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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. The

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Speaker 1: Commander's twenty twenty two season schedule is officially here. Former

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Speaker 1: Washington linebacker London Fletcher will be on the call with

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Speaker 1: me this season in the radio boot, and he joined

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Speaker 1: me to share some of his thoughts on the upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: And let's take a look at all the games that

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Speaker 1: will be at FedEx Field this season. Again, make sure

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Speaker 1: you go and buy your tickets for the first forty

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Speaker 1: eight hours there are no fees. And of course the

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Speaker 1: season does start against the Jacksonville Jaguars at home. All right, London,

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Speaker 1: let's go through, Like where do you say Washington has

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Speaker 1: a w as I look at these games, Julie, and

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Speaker 1: I'm conservative. I can see us winning at least six games.

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Speaker 1: And that's a minimum of six games. You want me,

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Speaker 1: I'm right there, right there, starting two, oh right there,

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Speaker 1: all right, taking down the Vikings, taking down the Falcons, right,

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Speaker 1: taking down the Giants, and oh so you have us

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Speaker 1: sweeping the NFC East. Wow, that's why I said a

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Speaker 1: minimum six. I'm being conservative when I say six, six

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Speaker 1: or seven? Hell, and these two games, I can see

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Speaker 1: us one of that we could go undefeated at home, Well,

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Speaker 1: that would be great for it's time that we do

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Speaker 1: there you go the home wins. According to London Fletcher,

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Speaker 1: let's take a look at the road trips now that

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Speaker 1: li ahead this season where Washington will be traveling on

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Speaker 1: out to look. According to London, with the six or

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Speaker 1: seven wins, it's looking pretty good this season, but now

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Speaker 1: you've got to be able to do it on the road.

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Speaker 1: So where are your w's here? Okay, my w's here

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Speaker 1: on the road. Let's go here the Detroit Okay, I

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Speaker 1: might be with you on that one. Chicago too. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you have us sweeping the Giants. Oh yeah, sweep. So

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Speaker 1: that's for Houston, where I'm sure ten wins, a minimum

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Speaker 1: ten or eleven wins, and then we're gonna get We're

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Speaker 1: gonna get what he's getting. One of them was the

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Speaker 1: last two seasons Washington has finished with seven wins. So

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Speaker 1: you have us now with what that's at least ten?

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Speaker 1: Is that my math? Right? Eleven twelve eleven twelve? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: eleven twelve games? I like enough for the division absolutely? Okay.

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Speaker 1: Linebacker Cole Holcomb joined me to talk all things off

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Speaker 1: season and what he is looking forward to the upcoming year. Cole.

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Speaker 1: Last season obviously a big transition for you, and we

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Speaker 1: heard Jack del Rio, defensive coordinator, kind of seeing your

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Speaker 1: praises on how you kind of adjusted really high expectations

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Speaker 1: for we're gonna be able to go. But where do

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Speaker 1: you feel you are now in your off season program? Um,

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Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I'm gonna, you know, take

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Speaker 1: control of his defense, take take charge of that mic spot. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know I've been I've been wanting it for a while,

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Speaker 1: and I like, you know, that responsibility and taking control

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Speaker 1: and being able to, you know, kind of get everybody

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Speaker 1: lined up, make the adjustments that we need to make,

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Speaker 1: and you know, I feel like it helps me be

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Speaker 1: able to call it when you're at that mic spot.

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Speaker 1: We tried initially, like I was calling the defense from

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Speaker 1: outside and it was kind of hard to be able

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Speaker 1: to relay a call to the other side of the

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Speaker 1: defense if I'm playing outside. So I think it helps

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Speaker 1: a lot in terms of our communication and get on

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Speaker 1: the same page as a defense. Where's your comfort level

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Speaker 1: in that right now? Would you say I feel real comfortable?

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said I was, I was calling

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Speaker 1: the defense all last year, had a little bit a

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Speaker 1: little bit of that responsibility the year before a couple

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Speaker 1: of games tried it out. I feel like I'm growing

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Speaker 1: a lot in terms of, you know, being comfortable in

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Speaker 1: those situations. You know, sometimes bullets are fine waiting for

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Speaker 1: a call to come in. You know, everybody's looking at you.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, we need a call, we need this, we

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Speaker 1: need you know. I think I think I grew a

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Speaker 1: lot as a year went on. Now we have the

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Speaker 1: schedule out, so you know you're gonna be calling those

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Speaker 1: games against. Are there certain teams that you kind of

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Speaker 1: get geeked for or more look forward to saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: these are ones I might want to circle personally on

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Speaker 1: my calendar. Um, I mean, Dallas is always number one.

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Speaker 1: I thought I was originally thought I was going to Dallas.

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Speaker 1: So when then didn't get the call from them, I

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Speaker 1: was like a little mad, little a little mad that day.

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Speaker 1: So I was. But then I was obviously really excited

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Speaker 1: once I got the call from Washington and we had

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Speaker 1: to pick six against Dallas as well. Yeah, so you

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Speaker 1: have some good games again. Yeah, it's it's personal. It

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Speaker 1: is a little personal. You know. They were telling me,

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Speaker 1: hey man, we're gonna take you we're gonna take in

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Speaker 1: and never happened. Then I got the call from Washington,

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Speaker 1: so I was like, it's time to making pay. That's

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Speaker 1: the best way too as well. We know you step

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Speaker 1: up against them. Do you look at it when you

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Speaker 1: go into schedule release and say, let me see when

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Speaker 1: I'm playing certain teams in the year, does it really

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Speaker 1: not matter to you? Um? Not really? I mean I

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Speaker 1: I always prepare. I try to look at teams from

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Speaker 1: the season before. You know, it doesn't really matter what

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Speaker 1: order we're playing them, all right. Some guys also say

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Speaker 1: too when they look at it, maybe they pay attention

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Speaker 1: to college opponents. Does that ever factor in for you?

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Speaker 1: They're like rivalries that kind of carry over into the NFL. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was like, I got I got a bunch of

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Speaker 1: you know, I trained with a lot of guys from Philly,

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Speaker 1: and so it's always fun going and playing those guys

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Speaker 1: as we have obviously we have that rivalry. And then

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Speaker 1: also when you you know, the longer you're in the league,

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Speaker 1: the more guys you train with, you you build friendships,

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Speaker 1: and it's fun playing against those guys and you know,

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Speaker 1: we're joking while the game's going on, So it makes

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Speaker 1: it a little more fun. Yeah, as long as the

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Speaker 1: joke because are way a little bit more than the

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Speaker 1: there we go, there we go, because then it gives

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Speaker 1: you a little more weight behind it. Cole looking forward

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Speaker 1: to the season coming up with you. Thanks, thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me for all your Commanders news and analysis. Be

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