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00:00The Tennessee quarterback who quit and blew off practice games, spring games, walked out, transferred to UCLA, I guess with his brother.
00:14And I really like the end of your piece when you were talking about that he'd fail the business class with his decisions on, you know, at some level, like he may not understand what he's dealing with at the next level, what this is going to do to him or what it's going to mean for him in the future.
00:34Uh, that he, like, I'm assuming like at some level, when I read it, that you thought he made a bad decision and then some people think Heupel's like a hero for saying, get out then.
00:46Yeah, I don't buy the hero act now because at the time he had a chance to take a stand and say, you know, we're going with a Tennessee man as, as, uh, as Bo Schembechler once said, when, when Bill Frieder left for Arizona state in the middle of the NCAA tournament, we're going to go with a Michigan man.
01:03Well, he decided to go with a UCLA man at quarterback.
01:08They're bringing in a transfer from the portal who had been at UCLA and now will have the shot to be the Vols quarterback.
01:15So no, no hero designation for Tennessee.
01:19I think they did the right thing, but I don't think that they stand above everybody else in college football for doing the right thing.
01:27Uh, but Nico in his circumstance did the absolute wrong thing on every level at the time.
01:33It seemed like maybe he could at least get some short-term money out of it, Scott, but every report indicates that he's going to make less at UCLA than he was going to make at Tennessee and add in the complication of what you have.
01:49The signal you have sent to the NFL, look, if he turns out to be, uh, the next, uh, uh, I'm trying to think of somebody that was, uh, uh, somebody that's an absolute no brainer, number one guy.
02:02And we haven't had one of those for a while.
02:04Uh, but if he turns out to be someone that absolutely is so gifted that you have to take him, it won't really impact him.
02:12But I don't think that I've seen anybody who analyzes these things suggest that he's that he's a guy who's going to fight to get a job in the NFL.
02:21And what he has now done is put on his resume that he'll walk out, uh, that, that he will, that for an extra dollar or two, presumably he'll walk out.
02:31Well, that's not what they're looking for in a backup quarterback.
02:33They want you there every single day, every single minute of film.
02:38They, they want you always available.
02:40They want you committed.
02:41And he has suggested to the NFL.
02:43Now he's not that.
02:45And Scott, there's so much money in being an NFL quarterback and not just the elite, uh, not, not just the, the, the top five or six.
02:53I guess Burrow is the guy I should have mentioned in my, in my, uh, suggestion.
02:57Like if he turns out to be Joe Burrow, uh, that's one thing, but he's not, he's not.
03:01That guy, he's not even close to Joe Burrow.
03:06Yeah.
03:07So, so he, so he has hurt himself immeasurably, uh, both in the short term, uh, where he'll take a pay cut.
03:14And more importantly, in the longterm, uh, where teams are going to have to, he's going to have to earn their trust.
03:21Josh Dobbs, who came from the same university, Tennessee, a brilliant young man who has been an absolute asset to every organization he's been with, but never a great quarterback, a nice backup to have who do the right things and show up on time.
03:36And be smart and, and make good suggestions and pay attention in meetings, uh, and use his intelligence to contribute to the franchise.
03:44That's what your model is.
03:46And Josh Dobbs is going to make, I think, uh, it's around $8 million over the next two years.
03:51Uh, he's been in the league for basically a decade.
03:53And when he's done playing football, he'll have made about $50 million ballpark, maybe more and how you could mess around with that.
04:02I have no idea.