Nick Farabaugh from the NFL Owner's Meetings

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What insights does Nick Farabaugh provide from the NFL Owner's Meetings?

Austin 0:00

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.

Nick Farabaugh 0:25

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.

Austin 0:48

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.

Nick Farabaugh 1:26

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 – Probably has a pretty good pulse on this situation. I would say that's pretty big.

Austin 2:09

Biggest takeaway from McCarthy's media availability today was?

Nick Farabaugh 2:14

It's kind of interesting. We were all over the place. We asked about a bunch of questions. We had two sessions with him because the local had one with him yesterday, too. And we kind of talked a lot yesterday more about quarterbacks and his evaluation process. I will say, I think the biggest thing I learned this week about McCarthy was how he evaluated the quarterback position. The physical tools matter more than anything. Big shot, big hands, long arms. You know, you want to need, you need to play in the cold. You need to play in the winter of Pittsburgh. Like that is a big thing. It's going to be different than what you saw in Dallas. I do think one of the big takeaways from the press conference today, and it really has been, you know, all throughout the off season is,

Nick Farabaugh 2:58

I just do not think this Will Howard stuff is smoke. I think they're completely real about it. You know, he praised Will Howard effusively today. And Mike DeFavre did a great job asking him, you know, what does he need to improve upon? And he said winning from the pocket and, you know, processing defenses and all of that, the hardest part of playing the position. And he's got all the physical traits. He wouldn't have been a sixth-round pick if McCarthy were there. I think that's one of these takeaways where just around the quarterback position – They clearly think that they have a very good developmental prospect on their hands already, Will Howard. But also, I think they're going to look for another one.

How does Mike McCarthy evaluate the quarterback position?

Nick Farabaugh 3:33

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.