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Chapter 1: What insights does Nick Farabaugh provide from the NFL Owner's Meetings?
Nick, it's a pleasure to have you. I don't believe we've ever spoken before. You're a recent graduate of Slippery Rock. Am I right about that? No. And he is currently looking at a lot of rocks, a lot of mountain ranges. Whatever goes on in the desert is what Nick Farabaugh is looking at at the NFL owners' meetings in Arizona. He joins us from there now. Hello, Nick.
I'm guessing it's like 95 degrees today.
It will be. It's only 840 in the morning here, so it's not too high yet. It's only about 80-something right now. The sun's not out either. It's overcast, so I'm not getting beat down by the sun. You are right. There are mountains right over there. There are some palm trees here. There's cactuses. I mean, it's very deserty. That's how I would describe it.
It's very different from Pittsburgh from what I hear.
Nick Faribault on the Fan Hotline presented by Sullivan Super Service. Pittsburgh's trusted plumbing and HVAC provider for over 50 years. Nick covers the Steelers for PennLive, where it is currently, Nick, 71 degrees in Pittsburgh, but it's about to rain for the rest of the week. So you have some fun to look forward to when you get back. Now, it seems like Mike McCarthy...
really has a lot of fun talking to Aaron Rodgers. I see a tweet put out there by Kabaly that says that McCarthy said during the media availability that just wrapped up, he talked to Aaron Rodgers last night. Kabaly says that those two talk more than him and his wife talk.
Yeah, they do talk a lot. Pretty constantly. It seems like they talk a lot about old memories of what happened during their days in Green Bay. Reminiscing. Yeah, you know, talk about specific plays and I think they nerd out about, you know, obscurely deep football stuff, you know, like the science and stuff behind it. Real football guys.
And then they talk about personal stuff as well, and I'm sure McCarthy's going to be like, I bet you didn't hit these spots in Pittsburgh and, you know, all that. It does seem like they have a really good stream of conversation going here, and that's very regular. So it seems like, you know, McCarthy ā Probably has a pretty good pulse on this situation. I would say that's pretty big.
Biggest takeaway from McCarthy's media availability today was?
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Chapter 2: How does Mike McCarthy evaluate the quarterback position?
McCarthy basically said as much yesterday that he would be very interested probably in a mid-round quarterback. So I think you're probably going to see... pretty well-rounded quarterback room. If it's Aaron Rodgers coming back, you're probably still going to see him draft another one in the middle round somewhere.
Well, doesn't that just completely contradict what he just said, Nick? If he believes in Will Howard so much and he thinks he's this great quarterback that might be the answer for the Steelers' future, why would they draft a quarterback in the middle rounds that, at least from...
Maybe a narrative perspective or people that are even in the draft room might say, hey, we drafted this guy in the third round or the fourth round. We're not going to have him start or play more over the guy that is maybe the third string quarterback right now. And the one that was drafted in the sixth round, that doesn't make much sense to me.
So here's the thing. I think that Michael McCarthy and really Omar Khan believe in the theory of throwing as many resources at a position of weakness as possible. And so you get more bites at the apple. It's just kind of if you have a higher quantity, you have a bigger chance of potentially just hitting on one of them.
That's kind of where I think they're coming from here is why have one when you can have two? And really what I think people maybe aren't thinking enough about is, is Mason Rudolph vulnerable? I think that's maybe one of the takeaways here is, you know, when we talk about quarterbacks this year, it's all about Rodgers. It's all about Will Howard.
It's all about, you know, the prospects in the 26th class. We don't hear a lot of Mason Rudolph talk. And I understand, you know, we know what he is. But I do think there's a real possibility. They draft someone in the middle of the round, and you're back with Sir Howard in the rookies. Like, I think that is a wholly likely scenario that could absolutely happen.
Rudolph's going to have to battle for his spot. And so that's one thing to think about. You know, it's not like he's a roster lock. And so what I think that they're kind of hitting at here is, If you can develop two guys and you like two guys in there, maybe one of them hits, maybe neither of them do. But we have 12 ā you know, they have 12 draft picks.
And I think that's one thing that they talk a lot about this week is there are so many draft picks that they have that they can hit on so many different needs. And quarterback's one of them. I think that they feel like they would be remiss to not take a dark day on somebody with one of those picks. And so that's kind of the philosophy is the quantity of picks you have, but also ā
having more bites at the apple at that position gets you a higher likelihood of fixing that position or finding someone that maybe can slot in there. So that's always something to think about. You know, good teams, the 49ers did this a lot, you know, before Brock Purdy came along where they would just take guys late in the draft, the quarterback and Purdy hit. It's happened sometimes.
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Chapter 3: What are the potential quarterback prospects discussed for the Steelers?
I think the best part of it, I think that they like the experience. I think that they like the kind of surety of him winning a lot of games. I think that's something that they value. Listen, I think the kid is really smart. He does really good on the board. I think that was something that they were really impressed by at the combine.
And I think that's part of kind of why they brought him in to Pittsburgh, you know, is to get him more on the board, see how he dissects defenses. I think he's really smart. I think that's probably a big thing for them and why they like him to a degree. But, I mean, man, the juice of the arm is just not there. He doesn't have much mobility.
So, listen, I guess they could think he has a high ceiling, but I would ā point them and ask them, what tape were you watching?
You put something out there on Twitter that I thought was interesting where Mike McCarthy was talking about adding quarterbacks to the roster and Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre as long-arm quarterbacks with big hands, Nick. We're back to the hands conversation. Kenny Pickett would not be good in Mike McCarthy's offense, but you pointed out three names that fit the requirements for hand sizes.
Yeah, for hand size and arm length. Arm length is something, too. I mean, I had never really thought about arm length quarterbacks, but it's something that he talks about, long arms and big hands. And if you look at McCarthy's draft profile, guys he's picked, he didn't pick Rodgers or Carr, but he has picked guys like Brett Hundley and some others.
Even Dak fits into this, even though he didn't draft him. They fit the prototypical size, big hands, long arms. And There's a few guys that fit that. It's Cole Payton. Drew Aller fits there. I know that's big for you. That's old. And then Talon Green fits that. So those are the three guys that jumped out.
I think there were a few that, like, just missed the thresholds I put up there, which was, like, 31-and-a-half-inch arms and 93-eighth-inch hands. I was just doing that kind of with the Rodgers-Farve measurements because that's kind of what the mean was for those two guys.
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Chapter 4: Why is Will Howard considered a valuable quarterback prospect?
Like, Ty Simpson's barely off, but he doesn't have ā big size. Beck does have big size. He doesn't have great hand size, but he has prototypical size and good arm length. It seems like the physical traits of a quarterback and the pedigree that they have are going to be really big in drafting any quarterback.
To me, I don't really see them going for someone that is smaller or anything like that, which does to me lessen their interest in a guy like Ty Simpson.
Did McCarthy say anything about the left side of the offensive line? Yeah, he did.
He said he wanted to add young guys there. So I think that they really like Hoffman and Anderson as like a competition, but I think clearly they also understand, you know, those guys probably aren't long-term answers at that spot. Hoffman's a guy that, you know, has had trouble keeping weight on a little bit at times, but he's nasty and mean.
He's really good technically, but sometimes he can be a little undersized. Anderson has been a really good fixed offensive lineman, but I think, you know, hasn't shown the consistency yet to get that starting gig. So I think that they're going to add someone at left guard within the first two days of this draft. They could find a starter in the second or third round. It's a very deep guard class.
In terms of tackle, I think that's going to be a very interesting one to watch. My feeling is they're going to draft someone probably more towards the middle rounds, not early. I think a fourth-round pick on a developmental tackle probably makes sense. I still think that they are optimistic about Broderick. With Broderick, to me, I think the neck, the actual ā
recovery of the neck is going to be fine. It's going to be, you know, can he get his strength up? How strong is he still going to be? How ready is he going to be physically? You know, is he lifting weights? I think that's a real question. You know, all these things about, you know, how ready is he going to be physically? So I think that comes down to that.
But I do think they like Dylan Cook and what they have there. So my guess is tackle probably comes in the middle round and you get an earlier guard there to hop into that competition. and you may get three guys in that competition instead of two.
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