 Ah, yes, our savior in North Carolina. At least a savior for the Patriots. Drake May looking impressive at UNC's pro day, making throws like that. Gerard Mayo, Elliot Wolf, and my nine Patriots staffers in attendance, the team also meeting with May before the workout. Even Drake May Hader, Serone Battle from 96 or 98.5 the sports hub, changing his tune. Don Chapel Hill joined Fugger and Master's shares of interesting observations. From what I saw and the responses of some of the other coaches, Dan Quinn saw a throw, he shook his head inside of walking like he was leaving. He saw enough. And by me by, they were impressed and they were telling everybody they were impressed. These are the NFL guys. He's not the fans or whatever. And I've been to Patriots training camp and all this stuff. I've been down on Drake May, but he did make throws seeing person that were better than anything. I saw a training camp last year and it was who's and ours from the NFL people and it wasn't fans in there. And like I said, Niners, Jets, couple of the teams, Dan Quinn, they were singing OJ's money, money, money, money. All right, let's deep dive music to the presidents of the Drake May fan clubs, ears, Phil Perry, who's here with me. Reverend Perry of the Church of Med. Yes. That's right, that's right. The guys, MQB's Averbrius here, Trendy Casey with you. Listen, we were captivated. So we were able to watch it live today and there was a crowd of people around Phil's desk. Not everything was perfect, but he looked like an NFL quarterback. He looked like he could be something special. He was as advertised in my opinion, Trendy. That's how I would describe it because everything from the rollout on the move, launched throws that go 65 yards in the air to even the spray misses that go 10 yards out of bounds and damn near kill a biology major who just happens to be there to watch the proceedings. That's who he is. That's who he's been at North Carolina and you take the good with the bad and you have to try to project. He's 21 years old. He's coming from a program where he's not in the best of situations, Bert. And that's why I call him the best quarterback prospect in this year's class because he clearly is physical traits which should translate, but he needs coaching and he needs development. I found a comp that I like on Drake May. He is, Josh Allen just has stepped down in just about every category. And so he's, and I think that physically maybe put some closer to the ballpark of where Joe Burrow is, but he's got Josh Allen playmaking traits. He's got pop in his arm. He's a really, really, really, really good athlete. Like there's a lot to work with there. And I think you even look at the trajectory in college, right? Like Wyoming sort of peaked in Josh Allen's second to last year there. His red shirt sophomore year, he came back, the offense changed his last year at Wyoming. He lost a lot of teammates to the NFL and he didn't look as good and there was more on him. And so he was running around like a chicken with his head cut off a bunch. That's sort of what happened with Drake May his last year at North Carolina. I mean, I can tell you guys this from talking to coaches who have started to call down there, right? And have started to look at the film and then talking to the scouts who look at this stuff year round. The first thing almost all of them says how dreadful things were at North Carolina last year. The scheme was a mess because they lost Phil Longo the offensive coordinator there the year before to Wisconsin. The personnel around him wasn't very good. Their top receiver was a guy whose status was in limbo for half the year. And so I actually think like when you're looking at this long term what you're seeing on tape last year from Drake May might actually wind up benefiting him because it had to be about him last year. And whereas the year before he had good support around him and played that way last year he had to really carry the team and there were fits and starts but I'm sure there was a lot of learning that went on too. And that's how it's going to be in the NFL. That to me I think helps you or any evaluator in terms of what you're projecting him to be. You've seen him in muddy pockets. You've seen him have to create. You've seen him throw his left hand at times because he's the defensive tackle who's got his right arm pinned by his side and he's still trying to make a play to win a football game. That's the kind of weird stuff that happens in game and sometimes it leads to bad decisions. Sometimes it leads to crazy misses but he has so much high end that's there and he flashed it enough in a just pretty tough situation in North Carolina that it makes sense to me that the NFL people that Serone was around today in North Carolina it makes sense that they were owing and eyeing at every opportunity. And I texted with a few coaches who are there and one's an offensive coordinator who said he struggled early but finished very strong, very good deep back here. See so what we're talking about about him as a player and what Filch has said like he said was really reflected in the pro day. Well, not everyone. Serone Battle from 98.5 the sports hub loved him but not everybody over at the hub did. Scott Zolak tweeting after a few errant throws red flag. It's verse air people in a scripted session with your own coach. That doesn't seem to be accurate at all. I've got the punctuation or caps. Any red flags though? Does he have a point, Phil? Yeah, I think the accuracy issues are really there and I think if you get them with the right coach then you can clean up some of the mechanics maybe, some of the footwork. These are things that I've heard that maybe you can get a little bit more consistency from him. Bert likes the comp of Josh Allen but maybe a tick down in terms of the arm and a tick down in terms of the speed. I like the comp of Justin Herbert physically. He's not quite as tall as Herbert but he has a lot of similar traits in my opinion. It's the mindset that's different. Herbert is a little more conservative. I think to put it nicely. I think some of that has been the scheme that he's been put in but he's a little bit more conservative than Drake May who has a little bit of a gunslinger's mentality. So Herbert with a different mindset to me is a better comp than some of the things that I've heard out there. So I like him. There's clearly stuff that needs to be polished. Bert, does that mean you can play him right away or you can't? I don't know that yet. I would take him and then just understand that you're gonna have him with your franchise for the next five years and feel pretty good about the fact that in a couple of years you might have one of the best quarterbacks in football. I think that's his upside. I think what you're talking about too is personality, right? Like Herbert's very reserved and when teams got to the combine they thought that's what they were gonna find with him because he- With Drake May. Drake May, yeah, because he's from the South and he's the son of a quarterback. And what they got was the opposite was when they sat in the room with him they felt fire. He had a lot to him and that the comparison that I've heard from a personality standpoint is Phillip Rivers. As a competitor as to how fiery he is and he actually wound up working out with Phillip a bunch leading into the combine. So he was around him a lot. And so I just think this kid has seen so many things over the course of his life being the son of an athlete, having the brothers that he did, being around the people he has now, being around Eli Manning, being around Daniel Jones, being around Phillip Rivers. There's a lot of good there. There's a lot to like. Again, it is a projection, right? It is a projection. But I think one thing that we've seen over the last 10 years in the NFL is what having those athletic traits has done for guys is it buys them time to develop. And Mac Jones couldn't buy himself time to develop because he did not have the physical capability to make plays off schedule, to make things happen when things weren't right, right? The way coaches will say it is the guy's got the physical capability to be right when I'm wrong, right? And Drake May absolutely has that. And so having a guy who's got the capability to get himself out of trouble and to create buys a guy time to develop, which I think can be a really good thing. And I think at the end of the day, Trini, you want to invest in high-end talent, especially given where you are. Think about the league right now and the AFC in particular. If you want to contend eventually, you got to beat Patrick Mahomes, you got to beat Josh Allen, you got to beat Joe Burrow. You can't try to hit it down the middle of the fairway, in my opinion, and beat those guys in that conference and truly contend. You need one of the best quarterbacks in football. That's what he could be if he reaches his ceiling. I mean, like, it's, I mean, like all these guys are in their mid-20s, so that's not going away.