First Things First - Storytime with Wildes | 4 Odd Questions To AFC East Quarterbacks

Episode Date: August 12, 2025

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Okay, I think I'm going to call this four odd questions about the AFC East, or four odd questions to AFC East quarterbacks, or four interesting yet somewhat off the wall questions about the quarterbacks in the AFC East. You can choose whatever you think rings true with you. Question number one is going to Drake May. Drake May, your question is this, and it's very simple. you be better than Mac Jones? That's all we need to know. And I'm a huge Mac Jones guy. That's all we need to figure out. Are you better than Mac Jones? Because you and Mac Jones have gone opposite routes, right? Mac Jones, highly accomplished in college, comes into a good situation with Bill Belichick

and Josh McDaniels, makes the playoffs, then everything changes and gets worse. And he has a defensive coordinator for an offensive coordinator and his career unfortunately has gone down before maybe it's coming back up if you see grant cohn's stats give it a look he's right up there with brock under chanahan just saying Drake may's going the other way nice college career in north carolina is not Alabama roll tide gets into a not a great situation but just a learning year now you have gotten yourself into a great situation and you guys have the same offensive coordinator. Under Josh McDaniels, the Patriots had the sixth best scoring offense in the entire league with Mac Jones. That's why I fell in love with Mac Jones. He also

throws a pillowee ball. But we had the six best scoring offense. The year previous, we had the 27th best scoring offense with Cam Newton. Now, Cam Arm wasn't the way it was in Carolina, Cam. So we did a lot of running plays, courtesy of Josh McDaniels. So now Josh McDaniel should be able to combine all the running stuff he used with Cam, all the throwing pillowy ball stuff he used with Mac Jones, combine them into you. No one ever says that. Everyone's like, oh, he's kind of like,

Drake's kind of like Josh Allen. No one's ever like, like, you know, he's kind of like a combo of Cam Newton and Mac Jones. Here's the other bonus question. Did I say four questions? Now we're up to five. Is this graphic for real? It's factually true because Josh doesn't only puts out bangers. Most yards per rush.

It's Michael Vick. It's Randall Cunningham. It is Drake May. It is Eagle of Michael Vick. And then it is Falcons Michael Vick. Drake May, you're in there. How much are we going to see of this? Like all of a sudden, like, holy cow, do we have Michael Vick on the team?

Do we have a combination of Michael Vic, Randall Cunningham, Mack Jones, and Cam Newton with Tom Brady's OC? Hello? How many questions is that? We might be up to six questions because that's another one. I have up to six questions. So that's six, but now I have my next question. That's done with the papers. Moving on. This is the story. Justin Fields. Are you going to be like me at the club? This is a story. One fateful night, I went out to a nightclub, a posh nightclub. Do people use? the word posh in america i'm going to a posh nightclub and i walked in but it was late it's not like now when i go to posh nightclubs at 545 uh the lights are on people are like cleaning why are you here you're to be posh um

so i'm in this posh nightclub and do a loop that you walk around and there's stairs coming down this posh nightclub and i'm walking down the posh stairs and i see this beautiful woman look directly at me and like waved a little bit and i said oh my gosh this is a punch this is this just doesn't happen i'm not like some hideous ogre but this is this not how the world works w this might be your new wife the record i was single i don't I don't want me to know. I walk down the posh stairs. This woman and I are like locked.

We're in lockstep. We're just connect. We're like Travis Kelsey and Patrick Mahomes. Like, wow, we have a connection right now that we don't even have to talk to each other. And she's looking at me and I'm looking at her and she's having a blast and I'm in a posh nightclub. You know, it's crowded. So I'm navigating this posh nightclub. All these posh people I'm getting past.

I got to go see this. Patrick Mohan, Travis Gelson. We're navigating, navigating, and we're still just locked in. And I come over to her little area. And she starts to stand up and, like, offer me, like, some sort of hug. I was like, what in the world? This is odd. This is a true story.

She stands up, and I'm coming this way, and goes like this, and hugs the guy behind me. This dude had been behind me. me the entire time. It's her friend. Obviously. Obviously. Night's over. The night is over. You cannot come back from a confidence shatterer like that. Is that Justin Fields when he plays the Steelers week one? That's the question. I believe in Aaron Glenn. I kind of believe in Justin Fields because I saw his potentially he had one of the best games of his life against the Patriots that night.

even the member mac jones hit a ball hit a wire like what's going on mac jones and then we're taking out moral story it's not about the patriot it's about justin feels but it's an odd switcheroo between the steelers and the jets when the jets like man we don't want erin rogers stills we'll take mrs we don't want justin fields it's just we'll take justin fields whoever wins that game is going to feel some kind of way but erin rogers i'm not wearing about Aaron Rogers' confidence being crushed. He's got four MVP. He's got a Super Bowl ring. He already has a resume.

If he went, oh, for 17, he's old. What are you going to do? Justin Fields is trying to come back here. If he loses that game to a team that actually doesn't want him, does that crush his confidence early in the night, like me in a posh nightclub? Question number eight. seven or eight

I have two questions for Josh Allen the actually more interesting one is this Carl Malone in the regular season against Michael Jordan 12 and 11 in the post season against Michael Jordan 4 and 8

it's kind of Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes right if Patrick Mahomes is the Jordan of this era but that's not really what I'm super interested in because everybody has that take here's the interesting thing is Josh Allen, I wrote a savant, and watch Josh Allen interacting with fans on the sidelines or players' families.

There's a famous clip he goes over to, I don't know if it's a former bill, and he knows the wife and the kids and knows all about them. It's like, wow, what a good guy. then all this training camp he has met people fans that he's met before and he just strikes up conversations they've met before in charity events and not only does Josh Allen seem like a top five human being walking the earth on how much attention he is giving to these fans and how much he is sincerely enjoying his time with I think it's kids from hospitals or different people there's another one. where there's military families and Josh Allen takes off his hat to greet them. Like Josh Allen's his situational awareness and emotional or like EQ seems to be at savant-esque levels. How does that translate to the football field? I'm like seeing the field and knowing everything and processing everything. Something, but there's so many, there's been several training camp videos.

that have come out this year that make me think that this guy is operating at a different level than when I see, you know, one of my son's good friends' parents and I'm like, hey, how is? Oh, I know you live in town. I know you live in town. I know it.

You're one of my sons, one of my sons' friends' parents. the name is how's work Josh Allen be like boom boom boom final question what question

are we on John 9 10 when is Tua going to get the respect that he deserves I was in a federal penitentiary

you're going to walk right up to the toughest guy in the yard punch him right in the face before he can you know punch you

or make you kill somebody you got to get here with him I'll be honestly, that's not a true story. But when people talk about Tua, why don't they say Tua is obviously one of the best

quarterbacks in Lue? Most yards per game by a quarterback wide receiver duo in the last two seasons. Dak and C.D. Lamb, Joe Barra Jemar Chase, obviously. Stafford and Puka. And then in between, Tu and Tyree.

A lot of people say, well, Wilds. Tyre Kill. just throw the ball down there and Tyree Kill catches it. Okay. Tyree Kill with the Dolphins. 2023, he averaged 112 yards and 13 touchdowns. 2024, he average 56 yards a game with six touchdowns. The games without Tua, he average 44 yards and zero touchdowns.

So why does everybody say it's Tua's success as Tareek dependent and not the other way. When I have the stats here, I say the guy average 44 yards and no touch on. Oh, but who was throwing on the ball? Okay. Who was throwing Malik Neighbors the ball? Malik Neighbors still put up great numbers.

And he went to that Travis Scott concert, too, even though he's fresh from being injured. To his numbers, 2022, he leads the league in touchdown percentage. 2023, he leads the league in yards. 2024, he leads the league in completion percentage. every year he leads the league in some like important quarterback stat and every year someone like ah toa though yeah tua because he left-handed what's the deal so can he a get the respect

that he deserves b mend the relationship with tyreek tarreek boarded the plane today with a toa jersey which is nice tyreeks kind of after the game is he going to say he wants to be traded you never know So those are you're not, I was supposed to ask four. I was supposed to ask for. Here are the four. One, can Drake may be better than Mack Jones? Two, when are people going to start respecting tour? Three, is Josh Allen a low-key savant genius?

And four, is Justin Fields going to be like me in the club? We'll find out this NFL season.