Slow & Steady

Edition #1097: Cade Klubnik is getting rave reviews but it's important to not get carried away, and the Jets sign a linebacker.

Good morning ☕

It’s important to not get carried away.

Right now we’re seeing a lot of stories around the same theme “What we learned from rookie camp” and most of them will wax poetic about Cade Klubnik. I like that the atmosphere has shifted form impending doom to hopeful excitement, but did we really learn anything that we didn’t already know?

Klubnik was always regarded as a really good teammate, a really good charachter and extremely detail orientated with his prep. As Steve mentioned yesterday you’re already seeing some call him a “whiteboard warrior” for his preparation before the game and lack of delivery during it. That’s a very unfair assessment for a player who’s won as much as Cade has, and while 2025 was a huge disappointment, this is a guy who threw for 3,639 yards, 36 TDs and just 6 INTs in 2024. I’d rather have someone who is detailed in his prep than a workout warrior who doesn’t have anything between the ears.