Deep Dive Scouting Report - Michael Pratt

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Welcome in to an all-new episode of the Pack-A-Dade ORG podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman PERSON. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman, NFL ORG. You can follow the podcast at Pack-A-Poday podcast. I'm your host, Andy Herman. You can follow me on Twitter at Andy Herman NFL. You can follow the podcast at Packaday Podcast ORG. I usually start off by telling you to subscribe, become a new member, all those sort of things. Today, I want to flip it and reverse it and just take a moment to thank you. Thank you for checking out the channel. Thank you for making thispart of your daily routine. Thank you for making the Packaday ORG podcast what it is. And I would not be here if it were not for you. So just wanted to take a second. Don't get to do that enough. And just sincerely appreciate everything that you have done to make this channel a success. So thank you so much for that.Today we've got a lot to cover. Specifically, we're going to cover the Packers ORG newest quarterback. That's always a fun thing to go over. We're going to break down Michael Pratt PERSON and give you all the good, the bad, the ugly, the in-between, and all of that developmental potential that he possesses. Before we get there, a couple pieces of news and notes from Monday. First of all, a slightly unfortunate piece of news. Undrafted free agent rookie offensive lineman,Tronte Jones from the University of Michigan ORG, was placed on the reserve retired list. And he was a fun, undrafted free agent. I think somebody who had at least an outside chance of making the 53-man roster and probably somebody that was primed for at minimum a practice squad spot. And instead, you know, it sounds like he retired from football. Now, by all means, he has every right to do so.And that's the most important thing of this. So I hope he's doing well. And I hope that that was the decision that he wanted to make. And all of that stuff is, like I said, far more important. But somewhat disappointing. That was, like I said, one of the undrafted free agents that definitely peaked my interest a little bit.But for now, he'll be replaced on the reserve retired list. Maybe he just needs some time to think things out. Or maybe he's ultimately made his decision. Whatever works out best for him is great. But he is no longer on the active roster for the Packers ORG.That does open up an active roster spot for them at this time. My assumption is it probably will not take long for them to fill that spot, but for now they do have one roster spot available. Meanwhile, we had a couple big contracts that took place on Monday. The first was Antoine Winfield PERSON, who I would have assumed probably would become the highest paid safety in the NFL ORG. I would not have assumed that he would have become the highest paiddefensive back in NFL ORG history. But that's what happened. And good for him. He's a really, really good football player. But from a Packer ORG's standpoint, this already makes the Zaver McKinney deal look that much better because Winfield PERSON went and one-uped it in a pretty significant way. So the McKinney deal looks good for Green Bay, looks better for Green Bay. Now with the benefit of hindsight of this Antoine Winfield PERSON deal, don't think the Winfield deal was bad by any means. We'll see how it sort of, you know, kind of progresses over thenext few years to see if it ages poorly or ages well, but it's a lot of money for a safety. It also brings us back to that conversation of Green Bay drafting three safeties. We did talk about how there were a lot of cheap safeties in free agency. Hack, Justin Simmons PERSON still doesn't have a team. But man, if you hit on one of these safeties and they become a big time player like Anton Winfield PERSON did, yeah, you're getting some really good premium quality play at a positionthat is now one of the highest paid defensive back positions in the NFL with Antoine Winfield PERSON becoming that at the safety position. Meanwhile, in the division, Jared Goff gets paid a ton. And we don't need to break down the full contract here or anything like that. Just noteworthy that, number one, Detroit made that investment in Jared Goff. And you knew they were going to get to some sort of agreement. I think a lot of people, and I heard the athletic football show talking about this,I think a week, week and a half ago of like expecting this to maybe be more in that Kirk Cousins type territory for Jared Goff. No, no, no. He got paid like an elite quarterback in the NFL ORG. First and foremost, good for Jared Goff. He deserves it.That career trajectory from going number one pick, going to the Rams, helping them get to a Super Bowl EVENT, and then getting shipped away to what looked like the druthers of Detroit. And then Jared Goff has really helped revitalize that offense. And clearly he's had some help along the way. I'm on Ross St. Brown, Ben Johnson PERSON, as offensive coordinator, Penny Sewell. There's a variety of things in play here that have helped Jared Gough PERSON. But Jared Gough PERSON, no mistake, has been a really big piece of that as well.So he gets a massive contract from a Green Bay standpoint. One, the division adds Jared Gough PERSON for the foreseeable future. And now basically has their four quarterbacks intact for at least I would say the next few seasons, if not more. We'll have to see what happens with J.J. McCarthy PERSON and how he develops. Caleb Williams is going to get every opportunity in the world to be the guy for a long time and probably is just going to be that guy. But right now, Jared Gough, Jordan Love, J.J. McCarthy, Caleb Williams, that looks to be the core quarterbacks of the NFC North for at least the next few seasons and maybe even beyond that.From a Green Bay standpoint, though, if you're Jordan Love and Jordan Love's PERSON agent, that Jared Goff contract, you're probably feeling pretty good about where things stand. Jordan Love PERSON is going to get paid, paid, paid, paid. It is going to be a massive amount of money, especially after that Jared Gough PERSON deal. That price, you have to think, went up in some capacity. Now, maybe it didn't move the needle a ton. Maybe that number was always going to end up that, you know, there's one way or another.But if you're Jordan Love and his agent, you're feeling better about things. If you're a Russ Ball PERSON, you're maybe not getting as much easy sleep until that deal gets done. That is a massive deal for Jared Gough. And now Green Bay is going to have to penny up and pony up for the one and only Jordan Love PERSON, which, by the way, just quick aside here, that is a privilege that you get to pay a quarterback that much money, meaning I don't mean to say this from a socioeconomic standpoint or anything like that.I'm saying in the NFL ORG, the goal is to draft and develop a quarterback so that you can give them that big contract so that you do have that guy for, you know, on the books for the next five, six years, whatever it ends up being. So I know that people are already freaking out about, oh, now Green Bay is going to be in salary cap pergatory. No, they will be fine. They've got a very young roster. They will find ways to maneuver around that contract. I'm not concerned about it. Jordan Love PERSON is going to young roster. They will find ways to maneuver around that contract. I'm not concerned about it. Jordan Love PERSON is going to get paid. That's best for Jordan Love.That's also best for the Green Bay Packers. It's a good thing that they get the benefit of giving him that deal. If you run the open market, teams would be tripping over themselves to give Jordan Love PERSON that contract on the open market and probably more if we're being honest. All right. That brings us to another quarterback that will not be getting a 55 million a year contract. He'll be getting a almost bottom tier NFL ORG draft salary as being one of the last players selected in the 2024 NFL ORG draft.And that is Michael Pratt, a 6 to 217 pound quarterback out of Tulane. He is a fourth year senior. We've talked about a lot of these players recently of being fifth year seniors, six year seniors. That's not the case for Michael Pratt PERSON.He's a fourth year senior and he is still only 22 years old. He turns 23 in September, but here's the thing that you really like about Pratt right before we even get to the measurables, the statistics, the strengths or weaknesses. he's 22, turns 23 in September, didn't start playing football until high school.This is not your 25-year-old over-aged quarterback, like Bo Nix even in the first round, who I think turns 25 this year, or at least he's in that realm. And, you know, I think, you know, obviously the, the Falcons ORG quarterback, Pennix, too, I think 24 this year. He's going to turn 23. Not only is he still, again, in that youngest range being 22 right now,but with not having that full experience until, you know, he got to high school and started playing, you know, high school football at that point and then going into college, you have a lot of developmental potential here still for Michael Pratt PERSON. He's still young enough. He's still inexperienced enough. There is still a lot for him to learn and a lot for him to experience at the quarterbackposition. So when you're taking somebody in the late seventh round that could potentially have some developmental qualities, starting out at 22 years old and not having a ton of football experience relative to a lot of other players in the class, that's a decent place to start. And I think overall that's something to be excited about as Pratt PERSON still works his way through becoming a pro-style quarterback.And Greenville ORG will get the opportunity to mentor him and build him through their system. 30 and 3 4 inches arms and then 9.5 inch hands, which are smaller hands for an NFL quarterback. What that can affect is spin rate, gripping the ball, or even just if you get hit, your ability to hold onto the ball, cold weather, rainy weather, windy weather, all those things can be affected by having small hands and not being able to maybe spin the ball just quite as well. So it's worth noting, is it going to affect him, you know, to the point where he couldn'tbecome an NFL ORG starter or something like that? No. But it's just a noteworthy thing nonetheless. All right. Statistically, 2020, he was 140 of 254, 55.1% completion percentage, 186 yards, 20 touchdowns, 8 picks, also had 229 yards rushing in 8 touchdowns.In 2021, 189 of 328, 57.6% completion percentage, 2,381 yards, 21 touchdowns, 8 picks, also had 152 yards rushing in 5 touchdowns. In 2022, had a 63.6% completion percentage, 3,010 yards, 27 touchdowns, only five interceptions, had 478 yards rushing, and another 10 touchdown. So really impressive 2022 season. Then in 23, 185 of 283, 65.4% completion percentage, 2,460 yards, 22 touchdowns, only five interceptions again, had 286 yards rushing and five more touchdowns.In his career, 729 completions on 1,203 attempts, 60.6% completion percentage, 9,603 yards, 903 yards, 90 touchdowns, 26 picks, 447 carries for 1145 yards, and 28 rushing touchdowns. The thing that I really like to see here, statistically, 2020, 55.1% completion percentage, followed by 57.6, 63.6, and then 65.4. Got more accurate as a passer every year that he played at Tulane. All right, athletically, an 8.27 relative athletic score, but did not do the bench press and did not do the 40-yard dash.Tested 56 percentile in height, 52nd percentile in weight, 95th percentile in the vertical jump, 72nd percentile in the broad jump, 83rd percentile in the short shuttle, and 55th percentile in the three cone. So still tested pretty darn well.I don't know what that 40 would have been. I don't know what he would have bench pressed or whatever. But overall, still some really good numbers and nothing below average on the stuff that he did test for from a relative athletic score standpoint. Hey, friends, playoff time is the best time to join the prize picks communitythat already boasts over 5 million members. There is no lack of action. 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All right. PFF grades, 2020 had a 73.5 grade on 686 snaps. In 2021, had a 56.2 grade on 707 snaps. In 2022, an 89.3 grade on 835 snaps. And in 2023, a 78.3 grade on 706 snaps. All right, let's get to those positives. And I want to start with a really, really fun one that I don't think has been talked aboutenough. And I don't think has really been credited to Michael Pratt PERSON for just the type of really big and impressive strength and positive that this is. And that's his clutch ability. Let me walk you through some of these. This is not his full NFL ORG or sorry, his full college football career.These are just the ones that like stood out to me as I was watching the tape. First one. And these are not in chronological order. But first one, UAB this past season, fourth and nine. They're on UAB's 32 yard line. There are 54 seconds left in the game.Now, at this point, Tulane is winning 28 to 23. So they're up by five, but it's fourth and nine with 54 seconds left. And the play call is a deep shot to the end zone, or at least has the opportunity to throw the deep shot to the end zone. And Michael Pratt PERSON gets the ball, drops back, throws a beautiful, beautiful arcing ball to the back of the end zone where only his receiver could get it. Touchdown, game set match, huge throw. Now, maybe they win that game.They're up by five with, let's say, the throw takes nine seconds, 45 seconds left. But the UAB would take over on their own 32 and would have at least an opportunity to go down and win that game. But Pratt just ended it right there with a beautiful touchdown pass to seal the game and Tulane gets the win. North Texas this season. Third and 12 on the North Texas 19 yard line. The game is tied 28 to 28 with 241 left in the game.So a third and 12, 28, 28, 28, 241 left in the game on the 19 yard line of North Texas GPE. These are really tough conversions. And you're probably looking at maybe picking up some yards, but probably having to settle for a field goal. And North Texas GPE having the ability to go down and maybe win the game with a touchdown or tie with a field goal. Instead, what does he do?He bounces around. He buys time. Doesn't see anything. Scambles PERSON gets upfield. 19-yard game-winning touchdown run for Michael Pratt PERSON. Beautiful play.And like I said, another game winner. East Carolina this year, third in nine on the Tulane 46 yard line. They're up 13 to 10, 634 left in the game. First of all, he hits a 17-yard completion for a first down to keep the drive going. And this was part of a 14 play. And that was on a third down, by the way.It was a third and nine hits a 17-yard completion to keep the drive going. But that was part of a 14-play, 49-yard drive that took up seven minutes and 17 seconds to seal the game. But again, 6-34 left in the game, only up by three, Tulane 46-yard line. Third and nine hits that 17-yard completion to extend it and eventually just be able to completely, you know, bleed out the clock, taking 717 off of it.All right. The Tulsa game, third and nine. They're on their own 26-yard line. They're up by two, 244 left in the game. Huge third and nine. What does he do?10-yard completion to pick up the first down and steal the game. Another huge clutch throw to get the win. Kansas State last year. They're tied 10 to 10. What does he do? And it's late in the fourth quarter. He goes on a five-play, 52-yard touchdown drive to win the game against Kansas State ORG.Here's how that drive went. An 11-yard Pratt run, a 15-yard-pratt completion, a 21-yard-pratt run, then they handed it off and got one yard, then a game winning four-yard touchdown pass. That was the five-play 52-yard drive, four-plays 51 for Michael Pratt PERSON either through the air or through the ground outside of that one-yard handoff, but just went right down the teeth of that Kansas State defense on a game-winning 52-yard touchdown drive, only took him five plays to do so.Impressive stuff against K State to pick up the win. I'm not done. Cincinnati GPE, another huge game. Cincinnati Tulane. Cincinnati is up 24 to 20. There's 627 remaining in the fourth quarter. Pratt hits an eight-yard completion. This is the drive. Pratt eight-yard completion. Tage Spears had a four-yard run. Then Pratt came back with a 33-yard completion, and then a game-winning 30-yard touchdown pass, 27-24 Tulane.They take the lead, they win the game. Huge drive in, again, another game winner for Michael Pratt PERSON. And then how about that USC bowl game last year? Now, if you look at the statistics, they ran the ball a ton in that game. Michael Pratt's PERSON numbers were mostly, you know, pedestrian. Caleb Williams had a phenomenal game.But here's the situation. They're going against USC ORG in the bowl game. Tulane versus USC ORG. They're down 45 to 39, down by 6, 3 minutes, 20 seconds left in the game. And Michael Pratt leads them on a 12-play, 66-yard game-winning touchdown drive. Included in that drive, on 4th and 6, he picks up 8 yards with his legs to pick up afirst down. Fourth and 10, 24-yard completion to pick up a first down. With 18 seconds left, he hits a 24-yard completion to former Packers ORG training camp guy. I don't know if he ever made the practice squad. Deuce Watts, if you remember him from training camp a season ago. But 18 seconds left, it's a 24-yard completion down to the USC-6.So they're at the USC 30 with 18 seconds left, it's a huge 24-yard completion. Then with nine seconds left, it's a touchdown completion fromyard completion. Then with nine seconds left, it's a touchdown completion from the six-yard line to win the game. Just unbelievable game-winning drives. You talk about being clutch. And it's not just necessarily game-winning drives. It's we need a third and nine in order to seal this game away. Or we need a big-time touchdown pass. Or again, that USC drive where you've got a fourth and six and you convert it with an eight-yardrun. A fourth in ten, you convert it with an eight-yard run. A fourth in 10, you complete it with a 24-yard completion. You're at the 30-yard line, but there's only 18 seconds left, and you somehow find a way to get a 24-yard completion down to the six, and then follow it up with a six-yard touchdown pass. He did it with his arm.He did it with his legs. And that clutch ability, a lot of times, tells you what you really need to know about a quarterback. How are they wired? How badly do they want to win? Can they find ways to pick up those huge first downs or huge touchdowns in the most key momentsof not, maybe not only the game, but against USC is like the season. Like those are, those are, you know, basically like campus changing or program changing wins. When you're Tulane and you get a bull win against USC, that is huge. That is absolutely huge. And Michael Pratt PERSON came up massive on that drive. So that clutch ability definitely, definitely stood out in a variety of different ways. Next up, some big time job description throws. And job description throws are the ones where you have to stand in the pocket. There's a guy that's going to open up deep down the field. You can deliver that big throw down the field.But you look up and there's a big 320 pound defensive tackle or a 230 pound linebacker or an edge rusher that's looking to cram your face in. Somebody's going to come right at you. And you know that in order to complete that ball down in, somebody's going to come right at you, and you know that in order to complete that ball down the field and hit that 50-yarder, you're going to have to step into that throw.And what does that mean? You're going to get your face caved in or your ribs caved in. And he had no issue with that. Those are the throws that he has to step into, deliver with timing, with accuracy, while taking a massive hit. And he did that time and time again.There are some quarterbacks that will shy away from those moments, that will shy away from that contact and will maybe bounce it outside and said and see if they can maybe still get it on a second reaction type of play. It doesn't work that way. If you want to hit it within the rhythm of the play, you've got to step into it, you've got to rip it, you've got to throw it down field,and you've got to take that hit. And he was willing to do so. And he was successful in doing so. And with that, he has a great deal of toughness. There were a lot of quarterback runs. There were some big time hits that he took that he got right back up. There is definitely a level of toughness to his game.It doesn't seem like he ever gets rattled. It doesn't matter how hard you hit him. He pops right back up. If you remember Andrew Luck PERSON and that like he would just get knocked the snot out of him and he'd just get back up and be like, hey, good hit, buddy. Like he has a little bit of that to him where he's just not going to go down for longand he's going to get right back up and get right back in that game. He shows the ability to marry his footwork with the progression of the play. So there's specific footwork that you want on specific throws. And what I like to see from him is he recognizes that on certain plays. But like there's a play early in the season last year where it's a quick throw to the flat and his footwork takes him there.And then the second progression is a deep corner route. And his footwork adjusts as he goes to that second progression. And then he sees the deep corner out. And now he's able to throw with his base already facing that way. So he doesn't have to readjust or torque his body. It's just a natural throwing motion because his footwork were married with the progressions.Progression one, flat, nope, not there. Progression two. Now his body changes, and he sees that deep corner route, and he was able to throw it and hit that completion. So love the ability to show the ability to marry the footwork with the progression of the play. He can switch up his touch and his pace on his throws. There are quarterbacks. There are even some in this class that you will see where it's just fastball after fastball after fastball.And they're putting everything they can into every single throw. But he has the ability to put some touch on the ball, layer throws, take pace off of it when needed, put pace on when needed. He's got different, you know, sort of speeds that he can throw with and different sort of pacing and just even layering on the throws. So he has that at his disposal and that touch and pace goes a long way to throw in someballs down the field that are going to be super catchable for your wide receivers. Escapability. He's not the fastest guy in the world. We're not talking about Jaden Daniels PERSON here or somebody that's got this, you know, ultra-lead athleticism. He knows how to escape pockets. And sometimes it's a subtle move.Sometimes he does a little Houdini PERSON stuff. And those movements in the pocket to either escape within the pocket so you can still get a throw off or escape out of the pocket when you need to or scramble. He has all of them at his disposal. So he can escape in a variety of different ways, and he does a really good job doing so. And it's tough to get him to the ground for a sack when he sees you coming and he knows how to have those little bit, those little tight movements that just make defenders fall right off of them. That's a huge thing to kind of continue those plays and add a little ad lib to the offense.He's capable of making throws to all levels of the field. We'll talk about his armor in just a moment, but he can throw deep, intermediate, short, left, center, right, and he can hit any throw than he needs to. Deep comebacks, flat throws, flat throws deep you know nine routes whatever he needs to throw he can throw and he has every throw at his disposal um he's comfortable in his past set and his overall fundamentals don't need a tonof work you get so many rookie quarterbacks where it's just the ball carryage is high or they're all over the place with their fundamentals, their footworks and mass. This is pretty sound. You know, his set, his feet stay wide.He gets a wide base. He's able to torque and really throw with his hips a little bit. You know, his arm motion's a little bit lengthy, but not brutally so. Overall, pretty sound.A lot of times what you need to do with these rookie quarterbacks as they come in is sort of like tear down. Think of Aaron Rogers, just tearing down that, you know, high ball carryage and all his weird bizarreal fundamentals from that Jeff Tedford PERSON system. Like they had to tear that down and then build them back up. I don't think there's going to be that much that they're going to have to actually tear down for Michael Pratt PERSON. I think he actually has a pretty strong base to work with when it comes to the overall fundamentals that he displays.

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These are things that I can't tell you from tape, but by all accounts, he has ultra-competitive DNA that he just always wants to compete, and it definitely showed up with his ability to win in those clutch moments that we talked about. Three-time team captain. And by all accounts, has an insane work ethic for the position and puts in all the time that he can to get better at quarterback.Which, again, if you're taking a developmental quarterback in the seventh round, those intangibles are all things that you want. Brock Purdy PERSON, great intangibles. Tom Brady PERSON, great intangibles. I'm not saying he's going to be Brock Purdy or Tom Brady PERSON by any means. I'm just saying like when you get to that point in the draft, you're not going to get usually these ultra athletes.You're not going to get somebody with a laser rocket arm, but you're looking for somebody who has, you know, some traits, some athleticism, and then those intangibles. And Michael Pratt PERSON has those as well. And then last but not least, go back to 2022, which was, I think,his best season as a quarterback. There's three pretty impressive wins for Tulane in that season with big wins over Kansas State ORG, Cincinnati, and USC ORG. He got in big games,and he won all of them during that season. So that was impressive to me as well. All right, his negatives. Number one, he predetermines way too many throws pre-snap. So there are definitely times where you can tell he's looking at a defense. He decides where he's going to go with a ball pre-snap and decides that's where I'm going.And he goes there no matter what. That's something he's got to clean up. He's got to read and react. It can't be read pre-snap, determine, yep, go in there, and then take the snap and go there, even when it's covered. So that is definitely something that showed up on tape a lot and something he definitely has to correct. He's going to have, it's fine if you want to predetermine that you think that that'swhere it's going to go and make that one of your first reads. But you just have to know if all of a sudden post snap, the picture changes and that reads no longer available, you have to know where to go on read two, read three, read four to continue through that progression. And that kind of segues perfectly into number two. I'd like to see him get further through his progressions. I saw him, you know, complete a lot of passes on his first read. I saw him get to his second read with no real problems. Getting to his third or fourth read, which, to be fair, in college, it's not like there's a ton of it, especially at like a twolane. We're not going through full field reads for a lot of these quarterbacks in college. You're looking at maybe reading one side of the field, one, two, and then, you know, maybe more ad lib or taking off and scrambling after that at the college level. But I thought there were plays there where if he would have gotten to that third read or continued on through his progressions, he had the protection, had the time, and would have been able to do so.But a lot of times it was just one read and then out or one read maybe get to that second read, but then it was a lot of scrambling after that or just trying to buy time and ad lib. I would have liked to seeing him go through those progressions just a little bit more and maybe hit the third guy on his progression when he had the ability to do so. Next up, he gets tunnel vision. And this is a little bit with going to predetermining his throws pre-snap.But he will, even if it's not like pre-snap determination, he will lock in on a guy and he will just take his eyes and the whole defense will be able to go in that direction. There was one particular drive where he threw three straight balls right to defenders because he locked in on his primary receiver. All three interceptions should have been clear and easy interceptions. All three were somehow dropped. But he threw three of them on one drive. And you just see him get locked in.And there are times where he's locked in on this guy. And then linebackers are just screaming over inside of those zones and making plays on the ball and he just never sees him coming. You have to have vision in front of you on a throw. And if you just get locked into your receiver and thinking you know when he's going to come open without having that vision in front of you, especially when you're locked on him andyou're drawing linebackers and safeties and players that are robbing or spying or sitting in zones, like they're going to jump all over that stuff. They did and it led to some turnover worthy plays at Tulane. And the other thing here, too, he stays on his initial read for far too long. There are a lot of times where instead of going, all right, my first read's not open, I'm going to go to my second or third read.My first read's not open. I'm going to stick with him, though. Let's see if he gets open over here. Nope. All right. I'm going to still stick with him. Let's see if he gets open over here. Nope. All right. I'm going to still stick with him. Let's see if he gets open over here. Nope. All right.And it's like, all of a sudden, you're like, he's way too much time in the pocket going on one read. Like, let's get off that read. Let's get to another one. Let's get to a checkdown. Let's get to something different. But he goes through and he'll lock on his first guy and he'll just kind of carry him through the entire route, hoping that he opens up at some point. And a lot of times it just doesn't end up happening. Sometimes it does.And sometimes he throws this crazy, like, well, first window wasn't open, second window wasn't open, third window wasn't open. Somehow I've still got the ball and I've read this receiver the entire time. And now he's opened on the fourth window. But those things aren't going to fly quite as much in the NFL ORG. Needs to do a much better job of looking off defenders. There was signs of progress with this in 2023.But I thought there were still far too many times where, again, locking on one receiver, getting a little bit of that tunnel vision, throwing deep down the field and what's happening, that post safety is reading his eyes and he's drifting over to that spot. And it did lead to some interceptions this past season. He threw far more interceptable throws than the interceptions would indicate.Like I said, there was one drive where it was three straight, or not three consecutive, but three plays on one drive where he threw interceptable passes. It just happened to be that all of them were dropped. That will happen. And I do feel like he puts too many throws in harm's way with the risk of interceptions.So even though they didn't show up in the box score of having these high interception numbers, there were more interceptable throws out there that could have and should have been picked and he just needs to do a better job of taking care of the ball. He has inconsistent accuracy. There are games where he looks like he's on fire and just in a zone and will hit wide receiver after wide receiver after wide receiver in stride all layers of the field.There are other games where, and you will see him miss easy throws, just the layups. We talked about this with Jordan Love earlier last season where you just wanted to see him hit the layups. There would be layups for Pratt PERSON that were missed. There are a lot of deep ball inaccuracies that need to get cleaned up. And that can come with time.Those are developmental things that you work on. We saw Jordan Love in year four last year. It takes steps not only to begin the year, but middle of the year, end of the year, to get better at that stuff. It doesn't happen necessarily just in college or overnight. It's going to take time. But he needs to get better with his accuracy.A lot of receivers having to adjust to his throws as well instead of being able to continue on and just kind of run through the catch and get big yards after the catch. Instead, they're adjusting to his pass because it wasn't the most accurate. He does not do a great job of feeling pressure at all.He kind of lacks that internal clock. He'll hold the ball and he'll just get huge hits. And some of those lead to fumbles, he's got to find a way to get a better feel for what's going on around him because it almost was like uncanny of him not recognizing some plays where defenders were coming clean.I don't know if offensive linemen were not giving them the signal of like get rid of the ball, whatever it might be. But he's got to develop a little bit better feel for that because he took some major hits and put the ball in risk because of those hits with some fumbles as well. So just trying to speed up that clock a little bit and have a better feel for what's going on around him. It's a good, but he does not have a great arm.We're not talking about a howitzer here. We're not talking about some high level, you know, arm talent that can throw unbelievable, you know, just dimes can throw unbelievable, you know, just dimes with power on any level of the field. He can get there and he's got a good enough arm. No question about it, but it's definitely not a great arm.We kind of talked about this, but needs to utilize his checkdowns a little bit more. Definitely leaves some plays on the field by dropping his eyes and running rather than keeping his eyes down field to throw. There are definitely plays on tape where he does do that, keeps his eyes down field and will hit some throws. But I thought there was still some meat on the bone where he could continue to get better on that.And then last but not least, he lacks any real true elite trait. He doesn't have a huge arm, doesn't have huge athleticism, doesn't necessarily have any one thing. He has the smaller hands, whatever it is.He's a lot of really good traits and traits that I think are worth developing and certainly worth taking a flyer here in the late seventh round. This should have been a quarterback who went much earlier, in my opinion. This is a gift in the late seventh round. So Green Bay will gladly take it. But he doesn't necessarily have any elite thing at his disposal.And usually you need at least one thing that you're elite at. And maybe it just becomes the intangibles, the toughness. Who knows? Maybe it does become something. But that's something else. He's got to develop that one thing that he's just going to be ultra great atand then sort of continue to develop the rest of his game from there. But there's not a ton that there are like huge, huge red flags either, which is a really good sign. And again, another great sort of quarterback to try to develop early in his career in Green Bay.

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Speaking of which, what can he bring to the Packers in 2024?

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Number one, competition for Sean Clifford PERSON.

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Number two, a new developmental quarterback to work with Tom Clements PERSON.

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I talked about this before, but we don't know how much longer Tom Clements PERSON is going to be around as a member of the Packers ORG coaching staff. So if you can get another young, talented developmental quarterback in here to get some tutelage under Tom Clements PERSON, now is the time. Take advantage of it. And Green Bay did that by picking up Pratt in the seventh round.He has to earn his roster spot first. No guarantee on the 53 when you're a late seventh round pick. Would they keep three quarterbacks? Yeah, absolutely. If he's good enough and shows potential and Clifford PERSON stays on the path that he's on, the trajectory that he's on, you don't want to subject those guys to waivers.You're going to keep them on the 53. You'll figure out the roster math with the other positions as needed. Call guys up from the practice squad if you need to. But that's the first thing for Pratt is show that you're worthy of getting that 53 man roster spot and then work your way up from there and maybe try to, like I said, earn that backup spot from Sean Clifford PERSON.The order of operations here is make the 53, then try to develop into the true backup quarterback, into a good backup quarterback, and then can you be a top end backup quarterback, and then can you eventually be a starter? And I like this.

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I think he has the ability to become a, I'm not talking about a top 15 quarterback in the NFL ORG, but if you told me he was like a starter, even if it was like the 30th best quarterback in the NFL ORG, and say, yeah, I think that's within the realm of possibility.And when you're taking that late seventh round, one step out of time, I'm, I would, that's a beautiful, beautiful value at that point in the draft. So my final thoughts here, lacks any ideal traits, but it's easy to see what Green Bay likes. He's a great fit in the Matt Lafleur offense.I think he's going to benefit more from being under center in the NFL ORG in the college game. He was a lot in the shotgun and spread offense. I think Matt LaFleur's PERSON offense is actually going to be super beneficial for him. Just needs to get a little bit better feel for the game, a little bit better field vision, feel, you know, a little bit better feel for the pocket presence and guys closing in on him.But if you get some of that, I think there is some real upside here. And like I said, could potentially be a bottom tier starter in the NFL ORG at some point, which again, at the end of round seven is just phenomenal value and something you'll take a chance on every single time

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and every late round pick in the draft. So love this for Green Bay. I think this is super

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value and love the job that Goody did acquiring this type of talent late in the seventh round.

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All right. That's going to do it for me today. Thank you so much again for joining me.

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