Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. The
Speaker 1: Commanders were well represented in this year's Pro Bowl games
Speaker 1: out in Las Vegas. Jonathan Allen, Duran Payne, Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Reeves, and Trust Way competed in various challenges throughout
Speaker 1: the week, helping the NFC secure a victory. Former Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl linebacker London's Letcher joined me to recap the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl games. Washington sent five players to the Pro Bowl. London,
Speaker 1: what does that say about the direction of this franchise?
Speaker 1: It lets you know there's a lot of talent on
Speaker 1: this football team. You sent a guy from offense and
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, two guys from defensing with d Ron and Jonathan,
Speaker 1: and then two special team with trust and Jeremy Reeves.
Speaker 1: When you look at you talking about having players from
Speaker 1: each phase of your football team making a Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: you couldn't ask for more. We'd like to see even
Speaker 1: you know, seven to eight guys coming to Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: and that means you have a winning team, all right.
Speaker 1: We will not sleep on five though. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin. What we saw from him through this week's game.
Speaker 1: So I started with dodgeball, yes, and then also the
Speaker 1: water balloon catch, and then he also participated in flag football.
Speaker 1: I thought that he probably wasn't targeted enough personally in
Speaker 1: flag football, but we know no matter what, when he's
Speaker 1: on the field, he does have an impact. But what
Speaker 1: did you say about how he performs this week? I
Speaker 1: thought he was performed well and you saw his competitive
Speaker 1: nature and on the first night in the Didgeball game,
Speaker 1: Terry being aggressive and you know he shared what that
Speaker 1: says his mindset with the with the Didgeball game. And
Speaker 1: then of course we know he has the great hands
Speaker 1: in that water balloon catch if we go on to it.
Speaker 1: John Allen, now he had the longest drive and moved
Speaker 1: the change. He went twice and moved the change. The
Speaker 1: boy you could see he was pretty exhausted from that.
Speaker 1: I think he told me afterwards he's like, not the
Speaker 1: biggest fan. Yeah, now the move to change that was
Speaker 1: definitely they needed a different s different strategy. But I
Speaker 1: was impressed with his golf swinging and the longest drive.
Speaker 1: And then Duran Payne, look, he also was out there
Speaker 1: for the longest drive using YouTube to help him on
Speaker 1: that one of the water or balloon toss and move
Speaker 1: the chains as well. Dan, you know what, he was
Speaker 1: really impressive. And to move the chains, it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: they kind of stole the technique of the AFC and
Speaker 1: he did. He did extremely well that he was a
Speaker 1: part of the group that won. And we certainly know
Speaker 1: he's going to be putting it out into his next
Speaker 1: contract negotiations as well. This is another skill that he
Speaker 1: has for him, trust way longest driving kick tac toe? Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you know what kick tac toe is? For a potter,
Speaker 1: that's extremely difficult to be able to have that target,
Speaker 1: but trust he can hit that golf ball. And he said,
Speaker 1: you know what, it was the most easy game he's
Speaker 1: ever sat and had to do absolutely nothing today but
Speaker 1: play with his kids out there. Jeremy Reeves water balloon
Speaker 1: toss and flag football. Yeah, Jeremy, him and his partner
Speaker 1: weren't totally on the same plage with the water balloon toss,
Speaker 1: but for him to be able to play defense in
Speaker 1: this in a flag football game, I'm sure he was
Speaker 1: happy about that. Yeah, when you look back at these
Speaker 1: games in the different format, because I don't think I've
Speaker 1: ever talked about water balloon tosses or the chains what
Speaker 1: I've ever talked about the NFL or any guys participate
Speaker 1: in that. What did you make of the new format
Speaker 1: and the success that it had? You know, I loved it. Again,
Speaker 1: I think with the NFL, what they're trying to accomplish
Speaker 1: and all Star games should be fun, it should be entertaining,
Speaker 1: it should be competitive too, And I thought they accomplished
Speaker 1: all those goals with these reimagined games. Oh yes, of course,
Speaker 1: you can always compete in any of those activities, even
Speaker 1: the relay, the Gauntlet relay as well. We saw the
Speaker 1: competitive spirit come out. We also had coverage from Outmobile
Speaker 1: at the Reese's Senior Bowl. Logan Paulson caught up with
Speaker 1: Washington legend Doug Williams. Logan Paulson. Here with a guy
Speaker 1: who doesn't need any introduction. Man, you can probably do
Speaker 1: this interview by yourself. It's a little surprising to see
Speaker 1: you down here. What brings you down here? My son
Speaker 1: the son Yep, Yeah, he's you know, he's coaching the
Speaker 1: quarterback down here and he's been in the league now
Speaker 1: for the last four years. And I felt like it
Speaker 1: was only fitting for me to come down and give
Speaker 1: him some support. I just be around absolutely, and you
Speaker 1: know your quarterback obviously, do you ever give him any pointers?
Speaker 1: Or do you feel like the game has changed enough
Speaker 1: where you kind of let him do his thing? Like
Speaker 1: you just said, the game has changed at and just
Speaker 1: listening to him, I realized that he's a lot smarter
Speaker 1: than I was when I was a player, let me
Speaker 1: tell you that. But but what I like about him though,
Speaker 1: he got so much passion for what he does, And
Speaker 1: I think that's what a quarterback coach has to do,
Speaker 1: is to have passion for the game, passing for the players,
Speaker 1: and just watching him and knowing how he feels about
Speaker 1: it. It It gives me great, great pleasure to see him work.
Speaker 1: Absolutely and you know, obviously offensive assistant with New Orleans.
Speaker 1: But now he's got his own room. Like how important
Speaker 1: is it for young coaches to get these opportunities at
Speaker 1: events like this? Well, I think this is an opportunity
Speaker 1: for them to be seeing the most important thing. If
Speaker 1: the head coaches and other coordinators see see guys like
Speaker 1: this work and find out that they can do the job,
Speaker 1: I think that's the most important. I think that's why
Speaker 1: it's important for him to have his own quarterback room
Speaker 1: do the job. So I'm looking forward and hope that
Speaker 1: he'd get a call somewhere that want them to be
Speaker 1: the quarterback. That'd be fantastic. So obviously, you know, used
Speaker 1: to be in scouting. You come down here and kind
Speaker 1: of look at this group and say, man, this is
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for from the senior ball specifically. Or no,
Speaker 1: not not really, you know now that you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you get taken out of the lane, you stay out
Speaker 1: of the lane, and that's that's what it's happened with me.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't do that anymore because you know,
Speaker 1: I just want to come down and watch him. But
Speaker 1: I do watch some of the plays and players, but
Speaker 1: I don't know him like I would have. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're doing your thing. But Doug, thank you so much, man,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it. You get some time with your son, man,
Speaker 1: believe me. Yeah. All right. For all your news and analysis,
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