Brandon Weeden

I mean, this guy ate half of a saltine to keep him going.

And then 2011, after we, we played down at Oklahoma State, they were ranked number two in the country I think, Brandon Weeden, Justin Blackmon, Collin Klein, 52 to 45 was the final score.

We lost, uh, with the ball on the, on the one or two going in, couldn't get it in, and, uh, we get on the bus after that game, and it was a, it was just a brutal football game.

Uh, earthquake hit Stillwater that night, just a wild evening.

We got him.

Brandon Weeden, 43.

Cowboy.

Double cowboy.

That's, that's what I've been preaching to the choir about, you gotta get eyes on, because he genuinely might go down as the greatest Cowboy quarterback of all time.

Now, statistically, obviously he's not gonna catch Mason and, and Weeden because they were here for multiple years.

Mm-hmm.

But as you had mentioned, and I gotta give you credit, buddy, in the off-season when we were doing the squad shows and some of the other hosts were saying, "Oh, I gotta see it to believe it with Messamaker.

Drew Mestemaker is a large part of the reason that Justin Boek has excelled the way that he has.

Almost at 500 yards, like he's turned himself into an NFL wide receiver, and a large portion of that is because of Drew Mestemaker, and those are the things that we haven't seen in Cowboy country in a long time.

Again, even going back to Brandon Weeden and Mason Rudolph, I don't know that they had control of the offense so good that they could teach the wide receivers how to run the routes better and be in the right spots, and identification of the difference between zone and press man.

And that's the, um, I think it's the, the winning formula for Drew Mestemaker that does separate him from most of the other quarterbacks in the country.

And he had success with all of them.

Like, he's done Air Raid with, um, you know, Oklahoma State and, and, and Brandon Weeden back in the day.

And then he's, like, you know, kind of molded his Air Raid scheme with, like, the ground and pound of, like, Georgia and, and, and that power scheme and running a bunch of tight ends.

And then obviously, like, in, in Cleveland and Tampa, and even in Baltimore recently, you know, like, um, even, like, you know, his second year getting Derrick Henry and you go from, like, a whole bunch of, you know, spread shotgun to kind of doing a little bit more under center.

He had led them to some great teams.

I still say his 2011 team should have been playing against LSU in the national championship game, that Brandon Weeden team.

They sh- they should have been in the playoff, not Bama.

So I mean, it's, it's just really fascinating to watch it play, watch them both play, Trev, and, and to, to, to watch these two teams just, just play the game in, in ways that, that I think are somewhat surprising to people because you think Oklahoma State, you think Drew Mestemaker throwing the ball over the field.

... future franchise.

Brandon Weeden all over again, basically.

[laughs]

You end up with Dylan Raiola in 2028 draft.