JJ McCarthy Breakdown
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00:00 Everybody and their brother has Caleb Williams, Drake May 1A, 1B, some order 1, 2, 2, 1, doesn't matter.
00:06 What specifically pushed J.J. McCarthy past both of those guys?
00:12 J.J. is my QB1 in the class.
00:15 I've labeled him the perfect marriage between high floor and high ceiling.
00:19 And I think what really that, what that means to me is,
00:24 I think with J.J. you're getting the highest floor in the draft for quarterback,
00:27 but you're not doing that at the expense of ceiling, which you, you know,
00:30 you were with other guys in the past, like Kenny Pickett was labeled as a high floor guy.
00:35 No ceiling though.
00:37 J.J. is the opposite. He's a high floor guy with a really high ceiling.
00:40 Now, does he have the ceiling of Caleb Williams? I don't think he's quite that talented,
00:43 but he is very talented. He has some elite traits.
00:46 I think ultimately though, we need to define what floor means.
00:49 High floor to me is when a QB does all of the QB-centric things at a high level.
00:53 We're talking like pre and post-snap. We're talking pocket awareness,
00:56 manipulating, you know, defenders in the pocket to keep yourself clean with slides and steps.
01:01 We're talking about throwing within structure, timing, rhythm, repeatable mechanics,
01:05 especially footwork.
01:07 J.J. does all of those things at the highest level in the class unquestionably.
01:12 Intangibles. J.J.'s a known leader in that program.
01:16 He's a winner. 27-1 as a starter.
01:19 His experience in the pro-style offense.
01:22 When you go back and look at all of the number one overall picks,
01:24 the last 12 of them, there's only one of them that wasn't a national title contender,
01:29 and that was Jared Goff. Every single one since '09.
01:33 Actually, even going back further than that, but from '09, you have Stafford, Bradford, Newton,
01:37 Luck, Winston, Mayfield, Murray, Burrow, Lawrence, Young.
01:41 All of them either played a national championship or were a game away from one.
01:45 It's remarkable. So when you look at Caleb Williams and Drake May and Jaden Daniels,
01:51 you don't see that level of winning. I do think the NFL cares about it.
01:54 Analytics people, film grinders, you might not think it matters. It absolutely matters.
01:57 J.J. McCarthy's a winner, and I think it matters a lot to the NFL.