I'm feeling so much for the quality control guys that have to chart that game. Moving forward, just all the teams that have to chart up the Packers and try to describe everything that's going on. I'm curious when you're watching a young quarterback and Jordan Love, even if it's your four, still a young quarterback, we haven't seen him play very often. Where's the first place that your eyes go? What are you watching from these guys to get a sense of how in control and in command they are?

My eyes go in general. I don't think there's and this was a good question when I saw this, I was like, well, you know, let me think because the first thing I would say would be like feet, but I go back to myself and think and I'm like, well, not, not really, because a young quarterback, because he is a young quarterback. A young quarterback, I'm looking for comfort level in the pocket. And that is that can be a lot of different things, honestly, like, but I'm seeing when pockets get tight and they close in around you, how do you feel? Are you are you jerky or are you just like relaxed and like, hey, like, can you shorten your arm on your on your release, right? Or do you need the full length of it of your body to throw? Or can you can you, you know, do something where you just get crazy? Like Matthew Stafford, who we'll talk about a little later, like, I saw a couple of those that game. And so, and so like throughout the whole game from the start, even, like sometimes it even takes some vets, a half of a first game to get the feel for a Russian in the pocket because they're not Russian like that in practice. Because if they hit the quarterback, like Sean, like, you hit the quarterback, you have to breeze your cut. You're out, bro. So no one got close. And so it's way different game speed. And that's what, I mean, like, honestly, like, if I'm a Packers fan, like that to me is the most telling of a guy that will just stand in there and take a hit. And I thought he looked extremely comfortable in the pocket.

But part of the issue there is that the Bears might have the worst pass rush of the league and the Packers offensive line is so much better talent wise in that group.

I would agree that the old line is good. To your point, though, I would say like there, there are some times in the game where the pockets sort of collapse in on them. And that doesn't mean that I care more about hurries than sacks. Sacks are great. But if you're, if you can hurry or hit, even like a little, it adds up on a quarterback and you might just like feel and in Chicago, Chicago had enough hurries to make me think, hey, how's he going to react in the pocket? Name of the show that we're on right now. And I thought he was, he looked, he looked comfortable. He definitely had that Aaron, Aaron Rodgers fling to it. This step, this almost likes, and it's actually really good for him because he looked, he looked good looking guys. I mean, it was guys were wide open, but it looked, it was a really good performance and something honestly that for confidence reasons he can build off of.

It felt like his eyes were going to the right place consistently. Like they were never all over the place. He felt really comfortable just with like how he was supposed to move from read to read through his progressions. And then the only, the really only concern that I would have watching that is he sprayed probably three or four throws. And that was one of the concerns coming out of Nevada is that even if he had a pretty live arm, his had some accuracy concerns creep up every once in a while. And I thought he was very good on Sunday, but like you said, I think LaFluor was the star. He felt comfortable, but he probably sprayed a handful of throws. If I had to just quickly sum up what we saw from him, but I think you have to be encouraged. If you're a Packers fan about what that offense is going to look like over the course of the year, even if he's just a piece within the offense. Speaking of fan bases that probably should be encouraged right now, we are going to do a rookie quarterback spotlight here for the first three weeks. We have three rookie quarterback starters that were drafted in the first round. And we're going to start with the guy who probably had the most impressive outing of the three on Sunday. And that is Anthony Richardson and his day against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Initial impressions from you about Richardson's first starting as the Jax.

Effortless arm probably stood out the most. I have that's the first thing I write in my notes is effortless. And that is saying a lot because he was amped up. If you watch that game to start like throwing stick routes a thousand miles an hour at this dude's belly. And I'm like, dude, like what is going on? You got a Richardson cross, you know that little cross right there is what we call it on the football. And it just goes and goes and goes and hits you right in the belly and you get a cross. You see the cross you're like, well, in the world, like Justin Herbert has done that to me. You see a cross on a football called the Herbert Cross. It's a Richardson cross, dude. I'm telling you, it's impressive. It's it's it's it it jumps out like crazy. And then I would probably say the offense, the offense of all the three rookie quarterbacks in week one I watched was probably fit to Anthony Richardson, the best of any of them. And what about I was in well, I was just I was honestly a little bit surprised by how much shotgun they were. And I know I know I know he was a lot of that in in Philly, but I was impressed with just because hey, sometimes like you don't need to make a guy who's not like like let him be getting the gun. You can do enough in the run game. You can do enough in the RPO game. You can do enough in the past game. So that surprised me a lot. And I think what else surprised me about him was actually how it really about the offense was how much quarterback run game there was because a lot of these guys and when I say guys, a lot of these offensive coordinators when you have a rookie guy that can run like that, you're only going to save it on third and goal from the two or fourth down and two and you're going to bring out your best QB run play. This was not this was not the case. Like he was running from the start and he got knocked he got let's call what is he got knocked out at the end of the game gardener to come in and they didn't end up scoring there because he took him he took him a hit like it was that's an NFL hit and and so that that's my thing is like is stiking going to continue to run him like like that because if it is he ain't making it a full year. I'm sorry. He just he

isn't that was it. He was scrambling on that play. Wasn't he with up on a play where he got hurt? Yeah,

but he but he but he lowered his shoulder.

Yeah, that's I mean, I mean,

yeah, that's

even in moments where you're going to take off just having him protect himself a little bit more and a little bit more often is going to be huge. It's funny because I thought that one of the only criticisms I had watching that game and I was very impressed with a lot of the ways that a lot of the stuff that he did. It almost felt like he should have pulled it more on some of those read plays because how how hard the defensive ends were crashing and if you look at their run game numbers overall was pretty disappointing day on the ground. That's something you assume with more live action he'll get better at because that's really hard I assume to mimic in practice. You have no idea what a full speed defense is going to look like as you're going to feel for some of those polls. So but it almost felt like he needed to run the ball more than it than he actually ended up doing in that game. Yeah,

I would say that he definitely missed two or three. I have it I have it down here. He missed a couple RPOs and he even missed like like I just like the guy like it's hard to it's hard to explain but as a quarterback watching a quarterback, like everything I've heard because I know I know Ballard pretty well and he's told me some things and and and everything I've heard about this guy is like he's a really likable guy and that's that's important. I don't care what anyone says like you've got to be liked because I know a lot of people as quarterbacks who aren't liked and their their lifespan in AFL is not long. Okay, he's a hard work. He's the first one in first one out. That's awesome. Need that but he's got all the he's got all the intangibles. We got all the tangibles too. Like I mean I just go back to his arm like I'm just like it's it's impressive like like one of the plays he they did a like a just a naked fake like a naked fake roll out bootleg whatever you want to call it and it was a little slide route from underneath and it was like I think it was four down or maybe third and two or fourth and it was

third it was third and short. Yeah, it was third and short. Yep

and they were in gut and it was I mean like wide open like great play design got the guy open and he threw it like I'm talking like if you could see in my office he's the guy standing at my office door right there and he threw it about a hundred miles an hour and it was really high. Yeah and it was actually an amazing catch and I'm like ah like the first thing I see is like I just amped up but if you watch closely on the coach's copy he he right when he releases it the hands go to his head and he's like no. And he

like after the play when the guy caught it ran out of balance he was thanking him for catching it because he was so worried he wasn't going to.

Yes like to me those things I see on film that tells me little things I'm not saying he's going to be an insane superstar but stuff like that that only maybe you or people that actually are me or people that actually study study the film see the reaction like that to me says more than than you know his yard his yarders numbers it was 2 23 a touchdown a pick 40 rushing yards and touch like that to me says more in this first interval

start. I was so encouraged just by how not out of place he looked he played so fast he was so decisive that that's what was so impressive to me even if there were some sprayed throws and even if there were some mistakes you know he threw a pick late in the game how fast he was playing and how quickly he was making so many of these decisions was so encouraging. I mean for a guy with 13 college starts that was considered so raw coming out the fact that he looked like he belonged in that game from day one and made three or four throws there was a throw he made in an in-breaker in the fourth quarter I think it was to Kyle and Granson over the middle of the field and he threw it and I said I was like wolf like that the ball comes out of his hand so naturally and so explosively in a way that you just there's so few guys that throw it that easily that have that sort of live arm and when I talk to the coaches there about what was attractive about him in the process it wasn't even the physical skill set in terms of like height weight speed it was how natural and talented of a pure thrower he was and one game into his NFL career you already see it it already showed up and you combine that with a guy that seemed comfortable enough where I would be so so happy if I were a Colts fan today

yeah and and honestly like I'd be remiss not to say too like yeah we talk about Anthony Richardson but that Jacksonville Jaguars defense it is from a quarterback perspective probably one of the tougher defenses to prepare for because he's such a the defense of coordinator in Jacksonville he's such a junk ball type guy and junk ball type coordinator which what does that mean Chase like why are you talking all these crazy things we never heard you say that well it's 20% cover two 20% man 20% cover quarter quarter half 20% pressure 20% zone pressure and it just is like as a quarterback you can look at it and you can you break it up into the days that you're studying it and you can get overwhelmed like I remember I mean I I prepared for it um when we played down there in the wildcard game this past year and you know we played them the first game I think it was the third game of the year and that was when Justin had broken ribs and I remember preparing for it and I'm like okay like I sort of got a feel like we think then go and they completely went I mean like when you we had the percentages broken down it was literally like 21 20 22 I mean it was like very he could tell he self-scouse but they're bringing like the the second they wrote down on my notes was like Jacksonville had a professional disguise plan so it's not like he's just out there going and playing against a static cover two look where he knows what the coverage is or a static press cover one look that was not the case at all which makes it even more impressive what he did because they heated them they they heated them up and I thought there was three or four plays in that game where Jacksonville pressured and he didn't have an idea or the center didn't have an idea enough or correctly and there's a guy right in his face he doesn't blink and he throws a little looky or he throws a hot and it's just like man that to me it in a stat this 11 year the 11 yard completion doesn't look like much but when coaches are watching that were like man he understands when he's hot he can throw it in his face incident like all that stuff matters

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