Latest / DMV Mess Hall / "Let Peters Cook" episode 203
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- 0:00Hi folks, this is Rick Doc. Walker to DOC.
- 0:03This is John Kime and you're listening to the mess hall with
- 0:05Rally Captain and Tailgate 10. What's going on?
- 0:10Rally you are ready for this tornado and crazy storms are
- 0:15supposed to begin today. Hey, my hatches are batten down
- 0:19brother, so bring it on. Let's do what we got to do.
- 0:23Just like they said in the in our preview, your left, right,
- 0:26left. Let's March and get this thing
- 0:28done. I'm right there with you, man.
- 0:31For those wondering, it is Monday the 16th that we're
- 0:34recording this. If you're not in the DC area,
- 0:38we've got tornado watches all up and down.
- 0:41The federal government shut down at 2:00 today, telling everybody
- 0:45to go home, just considering how bad it's supposed to be.
- 0:48And about 10 minutes ago, out my window, look like all the hell
- 0:52was breaking loose. Now looks like I can go back
- 0:55outside and go play some pickleball.
- 0:56So I'm not too sure what to expect.
- 0:59All I know is I got power right now, we got Internet, so we're
- 1:03going to try and get this done. Damn right, damn right.
- 1:06I'll tell you what Mother Nature she is testy, She really is.
- 1:10Some somebody stepped on her skirt.
- 1:11I don't know man, but all I know is sweetheart please be kind to
- 1:16me and mine and and hopefully we can.
- 1:21This will be the last cold snap that we have and we can get the
- 1:24spring and summer temperatures on the way.
- 1:27It was 80. Last week.
- 1:30And then it snowed the next day. Like you, it was.
- 1:34I was at a conference in Annapolis, and they had a bunch
- 1:37of people flying in from all over the country.
- 1:39And these people were looking outside the window like they'd
- 1:42seen a ghost. I guess some of them have never
- 1:44seen snow before. And all of a sudden it's just
- 1:46coming down. I mean, it didn't stick, didn't
- 1:48do anything. But my new car is black.
- 1:51You couldn't tell by looking at it.
- 1:52The whole thing was just covered in snow.
- 1:55I like how you slithered in there.
- 1:56That new car I like. I like that.
- 2:00I like You could have said my my car, you know, first less
- 2:02fortunate people, you know, my new car.
- 2:05OK? I feel your brother.
- 2:06It's been a while since I got a car, so, you know, I just, I saw
- 2:10you riding with your top down the other day on Instagram.
- 2:13Who, what? Where?
- 2:15When? Are you sure that wasn't me?
- 2:17That was you, man. I I hardly ever see you without
- 2:20a hat on so I had to take a double take but I saw you ride
- 2:23with your top down look nice. 60° you got to do it man.
- 2:28I hear you, man. I actually, that Saturday I
- 2:31played pickleball for six hours. It was just so nice outside.
- 2:35I leave and I really, I was this close to getting just Uber Eats
- 2:39sent to the court just so I could just hang out there.
- 2:41I found a granola bar that expired last year and I was
- 2:44pretty close to eating it, but thank God somebody brought me
- 2:47something to eat. I was going.
- 2:49To say, I was going to say, man, you still, you're still here.
- 2:54Yeah, I mean, I was getting desperate.
- 2:56Thank God somebody that was coming up brought me something
- 2:59because it was looking tasty after being out there for that
- 3:01long. But Speaking of looking tasty,
- 3:05the the commanders definitely whet my appetite with what
- 3:08they've been doing. Free agency, man.
- 3:10And I don't know about you, but my timeline, on day one of the
- 3:16legal tampering period, you would have thought it was just
- 3:20doom and gloom that the team got sold again and Jaden was out for
- 3:24five years and just everybody was just so pissed off and so
- 3:29upset because they didn't make any moves like nothing happened.
- 3:33What did your timeline look like?
- 3:36It was dry bro. Well, I shouldn't say it was
- 3:38dry. I was that.
- 3:39I was very busy that day, so I really couldn't even pay
- 3:43attention if I wanted to, but people, some people did ask me,
- 3:46Hey, what's going on? What, what are you seeing?
- 3:49What do you think? And, and I didn't even have time
- 3:52to really even respond to them because I was just so busy.
- 3:56And I, I guess I'm glad that I, I was busy and I missed it
- 4:00because, you know, it's not what happens in the beginning, it's
- 4:04what happens in the end. And I have to say that I'm very,
- 4:07very pleased. I am too, right?
- 4:11And one of the big things they did that people just kind of
- 4:14didn't seem to care because he was under contract was extending
- 4:18Laramie Tunsil, right? Tunsil signed A2 year 61 and a
- 4:22half million dollar guaranteed contract extension.
- 4:24So I think he's here until 28 or maybe longer, I don't know
- 4:29exactly. But the fact that last year
- 4:32Terry's contract got dragged out so long and that was just a
- 4:38major mess. And everyone talked about you
- 4:41can't let that happen again. You got to make sure you get
- 4:43Tunsil locked up because he's the type of player that is going
- 4:46to sit out and just isn't going to be there.
- 4:49And Peters made sure Tunsil was taken care of, Sir Jaden's left
- 4:53side protected. We're all good there.
- 4:55To me, that was a huge win on day one, knowing that we weren't
- 5:00going to have to worry about just that mess.
- 5:03Some people blame Terry's holdout or hold in for how bad
- 5:08the season started last year, and I don't think that's what it
- 5:10was. But you just don't want to give
- 5:13fans a reason to complain about that.
- 5:16And Peters realized how important it was, and they
- 5:19locked him up big time. Well, it's the butterfly effect,
- 5:22Ted. That's what it boils down to.
- 5:24You know, that that small little ripple is what caused what
- 5:27people feel is what caused everything else to fall through
- 5:31the cracks. But hey, man, that was 2025.
- 5:36This is 2026 and I understand why why people didn't really
- 5:42think that that was a splash deal, if you will, or signing is
- 5:47because he was already here type of deal.
- 5:49And it's like, yeah, OK, I I get it.
- 5:52He's already here. And yeah, we need a left tackle.
- 5:55But they're they're looking for that, that that big, big splash
- 6:00signing. And and so when it didn't
- 6:02happen, like you said, people were panicking.
- 6:04And I'm going to tell you, you know, you got to equate these
- 6:08signings like popcorn. You know, you got you, you turn
- 6:13the microwave on, it doesn't start popping right then.
- 6:17So give it a second. Give it a second and it will pop
- 6:22and you take it out at the right time.
- 6:24And that's what Adam Peters did. He waited until he heard that
- 6:28popcorn started popping and he put butter on it.
- 6:31A little salt. And man, I'm ready to go to the
- 6:34movies this year with the gig with the team.
- 6:36Let's do it baby. I don't care what anybody else
- 6:38says, I'm hyped up. We signed what, like 7 guys that
- 6:43I'd say are anywhere from A to B minus signings if you will.
- 6:53Everything that we need to bolster our team and we still
- 6:58got some more left. So just hold tight, guys, hold
- 7:02tight. So I put out on X.
- 7:05What grade do you give Adam Peters now that we're a weekend?
- 7:10Because you had a bunch of people saying, what the Hell's
- 7:11Peters doing? I mean, they were calling into
- 7:14the radio stations, just bad mouthing the hell out the guy.
- 7:17You would have thought it was Bruce Allen still.
- 7:19RGI missed it. I'm glad I oh.
- 7:20Yeah, because it would have pissed you off.
- 7:22It pissed me off, right? Just people.
- 7:24Just raking them over the coals, just back in the bus over them 5
- 7:29or 6 times and then all of a sudden just a flurry of people
- 7:34got signed and we'll go over all the free agents that got picked
- 7:36up. There's a great article by Hogs
- 7:38Haven that's out there. I'll put a tweet of it.
- 7:40You guys get a chance to take a look at it, but I quit now that
- 7:43first week of free agency is in the books.
- 7:45What grade does Adam Peters deserve?
- 7:4751% said an A, 44% said AB, right?
- 7:53I mean, that's pretty high praise, right?
- 7:55And just going down the list, right?
- 7:58This is the article from Hogs Haven, going to paraphrase some
- 8:01of it saying Adam Peters knocked the ball out the park during the
- 8:04first week of free agency. He addressed a ton of holes on
- 8:09this team. And Ben Standing put out this
- 8:11tweet. It's no secret last year we had
- 8:14the oldest roster in the NFL. Everyone kept on bringing that
- 8:17up when they talked about how many injuries we had, how slow
- 8:22we were. Well, guess what?
- 8:24Now these are just some of the guys.
- 8:27Adef AOA, 27 years old, ran A-436-A.
- 8:32Meek Robertson, 28, ran a 445. Leo Chenal, 25, ran a 453.
- 8:39Chiga Conquo, 26, ran A452. Nick Cross, 24, ran A434.
- 8:46Right speed kills. You can't coach speed.
- 8:49So they addressed a bunch of guys and brought them in.
- 8:54So ODEFA owe biggest signing in the offseason so far.
- 8:58Four year, $100 million, right? It was a former first round pick
- 9:02out of Penn State coming off a 7 1/2 sacks in 12 games.
- 9:06He had two starts with the Chargers after he restrained
- 9:08there by Baltimore in 25. All right, JP Finley tweeted out
- 9:12here that always Razz score was at 9.92.
- 9:17That Razz score is at a 10, so to get a 9.92 out of 10, pretty
- 9:23freaking good. So so forgive me for asking, but
- 9:28what exactly is a rest score? It's the Relative Athletic
- 9:33score. So during the combine, the draft
- 9:36prospects get a score that compiles up to 10 and OA score
- 9:44was a freaking 9.92. The guy's a defensive end.
- 9:47We obviously need some pass rush, right?
- 9:49He's an edge. Our defense was the worst in the
- 9:54NFL, depending on which category you looked at statistically.
- 9:57Well, guess what they decide to do?
- 9:59Address defense, right? Moving on.
- 10:03They brought in, let's see here. Stick with defense.
- 10:07Leo Chenal. Leo Chenal, 3 year, $24.75
- 10:11million contract. Washington desperate Needed an
- 10:14upgraded linebacker and they just got that with Chanel. 25
- 10:18years old throwback linebacker from the 90s but has the
- 10:22athleticism of today's NFL centerpiece.
- 10:24He never saw more than a 60% snapshare in Kansas City and he
- 10:27wasn't known for his coverage, but there is no better in the
- 10:30game today at stacking and shedding blocks at the point of
- 10:33attack. He's excelled as a blitzer,
- 10:35something Durante Jones likes from off the ball linebackers.
- 10:38I do think Chanel can be effective as a third down
- 10:40linebacker if he's not asked to do too much.
- 10:43He was the 103rd pick in Round 3, the 2022 draft.
- 10:47Guess what his RAST score was at A10?
- 10:50I'm. Going to say A9. 9.99.
- 10:56Out of 10. Right.
- 10:58And this all pretty much solidifies that Bobby Wagner
- 11:03ain't coming back. And I'm not saying that's 100%
- 11:06fact, but Bobby's still out there.
- 11:10Shanal's going to take that mic spot.
- 11:13I I don't see a spot for Bobby and I thank him for everything
- 11:17he did here. But we talked about you need to
- 11:20get younger, you need to get faster.
- 11:22Guess what? Bobby's not getting younger or
- 11:24faster. No.
- 11:26So I hate to say that, but yeah. Bringing this guy in right just
- 11:31fills a huge need, right? They brought back Tim Settle.
- 11:35Settle was here and JP Finley brought this up.
- 11:38He was drafted A Redskin playing as a football teamer and now he
- 11:43gets to come back as a commander, right?
- 11:45And there's only a handful of guys that have actually done
- 11:47that. I think they're still on the
- 11:49team. You've got Duron Payne, you've
- 11:51got Tress Way, you got Rivo and Terry are the only ones I think
- 11:57off the top of my head that have actually been all three, right.
- 12:02So settles coming home, right? The kids from Manassas, and he
- 12:07just brings. In.
- 12:09That energy and he's going to play that nose right up front.
- 12:13So no one knows what Durante's defense looks like.
- 12:17But sorry, Minnesota played A34, right?
- 12:22We've been playing a four 3 here.
- 12:23So we need someone, if he's going to run that, to be that
- 12:27nose tackle right up there in the middle.
- 12:28Yeah, and what I like man, is we when you look.
- 12:33So I took a picture with him and and you everyone knows the
- 12:36saying fans don't get to wear the rally chain.
- 12:39Well, settle with his babyface. When he came on board, he was
- 12:44able to wear the the the chain and I loved it for him back then
- 12:50and I love it for him now. The guy is a serious hole filler
- 12:55and with some speed, the young man that has some speed.
- 12:59So I'm looking forward to seeing him and maybe this training
- 13:02camp, he'll put the other rally chain on.
- 13:04I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to have a picture of that
- 13:06and say, remember this, Come on, let's duplicate it, brother.
- 13:08Let's go. There you go, man, I'm I'm
- 13:11hoping to be out there with you. It's going to be fun because he
- 13:13just what I remember about Settle is the guy is just full
- 13:17of energy and just smiles, man, and he just looks like he's
- 13:20having a blast out there. Looks like he's having a good
- 13:22time, right. And most likely I think Settle
- 13:26is going to be kind of a probably not a starter, maybe a
- 13:29fill in piece to come in, but who knows, right?
- 13:31You said training can't we'll see what happens and he plays
- 13:34his way into that spot. Then they brought in a meek
- 13:37Robertson, Robertson's quarterback.
- 13:40He's most likely going to play slot, I believe is what they
- 13:43were talking about. He's 59187 but they're saying
- 13:48dude the dog. He's coming off a little bit of
- 13:50a down year, but he's one of two quarterbacks in the NFL.
- 13:54Listen to 58. But the guys shine against some
- 13:57top tier talent. All right, so to see him come
- 14:01in, it's just their dressing needs.
- 14:04Robertson was with the Lions and he was one of the top 90 free
- 14:10agents out there. So they knew what they needed to
- 14:15address and it was defense. And so far, all these guys are
- 14:17defensive players. On top of that, they brought in
- 14:20Nick Cross, right? Another safety, Two years, $14
- 14:24million, The guys from Bowie, MD, right?
- 14:27He grew up a Redskins fan. He started all 17 games the past
- 14:31two seasons in Indy. 120 tackles both years.
- 14:35Right cross run stopper man. God knows what the hell he's
- 14:40doing in there. You got to figure when the hall
- 14:44group came in and they got an F grade for the locker room and
- 14:50and everything around the organization, they weren't
- 14:53having that last year. What do they get?
- 14:56Basically an F grade AF minus, if there's such a thing, they
- 15:00got to eat, they got, they got it.
- 15:03EFG is what they got. The lowest is you, the lowest of
- 15:07the lows. So do you really think that they
- 15:10were going to do the exact same or have a repeat performance of
- 15:13last year? No, they heard what everybody
- 15:16said. They they listen to what what
- 15:19all the pundits said. They saw it and they weren't
- 15:24going to go back down that road. Now, as you said, we don't know
- 15:28how to what the defensive coordinator, what is going to
- 15:31happen as of yet. But if we had to go buy paper,
- 15:35which I know we can't, but if we had to go buy paper, these are
- 15:38some damn good signings. They definitely are, man.
- 15:40I mean, you bring in a guy, Lavon Chason, another edge
- 15:43player from the Patriots, right? The Patriots were just in the
- 15:47Super Bowl, right? They signed him on a one year,
- 15:49$12 million deal. That's a decent amount of money
- 15:52for a guy that they're bringing in here on a one year rental,
- 15:55right? And you're expecting him to
- 15:58address a major need? Pass rush was a huge problem we
- 16:01had on this team, right? And there was 1 stat that I saw.
- 16:05Let me see if I can go back to it.
- 16:07Chaison and O Way, right? Chaison and O Way themselves had
- 16:12twice as many pressures as any Commanders player on the roster
- 16:17last year. Chaison had 52 quarterback
- 16:19pressures. O Way had 52 pressures himself.
- 16:22Duron had 28, Doris Armstrong had 25, Ken Law had 25, right?
- 16:28Those guys, they're bringing twice as many pressures.
- 16:30It's just we gave quarterbacks too much time to pick us apart.
- 16:35Our secondary was bad because you're also covering for a
- 16:38longer period of time, right? I Daryl is an anomaly because
- 16:43Daryl Green, one of the best players, Hall of Famer, you
- 16:47know, I get it. But would Daryl have been as
- 16:51good for as long as he was without Charles Mann and Dexter
- 16:57Manley up front wreaking havoc? Right.
- 17:00You. Know your back end is only as
- 17:02good as the front end as well. And I'm thinking these guys up
- 17:06front getting pressure are going to help the guys in the back
- 17:09that we're also bringing in and the guys that are there.
- 17:12All right. And see here diving in a little
- 17:15further, they brought in Charles and Menahu, another defensive
- 17:20lineman. So that is a ton of defenders we
- 17:25ended up bringing in. We also brought back a couple of
- 17:28names that you might remember, right?
- 17:31Diami Brown back from Jacksonville.
- 17:35Diami didn't really do too well in Jacksonville to the point of
- 17:39he actually got benched in the playoffs when the Jags are in
- 17:42the playoffs, right? So I was kind of shocked to see
- 17:46him come back here. But it's a one year $3,000,000
- 17:48deal. We needed some speed and he and
- 17:51he has some speed and he, he also, he also can catch the
- 17:54ball. What what happened in in
- 17:56Jacksonville versus what happened with us the year prior.
- 18:00It's an anomaly. Things happen, but I'm happy
- 18:03that he's back. And, and the other thing is
- 18:06this, you know that we're going to bring in some other receivers
- 18:10to compete. And if you're not good enough,
- 18:14you'll be riding the pine. So I think it's a, it's a great
- 18:18signing, even if it's for depth, if you will, because guys get
- 18:23hurt all the time with these hamstrings.
- 18:26You know, any little thing, guys can be out.
- 18:29So you got to have them. And he was clutch.
- 18:32The Detroit game, he was clutch. Yeah.
- 18:35I mean, he definitely was, yeah. And and that's a big thing,
- 18:39right? These guys, it's a 90 man roster
- 18:42that they're trying to fill out right now.
- 18:44So just because you're hearing these names doesn't mean that
- 18:47they're set in stone, right? You're signing a guy like
- 18:49Diamond on a one year, $3 billion deal.
- 18:51That means he's going to be here.
- 18:53Wish him all the best. I hope he does because he knows
- 18:55Jayden, right? But The thing is here, they
- 18:59needed to do something on offense for wide receiver room.
- 19:02So they also brought in Van Jefferson.
- 19:04Van was with the Titans. He's on a one year deal.
- 19:08He's more of a veteran depth receiver.
- 19:11So who knows what's going to happen with him.
- 19:14Chris Rodriguez got let go. They didn't bother going after
- 19:18Rodriguez. He signed for a 10 year, not
- 19:22sorry, a 10 year deal, son. I want to say it was close to
- 19:24ten, $10 million, right? I want to say I got to go back
- 19:28and check. Might have been Jacksonville,
- 19:30but they let him walk. Instead we signed Rashad White
- 19:36from the Bucks, who I love this signing, right?
- 19:40White is on a one year deal. The dude can catch the ball, he
- 19:45can run the ball and he can block, right.
- 19:49Since they let Chris Rodriguez go, the only running back on
- 19:53roster was Bill, so you got to bring in some more dudes to fill
- 19:58that roster up. So I tell you what scares me.
- 20:01I shouldn't say what scares me. What what what bothers me a
- 20:05little bit is Rodriguez went to the Jacksonville Jaguars and we
- 20:11play them obviously later this year, whether it be stateside or
- 20:14across the pond, we don't know yet.
- 20:16We're still waiting on that, which I still have my feelings
- 20:20about, but I'm not going to get into that right now.
- 20:22But you know, the fact is we're going to see him and he's going
- 20:27to play with the chip on his shoulder and he's going to have
- 20:31something to prove against us wherever, whenever we play them.
- 20:35So we're going to see if the defense will be able to stand
- 20:38the test of times against the Jaguars when we do finally play
- 20:42them. But yeah, he's with the Jags.
- 20:45He's with the Jags, that's fine. We have so many players that we
- 20:48have revenge games against that we have to deal with.
- 20:51I just he always one step forward, 2 steps back.
- 20:55For whatever reason he just never got off here.
- 20:59I don't know why, and it boggled my mind, but to pay him $10
- 21:05million is what he's getting in Jacksonville, where we're
- 21:08getting Rashad White a contract worth to be up to $2,000,000,
- 21:14right? With incentives potentially
- 21:15raising it to four? To me, that's a steal.
- 21:18On top of that, guess who White played with in college?
- 21:22Yeah, man, the reunion tour is back on.
- 21:24Boy, talk about new addition. This right here is a true any
- 21:27heartbreak tour. So those that don't know, he
- 21:31played with Jaden in college, right?
- 21:33So he's got that rapport with Jaden.
- 21:35And something listeners of the paddle know, we talked about the
- 21:40fact that Bill did not catch the ball out the backfield, right?
- 21:43He didn't do a ton there. He had some issues blocking,
- 21:47picking up blocks. White can do both of those
- 21:49things, has done both of those things.
- 21:52So I love that signing one that I was kind of surprised Jeremy
- 21:58Mcnichols is coming back and I did not see that one coming.
- 22:03I I feel that. He just signed, didn't he?
- 22:05Yeah, he just signed today. Yeah, he he just signed, Yeah, a
- 22:08one year deal if I'm not mistaken.
- 22:10And I feel that that's maybe another depth piece and a lot of
- 22:14fans are thinking, will you bring in Mcnichols?
- 22:17You bring it in White, you got Jerome Ford from the Browns.
- 22:22Ford and White are on one year deals.
- 22:24And I think Mcnichols, I got to go back and check, might also be
- 22:27a one year deal. So people are saying, well, that
- 22:30means we're not going to draft Jeremy Love or Jeremiah Love in
- 22:34the first round. Guys, none of these free agent
- 22:37signings that Peters has made means we're doing anything in
- 22:41particular in the draft, right? He is just addressing the holes
- 22:45that the team has had. Fact of the matter is 1 running
- 22:48back on the roster, right? We only have what, 6 picks in
- 22:52the draft? So you need to beef up on
- 22:54defense and those 6 picks, you can only fill so many gaps.
- 22:59We have the second most cap space once they got rid of
- 23:01Lattimore and they're making best use of it.
- 23:05And, and I just said that as far as the whole receiver room,
- 23:08those guys go down all the time. Running backs are the same way.
- 23:13You hate to see it, but I mean, those guys sprain ligaments,
- 23:18ankles, you know the deal, Achilles, you, you name it, man.
- 23:23And so you have to have serious backfield of running backs.
- 23:29You just do. Somebody's going to be on the
- 23:31practice squad, somebody's going to be playing snaps, somebody's
- 23:33going to be doing all that stuff.
- 23:34So you have to do it the smart way.
- 23:37And I think that bringing Mcnichols back is a smart thing
- 23:41because he was a great third down back.
- 23:43How will he go against the new guys that are on board is yet to
- 23:48be seen. But that's what training camp
- 23:52and all that good stuff two of their practices is all about to
- 23:55see who fits the best and who they're going to go with.
- 23:59And as I said, Ted, this is a great time because it's the
- 24:03unknown and, and all you can do is just stare into the stars
- 24:06and, and, and, and just wonder. Well, we won't have to do that
- 24:09very much longer. So guys, just just hold tight
- 24:13and I'm on, I'm going to continue to say this.
- 24:15Just hold tight and continue to fantasize because the rubber's
- 24:20going to hit the road here shortly.
- 24:22Yeah, and I mean, last year, just looking at the depth chart,
- 24:25we had three running backs, right?
- 24:27Well, now we have 4, right? So someone's not making the
- 24:31team. Someone isn't going to get a
- 24:33chance to be here. So they're going to fight it out
- 24:37during mini camp and training camp and OTAs and pre season and
- 24:41they'll see what's going on. But the fact of the matter is
- 24:44Peters is doing what he needs to do to get this team younger and
- 24:50faster and fill in holes where frankly, we had a ton.
- 24:55I think people can calm down now, and this is maybe my
- 25:01favorite signing, Chig Akanquo, Ben said it, my opinion, huge
- 25:08disappointment, hasn't done a ton.
- 25:11When you take a tight end that high, you expect him to do
- 25:14something right. Zach Ertz he's saying he wants
- 25:18to play again. I don't.
- 25:20I don't. Believe so.
- 25:21I don't see him coming back here.
- 25:23We want to get younger and faster.
- 25:25Thank you Zach, for everything you did here.
- 25:27But that injury he suffered towards the end of the season, I
- 25:32mean more power to him if he can make it back.
- 25:34But the fact of the matter is the team signed Chiga Conquo
- 25:38from the Titans. Those that don't know who Chig
- 25:41is. Proven, proven, proven proven
- 25:44guy. Dude is a freaking stud.
- 25:46Let me pull up his info here. 6 three, 238 LB.
- 25:52Former Maryland Terrapin has not missed a game during his first
- 25:56four years in the league, all with Tennessee, and despite
- 26:00inconsistent and sometimes downright bad quarterback play,
- 26:02he amassed 194 receptions for 2000 yards and eight touchdowns.
- 26:07A lot a tight end that I respect that I know a lot of you guys
- 26:11know who he is. Logan Paulson.
- 26:14Logan loves this dude. This is actually Logan talking
- 26:18about it on the State Command podcast.
- 26:21This dude is a stud, man. He is a stud.
- 26:25He is small, but he is mighty. I'll tell you that right now it
- 26:28looks like he's like 6-2. He's small.
- 26:31He looks like he's 62. Like, I think he's listed and
- 26:33he's listed at 63. I don't believe that for one
- 26:36second. He's 239 lbs.
- 26:38That may be true. He's got a really thick lower
- 26:40half. But this dude's a maniac, man,
- 26:42and I love him. Like, if if you wanted a guy to
- 26:44fit this role for Washington, this is the guy.
- 26:47And if I can see it, every team in the NFL can see it.
- 26:50So like in terms of like what spot what, what what service?
- 26:53You just use spot track. Is that for the contract value,
- 26:56like in terms of what spot track is talking about?
- 26:59Like I think those numbers should be flipped.
- 27:01I think Qig's going to make more money than likely in free agency
- 27:04this year, like I think he's. Clear what what I gave you was
- 27:07like their, their their the value they got on their last
- 27:10contract. So that was the.
- 27:11Projection moving forward. OK, sorry.
- 27:13Yeah. But in terms of guys that I
- 27:15watched that fit this kind of move role, like it's him 100%,
- 27:20like this is the one. So again, he's not the biggest
- 27:23guy, but in terms of route suddenness, like he is, he is
- 27:28vertically fast, man. He can attack the seam.
- 27:31He can stress you vertically in the defense.
- 27:33Like there's great stuff of him like trying to get rerouted,
- 27:36chop the arm down, get behind that second level defender
- 27:39inside the safety ball on target.
- 27:41Big play, right? He runs corners at a high level,
- 27:43can stress you vertically from there as a kind of choice angle
- 27:47route runner. There's a little bit of
- 27:49clunkiness to his feet, but he's explosive.
- 27:51So that was Logan talking about Chig before we signed him.
- 27:55This was before free agency opened.
- 27:58And the fact that we actually ended up getting him, it's
- 28:01freaking phenomenal. And I went back, watched a
- 28:04couple of videos. Ever since we picked him up,
- 28:05everyone's been tweeting and putting stuff out that he's
- 28:07done. You ever played Madden?
- 28:10Yeah. Remember like that truck stick
- 28:12where you just hit the right thumb stick and you just lower
- 28:15the shoulder and just run guys over.
- 28:17That's basically watching him run, man.
- 28:19When he's in the open field and he's got that ball, To me, he is
- 28:23just looking to run dudes over and he is fun to watch.
- 28:28And to me, he's just going to be another added weapon to Jayden.
- 28:33And don't get me wrong, Zach Ertz great.
- 28:36One thing he did not have was a ton of yak yard.
- 28:39Half of the catch. He caught that ball.
- 28:42Dude was most likely going down because there was a guy on him
- 28:46or there was a guy right behind him.
- 28:47He wasn't getting a ton of separation.
- 28:49Chig, he can definitely run that ball after the fact.
- 28:53Well, one thing about ertz that we do know is ertz could find
- 28:58the open spot. And Jayden went to him a lot.
- 29:01He he was his, his, his lifeline, if you will.
- 29:04So if we have a guy that that knows how to read a defense and
- 29:09knows where to sit, how to stretch it, bro, I, I, I, I'm
- 29:16not worried at all. And I, I feel the more we talk
- 29:19about it, the better I feel. I, I really do.
- 29:23I know that Jayden had a rough year last year and who knows
- 29:28why? And I'm not going to say Andrea.
- 29:31We, we know that we, and we talked about it.
- 29:33He missed some things last year, whether whether he just didn't
- 29:36see it, whether he didn't feel comfortable, whether, who knows
- 29:38what, But I'm hoping that this year his eyes are open and he
- 29:43sees the field like the 2024 Jayden that we all came to love.
- 29:48I think that we can do some serious damage.
- 29:52And he has the pieces we always used to say, well, what pieces
- 29:57does he have around him? Well, the pieces of this puzzle
- 30:00are coming together and he's got some good pieces, man.
- 30:03So I, I, I really hope that they can get together in, in the
- 30:09offseason and, and throw some, some balls and, and, and kind of
- 30:12get a little, you know, that that's up that guys used to do
- 30:15all the time. They go to the beach and, and
- 30:17they get together and for a, for a weekend or a week or whatever,
- 30:20have you and, and just throw the ball around and, and feel each
- 30:23other out. I'm hoping that, that, that they
- 30:25do that someplace so that they can get some familiarity with
- 30:30each other and, and just make the BNG family proud.
- 30:35That's what I'm hoping for. I'm right there with you, man.
- 30:38And it's just so many things went wrong last year, and it
- 30:45just started from camp, right? And I think Peters realized that
- 30:51like, we've got to change things up, right?
- 30:54And bringing back Mariota, right?
- 30:58I was take them or leave them, right?
- 31:00I was fine letting Mariota walk. I think the fact that matters is
- 31:04Mariota tested the market and there wasn't anything out there
- 31:07that looked as good. So he's sticking around.
- 31:10He's coming back here so he can help Jaden learn more, you know,
- 31:15with this Blau concept. Chris Paul, right?
- 31:18He's coming back. And I actually thought because
- 31:21they just signed Chris Paul recently, I thought Chris Paul
- 31:24was going to walk. He tested the market and didn't
- 31:26find anything better than here because I thought Coleman was
- 31:30just going to be our left guard. All right, So they've done some
- 31:34things to address the situation to me, I'll give you my answer.
- 31:39But for you, which position group are you still?
- 31:46Do you still want to beef up? Do you still want to add kind of
- 31:51a stud to? I'm going to say the deep, I'm
- 31:56sorry, the offensive line. I think the offensive line to I
- 32:00need Jayden to have as much protection as possible.
- 32:05And if there was a small chink in the armor, I don't want that.
- 32:10We don't need that. So I I need the offensive line
- 32:14to just to give me somebody else who can plug it up so that
- 32:20Jayden has that that if of a second, if you will, more time
- 32:26and you. I hear you there.
- 32:27Yeah. And just answer it going like
- 32:30bouncing off what you just said. I'm not exactly happy that
- 32:34Allegretti right now is our starting center, right?
- 32:37To me, he was our guard. He can also play center.
- 32:41And then if you hear all the sound bites of Allegretti
- 32:44talking about how he loves playing center this and that, of
- 32:47course the dude's going to say that right now he's slotted as a
- 32:50starting center. He's not going to say no.
- 32:52I don't want to do that when he pretty much lost his job to
- 32:56Chris Paul last year or Brandon Coleman on the not Coleman, but
- 33:01you know, Cosby's on the other side.
- 33:03So he's not going to play guard for us.
- 33:06So of course Alegre is going to say he wants to play center.
- 33:08So I've just, I've got some concerns.
- 33:11You see some people out there saying, well, Alegretti is just
- 33:14as good as Biatis. Well, fact of the matter is
- 33:17Biatis was the starting center last year.
- 33:19If it was just as good, then why didn't he beat him out?
- 33:23So I'm right there with you. Me, I have concerns at wide
- 33:29receiver. You got Terry and I, I hope I'm
- 33:34wrong, but this is the last year he's got guaranteed money on his
- 33:37contract. Then we're going to go through
- 33:39this all over again. They didn't want to pay Terry
- 33:41when he was turning 31. So Fast forward a couple years
- 33:46later, are they going to extend him again?
- 33:48I don't know. So you got Terry, then you've
- 33:51got Dyami Brown coming back here.
- 33:55OK, Diami had 30 catches, which is most with us, not a ton.
- 34:00You got Jalen Lane. OK, that may it's not really a
- 34:03proven #2 you've got Luke, not really a number 2.
- 34:09So to me, we still don't have that number 2 receiver that can
- 34:12line up beside Terry. And Debo is still out there, not
- 34:16under contract. No one's making a play for him.
- 34:19So I don't know if he just wants too much or what's going on.
- 34:22But to me, wide receiver is still a concern and they can
- 34:26address it in the draft. A lot of people are saying,
- 34:29well, they're just waiting for Iuke.
- 34:32Have you heard all these stories coming out about Brandon?
- 34:38I, I have heard a little bit and I'm, I'm on the fence.
- 34:46I'm on the fence with it. I'll, I'll say this, if, if he's
- 34:50healthy and he is a great deal, I say go for it.
- 34:56But if there's any type of ambiguity, if you will, I don't
- 35:02want it. You know, we don't have time for
- 35:04anybody's headaches, even though I think in some shape, form or
- 35:08fashion to be able to strap on a helmet with a face mask, you,
- 35:13you're a headache to somebody. But but in a good way though.
- 35:16But I, I don't, I don't want any issues.
- 35:20You know, we had our issues last year, as you, as you said, and
- 35:23we saw where he got us And I, I want both feet on the ground
- 35:26running. If he doesn't cost us a lot of
- 35:30money and our draft picks, I say, and, and he's good in the
- 35:34head and you've talked to him and you vetted them the way that
- 35:37you need to, you know, and, and truly understood why he did what
- 35:40he did in, in Frisco. Then I say, OK, let's go for it.
- 35:44But I also believe that they're, they're, they're going to get
- 35:48some stud in the draft or they're the, what do you call
- 35:53it, unrestricted free agent. I, I, I feel it, bro, receivers
- 35:57can happen. Everybody's out there.
- 36:01You may not need him, you may not.
- 36:06Yeah, I just don't know if you can count on him, is the thing,
- 36:09right? A he's still under contract with
- 36:11the Niners. The Niners don't want to cut
- 36:15him, right? The Niners are saying we'll let
- 36:19him go for a seventh round pick, right?
- 36:22The Commanders are not going to give up a seventh round pick to
- 36:25bring in Brandon Ayer. The fact that we only have 6
- 36:28picks in the draft, they don't want to give him up for a 7th on
- 36:31top of the fact that everyone's thinking he's going to get cut,
- 36:35so why give up a pick to get them?
- 36:37There could be another. Team out there?
- 36:39That's desperate and they'll do it.
- 36:42But we let go of Tyler Biadas early in the offseason so he
- 36:47could sign with other team so he could find a new home.
- 36:50And you hear that all the time where we let go and so and so
- 36:54and what the teams do now is we let you go with a June 1st
- 36:57designation. The reason why teams do that is
- 37:00because it's more contract cap friendly for them.
- 37:04They're off the team and officially off the books come
- 37:07June 1. Even though they decide to sign
- 37:10with another team. It looks like what the Niners
- 37:12are trying to do is just make this as painful as possible for
- 37:15IU because he made it as painful as possible for them.
- 37:19So instead of just getting rid of them and dropping them and
- 37:22let them go someplace, they're trying to hold on to them for as
- 37:25long as I possibly can. So now you've got a bunch of the
- 37:27fan base that are saying, well, we'll address it when they get
- 37:31IU. There is no guarantee you're
- 37:33going to get a chance to A get him or B, do you even want the
- 37:38headache here? And can you count on when he
- 37:40gets here? I just, I don't know, I'm not
- 37:43too sure if you can. I'd like to delve more into why
- 37:49he was going through what he's going through.
- 37:50I don't know the the story and I don't really want to try to
- 37:55guess it. I would love to know what made
- 37:58him do what he did and what happened.
- 38:01You know, I don't want any rumors.
- 38:03If I could talk to the guy, I'd ask him.
- 38:05You know, he probably wouldn't tell me, but I, I would.
- 38:08I would love to know. Hey man, you know what happened,
- 38:11you know, and, and then make my decision from there.
- 38:15Yeah, this is actually TJ Huschmanzada talking about Iuke
- 38:21and everything that happened out there from his perspective.
- 38:25You know, TJ Huschmanzada's just for this topic.
- 38:27Like TI was looking forward to doing a show with you today just
- 38:29to hear what you had to say to this question.
- 38:32Listen, man, I know BA. I haven't talked to him in a
- 38:34while. Know him very well, though.
- 38:36But I haven't. I haven't spoken with him in a
- 38:39while. The question again, should any
- 38:41team. What?
- 38:41Brandon, I knew that was the question.
- 38:43Yeah, I'm answering. Yes.
- 38:44They they should want them. OK.
- 38:45But you got to be careful. And I and I say this, I like BA,
- 38:51but I said this last week about Stefan Diggs, and it's normally
- 38:55only happens when a player starts to get older.
- 38:57BA is still really young. Fast, quick, explosive.
- 39:01But what he did last year, it's kind of crazy.
- 39:06You got all this guaranteed money.
- 39:07You ain't showing up. You ain't.
- 39:07You're getting fined and you basically forego, what was it,
- 39:10over 30 million, right? Over $30 million.
- 39:13Like if you're a team and you give him a good contract, is
- 39:18this what you're going to get? Because this is what he has
- 39:21shown us, signed his deal with the Niners.
- 39:23Bad luck, he gets hurt, don't want that, but it's how he
- 39:26handled everything after that, yes, he's going to get signed.
- 39:29But if you're a team, you got to structure that contract the
- 39:32right way. You got to make sure that you
- 39:34protect yourself because of what he's shown you to be, you know,
- 39:39John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan ain't talking to the people
- 39:41across the NFL telling them everything that went down and
- 39:43how it occurred. And so, yes, I would want him on
- 39:45my team. I would, but it got to be at the
- 39:47right price. I got to make sure financially
- 39:49that we are protected as a team and organization because I've
- 39:52just, I've never seen anybody do this at so young of an age, got
- 39:55so many years ahead of him. I just I've never seen this.
- 39:58IU gave up $30 million, right? It the Niners had their clause
- 40:05in the contract so they got out of it.
- 40:08IU could have tried to fight it with NFLPA didn't right?
- 40:13I just, I'm not walking away from $30.00, let alone 30
- 40:17million, right? I mean I just 30.
- 40:20Cents. I mean, I've seen change on the
- 40:23ground and my back's hurts. I don't pick it back up, but I
- 40:26just, that's, that's crazy to me, man.
- 40:31So some people are saying, well, maybe he wanted to play with
- 40:33Jaden so bad that he just really wanted out of that contract $30
- 40:37million. Like, come on, I'm sorry, there
- 40:40is no way that you want to play with some dude so bad that
- 40:43you're going to give up $30 million knowing that whatever
- 40:47contract you sign after that ain't going to be anywhere near
- 40:50that. And how old is he?
- 40:53Misogist said. He's he's a young guy.
- 40:55How old is he? Let me see here.
- 40:57I mean, because I mean, I'm sure he's probably.
- 41:02Upper. That's upper 20s.
- 41:04I mean, OK, so that's. Well, he turns 28 literally
- 41:07tomorrow. OK, so that's that's, that's
- 41:10still fairly young, but that season though.
- 41:17So once again, there's something else that's going on that we
- 41:21don't know about, and I'd like to get to the bottom of it.
- 41:25You know, did was there bad blood?
- 41:28What, what happened to make him want to do that?
- 41:30Did somebody, obviously someone said something to him, you know,
- 41:34and. You would think that let's just
- 41:37say someone did say something, that something would leak out
- 41:40from his side, right? Some someone, whether it's his
- 41:44agent leaking into somebody, would say something.
- 41:46You haven't heard anything from the Iuke side, right?
- 41:50And Usmanzani is talking about John Lynch.
- 41:55Guess who Adam Peters worked for before he came here?
- 41:59John Lynch. So best believe Lynch is going
- 42:03to talk to Peters and say something to him about that
- 42:05whole mess if he's really interested in bringing him over
- 42:08here. You don't think Peters is going
- 42:10to try and find out what the hell happened?
- 42:13And I get that Jaden and I, you were friends and they played
- 42:16together and all that. I go so far.
- 42:20Seriously, right. I've got friends that have hit
- 42:23me up asking can you give me a recommendation for this job?
- 42:28And I've had to flat out say, I can't help you out there just
- 42:32because we've grown apart. I know who they are now, right?
- 42:36They're not the person that I grew up with.
- 42:38Or maybe I distance myself from them for a particular reason and
- 42:42they know I've got a contact that they want to leverage.
- 42:45I had someone hit me up, say, can you get me in touch with the
- 42:47commanders in their ticket department because I think I'd
- 42:51do a good job over there knowing that I've got contacts over
- 42:55there. No, I, I can't do that.
- 42:57I just, I'm not putting my name on the line for you to do that.
- 43:00And to me it's similar, the same situation.
- 43:02And B was talking to B Mitch, do you really want that weight on
- 43:08Jayden to try and rehab his brother Iuke's image and get him
- 43:14straight? I don't.
- 43:17Well, that kind of, if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he the same cat
- 43:23that exposed the playbook that Jayden?
- 43:25So, so so there's some little bit of history, even though see,
- 43:29it's coming back to me now. I do remember that, that it's
- 43:33like, dude, why would Jayden's your boy?
- 43:36Why would you go behind his back and post a playbook?
- 43:40Just different videos. Not thinking about the right
- 43:42stuff man. It's.
- 43:44Yeah, so, so he's got, he's got the answers to all that stuff.
- 43:47I it's weird. People have a short memory.
- 43:50And once we started thinking about it, he did do that.
- 43:54And so we got to ask him, are you going to give the playbook
- 43:59out again? If he there's so many, there's
- 44:01so many levels to this. It's just not one issue.
- 44:04There's there's several issues. And so you really have to sit
- 44:08down and talk to him and and get these things resolved before you
- 44:11can just plop down hypothetically 30 million that
- 44:15he may not take. There, there's no way he's going
- 44:17to get anywhere near that in a contract.
- 44:21It's going to have to be a proven contract to me with
- 44:24clauses on you having to be at X amount of workouts and all this
- 44:30other stuff. Similar to, you know, like a
- 44:32calamari type contract where you can't just be playing Madden the
- 44:35entire time, right? You've got to do this and do
- 44:37that and actually show up and show me that you like football,
- 44:41that. I mean, there are some players
- 44:42that I have met that they don't like football.
- 44:47They are damn good at it, but it's a job for them and there's
- 44:52some players I've met where they love it and they would do it for
- 44:55free, right? And I don't know which one of
- 44:59those IUC falls into. Don't know the guy, never met
- 45:02the guy. But to walk away from 30, I
- 45:07mean, OK, we're shy of 30 million, but you guys know what
- 45:10I'm talking about. To walk away from that kind of
- 45:12money. Yeah, upwards to $30 million,
- 45:15yeah. I just, I, I don't get it.
- 45:18And to be radio silent this entire time where the NFLPA will
- 45:23fight for you. And I mean, you are paying them
- 45:27to be a part of that brotherhood and you're not doing anything to
- 45:31fight it at all. So wide receiver for me, still a
- 45:36huge hole. It's a big gap.
- 45:38And a conquo can only take away so much pressure from Terry.
- 45:42And yeah, I guess you could bring Debo back, but we talked
- 45:46about getting younger and faster, and we're not getting
- 45:49younger and faster bringing back your EBO.
- 45:51That doesn't fit the mold, Yeah. And you can draft a wide
- 45:56receiver at 7. Some think they should draft a
- 45:59wide receiver at 7. Now I'm leaning more towards
- 46:03bringing in a Love at 7:00 just because Jaden needs a Robin to
- 46:10his Batman and to take the weight off of him.
- 46:13And yes, Ted, that's another running back and that's 5.
- 46:16But you know what? OK, Rashad White, one year deal,
- 46:21The Dew from the Browns. I forgot his name already.
- 46:24One year deal. Jerome Ford, Jeremy Mcnichols,
- 46:27another one year deal. OK, one of those guys is gone to
- 46:31me to bring his game changer like that.
- 46:33Yeah, they're. Going to be on the practice
- 46:34squad, yeah? I'm not sure if that could
- 46:38happen because White could get picked up by another team.
- 46:41You have no way to protect him on the practice squad.
- 46:44So and I can't see Mcnichols lasting on our practice squad.
- 46:48I can see someone definitely scooping him up.
- 46:50But you know, there's there's option.
- 46:51Do you can you stash Bill? I doubt you could stash Bill in
- 46:55a practice squad because of how many touchdowns he had last.
- 46:58Year, not after last year's. Yeah, Yeah.
- 47:00I don't see that. So, you know, there's things
- 47:02that they can do and play with and, you know, maybe tell
- 47:05someone, oh, you know, your hamstring hurts and the guy is
- 47:09sitting there shaking like, no, it doesn't.
- 47:10And they're saying, yeah, it does.
- 47:12You know, all of a sudden you're going on short term IR just to
- 47:15kind of hide you and stash you type of thing.
- 47:17Yeah. We've seen that.
- 47:20But the fact of the matter is, guys, calm down.
- 47:25We have a long time until the first game of the regular season
- 47:29and the first day of free agency.
- 47:32People wanted Peters fired. That's how crazy it was up in
- 47:36here. Wow.
- 47:38Yeah, calm down folks. Simmer, simmer down.
- 47:42I mean, dude is cooking and it's just it's fun to watch because I
- 47:47don't follow all these other teams.
- 47:48I used to do fantasy football. I think I told her a long time
- 47:50ago I stopped doing that. So I don't keep up with these
- 47:53other guys. But hearing how excited the rest
- 47:57of the NFL is about what we did, I mean, shoot, this is a let's
- 48:02see here. This is Ian Rappaport talking
- 48:04about the Commander's offseason moves.
- 48:07This year they got younger and seemingly better.
- 48:10Now for they're in different position.
- 48:12You know, a couple years ago I would say they were in a
- 48:15position of my guard, solidify the roster, bring in some older
- 48:18guys, need leadership, set the culture.
- 48:20It took them along with Jayden Daniels being awesome, took them
- 48:23to the NFC title game and had us thinking they were a team on the
- 48:26rise. Last year the older players got
- 48:29injured and mostly looked old and everything went the wrong
- 48:31way. This year they got more athletic
- 48:33and more and faster. Obviously adopted to A to $100
- 48:36million contract yesterday or I don't even know when.
- 48:39That was 65 days ago. That was 1 today, 2 intriguing
- 48:42signings started the day off by them signing Caleb on Chase on
- 48:46the former first rounder really impressed last year with the
- 48:50Patriots a career high 7 1/2 sacks.
- 48:52He gets a one year $12 million deal and because it's just a one
- 48:57year deal has the opportunity to cash in again.
- 48:59And then Chigga Conquo, the a former tight end from the
- 49:02Tennessee Titans, gets a three or $30 million deal, another
- 49:05really, really good athlete guy who can really run at the very
- 49:09least. At the very least, the
- 49:11Washington Commanders got faster, and that is a.
- 49:13To me, I don't know if I'm giving Peters an A, right.
- 49:19I'm giving him AB because. Defense.
- 49:23I'm not going a minus man. I can't with the center and the
- 49:26wide receiver still kind of up in the air and everything else
- 49:30because I feel like you could have kept be honest, right?
- 49:33I feel like you could have paid him and kept him.
- 49:35And to me, until Allegretti plays a full 17 game season,
- 49:41some people are saying, I think it was Logan Paulson saying that
- 49:44center wasn't that big a priority.
- 49:47Then you have Jay Gruden that said the center touches the ball
- 49:51every play. Every play but him and the
- 49:54quarterback. Those are the like should be the
- 49:56most one and two important positions.
- 49:58Who calls out the defense? Who calls protection?
- 50:00I mean, come on, man, don't don't don't pull the wool over
- 50:04our eyes like that. Don't do that because you get a
- 50:07guy who can't. It's no different than Bill
- 50:10missing blocks on a on a blitz. You, you can't a center who
- 50:13can't call out the mic or who who puts the the the wrong
- 50:19package in blocking scheme. Nah, man, I I mean, come on,
- 50:23don't do, don't do that to us. We're smarter than that.
- 50:26Yeah, I'm right through. That's why I can't give them an
- 50:28A. To me, it's it's a solid B for
- 50:31now. And then we'll see what we do on
- 50:34the draft and address everything from there.
- 50:36But speak of the draft, man. So you going to Pittsburgh?
- 50:44It's still up in the air, Inquiring minds want to know.
- 50:48It's still up in the air. So for those of us that are not
- 50:52going to Pittsburgh, I've I've decided I'm not going to go and
- 50:56I I was able to procure some more World Cup tickets.
- 51:01Your boys going to be following Team USA around this summer and
- 51:06ain't cheap. So I am not going to Pittsburgh.
- 51:08I'm saving money to do some World Cup soccer stuff.
- 51:12The team is hosting a draft party, two draft parties.
- 51:17So for those of you that are not aware, Thursday, April 23rd,
- 51:21that is the first night of the draft at 7:00.
- 51:25They're going to do this at Northwest Stadium, right?
- 51:28You can get the tickets online on the Commander's website.
- 51:32So they did this years ago, and it was, I remember specifically
- 51:38that when we drafted Emmanuel Forbes, I was standing beside
- 51:42Tanya Snyder when Ron Rivera called her to tell him who she
- 51:48was taking. And she said, you're the coach,
- 51:52I'm going to go to whatever you want to do.
- 51:55In hindsight, that was a massive mistake.
- 51:58Although he's he, even though he's he's, he's shining a little
- 52:02bit out in LA. But I hear you.
- 52:04So is that when Dan was on the yacht and he couldn't come back
- 52:06stateside? I think that's yeah, he was
- 52:08avoiding subpoenas. So Tanya was just running and
- 52:12doing everything and. Acting CEO.
- 52:15Yeah, all of our first round picks during the Ron Rivera era
- 52:17are gone, not on this team. So and then every year they
- 52:23always do this. There is another draft party on
- 52:26Saturday the 25th at 11:30 at National Harbor.
- 52:31At the harbor. So the year you and I were in
- 52:34Detroit for the draft, I remember coming back and then
- 52:37being at the harbor that Saturday.
- 52:39So that was a ton of fun. They always have a bunch of
- 52:42legends, live entertainment, a bunch of giveaways out there.
- 52:46One year it poured rain. You wouldn't be able to tell by
- 52:49looking at all the people out there.
- 52:50Dude, there was just no one gave a damn.
- 52:52Everyone was still out there at the Burgundy and Gold.
- 52:54Having a good time the way it's supposed to be, repping it hard.
- 52:59And guys, the tickets don't cost anything.
- 53:03And I know a, live is like, oh, the tickets don't cost anything,
- 53:05why should I RSVP? A, it gives them a heads up on
- 53:10how many giveaways to bring to the event and B, it lets the
- 53:15people running it to know how much staff to bring in.
- 53:18We've all been to restaurants and bars where they don't have
- 53:22enough staff because they didn't expect all these people to show
- 53:25up. You don't want to have that
- 53:27experience there so you get a chance.
- 53:30RSVP doesn't take long and also doesn't cost you anything.
- 53:33And you'll see me there, you'll see rally there.
- 53:37All of her other brothers and sisters in the Burgundy and gold
- 53:39celebrating. And I'm just, I'm looking
- 53:42forward to being out there for the draft party with everybody
- 53:47Thursday night. Who knows, we got one pick, they
- 53:50might trade out of it and we draft the next day.
- 53:54But all I know is when we're all together, it's a blast
- 53:57nonetheless. Heck yeah.
- 54:00I've I've got great memories at these draft parties and great
- 54:04pictures and so I can't wait to experience them with the newer
- 54:09fans that may not have experienced it because you guys
- 54:12are going to have a great time. Anybody get to where the any of
- 54:17the new guys going to get to where the chain when they're out
- 54:19there? New players.
- 54:22On that Saturday. Yeah, new players, of course.
- 54:25I, I always say only the players get to wear the rally chain.
- 54:30And with that being said, I hear the music playing in the
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- 54:57Ted, I'm going to see you in a week.
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