The Las Vegas Raiders WILL DRAFT *Michael Penix Jr.* (if they're smart)

So all Michael Penix had to do for you guys is run a 4-4 and now y'all come crawling back to daddy. There's a select handful of people, and by select handful I mean like three, who have said from the very tippy top of the beginning that Michael Penix was the guy we should draft. In fact, in the Madden series I'm currently running on Patreon, and then at some point before the draft all the videos will be up online, I drafted Michael Penix Jr. and I'm currently playing games with him. If you want to see those games, go to patreon.com slash Alvaro Reyes, link is in the description below. And it wasn't like I was coming on here and saying, well, Caleb Williams will be gone and Jayden Daniels will be gone, so we should probably draft Penix because he'll be the best available guy with the best value at the number 13 selection. Wrong! I was saying all the quarterbacks in one pool. if I could have Caleb Williams, McCarthy, Drake May, Penix, Bo Nix, Jaden Daniels. Michael Penix Jr. was my guy. And if you're new to this channel, I will explain to you why I think that is the case. I have been known to get right which quarterbacks will be good or bad in the National Football League and I'm pretty simple with my philosophy. Can you make the right reads? Can you make them accurately? Can you stay in the pocket in the face of pressure? And this guy can do all of those things. The literal only reason why he's not being picked as high as people think he should be is because he's injury prone. Even though last season he didn't get hurt at all especially when he got knocked around in the national championship game did you think Washington was going to go to the national championship game last year when the season started no but this guy got him there along with a lot of talented people no doubt about it no doubt about it Michael Penix Jr. is not a stiff statue pocket passer he can run he's athletic again another thing I've been preaching to nobody because everyone thought I was crazy to say I would take someone like him over someone like Caleb Williams but now in his pro day he runs a 4-4-5 and like I said in the intro you come crawling back to daddy now every Raider fan under the sun is like we gotta get this guy don't even trade back not in the second round we gotta get him at 13 and the reason why said so early that I wanted him is because if you say it now it looks like you have resided to the fact resided resided you're resigned to the fact that we're not gonna be able to trade up to get one of these top three guys or four guys so now you're like well you know what this guy was looking better better and it's only because he's gonna be available at 13 right right when I stuck my flag in the Michael Penix bandwagon i'm basically the owner of the bandwagon and people have hopped on from time to time and people have been saying this, yes there are a few out there but the reason why we would be such a good fit for Penix is not only because we have wide receivers who are going to get open instantaneously like Dre Tucker, Jacoby Myers, Davante Adams, don't know why i said them in that order, let's move on from that but it's because we are uniquely situated to have people ready to go if he gets hurt and I was saying this before we signed Minshew Mania I said we have Aiden O'Connell ready to go if Penix gets drafted beats him out and gets hurt we got someone who's already been in the system and now we got someone like Minshew who can be a mentor to Aiden and Penix we are the perfectly situated team to draft this guy would I take him at 13 overall even though I told you that he is by far the best quarterback in this draft no just because I think he's the best quarterback in this draft doesn't mean I think he's a first ballot surefire hall of famer I think he has the potential to be the best of all of them but I don't know if he's going to be that right away or if he's going to be that at all I don't know if any of these quarterbacks are going to be good say hello to the 2021 draft class by the way you've seen that picture floating around of Minshew stats versus Trevor Lawrence's stats I'm gonna leave it alone but what I'll say is this in terms of the draft it's all about value right Cleveland Farrell bad value Max Crosby good value I believe because there's going to be so many quarterbacks and receivers taken in the top half of this draft we will be able to get a surefire hall of fame type player on the defensive side of the football or along the offensive line if we make the right selection with the 13th pick and I'm not ready to risk not getting one of those guys to take a chance on Michael Penix if he's not going to be the best player ever right so here's what I'm proposing we draft somebody at 13 whether it's a Byron Young whether it's a corner and then if you think he's gonna fall to your next pick I think you're crazy so you got to trade back up whether it's back into the first round, whether it's higher into the second round, you got to be sure that wherever you trade, you're going to be able to get him. There's another scenario in which we trade back and then trade back up, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm not a GM. I don't have all the answers for you, okay? I don't know what it's going to take to get from 40 whatever in the second round back into the first round. I don't know where he's going to fall. Could he go in the top 10 yes could he fall to the third round maybe I don't know all I know is this Michael Penix since day one has been the person that I said has the potential to be the best of all of these guys that does not mean listen carefully that does not mean I think he's going to be good immediately or at all it's about the ceiling and to me this guy's got the biggest ceiling but because I'm not positive as to whether or not he can be that good yet there's no Andrew Luck or Joe Burrow in this draft i wouldn't take him 13th overall all that to say if they do take him at 13 overall i'm gonna go through the freaking roof because that tells me this Tom Telesco and AP believe in this guy and i believe in their ability to evaluate talent Antonio Pierce in one move probably got our number one corner in Jack Jones and that was with an interim champ Kelly GM who's still there in the building by the way so if they think and Tom Telesco had a hand in drafting Andrew Luck and he drafted Justin Herbert that this is the right guy for 13 I'm totally fine with it it's not my ideal situation or scenario but I'm not paid millions of dollars to make the picks which is something you kind of have to remember when we give our opinions here we don't have all the tools at our disposal so we can only go off of what we see with our eyeballs and what's going on in our brain holes and right now Penix is my guy and I think it's absolutely hilarious that it took a 40 time for people to finally get on the bandwagon and go you know what maybe the injuries don't matter maybe it don't matter and listen if we draft him and he gets hurt all the time oh well we took a shot and I think our team is uniquely situated to be able to win now even if we don't hit on this first pick in the draft if it ends up being Michael Penix we won eight games we could have won 10 easily we could flip a couple wins right now without drafting anybody else I'm not saying that it's likely but it's possible so if we hit on a couple later guys it makes up for the fact that we drafted somebody who doesn't play all the time because he keeps getting hurt I don't know if the Falcons should take him at eight I don't know if the Giants should take him at five because those are teams that are in kind of this weird limbo but i think a team like us that's a quarterback away but has multiple quarterbacks ready to take the reins if he gets hurt or if he isn't ready i don't know how you don't say we are the perfect situation for him like i think if he goes to denver i mean he's toast who's he throwing to like that that team is is is abysmal that team is nothing and at least we have some weapons to be able to usher this guy into the next phase of his career and just like Patrick Mahomes he could come into the league sit a whole year under Minshew or under Aiden or whatever and then that next year bang he comes in and he's lockstep with the offense with Luke Getsy with AP with Devontae and another year in the system and we're ready to rock and freaking roll man I think we have to consider Michael Penix Jr. I also want to get out in front of this in case there are some people they're going to comment this because i feel like it could be coming i know there's a contingent of people out there who are thinking but didn't you say that aiden is the guy and that they shouldn't draft anybody and blah blah blah yeah i did say that and i still believe that i think you would be absolutely foolish to just throw aiden aside because he didn't i don't know make the playoffs last year i mean he went 500 in the games he played without josh mcdaniels and everyone wants to throw this in my face. You know, in that Chiefs game, he didn't complete a pass after the first quarter. You want that being our franchise quarterback? That is such a fake stat because we threw the ball eight more times the rest of the game. Three of them were pass interference calls that didn't count, and two of them were drops. So it's not exactly something to go off of. The point you can make is, yeah, we lost the game three to nothing to the Vikings. Sure, sure. But that's going to happen. Derek Carr's rookie year had a game against the Rams where they lost 59 to nothing. Did Aiden have any of those games? No. So I wouldn't throw him to the wolves. I would not let him go because I think he has the potential to become a Jared Goff type player. And Jared Goff was a couple of plays away from the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers in San Francisco. What am I saying? There's nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. And I think our team right now is in a unique situation to be able to acquire assets that they don't even really need to see which ones become the best ones that they can take moving forward. So do I think if we draft Penix, he'll beat Aiden out? I have no idea. I think they're both good players. I think Aiden has the upper hand. He's QB1 right now, even with Minshew in the room. And I think Aiden's going to beat out Minshew. But either way, competition breeds the best people. And I have nothing wrong with healthy competition. The ball is in your court now. The ball is in your field. It doesn't really ring. What are your thoughts? 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