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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Washington

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Speaker 1: welcomes Derrick Henry and the Tennessee Titans toth Edex Field

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Speaker 1: on Sunday for a one pm kick. How Washington's front

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Speaker 1: seven stack up against a running back like Derrick Henry

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Speaker 1: is just one of the matchup slogan Paulson and Santana

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Speaker 1: Moss will be on the lookout for. So if you

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Speaker 1: look at the specific matchups you're most looking forward to

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Speaker 1: in this game, I think it kind of starts there

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Speaker 1: with we talk about Derrick Henry. He really is kind

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Speaker 1: of like their leader on offense. He finally got over

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Speaker 1: one hundred yards for this season, and as defensive coordinator

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Speaker 1: jackter Riss says, he's a big, strong, hard guy to

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Speaker 1: have to stop. So, Santana, how do you see him

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Speaker 1: matching up against Washington's front seven? Well, it's no secret

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a tall task. And it's

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Speaker 1: no secret also that this offen goes as far as

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Speaker 1: the king goes. He's King Henry for a reason. This

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Speaker 1: guy has been doing a year out the year out

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Speaker 1: the year. Oh, I think our defense has written to

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Speaker 1: the challenge the last few weeks when he came to

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Speaker 1: the run game. So I see these guys when I've

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Speaker 1: been doing just that rising to the challenge. I feel

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Speaker 1: that in order for us to go out there and

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Speaker 1: do what we want to do collectively on both fans,

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Speaker 1: our defense has to sload this guy now. If not,

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Speaker 1: then we're not going to get a chance to do

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Speaker 1: someone on the offensive side that we desperately and and

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Speaker 1: darn need to do. And it's something a little bit

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Speaker 1: different than they've seen the last couple of weeks. A

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Speaker 1: lot of outside zone, a little bit different philosophy from Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Here They've got they've kind of built that offensive line

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Speaker 1: to get that done. So can the defense handle that?

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Speaker 1: Can they all play their gap responsibilities and be really

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Speaker 1: fun matchup to watch this Yes, so far Washington's run

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Speaker 1: defense has been pretty well, but it is going to

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Speaker 1: be a different kind of defending the run in this

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Speaker 1: game than we have in the past few games. Logan

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Speaker 1: offensive coordinator Scott Turner, A lot of attention has been

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Speaker 1: on him this week and kind of how he can

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Speaker 1: call a game to help out the offensive line that's struggling,

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Speaker 1: the quarterback that has, you know, trying to get to

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Speaker 1: his rhythm still, how do you see him going up

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Speaker 1: against their defensive coordinator Shane Bowen. Yeah, so I think

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Speaker 1: this is a really good matchup for Scott, not because

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Speaker 1: of you know, Bowen's got a bad defense or they're

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Speaker 1: not doing things as well in Tennessee. It's just a

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Speaker 1: familiarity there. It's very, very very similar to what Jack

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Speaker 1: does on to cover three. A lot of but don't

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Speaker 1: easy to identify coverages. The safeties kind of tip those off.

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Speaker 1: So if Scott has a plan and can get Carson

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Speaker 1: concepts work against these coverages. So it should be a

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Speaker 1: really really nice matchup for this group because of the

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Speaker 1: familiarity and getting guys comfortable Santana. If we go like

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Speaker 1: a level below that part of the way that this

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Speaker 1: team can have success and Scott Turner can as well

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Speaker 1: as the play of the offensive line. And here we

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Speaker 1: and dealing with injuries once again, I kind of feel

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Speaker 1: like this is, you know, a broken record unfortunately, but

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Speaker 1: it is what it is. You play with who you have, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and their defensive front. They've got some guys, especially on

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Speaker 1: you see those lines matching up. It's another in the

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Speaker 1: story when it comes to off as a line and

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Speaker 1: who we're going to be facing. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: we got to even worry about the individual names we're

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Speaker 1: doing into the game. Last week talking about you know, Parson,

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Speaker 1: we can't protect these guys without the teams forcing us

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Speaker 1: or bringing more than four people, and that's the problem.

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Speaker 1: So we have to be creative, I think offensively for

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Speaker 1: us to make sure that we're putting the right line

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Speaker 1: ones out there that we can make sure that Carston

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Speaker 1: And I think great point, Tanna. I think one of

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Speaker 1: who might be the best interior player in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: At the moment, he's greating better than Aaron Donald by

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Speaker 1: PFF metrics. He is a very productive player. Interesting to

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Speaker 1: the double team, that means it frees up somebody else

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Speaker 1: got to go beat your man. He's definitely an a

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Speaker 1: tough one to go up against, but look, you play

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Speaker 1: the guys that are out there, you make no excuses.

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Speaker 1: And we'll see how this team comes together, and hopefully

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Speaker 1: it's in favor for Washington. Linebacker Jayman Davis has shined

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Speaker 1: in a sophomore season, leading the team with three stacks.

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Speaker 1: London Fletcher caught up with Jayman to discuss the season

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Speaker 1: so far. Jamie, appreciate you joining me. You're off to

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Speaker 1: a strong start in your second season, three sacks and

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Speaker 1: four games already. How comfortable are you feeling right now

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Speaker 1: this season? I mean, completely different outcome from how it

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Speaker 1: started out for me last year. It's just more so

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Speaker 1: like I said before, it's just going out there and

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Speaker 1: trying to play a lot faster and just really beat myself.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this offseason one of the biggest things for

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Speaker 1: extra thinking. So I mean, now, like I said, just

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Speaker 1: say eliminate the extra thinking, what what do you feel

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Speaker 1: has been your biggest improvement on the field this season.

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Speaker 1: I mean one of them things where it's like you've

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Speaker 1: seen this play before, so you can kind of anticipate

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Speaker 1: there and play faster to it than you did before

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Speaker 1: last year. It's great that you mentioned seeing this play before.

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Speaker 1: One thing I noticed in the ballgame against Dallas the

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Speaker 1: had a stack release with CD Lamb and you had

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Speaker 1: your face. They tried that same play later on in

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Speaker 1: the play down the pass down also, it's that part

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Speaker 1: of just that growth and right, and I understand you

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Speaker 1: trying to be better the next time, going around and

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Speaker 1: going forward. That's the same thing the rest of the year,

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Speaker 1: just trying to play fast and make a lot more

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Speaker 1: can to be a playmaker. You got a lot of

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Speaker 1: former linebackers that you deal with in your room. You

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Speaker 1: got you know, obviously Steve Russian linebacker coach, he played,

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Speaker 1: Jack Dale, real play, Robert vera play, get a lot

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Speaker 1: message that they mainly have given you this season. Play fast.

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's all It really boils down to.

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Speaker 1: Don't don't do all the extra thinking, like I said before,

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Speaker 1: So that's one of the biggest things that they harp

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Speaker 1: That's what I was trying to focus on this offseason,

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Speaker 1: like I said, so, I mean going forward, I just

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Speaker 1: So right at the end of the day, I'm just

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Speaker 1: a playmaker so we can turn this thing around. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you you made a ton of plays. And you know,

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Speaker 1: part of not thinking it, just playing fast. That's exactly

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Speaker 1: what it is. It's more so of like, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: just do it. Just gonna make the play so ain't

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Speaker 1: nobody else is gonna do it? So hell, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I let him to the ball. That's always a goal.

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you got an opportunity

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Speaker 1: Got a big challenge this weekend going against Derreck Henry

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Speaker 1: I mean, first and foremost, your main focus is to

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Speaker 1: I said, just run game. That's that's really the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing to harp on first and foremost. The last two

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Speaker 1: run against two of the better running teams in the

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Speaker 1: International Football League. What has been the biggest difference between

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Speaker 1: played the run against Philadelphi in the Dallas Cowboys. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's yeah, we've been trying to do what we need

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Speaker 1: still not where we want to be as a team defensively,

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Speaker 1: and we just want to live up to our standards

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Speaker 1: play fast as a defense. So I mean, it's really

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Speaker 1: just trying to play fast. Like I said before, it

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Speaker 1: get all eleven halts to the ball. No, we just

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Speaker 1: want to get off the field on third down. And

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Speaker 1: how you do that, it's stopping them on first and

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Speaker 1: second down. So that's really the main focus and we're

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Speaker 1: just going to continue to do that throughout the season.

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