Nate Sudfeld Released, Hendon Takes Backup QB
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00:00Kang, we have a woe.
00:03Oh!
00:04I don't think this is a huh, I think this is a woe.
00:10I'm ready, man.
00:11Ian Rappaport, Source, the Lions are releasing quarterback Nate Sudfeld, who spent plenty
00:20of time as the number two quarterback.
00:22Now it appears it's Hendon Hooker who has won the job.
00:26Sudfeld has impressed plenty in practice without a ton of game reps and will find
00:30his way into a practice squad at the least.
00:35So this wouldn't have been a woe had we not, I mean, the way they were talking about Sudfeld,
00:40he didn't even play the last preseason game.
00:42Maybe, okay, so what they did clearly the last preseason game was to make sure Hendon
00:46Hooker was ready.
00:47That's why they gave him all those reps almost the entire game, right?
00:51No seriously, we know what we have in Sudfeld.
00:54We know exactly what we have.
00:56You stay here.
00:57I was just thinking back to what I said yesterday about this, and apparently we reached it yesterday.
01:05The tipping point is that at some point we're going to reach a tipping point where Hendon
01:14Hooker, they deem him good enough to be their number two quarterback.
01:21And that tipping point apparently was either Sunday or Monday because here on Tuesday
01:29morning, according to Ian Rappaport, the Lions are releasing Nate Sudfeld.
01:36Whoa.
01:38That leaves an open spot for a defensive lineman, a cornerback, you know?
01:44It does.
01:45A wide receiver.
01:46I think Isaiah Williams has a much better shot of making the team now.
01:48I mean, there's, yeah, right now Isaac Ukwu is like, oh, did I make it?
01:55Or they've identified a player that they are going to pick up off the waiver wire.
02:03To replace Sudfeld?
02:04Like another quarterback you mean?
02:05Like Bailey Zappi is available.
02:07Yeah, no, I would think it's a wide receiver.
02:11Do they want Isaiah Hudgens?
02:12Do they want Tim Patrick?
02:16Sure.
02:17Do they want Dan Robinson?
02:18Do they have another deal in place?
02:22I think this is really interesting.
02:26And you're right.
02:27The reason why this is a woe was Dan Campbell's, what he had to say about him last week.
02:33Going into that last preseason game, he said Nate Sudfeld had the upper hand, right?
02:37Yes.
02:38He said it last week.
02:39So here's the thing about it.
02:40Now you can look at this a variety of ways.
02:43I know how this works.
02:44Some people say Dan Campbell was lying.
02:48I don't think that's the case.
02:49I think they were so impressed with Nate Sudfeld on Sunday.
02:53I came away impressed with Nate Sudfeld on Sunday.
02:55I didn't think he was perfect.
02:58But it's Hendon Hooker.
03:01You are the backup quarterback in Detroit.
03:04According to Ian Rappaport, Nate Sudfeld will be released.
03:10I'm not even going to ask this question because typically we do this under these circumstances.
03:16I just don't think it applies here.
03:20Typically we would say, is there going to be any ruin?
03:25Dude, good luck unless Nate Sudfeld's family's listening and no one's calling in.
03:31I feel bad because Nate Sudfeld came in and he did his best and he was a part of the team
03:36and he was clearly a confidant and a sounding board for Jared Goff.
03:40All these things that they really liked about him.
03:43Mark Brunel liked about him.
03:44I don't want to trash the guy.
03:46But I don't know that we literally got one call saying, no, I think Nate Sudfeld.
03:50I think they're fine.
03:52I think some people accepted that he might be ahead of Hendon Hooker and that might have
03:57been the case.
03:59I think Sunday might have been the tipping point.
04:03I was going to tweet out one day.
04:05Is there anyone, this was like, you know, no sarcasm intended.
04:08Is there anyone that thinks Sudfeld should be the second quarterback?
04:12Who are the Sudfeld supporters?
04:14Because we never got that.
04:16In fact, Doug, after the last preseason game, we got more support for Jake Fromm than Nate
04:22Sudfeld.
04:23Who hasn't been cut yet.
04:25We'll get carried away.
04:28That would be a woe.
04:30This is not enough of a woe, that would be another woe.
04:33So you think it's not the go get Bailey Zappi or Mike White or a quarterback that's been,
04:40you know.
04:41Trade for...
04:42Yeah, but this is more like a get a receiver or open up a spot for Hudgens.
04:45God, why am I blanking?
04:46Who's Gator's guy, the kid that was with the Jets that was a disaster?
04:49Zach Wilson.
04:50Zach Wilson.
04:51Go get Zach Wilson.
04:52No, I don't think it's any of that.
04:54I think they're going to either put Nate Sudfeld or Jake Fromm on the practice squad.
04:59Oh, probably Sudfeld.
05:01If he gets through and look, I mean, Rappaport speculated immediately that he will end up
05:07on someone's practice squad, but that I did not see coming.
05:14That fast.
05:15Hold on.
05:16Let me be correct.
05:17I saw it coming.
05:18I've talked about it yesterday.
05:19I said there'd be a tipping point.
05:22I just was way off on when that tipping point would come.
05:26So there you go.
05:28Hendon Hooker did enough Sunday.
05:31He's the backup quarterback in Detroit.
05:332-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
05:37Carson Anderson, a big news there.
05:40I'm going to cross a name out.
05:41We now have...
05:42Remember I said there were 15 obvious cuts?
05:44You didn't have Sudfeld as an obvious cut.
05:45There are still 15 obvious cuts.
05:47I did not put this in the obvious cut camp, but I'm working my way through the roster.
05:54Cross that name off.
05:56Hendon Hooker's your number two quarterback, Detroit.
05:58How do you feel about it?
05:592-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
06:04I'm excited.
06:06I'm excited because I liked a lot of what that kid showed on Sunday or Saturday.
06:11Said as much yesterday.
06:13He had a couple of throws where I was really impressed.
06:17Like the running thing, it feels like that...
06:20He doesn't feel, look, slowed at all physically or mentally for that matter by the knee injury.
06:28Really comfortable moving around the field.
06:30Probably needs to work on sliding.
06:31He did take another big hit this past weekend.
06:35But the quarterback in the incubator is already the number two.
06:43And good for him.
06:45Good for him and I think good for us.
06:47Yeah, I'm happy.
06:48Because that means they don't have to keep a third quarterback.
06:51They can make themselves better somewhere else.
06:55It's so funny when your football team is good and you're really straining over the
06:59last few spots on the roster, which is what we're doing.
07:04You're absolutely right, Doug.
07:05Keeping three quarterbacks, really, if you're trying to get to the next step, you need that
07:11spot.
07:12I don't care who it's for.
07:14But if you're solidified with Hendon Hooker as your backup, you feel confident, if he's
07:18shown enough.
07:19He still has a ceiling, by the way, right?
07:22Yeah.
07:23Use that roster spot on someone else who can help this team get to the Super Bowl, man.