NFL quarterbacks will be the focus of the next Netflix foray into the world of sports documentaries. The company announced on Wednesday that Patrick Mahomes, Kirk Cousins, and Marcus Mariota will be at the center of a new series called Quarterback, which is set to debut this summer.
Thursday morning on Sports Radio 610 in Houston, Sean Pendergast made the argument that Netflix and the show’s producers picked the wrong personalities to follow.
“My biggest question is okay, Mahomes I get,” Pendergast said. “Mahomes is the MVP of the league. He’s interesting, he’s interesting when he’s drunk.”
His morning show partner Seth Payne added that Mahomes’s wife and brother certainly will add some intrigue. So will anything in the locker room involving tight end Travis Kelce.
It was the other two participants Pendergast couldn’t understand. He asked Payne to justify what was interesting about Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota.
Payne joked that Cousins may be interesting if he did not know he was being filmed. He suggested Netflix do those parts over and just ask Cousins’s Minnesota teammates to secretly film him with their phones and then send in the footage.
He then reminded Sean Pendergast that Marcus Mariota did not end the season as the starting quarterback in Atlanta.
“That may be the most interesting part,” Pendergast said. “Mariota lost his job late in the season to Desmond Ridder. So on the Mariota parts, I’m gonna fast forward until we get to him being fired from his job basically.”
Pendergast suggested that there were better options for Netflix including stars like Joe Burrow and notoriously strange characters like Zach Wilson and Deshaun Watson.
