Grant and Danny
Who's Hot & Who's Not: QB Edition
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Carr, five touchdowns in a pick, completing 77% 443 yards. Carr went for 203 scores against the Panthers and then took the second half off. And then 243 in a pair against the Cowboys was intercepted once. They have scored on every single drive. Clint Kubiak's got them under center 70% of the time, the most of anybody in the league. And it is working. Throwing it back to the early 2000s Shanahan style, right? I mean, their office has been unbelievable. Good. They haven't even needed Chris Olave at this point. I mean, he's barely been involved as they scored 90 plus points. They're two games. What an absolute display. Level of confidence. Let's go one to 10 scale here that Derek Carr has a great season. I'm going to say seven and a half. I actually really like the fit for him in this offense under center. Dropback play action. I like their weapons. Okay. He's not going to sustain this eater. That would be impossible. But I think it's going to, I think it's going to be okay. I think he's going to be good. Yeah. We're not doing MVP record setting type stuff, right? But he's going to have a decent year because they run the ball tremendously well. There, everything's kind of, you know, one look leads to another. Everything's related. They're doing fakes off of fakes and counters off counters, etc. Everything looks right for them. I think once the league adjusts, this will cool off, which is I'm sure a hot take after they've averaged 45 points a game. This is me saying they won't average 45 points again the rest of the way as there's more tape out there. But I think he has a nice year. Another quarterback who has played very well, Sam Darnold in Minnesota, 72% complete 476 yards with four touchdowns and two picks. They're two and oh, by the way, their defense is number one in blitzes, number one in pressures, number one in sacks, pretty much every single category right now under Brian Flores. But as far as the quarterback goes, he had a walk in the park kind of game against the Giants 19 of 24 with a couple of touchdowns. And then he was very solid against San Francisco. Now, the numbers are buoyed by a 97 yard touchdown. Obviously the Justin Jefferson and Jefferson did the heavy lifting on that play, but who cares? I mean, otherwise he's still through for right around, you know, 170 yards a touchdown and was 16 of 25 passing. So it was a much more pedestrian Darnold performance in week two, but hard to argue with what they've gotten out of him in their first two games post cousins. He's been fantastic. There's no changing that. There's the period. Here's the next paragraph. I just can't give you one to 10. I'm not mentally there that Sam Darnold is going to have a good year. I'm two out of 10 confident. I just don't I can't I with not him. If his name was Sam Stevens, I go out. Maybe maybe they found somebody. There's too much. Oh my God. What are you doing Sam Darnold in my in my memory? How old do you think he is? 27? 27. Still not very old. Still a guy that was in terrible situations earlier in his career. Totally was with the jets in the panther specifically. He has since worked with Kyle Shanahan and Kevin O'Connell. That'll turn you around a little bit. I'm going to give him a four and a half out of 10. Like you, I don't completely believe in the player, but I believe in O'Connell. I believe in Jefferson in the scheme. I believe in receivers are going to get open from time to time. And I think that the way Minnesota is playing defense, he's going to be put in some admirable positions where they're going to be in and a lot of football games are going to be leading a lot of football games. So that helps too. They also are running the ball really well with Aaron Jones, who they just brought over this offseason last year. They're Alex Madison was the guy and they struggled this year. It's like Aaron Jones and tight Chandler. Those guys are pretty explosive. I have a Baker Mayfield. We saw the Baker Mayfield show in week one, he crashed back to earth a little bit against the Detroit Lions in week two, but through two games, listen to these numbers, four hundred 74 yards, five touchdowns in a pick, two and O Tampa is completed. 74% of his passes. He's also rushed for a touchdown as well. Baker Mayfield, just 12 of 19 for a buck 85 in his last game, but that first gem against Washington still looms pretty large level of confidence that Mayfield, who was good last year as a strong season for the box. So probably right in the middle of five, this is this is a really good fit, right? Because you mentioned it. Evans, Godwin and Rashad White, all excellent pass captures on their own rights. Having all three of those guys would help anybody. I like that O line. The division doesn't scare the hell out of me. I think he ends up having an okay year. What I said before the plate of Washington is he'll have a great first week and then slowly Peter out as the season progresses and not do what he did last year. Last year to me was more like that's that's the positive top end extreme. I think he settles into just underneath that seven out of 10 confident he'll be good again. Last year was 4,000 yards, nearly 30 touchdown passes, 10 or fewer interceptions, I think something like that. I think it'll be similar again this year. Evans, Godwin, solid defense, bad division, no reason. I don't think that Mayfield in his second year there isn't going to be pretty comfortable. Now, week one was the lions game and he didn't play Washington yet. We wouldn't be talking about him at all. It was kind of pedestrian, but you get to play the commanders. Your numbers are going to be pretty good. And I just think as you said, it's a solid fit as we saw last year. Last one of the hot quarterbacks to start the season here on Grant and Danny. Kyler Murray lit it up against the Rams in week two, four in completion, 17 of 21. That's 81%, 265 yards, three touchdowns. And basically, he did a lot of the heavy lifting in the first quarter when he went four for one 30 to Marvin Harrison for a couple of touchdowns. They ended up taking their foot off the gas pedal because they were just embarrassing the Rams should have gone running clock like high school football. Week one, he was solid as well. 28 34 loss at the hands of the bills for Arizona, but he was 21 of 31 for a buck 60 and a touchdown. Kyler Murray playing lights out football for tutties and zero picks this season, 73% passer. What do you think? I am a believer. I am buying heavy stock in this one. To me, not having Cliff Kingsbury around and him being healthy with a bit more rejuvenated roster around him. I think he's in for a huge year. I don't know how huge, but I think it's going to be a big way. So give me a eight and a half out of 10. I'm going to go with a eight out of 10 as well. Adding Harrison to that offense is going to be really, really helpful for Murray. He needed a guy like that to alleviate some pressure. All right. Let's look at the flip side. These are the bad quarterbacks in the league. I suppose the category is who is the next quarterback to be benched? Post the benching in Carolina of Bryce Young. This is from bed online. They've got odds here. The odds read most likely Daniel Jones of the Giants at four to one. I guess they'd go to Drew Locke. Although that fan base loves Tommy DeVito. Bo Nix at six to one. You'd be benching a rookie to go to Zach Wilson. Little harder for me to believe unless he just plays really badly for several weeks. Jacobi Brissette at six to one, even though New England's overachieved, I think the argument here is rookie waiting in the wings draft or third overall. Drake May's nipping at his heels. Will Levis hate to one? This one's interesting. Who's the backup to Will Levis in Tennessee? I'm trying to look it up just now, but I'm getting a little slow internet situation. Will Levis has had a back breaking awful turnover in each of the two games the Titans have played. It's really cost them to the point where he walked over and his coach said to him, what in the bleep is a matter with you? Mason Rudolph is their backup. I guess I could see that. You know, if he's a first year head coach, you're off to a bad start. Everyone's going to be questioning you. If Will Levis doesn't pick it up, I could see a path to that. The other one's Gardener Menchoo in Vegas with the Raiders because Aiden O'Connell is backing him up who played last year and they were in a nipping tuck competition until basically right before the season. That was the last competition to end, in fact. So if those guys where you could take somebody else, who's the next QB in the NFL to be bent? Levis is my answer just because of these galling mistakes, right? Where Tennessee's been in these games that they've played. Defensively, they've been pretty damn good. I would say they've frustrated opponents and really made them work for stuff. And it's been, you know, lead relinquished because of a horrendous play on in week one against Chicago. And you've got a similar story in week number two against the Jets. You can't do that as you're trying to sort of establish this new way of doing things. Doesn't necessarily mean it sort of does that you wouldn't go back to them at any point. But as you're trying to build the Callahan way, so to speak, you can't do that, right? This is how we're going to win. It's take care of the football place of defense ground and pound. Oh my God. We'll love us. You're not fitting the program. So maybe then they go to Mason Rudolph. I'm going to go with Jacobi Brissette at six to one third most likely according to the odds. This summer, get away in the Hyundai you've always wanted at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Get the hottest deals of the season on many of our award winning Hyundai models, which all come with America's best warranty. But get going because these deals won't last. Add more joy to your journey at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Now for a limited time, get 1.99% APR for 60 months on the Hyundai Tucson or Alantra. Hurry into the Hyundai Getaway sales event offers end September 3rd. Call 562-314-4603 for details. New England plays the Jets tonight on Thursday night football. They may beat the Jets. I think they're so far through two weeks, a comparable team. If they play close though and lose, they then have the 49ers next week in San Francisco. Let's say they lose that game and they're one in three and they're playing close. I think with the Dolphins, Texans, Jags, Jets coming up on the schedule, that's a little softish landing spot where if they wanted to get Drake May into the fold, that would be a time where you could do it. The Dolphins without Toa, you're going to lose to the Texans, but it's back to back home games. Then you go to Jacksonville, it'll be a nice weather game against the Jaguars. Then you're back at home for the third time in four weeks against the Jets. Then you play the Titans, the Bears, which doesn't look like a big deal, the Rams, maybe they're healthier, but then the Dolphins again, the Colts, that's that is a easy schedule, by the way, for the Patriots. So I'll say in the next few weeks, we see Drake May or settle up something to say about that. If he plays well and they win, I don't think they make a change. So the only obstacle there to me is first-year head coach trying to sort of puff his chest out a little bit and say this is how we're going to do it. And a former teammate of Jacoby was like, yeah, it's like we're going to compete and we're going to, the best player is going to chance is going to win and blah, blah, blah, the best chance to win and that player is going to play and we're going to eat nails and crap lightning. I don't know. That to me would be the obstacle, right? Is the, is like sort of the macho attitude of it, but big picture for the organization, May is the answer just a matter of when. This summer, get away in the Hyundai you've always wanted at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Get the hottest deals of the season on many of our award winning Hyundai models, which all come with America's best warranty, but get going because these deals won't last. Add more joy to your journey at the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Now for a limited time, get 1.99% APR for 60 months on the Hyundai Tucson or Elantra. Hurry into the Hyundai Getaway sales event. Offers end September 3rd. Call 562-314-4603 for details.