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Speaker 2: We are talking to the team president of the Washington
Speaker 2: Commander's Mark Klaus.
Speaker 1: Come on in, welcome you again to him? And how
Speaker 1: about this? What's going on? Guys? You doing what? Man?
Speaker 2: Thanks for coming man, This is exciting. It's great to
Speaker 2: officially meet you. Of course, we've seen all the great
Speaker 2: work you've done and your background is amazing. From West
Speaker 2: Point to weaving your way to the business world to here.
Speaker 1: What has that journey been like?
Speaker 5: You don't understand soup connected to football. I'm trying, Okay,
Speaker 5: I help you, help you with that? Now, Look I
Speaker 5: I have. I've had a wonderfully blessed journey. I started
Speaker 5: uh playing basketball west Point. I was in the army
Speaker 5: helicopter pilot around the road.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was a pilot for about six years.
Speaker 5: And then left and went right into food. So there's
Speaker 5: another transition, right, all right. And I've managed brands all
Speaker 5: over the world. We've lived in China, we lived in Brazil.
Speaker 5: I ran brands like Oreo Cookies, an the Oreo Fans,
Speaker 5: Pepperig Farm, Goldfish.
Speaker 1: Campbell's Soup.
Speaker 5: So that I also uh have worked on some uh
Speaker 5: some cocktail brands.
Speaker 1: How about Jack Daniels. Let's go get Duffy's rolling.
Speaker 5: So you know, for me, my life has been spent
Speaker 5: leading teams, transforming brands, and really bringing iconic organizations back
Speaker 5: to prominence. And this has been a terrific opportunity. Uh
Speaker 5: Josh as he was putting together the team, and obviously
Speaker 5: we all know what a great choice in Adam Peters, Uh,
Speaker 5: Dan Quinn. Of course amazing and you know, look to
Speaker 5: be part of that group with Josh working on this,
Speaker 5: it was just too great of an opportunity to pass
Speaker 5: up the NFL.
Speaker 4: You had some special things, but you you basically did
Speaker 4: no seconds.
Speaker 1: Man, there's nothing that you haven't done.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to accumulate all those experiences we've We've said
Speaker 5: the coaching in Washington change, and we know that has
Speaker 5: a lot to do with coach Queen, but has a
Speaker 5: lot to do with Adam Peterson.
Speaker 1: How have you enjoyed watching the coach a change?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Look, I could tell you firsthand it is all
Speaker 5: about culture. What's happening here is getting the right people
Speaker 5: and the right shairs that are making the decisions, that
Speaker 5: have the right set of principles and values and the
Speaker 5: right clarity of vision for where we're going.
Speaker 1: And that's a big part of why I joined.
Speaker 5: Before I join this team, I spent a lot of
Speaker 5: time talking to Adam, talking to Josh and just believe entirely.
Speaker 4: And where we're headed and what we're doing, and how
Speaker 4: does that connect when you take football coach. I understand
Speaker 4: that in the building when it comes to the football team,
Speaker 4: but how does that connect and how does it affect
Speaker 4: the business side.
Speaker 5: It should touch everything that we do, right, whether we're
Speaker 5: talking to sponsors, whether we're out with fans, whether we're
Speaker 5: working on how we're going to build the community around
Speaker 5: the new stadium, all of that.
Speaker 1: Should feel like it's connected.
Speaker 5: We talk about it all the time, and we got
Speaker 5: to all be rowing in the same direction as one team.
Speaker 5: And that starts with a lining behind that culture. So
Speaker 5: it's a huge part of the foundation that we're building
Speaker 5: and now we got to keep expanding that across everything
Speaker 5: we're doing.
Speaker 2: So when you talk about the stadium, obviously you're right
Speaker 2: in the middle of this project.
Speaker 1: And I don't have to tell you.
Speaker 2: I think anyone that's familiar with this franchise knows the
Speaker 2: connection that this has with that site.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the spiritual home of our football team. It
Speaker 1: really is.
Speaker 5: When you think about whenever I talk to fans and
Speaker 5: they talk to me about the memories of whether it's
Speaker 5: the stadium shaking because it was so loud, or seat
Speaker 5: cushions flying all over the place, or you.
Speaker 1: Know, running up to Super Bowl championships.
Speaker 5: It is a special place and I think it's it's
Speaker 5: important for the city too. This is the nation's capital.
Speaker 5: We should have a stadium in the nation's capital that
Speaker 5: is worthy of being in the nations. And that's what
Speaker 5: RFK is all about, and that's why we want want
Speaker 5: to bring that back and get that done and do
Speaker 5: it by twenty thirty. I want us play football twenty
Speaker 5: thirty in that stadium.
Speaker 4: And I think people jesse a stadium, it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a lot more than the stadium.
Speaker 5: Right, one hundred percent. So what makes this such a
Speaker 5: special location is right now, if you if you drive
Speaker 5: in that area, you see the old stadium that's right,
Speaker 5: the armory it's there. We want to transform that into
Speaker 5: the jewel of d C. Right, it's one hundred and
Speaker 5: eighty acres. That includes riverfront, so Anacosta River waterfront. You've
Speaker 5: got an incredible set of communities. We want every form
Speaker 5: of housing, retail, entertainment. It should truly be the crowning
Speaker 5: jewel of DC. And I think with partnership with the
Speaker 5: city and City Council and the communities, we can.
Speaker 1: Build that together.
Speaker 2: And when you talk about a standalone bill that could happen,
Speaker 2: does that change the timeline at all?
Speaker 1: How does that How does that shift anything, if at all?
Speaker 2: What's that the if it becomes a standalone bill or
Speaker 2: the politics of it, does it.
Speaker 1: Change the time?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: Look, so I think that that the good news is
Speaker 5: everybody that I'm talking to and working with, whether it's
Speaker 5: the mayor's team that have been terrific partners or city council,
Speaker 5: everybody is really trying.
Speaker 1: To find the right path to get all of this done.
Speaker 5: And as you know, there's a lot of a lot
Speaker 5: of complexity, a lot of things that have to be
Speaker 5: talked through and decided. But I feel like right now
Speaker 5: we're in a moment where we got to go and
Speaker 5: make this happen. This is our window, this is our
Speaker 5: opportunity for the city, for the team.
Speaker 1: We got to get the things done.
Speaker 5: We got to make sure we come together and close
Speaker 5: the door and get it out, get it going well.
Speaker 4: One thing, you know, for me being in the city
Speaker 4: and talking to fans and stuff, you know, tailgating.
Speaker 1: Is a big, big tradition here. Sure people really really
Speaker 1: love doing it.
Speaker 4: And every time I hear I'm like, they'd be like,
Speaker 4: I'm ready for the statement, But are we gonna have
Speaker 4: any anywhere to tail getting?
Speaker 5: We are gonna have places to tail date all right,
Speaker 5: promise you I know how poor that is. And so
Speaker 5: as we think about the design and how we're building out,
Speaker 5: of course, when we first open the stadium, there's still
Speaker 5: going to be a lot of surface parking where you
Speaker 5: can tailgate. But even when we're building the structured parking,
Speaker 5: we're going to ensure that there's going to be just
Speaker 5: over a thousand spaces that are dedicated to tailgating. Think
Speaker 5: of the roofs of the structure or near in areas
Speaker 5: where fans are going to be able to still come
Speaker 5: and tailgate. But we're also going to give you a
Speaker 5: lot of options to tailgating. We're also going to build
Speaker 5: that plaza that will sit in front of the stadium
Speaker 5: is going to be the home to a lot of
Speaker 5: great establishments like this where you can go have a drink,
Speaker 5: have some food, pregame, and and tailgate in a different way.
Speaker 5: So there'll be choices, you can do it all. And
Speaker 5: that's really what we want to offer, something for all
Speaker 5: of our fans to find the way they want to
Speaker 5: get ready for us to win games in RFK.
Speaker 2: Damis you know, and what I appreciate about you guys, Fred,
Speaker 2: You're always out is that you're always taking feedback from
Speaker 2: the fans.
Speaker 1: What have you heard from some of the fans?
Speaker 5: Come, yeah, look, I think there's been a lot of
Speaker 5: good questions, but there's also a lot of stuff out
Speaker 5: there right.
Speaker 1: Now that's just not accurate.
Speaker 5: Like I was, I spent a couple hours with the
Speaker 5: firemen yesterday walk visiting some firehouses around the city and
Speaker 5: won the fire I said, hey, who's who's for the
Speaker 5: stadium and who's not And one of the guys like, well,
Speaker 5: I live in the area and I know you guys
Speaker 5: are going to close the soccer fields that are there.
Speaker 5: I'm like, what, No, I know how important those soccer
Speaker 5: fields are to the city. We will not close them.
Speaker 5: We will not close them. We're not going to use
Speaker 5: them for construction. One of my favorite groups and I've
Speaker 5: got I've loved getting to meet these guys, the skateboarding community.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a skate park.
Speaker 5: It is, and they want to make sure that we're
Speaker 5: thinking about that and we will have a skate park
Speaker 5: place for them to skate when they're there. So I
Speaker 5: just I'm trying to do my best and make sure
Speaker 5: that when people have got questions, you know, we go
Speaker 5: out to these town halls, we listen, really try to
Speaker 5: give them the true scoop because honestly, I can tell
Speaker 5: you if Josh was sitting here, he would say the
Speaker 5: same thing. The commitment here beyond building a great stadium,
Speaker 5: it's really about building a community.
Speaker 4: If you see what happened, because when I moved here
Speaker 4: in one the baseball stadium six, it was industrial and
Speaker 4: you if you go over there and now is revitalize
Speaker 4: the whole entire area.
Speaker 1: This is the This is the fastest.
Speaker 5: The stadium is the fastest and surest way that we
Speaker 5: can develop.
Speaker 1: The RFK area. And you are right, I mean d
Speaker 1: C and I've looked.
Speaker 5: I've studied all these around the country and DC has
Speaker 5: one of the best track records of utilizing sports as
Speaker 5: the platform to develop and transform areas.
Speaker 1: And that's simply what we want to do there too.
Speaker 1: And now we have actual football coming up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm true. Rookie, right, the NFL rookie, Klaus,
Speaker 5: go get the gatorade. That's all right, let me go
Speaker 5: get the gatorade. But no, look, it's been so fun
Speaker 5: to watch how coach Quinn and the whole coaching staff,
Speaker 5: you know, mixes these veterans, guys that have been here
Speaker 5: with the team for a while are rookies, and how
Speaker 5: to bring them together to really turn it into this
Speaker 5: high powered, functioning team and everything they do is purposeful.
Speaker 5: It's been incredible to why I can't wait for training
Speaker 5: camp because I know we're like third gear right now.
Speaker 5: We got to we're about to shift into fourth to
Speaker 5: fifth gear, and it's going to be exciting to be
Speaker 5: able to be there and part of that.
Speaker 4: And I think the fans really enjoyed the training camp
Speaker 4: experience last year.
Speaker 1: Any new things they are into the training camp experience
Speaker 1: this year, we're continuing. I was there today and it's
Speaker 1: a little scary. There's construction.
Speaker 5: The bubble is now replacing replacing the shell, so it's
Speaker 5: a little nerve racking, but I can tell you what
Speaker 5: we're doing is really transforming that into into what the
Speaker 5: players and what the fans deserve, which is a world
Speaker 5: class training facility.
Speaker 1: And that starts with the facilities.
Speaker 5: It starts with the training equipment, every aspect of it,
Speaker 5: as well as making sure that when our fans come
Speaker 5: out to training camp they're.
Speaker 1: Having a world class experience.
Speaker 5: So I think you're going to see a lot of
Speaker 5: great excitement and fun out there when when we open
Speaker 5: it up.
Speaker 2: I've told the story a few times that a few
Speaker 2: months ago and this was not for shows on camera,
Speaker 2: and I walked in and someone was polishing the Super
Speaker 2: Bowl trophies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, And I was like, oh.
Speaker 4: Detail, this is what I would say. I just I
Speaker 4: love what the ownership group has done. They have reached
Speaker 4: out and touched every facet of his team, from the
Speaker 4: old stadium that we have now Norwest Stadium, to the
Speaker 4: practice facility, to every imprint on this team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know it is so true.
Speaker 5: And it is and I can tell you I'm in
Speaker 5: all of those conversations, and we start those conversations with
Speaker 5: what's best for the team and what's best for the
Speaker 5: like one of the things I'll tell you, Yes, I'm
Speaker 5: excited about the new stadium, but we're going to be
Speaker 5: playing a lot of football in Northwest Stadium. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: I don't want to hear I tell the team all
Speaker 5: the time. I don't want to hear that this is
Speaker 5: an old building. I don't want to hear any of
Speaker 5: those excuses. We can have better food, we can have
Speaker 5: better fan experience, We can improve parking, We can do
Speaker 5: the things that we need to do to make sure
Speaker 5: when people come to a game, they're having an amazing experience.
Speaker 5: I tell them all the time, some of the most
Speaker 5: fun I ever had in my life, you know, fifteen
Speaker 5: fourteen years old, in the basement of my friends, paneled walls,
Speaker 5: maybe a couple of beers, a couple it's great music.
Speaker 5: We can have an amazing time anywhere. It's up to
Speaker 5: us to make that happen most and what's.
Speaker 2: Amazing is that you hear the players who talk to me.
Speaker 2: They say, I'll go to DC now like you made
Speaker 2: it a yeah destination.
Speaker 5: They want to come, and I think, you know, that
Speaker 5: is the culture again, right. They know something specials here.
Speaker 5: They know the history and the heritage which we are
Speaker 5: so incredibly proud of, you know, guys like Doug and
Speaker 5: others that laid that found work, that groundwork. The players
Speaker 5: want to come be part of that and to see
Speaker 5: it come back to life has just been an extraordinary
Speaker 5: experience to watch.
Speaker 1: Most definitely, he's the team president of the Washington Have.
Speaker 5: I appreciate you all right, let's get the let's get
Speaker 5: the main event going on. Appreciate you appreciate.
Speaker 1: So hashtag bring the team home. You're making up hashtags
Speaker 1: on the spot.
Speaker 4: I know you make it up on the spot because
Speaker 4: unlike y'all, I never got the chance, unlike Doug Williams
Speaker 4: to play in that building.
Speaker 1: They went winning championships in that building. That's a special place.
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Speaker 4: Man, we just get started. The party is just getting started.
Speaker 4: I might have to take him up on that, Jack Daniels,
Speaker 4: I was trying to wait a little bit. We might
Speaker 4: have to go mid show.
Speaker 2: I have to go min show, all right, right, So
Speaker 2: we got a ton of great guests tonight. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: Oh please, don't you say it.
Speaker 3: No, No, first of all shot Springs in the house.
Speaker 4: Sean Springs is now the second highest drafted cornerback of
Speaker 4: all time.
Speaker 1: I tried, man, which one? Here's the receiver? Man, you
Speaker 1: want to make more. I would have been smart. He's
Speaker 1: receiver right now. I know, I know, man, but here's
Speaker 1: the man.
Speaker 2: And also how about the Super Bowl MVP, the legend, Williams,
Speaker 2: the legend.
Speaker 4: You know, Man, I'm here glistening like Jamaine Jax.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being I know you've already talked to a
Speaker 2: lot of fans. And since we were talking about r
Speaker 2: f K, can you take us back and tell us
Speaker 2: what that must have been like?
Speaker 1: Yeah, paint that picture for man. What what a story? Man?
Speaker 6: You know, just tonight coming here, we passed stuff here
Speaker 6: and we turned around and as we was turning around,
Speaker 6: the statements right there in our faith and it's so
Speaker 6: much history there. I know when I came here in
Speaker 6: eighty six, you know, I thought I died and went
Speaker 6: to heaven. Not so much the stadium because I hadn't
Speaker 6: been there the player, but when I did get in there,
Speaker 6: and the intimate, the intimate of that stadium. Man, you
Speaker 6: can walk out the dress room, people can touch on
Speaker 6: the head, and you look up when you're playing, and
Speaker 6: bleachers was just rocking. It was just one of those
Speaker 6: statements where you know, it's not like an open statement.
Speaker 1: It was more on top of you.
Speaker 6: And that's what made it so well, you know, and
Speaker 6: you know the grass was great, but the most important
Speaker 6: thing was the player.
Speaker 1: The Burgan didn't go. That's right.
Speaker 6: It wasn't the day that we walked out of there.
Speaker 6: We didn't feel like we was gonna win the football.
Speaker 6: And I think that's what we're getting back to. But
Speaker 6: I'll tell you that plays over there. You know, there's
Speaker 6: a lot of ghosts and everything else is in that place,
Speaker 6: just still running over there. I can see Dexter Mainland
Speaker 6: and Charles coming.
Speaker 1: Off the edge. Now you know dal Green, I know
Speaker 1: we'll forget Daryl Green.
Speaker 6: And when we went to the Super Bowl in nineteen
Speaker 6: eighty eight, the biggest player of that game was the
Speaker 6: past that Darrel Green knocked down at the gold line.
Speaker 6: And I saw there today. Man, every time I think
Speaker 6: about Dale Green, I think about the punt return in Chicago,
Speaker 6: but the past that he knocked down against Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Running down twenty set was again, yeah, but it was.
Speaker 6: There's so much history over there, man, it's unbelievable, and
Speaker 6: you know it has to be torn down, and you hate,
Speaker 6: you hate for it to be torn down, but we
Speaker 6: all know the history can always be that and the
Speaker 6: most important thing. We can put another stam up in
Speaker 6: that spot and that would be big. And you know,
Speaker 6: I don't I'm not too much in the politics, but
Speaker 6: let me say this. I think all the councilmens that
Speaker 6: are in DC, you know, just need to understand what
Speaker 6: it means to d see. Yes, the brain the command
Speaker 6: us back home and and I know Mark and Josh
Speaker 6: and everybody's working on it, but I just hope that
Speaker 6: all these politicians go to bed.
Speaker 1: That night and wake up and say, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's get it done. We got to do that. Let's
Speaker 1: get it done.
Speaker 6: And I don't know what council, what Ward you live
Speaker 6: in and what have you, but if you live in
Speaker 6: any of Ward, you need to tell many guys, we
Speaker 6: got to bring this stadium home, you know, because let
Speaker 6: me tell you, you out there playing whatever you plan
Speaker 6: and it don't happen. I think it's gonna hurt DC.
Speaker 6: And that's what we can't afford to hurt d C.
Speaker 6: I think that's the most important thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 4: And let me ask you this, dun if it was
Speaker 4: any unique piece to keep from their statum, maybe a
Speaker 4: brick conerstone, maybe a section that goes up and down
Speaker 4: with some of the original seats. What would you what
Speaker 4: would you like to take from r FFK one and
Speaker 4: put it at rf K two.
Speaker 6: Well, you know what, I was in there not long
Speaker 6: ago when the mayor and everybody else there, when they
Speaker 6: had took taken a whole lot of stuff out of there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: and seeing nothing out.
Speaker 1: Like you certainly can't use to steal around.
Speaker 6: So I don't see anything. All the seats are gone
Speaker 6: and yeah, it's just concrete there.
Speaker 2: Did you ever think you'd see the day where this
Speaker 2: is a real possibility the way it is?
Speaker 1: You know what, I've been here.
Speaker 6: I'm going into my twelfth year, and I can tell
Speaker 6: you what last year and this year is the best
Speaker 6: year that I've been here from a feeling standpoint of
Speaker 6: the ownership, the players, and the possibility of getting a
Speaker 6: new stadium.
Speaker 1: To me, that's that's big for me.
Speaker 6: You know, I might not be around in twenty thirty,
Speaker 6: but at the same time, Stave need to be.
Speaker 1: We're keeping you around. Yeah, Well, thank god, I.
Speaker 6: Hope I am and my wife am I gonna be
Speaker 6: your honey.
Speaker 1: Over year?
Speaker 2: What are your expectations personally having been around the past
Speaker 2: couple years and seeing this build the way it's happening
Speaker 2: so quickly, well, I think.
Speaker 6: Like everybody said, you know, the credit goes to be
Speaker 6: honest with you, to Adam Peters and Dan Quinn. You know,
Speaker 6: I had first hand look up closed man and just
Speaker 6: watch and see how they worked this past year and
Speaker 6: the way he built the team characters, older guys, younger
Speaker 6: guys and mixed them in together. The thing about it
Speaker 6: what makes it so great. You don't have any bad guys.
Speaker 6: You know, a lot of people want this player and
Speaker 6: that player. That's not how they looked at it. It looked
Speaker 6: at you know, football player, but the character of it.
Speaker 6: And they named it brotherhood. Let me tell you something,
Speaker 6: it's not a better brotherhood than what we have over there.
Speaker 6: And the thing I saw most of anything the young
Speaker 6: Jayden Dame, the quarterback. And let me say this, he
Speaker 6: can play quarterback, but he's a better human being than
Speaker 6: he is a quarterback. And I think that makes the
Speaker 6: difference because I saw Bobby Wagner. When Bobby Wagner walked
Speaker 6: through the door, you know, I saw leadership walk in
Speaker 6: and then Zach Ertz and I seen those two guys
Speaker 6: with Jade Daniens. How closed they became so early quick,
Speaker 6: and I think that was the difference how everybody jailed together.
Speaker 6: Now it's one year.
Speaker 1: You said it from day one.
Speaker 7: We were at training camp last year and you said,
Speaker 7: from day one we got some special.
Speaker 1: What'd you see right away?
Speaker 6: Well, you know, you just watched the guy Jayden, especially
Speaker 6: you watch him on the field, how he carried himself.
Speaker 6: He never got too high, he never got too low.
Speaker 6: He was the same guy every day you saw him.
Speaker 6: And I used to come in there every morning six thirty.
Speaker 6: He's already parked, you know. So he's all football. He's
Speaker 6: all football, but he's a great individual. He works at it.
Speaker 6: And then the way he just bring everybody together. Man,
Speaker 6: it was easy to see. And the way he operated
Speaker 6: on the field during training camp, it was it was
Speaker 6: all one day. I don't think the ball hit the ground. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: and that was a great day.
Speaker 4: Now they tell you a lot shown a lot of
Speaker 4: people don't know you're a native DMV.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, you were born and raised here, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what is that to you?
Speaker 4: Because I know you got to have a couple of
Speaker 4: different emotions when it come to this stadium. What would
Speaker 4: it mean to you to be able to go to
Speaker 4: a game in the future at rf K two.
Speaker 7: Well, you know with my dad played for the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Out dad, but let him, let him tell the story.
Speaker 3: We get security up here.
Speaker 7: Security, no, but there was no better feeling or the
Speaker 7: excitement that was in the stadium when you sit in
Speaker 7: the old Cowboys and the Redskins game. It was incredible
Speaker 7: when Doug and I just remember being a little boy
Speaker 7: when Dad talked about being in that stadium and that
Speaker 7: the fans felt like you could touch. It felt like
Speaker 7: you were very intimate right there in the game, the intimacy,
Speaker 7: and I remember just seeing guys come out of the
Speaker 7: locker room and the fans being right there. So me
Speaker 7: just seeing it from a very early age, I was
Speaker 7: just like, Wow, this is you know, hollow ground, but
Speaker 7: more important, you would see how important it was to everybody.
Speaker 1: It meant something.
Speaker 7: So that stuck with me and one of the reasons
Speaker 7: why I signed here with Washington.
Speaker 6: Let me say that you talk about that Locksley, who's
Speaker 6: the head coach. You know, you go to the parking lot.
Speaker 6: Locks was in the parking lot and guys used to
Speaker 6: get out man and guys all they wanted all them
Speaker 6: kids want to do was carry your bags to the door,
Speaker 6: and they did that and when you came out, all
Speaker 6: they wanted was sweat band.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: So you saw these young kids every day and that
Speaker 6: was what made it so special to watch come in
Speaker 6: RFKN You see them grow up, and a lot of
Speaker 6: guys who went on to be whatever professional they come
Speaker 6: back and they remember those things.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 6: I talked to Locksay all the time and that's something
Speaker 6: big for him.
Speaker 7: And my mom worked at the armory. Yeah right, I
Speaker 7: was in military, so she worked at the armory. So
Speaker 7: I just remember one of my favorite things going to
Speaker 7: work with her looking out the window, like looking at
Speaker 7: the stadium like wow, yea.
Speaker 1: So this area just.
Speaker 7: Means so much to me and I know others, and
Speaker 7: I was just you know, it's amazing to believe that
Speaker 7: we could have a stagia on the rever. You can
Speaker 7: put your yacht up. You gotta talk to no right
Speaker 7: out boat up there.
Speaker 1: You know, we gotta have it.
Speaker 7: Like you know, I know there was a stadium and
Speaker 7: an amazing location right on the Anacosta just going around
Speaker 7: you're right, and it.
Speaker 1: Changes the whole area.
Speaker 4: It ain't gonna lie when fans do that with us
Speaker 4: and say, hell, me and my daddy used to come
Speaker 4: watch y'all play. It's time stampless because I'm like, how
Speaker 4: old were you at the time, because you old right now,
Speaker 4: like I'm home, Like so it kind of time stamp
Speaker 4: you and take them back for the moment. But that's
Speaker 4: what sports does. It's the ultimate time stamp. They know
Speaker 4: where they was on that Sunday, that Monday, sometime Thursday now, like.
Speaker 1: So it's a different thing when it comes to sports.
Speaker 2: J And when you look at this team in particular,
Speaker 2: it has such a great mix.
Speaker 1: We got Hall of famers on this.
Speaker 2: Team and these young bucks who have come in, Like
Speaker 2: it's a really good mix of players where you can
Speaker 2: see where this team is gonna go.
Speaker 6: There's no doubt, you know, just bringing them in like
Speaker 6: it did you know Bobby Bobby Wagon had been playing
Speaker 6: football for years, but you know, his mentality is a
Speaker 6: little different than a guy that's been around as loan.
Speaker 6: He got a young mentality and he put it all
Speaker 6: into the other players. And he's not selfish. I think
Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing. You know, Zach is the same way.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 6: You know, Zach might not be what he used to be,
Speaker 6: but he all of what he is right now. And
Speaker 6: the good thing about this this thing you talk about
Speaker 6: Adam Peterson, and you know, you think about the draft,
Speaker 6: we only had five draft peekte picks. We had seven,
Speaker 6: to be honest with you, because we got to ye
Speaker 6: and we got deep. So there's nowhere in the world
Speaker 6: you can get a fifth rounder like you can't get
Speaker 6: a third rounder like Towns. So we got fortune in that.
Speaker 6: So with the team has been better and then we
Speaker 6: got another offensive line first round. And what they're doing
Speaker 6: is building around Jaydon Daniels. Let's face this Jaydon and
Speaker 6: Day team. And I think we got to look at
Speaker 6: it from that standpoint, that his team. But it's not
Speaker 6: a selfish guy. He's all in. But everybody, you know,
Speaker 6: I text him today, man, and I told him, I
Speaker 6: hope he's enjoying it summer. And when he get back roll,
Speaker 6: he said, hey, I'm ready to roll all the time.
Speaker 6: And that was a good text, you know, because that's
Speaker 6: that's the feeling.
Speaker 4: Now you right now, right now, you are told right
Speaker 4: you have to protect the asset, and here is the asset.
Speaker 4: And if people really look at this office line last
Speaker 4: time we won big.
Speaker 1: We had the hogs up from all.
Speaker 4: Right, So now this this version, I'm calling the wild
Speaker 4: boards and you think about this. I'm gonna go down
Speaker 4: the line about these wild boys and I'm gonna paint
Speaker 4: this picture for you, all right, check this out. Larm
Speaker 4: me tossl is a All Pro, not a Pro Bowl,
Speaker 4: All Pro left tackle, one of the best and leads.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you moving him now having the ability
Speaker 4: to move call me into guard and called me did
Speaker 4: a great job at tackle last year. He's he got
Speaker 4: Pro bowld capability at guard like be honest, is a
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl center, like Sam Cosmy is a Pro Bowl
Speaker 4: right guard. And we just draft it Connolly who has
Speaker 4: Pro Bowl to potential.
Speaker 1: You can't protect them no better than that. Du and young.
Speaker 1: It's younger than you think off in the lines, a
Speaker 1: lot younger than you think. You know.
Speaker 6: So you got a guy that can play together for
Speaker 6: the next eight years for sure. Yeah, and and and
Speaker 6: and you know it make good because Jayden hope we
Speaker 6: can play for the next twelve.
Speaker 7: He could And to that point, man, that's part of
Speaker 7: our brotherhood. We you know you mentioned that, but we
Speaker 7: can tell you each week we would have someone on
Speaker 7: the on the show our podcast, every single player that
Speaker 7: came in there, first thing that came out of their
Speaker 7: mouth was the brotherhood. Yeah, and every single prayer talked
Speaker 7: about and you you we had colls me on it
Speaker 7: and he would say, hey, man, I'm thinking for the
Speaker 7: other guys around me. They make me look good, they
Speaker 7: pushed me, they work with me. You know, we had
Speaker 7: you know, we had Marcus come on, we had everybody
Speaker 7: on the show, Like Zach was great. We had Zach
Speaker 7: come on and we talked about, you know, his love
Speaker 7: and how he was accepted by you know, he was like, man,
Speaker 7: I've seen this little rookie and this this guy was amazing.
Speaker 7: I want to play with him. And then then Bobby
Speaker 7: and everything. So, you know, you talk about just iying
Speaker 7: those pieces building around.
Speaker 1: Jayden. The brotherhood is a special thing.
Speaker 2: That I mean, you guys know this. It's easy to
Speaker 2: take that for granted. Like every locker room is like that,
Speaker 2: every locker room the.
Speaker 4: Worst team talking about me. I've been in different locker
Speaker 4: rooms I've had. I started off with Martin Shan him disciplinarian.
Speaker 4: I end up with coach Gibbs, somebody the coaches totally different.
Speaker 4: Than like, that's what thing that all all us got
Speaker 4: in coming was coach Gibbs. And from the time he
Speaker 4: stepped in the door our coach, it changed. It changed
Speaker 4: from what it was under Coach Burry and the rest
Speaker 4: of those coaches. So I totally understand what you mean
Speaker 4: by coach when you break coach up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's absolutely a huge thing.
Speaker 2: And amongst this group, maybe more than any other group
Speaker 2: we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: Like it's Matt Person, the person, the person. Everyone says, no,
Speaker 1: I got my guy.
Speaker 6: But let me tell you something else about the coaches.
Speaker 6: You know, Dan Quinn loved the player that has played
Speaker 6: here in the past. You walk in that building, you
Speaker 6: see players, pictures dex to man in charge, man every
Speaker 6: let them flut all on the wall. He wants to
Speaker 6: get to know everybody. He has no problem with him
Speaker 6: coming by that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 6: Charles Man called me in and he's suppore they come
Speaker 6: to practice. And he'd even come. He said, I was
Speaker 6: waiting on the call because Charge over the years wouldn't
Speaker 6: come by a lot of players wouldn't come by there
Speaker 6: with the open arms of that which from Adam and Dan,
Speaker 6: I think that makes the difference to bringing old mix
Speaker 6: rich the gap, the.
Speaker 1: Gap if you're gonna move on in the future, that's right. Well,
Speaker 1: that's why you're here because you're a huge part of
Speaker 1: this team. Is fast. You're here right now helping us
Speaker 1: build towards the future. So I'm do my part. Shut.
Speaker 4: I had to ask you we got another a second
Speaker 4: round the Trey ams Long calling from old miss Mississippi State.
Speaker 1: What you think about him?
Speaker 4: Because I think with the confidence he plays with, with
Speaker 4: the lymph he plays with his ball skills, I think
Speaker 4: he got a chance to be special.
Speaker 7: Real specially you're talking about you know he's long, but
Speaker 7: you're talking about an athletic and fast kid.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: You know, when you're thinking about a corner, you know,
Speaker 7: it's one thing to have size and everybody's want. When
Speaker 7: we got a little guy, he's not super big, but
Speaker 7: we got superman little Mike sister, I call him Superman.
Speaker 7: He walking in with his glasses, be a bad man
Speaker 7: when he takes his glasses.
Speaker 2: All.
Speaker 7: But but when you when you think about the talked
Speaker 7: about building around Dayton, I think when we drafted this
Speaker 7: year with Colin and Amos, we actually got really, really,
Speaker 7: really good pieces that we needed. So when you think
Speaker 7: about the cornerback position, I thought we were good yeast year.
Speaker 7: I thought we we improved from the first week when
Speaker 7: we saw him against last week to the last week.
Speaker 7: But now I think with the thenity with Joe whitness
Speaker 7: guys trying to do we get we're adding speed. We
Speaker 7: had guys that a run not.
Speaker 4: Only a long they can move and size up front
Speaker 4: also size up front we got.
Speaker 7: We got sized up front, and Newton was coming on.
Speaker 7: I think he came off, and you know, so we
Speaker 7: you know obviously Louvu and and Bobby. I think just
Speaker 7: the mixture of size, speed, length and just the way
Speaker 7: these guys prepare. If you go to practice, I remember
Speaker 7: they break down every aspect of the game from individual
Speaker 7: you watch the individual drill they're working on the little
Speaker 7: thing to situation where your to two man to seven
Speaker 7: or seven situational. Every part of the game is broken
Speaker 7: down on the don't waste. They don't waste so minute.
Speaker 7: And and not only that, I've never been to a
Speaker 7: more energetic practice. I mean these guys, besides the ones
Speaker 7: I was a part of it. You would talk to anybody,
Speaker 7: but when you talk about that like it's not like
Speaker 7: false enthusiasm.
Speaker 1: It's real, it's real. The music is bumping.
Speaker 7: These guys. They focused the focus and uh and and
Speaker 7: they compete every day. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 7: debo and camp because those guys, you know our defense talks,
Speaker 7: they talk a lot.
Speaker 4: And Frankie, you know, thank you answer the question that
Speaker 4: I asked you.
Speaker 1: What the music is wooing the kid?
Speaker 7: This long, fast and great fit for our secondary.
Speaker 4: With the rest of the guy, I just like how
Speaker 4: you brushed my course and off and just took off
Speaker 4: one hundred miles foul.
Speaker 1: Well, dog, we don't want to keep you.
Speaker 2: We had to give the former Super Bowl gron On
Speaker 2: for the Super Bowl Chat right there, so much we
Speaker 2: got to dig in Trey Amos.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know he's already like in practice. No, no, I
Speaker 4: can say his mentality is what I like. The talent
Speaker 4: is there, but you know, it's a corner to keep
Speaker 4: getting back up after getting burnt. That's it takes a mentality.
Speaker 4: And I think people don't understand because y'all sit on
Speaker 4: your couch and be like smoothest springs getting tore up
Speaker 4: out there.
Speaker 1: And never said springs.
Speaker 4: But go ahead, what you're saying but to have the
Speaker 4: mentality to get back up in front of millions of
Speaker 4: people and do it over and over again. That's the
Speaker 4: ability that look for the mental build up, and he
Speaker 4: got the mental build up.
Speaker 1: He does.
Speaker 7: And you know, playing in the SEC, you know you
Speaker 7: can't take that for granted because he played against a
Speaker 7: very very good competition. He played against the best. It
Speaker 7: shows up and he you know, when you think about this,
Speaker 7: the mixture of.
Speaker 1: Guys back there, Yeah, I need some talent. You know,
Speaker 1: we got some time.
Speaker 4: I gonna have a better year because he's help. I said,
Speaker 4: Buckeye a lot more that hamstring. But he's gonna be good.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be good.
Speaker 2: Listening to him and watching it like he is already
Speaker 2: the safety.
Speaker 4: Will Harris is gonna bring some to the team that
Speaker 4: I don't think people understand. He's diversity, He could play nickel,
Speaker 4: he can play just anything. And my guy that I
Speaker 4: really because everybody gets crunk up about the guys that
Speaker 4: we bring in. What about the guys that we already
Speaker 4: got that's gonna get better? A guy like Tyler Owens.
Speaker 4: Don't be shocked if y'all start to see him in
Speaker 4: the rotation because to me, I think he could take playing,
Speaker 4: take that safety to a whole another level.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about little Mikey though.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Smooth, you and I we we talked about him
Speaker 7: last year.
Speaker 4: Best rickey conerback since Fred Smooth drafted by the team.
Speaker 1: I appreciate what. I wouldn't argue that.
Speaker 7: But one of the things we talked about, we're talking
Speaker 7: about a guy. If you know, if he was two
Speaker 7: inches taller, he might have been a top five pick.
Speaker 1: Well, we talked. We talked about.
Speaker 4: Saban said pound pound. Nick Satan said why they was
Speaker 4: going through the draft. He like, if I had to
Speaker 4: draft anybody, it'll be Mike sanma Steel pound for pound.
Speaker 4: The best football player. He didn't say corner, he said
Speaker 4: best football.
Speaker 7: But when you think about some of the players, I
Speaker 7: recall the Detroit game. Yeah, you know, Mikey was out
Speaker 7: there making place. He was the two picks, you know,
Speaker 7: changing the game. He changed the game for us. And
Speaker 7: you know it's just the veterans mixing with the young
Speaker 7: guys and then just the scheme. We we don't give
Speaker 7: Joe wid enough credit by how all those guys and
Speaker 7: the secondary is about communication or deference. About communication, You
Speaker 7: never really see these guys out of place, you know
Speaker 7: you and it doesn't it doesn't. It doesn't matter who's
Speaker 7: in the game. They all play as in unit. They
Speaker 7: all play fast.
Speaker 4: And that was their first year together. Like this's gonna
Speaker 4: be their second year under this defense. That's gonna let
Speaker 4: them play a little fast, gonna give him a little
Speaker 4: bit of freedom on what he could call and what
Speaker 4: he can't. And that's what I said. When you bring
Speaker 4: three hundred and thirty pounds a man like Javon Kinlong
Speaker 4: and put him on their defensive line, you bring Dietrich
Speaker 4: Wise and you put another three hundred pounds on that
Speaker 4: defensive line, that tell me. From that NFC Championship game
Speaker 4: last year, we walked away saying we need to get
Speaker 4: bigger in the trenches. And that's what we did. We
Speaker 4: went got boys that smelled like bacon. Larah Matompsaon smell
Speaker 4: like bacon. All the boys smell like bacon. They give
Speaker 4: you a chance to win football game, they do when.
Speaker 2: You've got guys that are coming into the league.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry, I'm sorry. It's everybody except for Turkey Base.
Speaker 1: Turkey Base. Everybody we saw that handwhip around what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we took his.
Speaker 3: Cards through there you hurt he from Mississippi from the
Speaker 3: root to the two.
Speaker 2: So I mean, you guys know, when you play corner,
Speaker 2: you obviously have to have a short memory. But not
Speaker 2: all the guys we see play so fearlessly. But Mikey
Speaker 2: is fearless.
Speaker 1: Because he studies.
Speaker 4: You can always tell somebody that's leaning on what I studied,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna play off of what I believe. Some
Speaker 4: guys are just out there winging it. Some guys don't
Speaker 4: do that. Some guys make mental meet talent meet preparation.
Speaker 4: And you can always tell, especially with a corner, because
Speaker 4: sometime when they haven't studied, they'll be a little bit
Speaker 4: more hesitant. He was never his he was always downhill.
Speaker 7: In each week he just improved. That's that's what I
Speaker 7: like to see about a young guy. How did he
Speaker 7: look from week one to week six to week six,
Speaker 7: weeks twelve, and how he performed in playoffs. So part
Speaker 7: of that studying, part of it is getting comfortable in
Speaker 7: what you can do in your abilities. Because at one
Speaker 7: time we started off having Mikey inside, he was inside.
Speaker 4: Would he'll be playing a lot inside this year? But
Speaker 4: when we moved him out to the left. We questioned.
Speaker 4: We was like, well, okay, we see the movie.
Speaker 7: And when he we moved my I think was the
Speaker 7: Philly game the first time or whenever they moved my south,
Speaker 7: we were like, oh man, he balled out, ball out.
Speaker 7: So the flexibility he gives you and then don't don't
Speaker 7: forget it knocks everybody down to the appropriate pag Now
Speaker 7: no monogamy.
Speaker 1: Eats your fifth corner now like so everything.
Speaker 4: Then you bring in a Jonathan Jones who played two
Speaker 4: Super Bowl who got playoff experience. So now everybody's in
Speaker 4: the proper slot. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: And that death gives us flexibility because each week, you know,
Speaker 7: somebody may get necked up and go down. There's no
Speaker 7: fall off, and that in order to win and go
Speaker 7: where we want to go, we need that type of
Speaker 7: death and we need that type of consistency performance by
Speaker 7: the guys who might not be as starters that come in.
Speaker 7: We gotta give a shout out to Jerremany Reeves, Oh, Jeremy,
Speaker 7: congratulation on the contract. First of all, Jeremy.
Speaker 4: Jeremy is one of the dudes that this team fits
Speaker 4: his image, just tough, blue collar what you need me
Speaker 4: to do, coach, I'm part of this marine right here.
Speaker 4: Whatever you need me to do, I'm gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Because you hear.
Speaker 7: Him talking about zach Ertz leadership. You're here talk about
Speaker 7: Bobby's leadership. But it's two other guys that I would
Speaker 7: say that's not known, but their presence is felt. Marcus Mariota, Yeah,
Speaker 7: most definitely. Doug probably tell you Marcus and what you know.
Speaker 7: I iver hear the talking about how he what he
Speaker 7: means to James. They supported to Jaden and how he
Speaker 7: supports Jaydan, and that's important. You need to You got
Speaker 7: your coach, but you got a teammate that you playing.
Speaker 1: You know, we got your bad.
Speaker 4: The one image that comes out of my mind last
Speaker 4: year when when we called the time out at the
Speaker 4: end of the game, Jayden was tired and Marcus went
Speaker 4: picked him up like on the field and picked him up.
Speaker 1: They told me everything I need to know about their friendship.
Speaker 7: And so and the and the other guy on the
Speaker 7: defferent side by is that Jerremy Reeves and what he
Speaker 7: does on the special teams and how he gets everybody.
Speaker 7: He understands his role special teams is not easy, but
Speaker 7: he understands that this is important for us to be
Speaker 7: good and all re phases. This is why I'm gonna
Speaker 7: do my job to the best of bility.
Speaker 1: And it's contagious.
Speaker 7: And that guy's in that defensive back for room and
Speaker 7: we gotta give him a lot of credits.
Speaker 2: I want to talk to you guys more about this season,
Speaker 2: about the rest of the team, about the NFC East.
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Speaker 7: You know what's been you know what's been unique about
Speaker 7: this off season?
Speaker 1: And we kind of felt it last year. It's been quiet.
Speaker 4: No, just it's been quiet this business like this is
Speaker 4: how good business sound.
Speaker 1: You hear nothing, You hear nothing. Come on, man, you
Speaker 1: hear nothing. It ain't nothing to hear.
Speaker 7: I ain't now to talk about but getting ready for
Speaker 7: the anticipation of great.
Speaker 1: They ain't working right, just leaving me.
Speaker 4: Like I told my kids the other day, the mic
Speaker 4: awave work, refrigerator work. Why you don't work at the
Speaker 4: end of the day something when something working right, let
Speaker 4: it work, let it cook.
Speaker 1: So we got a couple of questions. Also, shout out
Speaker 1: to our producer Anna.
Speaker 2: If you watch the pot you know, and you know
Speaker 2: Anna and she is doing work, doing work.
Speaker 1: Give a shout out to the buffs, you know.
Speaker 4: And they retired numbers too quick as.
Speaker 2: Over so d last year. This commander's defense was ranged eighteen.
Speaker 2: It's a course of Fox Sports. Can this defense.
Speaker 1: We were to the top ten this season.
Speaker 4: Oh, they most definitely gonna be better sometime. I never
Speaker 4: care about the numbers. Did we win that day, Yeah,
Speaker 4: we made a game up four hundred, but we didn't
Speaker 4: give up four oh one. At the end of the day,
Speaker 4: it's all about winning and I don't care about rankings
Speaker 4: if I say anythings. I want us to be in
Speaker 4: the top ten against the run, because then that tells
Speaker 4: me we're forcing teams to pass and they're behind the chains.
Speaker 1: So that's what I want.
Speaker 4: I want to be top ten in russ because if
Speaker 4: you could stop a team from Russia, you can force
Speaker 4: them to pass the ball. Now we got a chance
Speaker 4: to go make plays with the DB's and now we
Speaker 4: got a chance to go get sex. Maybe some sex pharmers,
Speaker 4: some force formers and some interceptions that change this game.
Speaker 1: So the run game for me.
Speaker 7: The defense get better anyway. Because now they're in the
Speaker 7: second year of Joe Webb. Yeah, Church move you talked
Speaker 7: about that was their first year planning down. They're about
Speaker 7: to get comfortable because they know what. First of all,
Speaker 7: they know the expectation of what happens when you step
Speaker 7: on the field. The standard, the standard is the standard.
Speaker 7: And you know, Joe wit sets sets standard.
Speaker 4: Coach Quinn set and Adam sets the standard because they
Speaker 4: draft the right mentality, the right players.
Speaker 7: So I think they're gonna be exciting. I think they're
Speaker 7: gonna be exciting. We got better in this back end.
Speaker 7: We got better in the back. We got better, and
Speaker 7: we got better in the front end.
Speaker 4: In the middle, it's one of the best the land back,
Speaker 4: of course, one of the best in the league with
Speaker 4: Frankie Lulu and Bobby Weack. And I think my guy
Speaker 4: upfront is Newton, big Newton.
Speaker 7: I think that that he's gonna be better than.
Speaker 1: The second year. He had a little knees. He's healthy.
Speaker 7: I think I think it's a reason we could let
Speaker 7: Jonathan go okay, you know.
Speaker 2: And what I love when you talk about being in
Speaker 2: the second year under Joe Whitt, I think it's such
Speaker 2: a good point. It's not only do you know the defense,
Speaker 2: then you know each other because when you guys play together.
Speaker 2: I love the stories where you would just look at
Speaker 2: each other and yeah, I love because.
Speaker 4: Now after playing a year in it, now I knew
Speaker 4: what Greg Willi was gonna do on third down. I
Speaker 4: didn't have the second, guess, third and short, I know
Speaker 4: you're finn call zero, I third and long, I know
Speaker 4: you're fin the call covering four. Now we're gonna go
Speaker 4: gold coverage in this situation, I don't need to I
Speaker 4: don't even need to look to the sideline because I've
Speaker 4: been in and we done did it so many times
Speaker 4: over and over.
Speaker 1: That allows us to play faster.
Speaker 7: And it also allows you to trust right, Like I know,
Speaker 7: like if I made a mistake of me and smoot
Speaker 7: with checking the guys came off in motion and I
Speaker 7: kind of took this guy and you know, and we
Speaker 7: didn't call switch a combo or anything like that.
Speaker 1: He played with me so much, I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to opposite trust.
Speaker 7: Me, or I can tell him, hey man, let me
Speaker 7: not move. I'm gonna jump this. Do what you do,
Speaker 7: but let you at least know what I'm doing. There's
Speaker 7: a little soft.
Speaker 4: On this one, so that you start to trust each
Speaker 4: other as teammates.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got trading camp coming up. Ye Who in
Speaker 2: particular are you looking forward to watching?
Speaker 4: Like I told you, Tyler Horns is big on my
Speaker 4: list this. Yeah, he's up there, he's up the rookie
Speaker 4: we got from U C.
Speaker 3: L A.
Speaker 1: Madrano.
Speaker 4: Understand this linebacker that runs at four to four used
Speaker 4: to play wide receiver.
Speaker 1: He's crazy. Athlety uh, the fastest linebacker the combine married
Speaker 1: the running back that we got.
Speaker 4: I want to see him a lot of people didn't
Speaker 4: see him last year because he was hurt for his
Speaker 4: last senior year of college. I think Marrit gonna be
Speaker 4: pretty good. So it's the youth that I want to see.
Speaker 4: I want to see Newton taking to another level.
Speaker 7: With Newton, I like all the rookies from last year.
Speaker 7: The second year, I want to see what McCaffrey does.
Speaker 1: Don't look good. I think he's gonna look good because
Speaker 1: we talked.
Speaker 7: About you know obviously the news about Terry, but adding uh,
Speaker 7: Debo and and those guys and Lane.
Speaker 1: I like our corps and I think he could.
Speaker 7: Be an X factor, especially in the special teams game
Speaker 7: that nobody's really you know, like who's that returner?
Speaker 1: Who's that guy?
Speaker 7: And I built like he he he built and he
Speaker 7: could be that guy. I want to see that. I
Speaker 7: want to see what b Rob does this year. Man
Speaker 7: a lot of contract year. Any time it's contract, you know,
Speaker 7: you usually get the best out of us. We don't
Speaker 7: even go outside.
Speaker 4: But arguably when you talk about upgrading the line, yeah
Speaker 4: that changes all.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, larry townsill and you don't have
Speaker 1: to ship anybody. You just got one dude.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you got but they got guys who can
Speaker 4: get you know, get down here. Smooth said it earlier
Speaker 4: when we lost that game to Philly. It was a
Speaker 4: conscious effort to say, you know what, we gotta get big.
Speaker 7: We got tossed around, and we got talkeed around, and
Speaker 7: now we said, you know what, We're gonna go get
Speaker 7: a body building who could throw people at the club,
Speaker 7: but Larry Towns And then we got the boy from
Speaker 7: Oregon Conor.
Speaker 1: We got some condorly gonna be good. We got some
Speaker 1: guys can throw you at the club. He used to
Speaker 1: play running bad. He used to play running.
Speaker 7: But I'm interested to see the run game of how
Speaker 7: it continues to progress with the new addition, because I
Speaker 7: think we all talked about it last year at times
Speaker 7: when we needed to be a hammer, or lately year
Speaker 7: we didn't.
Speaker 1: We weren't that we was a nail either hem out
Speaker 1: and nail.
Speaker 7: We would I want to see what be rob those
Speaker 7: guys do.
Speaker 2: All right, I'm gonna pay some bills. And the word
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Speaker 6: How about that?
Speaker 4: I see thank you, baby, I see Catherine is looking
Speaker 4: hanging on everywhere I mess up.
Speaker 8: That's how we getting married, right there? Come on, baby,
Speaker 8: give me through. Okay, So we're gonna play name Nak commander.
Speaker 8: All right, So I'm gonna give everyone a stat line.
Speaker 2: You guys can cheer, These guys can choose, and you
Speaker 2: tell me and I'll give you three players, and you
Speaker 2: tell me which player it is.
Speaker 4: You guys here all right, isn't this year your stats
Speaker 4: from this is.
Speaker 1: From all time? Right? Okay, I hold your hand. I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: you know, eight tea. That's why I'm doing this right here.
Speaker 2: All right, Player number one, I'll give the stats, then
Speaker 2: give you three players. Four hundred and twenty nine career receptions,
Speaker 2: four thousand, seven hundred and eleven receiving yards, thirty three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Here's it, Chris Cooley, is it? Give me? That might
Speaker 1: be a that could be Gary Clark, No, Gary, ahead,
Speaker 1: way mone is it Pierregar's song? Okay, Chris Cooley or
Speaker 1: Bobby Mitchell.
Speaker 7: Oh, Chris Coole, Nah, nah nah, Pierre Pierre got song?
Speaker 1: He guesses. The answer is Chris Cooley. You had it,
Speaker 1: you had it?
Speaker 4: No, no, no, he's saying he changed it, changed it
Speaker 4: three ten thousand, four thousand yards.
Speaker 1: I know it. Whe Chris Cole, it's totally Nah's yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't even neat your multiple choice. I mean that's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Okay, Later number two, stop looking at it.
Speaker 1: I'm not looking man, bad man. Stop seen hold on,
Speaker 1: hold one second. Knowing with this all right, there we go, okay,
Speaker 1: here we go going.
Speaker 2: Defense now Yeah, two thousand and thirty two total.
Speaker 1: Tackles, London fletch.
Speaker 2: One, three hundred and seventy nine solo tackles, Boom thirty
Speaker 2: nine sacks, twenty three fixed.
Speaker 1: Are we talking.
Speaker 2: About London Fletcher, Ryan Carrigan, Charles Mann or London.
Speaker 7: Flesh, London Flesher, London London Fletch, London flesher.
Speaker 1: Because London always.
Speaker 7: Tea smooth he had more big Yeah, because he had
Speaker 7: twenty three, he had more picks and smooths.
Speaker 1: London Fletcher. Yeah, it is London Fletcher. Yeah, Boom. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Isn't it crazy you talking about tackles? You got London
Speaker 2: and Bobby on.
Speaker 1: The same team. My top five tackles all time in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and it's crazy. I do this in my sleep. Okay,
Speaker 1: here we go play a number three.
Speaker 2: Four hundred and ninety seven total tackles, four hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty eight solo tackles, fifty four picks, six touchdowns? Is
Speaker 2: it Darryl Green, D'Angelo Hall, Shawn.
Speaker 1: Springs y degree, It's Darryl Green, D Green? All right,
Speaker 1: it's only one man playing that. Yeah, it should have
Speaker 1: been harder. Questions.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry Anna catching strays and random was saying they
Speaker 3: should have been harder questions.
Speaker 1: They're good. I'm not. You're cheating.
Speaker 4: I did not need to look for th old. They
Speaker 4: were so easy. They were just low hanging fruit. We
Speaker 4: still got a few want to go, all right, here
Speaker 4: we go. We got two more players for wrap things
Speaker 4: up here.
Speaker 2: Player four Yeah, seven hundred and thirty two receptions, ten tho,
Speaker 2: two hundred receiving yards, sixty six touchdowns, and a long
Speaker 2: of seventy eight yards in the touchdown. Santana Moss said,
Speaker 2: it's Santana Moss.
Speaker 1: It's Santanna by the way, I mean Himer quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, right, No, No, with the.
Speaker 4: Same quarterbacks gave him all. But for him to do
Speaker 4: that with all the guys is amazing, is amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: a couple of john Bis in there, you know, got
Speaker 4: on dicey therefore, okay, got little Russ got little right,
Speaker 4: had of John Beck reference.
Speaker 1: I was good, all right, Last one, here we go.
Speaker 2: Last player, two hundred and fifty receptions, eleven thousand, three
Speaker 2: hundred fifty two rushing yards.
Speaker 1: No, you said reception, rushing rush rush.
Speaker 2: Yards, rush arts, one hundred four rushing TDS Clint Portters
Speaker 2: is it cp Rigo glim Porter's said it?
Speaker 1: What was in how many TVs?
Speaker 2: One hundred and four eleven thousand, three hundred fifty two
Speaker 2: rushing yards?
Speaker 7: That might be rigular, that might be Rego Rugger I
Speaker 7: got I got Riggans, I got Riggans, I got Riggans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna go Rigans too.
Speaker 2: Anybody else The answer is John Riggins.
Speaker 1: Great John Riggins. Yea. We need harder questions.
Speaker 7: The intelligence on the podcast tribute question what what school
Speaker 7: is the winning in school in college football?
Speaker 1: Mississippi State University. I was like, here comes in Ohio
Speaker 1: State question.
Speaker 4: Well, you know y'all being in the i L and
Speaker 4: for the last fifty three years, so you know, hey,
Speaker 4: you know what at the end of every pod, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna put you on the spot.
Speaker 1: Well what you.
Speaker 7: Know what I was about to say? Man, we know,
Speaker 7: we might, we might. Mark might be the coolest president
Speaker 7: of the league. Man, how cool?
Speaker 1: It was real cool cool. It's not that why I
Speaker 1: call it those seconds? Man? How many?
Speaker 2: He is?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Guys? Hey, Jason was set up talking football? Yes,
Speaker 1: that'd be great.
Speaker 7: It's the man that you could be on them. I
Speaker 7: was gonna call him Aga.
Speaker 1: The man was a boy. Yeah, I can call him.
Speaker 4: He can be on the plane and they like playing
Speaker 4: on there. He'd be like, I can help you, me
Speaker 4: take over this thing. I got you.
Speaker 2: So at the end of every part, I mean, I
Speaker 2: was gonna say I'm put you on the spot, but
Speaker 2: I'm not.
Speaker 1: Really. We always geek out you.
Speaker 2: It's got something that you've read, that you've seen because
Speaker 2: your mind is like a sponge and we don't know
Speaker 2: if it's ever true or not.
Speaker 1: Run after.
Speaker 4: So you don't think last week's Cowboy Cody, No, it
Speaker 4: was you want to repeat cowboy Cody?
Speaker 1: All right? Did y'all hear about the dude from Kentucky.
Speaker 1: It's true.
Speaker 4: They got kicked out of bar in Kentucky, went home,
Speaker 4: found the raccoon, brought the raccoon back to the bar.
Speaker 1: Let it out in the bar in the raccoon bit
Speaker 1: eight people. Major Tuddy's clapping in.
Speaker 4: Two weeks before he did that, he got pulled over
Speaker 4: riding his donkey and got a d U I yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: that's made up.
Speaker 1: I was running guy. It was in Murray, Kentucky. He
Speaker 1: went he went and checked like he you can get
Speaker 1: a du on a donkey. It was a high speed
Speaker 1: mule chase.
Speaker 4: He got in a high speed chase on a mirror.
Speaker 4: Where to go police on a donkey on a donkey?
Speaker 7: Wow?
Speaker 1: Impressive? Hey man, that's an interesting five. Hey man, most definitely.
Speaker 4: Man, are you gonna have a yacht pull up to
Speaker 4: the stadium when that's on the Reford?
Speaker 1: Man? What you doing? We got?
Speaker 4: Hey, there you go, cowboy Cody right there, how boy coming.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what.
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