Starting at 27:00... TheScore- Jordan joined NFL Network's "Up to the Minute" on Friday to discuss a variety of topics surrounding the Saints' offseason including what they should do with the 27th overall pick. Jordan mentioned Penn State tight end Mike Gesicki and LSU pass-rusher Arden Key as potential targets before alluding to a certain Heisman-winning quarterback.
"If you're looking for an heir apparent, maybe give him the Aaron Rodgers treatment. Let him learn from the best for a couple years and then send him on. But I'm not putting here nor there, I'm just simply saying," Jordan said, according to NFL.com's Nick Shook before clearly mouthing "Lamar Jackson." ------ I know this may come as a huge surprise, but I have absolutely no idea whether or not Lamar Jackson will be a quality passer in the NFL. Granted, the process of draft analysis has required less and less analyzing as of late, but still. I don't have the knowledge of the position that Chris Simms used to declare him the most talented quarterback in his draft class nor do I have the unrelenting hypocrisy and borderline racial biases that Mel Kiper has used to imply that he's a glorified wide receiver in comparison to Josh Allen. What I do have, however, is Cam Jordan's endorsement of Lamar Jackson as both a prospect and a potential heir apparent to Drew Brees' pocket. Considering he's just about the only person that believed in the Saints' ability to turn around a defense that was regressively historic in its own incompetence, I'd be liable to bid on the Brooklyn bridge if it were the apple of Cam Jordan's eye. Of course, I'm glad he's not making the final call on who to select 27th overall, but I do see why he might find the Heisman Trophy winner to be worthy of a rolling of the dice in the crap shoot that is the NFL Draft. I mean, if there's one NFL coach that would embrace the opportunity to develop an unproven and non-protypical quarterback while simultaneously proving a large faction of the media to be dead fucking wrong then he resides in New Orleans. His offensive genius has definitely been made more apparent by the twin-esque telepathy that he shares with a future first ballot HOFer, and you just know that Sean Payton would love to prove it exists independent of Drew Brees with a player that couldn't possibly be more his polar opposite. Now, that doesn't mean I want the team whose scouting department has gone HAM with the BPA strategy the last couple seasons to select Lamar Jackson if he's not a top their list at the time, but it does mean that I would follow in the gargantuan footsteps of Cam Jordan and be very excited if they did come to the conclusion that he could eventually take the reigns after some tutelage from one of the best to ever take a snap.
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