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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. OTAs

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Speaker 1: are wrapping up this week for the Commanders. Logan Paulson

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Speaker 1: and Sean Springs joined me to talk about all the

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Speaker 1: stars and sleepers from the past few weeks. Lots of

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Speaker 1: respects for Dotson coming in and early being able to

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Speaker 1: see what he's doing, but he was drafted sixteenth overall.

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Speaker 1: You'd expect somebody drafted six overall to be able to

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Speaker 1: come in and look like they know what they're doing

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Speaker 1: and kind of be able to hit the ground running

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Speaker 1: and come in as a starter. Who though, from what

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Speaker 1: you've watched us through some stars and sleepers, which starts?

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Speaker 1: Who has really kind of stood out to Logan? Has

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Speaker 1: you've been here pretty much watching practice for all three weeks? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Johan Dotson has been outstanding. We already

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Speaker 1: talked about him. The guy that I think deserves a

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Speaker 1: ton of credit is Carson Wentz. I mean, just the

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Speaker 1: way he's picked up the offense, is ability to put

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Speaker 1: the football down the field and the tight window throws

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Speaker 1: he's been able to make. You know, a lot of

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Speaker 1: people credit Johan, but a lot of that credit deserves

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Speaker 1: you go to Carson Wentz. He's throwing him open. They've

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Speaker 1: been a really nice job. Their chemistry is on point.

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Speaker 1: It just makes this offense look so different. It's a

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Speaker 1: totally different animal going into season with him at the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position. When when you talk about leadership, I think

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I've heard people say he's paid ands like

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Speaker 1: with his leadership and how he approaches practice, and you

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Speaker 1: will see everyone get better when you have a quarterback

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Speaker 1: who approaches they're like with professionalism. They get excited about

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Speaker 1: his live arm and I believe Carson Wentz is one

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Speaker 1: of those guys when you see it in person. You

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Speaker 1: can see it on TV, but when you get to

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Speaker 1: see it actually in person, you realize how strong his

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Speaker 1: arm is and how many great throws he can make.

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Speaker 1: So all of that talent and leadership, and that's something

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Speaker 1: that I think this coaching staff really wanted, was to

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Speaker 1: be able to strutt the field, to be able to

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Speaker 1: take advantage of how fast Terry McLaurin is, and of

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Speaker 1: course dots and runtal four three as well. Right, we

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Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that. What about if we

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Speaker 1: go to the defensive side of the ball. I got

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days especially. It's again you probably

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Speaker 1: know really well as Benjamin say choose ye, his length,

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Speaker 1: his footspeed, his patience, his physicality with the receivers. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Johan has been very, very sharp, except when he goes

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Speaker 1: up against Benjamin Saint Juice, and I think it's just

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Speaker 1: his length, his athleticism, all those things you want check check,

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Speaker 1: check check. He's playing a little buffalo nickel. He fits

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Speaker 1: runs well. He's just been super impressive for me last

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Speaker 1: year seeing him, you can see the potential. I called

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Speaker 1: him like he was like baby Richard Sherman, and he's

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Speaker 1: like six three guys. It's hard to throw him. Got

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Speaker 1: great ball scales, and he's physical at the line scrimmage,

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Speaker 1: which oftentimes, you know, receivers like to be fancy and

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Speaker 1: give you all these moves. But when you got a

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Speaker 1: guy who's gonna stand in front of you, put his

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Speaker 1: arms on you and can run with you, you can't

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Speaker 1: dismiss around. You gotta get off the ball. So I

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Speaker 1: expect a great year from him. What about some sleepers,

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Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about a lot of the names

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Speaker 1: you know that kind of should be obvious stars, And

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Speaker 1: it's great to be able to see that they're standing

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Speaker 1: out because that's what you expect of them. But what

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Speaker 1: about some of the guys that maybe we're not really

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Speaker 1: talking about, that are kind of sleeping and should be

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Speaker 1: paying we should be paying attention to. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: a couple of guys coming to mind. Chris Paul's sethi

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Speaker 1: On Traffick did a great job. Curtis Hodges did a

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Speaker 1: great job. But the guy that I think is probably

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Speaker 1: most surprising to me as Holmes, the quarterback that they

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Speaker 1: dropped in the seventh round. He has just looked very,

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Speaker 1: very sharp and like we watched a little bit of film,

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Speaker 1: you just had nothing but good things to say about. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the kid looked like he's has some veteran experience.

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Speaker 1: You if you watch tape and you didn't know he

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Speaker 1: was a rookie, probably would think that he had at

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Speaker 1: least two or three years in the NFL. I like

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Speaker 1: his size. I think he's a six one kid. He

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Speaker 1: can run. Usually when you see big corners, he look

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Speaker 1: kind of stiff, but he moves well. He has gray hips.

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Speaker 1: She was planning break and turning his hips coming out

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Speaker 1: of the breaks and challenging the receiver. So I see

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Speaker 1: what you see on tape. I love that this kid

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Speaker 1: got a real upside. For all your Commanders news and analysis,

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