WEBVTT - How Jayden Daniels uses Virtual Reality, 2024 NFL Schedule Reactions, OTA Insights | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:04.600 On today's episode of The Command Center Podcast, we talked 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:10.280 Senior VP of Football Operations Brandon Whofras, Susna Susna we go. 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.280 We got schedule released as from the player's perspective, do 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:15.239 we care? Do we not care? Say to me to 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.040 find out. And we got OTA's which you're always fun 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:20.320 to talk about it. We've got VR training. What does 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:20.840 that look like? 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:22.640 It all starts right out. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.560 Welcome into the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:31.360 with Fred Spoot and Santana Moss and guys. Well, first off, 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.760 let's talk about this Fred. Yeah, just went on a trip. 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:35.800 Yes, I did trip with the kids. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:39.360 Drove all the way down to Birmingham, Alabama for au 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.000 tournament with you. Saw a lot of people down there. 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.360 Then household Joe back to Virginia for the Dale Green 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.680 Foundation Tournament golf tournament. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:48.919 Yeah. 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.159 Well I helped raise almost thirty five fifty thousand dollars 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.880 in the auction. I'm the auctioneer, so I hear. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:55.200 You were not. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:56.880 Yeah, I'm an auction. 0:00:58.400 --> 0:00:58.800 Good job. 0:00:58.880 --> 0:00:59.560 Yeah, great job. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:00.319 Yeah. Yeah. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:02.440 So I get people to dig in their pockets. I'm 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:02.800 good at that. 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.760 Dig in the pockets, get that well, we take the 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.560 kind at Jingles, but we'd rather have the kind of 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.800 folk like that, just what it is. And we raised 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.920 over thirty thousand dollars and forty five minutes yesterday. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.919 I mean you got he got a lot of practice 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.160 from his dad in the church. Yeah, you know, you 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.640 know how it go. Hear that we take the kind 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.960 of we love the you all heard of that a 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.360 lot of time place around. Don't put no change in there. 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:32.160 Yes, they still give like I didn't. I didn't been 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.679 an auctional while do they still give like money? They give 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:35.919 like checks and they get. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.120 Like, well now they can do it instantly. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.679 They can walk around with the credit card thing, or 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.080 they can write a check and stuff like that. We 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.840 had a couple of their jersey's self up close to 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.600 four thousand dollars. Yes suff we was even selling just 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.760 regular golf shirts. I talked to them and just buying 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:53.520 them for three hundred dollars. So whatever he is selling, 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:56.600 you need a salesman. And see, I think in my 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.320 former life I used to be a daughter door a 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.720 vacuum salesman in the early seventies. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.360 That's tough, living, man, It's rough. You got a vacuum 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:06.760 I don't care, dude. I had a guy come buy 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.080 my house the other day and you don't like they're 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:11.000 selling pest control or whatever, and you know usually sow. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.000 You know, sir, we don't spray, Like my wife doesn't 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:14.840 want to spray because you don't want to touch. Yeah, right, 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:16.840 because we got dogs or something. And I was like, 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.560 you know, so we don't. We don't. We've never used it. 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.280 We've in our house for ten years. You don't spray 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.400 for pests. Yeah, he goes, I appreciate that, sir, But 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.200 what about this? And I was like, you know, no, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.320 I'm talking. This guy came back at me relentlessly five 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:28.040 or six times. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:29.120 That's the skills. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:31.120 And I'm not I'm not exaggerating. It was like I 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.000 was like, oh, no, thank you. Oh what about this? 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.880 You showed me a picture or something about this. This 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.359 is scary. You want to go? And I was like, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:36.800 he showed you. 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.520 A praying man could be tech. They need his one. Yeah, 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.160 they need one person. Man. 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.200 I couldn't be a salesman because once you tell me no, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.600 you won't turn around and going to the But that's 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:47.960 how they do. 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:48.880 They knock on your door. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.440 They'd be like yeah, look like you need a roof, 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.760 And I'd be like, no, this roof just got put 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:57.160 on three years and they're like, oh okay, uh in 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.840 five years you need to return, you need to replace 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.280 the No, no, no, these are supposed to be thirty shit. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.959 If everyone they go like, well, you know, like with 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.120 those big storms we've had, you might want us to 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:07.680 go up and look and we'll replace it. And then 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.280 they're like pulling ship off knowing not that we're saying 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.920 anyone do anything untoward there, but of course. 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.920 They thet salesman like this, like that's what we are 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.120 in the in the United States. We know things a 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.200 certain way, but then we just we choose not the 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.320 liok it. We know what cost salesman. It's sleazy. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.799 I saying what you want to they're gonna say it 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:28.919 you a car by any means necessity. 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:30.560 We were just talking about Tannem was just talking with 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:35.680 Jason about cars and how that is and anyway, that's that. 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.920 But the reason I know we started talking about salesman 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:40.240 for whatever because friends of salesman. But I really wanted 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:43.000 to bring up your trip to Birmingham because your daughter 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:44.320 got a scholarship offer them. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.720 Yeah, she did cap Berkeley for this weekend. 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.400 Thinks she's you know, she she's getting there where she 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:51.480 get that from that basketball? 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.640 But she got it from my daddy Russell has Yeah. Yes, 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:56.640 she's built exactly like me. 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.520 We got video evidence fight no listen. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:03.400 I was exhausted, like he's a tank, all right, and 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.280 sometimes like they say, you can't fight a tank with 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:07.400 a dirt, boy, Now you can't. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:08.480 You can't do it. 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.720 And then he was just leaning on men. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.520 He would literally take the ball out and hand it 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.000 to me like an inch, Like who does that? Like 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:19.640 this is a guy that felt like if I let 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:22.040 his quickness come into this, I won't be to stop. 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:22.640 That's true. 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:23.760 He had a plan. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:24.800 You didn't. I did. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:29.120 Really, That's that's who you are. But that's what I 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.760 gotta say this. Congratulations to Kendrick Ghosted and you're right. 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:34.800 And of those guys they would take on the head 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:38.360 coaching job and stone Bridge and Virginia, I can't Yeah, 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.960 I can't wait to see that staff. 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.440 You I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna like 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:47.760 I'm not coaching. This is what I will do. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:52.240 I will train, I will help guys, and I will 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.760 talk to him and I will mentor then coaching. 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:56.920 Man, that's too much time, man. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.159 It's a lot of time. They give you a something. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:00.720 We're gonna give you a stip, but it's literally like 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.960 seven dollars. It's like seven dollars an hour. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.920 I can't do that in low count. Yeah, you cannot 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:07.480 leave while coaching in lowcot. 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.760 It's it's one hundred percent true. All right, So just 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:14.000 a reminder, we got that hawk outside dot com, that 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:17.680 hawk outside, that hawk outside dot com. Yeah at gmail 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:19.680 dot com. G maybe, Yeah, let's make sure that's clear, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.080 that hawk outside at gmail dot com. 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:22.440 Yeah. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.600 Okay, And so we got we're getting out shirts, right. 0:05:25.560 --> 0:05:27.919 Fred, Yeah, free shirt, free shirts shirt. 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.840 Twenty winners for a free shirt this is and then 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.320 five money lucky winners for us, signed shirt by all 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.599 three of us. Yeah, and this is the last opportunity. 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.000 This is last time we're gonna do it. We're gonna 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:39.760 make our selections here very soon, right, Jason, that's coming 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.760 up making those selections. He's nodding, last chance. So make 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.920 sure you get that those submissions in. You guys done 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.880 a great job. And also that's a great spot to 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.360 leave show ideas moving forward. 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.040 Yeah, tell us. What you want us to talk about 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.679 any subjects in the world. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.640 Yeah, we're talking about the mailman segment, right. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:54.160 Yeah we are. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.599 Yeah, the Mailman, the milkmandy, whoever it is, these jobs 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:58.360 have all died. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.240 Preacher Man by the way, you know it was Man. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.320 whatever anything and with Man, no doubt. 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.080 And then we got a live show coming up right 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.280 on June fourteenth. We're finalizing the location now, but make 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:11.800 sure you guys keep an eye out for that. We're 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.160 going to kind of determine the best spot to get 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:17.400 that done and hopefully you guys come out and support 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.599 us for the live event. That's pretty exciting. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:20.839 No, it's going to be very exciting. 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:23.440 I can Is it like at a bar you think, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:24.440 or like an auditorium? 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.120 I think it should be at a bar. You need 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.400 alcohol flowing? Where you went to the spot that will 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:28.800 be doing that? 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:29.480 Right? No? 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.600 No, we we don't know. Yeah, we don't know. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:31.920 You know. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.320 Yeah, finally, everyone calm down. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.520 Yeah everyone, we haven't figured it out. I heard some 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:38.760 names and I gotta look, it's all good. Yeah, we're 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.520 in talks. We negotiate, feel very we're at the we're 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:43.479 at the five yard line. 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.360 You just got to punch it in sometimes handed off. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.000 Oh no, no is a game man, She's finished in. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.840 That drive can be really tough, Yeah, really really tough. 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.560 So depending on who you haven't running back. 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:57.240 Yeah, you're right, Christie watched some yesterday, just watching it 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:58.120 coming up the highway. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:06:59.080 We're listening to it. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.240 You's doing driving the car like I do a. 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:04.320 Good like when I'm driving long distance. I don't listen 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.599 to music. I don't listen to sports talk. I listened 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.520 to YouTube breakdowns, nerdy stuff. And then I happen to 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.600 come pile as a gang clip and I We're watching 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.760 the two thousand and one game Panthers against Washington at 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.840 the time, and the old Baya cast Stephen Davis was 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.040 running it all down heels man. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.520 It does help having a big guy down there inside 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:27.160 the five yard line, all right. So that's it. So 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:28.960 it makes sure you come out, stay tuned to all 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.400 of our content for that live event. The time that 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:35.440 the date is June fourteenth, the time to be determined, yes, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.560 location to be determined, So you have to stay tuned 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:38.840 to find out on all that stuff is how do 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.000 So let's stay stay with it all right now in 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.480 Commander's news. We've got some kind of exciting news this 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.080 I was. The more research we did for this show, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.480 the more excited I got about this. We have a 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:52.760 new senior VP of Football off Operations, Brandon Sosa. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:56.040 Sosna is sona, sona, sona. 0:07:57.160 --> 0:07:59.000 You're bad with pronunciations on I'm bad. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:00.800 I'm worth too, but I've heard. 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:05.640 So we'll call him Brandon fro. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:08.960 Jason put whatever. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.040 Yeah. So basically he is the new Senior VP of 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:18.920 Football Operations. But man, he has a crazy crazy resume 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.560 but also crazy like job description at the moment. So 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.600 first off, he reports directly JP. He's the lead contract negotiator. 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.800 He oversees not only analytics but also health and performance 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:35.760 and also football administration. He's the liaison to business operations 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.120 get their stadium bill, and he's got a major role 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:43.000 in roster, construction, salary, cap and the CBA. Heude's thirty 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.319 one years old. Yeah, like, and that just seems like 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:46.920 he's got his hand in everything. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.360 That seems like he's a nerd. 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.280 And yeah, this is what I that's what I like. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.040 And by the way, rhythme is a French word. By 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.880 the way, back to me right at. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.600 The end of the day. I think, no, he's. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:04.720 So, he's one of these He's one of these brainy 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.920 exit I'm just so happy, man, Like they're not cutting 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.000 any corners. Like you look at what we had in 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.079 the front office and just people taking on like nine 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:12.600 and ten. 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:13.520 Jobs and stuff like that. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.880 I could just wonder how scratch for their job as 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.160 being for the last ten to fifteen years. And now 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.240 we got people in here to do certain things and 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.079 people overlapping each other, yah doing these things. And I 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.200 think that chicken balance system is gonna help us out 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.040 in the long run. And we're cherry picking from some 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.280 of the best franchises in the league, and we're promoting 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:32.760 these guys. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:33.880 That's the way things are supposed to be. 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.400 I just think, you know, it's a brilliant way these 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.000 guys have been doing things, you know what I mean, 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:39.959 if you really sit back and watch, I guess you 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.840 could say the Harrison Crew, Harrison Company when it comes 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.319 to just everybody you know who putting their hands into 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.040 this party and is stirring it up and making sure 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:48.800 that they get the right guys for the right job. 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:52.760 I mean for each and every job. It's very strategic 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:53.720 and cutting. 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.280 They come out from a guy you're pulling from other 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.079 teams that was using these guys and probably sitting in 0:09:59.080 --> 0:09:59.760 the situation right now. 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:01.720 We're they hate to have this loss on it. They 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.120 got to replace. Yeah, you know what I mean. So 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.200 I'm like I said, I can't say it anymore. 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:09.679 I'm ecstatic just to see how this thing really comes 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.679 to you know, I guess bruition, you know what I 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.520 mean when it comes to all the different things that 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:16.679 they have to do that we never think about or 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:17.200 talk about. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:18.200 We just play ball here. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.640 We never knew how important a guy like this meant 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:22.840 to the team, you know what I'm saying. Or further, 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.079 you know, So when I heard the resume, you know, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.400 I briefly listened to a couple of people who talk 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.000 about him coming over here and how Detroit is going 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.480 to miss him, and how some of the other places 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.880 that he's been things that he'd done well, you know, 0:10:33.920 --> 0:10:34.760 I was geeked about it. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:35.280 Yeah. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:36.719 I think like you guys both hit the nail on 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.520 the head there, like getting good people to fill important 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.800 positions in your organizations, and he's got a history of 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:45.760 success and taking on a lot of responsibility. I read 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.319 off like ten things he's going to be responsible for. 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.120 But I think when you look at his resume, right 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.679 with the Cleveland Browns, he was a salary cap and 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:56.439 contract analysts. In twenty eighteen, he goes back to Cincinnati, 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.520 which was a alma mater. He's the chief revenue officer there, right. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.040 And he goes to usc and he's the executive senior 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.000 Associate Athletic Director and chief of staff, so he's responsible. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.240 He's not the athletic director, but he's responsible for all 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.719 of the athletic program. And then he goes to the 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.640 Detroit Lions and is the senior contract negotiator there, right. 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:17.560 And then he comes here and has that same title 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.600 in addition to some other responsibilities. So he's a young dude. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.400 He's very hungry, very experienced, very smart and he and 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.280 the other thing that I love about it is he's 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.360 got like a diversity of experience according to this resume, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.840 and he's handled different responsibilities and seem to handle them 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:36.000 very well. And then you pair that with his experience 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:40.280 in Detroit and the and the that the roster construction 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:41.679 that they went through there, because I mean, we talked 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:42.640 about rosters that get you. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.599 They own guy, they got their own type guys with 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.040 their own vigion, and let's just look through these stuff 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.240 and let's just fine comb these things. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:51.880 University of Cincinnati. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.679 This is when they had danz Manrita South Gardiner, Kobe Bryant, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.800 Audi does. I'm talking about probably seventeen eighteen pros off 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:02.240 in his time. It would be called the Golden era 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.080 of Cincinnati football. They made the playoffs that year, they 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:07.320 got blew out, but they made the playoffs the year 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.440 hence go to the Cleveland Browns. He left the Cleveland 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:13.120 Browns in a better condition than he found the Cleveland Browns. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.520 I'm seeing that with everybody that I'm straking off of. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.400 He left them all in a better condition than he 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.920 left USC. Not only did he get them Lincoln Riley, 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.280 he comes back, turn around and get them put into 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:24.760 Big ten. 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.319 And we know how important that is. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.000 With the PAC twelve signing with the c W with 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.679 a three dollars TV contract, they tell you what's going 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:32.120 on there. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.120 So now that tells me he has future visions. No, 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.440 he can see, Hey, I know he can see. 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.520 You just got a good feel for the dollars and sons, yea, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:42.800 which is what his new role. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:44.839 That's the most important all that. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.880 Yeah, and then he goes to Detroit, and Detroit one 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.600 of the top six teams to win the Super Bowl 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.280 right now, left their roster in a better situation than 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:53.839 he found it. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.800 So his track records tells me he blows. He glows 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.439 up everywhere go. You know, how to handle money, he 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.000 knows somehow his math is mathing. Boy, he does. He 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.360 does well behind those numbers. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.240 So, like I said, that's the first thing I saw 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:08.520 when I when I saw the things that he's done, 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.679 and it all pertained to the dollar and just getting 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.800 things around here, you know, organizing and flowing the right 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.360 way we gott I go. 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:18.319 Yeah. And I think the other thing is like when 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:20.880 you look at like an important position, you know, like 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:22.959 when I was with the Atlanta anytime I negotiate a 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.840 new contract, you negotiate with the lead negotiating to the organization. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.920 And having a guy in that role who understands contract value, 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.079 your role in the organization and what they will or 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.360 will not spend on you, and position a position of 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:40.080 value is extremely important because I think about, oh, man, 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.559 that that's an overpay, that that's he overpaid. That's what 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.240 he's doing. That's his job. So hopefully he's shown. He 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.880 showed a history of the dollars and cents of the experience, 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:50.599 and I just think it's a again. You got to 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.959 see him in this new role and see how it 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:55.880 works here. But in terms of on paper resumes, just 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.079 like Dan Quinn, just like Adam Peters, this guy has 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.960 the resume they make you say, man, he's the right 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.360 guy for the job and can handle all this responsibility. Also, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.240 Nicki Javala reported that David Blackburn will be the Director 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:11.040 of Player Personnel. That is unofficial at the moment, but 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.200 once that is finalized, we'll talk about that. That makes 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.199 you stay tuned to get our thoughts on whoever that 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.000 the final version of the director of Player Personnel is. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.520 But obviously we're very excited about Brandon and we're looking 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:23.440 forward to see what he does here with this organization. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.360 We will, we promise we will get your last name correct. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:27.920 Yeah, I'm gonna give it one more time because I 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:31.560 did call it. It's not yeah, it's senate. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.680 We know we didn't get that right, So I apologize him. 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.600 Sorry, I wish it was not what you want to say. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.440 Not so bad. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.080 That's a football name. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.080 It's so funny, like this is a little bit appeal 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.800 behind the curtain, like you get in these like little 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:47.880 ruts mentally with names, and I'll stop saying a name. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:49.280 I don't know how to say it. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.520 Not because he said enough. I didn't even think about 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.640 let me not. 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.560 So yeah, all right, so that's out of the big news. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.240 We're really excited to see how that and that's more 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.480 of like in terms of judging success, that seems like 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:07.800 it will be a long term thing, but we're can't 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:09.880 wait to see what that looks like. Also, in other news, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.800 we have not talked about the schedule release because before 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.320 on our last show we kind of said, oh, these 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.000 are some games we have highlighted circle we wouldn't have 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.320 the final schedule release. So let's just talk about this 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:24.360 super high level as a player, do we care? Yeah, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.480 you said you did on the show, so like I 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.680 do at bit because circling game. 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:32.120 Think about it, all right, you're gonna always circle the game. 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.920 Let's say at Santana playing the Dolphins. That's a home 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.800 game for him. Now I know it feels like away 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.280 game for him, but his family gonna be there ramping, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.200 all right, So you circled that game. 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.480 All right, Let's just say I got a beef with 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:45.320 a certain. 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:49.480 Football player, I like Steve Smith. I'm circlingly the Panthers game. 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.760 If I got the rivalry of the Cowboys. Of course 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:57.160 that games are automatically circle, so I think in particular situations, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.080 one on one, it's some intimate was inside of that. 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.440 Let's just say I get to play against the Vikings 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:08.520 that I just left, I'm circling that game. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:10.560 But you do that now? Are you to do that 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.680 the week before the game? No? I would do that, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:15.160 but before the season started with I would be like, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.120 like you got it on your wall and see circle 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:17.400 the game. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.640 Yes, I'm circling that game. Because they didn't believe in me. No, 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:25.160 it's something like like some channel playing the Jets. He like, 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.720 you know, just y'all ain't do no, y'all drafted me. 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:31.160 It's all good, but they go with the butt comes in. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.320 But I'm finna show y'all two hundred yard. I'm gonna 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.480 give it to you. Did you feel what I tell you? 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:37.800