WEBVTT - Training Camp Bracket Breakdown | Command Center | Washington Commanders 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:09.360 Welcome to the Man Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here 0:00:09.400 --> 0:00:14.200 with two illustrious gentlemen, Fred Smoot and Santana mos Guys 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:15.400 Training camp week. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:18.680 Oh yes, but I don't want to be called illustrious. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.159 Some don't feel manly about it, you know. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:23.160 Just call me like distinguished. 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.320 Yeah, thank you, and I'm growing on now. 0:00:25.320 --> 0:00:28.720 I'm you know what I'm saying, distinguished. I like that, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:29.200 do you think? 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:29.720 Yeah? 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.360 I like that distinguishedstrious guys training camps coming up. In 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.520 the week leading up the training camp, high anxiety, low anxiety? 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:38.159 Where were we at with? 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.800 I was high anxiety and I don't know why, because 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:42.680 I was I was happy to come back. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.800 But then it was like because I think you never 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:45.440 know when your. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.639 Last training camp, So I think, so it's like this, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.720 I really don't want to do it, but I can't 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:53.440 wait to go out here with the fellows. I can't 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:56.080 wait to start this new season. So it's it's a 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:59.640 start of something new, but the reinvent the something old, 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:01.600 like you got to do it again? 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.600 Yeah, absolutely, antend. How'd you feel about it? 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:04.080 You know? 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.920 One of the things about training camp, and I think 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.720 I shared this last week. I trust me I was 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:12.759 never prepared. I was prepared to go out there because 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:14.520 I was in shape. I was ready to go. But 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.920 I hate getting ready for like I hated just the 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.480 whole round, the whole thing, like Okay, we report this 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.280 day and I got to sit in these meetings and 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.399 I got to go out here to practice. I wanted 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.839 to just be dropped off into training camp and said, okay, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.560 when's work when we two and it's been getting ready 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:30.399 for a preseason game. 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:32.760 But once I was there, I was ready to go. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:34.520 And I just hated the whole wind up part of 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.679 because I just felt like you get away from I 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:38.600 had to go home to Miami. That was That's what 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:40.959 I was. That's what I was leaving. And I knew 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:41.440 what I was doing. 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:42.040 When I was home. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.280 I was either vacating, you know, going out to South Beach, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.160 doing something with my homeboys. But training camp was like, Okay, 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.240 it's time to go back to work. So when I 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:51.760 got here, it was time to go to work. But 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.880 getting here it was hard. It was real tough. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.440 I hated the waves like that because every morning you 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.280 have to get to see people. Do understand we have 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.600 to weigh in to make sure we not drastically losing 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.680 weight because we practicing twice a day like we're doing it, 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.200 like so those waves. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.160 Could change your whole day. 0:02:09.240 --> 0:02:11.440 You don't wait enough, you can't practice you like so 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.200 I thought it was like one of the things where 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.720 the weigh ends was too serious. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.640 Almost. Yeah, for me, it was like just the anxiety 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.760 of knowing that that was the last day that I 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:24.720 was gonna feel good for the whole year. And also 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:26.400 for me it probably a little different than you guys, 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.840 Like this was that was my job interview leading up 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.200 to training camp, you know what I'm saying, Like that 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.320 was like if I didn't do well over the next 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.080 three weeks of practice, I wasn't gonna make the team, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.360 no right to move my family and iew all this stuff, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:37.680 and so there's a ton of pressure. 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.920 Asso shaped with its first bite. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:42.840 Yeah, checking you know, I had a guy played before me, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.400 Edrin James, and he told me, say, man, at the 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.359 year four, the season is going to go by so fast. 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:50.919 Every year is going to this come and go, And 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.040 training camp was so easy to me by year four, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:58.080 like honestly, I swear to God, by year four, I 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.919 was almost like I'm just here and when I watched 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:03.040 other guys go through the process or what I had 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.600 to go through those first few years. I was trying 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.480 to give them game like, look, bro, do this, do this, 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:08.600 do this, It's gonna be easy. 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:08.880 You know. 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:10.600 Have you somebody to take care of that body, because 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.400 the body is what you need. Like it was hard 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:15.240 to get up and go out there feeling like you felt. 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.080 It's almost like that person who didn't work out for 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.360 the last five years that's not working out for the 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:19.880 first time. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.040 That was training camp. Makes you feel like we was 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:22.760 going two days. 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.600 We was going in the heat with the We didn't 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.600 have this stuff that's going on now where you can't 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:28.400 go out there twice. 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:30.600 You got to have you have to have a walk through. 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:32.000 It was no walk to guess what. 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.600 We actually had three days of training camp because we 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.240 had three days we walked through. Then we want to 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.320 feel and then we want to feel again. So it 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:40.840 was it was three days really. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:45.400 So don't have coach gilds A preaching that right there. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.440 But I made sure that it got easier for me. 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.000 So the hardest part for me was just getting there. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.520 You know. I hated the whole leaving part. 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.600 That's why I would come up four days early, just 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.840 so I can make sure my mind is away from 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:57.560 all the fun. 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:02.120 And I just I hated. I like to play football, 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:05.640 this is my thing. I enjoyed practicing, Yeah, everybody tea. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.600 I enjoy practicing. I enjoyed playing games. I did it 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.680 all with a smile on my face. I hate preseason 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:14.640 game because it's like I'm getting ready to play play 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:15.520 play play play. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.560 I get in three plays and now. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.240 Like it's one of these, most of them, it's like 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.799 emotional breakup, Like it's like, yeah, we in a relationship. 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.280 I'm leaving you. Yeah, but you gotta get up for 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:28.960 not like it was. So it was the same thing, 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.400 but reverse for me. So you're like logan, you know, 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.560 like preseason's big, big opportunity, that's what you're gonna make 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.200 the team. And so I'm up. But you don't start 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.720 the game. You're not don't start the second quarter, might 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.320 even not start the third quarter, and all of a sudden, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.320 it's a fourth quarter. And you had to stay warm 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.839 on this like mentally in it the whole time for 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.840 ten plays in the fourth quarter, and it was so 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.520 just a lot. It's a lot of stress and anxiety 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.680 and for you it's like this up and down, and 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:55.680 it's it's a weird time of year for sure. So 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.880 but one thing I'm excited about, guys is we get 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:01.480 to now watch training camp and we get to see 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:03.440 how this team is going to be built moving forward. Right, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:04.960 And so I've got a little game I think we 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.919 should play. I'm gonna call it training Camp Brackets. And 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.240 so what I've done is I've put all the position groups, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.520 eight position groups into brackets, kind of like you know, 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.560 the Final four whatever I got. So we got quarterbacks 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:20.520 versus DB's, wide receivers versus linebackers, d line versus coaching, 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.800 and then special teams versus running backs. And we're going 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.440 to decide which group we want to watch more. Then 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.000 we're gonna go to the next group, yeah, the final, 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.400 the semi finals, and then we'll go to the finals 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.360 and determine which position group we want to watch the most. 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:37.600 So that's kind of what I'm I'm thinking about here. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.279 So do you guys want to start? Start with qbs 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.960 and defensive backs. Let's do it all, right, What we got. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.080 QB's and defensive qbs. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.359 This is a this is a this is like in 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.760 terms of position groups, that I did not want to 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:50.840 see face each other till the. 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:52.160 To me and this is it. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:52.880 It's the quarterbacks. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.440 Yes, so so. 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.600 It's a lot of young DB's I just really want 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.280 to watch individually, but I'm sorry, this team star arts 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:03.240 and then with the quarterback and Sam Howe is the 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.440 guy that everybody eyes on, not just some people, every 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.279 He's the reason for the season. 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:11.880 I got to move the quarterbacks on to the next one. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.760 What do you think I'm with the quarterbacks? I mean, 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.320 that's that was my most you know watched. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.080 Guy on my list. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.000 This you know, this training camp, I'm watching Sam, I am. 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.320 I want to see every inch of what he's going 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:26.200 to bring, you know what I mean, I'm looking at 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.880 from the start to when we're saying we're really suiting 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:29.840 up for this thing to go. 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.120 You know, so you quarterback, you gotta be Sam. 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:33.880 Yeah, I think this is really tough because to me, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.039 like you got Kwan, you got Forbes, you got Percy, 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.800 you got Forrest, you got this same jeweam coming back 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:43.159 from the mold. Who's playing the nickel you know, dro 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:44.080 what's he doing? 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:44.880 Who? 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:47.680 Like, who's gonna be the the nickel dime? Guys like 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.000 there's so much in terms of how the defense is 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.520 going to be built that is in that group that 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.600 I want to say, dB is so bad, man. I 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.920 know they're going to be so impactful to this roster. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.960 But you might way say Jacoba brisket. 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.320 Yeah, but I think that's the that's the problem, right 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.320 is the most important part of this team is how 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.440 Sam goes yes, and so it doesn't really matter like 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.600 as much as that's going to be so fun to watch, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.840 and that group could be one of the best groups 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.840 on the team, which is crazy to say that the 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.320 defensive groups like, I want to know what Sam's doing. 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:17.920 I want to know what the offense looks. 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:18.520 We all do. 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.040 I want to know what that's about. So as much 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.480 as it pains me, and I know it changes you too, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.160 because we can't talk about Emmanuel Forbes. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.120 Now, you're right, listen to me, but I understand the 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.679 importance of quarterback is serious. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.920 Let me just ask this, Is there any position group 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:35.280 early on that you would no, no, let the game 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:39.000 play out, come on, cheat you treat So I don't 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:40.600 know if that's a surprise. Is that an upset in 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:41.480 the first I. 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:45.160 Think it is because so many store our first two 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.520 draft picks, was in the defense room for them to 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.160 be gone. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.880 And then just to know that that's they're a major 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.160 upgrade to five backfield, you know what I mean, just 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.160 not only talking about just these first two guys going 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.120 to private party have a high uh you know, play potential. 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.800 They're gonna make that defense as a whole better, you 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.560 know what I mean. So, yeah, that's that's definitely a surprise. 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.440 And to me, like that is that's a great point. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.920 That's like the like two first round draft picks all 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.680 that stuff. So obviously like this feels like the finals 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.120 happening in the first round. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.400 That's what happened. Man. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.760 That's tough, man, That's what. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.160 Happened when football is in the first of all football. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.480 If the quarterback is the driving force for every organization. 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.320 So at the end of the day, we're not surprised. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:31.960 So let's just talk about the DVS because we're not 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.240 gonna talk about it anymore. Right, Expectations for that group 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.880 going into training camp number one storyline because again this 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.000 last time we're gonna get to talk. 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:39.480 About number one. 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.080 Stordilane is the number one pick they managed for They're 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.679 drafted him to be a lead dog. The question is 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.760 can he be a lead dog? That's a question that 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.280 we will be answered. And can this great defensive back 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.320 field learn how to play with this great front full? 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.520 Sure this is the question. Yeah you agree, major, Yeah, yeah, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.280 I agree to And I'm just again. And we talked 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.360 about Kwan, we talked about Forbes. I'm excited for the safeties. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:05.240 I'm excited for Cam who's going to be the other 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.679 box player. It's a bummer they're out, man, but that's 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.360 how it goes. Next, Go next, Brack. We got wide 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.880 receivers and linebackers and this is kind of a weird one. 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:17.000 Yeah, because you know what, the linebackers don't have the names. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:20.160 Yes, but they are the group with the biggest question mark. 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.640 That's right. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.400 So I can see why people be like, you know what, 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.880 I know what I got it whie, I don't care 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:29.640 over here. 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.280 I want to see what I got a linebacker, like, 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.600 I think that's the thing. Do you take quality over 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:36.240 the unknown? 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.160 Yes, because wide receivers I got all this depth in 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:44.520 quality over here. A linebacker I got people fight for Khali. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:46.880 So it's one of the. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:49.880 Well do I go with. 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.079 The unknown, And you know I'm going with the lineback 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.760 because we don't know what the hell going on over Yeah. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.360 That's true. I totally agree. I think to y'all, I 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.600 guess for me, it's the linebacker over the receipt I'm 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.760 more in see that group because I know I know 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:04.000 Terry's gonna come out and Ball. I know Johan's inna 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.240 come out and Ball. I'm I guess the big question 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.400 for me is Curtis, you know, like, what's his role 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.480 going to be? I want to see that. I want 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.320 to see what that looks like. And I think the 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.080 other thing is those fourth, fifth, six receiver spots, especially 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.760 with all those super talented undrafted for agents they brought him. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.320 The only question I got in the wide receiver room 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:26.320 is who in the hell is Diamon Brown. Yeah, he 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:29.280 stand up and showed me who the hell he is. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:31.320 I do not know yet. 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.440 I love it. I love that insight, But it's still 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:35.240 the linebackers. So how do you feel about it? 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.160 Yeah, I mean when it comes to this, I'm with Fred. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.240 When it comes we kind of already know what we 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.560 have at the receiving position. The biggest question on his 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.840 team I think going into the season period and I'm 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.000 hoping because I know it's gonna be some free agent 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:52.800 linebackers available. You know, we've been saying this open, you know, 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.760 but it's gonna be some guys the training camp. 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.439 Like that's a steal, Go get this guy. I'm hoping 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.200 we can bring a guy to in here that we 0:10:59.240 --> 0:10:59.839 can kind of like. 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.560 Put this to rest, because I do believe, like you 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:06.080 can't go two years without addressing and getting a guy. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:07.960 It don't have to be a guy that's gonna come 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.160 in here and be the dominant, you know, for us. 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.079 I feel like we have some potential here that can 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.959 really you know, especially off of that last game of 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:15.520 the season that we saw last year with some of 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.400 the guys that we had who we didn't know, who 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.839 can you know, bring it like they brought it. I 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.800 hope it's just want we bring someone else in, whether 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.800 it's beginning the training camp or towards the end before 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.480 the season, that we can kind of put this to 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.440 the rest. But the linebackers are going to be number 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.160 one on my list if I have to, you know, 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.000 pick between them and the wire receiver. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:33.160 Yea. 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:34.760 And I was also going to say for the linebackers, 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.200 it's interesting because like that's kind of also like where 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.240 that buffalo nickel falls in, right, just kwawning there, just 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.600 caming there. You know this person take that spot. 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:46.160 And bringing up the buffalo nickel. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:48.840 I wonder if that's the reason why we care less 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.400 about that position, because we see we normally have more 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:55.520 defensive backs on the field anyway, So it's almost like 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.199 this this this this team. It's like, bro, we don't 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.080 need no linebackers. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:11:59.679 We're straight. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.400 We have have enough athletic guys that we can put 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.079 in here with the buffalo nickel that they can play both. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.240 But when it comes to other than that, this is 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.120 our set. We play more of the buffalo nickel, then 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:11.679 we need a traditional. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.880 Four to three look, you know what I mean. So 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:14.959 that's probably why linebackers. 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.320 We don't care what the lineback all right, So receivers 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.240 out early any thoughts on receivers because we're not going 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:19.800 to talk about him again for the rest of the show. 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.679 Put it like this will eat us be shocked if 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.680 we go out there and training camp store and we 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:28.200 like Jhan having a good camp, and I spect that 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.880 Terry having a good camp, and I don't think it's 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.560 nothing that the wide receiver group could do to blow 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:35.719 us away, but the linebacker group can. 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.319 And something that's not on here, and I kind of 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:40.600 want to just tuck it in here is the tight 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.960 ends with the receivers just for right now, all right? 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.120 To add them in there obviously, Like. 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:49.320 Cold is the guy that I want to see Cold? Well, 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.199 I want to know who is Cold Turner? And and 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.480 is he tough enough to play football? 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.760 Because I know he's skilled enough. Is he tough enough 0:12:57.760 --> 0:12:59.000 to play this game on this lift? 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.560 Absolutely so? Yeah? And you know Logan Thomas coming back 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.120 from the injury, Curtis Hodge is looking good. Baits when 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.199 they actually start running the ball, does Baits look like 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.120 John Bates one of the best blockers in the NFL. 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.079 But we're gonna go linebackers here with this round. Next 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.920 one I think is really really interesting, and it kind 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.040 of feels like the quarterback versus DB's. It's the defensive 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:21.800 line versus the coaching And for whatever reason, I think 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.920 strictly because chases in this in. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.080 This in this group, yeah, it makes it a soap out. 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:27.080 Yeah, it makes it a soap. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.240 Out, Yeah, most definitely. 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.640 And I would go there, but guess what I know 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.560 in Tanna know in you know, you put us in 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:34.560 a contract year. 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.079 We all ball, we all show up and do amazing 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:44.040 NFL things when it's time to get that checked. So 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:48.200 am I word about switting young showing up to rush 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:48.800 the passer? 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:52.880 No, I'm not coaching could take us to the playoffs. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.880 Who is this coaching staff going to make better? I 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.400 see Curtis Samuel being better. I see Antonio Gibson being better. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.560 I see Johann Dowson being better. I see coaching being 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:06.040 a difference. That we eight and eight and missed the 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.600 playoffs by one game. Now with ten and seal them 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:10.920 and ten and eight again going into the playoffs. So 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.920 what I'm saying is, I think is coaching over the 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.160 d line. Even though I love me some dirty down Ridgeway, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.200 I want to see what for Darien matthis you're gonna do, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.960 Like I want to see what these dudes are gonna do. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.440 But when I think about the story, the big story 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.160 here it is coach be enemy and coaching period. 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.800 And really, I mean you'd argue that another storyline is 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.240 Jack del Rio, right, yeah, most of that. How he's 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.840 gonna use kind of all these pieces in the back end, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.480 how he uses all these rushers, how they mitigate kind 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:42.720 of a weak position with the linebackers, you know. 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:44.720 So I don't know, and that's why I'm going to 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.960 d line. I mean a friend with preaching. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:49.520 I was just saying, listen, you know what I mean. 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:51.680 I mean, he is a preacher's son. So at the 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.520 end of the day, I can't let him, you know, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.200 talk his talk. But I think the one thing that 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.840 stands out, which he said he stated that is true. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.400 We know contract year bring a different beast out of you, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:02.800 but I have to see that beast. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:04.640 I want to see him because I've been waiting to 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:05.440 see him, you know. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.000 I want to see Chase be that Chase that plays 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:10.640 like It's almost like you know how when you get 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.240 in one of those fights where you just blackout and 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.280 people be like, man, bro, you went to guard the 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:17.880 first thing you tell them, You're like, look, bro, I 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.880 just I went to I went somewhere else. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:21.240 I got to see that Chase. 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.640 I know he has it in him, and not alone 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.520 just seeing what Chase is gonna do is I know 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:27.360 we're not going to see it in the preseason, but 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.160 the other talent that we got around him, we have 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.800 a lot of depth. He talked about Mathis, he talked 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.120 about Ridgeway, He talked about having talked about the young 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.440 guys kJ Henry, We talking about Andrew Jones. We got 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.920 some skillful guys on that D line to add to 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.720 the Obadas, to the two heel to the to Smith Williams. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.040 We have a lot of depth at that D line position. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.080 So I want to see how this thing pans out. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.520 Who's going to be the guys rotating, then who's going 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.000 to be the guys getting the most played in the preseason. 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:55.520 That's what I'm interested in. 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:57.600 I know the coach is gonna coach, but we always 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:58.600 say the coaches coach. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.120 The players got to play. Got to see the players. 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.240 Change your opinion? For nothing changes my opinion. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.200 But he browned up something to ask you a question. 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:08.680 We gotta come to a consensus here, go. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.760 Ahead, No, no, I gotta. He made me want to 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:14.240