Who Looks Good In Practice And Who Does Not
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00:00You put something on your show sheet that I found interesting.
00:04You said...
00:05Finally.
00:06Yeah.
00:07Woo!
00:08Yeah!
00:09We're on the moon!
00:10We're on a shot at Gator there.
00:12There we go.
00:13Finally, yeah.
00:14After all these years.
00:15It was this one thing.
00:16Oh, I like this.
00:19All the feels right here, man.
00:24You wrote, after watching a couple of practices, this guy should be just fine.
00:32Who is the player that you, after watching a couple of practices, think is...
00:35I want you to read it the way that I wrote it.
00:38After watching a couple of practices, this guy should be just fine.
00:44He went all caps with this.
00:45I did, yeah.
00:49And who might that be?
00:52I think Marcus Davenport's going to be just fine.
00:54Really?
00:55Yeah.
00:56He is giant.
00:57You know what's funny?
01:00It really does make a difference seeing practice, doesn't it?
01:03Yeah.
01:04I mean, and we can both talk about the Anzorica hype a little bit here.
01:07Yeah.
01:08It's kind of warranted.
01:09Yeah, he looks good.
01:11He looks good.
01:12Looks good.
01:14He looks giant.
01:15Yeah.
01:16You know, we're...
01:17And Aiden Hutchinson's as big as...
01:19He's the big guy too, right?
01:21He's 6'7".
01:22But he doesn't have the mass that these guys have.
01:26Here's...
01:27I mean, again...
01:28But Aiden Hutchinson is the best of the bunch.
01:32He's going to be a problem this year.
01:34He's been a problem already in the first two years in the league.
01:36I think he's going to take a giant leap forward this year to be just a quarterback terrorist.
01:43So here's another thing, again, being a practice, we saw it once with our own eyes.
01:48Did you see Birchie's tweet from practice yesterday about Hendon Hooker?
01:51I did not.
01:52He tweets out,
01:53Hendon Hooker put three more footballs on the ground today during a scrimmage, two on
01:56botched snaps.
01:57His ups and downs continue to be extreme.
02:00Another chance Saturday to iron them out.
02:03And we mentioned this yesterday on the show, and it's because when someone that you really
02:08believe in, Dan Campbell, comes out and says something that you're like, eyes are seeing
02:13something different.
02:14He says that Nate Sudfeld has the leg up on the backup quarterback position.
02:23And yet when we watch the games, like, really?
02:26Does he really have the leg up on the backup quarterback position?
02:31However, Hendon Hooker put the football on the ground three times yesterday in scrimmages.
02:36We saw it once where he ran in the fullback.
02:38It might have been the fullback's fault, could have been.
02:42But if you're looking for reasons why they wouldn't be ready to give the backup job to
02:46Hendon Hooker, that might explain it.
02:48Well, and again, this is his first training camp.
02:54He hasn't taken snaps until now.
02:58Like literally, it's all of this training camp and a little bit of a mini camp.
03:03That's it.
03:04Yep.
03:05So there's going to be a little bit of an adjustment period for him to get all this
03:10stuff down.
03:11And we're not MFing him.
03:12Not at all.
03:13We're not looking for an explanation why something that seems nonsensical to the rest of us still
03:18might be the case.
03:20Now when the regular season starts, you don't have to proclaim who the number two guy is
03:24until you need a number two guy and you'll know who the coaching staff will know.
03:28But when regular season starts, the number of reps that you get as a backup quarterback
03:36dwindles significantly, as they should.
03:39And one way to get a bunch of snaps and get comfortable with taking a snap from center
03:44or taking the shotgun snap is to run the scout team.
03:49And whether you're number two or number three quarterback, who cares?
03:51Get the reps any way that you can get them.
03:54Be impressive either way.
03:56I'm not worried about Hendon Hooker.
03:57I think he's got the talent and he'll eventually be the backup to Jared Goff.
04:03But hopefully, not going to want, you don't have to worry about it anyway.
04:08It's just Goff's going to play regardless.