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Joe Rose and Hollywood debate what Miami Hurricanes quarterback Darian Mensah will decide regarding the NFL Draft. With massive NIL earnings on the table, another season to throw to Malakai Toney, and national championship ambitions in play, would Mensah turn down a potential first-round NFL Draft leap to spend another year developing in Coral Gables? Joe and Woody examine both sides of the multimillion-dollar dilemma.

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00:00And, Joey, it is 75 degrees, a 5% chance of rain, a high percent chance of more trades today.
00:065% sounds good.
00:085% sounds good.
00:09What a good day here.
00:10What do you think of the percent the Dolphins make a move?
00:13Give me a number.
00:145%.
00:15Wow.
00:16That low, huh?
00:17I don't think...
00:18You don't think anyone gets dealt?
00:20No.
00:22I mean, there could be a small deal in there.
00:24But I just...
00:29I don't think so.
00:33I like your idea to hold on to the vets and keep it together.
00:38Hey, man, since this is about developing the young guys, I'm going to use the old guys to develop the
00:42young guys.
00:43Pretty much is what I've been saying.
00:45Let those guys and their leadership on the field.
00:47Hey, coaches are great.
00:49They're important.
00:49You see it.
00:50There's a great coaching staff.
00:51They've done a really nice job overall.
00:55See, the grades aren't great.
00:56And I know the production's not there yet.
01:00But to get the best out of these guys, you need to keep key veterans here.
01:06And the guys that are here have been handpicked.
01:08They did their homework when they got here on who they wanted to keep as far as these veteran guys.
01:13Not only were they five or six of the best players a year ago, but they're also great with young
01:19guys.
01:19They did their homework.
01:20Who's good with the young guys?
01:21Oh, Zach Seeler, like, basically babysits these other three guys.
01:27And so, okay, well, we got to keep them.
01:30And so we'll see.
01:32I might be wrong.
01:33This is just my opinion.
01:34And maybe they do something.
01:37By the way, you know what they did out here?
01:39I went down there.
01:40I went down there to get a Dunkin' Donuts coffee.
01:42Are you talking about here?
01:43Yeah, here.
01:43I'm sorry.
01:44I flipped it over.
01:44Oh, go ahead.
01:45There's about eight dozen donuts.
01:49Oh, why?
01:51What happened?
01:52No, Dunkin' Donuts just bringing stuff in here today.
01:55For the other stations?
01:56Yeah, it's not us.
01:57Yeah.
01:58Even though you're their number one supporter?
01:59Well, just financially, I am every day.
02:02I'm a big.
02:03I told you, you could own a Dunkin' Donuts by now.
02:06How much you spend there?
02:07Woody, they, how many times?
02:11That is one of the few things that you walk by, and you can say it over and over, and
02:18it finally, like, oh, I'm not going to have one.
02:19No, I'm not going to, because I did used to eat a lot of donuts.
02:22When I first started in this business, I got a coffee, and I got a couple of donuts.
02:28It is hard to walk by that and not grab it.
02:31Did you eat one?
02:32No, but I came close.
02:33Good for you.
02:33Good for you.
02:34I came close, because I had the clock on knowing you were coming back.
02:37Damn.
02:38Oh, yeah, did you?
02:39So I, uh.
02:41Well, you're a banana guy, right, in the morning.
02:43You like to pound a banana.
02:44I do the oatmeal and banana breakfast.
02:46You're a healthy guy.
02:48Hey, man, I got it from my dad.
02:50This man, still alive, and has oatmeal and a banana in the morning.
02:56Yeah.
02:56That's what he eats.
02:57Yeah, but did he always eat healthy, though?
02:59Like, I think that's kind of a new school thing, all this healthy eating, right?
03:03No, no, he didn't.
03:03This guy grew up on ham and eggs and bacon and eggs every day, and by the way,
03:08linguiça.
03:09We must have linguiça.
03:10It's a Portuguese sausage.
03:11Yeah, I was going to ask you.
03:12You're going to have to tell me what that is.
03:13Very, very, very tasty.
03:15Linguiça is one of the great tastes of all time, because you can put in omelets, and I
03:20mean, the flavor is fantastic.
03:22But at some point, you know that stuff's not good for you, and you've got to stop.
03:25So, my man, just one day, at like age 70, he started eating oatmeal and bananas, and
03:31now he's 92 and a half, and tells me the other day he had oatmeal and bananas.
03:37I went, wow, okay.
03:39Might be something to this, changing the diet a little bit.
03:43So, I don't know.
03:44All right, well, I'm glad you're doing it.
03:45Keep you on the air for another 20 years.
03:47I don't know.
03:47Don't get crying.
03:48I think people are about ready to hear my ass say, I'm about done here, fellas.
03:53Why don't you retire at 90?
03:54That'd be a good age to retire.
03:56That'd be entertaining.
03:57Can you imagine?
03:59Yeah, no.
04:00I can't.
04:00You're doing the show in 25 years from now?
04:02No, no, I don't.
04:03That's not going to happen.
04:06But thank you, Woody.
04:07I appreciate it.
04:09Hey, I want to thank Charles Davis for coming on, and out of nowhere now, that Jeremiah Smith
04:15thing, when we went to the quarterbacks, and he said, screw the quarterbacks.
04:18I want to tell you, Jeremiah Smith is ridiculous, and I guess everybody has seen this thing
04:24about Jeremiah Smith, which is, I saw it on a podcast, and then it kind of like, hey,
04:29there's no reason for him to play.
04:30Just shut it down.
04:32I always love when people, whether they're former players, it just, and I get, you know
04:38when you play football, you can get hurt in practice.
04:40That's Malachi Tony.
04:41I mean, you never know, right?
04:43And the injury, and I get it, closer to your big payday in the NFL is potentially a first
04:49or a second or third overall pick.
04:51I can't imagine if he's healthy.
04:54He's gone after, he's gone with one of the first couple of picks, and you're getting a
04:59guy that lines up day one and is the number one receiver on the outside.
05:03He's just, if you watch football, you, not me.
05:06It's not like I'm an Ohio State fan.
05:08I'm not.
05:09But he's really good.
05:11Really good.
05:14And so here's a guy watching and just says, this class of guys and a couple of the guys
05:20supposed to be really good are probably going back to college again.
05:24Now, the guy everybody's talking about is a guy at Oklahoma State now.
05:29He just hasn't played a lot of football.
05:32Kind of a weird background.
05:34He kind of started this thing after high school, and he's picked it up, and he's got
05:40all kinds of talent.
05:42Everybody's raved about his talent.
05:44The upside of his talent.
05:48So, I mean, he's going to be in play, and I'm guessing somebody will take him, Oklahoma
05:53State quarterback, in the first round early.
05:57And, you know, if they're crazy about him, you know, maybe first overall.
06:01Maybe that does happen.
06:04But, yeah, everybody's saying the same things, man, especially with Moore and Manning.
06:10Has Manning done enough that he comes out this year?
06:14He's got a family.
06:15Charles brought up a great point.
06:16One thing about the Mannings.
06:18Remember Peyton went back an extra year?
06:20Remember that one?
06:21He was a really good.
06:22He goes, no, I'm coming back for another year.
06:23When he gets his degree and do the whole college thing.
06:27And it worked out, obviously, for Eli and Peyton.
06:32Honestly, I just don't know if this kid's got their kind of talent.
06:35I mean, I know nobody wants to say it.
06:38And maybe the more he plays, you know, it just, he needs to play more.
06:46I agree.
06:47He needs to play more college football.
06:48And this is not a shot at him.
06:50And the poor guy's got to hear about his grandfather for older guys.
06:54And for the younger guys, he's got to hear about Eli and Peyton.
06:58And he may never have that kind of talent.
07:00Woody, those guys are all, Arch got stuck, Archie Manning got stuck on a bad team his whole career.
07:06He ran for his life if you've ever seen him.
07:08And he was an unbelievable player on a really, really bad team, Archie Manning, the grandfather.
07:16And Peyton is probably one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.
07:20Definitely a top 10 quarterback all time, Woody.
07:23Are you with me?
07:24Peyton Manning, numbers.
07:26Eli's not, but he still, Eli someday is going to be a Hall of Fame quarterback without getting in that
07:31whole debate today.
07:32The difference now, though, is it's so attractive to stay in college.
07:35He said that.
07:37Right?
07:37$7 million, $8 million, whatever they're going to pay this guy.
07:39That's a good number.
07:40Go to another school, get a fresh start.
07:43Play, you know, 12 or whatever, 15 college, however many you end up playing.
07:49Another year, like.
07:50Yeah.
07:52It's not exactly a terrible option, you know.
07:56No, it's a lot better now because of the money.
07:58Yeah.
07:59Hell, you might see Mensa decide to do something like that.
08:03I don't know.
08:03Do you realize that if you, you, the money they're making now, they're making a lot more than all but
08:09maybe one or two backup quarterbacks.
08:12One of them being Jameis.
08:13Jameis Winston got a really good deal.
08:16I think he's making nine or 10 a year.
08:17But I know you said like with Mensa, you can't, you know, this is the best he can do.
08:20And you're probably right.
08:22Oh, if I'm Mensa?
08:23Why wouldn't you just, like, what's the, what's the point?
08:26Like, just stay another year.
08:27Injury.
08:28Yeah, but.
08:29What?
08:29What are the odds a quarterback, you know, has suffered some career-ending injury?
08:34Like.
08:34Why if Mensa in a, in a class of.
08:39Now, I don't know what the pros are saying about him.
08:41I, I don't, I don't know.
08:43I, what he just made in the second half of that game.
08:48And by the way, a lot of pressure, the blocking was not, the pass protection was not perfect.
08:55He makes throws on, one of the best throws I've seen is the one he made on fourth down
08:59that became caught, you know, catch or no catch.
09:01That is a great throw no matter what level.
09:05Going to your left is a right-handed quarterback.
09:08Before you go out of bounds, what is it, 20, 25-yard flip?
09:12And he puts it where only his guy can get it.
09:16Where he goes up with two hands.
09:18Catches it, you know, but it was a throw.
09:21He made throws in the second half, four or five throws in that game in the second half
09:25that were.
09:27I just don't think he gets any better for him.
09:30It might, he might not, but.
09:32You know, I think a lot of it depends too on how their season ends, right?
09:36No.
09:37Like if they don't, if they don't win a national championship and your pitch to this guy is,
09:41hey, you know, here's, here's $8 million plus whatever else you make on the side.
09:45You know what the pitch is, Woody?
09:47Malachi is going to be back with you another year.
09:49I think you're missing the big pitch though.
09:51The big pitch is, as soon as I qualify and I got a chance to be a top 10 or
09:5512 pick in
09:56the NFL draft, I want to go.
09:57Let's assuming he does.
09:58Woody, if he doesn't, then I don't have the right guy.
10:01If that guy's not hungry to show how good he is in the NFL.
10:07Well, let's assume, again, assuming he is a top 10 pick, which, you know, I don't know.
10:13There are a lot of teams.
10:14I just think it's a lot more attractive than you're making it out to be to go back and,
10:18hey, you know, for $8 million, probably going to be closer to 10 when you make all your other
10:23deals or whatever you're doing.
10:25You can go and play 12 more college games, compete for a national championship.
10:29Yeah, how'd that work out for more?
10:30You don't want to listen.
10:31What about more?
10:31What about Manny?
10:32They went from great teams.
10:34You can't be on any better teams than those guys are on, and look what happened to both
10:37of them.
10:38Talking about he's a game manager on one side, and the defense is great.
10:44If I'm Arch Manning, the last thing I want to hear is that our team, we're a defensive-minded
10:50team at Texas.
10:52I don't know, man.
10:53I just happen to think that the decision is a whole hell of a lot tougher than you're making
10:57it out to be.
10:58What do you mean?
10:59Coming back?
11:00Yeah.
11:01Maybe.
11:01I think it's incredibly attractive for someone like that.
11:05Hey, come play with the best wide receiver in the game.
11:08Compete for a national championship.
11:10Oh, and by the way, you're going to make a fortune doing it.
11:13A life-changing money.
11:16Most people, they get a check like that, they'd be set for life.
11:18We just think differently.
11:19No, I don't.
11:20If I got a chance to be a first-round pick, and if something happens next year, and I'm
11:24not a first-round pick, or Malachi gets hurt early in the season, and now all of a sudden
11:29I'm struggling throwing it around the field.
11:31They tell him he's going to be a top-10 or top-15 pick, fine.
11:34I'm with you.
11:35That's all.
11:35But if they go, hey, you know, you're a fringe first-rounder, you're late first-round.
11:39Well, I've seen him projected there.
11:42You just do that in.
11:43I've seen him projected all over the place, but.
11:47Well, I think he's a first-round quarterback.
11:49Texas set-up Saturday, and I think both Mensa and Carr prove themselves to be ready for the
11:53drive.
11:53I do, too, man.
11:53He's pretty good, too.
11:54CJ's Carr's really good.
11:55No, that's legit.
11:56No matter what you think of that, you know, Notre Dame, he's good.
11:59He got a lot better from the kid we saw a year ago at that first start.

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