WEBVTT - The First 53-Man Roster, Final Preseason Thoughts, and Farmer Fred | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.360 All right. On today's show, we quickly review the third 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:07.280 preseason game. We talk about the final fifty three man roster, 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.920 who earned it, who needs to show us something? And 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.840 is this roster built for success? And Farmer Fred made 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.120 an appearance with his yellow watermelon and we talked about 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:16.560 blue Moon. 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:17.600 Don't forget about that aunch. 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.640 Welcome into the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.840 with Fred Smooth, Oh Farmer Fred, Farmer Friend, and Santana 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.280 Moss who man always so strong with the fit. Now 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.520 the fans get to see it. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.960 Like who his fits are literally laid out of his closet. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.120 This is what he had to go with everything. He 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.400 lays the fits out all week close. This is what 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.440 he does. Is just the Miami and me. Man, I 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.680 look at that bid. We go to bed matches. 0:00:52.400 --> 0:00:53.920 But I'm saying, like I couldn't not even know they 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:55.400 made polos that color orange. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.000 Lenders, Saman I was, I was, I was in the 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:58.960 Polo I would lets store the other day and I 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.600 saw the Miami colors. Why not where you know we 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:03.520 played this week? You know Mimi on how You're screaming 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.680 somebody the real Miami. So we're gonna but y'all, y'all 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.440 to do it's not even a big game trying to talk. 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.319 But also the hat and the shoes match too. I mean, Fred, 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:13.160 it's it's next. 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.240 This is what he does. He's been doing this for 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:17.360 a thousand years, like, this is what he does. 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.840 And my mama put me in my pampoint and he 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:19.399 was matching with. 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.959 All right, So let's we got a preseason game to recap. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.520 A third preseason game, probably not the most important to recap, 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.200 but let's talk about it real quick. Okay, three and 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.919 oh in the preseason, yep, doesn't matter, doesn't matter, who cares, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:36.080 who cares, who cares? 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:37.600 Went out, did your job. Let me tell you what 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.399 it dylla say. It says we got. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.839 Dep Yeah, it says we got the world. Coach, Well, coach, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.920 you got Depp. People listening, people are buying in. But 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.760 in the big scheme of things next week, nobody care. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.160 What you did in the prese. That was the biggest 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:50.680 thing I saw. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:53.720 I you know, I was harping this whole entire preseason 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.880 on the game day live, pregame and post. I'm sure 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.640 is that I didn't want to see a drop off 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.440 from from any group that came in the game. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.040 Yeah, and I didn't see it. I haven't seen it yet. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.520 Yeah, I mean so that's you know, knocking, that's preseasons 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.160 over it. But it showed that these coach these coaches 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.920 did a great job from the OTAs period, from the 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:12.840 you know, the beginning of that period all the way 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.720 into the training camp, that they had every group ready 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.000 to go out there and perform on it. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.080 There's a lot about coach be Ene me because the 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.560 offense didn't have a lot of false start and people 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.320 knew where they were supposed to go in and let's 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:23.840 not act. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:25.640 Like he'd been here for three years, like he just 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:26.240 got here. 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.200 Until install that quickly and they understand how to attack 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:29.800 a defense. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:31.160 I still think they says a lot. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.239 When it was the last time you've seen the quarterback 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:38.400 play looks so yeah, I mean first guy, second got 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.520 the third guy Yeah, and the third guy almost have 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.440 everybody like in shock, like hey, should we be keeping 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.519 you know? So, I mean, no, man, these these guys 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.640 did a great job with this, this whole group of 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:51.480 guys this summer. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:51.680 Man. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.760 And that's why I say it makes everybody look forward 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.119 to see what happens this regular season. 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:56.480 You know those other things like the old line. I 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:58.320 always go off whole line player because it's like that's 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.480 the thing that like falls down the fire. And I 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:02.280 thought the third old line was great. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:03.160 They might have been the best. 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.880 They did a great job. They got guys covered up, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.120 they understood protection rules. Like I just to go back 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.400 to that second game, like where Baltimore's running all out 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.920 and there was not a mental mistake. I couldn't believe that, 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:14.920 you know what I mean, so really well coached team. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.720 They got some talented guys. We're gonna talk about that 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.320 in the second with the roster, but again, you don't 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:20.799 want to talk about the standard. But I think it's important. 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:22.560 Remember three and oh in the preseason last time we 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.919 were three and oh twenty thirteen. You and I both 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:26.600 were on that team, and I think it was. 0:03:26.560 --> 0:03:29.120 All when I looked back and looked at their feel, 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.440 I just just just making all the damn mistakes that they. 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.280 Could possibly make. He now, you know what's so funny 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.960 about that? You know that it's funny because you only 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.480 hit that from free that was so far. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.320 You wasn't on a team that, dude, No, But honestly, man, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.880 looking back, when I heard that stat being undefeated, some 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:49.680 of that switch turned. 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.240 I'm like, oh, man, did you remember we were in 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.160 I knew it. I remember it got That's what I seen. 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.360 I went into that season like I didn't have that 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.000 feeling them we could beat anybody. 0:03:58.080 --> 0:03:58.840 Yeah, you know what I mean? 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:05.360 Well, like I was hoping, like listen, I was hoping, like, Okay, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:06.600 if we do play with Kirk. 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:07.720 At least we have it, you know what I mean? 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.960 Like honestly, like I knew Olgi had a you know, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.880 bad injury that playoff, you know, twenty twelve. It was 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.280 like two thousand and thirteen at the time, we was 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.560 in the playoffs, first round plaoffs against Seattle. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:18.320 So I was like, man, like the. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.000 Way he played last year, that's the only way we 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.000 can dominate this league with that kind of play. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:23.599 You know, I didn't. 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:26.240 I didn't feel like just dropping back doing what we 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:30.120 do good enough. Yeah, And so to see that what happened, 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.560 what transpired, I wasn't surprised. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.320 All in for week one, I think that what blew it? 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.520 Listen, if you would have gave himself chance to hear 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:41.200 and I risked yourself back. But then what happened when 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.960 Kirk Couzins is right behind you. It makes you want 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:44.640 to get back quick. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.839 No, I think so, And I again like that's to me, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.599 like I totally forgot we were three and now I 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.279 totally forgot. So In terms of wins in the preseason, yeah, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.359 I think it's like the most useless status. It's basically 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:55.520 glorified practice. So yeah, it doesn't really matter. But I 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.280 do think to your point, death coaching really good way 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.880 to the preseason always feels good to win, you know 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.880 what I'm saying. So let's talk about the final roster 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.320 which came out of that third preseason game. Okay, so 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.320 let's break it down. Okay, we got ten DB's seven 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.400 wide receivers. That's a little unexpected for me anyway, ten 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.720 D lineman, eleven D lineman. We got the bad notes here, 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.960 passed stuff, anything, anything that surprised you in terms of 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:23.039 the final fifty three. 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:26.800 I guess what really shocked me was we said before 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.520 that game. When I walked into this stadium, I had 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.159 Kaz Allen on the roster. When I left the stadium, 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.239 I knew he had almost played hisself off the roster. 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:38.279 While I watched Tinsley. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.040 Play hisself on the run to the Washington So if 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.719 I say anything caught me off, God, it was dead 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.600 and I just thought maybe. I just thought maybe kaz 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.240 Ala had two ways to make this team wide receive 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:51.680 it in special teams, and I didn't feel like he 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.279 didn't have a good one at each of them. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:54.400 Well, I wasn't surprised. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.840 Only surprise the biggest too surprises for me was Curtis 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.800 Hodge's making it. I feel like he lay itself out 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:03.680 of making it the whole entire preseason. But if you 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.919 look at his upside, you know, the height, just what 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.040 he showed us last year. 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.560 I'm glad the coaches just keep him around now. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.359 I always thought that cast would probably make it, but 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.440 I thought that would be the practice squad kind of guy, 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.359 because I thought we needed this those six guys I mentioned, 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.360 you know, with with our first four and then the 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:25.640 last two being Pringled and your boy Dad. I thought 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:27.800 those was going to be our solid six anyway. And 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.440 then now you see that, you know, Tendsley for this 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.440 way up to be that seven guy. I thought he 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.520 was gonna keep two guys seven and eighth guy might 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.039 be the practice squad guy. I don't think Tinsley, will 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:40.159 you know, crack that that that group of playing unless 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:42.840 somebody goes down, you know, or he just playing out 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:44.640 of control through practicing, coach, that we need to see 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.440 this guy in the field, you know. So I still 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.920 feel that we still have room to braincast and might 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:49.640 have another receiver. 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:51.679 But they said, they said the roster is fluid. 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.080 That's the way you want it to be because you 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.839 don't know who's gonna get cut off of other teams. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.800 You don't know what you need to inject, so you know, 0:06:57.839 --> 0:06:58.960 it's a fluent situation. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.320 And I think this is a really good, good, like 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:03.279 kind of case study of like training camp and you know, 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.680 the preseason games. Right, So what I mean by that 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.160 is like Tinsley started off or no Cas started off 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.840 super hot, started off really hot. Look like that dude 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.160 kind of cooled after the Baltimore week and kind of 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:18.160 had been steadily hitting a regression while Tinsley and Bryce 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.760 and Tremaine were kind of went the other way. It 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:21.480 was like they were like planes taken off, you know. 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.120 And I think, like I can't tell you how many 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.840 times I've seen guys start the offseason hot and then 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:27.320 kind of fizzle out like where you say, oh, that 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:28.920 guy's gonna make it. He's gonna make it. And then 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.280 it's just like it's the last two weeks of camp. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.640 If you're showing out in those periods like you're probably 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:34.160 gonna make it. 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:37.080 You know, it's the last taste you leave in somebody, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.600 Just be honest. You only as good as your last performance. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.320 In his last performance said no, not right now. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.760 It's also when you're most stressed though, too, Like you're 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.560 the most stressed out. I want to see how you 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:48.280 are when it's like a. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:50.560 Little bit left that game. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.800 Saying that was to me, that was just him being 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.560 in his own head, him you've hurt. He heard the hype, 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.360 because that's one of the things about playing, being in 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.720 our shoes, you have to know what you can do 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:03.680 and what you can't do. So I was a guy 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.600 that I didn't never want to listen to nothing good 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.480 or bad about myself because guess what it did. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 It bothered me both both of them. You know what 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:10.200 I mean. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.120 I know who I am, so I don't want to 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.680 hear the Oh Tanner is the greatesten you know, and 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.800 I didn't want to hear all he suck because now 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.080 I'm mad that I sucked to you, and then that's 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.160 the greatest. I'm like, ah, you're putting this pressure on me. 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.880 So what I always do is just say neutral. I'm 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.400 gonna say something I'm hiding. Don't show me it, don't 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.600 show me the press, don't don't let don't don't let 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:30.920 me come down them stairs. And like my homeboys always said, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.280 when I walked downstairs and they got ESPN on, they 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.920 would switch it because they knew I didn't want to 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.480 hear to talk. So I think he heard it. I 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:39.760 think he drunk the kool aid. He hey man, damn, 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:41.360 I made it. All I got to do is finish. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.400 And he went out there, look dropping the receiver balls, 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.640 dropping those catches. You know, I don't think that that 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.439 weighed on him. But when I saw the hunt that punt, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.360 that's what we want you for. That's what we want 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.560 you to be sure handed there, because if you do 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.600 this well, you can make the team as a receiver 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.080 that we're receiver. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:01.360 He would develop me there, you know. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.120 But see, I think the thing is too he was 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.640 always this this high school, in this college, he had 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:07.920 this nostalgia behind him. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.240 He got realized. I think he scored seventy five touchdowns 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:12.079 of this in his senior year. 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:16.199 Of high school. Seventy five wasn't there. I know, guys 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.280 ain't did that in their whole career. At the end 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:19.960 of the day, he was one of those guys that 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:21.920 a lot of teams wanted to bring in the camp. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.040 Figure out what can I do with him? How can 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.360 I do it? But you said, the maturation of the. 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.719 Off season, the preseason and. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.319 Things come once it comes to this day. Who can 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.520 help us win? That's what it comes down to. 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.600 And that's me him that she got What I told 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:37.840 you about Dax is why he was always like, especially 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:38.600 with the group of guys we. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:39.240 Had around him. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.920 Yeah, he just man, you can't deny what he does 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.600 on the offensive side of the ball. When he needed 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.400 to make a play that third now he came across 0:09:45.400 --> 0:09:47.520 the middle, got smacked in the face, caught the ball, 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:48.760 you know what I mean. That's what you saw from 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.959 him from day one. So I was always believed in 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.520 him at that. Now, I hope seeing what we saw 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.760 with the young kid, you know cast Yeah, DA's girl 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.440 A couple of and say look I gotta take some 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.520 I've heard the chirps about me. So I need to 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.240 go out there and do something with this ball on. 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:07.240 A punt return. Don't be crazy. Take what they give you. 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.480 I've always been take what they give you. They give 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:10.560 you a lane, go run with it. 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.360 You don't get us ten yards were not actually need 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:13.360 to go score touchdowns? 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.000 Now? If it's there, not go score a touchdown? 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.280 Well, I think about it is he catches the ball 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.440 very well pump return. But the best punk returns to 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.280 me catch the ball going full. They don't wait on 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.760 the ball. They usually get deeper than the ball and 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.240 start to come up as the ball comes. I think 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.760 if he gets the running start, because I don't think 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.920 he's good from zero to one hundreds, but if you 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:34.600 get that run and start, I think he can. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:36.679 It's not even about to run start. I don't want 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.679 to spend too much time on this. It's just about 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.600 understanding your leverage. Guys come down downfield in the punt return. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.319 Punk returners has has the advantage because they come down 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.880 like a bad head. Yeah you got to you know, 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.800 for show that my flight. He don't even have to 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.079 have that guy blocked. Just get in his way because 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.959 now these other guys, I got to be real shifty 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.959 to know because they big guys. Most of those guys 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.960 the inside of big guys, they are linebackers and you know, 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.280 you know guys who who special teams. Demons are guys 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.800 who's second or third on the you know, the roster, you. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.080 Know, playings out there covering. So just use your level. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.760 Bring the Logan postle that he definitely break him down. Yeah, 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:17.480 you know it. He just had to know where his 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:18.199 leverage at. Man. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.600 But but I'm just happy, you know, I wasn't too 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:21.920 surprised with everything that we have. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:23.720 You know, I think those two guys. 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.040 I love the way Tinsley just progressively, you know, found 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.400 his way on the roster. And then I'm just Curtis 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:31.319 better go out there and pray to the gods, because boy. 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.480 Someone someone sees something. We see it too. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.600 But you know, when when you have a preseason like 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.040 he did, yeah, it's not likely to get on the team. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:39.839 Let's just talk about Curtis for one second. As you 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:41.440 mentioned him. So I think when you got a guy 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.880 who's six eight two forty runs like he runs, and 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.000 to give him his props, he has progressive as a 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.280 run blocker. Now, right with Logan Thomas's injury, right, I 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.360 think there's something there. And Ron said in Oppressor that 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.400 he was like, you know this is we look at 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.640 this like it's his rookie year and he went from 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.680 like zero and he improved enough, yeah that we felt 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.160 like it a good good It. 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.240 Wasn't about the preseason games with him. They want to 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.760 see him continue to get better because they knew he 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:07.720 ain't wished his peak yet. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:08.000 Yeah. 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.040 Yeah, And I think this is what all coaches like. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.640 They like a player with first of all, clean slate, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.280 meaning he wouldn't wasn't no bad coaching on him because 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.319 we just moved him to this position, clean slate, plush 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.920 like you said, you can't buy six they gonna have 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:20.320 to grocery. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.600 He runs well, man, he runs so well. And so 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:24.360 when you're big and you run like you just get 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:26.320 a longer leash, like I hate to say, like that's 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.199 what it is like when you're a freak athlete. You 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.400 stick around longer because everyone no one wants you to 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.360 figure it out with somebody else, yea. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.560 And nobody wants to sign a fridge food at six 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.280 feet a hundred five pound when you got this guy 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.920 six eight two filthy that's a difference, man, big difference. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.000 So I think that's part of the reason why, and 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.240 hopefully he continues to develop. I think he has developed 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.160 just about whether he can turn that corner. So let's 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.040 talk about kind of some little games. Right. Our producer 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.480 came up like who earned it? Showed me something and 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.480 built for success? Okay, all right, so let's talk about 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.320 who earned the spot? Who your guy? Like, Man, I'm 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.640 proud of that guy. They grinded, they made it happen. 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:04.080 If you want, I can go first, I go first. 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.920 To me, it's Chris Rodriguez. Man like Chris Rodriguez, because 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.800 everyone like eb in his first pressure was like, Chris 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.079 has to earn the spot. You got Jonathan Williams, we've 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:12.800 got Patterson, guys who've been around, who played a lot 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.599 of NFL football, and he had to show that he 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:16.319 could do it. And I felt like he came out 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:19.120 with a really high yards per carry, very physical running style, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.599 great in protections, and was like, I deserve to be 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:22.839 the third guy. And I think he went from like 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.680 a guy that is going to be on the roster 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:25.320 to a guy. 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:26.280 And we're gonna get touched. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:27.960 Yeah, it was gonna get some touches, you know, and 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.960 I think that's warranted based on how he ran. So 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:31.360 he's a guy that I look at and I say, 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.720 he threw the preseason games, yeah, because again he didn't 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.360 look great with the pads off, because that's not who 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.880 he is. Like, he's a guy you put the pads 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:39.840 on him because a different dude. Yeah, and just became 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:43.160 like that powerful runner that you know, like EB seems 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:44.960 to like, like I look at Isaiah Pachenko, like he's 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.560 got that skill set. So he's a guy that I thought, man, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:48.360 you earned that. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.760 Good job. I've gotta go with rich homie Kwun Qun Moyden. 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.520 I thought kun Moydon earned it because we put a 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.599 lot on his plate. We said, we need you to 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.880 learn nickel, we need you to learn corner, we need 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.120 you to learn free safety, we need to learn scrong safety, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.920 like five positions they asked his kid to learn, and 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.680 he started off pretty slow. But I watched him. I 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.280 watched the game and the maturation slow down in his helmet. 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.640 I watched him start to go out there and make plays. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.760 So I felt like Kwan really came along and progressed 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.800 from the first day I seen him at practice till 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.360 the last day I seen him at practice. 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.720 He got better. He got better, and even on the 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:21.240 play he. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.080 Made that interception on he was beat, Yeah, he kept 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:27.440 going and kept making that play. So his resiliency I 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.720 think really said he earned it. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:32.720 And it's to a point where where do you play him? 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.680 Because we got him checked as a safety, but he 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.640 can play corner. So I just think he one of 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.120 those people that really went out there and I felt 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:40.560 like they challenged him. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.120 He answered the challenge, and he only can get better. 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.880 My guy's gonna be Kaleik Hussing. Oh all right. 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.880 I mean, honestly, when you look at what he did 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:53.160 that last game last year against the Cowboys, everyone said, yeah, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.080 we knew he has this in him, but it's not 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.920 consistent enough for us to say we want to put 0:14:57.960 --> 0:14:58.440 him here. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.760 And Kemp from here on term before. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.360 But our style of defense, the way we play our linebackers, 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.920 I think he fits. He fits the mold because he's 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.600 he's a he's an ex safety, he's a. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.120 Guy that he's an athlete. 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.400 But what we saw from that moment to now is, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.640 excuse me, he steady shows up. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.080 He's been showing up the whole time. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.120 So when you have a guy that can play the 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.960 special team the way he can play it, you have 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.280 to find a way to put him on the field. 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.520 And when it counted the most, when it mattered the most, 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.360 he went out that he was in the backfield the 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.040 entire night. I know, the only probably came away with 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.840 with three tackles or somebody, but. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.640