Nate Sudfeld Released, Hendon Takes Backup QB

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00:00Kang, we have a woe.

00:03Oh!

00:04I don't think this is a huh, I think this is a woe.

00:10I'm ready, man.

00:11Ian Rappaport, Source, the Lions are releasing quarterback Nate Sudfeld, who spent plenty

00:20of time as the number two quarterback.

00:22Now it appears it's Hendon Hooker who has won the job.

00:26Sudfeld has impressed plenty in practice without a ton of game reps and will find

00:30his way into a practice squad at the least.

00:35So this wouldn't have been a woe had we not, I mean, the way they were talking about Sudfeld,

00:40he didn't even play the last preseason game.

00:42Maybe, okay, so what they did clearly the last preseason game was to make sure Hendon

00:46Hooker was ready.

00:47That's why they gave him all those reps almost the entire game, right?

00:51No seriously, we know what we have in Sudfeld.

00:54We know exactly what we have.

00:56You stay here.

00:57I was just thinking back to what I said yesterday about this, and apparently we reached it yesterday.

01:05The tipping point is that at some point we're going to reach a tipping point where Hendon

01:14Hooker, they deem him good enough to be their number two quarterback.

01:21And that tipping point apparently was either Sunday or Monday because here on Tuesday

01:29morning, according to Ian Rappaport, the Lions are releasing Nate Sudfeld.

01:36Whoa.

01:38That leaves an open spot for a defensive lineman, a cornerback, you know?

01:44It does.

01:45A wide receiver.

01:46I think Isaiah Williams has a much better shot of making the team now.

01:48I mean, there's, yeah, right now Isaac Ukwu is like, oh, did I make it?

01:55Or they've identified a player that they are going to pick up off the waiver wire.

02:03To replace Sudfeld?

02:04Like another quarterback you mean?

02:05Like Bailey Zappi is available.

02:07Yeah, no, I would think it's a wide receiver.

02:11Do they want Isaiah Hudgens?

02:12Do they want Tim Patrick?

02:16Sure.

02:17Do they want Dan Robinson?

02:18Do they have another deal in place?

02:22I think this is really interesting.

02:26And you're right.

02:27The reason why this is a woe was Dan Campbell's, what he had to say about him last week.

02:33Going into that last preseason game, he said Nate Sudfeld had the upper hand, right?

02:37Yes.

02:38He said it last week.

02:39So here's the thing about it.

02:40Now you can look at this a variety of ways.

02:43I know how this works.

02:44Some people say Dan Campbell was lying.

02:48I don't think that's the case.

02:49I think they were so impressed with Nate Sudfeld on Sunday.

02:53I came away impressed with Nate Sudfeld on Sunday.

02:55I didn't think he was perfect.

02:58But it's Hendon Hooker.

03:01You are the backup quarterback in Detroit.

03:04According to Ian Rappaport, Nate Sudfeld will be released.

03:10I'm not even going to ask this question because typically we do this under these circumstances.

03:16I just don't think it applies here.

03:20Typically we would say, is there going to be any ruin?

03:25Dude, good luck unless Nate Sudfeld's family's listening and no one's calling in.

03:31I feel bad because Nate Sudfeld came in and he did his best and he was a part of the team

03:36and he was clearly a confidant and a sounding board for Jared Goff.

03:40All these things that they really liked about him.

03:43Mark Brunel liked about him.

03:44I don't want to trash the guy.

03:46But I don't know that we literally got one call saying, no, I think Nate Sudfeld.

03:50I think they're fine.

03:52I think some people accepted that he might be ahead of Hendon Hooker and that might have

03:57been the case.

03:59I think Sunday might have been the tipping point.

04:03I was going to tweet out one day.

04:05Is there anyone, this was like, you know, no sarcasm intended.

04:08Is there anyone that thinks Sudfeld should be the second quarterback?

04:12Who are the Sudfeld supporters?

04:14Because we never got that.

04:16In fact, Doug, after the last preseason game, we got more support for Jake Fromm than Nate

04:22Sudfeld.

04:23Who hasn't been cut yet.

04:25We'll get carried away.

04:28That would be a woe.

04:30This is not enough of a woe, that would be another woe.

04:33So you think it's not the go get Bailey Zappi or Mike White or a quarterback that's been,

04:40you know.

04:41Trade for...

04:42Yeah, but this is more like a get a receiver or open up a spot for Hudgens.

04:45God, why am I blanking?

04:46Who's Gator's guy, the kid that was with the Jets that was a disaster?

04:49Zach Wilson.

04:50Zach Wilson.

04:51Go get Zach Wilson.

04:52No, I don't think it's any of that.

04:54I think they're going to either put Nate Sudfeld or Jake Fromm on the practice squad.

04:59Oh, probably Sudfeld.

05:01If he gets through and look, I mean, Rappaport speculated immediately that he will end up

05:07on someone's practice squad, but that I did not see coming.

05:14That fast.

05:15Hold on.

05:16Let me be correct.

05:17I saw it coming.

05:18I've talked about it yesterday.

05:19I said there'd be a tipping point.

05:22I just was way off on when that tipping point would come.

05:26So there you go.

05:28Hendon Hooker did enough Sunday.

05:31He's the backup quarterback in Detroit.

05:332-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.

05:37Carson Anderson, a big news there.

05:40I'm going to cross a name out.

05:41We now have...

05:42Remember I said there were 15 obvious cuts?

05:44You didn't have Sudfeld as an obvious cut.

05:45There are still 15 obvious cuts.

05:47I did not put this in the obvious cut camp, but I'm working my way through the roster.

05:54Cross that name off.

05:56Hendon Hooker's your number two quarterback, Detroit.

05:58How do you feel about it?

05:592-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.

06:04I'm excited.

06:06I'm excited because I liked a lot of what that kid showed on Sunday or Saturday.

06:11Said as much yesterday.

06:13He had a couple of throws where I was really impressed.

06:17Like the running thing, it feels like that...

06:20He doesn't feel, look, slowed at all physically or mentally for that matter by the knee injury.

06:28Really comfortable moving around the field.

06:30Probably needs to work on sliding.

06:31He did take another big hit this past weekend.

06:35But the quarterback in the incubator is already the number two.

06:43And good for him.

06:45Good for him and I think good for us.

06:47Yeah, I'm happy.

06:48Because that means they don't have to keep a third quarterback.

06:51They can make themselves better somewhere else.

06:55It's so funny when your football team is good and you're really straining over the

06:59last few spots on the roster, which is what we're doing.

07:04You're absolutely right, Doug.

07:05Keeping three quarterbacks, really, if you're trying to get to the next step, you need that

07:11spot.

07:12I don't care who it's for.

07:14But if you're solidified with Hendon Hooker as your backup, you feel confident, if he's

07:18shown enough.

07:19He still has a ceiling, by the way, right?

07:22Yeah.

07:23Use that roster spot on someone else who can help this team get to the Super Bowl, man.

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