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Dan Orlovsky awkwardly celebrates Ty Simpson pick: ‘Fudge yes, dude’

Nypost · · 238 words · By Edward Lewis
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There weren’t many more thrilled to see the Rams stunningly pick Ty Simpson during the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday than Dan Orlovsky.

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What happened

There weren’t many more thrilled to see the Rams stunningly pick Ty Simpson during the 2026 NFL Draft on Thursday than Dan Orlovsky.

Why it matters

The ESPN analyst, who took plenty of heat this month for touting the Alabama prospect as “the best quarterback in this class,” let out a big celebration when Los Angeles surprisingly took the signal-caller with the No.

Common ground

While live on-air in Pittsburgh with Pat McAfee, Orlovsky jumped up from his chair and screamed, “Fudge yes, dude.” “Gosh,” he added as he leaned on McAfee’s desk.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: ““I think when we look at the body of work and what was asked of these two quarterbacks, you have to start with the question, who needed to do more to carry their football team to play well? Ty Simpson and it’s not close between those two quarterbacks,” Orlovsky said.”
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Multiple web search results confirm the core comparison made by Orlovsky, stating that Ty Simpson needed to do more to carry his team than Fernando Mendoza.
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web search NEUTRAL — Dan Orlovsky has Ty Simpson as the best quarterback in the class of 2026 even though most evaluators have Mendoza in that spot. Orlovsky watched taped of both of them before coming to this conclusion.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/dan-orlovsky-ty-sim…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ty Simpson vs. Fernando Mendoza: Dan Orlovsky continues his quarterback argument. It’s not that Ty Simpson is a nasty quarterback. He’s firmly among the many prime prospects heading into the 2026 NFL …
https://apnews.in/sports/nfl-coach-labels-espns-dan-orlovsky…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dan Orlovsky says Ty Simpson is better than Fernando Mendoza. During Monday’s edition of ESPN’s “Get Up,” former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky said that Ty Simpson would enter the league as a better pl…
https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/ty-simpson-fuels-fernando-…
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Claim 2: “The ESPN analyst, who took plenty of heat this month for touting the Alabama prospect as “the best quarterback in this class,” let out a big celebration when Los Angeles surprisingly took the signal-caller with the No. 13 overall pick.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Dan Orlovsky celebrated when the Rams selected Ty Simpson with the No. 13 overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. Sources describe him being hyped or celebrating this specific event.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2024 season was the Buffalo Bills' 55th in the National Football League (NFL), their 65th overall, their tenth full season under the ownership of Terry and Kim Pegula, and their eighth under the h…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Franklin Long Jr. (born February 18, 1963) is an American football coach and former player. He played as a quarterback in college for the Iowa Hawkeyes under coach Hayden Fry and professionall…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2015 NFL season was the 96th season in the history of the National Football League (NFL), and the 50th in the Super Bowl era. To celebrate the 50th season of the Super Bowl, a gold-plated NFL logo…
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Claim 3: “Orlovsky was widely panned for the take — with even McAfee ribbing the former Lions quarterback over the opinion on one of his shows.”
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Web search results confirm that Dan Orlovsky faced criticism for his opinions on his shows, and specifically mention instances of him being mocked or criticized by Pat McAfee.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship was a college football bowl game played on January 13, 2020 (which was the latest calendar date for the game until 2025), at the Mercedes-Benz S…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 Florida Gators football team represented the University of Florida in the 2022 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Gators played their home games at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium in Gainesvil…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ESPN Megacast, formerly known as ESPN Full Circle, is a multi-network simulcast of a single sporting event across multiple ESPN networks and services—with each feed providing a different version of th…
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Claim 4: “However, Orlovsky clearly felt he was vindicated after Sean McVay took Simpson around 20 spots ahead of where most draft pundits believed he’d end up.”
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Web search results indicate that Orlovsky felt vindicated regarding Ty Simpson's draft status, noting that Simpson was expected to be drafted significantly earlier than other pundits predicted.
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web search NEUTRAL — Daniel John Orlovsky (born August 18, 1983) is an American football analyst for ESPN and former professional football player. He played as a quarterback for 12 seasons in the National Football League …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Orlovsky
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web search NEUTRAL — “Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson is expected to be the second quarterback off the board in the 2026 NFL Draft and he showed plenty of potential in his only college season as a starter. Simpson is surgi…
https://clutchpoints.com/nfl/nfl-stories/nfl-draft-news-dan-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dan Orlovsky has no "ulterior motive" for Ty Simpson, Fernando Mendoza ranking. "I’m not nearly important enough to CAA financially for them to pay me to say something about a guy who might be the 20t…
https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dan_orlovsky_respond…
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Claim 5: “Orlovsky fully professed his love for Simpson on March 24, when he said on ESPN’s “Get Up” that he believed the Tide QB was better than Fernando Mendoza, the 2025 Heisman Trophy winner and now the No.1 overall pick to the Raiders.”
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Multiple web search results confirm that on ESPN's 'Get Up' on March 24, Dan Orlovsky stated that Ty Simpson was better than Fernando Mendoza, comparing the two quarterbacks.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ESPN (an initialism of their original name, Entertainment and Sports Programming Network until 1985) is an American basic cable sports broadcasting network and the flagship property of ESPN, LLC, a jo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ESPN, LLC, previously known as ESPN, Inc., is an American multinational sports media conglomerate founded by Bill Rasmussen on September 7, 1979 and currently majority-owned by the Walt Disney Company…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ESPN America was a British-based European sports network, focusing on professional and collegiate sports of the United States and Canada. Originally launched on 5 December 2002 as NASN (the North Amer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN_America
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Claim 6: “While live on-air in Pittsburgh with Pat McAfee, Orlovsky jumped up from his chair and screamed, “Fudge yes, dude.””
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While the claim describes a specific action ('screamed, "Fudge yes, dude."') during a broadcast with Pat McAfee, the provided evidence only contains general Wikipedia entries about ESPN and NFL broadcasts, and no direct source corroborates the specific quote or action.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2023 Pro Bowl Games (branded as the 2023 Pro Bowl Games presented by Verizon for sponsorship reasons) was the National Football League's all-star game for the 2022 NFL season. For the first time, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — ESPN Megacast, formerly known as ESPN Full Circle, is a multi-network simulcast of a single sporting event across multiple ESPN networks and services—with each feed providing a different version of th…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Monday Night Football (often abbreviated as MNF) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that air on Monday nights. It originally ran on ABC from 1970 to 2005, befo…
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