Name: Why Mel Kiper Jr. is comparing Mac Jones to Tom Brady | First Take
Uploaded: 2021-03-02T18:30:29.000Z
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If Bill Belichick feels the same way, he needs to trade up and grab him.

He needs to get a young quarterback who is going to be the Patriots quarterback for a long time.

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That has to happen, even if he feels like it won't be next year that the guy is starting or playing a lot or winning for them.

Trey Lance, who now is people think, maybe picked before Mac Jones.

Trey Lance has a lot of the things that Belichick likes, but because he can also move, people don't think of it the same way.

But quick decisions quick release my point.

But the main thing is Belichick's got to find a guy he believes in and draft that guy this year.

And the Matt Jones Tom Brady comparison came up when I looked at Tom Brady when he came as a late sixth round pick after they drafted somebody with their pick in the sixth round a corner back out of Virginia.

Late in the sixth round, he had a 5 to 4 40 had a 24 vertical.

Those are the two worst vertical 40 times of any quarterback of ever evaluated outside of Ryan Mallett.

And now it was drafted by the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick.

So when you look at Mac Jones, he's not Joe Burrow.

He doesn't have the ability to beat it with his legs and run for first downs.

He creates with his legs enough in the pocket to get the ball to those receiving options.

As he did in that national championship game.

We got the ball to Julia Billingsley tight end to help beat Ohio State.

The concern guys is only 17 career starts.

Okay, that's it now completed over 77% of his past.

As you referenced this touchdown interception ratio, I've talked about his leadership.

His competitiveness is incredible intelligence.

I get all this incredible accuracy, but the 17 career starts is the one concern.

In addition to being able to move and avoid and create with his legs okay, enough to get those first hands in the league.

Now it's all about mobility and dual threat quarterbacks.

Some have called quarterbacks like Mac Jones a dinosaur.

If he's a dinosaur, you want a Super Bowl with 43?

And he was a late sixth round pick when he came out.

I was comparing more Mac Jones to what Tom was when he came out of Michigan, not what he was when he became the greatest of all time.

So, and that's why you have to go back and kind of evaluate things as they were, not as they are right now.

When Brady came out, he was a late sixth round pick for a reason.

Ironically, the cop is a top 10 pick, so a late sixth round pick now a top 10 pick, Tom Brady, has certainly helped Mac Jones.

And those comparisons that certainly helped Mac Jones as well.

I definitely agree with you when I think about Trey Lance at North Dakota State.

I'll say this much forget, You know you have North Dakota State.

We understand that it's not Ohio State's not Alabama, but zero interceptions for a season is zero interceptions.

It's just not a single interceptions, so I'll give him his props for that.

And this is where if I'm Bill Belichick, this is where I got to think.

I got to think long and hard about Mac Jones.

Mel the New England Patriots at the 15th pick.

Cowboys at 10, Giants at 11, San Francisco at 12.

Charges at 13, Minnesota at 14 from the fourth to the 14th pick.

The only teams that definitively don't need a quarterback because they've got their guy are the charges at 13 and the Cincinnati Bengals.

But even Joe Burrow had a nasty injury, but I think he'll be back outside of that.

Everybody from 4 to 14 arguably needs a damn quarterback.

So to me, if I'm Bill Belichick, if I'm Bill Belichick and I got an opportunity to move up to get Mac Jones, I might do that.

Guys, based on that reality alone to that y'all say, What now?

I say fine, Max, I I think we also have to realize is we forced quarterbacks up a lot higher than they should be pushed up the board.

That's why from 2009 to 2000 and 16 0, 22 quarterbacks with the team that drafted him, we're going back to 2000 of the 44% in the first round up till 2016, only three right now with their respective teams that drafted.

That would be, uh, you know, you look at Tom Brady.

That was in 2000, and that's why I Reference 2000.

But the only three are Matt Ryan, Ben Roethlisberger and Aaron Rodgers.

So I think when you look at this, be careful.

Jared Goff hasn't proven anything of late.

You know, it took a team to a Superbowl early on.

No, because we don't know how good these quarterbacks are gonna be.

We all talk them up and they all get pushed up the board.

They all some of them fizzle out to nothing.

So let's realize if you're the Detroit Lions, take somebody to help Jared golf like a wide receiver like Jalen Wad or dominant Smith from Alabama and not take the quarterback Philadelphia help out.

So this notion you gotta take the quarterback.

Well, I would say also that there are some quarterbacks whose talent jumps out at you and those guys.

Maybe even if you have, for example, what's happening with the Jets or Giants right now.

Even if you have a prospect who you may like, you may look at your own guy and say, Is that prospect really better than my own guy?

You know, and and in the case of Mac Jones, maybe a lot of teams would say No, not in the kind of measurable way that covers me in the event that it doesn't work out.

People like to mitigate risk, right to to hedge against risk.

And I just think and I brought up the Giants.

I think about Daniel Jones, Mel Stephen A.

They seem married to that guy, whereas if I were running the Giants and Mac Jones were available.

Four through 14 that all those teams are thinking that way.

I'd say maybe half of them are looking for quarterbacks, and the other half may not like a non Trevor Lawrence guy in this draft.