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Updated College QB Watch List for Week 2

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Ken Carman and Anthony Lima update their college quarterback watch list, debating whether to drop Byron Brown for Trinidad Chambliss after Brown's rough Week 1, and marveling at Darian Mensah going 14 of 15 in a game shortened to 55 minutes. They preview Saturday's marquee matchups, including Julian Sayin vs. Arch Manning and Michigan's John Mateer against Oklahoma, and land on Dante Moore, Chambliss, and Mensah as their current top three "if the draft were today." The segment also touches on Mike Rutenberg's tough preseason talk and closes with a Cam Ward shoutout tied to Netflix's quarterback documentary.

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Updated College QB Watch List for Week 2

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The Ken Carman Show with Anthony LimaUpdated College QB Watch List for Week 2. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Hey, it's Jen Hatmaker. Here's what I've learned in midlife. Joy isn't the reward you earn after all the work is done. Joy is the work. That's what this new series on For the Love is all about. The sacred, yes. It's choosing delight, rest, and pleasure on purpose. Because saying yes to yourself, that's the thing that finally lets you fill your table with everybody else. Come find your sacred yes with me. Follow and listen to For the Love wherever you get your podcasts. Who am I most nervous for? It's Mike Rootent, Tutton, Frittenberg. Hit it. When you can. Not now. Hit it. I'm sorry. When you can. He was talking tough and people got very cynical about this yesterday. Fire knows. I can't wait to see our preparation, hopefully come

to life and we're built off of violence. And that's what we're looking for in every play. We must be making a lot of mistakes because I don't think I've heard of Bronze Coach actually have their full throat voice throughout this entire preseason. My kids aren't going to play football after listening to that. Too dangerous. Coach talking violence like that. I mean, you make the joke, but I know how Sarah Ohno thinks so good luck with all that. I know cheerleaders have more concussions per capita. That always comes up. I didn't make any arguments. Not to your face anyway. So do you when you hear that? Does that stuff translate in well with players in 2026? Well, you want your defense to be violent like there's like Jim Schwartz like the loaf plays and things like that. It just depends on how successful you are. Like I don't think Jim Schwartz changed at all during his time. And I don't know if my Grittenberg has changed. He's probably always spoken like that. But when if your defense starts to give up points because your team's not good, you're going to be met with serious criticism. When the Browns were bad under Jim Schwartz and it wasn't just all

yelled about Stofansky. What did people say when they had that one step back? You're defensively. What were people saying about Jim Schwartz? Too much dance and too much goofing off too much ass and off the choreographed dance. Yeah, the choreographed dance is Colin Greg, Greg Newsom, Michael flatly like there was a lot there. And it's it just goes hand in hand with not winning. And so people tend to get very cynical. You know, we only remember the great quotes that nobody puts up quotes from Hugh Jackson. They put up quotes from Vince Lombardi. The only ones that ever get paid attention to are the successful ones. And Mike Grittenberg may very well be a really good coach. But we'll find out what he's working with because I still think they're thin. So they could start out hotter in a hell coming up on Sunday. Trevor Lawrence has had a history of struggling against the Browns a bit. He could do a very good job. But as he starts to lose players because guys get banged up. No, what's going to happen? They're not very deep. So I want to be open minded. I want to

be excited for him. He's saying the right things. But I've also seen a lot of cynicism. But it goes hand in hand with what the Browns have been this year. Do you have the YouTube in front of you? Oh, I pulled up. Yeah, you got to pull up that he just nodded at me. So he's very paying attention. Do we have the quarterback watch? Oh, here we go. There's a little delay in that. Yeah, our favorite graphic John will be putting it off. John's going to be putting it on up there. And then you'll see it. And eventually because we have 10 quarterbacks that we pay attention to, I am not calling it a ranking. I'm calling it a watch list. Mine is a watch list. Yours is a ranking. And I'm wondering. And you only make one graph. I think I'm going to take Byron Brown off of mine. See, I'm going to put Trinidad Chambliss on after a given time. I can't do it right now. But I'm talking about Darian Mensa last night. Do you count out? You count last night. He's basically been a perfect quarterback this year. So again, they played 55 minutes of at least 14 to 15. Yeah,

in the fourth quarter, they mutually agreed on a 10 minute quarter. Correct. They only played 55 minutes. And can we slow down on the Malachi Tony is better than Jeremiah Smith's style? I saw your tweet on that. I saw people asking, Oh, who you got in the draft? Who's going to go higher? And I'm like, I don't know the guy that's four inches taller is faster runs of 4 3 40, not a 4 5. Yeah, the guy for three years, we have said the number one pick in the draft. If he was only eligible to come out, yeah, my God, I swear, we're just arguing with the kids online. We have to have these arguments. It's been set a million times. Before YouTube, they did it already. They did it with all they did it with Ryan Leif and Peyton Manning. They do it all. But I think I might have to take Byron Brown out. He was so bad week one. I'm probably going to put Trinidad Chandler's on him at the end of the day. Do we have our three quarterbacks we're watching closest coming up this weekend? Well, obviously the match up that's Johnson signal to go get those ones.

Now if you're watching on YouTube, they're going to be posted here very, very, very, very, very shortly. He's going to put those up. They're going to be white. They're going to be spectacular. I cannot wait to see what that rating is locally for the Texas game because even if you hate Ohio state, okay, then you want to see them lose. And even if you don't carry your invested one way or another, you've got to see the quarterbacks. You got to see art, which most of we're watching have to be up there already. There's not much change between ours. Does they have the graphic up yet? Probably. I hope he does. I'm waiting up there. It's up there. I'm not sitting here. We go. All right. It's a second. So the so for the prospects to watch week two, we have Julian saying and archmaning their playing in the same game against each other. Then we had an argument whether or not we needed to put Trinidad at Chandler's on there. Yeah. And I lost out. I thought we should have put Trinidad at Chandler's on there. We ended up picking John Mateer at Michigan. Big noon kickoff, Washington state transfer, yoked, right? In John Mateer yoked. They're all kind of

big. Materias CJ. CJ cars pretty ripped. Yeah. I'm excited to see that one. Obviously, Michigan after their Phantom victory last week that all of America agreed was Highway robbery for Western Michigan. Now they kind of play against Oklahoma. And what is Oklahoma ranked right now? Oh, like this, this is a huge kickoff. What a glorious day of football. Glorious day. I think it's a right. Oh, they're definitely right. I wanted to say 10, but I gotta go look now. I think they might be at the top 10. They're number 11. They're number 11. Okay. No, that's not going to get start. Well, we'll call winning him not great. Keith going up there again. If you, I'm not sure. If you were to bet, it may be a last second decision on whether he gets to Ann Arbor. If you were to bet right now, who is the number one overall pick after the games that we have seen? Who you going so far? Yeah, the real money. Dante more. Dante more. And number two overalls probably Trinidad Chamblis. Wow. And the three overalls probably Darian Mensa. If we're just going

by what we see in one and a half weeks. Yeah. Where is Jeremiah Smith going to get picked? Fourth. I don't know. This is a great chance for our men in New Orleans. I'm sorry. Fourth. You don't think they're taking him and staying with Amward. Time we cook. Cam. We've got to get it done this year. I'm rooting so hard for Cam Ward. No, that's that's a whole point. I can't have another team in the running. Like at the browns. It's the door. Sanders. Oh, also he was so damn likeable during the quarterback show on Netflix. I'm rooting so hard for Cam Ward. Well, is he got to be good? Yes. He was awesome on that show. Jane Daniels and mom not so much, but Cam Ward and the family very much. Very, very, very much. It's very hard to root against that guy. And because Tennessee. Tennessee's weird. They could jump right back into the mix. Cam Ward's got to take off, man. I'm rooting for the Titans. Plus their jerseys are so much better than they've been. Big thanks to everybody joining us today. Darryl was great. Nathan was excellent. Will Akron, scorey touchdown on their drive

that is being called by the CFO. No. Feelable. No turnover. Punt. Okay. Got a turnover. It'll be a pun. Will they get it first down? Yes. There will be a first down, but there will be a pun. It'll be four plays. Wait, five plays. Boom. Six plays. All right. Your first place. Six plays. You're on record. There we go. There we go. Yeah, they'll take three downs and get a first down. They'll take another three downs. They'll pun. Boom. There we go. Got that right. All right. We're back Monday, six to ten. Can I do this just once? Because I don't know if I'm going to be able to. How we made your mother is a rewatch podcast that looks back episode by episode at the hit TV show How I Met Your Mother. It's hosted by me, Josh Radner, along with series co-creator Craig Thomas. In seasons one and two, we were joined by Neil Patrick Harris, co-be smolders Brian Cranston, Ashley Williams, Wayne Brady, Jennifer Siren Angela Kinsey, Joe Manganello, and my brilliant co-creator Carter Bayes. And now we are diving into season three. So whether it's your 50th rewatch or your first time through, follow how we made your mother wherever you get your podcasts. Do it again

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