Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson with
Speaker 1: a twenty twenty two season behind us. Logan Paulson and
Speaker 1: Fred Smooth joined me to hand out the awards for
Speaker 1: the Commander's season superlatives. Let's start with some of our
Speaker 1: MVP's and who would that be basically for the entire
Speaker 1: team this year? Logan? For me, it's Sean Allen. I
Speaker 1: think when you look at John Allen, what he provides
Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint and what he what he backs
Speaker 1: up that leadership from a play standpoint. He is a
Speaker 1: dominant force, a guy that has to be accounted for
Speaker 1: by other teams. And when you look at this this
Speaker 1: defense and how good they played this year, He's a
Speaker 1: huge piece of that deserves a ton of credit. I
Speaker 1: got to go in offtin direction. I'm going out offense
Speaker 1: and I'm going with Tary mcloand I think he's the
Speaker 1: reason for the season. And see I had a different Uh,
Speaker 1: I say, how can I come to this conclusion? I
Speaker 1: think when I look back on this season, I think
Speaker 1: he was more responsible for wins than any other player
Speaker 1: on this team. I'm talking coach game, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: Philadelphia I'm talking about Atlanta, but he goes out there,
Speaker 1: he gets the job done. I'm going to Tarry mcloind,
Speaker 1: you know. And they also talked so much and so
Speaker 1: many times that you need to get him the ball more.
Speaker 1: You get him the ball, the ball earlier. He is
Speaker 1: one of your best playmakers. You give him a huge contract,
Speaker 1: and that is something we heard Taylor Hanike saying all
Speaker 1: the time. Look, you paid the guy for a reason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you need to put the ball in his hands. How
Speaker 1: about this the player that showed the most growth this
Speaker 1: past year in twenty twenty two, logan for me, that's
Speaker 1: Jamie Davis. And it's not even a question. Everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about him. And I used a bust and last year
Speaker 1: and he just came out and played super well, taken
Speaker 1: on blocks in coverage, understanding what the defense was trying
Speaker 1: to do, and then just growing up over the course
Speaker 1: of the season. And a guy who sneaky could have
Speaker 1: made the Pro Bow in his own right just from
Speaker 1: playing at a high level. So love the love the
Speaker 1: switch that he went through this last year. Great to
Speaker 1: see that, a great thing, but you are wrong again
Speaker 1: at the end of the day. And once you earned
Speaker 1: a nickname in the pros, you know you're doing something default.
Speaker 1: He's the guy you gotta say if you wanted a
Speaker 1: guy that did make some game defiant play, some guys
Speaker 1: that changed the game, and a guy did when we
Speaker 1: say at the beginning of the year, what do we
Speaker 1: expect out of him? Not much. I thought he brought
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl cauntable play to this deepro and he was
Speaker 1: so close to get that fifth interception on the season too. Man,
Speaker 1: he just seemed to always be in the right place
Speaker 1: at the right time. What she said, it is not luck,
Speaker 1: it's just preparation. You're standing. It is at one point
Speaker 1: that ball tip right where you need to be for it. Um. So,
Speaker 1: which player, how about this was the most underrated? Might
Speaker 1: not not? So he gotten all the spotlight, but deserves
Speaker 1: some recognition For me, that's one hundred percent Cordelias Lucas
Speaker 1: on on on a group of offensive line that was
Speaker 1: kind of banged up. You got Cosby in and out.
Speaker 1: Having a guy who's your swingtach, who would come in
Speaker 1: and play like a starter and play at a super
Speaker 1: high level, lockdown elite pass rushers, he does not get
Speaker 1: enough credit. Excellent job by him. He's my he's my
Speaker 1: guy that deserves a little bit more flowers. I'm going
Speaker 1: with Curtis Samuel's aka Tito Jackson. Nobody knows that is nobody,
Speaker 1: No nobody, because you know why Joe Hun Dodson comes in.
Speaker 1: He's the first rabbit you got tear Nick rowing on
Speaker 1: the other side, it's getting it done. I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Curtis Samuel, Tito Jackson, leave's own through me.
Speaker 1: That's just gonna John. Who is your biggest surprise of
Speaker 1: the season For me? John Ridgeway is the guy that
Speaker 1: sticks out because he was on a practice squad, got cut,
Speaker 1: they signed up, and he became a huge contributor, especially
Speaker 1: in that Sinco front. I'm going to jam And Davies
Speaker 1: because I think he was the guy that people was
Speaker 1: waiting on to make plays as a rookie, it didn't happen,
Speaker 1: But this year I thought he just got better and
Speaker 1: better as years the year win out and so with that,
Speaker 1: it is time to turn the clock forward, because it's
Speaker 1: never too early to start focusing on the next season.
Speaker 1: This time, Logan and Fred's thought out what's on their
Speaker 1: wish list for twenty twenty three. It is officially the
Speaker 1: off season. And look, the coaches and the staff get
Speaker 1: this much of a break because there really is no
Speaker 1: official off season in the NFL. They have to prepare
Speaker 1: for the draft, for free agency. And so Fred and Logan,
Speaker 1: I want to know what is your wish list for
Speaker 1: this offseason? Where already know they are doing tons of
Speaker 1: interviews for that OC position. So why don't we start there?
Speaker 1: Who wants to get it? Yeah? I mean I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be the story of the next
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Right, it's flying the right offensive quarter
Speaker 1: Do you want someone who can develop Sam? How kind
Speaker 1: of abide by this philosophy that Marty and Ron want
Speaker 1: to talk about? Run first, run second? What can you
Speaker 1: do there relying your deef? Who's this person gonna Because
Speaker 1: I think it's a big deal. Uh, you know what?
Speaker 1: I like how you did that, whether man you told lives,
Speaker 1: you still told the troop. At the same time, Hey,
Speaker 1: Joe Brady is the guy I like to say, you
Speaker 1: know not who we're gonna get leave Buffalo? Why not?
Speaker 1: Because he's the quarterback coach in the upgrade from being
Speaker 1: a quarterback coach is the OC, Like, we're gonna give
Speaker 1: you an OC job, and I don't give you OC job.
Speaker 1: We're giving you a young wolf, a young quarterback to
Speaker 1: molten Sea much she likes Sam how But I don't know.
Speaker 1: The other one I think is critical here is this
Speaker 1: offensive line, right and one of the key omens of
Speaker 1: that is finding a spot for same cosme, is he
Speaker 1: gonna play guard? Is he gonna beag tackle? Big part
Speaker 1: of that's in the draft. But you gotta get him
Speaker 1: settled because I think he's a big piece of your
Speaker 1: what wh He has a slight case of kangaroo on
Speaker 1: short um, so DeFore he has to play guard. But
Speaker 1: I want to hold facelift footage thing. I want to
Speaker 1: go to LA and find a doctor. And I'm talking
Speaker 1: about total facelifting, get the full face off, face off fight.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You gotta find a young tackle, you
Speaker 1: gotta find a young guard, and most certainly you gotta
Speaker 1: find a center. You gotta go you like, Yeah, I do,
Speaker 1: Minnesota six three hundred forty tuns. And this again, this
Speaker 1: goes with the quarterback, that goes with the old line.
Speaker 1: Maybe the most critical piece of this offseason is developing
Speaker 1: your young play caller, right, Fred, because he's going to
Speaker 1: be the guy. The talents there, it just can you
Speaker 1: get him to be that guy that can win you
Speaker 1: some football games? I don't know. It's be big, big
Speaker 1: question of offseas bad base. I won't introduce you to
Speaker 1: the young wolf Rob Stark. N's who he is, Rob Start,
Speaker 1: That's what I call him. And who's this guy? Man?
Speaker 1: I don't even know who this is. The school is
Speaker 1: first of all, if you go to the whale and
Speaker 1: you always win, you can't got frisol, you ain't got
Speaker 1: month tap, you ain't got a player. Everybody, this guy
Speaker 1: is the next award winner for the best cornerback in
Speaker 1: the league. Nine fourth. Remember this night. He is dead
Speaker 1: due second round pick, no first round. Okay, I got you.
Speaker 1: I mean everybody to him. I definitely agree you need
Speaker 1: a quarterback, cornerback and it's gonna be his true with
Speaker 1: that first pick. Is it a cornerback? Is it an
Speaker 1: offensive lineman? Oppetite guard? I don't care where you go.
Speaker 1: You go to the bathroom, he's going with you, Julie,
Speaker 1: what do you think? I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: friends a little bias here, do not really? Fred? It
Speaker 1: is totally biased, But that's okay. I haven't not wait
Speaker 1: until we get into where do they go in the draft?
Speaker 1: What positions, what names? What players? Are Freds just gonna
Speaker 1: clean the boarder of the Mississippi State GUIs. Oh yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: thanks guys again, it was a wish list. For all
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