Speaker 1: Welcome to the Command Center Podcast. I'm Julie Donaldson. Game
Speaker 1: day is right around the corner for the Commanders this Saturday.
Speaker 1: Football is back at FedEx Field for the first game
Speaker 1: of the preseason against the Carolina Panthers. But before we
Speaker 1: dive into this matchup, Logan Pulsing and Santana Moss joined
Speaker 1: me to chat about their training camp standouts. So here
Speaker 1: we are basically at the halfway mark of training camp.
Speaker 1: Coaches had time to kind of ramp things up a
Speaker 1: little bit. What would you guys say was the biggest
Speaker 1: takeaways from camp so far? Santana, I think one of
Speaker 1: the things that I've liked, you know, and I'm paying
Speaker 1: a receiver, just seeing the way the secondary is communicating.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's big. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that stood out because I was hopping on those guys
Speaker 1: not pressing last year that much and then just you know,
Speaker 1: getting beat in critical situations. You see a difference. You
Speaker 1: can see some of the guys, especially number twenty Bobby
Speaker 1: the McCain, he's he's getting into a groove now and
Speaker 1: showing you some of the things that he did in
Speaker 1: his previous spot. And so I'm looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: these guys go forward. But that's that's stood out, you know,
Speaker 1: more than anything else to me. Yeah, and I think
Speaker 1: just the to me to be like on brand is
Speaker 1: the tight ends man. They've done an outstanding job. The
Speaker 1: young tight ends have just been fantastic. And every time
Speaker 1: someone gets hurt, you think, oh, they're gonna run into
Speaker 1: a death issue, and the next guy just steps up
Speaker 1: and looks like an outstanding football player. So to have
Speaker 1: those three young guys playing so well, Sam, he's still
Speaker 1: playing well, I think it's a testament to the recruiting
Speaker 1: that they've done here or the you know, the scouting department,
Speaker 1: and it's been great. So not by us at all,
Speaker 1: but we know how important the tight end position is
Speaker 1: into the offense and what they want to do as well.
Speaker 1: And a lot of the Titans have been kind of
Speaker 1: converted into that position as well. So I think to
Speaker 1: keep your eye I just see how they are adjusting
Speaker 1: is important and it's great to see that they are
Speaker 1: progressing so far so well. What about some areas in
Speaker 1: camp that you say, okay, you know what, like we
Speaker 1: still have time to fine tune here. Where would that be?
Speaker 1: I think for me, it's it's Carson Wentz's mastery of
Speaker 1: this offense. You can tell like they're you know, an
Speaker 1: OTAs we talked about this end, he look phenomenal, look
Speaker 1: like one of the best I've ever seen. But obviously
Speaker 1: the slow start to training camp. I had a nice
Speaker 1: practice on Saturday, but it's taken some time to kind
Speaker 1: of work through some of these different concepts in Scott
Speaker 1: Turner's offense. It's first time he's been in a really
Speaker 1: truly neal the offense. So I think that that's really
Speaker 1: interesting to me and I want to just see how
Speaker 1: that continues to progress. Still a lot of time yet
Speaker 1: a lot of prices games get that done. So but
Speaker 1: keep an eye out. And I was going to say
Speaker 1: Carson wins as well, But one of the things that
Speaker 1: you can probably pinpoint or point out is the linebacker position.
Speaker 1: You know, we haven't really seen them play yet, but
Speaker 1: we know this is one of the areas that we
Speaker 1: need to give some attention to. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: key to see how these guys fly around. I think
Speaker 1: we can expect what we can against the guys. I
Speaker 1: mean for the guys who's going to be out there,
Speaker 1: but you need the depth. Depth is going to be key.
Speaker 1: So the guys behind those guys who are gonna play
Speaker 1: a big role, you got to see what they have
Speaker 1: depth in position flex that's something that this team really
Speaker 1: stresses making sure that they have. As we've seen over
Speaker 1: the years, at times, you do have to go deeper
Speaker 1: into your roster than you would like. Getting that time
Speaker 1: with those players out there is important. This is the
Speaker 1: time to do just that. Anybody surprised you so far,
Speaker 1: it can't Yeah, I think the guy that desprised me recently.
Speaker 1: It's Kelvin Harmon. He just as a guy that's been
Speaker 1: super consistent. I always forget to bring him up until here, Kelvin,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about you right now. This is exciting because
Speaker 1: you've done a great job. What about Utana? I say
Speaker 1: his name again, Marken Michelle, Yeah, I had a right
Speaker 1: this time. I mean no, honestly, you know, you expect
Speaker 1: guys to have that opportunity and to relish in it,
Speaker 1: and he's been doing just that. Spoke about him earlier,
Speaker 1: and then we got coach on he spoke about him.
Speaker 1: And so when you keep getting spoke about, you might
Speaker 1: be climbing up the latterly have a spot. So when
Speaker 1: they start learning your name over your number because you're like,
Speaker 1: who's out there making flashes? You are making an impression,
Speaker 1: and that is what you have to do if you're
Speaker 1: one of those players on the bubble trying to make
Speaker 1: a case to be able to be here for the
Speaker 1: fifty three or the practice squad to extend your football career.
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