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QB PERFECT PAIRINGS: NFL Draft QB Garrett Nussmeier Could TRANSFORM an NFL Offense

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Damian says a healthy Garrett Nussmeier is his QB2 over Ty Simpson.

The setup is simple. Damian Parsons and Keith Sanchez match 2026 NFL Draft quarterbacks with teams and schemes, and the opening take is that Garrett Nussmeier fits the Arizona Cardinals better than Ty Simpson. In the hosts' view, Simpson and Nussmeier have worked their way back into the public draft conversation. The show does not sit long in biography mode. It moves toward landing spots. Garrett gets the Cardinals tease. That pairing is framed as cleaner than Simpson, though the excerpt gives the claim more than the full film argument. Then Taylin Green takes over. Sanchez likes Baltimore because the offense needs more explosive playmakers and could use Green as a different look without asking Lamar Jackson to take every risky rep. That is the point of the fit. It is not just backup insurance. It is about keeping a similar offensive shape if Lamar is unavailable, if Baltimore wants late-season management, or if the team wants a package that lowers Lamar's exposure. Cooper Rush is the contrast. Parsons says Baltimore's offense cannot really move the same way with Rush because Rush cannot mirror Lamar's dual-threat menu. Green can at least give them a version of it. The fit leans on QB zone reads, QB powers, veer concepts, and the plus-one runner effect that makes defenses defend true 11-on-11 football. The red area sharpens the case. When the field shrinks, Green's running threat would keep defenses from selling out on Derrick Henry or whichever back is next to him. Philly is the runner-up. Sanchez has Philly at 1B for mostly the same reasons, but Baltimore stays ahead because Lamar runs more than Jalen Hurts and Baltimore builds more of the offense around that threat. Tampa Bay comes in late. Parsons says Baker Mayfield is already there, but Baker's physical style raises enough durability concern to make a tailored backup or changeup quarterback worth discussing. The episode has a draft-room banter feel. Names, schemes, and hypotheticals move fast. It works best when the hosts stop ranking quarterbacks in the abstract and ask what an offense would actually do with them.

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Quarterback fit talk that keeps scheme, role, and landing spots front and center.

Locked On NFL Draft spends this episode on quarterback pairings, and its value is in the fit questions it keeps returning to. Ty Simpson and Garrett Nussmeier start the discussion, then the scope widens to run threat, backup value, and the way different systems can reshape a…

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