we can probably go 500 with Aaron Rodgers as our quarterback.
But with these other guys playing the quarterback position, you're not giving anyone in that locker room the confidence that they can go out and actually be competitive. And I think that's more so what they're saying with tendering him the way that they are. If you want to play, yes, you got to play for us.
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Chapter 4: How do team dynamics change with new quarterbacks like Ty Simpson?
But hey, Aaron, if you ever want to feel needed, We need you more than anyone else in the league right now because our roster is in so much flux. And we just lost out on one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, Mike Tomlin. So for the second year in a row, it was Quinn Ewers and then it's Garrett Nussmeier, where a year earlier, they're first rounders. Then they go seventh round.
You know, everybody said it's a bad quarterback class, and I don't think it was a great one. But everybody said it was an average draft. And then I see guys like Kamari Ramsey going in the fifth round to Houston, a safety from USC. And I'm like, well, that guy can ball, especially with D'Amico Ryan's NFL brain. I'm like, he's going to be a good player.
I see the UConn receiver going to Josh Allen and Joe Brady, and I'm like, oh, Skyler's going to do well there. So, I don't know, when you look at quarterback development, obviously where you land matters. Did you see Ty Simpson, Rams, did that shock you, or did you see something that works in pro football eventually?
um yeah i mean the ty simpson pick i think confused a lot of people uh because i think you have the rams as like number one to win the super bowl correct right right yeah does does ty simpson help them win the super bowl this year he's no no no not not at all so like i try to be very particular with what i say when it comes to the qbs because i i did believe that ty simpson was a first round quarterback
And I think the 15 starts, I don't think it's overblown. I think it's a real thing. And I think that's also probably why the Rams drafted him. Because they said, well, he's not going to start for us here. God willing, Matt Stafford stays healthy. He's not going to help us win a Super Bowl this year. But you've heard everyone talk about the bridge and when Stafford does decide to hang it up.
Well, if Ty Simpson sits for three years and learns an NFL system and does all this stuff, we're not even worried about this pick. But when you look at the quarterbacks, it's not just about the individual QB, Colin. It's also about what teams need in that moment. And there weren't a ton of teams this year that needed a savior at quarterback because of what they did in free agency.
I'm not saying that the Jets should just, you know, hang it all up and they're going to go win this ball because they got Gino Smith as their quarterback. But they also didn't feel like they needed to reach on a quarterback because they had a guy that can maybe maybe turns it around like he did in Seattle. And he's able to go out and have a great season and lead him to the playoffs.
But for QBs, it is all about where you go. The pick didn't make any sense. I don't think it, you know, contrary to popular belief and what we've seen publicly from Sean.
McVay's reaction I don't think it made a lot of sense to him either um he loves Matt Stafford what's stopping the Rams from from going and getting another quarterback who's a veteran who didn't work out for him in that place and he comes and he comes and plays at a high level for Sean McVay just like Matthew Stafford did so I think that to me was more so use that pick on a third receiver that third receiver is the reason that you lost the game to the Seattle Seahawks
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Steelers' tender sheet strategy?
The pick is still confusing. Yeah, the, you know, drafting's interesting. I talked to Matt Hasselbeck about this. I said, I thought the single best, there's three levels of improving your team, coaching hires or coordinator hires. I think Drew Petsing in Detroit is going to be really good. So a coaching or coordinator hire, free agent acquisitions, and then draft.
So the Monday after the draft, I always say, I'm going to consider your coach, if you have a new one, your top two free agent signings, and your top three picks. I don't know what your fourth rounders are doing. I thought Tyler Linderbaum with Fernando Mendoza was the smartest thing I saw in the offseason. I thought that's exactly what Ben Johnson did, Drew Dahlman and Caleb Williams.
But that division is so tough. But I look at, here's the way, Robert, they got Max Crosby and Colton Miller and Brock Bowers and Ashton Gentry. And they've got an offensive coach, old defensive coach, the young offensive coach, Fernando Mendoza. They picked up some nice linebackers. Tyler Linderbaum. If I said to you, the Raiders win 10 games, does that sound outrageous?
I think, Linderbaum, I think we forget that many of the great teams ever have had a great center. That Jeff Saturday, Peyton Manning thing, I mean, I remember growing up with, was it Otto and Ken Stabler? It was Mike Webster and Terry Bradshaw. You can go back to almost all the great teams. Center, quarterback's a thing. What should we think of the Raiders? What's realistic in your opinion?
I'll even go and give you Tom Nalen and John Elway. I was a Bronco fan growing up, so I'm with you 100%. I don't think the Raiders winning 10 games is out of the question, but I think they only win 10 games if Fernando Mendoza is the starter day one. And the reason I say that is you talked about bringing in Tyler Linderbaum.
Well, that takes a little bit off the quarterback when it comes to diagnosing the defense, the run fronts. Where's the pressure coming from? Not that Fernando Mendoza can't do that. We certainly know that Kirk Cousins has experience doing that. But when you look at this roster offensively, like at wide receiver, no disrespect to their receivers.
But who is the guy that you're afraid of from the wide receiver room right now? At running back, it's Ashton Gentry. At tight end, it's Brock Bowers. You even got Michael Meyer there that a lot of people forget about, but he was a baller at Notre Dame, and maybe Fernando Mendoza can help him come alive in that aspect.
But I think Fernando brings this team the identity that they need from the quarterback position from a leadership standpoint. This guy's willing to do anything it takes to help his team win games. He's not there to pad stats. He's not there to look good on the box score.
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Chapter 6: How does RG3 view the quarterback class from the latest draft?
He only wants to win. They have a defense that can help them compete in their division. They just got to have belief in the quarterback and the running back and Ashton Gentry that you want to give the ball to only 25 to 30 times because he only gets better the more times he touches it. This is a recipe for me, in my opinion, that Kurt goes through the offseason and he's the guy.
But as soon as you get to week one, you're prepping Fernando Mendoza to take this thing and run with it. I don't think it's throwing him to the wolves. I think he's ready to play right now. So the Bears draft got criticized because they didn't get an edge rusher. But they did pick up probably the best blocking tight end, Sam Roush from Stanford.
And Stanford's got, you know, generally Stanford kids pretty bright. My take is I looked at the Bears draft. guys that were healthy, guys that took a lot of snaps, and guys that fit into his schemes. Like an Iowa center, you just know Logan Jones is going to play 10 years as a center from Iowa. You just know Sam Roush, tight end Stanford.
Zabian Thomas, by the way, is supposed to be a great kid, great character, and Devin Hester, ring a bell, great return guy. So give me your take on the knock is, well, they didn't get an edge. You played in the NFL long enough. When you would hear on a team that you played for, oh, your team had a great draft. Or you heard, Robert, in your career, when the team you were on, oh, they missed.
Are guys like us, because I thought the Bears draft, they got functional guys that didn't get hurt, high character guys that fit schemes. I'm like, that's a good draft. In your career, what do you make of the grades on the draft? And we missed on that. You tell me, you were in camps. What did you see? Yeah, well, from a player's perspective, Colin, it's completely different.
All the edge rushers in Chicago are saying, what do you mean we need an edge? We're good. We're ready to go. So the players, they take it from a different perspective. And I do think that's why when you go back to the Rams, McVay's reaction, I do kind of believe him that it was protective of Matt Stafford. quarterback, only one guy gets to play.
So if you're jumping for joy because you just drafted Ty Simpson, the guy that's in the seat is like, yo, what's going on here? So I think from a player's perspective, we don't really pay attention to the draft grades because the teams are really trying to draft the guy that's there to replace us.
What I thought the Bears did was I thought they drafted as if they were a team that already knows they're going to be in Super Bowl contention. They didn't reach for anybody. Dylan Thienemann, the safety out of Oregon, is a great player, fast, a tackling machine. He can play at all three levels of the defense. When I look at...
what they were able to do last year with Caleb Williams and Ben Johnson.
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Chapter 7: What are the potential impacts of college football on NFL talent development?
It's like, all right, how do we keep this thing going? All right, we get a little bit younger in the secondary. All right, we bring in some offensive linemen and continue to beef up that protection around Caleb, who me and you both know has a little bit of a propensity to hold on to the ball. So I thought they drafted really at an A-plus level because they're not a team that...
They know they have the ingredients to go win. They just got to go do it. And I thought that they added just the right amount of spice to make this year very, very interesting for them with the picks that they got. Yeah, I'm going to throw my herd hierarchy, and I do one right after the draft. So the coaching hires, the free agency, and the draft is in.
People think I'm a little high on the bills, but I think DJ Moore's a dog. I think he never misses a start. I think he's a really good player, but he's not going to beat you down the field, so a lot of times we pay attention to guys that do. I think DJ Moore's a great football player, never misses a snap. I go Rams, Bills, Seahawks. I don't think Seattle's quite as good. Bears, Broncos, Lions.
I think the Chiefs will be fine. I think the young players will have to get up to speed on the defensive front. I think the Patriots' schedule, the Vrabel situation, they look a little unfettered at this point, a little unmoored, if I could. I think Green Bay's good, but I think Detroit, the OC they hired, they got their left tackle solved.
Anybody here jump out to you that I missed or a little too high, a little too low? I would say one, to piggyback off of your DJ Moore comment, I think DJ Moore was at a point in his career where he was a little tired of, hey, I'm open, I'm supposed to get the ball, and I'm not getting the ball. Just my personal opinion. I don't think he didn't like Caleb.
I just think you could see some of the body language stuff when he knew he was open and he wasn't getting it. Yep. I don't think I don't have that problem with Josh Allen. He's, you know, obviously much more established. I would say the Eagles at nine, maybe a little low. I understand the A.J. Brown of it all. But like right now, they've got more receivers than they know what to do with.
I do think A.J. 's done there. But if he's not, I mean, a starting three of A.J. Brown, Devontae Smith and Makai Lemon is pretty damn good. You know, bringing in Eli Stowers, partnering him with Dallas Goddard. I mean, that's that's pretty dang good. You still got Saquon. You got Jalen Hurts coming back.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts does RG3 share about the current state of the NFL?
You know, he's probably going to be playing like the Dark Knight out there with all the stuff that's happened. Talking about him this offseason. But I would say I agree with the list. And I also agree with the Patriots not being on the list. And it's tough because you've got a team that just went to the Super Bowl. But I would ask you this. It's really hard to stand in front of the room.
I know nobody wants to talk about it, but with everything that's happened with Vrabel and Diana Rossini, it's really hard to stand in front of a room of those men and lead them in the same way. And we've heard some reports about Vrabel not necessarily being the same guy in the building. I think that hurts them this year.
And it's unfortunate because I thought Vrabel was a big reason why they turned things around. Playing really suffocating defense and allowing Drake May to not have to always be Superman. I thought that allowed him to have an MVP season. But I would say at seven with the Chiefs, that is entirely about Patrick Mahomes. If Mahomes is not playing, I don't know where they're going to be at.
Yeah, same. Yeah, he's supposed to be ahead of schedule. Between your college and pro stuff, you're just great. RG3. It's good seeing you. Appreciate you, brother. Always. God bless. Always knows his stuff. Really dialed into some of the college stuff. New England's schedule gets tougher. They address the offensive line, but just because you bring a guy... to the offensive line.
We saw Will Campbell last year as a rookie. You can get overwhelmed by some of these edge rushers. These guys have been in pro-nutrition standards, pro-nutrition, pro-locker room, weight rooms, facilities, the coaching. You're going up against the world's best athletes, some of these edge rushers, and you're a rookie and you were great dominating the Big 12. Well, good luck.
It's a whole different world.
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