Building The Quenton Nelson Hype Machine

BUILDING THE QUENTON NELSON HYPE MACHINE by The Hound

This is a really fun time of year for me as a sports fan. Growing up in NY, I somehow ended up with the weird combination of Mets, Jets, and Lakers as my favorite teams.* Obviously, that has absolutely sucked. The Mets have been trash most of my life. I pour my heart into them every season and year after year they rip my heart out and flush it down the toilet. The Jets have been even worse. I’ve convinced myself that Brooks Bollinger was going to be the next franchise QB. ‘Nuff said. Shaq and Kobe saved me with their string of championships. At least I got to enjoy that.

With this combination of teams and the way the seasons line up, March has always been a GREAT sports month for me. Baseball is back, but the season hasn’t really started yet so we can still be optimistic about the Mets. Basketball season is hitting it’s stride. The Lakers are in a weird place this season but we can definitely all enjoy watching that young team ball. And then we have the NFL draft. Basically a Jets fan’s only hope. It’s all we have. We just lose and lose and hope we step on a land mine and actually do something right in the draft. I feel pretty good about our chances this season.

We’re sitting in the 6 spot, on some Mark Sanchez shit. We always have the 6 pick, but whatever I’ll take it. I don’t think we’re gonna get a shot at any of the big time QB prospects, but frankly I don’t care. I’m not huge on any of them, no pun intended Josh Allen. Josh Rosen is welcome at my synagogue anytime, but I don’t want him playing QB for the Jets. Darnold is too streaky.  Give me Quenton Nelson. I want that dude.

Look at that monster…
I know I know, who wants to draft a left guard that high in the draft? I get it. It ain’t flashy at all. But the draft isn’t about flash, and this guy is a fucking stud. Please, let me make my case. Skip to 1 minute into this video and just watch and learn.

Yeah, that’s right. This big ass farm boy is out here, doin’ Tae Kwon Do. Breaking boards and doing spinning jump kicks. Quenton Nelson is 6’5? and 330 lbs, by the way. Nobody should be able to be that big and that athletic. From a football standpoint since I know most of you don’t watch games looking at the lineman beating each other up the way I do, Quenton Nelson is just a straight up brawler. He is a bully on the field. He takes on bull rushers like a brick wall, and tosses linebackers and smaller secondary blitzers like they don’t belong on the same field as him. Watch the first block in this next video.

I mean that is just mean. He absolutely embarrasses that kid. If you are starting at linebacker at LSU you have to have NFL dreams. And this kid just got straight up demolished. Even more impressively, watch how he passes off the initial block to the tackle because he sees the blitz coming. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen starting guards on the Jets miss a blitz like that.

I think the most important thing about this kid is just how angry he plays. We need a lineman like that so badly. You can literally see the fear in defenders as they approach him because they know it’s about to end poorly.

The kid is a monster in the weight room as well. If you do some digging in youtube, you can find videos of him working out when he was still in high school. Putting up 500 lbs on the squat rack like it’s too easy.

Quenton Nelson just put on a goddamn show at the combine, too. Look at how many reps he gets up here, AFTER he clearly starts to lose gas.

The Jets need this guy. We need to reinvent the offensive line, and ultimately the running game. Matt Forte just retired, not that he was gonna contribute anything, but it’s another sign of the changing of the tides. We need to rebuild up front. Quenton Nelson would’ve been a pro bowl guard last year. He is gonna be an all-pro for years to come. I don’t care what the Jets have to do, they need to make this fucking happen. It’s a home run. Let’s go get him.
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