WEBVTT - Breakout STARS and Starting FAST | Command Center Podcast | Washington Commanders 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:04.480 On today's episode of Command Center, we're going to talk 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:08.600 about how to start fast. He's starting fast? Who's gonna 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.160 break out? Fred like a rat? I know you got 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.920 something good for that and his golly one or two words. 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:27.000 That's welcome on into the Command Center podcast. I'm Logan 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.400 Paulson here with Santana Moss and the Mouth of the South. 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.440 Yeah, what's your name? Yeah? You got a new name 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.040 right now, Pappy van Biggels. Is that the name? All right? 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:38.520 Tanner? 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.720 You go with Santana mostoll right? Look at that chain though, 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:42.960 Look at that can. We got that our camera. 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.239 That's what he does. He probably showered with. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:46.960 A chain light. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.240 That's light working. Did anyone see bus rhymes chain? Do 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.560 you see that video going around on the internet on 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:52.720 to damn be? 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.680 That thing was enormously Sometime we take it too far? 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.200 Who's weak? Bitch wood? Last step? I'm just saying, man, 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:02.200 it happens sometimes. 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:03.680 That's fair enough. 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.760 Only you know that though that's air. 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.160 Like you said, it's a habitual. They mean they do 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:08.840 it over and over. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.440 Yeah, all right on todays show, because you don't have 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:13.360 a game to preview yet. Usually it's the previous show 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.120 we're gonna talk about just the first quarter of the season. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:17.600 Keep it kind of high level, because we want you 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.560 to turn into the into the the actual preview shows 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.160 and talk about what is the our expectation for the 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.000 first quarter of the season. We got the Arizona Cardinals 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.440 week one, who have a very interesting approach this season. 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:34.520 No, no, they have said, we don't care. We are 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.959 prepared for twenty twenty four. 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.440 Listen. I love it when the team say we know 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:40.040 who we are. 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:42.720 They just traded Isaiah seeing me, we're gonna have to 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.920 see him like they just literally pushing everybody out of 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:46.319 the building. 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.360 He said, we're gonna we're gonna build this thing from scratch. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.160 And that's that's very How could I say brave, because 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.920 usually quarterbacks don't get traded in this league in the 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:57.160 midst of their like in the meat of their career. 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.400 And we're about to see. 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.720 Kyler Murray get trade. Gonna spend too much time on this. 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:07.120 Week Williams Cadder Murray fresh star. Yea, all right? 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.919 So then we got and that's that games at home. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.639 Then we're Week two at Denver with the Broncos. I 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.120 think that's gonna be a tough game. We got the 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.240 Bills week three, we got the Legles, We're at the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.400 Eagles week four, and we got the Bears, Weagles, we 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.240 got the Bears. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:28.560 Leave them like the Wagles, all right, So I think. 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.000 I don't know that when I look at this schedule. 0:02:30.000 --> 0:02:32.240 Obviously Fred just gave a great preview of the Cardinals. 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.880 I think you probably agree. Yeah, not not super stoked 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.560 about what the Cardinals are bringing to the table. That 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.519 should be a win at home, and it should be 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.440 a nice way to start because that defensive coordinator, super conservative. 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:43.160 Should be a win. 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.079 I'm just not big for though, you know what I mean, Hey, 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.200 this be doing play football. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.000 And and then you said something off air that is 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.400 really important. It's like this schedule we could look at, Oh, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.440 the Cardinals, probably a win, maybe the Broncos, Bill's tough, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.000 Eagles stuff, probably win the beat the Bears. But every 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.239 week I don't remember pressing my whole career and being 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:03.680 like this is. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:04.600 We're gonna win it. 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.359 I'll never ever in college you feel that way. Yeah, 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.440 all the time, Like we're playing Arizona like this will 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:11.280 be when we. 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:18.200 Were playing u c l A, we like win, I'm saying, yeah, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.600 But in the league. It ain't no one week you 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:24.480 can look and say guarantee you win. Now, the Cardinals 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.880 they're on a different mission than everybody else's league. They're 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:30.480 on a different mission, but everybody else the Bands are 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.600 trying to win. The Bills are trying to win, like 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.720 these teams are trying to win. And that's why I 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:39.000 say when people go and gamble, lie like it's not 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:39.480 a pickle. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.520 Look, you know one of the things you know, I 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.080 learned and I love the whole sound bite when I 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:44.400 hear it. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:44.600 Now. 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.240 When I was, you know, with the with the Jets, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.560 New York Jets, her Matt was got there and say, 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.440 you play to win the game. Yeah, so I mean 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.480 everybody is who we facing. You got to go out 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.760 there with that mentality to play win the game. Yeah. 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:58.560 How did the people take that? 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:00.560 Where he was laughing? 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:01.360 We know her. 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:03.600 Was a motivator. 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.160 He was a great coach, you know what I mean. 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.240 But like the media took that and just spun it, 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.880 you know what I mean, Like, played to win the game. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.280 We did it. I don't know why they did win. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:17.440 Dennis Green was a little bit funny. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:19.080 We still got beat. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.880 All right, So so okay, this is the question that 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.760 I think is really interesting. What what is the record 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:30.480 coming out of those first five games? To letay, I'm gonna. 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.440 Ump out there and just say, you know, you know me, 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:35.920 you're probably gonna get this vanilla respond. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.520 But that's but I think that's good though, because it 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.360 tempers expectation's longest. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:43.839 I'm five hundred. I'm always trying to beat above five 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:44.640 hundred and above. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.839 I can't tell. 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.160 You how many wins, how many, but I just want 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.760 this team. I feel like we have the caliber a 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.560 play on all levels of our game special teams, defense, offense, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.919 that we should be within five games, we should be 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.480 at five hundred above. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.719 That's why to be five hundred, because it's five it's. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.360 Five games, it's five games longest, three of them in 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:06.200 the winning column. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:07.720 It don't matter which three. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.760 The thing about it is the Broncos. 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:15.600 It's a tough game, a hell of a roster. I 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.239 just don't know who Russy is anymore. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.279 I'm just more worried about a young team on a 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.520 tough road trip. That environment's tough to play. 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.560 Oh, it's hard to play up the way. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.640 What I would say, have a defense that flies around 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:26.840 like there is I. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.000 Don't really care about the record. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.200 What I do care about is seeing like good football, 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.080 seeing competitive football. Right, So, like I think back to 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.120 twenty twelve, right, I think we were like, what were 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:36.280 we three and six or something like that. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.920 Yeah, yeah, we jumped out. We jumped out with what 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:39.880 one and one on two? 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:41.479 Yeah, and then and then we kind of went on 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.360 a little bit of skid. And I say to myself, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.719 I never felt like that was a bad team because 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:46.920 every week we. 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.000 Were playing again, we're playing good in the game, yeah. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.320 And we were just waiting for it to flip. 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:51.880 And that's what you want. You just want a team 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.560 that's going to be in the game because eventually that 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.320 team says, we've been giving these other games a way, 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:58.920 that's going ahead and do what we had to do, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.360 take care of responsible billies, and boom, you know, that's 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:01.840 what happened to you. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.680 I want to see a chrisp offense, a competitive defense, 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.440 and those teams they win more games than they lose. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.200 Like it's just it's just the fact of the NFL. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:11.800 Look at the Giants last year, right. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:14.760 Almost definitely they won because they stuck into game. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.200 They was a fourth quarter team, and that's what we 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:19.600 want to be like, let's let's be honest. We've been 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.760 one of them teams where we go through these these 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.520 evid flows, these ups and downs. We want to play 0:06:24.680 --> 0:06:27.760 right here all year lord, and then start to get 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:30.200 better as the year goes on. But I think that's 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:32.000 all you can ask for for a team. And think 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.480 about these first five games. He go to quarterbacks. Oh, Joshua, 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:43.960 he ain't cute either. Russell Wilson, you got josh Allen, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.359 you got Jalen Hurts, you got justin Fields. 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:49.440 There were some good quarterbacks. 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.240 So your d line, your defense will be tested by 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.839 time you make it the week five. Now let's turn 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:57.440 the page and look at these defenses. Cardinal still got 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.240 Bode Baker, got some guys on their defense. Broncos could 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.080 have had one of the better defense in the NA League. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.080 The Bills they're gonna play good defense. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.080 They're gonna put you in a good the offense puts 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.360 their defense in a good spot. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.400 And you got the Eagles, they're gonna be a tough defense. 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.200 And the Bears they rebuilding. But I'm telling you that 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:15.320 Bears team will be a. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:15.920 Fighter, be better. 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.040 So yeah, the thing is I want, I hope the 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.280 listeners take away is that there's no there's no laps 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.520 in the NFL. Yeah, there's no labs in the NFL. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.840 I just want competitive hard nos. You mentioned this about 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.080 the preseason friend penalty free football, de penalty free, don't 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.120 hurt yourself and then it'll it'll come. Even if even 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:34.720 let's say they're two and three or one in four, 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.600 it'll come if it's competitive brand of football. And I 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:39.600 know fans will like to hear that, but especially with 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.760 a young quarterback and a new OC, as long as 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:43.320 it's close, it'll tip. 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:43.800 At some point. 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.240 You gotta ask yourself, these fans, when would you will 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.480 for us to be paying our best football at the 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.000 beginning of the year out of the end of the year. 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.360 I want to finish strong, I want to get better. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.720 Is the year go on and come on? We gotta 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.880 basically a rookie quarterback, he won't I guarantee you this, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:07:59.720 he won't be playing his bitch ball. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.200 Yeah, and I don't want to put it out there 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.640 into the world that he won't. But at the same time, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.920 like what Logan said, that's key. I think if you 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:12.800 playing competitive ball, then it doesn't matter how long you 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:14.800 know what I mean, you're not you know, the best, 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.280 or you just you just outle, you know, and just 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.080 at one spot. Eventually somebody gonna catch on. One of 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.000 the group's gonna catch on, and then you're gonna be like, Okay, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:24.440 this is where we're at. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:25.400 You cause I think about that. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.080 I think back to twelve all the time, like the 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.800 defense was playing pretty good and offensively, were trying to 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:31.320 find how to figure it out, and then all of 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.000 a sudden it just clicked and this it was like, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.199 this is who we are and it probably clicking. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.680 And I'm you know, I hate, I hate when I 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:38.760 get in front of you like that. Oh no, honestly, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.000 I want you to finish. But I had to say 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.679 this because I know I forget it. I'm not sure, 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.520 but I just remember having to talk with Kyle one time, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.920 and you know, you guys know I wasn't happy about 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.559 coming in as a slot guy at the time. That 0:08:51.640 --> 0:08:54.320 was my first experience. I played the slot all my life, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.640 like in college, and kind of didn't play it again 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.520 until I was, you know, ten years later, which I 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.400 don't understand that about the NFL, but Kyle told me something, 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:04.840 and I don't know if the team kind of or 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:06.760 it was just me on third down coming in and 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.720 being shock. But I came in one third down and 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:10.400 missed the pass that was thrown to me because probably 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.400 because I'm thinking about I'm coming in on third down, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.080 Kyle said something to me, and I think, to me, 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.240 it changed my whole thought process and I saw offense 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:20.880 do like this because now on third down, I was 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.360 I was coming in determined, you know what I mean, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:24.880 And Kyl said, you got to make the play. It 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.160 don't matter what down you get in, make the play. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:31.040 And I kind of walked out of bound like pissed 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:32.600 off a little bit, like yeah, Tellner, because at end 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.199 of the day, you're notin't gonna get called regardless make 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.960 it or not. You rather be called for you you 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.520 looking good making a play, then somebody saying you missed 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.160 that pass and that ain't you. So don't put that 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.360 stuff on tape. And I'm not, like I said, I'm 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.160 not sure I'm not going to get myself credit for that. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.480 But I believe my offense started improving on third down 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:51.520 when I was getting that ball a lot, and I 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.640 was determined to go out there and make that first down. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.840 Rather it was one player or not. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.840 And that team I think was just to go back 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.840 because again I think there's a lot of similarities. Like 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.120 it's not the most talent the team, rookie quarterback, all 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:01.760 this kind of stuff. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.719 Dude just found roles as the season went on. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.600 Ten of the third down guy like me is the blocking? 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.920 Why like just blocking all the time? Like it fit 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:11.439 our scheme and our offense. We found plays that fit 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:12.280 Robert really well. 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.520 And like that took. That took probably nine weeks. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.760 I tell guys stories all the time. I won't be long. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.480 I know Jay probably over there. Man, come on to know, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.000 I tell folks stories all the time. 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:23.520 I had to. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.079 I had to find myself again. I remember when when 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.240 when Mike told me the whole thing, like, hey, bro, 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.560 you can still you can still separate And I want 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.040 to say, I want to preserve your legs. Why have 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.320 you out there as a starter and he just come 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.000 off a knee surgery in twenty ten? Why have your 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.480 you know, have you out there as the start and 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.040 you're not getting the ball curtain down? So I'm gonna 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.120 bring in on third down. It's gonna help you. So 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.800 I remember watching the basketball game and I still was 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.439 pissed off about it. But I'm like, I didn't think 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.360 that I want. I like this game. So I'm not 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.520 trying to, you know, find myself at home being mad 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:54.839 because I didn't want to, you know, because I'm not 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.800 a starter no more. And I'm watching the basketball game 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.320 and it was the Spurs playing and I saw Genoby 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.800 come off the bench and the way he played, I say, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.240 ten that you got because you know he's a starter, 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.640 you know, off except your role and go out there 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.559 and play some good football. And I swear, I swear 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.280 to god, Genobi was the reason why that switch turned, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.320 you know, it cut on it, and my whole thought 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.880 process has changed, and I want to I dominated there. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.400 Remember I let the lead, I let let the team 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.199 that year with eight tugs, you know what I mean. 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.959 So I remember I was on the ball that year 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.440 and it was a like limited role. Let's talk real 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.920 quick about you know, like obviously like starting fastest important, 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.960 but there's like this national perception that the Commanders are 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.880 gonna win like five games them to wear hates us. Yeah, 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:39.960 so let's talk about like why that is. You know, 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:41.800 if you were sitting back and look at it objective, 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:43.760 like we're starting a rookie quarterback. I think we got 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.280 a new offensive coordinator. All those things are important, and 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.160 I think it's important to note that like national media, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.840 isn't it practice every day? They don't see Sam Growth yea, yeah, 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:54.439 you know, they see him the preseason game. I think 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.280 now people are coming around to the idea of him starting. 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:57.600 I think that's a big deal. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:11:59.319 They read the paper though, they look at the paper 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.120 and say, okay, we got our first year coordinator. We 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.400 don't really think highly of him because he was behind. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:09.319 And then the quarterback, he North Carolina third round quarterback. 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.040 There's no way he's gonna come in here and play 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.679 on the calible of NFL prototype the quarterback. And then 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:18.160 they say the linebacker's positions haven't been addressed, and how 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.920 long the front? You know, our front five is all 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:22.800 we have on defense. So they look at all that 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 stuff and say and try to dictate what's going to happen? 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:27.480 That you got against. 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:31.480 National love affair with the stinking Cowboys, like so everybody 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.440 all they picked the Cowboy to win the Super Bowl 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.400 to last thirty three years and they ain't one, not 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.280 a naw like. Then you got the Eagles, the guys 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.240 that went to the Super Bowl last year. You got 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.360 the Giants who beat us twice last year, so they 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.000 automatically put us at the bottom of. 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:44.760 The NFC East. 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.520 So if you put us at bottom in the nfcas 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.480 you know not, we ain't gonna be ranked highly with 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:50.839 the rest of the team. So at the end of 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.480 the day, I think we can most definitely beat the Giants. 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.640 I think we can beat the Eagles, and I know 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.720 we can beat the Cowboys. So I don't feel like 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.720 the national people feel. I just know gonna get better 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.000 week in and week out, and I think this the whole. 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.480 Key, And I think that's the thing, like look at 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.520 like look at every single year man people come out 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:07.559 and be like, this is gonna be the best team 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:09.560 in football. Obviously it's easy when it's like Kansas City 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.839 because Master Mahomes or like the Bills. You got a 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.840 good quarterback, right, But like what Dak presscartter are we 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:16.560 gonna get like he might be terrible? Like what if 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.400 Jalen hurts? It's a regression because it's OC's gone right, Yeah, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.800 Like we don't know. And as long as we are playing, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:26.360 the team is playing competitive sound football. I think it'll 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:26.760 kind of work. 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:27.079 Yeah. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.400 I wanna tell what the national media does. They go 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.959 and pick from whatever happened last year. We know from 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.640 playing in the NFL it ain't never the same by 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.800 year by year, and that's what they do. And they 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.680 make it easy by just picking up the teams with 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.000 the better quarterbacks, Like, well, you don't know how that 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:42.280 quarterback gonna play. 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.120 This year because he was great last year, don't make 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.160 him great this year. We see it a year in and 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:46.920 year out. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.360 Yeah, absolutely, all right, So now that that's settle, I 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.520 think that's really good analysis on that. Guys, let's talk 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:54.000 about like the keys to starting fast. And I've never 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.079 really been able to pin down what this is, you 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.800 know what I mean, Like how to start fast? Everyone 0:13:57.800 --> 0:13:59.600 says how do you start fast? But like, what is 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.400 the key to starting fast winning games earlier in the season? 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.240 I think, effiicihing play from from offensive defense? How did 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.760 you get that efficient play? To me, is what we 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.720 saw this preseason. These guys moved the ball, they moved 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.400 the chains, they made plays when it wasn't there with 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.120 their feet at the quarterback position, and they scored the 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.280 ball rather you scoring touchdowns kicking field goals. They found 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.400 the way to put up points. Now, when you're doing 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.880 that and you have the defense that we have, it's 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.400 you don't think our defense going to go out there 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.080 and get a turnover to You don't think our defense 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:28.840 is going to go out there and get a few sacks. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:30.760 That's going to put you know, put their opponents behind. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.320 So that's that's what we was talking about. Last year. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.160 Our offense wasn't playing on the same level as our 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.560 defense and vice versa. One was playing high the first game, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:42.720 the other one was it. Then the second game when 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.960 the third game is switched, you know, Cam Carroll comes 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.600 in a defense flying around. Offense can't get a first 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.200 down to save their life, you know, or they can't 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.200 score the ball to save the life little in each other. 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.560 Complimentary football, yeah, you go. Complimentary football is going to 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.440 get us to have a fast start. Because when you 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.920 compliment a defense that can pin their ears back in 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.640 after the quartback like ours can give us fourteen points 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:04.400 and I'm on the. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:05.800 Defense, watch them dogs hunt. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.840 Yeah, trust me, you know you go to key too 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.400 to think about it is the reason we always started 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.640 off slow. Nobody, you know, want to talk about the 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.320 elephant in the room. Quarterback play. It's always quarterback play. 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:17.200 Talent said it. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:19.720 Get a defense and let them let's see them play 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:20.200 with the lead. 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.360 Because playing with the lead and playing with the score 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.880 three to three, I played different game as a defensive back. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.520 Different game, Like totally play different as a defensive back. 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:29.440 No. Absolutely, And I think that one of the things 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.280 that I always thought about is teams that didn't play 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.040 a lot in the preseason. Yeah, usually start our show 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.200 like Tom Brady. Like I remember when Tom Brady wasn't 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:37.800 playing a lot like in the preseason. At the end 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:39.360 of his career, his first three or four games are 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.640 always kind of like kind of oh he's cooked, he's done. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.160 Then it's like all fifth game, bam, yeah, yeah, say touchdown. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.080 And I really think that this staff has done a 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.320 good job of being like, hey, we're gonna play, We're 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.680 gonna get reps, like our first our first experience isn't 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:51.320 going to be on. 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.280 You know, against the car. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.280 You remember the Mike Shanahan teams we played in the 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.640