 We all know the Patriots have the third pick in this April's draft. Could it be Jaden Daniels heading to Foxborough or is a surprise on the way? ESPN.com put up their quarterback plans for the teams at the top of the draft today. They have the Patriots indeed drafting Daniels, sort overall, and also signing Jacoby Prisett to a two-year $15 million deal, half of it guaranteed. He'd like to be serving as the bridge quarterback until Daniels is ready. Let's roll presented by Townfarer Tire. How do you feel about that plan, Andrew Callahan? So I say this is someone who's only seen Jaden Daniels. I don't know, two or three times once with a beer in my hand on a Saturday. I have not watched any of his tape, definitely not the all 22. But hell, yes, I love this plan. Give me the bridge, a guy who everyone glows about and Jacoby Prisett. Jaden Daniels is dynamic dual threat quarterback. The Patriots have not had since well, like Flutie when he hung out in 05. Like this is the guy who can advance you as far as what I know on the surface. Well, we got a long way to go till the draft. No, you like the backup, though, but we have in the backup plan, too. We have a daily talk show, so we've got to. No, I understand. I'm not knocking the topic. I'm just saying, look, from what I know, this is perfect. This is excellent. Like you stay at three, get a guy who seemingly has franchise potential. Every draft list of the top 10 NFL network, ESPN, PFF. Daniels is in the top 10. This is not a media, you know, narrative or creation. The guy is legit. He set record setting numbers at LSU and Jacoby Prisett. I mean, there are two reasons the guys bounce around the league for a while. Everyone respects him. He's a hardworking guy and he's not good enough to be a starter. But for one year as a mentor, absolutely. Yeah, I think the one thing is, whether it's Jaden Daniels or Drake May, or you move up and take Caleb Williams, whatever it is that the court, that the Patriots have to learn from their mistakes with Mac Jones. You're going to draft a quarterback. You can't just say we're drafting a quarterback. And next, we draft a tackle and draft a wide receiver. Now, drafting a quarterback has to be an organizational decision. And you've got to go all out. You've got to draft a quarterback. You've got to have the office coordinator who believes in them. You've got to get that guy a quarterback coach. You have to build the team as if you really think that every move you make has to correspond and has to reinforce the quarterback. And the Patriots didn't do that with Mac Jones. They drafted a quarterback and said, OK, here, plug and play. This is not a plug and play position. And the guys who have thrived, these young players who have developed, they've developed because the organizations have gone all in. So if you're going to do this with Jaden Daniels, it's not just Jaden Daniels. It's your whole organization has to change its philosophy. How do we feel about the whole organization and how they're plotting along this offseason as it relates to that thing? Because I think that's where they are. I would have felt so much better in other words. I'll just tell you if they hired a young offensive guy as their head coach, OK, as their head coach, and everything sort of flows through that. If he has success, there's no threat of him leaving. You resign him and he's your guy. And now everything flows through that offensive head coach. His system, he's in charge of the quarterback. They're joined at the hip and that's all it just flows down. The whole organization flows down from there. And I don't think the Patriots are in that place. They don't even know what their system is. They don't know who the coordinator is. They don't know the quarterback's coaches. They don't know how they're going to play football. So I don't feel good about their approach with this whole thing. Yeah, I mean, what you just pitched is a good plan. Just ask the 49ers, Kosh, Anhand, the Rams and Sean McVeigh. They're losing assistance, not head coaches, because those guys are in place. But I would say it would be even worse if you opened up a search and they suffered from from the head coaching position. What they're dealing with now with the OC, like, imagine if you go talk to Zach Robinson or Shane Waldron, the equivalent of these head coaches and all them look and go, you don't have a quarterback, you're receiving talent stinks, your offensive line is the worst in the league with two guys going to for agency. No, thanks. Like that's a much bigger hold to be in with no head coach, then no offensive coordinator, because they're struggling, I think, now to find the exact guy they want. And at least though, they've got the guy at the top in place. It's a candidate problem, though. I've come to arrive at this decision. It's a candidate. It's not the Patriots problem. The Patriots are solid. It's everybody else. No, the Patriots are not solid, because look where they are. They won four games and got the third pick in a draft and they have mediocre talent. So they've got their problem. But Mike, imagine, imagine if somebody came to you, because which actually happened? Okay, I'm making about your life. Somebody came to you in an expansion situation and said, we got this new thing we're going to start. Do you want to be a part of it? You can make your name. And maybe there's somebody else out there. Maybe there's a legacy media, a radio legacy program out there that's in front of you right now. But if you do it the right way, if you believe in yourself, you can get to the top. What if they're paying me like crap? Okay, now that might be a problem. But I'm just telling you, if I'm looking at, if I'm an offensive guy, I got the third pick in the draft and they're going to draft a quarterback and I get to put my imprint on it. Yeah, give me the challenge. What's wrong with these guys? Oh, you know, I don't know about that. Of course, it's uncertain. They suck. Yes. But if you believe in your ability, in your vision, if you have a vision, you take that job. Well, they got turned down by guys who had better jobs with the same thing. But some of them, some of them have better jobs. Zach Robinson gets to do this in Atlanta. Oh, yeah. Waldron gets to do it in Chicago. Well, I don't know if Chicago, it's a similar situation. You know, you got to coach them. You got to coach them. Yeah, but you've got much better weapons, a better offensive line. He chose Chicago over you. Why is that his problem? But I'm not talking about Waldron. I'm talking about some of these other guys who are, who, you know, Nick Kaley, what are you going? You're going back to be a tight ends coach? What? So you want to be a tight ends coach? Oh, you want to be an awesome, you want to be the man. So some of the guys that they're talking to, some of them, not all of them, but some of them they're talking to. If you're, if you're afraid of the job, then I've talked to the wrong guy. OK, there's a lot of people who want to take. He's scared of. Receiver at three, get that quarterback later. How's that worked out for teams picking in the top five? OK, here's playoff games with drafted player in the top five at receiver. And, you know, we're going all the way back to Corey Davis. But so those are the top five receivers. And you look at the playoff wins in the right hand column. And it's just it's very rare that that number one receiver makes a difference. Well, I say number one receiver. The guy's drafted up there. Yeah, there's been a lot of failures, a quarterback at that spot. Can you say the same thing about receiver? Yeah, of course. But I think those teams are in the top five because they also didn't have quarterbacks. And you just mean, oh, if you're a receiver, you're relying on that guy to get you the ball. So if you're stuck with a bad quarterback or with a bad offensive coordinator, or you're just not good in some of those players' cases, yeah, you're going to swing and miss. I would look at this, though, because we're talking about this because of Marvin Harrison Jr., who? Supposedly should just be fitted for a gold jacket already. Like, he seems legit as legit as any receivers come by. Do you take him at three or go with the quarterback? And I can't go this far with Marvin Harrison Jr. Because here's something else I've learned this week. When you look at the NFL Network, ESPN, PFF, at least 10 of their top 50 players. In this year's class are all wide receivers. So take Harrison out of it. That's still 20% of the best players in this class play his position. Get the quarterback first, then get a receiver, trade up if you need to get them. They're all waiting for you. Yeah, I wouldn't be so afraid of that chart if I had a quarterback. If I had a quarterback and I had the number three pick, I'd take Marvin Harrison Jr. Okay, well, look at it. But they don't have a quarterback. You've got to take a quarterback. Let me throw one at you. You drive Marvin Harrison at three and you take your second round pick and trade for Justin Fields. How do you feel about that? Because there's, you know, there's a real possibility. The Bears draft Caleb Williams move on from Justin Fields. Justin Fields is a quarterback in his fourth year who we're still having questions as to whether or not he's a good passer. And those guys to me have already answered the question. He's not good enough. Like he's dynamic as hell. I think you could definitely complain about the offensive line, the system that he's been in. But his old offensive coordinator might be among the top front runners for the Patriots top right now. He's not scared. I don't think that guy's gonna get it done. And I don't think Justin Fields is the guy that you look and go, here's our franchise quarterback. See, the guys you want are scared. And the guys you don't want aren't scared. Like Luke Getze was Justin Fields's offensive coordinator. So imagine, in your scenario, you get Marvin Harrison, you get Justin Fields and you get Luke Getze. No! That doesn't work. Absolutely not. Don't play games at this position. At number three, draft a quarterback. You need one of the top quarterbacks. Don't draft down. Don't play games. Don't get Justin Fields. Draft a quarterback.