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00:00I'm looking at the teams that are in the playoffs right now, all right? And obviously,
00:04we're going to spend time talking about, like, the Jared Goff-led Lions, the Sam Darnold-led
00:11Vikings. You know, you could look, I'm scanning the board. There's, you know, Russell Wilson has
00:16sort of dusted himself off now, again, with Pittsburgh, obviously. They're on the other
00:22side of the bracket. We've got, again, Matt Stafford, obviously, in the Rams. He's not in
00:27that same category of maybe guys that people gave up on, obviously. But, you know, he was
00:32looked at as someone, can he do it, when he was in Detroit all those years before ultimately
00:36getting over the hump there in that first year with the Rams and now trying to do it again.
00:40How good have they been of late? You know, in that fourth seed, though it hasn't been
00:44officially clinched yet, the Baker Mayfield-led Buccaneers, a team that, you know, this guy is,
00:51how many chances has he had now? And he has really found a home and obviously gotten himself
00:55paid. And so it's such a fun story. But I think Darnold, Goff, some of these guys,
01:01it's really a reminder that you just, some of them do just need to change the scenery.
01:06Like I saw somebody, it was Albert Breer, you know, tweet the other day. And it wasn't even
01:13like sarcasm. It felt like sarcasm reading it, but it was, man, you look at what Geno Smith
01:18has done with Seattle. You look at what Sam Darnold has done with Minnesota. It makes you
01:23wonder if somebody should take an honest flyer on Zach Wilson next year. Like maybe some guys
01:29just come from crappy systems, terrible organizations, poorly run situations,
01:34and need to go somewhere else, get that fresh start and have an opportunity to flourish.
01:39Because nobody saw Minnesota doing with Sam Darnold what it's doing right now.
01:43So there's credence to be put into that.
01:45There is. I mean, you're looking at Sam Darnold too with coaching. And I think that's what you
01:50come back to, how much system matters, coaching matters. Imagine what David Tepper's thinking,
01:54right? He had Baker Mayfield and Sam Darnold in the same team in 2022 with the Carolina Panthers,
01:58the same roster. He let both of them go, right? I mean, imagine what could have been if you just
02:03kept one of those guys and were able to develop them properly. But that's the problem is we're
02:08expecting so much of these guys so young. And for every rookie CJ Stroud season or Jaden Daniels
02:13season, you get a lot more of the seasons that look more like Bryce Young's rookie season or
02:17Caleb Williams season this year. Why? Because bad teams who draft at the top typically aren't
02:21good organizations and aren't good at developing, which is why they're at the top of the draft in
02:24the first place. It's a vicious cycle. And it's something that probably should be studied further.
02:29But more often than not, it's the lack of patience with these organizations to say,
02:35hey, we're going to try to do this the right way. Maybe Caleb Williams is a phenomenal talent,
02:39right? Maybe he has got this arm strength, this ability to make plays, do all these special things.
02:44But are we built for him to be successful right now? Is it better for him to watch for a year?
02:49You think about the quarterbacks, as you mentioned, that are in the playoffs right now,
02:52you're starting to look at that playoffer. Patrick Mahomes sat for a year, right? Patrick Mahomes
02:57for a year. Josh Allen sat for a while. Lamar Jackson sat for a while. Not all these guys were
03:01thrown to the wolves. Jordan Love. And yet you see Jordan Love, another guy, right? Sat for
03:06longer than that. So I think what you're noticing is the organizations that have more patience
03:11to do things the right way typically are the ones that are finding themselves in the playoffs
03:15right now. And the organizations that are at the top of the draft are there for a reason.
03:19And the ones that don't know how to be patient a little bit for the longer, greater good
03:24end up hurting the organization in the long term anyway.