Hendon Hooker or Daniel Jones?

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00:00Gator, I think the Detroit Lions should sign Daniel Jones.

00:04I think the Detroit Lions are about the business this year of trying to win the Super Bowl.

00:12And Daniel Jones has become a punching bag, he's become a punchline, he's become a joke.

00:19Jordan Schultz, the Fox Insider, said there's significant interest in Daniel Jones out there.

00:25He expected the Ravens, Vikings, Lions, 49ers, and Dolphins to all pursue him.

00:32According to Adam Schefter, he said look for Baltimore and Minnesota to go after him.

00:39Daniel Jones would come to Detroit and be a veteran backup.

00:43And it comes down to the answer to this question.

00:47If the Lions have to win a home playoff game against Atlanta on a Sunday, who would you

00:53rather have starting a quarterback, Daniel Jones or Hendon Hooker?

00:59And based upon the information available to us, it would be Daniel Jones for me.

01:05And I was reading Kevin O'Connell's comments about how much they really liked Daniel Jones

01:09when he was coming out and he visited and he met with teams.

01:14And for the Lions it would probably come down to that, you know, how much familiarity do

01:18they have with him as a person, would he fit?

01:21But I would take a veteran quarterback who started two playoff games and went 24th for

01:2535 and threw for over 300 yards, two touchdowns and no picks on the road and beat a 13 and

01:314 Minnesota team versus a guy who has 33 career snaps and nine pass attempts.

01:36And I know that Daniel Jones is a punchline.

01:38I know that Daniel Jones has been beat up publicly.

01:42But think about that.

01:44If you had to win a playoff game on a Sunday and your choices were an extraordinarily inexperienced

01:51Hendon Hooker or Daniel Jones, who's more likely to give you that win?

01:57And to me, the answer would be Daniel Jones to the Lions and the answer might be different.

02:03And I've experienced this because, you know, I've been to Michigan practice and seen stuff

02:07at practice that makes their decisions on the field seem more obvious.

02:12In Lions practice, they might all caps love what they're seeing from Hendon Hooker.

02:19Now the question you come up with is just because he did in practice doesn't mean he

02:22can do it in the games, but they might have a different opinion of Hendon Hooker than

02:26what we have because to us, to me at least, Hendon Hooker is a complete and total unknown

02:30at this juncture.

02:31I like him as a prospect.

02:32I think there's reason to be moderately encouraged, but it's such very, very little.

02:42So anyway, I'd pursue Daniel Jones and I'd somewhat aggressively pursue Daniel Jones.

02:47Yeah, I would not, not even come close to him.

02:50I would avoid him at all costs.

02:51I think he's proven what he is.

02:53He's a bad quarterback in the NFL, period.

02:56And great, he's got two games of playoff experience that he had and, you know, split those games.

03:04They had the one nice game against the Vikings, but he still is what he is.

03:07He's a career 84 rated quarterback.

03:10That's terrible in today's NFL.

03:13I would rather have the guy who has been here for two, for almost two seasons now as an

03:18apprentice who knows the offense at this point, who's actually worked with these players than

03:23to bring in somebody completely new who wasn't able to run the offense that he was in prior.

03:28So why would I want to bring him in here?

03:29Just because he's a veteran and that's, it's not good enough for me.

03:33If he was a good veteran, I'd consider it, but he's not.

03:36He's a bad player and I don't want him anywhere near this team.

03:40I think a player like Daniel Jones would look a lot different behind the Detroit Lions

03:44offensive line.

03:45I think a player like Daniel Jones would look a lot different throwing to Lions receivers.

03:50I think a player like Daniel Jones would look a lot different with this Lions offense coordinator

03:55and rushing attack.

03:56Now, his skill set, does it match up with what Ben Johnson would actually covet?

04:02I'm not sure about that.

04:04But again, it doesn't come back to what he's been.

04:08But to me, it's who gives you a better shot to win if in an emergency break glass situation.

04:14And if you bring Daniel Jones in now, that emergency break glass situation is the postseason.

04:20Yeah, no, again, for me, it's, it's, it's hooker because he, I understand what you're

04:25saying, but I want the guy who's actually worked with this offense and hooker has worked

04:29with this offense and the experience, he wasn't a ton that he got in the preseason, but you

04:35saw a little bit that you liked in the preseason.

04:38He gets thrown into the situation at the end of the game and the end of a laugher,

04:41he doesn't look out of place, looks comfortable back there.

04:43I got it.

04:44It's, you know, it's in mop up time.

04:46I don't care.

04:47I think he's, he's got the talent.

04:49I think he's got confidence and I'd rather see him run this ship than to see Daniel Jones

04:55do it.

04:56Daniel Jones had the best running back in football and they couldn't do anything.

04:58He's had, you know, one season where he threw for 3,200 yards in that playoff year where

05:04they were nine, six and one, he threw for 3,200 yards and only 15 touchdown passes.

05:11It's he's not a good quarterback.

05:13Well, to say he couldn't do anything is, you know, he led a team to the playoffs and won

05:18a playoff game, which is more than Hendon hooker has, but two, four, eight, five, three,

05:23nine, 97, 97.

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