Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. The
Speaker 1: Commander's search for our next offensive coordinator is underway. Five
Speaker 1: candidates have officially been interviewed for the position, including quarterback
Speaker 1: coach Kinzimpezy, who's been in Washington since twenty twenty. The
Speaker 1: Commanders have also interviewed Bronco's offensive coordinator Pat Shermer, Falcon's
Speaker 1: Jubie coach at Charles London, Dolphin's running back coach Eric Studsville,
Speaker 1: Ram's assistant head coach, tight Ends coach Thomas Brown, Logan Paulson,
Speaker 1: and Santana Moss joined me to give their thoughts on
Speaker 1: the search. Now, if you include looking for those are
Speaker 1: looking for head coaching roles, Washington is one of twelve
Speaker 1: teams in search of an offensive coordinator, which makes it,
Speaker 1: Santana a bit difficult trying to go out there and say, hey, well,
Speaker 1: this is the job, this is the person that we want.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of competition, a lot of competition, and
Speaker 1: then one of the things that stand out to me
Speaker 1: is just what are you really looking for? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm big one. I'm not caught up in the whole
Speaker 1: thing about the names of who the guys have edible.
Speaker 1: I'm looking for systems. I'm looking for what system fits
Speaker 1: the guys that we have. And I've been a part
Speaker 1: of teams where we had certain, you know, CALIBERO guys
Speaker 1: and we had bogus systems. So when I see those
Speaker 1: guys me as a couple of guys that stands out
Speaker 1: one Studsville and Brown just the system they those guys
Speaker 1: both coached in recently. You know, logan, if you do
Speaker 1: look at the names, is there anything that you can
Speaker 1: pull from it for what they might be looking at
Speaker 1: from this position, Yeah, I mean I think they're looking
Speaker 1: kind of It's interesting because they're looking at guys who
Speaker 1: have a lot of experience and guys that are really
Speaker 1: relatively new. And I think when you look at Schermer,
Speaker 1: he's a guy with a ton of experience that Ron
Speaker 1: knows relatively well, runs a system similar what Scott ran
Speaker 1: last year, which would seem like a natural transition for
Speaker 1: a guy like Sam Howell. Then you get a guy
Speaker 1: like Stud Stutsville, who again is more West Coast, more
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan Ishan his approach, which would be a pretty
Speaker 1: drastic departure. So obviously they kind of have a little
Speaker 1: bit of both philosophies, but definitely that run first is
Speaker 1: a priority for them. That's really what coach was saying
Speaker 1: this offseason is they wanted to be a run first team.
Speaker 1: But you can't ignore the fact that you do have
Speaker 1: three dynamics receiver and Terry McLaurin, John Dotson, Curtis Sam
Speaker 1: and you have to marry the two together. Santana. If
Speaker 1: you look at the talent that this team does have,
Speaker 1: what do you think would be one of the best
Speaker 1: kind of like that they need to look for to
Speaker 1: help this offense kind of get over that. You know,
Speaker 1: the challenges they face last year of not being able
Speaker 1: just to put up enough points. Well, you know some
Speaker 1: of the things that stands out when you have that
Speaker 1: kind of talent on your team. You want a coach
Speaker 1: that can kind of go on, you know, think on
Speaker 1: a run. I mean, like be creative, you know, as
Speaker 1: things unfolded, you know what I mean. You want to
Speaker 1: be able to say, Okay, I'm so I'm not so
Speaker 1: stern into what I have that's my system, but if
Speaker 1: we can do something that I saw before somewhere else,
Speaker 1: let me let me, let me brain this and you know,
Speaker 1: implement that into what I have going on. So I
Speaker 1: want to see a coach that can be creative on
Speaker 1: the spot and say, hey, you know what I have
Speaker 1: these guys, let me do this because they're just that
Speaker 1: dynamic and we can use it. Oh yeah, I think
Speaker 1: that's a flexibility and speaking to your player's skill set
Speaker 1: is something that you want to see. That was something
Speaker 1: that was a criticism of Scott. He never really changed
Speaker 1: his offensive philosophy to fit the skill position players. I
Speaker 1: think you want the new guy to kind of embrace that,
Speaker 1: hold that and find way is to be this run
Speaker 1: first team because you know San Francisco is a run
Speaker 1: first team, but also get the playmakers involved, which a
Speaker 1: team like San Francisco does very very well. Now we
Speaker 1: don't know exactly when they're going to make announcement on
Speaker 1: whomever they do design to select, but we know it's
Speaker 1: probably coming up relatively quickly the next few weeks or so,
Speaker 1: because you have draft and free agency coming up, and
Speaker 1: logan the importance of putting that person in place before
Speaker 1: you get to those parts of the off season. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's critical because especially if you're going to
Speaker 1: involve like a you know, outside zone coach or an
Speaker 1: outside zone philosophy. You're the type of offensive lineman, for example,
Speaker 1: it's going to be very different. You're not going to
Speaker 1: look at the kid from Ohio State who's six s eight,
Speaker 1: you know, three hundred and seventy pounds. That doesn't fit
Speaker 1: that philosophy. But I think like those types of decisions
Speaker 1: needs to be hammered in now. Yeah, that's all goes
Speaker 1: back to what I was talking about. You need to
Speaker 1: get that guy now because you want to know in
Speaker 1: this little short period of time where we're gonna be
Speaker 1: looking at draft picks, we're gonna be looking at that
Speaker 1: free agency. You know, guys out there in free agency.
Speaker 1: You want to make sure you're bringing the right guy
Speaker 1: in that's gonna fit the coach that we bring in,
Speaker 1: the style to play that he's going to implement or
Speaker 1: expect these guys to go out and then play a
Speaker 1: lot of off season priorities. Getting the right offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: for this team would be number one for head coach
Speaker 1: Ron Rivera and the front office. For all your commander's
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