Speaker 1: All right. On today's show, we quickly review the third
Speaker 1: preseason game. We talk about the final fifty three man roster,
Speaker 1: who earned it, who needs to show us something? And
Speaker 1: is this roster built for success? And Farmer Fred made
Speaker 1: an appearance with his yellow watermelon and we talked about
Speaker 1: blue Moon.
Speaker 2: Don't forget about that aunch.
Speaker 1: Welcome into the Command Center Podcast. I'm Logan Paulson here
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Speaker 2: lays the fits out all week close. This is what
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Speaker 3: played this week? You know Mimi on how You're screaming
Speaker 3: somebody the real Miami. So we're gonna but y'all, y'all
Speaker 3: to do it's not even a big game trying to talk.
Speaker 1: But also the hat and the shoes match too. I mean, Fred,
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Speaker 4: This is what he does. He's been doing this for
Speaker 4: a thousand years, like, this is what he does.
Speaker 2: And my mama put me in my pampoint and he
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Speaker 1: All right, So let's we got a preseason game to recap.
Speaker 1: A third preseason game, probably not the most important to recap,
Speaker 1: but let's talk about it real quick. Okay, three and
Speaker 1: oh in the preseason, yep, doesn't matter, doesn't matter, who cares,
Speaker 1: who cares, who cares?
Speaker 2: Went out, did your job. Let me tell you what
Speaker 2: it dylla say. It says we got.
Speaker 4: Dep Yeah, it says we got the world. Coach, Well, coach,
Speaker 4: you got Depp. People listening, people are buying in. But
Speaker 4: in the big scheme of things next week, nobody care.
Speaker 2: What you did in the prese. That was the biggest
Speaker 2: thing I saw.
Speaker 3: I you know, I was harping this whole entire preseason
Speaker 3: on the game day live, pregame and post. I'm sure
Speaker 3: is that I didn't want to see a drop off
Speaker 3: from from any group that came in the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I didn't see it. I haven't seen it yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean so that's you know, knocking, that's preseasons
Speaker 3: over it. But it showed that these coach these coaches
Speaker 3: did a great job from the OTAs period, from the
Speaker 3: you know, the beginning of that period all the way
Speaker 3: into the training camp, that they had every group ready
Speaker 3: to go out there and perform on it.
Speaker 4: There's a lot about coach be Ene me because the
Speaker 4: offense didn't have a lot of false start and people
Speaker 4: knew where they were supposed to go in and let's
Speaker 4: not act.
Speaker 2: Like he'd been here for three years, like he just
Speaker 2: got here.
Speaker 4: Until install that quickly and they understand how to attack
Speaker 4: a defense.
Speaker 2: I still think they says a lot.
Speaker 3: When it was the last time you've seen the quarterback
Speaker 3: play looks so yeah, I mean first guy, second got
Speaker 3: the third guy Yeah, and the third guy almost have
Speaker 3: everybody like in shock, like hey, should we be keeping
Speaker 3: you know? So, I mean, no, man, these these guys
Speaker 3: did a great job with this, this whole group of
Speaker 3: guys this summer.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: And that's why I say it makes everybody look forward
Speaker 3: to see what happens this regular season.
Speaker 1: You know those other things like the old line. I
Speaker 1: always go off whole line player because it's like that's
Speaker 1: the thing that like falls down the fire. And I
Speaker 1: thought the third old line was great.
Speaker 2: They might have been the best.
Speaker 1: They did a great job. They got guys covered up,
Speaker 1: they understood protection rules. Like I just to go back
Speaker 1: to that second game, like where Baltimore's running all out
Speaker 1: and there was not a mental mistake. I couldn't believe that,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, so really well coached team.
Speaker 1: They got some talented guys. We're gonna talk about that
Speaker 1: in the second with the roster, but again, you don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about the standard. But I think it's important.
Speaker 1: Remember three and oh in the preseason last time we
Speaker 1: were three and oh twenty thirteen. You and I both
Speaker 1: were on that team, and I think it was.
Speaker 4: All when I looked back and looked at their feel,
Speaker 4: I just just just making all the damn mistakes that they.
Speaker 2: Could possibly make. He now, you know what's so funny
Speaker 2: about that? You know that it's funny because you only
Speaker 2: hit that from free that was so far.
Speaker 3: You wasn't on a team that, dude, No, But honestly, man,
Speaker 3: looking back, when I heard that stat being undefeated, some
Speaker 3: of that switch turned.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, man, did you remember we were in
Speaker 2: I knew it. I remember it got That's what I seen.
Speaker 3: I went into that season like I didn't have that
Speaker 3: feeling them we could beat anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Well, like I was hoping, like listen, I was hoping, like, Okay,
Speaker 3: if we do play with Kirk.
Speaker 2: At least we have it, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like honestly, like I knew Olgi had a you know,
Speaker 3: bad injury that playoff, you know, twenty twelve. It was
Speaker 3: like two thousand and thirteen at the time, we was
Speaker 3: in the playoffs, first round plaoffs against Seattle.
Speaker 2: So I was like, man, like the.
Speaker 3: Way he played last year, that's the only way we
Speaker 3: can dominate this league with that kind of play.
Speaker 2: You know, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't feel like just dropping back doing what we
Speaker 3: do good enough. Yeah, And so to see that what happened,
Speaker 3: what transpired, I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 2: All in for week one, I think that what blew it?
Speaker 4: Listen, if you would have gave himself chance to hear
Speaker 4: and I risked yourself back. But then what happened when
Speaker 4: Kirk Couzins is right behind you. It makes you want
Speaker 4: to get back quick.
Speaker 1: No, I think so, And I again like that's to me,
Speaker 1: like I totally forgot we were three and now I
Speaker 1: totally forgot. So In terms of wins in the preseason, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's like the most useless status. It's basically
Speaker 1: glorified practice. So yeah, it doesn't really matter. But I
Speaker 1: do think to your point, death coaching really good way
Speaker 1: to the preseason always feels good to win, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So let's talk about the final roster
Speaker 1: which came out of that third preseason game. Okay, so
Speaker 1: let's break it down. Okay, we got ten DB's seven
Speaker 1: wide receivers. That's a little unexpected for me anyway, ten
Speaker 1: D lineman, eleven D lineman. We got the bad notes here,
Speaker 1: passed stuff, anything, anything that surprised you in terms of
Speaker 1: the final fifty three.
Speaker 4: I guess what really shocked me was we said before
Speaker 4: that game. When I walked into this stadium, I had
Speaker 4: Kaz Allen on the roster. When I left the stadium,
Speaker 4: I knew he had almost played hisself off the roster.
Speaker 2: While I watched Tinsley.
Speaker 4: Play hisself on the run to the Washington So if
Speaker 4: I say anything caught me off, God, it was dead
Speaker 4: and I just thought maybe. I just thought maybe kaz
Speaker 4: Ala had two ways to make this team wide receive
Speaker 4: it in special teams, and I didn't feel like he
Speaker 4: didn't have a good one at each of them.
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't surprised.
Speaker 3: Only surprise the biggest too surprises for me was Curtis
Speaker 3: Hodge's making it. I feel like he lay itself out
Speaker 3: of making it the whole entire preseason. But if you
Speaker 3: look at his upside, you know, the height, just what
Speaker 3: he showed us last year.
Speaker 2: I'm glad the coaches just keep him around now.
Speaker 3: I always thought that cast would probably make it, but
Speaker 3: I thought that would be the practice squad kind of guy,
Speaker 3: because I thought we needed this those six guys I mentioned,
Speaker 3: you know, with with our first four and then the
Speaker 3: last two being Pringled and your boy Dad. I thought
Speaker 3: those was going to be our solid six anyway. And
Speaker 3: then now you see that, you know, Tendsley for this
Speaker 3: way up to be that seven guy. I thought he
Speaker 3: was gonna keep two guys seven and eighth guy might
Speaker 3: be the practice squad guy. I don't think Tinsley, will
Speaker 3: you know, crack that that that group of playing unless
Speaker 3: somebody goes down, you know, or he just playing out
Speaker 3: of control through practicing, coach, that we need to see
Speaker 3: this guy in the field, you know. So I still
Speaker 3: feel that we still have room to braincast and might
Speaker 3: have another receiver.
Speaker 2: But they said, they said the roster is fluid.
Speaker 4: That's the way you want it to be because you
Speaker 4: don't know who's gonna get cut off of other teams.
Speaker 4: You don't know what you need to inject, so you know,
Speaker 4: it's a fluent situation.
Speaker 1: And I think this is a really good, good, like
Speaker 1: kind of case study of like training camp and you know,
Speaker 1: the preseason games. Right, So what I mean by that
Speaker 1: is like Tinsley started off or no Cas started off
Speaker 1: super hot, started off really hot. Look like that dude
Speaker 1: kind of cooled after the Baltimore week and kind of
Speaker 1: had been steadily hitting a regression while Tinsley and Bryce
Speaker 1: and Tremaine were kind of went the other way. It
Speaker 1: was like they were like planes taken off, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think, like I can't tell you how many
Speaker 1: times I've seen guys start the offseason hot and then
Speaker 1: kind of fizzle out like where you say, oh, that
Speaker 1: guy's gonna make it. He's gonna make it. And then
Speaker 1: it's just like it's the last two weeks of camp.
Speaker 1: If you're showing out in those periods like you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna make it.
Speaker 4: You know, it's the last taste you leave in somebody,
Speaker 4: Just be honest. You only as good as your last performance.
Speaker 4: In his last performance said no, not right now.
Speaker 1: It's also when you're most stressed though, too, Like you're
Speaker 1: the most stressed out. I want to see how you
Speaker 1: are when it's like a.
Speaker 2: Little bit left that game.
Speaker 3: Saying that was to me, that was just him being
Speaker 3: in his own head, him you've hurt. He heard the hype,
Speaker 3: because that's one of the things about playing, being in
Speaker 3: our shoes, you have to know what you can do
Speaker 3: and what you can't do. So I was a guy
Speaker 3: that I didn't never want to listen to nothing good
Speaker 3: or bad about myself because guess what it did.
Speaker 2: It bothered me both both of them. You know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 3: I know who I am, so I don't want to
Speaker 3: hear the Oh Tanner is the greatesten you know, and
Speaker 3: I didn't want to hear all he suck because now
Speaker 3: I'm mad that I sucked to you, and then that's
Speaker 3: the greatest. I'm like, ah, you're putting this pressure on me.
Speaker 3: So what I always do is just say neutral. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna say something I'm hiding. Don't show me it, don't
Speaker 3: show me the press, don't don't let don't don't let
Speaker 3: me come down them stairs. And like my homeboys always said,
Speaker 3: when I walked downstairs and they got ESPN on, they
Speaker 3: would switch it because they knew I didn't want to
Speaker 3: hear to talk. So I think he heard it. I
Speaker 3: think he drunk the kool aid. He hey man, damn,
Speaker 3: I made it. All I got to do is finish.
Speaker 3: And he went out there, look dropping the receiver balls,
Speaker 3: dropping those catches. You know, I don't think that that
Speaker 3: weighed on him. But when I saw the hunt that punt,
Speaker 3: that's what we want you for. That's what we want
Speaker 3: you to be sure handed there, because if you do
Speaker 3: this well, you can make the team as a receiver
Speaker 3: that we're receiver.
Speaker 2: He would develop me there, you know.
Speaker 4: But see, I think the thing is too he was
Speaker 4: always this this high school, in this college, he had
Speaker 4: this nostalgia behind him.
Speaker 2: He got realized. I think he scored seventy five touchdowns
Speaker 2: of this in his senior year.
Speaker 4: Of high school. Seventy five wasn't there. I know, guys
Speaker 4: ain't did that in their whole career. At the end
Speaker 4: of the day, he was one of those guys that
Speaker 4: a lot of teams wanted to bring in the camp.
Speaker 4: Figure out what can I do with him? How can
Speaker 4: I do it? But you said, the maturation of the.
Speaker 2: Off season, the preseason and.
Speaker 4: Things come once it comes to this day. Who can
Speaker 4: help us win? That's what it comes down to.
Speaker 3: And that's me him that she got What I told
Speaker 3: you about Dax is why he was always like, especially
Speaker 3: with the group of guys we.
Speaker 2: Had around him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just man, you can't deny what he does
Speaker 3: on the offensive side of the ball. When he needed
Speaker 3: to make a play that third now he came across
Speaker 3: the middle, got smacked in the face, caught the ball,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. That's what you saw from
Speaker 3: him from day one. So I was always believed in
Speaker 3: him at that. Now, I hope seeing what we saw
Speaker 3: with the young kid, you know cast Yeah, DA's girl
Speaker 3: A couple of and say look I gotta take some
Speaker 3: I've heard the chirps about me. So I need to
Speaker 3: go out there and do something with this ball on.
Speaker 2: A punt return. Don't be crazy. Take what they give you.
Speaker 2: I've always been take what they give you. They give
Speaker 2: you a lane, go run with it.
Speaker 3: You don't get us ten yards were not actually need
Speaker 3: to go score touchdowns?
Speaker 2: Now? If it's there, not go score a touchdown?
Speaker 4: Well, I think about it is he catches the ball
Speaker 4: very well pump return. But the best punk returns to
Speaker 4: me catch the ball going full. They don't wait on
Speaker 4: the ball. They usually get deeper than the ball and
Speaker 4: start to come up as the ball comes. I think
Speaker 4: if he gets the running start, because I don't think
Speaker 4: he's good from zero to one hundreds, but if you
Speaker 4: get that run and start, I think he can.
Speaker 3: It's not even about to run start. I don't want
Speaker 3: to spend too much time on this. It's just about
Speaker 3: understanding your leverage. Guys come down downfield in the punt return.
Speaker 3: Punk returners has has the advantage because they come down
Speaker 3: like a bad head. Yeah you got to you know,
Speaker 3: for show that my flight. He don't even have to
Speaker 3: have that guy blocked. Just get in his way because
Speaker 3: now these other guys, I got to be real shifty
Speaker 3: to know because they big guys. Most of those guys
Speaker 3: the inside of big guys, they are linebackers and you know,
Speaker 3: you know guys who who special teams. Demons are guys
Speaker 3: who's second or third on the you know, the roster, you.
Speaker 1: Know, playings out there covering. So just use your level.
Speaker 2: Bring the Logan postle that he definitely break him down. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know it. He just had to know where his
Speaker 2: leverage at. Man.
Speaker 3: But but I'm just happy, you know, I wasn't too
Speaker 3: surprised with everything that we have.
Speaker 2: You know, I think those two guys.
Speaker 3: I love the way Tinsley just progressively, you know, found
Speaker 3: his way on the roster. And then I'm just Curtis
Speaker 3: better go out there and pray to the gods, because boy.
Speaker 2: Someone someone sees something. We see it too.
Speaker 3: But you know, when when you have a preseason like
Speaker 3: he did, yeah, it's not likely to get on the team.
Speaker 1: Let's just talk about Curtis for one second. As you
Speaker 1: mentioned him. So I think when you got a guy
Speaker 1: who's six eight two forty runs like he runs, and
Speaker 1: to give him his props, he has progressive as a
Speaker 1: run blocker. Now, right with Logan Thomas's injury, right, I
Speaker 1: think there's something there. And Ron said in Oppressor that
Speaker 1: he was like, you know this is we look at
Speaker 1: this like it's his rookie year and he went from
Speaker 1: like zero and he improved enough, yeah that we felt
Speaker 1: like it a good good It.
Speaker 4: Wasn't about the preseason games with him. They want to
Speaker 4: see him continue to get better because they knew he
Speaker 4: ain't wished his peak yet.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think this is what all coaches like.
Speaker 4: They like a player with first of all, clean slate,
Speaker 4: meaning he wouldn't wasn't no bad coaching on him because
Speaker 4: we just moved him to this position, clean slate, plush
Speaker 4: like you said, you can't buy six they gonna have
Speaker 4: to grocery.
Speaker 1: He runs well, man, he runs so well. And so
Speaker 1: when you're big and you run like you just get
Speaker 1: a longer leash, like I hate to say, like that's
Speaker 1: what it is like when you're a freak athlete. You
Speaker 1: stick around longer because everyone no one wants you to
Speaker 1: figure it out with somebody else, yea.
Speaker 4: And nobody wants to sign a fridge food at six
Speaker 4: feet a hundred five pound when you got this guy
Speaker 4: six eight two filthy that's a difference, man, big difference.
Speaker 1: So I think that's part of the reason why, and
Speaker 1: hopefully he continues to develop. I think he has developed
Speaker 1: just about whether he can turn that corner. So let's
Speaker 1: talk about kind of some little games. Right. Our producer
Speaker 1: came up like who earned it? Showed me something and
Speaker 1: built for success? Okay, all right, so let's talk about
Speaker 1: who earned the spot? Who your guy? Like, Man, I'm
Speaker 1: proud of that guy. They grinded, they made it happen.
Speaker 1: If you want, I can go first, I go first.
Speaker 1: To me, it's Chris Rodriguez. Man like Chris Rodriguez, because
Speaker 1: everyone like eb in his first pressure was like, Chris
Speaker 1: has to earn the spot. You got Jonathan Williams, we've
Speaker 1: got Patterson, guys who've been around, who played a lot
Speaker 1: of NFL football, and he had to show that he
Speaker 1: could do it. And I felt like he came out
Speaker 1: with a really high yards per carry, very physical running style,
Speaker 1: great in protections, and was like, I deserve to be
Speaker 1: the third guy. And I think he went from like
Speaker 1: a guy that is going to be on the roster
Speaker 1: to a guy.
Speaker 2: And we're gonna get touched.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was gonna get some touches, you know, and
Speaker 1: I think that's warranted based on how he ran. So
Speaker 1: he's a guy that I look at and I say,
Speaker 1: he threw the preseason games, yeah, because again he didn't
Speaker 1: look great with the pads off, because that's not who
Speaker 1: he is. Like, he's a guy you put the pads
Speaker 1: on him because a different dude. Yeah, and just became
Speaker 1: like that powerful runner that you know, like EB seems
Speaker 1: to like, like I look at Isaiah Pachenko, like he's
Speaker 1: got that skill set. So he's a guy that I thought, man,
Speaker 1: you earned that.
Speaker 2: Good job. I've gotta go with rich homie Kwun Qun Moyden.
Speaker 4: I thought kun Moydon earned it because we put a
Speaker 4: lot on his plate. We said, we need you to
Speaker 4: learn nickel, we need you to learn corner, we need
Speaker 4: you to learn free safety, we need to learn scrong safety,
Speaker 4: like five positions they asked his kid to learn, and
Speaker 4: he started off pretty slow. But I watched him. I
Speaker 4: watched the game and the maturation slow down in his helmet.
Speaker 4: I watched him start to go out there and make plays.
Speaker 4: So I felt like Kwan really came along and progressed
Speaker 4: from the first day I seen him at practice till
Speaker 4: the last day I seen him at practice.
Speaker 2: He got better. He got better, and even on the
Speaker 2: play he.
Speaker 4: Made that interception on he was beat, Yeah, he kept
Speaker 4: going and kept making that play. So his resiliency I
Speaker 4: think really said he earned it.
Speaker 2: And it's to a point where where do you play him?
Speaker 4: Because we got him checked as a safety, but he
Speaker 4: can play corner. So I just think he one of
Speaker 4: those people that really went out there and I felt
Speaker 4: like they challenged him.
Speaker 2: He answered the challenge, and he only can get better.
Speaker 2: My guy's gonna be Kaleik Hussing. Oh all right.
Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, when you look at what he did
Speaker 3: that last game last year against the Cowboys, everyone said, yeah,
Speaker 3: we knew he has this in him, but it's not
Speaker 3: consistent enough for us to say we want to put
Speaker 3: him here.
Speaker 2: And Kemp from here on term before.
Speaker 3: But our style of defense, the way we play our linebackers,
Speaker 3: I think he fits. He fits the mold because he's
Speaker 3: he's a he's an ex safety, he's a.
Speaker 2: Guy that he's an athlete.
Speaker 3: But what we saw from that moment to now is,
Speaker 3: excuse me, he steady shows up.
Speaker 2: He's been showing up the whole time.
Speaker 3: So when you have a guy that can play the
Speaker 3: special team the way he can play it, you have
Speaker 3: to find a way to put him on the field.
Speaker 3: And when it counted the most, when it mattered the most,
Speaker 3: he went out that he was in the backfield the
Speaker 3: entire night. I know, the only probably came away with
Speaker 3: with three tackles or somebody, but.
Speaker 2: He was just so explosive. Man, you flew around, and.
Speaker 3: He showed the coaching staff that when you give me
Speaker 3: a chance to be the guy, that is what I
Speaker 3: need to do. I need to show up and be
Speaker 3: back here and make places.
Speaker 2: And that's what did.
Speaker 3: He was a difference maker. So that's why I think
Speaker 3: he earned it because he shows you that. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: know I'm a special teams demon, but this is what
Speaker 3: I do at linebacker when you need me to play
Speaker 3: this position.
Speaker 1: I'm really glad you brought that up because it was
Speaker 1: like the guys that you expected in that third preseason game.
Speaker 1: It was like the two Hills, the James Cuts in
Speaker 1: the Mayos who came out and there like we are
Speaker 1: varsity football player. Yeah, most that's why we deserved the
Speaker 1: fifty three. And so I like that you brought him
Speaker 1: up a couple of honorable mentions real quick. You gotta
Speaker 1: mention Tinsley. I mean he's a guy, low hanging fruit,
Speaker 1: like you know, he's an undrafted guy making the fifty three.
Speaker 1: Like being an undrafted guy who made the fifty three, like,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of props and respect for that.
Speaker 1: The other guy is Rocky Stromberg. I thought he did
Speaker 1: a great Joby Sklomberg getting a great job playing guard.
Speaker 1: And I think he's a guy now that's going to
Speaker 1: be dressed on game day like that wasn't a thing
Speaker 1: we were talking about. But he'll be dressed up.
Speaker 4: Definitely because he's shown his versatility one and his nastiness too.
Speaker 4: I told you I take any offensive lineman any day
Speaker 4: from Arkansas University.
Speaker 3: Oh you want to speak on the guy too. I
Speaker 3: think a guy who deserves some flowers too is Christen Holmes.
Speaker 1: Dude.
Speaker 3: I think last year when you watched him, you can
Speaker 3: see the physique, You see how fit he looks, and
Speaker 3: you're like, man, he looks like a player.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: By that time, we saw him a situations where it
Speaker 3: wasn't like he was just you know, beat bad.
Speaker 2: He was there better players.
Speaker 3: Bingo the guys making a player that day that he
Speaker 3: didn't make. Yeah, I saw a guy who was determined
Speaker 3: this preseason.
Speaker 1: He looked like a he like a guy as a
Speaker 1: different animal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he like he's a man of mission.
Speaker 3: And I mean had a little sleeve on his shoulder,
Speaker 3: so you can tell he was a little hampered. But
Speaker 3: he went out there and made play special teams.
Speaker 4: And Jake from State Farm, I gotta give it. I'm
Speaker 4: sorry I've been a hold on him, but he threw
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 2: He threw him celf on his roster.
Speaker 4: But I understand keeping three quarterbacks is a lot, but
Speaker 4: I'm sorry. He earned the respect of his peers around
Speaker 4: the NFL in this preseason.
Speaker 1: And I think with Jake, like just because you didn't
Speaker 1: make the fifty three doesn't mean you did a good job.
Speaker 1: You didn't do a good job. Like you're here, You're
Speaker 1: gonna be developed, and like, think about it, Jacobe's on
Speaker 1: a one year deal, maybe next year the backup or whatever.
Speaker 1: We we don't know what's gonna happen. But I think
Speaker 1: having a guy like that stay around the program, be
Speaker 1: in the building. Yeah, he deserved that man. Great job,
Speaker 1: all right, So now let's talk about guys who need
Speaker 1: to show you something or things you want to see
Speaker 1: from the roster moving in the week one.
Speaker 2: What you got tight end position as a whole.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in position as a.
Speaker 2: Whole with a real tight end. Police stand up.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let's calm down.
Speaker 2: I gotta be the lead dog in there. And we
Speaker 2: know the one thing about.
Speaker 1: Ability be man to calm down real quick.
Speaker 2: The best ability is availability.
Speaker 1: No, I know, I'm I'm with you, But Cole Turner man,
Speaker 1: he's bald. This preseason showed bald.
Speaker 2: Say the last word you just said.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1: I get it. But what but like I'm saying, I
Speaker 1: look at that and I say, like, I thought you
Speaker 1: were going to talk about his logan Thomas healthy because
Speaker 1: I feel.
Speaker 2: Like this what my availability came in.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like Cole has stepped up and been
Speaker 1: like I deserve a bigger role in the offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Every day he's been super consistent. Baits is Baits like.
Speaker 4: There is John Bates, because John Bates stood out last preseason,
Speaker 4: stood out, and I have seen nothing from Jump in
Speaker 4: terms of catching the ball or what.
Speaker 2: He He's a he's a Logan type type.
Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to and there's
Speaker 3: no fleck on Logan. I'm just saying that they use
Speaker 3: him to block a lot, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like every now and then he gets he gets our
Speaker 3: between to catch the ball, and he could catch the ball. Well,
Speaker 3: yeah he had that one he dropped early in the preseason. Catches,
Speaker 3: but he catches the ball.
Speaker 2: He's a sure handed tight end.
Speaker 3: So I think he's just one of those guys that's
Speaker 3: not used to be you know that that that that
Speaker 3: type of tight end.
Speaker 2: You know, can't you think that position as a whole.
Speaker 2: Somebody has to say it's.
Speaker 4: Me and I want to see this distant position that
Speaker 4: I say, got somebody show me?
Speaker 2: What about you.
Speaker 1: Show me somebody? I agree with the tight ends. I
Speaker 1: would say offensive line, I want to see you. But again,
Speaker 1: I think I think they did a really good job
Speaker 1: in the preseason. I think they got better. I think
Speaker 1: you look at that Baltimore game. I like the way
Speaker 1: Eb's calling games to help those guys with protection. Cornelius
Speaker 1: Lucas has got to be the best swing tackle in
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 2: Whatever you need me to do, that's what Lucas say is.
Speaker 1: And Gates, Man, I love that pure nasty. Like my
Speaker 1: favorite penalty of all time was in the preseason this
Speaker 1: year he smoked some you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: I love I like the group coused me had a
Speaker 1: great preseason.
Speaker 4: I love like I gotta go back to Nick Gates,
Speaker 4: like it's a defensive player.
Speaker 2: We don't like Oliver the guys you want, man, I
Speaker 2: know what.
Speaker 3: The guys got to show up for me and I
Speaker 3: didn't want to cut you off the linebackers.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that. I like that.
Speaker 3: I just feel like at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: they are the guys that we don't talk about on
Speaker 3: the defense like they're hitting.
Speaker 2: They're the hitting gems like we have. We're going to
Speaker 2: play two of them most of the time.
Speaker 3: You know, the other guy goes going to be a
Speaker 3: you know, a rover or you know whatever you want
Speaker 3: to call them safety hybrid. But I truly believe that
Speaker 3: when they're in the game and they know it's run,
Speaker 3: I need to see them stuff go down here. I
Speaker 3: need to see some London Fletcher kind of play, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. I need to see these guys
Speaker 3: going downhill.
Speaker 2: I know, we don't have that body make up when
Speaker 2: it comes to.
Speaker 1: You're okay speaking of that, did you see Jami Davis
Speaker 1: against Baltimore. Who's that big fullback that got there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, big three pounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was speaking that man.
Speaker 2: No, Jamon Davis is the truth.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I want to see the game totally slow down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's playing more confident. But I think to your point.
Speaker 3: Like I'm just saying, it's a whole we just need
Speaker 3: to see all those guys be one of those cores
Speaker 3: that we can say okay because once the defense get
Speaker 3: that play, you're down packed, then we can go out
Speaker 3: there and play big league football. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 3: because I think the front guys, that's what you're missing
Speaker 3: that we're missing in the in the middle. You know,
Speaker 3: you got to have those guys shopping in the guys
Speaker 3: in the back end. Hey, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Open me a cream fighting good if the cream ain't
Speaker 4: in the middle and it just open me a goodie.
Speaker 2: I'm just being honest.
Speaker 1: All right. So I know, are we is this team
Speaker 1: and the current and you know, so fluid or stole
Speaker 1: to kind of finalizing roster. Is it built for success?
Speaker 2: Yes? It is.
Speaker 4: I look at teams from the top down and here
Speaker 4: we go. Do we got an offense that could be optimistic?
Speaker 4: Scope points at any time, run our pass? Yes we do.
Speaker 1: Do.
Speaker 4: We got a special team that could be special. We
Speaker 4: got one of the best punters in the league, and
Speaker 4: Joey Slide will kick.
Speaker 2: You in that like.
Speaker 4: So at the end of the day, we got special
Speaker 4: teams still to be determined.
Speaker 2: On the return side of it.
Speaker 4: Defense, I trust those guys not only to go out
Speaker 4: there and keep us in games.
Speaker 2: I trust these guys to start to win games. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, one of the big emphesis for the defense
Speaker 1: was turning the football over. And you got Cam Curll
Speaker 1: in practice now getting his hand on the football. Lot
Speaker 1: Percy Butler got his hand on the football. Quit what's
Speaker 1: her name?
Speaker 3: If I have my sa I'm gonna put him.
Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see how many receivers getting put
Speaker 4: on the Phillips list.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See, usual quarterbacks does it? It's in quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: Put both of them on it.
Speaker 4: They usually make your reach. But now forth least take
Speaker 4: money at ther pock. This is a different thing right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I think I think I think the offense
Speaker 1: looks better than I thought it would look at this
Speaker 1: point of year, and it's shocking me. How can I think, Like,
Speaker 1: to your point, it's like really well coached. I think
Speaker 1: what a big point of concern was the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I think EB showed that he can call a game
Speaker 1: to help that group. I think the skill position players
Speaker 1: are probably some of the best in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: if you can maximize those guys mitigate some of the
Speaker 1: decision making. Sam House do, I think you're gonna be
Speaker 1: in And Sam's done a great job. You know, it's
Speaker 1: and everyone says it's the preseason. I'm with that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, preason football, but it's it's the test he
Speaker 1: was given and he passed.
Speaker 3: To be honest though, and I was going to get
Speaker 3: at this about why I feel that we are built
Speaker 3: for success. This is the first time in a long time,
Speaker 3: and it's counting the years that I played this game,
Speaker 3: that I've seen a team in the preseason from us
Speaker 3: like we look like a team well coached, well oil machine.
Speaker 2: We was a unit. We went out there and played football.
Speaker 3: Like I said before, I keep harping on that unit
Speaker 3: that those levels of you know what groups come in.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that from this organization in.
Speaker 2: A long time. I good at the Raven practices.
Speaker 4: Watching those practices, I was like, okay, not saying, you know,
Speaker 4: the rings are great measuringy stick to measure yourself. But
Speaker 4: to see these guys go in there and take none
Speaker 4: of that from the any of these guys and and
Speaker 4: w these dudes in the trenches go out there and
Speaker 4: take on their receivers one on one, they running backs.
Speaker 2: I thought it was great.
Speaker 1: Now yeah, speaking of measuring sticks, Yeah, it's time, farmer Fred.
Speaker 2: I'm here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're getting ready to measure. Oh yes, sir, this
Speaker 1: is this is this is just yellow watermelon.
Speaker 2: Yellow watermelon, a k gold yellow meat an orange.
Speaker 1: Now also, well why is it it's yellow?
Speaker 2: It's gold gold? Its yellow? Brain because I got the
Speaker 2: colors on for some reason, and I had to.
Speaker 4: Bring these out because you remember I told you they
Speaker 4: wasn't right last week. But see this week, this whole
Speaker 4: week gonna be a blue moon.
Speaker 2: So you call Wegmans. Wegmans don't even care it is.
Speaker 1: So, is this is this different sweetness? Is it? Should
Speaker 1: it taste different than regular?
Speaker 2: Well, they have a distinct taste to them.
Speaker 1: It's like a little different.
Speaker 4: It's not quite as sweet, and it does the yellow
Speaker 4: doesn't have the active taste of a red one.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's almost in and out pure.
Speaker 1: And you were saying something that this is the original color.
Speaker 2: These are original colors.
Speaker 1: Now, I don't know if this is true, guys, but
Speaker 1: you have to fact test this.
Speaker 4: But this is from this is a psyclopedia everything. Like
Speaker 4: I told you all, this week is gonna be a
Speaker 4: blue moon the whole week.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 4: I mean the moon would be blue like the actually
Speaker 4: the actual moon every night this week will be a
Speaker 4: blue moon. This happens like every ten years.
Speaker 2: Or how you know about it because I study stuff
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 4: Is this for farming, No, it's very good for me
Speaker 4: because that's when you get your last What is happening
Speaker 4: right now, because it's almost I mean we're going into
Speaker 4: the fall, so you're gonna get your last big batch
Speaker 4: of vegetables, of summer vegetables right now.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be your last put out. I won't
Speaker 2: get into one more water.
Speaker 1: But that's not because of the blue moon though.
Speaker 2: No, but the blue moon is a good signal.
Speaker 1: You're making that that's when you're making when you're making.
Speaker 2: Something like I'm not, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: You're studying the blue moon, so I will say that
Speaker 3: the orange one is sweeter than this one.
Speaker 1: It's the same water though, right, the same one there too.
Speaker 2: I was did you actually think I had a have
Speaker 2: a hybrid? You? I had a half goal in the
Speaker 2: yellow yellow is good only people from Cally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, I thought it was just different
Speaker 1: tints that kind of looks like the same color as
Speaker 1: this similar similar all right, anyway, Fred, thanks for winging
Speaker 1: the watermelon.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: It's very very good. And everyone keep an EyeT for.
Speaker 2: That blue mood.
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