Look at his numbers this year.

His Q b R has skyrocketed, is throwing for almost 100 more yards per game, and his completion percentage is now among the best in the league.

For a guy who we wondered if he had NFL accuracy.

So what I want to do is a big picture conversation of If we were to redraft that class, who do you think would go Number one?

But let's start, Mel, because I saw in your notes and you and I were talking.

You have been on the Josh Allen bandwagon since before that draft took place.

What did you say?

Defending Josh Allen?

Seems I've been doing it since Day one, even going back toe Wyoming days.

People looking at completion percentage looking like that's the defining part of the evaluation.

His completion percentage.

That's lazy scouting.

It goes beyond that.

If you wanna be lazy, fine.

There's a lot of lazy people.

Okay, fine, be lazy.

Bottom line is, there was more than that.

Dig into it, dig it, dig into Josh out.

And let me tell you what happened.

Let me tell you what happened with me guys?

What Hap me was late this season.

Late that year, when he lost his center, his running back, his tight end and his wide receiver all moved on into the NFL.

Three of those guys still in the NFL, by the way, coming out of Wyoming.

But that year, without those guys, he had him winning.

He had a shoulder injury.

He missed two games against bad opponents that they should have won big.

He wasn't planned.

They lost both.

There was games when Josh Allen didn't play, he didn't have to come back.

He had a shoulder injury.

I was talking to guys.

When he's gonna play E don't know, we don't know.

He's not.

Craig bowls the head coach.

He comes back for the bowl game.

He didn't have to see all these opt outs, These guys quitting on their teams.

Josh didn't quit on his team.

He came back with a shoulder injury to play in that bowl game.

They won that game in a row out.

He didn't need to play in that game, did not need to play in that game.

Then you think about Josh Allen.

Hey, who did I compare him to Grady?

I didn't compare him to Ben Roethlisberger.

Kim didn't compare him to Randy Johnson.

The Wild Greg Johnson, 144 walks in 1992 12 and 14 record in a 37 70 are A Three years later, he's 18 and two with a 248 a.

He's got 65 walks, 144 walks down the 65.

Why?

Because they have coach before their name.

These guys aren't finished products.

They go into the NFL.

And there's coach whoever coach, Whoever.

There's a coach before your name because you're getting paid to be a coach and get these guys to improve to be better.

E.

I don't even remember the question, but I love the answer, so that's outstanding.

So then let's let's start this over again.

The order in which they went that year not the pick that they were well, you see them on the screen.

The order in which they went that year, where Baker Mayfield went number one Sam Donald went number two amongst the quarterbacks, Allen went third, Josh Rosen went forth and Lamar Jackson, of course, went to the very end of the first round if they were redoing the draft right now, Dominique, if you owned a football team and you were redoing that draft, which of them would you take first?

Yeah, I think I'm a landed a different place than Male, but for a lot of the same reasons, I would still go with Lamar Jackson.

I think because you look at the situation that Lamar Jackson was in last year in a situation that he's in this year, it is far from a perfect situation.

He's obviously a very limited quarterback in some ways, but he's exceptional in other ways, and they have a team that is not that spends very little money on their offense but somehow had the best offense in the league last year and still has a really respectable office now, all because of Lamar Jackson.

It's different because of Josh on Josh Allen situation.

They have given him everything.

He gets great offensive line protection.

He has possibly the best receiving quarter receiving corps in the league in D court.

Excuse me, an offensive coordinator who is probably doing as well as anybody in the league right now, so he has everything around him.

It reminds me a lot of not that he's gonna have the same fall off, but he reminds me a lot of the Carson Wentz situation where Carson Wentz had that M V P season and we realized that he was good.

But he was great because everyone else was around him.

Okay, it's an interesting perspective.

Are seeing the same question to you?

If you were, if you owned a football team and you could pick any of them first, who would you take?

E would take Lamar Jackson, but it's extremely close.

Josh Allen has definitely moved up in for for my perception, the way I look at him, the way I think of him, Josh Palin is becoming an elite quarterback.

But if you ask this question in Week 13 last year, you say Lamar Jackson and you say it by a landslide and yes smell.

People do have coach in front of their names.

You know what else people have in front of their names?

Stefan people have names like coal, and one thing that we've seen this year is adding Stefon Diggs and having a wide receiver that could create separation in one on one matchups makes you more accurate.

When the nearest guy that's far away from your player, it's easier throw to make.

And I'm not, but I know I'm Listen, Mel, don't get upset with me.

I'm actually not arguing with you.

I'm talking about the situations that these guys got eso when you look, eh?

So I look at Lamar Jackson and I think if Cole Beasley is on his team, if Stefon Diggs is on his team, which would be the two best receivers he's ever played with, I think he could do some similar things from an accurate standpoint, accuracy standpoint and the precision standpoint that Josh Allen is doing now.

I think both of these guys are stars.

They're both extremely close and how I see them.

But right now, I would take Lamar Jackson.

Let me just say this real quick, guys, they when they came out, not revisionist history.

I go back to when they came out, criticism of Josh Allen.

Lamar Jackson was, and I had just said to me numerous times by just about everybody know, How do you like to quarterbacks that can't complete passes?

How can you be a quarterback in the NFL when you can't complete passes, That's what they were saying.

Doesn't matter.

Who was catching the ball, Who were the options.

They just couldn't accurately throw a football.

That was the perception of people that were evaluating those two quarterbacks.

You could give them Hall of Fame receivers.

They can't complete passes.

That was the criticism.

It doesn't matter who's out there.

They can't throw accurate strikes.

That is, they're lazy.

They were wrong.

They were lazy.

Both proved everybody wrong.

Let me get Desmond in here.

If there was lazy days, if you are a team, who would you?

Which of those guys would you take first?

Well, I said, I have to say I enjoyed this as a spectator.

Listen, Thio Male and our city and need go back and forth.

Simply put, I love what Lamar brains because to me he is more of a dynamic quarterback and what you need to run an offense these days.

But Josh Allen, if you can put the pieces around him, his level of play, his style of play in my my opinion is much more sustainable than what Lamar Jackson showed us a year ago as the most valuable player of the league.

I like the way that he's very accurate.

He understands defense is he's tall.

He sees over the offensive line.

He's everything you would want in a prototypical quarterback.

Therefore, hiss level of players very sustainable.

He's where he needs to be.

But as our C pointed out, which is very accurate, you have to put exceptional talent around him in order for him to be able to succeed at a high level.

Whereas Lamar Jackson he could make everyone around him better.

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