Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. OTAs
Speaker 1: are wrapping up this week for the Commanders. Logan Paulson
Speaker 1: and Sean Springs joined me to talk about all the
Speaker 1: stars and sleepers from the past few weeks. Lots of
Speaker 1: respects for Dotson coming in and early being able to
Speaker 1: see what he's doing, but he was drafted sixteenth overall.
Speaker 1: You'd expect somebody drafted six overall to be able to
Speaker 1: come in and look like they know what they're doing
Speaker 1: and kind of be able to hit the ground running
Speaker 1: and come in as a starter. Who though, from what
Speaker 1: you've watched us through some stars and sleepers, which starts?
Speaker 1: Who has really kind of stood out to Logan? Has
Speaker 1: you've been here pretty much watching practice for all three weeks? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously Johan Dotson has been outstanding. We already
Speaker 1: talked about him. The guy that I think deserves a
Speaker 1: ton of credit is Carson Wentz. I mean, just the
Speaker 1: way he's picked up the offense, is ability to put
Speaker 1: the football down the field and the tight window throws
Speaker 1: he's been able to make. You know, a lot of
Speaker 1: people credit Johan, but a lot of that credit deserves
Speaker 1: you go to Carson Wentz. He's throwing him open. They've
Speaker 1: been a really nice job. Their chemistry is on point.
Speaker 1: It just makes this offense look so different. It's a
Speaker 1: totally different animal going into season with him at the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. When when you talk about leadership, I think
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I've heard people say he's paid ands like
Speaker 1: with his leadership and how he approaches practice, and you
Speaker 1: will see everyone get better when you have a quarterback
Speaker 1: who approaches they're like with professionalism. They get excited about
Speaker 1: his live arm and I believe Carson Wentz is one
Speaker 1: of those guys when you see it in person. You
Speaker 1: can see it on TV, but when you get to
Speaker 1: see it actually in person, you realize how strong his
Speaker 1: arm is and how many great throws he can make.
Speaker 1: So all of that talent and leadership, and that's something
Speaker 1: that I think this coaching staff really wanted, was to
Speaker 1: be able to strutt the field, to be able to
Speaker 1: take advantage of how fast Terry McLaurin is, and of
Speaker 1: course dots and runtal four three as well. Right, we
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that. What about if we
Speaker 1: go to the defensive side of the ball. I got
Speaker 1: the last couple of days especially. It's again you probably
Speaker 1: know really well as Benjamin say choose ye, his length,
Speaker 1: his footspeed, his patience, his physicality with the receivers. I mean,
Speaker 1: Johan has been very, very sharp, except when he goes
Speaker 1: up against Benjamin Saint Juice, and I think it's just
Speaker 1: his length, his athleticism, all those things you want check check,
Speaker 1: check check. He's playing a little buffalo nickel. He fits
Speaker 1: runs well. He's just been super impressive for me last
Speaker 1: year seeing him, you can see the potential. I called
Speaker 1: him like he was like baby Richard Sherman, and he's
Speaker 1: like six three guys. It's hard to throw him. Got
Speaker 1: great ball scales, and he's physical at the line scrimmage,
Speaker 1: which oftentimes, you know, receivers like to be fancy and
Speaker 1: give you all these moves. But when you got a
Speaker 1: guy who's gonna stand in front of you, put his
Speaker 1: arms on you and can run with you, you can't
Speaker 1: dismiss around. You gotta get off the ball. So I
Speaker 1: expect a great year from him. What about some sleepers,
Speaker 1: I mean we're talking about a lot of the names
Speaker 1: you know that kind of should be obvious stars, And
Speaker 1: it's great to be able to see that they're standing
Speaker 1: out because that's what you expect of them. But what
Speaker 1: about some of the guys that maybe we're not really
Speaker 1: talking about, that are kind of sleeping and should be
Speaker 1: paying we should be paying attention to. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: a couple of guys coming to mind. Chris Paul's sethi
Speaker 1: On Traffick did a great job. Curtis Hodges did a
Speaker 1: great job. But the guy that I think is probably
Speaker 1: most surprising to me as Holmes, the quarterback that they
Speaker 1: dropped in the seventh round. He has just looked very,
Speaker 1: very sharp and like we watched a little bit of film,
Speaker 1: you just had nothing but good things to say about. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, the kid looked like he's has some veteran experience.
Speaker 1: You if you watch tape and you didn't know he
Speaker 1: was a rookie, probably would think that he had at
Speaker 1: least two or three years in the NFL. I like
Speaker 1: his size. I think he's a six one kid. He
Speaker 1: can run. Usually when you see big corners, he look
Speaker 1: kind of stiff, but he moves well. He has gray hips.
Speaker 1: She was planning break and turning his hips coming out
Speaker 1: of the breaks and challenging the receiver. So I see
Speaker 1: what you see on tape. I love that this kid
Speaker 1: got a real upside. For all your Commanders news and analysis,
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